February 21, 2021
Along with the rest of the world, we continue to do a few things doing
differently. While we are back in the sanctuary, we continue to present a service in the form of a YouTube
Playlist. Audio
only podcasts are still available as per usual. This sermon is given by Pastor Chris.
Link To Sermon Audio
Scriptures:
John 2:1-11
On the third day a wedding took place
at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had
also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to
him, “They have no more wine.”
“Dear woman, why do you involve me?”
Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Do
whatever he tells you.”
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the
kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to
thirty gallons.
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the
jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them, “Now draw some out
and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, and the master of the
banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize
where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then
he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine
first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink;
but you have saved the best till now.”
This, the first of his miraculous
signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his
disciples put their faith in him.
2 Kings 6:1-6
The company of the prophets said to
Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 2
Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a
place there for us to live.”
And
he said, “Go.”
Then one of them said, “Won’t you
please come with your servants?”
“I
will,” Elisha replied. 4 And he went with them.
They
went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. As one of them was cutting down
a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh, my lord,” he cried out, “it
was borrowed!”
The
man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut
a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. 7 “Lift it
out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.
Romans 8:18
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Matthew 26:29
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from
now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.
Jeremiah 31:12
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion;
they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD—
the grain, the new wine and the oil,
the young of the flocks and herds.
They will be like a well-watered garden,
and they will sorrow no more.
Amos 9:13
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when the reaper will be overtaken by the
plowman
and the planter by the one treading grapes.
New wine will drip from the mountains
and flow from all the hills.
Revelation
19:6-9
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like
the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous
acts of the saints.)
Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who
are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’”
