 Amen, so we're in John chapter 2 for the first week. We spent three weeks getting through John chapter 1, and we're going to look at this story at the beginning of John chapter 2. So what's happened so far? So so far we've seen in John chapter 1, and we saw John the Baptist, he was baptizing. John chapter 1 didn't really detail the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, but it did. John the Baptist did allude to the Holy Spirit coming down upon Jesus. So basically the chronology of events so far in Jesus's life is Matthew chapter 3 and Matthew chapter 4 actually details the baptism of Jesus, and we didn't go to that because we're not studying Matthew. But in Matthew chapter 3 and Matthew chapter 4 Jesus is baptized by John, then he is led off to the wilderness to be tempted of the devil 40 days and 40 nights, and then he goes and calls his disciples that that temptation is not listed in John chapter 1, but that's the chronology of events, and then after he calls the disciples that he called in John chapter 1, his ministry begins right here in John chapter 2 with this first miracle. And that's what we're really going to look at this evening, this first miracle of Jesus. Now this first miracle of Jesus with the wedding at Cana of Galilee is definitely the, I mean this is my opinion but I mean I think this is true, is definitely the most twisted and misused story about Jesus in the Bible. And that's what I'm going to preach through this evening, this question about what did Jesus do at this wedding, you know, did Jesus get everyone drunk at this wedding, alright? As a matter of fact, as we read through this story, and then I'm going to prove to you that that's not the case, in order to believe that, it's actually people that believe that, that Jesus made alcoholic wine here at this wedding, you actually don't believe that Jesus got everyone drunk, you actually believe that Jesus got everyone drunker, that actually he went to a bunch of people that were already drunk, like intoxicated, and then fed them a bunch of alcohol to make them more intoxicated, this is what people believe today, alright, about this story. And I mean you could almost argue that in Christian churches today, this is the mainstream belief, I'm not saying churches that have the correct gospel, but I'm saying just in mainstream, you know, Christianity where people, you know, are in these liberal churches, this is the mainstream belief that Jesus served alcohol at this wedding. Let's read through the story, just this first few verses, and then I'm going to prove to you that that is not the case. Look at verse number one of this story, it says, in the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, that's important, Mary was there, and I'll explain that in just a few minutes, and both Jesus was called in his disciples to the marriage, so Jesus was invited, Mary was invited, and the disciples were invited to the marriage, and they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said unto him, they have no wine. Just a comment, just a comment before we even get into the story, it doesn't even really say they ran out of wine anywhere, they just didn't have any wine. Now people imply that in verse number ten, but that's just a food for thought right there, something to chew on, because you're always told like, oh they ran out of wine and then Jesus made more wine, and you know people infer that from verse number ten, but it really doesn't say anywhere that they had wine at all, it's, it's, they just, they wanted wine, and they didn't have wine, and you know Mary said they have no wine, Mary didn't say they ran out of wine, they're all wasted and they ran out of wine, they need more booze, that's not what Mary said, she said they have no wine, look at verse number four, Jesus saith unto her woman, what have I to do with thee, mine hour is not yet come, Jesus is saying to Mary to his, his mother, I have not started my ministry yet, his mother saith unto the servants, whatsoever he saith unto you, do it, and there were set six water pots of stone after the manner of purifying of the Jews containing two or three ferkins apiece, I mean this was, I don't know, I figured this out at one point, it's not really important, it's over, it's over a hundred gallons I think, if, when you look at these water pots, large, large pots, Jesus saith unto them, fill the water pots with water, and they filled them up to the brim, and he saith unto them, draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast, and they bear it, when the rule of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was, he doesn't know, he didn't know where it came from, but the servants which drew the water knew, the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, in verse number ten, and saith unto him, every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when the men have well drunk, then that which is worse, but thou has kept the good wine until now, so all he's doing is really commenting on how good this wine is, that's all he's doing, and he's saying typically, so this verse number ten, look I don't know this for sure, but verse number ten fits if they had no wine, or if they, they, they had wine, because if they had no wine, and now they have good wine, he's like, what in the world, you know, I mean most people would put something like that out first, that's all he's saying, okay, and that fits with anything, not just alcohol, that fits with anything, you would put that, if you have a wedding, you're gonna put the good stuff out first, you know, they have the, the wedding cake out first, and then you bring the cupcakes out, when the wedding cake's all gone, or whatever, right, I mean that's just what people