1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:06,120 Again, Matthew chapter 8, verses 23 through 27. 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,840 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him, and 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,040 behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the 4 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,640 boat was being swamped by the waves, but he was asleep. 5 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:31,200 And they went and woke him, saying, Save us, Lord, we are 6 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,800 perishing. And he said to them, Why are you 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:40,200 afraid, O you of little faith? Then he rose and rebuked the 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,880 winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 9 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,640 And the men marvelled, saying, What sort of man is this, that 10 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,680 even the winds and the sea obey him? 11 00:00:52,840 --> 00:01:00,400 What's the word of the Lord? What's going on in Port City? 12 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:01,800 Family and friends, how are we doing? 13 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:03,920 Good. My name is Tanner. 14 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,760 I'm excited to be with you. We're rocking through our series 15 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,040 in Matthew chapters 8 and 9, And one thread we've been talking 16 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,360 about a lot is the concept of childlike faith. 17 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,360 Somebody say childlike faith. Yeah. 18 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,640 I'm just so encouraged this morning that childlike faith 19 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,960 does not mean you check your brain at the door, OK? 20 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:24,000 Like, we are not advocating naivete, OK? 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,120 We are saying that Christianity is the most robust explanation 22 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:33,720 for why life is the way it is. The person of Jesus is the king 23 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,040 of the world. This is a a worldview, a life 24 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,680 view that has been studied for thousands of years. 25 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,560 And y'all is the most profound story in the history of the 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:43,880 world. And it's true. 27 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,680 So I'm so encouraged this morning that we don't have to 28 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,320 check our brains at the door. In the text we just had read, we 29 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,680 have a story that makes sense of the life we're living. 30 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,200 OK? Our brains need to be engaged to 31 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:02,080 understand this, and our hearts are living life with a God who 32 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,400 is both over the storm and in the boat and asleep, Amen, 33 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,199 somebody. And that is a hard life to live. 34 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:11,160 So the good news is this morning you have permission to be human, 35 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,120 that this is not going to be easy and you need your brain 36 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,840 engaged, OK? This is a brain heart, and 37 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,280 hopefully we walk out of here living it with our bodies. 38 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,280 That's the goal, is that your head, your heart, and your hands 39 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:23,240 will connect. Amen. 40 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,240 I'm going to pray for our time and God's Word, and then we're 41 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,600 going to dive into it. So pray with me our Father God, 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,080 what we know not here today. Would you teach us God, what we 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:34,720 have not? Would you give us what we are 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:35,600 not? Would you make us? 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,880 Lord? Just let the words of my mouth, 46 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,600 let the meditation of our hearts right now under your very sight, 47 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:44,960 be acceptable in your sight. We pray in the mighty name of 48 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,000 Jesus, Amen. Y'all got to be honest with you 49 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,920 this morning. I hate pain. 50 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,800 I hate it. I hate pain. 51 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,040 I hate big pain. I hate emotional pain. 52 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,560 I hate breaking bones pain. I hate when my friends are going 53 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,040 through pain and I can't take it away. 54 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,440 I hate it when pain comes in big ways. 55 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,400 I hate inconveniences. I hate when I ordered the number 56 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,160 two last time and it tasted like this and now this time it tastes 57 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,520 like that. Why does? 58 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,840 It taste like it did last time. I would have got something else 59 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,280 if I knew. This time y'all made it too 60 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,720 watery. Like what are y'all doing? 61 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,760 Y'all overcooked it. So I hate pain. 62 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,000 I hate inconvenience. And I learned something about my 63 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,240 body and my brain. That is true of your body and 64 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,160 your brain. You are hard wired to pursue 65 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,840 pleasure and avoid pain. Did you know that that is what 66 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,920 your body is doing every second of every day is it feels 67 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,600 threatened by pain and inconvenience and it is seeking 68 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,680 pleasure. It is a survival tactic, OK. 69 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,520 And so we've just got to be honest as we come to a text 70 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,560 about a storm, about Jesus, the God of the universe, somehow 71 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,040 knowing the storm was coming and being in the boat and being 72 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,320 asleep. Like the reason this Texas 73 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,480 captured people's imagination for thousands of years is it 74 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,600 makes so much sense of life. And while walking with Jesus is 75 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,360 so hard at the same time, you know, and we can read it and 76 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,640 learn from it. But when you live this within 77 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,920 about 30 seconds of a storm, you want ice cream and to get out of 78 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,880 it at all costs because that's what you're hardwired for. 79 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,880 Does that make sense? So we can make life in the storm 80 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:27,040 seem like it's not that hard? Like, we got this and then the 81 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,520 storm hits and you're like, yeah, where's the quickest exit 82 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,600 ramp now? Like right now, I want out. 83 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,600 So as much as our brains can get it, it's hard to live it. 84 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,840 Are you with me? And I don't know what you're 85 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:42,080 going through. And the temptation to 1:00 to 86 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,560 1:00. What is the storm of my life? 87 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,440 I don't fully know. OK. 88 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,440 So just take that with you as we get started. 89 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,200 But y'all, this text, Jesus stealed this storm. 90 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,560 He does not steal every storm. It's reality. 91 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,880 He was declaring something about who he is. 92 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:01,240 Matthew wants us to see that, and it's OK that we recognize 93 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,360 that. Our ongoing life with Jesus 94 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,480 feels very much how this one episode felt. 95 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,160 Does that make sense? So it's one time, true, all the 96 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,880 time applicable as we dive in and we just got to hold all that 97 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,200 intention, engage our minds, engage our brains, and hopefully 98 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,120 we walk out of here living with Jesus. 