186: Craig Farren – Exhortation: Filling Our Pots To The Brim For Jesus

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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is an

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excitation by Brother Craig
ferren which was given last

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April.
So a year ago at a Foyle Park

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Ecclesia and South Australia.
It was titled, Jesus turns water

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into wine, but I think a more
spot on title would be filling

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our pots to the brim for Jesus.
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So thank you, as always.
In this excerpt brother.

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Craig takes a look at Jesus
first miracle at the wedding in

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Cana which on the surface
appears hurried and unplanned

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and breaks it Down Beat by beat
revealing, who the miracle

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really was for, and why Jesus,
the winemaker couldn’t have done

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it without the faith of those
who weren’t even invited to the

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wedding.
They were there to work.

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The servants.
There are so many great

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metaphors in background points,
but my favorite and why I would

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suggest is updated title is how
brother Craig brings us into the

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servants shoes and how their
response in action to the words

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of Jesus is what makes this
miracle come alive and apply.

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So well to us.
Are we just content to get the

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job done?
Or are we filling our pots to

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the brim?
Are we able to be changed at

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more than just a surface level?
Do our actions show that we wish

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to be made.
Not just new, but made

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altogether different in every
way.

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Fit to serve one another as we
would serve a king it’s as

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always we hope this strengthens
your faith and brightens your

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day brother.
Craig ferren filling our pots to

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the brim for Jesus.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters, and young people.
So, Jesus is first miracle

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turning.
Water into wine.

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It’s a story that we’re all
familiar with its taught very

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early on in Sunday school.
And it’s well-known.

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And even outside of religious
organizations, we know it.

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Well, Jesus, his mom Mary and
his disciples go to a wedding in

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Cana Mary lets him know that the
wines run out or as other

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translations have said it the
wine is running out.

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Jesus asked the servants to fill
some pots with water before

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turning that water into wine.
The wedding goes on.

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Everyone’s impressed at the best
wine was saved until last.

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Then Jesus Mary his brothers and
disciples go to companion and

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stay there for a few days.
That’s it, that’s it, that’s

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it’s that easy.
But there’s actually even though

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there’s not much written about
it, there’s a lot of information

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in.
There are a lot of different

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things that we have, and it’s
actually a very important and a

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very relevant miracle.
It’s Not Unusual for Bible

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stories to contain much more
information than we might first

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think.
And it is helpful to put this

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miracle into some context.
And to do that, I thought we’d

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have a look at maybe identifying
some of the other miracles in

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the Bible.
Especially looking at the ones

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that occurred before this one,
it says in John that been read

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for us.
It says that this was the first

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miracle that Jesus did.
And I think it’s also the first

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one recorded in the New
Testament.

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So when was the last one?
Not all married.

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Couples have a multitude of
witnesses.

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So if you think about, for
example, Elijah and he was up in

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the mountain and God sent a wind
earthquake and fire, it was only

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Elijah and some still Small
Voice.

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Sorry.
And it was only Elijah that she

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witnessed those.
And because the water into wine

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was a public or at least a
semi-public miracle specifically

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looking for miracles that were
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Now the last one that I could
think of was Daniel in the

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Lion’s Den when they are God.
Shut the Lions.

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Mouths, possibly Jonah being in
the fish’s belly, but we’re not

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actually told whether this was
witnessed by anyone or not.

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So if we take the Lion’s Den, as
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that was approximately 500 years
before this one.

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So, no one had really seen a
miracle for about 500 years.

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So it got me thinking, well, why
now, and why a wedding in Cana,

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a small town in Galilee and why
a miracle that was only

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witnessed by a very small number
of people.

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And as we’ll see, these people
weren’t really even that

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important in society.
It was a subtle Miracle.

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It wasn’t flashy like healing a
lame person or raising someone

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from the dead or even one of
Jesus’s later Miracles, where he

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fed 5,000 people.
If it were me, I’d probably

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think, right.
Well, I’ve got all this power.

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So let’s do something that will
have a big impact.

