Luke 12:1

I am a hypocrite as are most of us. 

We preach love and grace and live in anger and frustration. We fight against our culture to have faith in an era of total unbelief. The only solution is JESUS and Him crucified. He has won the battle we just need to trust that the good thing He started in us He will bring to maturity. 

Gods’ love conquers all!

Leaven serves as an apt metaphor to describe the widespread effects of the Pharisees’ hypocritical teachings and actions. Faithlife Study Bible.

Leaven here represents the presence of corruption.

The corruption in view here is hypocrisy. Practicing hypocrisy is senseless because eventually all deeds—both good and evil—will be exposed. NKJ Study Bible.

hypocrisy |həˈpäkrəsē|

noun (plural hypocrisies)

the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

Luke 12:1 (NKJV)

12 In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Matthew 10:28–30 (NKJV)

²⁸ And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. ³⁰ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.