WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:15.679 practical ways. Good good morning's shaking it. He talked who 4 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:19.879 through good morning, Good morning to you and you and 5 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.320 you man. I said last week that I've never done 6 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:24.960 it on a Monday, or at least you had, well, 7 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:26.760 I rarely probably, I probably did it once. 8 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:29.600 I don't ever remember you doing it. Well, it's it's delight. 9 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:30.600 It is Monday. 10 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:31.800 It just made everything better. 11 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:34.479 Good morning everyone. We are the Bible Guys, and we 12 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.200 are in the middle of a series called What If 13 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:38.280 Jesus Had a Podcast? 14 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.119 And we're doing famous statements or sayings. Yeah, and this 15 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:43.759 is sayings that Jesus. 16 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.479 And this is a very powerful statement that Jesus made today. 17 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:48.439 I love this one out of the Book of Mark 18 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:50.560 chapter four, which, by the way, I think in this 19 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.119 series this is the first time we fit the Book 20 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:52.399 of Mark. 21 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:53.479 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 22 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.119 Anyways, he says, peace be still. 23 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.679 Peace be still. And before we get into that, however, 24 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.799 Desiree has asked us to play a segment called Guess 25 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.040 the Word, which is pretty much like taboo. Oh yeah, 26 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.959 and if you're watching online, like on video. We will 27 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:10.760 try our very best to put the words on the 28 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:13.400 screen of the words that I'm not supposed to say, 29 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.920 because that's really the challenge, and hopefully the listeners will 30 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:18.400 try to guess before you. 31 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.879 You're trying to have me guess the word that you're 32 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:21.640 giving me clues to. 33 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:23.680 Yeah, and the listeners are going to try to beat you. 34 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.959 Okay, okay, you ready? Yes, all right? 35 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:34.599 The first word? Okay. Sometimes when this is an electric one, 36 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.120 it'll tickle your gums. 37 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:37.560 Toothbrush. 38 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.599 Yes, I was not allowed to say teeth brush, bathroom clean, 39 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:43.719 or bristles. 40 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:46.000 Ooh boy, okay. 41 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:50.560 Okay, how about this one ready. In the military, if 42 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:56.359 it's confidential stamped on the file, it'll say top blank secret, secret. 43 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:01.519 I wasn't allowed to say tell, private, whisper hidden, or keep. 44 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:02.239 Wow. 45 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.640 Do you notice how I went military? Popsy? Pretty cool? 46 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:06.319 That's right? 47 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:13.400 Okay, oh gee whiz uh okay uh. This is when 48 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.120 I get you to I stand in front of you 49 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:22.159 and do a bunch of charades. Yes, yes, yes, but 50 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.080 you helped me on that one. You helped me on 51 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:25.400 that one. 52 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:25.919 There you go. 53 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:30.319 I wasn't allowed to say act, silent, guess, motion or 54 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.560 game yeah and so yeah that that threw me almost. 55 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:35.080 I couldn't you help me? 56 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.719 Yes, I stand in front of you and do yes. 57 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.080 Yes, Okay, here we go. The fourth word. Okay, butterbecan 58 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.240 is my favorite flavored cream ice cream. I wasn't allowed 59 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.240 to say cone, cold, scoop, vanilla or dessert. 60 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:50.159 There. 61 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.960 Yeah, that's there. 62 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:55.039 You go, job Chris, Yeah, all right, okay. 63 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:59.639 And okay. For my fiftieth a bunch of people were 64 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.000 at a house party for my it was a total 65 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:06.599 wasn't it just a party? It was? 66 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:07.800 It was a birthday party. 67 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.240 Yes, no, it was Uh, I was not it was 68 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:12.840 not planned. 69 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.840 Uh. Surprise, yes, surprise party. 