March 12, 2025

Storms of Life: Introduction

Storms of Life: Introduction

We discuss a seven week bible study on the storms in the Bible

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We discuss a seven week bible study on the storms in the Bible

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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 Evening everyone.

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It is Wednesday, March the twelfth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently six thirty two pm 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. Now, whenever you see

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a Christian book being sold a devotional, Bible study guide.

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Whenever you see any we'll say Bible study resources, devotional

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resources are being sold in the Christian world. If you

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see on the cover, on the back of review or anything,

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an advertisement for the material, if it says something like

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this devotional this book will deepen your faith, it will

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strengthen your faith. Does that have any impact on you

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at all? Do you go, you know what? I need

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this to deepen my faith. I want my faith to

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be deeper. I want my faith to be stronger. I

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want to grow. What is there certain words that would

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have an impact on you on deciding am I going

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to buy this one? Or am I going to buy

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this one? Or does that have no impact at all?

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I think for many of you you'll say, oh, it

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doesn't impact me in any way? Shape or form. A

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lot of people say advertising doesn't impact me at all. Well,

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if advertising did not impact you, they wouldn't spend millions

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of dollars advertising. So there's got to be there's at

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least enough studies to demonstrate that advertising has enough impact

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in some way, shape or form to make it worth

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spending all the millions of dollars companies spend on advertising.

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I don't know if it impacts you. I think when

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I was a younger Christian, when I was looking, you know, especially,

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I know it hates me. Back in the olden days

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when we went to bookstores, I would walk into a

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Christian bookstore and you know, you got rose and rose

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and rose and stuff. Now, anything that I was like, okay,

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this is charismatic, this is charismatic. I didn't bother. You know,

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I didn't even look at it because I'm like, those

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people are crazy. Everything else could get my attention. And

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a lot of times if I saw something that you know, well,

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this will deepen your faith, this will change your understanding

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of scripture. This a lot of times that would have

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at least some form of an impact on me. Now,

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if I'm being honest with you, after all of these

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years of being a Christian. Now when I see anything,

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I've got a devotional guide right here, I've got study guides,

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I've got Christian books. I've got stuff all around me,

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and a lot of this will say will strengthen your faith,

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will revolutionize your Christian life, well, you know, change, or

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will help you understand a passage that you know you

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haven't been able to understand, and you know ten years.

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Whatever the case may be, whatever it's promising me. If

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I'm being honest, now, I look at all of it

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and I'm extremely skeptical. I'm extremely skeptical. I look at

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them like whatever, because a lot of times the material

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that says it's going to deepen my faith, it's going

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to give me understanding. Even when pastors promote their sermon series,

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Oh you need to be here every week. This will

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transform your marriage, this will change your life. This will,

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you know, revolutionize your Christian life. This will help you

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understand this passage of scripture that you probably have never understood.

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Whenever I hear any of that, to me, it's nothing

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more than meaningless propaganda because most of the time when

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I buy the book or listen to the sermon series,

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in fact, I walk away more irritated and more frustrated,

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because not only did it not deepen my faith, not

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only did it not strengthen my faith, it didn't give

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me a deeper understanding of the passage. In most cases,

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it gave me a complete wrong interpretation of it. Now,

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why am I asking all of these questions? Why am

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I talking about all of this? Well, I'm gonna take

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you through the steps to how we end up here

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on this Wednesday evening, March the twelfth, twenty twenty five.

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All right, how did we get here? Well? Three four

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in the morning. It was somewhere around that time there

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were things going on, not sleeping, and so I was like, well,

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let me listen to something. So I opened up the

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sermons two point oh app. And if you have the

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sermons too, well, it's not the sermon's two point oh

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app anymore. It's not the sermons three point oh app anymore.

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It's the sermons by sermonaudio app. Okay, I think that's

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what it's called now, but it's still it says sermons

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now the sermon audio app Do we just call it

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the sa app? I don't know what we call it anymore,

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because depending on where you look some things show sermons

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three point oh something, say sermons by Sermonadio. We're just

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gonna call it the Sermonadio app. If you'll open the

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Sermonadio app. Okay, you'll open the Sermonadio app, and you

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go and you're under the home tab and you feel

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just kind of go down a little bit. You'll see radio.

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You'll see two radio feeds. The first one is radio

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twenty four to seven. That's Sermon Audio Radio twenty four

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to seven. And the other one is VC Why America,

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VC Why America. Now, if you're ever up all night

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you can't sleep, VC Why America has overnight programming that

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really works for overnight. I think it just kind of

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gets the right vibe. It's kind of it really works.

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Maybe it will help you sleep, or if you can't sleep,

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give you something spiritual, very devotional, like they may read

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from something. You know. Just everything has a perfect overnight feel.

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That's the VC Why America tab on your Sermon Audio app, right,

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So you should make use of it. Sometimes you can

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listen to it's twenty four to seven. You can listen

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to it whenever you would like, and you may find

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something that you like better than overnight programming. But because

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I was up at what three, four in the morning,

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whatever time it was, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna

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just click on this and I'm gonna start listening. So

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I'm listening and they start talking about storms, not physical storms,

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but the storms of life. And I'm like, oh, boy,

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where are we going with this? Where are we going

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with this? Well? It led me, well, it led to

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them giving me or anyone listening a web address. Now,

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if you if you can open up a web browser

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right now and go to l w F. That's l

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as in Lincoln, w as in Whiskey, f is in

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Frank Okay, l w F, LWF dot O RG, LWF

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dot O RG forward slash v C why VC why

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that's LWF dot org forward slash VC why. Now, once

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the page opens, you should see something like Spiritual Journey

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at the top. Then underneath that you'll have the VCY

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America logo, and then underneath that you'll have Love Worth Finding.

