The Joy of Jesus
Turning Water into Wine (John 2:1-11)
Many people have the wrong idea of Jesus Christ. They picture Him as some sort of sad sack who never laughed, never went to a party or had any fun. Nothing could be further from the truth, as we will see from the Bible, our only authoritative information on Jesus, the only infallible, inerrant, inspired book that tells us everything we need to know about Jesus.
In the coming lessons we will look at Jesus in the Gospels and the rest of the Bible and we will see that He was the happiest man on earth. And remember, in salvation God is making us to be like Jesus. We all want to be like Jesus; at least we want all others to be like Jesus! There was joy at His birth, joy in His ministry, joy at His resurrection, and there will be great joy in His return.
The only time He was not joyful was when He was “the man of sorrows, acquainted with grief” and that had to do exclusively with His suffering for our redemption. He was full of sorrow in Gethsemane and on the cross when He was taking our sorrow so that we wouldn’t have to take it. He was saving us from our sin and the sorrow it brings. Even then it says in Hebrews 12:2, “Jesus, who for the joy set before Him, endured the cross and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Looking at the end, He endured His suffering with joy. We can do that too.
There is a statement about Jesus that is the defining word on the kind of person Jesus was and is. It’s Hebrews 1:9, “You love justice and hate evil. Therefore, your God has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.” The anointing with oil in the Bible was not some little oil on a finger and dabbing it on someone’s forehead. They poured the oil over them. The anointing oil poured over Aaron’s beard. When Samuel anointed little David, he poured it over his head.
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