Water Walking 101

0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.640 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.120 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.520 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.880 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:27.200 Welcome to class. We're starting a We're starting a brand 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.240 new school. I know a lot of kids aren't going 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.520 back to the classroom in August here where we live. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.120 So I thought today, since I have the opportunity to 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.000 teach the word, go ahead and bring my materials please, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.680 I'm going to teach you a lesson today. This is 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.319 more than a sermon. This is a class and the 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.600 title of the class. Are you ready? Are you ready? 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:58.880 Are you ready? I don't think you are. Come on 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.720 in the chat ready now. I can't teach you how 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.720 to cook. I can't teach you how to speak Spanish. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.199 I can't teach you any of that. I can't teach 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.959 you CrossFit. I can't teach you hot yoga. I can't 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.880 teach you any of that. But today I want to 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.000 teach a class. I want to teach a class, and 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.600 I need to know who's Who's present. Let's have a 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:28.800 roll call. Puts your name and your city, and the 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:37.959 chat say present, present, present, present, Get your number two pencils. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:50.880 Welcome to water Walking one oh what are you ready? Amen? 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.880 Those of you in the room remain standing water Walking 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.360 one on one. I thought we would get a jump 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.880 on the school year and see what God would teach 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.720 us today about the situations in our life that He 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.520 has placed us over. And I just declare over your 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.839 life today. Give me my camera. I'm looking at You're 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:20.800 not going under. You're not going under. You are not 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:39.080 going under. I declar it not going under. And so 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.200 consider this your introductory class water Walking one oh one. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.280 Our syllabus is from Matthew Chapter fourteen, verses twenty two 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.320 through thirty three. I want you to find that in 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:58.720 your Bible. This scripture is the first scripture that I 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.080 ever preached on Yesterday I showed some of our staff. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.080 Or it was earlier this week actually that I showed 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.160 some of our staff. Not yesterday, it was earlier this week. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.320 I showed some of our staff. The second sermon that 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:16.240 I ever preached in the Woodmen of the World building Wow, Wow, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.320 walk on water. And this is the first sermon I 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.960 ever preached at Monk's Corner United Methodist Church for Youth Sunday. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.640 Shout out to my mom who brought me up in church. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.720 Shout out to the poor people who endured my first sermon. Now, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.160 the beauty of the Methodist Church is the sermon is 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:39.080 only twelve minutes, so if it sucks, it's mercifully short. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.839 It's not like it is now where I don't even 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:46.160 have a time clock because there's nobody coming in later. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.760 I'm just recording the message with a few staff in 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:55.520 the room who are socially distanced. But the horrible thing 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.240 was I did not know the basics of preaching. Maybe 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.800 you'd say, well that hasn't changed. Well, you may be 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.120 right about that, but back then I didn't even know 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.760 that you should practice or sermon before you preach it. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.800 And I got up there with like twelve note cards 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.640 and I thought each note card would take a minute. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.320 My whole sermon was done in two minutes. And I 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.919 cycled back through the cards and said the same stuff again, 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.680 and that that polite home crowd love got me through it. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.320 It's a wonder I ever did it again. But this 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.400 is the passage that I preached my first sermon from. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.720 And so sometimes it's good to go back to basics. Okay, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.240 everybody wants to use basic as a slang term these days, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.159 you know, and she's basic. It's basic. Well, what's so 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:47.200 bad about basic? Sometimes I need to go back to 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.120 the basics of faith, and this passage really helps me 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.039 do that for all those who are needing God to 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.280 get you over a situation that you feel like has 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.320 overwhelmed you. The Bible says, immediately Jesus made the disciples 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.560 get into the boat and go on ahead of him 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.200 to the other side while he dismissed the crowd. After 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.200 he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountain 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.240 side by himself to pray, and later that night he 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.839 was there alone. We talked about that a few weeks ago, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:22.039 didn't we We talked about lonely places, and Jesus chose 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.880 the lonely place so that you and I could experience 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.160 him in the loneliest seasons of our life. Now, Jesus 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.160 sent the disciples out into the boat. The Bible says 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.120 it was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.920 the waves because the wind was against it, and shortly 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:46.840 before dawn, Jesus went out to them walking on the lake. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.119 So here's our instructor for the class. Here comes walking 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.080 on water, just right into your situation. The Bible says 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.360 when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.559 were terrified. Ghosts, they said, and cried out in fear. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.520 But Jesus immediately said to them, take courage it is I. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:20.920 Don't be afraid. And then Teeter, Jesus star pupil, that 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.600 one kid in the class who always wants to ask 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.880 another question, says Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.359 me to come to you on the water. Come, he said, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.320 And Peter got down out of the boat walked on 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:40.320 the water. Wow. Everybody say wow in the chat. Wow. Wow. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.760 He walked on water and came toward Jesus. But when 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.400 he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink. 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.240 He cried out, Lord, save me. Immediately Jesus reached out 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.520 his hand and caught him, You of little faith, He said, 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.920 why did you doubt? And they climbed into the boat. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.719 The wind died down, and then those who were in 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.479 the boat worshiped him, saying, truly you are the son 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.600 of God. Lord. We thank you for your word today, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.400 and we thank you that it transcends time, space and geography. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.600 We ask you, now, Lord, that in this moment in 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.040 our life, that our hearts would be still in your 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.400 presence so that we can hear your word and move 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.240 toward your purpose. I thank you for each person that 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.840 you brought to this sermon today. I believe they're here 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.480 for a reason. I believe you're calling and drawing. I 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.240 thank you that you are on the scene and help 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.640 us on the way. Bring forth your word in our hearts. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.560 May it bud and flourish, prosper and do what you 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.800 sent it to do in Jesus' name. Hey man, come on, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.960 let's clap our hands and thank God for his word. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.960 Those of you in the room be seated. I worked 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:08.720 up a thirst. Can you thank you? Holli holiferdic everybody, Chris. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.040 But this is about the only way I know how 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:18.760 to walk on water that works. The simple stuff works. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:24.600 Simple stuff works in my life. I've read this text 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:30.640 so many times, but I fear that sometimes we skim 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.440 what God wants us to plunge into. And in our 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.880 syllabus today there are a few details, you're not going 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:43.120 to believe this. I actually have real points to dis sermon. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.959 So every note taker who has ever been frustrated by 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.080 my abstract mode of teaching is going to be in 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:57.160 heaven today because I at least have six thoughts from 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:03.920 this passage water walk one oh one, and I might 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.800 put in a seventh for extra credit if God blesses 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.360 us with the time. But I noticed that a lot 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.480 of times, when we get in a situation like these 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.480 disciples were in, and maybe like you're in right now 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.199 with your job, or maybe like you're in right now 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.680 trying to figure out what to do with your family, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.080 those kids, your quiver is full right now, how many 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.400 of y'all? Your quiver is full, and your quiver is 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:34.400 of to be quite honest, your quiver is quivering, little 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:39.840 Bible humor there quivering. And when we find ourselves in 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.680 these situations, there is a tendency to blame. You know. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.760 The disciples like to fight and like to argue with 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.320 one another any chance they got. But yet the storm 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.360 brought them together in a unique way. In Matthew chapter fourteen, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.880 trials sometimes tighten our focus, and so one thing we 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.000 I don't see in this storm is Peter and John 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.040 going back and forth, or Andrew and Bartholomew talking about 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.600 who's rowing the hardest. They just need to make it 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.880 through the storm. But what really got my attention was 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.880 a detail that I must have skimmed over. Like I mentioned, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.160 and today since we're in class, I want to study 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.120 it a little more deeply, is that blame doesn't get 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:30.480 you through a storm. And the detail I noticed in 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.320 verse twenty two presented on the screen for me again, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.720 it said that Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:45.120 Jesus made the disciples get into the boat. You know 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.840 how people say the devil made me do it. Jesus 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.800 made the disciples get into the boat. He didn't ask them, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.280 he didn't recommend, he didn't suggest, And now it would 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.280 be one thing if he didn't know. But he's of 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.760 God with all wisdom. So how did the one with 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.880 all wisdom send them into something that threatened their life? 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.439 I want you to write down point number one in 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.280 the class and put it in the chat. Certain storms 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:19.240 are unavoidable. I just need you to know that certain storms. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.720 You know what I mean by storm, right, It's not 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:27.040 always physical. Sometimes there can be an emotional storm. Sometimes 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.960 there can be a psychological storm. Sometimes there can be 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.079 a relational storm. You know, these storms we get into 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.199 sometimes we are so busy trying to figure out how 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.120 to get out of them that we expend all the 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.600 energy that we could have spent trying to learn what 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:54.480 God wants us to learn through the storm. There's two 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.760 ways to get through the storm, and one is as 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.440 a survivor. And how many know iss good? Just to 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.160 celebrate that you're still here in case you had a 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:08.760 bad week, I'm gonna give you fifteen unscripted seconds to 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:14.600 praise God for the storms that you have survived. And 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.040 you can sit there cute if it's been sunny in 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:24.000 your neighborhood. But if you survived some depression, and if 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.320 you thought you were going down but you made it, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:35.679 say given praise. To survive the storm is a miracle. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.599 To survive abuse is a miracle. To survive an economy 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.840 that is falling apart, but God provided is a miracle. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.360 But then God God says you can be a survivor. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.120 But then if you want to, there are certain people 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.640 that they decide I'm not just gonna be a survivor. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:13:00.400 I'm gonna be a student of the storm. I am 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:06.080 learning to learn from the storm. I am learning to 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.000 learn from the storm. The thing about it is there 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.040 are certain things that I can only learn in storms. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.439 And the second thing that I want to point out 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.800 to you in the text is that God's timing is 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:31.960 designed to teach you to trust. When Jesus, who made 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.760 the disciples, get into the boat, the Bible says that 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.640 when he decided to reveal himself to them was just 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:44.960 before dawn. If the goal that God has is to 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:51.880 comfort us, then this is a late appearance. But if 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.720 God's goal is sometimes to change us, then it makes 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.880 sense that he would show up late. Once one a time, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.320 I taught a sermon called Trusting God's Timing, and the 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.440 idea behind it is that when we're experiencing something and 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:13.560 it's very intense, we just want relief. And I get that. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.640 I mean, I'd be lying if I didn't tell you 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.960 that there were times that I just wanted God to 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.560 make stuff stop. And I just want to check with 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.040 you real quick. Have you ever just wanted God to 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:31.320 make it stop? Just make it stop. Just make it stop, God. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.280 I'll do anything, Just make it stop. God, I'm sorry 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.240 about that thing I did when I was in seventh grade. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.920 Just make it stop. And I mean, it can be 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.040 a heartbreak, it can be a lot of times a 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.280 loss in your life and you just feel like you're 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.760 hemorrhaging and hurting God. Just make it stop. In the 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.760 King James version of Matthew chapter fourteen, it says that 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.400 it was the fourth watch of the night when Jesus 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.520 came to them. That's the very last one. That's three 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.720 am to six am, the fourth watch. And yet, interestingly enough, 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.280 the Bible says he went on a mountain to pray. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.160 I've actually been to this site. And when our guide 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.400 took us to show us the mountain that Jesus might 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.080 have prayed on, do you remember how he left us 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.280 up there for a moment. And he really tricked us 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.840 because when he left us up there, he was designing 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.000 to show us that the seed that the disciples were 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.520 straining in was visible to Jesus from his prayer station 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.640 the whole time. And he said, just because they didn't 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:45.160 see Jesus didn't mean Jesus didn't see them. Zero point two, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.080 Part B. This won't be on the test just because 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.240 I don't see him doesn't mean he's not watching me. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.960 And he left us up there on the mountain. He 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.120 left us up there for an hour. The guy we 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.360 went to Israel, and I cried about the times of 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.480 my life where I thought he had left me. The 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:14.520 Fourth Watch, the fourth Watch. The first Watch isn't so bad, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.560 Second Watch, third Watch. I feel like we're in a 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.040 moment right now, at least in our nation. I don't 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.080 know exactly what it's like in your country. It feels 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.160 kind of like the Fourth Watch right now for a 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.320 lot of us, not for all of us. The novelty 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:36.400 has worn off of everything. Oh when we first started 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.400 going into quarantine, I was like, well, this is kind 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.480 of cool. You know, life's slowing down a little bit. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:49.600 We have a little more family time. Yeah, my quiver 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:56.400 is full now. I've had enough family time to last 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.520 me till my daughter is forty and she's nine right now, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:10.359 and I love my kids. Well, how about fourth watch? Faith? See, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.840 I've seen a lot of people with first Watch faith, 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:19.000 second Watch faith, Third Watch faith. But God's timing is 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:24.639 not designed to give us relief. So if it's not 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.000 designed to give you relief, what's it designed to give you? 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:42.600 Revelation curse. I'm a run a lad. I'll be right back. Hey, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.960 I know y'all can't see me, but if you can 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:54.879 hear me, shout that just because you can't see him 0:17:55.119 --> 0:18:01.159 doesn't mean he left you. Come on, I what's on 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:08.160 the book? The whole time, he's watching you. He's watching you, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:22.760 he's watching you, He's guiding me, he's leading me. So 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.720 it's interesting that God's timing. You know, our timing is 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.639 usually allocated around when we think God should do things, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.720 and then we start. The longer it goes, this is 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.600 just in my life. Okay, So you know, please send 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.320 me a critical email if you found God to be 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:49.159 different in your experience contradicts what I'm saying. I found 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:56.240 that the longer I wait, the louder my what ifs get. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.080 But the third thing I wanted to tell you in 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.200 water Walking one O one? Are you enjoying the class 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.040 so far? Now? This is the point in the semester 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.320 where you need to cancel if you want to drop 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.680 the class. This is the last point to cancel. Okay, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.199 if you're still in, say i'm in, I'm in, I'm in, 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.560 I'm in. I want to teach you something very powerful. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.080 And this is what I really want to teach you about. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:33.320 What if works both ways. The wind was against them, 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:39.320 the word was for them, and what if works both ways. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.399 So when we get into hypothetical situations, the longer that 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.080 we wait on God to change certain situations. And once again, 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.840 how many are there right now? And maybe you even 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.479 feel like you're drowning in what you don't know and 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.439 you've analyzed it and there's a certain element of it 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.639 you can't control. Because the devil didn't start this storm. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.800 Jesus sent them directly into it. So a lot of 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:03.760 us we would turn around at this point and say, well, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.359 maybe we didn't hear him right, But they pressed to 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:11.520 the other side because watch this are you are you awake? 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.479 What if there's something on the other side that is 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:21.520 worth going through the storm for it? Ah, I feel 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:28.840 the spirit of God. Is it just me? Or or 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.480 or or? Or? Is it harder sometimes for us to 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.879 give faith to the what if than it is to 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.159 give fear to the what if? And just like the 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.919 wind blows, you know, the wind can blow in either direction, 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.600 so can the what ifs. And a lot of times 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:50.600 in my life I've learned that fear is just faith 0:20:51.280 --> 0:21:02.639 in the wrong. What if so watch this? What if 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:09.879 we fail? What if we don't. We're here with a 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.040 lot of our staff. We had some training, and I 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.320 asked them to stay around and help me preach to you. 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:17.560 And we told some of the stories, but we didn't 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:19.600 tell all the stories about when we started the church. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.280 Hollywood was reminding me of one the other day where 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.960 just as soon as we went to start the church, 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.440 the resources that were supposed to be given for our 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:36.800 salary were pulled back. And then somebody else was going 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.640 to pay our insurance and that got pulled back. Now, 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.760 if my faith in God was contingent upon the conditions, 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.080 I would have taken that as a sign that God 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:54.240 didn't speak to me to start the church. But if 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:58.560 the wind is proof that what's on the other side 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:04.480 is so significant that you have to push through to 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:10.760 get there, a lot of us we interpret the wind 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:16.280 as an indication that we should turn back around and 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:21.159 head home. But in this particular situation, Jesus said, I 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.960 want you to go to the other side. Now Here 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.400 comes the wind. That represents resistance for you, That may 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.960 represent depression for you, that might represent anxiety. We all 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.439 go through different storms, and as I've talked from this 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.560 pulpit before, comparing the size of your storm to my storm, 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.639 and the significance of my storm to your storm, storm 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:46.280 serves no purpose. The greatest thing about the passage is 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:52.000 that Peter didn't even really express faith. He just considered possibility. 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:59.000 And I'm going to show you this. He didn't say, Lord, 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:04.720 I know it's you tell me to come. He said, Lord, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:18.240 if if, if? If? What if? What if works both ways? 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.040 What if can make you give up? What if can 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.240 make you freak out? Or what if can make you 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:32.160 step forward? And yet I want you to notice something 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.000 Jesus did. Are you ready? This is where it gets good. 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.639 This is where it gets good. He said, if this, 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:45.080 you give me a word. And Jesus took him really literally. 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:55.920 He gave him one word, one word, one word, one word. 0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:02.600 Did you see it in the text? Come? Yo? I 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:06.480 had at chihuahua. That's how we talk to the dog. 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:13.119 Jesus talked to Peter like I talked to yo yo. 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:18.200 That that was the dog's name, Yo Yo. This is 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:21.080 a confession. I had a chihuahua named Yoga yo Yo 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:26.639 Yogo yo yo Yo Yo yo we would say, come, stay, 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:30.040 stuff like that. Jesus talked to Peter like I talked 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:32.320 to yo yo. And here's why I think, all right, 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:35.600 you don't know what this makes me think that sometimes 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.840 the deepest things that God speaks will also be the simplest, 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:49.080 because sometimes we can we can confuse deep with confusing. 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:55.080 And I noticed a lot of times I would rather 0:24:55.200 --> 0:25:02.840 learn something new than practice something old. Some of the 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:06.959 deepest things that God will speak will be so simple, 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:13.400 like come, okay, Well, Jesus, I was expecting a little more. 0:25:14.080 --> 0:25:17.320 I never walked on water before. You're gonna give me 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:21.400 any pointers? Yeah, anymore, like a little bit of coaching, 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:24.760 like should I go? Should I put all my weight 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:27.080 on one foot? And you gotta remember, we read these 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:29.119 Bible stories and we just compare walking on water to 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:34.240 pay in our bills. He was walking on water. We 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:38.080 making mean whenever we want changing a tire, walking on water, right, 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:45.680 Peter is transcending the laws of buoyancy. And yet Jesus 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:54.320 does not give him details, just direction. So if God 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:58.920 hasn't given you details right now, ask him for direction instead. 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.119 Some of the biggest words God ever spoke to me 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.800 in my life were just directions impressions in my spirit. 