Shabbat Shalom everyone God bless you we are continuing on the study together of the Gospel of Yohanan, John. And in the second chapter, so I hope you have your Bibles with you. I would like you please to turn to John chapter 2, Yohanan chapter 2. Yohanan, John, was this man of whom we read the disciples whom Yeshua loved, and he is the one that was used by the Lord, by the Spirit of God, to give us this fourth gospel, the one that presents our Lord Yeshua, our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, as the eternal Son of God, God the Son, the creator of the universe, who became a man, entered into this world through the Virgin Miriam, and lived here for 33, 33 and a half years, and died on the Roman.

Cross, was buried, and rose again for our justification, and ascended to heaven, and is now seated at God's right hand, waiting the day in which he is going to come to take his people the heavenly company home and also to restore his people the earthly company Israel back to himself and establish a kingdom which shall never end a wonderful promise that we have in the word of God and so we are in the second chapter of the gospel of John and we want to read today beloved brothers and sisters for verse 13 to the end of the chapter so John 2 Yohanan 2 verse 13 and we read and the Jews Passover was at hand and Yeshua Jesus went up to Jerusalem and found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changes of money sitting and when he had made a scourge of a small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changes money and overthrew the table.

And said unto them that Saul doth take these things hence make not my father's house the house of merchandise and his disciples remembered that it was written the zeal of thine house has eaten me up then answered the Jews and said unto him what sign showest thou unto us seeing that thou dost these things? Jesus answered the senate to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When, therefore, he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Yeshua had said.

Now, when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast day, Many believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men. And needed not that any should testify of men, for he knew what was in men. This is John 2, verses 13-25. And this is extremely interesting passage, beloved brothers and sisters, because in this passage we learn of how much it grieved the heart of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, when he arrived to the temple in the city of Jerusalem and he saw what was going there. Now remember, again, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, as we're studying the Gospel of Yohanan, the Gospel of John, that really this fourth Gospel was written, as it says in John chapter 20 and verse 30 and 31, it says, and listen to these words, and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.

This is the book of John, the book of Yohanan. But these are written that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name. In other words, Yohanan, John, the apostle, the one who called himself the disciples, The Talmid, whom Yeshua loved, the purpose that he wrote this book, this Gospel, the fourth Gospel found in the Brit HaChadasha in the New Testament, is that ye, this is the disciple, but not only the disciple, all men, might believe that Yeshua, that Jesus, is indeed the Christ, the Mashiach, the Messiah. But not only the Messiah, but also the Son of God.

Could have never be the Messiah unless he is the son of God ben ha Elohim and that believing ye might have life notice through his name and you shall call his name Yeshua Jesus why Yeshua because the word Yeshua means Jehovah the Savior you will call his name Yeshua because he will save his people from their sins Matthew chapter 1 and verse 21 so now as we move along in the second chapter of the gospel of John in the first 12 verses we have seen the the first miracle that the Lord Jesus the Messiah performed out of the eight miracles that are found only in the gospel of Yohanan John chapter 2 verses 1 to 12 present before us the first miracle that our Lord Jesus the Messiah have done in the land of Israel in the north town of Cana in the Galil what was the first miracle he turned the water into wine according to John 2 verse 9 it says when the rulers of the feast have tasted the water that was made wine the water that was made.

One in a miraculous way the Lord Yeshua the Messiah performed these miracles to meet the need that existed in the in Cana in the little town called Cana in the Galil where there was a wedding and the very fact that he performed this first miracle only shows us that he was sanctioning the marriage union and we read in Scripture in verse 11 of John 2 it says this beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth his glory the word for miracle it comes from the Hebrew word ot or sign and that is the first miracle that Yeshua have made in the public ministry in the land of Israel so now after he was in the galil in the town called cana in the galil we find out that in verse 12 he went to the town called kfar nachum in English you say kapar nachum but in Hebrew it's two different words kfar means a village nachum is the name of the person it may have been the village of nachum the prophet of.

