John 2:1-11
March 28, 2021
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“What happens the next morning [the triumphal entry] is not a spontaneous act of outrage but a planned demonstration. Planned for prime time and maximum exposure, it was a ‘demonstration’ calculated to interrupt business as usual and bring the nearness of God’s reign abruptly, forcefully, to the attention of all.”

~R.T. France (1938-2012), New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric

“I really don’t see how any of us are going to be leaders of the sort that Jesus spoke of unless we completely divest ourselves of our popular notions today of self-actualization and self-esteem…. The best way to find out whether or not you really have a servant’s heart is to see what your reaction is when somebody treats you like one…. How do we expect to follow One Who took up a cross and not encounter suffering? He is not looking for heroics. He’s looking for those who are willing to follow him down that road of sorrows no matter how tiny the form that cross may take.”

~Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015), Christian author and speaker, whose husband was killed on the mission field

“It’s time now to harvest what little that grew
This man they call Jesus who planted the seeds has come for the fruit
And the best that I’ve got isn’t nearly enough
He’s glad for the crop but it’s me that He loves.”

~Andrew Peterson, “Just As I Am”

“Many people visualize a God who sits comfortably on a distant throne, remote, aloof, uninterested, and indifferent to the needs of mortals, until, it may be, they can badger him into taking action on their behalf. Such a view is wholly false. The Bible reveals a God who, long before it even occurs to man to turn to him, while man is still lost in darkness and sunk in sin, takes the initiative, rises from his throne, lays aside his glory, and stoops to seek until he finds him.”

~John R.W. Stott (1921-2011), Anglican priest, theologian and author

“You cannot love in moderation
You’re dancing with a dead man’s bones
Lay your soul on the threshing floor
I heard the distant battle drum
The mockingbird spoke in tongues
Longing for the day to come

I set my face, forsook my fears
I saw the city through my tears
The darkness soon will disappear
And be swallowed by the sun
I am coming home…!”

~Matthew Perryman Jones, “Land of the Living”

Sermon Passage

John 2:1-11 (ESV)

¹ On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ² Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. ³ When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” ⁴ And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” ⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

⁶ Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ⁷ Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸ And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. ⁹ When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom ¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” ¹¹ This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.