70 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.039 Yes. I wasn't allowed to say shock, unexpected, gift. I 71 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.120 wasn't allowed to say party. Of course I did because 72 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.199 you said party and then reaction. Wow. 73 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.599 Okay, so surprise party, surprise, surprise nice yep? 74 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:36.719 Okay, a town in Arizona, what surprise Arizona? Welcome to 75 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:37.879 surprise yep? 76 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.120 I guess so wow, well, good job. You want to 77 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.560 talk about surprises. Oh, Jesus told the disciples, Hey, get 78 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.560 in the boat. We're on the other side and right 79 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:48.960 in the middle of it. They were surprised at how 80 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.080 big of a storm came. 81 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.240 Up, and they were also surprised to see what they 82 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:53.520 thought was a ghost. 83 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.199 And Jesus, well, no, not in this one. What yeah, 84 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:56.840 not in this one. 85 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:58.360 This is not the version where they thought it was 86 00:03:58.400 --> 00:03:58.759 a ghost. 87 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.000 No, no, no, this is this is another storm where he says, 88 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:01.639 peace be still. 89 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.960 Oh oh is this the I was sleeping? Oh he's sleeping. 90 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:05.199 Yeah. 91 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:07.520 They were surprised to find Jesus sleeping. Okay, see my heading, 92 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:09.680 It was not surprise. I didn't read the head. But 93 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:11.719 the heading says Jesus calms the storm. 94 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:12.680 That's right, yep. 95 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:14.159 So well that's really neat. 96 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.519 Well we're in Mark chapter four, verse thirty five, and 97 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:18.920 we'll just read to the end of the chapter, verse 98 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:21.279 forty one. It says as evening came, Jesus said to 99 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.000 his disciples, let's cross to the other side of the lake. 100 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.240 And so they took Jesus in the boat and started out, 101 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:29.600 leaving the crowds behind, although other boats followed. But soon 102 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.920 a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into 103 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.600 the boat and it began to fill with water. Jesus 104 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.360 was sleeping at the back of the boat. This had 105 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.160 on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, teacher, 106 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.560 don't you care that we're going to drown. When Jesus 107 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:45.279 woke up, he rebuked the wind and said, of the 108 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.279 wave of silence, be still. Suddenly the wind stopped and 109 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.399 there was a great calm. Then they asked him, or 110 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.000 he asked them, why are you afraid? Do you still 111 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.160 have no faith? The disciples were absolutely terrified. Who is 112 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.720 this man? They asked each other. Even the wind and 113 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:02.120 waves obey him. 114 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:07.319 Mmm, so Jesus is sleeping on a cushion in the 115 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:11.160 back of the boat. Now all right, well listen, we're 116 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:12.839 by the way. We launched into this pretty quickly. 117 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.759 Oh, because we're getting better. We are getting better and better. 118 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.639 Our goal is to constantly improve. 119 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:21.519 Always make it ay, I dind ever tell you. 120 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:27.079 Henry Blackaby Uh was at his office at Dallas Theological Seminary, 121 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.639 and because he worked there for a bit, and one 122 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.720 of his students was walking by very late at night 123 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.360 and looked in through the window and saw him studying 124 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.160 the Bible, reading the Bible and asked him about it 125 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.160 like one of the next you know, following meetings or 126 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:46.040 whatever classes, and said, uh, mister Blackaby, you're very old 127 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.600 and you've probably read the Bible hundreds of times through, 128 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.920 you've written dozens of books, and how in the world 129 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.600 can you just continue to read the Bible? And his 130 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.199 response was, son, I want my students drinking from a 131 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.399 flowing brook, not a stagnant pond. 132 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:08.439 Is that great? 133 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:09.199 Isn't that great? 134 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:09.480 Yeah? 135 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:09.720 Yeah? 136 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:11.879 Yeah? What was his great book? He wrote a great 137 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.439 book experiencing experiencing God. That's experiencing God. Yeah, yeah, what 138 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:16.000 a great. 