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Today's sermon is a continuation of last week, a brief recap.

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Last week we looked at why we go to God with reverence and awe, and we put it in the perspective

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of some of the pictures that are coming through on the James Webb telescope, the galaxies

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and the nebula and the constellations and just the vastness and beauty and order of

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the known universe.

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And then we think about who we are and we remember that God made all of that and cares

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about us still.

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And so when we put all of that into thought and we think about who God is, the creator,

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the Lord, the sustainer of all, and yet He still loved you enough to send His Son to

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live, die, raise again and continue His ministry on your behalf, how do you respond?

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Because it starts with the why.

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One, there's a God that loves you.

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Two, who are you to Him and who is He to you?

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And then three, how do you respond?

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You respond with awe and reverence.

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You don't respond with bringing Him right down so low that He becomes nothing more than

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the buddy sitting next to you on the bus.

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He is still God.

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He is your friend.

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He is your brother.

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He is your father.

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He is also God.

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And so we are mindful and we remember that when we come into His presence in worship.

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And I touch that that's also at home as well as corporately.

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When you enter into worship, you remember that relationship, that why.

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Today we pick up looking at a little bit more of the what.

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Because if we're going to consider the why, then we also need to consider the what or

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the how.

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Because it's one thing to kind of get it intellectually or to understand it theologically,

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but then also someone's going to ask, well, how do you respond?

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What does awe and reverence look like?

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What should it be or what should it not be?

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Can we lean into some areas and away from others?

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Fair enough?

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Now as I've studied for this, what is becoming very, very clear is that this is not just

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a topic that one can scratch and leave alone.

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There's so much richness and depth and beauty to be found in the reverence, the awe, the

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glory, the presence of God written in the Bible that we will probably continue this

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for a little bit.

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I get a little excited when I just keep finding verse after verse and passage after passage

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speaking about how much God loves us and how we are to respond to Him.

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We're not going to stop after today.

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But today we are going to look at where I believe we should start most things when it

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comes to the how question, and that's the finest example that heaven ever gave us, Jesus

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Christ.

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So before we get into that, let's have a word of prayer one more time.

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Loving Father, I want to thank you that we can open up the Bible.

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I want to thank you that your inspired word has been kept through the ages so it was not

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only for the people at that time, but it's for us, your people in this time.

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So I pray that we would enter into this study humbly seeking for the Holy Spirit's guidance

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so that we can learn of you and we can apply it to our lives.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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You might notice that today's sermon title is reverence with healing and shouting.

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I have an alternate sermon title, but to understand it, you have to know what a mic drop is.

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Do you know what a mic drop is?

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For those who don't know, a mic drop is usually a reference to a debate or a verbal battle,

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a back and forth between one or two, not one, but two or three or more parties where the

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person that gives the final word solves the matter in such a way that they can drop the

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mic, turn, and the issue is settled.

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It's done.

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A mic drop moment is when you say the final word and it ends that moment and you can just

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leave.

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It's the climax.

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It's the exclamation mark.

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It is, oh, it's done.

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The debate doesn't continue.

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My alternate title would have been this, of money changers and mic drops, because I believe

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what we're looking at here in today's passage from Matthew in chapter 21, like other passages

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that we read in Jesus' life, you see a debate unfold with Jesus encountering Christ and

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He has the final word and then He walks away.

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I think there's quite a bit to learn in the final words and the walking away.

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To set it up, you're going to follow with me.

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Today's going to be a little bit more of a study.

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Obviously I'm going to be pacing a little bit less, but today we're going to look at

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the second time that Jesus cleanses the temple.

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We know that it's the second because in the Gospel of John, earlier in the Gospel, we

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read an account of the first.

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Early on in Jesus' ministry, He comes into the temple in Jerusalem to worship and He

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finds it profaned.

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There's selling, it's raucous, it's loud, there's corruption going on, not only by the

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money changers but by the priests extorting the people.

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Some of the poor that were come looking to offer their sin offerings or their thank offerings

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or their praise gifts to God were extorted out of their money, money that they probably

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really didn't have a lot of, so that a prophet could be turned and then some of that could

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be skimmed off and given to the priests.

