Matthew 21:12-14 2 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.' " 14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.
 
I. What’s Going on here?
 
Where are we in TIMELINE?
 
John 2:15 Jesus “made a whip of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables."
 
Matthew 21:14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests … saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
 
Matthew 21:12 He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
 
II. What did Jesus do?
 
Should been holy place, place of prayer, place of purity, turned into merchant center took advantage of poor and vulnerable.
 
Isaiah 56:7 “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.’
 
III. What do Learn from this?
 
1. We Give so others can have the gospel freely
 
2. Jesus dwells IN us- We are his temple.
 
Romans 3:22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.
 
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples 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 bodies
 
Hebrews 12:1 "Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us
 
3. It's not a bazaar, it’s the presence of God
 
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
 
The church must stay on mission
 
4. Some things upset Jesus
 
Jesus got angry because glory of God was being damaged and harmed and the people were being taken advantage of.