Our Mystery Moments

John 2:13-22

Ground Rules/Assumptions

• God’s Word
• Old Covenant is old
• New Covenant is in effect
• Jesus is King and is the Reason for any Season
• Time with God/Time with Others
• Christ came to testify to the truth
• Nothing is new under the sun

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What are the implications… God’s Economy

8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.

“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

Everything this world values, is worthless to God. We have difficulty with the things He values. As we look at the Word… How do we apply this concept. The truth is we cannot meet God’s standard… and it is only grace that we have a relationship with him. Can we see grace and truth throughout the Bible?

Apply Christ… Grace and Truth

The Way we have Worshiped

Adam to Noah - 1656 years

• Genesis 4:3-5
• Genesis 4:26

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The Way we have Worshiped

Noah to Abraham - 400 Years

• Genesis 8:20-21

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20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose. 21 And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice

The Way we have Worshiped

Noah to Abraham

• Genesis 8:20-21
• Nimrod and Babel

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The Way we have Worshiped

Noah to Abraham

• Genesis 8:20-21
• Nimrod and Babel
• Abraham

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The Way we have Worshiped

Abraham to Moses - 1000 years

• Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and the 12 tribes
• 400 years in Egypt
• Moses

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Chaos to Tabernacle

Tabernacle to Temple

Temple Lost

Temple Rebuilt

Herod’s Temple

Matthew 23:13-14

13 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.

Sum up - What had been already revealed

• We have always replaced true worship of God with our self-gratifying ways

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Sum up - What had been already revealed

• We have always replaced true worship of God with our self-gratifying ways
• Jesus was not just angry at what was going on at the time

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Sum up - What had been already revealed

• We have always replaced true worship of God with our self-gratifying ways
• Jesus was not just angry at what was going on at the time
• Many use this as justification for their own self-righteous anger - are we obstacles to peoples faith?

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Sum up - What had been already revealed

Modern Bible readers are fairly used to seeing the Pharisees as the villains of the Gospels, but we need to be wary. If we're not careful, we can find ourselves guilty of many of the same sins. We're just as prone to focus on externals, to trivialize faith, to neglect things that Jesus cares about, and to persecute the faithful.

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So what did I miss?

What are the implications… God’s Economy

8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.

“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

Everything this world values, is worthless to God. We have difficulty with the things He values. As we look at the Word… How do we apply this concept. The truth is we cannot meet God’s standard… and it is only grace that we have a relationship with him. Can we see grace and truth throughout the Bible?

Apply Christ… Grace and Truth

So what did I miss?

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit 1 Peter 3:18