Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Alright, by now you guys know what we’ve been doing together.

We’ve been in the gospel of Luke, discovering what the Holy Spirit through Luke wants us to see about Jesus.

We’ve covered topics of Jesus’ humanity, his worthiness, his gifts as a preacher…lots of things.

But tonight…we are going to talk about Jesus as something that is not immediately apparent, but is absolutely crucial in understanding Jesus.

Instead of me telling you, let’s get into the text first.

Just to give you a heads up, tonight is going to be bible heavy…specifically looking at different texts together because I feel this needs to be proven without a doubt.

So let’s start in our first text, the one in the gospel of Luke...

Summary: Jesus and his disciples in a boat.

Boat starts sinking, sinking enough that they legit believe they are going to die, so what do they do?

They wake Jesus up…who evidently is able to sleep through a storm that causes a boat to sink…they wake jesus up..

And he makes the storm cease.

And we’ll get into the next part in a minute, but I want to stop there for a bit.

There’s three things we are going to be looking at tonight.

If you’re taking notes, and you like to have headings or something…here are the questions that would be the heading for each section.

Three questions we will answer tonight based on this passage.

Who Is Jesus?

We’re starting with this question because this is exactly what the disciples ask themselves in this passage.

Look back at it.

They’re asking: Who is this guy?

We thought we knew him…he’s shown himself to be a great teacher, a great prophet, a healer…but this…this is something completely different.

This is something so big…that it makes then evaluate just how they’ve been viewing Jesus in their lives.

You ever have a moment like that?

A moment that is so crucial in your life…that you come to Jesus with a certain expectation of who he is, maybe you’ve got him in this box of what he’s able to do or how he likes to do things....you come to him like the disciples come to him...

Master, Master…Jesus Jesus…I need help.

And then Jesus turns around and does something that completely changes the what you thought he would or could do in your life…and you’re left wondering…who is this?

And if this is who Jesus is…then who have I been worshipping?

I remember this happened to me a little over 6 years ago…right after Brittany and I had lost a baby.

I had this expectation of who Jesus was.

He was sovereign, in control of everything, able to do anything, has a perfect will.

Therefore, if it’s in his will I need to be okay with.

I need to be understanding.

I need to just suck it up and move forward knowing it’s in his hands...

And so I came to him with that…Jesus, Jesus…you’re sovereign and in control…show me that…show my wife that.

Help us to just keep moving.

And Jesus was like…no.

Yes, you’re right in thinking those things and knowing those things about me....but I’m more than that.

I’m more that just sovereign and in control.

I’m more than just my perfect will.

I’m also a comforter.

I’m also tender.

I’m also loving.

I also weep when you weep.

I’m also a shepherd to my sheep.

You see, I came to Jesus with a certain expectation…and he showed me something even grander about who he was…and it left me thinking.

Who is this?

And if this is Jesus?

Then who have I been worshipping?

Was it Jesus?

Yes.

But it was a Jesus that I had kept in a box that was smaller than he actually was.

And maybe you haven’t gotten their in your life yet…but I promise you…if you’re a disciple, it’s coming.

Just like it came for the disciples in the boat on this day.

They came to Jesus certainly with the expectation that he could help them…but he blew them away by revealing something even deeper and grander than what they had expected.

And what was that?

Who is Jesus?

The answer is.

The creator.

And that’s the title of this message.

Jesus as the creator.

When I say creator…I mean creator of everything.

Like, the creator and controller of creation.

And I”m going to walk you through how scripture reveals that...

But first, put yourself in the place of the disciples.

Jewish disciples.

Meaning…their people, their fathers fathers fathers, had been walking and in relationship with God for a long time.

There’s a of history there…and…a lot of miracles.

The jewish were not strangers to miracles being performed.

They had seen healings.

Like Sarah being able to have children.

They had seen provision.

Like bread dropping from heaven.

They had even seen miracles in which weather and creation was manipulated.

Like Moses parting the red sea, Elijah stopping the rain, the plagues in Egypt..

Yeah..they had seen quite a bit…and because they had seen quite a bit, they immediately saw a difference in what Jesus did here.

Do you see the difference between this miracles and the other ones affecting creation in scripture?

I want to show them to you.

These are just two examples and if we had more time I would love to show you countless more examples from scripture…but these two will suffice for tonight.

Keep those two examples in mind and look back at our text in Luke.

What’s the difference in the language between the OT references and the NT?

The difference is…Jesus didn’t ask the Lord to do anything.

Jesus was told by the Lord to do anything.

He didn’t pray and consult him first…he didn’t wait to be told what to do…he didn’t pray and wait for the Lord to calm the sea...

What did he do?

He. just.

did it.

It says in verse 24

Jesus woke up.

and he rebuked.

Really simple words that make an enormous statement to us…and that statement is…Jesus didn’t have to wait for God to do anything here, he didn’t have to wait for the creator to affect creation…because Jesus is the creator and he is able to affect his own creation.

In that moment he was not just a man pleading to the God of all creation to command it…he was the Son of God commanding the creation that he had made.

The scripture clearly shows the difference using the language, and it was certainly clear enough to the disciples that this was different because it left them wondering...

Who is this that can do that?

Because no ordinary prophet can do that…no ordinary prophet has command over creation like that.

Only the Lord could have done that.

And if that…if that right there wasn’t enough…there were connection all over scripture like this...

A psalm.

Which the disciples would have been familiar with....

Sound familiar?

A portion of the Jewish scripture…written hundreds and hundreds of years before this moment…sung in synagogues, taught to Jewish children in school...