The New Lump

The New Lump

God is so very good and big in all of our lives. His goodness and His grace is far beyond anything that we deserve. His amazing presence brings comfort and peace in the midst of all our life events.

Holy Father has given so much thought to your life. In fact He never stops thinking about you and His purpose for your life.

As we move forward each day the blessings and favor of God inspires us. The revelation of His grace and mercy, along with the understanding of His word, strengthens our faith.

Our lives have been enriched by the friends and family members, that we love and cherish. People who have loved, forgiven, and fought in prayer.

It is your grace, mercy, and love that has joined us together. May your will be done as we follow you.

I want to share some thoughts with you titled, “The New Lump”

1 Peter 1:17-21 NASB

17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;

18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

These passages are an awesome revelation of the process of redemption, and the eternal plan of God.

Verse 17 tells us of the righteous, and impartial judgment of the Father. He measures without partiality our conduct and our work while living on earth.

The Apostle also reminds us of our need to respect the Father and His will for our lives.

Verse 18 is much clearer when read from the Amplified

1 Peter 1:18 Amplified

For you know that you were not redeemed from your useless spiritually unproductive way of life inherited by tradition from your forefathers with perishable things like silver and gold.

It wasn’t some ceremonial act that redeemed us. Verse 19 tells us it was precious blood.

The word precious comes from a Greek word which means, “as of great value.”

In verse 20 we hear the heavens have known Him from the beginning. He was revealed to the world for our sake.

Verse 21 from the Amplified

1 Peter 1:21 Amplified

and through Him you believe [confidently] in God [the heavenly Father], who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God.

There is something very obvious from these passages. “If God used something of great value to redeem us. It must have been because He considered us of great value.” Preach

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 NASB

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

There are a few words that needs some attention.

1 Corinthians 5:6 NASB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

Leaven is often used metaphorically. It is used that way in this passage. It means, “of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendence to infect others.”

1 Corinthians 5:7 NASB

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

The word unleavened in this passage comes from a Greek word which means, “free from faults and the leaven of iniquity.”

New lump means, “to be born, to spring up, to grow.”

1 Corinthians 5:8 NASB

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

What does all this means? “As a Christian you are cleansed. Free from the iniquity that bound you before you came to Christ.

The Apostle is teaching the danger of looking back. He is also teaching the responsibility we have to align ourselves with the right people.

Careful to not let leaven enter into our minds and our hearts.

God has cleansed those who follow Him from iniquity.

He will cleanse you if you will only ask.

There is only one wall that keeps us from walking in our destiny. The same wall keeps us from coming to Christ and become a new person.

Our thoughts build this wall!!!!!

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