© 2006 Steve Lewis - contact@SpiritAndTruth.org
ILLUSTRATION | MEANING |
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A little leaven leavens the whole lump |
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Clean out the old leaven | Remove the sinning believer from fellowship with the church |
You may be a new lump | Restoring their reputation as an uncontaminated church |
Just as you are in fact unleavened | Positionally, God already sees them as holy |
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed | Jesus has already accomplished everything that was required to make it possible for the church to obey His commands and pursue holiness of life |
Therefore let us celebrate the feast | Let the church live the Christian life in light of Christ�s finished work |
Not with old leaven | Not under the influence of the old nature - not continuing to indulge the passions of the flesh (specifically malice & wickedness) |
But with the unleavened (things) | With holiness of life that when held up to the light is found to be pure |