99 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,920 Does that make sense? So my hope for you, whether you 100 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,200 follow Jesus or not, is that you would walk out of here convinced 101 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,360 that following Jesus is the most compelling explanation for why 102 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,360 life is the way it is. And it would engage your heart 103 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,080 that you would be eager to trust and love this God. 104 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,360 OK, He is amazing. There's nobody like them. 105 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,320 So what we're going to do is we're going to walk through the 106 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,560 verses. Just make sure we kind of 107 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,840 understand them. And I got 3 truths for in the 108 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:48,240 storm, 2 insights on faith in the storm, and then one 109 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,520 invitation. If you are ready, let me hear 110 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,160 you say I'm ready. Let's get it. 111 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,000 Look at verse 23. And when he got into the boat, 112 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,240 his disciples followed him. OK, I want to take you back to 113 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,640 the previous little thing. Back in verse 18 last week we 114 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,520 looked at this. It said, now when Jesus saw a 115 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,720 crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. 116 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,960 And then at the end of that little story in verse 22, and 117 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,560 Jesus said to him, follow me and leave the dead to bury their own 118 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,880 dead. So the whole conversation from 119 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,320 last week, Jesus has the crowd, He's been doing healings. 120 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:22,760 He says, let's go to the other side. 121 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,320 People approach him. Now this week we're picking up 122 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,120 in the story where they're getting on to the boat to go to 123 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,160 the other side. Presumably I argued last week, 124 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,680 the second of those two people who talk to Jesus is getting on 125 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,400 the boat with him to go to the other side. 126 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,080 So here's what I love about this. 127 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,920 Do you notice at verse 23, if Jesus hadn't gotten in the boat, 128 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:43,160 the disciples wouldn't have either. 129 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,160 Did you see that? And when he. 130 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,920 Got into the boat. His disciples followed him. 131 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,000 It's almost like what? Do we do? 132 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,360 There's water, He said let's go to the other side and there's a 133 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,680 boat. He gets in, then they get in. 134 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,600 I I just love that imagery. If they're like a kid almost not 135 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,480 knowing what to do until you tell him exactly what to do. 136 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,880 Can I tell you something, follower of Jesus, that at a 137 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,600 base level you are following Jesus and just copy what he 138 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:07,120 does? Yeah. 139 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,120 When Jesus 1st called followers, what he was inviting them to was 140 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,000 to become him. If he pours his Chai that way, 141 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,040 you pour your Chai that way. If he walks to the left, you 142 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,800 walk to the left. If he walks in the room that 143 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,640 way, you do. If he walks in and don't greet 144 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,920 nobody, you don't greet nobody. You copied his every single 145 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,520 movement. You were trying to become your 146 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,400 rabbi. That's what it meant to follow 147 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,280 Jesus. So this should encourage. 148 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,680 You even though you're. Following is less physical than 149 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,720 the original disciples were. If God has saved you, He saved 150 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,600 you so you'd follow him, so you'd copy him, so you download 151 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:49,680 His way into your life, so you do what you do the way He would 152 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,040 do it. How encouraging is it that God 153 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,360 wants to live his life? Through you. 154 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,400 The way you get in the boat is the way he would get in the 155 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,560 boat. And the way this has been 156 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,880 popularized a little bit is a little slogan. 157 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,280 What would Jesus do? Incredible slogan. 158 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,360 The way I tend to hear that explained though, is it tends to 159 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,600 apply to momentary decisions or like what would he do in that 160 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,320 moment or like a big decision or something like that. 161 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:20,800 But the whole idea is kind of like always, you are downloading 162 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,480 and embodying what Christ would do. 163 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,120 It's what would he do if he were you? 164 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,200 It's his life in you. Does that make sense? 165 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,200 So even the question gets begged of like, you're clearly not him, 166 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,880 So what would he do there? But the idea is that you are 167 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,280 becoming an embodiment of him in your personality, your location, 168 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,360 your vocation. Does that make sense? 169 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,799 So the good news for? You here today, if you are 170 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:48,160 saved, is God saved you so that you would follow him so that 171 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,720 you'd walk in a room and be like Jesus, What are you doing in 172 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,200 this room and how do I get in on it? 173 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,960 What are you doing in this gathering? 174 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,640 How can I encourage this group of people? 175 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,720 And the crazy thing is the more you think about what Christ will 176 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,800 be doing, the more you'll notice he's working in you because 177 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,640 you're united to him by grace through faith and the Spirit 178 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,080 indwells you and he is living through you. 179 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,160 Amen. God saved you so you'd follow 180 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,680 him. Verse 24 And behold, there arose 181 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,560 a great storm on the sea so that the boat was being swamped by 182 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:21,720 the waves, but he was asleep. He was sleep, as some people 183 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,560 like to say. And what I love about this y'all 184 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,760 is that Jesus at some kind of way he knew from the moment he 185 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,440 said, let's go to the other side, this would happen. 186 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,480 He knew, He knew this was going to go down and the storm comes 187 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,920 and. His Joker is asleep. 188 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,760 He's asleep. Y'all into the Jewish mind, 189 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,840 which is Matthew's primary audience, the person that they 190 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,360 think of who once slept on a boat when everybody was about to 191 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,000 die, is a man by the name of Jonah. 192 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,960 OK, Now Jonah, as you might remember, was sleeping to get 193 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,280 away from God. He got on the boat to get away 194 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,720 from the Lord. You could say he was sleeping on 195 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:00,800 God. Are you with me? 196 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,760 He was sleeping on the will of God, trying to get away from the 197 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,000 will of God. Jesus counter to that represents 198 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 sleeping in the will of God. Jesus is not detaching from 199 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,920 God's will as he sleeps on his boat. 200 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,520 He is in it. Are you with me? 201 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,400 So Jesus is a model to us of resting into God's will and not 202 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,960 trying to get away from it. And y'all, as we just kind of 203 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,240 ease our way into this text, isn't it comforting to know that 204 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:28,720 what you think is about to kill you? 205 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,120 Jesus can sleep in now hear me. That's not a dismissive. 