Having been raised in New York City I had many opportunities of witnessing that would seem quite strange to someone raised in the country. Now as I look back I guess I was quite forward in being able to speak up for the Lord to people that you would perhaps feel intimidated with. I guess when you are young you rush in where angels fear to trod and you don’t think about those things. On several occasions I had opportunities to witness to people who were headquartered in the UN. The ambassador of Sudan, for example, was Muslim. I was able to give him an Arabic Bible and share my testimony with him why I believed in Jesus Christ. Then there was the son of the ambassador of Cambodia. I had the privilege of not only witnessing to him over time but seeing him bow the knee and pray and ask Jesus Christ to be his personal Lord and Savior. When his parents found out that he had changed from being a Buddhist to being a Christian they shipped him back to Cambodia. I gave him a Bible before he left and he smuggled it in his suitcase. I’ve often wondered about him. Did he get killed under Pol Pot? What happened to this young man who professed Christ from such a royal family as the ambassador of Cambodia to the US. You know, all of us have the opportunity to witness for Christ. Even though perhaps in your daily life you aren’t bumping up against Muslims and atheists, you’ve got the person around the corner who wants to know why you believe in Jesus Christ.
Have you ever been asked that by anybody? Why do you spend all that time, money, and energy in following religion? Isn’t life too short to bother with religion? No. Life’s too long to not bother with religion because it goes on for eternity! We live in a climate today in which people want to know why you believe. As we are going through this series on the irresistible Christ I couldn’t help but think about what I would say if I could go back to my younger years while witnessing for Jesus. What would I say if I could return to the opportunities of speaking with the ambassador of Sudan and be asked “Why do you believe in Jesus Christ?” Now I would answer them in the following way, which is simply the outline of this series. If someone said, “Why do you believe in Jesus Christ, Bob Morey? Why did you commit yourself to him? Why did you find him irresistible to your faith and trust and hope?” I would start off with a quiet voice and say, “You want to know why I believe in Jesus Christ? I believe in Jesus Christ because of his miraculous birth, his incredible life, his victorious death, his powerful resurrection, his astounding ascension, his triumphant session, his heavenly intercession, his sovereignty over all, his glorious return, his final judgment on all, and his eternal kingdom! That’s why I believe in Jesus Christ.”
It is the person and work of Christ that forms the basis why we trust the Son of the Living God. This is why we commit the salvation of our souls to Jesus Christ and not to anyone else. Your immortal soul has been entrusted to Jesus of Nazareth, not to Reverend Moon, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, Mohammed, Buddha, or Zoroaster. To Jesus Christ you have committed the ultimate fate of your soul for all eternity. We find that the Lord Jesus Christ is irresistible in the sense of his incredible life. He was irresistible in terms of what he said. As you study the gospel accounts you find that the teaching ministry of Jesus Christ is without parallel. I have studied comparative religions and philosophy and I will tell you that as you study the words of Jesus Christ, there is nothing that can really be compared to what he said. What he said stands out for many reasons, such as: the beauty, the wisdom, the graciousness, the wit that he displayed, the truthfulness, the morality, the practicality, the authoritative nature, his scripturality in the sense of going back to the OT scriptures, and the prophetic nature of his words. When he declared the future of something or someone, his words became true.
