1 00:00:03,036 --> 00:00:06,039 I tell you this right now, I am. 2 00:00:06,373 --> 00:00:09,075 I'm tired. I'm exhausted. 3 00:00:09,075 --> 00:00:11,011 It has nothing to do with last night of this week 4 00:00:11,011 --> 00:00:14,014 and has everything to do with the first service. 5 00:00:14,414 --> 00:00:19,552 And just so, in case you hear stories, I want to bring you up to speed. 6 00:00:19,819 --> 00:00:22,555 During the announcements of the first service, a lady sitting right 7 00:00:22,555 --> 00:00:25,558 over here toppled over, 8 00:00:26,026 --> 00:00:29,029 had a heart episode. 9 00:00:30,296 --> 00:00:31,998 Praise be to God for Thomas 10 00:00:31,998 --> 00:00:36,669 and his sheepdog ministry that jumped into action 11 00:00:36,669 --> 00:00:40,874 medically to assess her, take care of her. 12 00:00:42,842 --> 00:00:45,278 Ambulance came. 13 00:00:45,278 --> 00:00:47,914 And so during all of that, 14 00:00:47,914 --> 00:00:51,618 as was going on, we kind of settled ourselves 15 00:00:51,618 --> 00:00:56,122 and spent time during the entire episode just praying for her. 16 00:00:56,156 --> 00:00:58,224 Her name is Sherry. 17 00:00:58,224 --> 00:01:00,293 Praying for her, for God's intervention, 18 00:01:00,293 --> 00:01:03,396 for his hand of mercy and grace and healing 19 00:01:04,597 --> 00:01:07,600 during the the whole episode of it. 20 00:01:08,468 --> 00:01:10,937 It was it was it was significant. 21 00:01:10,937 --> 00:01:13,106 It was shocking. 22 00:01:13,106 --> 00:01:18,978 It was wonderful to see God's people at work in practical ways. 23 00:01:18,978 --> 00:01:23,983 And it was wonderful to be able to trust God's work in the unseen world. 24 00:01:24,818 --> 00:01:26,753 The ambulance showed up. 25 00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:29,756 She became coherent by the time they got here talking to her. 26 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:31,624 She's getting checked out at the hospital. 27 00:01:31,624 --> 00:01:34,627 All things seemed to be okay. 28 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:37,130 But then moving from that into what we're going to talk 29 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:40,333 about today in Matthew 21, I'm just going to be honest with you. 30 00:01:40,333 --> 00:01:43,470 I am emotionally and. 31 00:01:45,538 --> 00:01:48,241 Spiritually exhausted right now. 32 00:01:48,241 --> 00:01:50,477 But God is good. 33 00:01:50,477 --> 00:01:53,146 It's the third time someone's toppled over in our church services. 34 00:01:53,146 --> 00:01:56,149 Take better care of yourselves. 35 00:02:01,154 --> 00:02:02,021 Chapter 21. 36 00:02:02,021 --> 00:02:04,757 The rest that we'll look at today is 37 00:02:04,757 --> 00:02:07,827 is both profound and frightening at the same time. 38 00:02:08,661 --> 00:02:12,232 If you don't understand grace, it is terrifying. 39 00:02:12,532 --> 00:02:17,137 If you do understand grace, it comes with a great deal of responsibility. 40 00:02:19,539 --> 00:02:20,106 Matthew 41 00:02:20,106 --> 00:02:23,309 21 is primarily about the nation of Israel. 42 00:02:24,511 --> 00:02:26,546 It has great implications for us. 43 00:02:26,546 --> 00:02:28,481 And so we're going to we're going to look at those. 44 00:02:28,481 --> 00:02:31,451 There's some deep, deep, deep theology. 45 00:02:31,818 --> 00:02:35,922 And and it's all resides in Old Testament 46 00:02:35,989 --> 00:02:38,992 pronouncements and prophecy over Israel. 47 00:02:40,393 --> 00:02:42,362 But again, without 48 00:02:42,362 --> 00:02:46,065 it comes with great implications and application for us. 49 00:02:46,065 --> 00:02:46,933 And so we're going to 50 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:49,936 we're going to we're going to live in both those streams today. 51 00:02:49,936 --> 00:02:52,972 I'm going to do my best to unpack Old 52 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:56,276 Testament prophecy, proclamation 53 00:02:56,910 --> 00:03:00,747 and draw analogies and conclusions for us in our day. 54 00:03:01,481 --> 00:03:03,750 But I've struggled honestly 55 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:06,753 with this chapter. 56 00:03:07,587 --> 00:03:11,758 I don't know how to do this chapter well, especially in the time 57 00:03:11,824 --> 00:03:12,625 frame that we have. 58 00:03:12,625 --> 00:03:14,961 You give me, you give me a week. 59 00:03:14,961 --> 00:03:16,996 We we can we can get through it all. 60 00:03:16,996 --> 00:03:19,999 But to do it in 30 minutes is. 61 00:03:20,733 --> 00:03:21,601 And so, 62 00:03:23,703 --> 00:03:25,471 so let me pray one more time. 63 00:03:25,471 --> 00:03:28,474 God. I'm asking. 64 00:03:29,142 --> 00:03:32,145 For the strength of your spirit 65 00:03:32,345 --> 00:03:34,214 to understand your word 66 00:03:34,214 --> 00:03:37,217 and to be able to teach it in a way that 67 00:03:38,318 --> 00:03:41,221 is understandable and coherent. 68 00:03:41,221 --> 00:03:43,957 And I pray for our church, that by the power of your spirit, 69 00:03:43,957 --> 00:03:46,960 that you would give us the power to understand 70 00:03:47,293 --> 00:03:51,798 and in understanding the power to choose righteousness 71 00:03:52,398 --> 00:03:55,401 and a life of fruitfulness for your Kingdom. 72 00:03:56,202 --> 00:03:59,038 And so do in us always 73 00:03:59,038 --> 00:04:02,041 what you do, that which I am unable to do 74 00:04:02,442 --> 00:04:05,011 by your word. In your name I pray. Amen. 75 00:04:05,011 --> 00:04:08,615 We're going to look at verses 18 through 46 of Matthew chapter 21. 76 00:04:08,615 --> 00:04:10,984 Here's the big idea overriding the whole thing. 77 00:04:10,984 --> 00:04:13,987 We talked last week in the beginning of chapter 21 78 00:04:13,987 --> 00:04:17,123 about the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, where he was. 79 00:04:17,156 --> 00:04:22,829 That was his earthly coronation, the first time humble on the on a baby donkey. 80 00:04:22,862 --> 00:04:25,698 He's going to be coordinated again at the at the end 81 00:04:25,698 --> 00:04:28,401 when he comes back on a white horse as the ruling conqueror. 82 00:04:28,401 --> 00:04:33,106 This was his his humble inauguration and set himself up as the King. 83 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:36,542 The revelation of the King at the nation of Israel been looking for. 84 00:04:36,542 --> 00:04:39,545 And so this follows up on that. 85 00:04:39,979 --> 00:04:42,315 This big idea is because Jesus is King. 86 00:04:43,316 --> 00:04:44,951 Genuine faith must 87 00:04:44,951 --> 00:04:48,554 produce the fruit of obedience because he is King. 88 00:04:49,222 --> 00:04:52,225 Genuine faith must produce the fruit of obedience. 89 00:04:54,494 --> 00:04:57,830 In this first section, verses 18 through 22, 90 00:04:58,431 --> 00:05:02,068 the point of this first section is 91 00:05:02,068 --> 00:05:05,071 Jesus is going to deal with religion 92 00:05:05,772 --> 00:05:07,540 without fruit, 93 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:10,510 and it's the context of a fig tree. 94 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:13,746 And so let me, let me read to you 95 00:05:13,746 --> 00:05:16,816 this passage, and then, and then we'll unpack it and understand 96 00:05:17,116 --> 00:05:20,320 why Jesus says what he says and why he does what he does. 97 00:05:22,155 --> 00:05:25,591 Verse 18 in the morning, as he was returning to the city, 98 00:05:25,625 --> 00:05:28,795 he became hungry and seen a fig tree by the wayside. 99 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:31,331 He went to it and found nothing on it, but only leaves. 100 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:34,667 And he said to it, May no fruit ever come from you again. 101 00:05:34,667 --> 00:05:36,903 And the fig tree withered at once. 102 00:05:36,903 --> 00:05:38,438 When the disciples saw it, 103 00:05:38,438 --> 00:05:41,641 they marveled, saying, how did the fig tree wither at once? 104 00:05:41,641 --> 00:05:45,778 And Jesus answered them, truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not 105 00:05:45,812 --> 00:05:50,283 doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the tree, but even 106 00:05:50,283 --> 00:05:54,387 if you say to this mountain be taken up and thrown into the sea, it will happen. 107 00:05:54,387 --> 00:05:58,191 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive if you have faith. 108 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:03,696 This is not the account of Jesus being hungry in the morning and a fig tree. 109 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:07,633 There's something much more profound going on and I want to unpack it for you. 110 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:12,171 This is this is Jesus is getting to the issue 111 00:06:12,338 --> 00:06:17,310 of being visibly religious with no fruit of faith. 112 00:06:17,710 --> 00:06:19,579 That's what he's that's what he's dealing with here 113 00:06:19,579 --> 00:06:22,982 in the context of the nation of Israel in particular. 