1 00:00:01,801 --> 00:00:05,455 Luke 822 through 25. 2 00:00:06,423 --> 00:00:09,442 One day he got into a boat with his disciples, 3 00:00:09,442 --> 00:00:12,929 and he said to them, let us go across to the other side of the lake. 4 00:00:13,113 --> 00:00:16,533 So they set up, and as they sailed, he fell asleep, 5 00:00:17,150 --> 00:00:19,552 and a windstorm came down on the lake, 6 00:00:19,552 --> 00:00:22,589 and they were filling with water and were in danger. 7 00:00:23,423 --> 00:00:25,608 And they wet and woke him, saying, 8 00:00:25,608 --> 00:00:28,611 master, master, we are perishing. 9 00:00:29,012 --> 00:00:33,983 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased. 10 00:00:34,517 --> 00:00:36,302 And there was a calm. 11 00:00:36,302 --> 00:00:39,289 He said to them, where is your faith? 12 00:00:40,557 --> 00:00:44,310 And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, 13 00:00:44,310 --> 00:00:48,782 who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, 14 00:00:48,898 --> 00:00:51,901 and they obey him. 15 00:00:54,237 --> 00:00:56,423 Everybody welcome to seek. 16 00:00:56,423 --> 00:00:58,942 Really, really glad that you're here. 17 00:00:58,942 --> 00:01:00,410 Thanks for coming. 18 00:01:00,410 --> 00:01:00,677 All right. 19 00:01:00,677 --> 00:01:02,962 We are in the seventh week of our ten week series. 20 00:01:02,962 --> 00:01:05,365 We're calling Jesus the Redeemer. 21 00:01:06,449 --> 00:01:07,100 We are spending 22 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:10,253 ten weeks moving through the Gospel of Luke, 23 00:01:11,037 --> 00:01:15,325 and we will finish this series at Easter, which I am really looking forward to. 24 00:01:16,076 --> 00:01:17,577 And this morning, we're going to look at a 25 00:01:17,577 --> 00:01:21,331 pretty famous passage where Jesus calms the storm. 26 00:01:22,048 --> 00:01:23,583 And it's in Luke chapter eight. 27 00:01:23,583 --> 00:01:26,553 So if you have your Bibles, you can go ahead and turn to Luke chapter eight. 28 00:01:26,553 --> 00:01:31,491 If you want to use one of our Bibles, it's on page 813, page 813. 29 00:01:32,342 --> 00:01:34,761 And I have, loved this passage. 30 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:36,379 For a long time. 31 00:01:36,379 --> 00:01:39,783 As Zach and I were talking earlier this week about preaching and, 32 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:44,537 we, we're saying that every passage is like a diamond, 33 00:01:45,205 --> 00:01:49,859 and, a sermon only gets to cover one facet of the diamond, so you can hear 34 00:01:49,859 --> 00:01:54,380 multiple sermons on the same passage and get something different each time. 35 00:01:54,864 --> 00:01:58,067 It's one of the reasons I really look forward to this morning, 36 00:01:58,067 --> 00:02:03,540 because throughout the week I've been learning, new stuff about this passage. 37 00:02:04,007 --> 00:02:06,743 So let me just, walk you through it, and then I'll give you 38 00:02:06,743 --> 00:02:10,847 the three points that I want to pull out of this passage. 39 00:02:10,847 --> 00:02:11,965 All right. 40 00:02:11,965 --> 00:02:16,019 So Jesus invites his disciples, takes him out on the Sea of Galilee 41 00:02:16,019 --> 00:02:20,373 and the Sea of Galilee, by the way, is, can be misleading 42 00:02:21,141 --> 00:02:24,294 because whenever I think of a sea, I think of a big body of water. But, 43 00:02:25,979 --> 00:02:28,348 the Sea of Galilee was really a lake, 44 00:02:28,348 --> 00:02:30,617 and it's not even a very big lake like 45 00:02:30,617 --> 00:02:33,620 Lake Erie is 241 miles across. 46 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:35,071 That's a big lake. 47 00:02:35,071 --> 00:02:38,358 The Sea of Galilee is 13 miles across. 48 00:02:39,359 --> 00:02:40,977 And so it's not a big lake. 49 00:02:40,977 --> 00:02:42,412 It is full of fish. 50 00:02:42,412 --> 00:02:42,929 That's why 51 00:02:42,929 --> 00:02:47,267 so many of the stories in the Bible are about fishing in the Sea of Galilee. 52 00:02:47,267 --> 00:02:53,156 But on this particular instance, Jesus was not taking the disciples out to fish. 53 00:02:53,156 --> 00:02:58,161 He was using the boat like a water taxi, just to take them from one side 54 00:02:58,161 --> 00:03:01,681 of the lake to the other so they wouldn't have to walk all the way around. 