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Introduction:

Personal Story : How many of you like a good wedding?

Im not gonna lie, weddings aren’t the most exciting thing for me to go and sit through but I always look forward to the opportunity to see someone do something that will just make you laugh.

from the preacher saying the wrong thing, to the brother of the groom passing out (Isaiah)

To the cake being shoved in the grooms face.

I look forward to those parts of the wedding

Story of Singing at James wedding.

Show video of rehearsal

Today we are going to la wedding celebration with Jesus in fact its the first recorded public stop for Jesus’s ministry.

The Story: Background

Matthew 4 and Luke 4 tell us that after jesus was baptized by john the Baptist in the Jordan river Jesus went away into the wilderness for 40 days.

but the Bible tells us that while Jesus was alone in the wilderness that Satan threw everything he could at Jesus to try and make him sin.

he tempted him with power, glory and provisions but Jesus in his perfection did not yield to the temptation but stood firm.

John chapter 1 picks up with the story of jesus as he returns back from the wilderness .

our author John begins with Day one of the week .

h John the Baptist is again at the Jordan river preaching repentance and baptizing people in the river.

- The religious leaders came to John and questioned him as to what authority he had to be doing this.

He proclaimed to the leaders and to to the crowd around him that I am only baptizing with water but there is coming one who will be be the savior of the world.

The Son of God.

The Next day ( day 2 of the week) John Sees Jesus coming down the road towards him and He proclaims “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John Declares Jesus of Nazareth as the sent Son of God.

the next day ( day 3 of the week) John was with 2 of his disciples and he looks up and sees Jesus again walking towards him and once again he declares Jesus as the Lamb of God!

the two disciples with John the Baptist who heard him declare jesus as the Messiah were Andrew and John after they heard ,they Follow Jesus and and they sat and learned from Jesus and then they went and brought others to Jesus.then

the next day ( day 4) vs 43 Jesus went to Galilee and and He found Philip and said to him “follow me.

“ Phillip followed jesus learned from jesus and then went and brought Nathaniel to Jesus.

So here we have Jesus - with most likely 5 disciples now following him - Andrew, Peter, John, Philip and Nathaniel.

and Now our story picks up in chapter 2 which begins “on the Third day”

We are now in the 7th day of Jesus’s ministry and he and his disciples went with Jesus mother to a wedding celebration.

The Story: The Wedding at Cana- Water into Wine

John 2:1-12 2 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me?

My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.”

And they filled them up to the brim.

8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”

So they took it.

9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine.

But you have kept the good wine until now.”

11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory.

And his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers2 and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

Big Idea: Jesus is the answer for Man’s Dilemma

Transition; today we are going to look at the first of the many miracles jesus did during His 3 years of ministry before His death on the cross.

I believe that as we look at this miracle we will see that it sets a pattern that is true about all of the miracles Jesus performed.

this morning we are going to look at the.....

The 4 Aspects of Jesus’s Miracles

lets jump into our text together

Man’s Physical Dilemma (v1-3a)

text John 2:1-3 “On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.””

Commentary- Here we see that Jesus was at a wedding as a guest.

he was here to celebrate a joyous occasion.

and His mother, Mary comes to him and says we have runout of wine.

A Jewish Wedding- was much different than today

A few weeks ago many of us showed up at Faith Baptist in Mason City at 3pm for a 4pm Wedding.

and we were home by 8 pm.

thats a typical wedding here in our culture.

Jewish weddings were a celebration that could last up to a week long .

The financial responsibility for this celebration was the grooms family.

To run out of supplies would be shameful disgace to the family.

In so much , that history tells us that they could be liable in a lawsuit from grieved guest and the brides family.

Here we are in our story and the grooms family has just run out of wine.

apparently Mary must be related somehow to the grooms family, because this was a great concern of hers.

She was trying to save the grooms family from disgrace.

Mary brought a dilemma to Jesus- They were out of wine, and there was nothing they could do to fix the problem.

Mary’s Response to the Problem was to go to her son Jesus.

Why did Mary go to Jesus for a solution?

Some would say that she was looking for Jesus to do a miracle- but in verse 11 we will see that this was the first of Jesus’ miracles so she had no expectation for this from Him.

Some scholars would say that she was just passing on the bad news to Jesus, letting Him know that they was no more wine to be drank,

But in verse 5 we will see that she told the servants to do whatever Jesus tells them to do.

She expected Jesus to do something to help out the situation.

I believe that Mary went to jJesus because she was use to relying on Him for provisions.

Joseph the father of Jesus was not mentioned after the story of Jesus when he was 12 years old.

So scholars believe that Mary would have already been a widow at this time.

and like any widow Mary leaned on her 1st born son to help take care of her.

She was coming to Her son Jesus saying what should we do about our dilemma.

She wasn’t telling jesus what to do - she simple shared her concerns with her son

Transition: notice Christ Response to Mary’s dilemma.

Christ's Supernatural Solution v. 3b-8)

vs “And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me?

My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”6

Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.”

And they filled them up to the brim.

8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”

So they took it.

Commentary:

Jesus Begins by addressing his mother as Woman

I can guarantee to you that as a kid if my mother would have come to me and asked me to do something and my response was “Woman" Why are you telling me to do this?

I would not be alive to preach this message to you today.

My dad would have knocked me into the next century!

Jesus ‘ response to his mother was not disrespectful.

Culturally we don’t have an english word that completely describes this title.

The closest we have is what kids would call their moms in South

When a southern lady tells her kids to come and help her get something done.

their response would be What?

Yes Ma’am!

Ma’am is a respectful way of addressing a women