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:09.480 Can I share one with you? Here's one. Sometimes God 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:11.320 will speak to me and they tell me go say 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:18.000 I'm sorry, Like, well, Lord, I I would rather do 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:23.000 a Bible study on forgiveness. You see how sometimes we 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.919 want something deep so we don't have to do anything 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:31.080 with it. I've been guilty in seasons of my life 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:36.560 at highlighting my Bible right, But at the same time 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:39.359 I was highlighting my Bible, I wasn't even willing to 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:43.879 embrace the simplest habits like gratitude. I know in my 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:48.040 life that being grateful is the greatest way for me 0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:51.120 to have joy. So why is it the hardest thing 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:55.439 to do? Because it's so simple? See right now in 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:58.320 this season, maybe we need to simplify what God is 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:02.320 speaking to us to understand everything. Some of us have 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:05.600 so complicated what we need from God to move forward 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:10.120 in faith. But all he said was come. Sometimes all 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:13.720 he'll say to you is is peace. Sometimes all he'll 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:16.439 say to you is law. Sometimes all he'll say to 0:27:16.480 --> 0:27:20.320 you is forgive. And I found out that sometimes God 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:26.840 will not give the details, He'll simply set the direction. Wow, 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:32.359 all right, come, Wow, you really took me literally there 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:36.960 if this youth tell me to come, come. Oh man, 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:40.760 God was speaking to me studying this. He said, you 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:44.960 know how you want confirmation to obey me sometimes? You know, 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:47.119 like God, I'll do it if you give me a sign, 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:50.120 give me a sign that I'm supposed to do it. Yeah, 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:51.440 and you know you're supposed to do it to something 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:53.159 you know you're supposed to do anyway, God, give me 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:55.199 a sign and i'll tie. Give me a sign, and 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:57.119 you know you're always supposed to do it. You know 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:05.560 you're to do it. God said, the command is the confirmation. Well, God, 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:09.359 I don't know if I can. I wouldn't have told 0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:13.440 you to come if you couldn't let me bring this home. 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:18.040 I wouldn't have made you his father if I wouldn't 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:23.440 enable you to raise him. So, when I don't feel 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:28.000 like i'm enough, I realize if God gave it to me, 0:28:28.600 --> 0:28:31.159 he put it in me. He put it in me. 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:36.240 So when he said come, when he gave the command, 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:41.760 he also supplied the strength for me to step on 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:51.120 step out. Yes, Lord, I can do it, Yes Lord, 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.760 I can make it. You wouldn't have told me to 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:58.479 preach if you wouldn't enable me to preach. You wouldn't 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:01.000 have told me. The same voice that told him to 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:03.880 come would be the same word that would enable him 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:09.960 to do it. So I don't need any more confirmation 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:17.719 but that he told me to Wow. But Lord, are 0:29:17.760 --> 0:29:22.440 there any sub points like come? Come? Is the Roman 0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:25.800 numeral one? Right, there's a class, right, all right? So 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:31.160 come left foot first, right, Well, show me how to 0:29:31.200 --> 0:29:37.440 do it. Come, and Peter did, which is what makes 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:42.960 the next part really weird. I mean really weird. I'm 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:46.240 gonna lose some of y'all here because it's really weird. 0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:52.040 How many disciples y'all answered so slow, like it was 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:56.600 a trick, like I was gonna go deep on you. Well, actually, 0:29:56.600 --> 0:29:59.080 we're all disciples of the Lord, so as actually are 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:03.640 more than twelve. It's twelve in the boat that day. 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:09.480 How many disciples? Twelve disciples? Let's don't put Judas in 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:15.560 eleven disciples that didn't suck. Eleven sincere disciples and Judas 0:30:16.360 --> 0:30:19.320 all going to the other side. Now there's an assignment 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:21.960 on the other side. Everybody say, there's an assignment on 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.480 the other side. Come on, say it right now. In 0:30:24.520 --> 0:30:26.160 the chat, there's an assignment on the other side. There's 0:30:26.160 --> 0:30:27.960 an assignment on the other side. There's an assignment on 0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:30.320 the other side. But God is weird because he gives 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:37.680 the test before the lesson. They don't even know what's 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:41.120 on the other side, and neither do you. Neither to you, 0:30:42.120 --> 0:30:44.560 none of us do what's on the other side of 0:30:44.560 --> 0:30:47.960 what we're currently going through. I told our staff today 0:30:47.960 --> 0:30:50.120 our new church logo. It used to be one of these. 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:54.000 Now it's a question mark. That's our new church logo, 0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:57.640 were we're gonna open all the buildings a question mark. 0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:04.680 And yet at the same time, I love how Peter 0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:09.080 of all the eleven and Judice Peter was on I 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:11.240 had the faith to step out, and I get with 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:17.040 that because you know, do it big, you know, do 0:31:17.160 --> 0:31:21.680 it big. You're gonna do it? Do you know? Go big? 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:25.280 Peter this year, tell me come come. So he makes 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:30.800 this big move and the Bible doesn't say how long 0:31:30.840 --> 0:31:35.160 he walked on the water. He must have made it 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:36.880 pretty far. And I'm gonna tell you why I think 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:40.200 this consider with me. They couldn't see Jesus up close 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:42.200 enough to know whether it was a ghost or really Jesus. 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:44.320 He needed to hear him to know. The only way 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:46.400 that they heard the word was the wind carried it. 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:48.560 The wind that was against the disciples carried the voice 0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:50.480 of Jesus. Some of the things that are against you 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:59.040 will enable you to hear God more clearly. But the 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:03.480 other thing is when Peter fell. The Bible says a 0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:06.160 word that started the passage as well, and you can 0:32:06.200 --> 0:32:08.520 look this up. In verse twenty two. It says immediately 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.680 Jesus made them get in the boat to the other side. 