WEBVTT 00:00:02.479 --> 00:00:05.200 Thank you for joining us on the CCW podcast. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:11.039 Make sure you connect with us on social media to stay up to date on ministries and events happening at CCW. 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.960 We hope you're encouraged, inspired, and motivated by today's message. 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:19.039 To find out how to connect with us, keep listening after the message ends. 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:23.440 I'm so excited about this morning. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.320 I want to give you two quick commercials before I introduce you to the professor. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:32.000 Two quick commercials are this. 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.520 After the service, we're going to flip the room around. 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:38.479 We are going to have uh dinner on the grounds. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:44.479 So if you don't have plans, or even if you have some that you can cancel, today would be an awesome day. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:48.000 We would love to invite you to stick around, eat some lunch with us. 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.759 We have, of course, fried chicken coming. 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:53.359 So it's going to be good. 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:54.479 It's going to be good. 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.280 And if you wouldn't mind helping, we've got tables in here. 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:03.359 We're just going to pull them out, flip the chairs around, and we would love for you to stay with us as well. 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.079 One more thing, commercial, because I cannot help it. 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.879 Next week, we start our Connect groups. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:15.439 So if you have not signed up, please check that out on the app or on the website. 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:20.560 And one of the greatest means we have of digging deeper, building burdens together. 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:24.319 And if you're not feeling connected yet, we want you to be in a small group. 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:30.000 We have over ten groups, most of them on Sunday, but we have some on Monday, Wednesday throughout the week. 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.719 And we would love for you to jump in and get involved in that way. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:40.000 And we actually have added another Sunday school class, so there'll be two adult classes on Sunday morning as well that you can get involved with. 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:46.319 Well, Doc, I thought of a lot of things that I could say to introduce our speaker this morning. 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.519 And uh I want to just tell you two quick personal ones. 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:55.599 One, my wife Heather knew Pastor Danny ever well before I ever knew who he was. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:06.319 And uh she went to Liberty University for uh a year, and she went there because she went to a Jesus is awesome rally, and uh you might hear something about that in a little bit. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:06.959 I don't know. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:13.599 Anyways, she went to this rally and heard the speaker, and many of you, maybe you grew up, I don't know, may or or have just been. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:19.199 Has anybody I don't want to call that out, has anybody, you just you raid, don't raise your hand, but you've been in a dry church. 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:24.960 Okay, my wife grew up in a church that wasn't that exciting, is all I can say, nice. 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:32.639 And she said when she went and heard Danny Love it, she said, I didn't know preachers were even allowed to be like that. 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.960 And she said, if people were like that about their faith walks, you wanted to be around them. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.439 Well, my story, I met him then. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:49.520 We fast forward, we got into youth ministry in Indiana, and uh some of you that have been around for a long time have heard this, but that's okay. 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:56.000 Um so my first meeting with Pastor Danny, my pastor had to leave and left me in charge of the guest speaker. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.759 And I, you know, I don't know what I don't know. 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.639 I don't, I just think we're supposed to treat them good, take care of them. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.360 And uh they got kind of stuck in town for a little bit extra, and so we were gonna bring them over to the house. 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.680 Now we've been in town for a month. 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.639 I didn't even own a lawnmower, okay? 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:18.319 So Danny comes out and he says, Rick, you're gonna lose your car in that grass, son. 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.280 And I say, Well, you know, we're newly married. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.199 I just we lived in an apartment before. 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.159 I haven't bought a lawnmower, and I've been borrowing Deacon's lawnmowers and stuff, anyways. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:39.120 So we go to Walmart, they've got to get some stuff, and he beelines to the back of the store, and he's going toward the lawnmower section. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:40.319 I don't know this guy, right? 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:41.759 And I'm like, I'm just following him. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:42.960 He's just trucking through. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:46.400 And he gets back there and he says, I want that one, and I'm I'm figuring out what's happening. 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:47.120 I said, No. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:49.520 I said, Pastor, I said, You're not gonna do that. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:50.560 You're the guest speaker. 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.360 We're supposed to take care of you, pay you, take you like you. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.560 And he said, Rick, you're not gonna do what God has already told me to do. 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.719 You're not gonna stop me from doing what he said. 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.199 You're gonna get this lawnmower right now. 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:04.879 I said, Yes, sir. 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:05.439 Okay. 