WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:00.880 Well, good morning. 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:03.600 If you don't know me, my name is CJ Kelly. 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:09.599 Um, I'm the youth programming director uh here at Real Community Covenant Church. 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:14.880 I'm a recent graduate of Indiana Wesley University as of like three weeks ago. 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:17.120 So yeah, yeah. 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.719 So fresh into adulthood, so pray for me. 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:27.280 I just paid my rent yesterday, paid my first utility bill two weeks ago. 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:29.039 So everything of adulthood. 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:30.719 It's great, it's wonderful. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:34.000 Um I'm so excited for all of it. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.000 Um, but I'm so excited on Family Sunday to be giving you all the word. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:51.679 This morning, I invited my lovely friends, my lovely, our lovely kids to be with us and sit here in the front because um Jesus says, trouble not the children and let them come unto me. 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:52.079 Amen. 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.159 So that's what we're doing this morning. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.799 We're celebrating the gift of children this morning. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:02.719 Um, our passage that we'll be reading this morning, that we'll be coming out of this morning, is John chapter 2. 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.879 So if you have it, you can turn there to it. 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:09.280 But if you don't, we were so gracious enough to provide it up there for you. 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:10.560 I I love this art. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:11.760 I found this art online. 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:13.439 I found it on like Pinterest. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.799 Um, but I thought it was so great to illustrate what we're doing today. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.799 But can we all stand as we read the word of God this morning? 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:29.040 So John chapter 2, starting at verse 1, and we'll go to verse 11. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.840 And it says, On the third day, a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:39.280 Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:45.760 When the wine was gone, Jesus said to his, Jesus' mother said to him, They have no more wine. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.000 In verse 4, Jesus says, Woman, why do you involve me? 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.840 Jesus replies, My hour has not yet come. 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.760 Kids, don't talk to your mother like that, please. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.200 Please don't, please don't. 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:03.680 His mother said to the servants, Do whatever he tells you to do. 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:16.000 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind they used for the Jews, the kind that used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:21.360 Jesus said to the servants, Fill the jars with water so they're filled to the brim. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:22.800 Someone say, To the brim. 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.919 Then he told them, Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet. 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:35.039 They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned to wine. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:42.000 It says he did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who drew the water knew. 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:53.439 Then he called the bridegroom aside, and he said, Everyone brings out the choice wine first, and then cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.840 I mean, it was getting a little, you know. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:56.400 Yeah. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:57.680 Y'all got it, y'all got it. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:58.960 Y'all got it. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:08.639 But he says, After the guests have had too much to drink, but you have saved the best till now. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:21.360 What Jesus did here in Canaan of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory to his disciples, and his disciples believed in him. 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.840 And this is the word of the Lord. 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.840 Father, we thank you this morning. 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:38.479 Father, we thank you for this uh this church body, this family, this body of believers whom you have gathered in here today to hear a word from you. 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:47.120 That Father, we come in here Sunday morning carrying all of our emotions, all of our weights, all of our anxieties from the week, and we just lift them up to you. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:54.240 For we know that you are a good, good father who cares for your children, and you care for us, you care for all of us. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:04:00.719 But Father, we just pray that today that we would have a word, that we will receive a word from you. 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.599 Father, I pray and I thank you for the message that you've put on our heart to deliver this morning. 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:10.960 But I pray that it would not be CJ speaking this morning, but you speaking through me this morning. 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.879 So, Father, we pray this in Jesus' Matthew's and mighty name. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.160 And all God's people said, Amen, amen, amen. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.680 Well, you can take your seats. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:22.639 You can take your seats in Jesus' name. 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:34.879 Well, kids, maybe if you I don't know if you caught this or not, but it said in verse 2 that Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.079 So because we're all disciples of Jesus, you guys are invited to the wedding. 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:40.959 Yes. 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:42.959 So we got we got something for you. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:44.319 I got something for you here. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.519 So everyone can come up and grab your wine. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:48.959 It's grape juice. 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.240 Grab your grape juice, or excuse me, your wine, and then take it back to your seat. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.480 You can just take one cup, everybody take one cup and then take it back to your seat. 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.439 You can take a cup, take it back to your seat. 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:10.560 No, no, no, I promise. 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:11.920 This is the top of the line. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.759 This is the top shelf wine right here. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:15.519 Top shelf right here. 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:16.720 Top shelf. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.360 So you can go ahead and take that back to your seat. 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.600 Take that back to your seat. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.560 And you can like slowly, slowly sip on that as we're going through the message, okay? 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:33.680 Just imagine yourself, you're at the party, you're sipping on your grape juice, I mean your wine, and you're having a good time, right? 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:50.000 So as we get back into the passage, I'm choosing to believe, I'm making the decision to believe that it's no mistake that Jesus chose a place like Cana of Galilee to do his first miracle. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:56.560 Now, I don't know how much you know about Galilee or Cana, but it's not like a super huge location in the Bible. 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.800 It's a pretty like lowly, kind of low, low-key kind of place. 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:02.959 Maybe some might say like Mary in Indiana. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.959 You know, it's not a super attractive place to some. 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:08.240 To some, right? 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.879 It's a small, remote village in that hilly region of Galilee. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.360 I think there's a map up there that kind of shows you where it is. 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.480 It's in kind of the northwest, northwest region. 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.519 You see, and you see it up there with the little, you know, the bump, the bumpiness up there on the right. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.920 That shows you that it's it's up there, right? 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:36.319 So it's up there, it's remote, not a super attractive city, not someone, not someone like a celebrity like Jesus, you think would like show himself to do miracles, right? 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:44.000 But I believe that this is no mistake, this is no accident, this is no coincidence. 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.959 It's known, it's not known by much in scripture. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:53.920 But Jesus says, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:58.319 He says, Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:14.639 So how convenient, how characteristic is it like for Jesus to perform his very first miracle, to reveal his glory in a small place, in a small, lowly place like Cana of Galilee. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:23.839 How convenient, how great, how majesty, see the majesty in revealing your glory in a place like Marion, Indiana. 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:32.959 A place not known for much by many, not a place where superstars come out of, maybe Zach, maybe Zach Randolph, that's our superstar, right? 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:37.519 But not a big place that births majesty and glory. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:45.759 But the story begins, it says in verse 1 that on the third day a wedding took place. 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:52.959 And I just, as I was reading, I was just so excited, just seeing this heavenly imagery that Jesus sets up here in the text. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:59.360 And we see this kind of heavenly wedding as well in Revelation 19. 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:23.680 The third day, I was obviously representing the third day of which Jesus was risen from the dead in the glory that took place in the glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ, and yet also of the wedding that pictures that heavenly wedding that is the Lamb of God, and the marriage of the Lamb of God to his bride, that is the church. 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:31.120 So we see in Revelation 19, it says, Hallelujah, for the Lord our God Almighty reigns. 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:40.000 Let us rejoice and exude and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:47.120 Verse 8 says, It was granted to her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure. 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:52.159 These fine linens representing the righteous deeds of the saints. 00:08:52.879 --> 00:09:03.600 And the angel of God said to me, This is John speaking, he says, See, right, he says, Write this, blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:08.080 And he said to me, These are the true words of God. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:22.480 So we see this perfect imagery, this cool, heavenly, majestic imagery of Jesus coming back again, awaiting his bride, pure and holy, dressed in fine linen. 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:23.759 That's us. 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:30.159 The church, the bride of Christ, Jesus coming back and returning for his bride. 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:39.200 As we keep going, we see that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the first one to discover that they're out of wine. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:46.960 But I believe that this is also no mistake, that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the first one to discover that they've ran out of wine. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.960 Some might even say that Mary is the hero of the story for some. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.440 I mean, she saves the master of banquets. 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.919 The master of banquets was the person in charge, like the master of ceremonies, the MC. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:06.480 They're in charge of how much wine consumption has happened, so making sure, you know, you don't have drunk uncle in the corner that's having a little too much to drink, you know. 