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The undercurrent running through this chapter is meant to
reveal the sins of Israel, my commentary says.
The first one was spiritual
blindness:
“Their religious leaders had robbed them of the truth of
their own Word and had substituted man-made traditions. The leaders were not interested in truth;
they were concerned only with protecting their own interests.”
The second sin of the nation was hypocrisy:
“The Temple was a den of thieves, and the nation (symbolized
by the fig tree) was without fruit.
Inward corruption and outward fruitlessness were evidence of their
hypocrisy.”
The third sin was disobedience
to the Word:
Following along the narrative of the parable of the vineyard,
the religious leaders were the tenants. “They
would not believe John’s message and they would not repent of their sins … The
leaders felt that they had no need
to repent … Again and again, the religious rulers rejected the clear evidence
God gave them … The rejection of John was actually a rejection of the Father
who sent him.”
They were in the process of rejecting the Son as well, and
in the next chapter, they would put the nails in their own coffins by rejecting
the Holy Spirit.
One thing I particularly noted in my commentary was
this: “It is a basic principle of Christian
living that we cannot learn new truth
if we disobey what God has already told us.”
Father, I don’t want to be guilty of spiritual blindness,
hypocrisy, or disobedience to Your Word.
Please convict me, deep within my heart, of anything that resembles
that. I don’t want to have any disobedience
that stops me from learning more from You.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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