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John chapter 2, verses 16 and 17.

And Jesus told those who sold the pigeons, take these things away.

Do not make my father's house a house of trade.

His disciples remember that it was written.

Zeal for your house will consume me. I want to really

focus on as we pray that last phrase, because this is an addition. So this is something that John

mentions that the other gospel writers don't mention. So we've read, as we read through the Gospels,

this account of Jesus cleansing the temple, and we see him talking about how people had made it a den of robbers, this house of prayer.

And John adds in verse 17, his disciples remembered that it was written. And it quotes from Psalm chapter 69, verse 9, that says, zeal for your house will consume me.

Think about that phrase, will consume me.

Zeal for, think about the house that's being talked about here. This is the temple.

This is the place where the glory of God, the presence of God dwells among his people.

And Jesus is zealous. Jesus is zealous for the glory of his father.

Jesus is zealous for the holiness of the father to be honored.

Zeal for your house will consume me. So let me just ask the question. What consumes you?

What consumes me? Such an interesting word, isn't it? Like, what captures your mind and your

heart such that you can't get it off your mind and it's constantly on your heart? You're consumed by it.

Something is consuming you. It's almost like controlling you.

It's driving you.

It's directing you.

So what consumed Jesus?

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