1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,400 Let me say first of all, by way of introduction. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,600 Many religious people in the world, acknowledge the Bible's 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,600 denunciation of drunkenness and strong drink. 4 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:15,500 At the same time, honest questions are raised about what 5 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:20,400 one should conclude about. Jesus being a Wine Drinker and 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,400 is changing water into wine at the marriage feast. 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,800 In Cana of Galilee many times today. 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,600 People justify social drinking on the basis that Jesus himself 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,700 turned water into wine. But what did Jesus actually 10 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:38,000 make? Interestingly, there were three 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,900 kinds of wines in Palestine at the time one was fermented wines 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 and fermented wine. Started off very minut if it 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,900 were as it were of alcohol and then would be mixed with three 14 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:58,800 parts of water to dilute the the actual beverage itself. 15 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:03,300 Now, the second was unfermented juice from the grape and that 16 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:08,400 simply is Fruit of the vine or grape juice and thirdly there 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,500 was what was known as new wine? And new wine was an 18 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,200 intoxicating. Drink, do you remember in Acts 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,100 chapter 2? Will not go into that very 20 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,400 deeply but it acts chapter 2, and verse 13. 21 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:23,900 When the people that were there, hearing the gospel sermon and 22 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,100 hearing Peter and the apostles. Speaking, in tongues, as the 23 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:31,900 spirit gave them, utterance you remember what they said, they 24 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:36,700 said these men are Are full of new one. 25 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,100 In other words, they're full of intoxicating. 26 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,500 Drink, how do I know? That's what they meant? 27 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,700 Because the very next two verses says, like this as I paraphrase, 28 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:51,300 these men are not drunk as you suppose it's but the third hour 29 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:53,800 of the day. In other words, it's an 30 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,500 absurdity to be drunk and 9:00 in the morning. 31 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,600 So, three different wines in Palestine. 32 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,900 Fermented wines contained, a small percentage of alcohol. 33 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:06,500 All and it was mixed with three parts of water. 34 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,600 Unfermented juice of the grape that simply is grape juice. 35 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:15,600 And finally, there was the intoxicating, drink called new 36 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:21,100 wine. Now, The Book of John gives 37 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:25,500 eight different sign miracles. You know, if you add up all the 38 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:27,500 Miracles, somebody counted them up one time. 39 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,600 Now, there's wait, what? There was way more. 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,500 But the Bible says about Jesus and about the Miracles, he 41 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:40,700 performed. The Bible says, truly many other 42 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:43,700 signs did Jesus do in the presence of his disciples that 43 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:46,900 are not written in this book. But these are written that you 44 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:50,400 might believe, right? Of that being said, if you look 45 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,300 in the gospels and you don't overlap and count something 46 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:58,300 twice, you will find 39 specific Miracles that our Lord 47 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:01,400 performed. Incidentally the very first one 48 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,600 that he performed is the one we're going to talk about today. 49 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:08,100 Now. What made John different of all 50 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,500 the Miracles that Jesus performed. 51 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:16,300 John records eight Miracles and eight Miracles were basically 52 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,400 the Lord's power over eight. Of nature. 53 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,600 For example, he turned water into wine, he healed a 54 00:03:22,608 --> 00:03:25,300 nobleman's son. He cured a paralytic. 55 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,100 He fed. 5000 he walked on the sea. 56 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:32,000 He gave sight to a blind man. He raised Lazarus from the dead 57 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,100 and so on and so forth. And finally he provided in the 58 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:41,300 Nets of his disciples, all of those fish and John records, 59 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:48,000 every one of those Miracles. But as Jesus began his public 60 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,200 Ministry. When we arrived at the very 61 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,600 first miracle he ever performed and it would reveal his glory 62 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,900 and that was the miracle of turning water into wine. 63 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,000 As we noticed today, we want to notice four things. 64 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,900 Number one, we want to notice the scene, then we want to 65 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:10,400 notice the situation, thirdly, the supply. 66 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,400 And number four, we want to notice the significance of all 67 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,600 of this, all right? First of all, let's talk about 68 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,500 the scene. The scene is the marriage feast 69 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:24,700 in Cana of Galilee. Now, interesting about this 70 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:28,200 particular place. It's approximately 20 to 22 71 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:34,500 miles from the banks of Jordan In fact, I read that Cana was a 72 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,000 little island as it were a little village as it were eight 73 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,500 to nine miles from Nazareth. One historian said that on a 74 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:45,800 clear day, you can be in Nazareth and you can look out. 75 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,100 And you can actually see Kingdom. 