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March 20 - John 2 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is, Thursday March 20th
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  and if you have missed a couple of days, well we are already in
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  the thick of the Jesus story as told in the Gospel of John.
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  John spends the 1st chapter really kind of setting the scene
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  for who Jesus is in the greater cosmos and then in chapter 2
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  bang we are straight into Jesus ministry and his miraculous
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  signs. So just as John dives straight
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  into the the telling of these stories, why don't we do the
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  same today as we read together John Chapter 2?
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  The next day there was a wedding celebration in the village of
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  Cana in Galilee. Jesus mother was there and Jesus
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  and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.
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  The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus mother
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  told him they have no more wine. Dear woman, that's not our
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  problem, Jesus replied. My time has not yet come.
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  But his mother told the servants, do whatever he tells
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  you. Standing nearby were six stone
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  water jars used for Jewish ceremonial washing.
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  Each could hold 20 to 30 gallons.
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  Sir Jesus told the servants, fill the jars with water.
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  When the jars had been filled, he said, now dip some out and
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  take it to the master of ceremonies.
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  So the servants followed his instructions.
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  When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now
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  wine, not knowing where it had come from, though of course the
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  servants knew, he called the bridegroom over.
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  A host always serves the best wine first, he said.
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  Then when everyone's had a lot to drink, he brings out the less
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  expensive wine. But you have kept the best until
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  now. This miraculous sign at Cana in
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  Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory and his
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  disciples believed in him. After the wedding, he went to
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  Capernaum for a few days with his mother, his brothers and his
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  disciples. It was nearly time for the
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  Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
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  In the temple area, he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep
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  and doves for sacrifices. He also saw dealers at tables
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  exchanging foreign money. Jesus made a whip from some
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  ropes and chased them all out of the temple.
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  He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money
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  changers coins over the floor and turned over their tables.
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  Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them,
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  get these things out of here. Stop turning my father's house
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  into a marketplace. Then his disciples remembered
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  this prophecy from the Scriptures.
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  Passion for God's house will consume me.
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  But the Jewish leaders demanded, What are you doing?
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  If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign
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  to prove it. All right, Jesus replied,
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  Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.
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  What? They exclaimed.
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  It has taken 46 years to build this temple, and you can rebuild
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  it in P3 days. But when Jesus said this temple,
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  he meant his own body. After he was raised from the
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  dead, his disciples remembered he'd said this, and they
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  believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.
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  Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the
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  Passover celebration, many began to trust in Him.
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  But Jesus didn't trust them because he knew all about
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  people. No one needed to tell Him about
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  human nature, for he knew what was in each person's heart.
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  Oh Jesus, we already see this incredible dichotomy in you
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  already after such a short time in this Gospel.
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  This gospel begins with stories of you creating the universe,
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  with you reaching out your hands and bringing things into being.
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  Nothing was created without it happening through you and your
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  presence there. And then here we see you seeing
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  into the hearts of people. You are the God of all creation,
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  the God who knows each of us intimately inside and out.
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  Jesus, you have come here full of love and faithfulness that
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  even when what you see in our hearts saddens you because we
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  know only too well that our hearts are corrupted, that our
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  thoughts are selfish and not what we want them to be.
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  And you see all of this, yet you still love us because you are
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  our loving, loving Saviour. Oh, and we're so grateful that
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  you see us completely and you accept us wholeheartedly.
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  So into that embrace, we step and we say thank you and we love
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  you. And we pray all of this in your
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  wonderful, amazing name, Jesus, Amen.