Jesus Cleanses Temples (John 2:12-25 Jeff Kliewer)

Cornerstone Church

1 view

September 5, 2022

Sermon Notes: notes.cornerstonesj.org Jesus Cleanses Temples

00:03: I'm gonna say good morning. If you're in a hallway, come on in if you're in grab a seat We come together in Fellowship and and just enjoying the presence of God.
00:15: I want to open up with a passage out of Psalm 122 122 verse 1
00:22: I was glad When they said to me, let us go to the house of the
00:29: Lord. I Was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord as I was meditating on this verse this week
00:38: A couple of thoughts came to my mind and the first one is that if you really want to find joy if you have a desire to be
00:48: Satisfied and to be fulfilled. There's only one place you get that and that's in the presence of God There are a lot of opportunities.
00:57: We've had a great summer I'm sure you've had a great summer. We've done a lot of things Our family went on vacation to the western reaches of Maryland to a lake.
01:07: It was awesome It really was to be with the kids and the grandkids but I'm here to tell you right now on the authority of Scripture and On the authority of the true
01:16: Word of God if you want true joy, and if you want true peace It is only found it is only found with God The second thing
01:25: I came across was I was glad when they Said to me let us go now.
01:34: One of the things I encourage you when you read Scripture follow the pronouns Follow the pronouns they said to me let us go to the house of the
01:45: Lord We are gonna find true joy and true peace in the presence of God and that's even amplified
01:52: When we're with brothers and sisters in the Lord to have the opportunity to share with each other
01:59: They said to me let us go to the house of the Lord this morning I learned from a good friend of mine no names, but he happens to be standing right on my left hand side
02:12: That earlier in the week he had a totally unexpected encounter with a co -worker and found out that she was a believer and Then another co -worker who was a believer came by and they had this ad hoc praise meeting right in the middle of everything
02:31: Isn't it amazing when God gives us those opportunities just to share with the
02:36: Lord? I was glad when they said to me Let us go to the house of the Lord God gives us the one another and we can really rejoice in the one another's
02:47: But the third thing is that this is an intentional choice Let us go to the house of the
02:54: Lord You're gonna go home today and there will be things on your agenda or during the week
02:59: There are things that are calling for our attention The one place where you are fully fully satisfied is in the presence of the
03:10: Lord That's an intentional choice And when we make that we get to really experience his blessings in our life
03:18: I got some announcements for you. This is the beginning of September. We've had an awesome week summer
03:26: But we're getting ready and things are ramping up real fast But the first thing
03:31: I want to put it onto your mind is at six o 'clock Sunday nights Please come back make this an issue make this an important time
03:38: We get together for prayer at six o 'clock on Sunday nights. We lift up each other in prayer
03:44: We lift up the needs of God's church. It's his church Together, so please come back at six o 'clock.
03:51: There are all these activities that happen during the week the men's Apologetics the women's precepts
03:58: Care groups if they're already going on if they're restarting after the summer if you are not involved in a small group care group
04:05: I really really encourage you to do that. They're on Tuesdays or on Thursdays.
04:10: There might be one on Wednesdays They're there in the area contact pastor Jeff myself one of the elders
04:16: We can get you hooked up if you're not in a small group. We are continuing on our
04:22: Wednesday noon Yeah, noontime Bible study. We just finished the book of Isaiah It took us almost two years to get through the book of Isaiah Then we're going to be starting the book of Ephesians and so if you have not been there and you're available be a great time to come back out and Join us with that women have got a lot of activities going on out in the foyer.
04:46: There's a sign up I believe it's this coming Saturday at 630. There's a time of fellowship over ice cream and A movie so it sounds sounds intriguing women come on out time for a fellowship
04:59: And your adult Bible fellowship Kimberly's class starts in two weeks. That'll be on the 18th during the during the 1030 service men
05:08: We have our our normal breakfast first Monday of the month, but tomorrow's
05:14: Labor Day We're not going to do it on Labor Day, so it'll probably be the following Monday We do ours real early at 6 o 'clock, but men come on out for that a great time of fellowship
05:23: And there's a men's retreat coming up in November We've been having a retreat for many many years.
05:30: We're part of a group called the Bible Thumping wingnut, and if you're intrigued about that ask me
05:37: It's a gentleman who has a podcast who speaks the truth about God The world doesn't really always like it when you speak the truth about God, but that's his and it's a it's a men's retreat
05:50: It's a builder summit. It's men building up men. It's coming up in November the information is on Jeff's Pastor Graham for that we have a baptism coming up in two weeks if you are
06:02: Interested in being baptized have not approached Jeff pastor Jeff myself one of the elders We will get you hooked up for that.
