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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week.

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Speaker 3: I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 1: Somebody clap those hands.

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Speaker 4: If you're blessed to be here today, If you feel

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Speaker 4: like the person that you're sitting next to is good

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Speaker 4: looking and full of the Holy Spirit, give God a

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Speaker 4: praise for your neighbor, for the person that God sovereignly see.

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Speaker 4: Who do next to.

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Speaker 1: Chandler?

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Speaker 4: Don't clap that hard standing next to Holly.

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Speaker 1: This is week three of our series.

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Speaker 4: I know that voice, touch your neighbors, say, I know

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Speaker 4: that voice. I got a lot of things talking to

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Speaker 4: me right now, a lot of fears talking to me,

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Speaker 4: a lot of different voices trying to get in my head.

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Speaker 4: But I know that voice, and I'm gonna make it

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Speaker 4: because I know that voice. And I'm gonna get through

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Speaker 4: this because I know that voice. And it has been

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Speaker 4: such just an eye opening last few weeks in the series.

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Speaker 4: If you guys want to bring the pad down just

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Speaker 4: a little bit, I'm going to read a scripture today

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Speaker 4: that may be familiar. Yeah, we're going to get into

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Speaker 4: the word now. Thank you to each and every one

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Speaker 4: of you that sewed into our love week this week

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Speaker 4: and made it so incredible and special. Thank you for

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Speaker 4: your giving, thank you for your time, thank you for

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Speaker 4: putting your heart into it. I know a lot of people,

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Speaker 4: a lot of people are smiling bigger this week because

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Speaker 4: of you and such a privilege to be your pastor. Today,

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Speaker 4: we want to welcome our efam all around the world

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Speaker 4: and share in this scripture. Let's go ahead and clap

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Speaker 4: our hands and thank God for them. Have so many

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Speaker 4: different countries that join us. Last week or I think

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Speaker 4: two weeks ago, there was a pastor here from India

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Speaker 4: and he gave me the shirt and he left it

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Speaker 4: for me, and so I wish I had written down

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Speaker 4: his name, but I will send him a thank you note.

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Speaker 4: And right now I just want to thank you in

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Speaker 4: front of the whole world for the shirt. But Jesus

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Speaker 4: on it. I love Jesus, You love Jesus. Hey, I

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Speaker 4: love Jesus in this life. All right, let me get

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Speaker 4: organized here. We're going to be in Mark chapter four,

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Speaker 4: verse number thirty three through thirty one or forty one.

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Speaker 4: That'd be weird. Wouldn't it, And we went backwards to

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Speaker 4: verse thirty one. All right, I'm excited. It's going to

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Speaker 4: sound like these two things I read you don't go together,

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Speaker 4: But they really really do. And you'll see how they

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Speaker 4: go together when we're done. But look at Mark chapter

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Speaker 4: four verse the scripture says, with many similar parables, Jesus

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Speaker 4: spoke the word to them as much as they could understand,

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Speaker 4: as much as they could handle. And he spoke to

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Speaker 4: them as much as they could understand with parables. He

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Speaker 4: But when he was alone with his own disciples he

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Speaker 4: explained everything. That day, when evening came, he said to

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Speaker 4: his disciples, let us go over to the other side.

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Speaker 1: Leaving the crowd behind. They took him along.

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Speaker 5: He said to his disciples, why are you so afraid?

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Speaker 4: Even the wind and the waves obey him. Let's clap

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 4: You may be seated. You may be seated. Now. Those

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Speaker 4: of you who are in a physical location, grab that

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Speaker 4: elevation pin that we gave you when you came in,

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Speaker 4: want you to write down the title of my message

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Speaker 4: today as we get started. If you're watching online, I

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Speaker 4: watching live, put it in the chat. And the title

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Speaker 4: of my message is this. Make sure you write this down.

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Speaker 4: Take your notes on the boat. Take your notes on

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Speaker 4: Take your notes on the boat. I do notice that

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Speaker 4: some of you take those pins we give you every week,

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Speaker 4: say when I'm preaching. By the way, a quick tip.

