Pastor Tim Dunn "Jesus: Name Above All Names" (Sunday 9-10-23)

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in this message. Familiar passage of Scripture Mark four, verse thirty five says,

on the same day, when evening had come, he said to them,

let us cross over to the other side verse thirty six. Now,

when they had left the multitude, they took him along in the boat as

he was, and other little boats were also with him, And a great

wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat so that it was

already filling. He was in the stern on a pillow. That's great,

and said to him, teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?

Do you not give an iota of concern toward our well being? Amen,

you can be seated. It's it's funny how quickly we as humans turned

to the blame game. Amen. It just happens naturally to us when our

favorite team loses, well, it's because of the refs or the umps or

the other team cheated, or the ump couldn't see, you know, the

broad side out of a bar, and you know that strike was a strike,

it wasn't a ball, you know. They all of those things.

We turn to the blame game. That's what happens. The coach is an

idiot, you know, those kind of things. But the disciples immediately do

you not care for us? It's this whole thing has been going on from

the very beginning of humanity. When things go wrong, then we are very

quick to begin to blame others outside of our own self. Look at the

garden of Eden, all right, beautiful garden right, just picture esque place.

And he puts Adam and Eve there and he tells him you can eat

of anything except and we know the story. Eve goes and she eats of

the apple and then gives it to Adam, and he eats of the apple,

and then they figure out that they've messed up, and so they run

and hide, which is you know, you're hiding from God hello. And

so he goes and he finds them and like, what are you doing?

And it's funny how Adam is very quick to say, God, this woman

that you gave me, see how you did that? God, this is

your fault. You gave me this woman and she messed things up. And

then he turns to Eve, and Eve blames it on the devil. It's

his fault. It's very quick how Sin brings about the blame game in our

life. Man, and so in marriage, I will give you this word

of wisdom that for your benefit, gentlemen, it's never her fault. It's

just nineteen years of experience speaking somehow I don't I still have not. I'm

not just you know, the super super smart guy, but I'm not just

dumb as a box of rocks either. And so but I've never I still

have not figured out how in all of the things that have happened in our

marriage and our life, somehow I'm the one that's most of the time saying

I'm sorry, I just you know, that's that's a head scratcher. But

however, it's worked. It's worked for nineteen years. So if it ain't

broke, don't fix it. Amen. Men are very silent right now,

and I get it, I get it, amen, But ladies understand understand

that, uh, you know, it's not always his fault. And here's

the man, amenity. Yeah, do you hear that woman. First of

all, don't ever call her woman. That's a that's you'll Yeah, you'll

mess things up right there, because and you know, and as as Adam

and Eve are playing the blame game, God's going I gave you one thing

not to do, and that's what you did. At that point, I'm

sure God was like, Okay, maybe I need to rethink this whole humanity

thing. They're not starting out on a really good foot. But uh,

it's it's funny how that happens, how quick we are to look at God

and say, God, why didn't you do this? Why didn't you do

that? Amen? I'm just glad we live in his grace man, because

in our humanity and all seriousness, we are very quick to start looking at

Instead of looking internally, we look externally as to why certain things. And

I get it. There are things out of your control that impact your life.

And it's not necessarily because of a decision that you made, but it's

things that impact. But even in those moments, it's how are you going

to respond? How are you going to respond to the things that impact your

life, whether they're happening because of your own doing or just something that's been

thrust upon you? What do you do? How do you respond? You

remember, years and years ago, everybody who was at WWJD, you know,

what would Jesus do? And man, that's the real thing is we

got to think how should I respond to this? Now? Most of the

time I get it wrong. When I'm driving and somebody cuts me off,

I think, what would Jesus do? After the fact that my wife tells

me, hey, you need to bring it down a little bit turbo because

you know that road rage hits and you're like, you know, you're like

eating their bumper. But I don't ever do that. Lord, forgive me.

I just, I just I just I just told one right there in

front of God and everybody. Amen. Verse thirty nine says, then he

arose talking about Jesus and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace

be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Now it was October fourteenth, nineteen forty seven, and there was a B

twenty nine bomber that took off from an airstrip in southern California, and it

had an experimental aircraft attached to its belly, an aircraft called the Bell X

one. We're for so very, very long. It was believed by many

aeronautical engineers that the speed of sound was an unbreakable barrier. However, there

was a pilot named Chuck Yeager who believed otherwise. And so when that plane

reached twenty five thousand feet, the B twenty nine bomber releases the bell X

one and it fired its engines. It accelerated to five hundred six hundred miles

per hour seven hundred miles per hour, and at point nine six' five

mock, the control panels started going haywire. The plane starts shaking. The

controls or needles are going everywhere because in nineteen forty seven and not everything was

digital. You know, it didn't have this big flat screen like the teslas

have now, you know, the autopilot. So everything's going haywire. Needles

are bouncing back and forth, the plane shaking, and at nine at point

nine nine five mock, Chuck Jaeger becomes blurred because everything's shaking so much.

