Good morning everyone and welcome to The Church Ministries 99th Sunday Service Assembly, we are all gathered this Sunday to find the truth and to spread the bread of life. We welcome all visitors, and we welcome everyone back, the members and all the brothers and sisters that have shared this bible church throughout the world. I am so very glad that we can bring this church and its teachings and blessings with a anointing of the Holy Spirit upon us all that want to share the love of Christ and the teachings of the word to educate us all to further our relationship and to bring us all closer to the one true God. Let us all praise the Father and the Son our Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you this day for the element of peace and tranquility. We are here together with our bodies all placed in different parts all over the globe, but our spirits are gathered together here, as we listen and learn the guidance that You have put before us. We all share Your great love and compassion and we don’t know how to praise You quite enough. But each of us will call out Your Name and Praise You, and to praise Your Son Jesus and tell Him that we love Him and we want that love spread into our hearts. We need Your openness we need Your understanding and we all need to repent and to turn around to You, and we ask to forgive us all of our sins, and we realize that we are all sinners, and we all understand that you sent Your Son down to earth to save us, even when we were not even worthy. Our Jesus came and suffered beyond any man upon this planet, and on top of it all He died for us. He gave us the saving grace; He gave us sanctification, reconciliation, and justification even when we were still an enemy towards You. We were all living in sin and were all like filthy rags, but through Christ our inner selves have been changed by the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. And all that believe in Him and carry there crosses and have an intimate relationship with You both, have been cleansed to follow within the fellowship of all the other saints and priests of the Kingdom of God. We are all here to worship You in purity of spirit and in truth, we are trying each day to tear the flesh of this world away from our hearts and our inner selves, the pride of life the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh to make us acceptable to stand in front of You with our heads bowed and praising Your name. We love You Lord, Please this day guide us all in the right direction, the proper teaching and to fully understand Your reasoning for our future lives here in this temporal world, and through eternity into the Kingdom of Heaven. In Jesus Name, Amen
Another parable spoke he unto them: The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened" (v. 33).
We have to fully understand the parables of Matt. 13. they are almost a small book and the way that even the note and translations have driven them and interpreted each one of them , ell there is so much more to them when you fully study them all , there is seven and they all group together for a propose and people just don’t realize that the end is so near , and this church is trying to save the ones that are not sue which path to go, well what we say is we have to turn to Christ and that is the only choice, but to leave that up to all the people is a must because God gave everyone free will, and we all have to give grace to all that exist today, our world is falling apart and no one for instance has even studied the fact that the world spins at 23 degrees and the world was made for balance, just like there is a balance in the 7 parables, the thing is no one has ever even thought if you are shifting the axis of the world at 23 degrees that gives us our seasons and climate at certain times, but as you see things are changing you can not go to Florida and sit on the beach on Christmas day anymore, because it would be to cold and not just cold real cold we are talking 40 degrees and 40 degrees in Florida in the wet humid air it is almost like 20 degrees in the Rockies of Colorado, in fact I would rather be in a dry 20 degree cold in Colorado then a 40 degree wet cold in Florida, I lived there for a long time and I watch Florida change and I watch what happened to the weather, usually the winter months are beautiful, but they start getting cold about November and stays cold all the way to march, yes you might have a good spurt of days where you can where a t shirt but not go swimming and be wearing a bathing suit, 15 years ago you could have a New Years beach party and have a wonderful time but now the beaches are empty and you will see people with heavy coats on and maybe a few runners. Balance is what I am talking about, now let us examine for a moment that you are taking all this oil that was put in the ground at all different places, has anyone one ever carried a gallon of oil, well you carried a quart to fill up your car just imagine 4 of those in a bag compared to a gallon of gas, now we understand the weight on it. now let us imagine that is only considered about a number2 oil, and what they pull out of the ground is raw and what they put in the large ships to make them go is a number 6 oil, now just imagine carrying a gallon of number 6 oil, that is going to be very heavy, now the crude oil and 6 oil are very close together in weight after a small refinement, the thing is that is why diesel oil was so cheap because you hardly had to do anything to make it, and in the past 20 years they raise it as high as Gasoline, which is out right steeling, no wonder the truck drivers have an attitude. To refine Gas is a much extensive process, but there is no reason for it to be 3 dollars a gallon now. Don’t forget I did all that ship fueling and gas and oil transportation, I know what I am taking about, I have stood in the largest refineries in America, and people talk about what cost this what cost that, the point I am trying to make is the when you take all this weight out of the ground at one place like the