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Speaker 4: If you're a server in a restaurant and I ever

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Speaker 4: elevation pen, I will double your tip. I will do it,

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Speaker 4: and I already tip good to begin with. So just

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Speaker 4: imagine what percentage range we're talking if you slip me

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Speaker 4: an elevation pen. No, it's good. It's good to take notes.

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Speaker 4: But today I want to talk to you about take

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Speaker 4: as the title? Take your Notes on the Boat. They're

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Speaker 4: putting it all over the comments on YouTube too. Okay, good,

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Speaker 4: Have you ever have you ever done that before. Raise

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Speaker 4: your hand if you've done that before. Okay. Second question.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever tried to tell a dream to somebody

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Speaker 4: And the more that you start trying to describe the dream,

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Speaker 4: was like preaching, but it was at elevation. But it

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Speaker 4: when you went to try to tell somebody else how

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Speaker 4: Out my notes. And then you start reading them your notes,

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Speaker 4: So then you send them the link and they never

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Speaker 4: see that it was amazing. But see, there's a difference

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Speaker 4: Your subconscious was telling you stuff that you conscious doesn't know,

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Speaker 4: God will speak to you about forgiveness, and it's simple

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Speaker 4: I want you to see the contrast, because my entire

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Speaker 4: message hangs on it today. He would declare to the crowds,

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Speaker 4: he would pull the disciples aside for an explanation, and

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Speaker 4: when you roll the suitcases out?

436
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: So that's normal.

437
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 4: Because I was thinking about getting in some dog therapy,

438
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 4: but that's normal. I was thinking about getting in some medication.

439
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 4: But that's normal. That's normal. And then the other thing

440
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,479
Speaker 4: is a storm. I'm telling you, I was looking for

441
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 4: confirmation this morning that this was the right message to

442
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 4: preach to you. And I was down there at the

443
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 4: dining room table, looking at all the empty chairs, thinking

444
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 4: about preaching to you this message called take your notes

445
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 4: on the boat, and I was thinking about preaching how

446
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,959
Speaker 4: sometimes God gives us something and we go into a

447
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 4: storm that we didn't see coming, and we have to

448
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 4: find a God that we are still getting to know

449
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 4: in the middle of a storm that we didn't see coming.

450
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 4: And as I was sitting at the table, I heard

451
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 4: Bow coming down the stairs. Because I don't know who

452
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 4: Bow's favorite is in the house, but anytime there's a storm,

453
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 4: he knows who to go to. He has to find

454
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 4: the alpha. And so anytime there's a storm and it

455
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 4: starts to scare him, he doesn't want Mom. He can

456
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 4: get a treat for Mom, but when a storm comes,

457
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 4: he needs to find the master of the house. That's right,

458
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 4: because he knows I need to get next to the

459
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 4: most powerful person in this house.

460
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this sound means. I don't know

461
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: what this rain means.

462
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 4: But I know who runs this joint, and I'm gonna

463
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 4: get out.

464
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: Of his feet.

465
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Speaker 4: I hear God saying to somebody, think, Jesus, in your storm,

466
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 4: he's the out buy Omega. All right, all right, all right,

467
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 4: sit out, let me praych you need to take notes.

468
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 4: So they find Jesus. Jesus, the teacher who has been

469
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 4: teaching all day, and the teacher who has been.

470
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 7: Speaking all day is not pacing around the debt. He's

471
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 7: not pacing, he's not sitting, he's not even praying. He's

472
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 7: doing something very spiritual.

473
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 4: And it goes like this. You're dad, Sometimes when God

474
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 4: speaks it sounds like this, and you're thinking to yourself,

475
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 4: like I'm thinking, Jesus, they need you to teach them

476
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 4: what to do in the storm. Jesus, I need you

477
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 4: to teach me what to do about this problem. Jesus,

478
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 4: I need you to teach me what to do with

479
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 4: this thing. Jesus, I need you to teach me what

480
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 4: to do with this God. Jesus, I need you to

481
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 4: teach me what to do in this crisis.

482
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm still teaching.

483
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 4: While I'm sleeping, because I'm teaching you how can I

484
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 4: put it? They'll get it, Laura. I'm teaching you that

485
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 4: if I told you we're going to the other side.

