Jesus Goes OFF!

 

 

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John 2:13-19 Jesus Goes off! 

 

it was passover, people traveled from all over, they couldn’t take animals with them. It was packed, it was like the one time a year you have a huge blowout sale… it was black friday… you made most of your money that time of year. 

ANIMALS EVERYWHERE… 

FECES EVERYWHERE… 

STRAW EVERYWHERE… 

PEOPLE EVERYWHERE… it was loud, people bartering, people arguing…

So Jesus goes off… he drives out those selling… this was no small feat!

 

 

 

The outer court was where the non-Jews would worship, the Gentiles. But how could they worship with all the distractions…

Rather than giving a space for those who did not yet know Jesus or who were knew in the faith… they actually cut them out of the picture… they forgot about what the outer court stood for.

 

 

So lets be Clear: The buying and selling of animals started out as a good thing. A service for those who came to worship. (a service)

But in time the “BOTTOM LINE” became more important. Now it was how much can we sell, how much can we make, what are all the ways we can make money (1st off we exchange money at a higher rate, then we offer all types of sacrifices, then we raise the price of sacrifices, and now we move the gentiles out of their spot for worship and we expand)

The sellers made money, the money exchangers made money and the pharisees took a cut from both.

*How many animals were sacrifice? Josephus the Jewish historian tells us 256,500 sacrifices… thats a lot of 

 

But lets hold on here for a second…

Where is the temple now? 

1 Cor. 6:18-20 18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.…

 

Do you have God’s Righteous Anger for worship for yourself?

 

But do you have it for others? Remember this courtyard was for those who were not yet in Gods family… they were not Jews. 

 

? What went on in that courtyard for the gentiles? 

This is where many times gentiles would come to hear about the God of the Jews… translation: where they would come to hear about Jesus/salvation in our day and age.

 

So the real question is this: Are there things in your temple (in your life) that are keeping people from seeing Jesus, from experiencing Jesus. Do you have a righteous anger to get rid of the things that might be keeping other from knowing Jesus.

Ask God to deal with those in your heart so you can allow others the intense joy and fullness of coming to Christ and worshiping him.