Then Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people selling animals for sacrifices.
He said to them,
"The Scriptures declare,
'My Temple will be a house of prayer',
but you have turned it into a den of thieves."
Luke 19:45-46 NLT
It's Monday, and Jesus is back in Jerusalem after Palm Sunday's triumphal entry. The city will be full of people and more coming in.
And Jesus turns up the heat.
Yes the people have welcomed me as a political hero, but I have authority everywhere.
And especially here at the very heart of your culture.
At the centre of authority within the community.
The temple is at the core.
And I have authority here.
This Easter week he much more gently asks about my core, and what tables need overturning, what needs to be turfed out?
What have I allowed to take residence in my heart that Jesus would kick out?
#easter
#thecore
#whoisincharge
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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