226: Will Taylor – God’s Purpose on the Sea of Galilee

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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now let’s talk more about this
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This week’s talk is called God’s
purpose on the Sea of Galilee by

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brother will tailor, that was
presented at the rugby.

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UK Ecclesia, in September of
last year, I believe it’s an

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evening lecture, judging by the
introductions.

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This was a suggestion from a
brother.

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Thank you.
It is a great talk.

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I found this really easy to
listen, to brother will Compares

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a couple different stories that
occur.

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On the Sea of Galilee and aligns
them with kind of the overall

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purpose of the whole Bible and
God’s entire message, which is a

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fun study.
So I was, I was happy to listen

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to it and happy to suggest it.
I also think and this does

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matter I think it’s a little bit
of a funny thing but we listen

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to a lot of talks and sometimes
just the particular voice

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accent, kind of tone of the
presenter is great and makes it

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an even Better.
Listen and I think brother will

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has a really lovely tone and it
just made me to me, just made

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for it, even even better
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So that notes, I know, it’s a,
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trivial thing, but you are
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just found this one extra
enjoyable because my brother

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will has a classic accent and a
really, really nice style to

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listen to obviously not at all,
as important as the content, I

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just wanted to go ahead and make
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So thanks again to the brother
who sent this one over.

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This is brother, will tailor on
God’s purpose on the Sea of

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Galilee.
Good evening everyone.

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As christadelphians, we accept
that, the Bible is the word of

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God that it is inspired and
contains from Genesis to

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Revelation.
A message that is complete and

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entire altered by the creator of
Heaven and Earth and we accept

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that message.
And that we did not miss his has

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a purpose that God has with this
Earth.

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And that purpose is expressed in
many different ways as we read

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through the pages of scripture.
And the purpose of the talk

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tonight is to look at how that
purpose is expressed in two

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different ways.
On those events that we looked

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at that have been read for us in
Matthew chapter 8 and Matthew

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chapter 14.
And also the parallel accounts,

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the reason that we want to do
that is so that we can

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understand how.
And this is, this is a recurring

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approach to scripture on so many
occasions, a message or an event

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is recorded for us in more than
one place.

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And it’s important for us to
understand how we open the

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scriptures, and start to pull
apart, what exactly it is that

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God’s teaching us.
Because on the surface of what

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we’ve read there in Matthew
chapter 8 and Matthew 14,

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accepting the fact that Miracles
take place, they’re really quite

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simple narratives and the first
one we have the Was recorded as

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being in the boat with Jesus and
there’s a terrible storm and

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then Jesus calms the storm.
And in the second one, the

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disciples are in the boat.
There’s Again, difficult weather

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on the Sea of Galilee and Jesus
comes walking on the water to

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them.
And what we read it at that

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level we can understand how the
disciples in experiencing those

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events would have their faith
increased but there’s a much

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deeper message that runs through
which which provides for us.

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As I’ve already said and
expression of God’s purpose,

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that’s being outworked with this
Earth, but represented in the

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events that are recorded in
those two scenarios.

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Now, the first scenario focuses
upon God’s purpose, the macro

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generic purpose that he has with
this Earth.

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The second one focuses upon an
individual’s relationship with

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God and their journey to his
Kingdom.

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And so the purpose for the next
half an hour or so is to is to

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look at that and it will be
largely done on the screen with

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the first one that we’re looking
at based upon that first storm

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of the sea, which appears in
three of the Gospels, it appears

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in the three, what we call
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Mark, 4, and Luke 8.
And the fact of the matter is,

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is the way that God designed his
Bible is designed it to be read

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and meditated on thought about
and studied It and it is not

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possible for an individual to
really start to understand what

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it is that God really fully
trying to communicate without

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putting some effort in.
And so, you can’t fully

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understand what is being
communicated on either of these

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two events as examples, which
occurs Myriad times, over in

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scripture focusing on different
aspects of scripture, unless we

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compare scripture with
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So, Matthew 8, Mark, 4, and Luke
8, don’t worry about the next

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slide.
We’re not going to focus on.

