04/06/20 Passion Week #2—Jesus “Turns the Tables” on the Jewish leaders: Matthew 21:12-13 (CSB) 12 Jesus went into the temple and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!” (see Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11). Surrounded by cruel oppression and extraordinary needs of every kind, Jesus’s most pressing concern was the commercialization and degradation of the religious establishment, which was offensive to Almighty God.

     An interesting and challenging questions I’ve asked several groups before is this: If Jesus showed up at your church, what “tables” would He overturn?