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Now that's the ministry of the late doctor Adrian Rogers,

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Love Worth Finding and VC why America our partning, partnering

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together to help deepen your faith. And I'm like, oh, boy,

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here we go. They're gonna deepen my faith. Now, I'm

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just gonna be honest with you. I you know, I

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get skeptically immediately, and I'm like, okay. Then underneath that

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it says our gift to you. I'm like, oh, what

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gift am I about to receive? Then it says this,

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everyone faces storms, face yours with faith. Now immediately, I

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know they're not talking about a physical storm like right

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now here in West Texas or in a sandstorm. Okay,

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it's not talking about the sandstorm. It's not talking about

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a thunderstorm. It's not talking about a hurricane, it's not

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talking about a tornado. It's talking about the storms of life. Now,

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this is perfect to be advertising at two three four

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in the morning because a lot of times people are

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awake at two three four in the morning because they

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cannot sleep because of the things going on in their life. Right.

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They may be overwhelmed with worry, anxiety, depression, discouragement. They

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may be going through a difficult situation. They may be

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trying to provide care for someone who's sick or dying,

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whatever the case may be. There can be lots of

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reasons someone can be up at night many cases, then

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they're alone, they're isolated, and they're just overwhelmed. Well, here's

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a Hey, you don't need to face this storm alone

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because we're here and we're going to try to give

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you something they'll help deepen your faith, and we're going

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to try to show you how to face these storms

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with faith. Right underneath that, it says, in this seven

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week study, learn how to navigate life storms through powerful

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lessons from Paul Noah and Job. I'm like, oh boy,

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oh boy, now already. Now I'm getting nervous, right because Okay,

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they're going to talk about my storms and my life,

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but they're going to point to Paul Noah and Job

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and I'm like, wait, now, wait a minute. When we

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read about things they go through in their life Paul

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Noah and Job, is that prescribing then how I'm supposed

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to deal with things? Or is it simply describing? So

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is this Are they going to take descriptive, historical narratives

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and then prescribe to me that if I do ABC,

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then I get I'm gonna what's going to happen? So

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already from a hermeneutical standpoint, I'm already but like, oh boy,

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here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Then

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they have these three like paragraphs, here we go and again.

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You can look this up right now, you can go

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to LWF dot O RG four slash. I always have

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to look at it. Always get the letters wrong. VC.

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Why that's v v as in victory CS and Charlie

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why as and why? Right? Okay, I'm forgetting the phonetic alphabet. Okay,

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all those years in the military and I'm forgetting it.

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All right, Here we go, right, all right, here we go.

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Three paragraphs. You ready learn practical steps to handle burdens

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and fight spiritual battles during life's challenges. So I'm gonna

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learn practical steps to handle burdens and fight spiritual battles

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during life's challenges. All right, They're gonna give me the

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practical steps, all right. Number two gain reassumes that God

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is always with you and has a plan for your

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life even in the midst of storms. Could it be

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that God's plan in my life is to be in

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the middle of the storm. Okay, I'm trying not to

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get too skeptical. Here. Next, understand how to apply lessons

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from scripture to navigate the storms we all face. Whether

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self created or unexpected. Discover how God's word equips us

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to face trials and fight spiritual battles with unwavering faith.

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Now that want your first name, your last name, your email,

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and then you can download the Bible Study. You know,

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if you want to download the Bible Study, you don't

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have call letters there, so you just have to type

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in sermonadio is what you have to type in, because

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I don't have call letters from the sermonadio radio feed, right,

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So I just that's what I put down. It worked,

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And then what'll they will do. They'll email you a

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link that once you get to the email and you

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open up the link, what it will open is hang

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on here, that's not what I need. Where is it?

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I have it here somewhere here it is. It will download,

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So a download a file basically as a PDF, and

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then you open it and I have it right here.

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It's one hundred and twenty one pages long, AE hundred

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and twenty one page long, seven week study. And this

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is what it's entitled, how to Weather the Storms of Life.

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How to weather the storms of life. So you can

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already hear my skepticism. You can already hear my not

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liking this that in any way, shape or form, because

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this goes against probably every hermeneutical principle that I can

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probably imagine is going to happen in this seven week course.

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But what I'm thinking is, maybe we start working through it.

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We'll start working through it, Okay, maybe I don't know

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how many episodes we will do. I challenge everyone to

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download it and we'll work through it together. Now, what

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we're gonna be able, we're gonna look at it from

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a hermeneutical like. We're gonna challenge it from a hermoneutical perspective.

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Right now, what a lot of people do. They're gonna

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go and they're gonna be looking for like, especially if

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you hear about it at three or four in the morning,

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you're alone, isolated, going through some difficult situation. You may

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look to this to give you some sense of hope,

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some sense of peace. But let me state it again.

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If someone offers you hope and offers you peace from scripture,

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but that's not what those scriptures are literally giving you,

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it's not even for you. Then you're giving people false hope,

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a false sense of security, a false sense of peace,

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and that is wrong. And pastors do it all the time.

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Oh you're going through this, well, let's open up a

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scripture nothing to do with you. Promise is not even

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directed to you. And then people walk out claiming said promise,

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only to find out that God's not going to do

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what you think they're going to do. Just because God

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does something for Noah or does something for Paul, or

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does something in a specific historical setting, that is no

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guarantees going to do anything like that. And it's not

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even a promise. It's a descriptive historical account. It's not prescriptive.