Middle East and keep taking and taking this weight of this oil out of the ground it will upsets the axis of the earth, it is all balance, you take a round orange, and roll it across the room it rolls with no problem, now take a big bit out of one place then try to roll it across the room, it will not roll, so there you have it that answer to all these weather changes and hurricanes and mixed in with Satan and his team, and the wrath of God you have a bit of destruction everywhere. We are not judges we are just simple people that worship God who made this world for us to live in, but as the scriptures say the greed will destroy the earth, and also the dumping hazardous waste to save money, that to is greed and you could almost say out to destroy the human race in any vicinity in the area of the planet that they are doing it, you take new Jersey, I have also lived there the last I heard there are 223 dump sites many of them are toxic, that is one of the reasons I moved out of there in the first place, and it is only like 100 miles by 50 give or take a few miles. Then I spent some time in Las Vegas in the middle of the desert and there is a town there about maybe 100 miles north which is the largest toxic dump site in the world, don’t worry it is real close to death Valley, but the way the seepage through the ground, I would not want to live anywhere near there, and you have the same problems in LA, or any big city. Maybe that is why I live where I do in the middle of the Pacific were there is clean air and no dumping of any bad stuff. Cancer is out there and people are picking it up from all these different chemicals, that is why bottled water became such a hit. I lived in LA in a nice neighborhood very expensive and the had a oil company refinery that the city built around it, and they would drop there waste water in the sewer (totally illegal) and you would smell this toxic gas come right out of your toilet, then you would call someone because the whole neighborhood was outside checking the man whole covers and then we realized they had a switch, they would dump one way until a neighborhood would call by the time anyone got out there it was gone, and then they would just run it and dump it through a different sewer line, it was almost a game they played , anyway I was out of there I didn’t want to die or catch cancer or something because know one would do any thing about it. I felt sorry for the people that bought homes there, if they are still healthy. I did get off the subject bit but like I said the Holy Spirit helps me type and I just go with the flow. But I do want to return to the parables of Matt. 13. We know that Christ explained to us the first and the second and the seventh. And the 3&4th that are in between have a definite meaning they are not just 7 parables that he said out of the blue, they all mean something as a group and as a whole. As you can figure that the first two have a real meaning to the Kingdom of Heaven. As we break down the third and forth parables we are dealing with corruption and the third is the outside and the forth is the inside, very simple, but some people just don’t look at it like that. Each one has its own secret corruption. The most popular translation would be the leaven as the Gospel and the power of, the woman is the Church. We have to understand that the leaven is usually used as something in a bad reference, not necessarily a good sense. But as you first look at it you would think it is taken in a good sense. And the Gospel is right along side. The woman so it seems is the Church but I don’t think that is what is meant here. The also think that the ministers of the Gospel are also in there some where. There are other groups that believe that the three measures of meal are to represent the chosen of Gods elect, and some say that the 3 measures are all of mankind. Anyway this is what is embedded into the minds of most people that the Church and mankind is holy not to be broken through. There are two ways to look at this that the leaven is the Gospel and the meal is the human race, or we can say the leaven is the evil here that is corrupting everything, and the meal stands for the truth of God, and we are looking at the leaven is corrupting the truth of God. So let us all break this down and look at it with the scriptures. If we take the popular view and then Christ is saying the opposite to Himself. In The first 3 parables He is not agreeing with the world really understanding the gospel the way it is being preached. Things are not looking up as time goes on and there isn’t much chance for the Gospel to even make headway, when He explains in the first parable the ground has not to much of a chance it is a 4 to one odds that the Gospel will be understood and glued to the minds that are listening. He admitted that most of the ground was unwelcoming and infertile, and to top it off even the later people or sowers would find anything that the ground would be improved, but He even added that the ground would get worse. The second parable does not lead anything to a productive Age at that time only at the end of the age will things be separated and the good will go into Christ’s bard and the bad or the weeds or tares will be burned, but right now they are living together and the whole field is spoiled by now, yes there are some good wheat still there but the weeds have over crowded the fiend and if the field is the world the world is so full of weeds , why even bother being in society, if most of the people are following the devil, sorry to say but they don’t even know it themselves, and we are all sinners and that includes me, and if you are around weeds all of your life it has to rub off even if you are the strongest stalk of wheat in the field or the world. In the third parable Christ calculated that all of Christendom would turn into such a monstrosity that the agents of the devil would not only have shelter from Christendom but would rule over it. So then how can the forth teach the very opposite of the third. Christ knew