114 00:06:22,982 --> 00:06:27,220 Now, the fig tree was a symbol of the nation of Israel 115 00:06:27,653 --> 00:06:29,188 all through the Old Testament. 116 00:06:29,188 --> 00:06:32,592 There's prophecy and pronouncement upon that God 117 00:06:32,592 --> 00:06:34,961 will bless his people in his land. 118 00:06:34,961 --> 00:06:39,599 And the proof of that blessing will every man sit under his own fig tree 119 00:06:39,699 --> 00:06:40,600 like it was the. 120 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,270 It was the symbol of God's blessing and provision 121 00:06:44,270 --> 00:06:47,707 and grace upon his people in his land. 122 00:06:47,707 --> 00:06:51,477 So that's what the fig tree represents, the fig tree. 123 00:06:51,477 --> 00:06:52,678 The interesting thing about the victory 124 00:06:52,678 --> 00:06:56,482 these could be enormous trees 20ft high, 20ft wide, big trees. 125 00:06:56,482 --> 00:07:00,386 And the interesting thing about the fig tree is that the fig tree, 126 00:07:00,386 --> 00:07:04,757 I think, is the only tree that produces fruit before it produces leaves. 127 00:07:05,458 --> 00:07:11,030 So usually in agriculture the leaf comes and then the fruit fig trees different. 128 00:07:11,063 --> 00:07:13,266 It's the fruit first and then the leaf. 129 00:07:13,266 --> 00:07:17,937 So anytime you would see a fig tree in leaf you knew that it had 130 00:07:17,937 --> 00:07:20,873 what it had fruit. 131 00:07:20,873 --> 00:07:24,777 And so these fig trees, they only bloom two times a year. 132 00:07:25,611 --> 00:07:29,415 And so this was a very early bloom that shouldn't have bloomed at this time. 133 00:07:29,415 --> 00:07:30,783 This was an early bloom. 134 00:07:30,783 --> 00:07:33,786 And so Jesus seen the fig tree 135 00:07:34,253 --> 00:07:38,825 picture of Israel in early bloom of the leaves. 136 00:07:38,991 --> 00:07:43,196 The expectation is that you look good on the outside. 137 00:07:43,229 --> 00:07:45,631 There ought to be fruit on the inside as well. 138 00:07:45,631 --> 00:07:46,232 Okay. 139 00:07:47,266 --> 00:07:50,236 And so that's, that's what he's 140 00:07:50,236 --> 00:07:54,540 that's what he's looking at here, that Israel looks fruitful. 141 00:07:55,741 --> 00:07:59,479 And Israel had experienced the blessing of God. 142 00:07:59,879 --> 00:08:02,915 Israel had the covenant had covenant 143 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:05,918 privilege, had covenant promises. 144 00:08:06,185 --> 00:08:07,987 Israel had the temple. 145 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:11,691 The temple system, the sacrifice, the sacrificial system. 146 00:08:12,391 --> 00:08:14,961 Israel had the blessings of land. 147 00:08:14,961 --> 00:08:17,930 Israel had all the leaves. 148 00:08:18,898 --> 00:08:21,901 But Jesus is saying, you have no fruit. 149 00:08:22,034 --> 00:08:25,538 You have all the leaves of religion. 150 00:08:26,772 --> 00:08:30,142 But I don't perceive any fruit coming from you. 151 00:08:30,776 --> 00:08:34,714 And because I see all the leaves, there ought to be fruit. 152 00:08:36,282 --> 00:08:38,818 And so not as a result 153 00:08:38,818 --> 00:08:42,455 of being angry that he's hungry, 154 00:08:43,322 --> 00:08:46,993 but angry at the fact that though 155 00:08:47,193 --> 00:08:50,196 they had been given such privilege. 156 00:08:51,664 --> 00:08:54,600 They missed the kingdom, 157 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,503 they had no fruit. 158 00:08:57,503 --> 00:09:01,874 Paul will mention this in Romans chapter ten, in this way 159 00:09:01,974 --> 00:09:06,712 that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 160 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:09,382 No, there was not repentant, not kingdom there. 161 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:11,183 Zealous in their religion. 162 00:09:11,183 --> 00:09:13,185 They look super religious. 163 00:09:13,185 --> 00:09:16,556 There's a zeal there, but they missed it. 164 00:09:17,256 --> 00:09:18,958 And so he curses the tree. 165 00:09:18,958 --> 00:09:23,095 Now, let me give you the time frame of this, because in Matthew 166 00:09:23,095 --> 00:09:26,432 it looks like the triumphal entry, the cleanses, the temple, curses a tree, 167 00:09:26,465 --> 00:09:27,466 all one big event. 168 00:09:27,466 --> 00:09:29,702 That's not the chronology of it. 169 00:09:29,702 --> 00:09:33,573 We learn of the chronology in Mark chapter 11 and Mark chapter 11, 170 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:36,943 we learn that yes, indeed, the week before the resurrection. 171 00:09:36,943 --> 00:09:38,711 So the Sunday before the crucifixion. 172 00:09:38,711 --> 00:09:42,548 On Friday, Jesus enters Jerusalem on a baby donkey 173 00:09:42,548 --> 00:09:44,917 and is coordinated as the king. 174 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:46,352 That happened on Sunday. 175 00:09:47,353 --> 00:09:49,655 Once that happened, Jesus leaves Jerusalem 176 00:09:49,655 --> 00:09:54,026 and goes to Bethany, where his friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were, 177 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,797 and on Monday morning goes back into Jerusalem 178 00:09:57,797 --> 00:10:03,469 to confront the religious establishment, and on the way into Jerusalem 179 00:10:03,502 --> 00:10:08,507 sees a fig tree in leaf, but no fruit, and curses. 180 00:10:08,507 --> 00:10:13,379 The fig tree on Monday morning goes into Jerusalem. 181 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,350 Later that day, on his way has the interaction with the people 182 00:10:17,350 --> 00:10:21,854 at the temple, overturns the tables, basically pronounces judgment upon 183 00:10:21,854 --> 00:10:27,760 their religious system, leaves Jerusalem and goes back to Bethany for the night. 184 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:33,699 Spends the night there Tuesday morning now is going back into Jerusalem 185 00:10:33,699 --> 00:10:36,702 and sees the fig tree completely dead. 186 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:39,538 And that was the astonishment of the disciples. 187 00:10:39,538 --> 00:10:42,141 How overnight did this happen? 188 00:10:42,141 --> 00:10:47,179 Goes into Jerusalem after seeing the deadness of the tree, 189 00:10:47,179 --> 00:10:52,051 and then deals with the confrontation of his own authority 190 00:10:52,051 --> 00:10:55,821 between the Pharisees and the scribes and the temple system. 191 00:10:55,821 --> 00:10:57,590 So that's the chronology. 192 00:10:57,590 --> 00:11:01,460 We read it in Matthew as one sweeping moment. 193 00:11:02,228 --> 00:11:04,463 It was multiple moments, multiple days. 194 00:11:04,463 --> 00:11:07,333 So we've already seen Sunday, we've seen Monday, the temple cleansing. 195 00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:09,101 Now we're on Tuesday morning 196 00:11:09,101 --> 00:11:13,572 and he's going back into to Jerusalem and sees this dead fig tree. 197 00:11:13,639 --> 00:11:18,511 When we look at the book of Matthew, chapters 21 through, 198 00:11:18,878 --> 00:11:23,616 I don't know, 25 or somewhere around there, that all happens on Monday. 199 00:11:24,550 --> 00:11:25,017 I'm sorry. 200 00:11:25,017 --> 00:11:26,619 On Tuesday, it all happens on Tuesday. 201 00:11:26,619 --> 00:11:32,291 It was a huge day for Jesus and this is the beginning of this huge day. 202 00:11:32,291 --> 00:11:35,594 And he he curses the tree. 203 00:11:35,594 --> 00:11:38,798 And then the next he sees that it is completely dead. 204 00:11:38,831 --> 00:11:41,834 This was not a pronouncement on a tree. 205 00:11:42,468 --> 00:11:45,538 This was a pronouncement on the nation of Israel. 206 00:11:46,906 --> 00:11:50,576 They had all the leaves that would indicate 207 00:11:50,576 --> 00:11:53,112 they were fruitful, kingdom fruitful. 208 00:11:53,112 --> 00:11:56,115 They had no fruit of the kingdom. 209 00:11:56,148 --> 00:11:59,351 And he exposes their fruitless 210 00:11:59,418 --> 00:12:03,556 religion and pronounces the judgment and the curse on them 211 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:08,294 that had been prescribed generations earlier under Moses. 212 00:12:08,894 --> 00:12:12,698 So I want to take you back to the Old Testament so you will understand 213 00:12:12,798 --> 00:12:14,467 what Jesus is doing. 214 00:12:14,467 --> 00:12:18,771 He's pronouncing the curse over 215 00:12:18,771 --> 00:12:21,841 Israel that had been promised 216 00:12:21,841 --> 00:12:25,878 for their disobedience and rejection of the Messiah. 217 00:12:25,911 --> 00:12:27,279 Let me just read for you. 218 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:30,282 I'm just going to highlight because it is extensive. 219 00:12:31,450 --> 00:12:33,018 Leviticus 26. 220 00:12:33,018 --> 00:12:36,622 There's blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience 221 00:12:36,722 --> 00:12:40,025 that God pronounces over his nation, the people of Israel. 