76 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:51,300 It's kind of like this, by the way, to go over to the coast, 77 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,200 you know, I grew up in the Ventura area, you can be on the 78 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,100 coast you can be on the shore. If it's a clear day, you can see 79 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:00,300 what's over on the other side where things are really clear. 80 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,400 It's kind of like that. It's kind of like that you can 81 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,600 look. And from Nazareth you can see 82 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,500 Cana in the distance on a clear day now. 83 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,500 Now, the situation is this or the scene, is this, it is the 84 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:18,400 marriage Feast of Cana in Galilee now. 85 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:24,200 Present at the wedding ceremony was Jesus. 86 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,100 Was Mary. Was his siblings and they were 87 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:32,700 all present. One scholar said, it's entirely 88 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:36,700 possible that whoever was getting married was related to 89 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:38,700 marry. In other words, somebody that 90 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:43,800 was part of her family. Now the question comes up, and I 91 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,700 often wondered this to, why was this his first miracle? 92 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,800 Why did the Lord choose this particular occasion to perform 93 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,700 his first miracle? But I think that this really 94 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:55,500 makes sense. I think it's a, I think it 95 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:57,400 really does make sense. That this would be his First 96 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,300 miracle, and here's why. This occasion marks, a 97 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:05,900 transition Jesus is going to change in his relationship with 98 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:10,400 the people around him that he knew, and loved his family, he 99 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,100 was going to go from Carpenter to Christ. 100 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,500 He was going to go from the son of Mary to the Son of God. 101 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:23,500 He was going to go from a man that lived in Nazareth to the 102 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,900 Messiah. In other words, his relationship 103 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:31,700 with mankind was going to change and on this occasion. 104 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:34,600 It surely does. Let's talk about this marriage 105 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,600 Feast, I understand it was a luxurious feast. 106 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:43,200 It began normally on a Wednesday and it existed 227 days, 107 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,900 depending on how wealthy a person was sometimes people 108 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:49,900 left. Their crops unattended for two 109 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:50,900 weeks. You know, why? 110 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,700 It was a very big deal, in the words of Cullen Smith, it was a 111 00:06:54,700 --> 00:07:00,500 big deal. It was a huge deal. and it shows 112 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:05,200 the importance of not only marriage but on the wedding 113 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:10,700 ceremony, Very important. People knew that it was very 114 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:15,400 important to the ceremony itself was also very, very significant 115 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,600 and Jesus is present there, you know, marriage is a sacred 116 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,100 Union, it goes all the way back. You remember when God created, 117 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,200 man, God created Adam and Eve and when he created the woman, 118 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,200 he brought the woman to the man and he looked upon her and said 119 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:34,200 she is now bone of my bones. She's Flesh of My Flesh. 120 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,600 She shall be called woman for. She was taken out of, man. 121 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,700 Therefore a man shall I'll leave his father and his mother and 122 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:46,800 shall be joined unto his wife. And the two of them would be one 123 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,700 flesh. That was God, authorized, that 124 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:53,000 was God ordained, that was God originated. 125 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,300 But Jesus puts his sanction on it, too. 126 00:07:57,500 --> 00:07:59,800 Because he shows up to this event. 127 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,700 It is designed by God, it is blessed by Jesus. 128 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,100 You know, the ceremony is very important, even though society 129 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:13,500 says it isn't, you know, society says, it shouldn't really matter 130 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:17,000 a piece of paper you ever heard somebody say that after all in 131 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,400 marriage is kind of a piece of paper. 132 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:24,200 If we really love each other, isn't that enough You know, 133 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,700 things have changed in terms of changed. 134 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:31,900 I'm old enough. Now to say back in my day, okay, 135 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,900 back in my day, when I was young two, people living under the 136 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:41,299 same roof together. Out of wedlock was called 137 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:45,400 shacking up. And it was looked down upon, it 138 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,800 was a negative thing. People would hide it from 139 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,400 others, or they would embarrassingly say, well, we're 140 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,600 living together. Oh, is this you? 141 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,200 What we're living again? Now, it's accepted. 142 00:08:58,700 --> 00:09:00,100 Now it's a we're just living together. 