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Wine-Coins-and-Signs-Msg-5-12 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: For years at the Church of the Open Door in
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Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles, a small plaque was attached to the pulpit,
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Speaker 1: visible only to the speaker, which read, Sir, we would
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Speaker 1: see Jesus. It was a reference to John twelve twenty one.
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Speaker 1: I love that, sir, we would see Jesus. Everyone who
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Speaker 1: spoke from that pulpit at that historic church, including the
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Speaker 1: late doctor j Vernon McGhee, who preached there for over
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Speaker 1: twenty years, was reminded by that verse to lift up
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and to proclaim only him. That is precisely
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Speaker 1: what John accomplishes in his Gospel. He lifts up Jesus
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Speaker 1: in each carefully chosen account of our Lord's life and ministry,
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Speaker 1: including the two scenes we will consider today, John makes
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Speaker 1: certain that we would see Jesus. How easy it is
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Speaker 1: to become enthralled with the miracles and lose sight of
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Speaker 1: the one who performed them, to be in awe of
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Speaker 1: Christ's words, but missed the wonder of his presence. John
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Speaker 1: deliberately resists that in our study together, I want us
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Speaker 1: to keep that as our ongoing focus, that we would
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Speaker 1: see Jesus. Let's not allow our diligence to draw every
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Speaker 1: ounce of truth from these immortal scenes to prevent us
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Speaker 1: from gazing most intently at him. Please keep that in
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Speaker 1: mind today as I'll read John chapter two in its entirety.
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Speaker 1: I will read all twenty five verses in this second chapter,
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Speaker 1: beginning at verse one. So I invite you to turn
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Speaker 1: with me in your Bibles to John chapter two, and
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Speaker 1: I'll ask you to follow along with me as I
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Speaker 1: read from the New Living Translation. Now I'll begin reading
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Speaker 1: a chapter two, beginning at verse one. The next day,
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Speaker 1: there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana
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Speaker 1: in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his
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Speaker 1: disciples were also invited to the celebration. The wine's supply
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Speaker 1: ran out during the festivities, so Jesus' mother told him
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Speaker 1: they have no more wine. Dear woman, that's not our problem.
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Speaker 1: Jesus replied, my time has not yet come. But his
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Speaker 1: mother told the servants do whatever he tells you. Standing
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Speaker 1: nearby were six stone water jars used for Jewish ceremonial washing.
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Speaker 1: Each could hold twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told the
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Speaker 1: servants fill the jars with water. When the jars had
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Speaker 1: been filled. He said, now dip some out and take
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Speaker 1: it to the Master of ceremonies. So the servants followed
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Speaker 1: his instructions. When the Master of ceremonies tasted the water
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Speaker 1: that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from,
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Speaker 1: though of course the servants knew, he called the bridegroom over.
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Speaker 1: A host always serves the best wine first, he said,
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Speaker 1: Then when everyone has had a lot to drink, he
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Speaker 1: brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept
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Speaker 1: the best until now. This miraculous sign at Cana in
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Speaker 1: Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory, and
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Speaker 1: his disciples believed in him. After the wedding, he went
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Speaker 1: to Capernaum for a few days with his mother, his brothers,
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Speaker 1: and his disciples. It was nearly time for the Jewish
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Speaker 1: Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. In the temple area,
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Speaker 1: he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices.
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Speaker 1: He also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. Jesus
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Speaker 1: made a whip from some ropes and chased them all
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Speaker 1: out of the temple. He drove out the sheep and
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Speaker 1: cattle scattered the money changer's coins over the floor and
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Speaker 1: turned over their tables. Then going over to the people
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Speaker 1: who sold doves, he told them get these things out
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Speaker 1: of here. Stop turning my father's house into a marketplace.
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Speaker 1: Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the scriptures, passion
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Speaker 1: for God's house will consume me. But the Jewish leaders demanded,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing if God gave you authority to
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Speaker 1: do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it
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Speaker 1: all right, Jesus replied, destroy this temple and in three
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Speaker 1: days I will raise it up. What they exclaimed, it
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Speaker 1: has taken forty six years to build this temple, and
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Speaker 1: you can read build it in three days. But when
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Speaker 1: Jesus said this temple, he meant his own body. After
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Speaker 1: he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he
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Speaker 1: had said this, and they believed both the scriptures and
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Speaker 1: what Jesus had said. Because of the miraculous signs Jesus
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Speaker 1: did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to
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Speaker 1: trust in him. But Jesus didn't trust them because he
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Speaker 1: knew all about people. No one needed to tell him
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Speaker 1: about human nature, for he knew what was in each
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Speaker 1: person's heart.
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Speaker 2: Studying a book of the Bible for about forty minutes
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Speaker 2: once a week, like we do is a pleasure, but
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Speaker 2: it's not without a particular problem. And the problem has
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Speaker 2: to do with the interval of time that passes from
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Speaker 2: one Sunday to the next. A full seven days go
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Speaker 2: by before we're really back into the passage again, and
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Speaker 2: it's easy to forget where we've been. That's a little
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Speaker 2: bit like finding a good book that you'd love to
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Speaker 2: read and sitting down and sitting an alarm for forty
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Speaker 2: five minutes, and you begin to read, and you just
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Speaker 2: get into the book. You just begin to pick up
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Speaker 2: the flow of thought, the writer, the places, the people,
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Speaker 2: the plot, the whole thing, the style. And then the
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Speaker 2: alarm goes off, and you put a little check mark
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Speaker 2: in the margin and the bookmark there, and you close
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Speaker 2: it and you don't look at it for a week,
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Speaker 2: and then after seven days you come back, you open
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Speaker 2: the book, you find your mark, and you continue to read. Now,
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't get much out of it that way, because
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Speaker 2: the mind cannot retain all that needs to be held
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Speaker 2: onto to keep it current in your thinking. That's just
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Speaker 2: the way we're built and so the only thing you
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Speaker 2: can do is either read more at one sitting and
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Speaker 2: more often, or review every once in a while. Now,
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Speaker 2: what I've said about the book that you would like
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Speaker 2: to read, I want to apply to the Bible. Either
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Speaker 2: I should preach longer or we need to review. Knowing
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Speaker 2: how this congregation would respond, we will review this morning,
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Speaker 2: because some of you are probably thinking you couldn't preach longer,
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Speaker 2: So that's the only other option we have. You'd be
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Speaker 2: surprised what could be done if we had the time.
