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Hey Sprouts, today is Thursday, March 11th, 2021. We have been talking all week about Jesus' final week of life, the first couple days of that week, his entry into Jerusalem, which we celebrate on Palm Sunday, and then his preaching in the temple on the topics of judgment and on accepting death, whether it's death to self or martyrdom.

Now, today we are going to talk about the big event that the church celebrates as happening

on Tuesday of Holy Week, and that is the cleansing of the temple.

Now, maybe you've heard this story, right?

Jesus is there preaching in the temple,

and all around him, there's money changers,

there's merchants selling birds and lambs,

and people are laughing,

and this sacred place, this temple that God himself told the people to build and prescribed

all of these various ways to sacrifice and worship, that it isn't being used as a place of

worship.

It's being used as a marketplace.

And so, of course, Christ gets angry.

And we see that there is reason to get angry, a righteous anger based in a love for God.

He creates a whip, and he overturns the tables, and he chases these merchants and money changers out of there.

So that's what happens. But again, remember with

Palm Sunday, there's a lot going on behind the scenes, the way the Jewish people would have seen this

that we might not know right away. So we're going to go back. We're going to spend today talking about

why is Jesus so mad? Like what exactly is so bad about what's happening in the temple?

So the first thing that you need to remember is that in the Old Testament, there are a couple

of books, specifically a big chunk of Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers.

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