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:16.959 But my impression for someone that I knew very little, that they would come and buy me a need that didn't know me from anybody. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.920 I had never had anybody just treat me like that that didn't know me. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.800 I thought, this person follows the heart of God, no matter what they do. 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.680 And I found that doc to be true ever since. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.439 So would you put your hands together for Pastor Danny Lovett? 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.040 Chapter 14. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:52.720 Matthew chapter 14. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:56.079 I am so excited to be here. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.120 Every time I show up, it's grown. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:08.639 I told Rick, I said, when we get to the new building, I said it won't take but a two, maybe three years, you'll be over 500 and you're getting close right now. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:09.839 Let's give God a hand. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:10.639 Amen. 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.879 In fact, let's do this. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.279 I'm gonna say Jesus is what? 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:30.639 And you are gonna raise the roof with the word awesome to see what and I just heard he just God just paid off your children's wing. 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:31.519 Amen. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:33.199 Hello. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.399 Don't you think that God deserves an awesome amen? 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:42.399 Jesus is what? 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.639 Yes, he is, yes, he is. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:56.800 Uh I had about 300 deacons and preachers this last two days at Chaco Springs hollering Jesus is awesome. 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:05.439 I was one of their guest speakers at their conference, and uh boy, did we uh uh just see God move and it couldn't have been better timing. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:19.439 We just finished the chalet, so now the cabin's available to be used for uh all kinds of things for pastors and retreats with pastors and staff, and it's just awesome, awesome. 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:28.560 And Thursday I had the opportunity to present the gospel to 16 different men on the pickleball court at our state championship. 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.040 Yeah, amen, amen, amen. 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:37.600 And uh they've I've I've they put me in a highest division you can be in now. 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:43.360 Uh I should have not played as well so I could have stayed in that winning division. 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:49.519 But uh anyway, while we're playing with four, five, and five O's, and that's as high as you can get. 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:50.639 And but that's okay. 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.800 I came out with a bronze, so that's not bad. 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:53.279 Amen. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:58.319 For my first time being in that division, I already told them next year I will win the gold. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.759 So uh anyway, guaranteed. 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.240 Matthew chapter 14. 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:10.959 I was praying about what God would have me to preach. 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.199 And I thought to myself, I follow all of you. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:27.759 And by the way, if you're not on Facebook with me, please Facebook me, befriend me, because I do a little devotion every Saturday morning, usually around 8 o'clock, called The Words for the Week. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:32.560 The thing's grown to about 800 to a thousand people that follow me during that week. 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:33.439 They'll listen to it. 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:37.759 I try to keep it at least, not much more than five minutes. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.519 Because I know you'll listen five minutes. 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:41.120 You're not gonna listen after that. 00:07:41.360 --> 00:08:01.839 But I can guarantee you, now some of you will, I know, but I guarantee you, you will be challenged, but you'll be encouraged, and I'll give you a nugget that'll take you through that week because I study all week uh in my own personal devotions, and I've picked the one God says to pick that I know we all need encouraging. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:02.639 Amen. 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:24.560 So, with that said, God said, CCW needs to be encouraged today, but they also need to be instructed today about the excitement, yes, the the magnificent things God's done here in 11 years. 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:25.839 Unbelievable. 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:33.440 I remember coming out here and walking in this, not the whole 90 acres, but this thing, David and I, seven times. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.840 And the next day the guy called me and said, Hey, preacher, I want to sell it to you. 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.879 And I'd already told David he was asking a million dollars. 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:51.360 I said, No, no, David, God woke me up and God told me that he's gonna sell us this land for half a million dollars, and I got it figured out. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:09:00.000 We'd already had him raised some money, I already had a donation coming in of$50,000 for the land, and another donation of a hundred thousand for the land. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:01.759 And so I figured it out. 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.039 We close to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.559 So I was praying, and I've and I'd already asked him. 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:12.799 First of all, I asked him, I said, um, God told me you're gonna give me this land. 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:15.679 He said, Well, God didn't tell me that. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:20.879 I said, Well, I thought I'd try. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:21.440 Amen. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.399 You have not because you have not, right? 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.440 And I don't have a problem asking. 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:36.399 So, anyway, I had asked him, Well, can I buy 10 acres? 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.600 He said, uh, okay, let's look at it. