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Good morning. 
How you guys doing? 

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Would you mind turning your 
Bibles to John chapter 2, the 

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Gospel of John chapter 2? 
We're continuing with our series

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through encounters with Jesus, 
and the title of this morning's 

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message is When the Wine Runs 
Out. 

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When the Wine Runs out. 
What a tragedy. 

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So in John chapter 2, we come to
Jesus's first miraculous sign. 

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You could call it his big 
reveal, the first time Jesus 

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himself reveals who he truly is 
and what he came to do. 

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And it begins at an ordinary 
wedding. 

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So as people, we love to 
announce that we've arrived. 

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Isn't it true we do this through
the fancy cars we drive? 

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Like we could have. 
Let's pick on the Land Cruisers 

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this week. 
Now let's pick on the Land 

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Cruisers this week. 
Could have a fancy Land Cruiser.

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Or it could be about the school 
I could go to. 

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You know, sometimes we go. 
What school do your kids go to? 

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Oh, they go to that and that. 
OK, well, mom, go to this and 

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this. 
Yes, yes, yes. 

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We can afford that school. 
Or sometimes we like to update 

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our job titles. 
In the past, when I was growing 

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up, it was always our business 
cards. 

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But now it's your your LinkedIn 
profiles. 

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And now I found some gems over 
the week. 

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Yeah, some of you are actually 
on that list because, yes, you 

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know who you are. 
So there's a global change maker

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in our midst. 
Yes, global change maker. 

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Global change maker. 
There's a brand igniter. 

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Who's the brand igniter? 
Rory, is it you? 

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No, not you. 
OK, sorry. 

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OK. 
And then two of my absolute 

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personal favourites and they are
in this church. 

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So, you know, be proud you you 
get get a mention this morning. 

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There's a Wizard of light bulb 
moments. 

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That's you. 
That's you. 

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And and then and then my 
personal favorite, digital 

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overlord. 
I mean, what does that mean? 

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You're digital overlord. 
OK, so well done. 

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You're going to mention this 
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Very, very proud of you. 
But we love to show the world 

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that we have arrived. 
Isn't that the case? 

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And so I've got a pretty 
embarrassing story to to tell 

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you if if you've known me like 
Clint Harris for a while and 

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Damien and, and some of the 
guys, yeah, they know that I 

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like to get myself into really 
embarrassing situations. 

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And here's a story about when I 
was chosen to be an executive 

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for Coca-Cola. 
I'd worked many, many years to 

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try and get to this promotion. 
And then one day I saw my inbox.

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You have been invited to the 
Executive Leadership Quarterly 

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Review. 
Fancy the Executive Leadership 

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Quarterly Review? 
And it felt like I had reached 

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the big time. 
This was my great reveal. 

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And the MD at the time, he was 
an American. 

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He had run bottling operations 
across the United States. 

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He'd run bottling operations in 
Norway and in India. 

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And he was known at the as the 
turn around king. 

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And he had come to the South 
African operation to basically 

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come and save us. 
And he had the strange mix of 

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seagull leadership. 
Do you know what Seagull 

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leadership is? 
Oh, yeah. 

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One of you, One of you knows. 
It's basically when you swoop in

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and then you deposit Nuggets of 
wisdom and then you fly away and

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then you swoop in again, exactly
like it and then you swoop away.

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So he had the strange mix of of 
seagull leadership and drill, 

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drill Sergeant. 
You know, his dad was actually a

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drill Sergeant in, in the Navy. 
So he knew how to be a drill 

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Sergeant and to say that he put 
the fear of the living garden me

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would be to give you an 
understatement. 

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I was petrified of this man. 
And whenever I was around him, I

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felt like I could not say 
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So anyway, we used to we, I was 
invited to the executive review 

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and I arrived there and for two 
days I kind of survived head 

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down, managed to make it through
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And then right at the end, we 
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formal dinner. 
And just before it started, he 

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raised the gloss. 
King, king, king, king, king, 

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king. 
He said, and this is my best 

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American accent, so follow me. 
When I used to run the bowling 

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operations in Norway, we used to
have a tradition called tat for 

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napkin. 
Have you guys heard of tat for 

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napkin? 
Anybody In this tradition, the 

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newest member of the tribe must 
prove his worth to the elders by

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spontaneously giving an 
insightful speech, expanding on 

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a proverb and brings new wisdom.
You know what's happening next. 

