The Storm | Pr Daniel Chong

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will light up your day. Today's message. I just want to share.

I was just reflecting what should I share with all of you today? And

I just want to share. You're about the storm, he said, Okay,

the storm, and what can we learn about the storm and the winds,

the raging winds in our life and how we can tackle the storms and

the raging wins. And I'm like, okay, this is my night title.

There's two over there you. As I share, I hope you'll be

able to choose which one is the right title for today. Of course,

the first one is the w w D. How many of you know?

What doesn't mean? What would Jesus do? Right? How about the second

one? What? What? What? What does the second one mean?

What should we do? All? Right? As I'm sharing this a lot

of times we as I was going through the storm, the reason storm that

I had asked my asking my heart, what would Jesus do? How would

Jesus all come this storm? And then I started the thing, is that

the right question to ask? I think in life, in every circumstances that

we are in the moment, we are faced with trouble, you look to

Jesus. That's right, that's the right thing to do. But the question

in my heart that I was wondering in my heart, what is that the

right question to ask? And as I started pondering on the question, I

started to ask, actually, what should I do in the midst of the

storm. And that's when we get to this title, what should we do?

If you have bibles? If you can turn with me into Mark chapter

four, verse thirty five to forty one, and we are going to read

scripture. Is that okay? Is that all right? Okay? Mark chapter

four, verse thirty five to forty one. Mark is after the Book of

Matthew. All right, okay, are you ready. I'm going to read.

I'm going to read, and you just stay with me. When as

I read this first all right, thirty five On the same day, when

the evening had come, he said to them, let us cross over to

the other side. Thirty six. Now, when they had left the multitude,

it took him along in the boat as he was, and other little

boats were also with him, and with great and a great windstorm arose and

the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already feeling. But

he was in the stern, asleep on a pillow, and they awoke him

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

Then he arose and rebuilt the wind, and he said to the sea,

peace be still, and the wind sees and there was a great calm.

But he said to them, why are you so fearful? How is

it that you have no faith? And they feared exceedingly and said to one

another, who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?

God bless the reading of his word. Now, Mark chapter four was

also encountered in Matthew and Live, respectively. This was an account and eyewitness

account. You know, Scripture is the Gospels is the eyewitness account of what

Jesus is and the life of Jesus. And as Mark was accounting on this

and writing this story, this is the story about Jesus calming the sea the

wind, a story that the children would have heard a thousand times, you

know, besides the walking on water the other storm, you know. And

very interestingly in Mark it says a few important phrases. I'm going to share

these phrases to you, and as we go along, I hope you will

key up something in your mind. Right here we go, let us cross

over to the other side. They took him along in the boat as he

was These are key sentences that I hope that if you're taking notes, you

can take it down with you. Okay, a great windstorm arose, waves

beat into the boat, filling up. Fourth phrase, Jesus was asleep.

Fifth phrase, Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? Now?

Before I go into the sharing for today, I want to give you

the main point, he said. Okay, I'm going to give you the

main point, and from there we're going to study the world of got together.

Here's the main point that I would like you to catch today. The

first slide, second slide. Can you turn to the second slide? The

third slid. The main point is it is not about the storms in your

life. I don't know if you're catching it, if you're hearing properly.

It is not about the storms in your life. Whenever you're encountering a storm

in your life, remember this phrase. It is not about the storms in

your life. How Daniel, how can I go through this situation? How

can I go through these circumstances? The main point isn't about the storms in

your life. Let's celebrate on that. But what is it about? It

is about who Jesus is. The Book of Mark chapter four ended on verse

forty one, saying that, and that's the main point where we're getting it

from today. Who can this be? That is the main point. Who

can this be? Who is the main character in your life today? Is

it you? Is it your situations? Is it your problems? Or is

it your creator? Who? We have to ask the right question whenever we

are faced with problems in our lives, whenever we're phrased with junctures in our

life, asking the right question is very important. Asking the right question will

lead us to our deliverance. Asking our wrong question will lead us to our

destruction. All right, I hope that we are here today hoping to be

delivered from the stranglehold that is holding you back from experiencing a breakthrough in Jesus

Christ. Amen. Sometimes this book, this book called the Bible, it's

a very powerful book, but only if you know who it is about.

If it's just a book that you read like Harry Potter, you know some

very powerful English, it's no power. Right. And this book there is

a very very It's very important to know how to read scripture. This is

something that I'm learning day in day out with my wife. You know,

as we are reading together, we learn and we just discuss, actually what

is it that we are looking for? Whenever we look to the Bible.