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That’s kicked this ministry off
with a bang but Jesus isn’t like

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me.
And we can all be thankful for

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that.
He could have easily started off

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with something big but he didn’t
but that doesn’t at all mean

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that this miracle didn’t have an
impact or wasn’t beneficial.

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Details about it would have
trickled out over time as people

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started, talking with many not
even realizing or being aware of

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it until they heard stories
about it.

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And we’ll see that this miracle
is about restoration and

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transformation, which is
something that is still very

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relevant to all of us.
I wonder if we often see Jesus

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miracles as just signs of his
power rather than as a sign of

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his personality and his work.
The Miracles are so much more

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than just powerful miraculous
displays there.

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Also a display of love
compassion, empathy, and in this

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case and many others restoration
Revelation 21 Verses 4 to 5 sums

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this up.
It says God will wipe away every

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tear from their eyes.
There shall be no more death nor

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sorrow nor crying there shall be
no more pain.

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And verse 5 Jesus says behold I
make all things new.

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So Jesus restores.
He makes all things new and this

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is an important phrase to
remember when looking at this

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miracle Why are we going through
the miracle?

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Want us to try and keep three
things in mind?

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And we’ll line is Jesus provides
all that.

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We need number two and this
might be a bit obscure but

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believe in the messenger as well
as the message.

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And number three stop focusing
on the wine.

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I’ll explain those as we go.
So, let’s have a look at the

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events in John 2.
First one tells us that the

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wedding was in Cana of Galilee.
As I mentioned, Cana was a small

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town, probably more more of a
village in a region of no real

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importance.
Jesus and his disciples.

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It says they were invited.
Jesus mother Mary was there.

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Now, it doesn’t specifically
mention that she was invited, so

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she was possibly working in the,
in the wedding and we see that

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she’s the one who brings the
wine situation to Jesus’s

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attention.
Now, if she wasn’t part of the

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the crew that was working there,
this might have been as a result

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of her natural maternal
instincts that were kicking in.

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But whatever the reason she can
see the situation and she’s

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filled with compassion and this
is where things really start to

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get interesting.
Mary says forwards to Jesus in

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verse 3 that kick-start a whole
host of things she says to him

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they have no wine.
So weddings in this time we’re

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not like we have now these
weddings and their feasts were

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celebrated that.
Spanned many days possibly weeks

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as well and they may not have
happened very often so when they

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did occur they were really
celebrated This was in essence,

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this was a huge party.
It was possibly the highlight of

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the year for many people in Cana
and being a small village means

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that everybody knows everybody
people in small communities like

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that, especially back in those
times were dependent on each

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other, people traded their goods
and or their services for

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survival.
It was a real Community where

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each person had a role to play
to ensure that The community

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thrived.
Action Jews also had a marriage

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tradition that is different to
today, there was a period of a

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year between betrothal and
marriage, when the groom would

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be responsible for providing and
this involved buying or building

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a house ready for when they were
to be United in marriage and

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additionally, it was the groom’s
responsibility to ensure that

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everything for the wedding
ceremony was provided.

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Now, we see that the wine is
running out and this is a big

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problem.
It could indicate that the

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husband was not properly
prepared in our age.

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We probably just brush it off as
a faux pas, bit of an ellipse.

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But back then, perhaps it meant
at this.

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Means that this groom isn’t
actually a very good provider.

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In essence, you could just be
really terrible at estimating,

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how much wine people drink.
But in Jewish culture, this was

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a serious problem.
Now, remember Kane has a small

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village, the inhabitants there,
likely didn’t travel, they were

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born in Cana.
They grew up in Cana and they

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died in Cana.
So word would have gotten

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around.
And imagine the shame and the

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embarrassment that this
situation could have caused.

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That’s not a great start to a
marriage.

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Now, we don’t know the real
reason why the wine was running

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out, but neither would anybody
else?

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And that wouldn’t stop the
rumors from flying around.

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Now as I mentioned before,
Mary’s the one who brings this

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to Jesus attention, she comes to
him in verse 3 and says they

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have no wine or they don’t have
enough wine.

