Madison Church

What makes the Prince of Peace flip tables and chase people out of the temple? In this powerful exploration of Jesus' temple cleansing, we discover a Savior passionate about protecting sacred space and genuine relationship with God.The temple courts had become a marketplace where vendors exploited worshippers - particularly Gentile seekers who could only access the outer court. Money changers demanded exorbitant fees, animal sellers rejected perfectly good sacrificial animals to sell their own overpriced alternatives, and the entire system transformed worship from relationship into transaction.This revelation challenges our modern faith practices. Have we reduced our spiritual lives to religious rituals, Bible reading schedules, and church attendance out of duty rather than devotion? Jesus didn't suffer and die to establish more religious obligations. He came to restore relationship.Perhaps most powerfully, Scripture teaches that we are now God's temples - the Holy Spirit dwells within believer