Jesus Christ Raises Up the Church (Jn. 2:13-22)
Let us bless and greet one another, “Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God.” The title of today’s message is, “Jesus Christ Raises Up the Church.” During the last week, I’m sure that there were people who really experienced the Word of the work of God being fulfilled in His time, and those who did not experience the Word being fulfilled. The people who believe the Word of God is truth will see the Word of God fulfilled. However, if somebody does believe that the Word of God is true but they don’t really think about it, then they live their lives according to their own thoughts. Only when the Lord becomes our Lord does He work. Then, the kingdom of God is established and the darkness and demons flee. If you are truly able to experience the Word that God gives you every Sunday being fulfilled in your life, no one can deny that.
1. Passover
1) Jerusalem – Inside the temple courts
In today’s scripture, there is a fascinating thing that happened with Jesus inside the Temple. For the Jewish people, on the day of Passover, all of the Jewish people, including those who were scattered through the diaspora, gather at the Jerusalem Temple, and those who gather can number 2 million people. And when they come to worship, they are not coming empty-handed; they have to come with an animal like a sheep or a pigeon in order to sacrifice to atone for their sins, and they have to come with the Temple Tax in order to enter into the Temple as well.
(1) People selling cattle, sheep, and doves (Jn. 2:14)
In order to facilitate that, there are people taking care of that outside of the Temple, because if somebody is gathering to the Jerusalem Temple from a faraway nation, then on their travels, their unblemished lamb or their unblemished animal might break a leg or become diseased. So, the priest allowed these things to take place outside of the Temple, where Jewish people could come and buy an unblemished, perfect animal to sacrifice outside of the Temple Courts, and they can also exchange their currency, which had the Roman emperor’s face on it, which was considered idolatry, for the Temple currency to go in.
(2) People exchanging money (Jn. 2:14)
However, there were even some situations where the merchants that were doing that business and High Priests would collude and inflate the exchange rates so that the High Priest could gain a profit from it. The bigger problem is that this business was now taking place inside the Temple.
(3) Drove out the sheep and cattle, Scattered coins, Overturned tables (Jn. 2:15)
The Temple is the place to give worship, but they were taking all of these exchanges and transactions that were supposed to be outside of the Temple, inside, and that’s why Jesus was upset. That’s why He made a whip out of cords, drove out all the animals from the Temple courts, scattered the coins and overturned tables.
2) Temple
(1) My Father’s house (Jn. 2:16)
Then, He said, “Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace.”
(2) The name of the Lord is there (1 Ki. 8:29)
When King Solomon finally built up the Temple, he said, “This is the place where the name of the LORD resides.” What that means is that the LORD God exists everywhere and He is seated at the throne of heaven, but specifically for the Israelite people, He will particularly be with them through the Temple.
(3) The eyes of the Lord are open towards the temple (1 Ki. 8:29)
While the LORD is seated at the throne of heaven, He will be looking at this Temple, with His eyes open day and night.
(4) House of prayer (Is. 56:7, 1 Ki. 8:30-49)
The content of King Solomon’s prayer is in 1 Kings 8, and he prays to God, “LORD, forgive our sins, heal us of our diseases, and take away our disasters here.” So, the Temple is a place that was created to atone for the sins of Israel and it is a place for them to meet with God and a place to receive answers to prayers, and the way God blesses us is by giving us His Word. So, for the Jewish people, the Temple is everything and the fact that the Temple was destroyed means that the LORD no longer resided with them because at that time, the Israelites did not think of the Temple as a Temple; they thought of it as an idol.
The church is a place to worship, it’s not a place to make money, it’s not a place to try to run your business. If you think of it that way, then the Temple will turn into an idol, and an idol is the place where demons work. If the members of the church have an idol inside of their heart, then without a doubt, they will fail. We need to have the Word of God in the hearts of all the members. Then Jesus says, “My Father’s house is a house of prayer,” this is a place for us to meet with and communicate with God. King Solomon’s prayer in 1 Kings 8 says that God has allowed the Temple as a place where even foreigners can come and have their prayers heard by God. And when the Israelites have fallen captive to nonbeliever nations because of their sin and idolatry, if they turn back to the Temple of Jerusalem and pray, then God will give them His grace and His mercy. That’s the reason Daniel prayed three times a day, looking back to the Temple of Jerusalem.
