Acts 27 Pt 2

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone. It is Monday, March the seventeenth, twenty twenty five. It is currently ten thirty six am Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Well. It started as a very simple idea, Oh, here's this Bible study guide that's being given away. Let me turn on the microphone and tell everyone how they can get the Bible Study Guide for themselves. So I did that.

0:44 But then the next thing, I know, I go from telling everyone about the Bible Study Guide to starting to kind of examine it and review it. And then I tell everyone, you know what, it's a seven week Bible study guide. We're going to work through all seven weeks of this Bible Study Guide, and we're going to well, we're going to do reviews, and we're going to do this and we're going to do our own study. And the next thing, you know, what was simply supposed to be a I don't know, twenty minute episode telling everyone about how to get a Bible Study Guide for themselves turns into I don't know how long this is going to be. Now, there's a lot of I don't know, because I don't really know how I ended up in this situation. But here we are. It all started by telling you how to obtain the Bible Study Guide how to Weather the Storms of Life, and you can go back and listen to the previous episodes where I tell you how to download it and do all of that for yourself. I'm not going to review all of that again, but how to Weather the Storms of Life.

1:45 Now. As soon as I saw the title of the seven week Bible Study Guide, how to Weather the Storms of Life, I knew hermaneutically, from a Hermoneutics perspective, we were in trouble because pastor after past or after pastor, whenever there's studying their Bibles or preaching a text for scripture that deals with a storm, they always turn the storm into some kind of a metaphorical storm about the storms in your life. So they take a biblical narrative that talks about a real storm, and then somehow makes that prescriptive and prescribes to us the steps we're supposed to take not to navigate a real storm, even though that's what the text is about, but how to navigate a metaphorical storm, a storm in your life. I don't know how you take a historical narrative about a literal storm turn it into a prescriptive text about telling me how to navigate a metaphorical storm. I don't even know how that works.

2:42 But pastor after pastor after pastor does that, and that's probably why I convince myself, you know what we need to go through all of this this study guide, because this study guide is seven weeks where they look at storms and the Bible and we'll try to teach us how to weather the storms and our life. And they do the very thing that pastors do all the time. Hey, church, we're gonna be studying this storm, and this storm is going to represent the storms in your life, and we're gonna take this text and find principles that you're supposed to follow to navigate the storms in your life. It's it's such, it's almost it's it's it's almost absurd and how common this is. It's almost like you've got to be kidding me. It's almos It's almost like is this a parody? Right? It's like it's like when you hear these kinds of sermons. I hate to say it. To me, it's like a parody. It's like someone making fun of Christianity.

3:41 It's like, we're going to study this storm and we're going to find principles and how to navigate life. If I was making fun of Christianity, you think that's that would be something you would do, just to show how careless we are with the text of Scripture. Now, I know I'm offending some of you because some of you have set in these sermons and you have loved them, and you think that they did great things in your life, and maybe some of the principles were good. But the problem is the principles are not being taken from the text because the text is not about your storm or my storm. It's about a literal storm, and in many cases we're missing the entire point of the narrative. So in this study guide how to Weather the Storms of life, the first storm they look at is Acts chapter twenty seven, or as I should say, I guess if we' want to be technical, the first storm they talk about is recorded in Acts chapter twenty seven. And so what we are going to do over time is, yes, I'm going to do my own work and my own study on Acts twenty seven. Yes, we will review everything the study guide has to say about Acts twenty seven. But one of the things we're also doing is we're reviewing sermons on Acts twenty seven. We already reviewed one. It was very frustrating, it was very eerie, and I was thinking, well, maybe I don't review anymore, maybe maybe one is enough.

5:06 And then yesterday I get a notification from the pocket cast podcasting app pocket Cast podcasting app, and it just said Acts twenty seven, and I'm like, oh, who did an episode about Acts twenty seven? And then I realized that it was a broadcast a message that had been uploaded to the sermon Audio platform. But of course sermon Audio their website, well we wouldn't expect it on the website, but their sermons, the sermons by sermon Audio app, the sermon Audio app. You would think that they would have notifications on there, but they don't. All right, But what I do is I take broadcasters from sermon Audio, grab their RSS feed, and I place it in podcasting apps, so then I get notifications when they upload new stuff. Well, then yesterday obviously was Sunday one of the churches or on Sermonadio, they preached a sermon on Acts twenty seven, uploaded it, and of course I got that notification from the pocket cast podcasting app, right, I get. It's just kind of ridiculous that I got to take the broadcasters from sermon Audio, grab their RSS feed, go put it in a podcast app so that it can get actual notifications when they upload new content, because you would think, yeah, okay, all right, that whole thing drives me crazy. But the point is I saw the notification and was like, oh, Acts twenty seven, Well, I guess I'm going to have to review it. It's only thirty minutes long. It's only thirty minutes long. Now, I'm not going to give the name of this person. I'm not going to give the

6:39 name of the church, all right, And here is the reason why it looks like I haven't listened it. Well, I listened to enough to realize I needed to increase the volume. So I increased the volume. When I listened to it. I didn't catch this, but I saw when I open up the sermon's two point oh app to find it, it's not the sermon's two point oh app. I gotta stop calling the sermon audio app. I noticed that this guy looks young. He looks young. And the one thing I know, and this and I and I and I very much, you know, have a kind of an emotional connection to this. I know that when you are a young preacher. I don't know if he's a pastor, I don't know, he just maybe a young person in the church preaching. And when I say young, maybe twenties, maybe I think maybe I think around I would say in the twenties. I could be wrong, but I think.

7:29 But just my first impression when I saw is this guy's young. And I have an emotional connection because I remember being young starting to preach and teach, and I realize that at that point, what you're doing is you're preaching and teaching what you've been taught, right, I mean, at that point you don't you're still not probably even doing theology. You've learned theology and you're simply repeating it. So you go to a church you're young, the pastor says, here are the good preachers to listen to. Here's the preachers not to listen to. So you listen to the good preachers the way they handle the text, the way they preach. You typically start preaching somewhat in a similar way.

8:11 Your pastor's going to tell you, here are the good commentaries, here are the bad commentaries. So your sermons are going to be put together from the good commentaries and the good preachers that you hear, and you're going to basically be parroting what you have heard. Now, I'm not saying that that's particulars that is clearly the case. I'm saying it happens over and over and over again. And then the longer you preach, the longer you teach. Typically, hopefully you transition after simply parroting what your theiological team says and you start entering into the world of actually doing theology and doing hermoneutics. So you're not doing hermautics. If you're just copying what everyone else already says about the text, you're not actually doing anything. You're just parroting. You're just copying, you're just repeating. You may do you may make it your own, and you're their own style, but you're just following the template everyone gives you. Now, I feel like what every preacher should do. At some point, you have to reach a point where no I'm not simply parroting theology.

9:12 I'm going to do theology on my own. I'm going to question, I'm going to challenge, I'm going to formulate hypotheses. I'm going to start doing this on my own. I'm not going to just simply parrot hermeneutics. I'm going to do hermeneutics on my own. I don't care what my team says. I don't care what these commentaries say. I'm going to study the text for myself. I don't care who I offend. At some point, you want pastors to get there, How many actually get there? I can't say, because sermon after sermon after sermon that we review, they all seem to just be parroting following the same template that everyone else follows on this text. So I'm not going to give this person's name or anything about the church because I just feel like it's unfair because he's young right now, when you have pastors who are much older, You're like, come on, they've had they've had twenty years now to move past this stage of just repeating what everyone else says and actually engage in doing hermeneutics, doing theology now. So I'm obviously you know where I'm going.

