Sometimes the preposition the New Testament uses is the preposition into, we believe, into Christ.

And this is the fundamental thing that happens to us when we're born again, when we're converted to Christ,

our faith unites us to Him, the Spirit unites us to Him.

And in that way we are bound to go.

And underneath all that is the fact that in everything Jesus did, He was representing us.

And because He was representing us, everything He has done is really ours.

None of these things are what we work up in ourselves.

All of these things we draw down from our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is everything and He fills our nothingness.

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Jesus illustrates from nature frequently the spiritual truths that He wants to say, He says that a tree that does not bring forth fruit

is worthy to be cut down and cast into the fire.

And then He turns around and uses that to illustrate the necessity of the Christian to bear fruit in the Christian life.

And those who do not bear fruit will be cut down and cast aside.

And again, this is illustrated by His cursing of the fig tree.

On occasion, you and I may overreact.

If you are a parent like me, perhaps there have been times where you have had to apologize to your children, even repent for speaking too harshly.

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There are some who accuse Jesus of something very similar.

When He came across a fig tree that didn't have any fruit and He judged it, even though the gospels tell us that it was not the season for figs.

So what's going on here? We can't accuse our sinless Savior of sinning. So how do we understand this hard saying?

His doctor's role to help us think through this biblically.

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