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Yes, a little leaven leavens the whole lump is a metaphor the Apostle Paul uses to compare the effects of false teaching in the Church to the results of yeast in bread dough ( Galatians 5:9 ). Just as a small amount of yeast will make a whole loaf of bread rise, a little bit of RELIGIOUS teaching will quickly spread, infiltrating the hearts and minds of individual believers until the entire Church is contaminated, Trying to please God with faking keeping the Old Testament Laws and Commandments.

Leaven is any substance ( like yeast ) used to produce fermentation in dough. It is the main ingredient that causes bread to rise in preparation for baking. The “whole lump” in ( Galatians 5:9 ) refers to an entire batch of dough and, in Apostle Paul’s analogy, denotes the whole congregation of Believers.

In ( Galatians 5:1–6 ), Elder Paul stresses that Christ, by God’s grace and through the inner working of the Holy Spirit, has set Jesus' Royal Believers free from slavery to the outward control of the law. Then he begins to list the destructive consequences of returning to a legalistic bondage to the law. One adverse outcome is stunted spiritual growth: “You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the troubling one you will bear the penalty, whoever he is” ( Galatians 5:7–10 ).

Employing one of his favorite comparisons, Teacher Paul likens the Christ Jesus Believer's life to a race. The Galatians were excelling in the race until false teachers cut into their spiritual marathon. They set up obstacles of legalistic religion, confusing the Believers and hindering their spiritual development. The stumbling Galatians had stopped obeying the truth as the influence of bad company corrupted their good character ( 1 Corinthians 15:33 ).

Apostle Paul then engages his yeast comparison, emphasizing that a little bit of legalism Hebrew religion in the Church—like leaven in a batch of dough—goes a long way. “Leaven” here symbolizes wrong teaching that destroys the true Jesus Royal Believers' Saints' freedom. Apostle Paul quickly communicates his trust in the Lord to keep the Galatians on the track of truth and warns that God will judge the false teachers who had been tripping them up with Jewish outdated Laws and commandments that are done away with at the foot of His Cross. ( Jesus Christ ).

Apostle Paul uses this same yeast metaphor with the Church in Corinth: “Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” ( 1 Corinthians 5:6–7, ESV ). It's time and long overdue that today's Churches get rid of everything in their lives except the Lord Jesus Christ.

Here, “leaven” represents sin, and precisely the sin of Old Testament Laws and its commands ( 1 Corinthians 5:2 ). Apostle Paul wants to protect the Church from the disastrous consequences of religious corruption. Their arrogant attitude of tolerating an appalling sin in the Church posed a severe threat. Allowing one Believer to continue unchecked in a blatant transgression would have a devastating impact on the entire Church. Elder Paul asks, “Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough?” ( 1 Corinthians 5:6 ).

Apostle Paul is adamant. The Church must deal with the person’s sin. A single member’s sin affects the entire body because we are all collective parts of one whole ( 1 Corinthians 12:12–26 ). The Church should heal, restore, and keep the body as one pure and love and grace community of Believers because it lives and moves and has its being in Christ ( Acts 17:28 ) ( Romans 12:5 ). Apostle Paul explains, “Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are” ( 1 Corinthians 5:7 ).

Teacher Paul’s metaphor of a little leaven leavens the whole lump is rooted in the significance of Christ’s sacrifice and is directly tied to the Passover. Apostle Paul concludes, “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” ( 1 Corinthians 5:7 ). Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb of God ( John 1:29 ) ( Revelation 13:8 ). When Christ died on the cross, His blood was spilled to protect us from God’s wrath, just as the blood spread over the doorframes of the Hebrews’ homes protected them in Egypt ( Exodus 12:7 ). So, now why do your lukewarm religious leaders have you under the curse of the Law in trying to obey and follow things like holy days, old covenants, old commandments, tithing and building and supporting religious idols temples?

As part of the Passover commemoration, the ancient Israelites were forbidden to bake or eat leavened bread or even have leaven in their homes. This tradition was observed in remembrance of Israel’s hurried exodus from Egypt, which gave no time for preparing leavened bread ( Exodus 12:33–34, 39 ). Knowing Christ is our Passover, Apostle Paul urges Believers to remember His sacrifice by removing the “old leaven” of sin from our individual lives and our congregations.

Jesus Christ also used the word leaven to describe the corrupt religious Jewish teachings of the Sadducees and Pharisees ( Matthew 16:6, 11–12 ) and Herod ( Mark 8:15 ). Like leaven that works its way through dough, spreading out until its effects are manifest in the entire batch, Jesus Christ warned that the ideas of Herod and the religious leaders were steadily permeating the people’s thinking. Even a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough just as a tiny bit of sin, or just a small amount of harmful teaching, has a widespread corrupting influence on the minds and hearts of people, just as the majority of our today's religious leaders.

Only once in the New Testament is leaven used as a positive metaphor. Jesus Christ said, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven” ( Matthew 13:33, ) ( Luke 13:20–21 ) to illustrate the ever-increasing, pervasive influence of God’s Kingdom in the world through the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Jesus Royal Believers family, to PUT this simply, we are God's very own special ( precious ) chosen people following by faith our Lord God and blessed King and Savior Jesus Christ in His Churches built and established without human-built hands.
Sincerely, In The Lord God Jesus Christ Kingdom Purpose,
His Serving Founder, Presiding Senior Apostle, Messenger Elder James Winfree Sr & Elect Lady Betty R Winfree
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