10:13 I obviously my presupposition here, my assumption here is that this guy's going to follow the same template that everyone else follows, and Acts twenty seven, a historical narrative about a storm, is going to be turned into a prescriptive text telling us what to do about the storms of life. I could be one hundred percent wrong, and I hope I am, But because he's young, I'm just going that that's what he's going to do. I hope I am wrong here. I hope I'm going to be pleasantly surprised. But we're gonna find out the fact that he's covering Acts twenty seven and about thirty minutes is somewhat frightening, all right, I don't even I don't even know if you can read Acts twenty seven carefully and thirty minutes.

10:57 I mean, there are forty four verses in X twenty seven, but nobody really cares about all the things going on in X twenty seven. We just got to get to the storm, mention the storm, and then immediately transition out of X twenty seven and say, let's talk about the storms in your life. Right then you go back to X twenty seven, and you only pull verses where you supposedly are gathering your you know, your principles that you're going to prescribe to everyone. It's just, ugh, it drives me nuts. So one of the reasons then I'm going through this study guide is because I grow tired of how the storms and the Bible are preached. So here we go. We're going to get another example. I know what you're thinking, well, when are you going to get to your actually work on X twenty seven. We'll get there.

11:48 But I mean, I can't just skip the fact that literally a notification showed up on my iPad yesterday that said AX twenty seven. I mean, come on, what are the chances? I mean, I mean I had to I had to review this today. So here we go. I know that was a twelve minute kind of introduction explaining everything, but I just wanted to explain, like a lot of the reviews, I give the name and the church and everything. But even then, I don't ever want to be I'm not trying to embarrass or be negative. I want you to go actually subscribe and listen. Hopefully by the time this is over, I'm going to go like, you know what this is really good. Hey, and I'll look up the name and I'll give you the name, and you can go subscribe to it, you know, wherever you want to subscribe to it. Well, yeah, there we go. But for now, because I mean, man, I remember being young.

12:35 If I went back and listened to sermons I preached in the past today, I would hate them. I'd be furious with myself. So you got to and that's true if anyone sitting in church, you got to give people some grace and some mercy as they're growing in their own faith, in their own philological understanding. Now, in many cases, churches don't give a lot of grace because you have to follow the tim You can't deviate. Churches don't. I'm telling you. Churches is not where you do theology. Churches is not where you do hermeneutics. Churches is just where everyone picks the team and then you just regurgitate, you just repeat, you just pair it whateveryone in that team says.

13:17 And it drives me crazy. I can't stand that. I wish church was the place where you had people who were really hungry for the text and they were like, let's dig in, let's let's create hypotheses. Let's test them, let's create, let's do this, Let's challenge this, let's challenge that, let's challenge this, let's work on it. Let's let's and and we struggle together. But it's it really isn't if people just get mad, they just want all they want to hear is what they want to hear. It's just so it's so discouraging to me, depressing to me. But on a podcast, ah, I can do whatever I want. It doesn't matter. I may take off everyone, but who cares, right, It's not like you know, I was watching a podcast yesterday and as a Christian YouTuber, and he was like, hey, this is now my full time job, so please support me.

14:07 And then he has, of course, if you want to be able to chat with him, you have to subscribe at a certain dollar amount. If you want to be able to email him, you have to subscribe at a certain dollar amount. And it's like, man, I do love the fact that podcasters do have freedom. But then once it becomes a full time job, see, now you get back into a different problem. Right now you can't offend the people who are subscribing to you, or you can't make your money to support yourself. It's such a Money makes everything so difficult in church. See, if you offend people you don't have money, the church goes away. If you're a Christian podcaster, well, if you can't raise enough support to at least pay for the podcasting, either you pay for it yourself, or you got to make sure you keep pleasing people out once that gets involved, once you like this is my full time job, You've got to keep pleasing the team. And I don't want to please anybody's team. I don't want I don't want to wear anybody's jersey. I want to be a place where we can do theology and do hermonutic so that that's why I end up typically making people mad. So here we go. I think I know where this is going.

15:20 I think I'm hoping. I'm so wrong. We're about to find out Acts twenty seven. That's the name of the sermon. Acts twenty seven. There's no just Acts twenty seven. That's what they called it. So here we go, as we are studying the storms in the Bible based on a seven week Bible study guide entitled how to Weather the Storms of Life, a seven week Bible study to help anchor you in God's truth. Right, yeah, all right, well, I'm good say a lot about that. But that led us to Acts twenty seven, because that's the first storm they cover in the Bible Study Guide, and we're covering at first by allowing other pastors to preach on it. To see what they do. Here we go.

16:03 A little bit farther back. Let's go to verse eight. So they're driving, they're passing different areas and mentions where they're under creed. They passed Solemni verse eight and hardly passing, and they came into a place which is called the fair havens nywhere and two was the city of Lascia. Verse nine, Chapter twenty seven. It says, now, when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, I do think it's important to catch that phraser. Sailing is now dangerous, because the fast was now already passed. Paul admonished them, and he said, unto them, sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt, in much damage. That's exciting. Sometimes in the midst of trials and struggles in life temptations, we find this. He says, not only of the lady and ship, but also of our lives. Nevertheless, the Centurion believed the master and owner of this ship more than those things which were spoken by Paul, And because the haven was not commodious to winter in the more part, advised to depart. Thence also if by any means they might attain to a venus and there to winter, which is a haven of crete and lights toward the southwest and northwest. And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose without all things are going great. We're good. This is losing fence, they sailed close by crete, but not long after there arose against a tempestuous wind called eurycleidon, meaning it's a big deal.

17:24 And when the ship was caught and could not bear up unto the wind, we let her drive, and running under a certain island, which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat, which when they had taken up, they used helps ungirding the ship, and fearing less they should fall into the quicksands, strike sail. And so we're driven, and we being exceedingly tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship, and the third day we cast out with our own hands, the tackling of the ship, and when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempests lay on us, and all hope that we should be saved was taken away. We're gonna stop your first second. There's a lot more gonna deal with, all.

18:05 Right, Before he continues that verse verse fourteen X twenty seven fourteen, but not long after there rose against it a temptuous wind called your Rocladan. Your rock Ladon is how you say it? You Rocladan. By no means am I picking on him in any way, shape or form, Because I've already said Act twenty seven. There's a million things in here trying to how to say this. If you listen to twenty sermons, you'll hear forty different ways of saying things. I will probably say them all incorrectly. In fact, I created an entire punctual a pronunciation key so that when I work on X twenty seven, I can reference it whenever I want. And your rock Ladon, so yeah, you rock Ludn, your rock Ludn. Even I asked artificial intelligence and it gave me two. Your rock Ludon or you rock Ludn. There's two different ways now he says, it means it's a big deal, just so that you know, it's a temptuous wind like a northeaster, a northeaster ealy storm that drove the ship violently off course, a temptuous wind. Right, it's a strong wind like a northeaster, a violent type of wind, all right. I think some references like a hurricane type wind. I think I think I've seen that define somewhere. But you Rocladan or your Rocoludan, however you would like to say it, that's what that's referencing.

