Temporary Temples
Amen Podcast
Alex Wilson
5 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this message from Matthew 24:1-2, we explore what happens when the disciples focus on the beauty and grandeur of the physical temple, while Jesus sees something entirely different - a temporary structure destined for destruction.
What we cover:
* Why the disciples couldn't believe Jesus would destroy something so magnificent
* The massive scale and beauty of Herod's temple
* The difference between focusing on what is seen (temporary) vs. unseen (eternal)
* How Jesus became the new temple - the true meeting place with God
* What it means that we are now temples of the Holy Spirit
* Identifying our own "temporary temples"
Key Scriptures: Matthew 24:1-2, John 2:19, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, 1 Peter 1:8
Jesus destroyed the temporary to give us the eternal. His body was broken so that we could become living temples where God meets with us right where we are.
After the Amen: Lokelani shares about how relationships can become temporary temples and the importance of enjoying one-on-one time with God.
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| 0:00.0 | I met. What's going on, guys. Alex here. Welcome back to the podcast. You may be wondering why |
| 0:05.0 | Lockelaani is not sitting next to me right now. When we started doing this, we were doing church |
| 0:10.8 | services on Instagram and TikTok and YouTube. And then that was way before COVID even happened. |
| 0:17.4 | And then when COVID happened, we got most of you guys. And a lot of our viewership |
| 0:22.1 | went up. And we just kept on doing it. Locke Lonnie would read the scripture. I would pray. And there was this |
| 0:27.7 | side-by-side ministry that we did. And then as we saw churches open back up, we realized, okay, we need to |
| 0:34.5 | focus this just as a podcast because we don't want people to only |
| 0:38.6 | stay online. We want them to be in community. And then we just saw like the rise of Christian |
| 0:44.9 | podcasts. And there's podcasts. Everyone has one. They're everywhere. And First Timothy two, |
| 0:52.4 | 1st Corinthians 11 and 1st Corinthians 14, all talk about this idea of women teachers. |
| 0:57.8 | And Lockelawny never taught on this podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | She's always been running the after the amen section, and it's always been this response, reaction time to the sermon and a Q&A kind of thing, |
| 1:10.4 | prompting you guys with a question. |
| 1:12.2 | And so we've never violated this on this podcast, |
| 1:15.5 | but there are some who don't know this podcast. |
| 1:18.7 | There are some who don't know us and what we believe and how we believe it. |
| 1:22.7 | Just even because we never really officially talked about this, |
| 1:25.3 | 1 Timothy 2.11 through 15 is a primary passage |
| 1:28.3 | where Paul talks about women teaching and having authority in the church, and he is against it. |
| 1:35.1 | And the reason why isn't a cultural thing in Timothy's day or Paul's day, Paul actually uses |
| 1:40.6 | the Edenic ideal, it's called, way back in the Garden of Eden, to explain that |
| 1:46.9 | there's an order with which God made the universe. And in that order, he made man first, and |
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