John chapter 1 will pick up a couple of verses here this morning just for context in our our main gospel A lesson text will be chapter 2 verses 1 through 11 but we we start with John chapter 1 verses 31 through 34 where we're Looking at John the Baptist. This is God's word eternally true John chapter 1 beginning in verse 31 I myself did not know him but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel Then John gave this testimony. I saw the spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him I would not have known him except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me the man on whom you see the spirit come down and Remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God Now look over to chapter 2 and we'll begin in verse 1 on the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee Jesus mother was there and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding When the wine was gone Jesus mother said to him they have no more wine Dear woman why do you involve me Jesus replied my time has not yet come His mother said to the servants Do whatever he tells you Nearby so stood six stone water jars the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing each holding from 20 to 30 gallons Jesus said to the servants fill the jars with water So they filled them to the brim Then he told them now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet They did so and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine He did not realize where it had come from though the servants who had drawn the water knew He called the bridegroom aside and said Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheapest wine after the guests have had too much to drink But you have saved the best till now This is the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee He thus revealed his glory and his disciples put their faith in him Here ends our reading there's a response of Thankfulness that's printed for us in our bulletin's the word of the Lord Thanks indeed, let's pray John makes the comment here verse 11 look there This the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed That if you study the gospel John or read any kind of introduction into it you might read that the John is structured around seven signs That Jesus does one thing you'll also see in any of these introductions is that John calls the miracles signs That's unique to John And there are these seven signs That occur throughout his his gospel and this was the the first one The question is What does a sign what does a sign do and what are Jesus signs or his miracles do And so if you think about it in society you can think about a sign. It's like a road sign And the sign will say You know wake force road and it'll have an arrow And say next right or something like that or right lane only Assign is something that that points To something if you'd like to fill out blanks in an outline there you go. We started already Assign points to something why does John call the miracles signs It's because John is saying these miracles pointed to something Now what did the miracles point to what is John show us about the miracles we talked a little bit about this and in Sunday school this morning Some would say today that the the signs point to the fact that you two can do miracles Or that anyone who's a believer will be like Jesus and be able to heal people Or turn his water into Pepsi
Or walk on water
Feel somebody else and that that it's a sign Jesus doing these signs is a sign that believers today can do that if they're faithful That's at the answer of those who are you know what gets called that the health and wealth Health and wealth theology Found in typically in charismatic churches Is that what they are signs of that Jesus is prompting us by his miracle doing that that you should have faith too So that you can do these kind of signs and get whatever you want
probably not Some of you and friends of Of yours have been told by well-meaning Christians who believe this with A near death son or daughter or father or mother in the hospital if you just believe hard enough God will heal This loved one of yours Um, and then only to have that loved one die Now we just make the point to till this argument completely Paul dies Jesus dies Peter dies every faith you know every faithful Christian Since this day has died as well. So apparently either you have the ability to do miracles and and heal yourself of all Miracles and you've just been unfaithful or God doesn't like you And isn't doing miracles through you Or this is not a promise for you today Um, and we'll say that the latter is true Just by virtue of what happens and life So there's signs of something else the sign points to something Second line therefore you're in your introduction is that Jesus did many Miraculous signs he did many miraculous signs now we see this in verse 11 It's just the first of the signs that he did John confirms that force and even though John includes only seven strategic signs From chapter two here to chapter 11 is where the signs and the last one is Lazarus being raised from the dead um that John tells us in John 20 verse 30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, but these are written He says in verse 31 there 20 