Christianity and Real Estate... "The Kingdom of Heaven is Like..." #4

Have you ever wondered how you could be more of an
influence in the workplace, your family and the community?
Here is another installment of "What the Kingdom of
Heaven is Like" as told by Jesus the Messiah that will
shed light on how to do just that.

This description of what the Kingdom of Heaven is
like is from the book of Matthew 13:33.

He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven
is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount
of flour until it worked all through the dough."

There are some things I want to point out about this parable.
Jesus almost always spoke in spiritual terms, so there is a
LOT of symbolism packed into this little sentence of His.

• The amount of yeast put into the dough is VERY VERY little,
  compared to the volume of dough there is. This is just the
  same imagery Jesus uses in the parable of the mustard seed.
  The Kingdom of heaven in peoples lives and in situations
  does not start out BIG as life a lot of the times, but small and
  insignificant. If you do not look for it, you will miss it and the
  lessons learned by what happens later will pass you by.

• Yeast is used in the bible as a symbol of sin..... BUT Jesus is
  stating a fact here about the authority OVER sin the kingdom
  of heaven has and how that authority can affect people,
  communities, nations and the world. In other words, as a
  human being, EVERYONE sins.... BUT if you are a Christian
  and you are doing what is right by confessing and forsaking
  the sin in your life whenever you find it, THAT authority OVER
  sin is what affects YOUR life and the lives of THOSE AROUND
  YOU also.

• Dough on the other hand, is symbolic of righteous acts in peoples
  lives and in the world around us. Doing what is right gives life to
  us, just like eating dough that is baked and turns into bread does.

Yeast does a couple things to dough:

• Without it, the dough is flat, hard and does NOT have a good
  flavor. When yeast is put into dough and is let to do its work,
  the dough is transformed.... it becomes tasty, springy, and can
  become DOUBLE or more in volume. In other words, the dough
  (which is symbolized as righteous acts) becomes "nice to be
  around", "full of life", and becomes MORE than the sum of its
  parts. The dough becomes MORE VALUABLE!

• So when you as a Christian are confessing and forsaking sin,
  mortifying its hold over you, submitting your body for righteous
  deeds and for right ideas instead of for sinful uses and ideas,
  cutting off bad relationships and attitudes, resisting temptation
  when it comes and doing all the other things that a Christian
  needs to do, YOU are having authority OVER sin in your life and
  over the world around you. If you think you are insignificant, you
  are very VERY wrong. THAT AUTHORITY you exercise will have a
  POSITIVE IMPACT in your life, your family, your workplace, the
  community and in this world.

• Just as people will flock to a restaurant that has well made food,
  the DOUGH (good deeds) you affect because you are living like
  Jesus the Messiah will draw more people to the world around you.
  YOU, as a faithful, steadfast Christian, will just by the virtue of the
  life of Jesus in YOU, draw more people to you because of the "aroma"
  of the "dough" you affect. ALL YOU have to do is live the life that
  you are called to in the way Jesus would and this AUTOMATICALLY
  happens. There is nothing mystical about it, or mysterious.

People who live the way jesus did, just happen to draw to themselves
all kinds of people who WANT to be closer to them, by virtue of the fact that
others see and "smell" Jesus with them.

DO YOU WANT TO KEEP ON "KEEPING ON"?

 

STAY WITH IT, YOU WILL BE RWARDED!

 

Here are the archives of "The Kingdom of Heaven is Like" posts:

• Christianity and Real Estate... 'The Kingdom of God is Like....' #1
• The Kingdom of Heaven is like........#2 'Christianity and Real Estate'
• The Kingdom of Heaven is like........(#3) 'Christianity and Real Estate'

This thought provoking post about Jesus' teaching on
what the Kingdom of Heaven is like is brought to you by:

Alexander Harb -- Founder of "Christianity and Real Estate"

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