Israel the village of nachum or the village of any person by the name of nachum nachum mean l'nachem means to comfort the village of comfort he went to this village and his mothers and his brethren this is his brethren according to the flesh this is the brothers that he had who were born to Yosef and Miriam and also his disciples so after he left Cana he went with his mother with his brethren with his disciples this is his brethren according to the flesh this is the brothers that he had who were born to Yosef and Miriam to the village called Kfar Nachum and they continued there in not many days and now when we arrive to the the verses that we are dealing with in this ministry meeting verses 13 to verse 25 we find our Lord Yeshua the Messiah now in the city of Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem.

And notice what we read actually from verses 13 to verse 17, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah revealed his zeal for God. After. All, remember, we have to remember that he, of course, indeed is God, the son, but now as a man he took union human nature with his divine nature and now here as a man he seeked to please God and you can see that he was the only man that in a full sense of the word sought to please God and he had the zeal for the holiness of God for the righteousness of God so we find him in verses 13 to 17 cleansing the temple in Hebrew we call it Beit HaMikdash the Beit HaMikdash is cleansing the temple in the city of Jerusalem now you notice that he just began his ministry this is the beginning of his ministry his public ministry after John Yohanan said behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world and after again this is John the baptizer said in John chapter 1 and verse 35 once again the following day behold the lamb of God then Yeshua went to the galil to the north of Israel he gleaned some of his disciples.

Such as Andrew and Simon Peter and Philip and Netanel and others of course and they followed after him then he them and others together went to the marriage in Cana of the Galil for the marriage union, and now he's going back south to the central of Israel, where the day of Pesach, the feast of Passover, is about to begin. According to verse 13, it says, and the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Yeshua, Jesus, went up to Jerusalem. Now again, I want you to notice that it says the Passover of the Jews or the Jews Passover was at hand now of course it depends which translation you read but in some of the translation it simply says in the Hebrew text it says Vayikrav or it drew near the Passover was drawing near and it's a Passover that the Jewish people keep and maintain according to the order that God had given to our forefathers the people of Israel but it's somehow when it's been written in such a way the Jews Passover one might incline.

To see that this Passover that was really the feast of the Lord because Israel our people when they departed from the ways of the Lord it become in a sense like their feast rather than the feast that belong to the Lord. This is such a dangerous thing when we don't realize in our life, even us today, that whatever belonged to the Lord is belonged to the Lord. We are guests at His feast. We are guests at His table. It's not ours. It is His. You know, I find it very interesting that when you read in Revelation chapter 2 and 3 about the seven churches of Asia Minor that the Lord Yeshua wrote to them these seven letters it is interesting that while all the first six letters it says unto the angel of the church in Tyatara or in Ephesus or whatever the name of the city may be when it comes to the final assembly the final church in Revelation chapter 3 in verse 14 it said unto the angel of the church of the laodiceans rather than to say unto the angel of the church that is in Laodicea but it say unto the angel of the church that belonged to the laodiceans is no longer belonged to the Lord it belonged to them because there was a departure from the ways of the Lord this is the condition in which the present day church age in which we live in today is you might say the last day of the church age in which we live in today.

But you can see that in the time where our Lord Jesus the Messiah was on earth before the church was born these were the last days you might say of the people of Israel who will not recognize as a nation that Yeshua is the Messiah so it became to be like the Jews Passover rather than Jehovah's Passover the feast that belonged to the Lord so Yeshua is gone as he have done so Since he was a boy growing up in the land of Israel, it is very common for any and every Jewish male man, specifically, of course, the elders, to go to the city of Yerushalayim in order to keep the Feast of Pesach.

To remind you that according to the book of Deuteronomy, in chapter 16 and verse 16, the Lord commanded Israel, saying in verse 16, Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose. In the Feast of Unleavened Bread, this is Pesach, Passover. In the Feast of Weeks, this is Weeks, Shavuot, Pentecost. And in the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot in Hebrew, the Feast of Booth. And three times a year, on the 14th day of the month of Nisan, Israel would keep the Feast of Pesach. Some 50 days after, the people of Israel would keep the Feast of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks.