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We shouldn’t automatically
assume that Mary expected Jesus

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to do anything about it.
At least not in a miraculous

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way.
If we think about their family

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situation.
We realized that Joseph died,

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many years ago and Jesus had
taken his place as the provider

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for the family.
Mary would be used to turning to

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Jesus for advice, or to him as
someone to share her concerns.

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So, you knew that Jesus was
special though, she knew better

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than anybody else because she
was actually there Luke to

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describes the events around
Jesus’s birth.

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And how the shepherd’s after
hearing about the Messiah.

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Being born, went to visit.
Excuse me, Luke 22, verse 17.

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When they, the shepherd’s had
seen Jesus, they made widely

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known the saying which was told
them concerning this child and

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all those who heard it marveled
at those things which were told

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them by the Shepherd’s.
First 19, but Mary kept all

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these things and pondered them
in her heart.

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She thought about this carefully
and often other translations say

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that she treasured these things
in her heart, she knew that

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Jesus was special from the start
and she knew that Jesus could

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turn a bad situation around.
This should make us think about

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Point number one, that I
mentioned earlier.

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Jesus provides all that we need
he can take a bad situation and

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make something good out of it.
But it’s Jesus response in verse

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4.
That is what’s puzzling at least

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at first In verse 4, he says
woman, what does your concern

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have to do with me?
My hour has not yet come woman.

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If I called my mum woman, she’d
probably hit me but Jesus wasn’t

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actually being rude.
One of the problems with

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translating texts between
languages is nuances of that

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language can be lost in
translation for example in our

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modern language When we see
something flying towards

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somebody, we shout out heads up
which actually really means

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duck.
It’s the opposite of what we’re

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trying to convey, but everybody
instinctively Ducks, they know

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what heads up actually means and
that means get down.

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So it’s interesting also that
Eve is called woman more times,

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then choose called Eve Genesis
2.

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Verse 23 says this is now bone
of my bones and Flesh of My

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Flesh.
She shall be called woman

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because she was taken out of
man.

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So it’s likely, this is the same
as an English speaker, referring

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to someone as ma’am.
Jesus lovingly calls her that

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again, lovingly calls a woman
again during his crucifixion, in

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John, 19, verse 26.
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her making sure that she was
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gone.
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instead of mother or mum, he’s
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himself somewhat from her, he’s
showing his independence from

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her wishes and at the end of
verse 4, it says, what does your

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concern have to do with me?
My hour is not yet.

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Come again, Jesus is expressing
independence from everything

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except God’s timetable.
And this is why he says my hour

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has not yet.
Come.

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He was working within God’s
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He says in John Chapter 5 Verse
30 that I can do nothing of

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myself.
As I hear I judge and my

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judgment is righteous because I
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father who sent me Jesus wasn’t
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than God had intended.
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where Jesus is tempted in the
wilderness, he actually makes

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quite a strong point of not
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wrong reasons.
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Or place outside of God’s will
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Jesus isn’t being rude or
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He’s politely pointing out that
he follows God and this is

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perfectly okay with Mary.
They’ve most likely had this

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exact same conversation many,
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And like I said, she she knows
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understands him.
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situation and is waiting for the
time when the wine had

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completely run out.
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situation could be fixed by
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or perhaps this wasn’t actually
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miracle, and the ones meant to
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Mary understood.
And she shows this by simply

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saying to the servants at the
wedding, just do whatever he

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asks you to do.
It’s also got me thinking about

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Jesus phrase, my hour is not yet
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He’s sinking towards his death,
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Once this miracle happens,
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There’s no disguising who he is,
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anyway, but he knows that from
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He will get the recognition that
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and crucifixion.
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This is the beginning of the
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John 2, verse 5, as I said, Mary
says to the servants, whatever

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he says to you do it.
There’s so much power.

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In these words, whatever he says
to you do it.

