1 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:15,870 Welcome to Moore in the Word, a podcast of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia, that seeks 2 00:00:15,870 --> 00:00:21,625 to glorify God through biblically sound, thought-provoking and challenging talks and interviews. 3 00:00:22,650 --> 00:00:30,085 In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday the 2nd of May 2025, Mark Thompson, Principal of 4 00:00:30,085 --> 00:00:38,305 Moore Theological College, speaks on John 2:1-11 and the sign Jesus did at the wedding at Cana in Galilee. 5 00:00:38,875 --> 00:00:45,975 He reminds us that what Jesus brings is something better than the very best this world has to offer: lavish and extravagant 6 00:00:45,975 --> 00:00:52,875 grace that points beyond itself to the joyous wedding banquet of the Lamb on that final day for those who trust in him. 7 00:00:53,775 --> 00:00:55,305 We hope you find the episode helpful. 8 00:01:01,010 --> 00:01:01,500 Good morning. 9 00:01:02,690 --> 00:01:05,095 Welcome to, uh, Term 2. 10 00:01:05,114 --> 00:01:07,905 I'm glad that it started so well, hasn't it? 11 00:01:07,905 --> 00:01:09,134 With those, uh, mission reports. 12 00:01:09,134 --> 00:01:09,795 It's been wonderful. 13 00:01:09,855 --> 00:01:10,695 Let's pray together. 14 00:01:11,295 --> 00:01:15,914 Heavenly Father, we pray that this morning as we turn our attention again to your word 15 00:01:15,914 --> 00:01:22,365 and seek to hear your voice, that you might address us where we need to be challenged. 16 00:01:22,365 --> 00:01:25,935 Would you challenge us where we need to be encouraged? 17 00:01:25,935 --> 00:01:32,384 Would you encourage us and would you draw our eyes to Jesus for we ask this in his name. 18 00:01:33,435 --> 00:01:33,945 Amen. 19 00:01:33,945 --> 00:01:34,095 Amen. 20 00:01:36,075 --> 00:01:44,505 Some of the scenes in John's gospels are so well known to us, uh, not just as Christians, but as heirs of the Christian heritage of 21 00:01:44,505 --> 00:01:55,785 the West, and we can simply glide over the surface, inwardly smile at the outline of the story and miss the point that is being made. 22 00:01:56,385 --> 00:02:05,505 The reason we're told this particular event in the first place, and one of those scenes it seems to me is undoubtedly the wedding in Cana. 23 00:02:06,435 --> 00:02:10,305 Found in John chapter two and the turning of water into wine. 24 00:02:11,625 --> 00:02:20,325 But I do suspect we need to be a little uncomfortable with this story before we can really grasp what it's all about, 25 00:02:21,345 --> 00:02:30,075 because though the events seem straightforward, they are odd in a number of different ways, and it's in that very oddness. 26 00:02:31,065 --> 00:02:39,015 We begin to understand why we need this story, why of all the things that Jesus said and did we need to hear about this one? 27 00:02:40,185 --> 00:02:42,795 So if you'd turn with me to John chapter two. 28 00:02:43,454 --> 00:02:44,505 Let's have a closer look. 29 00:02:46,454 --> 00:02:53,234 Uh, I wanna start just a few verses back because I think that that, that will help us to see how odd this story really is. 30 00:02:53,924 --> 00:02:55,484 So chapter one, verse 50. 31 00:02:57,225 --> 00:03:04,755 Jesus answering, said to Nathaniel, do you believe because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree? 32 00:03:05,475 --> 00:03:05,685 Sorry. 33 00:03:05,685 --> 00:03:08,385 Do you believe because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree? 34 00:03:08,834 --> 00:03:10,605 You'll see greater things than these. 35 00:03:11,415 --> 00:03:19,125 And he said to him, you all will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man. 36 00:03:20,745 --> 00:03:30,045 On the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding. 37 00:03:31,185 --> 00:03:36,075 And when they had run out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine. 38 00:03:37,185 --> 00:03:40,395 And Jesus said to her Woman, what does this have to do with me and you? 39 00:03:41,205 --> 00:03:42,975 My hour has not yet come. 40 00:03:44,265 --> 00:03:46,785 His mother said to the servants, do whatever he tells you. 41 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:56,730 There were standing there, six stone water jars as required by the Jewish purification rights, each holding around 40 liters. 