Amen and amen. If you got your Bibles and I hope you do, grab them. We're going to be in the

book of James as we continue in this series. We're in week four of a 14-week series. We're four weeks in.

We're still not going to make it through the first chapter because how many of you know the

point is not to make it through the Bible? The point is that the Bible makes it through you do you know this this is what we're doing today today for the

first time I have the easy part I just get to say it you have to do something about it that's

what we're talking about in fact years ago I was at this ministry event thing and there was

an there was an intern in this in this ministry and he was a

podcast listener and all that kind of stuff and he asked me this question he said

Pastor Joby what's the best advice you can give me as I start the ministry and I

thought about it for about a second and I went to John chapter 2 verse 5 I think John

2 5 is some of the best advice in all of the Bible for anybody that claims to be a Jesus follower.

And in that, this is where you probably know this well, this is the wedding at Canaan.

Jesus shows up. They run out of wine. Mary comes to Jesus. His sons, they're out of wine.

He says, one of my favorite verses, woman, what does this have to do with me? Don't quote that.

And then Mary gives some of the best advice.

She gets the servants together, and she says this in John 2.5.

She tells the servants, do whatever he tells you to do.

That's the best advice I can give for what it means to be a follower of Jesus to do whatever it is

that he tells you to do that's what we're going to look at today and the reason that we do

these things is not to earn our salvation the reason that we do the things that Jesus has told us

to do is because he has already saved us and we have turned our life

over to him as our Lord and our Savior.

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