Why Jesus Cursed the Fig Tree and "Flipped Out" in the Temple: The Mark Series pt 42 (11:12-25)

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Mike Winger

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jesus isn't "acting like Jesus" here. He does a number of things that simply don't fit our modern pacified version of Jesus. And that's a good thing. I don't want to fall into the pacified version of Jesus that our culture likes but I also don't want to act like Jesus' radical and aggressive actions of cursing the fig tree and kicking people and animals out of the temple while flipping tables is somehow an excuse for me to overstep my own authority and act sinfully in my own anger just because I think I am in the right. But, there's more to this passage than just finding the balance of how we can apply Jesus' extreme actions. We need to see the theological message of the passage as well as apply it into our lives by seriously evaluating our own status as the "temple of the Holy Spirit" and restoring the purpose of prayer and relationship with God in our lives. Craig Evan's article, which had a lot of interesting historical insights into this passage. "Jesus' Action in the Temple: Cleansing or Portent of Destruction?" https://www.jstor.org/stable/43717764?read-now=1&seq=23#page_scan_tab_contents See the WHOLE Gospel of Mark playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mark Series Part 42. We are digging into a passage that shouldn't be controversial, but it is because people are weird like that.
0:15.0	So I'm Pastor Mike and this is the Monday live stream which we use to get into the
0:21.0	Gospel of Mark. Right now we're verse by verse teaching through the whole Gospel of Mark.
0:24.3	Generally speaking, my plan is on Mondays,
0:26.0	I'm always going to be doing like a teaching, a lesson,
0:28.9	a, you know, I'm not taking live chat questions,
0:31.7	I'm doing a Q&A thing on Fridays but this is going to be
0:34.4	like verse by verse for the most part first by verse studies and here we are in
0:38.0	Mark chapter 11 dealing with the the fig tree where Jesus curses the fig tree
0:42.2	and then he kicks people out of the temple and he does some very strong things here like what he does here is very aggressive and we should give him credit for the very aggressive nature of what he's doing here and people have complaints about it
0:57.4	One of the complaints that I want to address as fairly as possible is the complaint about the fig tree itself.
1:03.0	And there are some who think, you know, the fig tree didn't deserve that.
1:06.0	Why did Jesus do this to this poor fig tree?
1:08.0	And I'm going to try and address that if that's your concern.
1:11.0	I think you're like really not even thinking
1:13.1	like not that you're not thinking clearly you're actually not you're not thinking
1:17.8	about this issue if the fig tree is like the utmost of your concern this poor fig tree
1:22.1	but I want to address it and help you understand why I'm saying the utmost of your concern, this poor fig tree.
1:22.8	But I want to address it and help you understand why I'm saying that,
1:25.8	and I want to hopefully help you with that.
1:28.5	Also another concern is that Jesus, something is being emotional or irrational.
1:32.7	So it's not a concern about the tree or it's a concern about Jesus, right?
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