Ecclesiastes 1:9 says: “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done again, and there is nothing new under the sun”. The Lord is telling us to pay attention to the whole scheme of what is happening around us nationally, because one of the greatest life experience is the ability to gain wisdom and understanding from observing the mistakes of others and nations as examples for us; they were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age - that’s us
The object lesson about the Fig Tree - Hypocrisy or Fruitfulness As a thoughtful disciple, we must surely ask ourselves is this tree symbolic of me? Am I fruitless? Am I like the tree Jesus encountered that tree had a whole bunch of leaves, it looked good, but in reality, it had no fruit. Is it symbolic of my house? My church? Is it symbolic of America?
This message warns us to be discerning about what we hear and what we see, less we fall into that position of being deceived…this is a very different serious message. Pastor Kennedy reminds us that each message is building toward the coming of the Lord…for all of the messages are preparing us to meet Him.
We all want to be loved! One of man’s greatest need is to be loved and cared for and that God put it in us to draw us into His embrace. We cannot even comprehend the greatness and the magnitude of God.
Paul says in Romans 12:1, “Therefore, I urge you brethren by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship”. All true worship is essentially a matter of the Heart, an expression of our own greatest treasure, which is the gift of knowing the Lord and walking through life with Him. Worship is a way of life that is expressed inwardly toward Him and outwardly testifies of Him – so touched by Him that people we encounter should see Him in our lives. The question we all need to ask ourselves, “Is my worship only external and my heart dimension does not really lean internally towards Him, where you cry out, “had it not been for the Lord”? True worship involves every part of your spirit, soul and body! Maybe you are not aware that He wants to change and transform you, where its purpose is to put Him on display through the way you live, the way you conduct your life, so that others would be drawn to Him, by what they see in you. Again, the question is asked, “do YOU want to become more like Jesus”?