06:08: It's going to be down the shore this time in open water So this will be a great time of testimony and a great time of fellowship
06:16: And then we're going to have another membership class will be coming up in three weeks For three weeks it will start the end of September if you're interested contact us for that as a church
06:31: We have been praying for a young man for most of the year Ryan had a horrific accident earlier in the year and Experienced severe burns over a large portion of his body
06:46: He ended up down in Texas for treatments But according to God's design and his providence
06:54: Ryan has gone home to the Lord. Well. We're praying for his heart. We will be praying for him tonight pastor
07:01: I'm gonna ask again at the end of my prayer if you would come up to pray for Ryan and his family But right now let's turn to the
07:08: Lord in Prayer I was glad when they said to me let us go to the house of the
07:16: Lord Father God we rejoice in this privilege of coming to you as sinners, but as sinners cleansed by the blood of the
07:24: Lamb We rejoice that we could come to your house and actually be in your presence
07:31: Adam and Eve experienced this direct fellowship with you until sin came and so it is with us when sin is in our lives
07:39: Prior to salvation we were separated but now Lord as your sons those who believe in you are called children of God We get to be in your very presence to come to your very presence
07:50: And we thank you for the fellowship the privilege of the fellowship of one Another Lord we pray that our hearts would always be turned to you
07:59: Lord that we would be our eyes opened and ready and obedient to share the word of Christ To neighbors friends relatives to a lost world that definitely needs to hear
08:11: Lord We do pray for those in our midst who are suffering physically in need of medical help
08:17: Emotionally who have lost loved ones we continue to lift them up to you dear Lord Father we pray for those of our children of our youth who have gone off to the mission field called college
08:31: We continue to hold them up that they would be Encouraged and not saddened that they would find fellowship and that they would hold true to your word and not to be dissuade by the falsehoods
08:46: Lord we do. Thank you so much for our time of fellowship together and now Lord. We're gonna pray for Ryan for his family
08:57: Father our hearts are broken for the loss of Ryan But Lord we also hope in the gospel we grieve, but not as those who have no hope
09:08: So God we pray for the family right now that you God of all comfort would go surround them
09:17: Comfort their hearts as only you can give them peace and Lord we pray that the gospel would go forward
09:24: Through this awful Tragedy Lord God, we pray that you would use this this horrible event to bring the gospel to those who don't yet know you because this life is short and no days are promised and Yet there is the promise of eternal life to those who believe in Jesus So we pray that the gospel would run forward and that family and all those who know
09:48: Ryan Would come to saving faith and be reunited with him in heaven It's our prayer
09:54: Lord in Jesus name. Amen Let's stand and sing
10:16: His mercy is more Stronger than darkness
10:25: You every more our sins. They are many. His mercy is
10:33: Of good remember no wrongs we have done
10:49: Omniscient all -knowing he counts not their son thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
11:00: Our sins they are many his mercy is more
11:16: Patience would wait as we constantly Roam what father so tender is calling us home
11:26: He welcomes the weakest the violence the poor
11:32: Our sins they are many his mercy is more praise the
11:39: Lord His mercy is more
11:45: Oh Stronger the darkness
11:52: You every more our sins. They are many his mercy is more
12:09: She's up kindness he lavished on us his blood was the payment
12:16: His life was the cost we stood need the debt we could never
12:22: For Since they are many his mercy is more praise the
12:32: Lord His mercy is Stronger than darkness
12:46: Since they are many his mercy is more
12:58: It's a simple verse it's something we've memorized as children John 3 16 is the core of the gospel of John God loved us so much that he sent his son to die for us.
13:13: He loved us It's amazing how deep his love for us is we could never ever do anything to repay
13:26: Let's sing how deep the father's love How deep the father's love for us?
13:36: How that's beyond all measure That he should give his only son
13:47: To make a wretch his treasure How great the pain of searing loss the father turns his face away as Which Martha?
14:09: chosen one Bring many sons to glory
14:27: Behold the man upon a cross Upon his shoulder
14:37: The shame I hear my mocking voice Call out among the scoffers
14:48: It was my sin that held it there
14:55: Until it was Accomplished Has brought me
15:07: I Will not posted anything
15:26: No gifts, no power. No wisdom But I will boast in Jesus Christ his death and Resurrection Why should
15:44: I gain from his reward? I This I know with all my heart
16:01: And pay my ransom Why should
16:07: I gain from his reward? I Cannot give an answer
16:16: But this I know with all my Have paid my ransom
16:30: After he was accused he was beaten he was mocked they came to the place called the skull
16:39: Where they crucified him along with two criminals on a hill of Calvary The light of all the world with the world on his shoulders
17:01: The weight of all the shame on him
17:11: Holy surrender Skyway The angels
17:22: The father looked away The final breath he bowed his head
17:36: Then of God was slain By his wounds
17:45: I am set free By his blood
17:52: I've been redeemed The great divide he crossed for me
18:02: Oh Praise the God of Calvary On the hill of Calvary into the father's head a holy
18:30: Surrender Borrowed to his mother
18:39: There is But the stone was moved he conquered
18:52: And rose up From the grave
18:59: By his wounds I am set free
19:05: By his blood I've been redeemed The great divide he crossed for me
19:18: Oh praise the God of Calvary And if I never
19:27: Never lose sight of this place. I will never
19:34: Never lose sight of your grace your cross is all
19:40: All I need to see Oh praise the
19:46: God Calvary And if I never
19:53: Never lose sight of this place. I will never
19:59: Never lose sight of your grace your cross is all
20:06: All I need to see Oh praise the
20:11: God of Calvary By his wounds
20:19: I am set free By his blood
20:25: I've been redeemed The great divide he crossed for me
20:34: Oh praise the God of Calvary Your cross is all all
20:45: I need to see Oh praise the God of Calvary Laid out in front of you in front of me are the elements
21:22: Now as we consider where we are we generally end up in first Corinthians 11 and as we read the passage
21:34: We are told do this in remembrance of me
21:40: This was our Lord and Savior Jesus Words that he gave to his twelve while they were in the upper room do this in remembrance of me and I think it would be appropriate.
21:56: In fact, I think it would be significant for us to stop right now Closing our eyes bowing our heads and in your mind remember
22:08: Jesus pray to him for a moment, please Lord we come to this table in Remembrance of Jesus our
22:25: Lord this Jesus The Son of God the second person of the
22:31: Trinity this Jesus the creator and sustainer of all this
22:44: Jesus who is our Lord and Savior This Jesus who sat in the upper room with the twelve knowing what was about to transpire
22:58: And you can open your eyes now as we consider this as he sat around the table with his twelve
23:07: Enjoying this feast knowing that in a very short time What was to come?