486
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: No storm can stop us. See.

487
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 4: I think when they were taking notes, they stopped writing

488
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 4: too soon, because they wrote down the parable of the

489
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 4: soils and the sower, and the birds snatched the seed,

490
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 4: and the sun scorched the seed, and the thorns choke

491
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 4: the seed, and some thirty some sixty some one hundred

492
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 4: fold and first ahead then the sprout, and all this

493
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 4: stuff that they wrote. And then they got in the

494
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 4: boat and they put up their notes. But don't you

495
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 4: think the reason he was speaking to them all day

496
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 4: was to get them ready for this storm that they

497
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 4: didn't know they were going to face. And don't you

498
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 4: think the reason that Jesus has been speaking to you

499
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 4: is to prepare you for something that you didn't even

500
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 4: know that you were going to face. And I came

501
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 4: to tell you you've got the word for you that you

502
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 4: need for the wind that you didn't even know you

503
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 4: were going to face. You've already got the word that

504
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 4: you would need for the wind that you didn't know

505
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 4: you were going to face. See, while he was teaching

506
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 4: all day, Romans ten seventeen says faith comes by hearing

507
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 4: and hearing the word of God. The reason he was

508
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 4: surprised at their life of faith is because He had

509
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 4: given them so much word. How can I give you

510
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 4: so much word and you still have so little faith?

511
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 4: How can I invest so much? How can I bring

512
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 4: you from so far? How can I do so much?

513
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 4: You look at your life. You already beat the odds.

514
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 4: You look at your life. You already should have been

515
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 4: a statistic. You look at your life. There have already

516
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 4: been such darknesses in your life.

517
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: You look at your life.

518
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 4: There have already been so many things that you were

519
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 4: uniquely qualified for, not unqualified for, uniquely qualified for.

520
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: And now you think God can't use you, And now

521
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: you think God doesn't got you.

522
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 4: And now you think this storm is going to stop

523
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 4: something that you didn't even start to begin with.

524
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: So Peter is panicking, and.

525
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 4: John might be even a little freaked out, and everybody's

526
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 4: rocking on the boat.

527
00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: And it's like, whoa it.

528
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 4: It was awesome on the shore, But now we got

529
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 4: to take what God gave us on the shore and

530
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: apply it in the storm.

531
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Speaker 1: And here's what I know, here's what I know.

532
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 4: If they would have pulled out their notes. See on

533
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: the boat.

534
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 3: Not just on the shore.

535
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: It's wonderful to study the word of God in here.

536
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: It is wonderful to quote this. It is wonderful.

537
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 4: Make a graphic and like this sermon, but don't just

538
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: like it.

539
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: Live it.

540
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 4: Live it. Take your notes on the boat, Take your

541
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 4: notes into the storm. Find the feet of the Master

542
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 4: in the storm. Because he said something, he said something.

543
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 4: Touch to your people, say he said something, he said something,

544
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 4: he said something. Come on this interactive sermon. Touch three

545
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 4: other people say he said something. Come on, touch twelve

546
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 4: people like twelve disciples say he says something. He said something.

547
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: He's put it in the chat.

548
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 4: He said something, he said something, He said something, he

549
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 4: said something. Maybe Matthew speaks up about this time.

550
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: Peter's tannagain. We're gonna die. He doesn't care.

551
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 4: You know, Fear will start shouting crazy things to you

552
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: when you start taking on water, when your boat starts

553
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 4: to get swamp, when the depression starts.

554
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: To flood back in.

555
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 4: When you read the doctor report, I thought it was

556
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 4: gonna be better.

557
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: I've been on this treatment. It's not any better. How

558
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: am I.

559
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 4: Gonna live without my mom, she's getting sicker. She doesn't

560
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 4: even remember me. Maybe God has forgotten us. That's what

561
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 4: the disciples said. You don't even.

562
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: Care that we perish.

563
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 4: You don't even care.

564
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: You taught us all day. You said the kingdom was

565
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: like this, and the kingdom is like that.

