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Jesus First Cleansing of the Temple
The Temple
— The temple was one of three components of the worship for the Jew.
— IN order the importance...
The Scripture-First, followed by Sabbath and The Temple.
— The temple was not only the place to worship God, seek His forgiveness and be discipled.
— It was a place to be brought up in the faith of your Jewish ancestors.
— Learning from others, older and more experienced in Judaism.
— Many of the social structures in the community involved or revolved around the Temple.
— At the time of the First Century, the Temple provided the backdrop for many of the MOST significant political and societal changes that were happening.
— The Jews were under increasing pressure to bow to Rome, and ignore God.
— This pressure increased until the Jews capitulated, Rome conquered Jerusalem and the Temple was destroyed.
This was 70AD.
— So… what’s left
— The Western Wall, or the Wailing Wall.
Seems to be a portion of of the Temple that was NOT destroyed in 70AD or more recently is the place were Jews and others bring their prayer requests.
The Temple in John’s Gospel
— From the outset of the Fourth Gospel readers recognize Jesus dwelling among people.
This would be the incarnation of Christ…
The Hebrew scripture especially 1Kings 6.13
— Gives God’s over arching plan for His people Israel.
— What does that have to do with us..?
— We are adopted, we are grafted-in to God’s Family, how you ask?
— By the power of the Holy Spirit, when we accept Christ’s leadership in our lives… We are excepted into the family of “chosen” people.
— Jesus cleansing of the Temple happens quite early in John’s Gospel.
Jesus ‘goal’ in going to the Temple and shaking it by it core is foreshadowing [looking forward] to 70AD and the destruction of the Temple.
— God’s people would no longer have the temple to worship in...
— We would have to find a “new temple” to worship in.
— American, all the other 1st world nations,
— Their faith in Christ identifies with wealth, status and power.
NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT JESUS DESIRES FROM US!!!
Jesus’ concern, is the restoration of pure worship… [PERIOD]
Malachi 3:1–3 (ESV)
1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.
And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi [The Priestly Tribe] and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
— Oh what a glorious day that it will be!
— My prayer is this… that on that glorious day when Christ returns, that he will find us LIVING, BREATHING in HIS TEMPLE .
— These times are coming… ARE YOU READY?? ARE YOU REALLY READY??
SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY John 2:13-22 [Pew bible page 887.]
Please stand if you can for the reading of God’s Word.
— Let’s look at these verses… There is a richness here as you listened.
— These are powerful verses...
— This one of three times that Jesus travelled back to Jerusalem for the Passover.
— Jesus came to the Temple, as it was their pattern in the First Century.
— The whole Temple and it’s grounds were HOLY.
— The “crowd” if you, will had turned from worship to greedy money making.
Vs. 14
John 2:14 (ESV)
14 In the temple he [Jesus] found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.
— It’s not said, but you’all know that Jesus was beginning to boil.
— This was His father’s house and it looked nothing like it should.
— In RESTORING WORSHIP to Yahweh, ALL of the false gods and there were many… MUST BE CAST ASIDE FOR CHRIST ALONE!!
— Something better was offered
— Jesus, took NO NAMES, as he cleared the Temple, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE had to GO!!!
— He was serious… This “whip of cords” had bits of metal imbedded in the cords… And it would tear flesh.
— This would be a very similar to the whip that Jesus was struck with so many times at His trial and crucifixion.
— Jesus was reacting to the sinful, demonstration that was happening for his eye.
— Jesus told them… GET OUT OF HERE!
— God’s House is NOT a marketplace.
— It’s not a place to barter and trade.
— In doing that — you are ignoring the WORSHIP of God.
That’s what Jesus was attempting to correct.
— They remembered from their teaching and training about that verse.
— It comes from Ps.69
— Protective love for God’s dwelling place.
— He is a JEALOUS GOD… He wants 110% of us.
Focused on God and God alone.
Just a bit of break and a couple of questions...
What is going on at the Temple that had Jesus so invested?
— Was it sinful?
— Was it wicked?
— What was Jesus so ANGRY about?
and why was he so angry?
Vs. 18-19
— Jesus was simply stating facts… He had demonstrated that water could be rearranged, changed into wine…
— So why not destroy and rebuild the TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS!!!
WHAT MORE COULD JESUS DO?
— In the background, Jesus continued being who he was… God Incarnate!
— Jesus knew that He was talking about himself being resurrected and the coming glorification that would happen when Jesus went up to Heaven.
— The crowds, probably 60-100 people only wanted to pay their tithes, sacrifice their animals for sin covering and return to their homes safe and sound until the next year.
— Jesus was determined to “right” this “wrong” as well as make it VERY clear that HE, Jesus was the Temple that was raised in 3 days.
— AND HE DID!
Vs. 20-21
— The Jews were at EVERY turn trying to find ways to trip up Jesus.
Jesus was God, incarnate.
Noting nothing was going to rattle him into unbelief.
— How should we, residents of earth respond to that which seems a bit out-of-bounds?
— Jesus diminished the arguments then and now… HE IS GOD!!!
— John, who wrote the scripture here was right on and could have been an eye witness to the whole Temple incident.
AND YES, JESUS BODILY AROSE IN THREE DAYS… And soon after rejoined his Father in Heaven.
— By Jesus’ death and resurrection, the temple-less worship of the garden of Eden will once again be realized.
— let me leave one final verse with you.
From the Book of Revelation
— In the perfected worship of the new heaven and new earth.
God himself and the Lamb WILL BE the temple forever.
So where is this “TEMPLE” now?
— The temple is the resurrected Jesus… for all of us gather at, and worship, and pray, and ask, and sometimes beg for answers to our deepest needs.
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