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Not whatever.
He says to you sit down and have

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a meeting about it.
Not whatever he says to you pray

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about it, do it.
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people of action, if Jesus
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discussion and prayer aren’t
important to do in the right

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context, but this wasn’t the
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This was a time-sensitive
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that required action.
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to do in in the current
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Reading from verse 6, John 2:6
now, there were set there, six

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waterpots of stone, according to
the manner of purification of

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the Jews containing twenty or
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So twenty or Thirty gallons
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seventy-five to a hundred and
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So they’re six pots.
So that’s around 500 and 700

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liters.
So, 700 bathtubs, if you want

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another Trick or 140,000
teaspoons for those who work

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that way just inside this, this
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He is approximately 1,000
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So that again, it’s a lot of
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the servants shoes.
Here they had absolutely no idea

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what Jesus was going to tell
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They didn’t know what to expect.
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He hadn’t set them down and give
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They were no doubt aware of the
situation though.

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However, I’m sure none of them
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Told in verse 7 to fill these
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Water.
But Jesus, they not running out

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of water.
They’re running out of wine.

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This doesn’t make sense in these
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They’re all their dirty.
It’s where the wedding guests

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have washed their dirty hands
and who knows where they’ve

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been.
And it’s not like we can just go

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get a hose and fill each pot
because well they haven’t even

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been invented yet.
So we would have to go and make

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so many trips down to the well
to fill each pot, this will this

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will take hours.
But the servants didn’t question

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it, I just did what I was told.
They did a tedious laborious

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task.
They weren’t told why, or what

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was going to happen, their only
told to fill them.

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And what they actually did was
fill them right to the brim

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right to the very top so that
these pots couldn’t possibly

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hold anymore.
Isn’t that an incredible thing

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to do?
When when we think about it?

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The servants didn’t feel them
halfway or didn’t feel them to

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us to a certain point and just
went, oh, yeah, that’s that’s

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full.
I guess they filled these pots

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to the brim and they didn’t even
know why they were even doing

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filling the pots in the first
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But they just trusted Jesus.
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But not only were they obedient.
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enthusiasm.
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we’re it should be.
We’re commanded to be that we

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can do God’s work half-heartedly
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We’re told two To believe, with
our whole heart to pray without

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ceasing to give liberally to lay
the fervently, to serve the

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Lord, with all our heart mind,
soul and strength.

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We should do everything filled
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But how often do we obey God
without question without

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condition?
I mean, how often do we obey?

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God when we’re told to do
something that’s odd or contrary

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to our nature?
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commanded to love our neighbors
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But do we love them all the way
to the top or do we leave a

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little bit of space reserved for
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What next verse 8 after they
fill these to the top, they are

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told to draw some of the water
out and take it to the master of

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the feast.
Imagine not knowing why you’re

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even filling these giant dirty
pots in the first place.

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And then being told to dip a cup
into it.

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And give that to the master at
no point where they told that

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the water would turn into wine
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Imagine the serving giving the
cup to the master.

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They could very well be excused
for thinking.

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Are you serious?
Jesus?

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This is a small town.
Everybody is going to hear about

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this.
I can’t give a cup full of

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water, from a dirty pot at a
wedding to the master of the wet

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to the master.
I’ll never work in this town

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again.
It took a lot of faith for the

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service to do this but they did
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And we have to remember that up
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It’s only Jesus, his disciples
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wedding.
Who know what’s going on?

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Everybody else is oblivious and
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And what happens next?
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The point of this miracle in
verse 9 When the master of the

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feast had tasted the water that
was made wine and didn’t know

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where it came from.
And it’s interesting there, then

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in Brackets, it says, but the
servants who had drawn the water

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knew, and I’ll touch on that a
little bit later.

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The master didn’t know where the
wine had come from the master of

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the feast called the bridegroom
and said to him, every man at

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the beginning sets out the good
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And when the guests have well
drunk, then the inferior.