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happen to hear this at three or four in the morning,

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I know others may hear of it at three or

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four in the morning, and so I want to be

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able to put forth maybe a counter argument. Now I

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may end up agreeing, I may end up disagreeing. We're

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gonna walk through it together in real time, all right.

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So all I've done is look at the cover. It's

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got a lighthouse on a rock. It's storms, storm clouds

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behind it, the waters and the ocean or you know,

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you've got the waves. Oh, and what's entitled how to

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Weather the Storms of Life? Okay, all right, now, how

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are you supposed to weather the storms of life? I

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almost want to stop right now and say, well, if

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I was probably in front of a live audience right now,

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if I was at church, maybe Sunday school, I would

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even do it in the middle of a sermon. All right, everyone,

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let's stop, grab a piece of paper. Write down five

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ways that you think, as Christians we should weather the

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storms of life. Now, typically, I know what people are

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gonna say, Well, read your Bible, more, pray more, go

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to church. It's the same thing. I mean, you know,

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for Christians, that's the answer for everything. Hey I just

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got my arm chopped off. Read your Bible, more, pray more,

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go to church, join a small group. Okay, hey I

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just got shot three times. Read your Bible, pray more,

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join a small group, go to church. Hey my kid

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is paralyzed. Read your Bible, more pray. I mean, it's

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all it's like the standard answer for It's like, do

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you guys have anything other than that? And that's supposed

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to fix all of your problems. So I think that's

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probably what people would put down. It'd be interesting to

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know what you would put down. But how to weather

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the storms? Of Life. Underneath that, it says a seven

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week Bible study to help anchor you in God's truth.

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is supposed to anchor me in God's truth. This is

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supposed to give me the principles. I think what we're

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gonna try to do is we're going to try to

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determine is this basically spiritual malpractice or is this one

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of the greatest Bible studies ever put together. I don't

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know where it's going to fit in in between those, right,

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spiritual malpractice or the greatest Bible study ever' a those

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are two dramatically different options. It may be somewhere in

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the middle. I'm leaning towards spiritual malpractice. But that's just

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because I tend to be jaded and cynical on these things.

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one right underneath that, page two says guide to studying

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your Bible five simple steps from Pastor Adrian Rogers. I

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call him doctor Adrian Rogers. He may not have had

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his doctorates. Pastor Adrian Rogers, the late pastor Adrian Rogers,

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whom I would not have agreed with philologically, he was

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definitely not a fan of what would be referred to

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as Calvinism. He did not like that in any way,

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shape or form, so I would be. And the way

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he handled scriptures, Oh, for crying out loud, it bothers me.

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So because this study comes from his ministry, I have

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a feeling that this is going to be a train

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wreck of epic proportions. But hey, let's see what happens,

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all right. So guide to studying your Bible. Number one,

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Pray over it. Begin with prayer. Ask for God's cleansing

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and his and the ability to receive what He wants

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to teach you. Now, you can pray over the Bible

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all day long. You can pray for seventy four hours.

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You're praying for seventy four hours is not going to

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help you understand that text any more than the person

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who doesn't pray. I know that goes against everything you've

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ever been taught. Look, Christians have been praying for two

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thousand years before they preach, before they teach, before they study,

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and after two thousand years of praying, still no one

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can agree on baptism. No one can agree on the

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Lord's Supper, no one can agree on the word repentance.

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No one can agree on how we are saved, whether

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it's Pelagian, a Paalagian system and Augustinian system, a Calvinistic

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is it? This is it? This is it? Prevenient grace? What?

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There's just never ending disputes and debates. All these people

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claim that they pray, all of them claiming God is

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going to help them understand, and no one has any

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better understanding because our understanding of the Bible comes from

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picking up a Bible and studying it like we do

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anything else that's in a written form, all right, and

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we have to understand genre, literary genre. We have to

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understand sintex context, we have to understand we have to

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understand definitions of words, We have to understand all the

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basic principles of interpretation and reading comprehension. That is how

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you understand it. I know that goes against everything anyone

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is ever to me. Is when we say, well, what's

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the first step in understanding the Bible? Reading comprehension? So

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instead of praying, how good are how well did you

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test in school when it comes to reading comprehension? How well?

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How great did you test on reading comprehension? Were you

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way ahead? Were you just average? Were you below average? Well,

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if you were below average, just guess what. When you

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became a Christian, you did not get some magical ability

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to increase your reading comprehension. I don't care if you

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pray for three thousand hours, your reading comprehension is not

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going to get better because you prayed. So if you

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want to know how to study the Bible, do remedial

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training on reading comprehension. Oh, I know that's not that's

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not going to make me a lot of friends, or

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right number two? Ponder it? Okay, well, I'm all for pondering.

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it mean? Then? I don't know if you just simply

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asked that question what did it mean? Then I think

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you're going to have to give some people some kind

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of a system to try to figure out what it meant? Then?

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ponder what does it say? By?

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By the words that are used? But okay, what does

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it mean? Then? What does it mean now? Now? Is

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that implying that what it meant then and what it

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means now are two different things? And what it meant,

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then it's the same thing it means now. And if

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what it meant then it's different than what it means now,

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then who gets to change the meaning from the meaning

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from then to the meaning? Already that's a little confusing.

