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[00:00:00] Speaker A: A storm can be a very terrifying thing. Can it?
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 700 foot carrier ship, sank in 500ft of water in Lake Superior. It was carrying 26,000 tons of cargo and it encountered what they called the storm of the century.
75 mile an hour winds, waves as tall as a six story building.
Tragically, none of the 29 sailors on board made it to harbor.
They lost their lives in the frigid water.
And in the account of this tragedy, John Bacon describes what it would have been like for those sailors. Listen, he says this quote in a Great Lakes squall.
Waves weighing 20,000 pounds each come over your ship every four to eight seconds.
Imagine standing in your kitchen at home and your house suddenly rises 30ft and then eight seconds later it falls 30ft. And that keeps going on and on hours.
Being caught in a storm can be a terrifying thing.
Some of you probably have been in a storm on a lake before.
I don't think Beaver Lake gets as bad as Lake Superior. But still.
But you don't have to be a sailor to know what it feels like to be caught in a storm.
Right now, some of you may feel like your life is in a windstorm.
And during those seasons of fear, during those times of dark distress, it can feel like the Lord doesn't care.
It can feel like he doesn't even care enough to rescue us.
It can feel like he doesn't really deserve our trust at all.
Friend, maybe that's where you are this morning.
Maybe that's the state of your soul. Distressed, disoriented, discouraged, doubting, desperate.
Beloved, if that's where you are this morning, I have very good news for you.
Very good news.
The captain of our salvation, our Creator
[00:02:42] Speaker B: and Lord is with us in the
[00:02:43] Speaker A: boat and he'll never leave us.
He'll never forsake us.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: And his omnipotent mercy will take us
[00:02:54] Speaker A: through the storm to the farther shore.
He's going to bring us safely home in our darkest distress.
Christ our Creator is mighty to save and worthy of trust.
I'm going to show you that, Lord willing this morning from Mark, chapter four. So if you have a Bible, open up or swipe to mark chapter four, verses 35 to 41.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: If you're here and you don't have
[00:03:23] Speaker A: a Bible, you can take the Bible in the seat in front of you, not the seat in front of you, the seat back, I guess in front of you. And that's going to be on page 839 in the Pew Bible. If you don't have a Bible. Please take that Bible with you as a gift from our church.
So we're dive bombing into the Gospel of Mark. And let me just set the context before we jump in.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: So the Gospel of Mark, it reveals
[00:03:48] Speaker A: the glory and grace of Jesus, the Son of God. And in the first eight chapters of Mark, chapters one to eight, Jesus reveals his identity as the Son of God by declaring and displaying his sovereign authority.
And so earlier in chapter four, in our passage, the context before it, he's proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. He's preaching mainly to Jews that are there. They're pressing in on him. The crowds are pressing in such that he has to get in a boat and have, like, a floating pulpit out in the Sea of Galilee. That just happened.
And in our passage, he's about to go in that boat and cross over to the southeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Gentile area.
And he's going to continue to display his sovereign authority over nature, over demons, over disease, and over death. So we arrive at our passage to Jesus has had a long day of exhausting ministry.
It's nighttime, and that's when Jesus and the boys get in the boat.
This is what Holy scripture says, verse 35.
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, let us go across to the other side.
And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was, and other boats were with him.
And a great windstorm arose and the waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was already filling.
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
And they woke him and said to
[00:05:42] Speaker B: him, teacher, do you not care that we're perishing?
[00:05:47] Speaker A: And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace, be still.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said to them, why are you so afraid?
Have you still no faith?
And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Brothers and sisters, my prayer for all of us is that we would know that the Lord Jesus delights in those who fear him, in those who hope his steadfast love.
And so the main takeaway for this morning is going to be this. In our darkest distress, Christ our Creator is mighty to save and worthy of trust.
In our darkest distress, Christ our Creator is mighty to save and worthy of trust. We're going to walk through this passage and just let me give you some headings. As we go. And kids in the room, if you have a little worship guide, I want you to look for the word great.
Circle that in your worship guide because that's going to supply the outline. You'll see it as we go. Okay, number one. The passage begins number one with a great storm.
A great storm.
Verses 35 to 37.