Before there was the Temple, there was the Tabernacle, which was portable; they took it place to place. Before they even had the Tabernacle, in Abraham’s age, he would just set up an altar and give a burnt offering underneath a tree, but no matter what, there’s no other way to meet with God, because we cannot escape from our original sins, all of our actions of sin, and the forces of Satan that separate us from God. The only way to meet with God is to give the blood sacrifice, which represents Jesus Christ. Now we are in the Age of the Church.
3) Temple
(1) Market (Jn. 2:16)
(2) A den of robbers (Mt. 21:13, Jer. 7:11)
But it says in Mt. 21:13 and Jer. 7:11 that they have made the house of God into a “den of robbers.” A “robber” is somebody who takes someone else’s money by force, so they’re saying that the people inside of the Temple are forcefully taking everybody’s money.
(3) Zeal for your house will consume me (Jn. 2:17)
While Jesus Christ is overturning tables and causing this chaos, His disciples remembered what was written in the Old Testament scriptures, “Zeal for your house will consume me,” and Jesus will ultimately be crucified for what He did on this day, and the disciples will remember this.
2. Temple
1) Jesus’ action and response
(1) Jews – What sign can you show us (Jn. 2:18)
Jesus also said, “Stop turning my Father’s house into a market,” so the Jews responded to Him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to act like this?”
(2) Destroy this temple, raise it again in three days (Jn. 2:19)
(3) Took 46 years to build the temple. How? (Jn. 2:20)
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this Temple and I will raise it again in three days.” It took them 46 years to build this Temple; how could He raise it up in three days? This is talking about Jesus’ death on the cross and His resurrection; that is the Temple. But nobody could understand what he meant. The same thing is going on today. We are not able to understand God’s spiritual world, that’s why we don’t believe. The Temple is the place where we can meet with God, it’s the place that atones for our sins and gets rid of our curses and disasters; that is only possible through Jesus Christ. Even in the Old Testament, the Temple is representing Jesus Christ. Even today, Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
There is no other way of solving our curses and disasters that are flowing down our family line. We are seized by Satan through the scars and the traumas we experienced in our childhood and we cannot escape. It doesn’t matter how much we try to escape; we cannot. So, everybody tries every way they can to try to solve their problems. They try looking for different religions, they go up to a prayer mountain, they try to make a lot of money, they try to live a good life or to do a lot of service, but none of that works. They think that if they succeed, they can solve their problems, but not only can they not succeed, but even if they do succeed, it doesn’t solve their problems.
So, people just binge eat. Because life is so hard, people try to find some enjoyment in life by eating a lot of food or watching a lot of things. They buy McDonalds, they watch their sports programs, and they try to resolve their issues like this. And they think that if they go on a lot of vacations, it will help, but it doesn’t. That’s why people even do drugs and things they shouldn’t. If they’re perfectly fine, why would someone do drugs? If someone told you to do drugs, would you? People do drugs because they’re suffering. They already know it’s bad, but it’s so hard for them, and they’re always stuck in suffering, and even if they go to church, it doesn’t help, so that’s why they go to church a few times and then disappear from it. “Does that mean, if I meet the right spouse, my problems will be finished?” Even if you meet a good person, it won’t work. “What if I get plastic surgery and change how I look?” It still won’t work. It won’t work even if you dye the color of your hair. We try every method we think of, but we cannot solve our personal problems.
2) Temple
(1) Jesus’ body (Jn. 2:21)
(2) Cross – Death, resurrection (Jn. 19:30, Jn. 2:22)
That’s why Jesus Christ had to die on the cross and resurrect to solve all of the problems of the curses and disasters of our sin, that’s what the Bible is talking about. There is no other way to solve the problems inside of you. Because you think you’re right and you’re being dragged towards suffering.
(3) Law of sin, death – Law of life, Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:2)
What is sin? It’s being sucked into the direction of thinking that I can be like God, deciding what is good and what is evil, but that is actually being moved by Satan from behind the scenes. Our thoughts and our decisions should be based on the Word of God, but instead, they’re based on our own thoughts and desires? That’s the work of the devil. “I think this is right but it hurts my pride,” “I know I’m right, but that person did that to me, so all of our anger does not go away. This anger cannot be solved, and when that anger inside explodes, that’s what happens with shootings, and the words we’ve heard as children from our parents become our scars. “Why are you so dumb?” “Oh, why aren’t you going on a diet?” Parents might just be saying those words for their health, but they hear it differently. So, that parent is looking at their daughter, centered on what they think is right or wrong. Instead of standing before God and wondering, “What does God’s Word say?” they make their own judgments and decisions. Then, the kid says, “I’ve been scarred.” If you just leave your scars alone, they will not be solved.
