When the Wine Fails

John 2:1-11

Maud church of Christby Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Morning, April 14, 2013

A Wedding Invitation for Jesus

A Wedding Invitation for Jesus

John 2:2 NKJV Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

DID YOU INVITE JESUS TO YOUR WEDDING?

A Wedding Invitation for Jesus

Matthew 19:4-6 NKJV And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,' (5) and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH' ? (6) So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.―

A Wedding Invitation for Jesus

Matthew 19:9 NKJV And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.―

RUNNING OUT OF WINE

John 2:3 ASV And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

It is A Sin to become Drunk!

1 Cor. 6:9-10 NKJV (9) Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, (10) nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

The Only Cure for a Hangover

Luke 21:34 NKJV "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

Carousing

―kraipale‖ (surfeiting KJV) the giddiness and headache caused by drinking wine to excess (Thayer).

May We Casually Drink?

Well Jesus made wine:

John 2:10 NKJV And he said to him, "Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!‖Drunk

methuo - to drink to intoxication (Strongs)

May We Casually Drink?

The most common word in the Greek for wine is ‗oinos.‘ Oinos may refer to either an unfermented (non-alcoholic) drink or a fermented (alcoholic) drink.

Isaiah 16:10 NKJV Gladness is taken away, And joy from the plentiful field; In the vineyards there will be no singing, Nor will there be shouting; No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease.

However, in passages such as Rom. 14:21 and Eph. 5:18 Oinos clearly refers to an alcoholic beverage.

Waterpots were roughly 20-30 gallons each:

Therefore Jesus produced: (6 times 20-30) or

120 to 180 gallons total

That‘s enough for 500 guests to each drink about 40 ounces of wine

Remember this in addition to the fact that the guests were already ―well drunk.‖

May We Casually Drink?

Since Drunkenness is a Sin

Would Jesus tempt men to sin?

James 1:13-14 NKJV Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. (14) But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.

To Participate in a Drinking

Party would be Sinful

1 Peter 4:2-3 NKJV that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. (3) For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

Drunkenness

―Oinophlugia‖ (excess of wine KJV) a compound word form ‗oinos‘ meaning wine, and ‗phluo‘ meaning to bubble up.

To Participate in a Drinking

Party would be Sinful

1 Peter 4:2-3 NKJV that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. (3) For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

Drinking parties

―Potos‖ A party where the purpose is to drink. Does not necessary mean that you participate to excess yourself.

But Christ was WITHOUT Sin

Hebrews 4:15 NKJV For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV (21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Ruler of Feast Not Drunk

John 2:10 NKJV And he said to him, "Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!‖

Barnes writes, ―This word does not of necessity mean that they were intoxicated, though it is usually employed in that sense. It may mean when they have drunk sufficient, or to satiety; or have drunk so much as to produce hilarity, and to destroy the keenness of their taste, so that they could not readily distinguish the good from that which was worse.‖

Whatever He Says Do It!

Mary to Jesus, ―They have no wine.‖

James 4:2-3 NKJV You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. (3) You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (8) For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Whatever He Says Do It!

Was Jesus rude to his Mother:

―Woman what does your concern have to do to me? My hour has not yet come.‖

John 2:5 NKJV His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it.‖

John 2:7 NKJV Jesus said to them, "Fill the waterpots with water." And they filled them up to the brim.

Whatever He Says Do It!

To Many Mark 16:16 Does not make sense:

John 14:15 NKJV "If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 15:14 NKJV You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Reminded of Naaman in 2 Kings 5 –―wash and be clean‖; Acts 22:16

Saving the Best for Last

The ruler of the feast declares, ―Kept the good wine until now.‖

Matthew 6:19-21 NKJV "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; (20) but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. (21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Saving the Best for Last

For Christians the Best is saved for Last:

Matthew 19:28-30 NKJV So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (29) And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. (30) But many who are first will be last, and the last first.