23:15: He was God he knew he knew the garden and the prayer
23:21: Sweating drops of blood if there's any way father if there's any way yet not my will but thine be done he knew that he would come back and find his followers asleep and Then he knew he would come back again and there would be the
23:39: Roman soldiers and Judas putting a kiss on the side of his face He knew that he was going to be carried off to a mock trial
23:49: That he would be beaten and scourged crown of thorns on his head the cat of nine tails
23:55: Ripping the flesh off his back. He knew that that cross would be laid on his shoulders
24:06: And then he would carry it up the Rhea de la Rosa an innocent man yet going there because of my sin for God So loved the world
24:17: He gave his only begotten son and he knew that those nails would go into his arms and knew his feet and that he would be hung on that cross and He would be mocked and he knew for that one instant in time
24:33: Every sin that I have ever committed ever I ever will commit and same with you would be on him for that one instant of eternity the father who was a holy
24:44: God would have to turn and Jesus would say my god my god
24:50: Why have thou forsaken me? but it had to be done because of the depth of sin and because of the majesty of his love and And then he would say to tell us die it is finished all of this he knew as he shared these elements
25:08: And we are told to do this in remembrance of him And so as we come to this table, we're not coming because it's the first Sunday of the month and this is
25:18: This is our habit. We're coming in remembrance of Him now
25:27: Paul encourages us in this letter took to Corinth and he says So then whoever eats this bread
25:36: And drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the
25:42: Lord Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink of the cup
25:48: For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment
25:54: On themselves and so I'm going to ask you to pray one more time this time preparing your heart to be pure as we come to the elements
26:14: Lord the psalmist says open your eyes and know me and it's a scary thought because who
26:20: I am is a sinner But yet I know Lord that you knew every time this week where I said a harsh word to Sandy You Knew every time when
26:31: I was on the road in the car and got irritated at a driver you knew those things But you took them to the cross your blood shed
26:44: So that I could be as white as snow and you stand you sit at the right hand of the father
26:50: With the accuser saying that man John is a scoundrel and Lord you say no.
26:56: No, I got that one on the cross So we come Lord this morning in Remembrance of him come
27:04: Lord confessing our sins because we can only come to you We can only come to you.
27:10: We pray these things in Jesus name. Amen I'm going to ask the men to come forward as they sat around the table
27:27: Not an uncommon feast But as they sat around the table, we're told that Jesus took the bread
27:34: And he broke it he said this is my body broken for you
27:45: When Jesus hung on that crossed Those bones were not broken His blood was shed and his life was spilled for you and for me as this bread is broken for us
27:57: So Christ goes to the cross for us And he encourages us
28:05: Take in remembrance of him take he didn't remembrance of him
30:35: Then Jesus held up a chalice Now we do not believe that this is actually the blood of Christ.
30:42: We believe that this is an emblem This is a remembrance of the blood of Christ But that's what's important is that we remember and we never become dull and we never become commonplace or used to The cup that we're about to share
30:59: But When Jesus hung on that cross the very lifeblood Coming out of him and then the
31:05: Roman soldier takes the spear and puts it in his side And the water followed by the blood followed by water comes out and then
31:14: Jesus says To your hands I commit my spirit Our salvation was won
31:22: Paul also said I deliver unto you for first importance that which I also received
31:28: That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was buried Then he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures.
31:36: This is our Jesus In the same way after supper.
31:42: He took the cup saying this is the cup of the new covenant in my blood Which is shed for you
31:48: Whenever you drink this do it in remembrance of me for whoever Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the
31:56: Lord's death Until he comes the blood of Christ that washes us cleanses us from sin take drink
34:36: Let's pray father your word in the book of Proverbs says
35:20: My child give me your heart Lord this morning we pray that you would take hold of our hearts
35:31: Lord that we would not offer just an outward religion going through the motions
35:39: But Lord that our hearts would be given to you Help us Lord to worship you in spirit and in truth
35:46: We pray Lord that you would stir up a holy zeal in your people zeal for your name zeal for your glory
35:55: That we would care about the glory of God more than any earthly thing more than anything
36:03: We pray that the name of Jesus would be exalted this morning through the preaching of the word in his name we pray amen
36:12: Anybody here familiar with the Huguenots Huguenots heard of them.
36:17: These were the French believers the French evangelical Christians at a time when a majority of the country was
36:26: Roman Catholic, of course Martin Luther Nailed the 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517
36:34: But those ideas came to France in those following years Through tracks and through preachers that came to Paris and throughout
36:44: France. They began to preach sola scriptura You know what that means, right?
36:50: Scripture alone they were rejecting the authority of traditions and the authority of the
36:56: Pope in favor of the Word of God as the sole rule of faith
37:03: They also rejected such things as the intercession of Saints That means you can't pray to a dead
37:11: Christian to intercede for you Pray directly to God through Jesus Christ and by the
37:18: Holy Spirit. Don't go to a saint even Mary They rejected the idea of purgatory, which is where people would go to pay off their own sins
37:29: They rejected the idea of the mass Now the mass was a view of the
37:35: Eucharist as we just took communion we felt the presence of the Spirit of God and we could see the passion that Pastor John had and Has for the
37:46: Lord Jesus Christ, but the mass was more of a ritual thing that operated in and of itself
37:53: The idea was that the priest Being an altar Christos another
37:58: Christ could stand and make propitiation on the altar Now, of course, we know that propitiation was made once and for all when
38:08: Christ died on the cross a Priest cannot make propitiation on the altar and transubstantiate the bread and the wine
38:17: Into the real body and blood of Christ and so the Protestants rejected that doctrine
38:23: They also rejected the use of relics where people would bring a piece of some holy person's body or Clothing or they say maybe a piece of the cross
38:36: Itself some would regard and think that those relics had some power to bring them to God The Prada Protestants said this is just man -made tradition and it has no power
38:49: It is in fact unbiblical All of these things like the selling of indulgences were man -made traditions that came into the church, but were not ordained by God and Protestants Rejected these things they would go about preaching the true gospel and often they would use tracts in 1533 in one night what was called the affair of the placards the placards they went around town and they put placards on all the light posts and On doors of buildings and the placard was a strong polemic against the mass
39:32: Against what the priests were doing in Presupposing themselves to stand in the place of Christ and make propitiation on a so -called altar and it presented the gospel
39:44: It was a strong tract, but the result was persecution so in 1533
39:50: Many of the Protestants were on the run and one of those people who ran for his life was named
39:58: John Calvin He was heading to Stroudsburg, but because of a war he ended up in Geneva where Farrell told him if you don't stay and teach the
40:09: Word of God a Curse be upon you. He was so terrified by that that he decided to stay in Geneva and for three years
40:19: He began to preach book by book chapter by chapter verse by verse
40:24: Through the Bible many people don't know What John Calvin was actually all about because so many people are concerned about doctrines that they might not agree with But the truth was
40:34: John Calvin was an expositor of the Word of God. He preached through every book of the
40:41: Bible Genesis more than a hundred sermons verse by verse through the book as He did through the entire
40:48: Bible on Sunday mornings He would preach from the New Testament and then the people would gather again in the afternoon for another
40:56: New Testament sermon So, what do you think they did Monday through Friday?