42 00:03:57,870 --> 00:04:04,080 Jesus said to them, fill the jars with water, and they filled them to the prim and 43 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,160 he said to them, now draw some and take it to the head steward, and they took it. 44 00:04:09,330 --> 00:04:16,050 But when the head steward tasted the water become wine and did not know where it was from, though the servants who drew it knew. 45 00:04:17,370 --> 00:04:23,310 The head steward called the bride gram and said to him, everyone serves the good wine first, and 46 00:04:23,310 --> 00:04:29,580 then when they've drunk a little bit, the lesser wine, you have kept the good wine until now. 47 00:04:31,050 --> 00:04:40,020 This the first of the signs he did in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him. 48 00:04:42,285 --> 00:04:48,045 There's nothing too perplexing about the story Is there, um, a shortage of wine at a wedding 49 00:04:48,495 --> 00:04:53,565 acutely embarrassing as it would've been, particularly in a culture of honor and shame. 50 00:04:54,525 --> 00:05:02,985 And Jesus souls the problem by transforming a huge amount of water into wine, as you might have expected with Jesus. 51 00:05:02,985 --> 00:05:09,705 Uh, the wine he creates is not only abundant in quantity, but it's the very best in quality. 52 00:05:10,785 --> 00:05:16,695 What's more, as we read this story, we don't have to wonder for a moment about what it all means because 53 00:05:17,055 --> 00:05:24,225 John tells us in the very last verse, this, the first of the signs he did in Cana of Galilee, and he 54 00:05:24,225 --> 00:05:32,175 manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him entirely in line with the purpose of the entire gospel. 55 00:05:32,925 --> 00:05:35,295 This little event is directed towards faith. 56 00:05:36,765 --> 00:05:38,265 These things have been written. 57 00:05:38,265 --> 00:05:44,085 John wrote at the end of his gospel in order that you might believe that Jesus is 58 00:05:44,085 --> 00:05:49,245 the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in his name. 59 00:05:49,935 --> 00:05:52,035 The disciples witnessed this event. 60 00:05:52,635 --> 00:05:57,525 They understood it as a manifestation of Jesus' glory, and they believed in him. 61 00:05:58,575 --> 00:06:03,975 They were convinced by what they witnessed, that he is one worth believing in. 62 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:11,175 And the question is whether you will follow the response of those first disciples or not, 63 00:06:14,115 --> 00:06:17,865 but just how is this a manifestation of his glory? 64 00:06:19,635 --> 00:06:28,935 Just a chapter before John, the human author of this gospel, testified the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory. 65 00:06:29,715 --> 00:06:35,085 Glory as of the only begotten from the father full of grace and truth. 66 00:06:36,525 --> 00:06:40,455 And in those two verses, immediately before John's account of this event that 67 00:06:40,455 --> 00:06:46,155 I read, Jesus promises Nathaniel that he's going to see genuinely great things. 68 00:06:46,950 --> 00:06:55,890 The angels ascending and descending on the son of man, all those disciples, were going to see astonishing things, things that will 69 00:06:55,890 --> 00:07:05,400 really stop them in their tracks, greater things than these glory as of the only begotten from the father full of grace and truth. 70 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:15,210 So, so we who read this gospel are being set up to expect truly spectacular earth shattering events. 71 00:07:15,930 --> 00:07:20,969 The Unpassable glory of the only begotten son on earth. 72 00:07:23,550 --> 00:07:29,039 And then we read, as Tim Keller once put it, Jesus just resolves a catering mishap. 73 00:07:30,659 --> 00:07:32,880 He just enables a party to keep on going. 74 00:07:34,289 --> 00:07:39,044 How is that the glory as of the only begotten from the father? 75 00:07:40,935 --> 00:07:46,034 How is that a great thing like angels ascending and descending upon the son of man? 76 00:07:47,385 --> 00:07:55,034 How should what Jesus did in Cana that day show us his glory and provoke our faith? 77 00:07:58,185 --> 00:08:02,445 It is the first of the signs, uh, the first of many signs in this half of John's gospel. 78 00:08:02,835 --> 00:08:06,705 It is the introduction, the entrance into the signs that follow. 79 00:08:07,799 --> 00:08:13,619 And yet at one level, it does not seem to rise much at all above the ordinary. 80 00:08:14,935 --> 00:08:18,479 A, a wedding part of the normal rhythm of life. 81 00:08:18,479 --> 00:08:19,349 Wonderful. 82 00:08:19,409 --> 00:08:24,059 Yet ordinary is interrupted for just a short period of time, really. 83 00:08:25,530 --> 00:08:33,360 And it's all, if it is all just about avoiding embarrassment, how does it provide an incentive to believe? 