As an all-providing bridegroom, he never, never fails to meet all our needs.

My God will supply all your needs.

Our all-providing bridegroom, who loves the church and gave himself for her, will never withhold anything from her that she needs. This life-giving

wine of his death in our place never runs out.

He is the perfect, all-providing husband for his church.

Think about what it means to say that Jesus is the perfect husband for his church, not just loving in a general sense,

but committed to providing everything his bride truly needs. And John Piper says that's exactly

what we see beginning here. I'm your host, Dan Kroover, in this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper shows why the bridegroom who gave himself for us will never fail us.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 14, 2008.

Even though he rebuffs his mother's request by saying,

my hour has not yet come, he goes right ahead and does the miracle.

So it seems to me, and lots of others, that what Jesus is doing here is saying no to the climactic hour of his death,

and then yes to a symbolic parable of what it will involve.

I won't give you my death now.

I'll give you a sign of my death.

I won't purify sins now,

but I will fill up jars of purification with wine.

Now, to point you to where we're going.

He tells the servants to fill purification jars.

They didn't choose this.

He chose this.

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