55 00:03:02,815 --> 00:03:06,302 Now Lake Erie is, or the Sea of Galilee is small. 56 00:03:06,769 --> 00:03:07,921 It's also shallow, 57 00:03:07,921 --> 00:03:11,157 but the thing that makes it so unique is that it's below sea level. 58 00:03:11,724 --> 00:03:15,962 It's like 200ft below sea level, which means that it's very susceptible 59 00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:19,098 to, sudden and fierce storms. 60 00:03:19,883 --> 00:03:24,120 And the disciples find themselves in this sudden and fierce storm. 61 00:03:24,504 --> 00:03:25,471 And one of the details 62 00:03:25,471 --> 00:03:28,908 that we have is that Jesus was asleep, which will be important. 63 00:03:29,459 --> 00:03:32,161 And you need to know that the boat was not very big. 64 00:03:32,161 --> 00:03:35,882 So I don't want you to get in your head like a houseboat 65 00:03:35,882 --> 00:03:39,402 where he could go below deck and there was a place to sleep there. 66 00:03:39,602 --> 00:03:42,472 I'll mention that later on, but 67 00:03:42,472 --> 00:03:45,675 Jesus is asleep, and, the disciples are scared to death. 68 00:03:45,692 --> 00:03:46,142 Literally. 69 00:03:46,142 --> 00:03:49,128 They think they're going to die and they wake Jesus up. 70 00:03:49,429 --> 00:03:54,801 And in this passage they say, master, master, we are perishing. 71 00:03:55,969 --> 00:03:58,371 And the gospel of Mark tells the same story. 72 00:03:58,371 --> 00:04:01,374 And at least one of the disciples was a little more pointed 73 00:04:01,641 --> 00:04:04,644 when they were shaking Jesus awake. 74 00:04:04,727 --> 00:04:07,797 And he says, don't you even care 75 00:04:08,631 --> 00:04:11,184 that we are about to die? 76 00:04:11,184 --> 00:04:15,021 Jesus wakes up and then it says that he 77 00:04:15,505 --> 00:04:18,141 he rebukes the wind and the raging 78 00:04:18,141 --> 00:04:21,144 waves, and everything stops. 79 00:04:21,477 --> 00:04:24,480 And then Jesus has a question for his disciples. 80 00:04:25,014 --> 00:04:28,017 And the question is simply, where is your faith? 81 00:04:28,651 --> 00:04:33,623 And the story ends with the disciples at least as afraid at the end of the story 82 00:04:33,623 --> 00:04:35,124 as they were at the beginning of the story, 83 00:04:35,124 --> 00:04:38,011 because by the end of the story, they have a question of their own. 84 00:04:38,011 --> 00:04:40,763 And the question is, who is this? 85 00:04:40,763 --> 00:04:44,851 That even the wind and the waves obey him? 86 00:04:45,902 --> 00:04:48,988 All right, here are the three points that I want to pull out 87 00:04:49,022 --> 00:04:54,377 as we look at the facet, this facet of this diamond of a passage, 88 00:04:54,777 --> 00:04:57,597 I want to look at the storm, 89 00:04:57,597 --> 00:05:00,199 the surprise and the question. 90 00:05:00,199 --> 00:05:00,984 That's it. 91 00:05:00,984 --> 00:05:04,487 The storm, the surprise and the question. 92 00:05:05,521 --> 00:05:09,709 You need to know when Jesus was taking the disciples out on the Sea of Galilee, 93 00:05:10,343 --> 00:05:13,346 he wasn't just going to teach them something. 94 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,934 The story made it into the Bible, which means that Jesus was doing 95 00:05:18,501 --> 00:05:21,504 that whole thing to teach you something, 96 00:05:22,171 --> 00:05:25,008 to teach me something. 97 00:05:25,008 --> 00:05:29,879 So Jesus takes them out and they get hit by this unexpected storm. 98 00:05:30,179 --> 00:05:32,148 And I say unexpected because 99 00:05:32,148 --> 00:05:35,218 at least half of the disciples were professional fishermen. 100 00:05:36,235 --> 00:05:38,187 So you have to know that just out of habit, 101 00:05:38,187 --> 00:05:41,190 before they ever stepped into a boat, they looked around. 102 00:05:41,457 --> 00:05:42,692 They looked at the horizon. 103 00:05:42,692 --> 00:05:45,712 They looked at the clouds, and they decided it was okay 104 00:05:46,262 --> 00:05:49,132 to go out on the lake. 105 00:05:49,132 --> 00:05:52,969 And so they get in and they get hit by this storm. 106 00:05:54,203 --> 00:05:56,489 And I found it in my own life. 107 00:05:56,489 --> 00:06:00,360 The the worst storms are the storms I don't see coming 108 00:06:01,344 --> 00:06:03,563 that I never saw coming. 