Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. I Corinthians 5:6-7
With something is leavened, it is mixed with an altering or transforming substance. With bread, the substance is yeast. Unleavened bread is unmixed. When the Passover feast began in Egypt, the direction to unleavened bread was a reminder that they would no longer be mixed with sin and bondage. In our communion service the bread is the same reminder for us. Our command is to unmix the leaven of sin, and be leavened with the righteousness of Christ. It makes us a new lump, and a godly lump. May we let the influence of Christ completely overtake us. When we are completely leavened by Christ, there is no room for the evil influence. Let's keep it that way.
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