Being Unleavened

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

BEING UNLEAVENED

1 Cor 5:6-8

6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast — as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

NIV

Although these people of Corinth were surely trumpeting about their superior knowledge and wisdom and in such busy about setting up their respective teachers which they were supporting the church in Corinth was filled with scandalous activities and was in danger of complete ruin if they  did not purge such individuals from their midst. That is the effects of yeast on dough explained here. But of course we do not have those kinds of situations in the church today. We do not have people boasting about their great knowledge. We do not gather in specific churches because of the superior knowledge or great personality of the preacher. We do not go about setting up individual churches supporting all sorts of different doctrines or styles of worship. We do not boast that we have the right interpretation of God’s Word while others are misguided. How is it that we do not see anyone in the church today as that little yeast which will spoil the whole batch? Surely the Spirit of God would tell us, if we were listening to Him instead of our own pitiful selves as those people of Corinth were. We would think the Word of God is so plan, and so concise without any contradictions and that the Spirit of God has been given to us to lead us into all truth that we all would see the plainness of this truth and live together in harmony not every thinking anyone is better or worse, wise or foolish, smart or dumb richer or poorer, having more blessings then another, or anything that would separate us from each other. Are we not all simply creations of God, people who derive their very existence from God? Are we not all the same people who having been created by God for His own purpose? Are we not all subject to His wrath or His mercy? Can any one of us ever expect to be anything else? So why are some so boastful of their own abilities? Why do some feel they should be lifted up and supported by many others? Are not we all called to serve each other? Are we not all called to encourage each other? Boasting in anything other than Jesus Christ is but foolishness. Should we not all be filled with sincerity and truth? Should we not be unleavened?