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 Now I discovered this week there is a passage in The Lord of the Rings that whenever Tolkien,

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! the author, read it without fail, it made him weep. It's a point deep into the story when Frodo and Sam

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! are in Mordor, they're drawing closer to the heart of evil. You read the story, you get the impression

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 that all ordinary hope is gone. And this particular evening, Frodo is asleep. Sam is keeping

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 watch, and in the darkness, something catches Sam's eye. And there Tolkien writes, there,

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 peering among the cloud rack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle

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 for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope

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 returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end,

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 the shadow was only a small and passing thing. There was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.

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 And I would suggest that we come to a short passage like this one that we've just read in Matthew's

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 Gospel. And it can do the same for our hearts that Tolkien experienced in that little phrase.

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 We are presented with a deep hope here in Matthew 8. We are presented with Jesus, not a twinkling star.

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 We're presented with Jesus, the light of the world. That beacon of hope shining through the darkness that

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 becomes for us hope for sinners and hope for sufferers. This high beauty that is beyond the reach

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 of a dark shadow is none other than the eternal Son of God who has become one with us, to be present with us,

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 to be present with his people in the storms of life,

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 to overwhelm us with his power, with his compassion, with his glory.

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 And so as we ask again this evening, what kind of man is this? As we think about this remarkable

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 section in Matthew chapter 8, we discover the real Jesus is the sovereign Lord with power over the

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 forces of nature. We discover that Jesus is more wonderful than even his closest friends,

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 suspected at this point. And he is for us one whose power and whose love we can trust in the storms of

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 life. And so we're going to walk through the passage very simply with four connecting statements. The first

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 is this, that following Jesus may bring you into storms. Why the disciples out there that night in

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 the darkness, as the waves are crashing, as their hope is fading, as their fear is rising. Verse 23,

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 then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. They are there because of obedient faith.

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 Jesus is their master. They are learners of him. They are following him. And that is what's brought

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 them into the fury of this storm. If you remember, or if you look back just a few verses, Jesus in verse 20

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 has begun to speak to them of the cost of discipleship. And part of that is to lay aside comfort. The Son of

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 Man has nowhere to lay his head. And here we find these obedient disciples pushed out of their comfort

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 zones as they find themselves in the chaos of a storm. And it's important that we recognize this. We

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 thought about it last week, but it's important that we recognize that following Jesus does not mean we

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 become immune from life's troubles. Now we're very aware of that in our church, even this week, aren't we?

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 We know of chronic and terminal illness. We know of deep pain and sorrow. We know that there are people

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 struggling with work and with finance. There are those with worries for a spouse, for a parent, for a

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 child. And we're reminded that ours is not an armchair faith, where everything becomes smooth and easy, but

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 rather there's a fight for faith. And we also understand that following Jesus, while it brings

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 the same kind of troubles that everyone else faces, it also brings additional kind of troubles, because

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 it's only as we identify as one of Jesus' followers, perhaps, that we find ourselves being mocked and

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 overlooked and sidelined. It's only those who make the costly sacrifice of dying to ourselves every day

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 that we feel the cost and the pain of making Jesus Lord, submitting to his rule, is a denying self and

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 carrying our crosses. There is the trouble that we face, the grief that we experience, the sorrow we know

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 when people we love don't believe in Jesus, don't see any need for him or find their true hope in him.

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 And in so many ways, following Jesus can bring real trouble. And we shouldn't be surprised,

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 because Jesus told us that. In this world, you will have troubles, he told his disciples.

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 But remember, he also said, take heart, for I have overcome the world. So we shouldn't be surprised by

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 troubles, and we should not despair. We should not by instinct say, well, God must have forgotten

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 me. God must have abandoned me in this moment, because all of a sudden life has become hard.

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 Even as we turn to a story like this, think about Jesus. He is the man of faith. But where does he

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 find himself? He too finds himself on these stormy seas. And more than that, Jesus will endure the storm

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 of God's judgment for us in order to love and save us. That faith absolutely brought Jesus into storms.

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 And we are called to follow in his footsteps with the grace and strength that he provides,

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 knowing that he walks there with us. But it's important to recognize that following Jesus may bring

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 us into storms. Secondly, and it's here in our text, faith is often mixed with fear when storms come.

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 So the furious storm has come up on the lake, the waves have swept over the boat, but Jesus was sleeping.

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 The disciples went and woke him, saying, Lord, save us, we're going to drown. He replied,

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 you have little faith. Why are you so afraid? So just picture the scene for a moment. Here they are

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 out on a small boat with shallow sides. The storm clouds have gathered out of nowhere. Perhaps the

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 rain has come. The wind is beginning to drive. The wind is whipping up the waves. The shallow boat is

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 filling up with water. The waves continue to crash over the side. And added to that, remember the Jewish

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 mindset that the sea is a force of chaos. And so there's a natural suspicion and fear of it. And

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 their response is one of fear. But isn't that the natural human response to any terrifying or difficult

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 situation? Here they are thrown into trouble. And it brings with it physical and emotional and spiritual

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 fears. And I imagine we can all very easily relate to them and to that. And so in this moment we see

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 fear, absolutely, but we also see faith. How do we see their faith? Because in this moment,

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 they wake Jesus and they say, Lord, save us. It's a panic prayer. Jesus says they have little faith.