84 00:08:36,015 --> 00:08:38,775 Well, the first thing to notice is that it is a sign. 85 00:08:39,855 --> 00:08:46,125 It points beyond itself to something else in this disruption of a normal, quite ordinary 86 00:08:46,125 --> 00:08:52,485 event, and more especially in the way this is resolved, something else is being taught. 87 00:08:53,835 --> 00:09:00,824 It's not just about the joy of the wedding feast, and the lesson is not just that you should be prepared and cater properly when you have a function. 88 00:09:02,175 --> 00:09:03,915 The whole incident is about Jesus. 89 00:09:05,025 --> 00:09:07,065 Who he is and what he came to do. 90 00:09:08,145 --> 00:09:12,135 You might have noticed that he's the only person named in the story. 91 00:09:13,605 --> 00:09:18,855 We read this gospel and we know that he is at the Centre of the action. 92 00:09:19,845 --> 00:09:22,185 His glory was manifest. 93 00:09:22,965 --> 00:09:25,155 His disciples believed in him. 94 00:09:27,435 --> 00:09:30,345 Yet it appears that most of those there that day did not know it. 95 00:09:31,785 --> 00:09:33,555 It all happens because of him. 96 00:09:33,930 --> 00:09:35,400 He remains hidden. 97 00:09:36,390 --> 00:09:38,460 He remains behind the scenes. 98 00:09:39,150 --> 00:09:44,880 The head steward has no idea what he has done, neither does the bridegroom. 99 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,960 I'm not sure how long that state of affairs continued. 100 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,575 I'm pretty confident the servants would've spoken up sooner or later, but certainly 101 00:09:53,595 --> 00:09:58,650 at the time it was just the disciples who see what the sign is pointing to. 102 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:06,660 You see the guests at that wedding came to celebrate the beginning of a new life for the 103 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:12,390 bride and groom the beginning of a, a new family, and that's always worth celebrating. 104 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:19,830 They came expecting a party, but the disciples were a little different. 105 00:10:19,890 --> 00:10:22,170 They just had a whirlwind week. 106 00:10:22,170 --> 00:10:26,070 When you think about it, the testimony of the Baptist. 107 00:10:26,745 --> 00:10:31,065 The call of Andrew and Simon, remember Andrew's words. 108 00:10:31,245 --> 00:10:32,925 We found the Messiah 109 00:10:35,235 --> 00:10:38,955 and then the call of Philip and Nathaniel and the promise of Jesus. 110 00:10:38,955 --> 00:10:41,535 They would see great, extraordinary things. 111 00:10:41,715 --> 00:10:47,745 It's now the third day since that promise, the end of the first week of public ministry. 112 00:10:49,095 --> 00:10:52,815 We dunno what else Jesus had been saying to them over those last few days. 113 00:10:53,175 --> 00:10:55,455 But already they knew that he's the one. 114 00:10:55,455 --> 00:11:01,965 Moses and the prophets had written about the fulfillment of the promises in their scriptures. 115 00:11:01,965 --> 00:11:09,630 The Old Testament had arrived at last, and they expected to see what that looked like as they walked with him. 116 00:11:11,865 --> 00:11:16,035 So many times in the Old Testament, you'll know God's great saving work is pictured 117 00:11:16,035 --> 00:11:21,705 as a feast, a banquet overflowing with joy, with choice, food, and abundant wine. 118 00:11:22,410 --> 00:11:25,079 Take the prophet Isaiah, for example, chapter 25. 119 00:11:25,589 --> 00:11:35,339 On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well aged wine of rich food, 120 00:11:35,339 --> 00:11:43,680 full of marrow, of aged wine, well refined, and he will swallow up on this mountain, the covering that is cast over all peoples. 121 00:11:44,055 --> 00:11:46,545 The veil that is spread over all nations. 122 00:11:46,785 --> 00:11:51,555 He will swallow up death forever and the Lord God will wipe away tears from 123 00:11:51,555 --> 00:11:56,205 all faces and the approach of his people he will take away from all the earth. 124 00:11:56,475 --> 00:11:59,595 For the Lord has spoken, he'll be said on that day. 125 00:11:59,595 --> 00:12:01,275 Behold, this is our God. 126 00:12:01,575 --> 00:12:04,695 We have waited for him that he might save us. 127 00:12:04,695 --> 00:12:05,895 This is the Lord. 128 00:12:06,345 --> 00:12:07,725 We have waited for him. 129 00:12:08,355 --> 00:12:11,295 Let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 130 00:12:12,135 --> 00:12:14,985 Sounds a lot like the end of the book of Revelation, doesn't it? 131 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:20,235 Salvation and feasting, joy and celebration. 