Title A Temple that God Rejoices in?
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A temple that pleases God?
Mark 11:15-17
First of all, how grateful we are to God that the temple of Our Neulsarang Church is beautifully built and that everything is finished in God's grace.
We pray that the upcoming entrance service will also be offered with the grace of the Lord, and that this temple will be dedicated in God's way with God's sovereignty as soon as possible.
First, let's talk a little bit about common sense about the temple.
The temple in the text is the Greek word hiero, which is a building generally thought of as the dwelling place of the divine.
Looking at the process of transformation, the first temple in Israel was a tabernacle that could be easily carried around in the wilderness (Exodus 25-31, 33-40).
After that, after entering Canaan, the ark was kept in the high place and kept alive (The high place is a kind of god worship place installed on an artificially created site on the top of a mountain where humans were sacrificed (2 Kings 16:3~4), We see that religious syncretism and polytheism spread in Israel through fornication (1 Kings 14:23-24) and fortune-telling (2 Kings! 7:17) (1 Kings 11:6-8))
In the time of Solomon, after 7 years of great work on the threshing floor of Ornan, Solomon's Temple was built, and Zerubbabel's Temple was built on the site of the destroyed Solomon's Temple during the Babylonian invasion, and it leads to Herod's Temple.
A temple in the Old Testament refers to a building.
However, in the New Testament, each and every one of God's people who received the Holy Spirit after Jesus died a substitute as a Lamb on the cross, was resurrected, ascended into heaven, and sent the Holy Spirit. I'm referring to community.
(1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? / If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, you (Revelation 21:22 - I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. // Revelation 21:2~ 3 - And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband / I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. Every God will dwell with them, and they will be God's people, and God Himself will be with them.
He is saying that God Himself and the Lamb will be the temple of the city, and that God will dwell among His people.
With this explanation, the word temple building may seem strange, but don't get too caught up in the word. God knows and understands all the will of our hearts. Know what you've learned so far
I hope you will understand that the place where God dwells is the temple and remember that He meets His people in the temple.
Today's sermon is titled, What is the temple that God is pleased with?
Focusing on today's text, let's look at what God wants to say to us today.
Today's text is often introduced as the cleansing of the temple of Jesus.
This is an event that believers know very well.
Then, first, let’s look at the context and the time
Jesus enters Jerusalem victoriously on the Sunday (Sunday) the day before this event.
He has escaped, hid, and has not revealed his identity publicly until now, but is now officially and openly entering Jerusalem as the King of Kings and the King of Israel.
If you imagine this scene, the people of Israel begin to gather from all parts of the country to Jerusalem for the Passover.
As Israel's greatest holiday, all attention and footsteps are directed to Jerusalem.
The people of Israel must have been in a state of commotion as Jerusalem broke down palm trees and spread them on the road, and even took off their cloaks and followed them back and forth, waving palm trees and shouting hosanna hosanna (save me).
Jesus' eyes and their eyes were looking at the opposite.
Jesus had been hiding until now, but the reason Jesus entered Jerusalem today for the Passover is that He entered to die as the Passover Lamb, not to be saved from Rome, but to be saved from sin.
Isn't it similar to the way we are doing well in this world today and believing in Jesus according to the blessings of the world, and the way the people of Israel received Jesus in an unreasonable way 2000 years ago?
Jesus enters Jerusalem on the first day of the week (Sunday), does only one thing, and returns to Bethany.
Do you know what that only one is?
He prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem.
The people are expecting deliverance from the oppression from Rome (Luke 19:41-44), but Jesus weeps and prophesies.
(Luke 19:41-44 - As he came near, he saw the city and wept / saying, "You should have known today the things of peace, but now you have hidden it from your eyes / The day will come when your enemies will build Saturn and surround you / and you and your children who are in them will be thrown to the ground, and not one stone will be left upon a stone, because you do not know the day of the counselling.
What do you mean?
It would have been good if the conditions of peace, that is, Jerusalem and the Jews had repented of their sins and accepted the gospel of God, but you are blind. Jesus is weeping as he sees the wretchedness of that destruction killing his children by smashing them to the ground, and seeing the temple perish without leaving a single stone on top of it.