143 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:03,600 That's great. Don't you see, don't you see the 144 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,000 easy way? That is, it's easy in and easy 145 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,000 out. And that's not what marriage is 146 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,700 all about. Marriage is for life. 147 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,300 Now, we do believe in the exception of Matthew 19, but 148 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:23,500 marriage is for Life. Jesus said that Moses because of 149 00:09:23,508 --> 00:09:26,000 the hardness of their heart said, all you got to do is give 150 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,900 a writing of divorcement, but Jesus said in Matthew 19, but in 151 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:33,300 the beginning, it was not. So I'm going to tell you 152 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:36,100 something, folks. There's two decisions that you 153 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:40,200 will make in your life that will greatly altered, the course of 154 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:45,200 your life, and affect your life, both physically and spiritually 155 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:46,600 in. Of Time. 156 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,400 And Eternity. And here are those two 157 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,900 decisions. Number one to obey the gospel. 158 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:54,400 Be baptized into Christ for the remission of your sins. 159 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,000 That's number one, that's first and foremost. 160 00:09:58,100 --> 00:09:59,400 But you know what? Number two is. 161 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,900 Who you going to marry? Who you going to marry? 162 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:11,100 I knew of a young man one time. That had all the ability still 163 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:14,000 does has all the ability in the world. 164 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,100 And I remember there was somebody speaking about him 165 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,900 saying, man, this guy's got so much ability that goes in 166 00:10:20,908 --> 00:10:23,100 Oklahoma. When it's said, he has so much 167 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:26,300 ability, he just has to marry right? 168 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:29,100 That's a mouthful and that's true. 169 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:33,500 You got to marry right. Jesus put his sanction on this 170 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:36,600 because it's very important you got to marry right. 171 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,400 It is a union and that Union is for life. 172 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,900 It's a time when you can stand there publicly and you can 173 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:47,600 promise to the other in the eyes of all of those that are present 174 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:53,000 Witnesses but most importantly, in the eyes of God, In the eyes 175 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 of God. All right. 176 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:59,500 So that's the scene. Let's talk about the situation 177 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:04,200 in verse 3. It says, when they ran out of 178 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,500 wine. The mother of Jesus said to him, 179 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:08,700 they have no wine. So, that's the problem. 180 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:14,700 Now remember this Y and that time was a staple food and the 181 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:17,800 reason for it is you couldn't always get clean water. 182 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:21,600 I'm going to tell you, you have never been sick. 183 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:25,200 I mean, you have never been sick unless you get bad water. 184 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,800 Don King, you've heard me say, you know, in the Philippines 185 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,900 years and years ago, all they had to drink. 186 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,000 They didn't have any ice. All had drink was these hot 187 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,100 Cokes. He got so sick of hot cocoa. 188 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:37,700 You know, he saw you do. I'm a brush my teeth. 189 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:39,900 Oh, the water tastes a great one swallow. 190 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:46,100 Lost. 15 pounds. There are places in the world. 191 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:48,300 Even today, we're tard to get clean water. 192 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,100 Very common that they would fail into the same category. 193 00:11:54,400 --> 00:12:02,500 So wine became a staple food. Now there was no preservatives 194 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:05,700 for the wine and because there was no freezing or 195 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:09,600 Refrigeration, there was a problem sometimes at the wind 196 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:14,200 did ferment and could develop intoxicating power now, 197 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,000 interestingly, drunkenness. And please get this because it's 198 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,900 really going to matter in just a little while. 199 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:25,300 Drunkenness was considered a disgrace. 200 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,700 I'm going to tell you in my lifetime, you ever. 201 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:32,600 Have you ever seen the happy drunk? 202 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,500 The guy? That's intoxicated and he's 203 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:40,400 funny, and everybody's laughing and and the more he drinks, the 204 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,800 funner, he gets and everybody's just really laughing and 205 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,000 everybody's enjoying the performance that the drunkard is 206 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,400 putting on Oh, how times have changed? 207 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,700 I read one historian. That said it was an absolute 208 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:57,700 disgrace to be drunk. That's the reason that they 209 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:03,300 diluted the two parts of wine with three parts of water to 210 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:07,000 eliminate the possibility. In other words, you had to drink 211 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,200 gallons of the stuff to get intoxicated gallons. 