Lent Bible Reading Series - 14th April 2014

Bible Reading – Isaiah 56: 4-8, and Mark 11: 12-19 
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, 

Jesus is angered by the extortion blatantly on display in the Temple court. The unscrupulous dealers were not only making fat profits for themselves but, by their high pricing were excluding poorer people to worship in the temple. This was a desecration of the Temple, a violation of what God’s house was meant to be. The Temple was meant to be a place of prayer, a holy place, and a place where the most lowly and derided could come to worship.

Consider:
• Is your corps/church known for the warmth of its welcome and inclusion into the fellowship?

Prayer:
• O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,
Bow down and worship, his glory proclaim;
With gold of obedience, and incense of lowliness,
Kneel and adore him, the Lord is his name.
(SASB 183)