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never ask the question what it means to you? Nobody

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cares what it means to you, And first and foremost,

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you shouldn't care what it means to you. What the

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Bible means to us is irrelevant. What matters is what

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does it mean by the words that are used? Who

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cares what it means to you? Nobody should care. If

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you're ever in any group and it says what does

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it mean to you, you should get up and walk out,

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because what it means is that they they're not approaching

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the Bible in any correct hermeneutical framework. What it means

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to me doesn't matter, it's what it means by what

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it was saying. So already this guide for studying the

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Bible is a disaster. Pray over it. No reading comprehension

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tests number two. Ponder it, what does it mean? Then? Okay,

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that's a good question to ask, But how about just

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what does it mean? What does it mean? Now I

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don't get that. Then, now thing that already bothers me,

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what does it mean to me? Should never be asked.

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Put it in writing. Oh boy, write down what the

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Holy Spirit is revealing to you. Oh boy, here we go.

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This is What happens. If you're studying the Bible and

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you claim the Holy Spirit's revealing something to you, then

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whatever he reveals to you about that text then is infallible. Infallible.

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the Holy Spirit revealed to me when I shared when

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I was studying this text, everyone would be bound by

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it because it comes from the Holy Spirit. You're receiving

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divine information and studying the Bible. If we're receiving divine

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information and studying the Bible, then ladies and gentlemen, we

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should not have fifty thousand different interpretations. Well, what the

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Holy Spirit is revealing to you? You know what I

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wish the Holy Spirit would start revealing is eliminating all

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of the wrong interpretations so that we could have one

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right interpretation of every verse and the Bible. But he's

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not doing that, and people say, well, the Holy Spirit

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was revealing to me, and they'll say some nonsense. How

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about the How about the Holy Spirit just reveals to you?

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What is the right belief about baptism, What is the

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right belief about speaking in tongues? What is the right

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belief about the Lord, about the Lord's Supper? What is

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the right belief about the structure of the church. What

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is the right belief about this? And I can just

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I can make a list, all right, So then practice it.

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Find ways you can incorporate the truths you've just been

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shown into your life. This is the idea. Live it. Well,

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Now this gets into a whole law gospel thing that

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we won't even get into. And then proclaim it. Contemplate

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ways to share the knowledge God has given you, all right?

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Then it says six questions to ask yourself while reading scripture.

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to me as an unmitigated disaster already, and this is

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setting up I guess how the Bible study is going

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to go. So I went into this skeptical. Now I'm

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into it just already, like what is going on? Here?

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We go? Here are the six questions. These are the

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six questions you're supposed to ask yourself when reading the Bible.

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Number one, is there a promise to claim? Okay, now,

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let's just make this very clear. That sounds good. Is

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there a promise? I got no problem for people looking

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at promises, but see, you have to say more than

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just telling people. Is there a promise to claim? Let's

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remind ourselves in the Bible, there are promises that are unconditional.

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You don't have to do anything. It's just promise. Unto you,

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it's unconditional. There are promises that are conditional. Here's the promise,

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but this has to be done. And then there's the

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promises that are not applicable. Now, those are promises that

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are given to specific individuals or to a specific nation

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by the name of Israel. Not primarily. Those promises are

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given based on the covenant that was given to Israel.

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the promises are not applicable in most cases. So that's

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the first question they want, is is there a promise

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to claim? Second? Is there a lesson to learn? Right,

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that's a good one. Is there a lesson to learn? Next?

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Is there a blessing to enjoy. Again, you cannot take

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blessings given to other people and claim them for yourself.

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Number four, is there a command to obey? All right,

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that's a decent one. I have no problem. Now this

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gets into how do you understand the commands of scripture? Remember,

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the commands of scripture are law. You can never obey them.

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is there a command? Now again, if you don't teach people,

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they're going to see a command and say I can

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do it. No, you can't be holy as God is holy.

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That is a command. You can't do it. You never

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will be able to do it. I don't care how

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long you're saved, You'll never be able to do it.

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It's law. The commands. The commands demonstrate your inability to

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do something. That's what the commands are there for. They

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show you you cannot do it. They show you that

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you fail, and so therefore you go to Christ to

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obey those commands for you. So you need a proper

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understanding of long Gospel or this just leads to all

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kinds of problems. Is there a sin to avoid? Is

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there a sin to a well? There probably is but

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once again, if you see that there's a sin that

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you're not to do and you're to avoid. Once again,

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that falls under the category of law, something to do

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or not do. You cannot do that is so it's

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supposed to be there to show you how you fail it,

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so that you'll run to Christ. So already these are

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problematic unless you explain to people what this means. Of course,

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I don't believe in a proper law gospel distinction. So

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this is just going to lead to basically turning the

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Bible into moralism, basically is what it's going to turn into.

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And then last, is there a new thought to carry

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with me? All right? Is there a new thought to

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carry with me? That may be okay, But this entire

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page here, page two, if you follow these things, you're

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not going to know how to study the Bible. I

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will argue. It will lead you to misunderstanding the Bible.

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So this thing is a total and complete train wreck.

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All right, so far we're doing great, Right, we're doing great. Now.

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Page three just one a white background with black lettering

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how to Weather the Storms of Life. Page four is

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basically empty. Then it gives you some information about this

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is public. This is copyright twenty twenty two when it

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was published in Memphis, Tennessee. There we go. Then we

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get the contents. We have introduction Week one, Right out

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the Storm, Week two, Live above c level s EE

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not s e A s EE, Live above sea level,

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number three, be Unsinkable, Week four, Let go of burdens,

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Week five, trusts God in the Storm. Week six, Find

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peace in the Storm. Week seven, Fight your way out.

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Listen Now is page one hundred. Then we have a

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discussion guide on page one oh one. This gives us

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to the page six introduction, how to Weather the Storms

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of Life. Now, so far we clearly know this is

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all going to be focused on us as us US US.

