? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the
praise... ? ? (Music) ?
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Pastor Byrd: In the
text there's some folk
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going through some
trouble and they need some help.
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Now, the help they
needed was not physical.
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They didn't need
physical healing.
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The help was not spiritual.
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They didn't need a Bible study.
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The help was not social.
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They didn't need a girlfriend
or boyfriend or a husband
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or wife.
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The help they needed was
some wine, because the wine
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had run out.
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Now, I need you to know,
as a married man for 15 years,
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and having watched my wife
and our wedding coordinator
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meticulously plan our wedding
and our wedding reception,
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if the people we paid
all the money to had run out
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of food or
drink at our reception
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there would have been a problem.
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Yes, a wedding lasts
a day and a marrge lasts
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a lifetime, but when
you pay all that money,
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all those deposits, you mess up
on that day and we're going to
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see what happens.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Here we find the record
of Jesus' first miracle.
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The first miracle is performed
about one week after the first
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call of his disciples.
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Jesus began his
ministry at this miracle.
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Understand, Jesus did not
begin his ministry by doing
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some great work before
the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem.
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Jesus did not begin
his ministry by chairing
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a meeting, singing a
song, or healing a leper.
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Jesus began his
miracle-working ministry
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at a wedding.
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Now, today the wedding
ceremony and the wedding
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reception take
place on the same day.
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But back in Jesus' day
weddings lasted several days
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and they took place
at the groom's house.
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The text says in verse
one that Mary, the mother
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of Jesus, was there.
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Jesus and his disciples
were called to the marriage,
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which means Jesus was
invited to the wedding.
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Two points here
worth mentioning.
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Number one, Jesus was invited
to the wedding, which means
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Jesus didn't just show up.
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Let me stop right
there for a minute.
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Let that be a lesson
of etiquette for somebody.
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You don't just
show up at a wedding.
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You don't show up
at a wedding reception.
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You have to have what
they call an invitation.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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I look at folks, married people
go to the reception, I look
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at folks who show up at
wedding receptions talking
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about, oh, I'm just
going to crash the party.
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No, you go sit down somewhere.
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You ain't going
to crash a thing.
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Oh, they know me.
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I know them.
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We're like family.
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Well, if you're like
family you would have gotten
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an invitation.
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Sit down somewhere.
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Don't get your feelings hurt.
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Too many people I've discovered,
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too many people have
confused church dinners
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with wedding receptions.
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Church dinners are free.
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Wedding receptions are not free.
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You have to pay by the plate.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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And then I listen to some
folk, they get an invitation,
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but they don't RSVP back.
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Somebody going to
thank me after this sermon.
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Well, I forgot to RSVP,
but they still should have me
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on the list.
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No, they don't.
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If you don't RSVP, they
don't think you're coming.
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And then some folk don't
RSVP, and because the reception
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coordinator is nice, they
let them in, and then they still
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want to sit in the front.
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Just sit in the back
and be thankful you got in.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Point number two.
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Jesus was invited to the wedding
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and he was invited to
the reception which lasted
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several days, which means,
Jesus had to be a person who
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didn't mind having fun.
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He didn't mind smiling.
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He didn't mind
laughing a little bit.
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He was sociable.
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He wasn't a stuffed shirt,
always with rocks in his jaw.
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If they were going to
be uncomfortable with Jesus
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present or if they felt Jesus
was going to be uncomfortable
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with being present, they
wouldn't have invited him
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in the first place.
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News flash!
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You can be holy and still laugh.
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You can be holy and still smile.
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You can be holy
and still have fun.
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Too many folk walk around,
can't speak, can't smile,
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can't laugh.
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Walk around appearing holy,
Bible in hand, Sabbath School
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lesson in hand, suit
on, hat on, but can't smile.
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Walk holy, act holy,
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talk holy.
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How are you, my child?
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Isn't the Lord good?
