March 25, 2025
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Lent 2025 – Day 5 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Week Jesus Dies
Read Sections 5.3 through 5.5 (pages 136-137)
This book is an account of Jesus’ life and teachings told in chronological order from the four Gospels to create one continuous story.
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Jesus turns over the temple tables. They’re lucky that’s all he did. Price gauging at its worse and done outside the temple of God. Greatly angered Jesus Any practice that interferes with the worship of God. Counting. Should be stopped. The fig tree. How many people look good on the outside. But are dead not producing any fruit. Fruit for the kingdom of God. Life’s purpose. Have a hard time calling these next group of guys religious leaders. Religious stooges. Trying to trap Jesus. Trying to trap God. Better off walking away. With closed lips. .
Lent 2025 – Day 5
Jesus was angry that the people had made the Temple area a den of thieves. It was supposed to be a house of prayer. Yes, God can get angry, but this was a righteous anger. God can be angry but not sin, but we most likely would sin in our anger. God is always angry at sin. Jesus healed people that were crippled that came to Him in the Temple area. Then children started to shout praises to Jesus calling Him the Son of David. In other words, they were calling Him the Messiah. The priests and teachers of the law were angry that they were calling Jesus the Messiah. They spoke to Jesus and asked Him what He heard. He answered with scripture and asked them if they knew scripture? They didn`t want to acknowledge that Jesus was the Christ but instead insisted on holden to their traditions and teachings. Even though they were in error thinking that Christ would only come as a conquering King. By being legalistic they thought that this would bring them to God, but like all generations of people whether Jews or Gentiles, mankind cannot earn their way to Heaven. They left out the part where only a perfect sacrifice could take away their sins. Jesus Christ is the only person that could do that, because He was the Son of God, and became human to take our place on the cross. The priests didn`t believe that Jesus was the Messiah but out of the mouth of babes came the truth. Jesus calls us all to come to Him with childlike faith. God bless.