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2023-11-12 | SIGNS: The Gospel of John | "From Water to Wine" by Rob Good by Promise Church

Explore Sharon's inspiring journey of faith, from her upbringing in a Filipino extended family to her realization that her safety lies in the liberating power of the gospel. She shares her challenges in navigating an Adventist college, her struggles with legalism, and her complicated journey into marriage and parenting within her faith. Sharon's candid account covers her self-imposed rules that strained her relationships, the turning point that mended her marriage, and her transformative journey of righteousness. Discover her remarkable encounter with God's love, forgiveness, and the newfound peace she found in her identity in Christ. Sharon's story highlights the transformative power of God's faithfulness through Jesus.view more resources on our website0:00 - Transformation Through Adversity18:34 - Journey Into Church Communities28:29 - From Water to Rules39:46 - Overcoming Shame and Protecting Children48:58 - Struggles With Parenting and Faith1:07:32 - Improving Marriage and Lingering Fears1:12:40 - Journey of Triggering and Healing1:25:31 - Finding Freedom and Love in God1:42:15 - Finding Healing and Identity in Godkeywords:  faith, gospel, legalism, struggles, marriage, parenting, righteousness, God's love, forgiveness, peace, identity, transformative power.

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Today I am preaching!!! Today we will be discussing winning all the way, through the revelation of TRUTH and God's Plan, we are not 90% victors. I will share with you the message I learned that has set me free and in victory all the way. However victory all the way to the max is when all of creation is set free. SO I hope you take the time to hear and download this message. Grab the family, play it in the car while they are all trapped lol.  Blessings on you who serve the Lord in the Name of Jesus!  Connect more @ https://kingdombusinesslifestyle.com Get my audio book and support the Kingdom Awake Movement! @ https://bornagainaskings.com Learn how to produce your own power from the sun @ https://solarprepped.com (fyi the enemy is very nervous about people learning this, plus today we will even talk about the newly revealed potential of hydrogen fuel FROM WATER!!!!)