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.279 Or when wine is running out, they go and get the servants to say, hey, we need more wine. 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:20.720 But in typical Jewish culture, right, they kept the wine near the woman's quarters. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:27.679 So it's no mistake that Mary would run in to sing, like, oh my gosh, they're out of wine. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:41.039 So Mary notices and she's compelled with this need because it would be like a party file, it would be embarrassing to like at the wedding, you realize, man, they ain't got no wine in this party. 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:41.679 This is lame. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:43.759 Like, I'm out of here, the wine is gone. 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:49.200 Like, that would be like you'd be known as like the lamest party keeper in Galilee. 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:50.639 Like, no one wants to do that. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.360 So Mary saves the party, essentially. 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.159 She keeps the party from dying, right? 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:08.960 But it's also, it's always good practice that whenever we see a woman mentioned in Scripture, to ask ourselves, what is God trying to say to or about the church? 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:21.200 And we also see, we also know that Mary Magdalene, another Mary, was the first witness at the tomb to see and realize that Jesus had risen from the dead. 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:33.120 So, how great is it now, at this moment, at this wedding, that Jesus is setting up this heavenly glory that shall appear, that on this third day, that this wedding happens. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:48.320 That just like Mary Magdalene was the first to mark the gospel and beginning of Jesus Christ, that Mary also, here in this story, being the one to save the party. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.360 But it seems that almost that Jesus like almost rejects her. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.279 Like, I mean, yikes. 00:11:55.519 --> 00:12:06.559 I mean, I even in my adulthood, I'm like, you know, I love my moms, and you know, sometimes my moms, even as an adult, she said, she she, I was talking to my moms the other day. 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:10.080 She said, I don't care that you got a beard, you still my little boy. 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:13.600 I said, All right, all right, mom, all right. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:14.879 And she did. 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:16.080 She sure did. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.320 She sure did. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:20.639 She sure did. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.799 But Jesus is like, mom, come on, like, you tripping. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.399 Like, this don't got nothing to do with me. 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.720 Like, I'm sure maybe you've been there. 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.440 Like, you're like out somewhere, and your mom, like, she sees a need, right? 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.720 She's like, boy, get up and go open that door or something like that, you know. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:38.399 Boy, get up and go get that. 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.039 Like, you know, maybe somebody, maybe kids, maybe y'all got me right. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:44.639 When your mom tells you to do something, you're like, mom, I'm really not trying to do it, right? 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:48.000 Like, I'm imagining this is what Jesus is like, right? 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.759 Like, it's like, mom, like, come on, man. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.000 Like, we got this wedding, we're trying to have a good time. 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:53.840 Like, we're not really, you know. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:13:00.480 And also, he has his homies with him, he has his disciples with him that were also invited to the wedding. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:12.559 But Jesus also, in his humanity and divinity, holds these human emotions and anxieties because he remembers and he knows the weight of why he was sent. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.639 He wasn't just sent to have a good time and come hang out on earth with humans. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.000 No, he's meant to be a recompense for many. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.440 So it's not just like, no, I don't want to do what my mom is telling me to do. 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:24.320 It's like, no. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:30.080 See, he's carrying the weight of knowing like that once I do this, there's no turning back. 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:39.919 That once I reveal my glory, once I do this miracle, once I do this, there is no turning back, and we're now officially on the road to the cross. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.919 So Jesus is holding this, he's wrestling with this, like, uh, should I do it? 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:44.559 Should I not? 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:51.840 Like, think of this imagery of when Jesus is in the garden, he's sweating blood and tears, knowing what's about to happen to him the next morning. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.279 He's about to go on the cross and be crucified. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:01.519 He's now picturing this, imagining this, like, once I do this, this is it, here we go. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:10.320 But because Jesus is so obedient, Jesus is the motto and imagery of obedience for us. 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:14.240 That he was sent by the Father on divine mission. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.639 But yet he remembers why the Father had sent him. 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:35.120 Because it says in Philippians 2, it says that in your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus, who being in the very nature of God, did not consider equality with God to be used for his own advantage. 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:45.759 Say that Jesus, he didn't just come here just to party, he didn't come here just to have a good time, he didn't come here just to live a cool and peaceful life. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.080 Rather, he made himself nothing. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.519 Someone say nothing. 