And in the fall season, on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, Israel will keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose. So, here we go. Yeshua himself, as it was his custom, since he was a boy with his father yourself, his stepfather yourself, and all the Jewish males to come to the city of Yerushalayim to keep the feast of Pesach now I want to make a note here and it's extremely interesting that when Yeshua came to Jerusalem on that particular day that was the first time that he have gone to Yerushalayim for Passover specifically in his ministry of course as you will notice when time passes by you will notice that he was once and again in the city of Yerushalayim doing his three three and a half years of public ministry according to John chapter 5 and verse 1 we do read after this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem you notice it may have been a Passover here but it could be also a weeks the feast of Pentecost but he's gone to the city of Jerusalem to keep that feast beloved brothers and sisters according to chapter 6 of the gospel of John.

In verse 4 we read again and the Passover a feast of the Jews was nigh and you notice that and Jesus then lifted up his eyes and he saw great company come unto him and he saith unto philip and so on so again Passover was drawing nigh he was in anticipation to go to keep the feast of Pesach like any other one of the people of Israel you notice once again in chapter 11 and verse 55 it says and the Jews Passover was nigh at hand and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves so we find out that the feast of Pesach you remember when Israel came out of the land of Egypt God had a pass over all the homes of our forefathers the Hebrews and he delivered Israel through the blood of the lamb that was killed and its blood was placed upon the dopos and the lintels.

And so here we go. We can see how the. Lord is now in the city of Yerushalayim to keep, as it was common to him and his family, the feast of Pesach. But now notice, beloved brothers and sisters, in these next verses, it's kind of sad because he is going to Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim is a capital city, the center. God set his name there the temple Bet HaMikdash is there initially it was built if you remember by King Shlomo King Solomon that was destroyed in 586 BC then Israel returned back the Jewish people the remnant returned back to the land and then that temple a smaller way was rebuilt again then now time passes by and here we come now to the time that Yeshua is there the second temple is there was renovated and beautified by Herod and here we have the Lord coming to the temple and what does he find according to verse 14 he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changes of money sitting what does he find he find that there were those who sold the.

Sacrifices the oxen the sheep the doves and there were those who also money changes they were changing money in order to provide special money that is for the temple to offer to the Lord so here we find the Lord himself coming and what does he see that it become there at the temple that which was dishonoring unto the Lord there was those that sold oxen and sheep and dove now you see it's common to come from afar many have come for the feast of Pesach not only from around the north of Israel but from beyond the country beyond the land of Israel the Jewish community worldwide would come to keep the feast of Pesach it's one of the most unique feast unique time for our people of Israel because we look always back at the history of how God our father the God of Israel have taken our forefathers out of the land of Egypt out of bondage and brought our people into the promised land and so you might have there thousands upon thousands some.

Suggested that there will be over a million people in a city of Yerushalayim doing that feast of Passover it was a tremendous experience to be in a high holiday or high day such as Pesach in the city of Yerushalayim so but sadly sadly what happened is that you now because people came from afar many do not even bring their own sacrifices because to carry their sacrifice with them on such a long journey demand a lot and maybe by the time they arrive to Jerusalem the animal itself is no longer you might say without blemish and so they were always available the oxen the sheep the doves and other animals available there to purchase them and to offer them unto the Lord for the Passover sacrifice but as we can see that sadly it became like a place where business was going on in other words you can see that there were those that the money changers were charging a high interest there in order for the people to purchase the sacrifices and what we.

Could see what we could learn from this passage that the Lord was definitely unhappy with the condition that existed in the temple and the temple is the place where God wanted his people to worship him to honor him to bring sacrifices which will atone for their sins to be broken before him but beloved friend what did the Lord find there what did Yeshua find there he found there that which was going on, the money changers, the sacrifice salesmen. It was like a business, a place where things are being done for business, and the spiritual aspect of it was really set aside. And so imagine, imagine beloved friend that was such a large community, perhaps over a million people in the city of Jerusalem and many many have been filling the temple and the marketplace right there and sadly the Lord have seen that which was going on and notice beloved brothers and sisters what he does according to verse 14 as we just read that he found in the temple those that sold animals and those that change money and this was.

