Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 3: I hope you're blessed today.
Speaker 1: Somebody clap those hands.
Speaker 4: If you're blessed to be here today, If you feel
Speaker 4: like the person that you're sitting next to is good
Speaker 4: looking and full of the Holy Spirit, give God a
Speaker 4: praise for your neighbor, for the person that God sovereignly see.
Speaker 4: Who do next to.
Speaker 1: Chandler?
Speaker 4: Don't clap that hard standing next to Holly.
Speaker 1: This is week three of our series.
Speaker 4: I know that voice, touch your neighbors, say, I know
Speaker 4: that voice. I got a lot of things talking to
Speaker 4: me right now, a lot of fears talking to me,
Speaker 4: a lot of different voices trying to get in my head.
Speaker 4: But I know that voice, and I'm gonna make it
Speaker 4: because I know that voice. And I'm gonna get through
Speaker 4: this because I know that voice. And it has been
Speaker 4: such just an eye opening last few weeks in the series.
Speaker 4: If you guys want to bring the pad down just
Speaker 4: a little bit, I'm going to read a scripture today
Speaker 4: that may be familiar. Yeah, we're going to get into
Speaker 4: the word now. Thank you to each and every one
Speaker 4: of you that sewed into our love week this week
Speaker 4: and made it so incredible and special. Thank you for
Speaker 4: your giving, thank you for your time, thank you for
Speaker 4: putting your heart into it. I know a lot of people,
Speaker 4: a lot of people are smiling bigger this week because
Speaker 4: of you and such a privilege to be your pastor. Today,
Speaker 4: we want to welcome our efam all around the world
Speaker 4: and share in this scripture. Let's go ahead and clap
Speaker 4: our hands and thank God for them. Have so many
Speaker 4: different countries that join us. Last week or I think
Speaker 4: two weeks ago, there was a pastor here from India
Speaker 4: and he gave me the shirt and he left it
Speaker 4: for me, and so I wish I had written down
Speaker 4: his name, but I will send him a thank you note.
Speaker 4: And right now I just want to thank you in
Speaker 4: front of the whole world for the shirt. But Jesus
Speaker 4: on it. I love Jesus, You love Jesus. Hey, I
Speaker 4: love Jesus in this life. All right, let me get
Speaker 4: organized here. We're going to be in Mark chapter four,
Speaker 4: verse number thirty three through thirty one or forty one.
Speaker 4: That'd be weird. Wouldn't it, And we went backwards to
Speaker 4: verse thirty one. All right, I'm excited. It's going to
Speaker 4: sound like these two things I read you don't go together,
Speaker 4: But they really really do. And you'll see how they
Speaker 4: go together when we're done. But look at Mark chapter
Speaker 4: four verse the scripture says, with many similar parables, Jesus
Speaker 4: spoke the word to them as much as they could understand,
Speaker 4: not as much as he could articulate, as much as
Speaker 4: they could understand, not as much as he knew, as
Speaker 4: much as they could understand, not as much as he had,
Speaker 4: as much as they could handle. And he spoke to
Speaker 4: them as much as they could understand with parables. He
Speaker 4: did not say anything to them without using a parable.
Speaker 4: But when he was alone with his own disciples he
Speaker 4: explained everything. That day, when evening came, he said to
Speaker 4: his disciples, let us go over to the other side.
Speaker 1: Leaving the crowd behind. They took him along.
Speaker 4: Just as he was in the boat, there were also
Speaker 4: other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and
Speaker 4: the waves broke over the boat, so that it was
Speaker 4: nearly swamp.
Speaker 1: Jesus was in the stern, sleeping.
Speaker 4: On a cushion, the disciples woke him and said to him, teacher,
Speaker 4: don't you care if we drown? He got up, rebuked
Speaker 4: the wind and said to the waves quiet, be still.
Speaker 4: Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
Speaker 5: He said to his disciples, why are you so afraid?
Speaker 5: Do you still have no faith? And they were terrified
Speaker 5: and asked each other, who is this?
Speaker 4: Even the wind and the waves obey him. Let's clap
Speaker 4: our hands and thank God for his word.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 4: You may be seated. You may be seated. Now. Those
Speaker 4: of you who are in a physical location, grab that
Speaker 4: elevation pin that we gave you when you came in,
Speaker 4: and that worship guide that we gave you. And I
Speaker 4: want you to write down the title of my message
Speaker 4: today as we get started. If you're watching online, I
Speaker 4: want you to put it in the comments. If you're
Speaker 4: watching live, put it in the chat. And the title
Speaker 4: of my message is this. Make sure you write this down.
Speaker 4: Take your notes on the boat. Take your notes on
Speaker 4: the boat, put it in the chat. Please to comment section.
Speaker 4: Take your notes on the boat. I do notice that
Speaker 4: some of you take those pins we give you every week,
Speaker 4: and I never see you write anything down that I
Speaker 4: say when I'm preaching. By the way, a quick tip.
Speaker 4: If you're a server in a restaurant and I ever
Speaker 4: sit down at your table and you slip me an
Speaker 4: elevation pen, I will double your tip. I will do it,
Speaker 4: and I already tip good to begin with. So just
Speaker 4: imagine what percentage range we're talking if you slip me
Speaker 4: an elevation pen. No, it's good. It's good to take notes.
Speaker 4: But today I want to talk to you about take
Speaker 4: your notes on the boat? Did you write that down
Speaker 4: as the title? Take your Notes on the Boat. They're
Speaker 4: putting it all over the comments on YouTube too. Okay, good,
Speaker 4: take your notes on the boat. Now, let me ask
Speaker 4: you a question. Have you ever had this happen to you?
Speaker 4: Have you ever watched a movie and then tried to
Speaker 4: describe the movie to somebody that didn't see it, and
Speaker 4: as you're describing it, you see a look in their
Speaker 4: eyes that's just like, you know, this is not this
Speaker 4: is not really this is not really going that good,
Speaker 4: And they say back to you like, I guess you
Speaker 4: had to be there. I guess, yeah, you should go
Speaker 4: see it. You should go see It's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Have you ever have you ever done that before. Raise
Speaker 4: your hand if you've done that before. Okay. Second question.
