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We are on our second to last week of our series called Say What? Right? But first

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things first, I want to just let everyone know this is gonna be as short as

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possible, alright? Because it is Mother's Day, I'm sure there's lunch plans, etc. etc.

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But we also have dedications and baptisms that we're gonna do, and so I

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want to make sure that we really have as much time for that as possible. So let's

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jump right in to our Bibles. We are going to be in John chapter 2 and John chapter

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19, and so if you don't have a Bible, we'd love for you to take one from our

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bookshelf and take that home, or just download a Bible from any of the digital

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app stores. John, it goes Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, that's in what's

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called the New Testament. I like to call it the Second Testament. One of my

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favorite theologians is actually coming out with a translation called the

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Second Testament. And so John 2, John 19, and we have a tradition of just giving

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the scriptures our best attention when we read that. So whatever that means for

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you, if you want to sit for that or if you'd like to stand with me as we read

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these scriptures, let's go ahead and do that now. John 2, starting in verse 1, says

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this, on the third day a wedding took place in Cana in Galilee. Jesus's mother

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was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When

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the wine was gone, Jesus's mother said to him, they have no more wine. Well then

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why do you involve me? Jesus replied, my hour has not yet come. His mother said to

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the servants, do whatever he tells you. John 19, starting in verse 25, near the

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cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of

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Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there and the disciples

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whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, woman here is your son, and to the

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disciple here is your mother. From that time on this disciple took her into his

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home. Let us pray. God of every tribe, every tongue, every color, every nation, we

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thank you for the scriptures. That we still have them 2,000 years later and

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we're still working to understand them, to honor them, but mostly to learn about

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you and be led towards you. So today I pray that whatever you have for us that

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it would stick, that it would become a part of the framework of our faith, that our

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faith would become stronger as we become more like your son. Amen. Thanks to all

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you can have a seat. In the entire book of John, Mary the mother of Jesus is only

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mentioned two times. 18,658 words and Mary is only mentioned twice. Remember

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when we went through the book of Mark, right? We spent a number of weeks going

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through the book of Mark and I kept reminding you that Mark is an author. That

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he's putting these things together on purpose. We should be thinking like an

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author as well as we think about how these things are being put together. The

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same is true for John. John is an author. So when things like this happen, when you

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notice something only happens once, or oh it only happens two times, oh and they're

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a complete opposite ends of this entire book. We should pay attention. But when we

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pay attention, we also have to be careful not to read too much into things. If we're

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paying attention, we might notice not only is Mary only mentioned twice, but

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neither time does John actually mention her name. He only calls her Jesus's

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mother. Luke and Matthew mentioned her by name 17 times between them by name. But

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John only twice. And when he mentions her, actually when he mentions Jesus's

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mother, he doesn't use her name. He only calls her Jesus's mother. Now why? We

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don't know why. We don't really know why. Remember last week when I mentioned

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FIDO, F-I-D-O, this idea these concentric circles in the middle there's the F

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there is the foundational ideas. These are the things that that salvation is

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based on. They were like okay these are the things that are absolutely we need

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to believe these things. Jesus is the Son of God. Okay interpretations. Okay

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that's the outside of it. Oh there's a bunch of scripture and this is how we

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interpret that. And then D on the outside of that further from the center is

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deductions. We go okay these are just things we deduce. They're not reasons for

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us to argue and O is opinions. If anyone goes oh this is exactly why he doesn't

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call her Mary. This is exactly why he only mentions her twice. It's exactly oh

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these are to me what would be considered deductions. They are not things that we

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should be basing the foundational ideas of our faith on. And so it is okay even

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when we notice something like this for us to say why didn't he use her name to

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say I'm not sure. That's completely okay. What we can be confident about is that

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it doesn't mean that John thinks her name doesn't matter because in Middle

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Eastern culture there can actually be honor in a title like the mother of this

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very important figure. So we shouldn't read disinterest or unimportance into

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how John is writing this and we also shouldn't read indignation or

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irritation into some of the other things that we see here because again if we're

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paying attention we might read these passages and notice that not only did

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John not use her first name but Jesus doesn't call her mother either time. What

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does he call her? Woman. Both times he says woman and because we have modern

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21st century Western eyes and ears we might read irritation or impatience in

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Jesus' words. Maybe we hear the word woman like that and we go woman? When I

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was a kid and my mom was a beautician on a regular basis, primary way that she

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made money she would take us around to different people's homes and we were

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often just a long further ride from here to there as she made house visits and

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one time on the way to a person's house being the impatient young boy I was I

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wanted to know how long it was gonna take for her to do the hair for Mrs.

