A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
I. MISSION OF THE KING
A. COMING
Mt 21:12a And Jesus entered the Temple of God
1. CONTEMPORARY EXPECTATION
2. SECOND CLEANSING
B. CLEANSING
Mt 21:12b and drove out all who bought or sold in the Temple, overturned the money-changers’ tables, and the stalls of those who sold pigeons.
1. MERCHANT SPIRIT
2. MONEYCHANGERS
C. CONSENTING
Mk 11:16 And He wouldn’t permit anyone to transport goods through the Temple.
1. SHORTCUT
2. CROOKED
II. MESSAGE OF THE KING
A. CONFRONTING
Mt 21:13a He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,'”
1. OPEN
2. ALL NATIONS
B. CONDEMNING
Mt 21:13b but you make it a robbers’ den.
1. HAVEN OF EVIL
2. REPLACEMENT
III. MINISTRY OF THE KING
A. CARING
Mt 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in the Temple and He healed them.
1. BOLD FAITH
2. OUTCASTS
B. COMMANDING
1. TEACHER
Lk 19:47a And He taught [there] daily.
2. LEARNER
Lk 19:48b all the people were avidly listening to His every word.
3. EDIFIED
Mk 11:18c [They] were amazed at His teaching.
C. CONNIVING
1. SHREWD
Lk 19:47b-48a The chief priests, scribes and civic leaders were seeking to destroy Him, but there was nothing they could do.
2. FEARFUL
Mk 11:18b For they feared Him
IV. MEASURE OF THE KING
A. CRYING OUT
Mt 21:15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the boys crying out in the Temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were furious.
1. WONDERFUL WORKS
2. BAR MITZVAH
B. CRITICIZING
1. IRATE
Mt 21:16a They said to Him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”
2. PERFECT PRAISE
Mt 21:16b Jesus replied, “Yes. Haven’t you read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
C. CONCLUDING
Mt 21:17 And leaving them, He went out of the city to Bethany and passed the night there.