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Destruction & Deliverance
Aright church, you know the drill.
I’m going to read some scripture.
We are going to listen to Jesus words to his disciples and his words to us.
We are going to look at it’s immediate context and meaning.
We are going to then unpack what it means for you and me today.
It’s what we do just about every week.
I open this book.
I read it aloud.
I submit to its authority to reveal God’s truth to me.
I submit to its usefulness for doctrine, for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, and for training me in righteousness.
I submit to it’s power to save those who hear and believe.
I submit to it’s ability to show me my sin and God’s salvation.
I submit to it because it is living and active able to accomplish all that God intends for it to accomplish.
I submit it to you so that you may be thoroughly equipped for every good work and that your mind may be renewed by it and your spirit nourished by it.
So, we open the book.
The book speaks God’s revelation of salvation by and through Jesus.
So we open the book.
This morning as we open the book we are going to have to read carefully and we are going to have to listen spiritually.
Let me remind you of where we are in Luke telling of the life of Jesus.
It’s the final week of Jesus life before death.
It’s Tuesday of Holy Week.
On Sunday Jesus had entered Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey.
He had been celebrated.
He had been proclaimed as King.
They were expecting an overthrow of Rome and the restoration of Israel.
The religious leaders hated Jesus.
Called him a blasphemer.
Jesus, had, after all, claimed to be God.
The scribes and rulers of the Jewish Law wanted him dead.
They plotted and schemed to trap him in his teaching.
He outsmarted them.
He answered their questions in ways that shut them up.
The tried to trap him with politics.
They tried to trap him with religious minutia.
They tried to trap him with silly theological questions.
He silence them at every turn.
And he looks and sees a widow dropping in 2 small coins into the temple offering and praises her faith and her gift as being greater than the self-righteous leaders who make religion about power and privilege.
The temple was beautiful.
Marble and gold.
A picture of Heaven on earth.
A symbol of God’s Glory in the earth.
As they heard Jesus commending the widow they looked and saw the beautiful temple.
They began to talk about it beauty.
It’s significance.
It’s prestige.
It’s place of prominence.
It’s jewels.
It’s gold.
It’s precious stones.
The gifts people have given to build such a beautiful monument to God.
A place where sacrifices would take place.
Where God would meet the High Priest behind the curtain wall in the sacred room called the Most Holy Place, or the Holy of Holies.
Sin would be atoned for, covered, dealt with, until the next sacrifice would be made and the sin debt kept being rolled forward.
The sin debt would not be cancelled, the payment required simply pushed forward and the interest accrued.
This beautiful temple.
The place of festivals and ceremonies.
Where the Torah would be studied, taught, argued, and believed.
It was the symbol of God’s presence in Israel.
It was the symbol of God’s salvation.
It was the symbol of God’s nearness.
It was the house of God.
It was the testimony to the nations that Israel was God’s dwelling, the Children of Israel God’s people.
It was the Temple.
Rebuild after the destruction of Solomon’s Temple after the Babylonian exiles returned from captivity.
It was a source of pride for Israel.
It was a reminder of the presence of God among the Hebrew people.
And these disciples and scribes and religious leaders were standing there admiring the Temple.
Remember, we, Christians, call this Holy Week, but to those standing there, Holy Week didn’t exist.
Do you know what week it was for them?
It was Passover Week.
It was the a festival week.
Think Mardi Gras without the moon pies and Joe Cain.
It was both celebration and a religious ceremony.
Jews from all over Israel were making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the festival.
They would celebrate their deliverance from Egypt.
When the LORD freed them from bondage.
The LORD commanded them to sacrifice a spotless lamb.
Sprinkle some of it’s blood on the doorpost of their dwelling.
And then cook and eat the lamb.
The Angel of Death was coming.
And whoever applied the blood of the lamb to their dwelling would be passed over by the Death Angel.
Passover was the event in Israel’s history where the first born in the land would die by the Death Angel without the blood applied.
Passover was the event that caused Pharaoh to let the Hebrew’s go.
And It’s now Passover week in Jerusalem.
I don’t want to get ahead of the story, but I think most of you know, Jesus was crucified during the week long celebration of Passover.
John the Baptizer calls Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
The death angel would kill the first born, Jesus was the firstborn of all creation.
The lamb would cover sin, Jesus would cover our sin.
Jesus was the firstborn son who would die, but he was also be the firstfruit of the resurrection Who would be raised to life on the third day.
It’s Passover Week.
It’s busy.
The temple was busy with folks securing their sacrifice.
It was the time of deliverance.
It was a time of destruction.
But as the sun began to set over the temple, that beautiful, sacred, monument to God’s promise to His people, Jesus looks up and says to those disciples, and religious leaders, and lawyers
Woah.
What are you talking about Jesus?
Surely not Jesus.
This is the Temple.
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