109 00:06:03,563 --> 00:06:06,449 And, you know, I know this was a physical storm, 110 00:06:06,449 --> 00:06:09,836 but a storm is a great metaphor for the unpredictability, 111 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,457 for the insecurity of all of our lives. 112 00:06:15,558 --> 00:06:18,411 We all know, you know, that you are one phone 113 00:06:18,411 --> 00:06:21,414 call away from a storm. 114 00:06:21,714 --> 00:06:24,717 You are one doctor's visit away 115 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:27,954 from the worst storm you've ever been in. 116 00:06:28,521 --> 00:06:31,357 One car ride away from a storm. 117 00:06:31,357 --> 00:06:35,511 And this is one boat ride away from a storm. 118 00:06:35,511 --> 00:06:37,830 Storms come. 119 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:41,617 There's a psychiatrist named Scott Peck about 25 years ago. 120 00:06:41,634 --> 00:06:45,805 Wrote a bestselling book called The Road Less Traveled, and I think it became 121 00:06:45,805 --> 00:06:49,559 a bestselling book, in part because of the way he starts the book. 122 00:06:49,559 --> 00:06:52,562 He starts the book with a three word sentence, 123 00:06:52,712 --> 00:06:56,883 and the three word sentence is just this life is a difficult, 124 00:06:57,917 --> 00:06:59,485 life is difficult. 125 00:06:59,485 --> 00:07:04,791 And his premise is that the sooner we understand and actually accept 126 00:07:04,791 --> 00:07:08,578 that life is difficult, the easier it becomes. 127 00:07:09,962 --> 00:07:13,082 You know, I'm going to get to my second point in a minute, which is the surprise. 128 00:07:13,082 --> 00:07:15,485 But the one thing we should never be surprised 129 00:07:15,485 --> 00:07:18,588 that is when we find ourselves in the middle 130 00:07:19,856 --> 00:07:21,474 of a storm. 131 00:07:21,474 --> 00:07:24,210 Particularly if you've ever read the Bible. 132 00:07:24,210 --> 00:07:24,377 Right? 133 00:07:24,377 --> 00:07:28,097 Because when you read the Bible, every character in the Bible 134 00:07:28,314 --> 00:07:31,400 goes through storms Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 135 00:07:31,951 --> 00:07:35,755 Joseph gets sold into slavery and then he gets thrown into prison. 136 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:39,175 Moses goes against Pharaoh, then out in the wilderness. 137 00:07:39,392 --> 00:07:42,378 He's almost put to death by his own people. 138 00:07:42,478 --> 00:07:43,346 You got David. 139 00:07:43,346 --> 00:07:45,348 You got Daniel in the lion's den. You. 140 00:07:45,348 --> 00:07:48,351 Elijah, Elijah, Peter, Paul, Mary. 141 00:07:48,651 --> 00:07:50,386 You see what he did there, right? 142 00:07:52,488 --> 00:07:55,708 Everybody is in a storm. 143 00:07:55,975 --> 00:07:58,978 It's always a bit discouraging to me 144 00:07:59,962 --> 00:08:03,115 when I find out that a person who was a Christian 145 00:08:04,217 --> 00:08:06,619 has abandoned their faith 146 00:08:06,619 --> 00:08:09,622 because they found themselves in a storm, 147 00:08:10,022 --> 00:08:11,691 right? Jesus? 148 00:08:11,691 --> 00:08:14,927 In John chapter 16, at the end of the chapter, 149 00:08:15,178 --> 00:08:18,181 he's talking to his disciples, and he says this 150 00:08:18,481 --> 00:08:22,435 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. 151 00:08:23,219 --> 00:08:25,137 In the world you will have tribulation. 152 00:08:25,137 --> 00:08:26,722 But take heart. 153 00:08:26,722 --> 00:08:29,725 I have overcome the world. 154 00:08:30,259 --> 00:08:31,794 Jesus says, you're going to have tribulation. 155 00:08:31,794 --> 00:08:34,764 That's another word for storm. 156 00:08:34,764 --> 00:08:37,099 Listen, don't pit those two things against each other. 157 00:08:37,099 --> 00:08:41,187 Don't think if you have Jesus, you won't go through storms. 158 00:08:42,021 --> 00:08:45,024 Don't think if you're going through a storm 159 00:08:45,258 --> 00:08:46,976 you don't have Jesus. 160 00:08:46,976 --> 00:08:49,645 That's at least one of the reasons we have the story, 161 00:08:50,763 --> 00:08:50,930 right? 162 00:08:50,930 --> 00:08:53,099 Because this time, Jesus, they were right with Jesus. 