do. Now, I want you to focus on verse number ten here, where the King James Bible says, at the man, every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, now it uses the word drunk there, and you know, in American culture, everyone's like, drunk, they're all drunk, that's not what that means, it says the men were well drunk, it's a verb, it's a verb, it's a past tense of the verb, you know, drank, so you, you drank something, or you drunk something, it's a, it's the past tense of drink is what it is, okay. Now, if someone is, you know, drunk, that's an adjective, that's an adjective of someone, if you're saying somebody is intoxicated, if you say, you know, Bob is drunk, you're, you're, you're using an adjective to describe, you know, the state of Bob, you know, but this is a verb, this is talking about that men have, it's a past tense of drink, so it's like, they've already had enough, they're, they've filled themselves up by drinking, they've had enough, now let me read for you the NIV, the NIV here, in verse number ten, it says this, it says, everyone brings out the choice wine first, and then the cheaper wine, after the guests have had too much to drink, using a phrase that everybody knows, you can see that, it's so funny in that statement that the culture of the NIV, the culture of the day comes out in the NIV, where it literally says, too much to drink, which is a, a common term for someone that is intoxicated, so it is making the Bible say something that it just doesn't say, all right, so that's the point there, and then in verse number eleven, this is the beginning of the miracles that Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory, and his disciples believed on him, he, he manifests his glory by getting everyone even more intoxicated, I mean you have to be insane to believe this first of all, but tonight, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you, this is a very simple one to solve from the Bible, I'm going to give you four biblical proofs that this was not alcohol that Jesus served at this wedding, all right, it doesn't even make sense if you know the Bible, you know the nature of God, it makes no sense, which kind of shows you where people are coming from, and what type of people are pushing this narrative, it doesn't make sense at all, because we know the nature of God, we know what the Bible says about these things, but I'm going to give you four separate reasons, not just one, four, on how we know that Jesus did not serve alcohol at this wedding, it was a miracle, I mean this is four and a half, it was a miracle that Jesus manifest his glory, meaning he proved his divine nature through these miracles, and you're saying he did that by harming people, it's ridiculous, that could be five reasons, but that could be one right there, so I'm going to give you four reasons, first of all, go to Proverbs chapter 20 and look at verse number one, just let's just look at a couple verses talking about wine, the word wine in the Bible, all right, we're not even at point number one yet, but I just want to show you a couple verses about wine in the Bible, Proverbs chapter 20, look at verse number one, the Bible says, wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise, so here we see a couple things I want to point out here, you're going to see this commonly when it's referencing wine in the Bible at times, it will say that you shouldn't drink wine, and then in those verses many times it will also say this word strong drink, meaning it's not just wine, I mean you can make alcohol from anything with sugar in it really, I mean it's, you can make it from rice or flowers or whatever, people make, I mean people have found ways to make alcohol out of just about anything with sugar in it, all right, so wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise, so here we're seeing don't drink this wine, whatever wine means, okay, look at Proverbs 31 and look at verse number four, Proverbs 31 just a few chapters over and look at verse number four, Proverbs 31 and verse number four, so everyone's like wine in the Bible is alcohol, and I mean so far it's, it looks like it, so far it looks like wine is something away from, name is strong drink, it's alcohol, look at verse number four of Proverbs chapter 31, it's not for Kings to lend me well, it's not for Kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink, we see that wine and strong drink put together again and you know Solomon's mother is saying stay away from this stuff, stay away from it, so the Bible is saying don't drink it, now go to 1st Timothy chapter five and look at verse number 23, 1st Timothy chapter five and look at verse number 23, 1st Timothy five and verse 23, and there's a lot of verses like this one where it talks about wine being a blessing and we're going to talk about, look at some of those, so we saw a couple verses that said you know stay away from wine and then we're looking at 1st Timothy five verse 23, it says drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmity, so here the Bible is saying you know drink it, you know you can drink it, in many places in the Bible we're going to look at this evening, talk about you know wine is a blessing, you know that it's a blessing from God, so I mean the question is what? Do we drink it or do we not drink it? What is it? And that's the first point I want to make tonight is that there are different types of wine in the Bible, it is very clear that there are different types of wine in the Bible, turn back to Proverbs chapter 23, so the first point tonight is that wine could mean alcoholic beverage equal strong drink or something that is not alcoholic and I'll prove it to you from the Bible, look at Proverbs 23 and look at