CONTAGIOUS CHRISTIANITY (2 OF 2)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Mark 11:17
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Contagious Christianity (2 of 2)
Series: Don’t Come to Church, Be the Church
Craig Smith
Mark 11:17
I. Introduction
Welcome to all of our locations. So glad you're with us for this Palm Sunday weekend. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about, I'll fill you in. On this weekend about 2000 years ago, Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion and resurrection. And as he entered the city, some of his followers cut palm branches and put them on the road in front of him, which was a way of welcoming him as a king. Which is interesting, but even more interesting is how he responded.
After he got into the city, he went to the Temple, where he saw something that bothered him deeply. What he saw was that in the Temple courts, there were people selling animals and changing money. Now, there's nothing wrong with those two things. Those two things were necessary. The animals they were selling were to be used for sacrifice at the Temple and most people didn't own animals that were suitable for the sacrifices, so there was nothing wrong with selling them. And the reason there were money-changes is that the Temple offering could only be made with one particular kind of coin, so the money-changers exchanged the currency most people had for the coin that they needed to make their offering. So there was nothing wrong with what they were doing.
What bothered Jesus wasn't what they were doing, it was where they were doing it. This is very important. They were doing it inside what was called the Court of the Gentiles, which was a part of the Temple that God had commanded be built so that non-Jewish people - Gentiles - could come and learn about the God of Israel. That was where the selling and money-changing was going on. Now they could have done that outside the Temple courts, but that's not where it was happening. It was happening in a place that had been set aside for the Gentiles to learn about the God of Israel. And what that sh ...
Series: Don’t Come to Church, Be the Church
Craig Smith
Mark 11:17
I. Introduction
Welcome to all of our locations. So glad you're with us for this Palm Sunday weekend. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about, I'll fill you in. On this weekend about 2000 years ago, Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion and resurrection. And as he entered the city, some of his followers cut palm branches and put them on the road in front of him, which was a way of welcoming him as a king. Which is interesting, but even more interesting is how he responded.
After he got into the city, he went to the Temple, where he saw something that bothered him deeply. What he saw was that in the Temple courts, there were people selling animals and changing money. Now, there's nothing wrong with those two things. Those two things were necessary. The animals they were selling were to be used for sacrifice at the Temple and most people didn't own animals that were suitable for the sacrifices, so there was nothing wrong with selling them. And the reason there were money-changes is that the Temple offering could only be made with one particular kind of coin, so the money-changers exchanged the currency most people had for the coin that they needed to make their offering. So there was nothing wrong with what they were doing.
What bothered Jesus wasn't what they were doing, it was where they were doing it. This is very important. They were doing it inside what was called the Court of the Gentiles, which was a part of the Temple that God had commanded be built so that non-Jewish people - Gentiles - could come and learn about the God of Israel. That was where the selling and money-changing was going on. Now they could have done that outside the Temple courts, but that's not where it was happening. It was happening in a place that had been set aside for the Gentiles to learn about the God of Israel. And what that sh ...
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