Your Name

1
Parable
of the
Fig Tree
Luke 131-9
Dave Champness November 23, 2008
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• How am I to think about tragedy and evil?
• Three views
• 1. Moralistic view
• 2. Irreligious view
• 3. Jesus view

3

• What is the true state of my life?
• The man God
• The tree Us
• The fruit living for God
• The vinedresser Jesus
• I am living on borrowed time!
• Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness
  and forbearance and patience, not knowing that
  Gods kindness is meant to lead you to
  repentance? Romans 24

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• How am I to respond?
• When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, said
  "Repent", He called for the entire life of
  believers to be one of repentance. M. Luther