From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is New Perceptions
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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In Christ alone,
who took on flesh
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Fullness of God in helpless babe
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This gift of
love and righteousness
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Scorned by the
ones He came to save
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Till on that cross as Jesus died
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The wrath of God was satisfied
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For every sin on Him was laid
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Here in the
death of Christ I live
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There in the ground His body lay
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Light of the
world by darkness slain
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Then bursting
forth in glorious Day
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Up from the grave He rose again
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And as He stands in victory
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Sin's curse has
lost its grip on me
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For I am His and He is mine
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Bought with the
precious blood of Christ
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On Christ, the
solid rock, I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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On Christ the
solid rock I stand,
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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No guilt in
life, no fear in death
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This is the
power of Christ in me
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From a life's
first cry to final breath
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Jesus commands my destiny
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No power of
hell, no scheme of man
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Could ever
pluck me from His hand
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Till He returns
and calls me home
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Here in the power
of Christ I'll stand
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I would like to
call in audible right now
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it's not in the worship program
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but I want to invite
Jeffery Sajdak to come up.
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He is one of our
alumni and Jeffery
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you were just
honored a few moments ago.
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Congratulations,
welcome back by the way,
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what's this 20th
reunion. Twenty years.
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You graduated in
1991? That's correct.
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Mercy, and your wife, you
both now you and Betsy met here?
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Yes, we did. Yeah.
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Actually you knew each
other before you even came here.
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We met each other
at Wisconsin academy.
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Yeah, that's right
the Wisconsin academy.
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Jeff, you drop by
the office yesterday,
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that's why I'm doing this.
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Now, you just found about
this about three minutes ago.
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Yes.
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So I'm putting you on the spot
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but Jeff, I have been
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just brooding over our
conversation and your testimony.
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So let me just pick it up,
Dr. Henderson did a nice job
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in introducing what you do
but some people have slept in
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since you are with the Homeland,
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the Department of
Homeland Security.
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That's correct.
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Down in
Indianapolis. That's correct.
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You are an attorney. I am.
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I have your card.
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Supervisory attorney, Office
of Assistant Chief Council.
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That is correct.
That's very impressive.
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So God has put
you in that office.
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No doubt. Yeah.
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So how could a guy walk up
in your position station in life
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walk up to an ice cream
truck driver and engage him.
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What would lead a man
like you are professional
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like you to do that?
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How much time do I have?
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You got about three minutes.
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Okay, as I talked
about it yesterday
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when I have been impressed
with its about relationship,
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its about
surrendering your life to Christ
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and its about just
believing in the journey
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having trust in God and
over last couple of years
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I have just worked
hard on my relation with God
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and I told you that I
was put my relationship
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at the end of the day and
often times I would forget.
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And I changed that and
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I make Him a priority every
morning and it's been a journey.
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God's impressed me
that I needed to surrender
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and what that truly meant was
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I accept Him on
His terms not my terms.
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I like that.
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And that let me to
question as far as you know,
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who's am I and you
know the answer that is God.
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You know, we give me
our tithes but reality is
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everything we own belongs to Him
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and the Cicero church
in Indiana has decided
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that it is going to
do a day in revelation
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seminar we are doing that
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and the lay
members are doing that.
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You handed this to me,
Jeff in the office yesterday
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so I'm looking at
this "The Final Days,
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an intelligent look
into Bible Prophecy."
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I'm thinking wow, wait a minute.
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We got Ron Clouzet who is
a member of our congregation
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just opened up last night.
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By the way did a
powerful job I was so,
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we are all so
blessed packed out here.
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And he is going
again tonight for those
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who are sitting out
there and he will be right here
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in this church
live via satellite.
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So I'm looking at this
and I think well this is like
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prophecy decoded
but I turn it over
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and I realize wait a minute
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these are the
books, these are speakers
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I see you there you
are, you school law grad,
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you have got a
physician on here,
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you got a dentist on here,
you have a genitor on here,
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you have an engineer on here
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what do we all
one, two, three, four
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what do all seven of
you men have in common?
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What's up?
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I think we have just all
surrounded our life to Christ
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for we were
following His leading.
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And what are you
going to do about it?
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Why is this broacher printed?
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We are all starting Sunday,
it gonna start tomorrow night
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meetings I have
opened up my house
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invited work, coworkers
went around the neighborhood,
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the ice cream truck driver
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we will see what
happens and you know,
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I guess the burden
I have on my heart is
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God has just emblazed
us all here incredibly.
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I mean the
education in this sanctuary.
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The alumni you know, it is time
as we talked about yesterday,
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the end of time
is near it is so near
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and if we are gonna
get this message out
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it can't be just the pastors
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and I think this decoding
is an awesome opportunity
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if you don't
comfort about that message
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go to the decoding
get a comfort level
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and open up your houses,
open up to the meeting rooms.
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I mean let's get
this message out,
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Christ is coming
soon why are we waiting?
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Amen, amen.
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So what you are doing is
you are opening up your home,
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you are going for ten nights
I look at the list of subjects
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then everything
from these various venues
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will transfer over to
the local churches that
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each of these men belongs to
and the series will continue.
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That's correct.
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Yeah, Jeff, I'm so proud of you.
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I'm thinking-- Glory to God.
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Yeah, absolutely,
you graduated from here
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you knew, Jesus
but along the way
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you opened up yourself to Him
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at another level
to a deeper dimension.
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We are just listening
to Jessica a moment ago,
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and that was a great interview.
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Jose and
Jessica, so she is saying,
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look not
everybody can do everything
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but you are telling
us that a man or woman
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passionate about Jesus can step
out of his or her comfort zone
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and actually publicly in
a comfortable house setting
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communicate the
everlasting gospel.
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I believe that 100 %
you know I'm not an expert
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but I do believe that the
Holy Spirit is gonna be there
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Sunday night and every
night that we open up our house
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and if I don't have the
words I'm gonna be listening
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and that's the faith
part, the trust part.
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Amen. And --
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How many want to say listen
Jeff, we will pray for you
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we can't imagine what it will be
to move about our comfort zone
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but we will pray for you.
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And I'm proud of you
Jeff, and may your try
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among alumni and students
at Andrews University increase.
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God bless you, Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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And the word was made
flesh and dwelt among us
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and because He did we are here.
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What shall He teach
us today from His word?
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Soren Kierkegaard,
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the Danish Christian
philosopher once wrote,
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"Whereas Christ
turned the water into wine,
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the Church has succeeded in
doing something more difficult,
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it has turned wine into water."
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Has a church done that today?
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Is that what's
up with the church?
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I'm talking about our church.
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I'm talking about the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Have we turn the
wine back into water.
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And if we have
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what's the hope
for this generation.
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Let's pray, oh, God,
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on this home
coming Sabbath we wonder
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have we turned the
wine back into water.
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Dear Father, please
reverse our reversal
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and say this through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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I had the joy this last
weekend of being in Paris,
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with the European
young Seventh-day Adventist
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from all over the continent.
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We are talking an
organization called, AMICUS,
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Adventist Ministry to
College and University Students.
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I have turned on bunch
of young Disciples of Christ
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at a wonderful
weekend but on Sunday
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some of us decided to visit
what I learned subsequently
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is the most visited
museum in all the world.
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I'm talking about the fame
of French museum the Louvre,
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got Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
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Got to see Mona Lisa.
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You got Hammurabi's code,
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chiseled in a form
in that black rock.
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You got thousands of art
and artifacts collections.
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Wow, it's a huge
museum one of the largest.
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Any way so we are walking into
this massive long exhibit hall
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and I turn around and discover,
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a painting so big
like it's the largest
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next to the largest
painting in the museum
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towering up to the ceiling
and as soon as I recognized
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what the painting is I
said I got to pull my camera out
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because this is our
teaching for next Sabbath,
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and on that
Sabbath this will be a--
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so I'm gonna share with you
some snaps of that painting.
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Put it on the screen
I'm standing back always,
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always, always
everybody is in front though
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they are
holding their cameras up
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they are taking the
pictures of that painting.
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Let me just tell you before
I tell you what the painting
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is, that painting is so
huge in non metric terms
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its 21 and two thirds feet tall
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and thirty two
and half feet long.
