they discussed in whispers what to do. Jesus knew what they were doing
and said, "Why all these worried whispers about forgetting the bread?
Runt believers! Haven't you caught on yet? Don't you remember the five
loaves of bread and the five thousand people, and how many baskets of
fragments you picked up? Or the seven loaves that fed four thousand,
and how many baskets of leftovers you collected? Haven't you realized
yet that bread isn't the problem? The problem is yeast,
Pharisee-Sadducee yeast." Then they got it: that he wasn't concerned
about eating, but teaching—the Pharisee-Sadducee kind of teaching.
To often we are concerned about the physical bread. Provisions for the
day, the week, the month, the year, provisions and securities for our
lives. But jesus is not concerned about running out of bread. He tells
the disciples, haven't i fed 5000 and 4000? First, this passage is
teaching us not to worry about physical provisions that God can
provide. Second, jesus wants us to be more concerned about another
thing. The yeast of the pharisees. So what is it? Yeast puffs up
bread, looks big on the outside, but inside is just air. Let us be
concerned about living on pretense Christianity, looking like Doing
the Christian duty and obedience on the outisde, yet on the inside it
amounts to nothing. No obedience and transformation of the heart.
Don't worry about today's provision. Live your life as worship to Him
from the inside out.