6.10.18 // THE KINGDOM OF GOD … CHANGES EVERYTHING

THE KINGDOM OF GOD … CHANGES EVERYTHING

The Kingdom Of God Is Like …

Scott Young.com – Pastor of HOPE

 

Matthew 13:33 - [Jesus] told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

 

1. God Uses Surprising People

 

Exodus 12:15 - For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

 

1 Corinthians 1:27 - But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 

 

2. God Brings Inner Changes

 

Matthew 13:33 - Then Jesus told another story: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a large tub of flour until it made all the dough rise.” 

 

Philippians 2:13 - For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

 

3. God Chooses To Need You

 

John 12:24 - Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.