His stomach is in knots because of the g force on his body. And

just when it felt like this plane was gonna come completely apart or implode,

there was a sonic boom. It was described as the perfect storm became the

perfect calm, and you see a supersonic speeds. The air pressure that has

been pounding the front nose of that plane shifts to the tail and what was

once a headwind that was beaten the sam hill out of the front of that

plane becomes a tailwind that propels it. Why because the plane was now traveling

faster than the sound waves it created. It's pretty incredible, isn't it.

It's amazing. At nineteen forty seven, the first sonic boom was felt,

was heard. It's very possible, even probable, that some of you are

living and leading at point nine mock. The control panels of your life are

going crazy. Everything's shaking, your job, your kids, all of it

seems like it's gonna either implode or it's just gonna completely tear apart. And

maybe you walked in this morning to this service and you're sitting there and your

vision is blurred because your life is just tied up in knots and everything's going

crazy, and everything's going and you don't know where to go, and you

don't know what to do. Well, the good thing is you're in the

right place because what you need is a breakthrough. You need a spiritual sonic

boom to happen in your life. Amen. And the truth is this,

as long as Jesus is in the boat, then your breakthrough is on deck.

Amen. That's why I want to tell somebody it's very simple, very

very very clear. As long as Jesus is in your life, then your

breakthrough is on deck. Your moment of shift is just a spoken word away,

amen, whether you believe that or not, whether you can see it

or not. And if you're in what I just described and everything's shaking and

everything's going crazy and going haywire, if that's the describing your life, I

want to tell you that all it takes is a single spoken word by the

Master, his outstretched hand upon your life, and he can bring about a

complete breakthrough for you and in you, because his spoken word, his outstretched

hand is going to lead you to experiencing that shift of feeling like you're constantly

fighting a headwind and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, it

changes to a tailwind, and what felt like was going to destroy you is

yell you forward, amen, amen. Because Paul wrote in Philippian's Three,

he wrote he wrote this beautiful little things he said. He said, Brethren,

I do not regard myself as as having laid hold or having apprehended yet,

he said, But this one thing I do forgetting what lies behind me

and reaching reaching forward to what lies ahead. He says, I press on

toward the mark, the goal of the prize of a high calling of Jesus

Christ in my life. Amen. And see that's what God wants to do.

Whatever you face today, whatever storm you're facing, whatever trial you're facing,

whatever thing is shaking your life, God wants to take it and he

wants to turn it to use it to propel you instead of what the enemy

meant to do, and that is destroy you. Amen, Because that's what

God does. Because there is this thing in scripture, and you may have

heard certain preachers mention it. It's a peace that passes all understanding. And

see, nothing in this world, nothing in your life, can give you

that only Jesus. Only Jesus can give you that peace that passes all understanding.

Amen, it's not attainable. Like you might have formally believed that peace

that passes all understanding, and like Chuck Jaeger, I believe there is a

breakthrough that is possible even in the face of unbelief. Amen, even in

the face of chaos. The world can stand against the Church. But when

Jesus is in the room, when Jesus is on the boat, it doesn't

matter what anyone else says or believes. Amen. And every negative word spoken

about your marriage, about your life, about your kids, it does not

matter what people say. It only matters what Jesus has spoken over your life.

It only matters what Jesus has to say about you. And what I

read in Scripture is that He's got a plan for your life. Amen.

And I don't have to know anything about you to know that there is a

divine and or aimed plan for your life. Amen. And his word has

been spoken. When he called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light,

there was a calling of Jesus Christ upon your life. And this is

the thing about the word of the Lord. Scripture tells us it does not

return void. You know what that means. It does not return empty,

Amen, until it accomplishes what it was spoken to accomplish. Has for you

is still attainable, It's still available. It doesn't matter what your past was.

Your past cannot kill the voice and the promise of God. Amen.

Do we believe that your past mistakes cannot destroy the calling of God upon your

life. I know may people may look at your life at one point or

another and say, ah, there's there's hopeless. God works in hopelessness,

And I'm a testimony to God working in hopelessness. Amen. Well, they're

they're too far gone that they they're broken. God is a mender of hearts.

Amen. God works in the broken. He takes the broken, He

takes the shattered dust of life, and he begins to mold it into something

beautiful. Amen. I think of the words that Jesus said he told the

disciples before he went to the cross. He says, he says, this

tabernacle, this temple, this body, this my flesh and blood is gonna

be destroyed, he said, But in three days I'm gonna rise again.

