March 17, 2025

Acts 27 Pt 2

Acts 27 Pt 2

I review another sermon on Acts 27

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I review another sermon 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 morning everyone.

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It is Monday, March the seventeenth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently ten thirty six am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas.

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Well.

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It started as a very simple idea, Oh, here's this

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Bible study guide that's being given away. Let me turn

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on the microphone and tell everyone how they can get

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the Bible Study Guide for themselves. So I did that.

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But then the next thing, I know, I go from

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telling everyone about the Bible Study Guide to starting to

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kind of examine it and review it. And then I

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tell everyone, you know what, it's a seven week Bible

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study guide. We're going to work through all seven weeks

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of this Bible Study Guide, and we're going to well,

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we're going to do reviews, and we're going to do

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this and we're going to do our own study. And

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the next thing, you know, what was simply supposed to

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be a I don't know, twenty minute episode telling everyone

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about how to get a Bible Study Guide for themselves

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turns into I don't know how long this is going

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to be. Now, there's a lot of I don't know,

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because I don't really know how I ended up in

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this situation. But here we are. It all started by

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telling you how to obtain the Bible Study Guide how

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to Weather the Storms of Life, and you can go

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back and listen to the previous episodes where I tell

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you how to download it and do all of that

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for yourself. I'm not going to review all of that again,

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but how to Weather the Storms of Life.

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Now.

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As soon as I saw the title of the seven

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week Bible Study Guide, how to Weather the Storms of Life,

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I knew hermaneutically, from a Hermoneutics perspective, we were in

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trouble because pastor after past or after pastor, whenever there's

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studying their Bibles or preaching a text for scripture that

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deals with a storm, they always turn the storm into

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some kind of a metaphorical storm about the storms in

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your life. So they take a biblical narrative that talks

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about a real storm, and then somehow makes that prescriptive

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and prescribes to us the steps we're supposed to take

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not to navigate a real storm, even though that's what

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the text is about, but how to navigate a metaphorical storm,

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a storm in your life. I don't know how you

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take a historical narrative about a literal storm turn it

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into a prescriptive text about telling me how to navigate

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a metaphorical storm. I don't even know how that works.

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But pastor after pastor after pastor does that, and that's

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probably why I convince myself, you know what we need

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to go through all of this this study guide, because

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this study guide is seven weeks where they look at

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storms and the Bible and we'll try to teach us

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how to weather the storms and our life. And they

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do the very thing that pastors do all the time. Hey, church,

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we're gonna be studying this storm, and this storm is

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going to represent the storms in your life, and we're

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gonna take this text and find principles that you're supposed

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to follow to navigate the storms in your life. It's

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it's such, it's almost it's it's it's almost absurd and

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how common this is. It's almost like you've got to

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be kidding me. It's almos It's almost like is this

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a parody? Right? It's like it's like when you hear

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these kinds of sermons. I hate to say it. To me,

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it's like a parody. It's like someone making fun of Christianity.

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It's like, we're going to study this storm and we're

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going to find principles and how to navigate life. If

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I was making fun of Christianity, you think that's that

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would be something you would do, just to show how

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careless we are with the text of Scripture. Now, I

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know I'm offending some of you because some of you

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have set in these sermons and you have loved them,

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and you think that they did great things in your life,

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and maybe some of the principles were good. But the

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problem is the principles are not being taken from the

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text because the text is not about your storm or

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my storm. It's about a literal storm, and in many

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cases we're missing the entire point of the narrative. So

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in this study guide how to Weather the Storms of life,

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the first storm they look at is Acts chapter twenty seven,

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or as I should say, I guess if we' want

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to be technical, the first storm they talk about is

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recorded in Acts chapter twenty seven. And so what we

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are going to do over time is, yes, I'm going

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to do my own work and my own study on

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Acts twenty seven. Yes, we will review everything the study

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guide has to say about Acts twenty seven. But one

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of the things we're also doing is we're reviewing sermons

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on Acts twenty seven. We already reviewed one. It was

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very frustrating, it was very eerie, and I was thinking, well,

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maybe I don't review anymore, maybe maybe one is enough.

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And then yesterday I get a notification from the pocket

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cast podcasting app pocket Cast podcasting app, and it just

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said Acts twenty seven, and I'm like, oh, who did

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an episode about Acts twenty seven? And then I realized

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that it was a broadcast a message that had been

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uploaded to the sermon Audio platform. But of course sermon

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Audio their website, well we wouldn't expect it on the website,

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but their sermons, the sermons by sermon Audio app, the

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sermon Audio app. You would think that they would have

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notifications on there, but they don't. All right, But what

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I do is I take broadcasters from sermon Audio, grab

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their RSS feed, and I place it in podcasting apps,

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so then I get notifications when they upload new stuff. Well,

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then yesterday obviously was Sunday one of the churches or

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on Sermonadio, they preached a sermon on Acts twenty seven,

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uploaded it, and of course I got that notification from

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the pocket cast podcasting app, right, I get. It's just

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kind of ridiculous that I got to take the broadcasters

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from sermon Audio, grab their RSS feed, go put it

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in a podcast app so that it can get actual

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notifications when they upload new content, because you would think, yeah, okay,

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all right, that whole thing drives me crazy. But the

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point is I saw the notification and was like, oh,

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Acts twenty seven, Well, I guess I'm going to have

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to review it. It's only thirty minutes long. It's only

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thirty minutes long. Now, I'm not going to give the

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name of this person. I'm not going to give the

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name of the church, all right, And here is the

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reason why it looks like I haven't listened it. Well,

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I listened to enough to realize I needed to increase

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the volume. So I increased the volume. When I listened

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to it. I didn't catch this, but I saw when

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I open up the sermon's two point oh app to

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find it, it's not the sermon's two point oh app.

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I gotta stop calling the sermon audio app. I noticed

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that this guy looks young. He looks young. And the

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one thing I know, and this and I and I

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and I very much, you know, have a kind of

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an emotional connection to this. I know that when you

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are a young preacher. I don't know if he's a pastor,

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I don't know, he just maybe a young person in

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the church preaching. And when I say young, maybe twenties,

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maybe I think maybe I think around I would say

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in the twenties. I could be wrong, but I think.

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But just my first impression when I saw is this

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guy's young. And I have an emotional connection because I

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remember being young starting to preach and teach, and I

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realize that at that point, what you're doing is you're

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preaching and teaching what you've been taught, right, I mean,

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at that point you don't you're still not probably even

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doing theology. You've learned theology and you're simply repeating it.

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So you go to a church you're young, the pastor says,

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here are the good preachers to listen to. Here's the

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preachers not to listen to. So you listen to the

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good preachers the way they handle the text, the way

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they preach. You typically start preaching somewhat in a similar way.

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Your pastor's going to tell you, here are the good commentaries,

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here are the bad commentaries. So your sermons are going

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to be put together from the good commentaries and the

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good preachers that you hear, and you're going to basically

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be parroting what you have heard. Now, I'm not saying

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that that's particulars that is clearly the case. I'm saying

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it happens over and over and over again. And then

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the longer you preach, the longer you teach. Typically, hopefully

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you transition after simply parroting what your theiological team says

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and you start entering into the world of actually doing

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theology and doing hermoneutics. So you're not doing hermautics. If

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you're just copying what everyone else already says about the text,

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you're not actually doing anything. You're just parroting. You're just copying,

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you're just repeating. You may do you may make it

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your own, and you're their own style, but you're just

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following the template everyone gives you. Now, I feel like

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what every preacher should do. At some point, you have

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to reach a point where no I'm not simply parroting theology.

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I'm going to do theology on my own. I'm going

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to question, I'm going to challenge, I'm going to formulate hypotheses.

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I'm going to start doing this on my own. I'm

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not going to just simply parrot hermeneutics. I'm going to

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do hermeneutics on my own. I don't care what my

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team says. I don't care what these commentaries say. I'm

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going to study the text for myself. I don't care

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who I offend. At some point, you want pastors to

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get there, How many actually get there? I can't say,

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because sermon after sermon after sermon that we review, they

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all seem to just be parroting following the same template

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that everyone else follows on this text. So I'm not

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going to give this person's name or anything about the

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church because I just feel like it's unfair because he's

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young right now, when you have pastors who are much older,

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You're like, come on, they've had they've had twenty years

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now to move past this stage of just repeating what

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everyone else says and actually engage in doing hermeneutics, doing

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theology now. So I'm obviously you know where I'm going.

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I obviously my presupposition here, my assumption here is that

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this guy's going to follow the same template that everyone

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else follows, and Acts twenty seven, a historical narrative about

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a storm, is going to be turned into a prescriptive

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text telling us what to do about the storms of life.

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I could be one hundred percent wrong, and I hope

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I am, But because he's young, I'm just going that

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that's what he's going to do. I hope I am

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wrong here. I hope I'm going to be pleasantly surprised.

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But we're gonna find out the fact that he's covering

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Acts twenty seven and about thirty minutes is somewhat frightening,

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all right, I don't even I don't even know if

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you can read Acts twenty seven carefully and thirty minutes.

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I mean, there are forty four verses in X twenty seven,

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but nobody really cares about all the things going on

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in X twenty seven. We just got to get to

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the storm, mention the storm, and then immediately transition out

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of X twenty seven and say, let's talk about the

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storms in your life. Right then you go back to

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X twenty seven, and you only pull verses where you

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supposedly are gathering your you know, your principles that you're

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going to prescribe to everyone. It's just, ugh, it drives

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me nuts. So one of the reasons then I'm going

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through this study guide is because I grow tired of

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how the storms and the Bible are preached. So here

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we go. We're going to get another example. I know

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what you're thinking, well, when are you going to get

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to your actually work on X twenty seven. We'll get there.

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But I mean, I can't just skip the fact that

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literally a notification showed up on my iPad yesterday that

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said AX twenty seven. I mean, come on, what are

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the chances? I mean, I mean I had to I

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had to review this today. So here we go. I

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know that was a twelve minute kind of introduction explaining everything,

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but I just wanted to explain, like a lot of

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the reviews, I give the name and the church and everything.

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But even then, I don't ever want to be I'm

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not trying to embarrass or be negative. I want you

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to go actually subscribe and listen. Hopefully by the time

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this is over, I'm going to go like, you know

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what this is really good. Hey, and I'll look up

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the name and I'll give you the name, and you

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can go subscribe to it, you know, wherever you want

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to subscribe to it. Well, yeah, there we go. But

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for now, because I mean, man, I remember being young.

