Sermon Tone Analysis

A measure of love

Look at the Place

This was herod's temple a great temple it was the one reconstructed by Zerubbabel upon returning from the babyolonia captivity under ezra and nehemiah.

It was modest and herod wanted to perpetuate his name through massive building projects and the temple was his masterpiece.

He is the one that interestingly enough tried to destroy Jesus.

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At this time it was in building for 46 years.

Herod was adding onto it remodeling it and making it grand.

The massive stones and buildings of the temple complex were truly impressive.

Herod’s temple had been under construction for almost fifty years, and the Jewish historian Josephus said some of the stones were sixty feet long.

Archaeologists have found stones forty-two feet long, eleven feet high, and fourteen feet deep, weighing more than a million pounds.

Very grand place where everyone was in town to celebrate the passover and

This is right before the Lord is arrested and goes to the cross.

Look at the position

He had been at the court of the gentiles and had been having all these conversations with people trying to trip him up the pharisees the sadducees the scribes now he goes inside the last time that he will go in.

He was in the temple at 12 asking questions The devil brought him to the pinnacle of the temple 3 years ago he was in here twice and overthrowing money changers tables

Now he has been here for many days teaching people he leaves the court of the gentiles

And he goes in and sits down

And of all the places he could have sat he sat here

In the court of women were everyone could be

And were the treasury boxes were

2Ki_12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

Now there are 13 of them and

He did not go to the holy of holies look at the ark , the altar of incense table of shewbread he did not go to brazen laver or to watch the sacrifices.

You see that was about man being made right with God that was about man bringing God a sacrifice to put his sins in remission.

He did not go to the inner court

But the Lord was about to end all of that he was to be the sacrifice that ended all sacrifices.

You see this was the only part that was not done away with

The sacrifices were done

But giving to God offering tithes and offerings was not something from the law.

Abrham gave to Melchizedek and I have no idea what he did with it.

Before the temple was there and the priesthood was established the way you gave to God was to take what was prescouse and burn it on an alter.

You see it was never about God needing our money.

God does not need our money.

That is so refreshing.

It is not going to go to help God pay down his debt.

It is not going to help him buy a new jet to fly around the world.

He does not need a jet.

He rides on a cherub.

It was something that was never to be a part of justification.

Listen if you are here and you have never been saved giving money will not save you it will not help you.

It will not please the Lord.

The only way you can have favor with God is by himself his sacrifice and his payment.

YOu do not give to him you let him give you you.

Just admit you are a bankrupt sinner on your way to hell and you have nothing to give him and you are doomed but you would love his mercy that is offered to you.

God was not watching them to see who he was going to let into heaven.

He was watching for a different reason.

He was watching and teaching us a lesson about the one thing they did there that would continue into the church.

The offering to God paul in 1 cor 9 says even so now hath God ordained that they wich preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

Some people say that tithing is not for us today.

It is old testament.

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?

Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple?

and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

I was greatly encouraged by this passage because we just had this missions conference and our church that is you guys gave very generously to the missionaries and committed much more than was ever committed to missions at this church in its history.

And God was watching.

What did he see what was he looking for?

He watched this morning.

You know that's a good thing.

Children do that Daddy Daddy watch me why they want me to find pleasure in them.

That's why God created us

So what is he looking for ?

Look at the princibles

He Examines the Purppse

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

Not a slam will not loose reward.

How they cast it in 13 trumpet like recepticles they did not have paper money they did not have a nap they couldn't text to give.

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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men.

Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

Charles Spurgeon and his wife, according to a story in The Chaplain magazine, would sell, but refused to give away, the eggs their chickens laid.

Even close relatives were told, “You may have them if you pay for them.”

As a result, some people labeled the Spurgeons greedy and grasping.

They accepted the criticisms without defending themselves, and only after Mrs. Spurgeon died was the full story revealed: All the profits from the sale of eggs went to support two elderly widows.

Because the Spurgeons were unwilling to let their left hand know what the right hand was doing (), they endured the attacks in silence.

Campbell Morgan tells us that the Pharisees of the day carried silver trumpets, and when they would go out to give money to the poor, they would blow the trumpet.

And, when they would blow the trumpet, the needy would come.

And, while the people were there watching, then the Pharisees would distribute money to the poor.

They would sound a trumpet so everybody could see them doing this thing.

There’s nothing wrong with giving to the poor.

There is nothing wrong with giving to the poor publicly.

There is much wrong with giving to the poor in order to be seen of men, when you have this sort of self-conscious righteousness

Why are you doing it to be seen of men?

What if there was no records kept on earth but only in heaven?

What if you would give and no human would ever know you gave.

Seen take up an offering before put in 1 amen 5 hallelujah 10 praise the lord 20 praise the Lord praise the Lord. 100 praise the Lord 10 times.

Watched a guy put in 700 dollars guy taking offering had shout out 70 times praise the Lord.

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What is that to be seen of men.

And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

Pray to the public not in public

That is what they lived for

How pressure ? to be seen of men ? to be honored ?

They want men to think them as spiritual

They live in such a way as living for the Lord but at the same time stealing glory from him.