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So wherever it goes in the Bible, whether it's about Paul,

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Noah Job, whatever, storms it's going to look at. However

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it's going to approach this, it's going to make it

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all about us. So we already know we're in for basically,

485
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this is going to be spiritual malpractice. But secondly, we

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already know we're in trouble because if this is anyway

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following some of the things that we just read about

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how to study the Bible, this thing is going to

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be a total and complete train wreck. So let's look

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at the introduction how to Weather the Storms life. It

491
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begins this way. In Acts twenty seven we find the

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story of Paul, who boards a ship that rides straight

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into the teeth of a ferocious storm. In John six,

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we find the Disciples and a boat in the middle

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of a storm, and Genesis Noah floats in an arc

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during a worldwide flood. These are some of the most

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gripping stories in the Bible. If you listen, you can

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hear the booming thunder. You can see the lightning as

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its finger flash across the sky. You can hear the

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old ships creak and groan, and the moaning and the

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whistling of the wind. The story of a ship in

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the midst of a storm captivates our imaginations. But reading

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about storms and living through them are two different things, right,

504
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Very poetic, very descriptive, all for that, Okay, Now, my

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concern is when we read about these storms in the Bible.

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So you'll if you've attended church for any length of time,

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you know what happens when these sermons are preached. Right,

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these storms represent storms of life, and then somehow they're

509
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prescriptive and how you can not write out a physical storm,

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but how you can write out some metaphorical allegorical storm

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or a storm of life trials and trouble. Now you

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take it. So you take a story about physical storms,

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then you turn it into a prescription of principles of

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how you're supposed to ride out or live through a

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not a physical storm, even though the story is about

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a physical storm, but about some spiritual storm or some

517
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trial in your life. Now, so, immediately, just from a

518
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hermeneutical standpoint, are these stories about physical storms? Are they

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prescriptive and to give me principles and how to write

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out non physical storms? Now already, I just from a

521
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hermeneutical standpoint, anyone should be like, wait a minute, this

522
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is ridiculous. You're just going to stories that have nothing

523
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to do with me, nothing to do with the kind

524
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of storms I'm facing, and you're trying to take principles

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from this to apply to something completely different. Already, I'm

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I'm I'm concerned, all right. Next thing, they say, so,

527
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why would God tell us these stories about storms and ships?

528
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I wonder, why do you think God would tell these

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stories about storms and ships? Is it to tell us

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something about us. Is it to give us principles about

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how we can deal with them with non storm, non

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physical storms, or did they have other specific purposes? It continues,

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he tells us, because they're more than history lessons. The

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Holy Spirit takes these stories and illustrates valuable spiritual truths

535
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to help us navigate. Now, this is making a dogmatic

536
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assertion that these storms are put in the Bible so

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that the Holy Spirit can take them and then illustrate

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to us spiritual truths to help us navigate, not physical storms,

539
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but to help us navigate non physical storms. Okay, already

540
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this is just a hermoneutical train wreck. But Christians eat

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this stuff up. And when I was a young Christian

542
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I would have been all over this. I'd have been like, Oh,

543
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I can't I can't believe they're giving me a seven

544
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week Bible study guide for free. Oh this is awesome.

545
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And I'd be going to town. I'd have notes and

546
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notes and I'd be like, Okay, all right, when is

547
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the next storm coming in my life? And I think

548
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I would have it all figured out? Well, I don't

549
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think it works that way. Now here's where it's going

550
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to start turning this all metaphorical life is like a

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sea voyage. Sometimes the sea is calm and the wind

552
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blows softly. Sometimes the sun is shining, and we thank

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God for these happy times. Maybe that's where you are

554
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right now, just selling along. If that's you, enjoy it

555
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because it's a gift from God. But sometimes the wind rises,

556
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the sky darkens. Sometimes we find ourselves in the midst

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of terrible storms we never saw coming. And that's the

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way life is. Every human being is selling between two eternities.

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Sometimes things are good, sometimes things are bad. In this study,

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we're going to look at the storms in the Bible

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so we can learn how to weather the storms of life.

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We hope that you will be encouraged as you remember

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a storm you've already faced, prepared for the storms on

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the our horizon, our cell through the middle of one.

565
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God is with you. Do not be afraid. I know

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you can hear this cynicism, you can hear the skepticism

567
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and my voice, this is just ridiculous. There's just but

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you know what, I can't look. I think I've already

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been pointing out some of the problems with all of this, right,

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I think I've already been able to point that out.

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But I can't really get specific until we dig in right.

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So when you turn to page seven, there's a picture

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of the sky with some dark clouds and kind of

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the sun shining from behind the clouds. You see the

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sun rays. It looks like over.

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A an open land, not water, open land, and it says,

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stop tell God how big your storm is.

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Instead, tell your storm how big your God is. Man.

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When I was a young Christian, I would have written

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down that in my journal. I need to stop telling

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God how big my storm is, and I need to

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tell my storm how big my God is. Because you know,

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when whenever you're going through a difficult situation in life,

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you just tell that situation how big your God is,

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and you know your that storm may respond, well, well,

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your God is the one who did not stop this

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storm and is allowing this storm, So it doesn't really

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matter how big your God is, since your God is

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the one who's allowing this to destroy your ever living life. Okay,

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now now I'm getting very cynical, but okay, but that's

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the kind of stuff people love that you preach that

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in a sermon. People are going to be like, oh wow,

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that's so good, pastor that was so good you know what,

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this week, I've been telling God all week how big

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this storm is in my life. But now this week

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I'm going to be telling the storm how big my

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God is. You know? All right, well, you go do that,

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you go. I don't really know what that's gonna do

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for you. Since it's your big God who brought this

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big storm into your life, at the very least he'll

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allowed it. At the very most, he'd decreed it. But okay,

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you go tell the storm how big your God is.