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So let me give another shot,
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I got to close so
you could just see how--
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let's go to the
next picture please,
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how tall that stretches
up in that exhibit hall.
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What is that
painting that's the 1563 work
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of Italian
painter, Paolo Veronese
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and it's the Wedding at Cana.
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Beautiful, beautiful painting.
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Now look, you can't get
it-- let me show you one more.
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I snap this picture but you know
the lighting you keep trying
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oh, I got to move for
the light -- you can't do it.
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So we went online here is the --
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here is the digital
picture of that painting,
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you get the full effect of it.
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Let me tell you about that
paint take a careful look at it
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do you know how many human
figure are in that painting?
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Over a 130.
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Paolo was not content
unless he had multiple,
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multiple people in
any painting he did.
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Now, there is only one person
looking straight at the artist
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that's our Lord Jesus.
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So let's zoom in on
the Lord Jesus there He is.
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Mother Mary is
sitting beside Him.
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Let's take another shot now
over the bride and the groom.
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There they are right at
the edge of the painting
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you can tell
which one is the bride
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and which one is the groom
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and there is something very
interesting about this paint
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and I have to tell
you over a 130 people
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and not a single
one of them is talking
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because the
painting was commissioned
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by a Benedict team monitory
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where silence is the rule.
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So when he painted it all 130
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no talking that painting hung
for 235 years in that monitory
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until Napoleon plundered it 1797
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cut it in half shifted to France
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where they stitch it back
and where it still hangs today.
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Wow, let's take
the original down,
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let's take to
the original story.
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Everybody knows and loves
the story of the Wedding at Cana
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why, because everybody
loves the wedding of course,
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except perhaps the
father of the bride
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who is not only
losing his little girl
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but he is having
the pain to lose her.
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What is up with that
be there and done that.
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How many times have we stood
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in the shadows of
that little Cana kitchen?
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We are there we are
not to gonna interrupt
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the banquet
servants scoring in and out,
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their sandals
slapping up dust into the air
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dust its captured by
that shaft of sunlight
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streaking through
that loan kitchen portal
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turning that shaft into gold
because of the dust fragrance,
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we stand there and the
plot always thickens doesn't it?
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When they are desperate servant
comes flying into the kitchen
00:16:28.37\00:16:32.04
in a panic in the
other, we are out of wine.
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We ran out of wine too soon.
00:16:34.74\00:16:36.81
The party is over
this is been ruined
00:16:36.84\00:16:39.21
what are we gonna do and
everybody is ringing hands
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and then we
always remind our self
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when that servant
comes in we remind ourselves
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oh, that's right the
weddings were longer back
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then seven days and beyond
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and it would be a
terrible affront to the guests
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that you have invited
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if you run out of food and
wine they are in a trouble.
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And then somebody call
it, call the coordinator.
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And a few moments later
there she is Mother Mary.
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Now, Desire of
Ages tells us that Mary
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was related to both parties
in that-- in that wedding.
00:17:08.92\00:17:14.88
This is bad news.
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I mean for the sake of the
young couple and the family,
00:17:17.00\00:17:20.73
please Mary plunders
what are the options are
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then her face was standing
in the kitchen in the corner
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we see her face
just beams, her boy.
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You see, her boy
is gone for two months
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came back emaciated
and think, hallow cheeks.
00:17:33.96\00:17:37.23
Like only a mother would
notice you haven't been eating
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but he came back
with a band of young man
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who with reverential admiration
00:17:43.96\00:17:46.56
hanging on nearly
every word he speaks.
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Mary believes the prophecies,
she believes her baby
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is the Messiah
promised from God.
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So this is just perfect.
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This is His movement
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and John minces no
words in his narrative,
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I want you to see this
please the Gospel of John.
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Open your Bible to the
Gospel of John Chapter 2,
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you didn't bring your
Bible pull the pew Bible
00:18:09.30\00:18:10.81
out in front of page
714 in that pew Bible.
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Take a look at
this John Chapter 2
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now in alumni I need to tell you
00:18:15.85\00:18:19.27
that this is the
first time in history
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all the way
back to Battle Creek.
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I don't know if we
have any from the class
00:18:21.69\00:18:23.21
in Battle Creek who are here.
00:18:23.24\00:18:26.16
But this is the first
time in history Battle Creek
00:18:26.19\00:18:28.48
alumni missionary
calls Andrew University.
00:18:28.51\00:18:30.28
I just bet it's the first
time that this institution
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with its grand lengthy heritage
is setting aside an entire year.
00:18:33.63\00:18:38.13
Listen to this carefully,
every public venue for worship,
00:18:38.16\00:18:41.49
dorm worships, coed worships,
co-circular worships, chapels,
00:18:41.52\00:18:46.21
house of
prayer, prayer meetings,
00:18:46.24\00:18:47.72
Sabbath morning at pioneer,
00:18:47.75\00:18:49.21
every public venue is examining
one of the four gospels
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or the Book of Acts
an entire year devoted.
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In fact today, we
begin one chapter of Sabbath
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we spent four in
the previous chapter
00:19:02.76\00:19:04.45
but now we begin
one chapter Sabbath
00:19:04.48\00:19:06.20
and when we get
to the last chapter
00:19:06.23\00:19:07.43
it'll be the last
Sabbath of the school year.
00:19:07.46\00:19:10.97
So we are glad
you are here alumni.
00:19:11.00\00:19:12.43
Open up to John
Chapter 2, title of this series
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is the last word the fourth
gospel for a final generation.
00:19:16.28\00:19:19.77
John Chapter 2
take a look of this,
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everybody knows
this story verse one.
00:19:21.84\00:19:23.44
But we want to find out
how Mother Mary deals with it.
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Watch this verse
1, John Chapter 2,
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"And on the third day there was
a wedding in Cana of Galilee,
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and the mother
of Jesus was there."
00:19:31.31\00:19:32.89
John will never call
her Mary in the entire book,
00:19:32.92\00:19:35.47
she is always only
the mother of Jesus.
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"And the mother
of Jesus was there."
00:19:38.03\00:19:39.57
Now, verse 2, "Now
both Jesus and His disciples
00:19:39.60\00:19:41.61
were invited to the wedding."
00:19:41.64\00:19:43.26
And verse 3, "When
they ran out of wine,
00:19:43.29\00:19:45.89
the mother of Jesus said
to Him, 'They have no wine.'
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Now look ladies and gentlemen,
00:19:51.72\00:19:53.40
when mothers make
declaratory statements
00:19:53.43\00:19:55.88
are they simply
statements or facts?
00:19:55.91\00:20:01.52
Your room is a mess.
00:20:01.55\00:20:04.84
Well, mother, very
observant you are, bless you.
00:20:04.87\00:20:09.26
Is she making a
statement of fact?
00:20:09.29\00:20:12.30
No, we learned very
early in life did we not
00:20:12.33\00:20:15.86
that a maternal observation
was usually a maternal command.
00:20:15.89\00:20:21.86
Do something
about it now, right.
00:20:21.89\00:20:24.82
They have no more wine.
00:20:24.85\00:20:29.52
Is that a maternal observation
00:20:29.55\00:20:32.07
or is it an
implicit maternal command?
00:20:32.10\00:20:35.15
Please son, do
something about it right now.
00:20:35.18\00:20:40.45
That Jesus heard it that way
00:20:40.48\00:20:42.53
because He is a boy who
grew up with that woman.
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There's proof in His response.
00:20:46.77\00:20:51.44
Take a look at His response.
00:20:51.47\00:20:52.92
Verse 4, "Jesus
said to her, 'Woman,
00:20:52.95\00:20:57.17
what does your
concern have to do with Me?
00:20:57.20\00:20:59.52
My hour has not yet come.'"
00:20:59.55\00:21:02.71
Code phrase,
over now all the way
00:21:02.74\00:21:05.43
through the fourth
gospel my hour, the hour,
00:21:05.46\00:21:07.61
my hour, the
hour code for Calvary,
00:21:07.64\00:21:10.21
code for atoning sacrifice
this is not my time, woman.
00:21:10.24\00:21:15.54
But it is clear that mother's
eyes win over son's protest.
