1. Leaven (Outline)
Beware of Leaven?
How bad is Leaven?
What is Leaven?
How is Leaven getting into our lives, home, church?
How does Leaven relate to us?
Meditation Verses

2. Beware of Leaven
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (2 Cor 7:1).
Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. … (Isa 57:8).
“Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Matthew 16:6).

3. How bad is leaven?
For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. (Exo 12:15).
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor 5:7-8).

4. What is leaven?
Leaven (ferment) - Fermentation is a chemical reaction that causes a substance to be agitated.
The fermentation process of leaven will be arrested if the leaven is put into a cold environment, and it will be stopped entirely if it is put into a hot enough environment.

5. What is leaven?
What is the major leaven of the Pharisees?
What is the major cause of hypocrisy?
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (James 1:8)
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. (James 1:23-24)

6. How is leaven getting into our lives, home, church?
Satan’s method is to infiltrate a Godly group and corrupt it. God’s method is to separate His own from evil and purify them.
Just as God desired Israel to be a model to all other nations, He also desires His Church to be an example to the world. (Unfortunately, sometimes we are taking the model of the world into the church).
What are the things from the world that is infiltrating our home and church?
Instead of being role model for the world, we are taking the model of the world to our home and church.
What are the areas that things of the world can infiltrate into our home and church?

7. How does leaven relate to us?
Leaven in our personal life?
Thoughts, motives, attitudes, words, deeds, actions
Leaven in our home?
Leaven in our bible study?
Leaven in our church?

8. Meditation Verses
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (I John 2:15).
“Ye shall utterly destroy all the [high] places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods” (Deuteronomy 12:2)
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. (Phil 4:6)