Speaker 4: Have you ever tried to tell a dream to somebody
Speaker 4: that you had and you start trying to describe the dream, right,
Speaker 4: And the more that you start trying to describe the dream,
Speaker 4: the more that you fear that they might check you
Speaker 4: into the middle institution because the dream in your mind
Speaker 4: wasn't that crazy until you start say it out loud,
Speaker 4: you know, Like I tell Holly, I was preaching. I
Speaker 4: was like preaching, but it was at elevation. But it
Speaker 4: wasn't at elevation. It was like at a baseball field,
Speaker 4: but it was like I wasn't preaching on the field.
Speaker 4: I was preaching in the bathroom and I was holding
Speaker 4: the microphone. But it wasn't microphone. It was a French fry.
Speaker 4: It was big French fride. It was like French fry.
Speaker 4: There was also a microphone. It trust me, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: And you kind of stopped, you just like, yeah, I ca'mscribe,
Speaker 4: all right. So have you ever heard a sermon and
Speaker 4: when you went to try to tell somebody else how
Speaker 4: the sermon spoke to you.
Speaker 1: You're like, man, I went to church.
Speaker 4: It was great. It was amazing. It was, it was fire,
Speaker 4: it was it was so good. He talked about like
Speaker 4: stuff and it was good.
Speaker 1: And it was really good. It was it was here here,
Speaker 1: let me get.
Speaker 4: Out my notes. And then you start reading them your notes,
Speaker 4: and that doesn't make it better, it just makes it worse.
Speaker 4: So then you send them the link and they never
Speaker 4: watch it. But if they would watch it, they would
Speaker 4: see that it was amazing. But see, there's a difference
Speaker 4: between a description and an experience, and the reason is frustrating.
Speaker 1: To try to tell somebody how.
Speaker 4: Good the odyssey is is because you had the experience
Speaker 4: and you're trying to give them the description. But all
Speaker 4: you can tell them is there's like storms and bad
Speaker 4: stuff happens, and it's really good. It's trust me because
Speaker 4: you had the experience, but they're just getting the description.
Speaker 4: In the dream, you had the experience, you were immersed
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 1: It was realer then real.
Speaker 4: Your subconscious was telling you stuff that you conscious doesn't know,
Speaker 4: and you had the experience. But when you try to
Speaker 4: move from experience to description, you can get lost in
Speaker 4: translation and you start trying to tell somebody, man, I'm
Speaker 4: really I'm really getting a lot out of the word
Speaker 4: God is speaking and even just speaking to me about peace,
Speaker 4: and you're like, yeah, what about peace?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I can't really so you don't have anxiety anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I still have anxiety, but but I got peace, So
Speaker 4: you don't have that problem anymore. Yeah, I got the problem,
Speaker 4: but I got peace. And the more you kind of
Speaker 4: explain it to them, the stranger it gets to them
Speaker 4: because they're getting the description and you're having the experience
Speaker 4: and the experiences. I've got the problem and the peace,
Speaker 4: the experiences. I've got the anxiety, and I've got the
Speaker 4: Word of God walking me through it the experiences. My
Speaker 4: life situation hasn't improved, but my loyalty to the Lord
Speaker 4: is increasing day by day. There's a difference. In Mark
Speaker 4: chapter four, we see a sharp distinction between the crowds
Speaker 4: and the disciples. The crowds are getting a description of
Speaker 4: the Kingdom of God and the disciples are having an experience.
Speaker 4: There is a difference, and I thought it'd be helpful
Speaker 4: for us today to talk about what happens when you
Speaker 4: hear the word of God, when you get a word
Speaker 4: from God, because sometimes God gives you something that is very,
Speaker 4: very valuable, but it doesn't go deep enough to make
Speaker 4: a difference in your life. I am concerned that God
Speaker 4: is giving us more than enough instruction, but sometimes there
Speaker 4: is too little implementation to make the word flesh in
Speaker 4: your life. And sometimes it means that God will speak
Speaker 4: something to you that is so powerful, so profound, and
Speaker 4: so personal, and it doesn't get a chance to go deep. Now,
Speaker 4: when we say deep, we don't mean complicated, because some
Speaker 4: of the deepest things that God will speak to you
Speaker 4: will be some of the most easy to understand and
Speaker 4: the most difficult to do, isn't it the truth. Sometimes
Speaker 4: God will speak to you about forgiveness, and it's simple
Speaker 4: to forgive, but it's deep. To forgive is hard, it's grueling,
Speaker 4: and you have to do it over and over again.
Speaker 4: But the choice is simple. I've got to let this go.
Speaker 4: I've got to let this go. Somebody say, I've got
Speaker 4: to let this go. And so the problem. Sometimes when
Speaker 4: God speaks to you about something like forgiveness or purity,
Speaker 4: or a discipline in your life, or something that He
Speaker 4: wants to show you, it will sound so simple and
Speaker 4: it won't go deep, and then it doesn't make the difference. Now,
Speaker 4: in Mark chapter four, verse thirty three, The Bible says
Speaker 4: that Jesus would speak to the crowds with parables, and
Speaker 4: then he would pull the disciples aside and explain everything
Speaker 4: to them when he was alone with his own disciples.
Speaker 4: I want you to see the contrast, because my entire
Speaker 4: message hangs on it today. He would declare to the crowds,
Speaker 4: he would give them an at a declaration, and then
Speaker 4: he would pull the disciples aside for an explanation, and
Speaker 4: in verse thirty four it says he was alone with
Speaker 4: them to explain everything. How amazing would it be to
Speaker 4: get an after school tutorial with Jesus about the Word
Speaker 4: of God? After all, he is the word of God.
