WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.060 If you don't know me, my name is Niels, part of the staff team, and I'll be preaching in a moment. 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.919 So yeah, in a moment we'll be turning to our Bibles and continuing to look at the Gospel of John. 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:14.839 But of course this is God who's going to speak to us. 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:19.900 So why don't I pray before Margo comes to read and before I speak. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.019 Our Father, thank you for your words. Thank you that it's living and active. 00:00:27.019 --> 00:00:35.500 Thank you that we can see Jesus publicly portrayed in your powerful words. 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:39.480 So we pray that we would listen. I pray that you would speak to each of our hearts. 00:00:39.980 --> 00:00:42.920 We pray that by your Spirit, yeah, you would do a deep work inside us. 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:45.840 Lord, we need you. We need your grace. 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:51.359 And that comes to us, yeah, in a moment when we hear you speak to us through your words. 00:00:51.460 --> 00:00:54.299 And then, yeah, would you take my words, which are just human words. 00:00:54.299 --> 00:00:57.839 But would you take what is right and apply it to our hearts. 00:00:58.059 --> 00:00:59.899 In Jesus' name. Amen. 00:01:07.899 --> 00:01:13.379 Good morning. 00:01:13.979 --> 00:01:19.479 Today's reading is from John, chapter 2, verses 13 to 25. 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:21.939 Please follow along in the bulletin. 00:01:21.939 --> 00:01:28.259 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 00:01:28.939 --> 00:01:34.239 In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:36.679 and the money changers sitting there. 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:43.200 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple with the sheep and the oxen. 00:01:43.739 --> 00:01:48.340 And he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 00:01:48.340 --> 00:01:51.480 And he told those who sold the pigeons, 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:53.359 Take these things away. 00:01:53.780 --> 00:01:56.540 Do not make my father's house a house of trade. 00:01:57.340 --> 00:02:01.439 His disciples remembers that it was written, 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.980 Seal for your house will consume me. 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:07.760 So the Jews said to him, 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.960 What sign do you show us for doing these things? 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:13.060 Jesus answered them, 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:17.140 Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:19.400 The Jews then said, 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:22.659 It has taken 46 years to build this temple, 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:25.259 and will you raise it up in three days? 00:02:25.259 --> 00:02:28.899 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 00:02:29.939 --> 00:02:32.539 When therefore he was raised from the dead, 00:02:33.060 --> 00:02:36.099 his disciples remembered that he had said this, 00:02:36.500 --> 00:02:40.639 and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:44.859 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:49.560 many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.379 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:55.379 because he knew all people, 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.620 and needed no one to bear witness about men, 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.460 for he himself knew what was in men. 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.039 This is the word of God. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:11.759 Great. Thank you, Margot, for reading. 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.560 Now I don't know if you were surprised yesterday 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.639 when there was suddenly a yellow rainstorm. 00:03:18.019 --> 00:03:18.439 I don't know. 00:03:19.359 --> 00:03:20.599 I hadn't expected that. 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:21.840 I thought it was just nice weather, 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:23.899 and then suddenly there was this big rainstorm. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:25.680 Maybe you got caught walking outside. 00:03:26.519 --> 00:03:27.799 Actually, I really liked it. 00:03:28.399 --> 00:03:28.799 Why? 00:03:28.959 --> 00:03:30.719 Because our car got a free wash. 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:31.439 Right? 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.819 It's one of those things, yeah. 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.020 Okay, our car, you know, we have a car. 00:03:36.079 --> 00:03:36.639 It needs washing. 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.219 But life is just too busy, right? 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:41.039 And it's going to get washed anyway next time it rains. 00:03:41.139 --> 00:03:43.740 So I was really grateful for that, right? 00:03:44.359 --> 00:03:46.960 I mean, there's sometimes, you know, life is just full, right? 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:47.659 Life is busy. 00:03:48.079 --> 00:03:49.379 We have so many things to do. 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:51.500 Maybe there is this thing we need to fix at home, 00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:54.319 and, yeah, we should do it. 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.219 But we just leave it. 00:03:57.939 --> 00:03:59.500 Maybe we want to clean up our room. 00:03:59.620 --> 00:04:00.000 I don't know. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.120 A lot of teenagers are gone. 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.979 But, you know, sometimes it's good. 00:04:05.219 --> 00:04:06.439 You know, there's this mold growing. 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:08.740 I would better do something about it, right? 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:09.939 You wouldn't just want to leave it. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.840 And sometimes it's nice if things, if you really sort it out. 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:15.800 But, you know, so often we're just too busy. 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:18.579 Now, how about our lives? 00:04:19.779 --> 00:04:24.000 You know, our lives would be wonderful if they are really clean and beautiful. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.980 Our words, our actions, our thoughts. 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.480 The thing is this often they are not, right? 00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:35.439 If we know ourselves, we know that there's this selfishness inside of us that just keeps coming out. 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:38.019 We are not the people we want to be. 00:04:38.019 --> 00:04:43.139 The things we say, the things we think, they're not what we want them to be. 00:04:43.219 --> 00:04:44.199 And we'd love to change. 00:04:45.159 --> 00:04:47.240 The only thing is that life is too busy, right? 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:49.719 We don't really know how to change. 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:51.500 We're not interested. 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:53.279 It's not really a priority for us. 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:57.899 Because even if you're here and maybe you wouldn't call yourself a Christian, I don't know what you think. 00:04:57.979 --> 00:04:59.219 I guess all of us would know. 00:04:59.359 --> 00:05:03.679 Okay, I'm not really the person, you know, I want to be, that I should be. 00:05:05.379 --> 00:05:07.659 But, yeah, change is too difficult. 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:16.279 And just like washing our car, we're just too busy with our jobs, with our families, if we have them, with all kinds of things. 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:17.519 It's just not a priority. 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:19.759 Now, life is a struggle. 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.079 And the only shining light often for us is, well, the good news of Jesus. 00:05:24.119 --> 00:05:27.699 Well, today's passage is going to speak to us about that. 00:05:27.859 --> 00:05:36.039 Because today, if you were here last week, it's kind of part two of, again, something that John wants to say to us. 00:05:36.039 --> 00:05:39.919 If you were here last week, we saw Jesus at this wedding in Cana. 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:42.519 And he changed water into wine. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.639 I mean, very famous miracle. 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.479 And it's very similar in a way to today. 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:48.679 Why is it similar? 00:05:49.119 --> 00:05:51.459 Well, Jesus did something really significant. 00:05:51.459 --> 00:06:00.259 And then in verse 11, if you have a Bible, more than a bulletin, well, his disciples believed in him, right? 00:06:00.919 --> 00:06:02.419 Jesus did something significant. 00:06:02.799 --> 00:06:03.919 His disciples believed. 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.199 And as you heard in the reading, again, Jesus does something. 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.620 And at the end of the passage, his disciples believe, right? 00:06:10.660 --> 00:06:12.240 That is the thing. 00:06:12.340 --> 00:06:15.439 So it's kind of two sides of one coin, two parts. 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:17.400 Okay, here is Jesus. 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:18.939 And here is what he came to do. 00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:19.640 So it's similar. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.600 But at the same time, it's definitely different, right? 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:27.760 If you compare it to last week and the wedding, the Jesus we see here is Jesus. 00:06:27.939 --> 00:06:31.060 But it's a fuller picture of him. 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:33.520 So that's what we're going to look at today. 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.200 Now, you may wonder, Jesus cleansing the temple. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:38.720 And you've read the Gospels. 00:06:38.900 --> 00:06:46.200 And hey, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus cleanses the temple like five days before he dies. 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:50.399 And now this is three years earlier, it seems. 00:06:51.060 --> 00:06:51.879 We don't know. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.279 Did he do it twice, three years apart? 00:06:54.420 --> 00:06:55.099 That's possible. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:00.379 Maybe it's the same one and John just moved it forward as a two-part introduction. 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.419 You know, back then, chronology wasn't the big point. 00:07:04.019 --> 00:07:07.959 They tried to organize the material sometimes to tell certain stories, right? 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.639 You read a gospel and you get all the miracles together. 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.419 And then all the parables together. 00:07:12.420 --> 00:07:17.100 And then all the arguments with the Pharisees together. 00:07:17.420 --> 00:07:18.860 That's just how they wrote the gospel. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:27.580 So the question is, what does John want to say through what Jesus did here? 00:07:27.640 --> 00:07:28.600 Why does he include it? 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.620 And I think just like last week, a big thing, well, yeah, this is what he wants to say, right? 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:37.000 The Messiah arrives. 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:38.200 Jesus is here. 00:07:38.540 --> 00:07:40.080 The Christ is here. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.699 I mean, this is basically his big point, as we've heard before, right? 00:07:45.159 --> 00:07:47.939 John wants us to see who Jesus is and believe in him. 00:07:48.740 --> 00:07:50.139 John 20, verse 31. 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:51.060 It's on the screen, right? 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:59.620 These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing in him, you may have life in his name. 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.240 That we would believe. 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:03.919 But, of course, not just tick the box. 00:08:04.019 --> 00:08:05.139 Yes, Jesus is the Christ. 00:08:05.139 --> 00:08:08.519 Okay, what does it mean for him to be the Christ, right? 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.240 The Christ and Messiah is the same thing. 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:11.599 What does it mean? 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:13.899 What is he like, right? 