Jack Graham - Jesus In The House

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Jesus In The House | November 24, 2024

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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Would you now take god's word which is the story of
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Jesus from beginning to end? the bible tells us after the
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Resurrection that jesus took a couple of disciples along the
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Road to emmaus and he showed them in all the scriptures
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Those things concerning himself. this is the jesus
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Book. so let's open his book today to the twenty-first
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Chapter of the gospel of matthew.
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We're going to read together verses 12 to 26. again, this is
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At the beginning of jesus' last week in his earthly ministry,
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Before the cross and the resurrection. it's a story that
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Is told in all four of the gospels. very important story.
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12) and jesus entered the temple and drove out all who
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Sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of
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The money-changers and the seats of those who sold
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Pigeons. 13) and he said to them, "it is written, 'my house
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Shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a
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Den of thieves (or robbers)." 14) and the blind and the lame
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Came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15) but when
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The chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful
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Things that he did...
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Note that: “the wonderful things that he did.” what a
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Wonder is jesus our lord! miracles, powerful acts of
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Changed lives)
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15) and the children were crying out in the temple,
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“hosanna to the son of david!”
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Meaning jesus is the messiah! jesus is lord and christ. and
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These religious leaders... they were indignant, infuriated:
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16) and they said to him, “do you hear what these are
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Saying?” and jesus said to them, “yes; have you never
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Heard or read, “‘out of the mouths of infants and nursing
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Babes you have prepared praise'?”
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The cleansing of the temple... and in this cleansing or
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Consecrating of the temple by christ, we have really a
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Blueprint for the believer as to how we also can experience a
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Powerful cleansing and consecration before the lord,
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Which is really what revival is. that we get our lives right
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With god and revive in his presence; that we fulfill the
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Purpose for which we have been created, which is to praise
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God. the greatest lesson that we can learn as followers of
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Jesus is that we are indwelt, that christ is alive in us,
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That we are temples of the holy spirit!
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The temple in the old testament is god's object lesson for his
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Temple in the new testament which is his people. it's been
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Said that in the old testament god had a temple for his
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People, and now in the new testament era following christ,
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God has a people for his temple. you... we are the
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Temple of the holy spirit. but what happened at the temple so
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Long ago with christ cleansing that temple can happen in you
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And me and needs to happen in you and me today.
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Now jesus, as we've learning along the way in this journey
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Of jesus... telling the story of jesus, he is love incarnate.
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He is filled with compassion and kindness, full of grace and
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Mercy. what happens in the temple in this case follows
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Jesus standing beside the mount of olives over jerusalem and
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With copious tears he is pouring out his heart before
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God. he is weeping that he is now being rejected. he said,
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"oh jerusalem, jerusalem... how i would have gathered you to
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Myself like a hen gathers its brood." jesus weep on several
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Occasions. so the great heart of god is throbbing in the body
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Of jesus. yes, he is the savior of love, full of grace.
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But the god who is full of love is also full of life. he is
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Full of grace and truth. and jesus is righteous and holy! he
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Is not only “the lamb of god who takes away the sin of the
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World,” but at times he displays the fact that he is
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The lion of the tribe of judea. and here we see jesus the lamb
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Who becomes jesus the lion, boldly staking his claim on
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What is rightfully his in the temple.
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It might surprise you to know that the common view that many
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Have of jesus as being a sanctimonious, pale recluse is
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Not the picture of jesus we have in the gospels. jesus was
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A man's man. he was god's man, but masculine through and
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Through. and he was at times, when needed... when necessary,
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Confrontational and combative. and he was controversial. this
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Is what ultimately lead him to the cross, rejected in order
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That he might redeem us.
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But jesus confronts error; he combats false religion. and in
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This case what we are reading in the gospels is jesus attacks
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Corruption of religion... the corruption of the religion that
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Is expressed going on right in the temple. jesus is in the
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House! so jesus walks up and he cleansed the temple. and i have
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Three simple points today in this passage. we're going to
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Talk about his right... the right of jesus to cleanse the
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Temple. we're going to talk about the reason that jesus
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Cleanses the temple and then we're going to see the results
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Of what happened when jesus cleansed the temple.