139 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.279 And by the way, did you know that he lived 140 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.560 in Henry County, Georgia, My county, Henry County and he 141 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:25.279 lived not even I'm not kidding, maybe six minutes from 142 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:27.720 my house. Wow, yeah, I never I never met him, 143 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.120 but I heard that he had went to Eagle's Landing 144 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.399 Baptist Church right down the street, which is a pretty 145 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.639 big church, maybe three four thousand and And also guess 146 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.600 who else came from there? Casting Crowns, Oh wow, from there? 147 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.439 There you go anyway, So that has nothing to do 148 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.199 with this except for this, of course, Henry Blackby was saying, 149 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:47.439 make it better. 150 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.680 Yes, Well, all of that spawned because you said, we're 151 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:52.079 trying to. 152 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:53.040 We're trying to prove yeah. 153 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:53.279 Right. 154 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.120 So anyway, well we saved a minute and a half 155 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:02.279 and then just wasted it on this story. But Henry, 156 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.759 you know, Henry Blackabye was reading his Bible as an 157 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:06.160 old man. Well that's what he was. 158 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.199 I'm sure the black Cabee quote blessed people. 159 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:09.439 It did. It was a great one. 160 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:12.920 Yeah. So okay, so let's let's go back to the story. 161 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:17.639 First of all, let's talk about the boat. You did 162 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.879 you go to that restaurant in Israel right off of 163 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:25.560 Capernaum where it was like Saint Peter's Restaurant or something. 164 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.319 No, but we went out on a boat out on 165 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:29.680 the Yeah, yeah, yeah. 166 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.959 Yeah, yeah. There's there's this boat that they found. 167 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:34.959 In the oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a couple of 168 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:36.600 those around yeah, okay, okay. 169 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:39.600 And and and this is what they say would be 170 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.959 a typical fisherman's boat. That would that would be that 171 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.959 it exists. Back then, they didn't have extravagant boats, right, 172 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.480 they didn't have I mean, think about everything that you 173 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.839 know that's old. They were usually pretty smaller. The luxury 174 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:58.439 of big just didn't exist. And this boat that twelve 175 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.600 Disciples and uh and Jesus would have been in would 176 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:06.199 have been pretty small. It would have only probably been 177 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.879 as wide as the table that we're sitting on, and 178 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:14.480 it probably double triple the length and and maybe two 179 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:18.160 and a half times the length of this of table 180 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.560 and and uh and so it really wasn't like this. 181 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.720 Uh oh, Jesus was sleeping below deck. You know, he 182 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:29.240 wasn't sleeping you know, in some sort of luxury below 183 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:34.039 deck situation. They don't think pirates or you know, big 184 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:38.879 huge vessels like that, think fishermen, modest fisherman boats. So 185 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.559 Jesus would have in the back they still call that 186 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.159 the stern, and he would have been curled up. And 187 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:49.039 think about if he's sleeping during a storm. Holy cow, 188 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:54.000 how exhausted must he have been? Right? Do you do? 189 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:55.759 You sleep through things like that? 190 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:56.759 Yeah? 191 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:57.440 Really? 192 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:01.200 Oh yeah, we were all the time. I sleep. Once 193 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:05.759 I go to sleep, I'm asleep, and I'm always startled 194 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.559 when it's time to wake up. I am. I wake 195 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.919 up every day with a start. If my alarm goes off, 196 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.759 it shocks me. If somebody touches me to wake me up, 197 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.840 it shocks me. I'm just always I'm just in a 198 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:20.600 deep sleep and then suddenly awake. 199 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.759 Oh my gosh, Bonnie must be so used to that 200 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.279 that she she just anticipates. 201 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.320 Well. So, traveling with Chad asmen, you know, around the world, 202 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:30.960 he's our executive pastor at Heritage, we wind up doing 203 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:32.039 a lot of work around the world. And when I'm 204 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:33.919 traveling around the world, always sleep with the earplugs, so 205 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.559 then I can't hear anything. Sometimes I wouldn't hear my 206 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.799 alarm go off. So then Chad come over and he 207 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.919 do it, and you know, I'm ready to fight. Yeah, 208 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:41.759 I'm usually in the cocoon. I sleep in a cocoon, 209 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.600 so uh, you know, blanket over my head kind of thing, 210 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.240 and then all of a sudden, I'm ready to go. 211 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.000 So now he'll if he ever has to wake me up, 212 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:50.320 he'll reach way out and. 213 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.799 Just so funny. Yeah, that is so funny. 