Speaker 4: How would you like to be able to ask the
Speaker 4: word of God about the Word of God. That would
Speaker 4: be an amazing class to sign up for. Well, the
Speaker 4: disciples had Jesus preaching to them along with the crowd
Speaker 4: and explaining to them alone what he said to the crowd,
Speaker 4: And I think is so important to note that he
Speaker 4: would explain it to them when he was alone with them.
Speaker 4: Do you ever get alone with God about the words
Speaker 4: that he gives you? I mentioned last week, how when
Speaker 4: I prepare my sermons. I have different people in my
Speaker 4: mind that I'm thinking of when I prepare. How many
Speaker 4: of you that last week I talked about. I talked
Speaker 4: about who's your jury when you're living your life? Who
Speaker 4: are the people that you put in your mind when
Speaker 4: you're making decisions? Are they going to approve? Are they
Speaker 4: going to judge me? Are they going to think I
Speaker 4: did a good job? And when I preach, I try
Speaker 4: to put people in the seats like Mike Mitchell, try
Speaker 4: to put people in the seats like cases. I try
Speaker 4: to put people in the seats that I know so
Speaker 4: I can minister to them. And one of the people
Speaker 4: I mentioned is my best friend from childhood named Eric.
Speaker 4: And every week I preach. He's on the second row,
Speaker 4: And every week before I preach, I put him in
Speaker 4: the chair and I just picture him and I start
Speaker 4: preaching to him, and I start preaching real good in
Speaker 4: my mind. And I never say it as good out
Speaker 4: loud as I said it in my mind. You should
Speaker 4: hear the sermon in my head before I preach it.
Speaker 4: It's so good because I'm speaking so specifically. But you
Speaker 4: know what, after I preach every week, and I wanted
Speaker 4: to tell you this too. About three pm, my phone buzzes,
Speaker 4: and I always know it's Eric, and I know that
Speaker 4: every week at three pm, I'm going to get a
Speaker 4: text message from him, and it's going to be long,
Speaker 4: and it's going to tell me what God spoke to
Speaker 4: him that day. He's been doing this for seven years
Speaker 4: and he's never missed a Sunday. Never. Sometimes he was
Speaker 4: thirty minutes late. When it gets to three thirty and
Speaker 4: my phone isn't buzzing', I start having a panic attack, like, oh,
Speaker 4: that must have that must have been terrible today.
Speaker 1: Eric has He always texts me. But then.
Speaker 4: Every October for the last few years, he gave me
Speaker 4: one of these. And this notebook is handwritten every single
Speaker 4: text that he sent me that year, with every single
Speaker 4: thing that God spoke to him through the sermon that
Speaker 4: I preached, and he copies it in handwriting. And he
Speaker 4: doesn't just say, here were your three points, because I
Speaker 4: know those those were in my notes. These are his notes.
Speaker 4: And in his notes he says, when you said this,
Speaker 4: God said that you'd hear me when you said this
Speaker 4: to them, God said this to me. Because there is
Speaker 4: a difference between hearing and explanation and having a demonstration.
Speaker 4: There is a difference between hearing something described you see
Speaker 4: and having something experienced in your life and what he's
Speaker 4: saying every week. When he sends that text at three pm?
Speaker 4: How does he send it at three pm?
Speaker 1: The sermon doesn't even go up live till five.
Speaker 4: He hits record on the voice memo of his phone
Speaker 4: and bootlegs my sermon because he can't wait till the
Speaker 4: sermon goes up, and pulls up the transcript so that
Speaker 4: he can go back through the notes that he missed
Speaker 4: and listens to it, and then sits with his wife
Speaker 4: and says, what did you hear from the sermon today?
Speaker 4: I think God was trying to tell you this. I
Speaker 4: don't know if he ever does that. Don't do that,
Speaker 4: but this is what God said to me. This is
Speaker 4: where it gets personal to me. Did you know that
Speaker 4: God wants to say something to you personal? Yes, you,
Speaker 4: God wants to say something.
Speaker 1: To you personal. Today.
Speaker 4: You threw the camera, you in India, You in Lafayette, Indiana,
Speaker 4: You on the fourth row in Valentine, you at Riverwalk,
Speaker 4: you in the hospital room, you driving in the car,
Speaker 4: you on the treadmill, you curling forty five pound dumbbells
Speaker 4: in the gym. Listen to me trying not to lust
Speaker 4: in the gym.
Speaker 1: God pass a word for you.
Speaker 4: And it can be personal and it can be powerful,
Speaker 4: but it cannot be either of those if you do
Speaker 4: not process it. So just touch somebody, say take notes.
Speaker 4: That's all I'm trying to say is take notes. When
Speaker 4: God gives a word to you, write it down somewhere.
Speaker 4: Not just on a page, but in your heart. Put
Speaker 4: it down somewhere. Don't just keep coming and getting words
Speaker 4: that you never water. Don't just come into church and
Speaker 4: hearing things and when they ask you about it Monday, what.
Speaker 1: Did the preacher say? You say, stuff, have something you
Speaker 1: can pull out and say. I'll tell you what he said.
Speaker 4: He told me that if I'll get alone with Jesus,
Speaker 4: Jesus will speak to me.
Speaker 1: He'll pull me aside.
Speaker 4: He'll tell me things about raising my kids that I
Speaker 4: can't learn from a psychology book.
Speaker 1: He'll tell me things.
Speaker 4: About dealing with addiction that I can't even learn from counseling.
Speaker 1: Jesus speaks to me.
Speaker 4: So he pulled them aside. See and he say, you
Speaker 4: know that parable I share. Well, here's what it means.
Speaker 4: So imagining that the disciples would take copious notes because
Speaker 4: they knew when he's getting done sharing this very deep parable.
Speaker 4: Everybody say deep about the Kingdom of God is like
Speaker 4: a mustard seed. They write that down, the Kingdom of
Speaker 4: God is like a mustard seed. And then when they
Speaker 4: would get him alone, see they pull them aside and
Speaker 4: they say, hey, Jesus, imagine this like Peter. He's like,
Speaker 4: I know what you mean by mustard seed, but I'm
Speaker 4: not sure John knows what you meant.
