Revelation is more powerful than reason

Revelation is more powerful than reason.

You can't fight the devil with the reason because sometimes

you don't know the reason.

Sometimes you have.

To go back to who God showed you that he was.

And God is very tactical in this. So he will

create a situation for revelation. Can I preach about this permanent?

So he will let Lazarus die, and he loves Lazarus,

and when they tell him that Lazarus died, he'll say, I'm.

Glad it happened.

Jesus actually said I'm glad he die. Why because now

we've got a situation. And the situation is what enables

the revelation. It's not just true because it rhymes. It's

true because it's true. Up until this point, they knew

him as healer. Now they needed to know him as resurrection.

And so he said, I'm glad it went wrong. I'm

glad it When poorly Paul said we must run aground

on some island, somebody say.

It had to happen. It had to happen.

And sometimes when you ask God for a reason, he

will bypass the reason and give you a revelation. You

still belong to me, You're still my child. See I

don't operate by reason. If I operate by reason, sometimes

I'll be up, sometimes.

I'll be down. I operate by revelation.

I know he is good and he does good. I

know he's with me. I know he's for me. I

know he'll never leave me nor forsake me. That's my

revelation to somebody, say I got a revelation. And so

when you get in trouble, you don't need a reason.

You need a revelation.

Elijah looked at me the other day and I was

telling him to do something. And he's eleven years old,

and so he is being visited by demons of eleven

year oldness, and he's coming up to me talking about Dad.

I'll do it if you tell me the reason, he said.

I'm not the kind of person who can just do

something without knowing the reason. Did you ever see The Simpsons?

I know you don't watch TV. You read the Bible

all the time.

When Homer grabs Bart around the neck, and I know

I probably couldn't do that.

When he said, he said, I need a reason, and

I looked back at him, and the only thing that

came to me was I looked at him. The spirit

of star Wars came on me and.

I said, I am your father.

You don't need a reason to do it, boy, you

need a revelation of who I am.

How big say you say.

Sometimes sometimes in your life you won't know why. But

if you know who Paul said last night that angel, I'm.

The god who I'm sorry, I am whom I share?

So look, ti fat, somebody say, I got a revelation,

and Paul says, we're going to make it. But the

boat isn't. The boat has to break, but we're going

to make it. We will suffer loss, but we will

not lose what's most important. That's the promise, all right.

So you know what's amazing about this story. It happened

just like Paul said it would. And they all got

to the shore, and they got to that island, that island.

Look at this in X twenty eight verse one. Somebody

say it had to happen. That's the word for you today.

It had to happen. And when they got there, the

Bible says X twenty eight, verse one. Once safely on shore,

we found out that the island was called Malta. Malta

means refuge. So the grace of God does not always

prevent the consequence, but it gives you a place to land.

And so we must run aground on some island. And

when we got there, we found out the island was

called Malta. And it must be a relief now that

we're no longer on these open seas, because they spent

weeks thrashing around wondering if they'd ever see dry land again.

And then they get to the place, and the Bible

says in verse two that the islanders showed us unusual kindness.

Now islanders is a kind term.

The actual word that is used here from Luke, who

wrote the Book of Acts, is barbarians, and he called

them that because they didn't speak his language. Malta is

an unfamiliar place, and it's an unfamiliar place. Not only that,

but they built a fire and welcomed us all because

it was raining and cold.

Now imagine this.

Can we empathize with Paul for a minute, because he

survived a shipwreck only to shiver in the cold of

an unfamiliar island and an unfamiliar langu which and he survived,

but now the place where he is is unfamiliar to him.

I mentioned that because many times in my life.

I have found myself on Malta. Have you ever been

to Malta? Oh? Sure you have, Sure you have? Is

that place? I'm gonna show it to you. Let me

show you in the map here in my Bible. Look,

that's where Paul started.

That's where the wind blew him around for like several weeks.

And that's Malta where they landed.

Look usually that that a tiny island called Malta.

A little See how small Malta is.

See how tiny it is, how small it is, how

strength That's where Paul was going, And that's where the

wind blew it. That's where Paul had always wanted to

visit Rome, where he would stand in trivel for Caesar

and be used as God's great spokesman, the most powerful

place in the.

World in his day. And that's Have you ever.

Ended up somewhere you never planned on being? That's what

I'm trying to say.

Have you ever been to Malta?

I need somebody over here in this section has been

to Malta. Now, Malta is the place you didn't plan

on staying. Malta is the season you didn't plan on experiencing.

Malta is the layoff you didn't see coming. Malta is

the relationship you didn't see ending. Malta is the emotional

place you never thought you'd experience. You saw other people depressed,

You never thought you'd be depressed.

You saw other people's.

Kids act crazy, you thought yours would act right. Malta

is that place where you're twenty eight in single. Malta

is that place where someone who was there for you

is no longer there for you.