Scripture Reading: John 2:1-11 (and maybe 12-22) 1 Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, “They have no wine left.” 4 Jesus replied, “Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.” 5 His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding 20 or 30 gallons. 7 Jesus told the servants, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top. 8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did. 9 When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!” 11 Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.Key Themes:I. The Setting—A First Century Jewish WeddingThe wedding occurs in Cana. John could be referring to a couple of different locations, either site being a reasonable walk from Nazareth. Without going into undue geographic and historical details, the location gives us a clue regarding the likely religious attitude of the wedding attendants. Cana would have been a small village far from Jerusalem. The people attending were probably not Pharisees.The miracle happens on the “third day.” The third day from what? Many argue that the third day is being used as a literary device, making an allusion to Christ's resurrection (or possibly God coming on Sinai in Exodus 19:11-16). Although that might be the case, the simplest explanation is the most likely: the miracle happened “the day after tomorrow” from the last event described in Chapter 1.Joyous celebration at a Jewish wedding was emphasized, nearly to the point of being mandated. As one was supposed to mourn at a funeral, one was supposed to rejoice at a wedding. Weddings would customarily last seven days, and many would stay the entire time. Any invitee was expected to accept the invitation, regardless of their closeness to the host. (Jesus, his family, and disciples may not have been particularly close to the bride and groom.)Wine was not unfermented “grape juice.” Before refrigeration there was no way to prevent fermentation, particularly over long periods of time. Wine was not used only to purify water either, but to liven up (consider Psalm 104:14-15, “He provides grass for the cattle and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground as well as wine that makes people glad, and olive oil to make their faces shine as well as bread that sustains them.). Moreover, the host is aware that some excess has taken place already (the word methysthōsin consistently means drunk, such as in Acts 2:15 and 1 Thessalonians 5:7). Several Galilean villages were heavily engaged in wine production. However, the alcoholic content of wine was not increased through distillation, and wine served with meals was often mixed with two to four parts water.To run out of food or wine at a wedding would have brought great shame to the host (the groom's family). Indeed, the custom would be to have food and wine left over, such as to never even come close to running out. How would Jesus' mother be aware of the wine running out? The women probably ran the kitchen and were privy to this information.II. The Request and the ResponseMary (although not named by John) seems to act as a model of faith. She asks—not demands—but is fully confident that Jesus can grant her request. She commands the servants to do whatever Jesus says. Again, her confidence in Jesus is absolute. John presents this miracle as Jesus' first miraculous sign. How was Mary so confident? This is left unexplained.Jesus responds, “Woman, why are you saying this to me?” The response “woman,” although rude to our English-speaking sensibilities, was not rude at the time. However, it was not the expected response a son would probably give his mother, which may have included a more polite word often used for a woman of rank. As Keener points out, “More likely, in view of the prominent role assigned to honoring one's parent in Judaism (and indeed the ancient Mediterranean in general), Jesus is establishing a degree of distance between himself and his mother . . . . She approached him not as her son but as a miracle worker; he replies not as her son but as her Lord.”Jesus adds, “My time has not yet come.” What is his “time” or “hour”? Jesus has come to die on the cross. This is his intentional plan, not an accident. Jesus' first miracle begins the journey to the cross. In a sense, one could say this is the beginning of the Passion. (What's the Passion of Christ? Catholiceducation.org explains that, “The Passion of Christ, from the Latin patior meaning ‘suffer,' refers to those sufferings our Lord endured for our redemption from the agony in the garden until His death on Calvary.”)John 12:23 says, “Jesus replied, ‘The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.'In Mark 14:41-42 Jesus says, “The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”III. From Water to Spirit—From Water to WineThe water jars had been set aside for ritual purification. We have already discussed that water cleansing was an important and ubiquitous part of Judaism. From washing hands before meals to cleansing the entire body before certain festivals or rituals, every Jew understood the religious significance of water. Using water set aside for purification for another purpose would likely have been considered an insult to Judaism.Jesus takes the cleansing water—not just any water, I cannot emphasize this enough—and turns it into wine. The old is passing away and the new is coming. Baptism is no longer with water, baptism is now with the Spirit. Cleansing is no longer with water, but with wine, the blood of Christ.Matthew 26:26-30. While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat, this is my body.” And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.” After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.Wine alludes to both celebration—perhaps the eschatological feast—and to the cost of the celebration. At the cross both the awful penalty for sin and awesome news of redemption come together.Personally, I find the symbolism of a depth and beauty that is hard to express.Edit: A Bible study participant emailed me with insightful comments. In my original post, I briefly mentioned the possibility that wine alludes to “the eschatological feast.” I was hinting to the connection between Jesus' first miracle and the eschatological promises found in the Old Testament. The email I received explains a similar view as follows:The whole point of this episode is that it was "the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory," i.e., the first of the Seven Signs around which John's Gospel is arranged. Those signs are "signs" in that they each point back, in some way, to the Law and the Prophets, connecting Jesus to the biblical narrative in general and the messianic prophecies in particular. This particular sign points back to Jacob's blessing of Judah in Genesis 49:8-12. This passage is the climax of the entire book of Genesis, and this portion of the passage is the high point of that climax, and according to it, during the time of the Messiah's reign, Israel's prosperity will be such that choice wine will flow as abundantly as water (people can wash their clothes in it, tether their donkey's to premium grape vines, etc.). His miracle at the wedding in Cana wasn't a "sign" merely for being miraculous, and certainly not for pointing ahead to sacraments the disciples didn't have yet, but specifically because it connects Jesus back to this prophecy. And, this "sign" sort of bookends Jesus' remarks in 1:51, about "the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." Merely as a point of clarification on my own blog post, I am not suggesting a sacramental view of Jesus' sign, but only that wine gains an additional interpretation as it comes to represent the blood and sacrifice of Christ. After all, John is writing to an audience that already knows the how the story ends. Does the miracle point to the promises of the Old Testament or does it foreshadow the rest of the New Testament? The reader will have to make up his own mind (John doesn't come with an instruction manual). Personally, I think it does both. I am grateful to the person who sent the email. (I would credit him by name, but I don't want to doxx anyone.)IV. Those Who Recognize the MiracleThe servants know what Jesus has done. The disciples believe after witnessing the miracle. Indeed, in someway they behold Christ's glory. But the wedding guests are none the wiser. Perhaps this conveys a similar message to the Parable of the Wedding Banquet.Matthew 22:1-14. Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they would not come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”' But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. The rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them. The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire. Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy. So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.' And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!' For many are called, but few are chosen.”A running theme in the Gospel of John is that the elite reject Christ while the dispossessed, socially or materially, believe him.What is the glory of Christ revealed by this miracle? Christ shows his concern for the wedding host. Christ answers the request of a faithful believer. Christ willingly begins the journey that will end in his crucifixion. Christ shows he is the lord and fulfillment of ritual purification.Potential Scripture Reading: John 2:12-2212 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days. 13 Now the Jewish Feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14 He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. 15 So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”18 So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?” 19 Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.” 20 Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for 46 years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?” 21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.I am not sure we will get to cover this text, but if time allows I would like to introduce the obvious question: Did Jesus clear the temple once or twice?John tells the story of a temple cleansing at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. The synoptic gospels tell a similar story but at the end of Jesus' ministry.Matthew 21:12-13. Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”Are these the same event? If so, is John wrong? The following video has great answers:(The video is long. I will discuss its content during the Bible study.)

