Bible Study: Matthew 21

Bible Study: Matthew 21

Posted on December 17, 2021 Updated on December 17, 2021

Bible Study: Matthew 21

 By Babatope Babalobi  babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435

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 Cleansing the temple

1. One of the highlights of Matthew 21 is how Jesus chased out traders from the temple, overthrowing their seats in the process.
2. Just as the temple of God was desecrated in the times of Jesus, the contemporary church has also been largely desecrated.
3. Several churches in the modern-day, have been turned to business centers by commercial preachers who sell Holy water, Anointing oils, and Holy handkerchiefs to unwary members; and burden them with ceaseless requests for offerings, often diverted for personal aggrandizement.
4. In several places, spiritual traders have taken over the solemn office of Pastors, Priests, Bishops, and Reverends; the gospel has been commercialized with a price tag for the highest bidder.
5. In several places, money chargers in Bishops cloaks have taken over the pulpit, amassing fortunes in the name of Jesus and trading the souls of men for a crowd of spiritual customers looking for miracles like instant coffee.
6. Just like in the days of Jesus, political plunderers of our common patrimony now occupy the front rows in churches, as the biggest thieves of public and private wealth are those honoured with the front seats.
7. Like Jesus, we must rise to cast our spiritual traders and businesses men physically and spiritually from our churches; we must overthrow them from their front seats, expose, and chase out our common criminals out of the church.
8. We must pray to reinstate holiness, piety, humility, commonality, brotherliness, humanism, and righteousness to the church.

Prayers

• Fire of God, purify our spiritual and physical temples in Jesus’ name

Commentary on Matthew 21

1. The temple of God in the days of old is the physical church. But the contemporary temple of God is the body.
2. See 1Corinthians 3 vs. 16 – Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
3. Just as in the days of old when people, traded in the physical temple of God, the body of Christians has also been turned into a market.
4. The destiny of a person could be traded by witchcraft powers.
5. The glory of a person could be exchanged by glory killers.
6. The star of a person could be sold off by dark powers.
7. The fortunes and blessing of a person could be stolen by spiritual robbers and thieves.
8. You need to return to prayer to return your glory.
9. You need to pray and cast out the demon, spirits trading with your destiny.
10. You need to pray and overthrow the family strongmen trading with your glory.
11. You need to pray to unseat dark powers exchanging your glory for shame.
12. You need to pray to pursue, overtake and recover your stolen blessings from every physical thief and spiritual robber.

By Babatope Babalobi  babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435

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