I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my word
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
3ABN Today Family Worship
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and happy Sabbath.
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My name is Jason
Bradley, and I'm so glad
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that you could
join us this evening.
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You know, I remember
when I was a young boy,
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my mom used to make
us have family worship.
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I enjoyed family worship,
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so it wasn't an
obligation necessarily,
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I probably should
have rephrased that.
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But one thing
that I didn't enjoy
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about family worship was singing
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because I think that I sing best
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when nobody's around.
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I'm an all-star singer
when nobody is in the room.
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But I'm so glad
that you are here with us
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for this wonderful topic,
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peace in the midst of the storm,
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so much going on
in our world today,
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but you can have peace
in the midst of the storm.
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And we're going to talk
about how you can have peace.
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And here with me to
discuss this wonderful topic is,
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well, you know him
as Mr. Danny Shelton,
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Founder and Corporate Consultant
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of 3ABN.
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It's great to have
you on. Good to be here.
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I know him as pop.
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All right.
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And we have his
lovely wife, Yvonne Shelton,
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Co-Founder of 3ABN's
Dare to Dream Network
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and Consultant.
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Great to have
you here. Thank you.
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I know her as mom.
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And then we have
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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of Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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I know him as Uncle Kenny.
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And we have his
lovely wife Chris Shelton
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of Behold the Land Ministries.
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I know her as Aunt Chris.
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Yeah, it's good to
be around the table
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and then to study the Word.
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Yes.
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Yeah, it's truly family worship.
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It is, it is.
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And we have our
3ABN family joining us.
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This is wonderful.
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That mean, we
don't have a song, Jay.
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Oh, yes, absolutely.
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So that's, that's the joy
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when you get to
host the program,
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you get to make that decision.
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There you go. Okay.
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All right.
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So, peace in the
midst of the storm.
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Have you guys ever experienced
any storms in your life?
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Anybody that
tells you they haven't,
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I'd question their,
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either their sanity
or their truthfulness.
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But people say, well, you know,
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but you're a Christian like,
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everything should
be perfect, right?
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Well, that sounds good. Yeah.
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Sounds good, but we all die.
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So that's a little warning
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that everything may not go good.
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Yeah, I'm a Christian
but there is some good news.
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We're talking about the outside
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and I'm sure we're
gonna get into the good news
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about peace in the
midst of the storm.
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Amen.
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That's the difference.
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Absolutely.
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Pastor Kenny, will
you open up with prayer?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Let's all pray
together, shall we?
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Loving Father in heaven,
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we truly thank You
for this privilege,
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this opportunity
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to be able to
get into Your work.
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We just invite
the Holy Spirit now
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to take possession of our hearts
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and our minds and
each one who listens,
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those who view we just pray
Your Holy Spirit will give ears
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and eyes to hear to
see that You're coming soon
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and we need to be prepared.
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We need this peace
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as we are in the
midst of a storm, right?
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Amen.
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And, Lord,
every day of our life,
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the enemy's trying
to blow with the winds
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and try to blow us off center.
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We just pray the Holy Spirit now
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will center us
up with Your Word,
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bless each one here,
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each one again who
views and who listens.
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May the Holy Spirit be paramount
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in each of our hearts
and lives and lead us,
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we pray to our eternal home.
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Thank You for the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now we turn
everything over to you
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because you are able.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Thank you, Uncle Kenny.
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Let's look at Mark 4:35-41.
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And we're going to look
at some storms in the Bible.
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Mom, would you
like to read that?
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Sure, 35 to 41.
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Yeah, this is true
with family worship.
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Yeah.
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"On the same day,
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when evening it
come, He said to them,
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'Let us cross over
to the other side.'
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Now when they
left the multitude,
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they took Him along
in the boat as He was,
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and other little
boats were also with Him.
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And a great windstorm arose
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and the waves
beat into the boat,
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so that was all already filling.
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But He was in the
stern asleep on a pillow,
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and they woke
Him and said to Him,
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'Teacher, do you not
care that we're perishing?'
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Then He arose
and rebuked the wind
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and said to the sea,
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'Peace be still.'
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And the wind ceased,
and there was a great calm.
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But He said to them,
'Why are you so fearful?
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How is it that
you have no faith?'
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And they feared exceedingly
and said to one another,
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'Who can this be
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that even the wind
and the sea obey Him.'"
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Amen.
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They didn't know who
they had in the boat.
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Come on.
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And that's, I think
that's one key takeaway
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from this passage
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is you have to know
who you have in the boat.
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Come on. Who's with you.
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Who are you serving.
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So, I think, I
think that's crucial.
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What jumps out to you
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and we can just
go around the table.
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What jumps out to you
guys from this passage?
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What jumped out to me
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is during the
midst of the storm,
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a terrible storm,
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they thought
they were gonna die.
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And the Savior was
fast asleep on the boat.
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He had no concern, no worries,
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He was tired and He
was just taking a rest,
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He was sleeping.
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And it reminded me
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of Philippians
4:7 where it says,
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"And the peace of God
which passes all understanding
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shall keep your
hearts and your minds
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through Christ Jesus."
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And He had that peace.
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Of course, I
believe it's part of Himself
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but He had to learn too,
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being born on this earth
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He had to learn from His Father.
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And so, He had that
that peace from His Father
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and I think it passed
all understanding around Him.
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And that's kind of
where we're finding ourselves
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many times even today.
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You know,
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there's several
points that came out,
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you know, vivid in my mind
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because naturally
if you're in a storm,
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you're out on a set little boat.
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I assume Jesus
was on a little boat
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'cause there's
other little boats.
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And so, it wouldn't
take a whole lot of people
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to turn that boat over.
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They feared for their lives
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but it's kind of an illustration
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at least in my mind
about trying to earn
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salvation by works.
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They work their
self into a tizzy.
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What was they doing?
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I mean they were
rowing, they were fighting,
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they were carrying on
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as probably we might
do if we were out there.
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I mean, in less
situations than that,
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fought tooth and
nail, you know, to survive.
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I was just thinking
we've been out on the water.
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And it wasn't
that bad of a storm,
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but we were pretty concerned.
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But when you think about
that, they did all they could,
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but their expertise
as boatmen, fishermen,
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this is not their,
where they got first rodeo
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with the first storm.
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All right, this
wasn't their first storm,
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so they had fought many of them
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and they thought
maybe they had the skill to,
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you know, to counter.
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As Christians we
have what it takes inside
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and make it to heaven.
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And sometime we
leave Jesus outside.
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So they did
everything they could.
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It didn't, it didn't avail
to nothing, their strength,
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their skill,
everything was out the window.
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And so, then they
began to think about,
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you know, they
forgot Jesus for a while,
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we notice we
read there, they felt,
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when they begin
to feel helpless,
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when there was no hope,
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you see, and there seemed to
be nothing else for them to do,
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all of a sudden,
they remembered Jesus.
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First thing we should do,
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you know, instead
of trying to fail,
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again we're talking
about salvation here.
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They tried, I
think this happens,
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anytime we try to
save ourselves by works,
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by doing,
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we automatically
have forgotten Jesus.
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Automatically,
we put Him back here
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because we're
going to earn our way in
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and they tried their best,
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bless their heart
to save themselves.
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Nothing availed
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until they
finally gave up and said,
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"Lord save us from
perishing." That's good.
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Wow.
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Beauty of that is,
though, sometimes we do that,
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He's there when we do call.
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Yeah.
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In other words,
we can put Him off,
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they tried
everything else first.
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But you know, we
always say, well, you know,
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the peace I found in
the midst of the storm
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is because I've read
the back of the book,
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but they were with the book.
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Jesus is the book, right?
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He is the Word.
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They were, was with
the Word. That's right.
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And didn't even
really realize it.
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Yes.
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But even in the worst of times,
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and even when
we've forgotten somehow,
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and we've tried it our way,
if we cry out, "Lord save us."
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Yeah. He is there.
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That's right. That's right.
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And another application
where you guys were talking,
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it made me think right now,
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you know, we're going
through this COVID-19 crisis
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all over the world
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and a lot of
people are very fearful
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and so many people are
turning to the Word of God.
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I mean, I, we
listened to a news,
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I guess I shouldn't say
which news network on the air.
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Well, even more than one,
you hear more about praying,
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you hear more about scriptures,
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they're bringing in
different pastors or priests
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or whatever you know that
they, they want to bring in.
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In fact, I've even
seen some of ours on there,
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Wintley Phipps,
you know, come in.
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But what's
happening is a lot of people
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are turning back to the
Bible for the first time.
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We saw this at 9/11.
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You know, my prayer is
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if God gives us a
little more peace after this,
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we know that
there's gonna be repetitions
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of this type of
thing continue on,
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and I pray that
everyone will continue on
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with their walk with Christ.
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Amen.
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Hold on to Him,
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not just in the
midst of the storm,
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but every moment of every day.
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Yes.
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I remember
growing up thanking, Lord,
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I, please fill
me with Your love.
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I want to love and
serve You no matter what,
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not just in bad
times but anytime.
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Yes, yes.
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One of the things
that jumps out at me
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is that
everything is in such chaos.
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Yeah.
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And the Lord's
not wringing his hands
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and saying, "Oh,
what am I gonna do?"
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No, He is so
calm. He's sleeping.
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You know, how can you sleep
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in the midst of
this kind of storm.
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You can do that if
you are in control.
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So there's
nothing that confronts us
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that's too big for God.
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Amen.
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There's no challenge
that's too great for Him.
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It's, He's so chill
about the whole thing
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that He can sleep in
the midst of the storm.
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Which doesn't mean
that He's not responsive
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when we call because
when they called on Him
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as you brought out,
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He answered them. Yes.
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When we call on
Him, He answers us.
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Amen. Yes.
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So there's
nothing too hard for God.
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He is always there.
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He responds when we call,
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and He's got the
solution for every storm.
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Amen. Amen.
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Every storm.
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So the moral would be
maybe why fight it yourself.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Why not just give it to Jesus?
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There you go. Exactly.
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Song ever used to
sing, give them all,
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give them all to Jesus.
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Yes.
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But why did, you know,
the question becomes why did,
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why did Jesus let
it go to this point?
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There had to be a reason, right?
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So we have to think,
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why did He let
it go to this point?
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Was there something
and I know in my own life,
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there's things
that the Lord reveals
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by situations and
circumstances and storms.
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Right.
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And so, we see that here
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there were things evidently
with His close disciples,
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those who are with Him
that needed to be revealed.
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And I believe one of
those was simply a note
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I put down here,
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fear in the time of
danger reveals unbelief.
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Fear in the time of
danger reveals unbelief.
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Okay.
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That's true. Now
somebody help me with it.
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There's a
difference, isn't there,
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maybe help people understand
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the difference between
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I'm concerned than
fear, is that right?
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What kind of
difference would that be,
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there is a vast
difference or is there a...
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Fear right now,
you're looking at the COVID
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as you brought up 19.