19:38 So just I mean, it is a big deal. But if it's just kind of there's a little bit more to it, all right. So there we go. Now let's see where he's going to go or what he's about to say. But what we capture there is the mindset of things everyone's gone through and what they're thinking, what they're looking at. It's rough. They now are not only in the midst of a storm and always the dangerous they've cast out to the lady of the ship. They've cast out the tackling, the ability to fish. They're expecting now that they will die. And now they've not seen the sun for three days. That's not fun. Now, I've not been in a storm in the sea, so I really, I myself can't picture this. I've read books on it, I've tried to study some things using internet, but I've not been in it, so my perspective is limited. But I'm going to ask has he even been in a storm in the sea.

20:29 Before he asked that question? See talk about saying things incorrectly. I just realized when I looked at verse fourteen, But not long after there arose against it. A tempetuous temp tempetuous when tempetuous, when tempetuous when called your Roclodan right, I was so focused on your Rocklodan. Tempetuous, I think did I say it correctly? Tempetuous? I think I did. I think I did right. Tempetuous. I think I said it correctly right, I think I said tempetuous. I think I did. If I said it incorrectly, I apologize. That's why it when anytime I listen to anyone on Acts twenty seven, I always feel bad for them because it's so wordy, and it's just so many places and names play, and so you're like you're rockld On, You're thinking in your mind you're rocklet on. You're like, wait, tempetuous, right, t impetuous, that's the right way to say it, right.

21:21 So if I just want to make it very clear if I if I correct anything, if I correct anything that is pronounced in this sermon, I am in no way criticizing, mocking, making fun of in any way, shape or form. Because tempetuous, I just mess that up, right. So I just want to make it very clear that I'm very aware that Acts twenty seven because I've tried to preach ACX twenty seven before and I think I ended up going back and deleting it completely because I was like, what was I I was messing up horribly on some of the ways I was stating it. You have to just go low and go And because a lot of times when you're reading the text, at least for me, I tend to read in my head much faster, and so my public reading is always poor. It's always poor.

22:12 I blow past punctuation marks. I know it. I know it's a weakness in me. I know. And when I get to Act twenty seven, I'm just like, WHOA, what is going on here? I got so many different things, So tempetuous, your rock Gloddan or your Rocklodon. All right, so I think we got that correct right. Just want to make sure, Hey, if I'm correcting one thing while I'm messing up another, that that's going to happen a lot, right, So here we. Go, one, two, three, all right. So you guys know something about this exact type of situation more than the rest of us do. But there is a point of application that we will all understand. When life is difficult and you've gone through something where you see, I don't know how I will get through this, and so it's similar to this. Don't be at different. I've not been through a storm physically, so I don't know what that's like entirely in the at least in the sea. But when we go through a storm of life where it seems like there's no hope, and.

23:10 There we go, Ladies and gentlemen, it took about It took me longer to figure out tempetuous than it did for him to switch from the physical storm too the storms of life. Let me make it very clear, there is nothing in X twenty seven. There's literally nothing in X twenty seven that tells you to take this and make this about the storms of life. It's about a tempetuous great wind. You roclodan, a strong wind, a tempetuous wind that will blow you off course physically. This is about an actual storm. There's nothing in X twenty seven that says make it about the storms of life. There is literally nothing. You know why you do that, because you've heard sermon after sermon after sermon that does that.

23:57 There's nothing in a hermoneutics class would say at twenty seven is about the storms of life. There is nothing there to do that. So it took me longer to figure out how to say tempetuous than it did for him to go to storms alife, the storms alive. So you already know where it's going to go. We already know where this is gonna go. Now, how is he going to do? Now? Again, this is what we have to listen to. His principles may be great and sound, but is he going to take them from X twenty seven? Because if he's taking them from X twenty seven, he's taking principles about how they navigated a literal storm, and he's gonna somehow make them prescriptive about a metaphorical storm. There's just so many problems with them. But let's see what happens.

24:40 And you might even consider, am I gonna have sustenance? Am I gonna have provision? You might think of it in a physical matter, Am I gonna have food? If you go through a financial loss, a financial struggle, will I be able to eat the next meal? Will i'd be able to eat this day or even this week. I'm assuming most people have gone through some kind of struggle. I understand none of us or in the a great depression, but some of us are some of you not us, some of you were in that time where you were raised, and you understand more of what I was like. I've only heard stories. I was very distant from it, but where you question if you're even gonna live. That's the kind of situation. Some people will go through that emotionally, they know how am I going to get through this?

25:20 They have these kind of struggles. That's the exact type of situation that's here. They don't know what's going to happen, how they're going to get through it. It is difficult, and they're wondering. Lots of questions would come to your mind. Is God going to provide? Is God going to care? Does he know what we're going through these kind of things. Some people will question, but Paul gives us an example of what we're supposed to do, what we're supposed to act, like how we're supposed to be in the midst of a storm God. So Paul is giving us an example of how we're supposed to be in the midst of a storm, in the midst of a literal storm in which Paul was given direct divine revelation about that specific storm. But now you're gonna take that and say, this is an example on how weird to navigate the storms in our life.

26:13 Paul's divine revelation about how to deal with that storm has nothing to do with about your storm and your life where whatever problem you're facing it, Oh, it's so maddening, it just drives me insane. We're going to consider that next. But I want us to capture first the doom, the gloom, the hardships. We're gonna pray now I don't remember the structure, but I want to pray, and then we'll continue on the rest of the text. Here Fa we loving thing for the time it is to hop up your word and to the time of Sunday school hour. We do pray that you'd be honored and glorified, and that you'd bless the reading of the Word here, the teaching of it, and that our minds might be able to understand apply the truth of the scripture here, and especially the Lord, that we'd captured the principle that trials are a part of life.

27:01 We go through struggles in this life, but there is always a purpose, and we always can see how much that you care for us, how much you can provide for us, and the strength that you give to us will help us to rely upon you to trust you when we ask for your grace. In this time, we're praying Christ's name. Amen. All right. So, and they're in the midst of a struggle of a danger. I'm just gonna read a quote here. Every trial is an opportunity for God to show his omnipotent power that allows God to show himself strong on our behalf, displaying what only He can do. If we do not face some possibilities, we will never see God do the miraculous. So all right, So, the idea seems to be I mean, I mean, I'm not saying he's being dogmatic here, but that quote seems to be Hey, you would go through trials, So now we can see God's power. But have you ever gone through trials and wait, God's power doesn't show up?

27:54 Does a church ever acknowledge that I my mother laid it off, spit of bed and died before I even became an adult. And what God's power didn't show up? My father suffered and died with cancer. God didn't show up. How many different situations when I was being beaten and abused, God didn't show up. So just because God's all powerful doesn't mean if you go through a trial, God's going to show up in a way to stop the trial, hell the person, bring them back from the dead, or fix the problem. I know the church hates hearing that, but at some point we got to acknowledge that. But to see, the idea is, you're going through a trial of life. Oh hey, guys, you're going through a trial life.

28:38 It's an opportunity for God's omnipotence to show up. Well, it could be that God's omnipotence could have showed up and stopped the trial from happening. But no, no, no, See, he wants you to go through the trial, so his omnipotence can show up. Okay, great, So now there's someone in the church their daughter is murdered. Hey, hey, this is an opportunity for God's omnipotence to show up. He didn't stop my daughter from being murdered, he didn't raise her from the dead, but it's an opportunity for God's omnipotence to show up. And well that story, well someone in my church, a family in my church, their daughter was murdered. I mean, I can give countless examples. So see, you can't just say that a storm is an opportunity for God's omnipotence to show up in this particular. I never mind. Oh, it just drives me so mad. It just it drives me crazy at some point. All right, let's see what happens here.