Also in terms of having an incredible life, we must also state that the Lord Jesus Christ was incredible not only in what he said (Matthew answers the question of what he said.) He was incredible in terms of what he did, that is, his actions, his results, his works. What he did in his life is incredible and it’s incredible for several reasons. First of all, the Lord Jesus Christ is irresistible in that he was sinless, without guilt, without fault. He never broke God’s laws. You must remember in Scripture sin is defined as a violation of the law of God. So we’re not talking about violations of culture which are not true moral offenses. So if someone sneezes and you forget to say “God bless you”, you have not sinned. You have not sinned if you fail to put at the end of your letter “sincerely yours” and simply signed your name. Or when you are writing someone instead of saying Dear Frank, you just say Frank, you have not sinned. Those are non-moral issues of culture. Nor are we speaking in terms of religious traditions. Jesus Christ broke religious traditions. He broke cultural norms. He devastated human standards but he kept the law of God, which is the standard of right and wrong. This is why in John 8 Jesus issues the challenge, “Which one of you convicts Me of sin?” This is the challenge Jesus Christ issues to his enemies. How they have tried down through the centuries. We read in the Talmud, for example, the accusation that Jesus was a magician. He learned this illusionist craft while he was in Egypt where he fled over shame of an illegitimate birth. When he returned, he used these illusionist tricks. He was the Amazing Jesus instead of the Amazing Kreskin. He fooled everybody and he was a deceiver but they couldn’t make it stick. Even in their accusation they verified the biblical accounts that there was something unusual about his birth, that he went to Egypt after he was born, that he returned from Egypt, and that he did miracles. They didn’t deny that he never did anything. They just said that what he did, making the dead come back to life, making the blind see, cleansing lepers, healing the lame, that those things were illusionist tricks. Boy, I would love to see that on the stage! Wouldn’t you? I don't think an illusionist trick could possibly account for those kind of things. After all, Jesus didn’t come before the public with a deck of cards saying, “Pick one.” Where were the illusionist tricks? The Lord Jesus Christ said “Which of you can convince me and demonstrate that I have sinned against God.” It is important that we underscore the sinlessness, the guiltlessness of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:20-21, NASB)
That is, the atonement works because Jesus Christ did not have any sin of his own. If he had any sin, even the smallest tiniest one, then he could not be the savior of sinners. He would have to die for his own sins. He couldn’t die for me. He couldn’t die for you if he sinned against God. For any wages he collected concerning death would be his own but because he was sinless, declares the apostle Paul echoing the apostle John, because he had no sin he could be that perfect sacrifice to remove our sins. This same thing is argued by the author of Hebrews.
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. (Hebrews 4:14, NASB)
We read these things as Gentiles and we don’t really get excited but if you were a Jew living in the first century, this would be shouting ground. He had proven that Jesus was a greater high priest than the Jewish high priest. he had a better name, a better nature, a better sacrifice, a better covenant, better blood, and that Jesus was a better high priest because instead of going into a building behind a curtain Jesus Christ ascended into the Holy of Holies, heaven. God’s presence is in heaven. “Jesus the Son of God, because he is the greater high priest because he has entered into the Holy of Holies and he is the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.”
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15, NASB)
Underline the word “weaknesses” because it’s not the word iniquities or wickednesses. Sometimes we misread this text and say, “Oh well, Jesus is sympathizing with us in our sins.” No, that isn’t what it says. Jesus is not too altogether happy when we sin. What this text is saying is that he sympathizes with our weaknesses, that is, our temptations. For we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are yet was without sin. Being tempted is not a sin. Being tempted is part of life. Jack Woodson had a good illustration of this. He got on the topic of Times Square and all the pornography places there. He said as you walk through the streets of New York, the first look is never a sin. It’s the second, the third, the fourth look. He was talking about how they would plaster up these magazines. They would take the centerfold out of Playboy and plaster it up on the windowpane so that as anybody walks by they see everything. At least they have laws against that now. At least you have to enter the door. In those days they just put it right on the window. You could be 3 or 30 and you could see everything. So as you walk down the street, the first look isn’t the sin, it’s the second look, the third, the fourth, that’s the sin. Being tempted is not evil. It’s the weakness, the realization that the world is out there along with an active devil. Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil, by the world, by unbelief, by other people. Yet he was successful in rejecting the temptation and he was without sin.
Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16, NASB)
Just as Jesus was able to withstand the temptation to evil by the grace of his Father, even so believers by virtue of their union with him, can say no to drugs, no to immorality. I plead with young children to understand that it is not inevitable that you become wicked. Despite what they teach you concerning losing your virginity or premarital sex or drugs. There are those teachers who think it is inevitable that you are going to try drugs so they invite students to try drugs together with them in the safety of the teacher’s home. It isn’t inevitable. Kids, you can say no. Jesus said no. You might say, “Fine but he was the Son of God.” Yes, but myself, just as a little teenager said no. Maybe you think it was easy in the Neolithic ages in which I lived. Maybe you think drugs weren’t even discovered yet. My friend, I grew up in New York City. We had it all honey. You just got it so many years later because it takes time for the cancer to spread from the metropolitan to the rural areas. I would go to school and there would be a marijuana joint in the pencil holder in front of me left over from the class before me. I would go in the locker room and they were dealing drugs left and right. There were teachers who had pot parties. There were sex parties and everything else going on. I said, “I believe in Jesus Christ and I am saying no, period.” I remember times in the locker rooms when guys would start boasting and bragging about their immorality. Just to get them I would boast and say, “I got you all beat.” They would say, “What do you mean?” I would say, “I kept faith with God and I wasn’t weak in giving in to stupid temptations and I remained pure before the Lord Jesus Christ.” They would all grumble at this. They all had crucifixes dangling from their necks. Who are the weak people? The people who give in to lust. The people who give in to temptation. The people who fold under peer pressure. Only the strong person says “Forget it. I’m not going to do it. You are not going to force me to sin against my God.” The author of Hebrews says let the sinlessness of Christ be the example and motivation to encourage you to resist temptation just as he did.
Hence, also, He is able to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins, and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. (Hebrews 7:25-27, NASB)
Do you see the superiority of the high priestly work of the Lord Jesus Christ? Because he had no sin he could be that perfect sacrifice for sin and there does not need to be any further sacrifices. His sinlessness not only is the foundation of the atonement, it is not only the motivation to resist temptation. His sinlessness is also, according to this passage, the basis of the uniqueness of his death on the cross. When Jesus Christ died, he died once and that was sufficient. He didn’t have to, like the old Jewish priests, offer sacrifices again and again. He did it once because that is all that is necessary.
You see how this doctrine of the sinlessness of Christ is not simply an academic doctrine? Theologians call it the impeccability of Christ. It comes from the Latin word for a little sin. So the idea of the impeccability of Christ is that he didn’t have any sins, not even the little tiny ones. Nothing. Mothers, wouldn’t that have been great to raise Jesus? Never any back talk. No sassing. When you would say “Jesus, take out the garbage.” He would say “Yes Mom.” Can you imagine poor Mary with the other kids that she had. What a shock it would be. Baby Jesus was a marvelous child. You would say “Now Jesus, don't put your finger in that socket.” Jesus obeyed. Then the others came along and they were jamming everything they could in there. Christ was without sin from beginning to end. Look how it is used in 1 John 3.
See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. (1 John 3:1-6, NASB)
Here John picks that up from the words of Jesus and says “the world doesn’t recognize you as the children of God, the heirs of the cosmos, because they didn’t even know who he was! They put him on a tree and crucified him!” You see here in this passage, particularly emphatic in the Greek, he’s saying “Listen, Jesus Christ has come. He has done the work of atonement. He was sinless. There was no impurity. He was without sin. One day we’re going to be made like him without sin, without guilt, without pollution.” The day will come when there will be nothing inside of you that answers the trumpet call of iniquity. As it is right now, the devil blows his trumpet and we have the hounds baying within our hearts, ready to go. We have within us remaining sin that answers to the call of Satan. But the day will come when we will be purified, when Jesus returns. When we will be like him without sin.” Then he applies it to the present. He says “This means, in light of the hope of one day being without sin, a true Christian by definition is one who is at war with sin in his life.
