Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.

The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And we're praying this message helps you deepen your relationship with him.

Now let's dive in.

Hey church family, welcome to the Deep and Devos.

If you got your Bible, we are going to be in

Colossians chapter 3. And we're talking about what it looks like to admonish one another.

I know that's probably not a word you use in your regular daily language. Let me give you the

definition. Admonish means to warn, to reprimand someone firmly, to advise or urge someone earnestly, to warn someone of something

to be avoided. So maybe you can think about it as oftentimes when you come to church and you

hear me preach, sometimes I am exhorting you, sometimes I'm encouraging you, and oftentimes I am admonishing you.

Now, this last week at church, we talked about the reality that Jesus walked into the temple

and he was angry, very, very angry. And the thing that made him angry is that religious leaders in the name of his father

was using the very system that God set up to point people to the goodness and grace of God.

And they were using that system to exploit the weak in the name of God. And he got angry. He got really angry. Now, some people think that anger is a

sin, but anger is not a sin. In fact, the Bible says, be angry and do not sin. I mean, is that a command?

It says be angry and do not sin. There are some things that make you angry, and there are some things

that ought to make you angry.

And so this abuse of oppressed people under the name of religion really made Jesus angry.

And so what did he do? The Bible says he made a whip.

I don't know how long it takes a whip, but he did not react to the situation.

He responded with righteous anger. And in my mind, I can just see Jesus walking in and

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