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MUST BE UNLEAVENED
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
Leviticus 2

Romans 6:17-22

 

“…it shall be of
fine flour unleavened,

mingled with oil.”

 

MUST BE UNLEAVENED

 

The figurative usage of “leavened” has been understood throughout the Bible to mean something sinful or a form of contaminant. The only time it is used in a good sense is in the Parable of the Leaven in Matthew 13:33. Here it describes the nature of leaven having the ability to leaven the whole meal. Leaven has an insidious way of infecting the whole lump through slow kneading. Leaven is yeast that is found in common bread today. The nature of leaven is likened to the spread of the Gospel impacting the whole world. It is invisible like leaven, but it is real as seen in the lives of transformed believers throughout the ages.
 
The first occurrence of the word leaven is in Exodus 12:15 when the LORD instituted the sacrament of the Passover to Moses and it was followed immediately by the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The people of God were told not to carry with them any leaven when they left Egypt. Leaven was understood figuratively to mean all things bad and sinful, both visible and invisible, including covetousness and sins in the mind and heart. It was not wrong to eat leavened bread outside of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. But on the day of this Feast, it was a sin to eat or have leavened bread in their home and they must get rid of them. In the context of offerings, the meat offering leaven was forbidden even though the worshipper was permitted to offer non-blood offering, which was what this meat or gift offering signified.
 
Leaven was a very appropriate symbol to the Israelites to remind them of the necessity and importance of living a holy life. When leaven is cast out, it symbolically means that the worshipper has confessed his sins before God in Christ. The blood of Christ has washed him of his sin. He could not be living a sinful life and offer a gift to the LORD at the same time. This is hypocrisy. The LORD demands sincerity of heart and life. Holiness in life results in acceptable holy offering before the LORD.
 
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 2:11
PRAYER: Help me, O Father, to be holy as Thou art holy, in Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.

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