29:48 Just a situation that we've gone through before. But whenever you go to a point where you're wondering, Okay, I have these bills, and I have said, I have these bills, and I have this money. How do I get this money to match these bills while I multiply it? But you have two days. You can't invest into it, You can't work hard enough to provide the unless you have a special job that provides that. These are situations that more like I'm assuming everyone has gone through and I've gone through it before too. But you have these bills and you have this much money, you can't provide for it. Maybe you have this much of a health issue, but you only have this much resources or this much for someone to help you when things don't match the need.

30:30 Through that, we do find God's provision. We find that God can give us miracles. But miracles don't happen when we say, Okay, this is hard, but I recognize if I just try harder, I can get through it. Well, if you get through, that's not necessarily a miracle, because you might even say that you did it yourself. But when you know you can't do it yourself and you know that there will be struggles, that's when you know God is when I did the work, I'll give it very to me. I see this as a miracle. I don't know about everyone else, but often when two churches merge, there are fights, there's contention, there's struggles, because one thing that the church is supposed to have acornte Ephesians is unity. But when there is not fighting, there's not contention. I would say that's a miracle when two people can get along, When two churches merge together and can get along, that's one thing that we see. Evidently this is God's work.

31:24 So if two churches merge and they can get along, that's a miracle. Now, wait a minute, I thought, I thought Christians are we are new creatures in Christ. Old things have passed away, all things have become new. Shouldn't be we should be able to merge and get along perfectly all the time, because I mean, Christianity basically sells itself is that we're basically perfect. So now if we can just get along with each other, that's a miracle. So how come I've worked with atheist multiple times in my life. I mean a lot of times in the medical world, I worked with atheists. They they seem to get along really really well, really really well. Was that a miracle because atheists get along with one another? I mean, I don't I don't understand. I don't understand. But just so that we know, he made a dogmatic assertion that Act twenty seven, Paul gives us an example on how to navigate the storms of life and AI this is what artificial intelligence says this is categorically false. Acts twenty seven does not present Paul as an example for handling live storms. This is not the purpose of the passage, and interpreting it that way misuses the text by forcing a prescriptive lesson where none exist. Why Paul is not an example for handling live storm. Acts twenty seven is a historical narrative, not a prescriptive lesson. This passage describes an actual event, Paul's journey from Rome and the storm that God sovereignly used to fulfill his plan. There is

32:55 no command or instruction in the text that says when you face live storms, fall oh Paul's example. Luke does not present Paul as a moral example here, He simply records what happens. Number two, Paul had a unique revelation that no one else has today. Paul was not calm in the storm because of his own spiritual strength. It was calm because an angel of God literally told him that no one would die. This is not an experience that believers today share. No one today has promised a personal angelic revelation guaranteeing their safety and hardship. Applying this as if Paul was just trusting God like we should, ignores the unique divine intervention in the situation. Number three, Paul's safety was not a universal promise for all believers.

33:41 Some sermons wrongly imply if you do trust God in your storms like Paul did, you will be safe. The reality is many faithful believers suffer and die in storms, disasters, and trials. The reason Paul and others survive was not a general promise to all believers. It was God's specific plan to get Paul to Rome. Number four, Paul's actions were not prescription for all prescriptive for all trials. Paul does not pray for deliverance. Paul does not rebuke the storm. Paul does not teach or exhort others about faith in trials. He simply relays what the angel tells that told him. His message in Acts twenty seven is not a general faith principle. It's a statement about God's specific promise for that situation. Even AI knows that this is just categorically the wrong way to handle this text. It is categorically not true. What is happening here?

34:32 It is. Why why I don't understand why? All right, let's see what happens. We can't do it. Brother Eckles and I we're talking about some things in the past. I understand this doesn't have to do with the text. This is like a parentheses. This is free time. But God gives us things that we have vision for things we want to do. But when brother Eckles and I were talking about some stuff, we have the same thoughts on some things, and we don't fight. We get along. And I like hearing him talk. I think he likes He pretends like he enjoys hearing me talk. But we can just fellowship. And the fact that God has done that I see as a miracle.

35:13 I don't see it as just a thing that we can do ourselves. So if we get along with someone, that's a miracle. If two Christians get along with each other, that's a miracle. It's not something we can do ourselves. So as Christians, we cannot within ourselves get along with one another. God has to do it. So if two Christians are fighting, or if there's a church split, you can't blame the people. They can't do it in and of themselves. But God didn't perform a miracle. So if God has to perform the miracle so that Christians can get along? Then why don't godf Why doesn't God perform that miracle all the time so that we could stop all the church splits and all the fighting and all the bickering and all the problems in church. Christians can't do it. God has to do a miracle. Then when God, why doesn't God have help? Where's God been for two thousand years? Oh?

36:04 But I guess he showed up in those situations. So and their situation because he gets along with the other guy. Now what happens on the day when the day comes that they don't get along? Did God stop performing the miracle? Oh? I've got so many theological questions I've got, I got I could write a notebook of theological questions at this point. Because we're fleshy, we're sinful, we're very careless or very carnal. We can struggle a lot. But when we submit to God, we see something that God can do. He'll do a great miracle, He'll do a great work. Wait, he just made that a conditional clause when we submit to God. So we're sinful and fleshley, but we can submit to God. And if we submit to God, then He'll do the miracle of helping us get along, So is it God doing God? God's miracle is conditional on my ability to submit. So if we stopp getting along, it's because we are not submitting, So is it God's God's miracle is determined by our submission. So if we are not in submission, God doesn't do the miracle like I mean, Look, he's the one making it prescriptive. So if he's making it prescriptive, I've got to figure out how to follow the prescription. I need the prescription, the instructions on the prescription.

37:22 Right, That's just my thoughts. But also health. Brother Nelson went through some health this week ares lie of those who have gone through some health issues. God can provide. He does provide, but sometimes we question if God will provide. So I want to This part is not from me. Some alliteration here, but I want to give some thoughts. So in the midst of a storm, not only do we see that we need to grow, That's what last week was about, but we also have the opportunity to see how God will show show himself to be true, so show himself to be faithful, but he also shows how much he cares. So I want to read a little bit more in this.

38:09 So in a storm God, God can show him self powerful, powerful, but he can show how much he cares. So let me make it sure. So did God show me his power and how much he cares? When my mother died? Did God show his power? How much he cares? When my father died? Did God show me how his power? How much he cares? When I was being physically abused? Did God show me his power? How much he cares? When I almost died in the military and now have a seizure disorder because of what happened to me in the military. Now if someone can said, well, you almost died, but you didn't die, so he showed his power. So he showed his power when I didn't die, but he didn't show his power. So how does this work? God cares because he does something, But if he doesn't do something, does that that mean then he no longer cares? Or does it mean I'm no longer in submission to God?

39:07 So was it my mom wasn't in submission? Right now? I see this? Just this all begins. And whenever you start asking these questions, Christians get defensive and they get mad. And they get their feelings hurt. And I know that, but I get sick and tired of all of the things that we say. And it's like, you're never allowed to challenge it. You're never allowed. Yeah, I'm gonna challenge it because it just thought. It's just breaks down on so many levels. Text here how much God cares verse twenty one. So this seems like we ended there verse twenty that all hope was taken away verse twenty one. But after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, sirs, he should have hearkened unto me and not have loose from crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. Now, I'll be honest. The first time I read that, I thought Paul was saying I told you so. Technically he wasn't, maybe a little bit, but saying, guys, I told you this is gonna be dangerous, but God's still going to care for us. So verse twenty two, he says, and now I exhorre you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night, the Angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, God stood with him amidst a storm. Now, if you've ever gone through real storm and real struggle in any aspect.

