Part 3 | Making Room for People
From John 2
God’s favorite is people to .
📖 John 20:30-31 ESV Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
The people who the Temple often forgot the of the Temple: to God.
📖 John 2:13-14 ESV The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.
📖 John 2:15-16 ESV And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”
📖 1 Kings 8:41-43 ESV “when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake 42 (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, 43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
📖 Isaiah 42:6-7 ESV I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, 7 to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
1. The business of God is to for people from God.
📖 John 2:17 ESV His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
📖 John 2:18 ESV So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”
📖 John 2:19 ESV Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
📖 John 2:20 ESV The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”
📖 John 2:21-22 ESV But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
2. The business of God is to the of people who draw to God.
📖 John 2:23-25 ESV Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs that He was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for He himself knew what was in man.
📖 John 7:43 ESV So there was a division among the people over him.
Jesus divides from .
3. The business of the Church is to and so that people their to Jesus.
A. Fill God’s house with .
📖 Matthew 21:13 ESV He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
B. Fill God’s house with .
📖 Mark 11:15b-16 ESV He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 16 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.
C. Fill God’s house with about .
📖 Luike 19:46b-47 ESV “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple.
📖 John 8:32 ESV and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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