00:08:14.159 --> 00:08:15.500 That is what he wants us to show. 00:08:15.599 --> 00:08:16.680 We don't want to believe in him. 00:08:16.740 --> 00:08:17.879 We need to know what he's like. 00:08:18.459 --> 00:08:20.060 And, well, that's what we're going to see here. 00:08:20.060 --> 00:08:25.819 So, it's Passover, the biggest Jewish feast, and he goes to Jerusalem, to the temple. 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:27.459 That's quite normal. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:29.959 But then what he does is not normal. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.000 Verse 14. 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:58.919 Now, just so you have an idea. 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:02.559 I think this is kind of what the temple would have looked like back then. 00:09:04.219 --> 00:09:05.500 It was a big structure. 00:09:05.899 --> 00:09:10.360 But the thing in the middle, that's kind of like the real temple with the priests and sacrifices. 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:11.879 But outside is this court. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:13.899 They called it the court of the Gentiles. 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:19.839 And that is kind of where this took place, where they had the money changers and the animals. 00:09:20.259 --> 00:09:26.559 And, yeah, Jesus causes this huge disturbance where he drives them out and overthrows everything. 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.159 Now, what was wrong? 00:09:29.239 --> 00:09:30.379 Why did Jesus do this? 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.179 Now, these were not illegitimate things. 00:09:34.259 --> 00:09:38.000 They were really things, you know, legitimate things that people needed. 00:09:38.659 --> 00:09:40.979 You know, people needed to offer a sacrifice. 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:43.979 Now, long ago, everyone was a farmer. 00:09:44.219 --> 00:09:45.739 Everyone had livestock. 00:09:45.740 --> 00:09:48.379 But now we are a long time later. 00:09:48.539 --> 00:09:51.860 And you have, if you're a blacksmith, you don't have your own cows, right? 00:09:51.899 --> 00:09:52.560 But you have money. 00:09:52.700 --> 00:09:55.039 So you need to buy an animal and sacrifice it. 00:09:55.139 --> 00:09:57.060 That's not illegitimate, right? 00:09:58.019 --> 00:09:58.919 Money changers. 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:01.879 You needed to pay a temple tax in shekels. 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.720 But, you know, people come from all over the Roman Empire. 00:10:05.379 --> 00:10:06.720 Yeah, they don't all have shekels. 00:10:06.740 --> 00:10:07.779 They need to change money. 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:09.220 These were good things. 00:10:09.220 --> 00:10:13.420 But Jesus doesn't want it. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.240 Jesus, it's not really greed, right? 00:10:16.300 --> 00:10:19.320 Jesus says, don't make my father's house a house of trade. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:21.040 I think it's just simple. 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:22.660 This is the temple, right? 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.500 This place is for worship. 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.680 This place is for prayer. 00:10:27.500 --> 00:10:30.540 But instead, we have all this business going on. 00:10:30.920 --> 00:10:32.139 You know, how can people pray? 00:10:32.139 --> 00:10:35.639 How can people focus on God when you just have all this going on? 00:10:36.379 --> 00:10:36.500 Right? 00:10:36.500 --> 00:10:39.679 We're, you know, we're going to move to a new venue. 00:10:39.860 --> 00:10:41.039 We want to raise funds. 00:10:41.620 --> 00:10:41.960 I don't know. 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:45.259 Maybe we're going to have all this watermark clothing, right? 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.440 Like hoodies and T-shirts and all this kind of stuff that we're going to sell. 00:10:48.899 --> 00:10:49.960 It's not a bad thing. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.240 What would we do with here during the service, right? 00:10:53.259 --> 00:10:58.279 While I'm speaking or while Kevin is praying, you know, there's people walking around and buying stuff. 00:10:58.639 --> 00:10:59.639 Now, of course not, right? 00:11:00.059 --> 00:11:01.279 Hey, this is the service. 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:04.419 Now we're worshiping and later you can buy the stuff. 00:11:04.419 --> 00:11:08.199 You know, these things were not wrong, but do them outside the temple, right? 00:11:08.259 --> 00:11:09.159 This is the temple. 00:11:09.299 --> 00:11:12.319 This is where people want to have deep fellowship with God. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.919 And now actually that doesn't seem to matter, right? 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.419 All these people, yeah. 00:11:18.659 --> 00:11:20.759 I mean, the temple has become a place to earn money. 00:11:21.019 --> 00:11:26.659 Not a place where you focus on God, but where you buy your animal and you go for the motions and you offer it and you go out. 00:11:26.659 --> 00:11:34.860 And that is why Jesus says, no, that's, yeah, they're just destroying what the whole temple is about in a way. 00:11:35.659 --> 00:11:37.899 It's legitimate, but it's just the wrong place. 00:11:38.439 --> 00:11:43.519 And so Jesus, well, he, yeah, he starts driving things out. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.559 And the disciples, they see something in Jesus, right? 00:11:46.939 --> 00:11:47.659 Verse 17. 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:53.339 His disciples remembered that it was written, zeal for your house will consume me. 00:11:53.340 --> 00:11:55.899 So they see Jesus' anger. 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.519 They see how he's indignant about what's going on. 00:11:58.920 --> 00:12:01.480 They see how much he cares about the temple. 00:12:01.700 --> 00:12:04.820 And wow, that reminds us of the Psalms. 00:12:05.780 --> 00:12:07.860 Now the Psalms, they are, of course, prayers. 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.120 Why does Jesus, why do the disciples go there? 00:12:12.420 --> 00:12:15.019 Well, the Psalms, most of them are by David. 00:12:15.540 --> 00:12:17.879 And it kind of shows what David was like. 00:12:18.019 --> 00:12:19.180 David was the greatest king. 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:21.460 And the Messiah would be his son. 00:12:21.460 --> 00:12:23.200 He would be a greater David. 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:29.080 So everything that was great about David, you would see even more in his great son. 00:12:29.379 --> 00:12:37.080 And so seeing that Jesus is like such a perfect picture of the Messiah in the Psalms, the disciples see, hey, that's him. 