Eph. 4:26-27 says, “Be careful to not let the sun set on your anger and do not get the devil a foothold for sin.” People can be walking around, perfectly fine, but on the inside they are diseased. The LORD has liberated us from that law of sin and death, and moved us into the law of the Spirit of life. By Jesus Christ, we have been set free. “Pastor, you say that so much, I get it, but my problems are still here.” That’s because you’re holding onto your scars, and the devil is holding onto it too. So both of you are working together, and you can’t escape. When can you escape? When Jesus Christ becomes your Lord and Savior. When you give everything you have to the Lord. What does it mean to give it over to him? It means that you acknowledge Him as your Lord and you entrust it to Him. But instead of entrusting it to the Lord, you are holding onto it tightly. The devil knows that so he’s holding onto it too. Even if you go to church, it won’t work. I am not the Lord; Christ is my Lord.
You need to even give your emotions over to the Lord. You need to even give your thoughts over to the Lord, then you will see the words of Heb. 4:12 being fulfilled, it says, “The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even separating joints and marrow, soul and spirit,” and it judges the diseased thoughts attitudes of our hearts and fixes them. We don’t even know that our thoughts are wrong; we think they’re right. That’s the way Satan holds onto us. Whatever thoughts are coming into your head right now, if it’s not the Word of God, I hope that you’ll let go of it quickly, because that state is the state where you are God, so you say, “I think that’s right,” or,” I think it’s wrong,” What does God say? You need to entrust it to God. Then, God will judge with His Word. If the Word of God is not your standard, then you cannot come out of your spiritual problems. Think carefully about your depression for example, and think about the people who have mental illnesses around you, why are they like that? They’re holding onto their correct thoughts and until they let go of all of their correct thoughts, they will stay diseased.
Not only is Jesus my Lord, He is also the Lord of all creation. As you look at all of creation, if you are able to acknowledge the Lord, then you are seeing correctly. When you can even recognize Jesus as the Lord of your business, then you’ll be able to see the work of God there accurately. But people run their business and make their decisions based on their own thoughts. Yes, we might do that, and things might even go well, but if you think that’s everything, that’s a misconception because that person’s spiritual state will get deeper and deeper and ultimately they will collapse. That’s why, when Christ becomes our Lord, God works upon us with His Word, and when the Word of God comes into our thoughts, then all of our diseased thoughts will change. All of our scarred and hurt feelings will receive the Word of God and be healed. That’s what the Lord wanted to do when He became the Temple. Jesus Christ Himself is the Temple, and when Christ’s Holy Spirit comes into us, 1 Cor. 3:16 says that we also become the Temple, why? Because wherever the Lord resides is the Temple.
3) Me – Jesus
(1) God’s temple – Where the Spirit resides (1 Cor. 3:16)
(2) I will be their God, they will be my people (Jer. 31:33)
And when we become this Holy Temple, Jeremiah 33:31, “I will be your God and you will be My people.” The fact that He is my God means I entrust everything to Him. Everyone who is suffering because of their past, stop holding onto it; entrust it to the Lord because the fact that the Lord is God means that He will reign over me. Do not prioritize your experiences because that might have been correct in that particular circumstance, but it is not God’s Word. God Who is the Word will fulfill His Word, and the Word of God will save all things. You need to make it so the Word of God is moving in your business, but you actually use books of the world instead, or if you think, “If I look to that person, then they’ll help my business.” So spiritually, you’ll be diseased.
(3) God’s temple – Holy (1 Cor. 3:17)
(4) Holy – Word, prayer (1 Cor. 3:17, 1 Tim. 4:5)
The Word of God must move through your business. That’s how you must raise your children as well. Okay, so maybe they’re really smart, there are a lot of smart people in the world. There are even geniuses in Africa. There are over 7 billion people on this planet, even if we take the top 1% in every nation, that’s already so many. Why are people having so many spiritual problems more and more? Because people are doing what everybody says is good, and what everyone says they should do, they believe they shouldn’t have problems, but they still have problems. That’s why the Temple of God, it’s holy. “Holy” means that it’s been set apart from the world, and we are the Temple of God, then what must we do?