206 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,240 It shouldn't bother you don't hear that. 207 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,840 That's that's the tension we've got to hold in this text. 208 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,640 But it's just. Comforting that they thought 209 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,280 they were going to die. And he was asleep again. 210 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:45,600 He. Cares about these brothers. 211 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,040 He put them on the boat, so we can't say he don't care. 212 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,920 He put them there, he's with them. 213 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,680 He handpicked them. But he can sleep in it. 214 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,880 I just need to remember sometimes when my life feels 215 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,320 like it's falling apart. Jesus could sleep in this. 216 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:05,600 Not in a dismissive way, but in a what feels like death to us is 217 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,040 sleepable to Jesus, OK? Psalm 139, Even darkness is not 218 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,880 dark to you. We need to remember that in all 219 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,920 the ways we need Jesus to be like us, He is. 220 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,840 He's a real human, real life. We can't act like everything he 221 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,600 did was not hard because he was also God. 222 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,240 He was fully human in the ways it meant to be human. 223 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,880 Wasn't like he pushed some button within himself to make 224 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,520 him go sleep. He could sleep as a human, OK, 225 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,120 but in all the ways we need him to not be like us and like not 226 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,600 overwhelm him. He's not like us, which is so 227 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,320 reassuring. Verse 25 And they went and woke 228 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:44,920 him saying save us. Lord we are. 229 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,760 Perishing y'all, They did something right. 230 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,080 They went to Jesus and woke him up. 231 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,520 Have you ever been in a situation where you're like, do 232 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,240 I wake them up? And you, you, you're feeling the 233 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,280 rising ante and eventually you wake them up. 234 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:58,840 Maybe it was a parent, maybe it was a friend. 235 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,920 Can you imagine when the storm starts, like we read it and it's 236 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,080 like it goes from zero to 100. But I'm sure the waves we're 237 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,520 building, they're like, you want to get Jesus? 238 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,440 And one of them is like, no, not yet. 239 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,160 And they're like, I think now is the time. 240 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,320 Like they probably debated it. And then at the moment they 241 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:14,880 thought they were going to die, They're like, I think it's time, 242 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,400 guys, let's wake up. Jesus, it's time. 243 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,120 Wake them up. So they finally go to him and 244 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,600 they wake him up. So they did the right thing 245 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,680 because they went to the right source. 246 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:25,960 OK. And one thing you got to be 247 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,720 thinking here today, even if you're not a Christ follower, is 248 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,600 you go somewhere when the storm comes. 249 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,760 So the question isn't do you go somewhere is where do you go? 250 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,560 They did the right thing and they went to Jesus and they woke 251 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:39,440 him up. That took faith. 252 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,960 That was something they went to the right place. 253 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,480 The issue I think is seen a little bit in the the last 254 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,680 little phrase save us Lord, we are perishing. 255 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,600 So I don't think the issue is where they went. 256 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,040 I think it was their assessment of their situation. 257 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,760 OK verse 26 and he said to them, why are you afraid? 258 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,720 O you a little faith. Then he rose and rebuked the 259 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,440 winds in the sea and there was a great calm. 260 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,800 Y'all can we Can we talk about how awesome Jesus is? 261 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,120 Right quick. Just look at. 262 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,160 Look at. Verse 26 again OK, when did he 263 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,680 physically get up? Just have that in your mind as 264 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:19,640 you read it. It says and he said to them, why 265 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:20,960 are you afraid of you a little faith. 266 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,920 Then he rose and rebuke the winds. 267 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,240 So do we agree that he stood up to rebuke the winds, which means 268 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,840 he was laying down when he. Said, why are you afraid of you? 269 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,560 A little faith. I never thought about that 270 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:33,960 before until I read it this week. 271 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,640 Which means, just to be clear, they think they're dying. 272 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,200 He's sleeping. He sleep. 273 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,080 Comes to him, wakes him up. He does not get up laying down. 274 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,240 Just imagine Jesus looking up at you and saying. 275 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,800 Why are you afraid of you of little faith? 276 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,080 I wonder how long the pause was, you know? 277 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,160 And again, what do you even hear as his tone? 278 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,240 Like maybe you hear. Why are you afraid of you, 279 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:57,840 little faith? I don't hear that. 280 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,680 I hear a man just woken up. Why are you afraid of you little 281 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,160 faith? Storm's still going, y'all. 282 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,520 He hasn't rebuked it yet. Like Jesus is just cool like 283 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,160 that. He stares you down in your fear, 284 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:15,400 inviting you to further trust. Then he rises up and rebukes the 285 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,040 wind. So I love that that that that 286 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,680 the way that flesh is out and behind that tone is not 287 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,880 condemnation, y'all, It's invitation. 288 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,880 He's not condemning you for the faith you don't have. 289 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,600 He sees what you've got and he's inviting you to mourn. 290 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,840 OK, So if your tone here today of what you hear from the Lord 291 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,320 is you should have enough faith, That's not the spirit of what 292 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,560 he's saying. He's inviting you to mourn. 293 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,160 He's saying fear has helped you survive in the past is not going 294 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,600 to help you thrive in the future. 295 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,480 There's a new way. So he's inviting you with his 296 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,120 head on that pillow with a gentle tone. 297 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,040 He's vulnerable. They're standing over him. 298 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:59,640 Verse 27 and the men marveled saying what sort of man is this 299 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,240 that even wins in C Obey him. They marvel. 300 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,880 Marvel just means they're astonished. 301 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,280 They are. Their mind is blown OK, which is 302 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:10,960 understandable given what He just did. 303 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,000 But what I want to draw your attention to real quick is that 304 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,800 notice that they marvel at Him because of what He did. 305 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,240 Y'all, the goal of your life is to trace the line from the 306 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,760 activity of God to the person of God. 307 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,760 Hear me y'all, thanking God As for what He did, praising Him As 308 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,320 for who He is. The goal of your life is to love 309 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:36,400 God for who He is, is to trace his activity to his essence. 