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WELCOME TO LOVE WORTH FINDING WITH PASTOR, TEACHER, AND AUTHOR, ADRIAN ROGERS.
REACHING OUT WITH GOD'S LOVE, BRINGING PEOPLE TO CHRIST,
TOUCHING LIVES AROUND THE WORLD, AND HELPING YOU FIND THE ANSWERS YOU NEED TODAY.
JOIN US AS WE PREPARE TO OPEN GOD'S WORD AND DISCOVER HOW YOUR LIFE CAN BE CHANGED FOREVER
BY HIS GREAT LOVE WORTH FINDING.
[ AUDIENCE APPLAUSE ]
WELL, TAKE GOD'S HOLY WORD AND TURN IF YOU WILL PLEASE TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 21, AND IN A FEW
MOMENTS WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN TO READ FROM VERSE 12.
NOW, WHEN YOU GOT SAVED, GOD CAME INTO YOU TO LIVE IN YOU.
YOU HAD BECOME A TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD.
WHERE IS GOD'S HOUSE?
IS THIS GOD'S HOUSE?
THE BIBLE SAYS, "GOD DOES NOT DWELL IN HOUSES MADE WITH HANDS."
YOU ARE GOD'S HOUSE.
HE LIVES IN YOU. YOU ARE A TEMPLE OF ALMIGHTY GOD.
THE OLD TESTAMENT TEMPLE WAS ONLY A PROPHECY, ONLY A PATTERN FOR THE BELIEVER.
ALL OF THESE THINGS HAVE A SPIRITUAL LESSON THAT GO FAR BEYOND SIMPLY JEWISH RITUAL.
NOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, LISTEN, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD HAD A TEMPLE FOR HIS PEOPLE;
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, GOD HAS HIS PEOPLE FOR A TEMPLE.
SAY RIGHT NOW TO YOURSELF, "I AM A TEMPLE OF GOD."
HAS THAT EVER REALLY ENTERED YOUR HEART AND MIND?
YOU KNOW, MOST, WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK ABOUT GETTING SAVED IS, AH, THEY THINK THAT GETTING
SAVED IS GOING TO HEAVEN.
WELL, THAT'S NOT GETTING SAVED.
THAT'S THE RESULT OF BEING SAVED.
SALVATION IS NOT GETTING MAN OUT OF EARTH INTO HEAVEN;
IT IS GETTING GOD OUT OF HEAVEN INTO MAN.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
WHEN YOU GET SAVED, GOD MOVES INTO YOU.
YOU BECOME A HOLY TEMPLE OF GOD.
NOW IF YOU ARE A TEMPLE OF GOD, ARE YOU A FIT TEMPLE?
I MEAN, CAN GOD BE PLEASED TO DWELL IN YOU?
[ SILENCE ]
SOME COLLEGE STUDENTS HAD FOR THEIR TEAM MASCOT A GOAT.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO KEEP THE GOAT.
AND SOME OF THE COLLEGE BOYS SAID, "WELL, HE CAN STAY IN OUR ROOM IN THE DORM."
SOMEBODY SAID, "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SMELL?"
"WELL," HE SAID," THE GOAT CAN GET USED TO THAT." [ AUDIENCE LAUGHTER ]
COLLEGE BOYS MAY LIVE IN A DIRTY HOUSE, LISTEN TO ME,
BUT GOD WILL NOT LIVE IN A DIRTY HOUSE.
"WELL," YOU SAY, "GOD'S GOING TO MOVE OUT." NO, HE WON'T MOVE OUT.
HE COMES IN YOU TO DWELL IN YOU FOREVER.
BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHILE GOD MIGHT NOT MOVE OUT, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT GOD WILL DO.
GOD WILL CLEAN HOUSE.
YOU'RE THAT HOUSE, AND GOD WILL DO A WORK ON YOU, A CLEANSING WORK, IF YOU'RE TRULY HIS.
NOW LOOK IF YOU WILL IN MATTHEW, AH, CHAPTER 21 VERSE 12, "AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE...
GOD WILL NOT MOVE OUT, BUT GOD WILL CLEAN HOUSE.
THREE BASIC THOUGHTS I WANT TO LAY ON YOUR HEART TODAY.
FIRST OF ALL, THE PROFANING OF THE TEMPLE.
LOOK IF YOU WILL AGAIN IN VERSE 12, "AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND CAST OUT ALL
THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS,
AND THE SEATS OF THEM THAT SOLD DOVES."
WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THIS GLORIOUS, WONDERFUL TEMPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, WHICH IS A,
A TYPE, A PROPHECY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WAS THEY HAD MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.
NOW HE'S SPEAKING TO THE MONEY-CHANGERS.
THE MONEY-CHANGERS WERE VERY CLEVER AND VERY DISHONEST.
PEOPLE WOULD COME TO THE TEMPLE TO WORSHIP GOD, AH, AND TO MAKE A FINANCIAL OFFERING,
BUT THEY HAD THIS ROMAN MONEY, AND THEY COULD NOT USE THIS ROMAN MONEY IN THE TEMPLE.