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It was completely corrupt and it profaned the temple of God.

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Well Jesus, we might have heard this, He fashions a cord, He holds the cord.

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Pastor White tells us that He never strikes anyone with the cord but just holding it and

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the look in His eye and the glory flashing through humanity was enough for those corrupt,

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sinful evil people to find their place and to flee before glory.

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Well time passes, we come to the end of Jesus' ministry, the next time that He comes to the

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temple at this time of the Jewish calendar and He was I'm sure hoping that things would

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have remained cleaned up.

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But that's not what greeted Him.

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Let's pick up our account, Matthew 21 beginning with verse 12, we'll go 12 and 13.

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And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple and

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He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.

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He said to them, it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer but you make it

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a den of robbers.

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The practice had come back, the profanations had continued, the corruption had carried

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on, the poor were taken advantage of and trampled upon and the wealthy were just made wealthier.

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Can we be in agreement that that kind of behavior should not take place in God's house of worship?

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We should not trample on the poor.

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We should not just fill the pockets of the wealthy with more and more wealth.

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Side note, there was a viral video, this was not a part of my notes, it just came to mind.

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A viral video from this past week of a pastor in a church, semi-local, I think it was in

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this area of the country, was doing his sermon and it was being live streamed and in the

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midst of his sermon, you all of a sudden see him kind of tense up, he gets his hands clear,

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he lays down on the ground because he was robbed at gunpoint in the middle of his church

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service and they stole from the man and from several people in the audience.

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I mean, I don't think that should happen.

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I think we should discourage that.

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It's really a shame that in some or many or increasing areas of our country, that type

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of crime seems to just carry into what used to be respected places like a church.

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Well, he gets up and he talks about how, I have to remember the number.

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I want, don't, this is not the exact number, I am certain of it.

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But it was something to the tune of a million dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from that

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congregation and he himself accounted for about four or five hundred thousand dollars

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of it, of jewelry that they thieved from him.

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Now, people can spend their money on what they want to spend their money on, but I am

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not certain that we should have five hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry on the minister

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that then could be stolen from.

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I'm not certain that's probably where the minister should be spending that level of

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dollars.

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That's my opinion.

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But that was the case going on here.

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We know that the Pharisees enriched themselves off of the congregants.

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We know that the money changers wouldn't accept the normal coins, they had the temple coins.

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And in weighing out the exchange rate from one to the other, they had unfair and unbalanced

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scales, and it always worked in their favor.

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They were made very wealthy off of it.

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When Jesus entered into the temple, when people came to worship God expecting to enter into

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his presence and to hear him speak to them and to hear the priests read from the word

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of God, the scrolls laid out before them, but you've got the bleeding of sheep and

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the mooing of cattle and the squawking of birds going on right there, how raucous, how

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smelly, how disrespectful and irreverent was that location.

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You could not have entered into that seeking some level of peace and assurance and presence

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of the Almighty with all of that going on behind you and around you.

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You couldn't have.

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So it was right and it was just that Jesus entered into that scene and in honor of God

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and his holiness drove out the corruption, drove out the thieving, drove out the incessant

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and obnoxious noise.

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That was good for him to do.

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Observing the same defiling practices which he had once previously driven out being continued,

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Jesus again and with holy fervor drives out the offenders, turns over the tables those

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tools of greed and profanity.

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Our first lesson for today is that earnest desire to honor God and give him due reverence

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is not only appropriate but expected.

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Ernest desire to honor God and give him due reverence is not only appropriate but expected.

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God repeatedly throughout the Word of God and we are going to look into some of these

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other examples, he has an expectation of how you enter into his presence.

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It's there and to earnestly desire it and if you walk into a place where my goodness

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it seems a little off the rails and that's what Jesus walks into, to desire better is

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appropriate.

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It is.

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And that's where we start because again we're looking at Jesus as our example and I really

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hope that today as sons and daughters of God we can all be in agreement that Jesus is our

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example.

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Can we agree to that today?

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Can we agree that not the person to your left or your right is your example in reverence

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to God?

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Can we agree to that?

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Okay.

