OUR FATHER WHO SENT HIS SON TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE

The Lord Jesus healed blind and lame people who came to Him in the temple and there were children shouting praise to God. Matthew chapter 21 verses 14 - 17 records these things and how they caused a confrontation between the religious leaders and the Lord Jesus;

14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”

And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,

‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?”

17 Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.

The miracles that Jesus was doing in the temple itself was eliciting a reaction of exultation from the people who were witnessing them and the religious gatekeepers were incensed by the attention that Jesus was getting and they asked Jesus if He was hearing what the children were proclaiming in the temple. 

Jesus responded by saying that He was hearing what the children were saying but He advised the temple officials that it was entirely appropriate because the scriptures, in Psalm 8 verse 2 said;

Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Jesus paraphrased the scripture in Psalm 8 to reveal a spiritual reality. By equating the establishment of a stronghold that silences enemies and avengers with the perfecting of praise in the mouths of chidren, we learn from Jesus that the righteous praise of the children of God creates a stronghold or a fortress that neutralizes enemy plans and actions.

Jesus then left the temple and went to the nearby town of Bethany where He had some friends and He spent the night there.

Amen.

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