Resurrection Day – 6: Clearing Clutter
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Luke 19:45-48
45 "Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there, and he said, “It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.”
Six days before God raised Jesus from the dead, He walked into the temple and saw a mess. Not spilled coffee. Not kids wiggling in the pew. Not a loud greeting time. A deeper mess. The temple was meant to be a place where people could meet with God—where the worried could breathe, where the guilty could confess, where the lonely could pray. But the temple courts had become a marketplace. Buying. Selling. Cutting deals. Using God’s name to make money.
So, Jesus did something that shocks us. He drove them out and said,
“It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
He was angry that people were using God’s house as a cover for greed rather than for communion with the Almighty. He still is.
Now let’s make this more personal. Because the Bible doesn’t only call a building “God’s house.” It calls YOU God’s house.
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:19).
That means Jesus isn’t only interested in cleaning up churches. He is interested in cleaning up hearts. He cares about what’s happening inside you—because you are where he wants to live.
So, ask: what’s taking up space in the temple that is you?
Sometimes the “tables” in us look like worry that runs the show. Or bitterness, we keep polishing. Or nonstop busyness that leaves no quiet. Or the need to impress. Or secret sin we’ve learned to manage.
Jesus clears the clutter of the temple that is us so we can find God again. He makes room for mercy. He opens space for peace. He protects what is holy.
So today, picture Jesus walking into the temple that is you—not with disgust, but with fierce kindness. He is not trying to shame you. He is trying to free you. Because you were made to be a house of worship and the temple of the Holy Spirit.
