Part 2 - Water to Wine

Water To Wine

John 2:1-11 Marriage Feast 7-14 Days - financial ability of bridegroom

Cana of Galilee

Mary - mother of Jesus Jesus and his disciples

Valley Near Cana of Galilee

The Miracle

Time - John 2:1 “third day”

Occasion - John 2:2 “marriage feast”

Emergency - John 2:3-5 “ran out of wine”

Miracle - John 2:6-10

The Miracle

The Miracle

It was Genuine

Jesus shortened the process

Jesus has power over all things Heb. 1:3 “by the word of his power”

Jesus will change our bodies at resurrection Phil. 3:21 “Who shall change our vile body” 1 Cor. 15:51 “all be changed”

Conversation with His Mother

John 2:3-5Mary took her problem to Jesus

“What have I to do with thee?” Submitted completely to God

Jn. 5:30 “will of him that sent me.”Jn. 6:38 “not to do mine own will”

“My hour is not yet come”

Beginning of Miracles

John 2:11 “This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.”

Not his lastJohn 20:30-31 “many other signs”John 21:25 “many other things which

Jesus did”

Lessons we can learn

Jesus was no AsceticAscetic = abstain from any pleasuresWell rounded manWeep and rejoice - Rom.12:15

Jesus honored Marriage1 Tim.4:1-3 “Forbidding to marry”Heb. 13:4 “Marriage is honourable”Gen. 2:18 ordained of God

1. Fermented

2. Fruit on the vine - Isa. 65:8 “in the cluster”

3. Intoxicating Prov. 20:1 “Wine is a mocker” Prov. 23:31-32 “biteth like a serpent and

stingeth like an adder”

Jesus would not make the kind prohibited:

Isa. 5:11,12 “Woe unto them…”

Habakkuk 2:15 “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!”

Governor said “well drunk”

Does not endorse drunkenness“well drunk” - “well fed”“methuo”

“filled up”Ps.23:5 “thy cup runneth over”

The bible nowhere justifies drinking intoxicants

Quote from Guy N. Woods

“It is significant that intoxicating liquors of

whatever nature are positively forbidden in the

sacred writings, and there is nothing here or

elsewhere in the scriptures to justify their use

as a beverage and stimulant.”

“He has done all things well” Mark 7:37

Sermon by Arthur Pigman

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Sunday Evening January 12, 2014