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Joshua Kehler: Let's
go to Acts chapter 27.

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Almost the end of the book.

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Acts.

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Twenty seven.

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Yes.

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There you go.

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verse six we'll pick up.

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Acts 27.

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There the centurion found a
ship of Alexandria sailing

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for Italy and put us on board.

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We sailed slowly for a number of days and
arrived with difficulty off of Sinaitis.

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And as the wind did not allow us
to go further, we sailed under

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the lee of Crete off Salomon.

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Coasting along it with difficulty, we
came to a place called Fair Havens,

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near which was the city of Elissa.

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Since much time had passed, and the
voyage was now dangerous because even

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the fast was already over, Paul advised
them saying, Sirs, I perceive that this

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voyage will be with injury and much loss.

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Not only of the cargo and
the ship, but also all of us.

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But the centurion paid more attention
to the pilot and to the owner of

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the ship than to what Paul said.

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And because the harbor was not suitable
to spend winter in, the majority

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decided to put out to sea from there,
on the chance that somehow they could

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reach Phoenix, a harbor in Crete.

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Facing both southwest and northwest,
and spend the winter there.

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Verse 13, Now when the south wind blew
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their purpose, they weighed anchor and
sailed along Crete, close to the shore.

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But soon a tempestuous wind, called the
northeaster, struck down from the land,

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and when the ship was caught, and could
not face the wind, we gave way to it.

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And we're driven along running under
the lead of a small Island called Kata.

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We manage with difficulty to secure
the ship's boat after hoisting it up.

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They use support to undergird
the ship, then fearing that they

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would run aground on Certis.

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They lowered the gear and
thus they were driven along.

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Since we were violently storm tossed, they
began the next day to jettison the cargo.

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And on the third day, they
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overboard with their own hands.

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When neither sun nor stars appeared
for many days, and no small tempest

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lay on us, all hope of our being
saved was at last abandoned.

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Luke's such a good writer.

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Since they had been without food for a
long time, Paul stood up among them and

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said, Men, you should have listened to
me, and not have set sail from Crete

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and incurred this injury and loss.

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Yet now I urge you to take heart, for
there will be no loss of life among

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you, but only of the ship, for this
very night there stood before me.

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An angel of the God to whom
I belong, and whom I worship.

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And he said, Do not be afraid, Paul.

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You must stand before Caesar.

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And behold, God has granted you
all those who sail with you.

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So take heart, men, for I have
faith in God that it will be

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exactly as I have been told.

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But we must run aground on some island.

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When the fourteenth night had come,
as we were driven across the Adriatic

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Sea, about midnight the sailors
suspected that they were nearing land.

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So they took a sounding
and found twenty fathoms.

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A little further on they took a sounding
and again found fifteen fathoms.

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And fearing that we might run on the
rocks, they let down four anchors from

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the stern and prayed for a day to come.

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And as the sailors were seeking to escape
from the ship, and had lowered the ship's

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boat into the sea under pretense of laying
out anchors from the bow, Paul said to the

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centurion and the soldiers, Unless these
men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.

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Then the soldiers cut away the ropes
of the ship's boat and let it go.

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As day was about to dawn, Paul urged
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Today is the fourteenth day that
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without food, having taken nothing.

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Therefore I urge you to take
some food, for it will give you

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strength, and not a hair is to
perish from the head of any of you.

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And when he had said these things, He
took bread, and giving thanks to God

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in the presence of all, he broke it.

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Then they were all encouraged
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We were all 276 persons in the
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enough, they lightened the ship,
throwing out the wheat into the sea.

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Now when it was day, they did not
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a bay with a beach on which they
planned to possibly run ashore.

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So they cast off the anchors and let
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loosening the ropes that tied the rudders,
then hoisting the foresail, they To the

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wind they made for the beach, but striking
a reef, they ran the vessel aground, the

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bow struck and remained immovable, and
the stern was being broken up by the surf.

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The soldier's plan was to kill the
prisoners lest any of them should

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swim away and escape, but the
centurion wishing to save Paul kept

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them from carrying out their plan.

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He ordered those who could swim
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make for the land, and the rest on
planks or on pieces of the ship.

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And so it was that all were
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This is the word of the Lord.

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Father, what a beautiful
paradox of a story.

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And, Lord, as we peer into eternity, help
us to see your majesty and your glory

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and your greatness and your goodness
and your nearness to see, Lord, the

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freedom you've given us, as human beings.

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And so God, we just
pray you'd encourage us.

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And again, We want to be people who
aren't tossed about by every wind that

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blows along, whether it be the wind
of weird doctrine or the circumstances

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that the storm represents, suffering
in hard times, evil and injustice.

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And so God root us right now, anchor
us into who you are as sovereign

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king of the universe for your
glory and our good in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen i've always known that god has
me somewhere when it comes to work

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Because he's always blessed what
i've done like weirdly like It.

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My dad used to call it the Midas
touch, and then he, if it was bad,

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he'd call it the minus touch, and King
Midas turns things to gold and so I've

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just always had this I don't know.

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I remember walking into a job and you,
we had 20 electricians scrambling around.

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And they're like, you do something.

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We got to get this power back on.

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it was a, like five story building.

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And I'm like, I don't know what to do.

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And I just looked at the
gear and put my hands on it.

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It was all, I kid you not.

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They're like, what'd you do?

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I'm all, the flex capacitor was
incapacitated, and it was crazy.

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and so I've just, that's just always
been something that God just doesn't He

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just blesses and, there's favor there and
until, we're down in, Santa Barbara and it

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started good or we were living in Ventura.

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but we'd moved down there to be raised
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as an electrician in the meantime,
went back to work and things were

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great and had favor and everything.

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And then I hit this season where
everything I touch was a disaster.

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And I could not wrap my mind around it.

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I hadn't changed anything.

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my prescription and my
glasses was the same.

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like I, there was no human explanation
except like disaster followed me.

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water leaking into a clean room where
they make computer parts, really bad.

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just.

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My foreman pulled me aside and he said,
Hey, I'm going to ask you a question.

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Are you cursed?

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And, I said, maybe.

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and so was, and I've
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Is did I miss the plan?

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Am I Jonah?

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Did I go off track?

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Is God sending a storm after me?

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Is he chasing me down because
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Did we move down here?

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and God's that was not the right plan.

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Boom.

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And, I've struggled with that all my life.

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the idea that, am I, where God has
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Am I going to, am I going to
miss something to the point

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where then I'll be so worried.

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that I'm missing something.

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Then I fluctuate to the other side
where I get this cynical and different

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attitude where it's I don't care.

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I don't care about the plan.

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Like I don't care.

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God can do what he wants to do.

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And I fluctuate between these two
things where it's like somebody on

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a teeter totter, really not very
simple, just wondering why God, why?

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What are you doing?

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And are you doing a good job?

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And maybe if you're there, maybe it's
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Is there a plan B?

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Is there a plan C?

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In my case, is there a plan F?

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have I fooled myself into thinking

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that this is just brokenness you're
taking me through to refine me?

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When really you were done with
me and, and so a real wrestle.

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I remember asking the pastor at the time.

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I said, I think I'm going to quit.

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I was ready to go that day and quit.

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and I stopped to talk to him first.

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I said, I think I'm Jonah because God
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a storm that I've never experienced.

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It's a storm that I wake up every
day knowing I'm going to fail.

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That's really hard for me.

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every day I would drive.

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I felt that like grit, that stress in
the back of your throat, where your

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teeth are almost clenched a little bit.

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your throat's tight.

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And I just drove to work
knowing I'm going to fail again.

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And he said, maybe he said,
but maybe you're not Jonah.

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Maybe you're in the boat with Jesus.

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And he wants to show you that
he's the Lord of the storm.

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I learned so much from
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it changed my life.

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And this is a very real wrestle, I
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People in the world have.

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Fate, determinism, is everything set?

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versus, this free will.

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it's a clean slate.

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I make it up as I go.

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Doc Brown, right?

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Back to the Future.

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Marty, the future is what you make of it.

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is that it?

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Like the future is what you make of it.

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Because in my mind, you take that
out to its ultimate conclusion.

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you change one thing, and back to
the future, he changes one thing,

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and now his parents are cool,
and they're not nerds, right?

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That's cool, and people love that story.

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Ray Bradbury, a science fiction
writer, he talks about stepping on

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a butterfly in the past, going back
in time, and the city, disappears.

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and that's how I think, is that
much, Do I have that much control?

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Like where, like the, if I'm one
thing off, how many domino effects,

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are going to tip and knock this one
down and knock this one down and knock

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this one down and knock this one down.

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How many lives are
impacted by my poor choice?

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I think about my family.

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Am I dragging my family?

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You know here there because this
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have am I ruining their lives?

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What about where they grow up?

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What about all these things?

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What about the community
that they lost when you know?

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We left real like in the heartbreak that
ensued like god like what is going on?

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did I make the wrong decision?

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Or is it like the calvinist who fell
down the stairs and got up and said?

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I'm glad that's over.

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where it's all, it's all done.

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it's all, one leads you to be paralyzed
and one can lead you to be passive.

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Everything's fixed.

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Everything's written
or it's a clean slate.

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And now.

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It's all up to you.

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And so I came across this story in
the book of acts about the ship and

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it rescued me from this wrestle.

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And I go back to it again and again.

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And when I think about, our
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constantly Go back to the story.

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So I want to share it
with you this morning.

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Now it's important to know that
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was a picture of evil and chaos.

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I think we know that we
just talked about Jonah.

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The voyage that they go on and hitting
the storms and the difficulty they had.

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It's a metaphor for life.

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that in Greek literature all the time.

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And they would write these stories
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the person in the midst of the storm.

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Who are you?

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And Greek literature was filled
with these kinds of stories.

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And remember, Luke's audience is
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why this story of the shipwreck?

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Why this certain story?

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We know that Paul was in at
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Do you want him aboard your ship?

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I don't know.

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That he talked about, and Luke
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beauty and the power of the story.

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And to do it in such a way
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the ancient culture of the day.

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It was, because it was a storytelling
culture and Luke says, I have a real

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story and it gives you unlimited
resources to deal with the storms of

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life and that wonder and that confusion.

