Passion: Cleansing

Passion: Cleansing

Passion: Cleansing

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.