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Speaker 2: But going through John is a very complex study. The
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Speaker 2: longer we're in it, the more we realize it isn't
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Speaker 2: as simple as it seems to be. Take, for example,
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Speaker 2: the beginning of verse one in chapter two. If you
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Speaker 2: were to sit down not having read this passage before,
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Speaker 2: and not having read the previous section until seven days
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Speaker 2: before and not since, you wouldn't know what it means
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Speaker 2: when it says and on the third day there was
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Speaker 2: a wedding in Kna Galilee the third day? From what
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Speaker 2: the third day means? What third day? What is the context?
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Speaker 2: What is the what is the meaning of that beginning?
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Speaker 2: So let's outline for a few minutes by way of
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Speaker 2: revis where we have been and where we are going. First,
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Speaker 2: let's establish a time frame of reference. Let's begin by
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Speaker 2: looking at where we are chronologically. Go back to chapter one,
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Speaker 2: verse nineteen. Will you. John actually begins his book, of
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Speaker 2: course with verse one, but the first eighteen verses form
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Speaker 2: a prologue which we've spent considerable time in the real
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Speaker 2: narrative of the passage or the book starts in verse nineteen,
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Speaker 2: where we read of the witness of John the Baptizer,
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Speaker 2: John the Forerunner, when the Jews sent to him priests
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Speaker 2: and levites to ask him his identity. Now that's the
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Speaker 2: first day in the account. That's day number one. If
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Speaker 2: you go over to verse twenty nine, you'll see the
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Speaker 2: beginning of the next day. One nine is the beginning
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Speaker 2: of day number two. So we have the second day
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Speaker 2: down through verse thirty four. Then the next day, verse
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Speaker 2: thirty five starts the third day, so we have back
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Speaker 2: to back accounts in the narrative of John, which goes
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Speaker 2: down through verse forty two. Then the fourth day begins
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Speaker 2: in verse forty three. The next day see it one
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Speaker 2: forty three begins with those familiar three words. The fourth
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Speaker 2: day carries us all the way to the end of
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Speaker 2: the chapter, and then verse one of chapter two is
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Speaker 2: three days later than that, the third day in the
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Speaker 2: first full week, that is the third day that followed
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Speaker 2: the last day mentioned, So the seventh day of the week,
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Speaker 2: something happened. And then the passage goes on to talk
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Speaker 2: about various time slots, which we'll mention as we go
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Speaker 2: through it. Let's jump from chronology to geography, because we
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Speaker 2: live in America and we don't really know much about
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Speaker 2: a land outside our own. Unfortunately, some of you have
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Speaker 2: traveled extensively. Most have not, So let's orient ourselves to
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Speaker 2: where we are geographically. Go back again to chapter one,
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Speaker 2: verse twenty nine, and lay the map that you received
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Speaker 2: this morning in your bulletin just alongside your bible for
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Speaker 2: a minute. Let's look at some topography for a moment.
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Speaker 2: See one twenty nine. This is our it should be
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Speaker 2: one twenty eight. These things took place in Bethany. So
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Speaker 2: the first day of ministry and the few that followed
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Speaker 2: took place in an area called Bethany. Look down at
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Speaker 2: the Dead Sea. You noticed at the northwest corner a
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Speaker 2: little city, or a little town, more like a hamlet,
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Speaker 2: just outside Jerusalem. And it lives its life eclipsed by
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Speaker 2: the greater city. But Bethany is where John first began
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Speaker 2: to minister, and he was there for a period of time,
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Speaker 2: several days until verse forty three of chapter one, For
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Speaker 2: it says he purposed to go into Galilee due north
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Speaker 2: a period or a section of about seventy five or
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Speaker 2: eighty miles. There is the province or the county we
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Speaker 2: would call it of Galilee, and he's there for that
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Speaker 2: which follows verses forty three through fifty one. And you'll
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Speaker 2: look at verse one of chapter two. It mentions a
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Speaker 2: wedding in Galilee in the place called Cana, and you'll
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Speaker 2: see it on the map right in the center of that.
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Speaker 2: Province of Galilee really doesn't have a lot of significance
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Speaker 2: except it is mentioned here. Now look at verse twelve
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Speaker 2: of the chapter we're looking at this morning. It mentions
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Speaker 2: a place called Capernium. After this, he went down to Capernium.
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Speaker 2: But look over on your map. Doesn't look like he
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Speaker 2: went down at all, does it. He looks like he
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Speaker 2: went up from Cana to Capernium. But you see, the
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Speaker 2: gospel writers frequently refer to the areas with topography in mind,
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Speaker 2: and not the directions north, south, east or west. He
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Speaker 2: was higher than the area of Capernaum. Capernaum was down
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Speaker 2: at sea level. It's located right at the Sea of Galilee.