way ahead of time what was going to happen that is why in the first parable He says some 100 some 60 and some 30, He knew things where going down hill. And that scripture in And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:6-8) That is the thing why is that scripture there when He returns will He find anyone that has true faith, mixed in with all the weeds and tares and people that are leading these flocks and it still goes on and on, and as the end of days approaches how many do you see in prayer all the time, building a relationship with God and Christ, having meetings and discussions and bible studies every day, that should be the most important thing is to know about God, not the ball game, and how much you can bet on the team, or having the boys over with the open beers and bottles of wine on the weekends. Even peoples jobs and careers are the main thing on peoples minds , how to make more money and climb the corporate ladder, getting that better position, some people will do anything to get out of the whole they are in and many people hate their jobs, and many are that way the rest of there lives. We are a chosen race, we are ambassadors to Christ, we are saints upon this earth, we are the elect and even Jesus says in Matt 24: For false Christ’s and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. (Matt. 24:24-25) and yet He also says At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matt. 24:10-14) The love of most will grow cold, does anyone see true love that is warm from any other human being besides your spouse, and now even that is even the way of the world 2 out of three marriages end in divorce. That is not what Jesus wanted, that is not what God wanted. This world is falling apart, and I am sitting here in this office pounding the keys to make just one person to realize that we have to do something to change this world or we all will be at the door even though we took the right path the narrow one, there is always a chance that the door will be shut and Jesus would say I never new you. The thing is we have to learn about Christ daily and we have to share every thing with Him, he is our master and He also is our friend, so we have someone to respect and someone to love, and I wish people would just understand that one point.
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.' But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. Matt. (13:11-17)
(Our key point is Matt. 11 that these parables are secrets and mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven the same with verse 35, and these things have been keep secret since the foundation of the world. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:
"I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."
There are so many great men of the Gospel that think that the leaven is the Gospel and through the years it went back and forth from one person to another, and who ever had the most respect back then that would be the way the Word would be translated. We know now but even if I brought this subject up with any preacher they would say the same thing, and why argue why even start so I just write it and wait for the feed back. The Gospel has nothing to do with the leaven, and I know it will take some time and words to convey the fact. First the Gospel is not a not made known secret in O.T. Times. Remember in Gal. 3:8 that the Gospel was preached to Abraham the Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." Gal. 3:8
Now let us break this down if the leaven is the Gospel and the meal the human race, as a few scholars have teached and written, If God’s elect and the Christ as He stands upon this it does not make sense. Let us break it down again the first respect is this, what does leaven do right? So you place it in the meal and then it works all by itself the whole lump of meal is leavened and nobody has to do a thing. You just leave it and it works, now just examine what we just said, is this the way the Gospel works? No it just does not work that way, many people have heard the Gospel but does it stick to everyone, no. To some it does not do a thing, it will have no effect on many, but there are a few that do catch a glimpse. Next what is this with the woman, the Gospel has been preach by men where their any in the 12 or the 70 that he sent forth. We all know that the job is for a man, I don’t want to discredit some woman preachers in this explanation so please don’t take it the wrong way, because there are so good woman preachers, anyway back to that timeline, the sisters were always ready to help with the men with prayer requests and ministering for the men and helping the men when possible
Now secondly we will call the woman an actor of this parable, it is the woman that puts the leaven in the meal. Jesus did not put His Gospel in the hands of a woman at that time. Now what does leaven do when it is placed in the meal, so it puffs it up and that is not what the Gospel does it does not puff anyone up it does the complete opposite, and it should not make anyone swell. The Gospel humbles a person, it subdues, tones them down, makes then in a way more reachable or quiet or manageable. Let us look atit another way the Gospel has not completed its work, the Gospel has been preached for 19 centuries, yet not one single state or county or country or city or town or village, has been completely evangelized, let alone have brought people to Christ. If this view or explanation of this parable is the correct one then the Gospel the way others have translated it, has been a total failure.
To just put it bluntly the leaven all through scripture was never anything good. And that contradicts everything in scripture and any other passage where this leaven is used. You have to remember Christ was speaking to a Jewish nation and with their knowledge and understanding of the O.T. Scriptures, none of them would ever vision that He was showing reference to something that was good. You have to be blunt in this situation the Jews always thought leaven was a form of evil.