00:21:19.95\00:21:26.24
You remember how
your mother looked at you?
00:21:26.27\00:21:27.63
She didn't have to say
a word, she looked at you.
00:21:33.57\00:21:36.83
Apparently Mary does that
00:21:36.86\00:21:38.41
because He
says, it's not my time
00:21:38.44\00:21:40.48
but she turns around, she
turns around to the servants
00:21:40.51\00:21:42.90
and she says, Verse 5,
00:21:42.93\00:21:44.75
"His mother
said to the servants,
00:21:44.78\00:21:45.93
'Whatever He
says to you, do it.'
00:21:45.96\00:21:49.07
" What this may not be His
hour but I'm still His mother.
00:21:49.10\00:21:54.15
Do it whatever He says.
00:21:54.18\00:21:57.32
Craig Keener, calls
it her holy chutzpah
00:21:57.35\00:22:00.41
her chutzpah of faith.
00:22:00.44\00:22:01.47
I like that.
00:22:01.50\00:22:03.80
So everybody in the
kitchen just staring,
00:22:03.83\00:22:06.67
all right whatever
He says she said, we do.
00:22:06.70\00:22:10.40
What do you say?
00:22:10.43\00:22:13.25
Jesus is standing there
00:22:13.28\00:22:16.37
a loving son
obeying to His mother
00:22:16.40\00:22:17.95
He is just let her know,
00:22:17.98\00:22:19.38
He is no longer her boy,
00:22:19.41\00:22:21.76
just the boy that
obedient to His mother
00:22:21.79\00:22:24.65
and obedient to
His heavenly Father
00:22:24.68\00:22:26.87
He makes the
decision, one command.
00:22:26.90\00:22:29.79
Here He goes, verse 6,
"Now there were set there
00:22:29.82\00:22:32.82
six water pots of stone,
00:22:32.85\00:22:34.73
according to the manner
of purification of the Jews"
00:22:34.76\00:22:36.97
ritual watching before you eat,
00:22:37.00\00:22:38.72
okay, where they all lie.
00:22:38.75\00:22:40.32
Now, stones-- those pots
contain 20 or 30 gallons apiece?
00:22:40.35\00:22:45.28
Now, here comes verse
7, "Jesus said to them,
00:22:45.31\00:22:47.12
'Fill the water
pots with water.'
00:22:47.15\00:22:49.86
And they filled
them up to the brim."
00:22:49.89\00:22:54.18
Verse 8 "And He
said to them," now,
00:22:54.21\00:22:55.73
"'Draw some out take it
to the master of the feast
00:22:55.76\00:22:58.68
and they took it" verse 9,
when the master of the feast
00:22:58.71\00:23:03.57
"when the master of the
feast had tasted the water
00:23:03.60\00:23:05.90
that was made wine, and
did not know where it came from
00:23:05.93\00:23:08.45
but the servants who
had drawn the water knew,
00:23:08.48\00:23:10.48
the master of the
feast called the bridegroom."
00:23:10.51\00:23:12.42
Yo, he said come over here.
00:23:12.45\00:23:14.27
Verse 10, "And he
said to him, " look
00:23:14.30\00:23:15.64
"Every man at the beginning
sets out the good wine,
00:23:15.67\00:23:17.61
and when the guests have
well drunk, then the inferior.
00:23:17.64\00:23:20.91
Nobody you have kept
the good wine until now!"
00:23:20.94\00:23:27.42
This beginning of signs
Jesus did in Cana of Galilee,
00:23:27.45\00:23:31.08
and manifested His glory, and
His disciples believed in Him."
00:23:31.11\00:23:36.59
Question is, do we, do
we, do we believe in Him?
00:23:36.62\00:23:42.80
Now remember, remember
00:23:42.83\00:23:44.41
if we are not
going to this story
00:23:44.44\00:23:46.15
to review the turning
of water into the wine
00:23:46.18\00:23:50.86
we are going to
this story to discover
00:23:50.89\00:23:54.22
the turning of
wine back into water.
00:23:54.25\00:23:58.61
And some of you
when you came in and then
00:23:58.64\00:23:59.73
you got the little worship
bulletin said, all right,
00:23:59.76\00:24:01.49
this is alumni
Sabbath, great oh,
00:24:01.52\00:24:03.15
look at that look at the sermon.
00:24:03.18\00:24:04.58
What an original title
turning water into wine.
00:24:04.61\00:24:07.93
And you looked at the picture
00:24:07.96\00:24:08.99
in fact we will put
it on screen for you
00:24:09.02\00:24:10.23
this is the graphic
on your bulletin cover.
00:24:10.26\00:24:12.19
This is our -- our
title for today's teaching
00:24:12.22\00:24:15.32
but notice it's
not turning water into
00:24:15.35\00:24:16.83
wine its
turning wine into water.
00:24:16.86\00:24:18.85
And I want you to note
00:24:18.88\00:24:19.93
what are young
adult graphics designer
00:24:19.96\00:24:23.39
Rochelle Thompson who gets
married a week from tomorrow
00:24:23.42\00:24:27.72
that's why she
did so well on this.
00:24:27.75\00:24:29.10
Take a look at that.
00:24:29.13\00:24:30.70
She is marrying
Breton often back
00:24:30.73\00:24:34.12
who grew up right
here in our community.
00:24:34.15\00:24:35.56
Any way, look at you
though that was water
00:24:35.59\00:24:37.81
turning into a cup
and then it becomes wine.
00:24:37.84\00:24:39.30
No, no look
carefully what is it?
00:24:39.33\00:24:40.84
Its wine going
into a cup that suddenly
00:24:40.87\00:24:42.67
as it hit the bottom
of the cup becomes water.
00:24:42.70\00:24:45.36
See that,
that's our point today.
00:24:45.39\00:24:49.51
I mean how did
Soren Kierkegaard put it,
00:24:49.54\00:24:51.79
let's put it back up
on the screen please.
00:24:51.82\00:24:53.20
"Whereas Christ
turned the water into wine,
00:24:53.23\00:24:55.76
the church has succeeded in
doing something more difficult,
00:24:55.79\00:24:58.37
it has turned wine into water."
00:24:58.40\00:25:02.35
So here is the question,
how does a church do that?
00:25:02.38\00:25:07.20
How is a church that you
belong to and I belong to
00:25:07.23\00:25:09.62
how have we been doing that?
00:25:09.65\00:25:11.03
How have we been turning
the wine back into water?
00:25:11.06\00:25:14.10
You know, you have
some ideas right now,
00:25:14.13\00:25:16.06
that popping into your head.
00:25:16.09\00:25:17.25
How is it that we
turn wine back into water?
00:25:17.28\00:25:20.36
Here is the deal I
want to hear from you,
00:25:20.39\00:25:22.77
pull out your
cell phone, let's go,
00:25:22.80\00:25:24.52
pull out your cell
phone, we'll do this.
00:25:24.55\00:25:27.00
You got your cell
phone here don't fake like
00:25:27.03\00:25:28.62
you don't have it
here, you have it.
00:25:28.65\00:25:30.44
So, pull your cell phone out
I'm gonna put in just a moment
00:25:30.47\00:25:35.14
I'm gonna put the
question up on the screen
00:25:35.17\00:25:37.31
and then the text
number will be there
00:25:37.34\00:25:38.76
and would you text that
number with your response.
00:25:38.79\00:25:40.44
Now, this is not gonna
be just some little quickly
00:25:40.47\00:25:41.86
oh well, no I want you to think.
00:25:41.89\00:25:44.80
You can take a little
time its embedded right into
00:25:44.83\00:25:47.04
the sermon time that
you ponder for a moment.
00:25:47.07\00:25:49.71
Let's put the
question up now, there it is.
00:25:49.74\00:25:52.68
In what way has the church--
what is some of the ways
00:25:52.71\00:25:55.55
its not just one,
what are some of the ways
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.55
that the church has
turned the wine back into water?
00:25:57.58\00:26:00.81
Let's find out.
00:26:00.84\00:26:01.97
You see that text number there?
00:26:02.00\00:26:03.29
You punch in that text number
and then with your over active
00:26:03.32\00:26:07.38
on steroid thumbs you
just punch that sentence up.