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What is his right? he has a right because jesus said "my
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House shall be called a house of prayer." what did he say?
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"my house...". the temple is the house of the lord in the
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Sense that the church, according to ephesians chapter
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2, is also like the temple, a house of the lord. now this
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Building is not the house of the lord in the sense that,
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Though it is dedicate to god and set aside as a sanctuary of
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Worship and place of god, this place is not a temple. nor is
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Any other human building on earth. the temple is now gone
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In jerusalem; awaits a rebuilding of the temple in the
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Coming years. but today the temple is this: you are the
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Holy spirit's dwelling place. christ lives in you! you are
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The temple of god.
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First corinthians chapter 6, verses 19 and 20, the scripture
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Says: "do you not know that your body is the temple of the
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Holy spirit who is in you, whom you have from god? you are not
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Your own, (what did jesus say? "my house is a house of
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Prayer." say, "my house". [my house] and he said) for you
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Were bought with a price. therefore, glorify god..." to
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Glorify god is to magnify him; it is to honor him in all
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Things, in your body and in your spirit which are who's?
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God's! so jesus is in the house today. i believe he is in this
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Place because we have prayed and asked for his presence to
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Be here. yes, he is in this place when his people gather,
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Whether it's just a few or many, but he is in your life.
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This is the most important lesson you can learn in your
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Christian life: that christ is alive in you. you are the
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Temple of the holy spirit and he has the right, therefore,
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... he is lord of the temple... he has the right just as he did
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In the new testament to cleansed the temple and
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Consecrate it for the purpose that it is made.
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He has the right to demand... not just to desire but demand
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That we be sanctified as the sanctuary of god. after all,
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The spirit who is in is who? the holy spirit... the holy
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Spirit... the holy spirit of god. and therefore, let this
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House be cleansed and consecrated to god.
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♪♪♪
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The bible is the bestselling, most translated, and most
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Quoted book of all time, and yet so many have neglected
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It's a world of confusion out there, chaos and uncertainty.
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And the only constant, the only certainty is jesus himself and
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His word. and i want to help you see god's word with clear
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♪♪♪
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When jesus walked in to the temple that day, you wonder
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What he would have seen? i brought a couple of artist's
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Renderings of the temple... the second temple if we could throw
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It up. and ... and that's actually a very good one.
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That's what it looked like in the day of christ. and
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Surrounding the temple were these magnificent columns...
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Colonnades around the temple. the court of the gentiles where
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People of all nations could come. you did not have to be
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Jewish to enter into the court of the gentiles. it was several
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Football fields long.
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And, josephus tells us at passover (and this was the
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Passover season for the jewish people) that they would
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Slaughter several million lambs for the sacrifices of the
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Passover, and upwards of two to three million people would have
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Been living in tents outside of jerusalem. pilgrims that would
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Come from all over israel and other parts of the world to
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Celebrate the passover, the one time of year in which the
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Sacrifice was made and redemption was offered.
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Remission for sin for the people of israel.
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And, of course, we know that jesus is our passover lamb. and
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It's all predicted and preparatory for him. but around
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And within these huge marble walls and golden pillars and
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These buildings glistening in the sun, jesus walks in. and
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When jesus walked in that day, the noise would have been
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Terrific merchants were selling animals... birds and sheep and
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Cattle. it might have sounded something like the ft. worth
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Stockyards at full throttle... because... and it might have
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Smelled like it as well. because you had all this
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Merchandising going on with the money-changers in the temple.
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You say what was a money-changer? a
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Money-changer... it was a cottage industry, if you will,
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Because if you came from somewhere else and you had
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Coins, especially if you had roman coins or roman money was
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Not usable in the temple so you had to exchange your money for
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Temple-approved money. and guess what the money-changers
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Were doing? they were greedy and therefore they were
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Up-charging the people.
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These guys were con men. they were scammers, they were
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Shysters, they were hypocrites. and all of this and it's the
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High priest at that time welcomed this exchange.
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Jesus walks up in the midst of all of this noise and all the
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Rattling of the money and in the midst of all the hypocrisy
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That was going on, and he attacks religious corruption.
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He confronts it head-to-head. and he began to flip over the
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Tables and kick down the chairs. why didn't they stop him?