566
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,239
Speaker 4: And then here comes the storm, and the storm in

567
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 4: that moment is louder than his voice. Have you ever

568
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 4: had a storm that was louder than his voice? Where

569
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 4: now I can't hear the voice of God because it's

570
00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 4: drowned out by the doubt. The storm is louder than

571
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 4: the Lord. But I wish they would have took out

572
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 4: that note book because I know one of them, I

573
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 4: don't know who. I think it might have been Andrew.

574
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 4: I think Andrew wrote down something, he said something. Wait

575
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 4: a minute, Wait a minute. I know we're going through

576
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 4: a storm right now.

577
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 3: Wait a minute.

578
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 4: Women, I know your heart is broken right now. Wait

579
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 4: a minute, Wait a minute. I know you're I know

580
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 4: you're still dealing with this. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

581
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 4: I know they're talking about you a minue. Wait a minune.

582
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 4: I know you lost your up. Wait a minute, Wait

583
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 4: a minute, Wait a minute. I know that the prison

584
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 4: sins didn't get reduced. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

585
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 4: I know that the custody battles looking real crazy right now.

586
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I know your kid's

587
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 4: acting crazy.

588
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: Wait a minute.

589
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I know you found drugs on their

590
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 4: best set.

591
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

592
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 4: I know you found drugs you want. Wait a minute,

593
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I know that you're dealing with some

594
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 4: stuff too, and you can't even talk to them about

595
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 4: it because you're dealing with your ow stuff.

596
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: A minute.

597
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I know you're drinking a little too much.

598
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 4: It's not social anymore. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

599
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 4: I know it's drowning out the voice. If you believe

600
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 4: in that, you're more than a conquer.

601
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: But he said something.

602
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 4: He said something, and while everything in your senses is

603
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 4: telling you you're going under, I want to remind you

604
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 4: he said something. He said something, and maybe Andrew pulled

605
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 4: out his notebook and maybe he wrote it down word

606
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 4: for word where he said in verse thirty five, right

607
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 4: before he went to sleep. No, I got it right here,

608
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 4: I got it right Shut up, Peter.

609
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: I know you're rowing. I know you're doing everything you can't.

610
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 4: Just shut up, for a minute, Peter, he said, verse

611
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 4: thirty five, let.

612
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: Us go.

613
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 4: Over to the other side. So I know it feels

614
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 4: like we're going under. But he said something, he said

615
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 4: let us go.

616
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: So how can we go If he said let us go?

617
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 4: He said something high five everybody you can reach and

618
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 4: say he said something. He said something. He said, I'm

619
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 4: going over. He said something about the other side. I

620
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 4: wish somebody would push me today. He said, I'm going

621
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 4: over and I'm not going under. He said something.

622
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, all right, all right, all right, he said,

623
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 8: let us.

624
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 4: Go over to the other side. So what that means

625
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 4: is we can't die from this water because we've got

626
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 4: a word that is.

627
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: Greater than the water. And I came to remind somebody you've.

628
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 4: Got a word that can walk on water. So take

629
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 4: your notes on the boat and everything that God spoke

630
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: to you, everything that God got. I see these kids

631
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 4: writing right now, writing.

632
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: As fast as they can.

633
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 4: You're how happy that makes me that you're this down

634
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 4: at age seventeen, that you're writing this down at age thirteen.

635
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: But don't just leave it in that notebook, baby.

636
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 4: When it comes time to go back to school and

637
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 4: you gotta get back in the boat, and everybody around

638
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 4: you is telling you you can't live for God.

639
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: You whip out your notes.

640
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 4: And say, Jesus is with me in this boat, Jesus is.

641
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: With me in this hallway.

642
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 4: Jesus is with me. All right. He said, we're going over.

643
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 4: Somebody shoull over over over. I can't get over it.

644
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 4: He said, we're going over to the other side. That

645
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 4: means we cannot die in what we're going through, because

646
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 4: there is somewhere and there is something, and there is

647
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 4: somebody on the other side of this that needs me.

648
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: To get through it.

649
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 4: But that is not my message today. I wanted to

650
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 4: tell you not only to take your notes on the boat,

651
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 4: meaning to take what God taught you into your next challenge.