163 00:08:53,099 --> 00:08:56,152 This isn't one of those times where they're on where Jesus is 164 00:08:56,152 --> 00:08:59,989 on the shore and they're out in the boat, kind of far away from Jesus. 165 00:08:59,989 --> 00:09:03,175 Now, to be sure, there are some storms 166 00:09:03,175 --> 00:09:06,295 you can get into on your own when you're far away from Jesus. 167 00:09:06,979 --> 00:09:10,583 I remember years ago sitting with a young woman in my office, 168 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:12,001 she was probably in her late teens. 169 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:16,172 She was pregnant, she was single, she was crying, and she was saying to me, 170 00:09:16,172 --> 00:09:19,175 I, I don't understand why God would do this to me. 171 00:09:19,342 --> 00:09:22,411 And I had to explain to her that her boyfriend probably had more to do with it 172 00:09:22,945 --> 00:09:23,930 than God. 173 00:09:23,930 --> 00:09:25,998 Right? There are things that we can get ourselves, 174 00:09:25,998 --> 00:09:27,717 but this isn't one of those times. 175 00:09:28,918 --> 00:09:31,921 Jesus was right there, 176 00:09:32,672 --> 00:09:35,658 and they find themselves in a storm 177 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:39,412 that scares them to death. 178 00:09:40,429 --> 00:09:43,432 And that brings me to my second point, which is the surprise. 179 00:09:44,367 --> 00:09:47,637 And the surprise is that Jesus is asleep. 180 00:09:48,421 --> 00:09:51,324 He's there, but he's asleep. 181 00:09:51,324 --> 00:09:55,811 And that really frustrates the disciples, which is understandable, right? 182 00:09:55,811 --> 00:09:58,848 If they had been through storms before, they were professional fishermen. 183 00:09:58,848 --> 00:10:02,034 Even the ones that weren't grew up around the Sea of Galilee. 184 00:10:02,034 --> 00:10:06,772 They knew about storms, but they'd never been through a storm with Jesus. 185 00:10:07,990 --> 00:10:12,261 And I think they probably had expected more from Jesus. 186 00:10:12,528 --> 00:10:15,448 Like maybe they expected him to tell them before they got the boat. 187 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:17,333 There's a storm coming, 188 00:10:17,333 --> 00:10:20,936 or maybe stop the storm when it was just starting to blow. 189 00:10:20,936 --> 00:10:24,991 Or maybe when it's ready to give them some advice, tell them what they should do, 190 00:10:26,058 --> 00:10:28,427 but instead 191 00:10:28,427 --> 00:10:30,946 he's asleep. 192 00:10:30,946 --> 00:10:33,949 And I told you that, you know, the boat wasn't very bad. 193 00:10:34,433 --> 00:10:39,739 When my wife Karen, and I were in Israel, we went to a museum and they had, a boat 194 00:10:40,172 --> 00:10:43,259 that was preserved from that time, a fishing boat 195 00:10:43,592 --> 00:10:46,562 that was used in the Sea of Galilee 2000 years ago. 196 00:10:46,562 --> 00:10:48,631 And we were both shocked at how small the boat was. 197 00:10:48,631 --> 00:10:51,617 It wasn't as big as this stage. 198 00:10:52,468 --> 00:10:55,171 We wondered how you could fit 13 people 199 00:10:55,171 --> 00:10:58,157 in that boat, let alone have one of them sleeping. 200 00:10:58,808 --> 00:11:02,028 All right, so, Jesus, is this how tired 201 00:11:03,212 --> 00:11:07,917 could he have been to be asleep in the middle of the storm, out on the lake? 202 00:11:07,917 --> 00:11:09,268 You know, I, 203 00:11:09,268 --> 00:11:12,722 when I go on a long car ride with my wife, I drive for as long as I can. 204 00:11:12,722 --> 00:11:17,276 And then when I'm tired, like, I'll switch to the passenger seat and she'll drive. 205 00:11:17,276 --> 00:11:18,477 But if she and I. 206 00:11:18,477 --> 00:11:23,632 If I fall asleep, if she even taps the brake, right, I wake up with a jolt. 207 00:11:23,632 --> 00:11:24,800 You might do the same. 208 00:11:26,669 --> 00:11:29,672 Jesus is in a tiny boat. 209 00:11:30,239 --> 00:11:31,791 It's rocking so much. 210 00:11:31,791 --> 00:11:34,794 It's letting in so much water that 211 00:11:35,127 --> 00:11:38,030 the fishermen think they're going to die. 212 00:11:38,030 --> 00:11:39,598 And he's still asleep. 213 00:11:39,598 --> 00:11:41,784 And I have to believe it's not just because he was tired. 214 00:11:41,784 --> 00:11:42,868 He's trying to. 215 00:11:42,868 --> 00:11:46,405 This is part of what he's doing to try to teach you something. 