WEBVTT 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:09.439 This podcast is a ministry of Grand Parkway Baptist Church, helping people know, enjoy, and glorify God. 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:14.480 For more information about Grand Parkway, visit Grandparkway.org. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.280 Amen. 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:18.320 Amen. 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:22.079 Before you sit down, uh, let's just all say that name together out loud. 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:23.600 Let's just speak the name of Jesus. 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:24.879 Let's just say it together. 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:25.679 Jesus. 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:27.359 Let's say that again. 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:28.160 Jesus. 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.719 The Bible says a lot about the name of Jesus. 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.159 As a matter of fact, in the Psalms, he says, God, you've exalted above all things your name and your word. 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:44.880 In Proverbs, he says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower, and the righteous run in and they find strength, they find shelter, they find security. 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.119 So we've come to the strong name of Jesus. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:53.119 The book of Acts says there's no name given under heaven whereby which men should be saved except the name of Jesus. 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:54.240 You can't be saved. 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:57.679 You can't find forgiveness in any other name but Jesus. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.600 Religion will not change you. 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.240 Only a relationship with Jesus will change you. 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.640 So if you're visiting today, just relax. 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.040 No one's gonna beat you up, make you feel guilty. 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.040 I didn't come to give a religious lecture. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.319 I could stay home and get my queso ready for the Astros tonight. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:12.719 Amen. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:14.879 We fell off the wagon last night. 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:16.959 We had a bad night, but we'll be back tonight. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.200 We got the bearded wonder on the mound. 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:24.959 But they've also got a really tall left-handed picture, so it could be, you know, I don't know. 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:26.079 No? 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:29.040 Clayton Kershaw might have heard of him. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:29.920 No? 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:31.599 Okay, worried about hard astros. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:32.079 Okay. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:33.599 Back to Jesus. 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:36.879 Here's the thing, okay? 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:38.560 This is not a religious experience. 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:39.760 I'm not a religious person. 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:41.840 You're thinking like, you're the pastor. 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:42.560 Yes. 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.040 This is not about it's about a relationship. 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.519 It's what you and I were created for, okay? 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:49.359 So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pray. 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:50.640 We're gonna read out of the Bible. 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:52.239 We're going through the Gospel of John. 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.400 Uh we're in chapter 2, uh, where Jesus turns water into wine. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:05.280 And if you grew up in the Baptist church, you probably heard a lot of lectures about wine and grape juice and drinking and not drinking, and that has nothing to do with what the Bible's talking about in John 2. 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.319 All the wine drinkers are like, Amen. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:11.840 Amen. 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:13.439 I'm not feeling guilty today. 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:19.039 By the way, Jesus didn't come to make you feel guilty, He came to forgive you and set you free. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:20.159 Alright? 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.080 So let me pray and we're gonna jump in. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:22.719 Let's pray together. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.719 Lord Jesus, the Bible says that the truth, your name is a strong tower, God, and the righteous run in and find strength. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:33.759 And so we've come, Lord, to your sufficiency so we don't live at the mercy of our insufficiency. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:40.719 So we don't beat ourselves up for all that we didn't get done, for stuff we should have done and didn't, stuff that we shouldn't have done and did, God. 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:49.840 We've come to just baptize our insufficiency and your sufficiency and stand in the shadow of your name and say, God, say something today that hasn't my name on it. 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.960 God, speak a word that shapes the way I think about myself. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.159 It's not about this versus that, it's about you. 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.680 And look, so Lord, give us eyes to see what you're really talking about. 00:02:59.919 --> 00:03:04.960 Otherwise, we're gonna consume the Bible upon our preferences, and that's a horrible thing to do. 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.719 And so, Lord, say something and say it plain like you always do. 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.560 We ask for this as your sons and daughters, and we ask for this in Jesus' name. 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:14.479 And everyone said, Amen. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:15.280 You can have a seat. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.919 If you've got a Bible, open it up to John chapter 2. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:19.599 And if you don't have a Bible, that's okay. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:20.879 There's one on your row there. 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.479 And you may think, hey, I want to sip my coffee and just check this out. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.360 But what I'm gonna read, what I'm gonna say, will come up on the screen today. 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:32.800 So as you're finding John chapter 2, let me just give you a little bit of background so you can understand the story that they tell. 