Paul wrote, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Eph. When false teaching occurs, one cannot just look the other way, thinking that if it is not confronted, it will just go away. Like leaven, false doctrine can spread and spread until, as with the leaven the woman used, the whole has been affected and in the case of false doctrine, defiled and corrupted. This is another reference to leaven and in this one we see one of the qualities of leaven that will have a great bearing on destruction possible from just a little false teaching. Matthew 13:33 says, “Another parable spake he unto them The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened”. Earlier, when Jesus taught the multitudes by the sea side, one of the parables He used consisted of just one verse. There are a number of points we could make along these lines, but let us at least note a couple.įirst, the very figure Jesus used, that of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees being as leaven, makes a great lesson that needs to be understood. The warning that Jesus was giving was concerning false doctrine. The text then says, “Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Matt.
Jesus reminded them that those physical needs were not really that important since He could feed them as He did the multitudes earlier (Matt. They reasoned among themselves that it was because they had brought no bread along with them (Matt.
As was often the case with those hearing Jesus speak, they went off in the wrong direction concerning their understanding. When Jesus and His disciples were on the coast of the sea of Galilee, just after having put the Pharisees and the Sadducees in their place for desiring a sign from Him, he told His disciples, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Matt.
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