In a message to faithful believers in Monterrey, Mexico, Gary shares with them the answer for Mexico. The answer is the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven that was implanted within them. This leaven will grow until it influences all of Mexico. And it will not stop until it fills the whole earth.

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At the Feast of Unleavened Bread, all leaven is removed from the house and unleavened bread is eaten for seven days. In 1 Corinthians Paul compares this process to what happens within us. During this feast we are to clean out the old leaven from ourselves. God wants us to remove all the influences of this world and this age until we are a new lump of dough that is unleavened.

After the Feast of Unleavened Bread, leaven is again added to the bread. As Yeshua (Jesus) said, the Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven added to a lump of dough that grows until the entire lump is leavened. During the days of unleavened bread, we remove the leaven of this world that is not part of the Kingdom of God until we become a new lump of dough. But that is not where we stop. Then the Kingdom of Heaven itself is imparted into our hearts and minds. Like leaven, it grows until we are completely filled with His Kingdom.

You could look at your circumstances and say, “I don’t see it working.” You cannot necessarily see leaven working either, but slowly and surely it is growing and expanding in the dough. We have removed the old leaven of influences of this world, and now the new leaven of the Kingdom will continue to grow in us and influence everything around us. By this impartation and transformation within us, we become the bread that God can use to feed the world.

Key Verses:

• 1 Corinthians 5:7–8. “Clean out the old leaven.”
• Romans 12:2. “Do not be conformed to this world.”
• Matthew 13:33. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.”
• Luke 13:20–21. “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven.”
• Colossians 1:13. “He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.”
• Philippians 3:20–21. “Our citizenship is in heaven.”

Quotes:

• “We are implanted into the Kingdom, and now the Kingdom is being implanted into us.”
• “The days of unleavened bread are finished, and we must become this new loaf of bread that is to feed the world.”
• “The answer for Mexico is this leaven of His Kingdom. And it is now dwelling in your hearts.”

Takeaways:

1. The Feast of Unleavened Bread has tremendous significance for believers. Paul wrote about this feast and related it to what happens to us rather than to bread. We become unleavened by cleaning out the old influences of the world from our lives.
2. At the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, leavened bread is eaten again. And so we do not remain unleavened. Christ imparts to us the leaven of His Kingdom. We have removed the old influences of the world, and we have growing within us the influence of the Kingdom of God.
3. This influence of the Kingdom that expands in our hearts does not stop with us. It will leaven our community, our nation, and ultimately the entire earth.