Sunday, October 10, 2021 | Sermon Series: I've Been Meaning to Ask... | Michelle's aunt, Rev. Fran Cooper, preaches a pre-series sermon entitled "From Water & the Spirit", beginning to ask the first of four simple questions of this series: Where are you from? I'VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK... A Sermon & Conversation Series Some of the best conversations start with good questions—questions we've been meaning to ask, questions that keep us curious, and questions that lead us deeper into courage and connection. This fall, as we continue to regather, and as the challenges to becoming beloved community once again still prove to be complex and endless, we'll be asking four simple questions together, meant to help us behold each other as images of the divine and strengthen our capacity for listening, empathy, and compassion. I've been meaning to ask... ...where are you from? ...where does it hurt? ...what do you need? ...where do we go from here? Through vulnerability and authenticity, may our courageous conversations lead us to glimpse hope, joy, and beauty—and to become the community God created us to be.

Thank you Newsstand Studio at 1 Rockefeller Plaza for providing a place for me to record this episode for y’all! No more Brooklyn closet recording!!!   Today marks a first on The Refined Collective Podcast… I have three guests on at the same time. Why? Because I just needed to talk to all of the hosts of the Nights at the Round Table Podcast. My guests are actress/comedian, Anjelah Johnson; singer/songwriter/producer, Manwell Reyes; and story-teller/preacher Brandon Smith. In this episode of TRC, we talk a lot about deconstruction, sex, and doubts. All four of us love God but have a different spiritual journey with God— and that is okay.    Manwell’s Deconstruction Manwell shares where his own spiritual journey began and how he began to question the black and white and step into the grey.   “I find myself more on the sides of people questioning than the people who swear to the good Lord Jesus that they’re correct.” -Manwell Reyes     Brandon’s Deconstruction Brandon opens up about how reading Brian Zhar’s From Water to Wine marked a transformation in his spiritual journey.   “I’m allowed to have doubts and that is perfectly okay. I believe more in Jesus today than I did when I thought I had it all figured out.” -Brandon Smith     Anjelah’s Deconstruction Anjelah reflects on entering the church as a child and shares her experience with purity culture. Her deconstruction didn’t start until after her marriage when she started questioning the views the church has towards the LGBTQ community.   “Something is not sitting right about being a Christian if that is what being a Christian is.” -Anjelah Johnson   Resources For all things Manwell’s music, go to ManwellReyes.com. For all things Anjelah, go to Anjelah.com. Check out Laugh on Beat to keep up with all things NATRT here. Check out Nights at the Round Table on iTunes here. Listen to my episode on Nights at the Round Table here. Buy Brian Zahnd’s Water to Wine: Some of My Story here. Buy John Stott’s book Your Mind Matters here.   What came up for you today? What questions are you afraid of asking? Why aren’t you asking them? What things have you accepted as true without doing your own research?   Next week, the hosts of the Nights at the Round Table Podcast are back for part two of our conversation where we talk all about sex. Specifically, if they had to do it all over again, would they still wait until marriage to have sex?   The countdown is ON for my book, Sexless in the City: A Sometimes Sassy, Sometimes Painful, Always Honest Look at Dating, Desire, and Sex. It’s coming out in just over a month and you can still pre-order! It would mean so much to me if you did. Head over to sexlessinthecitybook.com to grab your copy!    Real talk… After spending a whole pandemic in sweatpants, I decided to freshen up my wardrobe so I have been shopping and selling on Curtsy. I love it because they have the coolest pieces at thrift store prices. It has my favorite brands like Lululemon, Zara, and Levi’s at up to 70% off. If you want a sustainable way to get your favorite brands delivered to your door, download the Curtsy app and use promo code REFINED for 15% off your first order.   We invest large amounts of money into our careers. But with things like love, we think “It’ll happen when it happens,” and with things like kids, we think “I’ll think about that down the road.” What if we were just as intentional about our reproductive health as we are our careers? Modern Fertility is an easy way to test your fertility with an at-home test at a fraction of the cost. Go to ModernFertility.com/refined for $20 off your fertility test.

From Water ski jumping to racing bicycles in Italy Mary Lou pushed to be the best. But the road to glory was spiked with trials. Many athletes struggle with OTS and Eating disorders and she was one of them.

“From Water to Wow”Isaiah 62:1-5, John 2:1-11The 2nd Sunday after the EpiphanyJanuary 20, 2019Pastor Roger Dykstra Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Iowa City, IA

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There is a distinct difference between optimism and hope. Bill Clark continues our Advent series by sharing a brief message about the true source of Hope at Christmas! Christmas Hope Advent | Week 3 December 17, 2017 | Bill Clark The glory of God is a human being fully alive. Revelation 21:3-4.,6-7 (MSG) I heard a voice thunder from the Throne. Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They’re his people, he’s their God. He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good – tears gone, crying gone, pain gone – all the first order of things – gone…From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty. I’ll be God to them, they’ll be sons and daughters to me.

Chris and Tim talk to Jeremy from Nine Lashes about their new album "From Water to War"