Title Parable of Leaven / Matthew 13:33
The story of the American tree
1. Understanding the background
1) Understanding yeast and diet
Yeast is originally steamed grains and placed in a dark place to breed yeast mold.
In Israel, it was mainly used to make bread by propagating it on wheat and making it puff up. If there is no leaven, the bread is nothing more than a very, hard, tasteless loaf of wheat.
Since this bread was the staple food in Israel, Jesus' parable was similar to the parable of the mustard seed, which was given earlier, and the parable of the mustard seed helped men to understand agriculture.
2) The secret to making bread
In fact, if you look at the incident where Jesus fed 5,000 people with two fish and five barley loaves, you can see that there was already a business that made and sold bread at that time. However, in most Israeli households, bread was made and eaten, and wheat or other grains were ground daily in a mortar or millstone, ground into water or sheep's milk, leavened, puffed, and sometimes thick or thin, roasted in a furnace and eaten.
In particular, unleavened bread was called unleavened bread and was used as a special rice cake for the Passover.
3) The role of leaven
We plant persimmons, chestnuts, and jujube trees on the side of the field to serve as both shade and chaturi land.
Similarly, the Jews plant mustard, which, when grown, is said to grow to about 10-12 feet (3-3.6 m). Of course, mustard is a 1-2 year old grass (草) and belongs to the cabbage family.
*** Therefore, Jesus' words are very appropriate parables for the Jews.
He told the parable of the sowing of the seed, which is often seen earlier, and the parable of the [wheat and tares] while talking about the seed, and now he taught [the kingdom of heaven] by talking about the mustard tree planted by the field. you are giving
In addition, it introduces the kingdom of heaven in a very broad sense by appropriately using Daniel's interpretation of the Old Testament and the Jewish people's idea of a [mustard seed].
Let's see what Jesus is saying.
2. It is yeast in the powder preface.
1) The amount of powder preamble is large.
① The word powder stands for many sins in the world.
Genesis 18:6 Abraham hurried into the tent and came to Sarah, saying,
He told me to quickly take three sasas of fine flour and knead it to make bread.
②Three horses is a large amount that 100 people can eat.
It means the maximum amount of rice cake a woman can bake in a day.
2) There is a small amount of yeast in it.
① A handful of yeast is enough.
may not be visible
3) However, yeast makes the whole powder simmer.
3. Lessons learned
1) The beginning of the first heaven started weakly.
① The small beginning of Jesus Christ
Jesus came into the world as the son of a carpenter in the [manger] of a stable in Bethlemhem in the land of Judea. He preached the gospel in a corner of the world, Galilee, and died helplessly on the cross amid the slander of the Jews and the indifference of the Romans.
However, the beginning was small, but the results were enormous.
It is important to know that the 100-meter tall trees in the United States are being killed by beetles.
② Circumstances around Jesus
Jesus' disciples were the marginalized at that time, such as fishermen and tax collectors, and those who first received his gospel were mostly poor people, such as tax collectors, prostitutes, sick people, women and children, who were classified as sinners.
When you dine in the house of Levi, the tax collector,
Mark 2:15 While they were eating in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Jesus and his disciples, because many of them followed him.
Mark 2:16 When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, Why do you eat with tax collectors and sinners?
Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call a physician, but a sinner.”
③ A small beginning for the evangelization of this land
The evangelization of this land also started with the martyrdom of 27-year-old Pastor Thomas along the Daedong River.
④ The small beginning of our church
2) Heaven changes the world without realizing it.
① The evidence of the spread of the yeast is that the flour has swelled, and the color has changed to yellow and blue.
② Rome persecuted Christianity.
By the ten evil emperors of Rome, believers were crucified, eaten by lions, burned at the stake, subjected to countless persecutions and persecutions, their property was forfeited, and even escaped persecution for the rest of their lives. , suffered lifelong hardships in the dark underground cemetery of the Ketacoum.
Emperor Nero set fires in the city of Rome and inflicted wounds on Christians.
③ However, Christianity was recognized by Emperor Constantine in 313 and became the state religion by Emperor Theodosius in 393.
Less than 400 years after Jesus was born, the Roman Empire, which could be said to be the entire world at that time, was evangelized.
④ As such, Christianity has grown both quantitatively and qualitatively.
3) Heaven reaches to the ends of the earth.
① Yeast made the whole powder simmer.
② Heaven is to change the whole world in this way.
Before ascending to heaven, Jesus met the 11 disciples and gave them the [Great Command].
Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Matthew 28:20 Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.
This command of the Lord changed the 11 disciples, and through the 120 transformed people in Mark’s upper room, it spread to Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, Asia, Europe, and Africa. This is the record of the book of Acts.
conclusion
Let us each become a mustard seed.