A great storm. Look at verse 35 again. On that day when even had come, he said to them, let us go across to the other side. And leaving the crowd, they took him with him in the boat just as he was, and other boats were with him.
So after a long full day of teaching and preaching, evening has arrived.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: It's nighttime.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: And Jesus says to his disciples, it's time to go. Let's head across to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, over to the southeastern shore. And notice verse 36, it says Jesus got into. So don't look at me, look at your Bibles. He got into. Not a boat, the boat. You notice that definite article, the.
What boat is he talking about?
[00:08:11] Speaker B: It's the boat he was preaching from
[00:08:13] Speaker A: earlier out in the sea, the floating pulpit boat. Now, because the whole passage is going to revolve around this boat, I figure I need to describe it a little bit. Okay, so 1986, this is. One scholar put it like this. In 1986, a remarkably well preserved first century fishing boat was discovered near the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. And so for you boat lovers here, here it is. The boat measured 27ft long, 8ft wide, and was made of cedar planks and an oak frame. And it could hold about 15 people. And if you go to Israel on a trip, you can see so 15 people. So that's about the size boat that we're thinking the disciples and Jesus are in.
And remember the people getting into the boat. Most of the disciples were fishermen, including Simon Peter. They were accomplished sailors. They knew how to handle a boat. Unlike me, they often fished on the Sea of Galilee at nighttime. That's when the waters are calm.
And so they made their living off the lake. They know the Sea of Galilee like the back of their hands. The Sea of Galilee. You all know this, you've heard this before. It's like a big lake. If you've ever been there, you've seen it before. It's like a huge lake sometimes it's called Lake Gennesaret. 700ft below sea level, surrounded by mountains and hills.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: So Jesus, disciples, they're in the boat, 15 footer or 27 footer, they're going
[00:09:40] Speaker A: down towards the southeastern shore.
And suddenly, out of nowhere, the storm hits.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Look at verse 37. And a great windstorm arose and waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was already filling.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: You see it?
[00:10:00] Speaker B: You see that word great?
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Circle it. Great.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: It's a great storm.
It's a mega windstorm.
Your Bible may say a fierce gale of wind, or one translation says, a furious squall.
The word that Mark uses here, when it's used outside the New Testament, it refers to a whirlwind or a hurricane.
So the Sea of Galilee, y' all know it's known for these kind of storms that come upon the sea quickly.
If our local weatherman, Dan Scoff, was here, he could do a better job describing this phenomena.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Here you go.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: You got these narrow valleys that have cool air that come down from the Mediterranean. And then it collides with warm air over the Sea of Galilee, over the lake. And that causes warm air, cold air rushing down together. It causes sudden, intense storms.
And I'm sure Peter and the other fishermen, they've seen storms before. But Mark highlights.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: This was a great one.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: This was a megastorm.
And just as a tip, as a pro tip, if you're in a boat with seasoned fishermen and they're worried, you're in trouble, okay? And that's what's happening here.
This was an all hands on deck kind of storm, a megastorm.
Waves are breaking over the side of the boat. The boat's filling up.
It's all happening at night. It's scary.
Luke tells us in his version of this account, he says they were in danger.
Matthew tells us the boat was already being swamped.
So picture the scene in your mind, beloved. Picture the scene. Winds howling, waves crashing, boat filling, sailors screaming, darkness all around.
This is a picture of darkest distress, is it not?
Meanwhile, what's Jesus doing?
We go from a great storm to a great calm. Number two, a great calm. Verses 38 and 39. What's Jesus doing? A great calm. Verses 38 and39. Look at verse 38.
But he, that is Jesus, was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
Now, Jesus must have been really tired, right? He's sleeping through the storm. He's in the stern. He's in the back of the boat. He's on a cushion. Don't you love these little eyewitness details that Mark tells us? He gets this from Peter. Peter was there. He wasn't just asleep. He was asleep on the cushion.
You've heard this phrase, the calm before the storm, right? Well, this is calm during the storm.
This is the only place in the Gospels where we're ever told that Jesus is sleeping.
And it's during a mini hurricane, right?
Jesus utterly trusts his heavenly Father.
In peace. I will both lie down and sleep for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Psalm 48.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: Jesus trusts his heavenly Father even in the midst of a storm.
