1. On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the
temple area and began driving out those
who were buying and selling there. He
overturned the tables of the money
changers and the benches of those selling
doves, 16and would not allow anyone to
carry merchandise through the temple
courts.

2. And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not
written: " 'My house will be called a house of
prayer for all nations’? But you have made it 'a
den of robbers.’“ The chief priests and the
teachers of the law heard this and began
looking for a way to kill him, for they feared
him, because the whole crowd was amazed at
his teaching.
Mark 11:15-18 (NIV)

3. I. The temple is God’s house – no
robbers allowed!

4. “Do you not know that you are God’s
temple and that God’s Spirit lives in
you?”
1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)

5. I. The temple is God’s house – no
robbers allowed!
II. Money & possessions compete
with God for our attention.

6. “No one can serve two masters. Either
he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other. You cannot serve
both God and money.”
Matthew 6:24 (NIV)

7. I. The temple is God’s house – no
robbers allowed!
II. Money & possessions compete
with God for our attention.
III. How we handle money &
possessions affects our
fellowship with God!

8. So if you have not been trustworthy
in handling worldly wealth, who will
trust you with true riches?
Luke 16:11 (NIV)

9. Ever since the time of your forefathers you
have turned away from my decrees and have
not kept them. Return to me, and I will return
to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you
ask, 'How are we to return?‘ "Will a man rob
God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do
we rob you?‘"In tithes and offerings. You are
under a curse—the whole nation of you—
because you are robbing me.

10. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that
there may be food in my house. Test me in this,"
says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not
throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that you will not have room
enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring
your crops, and the vines in your fields will not
cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty. "Then all
the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be
a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.
Malachi 3:6-12

11. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise
and cummin, and have neglected the
weightier matters of the law: justice and
mercy and faith. These you ought to have
done, without leaving the others undone."
Matthew 23:23