Arizona republican., 1917-01-27
International Sunday School Lesson for
 Jan. 28
REVERENCE OF JESUS FOR
 HIS FATHERS HOUSE

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 Golden Text.-"My house shall be called a house of prayer" Mat. 2l:13.
 Lesson Tcxt-Jno. 2:13-22. Mem prize vs. Is. 16D
 G0 And the Jews Passover was at hand. and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 1D AnG found in the temple those that sold oxen. and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting Q5) And when he had made a courge of small cords, he drove (casU them all out of the temple, and (both) he sheep and the oxen, and poured ont the changers money, and over threw the Ctheir) tables. GG) and said unto them that sold (the) doves Take these things hence. make not my Fathers house q house of mer- lhandize G0 And His disciples re membeTed that it was written, The zeal thine house hath eaten tshali .aU me up. USl Then CTherefOrel answered the Jews, and said unto him. What sign showest thou unto us. see ng that thou dOcst these things? G9) Jesus answered, and said unto them Destroy this temple, and n three days will raise it up. (20) Then CThere- rore) said the Jews. Forty and six Tears was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear (arise) is up in three
 
 lle of his body. (22) When therefore he was risen (raised) from the dead, lis disciples remembered that he haG aid this unto them: and they believed he Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
 Time-Spring, A. n. 27. Place Jerusalem. the Temple.
 xpositfo Make not my Fathers house house of merchan iise 13-17. Jesus was an o5ediert son of the law" and as such strictly observed it's requirements; and, there fore, went up to the Passover as the aw definitely and explicitly and plain y required Dcut l6, of. Luke 2:41D While He found much there that was full of interest, suggestion, profit and joy He also saw some thing that filled His holy spirit with noble indignation. He found in tine very temple dedicated to God His Gather. a self seeking traffic going on Alas, in many a church" today, os t.nsibly dedicated to the honor and worship of God a similar state of af fairs, may be found It could be said n defense of having the things men, toned in the temple,' that they all had something to do with the temple services. but none the less the sale
  gain and the house of God was de l lied and Jesus was greatly displeased | The defense often made today of buy | ing selling in the house of God. viz. | that all this has to do with the sup | port of worship will not bear careful scrunity in the light of this passage l That fact does not make it right 1T i Gods sight. as is plainly taught by | this lesson. Jesus put all this traffic | nut of the temple in no gentle manner | f He were to go today to our places 1 of worship with our fairs and festivals and auctioneers of pews, etc, doubt less He would put them out also and would be no more gentle than He was l with these ancient defilers of the house of God. It was not the force that there was in the scOurge of cords | nor for the muscular energy that Je- | suS displayed that drove there defilers | put. It was the majesty of His pres | ence and the consciousness on theil | Dart that they had no business there | Gentleness and thoughtful considera 1 tion for even the birds were mingled with His severity; He did not drive put those who sold the doves, but sim | Nly bade their owners carry them out i He gives a reason for His action | namely. that Gods house should no l )e d ilbuSt Oi llleItudnulSe. HUN many that profess 10 be followers O Jesus have forgotten these words O | heir Master. In the use of the words l My Fathers house." He shows Hi. right to act as He did. It was Hi: | Fathers house and it was His busi ness to cleanse it. The cleansing O he temple was only temporary. Al these things were brought back agaiI | Guke 19:45). All religious reform. among mer are temporary. Man i. | prone to backsliding and we canno l i've today in the power of reforma ton wrought twenty years ago. Ever new generation must have it's own re | eormation and every new year mus have it's own revival. When Jesu
 cleansed the temple a second time, H. | was even more severe. He said tha they had made the house of God : den of robbers instead of a house o | prayer Luke 19:46 R. V). Men il their defiling of Gods house thus g, from bad to worse. At a later dat the disciples in recalling this inciden