This prophecy is fulfilled by the Roman general Titus in 70 A.D.
2nd day (Monday) - When he entered the city, he cursed the fruitless fig tree, and the first thing he did when he entered the city was to purify the temple, which is today's event.
Don't you feel anything?
If the content of the text is
The first thing Jesus did when he entered the city of Jerusalem was to overthrow the temple because it defiled the temple.
They overturned the temple because they made it into a den of robbers, that is, a den of robbers.
The temple must be a holy place and a place to offer holy sacrifices, and the temple at this time was made a place of burial.
Look at the middle of verse 15.
(He drove out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who sold doves.)
The reasons for the loss of purity and holiness of the temple are as follows.
From tolerating and tolerating seemingly small injustices, seemingly inevitable injustices, the temple was defiled.
When Jesus saw the defiled temple and saw that it had been made into a den of robbers, he was outraged with righteous anger. In John 2:15, during the first cleansing of the temple, he drove them out with a whip. In today's text, such a word is not recorded. However, he was kicked out with such a robbery.
In a nutshell, “It was turned upside down.
We are not here telling us that the Lord is telling us to know the facts of an event that Jesus did 2,000 years ago.
You should know that this event warns the church of this age and the saints whose body is sanctified.
We need to look into the modern church.
The church should be a place where God dwells, a holy place, and a house where all people pray...
Workshop, market place, where idols of all kinds are rampant, practicing divination, worshiping idols...
Do you think Jesus will come today to see and praise the church of this age?
Or do you think you will take the whip and drive out the merchants and overthrow the church?
The church of this age must look back to see how much a church that will receive the praise of Jesus will come out.
The following is God's message to each and every member of our members.
I said before
It is said that our body is a temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - Don't you know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? / Whoever defiles the temple of God, God will despise him. For the temple of God is holy, and so are you.
The Holy Spirit God sent by Jesus (God the Son) is making our bodies a temple. They say they are saints, but they say they are temples, but they defile the body, which is not holy, and defile the body that is a temple. The Lord asks if it is not a den of robbers, such as cheating, cheating, fornication, etc.
The temple must be holy.
If you are not holy, God does not dwell.
You cannot meet God in an unholy temple.
How many decades do you say you believe in Jesus and do not meet Jesus?
Why doesn't that life change?
Why is there no fruit in that life?
Why are you powerless and helpless?
Why do we go to destruction rather than recovery?
Because the temple was defiled and my body turned into a den of robbers.
Because my thoughts and God's thoughts are different.
In order for the temple, which is truly my body, to become a temple that God is pleased with, even if it is beaten first, it must overturn the marketplace and drive out the merchants.
The temple will be cleansed only when Jesus overturns and destroys all the idols and evils that have defiled my heart and the business that has started again.
The Holy Spirit dwells in my heart.
The Holy Spirit dwells in clean places.
It must be a clean and holy place, where God will meet us.
In order to have deep fellowship while listening to God's voice, my body, where God is the temple, must be clean.
My heart must be holy and pure.
What kind of temple is pleasing to God?
First, it is the holy temple of God.
Holy is kadash in Hebrew.
It means to cut off, to separate.
This means that in order to serve and worship God well, we must set ourselves apart from the worldly.
Cutting off means that all things that hinder us from serving God well and things that are not pleasing to God must be cut and thrown away.
This is the second house of prayer.
Faith without the Word, prayer, and praise is dead faith.
It is not the Christian faith.
The temple from which God has departed has no word, no prayer, and no praise.
The temple from which God has departed is blinded, hardened in heart, filled with evil and wrath, and ultimately falls into destruction, unaware of its own destruction, just as the city of Jerusalem is destroyed.
Has not my body, the temple, turned into a marketplace?
Has not my body, the temple, turned into a den of robbers?
Overturn it and drive it out, in the name of Jesus.
Cleanse and sanctify the house of the Lord.
Then God will be pleased with you and God will meet you
You will hear the voice of God.