Jesus calms the storm (2)
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Storms of life
Storms of life
In life we will have tribulations (Jn16:33)
33 I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”
well maybe the scripture itself now
33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
In this life you will have trials (Jm1:3)
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
In this life you will have temptations (1Cor10:13)
13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
The answer to each of these situations is “faith.” It is by faith that we are more than overcomers!
(Transition) Jesus has been teaching about the kingdom, using every opportunity to teach, recently in a couple of parables concerning the word of God (parable of sower, and lamp). teaching about forgiveness, today they are called to put faith into action and they will fall short. This is a short passage but yet I think we can glean a lot from it for our life application when we face storms, trials, and temptations.
A stormy passage
A stormy passage
22 Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out. 23 But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger.
24 They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. 25 And He said to them, “Where is your faith?” They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?”
What sticks out to you in this passage, anything in particular? Why?
What did Jesus tells the disciples before launching out (v.22)?
Let us go over to the other side
After setting sail what did Jesus do (v.23)?
Fell asleep, even with fierce gale of wind descended.
The disciples woke Jesus and what did Jesus do, be specific (v.24)?
He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves.
There are two questions that come about (v.25), what are they?
Where is your faith?
Who is this that commands the winds and water and they obey Him?
A stormy situation
A stormy situation
22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and started out. 23 As they sailed across, Jesus settled down for a nap. But soon a fierce storm came down on the lake. The boat was filling with water, and they were in real danger.
Is there any inclination that they knew a storm was coming or that they were going to be in any “real” danger?
Jesus spoke a word of truth, a promise to the disciples (v.22), go over to the other side, what is the promise?
They would get to the other side.
If Jesus is the Son of God, God in the flesh, then the words He speaks is truth.
For His word is true (Ps119:160); and God cannot lie (Tit1:2)
Take a minute, think about what promises in God’s word do you cleave to by faith?
A little background: The Sea of Galilee is really a lake, it is 13 miles long, 8 miles at it’s widest point, and setting out from Capernaum heading to country of Gadara it about 5 miles across.
I like what Wiersbe said about this storm vs. storm of Jonah.
“Jonah ended up in a storm because of his disobedience, but the disciples got into a storm because of their obedience to the Lord.”
The Lord may brings storms in our life, not to harm us but to help us grow and trust Him, to increase our faith more.
Next we notice Jesus is at perfect peace in the boat
Does it impress you that Jesus needed sleep, and got sleep? This shows the humanity of the Lord.
Does it impress you that he was asleep even in the storm? He had perfect peace and assurance in the Father that they would get to the other side.
We may try to sleep in depression when we are in a storm, or we can have faith and sleep in dependence and peace knowing God is with us through the storms we go through.
Next we see the storm comes in and even frightens fishermen (at least 7 of the apostles were fishermen).
The Sea of Galilee is known for its sudden, violent storms . Like I said it was severe for it was evident of that by the fear of the disciples.
A Rebuke and a reproof
A Rebuke and a reproof
24 The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and the raging waves. Suddenly the storm stopped and all was calm. 25 Then he asked them, “Where is your faith?” The disciples were terrified and amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “When he gives a command, even the wind and waves obey him!”
Fear, terror grip the disciples while Jesus slept in peace.
Have you had fear or terror come upon you and you acted on it? He it says they shouted, other version says cried out, most say just spoke to him or said to Him.
The disciples were afraid while Jesus slept, He rested in confidence that His Father was in control (Ps89:8-9)
8 O Lord God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. 9 You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.
The disciples go to an extreme, they say “we are perishing” - that would mean Jesus was too.
We can blow things out of proportion at times too, can’t we? They had been in storms before, and they weathered the storms. We have been in storms before and God has brought us through them too, hasn’t He?
Morgan “How often are we over-anxious about the enterprises of our Lord! In the hour of storm we imagine everything is about to perish. Then He ever says to us ‘Where is your faith?’”
Jesus was not worried about the storm, He rebuked it.
Rebuked same word, same definition used as when He rebuked a demon (i.e. Lk4:35, 41)
Jesus rebuked the storm, but what is more dangerous is the disciples unbelief.
Not only did the storm die down, but the seas calmed, which is out of the ordinary, after a storm it normally takes time for the seas to calm.
The rebuke is a strong word, it can be that Satan played a part of this storm, trying to stop Jesus, the Apostles, the hope that people were finding in Jesus. Thinking they were all together and he as the prince of the power of the air, the prince of this world could take them all out at once.
The storm of unbelief is very dangerous.
Bible expositors commentary said:
“Difficult circumstances — storms, so to speak, are not evidence of unbelief. Unbelief is the rejection of a promise or a command of God relevant to a particular situation.”
Then:
“It also has been said that faith is not believing in spite of the circumstances, it is obeying in spite of feelings and consequences.”
The disciples failed the test of faith here in not grasping the word, the promise they would go to the other side. Can we do the same thing?
Wiersbe said:
“The disciples looked around and saw danger, and looked within and saw fear; but they failed to look up by faith and see God. Faith and fear cannot dwell together in the same heart.”
One day a woman came to D.L. Moody and quoted a promise verse she clung too
3 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You.
D.L. Moody told her that is a great truth, here is a better one even
2 “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the Lord God is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”
Do we put our trust when we are tried, or is our trust tried at times?
(Transition) - in the last few minutes we have this morning Jon Courson in an exposition on this passage gave some great things to consider.
“To us who cry, ‘It’s not going to work,’ The Lord lovingly says, ‘Where is your faith? Haven’t I promises you that everything is working together for the good? (Rom8:28)? Haven’t I promised you that I will bring you to a glorious end (Jer29:11)?
“Haven’t I promised you that I will complete that which I’ve begun in you (Php1:6)? Haven’t I promised you that I will restore to you the years the locust has eaten (Joel2:25)? Haven’t I promised you that no weapon formed against you shall prosper (Isa54:17)?
Haven’t I promised to supply all your need (Php4:19), that if you seek Me first everything will be added unto you (Mt6:33).
It was not the storm that troubled Jesus.
It was not Satan that troubled Jesus.
It was the weak, stumbling, little faith of those who had just been taught about faith what were troubling Him.
If fear, terror, trouble, trials, tribulations, come in, the solution to fear is faith. Let the word of faith, the word of God fill you with truth and assurance you have in Christ!