Thursday's lesson and today's theme: Second chance. Let's remember what we read at the beginning of the week of our parable. A person arrives and wants to pick a fruit.
There on that fig tree, there is no fruit and he says to the owner of the fig tree: Hey, I've been here for three years. At the time the Fig should be appearing and being born, the fruit should be here. And he hasn't been here for three years.
Let's do the following. Come on, let's cut down this tree if it's no use. Then the owner said: Hey, calm down, let's do something.
Let me add water this year, add fertilizer and let's see if it changes over the course of this year. And then, next year we analyze whether we are going to destroy it or whether it will suddenly reproduce. And in both last week's parable and this week's parable, there is that thought that our God is the God of second chances.
Look, I've been here for three years and I see this tree that doesn't bear fruit. Okay, shall we try one more time? Sometimes we think that God is that God, that He is crazy to simply destroy human beings.
And that He is like this all the time wanting to look at your sin, so that He can then send lightning from the sky and consume you. And when I look at the New Testament, when we look at the revelation of God himself here on earth, who is Jesus, and we realize exactly the opposite. He does everything.
He gives one chance, He gives two, He gives three, He gives four, He gives five. So, this is a truth that they are in the parables. The king, the owner, etc.
Always giving one more chance, one more chance, one more chance. But you also realize that there is a time between those who don't accept it and they will be consumed. There is a moment when if by chance that tree, that fig tree, does not bear fruit, it will, it will be cut down.
So, at the same time that we look and understand God's grace, we also need to understand that part of the grace of God's love is something called judgment. There is a thing called the end point of sin on this earth. So, today we are still in the time of grace, and maybe you have been saying not to Jesus, not to Jesus, not to Jesus for three years .
And suddenly Jesus says: Shall we try another year? It tastes like a fig tree, I want to invite you to accept this time of grace. Accept this opportunity that Jesus is giving you.
Because I want to live in the grace of Jesus and I do not want to live in judgment, which is also the fruit of grace, but here the wicked will be consumed. I don't want to be part of that group. I want to be part of those saved in Christ Jesus.
