"THE PENDING STORM".......................(Mark 4:33-41)

It is important to note that BEFORE boarded the ship that day to sail the sea, they spent time ALONE WITH JESUS-(v.34)...for they had no idea what was around the corner!

The websters dictionary defines the word STORM as "an atmospheric disturbance".  In the near 15 years I have pastored at Mt. Nebo I can vouch for the "disturbances" encountered in the lives of our membership!-(some of those storms have been CHANGE over the last 8 years, FAMILY, JOB, PERSONAL TEMPTATIONS, FINANCIAL STORMS.

It has been determined by our meterologists that the worst storms come in the dark of night-(v.35)!  The disciples wondered how he could silently sleep while their world was being torn apart....just remember, "He may be alseep, but at least he is alive!  And BECAUSE HE LIVES I CAN FACE TOMORROW!"  Remember, JESUS was in the "HINDER PART OF THE SHIP"...meaning "HE IS THE HELMSMAN WHO IS IN CONTROL OF THE VESSEL!!!"   Jesus had told them "WE ARE GOING TO THE OTHER SIDE"...and there was no "IF" about it!-(CHILD OF GOD, you ARE going to make it!!!)

*Every storm has varying levels of influence that come together to make it what it is:
(a)-THE OUTER PARAMETER-(wind)    (*John had been beheaded, James would soon die with a sword as the 1st martyr among the apostles!)
(b)-THE INNER PARAMETER-(waves)   (Churches are taking on water!)(There were also other little ships out there struggling also!)(v.36)(CRUISE SHIP)

(c)-THE DIVINE PARAMETER-(peace be still!)  
Only Jesus Christ can turn a GREAT STORM into a GREAT CALM!  The Lord has a way of SMOOTHING OUT THINGS THAT ARE DISTURBED!!!
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(1)-THE REASON FOR THE STORM-(v.38)---(restless servants!)
He was asleep on a pillow, but the storm had took sleep from them!  You and I would never call on Jesus to WAKE UP if our vessel never shook from time to time!  (v.37-"the waves BEAT INTOTHE SHIP so that it was NOW FULL")-Just like a typical baptist, they all waited until they were going down before they called on God for help!

(2)-THE RESPONSE TO THE STORM-(v.39)---(a risen saviour!)
We are told that the answer to every wave, the howling wind, and sinking ship was the fact that "HE AROSE"!  Think of every murdering, adulterous, lying, theiving, foolish act ever commited on earth (which would number in the Trillion-Quadrillion's since Adam and Eve)!.....Jesus died and rose again to calm the pending judgement of God on the human race!  The point is, the disciples were just helpless victims tossed in the middle of lifes sea....but HE AROSE and changed all of that forever!

(3)-THE RESULTS OF THE STORM-(v.39)---(a rested sea!)
Never was it heard that weather systems could be controlled instantly by a human voice!  Our scientists spend billions of dollars trying to alter nature to no avail.....but Christ simply whispers PEACE into the storm, and it listens to him!!!

Maybe you've tried everything to get your boat to stand up to the storm in your life....but I'm here to tell you that STORMS DON'T LISTEN TO SINNERS!  But they will calm down under the sound of HIS VOICE!