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(IS SOMEONE GOING TO BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT TONIGHT?)
Mark 6:49-51
I’ve had a lesson on my heart for this evening for a while now:
Recognizing the wind as a picture of the Lord -
The wind being a metaphor, of sorts, of who He is and how He works.
And the wind is that.
And more so - it is an INDICATOR of His very presence.
We’ll look at a few examples of this representation to begin with.
Wind Intro
A. The wind is a force of nature.
As mentioned recently, the recent hurricanes and typhoons have been devastating across the globe.
Relatively small wind can cause damage.
-Sustained winds?
Focused, inline, powerful winds?
Devastating.
I went to Joplin in May of 2011 after the F5 that struck there.
The scope of impact was immense.
A line of demarcation down the middle of the road.
Leveled on one side
Seemingly unscathed on the other.
Precise and surgical.
As though intentional and played out.
There’s a force of eternity that rules over that force of nature.
He is that Almighty God.
B. He has wielded the wind as His tool on multiple occasions, and He is always the ruler of it, even if others are allowed to wield it.
We’ll be looking at a couple different purposes of the wind
Its representation in Scripture
And what it means to us in light of our Lord, all right?
Uses and Properties
A. What does it look like?
You can’t see it.
I’ve made the statement of how you could open the eyes of a blind man for the first time.
What would he or she make of what they saw outside?
These monstrous things called trees (having never seen one before) - they move on their own!
Limbs and leaves quaking and waving back and forth.
They might know better, based on what they could deduce, but the potential was there for them to be mystified.
You can’t see it.
You can’t grab it.
You can’t bottle it up.
It’s fluid, constantly moving into and out of things.
Seemingly everywhere.
Even when we’re inside, or things are still.
(Wave your hand briskly back and forth.)
A pretty obvious similarity to the Lord.
Invisible, powerful, intangible (except when you can feel Him), always there.
A powerful, ever-present phenomenon.
You get the picture.
Again, as Amos said in our text...
And the Lord God, who creates this wind, utilizes this natural representation of Himself in many ways.
In Judgment
A. In Egypt
Exodus 10:12-14
The “east wind” was one that would have passed over the Sinai Peninsula.
Arid, desert-like in much of the area.
The wind tended to be hot and oppressive...
And (in this case)…packed with grasshoppers.
This judgment came with power.
Egypt experienced other winds of judgment
As Moses sang in Exodus 15...
And when Egypt pursued...
B. The POWER of the Wind of God will be difficult for the rebellious heart.
Psalm 1:3-5
The wicked and rebellious will ultimately have no power to resist the Wind that is the Almighty God.
That power of the wind - as portrayed here - is almost ALWAYS the focus of the term in Scripture.
Except one...
C. The power of the wind is the focus...
In my research and studies, I find ONLY 1 NOTABLE “GENTLE” WIND reference.
Others might not be as strong in their presentation, and I might have simply missed one or two.
But this is the one I could find where it was specifically referring to the wind’s gentleness.
2. Paul was the prisoner of Rome, at the working of the rebellious Jews, and was en route to Italy to have his appeal to Caesar satisfied.
He’d been traveling by ship and they’d run into no shortage of issues and problems.
Paul ultimately warned them that they were in mortal danger in sailing - and it was not heeded.
They wanted to leave a port to make the dangerous trip north to another one to winter there and found the wind favorable.
SLIDE OF MAP
Acts 27:13-15
It didn’t end well for the ship.
Not where they’d intended to land on western Crete.
Some 900 miles past in Malta.
The wind was strong, and did not do as the men had planned.
So like the Lord, yes?
It surprised those men who thought they had it figured out.
But it came upon them with a vengeance.
Again, No Real “Refreshment” in Gentleness - Intentionally.
A. If you know the story, good came from it.
They were wrecked and miracles ensued with Paul as the vessel.
Natives of Malta witnessed the viper.
Publius the nobleman witnessed a healing of his father.
The crew received goods to enable them to complete their trip.
The strength of the wind and its damage was not detrimental to Paul.
It gave him the opportunity to witness.
It was a testimony to those witnessed to.
The fact that the wind of God is a wind of power does not diminish the fact that it is also a wind of refreshing, of restoration, and of simple goodness.
Keep in mind that the blast of the nostril that destroyed Egypt was the salvation of Israel.
The stormy wind that threatened the boat of Jonah was the salvation of Nineveh.
It was the testimony to those sailors who witnessed the storm’s ending when Jonah went in.
There’s refreshing in that wind, whether they knew it fully or not.
It requires the heart to be in line with God’s.
When you see it, you see it.
And it’s powerful.
A Final Representation of Refreshment in Power
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