31 These seven that I wrote to you these are written and there are enough These are written that you may believe that the Christ is Jesus the son of God That by believing you may have life in his name And so the signs are there pointing to that very thing What are these signs pointing to is the question that we ask as we come to this first one that's a blank there for you What are these signs pointing to or in other words what are they revealing Are they revealing that if you take this road you'll get to wake for us and if you'll take this road you'll get to Durham Okay, that's what a sign reveals something that points to something to some truth That will give you direction and belief in your life and so number one there to see what Jesus Signs are pointing to number one Jesus miraculous signs revealed Is glory Jesus miraculous signs revealed Is glory We see this in verse 11 look there to see that This the first of his miraculous signs Which Jesus performed in Canaan, Galilee Thus With this miracle with this sign he revealed His glory Now we it seemed John the Baptist said the same kind of thing look up at verse 31 of chapter 1
John the Baptist says The reason I came baptizing with water was that he might Jesus might be revealed Reveal revealed same word there So John's purpose is to reveal who Jesus is um and that Jesus was someone who deserved glory and that these miraculous signs Verse 11 in chapter 2 do the same thing they reveal Jesus glory now one thing A there in the outline in the gospel of John Jesus glory is a big deal The gospel John Jesus glory is a big deal John uses glory and glory word group like glorified and glorification those kind of things He uses it 24 times For perspective Matthew uses the word glory and that whole word group glorious glory glorify three times John 24 Mark uses it three times John 24 Luke uses the glory word group 10 times John uses it 24 times um Archie's role in his series of books on the the Trinity he he has you know The holiness of God, which is about God the Father and then he has the mystery the Holy Spirit Which is about the spirit but the the book about Jesus is the glory of Christ And he spends his time in the gospel of John In that in that book because John cares so much about glory and now the question is what is glory? If you're like me, you're like That's such a nebulous term, right? It's so fuzzy glory What is that And for years I've wondered you know what that what that word is about um Here's a here's a good definition for your simple definition if you plug this in every time you see glory glorified glorify glorification It'll make sense and you'll you'll see it there so be glory is one's greatness or magnificence In some cases perfection Glory is one's greatness um or one's magnificence And it's a greatness or magnificence that deserves great honor And high praise
Glory is one's greatness or magnificence That deserves great honor or high praise So let's plug it in here verse 11 This the first of his miraculous signs Which Jesus performed in Canaan Valley he thus revealed his greatness For which he deserves high honor and great praise Or let's plug in the other synonym by this sign he thus revealed his magnificence He revealed that he is one who should be greatly honored and highly praised He revealed his glory his greatness his magnificence And glory has this because you've got the two sides it's it's it's magnificent It's a greatness that deserves honor and praise you've got this idea of it's greatness That should be recognized to acknowledge Uh, and so that's what glory is about but um to glorify number one there be one there um to glorify Is one or so to glorify is to greatly honor Or to highly praise So when scripture says glorify the Lord with me it means highly honor the Lord with me It means highly pray greatly praise the Lord with me Um, so that's a quick little thing that you can put in there So to glorify is to greatly honor to highly praise one for his horror or its magnificence or greatness So when you glorify you're doing the kind of the back half of that you're honoring Somebody or something or you're you're praising highly praising some person or some thing for its greatness Or for its magnificence. That's what you're doing when you glorify. So when I glorify Michael Jordan I am praising him for his greatness on the basketball court I am glorifying him Um, number two To glorify can also mean to make One magnificent or great so as to be a right recipient of praise and honor So to glorify means to greatly honor or highly praise one for his or her or its magnificence or greatness It can also mean to glorify is to make one so that he's worthy of that praise or honor And so Jesus prays this in a number of places like when he says to the father father and he's talking about the cross now glorify your son Um, make me you put me at your right hand that I will be honored and praise and no longer Just a discarded human being on a cross that people are mocking glorify or when we talk about us like Paul in Romans 8 That whoever's for known right? You know these he calls you for nosy and he glorifies He makes worthy of honor and praise why because we are now images in glorification When we are brought to be with God and and