Now, the Bible has a lot of parables, right, Jesus himself preached

a lot of peris. I'm on a journey of just ear mucking each and

every parable and what it's about, you know, cross referencing, and it's

very powerful. And when Jesus teach in parables, he does not he only

explains it to his disciples. His disciples will also go, like what you're

talking about. Jesus had to explain it to his disciples. But when he

was teaching in parables, there is certain meaning that it's behind the stories,

right, And the Bible is like that as well, But not all the

time. Sometimes, in fact, most of the times, whenever we read

the Book of the World of God, we have to take it as it

is. We have to take the word of God as it is. Christians

believers more often not even myself. Sometimes when I am in the midst of

the storm, I go to this book as if it's a manual on how

to get out of the storm. And when I go to the verse and

I read that verse and somehow it doesn't apply to my life, then I

go like, God, God, why are you not there? This book

is not a book that is men to get you out of trouble. Only

this book is a book that is meant for you to draw closer to the

Creator. Understand who this God is. Understand the identity of our creator,

who Jesus is, and that would solve your problem. Not every single verse

or every single passage in the Bible has to relate to you. So if

it doesn't relate to you, if it doesn't help you in that situation,

it doesn't mean that it is not helpful. Open up your hearts, friends,

Learn the Word of God. Read the Word of God as it is.

Be careful, friends, be very careful how we tend to interpret scripture.

Sometimes you like to take one verse and one verse only, and we

say, see see God, God say it, whoa the word of God

that inspired infallible in the Word of God said this, Therefore it must apply

in my life. Hello, did you read it in context? Did you

know the situation that led to the auto writing that verse. Do you know

the background behind Jeremiah twenty ninet eleven. Do you know that it is not

a verse that is so uplifting and every time you use it we think,

oh, well, God knows he's here to give me a future and a

whope, I who? But do you know that verse is centered around an

impossible situation. They just got kicked out of the house, and suddenly someone

from nowhere saying telling me that I is not what I need to hear.

Now. I need to get back to my house. I need to get

back to the city that I lost. Stop telling me things that I don't

want to hear. Yah. The Bible is full of things that we don't

want to hear, but we need it in our lives. Amen. It's

the focus of God helping us through our trials? Is that the focus?

When we read Mark chapter four very often? Sometimes you know this is me.

Okay, maybe all of you is different, but for me personally,

I always have you heard this before? Jesus is with us in the storm?

Yeah, Jesus is with us in the storm. Jesus is calm.

Jesus is asleep, so we can be asleep too. We can sleep.

The disciples didn't sleep that, so I they they were, they were,

they were getting rebuilt after that. Have we heard this before? Have you

heard that if Jesus is there, we should cast all our fear, all

our burden on the shoulder of Jesus. Have you heard this before? Yes,

I have heard it before. I appresed about it before. But something

just changed in my heart as I was reading this scripture, as I was

going through a storm with my dad, something changed. Why do we always

look and depend and wait for Jesus to move before we take the first step.

Why why do I always wait for a confirmation from the Lord before I

read my bible? So Jesus is at peace, so we can be at

peace. To These are all some of the common interpretations that sometimes can take

away. Yes, that is true, but that is not the primary focus

of this passage. It is not the primary focus sometimes as believe us.

This is another statement I'm going to share. You know, my rough will

be a fare us, but you know, just have to do what you

have to do. We tend to stretchure. We then to strap scripture so

much so that it will stretch it to a point where it applies in our

situation, and it helps this heart feel better. Jesus is in the book.

Jesus is there with me. I don't have to do much. I

just have to wait. This true like Paul. You know, the Angel

of the Lord appeared to Paul and say, you just got to weather this

storm. Oh, therefore I also can just weather this storm. Were in

there in your life. It's something that has to move before Jesus can work

in your heart. Something has to change, The focus has to change.

If we're only reading scripture to find one thing, which is how can this

help me, we may totally miss out on the focus of this text,

which points to the nature of God and who he is. Stop trying to

find who you are in the Bible and find who find out who he is.

Amen, Let's go through verse by verse all right, verse thirty five

on the same day when the evening come? So which day was this?

