Relationship Vs Sacrifice By Pr. Philip Lotimong

■ Pharisees were focused on people fulfilling religious rituals.

■ But Jesus tells them it is about man having a relationship with God and not sacrifices.

■ Jesus is the high priest who took the sins of man once for all.

■ When you come to God, there are somethings that you should change.

■ Jesus wants to turn your tables for His glory as you celebrate Easter today.

■ The concern of the Pharisees was not about people but what they could get from people.

■ The blind and the lame were segregated that’s why Jesus heals them. The people that were segregated by the Pharisees.

■ Jesus is demonstrating that it is not about the sacrifice

■ It is not about your sacrifice but your relationship. Why? Jesus offered the sacrifice once and for all.

■ Many of us are serving God as a fulfillment of a religious duty, God is not after our duties but a relationship with Him.

■ He wants to cleanse the temple so that it represents the glory of God that it should represent.

■ It had lost the place of prayer instead of business

■ Churches are never a family business but God’s business

■ It is the temple of the Holy Spirit and belongs to Jesus Christ not man.

■ Jesus came to Jerusalem and saw priest unbothered about the people.

■ The church has to come back on track.

■ There giving of sacrifices had replaced prayer.

■ Your sacrifice can not replace your prayer.

■ Your prayer should be above your sacrifice.

■ Prayer builds your relationship with God.

■ It affects your lifestyle.

■ Your giving must come from a place of intimacy with God

■ We must learn to love God.

■ God is in the business of restoring mankind into His original plan.

■ Our hearts are the temple of God. God is in the temple that He created not the one that man created.

■ When your heart is in the right place of honoring God, God accepts your offering.

■ When you honor God, you give from the heart.

■ When you give, you give from a place of love. Never give out of fear.

■ Riches do not come from the place of giving but from the place of work. From your work you are able to give, you cannot give without giving.

■ We must learn that our God is a God of relationship, he wants you to have a relationship with Him.

■ What is in your temple that Jesus wants to drive out, is it anger, hate, unforgiveness and sin?

■ Jesus wants to enter your temple.

■ Jesus healed the lame and the blind, He wants to heal you.

■ Welcome Him into your heart.

■ If we don’t understand the cleansing of the temple, you will never understand his death and resurrection.

Happy Easter!