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Introduction: The Storm, Sailors, and a Sovereign God
ILLUST - “Open Water” movie.
Story about a couple who go scuba diving with a tourist dive group.
Shortly after the movie begins, they come up from their dive only to find the boat gone.
The captain had miscounted his passengers and had stranded the couple in the open ocean far from land.
The rest of the movie is about the couple floating and bobbing in the ocean alone - except for the occasional shark.
ILLUST - “Perfect Storm” Movie.
Story about a fishing crew in Mass.
who head out for one last fishing expedition.
While things are going well, they begin to head back to shore and are confronted with two large weather fronts and a hurricane.
Suddenly, they are caught in a huge storm and monster waves.
We can all identify with storms in our lives.
Some come out of nowhere.
Some leave us feeling stranded.
Some of them feel like the “Perfect Storm.”
What we will see today is that even though storms come for many reasons and in many forms, the end result should be the same - worship.
God can use storms to get your attention.
Because God can move heaven and earth to reach you.
(For some that is very comforting; For some, like Jonah that may be scary.)
But God does this - he moves heaven and earth to reach us in order to move us from fear to worship.
We are going to see God at work - actually using the same storm to move two very different types of people toward himself, and we are going to follow them both.
In contrast to the disobedient prophet, the wind, the sea, and even the ship were tuned in to the Lord’s purposes
Storm (4-6)
Sometimes storms come when we least expect and for reasons we do not understand.
(Sailors)
Put yourself in the sailor’s shoes.
They are doing their job and God “hurls” a great wind on the sea - so bad the ship was about to break up
no Coast Guard
If you see flight stewardess scared of turbulence - it’s bad - it must have been a bad storm if the experienced sailors are afraid.
Sailors tried to save themselves through:
religion - “each cried out to his god.”
In ANE, there was an unerstanding that people had national gods, family gods, and personal gods.
works - “And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them.”
Here’s the point: the sailors got to the place where they had nothing left - they were out of options in the storm.
For God to reach us we need to realize that religion won’t save and our good works won’t save us.
_THIS IS THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL!
The story would have turned out very different if the sailors had off-loaded some cargo and been able to row back to shore.
Sometimes storms happen when we least expect and for reasons we don’t undstand so that we come to the end of ourselves - this is the place God shows up.
Jonah was asleep?
tired from journey and / or stress of running from God
Jonah was unaware of the consequences of his running from God.
Sometimes we feel that we can try everything in our own power to steer through the storm on our own, and we come to the point of almost breaking.
That is exactly what God wants - to have us release all from our hands so we can cling to him.
ILLUST - Brad taking me rock climbing - letting me drop while he was belaying me in order to teach me to trust him.
Sometimes storms are God’s way of correcting us back to faith and mission.
(Jonah)
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