And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words. (Luke 19:45-48 ESV)
As He had done early in His ministry, Jesus again comes and cleans up the temple. Why was it so important to Him? Because all the commotion drowned out what was supposed to be going on there: prayer, being able to hear God's Word, and reaching out to those outside (most of this commotion took place in the Court of the Gentiles, leaving them no place to come seek God). So, what clutters my life, keeping me from prayer, the Word, and making a time and place to reach others?
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