Our Question for Today:

What role will Jesus play at your party?

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.

John 21:25 (ESV)

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

Truths about Jesus’ transforming work in our lives:

1) Jesus enters into the normal experiences of life.

Truths about Jesus’ transforming work in our lives:

1) Jesus enters into the normal experiences of life.

2) Jesus take the ordinary and turns them into extraordinary.

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.”

Matthew 16:21 (ESV)

21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

1 Corinthians 15:3–4 (ESV)

3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Truths about Jesus’ transforming work in our lives:

1) Jesus enters into the normal experiences of life.

2) Jesus take the ordinary and turns them into extraordinary.

3) Jesus is fully capable.

John 2:4-5 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.”

John 2:7-8 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.”

Our faith invites Jesus to act.

Revisiting Our Question for Today:

Are you simply requesting Jesus’ presence at your party…

or are you inviting him to transform it?