40:30 It could be financed, it could be health, it could be in emotions, it could be trials of life amongst family. But I hope you're going to recognize that God is there. We know that there's the Scriptures of Luke without think, He's three accounts where God says that if we ask for him, he'll come. We know that God's always there and if we not, he's going to come in. He's always there looking for us which need to let him in. We know those some things that God wants to be there force. He wants to come into our life to provide. So God wants to be there, but we have to let him in. So if I don't let God in, God doesn't come in. But if I let God in, God will come in and do what Now in this particular case, this is this is the divine revelation that Paul receives for this specific storm. It's not a promise about any about me. So God will show up in my storm if I let him in. But if I don't let him in, he just stands outside. I have to God. So I'm a Christian, but I still but God won't come into my storm unless I let him in, so I know. So how do I know when I've led him in? How do I know when I How do I know when I've led him in? I'm knocking, he's knocking, somebody's knocking. I gotta let him know. I know when I let him in, when the storm gets better.

41:48 What if I let him in and the storm gets worse or there, The person doesn't get healed, the person dies, the person isn't resurrected. My medical problem doesn't get better, My medical problem is diagnosedis terminal, like does did? God is God there? So now are you gonna Are you gonna didn't demonstrate that God can be present? And your storm doesn't get better and it actually kills you? All right? Are you gonna emphasize that? But when you go through trials, sometimes we don't know how to look for God. But yet he is always still there, even for questioning some things. God is always still there.

42:32 Okay. God is always there, So I don't have to let him in. I don't have to let him in because He's always there. Okay, all right, So God is always there. That means whether the situation gets better the situation gets worse, God is always there, so means God being there is not a guarantee that things are going to get better. It just means that God is there. So God is there even though things don't get better. Now how does that work? All right? So let's just let's again. I know when I say these things I tick off Christians, but I have to say them all right, So hey, look I'm sorry you're being sexually molested, but just no, God is there. Oh, so he's going to help me? Well, I mean your situation may not get any better, but he but he's there. Hey you have this disease and well God is there. Well, so that means I'm going to be heal, Well, no, you could die. Hey, hey, this just happened to my daughter or my son. Is the situation going to get better? But just know God is there? Is it going to get better? Well? I can't promise you that, but God is there, So me that means God being there is of no guarantee that anything is going to get better or anything is going to improve. And if you say otherwise, you are a liar.

43:40 So but we all right, I'm just going to be patient. I'm going to be patient, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna be patient. I'm going to be patient. Here we go. So it says in this text that verse twenty three, for there stood by me this night, the Angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve? God is there with us. But it does help when we're in God's will when he uses that phrase there whose I am and whom I serve. This may seem like a side topic, but this deals with the text very much. So Paul is in God's will. Paul is serving God, and God provides safety for him. God provides comfort for him as well.

44:25 And I think within the context that fits very very importantly. That's a very key part to it, because if Paul is outside of God's will, will God provide still be with him? Yes, but sometimes God will also allow him to go through struggles, go through trials. We talked about last week with Jonah. Yes, Jonah was going to do what God said, he was going to physically serve God, but his mind and his heart was not say there, not like it should be. But Paul was serving God faithfully. Not only was God there, but he was encouraging him because Paul was serving faithfully. Marriage twenty four. Here's what the Angel said to Paul, saying, fear not, Paul, for that must be brought before Caesar. And Lo, God hath given all of them that sail with Thee, all them that sail with me. Wherefore it serves be of good cheer, for I believe God that it shall be, even as it was told me. Not only does God care, but God can provide for us. That Paul hasn't seen it yet, But yet God says to them, be of good cheer.

45:29 Even though he's not seen it yet, he still makes that statement. Why because he believes God. He has a confidence in God. When we see this in other times that Paul writes, I am persuaded that that which I've given to God, he's able to keep, that which I've committed to him. He's able to control, He's able to provide for us. But we need to trust him. We walk by faith. May not always understand what's happening, but we can still walk by faith. God is going to provide for us. Not only does God care, but he can provide and we. Can provide or He will provide. And if you say will provide, don't you have to be very very specific in exactly what he will provide. I mean, we got two thousand years of church history of people suffering and dying.

46:20 God did not provide anything and showing up to tangibly help them or deliver them. I mean, we got the story in the New Testament where Jesus didn't even bother to go visit John the Baptist while I was in prison. John the Baptist is killed. He doesn't provide anything, He doesn't show up, doesn't deliver him, doesn't heal him, doesn't raise him from the dead. So it's just it's hey, God will provide. And everybody in the pew is like amen. I mean, I'm not saying they were saying amen, because I don't think I heard anything, but people will say amen. It's like okay, But what I need? What does that mean? What doesn't mean? Specifically? God will provide the righteousness of his son imputed to my account? I know that by faith, the righteousness of Jesus Christ is imputed to my account.

47:14 He definitely provides that, and that provides me the forgiveness of sins eternal life. He will provide me. I mean, there are some specifics, right, but all right, let's continue. I have to have confidence there. So Verse twenty five says, wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer, for I believe God. That shall be even as it was told me what happens when someone says I believe God. Oh, I'll taste another thought that I have in my mind. I hope my mind's not too chaotic. But but my kids are learning everything by me and my wife. They learn from other people too, but they learn how to behave, they learn how to act, they learn how to trust. They learn all these things from my wife and I and that's natural. Between the ages of two and five, kids grow and they understand a lot of things about loyalty, about trust, about commitment.

48:07 They understand some resilience in life. They learn that there is some safeguards and family. They learn all these different things that we're supposed to teach them to learn, how to serve God, how to follow God, how to trust God. Well, here's the dangerous thing. If my kid sees me or one of them spill water, I'm not going to do it because I don't want to do that. I don't want to clean it after it. But if I spill water, my kids see me throw a fit. What do they learn when there's a mess in life? Throw a fit? Now here's my thought. You may not agree. But when you go to Walmart and you see a kid throwing a fit on the floor, what they are physically doing is displaying to everyone around what their parents do at home.

48:49 That's what I believe. You may not agree, but that's what I believe. What kids do ultimately, they learn a lot from us. So my kids throw fits, they probably learn it from me. Probably not. Wait, so when a kid does something wrong that reflects the parent, do you not believe in a sinful nature? Doesn't a kid do wrong things and act selfish and throw a fit one based off the the development of their brain, their emotional development, and and then do you take not an account a sinful nature? Oh, my goodness, gracious, this is like sometimes Christians say things that completely violates the very theology that you think that they would preach.

49:34 If you believe in total de provity. If we believe the child is born with a sinful nature, he's going to demonstrate a sinful nature irregardless of what he learns from his parents. The problem with kids start from inside. Do I have Do we have to go to parenting one oh one? Here? Oh my goodness, gracious, well forget parenting one oh one. It's it's basic understanding of human nature according to Christian theology. My wife, they're nice and sweet. They probably learn that from my wife, not always, but sometimes I'll move on. But our kids learn from us. Here's something that Paul's doing. I understand it's not a parent child relationship, but Paul says this, I believe God. God's going to provide. God has been with me. I understand that his comfort, his presence, and I know that God's going to have provision for me.

