The Kitchen Table Devotional

1 Corinthians 5  Day 3

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.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Don’t pretend!  Don’t mess around with sin, especially sexual sin, and pretend to love God and worship Him.  To do so is to call holy what God calls unholy and to try to appear to be someone you’re not.  Don’t just repent of wrong actions, deal with the wrong influences and be set free like Jesus made you to be free.  Don’t just deal with the iniquity, deal harshly with the influence of iniquity.  It’s worth it.