Speaker 1: So why don't you break it down for John?
Speaker 4: Because I wrote down this thing about the mustard seeds,
Speaker 4: So maybe you just go a little deeper on that,
Speaker 4: and he take them a little deeper. He said, kingdom
Speaker 4: having is like a mustard seed. It's like something that
Speaker 4: starts small and then all the birds of the air
Speaker 4: nest in its branches. So don't despise small starts in
Speaker 4: your life, because something that looks so insignificant could end
Speaker 4: up having a legacy. Don't despise five days of sobriety,
Speaker 4: don't despise fifteen days of sobriety. Don't despise a decision
Speaker 4: to read your Bible for five minutes a day because
Speaker 4: it starts small, but it's significant. See, God doesn't judge
Speaker 4: significance by size of the seed. He judges it by
Speaker 4: depth of the word. And so some of the greatest
Speaker 4: things God will do in your life. Don't diminish them
Speaker 4: because they may look small, but it may be deep.
Speaker 4: He would just explain stuff like that, and they can't
Speaker 4: write fast enough. Okay, okay. So then, Jesus, how about
Speaker 4: that parable you because it said he taught many parables.
Speaker 4: In fact, go all the way back up to the
Speaker 4: beginning of Mark chapter four. I feel the Holy Spirit
Speaker 4: in this place today. I'm excited about what God is
Speaker 4: going to show us.
Speaker 1: It says again, Jesus began to teach.
Speaker 4: By the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was
Speaker 4: so large that he got into a boat and sat
Speaker 4: in it out on the lake while all the people
Speaker 4: were along the shore at the water's edge, and he
Speaker 4: started talking them, talking to them, and they started I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure Matthew was taking notes because he is a
Speaker 4: tax collector. He was a record keeper. So I mean,
Speaker 4: Jesus says, the Kingdom of is like a man who
Speaker 4: goes in scatter seat. He's like a farm who scatter seed,
Speaker 4: and some of it fell on the path, and some
Speaker 4: of it fell got eaten up by the birds, and
Speaker 4: some of it got scorched by the sun, and some
Speaker 4: of them got choked out by the thorns. But some
Speaker 4: of it fell in good soil, and it produced thirty
Speaker 4: sixty and one hundred fold in a good return, and
Speaker 4: you can't ride fast enough. And then they get together
Speaker 4: later talking about what did he say thirty sixty and
Speaker 4: one hundred fold? No, I think he he said thirty forty. No,
Speaker 4: he said thirty sixty in one hundred ffol, not thirty
Speaker 4: forty in one hundred fold. He said thirty Okay, thirty
Speaker 4: sixty one hundredfold. And then we're gonna ask him later, Jesus,
Speaker 4: what do you mean about that thirty sixty and one hundredfold?
Speaker 4: Sometimes when God is speaking to you, you don't even
Speaker 4: have to know what it means to know that it
Speaker 4: hits you deep. Isn't that true? Hadn't you ever just
Speaker 4: had the Lord say something to you and you're like, ooh,
Speaker 4: that's for me, What does it mean? I'll know? I'm
Speaker 4: gonna ask him later. I'm gonna take this word Sunday
Speaker 4: afternoon I'm gonna take this word Monday. I'm gonna take
Speaker 4: this word Tuesday. I'm going to talk about it to people.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask friends that I can trust who are
Speaker 4: also walking with Jesus. I am going to take the
Speaker 4: investment of God's word and see a return on it.
Speaker 4: I have a question. How many of you have a
Speaker 4: money manager that looks after your money somewhere where you
Speaker 4: invest your money. Okay, here's the question. If your money
Speaker 4: manager manage your money the way you manage the investment
Speaker 4: of God's word, would you keep it? Because when God
Speaker 4: gives you words, when God speaks to you, it's an investment.
Speaker 4: His voice is an investment. And so if God is
Speaker 4: just speaking all this stuff, imagine imagine that God is
Speaker 4: entrusting you with his word. And so God's given you
Speaker 4: a word. God's given you something. God's giving you something.
Speaker 4: Every time he speaks, he gives you something. And then
Speaker 4: imagine if you went to your money manager and you're like, hey,
Speaker 4: that money that I've been giving you the last couple
Speaker 4: of years, what did you do with it? And it's like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't really really write it down
Speaker 4: or anything. You didn't write it down, so lest we
Speaker 4: get into a condemnation conversation about taking notes and minutes
Speaker 4: are better than your notes. And I have more colors
Speaker 4: of highlight or lemitate something. You can highlight your way
Speaker 4: to hell. Because the people who knew the Bible the
Speaker 4: best were the Pharisees, and they killed Jesus. So I
Speaker 4: mean you can circle adjectives and nouns and verbs. That's grammar,
Speaker 4: not God. That's an explanation, not an experience. Somebody say
Speaker 4: an experience and experiences when God gives you a word
Speaker 4: and then that word is tested. Because watch this, After
Speaker 4: all day long with Jesus, hearing him teach about the
Speaker 4: Kingdom of God, hearing him expound upon the principles and parables,
Speaker 4: he says.
Speaker 1: Something very interesting.
Speaker 4: In verse thirty five, it says that day, when evening came,
Speaker 4: he said to his disciples, let us go over to
Speaker 4: the other side. Now, notice what he did not mention
Speaker 4: when he invited them to get in the boat and
Speaker 4: go to the other side. He did not find it
Speaker 4: significant to mention to them that by going to the
Speaker 4: other side and obeying his instructions, they would face a
Speaker 4: storm so furious that their very lives would be threatened.
Speaker 4: He left that part, and now I got to know something.
Speaker 4: Why would it Jesus, who explained everything to his disciples,
Speaker 4: not tell them about a storm they were about to
Speaker 4: face in an hour. It's because Jesus teaches deep, but
Speaker 4: he doesn't always give details. He teaches deeply, He teaches
Speaker 4: deeply how to trust him. He teaches deeply about surrender,
Speaker 4: but he does not.