given our glorified bodies When Jesus comes again We are without sin and we become God's monoliths Did it so our glorification is not that people are deifying us making us like God But they're saying wow, it's like us looking at the work of a great artist the artist being God and say this is a fine work of art The Mona Lisa wow Who did who painted this anyway as DaVinci wasn't it? Yeah, thank you. Thanks for if I looked at it for confirmation there It was like DaVinci is a great artist because this is a great piece of art Or if you found found some fantastic vase and you were an archaeologist and you didn't know as a fantastic vase And you did all the work with all the right chemicals. You're making that So that would be rightly glorified or honored For the glory it deserves for the praise it deserves that it's not getting because it's covered with mud right now So we're not glorified right now because we're covered with the mud of sin and our unsinful motivations and that kind of thing But in glorification we become stripped of our sin nature and always wanting and actually doing the will of God And no longer having bodies that are decaying or having one ear that doesn't match the other like mine That my brother still makes fun of You know, but but everything just perfection Right not that we're not that we're God but but that's glorification And so but this idea with glory is the idea of greatness or magnificence that's receiving High honor high praise So see The questions what is Jesus glory that John highlights throughout his gospel and other words What is great and magnificent about Jesus? So those are your two lines there What is Jesus glory that John highlights throughout his gospel or what is great and magnificent about Jesus Again and John Jesus glory is a big deal and so what is great about Jesus the John is emphasizing what is magnificent About Jesus the John emphasizes that maybe wasn't emphasizes much by the first three gospels Which had been in the hands of the church for 30 years by the time John is 20 20 30 years by the time John is writing So number two Number two Jesus miraculous signs revealed his glory that is his greatness revealed Jesus greatness in two ways to prominent ways in John The first in which we'll talk about here, which is your number which is your number two The way Jesus is great magnificent that deserves High honor is in his being the special set-apart son Set-apart from all else who have ever walked on this earth He is special set-apart son and rightful king of God's people surprise surprise right But that's what that's what that's what his miracles are showing in part next week We'll talk about the other part the other item of Jesus greatness that the signs are highlighting That they're signs of the the miracles are pointing to these two things and the first thing the miracles point to is that Jesus is king He's no ordinary human being. He's the one set above all the other Israelites Like David like Solomon like Reha Bohm the one set above that God calls in 2nd Samuel 17 or 714 my own special son The one set-apart I love all my children God's people are called his children in the Old Testament But I have this one special son that I've said over them for their good And so Jesus glory is revealed that is what the signs are pointing to what his miracles are pointing to is that Jesus is this one special one the king The God is anointed through John the Baptist God is anointed to set over his people for their own for their own good Jesus magnificence is that he is king right King unless you're talking about King Charles III you know you think about a king being magnificent right We don't think about King Charles III Prince Charles being magnificent You might look at you know a banquet that he would be at is magnificent but maybe not him But think about a king of great honor think about Solomon and all his royal robes Think about David as a warrior and as a king magnificent Solomon's palace that we that we looked at when we were going through first kings Oh now it was magnificent and and all that you know the queen of Shiva comes and she sees Solomon's hot palace and says this is magnificent. This is greater than I was told And so Jesus magnificence is glory And part is that is that he's king he's king Where do we get this idea that the signs of Jesus We're pointing to as being the king of God's people first your a there First of all in chapter one Nathaniel stated that Jesus was the king of God's people and Chapter one verse 49 look at that there Then Nathaniel declared verse 49 of chapter one then Nathaniel declared rabbi You are the son of God You're the king of Israel He's recognized by Nathaniel for his Magnificence He's glorified Right he's given high honor High praise by Nathaniel You know again no longer than anything good come out of Nazareth You answer what what a contrast from the lips of Nathaniel from almost the despising Of Jesus to meeting him and granting him honor rabbi You're the son of God the king of Israel so Nathaniel get tell tells us this John the Baptist had anoint to Jesus to you know again verse 31 to reveal him to Israel calling him the son of God Verse 34 which has that dual meaning of being second person of the Trinity divine