verse number 31, Proverbs chapter 23, look at verse number 31, Proverbs 23 is kind of the, we're going to go there at the end of the sermon, it's kind of the quintessential you know don't drink alcohol chapter in the Bible, but look at verse 31 where it says look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup when it moveth itself a right, this here is saying that there is a time in the life of the wine when it should not be consumed, you say what time is that? Well look at the next verse, it says verse 32, it says at the last it biteeth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, the longer it goes, the longer it goes in this state it gets more and more potent it's saying you know there's a time when it should not be drunken. In Hosea 411 I'll just read it for you, the Bible says Hordom and wine and new wine takeeth away the heart. This new wine in the Bible is used in a couple different terms, it's basically wine that is about to be you know fermented into alcohol or just starting that process or it is, I'll show you it's wine that is just not alcoholic at all yet that is at the very beginning birth of its life alright. Look at Mark chapter 2, look at Mark chapter 2, look at this idea of new wine once again, look at Mark chapter 2 and look at verse number 21. So looking at different types of wine and here we see in Proverbs 23 that there's a time, there's not only a time but there's a look you know when it's red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself a right, it's talking about when it starts to ferment here, when the wine is going through that change where the sugar is turning into alcohol and it actually gasses you know it actually gives off, I think it's CO2, I'm not really sure but I think it's CO2, it gives off gas when it ferments and Mark chapter 2 kind of lists that out for us as well, look at verse 21, talking about new wine, no man also soweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, of course this Jesus is making a comparison here but I want to use the wine portion, else the piece that filleth up, take away from the old and the rent is made worse and then in verse 22 he says this and no man put a new wine into old bottles, else the new wine dot burst the bottles, how would it burst the bottles because the new wine has not started to ferment yet and then when it starts to ferment it's going to gas and if that bottle is not flexible with a nice you know whatever skins they use to keep the bottle it's going to crack and it's going to break instead they need you know flexible strong you know new bottles to handle that pressure basically is what's happening from the fermenting and says the wine is spilled and the bottle will be marred but new wine must be put in new bottles okay so it can stretch and form but it's talking about fermentation of the juice of the grape okay it's talking about fermentation here look at Job chapter 32 actually you go to Isaiah chapter 25 I'll read for you Job 32 19 again talking about fermentation here he says in Job 32 you're going to Isaiah 25 in Job 32 verse 19 the Bible says behold my belly is as wine which hath no vent that is ready to burst like new bottles again talk about that fermenting process he jokes just using that analogy about that fermentation and that gassing of the wine as it ferments all right look at Isaiah chapter 25 in verse number six Isaiah chapter 25 verse number six we see another type of wine here difference in wine so we see that there's a time when the wine shouldn't be drunk when it start when it's fermenting when it started to ferment it changes color it's moving it's good having that gassing process going on that chemical change happening stay away from it the Bible saying look at Isaiah 25 6 it says in the mountain of the Lord in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wine on the leaves of fat things full of marrow of wines on the leaves well refined so here we see that there is there's if there's well refined wine there's less refined wine so we see that there can be refining of wine in Isaiah 122 the Bible says thy silver has become dross thy wine mixed with water talking about you know something being diluted or watered down all right now look preservation of food and drink has been going on for thousands of years it's like been the major challenge of mankind since man was trying to survive like from the beginning and man has I don't even think that it's necessary to go into all the different ways that you know wine can be preserved then to figure out some way to preserve the juice from the grape without it just becoming a hundred percent alcohol so there was all kinds of different ways of doing that and filtering out the impurities and then you know drying it out into like a jelly more of a solid and storing it that way and then when you wanted the juice you could take it out and mix it with water and dilute it and have grape juice again and I just have complete alcohol I mean otherwise you just oh I got some grape juice here and you put it in the closet and it's it's complete 100% alcohol or whatever in you know it'd be worthless to try to preserve the actual food that way so the point I'm trying to make is that there's all kinds of different wines in the Bible and the Bible is pointing out to us to stay away from it when it starts to ferment okay you say all right pastor but where does it say that wine could be non-alcoholic well I'm glad you asked turn to Solomon song of Solomon chapter 8 song of Solomon chapter number 8 so we see that there's all kinds of different states of wine up to this point we see there's all kinds of different states there's diluted wine there's there's filtered wine but the Bible is very clear when it starts