Pastor Bryan Walmer

1 On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’s mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother told him, “They don’t have any wine.” 4 “What has this concern of yours to do with me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.” 5 “Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants. 6 Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons. 7 “Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.” And they did. 9 When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom 10 and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.” 11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. John 2:1-11 CSB

Jesus’ miracles are not naked displays of power. They are signs that point to who he is and what he came to do. Turning water into wine shows us this in four ways:

The work of the wine

We struggle with guilt and shame because no matter how hard we try we cannot get ourselves clean.

Jesus has come to permanently cleanse us of all our sin.

The wonder of the wedding

This sign taking place at a wedding foreshadows Jesus’ wedding day.

Jesus is the bridegroom come to reunite us with God.

The weight of the words

“On the third day” foreshadows Jesus’ resurrection. His “hour” foreshadows His death.

Jesus will bring about the work of the win and the wonder of the wedding by dying on a cross for our sins and rising from the dead to give us new life.

Jesus sees you the way a groom sees his bride.

The worship of the woman

“Woman” is a consistent way that Jesus politely references women in the Gospels. (Matt. 15:28, Luke 13:12, John 4:21, 19:26, 20:15)

In order to receive all these things, we must worship Jesus for who He is by “Doing what He says.”