652
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 4: I wanted to tell you to take your notes on

653
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 4: the boat as deed. I'm gonna write that down and

654
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 4: then I'm asking what that meant later, because it sounds

655
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 4: like the same thing you just said twice. You just

656
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 4: said take your notes on the boat. Then you said

657
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Speaker 4: take your notes on the boat. That's right, because there's

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Speaker 4: something God's trying to teach you in the storm that

659
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Speaker 4: he couldn't teach you on the shore. Yes, So It's

660
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Speaker 4: good that you took notes on the shore. That's wonderful.

661
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Speaker 4: But what does God want you to learn from this storm?

662
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Speaker 4: What does God want you to see that he couldn't

663
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Speaker 4: show you on the shore. What does God want to

664
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Speaker 4: give you that he could not give you when you

665
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 4: had your hands full, but now that they're empty, he

666
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 4: can fill them. What does God want to do in

667
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Speaker 4: this season? You know, it's an amazing thing about Jesus

668
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Speaker 4: when he taught, He taught his one who had authority

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Speaker 4: and not as one of their teachers of the law.

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Speaker 4: It was as if his listeners would hear him teach

671
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Speaker 4: and say, I know that voice. I don't even know

672
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Speaker 4: much about this Jesus yet, but something inside of me

673
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 4: comes alive when he speaks. And when he speaks, it

674
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Speaker 4: doesn't just sound like words. It sounds like life. It

675
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Speaker 4: sounds like eternity, it sounds like true. I know that voice.

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00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 4: And when he spoke to his students, they called him

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Speaker 4: teacher rabbi, and so he took him out on the boat,

678
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Speaker 4: and they thought class was dismissed, and they put their

679
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 4: notebooks up. But then God gave them a gift called

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Speaker 4: the wind. Write this down the wind is a gift.

681
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Speaker 4: The wind is a gift because the wind that's pushing

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Speaker 4: against you, that you think is going to destroy you,

683
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Speaker 4: that wind is God's whiteboard. That's where he starts teaching

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Speaker 4: you the greatest lessons. That's where he starts to show

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Speaker 4: you what he can really do. See. To apply the

686
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Speaker 4: word against the wind is how faith is growing. Faith

687
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Speaker 4: doesn't grow when you take notes. Faith grows when you

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Speaker 4: take those notes and apply them against the wind.

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Speaker 1: Faith grows when.

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Speaker 4: You feel anxious and say, nah, I'm still not going

691
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Speaker 4: to get drunk.

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Speaker 1: Faith comes when.

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Speaker 4: You feel freaked out and you go, nah, I'm still

694
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Speaker 4: not going to cuss them out. Faith comes when they

695
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Speaker 4: cut you off in traffic and you go to do this,

696
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Speaker 4: but then something in you just pulls it back down

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Speaker 4: and that wind starts blowing, and that wind feels like

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Speaker 4: it's against you.

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Speaker 1: But that's for you. See.

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Speaker 4: God sent you that bad driver because you were praying

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Speaker 4: for self control. So God gave you something that was

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Speaker 4: out of your control. God gave you a sassy kid

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Speaker 4: so that you.

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Speaker 1: Could learn how to have grace.

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Speaker 4: God gave you a difficult relationship so that you could

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Speaker 4: learn how to forgive like he forgave you.

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Speaker 1: The wind is a gift.

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Speaker 4: And the teacher is still teaching, and there are some

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Speaker 4: things that he can say through a storm that he

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Speaker 4: can't stay on the shore. So he sends you into

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Speaker 4: the boat and he says, I want you to watch

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Speaker 4: this now.

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Speaker 1: Now, the disciples said to Jesus, are you are you are?

714
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Speaker 1: Are you able to handle just one more thing today?

715
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Speaker 1: Can I give you this? Just one more thing today?

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Speaker 1: Just one more thing today. I just want to say

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Speaker 1: one more thing. They said to him, Teacher, don't you care?

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Speaker 1: Put the verse up? Teacher, don't you care that we're

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Speaker 1: about to drown?

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Speaker 4: See they must have Jesus confused with Jonah. Jonah was

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Speaker 4: the preacher who slept on the boat because he didn't care.

