Who Is Your Gardener? (Luke 13:1-9)
Jon Hall, Mar. 7, 2010Part of the General Topics series, preached at a Sunday 10:15 a.m. service
Who is your gardener? Who prayed for you, who figuratively "spread manure around your roots" and helped you to become the person they knew you could become? Who are you gardening for? Think about it. Think about the powerful message of the Gospel as we know that God is helping us to become the people he knows we can become.
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Luke 13:1-9
13:1 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
6 And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 9 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’” (ESV)
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