222 00:12:40,693 --> 00:12:42,461 This is what he says. 223 00:12:42,461 --> 00:12:46,265 If you walk in my statutes, this is Leviticus 26 and observe 224 00:12:46,265 --> 00:12:49,735 my commandments and do them, then I will give you the reins in their season. 225 00:12:49,802 --> 00:12:51,704 The land will you'll it's increase. 226 00:12:51,704 --> 00:12:56,242 And the trees, the fruit, the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 227 00:12:56,275 --> 00:12:59,512 Your threshing shall last at the time of the grape harvest. 228 00:12:59,512 --> 00:13:00,412 The grape harvest last. 229 00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:01,514 At the time of sowing, 230 00:13:01,514 --> 00:13:05,518 you shall eat your bread and have the full and dwelling land securely. You. 231 00:13:05,551 --> 00:13:08,154 I will give you peace in the land. You'll lie down. 232 00:13:08,154 --> 00:13:10,456 None of you will be afraid of anything. 233 00:13:10,456 --> 00:13:12,491 I'll remove harmful beasts from the land. 234 00:13:12,491 --> 00:13:14,426 The sword will not go through your land. 235 00:13:14,426 --> 00:13:17,563 If you chase your enemies, they will run from you in fear. 236 00:13:17,563 --> 00:13:20,099 And they'll fall before your your sword. 237 00:13:20,099 --> 00:13:22,701 Five of you will chase away. 100. 238 00:13:22,701 --> 00:13:24,904 100 of you will chase away 10,000. 239 00:13:24,904 --> 00:13:26,672 Your enemies will fall before you. 240 00:13:26,672 --> 00:13:28,674 I'll try to make you fruitful. I'll multiply you. 241 00:13:28,674 --> 00:13:31,577 I'll confirm my covenant with you. I mean, just on and on and on. 242 00:13:31,577 --> 00:13:34,113 All these blessings like if you obey me. 243 00:13:34,113 --> 00:13:37,316 There's a really good stuff waiting for you, right? 244 00:13:37,683 --> 00:13:38,984 You follow this. 245 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:41,654 And then he says, that's if you obey me. 246 00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:46,292 Now, if you disobey me and do not bear the fruit of the kingdom in you, 247 00:13:46,392 --> 00:13:47,593 look what he says. 248 00:13:47,593 --> 00:13:51,197 But if you'll not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 249 00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:55,668 if you spurn my statues, if your soul bores my rule, so that you do 250 00:13:56,035 --> 00:14:00,039 so that you do not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, 251 00:14:00,072 --> 00:14:04,176 then I'll visit you with panic wasting, disease, 252 00:14:04,243 --> 00:14:07,680 fever that consumes the eyes and makes your heart ache. 253 00:14:07,713 --> 00:14:09,481 You will so your seed in vain. 254 00:14:09,481 --> 00:14:10,749 Your enemies will eat with you. 255 00:14:10,749 --> 00:14:13,419 So I'll set my face against you. 256 00:14:13,419 --> 00:14:15,421 You'll be struck down before your enemies. 257 00:14:15,421 --> 00:14:17,890 Those who hate you will rule over you. 258 00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:19,258 I will discipline you. 259 00:14:19,258 --> 00:14:20,793 Seven fold for your sins. 260 00:14:20,793 --> 00:14:23,229 I'll break your pride. I'll break your power. 261 00:14:23,229 --> 00:14:25,664 I'll make the heavens like iron, the earth like bronze. 262 00:14:25,664 --> 00:14:27,800 The earth will produce nothing for you. 263 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,803 Your strength will go away in vanity. 264 00:14:31,136 --> 00:14:32,771 If you walk contrary to me. 265 00:14:32,771 --> 00:14:33,672 And don't listen to me. 266 00:14:33,672 --> 00:14:36,675 I will continue striking you sevenfold for your sins. 267 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:39,578 I'll let loose the wild beast. 268 00:14:39,578 --> 00:14:42,882 Your children be bereaved because you'll die. 269 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:45,651 Your livestock will be destroyed. 270 00:14:45,651 --> 00:14:47,019 Few will be your number. 271 00:14:48,153 --> 00:14:50,789 If by this discipline you still don't turn. 272 00:14:50,789 --> 00:14:54,860 But you continue to walk contrary to me, I will walk contrary to you. 273 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:56,962 I'll strike you seven fold for your sins. 274 00:14:56,962 --> 00:14:58,731 I'll bring sword upon you. 275 00:14:58,731 --> 00:15:01,300 I'll execute vengeance for the covenant. 276 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,135 I'll send pestilence among you. 277 00:15:03,135 --> 00:15:05,237 You'll be delivered in the hand of your enemy. 278 00:15:05,237 --> 00:15:06,772 I'll break your supply of bread. 279 00:15:06,772 --> 00:15:08,741 You'll eat and never be satisfied. 280 00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:10,943 If you don't listen to me, I will discipline you. 281 00:15:10,943 --> 00:15:13,112 Sevenfold. 282 00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:14,079 He goes on and on. 283 00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:16,548 I'll destroy your high places. 284 00:15:16,548 --> 00:15:19,551 I'll cast dead bodies upon the bodies of your I. 285 00:15:20,019 --> 00:15:21,987 My soul will abor you. 286 00:15:21,987 --> 00:15:23,389 I'll lay waste your cities. 287 00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:25,357 I'll make your sanctuaries desolate. 288 00:15:25,357 --> 00:15:27,359 I'll devastate your land. 289 00:15:27,359 --> 00:15:30,663 The enemies who settle in your land will be appalled. 290 00:15:30,996 --> 00:15:32,731 I'll scatter you among the nations. 291 00:15:32,731 --> 00:15:34,300 I'll unsheathed the sword after you. 292 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:36,068 Your land will be desolate. 293 00:15:36,068 --> 00:15:39,071 I mean, that's horrible, right? 294 00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:42,908 And this is what God said he would do to his people way 295 00:15:42,908 --> 00:15:43,943 back at the time of the most. 296 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:46,512 And then he reiterates it in Deuteronomy 28. 297 00:15:46,512 --> 00:15:49,915 I just want you to get a feel for the pronouncement of the curse 298 00:15:49,915 --> 00:15:52,918 that Jesus is just leveled against the nation of Israel. 299 00:15:53,385 --> 00:15:55,254 Get a feel for this again. 300 00:15:55,254 --> 00:15:59,058 Do an army 28 if you, faithful, will be the voice of the Lord, 301 00:15:59,091 --> 00:16:01,093 being careful to do all this commands I command you. 302 00:16:01,093 --> 00:16:03,829 The Lord will set you a high above the nations of all the earth. 303 00:16:04,830 --> 00:16:06,498 All his blessings will come upon you. 304 00:16:06,498 --> 00:16:08,867 His blessings will overtake you. 305 00:16:08,867 --> 00:16:10,202 Bless. Will you be in the city? 306 00:16:10,202 --> 00:16:11,303 Blessed will you be in the shield. 307 00:16:11,303 --> 00:16:14,139 Blessed will you be the fruit of your womb. 308 00:16:14,139 --> 00:16:17,977 What your ground produces, your cattle, your heard, your young flocks. 309 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:20,913 Bless where your basket, your kneading bowl. 310 00:16:20,913 --> 00:16:22,881 You'll come in, you'll go out. You'll be blessed. 311 00:16:22,881 --> 00:16:23,983 Wherever you go. 312 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:25,584 Your enemies will rise against you. 313 00:16:25,584 --> 00:16:28,220 And they'll be defeated before you come at you in one direction. 314 00:16:28,220 --> 00:16:31,223 To flee from you in seven different ways. 315 00:16:32,057 --> 00:16:36,462 I command this blessing upon your barns and all that your hand undertakes. 316 00:16:36,462 --> 00:16:40,499 I'll bless you if you keep my commandments and walk in my ways. 317 00:16:40,499 --> 00:16:44,503 All the earth will see how blessed you are, and call the name of the Lord 318 00:16:44,503 --> 00:16:46,472 your God blessed they'll be afraid of you. 319 00:16:46,472 --> 00:16:49,908 You will abound to prosperity if you obey 320 00:16:49,908 --> 00:16:53,178 the commandments of the Lord, you don't turn aside from them. 321 00:16:54,413 --> 00:16:55,914 Great blessing. 322 00:16:55,914 --> 00:16:57,750 Right? 323 00:16:57,750 --> 00:17:00,419 And then he says, but if you don't, 324 00:17:00,419 --> 00:17:03,422 just to reiterate, 325 00:17:03,722 --> 00:17:05,891 if you don't obey the voice of the Lord your God, you're careful 326 00:17:05,891 --> 00:17:07,760 to obey all the commandments I've given to you today. 327 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,362 Then all these curses will come upon you. 328 00:17:10,362 --> 00:17:12,664 Cursed. You'll be in the city. Curse you will be in the field. 329 00:17:12,664 --> 00:17:14,600 Curse will be your basket, your kneading bowl, 330 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,902 the fruit of your room womb, the fruit of the ground, 331 00:17:16,902 --> 00:17:20,973 the fruit of your, your, your herds, your flocks. 