310 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,040 They saw what he did and they said, what sort of man is this 311 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,360 that even wins and see obey him. The idea is who is this guy that 312 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,160 can do what we just saw? But they didn't then move 313 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,440 forward thinking, so do this. So do this, so do this. 314 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,080 Do y'all notice that now they're just like, I'm rocking with him? 315 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,640 Are y'all tracking that? That's what it means to Marvel 316 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,800 is to be in on who he is. So our text begins with 317 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,480 following. It ends with marveling. 318 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,480 Y'all see that even those who are followers are ongoing 319 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,800 marvelers. The goal of marvelers is to 320 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,600 follow and followers marvel. If you marvel, you follow. 321 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,400 You follow that which you marvel at. 322 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,280 So trace your marveling and I'll find your following. 323 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,680 So if you're not a Christ follower, what are you marveling 324 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,240 at? Because that's probably what you 325 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,800 following. OK let's talk about 3 truths for 326 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,040 in the storm. Y'all ready? 327 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,080 Are y'all with me? If you're with me, let me hear 328 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,640 you say I'm in it. OK first thing, Jesus is the 329 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,800 king of the storm y'all. We we heard some of Psalm 107 330 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,200 earlier. Only Yahweh can calm a sea down. 331 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:42,240 Only the the creator himself has this kind of power y'all. 332 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,960 Nothing is more uncontrollable than the sea. 333 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,000 It represents utter chaos. It's intimidating. 334 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,080 Anybody who's smart is scared of the ocean. 335 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,400 Even the people who act like they ain't scared of the ocean 336 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,680 or scared of the ocean, deep down you know they are. 337 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,800 They just learned. They got the statistics in their 338 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,360 mind, like ain't nothing bad gonna happen to me, but they 339 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,960 scared yo I got. Little nibble from a Jelly. 340 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,640 I don't even know if nibble's the right word from a jellyfish. 341 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,119 One time that junk hurt so. Bad. 342 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,280 I don't play with the ocean. Hopefully you don't either. 343 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,000 But you can get in it, right? But yo, there's nothing more. 344 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,119 There's nothing more chaotic right than the sea. 345 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,040 And God can calm it down with a word. 346 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,960 Only God can do that. And I think what unsettles us a 347 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,280 little bit, if we're honest, is that Jesus put them in this. 348 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,520 And that's the great wrestle of this text, is that the God who's 349 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,160 in the boat is kind of over the boat. 350 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,640 The God who sends us into the storm and can calm it is in the 351 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,400 boat. But first we just have to 352 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,000 wrestle with he's over the storm. 353 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,880 He's over it. And we just got to ask 354 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,240 ourselves, do we believe that? Do we believe with a? 355 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,600 Word he could just chaos to nothing, just silent. 356 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,120 In the little kids version of this a video me and my kids 357 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:06,600 watch sometimes the the Jesus figure just goes hush hush hush. 358 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,200 My kids love that Hush, hush, hush and the, the, the winds 359 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,480 just cease, OK, Yo, we got to believe that this historically 360 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,000 happened. It's real. 361 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,800 It's not an idea, it's not a myth. 362 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,520 Jesus did that. He's the king of the storm. 363 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,400 He is declaring Yahweh power. He didn't say God do this. 364 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,400 He did it, OK? He is God. 365 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,520 Second thing, Jesus is the king in the storm. 366 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,680 God is over it, y'all, and he's in it y'all. 367 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,480 He's over it and he's in it y'all. 368 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,360 This is the incarnation. Can I tell you some good news, 369 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:43,200 y'all? Christianity is so compelling 370 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,600 because Jesus has got over it and got in it. 371 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,440 You need a God over it and you need a God in it. 372 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,760 If you don't have both, you're in trouble. 373 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,080 Can I just tell you, in the history of the world, all others 374 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,840 thought systems are struggling. They hold no water compared to 375 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,440 Christianity because they don't give you a God who's over it and 376 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,680 a God who's in it. It's just facts, yo. 377 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,880 We need creator creation distinction. 378 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:11,320 So let me be clear, the storm was not this is not Moana are 379 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,720 y'all with me? This is not on the water had 380 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,080 some personhood to it. OK, there's an idea that the 381 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,720 storm was chaotic. God was over it, but not in that 382 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,720 storm. This is not pantheism. 383 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,680 We need a God who is over creation, not all up in it and 384 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,320 mixing himself in it the way many religions of the world 385 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,600 think about it. That's not what we have. 386 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,840 We have a God over creation. Creation has some sort of 387 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,480 there's a sense in which it's broken. 388 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,400 We need a story that makes sense of that, of why it's so chaotic. 389 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,160 And that's what the Christian story gives us is that because 390 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,040 of the fall of Adam and Eve, chaos has erupted. 391 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:54,600 Creation is broken, OK, and God is over that. 392 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,560 Like we need a God who can be over that, who is not in the 393 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,240 creation but is over it and is authoring it in some kind of way 394 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,080 over the storm and can make it stop. 395 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,640 And we need a God who is in it. Yo, if you have a God over it 396 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,320 who is far and removed, what you have is fear, OK? 397 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,960 And you have a God you can't know, not an intelligible, 398 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:20,200 intimate relational religion with your God. 399 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,200 But if you have a God who's only in it, and it's all intimacy and 400 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,920 gushy and all those things, but not a God removed who is other, 401 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,640 who is so powerful and strong, that's also no good either 402 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,240 because he's in it with us, but he can't do anything about it. 403 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,080 We have a God, y'all, who's over it and in it, A God who sends us 404 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,800 in the storm and it blows our mind a little bit that he's over 405 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:47,800 it, OK, but he's also in it. You crave a God who's over the 406 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,680 storm and in the boat with you in the storm. 407 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,400 That's what you crave, Y'all. Have you ever felt like? 408 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,880 Walking with God is like having a parent that you think you know 409 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,360 more than you know that they know more. 410 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,680 But then when you demand that they give you the evidence, it's 411 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,840 like you just got to trust that they got it there. 