Have you ever been to Malta?

What is somebody as important as Paul doing somewhere as

small as Malta.

Let's find out. Let's find out. I love the Bible man.

The Bible says that Paul got to Malta survived the shipwreck.

Have you ever survived anything? Have you ever survived anything?

Have you ever gave up hope? And just when you

gave up hope, hope didn't give up on you and

grabbed hold of you in the PEPs doing. I've been

preaching this all weekend, but I feel something special happening

right now for somebody who is in an unexpected place,

a strange place, a small place, a stuck place.

The Bible says that those islanders.

Were so kind to the prisoners, two hundred and seventy

six of them in all that They built him fire,

and Paul was such a good dude that he decided

to help.

So they're building a fire, and.

Paul didn't want to stand over there like me at

a love Week event, looking like some lazy preacher who

doesn't know how to do anything.

Paul grabs a pie, said would look, it's right there.

In verse three, he gathered a pile of brushwood, and

as he put it on the fire trying to help,

a snake came out.

So let's let's go back to everything that's happened to Paul.

He's imprisoned for preaching the gospel.

He's shipwrecked because the sailors are too stupid to follow

his advice.

Now he's cold on Malta. You're talking about Malta.

Stuck in strander, shivering and cold, uncertain, an unfamiliar place,

and just as he thinks he's made it to safety,

he gets.

Struck by a snake. This is almost comical.

Unless you've been there, when just when you thought the

fight was going to be over, here comes something else.

Have you ever and this snake pops up.

Out of the fire that Paul was simply trying to

help them build on an island called Malta, where he

never even planned to go. And the Bible says it

fastened itself.

To his hand. So this is not some quick little

This snake bit down.

On Paul, and what's what the people did because you

got to be careful about people. Let me tell you,

gotta be careful about people, because when that happened, people

will always assign a reason to why you're going through

what you're going through. Well, if I were her husband,

I would have left to People will say stuff like that,

not to you.

They never say it to you. They just think it

about you. They think that the reason bad.

Things happened to you is because of something that you did.

Well, the islanders are watching.

This guy who's got a snake on his hand, who

just came crawling out of the sea with some seaweed

around his ears, and he claims to be a preacher,

and he claims to be a servant of God. And

so if you're a servant of God, why isn't God

protecting you? Has the devil tried to convince you lately

that if you really had.

A God you.

Wouldn't be going through what you're going through.

And so they stood back. They stood back and said this, dude.

When they saw the snake hanging from his hand, which

means it was there for a minute. When they saw

the snake hanging from his hand, they drew their own conclusions.

He must have done something wrong. He must be a murderer.

He must be out of the will of God, for

though he escaped the sea, the Goddess Justice has not

allowed him to live. I love the next verse because

Paul preaches one of the most powerful sermons in the

New Testament.

Watch this.

When Paul saw them all looking, he knew he had

a captive audience. And verse five says that when Paul

saw him looking, he said, and this may not be

in your Bible, I'm reading from the TSV, the Taylor

Swift version.

He said, he said, players.

Gonna play, play, play.

Play play.

Come on, y'all, go back to twenty fourteen with me

for a minute.

And haters gonna.

Hate hate, hey, hey, hey five times. That's a quintuplet

in the New Testament. Heartbreaker is gonna break. We get

the point, pastor you don't have to quote the whole

chorus and the verse. Paul's response, that's the word response.

Watch this. He didn't say a word, He.

Didn't try to convince them that God was with him.

He didn't feel sorry for himself. He didn't go on

Facebook and write a response post. Watch what he did.

He did what you've got to learn how to do.

When you make it through the storm and all hell

breaks loose on the shore, Come on when they talk

about you, when it looks like this is the end, when.

You've been through it.

And it keeps coming, the Bible said, Paul, still get off.

Let's haveeven people.

Say, shake it off, shake it off, Shake it off

right now before it gets in your system. Shake it

off right now before it kills you. Shake it off

right now while they're standing around watching you.

You gotta do it right now, right now. You gotta

shake it off.

You don't take a vote from the Island committee to

see whether or not they think God is with you. No,

Paul said, I got a revelation.

God already told me I'm going to Rome, so I

can't die on design.

I already know he'll never leave me or forsake me.

I already know I'm more than a conqueror. I already know,

so if I'm going to Rome, I can't die on Malta.

And when the shap fell off of Paul's hand and

died in the fire, it wasn't a surprise to him.

He knew it had to happen. It had to happen.

Somebody said it had to happen. I had to survive.

I had to make it. I had to get through it.

God had to prove his power.

I'll fill your presence, Lorm.

For everybody who's been wondering why you've been stuck on

the why land.

You know what I'm saying. You've been so busy.

Trying to figure out a reason, and God is trying

to give you a revelation.

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