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Speaker 1: keep trying, but it feels like you're just straining against

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Speaker 1: the wind. In Mark chapter six, we find Jesus's disciples

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Speaker 1: in this exact moment, and before Jesus calms the storm,

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Speaker 1: before he rescues them, he sees them. Sometimes what we

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Speaker 1: need to know more than anything else is that Jesus

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Speaker 1: sees us. Hey, everyone, welcome to How to Stay the Bible.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Nicole Yunis, and I am so excited

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Speaker 1: for us to continue forward in our study of the

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Speaker 1: Gospel of Mark. If you're here with us on YouTube

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Speaker 1: or if you're joining us wherever you get your audio,

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad to be here with you. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: for us to be a community that's discovering the truth

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Speaker 1: of Jesus together and really sitting under his word and saying, Okay, God,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us today? What are you

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Speaker 1: teaching us today? And we always sort of have to

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of work to get from what

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Speaker 1: But I hope that you'll find today that there is

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Speaker 1: such relevance in these stories and that maybe you're not

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Speaker 1: but we all know what it feels like to strain

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Speaker 1: whether that's relational or vocational, or even just an emotional

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Speaker 1: If that's your story, I think you're going to find

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Speaker 1: great comfort here in March chapter six, as well as

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Speaker 1: the next chapter's coming, because in these next four chapters,

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Speaker 1: we actually are going to see a connected theme that's developing,

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Speaker 1: as I was preparing, I thought, wow, there is so

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Speaker 1: sure we understand how these stories connect and where they're going.

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Speaker 1: So I don't want to bury the lead for you.

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Speaker 1: I want you guys to know that as we go

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Speaker 1: into six seven eighty nine, that what we see in

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Speaker 1: tell them that you are? And God says to Moses,

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Speaker 1: He's immediately with them. He doesn't wait for them to

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Speaker 1: for us. We get courage. We experience courage not because

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Speaker 1: God who walks with us, who says, I will always

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Speaker 1: be with you in every storm, when you're struggling against

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Speaker 1: when you've given up, I am with you. You keep

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Speaker 1: showing up, you keep trying. But the reality is it's

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Speaker 1: God who sees us. It's God who can change the

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Speaker 1: story for all of us. Well, last thing I want

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Speaker 1: you guys to know about the context of knowing about

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Speaker 1: the storm. In Job chapter nine, verse eight, it talks

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Speaker 1: here again, remember we're moving from confusion to clarity. We

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Speaker 1: has actually made abundance out of a very small amount

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Speaker 1: waves of the sea. Actual figuredive language used in the

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Speaker 1: now see happening in the person of Jesus. This is

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Speaker 1: another signal of Jesus's divine authority. Not only does he

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Speaker 1: walk on the water, but he can calm the storm.

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Speaker 1: He actually has authority over the storm on this sea,

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Speaker 1: and he has authority over the storms in your life too.

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Speaker 1: So when we ask the question what does this mean

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Speaker 1: for me? I think that the thing I wrote was

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Speaker 1: sometimes the place where you feel most overwhelmed is the

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Speaker 1: very place where Jesus is revealing who he really is

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Speaker 1: for you. All right, friends, That's what we have for today,

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Speaker 1: and look forward to chatting again next week for Mark

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