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One reason. wasn't time. and his authority... his moral and
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Physical authority... his spiritual authority was greater
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Than all this religion and all the romans and all the rest. he
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Had power and authority and anointing as the king and the
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Lord of the temple. and so he turns it all upside down.
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He's eaten up with righteous anger. he would quote the old
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Testament earlier by saying “the zeal of your house is
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Eaten me up!” he was burning with the heartburn of holiness.
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So he's flipping tables and he's turning over chairs and
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He's scattering the money-changers. what did he do?
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He threw them all out! he threw the bums out! that's what he
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Did.
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Our mighty, miraculous savior! he's doing wonderful things.
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He's changing lives, but he's also battling for the souls of
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Men. yes, it was a battle that he fought for you and for me!
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So when we think of christ, it's not jesus always meek and
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Mild, soft and sentimental. no! he is a strong and powerful
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Savior who deals with error, who deals with sin, who deals
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With corruption, who deals with injustice! he makes things
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Right! and therefore, he has the right to cleanse the temple!
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And the same jesus who cleansed the temple that day has the
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Right to cleanse my temple and yours. maybe to turn some
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Things upside down in our lives in order to get our attention.
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To flip some tables, if you will; to confront our sin,
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Because what these people had done is to turn the house of
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Prayer... the house of god... the temple of the lord into a
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Den of thieves, a cave of robbers. the robbers were wide
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Out in the open. no longer living in caves out in the
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Hills around jerusalem, but they turned the temple into a
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Cave where robbers would hide in plain sight! and jesus said,
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No!
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The fact is that jesus started his ministry... it's recorded
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In john chapter 2 with the cleansing of the temple. and
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Now he's back to do the same thing because they were back to
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Their old ways, doing the same thing. jesus was passionate
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About the people and about the place of prayer.
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There's a great sermon delivered a number of years ago
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By a man by the name of robert boyd munger and the title of
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His sermon is "my heart, christ's home... and he
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Pictures his own life and his fellowship with god.
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So he begins this sermon with a beautiful description of what
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It means to know christ. he said:
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"one evening, i invited jesus christ into my heart. what an
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Entrance he made! it was not a spectacular, emotional thing,
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But very real. something happened at the very center of
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My life... (has this happened to you?) ... something
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Happened," he said, "at the very center of my life. he came
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Into the darkness of my heart and turned on the light. (has
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That happened to you?) he built a fire on the hearth and
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Banished the chill. (amen?) he started music where there had
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Been silence. he filled the emptiness with his own loving,
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Wonderful fellowship. (and then he says) i've never regretted
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Opening the door to christ and i never will. (that's true!)
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He said, in the joy of this new relationship, i said to jesus,
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“lord, i want this heart of mine to be yours. i want you to
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Settle down in here and be perfectly at home in my heart.
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And everything that i have belongs to you. let me show you
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Around.”
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And then the preacher begins to show jesus around his house.
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And one day jesus says to him, "there's something smelling in
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This house." he said, "i knew exactly what he was talking
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About because upstairs there was a hidden closet and i had
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Stuffed a lot of things... secret things in that closet
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And put it under lock and key. and i didn't want to tell jesus
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What was in there. i didn't want jesus to know what was in
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There."
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And jesus said, “give me the key to that lock.” and
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Reluctantly, though repentantly he gave him the key and he
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Unlocks that dirty, filthy, smelly closet. the man said, he
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Cleans it all up, gets all that junk out, gets all the filth
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Out. he cleansed the temple, if you will. and then he repainted
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It. and now christ has every nook and cranny of the man's
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Life. when jesus comes to cleanse the temple, this is
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What he does.
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Is christ at home in your heart? is he the lord of your
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Temple? he has the right to do it! and the reason to do it is
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Because, “my house shall be called a house of prayer to
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Honor and glorify.” what is prayer? prayer is worship;
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Prayer is repentance; prayer is the exaltation of christ;
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Prayer is singing; prayer is serving; prayer is what we do
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Because it's who we are. we are the house of prayer. we are
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God's prayer center and god has called us to pray for the
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Nations and pray for our neighbors and to live in a
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Constant state of steady prayers in our lives. jesus
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Said, “you ought always to pray and never to give up.”
