Bring Others' Burdens to Jesus — Lesson from Cana

But Jesus takes that which has no power to help anybody and only, listen to me, washes the outside at best to create something that does meet the need but only does its work inside. Do you do you understand the difference? From a worthless what did Jesus say to the pharisees? You wash the outside of the cup. But inside, there's corruption inside of it. You're hypocrites. Woe to you scribes and pharisees. You're all about looking good. But there's stuff inside. Don't worry about what goes into a man's mouth. It's what comes out of his heart. It's the insides. You see the work that I'm gonna give is gonna not just give you some outer purification so you look good. God's never commanded that, but I'm gonna give you the wine that's gonna represent the work of his redemption and the power to transform you from inside. [01:36:46] (59 seconds)  #TransformedInsideOut

God's provision is boundless and limitless. I think sometimes we express unbelief by thinking God doesn't have time, desire, or ability to really handle the problem. As God said to Abram, what is too difficult for me? I just don't remember that list. What some of us have a list. You know, he's not that he can't change that person. Really? Are they a worse sinner than Saul on the road to Damascus who appears to be nearly demon possessed with his hatred of Christ and his followers? Is the person that you think God can't change worse than the guy who had a legion of demons who is, should have been fifty one fifty. I mean, he's he's a threat to himself and to others and to everybody, but but he's in his right mind sitting at Jesus' feet clothed and wanting to follow Jesus. Who is it you've written off? It's too hard for the Lord. [01:17:47] (52 seconds)  #NothingTooHardForGod

God did he was only asking for this, and God says, oh, okay. I'm giving you this. That's the kind of God we have. Listen. They ran out of wine. Maybe they had almost enough, but Jesus doesn't give them just, well, can we top it off? How much do we have to give here to make the wedding work out? Oh, no. Has nothing to do. Jesus provided more wine than they would have need from the beginning. This is a huge gift beyond. That's the kind of god we serve. That's the kind of resources your god has for you. [01:20:40] (34 seconds)  #MoreThanEnoughProvision

But it is this idea that, God, I'm going to really give it to you. Listen to me this way. It's kinda like saying to the lord, god, you've got a problem. Mine. I'm going to leave it with you. That means I'm gonna stop talking about it. I'm gonna stop worrying about it. I'm gonna stop trying to fix it all on my own. So many of those things that we do are unbelief, and that's why you don't have any peace. Well, it says I'm supposed to have peace when I pray. Yeah. But you're also supposed to leave it with him and choose what you're thinking about, Philippians four eight. But you're not doing that, and you're wondering why you don't get the peace. [01:05:42] (40 seconds)  #LeaveItWithGod

Listen to me. There are things the Lord is saying in his word to you and me. You are not gonna understand how it's going to work, and maybe it won't work. Maybe it's about seeing, will you obey him? Will you trust him? Will you accept the consequences of obeying him? Because guess what? Obeying the Lord has consequences. Jesus obeying the Lord's will for his life led him to being crucified on the cross. It wasn't like, why he shouldn't have ticked those people off. Oh, no. He he was in the center of God's will, and it brought suffering. And read first Peter. God's will is that we suffer in the will of God for standing up for the Lord. [01:13:16] (38 seconds)  #ObeyDespiteCost

So we need to understand God is calling us as believers, not just to follow Jesus to heaven, but to follow his example in the way he cares for other people around us. Put this down. Bring others' needs to Christ by prayer. What Mary did in person, we do in prayer. Chuck Smith said the most important thing a born again Christian can do is pray. Most important thing a born again Christian can do is pray. Charles Spurgeon said, I would rather teach one man to pray than 10 men to preach. [00:51:13] (35 seconds)  #IntercedeForOthers

Somehow we think, well, I just haven't prayed enough. I don't think the Lord's going, yeah. I need a certain volume. You know, your teacher in school said that you have to give an essay of 500 words or you're gonna get a bad grade. God does not say, you need to talk more. I mean, how long was her prayer? They have no wine. Four words. There's one just a little shorter. Lord, save me. I told you Peter's prayer was effective as he was going down. He didn't have much time to pray because he was running out of air. Mary just says four words. [00:56:29] (31 seconds)  #PraySimply

Basically, the head waiter says, you saved the best for last. That's true of our god. He has saved the best for last for us. That's first Corinthians two nine on steroids. Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which never entered into your heart, all that God has prepared for those who love him. It's like that pastor who said to Chuck, when I when you do my funeral because Chuck was his student at Life Bible College. Professor was older. He said, when you do my when you do my funeral, Chuck, make sure you you do what I've asked you to do. And Chuck told us as pastors, he said, I did it. He goes, I it's a little weird, but I did it. He wanted me to bury him with a fork. [01:31:15] (44 seconds)  #GodsBestIsAhead

