March 15, 2025

Acts 27 Pt 1

Acts 27 Pt 1

We begin our work on Acts 27

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We begin our work on Acts 27

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Saturday, March the fifteenth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently one forty pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, all of this year,

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one of the themes has been this empty notebook that

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I just sit here right under the microphone kind of

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to be symbolic, right, It's an empty notebook that means

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there's nothing in it, right, meaning that for this entire

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year of twenty twenty five, I don't have a specific plan.

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I don't have anything mapped out, So whatever happens happens.

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And one of the things that's happened this year was

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while we ended up in Salem, and we're still there

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where we're going to continue to be talking about the

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Salem witch trials and everything that happened in Salem. I

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think that's been pretty interesting. Never I never would have

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thought that that's where we would have ended up in

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twenty twenty five, but that's where we've ended up. I Mean,

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I could talk about it anytime, but it wasn't really like, Hey,

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I see the podcast is going to get really focused

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and preoccupied with Salem in twenty twenty five, wasn't there now?

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So that makes it fun, right, since we don't really

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have a good plan, we don't really know what's going

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to happen, so things just kind of drive where we

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end up. That makes it fun, interesting, and I like

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that and it gives me a lot of freedom. But

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there's also a danger in having an empty notebook because

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sometimes because I don't have anything planned out or mapped out,

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I kind of find myself walking into something that I

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didn't necessarily plan to do, and then I may have

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a little bit of regret of doing it. And this

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is the maybe the first time this year, I have

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maybe a little bit of regret. Man, I've kind of

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walked myself into this and there's no way to walk

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myself back out. What have I done? This could be

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This could be very long and be a lot of

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hard work, and I don't know if anyone's even going

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to be that interested in it in the first place.

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So I kind of this is kind of what happened,

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all right, So it all started if again, if you

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open up the sermons the sermons by Sermon Audio app,

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the Sermon Audio app whatever we're calling it in twenty

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twenty five. If you open up the Sermon Audio app

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and you go kind of scroll down to you see radio,

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you'll see there's two radio feeds. Right, there's the Sermon

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Audio twenty four to seven feed, and then there's the

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VC Why. I think VC Why America Radio feed. And

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if you'll click on the VC Why America feed, especially

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late at night from about I think about eleven pm

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Central Time to about five or six in the morning

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Central Time, they have programming for the overnight period time period,

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the overnight hours. It's really good. It's I like it.

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It's perfect to listen to overnight. And one night they

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started talking about, well, the storms in our lives, right,

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do you find yourself in storms? And we are offering

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a seven week Bible study on how to weather the

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storms of life? And I'm like, Okay, that sounds interesting.

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How do I get it? So they told me to

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go to the following website www dot LWF dot O

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RG forward slash v C why. That's lw F dot

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O RG forward slash VC why. And I looked at

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it and I'm like, oh boy, here we go. This

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is gonna take. So what they do in this seven

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week study guide is go through the storms that are

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talked about in the Bible, somehow make those storms and

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the stories of those storms prescriptive, somehow giving us the

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directions and steps that we are to take to navigate

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the storms in our life. So you can already see

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some possible problems. They're taking the Biblical account of actual

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physical storms and using those principles to somehow, now tell

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me how I'm supposed to navigate metaphorical storms in my life,

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emotional storm, a trial, And it's like, I there's a

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lot of problems right there. So I was like, oh man,

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So my first idea is I just wanted to tell

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everyone about this resource. It's a free seven week Bible study.

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Go download it, enjoy it, you know the end. That's

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what I should have done. That's what I really wanted

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to do. Hey, guys, I just heard about this Bible

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study guide. It's free. Here's the website. Go check it out,

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go download it, enjoy the end. Right, that's it. But

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the minute I started telling everyone about the Bible Study

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Guide and kind of begin to see what they were

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doing in the study guide. I then committed myself that

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we are going to go through those seven weeks, and

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we're going to do this in kind of an interesting way. Well,

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we will look at how the study guide handles whichever storm.

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The first storm they talk about in the study guide

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is Acts, chapter twenty seven, and then we'll talk, we'll

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see how they study it, will do our own study

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of that particular storm, and then we'll do sermon reviews

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as well on how others handle these storms. So that

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that's a big undertaking, right, working through the study guide,

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doing our own study, doing sermon reviews. I mean that

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that's going to take a lot of time. Who knows

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how long it's going to take us to make it

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through this seven week study guide. I really that was

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not my intent, but once I kind of once I

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kind of committed, I'm stuck. Now I'm stuck. And then

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to me that the first storm is Acts twenty seven,

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I'm like, oh, for crying out loud. Acts twenty seven

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is just one of those chapters that has a lot

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of names, a lot of places think sometimes, I mean,

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and if you listen to sermons, you'll hear people, you know,

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pronounce these a number of different ways, and you're like,

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so am I going to say these correctly? Okay? It's

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very wordy? How am I going to work through this?

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So I've got to start kind of working on how

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I'm going to approach the chapter. And then it's like, oh,

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does anyone even really care that study guides, devotional materials

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and sermons take the storm and storms that are mentioned

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in the Bible and completely handle them in an incorrect way?

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Does anyone else even really care? Is it just something

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I'm bothered by? And I think the answer is probably

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I'm the only one bothered by it. But here we are,

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so we're stuck. So what are we going to do?

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Well?

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The first thing I'm going to do, and I'm going

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to do this in a little bit reverse order, and

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I'm not going to follow the same order for every

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particular story or every particular storm that the seven week

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study Guide covers. I'm going to remind you and how

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the study Guide introduces the first storm, which is Acts

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twenty seven, and then today we're just going to go

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immediately to a sermon review. What I intended to do

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was I was going to come to Acts twenty seven

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start doing my own work. First but it doesn't really

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matter if I do my work first, we listen to

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a sermon, or we work through the study guide. Doesn't

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really matter which order we take it, because we're going

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to still do all three things right. We're going to

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make it through the study guide. At some point, we're

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going to hear what other people have to say about

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each particular storm, and then we'll do my work, which order.

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I think mixing it up makes it a little bit

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more interesting, And by mixing it up, I'm not locked

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in that I have to do it a certain way,

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and I can kind of follow whatever feels right. And

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for today, what feels right is a sermon review. All right,

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we still have some strong wind outside, it's a Saturday.

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The dog next door has been going crazy, so all

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kinds of things that can kind of interrupt and destroy

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the podcast. Even sounding remotely professional, well, that's very limited

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if you're doing sermon review, because my mic is muted

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for a good portion of the sermon review as we're

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listening to the sermons. So I just think it works

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best today. So that's what we're going to do. But first,

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let's go back to the study guide again. You can

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go download the study Guide right now WWWLWF dotorg, forward

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slash vcy you can go download it and you can

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open it up and you can start looking at everything.

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We took a part. We did pretty good, taking apart

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how the study guide begins and a lot of the things.

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I'm not going to go back and review everything, but

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I am going to review this week one now right,

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here's week one in the study guide. Ride out the Storm,

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Ride out the Storm. Here's the introduction. Imagine selling along

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in the middle of the ocean on a big ship.

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All of a sudden, the worst storm you have ever

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seen rolls in, Waves are crashing, the sky becomes dark,

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and you are thrown about the boat with no way

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to keep your balance. You do not know what will

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happen in the coming hours. As the angry ocean wrestles

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with the ship. You wonder if you will ever make

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it out of the storm. Right, Very good introduction right there,

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draws me in. He uses very you know, language that

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really captures your imagination, really kind of gets your imagination going,

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imagining being on the ship and the waves. What's even

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going to happen? Okay, very good job right there. So

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then it then kind of transitions Paul speaking of the apostle.

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Paul experience this kind of storm in Acts chapter twenty seven.

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In the first century, Paul was imprisoned by Roman officials

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for proclaiming the Gospel of Christ. He was transported by

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sea to Rome, Italy. On this voyage, the ship selled

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into a ferocious storm. By the end of the journey,

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Paul went from being a prisoner to being the captain

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of the ship because he chose to trust the Lord

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through the storm. Acts twenty seven. All right, here we

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go teaches us how to navigate the metaphorical storms of

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our own lives as believers in Christ. Now right there

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is kind of their thesis, and I completely reject it.

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Their thesis basically is, when you go to Acts chapter

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twenty seven, it's teaching you how to navigate the metaphorical

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storms in your life. And I think that's completely bogus.

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That's a lie. It's not it's a historical narrative describing

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what happened. It's not teaching me how toate a metaphorical storm.

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It's a historical narrative describing what happened in a physical storm.

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So already I'm already bothered here, and this is what

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ultimately motivated me to say, Okay, we're just gonna go

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through every week of this study guide, and we're gonna

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look at every storm because I'm sick and tired of

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pastors doing this nonsense to the scripture. I'm tired of

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it because it tells people do this, do this, do this,

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or gives you promises, and you're just, you're just it's

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it's spiritual malpractice. You can't take It's a historical narrative.

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It's not prescriptive, it's descriptive. Then it goes on to say,

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this week we will read Acts twenty seven and find

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out how God can use the challenges we face in

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life to grow our faith and to bless others. So

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remember I told you Acts twenty seven. I just started

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telling people read it, read it, and read it. I've

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already done an observational outline on all of Acts twenty seven.

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I have that ready to go. So at some point

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we'll work through my own observational outline of the chapter,

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because we need to do an observational outline, and then

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we'll probably do an exegetical study going verse by verse

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through all of Acts twenty seven, and we and of

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course we'll look at the study guide, but we also

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are curious on how sermons are going to handle it.

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So I've started my work on Acts twenty seven. We

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will get to it. I want to jump right into

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the study guide, but you already know, I mean, we

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already know where the study guide is going. It's gonna

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to go through AX twenty seven and try to say

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here's the lesson, here's what you need to do in

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your metaphorical storm. And I'm gonna just lose my mind

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and take the iPad and throw it across the room

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and say, who came up with this? Dumb ideed I'll

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look at this study guide and then I will be

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reminded it was me. All right, But so I'm like, okay, well,

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I'm kind of putting all of this together, getting a plan.

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Let me just go to the sermon audio app I

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typed in Acts twenty seven, and I think it's one

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of the first sermons, second third sermon that I saw,

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which was entitled are you ready? What are you doing

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in the storm? What are you doing in the storm?

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Now I'm already nervous, right because what are you doing? Now?

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What was the apostle Paul doing in the storm. What

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are you doing in the storm. So immediately it's going

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to take a historical narrative that is descriptive, and it's

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going to insert us into a story that we're not in.

