Hello and welcome to Bible Stories It is your boy Todd Hamons and my buddy

slash co-host Matt Mullins. Hello and guess what guys and gals it is Easter

Week. Some people may call it Passion Week or Holy Week. Hey we are so so

excited to continue to share with you what Jesus is doing on this day leading

up to the cross and Easter Sunday right and so check this out. Some people

call this Holy Monday. Well we're going to tell you all about it. That's right

welcome to the Monday of Holy Week. So at this point Jesus spent last night

Sunday night in a town just outside of Jerusalem called Bethany and he

probably stayed with his buds Lazarus and Lazarus's sisters Mary and Martha. He

now travels to the temple in Jerusalem and he's become hungry during this

it's like a two mile walk Todd so he's hungry. Jesus is hungry and he's

looking in the distance and he spots a fig tree and he makes his way over to it

for bite to eat who doesn't like a fig newton in the morning you know but

there's no fruit to be found on this tree and but what's wild is the tree shows

signs of life and it has flourishing leaves but it has no fruit. So this fruit

is tree that looks great on the outside but it's not producing anything it's a

symbol for those who seem to have the appearance of religion they maybe look

great on the outside but they're not bearing any fruit there's no growth from

God in their lives. Well in particular kind of drilling down this tree reflects

the state of faith in Jerusalem and Jesus' day although Israel had these

outward signs appearances of strong spirituality you know strong faith the

people were bearing spiritually and as Jesus he looked at this tree he makes a

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