WEBVTT - You Already Know 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:05.120 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.080 and this is our podcast and I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.800 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:11.200 Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.360 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:14.080 in your life. 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.880 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.880 I believe the Lord has spoken to me and I 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.720 want to share a message with you as another installment 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.240 on our series Flip the Flow. And I look at 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.600 each of these like they build on each other. The 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.640 last time that I was speaking with you, I spoke 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.000 about joy and the fullness of joy in the presence 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.040 of the Lord, and now we're going to see not 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.080 a description of that, but a demonstration of it from 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.560 the scriptures. I just want to give you one verse 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.680 and then you can be seated and we'll speak together today. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.240 But as you stand in reverence and respect for God's word. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.000 I'm welcome to all the locations. Thank God for all 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.320 of you who are joining e groups today. Tell the 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.280 person next to you you can't go to heaven unless 0:00:55.280 --> 0:01:02.200 you join any group. These are really great people. I 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.720 can vouch for eighty percent of them. There's always a 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.800 twenty percent weirdness factor in anything you do with large groups. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:09.640 But we try to screen them, vet them. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.840 They're not going to sell you pampered chef, essential oils 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.680 or anything like that once they get you in the home, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.600 So it's not a timeshare presentation. Just want to help 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.200 you grow in your relationship with the Lord. Not selling 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:23.160 keto drinks, Just trying to help you build a foundation. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.880 John chapter two, verse eleven. Make sure you take advantage 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.120 of that. It's there for you. It's there for you 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:34.560 to grow in your faith. John two, verse eleven. What 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.840 Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.320 of the signs through which he revealed his glory, and 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.320 his disciples believed in him. One more time. Turn to 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.160 your neighbor, give them my sermon title. Tell them you 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:48.760 already know. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:51.480 Please be seated. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.840 Shout out to my brother Matt, who is stationed in 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:58.440 New Jersey. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.440 He serves in the United States Force. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.160 Shout out to him because he put me on this 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.720 documentary that I really enjoyed this week. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.240 It's called Fire, The Greatest Party that Never Happened. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.760 It's a documentary about one of the great scandals of 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:28.320 our day in regards to entertainment and social media. The 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.320 Fire Festival was created by Billy McFarlane and the legend 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:37.000 Jah Rule. It was to be the ultimate luxury music 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.120 experience on the private island of Ezuma in the Bahamas. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.840 It was to take place over the course of two weekends, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.920 one in April and the other in May of twenty seventeen. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.480 Some of the world's top models and social media influencers 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.560 promoted the event simultaneously using the hashtag Fire Festival fire 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.800 with a Y in case you go home and watch it. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.640 I'm not recommending movies from this pulpit, because I know 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.760 how legalistic some of you are, and you'd be instagram 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.520 messaging me about the bad words and this and that. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.800 I'm not saying you should watch it. I'm just saying 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:17.360 it was awesome. And they put these orange tiles on 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.840 Instagram all at the same time. And because it was 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.480 people that have such clout, the festival sold out. The 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.919 music festival sold out in forty eight hours. In forty 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.080 eight hours, they sold tickets and day passes ranged from 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:39.240 five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars, and then the luxury 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.000 experience went up to twelve thousand dollars and some of 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.280 the packages were reported to be two hundred and fifty 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.520 thousand dollars for the luxury villas and stuff. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.080 And they put these beautiful. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:56.800 Pictures online of the festival, marketed toward millennials, and they 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.520 showed the island. They said that they and formerly belonged 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.080 to Pablo Escobar, and that you could come party like 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.560 Pablo Escobar with Instagram models in bikinis, white sand, clear 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.760 waters at the Fire Festival, and then you could get 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:14.760 a luxury. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.719 Room villa. And they sketched that. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:25.560 But when the millennials arrived and descended upon the Bahamas, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:31.800 things were a little different than had been advertised. Turns 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:39.280 out that our boy Billy and Ja a first name 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:45.960 Bassis sold something that didn't necessarily exist in the same 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:51.080 form that they advertised it. When the customers arrived to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.719 the Fire Festival in the Bahamas, they found disaster relief 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.279 tents where the villas were supposed to be in gravel 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:05.159 parking lots in the parking lot of a Sandals resort. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.120 Not to mention that instead of gourmet meals cooked by 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:16.640 five star world class chefs, they found apparently cheese sandwiches 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:23.640 in styrofoam boxes, and the festival never happened. The festival 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.839 never happened. Many were stranded, according to the documentary, in 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:33.120 the airport overnight without water. Twenty three year old kids 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.280 who paid twelve thousand dollars to see Blink one E 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:46.040 two serves them right found themselves stranded in the Bahamas 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.800 with no fire festival. And one case study that I 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.640 read that said, you know, now, Billy McFarland is in 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.680 jail for wire fraud, but it was suggesting that this 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.480 was the ultimate coldultural case study in Fomo that never 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.760 have we seen, because people were so afraid that this 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.080 would happen without them. The fear of missing out, which 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:11.320 I don't struggle with as much. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:12.920 I don't struggle with. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.000 The fear of missing out more like for me, the 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.120 fear of running out. That's more what I deal with. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.400 I'm a pretty lazy person. I'm pretty boring. I'm not 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.359 lazy about the things that matter. But somebody's like, you know, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.839 there's a lunar eclipse tonight, and I'm like, eh, somebody 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.040 will take a picture. You know, what time is it 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.760 that ten forty five. I'll check it out tomorrow. You know, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.240 it's the ones in a lifetime. Think it'll be on YouTube. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.320 You know, that's kind of my thing. I'm finding miss out. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.960 But fear of running out, faux row, fomo, not so 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.160 much faux row. Fear of running out I think about 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.680 all the time. And that's why the documentary was visceral 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.880 to me, because even though the guy was a scam artist, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.840 I guess because I guess because my fear in life 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.680 is not having what I'm supposed to have and people 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.880 show up expecting something that I can't give. Even in church, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 I'm always so nervous that I won't be able to 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.320 get my energy up to the level that I need 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.960 to get it to to connect with you, because sometimes 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.160 you come in with very low energy. I'm just being honest, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.440 But I know you need a gourmet meal from the 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.160 word of God, and I don't want to hand you 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.880 a cheese sandwich and a styrofoam box. You know, I 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.560 don't want you to show up with a Fema tint 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.000 when you're expecting a villa and so. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.080 But I'm scared of this. I'm scared of running out 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:33.720 all the time. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.040 I'm constantly scared like my creativity is going to run 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.200 out because I need creativity to do what I do. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.480 And even in writing sermons, you're kind of saying the 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.080 same things over and over again sometimes, and even though 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.440 the Bible has a lot of interesting stories and letters, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.200 I'm scared, like, one time, maybe I'm opening my Bible 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.240 and I won't be able to find a sermon, you know, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.120 And sometimes it gets late in the week, and I'm 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.920 so scared of running out. When we write worship song, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.720 I'm always like, how many different ways can we say God? 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:05.239 You're good? 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.760 I trust you, you know, there's different ways. I'm not 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.720 saying that God is simple. I'm just saying sometimes I'm like, oh, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.480 can we write another song can be appreciate. I'm scared 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.240 of running out of time. I always feel like I 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.120 don't have enough time. Always feel like like I'm gonna 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.760 run out of time raising my kids. I'm scared to 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.040 dead that I won't get everything instilled in them in 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.840 the time they're in my house, and then they will 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.760 end up on a therapist couch too fifty an hour 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.280 because something I didn't teach them, or Abby is gonna 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.360 marry some jerk because maybe I didn't teach her what 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.240 a man should be like, because I don't know how 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.040 to fix cars, and since she never saw me fix cars, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.520 she's gonna end up, you know, on the corner. I'm 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.720 scared about this stuff. I'm scared like that they're gonna leave. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.600 I know it's dark, right, and I'm scared that I'm 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.120 gonna I'm gonna send my kids out and they're not 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.680 gonna have what they need for the world because I 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.679 ran out of time to give it to them. I'm 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.280 scared then I'm gonna run out of money. I'm more 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.760 scared now then I'm gonna run out of money than 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.640 I was when I was twenty two and we didn't 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.240 have any money. I can't figure out how. The more 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.600 we got of it, the more I started to depend 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.199 on it, and now it consumes more of your time. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.640 You think you'll get to an amount of money where 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.480 you'll no longer be scared of running out. All money 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.840 is going to do is create more obligations. All more 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.920 money is going to do is create a bigger lifestyle. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.120 And now you will need more money to create the lifestyle, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.640 so you really won't lose the fear of running out. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.520 It will just be on a larger scale and you'll 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.480 have more to lose. I'm so scared of running out. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.839 Fomo not so much. Fro yo. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.679 Never liked this stuff, fou roh. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.520 So when they got there and they didn't have it, 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:54.520 I was like John chapter two. That's how my mind works, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.480 the fear of running out. What if I don't have 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.880 what they need? What if I can't be who they need? 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.880 Any new parents? Any new parents? Yeah you don't. You 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.720 don't have what those kids need. It's gonna have to 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.760 come from God. Please believe me. Did you figure this 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.800 out yet? Have you already got the baby or you're 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.520 expecting or what? Yeah? 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:22.959 Over there? 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.120 Any kids? You just came here to get a break? 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:25.760 Is this your date? 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:28.800 This is a good way to do a date, by 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:29.959 the way, wasn't it? Yeah? 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:31.040 Freak ch out here. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.200 Now you you gotta understand. This was the first sign. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.040 Jesus did way more signs than John puts in his gospel. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.600 And he uses the word sign, not miracle, because he 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.440 believes it's pointing to something deeper. That's what a sign does. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.680 That's why that says exit because of the door. The 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.640 sign is worthless if that's just a wall. It's pointing 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.400 to something. And when you see things in Scripture a 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.440 lot of times you're going to see it on a 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.920 natural level, but then it's going to point to something 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.959 beneath the surface, like life does. Like there are things 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.079 going on in your life right now that are trying to. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.440 Point you to something deeper. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.719 There are things you're experiencing in your life right now, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.640 but the surface is not the story. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.719 There is a deeper meaning for it. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.960 And so John says in his gospel that if he 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.680 were to write down everything that Jesus did, he said, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.200 the world would not have room for the books that 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:36.840 would be written. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.200 This was before Wikipedia. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.040 Now you could put it all out there, but at 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.640 the time he said, if I wrote it all down, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.600 I'd run out of room. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.200 So he chose to number seven. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.800 It's the number that represents completion in the Bible, and 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.280 it's the days of the week. The world was created 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.240 in seven days. It's a symbolic number in the Bible. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.800 Seven is all over the Bible. He uses the number seven, 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.800 and he puts in the Bible seven signs that Jesus performed. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:07.560 To point to who he was. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:13.640 Everything that God does for you is to point to who. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:14.920 He wants to be to you. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.680 And if you only live at the level of what 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.720 he does for you, but miss what he is trying 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.479 to point to that he wants to be to you. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.360 You can receive resource from the Lord without revelation of 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.000 the Lord who gave the resource. And if your attachment 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.319 is to the resource, then you will always run out 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.359 at some point. If your attachment is to the revelation, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.400 you will always know who he is. And so whatever 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.560 you need, he can be, because he is the Great. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.240 I am shout about it for five seconds so I 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:55.000 can move on. Seven signs he says. He says, I'm 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.160 gonna give you seven. I'm gonna give you seven. The 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.880 second sign that Jesus did in John's Gospel is when 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.120 he in John chapter four he healed a royal official son. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.040 In John chapter five, he healed a man at the 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.920 pool of Bethesda who had been lame for thirty eight 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.720 years and was waiting for the angel to stir. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:12.079 Up the water. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.280 But Jesus came on the scene and said, you don't 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:15.800 have to wait for somebody to stir up the water. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.040 The living water has come to you. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.560 And since you can't move and you're sitting by this pool, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.040 I'm going to bring to you what you could not 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:21.920 get for yourself. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.920 He flipped the flow. He flipped the flow. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.040 I could preciate this series for another year and not 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.160 exhaust all the times that Jesus flipped the flow. In fact, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.680 in John chapter six, this was the fourth sign that 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.360 Jesus recorded in John's Gospel. Jesus was looking at some 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.160 hungry people, and a little boy had a styrofoam box 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.560 with a cheese sandwich and jeez fish and loaves. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.480 But I'm modernized here. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.880 Jesus took it and blessed it, and broke it and 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.240 gave it to them, and they all they went from 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.600 hungry to full. They went from hungry. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:55.920 To a kid. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.960 In another bite, they went from hungry. Would you like 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.640 to see the dessert menu? No, I'm full. That was 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.240 the sign in John chapter six. In John chapter six, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.160 Jesus also walked out. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.800 On water to his disciples. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.240 He had sent them to the other side, but they 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.760 encountered a storm. And what was really most important wasn't 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.040 what was on the other side, but what they went 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.920 through to get there. Because when they went through the storm, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.760 it gave him an opportunity to reveal who he was 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.760 in a way that they couldn't have seen if they 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.000 didn't go through the storm. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.080 So he's trying to get us to see you see 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:28.440 the sign. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.840 He's trying to get you to see that the storm 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.720 points to something that is deeper than what you can 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.280 see on the surface. To show you that the power 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.880 of God on the inside of you is greater than 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.160 the wind that blows against you. He gives them a sign. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.640 In John chapter nine, he heals a man born blind. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.480 The man didn't do anything to be blind, his parents 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.200 didn't do anything to make him blind. Jesus said this 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.440 was to reveal the glory of God. He is using 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.840 something that the man can't see to show the man 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:02.080 something that physical eyes cannot It's a sign. He's trying 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.640 to show something deeper until John chapter eleven, when he 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.120 shows the ultimate sign that foreshadows the very work that 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.880 he came to do. When he shows up at lazarus 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:16.800 house late after Lazarus has died, misses his healing appointment 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.200 and tells him come out of the tomb because he 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.920 had to show them. You've seen me as a healer, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.240 but now it's time for a deeper expression of your 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.120 understanding of me. Because even when I don't show up 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.160 when you want me to show up in your life, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.640 I already have in mind what I'm going to do. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.680 And even if they've wrapped you in graveclothes and buried you, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.520 if you have the faith to come forth, I can 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.000 still speak a word that will bring you out of 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:46.560 any situation, because I am the resurrection and the life. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.760 Somebody shot God, give me a sign. Just wanted a sign, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:56.080 So Jesus gave him a sign. So what was the 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:01.200 first one? Those were the six, but the first one 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.440 was And I know some of you, some of you 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.840 already know. Some of you really really really really really 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.640 know your Bible. And when I said John chapter two, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.800 you were like water into wine, you know, and you're right. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:18.280 But if you would have shouted out, I would have 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.440 ruined my setup because you already know. But you know, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.920 sometimes we have the curse of knowledge and we think 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.320 we know something and we. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.400 Do know it at the surface. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.160 But why did Jesus turn water into wine? And I'm 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.440 going to show you, And this is so powerful God, 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.640 I'm excited. I hadn't had this much fun preaching in 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.600 a long time as I'm having today. I think it's 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:46.480 the dnum. Holly said, I don't wear enough color up here, 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:54.320 so I like black. It's slimmy. Dark colors. Dark colors. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.400 Now go back to John chapter two, verse one, somebody 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.080 shall flip it. Jesus shows up on the third day 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.560 at a wedding which took place in Cana in Galilee. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.800 This is a small place, not necessarily an important place, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.720 but nevertheless, Jesus's mother was there at a wedding, and 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:23.639 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:31.359 When the wine was gone, the miracle started. You missed 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:38.359 it when they ran out of what they brought, when 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.040 they ran out of what they planned for, which to 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.160 us would not. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:44.200 Be the biggest deal. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.040 You know, you run out of wine at a wedding, 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.159 and it's probably a good thing because you got crazy 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.680 family members and when they drink too much, they start 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.639 fighting any way, and one of them ends up in jail. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.919 But in this culture, it was the epitome of dishonor 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.080 to invite a guest and to not be able to provide. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.399 And this wedding was not a you know how we 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.800 do a wedding and it's like forty minutes and then 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:12.560 in a reception. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.560 This was more like the fire festival. It was supposed 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:16.240 to last a week. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.840 The wedding would last a week, and everybody showed up 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.240 expecting that at whatever point they showed up at the 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.439 wedding there would still be something to drink, that there 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.280 would still you know, to show up at a wedding 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.320 and there to be no wine. It was actually recorded 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.080 that if the groom, who was responsible to make sure 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.320 that the wedding went off right, if he did not 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:43.960 provide everything that necessity required, he could be sued by 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:50.840 his mother in law. You thought you had family drama, right, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.800 but Jesus shows up at the wedding and they run 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.520 out of wine. Now, I don't want to skip over this. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.840 What have you run out of? What are you running 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:01.119 out of? 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:01.640 Right now? 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.119 What are you constantly afraid of running out of? Is 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.480 it wisdom? 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.240 Is it peace? Is it ideas? 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.320 Are you out of ideas for how to fix a relationship? 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.280 Are you out of ideas for how to reach a 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.439 level of success that you thought you would have been 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.959 at four years ago? What are you running out of? 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.439 What have you run out of? The worst thing is 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.199 the run out of gas when you're the one driving. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.879 The worst thing is for people to show up to 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.679 your kitchen and all you have is cheese and brand. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.720 The worst thing is when you know that people expect 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.240 something of you because some of you you're the life 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.720 of the party, some of you you're the strong one. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.840 Some of you you are the one that people come 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.320 to with their problems, and they don't know you are 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.919 sick of being the place where they dump their crap. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.919 You got your own sewage, and I keep backing up 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.800 and dumping more on you, and they don't even know 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.920 how close you are to quitting. And you're running out. 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.439 And that's why I like this, because you don't have 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.040 to say it out loud. I'll say it for you. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:21.399 Everybody in here is running out of something not wine. 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.439 How about joy? How about how? How about how you 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.280 haven't been happy in a long time? How about that 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.480 the last time I was up here, I preached on joy. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.560 Did you hear that sermon? It sounds like it meant 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.159 a lot to you. Praise the Lord? Why do I 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:43.000 do this? Were you here when I preached on joy? Well, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.360 since since wine represents joy, I thought it'd be good 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.080 to stay in this flow. But Jesus comes to the 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:53.200 wedding and he's a guest. But he's about to provide 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.240 what the host could not provide. Why he did not 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:03.119 come to demand righteousness. He came to provide righteousness. He 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.760 flipped the flow. The first thing Jesus did was to 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.720 take away the shame of a couple who had run 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.159 out of what they were unable to provide. That's the 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.480 first thing he does when he comes in your life. 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.160 He doesn't just expose your shame. He doesn't just come 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.680 to condemn you. He doesn't just come to point out 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.640 everything that's wrong with you. He says, I didn't come 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.400 just to show you your shame. I came to take 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.520 it away. Look the lamb of God who takes away 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.880 the sin of the world. Oh I'm happy about it. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.480 I need the Lord in my life because because I'm 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:44.080 so I'm so scared I'm gonna run out. And yet 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.959 the Bible says that Jesus didn't do anything about it. 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.440 He let it run out. He let it run out, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:58.080 He let it happen like he often will do. Until 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:03.359 watsh this. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:09.119 to him, they gotta imagine the wine's really important at 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.000 the wedding. This is not the first person who has 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.960