00:26:07.41\00:26:11.10
You don't need two or three
sentences you just put it down,
00:26:11.13\00:26:14.61
I quit talking for a
moment so that you can do it.
00:26:14.64\00:26:17.83
What is some of the ways,
you know, I'm gonna read them
00:26:17.86\00:26:20.56
I have my-- I
have my wife's iPad
00:26:20.59\00:26:23.05
in the pulpit with
me, so get this on.
00:26:23.08\00:26:26.88
There we go, okay.
00:26:26.91\00:26:29.66
So, you are
gonna be texting to me
00:26:29.69\00:26:31.29
and I'm gonna
get them right here.
00:26:31.32\00:26:32.88
All right, please,
you are thinking good,
00:26:37.18\00:26:42.34
you are in the choir and
you have a cell phone, try it.
00:26:42.37\00:26:44.35
Those of you by the
way watching live streaming
00:26:48.22\00:26:50.32
almost forgot about
you, we are delighted to
00:26:50.35\00:26:51.69
have you on this
home coming Sabbath.
00:26:51.72\00:26:53.07
You are watching live streaming
right now, you can do it.
00:26:53.10\00:26:54.99
Well, anywhere you are in
the United States and like
00:26:55.02\00:26:57.22
anywhere in the world
you want to pay the toll
00:26:57.25\00:27:00.11
you can punch that number in
00:27:00.14\00:27:01.85
and you can send a message
and we get it right here.
00:27:01.88\00:27:04.72
Oh, boy, oh
mercy here they come.
00:27:04.75\00:27:08.19
All right, boy,
we are climbing fast.
00:27:08.22\00:27:12.27
We had 520 last
time you and I did this.
00:27:12.30\00:27:16.25
Somebody's cell
phones are coming to church.
00:27:16.28\00:27:19.70
But I'm glad you are bring them
bring them all this far away
00:27:19.73\00:27:21.73
bring them all the school year,
00:27:21.76\00:27:23.03
glad you are having.
00:27:23.06\00:27:24.23
Alumni by the way, you
can join us live streaming
00:27:24.26\00:27:25.99
anytime you want,
11:30 eastern time,
00:27:26.02\00:27:28.96
11:30 eastern time and
our website www.pmchruch.tv
00:27:28.99\00:27:32.17
you can join us if you are
sick at home can't go to church
00:27:32.20\00:27:34.50
you can worship right
here in your old home church.
00:27:34.53\00:27:37.25
We are live, no matter who
is preaching it will be live
00:27:37.28\00:27:39.95
every Sabbath to the world.
00:27:39.98\00:27:42.50
All right, okay,
what are some of the ways,
00:27:42.53\00:27:45.50
oh, two that appeared.
00:27:45.53\00:27:49.01
Listen to this,
lack of Bible study.
00:27:49.04\00:27:50.23
Okay, what are some of the ways
00:27:50.26\00:27:51.29
the church is turning
the wine -- wine into water.
00:27:51.32\00:27:53.60
Lack of Bible study,
00:27:53.63\00:27:54.99
TV and internet
takes too much of our time.
00:27:55.02\00:27:59.26
We are using the internet we
shouldn't probably but we are.
00:27:59.29\00:28:03.08
TV and internet
takes too much of our time.
00:28:03.11\00:28:04.62
Common we are techno society
00:28:04.65\00:28:06.42
but the person is
obviously making a point.
00:28:06.45\00:28:10.03
All right, what
are some of the ways
00:28:10.06\00:28:13.28
that church has turned
the wine back into water?
00:28:13.31\00:28:15.57
Bureaucracy.
00:28:15.60\00:28:19.02
Have you ever
become so tough heavy now,
00:28:19.05\00:28:20.81
that everything
is institutionalized
00:28:20.84\00:28:22.58
the wine is gone the succulent
taste of the living Christ
00:28:22.61\00:28:26.19
has been over come by
bureaucratic operation.
00:28:26.22\00:28:32.14
Not all say that
they are Christians.
00:28:42.68\00:28:46.29
No, not that all Adventists
say that they are Adventist
00:28:46.32\00:28:48.16
and they act or act
like Adventist, hypocrites.
00:28:48.19\00:28:51.16
Ouch.
00:28:51.19\00:28:52.30
We made what is sacred coming.
00:28:57.73\00:29:02.44
Lost of the sense of the holy.
00:29:02.47\00:29:03.85
We focus more on
rules than Jesus love.
00:29:12.52\00:29:15.87
Is that happened to us?
00:29:15.90\00:29:18.51
How you turn the wine--
how can you turn the wine
00:29:18.54\00:29:20.58
back into-- back into water?
00:29:20.61\00:29:24.33
A substituting Christ
doctrine for man's tradition
00:29:24.36\00:29:26.84
wine is turned to water.
00:29:26.87\00:29:31.09
It means by
substitution man's tradition
00:29:31.12\00:29:32.99
for Christ doctrine,
its turned into water.
00:29:33.02\00:29:37.27
Fail the trust
and follow Christ,
00:29:41.12\00:29:43.08
fail to weight on
Him, the lack of reverence.
00:29:43.11\00:29:50.07
What is it we do that
turns the wine back into water?
00:29:50.10\00:29:57.60
It goes through all
398 responses right here,
00:29:57.63\00:30:00.08
please keep coming.
00:30:00.11\00:30:02.59
I won't take that
off the screen, now.
00:30:02.62\00:30:04.71
What is it we do that turns
the wine back in the water?
00:30:04.74\00:30:09.59
Kierkegaard is right, we have
done something more difficult
00:30:09.62\00:30:12.08
to turn the
wine back into water.
00:30:12.11\00:30:13.88
You say common
Dwight, you can't do that.
00:30:13.91\00:30:15.29
You just read, you just can't
take a little story like this
00:30:15.32\00:30:18.25
and turn it into a
little parable about the church.
00:30:18.28\00:30:21.56
Oh, yeah.
00:30:21.59\00:30:24.16
I just found out this
week listen to this fascinating
00:30:24.19\00:30:26.51
I just discovered this week
00:30:26.54\00:30:29.20
that there is
something embedded in the story
00:30:29.23\00:30:30.85
that allows us to do just that.
00:30:30.88\00:30:32.52
Let's go back to 2:1.
00:30:32.55\00:30:34.20
Chapter 2 this John
2 "On the third day"
00:30:34.23\00:30:37.15
there was a wedding in Cana.
00:30:37.18\00:30:38.57
I want you to hold
on to that third day,
00:30:38.60\00:30:40.39
Craig keener, in his magisterial
two volume commentary of John
00:30:40.42\00:30:43.64
which I brought for
this series powerful,
00:30:43.67\00:30:45.67
he points outs that
what we have here is actually
00:30:45.70\00:30:47.62
a literally device
called, listen to this
00:30:47.65\00:30:49.86
its called an inclusio.
00:30:49.89\00:30:52.50
Latin word what's an inclusio?
00:30:52.53\00:30:54.36
When an author
inserts and inclusio
00:30:54.39\00:30:56.55
it's like he essentially
places two matching bookends
00:30:56.58\00:31:00.07
on either side of a passage that
he wants to treat as a whole.
00:31:00.10\00:31:03.96
It can be a few verses,
it can be a series of chapter
00:31:03.99\00:31:07.50
but when he inserts an
inclusio the author is saying
00:31:07.53\00:31:10.19
hey, these are not these not
separate unrelated components
00:31:10.22\00:31:15.04
they all are to
make a single point.
00:31:15.07\00:31:19.20
And guess what we
find an inclusio right here
00:31:19.23\00:31:23.17
in John Chapter 2, let's
put it on the screen here.
00:31:23.20\00:31:25.83
Inclusio number
one, "on the third day."
00:31:25.86\00:31:28.75
Now if you drop
down to verses 19 and 20
00:31:28.78\00:31:31.25
Jesus says, destroy
this temple and in three days
00:31:31.28\00:31:33.71
I will arise it again
and the Jews repeat him.
00:31:33.74\00:31:36.73
On the third day, and
in three days the inclusio.