from With no beginning, but also The one I just anointed John the Baptist said God has told me that one will come along whom I am to anoint As the new king um Of course Jesus comes out of it the gates after the wilderness time and and announces the gospel as what The kingdom of God is at hand King King King and so John the Baptist is just in the in the line of of Samuel and very much being a reflection of Samuel The Old Testament miraculous birth from a mother who's too old or can't have kids and God grants the kid and then Devoted to the Lord in a special way like Samuel had been then Samuel anoints the first two kings of Israel John the Baptist does the same and Luke draws those parallels very well and chapter 1 and chapter 2 of Luke But John the Baptist anoints Jesus as king and The spirit of God comes down upon Jesus to anoint Jesus as king and so John the Baptist calls him son of God also in this sense That he is second Samuel 714 God's special son raised up above all his realites from them And now above them to rule over them And so we see this already in chapter 1 that Jesus is recognized as king of Israel um But there's something else besides the testimony of these two men that God purposefully inscripturates In our text this morning Chapter or chapter 2 verses 1 through 11 God purposefully inscripturates is something that's kind of like a huh For us as we look at it the content of 1 through 11 in chapter 2 like huh what's going on here? um And a number of haunts going on here Jesus interaction with his mom and Interesting late Mary's never called Mary in the gospel John that she's just called the mother of Jesus um I won't speculate on that. I don't know why But but something else going on here why is the first miracle turning water into wine um Well God's putting this there on purpose. He's inscripturating these words and this instance um With uh with John again John says that John 20 verse 30 Jesus did a ton of miracles But I've only included seven why didn't Jesus start with one that was like made more sense to us And just say Jesus did one before but this is the second miracle he did How do you mean you start with the second one or not even we're not even even named them But here's what be be to be Jesus sign Okay, John identifies this force in verse 11. This is a sign. What's the sign the sign is of abundant wine showed or revealed was a sign of That Jesus was king
Did this this is a significance and if you're an Old Testament, you know it, but we're not So we're gonna talk about it and and and get this get this mean For so Jesus takes these these pots for German ceremonial Washing Jews used to wash themselves before they went into to worship God And he has them filled up with water um and just you know Says to the servants fill these with water. So it's kind of like the magician right who says brings the volunteer up on stage and says This is an ordinary ring right. It's a solid. You can't bend it. You know It doesn't have a a king candidate or anything Twists that surround as much as you want to he's verifying Right these servants know this was just water. We went to the water the place We always get our water from and we put water in this it was water when we got it It was water when we put it in the pot It was water when we brought it back into the the party the wedding feast with these were typically a week long These wedding feasts and we brought it in and it was water when we set it down But now when Jesus said take some over to the master At a turn to wine you see that there they say, you know those who had verse nine um the master the banquet tasted the water that had been turned in the wine He did not realize where it had come from though the servants who had drawn the water new So Jesus does this this Miracle creates this Creates this sign in verses seven through ten Um, and it points to Jesus being king house. So number one number one So we're gonna walk walk through this in the promised land of the Old Testament in order for God's people to have full blessing Full blessing in the land they needed to have a king Okay, they needed to have a king they wanted in the promised land They wanted the full blessing of God if we wanted to hear and heard all the blessings of the covenant Deuteronomy 28 Leviticus 26 they needed to have a king Which was prescribed for them in Deuteronomy 17 Okay, they need to have that They need to have a king descended from David That's second Samuel 7 Raining over them So the king is prescribed in Deuteronomy 17 God's people go for a while on 200 to 400 years Without a king that's the book of judges And that doesn't turn out too well In fact, they inherit the curses of the covenant during the period of the judges Over and over again And the refrain the point to the writer of judges is this refrain and I've Put those 17 six 18 one 19 one 21 25 all say this and in those days the days of the judges there was no king in Israel And everybody did what he wanted Not what god wanted Everyone did what he wanted And he reaches this crescendo by the end of the book of judges where they're mutilating concubines And almost extinguishing a whole tribe of Israel the Benjaminite That's how well things are when you don't have a king in the promised