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Speaker 2: So he went down in terrain. Look at the next verse,
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Speaker 2: he went up to Jerusalem. But you see, Jerusalem is
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Speaker 2: about one hundred miles as the crow flies from Capernaum.
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Speaker 2: And yet it says he went up here again. Jerusalem
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Speaker 2: is high on the mountain, near the Mount of Olives,
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Speaker 2: and it's in a higher area than Capernaum. So they
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Speaker 2: went up and it's there that they spend the balance
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Speaker 2: of the chapter in that city of Jerusalem. Now just
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Speaker 2: keep the map nearby. It'll help you. We'll be looking
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Speaker 2: at a map periodically in our study of John, but
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Speaker 2: that review will help orient us with regard to area
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Speaker 2: most important. Let's look at the passage analytically. There are
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Speaker 2: three main incidents in John two that are linked together
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Speaker 2: by some transitional verses. These verses have been added by
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Speaker 2: the writer to fill in the blanks that have been
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Speaker 2: seasoned over some sixty years of thought and meditation. The
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Speaker 2: events were reading about took place actually about twenty seven AD.
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Speaker 2: They were not written until about ninety AD, so some
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Speaker 2: sixty years have passed in which John, who was there,
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Speaker 2: meditated upon them, and he at times places some interpretive
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Speaker 2: transitions in the passage so that we might understand the
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Speaker 2: full picture, not only as it took place, but as
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Speaker 2: what was meant by what took place. The three incidents
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Speaker 2: have to do with the serving of wine at a wedding,
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Speaker 2: the cleansing of the temple in which Jesus threw out
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Speaker 2: the money changers in those animals that were part of
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Speaker 2: the temple. And the third part has to do with
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Speaker 2: the building of the temple in three days, which we know,
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Speaker 2: of course from John's comment that he had reference to
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Speaker 2: his own body, a reference to the resurrection. Let's look
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Speaker 2: at the incidents for what they were, and in each case,
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Speaker 2: let's see if we can find something that's much deeper
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Speaker 2: than the incident itself. I think there's something far more
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Speaker 2: significant threaded through this passage than the three incidents that
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Speaker 2: historically took place in Cana and Jerusalem. Verse one. On
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Speaker 2: the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee,
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Speaker 2: and the mother of Jesus was there. Now I am
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Speaker 2: of the opinion personally that it was either the wedding
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Speaker 2: of Jesus's sister or a very close friend. Because of
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Speaker 2: the dominant role that Mary takes in the wedding, she
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Speaker 2: takes over when they run out of wine, and that
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Speaker 2: is an unusual thing for a guest to do, so
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Speaker 2: she was apparently a predominant part of the ceremony itself.
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Speaker 2: Weddings in those days were different than they are today.
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Speaker 2: In our day, a bride and groom may have known
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Speaker 2: each other only a few days or weeks, and they
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Speaker 2: may even slip away and marry in secret. They may elope,
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Speaker 2: some may be engaged for two or three years, and
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Speaker 2: then large ceremony in a church or in a home,
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Speaker 2: and they're married. It's not the way it was in
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Speaker 2: those days. In those days, the parents helped choose the
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Speaker 2: mate of the children. How would you like for that
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Speaker 2: to have been a part of your plan? They had
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Speaker 2: to really believe in the sovereignty of God that mom
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Speaker 2: and Dad knew what they were doing now in those days.
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Speaker 2: After the choice of mate was made, then there was
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Speaker 2: a period of a year that passed called the betrothal,
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Speaker 2: in which they were legally bound, but they couldn't live
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Speaker 2: together as husband and wife. However, if there was to
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Speaker 2: be a break in the betrothal, it demanded a decree
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Speaker 2: of divorcement. They actually had to be divorced legally to
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Speaker 2: break the engagement period or the betrothal, but in most
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Speaker 2: cases the betrothal wasn't broken, and at the end of
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Speaker 2: the twelve month waiting period, the groom would leave his
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Speaker 2: home with his friends, and usually at night, with a
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Speaker 2: torchlight procession, a lot of pomp and color, and some
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Speaker 2: singing along the way, they would make their way to
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Speaker 2: the bride's home, and then there would be public speeches
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Speaker 2: of goodwill and all sorts of good things said about
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Speaker 2: one another, and then the groom would take the bride
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Speaker 2: back to his home, and this procession would conclude with
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Speaker 2: a great feast a festival. Sometime the festival lasted as
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Speaker 2: long as a week well, and they were responsible for
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Speaker 2: serving and meeting all of the needs of the guests
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Speaker 2: at this feast as much as seven days. And then
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Speaker 2: during the course of the festival there would be a
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Speaker 2: ceremony and the bride and groom would slip away to
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Speaker 2: begin their life together. Sounds neat, sounds romantic. Just so
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Speaker 2: you don't have to pay for all of it. It
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Speaker 2: sounds exciting. Well, on this case, he saidn't plan well.
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Speaker 2: And in those days it was really bad. If you
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Speaker 2: didn't have everything thought through, you run out of punch.
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Speaker 2: Now you just you know, serve water, little ice. They'll
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Speaker 2: have to understand. But in those days, no. In fact,
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Speaker 2: there was one extra biblical document I discovered that said
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Speaker 2: a person could be sued for not adequately serving the guests. Well,
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Speaker 2: now hear they were without sufficient wine for the serving,
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Speaker 2: and Jesus' mother noticed it. It says in verse three
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Speaker 2: the wine gave out. I like the way that reads it.