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So how can we, because you look at Paul
in the story and he's so even keel.

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Paul is just he's he's
like ministry to people.

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He's taking care of things.

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He's the captain.

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It's almost like he said,
I'm the captain now.

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he's just, he's everybody's scrambling.

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Everybody's terrified.

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And he, how couldn't we be like him?

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And This passage has so much to say,
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and the lessons of the voyage.

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A little bit of background as
we jump into the book of Acts.

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Paul's been accused of teaching
things contrary to the law of Moses.

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And starting riots all because of his
teaching about Jesus, the resurrected

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Jesus, about grace, about Jesus,
fulfilling the law, about it being faith

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and trusting in Christ and what he's
done for you, not what you do for him.

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And that's just blown up.

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In fact, somebody says in the book
of acts, these people have come and

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they've turned the world upside down.

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So cool.

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Or right side up.

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And He's disturbing now at this point as
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Peace of Rome, and Paul gave a defense
before Felix, the governor of Caesarea,

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who kept Paul in custody for two years.

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Then he spoke before Governor
Festus and King Agrippa using

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this amazing opportunity to what?

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Use theological reasoning,
philosophical arguments.

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No, as he's in the presence of these
powerful people He gives him his

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testimony, the undeniable power of what
Jesus does when he gets ahold of him.

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And Paul, knowing that Festus
wants to feed him to the religious

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leaders to be killed, he appeals
to have his case heard in Rome.

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And Paul knows that God is
calling him to testify there.

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Earlier in the book of Acts, in Acts
23 11, he says, The following night,

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the Lord stood by him and said, Take
courage, for as you have testified to

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the facts about me in Jerusalem, so
you must testify also to the truth.

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in Rome.

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So God shows up and he's Hey,
testify and enjoy your slum.

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I'm going to send you to Rome.

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So in Paul's mind, he's
good as done, right?

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Which is amazing.

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And so Paul takes that opportunity
as he's before King Rippa.

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He's I appeal my case.

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I'm a Roman citizen.

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And, and so they send him on
this long journey to Rome.

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As the narrative of Acts leaves
the area of Israel now, and it sets

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sights on Rome, it's beautiful.

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John Stott says the commentator,
Luke shows that the Jerusalem

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That Jerusalem and its temple are
not indispensable to the church.

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That the gospel is to go out
into the rest of the world.

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As God told him, you're
to testify of me in Rome.

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The spread of the gospel.

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So Luke is with Paul on this.

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He uses we language
through the whole thing.

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And, he's the writer of the book of Acts.

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And, he's got a first hand
account of this story.

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And he's not just Having it
handed down, to him, verbally.

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so they come to the point
of, Mera, verse six.

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There the centurion found a
ship of Alexandria sailing

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for Italy and put us on board.

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Most likely a grain ship, where
they throw the wheat off at the end.

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Egypt was the main supplier of
grain to the Roman Empire, and Rome

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controlled the supply of grain.

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That's why the centurion has
the final say in decisions.

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Above what the ship
captains were saying, right?

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because even though this wasn't
a ship, he was the highest rank.

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So Paul, Luke, and they have somebody
else who's going to take a gift, from

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Rome, the Roman church back to Jerusalem,
Aristarchus, or among the other

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prisoners, there was this whole crew.

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This whole boat was filled with different
kinds of people, thieves and criminals.

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Perhaps those with death
sentences already hanging over

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their head on their way to Rome.

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To be sport for the arenas.

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There were the sailors and the soldiers
and the grain merchants, people

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from many backgrounds, some wealthy.

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So I'm not having a denarius
to their name, and they're

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all in this ship together.

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276 people and all right, and they're
all on this journey together, this little

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diverse city on a boat, little town on a
boat that takes months and months to get

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where you're going with much difficulty.

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For seven and eight, say they slowly
made their way to the port of safe haven.

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And then in verse nine and 10, Paul gives
his advice since much time has passed,

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the voyage was now dangerous because.

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Even the fast was already over.

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Paul advised them saying, sirs, I
perceive that the voyage will be

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with injury and much loss, not only
of the cargo and the ship, but also.

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of our lives.

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So he warns them.

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He's this isn't a good idea.

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And Paul knew his stuff, right?

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He says, three times I was beaten with
rods in second Corinthians 11, 25.

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Once I was stoned three times,
I was shipwrecked at night

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and day and as a drift at sea.

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so he's got a feeling about these things.

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He's gone down.

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These other people, we don't know if
they've been shipwrecked, but Paul's Hey,

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I'm a journeyman, this is a bad idea.

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You're going to lose.

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There's going to be a loss in this.

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some have calculated Paul's travels by sea
and came up with at least 3, 500 miles.

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He finally got the frequent sailor
point card credit card, right

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before that.

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So weather was already getting bad.

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They had a hard time getting into port.

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So they're trying to decide.

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Where they were, they couldn't winter
there, because of how cold it got and

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the, and so they were going to try
to make it to another port that was

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about 45 miles away where they could
winter, and then so they set off and

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Paul's no, we got to find another way.

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There's going to be tremendous, loss.

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So this is crazy.

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The shipwreck, right?

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or verse 11 and 12, the centurion
listens to the advice of the sailors.

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Of course, he would take
their advice over a prisoner.

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Yeah.

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It's Paul, remember you're in chains
and these guys do this for a living.

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You are a preacher.

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we hear they don't have many
skills, outside of that.

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and so of course he'd take their advice.

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they won't, they won't make it
to Rome before winter, but they

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want a better place to harbor
for the next couple of months.

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So the shipwreck verse, 13,
they're lured into a false sense

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of security by the southern breeze.

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So they start out and it's
oh, we have a good day.

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And they're like, Paul, they didn't
know what he was talking about.

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Go back to your commentaries.

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And, and they just sail, determined
to sail for just 40 more miles.

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In verse 14, but soon a
tempestuous wind called the

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norther struck down from the land.

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This is the dreaded storm in wintertime
that they would not sail during that.

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That's why there wouldn't
be ships on the sea.

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The wor word literally means whirlwind.

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Hurricane typhoon, worse than the end
of the Pirates of the Caribbean three,

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where there's the whole whirlpool,
that is just this crazy storm.

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So the boat is blown off course
by the wind in the storm.

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In verse 16 it says running under the
lee of a small island of Kata, we managed

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with difficulty to secure the ship's boat.

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So they're blown 25 miles off
the course this far in verse 16.

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But by the time they crash on
the island of Malta, they're

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blown 475 miles off the course.

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That's a crazy storm.

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That's nuts.

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Because the wave and the wind are crashing
so hard against the ship, they run

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ropes under the ship and tie together
so that the ship will hold together.

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They secure the lifeboat that
had probably filled with water.

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Great difficulty to do that.

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Each day they begin to get rid of
things they didn't need to lighten

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the boat so they wouldn't run aground.

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Cause they're trying to stay as
close to the shore as possible.

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So they don't, blow out
into the vastness of sea.

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they threw over the
support of the main mast.

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They threw the cargo over, then
they threw the tackle over.

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And as verse 20 says, hope was lost.

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We had abandoned all hope of being saved.

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In verse 15, the way that in the
Greek, it's beautiful that the

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storm is, it's called, it says.

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They faced the wind eye to eye.

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That's the idea.

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The storm was staring
them right in the face.

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Have you ever had this storm?

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Because we weather storms a lot.

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But then there's the one that looks you
in the eye and says, I know your number.

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I'm coming for you.

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That stares you down and there are times
in life where you've exercised all your

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vast resources, but that storm comes and
looks you right in the eye and you'll be

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overcome and it sweeps you into the deep.

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And it leads to this verse 20,
this deep darkness, this darkness

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of night, this darkness of soul.

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So dark.

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They can't see no direction, completely
lost, not knowing where they're going.

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They couldn't, the scripture
says they couldn't.

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They couldn't see the stars.

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They couldn't even find out because
they would use the stars, as a

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map and a guide to know where
they were to locate as a chart.

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and so they're just
completely, lost at sea.

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In that moment, you find out who
you are and what you really believe.

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ballast for your life and
an anchor for your soul.

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Have you faced those times, the times
where it's you're like, I can go this far,

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but one inch more and it will break me.

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And God's like, how about two feet more?

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Because he's good.

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So 14 days and nights in
the darkness and the storm.

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Nowhere they are, they
can't use the stars.

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They didn't have compasses.

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They suddenly, they hear the crashing
of waves, which means land is close.

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So they took a measurement.

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20 fathoms or 120 feet.

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Then as they wait a little
longer and they take another

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measurement, 15 fathoms or 90 feet.

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So they're actually getting close
to land, but they can't see.

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And the land was rapidly
approaching and it was night.

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So they let out their anchors and
they'd try to make it to the beach

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in the morning, verse 30 and 32.

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And as the sailors were seeking
to escape from the ship.

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So the sailors were like.

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Guys, let's just leave this, let's
get out of here, this is insane,

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lands right there, like we're so
close, we'll take the lifeboats.

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And so they tell him, they're like,
oh yeah, so we gotta go to the front

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of the ship and let down some anchors.

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And they're like, anchors
on the front of the ship?

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I thought those were already down.

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And Paul is like paying
attention to all this.

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Which is amazing.

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and so he says to the centurion,
unless these men stay in the

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ship, you cannot be saved.

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Then the soldiers cut away the ropes
of the ship's boat and let it go.

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They start listening to Paul.

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That's amazing.

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like they're like,
Paul, you're a preacher.

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And then all of a sudden through
that time, his calm and composure,

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his peace, his joy in the midst of
the storm, everybody turns to him.

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And it's he's Otherwise,
we're all going to perish and

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they're like, you got it, Paul.

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That doesn't make sense.

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You don't get rid of the lifeboats.

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He's that's fascinating.

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Fascinating.

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and Paul stands up and tells
them to eat a meal, right?

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It's been 14 days since they have eaten.

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Therefore, I urge you to take some food.

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It will give you strength for
not a hair is to perish from

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your head from any of you.

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We might come back to that because
Luke is remembering Jesus saying

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that in Luke 21 about the, not
a hair perishing from your head.

