These are not days in which belief in the Bible and in Christ are popular, and yet there are churches – they’re called these days ‘mega churches’ – in which there are ten thousand, twenty thousand, and more, people, and you see the vast auditoriums, and, of course, it is all solid entertainment – choirs of several hundred, huge orchestras and bands, and everything designed to appeal to carnal tastes. They’ll come in perhaps once a week to worship, and they’re not terribly serious, they don’t have any depth, and everything is laid on for them. Some of these churches run their own schools, and their colleges, so you can have a nice sanitised place for your children to go to school, but you know, that if those schools were, for some reason, to have to close down, and these wonderful facilities were taken away, and some new pastor came along who managed to do away with the bands, and the orchestras, and the massive choirs, with the beat and all that club atmosphere, what would happen? Well, you know those churches wouldn’t be thousands, at the very most they would be down to hundreds, in no time at all. That would be what Christ would do. He would insist on reality. He would insist on clearing out the world, and all its sin. He would insist on no more pandering to people for what they want. That’s why this passage is so important.