Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Before we dive into a text and praying according to that text, I just want to thank you.

So this is the hundred and first episode of

pray the word and as you've shared stories and reviews and all kinds of ways just

responded to this podcast I just want to thank you for going on this journey through the word

praying according to it so here's to hundreds more pray the word

broadcasts in the days to come. Let's dive in Matthew chapter 21

verses 12 and 13 and Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought

in the temple and he overturned the tables of the money-changers

and the seats of those who sold pigeons.

He said to them, it is written,

My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of

robbers. There is so much what we can talk about in this passage. This scene you can just imagine the intensity of it.

It almost seems out of character in a sense for Jesus to be turning over tables. You

can only imagine just people's response to this.

What is he doing and why is he doing this?

And it's clear he is passionate

about the temple of God being a place of prayer to God, of seeking after God, of glorifying God,

which is not the way they were treating it in this passage.

And this is one of those places, you just can't leave this here because we keep turning the pages of the New Testament

and we realize when Jesus

down to the cross the curtain of the temple was torn in two so it was no longer a

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