465
00:25:04,797 --> 00:25:06,367
He breaks bread before them.

466
00:25:06,377 --> 00:25:06,437
Thank you.

467
00:25:06,612 --> 00:25:09,482
And gives God thanks, man,
that's communion language, right?

468
00:25:09,482 --> 00:25:12,482
There's hands and he gives God thanks
and he breaks the bread, right?

469
00:25:12,982 --> 00:25:13,672
Beautiful.

470
00:25:14,102 --> 00:25:17,812
They're all encouraged and they throw
the rest of the wheat into the sea to

471
00:25:17,812 --> 00:25:19,332
make the ship as light as possible.

472
00:25:19,342 --> 00:25:25,052
So they're like the reason we're
doing this trip into the sea.

473
00:25:25,612 --> 00:25:28,472
And that's our last meal.

474
00:25:29,532 --> 00:25:31,522
I just am fascinated.

475
00:25:32,327 --> 00:25:38,037
With the command and the trust that
Paul has of everybody on board the ship.

476
00:25:38,727 --> 00:25:42,977
So first the soldiers are the
center ends, then the sailors.

477
00:25:43,267 --> 00:25:47,187
And now the wheat merchants, like people
are just like, yeah, let's get rid of it.

478
00:25:47,197 --> 00:25:49,677
Who knows, if we're going to be
out here for another two weeks, 14.

479
00:25:49,677 --> 00:25:51,717
Do you let's go, let's get it off.

480
00:25:51,767 --> 00:25:52,507
it's amazing.

481
00:25:52,567 --> 00:25:58,297
And sometimes God breaks towards it
in our lives so that people see the

482
00:25:58,297 --> 00:25:59,927
anchor for our souls in the midst of it.

483
00:26:01,847 --> 00:26:05,277
It's not always, it, God
works on many levels.

484
00:26:06,222 --> 00:26:11,322
And he's refining us, and he's, purifying,
and he's making us more like himself.

485
00:26:11,512 --> 00:26:19,892
But he's also putting on display what God
does in a life that finds its rest in him.

486
00:26:19,972 --> 00:26:24,092
Hides in the shadow of his wings.

487
00:26:25,222 --> 00:26:27,722
That is bizarre to a watching world.

488
00:26:28,052 --> 00:26:31,632
There are times I don't, I'm not
trying, I don't go, I don't go

489
00:26:31,632 --> 00:26:33,882
to work, and I'm not like, okay.

490
00:26:34,387 --> 00:26:38,727
Let me read the 10 things I need
to do today to represent Christ.

491
00:26:40,637 --> 00:26:43,777
I have people pull me aside and they
say, tell me about the piece you have.

492
00:26:44,097 --> 00:26:48,247
You just found out this
deadline and you've smiled.

493
00:26:48,897 --> 00:26:51,267
Like they don't want to say that
in front of anybody, but they're

494
00:26:51,267 --> 00:26:54,237
just like, what do you have?

495
00:26:55,237 --> 00:26:57,407
We had this one, and this
is when I was an apprentice.

496
00:26:57,867 --> 00:27:03,577
We had this one guy, he was the epitome
of the superintendent construction worker.

497
00:27:04,577 --> 00:27:05,477
Hey, Josh!

498
00:27:06,397 --> 00:27:06,887
Hey!

499
00:27:07,417 --> 00:27:09,707
Hey, I didn't just foul.

500
00:27:10,487 --> 00:27:13,757
I didn't just, oh, just showing you stuff.

501
00:27:14,537 --> 00:27:16,817
Just trying to get you to, Oh,
I heard you're a Christian.

502
00:27:16,827 --> 00:27:20,697
just, I'm gonna go after you, And then
we showed up at a job like a year later.

503
00:27:21,877 --> 00:27:23,517
He ran in and gave us a hug.

504
00:27:24,157 --> 00:27:25,867
He's I'm like, whoa, what's going on?

505
00:27:25,897 --> 00:27:26,567
Are you okay?

506
00:27:27,477 --> 00:27:28,417
and he is, I got saved.

507
00:27:29,872 --> 00:27:32,042
And, he's all, I'm born again.

508
00:27:32,042 --> 00:27:33,172
it's like I'm saved.

509
00:27:33,172 --> 00:27:37,777
And he told us we were 19.

510
00:27:37,782 --> 00:27:40,177
I was 19, my brother was 17.

511
00:27:41,177 --> 00:27:44,817
He said, I saw so much peace in your life.

512
00:27:45,847 --> 00:27:49,027
And when I was at my worst,
my wife was leaving me.

513
00:27:49,407 --> 00:27:51,027
I was living in a hotel room.

514
00:27:51,327 --> 00:27:52,527
I was ready to end it.

515
00:27:53,822 --> 00:27:54,612
I thought of you guys.

516
00:27:55,132 --> 00:27:56,742
That's crazy.

517
00:27:57,782 --> 00:27:58,612
That's insane.

518
00:27:59,062 --> 00:28:02,962
And we're not, again, that's
Christ in us, the hope of glory.

519
00:28:02,962 --> 00:28:04,882
that's, we are fools.

520
00:28:05,282 --> 00:28:09,462
There are plenty of times that I'm
anxious and I just shared that I'm

521
00:28:09,572 --> 00:28:11,982
wondering about God's sovereign plan.

522
00:28:12,212 --> 00:28:16,492
But when he gets a hold of your heart
and he's an anchor, it's mind blowing.

523
00:28:16,567 --> 00:28:21,637
and we need to be out there in these
little towns on this journey together

524
00:28:22,057 --> 00:28:24,047
where we experience storms together

525
00:28:25,047 --> 00:28:26,117
so that they can see that.

526
00:28:26,117 --> 00:28:30,867
So he stands up, tells him to
eat a meal, he breaks bread.

527
00:28:31,667 --> 00:28:34,457
so he catches those who
are going to try to escape.

528
00:28:36,337 --> 00:28:41,317
And the soldiers then, as the ship
begins to break apart, because they do

529
00:28:41,317 --> 00:28:44,807
run aground on the rocks, they're like,
let's put these prisoners to death.

530
00:28:45,147 --> 00:28:46,167
let's kill them right here.

531
00:28:46,507 --> 00:28:50,277
And, because if they let a prisoner
escape, you remember the jailer.

532
00:28:50,667 --> 00:28:53,447
and Paul, then they would
be under penalty of death.

533
00:28:53,477 --> 00:28:54,787
It was their death sentence.

534
00:28:55,357 --> 00:28:57,657
And the centurion is no,
we're not doing this.

535
00:28:57,747 --> 00:29:02,837
And again, I hope you're
starting to see God told Paul,

536
00:29:04,557 --> 00:29:06,247
everybody's going to be saved.

537
00:29:07,157 --> 00:29:12,827
And yet there's tremendous
work saying this has to happen.

538
00:29:14,367 --> 00:29:16,327
Otherwise we'll be lost.

539
00:29:16,457 --> 00:29:21,107
Very interesting.

540
00:29:23,007 --> 00:29:24,227
And we're about to get into that.

541
00:29:24,837 --> 00:29:28,277
But the centurion wishing to save Paul
kept them from carrying out their plan.

542
00:29:28,287 --> 00:29:31,217
He ordered those who could swim
to jump overboard first and to

543
00:29:31,217 --> 00:29:34,517
make for the land and the rest on
planks or on pieces of the ship.

544
00:29:34,767 --> 00:29:38,667
And so it was that all were
brought safely to land.

545
00:29:38,667 --> 00:29:40,677
So again, that's the story.

546
00:29:40,677 --> 00:29:41,547
That's what's happened.

547
00:29:42,287 --> 00:29:46,857
So the lessons, the sovereignty
of God and human responsibility.

548
00:29:47,907 --> 00:29:54,517
Now, while there's a ton of mystery in
this topic, always be a little Suspicious

549
00:29:55,107 --> 00:30:02,547
of someone who said they've figured out
God or a theology that says this We got it

550
00:30:03,547 --> 00:30:08,427
to God you know a thousand years is
a minute a million dollars a penny

551
00:30:08,587 --> 00:30:15,987
like quantum physics is amazing
like light as we Thought for years.

552
00:30:16,057 --> 00:30:19,387
We, I throw myself in there,
traveled in waves, right?

553
00:30:19,567 --> 00:30:21,737
And then people were like,
oh no, it's particles.

554
00:30:21,767 --> 00:30:25,397
And then it's, we realized, it's
both depending on how it's observed.

555
00:30:25,407 --> 00:30:26,497
That doesn't make sense.

556
00:30:26,497 --> 00:30:27,587
It can't be both.

557
00:30:28,547 --> 00:30:30,277
It has to be one or the other.

558
00:30:30,987 --> 00:30:32,237
Light can't change.

559
00:30:32,237 --> 00:30:34,337
It can't change in a format like that.

560
00:30:34,437 --> 00:30:35,947
It can't be both.

561
00:30:35,947 --> 00:30:36,687
It's both.

562
00:30:37,217 --> 00:30:38,477
And they're trying to figure that out.

563
00:30:39,167 --> 00:30:40,977
They can't, they're having a hard time.

564
00:30:42,557 --> 00:30:45,007
I, that's my residency.

565
00:30:45,007 --> 00:30:45,287
Yes.

566
00:30:46,607 --> 00:30:54,747
As an electrician for me, light deals
in shocks and no travels that way.

567
00:30:55,387 --> 00:31:01,027
I don't know how it works in
the mystery of God, but I know

568
00:31:01,027 --> 00:31:02,507
how it's worked in my life

569
00:31:03,507 --> 00:31:04,587
where I like, yeah.

570
00:31:05,587 --> 00:31:11,057
Use wisdom in community, get advice,
make the best choice that I can.

571
00:31:12,057 --> 00:31:15,817
And think that while I really blew it,
maybe I need a new community and just

572
00:31:15,817 --> 00:31:22,897
kidding, and now I'm on plan B and yet
I go a little further down the road

573
00:31:23,637 --> 00:31:27,057
and I look back at God's sovereign hand
and realize that's plan a all along.

574
00:31:28,487 --> 00:31:29,627
That's crazy.

