Jesus Clears The Temple

Isaiah 63; Isaiah 64; Psalm 107; John 2
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My Father’s House

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John 2

Jesus Clears the Temple

13 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. 15 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables. 16 Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”

17 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.”

18 But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.”

19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” 21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

Observation

When we think of going to church we think of a specific place don’t we. Today we are the temple of God, but we still meet together in a place we call “church”. I know that the place where we meet sometimes takes on a sacredness that I don’t think God ever intended.

If you make changes in the place where you meet some people act like you have broken one of the Ten Commandments or something.

What we need to be more concerned about is keeping our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Our bodies need to be unpolluted, sin free, clean, spotless, and a place where God’s Holy Spirit has complete access.

It is easy to get upset about a building we call church when something is done to it that we don’t like, but what we need to be more concerned about is keeping God’s temple clean and that is “us” and our bodies.

Application

What needs to be cleaned out of my life today? I am going to do some soul searching today to make sure this “temple” is where God wants it to be!

Prayer

Heavenly Father, show me anything in my life that needs to go. Show me any sin that I have been holding on to that I need to confess. I want You r Holy Spirit to have free access to every part of my life. I want You to be able to smile as You look at me today. I want Your face to shine on me. I do not want to disappoint You. You are my Lord and my Savior. You are worthy to be praised.

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