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I'm like, he's not going to ask 
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Please don't ask me. 
Whatever you do, don't ask me, 

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car, please, will you stand and 
present your tat for napkin? 

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So I stand up and I go 
completely like, I mean 

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completely like. 
There's nothing in my mind 

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blank. 
And all the eyes turn to me, 30 

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executives. 
And I'm thinking this is my 

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moment. 
What, what proverb can I start 

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with? 
And I'm searching scripture. 

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I'm not going. 
No, no, no, no, that's not going

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to be appropriate. 
No. 

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And like, the more I think the 
blanker I get, the more I don't 

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start, the more they stay, the 
more nervous I get. 

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And I say, OK, OK, OK, can I 
just start, just start saying 

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something? 
So I start with like a very 

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weak, you know, it's just so 
wonderful to be here. 

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And I just, I look up to, to all
of these amazing, or if you got 

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such amazing leaders, you know, 
you're well done. 

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You know, you've, you've done 
such a good job. 

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And, and then I rambled on for a
minute and I was like, I'm not 

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doing a tut for Nakin. 
I don't even know what a tut for

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Nakin is like it, it's like 
there's no proverb, there's no 

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new wisdom. 
This is an absolute fail. 

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And then right at the end, now 
here's the clincher. 

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Right at the end, this saying, 
which I'd heard from DJ Bobo, 

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came into my head. 
You know, it's nice to be 

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important, but it's important to
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Absolute fail. 
I sat down. 

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Everybody just looked at me like
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What is this kid on about? 
You know, anyway, so you know 

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what the craziest thing is like 
I googled a few years later 

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because I couldn't do it 
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Like what is a tut for knocking?
You know what I found it doesn't

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exist. 
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thing called a tut for Martin, 
which is basically saying to the

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host, thank you for dinner. 
But that's the closest thing I 

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could find. 
So anyway, but that was my big, 

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big reveal. 
And, and the lesson here is that

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if you're going to have a big 
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up, if you're going to present 
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you need a plan and two, you 
need a substance to be able to 

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support it. 
And Jesus chooses this low key 

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wedding. 
If you were the Messiah, the 

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Savior of the world, how would 
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Maybe a packed stadium, LED 
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massive lights, a grand press 
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Instead, Jesus chooses an 
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So let's read from John chapter 
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Jesus changes water to wine. 
On the third day, a wedding took

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place at Cana in Galilee. 
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Jesus and his disciples had also
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When the wine was gone, Jesus's 
mother said to him, they have no

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more wine. 
Woman, why do you involve me? 

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Jesus replied, My time has not 
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His mother said to the servants,
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Nearby stood 6 stone jars, the 
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ceremonial washing, each holding
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And Jesus said to the servants, 
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So they filled them to the brim.
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Then he told them, Now draw some
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the banquet. 
They did so, and the master of 

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the banquet tasted the water 
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He did not realize where it had 
come from, though the servants 

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who had drawn the water knew. 
Then he called the bridegroom 

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aside and said, Everyone brings 
out the choice one first and 

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then the cheaper one after the 
guests have had too much to 

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drink. 
But you have saved the best till

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now. 
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miraculous sons, Jesus performs 
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He thus revealed His glory, and 
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him. 
So a few things to point out. 

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It starts at an ordinary 
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Jesus is invited along with his 
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Mary is the only other person 
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the story. 
The bride, the groom, the master

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of the banquet, the disciples. 
Everybody else remains 

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anonymous, but Mary is named. 
Weddings in those days used to 

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last up until about 7 days. 
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celebration. 
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everything goes according to 
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But then on the third day, on 
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the wine runs out. 
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meaning of the wine running out.
John is showing us that we all 

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have that moment, the moment 
that the celebration continues 

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on the outside. 
But on the inside, you know that

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the supply is gone, the taps run
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and there's nothing left to 
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You see, this is isn't a story 
about wine. 

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This isn't a story about wine. 
This is a story about emptiness.