575
00:31:30,577 --> 00:31:32,627
Can you mess up God's plan?

576
00:31:33,627 --> 00:31:35,177
Has he already determined
everything doesn't matter

577
00:31:35,177 --> 00:31:37,957
what you do beautiful, right?

578
00:31:39,867 --> 00:31:43,927
I don't know how it works, but I know
how it's worked in my life It is at the

579
00:31:43,927 --> 00:31:48,277
same time intensely practical or every
day lives as we walk through life and

580
00:31:48,277 --> 00:31:52,557
life storms And while people constantly
try to pit these two things together and

581
00:31:52,557 --> 00:31:58,062
against each other CH Spurgeon said when
Spurgeon was asked How do you reconcile

582
00:31:58,062 --> 00:31:59,322
God's sovereignty and man's free will?

583
00:31:59,322 --> 00:32:02,072
He responded, I never have
to reconcile two friends.

584
00:32:02,252 --> 00:32:02,762
Ever.

585
00:32:04,282 --> 00:32:05,912
Did you notice verse 23 and 24?

586
00:32:05,922 --> 00:32:08,612
For this very night there stood
before me an angel of God to

587
00:32:08,612 --> 00:32:11,202
whom I belong and whom I worship.

588
00:32:12,022 --> 00:32:16,482
And he said, do not be afraid,
Paul, you must stand before Caesar.

589
00:32:16,497 --> 00:32:22,147
And behold, God has granted you
all those who sail with you.

590
00:32:22,917 --> 00:32:27,197
a messenger from the Lord said,
this is from the mouth of God,

591
00:32:27,537 --> 00:32:30,737
everybody's going to be saved, and
you're going to testify before Caesar.

592
00:32:32,307 --> 00:32:35,027
it's decided in the sovereign
plan of God, it's done.

593
00:32:35,997 --> 00:32:39,177
In Numbers 23 and 19 it says, God is
not a man that he should lie, or son

594
00:32:39,177 --> 00:32:41,517
of man that he should change his mind.

595
00:32:42,377 --> 00:32:45,167
when you're reminded about something,
you don't have all the information.

596
00:32:45,557 --> 00:32:48,917
God has all the information, so
he never has to change his mind.

597
00:32:49,587 --> 00:32:52,927
He doesn't encounter a new,
something out of the blue.

598
00:32:52,947 --> 00:32:54,257
Nothing takes him by surprise.

599
00:32:54,257 --> 00:32:55,297
He's got it all.

600
00:32:55,297 --> 00:32:56,687
He knows all things.

601
00:32:57,037 --> 00:32:58,627
Omniscience, it's called.

602
00:32:59,947 --> 00:33:04,057
He said, he has said it, Numbers
says, and will he not do it?

603
00:33:04,782 --> 00:33:07,822
Or has he spoken and
will he not fulfill it?

604
00:33:08,562 --> 00:33:11,912
That's why sometimes even we talk
about God's promises is almost

605
00:33:11,912 --> 00:33:15,822
like this, Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

606
00:33:16,582 --> 00:33:19,962
it's, yeah, it's, almost you're
betting on somebody and you got

607
00:33:19,962 --> 00:33:23,032
some inside information, and I'm
putting a lot of money on this

608
00:33:23,032 --> 00:33:25,622
because I told this, he's good.

609
00:33:26,852 --> 00:33:32,222
No, his promises are the facts
of how he's written the story.

610
00:33:32,527 --> 00:33:37,587
They're not like, maybe it'll happen,
they're yay and amen to who God is.

611
00:33:37,977 --> 00:33:43,367
Is there anything that can change this
outcome that he's declared to Paul?

612
00:33:43,477 --> 00:33:47,587
Is there anything that can change this
outcome in the sovereign plan of God?

613
00:33:48,287 --> 00:33:48,697
No.

614
00:33:49,347 --> 00:33:54,107
But then notice, and here's the
tension, Paul said to the centurion

615
00:33:54,107 --> 00:33:58,547
and soldiers, unless these men stay
in the ship, you cannot be saved.

616
00:33:59,757 --> 00:34:00,377
Wow.

617
00:34:01,097 --> 00:34:02,747
Paul's seen, we all make it.

618
00:34:02,887 --> 00:34:09,036
Why doesn't Paul go down like
Jonah into the depths of the

619
00:34:09,036 --> 00:34:10,947
boat and just take a nap?

620
00:34:11,547 --> 00:34:14,806
God told him he can kick
back and watch the show.

621
00:34:15,297 --> 00:34:18,437
He can kick back and
watch the story unfold.

622
00:34:18,677 --> 00:34:21,327
But Paul does not do that.

623
00:34:22,687 --> 00:34:23,766
He's engaged.

624
00:34:25,027 --> 00:34:27,937
Most people are on one
side or the other, right?

625
00:34:29,036 --> 00:34:29,427
Fate.

626
00:34:29,447 --> 00:34:29,996
It's fate.

627
00:34:30,257 --> 00:34:31,087
Fatalist.

628
00:34:31,097 --> 00:34:32,306
It's determinism.

629
00:34:32,527 --> 00:34:34,806
Do things happen in spite of what we do?

630
00:34:34,827 --> 00:34:39,992
Is everything Oedipus, the classic
story about that, you remember, in

631
00:34:39,992 --> 00:34:44,081
Greek literature, there was this oracle
given that the birth of this baby,

632
00:34:44,101 --> 00:34:48,822
Oedipus, that he would come along and
that he would end up growing up to

633
00:34:48,882 --> 00:34:51,871
kill his father and marry his mother.

634
00:34:52,492 --> 00:34:53,312
Great stories.

635
00:34:53,312 --> 00:34:56,012
Game of Thrones before
Game of Thrones, right?

636
00:34:56,382 --> 00:34:57,602
so the father.

637
00:34:58,087 --> 00:35:02,687
sends his most loyal servant to go
out and to kill the baby, take him out

638
00:35:02,687 --> 00:35:05,567
into the field and kill him because he
doesn't want this Oracle to come to pass.

639
00:35:06,487 --> 00:35:08,867
The story goes, the soldier goes out
to kill the baby, but he can't do it.

640
00:35:08,867 --> 00:35:10,317
It's a baby, going to
kill Hitler, a thing.

641
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:14,357
And so he doesn't do it.

642
00:35:14,677 --> 00:35:18,147
Sends him away, far away,
hopefully never to see him again.

643
00:35:18,187 --> 00:35:20,347
Oedipus grows up, in another country.

644
00:35:20,697 --> 00:35:24,677
But he comes and he ends up,
as the story is, killing his

645
00:35:24,677 --> 00:35:25,617
father and marrying his mom.

646
00:35:25,617 --> 00:35:27,407
Not knowing who he was.

647
00:35:27,807 --> 00:35:29,387
And so that's the way that
the Greeks talked about it.

648
00:35:29,387 --> 00:35:30,157
Everything is determined.

649
00:35:30,157 --> 00:35:32,757
You can't change the outcome.

650
00:35:32,887 --> 00:35:34,177
Everything is fixed.

651
00:35:34,177 --> 00:35:35,297
There's nothing we can do.

652
00:35:35,727 --> 00:35:39,442
We are just a by product of
mechanistic evolutionary processes.

653
00:35:40,782 --> 00:35:43,572
It's all decided because
of our brain chemistry, how

654
00:35:43,572 --> 00:35:45,632
we're hardwired genetically.

655
00:35:46,042 --> 00:35:49,512
This is, I talk to people who, this
is it, this is what they believe.

656
00:35:50,122 --> 00:35:54,777
Even people believe that our genetic
code determined We will be, whether

657
00:35:54,777 --> 00:35:59,707
it's a criminal or, somebody nice or
all these things, it's all pre wired

658
00:35:59,717 --> 00:36:01,317
into us that there's no freewill.

659
00:36:01,337 --> 00:36:03,277
There's nothing that we can do.

660
00:36:04,047 --> 00:36:09,187
But if that's the case, then biology
of the strong over the weak wins.

661
00:36:09,237 --> 00:36:10,657
It's the only rational thought.

662
00:36:10,867 --> 00:36:11,807
Biology wins.

663
00:36:11,807 --> 00:36:16,247
And so if you're biologically
strong, then you win.

664
00:36:17,697 --> 00:36:21,567
And what basis then do we have
to fight for justice and to take

665
00:36:21,577 --> 00:36:23,477
care of the weak in society?

666
00:36:23,477 --> 00:36:25,287
But we fight against injustice.

667
00:36:25,297 --> 00:36:26,547
We fight against poverty.

668
00:36:26,727 --> 00:36:30,157
We get mad against suffering
and evil in this world.

669
00:36:30,187 --> 00:36:35,557
We feel like this is a bad
story and we can impact history.

670
00:36:35,777 --> 00:36:38,077
That we want to change things.

671
00:36:40,017 --> 00:36:44,107
Also, if we think through the
implications, If you really think through

672
00:36:44,107 --> 00:36:48,577
it, then that's just going to lead you
to be passive, cynical, and indifferent.

673
00:36:49,357 --> 00:36:52,737
If you really think through those
implications, that everything's

674
00:36:52,737 --> 00:36:54,157
fixed, nothing I do matters.

675
00:36:54,187 --> 00:36:59,157
We're all just a ball of mud
hurtling toward, the sun.

676
00:36:59,747 --> 00:37:00,247
That's it.

677
00:37:01,147 --> 00:37:02,237
We're dust, then we die.

678
00:37:02,257 --> 00:37:02,597
That's it.

679
00:37:03,307 --> 00:37:04,507
Nothing matters.

680
00:37:05,737 --> 00:37:07,577
Then life will be a cynical thing.

681
00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:10,047
There won't be beauty.

682
00:37:11,397 --> 00:37:13,807
There, it will, you'll be indifferent.

683
00:37:15,337 --> 00:37:16,057
And you'll feel

684
00:37:17,057 --> 00:37:22,537
like I don't think we've been actually
created to feel like nothing I do matters.

685
00:37:22,537 --> 00:37:26,317
I think God, commissioned us in
the garden to go and to tend it

686
00:37:26,337 --> 00:37:28,977
and to make the world beautiful.

