JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD

TEXT:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. 18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

INTRODUCTION:The writer of this gospel is identified in the book only as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (21:20, 24).

John the apostle was the son of Zebedee and Salome and was the younger brother of James. The time of his writing is some where around 85 and 90 AD This is the most theological of the Four Gospels. It deals with the nature and person of Christ and the meaning of faith in Him. John’s presentation of Christ as the divine Son of God is seen in the titles given Him in the book: “the Word was God” (1:1), “the Lamb of God” (1:29), “the Messiah (1:41), “the Son of God” and “the King of Israel” (1:49), the “Savior of the world” (4:42), “Lord and … God” (20:28). The structure and style of the gospel are different from those of the synoptics. It contains no parables, only seven miracles (five of which are not recorded elsewhere). Here in this passage of scripture we see JESUS as HE leaves the wedding at Cana where he turned water into wine, stop off in capernaum and then heads to Jerusalem to attend passover. Passover was kept in remembrance of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first born of all the Egyptians were destroyed. It is called also the “feast of unleavened bread” (Ex. 23:15; Mark 14:1; Acts 12:3), because during its celebration no leavened bread was to be eaten or even kept in the household (Ex. 12:15). JESUS walks in the temple and finds evil going on in the temple. He sees them selling oxen, selling sheep, selling doves and money changers sitting in the temple. He begin to make a whip and drives them all out of the temple. The sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise. Just wondering what JESUS would do if He was here today for we have made His house into so many thing in fact everything but a house of prayer. Now His authority is being questioned they wanted to know who gave him the authority to do what he just done. they ask him to prove who he is by giving the a sign. JESUS responded by saying Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Let us take a close look at this loaded statement this morning!!!!!!

I. The proof that He was the Son of God with authority over God’s house was to be given. The sign was to be His body, His death and resurrection. The resurrection was to be the supreme proof of His Messiahship. They were to destroy (kill) Him, but He would be raised from the dead after three days (see outline and notes—Lu. 11:29–36).

“And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all” (Ac. 4:33).

“And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead” (Ac. 10:39–41).

“And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Ro. 1:4).

II. His death and resurrection was to provide a new temple, a new meeting place for God and man. It was to be in Him that men would thereafter meet God. The temple of His body was to become the temple of men, the temple whereby men would worship and be reconciled to God.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn. 14:6).

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Ti. 2:5).

CONCLUSION:HE WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD BE AND THAT WHY WE CELEBRATE TODAY BECAUSE HE GOT UP WITH ALL POWER IN HIS HAND.