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furious with myself. So you got to and that's true

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if anyone sitting in church, you got to give people

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some grace and some mercy as they're growing in their

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own faith, in their own philological understanding. Now, in many cases,

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churches don't give a lot of grace because you have

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to follow the tim You can't deviate. Churches don't. I'm

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telling you. Churches is not where you do theology. Churches

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is not where you do hermeneutics. Churches is just where

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everyone picks the team and then you just regurgitate, you

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just repeat, you just pair it whateveryone in that team says.

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wish church was the place where you had people who

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were really hungry for the text and they were like,

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let's dig in, let's let's create hypotheses. Let's test them,

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let's create, let's do this, Let's challenge this, let's challenge that,

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let's challenge this, let's work on it. Let's let's and

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and we struggle together. But it's it really isn't if

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people just get mad, they just want all they want

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to hear is what they want to hear. It's just

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so it's so discouraging to me, depressing to me. But

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on a podcast, ah, I can do whatever I want.

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It doesn't matter. I may take off everyone, but who cares, right,

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It's not like you know, I was watching a podcast

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yesterday and as a Christian YouTuber, and he was like, hey,

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this is now my full time job, so please support me.

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able to email him, you have to subscribe at a

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certain dollar amount. And it's like, man, I do love

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the fact that podcasters do have freedom. But then once

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it becomes a full time job, see, now you get

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back into a different problem. Right now you can't offend

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the people who are subscribing to you, or you can't

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make your money to support yourself. It's such a Money

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makes everything so difficult in church. See, if you offend

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people you don't have money, the church goes away. If

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you're a Christian podcaster, well, if you can't raise enough

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support to at least pay for the podcasting, either you

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pay for it yourself, or you got to make sure

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you keep pleasing people out once that gets involved, once

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you like this is my full time job, You've got

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to keep pleasing the team. And I don't want to

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please anybody's team. I don't want I don't want to

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wear anybody's jersey. I want to be a place where

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why I end up typically making people mad. So here

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we go. I think I know where this is going.

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I think I'm hoping. I'm so wrong. We're about to

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find out Acts twenty seven. That's the name of the sermon.

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Acts twenty seven. There's no just Acts twenty seven. That's

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what they called it. So here we go, as we

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are studying the storms in the Bible based on a

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seven week Bible study guide entitled how to Weather the

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Storms of Life, a seven week Bible study to help

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anchor you in God's truth. Right, yeah, all right, well,

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I'm good say a lot about that. But that led

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us to Acts twenty seven, because that's the first storm

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they cover in the Bible Study Guide, and we're covering

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at first by allowing other pastors to preach on it.

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To see what they do. Here we go.

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A little bit farther back. Let's go to verse eight.

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So they're driving, they're passing different areas and mentions where

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they're under creed. They passed Solemni verse eight and hardly passing,

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fair havens nywhere and two was the city of Lascia.

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Verse nine, Chapter twenty seven. It says, now, when much

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

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do think it's important to catch that phraser. Sailing is

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now dangerous, because the fast was now already passed. Paul

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admonished them, and he said, unto them, sirs, I perceive

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that this voyage will be with hurt, in much damage.

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That's exciting. Sometimes in the midst of trials and struggles

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in life temptations, we find this. He says, not only

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of the lady and ship, but also of our lives. Nevertheless,

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the Centurion believed the master and owner of this ship

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more than those things which were spoken by Paul, And

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because the haven was not commodious to winter in the

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more part, advised to depart. Thence also if by any

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means they might attain to a venus and there to winter,

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which is a haven of crete and lights toward the

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

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supposing that they had obtained their purpose without all things

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are going great. We're good. This is losing fence, they

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sailed close by crete, but not long after there arose

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against a tempestuous wind called eurycleidon, meaning it's a big deal.

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up unto the wind, we let her drive, and running

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under a certain island, which is called Clauda, we had

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much work to come by the boat, which when they

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had taken up, they used helps ungirding the ship, and

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fearing less they should fall into the quicksands, strike sail.

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the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship, and

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the third day we cast out with our own hands,

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the tackling of the ship, and when neither sun nor

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stars in many days appeared, and no small tempests lay

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on us, and all hope that we should be saved

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was taken away. We're gonna stop your first second. There's

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a lot more gonna deal with, all.

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seven fourteen, but not long after there rose against it

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a temptuous wind called your Rocladan. Your rock Ladon is

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how you say it? You Rocladan. By no means am

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I picking on him in any way, shape or form,

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Because I've already said Act twenty seven. There's a million

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things in here trying to how to say this. If

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you listen to twenty sermons, you'll hear forty different ways

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of saying things. I will probably say them all incorrectly.

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so that when I work on X twenty seven, I

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can reference it whenever I want. And your rock Ladon,

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so yeah, you rock Ludn, your rock Ludn. Even I

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asked artificial intelligence and it gave me two. Your rock

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Ludon or you rock Ludn. There's two different ways now

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he says, it means it's a big deal, just so

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that you know, it's a temptuous wind like a northeaster,

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a northeaster ealy storm that drove the ship violently off course,

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a temptuous wind. Right, it's a strong wind like a northeaster,

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a violent type of wind, all right. I think some

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references like a hurricane type wind. I think I think

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I've seen that define somewhere. But you Rocladan or your Rocoludan,

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however you would like to say it, that's what that's referencing.

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if it's just kind of there's a little bit more

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to it, all right. So there we go. Now let's

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see where he's going to go or what he's about

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to say.

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But what we capture there is the mindset of things

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everyone's gone through and what they're thinking, what they're looking at.

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It's rough. They now are not only in the midst

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of a storm and always the dangerous they've cast out

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to the lady of the ship. They've cast out the tackling,

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the ability to fish. They're expecting now that they will die.

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That's not fun. Now, I've not been in a storm

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in the sea, so I really, I myself can't picture this.

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I've read books on it, I've tried to study some

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things using internet, but I've not been in it, so

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my perspective is limited. But I'm going to ask has

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he even been in a storm in the sea.

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Before he asked that question? See talk about saying things incorrectly.

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I just realized when I looked at verse fourteen, But

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not long after there arose against it. A tempetuous temp

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tempetuous when tempetuous, when tempetuous when called your Roclodan right,

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I was so focused on your Rocklodan. Tempetuous, I think

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did I say it correctly? Tempetuous? I think I did.

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I think I did right. Tempetuous. I think I said

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it correctly right, I think I said tempetuous. I think

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I did. If I said it incorrectly, I apologize. That's

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why it when anytime I listen to anyone on Acts

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twenty seven, I always feel bad for them because it's

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so wordy, and it's just so many places and names play,

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and so you're like you're rockld On, You're thinking in

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your mind you're rocklet on. You're like, wait, tempetuous, right,

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t impetuous, that's the right way to say it, right.

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So if I just want to make it very clear

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if I if I correct anything, if I correct anything

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that is pronounced in this sermon, I am in no

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way criticizing, mocking, making fun of in any way, shape

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or form. Because tempetuous, I just mess that up, right.

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So I just want to make it very clear that

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I'm very aware that Acts twenty seven because I've tried

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to preach ACX twenty seven before and I think I

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ended up going back and deleting it completely because I

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was like, what was I I was messing up horribly

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on some of the ways I was stating it. You

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have to just go low and go And because a

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lot of times when you're reading the text, at least

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for me, I tend to read in my head much faster,

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and so my public reading is always poor. It's always poor.

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I blow past punctuation marks.

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I know it.

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I know it's a weakness in me.

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I know.

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And when I get to Act twenty seven, I'm just like, WHOA,

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what is going on here? I got so many different things,

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So tempetuous, your rock Gloddan or your Rocklodon. All right,

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so I think we got that correct right. Just want

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to make sure, Hey, if I'm correcting one thing while

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I'm messing up another, that that's going to happen a lot, right,

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So here we.

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Go, one, two, three, all right. So you guys know

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something about this exact type of situation more than the

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rest of us do. But there is a point of

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application that we will all understand. When life is difficult

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and you've gone through something where you see, I don't

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know how I will get through this, and so it's

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similar to this. Don't be at different. I've not been

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through a storm physically, so I don't know what that's

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like entirely in the at least in the sea. But

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when we go through a storm of life where it

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seems like there's no hope, and.

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There we go, Ladies and gentlemen, it took about It

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took me longer to figure out tempetuous than it did

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for him to switch from the physical storm too the

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storms of life. Let me make it very clear, there

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is nothing in X twenty seven. There's literally nothing in

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X twenty seven that tells you to take this and

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make this about the storms of life. It's about a

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tempetuous great wind. You roclodan, a strong wind, a tempetuous

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wind that will blow you off course physically. This is

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about an actual storm. There's nothing in X twenty seven

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that says make it about the storms of life. There

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is literally nothing. You know why you do that, because

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you've heard sermon after sermon after sermon that does that.

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There's nothing in a hermoneutics class would say at twenty

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seven is about the storms of life. There is nothing

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there to do that. So it took me longer to

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figure out how to say tempetuous than it did for

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him to go to storms alife, the storms alive. So

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you already know where it's going to go. We already

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know where this is gonna go. Now, how is he

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going to do?

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Again, this is what we have to listen to. His

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principles may be great and sound, but is he going

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to take them from X twenty seven? Because if he's

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taking them from X twenty seven, he's taking principles about

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how they navigated a literal storm, and he's gonna somehow

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make them prescriptive about a metaphorical storm. There's just so

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many problems with them. But let's see what happens.

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And you might even consider, am I gonna have sustenance?

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Am I gonna have provision? You might think of it

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in a physical matter, Am I gonna have food? If

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you go through a financial loss, a financial struggle, will

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I be able to eat the next meal? Will i'd

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be able to eat this day or even this week.

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I'm assuming most people have gone through some kind of struggle.

462
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I understand none of us or in the a great depression,

463
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but some of us are some of you not us,

464
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some of you were in that time where you were raised,

465
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and you understand more of what I was like. I've

466
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only heard stories. I was very distant from it, but

467
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where you question if you're even gonna live. That's the

468
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kind of situation. Some people will go through that emotionally,

469
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they know how am I going to get through this?

470
00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:24.200
They have these kind of struggles. That's the exact type

471
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of situation that's here. They don't know what's going to happen,

472
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how they're going to get through it. It is difficult,

473
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and they're wondering. Lots of questions would come to your mind.

474
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Is God going to provide? Is God going to care?

475
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Does he know what we're going through these kind of things.

476
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Some people will question, but Paul gives us an example

477
00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:45.839
of what we're supposed to do, what we're supposed to act,

478
00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:48.039
like how we're supposed to be in the midst of

479
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a storm God.