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:13.920 And then it says that when Peter got out of 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:18.160 the boat, everybody say, big move Immediately when he started 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:20.840 to sink, Jesus grabbed me. It doesn't say he fell immediately. 0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:23.480 It says that as soon as he started to fall, 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:30.600 Jesus called him. Now, when Peter fell, and Jesus called 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:33.760 him immediately. The next thing Jesus said is something that 0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:37.479 he said a few times in scripture. He said, you 0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:44.360 of little faith. That offended me. If anybody deserves to 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:52.440 be called little faith, it's Judas. You're going to single 0:32:52.480 --> 0:32:58.120 out Peter. And that bothered me that he called that 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.840 little faith. I mean, if you think it's little faith, 0:33:01.840 --> 0:33:07.440 you go do it. When someone says, ah, that sermon's 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:09.120 pretty good, it wasn't your best. I'm like, will you 0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:13.080 preach one, I'll go listen to yours. I'll go listen 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:16.680 to your best one. Preach your best one. You do it, 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:20.040 you know. I just think you need to be more 0:33:20.080 --> 0:33:22.000 patient with your kids. Good. I'll send them over to 0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:23.520 you and you can give them the patience I haven't 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:26.320 been giving them lately. You do it, That's what I 0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:30.160 was thinking. So I sat with it because last week 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:33.480 I preached about little did you hear that sermon? Take 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:37.920 the lid off a little? And the whole phrase got me, 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:42.360 You of little faith, and I thought, well, we're all 0:33:42.640 --> 0:33:49.000 doomed if he thinks that's little I mean, it's all 0:33:49.080 --> 0:33:52.080 I can do to get in a five minute prayer 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:54.520 time right now and not get distracted and start checking 0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:57.880 my phone. So if that's what he thinks is little faith, 0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:01.920 I'm definitely not making it to heaven if that's little faith. 0:34:09.000 --> 0:34:11.600 But the phrase you of little faith doesn't necessarily refer 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:21.879 to quantity. It refers to quality. So it's not how 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:32.840 much faith, it's how far faith. Little faith it doesn't 0:34:32.880 --> 0:34:38.080 mean that it wasn't strong. It means that it wasn't sustained. 0:34:41.960 --> 0:34:44.960 So I want to show you something now, and I 0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:48.080 want you to lean into this because I thought, well, Jesus, 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:52.960 if that's little faith, then what is big faith? And boom, 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:56.799 it hit me a scripture that I read about one 0:34:56.840 --> 0:35:02.640 of the two times that Jesus was actual amazed. There 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:05.520 are only two times in the New Testament that the 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:09.160 Bible says Jesus was amazed. One time was in his 0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:14.160 hometown where they had no faith in him because they 0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:17.520 were too familiar with him. That's a whole sermon that 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:21.720 we don't have time for in this class. That's familiarity 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:24.560 one oh one, and we'll do that class on another day. 0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:30.560 How familiarity can be the enemy of faith, how you 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:33.440 can start just getting so comfortable in your life that 0:35:33.520 --> 0:35:36.640 you're afraid to do anything else. So that's one time 0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:39.239 that he was amazed that they're lack of faith. But 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:41.719 what I want to show you is in Matthew chapter eight. 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:43.520 And if you go with me to Matthew chapter eight, 0:35:43.600 --> 0:35:46.359 we're going to see one of the times that Jesus 0:35:46.920 --> 0:35:51.520 was amazed. The Bible says that there was a centurion, 0:35:53.040 --> 0:35:58.399 a military official who had a sick servant. He had 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:04.719 an issue. His storm was not a hurricane, or wasn't 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:08.600 rain and thunder and lightning. His particular need revolved around 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:12.080 the sickness of someone that he cared about. And when 0:36:12.160 --> 0:36:15.600 Jesus Matthew chapter eight, verse five, had entered Capernaum, a 0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:18.440 centurion came to him. Now listen, this word is right 0:36:18.560 --> 0:36:21.240 for you. The spirit of God gave me this passage 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:27.200 because I couldn't figure out if that's little faith, then 0:36:27.239 --> 0:36:32.200 what's great faith? And he asked Jesus. This centurion he 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:35.000 asked Jesus for help. Lord. He said, my servant lies 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:40.000 at home paralyzed, suffering terribly. And Jesus said to him, 0:36:40.920 --> 0:36:47.319 shall I come and heal him? Now, let's contrast. Peter said, 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:51.840 if it's you, tell me to come. Jesus asked the centurion, 0:36:52.239 --> 0:36:55.279 well should I come? And what I saw next blew 0:36:55.320 --> 0:36:57.840 my mind. I never saw it before. I've been preaching 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:01.320 since sixteen I never saw this before in the scripture. 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:05.960 I never saw it. The centurion reply, Lord, I do 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:08.400 not deserve to have you come under my roof, but 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:12.880 just say the word and my servant will be healed. 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:17.240 For I myself am a man under authority with soldiers 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.720 under me. I tell this one go and he goes, 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.719 and that one come and he comes. I say to 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:25.799 my servant, do this, and he does it. And when 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:30.720 Jesus heard this, he was amazed. He was blown away. 0:37:32.040 --> 0:37:40.959 He was poor Emoji. He was amazed. And he said 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:42.840 to those following him, truly, I tell you, I have 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:51.040 not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. And 0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:59.239 the Lord spoke to me this. One disciple said, Lord, 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:02.719 if it's you tell me to come, Jesus said, that's 0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:09.239 little faith. One man said, Jesus, I know who you are. 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:17.600 You can stay. And the Lord said, sometimes it takes 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:26.799 greater faith to stay. Stay you will keep him in 0:38:27.000 --> 0:38:33.279 perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on me. I hear 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:37.359 the Lord saying you can come, And that's fine. That's 0:38:37.440 --> 0:38:45.719 little faith. But sometimes the greatest faith is when you 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:51.440 stay because you trust that the one who spoke the 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:58.080 word has authority over every situation. And see, right now 0:38:58.280 --> 0:39:01.080 we're in a storm where we don't really have anywhere 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:03.319 to go, and there's really only so much we can do, 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:05.600 and I don't really have a whole lot of options. 