The Passion of the King
Matthew 21:12 Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’”
The King in His Temple Then
1. Then, words and actions of Jesus
Psalms 69:9 for zeal for your house consumes me…
Isaiah 56:7 …joy in my house of prayer…
Jeremiah 7:11 Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? …
Malachi 3:1 …Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; …
2. The words and action of Jesus
…drove out those buying and selling
…overturned the tables
… made a whip
…scattered the coins
3. The words and actions of Jesus
Jesus had a passion for the
Jesus had a passion for
The King in His Temple Now
- Today, God’s temple
Acts 17:24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.”
2. Today, God’s temple
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are 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; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body.
Ephesians 2:22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.