00:31:36.76\00:31:40.84
John is saying there
is a driving point guys,
00:31:40.87\00:31:42.98
there is a driving
point for these stories
00:31:43.01\00:31:44.47
being locked together
by those two bookends.
00:31:44.50\00:31:47.42
What's the driving point?
00:31:47.45\00:31:49.34
We better find out
that by another story.
00:31:49.37\00:31:51.42
We can't talk
about the church may be.
00:31:51.45\00:31:53.55
Let's read the
second inclusio story.
00:31:53.58\00:31:55.77
Second inclusio
story begins in verse 13,
00:31:55.80\00:31:59.15
"Now the Passover of
the Jews was at hand,
00:31:59.18\00:32:01.87
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
00:32:01.90\00:32:03.15
Hit the pause
button right there.
00:32:03.18\00:32:04.57
Isn't it amazing
that John inserts
00:32:04.60\00:32:06.96
the pass over of the Jews.
00:32:06.99\00:32:10.32
If he were writing to
only a Jewish Christian
00:32:10.35\00:32:12.59
audience he would have
said now, the pass over came
00:32:12.62\00:32:14.95
and Jesus goes to Jerusalem.
00:32:14.98\00:32:16.45
But no he inserts
the Passover of the Jews.
00:32:16.48\00:32:20.04
John obviously intends
gentile readers like you and me
00:32:20.07\00:32:24.05
to be reading this so that
we understand this is a high day
00:32:24.08\00:32:28.43
in the life of
the Jewish community.
00:32:28.46\00:32:31.78
And by the way, when you
say Passover to Jewish Christian
00:32:31.81\00:32:35.34
even in first century and this
is 70 years after the story.
00:32:35.37\00:32:39.21
When you say
Passover to Jewish Christian
00:32:39.24\00:32:41.06
you say pass over
to a gentile Christian
00:32:41.09\00:32:43.02
in that immediate
hearing or reading
00:32:43.05\00:32:45.73
there is this boom flashback.
00:32:45.76\00:32:49.74
And the listener
the reader suddenly sees
00:32:49.77\00:32:52.38
a midnight door pose
glistening with uncoagulated
00:32:52.41\00:32:56.72
lamb's blood
shining in the dark.
00:32:56.75\00:33:01.06
That Passover means
the death angel passed over
00:33:01.09\00:33:06.09
the homes of the Hebrew slaves
00:33:06.12\00:33:09.87
that believed in the redeemer
00:33:09.90\00:33:11.94
and splashed with
hyssop branches blood--
00:33:11.97\00:33:14.63
lamb's blood on the door
post of their little slave
00:33:14.66\00:33:19.22
that's the grand supernatural
deliverance of God's people.
00:33:19.25\00:33:24.90
That's what's happening
when you say pass over.
00:33:24.93\00:33:27.30
By the way, John is the
only one of the four gospels
00:33:27.33\00:33:31.13
that notes every pass over.
00:33:31.16\00:33:32.68
We know from John
Jesus had four pass over
00:33:32.71\00:33:34.87
which means His ministry
was three and half years long.
00:33:34.90\00:33:37.88
He will die on
the fourth Passover,
00:33:37.91\00:33:41.13
that's what the clue
is, Calvary is coming,
00:33:41.16\00:33:44.58
Calvary is coming.
00:33:44.61\00:33:45.95
All right, verse 13
"Now a Passover of the Jews
00:33:45.98\00:33:49.36
was at hand, and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
00:33:49.39\00:33:51.53
Now oh, boy, the plot
really thickens now here we go
00:33:51.56\00:33:53.99
verse 14, "And He"
Jesus "found in the temple
00:33:54.02\00:33:57.62
those who sold oxen
and sheep and doves,
00:33:57.65\00:34:01.70
and the money
changers doing business."
00:34:01.73\00:34:05.60
I want you to picture the scene.
00:34:05.63\00:34:06.91
Here comes this young rabbi
00:34:06.94\00:34:10.39
entourage of at
least five that we know of.
00:34:10.42\00:34:15.87
He comes straightly for
the first time and as an adult
00:34:15.90\00:34:18.86
that we know of into the mighty
00:34:18.89\00:34:22.46
the magisterial architectural
feet of Herod the great,
00:34:22.49\00:34:27.95
Jerusalem's temple
burnish gold over laid,
00:34:27.98\00:34:32.45
quite ivory in laid.
00:34:32.48\00:34:34.68
They say that when the afternoon
sun shined on Herod's temple
00:34:34.71\00:34:39.22
it was set a blaze like a fire.
00:34:39.25\00:34:43.57
One of the great
wonders of the world,
00:34:43.60\00:34:47.00
he comes walking in
and what is the sense
00:34:47.03\00:34:50.68
that greats his young eyes
as he steps into that courtyards
00:34:50.71\00:34:54.47
and drinks it all in.
00:34:54.50\00:34:59.15
Remember, this is the
Oedipus of which God once said.
00:34:59.18\00:35:04.36
"Let them make me a sanctuary,
00:35:04.39\00:35:06.75
that I might dwell among them."
00:35:06.78\00:35:10.87
This is the building
where God show kind of glory
00:35:10.90\00:35:14.51
behind that inner wall
but none the last divine glory
00:35:14.54\00:35:17.73
God is in this building.
00:35:17.76\00:35:19.54
And what greets the dark
and fire eyes of this stranger
00:35:19.57\00:35:24.09
this young rabbi as he walks in.
00:35:24.12\00:35:29.40
Lowing and
cattle, bleating of sheep,
00:35:29.43\00:35:35.32
the cooing of doves,
the clink of money changers
00:35:35.35\00:35:40.70
something has gone desperately
wrong with the church.
00:35:40.73\00:35:43.99
It wasn't a pretty scene.
00:35:47.37\00:35:49.95
You see, God told
Moses in Exodus 30
00:35:49.98\00:35:53.17
when you come to My
temple bring an offering.
00:35:53.20\00:35:55.21
A half shekel
was required a year
00:35:55.24\00:35:59.09
but now this is
the perfect opportunity
00:35:59.12\00:36:01.44
if you want to get
a little scam going.
00:36:01.47\00:36:06.75
They had a temple shekel
00:36:06.78\00:36:11.41
we couldn't bring your
foreign homeland currency
00:36:11.44\00:36:14.99
you had to exchange your
currency to get that shekel
00:36:15.02\00:36:18.63
and there in lay the
angry bothering come on
00:36:18.66\00:36:22.58
you can't tell me a
shekel is worth that.
00:36:22.61\00:36:26.15
There in lay the
under the table bakshish.
00:36:26.18\00:36:31.24
Jesus steps in and by the way
00:36:34.87\00:36:37.61
in that raucous
cacophony of Babylon
00:36:37.64\00:36:42.04
there are actually worshippers
from all over the world
00:36:42.07\00:36:44.28
who have spent,
who knows a life saving
00:36:44.31\00:36:46.99
to stand in Jerusalem's
temple today and worship.
00:36:47.02\00:36:49.67
They are trying to talk to
the most high God in prayer
00:36:49.70\00:36:52.68
and this horrendous noise.
00:36:52.71\00:36:55.72
I mean, it's like a
use-- it's like a used car lot.
00:36:55.75\00:36:57.62
The animals are parked
like cars on a used car lot.
00:36:57.65\00:37:00.23
It's just mayhem and they
are trying to worship Him.
00:37:00.26\00:37:07.62
And the young Messiah steps in
00:37:07.65\00:37:11.10
and with those
eyes takes it all in.
00:37:11.13\00:37:17.07
Wow, verse 14 "And
He found in the temple
00:37:17.10\00:37:23.18
those who sold oxen
and sheep and doves,
00:37:23.21\00:37:27.33
and the money
changers doing business."
00:37:27.36\00:37:33.08
Read on verse 15, he
makes up his mind quickly,
00:37:33.11\00:37:37.84
"And when He had made" verse 15,
00:37:37.87\00:37:39.61
"When He had
made a whip of cords,
00:37:39.64\00:37:42.69
He drove them all
out of the temple,
00:37:42.72\00:37:45.17
with the sheep and the oxen, and
poured out the changers' money
00:37:45.20\00:37:48.86
and he overtook those
tables just with one hand."