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Speaker 2: Just that's all there was. And the mother of Jesus
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Speaker 2: said to him, they have no wine. Now that's an
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Speaker 2: you would expect a mother to say that to her son.
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Speaker 2: She's lived with him for thirty years. I take it
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Speaker 2: that Joseph is dead and he's been the breadwinner in
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Speaker 2: the home. Joseph is not mentioned at any time in
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Speaker 2: the adult life of Jesus. He's no doubt died during
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Speaker 2: jesus earlier life. He had been keeping the carpenter shop
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Speaker 2: in operation. She's been living alongside her son. So in
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Speaker 2: normal process, she says to Jesus they don't have any wine,
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Speaker 2: suggesting go out and get some. His answer seems to
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Speaker 2: be impudent. Woman first, for what do I have to
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Speaker 2: do with you? And literally the Greek says, what to you?
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Speaker 2: To me? What do we have to do with this?
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Speaker 2: Now some people have stretched it to say because Mary
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Speaker 2: and Jesus didn't drink wine. He said to her, so what,
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Speaker 2: we don't need the wine anyway, we don't drink it.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit forced, because I'm convinced
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Speaker 2: they did. That was the day that was the world
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Speaker 2: still is. In so many places around the world, the
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Speaker 2: serving of wine is even more common and even healthier
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Speaker 2: than the serving of water. And there was the preparation
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Speaker 2: at the wedding, and the wine was gone, and he says,
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Speaker 2: what to you to me? I don't think he was
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Speaker 2: talking about the wine. I think he was talking about
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Speaker 2: her instructing him. She leveled a command, implied anyway, go
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Speaker 2: get some, And I say it because of his next statement,
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Speaker 2: My hour has not yet come. You see, Jesus has
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Speaker 2: reached an adult level, and he has begun his ministry.
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Speaker 2: He's already chosen some of his disciples. Mary has not
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Speaker 2: yet made that transition. He's no longer under her roof,
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Speaker 2: under the chain of her authority. He's living his life
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Speaker 2: unto the Lord. And when the Lord says, this is
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Speaker 2: your hour, and I take it to mean in the
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Speaker 2: Gospel of John, the hour of the Cross, that he
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Speaker 2: says at that moment, I will listen to those instructions.
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Speaker 2: That's the voice I'm listening to. Now, it's a good
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Speaker 2: place to pause and say to some parents here whose
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Speaker 2: children are grown, that some parents also need to grow up.
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Speaker 2: I do not mean that a child has the right
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Speaker 2: to be impudent, because I don't believe Jesus was impudent.
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Speaker 2: But there is a very healthy relationship that is changed
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Speaker 2: from a mother's son mother daughter to a friendship relationship,
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Speaker 2: at least ideally so. And parents cultivate that or they
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Speaker 2: do not. If they do not, they pay a severe price.
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Speaker 2: When a child wishes so much to become an adult
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Speaker 2: independent on their own. Do not mean that the child
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Speaker 2: no longer relates to his parent. It means that the
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Speaker 2: child now relates in a different way. And this passage
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Speaker 2: is a rather good example of how those things change. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's go on. I wonder if Mary got the message
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Speaker 2: Verse five. She said to the servants. Whatever he says
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Speaker 2: to you, do it. She got the message, she didn't
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Speaker 2: press it. Parents, there's a good word for you to
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Speaker 2: remember when you learn this. Be careful carry it out
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Speaker 2: to the ultimate extreme. Support the growing up and the
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Speaker 2: independence of your child. Let that child answer to the
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Speaker 2: Lord at the healthy age of adulthood. And in each
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Speaker 2: case it may be different, not according to age, but maturity. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's look at the size of wedding that it was.
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Speaker 2: There were six water pots containing twenty gallons each. I
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Speaker 2: remember it's these pots that he has filled with water
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Speaker 2: and uses them as a serving of the guests. Let's
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Speaker 2: take it at twenty five gallons, just to hit a
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Speaker 2: happy medium time six you've got one hundred and fifty gallons,
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Speaker 2: and then you've got if you've got a half a
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Speaker 2: pint for every serving, you've got enough in those pots
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Speaker 2: for twenty four hundred servings. That was a good sized wedding,
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Speaker 2: wasn't it. Now. Of course some had already drunk, some,
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Speaker 2: no doubt, had drunk too much. But there were those
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Speaker 2: that had drunk, and there was a sufficient room for
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Speaker 2: having that much more wine. It was a large gathering,
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Speaker 2: so he said, fill them all up, and they did
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Speaker 2: verse seven, they filled them up to the brim, interesting
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Speaker 2: sidelight there. Apparently John was an eyewitness, or he wouldn't
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Speaker 2: have noted that. But John was there when he says,
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Speaker 2: they filled them right up to the top, right up
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Speaker 2: to the brim. And then Jesus said to them, draw
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Speaker 2: some out now and take it to the head waiter.
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Speaker 2: Between verses seven and eight, a miracle took place. In
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Speaker 2: order to have wine, you've got to have two ingredients.
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Speaker 2: You've got to have grapes, and you've got to have time.
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Speaker 2: And he had neither wine. It was a chemical impossibility
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Speaker 2: for there to be from a pot full of water
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Speaker 2: the presence of wine. But there was wine. As a
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Speaker 2: matter of fact. The head waiter verse nine tasted the
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Speaker 2: water that had become wine, and he was amazed. He
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Speaker 2: said to the bridegroom verse ten. Every man serves the
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Speaker 2: good wine first, and then when men have drunk freely,
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Speaker 2: then that which is poorer. That makes sense. After everybody
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Speaker 2: has gotten a good serving, then you can dilute it
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Speaker 2: a little, you can weaken it down, and it won't
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Speaker 2: be that much of a problem. But he says, here,
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Speaker 2: you've kept the good wine. Until now, not only did
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Speaker 2: he serve it, not only did he turn it into wine,
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Speaker 2: he turned it into good wine. And that's a remarkable thing.