He's had a long day, he's tired and he's taking a nap in the back. If you want exegetical warrant for nap taking, there it is right there. Our Lord is taking a nap.
Now, have you ever been on a flight before and you go through severe turbulence?
Has that ever happened to you? The plane's going all over the place and everyone's upset, and you look around and there's always someone on the plane that's just sleeping through it. Have you seen this?
Don't you hate those people?
Well, the disciples are annoyed. They're annoyed at Jesus.
They think it's time for him to wake up and help.
And so what happens next is a couple, a series of rebukes. Look down at verse one. I'm going to show you. But Matthew's account, they're screaming, save us. Luke says they're saying, master, Master, we're perishing. And Mark adds this one incredible detail, and it's a rebuke.
Look at verse 38. And they woke him and said to him, listen to the rebuke. Teacher, do you not care that we're perishing?
Do you not care that we're perishing?
Sometimes questions are really rebukes in disguise.
So instead of helping them bail water from the boat that's being swamped, they find their master asleep.
Laura Lee captured it, the tone of this this week. She said, it's like they're saying, jesus, wake up and grab a bucket underneath. The question is really another question.
Jesus, you do care that we're perishing, right? The implication is they don't think he cares.
And in our darkest distress, all of us can be tempted, can't we, to begin to doubt that Jesus really cares for us.
So that's the first rebuke. Now Here comes the second rebuke. Look at verse 39.
The disciples rebuke Jesus and then Jesus rebukes the storm. Look at verse 39.
And so he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace, be still.
Jesus rebukes the winds and the waves. Only God does that, right?
Psalm 89. 9. We heard it earlier in the service. You rule the raging of the sea when its Waves rise, you still them.
Earlier in Mark's gospel, Jesus rebuked demons and they obeyed him. Chapter 1, verse 25. Here he rebukes nature and both obey his voice.
Jesus speaks to this massive mini hurricane like I speak to my dog Ripper, my little dog Ripper. He sees, he just wake. They wake him up. And he says to the hurricane, hush down now.
Be still, stay still.
The difference is the storm obeyed and Rippers never obeyed me once.
I can't even get my dog to obey me.
But what happens to this great storm when it hears the voice of its maker?
Look at verse 39, very end. What happens?
The wind ceased and there was a great calm. There's the word great again. Great storm, great calm.
Raging winds are stopped. 10,000 gallons of water are calmed. The sea is as smooth as crystal.
All in an instant. One mighty word.
From this Christ transformed chaos into peace.
One word megastorm transformed into megacalm in an instant.
In our darkest distress, Christ our Creator is mighty to save and worthy of trust. Beloved in his wonderful book, the Holiness of God. Many of you have read it. R.C. sproul says this about this passage. Jesus uttered a command, a divine imperative.
Instantly nature obeyed.
Listen to this. The wind heard the voice of its creator.
The sea recognized the command of its Lord.
We've gone from a great storm to a great calm. And then thirdly, and finally, that brings us to number three.
A great fear.
A great fear. Verses 40 to 41. A great fear. After calming the raging sea with a word, Jesus turns to his frightened disciples.
And he speaks a gentle word of exhortation.
And he does it in the form of two questions.
Look at verse 40. He said to them, why are you so afraid?
Have you still no faith?
Think about the disciples for a minute. They've had a front row seat of the majesty of Christ.
They've seen him give authoritative teaching. No one ever spoke like he did.
The scribes and the Pharisees couldn't even deal with him.
They've witnessed his miracles.
They've seen him heal with a touch.
They've seen him cast out demons with the Word.
But their faith in Jesus at this point is still small.
It should be bigger, but it's small.
In Matthew's account of this, he says, oh, Jesus, says them, O you, of what little faith?
They have faith.
They're trusting in Jesus, but it's little faith.
Now I'll ask you a question. We're going to come back to this later. But how do you hear these words of Christ?
Do you hear them as Words of stinging disappointment.
Do you hear them coming from a savior who's just frustrated with these guys who just don't get it?
Do you hear them as stern rebuke?
How do you hear the words of Christ?
Do you hear them as a patient, kind, merciful, diagnostic question from a savior who came into the world to rescue the perishing?
