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HOUSE OF PRAYER

25 June 2017 –

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

· No service next week (01 July)

· Following week at 0900?

· Other Sanctuary

WHY DO WE WORSHIP?

The supreme reason for human existence is to worship God for his love, greatness and saving deeds.

WHAT IS WORSHIP?

True worship is not the mechanical repetition of rituals, but should be wholehearted and reverent.

It should be based upon trustful and obedient lives, in that obedience is itself to be seen as an act of worship.[1]

WHAT IS DOXOLOGY?

A form of words that offers praise to God, especially for his work of creation and redemption.

Scripture records a number of these forms of praise which were used in both public and private worship.[2]

DO WE NEED IT?

To worship is a divine command

pp See also ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

God’s people are to be a worshipping people

See also ; ; ;

Worship is the response of God’s people

To God’s love See also ; ; ; ; ; ;

To God’s holy presence pp See also ; ; ; ;

To God’s greatness See also ; ; ; ;

To the fear of God ; See also ; [3]

Focus Question (What does…?)

Has Jesus called you…because you are perfect for Him?!

Timeless Truth (Truth of God’s Word)

His redemptive power, and His deity - This Gospel has taken the Creation account and connected the re-creation of the believer moving from darkness to light.

Background / Context (Context: Theme, Date/ Time, Speaker, Audience, and Situation)

Written in a time subsequent to 70 A.D. but believed to be between 70-100 AD

I. THEME

o Christ’s Deity (THE LIGHT)

II.

DATE / TIME

o 70 AD was the date of the destruction of the temple, John dies before 100 AD – so we can be sure that it was not any later than 100 AD.

o We can discern this because this was during a time that the Sea of Tiberias was the name typically used for the Sea of Galilee (6:21, 21:1)

III.

SPEAKER

o John (The Apostle that Jesus “loved”)

IV.

AUDIENCE

o Different from the synoptic gospels as it is written to everyone (Greek and Jew)

V. SITUATION

o John focuses on events that are not found in the synoptic gospels to prove one thing to the reader – JESUS IS GOD IN THE FLESH, that the eternal WORD came to earth, had been born of a virgin to die as God’s perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world.

Not discussing: genealogy, birth, baptism, temptation, casting out of demons, parables, transfiguration, communion, sweating blood in Gethsemane, or His ascension.

TODAY’S TEXT

(ESV)

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

15 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.

16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”

21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

22 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.

Cross-Reference

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I. THE PASSOVER

a.

II.

THE TOWN

a. Nazareth

i. Root word “NETZER”

ii.

Meaning “Branch” – Multiple OT Prophets spoke of the Messiah as the branch (, )

b.

Not Mentioned in the Old Testament

III.

THE MESSIAH

IV.

Illustration (Optional, note: This is not an embellishment, it must be directly applicable to the theme being communicated by the text.)

Application (Most important part of message.

Within this section, the following questions are answered using the focal text covered: “SO WHAT?”

Why is this important to me…? How do I apply this to my life?)

Current Issues:

SO WHAT? – What is the application of “EXPRESSING “– how does your life look, out in the street, at your work, with your friends, with your family…with the guy who cut you off on the way home or to wherever?

V. Invitation (Challenge question: So what decision will you make today?)

So, what are you going to do about it?

HE wants you, HE wants you to be HIS…HE is obviously drawing you to Himself…cry out to HIM, beg HIM to be the Lord of your life.

Repent (about face) from whatever sin has a stronghold on you and cry out to HIM.

John recorded a cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry whereas the three Synoptics recorded a temple cleansing toward the end of His public ministry (; ; ).

Probably there were two cleansings, for there are differences in the narrations.

John was undoubtedly aware of the Synoptics, and he supplemented them.

The first cleansing caught the people by surprise.

The second cleansing, about three years later, was one of the immediate causes of His death (cf.

).

2:13–14.

As was the custom for the Jewish people (, ; ) Jesus went up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover (cf.

two other Passover feasts—one in and one in ; ; ).

This reminded them of God’s grace in delivering them from the bondage in Egypt.

It was a fitting time for His ministry.

The temple courts refer to a large courtyard, the Court of the Gentiles, surrounding the temple enclosure.

(See the sketch of the temple.)

The buying and selling of animals in the area was probably rationalized as a convenience for the pilgrims coming into Jerusalem.

But abuses developed, and the pilgrim traffic became a major source of income for the city.

With money to be made, worship easily became corrupted.

The money changers were another convenience for the pilgrims.

Temple dues had to be paid in the acceptable Tyrian coinage, and a high percentage was charged for changing coins.