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You have kept the good wine
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We saw before how if the wedding
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It’s possibly that the groom
hadn’t done his job, properly

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hadn’t been prepared, it would
have been the Talk of the Town,

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a disaster and it would have
been very hard for him to shake

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the stigma around this event,
but Jesus has just reversed the

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situation.
He had not taken credit for the

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for the miracle.
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Jesus turned a disastrous
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That was very favorable for the
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You can imagine instead of
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He ran out of wine at his own
wedding.

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There’d be like, did you hear
the best one for last?

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Now, what a, what a Visionary.
No one’s ever done that before.

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And I want to share a few extra
thoughts that I had about.

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We go back to the servants, how
about the servants, and the

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wedding guests?
The servants weren’t even

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invited.
They were working to keep the

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guests happy but Jesus only
involve them, the servants are

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vital to the success of this
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I’m not saying that Jesus
couldn’t have done it without

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them, but in terms of this
miracle, it’s really important

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that they were there.
This miracle works because of

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the words of Jesus and the
actions of the service The

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bridegroom, the master of the
feast and the guests had no idea

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what was going on.
This was a work done in the

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background that benefited
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And the servants would just like
us.

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They’re full of faults, they’re
full of inconsistencies, but no

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one rejected the wine because of
the people who brought it to

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them.
None of the guests says, well, I

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don’t want to take wine from
from that servant, because last

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week he did that bad thing, or I
won’t take it from him because I

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don’t like him.
Or because they’re in a

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different class or family or
two.

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I am at and in 2nd Corinthians
4, verse 5, it says for we do

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not preach ourselves, but Christ
Jesus, the Lord and ourselves

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your bond servants for Jesus
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So if we think about that
dynamic between the guests and

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the servants, we shouldn’t
reject the gospel because of the

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body that presents it to us.
I’m not just saying that because

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I’m up here at the moment and
Jesus himself actually

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experienced this.
There were many who believe that

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he couldn’t possibly be the
Messiah because he’s From

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Galilee.
Oh no, I almost died.

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I wouldn’t ever Come From
Galilee.

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They rejected the truth because
they didn’t like the put the

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person who brought it.
It’s really easy to find faults

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in people if we look for them
it’s really easy to find faults

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in groups.
If we look for them actually

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heard this saying a little while
ago which is kind of stuck in my

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head that says, don’t reject the
whole circus just because of a

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few clams.
We are the circus.

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I’ll let you decide who to
clowns are.

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And as a result, we are all the
one who draw the water.

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But it’s God who turns it into
wine.

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We need to believe in the
messenger and not just the

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message.
The purpose of this miracle was

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clear, it says in John chapter 2
verse 11, but this is the

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beginning of signs that Jesus
did in Cana of Galilee and

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manifested His glory and his
disciples believed in him.

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The goal was first and foremost
to get people to believe in

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Jesus.
When God calls his miracles.

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He doesn’t want us to just focus
on the power of it.

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He wants us to believe in the
person who You did it and to

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cause others to believe he
doesn’t want us to just have our

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fill of bread, wine, money, or
fame.

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He wants us to focus on the
messenger.

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We won’t, we won’t read it all,
but if you just want to note

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down 2nd Corinthians chapter
three and four.

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We’ve seen in this miracle, a
definite theme of restoration.

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The servants knew that this
miracle could not have been done

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without Jesus, but also came as
a result of their faith and

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actions.
Second Corinthians 3, Verses 4

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to 6 says, we have such trust
through Christ towards God not

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that we are sufficient of
ourselves to Of anything as

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being from ourselves, but our
sufficiency is from God.

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And also who also made us
sufficient Ministers of the

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covenant not of the letter, but
of the spirit for the letter

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kills, but the spirit gives
life.

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So we’re no different to those
servants.

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We’ve just read that we’re
nearly sufficient or adequate

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despite what we might think of
ourselves at times, we’re all

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adequate enough to preach the
word of God.

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Well yes.
But more importantly, we’re all

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adequate enough to preach the
spirit of God.

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Paul goes on to say in chapter 4
that because we have this

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ministry and have received Mercy
from God, chapter 4, verse 5.

