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The True Temple:
The Gospel of John begin with God coming to this world.
Why was it that Jesus came?
Jesus came as light for those who were in darkness.
Everyone was is darkness, cause of sin, but Christ came to those who were lost in darkness and offered a new life.
Christ came as the Truth to show those in darkness the way to God.
In the Old Testament God dwelt with His people in the tabernacle.
A tent of meeting that was located in the center of the Israelites camp as they were on their way to the promise land.
Showing God’s presence with His people.
The Tabernacle letter became the temple a permanent structure for the people to come and worship.
God longed for His people to abide with Him, so much that he sent Jesus Christ to make away for His people to dwell with Him permanently
Here in John, Jesus refers to Himself as the temple, God in the flesh dwelling with man and showing that He is the new way of access to God.
Why were there animals in the temple?
Carson, D. A. (1991).
The Gospel according to John :
The cattle, sheep and doves were used in the sacrificial worship of the temple.
Especially for worshippers coming from a distance, it was a convenience and a service to be able to purchase them on site instead of having to bring them from afar.
The sacred grounds that had been set apart for worship had become chaotic.
Yes, people’s needs were being met.
I’m sure the temple authorities were saying, “We’re just trying to be relevant; we’re being seeker-sensitive for those who can’t bring their lambs from home and who need their money exchanged.”
But in their efforts to make these procedures easy and convenient for the people, they had impacted the people’s ability to worship.
The temple, God’s house was never ment to be a place for money exchange, but rather a place of true worship
Although the religious leaders probably thought they were doing a favor to those who had journeyed for Passover by provided them a chance to buy an animal for sacrifice, God desired true un-chaotic worship.
Can you imagine coming on to Church to worship God, and as we are praying you hear all the sounds of a barn yard?
What a distraction that would be.
Or the smell that would be in the room, as we tried to worship.
God wanted not just the ritual, but the whole heart.
To sacrifice an animal ment nothing if it was just done out of ritual.
Our worship means nothing if it is done out of ritual.
When we come into this place God desires our whole heart, our whole being.
Not just o sing the songs because they are the songs we like.
True worship isn’t music, true worship in our lives.
Our response to the amazing mercy and grace that God has lavished on us, while we were still sinner and deserving judgment.
Romans paints this picture:
The temple was never ment for money to be made but rather to show God’s presence with His people, and His desire for fellowship.
Worship Matters to God:
God’s desire is for us to come to Him, not because of the lights, or the music, but because we love Him.
We are is debt to an amazingly gracious God, who while we were His enemies He gave His son Jesus Christ on the cross for us.
Christ came not because we were so valuable, but because we were so filthy because our sins, that we needed a perfect sacrifice.
We could never pay for the debt of our sins, so God so out of Love sent Jesus Christ, because God is love.
Our sin called for judgment not Grace, but God being love provided the only payment for such debt the blood of Jesus.
So our worship should be done out of grateful hearts, knowing what was done for us, and the weight of the gospel message.
God desires for our fellowship.
Christ is the new Temple
The religious leaders had a temple tax that had to be paid in order to worship.
God desire was that the people would come to Him, and the religious leaders made that hard, buy making a temple tax, and then even hard cause there was only certain coins they would except.
What does Jesus do?
God desire for fellowship with His followers went all the way to the cross of Jesus Christ.
Jesus says to the the religious leaders in verse 19:
Was Jesus referring to the building?
No, what was the temple He was talking about where God would fellowship with us?
Himself.
Jesus is the New Temple, the point where God and man fellowship together.
There is a new way to worship and it is in and through Jesus Christ.
The Bible says that when Jesus died the veil in the temple was torn.
The veil was used to separate unholy, sinful man from Holy and righteous God.
The blood of Jesus has made a way for us to be able to worship God and fellowship with Him.
This greater way Jesus also made it so that God’s presences wasn’t just a geographical location.
If we have come to follow Christ Jesus as Lord and Saviour God has given us His Holy Spirit.
When we come to God each day in worship we have the promise of the Holy Spirit in our lives to guide us and help us understand the scripture.
You see the work of Christ as the New Temple by which God and man now dwell together is far greater then the tabernacle, and the temple, because we have the Spirit of God in us.
We don’t aimlessly walk about but we let God’s Spirit Guide and direct us, and produce the Fruit that we need in our lives.
Those Who Truly Worship Jesus Follow Even When there are no Miracles
Many believed because of the miracles that He did.
It is easy to believe when you are seeing the miracles.
This believing that we see in this passage is not necessarily saving faith.
They believed He was a great healer, but not necessarily a great Savior from sin.
When we come to Christ only because we need something we miss out of the true call of Christ which is to “Follow Him” (John 1:43.)
In our Passage Jesus knew that a temporary excitement or faith based on signs was not sufficient or enough.
God’s sees beyond the superficial to people’s hearts.
God’s sees mine and your hearts.
He knows when we sing songs of worship who’s heart are actually His and who is here just to fell good, or need something like a miracle in order to believe.
He knows who words roll of their toughs and have no meaning and who’s words come from a heart that is devoted to Him.
God is not genie here to grant us wishes to be “healed, wealthy, or have no struggle.”
God is Lord, meaning He is King of our lives.
We don’t get to say “God do this, and I will believe.”
He is god and we are just humans.
When we come to Christ we say, “We will follow you no matter what!
Where ever this life leads we will follow, because you are life!”
Is Christ Enough?
It the work of the cross enough for us to follow Christ, or do we show up just for a sign to make us fell better?
An athlete who desires to be effective on game day must first be properly trained.
He must spend many hours keeping himself in shape and developing his skills to a high degree.
If he does not, he will not be able to accomplish all that he wishes when it is time to play the game.
Any Christian who desires to be effective in the work of ministry must also realize that the public moment of any effective ministry is always preceded by many hours of careful preparation.
Effective ministry will never be done by a weak and unhealthy church whose members neglect regular participation and sacrificial service.
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