41:03: They gathered at 6 a .m. To hear the expository preaching of the
41:08: Old Testament Pastor John and I just finished preaching through the book of Isaiah and it took us 84 sermons to make it through John Calvin preached 353 sermons through the book of Isaiah you see the preaching of the word was the power of the
41:29: Reformation and each year Geneva sent out between 80 and 120 missionaries back to the places
41:40: Where they came from to seek refuge Now listen
41:48: The Reformation was empowered by the preaching of the word This is where the power came from When when
41:58: Calvin taught he was evangelistic. He called people to repentance and faith. He was apologetic that means he attacked the false ideas that the devil had brought into the churches and He was doxological
42:11: Meaning he always gave glory to God The glory of God was the highest priority in his preaching.
42:20: In fact, every sermon ended this way Let us fall before the majesty of our great
42:27: God. Let us fall before the majesty of our great God He preached for the glory of God in the year 1555
42:39: There were but five reformed churches in France Where the French Protestants were five churches
42:48: But through the training of Geneva's Academy sending out these missionaries four years later in 1559
42:55: There were a hundred churches Did you know that God can multiply the kingdom that quickly and by the year 1562 there were 2100 and 50
43:09: Ministers that were trained in Geneva that came back to France to train other ministers now The gospel was spreading like wildfire in fact by the year 1564 the year that Calvin died the
43:22: Protestants numbered over three million people Now we know history.
43:29: So we know that England and Scotland and Ireland and the Netherlands many countries would become
43:34: Protestant But others would remain Catholic like Italy Spain and France So, how did this gospel movement come grinding to a halt?
43:49: The year 1572 Was a major downturn What happened was in?
43:57: Paris there was a great wedding between Caligny a Protestant and a noble woman
44:03: In fact, this would have put the Protestant in a position where he might possibly become
44:08: King one day and this was intolerable to the Roman Catholics of Paris and so Caligny under the orders of the
44:20: Queen was murdered and With the murder of Caligny came a massacre of Protestants the st.
44:31: Bartholomew's Day Massacre which killed 25 ,000 evangelical Protestants on the streets of Paris August 22nd 1572 and Orders were given to the surrounding towns the major towns across France to do the same thing to slaughter the
44:53: Huguenots the French Protestants one governor received the order and Wrote this way in response
45:01: Sire I have received an order under your majesty's seal To put to death all the
45:09: Protestants in my province. I Have too much respect for your majesty not to believe the letter of forgery
45:17: But if which God forbid the order should be genuine. I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it and And So this governor protected the
45:30: Protestants in that town but there were at least 12 towns that slaughtered all of the evangelicals of the town in association with this massacre
45:42: When the Pope received word Gregory the eighth He minted a coin in celebration of the slaughter he proclaimed
45:55: September 11th 1572 a holy day of remembrance for the slaughter and He pronounced a hymn of praise to God a te
46:06: Deum at Rome in honor of the massacre Why would
46:13: I share such horrifying details? because it's possible for an entire country to name the name of Christ and claim to be a representative of Christ on earth in fact the
46:27: Pope claiming to be the Papa the Holy Father over the Roman Catholic Church and yet Dominated by an evil spirit a murderous villainous spirit as Many popes were it is possible
46:46: To have an outward show of Christianity Without the power of God.
46:53: It's possible to be raised in a Methodist Church or an Episcopal Church or a Baptist Church and go through the motions of taking communion, maybe be baptized and Still be without the power of God.
47:07: It is very possible to put on a show of religion To claim
47:13: Christianity and go through the motions of outward religion without knowing the
47:18: Christ Himself It's possible for any of us to fall into a rut of outward obedience
47:30: To trust in the good things the religious things that we do prescribed by God, but to not know him
47:41: To say Lord Lord Did we not do all of these wonderful things and then finally one day to hear the most dreadful terrifying words?
47:49: written in Scripture Away from me you worker of iniquity. I never knew you.
47:59: It's a solemn warning And as we turn now to John chapter 2 I want you to feel the weight of this because we come to a story that we might be familiar with from Sunday school
48:11: Jesus makes a whip and drives Religious people out of the temple but consider what that is
48:22: Consider the zeal and the passion ultimately the love of Jesus that he would not allow them to go on faking a
48:32: Relationship with God instead he zealously drives them out of the temple. Let's read it the point this morning is to consider the difference between outward religion and the genuine conversion of heart the problem of a
48:51: Family heritage a Tradition passed on from generation to generation that makes people feel comfortable
48:59: There are many false doctrines that I've mentioned regarding the Roman Catholic Church From the mass to the elevation of a mere man
49:09: Pope to a place That he doesn't belong The selling of indulgences which still happens in the
49:17: Catholic Church a papal indulgence was offered just years ago All of these things are dangers that lead people astray but I think the greatest danger in the
49:27: Roman Catholic Church as it is in Protestant churches is The false sense of security that comes from being religious how many people?
