Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
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… But we are going to jump here into the message. The title of today's message is Wind and Waves. Let's go. Mark chapter 4 verses 35 through 41. It says this, On that day when evening came, Jesus said to the disciples, Let's go across to the other side of the lake. So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was in the boat, and other boats were with him. Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was nearly swamped. But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, teacher, do you not care that we are about to die? So Jesus got up, wiped the sleep out of his eyes, and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, be quiet, calm down. Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm. Notice what the Bible is doing here. The disciples come to Jesus, and they say, don't you care that we are about to die? …
… How is it that you have no faith? and they feared exceedingly and said to one another, who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him? This happens to be one of Christianity's favorite stories. For the last 2,000 years, this has been a celebrated, highlighted, inspired story. So, early Christian motif will often depict a boat going through a storm and the inside of cathedrals in antiquity, not antiquity, but in the old days, still to this day, the inside ceiling of many cathedrals is like a reverse hull of a ship on purpose. it is the idea meant to portray that the church is going to carry people through the storms of this world all the way into eternity and so they shape the top of the ceiling called the nave by the way n-a-v-e we get our word navy from that it means a ship the idea of this storm and this ship is very common in christianity and it has inspired great artists probably the most famous depiction of this storm is by Rembrandt himself, who painted this picture called Storm on the Sea of Galilee. …
And he said to them, why are you afraid? Even now you have no faith. They were struck with awe and said to one another, who is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him. That's just so good. If you're taking notes on this message, three words, I already told you what it was. Spoiler alert. The missing piece. I want to talk to you about the missing piece. Bow your heads. Let's pray over the words, shall we? Holy Spirit, give us our peace back. Amen. I pray quick. Oh, I pray so quick. I'm the one you went over for Thanksgiving dinner. We will eat it while it's hot. we would pay for all them nations later we're gonna eat this turkey now gospel according to saint mark is the shortest gospel of our gospels matthew mark luke john mark is the shortest i believe mark is the shortest because mark was one of the youngest and as he begins to retell and comprise this gospel based on what he heard from Peter, he only wants the juicy bits. …