50:25 And I believe God. What does that do? Well? When we're confident, when we're persuaded in what we say, it gives others a certain glimpse of that confidence, and they can trust us a little bit and they can learn to trust God a little bit more. We have to be careful because in the midst of a trial, not only can we come out bitter or better that phrase are used last week, but also other people can see us in the midst of a trial, and they learn. There's a lot of times that I've seen people go through trials and I learn from it. I've seen but then that low and I would go door knocking a lot, and I remember driving your red truck. Can we go house to house? Because there was too far apart, not a neighborhood, we couldn't walk, but we'd go house to house driving. He'd leave the door open and out close the door. I was wondered why he left the door open, and we go just knock on the door, and we talked to people and had good conversations. We go back in the truck and he may not be able to physically do that. Now. I think some of you know he makes phone calls. But I've seen some things changing by the law of his life, along with several others.

51:27 And yet still be faithful. Are we gonna make mistakes? Absolutely yes, because we're fleshley, but still in the midst of trials, in the midst of life that just happens what we do. Not only is it that we can trust God. We know that he cares, that he can provide for us, but others are watching. I got to connect this back to the preview. We're gonna make mistakes because we're fleshley. Children are going to do things because they're fleshly, not necessarily because they learned it from their parents. It's not Artificial intelligence does not like this sermon. Okay, I just had artificial intelligences that this sermon contains factual errors, logical errors, and hermeneutical errors.

52:19 It gives me one two three three factual errors, gives me one two three logical errors, and then gives me one two three hermeneutical errors, and it refers to them as egregious. AI does not. Artificial intelligence does not like this sermon. Okay, So it's not just me having issues here. Oh man, are you learning anything about Acts twenty seven?

52:59 Do you think you know? Oh? Acts twenty seven? Do you think you know? Maybe I'll go through all of the problems AI points out here. I'm just gonna let this go a little bit. I think one of the most egregious things is basically blaming parents because your kid throws a fit, and it's like that they learned it from you. It's like that completely negates the fact that children are born centers. They completely negate. If this is a a church that believes in Palagianism, then okay, right, then the child's not born with a sinful nature, then okay, then then by all means, But if they're born with a sinful nature, I just I want to thing that got to do with X twenty seven. I don't even know how work here. I don't even know what's going on, And.

53:42 Now others are learning, just like my kids learn from me. If they have bad attitude, they probably learn it from me. If they're careful and they're gentle and they learn to say things right, maybe they learn that from me. Maybe they learn from somebody else. But realistically, kids do learn a lot from us, and it's important for us to be careful because he when Paul makes this statement, I believe God. I trust God. Verse twenty five is wherefore sirs be of good cheer, for I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me. Others are watching. We've got to be careful. So trials give opportunity for others to know, to know what well one to know about a relationship. We know the difference between those two phrases, religion versus relationship. Well, relationship is not an act of things that I have to do in order to please God. Relationship means that there's growth. So just read some thoughts here. I lost my point here.

54:45 It is when you rejoice and in your trial and rely on the promises of God, others will observe the difference because you have God in the picture who is more than able to help you. Trials may bring struggles, but trials also show relationship independence. So like when we go through trials, my wife and I, our relationship together is seen by our kids. And if they see us fighting, if they see one say something like Okay, I believe God and the other one say, well, I don't know. I gotta work harder to provide, and they see some contention in what we believe what we do, maybe contentions between us. Our kids are going to learn from that.

55:26 We have to be very careful to raise them in the nurture and ammonition of the Lord. Well in our life. You can raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord as much as you want. But they're born sinners with a sinful nature, and they will sin because that's what they are born to do. To quote Lady Gaga, they were born this way, okay, oh man. They were literally born sinners. They come from the womb sinning. They don't become sinners because they sin. They sin because they are sinners from conception. That's what they do. There's a very Pelagian idea. And I don't even know what it has anything this has to do with parents and kids and learning, and I don't know what any of this has to do with X twenty seven. I'm losing my mind here.

56:19 Wife as Christians as a church with Crimson Abman a Baptist church. When we go through trials, which we will, so if you have not gone through one lately, maybe there's one coming. What we do through those trials gives an opportunity for other people to see and they can trust. But not only do they see that we have there's certain looks, a certain attitude, but they see it as a relationship, means as a depth kind of like just when someone's growing up. Okay, look it's fifty six minutes. I don't. I mean, we can try to finish it. I don't. I this is just it's so so far removed from Acts twenty seven. Even know how this sermon is entitled Acts twenty seven. I really don't. It's not anything to do with X twenty seven. He's reading verses and in saying, I don't even know what the stuff he's saying has anything to do with X twenty seven. He's trying to find some correlation. I don't get it in any way.

57:16 I don't get it hermoneutically, I don't get it theologically. Let me just go through some of the problems AI pointed out with this sermon. These are errors and historical or textual accuracy that misrepresent the actual events of X twenty seven. Number one, misrepresenting the storm the nature of the storm. The preacher equates the storm and everybody, remember an acts twenty seven. If we can go back here, remember the storm or the win. Your rock Ladan or you rock lud On right, remember that wind, you rock Ladan Well, AI says, if I can get back up here, I can get back up here. Here we go. The preacher equates the storm Eurocladan to general life struggles, making it sound like the storm was just a difficult time in life. Factually incorrect. Eurocladan was a specific, historically documented Mediterranean hurricane force win that frequently caused shipwrecks. It was not a symbolic storm or a generic difficult season of life.

58:20 It was an actual weather event that threatened real lives. B Incorrect implications about Paul's leadership role. The preacher implies that Paul took command of the ship and was its leader. Paul was a prisoner, not a ship captain or crew member. His role in speaking up wasn't about leadership, but about delivering divine revelation. The centurion never handed control of the ship to Paul. He simply respected his words after seeing his wisdom. See Oversteading the danger to Paul's life, the preacher claims that Paul's life was at risk because of the storm, as though he was uncertain about his survival. Factually incorrect. Paul had already been told in Next twenty three to eleven that he would make it to Rome. The storm was not a threat to Paul's ultimate mission, even if it was terrifying for others. Logical errors there are flaws and reasoning that lead to false conclusions. Assuming a descriptive event is a universal prescription, the preacher state that Paul provides an example for all Christians on how to handle storms in life. A logical fallacy category error Acts twenty seven is descriptive telling what happened, not prescriptive, giving commands or principles to follow. Nowhere in the text, As Luke says, this is how you handle difficulties. The passage is about God's providence and assuring Paul reaches Rome.

59:34 False equivalence between Paul's storms and life's problems. The preacher compares the ship's storm to modern personal struggles, financial issues, emotional struggles, job loss, etc. A logical fallacy, false equivalence. The storm was not a metaphor for trials, It was an actual physical event. Paul's response was based on divine revelation. He knew the outcome. Modern believers do not get angelic visits guaranteeing their safety. See over Generalizing Paul's experience. The preacher implies that Paul's survival means that God will always rescue believers from their storms. Logical fallacy, hasty generalization. Paul's survival was specific to God's plan for him to reach Rome Acts twenty three to eleven. Many faithful, faithful believers die in hardships. This passage does not promise physical deliverance to all Christians. Hermeneutical errors. These are flaws interpreting the text leading to misapplication and mis representation, allegorizing a historical narrative without textual justification. The preacher spiritualizes the storm, the storm, the ship, and actions of Paul, turning them into symbols hermaeutical error, forcing allegory into a historical narrative. There is no indication in the text that the storm represents personal struggles.