412 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,800 Comes a point where. They just got it. 413 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,240 You get what I'm saying? That's kind of the the, the 414 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,600 little toddler and the adult at some level. 415 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,280 It's just they got it and I don't y'all, has life ever felt 416 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,800 that way to you? It's because life is relational 417 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,240 that way. And you have that father, you 418 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,200 have a. The world feels that way because 419 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,920 it is that way. We're living in a story that's 420 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,640 intelligible, where there is actual evil, OK, And it makes 421 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,800 sense because of the story that our father has given us in the 422 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,640 word OK, and he is solving that problem. 423 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,440 For us, through the cross, through his son. 424 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,360 And he's going to redeem and restore all things. 425 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,000 And you also crave a God who can handle you saying to him, but I 426 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,920 don't like this and it's blowing my mind and I don't understand 427 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,720 it, and I don't trust you. And you have a God who's in it 428 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,760 with you as well. Does that make sense? 429 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,880 A God you can wake up. Isn't that crazy? 430 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,800 God don't need to be woken up, but Amanda's that's the mystery 431 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,880 of the incarnation is as God he knows all things and but as man 432 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:05,960 he could be. Woken up like us? 433 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,200 He could sleep like us, isn't that? 434 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,800 Crazy. You need both. 435 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,520 That's what we have in the person of Jesus. 436 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,680 And I'm just telling you, no other thought system on earth 437 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,560 makes sense of why life is the way it is and how experientially 438 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,080 you want to be able to go to somebody with your problem and 439 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,040 frustration. And that's what you have. 440 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:29,160 God is accessible to you, OK? So what you crave is a God over 441 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,960 the storm and a God who will get in it with you. 442 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:37,880 OK, and when in the storm, y'all, what we have is both a 443 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,520 deliverer and a refuge. Somebody say deliverer, refuge 444 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,280 deliver is the idea that he can end the storm. 445 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,200 OK, He can. That's who Jesus is. 446 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,880 He shows us here. He can do that. 447 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,960 But also what the scriptures point to beyond a deliverer is a 448 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,920 refuge. It's the idea that this person 449 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,520 is a safe place in the storm. OK, so some of what I want to 450 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,600 present to you as we move forward here in a little bit is 451 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,360 the idea that once you marvel at who Jesus is, you trust Him on 452 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:11,920 if this is an instance of deliverance or refuge. 453 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,920 Are you with me? Some of us know some men the 454 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,800 hard way, that there's times where somebody comes to you and 455 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,640 tells you that they got a problem, they don't want you to 456 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,760 fix it, they want you to get in it with them. 457 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,680 They just want to know you're connecting with them in your 458 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,800 problem. So sometimes do we need and want 459 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,760 deliverance? Yes, sometimes. 460 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,840 Do we crave connection in the midst? 461 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:36,720 Yes. And don't we crave somebody who 462 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,400 knows when we need the one or the other? 463 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,320 Yes. And in the person of Jesus, that 464 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,880 is what you have. Third truth in the storm. 465 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,360 Shalom has come and is coming. Somebody say Shalom. 466 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,040 Y'all. Shalom means peace, y'all. 467 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,840 What Jesus gives here is a taste. 468 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,600 Just a peace, just a taste of Shalom. 469 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,160 All is well. Chaos gone. 470 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,600 He can do that. The cosmos itself, every 471 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,720 molecule obeys him. He's got that kind of 472 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,360 certification. He's on that level. 473 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:17,480 The cosmos itself obeys Jesus, and he brought a slice of peace 474 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,280 in his first coming, OK? He brought pictures of a future 475 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,680 world with no more ways breaking in on a boat. 476 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,600 There is a day coming where it feels like all that is wrong and 477 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:31,600 unsettling about life is gone, where your brain will no longer 478 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,360 do what it's doing now and it's falling. 479 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:36,120 This OK? There's a day coming where the 480 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:41,000 chaos is just totally gone and Jesus brought a slice in his 481 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,920 first coming y'all. When he comes back next time, 482 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,800 peace is all there is, y'all. We live in the in between. 483 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,880 That's just the reality of the time we live in. 484 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,920 That is why the Lord's Prayer every day, your Kingdom come, 485 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,880 your will be done. Part of what I'm trying to help 486 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,600 us see throughout the series is if you've adopted that because 487 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,280 Christ has saved you, that heaven has come, you've misread 488 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,160 the Bible, y'all. It's broken in, but it's still 489 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,160 coming. So we live in a broken place. 490 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,640 Storm still happen. He still this one. 491 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,400 There will be others. He didn't and won't and we don't 492 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,080 have the formula on what dictates what. 493 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,800 We just don't have it. We know how to live with him in 494 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,320 light of it. And part of how we live is your 495 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,280 Kingdom come, your will be done. So part of what we've been 496 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,960 trying to encourage ourselves on is childlike faith is not naive 497 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,160 in the name of of of honoring the Lord and not wanting to 498 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,960 dishonor him. We check our brains at the door 499 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,960 and we act happy, go lucky that life is not a storm sometimes, 500 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,040 OK, that's not going to help us. The other way we miss it is by 501 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,920 becoming cynics. OK, a cynic is that's all good 502 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,080 real God talk. But I don't actually believe any 503 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,480 of that. That sounds great, but it's not 504 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,400 my experience, not true. Childlike realism is in the 505 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,800 middle, where we go to God in the storm. 506 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,240 We still wake him up, which is what we're about to talk about, 507 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,040 OK? It's less of like, there's a 508 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,040 right way to do it. The point is, keep going to 509 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,440 Jesus, OK? Keep going to him and going in 510 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,840 and going to him. If you've checked out and you're 511 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,760 a cynic, God's inviting you back. 512 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,560 Or if you just think naive stuff, God's inviting you back 513 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,240 to like, actually real trust. Are you with me? 514 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,000 So let's talk about two insights on faith in the storm #1 growth. 