49:37: will attend church this Sunday morning and do the sacraments maybe go to confession and Leave feeling justified
49:49: Because of that outward Religion that's been passed on from generation to generation and how many of those
49:58: Have never been born again That is the great danger and Jesus in his love is passionate and zealous To keep people from that fate
50:10: So read it John chapter 2 verses 12 and following After this he went down to Capernaum With his mother and his brothers and his disciples and They stayed there for a few days
50:26: The Passover of the Jews was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem in the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons and the money changers sitting there and Making a whip of cords
50:44: 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
50:55: And he told those who sold the pigeons take these things away. Do not make my father's house a house of trade
51:05: His disciples remembered that it was written Zeal for your house will consume me
51:10: So the Jews said to him what sign do you show us for doing these things? Jesus answered them
51:19: Destroy this temple and in three days, I will raise it up The Jews then said it has taken 46 years to build this temple and will you raise it up in three days?
51:34: But he was speaking about the temple of his body 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 now when he was in Jerusalem at the
51:52: Passover feast many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing but Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them because he knew all people and Needed no one to bear witness about man for he himself knew what was in man
52:12: All right. So let's consider this first point in verses 12 to 14
52:19: We kind of see the problem Family heritage and Tradition are not enough to preserve holiness.
52:31: It's not enough Look at verse 12 After he went down to Capernaum who was with him
52:39: He had just performed this miracle at Cana watered a wine His mother had been there.
52:47: His brothers had been there and his disciples in verse 12
52:52: They're all traveling together, but notice There's a distinction in the verse made between his brothers and his disciples
53:04: This is an early clue that John is giving us that his brothers his own family did not truly believe in him
53:14: To make the point explicit jump over to chapter 7 verse 5 and 6 His brothers are essentially castigating him saying look if you are who you're claiming to be then why don't you go show yourself to the world and Jesus answers harshly in verse 5 and 6.
53:39: What does he say? Well for not even his brothers believed in him. There's the clue The brothers are different than the disciples.
53:46: They aren't the disciples They're physical brothers, but that's not enough to save them and in verse 6
53:54: Jesus said my time has not yet come But your time is always
54:00: Here, it's a strong rebuke They're of the world their time is now but he has a different mission and He is separating himself from them in this comment
54:14: Verse 5 telling us the reason it is because they did not believe
54:20: Church, listen It is very possible to be raised in an evangelical free church that preaches the gospel and always has and Your parents have brought you to hear this word, but that is not enough to save you
54:39: To be a descendant of a believer is not the same thing as to believe
54:47: Every individual must come and stand before the Lord Christianity is the most individualistic faith in the world for this reason for every man must stand before the
54:57: Father and You will not stand there with your mother or your father with your grandparents with your brothers
55:07: You will stand before the Lord God Alone, you will stand alone in judgment or you will stand with an advocate by your side that Jesus having purchased your redemption will speak for you and Under his blood you will be accepted of the
55:28: Father But listen, the point is the brothers of Jesus themselves Did not believe it's a warning to all of us, but continue on in verse 13
55:41: Not only is family inheritance family heritage not enough but religious duties
55:50: Performed are not enough in verse 13 the Passover of the
55:56: Jews was at hand Now stop and think is that of God Absolutely.
56:04: It was Jesus had not yet died as the Passover lamp And so from the time of the Passover until this point in the text
56:12: The Passover has been celebrated every single year now the danger with religious traditions that are passed on year after year after year is
56:28: That familiarity can breed contempt How many young people have sat in church and thought to themselves?
56:36: We do the same thing Sunday after Sunday after Sunday after Sunday and how many times have people come to the table of Communion and thought to themselves how many times have
56:50: I done this and it's always the same Familiarity can breed contempt
57:00: But listen The rituals that God prescribed are themselves good
57:07: The problem is in us In fact when you read the book of Isaiah, which
57:12: I mentioned that John and I preached 84 sermons through it in the first chapter And the last chapter
57:18: Isaiah mentions the big problem Chapter 1 verses 11 to 15
57:24: He talks about their assemblies and their sacrifices and their new moons and their
57:29: Sabbaths and he says of those things I hate them not them selves, but the way you do them
57:38: You do it as if it's a ritual That you're obliged to perform
57:45: You do them with the heart that's far in Chapter 66 of Isaiah the second verse.
57:52: He tells us what he really wants a contrite heart a humble heart
57:59: That trembles at his word, but in the third verse he says but your sacrifices when you bring an oxen and You kill an oxen.
58:08: It's like killing a man When you bring a lamb and offer lamb blood
58:14: It's like killing a pig and offering pig blood Harsh words, what does he mean by them?
58:22: He is saying that their outward show of religion is not pleasing to him
58:28: Although they're doing it, right? They're offering an ox. They're offering a lamb. He's not accepting their sacrifice.
58:34: Why would that be? Isaiah tells us in chapter 29 verses 13 and 14 and the
58:42: Lord said listen because this people draw near with their mouth and Honor me with their lips
58:53: While their hearts are far from me and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men
59:00: Therefore behold I will again do wonderful things with this people this people with wonder upon wonder and the wisdom of their wise
59:09: Men shall perish and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden he says that Because they come to do a commandment that are just taught by men their fear is not a heartfelt fear of God It's simply something that they repeat with their lips
59:32: Because this people draw near with their lips and their mouth and they honor me only with their speech
59:39: But their hearts are far from me He says I will do wonder upon wonder and of course we know that that is judgment
59:47: He will say he first of all sent to Syria, then he'll send Babylon and send them into exile He will judge them
59:55: Not because they weren't doing the sacrificial system, but because their hearts weren't in it.
01:00:01: This is the great problem that all of us face That we could come and do the same thing week after week and still be here in the body and Still sing the songs with the worship leader with our lips, but our hearts are wandering far away
01:00:24: Someone's already thinking about the Eagles game next week. Someone else is looking forward to a different sport season
01:00:32: Your heart is tied up in some other place and when you come on Sunday morning
01:00:38: It is not to honor him from the heart and to fear the Lord It is to check a box
01:00:45: To make sure the religious box is checked This is the problem of outward religion
01:00:56: Familiarity being over familiar Familiar coming to God as if he's a man
01:01:03: That's the problem you want to see how Jesus deals with it, oh boy look at verse 15 and making a whip of cords
01:01:19: He drove them all out of the temple With the sheep and the oxen and he poured out the coins
01:01:28: Picture this with your mind's eye This is a dramatic scene. This is
01:01:34: Zealous it is passionate. It is not Nice It is not gentle He literally made a whip.