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.479 We're gonna read a story where Jesus and his disciples get invited to a wedding. 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.719 Now, I know you've been to weddings, I've been to weddings. 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:45.039 Usually a wedding, if it starts at 6:30 or 6 or 5 o'clock, it's done by 9.30, 10, 11:30. 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:49.680 If they have open bar, which are free bar, as I call it, um, that's great. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:59.520 I usually leave shortly after dinner because that's when people have been hitting the bar for like an hour or two, and that's when people get on the dance floor that have no business on the dance floor. 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:02.560 And it's one thing to have had too many glasses of wine. 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:06.639 It's another thing for your pastor to see you on the dance floor doing things like this. 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.319 And I'm like, come on, honey, we're going. 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:10.800 Why? 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.159 It look, it's one of the elders out there doing the white man overbite. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.079 So I just slip out so they don't go, oh, that's my preacher over there. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:24.319 And so, but that's not the kind of wedding they're talking about in here because you may think, because the women are kind of like, isn't this awesome? 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.240 Your husband doesn't think it's awesome, okay? 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.800 As soon as he's done eating, your husband's ready to go. 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.360 He's like, I gave you this night, okay. 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:32.879 I've been here, let's done, let's go. 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:38.720 And like, no, I want to stay until they depart so we can throw bird seed or rice or something on them or blow bubbles. 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.839 Weddings nowadays are a competition. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.199 It's not a worship service, it is a competition. 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:48.639 We gotta get it on. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:56.800 And so, uh, but but weddings today pell in comparison to weddings in the Bible, because here's what would happen in the Bible just a little backdrop so we can understand what's being said. 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.120 In the Bible, this is crazy, okay? 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.920 Uh a man and woman would get betrothed, not engaged. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:03.920 Betrothal, it was so serious. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.680 In order to get out of a betrothal, you had you had to divorce that person. 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:15.439 That's why Mary and Joseph in the Bible, uh, when they were betrothed, and Mary says, I'm pregnant and I'm a virgin, and Joseph's like, Yeah, right. 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.120 Uh I'm gonna put her away quietly. 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:18.879 I'm not gonna just I'm not gonna embarrass her. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.519 Because he was saying, well, they were betrothed, they weren't even married yet. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:23.439 During betrothal, this is nutty. 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:24.160 Listen to this. 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.000 During betrothal, the the woman would live with her parents, okay? 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.600 And the man had to go and build a house and get a job. 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:32.879 I know that's crazy. 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.399 To get married, you had to have a house and a job. 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:38.480 Shut up. 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.800 You couldn't just move in with your parents and kind of go, we're gonna figure it out. 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:43.439 No. 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.040 The man would leave. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:49.040 And matter of fact, he didn't have to just have a house, he had to build the house. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.519 And he built the house as a demonstration of his resourcefulness and his work ethic. 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.839 And so the man would build the house, and then he would come at a night when the woman did not know. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.839 She had to live with a sense of expectation, always being ready. 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:09.759 And the man would come on a night that she didn't never knew, and he would come with friends and they'd have torches, and they would come in the middle of the night. 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:15.680 Now, this is why Jesus, later on in John's gospel, Jesus is getting ready to go back to heaven, and the disciples are like, What's up? 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:16.720 Why are you leaving us? 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:17.920 And he goes, I gotta go. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:19.199 It's necessary that I go. 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.920 And he says, But if I go, I will come again and receive you. 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.000 He says, In my father's house are many rooms. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.000 If it were not so, would I have told you? 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.839 And I go, if I go, I go to prepare a place for you so that where I am, you may be also. 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.519 It's that same, he's picking up on their understanding of what a wedding was like. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:41.839 And so the man would come with torches and his friends, and he would get his woman in the middle of the night, and they would go in a processional back to where the man's house. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:50.240 They would go inside and consummate the relationship while his friends were feasting, they'd come out and they would celebrate, and the celebration would last almost a week. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.759 And so when they that's why they ran out of wine here in John chapter 2. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:59.920 And by the way, if you ran out of wine, it was horribly embarrassing, and your friends could sue you. 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:08.720 Yes, because you had been to their kids' wedding and they didn't run out of wine, and you were a poor party planner, and you ran out of wine. 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:14.879 And so there was social and legal risks involved in what happens in John chapter 2. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.439 Now, some of you aren't gonna hear another word I say right now. 