Meeting Jesus - Encounters that Transform: Don't End the Party

Sermon Series: Meeting Jesus - Encounters that
Transform
Sermon Title: Don't End the Party
Speaker: John Huh

Synopsis: As the first miracle recorded in the Gospels, Jesus
turns water into wine at a wedding party.   An unfortunate,
shameful mishap allows everyone to experience the abundant grace
of Jesus and encounter His transformative love.

Scripture: John 2:1-11

Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in
Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his
disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the
wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more
wine.”


4 “Woman,[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My
hour has not yet come.”


5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells
you.”


6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the
Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty
gallons.[b]


7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”;
so they filled them to the brim.


8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the
master of the banquet.”


They did so, 9 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.
Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone
brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after
the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the
best till now.”


11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of
the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples
believed in him.