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I don't know how pastors get away with this. Why

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do people go to church? And not only do they

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go to church, they put money in the plate that

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keeps supporting this spiritual malpractice. Stop going to churches that

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take the Bible and make it about you when the

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chapters are not about you. Stop it, man. This is

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why we're doing the work on Isaiah forty through fifty five.

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I'm so sick and tired of open up your bibles

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to Isaiah forty or Isaiah forty one or Isaiah forty two,

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and I'm gonna make it all about you, even though

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Isaiah forty through fifty five has nothing to do with

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you unless you happen to be I don't know, living

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in Judah when they went into Babylonian captivity. It's so ridiculous. Now,

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I know when I say that people, well you're not

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saying it's applicable. Look, if you're gonna make application we've

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talked about it, it's got to be very careful, very thoughtful,

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and ensure that you're staying true to the text and

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you're not inserting something us into it. And you've got

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to make sure you're not taking promises that have nothing

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to do with you and applying it to you. There's

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lots of rules about how to apply it practically. So

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I'm already nervous at the title of this sermon is

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what are you doing in the storm? Because I'm not

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in the storm in Acts twenty seven and only that

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X twenty seven is a real storm, So how are

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you gonna take how to navigate a real storm? Has

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somehow turned that into principles to deal a metaphorical storm.

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I don't know. When you're dealing with a real storm,

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there's like, you know, there's very specific things you do

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depending on the kind of storm. Right in a tornado

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you do one thing, a hurricane you do this. I mean,

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there's there's steps. I mean those are like literal steps

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because you're dealing with a literal storm, but you're gonna

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turn them into metaphorical lessons. The whole thing is ridiculous,

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but people eat this stuff up. That's why pastor after pastor,

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church after church continues to produce this kind of content

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and the people continue to support it, and when you

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challenge it, everyone looks at you like you're the bad guy.

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There's something wrong with you. I don't know. It's called

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reading comprehension. One on one, oh one, one on one, one,

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one oh one, all right, speaking, one oh one? All right,

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here we go. So are you ready? So we're gonna

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do the sermon review. That's what we're going to do.

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We're gonna do the sermon review that gets this all

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caught up. Here we go. I don't I have a

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bad feeling, but remember I don't listen to the sermons. First.

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The only thing I did was hit play on. This

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seems to be loud enough, but he seems to be

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like I don't know if the microphone was five miles

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across the room. It sounds weird, but hey, this is

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what I pulled up. So this is what we're going with.

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Are you ready? Here we go? Sit back, buckle in.

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I think it's about to be a'll bumpy, right, And

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I do mean that metaphorically. Are you here we go?

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I hope I stalled long enough by now I have

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good news for y'all. I left my tea out in

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the car. So that's a guarantee. I won't be that

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long today. So Acts Chapter number twenty seven. What I

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want to do, for the sake of time is we're

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going to read the first two verses. Then we're gonna

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skip down to verse nine and read through fourteen. The

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Bible says, and when it was the termine that we

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should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other

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prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus, band

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and entering into a ship of Atarantium, we launched, meaning

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to sail by the coast of Asia. One Aristarchus, a

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Macedonian of Thessalonika, being with us verse nine. Now, when

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much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous,

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because the fast was now already passed, Paul admonished them

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and said, under them, sirs, I perceived that this voyage

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will be with hurt and much damage, not only of

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the lading and ship.

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But also of our lives.

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Nevertheless, the centurion believed the master and the owner of

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the ship more than those things which were spoken by Paul.

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And because the haven was not commodious to winter in

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the more part advised to depart. Thence also if by

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any means they might attain to Phoenice and there to Winter,

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which is in haven of Crete, and lie toward the

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southwest and the northwest. And when the south wind blew softly,

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supposing that they had obtained their purpose loosing, thence they

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sailed close by Crete. But not long after there arose

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against it a tempetuous wind called Urokladan.

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Nowadays we call that a hurricane.

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Our Father in heaven, we thank you, Lord for all

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that you've done for us. I thank you Father forreaching

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everyone that is here in the sound of my voice.

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They could have been anywhere else, but yet they're here.

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But I'm grateful Father, especially that it's not that Dennis

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Sampson is speaking here today, know, but that it is

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God's word that is going to be doing the speaking

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here today.

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Thank you. We're a thankful Father for this, because if

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it's just me, we've.

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Already wasted our time and we need to go ahead

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and pack up and go on hold. But I'm grateful

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Father for you, and I pray Lord that you'd help

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me please to say what needs to be said here today,

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that it would be a light to the loss that

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someone here may see their need to get saved and

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respond to it before it's too late, that it could

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be a help and his strength to those who already

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know you. Thank your Father once again for Pacific Garden Mission,

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for the workers here, for the residents. We thank your

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Father for one hundred and forty seven years of service

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here in Chicago. And I pray Lord that it would

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continue to stay strong until Jesus comes back and splits

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that eastern sky for us. And the precious, glorious name

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of our High Priest, my big brother, Jesus of Nazareth.

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We ask your Father, please, amen and amen.

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Okay, So they're at Pacific Garden Missions in Chicago. Pacific

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Garden Missions are the people who put out the program Unshackled,

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which I aired some of the episode. The two part

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episode of Unshackled about my sister's life all right, where

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I had a supporting acting role. Well, I mean I

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wasn't actually in it. They had someone playing me who

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was in a scene that never actually happened. I don't

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know how that scene ended up in that. I still

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need to ask my sister where did that come from?

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How did they make Okay? But we won't get it too.

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So that's interesting. Pacific Garden Mission Chicago, they produced Unshackled. Great,

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all right, the prayer I always I always get a

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little bothered, like, hey, you know, Lord, let them hear

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the word of God and not me. Well, if they're

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going to just hear the word of God and not you,

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then just read it and be done. Okay, it's such

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kind of like it's not really it's not really accurate.

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You're not really being honest. Hey, hey, let them hear

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the word of God and not me. Well, then don't talk,

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because what you're going to do is you're gonna take

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the word of God and you're going to talk. You're

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going to talk. And guess what, when a sermon is over,

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you can t what preachers can claim all day, I

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preach the word of God and only the word of God. No,

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you take the word of God and you give your

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interpretation of it a sermon. People are not hearing necessarily

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the word of God. They're hearing a pastor's interpretation of

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that word. That interpretation is either based off their own ideas,

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their own interpretation, or it's based off them interpreting it

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in an agreement with a specific philological system. You are

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hearing the interpretation of a scripture based on the pastor's

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own private interpretation, or the pastor interpreting the text in

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line with a specific theological system that he holds to

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and was trained in based off the Bible, college, seminary,

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or church that trained him. Let's stop playing games. We

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can sit there and talk all to I'm going to

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go to church to hear the word of God. You're

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gonna go hear a pastor give you his interpretation of

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the Word of God. If you just want the Word

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of God, then just to read it, you don't need

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anybody else. But at the minute you listen to someone else,

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you're not necessarily hearing the unadulterated, uncorruptible, uncorruptible Word of God.

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and then going to tell you what it means. They're

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giving you their interpretation of it. Okay, So I just, oh,

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I can't. I can't stand that because it's just so disingenuous,

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and to me, it's a subtle form I'm not saying

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it's done on purpose, but it's a subtle form of

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psychological manipulation because the people are being convinced I heard

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the word of God. No, you heard someone tell you

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what they think the word of God means. But you're

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being convinced somehow that that's what the word of God says.

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Now that's what someone says that it means you have

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to do some work. And of course, you know, I

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get sick and tired of hearing pastors pray. Lord, let me,

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you know, give me the words to say, or let

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me speak what you know, what is true, what is right?

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If God is controlling and guiding what preachers say and

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speak to make sure that it's true and accurate, then

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we wouldn't have fifty billion sermons with fifty billion different

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interpretations of fifty billion different passages. Okay, I'm using hyperbole there,

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but you get the idea. If God is controlling what

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preachers say, then everything said would be perfectly in agreement

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with what every other pastor is saying, and it would

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all be true and it would all be accurate. That's

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not the way it works. Okay, so stop that. But

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once again you could it's it's psychological manipulation because the

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people think, well, he prayed that God is going to

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you know, give him the words to say. Well, then

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obviously what he says has to be true. No, it

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doesn't work that way. Pastors can say anything from the pulpit.

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God is not controlling what's being said or not being said.

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then when people say things that are false, than God

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wants him to preach things that are false. And then

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it becomes all kinds of complicated. So I know when

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sermons happen. Pastors, however, they put their sermons together, whatever

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materials they are using, they are going to preach their interpretation,

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their preaching as the result of their study and their

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training and the philological system from which they are presenting

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that material. If you do not catch on to that,

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then I don't know, then you're going to just be deceived.

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All right. So now he says he's not going to

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take long. Well, at this point, he's got about twenty

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five minutes left, that's about it. So he's going to

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cover the story in acts twenty seven and about twenty

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five minutes. You already know how this is getting ready

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to go. I mean, I could be wrong, and I

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always got to be careful doing this in sermon reviews

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because sometimes I'll say something and I'll turn out to

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be wrong. Remember, I'm reviewing the sermon blindly, just it's

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like we're listening to it together in real time. My feeling,

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this is my prediction, is it's going to take him

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about three point two seconds to turn this all into

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a metaphor and allegory, and it's all going to be

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about us. And this is going to represent this, and

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this is going to represent this, and this is going

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to be representing this this, And guess where all of

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this comes from. It doesn't come from the Bible, comes

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from his own imagination. There is nothing in the text

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saying this represents this or this represents that. There is

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literally nothing. There's nothing in Act twenty seven that says

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it should be interpreted allegorically or metaphorically. There is nothing there.

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And if he starts doing that, well, then ladies and gentlemen,

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we've left the realm of hermeneutics and we've entered into

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the realm of imagination. I don't know where it's going

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to stay. Let's see, here we go.

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A man.

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A bit of recent history, you can put it that way,

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because it is.

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In the past, though very recent.

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On September twenty sixth of this year, Hurricane Helene made

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landfall in Florida right there where the Peninsula of Florida

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comes up and meets the Panhandle of Florida, right in

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that one spot, and it just blasted straight on through.

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By the time September twenty ninth was over, the storm

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had centered itself on the eastern end of Tennessee and

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the western end of North Carolina. It became the worst

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natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina back at five. As of

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this morning here on October the second, one hundred and

464
00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:03.240
sixty seven are confirmed. I'm dead there in eastern Tennessee

465
00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:07.920
western North Carolina. Over six hundred and eighty five people

466
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:14.599
are still missing to this very hour. Damages are estimated

467
00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:18.000
at over twenty seven billion.

468
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:20.319
With a B dollars.

