A Little Leaven Leaveneth The Whole Lump

1st Corinthians 5:6-8, “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

Kindly said, Evangelist Steve Pettit became the new president of Bob Jones University in 2014. Sadly, Mr. Pettit has taken BJU down a very ugly and corrupt path of Lordship Salvation. The college is now full-blown in support of the Devil's counterfeit gospel of Lordship Salvation. It is so sad and tragic! Dr. Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968) said he would blow his college up if infidels like Dr. Steve Pettit ever took over! I say that kindly with love. It just proves the Bible true, that a little leaven (mold) leaveneth the whole lump. 1st Corinthians 5:6, “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” Galatians 5:9, “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” A couple decades ago, BJU preached against the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, but today in 2020 they teach it! That is the power of deception!

The Devil wants you to think you must “forsake your sins” to be saved, so you'll make an effort to reform your own life, instead of wholly lean on Jesus' name for salvation! That is another gospel, which cannot produce the new birth (regeneration). John 3:7, “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN”! You cannot save yourself! The Devil is much smarter than you or me. The Devil knows that some people won't buy into his “do good works“” to be saved garbage theology. Sadly, over one billion Roman Catholics have bought into that Satanic lie. Albeit, the Devil wants to kill everyone in Hell, being full of hatred. So the Devil comes to those who are not as gullible as Catholics, and he offers you a counterfeit plan of salvation that teaches partial faith in Christ, plus you must turn from your sins (forsake them), to be saved. You see, if Satan cannot trick you to do GOOD WORKS to be saved, then he'll trick you to forsake BAD WORKS to be saved, but either way it is still adding WORKS to your faith!

Effectively “turning away from sin” is the SAME as doing good works to be saved, because faith alone in the Savior is not enough to get to Heaven. Please understand dear reader, that whether doing GOOD WORKS or forsaking BAD WORKS, they are all DEAD WORKS in God's sight (Hebrews 6:1; Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:20). Hebrews 4:10-11 teaches us to CEASE from our own DEAD WORKS, and simply REST in the finished redemptive work of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to pay for our sins! All it takes is the slightest addition or subtraction from the Gospel to pervert it, rendering it impotent to save anyone!

The Bible teaches that a little yeast (bacteria) will affect the whole batch. In the Bible leaven is used to represent corruption, sin and heresy! A little corruption will corrupt the whole church! This is the context in which the Apostle Paul is speaking in 1st Corinthians 5:1-13. A church member had been living in fornication with a woman. The church was okay with the sinful situation. Paul rebukes them, reminding them that allowing a little sin left to go unchecked in the church, will eventually corrupt the whole church. Certainly, we are all sinners and sin will always be in any church, just like anywhere else where there are people, but that doesn't mean we should accept it. Always remember, we must never accept the sin with the sinner, nor reject the sinner with the sin! 

It is the pastor's solemn duty to expose sin, to preach against sin, to rid the church of open sin where evident, and most of all to love sinners with God's unconditional love. The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. This creepy movement across America today, which seeks to bring in LGBTQ (homosexuals) persons into the churches, as church members in good standing, is of the Devil. I believe lesbians and homosexuals ought to be welcomed to attend church services, so they can also hear the preaching of God's inspired Word. However, they do not have a right to sin openly in the house of God, neither should they be accepted as being “normal” or right with God. To do so simply evidences that a church is not right with God, and may in fact not be a church at all, but an unsaved religious organization.

Satan has crept into our Bible colleges, and consequently the unfortunate churches that their graduates work in. It is tragic what has happened to Bob Jones University (BJU). Dr. Steve Pettit is the little bit of leaven that corrupted the entire institution. Today, BJU teaches full-blown Lordship Salvation, damning soils to Hell with a counterfeit gospel. One corrupt preacher can destroy a church or a Bible college. All it took was one corrupt preacher, to change the position on the inspiration of the King James Bible since 2008, at the First Baptist Church of Hammond. A little leaven leaventh the whole lump! What an important Bible principle for us to enforce in our lives, churches and homes! Little sins leads to big sins! Little problems lead to big problems! A little indifference leads to apathy and eventually apostasy! Little things are important!

The answer is the inspired Word of God! That is why the Devil is relentlessly changing, corrupting and desecrating the Bible, by publishing literally hundreds of English Bible revisions to confuse everyone, and it has worked! I was saddened to learn that communist Cuba has more sense than American pastors! Cuba rejected a shipment of 17,000 New International Version (NIV) Bibles, saying they only want the King James Bible in Cuba. That is amazing! Yet, most American pastors use, sell, sanction and promote the Devil's Bible revisions. What is wrong with pastors and churches today? I'll tell you, they allowed a little leaven (mold) into their church, and it corrupted the entire church, or Bible college. 

Bob Jones University long ago was King James Bible only in 1927 when they began. But they let the Devil in, with Stewart Custer and other corrupt teachers. Then BJU tried to defend themselves when fundamentalists cried “WOLF” concerning BJU! So BJU placed a plaque on their college pulpit that said: “Only the King James Bible is to be used from this pulpit.” Now today in 2020, I've been listening to their 'The Daily Platform' daily chapel services, and hearing their Bible professors quote from different revisions of the Bible. You see, a little leaven has corrupted the whole institution!