Amen. I'm gonna tease the devil and let him think he won. Then

I'm gonna flip the switch and he's gonna realize for all of eternity he's defeated.

Amen. And this is the beautiful thing about that. That's not just

a story we read, that's your story because His resurrection is your resurrection.

Amen. When he the scripture tells us that when he rose, we rose.

Amen. He overcame death, hell and the grave for us. Amen.

And so our resurrection from all of the dead things that that that once

that mistakes and passed all life that's dead and gone. Amen. All it

takes is a word from Jesus to say, come forth, like he did

Lazarus from the Great just he was four days, Bubba was thinking, okay,

I mean, like nobody wanted to roll that stone back. They're like,

Lord, let's let's let's talk about this, because he's been dead four

days. He's been in there for four days, and he's gonna he's gonna

be rank. And he said roll it back, come forth, Amen.

And that's what he wants to speak to some of you today. And man,

there's been some callings and some promises and some things in your life that

you thought were dead and gone. Amen. And he wants to speak to

those things this morning, and he wants to call them forth. Amen.

But you find yourself everything is this turbulent. Everybody in here is. If

you ever flown, most everybody flies has flown at least once in their life

and and that's the one thing. My wife, she she's a brave soul,

but man, when a little bit of turbulence, she's like, he's

like death grip. I'm like, it's like the super Woman's like strength,

like like you know, it's like Wonder Woman grabbed a hole, like crushing

me. I'm like, oh, yeah, be wrong, wrong, yeah,

Like why are you crying? I'm crying for you, you know.

But a little bit of turbulence, that's how we react. You know.

It's like the cat you throw off the roof. No, I'm just playing,

you know. Oh, we don't do that. I'm just playing.

So that's how we react when turbulence hits us. We want to grab a

hold of something. Ah, we we panic. And that's what the disciples

did. They panicked. They said, we do you not care that we're

going to be destroyed? And Jesus was like what, And he questioned their

faith. He questioned, why are you so fearful? And it's incredible to

me to behold his power and authority in this situation, but not just in

this situation, but in our life. His power and his authority in our

life trumps everyone and everything else that you see and that you go through.

So don't panic, stand still and know that he is God. Amen.

I'm gonna repeat that in your spirit. Amen. Don't panic, stand still

and know that he is God. Amen. Amen. So Jesus stops the

storm in its tracks. Okay. The disciples had no previous category for what

just took place, and so they end up asking a very obvious question like

who is this? Like how can he command the waves? How can he

order and control the wind? How does that happen? In verse forty one.

And they feared exceedingly and said to one another, who can this be

that even the wind and the see obey him? How is this possible?

The short answer is because it's the one who made them. Let me explain

that to you this way. The wind and the waves, who were created

by the voice of God, recognized the voice of their creator, Amen,

and had to submit to his authority he man. They recognized the voice of

the Creator. They were spoken into existence by his voice, And when Jesus

spoke, they recognized the voice of the creator, and they had to submit

to his authority. Colossians Paul wrote to the Church and Colossians and Calisi in

chapter one, verse fifteen He says, who is the image of the invisible

God, first born of every creature. And Verse sixteen says, for by

him were all things created? Amen? And I want to speak that into

your over your life right now. By him, were all things created?

Everything? He has a creator, and it is Jesus. Amen. And

he goes on. He says, that are in heaven, that are in

earth visible and invisible. This is where it rubber meets the road. The

things you can see were created by him. The things you cannot see,

we're created by him. That's why we don't have to fear the unknown.

We just have to trust the God of the unknown. We just have to

put our faith in him. We have to stand upon him. And when

things come, and when the waves come and our boat is filling up,

we don't have to panic and we don't have to fear because we know Jesus

is on board. And he says, whether they be thrones or dominions,

or principalities or powers, all things, everyone say, all things we're created

by him and for him, And he is before all things, and by

him all things consist. Amen. Everything you see, everything you don't see,

has to submit itself to his voice. Amen. And that's why Jesus

asked the disciples, why are you so fearful? How is it you have

no faith? Jesus was saying, you've seen me perform miracles, and yet

this amazes you. Listen, this is the thing, and this hit me

when I was studying for this. We either believe that he is omnipotent,

which means all powerful, or we believe that he has no power. There

is no in between. Amen. We either believe that he controls everything or

that he controls nothing. A man, you can't dance in the middle somewhere.

Amen. Revelations talks about being lukewarm. Amen. And when when you're

lukewarm, when you're riding the fence. Well, he's got control on this

side. But this side, ah, that's just willy nilly baby, that's

just free floating. No, no, no, no. He either has

all control he has no control. He either has all power he has no

power. You believe. I believe he has all power in heaven and earth.