How many of us know? What was Jesus doing prior to this? What

was he doing here preaching? You're sharing, In fact, you're sharing some

of the parables? Right, I do I have an image of uh image

of the ocean, the sea of Galilee, somewhere there right yeah, okay,

this is the Sea of Galilee. Uh and that is the soul's cove,

is where it's commonly alight, or rather very I would say that this

is where he did most of his preaching from uh is. He was a

man that was in demand. Jesus, you're not in the Savior was a

man that was in demand. All right. If you sing that he was

nobody, think again, open your bible and read how much in demand this

person named Jesus was. Yet each and every time after he performs a miracle,

he always say, do not share to anyone. It's a warning,

it's an instruction, do not. But people were just in awe so much

of the action. You see, Jesus had a big following, a multitude,

But where was that multitude multitude when he got crucified. The people that

were around Jesus when he was crucified, I believe no or even they themselves

were healed by Jesus, and they knew a family member, a brother,

a sister, a child. But yet they were seeking so much so for

the action, the healing, the trial, the tribulation, to get out

of that so much soul. But they did not focus on the creator they

were just in it so that they will get what they want. The multitude

was so big. It was so big that even in scripture it says that

Jesus had to tell his disciples to prepare a boat for him so that he

doesn't get trampled on. It was such a break following. Can you imagine

I'm standing here and it all come to us me. I'm gonna die.

I can't even minister, and I have to retreat or sharks. I have

to retreat to the ocean, to the Sea of Galilee, and on a

boat. I tell you, it's so amazing that Jesus was standing in the

boat on the sword's court, and you can see around the Sea of Galilee

is mountains. There's a natural ambience, there's no need for a mic.

His voice in himself, along with the wind, was enough to share his

voice that people multitudes can hear his voice. That's the power of Jesus,

that's the power of your creator. That even the winds and the seas obey

him. And yet after each miracle he says to not share. I'm here

for you. I'm here for you. Have you ever thought that way?

Why did Jesus instruct the people that he healed, not to share because if

I am in it for the glory of myself. When I married such a

beautiful wife, you know, when I caught that such a beautiful girl in

the form of Rochelle, I won the whole world to know, right,

I should be sharing on social media? Right. But when Jesus came for

me, he came for me. He didn't care if anyone else knew he

came for me. He knew his purpose, and he went for the one.

He went for that one. But you know, people are people are

instruction given already never listen multitude game. And he did he say, did

he send them away? No? He healed. He he talked to them,

He prayed for them, one by one. So there's the introduction on

the same day. What are you doing with your day friends, before your

trials come, before your storms come? What are you doing with your day?

How are you living out your day? How are you living out your

day? Friends? Are you filling up your day with the love of Jesus

Christ? Or are you filling up your day with garbage? When I'm preaching

this, I'm always preaching it to myself because I am weak. I'm the

weakest in this whole room. Really, ask my wife. She knows me.

She will look. I can imagine my head. She look at me

right now, being in the world God, she goes like hippocrite. I

can imagine because I am weak. I am weak. This flesh, this

heart is deceitful, this flesh is weak. But when I preach today and

I share the word of God with you today, it's also a reminder of

myself. On the same day, when the evening had come, he said

to them, let us cross over to the other side. All right,

let us cross over to the other side. It was already late, the

whole day was gone. It's time to rest, told his disciples, let

us cross over to the other side. In my Bible I highlighted this verse,

let us cross over to the other side. When your Creator says something

to you, it means it will happen last something, something popping in your

mind. Right now, let us cross over to the other side means what

means you will get to the other side. Lah. Right, So why

did the disciples in the midst of the storm, penny, It's already clear.

Sometimes in our life, God has already given an instruction to you.

God has already declared your future over your life. But yet time and time

again we forget about what God has told us in the first place. And

there we are crying and praying to God, God, please help me.

But God already said, you are going to get over to the other side.

Turn to your neighbor and say you're going to get over to the other

side. Come on, friends, you are going to get over to the

other side. I'm going to see you in heaven. If you are a

believer today, if you believe that Jesus Christ is your Lord and savior,

I'm going to see you in heaven. That is a promise. Stop trying

to let the enemy rob you of that promise just because you watch potography the

other day. Submit to the Lord forgive, Ask God for forgiveness. Repent.

Yes you commit a sin, Yes you said something wrong. Yes you

did something wrong. Yes you, but you have a loving father that you

can come back to. But think that first step, friends, think that

first step. Let us cross over to the other side. Oh, such

a beautiful picture. But like every other human being, let's read on what

happens all right? Verse thirty six, Verse thirty six. I think it's

on the slide right, so you can read together with me. Now,

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

he was. What is the important phrase in this verse? Passassandra is Beingsasendra.

