Hey, this is Rich Wilkerson. I'm the pastor of Vood Church in Miami, Florida, and this is our podcast.

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Here's today's message.

Mark chapter 11, starting in verse 12. If you're there Sam there,

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Verse 12, it says, the next day as they were leaving Bethany,

Jesus was hungry. And seen in the distance of fig tree in leaf,

he went to find out if it had any fruit. And when he reached it,

he found nothing but leaves. Because it was not the season for figs.

Verse 14, then he said to the tree,

may no one ever eat fruit from you again. And his disciples heard him say it.

How many know if you heard Jesus say it, you can trust Jesus going to do it.

If he says it, he's going to do it. Verse 15, it says,

I'll reach in Jerusalem, Jesus enter the temple area,

and begin driving out those who were buying and selling there.

He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,

and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise to the temple courts.

And as he taught them, he said, it is not, is it not written? My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

But you have made it a den of robbers. The chief priests and the teachers of law heard this,

and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him,

because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching. And when evening came,

they went out of the city. But in the morning, as they went along,

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