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:51.600 And we went and I wanted the 10 acres right behind Surpro because we were using Surpro's buildings, and we thought we could just build it and keep them all close together so we could use those buildings. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:57.279 And so he did, we did, uh, looked around and he said, okay. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:05.440 And he said, uh, I can sell you those 10 acres for$10,000 an acre. 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.799 That was really about the going on$280. 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:12.320 That'd be$250,000. 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:17.200 And I thought to myself, we got it, we got it. 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:21.120 But he said, But preacher, God wouldn't let me sleep last night. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.759 I said, Oh, in my mind I'm getting excited. 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:25.759 I said, Is he gonna give it to me? 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.159 He said, but I got a better plan. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:33.840 Get in a truck. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.799 I said, okay, we'll get in a truck. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.080 He took me all over this 90 acres. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:42.799 And then we came back. 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.360 He said, Here's what God told me to do. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.519 I said, I'm listening. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.120 I'm still thinking, is he gonna give it to me? 00:10:54.240 --> 00:11:04.000 He said, I've been asking a million dollars for this property for about at least ten years. 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.360 But God told me to do this for you. 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.519 I'll sell you these ten acres for$250,000. 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:20.080 But I got a better plan because I told him that's about what we had. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.679 He said, I got a better plan. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.960 And now you gotta you gotta realize this. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:38.799 I had already told David that he's gonna sell us that land for half a million dollars, and we're gonna pay$250,000, and he's gonna finance the rest. 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:42.080 David looked at me and we were closer than brothers. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:47.600 We had a bond that I've never had with another person, and I probably never will. 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.080 It was that special. 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:54.720 And Benji will tell you that. 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.039 Christy will tell you that. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:02.399 We just we were literally blood brothers. 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.840 But when he didn't want to hurt my feelings, because David had no problem telling you what he thought. 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:12.720 Many of y'all say amen on that. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.000 When he needed to straighten you out, he'd straighten you out. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.840 But he would always, and I knew, he said, instead of saying anything, he'd do this. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:26.480 Really? 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:29.759 Oh, okay. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.000 He said, You do understand. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.240 He's asking a million dollars. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.000 I said, Yes, sir, I do. 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:38.320 But I'm telling him what God told me. 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.360 He said, hmm, okay. 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:42.799 So we left it there. 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:46.080 And I knew he was thinking, okay, all right, we'll see. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.440 So now put that into context. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:54.879 And so now we get back to right where the pavilion is right now. 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:03.120 And he says, I'm gonna I'll sell you the 10 acres for 10,000 uh for$250,000. 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:12.320 Or I will sell you the whole 90 acres for$250,000. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:22.000 I meant, excuse me, for half a million dollars, and hey, you give me$250,000 and I'll finance the other$250. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.120 Now you tell me my God's not an awesome God. 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:31.039 Unbelievable. 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:32.879 Unbelievable. 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:38.080 So don't tell me this thing, where's Bingy? 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.240 Yeah, it's it's not staying on my ears. 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:51.039 Okay, and I got I know I if I would be calm and collective, it would stay on, but that's okay. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:58.000 Uh so with that said, today, I want to ask you one question. 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:01.600 Do you ever have any problems? 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:05.279 Huh? 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:08.080 Hey, you're in church, you can't lie. 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.159 Do you ever have any problems? 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.039 How many of you have problems right now? 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.120 Yeah, you gonna be taking it tighter or what we're doing? 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:22.320 You're taking it off? 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:24.480 Okay, that's good. 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.200 You can't take it off, it's in my shirt. 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:29.919 Just just unplug it. 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:30.720 All right. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.519 Hey, he's my son. 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:38.159 All right. 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:41.759 Love you. 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.480 Oh, I felt like I was a bull harnessed. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:50.000 All right. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:03.919 So I thought to myself, when you get in a storm, how many of you ever had a storm in your life? 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:08.399 How many of you in a storm right now in your life? 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:09.919 I knew it. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:10.879 I knew it. 