The important phrase in this verse is as he was as he was.

Think Jesus as he is. Don't try to make your version of Jesus.

I your version of Jesus will only help you in this situation. But when

this situation is over, I yell crucify him. You know, every time

we blush him against the Holy Spirit, that's actually an unpartable sin if you

read the Bible. But time and time again, sometimes we do it Unknowingly.

There's power in the name of Jesus. Declare the name of Jesus over

your life. I'm very inspired by pas Can, but until now I can't

get it. I'm always going like, ah, but that's that's just who

he is. Always like to say, he's a man of faith, man

of faith, man of faith. But come on, he's faith, and

your faith should be the same. He's Jesus, and your Jesus should be

the same, same God as he was, and other little boats were also

with him. I don't know how many of you have not this, this

spartning scripture. Huh, God lit boats with him. I ran on a

wild goose chase. Let me share you this our preparent especiation. What is

the significance of these three boats? Three? Is it? Three? I

just went one number? So there's this main boat. Sorry, am I

drawing? And then God Jesus sleeping? Okay? Then got other boats?

Ronnie? What does the other boats mean? Oh? Man, what's the

significance of the other boats? Is it? Because? Oh? What is

it? What is it? Guys? Who cares? Dan you? Why

are you focusing on the little boat when there's a big boat? Or what

there for you to focus on? I kid you not, that's what happened,

Sally, the part in my face gonna slept nicely? Why are you

focusing on the little boat? Why are you focusing on the other boats?

Come on? Scripture is scripture. It's an eye witness account. Friends.

You know how when you you you want to tell your friend about your favorite

choparty anxally, you know, you saw one duck in the middle of the

road, and you say, there was three ducks in the middle of road.

But suddenly there's a big chapatty over here, the three ducks. It's

just an eye winners a town. You don't have to over spiritualize every single

thing in the Bible. The Bible is real. If the three boats method,

they will tell you what happened to the three boats or sorry I keep

saying three, that's not This is the other little boats right right, They

will tell you what happened to it. So stop taking your focus away from

the main point. Keep the main point the main point. Make the main

point the main point. Stop trying to find side this side, this side,

dish or no need. Okay, So the little posts are there,

yes, agreed, Let's move on. Okay, the little pots were there

for whatever reason. Okay. Verse thirty seven, a great windstorm arose and

the ways bit into the boats, so that it was already feeling So what's

happening here? What's happening here? Suddenly? Suddenly? Okay, let me

give you some geography lesson. Okay, I learned this, so I just

want to share it with you. Do you know that in can we go

back to the to the Sea of Galilee and the Okay, so you see

the mountains right, the Sea of Galilee is the lowest fresh water sea in

the world. Okay, it's about I think it's the lowest. And then

the non lowest fresh water is the Dead Sea, which is further down.

Okay, So the Sea of Galilee being so low, Okay, you know

you'll know physics or science right in the middle of the night, the sea

is what hot or cold? So you throw the science physics back to the

teacher. It's hot, lie right? Cold air is where? Uh?

And then there's this remember this you shouldn't remember this chat right right forget all

through the teacher. Okay. So the mountains, the mountains that is surrounding

the Sea of Galilee is where the cold air is. And at night,

as the air is gushing down through the mountains, it meets with the air

it is on the sea and it causes a turbulence. He causes the turbulence.

That's why the Sea of Galilee is notoriously known for its waves and sudden

earthquakes. Earthquakes sudden uh, like all these boisterous windla you know, all

these conditions whereby you know, the ships, so just kept signs and whatnot

like Okay, So the Sea of Galilee is known for that who is on

this Who is on the boat with Jesus? Fishermen? Right? Where did

the fishermen work prior to meeting with Jesus? This is very sea they were

here, So what you call them masters of the trade? They were musters.

Who was Jesus carpenter? Why asking Jesus about this? Okay, that's

one thing for you to know. Okay. So a great windstorm arose,

the ways already beating on a boat the bank of the bank, the bang,

right, and then it was already feeling up with water. Right,

So what was the designer was doing in the in the end that moment panicking?

I would imagine they were trying to scoop up water and throw it out

of the water. You're not trying to steer the ship back because there they

are fisherman, they should know what to do. Right, Let's go on

verse thirty eight. But he was in the stern. The stern is at

the back of the ship normally where the theato rota is the wheel. And

he was asleep on a pillow, and they awoke him and said to him,

teacher, do you not care? All right? He was asleep on

a pillow. This is where I started today earlier by saying, sometimes a

very scripture, we have to read it as it is. Have you ever

asked ourself a question? Why is Jesus asleep? Why is Jesus asleep?