132 00:12:20,955 --> 00:12:31,275 And in that sense, it's entirely appropriate that the first disciple's pilgrimage with Jesus should start here with a wedding feast. 133 00:12:32,265 --> 00:12:42,855 The joy of this couple, this family and their friends, is the perfect context for Jesus to begin to manifest his glory, which will one 134 00:12:42,855 --> 00:12:54,135 day climax in a feast of rich food, a feast of well aged wine at this wedding in a little heck town in the the hill country of Galilee. 135 00:12:55,065 --> 00:12:59,955 The stage was being set to begin to show who Jesus really is. 136 00:13:00,345 --> 00:13:01,665 And what he came to do. 137 00:13:03,435 --> 00:13:07,245 Now, I don't, I don't think the disciples understood all this at first. 138 00:13:07,965 --> 00:13:12,465 Perhaps they just threw themselves into the eating, the drinking, the singing, and the dancing. 139 00:13:12,495 --> 00:13:18,975 At first, a time to rejoice in the ordinary joys and rhythms of life, and that's a good thing. 140 00:13:20,730 --> 00:13:27,120 But their worlds had been turned upside down less than a week before, and they were looking at things differently now, 141 00:13:27,930 --> 00:13:36,840 measuring things by, by the promises they had believed and had been waiting so long to see fulfilled and thinking about him. 142 00:13:38,910 --> 00:13:46,080 Maybe Isaiah or Amos or Jeremiah with their talk of feast and celebrations stemming from the salvation of God's people. 143 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:51,270 Maybe those parts of scripture weren't all that far from their minds, 144 00:13:53,730 --> 00:13:58,620 but while perhaps they and other guests were eating and drinking and singing 145 00:13:58,620 --> 00:14:02,535 and dancing, a few people soon became aware that something was not quite right. 146 00:14:04,125 --> 00:14:12,975 A wedding feast like this one, uh, would've gone on for days and at some point far earlier than anyone expected, they ran outta wine. 147 00:14:14,625 --> 00:14:20,025 I mentioned a moment ago that, uh, this was a big deal in a culture of honor and shame. 148 00:14:20,925 --> 00:14:26,505 It would bring great shame on a family if they had not provided adequately for their guests. 149 00:14:27,165 --> 00:14:30,074 It's something that would be remembered for a very long time. 150 00:14:30,660 --> 00:14:33,390 Would be brought up against them again and again. 151 00:14:33,390 --> 00:14:43,920 It's not a failure that would be easily forgotten or forgiven, so it's not as small an issue as we might first assume, even just on the surface level. 152 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:52,890 Then what Jesus did that day to address the shortage of wine meant a lot, an act of gentle compassion towards people in need. 153 00:14:54,810 --> 00:14:58,020 But what he was about to do in that context was a sign. 154 00:14:59,490 --> 00:15:03,120 It pointed beyond that immediate situation to something much bigger. 155 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:12,780 There are lovely little hints throughout this story that point forward, this is a sign, but it's a sign of something yet to come. 156 00:15:13,890 --> 00:15:21,510 So when Jesus' mother brings, uh, the situation to Jesus' attention, he tells her My hour has not yet come. 157 00:15:22,710 --> 00:15:23,820 It's not time yet. 158 00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:26,760 There is a time, but it's not now. 159 00:15:27,944 --> 00:15:36,854 Jesus was very aware that he'd come for a purpose and he'd come for a particular moment above all others his hour had not yet come. 160 00:15:36,944 --> 00:15:45,015 It will come and he will make it clear when it comes later in this gospel when some Greeks come looking for him. 161 00:15:45,045 --> 00:15:46,724 Jesus understood the timetable. 162 00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:49,635 The hour has come, he said. 163 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,890 For the son of man to be glorified. 164 00:15:53,700 --> 00:16:02,610 When he prayed on the night that he was arrested, he said, father, the hour has come Glorify your son, that your son may glorify you. 165 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:09,840 Jesus, you see repeatedly associates this hour, the hour that is yet to come and His glory. 