Kristen writes:
That scripture where Jesus curses the fig tree is the weirdest, right? And I say this as someone who increasingly finds much of scripture mysterious. (it’s Mark 11 and Matthew 21)
A couple of years ago I heard Chris Gore say that the meaning of that goes all way back to the garden of eden – that Jesus was cursing self – righteousness, man’s attempt to cover himself with fig leaves.
It resonated in my spirit. I knew it was true. But I mostly got weird looks when I tried to tell people.
So I was really blessed me to recently hear Kevin Zadai say the same thing – that Jesus told him (I’m paraphrasing), Kevin, I hate religion. And I hated the fig tree because it was man’s solution to sin, his own works, and that that’s religion and it’ll NEVER produce fruit.
He’s the only way, y’all. He doesn’t show us the way, he IS the way. We can have no righteousness apart from him. He himself IS our righteousness and he gave us himself.