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.639 By the way, if you're not in one, you're gonna be in one. 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:23.759 Because you're either, hey, hey, you're either going in the storm, hey, you're in the storm, or you're coming out. 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:26.159 That is life. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.600 There's the good, the bad, and the ugly. 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:38.159 I don't care who we are, I don't care how spiritual you are or unspiritual you are. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:40.000 Storms happen. 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:44.480 And we got one of the greatest examples in Scripture. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.879 Well, actually, you have two of them twice. 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:49.039 And there's a reason for that. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:55.759 The disciples, it took two major storms for them to come around and get the answer. 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:09.279 So let me encourage you, when you get into a storm, hey, hey, ask God to tell you exactly what you need, hey, so that you don't have to take keep taking the test till you pass. 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:17.759 Jesus had just gotten through preaching to thousands. 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:23.679 He was tired and he told the disciples, he says, You're gonna go back over to Capernaum. 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:28.320 That was his northern hangout at Peter's house. 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:30.720 That's where they stayed. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:35.519 And he says, I'm gonna go back up to the mountain and I'm gonna pray. 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.879 So they got in the boat and they started going over on the northern side. 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:47.919 And right in the middle of their journey, we took about two and a half, three hours. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.639 It's 13 miles wide, the Sea of Galilee, been there three or four times. 00:16:53.600 --> 00:17:10.400 And so as they're rowing, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, now listen to me, unexpectedly, a violent storm came upon them. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:20.960 I'm talking about one that was so strong, so terrific, so I'm talking about unbelievable. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:27.039 And I've been on the Sea of Galilee while we stayed in a little motel beside it, when that we saw a storm like that. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:31.039 The waves got on the up to 12 to 14 feet high. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:39.119 They were coming over the embankment so much that we were there in February and winter that the water filled the swimming pool. 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:48.480 And I thought to myself when I walked out those doors and what our group, we were all just watching it, boom, boom. 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:54.480 I can remember in Mark 4 the other storm where Jesus is in the boat in that storm. 00:17:54.720 --> 00:18:06.400 I understood right then why the disciples said, wake him up, wake him up! I'm still trying to figure out how he was sleeping in that. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:19.839 But it was, hey, suddenly, it was unexpectedly, and it was violently. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:21.920 And you know what? 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:31.680 After 42 years of ministry, I've seen most of the time our major storms, and it was a major storm. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.359 Let me let me tell you how major it is. 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:46.240 You go over to the other passage in in uh Luke that describes this, and they said that in this passage it says they were toiling, but the Greek word there means that they were terrified. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:19:18.000 It means that they they were actually another synonym they used, they were tortured, they were panicking, they didn't know what to do, because here they were, they were on the northern section of the Sea of Galilee, going over to their home, and now they're in the middle, the middle of the Sea of Galilee, water filling the boat, they're rowing and been rowing for hours because they started about five o'clock in the afternoon, and now it's three o'clock in the morning. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.720 And it should have taken them three hours at the most to get over. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:27.680 So you that they really are terrified to the point they think they're gonna die. 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.759 Now, here's something you gotta realize. 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:41.279 There's three types of storms. 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:43.119 You ready? 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.440 There's the storms of correction. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.680 Remember Jonah? 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:02.880 Jonah ended up in a storm of correction because he was trying to run away from the will of God. 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.240 He was trying to run away from the purpose of God. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:14.000 I mean, it got so bad that Jonah had the opportunity to have a free ride on free willy. 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:20.880 That's pretty bad. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.519 How would you like to spend three days and three nights in the belly of a whale? 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.519 Can you imagine how he smelt when he came out? 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:32.480 All those gastric juices. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:37.680 No wonder they had revival. 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:41.519 Do anything for that stint. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:44.480 But can you imagine? 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:46.079 Storms of correction. 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.960 And then, secondly, there's storms of perfection. 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:50.720 And guess what? 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.079 This is the storm that the disciples are in. 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:58.079 They're in a storm of perfection. 00:20:58.160 --> 00:20:58.799 What do you mean? 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:01.279 Who told them to get in the boat and go to the other side? 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:03.440 Come on, talk to me. 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:04.880 I'm a professor too. 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:05.839 Who told him? 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:06.720 Jesus. 