Speaker 6: Always give the details, which is why the disciples were
Speaker 6: totally surprised by the storm. We were just listening to
Speaker 6: him teach on the shore all day and that was wonderful,
Speaker 6: and we got so many notes. But now it looks
Speaker 6: like we're not even going to be able to go
Speaker 6: over our notes because we're about to die and we
Speaker 6: don't even know where we're going.
Speaker 4: Our dog, Bow has two fears in life. One is
Speaker 4: suitcases and one is storms. Anytime we start packing a suitcase,
Speaker 4: he starts to tremble in shake because I guess he
Speaker 4: thinks we may never come back this time. How many
Speaker 4: of you have a dog that doesn't like to see
Speaker 4: when you roll the suitcases out?
Speaker 1: So that's normal.
Speaker 4: Because I was thinking about getting in some dog therapy,
Speaker 4: but that's normal. I was thinking about getting in some medication.
Speaker 4: But that's normal. That's normal. And then the other thing
Speaker 4: is a storm. I'm telling you, I was looking for
Speaker 4: confirmation this morning that this was the right message to
Speaker 4: preach to you. And I was down there at the
Speaker 4: dining room table, looking at all the empty chairs, thinking
Speaker 4: about preaching to you this message called take your notes
Speaker 4: on the boat, and I was thinking about preaching how
Speaker 4: sometimes God gives us something and we go into a
Speaker 4: storm that we didn't see coming, and we have to
Speaker 4: find a God that we are still getting to know
Speaker 4: in the middle of a storm that we didn't see coming.
Speaker 4: And as I was sitting at the table, I heard
Speaker 4: Bow coming down the stairs. Because I don't know who
Speaker 4: Bow's favorite is in the house, but anytime there's a storm,
Speaker 4: he knows who to go to. He has to find
Speaker 4: the alpha. And so anytime there's a storm and it
Speaker 4: starts to scare him, he doesn't want Mom. He can
Speaker 4: get a treat for Mom, but when a storm comes,
Speaker 4: he needs to find the master of the house. That's right,
Speaker 4: because he knows I need to get next to the
Speaker 4: most powerful person in this house.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this sound means. I don't know
Speaker 1: what this rain means.
Speaker 4: But I know who runs this joint, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get out.
Speaker 1: Of his feet.
Speaker 4: I hear God saying to somebody, think, Jesus, in your storm,
Speaker 4: he's the out buy Omega. All right, all right, all right,
Speaker 4: sit out, let me praych you need to take notes.
Speaker 4: So they find Jesus. Jesus, the teacher who has been
Speaker 4: teaching all day, and the teacher who has been.
Speaker 7: Speaking all day is not pacing around the debt. He's
Speaker 7: not pacing, he's not sitting, he's not even praying. He's
Speaker 7: doing something very spiritual.
Speaker 4: And it goes like this. You're dad, Sometimes when God
Speaker 4: speaks it sounds like this, and you're thinking to yourself,
Speaker 4: like I'm thinking, Jesus, they need you to teach them
Speaker 4: what to do in the storm. Jesus, I need you
Speaker 4: to teach me what to do about this problem. Jesus,
Speaker 4: I need you to teach me what to do with
Speaker 4: this thing. Jesus, I need you to teach me what
Speaker 4: to do with this God. Jesus, I need you to
Speaker 4: teach me what to do in this crisis.
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm still teaching.
Speaker 4: While I'm sleeping, because I'm teaching you how can I
Speaker 4: put it? They'll get it, Laura. I'm teaching you that
Speaker 4: if I told you we're going to the other side.
Speaker 1: No storm can stop us. See.
Speaker 4: I think when they were taking notes, they stopped writing
Speaker 4: too soon, because they wrote down the parable of the
Speaker 4: soils and the sower, and the birds snatched the seed,
Speaker 4: and the sun scorched the seed, and the thorns choke
Speaker 4: the seed, and some thirty some sixty some one hundred
Speaker 4: fold and first ahead then the sprout, and all this
Speaker 4: stuff that they wrote. And then they got in the
Speaker 4: boat and they put up their notes. But don't you
Speaker 4: think the reason he was speaking to them all day
Speaker 4: was to get them ready for this storm that they
Speaker 4: didn't know they were going to face. And don't you
Speaker 4: think the reason that Jesus has been speaking to you
Speaker 4: is to prepare you for something that you didn't even
Speaker 4: know that you were going to face. And I came
Speaker 4: to tell you you've got the word for you that you
Speaker 4: need for the wind that you didn't even know you
Speaker 4: were going to face. You've already got the word that
Speaker 4: you would need for the wind that you didn't know
Speaker 4: you were going to face. See, while he was teaching
Speaker 4: all day, Romans ten seventeen says faith comes by hearing
Speaker 4: and hearing the word of God. The reason he was
Speaker 4: surprised at their life of faith is because He had
Speaker 4: given them so much word. How can I give you
Speaker 4: so much word and you still have so little faith?
Speaker 4: How can I invest so much? How can I bring
Speaker 4: you from so far? How can I do so much?
Speaker 4: You look at your life. You already beat the odds.
Speaker 4: You look at your life. You already should have been
Speaker 4: a statistic. You look at your life. There have already
Speaker 4: been such darknesses in your life.
Speaker 1: You look at your life.
Speaker 4: There have already been so many things that you were
Speaker 4: uniquely qualified for, not unqualified for, uniquely qualified for.
Speaker 1: And now you think God can't use you, And now
Speaker 1: you think God doesn't got you.
Speaker 4: And now you think this storm is going to stop
Speaker 4: something that you didn't even start to begin with.
Speaker 1: So Peter is panicking, and.
Speaker 4: John might be even a little freaked out, and everybody's
Speaker 4: rocking on the boat.
Speaker 1: And it's like, whoa it.
Speaker 4: It was awesome on the shore, But now we got
Speaker 4: to take what God gave us on the shore and
Speaker 4: apply it in the storm.
Speaker 1: And here's what I know, here's what I know.