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He says, we do not preach
ourselves but Christ Jesus, the

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Lord.
And make ourselves your servants

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for Jesus sake.
Why should we do that verse 6?

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If through, it’s God who
commanded light to shine out of

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Darkness, who has Shone in our
hearts to the light of knowledge

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of the glory of God in the face
of?

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Jesus Christ.
So light shining out of dark.

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Hearts Purity coming from
something impure.

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Just as in this miracle, the
best wine was made from dirty

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water.
But it’s the next few verses

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that really bring this miracle
to life.

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If we read second Corinthians
for this 7215 well while we’re

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at while I’m reading that have a
think about the similarities

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between this section and the
miracle that Jesus did.

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Start a second Corinthians 4
verse 7.

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But we have this treasure in
Earthen vessels, that the

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Excellency of the power may be
of God and not of us.

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We are hard pressed on every
side yet not crushed.

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We are perplexed, but not in
despair persecuted.

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But not forsaken, struck down,
but not destroyed.

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Always carrying about in the
body.

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The dying of the Lord Jesus that
the life of Jesus may also be

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manifested in our body.
So way, who live are always

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delivered to death for Jesus
sake, that the life of Jesus

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Also may be manifest in our
mortal flesh.

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So then death is working in us,
but life in you.

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There’s a definite emphasis
there on corruptible flesh.

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Containing the spirit of Christ
and containing life.

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When we accept Christ in a
baptized, the only thing that

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changes is our spirit, not our
body.

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It’s an inward change, not an
outward change.

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Second, Corinthians, 4 verse 15
for all things are for your

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sakes that Grace having spread
through the many may cause the

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Thanksgiving to abound to the
glory of God look around.

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This isn’t a closure of pots
that can be filled with the best

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wine.
There were two categories of

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people at the wedding.
There were those that focused on

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the wine and those that focused
on the winemaker.

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The disciples and the servants
experienced exactly what went

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into making this wine.
They had been with Jesus while

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he was working.
Everybody else was blissfully

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unaware and having a good time.
The inferior wine went out first

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and the best wine went out last
and only a select few people at

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that wedding actually knew what
made it better.

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Just like those of us in Christ,
we understand what it really

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means to be in Christ.
It’s something that can’t be

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understood from the outside
those who are in Christ,

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appreciate the best wine.
But also the winemaker In order

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for us to stop focusing on the
wine, we need to identify what

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that is in this instance.
I’m not talking about the best

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wine, we’ve established that is
Christ and all that he can

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bring, but we’ll have a look at
the.

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The inferior wind stop focusing
on the cheap wine that came out

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before it.
The inferior wine that.

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You think will give you what you
want, but is temporary, the

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inferior one that’s momentary.
It short-term and ultimately

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detrimental, the inferior wine
in our lives.

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Might actually be wine.
It might be status, it might be

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that big house that early
retirement.

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00:33:17,700 –> 00:33:20,800
Anything that takes our hearts
and Minds away from Christ.

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00:33:22,500 –> 00:33:26,400
The servants focused on the
winemaker, they obeyed, even

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though at the time, it made
absolutely no sense.

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Sometimes we must do what’s
absurd so that God can do.

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00:33:33,900 –> 00:33:36,700
What’s extraordinary?
This is what this is called

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faith.
We draw the water and God turns

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it into wine.
Jesus, did this first miracle at

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a young couples wedding in a
small country town.

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If the wind had run out, it
would have been the end of the

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00:33:50,000 –> 00:33:52,400
celebrations.
The party would have been over

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00:33:52,500 –> 00:33:55,400
the end of the feast, but Jesus
did this miracle as a

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demonstration that he is the
source of all true and Lasting

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00:33:59,200 –> 00:34:02,300
Joy.
The wind didn’t run out and the

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party could continue.
Jesus didn’t charge them for the

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00:34:06,700 –> 00:34:09,699
wine.
He didn’t wait around to see if

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any was left over so that he
could take it back.

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Because it was a gift to the
bride and the groom.