1 Timothy 4:5 says that you can be consecrated by the Word of God and prayer. So when the Word of God goes into you and you pray with that, that’s how you become holy and if you are holy, it means that all problems are restored, because God is moving. Do you have any problems by chance? You must not hold onto them. Are you afraid of the future? Are you still afflicted by problems of your past? I hope you will let go of all that. When the Lord becomes my Lord and master, and I become His people, then all of those problems will be made holy. Are you afraid of your business? You’re afraid because you are the Lord. The Word of God must move your business. Then, through your business, people will be saved.
3. Church
1) Head – Christ (Eph. 4:15)
(1) Church – Body of Christ (Eph. 1:23)
Now, we are in the age of the church, and Eph. 4:15 says that the Church is the body of Christ. And the head is Christ, and the head is not just talking about the physical head; it means, the authority. Authority of the One who is controlling everything, the One Who works with power. then the Lord who is living inside of me must be my Lord. Because He is living inside of me, I am now His Holy Temple. Now, we are going back to the state of Gen. 1:27 where we were created in God’s image. “Created in God’s image” means that the Triune God lives inside of me. When the Triune God lives inside of me, then He blesses us to be fruitful, abundant, rule over and subdue all of His creation. We should be conquering everything that happened to our past, but instead, we’re enslaved to our scars. How can we change that? You need to entrust it to the Lord Who has the authority to take care of it. Then the scars of your past actually turn into a blessing, and through me, I will be fruitful and abundant, meaning that many people will come to believe in Jesus and come to life through me. And I will rule over and subdue all things, meaning that money, success, business, everything needs to follow me. However, if anybody is going to church and living their walk of faith and it’s only to fulfill their desires and thoughts, the Lord will clean you up, just like He did to the Temple in the passage.
Cor. 3:13 says that our greed is actually idolatry. We have no need to have greed; if you really believe in the Lord, there’s no reason to be greedy. You are only living with your greed because you don’t believe in the Lord, and that’s why you go to church because you want it to help your business, that’s why everything will be destroyed. And you’re always trying to calculate with God. The Temple is a place where we should worship, but instead, you’re counting money, and that’s why God doesn’t like it, and that’s why God destroyed the Temple. And He created a new Temple. Even though God Himself is living inside of me, we still struggle, because until the very bitter end, we hold onto ourselves, we hold onto our experiences in the world until the bitter end. We still think that we’re good, so we still hold onto our thoughts that we think are correct, and that’s why you keep on judging other people. You need to entrust it to God so that God judges and God gives His Word. Even though you’re right, you say it incorrectly and it feels so unfair to you. That’s the reason why people suffer even though they go to church.
What does it mean to entrust it to God? You let Him be the judge. When you begin to move, the devil moves with you. Because God is our Lord, He will judge with His Word. When you wake up in the morning, as soon as you wake up, you need to make the Word of God come into your spiritual state, that’s how you make yourself holy, through the Word of God and prayer. But if you just rush to work without that, then the Temple is breaking down because everything you’ve lived for will be, “my goals, my work,” so little by little, we are more seized by Satan.
(2) Whole body – Joined and held together by every supporting ligament (Eph. 4:16)
(3) Duty – Equip his people, Build up the body of Christ (Eph. 4:11-12)
So all of the Church is the body of Christ, and we are joined together and held together by ligament. Christ Who is the Word gives us His Word, and then we connect the entire body through God’s Word. Then, through prayer, we make the Holy Spirit work upon every member of the church. Eph. 4:11 says that Christ raised up some as apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be teachers, and all of that is for the purpose of raising up the church. So if God has given you a position in the church, then through that position, you should raise up the members of the Church through the Word of God and prayer. That’s how the members of the church will be restored correctly. So in the scripture, there was a marketplace. Where was that located? It wasn’t inside of the Holy of Holies; they couldn’t even go in there. Without a doubt, they were running the market in the courtyard.
Because there’s this big perimeter of the Temple, and inside there is a courtyard where the women and children go, and there’s a courtyard where Gentiles and foreigners could go. I’m thinking that the courtyard of the women and children would’ve been overcrowded on the day of Passover, so I think the marketplace was in the courtyard of the Gentiles. So they made a specific location where foreigners and Gentiles of all nations can pray and receive atonement for their sins, but they’ve made it into a marketplace. These people had no heart to worship God, and God created the courtyard to save the people of all nations, but they had no heart for that either. So what is the reason the Israelites are failing even now? The very tip of the Jerusalem Temple is plated with gold, and sometimes, it is used as a Muslim mosque, and sometimes it is used as a Jewish Temple. Even now, they’re fighting wars to try and restore that Temple.