687
00:37:29,147 --> 00:37:30,597
That was like before the fall.

688
00:37:30,917 --> 00:37:32,407
And we carry that commission on.

689
00:37:32,827 --> 00:37:37,747
As people are saved and our places
we live are transformed physically,

690
00:37:37,757 --> 00:37:44,477
spiritually, emotionally, social, like in
every realm and every spectrum of life.

691
00:37:45,477 --> 00:37:49,017
And the reality is that none of
us live that way or very few of us

692
00:37:49,047 --> 00:37:56,037
live that way that like everything's
predetermined when we come eye to eye

693
00:37:56,037 --> 00:37:57,937
with suffering injustice, we fight it.

694
00:37:58,307 --> 00:37:59,367
We want to change it.

695
00:37:59,537 --> 00:38:00,617
We say that it's wrong.

696
00:38:00,647 --> 00:38:03,057
We want to write a new and better story.

697
00:38:03,887 --> 00:38:06,757
The other way is that it's
more like back to the future.

698
00:38:06,757 --> 00:38:08,297
Your future is what you make it.

699
00:38:09,347 --> 00:38:11,937
We love this idea that we're
masters of our destiny.

700
00:38:11,937 --> 00:38:11,952
Okay.

701
00:38:12,682 --> 00:38:16,972
Does history and the world cause our
choices or do our choices cause history?

702
00:38:17,782 --> 00:38:22,142
But if we really think through the
implications this paralyzes that

703
00:38:22,152 --> 00:38:28,827
like every choice we make Impacts a
thousand upon, keep multiplying that

704
00:38:28,877 --> 00:38:33,767
out And this is how I would feel every
one of my choices changes things.

705
00:38:33,767 --> 00:38:37,327
So when I screwed up, I'm screwed
How do you know that you're

706
00:38:37,327 --> 00:38:39,477
making the right decisions?

707
00:38:39,477 --> 00:38:42,947
Think about the decisions you made when
you were 15 the things you wanted to be

708
00:38:43,177 --> 00:38:47,607
The things that you thought were utterly
important In junior high, this is it!

709
00:38:48,397 --> 00:38:51,017
Five just, and now you're 46.

710
00:38:51,447 --> 00:38:54,957
You're like horrified at that
person and who he was and how he

711
00:38:54,957 --> 00:38:56,547
thought about life and things.

712
00:38:57,607 --> 00:39:02,527
but this clean slate doesn't have
a maturity rating that you jump

713
00:39:02,527 --> 00:39:04,527
into when you're old and wise.

714
00:39:05,427 --> 00:39:10,177
It would mean that's all of, so if
I am that dumb that early on, I'm

715
00:39:10,187 --> 00:39:15,607
talking about myself I wore a shirt
in junior high because I thought it

716
00:39:15,607 --> 00:39:22,097
said Nero and Lime Turtle Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtle green It said nerd

717
00:39:23,217 --> 00:39:25,037
Before nerds were cool and on the back.

718
00:39:25,037 --> 00:39:27,027
It said never ending radical dude.

719
00:39:28,027 --> 00:39:28,447
I

720
00:39:29,447 --> 00:39:37,467
if that kid He already messed up
my life Yes Never smart enough,

721
00:39:37,467 --> 00:39:38,987
wise enough, strong enough.

722
00:39:39,207 --> 00:39:41,137
No matter how long your life is.

723
00:39:41,817 --> 00:39:44,797
And what's funny is, in our
culture, this is the popular idea.

724
00:39:44,797 --> 00:39:46,147
It seems empowering.

725
00:39:46,577 --> 00:39:47,657
The future is yours.

726
00:39:47,657 --> 00:39:48,897
The future is what you make of it.

727
00:39:49,067 --> 00:39:50,137
You can do anything.

728
00:39:50,317 --> 00:39:52,097
you write your own destiny.

729
00:39:52,097 --> 00:39:53,997
You're the master of your own fate.

730
00:39:54,147 --> 00:39:55,557
You're the captain of your ship.

731
00:39:55,697 --> 00:39:56,927
You are the captain.

732
00:39:56,957 --> 00:39:57,857
You are in charge.

733
00:39:58,057 --> 00:39:59,927
You are charting the course.

734
00:40:00,927 --> 00:40:02,677
One of the most terrifying
things about that.

735
00:40:03,787 --> 00:40:08,347
is when you run aground because
you've charted the course.

736
00:40:09,347 --> 00:40:10,377
Who's to rescue you?

737
00:40:12,187 --> 00:40:14,577
If you're not smart enough and
you ran aground, how are you

738
00:40:14,577 --> 00:40:15,597
going to get yourself out of it?

739
00:40:17,487 --> 00:40:22,457
These ideas, as you think through
the implications of them, lead

740
00:40:22,457 --> 00:40:27,987
you to be paralyzed on the one
hand or passive on the other.

741
00:40:28,327 --> 00:40:31,087
Like I told you at the beginning, I
would fluctuate between these two.

742
00:40:32,722 --> 00:40:33,722
Fluctuate between them.

743
00:40:33,822 --> 00:40:34,502
Paralyzed.

744
00:40:34,672 --> 00:40:36,362
Oh, did I make the right choice?

745
00:40:36,362 --> 00:40:37,532
Am I going to make the right choice?

746
00:40:37,732 --> 00:40:42,792
Anxious, up at night, doing the whole
shake the Bible, shake and bake, where

747
00:40:42,792 --> 00:40:45,332
you shake the Bible and you throw it
down on the table and the first verse

748
00:40:45,332 --> 00:40:47,822
you read, you're like, God, speak to me.

749
00:40:48,022 --> 00:40:49,522
I need an answer now.

750
00:40:49,822 --> 00:40:52,032
and I read, and Judas
went out and hung himself.

751
00:40:52,032 --> 00:40:53,082
I was like, no.

752
00:40:53,182 --> 00:40:56,362
So I was like, round two,
threw it on the ground.

753
00:40:56,362 --> 00:40:56,552
Yeah.

754
00:40:57,322 --> 00:41:00,012
And then I, first verse it
said, and go and do likewise.

755
00:41:00,012 --> 00:41:00,992
I was like, no.

756
00:41:02,892 --> 00:41:03,482
but I'd been there.

757
00:41:03,482 --> 00:41:04,222
I've done that.

758
00:41:04,272 --> 00:41:09,682
I've been there with regret
feeling like I messed things up.

759
00:41:11,262 --> 00:41:14,292
And now my life is on this different take.

760
00:41:15,292 --> 00:41:18,182
If you really believe that there
was no plan in the universe, that

761
00:41:18,182 --> 00:41:21,582
your own wisdom was all you had,
why would you get up in the morning?

762
00:41:22,582 --> 00:41:28,252
The Bible teaches God is absolutely
in control and our choices absolutely

763
00:41:28,252 --> 00:41:34,962
matter and we are responsible for them
See, this is hard for us in our culture.

764
00:41:35,002 --> 00:41:38,822
We're either or people it's either
light or it's waves It can't be both.

765
00:41:38,832 --> 00:41:46,002
So then what we do in theology as we find
the percentage it's 20 percent sovereignty

766
00:41:46,032 --> 00:41:51,187
50 percent free will it's 50 50 The
Bible says that it's a hundred and a

767
00:41:51,187 --> 00:41:54,007
hundred, and that's hard for us to grasp.

768
00:41:54,227 --> 00:41:56,037
I think until you have kids.

769
00:41:57,037 --> 00:42:00,227
When I had my daughter, Karis, I gasped.

770
00:42:00,607 --> 00:42:05,427
I could not believe me and my wife made a
human being that she was that beautiful.

771
00:42:05,437 --> 00:42:08,407
And when I held her the first
time I was like, bone on my bone,

772
00:42:08,407 --> 00:42:10,857
flesh of my, like I lost it.

773
00:42:11,407 --> 00:42:12,277
And I heard about it.

774
00:42:12,667 --> 00:42:14,087
Everybody, Oh, you're going to lose it.

775
00:42:14,137 --> 00:42:16,687
Oh, you're going to something.

776
00:42:17,687 --> 00:42:20,177
You can't call it supernatural
because God built it into us.

777
00:42:21,177 --> 00:42:25,147
And all the love that I have for my
wife, the commitment, I vow to love you.

778
00:42:25,147 --> 00:42:25,917
I'll never leave her.

779
00:42:26,087 --> 00:42:28,127
You're like all of that love.

780
00:42:28,127 --> 00:42:29,247
That is so intense.

781
00:42:30,197 --> 00:42:36,037
All of a sudden I had this, it was like
the Grinch whose heart grew two sizes.

782
00:42:36,067 --> 00:42:37,737
I was like, Whoa.

783
00:42:38,772 --> 00:42:41,662
I love this human being and I was
scared and then I got scared as a

784
00:42:41,662 --> 00:42:49,412
dad because I loved her so Much I
like it was bursting out of me and

785
00:42:49,412 --> 00:42:53,572
then I Andrea got pregnant and I'm
gonna have a son and I was worried.

786
00:42:53,572 --> 00:43:00,192
I'm like, what does this mean for
my love because there's no way I

787
00:43:00,192 --> 00:43:04,277
can love him As much as I love her.

788
00:43:05,277 --> 00:43:10,677
And then he's born in 15 minutes when
we got to the hospital, little lightning

789
00:43:10,677 --> 00:43:12,057
and thunder, that's what his name means.

790
00:43:13,717 --> 00:43:20,947
And I held him and I loved him with
as much love as I had for my daughter.

791
00:43:20,947 --> 00:43:23,077
I it's super natural.

792
00:43:23,087 --> 00:43:23,687
It's natural.

793
00:43:23,787 --> 00:43:26,437
I, you can't explain it.

794
00:43:26,467 --> 00:43:28,907
It's it's you're not pie charting it.

795
00:43:29,177 --> 00:43:30,577
You're not pie charting it out.

796
00:43:30,847 --> 00:43:34,097
And we're such either or people
it's either this, it's either this.

797
00:43:34,512 --> 00:43:37,192
And we, get in our camps, and
I always say, we gotta, there's

798
00:43:37,192 --> 00:43:39,062
mystery, we gotta be humble with this.