01:01:44: I'm not sure that he actually whipped any people He probably was just driving the animals the oxen and the sheep to get him moving
01:01:50: But imagine the scene guys bring up the slide. I want to paint the picture for you of what this would look like This is a picture of the temple
01:02:00: Herod's temple which was very grand Herod had Built it up to be even bigger and more grandiose than Solomon's temple, but it had different courts surrounding these giant walls
01:02:12: There were gates that allowed you to come in the Eastern Gate over here
01:02:18: This these courts were called the court of the Gentiles Gentiles were allowed to come in this far the court of the
01:02:27: Gentiles But they could not go farther in to the holy place or here.
01:02:32: This is the Holy of Holies. Remember this Only the priest could go into the
01:02:37: Holy of Holies the women's court out here That's as far as the women were allowed to go But only
01:02:43: Jewish people could go in here out here were the Gentiles The court of the
01:02:48: Gentiles Now imagine this is as close as the Gentiles can come to worshiping God and God had said of his temple what it will be a house of prayer for all nations
01:03:01: But what did they make it here in the outer courts?
01:03:07: They had set up a trade Instead of bringing your sheep from far away
01:03:16: That's kind of hard to do just bring money and buy a sheep here in the court and they'll exchange your money no matter where you're from for a small fee and So when the
01:03:28: Gentile comes through the North Gate or through the Golden Eastern Gate where Jesus will enter When they come instead of seeing a place of prayer
01:03:37: People kneeling and worshiping God and calling out from the heart. All they could hear was the lowing of cattle the chirping of birds
01:03:47: The clanging of money the yelling and arguing the bartering the trading in the house of God You see the reason for his zeal
01:03:58: His house was to be a house of prayer. And so he made a whip of cords and he dealt with it
01:04:06: Zealously, he does not tolerate false religion. He Passionately zealously drives out the money changers next slide
01:04:17: This is what it looks like today because in 70 AD The temple was thrown down from the temple mount and this is the
01:04:27: Eastern Gate Where Ezekiel tells us that the Shekinah glory the Lord himself will enter the temple
01:04:35: Jesus when he returns at his second coming will come through the Eastern Gate. The trouble is
01:04:40: Muslims conquered Jerusalem and they Blocked it up With stone so that the
01:04:48: Messiah cannot come into his temple and worse than that. They Buried their dead and made a cemetery of Muslims at the base
01:04:59: Because they know that a Jew cannot walk on a cemetery of Gentiles when the
01:05:10: Romans took Jesus's body and Rolled it put it in a tomb and rolled a stone in front of it an angel of the
01:05:21: Lord Came and rolled that stone away how much more when our
01:05:27: Lord Jesus lands on the Mount of Olives splitting the entire mountain with his foot and Enters his temple how much easier will that stone be thrown away?
01:05:41: with a word that brick will shatter and Make way for the king and even the dead bodies in the cemetery will rise and make way for the king
01:05:53: There is no force on earth. No power of hell that can keep the king from entering his temple now listen
01:06:01: The problem music was just at the right time by the way, there's dramatic background music
01:06:07: The problem is this outward religion this family heritage and the fate going through the motions
01:06:15: Jesus's solution is to drive that out. So then what's the the answer? How do you come and have a genuine relationship?
01:06:23: How can you be a disciple in the truth? Well, that's the third and final major point if you'll look in the text verse 17 says his disciples
01:06:35: Remembered that it was written disciples
01:06:45: Look to the truth of God's Word and Here in the scripture
01:06:52: Is the key to authenticity? Genuine relationship when you with trembling hands
01:06:58: Isaiah 66 to tremble before his word Open his word and say speak Lord. Your servant is listening
01:07:05: You begin to meet with him do that now in Malachi chapter 3
01:07:12: Malachi chapter 3 It's the last book of the Old Testament.
01:07:17: So it's easy to find. I Already mentioned Malachi 3 a couple weeks ago Because it foretells
01:07:24: John the Baptist the forerunner who will prepare the way for Messiah Malachi also mentions it in chapter 4 verses 5 and 6
01:07:34: Elijah the prophet who will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the hearts of the father to the children
01:07:40: John the Baptist himself was prophesied as the forerunner but read on in Malachi chapter 3
01:07:52: Remember the purpose of John These things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the
01:07:58: Christ The Son of God that believing you may have life in his name. How do you know?
01:08:04: That Jesus is the Christ if it's not gonna come from your parents religion It's not gonna come from the tradition of a church or a
01:08:12: Pope or any authority on earth How can you know that he is the Christ? By the written prophetic word.
01:08:22: Let's read it Malachi 3 Verse 1 behold. I send my messenger.
01:08:28: What's his name? John the Baptist and He will prepare the way before me because this is
01:08:37: Yahweh coming now read on and The Lord whom you seek
01:08:45: Will suddenly come to his temple That's what just happened in John chapter 2 when he begins his earthly ministry
01:08:57: He turns water to wine a couple days down to Capernaum And then he goes to Jerusalem and walks right into the temple to do what read on?
01:09:06: And the messenger of the covenant that's Jesus in whom you delight behold. He is coming
01:09:13: Says the Lord of hosts But how does he come does he come gently riding on a donkey
01:09:21: Not in this instant how instance how does he come? Look at verse 2 who can endure the day of his coming and who can stand when he appears?
01:09:32: For he is like a refiners fire and like Fuller's soap
01:09:39: He comes with fire in his eyes He comes with passion in his heart with zeal to the point where he makes a whip and drives out the money changers
01:09:48: Why because he's like Fuller's soap He's cleansing
01:09:55: What we have in John 2 is the cleansing of the temple which identifies the
01:10:01: Messiah the prophet Malachi hundreds of years ahead of time said when
01:10:06: Messiah comes he's announced by John the Baptist and he comes into the temple and Cleanses it
01:10:12: This is how you know that Jesus is the Christ that authority
01:10:17: I Mean just think of the miracle of it We saw a picture of what the temple looked like well just on the side of it there was a fortress
01:10:26: I think it was the Antonine fortress How do you say it? Yeah, you got it.
