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Notes for Holy Week - 6 days before Easter Six days before Easter, Jesus makes His first visit to the Temple, and drives out the merchants with a holy anger. He goes even further, saying their presence has made the temple “a den of thieves.” That phrase holds a lesson for us to this day. This is the same language used in Jeremiah 7:11, when God condemns the Israelites who behave in ungodly ways, then come to the Lord’s house and thank God they have been chosen by Him. Their thievery takes the things that are God’s away from God — worship, obedience and following God’s law only. We cannot believe (nor can anyone else) that we have God in us if we behave one way all week and another on Sunday. Easter in North America can be a time when we think much about our appearance. New dresses, new hats, new suits for this special day. But if the days preceding Easter Sunday are not filled with holiness on the inside, no amount of new clothing will cover the fact that we have stolen from God what is rightfully His.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:04:46 +0000

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