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And that’s exactly the same as
our Salvation is today.

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It can’t be bought.
It’s a gift.

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00:34:22,100 –> 00:34:28,600
John 20 verse 31, but these
miracles of Jesus are written

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that, you may believe that Jesus
is the Christ, the son of God,

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and that believing, you may have
life in his name.

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That is that, that basically
just describes what the new wine

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is, the best wine that came out.
It’s having life in Jesus name.

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00:34:47,000 –> 00:34:50,199
So what about a modern-day water
into wine miracle?

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00:34:51,500 –> 00:34:56,600
If we just take the Miracle part
out of what Jesus did and have a

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00:34:56,600 –> 00:35:01,500
look at the science to change
water into wine, would require a

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00:35:01,500 –> 00:35:07,400
complete molecular restructure,
he Jesus didn’t just throw a

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00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:11,400
handful of grapes in at a bit of
sugar and stir and turn the

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00:35:11,400 –> 00:35:14,100
water into wine.
He he completely changed the

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00:35:14,100 –> 00:35:16,300
chemical properties of the
water.

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So that Came something
different.

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That’s what we all need him to
do for us.

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00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:27,100
We are in a closure of pots.
We’re dirty.

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00:35:27,100 –> 00:35:30,900
We are filled to the brim with
sin, but Jesus can transform us

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00:35:30,900 –> 00:35:35,100
into something, beautiful?
And perhaps we can reciprocate

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00:35:35,100 –> 00:35:38,200
by trying to change the
molecular structure of our

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00:35:38,200 –> 00:35:42,200
prayers from something, watered
down and cliched and repetitive

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00:35:42,200 –> 00:35:44,200
into something of real
substance.

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And I’m reminded of the special
afternoon we had last year with

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00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:50,300
vit.
We needed the pottery

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00:35:50,300 –> 00:35:54,700
demonstration.
Do we just pray to God and say

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00:35:55,000 –> 00:35:59,600
I’m not I’m not a bad pot but if
it’s your wheel, could you

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00:35:59,607 –> 00:36:01,800
please maybe add a handle over
here?

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00:36:02,800 –> 00:36:06,700
Give Like maybe shave a little
bit where it’s uneven at the

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00:36:06,700 –> 00:36:11,300
top, whereas perhaps we should
be saying to God, can you

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00:36:11,300 –> 00:36:14,500
completely remold me?
Stop the wheel.

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00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:17,700
Bash me back into a ball of clay
and start again.

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00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:22,500
Jesus met the needs of the
people in Cana out of the public

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00:36:22,500 –> 00:36:26,600
Spotlight, he wasn’t doing it to
impress Kings or rulers or to

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00:36:26,600 –> 00:36:29,200
get recognition.
Yet he provided for that

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00:36:29,200 –> 00:36:31,000
wedding.
The best wine anyone had ever

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00:36:31,000 –> 00:36:34,300
tasted.
He provided Delicacies Fit For A

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00:36:34,308 –> 00:36:37,700
King.
Now, I have given the groom a

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00:36:37,707 –> 00:36:40,500
little bit of a hard time this
morning, but I think we should

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00:36:40,500 –> 00:36:43,200
cut him a little bit of slack
because after all he did make

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00:36:43,200 –> 00:36:46,700
the best decision, anyone could
make he invited Jesus to the

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00:36:46,700 –> 00:36:51,800
wedding.
We have symbols of Jesus before

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00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:55,800
us now, but have we invited him
into our lives.

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:37:00,700
God doesn’t force himself on us.
He’s not a gatecrasher.

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We aren’t robots.
He gave us free will, he gave us

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00:37:04,700 –> 00:37:08,800
the ability to reject him.
Do we want to experience the

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00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:11,000
water into wine miracle in our
lives?

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00:37:11,900 –> 00:37:15,000
Do we want to experience the
restoration and transformation

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00:37:15,000 –> 00:37:19,400
that takes place on the inside?
That changes the content of this

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00:37:19,400 –> 00:37:21,800
dirty pot into something Fit For
A King?