1:00:48 The ship does not represent the church or faith. The storm is not a metaphor for life's challenges. It was a literal event. Ignoring the theological purpose of Acts, the sermon misses the main purpose of Acts twenty, God's sovereignty and fulfilling his promise that Paul would reach roam. God's providence in protecting Paul and his companions, ensuring his mission continues. Hermanutical error is Jesus reading meaning into the text instead of teaching what Luke actually wrote. The preacher imposes a modern self help interpretation, applying Paul's angelic principle as a universal are. Applying Paul's angelic revelation as a universal principle, the preacher treats Paul's angelic visitation as a model for how all believers should trust God in trials hermanutical error, failure to distinguish between special revelation and normative Christian experience.

1:01:38 Paul received a direct divine revelation from an angel. Christians today do not receive the same kind of revelation. Faith is not about expecting angelic reassurances, but trusting God's written word. The final verdict a distorted, misleading interpretation. And then it tells me, gives me a list of all the things that are false. And then AI asked me, would you like me to give you an exogetically sound interpretation of Acts twenty seven? That is embarrassing? I give a sermon to AI. AI's like, this thing is littered with factual errors, hermeneutical errors, logical errors. Would you like me? AI? Volunteers, would you like me to give you an exogetically sound interpretation of Acts twenty seven? AIS like, do you want me to give you an exogetically sound one? Because you human beings can't do it? Humans can't. AI's like, hey, I can help you out here. If that's what you're turning to to understand X twenty seven, it's not exogetically sound.

1:02:41 I can give you an exogetically sound study of Acts twenty seven. AI can not sermons. No AI can. This goes right back to our entire discussion about artificial intelligence. This entire year. I don't even know what to say. Acts twenty seven has turned into us self help sermon with some just things that just don't even make sense. Well, we'll try to find a good stopping point. We'll stop up. They see more in life, but they also see some depth in life. They see the true depth that God cares for them. God will provide for them. And God has a purpose for the trial that we would grow closer to him, to reflect his glory, to become into the image of Christ. There's a purpose for all these things.

1:03:31 God wants to do something through us sometimes or first before you knew things through us, He has to do some things in us, and that's what trials are doing. So verse, Hey, God wants to do things through us, but first he has to do something in us, and that's what trials Arefore. See, the reason you're beaten, and the reason you're sexually molested, and the reason you were raped, and the reason your mother died and the reason your child was murder is because see, God just needs to do some things in you. Because I can't do anything through you. Into it, he does something. And that's what trials are for. Say all those horrible trials. Hey, it's good. Now God can do something through you. I mean, yeah, your child is dead. Yeah, your child was killed by a drug driver. Yeah you were you have a terminal cancer, yeah your child was. Hey, hey, it's all good news. Though, It's all good news because now God can do something through you because He had to do something in you. First, do we hear what we actually say in church? Do we actually ever think about what we say is christian Is Christianity really only for people who were born in a good family, a loving mother and a caring father, and they loved each other. And you came home. There was a white picket fence. There was two dogs, and they say, welcome home, son. Here's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Sandwich. We cut off the crust. And then later we'll oh, we'll go out on the lake and

1:05:02 our big boat and you can do your homework there. We love you, son. It's not for anybody else, because I guess anyone else. You go home and you get you know, tied up and burn with cigarettes. Hey hey, hey, just remember God. God can't do anything through you until he does something in you. Well wait a minute. That kid over there, never beaten, never molested, never, but hey, but well, God didn't need to do anything in him because he was already good. I don't even understand how all of this works. Christianity just says things, We just throw this stuff out. Nobody ever stops to go wait a minute. The implications here are staggering on how that works.

1:05:49 I know people say, well, you always use extreme examples. Well, okay, maybe maybe you. I will be willing to take that criticism. But you know, you also don't know my life. A lot of times the things I say literally comes from my life, So don't tell me that my examples are always extreme. My mother died, my father died. I wasn't even living at home when my mother died because of the abuse that I was suffering. He said, come on, now, I think the things that happened. Yeah, I could go on a lot of things that's happened to me. So sometimes my examples may seem extreme, but sometimes they come from very personal experience or things I literally witnessed. And Saul and other people's lives.

1:06:35 Twenty five I read that he believed God, and verse twenty six he says this, howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country, So so that we're going to come to a certain island. Well, here's this island. So they were coming to a certain country. And they sounded verse twenty eight and found at twenty fathoms. And when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found at fifteen fathoms. And then, fearing less we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four acres out of the stern and wished for the day. So they're hoping that things would get better. They're waiting for that day. But Paul said, we're gonna go to an island.

1:07:16 They're seeing some things happen. Can we say, just trust God. He will provide. But we have to stay faithful because when we fail, what we're doing ultimately is we're not reflecting the character of Christ where we're supposed to. He never fails, So we have to trust him and rely upon him, not our own strength. And other people who are watching might see us being faithful, and they see the character of God displayed in our life. That is a tremendous gift. There is a treasure that God would use us to display his characters. What does any of that have to do with the text, literally, what does any of that have to. Do with. I don't understand. And let me make this very clear, and make it very clear. I already said this person is young. I would have probably preached the sermon the exact same way for a good portion of my Christian life.

1:08:09 I am not in any way criticizing this person. I am criticizing Christianity in general for how these storm narratives are handled by preacher after preacher, whether they've been preaching for two years, five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, church after church after church after church. I've got the study guide right here on how to weather the storms of life, where they're going to do the exact same nonsense with this text of scripture and all the others. So I'm my criticisms is not directed at this sermon. It's in Christianity in general. If anyone misinterprets that you're misunderstanding this sermon, just happened to be what showed up on pocket Casts, a podcasting app. I got the notification.

1:08:49 That's what led to this, all right, that's what led to this. I was minding my own business, get the notification from pocket Cast. Look it's ACTS twenty seven. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. All right, we we've been talking about this, So I'm simply reviewing this because it fits perfectly for what we're talking about. I did not listen to it in advance. Now, you say, but you knew it was going to be probably bad. I knew it was going to be probably bad because if I pick any sermon on X twenty seven, it's probably going to be bad because everyone does this to the text. We're already over an hour. I'll just let it go a little little. I don't even know what I can't say. See, this is not one of a situation. I'm like, well, that's an interesting interpretation of X twenty seven. Huh. I never thought about that. Okay, I've never h I mean, the only thing that's good that's come out of this is I corrected my saying tempetuous the correct way the way ever I was saying it. I now know tempetuous and I'm saying it the correct way. You're We talked about how to say your rock Ladan, your Roclodan, your rock Ladan. We figured that we know what you roc Ladan is. We know it's a severe story. Okay, we know all right, So I guess there were some factual things we figured out. I don't even know what we accomplished in.

1:10:07 This character to other people. I love that truth. That is a great privilege and honor see relationship depth in our life and what we do. Somebody in the congregation was getting ready to say something. I'm curious what that we're getting ready to say. Somebody was getting ready to say something. He just it seems like he just goes on, he ignores it. I'd love to know what someone in the congregation was about to say. I mean, because it's they have a miracle going on there because everyone gets along. So but it would be interesting to know what that person was saying, because maybe they just you're getting ready to throw out some interpretation. I don't even know what's happening in this sermon, and.