But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. (Gen 19:3)
In this next section we have to understand that Lot made bread for the angels and he thought a lot like Peter, when he said he did not want nothing unclean to enter into my mouth. Now the wicked city of Sodom made leavened bread all the time, but for this special occasion Lot man sure the bread was unleavened and the angels did eat it. Lot seamed to know what he was doing and he felt this way about the bread , but the thing is in our congregations today we are experiencing no bread of life, the thing is today people will believe anything that is coming from the pulpit today and that is not really good, because I have told you before Satan and his agents are not after the people in bars and casinos and the race tracks, he already has them, his agents are now attacking from the inside and they are now in the pulpits and in the seminaries. But people today will not put up any argument, they just listen and fill in there lines on the program and listen to almost anything, and many many times I wanted to walk up to them and say when will you teach us the true bread of life, I sat in classrooms for two hours and the man said absolutely nothing but in the end so many people would say just to be nice that was a good teaching I learned this or that, now I am off the subject again.
"This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD -a lasting ordinance. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. (Ex.13:14-15)
"Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born. Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread." (Ex.13:17-20)
"Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning. (Ex. 34:25)
" 'If you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of fine flour: cakes made without yeast and mixed with oil, or wafers made without yeast and spread with oil. If your grain offering is prepared on a griddle, it is to be made of fine flour mixed with oil, and without yeast. Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. If your grain offering is cooked in a pan, it is to be made of fine flour and oil. Bring the grain offering made of these things to the LORD; present it to the priest, who shall take it to the altar. 9 He shall take out the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the LORD by fire. (Lev. 2:4-10)
" 'Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in an offering made to the LORD by fire. (Lev. 2:11)
When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. "Be careful," Jesus said to them. "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. "They discussed this among themselves and said, "It is because we didn't bring any bread." Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, "You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? How is it you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. (Matt. 16:5-12)
As you can see through scripture yeast or leaven is not very welcome in Ex. 12 You could not even have any in your house. So we know where does it say leaven is good? And no leaven was to be put into any grain sacrifices, also God prohibited any leaven with anything that had to do with offerings of blood. Lev. 2:11 tells us that leaven was also not permitted from any offering made by fire.
Then we move into the insides of the Pharisees and Sadducees or their attitudes or actions, or thoughts or their ways. Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying:
"Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. (Luke 12:1-3)
So as you can see the yeast or leaven is nothing that resembles things that are good.
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. (1Cor. 5:6-8)
You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9"A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." 10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. (Gal.5:7-10)
" 'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 1Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of first fruits to the LORD. Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest. On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. (Lev. 23:15-21)
Burn leavened bread as a thank offering
and brag about your freewill offerings—
boast about them, you Israelites,
for this is what you love to do,"
declares the Sovereign LORD. (Amos 4:5)
We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him. We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. (1John 5:18-20)
He said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant."
"Very well," they answered, "do as you say." So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. "Quick," he said, "get three seahs of fine flour and knead it and bake some bread." Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree. (Gen 18:3-8)
Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the LORD came to him: "Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food." So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, "Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?" As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread." "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die."
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' " She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah. Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?"
"Give me your son," Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?" Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!" The LORD heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, "Look, your son is alive!" Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth." (1Kings 17:7-24)
Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. (John 12:23-26)
"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. (Matt.11-27)
Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. (2Cor. 4:2)
Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. (Matt 16:12)
He replied, "When evening comes, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,' and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." (Matt 16:2-4)
"You place defiled food on my altar.”But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' "By saying that the Lord ’s Table is contemptible. When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the LORD Almighty. (Mal.1:7-8)
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. (2Thes. 1-4)
Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. (2Thes. 5-12)
So it goes the same with Luke 12:1 but this time he added hypocrisy, now the Master would not confuse his disciples into thinking that leaven is good.
Being the Hebrews were in a hurry to leave they didn’t have the time to wait for the bread to rise, so they did not use any leaven, and because the yeast was a symbol of sin they were told to sweep all of it out of their house. Because Christ is our Passover lamb the perfect sacrifice for all our sins, and because Christ brought us out of the slavery we were under which was sin. We should have nothing to do with the sins of any past times. Basically meaning old yeast.
