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Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Jul 08, 2019
7 - 8 –19 Monday
Ever tell someone your problems and they play them off like they are no big deal…
Who does this guy think he is?
”WHO DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS”
MT.8:23-27
23 Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples. 24 Suddenly, a terrible storm came up, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 25 The disciples went to him and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”
26 And Jesus answered, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he stood up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly all was calm. 27The disciples just sat there in awe. “Who is this?” they asked themselves. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”
The disciples lived with Jesus, but they underestimated him.
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They did not see that his power applied to their very own situation.
Jesus Spirit (the HS) has been in us for 20 centuries, and yet we, like the disciples, underestimate his power to handle crises in our lives.
*The disciples did not yet know enough about Jesus.
- We cannot make the same excuse. We have his word, his testimony and the stories of his miracles and signs and wonders.
*and we probably know of people personally who have experienced his power and miracles.
Up to this point the disciples have been with Jesus but have only seen him do miracles with healing people. OTHER PEOPLE NOT THEM!
This is the first time we see him do something as a “sign or wonder” with nature.
This would have been a fishing boat because many of Jesus’ disciples were fishermen. Josephus, an ancient historian, wrote that there were usually more than 300 fishing boats on the Sea of Galilee at one time. This boat was large enough to hold Jesus and his 12 disciples and was powered both by oars and sails. During a storm, however, the sails were taken down to keep them from ripping and to make the boat easier to control.
The Sea of Galilee is an unusual body of water. It is relatively small (13 miles long, 7 miles wide), but it is 150 feet deep, and the shoreline is 680 feet below sea level. Sudden storms can appear over the surrounding mountains with little warning, stirring the water into violent 20-foot waves.
The disciples had not foolishly set out in a storm. They had been caught without warning, and their danger was great.
You didn’t try to get caught in the storm… you didn’t do anything to deserve this… but God can still move in that situation.
Although the disciples had witnessed many miracles, they panicked in this storm. As experienced sailors, they knew its danger;
*sometimes we try to tell God just how impossible things are… and just how bad things are… wait a second, that’s satans job. God already knows it’s possible.
(what they did not know was that Christ could control the forces of nature.) We often encounter storms in our life, where we feel God can’t or won’t work.
WELL I REMEMBER WHEN BOB WENT THROUGH THIS AND HE LOST EVERYTHING
I REMEMBER WHEN LARRY WENT THROUGH THIS AND HE DIED OF CANCER
I REMEMBER WHEN JOSE WENT THROUGH THIS AND HIS WIFE LEFT HIM…
When we truly understand who God is, however, we will realize that he controls both the storms of nature and the storms of the troubled heart. Jesus’ power that calmed this storm can also help us deal with the problems we face. Jesus is willing to help if we only ask him. We should never discount his power even in terrible trials.
The disciples panicked because the storm threatened to destroy them all, and Jesus seemed unaware and unconcerned.
THIS PROBLEM WAS NOT A PROBLEM AT ALL TO JESUS.
DO YOU THINK SOMETIMES THE PROBLEMS WE SEE GOD JUST SHAKES HIS HEAD AND SAYS “REALLY… YOU THINK THAT IS A PROBLEM”?
Ye of little faith is really meant to be “after all you have seen you don’t have any faith? At least you should of anybody have faith!”
They ask Jesus to save them, yet are amazed when he actually does? Why?
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