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:09.160 And God said, when I see you staying in praise 0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:14.200 and staying grateful and staying encouraged, and staying on the job, 0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:20.960 and staying in the ministry and just staying staying. That's 0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:24.720 great faith. It's great when you say you can come 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:27.719 if you want to. But Jesus said, great faith, it's 0:39:27.760 --> 0:39:31.360 when you know that if I said, let's go to 0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:36.200 the other side, there's no storm in Galilee, there's so 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:47.160 defin in Hell. They's so virus in the world. So 0:39:47.360 --> 0:39:50.920 number five is big moves don't always prove great faith. 0:39:53.920 --> 0:39:57.560 I'm preaching to somebody right now who you're walking on water, 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:00.759 but you're doing it in little steps. I mean, some 0:40:00.800 --> 0:40:03.319 of these people they walk on water fancy, but you're 0:40:03.400 --> 0:40:10.200 just like, uh. God said, that's great, that's great, that's great, 0:40:11.520 --> 0:40:15.200 that's great, great faith, he said. He said, I don't 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:16.480 even need you to come. I don't need you to come. 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:19.040 Peter said, if it's you tell me to come, come, 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:21.480 he said, I don't even need you to come. I 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:23.560 don't even need all that. I don't even need a film. 0:40:23.600 --> 0:40:26.080 I don't even need a confirmation. The command is a confirmation. 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.400 If you said you never leave me or forsake me, 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:31.839 you made that promise, you gave the guarantee. That's good 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:35.719 with me. I know what authority looks like because Jesus said, 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:40.279 that's great faith. It's great faith. Sometimes we think people 0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:43.719 have faith when they're really just freaking out, really just 0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:48.560 doing stuff. Oh wow, man, that SuDS great faith. This 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:53.440 man said, I don't even need a dramatic sign for 0:40:53.560 --> 0:41:00.120 you to do it. God doesn't always need drama to 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:07.360 do it. Such a simple word, such a deep expression 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:11.960 of faith. And yet that's really not the message, is it. 0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:18.840 Because he still fell. No, this encouraged me. He failed 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:25.320 the test, but he still got the lesson. I said, 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:27.960 everybody who wasn't a real good student, this is your 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:33.680 part to shout on. He failed the test. Everybody who's 0:41:33.760 --> 0:41:36.359 nervous about home school and your kid, this is your 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:40.040 point to shout on. He failed the test, but he 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:44.680 got the lesson because it really wasn't a lesson about water. 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:50.839 It was a lesson about worship. Truly, you're the son 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:52.480 of God. And they begin to worship him, and the 0:41:52.520 --> 0:41:56.200 wind died down when he got in the boat. Now, Holly, 0:41:56.200 --> 0:42:02.640 will you come. The essence of salvation is this, by grace, 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:07.360 through faith, you are saved. Everybody say, by grace, through 0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:11.400 faith you are saved. This not of yourselves is the 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:12.920 gift of God out of work, so that no one 0:42:12.920 --> 0:42:15.839 can boast Ephesians to eight and nine. So I never 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:19.759 saw this as a picture of salvation because I was 0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:24.880 so focused on the storm. And you know, sometimes we 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:28.239 go through things that we get so consumed by the 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:33.319 test that we don't even get the lesson. But I 0:42:33.360 --> 0:42:36.800 want to show you in the text that Peter beginning 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:39.360 to sink, I don't know who this is for. It 0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:41.920 might not even be for anybody who's in this room. 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:47.839 But Peter's faith was not in his ability to make 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:56.080 it to Jesus. The Bible says that when he started 0:42:56.080 --> 0:43:03.279 to go down, immediately he reached out his hand and 0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:08.000 caught him. Reach out and catch my hand. You can't 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:19.239 unless I'm close. So my faith isn't in how far 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:26.319 I can walk. Do you remember when Graham started playing 0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:31.160 at catcher and he got pretty good at catcher. I 0:43:31.200 --> 0:43:34.560 was so proud that my kid was good at a 0:43:34.640 --> 0:43:39.520 position on baseball, just like me. I was a catcher 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:43.560 when I was a kid. I was proud. And the 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:46.960 league that they were in, usually they wouldn't even try 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:50.360 to make a play at home because all the catchers 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:54.239 sucked except ours. Oka our kid was the only good catcher, 0:43:54.239 --> 0:44:02.440 and the coach trying to get the third baseman to 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:04.399 make the throw at home, but he wouldn't do it. 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:08.840 And I remember one time that the coach was yelling 0:44:08.880 --> 0:44:11.800 at the kid playing thirty, was like, make the throw 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:14.719 at home when he's when he's going home, you throw 0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:18.440 him out. He said, I can't make the throw. The 0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:22.200 coach said, that's all right, you got a good catcher. 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:35.400 That's something in my mind brought me back to remind 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:39.040 you today in waterwalk in one oh one that you 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:45.520 got a good catcher. You got a good catcher. Put 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:47.840 it in the chat right now. I got a good catcher. 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:52.160 I don't know if I can make the throw. I 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:56.320 got little faith, but I'm gonna go ahead and throw 0:44:56.360 --> 0:45:00.799 it out there because not because I'm gonna make it 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:03.400 all the way, not because i can predict the past, 0:45:03.560 --> 0:45:06.160 not because I know how this ends, not because I 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:10.000 Winsteyn down, not because I'm so good at walking on water. 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:12.640 I'm trembling in. My legs are weak, and I don't 0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:17.600 really know, but he's close enough for child point number six. 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:27.080 Grace and faith go hand in hand. They go hand 0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:33.000 in hand when you don't really believe in the grace 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:36.680 of God. You don't have faith in God because until 0:45:36.719 --> 0:45:41.920 you really believe he's close enough to catch you, you 0:45:41.960 --> 0:45:47.520 will always stumble. Peter's faith was not in his feet. 