But the Lord promised there will never be one stone on top of another stone, but they keep talking about a physical location. There’s a lot of Christians Who also emphasize a physical or geographic location too. They say, “This is a very famous location,” or, “This is a place that’s really good for business,” or, “If you move to this location, you won’t be able to run a business,” or, “If you go to that school, you’re a dumb kid.” But that is actually the logic of evil spirits, because wherever God goes, wherever His Temple goes, the disasters break down. By the work and the blessing of God, things that did not take place will continue to take place. There’s some people who move from church to church and they say, “It’s because I tried going to this place, and my business didn’t do well,” so they go for a little while, and then they try to find another church where their business does better. They haven’t escaped from the evil spirit logic.
God is saying, “Wherever I am, I will bless.” In the places where things are not working out, as I go there, God’s blessing will be there. I was thinking about it, and there are quite a few people who say, “I’ll try going to your church and if it helps my business, I’ll stay, and if it doesn’t, I’ll leave.” Then, of course, they shouldn’t go to this church, and I think even now, their business is probably failing, unless they discover the reason that God is preventing it from working out. It’s because their goal is the greed of money. God Himself is not their goal; their greed for money is their goal, so God even gave their child a problem, but they still haven’t realized; they just think, “Oh, this is how they were born,” and I think it’s gotten worse now. Until when? Until they realize. Church is not a place for you to make money. You yourself are the Temple, and the goal inside of you should not be money; the goal should be God’s Word, and when you hold onto God’s Word and pray with that Word, the works of God take place, that should be your goal. So all our greed and idols inside of that, the Lord gets rid of that with His whips, so just like in Romans 12:1, we are giving our bodies as a living sacrifice to God.
2) Courtyard of the Gentiles, Healing, Children
(1) Gentiles – Disciple, One who will be saved (Mt. 28:19, Ac. 13:4-)
Today, we are worshiping, gathered together. What is the goal of worship? Because the Lord is my Lord, may He reign over me with His Word. If I’m disconnected with the Lord, I cannot receive His Word. When the servants of the Lord go to the palace, it’s because they want to hear the Word and blessing of the King. But the reason God is not giving it to them is because this one is not working. So, the reason we come to worship is because, as evidence that He is my Lord, I want Him to reign over me with His Word, and that Word, I turn it into my prayer. Then, I see God’s Word moving my life. Then when I have evidence of that, I stand as a witness to others. The normal walk of faith is when the Word that God gives you every week is fulfilled in your life every week. If it is not, then there’s something wrong with you. “Oh, I’ve gone to church for decades but nothing really happens”? Then there’s something wrong with you; it’s because you don’t believe in God’s Word as your Lord.
(2) Healing (Mt. 21:14, Mk. 16:18, Ac. 13:4-12, 16:16-18)
Jn. 1:1 says the Word is God, but you don’t believe in the Word. Instead, you believe in your thoughts because you are the Lord. That’s the work that Satan does, and that is the beginning of spiritual problems that cause every other problem. Spiritual problems are nothing else. God must be my Lord and He must move me, but instead, I am my own Lord; that’s what the devil does. Then, without a doubt, God will move. So, the church needs to have a courtyard where the Gentiles and foreigners can come. The Temple is not just for Jewish people, it’s where people of all nations can come to worship. Then, you need to let go of your culture, your experiences, because people of all nations have to come to church to receive healing. There are people who ask foolish questions like, “Why does the church have so many problems?” The church is a place where people with problems come and their problems are no longer problems through worship and the work of God. But there are problems in the world, there are problems in the church; everybody is a problem. Those are the people whom God desires to heal and restore.
(3) Children (Mt. 21:15, Jn. 21:15-18, Ac. 17:1)
So, children should come in and cry, that’s what kids do. So there must be children inside of the Temple. In Matthew 21, it talks about the same situation, and after Jesus Christ did all this, the children were running around, praising Hosanna. Then the priest said something shocking, “Why are these children making a ruckus?” It is a temple for all nations. It is not just a gathering of people who I get along with, it is that everybody must come and worship. It is not just a place for people who speak English, it is a place where people can worship in all languages. It is not just a place that gathers people of American culture; people of all nations and cultures must gather together and praise God.