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And some people put on this
show like they're the greatest
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Christian, that they're so holy
and they could be the biggest
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devil in town.
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You can be
spiritual and still have fun.
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You can be spiritual
and still laugh a bit.
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A merry heart doth
good like medicine.
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Jesus was invited to
the wedding and Jesus
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believed in happy
things and happy occasions.
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But there's a problem.
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They've run out of wine.
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All these guests and no wine.
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And don't get it
twisted, I'm nosaying wine
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like the world drinks today.
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The wine of John 2
is the unfermented juice
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of the vine. Grape juice.
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Don't walk out of
here and say, "Pastor Byrd
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said we can drink wine."
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That's not what I'm saying.
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Wine is a mocker, strong
drink is raging, and whosoever
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is deceived thereby is not wise.
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As a relative of the
wedding party, Mary had assisted
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in the
arrangements for the feast.
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Mary looked at her son Jesus
and said, they have no wine.
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In other words, Son,
go and make some wine.
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Now, on the surface, if
you read the text carefully,
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it could appear that Jesus'
response was disrespectful.
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If you look at the
text carefully, Jesus begins
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with the word woman.
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He doesn't begin with Mother,
Mom, Momma or Mary, but he
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begins with Woman.
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Now, if I ever, at four
or forty, after my mother
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told me to do something,
answered her with Woman,
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somebody knows you'd be picking
your teeth up off the ground.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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My momma look at
me, say, you said what?
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What you say?
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Boy, I'll slap you down.
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Or better yet, Momma
wouldn't say anything.
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You would feel
what she was thinking.
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I don't know about you, but
my parents believed in whipping.
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Anybody had a
momma or daddy like that?
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Whipping.
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And back in those days
in church, it didn't matter
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if somebody wasn't your momma,
if you ran through church,
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they pulled you aside
and you got a wooping.
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You got a wooping at church
and then when you got home
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my daddy gave
me another wooping.
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Bible says spare the rod.
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Jesus says, Woman,
what am I to do with thee?
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Mine hour is not come yet.
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Careful study of the word
woman used here let's us know
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that Jesus was not
being rude or disrespectful,
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but in harmony
with oriental custom,
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woman was a customary,
dignified, respectful way
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of addressing a lady.
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Of course, the same God who
told us to honor our fathers
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and our mothers was
himself a living example
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of this principle.
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Jesus was not one to say
one thing and then do another.
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Woman, what have
I to do with thee.
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Mine time is not come yet.
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One of my favorite writers,
Ellen White says, there was
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danger that Mary would regard
her relationship with Jesus
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as giving her a special
claim upon him and the right to
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direct him in his mission.
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For 30 years Jesus had
been a loving and obedient son.
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Mary directed his steps.
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But now he must be
about his Father's business.
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Jesus had to tell his momma,
when I was a child I spoke
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as a child, I
understood as a child,
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I thought as a child,p
but when I became a man,
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I had to put
away childish things.
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There comes a time
when a man must be a man.
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There comes a time when
a man must separate himself
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from the boys.
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There comes a time when a man
must stand free to do the will
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of God, because
nothing should separate us from
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the love of God.
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Whatever he wants
me to do, I'll do.
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Whatever he wants
me to say, I'll say.
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Wherever he wants
me to go, I'll go.
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Jesus said in Matthew
10:37, He that loveth father
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or mother more than
me is not worthy of me.
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Things now have a transition.
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Transition for
Jesus and his mother Mary.
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Mary will go now
from Jesus needing her
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to her needing Jesus.
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Just like we need
Christ, Mary now needs Christ.
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Jesus makes it clear to
his mother that he is the
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Son of man and the Son of God.
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That he is the God Man.
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Two natures harmonize,
but never completely blended.
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He would get tired as
man, but as God he would
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say, Come unto
me all ye that labor
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and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest.
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He would get hungry as
man, but as God he would feed
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five thousand with two
fish and five loaves of bread.
