WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.823 --> 00:00:03.723 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 2 00:00:05.823 --> 00:00:06.523 You may be seated. 3 00:00:11.023 --> 00:00:12.423 I'm not going to do it. 4 00:00:17.823 --> 00:00:21.723 Why don't you do it. Now you do it. You go wake up him. 5 00:00:23.423 --> 00:00:28.423 The guy sleeping in the front, I'm not going to wake up, God, he 6 00:00:28.423 --> 00:00:30.223 thinks he's God, he claims to be God. 7 00:00:30.223 --> 00:00:33.523 He keeps talking about paying for the sins of the world. 8 00:00:33.523 --> 00:00:36.423 I'm not messing with that guy. 9 00:00:37.623 --> 00:00:38.923 We're about to die. 10 00:00:40.923 --> 00:00:42.723 The water is coming inside. 11 00:00:45.123 --> 00:00:46.423 What are we going to do then? 12 00:00:48.623 --> 00:00:49.523 So eventually 13 00:00:51.223 --> 00:00:53.423 they get around to go waking up Jesus. 14 00:00:54.523 --> 00:00:57.023 And kind of think of that commercial, you know the 15 00:00:59.923 --> 00:01:03.423 insurance guy. Insurance one where the kids are running away from the monster and, 16 00:01:03.423 --> 00:01:05.723 you know, the whole plot is he supposed to kill them. 17 00:01:07.023 --> 00:01:09.623 And you got these three high school kids running away 18 00:01:11.023 --> 00:01:12.423 and they say wait. 19 00:01:13.623 --> 00:01:16.023 Let's go hide behind the chainsaws. 20 00:01:17.423 --> 00:01:18.823 And the guy just looks at them. 21 00:01:20.423 --> 00:01:21.923 This ugly monster. 22 00:01:24.423 --> 00:01:25.923 Or how about the cemetery? 23 00:01:25.923 --> 00:01:27.523 Let's go hide there 24 00:01:27.523 --> 00:01:29.923 and the theme becomes obvious. 25 00:01:29.923 --> 00:01:37.023 The death that is just about to have happen for us, the viewer of 26 00:01:37.023 --> 00:01:38.323 that commercial. 27 00:01:38.323 --> 00:01:43.223 It really is quite a good joke, cuz we seen so many of those movies. 28 00:01:44.523 --> 00:01:45.723 But now we're in trouble. 29 00:01:46.923 --> 00:01:47.423 Now 30 00:01:47.423 --> 00:01:51.623 we're in trouble and it just isn't a commercial death is near. 31 00:01:52.723 --> 00:01:57.023 And the reason why death is near is the reason why this man sleeping 32 00:01:57.723 --> 00:02:01.723 in the boat needs to pay for the sins of the world. 33 00:02:04.123 --> 00:02:09.023 It's the reason why this guy who's up there who needed his sleep, imagine that. 34 00:02:12.023 --> 00:02:14.323 The last thing you want is God sleeping. 35 00:02:16.023 --> 00:02:20.123 You don't want him sleeping when you are in need and you want to cry 36 00:02:20.123 --> 00:02:20.423 out. 37 00:02:23.823 --> 00:02:27.823 When you think in your head and your facing your most dire moments 38 00:02:27.823 --> 00:02:30.723 in life, when your children are sick and in the hospital, 39 00:02:32.423 --> 00:02:38.023 Grandma or Grandpa, get the cancer diagnosis, you don't want God 40 00:02:38.023 --> 00:02:38.923 napping. 41 00:02:43.023 --> 00:02:44.523 But the truth of the matter is this, 42 00:02:46.323 --> 00:02:47.623 that God sleeping in 43 00:02:47.623 --> 00:02:50.423 Tthe boat was also human. 44 00:02:50.423 --> 00:02:53.023 He was a man. 45 00:02:54.323 --> 00:02:58.123 He was a man and this is exactly what it took. 46 00:02:59.223 --> 00:03:02.423 To be thrown into the seas of our lives 47 00:03:03.423 --> 00:03:05.323 and to deal with sin 48 00:03:06.423 --> 00:03:08.423 that is crashing all over us. 49 00:03:09.923 --> 00:03:15.223 To deal with the guilt and the wrath of God, that pours into your life, 50 00:03:15.223 --> 00:03:18.323 that pours into your boat. 51 00:03:18.323 --> 00:03:21.323 And it will do nothing but kill you. 52 00:03:22.323 --> 00:03:23.923 It'll drag you down. 53 00:03:24.823 --> 00:03:27.123 It will destroy you. 54 00:03:31.523 --> 00:03:34.323 And when faced with such harsh law 55 00:03:36.323 --> 00:03:39.123 that moment comes where you understand 56 00:03:39.123 --> 00:03:41.723 what did, what did Pastor say in confirmation? 