Restoration 2019:  Brokenness

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Restoration Ministry

2019:  Evening and Sabbath Meetings

Dean Cullinane

Father of the Fatherless

When God’s Not Around

God’s Quiver

God’s Dirty Underpants

The Seeds of Babylon

The Privilege of Prayer

The Second Milers

Samson and the Holy Spirit

The Darkest Hour

How to Walk on Water

Father in heaven, Lord, we humbly ask that your spirit would be in this room.

Father, as your Word is opened, we pray for a special blessing upon it.

We pray that you'll take these wonderful words and give them a special place in our heart today.

Remove anything that would serve as a distraction.

Help us, Father, to give You our undivided attention.

We pray, Lord, that our hearts would be open to your word today in Jesus name.

We pray amen You've probably at 1 point in your life asked the question Why do bad things?

Happen to good people Let's go to mark chapter 4 if you have your Bibles.

If you have your Bibles, let's go to Mark chapter 4.

Why is it that bad things happen to good people?

Of course, you can also ask, why is it that good things happen to bad people?

But today, why do bad things happen to good people?

And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow, and they wake him and saith unto him, Master, do you not care that we perish?" Why is it that bad things happen to good people?

You might have heard a sermon based on this verse that had a rather strange axiom that sounded something like this, if Jesus is in the boat of your life, then nothing bad will happen.

Because if you think about it, it was Jesus' command to go into the boat.

Verse 35, let us pass over to the other side.

He wasn't inviting them for a group swim.

Okay, he intended that they would make their way into the boat.

And when you think about it like this, the storm, and we'll see this, It was a different kind of storm.

And I think that Jesus probably knew that it was coming.

Now, I wouldn't suggest that He fell asleep so as to test them.

I would say that He fell asleep because He was human.

He fell asleep because he had spent the entire day preaching, teaching, and healing.

When I finish 1 sermon, it's time to sleep.

In fact, it's time to eat, and then it's time to really sleep.

I was reading something this morning that made me chuckle.

It said that there was a prophet, Elijah, who once had said to God, God, I'm so angry, I just want to die." And then God said, okay, Elijah, have some food and then go and have a nap.

And then Elijah wakes up and everything is fine.

And it said, don't underestimate the spiritual power of a nap and a snack Jesus I believe went to sleep on the boat because he was tired Not necessarily to test the disciples, but I want you I want you just to just to think about this for a second.

It's because the disciples followed Jesus that they found themselves in a storm.

Because if they had decided to not stay on the boat, If they had decided to let some of them, or maybe just Jesus, go on the boat, and they stayed back on the land, they would never have found themselves in this situation.

So the reason why they were in the storm, the reason why bad things were happening to them, the reason why they felt like they were going to actually lose their life, was in actual fact because they were following Jesus.

So the axiom that if Jesus is in your life, bad things will never happen, couldn't be more of an untruth.

In fact, I would say that the reason why bad things happen to you and I is because Jesus is in our life.

The reason why we suffer, the reason why the trials that befall us are so often much stronger than those that befall the unbelievers is because we have Jesus, not because we don't have Him.

So the disciples find themselves in the midst of a storm.

And so we ask the question, why is it that bad things happen to good people?

If you read Romans chapter 3, there is none that are good.

In fact, bad things don't happen to good people.

You and I need to come to the realization that bad things happen to us, but in actual fact, the way that we have lived our life and The way that we have so often chosen self over God means that bad things should probably come our way.

Luckily, as I shared yesterday, heaven is on our side.

So those bad things that do befall us are so often not as bad as they could have been.

Jesus is in the boat of your life, so bad things are going to happen.

Let's look at some context for this particular event.

In Mark chapter 3, Jesus calls the disciples into ministry.

And shortly after that, he's actually accused of being the devil himself.

It says in Verse 22 of Mark chapter 3, and the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, he hath Baal-zebub, and by the prince of the devil casteth he out devils.

And then so Jesus said to them, how can Satan cast out Satan?

He's trying to make a point here, and he finishes the chapter by saying this from verse 31, when they come to him to talk about the fact that his mother and his brothers are coming to speak to him.

He says in verse 33, who is my mother or my brethren?

Verse 35, for whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother and my sister and my mother.

What Jesus is saying is that the kingdom of God, the gospel, is not just for the Jews, but this message is in fact going to go to the Gentiles and when the disciples make efforts to take that message, they are going to be met with trials.

And so he gives them a little bit more teaching and then we find ourselves in Mark chapter 4 and verse 35.

And if you're not sure where the other side is, you just have to jump to verse 1 of chapter 5.

It says, and they came over to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

In other words, they went over to the Gentile lands.

Now there's something that I like to do when studying my Bible that helps me, I think, sometimes To catch the pieces of information that we sometimes overlook when it comes to just our casual Bible study I like to call them flags.

Flags now flags generally and I mean it literally I draw a little flag by the verse, is something, in pencil so I can rub it out, is something that at first appears to be irregular.

It appears to stand out, or the opposite, It appears to not mean anything at all.

Now the Bible says that all scripture is given as inspiration of God.

I don't believe that there's a single word in this book that is just mere information.

There's something that God wants to tell us.

And so if you're coming across something in your study or your reading of the Scriptures that to you seems like it's just a piece of information, for me, I like to flag that and say this is something that I don't understand and I'm going to try and understand it better.

You don't just plant the flag and then suddenly look up and you're able to recognize what it is.

Okay, there's great effort that sometimes needs to go into this.

But I'd like to read verse 35 to 41 and I want you to, as we're reading through it, Think about what the possible flags might be in this passage.

I think that there's at least 2 that stick out.

Let's read it, and then I'll ask you guys to see what you came up with.

And the same day, when the evening was come, he said unto them, Let us pass over to the other side.

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2019: Evening and Sabbath Meetings

When God’s Not Around

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