480
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So Paul is giving us an example of how we're

481
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supposed to be in the midst of a storm, in

482
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the midst of a literal storm in which Paul was

483
00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:07.640
given direct divine revelation about that specific storm. But now

484
00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:10.319
you're gonna take that and say, this is an example

485
00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:13.559
on how weird to navigate the storms in our life.

486
00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:16.480
Paul's divine revelation about how to deal with that storm

487
00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.119
has nothing to do with about your storm and your

488
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life where whatever problem you're facing it, Oh, it's so maddening,

489
00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:29.039
it just drives me insane.

490
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We're going to consider that next. But I want us

491
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to capture first the doom, the gloom, the hardships. We're

492
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gonna pray now I don't remember the structure, but I

493
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want to pray, and then we'll continue on the rest

494
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of the text. Here Fa we loving thing for the

495
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time it is to hop up your word and to

496
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the time of Sunday school hour. We do pray that

497
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you'd be honored and glorified, and that you'd bless the

498
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reading of the Word here, the teaching of it, and

499
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that our minds might be able to understand apply the

500
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truth of the scripture here, and especially the Lord, that

501
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we'd captured the principle that trials are a part of life.

502
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We go through struggles in this life, but there is

503
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always a purpose, and we always can see how much

504
00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:07.759
that you care for us, how much you can provide

505
00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:09.359
for us, and the strength that you give to us

506
00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:11.400
will help us to rely upon you to trust you

507
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:12.759
when we ask for your grace. In this time, we're

508
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praying Christ's name. Amen. All right. So, and they're in

509
00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:20.079
the midst of a struggle of a danger. I'm just

510
00:27:20.119 --> 00:27:23.640
gonna read a quote here. Every trial is an opportunity

511
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:27.599
for God to show his omnipotent power that allows God

512
00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:31.519
to show himself strong on our behalf, displaying what only

513
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He can do. If we do not face some possibilities,

514
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:37.440
we will never see God do the miraculous.

515
00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:42.880
So all right, So, the idea seems to be I mean,

516
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I mean, I'm not saying he's being dogmatic here, but

517
00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:48.839
that quote seems to be Hey, you would go through trials,

518
00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:50.880
So now we can see God's power. But have you

519
00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:54.279
ever gone through trials and wait, God's power doesn't show up?

520
00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:59.400
Does a church ever acknowledge that I my mother laid

521
00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:02.880
it off, spit of bed and died before I even

522
00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.480
became an adult. And what God's power didn't show up?

523
00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:10.759
My father suffered and died with cancer. God didn't show up.

524
00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:14.640
How many different situations when I was being beaten and abused,

525
00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:19.640
God didn't show up. So just because God's all powerful

526
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:21.799
doesn't mean if you go through a trial, God's going

527
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:24.079
to show up in a way to stop the trial,

528
00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:27.079
hell the person, bring them back from the dead, or

529
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:31.519
fix the problem. I know the church hates hearing that,

530
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:34.200
but at some point we got to acknowledge that. But

531
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:35.720
to see, the idea is, you're going through a trial

532
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of life. Oh hey, guys, you're going through a trial life.

533
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:42.799
It's an opportunity for God's omnipotence to show up. Well,

534
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:45.440
it could be that God's omnipotence could have showed up

535
00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:47.559
and stopped the trial from happening. But no, no, no, See,

536
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:49.039
he wants you to go through the trial, so his

537
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:53.240
omnipotence can show up. Okay, great, So now there's someone

538
00:28:53.240 --> 00:29:01.720
in the church their daughter is murdered. Hey, hey, this

539
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:05.119
is an opportunity for God's omnipotence to show up. He

540
00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:09.079
didn't stop my daughter from being murdered, he didn't raise

541
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:14.519
her from the dead, but it's an opportunity for God's

542
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:18.480
omnipotence to show up. And well that story, well someone

543
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:20.839
in my church, a family in my church, their daughter

544
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:31.000
was murdered. I mean, I can give countless examples. So see,

545
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.400
you can't just say that a storm is an opportunity

546
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.480
for God's omnipotence to show up in this particular. I

547
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:42.319
never mind. Oh, it just drives me so mad. It

548
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:44.559
just it drives me crazy at some point. All right,

549
00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:45.960
let's see what happens here.

550
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:51.559
Just a situation that we've gone through before. But whenever

551
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:54.039
you go to a point where you're wondering, Okay, I

552
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:58.279
have these bills, and I have said, I have these bills,

553
00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:02.039
and I have this money. How do I get this

554
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:05.599
money to match these bills while I multiply it? But

555
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.240
you have two days. You can't invest into it, You

556
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:10.119
can't work hard enough to provide the unless you have

557
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:13.039
a special job that provides that. These are situations that

558
00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:15.920
more like I'm assuming everyone has gone through and I've

559
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.200
gone through it before too. But you have these bills

560
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:20.519
and you have this much money, you can't provide for it.

561
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Maybe you have this much of a health issue, but

562
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you only have this much resources or this much for

563
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.599
someone to help you when things don't match the need.

564
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Through that, we do find God's provision. We find that

565
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.000
God can give us miracles. But miracles don't happen when

566
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:40.559
we say, Okay, this is hard, but I recognize if

567
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:43.839
I just try harder, I can get through it. Well,

568
00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:46.079
if you get through, that's not necessarily a miracle, because

569
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you might even say that you did it yourself. But

570
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:50.920
when you know you can't do it yourself and you

571
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:53.359
know that there will be struggles, that's when you know

572
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:55.880
God is when I did the work, I'll give it

573
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very to me. I see this as a miracle. I

574
00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:02.160
don't know about everyone else, but often when two churches merge,

575
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:06.519
there are fights, there's contention, there's struggles, because one thing

576
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:09.400
that the church is supposed to have acornte Ephesians is unity.

577
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.920
But when there is not fighting, there's not contention. I

578
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.839
would say that's a miracle when two people can get along,

579
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.759
When two churches merge together and can get along, that's

580
00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:22.440
one thing that we see. Evidently this is God's work.

581
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:28.000
So if two churches merge and they can get along,

582
00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:33.759
that's a miracle. Now, wait a minute, I thought, I

583
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:36.640
thought Christians are we are new creatures in Christ. Old

584
00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:38.880
things have passed away, all things have become new. Shouldn't

585
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:40.680
be we should be able to merge and get along

586
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.000
perfectly all the time, because I mean, Christianity basically sells

587
00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:46.519
itself is that we're basically perfect. So now if we

588
00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:49.359
can just get along with each other, that's a miracle.

589
00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:55.400
So how come I've worked with atheist multiple times in

590
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:57.599
my life. I mean a lot of times in the

591
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:00.480
medical world, I worked with atheists. They they seem to

592
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:03.599
get along really really well, really really well. Was that

593
00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:07.759
a miracle because atheists get along with one another? I mean,

594
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:13.640
I don't I don't understand. I don't understand. But just

595
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.519
so that we know, he made a dogmatic assertion that

596
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.440
Act twenty seven, Paul gives us an example on how

597
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:22.880
to navigate the storms of life and AI this is

598
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.440
what artificial intelligence says this is categorically false. Acts twenty

599
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.039
seven does not present Paul as an example for handling

600
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:33.039
live storms. This is not the purpose of the passage,

601
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:36.000
and interpreting it that way misuses the text by forcing

602
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.960
a prescriptive lesson where none exist. Why Paul is not

603
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:44.039
an example for handling live storm. Acts twenty seven is

604
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:48.359
a historical narrative, not a prescriptive lesson. This passage describes

605
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:52.400
an actual event, Paul's journey from Rome and the storm

606
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.319
that God sovereignly used to fulfill his plan. There is

607
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.240
no command or instruction in the text that says when

608
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:01.839
you face live storms, fall oh Paul's example. Luke does

609
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:04.839
not present Paul as a moral example here, He simply

610
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.480
records what happens. Number two, Paul had a unique revelation

611
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:11.599
that no one else has today. Paul was not calm

612
00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:14.240
in the storm because of his own spiritual strength. It

613
00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:17.640
was calm because an angel of God literally told him

614
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.119
that no one would die. This is not an experience

615
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.960
that believers today share. No one today has promised a

616
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:28.720
personal angelic revelation guaranteeing their safety and hardship. Applying this

617
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:32.000
as if Paul was just trusting God like we should,

618
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:36.680
ignores the unique divine intervention in the situation. Number three,

619
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Paul's safety was not a universal promise for all believers.

620
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:43.759
Some sermons wrongly imply if you do trust God in

621
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.480
your storms like Paul did, you will be safe. The

622
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:50.680
reality is many faithful believers suffer and die in storms, disasters,

623
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:54.000
and trials. The reason Paul and others survive was not

624
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:57.039
a general promise to all believers. It was God's specific

625
00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:00.000
plan to get Paul to Rome. Number four, Paul's actions

626
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.039
were not prescription for all prescriptive for all trials. Paul

627
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.119
does not pray for deliverance. Paul does not rebuke the storm.

628
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.199
Paul does not teach or exhort others about faith in trials.

629
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.159
He simply relays what the angel tells that told him.

630
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.159
His message in Acts twenty seven is not a general

631
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.679
faith principle. It's a statement about God's specific promise for

632
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:25.960
that situation. Even AI knows that this is just categorically

633
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.280
the wrong way to handle this text. It is categorically

634
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.599
not true. What is happening here?

635
00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:32.480
It is.

636
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:41.719
Why why I don't understand why? All right, let's see

637
00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:46.519
what happens.

638
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.360
We can't do it. Brother Eckles and I we're talking

639
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.239
about some things in the past. I understand this doesn't

640
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:49.840
have to do with the text. This is like a parentheses.

641
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:54.280
This is free time. But God gives us things that

642
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.679
we have vision for things we want to do. But

643
00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:58.920
when brother Eckles and I were talking about some stuff,

644
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.480
we have the same thoughts on some things, and we

645
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:05.480
don't fight. We get along. And I like hearing him talk.

646
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:08.039
I think he likes He pretends like he enjoys hearing

647
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:11.199
me talk. But we can just fellowship. And the fact

648
00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:13.360
that God has done that I see as a miracle.

649
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:14.880
I don't see it as just a thing that we

650
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:15.719
can do ourselves.

651
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:21.239
So if we get along with someone, that's a miracle.

652
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:23.920
If two Christians get along with each other, that's a miracle.