to ferment stay away from it okay but is it wine before it starts to ferment is the question look at song of Solomon chapter number 8 and look at verse number 2 I mean the people literally asked this question people argue about this people argue could could wine mean just grape juice look at song of Solomon chapter 8 verse number 2 it says I would lead thee and bring me into my mother's house who would instruct me I would cause you drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate now that sentence we just look at the sentence structure there basically juice there and wine there are the same word but the reason that it's not used it wouldn't make any sense to you be a bad writer if you use wine twice in the same sentence he's basically saying I would cause you to drink of the spiced wine he's not even talking about grape juice here he's just talking about the juice from a fruit from a pomegranate he says of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate he's talking about you know the juice of this fruit is what he's talking about and he's calling it wine look at Isaiah chapter 65 in verse number 8 say well I don't know look at Isaiah chapter 65 and look at verse number 8 so in song of Solomon chapter 8 we see the juice is used as a synonym with wine okay now look at Isaiah 65 and verse number 8 Isaiah 65 look at verse number 8 thus sayeth the Lord is everybody there thus sayeth the Lord as the new wine so here we know okay it's new wine is it going to be put in bottles to be fermented what is it as the new wine is found in the cluster one sayeth destroy it not for a blessing is in it this is such a great verse right here because it's telling you that just the juice of the grape is a blessing of the Lord it's it's talking about it's talking about how how just like having having wine is a blessing but it's obviously not moving itself a right it's obviously not you know turning its color you know in the cup it's not moving itself in the cup it's not strong drink it's in the cluster like it's on the vine how could you possibly argue that I mean are we talking about alcoholic grapes I mean how could you possibly argue that wine here is talking about alcohol the problem is we just have this culture where wine is just alcohol you know you can't read the Bible you got to get rid of your culture when you read the Bible and just read the Bible for what it says where it says juice wine same thing and then it says wine in the cluster you're like it must be it must mean not alcohol or just juice of the fruit you're like man this is confusing how do I know which one it's talking about in the Bible if it could be either one well if it's a blessing it's not alcohol and if God's like don't drink it at all it's alcohol if he's talking about wine you know destroying you or wine you know causing your judgment to be you know you know men making merry in their judgment you know going crazy in them doing stupid things he's talking about alcohol if he's talking about it being a blessing upon you he's talking about look folks fruits expensive fruits expensive grapes are even more they're like the most expensive thing grapes are very expensive especially when you get good grapes it's a blessing I know as Americans were like oh what we just have grapes everywhere all the time especially in California look it's a thing that it's a rich man's food it's a rich man's drink you know to be drinking wine that's why I mean you have to think about this wedding like weddings are expensive you know think about this wedding and you know maybe they didn't have one maybe they weren't rich people and maybe they were just really happy to have something that they just couldn't afford that's a definite possibility but see we don't think about that today we don't think about that today I mean when we go out we have barbecues on Sunday nights I go out and I buy all these raspberries and all these blueberries at at Sprouts is where I get all those things that's very expensive I don't buy that stuff for my own house because it's so much money but you know we want to have but we should have that blessing here is kind of my thought it's a blessing to have that it's expensive though it's expensive so people understand that when it's talking about you know being blessed from this Isaiah chapter 65 verse number 8 it means God has given them abundance he hasn't given them alcohol he hasn't given them beer he's given them abundance and success to be able to afford high-end things I don't I don't shop at Sprouts normally I don't shop at Vons normally but sometimes for a treat you know we'll go there and we'll get some things there that that we know we're gonna have some friends over or something like that it's a treat it's a blessing it's a blessing we don't think about that in America because everything is just so abundant even the poorest person in America is just has the abundance way more than than 99% of people throughout history we have to understand that I mean it takes like it takes like eight oranges to make one glass of orange juice I mean think about how expensive it is to make some of these things so that's the first one there's two types of wine there's two types of wine one God is warning you against and it is clearly the type that has been fermented or is even starting to ferment and then there's one that God is calling a blessing it's it's on the cluster it's it's the juice of the grape it's the juice of the pomegranate it's a blessing why because you have abundance you have abundance if you're able to drink that instead of drinking just water out of a well right here's the second one turn back to Proverbs chapter 31 I told you I give you four reasons the first one I mean it's just clear