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:09.599 Jesus said, get in the boat and go to the other side. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:16.720 So they are in the perfect will of God doing exactly what God told them to do. 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:19.839 You with me? 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:25.680 So some of us get in storms, and I know I've been in a few of these. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:28.720 I mean, it just came out of one, really. 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:48.559 Well, I know I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and man, the storms just opposition after opposition, storm after storm, just I felt like they were there rowing and roaring and roaring and roaring and roaring and roaring and not going anywhere. 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.359 They're stuck in the middle of the sea in the storm. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:58.480 And then there's a third storm. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:06.640 Storms of correction, storms of perfection, and then there's storms of conversion. 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:12.880 You remember all the sailors that were on the boat with Jonah? 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:22.400 If you go back and read that story, I got a message on what happens when you get on the wrong boat. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:28.960 When you read the story, they were all the sailors were terrific sailors. 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:31.440 I meant they had been sailing all their life. 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:36.319 And for them to be in a storm that they thought they were gonna die, and because of that, they throw Jonah over. 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:40.880 In fact, Jonah said, You just need to throw me over, and they started out saying, No, we're not gonna do that. 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:44.000 And then the storm got so bad they said, throw him over. 00:22:47.359 --> 00:23:02.559 But we see, hey, after the storm ceased immediately after they threw him over, they turned, because he had told them about the Hebrew God, and that he was running from God. 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:04.160 You gotta give Jonah credit. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.839 He fessed up, buddy. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.400 He said, I'm the culprit, I'm the reason this storm's happening. 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:12.799 Get me overboard, and it'll be okay. 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:15.200 So they had heard him preach to them. 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:17.519 Hey, hey, he got right. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.640 At least he was preaching before he thought he was gonna drown. 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:30.160 And he told them, and then they turn and they say, Forget our gods, we're gonna serve the Hebrew God. 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:33.680 That's good stuff. 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:40.079 So there was a big revival on that boat of convergence. 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:50.319 When you get in a storm, I want us to look at some things that it's gonna be a blessing to you. 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:58.480 Hey, they're never pleasant, there's never pleasant, but God always has a purpose for your storm. 00:23:58.799 --> 00:23:59.440 Always. 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:00.480 How do we know that? 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:02.160 You know Romans 8.28. 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:03.359 Quote it with me. 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:08.880 All things to them that love God, to them who what? 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:12.079 Are called according to his whose purpose? 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:14.160 God's purpose. 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:15.359 You've got a purpose. 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:23.279 If you're here and you're saved and you haven't found your purpose, you may be getting some storms till you find your purpose. 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:25.359 So you say, Well, what do I do? 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:27.119 Start doing something. 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:44.960 Instead of sitting on the pew or the chair, start doing, start finding, asking God, using your talents, your giftedness, start doing something in this church, through this church, to hey, reach your community with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:49.200 Get on the ice cream truck. 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:52.400 Just don't eat all the ice cream. 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.240 But here they are, and we're gonna learn something today. 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:01.519 Here's the purpose. 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:02.960 Hebrews 12.11. 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:06.400 I don't know if they threw it up on the screen or not, but listen to what it says. 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:08.160 Hebrews 12.11. 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:12.400 Now, no chastening for the present seems to be joyous. 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:13.759 You know what he's saying? 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.319 There's nothing good about a storm. 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.160 Storms are painful. 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:19.599 Can I get an amen? 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:23.119 Storms are very painful. 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:24.799 Now, watch what it says. 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.480 For this present time, in other words, for where you are right now. 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.720 But grievous, painful. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.680 Nevertheless, afterwards, look what it says. 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:39.599 It yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised. 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:40.720 I thought about that word. 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.160 I love exercise. 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:43.920 But what did it really mean? 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:45.119 Trained. 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:55.279 We are trained through the storm to be equipped for what God's purpose is for our life. 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:58.160 And that's why we have storms. 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:01.039 Say that's good, preacher. 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:03.519 That's it. 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:09.119 And then he goes on to say to them which are exercised thereby. 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:15.279 So, what we see in here, and I want to give us three things this morning. 