653
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:26.840
It's not something we can do ourselves. So as Christians,

654
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:31.800
we cannot within ourselves get along with one another. God

655
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:34.760
has to do it. So if two Christians are fighting,

656
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.519
or if there's a church split, you can't blame the people.

657
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:42.039
They can't do it in and of themselves. But God

658
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.039
didn't perform a miracle. So if God has to perform

659
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:47.920
the miracle so that Christians can get along? Then why

660
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:50.599
don't godf Why doesn't God perform that miracle all the

661
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.079
time so that we could stop all the church splits

662
00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:55.519
and all the fighting and all the bickering and all

663
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:59.280
the problems in church. Christians can't do it. God has

664
00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:01.559
to do a miracle. Then when God, why doesn't God

665
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.760
have help? Where's God been for two thousand years? Oh?

666
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.199
But I guess he showed up in those situations. So

667
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.440
and their situation because he gets along with the other guy.

668
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:13.159
Now what happens on the day when the day comes

669
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.159
that they don't get along? Did God stop performing the miracle?

670
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:17.440
Oh?

671
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.440
I've got so many theological questions I've got, I got

672
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.639
I could write a notebook of theological questions at this point.

673
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:30.719
Because we're fleshy, we're sinful, we're very careless or very carnal.

674
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:33.639
We can struggle a lot. But when we submit to God,

675
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:36.639
we see something that God can do. He'll do a

676
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:38.199
great miracle, He'll do a great work.

677
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:44.119
Wait, he just made that a conditional clause when we

678
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:47.760
submit to God. So we're sinful and fleshley, but we

679
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:50.039
can submit to God. And if we submit to God,

680
00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:52.639
then He'll do the miracle of helping us get along,

681
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.760
So is it God doing God? God's miracle is conditional

682
00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:00.440
on my ability to submit. So if we stopp getting along,

683
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:03.880
it's because we are not submitting, So is it God's

684
00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:08.639
God's miracle is determined by our submission. So if we

685
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:11.880
are not in submission, God doesn't do the miracle like

686
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.920
I mean, Look, he's the one making it prescriptive. So

687
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.400
if he's making it prescriptive, I've got to figure out

688
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:20.079
how to follow the prescription. I need the prescription, the

689
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.000
instructions on the prescription.

690
00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:31.280
Right, That's just my thoughts. But also health. Brother Nelson

691
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:33.239
went through some health this week ares lie of those

692
00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:36.760
who have gone through some health issues. God can provide.

693
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:41.400
He does provide, but sometimes we question if God will provide.

694
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.679
So I want to This part is not from me.

695
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:46.760
Some alliteration here, but I want to give some thoughts.

696
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:51.119
So in the midst of a storm, not only do

697
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:52.880
we see that we need to grow, That's what last

698
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:56.440
week was about, but we also have the opportunity to

699
00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:59.880
see how God will show show himself to be true,

700
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so show himself to be faithful, but he also shows

701
00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:06.639
how much he cares. So I want to read a

702
00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:07.400
little bit more in this.

703
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.719
So in a storm God, God can show him self powerful, powerful,

704
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:16.440
but he can show how much he cares. So let

705
00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:19.559
me make it sure. So did God show me his

706
00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:22.599
power and how much he cares? When my mother died?

707
00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:26.559
Did God show his power? How much he cares? When

708
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:31.559
my father died? Did God show me how his power?

709
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:34.800
How much he cares? When I was being physically abused?

710
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.599
Did God show me his power? How much he cares?

711
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:43.639
When I almost died in the military and now have

712
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.400
a seizure disorder because of what happened to me in

713
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:49.639
the military. Now if someone can said, well, you almost died,

714
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:51.719
but you didn't die, so he showed his power. So

715
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.159
he showed his power when I didn't die, but he

716
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:58.800
didn't show his power. So how does this work? God

717
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:02.760
cares because he does something, But if he doesn't do something,

718
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:05.079
does that that mean then he no longer cares? Or

719
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:07.400
does it mean I'm no longer in submission to God?

720
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.440
So was it my mom wasn't in submission?

721
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:11.719
Right now? I see this?

722
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:15.599
Just this all begins. And whenever you start asking these questions,

723
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:18.320
Christians get defensive and they get mad. And they get

724
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:21.719
their feelings hurt. And I know that, but I get

725
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.679
sick and tired of all of the things that we say.

726
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:27.800
And it's like, you're never allowed to challenge it. You're

727
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.760
never allowed. Yeah, I'm gonna challenge it because it just thought.

728
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:37.679
It's just breaks down on so many levels.

729
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.360
Text here how much God cares verse twenty one. So

730
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:42.239
this seems like we ended there verse twenty that all

731
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:46.960
hope was taken away verse twenty one. But after long abstinence,

732
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:50.519
Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, sirs,

733
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:54.239
he should have hearkened unto me and not have loose

734
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:58.119
from crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. Now,

735
00:39:58.159 --> 00:39:59.679
I'll be honest. The first time I read that, I

736
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.440
thought Paul was saying I told you so. Technically he wasn't,

737
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.159
maybe a little bit, but saying, guys, I told you

738
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:07.880
this is gonna be dangerous, but God's still going to

739
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:09.800
care for us. So verse twenty two, he says, and

740
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.440
now I exhorre you to be of good cheer, for

741
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:15.400
there shall be no loss of any man's life among you,

742
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:19.119
but of the ship. For there stood by me this night,

743
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:23.719
the Angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve,

744
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:27.159
God stood with him amidst a storm. Now, if you've

745
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.519
ever gone through real storm and real struggle in any aspect.

746
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:32.159
It could be financed, it could be health, it could

747
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:35.039
be in emotions, it could be trials of life amongst family.

748
00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:39.320
But I hope you're going to recognize that God is there.

749
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:42.320
We know that there's the Scriptures of Luke without think,

750
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.920
He's three accounts where God says that if we ask

751
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.559
for him, he'll come. We know that God's always there

752
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:51.480
and if we not, he's going to come in. He's

753
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:53.280
always there looking for us which need to let him in.

754
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:55.239
We know those some things that God wants to be

755
00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:57.960
there force. He wants to come into our life to provide.

756
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.960
So God wants to be there, but we have to

757
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:05.280
let him in. So if I don't let God in,

758
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.880
God doesn't come in. But if I let God in,

759
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.119
God will come in and do what Now in this

760
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:15.280
particular case, this is this is the divine revelation that

761
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.639
Paul receives for this specific storm. It's not a promise

762
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:22.000
about any about me. So God will show up in

763
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:23.599
my storm if I let him in. But if I

764
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:26.599
don't let him in, he just stands outside. I have

765
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:29.480
to God. So I'm a Christian, but I still but

766
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.039
God won't come into my storm unless I let him in,

767
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:35.440
so I know. So how do I know when I've

768
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.880
led him in? How do I know when I How

769
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:41.840
do I know when I've led him in? I'm knocking,

770
00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:45.000
he's knocking, somebody's knocking. I gotta let him know. I

771
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.519
know when I let him in, when the storm gets better.

772
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.719
What if I let him in and the storm gets

773
00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:54.360
worse or there, The person doesn't get healed, the person dies,

774
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:58.800
the person isn't resurrected. My medical problem doesn't get better,

775
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:04.280
My medical problem is diagnosedis terminal, like does did? God

776
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:08.400
is God there? So now are you gonna Are you

777
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:10.840
gonna didn't demonstrate that God can be present? And your

778
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:13.760
storm doesn't get better and it actually kills you?

779
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:14.559
All right?

780
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:16.079
Are you gonna emphasize that?

781
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.679
But when you go through trials, sometimes we don't know

782
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:26.320
how to look for God. But yet he is always

783
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.400
still there, even for questioning some things. God is always

784
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:29.920
still there.

785
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.760
Okay. God is always there, So I don't have to

786
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:35.519
let him in. I don't have to let him in

787
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.000
because He's always there. Okay, all right, So God is

788
00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:41.199
always there. That means whether the situation gets better the

789
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:44.320
situation gets worse, God is always there, so means God

790
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.400
being there is not a guarantee that things are going

791
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:48.400
to get better. It just means that God is there.

792
00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:51.079
So God is there even though things don't get better.

793
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.559
Now how does that work? All right? So let's just

794
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:56.599
let's again. I know when I say these things I

795
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.320
tick off Christians, but I have to say them all right,

796
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:03.119
So hey, look I'm sorry you're being sexually molested, but

797
00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:06.559
just no, God is there. Oh, so he's going to

798
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.719
help me? Well, I mean your situation may not get

799
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.199
any better, but he but he's there. Hey you have

800
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.400
this disease and well God is there. Well, so that

801
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:21.079
means I'm going to be heal, Well, no, you could die. Hey, hey,

802
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:23.920
this just happened to my daughter or my son. Is

803
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:25.880
the situation going to get better? But just know God

804
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:28.440
is there? Is it going to get better? Well? I

805
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.880
can't promise you that, but God is there, So me

806
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:34.760
that means God being there is of no guarantee that

807
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.039
anything is going to get better or anything is going

808
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.880
to improve. And if you say otherwise, you are a liar.

809
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:48.239
So but we all right, I'm just going to be patient.

810
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:50.880
I'm going to be patient, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna

811
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:52.920
be patient. I'm going to be patient. Here we go.

812
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:57.840
So it says in this text that verse twenty three,

813
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.800
for there stood by me this night, the Angel of God,

814
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.719
whose I am and whom I serve? God is there

815
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:08.599
with us. But it does help when we're in God's

816
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:11.159
will when he uses that phrase there whose I am

817
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:15.480
and whom I serve. This may seem like a side topic,

818
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:17.800
but this deals with the text very much. So Paul

819
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.599
is in God's will. Paul is serving God, and God

820
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:24.760
provides safety for him. God provides comfort for him as well.

821
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:28.159
And I think within the context that fits very very importantly.

822
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.199
That's a very key part to it, because if Paul

823
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:33.599
is outside of God's will, will God provide still be

824
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.280
with him? Yes, but sometimes God will also allow him

825
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.239
to go through struggles, go through trials. We talked about

826
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:43.599
last week with Jonah. Yes, Jonah was going to do

827
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:45.840
what God said, he was going to physically serve God,

828
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:48.159
but his mind and his heart was not say there,

829
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:51.320
not like it should be. But Paul was serving God faithfully.