there's two types of wine in the Bible there's the juice and then there's fermented alcoholic wine so we can't just look at John chapter 2 and say oh it's wine he's getting everybody intoxicated you cannot do that because you have to find out what kind of wine it is and obviously it came from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we could just close the Bible and pray right now all right but there's two types of wines in the Bible that is without a doubt clear look at Proverbs 31 and verse number 3 Proverbs 31 and verse number 3 it's not for kings and priests it is the second one all right look at Proverbs 31 in verse number 3 alcoholic wine is not for kings and priests give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings it is not for kings a Lemuel it is not for kings to drink wine nor for princes strong drink there's that wine strong drink again I really think verse number 3 is super interesting here though because what does his mother say to him before she tells him not to drink alcohol she says don't give your strength to women and you know what I find super interesting if you know if you know or you have ever been in a culture where alcohol is is common and and and it's always the men that drink more I don't know why that is that's just the way it is many times you will find men that drink regularly and the wife hardly ever drinks or doesn't drink at all and let me tell you something that man's strength is given unto women because he has a wife most of the time that I have witnessed this myself in my life look I wish I could say like Pastor Anderson that I've never had a drop of alcohol but that's not the case I remember starting to listen to Pastor Anderson's preaching and he said I've never had a drop of alcohol in my entire life and I'm like I wish that was me but that wasn't me however every I don't want to say I don't want to throw a blanket on this one but it is common to see men that drank men always drank more than the women and the men that drank they were just they were just destroyed by their wives constantly because their wives had no respect for them and their wives just talked down to them they were always out in the garage or in the corner of the house or out in the wilderness somewhere they gave their strength unto women I verse 3 being before verse number 4 is not an accident there it's not for Kings all amulets not for Kings to drink wine nor for Princess strong drink lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of the afflicted give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine into those that be of heavy hearts let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more she's saying that's talking about Kings and priests turn to Revelation chapter 1 and look at verse number 6 turn to Revelation chapter 1 and look at verse number 6 the last book of your Bible Revelation chapter 1 look at verse number 6 the Bible says this in verse 6 she's talking she says it's not for Kings it's not for Princess to drink alcohol look at this that's not talking about me I'm not a king of anything well he hath made us kings and priests unto God and his father to be him glory and dominion forever and ever if you're saved tonight your priest so there you go you know I've even heard the argument with John chapter 2 in the story of the wedding at Cana that oh they were all unsaved they're all unsaved so Jesus is just like let's just let them all just get intoxicated and just get drunk I've heard this before this is the depths that people will go to as if as if so not only did Jesus have to see that they were unsaved but they were unsaved people with no hope just just he just let's just get them drunk because they're all just a bunch of reprobates and oh by the way Jesus and his mother and all the disciples were invited to this wedding because all their friends are reprobates it is it makes no sense but this is the lengths that people will go to to justify themselves so we're kings and priests we're not supposed to we're not supposed to drink alcohol Jesus certainly isn't going to be pushing that on many people that believed on him the Bible says that became kings and priests isn't that what the Bible says in John chapter 2 that you know many people believed verse number 11 and his disciples believed on him and I'm sure many other people there believed on him after they saw this miracle but oh no only the disciples were the ones that were saved everybody else was a reprobate that's what you have to believe to believe that Jesus was like oh yeah just let them forget their misery you know they have no hope so that's that's the next one we're kings and priests and we're not supposed to drink Jesus wouldn't be pushing that on people that he wanted to what was the point of Jesus's miracles to show his to let his glory be manifest to people to let who he was be shown to people to the people at the wedding to show them that he is the Messiah the son of God he's trying to get them to believe on him I'm going to go and just get him intoxicated it's crazy to think here's number three the Bible just says again and again and again be sober you're like oh no Jesus was you know you can drink and it's okay to have alcohol and all this why does the Bible say be sober over and over and over again second Corinthians 513 I'll just read you a few for whether we be beside ourselves it is to God whether we be sober it is for your cause first Thessalonians 5 or 6 let us then not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober first Thessalonians 5 8 but let us who are who are of the day be sober putting on the breast plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation Titus 2 2 let the aged men be sober grave temperate sound and faith