216 00:11:47,339 --> 00:11:49,592 Try to teach me something. 217 00:11:49,592 --> 00:11:52,578 Because if you've ever been in a storm, in a real storm, 218 00:11:53,629 --> 00:11:56,132 where you have, 219 00:11:56,132 --> 00:11:59,135 you know, I don't know, lost a child, 220 00:11:59,518 --> 00:12:01,887 had a miscarriage, 221 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:04,890 and had your marriage dissolve, 222 00:12:06,058 --> 00:12:08,177 got a terrible diagnosis for yourself 223 00:12:08,177 --> 00:12:11,180 or somebody that you love. 224 00:12:11,547 --> 00:12:14,967 If you have ever been through a real storm, then you have 225 00:12:14,967 --> 00:12:17,603 at least thought 226 00:12:17,603 --> 00:12:19,472 what that one disciple 227 00:12:19,472 --> 00:12:22,141 said out loud in the gospel of Mark. 228 00:12:22,141 --> 00:12:24,477 Don't you even care? 229 00:12:24,477 --> 00:12:26,545 God? Don't you even care 230 00:12:27,713 --> 00:12:30,182 that I'm in the middle of the storm? 231 00:12:30,182 --> 00:12:32,118 Okay, a couple things. 232 00:12:32,118 --> 00:12:35,121 One is up here in Northeast Ohio. 233 00:12:35,521 --> 00:12:37,740 We have a lot of cloud cover. 234 00:12:37,740 --> 00:12:40,559 That's probably an understatement. 235 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,478 And I have a pair of sunglasses in my car. 236 00:12:42,478 --> 00:12:45,481 I can go weeks without ever putting on them. 237 00:12:45,948 --> 00:12:49,201 I also have a couple of, grandchildren that are still toddlers. 238 00:12:50,419 --> 00:12:53,305 And if, during a day where it was cloudy 239 00:12:53,305 --> 00:12:56,308 or stormy, if one of them asked me if they said, 240 00:12:57,626 --> 00:13:00,679 hey, Papa, where does where does the sun go? 241 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:05,367 I would say, oh no, the sun still there. 242 00:13:05,367 --> 00:13:08,370 Clouds don't make the sun go away. 243 00:13:09,138 --> 00:13:10,406 The sun is always there. 244 00:13:10,406 --> 00:13:13,826 A storm doesn't make the clouds or the cloud. 245 00:13:13,826 --> 00:13:16,412 The storm doesn't make the sun go away. 246 00:13:16,412 --> 00:13:20,182 I mean, if the sun ever really went away, then the whole world would disintegrate 247 00:13:20,182 --> 00:13:21,917 and you'd become a popsicle. 248 00:13:21,917 --> 00:13:24,019 I think I scare my grandkids sometimes. 249 00:13:27,590 --> 00:13:28,557 But sometimes I need to 250 00:13:28,557 --> 00:13:31,560 remind myself in the middle of a storm 251 00:13:32,328 --> 00:13:35,130 that God doesn't go anywhere. 252 00:13:35,130 --> 00:13:37,700 If God ever quit caring 253 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:40,019 or ever went away, 254 00:13:40,019 --> 00:13:43,022 the entire universe would disintegrate. 255 00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:44,607 That's one thing. 256 00:13:44,607 --> 00:13:45,257 The other thing is 257 00:13:45,257 --> 00:13:48,661 that the disciples are frustrated with Jesus because of his timing. 258 00:13:49,728 --> 00:13:52,731 Like they expected Jesus to act sooner. 259 00:13:53,432 --> 00:13:56,936 Jesus waits until the boat is sinking before he does 260 00:13:57,570 --> 00:14:00,022 anything. 261 00:14:00,022 --> 00:14:03,592 And I have to be honest, after 40 years of ministry, 262 00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:07,079 getting used to God's timing is still really difficult. 263 00:14:07,079 --> 00:14:10,099 He's always God is always late. 264 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:14,303 He just seems like he's late. 265 00:14:15,137 --> 00:14:16,889 And there's something I've learned after 266 00:14:16,889 --> 00:14:20,492 these 40 years is that his timing is not my timing. 267 00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:22,912 And thank goodness it's not. 268 00:14:22,912 --> 00:14:24,563 Who in their right mind would want to hurry? 