Revealing His Deity

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Welcome: Welcome to Hype. For those who may not remember, my name is Kent and I’m the youth pastor here at Crosspoint. Tonight to start us off we have Karina who will be sharing some announcements.
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For tonight’s Hype program we asked that you would support your favorite team by wearing a shirt or jersey that shows that you are a fan of that team. A big reason why I asked you to do this was because this weekend is a big sports weekend. Does anyone know why?..... It’s opening week for the NFL. Now, no matter what sport your favorite team competes in, opening week of any season is a big deal. In the weeks leading up to the opening of a sports season. There is anticipation and hope that your favorite team will have a good year and maybe even win the championship at the end of the season. It’s usually in an opening week of a season that you find out the truth of how good your favorite team is or how bad they might be during the season. If your favorite team has a really good first game it can be seen as a sign that it will be a good season.
Just like how a sports fan has hope and anticipation for a good season, we can see the anticipation and hope that the disciples had in Jesus. The hope that He is the Messiah. In today’s passage we will see Jesus’s first miracle that He performed which was a sign for the disciples to see that He was really the Messiah, He really is the Savior they had been waiting for.
So please open your scripture notebooks to John chapter 2. John chapter 2.
Read John 2:1-5

2 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.

v. 1-3- We are given the setting and situation of this specific story. There is a wedding in a town called Cana. We see that Jesus, his disciples, and his mother have been invited and are present for the celebration. It seemed like things were going just fine until they ran out of wine. Now running out of wine in that context is like if you ran out of wedding cake in our day. It looked bad on the family who is hosting the wedding and also on the company who was supplying the wine.
v. 4-5- Jesus response to His mother can almost seem kinda of rude at first, but if we look at again, I hope we can make some sense of this situation. Jesus’s mom comes to Him with a problem that I’m sure she knows that He can produce some kind of miracle. After all Mary knows that Jesus is the Son of God and with that she knows that Jesus has supernatural ability.
Jesus response is one that warns His mom that His purpose in doing miracles was not to serve self but rather point to the fact that He is God in flesh.
Read John 2:6-12

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.

v. 6-12- Summarize story.
Basically Jesus sees 6 big stone jars that were used for water to clean yourself and he tells the servants to fill these stone jars with water. At a minimum there would 120 gallons of water. (imagine filling up 120 gallon jugs). Then Jesus told them some of it to the guy who was in charge of the food for the wedding celebration. While the servant was walking to the guy in charge of the food. The water changed from water to wine. The wine tasted so good that guy who was in charge of food found the groom told him how impressed he was that the groom saved the best wine for last.
There are two things that I want you to see in this story

1. Faith requires Action

When Jesus told the servants to fill jars with water, they did. When Jesus told them to take that water to the person in charge of food. They did. But notice that the servants actions did not produce the miracle.

It was the power of Jesus that changed the water into wine. The servants were just following orders.

We see this from the book of James
James 2:14–17 CSB
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

2. Signs Reveal Something

Just as a green light reveals that it is safe to drive through an intersection we see that did signs to reveal something.

For Jesus, He did signs that revealed his glory or deity, the fact that He was God in flesh.

We are told that His disciples believed. This miracle at the wedding of Cana was the first of many signs that Jesus did to show us that He really is God in human form.
Transition statement: As we finish our passage of John chapter 2, we see another story. One much different that the first.
Read John 2:13-25

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.

Summarize story.
We see Jesus in the temple, which is where people went to worship God. What Jesus found was that there were people in the temple, who probably had believed that there is a God but their actions didn’t show it as they had made a marketplace to gain wealth where the temple should have been a place to worship God. Here we see what is called dead faith.

When someone says they believe in God but their lifestyle shows the opposite.

What we see in these stories is how faith and actions work together. To understand this we must first define what faith is.

Faith-Reliance upon and trust in something or someone.

It is not simply believing that something or someone is real but also doing actions to show it.
For example, how many of you have played a sport? Everyone on your team believed that the person coaching your team was actually your coach right? Everyone believed that the coach has a plan to help your team win. But what if I am on a team and I do the exact opposite of what my coach tells me. What does my actions show? That I thought I knew a better way. That I didn’t trust in my coach. In a sense I didn’t have faith in my coach.
The same goes with our relationship with God. If we say we believe in God but live life how we want to instead of following God’s commands than ultimately it shows that we don’t trust God and we have broken or no relationship with God.
But if we follow what God commands us to do then it shows that trust in Him and most importantly that we trust in Jesus to save us so then we have a right relationship with God. This doesn’t mean that those who have trusted in God will follow God’s commands perfectly. But rather when we fail to follow God’s commands that we repent (Seeing what we did as wrong and desire to follow God. We repent and then ask God for forgiveness for sinning against Him. This action shows that we trust God to keep a right relationship with us even when we fail.
How this connects to our story is that we see people believe and trust Jesus at the wedding in Cana. Then in the story about the temple we see people claiming to worship God but not trusting in God as they live a lifestyle contrary to God’s commands.
In closing, I want to ask you three questions to think about.

Questions

Have you put your faith in Jesus and trusted him as your savior?

Where do you find it hard to trust God?

What is one way that your can trust God this week?

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