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I’m a Carnivore
I like my steaks medium rare.
Cooked, but juicy.
My experience has been that too many cooks who cook meat well done squeeze all the juice out of it.
Dried out and tough.
Hamburger is another story.
Can’t eat raw hamburger.
It has t/b cooked throughout.
Okay, but don’t dry it out.
My step-dad would smash the patties on the grill to get them cooked.
Pork chops?
Well done.
The first time I was asked how I wanted my pork chop cooked it took me aback just a little.
Apparently, “they” have decided pork that’s a little pink is okay.
I just can’t go there.
Fish, I like sushi.
No problem w/ raw fish, if it’s supposed t/b raw.
But, if I order a salmon steak, I want it cooked well done.
Chicken?
No question.
Well done.
Just keep it moist.
So, what’s this got to do w/ the church and wrapping up Acts?
What do you want to hear from God when you get to heaven?
“Well done, good and faithful servant.”
God finishes everything he starts.
If he promises it, then it’s going to happen.
He will complete the church, His Old House.
The church is made up of people, not buildings.
So, if the church is going t/b completed, that means we will be, too.
God is preparing us and the church the same way we prepare chicken.Our lives, our stories may be juicy.
But, we’ll be well done.
One of the letters Paul wrote from prison in Rome is Philippians.
God promised Paul he’d get to Rome.
And there are a couple of things he wrote that are pertinent to the message this morning.
First;
God will finish the work He started in us.
Second;
Philippians
Paul wrote this after his eventful journey by sea to Rome.
God promised Paul that he’d get to Rome.
Eventually, the Romans agreed w/ God, though unknowingly, and put him on a ship to Rome.
God had a plan.
The Romans had a plan.
Everyone’s plan was to get Paul to Rome.
There were 4 major threats along the way.
Any one of them could have prevented Paul from ever arriving in Rome and completing his mission.
The first was a group of arrogant, unbelieving sailors who believed they were smarter and more powerful than the weather.
People Got in the Way
A storm slowed them down
A normal trip by sea from Alexandria to Rome would take about 2 weeks.
But, it had happened before where adverse conditions blew up and it could take up to 7 weeks.
The Day of Atonement would have been in late September or early October.
Sea travel would normally stop by Oct. 1 until mid-march b/c in typical winter storms the winds blow the wrong direction preventing them from getting to Rome.
It’s fall, but an early winter storm blew in slowing them down.
Had this storm not occured, there would have been no question.
Sail on to Rome.
But their progress had been slowed so much that winter was right around the corner and sailors knew trying to travel in the winter was very risky.
Paul warned them
God spoke to Paul and he spoke to the sailors.
Don’t go.
God showed him what was going to happen.
God knows the future and prepares us for it.
But, many don’t believe.
They believe they know better.
How inaccurate does a weather forecaster have to be to lose his job?
The majority decided
They voted.
The pilot of the ship polled the sailors and they all agreed to set sail.
They knew they couldn’t make it all the way to Rome but they believed the could make it to Phoenix and winter there making their trip to Rome in the spring much shorter.
They preferred to spend the winter in Phoenix.
For the record, these are the foolish ones.
Just sayin’.
So, they weighed anchor and set sail for Phoenix.
And, guess what happened!
As we go thru this remember, unfaithful people cannot mess up God’s plan.
They can only mess up their own lives.
God is wise and powerful enough to get done what He wants done in spite of foolish people.
Majority vote?
How many humans does it take to out-vote God?
Don’t know.
It’s never happened.
This was a foolish move.
It was too late in the season to try to sail so far.
And, the inevitable happened.
This was the first threat.
And, the second threat is related.
They were wrong.
They’re plan was to sail from Crete to the toe of the boot of Italy across the open Adriatic Sea.
Hundreds of miles of open water w/ nothing to block the wind if a major winter storm blew up.
And it did.
It threatened their lives and Paul’s completion of God’s promise.
A Storm Got in the Way
Acts 27:
At the mercy of the wind
The wind was so fierce they could not sail into it.
So, they gave up trying.
They took in their sails so the wind would have less of an impact.
They dropped an anchor to slow their progress.
They hoped the storm would pass before they ran aground.
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