Speaker 4: If they would have pulled out their notes. See on
Speaker 4: the boat.
Speaker 3: Not just on the shore.
Speaker 4: It's wonderful to study the word of God in here.
Speaker 1: It is wonderful to quote this. It is wonderful.
Speaker 4: Make a graphic and like this sermon, but don't just
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 1: Live it.
Speaker 4: Live it. Take your notes on the boat, Take your
Speaker 4: notes into the storm. Find the feet of the Master
Speaker 4: in the storm. Because he said something, he said something.
Speaker 4: Touch to your people, say he said something, he said something,
Speaker 4: he said something. Come on this interactive sermon. Touch three
Speaker 4: other people say he said something. Come on, touch twelve
Speaker 4: people like twelve disciples say he says something. He said something.
Speaker 1: He's put it in the chat.
Speaker 4: He said something, he said something, He said something, he
Speaker 4: said something. Maybe Matthew speaks up about this time.
Speaker 1: Peter's tannagain. We're gonna die. He doesn't care.
Speaker 4: You know, Fear will start shouting crazy things to you
Speaker 4: when you start taking on water, when your boat starts
Speaker 4: to get swamp, when the depression starts.
Speaker 1: To flood back in.
Speaker 4: When you read the doctor report, I thought it was
Speaker 4: gonna be better.
Speaker 1: I've been on this treatment. It's not any better. How
Speaker 1: am I.
Speaker 4: Gonna live without my mom, she's getting sicker. She doesn't
Speaker 4: even remember me. Maybe God has forgotten us. That's what
Speaker 4: the disciples said. You don't even.
Speaker 1: Care that we perish.
Speaker 4: You don't even care.
Speaker 1: You taught us all day. You said the kingdom was
Speaker 1: like this, and the kingdom is like that.
Speaker 4: And then here comes the storm, and the storm in
Speaker 4: that moment is louder than his voice. Have you ever
Speaker 4: had a storm that was louder than his voice? Where
Speaker 4: now I can't hear the voice of God because it's
Speaker 4: drowned out by the doubt. The storm is louder than
Speaker 4: the Lord. But I wish they would have took out
Speaker 4: that note book because I know one of them, I
Speaker 4: don't know who. I think it might have been Andrew.
Speaker 4: I think Andrew wrote down something, he said something. Wait
Speaker 4: a minute, Wait a minute. I know we're going through
Speaker 4: a storm right now.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: Women, I know your heart is broken right now. Wait
Speaker 4: a minute, Wait a minute. I know you're I know
Speaker 4: you're still dealing with this. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: I know they're talking about you a minue. Wait a minune.
Speaker 4: I know you lost your up. Wait a minute, Wait
Speaker 4: a minute, Wait a minute. I know that the prison
Speaker 4: sins didn't get reduced. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: I know that the custody battles looking real crazy right now.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I know your kid's
Speaker 4: acting crazy.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I know you found drugs on their
Speaker 4: best set.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: I know you found drugs you want. Wait a minute,
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I know that you're dealing with some
Speaker 4: stuff too, and you can't even talk to them about
Speaker 4: it because you're dealing with your ow stuff.
Speaker 3: A minute.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I know you're drinking a little too much.
Speaker 4: It's not social anymore. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: I know it's drowning out the voice. If you believe
Speaker 4: in that, you're more than a conquer.
Speaker 1: But he said something.
Speaker 4: He said something, and while everything in your senses is
Speaker 4: telling you you're going under, I want to remind you
Speaker 4: he said something. He said something, and maybe Andrew pulled
Speaker 4: out his notebook and maybe he wrote it down word
Speaker 4: for word where he said in verse thirty five, right
Speaker 4: before he went to sleep. No, I got it right here,
Speaker 4: I got it right Shut up, Peter.
Speaker 1: I know you're rowing. I know you're doing everything you can't.
Speaker 4: Just shut up, for a minute, Peter, he said, verse
Speaker 4: thirty five, let.
Speaker 1: Us go.
Speaker 4: Over to the other side. So I know it feels
Speaker 4: like we're going under. But he said something, he said
Speaker 4: let us go.
Speaker 1: So how can we go If he said let us go?
Speaker 4: He said something high five everybody you can reach and
Speaker 4: say he said something. He said something. He said, I'm
Speaker 4: going over. He said something about the other side. I
Speaker 4: wish somebody would push me today. He said, I'm going
Speaker 4: over and I'm not going under. He said something.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, all right, all right, all right, he said,
Speaker 8: let us.
Speaker 4: Go over to the other side. So what that means
Speaker 4: is we can't die from this water because we've got
Speaker 4: a word that is.
Speaker 1: Greater than the water. And I came to remind somebody you've.
Speaker 4: Got a word that can walk on water. So take
Speaker 4: your notes on the boat and everything that God spoke
Speaker 4: to you, everything that God got. I see these kids
Speaker 4: writing right now, writing.
Speaker 1: As fast as they can.
Speaker 4: You're how happy that makes me that you're this down
Speaker 4: at age seventeen, that you're writing this down at age thirteen.
Speaker 1: But don't just leave it in that notebook, baby.
Speaker 4: When it comes time to go back to school and
Speaker 4: you gotta get back in the boat, and everybody around
Speaker 4: you is telling you you can't live for God.
Speaker 1: You whip out your notes.
Speaker 4: And say, Jesus is with me in this boat, Jesus is.
Speaker 1: With me in this hallway.
Speaker 4: Jesus is with me. All right. He said, we're going over.
Speaker 4: Somebody shoull over over over. I can't get over it.
Speaker 4: He said, we're going over to the other side. That
Speaker 4: means we cannot die in what we're going through, because
Speaker 4: there is somewhere and there is something, and there is
Speaker 4: somebody on the other side of this that needs me.
Speaker 1: To get through it.
Speaker 4: But that is not my message today. I wanted to
Speaker 4: tell you not only to take your notes on the boat,
Speaker 4: meaning to take what God taught you into your next challenge.
