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What does Bible Say about the Yeast?

What does bible say about the Yeast? It is symbol of positive growth, but also corruption and hypocrisy of heart. This bible devotional focuses on Matthew 13:33, it compares the Kingdom of Heaven with the Yeast, and draws some application about spreading the Kingdom of God.


Yeast is a bacterial fungus or mold. It works through and permeates the dough. It is used in the bible both as symbols of positive and negative influence.

Yeast as a symbol of positive growth

Matthew 13:33 (NIV) – The kingdom of Heaven is like a yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.

Yeast as a symbol of uncleanliness or corruption

Leviticus 2:11 – Every grain offering you bring to the Lord must be made without yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey in a food offering presented to the Lord.

Yeast as a symbol of hypocrisy of Heart and Old Self

Matthew 16:6 – Jesus said to them. Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” (Also Mark 8:15)

 

1 Corinthians 5: 6-8 – Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

This word study focuses Matthew 13:33, a comparison of the Kingdom of Heaven with the Yeast. (Another Bible Symbol – Yoke). This is the only passage in the bible that uses the yeast in a positive light!

  • Growth of yeast in the dough, is subtle, internal, permeable. Even small amount of yeast can affect the whole dough.
  • Similarly, the spread of Kingdom of God seems, like yeast, small, insignificant at first, but as it grows and multiplies, it affects the individuals, community, city, nation and the whole world.
  • It is not our spiritual intellect or ready-made answers that brings people to Christ, but it is the power of Kingdom of God; internal, subtle, permeable power and growth within individuals that bring them to a living and saving faith in Christ Jesus.

The gospel of Jesus Christ therefore must be spread like a yeast.

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