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People around
the world are afraid.
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Yes. We have friends.
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I heard Yvonne
talking to one of her friends
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who's not a Christian or
at least believes in Jesus.
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And she's, I mean, like
to me it was almost foreign
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to hear like, I'm so afraid.
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I'm afraid to go outside,
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I wouldn't wanna
take my dogs out.
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I'm afraid of everything.
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I don't know
what's gonna happen.
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I mean her whole
life was just tore,
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tore up and we're sitting here,
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you know, well, this
is what's to be expected.
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That's right.
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But we can have peace
in the midst of the storm
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because we've read
the back of the book.
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That's right.
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And so, to be
concerned, absolutely.
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Should we be concerned
enough to wear a face mask
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when we are around
people to do social distancing?
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Absolutely.
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Should we try to
make sure to do, you know,
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to eat right and to
do everything we can do
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and we can?
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Absolutely.
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That's what the Christian,
I think you're talking about.
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We have concerns
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if we want to live a
longer healthier, happier life,
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lets say it depends
what we take into our body
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just like our automobiles,
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if we put gas in
them instead of sugars
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they say if we do
it's not gonna run.
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So, if we're, so as a Christian,
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we're concerned
when things go wrong,
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but we have peace
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that the end of the
story is going to be, we win.
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Amen.
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In other words,
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that there is
hope beyond this life.
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Yes.
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Someone just put, I
read, his name is Andrew.
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He read, his
father just went to sleep
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in the Lord yesterday.
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And so, I know him,
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he's a writer for
the church papers,
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and we've talked
some, and he said, but why?
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I've prayed, I've
read Psalms 41:43.
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And I've read all the scriptures
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and I questioned,
Lord, why did this happen?
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You know, I've
prayed it, because it says,
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you know, I'll heal you,
and I'll take care of you.
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And, you know,
if you do all this.
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Then his father
dies, and he said,
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but then all of a sudden,
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I read the
Scripture differently.
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Because my
father was a missionary.
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And he had helped so many people
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and this was referring to him,
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and he'd been
had three different
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like heart attacks or things
in the last number of years
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but he said when I looked
at it and not being a selfish,
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you know, not being selfish,
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the scriptures
everything that the Lord said
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it would be and now
my father's at peace,
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he's waiting on the
Lord and he's older in years.
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No one lives forever but he said
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sometimes we read scriptures
for right here and now.
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Yeah.
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That well, why
didn't this happen.
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Then all of a
sudden, I say, okay, God,
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Your faith says there must be.
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And let me reread this.
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Because you didn't
lie to me, let me reread,
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then I reread it,
the light goes on,
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I was too close
to the situation.
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Yeah.
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Now I get back precious
in the sight of the Lord
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is the death of His saints.
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I get back from this and I
say, okay, he was suffering.
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He was in a lot of pain.
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He's at rest. He's at peace.
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You know, so now he
says, "Praise the Lord."
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You know,
basically so I'm paraphrasing
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what I just read
a little bit ago,
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but that's the difference,
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I think is peace in
the midst of that storm.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Now, that's really
good, I mean, the disciples,
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they walked with God.
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Right.
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They spent time with God.
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They were in the boat with God.
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But yet when a
couple winds blew,
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and waves rocked,
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they got scared.
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Yeah.
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And they didn't,
they, like you said,
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they took matters
into their own hands.
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They almost missed the boat.
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They did. They did.
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They sure, I like that.
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We have to remember too,
He didn't come out and say,
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"Hey, I'm your
Creator, I'm your God."
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You know, He didn't say that,
they were getting to know Him.
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Yeah.
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In fact, let me put these on
so I can see what verse it was,
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verse 41, that
this history on read,
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and it was a different version.
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But my version is King James,
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it says and they
feared exceedingly.
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They feared exceedingly,
and said to one another,
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what manner of man is this
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that even the wind
and the sea obey Him?
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You know, so they were thinking,
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whoa, who is this?
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Who is this? Yeah.
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You know, so that's amazing.
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You know at peace.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
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No, no, no.
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I just think about peace,
what really destroys peace?
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The sin.
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The sin issue, you
find people in the world,
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you know, and you
read the Scripture,
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there is no peace,
saith my God to wicked.
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So, the sin in the world
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people doing
things they shouldn't do,
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they understand
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that they shouldn't be doing it.
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And you find they have
no peace in their life,
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even when it come to the
time here when Christ stood up,
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you know, He, you
know, He said, what is it?
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John 5, He said, "Of
myself, I can do nothing."
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"Of myself, I can do nothing."
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Well, we thought it was Himself,
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we thought it was Jesus
that stood up and said what?
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You know, be still,
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but who was He
doing that through?
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Who really calmed those waves?
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Who really stopped that storm?
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It was Jesus' faith no doubt it,
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but it was His Father's, right?
00:18:46.09\00:18:48.29
Because He, yeah, His
Father because He's of myself,
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I can't do any of these,
He's saying, every healing,
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everything that took
place while He was here,
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nothing about Him.
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Self was gone.
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God was living inside
of Him revealing Himself.
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I thought that to me,
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that was just an
exciting aspect of it.
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Yes.
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And God can say to you and me
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and those who are
going through situations
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you don't understand right now,
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He can say peace be still.
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That's right. Okay.
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And I need to hear
that myself sometimes.
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Oh, yes.
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Peace be still when
we look around the world
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and we see so many
things that are happening.
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And I don't want
viewers or anyone here to think.
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And people do
sometimes, they just say words,
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you know, like, just,
just getting the word.
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This is real stuff.
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This is things,
don't you believe that we,
00:19:31.70\00:19:33.97
we all deal with
on a daily basis,
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but maybe in a
little different way.
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Because, you know,
00:19:38.97\00:19:40.31
we say we know who holds, right?
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We know who holds.
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You know, it's all in His hands.
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But it still,
doesn't we mentioned, Danny,
00:19:44.81\00:19:46.58
about concern.
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We still have
concern of what's going on,
00:19:48.22\00:19:50.69
and there we're not concerned,
00:19:50.72\00:19:52.65
that sound like take
it to the Lord in prayer
00:19:52.69\00:19:54.92
and leave it
there and not pick it up
00:19:54.96\00:19:57.16
and take it back with you.
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So, you know, this
thing we talked about,
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really this one passage
will go on for the whole hour.
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Yeah.
00:20:03.33\00:20:04.67
And then you'll
have to do another one.
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You can do part
two and part three,
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saving a little time.
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We've had a little
experience in that.
00:20:09.94\00:20:11.27
I see how you
developed the whole sermon.
00:20:11.31\00:20:12.74
But there's, there's joy to me.
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Oh, yes. There's joy in this.
00:20:14.38\00:20:15.84
You know, we read this
as a child, did we not?
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We heard umpteen sermons on it.
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And it's, it just,
it just never gets old.
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No. It just doesn't.
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It's true. Because
we always have storms.
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You know what I mean?
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It never gets old
because it's always applicable
00:20:32.13\00:20:35.23
to our lives.
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Yes. Yes.
00:20:36.63\00:20:37.97
You know, it
just hit me on this,
00:20:38.00\00:20:39.33
and maybe I should
think and then talk about it.
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I've never
thought about this before.
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But people will look at
00:20:44.44\00:20:47.04
whether it's
those crucifying Jesus
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or those in the boat or
the Doubting Thomas and say,
00:20:50.65\00:20:53.88
how could they do that?
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They were with Him.
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How could they do that?
00:20:57.09\00:20:58.65
If I were there, I
would have believed.
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If I were there,
00:21:00.76\00:21:02.09
I would have did
this or that in some ways.
00:21:02.12\00:21:05.06
And it just occurred
to me a few minutes ago
00:21:05.09\00:21:07.06
while we're talking.
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In some ways we
have the advantage.
00:21:08.46\00:21:10.90
Yes, yes, that's right.
00:21:10.93\00:21:12.50
Because we have the history
of everything that went on
00:21:12.53\00:21:16.77
and they were acting
on the spur of the moment,
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.61
Peter drew the
sword, right then.
00:21:18.64\00:21:21.28
Now that we're able
to read the whole story
00:21:21.31\00:21:23.98
and say what
Jesus said, we'd say,
00:21:24.01\00:21:26.01
"Okay, we should act a
lot better than Peter,"
00:21:26.05\00:21:28.42
right?
00:21:28.45\00:21:29.78
We should not be
afraid in the storm,
00:21:29.82\00:21:31.89
because now we have studied it,
00:21:31.92\00:21:33.66
we've seen it God gave His
Word through the Holy Spirit.
00:21:33.69\00:21:36.99
So for us to say,
00:21:37.03\00:21:38.43
well, you know,
it's so tough now
00:21:38.46\00:21:39.83
and I'm so remote.
00:21:39.86\00:21:41.20
Back then I would have
been no, you wouldn't have been,
00:21:41.23\00:21:44.37
we'll be the same as we are now.
00:21:44.40\00:21:45.77
But how great that God gave
us His Word and the Holy Spirit,
00:21:45.80\00:21:50.71
so that we can be prepared
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and we can learn
from these others.
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So next time we're in the storm,
00:21:54.38\00:21:55.78
let's don't get ready to
bail out or start screaming
00:21:55.81\00:21:58.05
or crying instead of
except Lord and save me.
00:21:58.08\00:22:01.28
Yeah. That's right.
00:22:01.32\00:22:02.65
That's right.
That's a good word.
00:22:02.68\00:22:04.02
I did call her
for the life jacket
00:22:04.05\00:22:05.39
once in the while.
00:22:05.42\00:22:07.29
But we know who
the life jacket is.
00:22:07.32\00:22:08.69
That's right. That's right.
00:22:08.72\00:22:11.36
Let's go on over
to Matthew Chapter 14.
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Even though,
Jay, even though, Jay,
00:22:13.43\00:22:16.46
on the jet ski when
you threw Kenny the keys,
00:22:16.50\00:22:19.17
who threw him the keys?
00:22:19.20\00:22:20.54
Oh, man I almost
had a heart attack.
00:22:20.57\00:22:22.94
Yeah, we threw him the keys,
Kenny sitting on the jet ski,
00:22:22.97\00:22:25.51
you remember and so.
00:22:25.54\00:22:26.88
Oh, yeah.
00:22:26.91\00:22:28.24
But to hand him the
keys and it went over him
00:22:28.28\00:22:30.65
and he reached and
last we saw down he was,
00:22:30.68\00:22:33.38
out he was going into the water
00:22:33.42\00:22:34.88
but he bought
just like a little cork
00:22:34.92\00:22:37.49
he popped right back, he got in.
00:22:37.52\00:22:41.02
Sorry to bring that up.
00:22:41.06\00:22:42.39
And he came up
rejoiced in the hand.
00:22:42.42\00:22:43.86
With the keys in the
hand. Yeah, he caught the keys.
00:22:43.89\00:22:46.56
You had to focus.
