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Fruit or just leaves?

Man's life speak through the actions that bear either good or bad Fruits !! So which one are you ?? “He found nothing but leaves on it.”  Mt 21:19 Fruit or just leaves? The Bible says: “As He was coming back to the city, He was hungry. And as He saw one single leafy fig tree above the roadside, He went to it but He found nothing but leaves on it [seeing that in the fig tree the fruit appears at the same time as the leaves]. And He said to it, Never again shall fruit grow on you! And the fig tree withered up at once” (vv. 18-19 ). Perhaps you’re thinking that’s pretty harsh treatlment. After all, it wasn’t the tree’s fault that it didn’t have any figs. So why did Jesus curse it? You’ll find the answer in these words: “Seeing that in the fig tree the fruit appears at the same time as the leaves.” When Jesus saw leaves on the tree, He’d a right to expect fruit. And when there was none, He cursed it for being a phony while giving off the impression that it was the real thin