2019-07-03 Mark 13
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1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
I. What was the purpose of the Temple/Tabernacle originally?
I. What was the purpose of the Temple/Tabernacle originally?
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
A. When we broke fellowship with God, we needed a way to be restored.
A. When we broke fellowship with God, we needed a way to be restored.
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
Illus: I want to begin by starting with the need for the temple.
To explain that, you have to understand the purpose of the temple, and how the Jews misinterpreted it.
Let me do a brief overview of the whole of scripture. 1. God created the man to be in perfect relationship with him. 2. Man sinned. 3. Man cannot be approach God in sin without facing God’s wrath. 4. Step by step scripture moves forward from the promises to Abraham to the tabernacle, to the temple, and forward to Christ who create the way for us to be restored to God.
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Today we are going to focus on the temple, to understand why Jesus’ words were so offensive. The temple was God’s way of relating to his people without obliterating them.
Look to scripture to see how God created us, and what we lost when we chose to sin.
7 Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.
9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
1 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
3 But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4 “No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
5 “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
22 The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”
23 So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
24 He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.
B. The whole of scripture, including the temple, is God’s plan to restore fellowship with men.
B. The whole of scripture, including the temple, is God’s plan to restore fellowship with men.
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
Illus: Why were Jesus’ words by explaining why they were so controversial?
To explain that, you have to understand the purpose of the temple, and how the Jews misinterpreted it.
The Jews saw the temple (building) as sacred, we need to see God’s plan as sacred.
When Jesus was talking about tearing down the temple, he was proclaiming the good news that the time where one had to go through animal sacrifice and then ceremonially approach God was over.
Can I ask a tough question? how much of our identity is wrapped up in the brick and mortar of our building, and not in our identity in fulfilling God’s plan.
Think about it… just as the jews went to the temple, they lost the purpose of it.
The building began to be the object of worship, as opposed to God’s tool to lead them to worship him.
We must fight that temptation today. Our building, traditions, music do not exist to be worshiped, but instead to foster worship to God.
When you think about the temple… remember God intended to temple to be a step to a grander plan, restored fellowship with Him.
8 “They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them.
9 You must make it according to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.
II. What is the Temple/Tabernacle today?
II. What is the Temple/Tabernacle today?
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
A. Jesus replaced the temple.
A. Jesus replaced the temple.
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
Illus: The goal of sacrifices, the temple, and all the covenants was to point to Jesus.
What Jesus spoke before the religious leaders should have scandalized them because of the shear audacity of the statement.
The audacity of the statement was not the physical crazieness of what he said… though rebuilding physical temple in three days was ludicrous.
The audacity of the statement was in understanding what Jesus was saying deep down… that HE was the replacement of the temple.
There is nothing we hold as Americans quite as passionately as politics. Imagine if one of the presidential candidates on the eve of the elections stating “I am the government”.
What Jesus was saying at this moment was “I am the way to speak to God, be forgiven by God, enter God’s presence, and be restored to God.”
His words were truly earth shattering. Jesus in a few words stated that he had come to be the temple replacement.
19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.”
20 Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?”
21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
22 So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.
B. Because of Jesus we are individually God’s temple, AND corporately God’s temple.
B. Because of Jesus we are individually God’s temple, AND corporately God’s temple.
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
Illus: Jesus restored our relationship with God. Jesus acted as the temple… but that was not the end of God’s plan.
Remember… the entire point of the temple was to be a piece in restoring what was lost in eden.
After Jesus left the earth, Jesus sent the holy spirit to all believers. What then happened is that God’s great plan of restoring his relationship to us took another step forward.
He placed is very presence in us!
Follow the story— Eden the relationship was lost. God began a plan to restore our relationship through the tabernacle which became the temple. Jesus replaced the temple by becoming the temple, AND then placed His spirit in us and called us His temple!!!
But there’s more… God’s presence is especially close when we gather as a body, the bride of Christ and experience divine fellowship.
19 Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.
19 So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,
20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
21 In him the whole building, being put together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
22 In him you are also being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.
III. Will there be a future temple?
III. Will there be a future temple?
1 As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”
2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another—all will be thrown down.”
A. There will be no need for a Temple as God restores all things .
A. There will be no need for a Temple as God restores all things .
The Holy Spirit is not the end of God’s plan. As Christians we should long for the day when we are restored to Eden.
As Scripture teaches about whats next, the new Jerusalem, the new Eden, our resurection home, it communicates that the temple is gone. Why? We long for a day that we do not need a mediator.
We do not need temple, tabernacle, but instead will be able to know God and the world as God intended it… Look what scripture promises is to come.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
2 I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
3 Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God.
4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
2 I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
22 I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
25 Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.
26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.