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Can we agree that as we continue the study in awe and reverence of God we will learn

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from the Bible and Jesus example?

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Okay.

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You'll understand what I mean.

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So our first point and this is appropriate, earnest desire to honor God and give him due

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reverence is not only appropriate but expected.

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God expects you to enter into his preference different than you would walk into a Walmart.

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I think that's fair.

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So then what happens after Jesus cleanses the temple?

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Does he just shoo people out and leave it barren?

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Does he chase out all of the money changers and then say well if you were also engaged

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with them you can't stay behind?

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What does Jesus do next?

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And that's our verse for today, our scripture reading for today.

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A powerful line, the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them.

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When Jesus chased out all of the obnoxious corruption and the sin and the greed that

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was taking place that opened up the ability for God's house of worship to be used for

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its intended purpose.

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Sometimes you got to get rid of the filth in order to allow the intended purpose to

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take place.

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The house of God that is where his people come to worship, notice I didn't say the square

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footage that comprises the Ringgold SDA Church.

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Notice I didn't say the temple in Jerusalem.

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Where God's people congregate to worship is where the church is.

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That can take place in a field.

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That can take place camping.

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Our church has done that.

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That can take place in our backyard.

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That can take place in a house.

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You can open up your home and have people come.

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That can be a house of worship.

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The house of worship that is where God's people come to worship is a place for healing.

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First and foremost, Matthew records that once all of the wickedness is cleaned out, healing

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is the next thing recorded.

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The blind and the lame come into the temple to see Jesus and to be healed.

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Are we allowing God's house of worship to be a place of healing, my friends?

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A parallel to this, and this is going to be another account where we see healing being

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used to demonstrate something of Jesus.

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Luke chapter 7 beginning with verse 18, I'll just read it for you.

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John, the Baptist is imprisoned, but he hears about the wonderful things that Jesus is doing.

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And he might be wondering, I was expecting the Savior to do X, but Jesus is doing Y and

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I'm in prison.

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What's going on?

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I find it difficult to fault the man for having those questions.

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So the disciples of John reported the good things of Jesus to John and John calling two

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of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus saying, are you the one who is to come or

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shall we look for another?

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And when the men had come to Jesus, they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you saying,

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are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another?

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But what does Jesus do?

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Does he wax eloquently?

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Does he exegete deeply from Isaiah?

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Does he give a long and elaborate and eloquent sermon like he did on the mount?

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Luke records that in that hour, he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil

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spirits and on many who were blind, he bestowed sight.

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And he answered them, go and tell John what you have seen and heard.

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The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear.

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The dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them and blessed is the one

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who is not offended by me.

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God's house of worship is a place for healing.

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Bringing people into the presence of Jesus is for healing.

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Do we allow that to take place here?

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Is this church a place of healing?

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Because when God's people are engaged in ministry to the sick, that is people who are sick with

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their health and people who are sick with sin, when God's people are engaged in ministry

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to the poor, that is the poor financially and that is the poor in spirit, when God's

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people are engaged in ministry to the hungry, that is those who can't have their own sandwich

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at home or those who are hungering after righteousness sake, when God's people are engaged in ministry,

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etc., are we engaged in ministry for those who are single parents?

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Are we engaged in ministry to those who have come out of a broken relationship?

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Are we engaged in ministry to the depressed?

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Are we engaged in ministry to those who feel like they don't have a place in this world?

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Are we engaged in ministry to those who feel slandered and attacked and harmed wherever

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they go?

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Because when God's people are engaged in ministry to that grouping of people, in other words,

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everyone sitting around you and anyone who walks through that door, when we are engaged

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in that type of ministry, we are taking up the very work that Jesus used to identify

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himself as Savior.

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We are working alongside of Jesus and we are pointing people to him.

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We are saying, I don't have to give you the perfect Bible study on the beast and the horns

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and the crowns and the tines, but God can use me to be a healing balm for you and your

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life.

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Does that happen here?

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When people walk through that door, are they experiencing the reverence of God by entering

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into a place of healing?

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Or are we just too ready to chase people out?

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Or are we too ready to ask someone to take care of themselves before they cross our threshold?

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Do we ask people to clean up something before they sit beside us in the pew?

