John 2:1-25
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· 350 viewsJesus performs his first miracle by turning water into wine at Cana. Jesus goes up to Jerusalem and drives everyone out of the temple.
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Ice Breaker Question:
Ice Breaker Question:
What about Jesus makes you believe in Him (be specific but it doesn’t have to be deep)?
The First Sign: Turning Water Into Wine
The First Sign: Turning Water Into Wine
1 On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’s mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother told him, “They don’t have any wine.”
4 “What has this concern of yours to do with me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 “Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.
In Matthew 22:2, Jesus said in his parable, “the kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.”
God uses wedding celebrations as a symbol to point to His Kingdom.
So, Jesus performing his first miracle at a wedding is very significant.
Mary telling Jesus they don’t have any wine showed that she was concerned for this wedding
when wine runs out, it usually means that the party was ending
Jesus, as always, responds in a pretty unexpected way
verse 4: “what has this concern of yours to do with me, woman?”
for the ladies: what would your reaction be if your son (or even husband) responded to you like this?
may sound rude when we first read it, but Jesus was emphasizing the distance between Him and Mary
they weren’t just mother and son, He was still God
verse 4: “my hour has not yet come”
What does Jesus mean when he says this?
Jesus was connecting the hour of his death to the ultimate wedding that will come when its time for him to pay for our sins
this verse also shows how Jesus didn’t just come out in the open and say “I am the Messiah.”
instead, he mainly performed miracles and spoke in parables
Application:
Tony Evans said, “sometimes we look for glory based on our time, when God wants us to serve based on His time, and he’ll take care of the glory in his own time.”
Have you ever asked God to do something for you based on your time and ultimately for your glory?
How can we resist that tendency to ask God to do something for our own personal benefit?
6 Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.
7 “Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.” And they did.
9 When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom 10 and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”
11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, together with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.
Jesus’ first miracle taking place in this wedding foreshadowed his own ultimate wedding, where as the bridegroom, he takes us, the church, as his wife, and gives himself up for us.
verse 6: purification (katharismos) represented cleansing, or to purify
When Jesus uses these jars meant for purification, He is making a statement about the way he will atone for our sin.
Verse 7: Jesus told the servants to fill the jars.
Tony Evans said, “sometimes when Jesus tells us to do something, it won’t make sense, but it doesn’t have to if Jesus is the one giving you the instruction. It makes sense because of who it came from, not necessarily because you understand it.
Have you ever experienced God telling you to do something that didn’t seem to make sense?
How did it turn out?
Why is it important for us to obey, even when we don’t understand God’s methods or plan?
This shows that even though God can do the miracles himself, he wants us to move first. He wants us to be obedient before the miracle even happens.
faith through actions
verse 10: the custom was to give the best wine first, and after the people drinking are basically drunk, they give the cheap wine.
this is a simple analogy that shows what Jesus offers is so much better than what we can offer or obtain from this world
Evans said, “some of the greatest things God’s gonna do in your life won’t be on the front end, they’ll be on the back end.”
What does that tell us about God working in our lives?
Application:
When we step out in faithful obedience, even when it does not make immediate sense to us, God reveals more of himself to us and to the world around us.
Cleansing the Temple
Cleansing the Temple
13 The Jewish Passover was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there. 15 After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. 16 He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”
17 And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for your house will consume me.
18 So the Jews replied to him, “What sign will you show us for doing these things?”
19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.”
20 Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?”
21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.
23 While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing. 24 Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all 25 and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.
This incident demonstrates just how broken humanity is— rather than seeking fellowship with God, they used him for their own selfish gain, the same way it happens today.
Because of sin our default is to use God
So, in order for us to experience God correctly, God must give us new hearts that desire fellowship with Him.
Are we desiring God for His sake or ours?
How can we move towards seeking a closer relationship with Him?
verse 19: Jesus revealed that He was the temple and foreshadowed his coming death and resurrection
the temple was the dwelling place of God
When Jesus calls himself the temple, he is saying that He is God and that in Him we find that fellowship with God.
The result
Many believed in him, but only to a certain extent
But Jesus knew their hearts and didn’t entrust himself to them
Application
Jesus is after out hearts and our true worship
He wants true fellowship with us.
But, we must choose to receive him, to obey him, and trust his timing.
“Give Jesus the opportunity to show you more by giving him more of you even when the timing doesn’t seem to fit, even when he’s asking you to do something that doesn’t make sense, then he’s just getting started to show you how awesomely big he really is.” - Tony Evans