00:22:46.59\00:22:48.06
There was a
disaster and the way out,
00:22:48.10\00:22:50.27
it was off balance.
00:22:50.30\00:22:51.63
Thank you. Oh, yeah.
00:22:51.67\00:22:53.00
This will begin our
spiritual, I was off balance,
00:22:53.03\00:22:54.37
I was knocked off
balance but whoever,
00:22:54.40\00:22:55.74
whatever threw him out there,
but we have to stay focused.
00:22:55.77\00:22:58.24
Yeah.
00:22:58.27\00:22:59.61
You know, when you
focus on the object
00:22:59.64\00:23:00.98
in which we are wanting
to attain, which is heaven.
00:23:01.01\00:23:03.71
Okay.
00:23:03.75\00:23:05.08
So don't lose sight,
00:23:05.11\00:23:07.38
even though you're
going into the water.
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.12
Yeah, I might
let go a little bit.
00:23:09.15\00:23:11.39
I might have
just looked and said,
00:23:11.42\00:23:12.75
Jay, that was a bad throw.
00:23:12.79\00:23:14.19
You know, if somebody,
00:23:14.22\00:23:15.56
I would have
blamed somebody else.
00:23:15.59\00:23:16.93
I don't remember if
you were or Mark, was you.
00:23:16.96\00:23:18.99
I threw it.
00:23:19.03\00:23:20.36
Yeah, even if it's
right to me and you miss it.
00:23:20.40\00:23:22.13
You might say
that was a bad throw
00:23:22.16\00:23:23.63
and the keys disappears
and got stuck in the water.
00:23:23.67\00:23:25.83
I'm not mistaken.
00:23:25.87\00:23:27.20
But Kenny,
literally, like slow motion up
00:23:27.24\00:23:29.94
and lean and lean to get in,
00:23:29.97\00:23:32.31
you know, and all
of a sudden it's gone.
00:23:32.34\00:23:33.68
I knew it was too late.
00:23:33.71\00:23:35.04
Off of it in the
water but back up,
00:23:35.08\00:23:37.81
the first thing he
showed us was the key.
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.95
Yes.
00:23:39.98\00:23:41.48
Thing I noticed
when I was going over
00:23:41.52\00:23:44.22
was, it about four men
standing on and I thought,
00:23:44.25\00:23:46.79
I heard somebody say
jump in and help him.
00:23:46.82\00:23:48.72
I don't think anybody did.
00:23:48.76\00:23:50.23
We jumped, we jumped in
but by the time we jumped in,
00:23:50.26\00:23:52.86
you came back yourself fast.
00:23:52.89\00:23:54.23
Oh, yeah.
00:23:54.26\00:23:55.60
He bounced back up like a sport.
00:23:55.63\00:23:57.27
But what an allegory. Yes.
00:23:57.30\00:23:58.83
'Cause how many of us
00:23:58.87\00:24:00.20
who know we're
reaching out in faith
00:24:00.24\00:24:02.20
for what we know is right,
00:24:02.24\00:24:03.57
but we don't
know that end result.
00:24:03.61\00:24:05.61
And we lose
balance. And we lose balance.
00:24:05.64\00:24:08.61
We lose focus. Yeah.
00:24:08.64\00:24:09.98
Come on, Kenny, you got
a sermon out of everything.
00:24:10.01\00:24:12.68
He does.
00:24:12.71\00:24:14.05
There is a song
and I used to think
00:24:14.08\00:24:16.08
that Melody Dawn,
00:24:16.12\00:24:17.45
in fact, I even
asked her one time
00:24:17.49\00:24:18.92
'cause I thought
when she was really young,
00:24:18.95\00:24:20.49
she had sang this at
the Marion Adventist Church.
00:24:20.52\00:24:23.02
He's still working on me,
00:24:23.06\00:24:25.06
you know, to make
me what I ought to be.
00:24:25.09\00:24:26.96
And I kind of thought
of that during this lesson.
00:24:27.00\00:24:29.26
Because, you
know, it's not always
00:24:29.30\00:24:32.00
our first
response to be peaceful
00:24:32.03\00:24:35.17
in the midst of stress
or storm or someone sick.
00:24:35.20\00:24:39.01
You know, but it's
something I've had to learn,
00:24:39.04\00:24:41.31
it's something he's
teaching me and reteaching me.
00:24:41.34\00:24:44.21
I think of one case
00:24:44.25\00:24:45.58
where we were
having a storm financially.
00:24:45.61\00:24:48.38
And I had fear just
absolutely gripped me
00:24:48.42\00:24:51.85
to the point I was shaking.
00:24:51.89\00:24:53.96
And he lives what he just
said, he came in and I was,
00:24:53.99\00:24:56.73
I needed consoling,
00:24:56.76\00:24:58.09
I was ready for
him to say honey,
00:24:58.13\00:24:59.46
it's going to be all right,
00:24:59.49\00:25:00.83
you know, give me
a hug, he's like...
00:25:00.86\00:25:02.20
Oh, honey, this
is something good.
00:25:02.23\00:25:03.57
Where's your faith?
00:25:03.60\00:25:04.93
Oh, ye of little faith. Okay.
00:25:04.97\00:25:06.74
I mean literally
and I just had to stop.
00:25:06.77\00:25:09.37
But, you know what?
00:25:09.40\00:25:10.74
He was right. Make
it positive, honey.
00:25:10.77\00:25:12.57
He was right in the long run
00:25:12.61\00:25:14.48
because I did not
exude faith at that time.
00:25:14.51\00:25:17.71
You know, you have get
somebody's attention sometime,
00:25:17.75\00:25:19.65
there have to be rebuke.
00:25:19.68\00:25:21.85
It was a loving rebuke. It was.
00:25:21.88\00:25:24.25
Better than the slap. True.
00:25:24.29\00:25:26.86
I didn't feel real
loved at that time.
00:25:26.89\00:25:29.19
You don't want to
see your loved ones,
00:25:29.22\00:25:31.76
you know, your family.
00:25:31.79\00:25:33.13
Anybody go in that
get in that condition
00:25:33.16\00:25:36.63
to where they're really,
it's hurting them mentally
00:25:36.67\00:25:38.93
and spiritually
and so on and so forth.
00:25:38.97\00:25:40.57
Sometimes you
just say, hey, hey,
00:25:40.60\00:25:42.97
pointing back to the Scripture.
00:25:43.00\00:25:44.34
Yes.
00:25:44.37\00:25:45.71
Pointing back to
that we serve a God,
00:25:45.74\00:25:47.08
He's sitting on the throne.
He's working in our behalf.
00:25:47.11\00:25:49.14
Yes.
00:25:49.18\00:25:50.51
And even in the
midst of everything.
00:25:50.55\00:25:52.21
I mean, we look at
right here anytime,
00:25:52.25\00:25:54.55
I think you
mentioned, Sister Yvonne,
00:25:54.58\00:25:56.15
anytime you call,
even if you're late.
00:25:56.18\00:25:58.85
That's right. Yes.
00:25:58.89\00:26:00.22
You know, Danny, I think
you mentioned that too even,
00:26:00.26\00:26:02.22
He still answers.
00:26:02.26\00:26:03.86
Amen. Amen.
00:26:03.89\00:26:05.49
See, we wouldn't do
that. What we would say?
00:26:05.53\00:26:07.50
I told you so. Yes.
00:26:07.53\00:26:09.13
You've done this three
times, you swim for yourself.
00:26:09.16\00:26:11.83
I mean, that's not
the way God operates.
00:26:11.87\00:26:13.64
So keep that in mind.
00:26:13.67\00:26:15.00
You know, the viewers' mind,
00:26:15.04\00:26:16.77
that if you haven't
called on Him in a while,
00:26:16.81\00:26:18.57
call on Him.
00:26:18.61\00:26:19.94
He's still going to hear
regardless of what you've done.
00:26:19.97\00:26:21.78
He's going to answer.
00:26:21.81\00:26:23.24
That's right. That's right.
00:26:23.28\00:26:24.65
Another just
minute little point is...
00:26:24.68\00:26:26.18
I'll be quiet.
00:26:26.21\00:26:27.55
No, no, don't be quiet.
00:26:27.58\00:26:28.92
It's, you made me think of this
00:26:28.95\00:26:30.29
is because these
are God's workmen.
00:26:30.32\00:26:32.62
You know, this is what,
He does not allow anything
00:26:32.65\00:26:35.82
to touch the apple of
His eye unless He okays it.
00:26:35.86\00:26:38.79
Amen. And He's okayed it.
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.46
And so, when these things come,
00:26:40.50\00:26:42.36
then that's His workmen to
help to build our character,
00:26:42.40\00:26:45.93
to build our faith.
00:26:45.97\00:26:47.44
You know, we're going
to get into faith more.
00:26:47.47\00:26:49.04
And I was, I
remember when I was studying,
00:26:49.07\00:26:50.57
I thought, wow,
faith is so powerful.
00:26:50.61\00:26:53.54
It is so powerful.
00:26:53.58\00:26:55.14
We need to be building
that faith that we hold on
00:26:55.18\00:26:57.95
no matter where
we're going with the key.
00:26:57.98\00:27:00.08
This is the key by the way.
00:27:00.12\00:27:01.45
And what a great example
talking about the disciples
00:27:01.48\00:27:04.15
in a boat and Kenny in mud.
00:27:04.19\00:27:05.65
That's, yeah, that's true.
00:27:05.69\00:27:08.26
And he went out hanging on.
00:27:08.29\00:27:09.62
He did, he did.
00:27:09.66\00:27:10.99
Good catch. Yeah,
that was a great catch.
00:27:11.03\00:27:13.96
Yes.
00:27:14.00\00:27:15.33
All right, let's
look at Matthew 14:26.
00:27:15.36\00:27:18.53
We're going to deal
with some more water here.
00:27:18.57\00:27:20.50
And we're gonna look
at verses 26 through 31.
00:27:20.54\00:27:25.47
Now, actually, let's
start in 25, verse 25.
00:27:25.51\00:27:28.74
"Now in the fourth
watch of the night,
00:27:28.78\00:27:30.51
Jesus went to them
walking on the sea,
00:27:30.55\00:27:33.28
and when the disciples
saw him walking on the sea,
00:27:33.31\00:27:35.68
they were troubled,
saying, it is a ghost.
00:27:35.72\00:27:38.52
And they cried out for fear.
00:27:38.55\00:27:40.49
But immediately
Jesus spoke to them saying,
00:27:40.52\00:27:42.92
'Be of good cheer.
00:27:42.96\00:27:44.29
It is I do not be afraid.'
00:27:44.33\00:27:47.10
And Peter answered Him and said,
00:27:47.13\00:27:48.60
'Lord, if it is You,
00:27:48.63\00:27:49.96
command me to come
to You on the water.'
00:27:50.00\00:27:53.03
So, He said, 'Come.'
00:27:53.07\00:27:54.47
And when Peter had
come down out of the boat,
00:27:54.50\00:27:57.64
he walked on the
water to go to Jesus.