in charity in patients a lot of people say oh this just means serious why does it say sober and grave then he's like let them be serious and serious it's it's it's talking about like having your wits about you by not having alcohol or drugs in your system that's what it's talking about young men likewise exhort to be sober minded how about Ephesians 5 18 where it says literally like be not drunk with wine what kind of wine is that talking about it's talking about the alcoholic wine be sober vigilant because your adversary the devil as we're online walketh about seeking whom he made his bower I mean I could read you just keep reading you verse after verse after verse where the Bible is just like be sober be sober be sober so the question is like I mean you're only sober unless you haven't had alcohol I mean to get in the argument like well you know I can have this many and I'm still sober no if you've had alcoholic beverages you are no longer sober there may be a spectrum on how drunk you are but you are not sober at that point but they just ignore all that this ignore all that yep Jesus got everybody intoxicated so we see there's two different kinds of wine in the Bible very clearly there's alcoholic wine and there's the juice in of the fruit of the grape of the pomegranate whatever we're talking about and we can tell by whether it's a blessing or God is telling us to stay away from it so it's not just the words in the Bible that literally explain that it's new wine in the cluster but God is literally saying this one is good wine and this one is not good wine then we're kings and priests if we're saved we're kings and priests were to stay away from it it's not about just give it to people with no hope that aren't going to get saved just let them have it and then you know of course we're just told to be sober which means don't drink alcohol don't do drugs be sober I mean is there any clearer command than that be sober like I don't know should I drink should I do drugs be sober number four necessary for fermentation is this idea that you must have some kind of substance some kind of I guess liquid yeah maybe doesn't even have to be a liquid I'm not an alcohol making expert okay but you must have a liquid of sugar in it but not only that you must have some form of yeast and what the Bible calls yeast is Levin point number four is this Levin is used in the Bible as a symbol or an analogy or a picture of sin turn to Mark chapter 8 Jesus himself talked about use this analogy constantly so in order for there to be fermentation where that sugar because what you have is the yeast comes and it mixes with the sugar and the sugar turns into alcohol all right look at Mark chapter 8 verse number 15 so you need to have that yeast that Levin present that's why if you can filter out you know if you can take great juice and you can filter out and make it super pure and then dry it up it could make it into like a semi solid they could store it in like a dark cool place and it wouldn't ferment and then they could take it and you take a spoonful and mix it with water and you could have great juice I don't know how long it would keep or if it was good or whatever but I mean this is just methods people had of storing wine non alcoholic wine all right look at Mark chapter 8 verse number 15 you had to get the impurities out because in the grape where the yeast is on the grape is on the skin so you have to make sure there's no fragments of that skin inside the juice because you can't store it then because if you would store it that yeast would start fermenting the and you just you just have an alcoholic liquid if you left it for a long period of time but look at Mark chapter 8 verse 15 and he charged them saying take heed beware of the what the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod in Luke 12 verse 1 I'm going to just read it to you you're going to turn to Galatians chapter 5 and Luke 12 actually you turn to Exodus chapter 12 in Luke 12 1 it says in the meantime they were gathered together in innumerable multitude of the people in so much that they trod upon one another and began to say and his disciples first of all beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees what is the leaven though what's he talking about and they says which is hypocrisy he's talking about sin okay in Galatians 5 9 it says a little leaven leaven if the whole lump in first Corinthians chapter 5 we see the same thing said that a little leaven leaven at the whole lump meaning in first Corinthians chapter 5 is talking about the six things that can't be allowed in the church why because a little leaven will just spread throughout the whole church a little what a little sin a little one of the sins in first Corinthians chapter 5 verse number 11 fornication extortion drunkenness all these things will spread and spread and spread talking about sin equals 11 now here's where it gets really interesting look at Exodus chapter 12 so I don't know I don't know about that look at Exodus chapter 12 look at verse 15 talk about the Passover meal here the Passover meal that Jesus he pictures the Passover lamb okay and if you look at actually verse number 5 of Exodus chapter 12 it says your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year he shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats this is of course picturing you know Jesus being that spotless lamb of God right what did what did what did John the Baptist say be all the lamb of God you know and he's spotless he's without blemish he's without what he's he's tempted like we were yet without sin Jesus had no sin there was no leaven there look at Exodus chapter 12 and look at verse 15 God really drives this stuff home in all these pictures