The condition the set conditional state that existing during the time when the Lord came to his people Israel doesn't it remind us what the prophet Isaiah said in the first chapter before Before the first temple was destroyed, Isaiah was writing by the word of the Lord, Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord? I am full of the burnt offering of rams and of the fed beast, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of the he goats.

When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand to tread my courts? You notice that the same kind of, you might say, of challenge to Israel was already mentioned sometime at about 700 750 bc even before the first temple was destroyed by the Babylonian and the Lord appealed to his nation Israel he says to them in verse 13 of Isaiah 1 bring no more vain oblation incense is an abomination unto me the new moon the Shabbat the calling of assemblies i cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn meeting your new moons and your appointed feast my soul haters they are a trouble unto me i am weary to bear them in other words the Lord is seeing the heart the Lord is seeing the heart beloved friend.

And when the heart of God's people turn away from Him and the religious activity become so mundane, say, without any brokenness before Him, God cannot be pleased. Now, there was always a remnant in Israel's history. There were always godly men that were there, men and women who loved the Lord and wanted to serve Him, but the majority who was led by the spiritual leaders who turned away the people from the things of God, That's the people to whom the Lord speaks both in Isaiah 1 and in John Yohanan chapter 2. This is rather to remind us today that you and I have to always remember this, even today because it's no different today in the present day age of the church age, how dangerous it is when we become merely a religious group and it become a religion, faith in Yeshua the Messiah and life for him here in this world become like a religious system.

You remember what Paul said to Timothy in 2 Timothy, specifically in chapter 3? He told Timothy, he said to him, what will occur in the latter days of the church age, this know also, 2 Timothy 3 verse 1, that in the last days, perilous times shall come, for men should be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemous, Disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truth breakers, false accusers, incontinent, furious, despires of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Listen to this beloved friend verse 5 of 2nd Timothy chapter 3 having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof Paul said to Timothy from such turn away this is always the danger in Israel's history in the church history to turn faith or the life of the people of God become merely a religion without reality and we can search our own hearts and we know our own hearts and how we so easily can fall into that condition and so here we are in these next verses after the Lord have seen what was going on what do we read in verse 15 Yeshua now drove according to verse 15 he drove away out of the temple all those who did business in the temple notice that when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and he poured out the changers money and overthrew the table it is amazing here we can see the righteous.

Indignation of this man by the name of Yeshua the Messiah to remind you beloved brothers and sisters this is the beginning of the public ministry of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah John chapter 2. It was a beginning of a miracle in verse 11 of John chapter 2. Now he's coming to the temple to Beit Hamikdash in the city of Jerusalem and now he's coming there, he's seeing what is going on and then he made this scourge according to verse 15. In Hebrew it's called Chavalim. It's probably some of those ropes and strings that the animals were held by. He made himself a scourge or a havalim he put them together it's all made out of cords and he cast out malkei he cast out all out of the temple the sheep and the oxen he poured out the changes money and he overthrew their tables he was unhappy with the condition here in the temple in Yerushalayim.

This is kind of sad because the temple was built for the express purpose that Israel, and not only Israel, it has become a house for all nations to come and worship the true and living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But sadly sadly that was the condition that prevailed there at the time that Yeshua began his ministry and there in the city of Jerusalem and so he drove them all out you can just imagine it had been said that at the time when Pesach was there there were some believe there were over million even two million people in the city of Jerusalem and that there were so many of them going to the temple imagine it was such a place to come for the worship of the God of Israel for keeping the Pesach in the land of Israel and in the city of Jerusalem and so we continue to read beloved brothers and sisters that after Yeshua found those that sold and bought and sold and those that changed the money there he now is telling them as we read here he's telling them very interesting because immediately in the next verse he said unto them that sold doves take these things hence make not my father's house a house of merchandise now notice he's saying.