469
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.200
A couple of good things. One I didn't mention this,

470
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:30.680
I do. He read the text really well, got some

471
00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:35.079
of those names, stated them correctly, or at least to

472
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.960
my understanding of being correct. So that's really good. He

473
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.240
got that down. I look, and I'm gonna say it

474
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:42.960
because I'm going to probably mess some of them up,

475
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:47.000
all right, So he did very good there. That was awesome,

476
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:50.119
and it's kind of interesting. He's he's immediately pulling from

477
00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:55.079
very recent current event about an actual massive storm to

478
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:58.559
how to pull people in. This is good just from

479
00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:01.920
a presentation perspective. All Right, everybody's like, oh, yeah, I

480
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.519
remember that. Okay, yeah, I was watching this or I

481
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.440
saw this on the news. Okay, trying to pull people in. Okay,

482
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:11.839
so far we're good. Now. Just remember, though, the longer

483
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.240
he takes with this opening illustration, the less time he's

484
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.880
going to have to actually deal with the text. Because again,

485
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.839
this is a very short sermon, so he's already taken

486
00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.759
about five minutes already up of his entire time already,

487
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.480
and it we were now just getting into the introduction.

488
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.519
So at this point he may have about about fifteen

489
00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:37.240
eighteen minutes left, so we'll see he's going to have

490
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:40.319
to really And the reason I'm watching the time is

491
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.240
when you've got a chapter like Acts twenty seven, you

492
00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:47.720
could get the considering if he's going to continue to

493
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:49.839
reduce the amount of time he's going to have, he's

494
00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.359
going to have to just go in it to it

495
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.000
very metaphorically quickly. He's going to have to get there quickly.

496
00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:57.039
But let's see if I'm right.

497
00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.920
Towns have been flooded, wiped off the map.

498
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.559
Towns have water so high that people are barely able

499
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.440
to get to the top of their roof and have

500
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:14.240
anything but the very apex of the roof to sit

501
00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:18.920
upon and wait for rescue. Roads and bridges have been

502
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:30.519
washed away, water supply, fuel supply, food, electricity all out.

503
00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:36.599
Homes are gone, crops have been lost, Churches have been

504
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:43.160
wiped off the map. Yet the storm was not expected

505
00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:46.799
to do all that it did. Where it did is

506
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.200
typically a hurricane hits. You don't hear about it in

507
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:54.640
eastern Tennessee, the eastern side of North Carolina. Yeah, not

508
00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:57.960
the western side, but it did this time.

509
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:05.160
Now, the crowd seems very engaged. You hear M. Yeah, yeah,

510
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:09.559
I mean you're hearing that engagement now. From a preaching standpoint,

511
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:12.559
you love that, right. I Mean, there's nothing better than

512
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.680
when you start talking and you like people are actually

513
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.720
paying attention, right then, there's nothing worse when you start

514
00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:20.920
and it's like no one's paying They're like looking around,

515
00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:24.240
they're doing something else. They're talking to someone who knows

516
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:27.160
what they're doing. They're texting someone who knows what they're

517
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:30.279
doing They're doing everything but paying any attention. There's nothing

518
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.200
worse than that. So I'm happy for him. He's got

519
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.160
a crowd that seems to be focused, they seem to

520
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:40.000
be paying attentions. He's talking about this in a very

521
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:43.720
dramatic I mean very I mean he's speaking very in

522
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:46.000
a dramatic way. I'm not seeing that in a negative way,

523
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:49.119
I mean in a way that captures your attention. So

524
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.319
so far he read the text really well. He's setting

525
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.960
this up really well. Of course, I'm already very concerned

526
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:58.839
where this is going, but I want to point out

527
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:01.079
all the good as well, because there's a lot. I mean,

528
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:03.680
if I was listening to this, I'd be like, yeah, okay,

529
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.000
all right, you got my attention, let's go, because I

530
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.839
mean to be fair, I mean, and this is I know,

531
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:11.680
this is this is personal preference, right, So let's always

532
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.839
remember that. On one hand, if someone's preaching style is

533
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:17.839
one that you really really like, you got to be

534
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.160
very careful not to let the fact that you like

535
00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:24.440
their style, you like their presentation, to get you to

536
00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:28.079
accept maybe an interpretation that's incorrect and you can't allow

537
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.960
because you don't like someone's presentation for you to reject

538
00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:34.759
their interpretation just because you don't like them, or there

539
00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:40.440
we hermeneutics doesn't matter, should not be influenced by the

540
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.759
way it's presented, because it's based off the truth of

541
00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:46.599
the text and how we should interpret it using certain principles.

542
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:50.599
The way it's presented is irrelevant. But hey, I mean there, look,

543
00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:52.519
I'm just gonna be honest. There's some summers we've listened

544
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.559
to I'm like, oh my goodness, what can you? I mean,

545
00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.119
sometimes I'll hear people and I'm like, are you You

546
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:02.319
sound like you you're so depressed that maybe you should

547
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:04.799
never preach again. You sound like you loathe your job.

548
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:08.240
I like when people seem like but a lot of

549
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:10.519
people don't like when people seem excited. They're like, oh,

550
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:14.839
it's theatrical, it's over dramatic. I think ultimately, each preacher

551
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.759
has to be true to themselves. Right. If you're just

552
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:20.720
kind of calm and monotone, and that's who you are,

553
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:22.960
you know what, that's what you should do because you're

554
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.079
being real. And if you're more dramatic, if that's really

555
00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:29.200
who you are, then be that way. Don't I don't

556
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:32.240
think you should try to modify your style to please

557
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:34.920
the audience. I think you should be true to yourself

558
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.839
and presented in a way that reflects who you are.

559
00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:41.960
So I come across very much more dramatic and theatrical.

560
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.960
But if you ever talk to me about any subject,

561
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:49.079
I can come across pretty dramatic and pretty theatrical. So

562
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.279
I think I'm being very true to myself. So but

563
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:56.599
all right, he's got my attention. But again I'm getting

564
00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:00.559
a little nervous because how much I mean, he's taking

565
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:03.759
a lot of time here, there's not much time left

566
00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.519
for the text.

567
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:13.920
And here they are Christians and non Christians, rich and poor,

568
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:26.680
straight and homosexual, white, black, and every color in between, male, female, politician, infant,

569
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:33.880
prisoner or freeman. All this very day are in the

570
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:40.039
same boat, dealing with the aftermath of this storm that

571
00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.359
they have found has rushed into their lives and.

572
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.319
Set up shop.

573
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:50.799
You're right, it is camped out, not in their front lawn,

574
00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:57.119
but in their very souls at this moment. There's the

575
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.880
same when it comes to storms. You are either going

576
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:03.759
into a storm, you are in the storm, or you're

577
00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:06.839
getting ready to come out of the storm. You are

578
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:10.119
in one of those three places here today. And not

579
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:13.840
all storms are physical storms that are gonna blow in

580
00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.119
off of the ocean. There are storms that are gonna

581
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:20.599
come into our lives that are of a spiritual sense.

582
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:26.519
Here and here we go, and immediately hear the crowdstar

583
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:30.840
at amen ing. Hey, immediately, everybody loves this. All right,

584
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:34.320
we're talking about a hurricane. Now those storms, and how

585
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:39.320
storms now become not storms, storms now become well issues

586
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.480
that happen in our life, trials, difficulty, pain, suffering, tragedy.

587
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:47.280
All right, So immediately we've gone from a Red Acts

588
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:52.039
twenty seven a physical storm, talked about a physical hurricane,

589
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:56.920
and all of a sudden, with no explanation, no justification,

590
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:05.239
storms now become a metaphor for the difficulties in our life. Right,

591
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:09.360
just immediately goes there, just immediately goes there. Right, well,

592
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:11.719
and immediately people are gonna I mean, if he's preaching

593
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:14.760
a Pacific garden, I mean that's a homeless shelter. So

594
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:16.760
these are a lot of people who are probably have

595
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.039
experienced storms in their life. If you're using that phrase, right, Okay,

596
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:26.159
now that's great. These people need help. These people need something.

597
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:29.159
But is he gonna take it from Acts twenty seven,

598
00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:32.880
which has literally nothing to do with anybody's storm other

599
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:36.639
than the physical storm that Paul endured. Now, this is

600
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:38.800
where I may start getting a little ticked off, but

601
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:41.679
I'm gonna remain calm and see where this is gonna go.

602
00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:46.079
But you can did you see that hear that switch? Boom? Right?

603
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.079
Read Acts twenty seven physical storm, talk about a physical

604
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:53.320
hurricane boom, Your life, my life, lives and just immediately

605
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.199
we were often too. The metaphorical world.

606
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.480
The storms are gonna come into our lives of an

607
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:03.280
economic sense. There are storms are gonna come into our

608
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:06.519
lives of a family sense. There are storms that are

609
00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:09.039
gonna come into our lives in a sense of a

610
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:14.000
job in a school, whatever the case is in your life,

611
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:22.320
a storm is always possible. Here's the question, though, what

612
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:28.440
are you doing with that storm?

613
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:29.079
All right now?

614
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.159
I'm not in the storm? Well, are you getting ready

615
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:32.000
to get back in it?

616
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.159
Because it's coming. It's the nature of things.

617
00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.800
So long as this world is still spinning around and

618
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.639
round and a round, if another storm will come, a

619
00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:44.159
am I don't care if you have been saved for

620
00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:47.480
fifty years. I don't care if you've been saved five minutes.

621
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:51.400
I don't care if you've absolutely spurned to call Jesus

622
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:53.119
Christ to save your soul.

623
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:58.000
Another storm will come your way. Will It is.

624
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:03.760
Guarantee here in Acts chapter number twenty seven. And we're

625
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:07.199
gonna be as quick as we can I find five

626
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:14.360
different ways of dealing with this storm.

627
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:17.760
All right, So immediately now he's going to Acts twenty seven.

628
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:21.760
So he gives us a story about a physical storm,

629
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:27.480
quickly pivots to metaphorical storm, and hey, storms are coming.

630
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:29.840
Now we're gonna go to Acts twenty seven to have

631
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:33.719
five different ways that you can deal with the storm.

632
00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:36.239
Now immediately, wait a minute. So we're gonna talk about

633
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:40.360
five different ways they deal with an actual storm, and

634
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:46.119
we're gonna transition those principles being somewhat now prescriptive to

635
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:50.360
dealing with storms in our life. All right, let's see

636
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.760
where this is gonna go. Now. Now, what we want

637
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.679
to do here. We want to be fair. We want

638
00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:58.039
to be fair, okay, and we want to see what

639
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:00.639
these principles are. Now here's the thing that can be frustrating.