of things in the Old Testament look at verse 15 seven days show you eat unleavened bread even the first day you shall put away not only have the bread unleavened this is why for the Lord supper you eat that flat hard doesn't taste good it has bad texture why because it's unleavened you put yeast in the bread and that's what makes it rise and makes it fluffy it makes it able to soak up all the butter that you put on it instead of get this unleavened bread it's like a piece of leather but this is what they had to eat for the Passover meal why and not only that not only the unleavened bread but look at this put away all the leaven out of your houses they weren't even supposed to have any yeast in their house during this period you think you think God you think Jesus Christ is going to give people leavened wine have have you not these are people that don't even understand the Bible they don't understand the nature of God they understand all these pictures in the Old Testament the reason they eat unleavened bread was to picture you know Jesus Christ himself said I am the bread of life he's the bread without sin he's the bread without leaven this is a picture of Jesus in Exodus chapter 12 in verse number 15 this is what God does just like the day of atonement the Passover you said what part of the Passover was Jesus the whole thing was Jesus he fulfilled the whole thing what part of the day of atonement was it the goats was it the ram was it the bull was it the burnt sacrifice was it the blood the whole thing was pictured by Jesus it's the same thing with the Passover meal there's no leaven here get the leaven out of your house but yeah he gave him wine with leaven in it that was already there was already there was there was fermented and it was alcoholic fermentation is it means it's actually rotting by the way when something is fermenting it's actually rotting it's actually decomposing it's getting into a decomposed day but yeah that's what Jesus gave me is this decomposed leavened drink read the Bible that makes no sense at all Jesus is the bread of life the unleavened bread of life with no sin the Bible is clear on this issue there's four biblical reasons right there we just keep going Bible Bible Bible Bible Bible I mean what else you know do people need to see but you know at the end of the day you know what it really is people just want to drink and let me tell you this from a first hand account somebody who's even I probably shouldn't even say this out loud but is even misinterpreted this story themselves when they were younger you know why they do it you know why I did it because people want to drink that's all it is they don't know anything about the Bible we just read through the Bible people just want to drink and they will throw the Lord Jesus Christ under the bus to do it you know what I mean when you see the truth of it when you see the truth of it it's just like you know what just say you want to drink just say you want to drink and just leave leave Jesus Christ out of it just be like you know what I I just I just like to drink I had a neighbor like that in Texas like the guy drank all the time like he just he was he was that he was that guy that that always had a beer in his hand like no kidding you go over there to borrow something at nine o'clock in the morning on Saturday morning he's drinking and he literally told me like in the first couple sentences that I met him I moved into the neighborhood and he literally told me he's like yeah when I got married I told my wife I like to drink I mean at least he was honest about it but just say you want to drink don't throw Jesus under the under the bus but look the vast majority of people that believe this I would say everyone because I can't think of anyone that doesn't meet this criteria but let me just say so I don't get a blanket statement and somebody doesn't send me an email or something but the vast majority of people that believe this that Jesus gave alcoholic beverages to these people at this wedding are unsaved and they drink I've never met anyone that doesn't fit those two criteria that believes this this doctrine but here's what's stupid about it go back to Proverbs chapter 20 Proverbs chapter 23 here's what's really dumb about it though they'll sit there and they'll bend over backwards and they'll literally try to twist the Bible just to to justify their own sin they'll throw Jesus you know they'll make Jesus a sinner what do they care they're not saved they don't understand these things the majority of these people if there's somebody saved that believes this they just need to listen to some preaching and and get themselves right but look at Proverbs chapter 20 here's the funny thing about it is like somebody that would just go to these lengths like this they're bending they're doing all this twisting they're they're just doing all this justifying it's to their own hurt though that's the total irony of it look at Proverbs chapter 23 and look at verse number 29 Proverbs chapter 23 look at verse 29 this is kind of the go to for somebody that drinks you know and if and if you drink and you listen to this sermon online or whatever you know you should stop because you know I'm sure there's plenty of saved people out there that drink that's not what I'm saying but you should stop why who hath woe because you're drinking to your own woe who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes they that tear you along at the wine they that go to seek oh here's another kind of wine mixed wine look and then we see look not down the wine when it is red when it gives its color in the cup when it move itself right talking about that fermentation at the last it biteth like a serpent it stingeth like an adder