212 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,100 In other words, they did everything they possibly could 213 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:17,500 did not have the problem. You know, that's not like that 214 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:21,200 today. On some bottles that says we 215 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,700 change this stuff for 35 years to get her like she is now. 216 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:29,800 Oh, and by the way, by the way, the older, the better, and all 217 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,300 of that, I see you may not remember this. 218 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:36,200 Maybe you do telling on myself here, but a lot of years ago I 219 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,000 gave you the little illustration show. 220 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:44,500 How dumb I was, we had a client that was a plastic surgeon and 221 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:46,200 he bought this house. It was going to remodel the 222 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,800 house in this net and so forth and it was a great, big wine 223 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,300 cabinet, giant wine cabinet. And we had that we were doing 224 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:55,400 the painting on the job so we had to move, they asked us. 225 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:56,600 Will you help? Move it. 226 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,000 So we said sure I'll help and there was all the Dust on the 227 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,200 Bottle and I'll never forget. I pulled out a bottle of so I 228 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,500 got an idea. Why don't we wipe these down? 229 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:08,100 And put them back in there boy. They're gonna really be happy 230 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:10,400 with this, right? They can see that we really did 231 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,400 a good job. Now, I'm probably the only guy 232 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,900 that dumb But they want the Dust on the Bottle to show the age. 233 00:14:18,900 --> 00:14:20,500 Another words, the longer the better. 234 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:24,900 The entire idea is this prepare a beverage that has an 235 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:28,400 intoxicating power and a flavor for that purpose. 236 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,800 That's different. The wives today are different. 237 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,100 This is called vinous fermentation and make no mistake 238 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:38,100 about it. The wines of today go through 239 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:43,500 this process and what is vinous fermentation - fermentation? 240 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:49,000 Is this it Choirs the exact proportions of sugar, yeast and 241 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,800 water. And the temperature has to be 242 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:57,700 between 50 and 75 degrees that is to make modern wine today. 243 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,500 Totally different than back and Palestine. 244 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,500 We're talking about that real deluded stuff that you have to 245 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:07,500 drink gallons of that. Might have fermented a little 246 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:16,100 now, This is not a trivial miracle in the situation. 247 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:19,700 You know, if you look at the Miracles that Jesus performed, 248 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:21,600 they were always a practical benefit. 249 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:28,300 Somebody needed to see. So Jesus made them to see. 250 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:35,100 Somebody had a demon. So, Jesus cast out the demon. 251 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,800 It was a man. One time that was a paralytic 252 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,000 and he couldn't walk. And Jesus healed the bones in 253 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,800 his leg. The benefits that Jesus did were 254 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,200 always for practical benefit to show the glory of God in the age 255 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,900 of Miracles. So this particular occasion is 256 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:58,000 not a trivial miracle, in fact, number one, Hospitality in the 257 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,100 East was very important and people were in need and the Lord 258 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,900 knew it. You know, an Eastern. 259 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:08,800 When we talk about Oriental, we're just talking about Eastern 260 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,200 and Oriental culture at the time. 261 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:17,100 Hospitality was such, and it was so required, it was part of 262 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:18,500 their. It was part of everything that 263 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:21,200 they were about. And what would happen is, if 264 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,900 somebody is coming through town and you never met that person in 265 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,300 your life, you not only brought them into your home, if they 266 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:31,500 needed it and fed them, but you also gave them a place to stay. 267 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,500 Very important Hospitality in the East. 268 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:39,300 That's the first reason. Here's the second reason it was 269 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:43,600 a miracle of love. Jesus is there he somehow 270 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,900 related? And the host was obviously 271 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:56,500 embarrassed. Now. in verse 4, in verse 4, It 272 00:16:56,500 --> 00:17:02,800 says Jesus said to her. When they came to Jesus and his 273 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,599 mother said to Jesus, we are out of wine. 274 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:09,599 We have no more wine. Jesus says, to her woman, what 275 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,599 does your concern have to do with me? 276 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:13,500 My hour has not yet. Come. 277 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:16,700 All right. First of all, first of all, what 278 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:19,200 did he mean when he called her woman? 279 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,800 Now, you know what's interesting about this term here about 280 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:27,599 woman, is the word woman comes from the Greek word goon a now. 281 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,700 What's interesting about that is to say, Same exact word that was 282 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:34,300 used when Jesus was hanging on the cross and he looked down at 283 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:37,300 his mother. And he looked down at John, the 284 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:39,600 Apostle that he loved. You remember what he said? 285 00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:44,800 He said to his mother, he said woman, meaning, lady a term of 286 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,400 respect. He looked down and he said, 287 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,600 woman, Behold, thy son, son, Behold thy mother. 288 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,200 I just make the point because I don't want you to think, as some 289 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,900 people sometimes. Do they use the word or man 290 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:02,200 would use the word woman talking to a woman almost in a 291 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:07,100 condescending form or fashion? Have you ever heard the saying 292 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:08,900 that the Greeks had a word for it? 293 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,500 Greeks had all manner of words to describe every little 294 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:16,400 specific thing. We are limited in the English 295 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,600 language. The best word that describes, 296 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,700 the Greek word, goon a is the word lady and it's a term of 297 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:29,500 respect, you know, I think it's very important because Mary did 298 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:33,800 no longer need a son here. Mary needed a savior. 