The Prediction/Repentance Matthew 21:23-25:4

Tuesday of Holy Week is often called “Busy Tuesday” because Jesus did a lot of speaking. The morning of Tuesday he spoke to his disciples. Many of his parables are about repentance. He also had some conversations with the Pharisees and Sadducees. They were trying to trap Jesus and expose him as a hoax. But Jesus kept pointing to the truth that he was the Messiah. His evening was spent talking about the End Times and the End of the Earth and that He was going to come back again and for his followers to be prepared at all times. He truly was busy.

As you read through Jesus’s Tuesday pay attention to his selfless, wondrous love. Consider how he spent his last days offering his loving forgiveness to those who were orchestrating his murder.

Reflect on how, because of Jesus, we have the forgiveness we desperately need to face our Judgment Day with confidence and consider areas in your own heart that need repentance and reflect of the parables about “being ready” for His return. Are we ready for his return?

Matthew 21:12 Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”

One of the first things Jesus did when he entered Jerusalem was go to the temple and clean it out. Just like he does when he enters a persons life. He goes straight to the temple, to the things we worship above him. He cleans out whatever is not Gods plan. This process is sanctification which simply put is getting right with God. Jesus knows what stands between us and God. It could be sin, prejudice or grudges, old hurts, feelings of inferiority, unforgiveness, etc. Whatever blocks our relationships with Him must go.

Consider today what in your life needs to be cleansed. What is Jesus asking you to get rid of? What is keeping you from your Heavenly Father?