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:22.560 You're just kind of saying, I'm gonna talk to my daughter's boyfriend right now, get a house and a job and come back. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:24.000 It's in the Bible. 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:26.720 Thank you for coming. 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:33.439 But here's the deal: we have to understand the background of the Bible, otherwise, we miss what's being said. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:35.439 This is not a one-dimensional text. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.240 This thing is 3D and it's popping, okay? 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:40.000 John chapter 2, verse 1. 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.160 On the third day, there was a wedding at Canaan and Gat. 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.079 Oh, by the way, I brought you a picture so you can kind of see what it would look like. 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:48.160 This is my friend Sarah's wedding. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:50.160 Yes, Sarah got married. 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.920 Sarah was a girl that just loved Jesus. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:57.120 She kind of had that crazy look in her eye, kind of like, I love Jesus a lot, or I'm a serial killer. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.480 So all through college, she never got asked out. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.800 She was, as the guys would say, she was hot. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:03.920 She was beautiful. 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:06.079 And young ladies, she was so lonely. 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.879 She guys would not approach her, she was intimidating. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.600 She would meet guys and she would just say, she would look them in the eye and guy go, Hey, tell me about you and Jesus. 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:14.720 How are y'all these days? 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.399 And guys were like, I just want to kiss on the mouth and act irresponsibly. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:23.759 And so she went through high school and all of college and never had a serious boyfriend. 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:35.840 Then finally she gets out of college, she's doing her thing, she meets this guy, and she and he's just kind of like, he's kind of quiet, and she's kind of like a live wire, like, oh man, let's go give out blankets and coats to the homeless. 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:37.440 And he's like, Oh, oh, okay. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.039 Uh, this is their wedding. 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:40.639 She got married out at their ranch. 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.600 By the way, the guy she met, his family's loaded. 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:48.399 Yes! And that's her and her friends. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.960 They came 25 women carrying torches. 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:57.120 They got and they come over the hill, and all you can see was the ambient glow of the fire, and they're singing as they come. 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.480 And she's surrounded by 25 women carrying fire. 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:04.639 So your lame Pinterest wedding is already paled in comparison. 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:07.200 Now, why do I tell you that? 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.720 Because this is kind of the picture of what it looked like in the Bible. 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:12.240 Back to John chapter 2. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.399 On the third day, there was a wedding at Canaan in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.279 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with the disciples. 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.200 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine. 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.799 And Jesus said to her, Woman, what does this have to do with me? 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:28.559 My hour's not yet come. 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.519 His mother said to the servants, Do whatever he tells you. 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:37.440 Now there were six stone jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.799 Jesus said to the servants, Fill the jars with water. 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:46.559 And they filled them up to the brim, and he said to them, Now, draw some out and take it to the master of the feast. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:47.759 And so they took it. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.879 And the master of the feast tasted the water, now become wine, and did not know where it came from. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.360 Though the servants who had drawn the water knew. 00:09:55.519 --> 00:10:09.440 The master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, Everyone serves the good wine first, and then when the people have drunk freely and got a little buzz, then they break out the ten buck chuck, the box of wine that you have in your fridge right now. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.639 But you have kept the good wine until now. 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:23.679 And this is the first of his signs Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:29.519 After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.559 I want to talk to you this morning about intentional glory. 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:33.759 Intentional glory. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:34.480 What do I mean? 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:38.559 Intentional is the way you live, glory is what you live for. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:39.919 Intentional glory. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.159 And I want to give you four words to think about in relation to what we read this morning. 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.879 The first word I want to give you this morning is the word purposeful. 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:47.759 Purposeful. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:55.120 It's the first five verses of John chapter 2 where they run out of wine and Jesus' mother says to him, Hey, they don't have any wine. 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:56.799 Can you do something about that? 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.919 And Jesus said to her, Woman, what does this have to do with me? 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.120 Now, students, do not say that to your mom when she says, Clean your room. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.679 You know, don't say, Woman, what's this got to do with me? 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.159 The emphasis is on the next sentence where Jesus says this crazy sounding thing. 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.720 He says, My hour has not yet come. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.120 My hour has not yet come. 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.559 We are seven days into the public ministry of Jesus. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:24.080 Now, John chapter 2 says on the third day, but they started counting from the time Jesus gets his disciples. 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:29.519 And so he's assembled his disciples, and now three days since then, it's that that took four days, three days. 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:45.519 He's a week into his public ministry, and already he has this very, very concrete understanding that there's a fixed point in time where he is going to die, how he's going to die, the method which he's going to die, who he's going to die for, and what it's going to do to change the world. 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:56.879 So all through John's gospel, Jesus lives with what I call this vertical reality, but he's surrounded by people who are stuck in the horizontal non-realities of their so-called life. 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:58.159 Let me say that again. 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:07.600 Jesus lives with this keen awareness of this vertical reality, and he's surrounded by people that are stuck in these horizontal non-realities of their so-called life. 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:17.039 And so, over and over, if you went home today and started reading to the Gospel of John, at least eight to ten times you would hear this phrase, My hour is not yet come. 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.720 The hour has not yet come. 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:24.480 Because he lives with this sense of, hey, I know why I came and I know what I came for. 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:25.759 Intentional glory. 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:27.200 I know the way I'm going to live. 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:28.399 I'm very intentional. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:34.320 I asked the staff this morning in our prayer gathering, hey, if you could know the time when you were going to die, would you want to know? 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:36.559 And they were like, You're morbid. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.039 And I said, Wouldn't it change the way you lived? 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.039 One of the guys says, I would quit school and spend more time with my kids. 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.399 I said, Maybe you should quit school and spend more time with your kids. 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:51.919 And he's like, Well, that sounds somehow tempting. 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:53.759 But here's what I'm saying. 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.759 When Jesus left heaven and come to earth, he knew the exact hour he was going to die. 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.440 Nothing catches him off guard. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.639 He'll say later in John's gospel, no one takes my life from me. 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:04.399 I lay my life down. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.639 He said, I can take it up, I can lay it down. 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:08.320 He knew nothing caught him off guard. 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:10.399 There's two words you never find in the Bible. 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:11.360 Oh, really? 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.039 He lives with this very clear understanding. 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.480 See, this vertical awareness is what's known as kairos. 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:22.320 There's two Greek words for time. 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:23.679 The first one is kairos. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:28.879 It's this opportunity, this moment, this opportune time. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.320 That's kairos. 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:34.000 The other one is just marking off the days on this horizontal experience. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:34.879 That's chronos. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:36.480 C-H-R-O-N-O-S. 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:37.759 Chronological. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:39.600 It's like, hey, you know what? 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:42.080 Donald Trump is blowing up the stock market. 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:46.159 Let me check my 401k and see if I can retire because I'm just tired of this. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.240 You're living horizontally. 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.080 By the way, nothing wrong with having a big fat retirement. 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:53.360 Nothing wrong with checking on it. 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:54.720 That doesn't mean you don't love Jesus. 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:58.559 That means, but it may mean if that's all you think about, you're stuck in the horizontal. 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:00.320 Jesus lived out of the vertical. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:01.120 Kairos. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.840 This is hey, for such a time as this. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.519 And so he says over and over in John's gospel, let me give you an example. 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:14.080 John 4 21, he says, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:20.240 Two verses later, but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:29.440 John 5 25, very very truly I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:38.879 John 5 28, do not be astonished, for this is for excuse me, do not be astonished at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:44.080 John 7, Jesus said to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always here. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.879 John 7, verse 8, go to the festival yourselves. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:55.440 Because the disciples invited Jesus, said, Hey, we're going to the festival is not like a carnival with rides operated by meth monkeys and overpriced cattle corn. 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:55.919 Okay? 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:59.519 The festival is a Jewish worship, it's a Jewish feast. 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:01.279 And so it's a big thing going on. 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.279 And so they said, Hey Jesus, would you come? 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.919 And Jesus says, Hey, go to the festival yourselves. 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:07.519 I'm not going for the festival. 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:08.399 Here's why. 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.799 My time has not yet fully come. 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.399 In other words, he has a sense, hey, my time's kind of passing, but it hadn't fully come yet. 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.120 We're getting closer, but we're not there yet. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:25.759 And John 7, verse 30, then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come. 