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35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”
36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was.
And other boats were with him.
37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.
38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
Introduction
Many of us, have experienced or is experiencing situations in our life today that makes us wonder, do you care?
With all the senseless killing in our streets, the impoverish of people of color, discrimination of women and Black America, someone who wants to get ahead is asking the question, Does Jesus care?
When you can’t even pay your last respects do to the fear of gun violence, it makes you wonder.
Someone may be saying, I prepared myself for a better life for my children, but we see that the care we have, is not the genuine care of our peers.
When we looked at the fear in our communities, some do not even feel safe in their home.
I can understand, you worked so hard, went to church, do your best by everyone but yet sometimes, you still may utter these words – Do you care?
It’s your health, one sickness after another, one health issue after another.
Good report, bad report, good report, bad report.
These situations will make you feel like, does Jesus care?
Jesus was Fatigue and Exhaustion.
Jesus and the disciples were on a course for rest and relaxation.
They had been serving the multitude all day.
They were on the sea, headed to the other side and they encounter a storm
These disciples were master fishermen, highly experienced, had fish on the Galilee many times before and yet they were caught by surprised.
They had been on the sea before in storms but something about this storm had them fearing for their life.
Somebody here today is going through a storm in their life and it has them fearing the worst.
Storm maybe health, children, work, relationship, financial, death.
Whatever, it is this storm has you fearing the worst.
You may be just like these disciple’s question Jesus, asking him do he cares.
1. Sudden Storm - Unexpected storms will catch you by surprise.
Its one thing when you can expect and its another to not expect.
When I’m expected something, I can prepare for it.
I can brace myself but when it Unexpected, I’m left vulnerable.
Sudden storm will expose your position
It don’t matter how Christian you are, certain storm can catch you by surprise.
The storm will expose your vulnerability and everything you have going on in your life.
If you have hatred in your heart, a unexpected storm will exposed it.
If you have a bad relationship, a unexpected storm will expose it.
If you don’t know Christ, a unexpected storm will expose it.
Sudden Storms will make you change position and your course.
An unexpected storm will expose your position and kill where you headed.
The storm exposed their fears on the Galilee and took them off of course for the other side.
They were headed there for relaxation.
But they are now facing fear.
Sudden Storms will knock you out of position and change where you headed.
Somebody is going through a storm right now; they came today to give it to God.
They are at a breaking point.
Nowhere to turn, it has affected their giving, affected their service to God and have affected their attendance.
The storm has affected their evangelism, they want even invite someone to church.
See storms will make you assume.
We assume people done want to come to church, don’t want to hear about Christ.
We walk right past them because storms in our lives have taken our courage.
says, “ Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” (King James Version)
These disciples being masters in their profession, experienced in the storm had become fearful.
Do you still have courage in the mist of going through?
One metric I’ve learned to use to evaluate our Christainship.
“People love to say they don’t need to go to church” or the Church is in my heart.
Now they may feel that it is true, I’m not here to debate that.
But – That person has experienced a storm that made them change their position and course.
Ask yourself what is it about this storm?
Theses apostles were masters at their craft, they were experience with the Galilee and its storms and yet they were afraid.
We cannot be so judgmental on God’s people.
It doesn’t matter how prepared, you are, how educated, How religious you are.
We all will face some storms.
Don’t matter how well you pray, How well you sing, how well you preach.
You will face some storms, and they that will catch you by surprised.
Certain storms will expose your faith and kill your belief.
A certain storm will expose your position and kill where you headed.
There is so much foolishness going on around us today.
People and their storms have created their own spiritual perspectives.
Their storms has created and define new Christian and religious movement as pre and post modernity movement and the post-truth area.
Listen, Stop allowing your storms to create perceptions that you think exist.
Who cares if they talk about you?
Who cares if they don’t like you?
Who cares if they not for you?
You have a charge by God.
They ole hymnl says “A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.”
A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.”
We are allowing the outside to influence the inside instead of allowing the inside govern the outside.
What is your position and where are you headed?
Some of us are allowing our storms to kill our faith.
Our storms are affecting our level of spiritual activity, decrease our spiritual participation and blinding our wiliness to serve.
Storm you cannot and will not kill me.
Don’t care how much hell they raise,
how they treat you,
What they say, storm you will not win.
The song writer said-
We better tell the storm, says ”I told the storm to pass”
Storm you can't last
Storm – you will not last.
2. Sleeping Savior
The text says: 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.
38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
In mist of this storm, and Jesus is sleep.
What a dangerous situation to be in a storm and Jesus is sleep?
The text says: 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.
38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.
In mist of this storm, and Jesus is sleep.
What a dangerous situation to be in a storm and Jesus is sleep?
St. Augustine said, “If Jesus were not asleep within thee, thou wouldst be calm and at rest.
But why is He asleep?
Because thy faith is asleep,” etc.
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