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He would get thirsty as
man, but as God he would say,
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drink of fountains of living
water that shall never run dry.
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He would get lonely as
man, but as God he had to tread
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the wine press alone.
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He would weep at Lazarus'
grave as man, but as God he
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resurrected
Lazarus from the grave.
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In his divinity
he's God's way to man.
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In his humanity he's
man's way back on up to God,
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because in the beginning
was the Word, and the Word
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was God, and the Word
was with God and the same was
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in the beginning with God
and the Word became flesh.
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Mary had hoped that her
son Jesus at this wedding
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would proclaim himself
as the Messiah at that time.
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The time for such an
announcement had not come.
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Our ways are not his ways.
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Our thoughts are
not his thoughts.
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Our timing is not his timing.
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He may not come
when you want him,
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but he's always right on time.
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There was an appointed
time for each event in his life.
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In the text Jesus had
not performed a miracle yet.
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In the text he had not healed
Peter's mother-in-law yet.
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In the text he had
not healed the leper yet.
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In the text he had not
healed the paralytic lowered
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through the roof yet.
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In the text he had not
healed the withered hand
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of the man yet.
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In the text he had not
raised the widow's son yet.
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In the text he had not
healed the woman with the issue
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of blood yet.
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In the text he had not
healed Jarius' daughter yet.
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In the text he has not
fed the five thousand yet.
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In the text he has
not done any of this yet.
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But even through all of this,
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a mother knows her child.
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I don't know what it is,
but through that symbiotic
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relationship of a
mother carrying that child
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for nine months, a
mother knows her child.
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Mary recognizes and respects
that her son Jesus is God,
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but Mary knows her child.
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Jesus says, Momma,
Woman, my time has not come yet.
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She hears her son but the text
shifts and the text now says
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that she says to the wedding
attendants, whatever he tells
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you to do, do it.
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She knew from the time
that Jesus was in her belly
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that there was
something special about Jesus.
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Jeremiah 1:5 says that before
your momma and daddy even got
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together, before you even knew
your name, while you were yet
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in your momma's belly, that God
had already ordained you to be
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a prophet to the nation.
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Mary knows there is
something special about her son.
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Whatever he
tells you to do, do it.
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I'm sure Jesus looked at his
mom and he would start smiling.
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He'd start smiling.
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Perhaps he goes through
this discourse with his mother.
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He looks now at
the wedding attendants.
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Jesus says, after talking
to his momma, fill the water
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jars with water.
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Fill the water pots to the top.
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The Bible says, he
said, fill the water
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pots to the brim.
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Jesus speaks to that
water and now that water begins
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to change, because
when the Lord speaks,
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nothing remains the same.
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He spoke to the lame
and the lame began to walk.
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He spoke to the dumb
and the dumb begin to talk.
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But most of all, he spoke
to my life one day and nothing
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has been the same.
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Water becomes wine.
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So now, the wedding
director drinks the wine.
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The wedding
director says, wait a minute,
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give me some more.
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This wine tastes better
than the first wine that was
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supposed to be the
best, that was served first.
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Because you know, when
you invite somebody to dinner,
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you serve your best first.
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That's just like Jesus.
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He's trying to teach us a
lesson that your latter will
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always be
greater than your past.
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Now, before I sit
down, let's understand what
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a miracle is.
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Even though Jesus didn't
heal anybody, even though Jesus
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didn't resurrect anybody,
even thought Jesus didn't
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multiply anything,
Jesus in John 2 still worked
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a miracle.
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The most common terms
that refer to a miracle
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in the New Testament are
dunamis, which means power,
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and exousia, which means sign.
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Dunamis is when the
miracle is a manifestation
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of divine power.
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A sign is a visible
conformation of Jesus' divine
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authority, exousia.
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This miracle is a
visible conformation of Jesus'
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divine authority.
