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At the wedding in Cana, Jesus performed his first recorded miracle and turned water into wine.  We have some instances in our lives where we want Jesus to work on our behalf and turn our water into wine.  How does that happen?  How can we get Jesus to turn our water into wine?   Find out more on today’s Treasured Truth.

Pastor Ford will explain that some people reject Jesus because they say they’ve tried Him, but He doesn’t work. But we’ll learn today that what those people have actually tried is going to church. They haven’t really encountered Jesus in an authentic way. We’ll discover the difference between just going to church and really knowing Jesus...

The Holy Spirit plays a major role in revealing who Jesus is to those who are seeking to know Him.  Simply put, some people reject Jesus because the Holy Spirit has not yet revealed the truth about Jesus to them.  Find out more about this important concept when you join us for today’s Treasured Truth.

As we continue to look at the reasons why people reject Jesus, Pastor Ford will emphasize the holiness of Jesus.  Jesus is holy just like God is holy.  And then he will ask us to consider how we react to that holiness.  Do we revere it?  Or do we scoff at it, trying to minimize the truth of it, like so many people in our society try to do...

Others can tell how much we love Jesus by the way we serve Him. They can tell by the way we give to Him.  They can tell by the way we worship Him.  You see, a lot of us have a fake “Zirconium Jesus.” Because if we all had a real “Diamond Jesus” then there’d be nothing that would keep us from going crazy...

Today, as we study John 12 and continue to learn about how Mary broke her alabaster box of fragrant perfume to anoint Jesus, we’ll see the extent of the sacrificial love she was showing to Him by doing that. And perhaps her story will compel us to consider what it is that we will sacrifice for Jesus.

As we live the Christian life, we need a love that will sacrifice for the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  Because many of us have praise for Christ on our lips, but the rest of our lives doesn’t demonstrate our love for Him.  And according to Pastor Ford, in other words, we often have high praise, but low living!

Pastor Ford says that faith is believing it is so, even when it’s not so, until it becomes so, because God said so.  Then when we launch out into the deep, what are we doing?  We’re stepping out in faith, believing what God has said and trusting He will go with us into the unknown.

Some churches today reject new ideas.  They refuse to break tradition and resist change, because they are repulsed by the unfamiliar.  But Pastor Ford says we have to learn to launch out into the deep!  We have to trust the Lord to begin to do some things on our behalf.  And we need Christians who are willing to sail into some uncharted waters.

As we continue to look at what it means to launch out into the deep, we’ll see that Peter didn’t understand the capacity of the blessings that Jesus wanted to bestow on Him.  That’s because he was too small in his thinking.  And because of that, he missed out on some of the blessings God had in mind for him.