THEY HAD TO USE THE KIND OF MONEY THAT THEY WORSHIPPED GOD WITH IN THE TEMPLE.
SO WHEN THEY CAME TO THE TEMPLE, THEY HAD TO GO TO THE MONEY-CHANGER,
AND HE WOULD CHANGE THE ROMAN COINS FOR TEMPLE COINS.
SO FAR-SO GOOD!
BUT HERE'S THE WAY IT WORKED.
WHEN THEY CHARGED FOR SELLING, FOR MAKING THIS TRANSACTION,
THEY DID NOT GIVE AN EVEN TRANSACTION.
IT WAS NOT, AS YOU WOULD SAY, DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR,
BUT IT WAS $1.15, OR WHATEVER, FOR A DOLLAR.
AND THEN WHEN THE PEOPLE WOULD TAKE THIS MONEY INTO THE CHURCH TREASURY, OR INTO THE TEMPLE
TREASURY AND LEAVE IT THERE, THEY WOULD TAKE IT BACK OUT AND SELL IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE
AND ALL THE TIME JUST RAKING OFF THE PROFIT. PRETTY GOOD DEAL, WASN'T IT?
I MEAN, FOR THEM IT WAS A LOUSY, WICKED THING THAT THEY WERE DOING.
THEY WERE STEALING FROM THE PEOPLE.
THEY HAD MADE THE HOUSE OF GOD A DEN OF THIEVES.
THEY PROFANED THE TEMPLE.
NOW WHAT DOES THE TEMPLE EXIST FOR?
THE TEMPLE EXISTS FOR ONE PURPOSE.
WHY ARE YOU HERE?
WHY ARE YOU SAVED?
WHAT IS GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU?
ONE PURPOSE, AND THAT IS TO GLORIFY GOD!
NOW PUT IN YOUR MARGIN FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER SIX, VERSE 19, "WHAT?
KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST, WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YOU HAVE
OF GOD," NOW LISTEN TO THIS, "AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN?
YOU ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE," NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY, "THEREFORE, GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR
BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD'S."
NOW YOU DON'T BELONG TO YOU.
JESUS SUFFERED, BLED, AND DIED UPON THAT CROSS FOR YOU.
WHEN I SAW THE FILM, "THE PASSION," IT BROKE MY HEART.
AND WHILE I HAD PREACHED ON THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST MANY TIMES, TO SEE THAT
GRAPHICALLY PORTRAYED ON THE SCREEN MOVED ME DEEPLY.
AND THE ONE THOUGHT THAT I HAD WAS THIS;
NOT ONE THOUGHT, ONE THOUGHT AMONG MANY, BUT PERHAPS THE PRIME THOUGHT,
"ADRIAN, ARE THE THINGS YOU ARE LIVING FOR WORTH JESUS DYING FOR?"
NOW WHY DID HE BUY US WITH A PRICE?
WE'RE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE, "THEREFORE, GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT,
WHICH ARE GOD'S."
NOW WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE DOING?
THEY WERE TAKING THE TRIBUTE THAT BELONGED TO GOD, AND THEY WERE USING IT FOR THEMSELVES.
THEY WERE STEALING AWAY THE TRIBUTE THAT BELONGS TO GOD.
NOW YOU'RE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?
NOW MAY I ASK YOU A PERSONAL QUESTION?
DON'T ANSWER IT OUT LOUD, BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE, ANSWER IT.
IS YOUR BODY AND YOUR SPIRIT GLORIFYING GOD?
ARE YOU TRULY A TEMPLE OF GOD?
WELL, YOU SAY, "PASTOR ROGERS, YES, I GLORIFY GOD IN MY SPIRIT.
GOD KNOWS MY HEART.
GOD KNOWS THAT I LOVE HIM."
BUT THIS, THIS SCRIPTURE SAYS, "GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT."
NOW YOU CAN'T SEE MY SPIRIT.
ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT ME YOU KNOW FROM MY BODY.
WELL, YOU SAY, "I KNOW ABOUT YOU FROM WHAT YOU WROTE."
MY BODY WROTE THAT.
YOU SAY, "I KNOW ABOUT YOU FROM, AH, WHAT YOU THINK."
NO, YOU CAN'T TELL WHAT I THINK UNTIL MY BODY SPEAKS WHAT I THINK.
FRIEND, ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT ME, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW, THE ONLY THING YOU REALLY
KNOW IS WHAT YOU SEE IN MY BODY, WHAT MY BODY EXPRESSES.
NOW MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION?
ARE YOU GLORIFYING GOD IN YOUR BODY?
YOUR BODY IS OUT WHERE PEOPLE CAN SEE IT.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR EYES?
ARE YOUR EYES GLORIFYING GOD?
THE NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO KNOW WHETHER A TELEVISION PROGRAM IS FIT OR NOT, JUST ASK YOURSELF
THIS QUESTION, "IS WHAT I'M WATCHING TO THE GLORY OF GOD?"