299 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,700 He doesn't call her mother. Because she needed a savior. 300 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,300 And the relationship between Jesus and Mary was now changed 301 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:50,400 forever. And make no mistake about it, as 302 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:53,100 I guess. Contrary to what's found in some 303 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:56,700 religious affiliations Mary was not co-redeemer with Jesus. 304 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,100 Mary needed Jesus, just like you and I and they could put up all 305 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:04,700 the statues in the world and bow before her. 306 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,100 And I'm going to tell you, it's all Vain and meaningless. 307 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:11,900 She needed Jesus, just like you, and I need Jesus. 308 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:20,700 Jesus says in a very respectful way, he calls her lady. 309 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:25,100 Now, here's a phrase here. What does your concern have to 310 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:28,600 do with me? Now, I'm going to tell you some 311 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:33,100 Scholars will say what this means is what this means is. 312 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:35,900 That's your problem. Not mine. 313 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,800 But stay with me in the Greek. The actual phrase reads like 314 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,800 this translated, straight from the Greek, what is there for you 315 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,300 and me? In other words, it is this. 316 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:56,100 What do we have in common? What Jesus was saying is what do 317 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:58,500 we have in common? He wasn't saying that your 318 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:01,400 problem. Don't bother me with it. 319 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:06,000 He was saying it's my problem and I'm going to take care of it 320 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:09,000 when my hour has Come, or when it's time. 321 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,600 Now, did did Mary get the message? 322 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,700 Yes she did. That's this is why I know this 323 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:21,300 is exactly what Jesus said because the very next verse She 324 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:26,500 turns to the servants and she says, whatever he does or 325 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:29,800 whatever. He says to, you do it. 326 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:36,000 Whatever he says, do it. That brings us to our third 327 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,700 point So we got this scene, we got the situation, they're out 328 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:43,500 of wine, and now we're going to look at the supply. 329 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,300 You know, this is really amazing to me because in verse 6, it 330 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:49,300 says they got six waterpots of stone. 331 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:52,800 I don't know about you, but in my mind's eye I go back and try 332 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,300 to figure out where they got all the water it had to have come 333 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:57,000 out of a. Well it had to come out of a 334 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,500 stream and had a cut come out of a spring. 335 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:02,900 It had to come from something other than hooking the hose up 336 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,400 and running a hose out there, and fill it up these water 337 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,700 pumps. And we're not talking about, Out 338 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:10,500 little water pots. We're talking about those that 339 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:12,200 carried. A lot of volume. 340 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:15,600 In fact, these were six waterpots of stone. 341 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,600 According to the manner of purification of the Jews. 342 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,500 Do you know why that is significant? 343 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:26,200 It is extremely significant because the Jews thought it very 344 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,700 important to keep them self cleansed before they ate. 345 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:35,900 Mark 7 + 3. For the Pharisees and all the 346 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:39,900 Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the 347 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:44,100 tradition of the elders. In other words, it was very 348 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:46,000 common, they felt they thought, you know what, we're going to 349 00:21:46,008 --> 00:21:49,800 wash our hands and sometimes they would have these barrels or 350 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,100 these whatever you want to call them. 351 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,300 Lots and they would be full of water and people would wash 352 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:57,000 their face. They've washed their hands and 353 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,700 they washed their feet. So no doubt there were these six 354 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:02,500 pots and that's why they were there. 355 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:11,800 Now notice how big they were each one of these contained 20 356 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:17,000 or 30 gallons apiece. Now, if there are six of them 357 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:22,300 and you fill them to the brim that is 120 gallons of water, 358 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,600 that's a lot of water. Again, they didn't have a 359 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,600 faucet. The other side note here, 360 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,900 though, ever wonder why Jesus didn't just perform the miracle. 361 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:37,100 Why did he tell them to go fill the pots? 362 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:41,600 I think he told them to go fill the pots for the same reason as 363 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,400 when Jesus was standing there and John chapter 11 and Lazarus 364 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,600 was in the Tomb. And Jesus says, take away the 365 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,600 stone, I think it's for the same reason that he told the man in 366 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,400 John chapter 9, after he put the clay to his eyes, go to the pool 367 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,000 of Siloam and wash in other words. 