John 2:12-22
April 4, 2021
preached by Pastor Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.”

~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British novelist, theologian and Christian apologist

“Zeal is deep desire that defines how we live and reveals what we love.”

~ Dave Harvey, contemporary writer and speaker

“A man who does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American minister, social reformer, and speaker

“People say— ‘I believe in a god of love—not a god who gets angry.’ If you have a god who never gets angry, you can’t have a god of love, because if you never get angry about anything you don’t love anything. If you love and you see the thing you love threatened, you’re angry.”

“Look at the deadness in your life. Look at the anger. How is that going to be turned into forgiveness? Look at the insecurity. How is that going to be turned into confidence? Look at the self-centeredness. How is that going to be turned into compassion and generosity? How? The answer is that the dead stuff gets taken over by the Spirit of God… The minute you decide to receive Jesus as Savior and Lord, the power of the Holy Spirit comes into your life. It’s the power of the resurrection—the same thing that raised Jesus from the dead.”

~ Tim Keller (1950-present), American minister and writer

“The anger of man and the anger of God takes Jesus to the cross.”

~ Paul David Tripp (1950-present), American minister and writer

Sermon Passage

John 2:12-22 (NASB)

¹² After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

¹³ The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And within the temple grounds He found those who were selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. ¹⁵ And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; ¹⁶ and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away from here; stop making My Father’s house a place of  business!” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” ¹⁸ The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?” ¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰ The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and yet You will raise it up in three days?” ²¹ But He was speaking about the temple of His body. ²² So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.