269 00:14:24,563 --> 00:14:27,800 God, do I really think that I know more about a storm 270 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:30,119 and what it's supposed to do than than he does? 271 00:14:30,119 --> 00:14:33,172 Do I really think that I understand 272 00:14:33,172 --> 00:14:36,842 which storm I should be in, which storm I should not be in? 273 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:39,662 Listen, 274 00:14:39,662 --> 00:14:45,084 I wouldn't hurry somebody who was working on the brakes of my car, let alone 275 00:14:45,084 --> 00:14:48,087 try to hurry the God of the universe, 276 00:14:48,237 --> 00:14:51,240 who knows everything about everything. 277 00:14:52,458 --> 00:14:56,178 And that brings me to my final point, which is the question 278 00:14:57,379 --> 00:14:57,980 that. 279 00:14:57,980 --> 00:15:02,151 So Jesus takes his disciples out on the Sea of Galilee. 280 00:15:02,151 --> 00:15:05,154 They get into this fierce storm 281 00:15:06,622 --> 00:15:09,625 and they they shake Jesus awake. 282 00:15:10,109 --> 00:15:12,328 And the passage says that he wakes up 283 00:15:12,328 --> 00:15:16,031 and he rebukes the wind and the raging waves. 284 00:15:16,048 --> 00:15:17,132 It's almost comical. 285 00:15:17,132 --> 00:15:21,437 It's like like he he sits up and he goes, hey, hey, cut it out. 286 00:15:21,537 --> 00:15:21,770 Right? 287 00:15:21,770 --> 00:15:25,908 Like like a dad who's talking to toddlers that are bickering, 288 00:15:26,792 --> 00:15:29,511 but unlike the toddlers who are bickering, 289 00:15:29,511 --> 00:15:32,514 the wind and the waves obey Jesus 290 00:15:33,299 --> 00:15:34,550 and everything stops. 291 00:15:36,051 --> 00:15:36,769 And Jesus is 292 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:39,772 looking at the disciples who find themselves 293 00:15:39,872 --> 00:15:43,375 in a calm with the boat gently rocking. 294 00:15:44,393 --> 00:15:49,682 They're still soaked to the bone, the hair matted back, their eyes still wide. 295 00:15:49,682 --> 00:15:52,201 The heart's still beating. 296 00:15:52,201 --> 00:15:54,803 And Jesus says, 297 00:15:54,803 --> 00:15:57,172 where is your faith? 298 00:15:57,172 --> 00:16:00,175 He doesn't say, why didn't you wake me up earlier? 299 00:16:00,259 --> 00:16:02,161 He says, where is your faith? 300 00:16:02,161 --> 00:16:03,329 It's such an interesting question. 301 00:16:03,329 --> 00:16:05,180 It's a it's a question that you can actually 302 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:08,250 look at two different ways, both of them could be true. 303 00:16:09,151 --> 00:16:12,438 The first, Jesus could be saying, what have you been putting 304 00:16:12,438 --> 00:16:13,472 your faith into? 305 00:16:13,472 --> 00:16:16,458 What did you think was going to save you from the storm? 306 00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:20,029 Did you think the boat was good enough? 307 00:16:20,429 --> 00:16:23,882 Did you think your own strength was going to be strong enough? 308 00:16:23,882 --> 00:16:26,935 Did you think the expertise of the best fisherman on this boat? 309 00:16:27,202 --> 00:16:29,221 Were you hoping for a rescue boat? 310 00:16:29,221 --> 00:16:32,157 Where were you putting your faith? 311 00:16:33,709 --> 00:16:35,911 It could be one way. 312 00:16:35,911 --> 00:16:38,280 You're probably like me, I. 313 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,266 I try to prepare for as many storms as I can. 314 00:16:42,267 --> 00:16:44,603 I have contingency plans. 315 00:16:44,603 --> 00:16:45,954 That's why I have a savings account. 316 00:16:45,954 --> 00:16:47,539 So I have a retirement account. 317 00:16:47,539 --> 00:16:51,143 So I have a, you know, a cabinet at home full of medicine. 318 00:16:51,143 --> 00:16:54,780 It's why I try to exercise, try to eat kind of. 319 00:16:54,897 --> 00:16:57,082 Well, right. 320 00:16:57,082 --> 00:16:59,551 All those are just trying to make sure I keep 321 00:16:59,551 --> 00:17:03,022 as many storms away as I possibly can. 322 00:17:03,589 --> 00:17:07,526 And what Jesus is telling the disciples, if that's the way 323 00:17:07,526 --> 00:17:10,529 he's asking the question, is, don't you realize, 324 00:17:11,897 --> 00:17:15,768 didn't you know that a storm was going to come that was going to be so big 325 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,240 that nothing you could put your faith in would be good enough, bigger? 326 00:17:21,256 --> 00:17:22,908 You can't get a big enough boat. 327 00:17:23,909 --> 00:17:25,577 You can't have enough expertise. 