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Look at how the disciples respond.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Verse 41.
And they were filled with, here's the word again, great fear.
Now this is where you need to meditate for a second.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Okay?
[00:20:25] Speaker B: The disciples were afraid during the storm.
But then after Jesus delivers them from the storm, you would expect them to be high fiving, hooping and hollering, celebrating, wouldn't you?
They were about to die. Jesus wakes up, rebukes the storm and everything's peace.
So you would expect their fears to go down.
But Mark tells us the opposite happened.
When they saw Jesus do what he did, their fear increased.
It became greater fear.
Now if you're a college student, we're so glad you're here. If you're a freshman, we're delighted you're here. Some of you are going to take Psychology 101 this year and you're going to learn about a guy named Freud. And Freud said that we created religion.
We made up stuff like these fantasies and we, the reason we made religion was because we were really afraid of nature. And so we come up with these gods to like be between the really scary thing nature, because we need something to go between us because we can't deal with the fears of nature. You know, tornadoes, storms, things like that.
But notice this passage.
Take that Freud.
This is the opposite happens.
Nature is scary. And then all of a sudden they're more frightened.
Look again at verse 41. They were filled with great fear. And notice what did they say to one another?
Who then is this, Matthew? What manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?
They woke up Jesus because they had a bucket to give him.
But he didn't pick up the bucket.
He just got up and talked to a hurricane and it stopped.
What sort of man does that?
Who can do that?
When Luke gave his account of this, he added this phrase. They were afraid and it says, and they marveled, they were amazed, they were astonished, they were filled with awe struck fear.
These are Jewish fishermen, they know their Old Testament. They know Psalm 107, probably off by heart.
We read it earlier in the service. The only one who commands the winds and the waves and the sea and can still the mighty waves is the Lord God. Creator of the universe, the God of Israel.
Remember what we just. We just read earlier.
They cried to the Lord. This is Psalm 107. They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He made the storm be still and the waves of the sea were hushed.
By calming this storm on the Sea of Galilee. Please do not miss this. If you're not a Christian, please listen to this. Wake up and listen to this.
By calming this storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus shows once again that he has the power to do only what our creator God can do, because
[00:23:46] Speaker A: that's who he is.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: He is our creator, God in the flesh.
I heard John MacArthur say this one time, the only thing more terrifying than having a storm outside your boat is having Almighty God in your boat.
Who is this? That's the question you need to answer before you leave today. Who is this?
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the Son of the living God.
Jesus is the Holy One of Israel. Jesus is the one in whom by whom and for whom everything exists, including you.
He's the maker and sustainer of all things. He's holding all things in in the universe together by the word of his power.
He was in the beginning with God because He is God and all things were made through him. And for him, beloved, in our darkest distress, Christ our Creator is mighty to save and he's worthy of trust.
So that brings us to number four, a great Savior. What we're going to do now is just reflect on our great Savior and draw out two brief implications for our lives together from this passage. A great savior. Two implications, and we'll be done.
Number one, turn to the merciful Christ in your darkest distress.
Turn to the merciful Christ in your darkest distress.
It can feel in times of distress that the Lord doesn't care.
Our circumstances can feel like acid that eats away at our trust in the Lord.
And like these disciples, we begin to question and doubt.
Let me ask you this.
How would you complete this sentence this morning?
How would you complete this sentence? If God really cared for me, blank.
If God really cared for me, Blank. How would you fill that sentence out?
[00:26:03] Speaker A: All of us want to get out
[00:26:05] Speaker B: of distress right now, don't we? We want it to be over.
And we want often to get out of that distress through a solution we've come up with and we've offered it to God. And when he doesn't take our suggestions, we start to doubt and the problem seems to become bigger and God and his power begins to get smaller.
And we ask, Lord, do you Even care I'm perishing. Do you care for me?
Well, this passage reminds us, beloved, that our merciful Christ, he came into the world to save the perishing.
That is why he came.
The Son of man came to seek and to save the lost. Luke 19:10. He came to save the perishing. That is why he came.
So this passage is just a picture of what his whole mission was. To seek and to save the lost. And so Jesus, through the preaching of his gospel this morning, is asking us that question.
Why are you so afraid?