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.780 Now, you might not think this is very special, right? 00:12:41.280 --> 00:12:43.680 Here, this is not a miracle that Jesus is doing here. 00:12:44.740 --> 00:12:47.900 Still, how many people do what Jesus did? 00:12:47.899 --> 00:12:53.879 How many people care so much about the temple that they would get indignant, right? 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.740 I'm sure there were many pious Jews who came to the temple. 00:12:57.079 --> 00:12:59.340 How many of them would feel like this? 00:12:59.779 --> 00:13:01.740 But all of us, the world is full of injustice. 00:13:02.459 --> 00:13:05.139 To be honest, how many of us are angry about that? 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.059 To be honest, most of us, yeah, we know it's wrong. 00:13:08.059 --> 00:13:10.699 But we don't care that much. 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.339 Jesus really, really cares, right? 00:13:14.699 --> 00:13:15.899 He makes him angry. 00:13:16.099 --> 00:13:21.500 We go, you know, why don't make my father's house a house of trade? 00:13:22.179 --> 00:13:25.799 It feels like a throwaway line, but he says God is his father, right? 00:13:25.859 --> 00:13:28.059 He claims to be the son of God. 00:13:28.739 --> 00:13:30.899 And not just that he gets angry. 00:13:31.139 --> 00:13:33.239 He acts, right? 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.039 Maybe other people felt indignant, but what did they do? 00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:42.220 Here is Jesus, and he makes a whip, and he starts driving cows and sheep and people out of the temple. 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:44.360 I mean, who would do that? 00:13:45.659 --> 00:13:47.379 And it's not like he's a revolutionary. 00:13:48.580 --> 00:13:49.980 And maybe some people, they see this. 00:13:50.060 --> 00:13:51.440 Oh, yeah, Jesus is a revolutionary. 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.100 We should overthrow the establishment. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.299 I mean, Jesus acts like he is the establishment, right? 00:13:57.419 --> 00:14:01.060 Hey, this is my father's house, and you don't do that here, right? 00:14:01.059 --> 00:14:03.659 He claims to be the son. 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:10.059 If I go to Buckingham Palace and start kicking people out, okay, who do I think I am? 00:14:10.479 --> 00:14:13.839 Who does, you know, this action, it really shows something. 00:14:13.959 --> 00:14:16.539 Okay, this is not a normal person. 00:14:16.699 --> 00:14:24.000 This is a person who is either crazy or who has a very strange view of himself, that he is the son of God, that he is the king. 00:14:25.739 --> 00:14:27.500 That's why this is such a big thing. 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:29.839 Of course, people didn't believe him, right? 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:34.860 So the Jew said to him, what sign do you show us for doing these things, right? 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:39.560 You know, what sign are you going to do that you are, you know, have the right to do this? 00:14:40.460 --> 00:14:42.960 The Jews, by the way, is the Jewish leaders. 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:44.100 It's not an ethnic term. 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:44.680 It's here. 00:14:45.180 --> 00:14:46.500 Yeah, the Jewish leaders. 00:14:47.660 --> 00:14:49.940 And all Jesus, okay, I'm going to give you a sign. 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:51.280 Verse 21. 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:52.759 Sorry, 19. 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:58.379 Jesus answered them, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:01.019 Which is, of course, a special thing, right? 00:15:01.259 --> 00:15:06.159 Building a temple in three days because it took us 46 years to build this. 00:15:06.580 --> 00:15:08.740 How are you going to do this in three days? 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:13.960 But, as John points out, but he was speaking about the temple of his body. 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.879 Jesus, in a way, is the temple. 00:15:18.220 --> 00:15:20.200 The temple is where God dwells on earth. 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:23.740 Well, at that time, 2,000 years ago, where could you find God on earth? 00:15:24.060 --> 00:15:24.780 In Jesus. 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:31.160 And so when he rose from the dead, yeah, he, you know, here's the temple raised in three days. 00:15:32.180 --> 00:15:33.680 And so it's talking about the resurrection. 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:38.259 You know, you want a sign that Jesus really is the king, that Jesus really is the son of God. 00:15:38.259 --> 00:15:40.759 But Jesus says, well, look at my resurrection. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.720 Kill me and then I'm going to rise from the dead. 00:15:43.939 --> 00:15:46.620 I think, of course, that's a miracle, right? 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.620 The cleansing is not a miracle, but that is a miracle. 00:15:50.580 --> 00:15:53.539 And the disciples, after he rose from the dead, they got it. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:55.779 Wow, Jesus really is it. 00:15:55.779 --> 00:15:56.860 Verse 22. 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:01.360 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. 00:16:02.139 --> 00:16:05.340 And they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:09.379 And they, the scripture is probably that verse from Psalm 69. 00:16:09.660 --> 00:16:11.220 It's not the scriptures, the whole Bible. 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.360 It's, you know, they, they could see it. 00:16:14.460 --> 00:16:19.040 They could see Jesus fulfilling this, yeah, this promise of the Messiah. 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:22.940 They could see Jesus, yeah, his words come true. 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.560 Anyway, you can see the big point, right? 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.460 Here we get a picture of Jesus. 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.139 We see his zeal for, for God's honor. 00:16:32.139 --> 00:16:34.080 We see his authority. 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.279 We see him act like the king. 00:16:37.460 --> 00:16:41.779 And he comes to his temple and he overthrows everything that's not good, right? 00:16:41.860 --> 00:16:43.600 He thinks he's in charge. 00:16:43.899 --> 00:16:48.299 He is, I don't know if, I mean, there's people here, you think Jesus is a good moral teacher 00:16:48.299 --> 00:16:50.460 who just tells people to love each other. 