In the part of Gal. which is the last part mentioned about the leaven in the N.T. We know that a little yeast causes a whole lump to rise, so meaning the same thing, all you need is one bad person to infect all the others. The second place is persuasion also hinders a man from understanding the truth, Paul was preaching truth, and if He taught what the false teachers were teaching no one would have said anything, that is the part about being different, when you are preaching the truth people are not used to hearing the truth, like I would ride in a car with my old friend on the way to the food bank and he was listening to the same thing year after year and then I would come along and preach the truth to him and so him in scripture and he would laugh at me, and said I never heard that, well it was the same with Paul, he was preaching the truth and he was persecuted by both Jews and Judaizers, it is the same way when you take a stand with Christ people just don’t understand you and they want to go live their lives like they always have, and they don’t want to here the truth. Should all take note that persuasion is a powerful moving influence, Decomposition of organic matter, especially protein, by microorganisms, resulting in production of foul-smelling matter, which in sense is another way to enhance the corruption and when people are open then they are teachable but with old yeast running through scripture and there is no new people to show the mistakes and patterns of pastors and ministers the congregation hears the same thing taught the same way, and that is why it is good to have the congregation involved, but like a person like me, I would raise my hand and get yelled at or the teacher would get embarrassed (old leaven), one teacher would not answer a question for a whole year and every time he saw me he would dodge me and tell me he had to do something else, anyway leaven is mentioned 13 times in the N.T. a number always affiliated with evil and the work of Satan. The thing is I will continue with the ministry and this church even though people and things they say and do will try to stop me from doing what God wants me to do. There are two places where the leaven is good in the O.T. and that would be Lev. 23:17 where the two loaves of bread were presented to the Lord at the Feast of Weeks and they were baked with leaven, the representation can go all the way to Acts 2 where finally Jew and Gentile unite to all be saved together, we can call it the first fruits of this dispensation that are actually hooked together so you see the leaven was needed in these two loafs to say as if to spread the unity of Jew and Gentile so it does represent these particular believers. I guess we could say that when a loaf of bread is represented by Christ it should be unleavened, and if the representation is for His people it must be leavened.
The thing with Amos 4:5 could actually mean the complete opposite and it would be like if you told someone well if you do this that is going to happen to you, The scripture could also go a different direction. We know the burning of leaven was strictly forbidden, either Amos is rebuking the Israelites for a willful transgression of the law, or he is speaks of doing the opposite burning in a way for a willful transgression of the law, or he speaks of burning in a general way for offering inappropriate gifts to the Lord. Or the burning of the leavened bread could accompany a peace offering. They loved the forms and rituals of religion but did not love what God loves, righteousness, compassion, fairness. The preceding verse proves it is just an ironic statement: Come to Bethel, and transgress: at Gilgal multiply transgression and bring sacrifice every morning, clearly it is a language of irony.
Objectors have appealed to two passages in the O.T. where "leaven" is employed in a good sense. But when examined it will be found that they are only seeming exceptions. The first is in Leviticus 23:17. The two loaves presented unto the Lord at the Feast of Weeks were to be baked "with leaven." But there is no difficulty here. The Feast of Weeks foreshadowed what is recorded in Acts 2, where the "first fruits" of this dispensation are seen. The two "loaves" prefigured saved Jews and Gentiles. Inasmuch as the old nature remains in those who are born again, the "leaven" was needed in the loaves which represented these believers. Whenever the typical bread represented Christ it must be unleavened, wherever it typified His people it must be leavened.
Let us get back to the three measures of meal, some say they represent the human race among who the gospel is working. If so we are right back to where we started and the meal now is a figure of evil, we have to understand that the human race now is totally falling apart, truth is a word now that people just don’t follow and they will lie to keep their job, or lie not to have their wife suspicious, and from the scripture 1John 5:19 the whole world lies in the Wicked one. Some still say that the meal stands for God elect in there normal state, but the analogy of faith is against them, we should go back to scripture, even I am getting confused, We remember hen the three angels came to see Abram and he was rushing around to make his hospitality real and welcome, and he says make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth, Now did Abram prepare a meal that was going to be for the Lord and His angels and was that going to symbolize evil? As we shift to 1 Kings God does not feed his servants on that which speaks of evil! So now where does the meal come from, very simple it does not come from the tares, but it comes from the good wheat? It is a product of all the good stuff wholesome nutritious pure and we can not consider it to be a part of a fallen corrupt humanity. So in Gen 18:6 the three measures of meal are apart of Christ just like the tender calf in verse 7 which was killed and dressed up real nice and it would seem like the work of Christ. The meal is the type of Christ and it is within the corn of the wheat and the bread of life, so as in John 12:24 so in the language of the N/T, the symbolic realism stands for the doctrine of Christ
Now that we are finally getting to the nitty gritty the woman in our parable exposes the error , it is the action of the woman that brings everything to lite she took the meal, se didn’t get it handed to her or it wasn’t received like someone giving it to her, and she hid the leaven in the meal. Now is this the way servants of God act when they preach His Gospel? Is the holy something covered or whispered as though it was a secret. Do God’s servants act like they sneaking around? No. Remember the Lord telling us, "What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetop" (Matthew 11:27). "We faint not, but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God" (2 Cor. 4:2). But in our parable, the woman is acting fraudulently and deviously: she silently introduced a foreign and corrupting element into the meal. The thing is her object was to do something wrong and its worsening the product.