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Can we hold our nose and hold, more importantly, our tongue for just a little longer so in

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reverence someone can come here, see Jesus and be healed?

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Is that what we find here in this house of worship?

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We reverence God.

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We reverence God when we make his house a place where all people can find healing in

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Jesus.

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That's Christ's example right there.

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We reverence God when we make his place of worship, his house, wherever that might be,

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a place where all people can find healing in Jesus.

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Let's continue.

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In verse 15, we see that when the chief priests and the scribes, and Ellen White gives us

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a little bit of detail, the chief priests and the scribes ran out from, when they saw

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Jesus chase out the money changers because they were so in league with them, the priests

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and scribes ran out with them.

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But their pride got the better of them and so they came back to see what was going on.

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Well, we can't run before Jesus.

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We tell him what to do, not the other way around.

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So when they came back to the temple and the scene that greeted them was this.

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They saw the wonderful things that Jesus did, the healing and the speaking and the glory

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of God being poured out through the body of Jesus to a sick people in need.

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When they saw those wonderful things and the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna

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to the son of David, they were indignant.

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Now, we're going to talk about the priests and the scribes in a moment, but I want to

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talk about the children.

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In Jesus' presence, in Jesus' presence, the young ones with a loud voice were shouting

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praise to God.

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Do we think that if it occurred in Jesus' presence and it was allowed that he would

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have thought it irreverent?

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If it happened in Jesus' presence and it was going on and that was the sound that rang

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through the halls of the temple and Jesus was right there with it, I can almost imagine

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him joining in.

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Certainly we can find reverence in what those children were doing that day.

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Through the example of the children, we see joyous expressions of praise and adoration

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that are reverent.

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Jesus allowed it.

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It must be.

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It must be.

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So in the children, we see this.

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The children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the son of David.

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Most of us don't think of crying out or shouting as reverent.

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Most of us do not.

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Most of us hesitate to even go, amen.

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Some other churches, if you have visited some other churches, they're a little less reserved

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and they're amens.

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Right?

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I've been to a few.

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Some of it's awesome.

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Some of it's really neat.

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I love it.

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Too many of God's people believe that reverence means, I will defile the place of worship

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if I so much as utter a sound above the quietest whisper.

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Some people have that mentality.

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When I walk through the doors, all sound must come to the lowest decibel.

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Otherwise I'm defiling this airspace.

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What do we see the children doing that Jesus approves of?

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Loud cries of praise and joy and expressions of gratitude to God on high.

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Shouts.

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And don't mistake this.

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This is not just a conversational volume.

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These are shouts of joy.

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These are not raucous, but not a whisper.

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Do we know what I mean?

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Some might also think that reverence is this.

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Reverence can only be displayed with an externally somber expression and I must speak and act

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as if being a Christian is a hard and heavy burden that I must bear.

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Have we ever been around people that had that attitude or that look or that tone or that

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demeanor about them?

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There are times when it's appropriate when your sin brings about a sobriety in your life,

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a somberness.

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Sometimes that's appropriate.

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The Bible is also replete with examples of joyous and joyful and almost boisterous expressions

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of how grateful you are to a God who loves you infinitely.

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Let's look at some simple examples.

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Psalm.

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If you're going to talk about praise, you got to talk about the Psalms, right?

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Psalms 149.

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Praise the Lord.

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Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly.

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I highlighted that word new song because it seems to me as I observe that we often shy

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away from new believing that new equals irreverent or that new equals defiling or that a change

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equals something like that.

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We read it right from the psalmist's pen.

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Sing to the Lord a new song.

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I would like to challenge us as much as I appreciate our hymns and I do.

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I like the songs that are contained in our hymnals.

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I would like us, I would like to challenge us to not look at the hymnal as if it's canonical.

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Do you know what I mean by that?

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Something that is canon means that that's the only collection that's permitted, allowed

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and acceptable.

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That's a really contemporary collection of songs if you're not aware.

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That collection that we have in that book given the time span of singing praises to

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God is a very contemporary collection of songs and some well-intended Christians make that

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to be the canon of song and you cannot branch out outside of it or take those songs and

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use it in any other melody.