Oh, Jesus asleep, so I should sleep too. No, Jesus asleep

because he's human. Lah, he's tired, La. He just went through

an entire day of preaching and sharing and praying for people. The people don't

know whether he wrestlprocate well as well, We don't know, but he had

to meet all kinds of people, right, right, he was just dire,

La, He was just tired. It just shows his humanity. Just

sws that he is really who he is, a man that gets tired.

We don't have to over spiritualize these kind of things, right, he just

gets tired. Then the disciples say to him, teacher, do you not

care that we are perishing? Wow? When I read this verse, right,

I was asking to myself, what's the what's the issue with the disciples

waking Jesus up? What's that the issue? Friends? Any any response?

What's that the issue? Sign my check? You know? Banging? Ready?

You know? No, at least my got no money? What's andra

you haven't sent me my check yet? Can you wake up and sign my

check? Please? Is that the issue? She did lay pay me for

ten months? Is that the issue? Is that? Is that right for

me to say I haven't really kept my salary for ten months? You?

Is that an issue? Let's try it again. You don't care what me?

Is it? Who is Jesus in your life? I'm going to get

fired tomorrow, teacher? Do you not care? I don't know how much

of you have been in this situation before. When we look to God and

we say these words, God, do you not care about where I am

in? God? Do you not care about the child I've lost? God?

Do you not care? Some of these issues are very real? Do

you not care? What the job that I've lost? Do you not care

about the people that are dying in Gaza? Really? How many of us,

all of us were at the keyboard the rate typing? Yeah you know

this israelies. God? Do you not care? But the babies that are

dying? God? Do you not care? I have asked this question before,

and I think that is the crux of the problem here. I think

that's the crux that led to Jesus rebuking the disciples, let's read on.

Then he arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace be

still, and the wind sees, and there was a great calm. You

know, in the Greek language. I'm not going to go into some Greek

study here, but the Greek language, and in the way it was written

verse thirty nine, there was an emphasized emphasis on the words suddenly. That

means, when Jesus rebuilt the wind, immediately the wind stopped. Immediately,

the wind sees, and there was a great calm out of the blue.

Out of the blue. It was as if the wind was obeying the word

of God, obeying his voice so much so that the disciples were able to

hear exactly what Jesus had to say to them in the boistious wind. How

can you hear what I have to say? It is as implicated. It's

as if creation knows who their creator is. And when Jesus rebuilt the wind,

it ceased verse forty. And here's the he gets beautiful. And when

late, I'm going to just illustrate something to you that came to me today

this yesterday, Verse forty. He said to them, why are you so

fearful? Why you wake me up? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Why? Why can't you handle this yourself? Is that? Oh?

Jesus was saying it. I was just wondering, is it is that?

Hell? Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no

faith? Ah? It's a very painful sentence to hear, right, you

know, especially when you're going through something with your loved one, Especially when

I'm going through something with my dad. Doctor going up to you and saying,

why are you so fearful? Of course I'm fearful. I'm going to

the problem, not you, right, you wait, you go to the

problem, You go to the problem. Yourself talk so much? How many

of us have said that before? How many of us have said it to

our others? Half before? You talk so much? You cleaner, you're

super nigh. There's the reason why you are supposed to clean and not her.

There's a reason why they were the fisherman and Jesus was not. There's

a reason why he was asleep because there is not his job. It's not

his job to steer the boat. He did his job already. Let him

sleep. Let the man sleep. To your part, why are you so

fearful? Why have you no faith? So I went to Greek where the

New Testone was written in, and I found out the word fearful. I'm

gonna share you in Greek the meaning of fearful. I have a slight I

think, can you put it up? Meaning a fearful in Greek? Here

we go de alius. De alius is fear in Greek means cowardly and timid.

All right, So when Jesus was saying why are you so fearful?

Jesus was saying, why are you so delious? Okay, following me so

far? Verse forty one. What happened after that? And they feared exceedingly?

The word feared exceedingly here is in Greek it's called phobio fore boss,

which is reverence to be seized with alarm. You are alarmed about it.