00:16:51.199 --> 00:16:55.080 I mean, such people don't go to the temple and throw people out, right? 00:16:55.899 --> 00:16:57.679 That's not what teachers do. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:02.839 He, yeah, again, this guy is either crazy or maybe he is the Lord. 00:17:02.899 --> 00:17:06.119 And if he rose from the dead, then maybe that is who he is. 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:07.639 I don't know. 00:17:07.899 --> 00:17:11.379 I know there's some people here who struggle to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.079 That's maybe keeping you from committing to Jesus. 00:17:14.460 --> 00:17:19.299 Actually, we have this seminar coming up in a couple of weeks about the evidence of the resurrection 00:17:19.299 --> 00:17:20.700 just before Easter. 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:23.140 Come and see that. 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:26.960 Come and hear why, you know, Christians think this is really true. 00:17:27.620 --> 00:17:30.600 And if this is really true, then maybe Jesus really is that king. 00:17:31.460 --> 00:17:37.500 And he is really this person with zeal, with authority, this king. 00:17:37.500 --> 00:17:43.099 But, of course, okay, this is who Jesus is and what he's like. 00:17:44.460 --> 00:17:47.380 I guess the next question is then what has he come to do? 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.900 We see this picture of Jesus. 00:17:51.380 --> 00:17:53.440 What does he come to do? 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.140 I mean, last week, it was not just water into wine. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.160 Okay, tick the box, Jesus is the Christ. 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.200 Again, it showed Jesus came to do something, right? 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.819 He came to bring the new age. 00:18:05.900 --> 00:18:08.140 He came to bring the great feast. 00:18:08.220 --> 00:18:09.480 That's why he made all this wine. 00:18:09.940 --> 00:18:11.640 It showed he came to do something. 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:15.420 But today is slightly different, right? 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:17.220 It's not that he came to bring a feast. 00:18:17.660 --> 00:18:18.940 What does Jesus come to do? 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.559 He came to purify, to judge, right? 00:18:22.600 --> 00:18:24.120 He came to cleanse the temple. 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:27.620 He froze people out who care more about money than about worship. 00:18:28.580 --> 00:18:31.880 He froze, yeah, he comes with the authority to do so. 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:35.700 It's, in a way, a very uncomfortable passage, right? 00:18:36.100 --> 00:18:38.600 If Jesus would come here to church, I don't know what he would do, right? 00:18:39.140 --> 00:18:40.520 That is the scary thing. 00:18:40.600 --> 00:18:41.880 It's not just purify. 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.880 I would say it's even judgment, right? 00:18:46.500 --> 00:18:50.580 Because he says, destroy this temple and I will raise it in three days. 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.240 Now, is he talking about his body, right? 00:18:53.460 --> 00:18:55.440 You know, kill me and I'll rise in three days. 00:18:55.440 --> 00:19:02.200 Or is he talking to the people there, kind of, you know, the authorities who are letting all this go on in the temple? 00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:08.740 Does he say, well, if you're destroying this temple, I mean, I'm going to make a new one, basically, right? 00:19:08.779 --> 00:19:10.500 And so you're going to be gone. 00:19:10.580 --> 00:19:12.660 And in a way, that's an act of judgment, right? 00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:20.200 I mean, if your company, if your CEO gets replaced, that's kind of judgment on the previous CEO in a way, right? 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:22.220 That is what it says. 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.360 Jesus, yeah, he's come to change things. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.440 And that means excluding some people if they don't want to get along, right? 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:36.000 That is what the Messiah here comes to do, which is, it's not something John makes up. 00:19:36.819 --> 00:19:39.140 I mean, it should have been part of people's expectations. 00:19:40.580 --> 00:19:47.160 I mean, John doesn't quote it, but I was thinking of this, these verses from Malachi, the last prophet of the Old Testament. 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:50.920 Three verses, one to four. 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.200 What did God promise? 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:54.680 Behold, I send my messenger. 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:57.180 He will prepare the way before me. 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.360 Someone will come, it's quoted about John the Baptist. 00:20:00.900 --> 00:20:03.720 And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:06.800 And the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.080 Behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 00:20:09.660 --> 00:20:11.940 But who can endure the day of his coming? 00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:14.180 And who can stand when he appears? 00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:18.480 For he is like a refiner's fire and like fuller soap. 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:21.880 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. 00:20:22.140 --> 00:20:26.480 And he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:29.680 And they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. 00:20:30.340 --> 00:20:36.500 And then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and in former years. 00:20:37.940 --> 00:20:41.480 This is, yeah, I mean, is this good news? 00:20:41.660 --> 00:20:42.600 In some ways it is, right? 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:43.699 It's really good news. 00:20:44.199 --> 00:20:46.879 It's really good that there will be offerings of righteousness. 00:20:47.399 --> 00:20:48.839 That things will be pleasing again. 00:20:48.899 --> 00:20:50.159 That things will be right again. 00:20:51.099 --> 00:20:53.819 But it's going to be uncomfortable, right? 00:20:53.879 --> 00:20:57.199 It's going to be, yeah, he says. 00:20:57.779 --> 00:20:58.779 And that's what we see. 00:20:58.899 --> 00:21:00.179 Jesus is restoring things. 00:21:00.299 --> 00:21:01.899 He is making things better. 00:21:02.019 --> 00:21:04.740 But that means a bit of, yeah, upset. 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:05.919 A bit of tearing down. 