332 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:22,307 You'll be cursed when you come in. 333 00:17:22,307 --> 00:17:24,643 You'll be cursed when you go out. 334 00:17:24,643 --> 00:17:26,478 I will throw into confusion. 335 00:17:26,478 --> 00:17:28,313 I'll frustrate all that you do. 336 00:17:28,313 --> 00:17:30,983 And all that your hand undertakes. I'll destroy you. 337 00:17:30,983 --> 00:17:32,918 You'll perish quickly from the land. 338 00:17:32,918 --> 00:17:37,022 Pestilence will stick to you and it'll consume you. 339 00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:40,592 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, 340 00:17:40,592 --> 00:17:43,662 fire, heat, drought, blight, mildew. 341 00:17:43,962 --> 00:17:46,131 The heavens will produce no rain for you. 342 00:17:46,131 --> 00:17:49,134 You're land will being drought and famine. 343 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:53,238 You'll be defeated before your enemies. 344 00:17:54,039 --> 00:17:56,442 You'll be the horror of all the earth, 345 00:17:56,442 --> 00:17:59,344 the birds, Leith, your dead bodies. 346 00:17:59,344 --> 00:18:01,013 You'll have the boils of Egypt. 347 00:18:01,013 --> 00:18:04,216 Tumors, scabs, each of which you cannot be healed. 348 00:18:04,283 --> 00:18:05,818 You'll be driven mad. 349 00:18:05,818 --> 00:18:07,786 Blindness and confusion of mind. 350 00:18:07,786 --> 00:18:12,057 You'll go grope around noonday like you're blind in the dark. 351 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:14,460 You will not prosper in any of your ways. 352 00:18:14,460 --> 00:18:16,762 You'll be oppressed, robbed continually. 353 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:18,097 No one will be able to help you. 354 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:21,033 Your wife will be ravaged by another man. You'll build a house. 355 00:18:21,033 --> 00:18:22,501 You won't live in it. You'll plant a vineyard. 356 00:18:22,501 --> 00:18:24,069 You won't enjoy its fruit. 357 00:18:24,069 --> 00:18:27,439 Your ox will be slaughtered, slaughtered, and you won't even get to eat it. 358 00:18:27,473 --> 00:18:29,108 No one will help you. 359 00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:32,111 Your sons will be given to another people. 360 00:18:32,878 --> 00:18:35,614 Your eyes will look and they'll fail. 361 00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:36,949 You'll be hopeless. 362 00:18:36,949 --> 00:18:40,018 And nation you don't know will eat of your fruit continually. 363 00:18:40,018 --> 00:18:42,988 You'll be driven mad by what you see. 364 00:18:42,988 --> 00:18:46,425 The Lord will strike you on your knees and your legs, and give grievous boils, 365 00:18:46,425 --> 00:18:47,860 of which you cannot be healed 366 00:18:47,860 --> 00:18:51,597 from the soul of your foot to the crown of it over and over and over. 367 00:18:52,631 --> 00:18:54,466 That that's 368 00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:57,469 that's what was promised by God over his nation. 369 00:18:57,903 --> 00:19:00,506 Blessings for obedience and fruitfulness, 370 00:19:00,506 --> 00:19:03,642 curses for disobedience and not fruitfulness. 371 00:19:03,642 --> 00:19:07,012 That's the power of the condemnation 372 00:19:07,112 --> 00:19:10,549 of the fig tree that Jesus is calling into play. 373 00:19:11,116 --> 00:19:14,019 This is much more than Jesus being hungry. 374 00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:17,055 It's much more than not having to fig Newton sound. 375 00:19:17,122 --> 00:19:19,958 It's much more than a tree. 376 00:19:19,958 --> 00:19:21,493 Do you understand? 377 00:19:21,493 --> 00:19:24,496 And Jesus made that curse 378 00:19:24,696 --> 00:19:28,433 as he goes into Jerusalem on Monday morning. 379 00:19:28,433 --> 00:19:31,737 And then he, the first thing he does is confront the temple white, 380 00:19:31,770 --> 00:19:35,841 because they had the look of lees, but no spiritual fruit. 381 00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:38,877 He knew what he was doing. 382 00:19:38,877 --> 00:19:42,714 He goes back and then he's going to go back in 383 00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:47,586 to confront the religious leader specifically, and the tree is withered 384 00:19:47,586 --> 00:19:53,458 as a pronounced of the curse of God on God's people for their disobedience. 385 00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:54,826 Powerful. 386 00:19:55,794 --> 00:19:58,497 That's what's in play here. 387 00:19:58,497 --> 00:20:02,067 We read this as Jesus got upset at the fig tree. No, 388 00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:04,736 he expected something. 389 00:20:04,736 --> 00:20:08,974 God expected something from his people that looked religious on the outside 390 00:20:09,341 --> 00:20:13,912 but had no life and no fruit on the inside. 391 00:20:15,681 --> 00:20:18,317 And when Jesus says this phrase, 392 00:20:18,317 --> 00:20:21,753 if you just believe in that faith, you can move mountains. 393 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:25,591 That statement is not just about the power 394 00:20:25,591 --> 00:20:28,594 of prayer and faith, though there is truth in that. 395 00:20:28,961 --> 00:20:35,267 There's an old rabbinic idiom that says that the great rabbis 396 00:20:36,101 --> 00:20:40,272 can explain deep and profound mysteries, 397 00:20:40,272 --> 00:20:44,910 difficulties, and dilemmas in a way that people can understand. 398 00:20:44,977 --> 00:20:50,115 And when they explain the deep mysteries and dilemmas and answer questions 399 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:54,186 that are unanswerable, they are movers of mountains for people. 400 00:20:54,553 --> 00:20:59,625 And so he's saying, if you have faith in in who I am. 401 00:21:00,192 --> 00:21:03,362 If you understand the kingdom, you will be able to discern 402 00:21:03,362 --> 00:21:06,898 these great mysteries of this curse and the blessing. 403 00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:08,900 He's he's a mover of mountains. 404 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:12,638 And he's going to now, as you go through chapters 21 and 22, 405 00:21:12,671 --> 00:21:15,941 move the mountains of the scribes and Pharisees that are going to 406 00:21:16,341 --> 00:21:19,945 this onslaught of attack, question after question 407 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:23,915 after question, that seemed too difficult and unanswerable by everybody else. 408 00:21:23,915 --> 00:21:28,754 And Jesus is going to best them all, because he's a mover of mountains 409 00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:33,759 and gives understanding to the simple about profoundly deeper things. 410 00:21:34,059 --> 00:21:38,330 Paul will reference this very idiom in first Corinthians 13, verse two. 411 00:21:38,397 --> 00:21:42,334 If I have prophetic powers and understand 412 00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:47,039 all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have all faith 413 00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:50,275 so as to move mountains, if I remove the difficulties, 414 00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:51,977 and so I can explain everything. 415 00:21:51,977 --> 00:21:54,012 But I don't do it from love, I'm nothing. 416 00:21:54,012 --> 00:21:56,315 And Jesus says, listen, I love you. 417 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:57,683 I love my people. 418 00:21:57,683 --> 00:21:58,984 I love the land. 419 00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:01,186 I love my father, I love the covenant. 420 00:22:01,186 --> 00:22:06,425 And I want to remove all these things that that you've tripped over for so long. 421 00:22:07,059 --> 00:22:10,062 I'm gonna move mountains so you understand. 422 00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:12,497 But understanding you're not without excuse. 423 00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:16,034 You check with me. 424 00:22:16,034 --> 00:22:19,037 So far, I know you are. 425 00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:23,375 Look at verses 23 through 27. 426 00:22:25,310 --> 00:22:28,313 Let me get back to Matthew. 427 00:22:30,315 --> 00:22:31,783 And we entered the temple. 428 00:22:31,783 --> 00:22:33,852 The chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him 429 00:22:33,852 --> 00:22:36,588 as he was teaching and said, by what authority are you doing these things? 430 00:22:36,588 --> 00:22:41,993 Who gave you this authority again for this these next two chapters? 431 00:22:41,993 --> 00:22:44,996 The thing that's at stake here is the authority of Jesus. 432 00:22:45,430 --> 00:22:47,666 And they're going to they're going to push him on this, 433 00:22:47,666 --> 00:22:50,669 and he's going to keep removing mountains. 434 00:22:52,337 --> 00:22:55,073 Jesus answered them, I'm going to ask you a question. 