Keep It Clean

Keep It Clean

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. Matthew 21:12-14

The temple had become a place where the love of God had been replaced with the love of money. The bible declares in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Mammon is a term that was used to describe greed, avarice, and unjust worldly gain in Biblical literature. It was personified as a false god in the New Testament. The term is often used to refer to excessive materialism or greed as a negative influence.

And because God was not being served the people were not being served. Their needs were not being met. So Jesus did not enter the church as a member this time. He entered as Lord. As head of the church He used his authority to cleanse the temple of all unrighteousness. The church was now the house of prayer and the house of power where souls could be saved, healed and delivered.

We are the church and our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. We were created for His habitation. If we are to be used by God to cause others to be saved, healed and delivered, we have to become the house of prayer, the house of power and the house of praise. We have to continually keep our temple clean.