Hair Follicles On The Thigh

Report Study No. 1

This Wednesday, September 22, we began our series on the love of God, and we studied the theme of love and God's wrath through the Bible passage where Jesus drove the merchants Temple of Jerusalem with a whip (Gospel of John, chapter 2, verses 13 to 22).

The passage and questions:

13 The day the Jews celebrate the feast of Passover was near, Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 He found in the courtyard of the temple, merchants bœœufs, sheep and doves, as well as money changers, settled at their desks. 15 Then he took the strings, made a whip and drove them all the sacred precinct with the sheep and bœœufs, he threw down the money changers and overturned their tables, 16 then said to the merchants of pigeons:

- Take it from here! This is my Father's house. Do not make a business house.

17 The disciples remembered then this passage of Scripture: " The love I have for your house, O God, is a fire in me that I consumes " . 18 Thereupon the Jews said to him

- What miraculous sign can you show us to prove that you have the right to do so?

19 - Tear down this temple, Jesus said to them , and in three days I will raise it.

20 - How? they replied. It took forty-six years to rebuild the Temple, and you, you'd be able to meet in three days!

21 But in speaking of the Temple, Jesus was referring to his own body. 22 Later, when Jesus was resurrected, his disciples remembered that said that, and they believed the Scripture and the words Jesus had spoken.

Background:

• That commemorates the Passover?
  The exodus from Egypt, the Exodus of the Israelites led by Moses more than 1300 years ago.
  
  
• Why are there merchants in the Temple precincts?
  Jews were far from hard drive with them to Jerusalem animals required for offerings of sacrifices in the temple. A service was established in the court of the Gentiles at the entrance of the temple exchange kiosks and vendors selling animals to accommodate them. But this service to pilgrims had turned into lucrative small business whose profits and exchange rates were controlled by priests and the Pharisees.

• During his ministry, Jesus is already come to Jerusalem or the Temple? And in his life?
  
  
  Not during his ministry, but in his life, yes (to 12). Besides, he behaved with the same authority the first time (Luke 2.41-50).

Observation and Understanding:

• was Jesus angry? Is it wrong to be angry? (Ephesians 4:26, Psalm 4:4)
• What are the different actions of Jesus to every type of shop? Why?
• Why Jesus takes the trouble to use a whip when he also stopped a storm with his bare hands?
• Jesus justifies How Does his action?

• How does Jesus call God? What is that and his reaction to the merchant tells us about his relationship with God?

• What are the feelings of the Jewish authorities cope with this drastic action of a stranger?
  
• What it takes to act like Jesus? (Ps.69, v.10)

Application:

• What do you do when you come when you feel anger?
• Under what circumstances do we have the right or responsibility to be as bold as Jesus here?
• What are the habits that Jesus wants to shake up your life? Let Jesus do you?