THE MUSIC THAT YOU LISTEN TO.
ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION, "IS THIS MUSIC GLORIFYING GOD?"
CAN YOU THANK GOD FOR IT? CAN YOU SAY, "LORD, THIS IS FOR YOUR GLORY."
THE THINGS THAT YOU TAKE INTO YOUR MOUTH,
WHETHER YOU BE OVEREATING, OR USING NICOTINE,
OR TAKING SOME TERRIBLE SUBSTANCE INTO YOUR BODY,
CAN YOU DO THAT TO GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY?
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SMOKING CIGARETTES, FOR EXAMPLE; I DON'T WANT TO PICK ON YOU,
BUT YOU NEED TO QUIT.
YOU SAY, "I CAN'T QUIT."
THAT'S A LIE. YOU CAN QUIT. NOW, LISTEN.
IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT FOR YOU TO SMOKE IF YOU COULD LIGHT UP
AND SAY, "NOW, JESUS, THIS IS FOR YOUR GLORY. THIS IS." YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
YOU SEE, WHAT YOU TAKE INTO YOUR MOUTH, WHAT YOU SEE WITH YOUR EYES, WHAT YOU HEAR WITH YOUR
EARS, WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR HANDS.
THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE BEEN GOING DOWN TO THE CASINO TO GAMBLE, AND I HOPE IT'S VERY FEW OF YOU,
BUT DO YOU THINK THAT GOD GAVE YOU THOSE HANDS TO MANIPULATE A SLOT MACHINE?
LISTEN, YOUR FEET; DO YOU GLORIFY GOD WITH YOUR FEET?
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
ARE YOU GOING TO PLACES THAT A CHRISTIAN HAS ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS GOING TO?
NOW WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE SOMETIMES CAN MAKE OUR BODIES PROFANE.
HERE WAS A TEMPLE IN THE, IN THE TIME OF JESUS, AND WHAT THEY HAD DONE THEY HAD TURNED THE TEMPLE
INTO A DEN OF THIEVES.
YOU SAY, "AT LEAST, I'M, I'M GOING TO HEAVEN, PASTOR, BECAUSE I MAY NOT BE GLORIFYING GOD IN
MY BODY, BUT I AM GLORIFYING GOD IN MY SPIRIT."
ONE MAN TOLD ANOTHER MAN, "LOOK, I KNOW I'M NOT LIVING RIGHT.
I KNOW MY EYES, MY EARS, MY HANDS, MY FEET, I KNOW THEY'RE NOT RIGHT, BUT I AM SAVED.
AND REMEMBER THE THIEF ON THE CROSS.
HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING FOR JESUS, AND YET HE WENT TO HEAVEN."
THE FRIEND RIGHTLY SAID TO HIM, "SIR, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU
AND THE THIEF ON THE CROSS.
HE WAS A DYING THIEF; YOU ARE A LIVING THIEF.
YOU ARE LIVING A LIFE THAT IS STEALING THE TRIBUTE THAT BELONGS TO JESUS CHRIST."
I AM TELLING YOU THAT GOD SAVED YOU FOR ONE PURPOSE, AND THAT IS TO GLORIFY HIM.
AGAIN, LISTEN TO THE SCRIPTURE, "WHAT?
KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST, WHICH YOU HAVE OF GOD," NOW
LISTEN, "YOU'RE NOT YOUR OWN; YOU ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; THEREFORE, GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR
BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD'S."
YOUR LIFE IS TO BE A LIFE OF PERPETUAL GLORY TO GOD.
AND WHAT IS REVIVAL?
REVIVAL IS WHEN THE GLORY OF GOD RISES UP IN US INDIVIDUALLY AND THEN CORPORATELY.
THAT'S THE PROFANING OF THE TEMPLE.
SECONDLY, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THE PURGING OF THE TEMPLE.
WHAT DID JESUS CHRIST DO IN THAT DAY?
LOOK IN MATTHEW 21 VERSE 12, "AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND CAST OUT ALL THEM
THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS, AND THE
SEATS OF THEM THAT SOLD DOVES."
NOW PUT IN YOUR MARGIN JOHN TWO VERSE 15, "AND WHEN HE HAD MADE A SCOURGE OF SMALL CORDS,
HE DROVE THEM ALL OUT OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE SHEEP, AND THE OXEN; AND POURED OUT THE
CHANGERS' MONEY, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES."
NOW JESUS WILL NOT LIVE IN A DIRTY HOUSE, BUT HE WILL CLEAN HOUSE.
AND LET ME TELL YOU HOW HE DOES IT.
FIRST OF ALL, HE DOES IT WITH A WHIP.
NOW, YOU SAY, "THIS IS THE LOVING JESUS?" YES.
JESUS LOVES YOU AS YOU ARE, BUT HE LOVES YOU TOO MUCH TO LEAVE YOU THAT WAY.