00:14:49.919 --> 00:15:09.279 He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, and being found in the appearance as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:18.720 Verse 9 says, Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name. 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:20.159 Wow. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:32.799 So he says, Therefore, in our very relationships, let us have the very same mindset of Christ, considering ourselves nothing. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:43.519 It says, being selfless, we maybe you hear this phrase, that being selfless is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:49.039 That we put the needs of our friends and our family members and even strangers before our own. 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:53.200 Paul teaches us to have this very same mindset of Christ. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:59.440 So now we look and we see like who are these servants that Mary is like telling, they're probably just like, Lady, who are you? 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:00.399 Like, whoa. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.279 He's like, she's telling them, like, do whatever he tells you to do. 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:06.879 And they're just like, oh, okay. 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:16.399 Like, but we see Mary's faith plus action is what sets up the miracle, but she simply says, Do whatever he tells you to do. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:36.320 So some might say that Mary's faith and her action is what like causes and prompts the miracle, but I believe that after reading this and sitting with this text for a couple of weeks, like a couple of weeks, that the servants in the story are what move the story along. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:43.039 I might even argue that the servants play the most important role, other than Jesus, of course, in this story. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:47.759 Their obedience is the reason why this story is even in Scripture. 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:53.840 Like it's already in a not very noteworthy and notorious town of Galilee, of Cana. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:17:05.920 Now it's like, okay, these servants who were just simply close to Jesus, they were in the proximity of Jesus when this was happening, got to be a part of this miracle that took place. 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:09.759 But I was asking myself, like, who are these servants? 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.119 Like, are they the disciples? 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.559 Like, who are they like people like that are hanging with Jesus? 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:20.640 And like after some extensive research and reading some stuff, I finally discovered, like, I don't know. 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:22.000 Like, I don't have an answer. 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.440 It doesn't really say who they are. 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.519 Like, I was hoping, like, okay, it didn't really come to me. 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:33.839 But I think John, when he's writing this account, John being a first-hand witness of everything that's going on. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.839 I think John is purposely vague about who these servants are. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:50.799 Because they're most likely lowly and unknown people, to they're unknown by most people at the party party, but they probably play the most crucial role at this party. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:58.240 They're keeping the wine going by the command of the master of the banquet, and yet they are the hands and feet of this very miracle. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.680 So I'm gonna ask my friends that I asked to help me out with this. 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.160 And we're gonna demonstrate kind of what this looked like. 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:05.119 Oh, oh, oh. 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:09.039 So I'm gonna ask my friends, Sophia, Harmony, where are you guys at? 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.480 Caleb and Micah, Kai. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.000 So where's Micah? 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:21.279 Micah, you get to wear my cap and gown, or my gown that I wore for graduation a couple weeks ago. 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.960 So Micah is gonna be our master of banquets here. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:26.640 You can zip that up. 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.680 And then you guys are the servants at the party. 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:31.039 So here we go. 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.400 So you all get a cool pair of glasses. 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:35.440 Here you go. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:36.480 There you go. 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:37.680 Here you go. 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:38.720 Yeah. 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:39.839 Here you go. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:41.680 And everyone gets a vest. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.599 You guys are the servants at the party, so you gotta put your uniform on. 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:50.160 You gotta look at being uniform for this. 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:51.759 There you go. 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:52.960 There you go. 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:55.279 There you go. 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:56.880 So Mr. 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:03.839 Micah here, our master of master of banquets, master of ceremonies, he was in charge of keeping the party going, right? 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.160 Had to keep the party guests entertained. 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.359 And he's like, he's kind of frantic because he's like, oh my gosh, we're out of wine, like I gotta distract, I gotta stall. 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.440 So Jesus, we're over here, Jesus is over here with the servants, right? 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:17.359 And he's like, okay. 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:24.079 So he tells them, he tells him, take, take the stone jars. 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.319 We only got three stone jars. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:32.880 I didn't really have a big budget for this, so and they're plastic instead of stone. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:34.000 That's okay. 