00:37:48.89\00:37:50.88
He is a carpenter remember?
00:37:50.91\00:37:53.83
Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.
00:37:53.86\00:37:57.87
Money everywhere, it
was not a pretty scene.
00:37:57.90\00:38:02.30
I remind you that
animals when they are startled
00:38:02.33\00:38:05.35
have a physiological relation
00:38:05.38\00:38:07.50
with either their
bladder or the or the bowels
00:38:07.53\00:38:10.19
I remind you that moneychangers
00:38:10.22\00:38:13.00
when their money is taken from
them having physical relation
00:38:13.03\00:38:18.60
and so you have animals,
00:38:18.63\00:38:20.49
you have this
young man with a scourge
00:38:20.52\00:38:23.26
in his hand never used it.
00:38:23.29\00:38:25.31
He had animals and moneychangers
00:38:25.34\00:38:27.86
slipping and sliding on
what is been now deposited
00:38:27.89\00:38:30.66
on that marble floor,
trying to get away from him.
00:38:30.69\00:38:34.17
It was not a
pretty sense, verse 16,
00:38:39.66\00:38:42.30
"And he said to
those who sold the doves,
00:38:42.33\00:38:44.47
'Take these things away!"
00:38:44.50\00:38:46.62
I like it in the NIV.
00:38:46.65\00:38:48.07
"Get this out of here.
00:38:48.10\00:38:49.52
Voice heard to the fathers
edges" and the courtyards,
00:38:52.61\00:38:58.83
"Take these things away!
00:38:58.86\00:39:00.73
Do not make my Father's
house a house of merchandise!"
00:39:00.76\00:39:05.93
Three and half, three years
later he will cleanse the temple
00:39:05.96\00:39:08.79
one more time then it
will not be his father's house.
00:39:08.82\00:39:11.56
Do you what he
will say, my house
00:39:11.59\00:39:14.16
and when He walks out of
it, it will be your house.
00:39:14.19\00:39:17.54
It's not ours any
more you may have it.
00:39:17.57\00:39:21.34
You made my fathers
house place a merchandise.
00:39:21.37\00:39:26.41
Verse 18, -- verse 17 "The
disciples remembered Psalm 69:9
00:39:30.00\00:39:34.51
"Then his disciples
remembered that it was written,
00:39:34.54\00:39:36.27
'Zeal for Your
house has eaten Me up."
00:39:36.30\00:39:38.42
Consumed fiery passion, wow.
00:39:38.45\00:39:44.11
And so verse 18, the Jews
00:39:44.14\00:39:46.76
I want to hit the
pause button right there,
00:39:46.79\00:39:48.76
because you need to know
this is not the Jewish people
00:39:48.79\00:39:52.76
when John uses
that code the Jews
00:39:52.79\00:39:54.66
He always refers to
the religious hierarchy,
00:39:54.69\00:39:58.24
the spiritual-- the
intended spiritual leaders
00:39:58.27\00:40:01.54
of the community of faith.
00:40:01.57\00:40:02.71
The Jews are not the
people they are the prods.
00:40:02.74\00:40:05.54
They are not the
people they are the priests
00:40:05.57\00:40:08.51
and there will rely the conflict
all through the Passovers.
00:40:08.54\00:40:14.50
That they knew
what this young stranger
00:40:14.53\00:40:18.17
was doing is clear.
00:40:18.20\00:40:23.77
They heard Him loud and clear,
00:40:23.80\00:40:27.53
He is assuming the
right to administer
00:40:27.56\00:40:30.66
the affairs of the
temple they got it.
00:40:30.69\00:40:34.16
He is announcing His
mission as Messiah, they got it.
00:40:34.19\00:40:38.38
That they got it is
shown by their response.
00:40:38.41\00:40:41.18
They could have just
laugh say how fool is this guy.
00:40:41.21\00:40:43.58
No, they shoot
back at Him, verse 18,
00:40:43.61\00:40:46.22
"So the Jews
answered and said to Him,
00:40:46.25\00:40:48.01
'What sign do you show to
us, since you do these things?'
00:40:48.04\00:40:51.58
And Jesus
answered and said to them,
00:40:51.61\00:40:53.73
the leaders
'destroy this temple,
00:40:53.76\00:40:55.53
and in three days'"
here is that inclusio
00:40:55.56\00:40:58.32
"'And in three
days, I will raise it up.'
00:40:58.35\00:41:01.90
And the Jews said
to Him," verse 20,
00:41:01.93\00:41:04.32
"'Its taken forty-six years
for her to build this temple,
00:41:04.35\00:41:07.23
and will you
raise it in three days?'
00:41:07.26\00:41:09.32
" But verse 21, "
Jesus was speaking
00:41:09.35\00:41:11.62
of the temple of His body.
00:41:11.65\00:41:12.84
Therefore" verse 22 "when
He had risen from the dead,
00:41:12.87\00:41:16.22
His disciples remembered
that He had said this to them
00:41:16.25\00:41:19.00
and they believed the Church
00:41:19.03\00:41:20.64
and the word
which Jesus had said."
00:41:20.67\00:41:25.16
Ladies and gentlemen, there
is no question John intends
00:41:25.19\00:41:28.77
for the story of the church
00:41:28.80\00:41:30.41
and the story of
the wine and the water
00:41:30.44\00:41:32.62
to be bound together
in a single driving point.
00:41:32.65\00:41:35.77
What's the driving point?
00:41:35.80\00:41:38.64
Soren Kierkegaard
put his words up again,
00:41:38.67\00:41:41.58
the Danish philosopher
"Whereas Christ turned
00:41:41.61\00:41:43.73
the water into wine"
it is about the church.
00:41:43.76\00:41:47.53
The two stories make sure
we know it's about the church.
00:41:47.56\00:41:50.18
"Whereas Christ
turned the water into wine,
00:41:50.21\00:41:52.41
the church has succeeded
00:41:52.44\00:41:53.53
in doing
something more difficult,
00:41:53.56\00:41:55.40
it has turned wine into water."
00:41:55.43\00:42:00.30
Question have we become
00:42:00.33\00:42:02.09
like the leaders
of Jerusalem's temple?
00:42:02.12\00:42:05.70
Have we over the years since
you graduated even perhaps,
00:42:05.73\00:42:10.71
have we been accumulating
00:42:10.74\00:42:12.33
our own unique,
our own pet traditions
00:42:12.36\00:42:16.30
and the traditions
mounting and mounting
00:42:16.33\00:42:18.24
cluttering our courtyards
00:42:18.27\00:42:19.90
until we are chuck a
block with this collection.
00:42:19.93\00:42:26.15
All the wild the one
who is the reason death ray
00:42:26.18\00:42:30.87
of the temple in
our case the truth
00:42:30.90\00:42:33.91
because we are
not big on the temple
00:42:33.94\00:42:35.15
we are big on truths.
00:42:35.18\00:42:36.85
If we have the
truths that's all we need
00:42:36.88\00:42:39.40
we will make it just like them.
00:42:39.43\00:42:42.06
If we have the temple that's
all we need we will make it.
00:42:42.09\00:42:45.93
Could it be that
the reason for the truth
00:42:45.96\00:42:49.70
is what's gotten short shift,
shifted in the church today
00:42:49.73\00:42:56.63
and we have taken the wine
00:42:56.66\00:42:58.06
and we have turned
it back into water?
00:42:58.09\00:43:04.77
Wow, how do we do it
you just acknowledged
00:43:04.80\00:43:11.86
hundreds of ways that we do.
00:43:11.89\00:43:15.91
Let me ask you something,
where is the wine today?
00:43:15.94\00:43:19.74
Where is the
passion of Adventism today?
00:43:19.77\00:43:23.30
Where is the fire,
when is the last time
00:43:23.33\00:43:24.84
you are really excited
00:43:24.87\00:43:26.07
about being a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian?
00:43:26.10\00:43:28.09
When is the last
time your congregation
00:43:28.12\00:43:29.60
in worship active
like it was excited
00:43:29.63\00:43:31.68
being a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian?
00:43:31.71\00:43:33.56
Where is the fire today?