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Speaker 4: Jesus was the preacher who slept on the boat because

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Speaker 4: he was in control and he knew and he knows

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Speaker 4: concerning your situation. I can speak at any time and

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Speaker 4: stop it. I can speak at any time and make

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Speaker 4: the wind lay down. I can say hush, and the

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Speaker 4: wind will sit in my feet like a Boston terrier.

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Speaker 1: That wind will bow when I say the word.

729
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Speaker 4: And so the disciples said to Jesus, don't you care

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Speaker 4: if we drown, and then Verse thirty eight is very

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Speaker 4: powerful because he got up sleeping in the stern and

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Speaker 4: rebuked the wind and said to the waves, quiet, you

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Speaker 4: missed it. I'll run it back. Verse thirty eight. Take notes, everybody,

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Speaker 4: take notes. Tell your neighbor take notes. This is powerful.

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Speaker 4: Verse thirty eight. The disciples said to the teacher. Verse

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Speaker 4: thirty nine. The teacher didn't talk back to the disciples.

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Speaker 4: He spoke to the storm. So if you feel like

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Speaker 4: God's not speaking to you, he might be speaking to

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Speaker 4: the storm instead. I need you to give a shout

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Speaker 4: of praise to the speaking God. The word made flesh.

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Speaker 4: He spoke to the storm instead. I got a friend

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Speaker 4: who told me something funny. Y'all. My friend said, I

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Speaker 4: learned something very interesting about my dad the other day.

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Speaker 4: I said, what's said? He said, my dad is fluent

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Speaker 4: in Spanish. I said, really, is he from Mexico? Is

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Speaker 4: he from the Dominican where's your dad from? He said, no, No,

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Speaker 4: my dad has never spoken Spanish in my entire life.

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Speaker 4: And the other day we were at a family dinner

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Speaker 4: and my dad picked up a phone call. And I've

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Speaker 4: known him since since, as long as I've been alive,

751
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Speaker 4: and I've never heard him say grassius.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard him say Danada. I've never heard.

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Speaker 4: Him say even so much as as a come a star.

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Speaker 1: And he picked up a.

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Speaker 4: Phone call and he started speaking perfectly fluent Spanish to

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Speaker 4: somebody on the other end of the line. He just

757
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Speaker 4: started speaking Spanish. And I looked at my wife and

758
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Speaker 4: I said.

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Speaker 1: This man speaks Spanish.

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Speaker 4: I looked at my wife. I've known him my whole life,

761
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Speaker 4: but I never heard him speak that language. And he's

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Speaker 4: fluent in something that I've never even heard him speak.

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Speaker 1: And I pointed in my dad, and I looked at

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Speaker 1: my wife and said, this man speaks Spanish.

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Speaker 4: I imagine around about verse thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: Peter looked at John and pointed to Jesus and said.

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Speaker 4: This man speaks storm cause we heard of him speak Kingo,

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Speaker 4: but I never knew he gonna speak star. You got

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Speaker 4: a god who speaks storm. He says, stop headed stocks,

770
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Speaker 4: drop headed drops. I thought, somebody say, my god speaks store. Yeah,

771
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Speaker 4: Jesus speaks storm. Jesus speaks storm.

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Speaker 1: Jesus speaks fear.

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Speaker 4: Jesus can tell fear, quiet.

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Speaker 1: Be still.

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Speaker 4: Jesus speaks depression, Jesus can tell depression.

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Speaker 1: Let that young lady go.

777
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Speaker 4: Jesus speaks suicide. He can tell a young person you've.

778
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: Got to live and not die. Se does speak storm.

779
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 4: I never would have known he spoke storm if he

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Speaker 4: didn't send me into a storm. So what does he

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Speaker 4: want to show you in the storm that he couldn't

782
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Speaker 4: show you on the shore. That's what you need to

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Speaker 4: be asking right now.

784
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Speaker 9: And take your notes on the boat, because maybe if

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Speaker 9: the wind calmed down when Jesus told it to, I

786
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Speaker 9: should too.

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Speaker 4: What's that he said, John?

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Speaker 8: He said, he said, let's go to the other side. Oh,

789
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Speaker 8: he said, other side. We're good. He said, over to

790
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Speaker 8: the other side, we're good.

