{"id":3846,"date":"2025-04-15T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:58:49","slug":"3846-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/3846-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruption and Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, April 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disruption and Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. Matthew 21:12<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holy Monday and Tuesday mark the days following Jesus\u2019 triumphal entry into Jerusalem \u2014 and the tone shifts quickly. After being welcomed with shouts of \u201cHosanna<\/em>!\u201d, Jesus walks into the temple and causes a scene. He flips tables and expectations. He confronts corruption head-on, and in doing so, reveals a side of His character that might have shocked even His closest followers.<\/p>\n

Imagine being one of the disciples. They hadn\u2019t been with Him long, and up until that point, most of what they\u2019d seen were quiet moments of healing, forgiveness, and compassion. Suddenly, Jesus is flipping over tables and driving out merchants with a whip. They likely felt confused \u2014 maybe even embarrassed.<\/p>\n

And yet, Jesus wasn\u2019t out of control. He was completely in tune with the heart of the Father. What the disciples witnessed that day wasn\u2019t a tantrum \u2014 it was righteous anger.<\/p>\n

Why was Jesus so upset? Because the temple, God\u2019s house, had become a marketplace. Travelers had come to worship during Passover and were being taken advantage of by dishonest money changers and sellers. People were using religion as a business. They were profiting off the sacred, exploiting others in the name of God. And Jesus would not stand for it.<\/p>\n

If there had been front-page newspapers or social media in that day, they would\u2019ve had a field day with the headline: \u201cMan Causes Chaos in Temple Courts!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus stood up for the holiness of His Father\u2019s house. He stood against injustice, greed, and hypocrisy. And He calls us to do the same.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible the disciples even wrestled with their own anger \u2014 maybe at the disruption, maybe at Jesus Himself. But what they didn\u2019t yet understand was that true discipleship means following Jesus into uncomfortable places \u2014 even when it means standing apart from the crowd.<\/p>\n

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Prayer for today:<\/strong> Lord, cleanse the places in me that have grown cluttered or distracted. Teach me to love You with all my heart, soul, and mind \u2014 and to love others as You do.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, April 15 Disruption and Teaching Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. Matthew 21:12 Holy Monday and Tuesday mark the days following Jesus\u2019 triumphal entry into Jerusalem \u2014 and the tone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3847,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/3847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}