AND SO HE TAKES A WHIP OUT.
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS TELLS US ABOUT THIS.
LOOK IF YOU WILL IN HEBREWS 12 VERSES FIVE THROUGH EIGHT,
"HAVE YE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION WHICH SPEAKETH UNTO YOU AS UNTO CHILDREN.
'MY SON, DESPISE NOT THOU THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD,
NOR FAINT WHEN THOU ART REBUKED OF HIM.
FOR,'" LISTEN TO THIS NOW, "'FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, AN, AND SCOURGETH
EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVETH.'" A SCOURGE IS A WHIP.
DID YOUR DADDY EVER CARRY YOU TO THE WOODSHED? MINE DID. DO YOU KNOW WHY?
HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT, "WHOM THE FATHER LOVETH, HE CHASTENETH,
AND SCOURGETH EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVETH.
IF YE ENDURE CHASTENING, GOD DEALETH WITH YOU AS WITH SONS;
FOR WHAT SON IS HE WHOM THE FATHER CHASTENETH NOT?
BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT, WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS,
THEN ARE YE BASTARDS, AND NOT SONS."
NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
IT MEANS THAT IF YOU MAKE THIS TEMPLE A DEN OF THIEVES,
AND JESUS DOES NOT TAKE A WHIP TO CHASTISE YOU, DON'T BOAST ABOUT IT.
IT'S A SIGN THAT YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN SAVED.
GOD WILL CHASTISE HIS OWN. GOD WILL CHASTISE YOU. WHO ARE THE PARTAKERS OF IT?
WHY, HE SAYS, LOOK, "ALL ARE PARTAKERS," TALKING ABOUT ALL CHRISTIANS.
WHAT IS THE PROMISE OF IT?
HE SAYS IN VERSE EIGHT THAT IT IS GOING TO COME TO YOU.
AND IF YOU'RE NOT, IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, IF GOD DOESN'T TAKE A WHIP TO CLEANSE YOUR TEMPLE
WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN SIN, YOU DON'T BELONG TO GOD.
NOW YOU MAY SIT IN CHURCH.
YOU MAY APPLAUD THE MUSIC.
YOU MAY HEAR THE SERMON.
BUT GOD SAID, "I NEVER FATHERED YOU.
I NEVER SIRED YOU.
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN FROM ABOVE.
YOU'RE ILLEGITIMATE.
YOU'RE NOT A TRUE SON OF GOD."
AND I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THE PURPOSE OF IT.
THE PURPOSE OF IT IS TO MAKE US HOLY BEFORE GOD.
LOOK IF YOU WILL IN HEBREWS 12 VERSES 10 AND 11, "FOR THEY,"
THAT IS, OUR FATHERS, "VERILY FOR A FEW DAYS CHASTENED US AFTER THEIR OWN PLEASURE,"
HA, HA. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY ENJOYED DOING IT. THAT'S JUST OLD ENGLISH.
IT MEANS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT NEEDED TO BE DONE.
"BUT HE FOR OUR PROFIT," THAT IS, GOD CHASTENS US FOR OUR PROFIT,
"THAT WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS."
NOW WHY WOULD GOD CHASTISE YOU?
BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU TO BE HOLY, "THAT WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS.
NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT TIME SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS;
NEVERTHELESS, AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEM WHICH
ARE EXERCISED THEREBY."
NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT TIME IS JOYOUS.
DID YOU EVER SAY WHEN YOU WERE GETTING A SPANKING OR A WHIPPING,
"BOY, THIS IS WONDERFUL. [ AUDIENCE LAUGHTER ] I'M HAVING A GREAT TIME."
OF COURSE NOT! BUT YOUR FATHER, YOUR MOTHER HAD A PURPOSE.
THEY WANTED YOU TO GROW UP TO BE THE KIND OF A CHILD
THAT THEY COULD BE PROUD OF AND REJOICE IN. GOD HAS A PURPOSE.
NOW SOME OF YOU RIGHT NOW ARE BEING CHASTENED.
I MEAN, IT'S AS THOUGH HAD, GOD HAS A WHIP AND HE IS CHASTENING YOU IN SO MANY WAYS.
BUT I TELL YOU, DEAR FRIEND, THAT THAT CHASTENING IS PROFIT AND NOT LOSS.
NOW ONE WAY THAT GOD CLEANSES THE TEMPLE IS THROUGH CHASTISEMENT.
ANOTHER WAY THAT GOD WILL CLEANSE YOUR TEMPLE IS THROUGH DISRUPTION.
LOOK, IF YOU WILL, AGAIN IN JOHN TWO VERSE 15. I REFERRED YOU TO THAT BEFORE,
"AND WHEN HE HAD MADE A SCOURGE OF SMALL CORDS, HE DROVE THEM ALL OUT OF THE TEMPLE,
AND THE SHEEP, AND THE OXEN; AND POURED OUT THE CHANGERS' MONEY, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES."
NOW THIS IS JESUS.