00:27:57.67\00:28:00.74
But when he saw that
the wind was boisterous,
00:28:00.78\00:28:04.05
he was afraid and
beginning to sink,
00:28:04.08\00:28:06.58
he cried out,
saying, 'Lord, save me.'
00:28:06.61\00:28:09.98
And immediately Jesus
stretched out His hand
00:28:10.02\00:28:12.85
and caught him and said to him,
00:28:12.89\00:28:14.66
'Oh, you of little
faith, why did you doubt?'
00:28:14.69\00:28:19.39
" It seems like
we keep seeing that.
00:28:19.43\00:28:20.76
Yes.
00:28:20.80\00:28:22.13
Oh, ye of little
faith, why did you doubt?
00:28:22.16\00:28:24.73
And if you notice, he
took his eyes off of Jesus.
00:28:24.77\00:28:28.44
That's it.
00:28:28.47\00:28:29.80
You know, and that's
and that was his downfall.
00:28:29.84\00:28:31.94
Yes. That was
his downfall there.
00:28:31.97\00:28:34.01
And it's all of our downfalls.
00:28:34.04\00:28:35.71
When I mentioned the money,
my focus was on bankruptcy.
00:28:35.74\00:28:40.72
And what was about to
happen and what are we gonna do?
00:28:40.75\00:28:44.29
But my focus was not
on, you know, Christ.
00:28:44.32\00:28:48.72
I wasn't seeing
Him at that time.
00:28:48.76\00:28:50.69
I didn't see Him in
the midst of the storm.
00:28:50.73\00:28:53.09
So, it makes
sense, it makes sense.
00:28:53.13\00:28:55.96
But isn't it beautiful?
00:28:56.00\00:28:57.33
'Cause all it,
like we just said,
00:28:57.37\00:28:58.93
you know, He's there,
He answers when we call.
00:28:58.97\00:29:02.04
And Peter asked
and He said, calm.
00:29:02.07\00:29:04.71
And that's what He says
to each and every one of us
00:29:04.74\00:29:07.01
that invite Him
and He just says, calm.
00:29:07.04\00:29:10.05
He wants us to come to Him.
00:29:10.08\00:29:12.05
And He's gonna,
00:29:12.08\00:29:13.42
He's gonna make
us welcome water.
00:29:13.45\00:29:14.88
He's gonna, you know,
just give us heavenly power,
00:29:14.92\00:29:18.19
heavenly wisdom, heavenly faith.
00:29:18.22\00:29:19.92
I love it. Let me throw...
00:29:19.95\00:29:21.29
Go ahead.
00:29:21.32\00:29:22.66
Well, I was just gonna
say, and whoever comes to Him,
00:29:22.69\00:29:24.16
He will in no wise
cast out. Hallelujah.
00:29:24.19\00:29:26.90
So, when we come to Him,
00:29:26.93\00:29:28.86
we can expect
that He will be there.
00:29:28.90\00:29:32.23
And He's not
going to turn us away.
00:29:32.27\00:29:33.94
So many people
think, "Oh, I've done this,
00:29:33.97\00:29:36.77
I've done that, I'm
too bad to go to God."
00:29:36.81\00:29:39.47
I hear that a lot.
00:29:39.51\00:29:40.84
Yes, people feel so laid
down with guilt and shame
00:29:40.88\00:29:45.31
that they can't come to God.
00:29:45.35\00:29:47.78
No, that's what,
He wants you to come.
00:29:47.82\00:29:49.88
Amen. He invites you to come.
00:29:49.92\00:29:51.25
Yes. Whosoever
will, let Him come.
00:29:51.29\00:29:53.46
If I walk into the
church, the rafters enthralled.
00:29:53.49\00:29:56.62
Yeah. You heard that one?
00:29:56.66\00:29:57.99
You've heard that
one? I heard that one.
00:29:58.03\00:29:59.36
But they think that
they've done something
00:29:59.39\00:30:02.06
too bad and that's why again,
00:30:02.10\00:30:03.57
the Word of God is so powerful
00:30:03.60\00:30:05.00
because they've been
murderers, adulterers.
00:30:05.03\00:30:07.30
That's right.
00:30:07.34\00:30:08.67
All of these people
who've done different things
00:30:08.70\00:30:11.14
in this world whom God loved,
00:30:11.17\00:30:15.21
He loves all of us
and so there's no sin.
00:30:15.24\00:30:18.91
There's no sin too
great or too heavy for God
00:30:18.95\00:30:24.89
to say My blood covers,
Jesus' blood covers every sin.
00:30:24.92\00:30:30.33
Even things we
don't want to think about
00:30:30.36\00:30:32.03
like a pedophile or the,
you know, things that are just,
00:30:32.06\00:30:35.26
you know, we just
think are so awful.
00:30:35.30\00:30:37.83
God loves everyone
00:30:37.87\00:30:41.47
and His blood
covers and He can fix it,
00:30:41.50\00:30:44.77
He can fix it. Amen. Amen.
00:30:44.81\00:30:47.58
Yeah, it is, you know,
00:30:47.61\00:30:49.28
it's, it's interesting
too Jesus' response time.
00:30:49.31\00:30:52.81
Yes.
00:30:52.85\00:30:54.78
Lord, save me.
00:30:54.82\00:30:56.28
Immediately He's
right there to help him.
00:30:56.32\00:30:58.62
Yeah. Right there to help him.
00:30:58.65\00:31:00.26
And that's the same with us.
00:31:00.29\00:31:01.62
You know, we call on His
name, He's right there that,
00:31:01.66\00:31:04.39
He never went anywhere. Come on.
00:31:04.43\00:31:05.96
He's always been there. Yes.
00:31:05.99\00:31:08.20
But we went in
the wrong direction.
00:31:08.23\00:31:10.20
Oh, that's good too.
00:31:10.23\00:31:11.57
But one thing, we
think about reading,
00:31:11.60\00:31:13.54
studied or more about that
00:31:13.57\00:31:14.90
I was trying to
put it in my mind.
00:31:14.94\00:31:16.27
I thought, I think Jesus,
00:31:16.30\00:31:18.61
somebody,
correct me if I'm wrong,
00:31:18.64\00:31:19.97
Jesus was on
the shore this time.
00:31:20.01\00:31:23.18
He knew the storm, He
knew what was taking place.
00:31:23.21\00:31:27.08
I think the
Desire of Ages brings out
00:31:27.12\00:31:29.02
not for one moment
00:31:29.05\00:31:31.69
did Jesus take His
eyes off of that boat.
00:31:31.72\00:31:35.26
I mean, that's awesome.
00:31:35.29\00:31:36.62
They're going through a mess,
00:31:36.66\00:31:37.99
but not for one moment
00:31:38.03\00:31:39.36
did He take His
eyes for a second.
00:31:39.39\00:31:40.73
Hallelujah.
00:31:40.76\00:31:42.10
But notice, again,
00:31:42.13\00:31:43.47
we're looking salvation by works
00:31:43.50\00:31:44.83
and so on and take it
back and think about this.
00:31:44.87\00:31:46.40
As long as they
were working hard
00:31:46.43\00:31:48.64
to save themselves.
00:31:48.67\00:31:50.74
He stayed on the shore. Wow.
00:31:50.77\00:31:52.94
It wasn't until,
00:31:52.97\00:31:54.94
Lord, save us we
perish, Lord, help me,
00:31:54.98\00:31:58.95
you see, when
they gave up on self.
00:31:58.98\00:32:01.85
And they call on His name.
00:32:01.88\00:32:03.89
Then you see all of a sudden,
a bright light as it were on,
00:32:03.92\00:32:06.99
here comes Jesus walking.
00:32:07.02\00:32:08.52
And then the other point I
thought was so fascinating.
00:32:08.56\00:32:11.03
He, I don't want to say pretend,
00:32:11.06\00:32:12.89
Jesus didn't pretend.
00:32:12.93\00:32:14.26
But He, as though He
was going to walk by them,
00:32:14.30\00:32:17.47
they needed Him
desperately but He was gonna...
00:32:17.50\00:32:20.14
It said, He was gonna
get ready to walk by and then
00:32:20.17\00:32:22.60
they reached out
and they started crying,
00:32:22.64\00:32:24.01
Lord, you know, save us.
Now what they were saying?
00:32:24.04\00:32:26.61
We're lost.
00:32:26.64\00:32:28.41
When you say
and I say, I'm lost.
00:32:28.44\00:32:30.58
Yes.
00:32:30.61\00:32:31.95
That's when He finds. Amen.
00:32:31.98\00:32:33.31
That's when He
walks on the water.
00:32:33.35\00:32:35.98
See, that's it,
but He couldn't do it
00:32:36.02\00:32:38.35
as long as they were struggling,
00:32:38.39\00:32:39.72
and kicking, and
fighting like some of us,
00:32:39.75\00:32:41.39
in our Christian experience
we're fighting, and kicking,
00:32:41.42\00:32:43.16
and trying to, it
didn't work out this way,
00:32:43.19\00:32:44.89
I'll make it work this
way instead of just turning it
00:32:44.93\00:32:46.70
over to the Lord.
00:32:46.73\00:32:48.06
So, I think just a good point
is Lord we're lost, you know.
00:32:48.10\00:32:51.43
That's right.
00:32:51.47\00:32:52.80
See, it's when
they had given up,
00:32:52.83\00:32:54.37
when they quit fighting,
00:32:54.40\00:32:55.84
and just said they can't see,
they don't know the direction
00:32:55.87\00:32:57.97
which way they're
going and they're just lost.
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.44
And He said, now I can help you.
00:33:00.48\00:33:02.71
Yes. His timing is perfect.
00:33:02.74\00:33:04.98
Yes. His timing is perfect.
00:33:05.01\00:33:06.95
Our friend Aaron
Wilburn wrote a song
00:33:06.98\00:33:09.52
called four days late,
00:33:09.55\00:33:11.45
you know, and it was
about when the disciples
00:33:11.49\00:33:15.22
and He went to
Lazarus and they said,
00:33:15.26\00:33:18.09
You come too late.
00:33:18.13\00:33:20.10
You know, had you come,
you know, You came too late,
00:33:20.13\00:33:24.07
You're four days late.
00:33:24.10\00:33:25.83
But when Jesus
is four days late.
00:33:25.87\00:33:28.30
He is right on time.
Come on, He's still...
00:33:28.34\00:33:30.07
Right on time. Still on time.
00:33:30.11\00:33:31.44
That's right.
00:33:31.47\00:33:32.81
That's right.
Right on time there.
00:33:32.84\00:33:34.18
He goes to the
grave and shows them,
00:33:34.21\00:33:36.75
Creator of the universe.
00:33:36.78\00:33:40.52
Yes. He says,
Lazarus, come forth.
00:33:40.55\00:33:43.42
Peter said, if he
hadn't said Lazarus,
00:33:43.45\00:33:45.19
all the graves would come alive.