A Christian is not someone who says “Oh, I sinned. That’s fine. That’s just life. So I sinned. So what, I’m at peace with my sin.” No, he says whoever has this hope of being sinless like Jesus when he returns, will be in the process of purifying himself just as Jesus is pure. That is his goal so that he will never live in sin. He will not put his dwelling there. He will fight it. He will struggle against it. He will hate it. In his better moments he will say “Oh God, I wish I would never do this again.” He will never be at peace with sin.
John was not talking about sinless perfectionism, for Jesus had not yet come. Anyone who is in union with Christ is not going to continue on that path of willful sin and rebellion, living in it. Instead someone who is redeemed will be seeking to purify himself, always at war with iniquity. Now, do you see how the sinlessness of Christ applies to all of life? Not only to the historical or redemptive work of Christ on the cross, the atonement, but also it applies to our lives. As we think about it as a motivation to holiness, here it is the motivation to hope. We know that one day when Jesus comes, either at death or the second coming of Christ, at last we will be free from iniquity.
Secondly, the reason that I believe in Jesus Christ is that he was incredible in what he did in terms of the compassion, the amazing, astounding compassion and pity that he had upon men. Now as you read the Old Testament you don't find much compassion. You really don't because that is a covenant of law. So after the covenant sign of the Sabbath was given, some poor guy looked at the fire in his tent and his wife says “Saul, I told you to bank that fire good. It’s out. The kids are cold. You had better go out and get some sticks.” He says, “Oh, but it’s the Sabbath and there’s now a rule against doing anything.” She says “Oh who cares. In all of Israel who is going to pay attention to some man walking and picking up a few little sticks here and there.” So he picks up some sticks to go warm his family and he’s caught and brought before Moses and he is put to death. No compassion. No mercy. This is the law and this is the way it’s going to be. If you are involved in an accident and you put out somebody’s eye, guess what happened to your eye? Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. Law doesn’t have much compassion. The law says justice must be done. Moses had to administer that and the covenant from Mount Sinai was one of law, not grace. When you turn to the life of the Lord Jesus Christ it’s such an opposite. For example, in Mark 1 he is impatient to tell his readers that Jesus Christ was a compassionate man.
And a leper came to Him, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean." And moved with compassion, He stretched out His hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed." (Mark 1:40-41, NASB)
Do we find any parallels to this with Mohammed and his sword? No. Do we find any parallels where we could speak of the compassion of Buddha where he went to help people? No, he told people they have to learn to accept things as they are. It is their karma. As you look around you, does Reverend Moon or Joseph Smith or any of these other false prophets, do any of them manifest compassion and pity on human suffering and pain? No. As a matter of fact, as I stated in my book on reincarnation, I have failed to discover a single instance where any of these gurus, who reap millions, have spent one thin dime to alleviate human suffering. You can ask the different cultic groups, Where are your nursing homes? They don’t have any. Where are your hospitals? They don’t have any. How are they alleviating human suffering? Where is the compassion? They don't have any. Someone asked Rajneesh what he had done with his millions of dollars to alleviate human suffering. His response was, “Let the Christians alleviate human suffering. Let the Christians build nursing homes and hospitals. Let them do it. That’s their thing. I’m a Hindu. I don’t have to do it.” So he didn’t bother. When I look at Jesus Christ compared to all the other religious prophets and claimants I am attracted to him because he was a man of compassion with rich and with poor, with old and with young, with male and female, with Gentile and Jew, with ugly and with beautiful. He was a man of compassion.
And Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. And the news about Him went out into all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, taken with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. And great multitudes followed Him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan. (Matthew 4:23-25, NASB)
Thirdly, his miracles attract me to him. This passage is important for several reasons. First, notice that the demon-possessed is a separate category from physical sicknesses and ailments and it’s a separate category from those having epilepsy or seizures. When the Bible talks about people who were demon possessed, it’s not referring to those having epileptic seizures. That was not viewed as demon possession. Neither was it viewed as an organic disease or sickness. He healed those who were ill with all different kinds of diseases, those who were suffering from severe pain, those possessed of demons, those who had seizures, those who were paralyzed.
