14
Nov
2006
Jesus first Assignment
Sometimes I like looking into things in a little to much detail, I know, but yesterday i spent the afternoon wondering, what was the first public appearance of Jesus in His ministry, Remember Jesus had been crusing the streets of Israel North and south for about 30years with His family and mates, so now He hits the big 30 and its time to fulfil the prophecies of Isaiah and Co.
So in John 2 we see that Jesus and his new followers/diciples were invited to a wedding, all was going good then the wine runs out – heres two things i want you to see with me
1. Mary brought the problem to Jesus – well my mind started to think was Mary asking him because this had happened in the past and Jesus sorted the problem out? or was Mary asking because she knew Jesus was ready to fulfil the reason He came to earth? to bring hope and Love to all, to heal the sick and to give a glimpse of the miraculous to all who see Him as way of showing who He was and that He had the Power to do absolutely anything.
2.Did Jesus change His plan? – Jesus first response was “Mine hour has not yet come”, but minutes Later He told the servants to fill the Jars with water and yuo know the rest of the story.
I wondered if this wasn’t what Jesus came to do first in his public ministry then what was,
scanning down we see that the next day Jesus went to Jerusalem with the disciple to the temple, were they were buying and selling in the temple – Jesus in a moment of rage cleared the temple of everything and everyone! Church was never meant to be run as a profitable business, never meant to be a market place, rather its a place were we come to meet with God and He will meet with us.
Distractions need to put out of Gods house so that the primary focus is God, if anything else is your primary focus in your church then you need to get that sorted!
If this is the first action of Jesus, I would say its something that really annoys Him, so lets keep our churches clear from merchandise in the sanctuary and lets rather focus on His majesty in the sanctuary!
By the way was the wine alcoholic or not? it doesn’t say so thats not the issue!
