Zeal for Worship
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John 2:13-22 .
13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.
15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”
17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”
21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
John has cleansing the temple of trade as Jesus second major act. Why do you think he doing this?
What was to be the focus of the temple?
What was needed for temple worship?
Do think then the problem was just the selling of items for sacrifice or is it more than that?
How where they selling the items according to Mark 11:17?
17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
By what authority did Jesus appeal to justify his actions?
Why do you think he spoke cryptically?
What was the result of his resurrection?
What can we walk away with from this text for our lives today?
First using the worship of God for extorting profit is wrong.
What are some ways this could happen in are own context?
Second we can rest in the authority of Christ and also listen when he speaks to us through his word, for it has been validated in his resurrection.