Turning Water into Wine Feast of Wedding of
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Turning Water into Wine Feast of Wedding of Cana at Galilee January 21, 2007
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is better than wine… We will remember your love more than wine. ” Song 1: 2, 4 “For love is as strong as death…its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it. ” Song 8: 6 -7
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is better than wine… We will remember your love more than wine. ” Song 1: 2, 4 “For love is as strong as death…its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it. ” Song 8: 6 -7 Wine = love; water = lack of love
God can NOT ACCEPT water in marriage.
God can NOT ACCEPT water in marriage. His plan for marriage is total ONENESS. “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning `made them male and female, ' and said, `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate. ” Matt. 19: 3 -6
Oneness in Marriage View #1: No problem, we are in love View #2: Big problem, that is impossible
Oneness in Marriage View #1: No problem, we are in love Love is not enough – you need Jesus View #2: Big problem, that is impossible
Oneness in Marriage View #1: No problem, we are in love Love is not enough – you need Jesus View #2: Big problem, that is impossible “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. ” Luke 18: 27
How it happens?
How WHERE it happens?
How WHERE it happens? AT THE ALTAR
How WHERE it happens? AT THE ALTAR Altar = Sacrifice
How WHERE it happens? AT THE ALTAR Altar = Sacrifice “knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him” Romans 6: 6 -8
How WHERE it happens? AT THE ALTAR Altar = Sacrifice “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ” Romans 6: 11
Are you ready for some wine? ? ?
Are you ready for some wine? ? ? “Whatever He says to you, do it. ” John 2: 5