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The marriage still exists, but 
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There's no joy, there's no 
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There's just an emptiness. 
The job still pays, but there's 

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no fulfillment or meaning. 
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There's this emptiness, and you 
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world, but deep inside you, when
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just feel empty. 
The wine has run out. 

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The bottom line is this, that 
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Without God there is always an 
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Nikki Gumbel, the founder of the
Alpha Course describes it this 

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way. 
Says there's a guard shaped 

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vacuum in the heart of every 
human being which cannot be 

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filled by any created thing, but
only by God the Creator, made 

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known through Jesus Christ. 
There is a God shaped vacuum, 

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There is a God shaped hole 
inside the heart of every single

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one of us, which can only be 
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And we all feel this hunger. 
We all feel this hunger and, and

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we spend our lives trying to 
fill it with the success. 

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And then, and then I'm going to 
try and fill it. 

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I'm going to try and make a 
little bit more money and I'm 

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going to try have have a Better 
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And what about if I work in my 
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Then I will be filled, won't I? 
If I have a better relationship,

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if I, if I just have a good 
marriage or if I find a 

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girlfriend, then you know, it's 
going to work. 

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Or maybe maybe I'm not having 
enough holidays. 

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Maybe I need more pleasure in my
life, hey? 

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Or you know what it is the world
teaches you that you need to 

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have purpose. 
I need to have a purpose. 

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I need to know why I do what I 
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But the truth is, is that the 
emptiness, despite trying to 

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work on all of that stuff, it 
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And it's right there in that 
moment, within the context of 

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the wine running out and that 
emptiness that we feel in our 

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lives that Jesus says, let me 
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Let me step in and fill what is 
empty. 

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So three points that I'd love to
draw from us this morning. 

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Thanks, Roy. 
One Jesus is the only one who 

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can fill our emptiness. 
Point #2 Jesus is the true 

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groom. 
And point #3 Mary shows us how 

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to respond when the wine runs 
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So point #1 Jesus is the only 
one who can fill our emptiness. 

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Running out of wine on day three
would have been a social 

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disaster. 
It would have been shame for the

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family. 
It would be embarrassment for 

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the groom. 
And it was the groom's 

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responsibility to ensure that 
there were adequate provisions 

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for the wedding. 
So it was his job to make sure 

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that this wedding could last for
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The celebration would limp on, 
but everybody would have known 

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that something had gone wrong. 
But this isn't really about 

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trying to save some 
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This is about emptiness. 
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where human resources, where all
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limit, where all our planning, 
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good intentions have run out. 
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You know, we can keep things 
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I'm great at it. 
I'm great at chugging along. 

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I'm great at it. 
Just you know what, it's tough. 

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There's a lot going on, but I'm 
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we put up this vision board, 
Vision Board 2026, all the 

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things that I'm going to do and 
I'm going to read this self help

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book over here and I'm going to 
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Just keep it going, maybe a few 
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a few years, but eventually the 
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respond by saying let me just 
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I remember being a student and I
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of fuel in my in my tank and it 
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Just that little top up. 
Jesus doesn't say I'm going to 

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give you 10 rounds of fuel. 
He doesn't say I'm going to give

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you a coping strategy. 
He doesn't say why don't you try

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harder next time? 
He doesn't say here are five 

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steps for you to be pretty 
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knocking. 
You know He says he doesn't give

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you that. 
He says, come, come, let me 

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actually fill what is empty 
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And John is building something 
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Let me show you in John chapter 
2, you see that the wine has run

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out. 
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meets a Samaritan woman whose 
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he says to her, you, you asking 
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this well over here. 
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water that I give them will 
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And then in John chapter 6, he 
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humanity's hunger. 
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Whoever comes to me will never 
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And whoever believes me will 
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And then in John 10, he says, 
let me show you how the world 

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can never ever give you. 
What I can give you can never 

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satisfy you, says the thief 
comes only to steal, kill and 

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destroy. 
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it's going to take, it's going 
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on taking from you. 
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give, to give life and life to 
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Do you see what John his 
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Do you see what he is saying? 
He's saying one that doesn't run

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out, water that doesn't leave 
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doesn't leave you hungry. 
Jesus is not topping up your 

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life. 
Jesus is saying you are thirsty 

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because you were made for me. 
You are hungry because you were 

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made for me and you are empty. 
You are empty. 

