Recently I read that someone believed that “The Bible says that Jesus wasn’t sinless…the guy cursed a tree for not bearing fruit out of season. How nuts is that? Plum(b) sinful if you ask me.”
The Bible says that He was sinless: Jesus “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). On the cross, the Father made Jesus “to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
The barren fig tree which Jesus cursed could have been symbolic of Israel: “I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree” (Hosea 9:10); “And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee . . . Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof” (Matthew
21:19,43).
The “nation” bringing forth the fruits thereof is the church: “Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: which in time past were
not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1 Peter 2:9-10).
The church is made up of all believing Jews and all believing Gentiles: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16).
“Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the
true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:21-24).
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