Welcome to
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Timeless Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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As we prepare to look
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at powerful insights
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into Mark's gospel again today,
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I'm so glad
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that you've joined us.
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Today's message is entitled
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Our All Powerful Savior.
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May God bless you
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as we open the pages
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of the Scripture.
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Father in heaven.
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Thank you so much
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that we can trust
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in Your guidance
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as we open Your Word.
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We long for Your Holy Spirit
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to be our teacher.
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Thank you
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that that's why
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You gave us Your Word.
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We can trust
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that the One who inspired
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the Word
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will inspire our minds
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will guide our minds as we
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listen to You.
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Thank you
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that we can trust
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in Your guidance.
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In Jesus name, Amen.
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For decades,
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if not centuries,
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scientists have been
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wrestling with a problem.
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It's really a question.
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And the question goes
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something like this.
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Are you merely the product
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of your circumstances?
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Is your life
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history determined
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by the things
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that you've lived through?
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Well,
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no doubt you've heard people
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ask that question.
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The honest truth of it is
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most of us have asked it
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at some point in time.
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As I deal with people
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as a physician
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and as a pastor,
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especially when
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people go through
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difficult times,
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I often hear them
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saying things like,
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Well,
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I wouldn't
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be going through this right now
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if it weren't for
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what happened in my childhood.
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Or well, that's what
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all these problems are
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because of what happened
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on that first job.
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Or all of these things
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that I'm dealing with right now
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is because of that first spouse
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or the second spouse
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or the third spouse
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or whatever it was.
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Are you following
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along with me?
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And so the question becomes,
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are those perceptions correct?
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And
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to some extent.
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But it's also ‘no?om
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other perspectives.
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And rather than going to the
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medical literature
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or the science,
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we want to go
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to the infallible
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Word of God
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to look at
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whether the Bible sheds
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any light
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on this important question.
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Now, some of you
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probably guess
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if we're going
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through the gospel of Mark,
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where is it likely
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that we're going to go?
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That's right,
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the gospel of Mark.
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But we're not going to go there
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immediately.
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We're first going to look at
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one other example
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from another gospel writer
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and this single example
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should be enough,
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I think, to convince you
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that our early life
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history doesn't
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close the door
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on what the rest of our life
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history will be like.
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As we've been going through
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the gospel of Mark.
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chapter one
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opens up with a
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number of powerful stories.
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One of them is the calling
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of four of Jesus?sciples.
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We read
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how Jesus personally called
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Peter and Andrew.
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Personally called
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James and John.
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But if you go through
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all of Mark's gospel,
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you'll find that the,
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well, not every
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one of the disciples
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is mentioned
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as far as is
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his individual call.
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But fortunately,
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we are not just dependent on
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Mark's gospel.
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We have four gospel writers.
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And we gain insight in John 1
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when it comes to
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two other disciples.
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We're going to focus on
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the second of the two.
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First in John 1:45,
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we have mention of Philip.
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But it says that
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Philip found Nathaniel,
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and he told Nathaniel,
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We have found the one Moses
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wrote about in the law
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and about whom the prophets
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also wrote
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Jesus of Nazareth,
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the Son of Joseph.
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And the
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very first words out
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of Nathaniel's mouth
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should stop you in your tracks,
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because the first thing he says
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when he hears
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this testimony about Jesus,
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he says, Nazareth.
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Can anything good
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come out of Nazareth?
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Can anything good
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come from there?
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What is Nathaniel
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saying in so many words?
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He's saying anybody
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that knows
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anything in Jesus?y
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about Nazareth,
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you would expect that
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nothing good,
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that no good
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would come out of Nazareth.
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But here is the issue.
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Who grew up in Nazareth?
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Jesus.
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Was Jesus good?
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The personification
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of goodness.
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And so do
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you see the picture here?
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The challenge is
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it looks like Jesus environment
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in Nazareth
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would have predisposed Him
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to be anything but good.
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But Jesus
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came out of that environment.
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So hopefully you're already
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getting an answer
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to the question.
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But because we're going through
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Mark's gospel,
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we want to look at another
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powerful illustration
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that has a bearing
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on this topic.
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Another compelling
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case history.
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And it comes to us right
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where we left off in our study
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in Mark 4.
