2. What if, after all these
years, many of us are
actually farther from God
without even knowing it?
3. Can we really blame
them for forgetting?
Mark 8 14 The disciples had
forgotten to buy provisions, so they
had only one round of flatbread
among them.
JESUS
4. A Grave Warning
15 Jesus took this moment to warn them.
Jesus: Beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
The disciples didn’t understand what Jesus
was talking about and discussed it among
themselves.
Some Disciples: 16 What?
Other Disciples: He’s saying this
because we have run out of bread.
CLUE
5. Spiritually Half-blind
Jesus (overhearing them): 17-19 Why
are you focusing on bread? Don’t you
see yet? Don’t you understand?You
have eyes—why don’t you see?You have
ears—why don’t you hear? Are you
so hard-hearted?
Don’t you remember when I broke the
five rounds of flatbread among the
5,000? Tell Me, how many baskets of
scraps were left over?
Disciples:Twelve.
Jesus: 20 And how many were left
when I fed the 4,000 with seven
rounds?
Disciples: Seven.
Jesus: 21 And still you don’t
understand?
6. Despite all that they had seen
Jesus do for them and others,
they still really didn’t get how
and why God does what God
Because many of us still donʼt get God either,
we are too easily co-opted and corrupted by
the YEAST of the Pharisees and Herod.
7. YEAST | A microscopic, one-celled organism belonging to the group of organisms called fungi.
It is used in baking as a leavening agent, where it converts the fermentable sugars present in
dough into the gas carbon dioxide.This causes the dough to expand or rise as gas forms
pockets or bubbles.
8. YEAST OF THE PHARISEES & HEROD | Their ‘yeast’ is their professing.They profess that
their work is virtuous, when it only seeks to exploit others and rule over them.Their
intentions are not pure.When they speak, their words seem noble, but they have a hidden
agenda.They are power hungry and seek to control those who lend them an ear.Their goal is
to gain advantage in every situation, rather than to seek the good of all.
9. Pharisee’s Yeast Corrupt Gov’t Yeast
Rigid, controlling,
arrogant, graceless
A Hidden Agenda
in every package!
Their teachings and
ways systematically
corrupt everything
they are joined with.
They fear and expel
those they cannot
control.
10. Abraham would have condemned the work
of the Pharisees. He heard God’s voice speak
inside him, and went on a journey to
understand it better. Pharisees clearly had
no idea what this kind of ‘inner’ leading is.
They taught that to understand God is to
obey an insanely long list of rules and
regulations that govern every action of the
body. But Abraham saw that it wasn’t the
outside of a person that matters, but the
inside. Thus, he embarked on a journey
without knowing the final destination.
11. In arrogance, the Pharisees claimed
to know the way to the Father. Yet
anyone who sought to hear His voice
for him- or herself was slandered.
“Do you not see that in slandering
those who attempt to hear the voice
of the Father, the Pharisees do not
really want to hear what He has to say
to them?”
12. The Pharisees led God’s people astray. They
taught that the outside observances of the law are
more important than listening to the voice of the
Father that speaks in the heart. But they didn’t
understand that the voice of the Father speaks to
what is good, and teaches the one who hears to
13. Laws that are written outside of the person are
obeyed out of fear. They are obeyed for fear of
punishment, exile, loss of social status, and so on.
But the person who follows what she or he hears in
their heart does so because that person loves truth.
14. be still
and
KNOW
that I am
GODPsalm 46:10
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Love God = Love People
Matthew 22:37-40
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16. From a Recovering Pharisee
ROMANS 8 1 Therefore, now no
condemnation awaits those who are
living in Jesus the Anointed, the
Liberating King, 2 because when you
live in the Anointed One, Jesus, a new
law takes effect.The law of the Spirit of
life breathes into you and liberates you
from the law of sin and death. 3 God
did something the law could never do.
You see, human flesh took its toll on
God’s law. In and of itself, the law is not
weak; but the flesh weakens it. So to
condemn the sin that was ruling in the
flesh, God sent His own Son, bearing
the likeness of sinful flesh, as a sin
offering. 4 Now we are able to live
up to the justice demanded by
the law. But that ability has not
come from living by our fallen
human nature; it has come
because we walk according to
the movement of the Spirit in
our lives.