Writing to the Corinthians, and describing the character of his own ministry, the apostle Paul said, "We faint not, but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God" (2 Cor. 4:2). But in our parable, the woman is acting dishonestly and deceitfully: she stealthily introduced a foreign and corrupting element into the meal. Her object was to effect its deterioration. If the reader will turn to Leviticus 2:11 he will find that this "woman" was doing the very thing which the Word of God forbade her; " 'Every grain offering you bring to the LORD must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in an offering made to the LORD by fire. (Lev.2:11) and he will also observe that she also left out the oil which was the very thing the Scriptures directed with authority and emphasis, so what was she making a mud pie? Now let us go over this and talk about what is true the three measures of meal stand for Christ as the bread for His people. Christ is also presented as the Word and so is also meaning the doctrine of Christ.
So my brothers and sisters the leaven was being a symbol of corrupting God’s truth plus the fact the additional added evil doctrine. Which we compare to Matt. 16:12 Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
The "leaven" symbolizes the corrupting of God’s truth by the introduction of evil doctrine—compare Matthew 16:12. The unadulterated truth of God is too heavy for the natural man: the sovereignty of God, the helplessness of man, the awfulness of sin, the totality of human depravity, the eternal punishment of the wicked, are indigestible to the carnal mind. Therefore, Rome and her "daughters" have introduced the lightening "leaven," so as to make, what they hand out, more edible to their tricks. And thus has history repeated itself. Of old God complained to Israel, "Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar" (Mal. 1:7). So today in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; and a policy of supporting the power and influence of the clergy in political or secular matters, have corrupted the bread of God.
Now that we have hit the end of our discussion let it be noted that the three measures of meal were not removed, nor was there something put in place of it. Instead a foreign element was secretly stuck in with it, and the element that has slowly and progressively corrupted it. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. (2Thes.2:4) the apostle Paul declared, "The mystery of iniquity does already work." The Leaven had started to act even back then, and our Savior our Jesus declared it would work till "the whole was leavened." So our readers or our translators or who ever is reading this we find that corruption even began back them and Jesus knew what was going to happen, just like He new what He had to go through the parables of Matt. 13 are very heavy and they are like individual warnings but they stand in truth. It is a very sad day when there are only a few places you can go and actually learn something and to learn the true Christ’s bread of life to feed our souls, we all know by the time you have sat down for breakfast you have already forgotten what the preacher has said or taught, but that is the way it is supposed to be, that is why this church is under the big guns of Satan and that is why I am suffering so much, because here you are going to learn something and you are going to here truth with scripture, beside it is not I that writes this stuff but God , Jesus and the Holy Spirit. While the Holy Spirit is still here on this planet amongst the saints, God’s truth will still be proclaimed. So while the Holy Spirit is here, we still are fighting a obstructing cause, preventing the whole from being leavened. But at the Rapture the Hinderer will be taken out of the way, For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 2Thes. 2:7 then the whole will be completely leavened. Then the salt will be removed and then all you have is universal corruption.
Dear Father, this is for the unspoken prayer I said I was going to leave for the poor, and the suffering, that someday we all can help each other and build a relationship with Jesus together, plus this will be my closing prayer for all who shared this sermon today. Father please help us and be with us the rest of this week and please help us to know Christ even better and to teach others about Your Son. We love You so much Father, and we love You Jesus, and we love You Holy Spirit, In Jesus Name we all pray, Amen and amen.