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Why did god make you? not for you; he made you to be a house
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Of prayer and a house of praise to god. and in order for
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Revival to come in this church and we are praying for a
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Massive movement of the spirit of god in churches today. isn't
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It interesting... more than interesting... it's a fact that
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Is so true, that when jesus came to jerusalem, he didn't
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Head to the antonio fortress and take on the romans. pilate
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Was there. roman officials were there, but jesus didn't go to
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The romans. he went to the church, as it were. he went to
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The spiritual core of the nation.
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The fact is, we can influence politicians and we can pray for
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Politicians and government and in the political and all things
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Social and economic in our country, we can be concerned
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About those things and care about those things. but
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Ultimately what must happen is that judgment must begin at the
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House of god! that's what peter said, that's what jesus did.
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The judgment began in the house of god. and if i'm going to
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Have revival in my life... if we're going to have revival in
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The church... if we're going to have revival in the nation,
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It's not going to take place with the republicans or the
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Democrats or the white house or the congress; it's going to
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Take place in the church! [applause] judgment by jesus in
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The church, cleansing and consecrating his people to him!
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When solomon dedicated the temple to the lord in 2
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Chronicles, he said this: “if my people which are called by
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My name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and
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Turn from their wicked ways, then will i hear from heaven
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And forgive their sin and heal their land.” that is the reason
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That jesus cleansed the temple, to restore it to its former
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Glory. not it's physical glory but the glory of god! he turned
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Things upside down, he ran these people out of the temple
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Area because he removed them from the temple compound. just
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Threw them all out because he was bringing redemption to his
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People. the salvation, that the glory of god that it would be
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Once again of praise and a house of prayer. and that's
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Exactly what happened.
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These men were religious leaders were... they were
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Indignant and sensed that jesus was doing all of this... this
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Is what ultimately put jesus on the cross. religion... corrupt
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Religion put jesus on the cross. the romans had their
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Part, the secular world had their part but ultimately the
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People who rejected jesus... "he can unto his own; his own
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Received him not, but as many as received him to them gave he
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The right to be called the children of god."
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So what did jesus do when the temple was cleansed? do you
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Know what happens when the temple is cleansed? lives are
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Changed. he's healing the lame, recovering sight to the blind.
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The bible tells us that the god of this age has blinded the
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Eyes of those who do not know god. and when the church is
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Revived... when the temple is cleansed there will be the
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Opening of blind eyes; salvation and spiritual
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Rebirth. those whose lives are lame and broken by sin will
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Recover and get up and begin walking in purpose again. why?
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Because then the church is revived.
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Evangelism can happen apart from revival but revival can
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Never happen apart from evangelism. and what happened
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In the jesus movement... when those young people were being
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Revived in their spirits before god, they went out everywhere,
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Telling people about jesus. up and down the coast and all
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Across america, and of course, that's what i believe is going
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To happen with these college students. i'm praying god will
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Raise up a new generation of preachers and missionaries and
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Witness and church people who are going to change the world
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By bringing the lost to jesus.
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This is what the cleansed temple does when jesus is in
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The house, everyone is welcome... the broken, the
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Lame, the blind... all can come to jesus. and the little
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Children were praising him. your house will become a house
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Of... the house where jesus lives will be a house of
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Prayer; it will be a house of power and it will be a house of
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Praise, as your life then praises god in the purity and
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The sanctity of a life lived out in the presence of jesus.
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God's cleaning house.
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Could it be that jesus wants to clean house in you today? to
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Declutter your life, to discard some things in us that will
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Cleanse us and consecrate us to himself. let's begin a
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Spiritual journey today to the cross, and let's open our lives
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Up. you know, jesus may choose to take the whip. in john
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Chapter 2 it tells us that he took a whip of cords and he
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Drove them out. how did he throw all these guys out this
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Second time? i don't know maybe he made another whip. but jesus
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May take the whip of discipline at times in us in order to
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Cleanse the temple. “whom the lord loves, he chasten and
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Scourges every son.” - hebrews.
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So god, let god discipline me and discard those things in our
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Lives that are unholy and unclean and ungodly. and may we
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Be once again a temple where the lord is the lord of all.
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Amen?
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - Jesus In The House

November 24, 2024 | S

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