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Talk about Easter -
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Best Friend … Teacher … today Jesus is the Miracle Worker
There are all kinds of Philosophies out there about Jesus, but you need to believe the descriptions of Jesus from the Bible.
We always want to change what the Bible says to fit how we want to live.
Trust your Bible.
Today we want to talk about Jesus the Miracle Worker.
People are so - so about this because many of us have needed a miracle or wanted a miracle that didn’t happen.
Some get discouraged and stop believing that God does miracles anymore.
Maybe you think that God isn’t interested in you or that God is hard to please… he does miracles just not for you.
There are a lot of ideas about miracles.
Today we will set the record straight.
Law of First Mention - go back to the first time it was mentioned and what Jesus had to say about it.
Law of First Mention
Weddings were big and expectations are high.
Bride and her mom … my perfect day .... don’t you mess it up.
Wedding stories - Wedding delayed an hour while I mediated between the two.
Groomsman put an alarm clock in choir loft and it went off when it was time to kiss the bride… mom demon possessed… Groomsmen cut the wick off the unity candle.
The fist miracle Jesus did was in a wedding where the expectations were high.
Most of the places we need a miracle are because we have so many high or unreal expectations.
We wanted life to turn out a certain way and it didn’t.
I didn’t know they would die that young.
I didn’t know my kids would turn out that way.
I thought my marriage would be like… I thought my career would be better...
In this story, the wine had run out.
In our day, the pressure and attention is on the ceremony....
In Jesus day, the focus was not on the ceremony but on the reception… the feast.
Running out of wine was a bad thing.
Jews - Wine symbolized joy.
Where there is no wine, there is no joy.
Wine was more than a beverage.
Lack of it was a symbol of lost joy.
This message is for anyone who has lost joy.
Marriage is not good… health is not good.
Life just didn’t turn out the way you hoped.
Focus on vs. 3.
We focus on feelings instead of faith.
They focused on the wine being gone.
The problem got the attention instead of the spiritual solution.
This couple was beginning a life together and everyone was focused on the situation.
How many times have you (like me) found yourself in difficult situations where the situation takes over… and we focus on our feelings instead of our faith.
It’s easy to focus on the problem and not what we need to do about that.
my mom.
she will be healed or be healed in heaven.
We forget that…
We have to remember we don’t just live in a natural world, but that we follow a God who operates in a different realm with a powerful God.
We take matters into our own hands.
I guess I better do something because God isn’t.
When God doesn’t do what we want him to do, we take the problem from God and do something about it.
In the story, Jesus mom was trying to solve the problem… it wasn’t even her problem.
We take it away from God … it can’t be his and ours at the same time.
This means that we can never have God’s best until you decide that you will change direction to the direction God wants you to go into.
That’s what we do… We don’t want to so things God’s way, we want to do it our way
horses are a symbol of your own strength.
There may be someone hear and you feel like you are so far from God in your thinking and handling your life yourself... that you can’t even see him.
You feel totally away from God.
The response you will get from God when you turn to him is GRACE and COMPASSION.
He wants to let you off the hook.
Encourage you today.
If you find yourself … hopes dashed… low expectations… need a miracle.
Come back to God.
Don’t get out there on your own.
We exaggerate the negative.
That’s what we do.
We look at the problem and its’ the worst thing that’s ever happened to anyone.
All we do is explain the horrible situation to God.
ILL - people will try to one up each other
We need to learn to tell our problem how big our God is.
They were out of wine.
Instead of focusing on and exaggerating the negative, focus on faith.
Instead of focusing on my mom’s decline, we know where she will be...
We have to come to the conclusion
For us it might look like God is not working on your behalf.
God is always working.
It might look like a NO, but God is at work and his answers are yes.
We just don’t understand what he is doing.
That’s why we have to have faith.
If we could see what God was doing, we would not need faith.
We will have a point when we see Jesus and want to ask him, “what were you thinking?” and we have our eyes open.
Instead of hallelujah in heaven we may be hearing people going ahhh… Ohhhh.
One day we will see it all.
What dos it take to get a miracle?
What does it take to get a miracle?
1. Do what Jesus says to do.
talk about Mary and fussing about no wine… remembers Jesus is God… tells the crowd he’s about to say something and it may not make sense, but do what he says.
and all of a sudden she remembers… oh yea.
He’s God.
He’s fixing to tell you something and it might not make sense … I raised him and he is a little different, but do what he says...
He told them to do something that didn’t make sense.
Why did she have to say that?
God is famous for telling us to do stuff that doesn’t make sense.
God does things different that we do.
God is famous for doing things different from us because he knows more than us… see more than us…
But we still say no.
I don’t want to do it His way and we think it through.
I I wan’t do it until it makes sense.
We want to serve him head to heart instead of heart (faith) to head.
We have to get to the point where we trust God… no matter what.
Michael Jordan jumping so high… people said it had to be shoes… no it was MJ
We always want to figure out the miracles… Jesus laid his hands on someone and they could see.… it’s his hands.
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