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The wines run out because you 
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I am. 
I am Jesus Christ, The Messiah 

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is the only one who can fill the
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And a wedding is the perfect 
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It's the absolute perfect 
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covenant. 
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A wedding is a shared life. 
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miracle, He's offering himself. 
He sang every single day, every 

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single moment. 
I want to walk with you. 

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I want to be with you. 
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I want to guard you until we 
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ever meant to be sustained by 
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It was meant to be received from
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And now for the big reveal. 
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He shows us that He is the true 
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Remember, it was the groom's 
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the wedding could last for seven
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provisions. 
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He failed, human effort failed. 
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happens is that the master of 
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groom. 
He says well done, this is 

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amazing. 
You've done something that 

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nobody else does. 
You've saved the best wine for 

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last. 
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but Jesus did everything, and 
without fanfare, without 

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applause. 
Jesus quietly in the background,

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takes responsibility for what 
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He bore the weight, He carries 
the cost, and he provides 

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abundantly more than we can 
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And he takes this water that's 
in these jars that were meant 

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for ceremonial washing water and
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to trying to be clean, to trying
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Let me try and clean myself. 
Let me try just a little bit 

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harder. 
And he turns that into the best,

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most abundant wine. 
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This is the good news that no 
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of self cleansing can sustain 
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No amount of effort can fill 
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But Jesus can. 
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he said, let me show you exactly
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quietly in the background, but 
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let me show you exactly who I 
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I am the true sustainer of your 
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I am the one who always provides
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And I am the true groom, 
committed to walking with you 

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day in and day out and filling 
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And this is where Mary comes in.
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Point #3 is that Mary shows us 
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At first, the interaction 
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bit a little strange, doesn't 
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If we read it again, it seems 
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so rude? 
Why is he responding so abruptly

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in this moment? 
Woman, why do you involve me? 

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My hour has not yet come, woman.
Now I don't know about you, but 

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if I was growing up and I said 
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Boy, boy, come here, boy. 
Yeah, I don't mind giving you a 

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good old warp in front of all of
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But Mary doesn't take that 
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The point I want us to focus on 
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offended by Jesus. 
Time. 

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Instead she does 2 remarkable 
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The first she doesn't try to fix
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She simply turns to Jesus and 
says they have no more one. 

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No long pray, no explanation, 
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I am empty, I am done. 
Jesus help beautiful. 

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And secondly, she obeys. 
She turns to the servants and 

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says do whatever he tells you. 
Do whatever he tells you, Jesus,

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whatever, whatever you tell me. 
She doesn't take offence, she 

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doesn't argue. 
She simply trusts and obeys. 

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Isn't that incredible? 
She simply trusts and obeys. 

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And then the servants fill the 
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brim. 
They obey completely. 

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Not whole, not half heartedly, 
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They're filling to the brim. 
And somewhere between the 

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filling and then the pouring 
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Not just in one, but the best 
one in abundance. 

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So enclose and maybe the band 
can come up and we can sing that

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song. 
Turn your eyes upon Jesus. 

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So cool, Matt. 
So my big reveal didn't really 

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go as planned, would you agree? 
It was. 

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It was less than Stella now. 
I felt exposed, felt 

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embarrassed, I felt like I 
didn't have what it takes to 

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sustain it. 
But Jesus reveal is completely 

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different. 
There's actually no stage, 

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there's no spotlight, there's no
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It's just an ordinary wedding, 
but with all the power of the 

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omnipotent God behind it. 
And on that third day, remember 

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it happened on the third day, on
that third day when the wine ran

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out and the jars were empty, 
Jesus said, can I show you a 

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better third day when the tomb 
is empty, when I can fill every 

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single human need, every single 
emptiness that you have inside 

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of your heart? 
Can I show you a third day? 

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We even though the world thought
I had failed because I ended up 

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on a cross on that third day, I 
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I rose in victory and I reveal 
that I am the true Messiah, that

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I am the promised Savior, that I
am the sustainer of everything 

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that you're going to go through 
in this world and the next. 

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And I'm the one. 
I'm the only one that can fill 

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every single human heart. 
So dear 3 CR, where will you 

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turn when the wand runs out? 
Amen.