•A Prayer of Praise for the Righteousness of Jesus This Holy Monday•
Author: Anthony Valente
“And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers’”
(Matthew 21:12-13)
We know a lot about Palm Sunday and Good Friday, but what is Holy Monday? Heather Adams from Bible Study Tools shares that on Holy Monday, Jesus went back into Jerusalem and cursed a fruitless fig tree, wept over the city, and cleansed the temple.
Ponder this, the King of the World comes in riding on a donkey in humility on Sunday. Then, our great High Priest enters the temple the next day and turns over the tables. Holy Monday reminds us of the worthiness of our Savior. He was faultless, and people had taken His house of worship and made it about selfish gain. In thinking about all of the legalism and hypocrisy the Pharisees had been partaking in, it grieved Jesus. His people were supposed to love Him, but He was instead ignored as Messiah and would be chosen over a murderous criminal to take the cross a few days later.
There is a clear verse in Ephesians 4:26 that says, “Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” Jesus was angry, but his actions were not sinful. It is hard to believe because we often like to take the love and compassion of Christ while ignoring His holiness and sovereignty. Ponder this, He has gone into the place that was supposed to be His home, where God resided in the Holy of Holies, and the people were making a business out of His home. They were taking advantage of God for personal gain. They made it a place of robbery. They took away the attention and purpose on the Lord, and they prevented the people from connecting with Him and placed a barrier in the way.
We see this in the time when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down the mountain, and the Israelites had crafted the golden calf to worship as an idol. Moses broke the commandments and went back up the mountain a second time. As we pray about the righteousness of Jesus, we can thank Him for His holiness and his gift of forgiveness to those who believe in Him. We, too, have made His house about selfish gain. We have sinned against Him, and we deserve His wrath eternally. However, by grace, we have been saved through faith. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Let's pray.
Dear Jesus,
We praise You for Your righteousness this Holy Monday. We could not be obedient to the law. We failed miserably. We could not even keep one command. However, You came, and in your faithfulness to Your Word and to us, You gave us new life and hope. As we reflect on Your anger that was perfect and righteous, help us to take our sin seriously. Enable us to be intentional to think about the ways that we have sinned against you by sins of omission and sins of commission.
We have not followed You. We have turned to our own fleshly ways. We have committed spiritual adultery against You as our Groom. Please forgive us. Please help us not to stay there. Give us the conviction by Your Spirit, the foundation of Your Word, and the support of community to propel us into lives that fully honor You. Help us to look more like You, Jesus. Thank You for turning the tables that day. For giving us an eternal reminder that You flip our legalism and our deceptions on the ground and everything is leveled by the cross. All have sinned and fall short of Your glory. All deserve death and hell. But You came in Your holiness, and Your righteousness became our own. Thank You for Your great mercy on us. Thank You for being righteous for us and then placing it upon all who believe in Your name.
AMEN
Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
(1 John 3:7)
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
(Hebrews 13:15)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
(Romans 5:1-5)
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
(Psalm 106:1)
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
(1 John 2:29)
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
(Psalm 69:30)
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
(Isaiah 33:15-17)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
(1 Peter 1:3)
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
(1 Peter 5:10)
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
(Matthew 6:33)
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
(1 John 5:18)
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
(Psalm 150:6)
(pic verse)
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
(John 2:13-22)
Artist
I Am With You Always - David Delfeld
Author: Anthony Valente
“And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers’”
(Matthew 21:12-13)
We know a lot about Palm Sunday and Good Friday, but what is Holy Monday? Heather Adams from Bible Study Tools shares that on Holy Monday, Jesus went back into Jerusalem and cursed a fruitless fig tree, wept over the city, and cleansed the temple.
Ponder this, the King of the World comes in riding on a donkey in humility on Sunday. Then, our great High Priest enters the temple the next day and turns over the tables. Holy Monday reminds us of the worthiness of our Savior. He was faultless, and people had taken His house of worship and made it about selfish gain. In thinking about all of the legalism and hypocrisy the Pharisees had been partaking in, it grieved Jesus. His people were supposed to love Him, but He was instead ignored as Messiah and would be chosen over a murderous criminal to take the cross a few days later.
There is a clear verse in Ephesians 4:26 that says, “Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” Jesus was angry, but his actions were not sinful. It is hard to believe because we often like to take the love and compassion of Christ while ignoring His holiness and sovereignty. Ponder this, He has gone into the place that was supposed to be His home, where God resided in the Holy of Holies, and the people were making a business out of His home. They were taking advantage of God for personal gain. They made it a place of robbery. They took away the attention and purpose on the Lord, and they prevented the people from connecting with Him and placed a barrier in the way.
We see this in the time when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down the mountain, and the Israelites had crafted the golden calf to worship as an idol. Moses broke the commandments and went back up the mountain a second time. As we pray about the righteousness of Jesus, we can thank Him for His holiness and his gift of forgiveness to those who believe in Him. We, too, have made His house about selfish gain. We have sinned against Him, and we deserve His wrath eternally. However, by grace, we have been saved through faith. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Let's pray.