57 00:03:43.523 --> 00:03:46.823 Something about repenting forgiving, we always forgive. 58 00:03:48.523 --> 00:03:52.023 What do Pastor say about your a baptized child of God? 59 00:03:53.623 --> 00:03:54.923 You are, Holy. 60 00:03:56.123 --> 00:03:59.223 Pastor obviously didn't know what I did. 61 00:04:00.323 --> 00:04:04.523 Pastor obviously wasn't with me when Mom and Dad weren't looking. 62 00:04:05.523 --> 00:04:06.623 Pastor obviously wasn't with me. 63 00:04:07.523 --> 00:04:12.323 Getting through high school and Lord have mercy College. 64 00:04:16.023 --> 00:04:20.323 Every one of those sins taken on by this God man 65 00:04:20.323 --> 00:04:21.623 Jesus Christ. 66 00:04:23.423 --> 00:04:26.523 And so the disciples are so much like you and me. 67 00:04:28.123 --> 00:04:29.423 I believe in God. 68 00:04:32.023 --> 00:04:33.923 You may have spent four years 69 00:04:35.623 --> 00:04:38.923 getting ready to come to this place and then another four. 70 00:04:39.623 --> 00:04:42.123 And then some of us goes on for another eight. 71 00:04:43.523 --> 00:04:47.723 Just so you can be thrown into the reality of your congregation 72 00:04:49.623 --> 00:04:51.623 and the waves manifest themselves. 73 00:04:53.423 --> 00:04:56.623 Some of your best parishioners complaining and whining. 74 00:04:59.023 --> 00:05:01.323 When you're being reminded once again 75 00:05:02.623 --> 00:05:07.723 oh pastor, if you'd only be more like feeling the television blank. 76 00:05:08.723 --> 00:05:12.123 You know, there be so many people in this church. 77 00:05:23.323 --> 00:05:23.723 All of these kinds of sins pour into our boat, pour into our lives but thanks be to God. 78 00:05:24.923 --> 00:05:25.723 One of the beautiful things 79 00:05:26.823 --> 00:05:28.523 about many churches, they are 80 00:05:28.923 --> 00:05:31.823 designed to look like ships, like the boats. 81 00:05:32.623 --> 00:05:34.623 Our Savior in Fenton is like that. 82 00:05:35.823 --> 00:05:38.723 Of course you've got to turn upside down, and it becomes the hull. 83 00:05:41.823 --> 00:05:46.523 But every now and then, we remind are people that this is the boat where 84 00:05:46.523 --> 00:05:47.623 God saves lives. 85 00:05:49.623 --> 00:05:55.223 This is the place where God calls you to dwell in his presence and so often he 86 00:05:55.223 --> 00:05:58.223 seems like he's sleeping. Really? 87 00:06:00.423 --> 00:06:03.623 This is my body that is going to save me? 88 00:06:03.623 --> 00:06:05.123 That is going to forgive me? 89 00:06:05.123 --> 00:06:06.523 That is going to give me strength? 90 00:06:06.723 --> 00:06:11.523 How am I supposed to be sustained by something that sticks to the roof 91 00:06:11.523 --> 00:06:11.923 of my mouth? 92 00:06:14.723 --> 00:06:19.523 It's the reality of a sinful life and how we perceive things as 93 00:06:19.523 --> 00:06:21.623 sinners but it is this Jesus Christ himself who takes the humility of a strom 94 00:06:26.723 --> 00:06:27.323 and stands up in the midst of our lives. In the midst of you congregations 95 00:06:30.523 --> 00:06:35.923 someday in the midst of all the games going on in our culture. 96 00:06:37.423 --> 00:06:39.723 He grabs hold of it and he says peace. 97 00:06:47.023 --> 00:06:48.523 Stop flapping your lips. 98 00:06:53.423 --> 00:06:54.323 Be quiet. 99 00:07:01.523 --> 00:07:02.323 That's what he said to 100 00:07:03.823 --> 00:07:06.023 the storm and the waves. 