799
00:43:39,282 --> 00:43:41,462
Because we're dealing with infinite God.

800
00:43:41,732 --> 00:43:44,442
The uncaused cause, the creator
of all things, whose ways

801
00:43:44,652 --> 00:43:46,592
are so far above the heavens.

802
00:43:46,802 --> 00:43:51,112
His, as high as the sky is above the
earth, so are His ways above our ways.

803
00:43:51,162 --> 00:43:53,572
He is the infinite one.

804
00:43:53,602 --> 00:43:55,682
eternal, omniscient, omnipresent.

805
00:43:56,562 --> 00:43:59,512
Sovereign king and ruler of the universe.

806
00:44:01,252 --> 00:44:01,782
Yes.

807
00:44:01,802 --> 00:44:06,472
Well, Mario comes into our life
Nathaniel comes into our life

808
00:44:06,802 --> 00:44:08,862
like you I literally thought okay.

809
00:44:08,862 --> 00:44:13,232
It's by all Lord You're gonna have to like
I want the same kind of love for someone.

810
00:44:13,232 --> 00:44:18,052
I'm bringing into my family it
happens How is that possible?

811
00:44:18,782 --> 00:44:20,782
That is amazing.

812
00:44:21,132 --> 00:44:25,472
And so I think of Jacob's story, Jacob,

813
00:44:26,472 --> 00:44:31,422
family drama, favoritism,
Jacob, just wanting to hear

814
00:44:31,422 --> 00:44:33,622
his dad say, I love you, son.

815
00:44:33,652 --> 00:44:34,562
And I'm proud of you.

816
00:44:34,672 --> 00:44:35,592
And he never got it.

817
00:44:36,217 --> 00:44:39,677
Because his older brother Esau
got all the favor and, Isaac was

818
00:44:39,677 --> 00:44:41,817
just like, he's the one I love.

819
00:44:42,207 --> 00:44:47,477
So Jacob, just craving that, fools
his dad, goes in and pretends to

820
00:44:47,487 --> 00:44:51,077
be his brother just to hear his
dad say, I want to bless you.

821
00:44:52,737 --> 00:44:55,057
And then his brother finds
out and he runs for his life.

822
00:44:55,707 --> 00:44:56,922
And then he goes and beats him.

823
00:44:57,082 --> 00:44:59,396
There's all this family drama and he
wants to marry Rachel and it works for

824
00:44:59,396 --> 00:45:02,626
her for seven years and they seemed as
one day because the love that he had for

825
00:45:02,626 --> 00:45:06,586
her but he gets Leah because every time
you wake up after something you put your

826
00:45:06,586 --> 00:45:10,546
trust in other than God it's always Leah
and then you and then he gets worse for

827
00:45:10,546 --> 00:45:14,896
another seven years and it's Rachel but
then there's infighting between them and

828
00:45:14,897 --> 00:45:19,286
then And he's creating the family drama
all over again, and the concubines, and

829
00:45:19,286 --> 00:45:23,986
he's having all these kids, and then they
start fighting, and Joseph is proud and

830
00:45:23,986 --> 00:45:27,706
feeling himself, and arrogant, and he's
a dreamer, and he's You guys, one day

831
00:45:27,706 --> 00:45:32,426
you're gonna bow down to me, and they're
like, Oh, H, no we're not, and, they're

832
00:45:32,426 --> 00:45:36,316
bitter, and so they throw him in a pit,
they were gonna kill him, but they decide

833
00:45:36,316 --> 00:45:41,606
we can make some money off of him, he goes
to Egypt, And bad things happen to him.

834
00:45:41,646 --> 00:45:43,106
He stands up for what's right.

835
00:45:43,106 --> 00:45:44,516
God's refining his character.

836
00:45:45,156 --> 00:45:46,246
He's in prison.

837
00:45:46,296 --> 00:45:47,506
People forget him.

838
00:45:47,736 --> 00:45:51,456
Then somebody remembers him at the
time where the famine's about to come.

839
00:45:51,466 --> 00:45:55,596
He interprets a dream and he's second in
command and he saves the known world at

840
00:45:55,606 --> 00:45:57,756
that time because of where God moved him.

841
00:45:58,306 --> 00:46:03,176
And then he saves his brothers, one of
his brothers who he reconciles with.

842
00:46:03,506 --> 00:46:06,906
And he says, what you guys meant
for evil, human responsibility, God,

843
00:46:06,916 --> 00:46:08,566
his sovereignty meant it for good.

844
00:46:09,781 --> 00:46:10,771
Calls him wicked.

845
00:46:11,181 --> 00:46:11,871
It's wicked.

846
00:46:12,851 --> 00:46:18,301
It's not just, it's not just your choice
matters, and you're responsible for that.

847
00:46:18,591 --> 00:46:22,481
But God meant it for good, and he's
working this all together, and so

848
00:46:22,511 --> 00:46:27,051
Judah's reconciled to Joseph, and
then Jo Judah has kids, and they

849
00:46:27,061 --> 00:46:31,821
have kids, and they have kids, and
eventually Jesus Christ comes onto

850
00:46:31,821 --> 00:46:35,801
the world and he saves the world.

851
00:46:36,801 --> 00:46:42,901
So God's plan carried out through
human brokenness and their choices.

852
00:46:43,901 --> 00:46:45,261
Was that God's plan all along?

853
00:46:45,261 --> 00:46:47,431
Was he like, Oh man, I got to pivot.

854
00:46:47,641 --> 00:46:48,941
I've got to do something different.

855
00:46:49,161 --> 00:46:51,511
Is he trying to know that's the plan?

856
00:46:52,511 --> 00:46:55,071
Were people choosing or were they
just mechanical robots who had been

857
00:46:55,071 --> 00:46:57,461
pre determined to follow course?

858
00:46:57,651 --> 00:47:00,071
Are they free moral agents who

859
00:47:01,071 --> 00:47:02,391
can respond to light?

860
00:47:03,166 --> 00:47:04,816
And they can respond to darkness.

861
00:47:05,866 --> 00:47:12,226
in Acts 2, it says Jesus was offered up
according to the scriptures, but that he

862
00:47:12,226 --> 00:47:14,016
was killed at the hands of wicked men.

863
00:47:14,836 --> 00:47:21,646
Like again, here's the plan, but there's
still the wickedness involved, right?

864
00:47:21,647 --> 00:47:21,836
Yep.

865
00:47:21,836 --> 00:47:21,866
Yep.

866
00:47:23,326 --> 00:47:24,396
Jesus was offered up.

867
00:47:24,796 --> 00:47:26,206
Was it planned by God?

868
00:47:26,656 --> 00:47:26,986
Yes!

869
00:47:27,026 --> 00:47:28,676
That's the ultimate plan of the universe!

870
00:47:28,996 --> 00:47:31,686
Yet everybody who killed
him was called wicked.

871
00:47:32,146 --> 00:47:33,526
They weren't let off the hook.

872
00:47:33,916 --> 00:47:39,176
God says, I will, and here it is, I will
make your choices real, but on the other

873
00:47:39,176 --> 00:47:42,836
hand I will do it in such a way that my
plan for history is still carried out.

874
00:47:43,466 --> 00:47:46,796
I will not let you mess up my plan.

875
00:47:47,921 --> 00:47:52,871
If you make bad choices, then
there is brokenness, right?

876
00:47:53,201 --> 00:47:58,791
Look at the crew that didn't
Brokenness, that was right on cue.

877
00:48:00,651 --> 00:48:04,341
think about, Paul's advice to the sailors
is you shouldn't go, if you go they'll

878
00:48:04,511 --> 00:48:05,921
Isn't that what the book of Proverbs is?

879
00:48:06,966 --> 00:48:09,906
The Book of Proverbs I used to
think growing up was like, black

880
00:48:09,906 --> 00:48:11,156
and white cause and effect.

881
00:48:11,446 --> 00:48:13,426
if you obey, you will live long.

882
00:48:13,426 --> 00:48:17,506
And then I'd hear about good kids
I knew who got cancer, and I'm like

883
00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:22,306
No, they're like, God is saying,
this is the way that I designed the

884
00:48:22,306 --> 00:48:24,416
universe to flourish and function.

885
00:48:25,756 --> 00:48:27,466
But there's brokenness in the world.

886
00:48:28,166 --> 00:48:33,981
This is the way that it flourishes and
functions when the home unit, is unified.

887
00:48:34,601 --> 00:48:37,001
There is a flourishing in there,
but it doesn't mean that brokenness

888
00:48:37,011 --> 00:48:38,291
still doesn't come into the world.

889
00:48:38,611 --> 00:48:40,141
And that's what God is reversing.

890
00:48:40,171 --> 00:48:40,951
That's why he came.

891
00:48:40,951 --> 00:48:43,451
That's what he is healing.

892
00:48:44,191 --> 00:48:47,331
So I will make your choices real, but
I will do it in such a way that my

893
00:48:47,331 --> 00:48:48,781
plan for history is still carried out.

894
00:48:48,781 --> 00:48:50,051
I will not let you mess up my plan.

895
00:48:50,361 --> 00:48:52,351
If you make bad choices,
there's brokenness.

896
00:48:52,371 --> 00:48:54,891
There will be loss.

897
00:48:55,151 --> 00:48:56,671
Paul was not passive.

898
00:48:56,956 --> 00:48:58,446
And he was not paralyzed.

899
00:48:58,446 --> 00:48:59,716
And this is the whole crook of it.

900
00:48:59,896 --> 00:49:04,356
He was confident that God was going to do
what he said, but he knew that God had put

901
00:49:04,356 --> 00:49:06,506
him in this storm for the good of others.

902
00:49:06,716 --> 00:49:09,676
And that he had a part to
play in God's great story.

903
00:49:09,686 --> 00:49:10,996
And what does that do for somebody?

904
00:49:11,236 --> 00:49:12,966
It makes him an anchor in
the midst of the storm.

905
00:49:14,336 --> 00:49:15,626
Because God's got it.

906
00:49:15,816 --> 00:49:16,976
And he's got a plan.

907
00:49:17,216 --> 00:49:19,636
Even though this looks
like a terrible plan.