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On the detail of it.
The reason that what I want to

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show with that is is for us to
understand how we begin to piece

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this overall scenario together.
So what Adam for both for this

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for the color coding is that
where this gray shading, there’s

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a common point being made which
occurs in all of the three

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scriptures, the Matthew account,
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And a Luke account where there
are the individual colors of

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yellow green and blue, they are
points that are unique to those

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passages and it’s by Pulling the
whole together, and it’s not a

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difficult exercise, but pulling
the whole together that we have

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a much Fuller picture emerge
than just, for example, reading

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the Matthew account.
So I’ll be preaching the

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scriptures together on the
screen.

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Follow it as much as you want to
with, with the Bible’s on your

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laps.
But we’ll see a powerful picture

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emerging now, the first one is
much more simply it’s much

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simpler than the second.
The second is more intricate and

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involved and is where we’ll
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Rarity of the time, but the
first will will help set the

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scene for us.
So there’s, there’s a satellite

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image of the Sea of Galilee that
lovely sort of harp or heart

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shape Lake, which at its widest
part is it’s around about 9

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miles across.
And this is where the Disciples

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of Jesus spent for many of them,
the majority of their time

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because that’s where they
worked.

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And so this was a place that
they knew extremely well, and

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this is recorded for us in
Matthew chapter 8, Mark, 4, and

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Luke 8, they’re about to get on
their boat and get sailing

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across the Sea of Galilee and
their broadly, we’re not giving

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the specifics in this one, but
we are in the second there.

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Broadly, taking a journey,
something like that.

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So we think about this not just
in what’s recorded for us but

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but what God’s purpose is what’s
happening with regards to the

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development of God’s purpose.
So the first point that we told

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in Mark chapter 4 verse 36, is
that the multitude have been

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sent away.
So whole group of people

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disciples about to get on a
boat, will see it or not alone,

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but a whole multitude is sent
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So this starts with a picture of
Separation just as The Bible

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starts with separation in
Genesis chapter 1, and let’s

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fundamental principle to God’s
purpose that people are called

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out to an understanding of his
purpose.

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So not everybody is going to be
part of what we’re reading

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that’s going to take place
because if you want to think of

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the Sea of Galilee in this in
these scenarios as the world.

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If it’s talking about what’s
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at that level, that’s what’s
been shown.

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So a multitude he sent away.
And Jesus in this account gets

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into the ship and his disciples
follow him.

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So Jesus and the disciples Jesus
leading the way the disciples

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following him in answering that
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And then there’s a destination.
It’s pronounced in Luke chapter

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8 so when they’re on the ship
and they’re all together.

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There’s the command That Goes
Forth, let us go over to the

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other side of the lake so that
there’s an understanding of a

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destination.
So these people who aren’t part

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of the multitude that have been
sent away as our in this ship

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with Jesus, They know that
they’re going over to the other

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side of the lake, they’re not
going to go into the middle and

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do some fishing and then return
or go around the edge of the

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lake.
They’re going to the other side

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of the lake and so there’s
there’s clarity as to the

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destination and in scripture we
are clear about a kingdom of

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God, that is coming, where the
capital will be centered in

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Jerusalem.
And we know it does that not

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alone so the disciples follow
Christ do their first.

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And historically, this is what’s
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Jesus is first presented to us
in the scriptures not by name.

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But in the Book of Genesis
chapter 3 and verse 15, that

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there would be a solution to the
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The challenge that exists in the
world which is sin.

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And until that problem is fully
resolved, then this world is

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under a condemned State.
It’s a condemned phase and it

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can’t prosper and it’s subject
to sin.

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In disease, death, all the rest
that we see in the world around

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us.
But there aren’t just the

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disciples.
There are all of these other

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Little Ships, there are all of
these other believers at

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throughout their History of
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God has called to be part.
And parcel of his purpose, they

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listen to the message, they’ve
accepted it, and they’re in the

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ship.
So figuratively speaking.

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They are part of what the
scripture, we term, as the body

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of Christ, that they’re all one
in Christ Jesus, in their

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separate vessels, but they’re
all they’re leaving, and they’re

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heading to the other side of the
lake.

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And of course, scripture is very
clear to say that not

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everybody’s involved in God’s
purpose.