515 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,240 And childlike faith is what Jesus is after. 516 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,440 In the Greek y'all, he says you of little faith. 517 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,280 It literally means you little face. 518 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,440 It's like a noun. It's like you y'all, y'all 519 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,400 little face. So it's not a condemning you of 520 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,080 little faith. It's a inviting you little face 521 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:36,760 y'all. Let me tell you something. 522 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,800 You're not going to shame yourself into spiritual growth 523 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,000 if you are stuck in your life with Christ. 524 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,440 The path forward is not yelling at yourself to trust God more. 525 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,640 Are you with me? That ain't that ain't what the 526 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,280 scriptures present us. Self condemnation rarely leads 527 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,960 to like life with Christ. OK, we don't shame ourselves. 528 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:02,360 Here's what I want to offer you is that I don't want you to 529 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,640 become an overthinker. So sometimes what we can do is 530 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,240 we can read a text like this. So were they wrong to like go to 531 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,680 Jesus, wake them up and say we're perishing? 532 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,000 And then we're like, OK, so if I'm in a storm, I'm not allowed 533 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,640 to go to God in desperation. And then we become calculators, 534 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,480 which is literally the opposite of childlike faith, right? 535 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,120 Kids don't calculate nothing, ever. 536 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,800 They just keep asking, OK, so the we don't want to run from 537 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,800 like childlike faith. Disciples are bad, so let's 538 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,760 become calculators. Is this a situation where I 539 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,400 should wake them up? What do you say, Pastor? 540 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,080 I'm be like, don't come to me like that. 541 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,000 I didn't say that. Be childlike faith. 542 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,400 OK. So what I would say is just go 543 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,560 to Jesus. Just go to Jesus. 544 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,280 If you feel frantic, go to Jesus. 545 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,280 I think behind his tone of you little face is an invitation 546 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,400 that the next time you come, just realize he's a little 547 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,480 different than you thought based on what you just saw. 548 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,920 That makes sense. So the next time you come, 549 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,760 hopefully there's a little more calm. 550 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,840 We're going to talk about what I think we can go to him as the 551 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,360 next time. But if you're frantic and 552 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,440 panicking, this is not a sermon telling you to stop going to 553 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,120 Jesus. OK, If you are panicking, go to 554 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:06,200 Jesus. All right? 555 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,120 If you are misassessing your situation, you don't condemn 556 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,160 yourself and not go to Jesus and then beat yourself up off in the 557 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,920 corner. Just keep going to Jesus. 558 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,240 Are you with me? That's always the answer #2 559 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,760 faith goes to Jesus for deliverance and refuge. 560 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,440 Y'all already alluded to this a little bit, but y'all, if you're 561 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,760 an adult, when a kid is panicking and comes to you, 562 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,640 guess what you don't do? You don't panic, OK? 563 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,840 You stay calm. You let them have their panic 564 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,800 moment and once they calm down, they help you recalibrate. 565 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,160 OK, this is what you needed, but you're not necessarily. 566 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,760 Loving them by either addressing the panic in the moment or 567 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,960 panicking with them somewhat. You got to wait them out. 568 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,400 Are you with me? You've got to enter the moment. 569 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,120 And the question becomes, do you need deliverance or refuge? 570 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,720 OK, Do you need the situation removed or do you need somebody 571 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,960 with you in it? Y'all, the good news of the 572 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,880 Bible is that God knows what you need. 573 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,240 He does. I don't know what you need. 574 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,360 I really don't. I know what I would give you 575 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,840 every time. I would give you deliverance 576 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,760 now, immediately. I'd relieve it as fast as 577 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,480 possible, as clean as possible, as quick as possible. 578 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,320 A few months ago we preached on Psalm 116, which is a 579 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,200 deliverance Psalm. And afterwards Greta was helping 580 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,440 us think through the concept of it's from a book called A 581 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,280 Praying Life, which we have a bunch of copies out there. 582 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,200 Y'all can go grab that. One of the best books I read on 583 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,960 prayer. It's the concept that when we 584 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,440 seek God for deliverance and we get a no when it's like get us 585 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,120 out of here and he doesn't, we interpret it as God is unloving 586 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,200 to us. And what she helped remind us of 587 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,720 from that book is the idea that a no in one area is just a 588 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,560 different yes than you think you need. 589 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,720 Are you with me? So like I have some friends who 590 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,680 have chronic pain. Maybe maybe you have chronic 591 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,800 pain. This is a good example. 592 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,280 Every single second of every single day they're in pain, some 593 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,240 of them massive pain. So you think somebody who knows 594 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:10,600 to ask save me, I'm perishing is a very normal way of life for 595 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,200 them and they're a hero to us to help model for us. 596 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,000 They're getting a no on deliverance from the pain. 597 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,200 What they're getting is a yes on ongoing sustaining refuge 598 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,880 provision. And what God is giving them is 599 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,400 ongoing neediness, right? So it's a different yes than 600 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,880 they're looking for. But what they all communicate as 601 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,040 they get further into trusting God is like, not that they like 602 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,680 that they have their chronic pain. 603 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,680 If you still gave them the out, they would take it. 604 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,880 But they love God for sustaining them in their pain. 605 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,800 Are you with me? So hear me, friends, I don't 606 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,600 know which you're going to get. I don't. 607 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,280 What I do know is we can trust Him. 608 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,640 Does that make sense? We trust who He is, whether it's 609 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,280 refuge or deliverance, whether it's ongoing dependence or it's 610 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,800 miraculous. OK, So childlike faith just 611 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,400 keeps going to Him and trust Him with whichever it's going to be. 612 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,520 And if you are not a follower of Jesus, I just want to introduce 613 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,040 to you the idea that you do have a refuge right now. 614 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,200 And if it's not the Lord, it will be something else because 615 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,280 the storm's coming either way. Are you with me? 616 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,240 Maybe you run to your thought life. 617 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,360 Maybe it's substances, maybe it's a shopping hobby, and it's 618 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,600 every time your life is hard, your refuge is escapism of some 619 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:30,960 kind. Y'all what? 620 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,800 What we're inviting you to is a realism that the Bible only can 621 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,800 give you because our God is over and in it we can go to him in 622 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,480 the midst of it. And if you don't come to him and 623 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,360 you get out the boat and you run from him, I understand. 