Now there is no command directly from Jesus about that. So when it says the law of Christ, it's not referring to some command he gave. It's really talking about his example. That fact that that is who he is. He is a burden bearer, and it's true true throughout his entire ministry and certainly on the cross. Isaiah 53 verse four, it was our sickness that he himself bore, our pains that he carried. Yet we assume that he had been afflicted and struck down by God in humiliate. In other words, he is the ultimate burden bearer. Now we are told in the scriptures, the book of Romans, we are to weep with those who weep. [00:43:22] (41 seconds)  #WeepWithThoseWhoWeep

But that's not gonna come naturally, but that is in the prayer teaching us that we need to care about people enough to add them to our prayers. Now, the bible is really clear that Jesus is constantly praying. He's God come in the flesh, and yet he he prays. I mean, there's so many examples. We don't have time. And as Josh said, there's so many references to prayer. But in the ministry of Jesus, before he calls the apostles, he spends the night in prayer. [00:54:21] (33 seconds)  #PrayLikeJesus

Bring their needs, the people that you're concerned about to the Lord, and then leave that with the Lord. Please understand Jesus isn't saying, mom, that's not my problem because clearly, he does deal with it. Now there is something happening in the text that doesn't meet the eye until you understand Jesus' relationship with his mother. After he came at 12 years of age, remember, she realized he knew who he was. We talked about this. When they left him behind, came back and found him and said, do why she got upset with him. Why did you put us through this? And he said, did you not know I had to be about my father's business? [00:58:33] (48 seconds)  #BringNeedsThenLetGo

You do not have to understand all the dynamics of God's sovereignty and timing to pray. I just don't understand it. Look. I don't understand electricity exactly. Do I walk in a room and go, I can't push the button. I don't understand electricity. I don't understand how a big au airplane can fly. I I I still fly, but I'm somehow, how does this thing stay afloat? I mean, it's crazy. I don't understand aerodynamics. Some of you might. I don't. But it's like, I refuse to fly until I let let me break down prayer for you. It's it's pretty simple. No asky. No Dewey. It it really does come down to that simplicity. [01:06:35] (47 seconds)  #PrayerIsSimple

He never said, and if you'll go and talk to him, you'll win your brother. He didn't say that. In fact, if he if he had said that, he wouldn't have said what to do if they don't listen to you. Clearly, he knows they won't listen a lot. That's not the issue. The question is, will you obey him when it doesn't make sense? Can I tell you that is gonna be a theme in your life? So Jesus preaches, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part in me. People walk away going, nope. Not interested in that. I call it his can cannibal sermon. It was not the most popular one unless you drink my I mean, he didn't say it like that. But, anyway, my point is people were offended. [01:11:29] (46 seconds)  #ObeyRegardless

In our text, we're simply told that Jesus is attending a wedding. I find that just interesting because we're really just begun the ministry of Jesus calling people to follow him, the most important decision that could be made. But in the midst of that mission, we see him at a wedding, and and it's just kind of a normal everyday thing that people do. And, in fact, it's so normal that we're told, that in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot, God's judgment came as men were being married and giving in marriage as a way of saying just life was going on because that's a part of life. And so suddenly, instead of just the mission of Jesus, we see him with his mom at a wedding. [00:37:47] (47 seconds)  #MinistryInTheOrdinary

People come to my someone died, and I don't know what to say to the other you know, their spouse or their the they lost a child or they're going through this really hard what should I say to what and they come to me for bible verses. It's like, yeah. You know, let me just give you this bible passage out of Job. Don't give it to them. I'm giving it to you. Just go be with them. Let them see that you care that they're hurting. You don't have to have answers as to why God's doing what he's doing because guess what? You don't know that, and God's not revealing that right now. Probably. [00:46:45] (31 seconds)  #BeWithTheGrieving

How did Jesus teach us to pray? If you go through that, and I highly commend you to do so, not just to memorize the prayer. He didn't say pray this prayer, by the way, so that you could have your sins absolved in a confessional. So many hail Marys and so many our fathers. No. No. No. No. He didn't say pray these words. He said pray like this. There's principles in there. There's seven petitions. Go study them. What is it the Lord wants me to pray about? If I'm praying about everything else but what he told me to do, there is a word for that. It's called sin. He who knows the right thing to do and doesn't do it, it's sin. We need to pray at least what he told me to pray. We can pray beyond that. But [00:53:16] (38 seconds)  #PrayAccordingToHisWill

He is gonna call you and command you to do things you've never done, you humanly can't do, no one's ever done, but he'll give you the ability to do it. He'll never command you to do something, and there's no way that can be done. Put this down. Most remain clueless of all Jesus does when he's asked. In verse nine, when the head waiter tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it came from, what the servants who had drawn the water knew, The headwaiter called the bridegroom. I love verse 10. Every man serves the good wine first. [01:24:11] (45 seconds)  #GodEnablesTheImpossible