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00:37:22,800 –> 00:37:27,400
Well if we do it we have to
invite Jesus in It’s easy to get

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00:37:27,400 –> 00:37:30,100
caught up in rituals or to be
distracted by a pretty

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00:37:30,100 –> 00:37:32,900
packaging.
It’s easy for us to work on

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00:37:32,900 –> 00:37:35,800
doing good things and saying,
right?

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00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:40,100
Words to put on a christ-like
exterior, when we’re really

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00:37:40,100 –> 00:37:44,100
filled with filthy water.
Not a single guest at the

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00:37:44,100 –> 00:37:46,800
wedding.
Did anything to make the wine?

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00:37:47,700 –> 00:37:49,000
No one.
Picked the grapes.

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00:37:49,100 –> 00:37:53,100
No one trampled them, no one,
strain them bottled them, but

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00:37:53,100 –> 00:37:56,800
they all enjoyed the result and
the same is true for us.

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00:37:56,800 –> 00:37:59,100
Today, we can be clean on the
out.

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00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:03,600
We can be clean on the outside,
we can do and say the right

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00:38:03,600 –> 00:38:06,500
things and put on a good
exterior, but that won’t make us

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00:38:06,500 –> 00:38:11,400
good enough for salvation.
So as we come to remember Jesus,

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00:38:11,700 –> 00:38:14,200
we remember that time at the end
of his life.

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00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:20,100
That possibly started right here
in Cana he breaks bread and

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00:38:20,100 –> 00:38:23,900
drinks wine with his disciples
in the upper room and in there.

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00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:28,200
He applies the wine to himself
in Matthew 26, verse 28.

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00:38:28,200 –> 00:38:32,300
He says for this is my blood of
the New Covenant, which is shed

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00:38:32,300 –> 00:38:34,200
for many for the remission of
sins.

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00:38:35,100 –> 00:38:38,800
And in Matthew 25 the the
parable of the talents in verse

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00:38:38,800 –> 00:38:43,500
23 it says well done, good and
faithful servant just like the

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00:38:43,500 –> 00:38:47,000
servants at the wedding.
You have been Faithful over.

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00:38:47,000 –> 00:38:51,400
A few things filling pots with
water and taking a cup of it to

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00:38:51,400 –> 00:38:54,600
the master.
I will make you ruler over many

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00:38:54,600 –> 00:38:57,700
things enter into the joy of Our
Lord.

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00:38:58,500 –> 00:39:01,300
They were able to celebrate with
the rest of the party knowing

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00:39:01,300 –> 00:39:05,100
how close it came to failure and
who transformed it into success.

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00:39:06,700 –> 00:39:11,500
Jesus wants to replace all that.
We try to cram into our lives

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00:39:11,500 –> 00:39:16,000
that we think will make us happy
or will give us joy and

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00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:20,200
fulfillment but it’s temporary
we can’t think about anything

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00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:22,500
else.
It consumes us and ultimately

607
00:39:22,500 –> 00:39:26,800
leads to our undoing Jesus wants
to replace all that with true

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00:39:26,800 –> 00:39:30,100
Joy.
The new wine is so much better

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00:39:30,100 –> 00:39:32,500
than the old.
Jesus is so much better than

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00:39:32,500 –> 00:39:37,000
what came before him.
So let’s remember what We went

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00:39:37,000 –> 00:39:39,800
through what he went through to
give us this true Joy.

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00:39:40,800 –> 00:39:42,700
Just as he did for the wedding
guests.

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00:39:44,100 –> 00:39:47,100
We are so blessed then that
Jesus has freely given that to

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00:39:47,100 –> 00:39:50,400
us.
We just need to invite him in

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00:39:50,400 –> 00:39:53,900
accept him and reach out and
take that gifts only then will

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00:39:53,900 –> 00:39:57,500
we be transformed and clean on
the inside where it actually

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00:39:57,500 –> 00:40:13,500
counts.
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