A fire and brimstone preacher is telling her parishioners if they don’t repent, they will die to face Hell’s damnation cutoff for eternity from God’s love.
In “The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree” (Luke 13:6-9) Jesus uses a fig tree, barren without fruit as a metaphor for the sinner who has not repented. The owner of the tree is frustrated because for three years no fruit has been produced by it.
The owner says the tree is a waste of soil, he orders the gardener to cut it down. Concerned the gardener proposes a deal; let the tree live for one more year. During the year he will dig around it and put manure on the tree. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, the owner can “cut it down.”
Consider the Gospel of Jesus as the manure being spread around by gardeners. The pastor who digs in deep with her parishioners and everyone else to tell the story of Jesus.
Some may call it fire and brimstone however, she is teaching, preaching, and living this simple fact repent or die. For God so loved you and me that He gave us Jesus. And if we believed in Jesus, repent of our sins we will not die but will have everlasting life.
So, the question is what type of tree are you and what are you doing with the manure and the digging going on around you? It’s not fire and brimstone rather it’s life or death, it repent or die.
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