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Now, to refresh your memory,
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if I needed to refresh it,
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if you've been with us
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for this series,
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we spent a long time in Mark 4.
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I will tell you, though,
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the evidence suggests
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we did not spend
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as long a time in Mark
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4 as Jesus spent giving Mark 4.
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We don't have all the parables
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that Jesus told and all that
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He explained, because Jesus,
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the sense is in Mark 4
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that Jesus was teaching
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in parables
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all day,
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and it had been
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a very long day.
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When we get down to Mark 4:35,
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it says The evening
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has now come,
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and Jesus says
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to the disciples,
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Let us cross over
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to the other side.
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Now, when they had left
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the multitude there,
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the disciples took Him,
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Jesus, along in the boat
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as He was.
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And other little boats
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were also with Him.
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First,
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I want you to notice
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that they took Jesus as He was.
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We get the sense,
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after a busy day of preaching,
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that Jesus might
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have been tired.
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And I don't know what
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you think about this,
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whether speaking before
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an audience, a large audience.
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By the way,
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if you look at Mark 4,
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I just want you to
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remember remember,
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I just want you to remember
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Mark 4:1.
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Turn there with me,
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if you would,
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just so you catch
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what Jesus was dealing with.
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Mark 4:1,
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Jesus, it
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says, the - ,
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the crowds are just
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thronging around Him.
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They are flocking to Jesus.
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Verse 4, no, verse 1 of Mark 4.
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And again,
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Jesus began
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to teach by the sea,
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and a great multitude
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was gathered to Him
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so that He got into a boat
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and sat in it on the sea.
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And the whole multitude
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was on the land,
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facing the sea.
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Are you getting a picture
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of what's going on here?
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There's a such a big crowd.
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We saw this before in Mark,
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that Jesus gets into a boat,
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they pull away from the shore
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and Jesus is teaching.
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Some years ago,
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a pastor told me of how tired
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he got preaching,
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how they
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just took so much out of him.
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And I thought to myself,
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Well, I don't get
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tired preaching.
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But after he
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told me that, I
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started to realize
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I did get
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really tired preaching.
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I don't know
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the power of
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suggestion or what,
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but if you are,
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I don't care
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whether your attitude is
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this is a challenging thing
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to do
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or not,
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for you to speak in public,
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but Jesus had been
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speaking all day.
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That's the sense you get here.
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You say, Well,
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we don't know when He started,
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but the whole sense of it
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is, is Jesus
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is tired and He's in the boat,
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no break.
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He doesn't go ashore
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and get something to eat.
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And He's in that boat
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and they're making
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their way across
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what the Bible calls
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the Sea of Galilee.
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Now, for many years
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I had read about
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the Sea of Galilee,
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but it wasn't until
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relatively recently
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that Sonja and I
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had the privilege of being over
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in that part of the world
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and actually seeing
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the Sea of Galilee.
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The Sea of Galilee
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is really
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not an impressive
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body of water.
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It is only about 13 miles long
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and about eight miles wide.
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There's absolutely
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no problem seeing across it.
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Having grown up in Chicago,
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I found
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it was much more impressive
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to go to the shore
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of Lake Michigan,
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where I could see
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no shore on the other side,
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okay?
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That's a vast body of water.
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Are you following
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along with me? So
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the Sea
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of Galilee, this term, sea.
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I mean, it's kind of strange
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because a lot of people would
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say, well, that's
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clearly a lake.
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And I think maybe even
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in some parts of the world,
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they would call it a pond.
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Having lived in New England
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for a number of years,
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we were surprised
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at how large of bodies of water
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is there.
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They would say, well,
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that's the pond over there.
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That's
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whatever pond.
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We live near a place
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called Bryant Pond
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that wasn't all that massive.
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But the point was
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some ponds were really big.
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Well, other interesting facts
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about the Dead Sea,
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it is the lowest sea
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in the world.
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You say other facts
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about the Dead Sea.
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Well, I'm
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talking about
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the Sea of Galilee.
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Why would I mention
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the Dead Sea?
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The Dead Sea is the lowest sea,
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has the lowest
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elevation in the world.
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It is also a lake.
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That's what
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the geographers tell us.
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If you look at it.
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And so with the Sea of Galilee,
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the second lowest
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lake in the world.
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Why this is significant.