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Speaker 2: In fact, it's miraculous. Verse eleven, John adds this beginning
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Speaker 2: of the signs or miracles Jesus did in Cana of
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Speaker 2: Galilee and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
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Speaker 2: Turn wine of water into wine was nothing more than
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to display the glory of God. That's what
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Speaker 2: it was for. That's the major issue, is the glory
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Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ was discovered by a few that were there.
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Speaker 2: Look over at chapter one, verse fourteen, Back a back
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Speaker 2: a page to John's first chapter where he declares something
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Speaker 2: about Jesus Christ, the word that's Jesus. When he was
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Speaker 2: in the form of God, he became flesh, that's the incarnation,
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Speaker 2: and he dwelt among us. What's the first thing he says.
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Speaker 2: He says, we beheld his glory. We looked at him,
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Speaker 2: and we saw him as the glorified God in the flesh.
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Speaker 2: And when we saw him, we saw him full of
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Speaker 2: grace and truth. Now, in chapter two, verse eleven, here
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Speaker 2: is an example of when they beheld his glory. We
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Speaker 2: saw him, and we realized standing before us was God
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Speaker 2: in flesh, able to turn water into wine. Now there
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Speaker 2: are some that read the passage, and I have heard
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Speaker 2: it done so, and they make the great issue, the
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Speaker 2: problem of wine. That is so unfortunate, it is so inappropriate.
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Speaker 2: First of all, it is the custom of that area
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Speaker 2: to serve wine regularly. My own brother was with us
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Speaker 2: for the last couple of days, and we had such
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Speaker 2: good fellowship, renewing acquaintance and hearing more about his work
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Speaker 2: in Argentina, where he has been almost twenty years. And
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Speaker 2: he said to me, said, we talked about customs. And
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Speaker 2: he had a friend with him in this along with
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Speaker 2: his wife, and the three were there in our home,
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Speaker 2: and we talked about the differences in areas, and he said,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's a it's a common thing. On every
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Speaker 2: Argentine table, there's a bottle of wine. Now, the Western
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Speaker 2: mindset of the Christian recoils at that. And I said,
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Speaker 2: you mean even you know, the Christians over in Argentina
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Speaker 2: have a wine right right, Sure, it isn't an issue.
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Speaker 2: I said, what do you serve at the communion in
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Speaker 2: your service? He said, well, we serve wine. I've a
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Speaker 2: thought about doing that, but I know some of you
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Speaker 2: would keep changing seats and we couldn't trust you to
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Speaker 2: do that. Now, don't write many letters this week about
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Speaker 2: that statement. Now, I realize it's a delicate issue. It's
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Speaker 2: a weaker brother issue in these United States, and we
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Speaker 2: ought to look upon it as that. It is questionable
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Speaker 2: in many assemblies whether that should be carried out here
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Speaker 2: in our America. But there it is no issue. Let
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Speaker 2: me go further. There are many people who go to
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Speaker 2: a wedding in some distance area and they walk in
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Speaker 2: and they smell the punch. Oh wow, and there's so
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Speaker 2: been out of shape. They can't even enjoy the wedding
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Speaker 2: because they're serving an alcohol combination in the punch. Really,
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Speaker 2: that is missing the whole opportunity of sharing the Lord.
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Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting we serve boos when we have weddings
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Speaker 2: in our church. I think that's inappropriate, out of place,
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Speaker 2: and we wouldn't have it. I'm saying, when you go
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Speaker 2: somewhere and it is served, be bigger than that. As
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Speaker 2: a matter of fact, this is gonna blow some minds
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Speaker 2: here today. Man. I'm gonna share it and just let
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Speaker 2: it go at that. Okay, my wife doesn't know whether
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Speaker 2: to leave now or stay or what it be. I
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Speaker 2: taught a Bible class in another city, and the Bible
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Speaker 2: class was among a sixty seventy eighty professional people in
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Speaker 2: their wives and most of whom were unsaved. And the
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Speaker 2: whole purpose of the class was evangelism. And so at
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Speaker 2: the end of the class, at the end of the year,
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Speaker 2: when we had a gathering and we let them take
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Speaker 2: care of all the details, guess what. That's what they served.
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Speaker 2: And of all things here we were teaching the Bible.
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Speaker 2: And yet that was the punch. Now I could have
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Speaker 2: stood upon the platform and made a big issue out
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Speaker 2: of what they served. That's to them, that's the normal
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Speaker 2: way of life. It's not normal way of life for
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Speaker 2: me or for many of you, but it's the normal
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Speaker 2: way of life for those in the class. But because
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Speaker 2: I did not, there were incredible number of opportunities to
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Speaker 2: share deeply in the things of the Lord with some
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Speaker 2: of those that were there that very night. And I
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Speaker 2: am one in the ministry who wrestles with this or
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Speaker 2: the individuals and almost week by week that have difficulty
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Speaker 2: in overcoming the problem of lack of control, not encouraging
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Speaker 2: that to be stupid of me to do so. I'm
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Speaker 2: saying there is a deeper issue when we come across it.
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Speaker 2: Then we get on the surface, and so many at
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Speaker 2: the wedding we're all involved in. Well, he turned that
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Speaker 2: water into wine, that's all they could see. But the
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Speaker 2: disciples saw something beneath the surface, an issue. Ah man,
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Speaker 2: that's God among us, that's Jesus Christ, the god Man.