Why are you so afraid?
Have you still no faith?
I want to ask you. What? That's what I said earlier. What tone of voice? Do you hear Jesus saying that to you?
Do you hear it? Do you hear the Savior words, like he's scolding you?
Or do you hear a stern rebuke? Or do you hear him speak those words to us in a patient tone of love?
How you hear Christ's voice in Scripture shapes how you trust his heart towards you.
I'm going to say that again.
How you hear Christ's voice in scripture is how you trust. It shapes how you trust his heart towards you.
I believe Jesus words are to be heard like the words of a loving parent to a small child.
I'm right here with you in the storm.
Why are you so scared?
Don't you trust me?
How do I say that? Well, here's why. Just a few chapters later. Jesus is going to see a big
[00:28:33] Speaker A: great crowd on the shore.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: They're going to be this great crowd and they're going to be harassed and helpless.
[00:28:40] Speaker A: Remember?
[00:28:41] Speaker B: And Jesus sees this massive, harassed crowd, helpless crowd, and it says, Jesus saw them and he had compassion on them because they are like sheep without a shepherd. If Jesus sees the crowds and he has compassion on them, imagine how loving and full of mercy and tender kindness he is when he sees harassed and helpless disciples who love him and who are following him.
Jesus, love incarnate and love is patient. And I believe Jesus is being patient with disciples who. Yeah, they're slow to get it. But that's all of us, isn't it?
Praise God that he's merciful and slow to anger.
Listen to one of my favorite dead guys, J.C. ryle.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: He put it like this.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: He's talking about this passage. Just listen.
Jesus sees our weaknesses.
He's aware of our shortcomings.
He knows all the defects of our faith.
And yet he will not cast us off.
He bears with us continually.
He loves us to the end. He raises us when we fall. He restores us when we stray and Jesus has not changed, his heart is still the same now that it was when he crossed the Sea of Galilee and stilled the storm high in heaven, right now, at the right hand of God, Jesus is still sympathizing, still almighty, still pitiful, and still patient towards his people.
Amen.
So, O you of little faith, turn to Jesus.
Don't look at your weak faith. Turn and look at the merciful Lord of the storm.
Our failures are many, but his mercy is more.
It's our many failures that qualify us to receive mercy from his hand. They don't disqualify us. It qualifies us to go to him for mercy. Oh you of little faith, turn to Jesus.
Bring your fears to him, bring your doubts to him, bring your pain to him, bring your troubles to him. And you will be met with tender mercies and a listening ear and welcoming arms of grace.
Bring your weak faith to Jesus. Because the weakest believer in all the world gets the same strong courage. Christ in our darkest distress, beloved listen. Omnipotent mercy is on our side in Christ.
In our darkest distress, all powerful mercy is working for us and for our good friend. If you're not a follower of Jesus Christ, we are so glad that you're here. And I want you to know from this passage, you may be wondering, who is Jesus? That may be why you're here.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: Here.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: And this is the best place to be in a church that preaches the word of God. Because this book was written to teach us who Jesus is.
Who is Jesus?
This storm in Gospel of Mark wasn't the first storm Jesus was going to face. And it wasn't the last one.
At the end of Mark's Gospel, Andrew prayed about this earlier.
Jesus was underwent a far worse storm.
It was a storm of infinite wrath for sin.
Jesus bore the sin of anyone who would ever trust in him on the cross.
He took our sin. He died in our place for our sins, bearing the wrath of God that we deserved.
Every single one of us in this room is perishing eternally apart from Christ if we haven't trusted in Him. But for those who have trusted in Him. He was crucified in weakness. And on the third day he rose again from the dead. And this very morning Jesus Christ, the Lord of the storm, offers Himself to you. He holds out Himself to you to be received in the empty hands of faith.
Will you have Him?
Will you turn to this merciful Christ and trust in Him? All of us have fallen short of his glory, but he gives mercy to those who draw near to him by faith alone. You don't have to clean yourself up.
Bring your sins to Christ, and He will save you, Brothers and sisters. He's mighty enough to save us. And so that brings us to number two. This is shorter.
Treasure the mighty Christ in the fear of the Lord.
Treasure the mighty Christ in the fear of the Lord, brothers and sisters. This is a scary passage, isn't it?