368 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,900 Jesus never did what man could do for himself. 369 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:07,600 And if Man, by way of obedience could do it, Jesus required it. 370 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,900 And you know that's exactly the same today. 371 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,900 The Lord in your life. Now there are no Miracles today 372 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,900 but the Lord in your life, requires you to do everything 373 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:21,600 that you can with whatever's in your power and he will not do 374 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:27,400 your part. And we can't do his. sometimes 375 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,400 we get under duress, and stress, and worry because we're trying 376 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,600 to do his part And don't think for a minute that he's going to 377 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,300 take the trivial things that we can do off of our plate. 378 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:43,400 We have to do our part to Jesus says, go fill them. 120 gallons, 379 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,300 you got now. 120 gallons of water. 380 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:54,300 Now They were filled all the way to the brand according to verse 381 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,700 7. Jesus says, fill the pots with 382 00:23:56,700 --> 00:24:00,700 water and they did so all the way to the brim verse 8, these 383 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:04,100 next three verses are going to go quickly, he said to them, 384 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:07,800 draw some out and take it to the master of the feast. 385 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:12,800 Now the word Master is talking about the from the Greek word 386 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,200 that means head waiter. Now I want to set the tone here. 387 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:20,900 The head waiter, never knew who performed the miracle of where 388 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:23,800 it came from, right? He never knew. 389 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,700 Jesus says, did some out to the circus? 390 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,500 Have you ever stopped to consider the very fact that the 391 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:36,000 servants saw Jesus perform this miracle, and it did not faze 392 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,300 them at all, not a bit. Not a bit. 393 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,700 You would think when you see someone do what Jesus did and 394 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:46,700 save the day and perform this great miracle, they just brought 395 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:49,100 water. Jesus turned it into wine. 396 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,300 We'll talk about what that was in a minute. 397 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,300 Jesus says, dip some out and take it to the master the head 398 00:24:56,300 --> 00:25:01,600 waiter and they do. But they're completely unfazed. 399 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,400 That brings us to verse number nine, when the master of the 400 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,800 feast had tasted the water that was made wine and did not know 401 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,800 where it came from, but the servants who had drawn the 402 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,200 water, the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 403 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:21,000 In other words, the days saved, we're good shape again. 404 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:24,800 And that brings us to verse number 10 and he said to him 405 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:28,700 every man, at the beginning sets out, the good wine. 406 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:33,200 And when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. 407 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:35,900 You have kept the good wine until now. 408 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:37,900 And by the way, this is not a question. 409 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:40,600 This is a statement. Let me tell you what it means. 410 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:46,600 It was very customary when the guests arrived, you get the good 411 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:53,100 stuff out first and you give the good stuff to all the people and 412 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:56,000 they, when they had well, drunk talk about that a minute to what 413 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,500 that meant. Then they bring out the inferior 414 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:02,800 stuff. Jesus, perform, this miracle. 415 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,300 Let me just say if the Lord made it, it was good. 416 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:08,900 If the Lord made it, it was great. 417 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,600 So here, the head waiter. He looks at this stuff. 418 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,600 He tasted the wait a minute. Wait a minute. 419 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,500 We were supposed to have the good stuff first. 420 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:21,800 This stuff is so great. You waited, until after the 421 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,600 inferior was brought out. In other words. 422 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:28,000 It was probably good stuff too, but not like the Lord made and 423 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:34,400 he do the difference. Now. 424 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,800 What kind of wine was it? This really matters, folks. 425 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,200 The Greek word wine. Is the word boy nose. 426 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,800 And because it's the word. Joy knows many claim it to be 427 00:26:54,800 --> 00:27:01,300 alcoholic because only knows can be connected to an alcoholic 428 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:04,000 beverage, but it's not limited to that. 429 00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:07,900 It includes that it's not limited to that. 430 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,200 In fact, the word Only Knows is a generic word and it includes 431 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,100 all kinds of wine. Notice this also, it includes 432 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,300 all stages of the juice of the grape. 433 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:24,200 Sometimes even the clusters of grapes are called only knows, 434 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:28,900 and even the vying itself is sometimes referred to, as only 435 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:30,700 knows. You know, what people do though? 436 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:31,900 People go? Oh yeah. 437 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:33,800 I read the. It looked in the Lexicon. 438 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:34,700 There. It is right there. 