Does God Care About Good Works?

This clip is taken from the sermon, "The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree" preached by Pastor Mark Driscoll at the Mars Hill Church Ballard campus in Seattle, Washington on January 2, 2011. It is the 57th sermon in our sermon series on the Gospel of Luke.

To watch or download the full sermon, visit: http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/parable-of-the-barren-fig-tree

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• good works
• barren
• fig tree
• Mars Hill
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[BritneyAddicted4EVA]

What about the friendless? What about the lonely?

I'm still convinced that the Lord loves me. :)

[MrUrosSrb]

@1empathy But the point is that Isaiah is not stating the earth is flat....u faultly presume that..

[1empathy]

@MrUrosSrb Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of a spherical earth circa 300 bc and galileos argument was about the heliocentric solar system. You are on the internet, so you have no excuse for your ignorance. Google "flat earth bible" and check the sources, then try thinking for yourself. Good luck!

[MrUrosSrb]

@1empathy It doesnt say the earth is flat oh my God....will you read it.And about mans knowledge changing,they found out in the middle ages that earth is not flat,much after the new testament was written.Galileo was trying to tell the church that the earth is flat in the Bible,he was a very pious man....On the other hand u probably dont believe it because u dont want to believe it.Thats completely another thing.

[1empathy]

@MrUrosSrb That's even better! Now we have the bible contradicting itself. My point was the bible says the earth is flat and it does, that is enough to show it is not from god. We know it had many different authors and that is why it contradicts itself. Remember the gospels were written 6-700 years after the pentatuach and isaiah was 100-150 years before that, so it wouldn't be surprising if men's knowledge changed, but a god would always know and that is precisely my point. Thanks!

[MrUrosSrb]

@1empathy Also in Luke we see a description of Jesus second coming.HE says he will come at day for some and at night for some.That would be impossible with a flat earth.

[MrUrosSrb]

@1empathy Also what is 1v6-19? Bible sure enough doesnt have a passage like that.It can either be Gen 6:19 or Gen 1:6? Maybe u mean 1:6-19?

[MrUrosSrb]

@1empathy That word on hebrew means sphere.But they translated it as circle.It also means sphere on Hebrew....

[1empathy]

@MrUrosSrb you just proved it, lol, although the snowglobe earth described in genesis (just read chapter 1 v6-19) is what i was referring to. But i'm happy to go with isaiah which does indeed say circle (not sphere) and a circle is a 2 dimensional (flat) figure. ;o)

[MrUrosSrb]

@1empathy Prove from the text that it says earth is flat...In Isaiah he actually calls it a circle/sphere on Hebrew.So no,earth is not flat.