Mathew Chapter 21.<\/p>\n
The fig tree had the appearance of fruit, but none to be found.\u00a0\u00a0God is more concerned about fruit then looking as if you can produce fruit.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t look \u201cChristian\u201d but be a Christian.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t look \u201choly\u201d be holy.\u00a0\u00a0God does this work in us; there should be a work of God\u2019s Spirit causing us to produce fruit.\u00a0\u00a0When our lives cannot change for God or be inconvenienced for God we may have only an appearance of fruit.\u00a0\u00a0God wants us to be people of faith that live in the will of God which will produce confidence in the work of God.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, as we live in His will all things will happen for His glory.\u00a0\u00a0Do you have a mountain to move today? Start by moving your life in the ways of God. God will empower you, if you have been born again.<\/p>\n
The religious rulers had two problems; problem one was they were self-righteous.\u00a0\u00a0They did not need the baptism of John nor this Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0The second problem was that they feared the people; look at verse 26 and verse 46.\u00a0\u00a0My righteousness or status as a \u201cgood person\u201d must always rest not in my merits but in the merits of God and His righteousness.\u00a0\u00a0Secondly I need Jesus!\u00a0I need Jesus for salvation.\u00a0\u00a0Without redemption I will spend an eternity in Hell.\u00a0\u00a0I therefore will not turn my back on Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0I may not understand the \u201cwhat\u2019s up\u201d in life but I NEED Jesus for eternal life, I am all in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}