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:54.320 It was in Jesus' hand. And it is by grace 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:59.239 through faith that God is going to get you through 0:45:59.239 --> 0:46:02.960 this storm. And I need you to praise him right 0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:10.480 now for little faith. Watch this. I got little faith, 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:17.319 but I got great grace. Oh God, great grace. AH 0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:22.840 got a big God. I gotta good God. He's gotten 0:46:22.920 --> 0:46:26.840 me and he won't let go. Come on, throw up 0:46:26.960 --> 0:46:32.080 your hands and give him worship. Give it worship, Give 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:41.759 it worship, given worship. So I found out how to 0:46:41.840 --> 0:46:45.560 walk on water. I don't walk on water with my feet. 0:46:47.360 --> 0:46:52.720 I walk on water with a word. He said, Lord, 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:56.399 any crazy that when Peter's legs failed in his mouth 0:46:56.480 --> 0:47:01.719 saved him. He cried out, Lord, save me. And immediately 0:47:03.680 --> 0:47:08.320 I'm telling you, if you reach for grace right now now, 0:47:08.440 --> 0:47:11.359 my confidence is not in the fact that I'm able 0:47:11.400 --> 0:47:14.160 to walk so perfectly. My confidence is in the fact 0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:19.040 that He's close enough to catch me. And so my 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:27.399 message today, my message today is that sometimes the way 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:32.840 you go to deeper faith is to just fall in 0:47:32.880 --> 0:47:52.000 the right place. This concludes water walking. If you know 0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:55.680 that he's the one who can make the wind die 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:59.400 down with one word from his mouth, give him praise 0:47:59.760 --> 0:48:08.520 right where you are. Give him praise and honor. Come on, 0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:14.480 I got a good catcher. I'm a lobbly walker, but 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:20.759 I got a good catcher, So I'm going farmer. I'm 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:31.440 not going under. And you know what. That wind is tricky. 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:35.960 You know Peter came toward Jesus, but he looked at 0:48:35.960 --> 0:48:39.480 the wind, and right now in your life, listen to me. 0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:41.440 Listen to me. I want to say this like I 0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:44.680 would say it to one of my kids. What you 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:48.080 have to learn to ignore is just as important as 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:52.040 what you have to learn to walk toward. Some of 0:48:52.120 --> 0:48:54.239 us are walking toward the right thing, but we are 0:48:54.280 --> 0:48:58.719 not ignoring the others. You gotta get your eyes on 0:48:58.800 --> 0:49:01.279 the grace of God. You gotta get your mind on 0:49:01.320 --> 0:49:04.440 the goodness of God. You gotta get your thoughts on 0:49:04.560 --> 0:49:10.719 the possibility. I mean, what if he doesn't What if 0:49:10.719 --> 0:49:13.120 he's guiding you? I know you even thinking what if 0:49:13.120 --> 0:49:18.400 I fall? What if he catches you? What if you worship? 0:49:19.800 --> 0:49:23.200 What if you put your worry in reverse. Oh Lord, 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:26.480 I believe that all things are working together for my good. 0:49:28.360 --> 0:49:32.440 And I don't know who this class is for, but 0:49:32.480 --> 0:49:37.360 it's just basic faith. Man, that my faith is not 0:49:37.520 --> 0:49:42.880 in my faith, it's in the grace of God. So listen. 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:50.799 I hear him saying, come, the same thing he told Peter. 0:49:52.200 --> 0:49:55.919 I hear him saying to me. I hear him saying 0:49:55.960 --> 0:50:00.640 to you in this season, and that means something different 0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:04.520 right now for each of us. For you, maybe that 0:50:04.560 --> 0:50:08.800 means to draw near to God in this season because 0:50:11.560 --> 0:50:15.320 you haven't been hearing his word. You've just been blown 0:50:15.360 --> 0:50:18.960 by the wind. For some of you, that may mean 0:50:18.960 --> 0:50:22.160 that you stopped walking toward what God gave you to 0:50:22.200 --> 0:50:25.480 do because of what was against you. But remember, the 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:31.040 wind can carry his word into your heart. And for 0:50:31.120 --> 0:50:33.800 a lot of us, it means that in this moment, 0:50:34.480 --> 0:50:36.560 I just need to stop and say, Lord, I'm drowning. 0:50:38.320 --> 0:50:45.320 Oh God, I can't. I can't stay out here by myself. 0:50:46.680 --> 0:50:51.680 Would you save me? Would you help me out? Would 0:50:51.680 --> 0:50:55.200 you show me how to do it? Just say the word, 0:50:55.239 --> 0:51:00.920 the centurion said, my servant will be healed. Lord. I 0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:04.440 thank you for the privileged to minister your word today. 0:51:05.280 --> 0:51:09.680 Your word is powerful, Your word is eternal, Your word 0:51:09.760 --> 0:51:13.879 is living. We put our hand in your hand right now. 0:51:13.880 --> 0:51:19.080 We put our faith in your grace. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. 0:51:20.320 --> 0:51:26.719 We open our mouths to say that truly you are 0:51:28.000 --> 0:51:31.200 the son of God. It's the fourth watch of the 0:51:31.280 --> 0:51:36.799 night for somebody, and literally they've been wondering, am I 0:51:36.840 --> 0:51:39.480 going down? And is this? It? Is there even another side? 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:44.239 I don't know it anymore. I thank you that your 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:48.759 eye is upon them now. You sent your word today 0:51:49.239 --> 0:51:53.640 to speak right to that situation. After all, we can't 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:57.480 really walk on water, but we can walk on your word. 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:03.479 Say the word, speak it to their heart right now. 0:52:03.640 --> 0:52:07.200 You know what they need to hear, calling them closer 0:52:08.320 --> 0:52:11.840 and telling them to come, upholding them with your righteous 0:52:11.920 --> 0:52:17.360 right hand. I speak your word today over every city, 0:52:17.920 --> 0:52:22.480 over every country, over every child of God who's joined 0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:27.520 up with this ministry in this moment, Send your word 0:52:27.960 --> 0:52:31.839 and heal them. The centurion said, I don't even need 0:52:31.880 --> 0:52:34.400 you to come, if you'll just send the word to 0:52:34.520 --> 0:52:39.439 my house. Send your word to their house. God, send 0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:42.280 your word to their house. Send your word to their house. 0:52:42.520 --> 0:52:46.000 Send it with power and authority and glory and break 0:52:46.080 --> 0:52:53.240 strongholds and speak peace by the power of your word 0:52:53.920 --> 0:52:58.640 in Jesus's name. In Jesus' name, Come on, let's clap 0:52:58.680 --> 0:53:03.160 our hands and thank God for us. Come on, clap 0:53:03.280 --> 0:53:09.440 those pass This is how this is how you are. 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:15.400 This is how you watch him. This is how you 0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:20.799 watch him. Thank you Lord, come on, give him great 0:53:20.880 --> 0:53:36.440 praise on a thank you Lord. I wish I had 0:53:36.440 --> 0:53:39.919 a certificate to give you for water walking one oh one. 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:43.960 Did you enjoy the class? Hey, you know, even beyond 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:47.680 just enjoying it. You know, the word doesn't work until 0:53:47.719 --> 0:53:50.840 we work it. And so I'm just praying that you 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:54.000 would act on something simple from God this week. And 0:53:54.040 --> 0:53:56.480 it can be the littlest things that make the biggest difference. 0:53:56.520 --> 0:53:59.240 We talked about that last week. It's kind of a theme, 0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:01.920 and I believe God's going to give you the strength 0:54:01.960 --> 0:54:04.960 to get through the storm, and not only to survive it, 0:54:05.000 --> 0:54:07.880 to be stronger because of it. I know that sounds 0:54:07.920 --> 0:54:10.439 like a cliche, but I'm believing it for your life 0:54:10.480 --> 0:54:13.120 by faith. Hey, thank you for being a part of 0:54:13.120 --> 0:54:15.799 our ministry. We don't take it for granted, Holly, and 0:54:15.800 --> 0:54:18.200 I love you. Our team is so grateful for the 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:22.040 privileged to minister to you. Don't forget to subscribe, but 0:54:22.120 --> 0:54:24.680 also share. Get the word to somebody. If you know 0:54:24.719 --> 0:54:28.080 somebody who's going through a storm right now, maybe this 0:54:28.200 --> 0:54:31.600 message will help them to get their eyes on Jesus 0:54:32.040 --> 0:54:35.520 and keep moving toward God's purpose. You're going to walk 0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:38.560 on water, one foot in front of the other. I'll 0:54:38.560 --> 0:54:45.879 see you next time. I love you.