Where do we have to look at sin according to Paul's leaven analogy?
According to Paul's leaven analogy, sin must be examined in two places: in our individual lives and in the life of the church. Just as leaven in Egypt's bread pictured defilement, believers are to be a new unleavened lump, forgiven and cleansed, yet must not leave leaven that spreads and consumes.
Les explains that the Passover in Egypt was followed by seven days of unleavened bread, picturing a nation whose sins had been atoned for or cleansed. Paul brings that same analogy into our teaching today. Therefore we have to look at sin in our individual lives and also in the life of the church, just like the leaven in the bread of Egypt. Because believers are unleavened—forgiven, cleansed, and, so far as God is concerned, without sin—leaving a little leaven allows it to expand and expand until it consumes us again. Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
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How does Paul's unleavened bread analogy apply to sin in the church today?
Paul brings the same unleavened-bread analogy into Christian teaching today, so we must look at sin both in our individual lives and in the life of the church, just as leaven was dealt with in the bread of Egypt.