Title: Overture to Suffering / Luke 19:45-48
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We greeted the first day of Holy Week early this morning.
W We will keep until Saturday as Holy Week. And during this time, we will have a special Holy Week special.
We are going to have a morning prayer, and we will use the Holy Week Meditation on the Word published in the bulletin as the main text.
C. When you meditate on the Word during this Holy Week, if you meditate on the Word published in the newsletter,
I believe it will be a more meaningful week of hardship. Today's sermon is titled Prelude to Suffering.
C. Jesus entered Jerusalem and went on a pilgrimage to Golgotha.
On the way to Goda, two events occurred. The first was the cleansing of the temple and the second was
The second is the event of cursing the fruitless figs. Today we are going through these two events
I'm trying to find the subject of prayer to pray to.
On the way to Golgotha, there is a place where Jesus first stopped.
The place was the temple. The temple has always been a holy place where God is present.
The temple is a house of prayer for all people according to the words of Jesus. But what does this mean?
how? In the eyes of Jesus, the temple had already lost its holiness. Rather, it was corrupted.
As a result, it has become a stinky temple. There is no interest in true worship and only merchants are crowded.
has become a marketplace.
All the Israelites make a pilgrimage to the Temple of Jerusalem at the time of the Passover.
They are gathered together. These are lambs or doves without blemish as sacrifices to make atonement for their sins.
They offer their backs as sacrifices. In this process, there was corruption.
There were judges. These judges did the test and only those that passed the test can be sacrificed.
But these judges worked together with the merchants in the temple and sold it in the temple.
Mann made a pass decision. No matter how good it was brought from home, it was rejected.
And the offerings sold in the temple were sold at a price ten times higher than the market price.
And the currency used was the currency used in the city of Jerusalem, and people from other countries
Even when they changed money, they exchanged it, leaving many people behind.
had to suffer losses. The most chosen and holy city to be consecrated to God
The worship service in the temple was playing in the hands of the merchants. Manmin’s house of prayer is the market place.
It has become a den of thieves. Jesus was outraged. Jesus overturned the table.
He drove them all out with the whip. Jesus’ suffering had already begun.
We have to think about why Jesus was so angry.
This is why Jesus and the meek and humble Jesus were so indignant.
The reason was that the sacrifice was unclean. Jesus is going to Golgotha now.
What he did was to become a sacrifice himself. So John the Baptist said, behold the world.
Jesus is introduced as the Lamb of God who takes away sins. Jesus
was heading to Golgotha to be a sin offering for the forgiveness of all our sins.
But there was uncleanness by offering a sacrifice in the temple. The sacrifice was an unclean offering.
They were filthy and stinky sacrifices. But the religious leaders were at their best.
We were offering it to God as a sacrifice. Here we are doing what our Lord hates.
You can find it. It is an unholy sacrifice.
In Romans 12:1, it says this.< Let God restore your body.
Present it as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to you, which is your spiritual worship. > Today we
This is the title of prayer to pray together as we welcome Gonam Week Monday. Lord, make us sanctified.
Please, do not become an unclean sacrifice, do not become a stinking sacrifice,
Let us give our bodies wholly to you, we should pray like this.
And the second place he stayed was under the fig tree.
Here our Lord expects something. He is hungry and wants to rest a little.
But our Lord found nothing under the fig tree.
The tree has let the Lord down. The tree has been cursed and the eternal land.
It has ceased to bear fruit.
What was the fig tree where Jesus stayed? Who is it? fig tree soon
It is us. Under the fig tree is our soul, our home, our
It is the church of the field. Our Lord is asking us now.
I gave myself up for you and shed blood to atone for your sins and gave me a way to live I gave myself for you
What do you give me? I sacrificed my body, but what do you do? atonement for your sins
but what are you doing? I give my body for you, but what do you give me?
Heavenly Father gave the only begotten Son and Jesus Christ gave us that life
The Lord asks us now under the fig tree on Monday of Holy Week.
I would give my body for you, but what would you give me?
Dear brothers and sisters, what can we offer the Lord? Our Lord
What you deal with is an undeniable sanctified heart and a sincere life. Our Lord is
He never despises a broken heart. Rather, he rejoices. We pray together today
This is what we are to do. Renew us an honest spirit and grant us a repentant heart.
Lord, I cannot offer you this image as it is. A sacrifice worthy of offering to God.
Help us to be like this, so that we can be used when God is going to use you.
Lord, I give my body for you, but when you ask me what you give me, I give my life.
Lord accept it, I give you my health. Lord accept it, I give my all.
All, Lord, accept it. This must be the time to pray like this. Toward Golgotha
W Should this be a time of repentance and resolution by following the walking of the Lord?
All. Amen.