214 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.480 So once I go to sleep, now, I don't fall 215 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:59.799 asleep quickly. If in a situation like that where it's 216 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:01.519 un comfortable, yeah, a lot of times I don't fall 217 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:07.320 asleep quickly. But yeah, So anyways, one thing that always 218 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.879 strikes me about this story is that Jesus said, let's 219 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.480 go to the other side. And this is a season 220 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:17.879 rate these few days, it's heavy teaching. It's just everywhere 221 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:20.480 he goes people wanting to heal them. Everywhere he goes, 222 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.879 he's getting, you know, people chasing him down. They want 223 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:26.799 him to teach, they want him to feed them, they 224 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.639 wanted whatever. Even on this one, when they leave, he says, 225 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.320 let's get in the boat and go to the other side. 226 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:36.399 And in parentheses it says, although other boats followed, right, 227 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:42.720 this is like paparazzi just chasing Jesus the overwhelming responsibility 228 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.960 that came with the fame he had. At this point, 229 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:49.039 I mean, he is just a superstar in his region. 230 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.519 Everybody wants to be with him, and he's exhausted, and 231 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.399 so you find one of his habits is to go 232 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:55.840 up into the mountains to pray, or go out in 233 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:57.600 the wilderness to pray. He spend time with the Father 234 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.279 every day. Those things are are are a very common 235 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:04.440 phrase about Jesus in the little you know, in the 236 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:09.440 marginal statements in between stories that are being told. But 237 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.759 you can tell at this point he's just exhausted, and 238 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.120 so he's like, Hey, we need to get in a 239 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:15.679 boat and go to the other side because we're never getting 240 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.720 away from these crazy people. So they get in the boat. 241 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:21.000 And the thing that always strikes me about it is 242 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.639 they obeyed, all twelve disciples get in the boat. Probably 243 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.279 some of the other followers get in the boat. And 244 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.399 obedience doesn't always mean smooth sailing, right, Getting in the 245 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.720 boat with Jesus doesn't mean everything all of a sudden 246 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.759 is gonna be sunshine of roses and unicorns and skittles 247 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.679 all the time. Right. But you're safest with Jesus in 248 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.240 the boat. Right. So, even though you know, maybe he's silent, 249 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:50.639 which he was in this moment, he was quiet, He's 250 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.120 still present, and they knew exactly where to go when 251 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.320 they needed when they realized there was anything they could do, 252 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.480 they knew who they could go. 253 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.600 To, Jesus when I was You know, some people, if 254 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:07.080 they look at a map, excuse me, Monday, When they 255 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:10.279 look at a map, they they often ask questions like, 256 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:15.879 how in the world would expert fishermen be afraid of 257 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.320 a squall or a storm of the or the waves 258 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:24.279 in a tiny little lake. Right, because we talked about 259 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:27.440 this before recently, but the Sea of Galilee was not 260 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.679 even close to the size of even Lake Saint Clair 261 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.799 in Michigan. Right, So, it's actually pretty you know, pretty small, 262 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.320 and you'd say, like, well, how can how can there 263 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.759 be waves that will scare those kinds of fishermen? And 264 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.080 how how big can the waves actually get? Right? And 265 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.440 you know where I'm going with this because so I I. 266 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:51.519 The geological structure. Yeah, yeah, so it's designed for lakes 267 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:52.440 or for storms. 268 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.799 Yeah. So so the bottom line is is I when 269 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.200 I was there, I asked them and they said, oh, 270 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:00.879 they said, let me explain this to you. And it's 271 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:05.720 basically in the summary, it almost seems like God himself 272 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:10.759 designed the landscape so that the Sea of Galilee would 273 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.519 have like it would be totally calm, and then it 274 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:19.320 would just have squalls, like raging squalls in a moment's notice. 