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:06.899 A bit of, right? 00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:11.019 I mean, I'm sure all the Jewish leaders would love the Messiah to come. 00:21:11.080 --> 00:21:11.840 But now he's here. 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:13.280 Do they still want him? 00:21:14.620 --> 00:21:17.500 And I think that's the question for us, right? 00:21:17.560 --> 00:21:19.880 Okay, we want to believe in Jesus. 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:30.640 But if we see Jesus here, if we see what he came to do, that he wants to make, you know, a pure temple, a clean temple, a beautiful temple. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.660 And that's what he's zealous for. 00:21:35.020 --> 00:21:36.240 That's what he's going to do. 00:21:37.140 --> 00:21:38.680 How will you respond to that? 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:45.800 And when you see this, Jesus, if you'd stand before him, would you just say, okay, I believe you exist, tick? 00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:46.780 No, right? 00:21:47.380 --> 00:21:50.300 We would really, we want to respond to him. 00:21:50.380 --> 00:21:51.120 So that's the question. 00:21:51.220 --> 00:21:52.720 Will you respond? 00:21:54.560 --> 00:21:54.920 Yeah? 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.540 Because the temple authorities, I guess they should clean up, right? 00:21:58.060 --> 00:21:59.420 They would respond. 00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:02.320 Okay, Jesus wants to make this something beautiful. 00:22:02.560 --> 00:22:03.940 He wants to make it right. 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:05.820 Well, we should get along with that. 00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:06.779 We should do something. 00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:09.140 And that was just the temple. 00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:13.360 Of course, ultimately, Jesus is Lord not just of the temple, right? 00:22:13.380 --> 00:22:14.779 He's the Lord of the whole earth. 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:16.820 He wants to make the whole world good. 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.380 He wants the whole world to honor God. 00:22:20.120 --> 00:22:21.240 And that's what he's going to do. 00:22:22.580 --> 00:22:25.980 Certainly, if you were here, you wouldn't call yourself a Christian. 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:27.519 You would call for a response. 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:31.019 But actually, this passage is mainly for Christians, right? 00:22:31.099 --> 00:22:33.920 It's a challenge to, you know, all those people in the temple. 00:22:34.059 --> 00:22:35.299 They would claim to be believers. 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:37.740 They want the Messiah. 00:22:38.639 --> 00:22:41.299 But Jesus is a bit of an uncomfortable Messiah. 00:22:42.059 --> 00:22:42.960 What do they want? 00:22:44.059 --> 00:22:46.759 And because look at those last verses. 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:47.879 We didn't read them yet. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.220 End of chapter 2, 23 to 25. 00:22:53.819 --> 00:23:01.259 Now, when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:10.559 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. 00:23:11.059 --> 00:23:13.200 For he himself knew what was in man. 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:17.559 It says a lot of people believed in him. 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:19.339 A lot of people, they saw the signs. 00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:21.180 And yeah, I want Jesus. 00:23:21.180 --> 00:23:26.460 But then he goes on and says, hey, Jesus wasn't sure about them, right? 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:27.720 Jesus entrusts himself to them. 00:23:27.820 --> 00:23:30.140 Jesus, you know, he knew their hearts. 00:23:30.560 --> 00:23:32.440 He knew that, you know, this was just superficial. 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:37.220 He wants real faith. 00:23:37.360 --> 00:23:41.420 And John is putting that here in a way to make us think, where are we at? 00:23:41.420 --> 00:23:42.060 Right? 00:23:43.900 --> 00:23:48.600 Jesus, if this is Jesus, again, how is it seen in our lives? 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:50.400 Last week we saw this wedding. 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:52.460 And that was great. 00:23:52.580 --> 00:23:55.400 But as Kevin said, it should affect us, right? 00:23:56.100 --> 00:24:00.100 If you are going to the most wonderful wedding ever, it should give joy. 00:24:00.600 --> 00:24:01.900 Some kind of joy, right? 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:02.620 Deep inside. 00:24:02.820 --> 00:24:07.180 It doesn't mean that we're always happy because life is hard, right? 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:08.779 The wedding is later in eternity. 00:24:08.779 --> 00:24:09.580 It's not now. 00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:12.799 But just from the anticipation, right? 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:14.059 We should have some joy now. 00:24:15.859 --> 00:24:24.960 Well, if Jesus is this king, if he is going to make a beautiful temple, what does really believing that look like? 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:29.559 Because, again, it's not just something for 2,000 years ago. 00:24:29.639 --> 00:24:31.740 Well, what is the temple in the New Testament? 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:33.919 Well, Jesus certainly, right? 00:24:34.399 --> 00:24:35.899 It says here he's the new temple. 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:39.240 But then he builds this temple and we're part of that. 00:24:39.579 --> 00:24:51.879 If you've read some of the epistles, Ephesians 2 talks about Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together by every joint with which it is equipped. 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:53.179 Oh, sorry. 00:24:53.259 --> 00:24:54.059 That's Ephesians 4. 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:57.599 Anyway, Ephesians 2, right? 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:01.339 You also are being built up to be a spiritual house. 00:25:01.339 --> 00:25:06.119 You are growing into a holy temple in the Lord. 00:25:06.339 --> 00:25:07.319 1 Peter 2. 00:25:07.579 --> 00:25:17.919 As you come to him, the living stone rejected by men, but in the sight of God, chosen and precious, you yourselves, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house. 00:25:18.919 --> 00:25:19.039 Right? 00:25:19.259 --> 00:25:22.500 We are the new temple, which is like an amazing privilege, right? 