Jesus is the true and better temple! Jesus is the true and better sacrifice! Jesus is greater than the temple because the temple was where God dwelt, but Jesus is God Who does not dwell in temples made by humans hands since the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him let alone a man explain Him!
Jesus is greater than the temple because the temple was where the sacrifices took place, but Jesus Himself is the sacrifice of all sacrifices Who alone can take away the sin of the world!
Jesus is greater than the temple because the temple was where people pray, but He is the God to Whom people pray!
Jesus is greater than the temple because the temple divided ethnic groups like Jews and Gentiles, but Jesus died and rose again to make all peoples from every tribe, tongue, language, and nation one in Him!
Jesus is greater than the temple because people could come to the temple and remain in their hypocrisy and sin, but those who come to Jesus by faith will turn from their sin and follow Him!
Jesus is greater than the temple because the temple was destroyed to never rise again, but Jesus was destroyed on that cross, and He rose again on the third day never to die again!
Jesus is greater than the temple because people came to the temple for mercy, but Jesus is greater mercy, greater grace, greater love, greater compassion, greater holiness, greater justice, greater truth, greater perfection, greater beauty, and greater glory!
Jesus is greater than the temple because the temple is fallen down and gone, but Jesus is alive forevermore to make intercession for us and to keep loving, to keep helping, to keep forgiving, to keep strengthening, to keep binding up the broken-hearted, to keep drying all our tears, to keep healing, to keep saving, to keep comforting, to keep giving rest, to keep listening, and to keep abundantly satisfying us with the fullness of His pleasures and joy forevermore for all eternity!
The temple was the place of sacrifice: Jesus is the true and better sacrifice!
The temple was the place of prayer & praise: Jesus made it possible for us to pray to God anywhere! Jesus gives us access to God! And Jesus causes us to praise our God, and we praise Jesus as well!
The temple was the place for setting apart (consecrating) people and things for God: Jesus was the only Man Who ever lived Who was fully & perfectly set apart & consecrated to God – holy, sinless, clean, & undefiled! And He alone made it possible for us to be set apart & consecrated to God as well!
The temple was the place for teaching God’s Law (Word): Jesus is God’s Word, come in the flesh! He spoke God’s Word; fulfilled God’s Word; trusted God’s Word; obeyed God’s Word; delighted in God’s Word, & He enables us to be changed by God’s Word & trust, obey, and delight in God & His Word as well!
The temple was the place of unity among God’s people and all peoples: Jesus is the temple Who shed His blood to save people from every tribe and language and people and nation, in order to make us unified as one, even as He and His Father are one!
The temple was the place for the revelation of God to be made known: Jesus Christ is the ultimate and final revelation of God – Who is God come in the flesh!
Hebrews 1:1-3: Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
The temple was the delight of Israel’s eyes and the yearning of their souls: Jesus is the delight of our eyes & the yearning of our souls!
Psalm 73:25: Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
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