01:10:32: I knew you would know Rob and There were the Roman soldiers and if there was any disturbance in the temple area because this is a mass
01:10:41: Gathering of people the Romans are standing guard they even had a direct tunnel to pop out right into the the court of the
01:10:49: Gentiles to put down any problem and yet Jesus walked right in there and Drove out all the money changers and nobody no
01:10:59: Roman soldier. No Jew could stop him You would think one big burly six -foot -five guy like yo, buddy and grab him by the arms and walk him out
01:11:08: But nobody dared Because it was a miracle of his authority He came to his temple.
01:11:16: It was his house and he represented his father the Son of God the
01:11:22: Messiah walked straight in and nobody said a word and that's what
01:11:29: Malachi was foretelling we're back in Malachi 3 verse 3 he will sit as a refiner and Purifier of silver and he will purify the sons of Levi He purifies the temple, but this only foretells
01:11:44: The purification of the Gentiles and the Jews all who would be made pure Will be made pure by the refiners blood
01:11:54: He cannot wash you with soap He can cleanse the temple of all the outlandish things going on in there, but the heart of man
01:12:03: We'll look at this at the end of the chapter is Desperately wicked and who knows it
01:12:09: The Lord himself can cleanse your heart He himself can wash you clean and he does that by dying on the cross
01:12:19: His blood can wash you whiter than snow his blood can cleanse you of all iniquity and He alone the
01:12:30: Messiah is able to do this It's what he's saying in Malachi 3 3 he will purify the sons of Levi and Refine them like gold and silver and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the
01:12:44: Lord You can bring an offering to the Lord It's not the outward ritual of religion.
01:12:51: It's The humble and contrite heart the one who worships in spirit and truth the widow
01:13:02: Who brings nothing but a might? But gives it to her God the genuine heart
01:13:10: That's what he's after my son. Give me your heart Read on we go back to John Chapter 2.
01:13:28: How do you know the true God, you know him by the word?
01:13:35: Malachi 3 1 2 4 as we just studied Which verse do the disciples recognize?
01:13:45: Psalm 69 verse 9 zeal for your house will consume me
01:13:52: It was prophesied That this consuming zeal would come over the
01:13:59: Messiah and he would cleanse the temple in that same chapter in the 8th verse We're told that his own brothers would reject him as we just saw it happened just that way and In the 21st verse of Psalm 69.
01:14:14: We're told that they would offer him poison to drink and sour wine vinegar
01:14:21: Which on the cross came to pass Psalm 69 21 when he was lifted up hanging on the cross to dull his pain
01:14:30: They offered him sour wine, but he refused to drink it Why?
01:14:38: It was his desire to drink the cup of God's wrath against our sin in full and to bear the full weight of that suffering and So they put that vinegar to his mouth and dabbed it to his lips, but he refused to suck
01:14:54: From the sponge of the soldier's spear psalm 69
01:15:02: Maybe you've been coming to church your whole life and you've you've only come because your parents bring you. How do you know that?
01:15:09: Jesus is the Christ Because the very details of his suffering even being offered sour wine on the cross is written in psalm 69 verse 21 and The coming into the temple zeal consuming him when he clears the temple was foretold by the prophet in psalm 69 verse 9
01:15:31: All of these things are written and that's the point look back at John 2 You have the unbelievers
01:15:39: The Pharisees the religious leaders and they asked for a sign Jews seek a sign first Corinthians 2
01:15:47: And they say what sign do you show us? Jesus answered them Destroy this temple and in three days,
01:15:55: I will Raise it up. Here is a new covenant prophecy
01:16:03: Jesus giving as a covenant giver in the New Testament new revelation
01:16:10: When he said destroy this temple and I will build it up. He was not talking about Herod's temple
01:16:17: That would be destroyed and he kind of foretold that prophetically destroy this temple, but he was referring to his body
01:16:27: Saying prophetically destroy this temple of God for he himself is the presence of God Tabernacling among us
01:16:34: John 1 14 destroy this temple and on the third day. I raise it up He takes his life back up from the grave
01:16:42: He prophesied that but now look at verse 22 therefore when he was raised from the dead
01:16:49: His disciples remembered he said this So, why do the disciples believe because they heard the word and they saw it fulfilled
01:17:02: They believe by faith in what God spoke but look on it says also in verse 22
01:17:09: They believe the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken
01:17:17: Genuine authentic faith comes by hearing the word of God everything that the scriptures have given us
01:17:25: From Genesis to Malachi and then in the New Testament what Jesus has spoken Relayed and confirmed by the
01:17:31: Apostles the new revelation of the 27 books of the New Testament Genuine faith comes by the word of God not religious tradition
01:17:43: Jesus is harsh against that it comes by hearing lastly. He knows us and look what direction trust must go
01:17:55: We're not trustworthy We're prone to build idols in our lives in our churches
01:18:01: To veer off the course like the Roman Catholic Church has done in all the ways we've described
01:18:08: And all Christians are prone To idolatry Calvin said the heart is an idol factory.
01:18:17: We just make idols all the time Jesus comes with the whip to draw those out trust
01:18:26: Moves in one direction man to God not God to man The old saying believe in yourself
01:18:36: God trusts you He knows better than to do that Look what it says now when he was in Jerusalem at the
01:18:43: Passover Feast Many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing but Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them because he knew all people and Needed no one to bear witness about man for he himself knew what was in man
01:19:04: That should be at one point Terrifying on the one hand terrifying
01:19:10: He knows our secret thoughts fantasies Jealousies Pride But on the other hand
01:19:22: It's comforting he's known from beginning from the beginning what
01:19:27: Adam was like and what Eve was like and what all the children of Adam Eve are like and Knowing that he came and died the death that we deserve
01:19:37: He knows you so why try to hide? Where will you flee from his presence psalm 139 if you go to the highest heights or the depths of the sea?
