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*Worship…A Dirty Business?*
*Luke 19:45-49*
v It is perhaps providential that on the eve of our new Sunday School class on “Worship” we have a text that deals with the cleansing of the worship area
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*READ Luke 19:45-49*
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v Here, Jesus is reacting to what he sees going on in his place of worship
Ø This text should make us sit up and take notice that Yahweh cares about what goes on in worship!
§ Both then *and NOW*!
You see…
*Worship is supposed to be Pure*
v Here we are on the same day in which…
Ø As Jesus approached Jerusalem, he wept over the people’s impure, hard hearts
Ø Jesus entered Jerusalem to the pure praise of the people
§ /Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord/
§ /Peace in heaven and glory in the highest/
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v And he makes a beeline for the place his spirit has resided for hundreds of years
Ø Now God…in human form…incarnate…enters his temple home
§ And he is met with sacrilege and desecration
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v *As Mark 11:15-16 describes it…*
Ø /Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there.
He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts/
v The Temple had 3 areas:
Ø The Holy of Holies
Ø The Inner court
Ø Court of the Gentiles
§ Holy of Holies = High priest once a year
§ Inner court = Jews only
§ Court of Gentiles = converted Gentiles and evangelistic outreach
· You see…
¨ Worship can be used as outreach in the explaining of what is going on!
v But Jesus entered this outer court of the Gentiles and…
Ø Does not witness Gentiles worshipping and praying
Ø Does not see the Jews explaining to people what is going on
§ He sees…
· People using the temple as a shortcut
¨ Explain
· Buying and selling
¨ Animals for sacrifice priced high for profit
¨ Fill the coffers of Anannias and Ciaphas
· Moneychangers
¨ Temple tax instead of tithing
Ø And this infuriated Jesus
§ Because the temple worship was supposed to be Pure
· Purely for the act of worship
v I wonder if this challenges anything we do here in our worship
Ø If Jesus were to walk in to our service…
§ *Would he see anything impure?*
· Would he see merchandise being carried through the worship center
¨ In other words…
Ø People who are here, but not really interested in worshipping Yahweh
Ø Just passing through
· Would he see moneychangers in his temple gathering
¨ In other words…
Ø People tithing out of wrong motivation
§ Tithing to get some blessing
§ Tithing to pay the electricity bill
§ Tithing to meet the budget
· Instead of giving back to the Lord that which is already his
· Giving because we have a generous heavenly Father
· Giving what the Lord has placed on your heart to give
¨ Be it large or small
· Would he see people buying and selling
¨ In other words…
Ø Doing business
§ By that I mean, doing anything except worshipping our Lord and Savior
§ Doing anything except pure worship
Ø One of the things I try very hard to do as Pastor is keep all distractions or potential distractions away from us in this one hour
§ You can ask the elders
§ You can ask the leadership council
· I protect this time of worship together
· So that our focus will be exclusively, solely on our God
¨ I have encouraged us to get rid of the inserts in the bulletins
¨ I have encouraged that the Harbinger newsletter be handed out after the service
¨ Many of you have noticed I refrain from doing patriotic hymns on memorial day and 4th of July
Ø To tell you the truth, I think we should put the flag in another place
Ø Jesus wants…*no demands*…purity of worship
§ This is God’s time
§ While God’s people are here, this is God’s place!
· We must always be diligent to keep it pure
Secondly, I believe Jesus is furious because…
*Worship is supposed to be Special*
v V.
46 ~~ /My house will be ‘a house of prayer’, but you have made it ‘a den of robbers’/
Ø What he is saying in so many words is…
§ You have made the most special place on earth…
· *Common*!
v Jesus here is quoting *Isa 56:7* & *Jer 7:11*
Ø But by quoting Jeremiah’s famous temple speech
§ “den of robbers”
· Jesus is warning, just as Jeremiah did, that the people have become like the people around them
¨ That the pagan culture had infiltrated theirs
Ø Even into the temple!
v And Jesus’ words chastise and challenge us today, just as they did back then
Ø The church today is obsessed with being like the culture around them
§ Instead of being counter-cultural
v *The church growth movement says…*
Ø Bigger is better
Ø Bigger means successful
§ So we have mega-churches today
§ Campuses that sprawl over 10’s of acres
· But that is a secular worldview
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