I believe that by him all things are created and for him. Amen.

And so there is nothing in your life that is happening right now to

you, or to to you or in you that the voice of the Master

cannot command Amen. The only thing hindering your storm from being calmed is your

submission to his authority. The wind and the waves they had no choice because

they were created to obey him. You have a choice this morning. You

can break out them the pails and you can try to get all of the

water out of your own boat while the storm rages. How many have tried

that, every one of us, you know, And you look back and

there's more water than when you started, and you're like, what is happening

here? So you can try it your own way, or you can simply

submit yourself, your marriage, your job, your storm, your battle to

Jesus and let the one who commands the wind and the waves speak peace into

your situation. I want my wife to come to the piano, please,

because there are two truths here. I want I want them to put that

on the screen. Sometimes there's words behind that. Sometimes God delivers from and

sometimes God delivers through. It's much easier for us when he delivers from.

That's our preference. Just deliver me from the storm that way I never had.

Hey, everywhere we go, just deliver me from the storm. But

as we see in scripture, He often delivers through through the fiery furnace.

He delivered through the lions, did he delivered through the wilderness? Amen?

Because when God delivers us through, do you realize he could have kept that

storm from ever hitting their boat, but he didn't. Because adversity creates an

intimacy in relationships, and when we go through the storm, it creates an

intimacy in our relationship with Jesus that nothing else can create, and that adversity

builds a bond that cannot be broken. And this is true in our earthly

relationships. My marriage of nineteen years to this beautiful, talented woman right here.

She loves it. When I do that. It isn't strong because we've

never went through hard times. It's strong because of the hard times. We're

closer now than we've ever been because of those tough times, because of the

adversities. Your trial, your storm, is going to reveal something about God

to you. So don't be so quick to hit the eject button. Don't

be so quick to hit the escape button. Just let Jesus be Jesus in

your life. Just submit your storm to him and let him step up and

begin to speak, and you'll come out of that storm, knowing that He'll

never leave you nor forsake you. Amen. Because what God brings you through

elevates you and glorifies him. What God brings you through elevates you, glorifies

him. Amen. Would you stand with me this morning? Romans eight twenty

says, Then we know, oh that all things, everyone say, all

things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are

called according to His purpose. But the part that I want to focus on

are the second and third words of that scripture. We know? Do you

do you know in the face of tribulation? Do you know that in the

face of a trial, and the face of a fiery furnace, and the

face of of what Chuck Yeger faced, when when all everything's going crazy,

and all the controls and all the panels and everything feels like it's going to

be ripped apart? Do you really know that all things work together for good

to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.

See that's the other key. Is his purpose, not my purpose,

not your purpose, his perfect will. I want to ask you to close

your eyes if you don't mind, just so that the focus is not on

me. But we can we can turn our attention to him. Because I

want to tell you this. Your storm is there. Your storm is present

to reveal his peace. Your fiery furnace is there to reveal his protection and

his provision. Your mountain is there to reveal his power. All it takes

is a single act of mission. Submit to How do I do that?

Lord? I give this to you. Your will be done, not mine.

I give it to you. And so as you stand there today with

your eyes closed, if there is something that you're facing today that you don't

You've tried to break out the buckets and the pails, and you've tried to

get all the water out of the boat, but you feel you still feel

like you're sinking. Amen, with every eye close, I wonder if you'd

be willing to submit, and if you're willing to submit to him and just

lay everything at his feet this morning. I wonder if you'd just slip up

both of your hands this morning. Hallelujah, Complete surrender, complete surrender.

Or everything in my life I give to you, or everything I face,

I give it to you right here, right now, Lord, I give

you that, I give you that situation in my life. I give you

my marriage I give you the issues I'm having with my kids and my grandkids.

I give you my job and the situations there and my business and what's

going on there. Lord. I give it to you right here, right

now, Lord, and I release it to you, and I submit to

your will and your power and your authority. Lord, to you, Lord,

to take control. Come on, let that be your prayer here all

over this building, all over this place. Lord. It's not about my

future. It's not about my dreams. God, It's about what you want

to do in me and through me. In the name of Cheese the Lord.

Right now, God, I release your peace to begin to speak to

each and every heart in this place. Hallelujah. If you want to take

it one step further, you can step out from where you're at and come

up and pray around this altar right now, hallelujah. But let's turn this

entire place into an altar. Lord, right here, right now, I

lay it all at your feet. Well, because I know that you're the

Master, and I know that by you all things are created, all things

consist. Lord, Hallelujah. Everything I can see, everything I can't see,

hallelujah. She begins to see no wonder right. Thank you so much

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