624 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,680 But just know the storms still come and your refugeness is 625 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,640 going to go somewhere. Does that make sense? 626 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,040 You're invited to find it in the one who is safe. 627 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,040 OK, All right. Here's my invitation to you. 628 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,960 Become a marveling follower of Jesus. 629 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,200 Somebody say Marvel. Y'all Marvel. 630 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,440 Marvel. Marvel means mind blown, heart 631 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,080 gripped a little bit. Don't even know what I just saw. 632 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,600 Right. If you are not a follower of 633 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,440 Jesus and you've never marveled at Jesus, the question might be 634 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,080 why should I marvel at this guy? Y'all? 635 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,800 One thing I want you to consider is what the cost was for you to 636 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,200 get peace y'all. Again, I brought up the story of 637 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,120 Jonah. But for those of us who know the 638 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,280 story of Jonah, if you remember the, the sea is chaos, right? 639 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,800 And the, the, the sailors wake up Jonah and they draw lots of 640 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,560 like whose fault is this? And the lot falls on Jonah 641 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,040 because he was disobeying God and running from him. 642 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,920 And the idea of the story, Jonah says, look, man, the only way 643 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,280 that's going to stop is what if you throw me in the water? 644 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,080 It'll go calm. And they're like, Nah, we ain't 645 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,920 doing that. They throwing stuff off left and 646 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:55,880 right. They're throwing the barrels, 647 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,960 they're throwing the rum. Maybe that'll help, right? 648 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,560 And Jonah's like just do it man. And Jonah is not happy to be 649 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,160 thrown in. He's giving up on God. 650 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,320 He's sleep on God, not sleep in God. 651 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,360 Amen, somebody. And So what we get a picture of 652 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,880 in Jonah is that Jonah deserves to be thrown in and the sea goes 653 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,840 still, y'all, and it points to a greater Jonah. 654 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,200 So here Jesus says peace be still to the water, but there 655 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,960 will come a day. The reason Jesus can give peace 656 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,520 to us in our lives is because it was withheld from Him, because 657 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:29,480 He is the perfect, peaceful, a person who trusted the Father as 658 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,120 a son, a real human. He lived a perfect life and He 659 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:36,080 was thrown in into the waters of chaos so that we could be at 660 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,400 peace. The reason we can trust. 661 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,920 Him is because he gave up his life for us. 662 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,160 Y'all. The chastisement upon Him 663 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,640 brought us peace. Christ was killed so that we 664 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,000 could be at ease. We can trust Him and we know all 665 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,160 things, if we're in Christ, will work out in the end for us. 666 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,040 Because they didn't. For him. 667 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,280 Are you with me? That's the gospel. 668 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,200 We don't earn our peace. We don't earn our keep or our 669 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,920 refuge. It is a gift of God to those who 670 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,640 have trusted in Christ. Who is the one that was thrown 671 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:12,159 in for us to give us peace? He will give it to us because He 672 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:15,280 withheld it from His Son. Do you get that, y'all? 673 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,280 He can't not be good to you if you're in Christ. 674 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,199 Whatever's happening to you has to go through the Son of God. 675 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,480 That's a fact. It doesn't happen to you apart 676 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,679 from Him. If you're in Christ because of 677 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:29,639 what he did on the cross for you. 678 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,560 God will not hold out on you. That's the truth. 679 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,239 Whatever he's giving you is his best for you, as hard as it may 680 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,159 be for us to understand that. So if you've never marvelled at 681 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:46,199 Christ y'all, I just want you to see a God who dies for you. 682 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,520 Even when you think he's the worst and you doubt him, even 683 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,400 when you are a cynic, He died. For a cynic, that's what's 684 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,760 crazy. He died for the naive people. 685 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,840 He died for the cynics. He died for those who want to 686 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,880 get out the boat. He died for those who need a 687 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,720 million proofs over and over and over. 688 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,480 His blood purchases our staying in because He was thrown in for 689 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,160 us. So I just want you to hear if 690 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,360 you are not in Christ and you have doubted God's goodness, 691 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,240 know that He died for the doubting you. 692 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,800 He died for the you that struggles to understand it all. 693 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,960 He loves you and He wants you in the boat with Him. 694 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:19,800 Amen. Somebody. 695 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,480 OK, let me talk to the followers of Jesus for a minute. 696 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:28,240 Y'all, I want to invite us to marvel and move beyond 697 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:30,480 surviving, OK? That's what I want to invite us 698 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,240 to do. And here's what I would say is 699 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,360 the key to surviving that, y'all. 700 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,760 This is just an ongoing life with Jesus thing, OK? 701 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,760 I think curiosity is often the root and the fruit of marveling. 702 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,600 Notice they ask a question. What sort of man is this? 703 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,880 Even after they saw this, they did not have Jesus figured out, 704 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,880 as we know from reading the rest of the New Testament. 705 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,880 OK. I mean, even after Jesus is 706 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,360 resurrected, Peter is sort of a racist in Galatians 2. 707 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,120 Amen. Somebody so like these guys 708 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,760 don't. Oh, well, if I'd been there, 709 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,800 then I would totally trust him. No, you wouldn't. 710 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,040 OK, so don't think this is something you figure out. 711 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,880 What I'm trying to give to you is if you will get curious about 712 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,800 Jesus. Some things could change. 713 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,720 I want to show you a a painting from the 17th century. 