look at this now nine eyes shall behold strange women nine hearts shall utter perverse things means you'll go and you'll do things that you would never have done if you weren't drinking yay thou shall be as thou that liest down in the midst of the sea think about this or he that lieth upon the top of a mast he's like you just go and you'll just end up in like dangerous situations you know you'll you'll you'll just lay down in some place that's completely dangerous you'll put yourself in danger physical danger and you'll wake up and say they have stricken me thou shalt say and I was not sick they have beaten me and felt it not when shall I awake I will seek it yet again you're just going to go and just do it again so they're sitting in there insulting the Lord Jesus Christ by by twisting this story in John chapter two all to argue for and justify woe and all these things coming upon themselves I mean to sum up Proverbs 23 what the Bible is saying is that people that drink our morons I mean that's basically what it's saying it's saying they sound like morons they act like morons they speak like more morons babbling you know not making any sense we talked to a guy today outsoaning that was drinking or on something and we're just like my daughter and I were walking away going like what in the world was that guy talking about but he's babbling he's babbling they're doing all these things they look like morons they destroy their health they destroy themselves physically all while thinking they're super smart and good-looking and all powerful I mean it makes them it makes them fat and diabetic and and and and an idiot yet they're arguing for this they're arguing for this look they're they're arguing for destroying themselves look I mean the Bible is trying to tell you here that drinking alcohol will do nothing positive for you and I mean forget about yourself especially nothing good for you for those around you but yeah you get this this pleasure of of sin for a season which is what like an hour or two or something and then you feel bad actually it literally makes no sense at all but we have to kind of get our culture though folks we have to get our culture that's why I say oftentimes just you have to be able as a as a as a Christian especially somebody that got saved later in life you have to be able to take everything that you've ever been taught and be able to just throw it away and just go with the Bible and like that's I get it that can be a journey for people but I mean I remember I remember when we moved from North Dakota to Texas and we went to the first wedding I mean people read this story in John chapter two and they're like there's a wedding everyone must be drunk there's a wedding it must be like that's that's what I would have told you I had never been to a wedding where there wasn't alcohol never I grew up in a heavy Catholic and Lutheran environment and it just it was it was the culture it was the culture went to Texas and it was you know the Bible belt and we went to my wife had a person that she worked with who got married and went to this wedding and there's no alcohol there it was the strangest world to me I'm telling you I was not saved but it was it was so strange to me why because it's outside my culture so when people grow up in a culture like that and they read the story in John chapter two they automatically just equate wine wedding drunk people because that's American culture in many parts of the country thank god that I'm out of that culture thank god my kids are not going to see that culture thank god for that because it defines everything about you you cannot read the bible with your old culture that's why the bible constantly says become a new man you know be born again and then walk as a as that new man but you have to take that culture and throw it away but people will just back over Jesus they can't do it and and they'll just go back over Jesus just just to justify their own destruction it's the craziest thing once once you're out of that culture and you're looking into it you're just like wow what in the world and I mean if you're out of that culture don't go step one foot into that culture don't be like hey I'm gonna I'm gonna stop I'm gonna stop drinking look I've done this too I stopped drinking before I got saved because I didn't want my kids growing up in that culture now I'm trying to make myself out to be some kind of saint because I stumbled along the way here I try to keep one foot in I'll still go to that thing I just won't I'll still go to that hunting party I'll still go to this and I'll still go to that fishing trip or whatever there is nothing more irritating than being around a bunch of people that are drinking when you are not I would rather stick a pen in my eye it is insane and and you should never do it that's why you just have to separate from that stuff look you I mean you just got to get new friends you got to hang out with different people just stop get in church and go that way because I mean Proverbs chapter 23 is exactly true I mean you're gonna be just like just bunch of people babbling a bunch of people that are morons and just are the most prideful morons and you're just like wow but that's what these people are doing they're just justifying their own sin because they want to drink that's it and it's very clear from the bible that Jesus did not go there and get people intoxicated which again let me say they don't believe that he got people intoxicated they believe that he got intoxicated people even more intoxicated like you got them even to the point where they're you know whatever it's completely unbiblical it's completely false and look it's an insult insults our Lord and Savior let's bar heads and have a word of