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I would like to challenge our approach to that.

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That we take the psalmist at his word and we understand that we can sing to the Lord

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a new song at times.

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We can sing to the Lord a song that in full intent will praise and honor him even if it's

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not found inside of this wonderful binding.

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I like the hymns.

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I'm not bound by the hymns.

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Does that make sense?

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And the one does not equal irreverence.

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Let's continue in Psalm 149.

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Let Israel be glad in his maker.

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Let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.

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Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.

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Adventists tend to shy away from dancing and there's a lot of dancing we should shy away

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from.

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The Bible is very clear that dancing in and of itself is not irreverent.

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Where the dancing is used or how the dancing is displayed is where you start to wonder.

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There is a principle that comes out of the Supreme Court when they've had to look

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at various profanity laws and some of those profanity laws dealt with obscene adult content

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in the internet age in video form.

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Do we know what I mean?

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When the justices were looking at it and they were asked how do you define that kind of

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material one of them I believe wisely said I can't put a word-to-word definition but

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I know it when I see it.

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I believe God has built it into us to not always perfectly put into words what something

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is but we kind of know it when we see it.

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We kind of see some things and go I don't know about that one.

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I'm not sure I like how it takes the mind into these areas.

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I'm not sure I like what it does in terms of our emotions.

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Are they uplifting or do they pour us into vice?

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And then we can kind of tell when we get around it.

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But that doesn't mean that we cast a blanket across all things that are contained in the

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Bible as appropriate forms of worship.

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And we can extend that into Psalm 150 praise the Lord praise God in his sanctuary praise

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him in his mighty heavens praise him for his mighty deeds praise him according to his excellent

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greatness praise him with the trumpet praise him with lute and harp with tambourine and

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dance praise him with strings and pipe praise him with sounding cymbals praise him with

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loud clashing cymbals.

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When was the last time we had a loud clashing cymbal in our church?

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When was the last time that we had the trumpet and the harp and the tambourine and strings

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in the church?

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Have you ever been to a place that has kind of like a little mini orchestra that they

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use for their praise and their songs?

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Some of it's gorgeous, beautiful, really uplifting.

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I mean it the voices mix with it and the hearts just glow and they radiate with praise.

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I love it.

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I think we should incorporate it.

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I think it's wonderful.

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So again when we are looking for the how we turn to the examples of Jesus and we look

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at what the Bible has to say.

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So it is appropriate and reverent to let your praises be known even if it's a shout.

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It's appropriate and reverent to follow after this example that Jesus clearly permitted.

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But we need to look at the other side of this.

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We're coming up on our mic drop moment if you will.

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We see how the Pharisees, the priests and the scribes reacted when they saw the signs

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the healings and the helpings and the praise and the what was their reaction?

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Indignance.

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And they went to Jesus and they said to him in verse 16, do you hear what these children

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are saying?

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Do you see what's going on?

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How dare they do that?

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That is unbelievable to me.

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The depths of hypocrisy that these men dared utter aloud.

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They had just been chased out because of their corruption and their wickedness and their

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stepping on the people there to worship God.

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And then they come back and they see shouts of praise to God and the sick being healed

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and the lame made to walk and they say how awful.

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How terrible is this healing and this singing to God that is going on in the mighty wonderful

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temple that we grace with our presence?

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What levels of hypocrisy.

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They dared to think that they had a right to criticize the reverence of those in the

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temple.

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These self-professed protectors of those sacred halls thought that they had the right to decide

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and define what was reverence and what was not.

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So soon after being chased out of the temple because of their gross irreverence, they return

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only to believe themselves properly suited to pass judgment on the children and others

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and by extension also on Jesus.

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Jesus said to them, yes, have you never read out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies,

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you have prepared praise.

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From the priests and the scribes and Jesus response, we can learn three smaller points.

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One preference does not equal reverence.

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These priests and their scribes had their personal preference for what they thought

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should go on in the temple, except that they had perverted it.

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They had misconstrued it.

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They had misunderstood it and then they themselves were irreverent.

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Their preference, they interpreted to be reverence.