439 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:42,400 Oh my nose on a wine alcohol. It's a generic term in at many 440 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:48,100 things, but stay with me now. I think it's begging the whole 441 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:51,900 question to assert that. It was intoxicating I really do. 442 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,800 The narrative is silent to the point to the character of the 443 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,700 wine. Can only be determined by the 444 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:03,400 following. The occasion, the material used, 445 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:07,500 the person making the wine and the moral influence of the 446 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,200 miracle. The character of the wind 447 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,500 determines, what it was. Now obviously the occasion. 448 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:19,000 It's a wedding. Material used. 449 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,800 Oh, it's water. The person making the wine, it 450 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,200 was Jesus. And by the way, we're talking 451 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,000 about our creator. Jesus was in the beginning with 452 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,400 God, Jesus was part of all the creation and everything. 453 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 He was able to do that, take water and create this miracle. 454 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:45,700 What's the moral influence? It's determined by the character 455 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:48,900 of the wine. The moral influence of the 456 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:53,800 miracle is determined by what kind of wine that it is. 457 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:59,900 Now, one scholar said this, please notice, he said, is it 458 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:04,700 not derogatory to the character of Christ and his teachings of 459 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:09,200 the Bible, to suppose that he exerted his miraculous power to 460 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,100 produce at least 120 gallons of intoxicating, wine. 461 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,400 You know what, today's common vernacular I mean, I don't know 462 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,000 seriously. I mean, you really think that 463 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,100 really think that Jesus who was Flawless and perfect in every 464 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:32,200 way Would have made 120 gallons of mine. 465 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:37,300 Altering liquor. When the Bible says this about 466 00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:42,100 it, stay with me now. It's a mocker. 467 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:49,700 It is biting like a serpent. It stings like an Adder, it's 468 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:53,800 the poison of Dragons. It's the cruel Venom of asps. 469 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:56,300 That's what the Bible says about it. 470 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,000 You think Jesus made 120 gallons that stuff. 471 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,300 Well, surely not I heard somebody say one time that if 472 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:06,100 you have him by the way, this was a very nice man. 473 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:08,300 And he was actually what you would consider one of those 474 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:11,000 connoisseurs, a wine connoisseur connoisseur. 475 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,800 He was wrong. He said, if you take grape juice 476 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,000 and you leave it alone and then over time it becomes something, 477 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:25,000 it turns into something and it's actually very good and he said, 478 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,100 it turns into what is known as sweet wine. 479 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:36,800 But Science teaches that, when the fur win by fermentation, the 480 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,100 sugar is turned into alcohol. The sweetness of the juice is 481 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:44,200 gone. The sweet means as the Lexington 482 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,300 State unfermented wine alcoholic wine. 483 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:52,800 Remember needs exact proportions of sugar, yeast and water. 484 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,900 And with a temperature of that's kept between 50 and 75 degrees. 485 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,400 Let's go further a French chemist wrote this This. 486 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:07,600 Nature, never form, spiritus Liquors, she rocks the great 487 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,500 upon the branch, but it is art that converts the juice into 488 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:14,100 alcoholic. Wine dr. 489 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:17,500 Henry, Henry. Monroe said, alcohol, is nowhere 490 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:21,800 to be found in any product of nature was never created by God, 491 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,800 but is especially an artificial thing prepared, my man through 492 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,300 the destructive process of fermentation. 493 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,100 All right. What about this right here? 494 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,900 That means you don't get butter from the udder and you don't get 495 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:43,700 wine from the Vine. Man has to do something to it, 496 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:49,900 to make it with those beverages, really are Well, let's talk 497 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:53,500 about this. This phrase right here, when the 498 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:55,300 guests have well drunk. I've actually heard this 499 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:58,300 interpreted when they were really intoxicated and feeling 500 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:00,900 good. You think Jesus would have done 501 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,200 that their bombed out of their mind? 502 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,700 And then here comes the good stuff. 503 00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:09,300 No. The language here folks is very 504 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,700 simple when the guests have well drunk. 505 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:14,800 It doesn't mean intoxicated. It means they consumed a lot. 506 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,600 When they had consumed, a lot of the stuff that they already had. 507 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,400 Then here came the stuff that Jesus made. 508 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:23,800 Alright. Very quickly. 509 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:26,300 What about the moderation argument heard? 510 00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:29,500 This my whole life. Never heard. 