830
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:54.400
Not only was God there, but he was encouraging him

831
00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:58.679
because Paul was serving faithfully. Marriage twenty four. Here's what

832
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:03.480
the Angel said to Paul, saying, fear not, Paul, for

833
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:07.119
that must be brought before Caesar. And Lo, God hath

834
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.440
given all of them that sail with Thee, all them

835
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:13.519
that sail with me. Wherefore it serves be of good cheer,

836
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:16.199
for I believe God that it shall be, even as

837
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:19.440
it was told me. Not only does God care, but

838
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:24.559
God can provide for us. That Paul hasn't seen it yet,

839
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:28.559
But yet God says to them, be of good cheer.

840
00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:31.159
Even though he's not seen it yet, he still makes

841
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:35.400
that statement. Why because he believes God. He has a

842
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:37.559
confidence in God. When we see this in other times

843
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.440
that Paul writes, I am persuaded that that which I've

844
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:42.239
given to God, he's able to keep, that which I've

845
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.159
committed to him. He's able to control, He's able to

846
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:48.400
provide for us. But we need to trust him. We

847
00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:51.000
walk by faith. May not always understand what's happening, but

848
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:53.280
we can still walk by faith. God is going to

849
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:56.199
provide for us. Not only does God care, but he

850
00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:57.760
can provide and we.

851
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:02.519
Can provide or He will provide. And if you say

852
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:06.599
will provide, don't you have to be very very specific

853
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:14.599
in exactly what he will provide. I mean, we got

854
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.599
two thousand years of church history of people suffering and dying.

855
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:23.920
God did not provide anything and showing up to tangibly

856
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:27.039
help them or deliver them. I mean, we got the

857
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:29.320
story in the New Testament where Jesus didn't even bother

858
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:31.400
to go visit John the Baptist while I was in prison.

859
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:35.800
John the Baptist is killed. He doesn't provide anything, He

860
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:40.360
doesn't show up, doesn't deliver him, doesn't heal him, doesn't

861
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:49.599
raise him from the dead. So it's just it's hey,

862
00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:52.199
God will provide. And everybody in the pew is like amen.

863
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:54.119
I mean, I'm not saying they were saying amen, because

864
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:56.840
I don't think I heard anything, but people will say amen.

865
00:46:56.920 --> 00:46:59.679
It's like okay, But what I need? What does that mean?

866
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:05.840
What doesn't mean? Specifically? God will provide the righteousness of

867
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:10.920
his son imputed to my account? I know that by faith,

868
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:14.559
the righteousness of Jesus Christ is imputed to my account.

869
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.719
He definitely provides that, and that provides me the forgiveness

870
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:22.079
of sins eternal life. He will provide me. I mean,

871
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:26.760
there are some specifics, right, but all right, let's continue.

872
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.599
I have to have confidence there. So Verse twenty five says, wherefore, sirs,

873
00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:34.800
be of good cheer, for I believe God. That shall

874
00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:39.320
be even as it was told me what happens when

875
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:43.480
someone says I believe God. Oh, I'll taste another thought

876
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.480
that I have in my mind. I hope my mind's

877
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:49.840
not too chaotic. But but my kids are learning everything

878
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.920
by me and my wife. They learn from other people too,

879
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:55.920
but they learn how to behave, they learn how to act,

880
00:47:56.320 --> 00:47:59.079
they learn how to trust. They learn all these things

881
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.199
from my wife and I and that's natural. Between the

882
00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:05.400
ages of two and five, kids grow and they understand

883
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:07.719
a lot of things about loyalty, about trust, about commitment.

884
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:11.039
They understand some resilience in life. They learn that there

885
00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:14.199
is some safeguards and family. They learn all these different

886
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:17.320
things that we're supposed to teach them to learn, how

887
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:20.639
to serve God, how to follow God, how to trust God. Well,

888
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:24.480
here's the dangerous thing. If my kid sees me or

889
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:26.400
one of them spill water, I'm not going to do

890
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:28.239
it because I don't want to do that. I don't

891
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:30.159
want to clean it after it. But if I spill water,

892
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:32.639
my kids see me throw a fit. What do they

893
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:36.159
learn when there's a mess in life? Throw a fit?

894
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:39.920
Now here's my thought. You may not agree. But when

895
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:41.920
you go to Walmart and you see a kid throwing

896
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:45.639
a fit on the floor, what they are physically doing

897
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:48.840
is displaying to everyone around what their parents do at home.

898
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:51.159
That's what I believe. You may not agree, but that's

899
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.559
what I believe. What kids do ultimately, they learn a

900
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:58.320
lot from us. So my kids throw fits, they probably

901
00:48:58.400 --> 00:48:59.840
learn it from me. Probably not.

902
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:05.880
Wait, so when a kid does something wrong that reflects

903
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:08.840
the parent, do you not believe in a sinful nature?

904
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:11.840
Doesn't a kid do wrong things and act selfish and

905
00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:15.760
throw a fit one based off the the development of

906
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:20.559
their brain, their emotional development, and and then do you

907
00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:28.360
take not an account a sinful nature? Oh, my goodness, gracious,

908
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.119
this is like sometimes Christians say things that completely violates

909
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:34.320
the very theology that you think that they would preach.

910
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:36.599
If you believe in total de provity. If we believe

911
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.599
the child is born with a sinful nature, he's going

912
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:42.239
to demonstrate a sinful nature irregardless of what he learns

913
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.360
from his parents. The problem with kids start from inside.

914
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:47.199
Do I have Do we have to go to parenting

915
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:51.559
one oh one? Here? Oh my goodness, gracious, well forget

916
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:54.480
parenting one oh one. It's it's basic understanding of human

917
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:58.880
nature according to Christian theology.

918
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:01.599
My wife, they're nice and sweet. They probably learn that

919
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:07.000
from my wife, not always, but sometimes I'll move on.

920
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:11.480
But our kids learn from us. Here's something that Paul's doing.

921
00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:14.239
I understand it's not a parent child relationship, but Paul

922
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:18.760
says this, I believe God. God's going to provide. God

923
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:21.920
has been with me. I understand that his comfort, his presence,

924
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:24.400
and I know that God's going to have provision for me.

925
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:28.599
And I believe God. What does that do? Well? When

926
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:32.639
we're confident, when we're persuaded in what we say, it

927
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:37.159
gives others a certain glimpse of that confidence, and they

928
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:39.719
can trust us a little bit and they can learn

929
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:42.000
to trust God a little bit more. We have to

930
00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:44.280
be careful because in the midst of a trial, not

931
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:46.679
only can we come out bitter or better that phrase

932
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:51.400
are used last week, but also other people can see

933
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:53.880
us in the midst of a trial, and they learn.

934
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:56.599
There's a lot of times that I've seen people go

935
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through trials and I learn from it. I've seen but

936
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.119
then that low and I would go door knocking a lot,

937
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:04.559
and I remember driving your red truck. Can we go

938
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:06.840
house to house? Because there was too far apart, not

939
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:08.960
a neighborhood, we couldn't walk, but we'd go house to

940
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:11.400
house driving. He'd leave the door open and out close

941
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:13.079
the door. I was wondered why he left the door open,

942
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:15.320
and we go just knock on the door, and we

943
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:18.079
talked to people and had good conversations. We go back

944
00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:20.000
in the truck and he may not be able to

945
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:21.880
physically do that. Now. I think some of you know

946
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:25.199
he makes phone calls. But I've seen some things changing

947
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:26.880
by the law of his life, along with several others.

948
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.960
And yet still be faithful. Are we gonna make mistakes?

949
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.719
Absolutely yes, because we're fleshley, but still in the midst

950
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.599
of trials, in the midst of life that just happens

951
00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:41.079
what we do. Not only is it that we can

952
00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:43.599
trust God. We know that he cares, that he can

953
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.280
provide for us, but others are watching.

954
00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:51.039
I got to connect this back to the preview. We're

955
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:54.400
gonna make mistakes because we're fleshley. Children are going to

956
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:57.880
do things because they're fleshly, not necessarily because they learned

957
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:06.840
it from their parents. It's not Artificial intelligence does not

958
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:13.119
like this sermon. Okay, I just had artificial intelligences that

959
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:18.320
this sermon contains factual errors, logical errors, and hermeneutical errors.

960
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:27.880
It gives me one two three three factual errors, gives

961
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:33.280
me one two three logical errors, and then gives me

962
00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:39.840
one two three hermeneutical errors, and it refers to them

963
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:46.960
as egregious. AI does not. Artificial intelligence does not like

964
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.480
this sermon. Okay, So it's not just me having issues here.

965
00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:58.199
Oh man, are you learning anything about Acts twenty seven?

966
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Do you think you know?

967
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:00.119
Oh?

968
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:04.239
Acts twenty seven? Do you think you know? Maybe I'll

969
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:06.519
go through all of the problems AI points out here.

970
00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:08.800
I'm just gonna let this go a little bit. I

971
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:12.239
think one of the most egregious things is basically blaming

972
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.039
parents because your kid throws a fit, and it's like

973
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:19.159
that they learned it from you. It's like that completely

974
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.719
negates the fact that children are born centers. They completely negate.

975
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If this is a a church that believes in Palagianism,

976
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:28.039
then okay, right, then the child's not born with a

977
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:31.000
sinful nature, then okay, then then by all means, But

978
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:35.239
if they're born with a sinful nature, I just I

979
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:37.559
want to thing that got to do with X twenty seven.

980
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:39.760
I don't even know how work here. I don't even

981
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.000
know what's going on, And.

982
00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.360
Now others are learning, just like my kids learn from me.

983
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:47.800
If they have bad attitude, they probably learn it from me.

984
00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:50.440
If they're careful and they're gentle and they learn to

985
00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.039
say things right, maybe they learn that from me. Maybe

986
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:55.800
they learn from somebody else. But realistically, kids do learn

987
00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:58.320
a lot from us, and it's important for us to

988
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:02.719
be careful because he when Paul makes this statement, I

989
00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:07.159
believe God. I trust God. Verse twenty five is wherefore

990
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:10.000
sirs be of good cheer, for I believe God that

991
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:13.239
it shall be even as it was told me. Others

992
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:17.960
are watching. We've got to be careful. So trials give

993
00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:24.360
opportunity for others to know, to know what well one

994
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:27.440
to know about a relationship. We know the difference between

995
00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:32.119
those two phrases, religion versus relationship. Well, relationship is not

996
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:34.719
an act of things that I have to do in

997
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.760
order to please God. Relationship means that there's growth. So

998
00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:45.760
just read some thoughts here. I lost my point here.

