My House Shall Be Called A House Of Prayer | Guest Pastor Bob Cornell | Tuesday Prayer Meeting | The Brooklyn Tabernacle

It is such an honor and a privilege to be here tonight, and, and I wanna get right into the Word today.

If we were to go home right now, we would say we've had a wonderful service.

Amen? Amen.

But I wanna encourage you from God's Word.

Turn in your Bible if you would, please, to the Book of Matthew, chapter 21.

The Book of Matthew, chapter 21, and beginning with verse 12 and reading through verse 16.

And I'll be transparent with you tonight as I begin, as, when the Lord laid this, this passage on my heart and this subject, which I'm gonna be talking tonight about, the Word, when Jesus said in the temple, "My house shall be called a house of prayer." Amen.

[applause] And I, I thought, "Lord, do you know where I'm going? I'm going to Brooklyn Tab." [laughs] "I'm going on a Tuesday night of all nights, where we're praying, and they already know this." But the Lord just kept putting it back in my spirit.

So tonight I'm not here to give you some kind of new revelation.

I'm just here to glorify God and Jesus and to encourage you in the faith.

[applause] And so Matthew chapter 12, uh, chapter 21, beginning in verse 12.

If you're there, give me a good amen.

Amen.

And it says, "Then Jesus went into the temple of God, and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

And He said to them, 'It is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.'" But it continues, and it says in verse 14, "Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children cry out in the temple and saying, 'Hosanna to the son of David,' they were indignant 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?'" And tonight I'm gonna focus for a few minutes on what Jesus said there.

And He said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer." But before I do so, I wanna call your attention just to some things in this text that first it begins with God's house being a house of prayer.

But then it goes into how God's house became a house of healing for the broken.

And then it, God's house became a house of praise.

Innocent praise, pure praise.

Praise where, where they didn't really care about what people thought or, or what they, when they saw them, but they were just purely praising God and praising Jesus.

Yeah.

But it began with God's house should be called a house of prayer.

So tonight I wanna just share with you and minister, encourage you for a few minutes on this.

Can we pray together? Father, we just come before you tonight in the name of Jesus.

And Lord, we're just so thankful, Lord, for Your presence.

Lord, I thank You for Your people, for we are Your people called by Your name, redeemed by the blood of Your Son, Jesus.

And we give You all the praise and all the glory.

And everyone said amen.

Amen.

And amen.