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People have free will that they
exercise and not everybody’s not

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everybody is aware of God’s
purpose, because of the way,

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it’s been handled from
generation to generation and

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not, everybody will accept it.
So, I’ve got a quote there from

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Daniel chapter 12 that many
sleep in the dust of the earth.

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Not everyone because the Bible
will say that, those that do not

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sleep perish.
They died for everyone’s their

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life saver but All these in the
ships, they share this common

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experience at the end of their
life.

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And then as they’re traveling
across the Sea of Galilee Jesus.

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Falls asleep.
Silent in their midst and

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throughout the history of time
for the last two thousand years

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is as this Journeys been taken
by all those that have followed

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Christ having figuratively,
entered into the ships to follow

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him.
They have this word silent in

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their midst.
Jesus was The bodily reality of

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this word, this word was brought
to life in him his life, he’s

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personage and and here it is
with us today and it’s silent

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and we can make use of that as
we wish, but as a resource, it’s

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there in the ship, with them
never leaves us.

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And as his journey is taken.
There, arises a great Tempest in

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this sea.
And the Bible talks a lot about

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the use of sea and waves and
water and the impact of these

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with their restlessness with
with the waves that raw it

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speaks about a time where there
isn’t peace where there isn’t

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calm.
And here we dramatically shown

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something that prophetically
will happen.

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Between the Book of Revelation
is described as an earthquake, a

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political earthquake.
Here we have an earthquake The

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Sea of Galilee and the word for
tempest in the Greek.

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They’re literally means
earthquake.

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It’s translated elsewhere as
earthquake.

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And so, as this tsunami erupts
in this relatively small C, we

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can imagine understand that the
impact on the boat is

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significant.
The boats not going to be able

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to survive in these conditions
and it talks about the

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conditions of the world that we
see, throughout history where

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there are significant challenges
but also as it builds to what

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will be a climactic event when
Jesus Christ is unveiled in this

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Earth because the Bible speaks
about his two appearances, the

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first, which was 2,000 years ago
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scriptures, when every eye shall
see him, And he will be unveiled

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upon the Earth.
And so the disciples there, in

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this boat, all the disciples in
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The word of God is in their
midst and there are these that

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there is this terrific situation
which strikes Terror and fear,

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there’s no peace for the world
in this state that we are in and

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the waves beat into the ship.
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to sink and it tells the story
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and we two are bound in the
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We are caught up in the Society
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And it’s sinking.
It’s not something that’s going

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to persist, it’s not
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And the problem is an
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they’re headed are did did it is
sin, but it but it’s it’s

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bringing this down.
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means that there are trouble,
there’s trouble that results in

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Risk to loss of life.
Now, there’s risk to loss of

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life for those that are not part
of this, because they’re part of

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the multitude of the sent away
and have nothing to do with

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this.
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themselves, who are in the ship,
who I’ve got the word of Christ

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in their midst.
They also are in Jeopardy

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because it each Epoch in the
scriptures where we have

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something significant happening.
Many of them are found wanting

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in their response, many of them
are found not having enough oil

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in their lamps or they don’t
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fact that the people of God are
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And Jesus is there fast asleep
on a pillow?

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And an earthquake has has
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And it’s it’s showing us that
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that specific time.
When God has placed on record

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that there is a time when Jesus
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And the cry from.
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Because of the difficulties of
life and the challenges that we

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are confronted with.
Eat as many people over the

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centuries of asked, of God, do
you not care?

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Do you not care that?
That, that we perish?

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That.
There’s no way out of this

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problem of this challenge?
What is it was supposed to do?

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And in the context of the
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unfolding in a two-fold sense,
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He was raised from the dead.
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with healing in his beams as we
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And as his resurrected Christ,
who destroyed sin, and this

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resurrected Christ who overcomes
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God’s plan and purpose.
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institution of his kingdom.
He has complete control over all

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of the elements.
And this is drawn to our

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attention in many different ways
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what will be the capability.
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Christ who will be king in this
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And so he will be able to
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And we’ve got a quote there from
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Earth, they will kiss the son.
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And so I’m to be, he’s all about
this particular scenario at this

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moment.
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will seek to rise up against
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them with his Fury and the
winds, and the Sea will be

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rebuked.
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that wonderful piece and
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The preaching of the Heavenly
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this Earth and they’ll be a
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I’ll be a great calm like glass.
where the water is no longer

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tossed to and fro because of,
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And when these things come to
past, I’ll be that reflection

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for the Saints for those that
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Why are you so fearful?
How is it that you have no

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faith?
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made to us here, with this
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might be terrific storms.
There might be tremendous

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challenges.
That we feel uncomfortable about

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that, we’re not happy with and
if we got to strive against, but

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the scriptural message and
import is that without faith.

