Go to Mark 11, please.

For some weeks now, we've been on this subject of faith to receive.

Faith to receive.

And we're still on that this morning in Mark 11, 22.

Jesus walked up to a fig tree. Okay. 22 Jesus

walked up to a fig tree

and to see if it had any fruit on it

somebody said didn't he already know

apparently not

that's why I walk over and see the Bible said he went to see if there was anything on it

right well he's God he already knew he was God he is God but the Bible said he emptied himself

he laid aside his mighty weight and power and became like other men.

And he operated as a man in the earth.

So no, he didn't know.

But when he went there, I mean, one Bible encyclopedia tells us that in that part of the country, that tree, that time of the year, if it had a show of leaves and its size,

it should have had some kind of fruit on it.

So it had a show of fruit and no fruit.

It was a lion fig tree.

And nothing makes you more annoyed than when you're hungry

and the fruit trees say,

I got fruit and you show up and had no fruit there.

Well,

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