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The purpose of this miracle,
friends of mine, was not just
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to turn water into wine,
but the purpose of this miracle
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was to show
everybody who he was.
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That he's God.
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That he has
power to work miracles.
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When you read the closing
chapters of John, Chapter 20,
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the Bible says Jesus did
many other miraculous signs
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in the presence of his
disciples which are not
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even recorded in the Bible.
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But these are written,
the ones we have in the Bible,
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that you may believe
that Jesus is the Christ,
00:18:21.13\00:18:24.40
that he is the Son of God,
and that by believing you may
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have life in his name.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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There comes a point and time
when as a man you can do all
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that you can do, but when you
don't and you can't do anymore,
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that's when God steps
in, that's when Jesus shows
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his authority, that he
is God, that he is a healer,
00:18:52.86\00:19:00.76
that he is a mountain-mover,
that he is a company-keeper,
00:19:00.76\00:19:06.26
that he is a bill-payer,
that he is a financial-clearer,
00:19:06.26\00:19:11.90
that he is God.
00:19:11.90\00:19:14.23
But in this miracle
I'm reminded that God
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never does for us what
we can do for ourselves
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as this would make
spiritual weaklings out of us.
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You see, it's only when
we realize that our needs
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are beyond human ability
can the miracle be realized.
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And then we must have
faith in God, and God will,
00:19:34.96\00:19:37.30
and God can supply the
help so desperately needed.
00:19:37.30\00:19:40.20
You've got to have the
kind of faith in God that says,
00:19:40.20\00:19:42.20
you know what, God?
00:19:42.20\00:19:44.20
No matter what
comes in my life, I'm not
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going to worry about it.
00:19:49.00\00:19:51.53
I'm going to trust God for it.
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Because if God did it
then, God can do it now.
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If God worked the
miracle then, God can work
00:20:02.20\00:20:07.06
the miracle now.
00:20:07.06\00:20:08.56
God still is the one.
00:20:08.56\00:20:12.36
If God worked a miracle
at a wedding, God can work
00:20:12.36\00:20:15.66
a miracle now.
00:20:15.66\00:20:16.66
If God healed the
blind man then, God can heal
00:20:16.66\00:20:18.66
a blind man now.
00:20:18.66\00:20:19.66
If God can heal a
lame man then, God can heal
00:20:19.66\00:20:21.76
a lame man now.
00:20:21.76\00:20:22.76
If leprosy could be
healed then, cancer can go
00:20:22.76\00:20:24.86
in remission now.
00:20:24.86\00:20:27.70
He's still the one.
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Look back over your life.
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Go into your spiritual computer.
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Go back into your spiritual
hard drive and download
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Download some testimonies
about what God has done
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for you in your life.
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Does anybody know
what I'm talking about?
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I'm talking about when
you didn't have any gas
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in your car, but somebody
00:20:52.30\00:20:54.53
slid you a $20 bill.
00:20:54.53\00:20:56.26
I'm talking about the
time when you didn't know
00:20:56.26\00:20:58.66
where your food was
coming from, but God made
00:20:58.66\00:21:01.13
a way out of no way.
00:21:01.13\00:21:02.56
I'm talking about the time
when you didn't have a job,
00:21:02.56\00:21:05.43
but God kept your
lights on, kept your water on,
00:21:05.43\00:21:09.06
kept your gas on.
00:21:09.06\00:21:11.13
I'm talking about when
you didn't have enough money
00:21:11.13\00:21:15.80
to finance school.
00:21:15.80\00:21:17.36
You didn't have
enough, but some way,
00:21:17.36\00:21:21.00
somehow God sent a
grant that you couldn't
00:21:21.00\00:21:24.16
even pronounce.
00:21:24.16\00:21:25.16
God sent a scholarship.
00:21:25.16\00:21:26.96
God sent a donation
from somebody somewhere
00:21:26.96\00:21:30.76
and now you're sitting in class.
