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Today is Holy Monday. The day Jesus kicked the money lenders out of the Temple. Modern Christianity wants to paint Jesus as a harmless pacifist who just wanted everyone to get along. They couldn’t be more wrong. He doesn't write a strongly worded letter. He doesn't ask them politely to leave. He physically braids a whip of cords, flips the heavy wooden tables, scatters the money and expells them from His Father's house. The Lord is not pleased with mere appearances, trees without fruit, rituals without prayer, temples without reverence. He calls for authentic worship, conversion of heart, and fruitful holiness. Today He asks each of us: 1) "Am I a fig tree full of leaves but no fruit?" 2) "Is My heart a house of prayer, or a den of distractions?" Let Him cleanse the temple within you. Let Him overturn the tables. Let Him cast out every idol. Because where He cleanses, He heals. Where He purifies, He restores. Follow Him with all your heart and BEAR FRUIT! “I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without Me you can do nothing.” - (John 15,5)