01:19:47: He's there if you go to Sheol, he's there. He knows your thoughts he's everywhere and What he seeks is genuine authentic worship not going through the motions
01:20:02: So include in closing when we read about the zeal of the Lord It is a holy zeal for the purity of the church when the prosperity preacher on TBN tries to sell some cloth or some holy water or Asked you to sow a seed into his ministry so that you can get rich it's invisible to us, but the whip is firing in heaven and Jesus will drive that nonsense into the pit of hell.
01:20:31: Sometimes his judgment is delayed, but the judgment is coming when churches go astray from the word and Bring drag
01:20:42: Queens right down the center aisle in the Church of the Holy God or fly rainbow flags and Bring in all things that are contrary to the
01:20:53: Word of God Jesus bears a whip and when he each of us wander into sin and Wander into church with the heart that's far
01:21:08: He bears the whip of discipline Correction, that is the loving father of Hebrews 12
01:21:16: He won't let us go that way. He desires our hearts So we're gonna close in prayer.
01:21:23: I just want you to think about This John 2 message and what it says about the authority of the king it reveals.
01:21:31: He is the Christ which is terrifying until Good and relieving because this
01:21:40: King who bears the whip Bore the cross for each of us who believe in him
01:21:47: Let's thank him So father we thank you for your word this morning Lord help us to tremble at your word
01:21:56: Help us to be humble and contrite in heart Lord as you hear your people praying right now
01:22:06: We ask Lord that you would forgive And cleanse the temple cleanse the church
01:22:12: We are the temple the Holy Spirit lives in us cleanse us
01:22:21: Lord and Lord, I pray that you would ignite in us a holy zeal for your word that you would raise up preachers
01:22:31: Even as they were sent from Geneva to Brazil to Hungary to Poland Taking over Scotland and England You did this in the 16th century
01:22:44: Lord, I pray you would do it now That from this building we would raise up young men to go be preachers
01:22:55: Lord that you would raise up every man woman and child to speak the truth of your word
01:23:02: That the children would have zeal in their hearts to share the gospel with their friends
01:23:07: That we would go to our workplaces preaching Christ make us zealous for your word
01:23:14: God the world will see us as extremists and They will mock, but if they rejected you what else would we expect
01:23:25: Lord? Give us zeal for your word and we pray a reformation begin right here and right now in Jesus name
01:23:36: Lord that we would plant other churches like the rock We pray for for blessing upon the rock that that pulpit would be a blaze for the glory of Christ We pray as we build the new building in Hainesport That it would be a lighthouse for the gospel, but that you would plant another lighthouse right back in this building
01:23:56: Lord, we pray that other churches would be a blaze for the glory of Christ Lord give us the same kind of zeal that we see burning in the eyes of the
01:24:07: Son of God His eyes were a flame of fire. Give us zeal
01:24:13: Lord your word says in Romans never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor
01:24:24: That is our prayer Lord Give us zeal for the gospel for the name that is above every name the name of Jesus in whose name we pray.
01:24:35: Amen Stroll Was not your home
01:25:19: Thoughts to mock your name Forgiveness fell upon your face
01:25:30: Like this On the altar of our praise let there be no higher name
01:25:51: Jesus Son of God You lay down your perfect life you are the sacrifice
01:26:03: Jesus Son of God You are
01:26:10: Jesus Son of God You bore our shame
01:26:22: You rose to life You defeated the grave
01:26:29: Like this The world Cause you took our sin you bore our shame
01:26:48: You rose to life You defeated the grave
01:26:54: Love like this The world has never known
01:27:04: Oh Are the altar of our praise let there be no higher name
01:27:14: Jesus Son of God You perfect life
01:27:22: You are the sacrifice Jesus Son of God You are
01:27:33: Jesus Son of God Be lifted higher
01:27:40: Than all you've overcome Your name be louder
01:27:47: Than any other song there is no power
01:27:53: That can come against your love The cross was enough
01:28:00: The cross was enough The cross was enough
01:28:06: The cross was enough On the altar of our praise let there be no higher name
01:28:21: Jesus Son of God You lay down your perfect life you are the sacrifice
01:28:34: Jesus Son of God You are
01:28:40: Jesus Son of God You know when
01:28:48: I come up here to do the benediction I'm always tempted to preach again I Won't do that, but there was something
01:28:55: I forgot to say That it's kind of like you're watching a movie and they roll the credits and then there's an extra little scene at the end
01:29:02: So I am gonna say this one thing because it's amazing The Huguenots were driven out of France and the
01:29:10: Wicked King. He was Protestant that Kind of sold out.
01:29:15: He said Paris is worth at least a mass And so he sold out and it became a
01:29:21: Catholic country all over again, right? What happened to all those Huguenots? that fled many of them went around Europe, but then they immigrated to this little place called the
01:29:34: United States of America and Here are the names of a few people that are
01:29:40: Huguenot descendants Protestant Evangelicals that fled under that persecution.
01:29:46: Maybe you've heard of a few of them Paul Revere Alexander Hamilton John Jay George Washington John Adams John Quincy Adams William Henry Harrison John Tyler Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce Ulysses S Grant James Garfield Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Teddy Roosevelt Ever heard of him my personal favorite favorite
01:30:12: Calvin Coolidge listen we received the inheritance of faithful men who came to this country with the light of the gospel and This country has been squandering it, but it's not too late to relight that lamp
01:30:31: We need another Reformation Worthy and we we receive that. Amen We received that reformation in an inheritance of this country where the gospel is in every state churches everywhere
01:30:47: But we need a new Reformation men and women not just going through the motions But who loved the
01:30:53: Lord who love his word, let's read it in benediction Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ According to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
01:31:10: But has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations according to the command of the