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Speaker 2: Another proof Messiah has come. Oh would to God that
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Speaker 2: our gaze upon Christ would be much deeper and much
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Speaker 2: more consistent than it is. The slightest thing triggers us off,
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Speaker 2: and we miss that personal relationship that ought to pervaide.
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Speaker 2: Let's quickly move from Capernaum, where they stopped off for
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Speaker 2: a few days Diderusalem verse thirteen. Passover was at hand,
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Speaker 2: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. All right. He leaves Copernium,
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Speaker 2: where they had a little rest and recuperation time. He
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Speaker 2: with his men went down for Passover to Jerusalem. Now,
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Speaker 2: the Passover feast is, of course the greatest Jewish festival
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Speaker 2: in their entire system. It goes back historically to that
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Speaker 2: time in Egypt when Moses was given the instructions to
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Speaker 2: prepare the lamb a certain way and to honor the
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Speaker 2: Lord's presence by spreading blood in a certain way upon
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Speaker 2: the doorway of the little shelters where they lived. And
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Speaker 2: when the Death Angel invaded as a final word to
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Speaker 2: relieve those people of Israel, he passed over the homes
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Speaker 2: where there was blood. Pass Over gets its name from there.
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Speaker 2: But by the time of the first century, oh, what
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Speaker 2: changes had taken place. It had become so corrupt it
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Speaker 2: hardly looked like the original plan for Passover. Yes, there
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Speaker 2: was the serving of the domestic meal, but that's about
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Speaker 2: all there was. In similarity, by the first century, corruption
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Speaker 2: had come into the priesthood, and a reprobate by the
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Speaker 2: name of annas Anas, a high priest of Judaism in
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Speaker 2: that day, had actually developed a complete ripoff for the
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Speaker 2: people of the Jews. Let me tell you how it worked.
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Speaker 2: At Passover time, all of those Jewish males that lived
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Speaker 2: within the area of Palestine and those without the area
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Speaker 2: were expected to come to Jerusalem to observe it, to
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Speaker 2: pay the temple tax, and to observe this as a ceremony.
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Speaker 2: William Barkleay states, astonishing as it may sound. There were
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Speaker 2: at times two and a quarter million Jewish mails in
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Speaker 2: the city of Jerusalem. It pass over for that week
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Speaker 2: of celebration. Think of that. Now, in order to come
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Speaker 2: to an area to pay tax, you've got to change
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Speaker 2: your coin. You come with foreign currency. Annas thought of that,
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Speaker 2: and he set up tables in the courtyard of the
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Speaker 2: temple where there would be the changing of foreign money
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Speaker 2: into Jerusalem money. And you guessed it. You would give
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Speaker 2: a dollar and you'd get seventy five cents in return.
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Speaker 2: That was what he called money changing. Then on over
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Speaker 2: and above that, you had to pay a tax, which
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Speaker 2: was exorbitant. Furthermore, notes you would drag an animal beyond
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Speaker 2: twenty miles away, so they would wait till they got
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Speaker 2: to Jerusalem to buy the animal. Anas thought of that.
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Speaker 2: He had corrals, he had pins plays, looked like a rodeo.
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Speaker 2: He had cheap and oxen and pigeons and doves all
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Speaker 2: set up, and you had to pay a high price
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Speaker 2: if you wanted to have an animal to sacrifice. Another ripoff.
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Speaker 2: It was nothing more than a circus. It was called
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Speaker 2: in the colloquialism of the day Annis Bizaar. That's what
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Speaker 2: it was. And the place of worship had become nothing
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Speaker 2: more than a merchandise, mercenary, money changing, money grabbing opportunity.
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Speaker 2: For Annas Cressus the Roman when he invaded Jerusalem and
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Speaker 2: invaded the temple and overthrew it in fifty four BC,
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Speaker 2: it was going on. Then found four million dollars in
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Speaker 2: the treasury in the temple at from that very thing
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Speaker 2: that was happening, and it was continuing right into the
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Speaker 2: first century. And that's what he found. In verse fourteen,
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Speaker 2: he found not the place of worship. He found oxen, sheep, doves,
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Speaker 2: money changers in the very place where they were to
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Speaker 2: meet God and be reminded by blood sacrifice, a forgiveness
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Speaker 2: of sins, and by history of their great, great tradition
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Speaker 2: in deliverance from Egypt. None of that was there. All
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Speaker 2: he could hear was the bleeding and the lowing of
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Speaker 2: those animals, and the screaming of those auctioneers and those
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Speaker 2: bargaining for money and animals back and forth. That's what
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Speaker 2: he saw, and in our terms, it turned him off.
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Speaker 2: Verse fifteen tells us he made a gurge of cords
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Speaker 2: and drove them all out of the temple, and the
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Speaker 2: sheep and the oxen. He poured the coins of the
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Speaker 2: money changers and overturned their table to those who were
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Speaker 2: selling the doves. He said, take these things away. Stop
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Speaker 2: making my father's house a house of merchandise. Moffat renders
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Speaker 2: that my father's house is not to be turned into
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Speaker 2: a shop, and with great jealousy for this place where
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Speaker 2: God's glory once resided, but now had long since departed.
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ purified, cleansed that temple. Verse seventeen is an insight.
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Speaker 2: John adds, by way of transition, we remembered Psalm sixty nine,
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Speaker 2: zeal for thy house will consume me. What did he remember?
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Speaker 2: He remembered that one of the sign of Messiah would
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Speaker 2: be the cleansing, the zeal for the house of God.
