Water into Wine 1. "The third day there was a marriage..." (Jn 2:1) a. Creation (Day 3): Trees and Fruit b. Resurrection: "First Fruit of New Creation" (1 Cor 15:20)
2. Stone Containers a. Water as a purification, Stones cover tombs. St. Augustine: "What the three measures, but all nations, on account of the three sons of Noah?" b. Moses: Water into blood, Water from stone c. Jesus: Water into wine, Wine from stone
Luther: "For the apostles and their successors alone understand how the law becomes delightful and pleasant through Christ, and how the Gospel by faith does not fulfil the Law by works, everything being unchanged from what it formerly was in good works."
3. Weddings and the Bridal Church a. Woman: Adam to Eve, Mary to John b. Christ's Family: "whoever does the will of my Father..." (Matt 12:50) c. Bridegroom is praised, glory is shared with man.
SERMON ACTIVITY
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The Rev. Steve Macias is Headmaster at Canterbury School and Rector of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church. He is a presbyter in the Reformed Episcopal Church, a founding jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in North America.
