Father's House
Notes
Transcript
Introduction - building of a church in freshman year of high school
Jesus visits the temple in Jerusalem - he doesn’t like what he finds.
Please stand as we honor the reading of God’s Word:
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”
21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.
24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
25 He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Synoptic Gospels - during holy week
John isn’t always chronological - he is presenting the theology and divinity of Jesus, the Son of God - our Savior and Lord.
One place to show His authority is in the deeply rooted practices of the temple and its religious leaders.
Jesus is upsetting the STATUS QUO - does worship in the Father’s house do that for us? upset the STATUS QUO?
Worship in my Father's House is...
More than my emotions
More than a building
About my focus
More than my emotions
More than my emotions
How I feel is important to God - he wants to help me in all parts of my life.
Depends where we’re at as to how we’ll feel when we encounter God.
When we worship - I hope overall it is uplifting - but sometimes it can be a confrontational situation - sin in our lives - unresolved issues with God or others
While worship through our emotions
In his anger - he never sinned. Church phrase: righteous indignation
Jesus didn’t like the unfairness and the incursion into his Father’s house.
Worship in my Father’s house is...
More than a building
More than a building
More than brick and mortar
More than business practices and upkeep
More than rituals - which God laid out by-the-way
Temple is where God meets his people
Where heaven meets earth
But Jesus becomes where God meets his people - Emmanuel “God With Us”
Our COVID restrictions taught us that worship is more than a building.
Jesus says in our scripture today that it is more than a building.
Destroy this temple and I will raise (resurrect) it again in 3 days
Worship in my Father’s house is ...
About my focus
About my focus
Jesus is drawing our focus away from the activity in the temple and to the reason for the temple.
Encountering God.
Expectations of God’s presence.
Subject and impact of our music.
The reading and proclamation of His Word.
Remembering Him - his death and resurrection until He comes again.
Not just on Sunday morning - but all day - every day.
A relationship with Him.
Worship in my Father’s house is about my focus on my relationship with God the Father through Jesus His Son and the indwelling of His Holy Spirit.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Grace: Zeal for God’s house as a place to worship
Truth: the focus of worship is not rituals or buildings but a relationship with God through Jesus Christ