999
00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:48.639
It is when you rejoice and in your trial and

1000
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:51.440
rely on the promises of God, others will observe the

1001
00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:55.280
difference because you have God in the picture who is

1002
00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:59.880
more than able to help you. Trials may bring struggles,

1003
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:04.880
but trials also show relationship independence. So like when we

1004
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:08.599
go through trials, my wife and I, our relationship together

1005
00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:13.119
is seen by our kids. And if they see us fighting,

1006
00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:15.920
if they see one say something like Okay, I believe

1007
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.360
God and the other one say, well, I don't know.

1008
00:55:17.559 --> 00:55:20.400
I gotta work harder to provide, and they see some

1009
00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:23.199
contention in what we believe what we do, maybe contentions

1010
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:25.559
between us. Our kids are going to learn from that.

1011
00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:27.679
We have to be very careful to raise them in

1012
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:30.440
the nurture and ammonition of the Lord. Well in our life.

1013
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:34.320
You can raise them in the fear and admonition of

1014
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:37.599
the Lord as much as you want. But they're born

1015
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:42.400
sinners with a sinful nature, and they will sin because

1016
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:46.920
that's what they are born to do. To quote Lady Gaga,

1017
00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:50.760
they were born this way, okay, oh man. They were

1018
00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:54.840
literally born sinners. They come from the womb sinning. They

1019
00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:58.559
don't become sinners because they sin. They sin because they

1020
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:03.159
are sinners from conception. That's what they do. There's a

1021
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:05.239
very Pelagian idea. And I don't even know what it

1022
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:08.079
has anything this has to do with parents and kids

1023
00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:10.800
and learning, and I don't know what any of this

1024
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:15.480
has to do with X twenty seven. I'm losing my

1025
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:16.679
mind here.

1026
00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:21.880
Wife as Christians as a church with Crimson Abman a

1027
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:24.679
Baptist church. When we go through trials, which we will,

1028
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:27.480
so if you have not gone through one lately, maybe

1029
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:30.559
there's one coming. What we do through those trials gives

1030
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:33.639
an opportunity for other people to see and they can trust.

1031
00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:36.280
But not only do they see that we have there's

1032
00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:38.639
certain looks, a certain attitude, but they see it as

1033
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:41.840
a relationship, means as a depth kind of like just

1034
00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:42.960
when someone's growing up.

1035
00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:47.599
Okay, look it's fifty six minutes.

1036
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:48.639
I don't.

1037
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:52.800
I mean, we can try to finish it. I don't.

1038
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.519
I this is just it's so so far removed from

1039
00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:01.519
Acts twenty seven. Even know how this sermon is entitled

1040
00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:04.800
Acts twenty seven. I really don't. It's not anything to

1041
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:08.679
do with X twenty seven. He's reading verses and in saying,

1042
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:10.400
I don't even know what the stuff he's saying has

1043
00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:12.920
anything to do with X twenty seven. He's trying to

1044
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:16.400
find some correlation. I don't get it in any way.

1045
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.679
I don't get it hermoneutically, I don't get it theologically.

1046
00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:21.280
Let me just go through some of the problems AI

1047
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:25.599
pointed out with this sermon. These are errors and historical

1048
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:29.079
or textual accuracy that misrepresent the actual events of X

1049
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:33.679
twenty seven. Number one, misrepresenting the storm the nature of

1050
00:57:33.719 --> 00:57:39.119
the storm. The preacher equates the storm and everybody, remember

1051
00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:43.800
an acts twenty seven. If we can go back here,

1052
00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:48.119
remember the storm or the win. Your rock Ladan or

1053
00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:53.199
you rock lud On right, remember that wind, you rock

1054
00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:57.159
Ladan Well, AI says, if I can get back up here,

1055
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:01.199
I can get back up here. Here we go. The

1056
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:05.480
preacher equates the storm Eurocladan to general life struggles, making

1057
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.679
it sound like the storm was just a difficult time

1058
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:12.800
in life. Factually incorrect. Eurocladan was a specific, historically documented

1059
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.920
Mediterranean hurricane force win that frequently caused shipwrecks. It was

1060
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:20.800
not a symbolic storm or a generic difficult season of life.

1061
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:23.480
It was an actual weather event that threatened real lives.

1062
00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:28.440
B Incorrect implications about Paul's leadership role. The preacher implies

1063
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:32.039
that Paul took command of the ship and was its leader.

1064
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:34.880
Paul was a prisoner, not a ship captain or crew member.

1065
00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:37.679
His role in speaking up wasn't about leadership, but about

1066
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:41.679
delivering divine revelation. The centurion never handed control of the

1067
00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:45.519
ship to Paul. He simply respected his words after seeing

1068
00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:49.239
his wisdom. See Oversteading the danger to Paul's life, the

1069
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:51.800
preacher claims that Paul's life was at risk because of

1070
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:54.480
the storm, as though he was uncertain about his survival.

1071
00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:57.320
Factually incorrect. Paul had already been told in Next twenty

1072
00:58:57.360 --> 00:58:59.400
three to eleven that he would make it to Rome.

1073
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:01.920
The storm was not a threat to Paul's ultimate mission,

1074
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:05.480
even if it was terrifying for others. Logical errors there

1075
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:09.039
are flaws and reasoning that lead to false conclusions. Assuming

1076
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:12.719
a descriptive event is a universal prescription, the preacher state

1077
00:59:12.800 --> 00:59:16.599
that Paul provides an example for all Christians on how

1078
00:59:16.599 --> 00:59:20.800
to handle storms in life. A logical fallacy category error

1079
00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:24.480
Acts twenty seven is descriptive telling what happened, not prescriptive,

1080
00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:27.360
giving commands or principles to follow. Nowhere in the text,

1081
00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:30.119
As Luke says, this is how you handle difficulties. The

1082
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:33.880
passage is about God's providence and assuring Paul reaches Rome.

1083
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:38.280
False equivalence between Paul's storms and life's problems. The preacher

1084
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:42.360
compares the ship's storm to modern personal struggles, financial issues,

1085
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:48.000
emotional struggles, job loss, etc. A logical fallacy, false equivalence.

1086
00:59:48.159 --> 00:59:50.480
The storm was not a metaphor for trials, It was

1087
00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:54.559
an actual physical event. Paul's response was based on divine revelation.

1088
00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:57.920
He knew the outcome. Modern believers do not get angelic

1089
00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:04.000
visits guaranteeing their safety. See over Generalizing Paul's experience. The

1090
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:06.840
preacher implies that Paul's survival means that God will always

1091
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:12.000
rescue believers from their storms. Logical fallacy, hasty generalization. Paul's

1092
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:15.280
survival was specific to God's plan for him to reach

1093
01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:18.840
Rome Acts twenty three to eleven. Many faithful, faithful believers

1094
01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:22.639
die in hardships. This passage does not promise physical deliverance

1095
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:26.960
to all Christians. Hermeneutical errors. These are flaws interpreting the

1096
01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:32.360
text leading to misapplication and mis representation, allegorizing a historical

1097
01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:37.559
narrative without textual justification. The preacher spiritualizes the storm, the storm,

1098
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:40.840
the ship, and actions of Paul, turning them into symbols

1099
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:45.039
hermaeutical error, forcing allegory into a historical narrative. There is

1100
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:48.800
no indication in the text that the storm represents personal struggles.

1101
01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:51.440
The ship does not represent the church or faith. The

1102
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:54.000
storm is not a metaphor for life's challenges. It was

1103
01:00:54.039 --> 01:00:57.920
a literal event. Ignoring the theological purpose of Acts, the

1104
01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:01.480
sermon misses the main purpose of Acts twenty, God's sovereignty

1105
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.239
and fulfilling his promise that Paul would reach roam. God's

1106
01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:08.760
providence in protecting Paul and his companions, ensuring his mission continues.

1107
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:13.360
Hermanutical error is Jesus reading meaning into the text instead

1108
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.400
of teaching what Luke actually wrote. The preacher imposes a

1109
01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:21.440
modern self help interpretation, applying Paul's angelic principle as a

1110
01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:26.480
universal are. Applying Paul's angelic revelation as a universal principle,

1111
01:01:26.760 --> 01:01:30.039
the preacher treats Paul's angelic visitation as a model for

1112
01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:33.519
how all believers should trust God in trials hermanutical error,

1113
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:38.199
failure to distinguish between special revelation and normative Christian experience.

1114
01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:41.920
Paul received a direct divine revelation from an angel. Christians

1115
01:01:41.960 --> 01:01:44.639
today do not receive the same kind of revelation. Faith

1116
01:01:44.719 --> 01:01:48.920
is not about expecting angelic reassurances, but trusting God's written word.

1117
01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:56.360
The final verdict a distorted, misleading interpretation. And then it

1118
01:01:56.440 --> 01:01:58.320
tells me, gives me a list of all the things

1119
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.440
that are false. And then AI asked me, would you

1120
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:05.880
like me to give you an exogetically sound interpretation of

1121
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:09.440
Acts twenty seven? That is embarrassing? I give a sermon

1122
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:13.119
to AI. AI's like, this thing is littered with factual errors,

1123
01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:16.480
hermeneutical errors, logical errors. Would you like me?

1124
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:17.320
AI?

1125
01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:22.039
Volunteers, would you like me to give you an exogetically

1126
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:28.880
sound interpretation of Acts twenty seven? AIS like, do you

1127
01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:32.280
want me to give you an exogetically sound one? Because

1128
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:35.639
you human beings can't do it? Humans can't. AI's like, hey,

1129
01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:38.280
I can help you out here. If that's what you're

1130
01:02:38.360 --> 01:02:41.760
turning to to understand X twenty seven, it's not exogetically sound.

1131
01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:44.719
I can give you an exogetically sound study of Acts

1132
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:50.599
twenty seven. AI can not sermons. No AI can. This

1133
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:53.480
goes right back to our entire discussion about artificial intelligence.

1134
01:02:53.599 --> 01:03:03.440
This entire year. I don't even know what to say.

1135
01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:06.679
Acts twenty seven has turned into us self help sermon

1136
01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:11.639
with some just things that just don't even make sense. Well,

1137
01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:15.199
we'll try to find a good stopping point. We'll stop up.

1138
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:17.400
They see more in life, but they also see some

1139
01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:19.960
depth in life. They see the true depth that God

1140
01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.480
cares for them. God will provide for them. And God

1141
01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:25.320
has a purpose for the trial that we would grow

1142
01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:28.119
closer to him, to reflect his glory, to become into

1143
01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:30.519
the image of Christ. There's a purpose for all these things.