[00:34:04] Speaker A: It's scary.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: This whole section of Mark's Gospel is scary. The thread of fear runs all the way through it.
Just in chapter five, you're going to have a legion of demons, chronic incurable disease, and even death itself. It's a scary passage.
Let me ask you, this morning, what are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of this morning?
What do you wake up at night, in the middle of the night, thinking about?
What are you afraid of?
This passage is intended, beloved, to help
[00:34:40] Speaker A: us to see Jesus Christ is mightier
[00:34:44] Speaker B: than anything we're afraid of.
Jesus is mightier than anything that's scaring you right now.
Jesus wants from this passage to replace your sinful fear with the fear of the Lord. He wants to take your lesser fear and increase your fear of the Lord. He wants to exchange your fear for a greater fear.
Sinful fear drives us away from Jesus.
The fear of the Lord drives us to Jesus.
The fear of the Lord causes us, when we're in a trial, to not turn our backs on him, but to run to him.
That's what the fear of the Lord looks like.
We turn to him and we treasure him, the one who can save us.
Write this down. Jeremiah 32:40. I love this verse.
God says this. I. I will put the fear of me in their hearts so that they may not turn from me.
Scott reminded me this week about Psalm 25:14. The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him.
Friends of God fear God.
They revere him. They adore him.
They look at God in their trials.
So saints treasure the mighty Christ in the fear of the Lord. There is nothing too hard for Jesus.
There is no sin so wicked that he cannot pardon.
There is no heart so hard that he cannot change.
There is no storm so strong that. That we cannot endure because we are being held in the grip of the Almighty Christ. And he will hold us fast.
The hands of the one who guides the storm, beloved, were pierced on Calvary for you, the one who's guiding the storm right now with his nail, pierced hands. He is for you, and he is not against you. And he's turning on all of these trials for our Good even when we don't see it.
And he's turning it all for his everlasting glory.
So serve him, Treasure him. Rejoice with trembling Treasure the mighty Christ in the fear of the Lord.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: Let me close with this.
[00:37:30] Speaker B: I love the Dutch master Rembrandt. He's my favorite artist.
He actually painted this passage in a painting. It's called the Storm of the Sea of Galilee. It's his only seascape. Some of you have seen it before, probably either in person or on the Internet.
Sadly, it was stolen in 1990. It's never been seen since. So you're going to have to see it on the Internet.
If you look closely at his depiction of the Sea of Galilee, the storm on the sea, you notice there's Jesus. And then you. You would expect 12 disciples, but there's not 12. There's 13 people in the boat besides Jesus.
And you start looking and counting them all up, and you notice there's a 13th Disciple that's not looking at the storm.
He's looking directly at you from the boat.
And it's Rembrandt.
He painted himself in the boat with Jesus and the disciples.
Rembrandt paid in himself in the boat to remind us that really all of Christ's disciples are in the boat in that storm, in the storm that we face in this life.
Either Jesus can get us to the other side or he can't.
And we believe that he will.
And that may be the lingering question you have this morning, the fear that you're wondering, will we make it through to the other side of the storm?
Remember, back in verse 35, it was Jesus idea to go across to the other side. Remember? Let us go across to the other side.
Why? Why would Jesus lead His disciples straight into a storm? Because through this storm, through this trial on the sea, Jesus revealed the glory that he has, that he's had since before the world began.
The magnificent glory of Christ, our Creator.
And Jesus keeps His word, doesn't he?
All those disciples made it to the other side, didn't they? He didn't lose one. Look at chapter five, verse one. They came to the other side of the. See, you can trust His Word because he's utterly trustworthy. Beloved, we will make it through the storm because Jesus is our captain.
With his faithful love and abounding mercy, Jesus will lead all those he has redeemed. And he will guide us by his almighty power.
And he will guide us safely through the darkest storms of this life to his holy dwelling on the farther shore where we shall dwell in safety and joy in a wonderful new world of love.
And he will be our light, and we will reign with him forever and ever in our darkest distress. Christ our Creator, is mighty to save and he is worthy of trust.
Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name
[00:40:50] Speaker A: of the Lord and rely on his God.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: Would you pray with me?