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:22.960 I want to give us three examples of Jesus in this storm with the disciples. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:28.160 Because it's just exactly what he does for us in our storm. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:29.279 Identical. 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:33.440 In fact, he's given us two pictures, two storms with these disciples. 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:35.680 And I'll go ahead and kind of fill you in. 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:44.000 One of the main propositions of this storm was to teach them to trust him and to live and walk by faith. 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:45.519 Can I get an amen? 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.960 Faith is the substance of things. 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.440 Hope for the evidence of things not seen. 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.720 Hebrews 11:1. 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:54.400 You know what that means? 00:26:54.559 --> 00:27:01.519 That means faith is to believe in something is so when it's not so, so that it becomes so because God said so. 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:04.000 That's it. 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.960 F-A-I-T-H, forsaking all, I take him. 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:13.200 It's all about him. 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:14.640 Trust in him. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:21.440 Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, lean not on thy own understanding, and all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths. 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:23.680 Proverbs 3, 5 and 6. 00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:24.720 Wow. 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.799 So the first thing I want us to look at this morning is Jesus walking. 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:32.480 I love it. 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:36.079 God walks on the waves. 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.440 That's your first point. 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:41.359 The very thing, now watch this. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.480 This is good. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:50.880 The very thing that frightened the disciples to death. 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:52.799 They were scared to death. 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:56.799 The very thing that had them scared, petrified. 00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:00.880 Just like me and you, something happens, a storm comes, and we're frightful. 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:02.319 We're fearful. 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:09.359 The very thing that caused their fear was the instrument. 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:16.880 Ooh, it's the instrument that God used to come to them. 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:19.519 Hello? 00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:24.559 That brings a brand new perspective about your storm. 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.440 God is going to use, whoo, amen. 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:34.880 God's going to use that storm to come to you in a way that you'll see him like you've never seen him before. 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:37.359 Y'all didn't get that. 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:40.559 What did he say? 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:42.000 What did he say, Harry? 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:55.920 I said the thing that you're the most frightened about in your storm and afraid of, he uses to show up to you in a way that you've never seen him before. 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.720 And in a way that you'll know him like you've never known him before. 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:05.039 That's deep. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.480 You say, really? 00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:11.440 Ask Shadrach, Meshach, and Nebednego. 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:13.599 Hello? 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:14.880 Remember? 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:18.079 They threw them in the fiery furnace. 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:19.039 You know what they said? 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:25.599 If they were going to throw me in the fiery furnace, Benji, and me and you gonna, hey, me and you and Rick. 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:28.559 They're gonna throw us in the fiery furnace. 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.880 You think we'd been strong enough to do what they did? 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:32.240 You know what they said? 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:36.160 We don't care if you throw us in the fiery furnace. 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:37.759 One, we're not gonna bow. 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:39.440 We're not gonna worship your God. 00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:46.960 And we would rather be thrown in the fiery furnace and be burned up than to serve you. 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:52.720 You said, man, what a witness. 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:53.680 Yeah, that's strong. 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:55.279 I don't know if I'd have been that strong. 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:56.480 And you know what? 00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.880 The king got so mad he turned around and said, Heat the furnace seven times hotter. 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:12.480 In fact, they heated it so hot that when they opened the whatever it was, the rock, I don't think it was door, it's still door, but it burned up the guys that threw them in. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:15.440 They're gone. 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:16.960 How'd you like to bend them? 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:20.799 You with me? 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:25.920 The king came back to look and see. 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:28.160 They burned up. 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:29.680 He knew they burned up. 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:31.839 He looks over and he says, Who? 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:40.240 Not only were there three, Shadrach, Mesha, and the bandico, but there was a fourth man in the fire furnace. 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.000 And his name was guess who? 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:45.839 Jesus. 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:51.519 Jesus, the I am! And you're gonna see that in a minute. 00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:53.039