A Famine Not of Bread

"Wedding at Cana" by James Tissot Click here to listen to this sermon. From sermon by Rev. Michael Salemink, Lutherans For Life.

"Jesus Casting Out the Moneychangers" by Carl Bloch Click here to listen to this sermon. The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the Temple He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and oxen. And He poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And He told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make My Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”       So the Jews said to Him, “What sign do You show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking about the Temple of His body. When the...

"Jesus Chasing the Merchants from the Temple" by Quentin Matsys Click here to listen to this sermon. So the Jews said to Him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:18-19). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! When I was in high school, Hal Lindsey and his best-selling book, The Late, Great Planet Earth , were causing quite a stir. Using a method of biblical interpretation that compares supposed end time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events, Lindsey attempted to predict future scenarios resulting in the rapture of believers before the tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ. Although Lindsey did not claim to know the dates of future events with any certainty, he suggested that Matthew 24:32-34 indicates that Jesus’ return might be within “one generation,” or forty years, of the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 19...

Click here to listen to this sermon. “This, the first of His signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested His glory. And His disciples believed in Him” (John 2:11). Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Three days after He called His first disciples, Jesus arrived with them at a wedding in Cana of Galilee, a small town about nine miles north of Nazareth. Jesus’ mother was also there. We don’t know what connection they had with the wedding except Jesus’ mother was close enough to the bride and groom to be involved with the serving and to assume some authority over the servants. Then the wine ran out. To be sure, it was not a crisis or an emergency, but it was embarrassing, a major first century social faux pas. Why they ran out of wine doesn’t matter. The text does not say, so we leave it alone. What does matter is that the stage was set for the first miracle of Jesus’ ministry. Jesus’ mother came to Him. “They have no wine,” she said....