1:10:48 They get to see the importance of the reliance upon God when non believer goes through a trial, he has no one else to turn to but himself or the help of men. But we as believers, have the greatest source of help available, the Lord himself. When we rely on the Lord for grace, strength and wisdom in our trial and trust in His purpose for it, others have an opportunity to see the significance of full dependence on the God of our faith, the God of all creation. When we go through struggles and trials, we see God is faithful. We know God is faithful, but others can see God's faithfulness and the life that he gives to us. We're given this life and we're supposed to steward it carefully.

1:11:28 We're stewart the manfold grace of God, the ministry of reconciliation, the things we're called to do as believers. But when we go through trials, that stewardship doesn't go away. We're still to steward the life that God's given to us, and it is a great gift because other people can see that we rely on God and God will always provide. Does he provide when we don't rely on him? Yes, he still provides for us, but he does not get the glory like he wants to get We want to give him the glory through those trials. So so God will always provide, whether you trust in him or don't trust in him. And hey, as Christians, we can handle trials far better than lost people because we have God, and God gives us strength and he gives us this and he does this. So Christians should always handle trials better than lost people. Okay, sure, yeah, yeah, okay, that's the way. That's why Christian marriages fall apart. That's why church is split. Okay, all right, oh man, okay, And none of that has anything to do with X twenty seven. Not a thing. Not a thing.

1:12:42 There's a hymn. I think I'm gonna go ahead and just read a small portion of it. I'm just gonna read the first part. Tis. I'm just gonna stop. I'm just gonna stop. I don't even know what to do. I don't even know what to say. I mean, when Ai points out how many total errors here in this sermon? Did Ai point out? Hang on? Let me see here, let me count hang on one two, so three, three, factual errors four five, six, So I think it's like three. I think it gave me.

1:13:24 Let me look here, I'm just trying to quit. Three factual errors, three logical errors, three hermeneutical errors, so nine errors that was labeled egregious. In fact, it was so bad that at the end it says, hey, would you like me to give you a faithful, exogetically sound study of Acts twenty seven? AI? After reviewing the sermon, AI was like, this is so bad. Do you want me to give you a faithful exegetical summary our study? That that that just drives me insane.

1:14:04 But it's once again just demonstrating that when we put AI versus sermons, AI does can do better. I mean, AI can see all of the problems instantaneously. Now, if I give this AI this message, it's probably going to tell me that tempetuous that you stated it incorrectly thirty seven different times. All right, I wish I could say something about Acts twenty seven that I that would be profound. I can't, Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what to do with this other than this is I guess that. I guess maybe maybe I can do this. Why, I mean, I know, I kind of it was my own fault that I walked into this, because again, the original goal was to say, hey, here's this Bible study guide. Go look at it everyone. But when I started looking at it, I realize, oh no, this is it's going to look at seven different storm narratives in the Bible. I'm going to turn these into storms about the storms of life.

1:15:01 Oh boy, I have to deal with this. So here we are. I didn't know X twenty seven was. I mean, I should have known it was going to turn into who knows how many episodes. I don't think we're going to do any more reviews, right these two reviews have been painful. They've been painful, so there's no point in doing any more reviews. So I guess what we'll do. Maybe I don't know next time. Maybe we'll just look at the study guide. We'll just go through the study guide, and then after we do the study guide, then I'll do my part. I turned AX twenty seven into a narrative, like a I'm going to do it as a narrative, kind of like I've been doing the Salem Witch Trials. I'm going to read it as a narrative just so that you get the flow of the story. Then well, then we'll do an observational outline of acts twenty seven, and then I think that'll be it. I mean, I could do an exegetical study, but by by the time we do the observational and the narrative, I think, well, we're going to have X twenty seven. But you guys know the story now pretty good after two sermons on it?

1:15:57 Well I do, do you? I don't know, go all right, seventy six minutes. That was painful, painful, painful, painful, painful, painful. That really was. But I man, it's just so frustrating. We watched this take place in Isaiah chapter forty Isaiah chapter forty one. We're gonna watch it take place with Isaiah forty two, forty three, forty four, forty five. I don't get. I just don't understand. Well, I guess I do understand. I've said it before. Sermons are the enemy to understanding the Bible. Sermons are the enemy to understanding the Bible. They really are, Because yeah, yeah, all right, I'm gonna look here, just to make sure a couple of things hang on. Yeah, thank to all of those who tuned in, Thank you so very much. I wish I knew what else to say, but yeah, there we got. Man, it's just so frustrating. It really is frustrating. But this is what happens when you have your notifications turned on all your podcasting apps. This is what happens. Because yesterday I saw that notification Acts twenty seven, I'm like, oh, well, I got to review it. I got to review it.

1:17:13 So we're not going to do any more reviews. Next episode, Well, the next time we talk about this, well, I got other things. We're working on, the Salem witch trials, all the other things. What we'll do is we'll look at the study guide and what it says about X twenty seven, which is going to be a disaster, just like the sermons have been, and then we'll go we'll do I think we'll look at X twenty seven. I'll do it in a narrative form, and then we'll do the observational outline of ACX twenty seven. And if you would like to do your own observational outline, do that. Just remember an observational outline. That's the way outlines should be done. That means you're outlining everything in Acts twenty seven observationally. You're not doing offering any interpretation. There's no interpretation happening.

1:17:55 You're just observing. You cannot interpret until you do observation. The quality of your interpretation depends on the quality of your observation. Anytime you study the Bible, you always start with an observational outline. You don't try to interpret anything. You've got to observe everything that is there. What is it actually saying, what is actually going on, who's actually being spoken to. Everybody wants to run to interpretation. Well, actually worse, everybody just runs to application, and then they start applying things that don't apply to us. Acts twenty seven is not about us. It's about a very specific storm and a very specific situation where Paul was given very specific divine revelation about that specific situation. No taking this and making it about us. It's just absolutely a disaster, and it's never going to stop. Look I look, I've been yelling and screaming about this stuff for twenty five years.

1:18:53 It's never go thirty years, ever, how many years it's been going. I've been griping about this forever, and it's never going to go away. It's this is just the way. This is what Christians want, This is what churches want, This is what churches expect those of us who are opposed to the way tip. Typically the text is handled, we're always we're never going to be accepted and we're always going to be on the outside. And that's okay, that's okay, and that's why you can't really do much about this in church, But in a podcast you can, right. I mean, people may stop listening, so what right, so what? But in a church you end up leading to a church split, everyone leaving, and then the church falls apart.

1:19:38 So in a podcast, people hit stop, close out, delete. There may send a mean comment, but I mean, like, okay, whoa you don't like me? Oh no, please don't go. I mean, like, you know what I'm saying, Like, it doesn't It's like and at church you're like, oh no, that just takes away a part of the income that we need. Oh no, that's fewer people here. Okay. Yeah. But in a podcast, unless you're you are doing the podcast and it's you're oh it's your in sole means of income. Well then other than that, yeah, I mean, you're you're pretty, it doesn't really matter. So yeah, and I know I bring up issues that take people off.

1:20:22 I guess see. I always hate when this when the sermon reviews go this way because at the end, I feel like I have to be apologetic and apologetic and apologetic. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, and I shouldn't have to be so apologetic. I mean, I I mean, you know you you have to critique, you have to you have to call for the text to be handled in a somewhat correct way. Right, So thanks for listening. We'll see what happens over I don't know whenever. The next time we're together, everyone have a great day. I give up. God bless