In the second chapter of John,
the Author describes Jesus, very early in His Three Year ministry, physically wrecking the commerce going on in the Temple.

In the other Gospels this same event is referred to again…. seemingly in the last week of His
before His Crucifixion.

If it was one event described several times, or if it occurred more than once…….it took place.

It sets a precedent for His followers.

Is there anything going on where you worship which needs to be physically confronted and shut down???

If so, then have the spiritual and physical courage to do so.

I did it once…
after someone complained about not getting anything out of the sermons being preached.

The gentleman left the Church.

I know of someone who did this …
and his actions brought great influence upon a decision-maker and allowed an alternative and better solution than what was going to take place.

Be careful when you consider this and surround your behavior in prayer…because you are subjecting yourself to The Highest Authority when you get into possibly being the vocal element in Gods’ work.

What about the “temple” of your home???
Where you live.

Anything disruptive or simmering just under the surface that is causing you or others in your house to be less than what your Spirit is telling you to or leading you be ?

Is there any activity in your house that if Christ walked in he would take a whip to…???

Are you sure?

As a parent you have the right and
responsibility to check, often,
your children’s phones…
make that the phones YOU pay for and let them use.

As the adult in the house…
and as the “priest of the home”,
you are supposed to lead, example and hold accountable any behavior under your roof.

You are also challenged to be aware…to investigate, as a Physician does when looking for the root of an illness… anything drawing your spouse or a child away from you or the family unit.

Couching it as…
“they are just being teenagers” …
is abdicating your role as the Adult, as the Parent,
as the One who has the responsibility.
What about the last and hardest “temple” to cleanse ?

The Church where you worship is one responsibility.
The home you live in and the family you have given rise to is another absolutely important and essential responsibility.

The hardest ” temple” to cleanse is, and always will be,
the “temple” your MIND and HEART reside in.

It’s the most private.

It’s the easiest one to rationalize.

I heard this phrase from
Larry Taunton…
” to rationalize is to ‘rational lies’ “.

Jesus could have walked into the Temple… spoke with a calm and quiet voice and asked everyone to shut the commerce down and move their tables outside.

That might have been the rational or polite thing.

He did not act with courtesy or politeness.
He was angry and carried out a little wrath.

His behavior was an example of
the phrase…
“be ye angry and sin not”.

Treat with the outmost honor and
accountability the “Temple” you govern the most …..and do not tolerate any thought, behavior, imagination or outside influence to prostitute the purity of this most important  “temple”.

It’s why Jesus acted out of anger and wrath.

He took the sanctity of the His Temple most seriously.

Look at your “temple” in the way.

It’s where we are told by Jesus Himself…. that He resides within us.

It’s where you originate any worship you engage in.

Any and all worship begins in your “inner temple” before you physically enter one of concrete and steel.

It’s the “temple” where more worship and praise occur than any made by human hands.

What is being worshipped and praised in your ” temple”??

Is it something Christ would take a whip to??

Being honest…
we have all abused the sanctity of our ” inner temple” at some point in our lives.

Being honest…
Christ desires that we allow Him
continual access to this most difficult “temple” to keep holy.

As he may have cleansed the Jerusalem Temple more than once… He can,
will,
and desires
to “cleanse” this ” temple” when we open the doors to Him.

But unlike most public Temples where the doors are easily accessible …..
the door to this “inner temple” that you own…has its handles on the inside of the door only to be opened from within.

He will knock…
but, He can only enter
and do the work that only He can do…..if you let him in.

It is incumbent that you allow Him entrance.