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I'm talking about the time
the devil knocked you down,
00:21:34.03\00:21:39.13
beat you down,
put you down, but God
00:21:39.13\00:21:42.66
picked you up,
turned you around,
00:21:42.66\00:21:45.23
placed your
feet on solid ground.
00:21:45.23\00:21:48.10
I mean, we all know, this is
what trips me out, we all know
00:21:48.10\00:21:54.96
what God has done.
00:21:54.96\00:21:55.83
But I can't figure out
how some people forget.
00:21:55.83\00:22:00.83
The doctor didn't
raise Sister Kelly up.
00:22:00.83\00:22:07.40
God did.
00:22:07.40\00:22:09.56
The doctor didn't
spare Dr. Moore's life.
00:22:09.56\00:22:13.76
God did.
00:22:13.76\00:22:16.26
It might not be
wine at a wedding.
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It might not be
food in your body.
00:22:18.83\00:22:21.46
It might not be
finances at Financial Clearance.
00:22:21.46\00:22:24.70
It might not be
healing for your body.
00:22:24.70\00:22:26.90
It might not be a
roof over your head.
00:22:26.90\00:22:29.33
But whatever you
need, you better know that
00:22:29.33\00:22:33.43
he's still the one.
00:22:33.43\00:22:35.80
He still works miracles.
00:22:35.80\00:22:40.13
But you're worried,
somebody today, you're worried.
00:22:40.13\00:22:42.80
You're in something you seem
not to be able to get out of.
00:22:42.80\00:22:45.56
You're worried if you're
going to be able to get out.
00:22:45.56\00:22:47.80
I'm here to let you know
God's going to bring you out.
00:22:47.80\00:22:50.10
You're worried if God is
going to work a miracle on your
00:22:50.10\00:22:53.06
behalf, God's going
to work that thing out.
00:22:53.06\00:22:56.00
You're worried.
00:22:56.00\00:22:56.63
God is still the one.
00:22:56.63\00:22:59.50
Well, God showed up too late.
00:22:59.50\00:23:01.63
If he showed up early,
it wouldn't be a miracle.
00:23:01.63\00:23:04.43
Let me remind you that
God sent his son Jesus Christ.
00:23:04.43\00:23:13.16
Jesus hung, he bled, he
died, his body lay resting
00:23:13.16\00:23:21.16
in the grave, he was buried,
but on the third appointed day,
00:23:21.16\00:23:28.83
my Bible says that he got up.
00:23:28.83\00:23:33.46
And so God told
me to ask somebody,
00:23:33.46\00:23:38.46
what problem do you have
today that is bigger than
00:23:38.46\00:23:42.63
the fact that Jesus died
and was resting in the grave,
00:23:42.63\00:23:48.00
and if God can
raise Jesus from the dead,
00:23:48.00\00:23:51.76
there's nothing that
you're going through right now
00:23:51.76\00:23:55.80
that God can't pull you through.
00:23:55.80\00:23:58.10
He's still the one.
00:23:58.10\00:24:01.80
The fact that you're
even here today is a miracle.
00:24:01.80\00:24:06.00
God is keeping folk
and keeping stuff off you
00:24:06.00\00:24:10.30
that would take you out.
00:24:10.30\00:24:13.43
God is keeping somebody's mind.
00:24:13.43\00:24:15.60
God is keeping somebody's body.
00:24:15.60\00:24:17.60
God is keeping somebody's soul.
00:24:17.60\00:24:19.76
God is keeping
somebody's spirit.
00:24:19.76\00:24:21.80
God is keeping somebody's heart.
00:24:21.80\00:24:24.06
Let me tell you all something,
every day is not going
00:24:24.06\00:24:28.53
to be peachy.
00:24:28.53\00:24:29.86
Every day is not
going to have sunshine.
00:24:29.86\00:24:32.93
Every day is not
going to be a party.
00:24:32.93\00:24:35.50
I've had some good days.