As I look at the miracles of Jesus Christ I do not find that they were carnival acts done to amuse the crowds. There was that famous magician, Simon the magician, in the first century who went around trying to mock the apostle Peter and he would do carnival acts. Do you ever find Jesus doing card tricks? Crystal ball gazing? Palm reading? Herod said “Oh good. I’ve really been waiting to see you because I want to see some of these acts that you do.” Jesus uttered not a word and did nothing. What did he do in terms of his miracles? Well, he wasn’t in his miracles simply amazing people and doing tricks. He was exercising compassion. There were miracles of mercy, deliverance, healing, and blessing. That immediately tells me his miracles were of such a nature that I want to trust that kind of man. He did not use his miracles for personal aggrandizement. He used his miracles for the betterment of people.
Fourthly, Jesus’ honesty draws me to him. In John 6:60-66 he was dead honest with people. He told them the truth even if they were going to be offended. Even if it meant he would lose their allegiance, he still told them the truth. This is the great problem we have today. so many people are so desperate to be popular that they don't want to tell people the truth. But Jesus went ahead and told them exactly what the truth was.
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this said, "This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?" But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? "What then if you should behold the Son of Man ascending where He was before? "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. "But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him. And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been granted him from the Father." As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew, and were not walking with Him anymore. (John 6:60-66, NASB)
... and Jesus went on bent knee with tears and begged them with great pleading to return. No, it doesn’t say that! I remember one church I was in, the pastor was practically doing cartwheels. “Oh thank you for showing up. Please, do Jesus a favor and show up. Poor Jesus is in such need.” You don't find Jesus in his earthly life whining, pleading, begging, and scratching. He didn’t have any mascara running down his face. He didn’t have any telethons. He told people the truth. If they walked off, he let them walk off. So he turned to his disciples, the 12 apostles, and said, “Well do you want to leave?” Peter always had hoof in mouth disease. He was always the first to shoot his mouth off. Peter said “Lord, to whom shall we go? If we don't follow you there is nobody else to follow. You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the holy One of God.” For once, Peter said the right thing.
You see Christ’s honesty with the woman at the well. “Go call your husband.” He was dead honest. He spoke the truth and he let the cookie crumble as it will. I’m drawn to him because he didn’t lie, he didn’t use deceit, he didn’t simply preach something because he thought the people wanted it. The proof of his honesty is that he got crucified. If he would have lied and used deceit, he would have been on the throne. By telling them the truth they put him on the cross.
"For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, 'He has a demon!' "The Son of Man has come eating and drinking; and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners!' (Luke 7:33-35. NASB)
Fifthly, his normality. They could see him eating at the feasts and banquests. When Mary and Martha would do a good meal or a dinner at a Pharisee’s house they would observe him eating. He enjoyed life! If you looked at him, you would think this guy is normal. But when you think about these other claimants, the Buddha, and others like the man who sat in the same position for 50 years, and he wants me to follow him? I’m attracted to Jesus Christ because he was normal. He wasn’t a nut case. He didn’t fall and get in seizures and bark like a dog. He didn’t do anything wierd. Look in the gospels. The wierdest thing he did was heal somebody. That’s not wierd when it’s of such help. I’m attracted to him. He’s a normal person.
I get so frustrated with Christians who say “How will the world know that we’re children of God if we don't wear different clothing and put caps on and wear black clothing with no buttons? How will they know we are God’s people?” Jesus didn’t wear any new special suit. “How will they know we are God’s people if we dare to take a glass of wine?” Jesus took a glass of wine. At the wedding of Cana he gave 180 gallons! He was normal. Thank God he was normal. He laughed. He had fun. He loved kids. He really loved kids. While having devotions with my son I said, “John, if you were there, wouldn’t you love to run and jump on Jesus’ lap and talk.” “Yes!” The people around him would say “Hey, he doesn’t have time for these kids.” He would say “I always have time for kids.” He loved them. He was a normal person. People loved him for that. he was not wierd and neither should his followers be wierd.