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:31.360 John 8 20, he spoke these words while he was teaching in the in the treasury temple, but no one arrested him. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:31.840 Why? 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.399 Because his hour had not yet come. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:41.039 And then finally you get to John chapter 12, verse 23, and Jesus says, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:45.840 It's all of a sudden the plane has landed and Jesus is about to get off. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:46.879 What's fixing to happen? 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:48.639 He's fixing to die on the cross. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:50.879 Matter of fact, it's so vexing to him. 00:15:51.120 --> 00:16:01.919 He's known it's coming all along, and it's so real where he takes on the sins of the world, which means anybody in this room that has sinned or is sinning right now, Jesus died for that sin, so it doesn't have to have power over you. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:06.399 That's why he says in John 12, verse 27, now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.000 Father, save me from this hour. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.279 No, it was for this very reason that I came to this hour. 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.039 Father, glorify your name. 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:14.799 See, here's what it comes down to. 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:16.559 Here's why I read all these verses. 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:18.960 You're like, oh, dude, that's a lot of the Bible. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:25.440 Here's why I read all that to just point to the fact that Jesus lived a very purposeful life. 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.600 He knew his hour was coming. 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:29.360 He's a week in his public ministry. 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.320 And his mom, his own mom, says, Hey, everyone out of wine. 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:33.759 He says, What's that got to do with me? 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:35.200 My hour is not yet come. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:37.120 In other words, it isn't time yet. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.600 And then he says, Okay, I can do something about that. 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:44.320 But he gets to John 12 and he says, Now the hour has come for the Son of Man. 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:46.720 And hear this word, to be glorified. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:17:01.360 He doesn't say to be crucified, to be disrespected, to be spat upon, to have my beard plucked out, to be killed on a cross by a bunch of religious nitwits who have no idea what's happening, that I could call down angels and wipe these people off the face of the earth. 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:05.599 No, he says the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:07.359 Here's why I make a big deal out of that. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.279 The way you define glory determines the path your life will take. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.720 Let me say that again. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:17.200 The way you and I define glory determines the path our life will take. 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:31.759 If for you glory is getting everything you want, living where you want, driving what you want, spending what you want, a life of comfortable excess, then you will cobble together a definition of glory that makes all that stuff not just possible but necessary. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:37.039 In other words, for for for me to glorify God, I gotta get mine first. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:49.200 Yes, yes, but you'll live and die with three dollars worth of God. 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:54.720 However, if you get remotely close to this kind of definition of glory, there's no limit to what your life can be like. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:18:03.839 See, the reason most people live really small lives and die as spiritually inconsequential people is because they got it wrong when it came to defining glory. 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.480 So here's the first thing I want you to do before you go to bed tonight. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.480 I want you, if you're married, to look at your spouse and say, Hey, how do we define glory? 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:12.799 Not, hey, what'd you think of the church? 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.000 Hey, we visited that church again, and that man is kind of crazy. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:17.599 I think he drinks too much coffee. 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:18.880 Absolutely. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.960 But let's just don't waste our words on that. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.279 Ask yourself this: hey, how do we define glory? 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:27.359 Because the way you define glory determines the path your life will take. 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:32.880 That's why Jesus was able to talk about the cross and say, Oh, the hour is come for the Son of Man. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.000 Now's the time for the Son of Man to be glorified. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:37.119 What? 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:38.960 Are you kidding me? 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:41.359 Second word I want to point you to. 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:42.960 See, number one, purposeful. 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:44.559 Jesus was very purposeful. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.039 Are you very purposeful in how you live your life? 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:48.720 That's what intentional glory is about. 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.640 Secondly, it's just the word better. 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:51.519 The word better. 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:52.319 Look at verse six. 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:57.039 And this is where we, as I'm a Christian who pastors a Baptist church, okay? 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.200 I do not find my identity in being a Baptist. 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:01.680 I do not apologize for being a Baptist either. 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.319 But this is where we historically get in the weeds. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:05.119 This is what I mean. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:05.839 Verse 6. 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:11.759 Now there were six stone jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:14.559 Jesus said to the servants, Fill the jars with water. 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:16.160 And they filled them up to the brim. 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.519 And he said to them, Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast. 