The Most Important Miracle

The most important Miracle

Let me ask you all a question here, there is no right or wrong to this question. I think it is more of a personal opinion kind of thing.

The question is; what do you think was the most important miracle Jesus ever preformed?

Some may say, the raising of Lazarus, some may say the healing of the crippled at the pool at Bethsaida. Maybe the healing of blinded eyes or demon processed people being freed of that oppression.

Again there is no right or wrong answer here. As I studied this topic for this sermon, my answer came to this one miracle. It was the very first miracle Jesus ever preformed that was noted in the Bible, the turning water into wine at the Marriage in Cana of Galilee.

If you will turn to the book of John, Chapter 2:1 -11.

2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

2:3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

I want to preach a few minutes on this subject,

What is happening here.

Here we see Jesus being invited along with some of the disciples to this wedding in Cana. The wedding had already happened as we see Jesus has showed up during the reception of this wedding. Jesus, mother, Mary came up to him and told Jesus that they do not have any more wine left for the guest. I can assume that maybe Mary was the coordinated or the person in charge here to make sure everything went smooth and everyone had enough to eat and drink.

For some odd reason Mary told Jesus here in verse 3 that they have no more wine.

Jesus spoke something back to Mary that stuck out to me as odd to, Jesus called his mother “woman”, not mom, not Mary but woman.

But Jesus goes on and tells his mother, that mine hour is not yet come. Where and why did He say this for?

Let me back up just a little bit and start breaking what really just happened here.

I will use what I call some keys to unlock some of what was happening here. I looked at theses verses from 1 through 11 and found I needed to have a good many keys to unlock what I believe to be the real truth of what was happening here.

If you notice the use of the word water, then wine?

Let’s look deeper into those words being used here.

1st When the word water is used in the bible, it also typifies, The Word of God

2nd Here, when the word wine is used in the Bible, this typifies, the Holy Spirit.

Look in verse 3 here, it tells us they wanted wine, but they have no wine.

Let’s look down at verse 6 here. Jesus tells the servant to fill the water pots with water, not only did they fill them but they filled them to the brim.

Then in verse 8, it says, they tasted the water that was made wine and knew not whence it came. But the servants knew, they knew where it came from!

Let’s jump back up to verse 1 here. Notice the word Third Day.

The number three in the Bible, typifies Completeness.

Then in verse 6 we see the number 3 again with two or three firkins. What in the world is a Firkin?

It is the size or amount of liquid back in those days, which is like 9 gallons per firkin. So here we see this is a lot of water, between 18 to 27 gallons!