GOD IS A GOD OF ORDER, AND JESUS IS A SAVIOR OF LOVE, AND YET YOU SEE HIM WITH A WHIP.
AND YOU SEE HIM, HA, TEARING UP THE WHOLE THING.
HE'S LETTING THE DOVES OUT OF THE CAGES.
HE'S TAKING THE MONEY OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS AND THROWING IT ON THE FLOOR.
AND THEN HE FINDS THESE TABLES AND HE TURNS THEM OVER.
HE TURNS OVER THIS TABLE.
HE TURNS OVER THAT TABLE.
HE TURNS OVER THIS TABLE.
THIS IS THE TEMPLE!
AND HERE IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE DISRUPTING EVERYTHING.
[ SILENCE ]
DO YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS WILL DO TO YOUR PLANS?
HE'LL TURN OVER YOUR TABLES.
HE WILL TURN OVER YOUR TABLES.
HE LOVES YOU TOO MUCH TO LET YOU SUCCEED IN YOUR SIN.
HE'LL TAKE A WHIP AND A SCOURGE, THAT'S CHASTISEMENT.
AND THEN HE'LL COME INTO YOUR LIFE AND HE WILL BRING DISRUPTION.
AND YOU'LL SAY, "WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING WORK OUT RIGHT FOR ME?"
WHEN MY CHILDREN DON'T SEEM TO BE WALKING WITH THE LORD AS MUCH AS THEY OUGHT, I PRAY FOR THEM.
I DON'T PRAY THEY'LL SUCCEED; I PRAY, "LORD, LET THE CHARIOT WHEELS DRAG!"
WHY?
I DON'T WANT SOMEBODY TO HAVE A WELL THOUGHT OUT PLAN IN LIFE AND SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY WHEN
THERE'S SIN IN THEIR HEART AND IN THEIR LIFE.
I WANT JESUS TO OVERTURN THEIR TABLES. [ AUDIENCE: AMEN ] HE'LL OVERTURN YOUR TABLES.
FRIEND, YOU MAY HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT.
YOU SAY, "WELL, AH, WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?"
WELL, USE A LITTLE COMMON SENSE.
DO YOU THINK THAT JESUS WOULD HAVE GONE INTO A PAGAN TEMPLE AND DONE THAT?
NO, NOT AT ALL! HE GOES INTO HIS OWN TEMPLE. "YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD."
NOW, THIRDLY, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE NOT ONLY THE PROFANING OF THE TEMPLE
AND THE PURGING OF THE TEMPLE, BUT THE PURPOSE OF THE TEMPLE.
I BRING YOU BACK AGAIN TO THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED AND BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE, OF THE TEMPLE?
NUMBER ONE: IT IS TO BE A PLACE OF PRAYER. LOOK IN VERSE 13,
"AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, 'IT IS WRITTEN, MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER,
BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.'"
NOW IN THE TEMPLE THERE WAS AN ALTAR OF INCENSE,
AND THAT INCENSE WAS RISING CONTINUALLY TO GOD.
AND THE BIBLE TEACHES US CLEARLY AND PLAINLY THAT INCENSE RISING FROM THAT ALTAR OF INCENSE
IS A PICTURE OF OUR PRAYER CONTINUALLY RISING TO GOD;
I MEAN, CONTINUALLY.
YOUR HOUSE IS TO BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PRAYER RISING CONTINUALLY FROM YOUR HEART, YOU NEED REVIVAL.
NOW I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT: "NOW-I-LAY-ME-DOWN-TO-SLEEP."
YOU HAVE NO GREATER CALLING THAN TO MAKE THIS HOUSE, THIS TEMPLE THAT YOU ARE,
A HOUSE, A PLACE OF PRAYER.
NOW IT'S TO COME UP CONTINUALLY.
LUKE 18 AND VERSE ONE, "AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END," NOW LISTEN,
"THAT MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT TO FAINT." THAT IS, NOT TO QUIT PRAYING.
THESSALONIANS FIVE VERSE 17, "PRAY WITHOUT CEASING."
YOU SAY, "HOW CAN YOU PRAY WITHOUT CEASING? YOU HAVE TO SLEEP."
YOU CAN BE IN COMMUNION WITH GOD IN YOUR SLEEP.
A MOTHER MAY HAVE A CHILD WHO HAS BEEN SICK FOR A LONG TIME.
AND FINALLY THAT CHILD GOES OFF TO A FITFUL SLEEP.
SHE'S BEEN UP PERHAPS A, A WHOLE DAY, A WHOLE NIGHT, TWO DAYS, NURSING THAT CHILD.
FINALLY THE CHILD GOES TO SLEEP, AND THE MOTHER GOES TO SLEEP.
HER BODY IS, IS DESIRING REST AND SLEEP.
AND THERE CAN BE ALL KINDS OF NOISE.
SOMEBODY CAN BE PLAYING THE TELEVISION.
SHE PAYS NO ATTENTION TO IT.
