Title Beware of Leaven
content title; Beware of leaven
Bible: Matthew 16:5-12
In the text, Jesus tells us to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of the Sadducees. Regarding the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of the Sadducees, the Pharisees taught formal education in the days of Jesus. It was the behavioral center of the precepts, and it was their education that taught them. Next, what kind of education the Sadducees were taught was realistic. It was the Sadducees' teaching that brought all belief systems into reality. Jesus told us to watch and pay attention to these two lessons. The two lessons are the lessons that make us corrupt.
First: Do not lose the Word (God's will).
“Jesus said to him, ‘Beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees’” (verse 6). We need to think deeply about what the church teaches in the name of the word of God. The word of God is spirit and the word of life. The will of God is what Jesus said, “For my Father’s will is that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:40). The cry of the Reformers and conservative theologians is to return to the Bible. It is the cry of everyone that our faith must return to the intention of the original Word.
second ; don't forget jesus
“Jesus knew and said to them, ‘You of little faith, how do you confer with one another because you have no bread?” (verse 8). There is a common misconception among us that we are a person who believes very hard. It is more dangerous than not believing in Jesus. Because those who do not believe in Jesus know for sure that at least they do not have Jesus. However, those who have lost Jesus and mistakenly do not know that they have lost Him do not know that they do not have Jesus.
Third: Don't put false logic ahead.
“Then they understood that the disciples were not the leaven of the bread, but that he had told them to be hesitant of the teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees” (verse 12). . Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees, and lawyers, who were the clergymen of Jesus' day, were people who sold God to satisfy their stomachs and desires. They talk more about God than anyone else in order to sell God. Those who have lost God talk more about God than anyone else. The Word of God is the body, not the words. That is why the Apostle John defined and expressed Jesus as “the Word made flesh.” Life makes the Word the body. It means to be careful about believing in Jesus only with words by translating the Word into words.