640
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:04.119
So let's make it very clear. He may give us

641
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:08.719
five things here that are actually good principles. They may

642
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:12.000
actually be true. They may actually be of great value.

643
00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.880
The issue is going to be, are you going to

644
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.599
claim that these principles come from X twenty seven because

645
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:24.199
X twenty seven that that's where the problem is going

646
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:26.280
to become. Well, let's see how good these principles are.

647
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:29.639
So I'm going to try to critique this on how

648
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:33.320
good these principles are, and then not even worry that

649
00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:35.519
he's trying to pull them from X twenty seven, Then

650
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:40.039
question why he took them from X twenty seven, because

651
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:43.159
they probably could have just taken these principles and not

652
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:48.079
even Hey, life is full with ups and downs and

653
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:51.639
difficulties and tragedies, and there's five different ways you can

654
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.920
handle when tragedy and difficulty comes into your life, and

655
00:38:54.920 --> 00:39:05.599
not even mention X twenty seven. Right, correct, We're.

656
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.679
Not gonna exactly deal with them in order that they

657
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.480
are given here in stretch. But I want you to

658
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:12.519
know right off the bat, as we were reading those

659
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.559
first couple of verses, we did that intentionally because I

660
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:19.239
wanted you to notice that Paul is sailing into the

661
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:20.719
storm the apostle.

662
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:21.000
Paul.

663
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.480
Hey, if anybody's not gonna have a war, have any words,

664
00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:26.800
it should be Paul, I'm all right, come on now,

665
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.639
the prisoners. It also says we're sailing with them. We

666
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.519
tend to think, yeah, you deserve it, you deserve to

667
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.719
go through it. You are presidenter, you deserve whatever.

668
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:44.280
Comes your way. But not, Paul, we see that Aristarkis.

669
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:48.199
And doctor Luke are also sailing into this storm.

670
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:50.400
Couple of good Christian brothers.

671
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.400
I got some good Christian brothers right here behind me

672
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:57.159
this morning, Praise God for them. But I also see that,

673
00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:03.639
since we're dealing with prisoners here, that there's also soldiers involved. See,

674
00:40:03.639 --> 00:40:07.400
they didn't have policemen. They used soldiers back then. You

675
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.119
got out of line, they just went in and killed you.

676
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:14.159
They weren't sitting there playing games. You weren't going to

677
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:18.639
the prison to have your Hbo and your Playboy and

678
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:21.000
three squares a day and whatever else.

679
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:24.280
No, you were gonna be in trouble, that's right.

680
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.880
But if they're sailing, that means there's a fifth group,

681
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.360
the sailors themselves. Yes, I want to look at each

682
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.360
one of these groups here. Number one, I want to

683
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:40.760
start off with the bet Hords, not betters. They're not

684
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.360
better than you. I'm talking about the Betters. Those guys,

685
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.480
they bust out them money, come out. How much are

686
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:48.079
we betting on the Bears to win this upcoming weekend? Right,

687
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:51.239
here's my money? Okay those kind of guys. Oh, they

688
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.000
ain't betting on the Chicago Bears. They ain't betting on

689
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:56.719
who's gonna win the NBA. They ain't bet not who's

690
00:40:56.719 --> 00:40:58.119
gonna win hockey or baseball?

691
00:40:58.199 --> 00:40:59.079
Bearing in oude and stuff.

692
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:04.599
They'se got decide to bet their lives. Wow, they decide

693
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:08.000
that they're gonna take a chance on it. Look with me,

694
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:10.159
if you got your Bible down. In verse number three,

695
00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:15.559
they've been in this storm for several days now, the hurricane.

696
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:16.280
It's horrible.

697
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:20.559
It's terrible, and everybody's afraid of what's going on. Verse

698
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:26.679
thirty says, and as the shipmen were about two, I

699
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:28.599
think I need glasses, e Van Field.

700
00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:32.280
That looks like that word is flee. They're gonna run.

701
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:34.039
Where are you gonna run to?

702
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.719
On a ship? My hit says they're gonna flee out

703
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:43.360
of the ship. Whoa, they're gonna flee out of the ship.

704
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:45.760
When they had let down the boat into the sea

705
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.159
under the color as though they would have cast the

706
00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:50.079
anchors out of the four ship.

707
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.159
Okay, now, let me just let me paint this picture

708
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:54.280
here real quickly for you.

709
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.199
Okay, Now I'm getting a little lost here. I'm getting

710
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:01.760
a little I'm trying to follow him. He's being all dramatic.

711
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:05.519
I got no problem with that, but sometimes you got

712
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:08.280
to kind of tune down the dramatic and try to

713
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:12.159
explain here. So he's got the betters, so the first

714
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:17.960
group is better. So I guess what he's going to

715
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:21.320
say is the first way you can handle a storm

716
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:26.760
is you can be someone who gambles. But then he

717
00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:35.000
reads verse thirty. All right, I'd have to kind of

718
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:43.559
read exactly where they are because he's making a big deal. Yeah, okay,

719
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:45.840
all right, I'm just I'm just trying to follow. I'm

720
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.880
gonna let him paint the picture here. But yeah, I'm okay,

721
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.079
all right, he's he's gonna have to go through these

722
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:56.360
points really quick because he's got five points here, so

723
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.480
he's gonna have to go through these like at mock speed.

724
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:02.079
So I think sometimes it's going to get really confed

725
00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:04.079
and he's going to try to pull it from the text,

726
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:05.400
and I think at some point I'm going to be

727
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.480
looking at the text going. Where in the world is

728
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:11.000
this coming from? So let's see where does the gambling happen?

729
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:15.079
In thirty one, Paul said to the centurion and to

730
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:18.079
the soldiers, except these abide in the ship, you cannot

731
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:21.000
be saved. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of

732
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:24.800
the boat and let her fall off. And while the

733
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.840
day was coming on, Paul besought them also to take

734
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:29.920
me seeing the day. I don't know where.

735
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:30.519
I don't know.

736
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:33.800
I don't know what he's doing, because they're trying to

737
00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:37.079
flee that they're gambling. Is that what he's trying to say.

738
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:40.519
I don't know. We'll let this just play out and

739
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:41.239
see what happens.

740
00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:46.480
You've got a ship that is big enough to carry

741
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:50.960
a cargo and passengers on the Mediterranean. That's not exactly

742
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:54.480
a little drink of water here, Okay, it's bigger than

743
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:58.559
Lake Michigan. And this ship is designed to sail on

744
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:02.360
the Mediterranean. And they're gonna get into a little lifeboat,

745
00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:03.320
a little dinghy.

746
00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:05.239
If I could compare the.

747
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:09.039
Stage here to the ship, and this first set down

748
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:13.519
here is the life boat. I don't have room to

749
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:19.920
move around. Plus on this little lifeboat you're doing doesn't.

750
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:21.239
Look like I got room to move here.

751
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.840
On the fourth wor I've got room.

752
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.880
Plus I'm closest to the water now, something big enough

753
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:31.000
I can walk around on something over here.

754
00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:35.400
I can barely move high up off the water, low

755
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:38.599
in the water. Can someone please explain to me how

756
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:39.599
that makes sense?

757
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:45.079
Okay, I'm trying to understand his art. So his argument

758
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.039
is that they should they should stay in the boat

759
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.159
because it makes more sense to stay in the boat.

760
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.960
So I'm looking some things up here, I'm utilizing Ai.

761
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:56.519
Ai says in Acts twenty seven thirty the sailors attempt

762
00:44:56.519 --> 00:44:58.880
to flee the ship under the pretense of lowering anchors,

763
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:01.920
but they're actually trying to gape in the lifeboat. And

764
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.079
as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship

765
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.280
when they had let down the skiff into the sea

766
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.719
under pretense of putting out anchors from the pro pro

767
00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:17.440
prow prow, so I guess that they they're trying to

768
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:19.360
make it look like they're just putting down the anchors,

769
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:21.360
but they're trying to actually get on lifeboats to get

770
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:24.880
out of the boat. The sailors weren't heading for a

771
00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:28.239
specific destination. They were simply trying to abandon the ship.

772
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:30.559
Given that they were still far from land, they may

773
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:33.000
have hoped to drift away from the sinking vessel and

774
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:36.000
reach safety before the shipwreck. The coastline was near, but

775
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:38.639
it was still dangerous and unclear how far they could get.

776
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:43.320
Since they had no guarantee the ship would survive, they

777
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.880
may have believed taking the skiff, a small lifeboat, was

778
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:49.880
their best chance. So he's saying it makes absolutely no sense.

779
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:53.559
But these are sailors, So in the sailor's mind it

780
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.320
made more sense. Hey, the boat, this boat's going to

781
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.440
go down. Well, let's get off the boat now while

782
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:01.199
we have time, because once the boat goes down then

783
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:04.719
it's too late. So maybe he's saying it makes no sense,

784
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.800
but it may make perfect sense, right, So we I mean,

785
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:09.519
is he trying to see the sailors didn't know what

786
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:12.639
they were doing, that the sailors were, that the sailors

787
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:16.480
were idiots, the sailors were morons, the sailors would just

788
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:21.400
overcome with fear. Is that his point here? I don't know,

789
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:22.559
let's see where he takes this.

790
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:26.039
I don't get it.

791
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:32.119
But they're gonna go down there, They're gonna bet they

792
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:35.280
will be safer in the middle of a hurricane down

793
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.440
there on that little bitty tiny thing instead of what's

794
00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:38.840
up here.

795
00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:44.239
So he's saying it made more sense to stay in

796
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:46.519
the boat. That it made more sense to stay in

797
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:49.880
the boat now and thirty one. Paul immediately recognize their

798
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.960
intentions and warns the centurion and soldiers. Unless these men

799
00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:56.159
stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. The sailors

800
00:46:56.199 --> 00:46:58.719
were trained seamen who knew how to navigate. If they

801
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.639
abandoned the ship, the remaining soldiers and passengers, many whom

802
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:06.320
were not sailors, would struggle to manage the ship. Paul's

803
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:09.800
divine revelation verse twenty three and twenty five had already

804
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.840
assured that everyone would survive, but only if they stayed together.

805
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:17.320
The centurions listened to Paul, and the soldiers cut their

806
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:20.280
ropes to the skiff, forcing everyone to remain on board.

807
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:23.079
The sailors were not heading towards a specific city or island,

808
00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:25.639
but rather trying to escape in fear, hoping to save

809
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:29.480
themselves before the ship fully wrecked. However, Paul's intervention assured

810
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:32.559
that everyone stayed aboard, ultimately leading to their survival. As

811
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:37.000
God had promised. So so isn't this an idea here?

