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Start with a c, s in a sermon series entitled stories of the Kingdom during which we are considering a number of The Parables of Jesus spend in prayer, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable.

In your sight.

Oh Lord, our strength and Our Redeemer.

I'm in Where is God in the world today?

People often?

Ask that sort of question when they are looking at all the troubles in the world around us or troubles in their own lives.

And I wonder why God is not doing something.

The presence of God often is not obvious, but is rather in a certain sense, hidden from view, Jesus address this reality.

They memorable way in his parable of the yeast or parable of the leaven one of the three Parables, we heard this morning.

He said they came to of Heaven is like East, but a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was 11:00.

People who want to do baking today have various options when it comes to what to use, as a leavening agent to stuff that will make your cake or cookies.

Rise.

Most people use baking soda a chemical leavening agent.

You can also utilize yeast a living organism which you can get in various forms at the store.

Or if you're like me and you wanted to make cookies you just get a box of that pre-made cookie dough with us or you know kind of throw in the oven.

In ancient times, people had one approach.

They kept a piece of leavened do in the house, do with yeast, actively growing in it to start a new load.

They would break off a chunk of 11, do and mix it in with the new flower.

The yeast from the 11 to chug with spread slowly through the rest until finally, when it was ready.

The whole loaf would rise in this process.

The yeast was entirely hidden from view.

You never saw the yeast of self only its final effect.

Jesus, accented, this feature, when in the parable he said that the woman mixed in the yeast or the 11, chunk with the rest of the flower.

The original Greek, literally says that she hid the yeast in the three measures of flour.

Jesus does Lyft about the hidden penis of the working of yeast.

And suggested that this is a Picture for the working of God.

The working of God often is hidden from our view.

We know to the same idea last week, in the parable of the hidden treasure.

Where Jesus said that they came of Heaven, is like treasure hidden in a field.

We observe last week that the term Kingdom of Heaven or kingdom of God, refers to wherever god reigns.

The kingdom is, does the Eternal realm of gods as well as all the ways in, which God Rings all the way in the here.

And now, in both the parable of the hidden treasure, and the parable of the leaven, is that the working of God is not always visible.

People can easily imagine that.

Nothing is there.

Nothing is happening, like the least.

The spirit of God is hidden within the structure of what is before us.

But like the East, God is working, and the working of God is real.

And Powerful.

Same time.

It is also gradual stick a cake, or she the cookies in the oven and the first few minutes.

Nothing happens.

You can imagine that nothing's going to happen yet.

In time, major transformation, marvelously unfolds.

The gradual nature of bacon is, especially apparent there for following the ancient practice of star with a chunk of living bread, or waiting for the whole loaf, the 11:00 till you finally put that in the oven, the working of God also off and on fold in a very gradual process.

What this calls for on The Human Side is patience.

Today, we are increasingly school to think that patience is unnecessary.

We just need the latest and fastest technology, but there's truth in the old proverb.

Good things come to those who wait.

That statement is itself not actually in the Bible, but the idea is very much present in the parable of the living.

If you are waiting for something to bake, good things will come.

If you wait, open the waffle iron too early and you've got a mess one needs patients.

That is very true in our relationship with God.

It's significant that the Bible often uses the phrase.

Wait for the Lord that phrase is repeated frequently in the scriptures.

Not because God is slow but because we are impatient.

We need to calmly trust in the gradual working of God, Spirit, and the Wonders changes that God will bring about through time.

Find last week.

We can observe about 11.

Is that even though the yeast itself is very small actually invisible in the do the effect ultimately is quite large.

What starts out as a small lump of dough becomes.

Finally a much larger loaf of bread.

Jesus, accented, the largeness of the effect of Leaven, in the latter part of the parable.

When he said that the woman hit 11 in three measures of flower, that is a specific quantity in Hebrew 3, C is which Eagle one.

He fought a quantity that is mentioned in several places in stories in the Old Testament, when Abraham and Sarah received.

A visitation from the Lord, in the form of three Angelic.

Visitors, Sarah prepared.

Cakes for the Divine visitors using three measures of flour, when an angel appeared to Gideon Gideon responded by bringing an offering to the Lord of three measures of flour.

When Hannah dedicated her son, Samuel to the service of the Lord and thankfulness for God's help.

She brought a gift to the Temple of three measures of flour.

That specific quantity appears repeatedly in stories in which God is working in some powerful way in people's lives.

So Jesus and using this quantity in the parable was saying, this is a picture of how God will typically work in human life.

And how much exactly is three measures it amounts to about 85 lb bags of flour.

That is a lot of bread.

And this is Jesus point a little bit of Leaven hidden and do all them.

Italy has a huge impact and so it is with how God works in the world.

God often starts in small ways to make a big difference.

You can see this in the story of the early church, a tiny band of disciples invisible To The World At Large would have a gradual and yet extremely powerful effect.

Yielding, ultimately a huge results with over 2 billion, Christians in the world today, or consider the ministry of dr.

Martin Luther King jr.

Starting out.

A very small, your sort of way.

And not noticed my many gradually growing ignored still by many and yet over time having a huge impact which continues to be part of our Legacy today.

God uses.

What is small axe?

Within with his often little notice to accomplish the great work of God's kingdom?

And so we should never despair.

If we feel that we in our efforts in the world are small, or the working of God is scarcely to be seen.

We can trust that God is at work, like the leaven in love.

The parable this makes sense, but in the first century when people originally heard this Parable, initially, they would have been shocked in a way because to them Levin was typically considered a negative symbol.

People had discovered that you can get a culture of yeast.

Going from scratch by just allowing do to sit out wildest will land on it and in time, we'll start what we call sourdough strike people as suspicious in a way kind of disgusting and the whole process became in the first century.

A symbol for corruption, people have the same at the time, A little leaven leavens the whole lump which was similar to our sane one rotten apple spoils the whole Darrell Paul quoted the same, A little leaven leavens, the whole lump twice in his letters.

When he was warning, people against being influenced by false teachers and Jesus wants use Levin in the typically negative way.

When he said, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees to first century people Levin typically symbolized influence.

Last week we noted that Jesus Parables were designed to shake people up to people to think in new ways to that and his Parables often had some sort of shock or surprise.

The shock in the parable.

The 11:00 was the Jesus Took a symbol the yeast, which people typically thought of as symbolizing something negative and you flipped it into a symbol of the working of God in doing.

So, Jesus was saying, I'm going to give you a whole new picture of how God works and eat the idea that yeast could symbolize the working of God's kingdom presented A radically New Concept.

In first-century Palestine when people thought about how God works.

They like to think that God should work in a dramatic fashion people sometimes working today in the face of the Troubles of the rage.