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How Christ Reveals His Glory in Us

john 2.

This is the basis for the miracle?

The reveal His glory

A miracle that no one could explain

It would be done in the community that watch Christ grow up

It had to be from God...

Don't get side tracked the miracle has one purpose.

The first public miracle was to reveal His glory and the disciples believe on Him...

Now we come to chapter 2, we move from verbal testimony to testimony by the works of Jesus.

Chapter one was all about a verbal testimony of who Christ is

Now we move to the physical side of proving who Christ is

And John is going to alternate now as we go through His gospel, between the words of Christ, and the works of Christ.

He’s going to have us look at the statements Jesus made that indicate His deity and the works He did that demonstrate and prove His deity.

He will do what no one but God can do.

And we see that in the very first miracle in chapter 2.

Now in John’s book, he gives us eight signs, eight miracles that Jesus did that are signs pointing to His deity.

He turns water into wine in chapter 2.

He heals a dying man in chapter 4.

He cures a paralyzed man in chapter 5.

He creates food for thousands of people in chapter 6.

He walks on water at the end of chapter 6.

He gives sight to the blind in chapter 9.

He raises a man dead for days in chapter 11.

He creates a meal in chapter 21, breakfast for His disciples.

And then the culminating miracle beyond the eight, He is raised from the dead.

A Miracle is no other way to explain.....

There is no human way to explain Jesus.

He has to be God.

If this was all we had, we would know that, because He creates wine out of nothing.

We already know He is the Creator: , “Nothing was made that He didn’t make.

Nothing was made without Him making it and He made everything that exists from nothing.”

Here you have a miracle in which the God/Man creates wine out of nothing.

This is evidence that He is divine.

And Scripture leaves us no other explanation, and that is John’s mission, and it will mount as we move through this book.

Now let me just break down this account into four simple features.

A note about alcohol in the Bible:

When strong drink, wine and alcohol is mentioned in the Bible the overwhelming references are negative.

Only a few instances could be neutral or supportive.

As with any biblical interpretation the context is what is important.

prov 21.

A note on Alcohol:

A position of total abstinence will:

Never hurt your testimony

Never lead to drunkenness

You will never wake up wondering what you said or did...

Never will your children use you as an excuse as to why the consume alcoholic beverages

Abstinence from alcoholic beverages is a conviction firmly rooted in what the Bible teaches about the abuse of wine, the consumption of strong drink

Not to be overlooked as well has been the obvious and well-publicized devastation resulting from alcohol abuse in so many homes and communities.

Throughout our history, the proclamation of the gospel has been a powerful force in bringing addicted persons to dynamic faith in Christ, delivering them, enabling lifelong abstinence, and enhancing healthy homes, churches, and communities.

Unfortunately, one hundred years after the founding of our Fellowship, consumption of alcoholic beverages has become even more pervasive.

In large part, this has been the result of a massive, multibillion-dollar, annual advertising campaign by the alcohol industry over the last several generations touting the pleasures and benefits of drinking.

The entertainment media have also played a major role in the transformation of public attitudes by frequent and sophisticated portrayals of social drinking in movies, television, and other media.

Entire great awakenings of cultures over the years resulted in the abstinence position....

Consumption of alcoholic beverages has become even more pervasive.

In large part, this has been the result of a massive, multi-billion-dollar, annual advertising campaign by the alcohol industry over the last several generations touting the pleasures and benefits of drinking.

The entertainment media have also played a major role in the transformation of public attitudes by frequent and sophisticated portrayals of social drinking in movies, television, and other media.

To have a conviction of abstinence will result in that will be bullied and outcast in social functions.

Some will call you judgmental and non loving....

Many evangelical Christians even will call you judgmental

A city of Erie police officer told me they could lay off 1/3-1/2 of the force is alcohol was removed.

Drinking is everywhere

Just try abstinence and see how many times you have to say no.

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Ann/Fred’s Testimony

This text is not about the use of intoxicating beverages:

This text is not about the use of intoxicating beverages:

It about a miracle.

In our miracle today :

Wine was wine.

The word used is oinos, the only word for wine in the New Testament.

In the Septuagint it is used to translate the Hebrew words yayin and tirosh.

The word yayin is derived from a root word yayan meaning “to ferment.”

The word yayin occurs 142 times in the Old Testament and includes all kinds of fermented wine.

The first use of the word is in connection with Noah’s drunkenness (Genesis 9:21).

It is used of the wine brought forth by Melchizedek for Abraham (Genesis 14:18).

The same word is used in connection with Nabal and his extreme intoxication (1 Samuel 25:36–37).

It was used at the feasts of the Lord (Deuteronomy 14:23–26) and was the wine poured out in the drink offering (Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 23:13; Numbers 15:5).

The word tirosh comes from the root yarash, (“to possess”), evidently because of wine’s power to take possession of a person’s brain.

The word occurs thirty-four times in the Old Testament.

There can be little doubt that wine is what was served at the wedding, not grape juice.

And they ran out of wine.

The word tirosh comes from the root yarash, (“to possess”), evidently because of wine’s power to take possession of a person’s brain.

The word occurs thirty-four times in the Old Testament.

There can be little doubt that wine is what was served at the wedding, And they ran out of wine.

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How strong was the wine ?

Ancient wine was very weak they thy did not have distilling processes

Was it fermented?

Don’’t get side tracked the miracle is not about the use or abuse of wine.....

How Christ Reveals His Glory In Us

I. We are with Family and Friends

maybe a hospital room, maybe a family gathering

maybe a funeral

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A wedding , let’s start with the wedding, okay?

It’s a the most important event in the ancient world in the life of people in a town and a village.

It is a wedding.

It is a wedding.

Verse 1 says, “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee.”