land when you Disregard and don't come to the Lord and say god give us this king Deuteronomy 17 Not a king like the nations like they asked for later in first Samuel first Samuel 8 But a king Deuteronomy 17 which god says which I give to you The one I choose god says and Saul is the one they chose the one who is a head taller than all the other Israelites The one they think boy if we got him no one will beat us up Right but god's choice is David which we see I think in first first Samuel 16 There so they needed a king to inherit the full blessings in the promised land a son of David raining over them Number two as the people lived in faithfulness under a Davidic King as the people lived in faithfulness under a Davidic King many blessings would be in the land including An abundance guess what of wine Including an abundance of wine. This is one of the covenant blessings and Leviticus and Deuteronomy And one of the things that that you see Throughout the Old Testament Is a blessing To and a sign of blessing to god's people Next line they're lack of wine likewise is named as by god as a curse It was a sign to god's people when they didn't have wine When they didn't have abundant wine that they were under god's curse and we're not fully experiencing god's Blessings and so in the curses of the covenant it says you won't have wine um Genesis 49-11 Jacob's blessing upon Judah The father of the kingship right David comes from Judah is that there will be abundant wine Because of him Jeremiah or Genesis 49 Deuteronomy 28-39 and 51 I'll talk about it to curse When there's not wine in the land and David himself in Psalm 4 verse 7 talks about the Lord blessing him with abundant wine um Now I want to qualify this scriptures very clear that drunkenness is a bad thing We've got that in Ephesians 5-8 do not be drunk with wine for that is dissipation but be filled with the spirit and the the um Teaching there is you want to be controlled by the spirit of god And then when you're controlled by wine You're not controlled by the spirit of god. You're controlled by the wine And the wine's taken you around and whipping you around like you're a lacerate person on a rope just throwing you here and there And it's like you know I've recounted to you you know when I've had surgeries and I'm coming out of anesthesia Betsy am I nice? No, I mean only to Betsy when I when I come out of anesthesia um, it's you know self-control's gone I say I need a sandwich I need something to eat you know and I say it in that way No self-control no, this is my wife. Hey Betsy could you I get the nurse. I need a sandwich or something Because I'm I'm about to fall over here um or like Danny Trejo, you know He's angry with not without the sticker snickers, you know Marsha Marsha Marsha that commercial That but but uh and the book of Proverbs says you know beer beer and and drunkenness Causes great inscriptions very clear both testaments that drunkenness that too much wine that heart and it does all three Heart-licker wine and beer is something that brings destruction And is dangerous To even the greatest of the people of God And that's it it is to be avoided. It brings it brings great harm Too much alcohol and but alcohol in its um In its moderation without drunkenness is not sin and in fact is presented as great as great blessing Okay So don't get drunk, but realize that that wine is considered a blessing um in Israel the Lord's Supper was celebrated with wine Jesus says um, you know that he admits, you know, I um in the company and even called a drunkard and a glutton That wasn't true. He wasn't eating too much or getting drunk But he was celebrating with sinners who were rejoicing at their newfound salvation Okay, um, so number three there Not having wine was also a sign of not being in the promised land at all But being still in the wilderness that's what did ramen 296 says when you were in the wilderness Speaking of the days of Moses you had no wine You're without that, but now you're in the land flowing with milk and honey Uh, if you recall some of those pastures, you know talking about you just wine flowing In the promised land a sign of gods a sign of gods blessing And then number four through his prophets God told his people that after the exiled of Babylon After the exiled of Babylon God would restore them He would restore them to the promised land under a Davidic king
And the flow of guess what the flow of wine In the land would once again be abundant Here's what Joel says about the return From exile and gods people being in the promised land again a sign to them That God had returned them He was behind it and that they were now in his full blessings as they returned to the promised land and had a Davidic king over them Joel says this this is prior to the exile talking about after the exile Joel 219 the Lord will reply to them. I am sending you grain New wine and oil enough to satisfy you fully Never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations Joel 224 the threshing floors will be filled with grain the vats will overflow with new wine and oil This is talking about being blessed in the promised land after the exile Joel 318 in that day the mountains will drip with new wine Get that image. It's just overflowing