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The Truth About Miracles

The Truth About Miracles. Services - January 19 th & 20 th , 2013 John 2:1-11. Unusual Meeting for a Wedding. How did you meet your mate?. God’s Relationship With Us. Is compared to the love of a bridegroom and his bride – especially in Hosea;

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The Truth About Miracles

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  1. The Truth About Miracles Services - January 19th & 20th, 2013 John 2:1-11

  2. Unusual Meeting for a Wedding How did you meet your mate?

  3. God’s Relationship With Us • Is compared to the love of a bridegroom and his bride – especially in Hosea; • Hosea 2:19 “I will betroth you to Me forever.” • Hosea’s wife was unfaithful, but he was committed to her; • Israel was unfaithful to God, but God was committed to His people.

  4. Bridegroom and Bride • This same picture of our relationship is carries over in the New Testament; • Jesus’s first miracle was performed at a wedding; • In Matthew 9:15 Jesus refers to Himself as the Bridegroom; • This same imagery is presented in many of Jesus’ parables; • One day we will join Him at the Marriage Feast of the Lamb;

  5. Imagery of the Divine Wedding • Especially in the Book of Revelation: • “Let us be glad and rejoice…for the time has come for the wedding banquet of the Lamb and His bride…” (Rev. 19:7) • “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem… as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband…” (Rev. 21:2) • Come! Come to the Wedding Feast, prepared for you from the beginning of the world. (Rev. 22:17) Who is the Bridegroom? Jesus Christ – the Lamb Who is the Bride? The Church - All true Believers

  6. The Bible has Bookend Weddings • Human history began with a marriage ceremony in the Garden of Eden; Human history ends with a marriage ceremony between Christ and His bride, the Church.

  7. Cana of Galilee The Village Today 18 Miles Miracle?

  8. The Problem with Miracles • We often ask God to do trivial and even unnecessary things for us: • God is not our personal weatherman, football strategist, romance matchmaker, or the rectifier of all this world’s evils. • God is God and while He does perform miracles, He does not dole them out like party favors. • It is we who must conform to God’s Will and not the other way around.

  9. The Miracle at Cana’s Wedding • The text tells us there were six stone water jars, each holding 20-30 gallons. • Jesus told the servants to fill these jars and then take some of the water to the steward of the wedding. • When the steward tasted the water, which had become wine, he was impressed. • This was Jesus’ first miracle.

  10. Problem with Miracles Compounded • If Jesus could make wine out of water at Cana, why couldn’t He have…? • Kept the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center from happening? • Kept the shooter from killing all those people in the movie theater in Colorado or the school in Newtown, CT? • Kept the storms of Katrina or Sandy from doing all their damage? "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"

  11. The Purpose of Miracles • The purpose of Miracles is to build our faith and trust in Jesus. • Not just to save the bridegroom embarrassment or even to please His mother. • But, to make sure the disciples knew who He was. • Jesus wanted to build up His disciples’ faith and trust in Him. “This was Jesus’ first miracle, which showed His glory and His disciples believed in Him.”

  12. The Truth About Miracles • They happen in order to build our faith; • They don’t happen in order to build our faith; How much faith is called for? When miracles come? When miracles don’t come? Not Much Faith! A whole lot of Faith!

  13. God’s dealing with us has not changed That’s the truth about miracles! “Thinking about Us!”

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