<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blasted Fig-Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One aweful word which Jesus spoke,<br>Against the tree which bore no fruit;<br>More piercing than the lightning's stroke,<br>Blasted and dried it to the root. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But could a tree the Lord offend,<br>To make him show his anger thus?<br>He surely had a farther end,<br>To be a warning word to us. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fig-tree by its leaves was known,<br>But having not a fig to show;<br>It brought a heavy sentence down,<br>Let none hereafter on thee grow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too many, who the gospel hear,<br>Whom Satan blinds and sin deceives;<br>We to this fig-tree may compare,<br>They yield no fruit, but only leaves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Knowledge, and zeal, and gifts, and talk,<br>Unless combined with faith and love,<br>And witnessed by a gospel walk,<br>Will not a true profession prove. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without the fruit the Lord expects<br>Knowledge will make our state the worse;<br>The barren trees he still rejects,<br>And soon will blast them with his curse. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Lord, unite our hearts in prayer!<br>On each of us thy Spirit send;<br>That we the fruits of grace may bear,<br>And find acceptance in the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421594" data-title="The Blasted Fig-Tree de John Newton" data-description="One aweful word which Jesus spoke, Against the tree which bore no fruit; More piercing than the lightning's stroke, Blasted and dried it to the root. But could a tree the Lord offend, To make him show his anger thus? He surely had a farther end,..."></div> </div> </div>

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