Monday, May 05, 2008

Water into Wine

Some jottings for my sermon (in my series in John) on Water into Wine (2:1-11).

The audio version should appear on the Holy Trinity, Eastbourne sermon page in due course.

The text of my handout went like this:

Jesus at a party (10:10)

--> Christians should be cheerful & fun-loving

The significance of the sign (v11)

Our resources fail (v3) but Jesus satisfies (4:13-14)

Jesus the perfect Bridegroom (3:29), the Second Adam

Jesus’ amazing transforming power

generous, extravagant, abundant provision (v6)

“you have saved the best till now” (v10; 1:16-17)

An act of (New) Creation – transformation / resurrection (v1)

Jesus’ hour (v4; 7:6; 8:20; 12:23-24; 32-33; 13:1; 17:1) and glory (v11) – the cross

Jesus’ blood cleanses us from sin (v6)

The Wedding Supper of the Lamb (Rev 19:7-9)

Our response?

--> Invite Jesus

--> Accept Jesus’ invitation

--> his disciples put their faith in him” (v11) - trust

--> “Do whatever he tells you” (v5) – obedience

--> What do you want to drink? Water or wine?

2 comments:

Ros said...

That sounds strangely familiar. Almost like something one might expect DF to preach at wedding, wouldn't you say?

Marc Lloyd said...

Mrs Lloyd and I re-listened to the tape the night before the sermon, actually.

I hope the good people of Eastbourne didn't find the Adam typology, Jesus is the True Bridegroom too much of a stretch of the imagination.

I can't remember whether David made the point that its the 3rd day, resurrection day. I suggested wine is a bit like resurrected (transformed and glorified, eschatological, end-time, rest, work-done, evening-time) drink too.

Would like to check the ancient Xian commentary and see if any of this gets a mention.