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It’s impossible to please God.
And I never will be acclamation

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about Jesus.
The son of God for unto us.

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A son is given, and the
government shall be upon his

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shoulder, his name Shall be
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So that first scenario on the
Sea of Galilee, which is in

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disciples, gives an overarching
view of what it is that God’s

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going to out work on this Earth.
As I said, the second one is

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much more detailed and specific
and we’ll have a look at that

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now.
So Matthew 4 18, Mark 6 and John

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6.
Now you’ll see by looking at

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this here.
You’ll see that it hangs

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together.
Buy some consistent wording, but

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the differences are far greater.
And so there’s much more to do

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You just frankly can’t At All by
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they have to be brought together
to understand the actual message

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and this is the Journey of a
disciple So for anybody that’s

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you know, not yet baptized if
this is the journey that we

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take.
So we can be very specific this

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time.
They start in bethsaida Mark

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6:45 and bethsaida means fishing
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at that place and disciples are
from there who to whom Jesus

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said, you will be Fishers of Men
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And so the people were fished
disciples were fished and they

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were caught and they are going
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Capernaum.
Mmm, which means comforted by

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being sorry or repentance.
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journey from being fished and
caught by the gospel message,

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and they will end up at a
destination where there is true

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repentance.
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sorry, through the work of the
Lord Jesus Christ, where their

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sins are forgiven and washed
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So, we notice at the start of
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account, We’re told him Mark 6
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Jesus constrained his disciples
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So these are individuals that
have been fished and they’ve

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accepted the call and they’ve
been baptized and they’re made

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to go into the boat.
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You get in that boat.
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other side to Capernaum without
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He’s not in the boat with them.
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whilst we have the word in our
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Of course, Jesus.
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raised up from the Mount of
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side of his father in Heaven.
He’s our high priest and

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mediator he intercedes on our
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And so we find again at their
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These people have been clearly
called, they’re being baptized

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Jesus, man.
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they’re all in the ark together,
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However, we want to think about
it, but these people experience

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a fellowship and a grouping
together, which separates them

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and distinguishes them from all
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world.
And so Jesus, we notice this

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time in Marxist, 45, Jesus
constrained his disciples to get

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into the ship and Jesus sends
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They have not responded to the
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And so the disciples make their
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house of fish, to this end,
destination of of repentance of

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consolation at Capernaum.
Was Jesus himself ascends up a

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mountain.
And whilst Jesus is up on that

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mountain, he is going to pray
and ask Jesus is role now as our

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high priest of mediators have
already said he prays he

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intercedes on our behalf and all
those that follow him, they have

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him not with them in the boat,
but they know that and believe

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that he is there interceding on
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And scripture is very clear to
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Mark, 6 verse 46, that Jesus is
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Gospel of John chapter 3, no,
man has ascended up to heaven,

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except Jesus Christ.
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space with his heavenly father
interceding on all those behalf

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who have accepted him for their
understanding of the Bible and

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the Waters of baptism and
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Let me notice after a while that
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So if we’re looking, you know,
the journey there, they’re

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taking might be around for the
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And even was come and and the
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place will take place in the
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The darkness of this Egyptian
night in which we live the

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darkness of this world because
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they loved light as John tells
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And that that that that phase
and setting for where we live

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out.
Our lives provides all of these

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challenges for all of us
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Not one of us has a smooth path
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Not not one.
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subject to difficulty, but what
the Lord is going to seek from

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all those, it is constrained to
get into the boat is, how do

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they cope when the difficult
times come or the times come

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that are really problematic to
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We get to the point that at this
time that the ship is in the

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middle of the sea.
So, like many of us in life when

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we’ve accepted that call, and
we’re in the ship and we’ve made

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that journey and we take on the
responsibilities of life and

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life builds as it does, it gets
to a point where you can’t

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easily turn back.
They’re in the middle of the

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sea.
They can keep pressing towards

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the place where there’s true
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Or they can head back from where
they’ve come from, but neither

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are easy.
They are in the middle of this

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thing.
And they’ve Road about Five and

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Twenty or Thirty furlongs.
So they’re just over halfway

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through this journey.
We confirmed it’s now dark and

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crucially.
We’re told in John, chapter 6

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and verse 17, the wall, these
people are making this journey

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that Jesus had made them get
into the ship.

