Seventeen: The Poor Fig Tree (What In The World? Part 2)

This week’s question is, “Why did Jesus curse the fig tree in Mark 11:12? It says that figs were not in season. There must be more to this than it appears.” In Mark 11 Jesus uses a living example, in a fig tree, to illustrate not just His own power and authority, but also what the deadness of cold religion brings. Too often in our own lives we settle for less than eternal life because our own idea of religion is more important to us than God. We have leaves, like a tree, but our leaves reflect us and we don’t bear any real fruit that tastes like the Gospel of Jesus.