Highlight the story of cleansing of the temple in the Gospel of Mathew

Matt 21:12-17:  

• Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought
  in the Temple 
• He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats
  of those selling pigeons, 
• He then said – ‘My house shal be called a house
  of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers’, 
• The blind and the lame came
  to Jesus in theTemple and He healled them,
• When the chief Priests and
  scribes saw the wonderul things he did (and the children crying out in the
  temple Hosanna to David’s son) they were angry, 
• They said to Jesus,
  “Do you hear what they are saying? 
• Jesus said, have you never read?
  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou has perfect praise, 
• And
  leaving them he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. ,

Ways the Church is defiled:  

1. Through oath
   taking/ vow-taking, 
2. Through occult practices, 
3. Through breaking of
   commandments, 
4. Through unholy / ungodly association,
5. Through religious
   politics / Bribery and corruption, 
6. Through abominable acts (rituals ands
   acrifices).