---
title: 'The Barren Fig Tree'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Alexander MacWhorter'
date: 1791-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '18th century'
topics:
- 'Sermons'
- 'Personal Piety'
scriptures:
- 'Mark 11'
- 'Matthew 21'
- 'Isaiah 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/18th-century/macwhorter-1791-the-barren-fig-tree
---

# The Barren Fig Tree

Sermon on the barren fig tree (Mark 11) urging genuine fruitfulness in holiness, love and temperance, warning that unfruitfulness under God's privileges brings judgment and removal.

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