HOUSE OF PRAYER

“So Jesus came to Jerusalem and went into the Temple. After looking around carefully at everything, he left because it was late in the afternoon. Then he returned to Bethany with the twelve disciples.”
Mark 11:11 (NLT)

“When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling animals for sacrifices.  He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and he stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace.”
Mark 11:15-16 (NLT)

He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”  Mark 11:17 (NLT)

“I will bring them to my holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them with joy in my house of prayer… because my Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”  Isaiah 56:7 (NLT)

The next morning as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.  He noticed a fig tree in full leaf a little way off, so he went over to see if he could find any figs. But there were only leaves because it was too early in the season for fruit.  Then Jesus said to the tree, “May no one ever eat your fruit again!” And the disciples heard him say it.  Mark 11:12-14 (NLT)

“You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering.  The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.”  Psalm 51:16-17 (NLT)

WHAT ANGERED JESUS MOST REVEALS WHAT MATTERED MOST

 

PRAYERLESSNESS PROVOKED THE RIGHTEOUS ANGER OF JESUS