812
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:40.360
This isn't the whole point of this story trying to

813
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:44.800
draw a correlation between divine revelation which Paul had and

814
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:48.480
these people not having divine revelation. So they're relying on

815
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:51.840
human wisdom and what to do in this situation based

816
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:55.119
off their experience. They're like, get off the boat. Paul

817
00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:57.400
is staying on the boat, not because it makes most

818
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:00.280
sense from a human perspective, but because that's what God

819
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:06.480
has told him. Is that not the story here? So

820
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.039
he's making it sound like, and here's someone in the

821
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.679
audience makes no sense to me either, Well, it's not

822
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:14.199
making any sense because the pastor is telling you it

823
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:19.760
makes no sense. But does it not make sense? Man

824
00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:20.360
oh Man?

825
00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:24.280
As I was studying this passage of scripture, I came

826
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:25.679
across this piece here.

827
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:28.360
From eighteen seventy.

828
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:33.519
Three, the RS Atlantic, owned by the same company as Titanic.

829
00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:37.440
Just in case you're curious, the RMS Atlantic was bound

830
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:43.079
for Halifax Nova Scotia in Canada, which is when encountered

831
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:47.320
severe weather and rough seas, which resulted in the ship

832
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:50.960
striking a rock just off the coast, causing her to sink.

833
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.920
The huge waves pushed the ship further into the coast

834
00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:00.360
in the process. As it turned out, those ways were

835
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.079
more deadly than the sailor's thought. Every lifeboat that was

836
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:10.400
loaded up and put down into the water was immediately

837
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:14.599
picked up by the waves and smashed into the side

838
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.239
of the ship, killing everyone.

839
00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:20.599
Who is in that lifeboat.

840
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:27.599
Pick it up, smash nuts lifeboat, pick it up, smash

841
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:32.239
everyone dies that gets in that lifeboat. During the big

842
00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:35.039
boat it has been pushed up against some rocks. Yes,

843
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:38.039
the boat will eventually sink, but you've got more time

844
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:41.519
that way. As it turns out, the Atlantic was close

845
00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:45.199
enough to shore they literally could have slammed the shore instead.

846
00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:49.679
Okay, so he seems to be making the argument that

847
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.599
you're an idiot to get in the lifeboat. All right,

848
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:58.480
So I'm asking artificial intelligence here. The sailor's attempt to

849
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.519
flee in the lifeboat and Acts twenty seven thirty made

850
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:03.679
sense from a human perspective, but it was ultimately a

851
00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:07.480
foolish decision given the circumstances. Why their decision made sense

852
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:10.679
from a human perspective. From a practical human standpoint, the

853
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:13.199
sailors were making what seemed like a rational decision. The

854
00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:16.320
ship was doomed, the storm had battered it for two

855
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:20.280
weeks Verse twenty seven. No, remember, he's just skipping around.

856
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:23.119
He's not reading. He did not even read the entire section.

857
00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:26.280
He's just jumping to a verse and saying, these are

858
00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:29.400
the betters. And they were dumb, basically all right, And

859
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:31.800
it was about to run aground and break apart. A

860
00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:35.039
lifeboat might seem safer. They might have thought getting away

861
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:38.239
early and smaller vessels would improve their survival chances. They

862
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.599
had skills to navigate, unlike the soldiers and passengers. They

863
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:44.000
were trained sailors. They may have thought they had a

864
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.559
better chance on their own than staying on a sinking

865
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:49.159
ship with people who didn't know how to sell. Why

866
00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:54.679
their decision was ultimately foolish. Despite seeming logical, the decision

867
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:57.320
was ultimately foolish for several reasons. Number one, they were

868
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:01.639
ignoring Paul's warnings and divine revelations. That's the point here.

869
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:04.960
And the lifeboat wasn't safer. The lifeboat would have been

870
00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:08.039
just as vulnerable, if not more so, to the storm

871
00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:11.039
and crashing waves. A small open boat in rough seas

872
00:51:11.159 --> 00:51:14.679
would likely capsize or drift aimlessly. Staying on the main

873
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.400
ship gave them better chance of reaching shore safely. Okay,

874
00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:20.840
that's what he's saying. So AI does acknowledge. Hey, on

875
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:24.480
one hand, it does make sense, but the lifeboats probably

876
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:27.039
wouldn't have been safer. So then this becomes you know,

877
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.920
the movies always do this, do we do this, or

878
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:32.679
we do do this? You always have one group like

879
00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:34.599
we should do this, and the other groups like, no,

880
00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:36.960
we should do this. And then one group makes one

881
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.559
decision and they all die and the other one they

882
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:44.119
survived because they made the right decision. But I mean,

883
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:49.039
but I think the point of this is about looking

884
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:52.440
at circumstances, making a decision based off human wisdom versus

885
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:55.559
making a decision based off divine revelation? Is that not

886
00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:00.360
the point of the story. Now, they were trying to

887
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.199
save themselves and they were abandoning the other people. Now

888
00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:09.719
that's true, all right, So yeah, let's see where he

889
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:10.920
takes this. Let's see where he takes this.

890
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:15.719
But they opted to get into a lifeboat.

891
00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:20.599
If you read a little bit further on here in

892
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.519
Acts twenty seven, you will find that they were close

893
00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:25.239
enough to swim to shore.

894
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.239
But God said don't let him get in the lifeboat,

895
00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:33.119
because they would have been smashed.

896
00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:36.800
They would have placed the wrong bet and would have

897
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:42.000
cost them their lives. Church, what storm is raging around

898
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.239
us that we're willing to bet our lives on that

899
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:46.639
we're going to lose?

900
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:54.719
Besides, now there seems to be a disagreement, Ai says

901
00:52:54.760 --> 00:52:56.639
at the moment when the sailors attempted to flee in

902
00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.000
Acts twenty seven thirty, they were not yet close enough

903
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.639
to swim to the shore. Verse twenty seven says they

904
00:53:02.679 --> 00:53:05.119
had been driven by the storm for fourteen nights and

905
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.519
suspected they were approaching land. Verse twenty eight says they

906
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:12.159
took soundings and found the water was decreasing from one

907
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.199
twenty to ninety feet, but this does not mean land

908
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:18.599
was within swimming distance. Verse twenty nine says they feared

909
00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:21.719
running around on rocks, so they dropped four anchors to

910
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:25.440
slow the ship down and waited for daylight, showing uncertainty

911
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:28.159
about how far they were from shore. The sailors were

912
00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:31.320
trying to escape at night, The sailors pretended to lower anchors,

913
00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:35.760
but they were really trying to get into the skiff lifeboat.

914
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.480
They were doing this before they could see land properly,

915
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:40.800
which means they were not yet close enough to swim.

916
00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:43.800
The lifeboat would have drifted in darkness without clear direction

917
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.239
in a violent sea. Paul's warning suggests the ship was

918
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:50.039
still the best option. Paul said, unless these men stay

919
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:52.159
in the ship, you cannot be saved. If they were

920
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.760
already close enough to safely swim, his statement would make

921
00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:57.760
little sense. The fact that the centurion listened to Paul

922
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:00.400
and cut away the lifeboat means he understood than they

923
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:03.000
needed to stay in the ship a little longer. They

924
00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:06.199
only attempted to swim later Verses forty one through forty four.

925
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:10.000
Much later, when the ship actually runs aground on the

926
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:13.480
sandbar near the island, the centurion orders those who can

927
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:15.679
swim to jump into the water and reach shore. This

928
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:18.519
means that before the ship ran aground, they were still

929
00:54:18.599 --> 00:54:21.639
too far to safely swim, so his statement there is

930
00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:25.440
not accurate. They weren't close enough yet. They weren't close

931
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:29.719
enough yet. And that's see, this is what makes this

932
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:33.639
so frustrating when you listen to sermons, when they start

933
00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:36.760
going all the metaphorical stuff here right, trying to make

934
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:40.079
a point. They're so interested in making their the point

935
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:43.599
and the sermon that in many cases, then they start falling.

936
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:50.039
The logical factual information starts becoming messed up. Stop worrying

937
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:53.039
about trying to make a sermon point, try to get

938
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:56.840
the facts of the chapter straight. That's why whenever, that's

939
00:54:56.880 --> 00:55:00.039
why observational outlines are so important. You got it, I

940
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.920
know what's actually had. If you actually if you'll not

941
00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.920
worry about interpreting your Bible and just actually trying to

942
00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:10.239
know what is actually happening, what is actually going on,

943
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:15.440
just factually, then that stops these nonsensical sermons from turning

944
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:18.679
the text into some kind of make believe story where

945
00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:22.719
the facts don't match up. So there's already conflict here.

946
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:24.360
He's saying, hey, they were so close, they could just

947
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:27.880
went to shore. AI say no, absolutely not true, and

948
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:31.480
Ai provides what it fills his scriptural support. He doesn't

949
00:55:31.519 --> 00:55:34.559
provide any scriptural support. He does jump to forty one

950
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:38.880
to forty four, but that's later, that's much later when

951
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:41.639
they hit the sandbar, so that whitch there in they're

952
00:55:41.719 --> 00:55:44.760
near the island. So AI explains all of it. He

953
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:48.519
doesn't offer any justification. He's just making claims.

954
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:56.559
It's the betters, I find the bystanders over in verse

955
00:55:56.639 --> 00:56:00.599
number thirty one, it says Paul said to the centurion

956
00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:04.840
into the soldiers, accept these abide in the ship. He

957
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:08.360
cannot be saved. You see, these bystanders were out of

958
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:08.880
their element.

959
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:11.199
They're soldiers. They're used to being up here.

960
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.519
On solid grounds. They got the waves locking back and forth.

961
00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:17.360
They can march they feel like it, and they ain't okay,

962
00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:19.599
and they will pull out their swords and they will fight.

963
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:22.960
They'll raise their shields high and be able to defend themselves,

964
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:25.320
and they are just painchy king.

965
00:56:28.519 --> 00:56:30.639
But if they were to get over here on land

966
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:34.000
or on sea, I'm sorry. See how this shaken?

967
00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:39.280
Okay, So now we go from the betters to the bystayer.

968
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:41.920
So remember he's supposed to be saying five different ways

969
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:43.719
to approach the storm. So I guess you can be

970
00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:46.599
a better which means, Hey, if there's a storm, don't

971
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:51.760
get in a lifeboat. So how does this work? Hey,

972
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:55.159
if there's a if there's a big storm and uh,

973
00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:58.280
things are flooding and a boat comes by to pick

974
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.480
you up, don't get in the boat. Stay on your house.