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so-and-so but I didn't say Mrs. so-and-so I said something along the

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lines of when are you gonna be done with this woman? I was like eight. Let's just

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say there were some repercussions but this isn't the tone that Jesus is using

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in first century in the first century in the town of Cana and Galilee in Israel

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and the area of Palestine calling your mother woman had no negative edge or

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connotation whatsoever to it. It was just neutral so we need to be careful about

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reading those kinds of things into the things that get said in the Bible. Now

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there are absolutely times when Jesus was indignant even irritated or

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frustrated with people that were around him. It's true if you read it you can see

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it and that is true. This just isn't one of those times so let's not look at this

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and put on Jesus that he was being impatient or irritable towards his

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mother. So those are the things that are not happening in this passage okay? So

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what is happening in this passage? The first passage they're in Cana and they're

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at what are they at? They're at a wedding right? Two points Chris. We

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don't know why. We don't know whose wedding it is at least not for sure. There

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are early theologians from the second century that have written about all that

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it was because they were related to so-and-so and such and such. We don't

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know that for sure. We just know that while they're there that Mary tells

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Jesus hey they're out of wine and she's implying to him maybe you should do

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something about that but then Jesus says my time my hour has not yet come but

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then for whatever reason he performs the miracle anyway as some of us often do

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when our mother asks us to do something right we're like I don't have oh I

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better do it anyway all right in the second passage Jesus is on the cross he

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is actively dying in the middle of performing a miracle the miracle of

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taking on the sins of the world that the night before he prayed to the Father

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knowing that the Father was asking him to do this and he said if there's

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another way if this cup can pass but then he did it anyway also the night

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before we know that he sat with his disciples that he shared bread and wine

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he said this bread it's my body it's broken for you this wine is my blood it's

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poured out for you so now as he's on the cross his body broken his blood shed

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Jesus looks at his mother and he says to her here is your son and at his disciple

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John and says here is your mother scripture says John writes it down this

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way from that hour from that time Jesus or John took in Mary as his own mother

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are you guys hearing any of the parallels hearing of the similarities

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between these two stories we could focus on these two passages any either one of

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them you could preach five different ways you could come up with five

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different things to preach about especially when you put them together

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you could come up with any even more but we could focus on the parallel of the

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wine between the first and the second passage there's no wine in the first one

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he says his blood is the wine in the second one or is what the wine is this

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blood in the second one the wine ran out his blood was poured out we could focus

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on how in the first passage Jesus says it's not my time but in the second

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passage when it's absolutely was his time in that moment of ministry that he

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says the John should take Mary from that time on it's the same word we could

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focus on the miracles of changing jugs of water into the best wine that they

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had tasted or turning death on a cross into salvation in life but the thing

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that I really want to make sure that we don't miss today is this in the first

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story the first time John mentions Mary they're in Cana and they're at a what

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they're at a wedding what happens at a wedding two people become one and in

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their culture especially not just two people become one but two families

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become one in the second story the only other time John mentions Mary we see

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Jesus on the cross what happens Jesus adds Mary to John's family two families

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become one of all the imagery of all the lessons that we could pull from these

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passages I don't want us to miss this because of what Jesus did on the cross

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not only does Mary become a part of a new family but everyone is invited to

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the cross to be part of one family Jesus is looking down at the world from the

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cross saying look this is your family now Jesus is looking at all of us right

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now saying look around at the family that is yours now when we have baptisms

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it's a sign of someone saying I want to be a part of this family now as we

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dedicate children it is us saying they are part of our family we will help

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raise them up in the way they should go so from weddings to crucifixions from

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dedications to baptisms we are all being invited into one family and not only us

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everyone we know is being invited into one family