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Let's pray.

Dear God.

Thank you for letting us gather here today.

please help us so that we

and please help us so that we can hold on to you and rely on you through the hard times that we're going through.

Please help us so that everyone can stay safe from the flu and the Coronavirus.

And keep us healthy in Jesus name we pray.

Amen.

Today's hostage is John 6:16 to 21 hours today.

When evening came, his disciples went down to the Sea, got into a boat and started across a sea of californium.

It was it was now dark and just had not yet come to them to see if they became rough.

Because of strong wind was blowing when they had the road about three or four miles.

They saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat and they were frightened, but he said to them, it is, I do not be afraid.

Then they were glad to take him into the boat.

And immediately, the boat was at the land to, which they were going to still world word of God.

So, a lot has been happening in our world.

As all of you may very well know, since you have access to so much more information than your parents ever had at your age.

And so a couple of things that have happened is that after about two weeks of deliberation yesterday, the negotiators of about 200 Nations.

They signed a deal to help move the world in a better Direction in regard to climate change.

I don't know how familiar with how familiar you all are with climate change, but you probably are aware that it's a big deal and so as Leaders maneuver and work with each other, to discuss, all of these different ways to ensure that the Earth doesn't warm more than 1.5 degrees.

Above the pre-industrial levels.

We see a lot of uncertainty surrounding this topic, right?

We see a lot of the effects and whether it is or not.

I don't know, but it's November right now and it's in the 90s.

I don't know that in my particular lifetime, which is of course, very short in the grand scheme of things I've ever seen that.

And so there's a lot of uncertainty with this particular topic and they work hard to fight some people, totally disregard climate change as a hoax.

Also over the past week, the federal appeals court.

They halted the Biden administration's vaccine or testing, requirement for private businesses.

And the primary reason for rejecting that right.

The reason they cited for rejecting that is that it is an overreach in authority.

Right.

We've had in Arizona so far, A little over 1.2 million cases of covid without 22,000 death.

If you can think of 22,000 people, that is how many we've lost in Arizona alone and the numbers that we had reported today.

Is that nearly 4,000 new cases in, Arizona, and 51 new dad's pay.

Again?

If you want a picture of 51 new deaths.

That is everybody at this church about one day.

And so covid 2 has brought to the Forefront of our Consciousness.

The many different views that exist in this world.

The men different views that we as human beings can carry.

And it highlights a lot of the fears that people have that you can see based on the differences of those.

It's right.

In addition to these two particular issues, right?

Climate change and the vaccine covid, all of that.

We have been and we continue to be confronted with racial inequality, the opioid crisis, the lack of affordable healthcare, the lack of affordability of a college education.

Those of you in college know how expensive that is the United States budget deficit in general building mental health, the ramifications of all, of these things happening on mental health, and the rising housing costs that have made houses, and living unaffordable for many, many people.

Write a note on top of all of those societal issues you and I we have our own issues, right?

What classes should I take?

What school should I go to?

Which colleges should I apply to?

What job should I choose?

What major should I choose?

What career path should I take?

Should I try and do the things I enjoy?

But maybe won't make me go to mount of money.

Or should I pick the path?

That is, may be safe, but not necessarily that.

I want.

What I want to do.

Should I do what my parents want me to do?

Or should I do what I want to do?

If they're not the same, they might be the same, might be one of the very few lucky people in which that's the same.

We all have this bundle of questions and issues that we personally face, in addition to all of the societal issues and their Interlink.

Right now, even outside of that professional realm, if you will school in work, I would consider to be a professional realm of sorts outside of that.

We have even more questions.

Who should we marry?

I should we date a bunch of people to find the right person.

What about sex before marriage?

What about smoking or drinking like these personal level decisions, human sexuality, gender, identity morality and ethics.

So on and so forth, right.

That list goes on.

And so we could probably discuss these topics.

These endless topics for a long amount of time and never really come to any final conclusions about any of them.

because, All of these issues, most, if not all of these issues or well outside of our own control.

Right.

And that is the situation that are disciples find themselves in today.

So these disciples they are in the middle of the Sea of Galilee.

They're fighting against a storm and they've been fighting that storm for about 6 hours at this point.

Right?

And Jesus had told them to cross the Sea of Galilee and go to Best Buy.

That's why they're there.

And not only that right on an emotional level.

Jesus had just turned down the offer, to be made King.

We talked about that last week.

The people, they saw that Jesus could feed them.

And Jesus turned that down, right?

He just just kind of walked away ran away.

Meaning that the disciples lies hadn't really changed much, right there, were still probably pretty poor.

Jesus didn't seem to have any intention of saving Israel, from Roman rule.

Nothing really seem to be going the way they thought it would.

All of that and now because they obey Jesus because they did what Jesus ask them to do, their stuck fighting for their lives in the middle of a big Lake hours.

And it's like, really should have if you if you look at the size of Galilee and you take into account their level of Technology at the time, this Lake should have only taken 2 hours to cross yet.

We see that it had been.

About 6 hours, and they only had made about 3 to 4 miles of progress.

My Wonder is that situation sounds somewhat familiar to any of you?

Don't we find ourselves in that?

Kind of a situation sometime in that similar of a position?

Right?

Don't we find ourselves, asking ourselves, asking God?

Why is this happening to me?