Sixthly I love him because of his defeat of Satan. In Matthew 4 the devil came and tempted him 3 times the same way he had tempted Adam and Eve. Each time he was tempted Jesus quoted Scripture and drove satan back until finally Jesus said “Get thee behind me Satan.” and the devil had to go. Boy, when I think about those other people who claimed to be messiahs and prophets and gods, they never defeated satan. They fell into temptation. If they said “don't have immorality” they would end up having immorality with somebody. If they preached against drugs they would end up in drug abuse. I love Jesus because of his defeat of satan.
And on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; and Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the wedding. And when the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine." And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what do I have to do with you? My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it." Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. 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 headwaiter." And they took it to him. And when the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom, and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first, and when men have drunk freely, then that which is poorer; you have kept the good wine until now." (John 2:1-10, NASB)
Seventhly, I love him because of his graciousness. In those days weddings weren’t 30 minutes, they were three or more days. So on the third day, the wedding had been going on for three days. There was dancing and clapping and eating and drinking and feasting. There was great fun and Jesus was there! You might say “Jesus was the Son of God. He didn’t have time to go there and have fun.” Of course he went and had fun. He was there. Jesus’ mother was there. His disciples also had been invited and they were there too. Finally the wine ran out. Mary came to her son to ask him what he could do about it. 30 years have passed. Now is the time to do something. I wonder how many times she came to him before that and said “Son, isn’t this a good occasion to do something?” He would answer “Mother, my time is not yet.” She came when he was 18. She came when he was 19. She came when he was 20. She came when he was 21. Finally at this wedding she thinks this would be a perfect occasion for Jesus to do something to show he was the Messiah. He says “Dear woman, why are you involving me. You are always involving me. My time has not yet come. Haven’t I been telling you that all along?” We’re not told what happened next. Maybe his mother looked down with such puppy dog eyes and he looked at the other guests and the wine was gone. The merriment was dying out. The laughter was subsiding. The fun was about over. He looked around and thought now would be as good a time as anytime.
His first miracle was not in the palace, not on the battlefield, not in a cemetery, but at a party. He said ok and Mary got the servants and told them “Do whatever he tells you to do no matter if it sounds stupid.” There were 6 stone water jars, the kind the Jews would use for ceremonial washing. Each would hold from 20-30 gallons. Jesus said to the servants “I want you to fill all those jars with water.” They thought “Well, someone’s really going to take a bath here.” They filled them up. Jesus said, “I want you to take a cup of that water and take it to the best man of this wedding feast.” So they took it and when the master of the wedding feast tasted the water that had now been turned into wine, he didn’t realize where it had come from though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the bridegroom and he said “Everybody brings out the choice wine first, then after everyone has had that they bring out the cheaper wine. But you have saved the best wine until the last.” This the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, thus revealing his glory. He revealed his glory how? 180 gallons of top quality wine! He helped the party go on. His disciples did what? They even had more faith that the Lord Jesus Christ was a gracious, compassionate host who was normal, who was real, who understood the situation. We’re not saying there was drunkenness and all of that. That is clearly condemned in Scripture. It was simply the eating and the drinking and the merriment and the festivity of it. All of these things revealed his compassion with people as he revealed his glory as the Messiah.
I think it’s marvelous that he began with a party and what is the last thing he did before he went to the Cross? He had another party, the Passover party. He provided the first feast and he provided the second. He came in with a party and he left with a party and he had a lot of parties in between. Why? He was a normal person, man of very man as well as God of very God and he came to be the savior of sinners. This is why he was incredible in his life. He was incredible in what he did.
Why do I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe in Jesus Christ because of what he did: his sinlessness, his compassion, his miracles, his honesty, his normality, his defeat of satan, and his graciousness. All of these things mark him out to be the Son of the living God. This is the Jesus I recommend to you. You had better know Christ as your savior and confess him and proclaim him as the Lord of your life.