435 00:22:55,073 --> 00:22:56,708 If you tell me the answer, then I'll tell you by 436 00:22:56,708 --> 00:22:58,777 what authority I do these things. The baptism of John. 437 00:22:58,777 --> 00:23:00,946 From where did it come from? Heaven or from man? 438 00:23:00,946 --> 00:23:03,014 And they discuss it among themselves, saying, 439 00:23:03,014 --> 00:23:05,751 if we say from heaven, he'll say to us, then why didn't you believe him? 440 00:23:05,751 --> 00:23:09,521 But if we say from man, we're afraid of the crowd, for they hold 441 00:23:09,521 --> 00:23:10,255 John as a prophet. 442 00:23:10,255 --> 00:23:14,459 So they answer, Jesus, we do not know, he said. Why? 443 00:23:14,493 --> 00:23:16,294 Because they weren't movers of mountains. 444 00:23:16,294 --> 00:23:17,295 They can't explain it. 445 00:23:17,295 --> 00:23:19,231 They don't know they're ignorant. 446 00:23:21,299 --> 00:23:22,434 And so he said to them, neither. 447 00:23:22,434 --> 00:23:23,935 I'll tell you by what authority I do these things. 448 00:23:23,935 --> 00:23:28,306 The interesting thing to me in this is that the central issue in this whole, 449 00:23:28,340 --> 00:23:31,343 this whole next two chapters is the authority of Jesus. 450 00:23:31,576 --> 00:23:35,414 Jesus, who gives you the authority to speak into my life, 451 00:23:35,414 --> 00:23:40,786 who gives you the authority to judge me, who gives you the authority to condemn? 452 00:23:40,819 --> 00:23:43,822 Who gives you the authority? 453 00:23:45,390 --> 00:23:48,493 See, their problem was not a lack of evidence. 454 00:23:48,493 --> 00:23:51,596 It was the unwillingness to submit to Jesus's authority. 455 00:23:51,630 --> 00:23:54,065 They didn't question if he had authority. 456 00:23:54,065 --> 00:23:55,901 They acknowledged he had authority. 457 00:23:55,901 --> 00:23:58,503 Who gives you this authority? They knew he had authority. 458 00:23:58,503 --> 00:24:01,106 Where did this authority originate? 459 00:24:01,106 --> 00:24:04,443 Their issue was that the lack of evidence to Jesus authority, 460 00:24:04,476 --> 00:24:07,579 their issues, was the unwillingness to submit to that authority. 461 00:24:07,579 --> 00:24:09,014 And we do the same thing. 462 00:24:10,348 --> 00:24:13,785 Jesus, who gives you the right to tell 463 00:24:13,819 --> 00:24:16,822 me, might like what I'm doing is right or wrong 464 00:24:17,856 --> 00:24:19,057 by your word. 465 00:24:19,057 --> 00:24:22,060 What gives your word the right 466 00:24:22,194 --> 00:24:25,063 to say yes to this in my life and no to that in my life? 467 00:24:25,063 --> 00:24:27,833 Why should I submit to that? 468 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:30,802 We do this all the time. 469 00:24:30,802 --> 00:24:31,903 We look religious. 470 00:24:31,903 --> 00:24:34,973 We got the leaves, we made the profession. 471 00:24:34,973 --> 00:24:38,810 But then we make judgment over the authority of the Word of God 472 00:24:39,277 --> 00:24:41,980 to as to what we will obey and not obey. 473 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:42,981 What gives you the right? 474 00:24:42,981 --> 00:24:45,984 Do you see this? 475 00:24:46,785 --> 00:24:49,788 Yes, yes. 476 00:24:51,756 --> 00:24:54,493 And so Jesus presses 477 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:57,496 verse 28 and 32. 478 00:24:58,196 --> 00:24:59,998 What do you think? 479 00:24:59,998 --> 00:25:02,834 A man had two sons. And when? 480 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:06,705 And he went to the first and said, son, go and work in the vineyard today. 481 00:25:06,705 --> 00:25:07,939 And he answered, I will not. 482 00:25:07,939 --> 00:25:11,743 But afterward he changed his mind, and he went, and he went to the other son. 483 00:25:11,743 --> 00:25:12,677 He said the same. 484 00:25:12,677 --> 00:25:16,114 And he answered, I go, sir, but he did not go. 485 00:25:16,481 --> 00:25:19,384 Which of the two did the will of his father? 486 00:25:19,384 --> 00:25:20,385 Which one? 487 00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:24,022 Which won? 488 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:25,156 The first did? 489 00:25:25,156 --> 00:25:28,159 We're the smartest Pharisees. 490 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:31,296 And Jesus said to them, truly I say to you, that tax collectors 491 00:25:31,296 --> 00:25:34,399 and prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you do. Wow. 492 00:25:36,935 --> 00:25:39,437 So you all have just is saying to the religious people, 493 00:25:39,437 --> 00:25:42,841 you got all these leaves and you got no fruit, 494 00:25:43,108 --> 00:25:46,111 and you got all these tax collectors and hookers and whores 495 00:25:46,177 --> 00:25:50,348 who who originally said no to me and then changed their mind. 496 00:25:52,150 --> 00:25:54,586 They get in 497 00:25:54,586 --> 00:25:57,122 all your leaves me nothing. 498 00:25:57,122 --> 00:25:59,291 I mean, listen to what he's saying to these guys. 499 00:25:59,291 --> 00:26:02,294 No wonder they wanted to kill him. 500 00:26:04,296 --> 00:26:06,064 For John came to you 501 00:26:06,064 --> 00:26:08,300 in a way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. 502 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,702 But the tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. 503 00:26:10,702 --> 00:26:14,506 And even when you saw it, you did not after or change your mind 504 00:26:14,506 --> 00:26:15,540 and believe in him. 505 00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:20,278 He said, John offered you the baptism of repentance, and you would not repent. 506 00:26:20,278 --> 00:26:23,748 But the tax collectors and the prostitutes, at least they repented. 507 00:26:24,182 --> 00:26:25,317 They get in. 508 00:26:26,451 --> 00:26:29,187 I don't care about your leaves 509 00:26:29,187 --> 00:26:31,890 if you don't have the fruit. 510 00:26:31,890 --> 00:26:33,558 What he's saying is this. 511 00:26:33,558 --> 00:26:36,628 That my obedience, where am I? 512 00:26:37,295 --> 00:26:38,430 Go backwards? 513 00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:40,632 My obedience proves my profession. 514 00:26:40,632 --> 00:26:42,834 That's what he's saying. 515 00:26:42,834 --> 00:26:45,837 Profession means nothing without obedience. 516 00:26:49,841 --> 00:26:52,310 One of these young men said yes and lived to know. 517 00:26:52,310 --> 00:26:54,145 One of them said no originally and lived a yes. 518 00:26:54,145 --> 00:26:56,781 Which one was right? 519 00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:59,784 The one who lived a yes. 520 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,387 See? True repentance. 521 00:27:02,387 --> 00:27:06,291 We have to understand that true repentance becomes fruit that we can see. 522 00:27:10,996 --> 00:27:13,865 We read in chapter three, 523 00:27:13,865 --> 00:27:16,868 bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 524 00:27:18,036 --> 00:27:21,473 Fruit doesn't happen unless repentance precedes. 525 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,043 Repentance always comes first. 526 00:27:27,879 --> 00:27:30,315 This parable that Jesus just told in verses 527 00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:33,752 23 or 28 through 32 is, is it's the fig tree. 528 00:27:33,752 --> 00:27:36,755 In human terms, that's what Jesus is saying. 529 00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:41,192 He said he had son, one who had a bad profession but eventually obeyed. 530 00:27:41,226 --> 00:27:46,131 You had son two that had a good profession and had no obedience and no fruit. 531 00:27:46,598 --> 00:27:49,067 The religious leader said yes to God, but live to know. 532 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:52,070 But the prostitutes and and collectors 533 00:27:52,504 --> 00:27:55,273 lived to know, but responded with repentance. 534 00:27:55,273 --> 00:27:57,475 They get the kingdom, they said. 535 00:27:57,475 --> 00:28:01,746 You've relied on all this religious leaves for too long, 536 00:28:01,946 --> 00:28:08,353 and there's not been repentance and the fruit of repentance in your life. 537 00:28:09,387 --> 00:28:10,388 So he's 538 00:28:10,388 --> 00:28:13,658 driving home this point that God is not impressed by the 539 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:16,795 yes on your lips when your life keeps saying no. 540 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:22,267 He's pressing this. 541 00:28:22,267 --> 00:28:25,937 And he said, this has been God's people's way 542 00:28:26,071 --> 00:28:29,441 of operating from generation to generation. 543 00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:34,279 And now you have called upon the curses of God on your life. 544 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:35,880 Look. What's that? 545 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,850 Look at what has happened in the nation of Israel since this time. 546 00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:42,320 Been ravaged, thrown from their land. 547 00:28:43,421 --> 00:28:46,424 In 1870, the temple was completely destroyed. 