For the youth, they should run away; kids should cry, but the adults say, “Why are you so loud in the church?” People who know better will know that these are foolish words, and that person is going to suffer because they are saying words that are not aligned with the Lord and if you are not aligned with the Lord, you will suffer. The kids should come and cry, and you think that they can’t feel the spiritual work of worship, but they can. They’re spiritual too. They should come to church, run around and play, that’s what kids do. If adults run around and pray, that’s a little weird, but that’s what kids do. Adults fight, they just glare at each other and say, “Oh, ‘let’s see what you can do,” or, “That person has less money than I do,” or, “That person’s been in America less than me,” or, “That person doesn’t know the Word of God as well as I do,” They can just fight without talking, but that state kills you, do you get it? That’s what the devil does, there are two laws that are fighting inside of you, and they keep coming up. The law where you are the Lord and you judge other people with the law of God, that’ comes up. It must change to Christ, so that the Lord reigns over.
3) Gathered church, Scattered church
(1) Worship – Word, Prayer (Ac. 2:42)
(2) Bartizan in regional field – Evangelism (Ac. 2:46-47)
So there’s the church that gathers together and the church that scatters apart, but Acts 2:42 says that they devote themselves to the apostles’ Word and prayer. Even back into their field, it’s every day, word of God and prayer. And God added to their numbers daily those who were being saved. Then, through the Word of God and prayer, move them in the direction of all nations.
(3) Multiethnic bartizan – Multiethnic missions (Ac. 8:26-40)
When Philip went into the field, he met up with an Ethiopian eunuch. Your business must continue to go into the direction of all nations. Our Temple Construction must be one that saves all the Gentiles of the 237 nations, raises up the children, and does the work of healing. The Temple construction is honestly a wrong word; we are the Temple, we are constructing or getting this location for worship.
Conclusion
1. Concentration – Morning, day, night
In conclusion, when you wake up early in the morning, if you just stay in blank-minded thoughts or zone out, you will die spiritually. You need to listen to or meditate and pray on the Word of God. I hope that you will do that with your eyes closed, because when your eyes are closed, healing takes place and your spirit comes to life. And you entrust all your thoughts and emotions to the Lord, then, God will work inside of me. He works with His Word, and that Word is established in me.
2. Answer – Problem, conflict, crisis
All day, I’m worshiping God with that Word because worship is praying and communicating with God, then when I face a problem, I’m able to see the answer or the blessing. When you face a conflict with someone, you need to change yourself, and crises will surely come. But for the people who are able to stay in Word and prayer, they see the crisis as an opportunity, but the people who are not able to do that are their own lord, so when they face a problem, they fall right into the problem. Because they are their own lord, when they are in a conflict with someone, they think, “That other person should change, why should I change?” and then when they face a crisis, they say, “Oh, I’m done for.”
3. Me – Platform, bartizan, antenna
I hope you will be the field missionaries who save yourself and save other people through the Word of God and prayer.
Message Prayer
Let us pray holding onto the Word we have received today, saying, “I will communicate with God throughout this week with this Word. .
Offering Prayer and Newcomer Blessing
God, we thank You. We confess that all things have come from You, Lord. We confess that all physical things, our material possessions, our skills, our time, we confess that it is all from You. We also confess that You have allowed all problems. As this confession that You are our Lord, we are giving You one portion of our materials that You have given to us as our offering. We pray that You will bless all the hands that have given the tithe offering for the church, the Temple Construction offering for future generations, missions, thanksgiving, miscellaneous offering. We pray that You will bless our businesses and our academics for the sake of Temple Construction that will be for the 237 nations as well as the future generations. Through the tithe, we pray that we will be able to save all the members of the church, and we pray You will bless our businesses to that extent. We believe You will bless our businesses and our studies to the point where we may do world missions with this offering. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
Announcements
1. Online zoom early morning prayer (Mon.-Fri. 5:30, Sat. 6AM) – Raise the bartizan of prayer
2. Native American Navajo camp is on 6/23(Mon.)-27(Thurs.)
3. Florida camp (Anticipating end of July, beginning of August)
4. Regional Summer camp (Children’s) in June, July.
5. Children’s Spirituality Camp – 5/26-5/27.
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Benediction
Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the unending love of God, and the indwelling, filling, and working, and guidance of the Holy Spirit, be upon the heads of all the people of God, the people of all nations, and the remnants, upon their businesses and their academics, for those who want to save themselves and their region through the Word of God and prayer, be with them from now until forevermore always, amen.