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We were there
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actually staying
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right close
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to the Sea of Galilee.
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We actually could look out
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from the place
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we were staying and look at the
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that body of water.
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And you could see
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we were on the
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western side, near
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where Jesus did
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a lot of His ministry.
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And if you looked over
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at the east, you saw,
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you know, substantial cliffs,
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if you will, substantial rise,
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and that's what you call
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the Golan Heights.
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Many of you have heard
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of that piece of geography,
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rising thousands of feet
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above the Sea of Galilee.
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What is so interesting about
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this is if you have cold winds
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coming from the Golan,
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from the east,
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coming down
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to the Sea of Galilee,
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where the waters are warm,
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or if you've got cold
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air coming in
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or a cold front coming
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in, that can just stir up
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some extremely violent storms
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as that cold
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air meets the warm air.
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And whether that was
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the meteorological occurrence
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that happened
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in Mark 4 or not,
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the account tells us this.
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Mark 4:37, A furious squall,
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other translations
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say a great wind storm, came up
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and the waves
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broke over the boat,
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so that it was nearly swamped.
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You get the picture?
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The boat's about to go under.
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Now, I
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don't care if it's
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only eight miles wide.
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If you're in the middle of that
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lake, you're, what,
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four miles from shore?
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That's an awful long way,
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if your boat capsizes,
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especially in a storm.
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I don't care
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how good a swimmer you are.
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A storm can take anybody down.
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Well, we were there
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at the Sea of Galilee.
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We had
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heard about
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a discovery in 1986.
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There was a drought
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in that part of the world.
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And some fishermen from
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the northwestern part
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of the Sea of Galilee
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found a structure
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in the water submerged,
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barely visible.
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Looked like
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though
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it was the remnants of a ship.
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They called the
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archeologists in,
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and over the course
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of over a decade,
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we were told, these
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archeologists meticulously
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got this
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boat that was dated
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around the time of Jesus
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out of the Sea of Galilee.
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They had to
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put it into wax to float it
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to the current location,
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which is in a museum.
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And if you were to walk
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in that museum, as we did,
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and to measure that boat,
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as we did not,
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we didn't
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bring out a tape measure on it,
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but they told us
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it was 27 feet long
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and seven and a half feet wide.
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This was not a
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substantial craft.
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It was only 4.3 feet deep.
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That was the height
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of the ship.
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Now, maybe
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that height had eroded
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a little bit
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being
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buried for all those
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decades, centuries.
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But this was not a craft
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that you would just say
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was made to handle
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major storms.
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It was interesting, though,
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if you were to
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look at that boat,
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you would see that
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it would comfortably hold
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about 12 to 15 people.
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Isn't that interesting?
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It could be rowed
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or sailed,
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but it was definitely not
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the boat you'd want to be in
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if you knew
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you were going
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to go into a major storm.
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And that is the very vessel
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that Jesus and His disciples
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found themselves in.
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I want you to notice now
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verse 38 of Mark 4,
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because you'll read
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about two different responses.
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It says of Jesus
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that He was in the stern,
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the back of the boat,
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and He was doing what?
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He was sleeping on a cushion.
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On the other hand,
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the disciples finally,
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and I emphasize the word,
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finally, woke Him
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and said to Him, Teacher,
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don't you care if we drown?
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This is not taking liberty
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with the Scripture.
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Because remember,
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as Mark describes it,
00:14:48.35\00:14:49.85
the boat is about swamped.
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It's about to go under.
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Why did they not call
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Jesus sooner?
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We'll talk about that
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in a few minutes.
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But I want you to focus
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on these two
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different responses. First.
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Jesus sleeping,
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the disciples
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fearing for their lives.
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Now, here's
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the interesting question.
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Because Jesus is going to say
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something very interesting.
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You know the story well,
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because as soon as
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they wake Him up,
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Jesus gets up and He speaks
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these words.
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It says, He rebuked the wind
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and He said to the sea,
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Peace, be still.
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And the minute those words
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come out of His mouth,
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the wind ceases
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and there is a great calm.
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Picture that for a minute
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if you're the disciples.
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Now, what I want you to notice
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about the response
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says is that Jesus,
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I would suggest to you,
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was already experiencing
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a great calm
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before He caused a great calm.
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Now, some people have said,
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Oh, well,
00:16:03.09\00:16:03.39
He was probably just so tired.