548 00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:48,393 It had been rebuilt since. 549 00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:51,396 It will one day, but not now 550 00:28:51,696 --> 00:28:54,699 come almost completely annihilated. 551 00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:03,575 Jesus keeps pressing verse 3333 through 46. 552 00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:04,676 Here another parable. 553 00:29:04,676 --> 00:29:06,911 There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard 554 00:29:06,911 --> 00:29:10,315 and put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, 555 00:29:10,315 --> 00:29:12,817 and least it to the tennis, and went to another country. 556 00:29:12,817 --> 00:29:17,388 When you read this passage right here about this, this vineyard, 557 00:29:17,622 --> 00:29:20,759 you've got to go back to Old Testament, Isaiah chapter five. 558 00:29:20,992 --> 00:29:26,131 The vineyard represents represents Israel, prophesied. 559 00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:31,069 Nisa five affirmed here in this parable, this this is Isaiah five in parable form. 560 00:29:31,069 --> 00:29:34,873 So just for you, Bible students, you'd know that the vineyard is Israel. 561 00:29:34,873 --> 00:29:35,707 Is Israel. 562 00:29:35,707 --> 00:29:39,277 When the season for fruit drew near, he's in the servants to the Tennessee 563 00:29:39,277 --> 00:29:42,747 to get his fruit, and the tenants took his servants and beat one. 564 00:29:42,747 --> 00:29:44,415 They killed another, stoned another. 565 00:29:44,415 --> 00:29:46,985 Again he sent other servants more than the first, 566 00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:48,019 and they did the same to them. 567 00:29:48,019 --> 00:29:51,022 Finally he sent his son, 568 00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:53,858 saying that at least respect my son. 569 00:29:53,858 --> 00:29:58,163 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, this is the air. 570 00:29:58,196 --> 00:30:00,131 Let's kill him and have his inheritance. 571 00:30:00,131 --> 00:30:02,934 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed them. 572 00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:05,503 Jesus was crucified outside of the city. 573 00:30:08,239 --> 00:30:08,940 When therefore 574 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:11,910 the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants? 575 00:30:11,910 --> 00:30:12,777 What do you think he's going to do? 576 00:30:12,777 --> 00:30:15,780 Those tenants that killed his son. 577 00:30:26,624 --> 00:30:27,959 We have so many opinions 578 00:30:27,959 --> 00:30:30,962 about so many things, but we come to church and have no opinion. 579 00:30:31,429 --> 00:30:32,831 What are you going to do? 580 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:33,865 You got smoke? Come. 581 00:30:33,865 --> 00:30:34,866 Thank you. 582 00:30:34,866 --> 00:30:37,869 Hurrah! 583 00:30:39,737 --> 00:30:44,375 He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let the vineyard 584 00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:48,112 to others tenants who will give him the fruits of their season. 585 00:30:48,112 --> 00:30:51,583 Jesus said to them, have you never read the scriptures? 586 00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:54,853 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 587 00:30:54,919 --> 00:30:57,255 This was the Lord's doing, this marvelous in our eyes. 588 00:30:57,255 --> 00:31:00,258 He said, you missed it. I'm the son. 589 00:31:00,291 --> 00:31:04,095 The one that you rejected is the cornerstone of this whole thing. 590 00:31:05,396 --> 00:31:08,399 And when you deny me, 591 00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:11,636 vengeance of God has fallen upon you 592 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,706 as pronouncing the curses of Leviticus 26 593 00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:17,709 and Deuteronomy 28. 594 00:31:19,777 --> 00:31:20,612 Therefore I tell you, 595 00:31:20,612 --> 00:31:21,546 the kingdom of God will be 596 00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:24,916 taken away from you and given to people who producing its fruits, 597 00:31:25,283 --> 00:31:27,619 and the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces. 598 00:31:27,619 --> 00:31:29,554 And when it falls on anyone that will crush him. 599 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,824 When the chief priests and Pharisees heard these parables, they perceived 600 00:31:32,824 --> 00:31:35,827 he was speaking about them 601 00:31:36,494 --> 00:31:39,497 because they knew he was a prophet. 602 00:31:40,031 --> 00:31:42,901 Listen, the blessings of God 603 00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:46,638 on his people requires fruit. 604 00:31:47,705 --> 00:31:49,774 God gave his people 605 00:31:49,774 --> 00:31:52,777 the revelation of God Himself. 606 00:31:52,810 --> 00:31:54,178 He gave him the prophets. 607 00:31:54,178 --> 00:31:56,180 They he gave him the promises. 608 00:31:56,180 --> 00:31:59,183 He gave him the his very presence. 609 00:31:59,851 --> 00:32:02,253 And they rejected God's servants. 610 00:32:02,253 --> 00:32:03,721 They rejected God's prophets. 611 00:32:03,721 --> 00:32:07,191 They rejected God's Word, and they rejected his very son. 612 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:09,360 And the 613 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,131 key to this whole thing is verse 43, I tell you, 614 00:32:13,131 --> 00:32:16,701 the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people 615 00:32:16,734 --> 00:32:19,737 who actually produce its fruit. 616 00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:23,274 I want to be that person. 617 00:32:23,341 --> 00:32:26,210 I don't want to be a leafy guy. 618 00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:28,112 Oh, I can't say I want to be a fruity guy either. 619 00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:31,115 I didn't say I'm right, but. 620 00:32:33,151 --> 00:32:34,585 This interprets the whole section. 621 00:32:34,585 --> 00:32:36,054 Now let me draw back. 622 00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:38,389 That's about the nation of Israel, okay. 623 00:32:38,389 --> 00:32:40,625 And that's in place now. 624 00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:44,362 They're not left abandoned forever. 625 00:32:45,430 --> 00:32:47,398 We'll understand that in just a minute. 626 00:32:47,398 --> 00:32:49,734 But let's draw it to us now. 627 00:32:49,734 --> 00:32:53,972 So to understand the curse of the tree, the pronouncement of the curse 628 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:54,939 Leviticus 26. 629 00:32:54,939 --> 00:32:58,643 Deuteronomy 28, drawing it into our lives. 630 00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:03,982 Now we have to go to the apostle Paul, who was a part of the nation of Israel. 631 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:09,420 He's a Jew, but he's been radically, radically 632 00:33:09,454 --> 00:33:16,260 transformed by the Holy Spirit, who would be one of those rabbis 633 00:33:16,260 --> 00:33:20,465 that could move mountains to give us understanding. 634 00:33:20,465 --> 00:33:24,635 And so Paul will say in Romans 11, I want you to I want you to read this. 635 00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,971 This is a long passage, but understand, he says. 636 00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:28,506 So I asked, did they 637 00:33:28,506 --> 00:33:32,610 did did the Jews, the Israel, stumble in order that they might fall? 638 00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:37,382 By no means rather, through their trespass, 639 00:33:37,415 --> 00:33:40,785 their falling salvation has come to us 640 00:33:40,785 --> 00:33:44,455 non-Jews, so as to make Israel jealous. 641 00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:48,192 But if some of the branches 642 00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:51,763 were broken off of the tree, and you, 643 00:33:52,397 --> 00:33:56,634 although a wild olive shoe, you weren't part of the tree. 644 00:33:56,934 --> 00:33:58,636 You're wild. 645 00:33:58,636 --> 00:34:01,773 If you were grafted in among the others. 646 00:34:01,773 --> 00:34:05,376 And now sharing the nourishing root of the olive tree, 647 00:34:05,576 --> 00:34:08,780 don't be arrogant towards those branches. 648 00:34:10,181 --> 00:34:13,351 If you are, remember it's not you that supports the root, 649 00:34:13,351 --> 00:34:14,619 but the root that supports you. 650 00:34:14,619 --> 00:34:17,922 So don't be arrogant thinking that they weren't good enough 651 00:34:17,922 --> 00:34:20,892 so God chose you. 652 00:34:20,992 --> 00:34:23,995 The root that we draw from isn't ours. 653 00:34:24,162 --> 00:34:28,699 The root that we draw from is Christ the Messiah out of the nation of Israel. 