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Speaker 2: And John says, oh, click. We remembered there that he
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Speaker 2: is the Messiah, just as we remembered when the water
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Speaker 2: was turned into wine. We remembered again. Now the Jews
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Speaker 2: also remembered, and it became an issue in a moment.
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Speaker 2: Before I go on to that, let me add by
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Speaker 2: way of an application. Some of you read this, and
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Speaker 2: you think, my, what a perfect place to talk about
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Speaker 2: being quiet in the place where we worship. That is
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Speaker 2: an appropriate application. I don't think it's primary, but I
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Speaker 2: think it is fitting. I think we ought to remember
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Speaker 2: when we come, we come from broken backgrounds, from hurting situations,
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Speaker 2: from the busyness and the involvements of life and the
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Speaker 2: care of making a living, and to come into this place,
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Speaker 2: we ought to remember that this is a place where
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Speaker 2: we meet with God. But I want to remind you
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Speaker 2: this is not the sanctuary. This is the building where
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Speaker 2: sanctuaries gather. You are the sanctuary. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: of any truth that will revolutionize your seven days a
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Speaker 2: week more than that truth. You don't come to see
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Speaker 2: God in a building. You bring him in your person,
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Speaker 2: says First Corinthians six nineteen and twenty. Says Second Corinthians
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Speaker 2: five one through eight. This temple, this body is God's tent.
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Speaker 2: He dwells here. What do you allow entrance into your temple?
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you the You know the Lord didn't
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Speaker 2: destroy those things, he drove them out. What is he
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Speaker 2: trying to drive out of your temple? What have you corralled,
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Speaker 2: had begun to nurture? What merchandise have you brought in
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Speaker 2: to turn his house into his shop? What is it.
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Speaker 2: You know the things. There are habits, there are lifestyles,
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Speaker 2: there are operations we carry on as a way of
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Speaker 2: life that began to corrupt and pervert the house of
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Speaker 2: God our bodies. I love the words of Augustine when
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Speaker 2: he was faced with those tempting moments to turn back
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Speaker 2: to his lifestyle of lust in the past, and he
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Speaker 2: raced away from an opportunity with a woman, and he
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Speaker 2: got alone, and he crawled out to God.
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Speaker 3: Oh Augustine, dost thou not know that thou art carrying
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Speaker 3: God around with thee, carrying God everywhere you go.
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Speaker 2: He is a part of your sanctuary. Now why do
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Speaker 2: you resist him when he wishes to cleanse him what?
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Speaker 2: He taps you on the shoulder and says to you,
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Speaker 2: this is not good in your life. Do you notice
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Speaker 2: who drove it out? No, man, Jesus Christ. The only
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Speaker 2: one that can clean up a life is Christ, not
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Speaker 2: the person sitting near you, not your parent or your child.
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Speaker 2: Your Lord is the only one. He drove them out.
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Speaker 2: He said, take them away, now quickly look at the third.
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Speaker 2: The Jews saw him driving out those animals and those people,
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Speaker 2: and the pushing aside the coins, and they said to
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Speaker 2: him verse eighteen, What sign do you show to us
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Speaker 2: seeing that you do these things? They knew the scriptures too.
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Speaker 2: They said, if you're declaring yourself by way of this
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Speaker 2: act that you are Messiah, authenticate your person with a
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Speaker 2: series of miracles. Paul tells us that the Jews require
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Speaker 2: a sign. The Jews apparently are by nature a questioning people.
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Speaker 2: Some of you are also suspicious, questioning, skeptical. Now, if
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Speaker 2: if you're really the Lord, then you do this and
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Speaker 2: I'll believe in you. You prove me, approve yourself through
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Speaker 2: this sign to me, and we'll give ourselves to you.
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Speaker 2: Look carefully, Jesus said to them verse nineteen, destroy this
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Speaker 2: temple in three days, I'll raise it up. I think
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Speaker 2: at that moment he put his fingertips on his chest
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Speaker 2: and he said this temple. But they didn't catch that.
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Speaker 2: They took it to mean the Herod's temple where they
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Speaker 2: were standing, this temple, this building he met his temple,
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Speaker 2: as John tells us. And so they responded, it took
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Speaker 2: forty six years to build this temple, and you'll raise
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Speaker 2: it up in three days. Ahhah. Never, and the emphasis
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Speaker 2: is upon the you, you of all people, will raise
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Speaker 2: it up no way. He was speaking of the temple
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Speaker 2: of his body no Verse twenty two. When he was
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Speaker 2: raised from the dead, we remembered they put it together.
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Speaker 2: Then the disciples did, and it says then they believed
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Speaker 2: the scriptures which Jesus had spoken when he was in
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Speaker 2: Jerusalem at the Passover during the feast. There were those
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Speaker 2: that believed in his name. Why because he did signs,
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Speaker 2: but he didn't commit himself to him. He knew them.
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Speaker 2: He didn't need anyone to bear witness concerning man. He
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Speaker 2: knew what was in man. In other words, they were
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Speaker 2: all involved in seeing a miracle, and they were not
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Speaker 2: aware of him as a person. The issue in this
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Speaker 2: case was not simply the building up of a temple,
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Speaker 2: but of allowing him to dwell the life. In the
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Speaker 2: first part, the issue was in the matter of the wedding,
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Speaker 2: seeing Jesus Christ in his glory. In the second part
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Speaker 2: we're seeing Jesus Christ in his holiness as he cleanses
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Speaker 2: the temple. And in the last part of this passage
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Speaker 2: we see him in his power, not only to be
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Speaker 2: raised up, but he himself able to raise us up.
