This is VLX number 86, hidden from the foundation of the world. This is Matthew

13, verses 33 through 34. God give you his peace and nominipatri, Sifidi, it's bitty to

Santi, amen. God, our Lord, we ask the grace that all of our intentions, actions, and operations

be directed purely to the service and praise of your divine majesty. He told them another parable.

The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flower till it was all leavened.

All these things Jesus said to the crowds and parables.

Indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet. I will open my mouth in parables.

I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel. Okay, so you probably notice the first parable is only a single verse today.

The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of

flower till it was all leavened.

Now, notice right there that the ESV it rightly shows that the noun for leaven should be the same

as the verb for leavening, lebaning the dough,

because it's actually the same in the Greek.

Levin in Greek as a noun in this sentence, if you want to write it above the noun leaven in your

Bible, there is Zume, Z-U-M-E.

And then the verb conjugated just a few words later for lifting or leavening is

Esamuthae, E-Z-U-M-O-T-H-E, or Edomothay.

This is another one of those parables that sounds really boring at first glance,

but I think it has a lot to do with the discouragement.

A lot of us feel in the world and why we should feel encouraged.

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