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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time.

Thank you Lord that you've kept us safe throughout this week.

As we are about to study your Word once more, we want to ask that you please grace us with your presence.

Please draw close to us, O Lord, fill us with your Spirit, guide us and lead us is our earnest plea and prayer.

The title of our study this evening is Jesus' Encounter at the Wedding Feast.

And we are trying to go chronological through the life of Christ and the encounters that he had with different people.

This is our series that we are studying right now on Friday nights and we are now looking at the wedding feast.

And so in John chapter 2, we read verses 1 and 2, and the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, and both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.

Jesus and the disciples that he had already called, not all of them, but those that he'd already called by the sea, they were invited to this marriage in Cana of Galilee.

Verse 3, And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

They ran out of wine and Jesus's mother turns to Jesus and says, hey they they have no wine and in other words she wanted Jesus, her son, to do something about it.

I guess she must have already known that he could perform miracles and maybe she thought that this was his chance to show to the world what she had cherished in her heart for so long that he was the Messiah, the Son of God.

She wanted him to perform a miracle that he could produce this wine when they had run out.

Maybe it was a close friend or a relative.

Maybe it was someone that was close to her that she wanted to help.

But nonetheless, her intention in turning to Jesus and saying, they have no wine, was very, very obvious.

You see, Mary had kept these secrets in her heart for a long time.

Since his birth or even just before his birth, she knew the child that she was carrying.

An angel came and told her, and in Luke 2, verse 5-19, this is what the Bible says, And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, The shepherds said 1 to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

And all they that heard it, wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

Mary had known since the birth of her son, pardon me, that this child would be for the rising and the falling of the nations, that this child would bring hope to the whole world, that this child was the promised Redeemer and the Messiah.

And you know she had been holding all this in her heart until now.

And since she's seen the son get baptized, Maybe she got the report that this voice came from heaven and now Jesus had been in the wilderness for 40 years and he comes down and he's a 40 years, pardon me, 40 days and Jesus comes down now with a different demeanor on his face, with seriousness in his eyes.

She knows that he's not going home to help his father Joseph anymore in the carpenter's shop.

She knows that he is now set on a mission that only the Father in Heaven has set him on.

And she's hoping, she's hoping as any mother would, that the people would accept her son, that the people would now be able to see what she has known all this time, that this is truly the Messiah to the whole world.

But what is Jesus' response to Mary, his mother, when she says, they have no wine.

John 2 verse 4, the Bible says, Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?

I know it sounds rude in our modern day language calling a person woman especially your mother.

You don't call anybody that unless you're just joking but here it sounds rude in the modern day but actually Jesus was being very very polite and respectful to his mother.

And so he addresses her in a polite manner.

Even though you raised me, what do I have to do with you?

But he has to answer the insinuation that the mother is making.

Meaning this situation has nothing to do with the reason for which I came to the earth.

Jesus is saying look this is not the reason why I came to help people when they have run out of wine to give them wine.

Jesus did not come to the earth to put on a show.

He did not come to the earth to tickle people's fancy and perform a few magic tricks as we would say, miracles and to heal a few people and that was it.

No friends, his mission was much higher and much broader and much deeper than even what his mother could comprehend.

And so he had to help her understand this and say, what have I to do with thee?

And it showed that even Mary had misunderstood her own son's mission.

The claims of God, friends, are above the earthly ties of human relationships.

We have to make sure that no earthly connection and attraction turns our feet from the path which God Himself wants us to walk.

Sometimes well-meaning people and people that are with good intentions, they want us to do certain things and we got to make sure that we walk in the light of which God has revealed to us.

But if we are to do that, That means you have to know the reason for which God has called you to this world.

Do you understand the reason for why you are born into the world for such a time as this?

And Jesus, he understood it very, very clearly.

But then the second part of his response is what?

This was not the time nor the place nor the event for which God had called him to and Jesus had to make sure that he was about his father's business.

That was always his focus from a young age.

Even at the age of 12 when the parents brought him to Jerusalem and they lost him for a day and they found him 3 days later, he was in the temple and he was teaching them, the people that were the religious leaders.

He was asking questions that were beyond his age and this is what we read in Luke 2, 48-49 And when they saw him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou dealt thus with us?

Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

And he said unto them, how is it that ye sought me?

Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business?

Even from a young age, He was learning to do the will of God and not use his gifts for selfish purposes.

So Jesus replies to Mary, Woman, what have I to do with thee?

If you were Mary, what would you be thinking at this point?

You're not here to turn water into wine and this is not the time for him to perform any miracles.

Okay, at least I tried, at least I tried, right?

I mean when you look at that response and what Jesus said I don't think anyone would think differently Right?

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