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I'm sure the storm will be like, what am I

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going to do? Okay, I'm sorry, I'm gonna bring back

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your mother from cancer. I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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get your child who's paralyzed. What is that going to do?

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I don't know what that's supposed to do, but it

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sounds good. It's one of those you know, put it

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on a Christian T shirt, put it on the bumper sticker.

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Stop telling God how big your storm is, and tell

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the storm how big your God is. Oh. I can

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hear preachers loving that. Oh that preaches. I mean, that's

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everyone's gonna be saying Amen. And some churches you may

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get a standing ovation everybody's gonna love that. I don't

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know what you're loving. I don't know what you're standing

616
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and applauding. I don't know what you're amening. This is

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the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard in my life.

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But okay, page eight. We get to week one. Now,

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what we're gonna do is kind of just introduce this

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week one and then I'm gonna try to invite you

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to participate in this and see what you can get.

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So what you need to do again, you need to

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go to lw F dot O RG. That's l w

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F dot O RG forward.

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Slash v C why right v C? Why got that VC?

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Why? Once you get there, you're gonna see the page

627
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and you're gonna have a place to download this study

628
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for yourself. Download it for yourself, Download it for yourself.

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You say, well, you sound like you're very opposed to it. Yeah,

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but I want you to see it for yourself. I

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want you to work through it on your own. I

632
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want you to talk to other people, do it with

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your spouse, another family member, you know, just enjoy it

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and see what you can get from it. Obviously I

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have some problems here right now, Here's week one. Here's

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the introduction. Imagine sailing along in the middle of the

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ocean on a big ship. All right, okay, we got this. Now,

638
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:34.079
let's all imagine we're in the ocean. We're in a

639
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big ship. Got it. All of a sudden, the worst

640
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:48.480
storm you have ever seen rolls in, waves are crashing,

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The sky becomes dark, and you're thrown about the boat

642
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with no way to keep your balance. You do not

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know what will happen in the coming hours. The angry

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00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:03.840
ocean wrestles with the ship. You wonder if you will

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ever make it out of this storm. The Apostle Paul

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experienced this kind of storm and Acts twenty seven and

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Acts twenty seven. Right now, what I'm going to do

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is I'm going to reach down here grabbing the first

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Bible I see. All right, Acts twenty seven. I believe

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Acts twenty seven. I believe I've done some teaching on

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Acts twenty seven before, And I think it's a very

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difficult chapter to try to teach because there's a names

653
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of lots of places that you probably won't even say correctly. Yeah,

654
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I think you can uh oh yeah, oh yeah yeah,

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just start looking at some of these oh that yeah,

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This is one of those chapters that you don't want

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to It's forty four versus forty four verses. So Paul

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is sent to Rome. That seems to cover one through thirteen.

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You have the storm and verses fourteen through twenty, and

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then you have I don't know how we wrap up

661
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the rest of the chapter. I think that's basically so

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if you look at verse of yeah, you see the storm,

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but not long after a rose against it, a temptuous wind.

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All right, So you have the storm there in verses

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fourteen through twenty. So Acts twenty seven is where they're

666
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going to go now between trying to pronounce all of

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the places and get the state them somewhat correctly, all right,

668
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And we'll try to work on this chapter. It'll be

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just more of a personal challenge for me to see

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if I can't even get the names even remotely correctly correct.

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So maybe I'll work on it. But I want you

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to read Acts twenty seven right, and if you get

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all the names right, congrect congratulate yourself. You can try it.

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Sailm out loud, then see how closely you came by

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looking up how to pronounce them. I would challenge you

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to do that. But then just ask yourself, okay, Acts

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twenty seven. Is Acts twenty seven descriptive? Is it prescriptive?

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Is it telling you what to do? All right? Now?

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It says Paul experienced this kind of storm. In X

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twenty seven and the first century, Paul was imprisoned by

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Roman officials for proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He

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was transported by sea to Rome, Italy on his voyage.

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On this voyage, the ship sailed into a ferocious storm.

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By the end of the journey, Paul went from being

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a prisoner to being the captain of the ship because

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he chose to trust the Lord through the storm. All right. Now,

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Please note even here they're not naming any of the

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locations or naming anything, all right, so, which is probably smart. Right.

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As a pastor, this is where you can kind of go,

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all right, I'm just going to give you a basic

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overview here. Instead of trying to name all of the places.

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Other pastors will try to name the places because if

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you can state them clearly and authoritatively, it gives you

694
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a greater sense. It gives everyone in the congregation, Oh wow,

695
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he really knows what he's talking about. He's pronouncing all

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of these places clearly. So there could be also a

697
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reason why you would want to name all the places.

698
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But I digress. But notice what they're going to do here.

699
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Acts twenty seven teaches us how to navigate the metaphorical

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storms of our own lives as believers in Jesus Christ.

701
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That all, we've now entered into the realm of spiritual malpractice.

702
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According to this Acts twenty seven, which is a historical

703
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:49.960
account of Paul in a literal physical storm. Somehow this

704
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:55.880
is going to teach us how to navigate the metaphorical

705
00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:59.880
storms of our own lives as believers in Jesus Christ.

