"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 moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there."
Today's quote relates Jesus' displeasure with those who defiled the temple of God. Because the children in the temple sang praise to Jesus as the promised Messiah, it also begins His conflict with the high priests in Jerusalem.
There are many "churches" today that, in like manner to the Jews, use what they call "the church" to practice all manner of unseemly rituals that have nothing to do with the ministering of God's word or the furtherance of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sadly, the modern "church" has become more of a social gathering than it is the working body of Jesus Christ.~
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