THE SIRENS MAY GO BY WITH A FIRE TRUCK OUTSIDE.
SHE PAYS NO ATTENTION.
SOMEBODY MAY COME IN AND SLAM THE DOOR.
SHE PAYS NO ATTENTION. BUT LISTEN TO ME.
ONE WHIMPER FROM THAT CHILD AND SHE'S AWAKE. WHY?
SHE'S TUNED, EVEN IN HER SLEEP, TO THAT CHILD.
YOU ARE TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING; THAT IS, OUT OF YOUR HEART.
THE INCENSE IS TO BE RISING ALL OF THE TIME.
DO YOU FIND YOURSELF JUST DRIVING ALONG SAYING, "JESUS, I LOVE YOU?"
I DO. "LORD, I LOVE YOU."
WHEN I, WHEN I GO THROUGH LIFE TO DO THIS THING OR THAT THING, I HAVE A TASK,
A COMMITTEE MEETING, WHATEVER IT IS, I WANT TO PRAY ABOUT IT.
IT WAS SAID OF DWIGHT L. MOODY,
"HE NEVER MADE LONG PRAYERS, BUT HE WAS NEVER LONG WITHOUT PRAYER."
AH, WE ARE TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. LISTEN.
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER FOUR VERSE SIX, "BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING," THAT IS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT
ANYTHING, "BUT IN EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH
THANKSGIVING, LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD."
YOU PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.
NOW DON'T, DON'T DIVIDE YOUR LIFE BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR,
BECAUSE HE SAYS YOU'RE TO PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.
CHARLES STANLEY, FRIEND OF MINE,
BECAME THE PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
AND THEY WERE GOING THROUGH SOME DIFFICULTY WHEN HE FIRST CAME, SO HE HAD THE DEACONS
AND THE FINANCE COMMITTEE THERE. AND THEY HAD A REAL PROBLEM.
AND HE SAID, "GENTLEMEN, LET'S PRAY ABOUT IT."
AND ONE OF THOSE BUSINESSMEN SAID, "NOW LISTEN, PASTOR, AH, HUH, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING
SPIRITUAL; THIS IS BUSINESS, [ AUDIENCE REACTION ] THIS IS BUSINESS."
NOW WHAT HAD HE DONE?
HE HAD TRIED TO SEPARATE THE SACRED FROM THE SECULAR.
YOU WILL NEVER FIND THE WORD SECULAR IN ANY CONCORDANCE.
"IN EVERYTHING, BY PRAYER AND, AND SUPPLICATION, LET YOUR REQUEST BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD."
YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU A GOOD TEST AS TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING?
CAN YOU PRAY ABOUT IT?
CAN YOU SAY, "GOD, HELP ME TO DO THIS?"
SOME OF YOU MAY BE SO FOOLISH AS TO PRAY WHEN YOU GO TO THE CASINOS I MENTIONED BEFORE.
BUT, FRIEND, THAT IS FOOLISH. THAT IS RIDICULOUS.
AH, WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO PRAY FOR.
GOD PUTS THOSE UPON YOUR HEART FOR WHOM YOU'RE TO PRAY.
FIRST SAMUEL CHAPTER 12, VERSE 23, "MOREOVER, AS FOR ME, GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD SIN AGAINST
THE LORD IN CEASING TO PRAY FOR YOU."
THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE; NOT INTELLECT,
NOT WORK, NOT EMOTION.
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR INTERCESSION AND FOR PRAYER.
SO WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE TEMPLE?
IT IS TO BE A PLACE OF PRAYER.
"MY HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE."
NOW DO YOU NEED REVIVAL?
IF YOU FIND IT HARD AND DIFFICULT TO PRAY, IF PRAYER IS NOT WELLING UP AND COMING OUT,
I CAN TELL YOU YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT WITH GOD.
YOU HAVE NOT USED THE TEMPLE FOR THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH YOU ARE SAVED.
YOU ARE TO BE A PLACE OF PRAYER.
NUMBER TWO: YOU'RE TO BE A PLACE OF POWER.
LOOK IN VERSE 14, MATTHEW 24, UH, 21 VERSE 14, "AND THE BLIND AND THE LAME CAME TO HIM,"
LISTEN, "IN THE TEMPLE, AND HE HEALED THEM."
PEOPLE WHO WERE BLIND AND PEOPLE WHO WERE BROKEN, AND HE HEALED THEM.
YOU SAY, "WELL, PASTOR ROGERS, IF I HAVE THE LORD JESUS IN ME,
DOES THAT MEAN THAT I CAN LAY HANDS ON THE SICK AND THEY WILL RECOVER?"
WELL, THAT HAPPENS.
I BELIEVE I'VE LAID HANDS ON THE SICK AND PRAYED FOR THEM AND THEY'VE RECOVERED.
I, I BELIEVE I'VE SEEN GOD DO MIRACLES.
BUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS WERE PICTURES AND PROPHECIES OF THE GREATER THINGS.