Speaker 4: I wanted to tell you to take your notes on
Speaker 4: the boat as deed. I'm gonna write that down and
Speaker 4: then I'm asking what that meant later, because it sounds
Speaker 4: like the same thing you just said twice. You just
Speaker 4: said take your notes on the boat. Then you said
Speaker 4: take your notes on the boat. That's right, because there's
Speaker 4: something God's trying to teach you in the storm that
Speaker 4: he couldn't teach you on the shore. Yes, So It's
Speaker 4: good that you took notes on the shore. That's wonderful.
Speaker 4: But what does God want you to learn from this storm?
Speaker 4: What does God want you to see that he couldn't
Speaker 4: show you on the shore. What does God want to
Speaker 4: give you that he could not give you when you
Speaker 4: had your hands full, but now that they're empty, he
Speaker 4: can fill them. What does God want to do in
Speaker 4: this season? You know, it's an amazing thing about Jesus
Speaker 4: when he taught, He taught his one who had authority
Speaker 4: and not as one of their teachers of the law.
Speaker 4: It was as if his listeners would hear him teach
Speaker 4: and say, I know that voice. I don't even know
Speaker 4: much about this Jesus yet, but something inside of me
Speaker 4: comes alive when he speaks. And when he speaks, it
Speaker 4: doesn't just sound like words. It sounds like life. It
Speaker 4: sounds like eternity, it sounds like true. I know that voice.
Speaker 4: And when he spoke to his students, they called him
Speaker 4: teacher rabbi, and so he took him out on the boat,
Speaker 4: and they thought class was dismissed, and they put their
Speaker 4: notebooks up. But then God gave them a gift called
Speaker 4: the wind. Write this down the wind is a gift.
Speaker 4: The wind is a gift because the wind that's pushing
Speaker 4: against you, that you think is going to destroy you,
Speaker 4: that wind is God's whiteboard. That's where he starts teaching
Speaker 4: you the greatest lessons. That's where he starts to show
Speaker 4: you what he can really do. See. To apply the
Speaker 4: word against the wind is how faith is growing. Faith
Speaker 4: doesn't grow when you take notes. Faith grows when you
Speaker 4: take those notes and apply them against the wind.
Speaker 1: Faith grows when.
Speaker 4: You feel anxious and say, nah, I'm still not going
Speaker 4: to get drunk.
Speaker 1: Faith comes when.
Speaker 4: You feel freaked out and you go, nah, I'm still
Speaker 4: not going to cuss them out. Faith comes when they
Speaker 4: cut you off in traffic and you go to do this,
Speaker 4: but then something in you just pulls it back down
Speaker 4: and that wind starts blowing, and that wind feels like
Speaker 4: it's against you.
Speaker 1: But that's for you. See.
Speaker 4: God sent you that bad driver because you were praying
Speaker 4: for self control. So God gave you something that was
Speaker 4: out of your control. God gave you a sassy kid
Speaker 4: so that you.
Speaker 1: Could learn how to have grace.
Speaker 4: God gave you a difficult relationship so that you could
Speaker 4: learn how to forgive like he forgave you.
Speaker 1: The wind is a gift.
Speaker 4: And the teacher is still teaching, and there are some
Speaker 4: things that he can say through a storm that he
Speaker 4: can't stay on the shore. So he sends you into
Speaker 4: the boat and he says, I want you to watch
Speaker 4: this now.
Speaker 1: Now, the disciples said to Jesus, are you are you are?
Speaker 1: Are you able to handle just one more thing today?
Speaker 1: Can I give you this? Just one more thing today?
Speaker 1: Just one more thing today. I just want to say
Speaker 1: one more thing. They said to him, Teacher, don't you care?
Speaker 1: Put the verse up? Teacher, don't you care that we're
Speaker 1: about to drown?
Speaker 4: See they must have Jesus confused with Jonah. Jonah was
Speaker 4: the preacher who slept on the boat because he didn't care.
Speaker 4: Jesus was the preacher who slept on the boat because
Speaker 4: he was in control and he knew and he knows
Speaker 4: concerning your situation. I can speak at any time and
Speaker 4: stop it. I can speak at any time and make
Speaker 4: the wind lay down. I can say hush, and the
Speaker 4: wind will sit in my feet like a Boston terrier.
Speaker 1: That wind will bow when I say the word.
Speaker 4: And so the disciples said to Jesus, don't you care
Speaker 4: if we drown, and then Verse thirty eight is very
Speaker 4: powerful because he got up sleeping in the stern and
Speaker 4: rebuked the wind and said to the waves, quiet, you
Speaker 4: missed it. I'll run it back. Verse thirty eight. Take notes, everybody,
Speaker 4: take notes. Tell your neighbor take notes. This is powerful.
Speaker 4: Verse thirty eight. The disciples said to the teacher. Verse
Speaker 4: thirty nine. The teacher didn't talk back to the disciples.
Speaker 4: He spoke to the storm. So if you feel like
Speaker 4: God's not speaking to you, he might be speaking to
Speaker 4: the storm instead. I need you to give a shout
Speaker 4: of praise to the speaking God. The word made flesh.
Speaker 4: He spoke to the storm instead. I got a friend
Speaker 4: who told me something funny. Y'all. My friend said, I
Speaker 4: learned something very interesting about my dad the other day.
Speaker 4: I said, what's said? He said, my dad is fluent
Speaker 4: in Spanish. I said, really, is he from Mexico? Is
Speaker 4: he from the Dominican where's your dad from? He said, no, No,
Speaker 4: my dad has never spoken Spanish in my entire life.
Speaker 4: And the other day we were at a family dinner
Speaker 4: and my dad picked up a phone call. And I've
Speaker 4: known him since since, as long as I've been alive,
Speaker 4: and I've never heard him say grassius.
Speaker 1: I've never heard him say Danada. I've never heard.
Speaker 4: Him say even so much as as a come a star.
Speaker 1: And he picked up a.