1144
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:34.840
God wants to do something through us sometimes or first

1145
01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:36.639
before you knew things through us, He has to do

1146
01:03:36.679 --> 01:03:39.239
some things in us, and that's what trials are doing.

1147
01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:44.760
So verse, Hey, God wants to do things through us,

1148
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:46.559
but first he has to do something in us, and

1149
01:03:46.599 --> 01:03:49.320
that's what trials Arefore. See, the reason you're beaten, and

1150
01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:51.960
the reason you're sexually molested, and the reason you were raped,

1151
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:54.360
and the reason your mother died and the reason your

1152
01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:57.119
child was murder is because see, God just needs to

1153
01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:00.960
do some things in you. Because I can't do anything

1154
01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:02.880
through you. Into it, he does something. And that's what

1155
01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.440
trials are for. Say all those horrible trials. Hey, it's good.

1156
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:08.599
Now God can do something through you. I mean, yeah,

1157
01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:10.960
your child is dead. Yeah, your child was killed by

1158
01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:14.320
a drug driver. Yeah you were you have a terminal cancer,

1159
01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:18.360
yeah your child was. Hey, hey, it's all good news. Though,

1160
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:20.719
It's all good news because now God can do something

1161
01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:29.440
through you because He had to do something in you. First,

1162
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:33.079
do we hear what we actually say in church? Do

1163
01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:37.920
we actually ever think about what we say is christian

1164
01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:42.400
Is Christianity really only for people who were born in

1165
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:46.719
a good family, a loving mother and a caring father,

1166
01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:49.880
and they loved each other. And you came home. There

1167
01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:52.320
was a white picket fence. There was two dogs, and

1168
01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:55.440
they say, welcome home, son. Here's a peanut butter and

1169
01:04:55.519 --> 01:04:59.039
jelly sandwich. Sandwich. We cut off the crust. And then

1170
01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:02.159
later we'll oh, we'll go out on the lake and

1171
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:04.760
our big boat and you can do your homework there.

1172
01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:10.599
We love you, son. It's not for anybody else, because

1173
01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:12.320
I guess anyone else. You go home and you get

1174
01:05:12.599 --> 01:05:15.519
you know, tied up and burn with cigarettes. Hey hey, hey,

1175
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:19.119
just remember God. God can't do anything through you until

1176
01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:20.800
he does something in you. Well wait a minute. That

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01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:25.199
kid over there, never beaten, never molested, never, but hey,

1178
01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:27.320
but well, God didn't need to do anything in him

1179
01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:30.440
because he was already good. I don't even understand how

1180
01:05:30.480 --> 01:05:34.360
all of this works. Christianity just says things, We just

1181
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:36.719
throw this stuff out. Nobody ever stops to go wait

1182
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:41.400
a minute. The implications here are staggering on how that works.

1183
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:54.159
I know people say, well, you always use extreme examples. Well, okay,

1184
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:57.480
maybe maybe you. I will be willing to take that criticism.

1185
01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.519
But you know, you also don't know my life. A

1186
01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:02.920
lot of times the things I say literally comes from

1187
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:07.000
my life, So don't tell me that my examples are

1188
01:06:07.039 --> 01:06:11.239
always extreme. My mother died, my father died. I wasn't

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01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:13.079
even living at home when my mother died because of

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01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:15.400
the abuse that I was suffering. He said, come on, now,

1191
01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:19.159
I think the things that happened. Yeah, I could go

1192
01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:21.039
on a lot of things that's happened to me. So

1193
01:06:21.639 --> 01:06:25.719
sometimes my examples may seem extreme, but sometimes they come

1194
01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:29.239
from very personal experience or things I literally witnessed. And

1195
01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:31.079
Saul and other people's lives.

1196
01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:37.840
Twenty five I read that he believed God, and verse

1197
01:06:37.880 --> 01:06:42.400
twenty six he says this, howbeit we must be cast

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01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:46.800
upon a certain island. But when the fourteenth night was come,

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01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:49.800
as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight,

1200
01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:53.840
the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country,

1201
01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:56.039
So so that we're going to come to a certain island. Well,

1202
01:06:56.079 --> 01:06:58.679
here's this island. So they were coming to a certain country.

1203
01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:01.519
And they sounded verse twenty eight and found at twenty fathoms.

1204
01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:03.280
And when they had gone a little further, they sounded

1205
01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:06.280
again and found at fifteen fathoms. And then, fearing less

1206
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:08.519
we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four acres

1207
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:11.039
out of the stern and wished for the day. So

1208
01:07:11.079 --> 01:07:13.639
they're hoping that things would get better. They're waiting for

1209
01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:16.519
that day. But Paul said, we're gonna go to an island.

1210
01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:20.280
They're seeing some things happen. Can we say, just trust God.

1211
01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:24.199
He will provide. But we have to stay faithful because

1212
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.480
when we fail, what we're doing ultimately is we're not

1213
01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.079
reflecting the character of Christ where we're supposed to. He

1214
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:33.039
never fails, So we have to trust him and rely

1215
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:35.320
upon him, not our own strength. And other people who

1216
01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:38.960
are watching might see us being faithful, and they see

1217
01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:42.280
the character of God displayed in our life. That is

1218
01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:44.639
a tremendous gift. There is a treasure that God would

1219
01:07:44.719 --> 01:07:46.480
use us to display his characters.

1220
01:07:47.960 --> 01:07:50.559
What does any of that have to do with the text, literally,

1221
01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:52.360
what does any of that have to.

1222
01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:52.639
Do with.

1223
01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:59.719
I don't understand. And let me make this very clear,

1224
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:03.199
and make it very clear. I already said this person

1225
01:08:03.280 --> 01:08:05.519
is young. I would have probably preached the sermon the

1226
01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:08.639
exact same way for a good portion of my Christian life.

1227
01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:12.840
I am not in any way criticizing this person. I

1228
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:19.479
am criticizing Christianity in general for how these storm narratives

1229
01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:22.560
are handled by preacher after preacher, whether they've been preaching

1230
01:08:22.600 --> 01:08:26.319
for two years, five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years,

1231
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:28.760
church after church after church after church. I've got the

1232
01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:31.199
study guide right here on how to weather the storms

1233
01:08:31.199 --> 01:08:33.520
of life, where they're going to do the exact same

1234
01:08:33.640 --> 01:08:36.760
nonsense with this text of scripture and all the others.

1235
01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:39.960
So I'm my criticisms is not directed at this sermon.

1236
01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:43.399
It's in Christianity in general. If anyone misinterprets that you're

1237
01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:45.960
misunderstanding this sermon, just happened to be what showed up

1238
01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:49.399
on pocket Casts, a podcasting app. I got the notification.

1239
01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:52.680
That's what led to this, all right, that's what led

1240
01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:56.439
to this. I was minding my own business, get the

1241
01:08:56.479 --> 01:08:59.439
notification from pocket Cast. Look it's ACTS twenty seven. I'm like,

1242
01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:01.199
you've got to be kidding me. All right, we we've

1243
01:09:01.239 --> 01:09:04.239
been talking about this, So I'm simply reviewing this because

1244
01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:06.800
it fits perfectly for what we're talking about. I did

1245
01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:09.960
not listen to it in advance. Now, you say, but

1246
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:12.000
you knew it was going to be probably bad. I

1247
01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:13.760
knew it was going to be probably bad because if

1248
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:16.079
I pick any sermon on X twenty seven, it's probably

1249
01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:20.600
going to be bad because everyone does this to the text.

1250
01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:24.880
We're already over an hour. I'll just let it go

1251
01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:29.800
a little little. I don't even know what I can't say. See,

1252
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:31.159
this is not one of a situation. I'm like, well,

1253
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:34.159
that's an interesting interpretation of X twenty seven. Huh. I

1254
01:09:34.239 --> 01:09:39.880
never thought about that. Okay, I've never h I mean,

1255
01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:42.880
the only thing that's good that's come out of this

1256
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:47.159
is I corrected my saying tempetuous the correct way the

1257
01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:49.520
way ever I was saying it. I now know tempetuous

1258
01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:51.960
and I'm saying it the correct way. You're We talked

1259
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:55.119
about how to say your rock Ladan, your Roclodan, your

1260
01:09:55.159 --> 01:09:57.680
rock Ladan. We figured that we know what you roc

1261
01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:00.560
Ladan is. We know it's a severe story. Okay, we

1262
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.319
know all right, So I guess there were some factual

1263
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:06.399
things we figured out. I don't even know what we

1264
01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:07.359
accomplished in.

1265
01:10:07.279 --> 01:10:11.920
This character to other people. I love that truth. That

1266
01:10:12.039 --> 01:10:16.680
is a great privilege and honor see relationship depth in

1267
01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:17.680
our life and what we do.

1268
01:10:19.800 --> 01:10:22.319
Somebody in the congregation was getting ready to say something.

1269
01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:26.760
I'm curious what that we're getting ready to say. Somebody

1270
01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:29.880
was getting ready to say something. He just it seems

1271
01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:32.920
like he just goes on, he ignores it. I'd love

1272
01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:34.840
to know what someone in the congregation was about to say.

1273
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:37.600
I mean, because it's they have a miracle going on

1274
01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:39.680
there because everyone gets along. So but it would be

1275
01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:41.840
interesting to know what that person was saying, because maybe

1276
01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:44.199
they just you're getting ready to throw out some interpretation.

1277
01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:48.199
I don't even know what's happening in this sermon, and.

1278
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:50.760
They get to see the importance of the reliance upon

1279
01:10:51.119 --> 01:10:53.880
God when non believer goes through a trial, he has

1280
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.000
no one else to turn to but himself or the

1281
01:10:56.039 --> 01:10:58.760
help of men. But we as believers, have the greatest

1282
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.319
source of help available, the Lord himself. When we rely

1283
01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:04.800
on the Lord for grace, strength and wisdom in our

1284
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:07.720
trial and trust in His purpose for it, others have

1285
01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:12.159
an opportunity to see the significance of full dependence on

1286
01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:15.239
the God of our faith, the God of all creation.

1287
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:19.239
When we go through struggles and trials, we see God

1288
01:11:19.359 --> 01:11:22.560
is faithful. We know God is faithful, but others can

1289
01:11:22.600 --> 01:11:25.439
see God's faithfulness and the life that he gives to us.

1290
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:28.600
We're given this life and we're supposed to steward it carefully.