908
00:49:19,876 --> 00:49:20,986
Another shipwreck, God?

909
00:49:21,616 --> 00:49:22,726
Am I the shipwreck guy?

910
00:49:22,726 --> 00:49:23,896
Is that gonna be my M.

911
00:49:23,896 --> 00:49:24,106
O.?

912
00:49:24,206 --> 00:49:27,786
He knows that God put him there,
and so he flourishes in that.

913
00:49:27,846 --> 00:49:29,196
He's gonna take every advantage.

914
00:49:29,196 --> 00:49:32,556
He's at peace, because
he's Jesus is in the boat!

915
00:49:32,936 --> 00:49:34,256
he's the Lord of the storm!

916
00:49:34,476 --> 00:49:35,286
He's not worried.

917
00:49:35,286 --> 00:49:36,166
God told him, hey!

918
00:49:36,381 --> 00:49:40,551
You're all, like the preview, you're all
getting on, so he's working, and he's

919
00:49:40,551 --> 00:49:44,291
helping, and he's preaching, and he's
breaking bread, and he's feeding, and

920
00:49:44,291 --> 00:49:49,061
he's taking charge and command, such
peace, and calm, and boldness, and zeal,

921
00:49:49,181 --> 00:49:51,321
he's not paralyzed, and he's not passive.

922
00:49:51,731 --> 00:49:56,931
And that's what changed my
life, this, I was like, oh.

923
00:49:57,656 --> 00:49:58,906
It's 100 100.

924
00:49:59,886 --> 00:50:02,726
Oh, I can't mess up your plan.

925
00:50:04,096 --> 00:50:05,586
You've got the plan!

926
00:50:05,896 --> 00:50:07,256
It's a good plan!

927
00:50:07,656 --> 00:50:12,966
All my times and years and anxiousness
spent thinking, plan B, plan, C, plan

928
00:50:12,966 --> 00:50:16,796
D, plan, this is the story you're
writing for such a time as this.

929
00:50:17,056 --> 00:50:23,506
Acts 17 says that God puts us and
ordains the times and places which we

930
00:50:23,816 --> 00:50:27,811
should live So that people can reach out
for God and He's nearer than we think.

931
00:50:27,871 --> 00:50:31,141
Think he puts you in Manteca.

932
00:50:31,171 --> 00:50:32,721
He puts you in Modesto.

933
00:50:32,721 --> 00:50:37,091
He puts you in Stockton for such a
time as this to be an anchor in the

934
00:50:37,091 --> 00:50:41,491
storm, to those around you, not to be
paralyzed, not to be passive waiting

935
00:50:41,491 --> 00:50:45,231
for heaven to come or waiting for
being rapture ready or whatever it is,

936
00:50:45,281 --> 00:50:50,521
but to display the greatness and the
goodness and the sovereignty of God,

937
00:50:50,721 --> 00:50:56,271
and to let That security that he's so
in charge of every atom of the universe

938
00:50:56,461 --> 00:50:58,081
and you don't understand the story.

939
00:50:58,271 --> 00:50:59,241
He sure does.

940
00:50:59,431 --> 00:51:02,881
And he's making a much better story out
of your life than you could ever think.

941
00:51:03,071 --> 00:51:09,781
And let that fuel the goodness and, the
confidence that you're where God has

942
00:51:09,791 --> 00:51:12,201
you because he's writing a great story.

943
00:51:13,171 --> 00:51:15,431
that is life changing for me.

944
00:51:16,051 --> 00:51:18,091
I was just like, boom, what?

945
00:51:19,091 --> 00:51:19,531
Man.

946
00:51:19,531 --> 00:51:19,681
Yeah.

947
00:51:20,636 --> 00:51:23,946
he was confident that God was going
to do what he said, but he also knew

948
00:51:23,946 --> 00:51:27,106
that God had put him in this storm
for the good of others and that he had

949
00:51:27,106 --> 00:51:28,986
a part to play in this great story.

950
00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:34,606
So he was joyful that he could serve
God in this way, but also bold in

951
00:51:34,606 --> 00:51:36,606
knowing that God was in control.

952
00:51:37,266 --> 00:51:39,376
I just, I don't know if this is helpful.

953
00:51:39,376 --> 00:51:41,186
This was so helpful for me in my life.

954
00:51:41,217 --> 00:51:42,837
so again, they're on the ship together.

955
00:51:44,277 --> 00:51:45,477
They're going through the storm together.

956
00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:49,872
And not only We're an anchor for

957
00:51:50,872 --> 00:51:54,442
the sailors, the soldiers,
and the prisoners.

958
00:51:56,022 --> 00:51:58,102
They were an anchor for each other.

959
00:51:58,152 --> 00:52:01,122
Notice that it was Luke who's
writing in verse 20 and he

960
00:52:01,122 --> 00:52:03,102
says, We had abandoned all hope.

961
00:52:03,272 --> 00:52:04,462
Paul hadn't lost hope.

962
00:52:04,642 --> 00:52:05,602
He knew it was coming.

963
00:52:07,192 --> 00:52:13,242
But Luke and Aristarchus, they're like,
Why'd we get on the guy, on the boat

964
00:52:13,242 --> 00:52:14,532
with the guy who gets in the shipwrecks?

965
00:52:14,622 --> 00:52:17,222
they're like, they had abandoned hope.

966
00:52:17,442 --> 00:52:21,342
And Paul is not only an anchor,
and guys, We need each other.

967
00:52:22,342 --> 00:52:24,592
And I don't just need
you when you're good.

968
00:52:24,602 --> 00:52:26,652
And I, you don't just
need me when I'm good.

969
00:52:28,482 --> 00:52:30,782
I need you to be an
anchor for me sometimes.

970
00:52:32,392 --> 00:52:34,192
Because I still struggle with this.

971
00:52:34,872 --> 00:52:37,092
I still look back and where I'm at.

972
00:52:38,282 --> 00:52:41,822
it's so curing, but I still,
there's other things that I need.

973
00:52:41,832 --> 00:52:44,482
Someone, that's why I love, I just want,

974
00:52:45,482 --> 00:52:48,902
I just want all the older
saints to start a Bible study.

975
00:52:48,902 --> 00:52:49,602
I just want to sit.

976
00:52:51,092 --> 00:52:52,082
I just want to listen to them.

977
00:52:52,082 --> 00:52:56,102
Just talk about how God is good every
season of their life, because there's

978
00:52:56,102 --> 00:52:57,676
so much weight and glory to it.

979
00:52:58,676 --> 00:53:04,126
I need that anchor, and we all need
an anchor, and we learned in church

980
00:53:04,566 --> 00:53:08,466
to disappear when we're doing bad,
and come report the victory, that we

981
00:53:08,466 --> 00:53:12,006
pulled ourselves, we got ourselves up
by our own bootstraps, and come report

982
00:53:12,006 --> 00:53:13,916
the victory, and then we're good.

983
00:53:15,161 --> 00:53:19,031
That's short lived victory and you're
maybe you're healed maybe got it.

984
00:53:19,041 --> 00:53:19,941
Maybe God was gracious.

985
00:53:19,941 --> 00:53:24,021
He's I'll give you this one I'll
help you out, but you're not helping

986
00:53:24,371 --> 00:53:28,251
anybody else like we're a community
we rise and we fall together.

987
00:53:28,251 --> 00:53:35,452
We bear each other's burdens
So community, they contribute.

988
00:53:35,532 --> 00:53:38,652
Notice the time where it says
we dragged in the lifeboat.

989
00:53:38,832 --> 00:53:41,812
They're not like, you should
have listened, you fools.

990
00:53:42,672 --> 00:53:46,232
But they identified with the people
they were around and they helped.

991
00:53:46,752 --> 00:53:48,092
They didn't put him down.

992
00:53:48,372 --> 00:53:49,892
They didn't look down on him.

993
00:53:50,302 --> 00:53:53,562
They didn't make him feel small and like
they were smart or better or that they

994
00:53:53,562 --> 00:53:56,912
had the truth, though they didn't have to.

995
00:53:57,472 --> 00:53:58,862
And so we're to be in the city.

996
00:53:59,392 --> 00:54:01,642
Paul also prays for the crew, right?

997
00:54:02,802 --> 00:54:03,292
Calm.

998
00:54:04,177 --> 00:54:06,937
How could he have such an, inner
calm during the raging storm?

999
00:54:06,937 --> 00:54:10,167
Verse 23 for this night, there
stood before me an angel of God.

1000
00:54:10,527 --> 00:54:11,377
This is so beautiful.

1001
00:54:11,397 --> 00:54:18,617
You should underline this to whom I belong
and to whom I worship to whom I belong.

1002
00:54:18,617 --> 00:54:20,767
that's a, that's, that
might be tattoo worthy.

1003
00:54:22,417 --> 00:54:24,037
it's covenant language.

1004
00:54:25,717 --> 00:54:27,577
It's possessive language.

1005
00:54:27,577 --> 00:54:31,452
You guys realize that when God
enters into a covenant with his

1006
00:54:31,452 --> 00:54:37,761
people, he says, Now you will be
my people and I will be your God.

1007
00:54:37,771 --> 00:54:40,261
He's, it's possessive language.

1008
00:54:40,741 --> 00:54:41,361
Think about it.

1009
00:54:42,981 --> 00:54:45,681
I say, my Andrea.

1010
00:54:46,781 --> 00:54:52,131
that's not somebody I would say to
anybody else, except for my kids, my

1011
00:54:52,131 --> 00:54:59,571
Andrea, my Kairos, my Ryden, my Brooklyn,
my Hudson, my Mario, my Nathaniel.

1012
00:54:59,891 --> 00:55:02,131
that's why possessive language.

1013
00:55:03,131 --> 00:55:04,521
You don't say that about just anyone.

1014
00:55:04,521 --> 00:55:05,851
It reveals intimacy.

1015
00:55:07,056 --> 00:55:13,876
And in the midst of the storm, I know I
am his, I belong to him, and he is mine.

1016
00:55:14,136 --> 00:55:19,006
He loves me, and he is committed to me.