975
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:02.119
I don't know what does that mean? If the If

976
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:04.599
you're on a cruise and the ship is going down,

977
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.840
don't get in the lifeboat. Like what if if problems

978
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.239
are happening in your life and someone offers you a

979
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:13.239
lifeboat or a way of escape, don't take it because

980
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.559
you're a better and you're stupid. Just stay like, how

981
00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:18.440
does this even work? I don't even know what it?

982
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:22.800
Don't take any way out. So if the house is

983
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:26.079
on fire and the fireman comes and says, here's the ladder,

984
00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:28.480
don't take the ladder, burn with the house.

985
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:28.719
Is that?

986
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:29.320
I don't know.

987
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:31.000
I don't understand. How am I supposed to apply this

988
00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:36.199
to my everyday life? Don't take the lifeboat, don't Well, yeah,

989
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:38.519
they're not to take the life boat because God has

990
00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:41.719
specifically told Paul what to do. God is not giving

991
00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:44.519
us direct revelation like that. He's only given us his word.

992
00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:46.760
And you can't take Acts twenty seven, which has nothing

993
00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:48.639
to do with you, and try to take principles from

994
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:50.280
it and apply it to your life because it has

995
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:56.159
nothing to do with you. I don't even know. Well, okay, now,

996
00:57:56.320 --> 00:57:59.719
don't be a bystander. Don't be a bystander. Let's see

997
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:00.519
how this place out.

998
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:05.400
Okay, they're out of their element. They can't step on it.

999
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:06.880
I wouldn't dare step on this thing.

1000
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:08.639
I know, I crashed down all the way to floor

1001
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:09.719
and hurt my full self.

1002
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:16.280
But they're bystanders. They don't know nothing about sailing a ship.

1003
00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:20.119
They don't know nothing about what the sailors are worth

1004
00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:26.360
even doing at that time, they have to go along.

1005
00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:31.440
Do we know someone in our lives who just ends

1006
00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:34.599
up becoming a bystander as we're going through our storm,

1007
00:58:34.679 --> 00:58:39.880
we dragged them along with us? Oh have we been

1008
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.079
the bystanderd in someone else's storm and they've drug us

1009
00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:48.800
along with it and we also got hurt just like them.

1010
00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:56.239
It happens church. These sailors they knew what they were

1011
00:58:56.360 --> 00:58:59.119
doing and it was foolish. The soldiers didn't know what

1012
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:03.840
anybody was doing, so the.

1013
00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:07.000
Soldiers, so the sailors knew what they were doing and

1014
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:09.599
it was foolish. So they they knew they were making

1015
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:16.039
a foolish decision. And now bystanders. And also this becomes

1016
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:18.679
us being a people being a bystander in our storms

1017
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:21.760
because we drag them along or were the bystander to

1018
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:25.599
someone else's story. How does this even I wasn't the

1019
00:59:26.199 --> 00:59:29.199
the centurion and the soldiers there because they were ordered

1020
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:33.199
to be there? Weren't They're the ones instructed to take

1021
00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:38.119
these prisoners to Rome? Are what do you mean we

1022
00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:42.119
drug them along? I don't even understand there? Are they

1023
00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:46.320
bystanders or they been commissioned to do a specific mission?

1024
00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:49.599
They they've been tasked with them, They've been assigned. They

1025
00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:54.239
have been deployed using military term, they have been deployed.

1026
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:58.039
They've been assigned. Your mission is this? You will transport

1027
00:59:58.159 --> 01:00:00.559
these prisoners from point A to point and then you

1028
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:03.280
will return. This is your mission? Are they not fulfilling

1029
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:07.440
their mission? They're calling their vocation? But now that they're

1030
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:10.800
just bystanders, how do you call them bystanders? They're the

1031
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:17.119
centurion and the soldiers. I don't understand.

1032
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:23.679
Praise God, though they at least listened to Paul this time.

1033
01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:25.719
They didn't listen to them earlier when he said don't

1034
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:28.440
set sail. Now Paul comes up to him and he says, hey,

1035
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:32.199
fell us, foul us, don't let them go. Everybody needs

1036
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:34.159
to state a ship. You guys don't know how to

1037
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:36.199
run the ship. They know how to run the ship.

1038
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:39.199
Make sure they stay in here because we're gonna need them.

1039
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:44.760
What I do not read in verse number thirty two

1040
01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:47.199
is them saying, all right, let's have a committee.

1041
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:50.119
All right, my brother, why don't you lead us in prayer.

1042
01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:52.039
We're gonna talk to God and see if God really

1043
01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:53.280
wants to see those sailors.

1044
01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:55.239
I'm bord or out. I don't read that.

1045
01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:56.239
As a matter of fact.

1046
01:00:56.280 --> 01:00:57.719
I read a verse number thirty two.

1047
01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:00.280
It says, then the soldiers cut off through to the

1048
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:03.840
boat and let her fall off. They cut off that lifeboat. There,

1049
01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:06.880
y'all are stuck here with us, and you're gonna help us.

1050
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:09.320
You see some of those storms. We have got to

1051
01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:12.119
work together if we're gonna get through it ain't man.

1052
01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:15.960
The Bible talks about there in Hebrews chapter number ten,

1053
01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:19.880
Versus twenty five, not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together,

1054
01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:21.039
but so much the.

1055
01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:24.440
More, as you see the day approaching, they sort one another,

1056
01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:28.159
pray for one another, help one another, hey, gurds one another.

1057
01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:30.760
Let's see what we can do together for the Lord

1058
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:32.159
God almighty. Amen.

1059
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:38.480
And everybody's like, preach, what are you preaching? What are

1060
01:01:38.519 --> 01:01:39.079
you preaching?

1061
01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:39.679
So?

1062
01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:42.760
Hey, we have to work together. So what does this mean,

1063
01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:45.159
so well, listen, hey applied it to church. Let's not

1064
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:48.079
forsake the assembling ourselves together. So is this like, if

1065
01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:50.920
someone gets ready to leave, you cut off the rope

1066
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:53.480
so that they can't go. You're gonna stay in this church.

1067
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:57.199
You can't leave. You can't leave. We're cutting off the rope.

1068
01:01:57.239 --> 01:02:00.119
You can't leave. Is that if you're going to how

1069
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:02.719
does this even work? I don't even understand this kind

1070
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:05.079
of preaching, And yet the people are saying, amen, like

1071
01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:06.719
this is some good kind of sermon.

1072
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:07.239
What is this?

1073
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:10.159
This makes literally no sense. So we're going to apply

1074
01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:12.119
it to church, and we're well, you're just going to

1075
01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:14.960
apply this now to this means work together? No, this

1076
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:18.840
means you can't leave. We're not letting you live. We

1077
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:21.599
want to go. Sorry, you can't go? Why because we

1078
01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:24.079
need you? We can't drive this ship you can. So

1079
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:26.639
if you leave, we're gonna die. We're cutting off the rope.

1080
01:02:26.679 --> 01:02:28.760
You can't go. So it'd be like, hey, you're hey,

1081
01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:31.960
you run the soundboard. You can't leave. Hey, No, no, no,

1082
01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:35.440
you do our online marketing. You can't leave. You do

1083
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:37.840
our finances, you can't live do I just determine the

1084
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.280
people who can't leave the church, and then say I'm

1085
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.880
cutting off the lifeboat. You can't leave here. Ever again,

1086
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:47.679
people say, well, that's ridiculous. That's not the point he's making.

1087
01:02:48.440 --> 01:02:50.480
The point is he's not making a point because the

1088
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:52.840
point he's making has nothing to do with AX twenty seven,

1089
01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:55.440
because cutting the rope of the lifeboat has nothing to

1090
01:02:55.519 --> 01:02:58.239
do with church and us working together. This is they're like,

1091
01:02:58.360 --> 01:02:59.199
you can't leave.

1092
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:10.239
They don't want to be bystanders. Let's make them co workers.

1093
01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:14.159
Someone doesn't want us to be bystander, let's become a

1094
01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:15.679
co worker with them, a man.

1095
01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:20.599
First of all, they're not bystanders. They're they're on a mission.

1096
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:24.280
And second what, oh wait, wait, no, wait a minute,

1097
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:25.639
if they don't, if they don't want to be, if

1098
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:28.199
they if they want to be bystanders, make them a coworker. No,

1099
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:31.440
I don't even understand how that works. The people that

1100
01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:36.239
you're forcing to do something here are the sailors the

1101
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:40.280
I guess you're making them co workers by telling them

1102
01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:43.159
to cut the rope. I don't even understand. Oh, this

1103
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:46.840
is this is why I hate metaphorical preaching so much.

1104
01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:47.519
I hate this.

1105
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:49.960
I hate this stuff so much. When I was young,

1106
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.000
I would have eaten this stuff up because I could

1107
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:53.800
have been the ooh, and I could have turned it

1108
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:55.679
into and I would have I would have molded it

1109
01:03:56.119 --> 01:03:58.079
and a whole lot better and shaped it. But then

1110
01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:00.639
I could have turned this into a sermon, and then

1111
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:02.480
I could have preached a good sermon, and people are like, oh,

1112
01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:06.000
that's really good. Those were some good points. Yeah, but

1113
01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:08.920
I didn't teach you the text. I preached a sermon.

1114
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:13.760
Sermons are the enemy. Sermons are the enemy to understanding

1115
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:15.960
the word of God. They are the enemy. And this

1116
01:04:16.159 --> 01:04:18.280
is another I mean, how many examples do I need

1117
01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:20.800
to give you? Every sermon review proves this over and over.

1118
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:25.239
Sermons literally keep you from seeing the text. So remember

1119
01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:28.239
when his prayer, don't let them hear, you know, let

1120
01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:30.039
them hear the word of God. Nobody's hearing the word

1121
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:31.920
of God in this nobody. The word of God is

1122
01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:35.400
being absolutely covered up in this. I don't even know

1123
01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:35.960
what this is.

1124
01:04:39.760 --> 01:04:43.800
That's how you can react to the story. Wow number three.

1125
01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:48.840
Why is someone saying wow? What are you saying wow

1126
01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:52.360
to wow? And how bad this is? What are you wowing?

1127
01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:58.480
All right? So we got betters, we got bystanders, are

1128
01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:00.320
all these gonna be bees? I bet you all these

1129
01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:01.920
gonna be bees, right, because that's what you do in

1130
01:05:01.960 --> 01:05:03.840
a good sermony. Let's see what number three is.

1131
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.599
Here we go, I find the beleaguered.

1132
01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:11.679
Remember we read back there in verse number one that

1133
01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:14.519
there were also prisoners that were brought on board, besides

1134
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.719
the apostle Paul, who was going as a prisoner to Rome.