328 00:17:25,577 --> 00:17:27,863 You can't have enough money in your savings account. 329 00:17:27,863 --> 00:17:31,250 You can't prepare enough that a storm is coming. 330 00:17:31,734 --> 00:17:34,737 We need something bigger than the storm. 331 00:17:35,421 --> 00:17:37,623 You need the Lord 332 00:17:37,623 --> 00:17:39,291 of the storm. 333 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:40,943 That's one way. 334 00:17:40,943 --> 00:17:41,810 The other way, Jesus. 335 00:17:41,810 --> 00:17:43,579 When he says, where is your faith? 336 00:17:43,579 --> 00:17:47,399 He could have been saying, you guys, where's your faith? 337 00:17:47,399 --> 00:17:49,735 This is the time to pull it out in the middle of a storm. 338 00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:51,303 Put it on me. 339 00:17:51,303 --> 00:17:52,821 No, don't you see? 340 00:17:52,821 --> 00:17:53,222 I've been. 341 00:17:53,222 --> 00:17:54,590 I'm right here with you. 342 00:17:54,590 --> 00:17:57,259 You've seen what I'm capable of. 343 00:17:57,259 --> 00:17:59,178 This is Luke, chapter eight. 344 00:17:59,178 --> 00:18:00,963 This is our seventh week. 345 00:18:00,963 --> 00:18:02,514 You know, we have already seen. 346 00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:04,049 And the disciples had already seen 347 00:18:04,049 --> 00:18:08,070 Jesus heal people, cast out demons, raise the dead. 348 00:18:08,904 --> 00:18:14,209 Jesus is saying, don't you see who you're with? 349 00:18:14,209 --> 00:18:16,228 Don't you know what I'm capable of? 350 00:18:16,228 --> 00:18:17,012 Where's your faith? 351 00:18:17,012 --> 00:18:19,198 Take it out in the middle of a storm. 352 00:18:19,198 --> 00:18:21,233 Put it on me. Always think of, 353 00:18:22,651 --> 00:18:25,637 John, chapter 11 with the story of Lazarus. 354 00:18:26,238 --> 00:18:28,290 It's the same kind of story. 355 00:18:28,290 --> 00:18:32,277 Like Mary and Martha send word to Jesus that Lazarus is sick. 356 00:18:32,628 --> 00:18:34,429 Jesus takes his time. 357 00:18:34,429 --> 00:18:39,118 He gets there wildly late because Lazarus has been dead for four days. 358 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:42,137 By the time Jesus gets there, Mary and Martha 359 00:18:42,171 --> 00:18:45,174 both say, where have you been? 360 00:18:45,474 --> 00:18:49,311 If you had been here, what they're saying is, you are so late. 361 00:18:50,362 --> 00:18:52,047 Jesus goes to the tomb. 362 00:18:52,047 --> 00:18:55,050 As the stone rolled away 363 00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:58,670 and calls Lazarus out of the grave 364 00:18:59,905 --> 00:19:01,990 by name. 365 00:19:01,990 --> 00:19:02,691 Right? 366 00:19:02,691 --> 00:19:06,228 I love that story, but I always wish that I knew more 367 00:19:06,228 --> 00:19:09,264 about what Lazarus his life was like after that. 368 00:19:10,082 --> 00:19:13,435 That you I just think he'd be a really tough guy to rattle. 369 00:19:14,903 --> 00:19:17,906 Like, what are you going to threaten Lazarus with? 370 00:19:18,290 --> 00:19:21,293 I mean, what would he ever be be afraid of? 371 00:19:21,927 --> 00:19:24,530 Is there any storm that would come into Lazarus? 372 00:19:24,530 --> 00:19:26,815 His life, where he'd be going? Where are you? 373 00:19:28,050 --> 00:19:28,917 I don't think so. 374 00:19:28,917 --> 00:19:31,854 You know why? 375 00:19:31,854 --> 00:19:33,922 Because he'd seen 376 00:19:33,922 --> 00:19:36,692 what Jesus was capable of. 377 00:19:36,692 --> 00:19:39,811 He'd gone through the worst possible storm, 378 00:19:41,730 --> 00:19:44,733 and Jesus called his name. 379 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:45,350 You know, whatever. 380 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:48,353 I'm in a storm now. 381 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:51,423 And I begin to doubt and to wonder where God is. 382 00:19:52,641 --> 00:19:53,876 I don't go to the. 383 00:19:53,876 --> 00:19:56,612 When I go to the Bible, I don't go to the Psalms, to a comfort 384 00:19:56,612 --> 00:19:59,598 psalm, which is fine if that's where you go. 385 00:20:00,082 --> 00:20:02,100 You know where I go. 386 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:04,586 I go to the resurrection. 