1291
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:32.760
We're stewart the manfold grace of God, the ministry of reconciliation,

1292
01:11:32.800 --> 01:11:35.359
the things we're called to do as believers. But when

1293
01:11:35.399 --> 01:11:39.720
we go through trials, that stewardship doesn't go away. We're

1294
01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:42.279
still to steward the life that God's given to us,

1295
01:11:42.760 --> 01:11:44.720
and it is a great gift because other people can

1296
01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:48.399
see that we rely on God and God will always provide.

1297
01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:51.239
Does he provide when we don't rely on him? Yes,

1298
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:53.840
he still provides for us, but he does not get

1299
01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:55.840
the glory like he wants to get We want to

1300
01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:57.439
give him the glory through those trials.

1301
01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:02.920
So so God will always provide, whether you trust in

1302
01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:06.000
him or don't trust in him. And hey, as Christians,

1303
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:09.199
we can handle trials far better than lost people because

1304
01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:11.720
we have God, and God gives us strength and he

1305
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:14.119
gives us this and he does this. So Christians should

1306
01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:22.720
always handle trials better than lost people. Okay, sure, yeah, yeah, okay,

1307
01:12:22.840 --> 01:12:26.399
that's the way. That's why Christian marriages fall apart. That's

1308
01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:30.880
why church is split. Okay, all right, oh man, okay,

1309
01:12:33.239 --> 01:12:35.119
And none of that has anything to do with X

1310
01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:37.880
twenty seven. Not a thing. Not a thing.

1311
01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:44.439
There's a hymn. I think I'm gonna go ahead and

1312
01:12:44.439 --> 01:12:47.079
just read a small portion of it. I'm just gonna

1313
01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:49.760
read the first part. Tis.

1314
01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:55.199
I'm just gonna stop. I'm just gonna stop. I don't

1315
01:12:55.239 --> 01:12:57.079
even know what to do. I don't even know what

1316
01:12:57.159 --> 01:13:01.119
to say. I mean, when Ai points out how many

1317
01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:05.720
total errors here in this sermon? Did Ai point out?

1318
01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:09.039
Hang on? Let me see here, let me count hang

1319
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:18.960
on one two, so three, three, factual errors four five, six,

1320
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:24.239
So I think it's like three. I think it gave me.

1321
01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:26.039
Let me look here, I'm just trying to quit. Three

1322
01:13:26.119 --> 01:13:32.720
factual errors, three logical errors, three hermeneutical errors, so nine

1323
01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:40.000
errors that was labeled egregious. In fact, it was so

1324
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:42.560
bad that at the end it says, hey, would you

1325
01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:47.960
like me to give you a faithful, exogetically sound study

1326
01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:49.319
of Acts twenty seven?

1327
01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:49.920
AI?

1328
01:13:50.119 --> 01:13:53.560
After reviewing the sermon, AI was like, this is so bad.

1329
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:57.279
Do you want me to give you a faithful exegetical

1330
01:13:57.319 --> 01:14:03.239
summary our study? That that that just drives me insane.

1331
01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:07.399
But it's once again just demonstrating that when we put

1332
01:14:07.439 --> 01:14:10.600
AI versus sermons, AI does can do better. I mean,

1333
01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:16.079
AI can see all of the problems instantaneously. Now, if

1334
01:14:16.079 --> 01:14:18.800
I give this AI this message, it's probably going to

1335
01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:22.840
tell me that tempetuous that you stated it incorrectly thirty

1336
01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:26.880
seven different times. All right, I wish I could say

1337
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:31.640
something about Acts twenty seven that I that would be profound.

1338
01:14:31.680 --> 01:14:34.600
I can't, Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what to

1339
01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:37.760
do with this other than this is I guess that.

1340
01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:41.439
I guess maybe maybe I can do this. Why, I mean,

1341
01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:44.640
I know, I kind of it was my own fault

1342
01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:46.680
that I walked into this, because again, the original goal

1343
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:48.560
was to say, hey, here's this Bible study guide. Go

1344
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:50.880
look at it everyone. But when I started looking at it,

1345
01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:53.920
I realize, oh no, this is it's going to look

1346
01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:58.399
at seven different storm narratives in the Bible. I'm going

1347
01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:01.560
to turn these into storms about the storms of life.

1348
01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:05.560
Oh boy, I have to deal with this. So here

1349
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:08.039
we are. I didn't know X twenty seven was. I mean,

1350
01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:09.800
I should have known it was going to turn into

1351
01:15:11.199 --> 01:15:13.000
who knows how many episodes. I don't think we're going

1352
01:15:13.079 --> 01:15:15.560
to do any more reviews, right these two reviews have

1353
01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:18.479
been painful. They've been painful, so there's no point in

1354
01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:20.720
doing any more reviews. So I guess what we'll do.

1355
01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:23.199
Maybe I don't know next time. Maybe we'll just look

1356
01:15:23.239 --> 01:15:26.079
at the study guide. We'll just go through the study guide,

1357
01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:28.319
and then after we do the study guide, then I'll

1358
01:15:28.319 --> 01:15:31.720
do my part. I turned AX twenty seven into a narrative,

1359
01:15:31.880 --> 01:15:33.640
like a I'm going to do it as a narrative,

1360
01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:36.079
kind of like I've been doing the Salem Witch Trials.

1361
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:37.960
I'm going to read it as a narrative just so

1362
01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:41.399
that you get the flow of the story. Then well,

1363
01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:44.439
then we'll do an observational outline of acts twenty seven,

1364
01:15:44.800 --> 01:15:47.039
and then I think that'll be it. I mean, I

1365
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:49.159
could do an exegetical study, but by by the time

1366
01:15:49.159 --> 01:15:51.760
we do the observational and the narrative, I think, well,

1367
01:15:52.039 --> 01:15:54.119
we're going to have X twenty seven. But you guys

1368
01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:56.960
know the story now pretty good after two sermons on it?

1369
01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:00.800
Well I do, do you? I don't know, go all right,

1370
01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:05.560
seventy six minutes. That was painful, painful, painful, painful, painful, painful.

1371
01:16:05.840 --> 01:16:10.960
That really was. But I man, it's just so frustrating.

1372
01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:14.319
We watched this take place in Isaiah chapter forty Isaiah

1373
01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:16.119
chapter forty one. We're gonna watch it take place with

1374
01:16:16.239 --> 01:16:19.119
Isaiah forty two, forty three, forty four, forty five. I

1375
01:16:19.239 --> 01:16:22.920
don't get. I just don't understand. Well, I guess I

1376
01:16:22.960 --> 01:16:27.640
do understand. I've said it before. Sermons are the enemy

1377
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:32.920
to understanding the Bible. Sermons are the enemy to understanding

1378
01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:39.319
the Bible. They really are, Because yeah, yeah, all right,

1379
01:16:39.359 --> 01:16:40.960
I'm gonna look here, just to make sure a couple

1380
01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:45.520
of things hang on. Yeah, thank to all of those

1381
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.439
who tuned in, Thank you so very much. I wish

1382
01:16:47.479 --> 01:16:53.159
I knew what else to say, but yeah, there we got. Man,

1383
01:16:53.399 --> 01:17:00.119
it's just so frustrating. It really is frustrating. But this

1384
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:03.119
is what happens when you have your notifications turned on

1385
01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:06.560
all your podcasting apps. This is what happens. Because yesterday

1386
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:09.279
I saw that notification Acts twenty seven, I'm like, oh, well,

1387
01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:12.199
I got to review it. I got to review it.

1388
01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:16.560
So we're not going to do any more reviews. Next episode, Well,

1389
01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:19.159
the next time we talk about this, well, I got

1390
01:17:19.199 --> 01:17:21.239
other things. We're working on, the Salem witch trials, all

1391
01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:23.399
the other things. What we'll do is we'll look at

1392
01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:25.680
the study guide and what it says about X twenty seven,

1393
01:17:25.720 --> 01:17:27.960
which is going to be a disaster, just like the

1394
01:17:28.279 --> 01:17:31.880
sermons have been, and then we'll go we'll do I

1395
01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:33.760
think we'll look at X twenty seven. I'll do it

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in a narrative form, and then we'll do the observational

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outline of ACX twenty seven. And if you would like

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to do your own observational outline, do that. Just remember

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an observational outline. That's the way outlines should be done.

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That means you're outlining everything in Acts twenty seven observationally.

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You're not doing offering any interpretation. There's no interpretation happening.

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You're just observing. You cannot interpret until you do observation.

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The quality of your interpretation depends on the quality of

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your observation. Anytime you study the Bible, you always start

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with an observational outline. You don't try to interpret anything.

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You've got to observe everything that is there. What is

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it actually saying, what is actually going on, who's actually

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being spoken to. Everybody wants to run to interpretation. Well,

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actually worse, everybody just runs to application, and then they

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start applying things that don't apply to us. Acts twenty

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seven is not about us. It's about a very specific

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storm and a very specific situation where Paul was given

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very specific divine revelation about that specific situation. No taking

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this and making it about us. It's just absolutely a disaster,

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and it's never going to stop. Look I look, I've

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been yelling and screaming about this stuff for twenty five years.

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It's never go thirty years, ever, how many years it's

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been going. I've been griping about this forever, and it's

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never going to go away. It's this is just the way.

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This is what Christians want, This is what churches want,

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This is what churches expect those of us who are

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opposed to the way tip. Typically the text is handled,

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we're always we're never going to be accepted and we're

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always going to be on the outside. And that's okay,

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that's okay, and that's why you can't really do much

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about this in church, But in a podcast you can, right.

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I mean, people may stop listening, so what right, so what?

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But in a church you end up leading to a

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church split, everyone leaving, and then the church falls apart.

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So in a podcast, people hit stop, close out, delete.

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There may send a mean comment, but I mean, like, okay,

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whoa you don't like me? Oh no, please don't go.

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I mean, like, you know what I'm saying, Like, it

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doesn't It's like and at church you're like, oh no,

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that just takes away a part of the income that

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we need. Oh no, that's fewer people here. Okay. Yeah.

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But in a podcast, unless you're you are doing the

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podcast and it's you're oh it's your in sole means

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of income. Well then other than that, yeah, I mean,

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you're you're pretty, it doesn't really matter. So yeah, and

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I know I bring up issues that take people off.

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I guess see. I always hate when this when the

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sermon reviews go this way because at the end, I

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feel like I have to be apologetic and apologetic and apologetic.

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I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm

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so sorry, and I shouldn't have to be so apologetic.

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I mean, I I mean, you know you you have

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to critique, you have to you have to call for

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the text to be handled in a somewhat correct way. Right,

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So thanks for listening. We'll see what happens over I

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don't know whenever. The next time we're together, everyone have

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a great day. I give up. God bless