706
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:02.360
That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. So

707
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:05.559
you're going to take a story about a physical storm

708
00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:07.400
and say, oh, this is going to teach me how

709
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:17.760
to navigate metaphorical storms. Oh man, you're taking descriptive and

710
00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:20.239
you're making it prescriptive, and only that you're making it

711
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:24.639
prescriptive about something different than what the text is actually about.

712
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:27.960
The text is not an example of how Paul navigated

713
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the metaphorical storms of his life. It's about Paul navigating

714
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:39.519
physical storms and his physical life. So then it says,

715
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:43.159
this week we will read Acts twenty seven and find

716
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.960
out how God can use the challenges we face in

717
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:52.599
life to grow our faith and bless others. And then

718
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:55.679
it says, pray over it. Remember we're going to follow

719
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those steps. So let's see what it says here. Dear God,

720
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.840
life is filled old with all kinds of storms. I

721
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:08.559
face challenges and relationships, illness, grief, and other hardships. Help

722
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.239
me understand how to rely on you through live storms. Now,

723
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.800
remember this prayer is you're praying over Acts twenty seven.

724
00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:18.360
That prayer has Acts twenty seven has nothing to do

725
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:20.400
with you, has nothing to do with me. It has

726
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.840
everything to do about what happened to Paul. So already

727
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.119
this prayer, I don't know why we're not actually praying

728
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.159
over the text. Because we're actually praying over the text,

729
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.119
we'd be like, Dear God, thank you for providing this

730
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.119
historical narrative about what happened to Paul and your faithfulness

731
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:38.679
to him. It has nothing to do with me. Oh man, Okay,

732
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:41.400
It says, help me understand how to rely on You

733
00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:44.239
through live storms. Enable me to be grateful for the

734
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.519
opportunity to grow closer to You through hardship. I want

735
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:49.960
to face the storm as someone who knows you and

736
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.079
trusts you in Jesus' name, Amen, I don't know what

737
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:54.920
that prayer is even supposed to do. Has nothing to

738
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.360
do with X twenty seven, has literally nothing to do

739
00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:00.239
with X twenty seven, and Acts twenty seven has literally

740
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:02.599
nothing to do with the storms you're going through in

741
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:05.000
your life or the storms I'm going through in my life.

742
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:19.960
So Acts twenty seven is what's on the agenda. Now.

743
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.159
I know we still got to work we're doing on

744
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:24.679
the Salem witch trials. We will continue to work on that,

745
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:30.079
but Acts twenty seven is what we're gonna focus on.

746
00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:34.559
All right, that's what we're gonna focus on. We're gonna

747
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:36.679
work through it. It's gonna be a it's gonna be

748
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:41.199
a tedious task, but we're gonna we're gonna use We're

749
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:43.880
gonna kind of work on ACX twenty seven. Then what

750
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.719
we'll do, we'll work on AX twenty seven. We'll kind

751
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:49.239
of work on the Bible study guide, and then we'll

752
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:51.960
try to review at least one sermon, maybe two sermons

753
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.239
on Acts twenty seven, and we're just gonna go through

754
00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:57.360
this seven week study kind of following that pattern. We'll

755
00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:59.679
do our own work on the text. We'll compare our

756
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:01.800
work with what they do with the text, and then

757
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:03.760
we'll compare what they do with the text with other

758
00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:08.599
sermons on the text. So there you have it, Acts

759
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twenty seven. I already want to start. I already want

760
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to start, but I can just tell you immediately, I'm

761
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going to have to do some work here just to

762
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:17.760
ensure that I can come close to saying some of

763
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:22.480
these things correctly. All right, but you can immediately you

764
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.880
see immediately in Acts twenty seven, verse one. It starts

765
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with Acts twenty seven to one, and all right, so

766
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that means something in twenty six happened, and when it

767
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was determined that we should sell into Italy, they delivered

768
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:44.199
Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a

769
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:52.599
centurion of aug Augustus band. All right, so we have

770
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:56.960
Paul being delivered sounds as a prisoner. I think that's

771
00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:00.800
what we can and he's he is to go to Italy.

772
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He's going to Rome, all right. So we have the

773
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.000
scene set up right there. So what we'll do is

774
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we'll do some work on this, try to ensure that

775
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we can understand this text and we're going to work

776
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.280
through it before this is over. The goal here is

777
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:18.920
one that you know Acts twenty seven better than you've

778
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:23.760
ever understood it. Two, how a popular Bible study that's

779
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:26.440
being offered to people for free how it handles it.

780
00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:28.760
And then you're going to hear how modern day preaching

781
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:33.920
handles Acts twenty seven. So before it's over, you're going

782
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.960
to be an expert on Acts twenty seven. And we're

783
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.719
going to get a good sense of what's wrong with

784
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:41.599
modern day Christianity because it doesn't really care about preaching

785
00:48:41.679 --> 00:48:45.440
the text. It cares about doing all of this nonsense

786
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:48.639
with the text. It's not about you, it's not about

787
00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:55.159
your storms. It's about a historical account about what happened

788
00:48:55.159 --> 00:49:05.239
to Paul. All Right, there you have it. That took

789
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:08.480
us a long time to get there, But we walked

790
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through everything. I think I think we did. I think

791
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:15.239
we did okay, I think we did okay. And and

792
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.079
I'm and I'm just gonna and I and I and

793
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I'm gonna say this because this is the kind of

794
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:24.880
nonsense in Christianity that really, I mean, if I'm being honest,

795
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:29.320
it kind of ticks me off, right because people go

796
00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:32.119
through difficult things in their life. They really do. They

797
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:36.119
go through lots of trials and tribulation. I mean, I

798
00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:38.239
this just the last twenty four hour has not been

799
00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:41.320
easy for me. You know, I have a have a

800
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seizure disorder, and man, I'm having some major issues. And uh,

801
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:48.440
guess what Acts twenty seven is not going to give

802
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:52.360
me the principles and how to deal with a permanent disability.