00:33:45.22\00:33:48.16
Think about that.
00:33:48.19\00:33:49.52
He's always on time.
00:33:49.56\00:33:50.89
So when we are discouraged
or Lord, where are You,
00:33:50.93\00:33:54.56
it's not where are
You, it's where are we.
00:33:54.60\00:33:56.00
Where are we? Yes.
00:33:56.03\00:33:57.50
Where are we
00:33:57.53\00:33:58.87
that we've
separated ourselves from you,
00:33:58.90\00:34:01.90
but when you sincerely
cry out, Lord, save me.
00:34:01.94\00:34:05.07
Amen, amen.
Immediately He worked, right?
00:34:05.11\00:34:07.84
Look it in verse 27,
00:34:07.88\00:34:10.85
where Jesus says be
of good cheer it is,
00:34:10.88\00:34:13.65
I do not be afraid.
00:34:13.68\00:34:16.45
Like, I've got you.
00:34:16.48\00:34:18.45
I'm here. Your champion is here.
00:34:18.49\00:34:22.29
Your hero is here.
00:34:22.32\00:34:23.66
Your God is here.
00:34:23.69\00:34:26.29
Be of good cheer.
00:34:26.33\00:34:27.66
Don't, be happy,
like don't worry about it.
00:34:27.70\00:34:30.23
I've got you.
00:34:30.27\00:34:31.60
And that's to me,
00:34:31.63\00:34:33.60
knowing that no
matter what we go through
00:34:33.64\00:34:36.50
that we can,
00:34:36.54\00:34:37.87
that Jesus is
saying be of good cheer,
00:34:37.91\00:34:40.14
I'm here, I've got you.
00:34:40.18\00:34:42.88
I'm here with
you. That's beautiful.
00:34:42.91\00:34:45.31
Another thing
that Uncle Kenny said,
00:34:45.35\00:34:49.28
that really made me think too
00:34:49.32\00:34:51.89
was he said that
from Desire of Ages
00:34:51.92\00:34:54.29
as she said, He never
took His eye off the boat.
00:34:54.32\00:34:59.09
And I thought immediately,
00:34:59.13\00:35:00.63
He never takes
His eye off of us.
00:35:00.66\00:35:03.03
That's right.
00:35:03.06\00:35:04.40
How often we feel so
alone, we feel hopeless.
00:35:04.43\00:35:07.94
We don't know what to do.
00:35:07.97\00:35:09.47
You know, I know
all of us have question,
00:35:09.50\00:35:11.11
what are we going to do
00:35:11.14\00:35:12.47
if there really is
a big lack of food?
00:35:12.51\00:35:15.14
You know,
00:35:15.18\00:35:16.51
how are we going to
start growing gardens?
00:35:16.54\00:35:17.98
Many of us haven't, you
know, I have a little garden,
00:35:18.01\00:35:20.45
but I've never grown
enough to sustain us.
00:35:20.48\00:35:23.65
And then you
have to preserve it,
00:35:23.69\00:35:25.19
then you've got to have heat.
00:35:25.22\00:35:26.55
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:26.59\00:35:27.92
All these things
go through your mind.
00:35:27.96\00:35:30.06
But he's never taken His eye off
00:35:30.09\00:35:32.89
and He gives us these things.
00:35:32.93\00:35:34.26
He says, "Get ready, get ready."
00:35:34.30\00:35:36.53
And I like, you know,
00:35:36.56\00:35:37.90
when we come to
Him, Matthew 11:28 says,
00:35:37.93\00:35:40.67
"Come unto Me all ye that
labor and are heavy laden."
00:35:40.70\00:35:44.91
Many of us feel
heavy laden right now.
00:35:44.94\00:35:48.08
Many of us feel, but
Jesus gives us promise.
00:35:48.11\00:35:51.25
And I will give
you all of us rest,
00:35:51.28\00:35:56.42
rest in the midst of a storm.
00:35:56.45\00:35:58.05
Yes.
00:35:58.09\00:35:59.42
Peace in the midst of a storm.
00:35:59.45\00:36:00.79
That's right. Ah, have mercy.
00:36:00.82\00:36:02.89
Or His eyes on the sparrow.
00:36:02.92\00:36:05.89
And I know He watches me.
00:36:05.93\00:36:08.46
He watches every
sparrow that falls.
00:36:08.50\00:36:10.13
That's right.
00:36:10.17\00:36:11.50
He's the lily of the fields.
00:36:11.53\00:36:13.50
You don't have to worry about
is He keeping His eye on us.
00:36:13.54\00:36:16.07
Yeah. Beautiful.
00:36:16.10\00:36:17.81
Yes, it's good. Right.
00:36:17.84\00:36:19.17
You know, as I
read this passage,
00:36:19.21\00:36:21.24
I start thinking about like,
00:36:21.28\00:36:23.45
how cool is it
00:36:23.48\00:36:24.81
to even be able
to walk on water.
00:36:24.85\00:36:27.65
I see Peter, you know,
00:36:27.68\00:36:29.65
getting out of
the boat and he said,
00:36:29.68\00:36:32.25
"Lord, if as You call me to You,
00:36:32.29\00:36:34.29
like, like,
00:36:34.32\00:36:35.66
as I stepped out of the boat,
00:36:35.69\00:36:37.13
he's walking on
water towards the Lord.
00:36:37.16\00:36:39.73
And then I can
only imagine like maybe
00:36:39.76\00:36:43.10
if he was feeling
himself for a second like,
00:36:43.13\00:36:45.20
wow, I'm really,
like I'm walking on water.
00:36:45.23\00:36:47.44
Yeah.
00:36:47.47\00:36:48.80
You know, and then he
just bloop, bloop, bloop,
00:36:48.84\00:36:52.41
start sinking.
00:36:52.44\00:36:53.78
Maybe he looked back to see
if everybody was watching him.
00:36:53.81\00:36:56.28
That's right. That's right.
00:36:56.31\00:36:58.01
And, you know, in modern times
00:36:58.05\00:37:00.85
how many of us have been blessed
00:37:00.88\00:37:02.52
with gifts and talents
that the Lord has given to us
00:37:02.55\00:37:06.22
where, you
know, then we're like,
00:37:06.25\00:37:09.36
oh, look at what I can do.
00:37:09.39\00:37:10.73
Wow.
00:37:10.76\00:37:12.09
And we take our eyes
off of the prize who gave us
00:37:12.13\00:37:15.03
these gifts and
talents to glorify Him.
00:37:15.06\00:37:17.63
Yes.
00:37:17.67\00:37:19.00
But we use it to
glorify ourselves.
00:37:19.03\00:37:21.24
Oh, that's good. So I
kind of saw it in there.
00:37:21.27\00:37:24.51
I was like, that's
pretty interesting.
00:37:24.54\00:37:26.88
Yeah. Peter had problems.
00:37:26.91\00:37:29.01
And again, I had to ask,
you know, posed the question,
00:37:29.04\00:37:31.28
why did Jesus allow
Peter to get out on the water.
00:37:31.31\00:37:36.42
He knew what
was going to happen.
00:37:36.45\00:37:38.35
But yet He was
wanting to reveal to whom,
00:37:38.39\00:37:40.76
like He does to me.
00:37:40.79\00:37:42.12
He's wanting to
reveal those things
00:37:42.16\00:37:43.73
that need to be
improved to Peter,
00:37:43.76\00:37:45.89
and so one of them was unbelief
00:37:45.93\00:37:48.46
and the other
was self-exaltation.
00:37:48.50\00:37:51.33
When he looked back,
00:37:51.37\00:37:52.70
did you notice he
took his eyes off.
00:37:52.73\00:37:54.07
When we take our
eyes off of Christ,
00:37:54.10\00:37:55.50
we automatically lose faith.
00:37:55.54\00:37:57.31
Yeah.
00:37:57.34\00:37:58.67
Automatically unbelief
comes in and we become afraid.
00:37:58.71\00:38:02.61
Yes, yes.
00:38:02.64\00:38:03.98
I thought that was just awesome
to think about this Peter.
00:38:04.01\00:38:06.88
He wanted Peter to
recognize, now how did Peter,
00:38:06.92\00:38:09.98
the boys in the
boat we would say it
00:38:10.02\00:38:11.35
didn't say this
could have chuckled, oh.
00:38:11.39\00:38:14.46
But as soon as
that wave come up,
00:38:14.49\00:38:15.82
he lost sight of Christ,
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.19
he looked back to see
how everybody was saying,
00:38:17.23\00:38:18.56
look at me what I'm doing.
00:38:18.59\00:38:19.93
And then when he got, notice,
how he got back to the boat
00:38:19.96\00:38:23.67
was he had to put his
hand in the hand of Jesus.
00:38:23.70\00:38:25.53
Yes.
00:38:25.57\00:38:26.90
Jesus took his hand
after sign of unbelief
00:38:26.94\00:38:30.04
and showing
himself to be what He was.
00:38:30.07\00:38:32.24
But He led Peter back
00:38:32.27\00:38:34.54
and stepped into
the boat with him.
00:38:34.58\00:38:36.38
That is just awesome to me. Yes.
00:38:36.41\00:38:38.58
I mean, just awesome. Yes.
00:38:38.61\00:38:39.95
That's the only way
00:38:39.98\00:38:41.32
he'd be able to
get into that boat.
00:38:41.35\00:38:42.68
Yes.
00:38:42.72\00:38:44.05
Those two things he just about,
00:38:44.09\00:38:45.42
he lost his life if it
hadn't been for Christ.
00:38:45.45\00:38:47.56
We can lose our
life spiritually.
00:38:47.59\00:38:50.16
Number one is
unbelief and self-exaltation,
00:38:50.19\00:38:53.09
trying to be
self and elevate it.
00:38:53.13\00:38:55.13
And hey, Peter said, look at me.
00:38:55.16\00:38:58.33
Put your hand in the hand
of the man to still the water.
00:38:58.37\00:39:00.80
That's right. Yes.
00:39:00.84\00:39:02.17
Can sing it. Remember that song?
00:39:02.20\00:39:04.17
Yes. Hand of the
man from Galilee.
00:39:04.21\00:39:05.71
Yes.
00:39:05.74\00:39:07.08
Look at yourselves
00:39:07.11\00:39:08.44
and you look at
others differently.
00:39:08.48\00:39:09.81
Yes, yes.
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.18
Yeah. Wow.
00:39:11.21\00:39:12.68
You're about to say something?
00:39:12.71\00:39:14.48
Well, the other thing
was, when in verse 30, it says,
00:39:14.52\00:39:19.02
but when he saw that
the wind was boisterous,
00:39:19.05\00:39:21.82
he was afraid.
00:39:21.86\00:39:23.46
and beginning to sink,
he cried, Lord, save me.
00:39:23.49\00:39:26.83
So, again, in
the midst of a trial,
00:39:26.86\00:39:30.37
when the trial gets
harder than we could bear,
00:39:30.40\00:39:33.77
and we start beginning to
sink under, under its weight.