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:20.640 And so they took it. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:25.119 When the master of the feast tasted the water, now become wine, and did not know where it came from. 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:28.240 Though the servants who had drawn the water knew. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:33.039 The master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, Everyone serves the good wine first. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.480 And when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.200 You have kept the good wine until now. 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:41.920 Translation, this is top shelf. 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.279 It's what you pay for on payday. 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.160 It's what you do after you've closed a big deal. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:49.519 You're like, you know what? 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:50.960 We killed it this quarter. 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:52.880 Let me have something off the top shelf up there. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.240 It's two dollars extra. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:55.680 Come on, who are you talking to? 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.880 I'm stacking paper up and I'm gonna make it rain and chilies. 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:03.440 Yeah, I said chilies. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.680 I'm like, well, not where I go to actually get my drink, but anyway. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.519 Yeah, I mean, you you so what's happening here? 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:12.720 Just the word better. 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:18.880 What is happening here is not, oh my goodness, is that wine or is it grape juice? 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:26.720 I remember as a kid, I didn't go to church much, but I remember one time I heard a pastor talk for a long time saying, this is basically like fermented grape juice. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:27.759 No, it's not. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:29.279 This is like great wine. 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:42.799 And by the way, if you're a scientific person and you're like, oh, the world the earth has to be 50 billion years old, I just want to point to you and say in this text, hey, this is evidence that God can create something that has the quality of age already upon it. 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.720 It's one of the reasons, that's one of the things that make wine good. 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.240 The older it is, the better it is. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:53.440 I don't know, but I have friends that tell me I'm friends with sinners, okay? 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:54.799 What can I say? 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:58.160 And so if you're kind of like, well, I think the Bible, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:04.480 And I just say again, God has the capacity to create things that have the quality of age already in them. 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:08.559 That's why the guy's like, man, this is great wine. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.799 This is better than the 10 buck chuck that we were drinking earlier. 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:15.039 And Jesus is like, mm-hmm. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:16.240 But guess what? 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.839 This is not about wine versus grape juice, drinking versus not drinking. 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:21.920 Here, take your keys from the text. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:22.799 Look at verse six. 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:28.480 Now, there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding 20 or 30 gallons. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:33.279 If you take the smallest number, six times 20 gallons, that's 120 gallons of water. 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.039 Here's what it was for the Jewish rites of purification. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.880 Now, do not get down on the Jewish people. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:43.359 Jewish people are very devout, they're very religious, they're very scrupulous. 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.359 They, the rites of purification, they always washed their hands before they ate meals. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.920 And it wasn't just like your mom washed your hands. 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:53.759 It was we're going to be clean and we're not going to touch anything unclean. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.960 They didn't just wash their hands, they washed their pots, their utensils. 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.759 They would dine on these couches and they had to cleanse and purify. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:00.720 Those. 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:01.920 They were meticulous. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:05.119 They were OCD before we knew what OCD was. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:12.559 But they were OCD for the glory of God because they thought this is how we make ourselves right with God doing all this stuff. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:23.599 It's no accident what Jesus does here because he comes along and kind of basically what he's doing is winking at him and saying, Hey, aren't you tired of trying to make yourself right with me and keep all the rules? 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:25.519 This is why it's better. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:29.200 To give you a sense of backdrop and understanding, what are you talking about? 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:30.960 Let me read from Mark chapter 7. 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:36.480 This is where Jesus and his disciples, this is how meticulous the Jewish people were. 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:37.759 Now, again, look at me. 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:39.599 Not to make fun of the Jewish people. 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.640 They believed and they're earnest and they're sincere. 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:44.799 The Bible says it like this in Mark 7. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:54.079 Now, when the Pharisees gathered to him, some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of the disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:59.440 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly. 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:04.079 It's not just enough to wash your hands, there's a certain way you have to wash your hands. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:07.839 And it's not sing happy birthday while you wash your hands. 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:09.680 You know what I'm talking about? 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:12.720 People say, oh, sing happy birthday, that's time to kill. 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:13.279