654 00:34:31,202 --> 00:34:34,906 Then you will say branches are broken off, that I might be grafted in. 655 00:34:34,972 --> 00:34:36,307 That is true. 656 00:34:36,307 --> 00:34:38,376 They were broken off because of their unbelief. 657 00:34:38,376 --> 00:34:43,614 But you stand fast through faith, so don't become proud, but be fearful. 658 00:34:45,983 --> 00:34:48,052 Lest you be wise in your own sight. 659 00:34:48,052 --> 00:34:50,955 I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, my brothers. 660 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:53,658 I'm gonna move a mountain for you. Right now. 661 00:34:53,658 --> 00:34:58,029 A partial hardening has has come upon Israel and tell the fullness 662 00:34:58,029 --> 00:35:03,234 of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. 663 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:07,171 As it is written, the deliverer will come from Zion. 664 00:35:07,171 --> 00:35:11,542 He will banish ungodliness from Jacob, and this will be my covenant with them. 665 00:35:11,542 --> 00:35:16,414 When I take away their sins as regards to the gospel, their enemies for your sake. 666 00:35:16,414 --> 00:35:20,384 But as regards to election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 667 00:35:20,384 --> 00:35:23,721 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 668 00:35:23,754 --> 00:35:27,291 Though Israel experienced a partial hardening for a time, God's 669 00:35:27,291 --> 00:35:32,430 calling and gifts of them are irrevocable, and they will experience a revival. 670 00:35:33,097 --> 00:35:35,133 The Bible is very clear about that. 671 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:37,401 Romans 11 or revelation seven. 672 00:35:37,401 --> 00:35:39,837 For a time they experienced the curse of God 673 00:35:39,837 --> 00:35:42,373 for their disbelief and unbelief and fruitfulness. 674 00:35:42,373 --> 00:35:47,478 We're grafted in not because we're valuable, but because of the grace of God. 675 00:35:47,578 --> 00:35:49,514 We're grafted into the tree. 676 00:35:49,514 --> 00:35:54,552 As part of the tree, we gain the inheritance of the root 677 00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:57,722 without the curse of no fruit, 678 00:35:58,422 --> 00:36:03,394 so that curses on the nation of Israel, it's not upon us who have been grafted in. 679 00:36:03,394 --> 00:36:05,163 Now, let me just say this. 680 00:36:05,163 --> 00:36:06,664 The reason I know that. 681 00:36:08,799 --> 00:36:11,669 Is because of Jesus. 682 00:36:11,669 --> 00:36:14,739 We don't experience the national 683 00:36:16,574 --> 00:36:20,711 mosaic curse of Leviticus 26 and 28. 684 00:36:20,711 --> 00:36:22,914 Don't ever think that because you messed up 685 00:36:22,914 --> 00:36:25,116 and something bad happens that God has cursed you. 686 00:36:25,116 --> 00:36:27,251 That's not how God works. 687 00:36:27,251 --> 00:36:29,854 Those curses were for the nation of Israel for a time, 688 00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:32,356 not for all time before a time. 689 00:36:32,356 --> 00:36:35,693 Those of us who are in Christ by faith who have been drafted in, 690 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,963 please understand that our curse has been leveled 691 00:36:38,963 --> 00:36:42,233 against Jesus so God doesn't have to level it against us. 692 00:36:42,233 --> 00:36:42,633 How do I know? 693 00:36:42,633 --> 00:36:47,505 Because I read my Bible, Galatians 313 Christ has become the curse for us. 694 00:36:47,905 --> 00:36:49,574 Do you understand? 695 00:36:49,574 --> 00:36:52,944 So I don't live under the curse of Leviticus 26. 696 00:36:52,944 --> 00:36:55,546 In Deuteronomy 28, 697 00:36:55,546 --> 00:36:57,281 Jesus has become my curse. 698 00:36:58,883 --> 00:36:59,984 So for me, for 699 00:36:59,984 --> 00:37:02,987 you, there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ. 700 00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:06,057 We don't live under the curse. 701 00:37:07,959 --> 00:37:12,997 I pray over me and my family every morning. 702 00:37:12,997 --> 00:37:17,335 I pray Deuteronomy 28 over us every morning. 703 00:37:17,335 --> 00:37:20,871 I pray that we will experience all these blessings 704 00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:23,908 by the grace of God, not by how we live. 705 00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:27,478 And I pray that God will spare us from the curse 706 00:37:27,478 --> 00:37:30,481 because of the blood of Jesus on the cross. 707 00:37:30,748 --> 00:37:33,217 Do you see that? 708 00:37:33,217 --> 00:37:36,187 I want the blessings God promised, but it's not going to become 709 00:37:36,187 --> 00:37:37,321 because I am so good. 710 00:37:37,321 --> 00:37:41,425 It's going to become by God's grace, and I want him to spare from me 711 00:37:41,993 --> 00:37:44,795 the curse and the combination that I deserve because of my sin, 712 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:47,298 not because of who I am, but because of what Jesus did on the cross. 713 00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:51,502 So I want to live in the spiritual reality of Deuteronomy 28, 714 00:37:52,570 --> 00:37:54,505 experiencing the blessing by God's grace 715 00:37:54,505 --> 00:37:57,508 and the removal of the curse by Jesus's blood. 716 00:37:59,210 --> 00:38:00,711 And I want to live in that grace. 717 00:38:00,711 --> 00:38:03,714 But here's the thing about grace, and this is what we have to understand. 718 00:38:03,914 --> 00:38:07,184 Grace does not eliminate the necessity for fruit. 719 00:38:07,952 --> 00:38:10,187 We can't just say, well, I live in the grace of God, so 720 00:38:10,187 --> 00:38:13,190 I don't have to do anything. No. 721 00:38:14,225 --> 00:38:16,394 Grace does not eliminate 722 00:38:16,394 --> 00:38:19,397 the necessity for fruit. 723 00:38:19,830 --> 00:38:23,534 The King still expects his people to be fruitful, 724 00:38:23,534 --> 00:38:26,537 just not leaf full. 725 00:38:26,537 --> 00:38:27,872 What kind of fruit? 726 00:38:27,872 --> 00:38:30,574 The fruit of repentance. 727 00:38:30,574 --> 00:38:32,576 To repent from sin 728 00:38:32,576 --> 00:38:35,980 in salvation and to live in the state of repentance. 729 00:38:36,013 --> 00:38:37,315 God. I'm sorry. 730 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:39,717 Thank you for your forgiveness. 731 00:38:39,717 --> 00:38:42,787 To live in a state of of repentance. 732 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,424 Father, I humble myself before you and I submit myself to your word. 733 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,760 Thank you for your forgiveness. 734 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,796 I'm going to chase out sin in my life. 735 00:38:51,796 --> 00:38:53,297 The fruit that's visible. 736 00:38:53,297 --> 00:38:55,032 Galatians 522 and 23. 737 00:38:55,032 --> 00:38:56,334 For the fruit of the spirit is love, 738 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:59,270 joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 739 00:38:59,270 --> 00:39:01,105 Are any of those invisible? 740 00:39:01,105 --> 00:39:03,140 No. You see them all. 741 00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:05,943 What fruit is invisible fruit? 742 00:39:05,943 --> 00:39:06,877 None. 743 00:39:08,813 --> 00:39:10,548 He, the king of specks. 744 00:39:10,548 --> 00:39:15,720 Fruit because of his grace, the fruit of good works. 745 00:39:15,986 --> 00:39:19,256 He to God has prepared you for good works 746 00:39:19,256 --> 00:39:22,760 that he already prepared in advance for you to do so do the good works. 747 00:39:23,794 --> 00:39:26,797 Fruit, the fruit of obedience, 748 00:39:27,198 --> 00:39:31,736 an obedient holy life that repents of sin and renounces 749 00:39:31,736 --> 00:39:36,307 sin, and chooses to live in obedience and holiness and righteousness. 750 00:39:36,941 --> 00:39:39,877 That's the fruit, and that's what 751 00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:42,880 the King expects. 752 00:39:43,814 --> 00:39:44,482 And though 753 00:39:44,482 --> 00:39:47,551 we don't live under the curse because of sin, 754 00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:53,023 we live under the discipline and the pruning of a good, loving father, 755 00:39:53,290 --> 00:39:57,962 not as judicial condemnation, but as pruning for righteousness. 756 00:39:57,995 --> 00:40:02,032 Some of us are living in moments right now of discipline, 757 00:40:02,032 --> 00:40:06,637 some severe discipline, and some pruning, and it is painful and difficult. 758 00:40:06,637 --> 00:40:09,073 And you think God is pissed off because you messed up? 759 00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:10,441 He's not. 760 00:40:10,441 --> 00:40:13,411 He took all that anger and later on his son, 761 00:40:13,978 --> 00:40:16,814 but he is pruning you and disciplining you 762 00:40:16,814 --> 00:40:20,251 so that your life doesn't produce just leaves. 