Section 7
you know what was in the temple? The temple was filled with mammon and material things, filled with the matters of buying and selling. This was the reason the Lord cleansed the temple.
On His journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, the Lord emphasized the need to overcome mam mon and material possessions. He even said that in order to follow Him we need to renounce our possessions and stay away from the stupefying effects of material things (Luke 14:33; 18:22-25). Because what He required His disciples to re nounce was prevailing in the temple, He went into the temple to cleanse it.
The Lord's cleansing of the temple indicates that His presenting of Himself on the cross to God was for the producing of a cleansed temple. This means that His death has the effect of producing a church that is a purified, cleansed temple. Our basis for saying this is the clear revelation in the New Testament. The New Testament reveals that the Lord Jesus died to produce many grains that would be formed into one loaf, which is the Body (John 12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17). This Body is the church (Eph. 1:22-23), and the church is the temple of God (Eph. 2:21; 1 Cor. 3:16). This tem ple, in contrast to the robbers' cave, is a purified and cleansed house for God's dwelling place.