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Feb 20, 2022

John - Water to Wine

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: John: Come and See

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: sign, glory, miracle, wedding, bride, groom

THEME: Within Jesus’ first miracle we find an incredible overview of how he is our eternal bridegroom and we are his bride; and how a regular event like a wedding is actually the clearest and most beautiful depiction of the ultimate wedding feast when Jesus finally marries his Bride, the church; but the bridal price and the feast cannot be paid by the bride, but must be paid by the Groom, and with his very life.

THEME:  Within Jesus’ first miracle we find an incredible overview of how he is our eternal bridegroom and we are his bride; and how a regular event like a wedding is actually the clearest and most beautiful depiction of the ultimate wedding feast when Jesus finally marries his Bride, the church; but the bridal price and the feast cannot be paid by the bride, but must be paid by the Groom, and with his very life.

 

MESSAGE TITLE: Water to Wine

 

CENTRAL TEXT: John 2:1-11

1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.[fn] 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

 

SERMON DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

What are some of your most powerful (or ridiculous) wedding stories?

This miracle is his "first sign" -- a sign is a pointer to a greater glory...what signs do you see in this passage, and to what specific "glory" do they point toward (example: their wedding points to The Wedding of Christ to His Church).

Why does God use signs?

There we so many "purification jars" because the people at that time kept going back to wash and be spiritually clean...it was never quite enough. How do we tend to not feel "clean enough" sometimes? What human means might we turn to in order to feel clean (or at least cleaner)?

When Jesus turned this water to wine, he was replacing religious ceremonial water cleansing with a one time and ultimate cleansing by his blood. How is it that "his blood" is our cleansing agent?

Why do you suppose God (in scripture) so often uses a wedding as the primary depiction of our relationship with him?