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Speaker 4: He said. There is therefore now no condemnation for the

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Speaker 4: those who are in Christ. Jesus goes through Christ. Jesus

793
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Speaker 4: the law, the spirital life, set me free from the law,

794
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Speaker 4: sin and death. Oh, I'm good, he said, if I

795
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 4: confess my sins, he'll be faithful and justin forgive me

796
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Speaker 4: my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.

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Speaker 1: He said that.

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Speaker 4: I'm good. I reckon. We'll just keep rowing till we

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Speaker 4: get to the other side. Jesus doesn't talk about destinations.

800
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Speaker 4: He doesn't delivered you too.

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00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 10: And by the way, he didn't leave the boat.

802
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 4: He just went into the stern, the deep part, the

803
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 4: deep part. You don't let the word go deep enough.

804
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 4: You keep waiting for an explanation. What if he wants

805
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 4: to give you a demonstration instead. Some things we're not

806
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 4: going to understand. But he didn't turn to the disciples and.

807
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 10: Other the reason I let you go through the storm,

808
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 10: the reason I let them leave you, and the reason

809
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 10: you're going through this pain, and the reason no, no, no, no, no,

810
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 10: he's not gonna talk to you about this when he's

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Speaker 10: gonna talk to the storm, because he's lord of the storm.

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00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 10: When Jesus spoke to his disciples, they heard him. But

813
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 10: you know, it's an interesting thing when we go through storms,

814
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 10: when we get on the boat and we find the

815
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 10: feet of Jesus.

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00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 4: When he spoke to the students, they called him teacher.

817
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 4: When he spoke to the storm, they called him lord.

818
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 4: That's what he's trying to show you in this season

819
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 4: of your life, that he's lord even of the storm.

820
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 4: So Peter picks up his notebook after they make it

821
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 4: to the other side. And oh, by the way, when

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00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 4: they got to the other side in Mark chapter five,

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00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 4: Verse one. You know how you can know that they're

824
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 4: not going to die in Mark four because there's a

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Speaker 4: Mark five in your Bible. You have to be watching

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Speaker 4: a new show and in the first episode it looks

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Speaker 4: like the main character is going to die. They're not

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00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 4: going to die. They're on the preview for season six.

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00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 4: Jesus is on the preview for Resurrection Sunday. So he's

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00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 4: not going to stay down, and you're not going to drown,

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Speaker 4: and you're not gonna die, and you are gonna make

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Speaker 4: it because he's on the boat. Take your notes on

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00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 4: the boat. Watch what Jesus does verse one, Mark chapter five.

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Speaker 4: When they got across the lake to the region of

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Speaker 4: the Garriscenes, next verse please, he got out of the

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Speaker 4: boat and a man with an impure spirit came from

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Speaker 4: the tombs to meet him. This man was so possessed

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Speaker 4: and so infested with demon influence that nothing could hold

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Speaker 4: him down, not even chains. And he lived among the tombs.

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00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 4: And when he saw Jesus coming out of the boat,

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00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 4: Jesus said, come out of him, and guess what. Just

842
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 4: like the disciples, just like the wind, the demons knew

843
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 4: that voice, and they came out of the man. And

844
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 4: now I realize why Jesus was sleeping on the boat,

845
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 4: because he had an assignment on the other side. So

846
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 4: you let God handle the part that you can't handle.

847
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 4: And somewhere in your notes, Peter cross out the park.

848
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 4: You know. Peter wrote down today's date. Was today's date,

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Speaker 4: August second, twenty twenty six, Sea of Galilee on the shore,

850
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 4: and then he wrote the name of the speaker. You

851
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 4: know how you do when you take notes. You put

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00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 4: the topic, the Kingdom of God, the date, and the speaker,

853
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 4: and maybe out beside speaker he put the teacher. But

854
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Speaker 4: after he saw how that storm bowed down at Jesus' feet,

855
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 4: I got to think he picked up his elevation pen

856
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 4: and crossed out teacher and he wrote Lord. Because when

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00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 4: I heard what he said on the shore, I called

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00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 4: him teacher, But when I saw what he did in

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Speaker 4: the storm.

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Speaker 3: God bless you.