March 17, 2025

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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If I went back and listened to sermons I preached

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in the past today, I would hate them. I'd be

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

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