THE INCENSE IS A PICTURE OF THE GREATER THING, WHICH IS PRAYER.
THE HEALING OF THE BLIND AND THE LAME IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE GREATER THING,
WHICH IS SOUL WINNING.
YOU SAY, "YOU JUST SAY THAT FOR AN EXCUSE, PASTOR, 'CAUSE YOU CAN'T HEAL ANYBODY."
THAT'S NOT RIGHT.
THE BIBLE SAYS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND BY THE WAY, JE,
JESUS SAID, "THERE WAS NOT A GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST."
AND THE BIBLE SAYS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, "JOHN DID NO MIRACLE,
BUT MANY BELIEVED ON JESUS THROUGH HIS WORD."
I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE POWER TO HEAL THE SICK.
I DON'T. BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING.
GOD HAS GIVEN ME A GIFT, AND GOD HAS GIVEN YOU A GIFT.
GOD HAS GIVEN ME A COMMAND, AND GOD HAS GIVEN YOU A COMMAND
THAT WE MIGHT BRING SOULS TO JESUS CHRIST.
WHAT IS THE GREATER MIRACLE?
OPENING BLIND EYES? STRAIGHTENING BROKEN LIMBS?
THE GREATER MIRACLE IS WHEN SOMEBODY IS BORN AGAIN. [ AUDIENCE: AMEN ]
NOW YOU SAY, "WELL, THAT'S JUST RHETORIC." NO, IT'S NOT. LISTEN TO ME.
WHEN GOD MADE THIS WORLD, HOW DID HE DO IT? BY, OF HIS OWN WILL.
FROM HIS FINGERTIPS CAME PLANETS AND, AH, MYRIADS OF GALAXIES.
OF HIS OWN WILL HE SCOOPED OUT THE OCEANS AND HEAPED UP THE MOUNTAINS.
HE SPOKE AND IT WAS SO!
A COLLEGE BOY ASKED HIS PREACHER, "PREACHER,
DO YOU THINK THERE'S LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS?
THE PREACHER SAID, "NO, I DON'T."
HE SAID, "WELL, NOW, PREACHER, WAIT A MINUTE.
IF, IF THERE'S NO LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS, WHY DID GOD GO TO ALL THAT TROUBLE TO MAKE THEM?"
THE PASTOR SAID, "WHAT TROUBLE? [ AUDIENCE LAUGHTER ] WHAT TROUBLE?"
GOD SPOKE AND IT WAS SO! BUT [ CLAP ] TO SAVE A SOUL,
HE PUT HIS DARLING SON ON THE CROSS IN AGONY AND BLOOD. [ AUDIENCE: AMEN ]
AND THE ONLY TIME GOD HAD ANY TROUBLE, IF WE COULD SAY IT REVERENTLY, WAS BLOODY CALVARY.
AND I'M TELLING YOU THE GREATERST, THE GREATER MIRACLE IS THE SALVATION OF ONE SOUL.
ONE LITTLE TEENAGE GIRL THAT COMES DOWN THIS AISLE THIS MORNING TO GIVE HER HEART TO
JESUS CHRIST IS A GREATER MIRACLE THAN ALL OF THE HEALINGS THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
[ AUDIENCE: AMEN ] YOUR HOUSE IS TO BE A HOUSE, A PLACE OF PRAYER.
IT IS TO BE A PLACE OF POWER. AND, FRIEND, IT IS TO BE A PLACE OF PRAISE.
LOOK, IF YOU WILL, NOW IN, AH, CHAPTER 21 VERSE 15: "AND WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES
SAW THE WONDERFUL WORKS THAT HE DID, AND THE CHILDREN CRYING IN THE TEMPLE AND SAYING, 'HOSANNA
TO THE SON OF DAVID!' THEY WERE VERY DISPLEASED.
AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, 'HEAREST THOU NOT WHAT THEY SAY, AND JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, 'YEA;
HAVE YE NEVER READ THAT OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
AND SUCKLINGS THOU HAST PERFECTED PRAISE?'"
WHEN YOUR HOUSE BECOMES A HOUSE OF PRAYER,
AND WHEN YOUR HOUSE BECOMES A PLACE OF POWER,
IPSO FACTO, AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT,
IT'LL BE A PLACE OF PRAISE.
YOU WILL BE CONSTANTLY PRAISING THE LORD.
PSALM 34 VERSE ONE,
[ SILENCE ]
"I, DEAR LORD, WILL CONSTANTLY PRAISE YOU;
YOUR PRAISE WILL BE CONTINUALLY IN MY MOUTH."
WHEN YOU HAVE GIVEN THE TEMPLE OF YOUR BODY OVER TO HIM,
PRAISE WILL BE RISING UP FROM GOD CONSTANTLY.
YOU CAN'T HELP IT.
YOU'LL BE SAYING, "THANK YOU, LORD, THANK YOU.
PRAISE YOUR NAME. YOU'RE GREAT. I LOVE YOU, JESUS.