1135
01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:24.000
These guys here, they've already had it bad. They're already

1136
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:32.000
chained up, they've already been beaten, they've already gone hungry.

1137
01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:39.119
They're already hurt, they're already thirsty, they're already miserable. And

1138
01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:42.119
now when you look in verse number forty two, the

1139
01:05:42.239 --> 01:05:47.679
Bible says, the soldier's counsel was to tell the prisoners

1140
01:05:47.880 --> 01:05:51.519
just how sweet and kind they are. No, oh, no,

1141
01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:55.119
the soldier's counsel was to commend the prisoners. I'm doing

1142
01:05:55.199 --> 01:06:00.519
such an excellent job. No, the soldier's council us to

1143
01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:06.679
kill the prisoners. We've gone through this storm for two weeks.

1144
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:11.480
At this point, we're hurting, we're hungry, we're seasick. We're

1145
01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:13.840
as messed up as the rest of y'all are. Here.

1146
01:06:14.079 --> 01:06:16.360
We done been tore up from the floor up, and

1147
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:20.800
now you want to kill us for it. Man, I

1148
01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:22.920
don't blame the soldiers one bit. It makes your job

1149
01:06:22.960 --> 01:06:25.079
a little easier, a few less people.

1150
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:25.719
Have to search for.

1151
01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:30.280
But the fact of the matter is, my God promise Paul,

1152
01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:34.440
all of y'all are getting off that boat. Amen alive,

1153
01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:39.239
I should add, But these guys, they just can't win.

1154
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:42.039
Have you ever been in that situation?

1155
01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:44.119
You just can't win.

1156
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:47.199
Everything has gone wrong.

1157
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:51.199
You've been a bystander, You've placed the wrong bets on

1158
01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:55.000
your south, and yet you can't win. Every time you

1159
01:06:55.159 --> 01:06:58.280
turn around, something else is happening to you. And look,

1160
01:06:58.360 --> 01:07:00.960
my brother up here, we're bust to his chaps earlier

1161
01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:02.800
about him singing a soul. I'm gonna hold you that

1162
01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:05.960
next time I come, all right, But he just can't

1163
01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:09.760
wait because we keep picking out of state. Only this

1164
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:11.480
is a whole lot worse. This is a matter of

1165
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:20.639
life and death. These guys are leg We're hard. They

1166
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:24.800
understand everybody is against them.

1167
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:31.880
Except God. Because God promised all of y'all are getting off.

1168
01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:38.360
Yeah. Why does everybody sing yeah? I Are you getting

1169
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:43.039
ready to imply then that don't don't make a wrong

1170
01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:46.559
bet don't be a bystander, stay on the boat, don't

1171
01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:48.840
take a lifeboat, and everyone gets out alive.

1172
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.199
Is that? Is that? Like?

1173
01:07:50.360 --> 01:07:59.480
I don't even understand. I don't even know why the

1174
01:07:59.599 --> 01:08:02.599
church the Bible. I really don't because we just we

1175
01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:09.400
just make it. I I don't understand what is happening. Okay,

1176
01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:11.559
let's just let's just say he's only got like about

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01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:13.079
five minutes left.

1178
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:13.440
Here we go.

1179
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:21.199
But the fourth group the Brethren.

1180
01:08:23.479 --> 01:08:26.720
All right, so the fourth group is the Brethren. Now,

1181
01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:28.560
I still none of this is really telling me what

1182
01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:32.199
I'm supposed to do. Does anyone know what you're supposed

1183
01:08:32.199 --> 01:08:34.920
to do during a storm? Now, So I guess I

1184
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:37.279
got to determine if I'm a better, if I'm a bystander,

1185
01:08:37.279 --> 01:08:39.359
if I'm beleaguered, or am I a brother? And I

1186
01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:42.840
I I don't even know what I'm supposed to do

1187
01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:46.920
with any of this, like, and everyone's like amen, amen, Amen, wow,

1188
01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.039
good Amen? Like I preach it, brother, what do you pray?

1189
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:51.800
I don't even understand what's happening.

1190
01:08:57.359 --> 01:08:57.560
Oh?

1191
01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:05.640
I love it.

1192
01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:08.199
We're told.

1193
01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:13.479
Back in verse number one and when it was determined

1194
01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:16.600
that we and we know doctor Luke is the one

1195
01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:19.760
who is writing the book backs so that we doesn't

1196
01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:23.000
just mean Paul, it also means doctor Luke is setting sail.

1197
01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:25.520
And we're told at the end of verse number thirty

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01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:30.640
two one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

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01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:34.000
So we've got two of the brethren here with us.

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01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:37.920
Aristarkus is mentioned five times in the New Testament.

1201
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:39.720
He's all over the place.

1202
01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:42.560
He may not be the big name, but he is

1203
01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:45.119
one who is serving his Lord the best that he

1204
01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:46.119
possibly can.

1205
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:49.279
Lord, you need me to go over there and hold

1206
01:09:49.319 --> 01:09:51.640
the door open. I will go and hold the door open.

1207
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:53.920
Well, Lord, you need me to help pass out to

1208
01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:56.600
the communion, I will do it. Father, you have told

1209
01:09:56.640 --> 01:09:58.279
me I need to go over there, and I need

1210
01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:02.000
to get a holy girl's hands.

1211
01:10:02.039 --> 01:10:07.439
Say bless you. Hear my pockets in the ladder. But

1212
01:10:07.560 --> 01:10:09.479
that's what God would me do. Praise God?

1213
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:10.079
How do it?

1214
01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:14.640
Aristarcus, he's the man for that job right there. And

1215
01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:18.720
doctor Luke k he wrote two books in the New Testament.

1216
01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:20.880
As a matter of fact, when you look it up

1217
01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:24.119
in the original Greek, doctor Luke wrote more of the

1218
01:10:24.199 --> 01:10:27.920
New Testament word count wise than even the apostle Paul did.

1219
01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:30.199
And all he wrote was the Gospel according to Luke,

1220
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:31.800
and the acts of the Apostles.

1221
01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:36.920
That's it. These are two great spiritual giants.

1222
01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:37.800
Amen.

1223
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:43.880
But notice with me in verse number twenty, and when

1224
01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:48.560
neither sun nor stars in other words, they ain't seen

1225
01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:49.119
the day, and they.

1226
01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:51.720
Ain't seen the night. In many.

1227
01:10:52.960 --> 01:10:58.239
Many days appeared, and no small tempests. In other words,

1228
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:00.640
this thing's still going on, like done could come here

1229
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:09.760
layan us all hope that the prisoners, No, all hope

1230
01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:11.159
the sailors.

1231
01:11:11.359 --> 01:11:16.319
No, all hope the soldiers, no, all hope.

1232
01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:16.560
That we.

1233
01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:25.720
Should be saved. Was then take it away, scratch it out,

1234
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:35.680
no more. Gone, You're up, You're finished. This is doctor

1235
01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:39.960
Luke writinginess. Yeah. Remember I just told you he wrote

1236
01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:44.279
two books of the New Testament. Ara starks over there,

1237
01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:48.000
bite his nail to the quick. He's so seasick, he's

1238
01:11:48.119 --> 01:11:51.000
so messed up, he's so torn up from the floora

1239
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:54.319
over what's taking place here? And it's like it's been

1240
01:11:54.520 --> 01:11:57.279
so long, Oh what's gonna happen?

1241
01:11:57.520 --> 01:11:58.239
So it's go.

1242
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:01.720
What don what Dad?

1243
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:02.640
We're happen to?

1244
01:12:05.079 --> 01:12:05.279
Yeah?

1245
01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:12.000
Oh god, Now people are applauding.

1246
01:12:12.199 --> 01:12:16.439
I I don't even understand what's going on right now.

1247
01:12:16.600 --> 01:12:19.279
I don't even understand what's happening right now. I don't

1248
01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:22.439
even understand. I don't even understand.

1249
01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:27.359
Okay, I was checking some of the claims he was making.

1250
01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:29.039
So far, a lot of the claims he was making

1251
01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:33.039
there are factual claims. I just verify everything. But okay,

1252
01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:40.319
all right, we'll just man did I don't even know

1253
01:12:40.399 --> 01:12:42.119
what to say. Let's just let it go.

1254
01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:50.840
Here we go, God, hoop been expected, end, it's gone.

1255
01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:53.039
What do we do? What do we do?

1256
01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:55.840
Someone tell me what we do?

1257
01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:04.640
If it can happen to them, it can happen to you,

1258
01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:07.119
to you, to you, to you, to me.

1259
01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:14.880
Those storms can come and smash the daylights out of you,

1260
01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:18.000
knock you down, pick you up so I can smash

1261
01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:24.159
you down again and again and again, all the while

1262
01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:25.520
Satan's laughing at you.

1263
01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:31.119
Come ons, you go in the town. Boy, you can't

1264
01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:32.800
do it, you can't wain.

1265
01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:34.279
Just give it up.

1266
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:39.680
I've done whoop too good. I'll send another storm after you. God,

1267
01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:42.600
you're one of the brothers. Oh you've got a name,

1268
01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:47.640
Oh people you know who you are? Well, I don't care.

1269
01:13:48.199 --> 01:13:51.279
I'm gonna send another storm after you.

1270
01:13:51.880 --> 01:13:56.760
By the way, storm s t o R M. Satan's

1271
01:13:56.840 --> 01:14:02.039
temptation over running for the master. Wow, he's doing his

1272
01:14:02.399 --> 01:14:07.439
best to break the brother, to get him to throw

1273
01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:11.920
in the towel, And Luke said, here.

1274
01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:15.279
It is, do you know what I like?

1275
01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:21.840
Paul picked up that towel and wiped off Luke's face.

1276
01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:26.239
His boy, put that back in your pocket, because this

1277
01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:28.119
is how you're supposed.

1278
01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:28.800
To deal with the storm.

1279
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:35.279
We see the bold fifthly here Paul, Chapter twenty seven,

1280
01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:40.119
verse number twenty one through twenty five. But after long abstinence,

1281
01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:44.119
Paul stood forth in the midst of what was Paul

1282
01:14:44.239 --> 01:14:45.960
doing doing all that time?

1283
01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:50.560
I'll tell you what Paul was doing. He's praying, but

1284
01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:52.119
he ain't praying out of fear.

1285
01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:55.840
He's praying for God's will to be done because Jesus

1286
01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:59.359
himself appeared to Paul earlier and say fear not, Paul,

1287
01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:02.279
because you you're going to Rome and you're gonna testify

1288
01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:03.279
before Caesar.

1289
01:15:03.640 --> 01:15:06.720
So Paul knew he's gonna make it. He's praying for

1290
01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:07.640
everybody else.