803
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:53.440
And I'm going to have for the rest of my

804
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:55.480
life that they doctors like to tell me is going

805
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:57.239
to be the thing that kills me. You know, I'm

806
00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:58.960
not gonna find don't am I going to find some

807
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.519
Oh this is going to peace and calm to my life,

808
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:06.519
not unless I'm ripping things so far out of context.

809
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:10.519
But this was what was offered to me at three

810
00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:12.800
or four of three or four o'clock in the morning,

811
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:17.639
you know, when I wasn't asleep because of problems. Hey,

812
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:20.760
this this is what you need. Storms of life. Here

813
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.400
you go, get this Bible Study guide. It's gonna fix it.

814
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:26.760
And we've already seen that this is a it's a

815
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:33.400
train rag, massive train wreg So we will see spiritual

816
00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:37.079
malpractice are the worst? Are the best? Bible Study ever created. Well,

817
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:39.519
it's definitely not the best Bible study ever created. We've

818
00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:41.960
already seen our problems. I'm already putting it in the

819
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category of spiritual malpractice, but we will wait to be

820
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.159
dogmatic about that until we cover week one. So please

821
00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:54.559
go download your copy right now, right right now. Let

822
00:50:54.599 --> 00:50:59.800
me tell you again, go to LWF dot Org, lw

823
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:06.440
F dot Org Ford slash v C. Why go download it,

824
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:11.079
grab your Bible right now, Mark X twenty seven. We're

825
00:51:11.079 --> 00:51:13.920
gonna live in AX twenty seven for the rest of

826
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:16.960
this week, right AX twenty seven. We're gonna live in it.

827
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.039
May may even use some time at church on Sunday

828
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:24.880
to deal with AX twenty seven. Maybe all right, and uh,

829
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:27.320
and you'll get to see do you think he can

830
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.679
make it through AX twenty seven and get the name

831
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:34.760
of these places even remotely correct? Probably not, probably will not,

832
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:39.280
Probably will be a disaster, right but and and that's

833
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:41.079
one of the reasons I studied. I tried to do

834
00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:43.440
some messages on AX twenty seven before because it just

835
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:45.400
makes me mad that I look at the name of

836
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:47.320
some of these places. I'm like, what in the world

837
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:49.920
am I supposed to do with that? All right. But

838
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:53.039
I think some of these I will get right. No,

839
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.039
some of these I will not. I can get Thesala, Nika,

840
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:02.320
I can get Macedonia, Adonia, Mass. I know Macedonian, okay,

841
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:04.000
if I can get that right, all right, Asia, I

842
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:07.039
can get that right. I got that one right. Italy,

843
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:12.760
I can get that one right, Okay, Mara Lysia, I

844
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.199
can get that one right. Alexandria, I can get that

845
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:20.159
one right, all right. Thet's see Sindus, I think that's right. Create,

846
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:25.679
I can get that one right, Alaska, I think is

847
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:27.440
that the way he say say, I'm gonna have to

848
00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:28.960
look up many of these just to make sure I

849
00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:31.000
get them right. I'm looking at all these. Oh there's

850
00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:35.000
uh and running under a certain island which is called Claudia.

851
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:36.760
I think that's got to be right, right. Is that

852
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:38.880
got to be right? I think that's got to be right.

853
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.119
See there's crete again mentioned Finis. I think that one's

854
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:47.079
right there. I think I got that one right. Let's

855
00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:53.400
see here, you can you can look through this pamphilia

856
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:58.480
if that do you think that's right? Cecilia, Mara Lycia.

857
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:04.800
I'm getting these viye. I'm not even going to try

858
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.360
that one I'm not gonna try that one. It's see

859
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:11.719
oh man at verse two and entering into a ship

860
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:16.360
of ad riemit him. Oh man, I'm gonna mess that

861
00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:19.639
one up. Yeah, So we'll get those right, We'll get that.

862
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:21.800
But the reason I'm doing that right now is I

863
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:23.679
don't want you if I do get them right in

864
00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:25.719
the next one, I don't want it to come across

865
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:30.239
like ooh, he got them so right. No, I'm gonna

866
00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:33.360
have to work on it. And probably no, some pastors

867
00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:37.199
may not. I'm definitely going to. All right, there we go,

868
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:38.599
go download it.

869
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:39.840
Now.

870
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Remember with this whole year, we kind of I've got

871
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.760
this blank notebook underneath the microphone. It's blank, there's nothing

872
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:49.960
written in it, and I'm keeping it blank because this

873
00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:53.519
symbolizes that the podcast this year, which is kind of

874
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:56.480
like whatever whatever happens. And so what happened was three

875
00:53:56.559 --> 00:53:58.360
or four in the morning. I ended up looking at

876
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:02.119
this study guide, so and here we are. So that's

877
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:04.360
what we're going to be doing. Acts twenty seven. Make

878
00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:07.760
it your friend, Let's figure out what it actually says.

879
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:10.360
We'll compare it to the Bible study Guide that you

880
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.880
now have in your hands. Right you now have it

881
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:16.800
in your hands, and we'll compare it to preaching. Should

882
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:20.480
be an interesting comparison. There you go, Thanks for listening everyone,

883
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:23.599
have a great night. God bless