Bread of Life

Another simple example explaining a complicated subject resides in Luke 13:20. Jesus tells us that the kingdom of God is like a woman baking bread. She uses a great deal of flour in her baking but a small amount of yeast permeates every part of the dough. In Matthew 16:6, the author helps to shed light on the intentions of the passage in Luke. According to the King James version, Luke reports that, Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

When Jesus spoke in these plain terms, the religious spies that followed Him and reported every word must of had a difficult time getting up fast enough so that they could go and tell their benefactors. Like all people of faith who cling to rules and regulations designed and imposed by men, the Pharisees and the Sadducees saw their beliefs as the flour and this interloper, Jesus, as the yeast.

Man has been introducing variations of God’s word since it’s inception and while I love what yeast does to my sourdough bread, I will follow my Lord’s example and delete it from the flour of my faith.