the mountains will drip with new wine and the hills will flow with milk And with Jim red for you from amus 914 where you got to see that that whole context or amus at the end of this You know his whole book of saying exiles coming Punishment's coming exiles coming and what should you do knowing IHC's Repent yeah, so that you push it back and they did Amus was one of the early prophets and God's people did repent and and they they held off the exile for a long time But finally it came but amus talked about God would restore his people under a Davidic king And he says this in verse 13 he's talked about wine flowing and then verse 14 It's 914 I will bring back my exile people Israel. They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them They will plan vineyards and drink their wine. They will make gardens and eat their fruit Okay So wine is a blessing when you have a Davidic king over you when you have a Davidic king over you God's people are walking in righteousness and faithfulness and God is giving new grain And new wine and it's abundant And one of the signs that God's people weren't being faithful and one of the things that happens when they don't have a faithful son of David over them Is that God withholds the rain he withholds the crops foreigners come in and and and and and cause heavy and bring above on them heavy taxation Upon them and they enter into a period of scarcity Now number five number five in Jesus day that the people have got had partially returned From exile Not all the Israelites came back. This is how Paul shortly after the days of Jesus could go from city to city and find synagogues Right not all the Jews had come back. They were only partially Back in Israel, but in Jesus day that the people have got it partially returned to the promised land from Babylon many Many of the promises of restoration to the land had not yet been fulfilled That is restoration when Jesus arrives on the scene restoration had not fully come Restoration had not fully come. This is why the gospel Matthew and chapter two of Matthew when the Jewish children are being slaughtered Two years and younger and Bethlehem and there's the Matthew quotes Jeremiah and Jeremiah had been talking about when never can never can never can as it comes in and slaughters the kids And carries off the people into exile so that Israel is in ruin Matthew says This is a fulfillment of that as well It happened during the days of Jeremiah When the children were slaughtered and and Jerusalem mourning for her children Jeremiah had met it when never Nick Kinezir came in and that happened But now it happens again in the days of Jesus birth Rachel weeping for her children because they are no more They're dead So Jesus is born into an incomplete restoration When Jesus is born the king is herod The ruler is wrong Restoration was not full when Jesus came on the scene and that's why people are looking for a Messiah a Christ an anointed one who's the king Again, they had a prophet John the Baptist they had plenty of priests But they needed an anointed king for restoration to be complete because they were still a desolate land Rachel weeping for her children Not all the Jews had come back They had not been gathered from the nations like the Old Testament prophets said they would be after exile I will bring all my children back from the nations They will be here and I will set David again like You read in Amos there as Jim Redford I will restore David's fallen tent Meaning his kingdom And that hadn't happened when Jesus came on the scene and so people were looking for a king They were looking for an anointed one. They're looking for a new David because a new David a new king Was key for them experiencing all the blessings that God had for his covenant people Including abundant wine Starting to see why this is a sign that Jesus is king
So number six or actually the second part of Of five most importantly the restoration promise of a son of David to reign again as king Had not yet come to be And so we see this and the Old Testament prophets the latter chapters chapters of Ezekiel talk about this king from David Hosea talks about this was a like 110 and and three five talk about David reigning again um Haggai speaks of this as well, but but here in Amos There were we started with whatever verse that was the very first verse Amos 9-11 Says there that the son of David would reign again after the exile and so the exile was still going on Restoration was not complete when Jesus comes on the scene. So it gives them a sign That he's bringing the exile to an end So number six Jesus making wine abundant at this wedding was a sign that the son of David king Jesus making wine abundant at this wedding overflowing These jars 20 30 gallons
