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Text is a very famous story is Peter walking on the water and in this text, we learn the lesson that is Peter.

If you want to get out of the way out on the water.

If you want to get out of that boat, you are going to cause the board to rock.

Let's read from Matthew 14:25 to verse 33.

It says, now, in the first Fourth Watch of the night, Jesus went to them walking on the sea, and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, that would trouble saying it is a ghost and they cried out for fear, but immediately, Jesus spoke to them saying, be of good cheer.

It is, I do not be afraid and Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it is, you command me to come to you on the water.

So he said, come and when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus, but when he saw us, he was afraid and beginning to think he cried out, Lord, save me, and immediately Jesus stretched out.

His hand and caught him and said to him, oh, you of little faith.

Why did you doubt?

When they got into the boat, the wind ceased, then those who were in The Boat came and worshiped him saying truly, you are the Son of God.

Amen.

Rock the Boat.

Let's begin about Rocking the Boat.

The disciples are in the part, they just left Jesus.

Jesus knows what's going on, but he's not there in the boat with them, and as they travel across the Sea of Galilee, the storm arises, and and seen this before.

But they know this is going to be bad.

As this is all taking place in that focused on the Storm.

Jesus comes walking on the water and he's going to walk by them than they see him and this is incredible story and we know that Peter eventually walks on the water but what I want you to think about is how they're these 12 disciples in that boat.

All of them saying I'm a follower of Jesus, I'm committed to doing what Jesus wants me to do but only one of them was willing to get out onto the water and what that reminds us this morning is that it is much easier to stay in the board to get out onto the water 11 out of the 12, chose to remain in the boat.

The majority of people, the majority of people who claim to be followers of Jesus will say, in the book, they will remain where it's comfortable, where it's safe, where it's convenient.

And I believe that within our church has often that ratio is different, but the vast majority of the Church Road and not out on the water with Jesus.

They are not living by faith.

They are in the boat with everybody else.

And what that means is, if you choose to live by faith, if you decide to get out onto the water, where Jesus is, you will be different.

And perhaps, because of that difference, you will experience some friction.

They will be people.

Perhaps, good people, who remain in the boat, who will tell you?

You don't need to go out there.

It could be unsafe family, it could be friends.

It could be workmates, it could be someone in your church people who feel like it is their place to Enlighten you to the reality that you don't need to believe God.

You must understand if you are going to step out by faith, if you are going to do the will of God when you step out of the boy, you were going to cause that boat to rock and people will say to you, just take it easy.

Don't be so full on.

You're taking this a little bit far.

Think about your future.

The Bible is filled with people who has stood by gone to do something only to be confronted by others.

Saying, don't rock the boat.

We can talk about Joseph, God gave this man dreams about what his life would become and we know that perhaps he didn't handle it in the wisest man of telling his older brothers.

They were all going to bow down to him one day.

But to Joseph, he's willing to believe God and experience.

God's will for his life and immediately.

He's met with his slap-in-the-face.

Don't be ridiculous.

That will never happen or we can talk about David went down to the field of battle to take some food to his brothers and he's got food from the old man is going to go and give it to his brothers.

And Wally's there he sees what's taking place, Goliath the Giant and he begins to get stuff because this is God's Army and these are God's enemies.

And this man is acting like, we have nothing to do.

We can, we can confront them.

And so David begins to speak like someone who believes gone.

We're going to take this booze is gone that we're letting him talk like this when we should be going out there.

And taking his head first, Samuel 17 28.

Now a lion, his older brother heard, when he spoke to the men and Alliance anger was aroused against David and he said, why did you come down here?

With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?

I know you'll pride and the insolence of your heart for you to come down to see the battle.

Even Jesus, the Bible says, in Mark chapter 3, that he's performing many miracles, he's casting out demons his, Fame was beginning to spread, so that's crowns.

Would travel from far and wide to come and see him but his family heard about what was going on, and they thought Jesus is lost it.

He's at, he's going to have solutely nuts.

We have to go and save him from himself, my 321.

But when his own people, his family heard about this, they went out to lay hold of him who they said he is out of his mind.

And we see this again, and again, through the word of God, people who set themselves to pursue the will of God to make decisions of Faith, only to experience, pushback from those people closest to them.

And it creates this fear, if I believe, God is going to create problems for me, if I lay hold of the will of God, that person say, Because when you get out on the water, it's going to rock the book.

Today's media makes people afraid to be different.

I have friends in Vietnam though, they're not about Fellowship.

They say they want to do something for God, and they have a bakery that they run there and out of that Bakery, they Supply food to a couple of shops that they also are, and it's the retail side of their business.

And we were talking one day about, I don't know how we go down to the topic, but we we started to talk about homosexuality.

In one of the guys, he just got a little bit little bit edgy about, I didn't see.

He said, you don't have to be used on me where it, where on a tennis court when we had this conversation is nobody, there's nobody around anyway, but we say about that topic because we'll get cancelled.

That's the price that we all feel in the age that we live in.

Don't be controversial, don't say that.

Don't do that.

Don't speak in tongues publicly.

Dard, preach on the street, just win people to Jesus, by giving them time to see that you're different.

I remember time we was street preaching and Darwin.

And there's a lady who came.

She said, you know, I like what you're doing but don't do it like this.

You going to turn people off, you just have to win them by your love as if you just people look at you and said that person is love.

I'm going to find out a love like that.

But what she was saying was Don't Rock the Boat.

As a pasta, there are things that must be confronted.

Sometimes there is sometimes difficult conversations, that must be had and I hate those times.

You're a sick individual if you look forward to conflict and confronting someone about some issue and so there's always the temptation.

Just let it slide.

It's not a big deal that work.

It out themselves.

I got married young.

I was almost 20 years old when I got Yahoo and when I got married I was so young that when I went to the doctor one day to fill out a form that I did put out the put down their emergency contact information, my wife's name and her phone number down.

Gave the phone back to the receptionist.

This latest little bit older than me.

My mother's age and so she looked at the Forum, check out the information and I said exactly my wife.

And so getting married, young, I had people say to me, you have your whole life ahead of you.

I you sure you want to get married already.

There's a time that had the opportunity to quit my job and go full time in Ministry.

My again my manager, just just think about your future, just maybe, just give it some more time to think about and make sure it's all stable.

Just think about your future, think about your career, often?

These people are, they are they have good intentions often.

They're looking out for you, they feel like it's their job to screw.

You want some things and they saying just come on.

Just stay in the BART.

Because people by Nature.

Want to stay where it's comfortable.

The problem is Miracles that happened where it's comfortable.

If you want to experience miracles in your life, it will always require something of you.