The Living Word: A Daily Devotional with Jeff & Dale from The Jenkins Institute
The Living Word is a daily devotional featuring Scripture and encouragement from Jeff and Dale of The Jenkins Institute. Each episode offers a thoughtful reading to coincide with the daily devotional guides from our annual devotional books. They are designed to help listeners begin or end their day grounded in God’s Word.
The Living Word: A Daily Devotional with Jeff & Dale from The Jenkins Institute
Week 12: Thursday Leaven of the Kingdom
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Despite the negative spiritual connotation of leaven—as a symbol of sin
and something to be removed from nearly every grain offering and feast
—there were a few exceptions. In the very short parable recorded in
Matthew 13:33, found in a chapter full of parables using similes and
metaphors for the kingdom of Heaven, Jesus says, “The kingdom of
Heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of
flour, till it was all leavened” (ESV). Luke records the same in Luke
13:20-21 with a few small differences: “And again He said, ‘To what shall I
compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven that a woman took and hid
in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened’” (ESV).