275 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.360 So there's a scientific explanation for it, but it's based 276 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.360 on the land and the wind and the heat and 277 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.159 everything else. It's almost almost like it's designed that way. 278 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.519 And I have to believe that God did that on purpose, 279 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:34.799 because he knew that, you know, this was going to 280 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.799 you know, be a pivotal point, you know, where God, 281 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:40.000 you know, he chose to enter the world and perform 282 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.360 miracles and such. But basically, here's the bottom line. The 283 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.559 Sea of Galilee is about six hundred and eighty feet 284 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.480 below sea level. Mount Herman, which is north of it, 285 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.879 is nine thousand, two hundred feet above sea level. And 286 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:56.320 then if you go south from the Sea of Galilee, 287 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.000 fallowing that you know, the Jordan River all the way 288 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:59.960 down to the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is fourteen 289 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.000 hundred feet below sea level. So basically the hot air 290 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.840 rises from the Dead Sea from the south, it goes 291 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:08.559 up the Jordan River and then and then the cold 292 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:10.919 air comes down from Mount Herman and there's about eleven 293 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:16.519 thousand feet sort of a gap differential, and it meets 294 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.559 right in the middle at Sea of Galilee. And then 295 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.480 the Sea of Galilee. God designed it where there's mountain 296 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:23.480 ranges all around. 297 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:24.080 In a bowl. 298 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:24.960 It sits in a bowl. 299 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.799 You're literally driving flat land, flatland, flatland, and they say, 300 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:29.639 you know, you just go down, down, down, down six 301 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.120 hundred feet, Yes, six hundred and eighty feet down to 302 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.039 the Sea of Galilee. And so yeah, it's in a bowl. 303 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.000 And so what they told me is they told me 304 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:39.720 that raging storms would go from calm to breaking out 305 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.559 and they would be sometimes like fifty feet fifty foot waves. Yeah, 306 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.080 and that's hard to believe in the Sea of Galiley, 307 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.919 but they said that it actually was so strong it 308 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.480 destroyed the previous restaurant. So the restaurant we were in 309 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.759 that they were talking about, they said, back in the eighties, 310 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.279 it took out the restaurant and they had to rebuild 311 00:14:58.279 --> 00:14:59.679 it and they actually build it on stilts and the 312 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:00.360 further away. 313 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.159 Yeah, isn't that crazy. They showed us watermarks from a 314 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:05.440 storm on one of the hotels that were staying at 315 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.919 in Tiberius that was up thirty something feet up and 316 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:13.879 this is just lashing, you know, the waves, pounding, pounding, pounding, pounding, pounds. Yeah, yeah, 317 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:14.639 it's crazy. 318 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:16.440 Like I said, it's almost. 319 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:18.360 Just not every day, but it does happen, and it's 320 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.559 a surprise. Back then, they didn't have you know, the 321 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.919 Yahoo weather app on their phones, right, well, they didn't 322 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:25.000 have accu weather on their own. 323 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:26.360 Yeah. Well I checked the dopper. 324 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:27.360 Yeah exactly. 325 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.080 Let's go to the other side, the dopper says. 326 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.000 So it would happen suddenly, and then you know, you're 327 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:35.000 in a sailboat or you're in a row boat. It's 328 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.840 not like you're just zipping along. No, you can't outrun 329 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.480 the storm, right, and so that's what would happen, is 330 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.000 it was you know, it was a kind of a 331 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.679 dangerous profession, being a fisherman. But then in this situation, 332 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:47.840 you know, now they've got passengers, all these other people 333 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.120 who aren't pros either. I think that that's part of 334 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.159 the fear for these guys. So if there were four 335 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.519 or five professional men, that's all they ever do on 336 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:57.039 the on the boat. It doesn't say Peter's freaking out here. 337 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.399 I don't say John's freaking out here. This could have 338 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:02.200 been Bartholo, Me, Thomas, and Philip freaking out right, right, 339 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.919 it doesn't have to be. There's twelve disciples, so the 340 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.000 pros weren't. It doesn't say the names. It just says 341 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.519 that the disciples were terrified. Yeah, yeah, but I think 342 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:14.960 it's funny. So they were afraid. What's to say? Waves 343 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:16.639 were breaking into the boat and began to fill with water. 