Anger and Love in the Temple
Speaker:
Andrew Fountain
Date:
Sun, 2019-10-06 - What exactly made Jesus so angry?
- Why did he gave such a strange answer to the Pharisees?
- When we can truly resonate with Jesus’ anger and feel his love, we can get what this story is all about.
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Sermon Outline - Anger and Love in the Temple
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John 2:12–25
- After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
- Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.
- So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
- To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
- His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”
- So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”
- Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”
- Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”
- But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.
- So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.
- Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.
- But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.
- He did not need anyone to testify about people, for he knew what was in people.
- Now a certain person, a Pharisee named Nicodemus… came to Jesus at night
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- A few days—time for the story to reach Jerusalem
- Very different to the previous story
- Why did Jesus get so angry?
- This is going to be one of my main points
- People had come a long way
- Tyrian half-shekels
- Why didn’t anyone stop him? How could one man do this?
- Shock? Guilt?
- Odd kind of a challenge. Why not challenge authority?
- Maybe guilt? Had heard about Cana?
- Why answer in such a strange way? How did it help? Why not point out the sin?
- There was no need to repeat what he said about the sin
- There was another dimension to the problem with the temple. Even if perfect, something much better was required.
- talk about this shortly
- Why not give them any explanation? What was the point or purpose?
- If Jesus had been explicit, they would have arrested him right away
- But he did not want to dumb down the truth
- So he made it like a test of their interest
- This is setting us up for ch.3
- Note that we are the temple as well, but we are built on him, the foundation stone
- Did he start these after the incident?
- That is how the story reads
- Why nothing about the response to the event?
- for ch 3
- What is the point of this?
- John’s interest in belief
- It sounds negative, but the next two stories are going to make it very positive!
- Why repeat it in this odd way?
- Set up for ch3
2. A couple of critical questions
- How does this make you feel?
- This is exactly what is happening—people are coming to the passover guilty and broken
- They need to meet with God, know they are forgiven, and feel his love
- Instead it seems God just wants their money
- Does this not make you angry?
Updated on 2019-10-10 by Andrew Fountain
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