00:39:33.80\00:39:38.71
Yes.
00:39:38.74\00:39:40.08
That's when we call out
too, Lord, save me, help me.
00:39:40.11\00:39:44.71
And that's what happened to him.
00:39:44.75\00:39:46.25
I think it got
not only had he taken
00:39:46.28\00:39:49.05
his eyes off of the
Lord but the wind was worse.
00:39:49.08\00:39:54.16
Yes. Yes.
00:39:54.19\00:39:55.52
And so, he was thinking like,
00:39:55.56\00:39:56.89
oh, I'm out here on this water.
00:39:56.93\00:40:00.36
Lord, save me, I'm
getting ready to sink.
00:40:00.40\00:40:02.33
Yes.
00:40:02.36\00:40:03.70
So, I just feel like
there's so many great things
00:40:03.73\00:40:07.20
that we can recall.
00:40:07.24\00:40:08.87
Yeah. How did he sink?
00:40:08.90\00:40:10.74
You know, it
just crossed my mind
00:40:10.77\00:40:12.11
you're talking about this.
00:40:12.14\00:40:13.48
How did he sink? Was
it like a slow motion?
00:40:13.51\00:40:14.84
They gave the Lord time to react
00:40:14.88\00:40:16.41
and time for Him to think.
00:40:16.44\00:40:18.15
How does anyone's sink
when they're in the water?
00:40:18.18\00:40:20.82
I mean, everything
went under pretty quickly.
00:40:20.85\00:40:25.72
Shouldn't have
head for that one.
00:40:25.75\00:40:28.16
But you came up
quickly. He did, he did.
00:40:28.19\00:40:30.56
That's right.
00:40:30.59\00:40:32.86
Yeah, coming up
in a split second.
00:40:32.89\00:40:35.80
No matter what happens,
00:40:35.83\00:40:37.17
God is, is there
00:40:37.20\00:40:38.53
through the power
of the Holy Spirit,
00:40:38.57\00:40:39.90
just like that...
00:40:39.93\00:40:41.27
Amen. When you're going down.
00:40:41.30\00:40:42.64
Yeah.
00:40:42.67\00:40:44.01
You look like you're
about to say something.
00:40:44.04\00:40:45.37
Yes. I was, but
I got sidetracked.
00:40:45.41\00:40:46.74
I don't remember that.
00:40:46.78\00:40:48.11
I don't know, it's good. Okay.
00:40:48.14\00:40:50.61
I'm just, with us
00:40:50.65\00:40:52.81
it's never what I
wanted people to understand
00:40:52.85\00:40:55.25
it's never too late.
00:40:55.28\00:40:57.22
Because when you're sincere...
00:40:57.25\00:40:58.59
Yes, that's right.
00:40:58.62\00:41:00.16
You know, now things happen,
00:41:00.19\00:41:01.99
this COVID thing
comes and all of a sudden,
00:41:02.02\00:41:03.73
oh man, I'm so
sorry, we've seen it before,
00:41:03.76\00:41:06.59
whether it's pandemic,
00:41:06.63\00:41:07.96
whether there's whatever coming,
00:41:08.00\00:41:09.33
you know, Y2K, whatever,
00:41:09.36\00:41:11.20
everybody
starts going to church,
00:41:11.23\00:41:12.57
everybody's
00:41:12.60\00:41:13.94
suddenly needed
things smooth out
00:41:13.97\00:41:15.30
and then all of a
sudden we're gone again.
00:41:15.34\00:41:16.67
Right.
00:41:16.71\00:41:18.04
Then it's like, well, Lord,
00:41:18.07\00:41:19.41
how come you
didn't take care of me?
00:41:19.44\00:41:20.78
But one of the
things that I was thinking
00:41:20.81\00:41:22.14
it's another whole program
00:41:22.18\00:41:23.51
but it's interesting
what the devil will do
00:41:23.55\00:41:27.28
to deceive people.
00:41:27.32\00:41:28.68
For instance, we can see
00:41:28.72\00:41:30.22
all of these
trials through storms
00:41:30.25\00:41:34.49
and we can go through
probably hundreds more
00:41:34.52\00:41:37.19
to see that whereas
gold tried in the fire.
00:41:37.23\00:41:38.99
Yes.
00:41:39.03\00:41:40.36
And we learned our dependency,
00:41:40.40\00:41:41.73
then you got the
popular theology.
00:41:41.76\00:41:43.73
Oh, don't worry about
it when times get tough,
00:41:43.77\00:41:46.00
we're gonna be
raptured to heaven
00:41:46.03\00:41:47.40
and we're going to,
00:41:47.44\00:41:48.77
all the rest of these
people going to be down here,
00:41:48.80\00:41:50.64
suffering all this.
00:41:50.67\00:41:52.01
Not true.
00:41:52.04\00:41:53.38
And we got to do some programs
00:41:53.41\00:41:54.74
about that different
people's understanding.
00:41:54.78\00:41:56.95
Just to understand, no,
that's living in the time,
00:41:56.98\00:41:59.58
be prepared for
the time of trouble
00:41:59.61\00:42:01.88
because that may be only then
00:42:01.92\00:42:04.49
that we really
find out how dependent
00:42:04.52\00:42:07.16
that we need to be
in order to be saved.
00:42:07.19\00:42:09.89
That's the truth.
That's a good point.
00:42:09.92\00:42:11.76
So, it's really like
in the midst of the storm,
00:42:11.79\00:42:14.00
we find out who
and what we really are,
00:42:14.03\00:42:16.67
who we really
belong to, isn't it right?
00:42:16.70\00:42:19.13
Not in the good
times, not the high times.
00:42:19.17\00:42:20.70
That's right.
00:42:20.74\00:42:22.07
Sometimes when
things really hit,
00:42:22.10\00:42:24.17
we know we can do nothing.
00:42:24.21\00:42:25.54
You know. I fail
several times on that.
00:42:25.57\00:42:27.58
I understand in my
life but God's been good.
00:42:27.61\00:42:29.51
Yeah. He's been good to me.
00:42:29.54\00:42:30.88
Yeah.
00:42:30.91\00:42:32.25
You know, in spite of
and He's there to lift us up
00:42:32.28\00:42:33.62
and to encourage us always.
00:42:33.65\00:42:34.98
Yes, yes. It's a good lesson.
00:42:35.02\00:42:36.55
It is. Talking about, yeah.
00:42:36.58\00:42:39.09
Let's, let's...
00:42:39.12\00:42:40.46
I like what you said
about the fiery part.
00:42:40.49\00:42:42.79
We're gonna
transition into Daniel.
00:42:42.82\00:42:44.76
We're gonna go to a fiery
trial in Daniel Chapter 3.
00:42:44.79\00:42:49.10
We're going to look
at verses 23 through 25.
00:42:49.13\00:42:53.60
And these three men Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego fell down
00:42:53.64\00:42:57.24
bound into the midst of
the burning fiery furnace.
00:42:57.27\00:43:02.44
Then King
Nebuchadnezzar was astonished,
00:43:02.48\00:43:04.61
and he rose in haste
00:43:04.65\00:43:06.41
and spoke saying
to his counselors,
00:43:06.45\00:43:08.82
'Did we not cast three men
00:43:08.85\00:43:10.65
bound into the
midst of the fire?'
00:43:10.69\00:43:12.85
They answered
and said to the king,
00:43:12.89\00:43:14.92
'True, O king.'
00:43:14.96\00:43:16.39
Look, he answered,
00:43:16.42\00:43:17.76
'I see four men loose
00:43:17.79\00:43:19.16
walking in the midst of the fire
00:43:19.19\00:43:21.30
and they are not hurt.
00:43:21.33\00:43:22.80
And the form of the
fourth is like the Son of God.'"
00:43:22.83\00:43:25.90
Ooh.
00:43:25.93\00:43:27.27
So who stands
with us in our trials?
00:43:27.30\00:43:28.84
Yeah. God does.
00:43:28.87\00:43:31.01
God does.
00:43:31.04\00:43:32.37
And I mean, as we
looked at the other trials,
00:43:32.41\00:43:34.41
as we looked at
the other storms,
00:43:34.44\00:43:36.75
Jesus was in the boat
or Jesus was on the water,
00:43:36.78\00:43:39.41
and He, I mean, He's
with us throughout it all.
00:43:39.45\00:43:42.38
It's good.
00:43:42.42\00:43:43.75
And that again
goes back to the point
00:43:43.79\00:43:45.35
if I think I'm not
going to go through trials.
00:43:45.39\00:43:48.22
Now what happens
when I go through them?
00:43:48.26\00:43:50.43
I tend to doubt God.
00:43:50.46\00:43:53.29
Where is God
when I need Him? Yeah.
00:43:53.33\00:43:56.03
He's been there all along. Yeah.
00:43:56.06\00:43:57.77
You just
haven't depended on Him,
00:43:57.80\00:43:59.23
you're dependent on yourself.
00:43:59.27\00:44:00.60
That's right.
00:44:00.64\00:44:01.97
But God is
always going to be there
00:44:02.00\00:44:03.71
but sometimes it takes us
00:44:03.74\00:44:05.17
going through to
say, you know what?
00:44:05.21\00:44:07.71
I can't fix this one.
00:44:07.74\00:44:09.31
There you go.
There's nothing I can do.
00:44:09.34\00:44:10.85
That's right.
00:44:10.88\00:44:12.21
That's why
people kill themselves
00:44:12.25\00:44:13.58
so many times,
00:44:13.62\00:44:14.95
kill themselves
because they say,
00:44:14.98\00:44:16.45
I can't get out, this is so bad,
00:44:16.48\00:44:19.45
there's no way out.
00:44:19.49\00:44:21.72
So the way out, they feel like,
00:44:21.76\00:44:24.16
but when you have the
Lord, and you know, He's there,
00:44:24.19\00:44:27.96
and that's when He's waiting.
00:44:28.00\00:44:29.33
Yeah.
00:44:29.36\00:44:30.70
That's when,
that's when we're at time
00:44:30.73\00:44:32.07
is gonna be the most sincere
to finally say, you know what?
00:44:32.10\00:44:35.07
I don't care how much money
I have, how much power I have,
00:44:35.10\00:44:37.81
how much influence I
have in this whole world.
00:44:37.84\00:44:40.48
When it comes right down to
it, we all can't do nothing,
00:44:40.51\00:44:43.98
I can do nothing on my own,
00:44:44.01\00:44:45.48
but I can accomplish
all things through Christ.
00:44:45.51\00:44:47.68
Amen. Amen.
00:44:47.72\00:44:49.05
You know, I just
heard, I heard on the news,
00:44:49.08\00:44:51.95
this is recent, that a nurse,
00:44:51.99\00:44:55.29
they call heroes
00:44:55.32\00:44:56.66
which they are is
working with the sick and so on.