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 They don't fully understand the extent of his identity. But still it's that understanding.

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 We have nowhere else to turn. But we turn to Jesus, trusting he is our Lord. And in some way,

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 we trust that he can save us. That he can do something. Fear and faith are often mixed together.

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 The most common command in the Bible is the command, do not fear. Why is that? It's because God knows we

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 will often be afraid. There are situations that will often cause fear and panic in our hearts.

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 So we've already seen that God does not remove hard situations from the Christian experience.

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 But it's also important to see that God is not expecting that we will somehow become

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 robotic and cease to have fear. But what he wants is for us to consider, what do we do next?

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 Where do we turn in that moment of dread and fear as it grips our heart? Do we turn to Jesus?

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 Do we express faith, however small and weak?

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 Look again at verse 26. You of little faith, why are you so afraid?

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 There is something that Jesus believes in that question. He believes that real faith in him

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 can drive out real fear. In the moment for the disciples, it was as if fear was squeezing out

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 their faith. But Jesus, the Son of God, says the opposite can also be true. Place your faith in me?

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 And that fear can become small. And in Psalm 56, we hear something of that same logic in the words of David.

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 In verse 3, we hear him say, when I am afraid, I put my trust in you. So he acknowledges fear,

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 fear, and he calls himself to actively trust, to exercise faith. Fear is real, and so is the faith.

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 That's the positive side of things. I suppose often we find when we think about some of the great

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 heroes of faith, we see their faith mixed with fear in the opposite way. Perhaps we think of

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 Abraham and Isaac, great men of faith, but fearful in a foreign land, fearful of losing their wives,

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 leads them to lie rather than trust God's provision and God's promise. We think about Moses,

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 great faith, choosing to identify as one of God's people. But when God says, I'm going to send you

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 to Pharaoh to lead my people out, he says, no, no, you can't be talking about me, send someone else.

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 Think about Peter, his great confession of faith. You are the Christ, the son of the living God.

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 Peter, whose faith would lead him to follow anywhere except when trouble comes, and when he's tested,

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 he even denies knowing Jesus. Don't we discover so often in our experience that mixture of fear

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 and faith in different ways? When we feel that weakness when trouble comes, what do we do?

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 We can learn from the disciples, I think. Faith cries out to Jesus, Lord, save me.

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 Lord, I do believe. Help my unbelief. It's a daily prayer I think we need to pray. Lord, increase

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 our faith that the fear of the Lord would be greater than our fear of any circumstance. So we would rejoice

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 and tremble at the goodness and glory of our God to such an extent that that would dominate our thinking

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 and our horizon. Faith is often mixed with fear when the storms come. And it's important to see how

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 Jesus deals with the disciples in that moment. I love the way J.C. Ryle put it. He said,

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 the Lord Jesus pities those he rebukes because he does deliver a rebuke. Your faith is small. They

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 should have exercised greater faith than fear. But wonderfully, Jesus isn't done with them at that

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 point. And nor is he done with us when our faith finds weakness. He doesn't wash his hands of them,

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 nor does he wash his hands of any of us who believe in him. Instead, what does he do

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 when they feel overwhelmed by fear rather than overwhelmed by faith? He shows them his glory again

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 in a new way. We see his great power operating for their good. And in so doing, we see his great

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 compassion towards them in their need. And we see the Savior that we are called to place our faith in.

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 You get that remarkable combination that here is Jesus in verse 24. The storm comes and he's sleeping.

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 He is exhausted in the boat. He is truly human. He can sympathize with us in all our weakness,

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 in all our troubles. But he's so powerful, he can exhaust the fury of a storm with just a word of rebuke.

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 And wonderfully, he's the same Savior who exhausts God's wrath against our sin on the cross.

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 So that we can come to him in our fears, in our trouble, in our tears. That we too can pray,

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 when I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

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 The third thing, and we've kind of alluded to it, is this. Christians have Jesus with us

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 in the storms that we face. It's so basic and so important to notice that. Where is Jesus

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 in this story? He is right there with his disciples. He has been leading them,

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 and he is present for them in their troubles. And this story helps us to recognize in a new way,

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 the disciples are seeing Jesus in a new way. Who is he? Well, he's truly human. He is

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 exhausted. He experiences physical weakness, and he is truly God. Psalm 93, he is the Lord God who is

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 greater than the storms and the seas. He is the God of Psalm 104, who operates to bring deliverance from the storm.

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 And so we discover Jesus, our perfect mediator, the deep hope for God's church in stormy seas and stormy lives.

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 The one who guarantees that we will reach harbor safely, and that as we go through this journey of faith,

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 Jesus, our captain, will be with us at all times.

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 One person who knew this truth was King David. I think that's one reason why the Psalms have always

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 been a refuge for weary and troubled Christians. They have that unique capacity, don't they, to speak

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 to our hearts, to speak to all circumstances. We know King David, a man after God's own heart,

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 a man who received wonderful promises from God. He was told that one of his children,

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 would rule and reign in the kingdom of God forever. He was a man of faith, and we see that. And yet,

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 David in his life before becoming king, and as a king, he knew great suffering and trouble.