1017
00:55:20,056 --> 00:55:24,836
And that grace filled
theology, begins to impact.

1018
00:55:25,276 --> 00:55:28,796
Martin Lloyd Jones had this little
test he would give people when they

1019
00:55:28,796 --> 00:55:30,626
were, like, struggling and depressed.

1020
00:55:31,196 --> 00:55:34,126
and they'd meet with him, and he had
this diagnosis question, he called it.

1021
00:55:34,721 --> 00:55:36,711
He said he went and it's
the simplest question.

1022
00:55:37,251 --> 00:55:38,771
He said are you a Christian?

1023
00:55:39,471 --> 00:55:43,841
I've tried this on people and most
a lot of the time people would say

1024
00:55:43,841 --> 00:55:48,341
I'm trying really hard You know, I'm
trying I go to church or I do this.

1025
00:55:48,581 --> 00:55:49,301
I'm trying.

1026
00:55:49,301 --> 00:55:50,721
I'm reading my Bible.

1027
00:55:51,091 --> 00:55:55,881
I'm doing these things You know, I'm
trying I'm trying I'm trying and he

1028
00:55:55,881 --> 00:55:58,481
would he'd realize they don't know
the first thing of what a Christian

1029
00:55:58,481 --> 00:56:06,801
is being a Christian is receiving
a new status not trying to earn one

1030
00:56:06,811 --> 00:56:12,691
not trying to get one not And so
it's that status that you receive.

1031
00:56:12,721 --> 00:56:13,591
What is the status?

1032
00:56:13,641 --> 00:56:14,521
That you're adopted.

1033
00:56:15,231 --> 00:56:16,001
That you're his.

1034
00:56:16,041 --> 00:56:16,871
To whom I belong.

1035
00:56:17,161 --> 00:56:18,171
Man, we should talk about God.

1036
00:56:18,271 --> 00:56:19,201
I want to hear a worship song.

1037
00:56:19,261 --> 00:56:20,171
to whom I belong.

1038
00:56:20,491 --> 00:56:22,091
Like he possesses me.

1039
00:56:22,631 --> 00:56:27,081
that's why I think it's so amazing when
he talks about the hairs on the head.

1040
00:56:27,421 --> 00:56:29,291
Not a hair of your head will perish.

1041
00:56:29,292 --> 00:56:31,401
In Luke 21, Jesus said that.

1042
00:56:31,401 --> 00:56:34,251
And it's such a funny
verse because Jesus says.

1043
00:56:34,881 --> 00:56:39,391
They're gonna kill you, but not
a hair on your head will perish.

1044
00:56:40,441 --> 00:56:42,081
They're like, great.

1045
00:56:43,081 --> 00:56:43,931
What is he saying?

1046
00:56:45,041 --> 00:56:46,331
That's sovereignty language.

1047
00:56:46,401 --> 00:56:47,971
He says, I know you.

1048
00:56:49,361 --> 00:56:52,661
I know everything about you down to the
number of hairs that are on your head.

1049
00:56:54,171 --> 00:56:54,991
I keep them.

1050
00:56:56,041 --> 00:56:57,211
I'm a shield about you.

1051
00:56:57,211 --> 00:56:58,341
I'm the lifter of your head.

1052
00:56:58,561 --> 00:56:59,901
I know the day of your birth.

1053
00:57:00,001 --> 00:57:02,471
I formed you in your mother's womb.

1054
00:57:03,561 --> 00:57:05,071
I gave you your personality.

1055
00:57:05,091 --> 00:57:07,111
I breathed life into you.

1056
00:57:07,581 --> 00:57:08,771
I know the day of your death.

1057
00:57:08,791 --> 00:57:13,181
I know your joys, your fears, your hopes,
the secrets you keep from community.

1058
00:57:13,601 --> 00:57:15,791
Your dreams, your failures, your victory.

1059
00:57:16,081 --> 00:57:16,781
I've got you.

1060
00:57:16,811 --> 00:57:18,861
Fashioning a weight of glory in you.

1061
00:57:18,861 --> 00:57:21,181
I'm working everything together for good.

1062
00:57:22,181 --> 00:57:23,811
I love you.

1063
00:57:24,811 --> 00:57:25,941
I'm yours and you're mine.

1064
00:57:26,751 --> 00:57:28,381
It's the Song of Solomon language.

1065
00:57:28,791 --> 00:57:30,331
I'm my beloved's and he is mine.

1066
00:57:31,011 --> 00:57:34,131
like that intimacy and that possession.

1067
00:57:34,331 --> 00:57:39,901
then I think so importantly is the
meal was ever before Paul and at

1068
00:57:39,961 --> 00:57:43,901
any opportunity, what is the first
thing he hasn't eaten for 14 days?

1069
00:57:43,901 --> 00:57:47,471
I don't know if you haven't eaten
for 14 days before, but usually

1070
00:57:47,471 --> 00:57:51,461
you're like hoarding the, he's
no, I'm going to tell the gospel.

1071
00:57:52,461 --> 00:57:54,431
And he goes right back
to the gospel story.

1072
00:57:54,461 --> 00:57:55,041
Let's eat.

1073
00:57:55,811 --> 00:57:57,521
It's the Lord's supper language.

1074
00:57:57,521 --> 00:57:58,521
What is the Lord's supper?

1075
00:57:58,931 --> 00:58:01,431
Luke, wrote about this, right?

1076
00:58:01,861 --> 00:58:05,491
And Paul tells the people in the midst
of the storm about Jesus, the gospel,

1077
00:58:05,491 --> 00:58:10,131
the storm that Jesus experienced, the
hope and confidence, and that everything

1078
00:58:10,131 --> 00:58:14,571
will be okay is because Jesus went into
the only storm that I would kill me

1079
00:58:14,571 --> 00:58:20,581
and destroy me, that he threw himself
into the chaos for me so that I could

1080
00:58:20,591 --> 00:58:27,776
be his precious, Possession so that
I could be adopted into his family.

1081
00:58:27,776 --> 00:58:32,676
There was no other way and yet he went
into the storm He took the only storm

1082
00:58:32,946 --> 00:58:41,836
that could destroy me guys If he did
that for you, is he gonna abandon you in

1083
00:58:41,836 --> 00:58:45,266
the storms of life when things get hard?

1084
00:58:46,646 --> 00:58:48,206
I don't think so.

1085
00:58:49,716 --> 00:58:50,086
So

1086
00:58:51,086 --> 00:58:55,591
That's the story I hope
it was helpful to you.

1087
00:58:56,741 --> 00:59:03,871
It has been an anchor for my, just
that coming to that, just that

1088
00:59:03,931 --> 00:59:09,781
surrender really, because again, I
want to be an either or person, cup

1089
00:59:09,781 --> 00:59:16,831
half full, cup half empty, and to
just go, God's got it, but he loves

1090
00:59:16,831 --> 00:59:19,491
me enough to work through my choices.

1091
00:59:20,491 --> 00:59:21,391
And they matter.

1092
00:59:21,801 --> 00:59:23,001
I'm not a robot.

1093
00:59:23,371 --> 00:59:24,371
I'm not a robot.

1094
00:59:25,021 --> 00:59:29,621
and that he brings good
out of even the failures.

1095
00:59:29,621 --> 00:59:34,651
And you look back and you're like,
Oh, I see your hand all along the way.

1096
00:59:34,671 --> 00:59:35,941
So let me pray for us.

1097
00:59:35,971 --> 00:59:36,971
God, we thank you.

1098
00:59:36,971 --> 00:59:42,231
We thank you for your amazing grace.

1099
00:59:43,231 --> 00:59:47,731
I just think about Romans
8, 28, and we know.

1100
00:59:48,681 --> 00:59:54,401
That you work all things together for
good to those who love you and are the

1101
00:59:54,401 --> 00:59:56,381
call to coordinate of your purposes.

1102
00:59:57,381 --> 01:00:00,051
Lord, I pray that would, we could
say that with confidence today.

1103
01:00:00,061 --> 01:00:08,921
And we know, and Lord that you are
working good in the midst of this storm.

1104
01:00:10,301 --> 01:00:11,641
So thank you for community.

1105
01:00:12,931 --> 01:00:14,671
Thank you for these precious saints.

1106
01:00:15,241 --> 01:00:16,261
Thank you for the stories.

1107
01:00:16,271 --> 01:00:19,411
Thank you for the saints who've
been through three shipwrecks in

1108
01:00:19,411 --> 01:00:23,121
their life and who can be an anchor.

1109
01:00:23,491 --> 01:00:28,151
In those moments where
we're so scared, where we're

1110
01:00:28,151 --> 01:00:30,841
passive, where we're paralyzed.

1111
01:00:30,841 --> 01:00:35,181
And God, we just pray as we worship you
as we also break the bread right now.

1112
01:00:35,331 --> 01:00:36,651
We think of Jesus.

1113
01:00:37,651 --> 01:00:43,941
We think of the one who is sovereign
on the throne, and yet did not lean, as

1114
01:00:43,941 --> 01:00:48,801
Philippians tells us, on that, but wrapped
himself in human flesh, humbled himself,

1115
01:00:48,801 --> 01:00:50,071
and came in the form of a servant.

1116
01:00:51,861 --> 01:00:55,031
That you would do that is incredible.

1117
01:00:56,131 --> 01:00:58,081
And so we love you, praise you.

1118
01:00:58,081 --> 01:00:59,081
We worship you.

1119
01:00:59,401 --> 01:01:00,881
We thank you that we're yours.

1120
01:01:01,991 --> 01:01:06,101
We thank you that you know, the number
of hairs that are on her head, that, you

1121
01:01:06,101 --> 01:01:10,331
know, our thought, while it's a far off
that we're fearfully and wonderfully made

1122
01:01:11,091 --> 01:01:20,351
that you rejoice over us with singing
that were ever before you, that you smile.

1123
01:01:22,081 --> 01:01:27,001
Over our lives, so we
trust, put our trust in you.

1124
01:01:27,811 --> 01:01:29,401
Thank you for your great rescue, Lord.

1125
01:01:29,811 --> 01:01:30,231
We love you.

1126
01:01:30,231 --> 01:01:31,461
In Jesus' name, amen.