1291
01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:11.840
Let me finish reading, sirs, Ye should have hearkened unto

1292
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:15.079
me and not have loose from creed to have gained

1293
01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:18.319
this harm and loss and now I exhort you to

1294
01:15:18.520 --> 01:15:22.920
be of good cheer. Cheer up people, for there shall

1295
01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:25.159
be no loss of any man's life among you, but

1296
01:15:25.239 --> 01:15:25.680
of the ship.

1297
01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:27.479
For there stood by me.

1298
01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:30.800
This night the Angel of God, whose I am and

1299
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:34.960
whom I serve, saying, fear not, Paul, thou must be

1300
01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:38.800
brought before Caesar. He's reminded them that Jesus promising that,

1301
01:15:39.079 --> 01:15:40.840
And Lo, God hath.

1302
01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:41.960
Given me woo.

1303
01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:46.279
All of them that sail with thee whoerefore sirs, be

1304
01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:49.600
of good cheer. For I believe God.

1305
01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:52.359
Hey, man, till you believe.

1306
01:15:52.199 --> 01:15:54.880
God when he says I'm gonna go through the fire

1307
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:57.119
with you. Do you believe God when he says I

1308
01:15:57.319 --> 01:15:59.520
will go down applaud with you. Do you believe God

1309
01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:02.680
when he says you're there in the storm, A right

1310
01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:03.840
there with you?

1311
01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:06.319
At man, I believe God.

1312
01:16:08.760 --> 01:16:15.479
By the way they lost the ship, not everybody swim ashore.

1313
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:19.079
Some had to fine pieces of broken up boards from

1314
01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:22.239
the ship and used them to float in. But when

1315
01:16:22.319 --> 01:16:25.760
they got to shore, no one had been executed by

1316
01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:29.000
the soldiers, no one had got lost out at sea.

1317
01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:32.720
Bout every last one of them, all two hundred and

1318
01:16:33.039 --> 01:16:37.000
seventy six of them all two hundred and seventy.

1319
01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:40.159
Six made it to Shore Amen.

1320
01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:46.159
Because someone believed God. Someone relied upon God. Someone kept

1321
01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:49.560
trusting in God. Someone kept operating in faith with God.

1322
01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:53.640
Someone kept praying to God. Someone kept saying, God, you've

1323
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.359
promised me, and I'm hauling you jelly.

1324
01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:07.640
Oh man, I'm just at a loss for words here.

1325
01:17:08.479 --> 01:17:17.880
So now is the indicator? If I mean, so, when

1326
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:19.600
the storms of a life come, we're gonna make it

1327
01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:21.039
through all of it. If we just believe in God,

1328
01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:23.960
we're gonna make through it. Gonna make through it. I mean,

1329
01:17:25.079 --> 01:17:26.960
I mean, you still need die of cancer, and you

1330
01:17:27.079 --> 01:17:29.319
may not get your job back, and your child may

1331
01:17:29.479 --> 01:17:33.800
still be paralyzed, and you still may have been molested

1332
01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:36.279
for ten years, or you still may have been raped,

1333
01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:39.039
or but hey, if you just believe God, you're gonna

1334
01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:41.119
get through the storm. I guess you're gonna survive. Well, no,

1335
01:17:41.359 --> 01:17:44.039
not everyone survives because people die, people get murdered, people

1336
01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:47.039
get killed, people could die of disease, people die in storms.

1337
01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:52.880
What are you promising me here? What are you guaranteeing

1338
01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:53.720
me here? Right where?

1339
01:17:53.760 --> 01:17:54.000
With you?

1340
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:56.159
And first of all, this has no promise and no

1341
01:17:56.279 --> 01:17:59.359
guarantees to me about anything, because it has nothing to

1342
01:17:59.439 --> 01:17:59.880
do with me.

1343
01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:06.119
You swear by no other. That's God. He swore by himself.

1344
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:08.800
So when God promises you something that means he has

1345
01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:10.920
sworn by himself, He's gonna do it.

1346
01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:12.039
Amen.

1347
01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:13.920
Church, I'm telling you right now, you.

1348
01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:16.479
Want to respond the right way. You will respond the

1349
01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:19.560
bold way and trust in God and look to God

1350
01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:21.920
and pray to God. You will get in your bibles

1351
01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:23.760
and you will read those Bibles. Because you will study

1352
01:18:23.840 --> 01:18:26.680
those Bibles, you will take good notes when the preacher's preaching,

1353
01:18:26.880 --> 01:18:29.399
when the stundents go classes being given, and you will

1354
01:18:29.479 --> 01:18:31.840
take those notes there and you'll go back and you'll

1355
01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:34.159
look at them afterward in your free time, and you

1356
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.199
will learn, you will grow, and you will become the

1357
01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:37.760
Christians that God will have you to be.

1358
01:18:39.880 --> 01:18:44.039
So how do you respond in storms? You read your Bible,

1359
01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:46.720
You study your Bible. You go to church, and you

1360
01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:50.319
take good notes, and then you study your notes after

1361
01:18:50.600 --> 01:18:53.520
church is over. That is how you deal with a storm.

1362
01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:58.960
Read more, study more, go to church, take notes and

1363
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:03.239
review your notes there you and that that's the answer

1364
01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:06.760
to everything. Hey, my life is falling apart. Read Go

1365
01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:10.319
to church, read your Bible, study more read more, take

1366
01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:12.960
good notes and review your notes. Well, if these are

1367
01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:19.680
the notes I'm reviewing, I'm up the creek, and.

1368
01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:24.159
If you ain't saved today, you'll look inward and say,

1369
01:19:24.239 --> 01:19:26.439
you know what, he's so crazy.

1370
01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:27.560
I want what he's got.

1371
01:19:32.119 --> 01:19:36.880
The call to salvation isn't I'm so crazy you want

1372
01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:43.199
what I got. That's not a gospel call. That's that's

1373
01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:48.159
not the gospel. That's that's like I want you want

1374
01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:50.439
to be like me, so you can be crazy and

1375
01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:53.159
yell and scream about a text in a way that

1376
01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:54.560
has nothing to do with the text.

1377
01:19:57.159 --> 01:19:58.239
But let me tell you something.

1378
01:19:59.279 --> 01:20:03.680
I'm an intro by nature, which means it's a completely

1379
01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:06.359
against my character to get up your act. The fool

1380
01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:09.840
that I've done here today, it's all God Church.

1381
01:20:12.680 --> 01:20:16.520
So God takes introverts and makes them extroverts when they preach.

1382
01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:22.119
That's what God does. Salvation is making introverts extroverts.

1383
01:20:22.359 --> 01:20:22.760
Is that is?

1384
01:20:22.840 --> 01:20:23.800
That? Is that?

1385
01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:28.680
So if you're an introvert and you want to be

1386
01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:31.039
an extrovert, you need to get saved because that's what

1387
01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:33.760
God will do in your life. And that's not even

1388
01:20:33.920 --> 01:20:35.760
that's not even a self. This is not even a

1389
01:20:35.880 --> 01:20:39.399
gospel call. This is not come to Christ because you

1390
01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:42.760
are a sinner. This is come to Christ so you

1391
01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:45.199
can be an You no longer be an introvert. That

1392
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:45.800
that what.

1393
01:20:49.960 --> 01:20:54.640
I want you to know that Jesus loves you, and

1394
01:20:54.760 --> 01:20:58.520
maybe that storm you're in right now is what He's

1395
01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:02.319
haveing come your way to show you your need to

1396
01:21:02.439 --> 01:21:07.880
be saved by Him today before it has ever lasting

1397
01:21:07.960 --> 01:21:11.760
too late. What I want is all heads to be bowed,

1398
01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:15.159
all eyes to be closed, no one looking around but

1399
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:17.039
me and the Lord. I know some of y'all sitting

1400
01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:20.840
out there right now, save Fooie. I don't need Jesus.

1401
01:21:20.960 --> 01:21:23.239
You don't know what I've gone through, all that good stuff.

1402
01:21:23.239 --> 01:21:25.960
I've been there, done that church.

1403
01:21:26.079 --> 01:21:26.880
Let me tell you something.

1404
01:21:28.119 --> 01:21:31.800
You still need Jesus, and he still wants to save you,

1405
01:21:31.880 --> 01:21:34.920
whether you want him to or not. He loves you

1406
01:21:35.039 --> 01:21:38.359
so much. He died upon the cross to pay for

1407
01:21:38.479 --> 01:21:41.520
all of your sins. If you will just accept him

1408
01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:46.399
as your Lord and savior, would you be willing to

1409
01:21:46.560 --> 01:21:50.520
ask him to save you. He's willing to do it today.

1410
01:21:51.720 --> 01:21:54.359
It's all you've got to do, is Jesus. I'm a sinner.

1411
01:21:54.479 --> 01:21:57.439
I know I'm a sinner. And I'm asking you please

1412
01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:00.359
to save me from my sins so that I can

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go to heaven one day. You don't got to use

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those exact words. You say them however you want.

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I don't know what just happened, So betters, bystanders, beleaguered, brethren,

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and bold, and I still don't really know how I'm

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supposed to deal with storms in my life other than

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read my Bible more, go to church, take good notes,

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and then study my notes. Oh and if people want

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to leave the church and cut the ropes that they

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can't leave, and tell them to get to work, because

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we got to do this together. Oh and if someone

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offers you a lifeboat, don't take it. I Acts twenty

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seven a historical narrative that's descriptive, telling us what happened,

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And somehow we turn that into a prescriptive text about

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things we're supposed to do, not in a literal storm,

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but in a metaphorical storm. And after listening to an

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entire sermon attempt to do this, I am more confused

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than I was when we started. And we already know

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the Bible study guy that sparked all of this is

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going to do pretty much the same similar thing all right,

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I'll stop. There's Acts twenty seven. We know we've got

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to do a lot of work on this chapter. Actually,

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we don't really need to do a lot of work

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on this chapter. I think if we'll just do an

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observational outline, you'll see that hasn't I mean, it has

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nothing to do.

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With what we just heard.

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I mean, this is where this is the perfect example

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of sermons actually keep people from the text. All right,

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thanks for listening. I wish I could offer you some

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01:23:56.479 --> 01:23:59.439
great insight. I can't, but now you at least know

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the story of twenty seven, and for some reason you don't.

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Now I don't think the story, and the story was

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pretty for the most part, accurately told him he kind

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of missed that one point that they were they were

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so close they could swim to the shore when he

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mentioned that that wasn't the case. But everything else is

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pretty accurate. But again he just skipped around. There was

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no really trying to put it in any kind of context.

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All right, thanks for listening. I don't know what else

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to say. God bless