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 A king who spent decades on the run from Saul trying to kill him. One who was hunted and hounded. One who

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 faced rebellion from within his own household. One who knew mockery and rejection from his own people.

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 One who found himself making his home among the caves in fear of his life. In so many ways,

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 we can see parallels with the great King Jesus. But to listen to those Psalms and to take those words

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 on our lips and into our hearts, we recognize that they stir hope in us because they remind us of the

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 reality of our God who is with us. Words like Psalm 23, verse 4,

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 even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me.

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 Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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 We heard Psalm 4. Psalm 4, which began,

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 answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me and

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 hear my prayer. It concludes, in peace I lie down and sleep. For you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.

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 We began with Psalm 61. Hear my cry, O God. Listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth,

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 I call to you. I call as my heart grows faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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 For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe. And so when troubles come,

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 and when grief comes, we go to words like these, or we claim the words and the promises of Jesus,

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 I will never leave you. I am with you always to the end of the age. I will not leave you as orphans.

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 I will come to you. Now it is true that when we go through times of grief and trouble, we may not

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 feel His presence. Like Mary at the tomb that first Easter Sunday morning, grief and tears may blur

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 our vision and our ability to see our Savior, but God's Word cannot fail. God cannot lie. God must be

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 true to Himself and His promises. And so we can sing with hope when darkness seems to hide His face.

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 I rest on His unchanging grace. We look to the one who faced Gethsemane for us and Calvary for us.

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 The one who went and walked that road alone to save us. The one who is willing to go to the cross and

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 know that sense of God forsaking Him in order that you and I, that we need never be alone.

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 And so faith trusts in Jesus. Faith rests in the fact that we are cemented to Jesus.

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 And that He never leaves us. And that He never leaves us, but He's come to us by His Spirit.

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 And I think this is part of the power and the beauty of Christian testimony, isn't it?

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 To recognize that when we go through hard times, dark valleys of various kinds, we go there with our God

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 and with our Savior. And we can give a testimony of real hope, of living hope, of eternal hope.

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 That Christians have a unique capacity to face darkness.

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 Because we have Jesus, the light of the world, in our hearts.

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 There is a stability and a peace that can mark the Christian in times of deep grief and sorrow.

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 That speaks to a watching world.

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 As faith points to Jesus and His grace that helps us through.

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 One last thing to say by way of conclusion and application, I guess,

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 faith learns to look to Jesus in our storms.

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 Verse 27 is a wonderful picture of the life of the disciples.

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 Remember, they're not new to Jesus.

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 They haven't just encountered Him that afternoon.

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 They've been with Jesus for a time.

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 They have been learning from Him.

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 They've listened to Him as He taught the Sermon on the Mount.

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 They've been watching Him do miracles.

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 They thought they knew Him.

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 They thought they knew how wonderful He was.

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 And now they're discovering He's even better.

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 He's even more glorious, even more powerful, even more good.

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 And so that question, what kind of man is this,

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 is a question full of awe and wonder and worship.

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 As they recognize the one with them in the boat, in the storm,

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 is the Lord of creation who is over the storm.

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 They discover that the Master who has bid them come follow me and count the cost

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 is the Messiah, the Son of God, who is more than able to save.

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 And so in the boat, they're discovering and discovering again,

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 Jesus is the Lord they can trust.

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 It's the life of discipleship.

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 Discovering again and again that our God is good,

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 that His Word can be trusted,

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 that Jesus is the Savior we need,

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 that He is able to bring peace and grace and compassion

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 to still the storms of our troubled hearts and lives.

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 And so faith looks to Him and rests in Him.

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 And so this story gives an encouragement and an invitation to us

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 if we find ourselves in trouble,

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 or if this moment is a time of calm,

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 a preparation for trouble,

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 to come to Christ in faith,

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 to submit to Him as Lord,

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 to know Him as that friend that will stick closer than any brother.

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 And this is what gives the Christian deep hope.

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 Because it's a hope that's not grounded in self.

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 It's not saying,

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 here's the hardships,

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 I better roll up my sleeves and grip my teeth and get through it

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 and see what happens, come what may.

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 Faith is anchored in the eternal Son of God.

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 One who is full of power and authority,

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 one who came to defeat the forces of evil,

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 the one who came as God with us,

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 and God for us at the cross,

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 to be God in us by His Spirit.

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 That no storm could ever overcome this Messiah,

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 because He was a man on a mission.

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 And His rescue mission lay beyond this storm.

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 It would take Him to His sacrificial death on the cross,

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 and the triumph of His resurrection.

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 And because of that victory,

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 by faith in Jesus,

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 we can live secure,

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 knowing that no storm,

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 no trouble,

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 no grief,

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 can separate us

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 from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

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 and we can know

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 that our troubles don't ever draw us away from Jesus' heart.

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 Instead,

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 those troubles that we face,

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 they draw Jesus' heart towards us.

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 He is a good

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 and a kind Savior.

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 He is a good