166 00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:17,160 What happened that day in Cana was simply a foretaste of something much bigger that was yet to come. 167 00:16:17,925 --> 00:16:24,885 Something he would do not in a back room at a wedding, but through public display on a cross, 168 00:16:27,285 --> 00:16:36,944 and it is a sign of something far better, not just a sign, not even just a sign of something to come, but a sign of something far better. 169 00:16:38,235 --> 00:16:43,185 When, uh, after Jesus' mother had left him to it and we're told about the six stone 170 00:16:43,185 --> 00:16:49,125 jars standing by, uh, we're told that they were for the purification rights of the Jews. 171 00:16:50,385 --> 00:16:53,325 They were meant to be filled with water when the time came. 172 00:16:53,835 --> 00:17:01,305 They would be used for washing hands and feet as the, as the Jewish law demanded, but Jesus repurposes them. 173 00:17:03,150 --> 00:17:10,619 Instead of expressions of the old religious regime of regulations and laws and stipulations and obligations and 174 00:17:11,010 --> 00:17:18,869 fastidiously, striving to make yourself clean and keep yourself clean, they will carry an expression of a new order. 175 00:17:20,220 --> 00:17:26,849 The order of grace and generosity and rejoicing in a victory decisively, one for us. 176 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:34,860 The repurposing of those stone jars acts out what the gospel writer told us in the very first chapter. 177 00:17:35,610 --> 00:17:41,640 From his fullness, we have all received grace upon grace for the, the law was given through Moses. 178 00:17:42,330 --> 00:17:45,150 Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 179 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,610 Something new is here. 180 00:17:48,630 --> 00:17:56,340 Something immensely significant has come with Jesus, but also something better, far better. 181 00:17:57,450 --> 00:18:03,030 What Jesus is bringing, and this is what we need to hear and understand what Jesus 182 00:18:03,030 --> 00:18:11,280 is bringing is better than the very best this world has to offer those jars of water. 183 00:18:11,460 --> 00:18:17,220 Were meant to remind those who used them of their impurity and of their need to be cleansed. 184 00:18:18,450 --> 00:18:23,490 Jesus used them to symbolize that the new thing that has come into the world him. 185 00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:29,520 Takes us way beyond this to something far, far better grace. 186 00:18:30,270 --> 00:18:45,389 Overflowing, extravagant, wonderful grace, celebrating salvation, done and dusted, fully accomplished and available freely, richly, even excessively. 187 00:18:46,980 --> 00:18:52,740 You see, Jesus gave them not just more wine, but better wine. 188 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,070 It's a picture of grace. 189 00:18:56,790 --> 00:19:03,840 The unsu surpass goodness of the grace of salvation given to us, and as that 190 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:10,170 day also made clear, he was not stingy in giving it it's lavishly, provided 191 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,800 the same Jesus who gave that sign in Cana the sign of something to come. 192 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,629 The sign of something far better. 193 00:19:19,620 --> 00:19:26,820 He's the one who will preside at the great wedding banquet John talks about in Revelation 19, and if 194 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:33,480 you like, those first disciples are taken back by the extravagance of Jesus' provision at that wedding. 195 00:19:34,050 --> 00:19:36,455 Then let me tell you, you haven't seen anything yet the 196 00:19:38,460 --> 00:19:46,110 picture of a feast fuller and richer than you could ever imagine, celebration beyond anything you could ever experience. 197 00:19:46,575 --> 00:19:50,895 It's one of the beautiful pictures of the great consummation of God's purposes. 198 00:19:51,645 --> 00:19:56,235 Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb. 199 00:19:58,485 --> 00:20:04,215 What happened that day in Cana was not spectacular in the way we might've expected. 200 00:20:04,215 --> 00:20:13,155 Given what's happened up to now and what we've been told, you can understand why people would talk about it as odd a catering blunder. 201 00:20:13,649 --> 00:20:20,159 An ingenious solution to a problem that should never have arisen in the first place as the guys from top gear would've put it, 202 00:20:22,950 --> 00:20:32,250 but it's far more than that, and emerging out of what, at first instance looks unimpressive and insignificant is a 203 00:20:32,250 --> 00:20:40,950 manifestation of the glory of Jesus, the one who brings something new and better than even the best the world can offer. 