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:35.839 And he says, fill them to the brim. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:36.799 So this is your water. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:40.960 So I'm gonna need you guys to work together and get these things filled to the brim. 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:44.799 So Caleb, you can kind of help them out, get those things filled. 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:48.480 So Micah, he's here, he's like, I gotta keep my party guests entertained. 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.880 Like they're just like they're out of juice, you know, or they're out of wine. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:55.519 He's keeping them distracted, you know. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:57.920 He's doing a great job. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.359 He's using those, putting those theater skills to work. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:03.920 Putting those theater skills to work. 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:04.960 Oh my. 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:08.319 He's doing a great job. 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:09.759 You're doing a great job, sir. 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:10.559 Yeah. 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:11.839 What else you got? 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:13.200 What else you got? 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:16.559 Come on, you gotta stall. 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.640 Or people are gonna start leaving. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:25.759 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.640 Miles is like really entertained right now. 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:29.359 Yes. 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:30.880 Miles is entertained. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:32.640 Yes, you're doing a great job. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:34.400 Yes, yes. 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:37.920 Yes. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:40.960 Yeah. 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:42.640 How are we doing over here? 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.119 That's plain, that's to the brim enough. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:21:02.240 But it says, once they had got the water filled to the brim, it says he handed, he says to the servants, you guys can put that down right here. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:17.519 So it says, once he had finally filled the water to the brim, he says to the servants, you're gonna give that to our master of banquets over there. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:23.279 He says, Give the new wine, the water that was once turned to wine. 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:25.519 Give that to the master of banquets. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:33.440 And it says, once the master of banquets tasted the water, he was amazed because this was the good stuff. 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:40.240 You thought you had the top shelf stuff before, but he says, This right here, some of the best wine he's ever tasted. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:45.680 He says, and the master of banquets tasted the water that had been turned to wine. 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:51.920 And it says that he didn't realize where the water had come from because he was so busy, right, trying to keep the party guests entertained. 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:53.599 He was trying to keep the party going. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:55.920 But now there was more wine for everybody. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.240 So now everyone, go fill up your cups. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:59.759 There's more wine, there's plenty of wine. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.279 Grape juice. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:03.680 Plenty of stuff. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:05.200 Plenty of it. 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:05.920 Plenty of it. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:06.480 Yes. 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:10.000 Go grab another cup. 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:11.200 You can grab another cup. 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:13.440 Grab another cup. 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:16.000 Grab another cup. 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:18.319 That's not the good stuff, though. 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:19.279 That's just the other stuff. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:21.200 Grab another cup. 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:21.680 Here you go. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:23.119 That's the good stuff. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:25.200 Go grab a new cup. 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:27.200 Yeah, that's the good stuff. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.759 That's the good stuff. 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:32.160 Go ahead and grab a cup. 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:32.640 Here, I got you. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:33.599 I got you right here. 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:34.960 Who needs a new cup? 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:36.240 Here we go. 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:37.039 Here we go. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:39.519 And once you got your cup, go ahead and go back to your seat. 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:43.519 It doesn't taste like chocolate chips. 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:44.000 That's right. 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.279 Here you go. 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:46.160 Grab another cup. 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:46.720 I got you. 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:47.279 I got you. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:47.920 Here you go. 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:49.599 I got you. 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:50.799 I got you. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:51.200 Yeah. 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:52.240 Yeah. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:53.359 Yeah. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:54.720 Yes. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.319 This is the good stuff. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:00.400 Yeah. 