The three remaining sermons in this mini-series feature the challenging things Jesus taught after the Triumphal Entry. In this way, we're kind of getting ahead of ourselves as Palm Sunday is still a month away. Nevertheless, we see that Jesus's teaching moves from the direct instruction given to his disciples and others who followed him, and are now directed to Israel in general, the chief priests and scribes in particular, and then about what is to come...
In this sermon, Rev Derwyn deals with the episode known as the "cleansing of the temple" and the indignant anger Jesus demonstrated, and then also the problematic "cursing of the fig tree." The key is in understanding the point that the author of the Gospel of Mark is trying to get across, and the to consider what we might learn from it.