00:44:56.69\00:44:58.79
So, but now a
doctor, I'm sorry, a doctor.
00:44:58.83\00:45:02.00
Busy laboring and
working during this,
00:45:02.03\00:45:04.53
you know, COVID-19, I
mean, it just like too much.
00:45:04.57\00:45:08.17
And she contracted, you see.
00:45:08.20\00:45:12.21
And she committed suicide. Oh.
00:45:12.24\00:45:15.08
See?
00:45:15.11\00:45:16.44
Maybe seeing
everything what's going on
00:45:16.48\00:45:18.25
and her dad is doctor.
00:45:18.28\00:45:20.08
So, and he just simply said,
you know, it was just too much.
00:45:20.12\00:45:23.85
He's so involved
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.29
with trying to
help and save others,
00:45:25.32\00:45:27.92
you know in bringing them out
00:45:27.96\00:45:29.29
that there's just
like once you got it,
00:45:29.32\00:45:30.83
it's just like
there's just no hope,
00:45:30.86\00:45:32.43
this is a bad deal.
00:45:32.46\00:45:33.80
So today we want to
encourage, there is hope.
00:45:33.83\00:45:35.60
Amen. Yes.
00:45:35.63\00:45:36.97
We need to look
outside of ourselves.
00:45:37.00\00:45:38.97
Yes.
00:45:39.00\00:45:40.34
Every time I looked at myself,
it's like total disaster.
00:45:40.37\00:45:43.14
Like it's failure.
00:45:43.17\00:45:44.91
But when we look to Christ,
00:45:44.94\00:45:46.34
there's victory and
you wish that could change.
00:45:46.37\00:45:49.91
You know, I
don't know this person.
00:45:49.94\00:45:51.28
But when I heard
it touched my heart,
00:45:51.31\00:45:53.18
and there's thousands
of going through this today
00:45:53.21\00:45:55.52
but just like,
00:45:55.55\00:45:56.89
here's one who's a
doctor who is saving lives
00:45:56.92\00:46:00.12
then with all of the
stress and the strain
00:46:00.16\00:46:03.02
and not maybe looking to Christ,
00:46:03.06\00:46:05.03
I don't know the
situation but you know
00:46:05.06\00:46:06.59
would find hope to
just I've got it now,
00:46:06.63\00:46:09.60
so I'll just
take the easy way out.
00:46:09.63\00:46:11.67
Yes. Yeah.
00:46:11.70\00:46:13.03
You know, God have
mercy on us, we live,
00:46:13.07\00:46:15.10
like say for a curious
time of earth's history.
00:46:15.14\00:46:18.07
People are looking for answers,
00:46:18.11\00:46:19.97
thank God for 3ABN
and places like this
00:46:20.01\00:46:22.14
where it can get into the homes
00:46:22.18\00:46:23.78
and get into help
somebody along the way.
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.65
Yes. And give some hope.
00:46:26.68\00:46:28.32
Amen. We need that, yes.
00:46:28.35\00:46:30.39
One of my favorite
and this is like my...
00:46:30.42\00:46:32.92
I don't know, it
might be my favorite passage
00:46:32.95\00:46:36.83
is I don't want
to rely on my memory
00:46:36.86\00:46:40.50
'cause I might misquote it.
00:46:40.53\00:46:41.86
But it's Isaiah 43:1-3.
00:46:41.90\00:46:45.30
"Fear not for I've redeemed you,
00:46:45.33\00:46:47.14
I've called you by
name, you are mine.
00:46:47.17\00:46:49.84
When you pass
through the waters,
00:46:49.87\00:46:51.44
I will be with
you and to the rivers
00:46:51.47\00:46:53.41
they shall not overflow you.
00:46:53.44\00:46:55.21
When you walk through the fire,
00:46:55.24\00:46:57.68
you shall not be burned
00:46:57.71\00:46:59.65
nor shall the
flames scorch you."
00:46:59.68\00:47:01.88
And in the King James,
it says, "Kindle upon you.
00:47:01.92\00:47:04.22
For I am the Lord your God,
00:47:04.25\00:47:06.25
the Holy One of
Israel, your Savior."
00:47:06.29\00:47:09.02
So when we're in the fire,
00:47:09.06\00:47:10.99
like each thing
is a, an increase
00:47:11.03\00:47:15.80
in the intensity of the trial.
00:47:15.83\00:47:19.00
So first it's
through the waters,
00:47:19.03\00:47:21.27
then it's through the rivers,
then it's through the fire.
00:47:21.30\00:47:24.67
Yes.
00:47:24.71\00:47:26.04
But at each
juncture God is with us.
00:47:26.07\00:47:29.51
And He says, "I've
called you by your names.
00:47:29.54\00:47:34.22
You are mine."
00:47:34.25\00:47:35.58
That means that of
all the billions of people
00:47:35.62\00:47:37.59
on planet earth,
00:47:37.62\00:47:39.42
He knows your
name, He knows my name,
00:47:39.45\00:47:42.66
He knows our names, He
knows everything about us.
00:47:42.69\00:47:46.16
And every trial at
every point in that trial,
00:47:46.19\00:47:51.67
He's with us.
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.03
Amen.
00:47:53.07\00:47:54.40
You know, we can
think about death
00:47:54.44\00:47:57.01
and how, I don't want to go.
00:47:57.04\00:47:59.14
Oh, well, now.
00:47:59.17\00:48:00.51
How death can impact
your life and how you can,
00:48:00.54\00:48:06.05
you can ask the Lord to hear,
00:48:06.08\00:48:08.02
you can ask Him
00:48:08.05\00:48:09.38
to raise the
person up, you can ask...
00:48:09.42\00:48:10.75
Yes.
00:48:10.79\00:48:12.12
But you have to trust
that if the answer is no,
00:48:12.15\00:48:16.93
that there is a reason for that.
00:48:16.96\00:48:19.46
And that's where our
faith comes in I believe,
00:48:19.49\00:48:21.73
because we have to
know that we are finite,
00:48:21.76\00:48:24.77
He is infinite.
00:48:24.80\00:48:26.13
We deal in the temporal,
He deals in the eternal.
00:48:26.17\00:48:30.41
He deals in the eternal.
00:48:30.44\00:48:32.27
And so, we might not
know why God allowed someone
00:48:32.31\00:48:36.91
to go to sleep
when we begged Him
00:48:36.95\00:48:39.31
to let them live.
00:48:39.35\00:48:41.25
But we do know
that God's emphasis
00:48:41.28\00:48:44.55
is on saving people.
00:48:44.59\00:48:46.49
So maybe that was a time
00:48:46.52\00:48:47.96
when that person could be saved.
00:48:47.99\00:48:49.59
We don't know that,
00:48:49.62\00:48:50.96
what we know is
that we serve a God
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.46
who's with us,
who will comfort us,
00:48:53.50\00:48:56.00
who will bring us
through every storm
00:48:56.03\00:48:59.00
and every fire.
00:48:59.03\00:49:00.37
Amen.
00:49:00.40\00:49:01.74
We have a little
book that we put together,
00:49:01.77\00:49:03.91
it's called "After
COVID-19, What's Next?"
00:49:03.94\00:49:07.48
So, for our
viewers, you can get it free,
00:49:07.51\00:49:09.94
you can simply
go to our website,
00:49:09.98\00:49:12.01
and you can download it,
00:49:12.05\00:49:13.38
it'll show you how to
do it and you can read it.
00:49:13.42\00:49:15.62
And hopefully
it'll be a help to you
00:49:15.65\00:49:17.92
if you're questioning,
00:49:17.95\00:49:19.39
it answers things like
00:49:19.42\00:49:21.52
why do bad things
happen to good people.
00:49:21.56\00:49:24.33
You know, wider,
you know, babies are,
00:49:24.36\00:49:27.36
why are innocent people,
00:49:27.40\00:49:30.57
you know, so
many terrible things
00:49:30.60\00:49:31.93
happen to them.
00:49:31.97\00:49:33.30
If there's a God, where is He?
00:49:33.34\00:49:35.44
And so why are we
separated from Him?
00:49:35.47\00:49:38.07
Why doesn't He show His face?
00:49:38.11\00:49:40.14
So it talks about
the character of God
00:49:40.18\00:49:42.14
and talks about sin
and where sin came from
00:49:42.18\00:49:44.95
and why when we
look at the whole picture
00:49:44.98\00:49:48.08
that sin comes from
rebellion through Satan
00:49:48.12\00:49:51.85
and has each of us, we
live in a sinful world.
00:49:51.89\00:49:54.92
So until Jesus comes
back the second time,
00:49:54.96\00:49:58.13
we're going to reap the result.
00:49:58.16\00:49:59.56
So yes, the
rain is going to fall
00:49:59.59\00:50:01.40
on the just as
well as the unjust.
00:50:01.43\00:50:03.57
So if you go to 3ABN's website,
00:50:03.60\00:50:06.00
you can just look it
up there and it'll say,
00:50:06.03\00:50:08.37
go to COVID-19
00:50:08.40\00:50:09.74
and you can
digitally download that
00:50:09.77\00:50:12.71
and read it for free
because we want you to,
00:50:12.74\00:50:15.31
to see it and understand
that maybe you have friends,
00:50:15.34\00:50:18.48
you have family
that don't understand it.
00:50:18.51\00:50:20.92
That's why I think
it's so important for people
00:50:20.95\00:50:24.09
to understand
00:50:24.12\00:50:25.82
death is a part of
life on this earth.
00:50:25.85\00:50:28.39
That's right.
Death is a part of life.
00:50:28.42\00:50:29.92
That's not the worst
thing that can happen to us.
00:50:29.96\00:50:32.56
Sometimes we pray
for people selfishly
00:50:32.59\00:50:35.23
that would be much
better off resting in Jesus,
00:50:35.26\00:50:38.87
you know, but instead wait for
00:50:38.90\00:50:40.67
because we don't
want to lose them.
00:50:40.70\00:50:42.14
We're praying no
matter how much pain,
00:50:42.17\00:50:43.84
no matter what
they're going through,
00:50:43.87\00:50:45.47
we're praying.
00:50:45.51\00:50:46.84
Oh, why didn't
God save this person?
00:50:46.88\00:50:48.21
Well, actually it's a
blessing when you know
00:50:48.24\00:50:51.75
that you're asleep in the Lord.
00:50:51.78\00:50:54.22
So, no, is death
fun? Not for any of us.
00:50:54.25\00:50:57.02
Do we hate it?
Absolutely, we do.
00:50:57.05\00:50:59.39
Well, it happened to all of us.
00:50:59.42\00:51:01.02
Should the Lord
teary a few more years?
00:51:01.06\00:51:02.86
Yes.
00:51:02.89\00:51:04.23
But the peace is in
the midst of the storm,
00:51:04.26\00:51:07.13
knowing this is
just the beginning,
00:51:07.16\00:51:09.13
not the end.
00:51:09.16\00:51:10.50
That's right. That's right.