00:43:33.59\00:43:35.98
Where is the passion today?
00:43:36.01\00:43:37.98
The wine is gone, the
succulent wine is gone
00:43:38.01\00:43:42.50
and we are left
with tepid water instead.
00:43:42.53\00:43:46.46
Well, I know-- I know
that our church administration
00:43:50.13\00:43:54.09
is been crisscrossing the globe
reminding us all that is time
00:43:54.12\00:43:57.48
for rival and reformation
00:43:57.51\00:43:59.40
and I'll be the first to
jump up and second hand motion.
00:43:59.43\00:44:02.97
But I have got to tell
you serving this campus
00:44:03.00\00:44:05.73
to a generation of
young third millennia's
00:44:05.76\00:44:08.44
as well as the
generation of jaded baby boomers
00:44:08.47\00:44:11.63
that code phrase, revival
and reformation can come across
00:44:11.66\00:44:14.83
as hackneyed and
far too programmatic
00:44:14.86\00:44:17.70
and hieratically
oriented and legislated.
00:44:17.73\00:44:21.19
You heard all our
lives so what does it mean?
00:44:21.22\00:44:25.46
Who knows what it means anymore?
00:44:25.49\00:44:28.66
Simply preaching about
it and talking about it
00:44:28.69\00:44:31.56
and voting about it
00:44:31.59\00:44:33.54
and I added my share
sermons to the collection.
00:44:33.57\00:44:36.74
Simply writing about it
hasn't brought it, has it?
00:44:40.04\00:44:45.40
Could it be that
the church has turned
00:44:45.43\00:44:48.46
the wine back into water
00:44:48.49\00:44:49.93
and that what the
church needs today
00:44:49.96\00:44:51.61
is not the miracle
of rival and reformation
00:44:51.64\00:44:53.92
we need the miracle
worker of rival and reformation.
00:44:53.95\00:44:57.97
That's what we need.
00:44:58.00\00:45:01.32
We need the person of Christ
not the program of Christ.
00:45:01.35\00:45:06.65
We majored in the
program, but we need the person,
00:45:06.68\00:45:11.44
we need the wine again.
00:45:11.47\00:45:13.02
Inclusio story number two,
00:45:17.85\00:45:19.66
the church
desperately needs a miracle.
00:45:19.69\00:45:23.08
Inclusio story number
one, Jesus is the miracle.
00:45:23.11\00:45:29.02
Jesus is all the miracle.
00:45:30.87\00:45:34.91
Our church that is managed
to turn the wine back into water
00:45:38.66\00:45:41.70
Jesus is the only miracle left.
00:45:41.73\00:45:46.69
Our truths will not save us
00:45:46.72\00:45:49.67
anymore than the
temple can save us.
00:45:49.70\00:45:52.84
Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
00:45:52.87\00:45:58.03
heard a joyful sound somewhere
00:45:58.06\00:46:01.94
Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
00:46:01.97\00:46:05.84
The Calvary is
embedded in this miracle
00:46:16.57\00:46:18.43
that we desperately need
is clear from this inclusio,
00:46:18.46\00:46:21.45
you think about it.
00:46:21.48\00:46:22.60
Well, they are just
huge teller typing hints
00:46:22.63\00:46:26.49
but this is about Calvary.
00:46:26.52\00:46:27.83
For example, Jesus
address of His mother
00:46:27.86\00:46:31.35
with this strange
vocative of woman heard in Cana
00:46:31.38\00:46:35.75
will be heard
only one other time
00:46:35.78\00:46:37.85
on the cross
woman behold your Son.
00:46:37.88\00:46:41.48
The water and wine that
float in the village of Cana
00:46:44.57\00:46:46.77
fore shattered
and water and blood
00:46:46.80\00:46:48.43
that flow from
the cross of Calvary.
00:46:48.46\00:46:51.12
Connect the Passover
Lamb of God that cries out
00:46:51.15\00:46:55.09
take these things away
will be the Passover Lamb of God
00:46:55.12\00:47:00.01
who died to take
away the sin of the world.
00:47:00.04\00:47:03.52
Calvary is
embedded in this inclusio.
00:47:03.55\00:47:06.97
That means if
we want the miracle
00:47:07.00\00:47:09.23
we must have the
miracle worker of Calvary
00:47:09.26\00:47:14.07
where the church that is managed
00:47:14.10\00:47:15.57
to turn the wine back into water
00:47:15.60\00:47:18.77
Jesus is the only miracle left.
00:47:18.80\00:47:22.96
There is nothing else, we
can wait until alumni classes
00:47:26.50\00:47:31.86
come and go by the
centuries there is nothing else.
00:47:31.89\00:47:37.35
If we seek to
find it somewhere else,
00:47:37.38\00:47:41.39
we will having these reunions
00:47:41.42\00:47:44.41
for a long, long time.
00:47:44.44\00:47:50.15
So, will you let Jesus?
00:47:50.18\00:47:54.33
Will you let Jesus turn
your water back into wine?
00:47:54.36\00:47:57.75
For get about the church,
00:47:57.78\00:48:00.06
we don't need to think
about the church anymore,
00:48:00.09\00:48:01.28
you, me we are
the church anyway?
00:48:01.31\00:48:04.21
So how is it with you?
00:48:04.24\00:48:06.25
When was your
class again 20 years ago?
00:48:06.28\00:48:09.90
How was it with you, when
the wine was rich and young,
00:48:09.93\00:48:15.58
and you and Jesus were
00:48:15.61\00:48:18.86
and today still wine
still wine in your life.
00:48:18.89\00:48:24.97
What's happening?
00:48:25.00\00:48:27.28
Have we just settled
down for a long winter's night
00:48:27.31\00:48:29.46
on this planet
and one day I'll die
00:48:29.49\00:48:32.34
and then the blessed hope.
00:48:32.37\00:48:35.08
Please won't there
come a generation that says,
00:48:35.11\00:48:39.63
we have waited long enough.
00:48:39.66\00:48:43.75
Let's go home, let's
have a home coming again.
00:48:43.78\00:48:47.12
I happened to believe
00:48:51.97\00:48:54.74
that Jesus is
returning soon to this planet
00:48:54.77\00:48:57.57
I have joined with
Jeff in that conviction.
00:48:57.60\00:49:00.82
Loya believes it,
preacher believes it, two of us.
00:49:00.85\00:49:06.72
I'll tell you what
a president said this
00:49:06.75\00:49:09.07
in his opening
convocation this year,
00:49:09.10\00:49:12.19
its not rocket science anymore
00:49:12.22\00:49:14.52
to know that the world
is on the edge of eternity.
00:49:14.55\00:49:18.83
When you got people who
don't believe in anything
00:49:18.86\00:49:20.34
who were saying
we are on the edge.
00:49:20.37\00:49:22.40
I was over in
Europe a few days ago,
00:49:22.43\00:49:25.85
keep your eye on Europe.
00:49:25.88\00:49:28.91
If Europe goes we all go,
00:49:28.94\00:49:32.21
it's a largest
economy in the world.
00:49:32.24\00:49:35.59
We are number two.
00:49:35.62\00:49:38.76
European Union is number one.
00:49:38.79\00:49:40.84
The brightest minds on
this planet have not been able
00:49:40.87\00:49:44.16
to calculate an
adequate response.
00:49:44.19\00:49:47.40
What's up?
00:49:47.43\00:49:49.15
We are out of
time, that's what's up.
00:49:49.18\00:49:50.81
We are out of time.
00:49:50.84\00:49:52.30
I'm not gonna let you,
00:49:52.33\00:49:53.36
I'm not gonna let you
just do business as usual.
00:49:53.39\00:49:56.78
So here is the question,
okay, forget everything,
00:49:56.81\00:49:58.72
here is the question.
00:49:58.75\00:50:00.06
If Jesus came
tonight would you be ready?
00:50:00.09\00:50:02.83
If Jesus came
tonight would you be ready?
00:50:02.86\00:50:05.56
Would you?
00:50:05.59\00:50:07.44
He comes tonight,
will you be ready?
00:50:07.47\00:50:10.59
Tonight, would you be ready?