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That all of these people in the
dark have been waiting for Jesus

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to come to them.
There’s an expectation that

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Jesus will return, but they
haven’t seen it yet.

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And it’s starting to have an
impact with the duration of the

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time that they’re waiting and
the challenge of the life that

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they’re living because as Jesus,
is there at the right hand of

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his father and he looks down
from this mountain and he’s

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alone on the land.
And He’s praying, he observes

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his disciples and he sees them
toiling in rowing.

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He sees that they’re slowing
their progress, he sees that

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they’re finding it hard.
And even though we just pray and

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he intercedes on our behalf.
He sees that they have a

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significant problem and it’s
significant because the wind was

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contrary.
They’re rowing into a headwind

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and the wind is completely store
to find their progress that they

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might even be slipping backwards
closer, back to bethsaida and

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the challenges of life, which do
weigh us down.

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And which can cause a
significant problems.

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They have this impact on us.
They stop the forward motion.

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They stop the growth and the
development, and they stopped

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the Peaceable fruit of
righteousness from.

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So from more easily emanating in
our ways, It all becomes very

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difficult and challenging.
And then we’ve read in about

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Matthew says in Mark, says,
about the Fourth Watch of the

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night. we think about this in
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The Fourth Watch of the Roman
night was between 3 a.m. to 6

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a.m., so they’ve been growing
all through the night.

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This difficult, tough Journey.
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when scripturally speaking,
Jesus will return for the new

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day.
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19.
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been looking for.
It popped up a number 15 at this

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moment in time as we come
towards the dawn of the new day.

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Jesus comes to them walking on
the sea and he comes near to the

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ship and we can think about this
as the Bible talks about us as

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you talks about the followers of
Christ as being the house of

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God.
It talks about out as being

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vessels in which God can dwell
in terms of his character

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develops.
But as this family of people who

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Proclaim to be God’s people are
there in this ship and they’ve

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been looking for Christ to
return.

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Jesus comes walking on the sea.
He’s drawing nigh to the ship.

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But he would have passed by
them.

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This was a close run thing.
Jesus wasn’t automatically, just

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going to go to this ship and
save this people, why not?

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Because there are challenges
with the wind that is contrary

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to them. means that although
they don’t realize it, They

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don’t automatically, recognize
it is their Messiah.

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They’re so focused on the
challenges that they’re facing

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in that boat and they’re tired
and it’s longer in the night.

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That this all could have passed
them by.

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Because underpinning It Was Fear
and fear is the antithesis of

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Faith.
You cannot be full of fear.

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And full of faith.
And that’s why Jesus says to the

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disciples our last night that
he’s with them before he’s

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crucified.
He says let not your heart be

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troubled, neither Let It Be
Afraid.

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Because fear closes our minds
and our insight into what’s

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really taking place.
And so as this fear has this

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impact on them, we find that
there’s there’s still something

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there in this.
Remnant of people that Jesus

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he’s able to speak to them.
And he says, be of good cheer.

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It is, I Be not Afraid and as I
hear the voice of the master,

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now we notice he’s not getting
this ship with them, it’s

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important, he’s expecting.
If you think about it, John

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chapter 6, verse 17.
Point number ten on the

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overhead, they’re expecting
Jesus to come to them now.

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Quite clearly.
They would not have expected him

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to come to them walking on the
sea while.

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The Bible says that Jesus will
come as a thief in the night.

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And we do not know the exact T’,
mode and means by which this

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will be accomplished.
They were not expecting the

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miraculous in that sense, but
they were expecting him, whether

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00:32:23,100 –> 00:32:26,200
it was by some other vessel to
come and meet up with them or

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00:32:26,200 –> 00:32:28,000
otherwise to meet him at the
other side.