Overflowing that's 120 gallons altogether. There were six six times 20 is 120 six times 30 is 180 somewhere between a hundred and hundred and hundred and twenty and a hundred and thirty gallons of wine That's a lot of wine Overflowing wine Um by the way, which is the best Not the worst In the Old Testament it had basically been that the best king had come first David All the other kings get compared to David don't they and he walked in the ways of his father David and did what was right and good in his real Or and he did not walk in the ways of his father David and he turned to other gods and god cursed the land So that had happened in the Old Testament yet the best wine first you had David Come first in this abundance in the land and Solomon at first in the first part of his reign And then it kind of just tapers off and even the great kings that we have has a kaya and jessaya and jirat They'll have these unfaithful periods of their lives so they don't end well But then all of a sudden Jesus the son of David comes on the scene and god has saved the best wine For last the best son of David for last one who's better Than the then David himself as jesus himself said one greater than Solomon is here Speaking of himself So jesus making wine abundant at this wedding is assigned the son of David king had come bringing with him the full Restoration bringing with him the full restoration of the people of god post exile Complete with flowing abundant wine Verse 11 This the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed in cana of gallery. He thus revealed his glory He deserves honor He's the king His presence among gods people means wine flows and abundance It means they can inherit all the blessings That god would have for his people Because he's present if you don't have the king you're in the book of judges You're getting oppressed over and over again by your own sin nature by those around you You don't have the protection of your king in heaven But if jesus is your king Then you have his protection Then you have his blessings For this age and in the age to come beyond so number earth so letter C letter C because Jesus is king of gods people Because jesus is king of gods people all gods people can have an end an end To their exile from god So if you came from outside the church you didn't grow up in the church You were an exile All right, you're off an exile you weren't part of Israel You weren't in that place where god was sending the rain to give you abundant crops You had no promise upon you no covenant upon you that promised you abundant wine in new grain and no one to harm you But if jesus is your king then those blessings start there come to be in your life your exile is ended And so jesus is king of gods people all gods people can have an end to their exile from god their exile from god And have a new beginning of living in the blessings Of living in the blessings that god has for his people through their great king Jesus What was the problem for gods people in the first century but jesus arrived They didn't have their son of David king so they didn't have the blessings of the covenant They were an oppressed people They were literally occupied militarily by a foreign nation And governed by them God through the prophets said that Assigned that gods people were being oppressed and that god was judging them was that they would hear foreign tongues In their own nation And so they were hearing Latin and Greek in the promised land They were not experiencing restoration. They were still in many ways in exile And so jesus comes and it gives this sign Your exile is ended The king has come I've been anointed I'm your king perhaps that's what's going on with his interaction with his mom Um, he says they're look up there um She said when the wine is gone jesus mother said to him they have no more wine and he says dear woman He doesn't say mom He says dear woman and it's not a it's not a it's not a rude phrase But it's not super warm either Uh, but but perhaps what's going on here is that jesus has already been anointed king And now just as um Beth Sheba talks to Solomon when Solomon's anointed as king She then begins to talk to Solomon her son as king no longer my son I need to obey him Not the other way around And so you see that in the next verse there verse five his mother tells the servants Do whatever he tells you We'll talk about this some more Next week But jesus has become king Even marry jesus mother Perhaps we're seeing here begins to understand this Obey the king She says So that's the good news about jesus You have a king Who brings all the covenant blessings the god promises and wants to give to his people Um now today that's not Abundant wine Necessarily, but it is the fruit of the vine fruit of the spirit Fruitfulness in your life that kind of thing as we've talked about before now our summary summary Jesus glory Jesus glory that is Jesus greatness And magnificence that's deserving high honor and praise Isn't part that he is especially set apart king He's a glorious one One who deserves honor Because he's our king one greater than Solomon has come He's our specially set apart king who brings to all his people restoration Restoration from broken lives Restoration from wrong ideas about how to live Restoration from false ideas about what's true in life And who is god and what kind of way should we walk Should I take revenge or should I forgive? He restores us from that And it restores all of us from art the the broken things in our hurts and pains In the past and he becomes to us as Paul says in second Corinthians one the god of all comfort He restores us He's our king who restores us he brings his people restoration after their pre-faith exile From his blessings Let's pray