"A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Galatians 5:9
The Holy Ghost was directing Paul to write to the Galatians here about a few individuals who had tried to bring the law back into their Christian worship. To illustrate the effect of just a little sin, or a little false teaching, the Spirit had Paul use an example of leaven, or yeast, a little of it will effect the whole lump of dough! This Truth holds true with us as well; a little sin will make us completely sinful! Look at Adam, He ate the fruit that God told him not to eat, and then through fear he lied about it to God. Adam didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t commit some hennas crime; he committed what most would call a little white lie. Yet look at the consequences of such a small amount of sin! God is pure righteousness, He is Light, and there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, there can’t be. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 It’s like oil and water, they just cannot mix! Righteousness is Light, and the Light will always drive out the darkness. If sin still had any power or effect on us, even just a little, then our whole person would be sinful! If there where the smallest amount of the power of sin within us, there would be no righteousness within us, and there would be no fellowship with God. Jesus taught that we are one with Him, so if sin still had any power over us, even just a little, then the whole body of Christ, that we are one with, would be sinful. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump! God doesn’t just say things to be saying them, what He speaks is eternal and what He speaks is Truth, 100% of the time! Heaven and earth will pass away, but every Word that God has spoken will remain! A little leaven will leaven the whole lump!
Here is the awesome Truth of our salvation, and God is not a man that He should lie, once we say yes to Jesus, there is now no power of sin within us! Think about yeast for a minute, as long as the conditions are perfect it is a very powerful thing. But dissolve it in too hot of water and it will not work! If it is old it will not work! It may look the same and even smell the same, but if things aren’t right it will fail to leaven! This is what has happened to sin’s power over us. The Blood has destroyed its ability to affect us! The Light of Jesus that now dwells within us drives out the darkness of sins leavening power over us! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 The Light of God destroys sins abilities over us, just like scalding water destroys yeasts abilities over dough!
The Holy Ghost was directing Paul to write to the Galatians here about a few individuals who had tried to bring the law back into their Christian worship. To illustrate the effect of just a little sin, or a little false teaching, the Spirit had Paul use an example of leaven, or yeast, a little of it will effect the whole lump of dough! This Truth holds true with us as well; a little sin will make us completely sinful! Look at Adam, He ate the fruit that God told him not to eat, and then through fear he lied about it to God. Adam didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t commit some hennas crime; he committed what most would call a little white lie. Yet look at the consequences of such a small amount of sin! God is pure righteousness, He is Light, and there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, there can’t be. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 It’s like oil and water, they just cannot mix! Righteousness is Light, and the Light will always drive out the darkness. If sin still had any power or effect on us, even just a little, then our whole person would be sinful! If there where the smallest amount of the power of sin within us, there would be no righteousness within us, and there would be no fellowship with God. Jesus taught that we are one with Him, so if sin still had any power over us, even just a little, then the whole body of Christ, that we are one with, would be sinful. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump! God doesn’t just say things to be saying them, what He speaks is eternal and what He speaks is Truth, 100% of the time! Heaven and earth will pass away, but every Word that God has spoken will remain! A little leaven will leaven the whole lump!
Here is the awesome Truth of our salvation, and God is not a man that He should lie, once we say yes to Jesus, there is now no power of sin within us! Think about yeast for a minute, as long as the conditions are perfect it is a very powerful thing. But dissolve it in too hot of water and it will not work! If it is old it will not work! It may look the same and even smell the same, but if things aren’t right it will fail to leaven! This is what has happened to sin’s power over us. The Blood has destroyed its ability to affect us! The Light of Jesus that now dwells within us drives out the darkness of sins leavening power over us! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 The Light of God destroys sins abilities over us, just like scalding water destroys yeasts abilities over dough!
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