When this person walks into the room, when this person is in your midst,

there is an urgency. There is a reverence towards this person. When

Passsandra walks in the room, I hope you have respect for her because it's

just who she is. Right. When Albert walks in the room and he

is worship leading over here, I hope you are not over there saying I

heard this worship leader Laosian la cant a single la have some respect and what

more God? And when God is in your room, I hope that there

is that fear, not a fear there is cowardly and kimid. Oh my

God, I afraid that fear will come if you knew that you have sinned.

That's the fear that came upon Adam when he was hiding. There was

an exceedingly above all multiplied fear for the Lord. There was a reverence Verse

forty one. And they feared exceedingly and said to one another, who can

this be that even the wind and the sea obey him? Now, remember

where where we were was the disciples were in the boat, and they were

in a place where they were so scared. They were so coward the cowardice

was in their heart. And and remember these are not Tom Dick and Harrier.

This is disciples that were fishermen. About six or seven of them were

fishermen, and all of them in the boat at the same time. And

you are so scared. You may think that you have control over your life,

but there's something that may happen in your life that will bring you to

your knees. So scared of it. You're so fearful. And before me

I realized that it's family. It's family whenever someone gets sick, whenever loved

one gets especially with my dad in the past, I shed before. Uh,

you know, day in day out, sometimes speaching the word of God.

But suddenly when it happens to you, and when the reality hits you,

suddenly forgot to pray. You suddenly just rush the hospital immediately. Instead

of calming yourself that and saying, Lord help me, in my heart,

I'm uttering words like Lord, do you not care? I'm doing the work

for you theay in day out. But yet why is it that my dad,

my own dad? Why is it when I pray for you know,

teens and they get their big true? But where is my true? All

of this goes out of the window when it needs to be dealt with,

when it needs to be the main point in your life. The disciples were

going through a storm, and but how they ended this situation was that the

fear of the Lord was there in their life. They knew who God was,

They knew who Jesus is. The disciples knew that Jesus was the Messiah.

Already saw so many miracles that were performed by him, But did they

really know who Jesus was until that point. I believe that this was one

of the turning points in which they looked and they realized, Wow, yeah,

this is no joke. Jesus is in the boat. Jesus is in

my presence, Jesus is in my family, Jesus is in my situation.

Friends, my question to you is have you realized that Jesus is in your

seat situation? Because if Jesus is in your situation, all you have to

do is to cry out to him in moments of desperation, moments where nothing

else will, everything else feel, and nothing else seems to work. I

pray, and I pray that you remember that Jesus is there with you.

It is not wrong for the disciples to wake Jesus up. If the Disciples

were to wake Jesus up and say, Jesus, help, Lord, Help,

we tried everything already and we can't. We're still in this situation,

do you think Jesus will still say the same thing to the disciples. I

believe it's because of their lack of faith in who Jesus was. It's the

lack of faith that Jesus can move the mountains. Is the lack of faith

that Jesus is the ruler over the oceans, ruler over the seas, is

who he is, and in the world of God is very clear that God

is the one that commands the weather, that God is the one that commands

the world, That God is the one Paul Paul couldn't. If Paul could,

why why why why didn't he just stop the sea? Why didn't he

Why did the Angel of the Lord appear to poor and say, you gotta

wear that is out now? If the Lord Jesus Christ, you know,

has like given the power to the disciples to heal, that is because God

has given you the authority. But if you have not received the authority in

your life, stop stop trying to be God, friends, stop trying to

be God. I'm gonna give you some verses to back this up. God,

not men, commands and controls the weather. Remember Elijah, Remember when

he was asking for rain and he prayed. What did Elijah do? Elijah

prayed right after that? What happened? He waited? It was God that

brought the rain. Eli, like, you're only prayed Psalms sixty five,

verse five to eight. Can you turn your bible to Psalms sixty five,

verse five to eight, and we're gonna read XTV. Can you help me

with this Psalm sixty five, verse five to eight. I don't have to,

you have to turn to scripture. Right. Let's zoom in on verse

seven if possible. By awesome, yaya your confidence on all the ends of

the earth and file seas? Next verse, who established the mountains by his

strengths being closed with power? Next verse? You who's steal the noise of

the sea, the noise of the waves, and the tumult of the people.

You God, Who's steal the voice of the sea. Psalms eighty nine,

verse eight to nine. Can we have that lub as well? XTV?

Thank you so much. These are some verses that you can take down.

I hope that you. Verse eighteen, Chapter eighty nine, XTV,

Verse eight to nine, Oh Lord, God of holes, Who is mighty

like you? Oh Lord? This is one of those verses. Who is

mighty like you? Who? Who else about you? Who else about you?