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He was probably so fatigued.
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That's why
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Jesus was sleeping on the boat.
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We'll get there in a minute.
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But I just want to ask you one
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simple question, first of all,
00:16:13.30\00:16:15.47
and it is so obvious
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you may not be able
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to give me the answer,
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and that is
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how did the
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physical circumstances differ
00:16:20.68\00:16:23.38
between Jesus
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and the 12 disciples?
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How does the
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physical circumstance
00:16:27.05\00:16:28.55
circumstances differ?
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Yeah, some of you
00:16:31.89\00:16:32.35
are saying, well,
00:16:32.35\00:16:33.59
basically they're the same.
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They're in the same boat,
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in the same storm.
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But it is true.
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Jesus was on a cushion
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or a pillow or some kind of.
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So was that
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really making His journey
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all that more comfortable?
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The story actually
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brings us back
00:16:51.01\00:16:51.71
to our original question.
00:16:51.71\00:16:54.14
Are we merely the product
00:16:54.14\00:16:55.81
of our circumstances?
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And I'm not just talking
00:16:57.81\00:16:58.81
about ancient history.
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I'm not just talking about
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what happened in your life
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years ago.
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Maybe that's incorrect
00:17:02.32\00:17:03.25
to call it ancient history.
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Probably none of you
00:17:04.42\00:17:05.49
like to be called ancient.
00:17:05.49\00:17:07.26
I know I don't appreciate it.
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But the point is simply
00:17:08.89\00:17:10.73
we're not just talking
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about things in the far past.
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We're talking about
00:17:13.96\00:17:14.66
this past week.
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If something
00:17:17.10\00:17:17.77
bad happened either
00:17:17.77\00:17:18.67
last week,
00:17:18.67\00:17:19.23
is that going to predestined
00:17:19.33\00:17:21.10
your whole future?
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Long before I ever enrolled
00:17:26.01\00:17:28.04
in the School of Public Health
00:17:28.04\00:17:29.38
at Loma Linda University
00:17:29.38\00:17:31.28
to work on my master's degree
00:17:31.28\00:17:32.88
in public health,
00:17:32.88\00:17:34.25
two researchers
00:17:34.25\00:17:35.92
by the name of Holmes
00:17:35.92\00:17:37.05
and Rahe
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published a very famous study
00:17:38.29\00:17:41.26
way back in 1967.
00:17:41.82\00:17:44.99
Initial study
00:17:46.43\00:17:47.36
The Social Readjustment
00:17:47.36\00:17:49.43
Rating Scale.
00:17:49.43\00:17:52.17
Now, this may not sound
00:17:52.17\00:17:53.57
like an amazing piece
00:17:53.57\00:17:54.94
of medical research to you,
00:17:54.94\00:17:57.94
but I knew it was
00:17:58.04\00:17:59.01
very significant
00:17:59.01\00:18:00.14
because over 20 years later,
00:18:00.14\00:18:01.68
when I was sitting in a class,
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actually studying
00:18:03.21\00:18:04.31
the stress response,
00:18:04.31\00:18:06.98
one of the first people
00:18:06.98\00:18:09.35
that were referenced
00:18:09.35\00:18:10.39
were Holmes and Rahe
00:18:10.39\00:18:12.05
and a very famous study
00:18:12.05\00:18:14.76
it is, this social readjustment
00:18:14.76\00:18:17.76
rating scale.
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You've likely seen
00:18:18.49\00:18:19.79
it, many of you.
00:18:19.79\00:18:20.83
In fact, if you go today
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to the American
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Institute of Stress,
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you will find that
00:18:26.87\00:18:27.64
they still have the Holmes
00:18:27.64\00:18:29.34
Rahe stress
00:18:29.34\00:18:29.97
inventory on their website.
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You can actually take it,
00:18:31.34\00:18:32.57
the whole stress inventory.
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And let me just give you
00:18:34.54\00:18:35.91
an overview of it.
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If this is not ringing
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any bells.
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What these researchers did is
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they got together
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about 400 people
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and they said,
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we want you to rate
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the severity
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of these different things
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that could happen in your life.
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How disruptive
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would this be to your life.
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And they had this whole list
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and these people ranked them
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and they put together a scale
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based on actual people
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saying how disruptive
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certain things were.
