08/02/21 Parables of Jesus #7 — The Leaven (Mat.13:33; Luke 13:20-21)

Matthew 13:33 (ESV) He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Here the kingdom is pictured as yeast, multiplying quietly and permeating all that it contacts. The lesson is the same as the parable of the mustard seed… Jesus is repeatedly describing that kingdom itself as the pervading influence. [The MacArthur Study Bible]

Same song, second verse. As faithful, busy disciples of Christ, we believers must be spreading the gospel across the room, across the yard, across the street, across town, across our state and nation and around the world.