Speaker 4: Phone call and he started speaking perfectly fluent Spanish to
Speaker 4: somebody on the other end of the line. He just
Speaker 4: started speaking Spanish. And I looked at my wife and
Speaker 4: I said.
Speaker 1: This man speaks Spanish.
Speaker 4: I looked at my wife. I've known him my whole life,
Speaker 4: but I never heard him speak that language. And he's
Speaker 4: fluent in something that I've never even heard him speak.
Speaker 1: And I pointed in my dad, and I looked at
Speaker 1: my wife and said, this man speaks Spanish.
Speaker 4: I imagine around about verse thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Peter looked at John and pointed to Jesus and said.
Speaker 4: This man speaks storm cause we heard of him speak Kingo,
Speaker 4: but I never knew he gonna speak star. You got
Speaker 4: a god who speaks storm. He says, stop headed stocks,
Speaker 4: drop headed drops. I thought, somebody say, my god speaks store. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Jesus speaks storm. Jesus speaks storm.
Speaker 1: Jesus speaks fear.
Speaker 4: Jesus can tell fear, quiet.
Speaker 1: Be still.
Speaker 4: Jesus speaks depression, Jesus can tell depression.
Speaker 1: Let that young lady go.
Speaker 4: Jesus speaks suicide. He can tell a young person you've.
Speaker 1: Got to live and not die. Se does speak storm.
Speaker 4: I never would have known he spoke storm if he
Speaker 4: didn't send me into a storm. So what does he
Speaker 4: want to show you in the storm that he couldn't
Speaker 4: show you on the shore. That's what you need to
Speaker 4: be asking right now.
Speaker 9: And take your notes on the boat, because maybe if
Speaker 9: the wind calmed down when Jesus told it to, I
Speaker 9: should too.
Speaker 4: What's that he said, John?
Speaker 8: He said, he said, let's go to the other side. Oh,
Speaker 8: he said, other side. We're good. He said, over to
Speaker 8: the other side, we're good.
Speaker 4: He said. There is therefore now no condemnation for the
Speaker 4: those who are in Christ. Jesus goes through Christ. Jesus
Speaker 4: the law, the spirital life, set me free from the law,
Speaker 4: sin and death. Oh, I'm good, he said, if I
Speaker 4: confess my sins, he'll be faithful and justin forgive me
Speaker 4: my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.
Speaker 1: He said that.
Speaker 4: I'm good. I reckon. We'll just keep rowing till we
Speaker 4: get to the other side. Jesus doesn't talk about destinations.
Speaker 4: He doesn't delivered you too.
Speaker 10: And by the way, he didn't leave the boat.
Speaker 4: He just went into the stern, the deep part, the
Speaker 4: deep part. You don't let the word go deep enough.
Speaker 4: You keep waiting for an explanation. What if he wants
Speaker 4: to give you a demonstration instead. Some things we're not
Speaker 4: going to understand. But he didn't turn to the disciples and.
Speaker 10: Other the reason I let you go through the storm,
Speaker 10: the reason I let them leave you, and the reason
Speaker 10: you're going through this pain, and the reason no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 10: he's not gonna talk to you about this when he's
Speaker 10: gonna talk to the storm, because he's lord of the storm.
Speaker 10: When Jesus spoke to his disciples, they heard him. But
Speaker 10: you know, it's an interesting thing when we go through storms,
Speaker 10: when we get on the boat and we find the
Speaker 10: feet of Jesus.
Speaker 4: When he spoke to the students, they called him teacher.
Speaker 4: When he spoke to the storm, they called him lord.
Speaker 4: That's what he's trying to show you in this season
Speaker 4: of your life, that he's lord even of the storm.
Speaker 4: So Peter picks up his notebook after they make it
Speaker 4: to the other side. And oh, by the way, when
Speaker 4: they got to the other side in Mark chapter five,
Speaker 4: Verse one. You know how you can know that they're
Speaker 4: not going to die in Mark four because there's a
Speaker 4: Mark five in your Bible. You have to be watching
Speaker 4: a new show and in the first episode it looks
Speaker 4: like the main character is going to die. They're not
Speaker 4: going to die. They're on the preview for season six.
Speaker 4: Jesus is on the preview for Resurrection Sunday. So he's
Speaker 4: not going to stay down, and you're not going to drown,
Speaker 4: and you're not gonna die, and you are gonna make
Speaker 4: it because he's on the boat. Take your notes on
Speaker 4: the boat. Watch what Jesus does verse one, Mark chapter five.
Speaker 4: When they got across the lake to the region of
Speaker 4: the Garriscenes, next verse please, he got out of the
Speaker 4: boat and a man with an impure spirit came from
Speaker 4: the tombs to meet him. This man was so possessed
Speaker 4: and so infested with demon influence that nothing could hold
Speaker 4: him down, not even chains. And he lived among the tombs.
Speaker 4: And when he saw Jesus coming out of the boat,
Speaker 4: Jesus said, come out of him, and guess what. Just
Speaker 4: like the disciples, just like the wind, the demons knew
Speaker 4: that voice, and they came out of the man. And
Speaker 4: now I realize why Jesus was sleeping on the boat,
Speaker 4: because he had an assignment on the other side. So
Speaker 4: you let God handle the part that you can't handle.
Speaker 4: And somewhere in your notes, Peter cross out the park.
Speaker 4: You know. Peter wrote down today's date. Was today's date,
Speaker 4: August second, twenty twenty six, Sea of Galilee on the shore,
Speaker 4: and then he wrote the name of the speaker. You
Speaker 4: know how you do when you take notes. You put
Speaker 4: the topic, the Kingdom of God, the date, and the speaker,
Speaker 4: and maybe out beside speaker he put the teacher. But
Speaker 4: after he saw how that storm bowed down at Jesus' feet,
Speaker 4: I got to think he picked up his elevation pen
Speaker 4: and crossed out teacher and he wrote Lord. Because when
Speaker 4: I heard what he said on the shore, I called
Speaker 4: him teacher, But when I saw what he did in
Speaker 4: the storm.
Speaker 3: I call him. Hey.
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