344 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:19.279 Jesus was sleeping, the disciples welcome up, shotting teacher, don't 345 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.720 you care that we're going to drown? So they're clearly afraid. 346 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.399 But then after Jesus calms the storm, the disciples were 347 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.559 absolutely terrified. 348 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.840 Yes, right right, they were more terrified. 349 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:33.159 Who is this man? 350 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:33.720 Right? 351 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:36.840 Right? They've seen him do miracles prior to this, so 352 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:40.559 but this one when he takes over the wind and 353 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.240 the waves, Yeah, that's a whole other thing for them. 354 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.960 So so this is this is a whole other sermon altogether. 355 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.360 So I did a sermon one time, long time ago, 356 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:50.639 in fact ad heritage. I did when when you asked 357 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:51.519 me as a guest speaker. 358 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:56.480 Oh, I wasn't paying I was remember Jesus sleeping in 359 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.879 the back of it. Yeah, I was in the bag, 360 00:16:57.960 --> 00:16:59.039 sleeping on my pH It. 361 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.240 Wasn't on this storm. But you asked me to speak 362 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.920 in twenty thirteen here in this auditorium, and you asked 363 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.480 me to speak on the law of the harvest. And 364 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.680 it was supposed to be a financial thing whatever anyway. 365 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.640 But one of the points that I made was fear 366 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:18.079 replaces fear. Right, So in other words, like you need 367 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.720 to replace your earthly fear with a fear of God. Right, 368 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.559 And that's what happened here, right. And so in the 369 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.960 boat they have a fear of the waves, and then 370 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.519 all of a sudden, now they have no fear of 371 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.759 the waves. Now they fear God. And the fear that replaced, 372 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.319 the fear is even greater. But it's a healthy fear, right, 373 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.880 So they're absolutely terrified in a good way, that's right. Right. 374 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:42.319 So you know, in the Old Testament it always says 375 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:47.400 fear God. You know, fear God and find life. But 376 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:52.079 the fear of God is a healthy respect in the 377 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.000 same way that you would fear your father, your earthly father, 378 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.880 if he's a loving father. But you fear his discipline, 379 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.640 fear his wrath. But at the same time you fear 380 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.640 disobeying because you don't want to disappoint him. Sure, you 381 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:07.799 fear all sorts of things. 382 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.079 Oh, you slow down because you fear getting a ticket, 383 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.960 right right. As a kid, you don't seal the tootsy 384 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.039 roll out of the store because you're afraid of get 385 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:20.240 in trouble for shoplifting. Right, There's this awareness that there 386 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.640 are consequences to our behaviors, and God's in charge of 387 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:23.400 the consequences. 388 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:23.759 Right. 389 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:25.960 So there's that and then the fear of the fact 390 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.160 that He made it all. Anybody who's big enough to 391 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.559 make the entire universe probably should get some healthy respect. 392 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:36.759 Right right, Right, So the fear is, yeah, it's a 393 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:40.519 mixture of respect and actual fear, but it's but it's 394 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:44.119 a healthy, healthy dose of fear. So all that to say, 395 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.839 when it says they're absolutely terrified, that's a good thing. 396 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:49.680 Yeah, they're starting to be aware of Wow this next. 397 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:54.200 They had underestimated Jesus who he was, and you know, 398 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:56.720 they they, hey, Jesus, we really like it when you, like, 399 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.880 you know, make lame people walk and you make death 400 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.240 people here, that's kind of cool. I think they kind 401 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.160