{"id":5905,"date":"2023-05-05T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:59:39","slug":"seeds-and-yeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"Seeds and Yeast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back to Jesus&#8217; parables as recorded in Matthew 13. There are seven in all, six of which start: &#8220;The Kingdom of God is like&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep sowing seed because not everyone responds and bears fruit\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5892\" target=\"_blank\">Parable of the sower<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kingdom co-exists with its opposition<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parable of the weeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parable of the bad fish (if we&#8217;re going to call the parable of the wheat and tares the parable of the weeds, let&#8217;s call the parable of the fishing net the parable of the bad fish!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Kingdom grows and benefits others (today&#8217;s topic)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parable of the mustard seed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parable of the leaven<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Kingdom has great value (tomorrow&#8217;s topic)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parable of the Hidden Treasure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parable of the Pearl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He put another parable before them, saying, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.\u201d He told them another parable. \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.\u201d (Matthew 13.31 &#8211; 33, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, we have two parables making the same point. A seed grows into a tree. A little yeast affects the whole batch of bread dough. Jesus has been clear from the beginning: he didn&#8217;t call us to go hide in a corner somewhere or just conduct church services but to make a difference. &#8220;The birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In you <strong>all <\/strong>the families of the earth shall be blessed. (Genesis 12.3, ESV, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Jesus&#8217; parables as recorded in Matthew 13. There are seven in all, six of which start: &#8220;The Kingdom of God is like&#8230;&#8221; He put another parable before them, saying, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seeds and Yeast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1xf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}