714 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,080 Real quick. Couple things about this 715 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,680 painting. Number one, it is not a one to 716 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,600 one of the story. Jesus awake, not asleep #2 Jesus 717 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:20,680 is not white. Amen. 718 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,000 Somebody. OK, if you ever see a painting 719 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,760 with white Jesus, guess what? The dude who painted it was 720 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,560 white. OK, so I know, but it's a dope 721 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,760 painting, so check this out. This is called Jesus on the Sea 722 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,000 of Galilee by Rembrandt. OK. 723 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,000 So the way they teach you to study the painting is from the 724 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,960 top left to the bottom right. Now what you'll notice in the 725 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,120 top left is that brother thinks he's about to die and notice 726 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:48,880 where his eyes are. They're up. 727 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,680 He's panicked. He sees the elements. 728 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,760 OK. He does not see the man in the 729 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,720 bottom right of the painting. Now, I've also thought about the 730 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,040 higher you are in this situation, the more unstable 731 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:00,760 your situation. If you're at the bottom of the 732 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,760 boat, it feels like the lower you are to the ground, the less 733 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:04,760 turbulent. Amen. 734 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,440 Somebody that brother thinks he's about to get launched. 735 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,280 OK, now you'll notice at the bottom right, their 736 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,520 circumstances are the same. They're in the same boat. 737 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,480 But where are their eyes? They're on Jesus. 738 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,360 OK, so here's the point of the painting. 739 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,480 You can go home, Google it, look it up, just stare at it and just 740 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,080 pray, OK? And Rembrandt's looking right 741 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,200 back at you in the bottom middle. 742 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,880 If you never knew that a lot of them will put themselves in 743 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:31,680 their painting. How do you know? 744 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,120 Because they're staring at you and it's weird. 745 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,360 All right, That's the dude who made the painting. 746 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,720 OK, So check this out. You can you can take that down. 747 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:39,520 Jay. Thank you. 748 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,560 I want you when when you're in it. 749 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,520 And once your once your body is regulated and all the stuff, OK. 750 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,240 Now what if we just ask a question like Jesus, how on 751 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,880 earth are you asleep right now? What are you thinking about 752 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,200 right now? Are you still thinking about 753 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,440 that leper you just healed? Are you thinking about those 754 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,480 disciples that? Scribe, who just walked away, Is 755 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,600 your heart hurting? Are you excited about the demons 756 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,320 you're about to drive out of these two people and we get the 757 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,080 other side of the sea? Jesus, are you thinking about 758 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:10,920 us? Are you thinking about me? 759 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,560 Just get curious, how Jesus are you doing that? 760 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,480 What is it like to pull up a pillow next to him? 761 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,760 He's on the same boat as you. Somebody needs to hear that 762 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,000 Jesus is in the same life as you. 763 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,000 He's over it and He's in it y'all. 764 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,960 So part of the growth happens when we learn to relate to Him 765 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,520 outside of our panic for deliverance, y'all. 766 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,840 Jesus wants to relate to you in your pain and as who He is aside 767 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,160 from your pain. So I'm inviting you to consider 768 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,000 what would it look like to not just go to Him to get the storm 769 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,280 to go away. Even though that's not bad. 770 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,200 And if we say that, that's fine, keep going to Jesus. 771 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:56,960 But get curious about him. Get curious about who he is. 772 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,760 How did you sleep in that man? What was it like? 773 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,880 What were you thinking about? What drives you? 774 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:06,400 Y'all the goal is to go from the dude who is convinced he is so 775 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,360 about to die he can't even look at Jesus. 776 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,120 To being on the same boat and just amazed by Jesus. 777 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,840 And what you'll notice is for those who are full of the Spirit 778 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,880 walking with God a long time, when you sit down with them, 779 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,760 they don't tell you all the million ways they need God to 780 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,680 show up in their life. Doesn't mean they don't. 781 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,040 Have them y'all. They might have wayward kids, 782 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,880 they might have crazy stuff going on, but there's a 783 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,480 settledness because they're in the bottom right of the boat. 784 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,080 Are you with me? They're with the Lord in the 785 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,080 chaos. What if that's God's goal for 786 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,760 your life is for you to be with Him in the chaos? 787 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,240 It doesn't mean He wants the chaos for you, but He wants to 788 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,640 get in it with you. Amen. 789 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,680 Let's get. Curious. 790 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,800 I know where you need Jesus, and tell me about it. 791 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,600 Let's talk about it. Now let's just just get curious 792 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,600 about him. Who are you dude? 793 00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:00,440 What sort of man is this? I'm a read a few lines that I'm 794 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,760 out. The Lord's our rock. 795 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,920 In him we hide A shelter in the storm. 796 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,240 Secure whatever al betide. A shelter in the storm. 797 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,400 The raging storms may round us. Beat a shelter in the storm. 798 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:14,840 We'll never leave our safe retreat. 799 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,360 A shelter in the time of storm. A rock divine. 800 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,240 A refuge deer. A shelter in the time of storm. 801 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,160 Be thou our helper ever near a shelter in the time of storm. 802 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:31,680 Mighty rock and a weary land, cooling shade on the burning 803 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:35,160 sand. Faithful guide for the Pilgrim 804 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,000 band. A shelter in the time of storm. 805 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,720 Let's pray y'all Our Father, we love you. 806 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,200 God, life with you. Even if we if we've been saved, 807 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,120 all the things it's hard. It doesn't make life easy or 808 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,600 confused. God, give us the grace to just 809 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,880 slow down. Give us the grace to go to you 810 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,080 and panic in the little faith that's good, and then invite us 811 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:02,560 to a deeper life, God, where we see you in the chaos. 812 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:03,800 God, you're over it, You're in it. 813 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,160 Help our minds to understand that. 814 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,960 I pray for my friends who don't know Christ. 815 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,280 God, I pray they would see that life with you on that boat is 816 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,240 better than any other life and that they need you and that you 817 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,800 have died to bring them on board. 818 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,680 We love you and we pray in Christ's name, Amen.