Why did the Fig Tree Not Produce?

Matthew 21:18-20 (ESV)

In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he (Jesus) became hungry.19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”

1. It was alone.  

No one grows isolated. 

Psalm 92:12-15 (ESV)

12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They still bear fruit in old age;
    they are ever full of sap and green,
15 to declare that the Lord is upright;
    he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

2. It had the appearance of life, but it had no fruit resulting from life.

3.  What is the fruit of a Christian? 

Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Dino Rizzo, Church of the Highlands