Make not my father's house a house of merchandise and that shows us when he says my father's house that shows us that he is as the son of God now as man claiming ownership of this temple you notice make not my father's house a house of merchandise because why this is his father's house this is the temple in Yerushalayim it is God's house it is his father's house bait avi as it says here it's not yours it is my father's house in Hebrew in this word he says you shall not make my father's house a house of a business merchandise buying and selling and buying and selling this is a house of worship this is the temple the Beit Hamikdash where God would be presence in the midst of his people and the worship will rise up to the Lord himself and so beloved brothers and sisters then notice this is so interesting because all of a sudden we find that we have this clause here in verse 17 that his disciples remember that it was written.

Again to remind you beloved brothers and sisters the disciples these are Jewish disciples they knew the Hebrew Scriptures they knew very well that the Hebrew Scriptures was speaking about a coming Redeemer. They didn't quite understand how it will be, but they understood that. They also understood, beloved brothers and sisters, that when they heard what the Lord have said, they understood that they have once have read all these things in the Hebrew text. And so, where the disciples remembered. In other words, apparently, if they remember, they must have read this passage. And what was the passage is found in Psalm 69 in verse 9 where it says for the zeal of thine house has eaten me up what does that mean in Hebrew it says kikinat beitcha achaltani for the zeal of thine house has eaten me up in other word the Lord was so zealous for the house of God for the house of his father for the house where the temple of worship supposed to to rise up to God so by seeing what was going on and by observing the manner whereby things happen how the worship you might say was exchanged if you will with buying and selling and extortionating things from others who are coming from far distance things were not done in a way that it pleased the Lord and therefore the Lord said take these things hence make not my father's house notice and house of merchandise and again verse 17 the disciples remember that it was written written where in the tehillim in the Psalm Psalm 69 9 the zeal of thine house.

Notice in verse 16 my father's house in verse 17 thine house this is the father's house bait avi bait haaba the father's house so here is the zealousness of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah for the father's house this Psalm of course Psalm 69 he's quoted elsewhere in the Scripture and some of these portions of the Psalms are quoted in John 7 in John 15 and in the gospel of Matthew and in the book of Romans it is very interesting because these verses quoted from Psalm 69 is mentioned not only by the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah himself but also it is mentioned by the apostle himself you notice what it says in Romans chapter 11 and verse 9 it says and David saith let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them verse 10 let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and bow down their back always now these two verses are actually quoted from Psalm 69 verses 22 and 23 so it is amazing to see.

How often this special Psalm Psalm 69 is quoted in the new testament in the brit ha-chadasha and so beloved brothers and sisters to remind you that the 69th Psalm is a special Psalm that's speaking to us vividly about the Messiah the cry of the Messiah as the sacrifice of the trespass offering you remember how it started save me oh God for the waters are come in unto my soul I sink a deep mire where there is no standing, I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me, I am weary of my crying, my throat is dried, mine eyes fail while I wait for my God, they that hate me without a cause are more than the hair of my head, they that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully are mighty then i restore that which i took not away you see Psalm 69 is the trespass offering Psalm the Psalm the trespass means the guilt Psalm the Psalm that represent before us the fact that the Lord Jesus the Messiah took the guilt.

Of each and every one of us that trusted in him. It says in verse 8, I become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children. And then verse 9, for the zeal of thine house has eaten me up. Amazing Psalm 69 that presents before us the Messiah's suffering for the guilt of us all the trespass offering Psalm Psalm 69 and so we continue to read beloved brothers and sisters in the next verses in verse 18 and on verse 18 all the way to verse 22 how Yeshua reveal his zeal for God by giving his life for man's salvation you notice beloved brothers then answered the Jewish people the Jews and they said unto him verse 18 what sign showest thou unto us seeing that thou doest these things see the Bible teaches us that Jews require a sign and here again the Jewish leaders you notice wherever it says the Jews in the gospel of John almost 90 times 90 i should say it's applied to the spiritual leaders of Israel and so they ask.