00:50:10.62\00:50:13.75
That's the defining
question forget all of the rest
00:50:13.78\00:50:16.60
don't worry
about Europe or the US,
00:50:16.63\00:50:18.41
if He would have come
tonight would you be ready?
00:50:18.44\00:50:20.38
Would I be ready tonight,
00:50:20.41\00:50:22.67
to meet my Lord
and go home with Him?
00:50:22.70\00:50:24.65
The home coming we
have been living for
00:50:24.68\00:50:26.63
would you be ready
if Jesus came tonight?
00:50:26.66\00:50:29.14
Only you know
the answer to that.
00:50:29.17\00:50:32.19
So let me ask another question
because that's a downer,
00:50:32.22\00:50:36.20
would you like to be
ready if Jesus came tonight?
00:50:36.23\00:50:39.76
Would you want to be ready?
00:50:39.79\00:50:41.58
Of course you
would, of course I'll.
00:50:41.61\00:50:44.53
And ladies and gentlemen,
00:50:44.56\00:50:45.62
its time to pray
for the miracle worker,
00:50:45.65\00:50:48.61
the miracle that we need
is the miracle worker himself.
00:50:48.64\00:50:52.84
You say Dwight, I
don't have to pray for that.
00:50:52.87\00:50:54.77
Piece of cake here it is, Jesus,
00:50:54.80\00:50:56.77
look at my life I'm
water, I'm water spiritually
00:50:56.80\00:51:01.54
I'm water do you
understand, I need wine.
00:51:01.57\00:51:05.28
I don't know how
to get that wine.
00:51:05.31\00:51:07.25
You are the only one who
can turn water back in the wine.
00:51:07.28\00:51:10.70
I'm asking you take
the water of my life
00:51:10.73\00:51:13.20
and turn me back
into wine I beg of you.
00:51:13.23\00:51:17.73
Just ask Him, ask Him to
turn them back into wine.
00:51:17.76\00:51:23.58
I'm gonna put the number on
the screen up one more time.
00:51:28.69\00:51:33.80
If you will text
us your email address
00:51:33.83\00:51:37.22
I will send you seven steps
00:51:37.25\00:51:39.67
to turn the
water back into wine.
00:51:39.70\00:51:44.48
If you will text
us at that number,
00:51:44.51\00:51:48.67
live streaming you are
watching text us at that number
00:51:48.70\00:51:53.13
I'll send you seven steps
00:51:53.16\00:51:54.76
to turning the
water back into wine.
00:51:54.79\00:51:59.86
If you have never accepted
Jesus before in your life
00:51:59.89\00:52:04.38
but you dropped
in on this weekend
00:52:04.41\00:52:07.05
and you are hear at this moment
00:52:07.08\00:52:10.37
and you would like--
you would like somebody
00:52:10.40\00:52:14.23
to help you to accept Jesus
00:52:14.26\00:52:18.09
would you write on this
not just your email address
00:52:18.12\00:52:21.67
but write the words, first time.
00:52:21.70\00:52:26.44
I don't know what you
are sending first time
00:52:26.47\00:52:32.45
over the next couple of days,
00:52:32.48\00:52:36.82
I get it to you.
00:52:36.85\00:52:39.84
Seven simple
steps to turn the water
00:52:39.87\00:52:44.54
to let Jesus turn
the water back into wine.
00:52:44.57\00:52:46.73
Ladies and
gentlemen, brothers and sisters,
00:52:46.76\00:52:50.31
we are at the
edge, come on let's go.
00:52:50.34\00:52:56.23
Like what Jeff said,
00:52:56.26\00:52:57.94
you know, you have
come under this conviction
00:52:57.97\00:52:59.81
and you got to tell somebody
you can't just sit on it,
00:52:59.84\00:53:03.28
you don't have to be a
graduate with the seminar
00:53:03.31\00:53:05.06
to tell somebody
you will be a genitor,
00:53:05.09\00:53:06.89
you can be a
dentist, you can be a lawyer,
00:53:06.92\00:53:08.55
you can be a
engineer, you can be anybody.
00:53:08.58\00:53:10.81
A housewife you can
be God's instrument.
00:53:10.84\00:53:16.50
It's time for the passion
and the wine to come back.
00:53:19.82\00:53:25.22
I want that wine in my life.
00:53:25.25\00:53:26.73
I was praying last
night, praying this morning God,
00:53:26.76\00:53:30.45
I want that wine, I
want that more than anything,
00:53:30.48\00:53:33.05
I want the wine of Christ
please, please as never before.
00:53:33.08\00:53:37.75
I want to sing one
stanza of an old spiritual
00:53:40.87\00:53:45.16
"In the morning, when I rise.
In the morning, when I rise."
00:53:45.19\00:53:50.07
I'll send you those seven steps.
00:53:50.10\00:53:51.74
"In the morning, when I rise.
00:53:51.77\00:53:53.35
Give me Jesus. Give me Jesus.
00:53:53.38\00:53:55.81
You may have all this
world, but give me Jesus."
00:53:55.84\00:53:59.90
Stand your feet with me please.
00:53:59.93\00:54:01.67
And let's sing that
commitment together.
00:54:01.70\00:54:05.03
In the morning when I rise
00:54:16.90\00:54:22.58
In the morning when I rise
00:54:22.61\00:54:28.44
In the morning when I rise
00:54:28.47\00:54:34.53
Give me Jesus
00:54:34.56\00:54:40.25
Give me Jesus
00:54:40.28\00:54:46.57
Give me Jesus
00:54:46.60\00:54:53.25
You can have all this world
00:54:53.28\00:55:00.05
Just give me Jesus
00:55:00.08\00:55:08.02
Let's sing it
quietly like a prayer.
00:55:08.05\00:55:10.20
In the morning when I rise
00:55:10.23\00:55:16.98
In the morning when I rise
00:55:17.01\00:55:24.75
In the morning when I rise
00:55:24.78\00:55:32.26
Give me Jesus
00:55:32.29\00:55:39.93
Give me Jesus
00:55:39.96\00:55:47.66
Give me Jesus
00:55:47.69\00:55:55.50
You can have all this world
00:55:55.53\00:56:03.48
Give me Jesus
00:56:03.51\00:56:10.34
So God, we pray in a church
00:56:13.32\00:56:20.46
the wine that has been turned
back to water in too many ways.
00:56:20.49\00:56:26.85
You lift your own hearts,
oh, please give us Jesus,
00:56:26.88\00:56:33.08
restore the passion,
00:56:33.11\00:56:37.15
restore the wine,
00:56:37.18\00:56:41.37
give us the miracle worker.
00:56:41.40\00:56:44.96
He come soon in Him
00:56:44.99\00:56:50.16
this prayer secures us.
00:56:50.19\00:56:55.78
If you are to come
tonight oh God, with Jesus
00:56:55.81\00:57:00.41
we know the answer we are safe
00:57:00.44\00:57:05.21
so give us Jesus today and today
00:57:05.24\00:57:11.53
and today until Jesus comes.
00:57:11.56\00:57:17.61
Amen.
00:57:17.64\00:57:18.67
I would like to take
one more moment with you
00:57:32.70\00:57:35.17
if you would like to
have the same materials
00:57:35.20\00:57:36.60
that individuals were
texting for in this service
00:57:36.63\00:57:38.97
would you please
call our toll free number
00:57:39.00\00:57:40.99
that's 877 and then
the two words HIS WILL
00:57:41.02\00:57:44.12
and ask one of
our friendly operators
00:57:44.15\00:57:45.80
to send you the seven steps
00:57:45.83\00:57:48.39
and if you're coming to Jesus
00:57:48.42\00:57:49.67
for the first
time I'm so grateful.
00:57:49.70\00:57:51.55
Would you also
mention that to the operator?
00:57:51.58\00:57:54.00
I believe that for all of us
00:57:54.03\00:57:55.44
this teaching from John 2
can mark a fresh new beginning.
00:57:55.47\00:57:59.76
That's what I'm
praying for you and for me.
00:57:59.79\00:58:02.76
So God go with you
and I'm looking forward
00:58:02.79\00:58:05.10
to seeing you again
next time right here.
00:58:05.13\00:58:07.83
God Bless you.
00:58:07.86\00:58:08.89