Passion Week 2025 - Holy Monday - Matthew 21:12-17

hey and welcome to day two of Passion

Week what's more commonly referred to as

Holy Monday And today we're going to

look at the story of when Jesus walks

into the temple and he begins to flip

over tables because they're using it

more so as a marketplace and less like

what he says it should be which is

commonly referred to as the house of

prayer And this is where Jesus is upset

and he's showing a righteous anger at

those who are taking advantage of people

in the name of religion And so as we

look at Matthew 21

12-17 we see what takes place in this

story And it says "And Jesus entered the

temple and drove off all who sold and

bought in the temple And he overturned

the tables of the money changers and the

seats of those who sold pigeons." He

said to them "It is written my house

shall be called a house of prayer but

you make it a den of robbers." And the

blind and the lame came to him in the

temple and he healed them But when the

chief priests and the scribes saw the

wonderful things that he did and the

children crying out in the temple

"Hosana to the son of David," they were

indignant And they said to him "Do you

hear what these are saying?" And Jesus

said to them "Yes have you never read

out of the mouth of infants and nursing

babies you have prepared praise." And

leaving them he went out of the city to

Bethany and lodged there Holy Monday

challenges us to look inward Are there

tables in your life that God needs to

flip Is our relationship with God

focused on deeper connection or is it

cluttered with distractions and noise

that the world throws at us Is our focus

on God or is our focus on self And

that's the real question that we need to

ask is what areas in our life does God

need to have removed in order for him to

make a way to grow us deeper So let's

clear out anything that's keeping us

from a true relationship with him

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