511 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:31,800 Somebody say you know it's okay, it's okay. 512 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,800 Just do it in moderation. Had people say back. 513 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,300 Everything is okay in life, just in moderation, but there are 514 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:41,900 some things in life that are fine in moderation. 515 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,500 What about this particular argument and one of the passages 516 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,900 that they cite is found in the book of Romans the 12th chapter 517 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:54,000 in the 13th, verse Where Paul says, let us walk properly as in 518 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,200 the day, not in revelry and drunkenness. 519 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,700 Now please stay with me on this people. 520 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:03,600 Sometimes interpret this passage to mean that this and what is 521 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,000 being condemned is getting drunk. 522 00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:14,000 And a little bits, okay. Well, folks from the same 523 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,300 passage, please watch. If drunkenness in moderation is 524 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:23,500 okay. Then revelry those drunken 525 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:27,200 parties and moderation are okay to lewdness. 526 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:29,500 It's bad. So just do it in moderation. 527 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:34,000 Lust Bible says, when lust has conceived, it brings forth, sin 528 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,600 and sin when it is finished break for tests. 529 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,500 Are just do that. Moderation, Strife, terrible 530 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:42,200 thing. Bible condemns it. 531 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:47,200 So just do it in moderation. Envy, we're not to n be another. 532 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:52,300 So just do that in moderation to you. 533 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:56,900 See folks is the same thing. It's all the same thing, the 534 00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:59,700 best way for a child of God to avoid drunkenness is to have 535 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:03,700 nothing to do with alcoholic beverages and the alcohol that 536 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:06,800 produces it. I'll tell you this, every 537 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,800 alcoholic in the world came from a mild participant or mild 538 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,400 Drinker. It all started there. 539 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,300 So the rule is touch not taste, not and handle. 540 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,699 Not now remember. Being drunk was a disgrace. 541 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,400 And what did Jesus make number that country song couple years 542 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,000 ago, I think it was Miranda Lambert. 543 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,800 I heard Jesus, he drank wine and I bet we'd get along just fine. 544 00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:40,400 What actually did Jesus make on that day? 545 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,199 Well, what he made is what he drank. 546 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,199 One scholar and historian said this, the wine that Christ Drank 547 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:51,000 In, which he made for the wedding was the pure blood of 548 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,100 the grape. His example gave no sanction to 549 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,900 others who used intoxicating wine. 550 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:03,500 It's so what did he use folks? He used the pure blood of the 551 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,200 grape. Wasn't fermented, it wasn't 552 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:12,500 spoiled, it was delicious, it tasted so good that the master 553 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:15,800 the waiter tasted it and said this stuff is the good stuff. 554 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:22,200 It was not an intoxicant at all. And that brings us to our final 555 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,300 verse, the significance of this whole thing. 556 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:31,800 Do you remember when I said, That the servants were unfazed. 557 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,700 I'm just about finished. The servants were unfazed. 558 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,200 What happens here? This beginning of signs did 559 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,500 Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested His glory and his 560 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:49,900 disciples believed in him. Want to make this final little 561 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:53,100 Point here. You know, that happens today. 562 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,800 We have a gospel meeting, we have a lot of folks come and 563 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,200 preach the gospel and people see what they need to do to be saved 564 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,300 and they see what the Lord wants them to do and what the Lord did 565 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,200 for them and all that and then just walk away. 566 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,300 Jesus perform this miracle and the servant saw the whole thing 567 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:15,600 and they just walk away. People sometimes hear sermons 568 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,700 about things that they need to do in their life, to correct 569 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:19,200 their life, so they can go to heaven. 570 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:22,300 Because they've gone back into the ways of sin. 571 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:30,100 But then, they just walk away. It's nothing new. but, What 572 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:32,700 about the people that really want the truth? 573 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:35,100 What about the people that want to feed on the word of God? 574 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,200 That's kind of gospel. Meetings have become, you know, 575 00:36:37,207 --> 00:36:39,500 we don't baptize a whole lot of folks during gospel meetings 576 00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:40,800 anymore. But I'ma tell you, the church is 577 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,400 strict and that's exactly what happened here. 578 00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:48,300 His disciples believed in him. And that's what it's all about. 579 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,800 When we hear the word of God, when we are members of the body 580 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,000 of Christ, we are strengthened by the word of God to go out 581 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,400 there face the world, me better in the future than we've ever 582 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,100 been in days gone by turning water into wine. 583 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:03,600 The very first miracle that Jesus performed. 584 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,800 And his disciples believed in him.