What Leaven Does
Bread and crackers are made of nearly the same stuff, but no one confuses them — and the Gospels kept two words for it too. Set aside the old fight over which one Jesus broke, and watch instead what leaven actually does.
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The Old Leaven and the New
For seven days each year, every trace of leaven is swept from the house. If leaven never meant sin, what is actually being cleared out — and why does it come back, risen, by Pentecost?
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Paul Wasn’t There Either
Paul never saw the cross — he came in years late, on the wrong side of it — yet no one in the New Testament staked more on it than he did. Why would a man build everything on an afternoon he wasn’t there for?
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We Weren’t There
Strip the familiarity off a baptism and it’s a strange thing to do to someone — laid all the way back until the water closes over the face, held under, then lifted out. A staged death, with a rising on the end of it. And the claim underneath it is stranger still: that it’s his death, and we’re joined into it — even those of us who weren’t there.
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Days of Unleavened Bread Feast of Weeks/Firstfruits/Leaven & Pentecost Feasts & Holy Days Fulfillments Jesus/Christ/Logos Passover Pattern of Seven Sabbath
Why Pentecost Has No Fixed Date
Every feast God gave sits on a fixed date — except one. The Feast of Weeks you don’t look up; you count to it. And the day you count from refuses to sit still. Why does Pentecost slide?
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Matthew 13:33 – Some Helpful Questions
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven…” If leaven is a symbol of sin, why would Jesus compare the kingdom of God to it? A few questions worth sitting with — Matthew 13:33.
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What Is A New Lump? – A Demonstration
Mix flour and water, add nothing, and in two days it leavens itself. Watch that happen, and Paul’s “become a new lump” — and what the old leaven really is — reads very differently.
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Was the Passover a Sin Offering? — at the Cross
We read the cross as the answer to our sin — and it’s so deep in us we never check it. But watch what the Passover actually does at Calvary: the same thing it did in Egypt. The lamb is never called a sin offering, even there.
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Was the Passover a Sin Offering? — in Ancient Israel
Almost all of us read the Passover as being about sin. But open Exodus 12 and notice what the lamb is never once called. The whole account is pointing somewhere else.
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Does Leaven Really Mean Sin?
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.” The sentence should stop us — because most of us were handed a reading that makes it impossible. What if leaven was never sin at all?
