What is the yeast or leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees that Jesus says to beware of in Matthew 16? What puffs up a person the same way leaven puffs up a profiterole? What makes a person look, feel or act like something more than they are? Power? Pride? “Knowledge puffs up”, says Paul in 1 Corinthians 8, “but love builds up.”
Beware of this leaven, this yeast, for those with true authority among you will be the friendly servants, not those who take positions over you or exercise power over you nor those who take the foremost seats and places of visible honor.
Watch out for this in others in your community and refuse the temptation yourself. Build your life on loving relationships and don’t allow impersonal, top heavy institutions to develop and rob you of your strength and dignity. Be significant to each other and share your physical and supernatural gifts as God, our friend, our Father provides.
Love, Dad, PaPa, Fred