Your faithfulness also surrounds you? Next verse? You rule the raging seas.

When its waves rises, you steal them? God steals the sea all

the while. Previously, before this, it was always I prayed and God

answered, Elijah, it was always, you know, the Angel of the

Lord appeared, and then I just follow his commanments. The disciples, you

have to understand that in the culture, in the Jewish culture, they were

very very very clear, and they know the Torah, they know the Old

Testament, they know the Word of God, and some of them even know

it by heart right because back then there's no physical Bible. They're all in

scrolls. Job thirty eight. This is a chapter. When I read this,

I go like, oh, God, you're just you're just showing off

who you are. Really in a good way. You are just showing off

your authority, your power. Okay, Job thirty eight. Job thirty eight

is filled with job can you do this? Can you do this? Can

you do this? Can you do this? Can you do this? I

can do this? Can you do this? I can do this? Can

you do this? I can do this? You read Job thirty eight,

the whole chapter is that he's just just just every single thing in job thirty

eight was like that can you do this? Only God can do this?

And in Job thirty eight there is a first that says that only God can

steal the waters. So, friends, when the disciples saw Jesus, peace,

peace, do you Jesus didn't even pray. No, Jesus just commanded

the waters. Jesus commanded the wind to stop, and the wind stopped.

In that moment. I believe the disciples understood who this person is. This

person is God. Have you realized that God is there in your life,

walking with you? Said? Step by step? The Holy Spirit is God.

Yes, Jesus physically may not be here anymore, but He has sent

the Holy Spirit to be each and every one of us. Have we realized

that reality? Because if we are watering down the Holy Spirit, guys,

and if we are only like you know, oh, Jesus, Jesus,

Jesus, Yes, the there's power in it, Jesus, but there's also

power in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is there with you. And

are we aware of this? Psalms eighteen, Verse fifteen, Psalms one oh

four seven one oh six' nine, Isaiah fifty two, now Home one

four. All of these are verses that supports that only God controls the weather,

and Jesus himself controlled the weather. Jesus himself rebuilt the wind there was

a sudden realization of who Jesus is. Before I close, I'm just going

to share with you some questions that I asked myself and relate to the disciples.

First question, what was wrong with the fear of the disciples? Oh's

wrong? Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no

faith? Could it be that there was a promise meth and regardless of what

happened, all is well and just believe? Could that be what the disciples

should have done instead of being fearful? Remember early on we started March apter

fall by saying we will cross over to the other side. There was an

instruction given, all's going to be well, just have faith. Yeah,

possibly, but it was highly It was slightly a bit hard to apply in

my life because the Word of God did not promise me that I would be

delivered from each and every one of my tribulations and my trials. I do

not know if you know you can you can share me? Is there a

scripture that backs that up? In my personal life? I know of a

certain word, the Word of the Lord, that I can hold onto.

I'm going to share with you today, men, my two eleven come to

me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will

give you rests. He did not say that the burden will go away.

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously. And he

will give you everything that you need. He says, everything that you need,

not everything that you want. John Itid, remain faithful to my teachings,

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

It's the truth that is revealed to you. Whether the truth it's about

your situation, and actually the real problem it's you that would be revealed to

you. Maybe the real problem you are in this trial and this tribulations because

you have not been obedient to the voice of the Lord. Maybe it's because

Jesus has commanded you to do something through the world of God and you have

not obeyed. Maybe that's why your big truth has not come. And the

truth will set you free, John Itid, Remember John fourteen, A place

prepared for me. There's a place. Don't let your hearts be troubled.

Trust in God and also in me. Trust in God and also in me

whatever state that I am, to be content, and I can do all

things through Christ, who strengthens me Philippines. For these are versus that I

can hold on too. Could it be here's another question that maybe y'all can

reflect on. Could it be to believe on God? Believe in God regardless

of peril. Now, I'd like to share with you that this is something

that I caught out of this scripture, to believe in God regardless of peril.

You know, use this for a while. When he tries to illustrate

something, we're close, you know, by it says that the heart is

deceit for right, the heart is really just something that you shouldn't rely on

the feelings, the emotions that will come your way. What should what should

the disciples to do? What should I do? What should we do?

Okay? So when when when when the Bible says about the heart, And

when the Bible says that the heart is deceived for what does it actually mean?

