“The New Wine is Better”(John 2:1-11)

 

Sermon Outline

The Sufficiency of the New Wine

The Supremacy of the New Wine

The Significance of the New Wine

 

The beginning of Jesus's ministry starts with the miracle of turning water into wine. It is the third day of his ministry. This miracle only is recorded in the Gospel of John.

² Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. ³ When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” John 2:2-3 ESV

A Jewish wedding is to last seven days and you would be a bad host if the wedding did not last seven days. 

The Sufficiency of the New Wine

Jesus used six jars because that is what he had. It was more than enough to supply wine to the wedding ceremony. The wine was enough. It did not matter how many jars or how much wine was made, the wine from Jesus was enough. It is the same with God, what we are given is enough. 

¹⁷ Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” Matthew 9:17 ESV
 

God uses what is available not what is desirable. Wine jugs should have been used but instead empty purification jars were used. Likewise we need to be empty if God is going to use us.

 

⁶ Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.^[a] 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. John 2:6-7 ESV

The Supremacy of the New Wine

¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” John 2:10 ESV

The new wine that Jesus was made was better than the old wine. We need to allow Jesus to put new wine in us by emptying ourselves to be filled.

The Significance of the New Wine

¹¹ This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. John 2:11 ESV

This new wine was a display of the glory of God . 
 
¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son^[d] from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 ESV
 
Jesus did this miracle to show the glory of God to others. The glory of God is the life of a man which is the identity of God with that man. The glory is the image or likeness of God. Where there is the glory and the image of God, there is victory over sin, sickness, devils.  

 
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 ESV

Sin takes away glory of God. This is why Jesus has removed sin. By removing sin, we are restored to God's likeness.
 
Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” Exodus 33:18 ESV
 
Even Moses who had performed do many miracles and did such great things in God's name asked for glory.
Let’s pray for an encounter with a New Wine so that people can see the glory of God in our lives.

¹⁸ “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
¹⁹ Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV

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