A storehouse in real terms where a farmer takes his grain to keep it sheltered from the environment for the sake of future days to come. When he needs the storehouse has supply.
Grains are considered the bounty of harvest. When a farmer harvests, he separates the weeds from the harvest wheat, then the chaff from the grains. Everything that is not grain, is then burned away.
A storehouse is spiritual terms is what a soul stores up. Whether is be evil or good, what it stores up is what the soul takes out of its supply when it needs it.
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Matthew 12:35
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A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
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Matthew 6:19-21
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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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So what grains are there? There are grains of worldliness and there are grains of holiness. The two are separate, but both are acted upon.
When grain is ground down to become flour, this is symbolic of using our little bit of wisdom in an action. That flour can then be rolled in dough, which is symbolic of our intent. When we add yeast to flour, we set it aside, and allow the yeast to work. The yeast is the unseen quality of faith. Faith makes our intent grow, flourish.
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Matthew 13:33
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He 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.”
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What is holy, that is kept as wisdom, are the times we are witness to what is good, that either came through us or others. When we supply ourselves that wisdom, our intention is to use that wisdom to build off of. So we put our faith in what good we have witnessed, and watch it grow into something that can provide more than what we ourselves are capable of supplying alone.
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Matthew 16:11,12
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How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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The Law and its teachings are not of holy wisdom but of the knowledge of sinful works. Their purpose was to bring about awareness to promote repent, and as this wine matures, lead souls into an understanding of faith. But the Pharisees and Sadducess promoted this knowledge and their religion as the way to remain in God's favor while living in worldliness. Therefore placing faith in this, was using their yeast. And using their yeast, left the soul without true nourishment, as it lacked holiness. Amen.
What is not holy, that is kept as human wisdom, is the knowledge of the workings of this world that we have witnessed from our own acts or the acts of others. When we rely on this knowledge, our intention is to build off of it. So we put our faith in what we have witnessed, and we watch it grow into something that can provide more than what we ourselves are capable of supplying alone.
The lesson here is to recognize what good can come through you. Our intentions should be focussed on storing up that wisdom. For when we are in need, we have a choice; to either supply ourselves with what we desire, or, supply what good can come from denying ourselves and acting on faith. One satisfies ourselves, the other satisfies the Lord. One fills our flesh, yet we go hungry again, and the other denies our desires, but serves the will of God.
When we store up what is good, we recognize that we have overtime, stored up holiness at the cost of denying ourselves. This sacrifice was done in faith. It is this perseverance that matures our reliance on the unseen qualities of God, our recognition of the fruits of our labour in service, as well as our capacity to discern in the moment what is holy and true.
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Matthew 13:12
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Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
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Righteousness is of God alone. His righteousness comes through us in our acts of faith. Grains of righteousness are holy. The more we gather these acts of holiness through our faith, the more confident we are a capable servant in our humility of service. But for those who believe themselves as what is righteous, what they do, even if the acts are good, will fall away from them, as these acts serve themselves instead of the will of God.
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John 6:29
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Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
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Gather and retain righteous grains in your storehouse. Suffer the denial of your own desire, in confidence that more righteousness can come through you to serve the will of God. Supply what you have gathered, by first applying the wisdom you have been witness to, then work it with faith. Your intent is to serve the will of God, by allowing faith to act in unseen ways to manifest holiness.
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