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They came up with
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42 different categories.
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They assign them point scores
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based on the responses
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of the subjects.
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Now, I know none of
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you can read this slide,
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so I've enlarged
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the first 12 categories
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for you.
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We're not going to go
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through the whole
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stress survey together,
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all 42 questions,
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so you can find out
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how many points
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you accumulated.
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But in the last year,
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you're asking yourself
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these questions.
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If any of these
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things happened to you
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and I want you to
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notice something.
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This is not just talking
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about bad things.
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For example,
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right now,
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many of you know
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that our daughter is pregnant.
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She and her husband
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are very happy
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that she is pregnant. Okay.
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But you can see number
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12 on the list,
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giving you 40 points
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is pregnancy.
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Some of you may be
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contemplating marriage.
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If you are
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contemplating marriage,
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I would hope
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you are contemplating it
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with very positive mindset.
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Okay.
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If you're not,
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please counsel with me first.
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Okay.
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It's not a good sign
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if you're worried
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going into a marriage.
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But you see there marriage
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number seven, 50
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life change points. Okay.
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So this is more going to cause
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more change, life change
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than even a pregnancy.
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At least that's
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how people rated it.
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You could see there's
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some other good things
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on there,
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like marital
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reconciliation at number nine.
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So if you've been
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having problems with a spouse
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and you get back together. Yes.
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But there's there's challenges
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associated with that.
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But we would say that's good.
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Now, there's some other things
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that we would say
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are clearly not good,
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and they're
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very high on the list.
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You can see number
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one is the death of a spouse.
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Then there is divorce,
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marital separation,
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detention in jail
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or other institution,
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death of what?
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A close family member.
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You can see the list there.
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Now, some of you are already
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tallying up the scores
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just in the top 12.
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And you say, wow,
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I've already got 1500.
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Well, check your math. Okay.
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You can't get 1500 out of those
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first 12.
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I'm quite sure of that.
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But here's the point.
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Here's the point.
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The researchers found
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that when they had people
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tally these scores for a year,
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they could predict
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the likelihood
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of their having a serious
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health problem
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over the next couple of years.
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Let's see what they found.
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If you scored
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300 or more points,
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you had an approximately 80%
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chance of serious health
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impairment over the following
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two years.
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If you had a score between 150
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and 300
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and approximately 50% chance
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of something serious happening
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as far as your physical health.
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And then
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150 points
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or less low susceptibility.
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Okay, less than 30%.
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So you say, well,
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wait a minute, wait a minute.
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You should be
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catching something
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from this data
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if you haven't
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already caught it.
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And that is,
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even if you had the worst score
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on this inventory,
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20% of people
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did perfectly fine
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as far
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as their physical health.
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Do you see that?
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Even that top category?
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Yeah. 80%
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bad health
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issues, but
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20% no problem at all.
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Now, you say
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this is hardly encouraging
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if you've gone through
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a lot of life
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changes in the last year.
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But the whole premise
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of the work of Holmes and Rahe
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is that common
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environmental stressors,
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common things that come at us.
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Typically
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we as people deal
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with the same way.
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This is generally true,
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and we see it in Mark 4, right?
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13 people in a boat.
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Are most of them
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dealing with the stressor
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the same way?
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For sure, right?
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12 of them
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are fearing for their lives.
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But what about one of them?
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What is He doing?
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Sleeping in the boat.
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Sleeping in the boat.
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Here's the message.
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If you haven't
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picked up on it already.
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By God's grace,
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you can face the same storm
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as someone else,
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but you can be at peace,
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even though they
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are overwhelmed.
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You can go through.
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You can't say, Oh,
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because I'm
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going through all this,
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things are going to be terrible
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for me.
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No, by God's grace,
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you can sleep in the storm.
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And if you're not
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sleeping in the storm,
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if you're fearing
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for your life,
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God can comfort you.
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Many of you know, as
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I've been going
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through this series,
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I've been
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listening
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to a lot of other preachers.
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One of the ways
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I listen to other preachers
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is by reading
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their commentaries.
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Now, some people say, Well, Dr.
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DeRose,
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you should just be studying
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the Bible.
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And yes, that is the textbook.
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That is the source book.
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That is the book
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that I keep coming back to.
