SNT 0969 Zealous for His House
Zealous for His House June 10, 1979 SNT 969 (Act 2:3); Joh 2:13-16 Joh 2:15-17; Psa 69:9 Zealous for His House Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille Sunday Night Teaching – 0969 Take your Bibles tonight, please, and go to the Gospel of John. I've a very simple little message for you tonight that I think will bless you as I think most of the messages are simple that are taught from the greatness of the Word from this location. There’s a record in the Gospel of John that changed many things in my life, and I thought tonight I’d share that with you. Again, my background, my life is just like a lot of peoples. Like yours. You can’t go beyond what you’re taught. And we have pictures in our mind, things we have seen that have been pictured to us. We had a major discussion this week, this past week that had . . . It centered around the symbol of the holy spirit. Because we just finished Pentecost, and here I’ve been teaching this for years and I thought everybody understood it. And then Mrs. Wierwille came to see me for breakfast one morning, and we got to talking about it and she didn’t understand it. And I thought, oh my God, I live with that woman, you know. {laughter} And I teach this to every class, you know, how in Acts 2 the, “tongues… as of fire, and it sat upon each [one] of them.” [1] And then when we got to talking about it, she had just never seen that, the greatness of the tongues of fire. And I got to thinking, well, my goodness we’re so conditioned by pictures. You see, every time you see Pentecost, it’s the flame going up. But in the Word of God, it’s the flame coming down. That fire, “like as of fire . . .” it says in Acts, “sat upon each of them.” Right? How many ‘each’ were there? {twelve} Twelve. So it’s the splitting. It’s the cloven tongues like as of fire. It came down this way. It didn’t go up that way, it came down this way and it split out into 12 – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. All the front row. There it is, coming down, splitting out. “Cloven tong
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to defend your house.” And that is accurate. His disciples remembered that it was written, “My zeal made me courageous to defend your house.” If you will put that translation into the Psalm in 69, verse 9, “For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; [made me courageous to defend your house. My zeal made me courageous to defend your house] and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.” 3 Then it will fit like a hand in a glove in the United States. The zeal made me very courageous, or made me courageous, to defend your house. The disciples remembered that. Jesus Christ coming back into the temple, he was very courageous. Courageous to defend the house, the temple. You and I certainly could not do less regarding God’s Word today. And that is that our zeal should defend. Be very courageous about defending, holding forth the greatness of God’s Word. The temple at the