Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all of those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables and benches of those exchanging money. Jesus quotes the following:
“My house will be called a house of prayer…but you are making it into a den of robbers.”
Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11
The blind and lame came to Him at the temple and He healed them. When the chief priests and teachers of the law saw the good things He was doing and heard the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant.
They asked Jesus if He heard what they were saying.
Jesus replies yes and then quoted:
“From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise.”
Psalm 8:2
Jesus then left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night there.
In this passage, we see Jesus become very upset by the fact that people had turned His Fathers house into a shopping area. I think today, we can toe this line as well. Maybe not as a shopping area, but I believe sometimes we put so much emphasis on the physical structure of the building and making it more attractive that we miss the point that the presence of God is what is important. We tend to focus on everything BUT the presence of God at times. Keep your eyes and heart focused on the Creator…let the building just be a building.
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