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:03.359 Once you got your cup, you can head back to your seats. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.440 Give a hand for my servants here. 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:06.400 Thank you guys. 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:07.440 You guys look lovely. 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.200 You guys can grab a cup too, I guess. 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:10.079 You worked hard. 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:10.960 You worked hard. 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:11.839 You guys are off the clock. 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:13.359 You can go ahead and grab some wine too. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:14.640 You know, you worked real hard. 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:15.039 You know. 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:28.480 But it says in verse 9 of this text, it says, the master of banquets didn't realize where it had come from. 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:34.559 Because he was so busy at the party, he was so busy trying to keep the guests entertained. 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:39.440 He didn't realize where this water had came from, where the source of this miracle had happened. 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:48.640 But the servants who were in close proximity to Jesus got to see this miracle happen. 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:55.440 They were the really the only people at this party that got to experience this wonderful miracle of Jesus. 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:57.119 And this was the first thing. 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:01.200 This is the first thing in the wonderful journey of Jesus that he reveals. 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:04.880 And he reveals himself to these lowly people at the party. 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.519 He doesn't reveal himself to the master of banquets. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.599 He doesn't reveal himself to the high-ranking officials or anything like that. 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:15.920 He reveals his glory to servants at the party. 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:21.519 He reveals himself to those who were in close proximity to him. 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:30.400 So these servants, they were simply obedient servants who were close to Jesus. 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:38.880 And in verse 11 says, What Jesus did in this little remote village of Cana of Galilee was the first sign of his glory. 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:41.440 And the disciples believed in him. 00:24:44.319 --> 00:25:01.279 So even now, as we kind of come to a close, Colossians 3, 2, chapter 3, 2 through 4, it says, Set your mind on the things above, not on earthly things, for you have died, and your life is now hidden in Christ, in God. 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:07.519 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you will also appear with him in glory. 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:15.599 So now as we kind of enter into Sabbath month, we're not just ceasing from all work. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:21.359 We're not just like stopping church, we're not just stopping work, like stuff still has to happen. 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:25.920 But rather, Sabbath to draw us deeper into the things of God. 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:31.680 Sabbath to draw us deeper into the commitments we have already made in Christ. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.119 We're not picking up new work, we're not looking for new stuff to do. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:37.920 We're already continuing in what we have been done. 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:40.160 We're continuing the work that already has. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.480 We're resting in the finished work of Christ. 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:50.000 Galatians 6.9 says, Be not weary in well-doing, for if you faint not in due season you will reap. 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:58.559 So we're taking this month to intentionally step away from new work and new things that so easily distract. 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:02.400 And choosing intentional proximity to Jesus. 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:15.359 So as I close Luke 10, 38, it says, as Jesus and his disciples were on the way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:21.279 She had a sister who was named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.480 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that she had made. 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:33.039 She came to Jesus and asked, Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:35.519 Tell her to help me. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:45.519 But he says, Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, You worry and are upset about many things, but few things are needed. 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.119 Or indeed, only one. 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:55.119 Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her. 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:01.119 So as we lean into Sabbath, the worry I'm sure for a lot of us is like we're talking about Sabbath. 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:08.480 That means like I'm not doing the things that I maybe should be doing, or I'm not getting the work done that maybe I should, maybe you feel like you're getting behind. 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:14.880 But this is the decision that we make as we lean into Sabbath. 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:21.119 We either making the decision to just be consumed by busyness, right? 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:23.440 We have kids, we got, well, y'all got kids. 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:28.480 We have jobs, kids at home, bills to pay. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:32.480 Like that stuff just doesn't stop just because we're choosing the Sabbath, right? 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:34.480 Yeah. 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:37.200 Needs still need to be met. 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:43.599 But are we choosing to put our trust in the busyness? 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:47.519 Are we choosing to put our trust in Jesus? 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:54.240 Are we gonna be like Martha and worry about everything that needs to be done and worry about all the preparations that need to be done? 00:27:54.319 --> 00:28:00.880 Or are we gonna simply choose this month to simply sit at the feet of Jesus?