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But he comes at this point in
time now and he says, be of good

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cheer, it is I be not afraid.
And this vision of their lord is

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something that instills in
Peter.

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As a representative disciple
here that he says to Jesus, Bid

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00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:56,700
me come into the water with you.
And so with his vision fixed on

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Jesus, Peter leaves a ship.
He goes out into figuratively

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00:33:03,100 –> 00:33:06,200
speaking, the world, which is
what the Sea of Galilee

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represents.
But he’s got that Vision.

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Burning closely of Jesus.
See it in his mind when Jesus

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says come to me. but the impact,
the consequential effect of the

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violent wind.
The movement of the water, the

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00:33:30,000 –> 00:33:34,100
undulation ‘s up and down as we
know and if you see the Sea of

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00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:37,500
Galilee, you’ll see that storms
do come quite quickly on this

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00:33:37,500 –> 00:33:39,400
year of Galilee.
It’s a known.

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00:33:40,000 –> 00:33:45,200
It’s a known weather phenomenon
in that region, but as the waves

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come up and down as the
undulations are there, the

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00:33:48,300 –> 00:33:50,200
vision of his Lord sort of is
there?

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00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:54,600
But then it’s not and we have
this persisting theme here in

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this picture that’s been
presented.

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00:33:57,100 –> 00:33:59,600
Of the difficulty of retaining
vision of Jesus.

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00:34:00,700 –> 00:34:02,900
Firstly, Jesus is going to pass
by them in the boat.

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But here there’s insufficient
Vision, that means that all of a

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00:34:06,908 –> 00:34:10,900
sudden, Peter loses his nerve,
he loses confidence and fear is

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00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,699
in him.
Once more fear, that he’s going

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00:34:13,699 –> 00:34:18,300
to sink and he says, he says,
Lord save me.

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00:34:21,300 –> 00:34:24,300
And Jesus again has to say thou
of little faith.

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00:34:25,100 –> 00:34:28,400
Why do you doubt?
And so in both these scenarios

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00:34:28,699 –> 00:34:34,300
fear and doubt play an important
role, That compromise a

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00:34:34,300 –> 00:34:38,000
disciples strength and
conviction.

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00:34:39,300 –> 00:34:42,699
In the purpose of God, that’s
been revealed to them.

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00:34:46,699 –> 00:34:50,699
At this point in time and this
is a significant part.

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We notice that that Peter has
been restored.

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The disciples are still in the
ship.

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They have a clear vision of
their lord and their lord is

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00:35:00,800 –> 00:35:06,100
received into the ship.
And we notice the words of John

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00:35:06,100 –> 00:35:11,400
6 verse 21, they willingly
received him into the ship and

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00:35:11,400 –> 00:35:13,500
that takes us right back to the
law of Moses.

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00:35:14,600 –> 00:35:16,900
Where the edict went for that
people should do things

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00:35:16,900 –> 00:35:20,200
willingly with their whole heart
because if the spirit isn’t

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00:35:20,200 –> 00:35:23,500
willing, then it’s material that
God can’t use.

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00:35:24,900 –> 00:35:27,800
And so although there’s been a
mix of fear and challenging this

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00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:30,100
journey, they willingly, let him
into the ship.

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And when Jesus returns to the
ship, we think of First Peter,

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00:35:36,200 –> 00:35:38,600
judgment must first.
Begin at the house of God.

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When Jesus is in the ship.
And we notice that they were,

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00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:47,500
you know, they were only sort of
best 2/3 of the way on the

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00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:51,900
journey here immediately.
John 6, verse 21 tells us the

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00:35:51,900 –> 00:35:55,500
ship was at land when they went
and so the point is, although

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00:35:55,700 –> 00:35:58,000
there’s a journey that needs to
be done with the Fulfillment of

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00:35:58,000 –> 00:36:00,900
the outworking of God’s purpose
on this Earth.

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The moment when the when the
moment when the disciples are

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00:36:03,900 –> 00:36:08,200
called by Jesus and they are
together immediately.

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They are at the Kingdom
immediately.