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Speaker 2: You know what. The major truth I gleaned from these
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Speaker 2: twenty five verses. This morning, our most desperate need is
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Speaker 2: to become occupied with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now those
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Speaker 2: words have been familiar to you, and your tendency is
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Speaker 2: to turn them off, to say, well, we've heard that before.
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Speaker 2: Let's apply those words. Being so preoccupied with Jesus Christ
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Speaker 2: that he becomes the focal point of our unity. In
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Speaker 2: your work world, with the difficulties and the threats of
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Speaker 2: this economy, focusing upon Jesus Christ, fixing your gaze upon him,
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Speaker 2: as Hebrews twelve one to three point out, that will
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Speaker 2: do more to motivate you than anything I know of.
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Speaker 2: Living with a threatening situation at school, you can be
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Speaker 2: involved in all of the threat and the world worry
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Speaker 2: of your schooling, or you can focus upon Jesus Christ
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Speaker 2: and be lost in the wonder and love and praise
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Speaker 2: of him. Someone has let you down, a child has
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Speaker 2: become wayward, a parent hasn't come around as you had hoped.
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Speaker 2: A friend that you had counted on is fallen. Focusing
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Speaker 2: upon Jesus Christ will make all the difference in the
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Speaker 2: world and your relationship with those people I love. The
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Speaker 2: words of Tozer listen to this illustration has it ever
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Speaker 2: occurred to you that one hundred pianos, all tuned to
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Speaker 2: the same fork, are automatically tuned to each other. They
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Speaker 2: are of one accord by being tuned not to each other,
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Speaker 2: but to a standard to which each one must individually bow.
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Speaker 2: You represent a thing thousand pianos. There is no way
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Speaker 2: in the world that you could ever come in tune
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Speaker 2: if you tune yourself with the one next to you,
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Speaker 2: or if I tune myself to one of you. But
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Speaker 2: if every one of us so focused upon Jesus Christ
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Speaker 2: as a regular habit of life, we would suddenly fall
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Speaker 2: in tune with one another. Isn't that a great thought?
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Speaker 2: That Tozy's come up with one tuning fork, doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: how many pianos, as long as they're tuned to the
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Speaker 2: one standard. I think our day of relational theology has
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Speaker 2: missed the thought in feeling that if we could be
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Speaker 2: related to one another and falling in love with one another,
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Speaker 2: regardless of one another, and adapt and adjust to one another,
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Speaker 2: then it would be great. But I want you to
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Speaker 2: know that that first relationship is a triangle that must
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Speaker 2: bring in Jesus Christ. He is the standard. And I
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Speaker 2: say to you when you are rightly related to Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 2: Whether at a wedding, temple, cleansing, or the raising of
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Speaker 2: the body, you are rightly related to one another. That
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Speaker 2: I feel is the Achilles heel of the relation olymphasis
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Speaker 2: of our day. Now am I saying we're not to
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Speaker 2: relate to one another? Not at all. As a matter
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Speaker 2: of fact, the very best outworking of being rightly related
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Speaker 2: to Jesus Christ is the right relationship to one another.
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Speaker 2: It's a normal flowing process. That's about our heads this morning.
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Speaker 2: Show me. While we're bowed before our father, who is
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Speaker 2: the tuning fork of our lives, let me ask you
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Speaker 2: to quietly sit before him and think of your life
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Speaker 2: as a home, a dwelling place that he inhabits. A
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Speaker 2: home has several rooms, a kitchen, a place where you
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Speaker 2: feed yourself and your family. What are you feeding the
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Speaker 2: house where Christ lives? What is your body reading? Then?
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Speaker 2: A home has a playroom activities that's healthy, but only
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Speaker 2: those that bring honor to Him will enhance. The temple
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Speaker 2: where he lives, the library, the bedroom, the intimate life,
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Speaker 2: the life of rest, the living room where you entertain.
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Speaker 2: How about the closets? Got a few clauses that are
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Speaker 2: locked up. You see, Jesus, Christ, when he becomes the
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Speaker 2: full focus of your life, wants you to give him
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Speaker 2: all the keys, Let him invade all the rooms that
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Speaker 2: he might be supreme. If you've never trusted Christ, Jesus,
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Speaker 2: give him the keys of your life. Tell him in
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Speaker 2: a simple prayer that you failed. Your home is being destroyed,
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Speaker 2: and the only thing you've got left is a set
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Speaker 2: of keys that will open up a shell of a
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Speaker 2: life that's empty and meaningless. I promise you when when
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Speaker 2: you tell him to come into your life, when you
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Speaker 2: invite him to take control, he'll come in. Christians, Maybe
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Speaker 2: there's one area I should I should specify. That's your attitude,
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Speaker 2: the whole realm of your response and reaction to life
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Speaker 2: as it is right now. I wonder if this afternoon
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Speaker 2: it might be worth it to clean out a closet,
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Speaker 2: just lay out in front of him an attitude that
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Speaker 2: has no business in the temple. Dear Father, with delight,
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Speaker 2: we have opened again the word of God, which unfortunately
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Speaker 2: will slip from our minds as time passes. So we
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Speaker 2: wish to capture these few moments for a decision. We
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Speaker 2: pray together Lord that you will speak to us about
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Speaker 2: a rum or two of our lives, and in some
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Speaker 2: cases the whole house. Father, we give to you the keys,
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Speaker 2: our hearts, our attitude, our words, and our thoughts. We
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Speaker 2: ask you to take control, because we do it in
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Speaker 2: Jesus blessed Amen. The preceding message Wine Coins and Signs
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