00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:24.059 Where does God dwell? 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:25.359 Not just in Jesus. 00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:29.000 He dwells in believers by his spirit. 00:25:29.539 --> 00:25:33.420 You know, you think the temple, that's the special place, the holy place. 00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:35.420 Well, that is us, the church. 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:37.160 That's amazing. 00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:37.740 Right? 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.880 It's such a privilege that we are the temple of the living God. 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:44.720 But, yeah, it's the same time. 00:25:44.900 --> 00:25:46.819 He wants a beautiful temple, right? 00:25:46.819 --> 00:25:51.579 He wants to overthrow and drive out what dishonors God. 00:25:51.679 --> 00:25:56.700 He wants to purify and cleanse in his new temple, which is the church. 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:04.919 And so, I guess if we see Jesus and we want him, I guess we would say, yes, Lord, right? 00:26:05.939 --> 00:26:07.019 Will you say yes? 00:26:07.019 --> 00:26:15.019 Will you, would we ask him to come into my life, change me, drive out what dishonors you? 00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:16.200 You're the king. 00:26:16.379 --> 00:26:17.559 Be king in my life. 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:20.720 I guess that is what this ultimately comes down to. 00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:24.400 And just to say, I'm not talking about being saved, right? 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:28.079 This is not how you become part of the temple. 00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:30.180 How you become part of the temple? 00:26:30.259 --> 00:26:31.440 Because Jesus died for you. 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:33.180 He loved you. 00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:34.139 He died for you. 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:35.220 He chose you. 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:36.839 He included you. 00:26:37.500 --> 00:26:39.279 But now he wants to make you beautiful. 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.299 He wants to purify you. 00:26:42.299 --> 00:26:49.299 So that you're not just in status, but in practice, who he has made you, right? 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:50.539 It's the most wonderful thing. 00:26:50.700 --> 00:26:56.659 But the thing is, because of the cross, we find it so easy to take our sin lightly, right? 00:26:56.660 --> 00:27:01.200 I find it so easy to think, yeah, I know I need to change. 00:27:01.580 --> 00:27:08.000 I know there is this thing in my life that, I know it shouldn't be there, but it's a bit like my car, right? 00:27:08.019 --> 00:27:10.340 It's going to rain and then it will get washed. 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:13.960 You know, I'm going to die and then I'll be sinless. 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:16.779 So I'll wait for that. 00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:18.540 That's so easy to think, right? 00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:19.700 Because life is so busy. 00:27:19.700 --> 00:27:23.460 We don't, we're happy to be mediocre. 00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:27.600 We're happy, you know, not much prayer, not much worship. 00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:31.980 You know, it's okay because this is the most overworked city in the world. 00:27:32.180 --> 00:27:33.660 And, you know, life is busy. 00:27:33.779 --> 00:27:34.559 Life is full. 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.539 So how much is this a priority for us? 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.500 But if we see Jesus here, that is his priority. 00:27:42.740 --> 00:27:44.519 He wants to change you. 00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:45.900 He wants to grow you. 00:27:46.299 --> 00:27:48.440 He wants to purify you. 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:54.440 He wants to cleanse you, make you the church he wants, make us the church he wants us to be. 00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:57.279 And will we accept that? 00:27:57.480 --> 00:27:57.680 What? 00:27:57.779 --> 00:28:04.720 If we believe he is the king, do we allow him to be the king and make us who he wants us to be? 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:06.880 So I don't know. 00:28:07.299 --> 00:28:08.880 Do we take time to reflect? 00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:17.440 Do we take time with Jesus and just, oh, Jesus, if there's something in my life that dishonors you, can you show me that? 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.200 I want to change. 00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:20.480 And maybe he does. 00:28:20.600 --> 00:28:24.759 Maybe, you know, there's something you do at work and you don't think much of it. 00:28:24.820 --> 00:28:31.180 But as you read your Bible, you know, Jesus really points out to you that this is something that needs to change. 00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:32.240 How do you respond? 00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:35.440 Is it kind of, yeah, I know, but you're not going to. 00:28:35.860 --> 00:28:36.420 Or do you? 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.080 Yes, Lord, please help me. 00:28:38.620 --> 00:28:39.840 Please come into my life. 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:42.899 Please help me love you more, that I love this less. 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:45.419 Please overthrow this. 00:28:45.539 --> 00:28:46.399 Please change me. 00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:50.199 Maybe Jesus messes up your life sometimes. 00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:53.819 He wants to grow you in patience and in self-control. 00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:59.879 And so, you know, your washing machine breaks down or your child gets sick or some of those kind of things, right? 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:01.679 It's always at the wrong timing. 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:04.220 And I always get, why now? 00:29:04.580 --> 00:29:05.759 I don't know if you know the feeling. 00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:09.840 Well, why does Jesus give me a lot of chance to be patient? 00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:11.779 Because he wants me to be more patient maybe. 00:29:12.320 --> 00:29:15.440 So he, how do I respond? 