Our paragraph topic is: (Cleansing of the Temple) Part 2.
He entered the temple and was inflamed at what he saw, buying and selling, money changers, men practicing deceit and trickery, dishonesty and greed, arrogance and pride. Instead of prayer and worship, they were practicing evil. It was as if evil had taken over the house of the Lord. The people would come to worship their Father were required to purchase gifts for their offerings. And in the purchasing, the men who sold the items to be sacrificed were practicing deceit cheating the worshippers out of their gifts, stealing from God himself.
Christ saw this. He was angry. He was enraged. He knew that evil had taken over those who were doing the selling. He saw them. He cast them out. For evil can only practice it's sins through man. It can only influence man to do evil. And those men had taken over the temple all in the name of making money. And he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold the doves.
The people came to worship. Some had offerings to make. Others did not, so they had to buy what was sold at the temple. It was not that these thing were being sold. It was that they were being sold inside the temple where people came to pray and to worship their father, their creator. They came to give thanks. They came to show gratitude to the lord for what he had given them. They came to receive his blessings.
Just as we do today, when we go to our lord's house to worship, we come to give praise and worship our Lord for that which he has given us. We show gratitude and thanks. For he is the reason that we have the abundance of life today. We are alive. We who believe have the promise of salvation. We who know can see and feel that which is within us. The spirit lives and he comes to be with us. He comes to teach us. He comes to guide us in our daily lives that we do not become evil doers in the world.
Throw off the old self and take up the new self in Christ. He will provided for us. He will delivered us. He will take us home when the transformation comes. For he has given us his words to live by, to breathe by, to know by, to see the miracles by his hand in our daily lives. He is Lord and deliverer. He is the giver of new life, love eternal. Come! Find your peace within and know the truth of who you are in Christ.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
He entered the temple and was inflamed at what he saw, buying and selling, money changers, men practicing deceit and trickery, dishonesty and greed, arrogance and pride. Instead of prayer and worship, they were practicing evil. It was as if evil had taken over the house of the Lord. The people would come to worship their Father were required to purchase gifts for their offerings. And in the purchasing, the men who sold the items to be sacrificed were practicing deceit cheating the worshippers out of their gifts, stealing from God himself.
Christ saw this. He was angry. He was enraged. He knew that evil had taken over those who were doing the selling. He saw them. He cast them out. For evil can only practice it's sins through man. It can only influence man to do evil. And those men had taken over the temple all in the name of making money. And he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold the doves.
The people came to worship. Some had offerings to make. Others did not, so they had to buy what was sold at the temple. It was not that these thing were being sold. It was that they were being sold inside the temple where people came to pray and to worship their father, their creator. They came to give thanks. They came to show gratitude to the lord for what he had given them. They came to receive his blessings.
Just as we do today, when we go to our lord's house to worship, we come to give praise and worship our Lord for that which he has given us. We show gratitude and thanks. For he is the reason that we have the abundance of life today. We are alive. We who believe have the promise of salvation. We who know can see and feel that which is within us. The spirit lives and he comes to be with us. He comes to teach us. He comes to guide us in our daily lives that we do not become evil doers in the world.
Throw off the old self and take up the new self in Christ. He will provided for us. He will delivered us. He will take us home when the transformation comes. For he has given us his words to live by, to breathe by, to know by, to see the miracles by his hand in our daily lives. He is Lord and deliverer. He is the giver of new life, love eternal. Come! Find your peace within and know the truth of who you are in Christ.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