204 00:20:42,090 --> 00:20:48,780 He has brought the salvation promised in the Old Testament and here in Cana they get a taste of it. 205 00:20:49,830 --> 00:20:53,909 Everyone serves the good wine first and then when they've drunk a little, the lesser wine. 206 00:20:54,870 --> 00:20:57,179 But you have kept the good wine until now, 207 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:00,360 and yet friends. 208 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:08,520 Between those two wedding banquets, there is another celebration and it's one we're going to share in in a few minutes time. 209 00:21:09,825 --> 00:21:16,935 Another sign that points beyond itself in the first instance to the cross where our salvation was 210 00:21:16,935 --> 00:21:24,435 fully and finally accomplished forgiveness, new life and righteousness secured for us forever. 211 00:21:25,725 --> 00:21:33,465 But pointing to, to that banquet that is to come, didn't Jesus say on the night he shared his last supper with his disciples? 212 00:21:33,855 --> 00:21:36,255 I will not drink of this fruit of the vine. 213 00:21:36,810 --> 00:21:39,840 Until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's Kingdom. 214 00:21:42,209 --> 00:21:51,030 Yet, in a way, at the very heart of this symbolic meal we share in a moment is the same sign that Jesus gave at the wedding 215 00:21:51,030 --> 00:22:04,054 of Cana, his rich provision of Grace Fuller than we could ever imagine The sign of something new and monumental and better. 216 00:22:05,925 --> 00:22:12,345 Jesus manifested his glory not in the way we might have expected, but it was enough against the mighty 217 00:22:12,345 --> 00:22:18,645 backdrop of the promises of God in the Old Testament to convince the disciples that he was worth trusting. 218 00:22:20,535 --> 00:22:24,106 And so the big question of this gospel remains, will you trust him? 219 00:22:27,255 --> 00:22:35,415 As we participate in this symbolic meal, we have the opportunity to affirm that our confidence is entirely in him. 220 00:22:36,495 --> 00:22:47,715 And what he came to do and the rich unconstrained grace, he came to give to the entirely undeserving like me and like you. 221 00:22:49,365 --> 00:22:53,625 And that's why we can eat and drink and be thankful. 222 00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:56,820 Should we pray together? 223 00:23:00,090 --> 00:23:10,890 Our Father, we thank you that not only did you send your son, but you made clear what he came to do and that it was for us, and would you help 224 00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:22,590 us with very great joy to celebrate what it is that he has done and help us to remember that our Lord is the one who gives unconstrained grace. 225 00:23:23,639 --> 00:23:25,020 And we pray that in his name. 226 00:23:25,949 --> 00:23:26,220 Amen. 227 00:23:34,169 --> 00:23:38,850 Thank you for listening to Moore in the Word, a podcast of Moore Theological College. 228 00:23:39,450 --> 00:23:44,100 Our vision as a College is to see God glorified by men and women living for 229 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:48,780 and proclaiming Jesus Christ, growing healthy churches and reaching the lost. 230 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:55,020 We invite you to attend any of our upcoming events, including this one from the Priscilla & Aquila Centre. 231 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:02,784 The term "Complementarian" was coined in 1988 to describe the view that God created men and women equally in his 232 00:24:02,784 --> 00:24:10,195 image, with equal dignity and purpose, and equal standing before him as sinners and as recipients of his grace. 233 00:24:10,794 --> 00:24:18,774 However, in marriage and in leadership of the church, some roles and responsibilities for men and women are not identical or interchangeable. 234 00:24:19,195 --> 00:24:22,105 There is ordered complementarity of equals. 235 00:24:23,024 --> 00:24:30,915 Even though the term "Complementarian" was new, this view reflects 20 centuries of biblical interpretation and church practice. 236 00:24:31,665 --> 00:24:38,595 Join us for the next Priscilla & Aquila evening seminar on Wednesday the 13th of August, 2025, when writer 237 00:24:38,595 --> 00:24:44,415 and theologian 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