Leavening

Leaven is a food additive, which causes bread or bread products to rise. In the Bible, leaven pictures sin.

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Avoiding Spiritual Leaven: Part 3

After Christians remove leaven, representing sin, they are to live a new life of "sincerity and truth."
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Avoiding Spiritual Leaven: Part 2

The apostle Paul urges us to "purge out the old leaven." How do we do this?
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Avoiding Spiritual Leaven: Part 1

God's spring Holy Day season brings deep meaning for Christians about avoiding sin.
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The Attitude of Pride

God RESISTS the proud, but gives grace to the humble. We may work WITH God only as we follow HIM, not our own way.
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Humble Yourself

In a sermonette on the Last Day of Unleavened Bread before a webcast audience, Jon Beam discusses the need we have to humble ourselves so that God can work in us.
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Sodom Corona Virus Leavens the Whole Lump

There is a sobering parallel between the way physical and spiritual viruses spread to engulf society. As Christians aspiring to put sin out of our lives, we can learn from the subtle ways that sin can get a foothold in…
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The True Understanding of Unleavened Bread

The Days of Unleavened Bread are flying by. What have we learned? What changes have we made? Today we will examine the meaning of Unleavened Bread. We will look at the abc's of leavening. We must not let up…
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Looking To God Who Opens the Way

Israel left Egypt with great rejoicing, but that positive attitude was short-lived. It's so easy to give in to doubt and discouragement when we run into difficulties. Instead, we need to look to God's promises, and realize that the great…
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The Feast of Sweetness

Why does God use symbols of leaven and unleavened bread? Because they were the symbols chosen by competing Kingdoms. While both types of bread began with the same ingredients, their end product has no qualities or traits in common. Each…
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As in the Days of Noah

We are gathered before God today because this is the first Day of Unleavened Bread. We have put leavening out of our homes for the next week to be reminded of how pervasive sin can be in our life. This…