GLORY TO YOUR HOLY NAME." I DON'T MEAN JUST IN CHURCH.
YOU SAY, "WELL, I COME TO CHURCH TO WORSHIP GOD."
FRIEND, YOU BRING YOUR WORSHIP TO CHURCH.
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY, NIGHT AND DAY YOUR TEMPLE IS A PLACE OF PRAISE.
NOT ONLY WILL YOU PRAISE HIM, BUT OTHERS WILL PRAISE HIM FOR YOU, BECAUSE OF YOU.
NOW DON'T MAKE THIS JUST A SERMON.
I'M ASKING YOU A QUESTION, AND IT'S A SERIOUS QUESTION RIGHT NOW.
WHAT IS THERE IN YOUR LIFE THAT WOULD CAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE TO PRAISE GOD?
WHAT IS THERE IN YOUR LIFE THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY YOUR WILL OR BY YOUR MANNERS OR BY YOUR
EDUCATION OR BY YOUR CULTURE OR BY YOUR FRIENDSHIP, WHERE IS THE DIFFERENCE?
ARE YOU CONSTANTLY PRAISING GOD?
AND IS YOUR LIFE CAUSING OTHERS TO SAY, "HOSANNA,
TO THE SON OF GOD!"
THE PROFANING OF THE TEMPLE;
STEALING THE TRIBUTE THAT BELONGS TO JESUS.
THE PURGING OF THE TEMPLE;
A WHIP OF CHASTISEMENT AND A WORK OF DISRUPTION.
HE'LL DO THAT IN YOUR HEART AND IN YOUR LIFE.
THE PURPOSE OF THE TEMPLE; IT'S TO BE A PLACE OF PRAYER,
IT'S TO BE A PLACE OF POWER, IT IS TO BE A PLACE OF PRAISE.
I REMIND YOU ONE MORE TIME.
I'M NOT TALKING NOW ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT TEMPLE.
THAT'S ONLY A PICTURE. THAT'S ONLY A TYPE.
FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER SIX VERSE 19, "WHAT?
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST,
WHICH YOU HAVE OF GOD, AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? FOR YOU'RE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE;
THEREFORE, GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD'S."
AND, FRIEND, WHEN WE DO THAT, THAT'S REVIVAL, WOULD YOU AGREE?
AND WHEN WE DO THAT INDIVIDUALLY, THEN WE'RE GOING TO DO IT CORPORATELY.
AND THIS WORLD WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE.
BOW YOUR HEADS IN PRAYER.
YOU SAID, "PASTOR, SALVATION IS GETTING GOD OUT OF HEAVEN INTO MAN, INTO WOMAN.
HOW CAN I GET GOD OUT OF HEAVEN INTO MY LIFE?"
WELL, REVELATION THREE VERSE 20, JESUS SAID, "BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK."
DID YOU KNOW HE'S KNOCKING AT YOUR HEART'S DOOR RIGHT NOW? "IF ANY MAN HEAR MY VOICE."
YOU SEE, HE'S OUT THERE NOT ONLY KNOCKING; HE IS SPEAKING, "IF ANY MAN HEAR MY VOICE AND OPEN
THE DOOR, I WILL COME INTO HIM "HAVE SUPPER WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME."
HE'LL COME IN TO FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU, THE DEAREST, SWEETEST FRIEND YOU'VE EVER KNOWN.
JESUS HAS BEEN SPEAKING TO SOME OF YOU TODAY THROUGH THIS MESSAGE.
HE HAS BEEN KNOCKING AT YOUR HEART'S DOOR, IN MANY WAYS TELLING YOU THAT YOU NEED HIM.
NOW WHAT IS YOUR JOB?
WHAT IS YOUR PRIVILEGE?
IT IS TO OPEN THE DOOR.
IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO SLIDE AN OFFERING UNDER THE DOOR,
NOT ENOUGH TO WHISPER A PRAYER THROUGH THE KEYHOLE.
OPEN THE DOOR!
OPEN THE DOOR AND SAY, "LORD JESUS, COME IN,"
AND HE WILL COME IN AND MAKE YOU HIS HOLY, WONDERFUL TEMPLE.
HE WILL DO THAT, I PROMISE, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD.
PRAY A PRAYER LIKE THIS: "JESUS, YOU SHED YOUR BLOOD ON THE CROSS TO PAY MY SIN DEBT.
YOU WERE RAISED FROM THE DEAD TO SHOW YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD.
YOU PROMISED TO SAVE ME IF I WOULD TRUST YOU.
I DO TRUST YOU, I DO.
I OPEN THE DOOR.
COME INTO ME, LORD JESUS, AND TAKE CONTROL OF MY LIFE.
AND I GIVE MY LIFE BACK TO YOU.
AND YOU WILL HAVE SUPPER WITH ME, AND I'LL HAVE SUPPER WITH YOU.
WE'LL WALK TOGETHER, DEAR JESUS. AMEN."
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