Dear Jesus,
We praise You for Your righteousness this Holy Monday. We could not be obedient to the law. We failed miserably. We could not even keep one command. However, You came, and in your faithfulness to Your Word and to us, You gave us new life and hope. As we reflect on Your anger that was perfect and righteous, help us to take our sin seriously. Enable us to be intentional to think about the ways that we have sinned against you by sins of omission and sins of commission.
We have not followed You. We have turned to our own fleshly ways. We have committed spiritual adultery against You as our Groom. Please forgive us. Please help us not to stay there. Give us the conviction by Your Spirit, the foundation of Your Word, and the support of community to propel us into lives that fully honor You. Help us to look more like You, Jesus. Thank You for turning the tables that day. For giving us an eternal reminder that You flip our legalism and our deceptions on the ground and everything is leveled by the cross. All have sinned and fall short of Your glory. All deserve death and hell. But You came in Your holiness, and Your righteousness became our own. Thank You for Your great mercy on us. Thank You for being righteous for us and then placing it upon all who believe in Your name.
AMEN
Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
(1 John 3:7)
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
(Hebrews 13:15)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
(Romans 5:1-5)
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
(Psalm 106:1)
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
(1 John 2:29)
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
(Psalm 69:30)
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
(Isaiah 33:15-17)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
(1 Peter 1:3)
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
(1 Peter 5:10)
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
(Matthew 6:33)
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
(1 John 5:18)
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
(Psalm 150:6)
(pic verse)
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
(John 2:13-22)
Artist
I Am With You Always - David Delfeld
•A Prayer of Praise for the Righteousness of Jesus This Holy Monday•
Author: Anthony Valente
👉 “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers’”
(Matthew 21:12-13)
We know a lot about Palm Sunday and Good Friday, but what is Holy Monday? Heather Adams from Bible Study Tools shares that on Holy Monday, Jesus went back into Jerusalem and cursed a fruitless fig tree, wept over the city, and cleansed the temple.
Ponder this, the King of the World comes in riding on a donkey in humility on Sunday. Then, our great High Priest enters the temple the next day and turns over the tables. Holy Monday reminds us of the worthiness of our Savior. He was faultless, and people had taken His house of worship and made it about selfish gain. In thinking about all of the legalism and hypocrisy the Pharisees had been partaking in, it grieved Jesus. His people were supposed to love Him, but He was instead ignored as Messiah and would be chosen over a murderous criminal to take the cross a few days later.
There is a clear verse in Ephesians 4:26 that says, “Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” Jesus was angry, but his actions were not sinful. It is hard to believe because we often like to take the love and compassion of Christ while ignoring His holiness and sovereignty. Ponder this, He has gone into the place that was supposed to be His home, where God resided in the Holy of Holies, and the people were making a business out of His home. They were taking advantage of God for personal gain. They made it a place of robbery. They took away the attention and purpose on the Lord, and they prevented the people from connecting with Him and placed a barrier in the way.
We see this in the time when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down the mountain, and the Israelites had crafted the golden calf to worship as an idol. Moses broke the commandments and went back up the mountain a second time. As we pray about the righteousness of Jesus, we can thank Him for His holiness and his gift of forgiveness to those who believe in Him. We, too, have made His house about selfish gain. We have sinned against Him, and we deserve His wrath eternally. However, by grace, we have been saved through faith. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Let's pray.
✝️ Dear Jesus,
We praise You for Your righteousness this Holy Monday. We could not be obedient to the law. We failed miserably. We could not even keep one command. However, You came, and in your faithfulness to Your Word and to us, You gave us new life and hope. As we reflect on Your anger that was perfect and righteous, help us to take our sin seriously. Enable us to be intentional to think about the ways that we have sinned against you by sins of omission and sins of commission.
We have not followed You. We have turned to our own fleshly ways. We have committed spiritual adultery against You as our Groom. Please forgive us. Please help us not to stay there. Give us the conviction by Your Spirit, the foundation of Your Word, and the support of community to propel us into lives that fully honor You. Help us to look more like You, Jesus. Thank You for turning the tables that day. For giving us an eternal reminder that You flip our legalism and our deceptions on the ground and everything is leveled by the cross. All have sinned and fall short of Your glory. All deserve death and hell. But You came in Your holiness, and Your righteousness became our own. Thank You for Your great mercy on us. Thank You for being righteous for us and then placing it upon all who believe in Your name.
AMEN 🙏
Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
(1 John 3:7)
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
(Hebrews 13:15)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
(Romans 5:1-5)
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
(Psalm 106:1)
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
(1 John 2:29)
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
(Psalm 69:30)
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
(Isaiah 33:15-17)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
(1 Peter 1:3)
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
(1 Peter 5:10)
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
(Matthew 6:33)
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
(1 John 5:18)
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
(Psalm 150:6)
(pic verse)
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
(John 2:13-22)
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I Am With You Always - David Delfeld
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