I believe that when you're listening to yourself, when you're putting yourself above

everything else, that is what would change your path, that was what would

lead you to destruction. And the heart is in the center of that all.

Your heart for a better life, your heart for a better wife,

your heart for a better husband, your heart for a better job. When

things are I'm not talking about when things are all fancy nice and what you

know. I'm talking about when things are really, really really bad. Things

are bad. And how you can control this heart is by hearing the word

of God. All right, So that's the only way you can control and

keep his heart in check is when you depend on the Cross. Jesus is

the center. Without Jesus, without this word, without God in your life,

all you're going to do is to continue to hear things that you shouldn't

be hearing, things that are not of the spirit, things that will only

lead you to destruction. Friends, I would like to encourage you that as

the disciples were on the board, as the disciples, but in the storm,

as you are in the storms of your life, are you angering it

on who Jesus is? Are you angering it on the Cross? Because if

you're not, you're just going to continue to go on this path that will

only lead to destruction. You know, in John chapter one, verse one,

how y'all know this my heart right now in the beginning, in the

beginning, Come on, y'all notice in the beginning and the word with God,

and the word was The Word of God is what you should be in

booing a life in not one chapter, but the Word of God. This

Cross is the word of God. Stop trying to cherry pick which verse applies

to your life. But know the Word of God for who he is.

And I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you everything will be answered when

it really go away. Do good people die? Yes, we just lost

a very well known bust who is a shepherd of many. He died.

How to tackt death comes after us all, but as we anchoring it on

the cross, and as we are hearing the cross, as we hear the

word of God, remember what God? Remember what Jesus said to the disciples.

Why are you so fearful? Where is your faith? Where's your faith?

Friends? Where's your faith? Daniel? Where's your faith that God will

wolve mountains for you? Where is it? Because faith comes by faith comes

by hearing. Faith comes by hearing hearing the word of God. And as

you hear the word of God, you will God your heart. I'm going

to introduce you another term. All right, do you all know the word?

Do you know this word Russ? Is it the beautiful thing Russ?

Do you like russ in your life if you try to wash it right,

if you try to scrape it and scrap it and scrape it. But if

you do not try it, well, it's just going to come back and

back again. Right. Without the cross, your life will continue to russ.

But with the Cross you will begin to trust. You see it.

You have to trust on the Cross. Friends, you have to trust in

the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding,

and in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall I read your path.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and not your understanding on

how to steer the boat, and on your own understanding on how to fish

out the water. But trust in the Lord with all your heart. The

disciples had to trust in the Lord with all their heart. That was what

was lacking. There was what was lacking. The faith in who Jesus is

was lacking in my life. That is the same as well. The faith

was lacking. The trust wasn't there, and all was left is the junk.

All was left is the trust, the rust that will only destroy who

I meant to be. So, friends, as you hear the Cross,

and as the Cross continue to lead you to trust, in who he is.

I pray that each and every one of you will understand the reality of

Jesus Christ and who is that person in your book Job twenty two, verse

twenty one to twenty two, and the New Living Translation says, to submit

to God and you will have peace. Submit to God that you will have

peace. Listen to His instructions and store them in your in your the hertest

deceitful friends, But if you rely on the cross, if you put Jesus

in your heart, if you'll continue to live that way, nothing will be

impossible that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is

not amen. I pray, and I pray that today. If you don't

catch anything else, I wasn't preparing a message that had three four five main

points. My one and only point is Jesus Christ is Lord. Jesus Christ

is Lord. As you come into a place where you are on fire to

share that all may know, I pray that you know first that Jesus Christ

is Lord in your life, in your situation. Put Jesus first above everything

else. Let him guide and lead your waist. And I'm going to share

you one final thought before we close. That will make or break it all.

This will really make or break it all. All right, all right,

I'm gonna you know which story this is about, Daniel Tree Verse seventeen.

Daniel Tree Verse seventeen was a story about three friends, three young guys

named Schedra, Michek, and Ebenegal, and the story goes along the line

of this, then my God will deliver me. My God will deliver me.

He will. But even if he does not, I will not bow

down. We will not bow down. Friends in your life, I don't

know how many of you are looking for the first part of Daniel Tree seventeen.

How many of you will only move if the first part of Daniel Tree

seventeen happens in your life. The story of even if he does not is

very important. Even if he does not, even if I die in that

storm, Jesus Christ is still Lord. Even if my race is over,

Jesus Christ is still Lord. I hope this encourages you. We hope you've

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