101 00:07:07.223 --> 00:07:10.923 To everything that was about to kill his disciples, 102 00:07:10.923 --> 00:07:11.923 so they thought. 103 00:07:15.623 --> 00:07:16.723 And then, 104 00:07:18.123 --> 00:07:19.923 that look of the monster 105 00:07:19.923 --> 00:07:22.523 I was talking about earlier looks to his disciples. 106 00:07:25.923 --> 00:07:27.823 Why are you so afraid? 107 00:07:31.023 --> 00:07:32.623 Do you still have no faith? Do you doubt? 108 00:07:39.423 --> 00:07:44.423 Do you think God really is using where he has played using you, where he 109 00:07:44.423 --> 00:07:45.123 has placed you. 110 00:07:47.023 --> 00:07:51.923 Have you forgotten your call to be a student to be a professor? 111 00:07:51.923 --> 00:07:54.023 Have you forgotten this call? 112 00:07:55.523 --> 00:07:59.323 To understand what really counts is our Lord Jesus Christ. 113 00:08:01.623 --> 00:08:04.323 Because it is that guy who is sleeping 114 00:08:04.323 --> 00:08:10.723 who is God it is that guy when it came time to deal with sin itself. 115 00:08:12.823 --> 00:08:17.723 He marched to the cross and was slaughtered like a lamb. 116 00:08:18.523 --> 00:08:22.123 And every thought word and deed that you might have, 117 00:08:23.623 --> 00:08:25.723 every sin was paid for. 118 00:08:26.923 --> 00:08:31.323 The whole context of the mess of a world and troubles in your daily 119 00:08:31.323 --> 00:08:32.923 lives Christ 120 00:08:32.923 --> 00:08:34.223 paid for those sins. 121 00:08:35.723 --> 00:08:43.723 The whole sinfulness and reality of how life is just rotten sometimes, 122 00:08:44.923 --> 00:08:47.723 Christ took that all upon himself. 123 00:08:49.623 --> 00:08:50.823 And you. 124 00:08:50.823 --> 00:08:52.623 And I. 125 00:08:53.823 --> 00:08:57.723 And those of you who are going to be pastors, it's even worse for you. 126 00:08:59.323 --> 00:09:00.823 Because as pastors 127 00:09:00.823 --> 00:09:02.923 how often we tend to think. 128 00:09:04.323 --> 00:09:06.123 Not sure God's hearing our prayers. 129 00:09:07.523 --> 00:09:10.323 I'm not sure what he's going to do about our budget. 130 00:09:10.323 --> 00:09:16.023 I'm not sure what he's going to do about the argument with the Ladies 131 00:09:16.023 --> 00:09:16.423 Group. 132 00:09:16.423 --> 00:09:19.123 I'm not sure what he's going to do 133 00:09:20.923 --> 00:09:22.823 about life after a pandemic. 134 00:09:24.523 --> 00:09:26.723 But in the end know 135 00:09:28.323 --> 00:09:34.123 that Christ forgives, you your sins that Christ has taken on your 136 00:09:34.123 --> 00:09:34.623 doubt. 137 00:09:35.823 --> 00:09:40.523 That as, you get thrown about in this life, you are thrown about, but 138 00:09:40.523 --> 00:09:45.923 Christ has conquered, whatever comes your way, he's paid for whatever 139 00:09:45.923 --> 00:09:47.123 sin you committed. 140 00:09:48.723 --> 00:09:51.823 The whole world sins were taken upon him. 141 00:09:52.623 --> 00:09:53.323 And now he 142 00:09:55.323 --> 00:09:56.723 invites, you into 143 00:09:58.923 --> 00:10:00.523 that lifeboat his 144 00:10:00.523 --> 00:10:01.623 Holy sacrament. 145 00:10:03.123 --> 00:10:04.523 I know he feeds you. 146 00:10:06.123 --> 00:10:07.623 He gives you his drink. 147 00:10:09.123 --> 00:10:13.523 And the forgiveness of sins in his body and blood will move down your 148 00:10:13.523 --> 00:10:14.023 throat. 149 00:10:15.523 --> 00:10:16.823 And it will save you. 150 00:10:20.723 --> 00:10:21.323 Peace. 151 00:10:23.823 --> 00:10:24.523 Be still. 152 00:10:27.623 --> 00:10:28.623 Your sins are forgiven. Amen. 153 00:10:32.123 --> 00:10:33.023 Peace of God 154 00:10:33.023 --> 00:10:33.823 that passes all understanding. 155 00:10:33.823 --> 00:10:36.023 Keep your hearts and minds in Christ 156 00:10:36.023 --> 00:10:36.523 Jesus. 157 00:10:38.223 --> 00:10:38.823 Amen.