Him what sign you showed to us that you are doing these things in other words they wanted a sign who are you how come you are chasing everybody out of the temple how come you're turning the tables upside down how come you're driving out the sheep and the oxen and how come you're driving out the money changers out of the temple everyone was sent out of the temple in Jerusalem so they ask him show us a sign seeing that you do these things why who are you show us a sign you notice what we read in verse 19 Yeshua used the temple as an illustration he is taking the very same temple that he was right there in the midst of the people of Israel he is using this as an illustration to speak about his own body and his own death burial and resurrection Yeshua answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple.

Notice that. Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? Now, beloved brothers and sisters, I would like to tell you that the temple was built enlarged sometime already before the Lord even was born at about 20 bc it was already being developed by herod the great but it was really enlarged the second temple was enlarged It was built or enlarged beginning from 20 B.C., and it ended by about 64 A.D. So really, it took about 80-something years to build and enlarge the temple. But when the Lord was there, already 46 years the temple was in-building.

It was still not completed. It was in-building. And if it's already 46 years in building, He says, then how can you rear it up in three days? But Yeshua wanted to communicate with them the very fact that the reason that He came, He didn't only come to this world to live a long life, He came in order that He will die and become the sacrifice for sin, to make atonement for sin, To deal once and for all with the question of sin. And to take away the sin of this world. And so you notice how he is answering Yeshua. Answering to them. While the Jewish leaders did not understand what he said.

Yet according to verse 21. Yeshua pointed to his own body. And you notice what he said in verse 21. He spake of the temple. Mikdash. The temple of his body. This is an interesting expression, beloved brothers and sisters. In John chapter 3 and verse 4, we read, Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? You see, these are some of the questions that others have asked. They did not quite understand in chapter 4 if you remember the samaritan woman she also was puzzled and she was talking to the Lord in verse 11 of chapter 4 the woman said unto him sir thou has nothing to draw with and the well is deep for whence then has thou that living water you see he's giving them an illustration he actually almost like speaking a parable unto them looking at the temple being at the temple but applying it to the temple of his body in chapter 6 and verse 52 the Jews therefore strove among themselves saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat again he was speaking about his own body as the bread as the food from heaven man from heaven he's the one that's going to give himself as the ransom for many well they didn't quite understand and they asked him they asked him when the Lord has spoken to them here in these verses and he was speaking about his body they didn't quite understand that he does not mean.

The temple itself that was already at 46 years in building but he's speaking about his own body as the temple and so we read in the next verses verse 22 the disciples later on remember and it's amazing how John is now taking us you might say to later on beyond the death and the burial and resurrection of the Messiah Yeshua and he's just giving us a clause here in verse 22 when therefore he was risen he didn't die yet but John takes us for you might say put a clause here when Yeshua was risen from the dead his disciples remember that he said this unto them and they believed the Scripture and the word which Yeshua had said.

In other words the evangelist John the apostle take us for a moment beyond life and death and resurrection of the Messiah and then when the disciples at that time after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus they understood the word that he spoke here at the beginning of his public ministry and so beloved brothers and sisters just to. Conclude the second chapter of the gospel of John verses 23 24 and 25 Yeshua revealed to all that he knows the heart of everyone Yeshua knows all things the Lord Jesus being God the son he knows your heart you know my heart you know everyone in the in the face of this world because he is the creator he is the one that knows the hearts of all men it says in verse 23 now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the feast day many believed on his name notice why they believe in his name when they saw the miracles which he did apparently he did some miracles there in Jerusalem we read in chapter 2 and verse 11 that the first miracle he did was that he turned the water into wine and according to verse 23 of John 2 many believe because they saw other miracles but we don't have them recorded here they are not recorded in the gospel of John and the miracle you might say that they could observe there is that he could chase.

