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Overcome With Unleavened Sincerity and Truth

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Overcome With Unleavened Sincerity and Truth

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What does it take to overcome the powerful and destructive forces at play in this world? Some surprises are waiting.

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A partial set of Scriptures used:

Rom 12:21  Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS to reach all the leavening and take it out !!!!!

1Co 5:4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Co 5:5  deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1Co 5:7  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9  I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
1Co 5:10  Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

Difficult to get rid of the CARNAL attitudes...

"Whatever happened to sin?"  Dr. Menninger

1Jn 3:4  Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

THE LAW sets a minimum standard. CHRIST MAGNIFIED the Law to its full standard expectation for Godly Character.

Breaking the Law, we miss the mark/target.

Psa 119:172  My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.

Rom 7:12  Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Psa 119:142  Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.
Joh 8:32  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Isa 35:8  A highway shall be there, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray.
Mat 7:13  "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
Mat 7:14  Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Mat 7:15  "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Mat 7:16  You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

1Co 11:1  Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Pro 8:32  "Now, therefore, listen to me, my children, For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Pro 8:33  Hear instruction and be wise, And do not disdain it.

Pro 8:35  For whoever finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the LORD;
Pro 8:36  But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death."

Amo 2:4  Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, Lies which their fathers followed.


180 DEGREE TURN... THEN  RUN FROM IT, FROM FRIENDS THAT DRAG YOU OR INFLUENCE YOU INTO IT!!!

Pro 16:17  The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
Pro 16:18  Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Ecc 12:13  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.

Mat 22:36  "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
Mat 22:37  Jesus said to him, 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39  And the second is like it: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
Mat 22:41  While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Mat 22:42  saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, "The Son of David."
Mat 22:43  He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call Him 'LORD,' saying:
Mat 22:44  'THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, TILL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL" '?
Mat 22:45  If David then calls Him 'LORD,' how is He his Son?"
Mat 22:46  And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

IS YOUR CALLING THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO YOU IN YOUR LIFE? DOES SALVATION REALLY MATTER TO YOU?  

Joh 6:48  I am the bread of life.
Joh 6:35  And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
Getting the "air out of the bottle"... getting sin out of our lives. Can't loose the focus and forget what the target of our lives IS...  Must get rid of sin. WHAT am I DOING RIGHT???  Pursue and enlarge that field to CROWD out sin and the ways of SIN.
Do you tell the truth? Can you be counted on to always have honest deals in all you do? In all your dealings?

KEEP WITH THE 4 Basic Tools/Practices:  Prayer, Bible Study, Meditation and Fasting.

THE PURSUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS GOD'S INTENT FOR EACH OF OUR LIVES!!!
Rom 6:13  And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Rom 6:15  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Rom 6:16  Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Rom 6:17  But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
Rom 6:19  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
Rom 6:20  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Rom 6:21  What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

UNLEAVENED BREAD means we INGEST the Righteous way of LIFE that was Christ's example and teaching.  PRODUCE FRUIT!!!!

JOHN 15.... must produce FRUIT!!!!

HOW do we put Righteousness in our lives? The 4 Rs:

1 Recognize SIN through the commandments of GOD
2 Repent of SIN
3 Resist SIN
4 Replace SIN with Righteous action, DO THE RIGHTEOUS THINGS.

1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Overcoming Evil with GOOD!!!

Mat 10:22  And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

LIVE and be careful with your footsteps and the PATH you walk. There is only ONE NARROW WAY...

For 7 days Egypt walked with GOD leaving Egypt. We now eat UB 7 days to symbolize our walk with GOD away from Egypt and the SIN it represents.