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Hope SDA Church

Eric Walsh

Faith in the Storm

Then I have to confess that today was not a good day for me.

In fact, I was at work and I was just really discouraged, wondering why God has me where he has me and all the different things.

You know, I gave my testimony Saturday night.

Let me tell you that 1 of the things that is true and real about loss and difficulty is even when God puts things back together, there's still sometimes some scars.

Now, the way that they used to teach me this as a teenager, they would say, you know, your life is like a table and if you're not careful, you make decisions.

And those decisions are like nails that are hammered into the table.

God is merciful, so every hammer has a back to it.

And with the back of the hammer, you can pull the nail out.

But even when you pull the nail out, what is left is a hole in the table.

Although Job went through all he went through and was restored the way he was.

We often stop and think, wow, he was so restored.

Did Job still grieve the children he lost?

No matter how much he was given, no matter how many more children he had, you can replace livestock.

You can replace houses, camels, all the other stuff he lost.

I mean, in our modern terms, if you lost a car, you can replace a car.

They blow over the house, you build a house back up.

We get into situations where life is difficult and we are left with scars.

But I came tonight to tell you that scars also are the reminder that God healed a wound.

So when I was sending the sermon to them tonight, I was in a rush And sent the wrong thing.

So I flew to church, ran up there, and he had on the wrong sermon.

I checked, and sure enough, that was the sermon that was sent, It was the wrong 1.

And I was sitting there with my head in my hand again, discouraged, just right up there while you guys were singing.

God said, somebody needs to hear what you're going to preach.

I said, Lord, the problem with that is I don't know what I'm going to preach now.

Somebody here tonight, like me today, has experienced some storms.

And it fits the anointing service to deal with what we're going to deal with tonight.

So we'll get back on the second angel's message on Wednesday night.

Now, we'll just do the third angel's message on Sabbath.

So I guess I should be thanking God for that.

But our scripture will come from Mark chapter 4, a very familiar passage of scripture.

Mark chapter 4 starting at verse 35 and 36.

The Bible says, in the same day when the even was come, He said unto him, let us pass over onto the other side.

And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship.

And there were also with him other little ships.

Our message tonight is entitled Faith in the Storm.

Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to share your word.

Lord, the enemy wants to come against us like a flood.

And tonight, Lord, not only give us a word from on high, but in this anointing service, I pray that somebody's chains would be broken.

As our prayer in Jesus' precious and Holy Name.

So in Mark 4, in verse 35, Jesus had just spent the day preaching.

It was a physical experience because the crowds would press on him physically.

He had to, in his body, hold up the crowd.

They would keep bringing people to be healed.

Can you imagine if there was someone who could heal sickness, how…and they set up shop right here in Bloomfield.

Can you imagine how people would come from by the thousands from around to find that person so their loved 1 could be healed?

And when they found him, he would always deliver.

The Bible says at this point, Jesus was exhausted.

It says that they took him even as he was.

And so the first lesson I want you to get from this is that Jesus was human.

Last week, Sunday night, I talked about the triune God and the Godhead and the divinity of Christ.

Sometimes we forget to also emphasize his humanity.

Jesus had problems like you get… In fact, Jesus had family problems.

His brothers and some of his relatives, they didn't believe him.

Jesus had financial problems that the Son of Man hath not placed to lay his head.

In fact, he knew Judas would betray him when he signed Judas up to follow him.

Some of you have been betrayed, but at least you only knew you were being betrayed when it happened.

Jesus had to be kind and nice to his betrayer for years.

He was human, which means he experiences things like we experience and this is why he makes such a good judge.

He makes such a good judge because when Jesus goes to judge, he judges from the vantage point of 1 who has experienced life.

Jesus knows what it's like to be called a fatherless child.

For people to talk about his mother bad because they think he doesn't have a father.

Jesus knows what it's like to come from the hood.

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