00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:16.299 Do I get frustrated? 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:18.240 Or do I open up? 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:19.560 Lord Jesus, please. 00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:21.039 Yeah, I don't want this. 00:29:21.820 --> 00:29:22.480 Change me. 00:29:22.539 --> 00:29:23.320 I want to honor you. 00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:25.420 Help me to grow in patience. 00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:28.279 Maybe something in our church. 00:29:28.539 --> 00:29:30.779 Maybe, you know, Jesus wants to change us. 00:29:30.900 --> 00:29:34.140 Maybe he wants us to be a church of prayer, right? 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.860 And so often we're not. 00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:40.539 If that is something that he points out, do we want to grow? 00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:44.560 Again, I'm not saying this is something we should do, right? 00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:48.720 We shouldn't think of Jesus just standing at the side, outside the temple. 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.740 Okay, you guys clean yourself up and then I'll come in. 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:54.940 No, he comes in and changes us, right? 00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:59.559 That's the good news because, of course, we can't do that by ourselves, right? 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:01.279 Sin runs so deep in me. 00:30:01.360 --> 00:30:02.500 I can never get it out. 00:30:03.340 --> 00:30:05.680 But Jesus says, I want to come into your life. 00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:06.900 I want to overthrow things. 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.620 I want to make you the person. 00:30:08.980 --> 00:30:10.400 I want us to be the church. 00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:13.900 I want you to be, do we let him? 00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:17.480 And that is the good news. 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.779 That is the wonderful news in a way. 00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:23.180 It's not about how we come to him. 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:27.060 But when we come to him, what do we want him to do? 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:28.560 Yeah. 00:30:30.100 --> 00:30:32.060 Yeah, I hope you see the point. 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:34.680 I hope you have a bigger view of Jesus. 00:30:34.980 --> 00:30:37.740 I hope, of course, he's not just a savior. 00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:40.259 He is a great savior. 00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:46.259 But he doesn't, but saving is not just getting you out of hell and to a great party. 00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:47.539 He wants you to be beautiful. 00:30:47.539 --> 00:30:49.460 And that is what he's going to do. 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:53.019 So let's pray that we would let him. 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:57.299 I'm just going to give us some quietness for 30 seconds. 00:30:57.940 --> 00:31:02.259 I think there's some points here on what has God said to you through his words. 00:31:02.639 --> 00:31:04.420 What it looked like to respond to that. 00:31:05.700 --> 00:31:07.319 After that, I'll pray. 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:10.119 And then we're going to take the Lord's Supper together. 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.119 But let's reflect now. 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:12.119 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:12.419 Amen. 00:31:12.419 --> 00:31:12.619 Amen. 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:12.619 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.039 Amen. 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.039 00:31:41.039 --> 00:32:11.019 Thank you. 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.799 Let's pray together. 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:19.339 Lord Jesus, thank you that we can see you. 00:32:20.379 --> 00:32:21.359 We see your beauty. 00:32:21.639 --> 00:32:23.440 We see your zeal. 00:32:23.619 --> 00:32:24.940 We see your purity. 00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:32.079 We see how you act for the glory of your Father. 00:32:33.539 --> 00:32:40.519 We think it's beautiful, but it's uncomfortable because we know we're not the people who we should be, the people we want to be. 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:43.139 Thank you that you want to change us. 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:44.859 Thank you that you will change us. 00:32:45.259 --> 00:32:46.960 And thank you you can do that now even. 00:32:47.659 --> 00:32:52.819 By your spirit, through your word, as we see you, as we grow more in love with you. 00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:56.200 Lord, would we have this great view of you. 00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:59.559 For each of us, open our eyes more and more to your glory. 00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:01.319 And would you change us? 00:33:01.379 --> 00:33:03.319 Would you make us the people you want us to be? 00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:06.519 Would you make our church what you want us to be? 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:08.740 Would you point things out in our lives? 00:33:08.859 --> 00:33:11.319 And then would you do your work? 00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:15.279 The work that we can't do, but that you can and that you will. 00:33:16.139 --> 00:33:17.700 You will build your church. 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.480 You will make a holy temple in the Lord. 00:33:21.059 --> 00:33:23.339 We will be filled with all the fullness of God. 00:33:24.299 --> 00:33:25.039 Thank you. 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:27.740 Lord, strengthen our faith. 00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:33.120 We know it means, you know, not closing our hearts to you, but opening up to you. 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:35.039 Coming to you. 00:33:35.940 --> 00:33:37.359 And we pray that we would do that. 00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:42.859 And in a moment, as we share the Lord's Supper together, would you strengthen us? 00:33:42.940 --> 00:33:47.980 Would you remind us of your grace, of your goodness when you died for us on the cross? 00:33:47.980 --> 00:33:50.819 In Jesus, in your name we pray. 00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:51.740 Amen.