1. MINISTRY OF JESUS “THE EARLY TEACHINGS”

2. NO WINE AT THE WEDDING FEAST
JOHN 2:1-11
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me?
My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

3. WINE = ANYTHING OFF THE VINE
JEWISH WEDDING
LAST SEVERAL DAYS
(7 DAYS)
1 YEAR HONEYMOON
WINE:
SERVE THE BEST FIRST
WINE = ANYTHING OFF THE VINE

4. WOULD JESUS OFFER ALCOHOL TO PEOPLE?
WINE IN THE BIBLE
PROVERBS 20:1 Wine is a mocker, Strong drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
1 CORINTHISAN 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
GALATIONS 5:21 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
WOULD JESUS OFFER ALCOHOL TO PEOPLE?

5. 1ST WITNESSED MIRACLE
Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.”
And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.

6. JESUS BEGINS JOURNEY
JOHN 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

7. 1ST PASSOVER DURING CHRIST MINISTRY
JOHN 2:13 And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

8. TEMPLE CLEARED OUT
And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

9. WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS?
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has eaten me up.
PSALM 69:8-9
I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother’s children; Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shows you unto us, seeing that you do these things?

10. REBUILD THE TEMPLE IN 3 DAYS?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
IS JESUS CRAZY?

11. BODY = TEMPLE
But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

12. CHRIST IS OUR TABERNACLE
Brazen Altar—Acts 10:42 Jesus is the judge of the living & the dead
Brazen Laver—John 4:10-14 Jesus is the living water springing up to eternal life
Altar of Incense—Tim 2:5 refers to Christ as the one mediator—we offer our prayers to Christ—only way to the father is through Christ
Menorah/Candlestick—John 8:12 Jesus is the light of the world
Table of Showbread-John 6:35 savior is the Bread of life
Ark of the Covenant-John 1:14 Jesus is the word made flesh

13. MANY BELIEVED IN HIS NAME
JOHN 2:23-25
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast [day], many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all [men], And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

14. MOST IMPORTANT PASSAGE

15. BORN AGAIN?!!
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered and said to him,
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

16. Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
STILL CONFUSED?
Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
(1ST FRUITS OF THE DEAD)

17. LIFTED UP LIKE SERPENT JOHN 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
NUMBERS 21:6-9
Then the Lord sent snakes with a bite of poison among the people. They bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you. Pray to the Lord, that He will take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a special snake and put it up on a long piece of wood. Everyone who is bitten will live when he looks at it.” So Moses made a brass snake and put it up on the long piece of wood. If a snake bit any man, he would live when he looked at the brass snake.

18. BELIEVE IN HIM
JOHN 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”