the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
John 2:13-25
From Capernaum the Lord Jesus goes up to Jerusalem. The Jewish passover is at hand. This feast day no longer has the character of "a feast of the LORD" nor of an "holy convocation" (Leviticus 23:2; cf. John 7:2). The temple is filled with merchants selling the various animals necessary for the sacrifices. The Lord is indignant at this shameful buying and selling and purifies His Father’s house (v. 16).
Christian friend, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. If you have allowed yourself to be invaded and taken over by impure habits and thoughts, you should let the Lord set everything in order and sanctify you. He is very concerned that you should love His Father.
The people of whom vv. 23-25 speak believed in the Lord Jesus with their minds without their hearts being really affected at all. They recognize His power to do miracles but this was not faith and the Lord Jesus did not commit Himself to them. For "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (cf. v. 22 with Romans 10:17). The perfect knowledge which the Lord Jesus has of the human heart is proof of His divinity (v. 25; read Jeremiah 17:9-10). But His love does not grow cold because of this. His motive for loving them does not come from the men He loves, but from within Himself.
