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12. And Jesus went into the temple of god, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
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And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
14. and the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
*Let Jesus Come In*
*Matt.
21:12-14*
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Not long ago I preached a sermon entitled, “The danger of not getting better”.
It is just a fact, when we have had an encounter with Jesus, there ought to be some changes in our lives.
Things that we use to do, we ought not to do those things no more.
Places that we use to go, we ought not to go those places no more.
Many of us right here tonight have confessed that we have indeed had a meeting with Jesus.
We say that, Jesus lives in our soul.
We say, “We know Him, He has pardoned our sins”.
We call Him our bright and morning star, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
We says that He is our lily down in a valley.
When we are in trouble, we want Him to come and see about us.
When we are down, we depend on Him to come and pick us up.
When we are burdened, we want Him to come and lift heavy burdens.
When we are lonely, we want Him to be a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
When we are sick, we want Him to be a doctor in a sick room.
When we are broke and no money in our pockets, we want Him to be silver and gold.
When we are hungry, we want Him to be cattle on a thousand hills.
We want Him to do what He promised He would do, but we don’t want to do what it takes to get those promises.
I’m wondering tonight, how many of us have really met Him? I’m not questioning your profession, but I’m saying that maybe you need to question it, because no one can meet Jesus and still be the same.
When you have met Jesus, you can’t love like you use to love.
When you have met Jesus, you can’t live like you use to live.
When you have met Jesus, you can’t look like you use to look.
When you have met Jesus, you can’t lie like you use to lie.
When you have met Jesus, you can’t lust like you use to lust.
Zacheaus the Tax Collector met Him, and Zacheaus said, I will return fourfold to those whom I have taken away from.
The blind man met Him.
And somebody ask him how was it that he began to see, he said, I really can’t tell you how it all happened, all I know is that I once was blind, but now I see.
The woman at the well met Him.
She went running down town telling everybody to come see a man.
Saul the persecutor met Him.
He was on his way to Damacus to bring back bound in chain anyone who called on the name of Jesus.
Jesus said to him, Saul, Saul why are you persecuting Me, it’s hard to kick against the pricks.
Saul’s name was changed to Paul, he became one of the greatest writer of the New Testament.
You ought to meet Him tonight.
I declare when you meet Him, you cannot be the same.
We certainly need Jesus to change some thing in our churches today.
Our churches ought to be at peace better.
We ought to care about one another better.
We ought to have a better brand of fellowship with one another simply because we have had a meeting with Jesus.
I challenge each of you tonight as you go back home, look in the mirror and ask yourself the question, what changes has He made in my life.
Somebody has already testified, “I’m not what I ought to be, but thank God, I’m not what I use to be”.
Well, if you know you are not what you ought to be, are you working to get any better?
All it really takes is a meeting with Jesus, He said, “Whosoever will, let him come”.
I dare you tonight to really let Him com in.
To the drunkard, I dare you to let Him come in.
To the prostitute, I dare you to let Him come in.
To the gay and lesbians, I dare you to let Him come in.
To the gambler, I dare you to let Him come in.
To the backbiter, I dare you to let Him come in.
To the church gossiper, I dare you to let Him come in.
Let’s see what happens when Jesus comes to the temple.
Often we associate the word “temple” with a church building or a place of worship.
Tonight I’m not talking about a literal church building, but I’m talking about what happens when He comes into your body.
*/1 Cor.
6:19/* says, “What?
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”.
The Bible also says that God dwell in houses not made by hands.
If you are a believer tonight, then Christ is dwelling within you.
That means you ought not to bring the same old mess to the church that you did before you became saved.
There ought to be a change in you.
If Christ is in you, then you ought to let your light shine no matter where you are.
You ought to be the same at Walmart, as you are at the church.
When I see you at Dollar General, the light ought to be on.
When I see you traveling the highways, the light ought to be on.
(*Barber and beauty shop*).
We just ought to be excited about knowing Jesus.
When Jesus comes in there ought to be a special joy that comes in.
You just ought to get excited when you hear someone call Him Name.
His name is the sweetest name I know.
The more I call it, the better I feel.
As we look at the setting of our text tonight, we see the second time where Jesus cleaned the temple.
He did it once at the beginning of His ministry in John chapter 2. And again near the end of His ministry found in the Synoptic of the gospel.
This was at the beginning of the last week of His earthly ministry.
Look at how He changed the temple from the account of St. Matthew.
*He drove out sin*
The first thing He done was to drive out sin.
Verse 12. “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves”.
There was a section in the temple called “The Gentile Court”.
This court was a place where the Gentiles were permitted to come and watch Israel, and see how they served and worshipped the true and living God.
But the religious leaders were there seeking only to make money.
And they would set up camp in the Gentile court.
This drove a lot of the Gentiles away.
The leaders were taking away animals that people brought as their sacrifice.
They were telling these people that these animals were not good enough.
Their sacrifice was to be without spot or blemish.
Now, it really wasn’t anything wrong with the animal but they were telling the people that it would not be accepted.
And they would say, we’ve got some temple animals over there, one that will be acceptable by the priest, I’m sure you can go over there and buy you one.
And they were selling these temple animals for a jacked up price.
Moneychangers were those people who would exchange coins with pagan symbols on them for acceptable coins that could be used in the temple.
And they charge a fee for exchanging money.
You couldn’t use pagan money in the temple.
See, many of these people were a long, long way from home and rather than going back home and getting what they needed, it would be better to just make the exchange.
Believe it or not, but we’ve got folks today who is coming to church and exchanging our worthy worship for the pitiful praise.
Jesus saw this and He took a stick and drove out the moneychangers and those who sold and bought for monetary gain.
When Jesus entered *your* temple did He drive out the sin that has invaded your courts?
I’m wondering tonight, has He driven out lying?
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