Everyone out of the temple and he said as he said in verse 16 take these things hence make not my multitude have seen what he has done which have never happened before when a man would do such a thing in the temple in Yerushalayim and so many believe on his name many believe on his name but notice what we read and I believe it is very important beloved friend as you listen to this message if you are not a believer in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah this verse shows us that the Lord knows each and every one's heart and it is important to believe on the Lord not because of merely an external miracles that you or I see but to believe on the Lord Jesus the Messiah because of who he is.

To recognize that He is God the Son, to recognize that He is the one that was born to the Virgin Miriam, to recognize that He is that Holy One of Israel, to recognize that He is the promised Messiah, to recognize that you and I are sinners by nature and we need forgiveness from God. And the only way to receive forgiveness from God is by faith in the Lord Jesus the Messiah. And not because of miracles that he did for you or for me or for anyone in this world, but because of who he is, because of who he is, the lover of our souls, the God-man, the Messiah himself.

So many believed on His name when they saw the miracles which He did, verse 23. But notice what verse 24 and 25 say. But Yeshua did not commit Himself unto them because He knew all men. He did not commit Himself to them because He knew all men. Why? He did not commit Himself to them because He knew the reality in each and every one of them. Did they really believe on Him because they recognized that they have sinned and He came to die for the sin of this world? You see, here's what we learn, the importance of faith. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

John 3.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Faith unto salvation is not faith that is just merely because a miracle came into one's life and we believe on Him just because we want to get more miracles. No, we believe on Him because we know that He is the one and only who could forgive our sins. He can provide redemption for my soul. To understand that we are sinful and we deserve to be judged by God, But here is one that gave himself for us. And so notice the concluding verse of John 2.

And he did not need that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. This is so important, my dear friends, to understand and to accept this. The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, knows what is in man. In 1 Samuel, chapter 16, we have this interesting experience. It says, And the Lord said unto Samuel, in verse 7, Look not on his countenance, or on his height, or on the height of his stature, Because I have refused him, for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. When Shmuel, Samuel, the prophet of Israel, was going to anoint a king in Israel, Then all the brothers of David came before him to be presented before Shmuel.

And when Eliab came, and God told Samuel, that was not the one that's going to be the king of Israel. Why? Because the Lord sees not as man sees. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. God knows the heart of all men, as we read here in John 2, verse 24, because he knew all men. There is a verse in Revelation chapter 2, as the Lord's writing to the seven assemblies in Asia Minor. We read in Revelation 2 and verse 23 where the Lord writes to the church of Thyatira. You notice what he said concerning, he said, And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches should know that I am he which search the rain and the hearts.

And I will give unto every one of you according to your works. The Lord searched the rains and know their hearts. Revelation chapter 2 and verse 23. And so my dear friend, as we conclude with the second chapter of the Gospel of John, Our hearts is moved with the fact that the Lord Yeshua was so displeased with the condition that prevailed in the temple in Yerushalayim at his first coming, that he said, take these things hence and make not my father's house a house of merchandise. The zeal of thine house have eaten me up. We read it from Psalm 69, in verse 9. And so it behooved us also today, as we live in these last days of the church age, in a time where every man does that which is right in his own eyes, we also can search our hearts.

And the Lord knows our hearts. And He seeks to draw our hearts to Him that our worship of Him will be sincere, not merely an external worship without value, but an internal worship from the heart, sincere out of appreciation of who the Lord is and what He hath done for us. And so here we are in the Gospel of John, and to remind you again of the verse that is the central thought here in John the Gospel. These things are written that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name. Jesus did not commit Himself unto them because He knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man for he knew what was in man i trust that you turn to him who know your heart and come to him and say Lord i need you as my Lord and Savior and if you are believer you can ask Lord help me to have a heart that is tender and broken before you.

Help me to have not merely an external religion, but an internal condition of the heart that will be suitable to honor you and to praise you and to worship you in the right way. Well, God bless you, dear brothers and sisters. God bless you, my friend. May the Lord continue on in leading us to follow after him. Take care. Shalom, shalom.