00:24:35.50\00:24:38.00
I've had some hills to climb.
00:24:38.00\00:24:41.40
I've had some weary days.
00:24:41.40\00:24:44.33
And I've had some lonely nights.
00:24:44.33\00:24:47.66
But when I look
around and think things over,
00:24:47.66\00:24:51.73
all of my good
things outweigh my bad days.
00:24:51.73\00:24:58.86
I won't complain.
00:24:58.86\00:25:00.46
Listen to me.
00:25:00.46\00:25:01.80
You can't have
victory without battle
00:25:01.80\00:25:04.70
You can't have
blessings without battles.
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.23
You can't have
power without pain.
00:25:07.23\00:25:09.40
You can't have deliverance
without difficulties.
00:25:09.40\00:25:11.70
But you've got to
know he's still the one.
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He still works miracles.
00:25:13.73\00:25:19.40
He turned water
into wedding punch
00:25:19.40\00:25:21.40
but he still works miracles.
00:25:21.40\00:25:22.53
You'd never know
he was a healer if you
00:25:22.53\00:25:24.53
didn't get sick.
00:25:24.53\00:25:25.53
You'd never know he
was a provider if you
00:25:25.53\00:25:27.53
were never broke.
00:25:27.53\00:25:28.53
But be sick, let Jesus
heal you, you'll realize
00:25:28.53\00:25:31.96
he's still the One.
00:25:31.96\00:25:32.96
Be broke and let Jesus
make a way out of no way.
00:25:32.96\00:25:35.86
We show up in
here like we all that,
00:25:35.86\00:25:39.23
but everybody
here, miss your paycheck
00:25:39.23\00:25:41.46
at the end of the
month and see how many people
00:25:41.46\00:25:45.56
would be lined up at my office.
00:25:45.56\00:25:48.16
You all don't
hear what I'm saying?
00:25:48.16\00:25:50.80
I'm a miracle today.
00:25:50.80\00:25:52.30
Anybody else in here a miracle?
00:25:52.30\00:25:54.80
It's a miracle that
I'm here, that you're here.
00:25:54.80\00:25:58.10
Some of you should be
dead, buried, in your grave,
00:25:58.10\00:26:01.03
locked up.
00:26:01.03\00:26:02.73
Somebody should be crazy by now.
00:26:02.73\00:26:05.83
Somebody should be in
the hospital somewhere,
00:26:05.83\00:26:08.13
but you're here.
00:26:08.13\00:26:09.13
And so when I come up in
Oakwood, I told you earlier
00:26:09.13\00:26:11.76
this is what, I'm free.
00:26:11.76\00:26:13.36
If the Son sets you
free, you shall be free indeed.
00:26:13.36\00:26:17.40
He's still the one.
00:26:17.40\00:26:20.63
Many things in life
have already been prepackaged
00:26:20.63\00:26:27.13
and prepared, but we
need water to use them.
00:26:27.13\00:26:34.56
So it is with us.
00:26:34.56\00:26:37.13
Jesus already has miracles
prepackaged and prepared
00:26:37.13\00:26:42.40
for us.
00:26:42.40\00:26:44.20
When he calls for the water,
like Mary and like the wedding
00:26:44.20\00:26:50.40
attendants, we've
got to do what he says.
00:26:50.40\00:26:53.20
Give him what he wants.
00:26:53.20\00:26:54.96
Whatever he tells you
to do, you've got to do it.
00:26:54.96\00:26:57.90
We may not understand it.
00:26:57.90\00:26:59.23
It may not make sense to us.
00:26:59.23\00:27:00.83
But if you want the miracle
that's already prepackaged,
00:27:00.83\00:27:03.06
that's already
prepared, you've got to let him
00:27:03.06\00:27:06.00
add the water.
00:27:06.00\00:27:08.46
Today somebody needs
a miracle in their life.
00:27:08.46\00:27:15.03
You've just got to
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