 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. What was the leaven of the Pharisees? Legalism. He said beware of the leaven of the Sadducees. What was the leaven of the Sadducees? Liberalism. And then he said beware of the leaven of Herod. What was the leaven of Herod? It was licentiousness. Herod was a pleasure-mad licentious king. And all three of these things, legalism, liberalism,