Honoring the Crucified Temple

John 2:13–14 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

John 2:13–14 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

Encountering God at Passover

John 2:13-14

Encountering God at Passover

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The Passover is a yearly festival to remember (God liberating the Hebrews from Egypt)

Find spiritual reconciliation with God for their sins.

a. Celebrating God’s victory all came to Jersualem - total 150,000 plus bigger than any Superbowl in history.

John 2:13–14 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

“I have a confession,” I’m disappointed that summer is going to be disappearing tomorrow. There is so much I love about these past few months: disc golfing, swimming at the beach, laser tag in Alpena, Wolverine Christian Camp, and most importantly is the perfect weather that I get to enjoy when I walk to the Argyle park. But those walks are more than just stretching my legs and burning calories. It’s quality time with just me and God. While walking, I get to pray for his kingdom, this church, and others. It’s during these prayer walks that my heart starts connecting with God, and I start thinking, behaving and loving people more like Christ.

Perhaps, we can remember a specific time when felt very close to God in such a way that we started becoming more like Word: such as you served on a mission trip, when you gathered with a group of Christians and broke into worship, or maybe you felt close to him when you found a quite place and began praying and reading the bible.

In the same way it was our decision to go to God to fellowship with Him. And in the past, God’s people, the Jews, made a conscious choice to drop everything they were doing to draw into God’s presence near the holy temple. Which we will read in John Gospel account, but before we get there let me tell you about what Jesus did a few days earlier. Jesus, Mary and the disciples are at a wedding reception and party goes from sweet to sower. All the wine is consumed and Jesus tells the servant of party to take the unclean ritual jugs and fill them with water. After doing so, he draws from the jugs the most tastiest wine and the disciples believed in him. So this is the first miracle in Jesus’ ministry and now him and his disciples are heading out of Cana to draw close with God.

John 2:13–14 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

John 2:13-14

Encountering God at Passover

The Passover is a yearly festival to remember (God liberating the Hebrews from Egypt)

Passover - A time of reconciliation

Celebrating God’s victory, all Jews came to Jersualem. Normally 20,000-30,000 people lived in the city, but when the Passover was upon them the city would grow to roughly total 150,000 plus, that’s bigger than any Superbowl in history this festival would be filled with songs of praise, people sharing dinners, and animals being led to the temple to be a temple to be sacrificed.

But what were the money-changers doing at the Passover? We’re they there for the same reasons they Jew traveled from afar. No, the reason why they’re at the temple is to make a profit from the people to extort them for extra. Exchange Roman money for animals because knew that not everyone will bring an animal for sacrifice to Jerusalem. You want to know Jesus felt about them disrespecting God’s temple?

plus bigger than any Superbowl in history this festival would be filled with prasies,

John 2:15–17 ESV

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. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

John 2:15-

God’s name kept holy

Jesus was keeping his father’s temple holy by cleansing out the greed and idolatry of the merchants.

His anger is just and righteous and he wasn’t going to allow God’s throne to be dishonored, it didn’t matter the cost of followers he would lose. He flipped out literally in order to preserve the worship of his father’s temple. Can you imagine angry Jesus? It’s not the Jesus we typically speak about. But why? Why is he so passionate about keeping God’s temple from sin. Well the simple answer is because he loves his father.

Christ loves his father, and we ought to be in consumed with keeping God’s name holy too. Jesus does teach us this on the sermon on mount in , which tells us to keep his name holy and follow his will.

I have to pose the question, “Who are we in this story?”

Reflecting over ourselves,

Matthew 6:9–10 ESV

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Do we identify with merchants who’s goal is to hinder others from authentic worship of God, looking only to profit of material wealth and to honor themselves? Or we like the faithful Jews coming to the temple to experience reconciliation with God, not to gain, but to present the best sacrifices and to ultimately honor God with our lives.

It all depends if we choice the whip the chord… either we are the ones driving out sin or we’re the ones be wrapped by the cord. It can’t be both. We are either the merchants or the faithful followers of God. “The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.” Proverb 5:22

Proverbs 5:22 ESV

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

Which this temple where the Jews worship won’t last forever, it will perish and Jesus will soon answer his critics concerning his zeal for his father’s house.

However, the temple that Jesus is defending won’t be the

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John 2:18–21 ESV

So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

John 2:18-21

The Temple That Remains

Jesus is challenge for his actions.

Challenge flag is being thrown, what gives you the right to do this. Demand a sign or proof. Jesus never commited anything unlawful, might of been even praised by the devoted followers, but the Jews were seeking a way to shame him.

Jesus does claim a sign, but it will be for the future. He claims that his body is the new temple. For the temple they worshiped at was Herod's temple, the second temple of the Jews for Solomon’s temple was destroyed during the exile and was the first one to be created and this temple which stand would be destroyed is 70 AD by the Romans.

Just like the first miracle water turned into wine, Jesus is crucified on our behalf and then the reconstruction of the eternal temple begins. Glory and honor would be found in the Son, not in a building made with stones. For the Father, the Son, and the Spirit raised Christ from the grave and now the new temple exist forever which we are to pour out our honor and worship. For God is closer to us than ever before.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.7: St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies (Catholic Edition) Tractate X

Of Adam then is Christ’s flesh: of Adam the temple which the Jews destroyed, and the Lord raised up in three days. For He raised His own flesh: see, that He was thus God equal with the Father. My brethren, the apostle says, “Who raised Him from the dead.” Of whom says he this? Of the Father. “He became,” saith he, “obedient unto death, even the death of the cross; wherefore also God raised Him from the dead, and gave Him a name which is above every name.” He who was raised and exalted is the Lord. Who raised Him? The Father, to whom He said in the psalms, “Raise me up and I will requite them.”2 Hence, the Father raised Him up. Did He not raise Himself? And doeth the Father anything without the Word? What doeth the Father without His only One? For, hear that He also was God. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Did He say, Destroy the temple, which in three days the Father will raise up? But as when the Father raiseth, the Son also raiseth; so when the Son raiseth, the Father also raiseth: because the Son has said, “I and the Father are one.”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.7: St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies (Catholic Edition) Tractate X

He was thus God equal with the Father. My brethren, the apostle says, “Who raised Him from the dead.” Of whom says he this? Of the Father. “He became,” saith he, “obedient unto death, even the death of the cross; wherefore also God raised Him from the dead, and gave Him a name which is above every name.” He who was raised and exalted is the Lord. Who raised Him? The Father, to whom He said in the psalms, “Raise me up and I will requite them.”2 Hence, the Father raised Him up. Did He not raise Himself? And doeth the Father anything without the Word? What doeth the Father without His only One? For, hear that He also was God. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Did He say, Destroy the temple, which in three days the Father will raise up? But as when the Father raiseth, the Son also raiseth; so when the Son raiseth, the Father also raiseth: because the Son has said, “I and the Father are one.”

After the Resurrection the disciples made sense of what took place between the conversation of the Jews and Christ.

John 2:22–23 ESV

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. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.

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John 22:21-22

How do we honor the eternal temple?

Present our spiritual sacrifices to Christ. Living for Christ with our heart, mind, and soul. Live according to God’s kingdom set in place throughout the gospels.

Being consumed with keeping God’s name holy. Live a pure life, abhorring evil and cleaning to what is good. Do this by repenting of our sins.

Could we imagine if we all had the same passion as Jesus? The church would look radially different in all areas of life.

Come to Jesus for he is the temple you all came to worship and honor.

John 2:13–22 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 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. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 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 2:13-22

John 2:13-22

John 2:13–22 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 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. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 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.