His Last Week: Jesus Cleanses The Temple - Pastor Ben Hodges

Luke 19:45-48 Luke 20:1-8 The Temple Cleansed Because of … Love, pure and undefiled love.James 1:27 Love of a Holy God is priority 1 in a cleansed temple.- Thieves should not feel comfortable in the presence of a holy God.- The disordered temple is cleansed to make it a place where the truth is not in competition with anything else.- Goal: For God to be exalted, to be truly seen, and heard, and glorified, and worshipped.A cleansed temple is a place where people are loved.- The enemy’s goal is distraction – to keep people from hearing and seeing.- Jesus cries over Jerusalem, and then goes to inspect the temple.- His compassion for people is connected to his anger in the temple.- The temple is not like a mall, people are not shopping, leaders are not selling.A cleansed temple is a place where righteous anger is expressed righteously.- 1 Peter 4:17 In the Kingdom, authority that is not leveraged to honor God and serve people is invalidated.