Hillview Baptist Church
Morning Worship, July 29, 2018
Ephesians 3:14–21ESV
- O Worship The King
- I Know Whom I Have Believed
- Doxology
Psalm 71ESV
- Up Calvary's Mountain
- The Glories Of Calvary
- Agnus Dei
Matthew 21:12–17ESV
- Scripture ReadingOpening PrayerIntroductionWho cleans your house?Story - Short term rentalReviewNow in Judea (map)Jesus’ “early Judean ministry”Coming off of the triumphal entryExpectation - “Attack Rome”Reality - “attack the Jewish establishment”Begin Exposition
Matthew 21:12 ESV And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.Explain temple procedureExplain importance of locationTemple illustrationMatthew 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.”Quotes Isaiah 56:7 followed by Jeremiah 7:11Isaiah points toThe temple belongs to JesusThe temple is to be a place of holy worship“for all peoples” (Mark but not Matthew, Isaiah both)Jer. points to a time where the temple is viewed with superstitious reverence“Robbers - literally means “Nationalist Rebels”This verse points to what the temple has become as opposed to what it is supposed to be.The temple is supposed to be a place of worship for all peoples to come to God yet it had become a “nationalist stronghold”By the time of Matthew writing this, the temple had been destroyed.Jesus is now the fulfillment of the Isaiah 56 reference and he uses His temples (believers) to bring the worship of God to all nationsI. The purpose of the temple is to facilitate worship of GodApplication: As the temple, our mission involves facilitating the worship of God rather than nationalist causesExposition 2The next portion of this narrative is the last healing miracle in the Gospel of Matthew.read...Matthew 21:14 ESV And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.Now, something of significance to note:Those who were “damaged” or “unclean” such as these here were not allowed into the templeThey were not allowed to give sacrifices and they were only allowed into the court of the Gentiles.They were only allowed there if they did not take”unclean” aids with them (Pillows, bandages, etc.)Some Jews ewven tried to say that no crippled or disabled Jews would be part of the “congregation/Messianic battle/messianic banquet”In contrast to these religious leaders, Jesus healed those who came to him in this condition.II. Jesus is the pure one who makes people pure enough to Worship God.ApplicationExposition 3This final part of our passage contains something easy to miss.Matthew 21:15 ESV But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,Why were they indignant?Not only because he attacked their system but because he accepted praise that belonged to GodMatthew 21:16 ESV and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “ ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”Psalm 8:2Not messianicApplied only to GodMatthew 21:17 ESV And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.III. Jesus is God the Son and the only one able to save. Matthew 21:12ESV
Matthew 21:13ESV
Matthew 21:14ESV
Matthew 21:15ESV
Matthew 21:16ESV
Matthew 21:17ESV
- Thank You
Numbers 6:24–26ESV