387 00:20:04,586 --> 00:20:06,138 That's why I'm looking forward 388 00:20:06,138 --> 00:20:09,141 to Easter so much, 389 00:20:09,658 --> 00:20:11,543 because the resurrection reminds me of what 390 00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:14,546 Jesus is capable of. 391 00:20:14,546 --> 00:20:16,949 And I always think, if I really believe that 392 00:20:16,949 --> 00:20:19,952 there's so much evidence for the resurrection, 393 00:20:20,452 --> 00:20:23,455 and if I really believe that, 394 00:20:23,872 --> 00:20:27,559 and I really understand what Jesus is capable of, 395 00:20:29,061 --> 00:20:30,979 then I feel like 396 00:20:30,979 --> 00:20:33,982 I can live my life the way Lazarus must lived his life 397 00:20:35,450 --> 00:20:37,669 would be really hard 398 00:20:37,669 --> 00:20:40,172 to rattle me, 399 00:20:40,172 --> 00:20:42,591 because I know when I go through 400 00:20:42,591 --> 00:20:45,594 the last and great storm. 401 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:50,666 That I'm going to hear him call my name. 402 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:54,987 And when I hear him call my name, 403 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:57,623 everything will be call. 404 00:20:57,623 --> 00:21:00,092 Everything will be good. 405 00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:02,995 So if you're going through a storm right now and in a crowd 406 00:21:02,995 --> 00:21:06,498 this size, I know there are plenty of you who are going through a storm. 407 00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:10,669 Some of you may enter into a storm 408 00:21:10,919 --> 00:21:13,922 this week that you don't see coming. 409 00:21:14,790 --> 00:21:17,392 Can I just tell you this 410 00:21:17,392 --> 00:21:20,395 with all your contingency plans and everything that you 411 00:21:20,395 --> 00:21:23,749 have to try to keep you, there is going to be a storm that is bigger 412 00:21:25,250 --> 00:21:26,184 than any plan you 413 00:21:26,184 --> 00:21:29,187 have, than anything you can put your faith in. 414 00:21:30,088 --> 00:21:33,025 What you need in that kind of storm 415 00:21:33,025 --> 00:21:36,028 is the Lord of the storm. 416 00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:40,799 You need to remind yourself of what Jesus is capable of 417 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:44,002 and that he is right there with you. 418 00:21:45,387 --> 00:21:48,357 And when the greatest storm comes, 419 00:21:48,357 --> 00:21:50,459 what you will hear 420 00:21:50,459 --> 00:21:53,512 is Jesus calling your name so great 421 00:21:54,830 --> 00:21:58,050 is Jesus, our Redeemer, so wonderful, 422 00:21:59,634 --> 00:22:02,087 the Lord of the storm. 423 00:22:02,087 --> 00:22:04,740 Would you pray with me, 424 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:05,907 father in heaven? Thank you. 425 00:22:05,907 --> 00:22:08,910 Thanks for this story. I love this story. 426 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,213 I pray for every person here 427 00:22:11,213 --> 00:22:13,765 that is in the middle of a storm right now. 428 00:22:13,765 --> 00:22:16,251 I pray that you would, 429 00:22:16,251 --> 00:22:19,254 remind them of who you are 430 00:22:19,471 --> 00:22:20,489 in the middle of the storm. 431 00:22:20,489 --> 00:22:22,040 You never disappear. 432 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:22,941 You never go away. 433 00:22:22,941 --> 00:22:24,326 You never quit caring. 434 00:22:24,326 --> 00:22:27,212 And we know that because you sent Jesus 435 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:29,431 and we have 436 00:22:29,431 --> 00:22:32,417 the evidence for the resurrection. 437 00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:35,487 So we can always remind ourselves 438 00:22:36,138 --> 00:22:39,141 of what Jesus is capable of, 439 00:22:39,741 --> 00:22:42,260 and that one day 440 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:45,263 we will hear him call our name. 441 00:22:46,348 --> 00:22:49,051 And the storms will be no more. 442 00:22:49,051 --> 00:22:50,102 Thanks. 443 00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:52,587 Thanks for giving us such a wonderful Redeemer 444 00:22:52,587 --> 00:22:55,590 and Savior and we pray this in his name. 445 00:22:55,757 --> 00:22:56,208 Amen.