Hi, this is John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart podcast. What we are doing over this

series is exploring the personality of Jesus from my new book beautiful outlaw

There is absolutely no one and nothing that is more captivating than Jesus when you can see him as he really is.

And to know Jesus as he really is is to fall in love with him.

And so what we're doing in this series, I am reading some excerpts from a new book called

Beautiful Outlaw, discovering the playful, extravagant, disruptive personality of Jesus,

which comes out this October.

And so let's explore Jesus together.

Picture cattle and sheep running for their lives,

crashing down the corrals, their hooves,

sliding frantically on the tiles,

making them even more desperate.

We have a stampede here.

It then says he poured out the coins of the money changers and sent their tables tumbling.

The money changers think men who make their living through extortion are reported to have been sitting at those

tables. Now, how easy is it to move carefully and quickly from a sitting position while

removing your legs from the table that is being overturned in front of you.

More panic.

Meanwhile, the coins.

Jesus doesn't permit them to gather their money and move off in an orderly fashion, he dumps the coins,

scatters them. This is explosive. You've probably had a small handful of change fall off a counter. They burst in every direction like a

jar of marbles. Imagine the chaos of hundreds and hundreds of coins erupting off the stone

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