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00:36:11,200 –> 00:36:16,000
They are uh, That place of
judgment and equally as

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00:36:16,000 –> 00:36:19,700
challenging as life is.
And as much as it does wear us

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00:36:19,700 –> 00:36:23,300
down, scripture is also very
clear that there comes a point

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00:36:23,300 –> 00:36:27,300
in time when this this is no
more just as everything in life

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00:36:27,300 –> 00:36:30,000
is a crazy asses, he’s Keen to
point out, just everything has a

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00:36:30,000 –> 00:36:34,400
start.
Everything has an end And this

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00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:37,600
for the disciples is the end.
There’s no more living of life,

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00:36:37,600 –> 00:36:41,000
there’s no more opportunity.
The point at their at is the

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00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:45,300
point that their art and
immediately they are at land

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00:36:45,300 –> 00:36:49,400
with Jesus and just as we will
be, when the kingdom is here,

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00:36:49,400 –> 00:36:53,400
Jesus returns things are
suddenly transformed Life.

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00:36:53,400 –> 00:36:56,700
As We Knew It is suddenly gone
and we recognize it’s gone.

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00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:02,500
And Mark 6, verse 51 tells us
that the disciples are so amazed

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00:37:02,500 –> 00:37:09,300
in themselves beyond measure.
and even though it’s recorded

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00:37:09,400 –> 00:37:13,200
and even though we believe it
with our whole heart, The

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00:37:13,200 –> 00:37:17,100
transforming impact of the
reality of seeing it will have

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00:37:17,100 –> 00:37:21,200
us in this in this way,
emotionally amazed beyond

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00:37:21,200 –> 00:37:26,900
measure, and we will say of the
truth, Thou Art, the Son of God

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00:37:27,700 –> 00:37:30,800
because he will be with all
those who have been called

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00:37:30,800 –> 00:37:37,600
throughout the ages meanwhile.
As Jesus is with all those sort

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00:37:37,600 –> 00:37:41,400
of followed him and there’s a
process that will culminate with

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00:37:41,400 –> 00:37:45,000
the kingdom being established
John 6, verse 22 tells us that

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00:37:45,000 –> 00:37:48,100
the day following the people
which stood on the other side of

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00:37:48,100 –> 00:37:50,400
the sea.
So these people that Jesus

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00:37:50,400 –> 00:37:53,000
himself had sent away.
They’re looking and they’re

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00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:55,100
seeing that the boat’s gone
there.

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00:37:55,100 –> 00:37:57,200
Seen that, the disciples have
disappeared.

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00:37:58,500 –> 00:38:01,100
And they going to search for
these people.

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00:38:01,300 –> 00:38:04,300
And so in John 6, verse 23, were
told when the people therefore

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00:38:04,300 –> 00:38:08,400
saw that Jesus was not there,
nor his disciples.

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They also took shipping and came
to Capernaum seeking for Jesus.

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00:38:14,300 –> 00:38:20,600
So, the remaining people that
are curious as to why it is that

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00:38:20,600 –> 00:38:23,000
these people have gone missing
and that Jesus has gone missing,

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00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:27,500
they themselves will be given
opportunity if they’re alive at

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00:38:27,500 –> 00:38:31,000
that point in time.
Time to receive the preaching of

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00:38:31,000 –> 00:38:36,700
the Heavenly gospel who said
Revelation chapter 14, So,

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00:38:36,700 –> 00:38:42,100
that’s a quick overview of of
those two, which I think are

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00:38:42,300 –> 00:38:46,000
quite interesting snapshots of
what it is that God has purposed

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00:38:46,000 –> 00:38:48,800
to do with this Earth.
Iran is prayer, is that for all

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00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:51,000
of us that we live in a world,
that’s dark.

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00:38:51,100 –> 00:38:53,000
We live in a world that’s
struggling.

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00:38:53,600 –> 00:38:58,800
It’s always been that way.
But we pray that will each use

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00:38:58,800 –> 00:39:01,500
the individual autonomy.
That God’s given us to think

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00:39:01,500 –> 00:39:06,000
carefully about how our life
shaping up and how we see our

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00:39:06,000 –> 00:39:09,600
future and it might even be that
we all take.

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00:39:09,600 –> 00:39:12,600
The choice that we want to
understand God’s word and be a

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00:39:12,600 –> 00:39:15,100
part of his plan and purpose.
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