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But, you know,
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God uses people as well.
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And so the Bible speaks
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of the power of preaching
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and also
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the foolishness of preaching.
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But God uses the spoken word.
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And the spoken word is not
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just what we audibly speak,
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but it's also what's written.
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One of the commentators
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that I was reading from
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recently is Jim Reiher.
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He's an Australian
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Bible scholar,
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and he tells the story
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of how he went through
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a major back surgery
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at the age of 28.
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The day after the surgery,
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he's back home
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and he is in terrible,
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excruciating pain.
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He's rushed back
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to the hospital
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and I don't know
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whether he was drifting
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in and out of consciousness,
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but the medical staff
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thought he was unaware
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of what was going on.
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If you're
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a health professional,
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don't do this.
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Don't stand around
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the bed of the patient
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saying, boy,
00:24:41.74\00:24:42.44
this is really bad.
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What are we going to do?
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They were saying things
00:24:44.51\00:24:45.38
like that. Okay.
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And here's what Jim said.
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I started to panic.
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In my heart
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and in my mind
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I started to get
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really frightened.
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I wondered
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if I would ever walk again.
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Maybe they had botched up
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the surgery,
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cut the wrong area,
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left an instrument in me,
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something.
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I felt a fear that
00:25:06.07\00:25:07.34
I have never felt again,
00:25:07.34\00:25:08.60
since that day
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over 30 years ago.
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But as I was
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quietly panicking in my mind,
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get the point,
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I couldn't
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even flay around and complain
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because the slightest movement
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sent huge pain through me.
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As I lay there still,
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panicking quietly in my head.
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Then the next words he
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says are these.
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God was gracious.
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Why?
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Because he says, God
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flooded my thoughts
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with this story.
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This story.
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The story of Jesus
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stilling the storm.
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As I saw the story
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being acted out on a screen
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in my head,
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I could feel
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a huge reassurance.
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It was flooding over me.
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I didn't hear an audible voice,
00:25:52.51\00:25:54.22
but I heard the words
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some way or another
00:25:55.52\00:25:56.72
as if Jesus was saying to me,
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Do you think
00:25:58.62\00:25:59.32
I'm asleep in your storm?
00:25:59.32\00:26:01.06
Do you think I'm
00:26:01.06\00:26:01.79
not with you right now?
00:26:01.79\00:26:03.36
Do you think
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I'm unaware of this pain
00:26:03.96\00:26:05.63
and this fear?
00:26:05.63\00:26:07.13
I am here,
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right here beside you.
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And Jim says, at that point
00:26:11.23\00:26:13.23
the fear left me.
00:26:13.23\00:26:14.37
A peace
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that passes understanding
00:26:15.14\00:26:16.47
it filled my heart and my mind.
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The pain was still there.
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I needed something else
00:26:20.74\00:26:21.81
for that.
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They gave him an injection,
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but he said the fear had lifted
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and the sequel was
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that after some traction
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bed rest,
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it all came good
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and has been good
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for the last 30 years.
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Now not all the stories
00:26:35.59\00:26:36.89
end happily
00:26:36.89\00:26:37.89
as far
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as the physical consequences.
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But I want to
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give you something
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that you can take to the bank.
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If you bring your cares,
00:26:42.63\00:26:44.43
your anxieties,
00:26:44.43\00:26:45.43
your fears to Jesus,
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you can trust
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that He will give
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you His peace.
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Jesus is indeed our
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all powerful Savior.
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And I know He's
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longing for His power to work
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even more fully in your life.
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To help you in that journey,
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we want to encourage you
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to engage
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with the Scriptures
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and the concepts that we shared
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in this presentation.
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You can take advantage
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of our free handouts
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that go along with each episode
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simply by visiting us
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at TimelessHealingInsights.org
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On that very same website,
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you'll find all kinds
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of free health
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resources as well.
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Drop by
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TimelessHealingInsights.org.
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Let me pray for you
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before we say goodbye today.
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Father in Heaven,
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we thank You for the power
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that is in the life of Jesus
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and in His Word.
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We pray that that Word would
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really fully express itself
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in our lives,
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that people would see
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Jesus in us,
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that we would be strengthened
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by the power of Your Word.
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Thank you that we can trust You
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to work that work in us,
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for we ask it in
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Jesus name, Amen.
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