00:51:10.53\00:51:11.87
You know, I'm glad you said that
00:51:11.90\00:51:13.27
because here on this earth,
in our life, death is a sting.
00:51:13.30\00:51:17.57
It hurts. It breaks our heart.
00:51:17.61\00:51:20.31
But heaven looks
at death differently.
00:51:20.34\00:51:23.35
You know, especially as
you mentioned the scripture
00:51:23.38\00:51:25.41
in Revelation, you know,
00:51:25.45\00:51:26.82
blessed are those who die
in the Lord from here on now.
00:51:26.85\00:51:30.12
And you can see as these
things continue to grow worse
00:51:30.15\00:51:33.92
where death may be a
blessing for many of us.
00:51:33.96\00:51:37.39
But you go back to the story
we're looking at, Shadrach,
00:51:37.43\00:51:42.23
Meshach and Abednego,
00:51:42.26\00:51:43.60
they could have
easily said, hmm.
00:51:43.63\00:51:46.70
They were facing a death decree.
00:51:46.74\00:51:48.90
Right.
00:51:48.94\00:51:50.27
We're going to
someday face a death decree.
00:51:50.31\00:51:52.77
We've got
challenges ahead of us with,
00:51:52.81\00:51:55.54
you know, vaccines
and all these things
00:51:55.58\00:51:57.61
that are being
broadcast daily in the news,
00:51:57.65\00:52:00.65
what are we going to do?
00:52:00.68\00:52:02.02
How are we going to stand?
00:52:02.05\00:52:04.42
And they could have easily said,
00:52:04.45\00:52:06.82
"Well, Lord, you know, my heart,
00:52:06.86\00:52:08.76
I'm not really bowing down,
I'm not really worshiping."
00:52:08.79\00:52:11.66
Oh, come on.
00:52:11.69\00:52:13.03
But what example did they set
to all the other meek as well?
00:52:13.06\00:52:16.03
Yeah, because if I don't,
00:52:16.06\00:52:17.40
I be around to be a
witness to others later.
00:52:17.43\00:52:20.14
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:20.17\00:52:21.50
I'll just pretend to do this,
and you can justify why did,
00:52:21.54\00:52:25.47
you didn't do what
he asked you to do.
00:52:25.51\00:52:27.54
And I don't think
they could have stood
00:52:27.58\00:52:30.68
if they didn't
have peace with God.
00:52:30.71\00:52:33.01
Oh, absolutely.
00:52:33.05\00:52:34.38
They have to
have, it's a different,
00:52:34.42\00:52:35.78
not just our physical peace
00:52:35.82\00:52:38.12
but peace knowing
00:52:38.15\00:52:39.49
that our lives are saved in Him,
00:52:39.52\00:52:42.39
that we are in a
saving relationship
00:52:42.42\00:52:44.23
with our Lord and Savior.
00:52:44.26\00:52:45.73
That's where all of
us need to be trying
00:52:45.76\00:52:48.26
to attain at this very time
00:52:48.30\00:52:50.10
'cause we know not,
we're not promised tomorrow.
00:52:50.13\00:52:52.23
That's right.
00:52:52.27\00:52:53.60
We don't know
what tomorrow holds
00:52:53.64\00:52:54.97
for any of us.
00:52:55.00\00:52:56.34
And they were willing
and they went in peacefully.
00:52:56.37\00:53:00.68
Oh, yeah. Yeah, good.
00:53:00.71\00:53:02.51
If it's God's will, He
can save us but if not,
00:53:02.54\00:53:06.88
they were willing to
give up their lives for truth,
00:53:06.92\00:53:11.49
to stand for truth.
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We're to worship God in what?
00:53:12.99\00:53:14.32
Spirit and in truth.
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That's how important truth is.
00:53:16.52\00:53:18.29
I found this one
quote from Stephen Haskell,
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the story of Daniel the prophet,
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it said, would they allow,
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and this hit me hard
when I was thinking about it.
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Would they allow an
unsanctified emotion.
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Remember, we're to
control our emotions,
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not allow
emotions to control us.
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That's a tough one.
00:53:36.88\00:53:38.21
But that's when
we need to overcome.
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Would they allow
an uncertified emotion
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to have
possession of their lives
00:53:42.98\00:53:45.52
and compromise their faith?
00:53:45.55\00:53:48.99
Their emotion could have
done that right then and there.
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Our emotions can do that
if we don't control them,
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and say, and you know,
just give them up to the Lord,
00:53:56.13\00:53:58.43
allow Him to
give strength in that.
00:53:58.47\00:54:01.07
What could a religion be worth
00:54:01.10\00:54:03.81
which admitted is
admitted of compromise.
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In other words, if we
continue to compromise
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truth with air,
00:54:10.35\00:54:11.95
what good is our faith?
00:54:11.98\00:54:14.95
What good is what
we're standing for?
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You know, and I hear
that a lot on the news,
00:54:17.82\00:54:20.39
you know, in one respect
you hear him praising God
00:54:20.42\00:54:23.89
and uplifting the
Bible and the next thing
00:54:23.93\00:54:26.76
they're uplifting a lifestyle
that's so totally against Him.
00:54:26.80\00:54:31.43
You know, God is calling
people to be a peculiar people
00:54:31.47\00:54:35.20
to separate from the sin
that is separating us from Him.
00:54:35.24\00:54:39.01
Yes.
00:54:39.04\00:54:40.38
We are to come out of
Babylon, three angels' messages.
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Yeah. Amen.
00:54:42.44\00:54:43.78
You always hear
about, it's interesting
00:54:43.81\00:54:45.15
that they're
always three Hebrews,
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and then the
fourth was Jesus in there.
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You know, Jesus came and
He, you know, He rescued.
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You know, He stood
for the three Hebrews
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but also Jesus is what?
00:54:54.86\00:54:56.42
He got the attention
of the king of Babylon
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by the glory and what took place
00:54:59.49\00:55:01.20
and it changed his heart,
restore the God of heaven.
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So just more than three,
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but God has something
in mind for all of us.
00:55:05.93\00:55:07.74
Yes.
00:55:07.77\00:55:09.10
A lot more than
what is I understand,
00:55:09.14\00:55:11.31
you mentioned a while
ago, the answers like,
00:55:11.34\00:55:13.27
I'm trying to come to,
00:55:13.31\00:55:14.64
I don't have to
understand God's plan,
00:55:14.68\00:55:16.98
all the things that are,
00:55:17.01\00:55:18.35
you know, laid out
there to understand it.
00:55:18.38\00:55:20.22
I just need to be
willing to be obedient.
00:55:20.25\00:55:21.78
Yeah.
00:55:21.82\00:55:23.15
'Cause He asked us to do things,
00:55:23.18\00:55:24.52
sometimes we don't
understand the whys,
00:55:24.55\00:55:26.15
might be five
years down the road
00:55:26.19\00:55:27.52
or ten years or
maybe never in this life.
00:55:27.56\00:55:28.92
Yes.
00:55:28.96\00:55:30.29
But God help us to just
know what He says in His Word
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and then be willing
to just follow by faith.
00:55:32.73\00:55:35.16
Yes. That's all He ask us to do.
00:55:35.20\00:55:37.33
I love in verses 17
and 18 of Chapter 3.
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And Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego said,
00:55:41.27\00:55:43.61
"If that is the
case, our God whom we serve
00:55:43.64\00:55:46.21
is able to deliver us
from the burning fiery furnace
00:55:46.24\00:55:49.41
and He will deliver us
from your hand, O king.
00:55:49.44\00:55:52.85
But if not..."
00:55:52.88\00:55:54.38
Oh, it's... Isn't that true?
00:55:54.42\00:55:55.82
It's a truth to power.
00:55:55.85\00:55:57.45
They were not afraid
to stand up to the king.
00:55:57.49\00:56:00.32
But if not, let it
be known to your king
00:56:00.36\00:56:02.56
that we do not serve your gods
00:56:02.59\00:56:05.26
nor will we
worship the gold image
00:56:05.29\00:56:07.73
which you have set up.
00:56:07.76\00:56:09.26
We will, we must be
willing to take a stand
00:56:09.30\00:56:13.20
but what you know is right.
00:56:13.23\00:56:15.37
Absolutely. Yes.
00:56:15.40\00:56:16.74
And stand up to anyone
00:56:16.77\00:56:19.57
who was going to
question our God.
00:56:19.61\00:56:21.54
That's right.
00:56:21.58\00:56:22.91
We have to be
willing to take a stand.
00:56:22.94\00:56:24.38
Amen. Amen.
00:56:24.41\00:56:25.75
Amen. That's powerful.
00:56:25.78\00:56:27.12
We only have like
a short time left,
00:56:27.15\00:56:29.65
let's talk about real
quick how to obtain peace.
00:56:29.68\00:56:33.29
What do you think?
00:56:33.32\00:56:34.66
How can we go
about obtaining peace?
00:56:34.69\00:56:38.99
Well...
00:56:39.03\00:56:40.36
Making the call and
let them share with God
00:56:40.40\00:56:42.86
to have peace with Him.
00:56:42.90\00:56:44.23
Yes. Yes.
00:56:44.27\00:56:45.60
That's what was on my heart
even as I was studying this,
00:56:45.63\00:56:48.00
we can't have peace
in the midst of a storm,
00:56:48.04\00:56:50.24
we can't be like
Christ, have His character
00:56:50.27\00:56:53.48
unless we're connected with Him.
00:56:53.51\00:56:55.31
We have to surrender self...
00:56:55.34\00:56:56.68
Good. Yes.
00:56:56.71\00:56:58.05
Yeah. To Jesus.
00:56:58.08\00:56:59.41
Yeah. Surrender yourself.
00:56:59.45\00:57:00.78
Then He'll be
00:57:00.82\00:57:02.15
in the midst of
that fire with us.
00:57:02.18\00:57:03.52
Amen.
00:57:03.55\00:57:04.89
Spend time with Him, so
we learn to trust Him more.
00:57:04.92\00:57:06.25
Yes. Amen.
00:57:06.29\00:57:07.62
Amen. Amen.
00:57:07.66\00:57:08.99
So in other words, we
need to be consistent.
00:57:09.02\00:57:10.46
Yes. All right.
00:57:10.49\00:57:11.83
We need to go the distance.
00:57:11.86\00:57:13.19
We can't just open the Bible
00:57:13.23\00:57:14.56
and read Jesus
wept and be content.
00:57:14.60\00:57:17.80
We got to spend some
time, right, quality time,
00:57:17.83\00:57:20.64
we need to maintain
a healthy lifestyle,
00:57:20.67\00:57:22.47
so we can digest
00:57:22.50\00:57:24.01
the bread of life
and all of those things.
00:57:24.04\00:57:27.01
Well, thank you so
much for this discussion
00:57:27.04\00:57:30.31
and your wonderful input.
00:57:30.35\00:57:31.68
And thank you for joining us.
00:57:31.71\00:57:33.05
Till next time, God bless.
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