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I would like to challenge us that as we prayerfully consider what reverence is that we go back

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to the two things that we look at for our examples, Jesus and scripture and prayerfully

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consider whether or not our preferences are getting in the way of what the word of God

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says and our preferences we interpret to be reverence.

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Because again, it's not the person sitting beside you and it's not you yourself.

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It is Jesus and the word of God.

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That's where we get our understanding of reverence.

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Second, we should be slow to judge others' actions as irreverent.

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Because we don't know whether or not their heart is in the right place and they're figuring

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out the rest of it.

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I can't read your heart.

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I praise God I can't read your heart.

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I doubt many people here would like the person sitting next to them or me up here the ability

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to read your heart.

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I don't want you reading mine.

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I will leave that to God.

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I think we could all say amen to that.

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We should be slow to judge others' actions as irreverent and we should leave that between

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them and God.

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Be mindful of it.

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You might find yourself in an unfortunately hypocritical situation.

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Leave it to God.

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And then third, we learn from Jesus' response.

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He redirected them not to their preference but to where?

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The Bible.

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Scripture.

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The inspired word of God through his prophets and his authors.

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That's where you should go to find out about reverence and awe and your relationship to

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God on high.

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God redirects them to the word of God and then though he had the right, he did not drive

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out those irreverent priests again.

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Do we see that?

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Because it says, and leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and he lodged there.

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The one man who had the right to define and determine reverence in that place, he had

468
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the right to drive out those irreverent priests and scribes.

469
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He had the right, some might even say he had the duty or the responsibility or the weight

470
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of the matter to step forward and again let glory flash through humanity and drive out

471
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those irreverent hypocrites.

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But does he do that?

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He redirects them to the word of God and then Jesus leaves.

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I wonder how many of us take that approach.

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I wonder how many of us pause enough to consider, am I jumping too quickly to define something

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for someone else?

477
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I wonder if some of us are getting our preferences mixed up with how God would like it.

478
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I wonder if some of us, though we may be right, choose to take and follow after Jesus' example.

479
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Let's study the word of God and then maybe I'll excuse myself.

480
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And I will pray for these people.

481
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And I will pray for, fill in the blank, I will pray for me.

482
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I will pray for me.

483
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Lord, let me be reverent in your house even if I might think someone else is not.

484
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I'm going to leave them to you.

485
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Let me be reverent in your house.

486
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Let me be reverent when I come before you.

487
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If other people are irreverent, I'm going to let you handle that.

488
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I think we would be better off if we let God handle many more of those things.

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I believe so.

490
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The mic drop moment is redirecting to the Bible and letting God handle it.

491
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When you end with, let God handle it, you can let go of the mic and follow after him.

492
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You can let go of the mic and step away from the debate and be faithful to his calling

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in your life.

494
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And you help people just say, you don't look to me.

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Don't even look to you.

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Look to Christ.

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Look to scripture.

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And then set down the mic.

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And then just do what you just helped someone else come to realize.

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Set down the mic for a moment.

501
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And you enter into God's preference with reverence and awe.

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Help people see Jesus.

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Let this place, do all that you can to let this church, wherever it meets, be a place

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for healing for all who enter into the presence of Jesus.

505
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Don't shy away from a joyous expression of gratitude to a God who loves you infinitely.

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Don't shy away from it.

507
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And three, follow Jesus' example.

508
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Point back to scripture and let God handle it.

509
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I think that would be well for us to do as we enter into reverence with healing and shouting.

510
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Let us pray.

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Loving Father, we thank you so much for this Sabbath day.

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We thank you that it is a time where we can, in a unique and special way, different than

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the other days, come before your throne with our praise and our worship and our thanksgiving.

514
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Not because we have picked the time, but because you have set it aside for our benefit and

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you desire to be in our midst.

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You desire to abide with us.

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Lord, we thank you for that.

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We thank you for your grace and we thank you for your mercy.

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We thank you for remembering that we are dust and dealing with us appropriately.

520
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So I pray, Lord, as we go from here, that you work on our hearts, inspire us that wherever

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we are and whenever we come into your presence, that it would be in a manner that you would

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have us do, would have us carry out.

523
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We thank you for hearing our prayers, for we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.