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How many of you long to have the FAITH of the Abraham?
How about the faith of David?
How about - the Apostle Paul?
How about ANY of the apostles?
How about Jim Elliot?
I think if we’re honest, we’ll read about all these men in scripture or in history...
…and we find ourselves - LONGING - just wishing - that we could have FAITH like them...
We see in Scripture many stories of what seems to be - MIRACULOUS faith...
And we LONG for that...
Who wants to GROW in faith (in here)?
One of the most memorable stories in all of Scripture is the story of Jesus Christ walking on water...
Now in the Gospel of John, some details about this event are left out of the text...
So we’ll end up pulling from Matthew’s account as well...
And what we’ll see in the text is a couple of things...
Some different aspects of FAITH...
We’ll end by looking at a POTENTIAL connection between this story and the OT story of the Israelites...
Now, again, the story here as John portrays it is missing some important aspects of the whole story.
OF COURSE, he has his reasons for only stating the portions that he states, but we’re going to actually pull from Matthew as well...
…to give us a more complete view of the whole...
Let’s read through Matthew’s account of this story as well...
So, i think the first thing that stands out between the 2 accounts is...
… John’s account doesn’t even mention that Peter walks on water...
…while Matthew’s account does.
And so with that said - the first thing i want us to know is this...
SLIDE: Worldly Faith: Makes Ourselves Our God
Worldly Faith
Before we get through this section - i HOPE - i PRAY that we will feel the WEIGHT of how SAD this truly is...
What does this mean?
Look at our text - FOCUS in on our passage today - PRE-Jesus
…BEFORE Christ shows up on the scene...
OK, set the stage...
it’s DARK...
And NOT ONLY is it dark - but these guys are OUT at SEA...
And not only are they OUT at SEA - but it’s VERY WINDY...
And not only is it VERY WINDY…but the wind is causing the WAVES to - RISE…and BEAT against the boat!
They’re TRYING to make it across to the other side…about a 6 mile trek...
Using ALL their effort...
These guys are in a 1st century - wooden boat...
trying to ROW at LEAST 6 miles...
out at sea...
WIND in their face...
WAVES CRASHING against their boat...
NO lighthouses to guide them in...
NO life preservers...
And so in the CONTEXT of FAITH -
Which is a main theme of this section of Scripture...
let’s explain how Worldly Faith makes OURSELVES our god...
When we’re IN THE BOAT - that’s OUT TO SEA...
WAVES crashing against us...
Without SAVING FAITH - we’re left with Worldly Faith...
and Worldly Faith ALWAYS - ALWAYS - ALWAYS - springs forth from “Ourselves as God”...
With PHYSICAL LIFE itself - our King!
We WORSHIP OURSELVES!
And if we - worship Ourselves - THEN - We BOW DOWN to physical life…!
Physical life becomes - ULTIMATE!
We see this in Romans 1
You see?
The righteous live by - SAVING FAITH...
BUT
EVERYONE else...
is a FOOL - why?
They’ve EXCHANGED the glory of the immortal God...
for - IMAGES (physical representations) RESEMBLING mortal man and birds....
The UNBELIEVER is a fool - for he has exchanged the CREATOR for - creation...
Instead of worshipping the Creator - the FOOL worships himself...
And so THINK THRU IT!...
If I am my OWN GOD...
THEN - Physical Preservation becomes - my MISSION!
And if Physical Preservation IS my MISSION - Then my faith will REST in that which is - SEEN!
And so - BACK to the boat!
IN the BOAT - before Christ shows up...
We can equate that situation with - the UNBELIEVER!
The Unbeliever is his own god!
Physical preservation is his mission!
YET - he’s out at SEA - the WIND - IN HIS FACE...
the WAVES CRASHING all AROUND…!
All of his EFFORT - focused on STAYING ALIVE...
ALL of his effort - not working...
AND SO - LISTEN -
SLIDE:
The unbeliever’s hope of faith rests in a 1st century, wooden boat, and ultimately, is at the mercy of the wind.
In the boat of life - the unbeliever - is at the mercy of the wind
His faith RESTS - THERE!
In that WHICH IS SEEN!
and what a SAD state that is!
BECAUSE...
of what the Bible says SAVING FAITH is!!!
An UNBELIEVER cannot live like this!
For an UNBELIEVER - they are their own god...
Which means - their faith rests in that which IS SEEN...
that’s ALL they have...
And so - Worldly Faith makes ourselves our god...
BUT...
SLIDE: Saving Faith: Comes From the One True God
Saving Faith
Let’s go to Matthew to see this...
So Jesus comes walking out on the sea...
And the disciples see him…yet they think He’s a ghost...
And there’s SOMETHING TO THAT - Why would they assume it HAD TO BE a ghost?
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