763 00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:22,620 It produces fruit. 764 00:40:22,620 --> 00:40:24,422 Do you understand? 765 00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:26,891 You follow. Look at these. 766 00:40:29,293 --> 00:40:31,629 Two bowls. 767 00:40:31,629 --> 00:40:34,632 Which one? 768 00:40:35,866 --> 00:40:38,068 Is full of fruit? 769 00:40:38,068 --> 00:40:39,703 This one? Yes. 770 00:40:39,703 --> 00:40:41,472 What about this one? 771 00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:43,941 How do you know? 772 00:40:43,941 --> 00:40:45,576 How do you know? 773 00:40:45,576 --> 00:40:47,711 You're judging. 774 00:40:47,711 --> 00:40:50,614 You don't know what's in here. 775 00:40:50,614 --> 00:40:52,483 It made his profession. 776 00:40:52,483 --> 00:40:55,352 It's in church all the time. 777 00:40:55,352 --> 00:40:56,954 How dare you? 778 00:40:56,954 --> 00:40:59,957 What gives you the right? 779 00:41:00,658 --> 00:41:03,661 Who gave you the authority? 780 00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:06,997 You don't judge what's in here. 781 00:41:06,997 --> 00:41:10,000 This is a bowl of fruit. 782 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,902 You believe me? 783 00:41:11,902 --> 00:41:14,905 Oh, why? 784 00:41:15,172 --> 00:41:18,175 You can see it. 785 00:41:19,376 --> 00:41:22,379 You and I are one of these. 786 00:41:25,516 --> 00:41:26,517 The question is not 787 00:41:26,517 --> 00:41:29,520 what you claim is inside. 788 00:41:31,722 --> 00:41:33,290 The issue Jesus is dealing with 789 00:41:33,290 --> 00:41:36,293 is what he wants. 790 00:41:36,427 --> 00:41:38,562 What's a visible on the outside? 791 00:41:38,562 --> 00:41:40,331 You're not saved by the fruit. 792 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:43,667 But if you're saved, the fruit is going to be visible. 793 00:41:44,735 --> 00:41:46,637 And that was the judgment. 794 00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:49,240 Listen here. 795 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,243 Wrap this up. 796 00:41:53,878 --> 00:41:56,881 Jesus's authority exposes 797 00:41:56,947 --> 00:42:01,852 fruitless religion, and it demands kingdom 798 00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:04,855 fruit and. 799 00:42:06,056 --> 00:42:09,360 Faith is not your fruit. 800 00:42:09,994 --> 00:42:13,430 But saving faith never remains fruitless. 801 00:42:15,299 --> 00:42:17,801 None of us can say, well, I have faith. 802 00:42:17,801 --> 00:42:19,003 That's the fruit. 803 00:42:19,003 --> 00:42:21,972 No it's not. 804 00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:23,440 Jesus is not. 805 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,410 What religious leaves the king 806 00:42:27,511 --> 00:42:30,514 expects King of fruit. 807 00:42:30,514 --> 00:42:32,750 And so 808 00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:34,385 this entire thing. 809 00:42:34,385 --> 00:42:36,654 I want to wrap it up with this statement. 810 00:42:36,654 --> 00:42:38,656 Let this sink in. 811 00:42:38,656 --> 00:42:43,360 You and I, you cannot encounter the authority of Jesus 812 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,898 and legitimately claim to be a person of saving faith. 813 00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:52,469 Well, insisting he has no right to expect fruit 814 00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:55,739 and thinking he won't inspect your life 815 00:42:55,739 --> 00:42:58,742 for it. 816 00:43:01,946 --> 00:43:04,281 That's Matthew 21. 817 00:43:04,281 --> 00:43:07,251 Applied to us personally. 818 00:43:09,987 --> 00:43:12,990 There's a lot here. 819 00:43:13,290 --> 00:43:14,091 And I think if 820 00:43:14,091 --> 00:43:17,661 we're paying attention, there's a lot of work 821 00:43:17,995 --> 00:43:23,300 and a lot of reliance that we have to allow the Holy Spirit to do in our lives. 822 00:43:26,370 --> 00:43:28,639 And so truth time, 823 00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,642 tell the truth. 824 00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:33,344 Ask yourself the question. 825 00:43:33,344 --> 00:43:37,414 Have I lived with more leaves than visible 826 00:43:37,414 --> 00:43:40,417 fruit? 827 00:43:41,819 --> 00:43:44,822 Have I thought, because I have faith 828 00:43:44,822 --> 00:43:48,092 that that's the fruit Jesus is looking for, ultimately? 829 00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:54,198 Ask yourself the question. 830 00:43:54,198 --> 00:43:57,301 Have I relied on looking more religious 831 00:43:57,301 --> 00:44:00,304 than living in repentance? 832 00:44:03,073 --> 00:44:05,542 Kingdom fruit 833 00:44:05,542 --> 00:44:08,512 from King to people. 834 00:44:08,512 --> 00:44:11,515 I want you to pray with me. 835 00:44:12,616 --> 00:44:15,619 Father, I thank you for your love. 836 00:44:16,453 --> 00:44:19,023 That by your love 837 00:44:19,023 --> 00:44:22,026 you sent your son to die on the cross 838 00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:24,161 to make new life possible. 839 00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:26,063 Thank you 840 00:44:26,063 --> 00:44:30,300 for the power of your Holy Spirit that transforms and changes 841 00:44:31,101 --> 00:44:34,104 dead, empty religious lives into 842 00:44:34,438 --> 00:44:35,939 lives that bear fruit of the kingdom. 843 00:44:35,939 --> 00:44:37,341 Thank you. 844 00:44:37,341 --> 00:44:40,344 Thank you that it's not about us just working harder. 845 00:44:41,011 --> 00:44:44,481 It's about us coming to you in repentance and allowing your transformative 846 00:44:44,481 --> 00:44:46,517 work to take root in our lives. 847 00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:49,520 And so do that in us. 848 00:44:50,154 --> 00:44:52,256 Friends, I want to invite you in this moment. 849 00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:54,158 If there's 850 00:44:54,158 --> 00:44:57,161 something you know in your life you need to repent of. 851 00:44:58,095 --> 00:45:00,330 You've courted sin. 852 00:45:00,330 --> 00:45:01,298 You've dated it. 853 00:45:01,298 --> 00:45:02,499 You got close to the edge. 854 00:45:02,499 --> 00:45:05,402 Just see how close you can get. 855 00:45:05,402 --> 00:45:07,237 And you know 856 00:45:07,237 --> 00:45:10,240 that those things don't produce kingdom fruit. 857 00:45:11,642 --> 00:45:14,611 Would you repent? 858 00:45:17,081 --> 00:45:20,050 Would you in this moment say God? 859 00:45:21,752 --> 00:45:24,755 I choose today to remain 860 00:45:25,122 --> 00:45:28,058 intimately entwined with you, and I want you 861 00:45:28,058 --> 00:45:31,061 to live intimately in my life. 862 00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:35,399 Because I want to bear good fruit. 863 00:45:36,066 --> 00:45:38,135 Father, there are some who are praying that prayer. 864 00:45:38,135 --> 00:45:41,138 Praying a similar prayer, who are who are repenting. 865 00:45:41,505 --> 00:45:43,974 Hear their prayer. Hear their heart. 866 00:45:43,974 --> 00:45:46,977 I pray that we live 867 00:45:47,111 --> 00:45:51,115 visibly in front of this world, unashamedly, boldly, with conviction 868 00:45:52,416 --> 00:45:55,052 that the fruit of the kingdom is seen in our lives. 869 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,554 And father, I pray we 870 00:45:57,554 --> 00:46:00,824 live lives of repentance for your name's sake, 871 00:46:01,425 --> 00:46:04,428 that your kingdom would come and your will be done 872 00:46:04,895 --> 00:46:05,696 in us and through us. 873 00:46:05,696 --> 00:46:08,398 In your name I pray. Amen. 874 00:46:08,398 --> 00:46:09,299 Friends, I love you. 875 00:46:09,299 --> 00:46:11,802 Well done. It's a big chapter. 876 00:46:11,802 --> 00:46:13,570 We're going to go through chapter 22 next week. 877 00:46:13,570 --> 00:46:16,640 This is all happens in one day in Jesus life and Tuesday 878 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,342 before the crucifixion on Friday. 879 00:46:18,342 --> 00:46:20,477 So read chapter 21 to read chapter 22. 880 00:46:20,477 --> 00:46:21,712 Get ready. 881 00:46:21,712 --> 00:46:26,283 As we've seen this next song, there will be people up front to pray with you. 882 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:28,819 Something of you need to repent. 883 00:46:28,819 --> 00:46:32,790 Some of you need to commit yourselves to living a life of fruitfulness. 884 00:46:33,223 --> 00:46:35,659 I'd encourage you to do that in prayer with other people. 885 00:46:35,659 --> 00:46:37,494 They'll be around after service as well. 886 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:41,832 Don't walk out of here 887 00:46:41,832 --> 00:46:44,835 without doing business with God. 888 00:46:44,935 --> 00:46:45,669 Let's see.