Title: Fill the jar with water
If Buddhism is a nihilistic religion that speaks of death, Confucianism is a religion of rituals, and Christianity is a religion of festivals.
The first miracle in Jesus' fellowship was seen at a wedding feast in Cana. It started with a food problem.
No matter how well prepared a feast for humans is, it is not enough. Verse 3 says that the wine ran out. I prepared well, but it wasn't enough. Everything humans do is like this. Either left or not.
Let's think about what we lack now. What am I missing now? Aren't you a shrewd believer who plays with the ax blade and only carries the ax handle? Are you not a believer like an empty jar without wine?
They were scolded for lack of food and lack of finances. But he said that the Lord was with him and he became rich. It is that the problem of lack was solved by the presence of the Lord. I hope that we can all believe that if we pray to the Lord that we are lacking, it will be solved with the Lord's help.
What I lack, where I am sick, what problems are difficult, what complaints are full, things are twisted like this and that, things are twisted and there is nothing I can do on my own, but if I ask Jesus, all problems are solved It's possible. Please connect with Jesus to solve it.
But just because the Lord is by your side doesn't solve things.
The disciples who were crossing the Sea of Galilee at night with Jesus in a boat encountered a storm and suffered. I tried to move the boat. Then Jesus was sleeping. Almost immediately before sinking, he shook Jesus, who was sleeping, to wake him up. “Please save us, for we are perishing,” Jesus calmed the sea and rebuked the unbelief.
We need to wake up the sleeping Lord. If I just put it next to me and try to do it, the work will be more twisted and the storm will intensify.
In Isaiah 6:7 it says, “Do not give them rest until God is praised.” He said, "Cry out to the Lord so that there is no rest. Ask the Lord again and again." It means to ask the Lord repeatedly by asking, use the Lord, and obey the Lord's will.
In verse 5, Mary also said, "Whatever he says, do it."
We must tell Jesus everything in detail and live a life of obedience to Jesus' will.
Here is an unnamed stone jar. It's an empty jar with only a loud noise. A person who is full of dust without water is compared to a person who lacks practicality. When it is filled with water, the sound disappears.
It is full of water. A name is given. It became a wine jar. It became a water jar. Empty jars don't have names. Empty bowls only make a lot of noise. A person with an empty stomach only hears the sound of the devil. A bowl is named according to what it contains.
What is inside us?
First, all you need to enter is water. Let's fill our jar with water. In the Bible, water means the Holy Spirit. In the Bible, water means faith. In the Bible, water means grace. In the Bible, water represents love and hope.
In Ezekiel 47, the prophet at the shore of shallow water went in a thousand cubits and put it on his knee, and went in a thousand cubits and was immersed in his waist, and went in a thousand cubits and his whole body was submerged.
There are sole believers, waist believers, knee believers, and whole body believers.
A person who only goes back and forth to church because the water of grace flows only to the peach bones is called a sole believer. Those who kneel in prayer because the water of grace fills their knees is called a kneeling believer. A believer who goes into the water up to the waist and bends to serve is called a waist believer.
If you have been favored, you must show zeal to serve. Then you will go in a thousand more and your whole body will be immersed in water, and you will reach the point of being filled with the grace of the Lord. This is the whole believer.
General Naaman went into the Jordan River, but was unable to heal him. It was only when he went in seven times that he was cured of leprosy. It should be filled with water like this. You have to go into the water. It should be filled with water.
Seeing the continuing drought on Mount Carmel, Elijah made a bet, 'Is the god of Baal a real thing or the Jehovah I serve? All day long the prophets of Baal cut his body, draw blood, and called on the name of the gods, but there was no answer. But Elijah went to the brook Cherit in front of him, and loaded 12 buckets of water and poured it on the altar. And I prayed. Then the fire of the Lord appeared and consumed the sacrifice, and at the same time the cloud appeared and overturned the heavens, and a torrential rain fell like a downpour.
The problem is water. You must first fill the jar with water. There is only dust in the empty bowl. Just as there are only overgrown weeds in an empty field, the devil will take away those without Jesus. You need to fill the jar with water. Water is the word of Jesus, prayer, the Holy Spirit, grace, and faith.
Today we came to fill the water. "Come and learn from me" is a water filling operation. You have to fill it with water to work miracles based on this. They don't just perform miracles. He did not just raise the widow of Zarephath. They made use of the widow's oil barrel and flour barrel. So they make bread with it, offer sacrifices, and offer prayers. Therefore, the flour does not run out in the flour barrel, and the oil does not run out in the oil barrel.
Let's fill the bucket God has given me with water. It is our work to fill the water, and it is the Lord's miracle to turn water into wine. Let's fill it with water. Even if it was filled, I was told to fill one. must be filled. We must fill it with the Word, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and grace, but we must fill it to the fullest.
70% of our body is water. They have food, but without water, they die. Moisture is best. The inside of this church is very dry. So I installed a humidifier. The goal is to reduce dryness even a little by using a humidifier.
In Luke 8:4 it says, “Some fell on a rock, and was born, and dried up because there was no moisture.” This is the parable of heaven. Heaven is damp. What is moisture? Tears, blood and sweat. Jesus prayed so hard in the Garden of Gethsemane that the sweat on his forehead became like blood. It is the work of the Lord to fill the jar with water, and to change it after it is filled. Christianity is that the latter is better than the first.
Four wines have changed. Changed color, changed taste, changed value, changed use.
France is the origin of wine, and expensive wines are not made now, but are made decades or even hundreds of years ago and sealed in logs. It is valuable because it is an aged wine.
So are people. No matter how much you learn, it's not worth it if it's empty.
But if you have a personality and the love of Jesus, you are a worthy person.
Let us fill ourselves with the water we can. You have to draw water to fill it with water. Thus, through prayer and the help of the Holy Spirit, the taste of this filled water changes, its color changes, its use changes, and its value changes.
Verse 10, “The banquet president said to the bridegroom, “Everyone first brings out good wine, and after they get drunk, they serve low things, but you have kept good wine until now.” It is actually a miracle of Jesus, but the praise was received by the bridegroom. In fact, Jesus has done all the work and people are praised.
Today, there are people who keep good water and turn it into dirty water. A person who learns in a good environment and good conditions uses that learning to do bad things
Famous celebrities get caught while playing and enter the detention center. They all can't raise their heads and hide. Why can't you raise your head while living in a shameful way?
Although it is difficult, we must prepare water, pray that this water will be used as needed by the Lord, and turn this water into wine to benefit others, live a rewarding life, and receive the Lord's blessing. You don't know how precious God's eternal blessings are.
An empty jar has no powers. Just as history appears when water enters into it, when the power of the Lord is with us, like stone jars, great changes occur.
Let's fill it with water. Water doesn't just fill up. There are people who are too easy to trust in you. There are people who try to avoid difficult things if possible. But let's get into it. In it is Jesus with water. There is nothing in the empty jar. But when water enters, it turns into wine with the water.
I pray that you will use this change as an opportunity for re-creation and become members of the family who are working hard. Amen.
(1992.1.19)