| Yeast |

i had wanted to pen this down since 2 weeks ago, but i wanted to make sure i was correct before doing so.

as i was reading 1 corinthians, this passage in chapter 5 came up. it read:

"Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? 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. 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."

unleaven bread was commonly used for the celebration of the Passover in biblical times. unleaven bread means bread made without yeast.

paul is depicting yeast like sin, a lil bit of it and it grows bigger and bigger in the dough and even after its baked, yeast still continues growing in your stomach where the cells eventually die at room temperature or if warmer, they literally digest themselves breaking down into smaller components digestable by our body system (http://www.phys.ksu.edu/gene/a1.html).

so when God said yeast is like sin, He's not wrong at all. its a very clever analogy. and then remember Jesus is also the bread of life (John 6:35), all to do with bread, dough, yeast. how very clever!!!