One day the
Lord Jesus Christ was teaching the multitude of people in parables. His
disciples did not understand some of them. They sought to know the meaning of
the parables. This gave the Lord the opportunity to teach them something that
has become a great lesson for us in this dispensation as we approach the end of
the age of the Gentiles.
The Lord told
them that it is given unto you (He was addressing His disciples here) to know
the mysteries or the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. He further let them
understand that these things are too precious for those without. I believe they
are concealed from others for the glory of the Church who is expected to show
principalities and powers the manifold wisdom of God. See Mt.13:10 –11;
Eph.2:10-11.
In this simple parable, The Lord told His disciples
that The
kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. It is a two
line parable packed with insights for the disciple of Christ.
I observe that unlike the
parable of the wheat and Tares and the parable of the sower; the Lord did not
interpret this. So I sought the Lord to know the meaning and how it affects
discipleship. Here is what He told me.
Man is a triune person. He
is spirit. He has a soul and lives in a body. See 1Thess.5:23; Heb.4:12 and
1Sam.1:15 where Hannah said she was a woman of sorrowful spirit who was pouring
out her soul before the Lord. In this example, Hanna is here physically in her
body saying these words to Eli about possessing a soul and spirit.
The meal which the woman
took was divided into three parts. The yeast according to the Lord is doctrine
or teaching. See Mk.8:15; Mt.16:11-12; Lk.12:1.
Where the Lord interpreted
yeast as doctrine, He also makes understand that there are qualities of
doctrine. There he was telling us which doctrine to beware of. As a matter of
fact He said the doctrine of the Pharisees and scribes is hypocrisy. We are to
beware of these. To be a hypocrite is to pretend to be what you are not. For
example, no Pastor in the secret cult would be straight forward because people
are actually looking for the true God. Once they know you are fake, they would
leave you. Thus such pastors have to pretend to be real. All they teach you
that way, is hypocrisy. They cannot be real and remain because they are already
committed to the cult to which they belong. They can say all the right things
but no power to back it up for you to be able to bear the fruit of the spirit.
At the end of the day, people’s lives are not changed in their congregations.
As time goes on, they would not be able to give attention to sound doctrines as
they would have buried their heads under a pack of lies which they depend on to
keep their money rolling in. These are the people that Apostle Paul refers to
as having another Jesus, another spirit and another gospel. They are prophets
of Baal. See 2Cor.11:4. Why I call them prophets of Baal is that they are
operating by the anti – Christ spirit because they were once of Christ but a
time came in their lives they had to make a decision to follow Christ but
because of the wealth and influence it would have cost them, they preferred to
go on with their evil practices than repent. The Lord left them and Satan came to
take over their lives and now they are anti-Christ or against Christ. Thus
instead of promoting the Lord who died for them, they are coming up with very
intelligent ways to fight His bride. Their Churches are now Churches of the
Harlot of Babylon and their congregants are getting more and more disillusioned
with life and living. They are full of activities without effectiveness. Their
congregants are like zombies without the true Christ and God is now made to
look like He lies when God is still the same God who cannot lie. These people
are very good examples of Jezebel and Ahab deceiving themselves to think they
can repent any time they want to not knowing that every purpose is timed with
God. Jesus Christ referred to them as white washed sepulchres and told them to
fill up the measure of their iniquity. All the Lord is waiting for now before
exposing them is for them to fill up the measure of their iniquity. See
Mt.23:23-29 quoted below:
“23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the
weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
other undone.
Mat
23:24 Ye blind guides,
which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Mat
23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean
the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of
extortion and excess.
Mat
23:26 Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is
within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mat
23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within
full of dead men's bones, and
of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Mat
23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build
the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mat
23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mat
23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children
of them which killed the prophets.
Mat
23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Mat
23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell?
Mat
23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them ye
shall kill and crucify; and some
of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Mat
23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias,
whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Mat
23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.”
I decided to lift this out of the Bible verse by verse for us to see
that the end of the time of the Gentiles to take the gospel around the world is
upon us but many of God’s former trusted servants have been bewitched into
disobedience. My prayer is that the ones whose conscience can still be pricked
among us should come out of secret sins, declare their sins to the entire world
and openly repent so that God can still use them. Otherwise they would have to
make do with perdition because the pack of lies under which they have
faithfully taken refuge is about to crumble on them by the hail stones of the
Lord.
Please fellow ministers, do not allow the devil to deceive you, God
cannot be mocked; you must reap what you sow. Signs and wonders are not the
sole proof of ministerial authentication; you have to bear the fruit of the
spirit. Not for show, but from the heart. You may need to change who you call
your mentor or spiritual father and be rejected by family and friends and even
some of your protégés but your soul can still be spared damnation. Repent!!!
In the next part of this message, we shall be looking at the qualities
of leaven the proverbial woman can possibly mix with the meal and the result
they could bring about in the life of the consumers.
Let me close here by quickly saying that I know you are of the view
that a woman should not be allowed to preach and teach. Please forgive me if
you consider me too forward but His word within me is as fire in my bones. When
I say I would not speak, it burns within me as fire in my bones. So please hear
and do as our mutual Lord Jesus Christ desires:
Jer. 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention
of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I
could not stay.
