Pastor Allan Kircher
Shell Point Baptist Church
November 2, 2014
The Winds and Waves of life
***All Sermons are in condensed form****
Read…Phil. 4/Paul showing us how to be brave.
• Share a story/Bible/series being brave…..
• Learn best thru stories/Experiential learner
• Excited/potential for your life over next weeks
Thought you weren’t a courageous person but just didn’t know how/access/courage God planted inside of you.
• 2 Tim 1:7….
If you are a child of God it’s not right for you to feel intimidated by every bad report you hear………………
• Phil 4:6-7..be anxious for nothing/how you doing with that?
One/reasons were so anxious about what’s coming because were not thankful enough for what we already have.
• But in everything………
Paul says if all you ever pray about is what you need but you never stop and thank God for what you have you’ll always be anxious
• With thanksgiving….peace of God…….that’s what I want!....
• A peace the economy can’t take away……
• How many of you want v. 7 first have to have v. 6
• Be anxious for nothing. Tell someone.
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All of God’s children have some irrational anxiety Paul says.
• He wants/correct that in Phil. 4
• He says/some things you’re afraid/make no sense from heaven’s perspective
• Things causing you to shut down/paralyzing you
• senseless when you put it/context who God is in you
• He says I want you/train your heart/be anxious for nothing.
Come on get real Paul/preacher talk/watch CNN/world news…
• Paul says I’m prison bro/writing/after they beat/flogged me
• If your following after God’s purpose/got no reason anxious
• Anxious for nothing…..repeat.
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Greek word….anxious…Merimnate 17 times…..marinate…
• If/marinate/wrong thoughts/going/filled with fear…
• Merim(knot)te you get so knotted up with anxiety….
• Paul says do not be Merimate for anything….
• Don’t get tied up in knots about stuff.
But your saying, don’t we need to worry about some things concerned about some things. Yes, be concerned, no don’t worry
• That’s what Paul is saying/same word Merimate
• uses Phil. 2 Philippians letter to particular church
• Phil. 2 sent/ministry assoc. Timothy check/church/he can’t
• He describes timothy Phil 2:20…Genuine concern/Merimnate
Situations you deal with determines whether or not it is a genuine concern or a needless anxiety. Come on church
• Learn/discern/between a genuine concern/needless anxiety
• sometimes you can interpret/same event/both of those ways
• turn/genuine concern into/needless anxiety/way you approach it/Cause it’s the same word
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Sometimes you go thru a situation:
• deal with and handle it with strength/brave about it that’s/genuine concern
• All tied up in knots about something you can’t do much about anyway that’s a needless anxiety
• Here’s how you can do it…..be anxious for NOTHING…
• ain’t nothing but a thing…broken car.
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Be concerned about the state of your soul/your children’s soul/ God’s work in the world.
• Learn to look/things in your life….nothing but a thing
• Look what Paul says in Rom. 8:31…….things…..
• say it out loud…things
• If God is for us who…..gives me courage sometimes.
• When I feel opposed….God is on my side…
• If He’s not I’m in trouble.
Doesn’t matter what their saying about me it’s a matter of what God sees in me
• If He’s for me, who is against me doesn’t matter
• take a number I’ll still be standing
• You can have that confidence. It’s not cocky, it’s confidence.
• Next verse 32…..all things….skip 37…things
• v. 38-39….bankruptcy, joblessness, homelessness, addiction
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Be anxious for nothing……Do that this week….
• Shift over from needless anxiety to genuine concern.
• Another way to look at it……I’m anxious for nothing….
• That’s a good goal to have.
• But isn’t it also a statement of reality.
• How many times have we’ve been anxious for nothing.
• Don’t you wish we could have all those moments back…..
• Of worrying about something that never happened?
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.
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How many times have you said, “All that was for nothing”
• When I Go away……
• So one day Jesus wants to go on a trip. Mark 4:35-36
• …..other side…Jesus been preaching all day
• Parable sower/soils…mustard seed….
• Jesus preached all day tired tells Peter let’s get out of here.
In the boat, other boats, don’t hear about them, but Mark is giving us an eyewitness account
Mark/way he wrote his gospel writes down what Peter says/why Mark’s gospel reads a little faster
• peter gets right to the point all about action
• eyewitness account/disciples being anxious for nothing.
v. 37….notorious for storms….You ever felt nearly swamped?
• I’m still showing up but barely.
• I’m making it and smiling/nobody knows what’s behind smile
• Nobody knows what I’m thinking things I think about I just want to run away from it all
• v. 38….sleeping in the stern…Bible’s sense of humor
• Remember Jonah 1:5-6 storm came upon ship
• Jonah running from God
• sometimes God will send the storm to you to reroute you
• better thank God/some/storms he sends
• If He didn’t send/storm you/have ended up/wrong place
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Jonah 1:5-6…I’m thinkin Jonah/sleeping cause/complacent
• didn’t want to pursue God’s purpose
• Jesus/sleeping cause he was confident
• knew I’m right were God wants me to be
• stands to reason there’s no reason for me/get anxious now
• So I might as well get some beauty sleep
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In some of our lives, some winds are blowing
• Some waves are breaking, things/uncertainties happening
• Difficulties are facing and you don’t know what to do.
• Jesus seems/sleep/stern/you wonder
• “Don’t you care aren’t you the one who’s supposed to keep my life out of trouble.
• But you told me to get in/boat.
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I have this theory Jesus/tells/get in the boat/storm hits.
• Anybody else you would wonder/Jesus created world
• Knows/weather pattern/he sent them into a storm
Sometimes we create our own storms
• Some waves are God ordained in our lives.
• Some waves are waves we make
How can:
• we expect God/give us peace/we create our own anxiety
• He give you peace/situation you are currently creating.
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We create waves in our lives/words we speak.
• Have you ever made unnecessary waves with your words.
• Words out of anger/go back and fix.
• Words of doubt/frame your day/negativity/you wonder why?
• We create choppy conditions/morning/way we get up talking
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We create waves by our approach….it not what were going thru it’s the way were going thru it what were going thru.
• Some/live/no margin so were so nervous/it’s our approach
Anxious/money cause we spend too much/don’t make enough.
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Wrong voices can create unnecessary waves and anxiety.
• News today/really need/understand/conflicts/every country?
• No wonder your Merimnate….marinating/wrong voices.
• I listen to depression/people I hang out with are depressing.
• I’m making my own waves
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Sometimes the anxiety we feel when we awake is because we don’t expect any battles that day so we feel it is a surprise attack when it hits us.
• Why are you surprised God said put on/full armor of God.
• Take up/helmet/shield/sword/you got/get dressed for battle
• Don’t’ be surprised expect some storms.
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Master wave maker in our souls—shame
• Walk around anxious cause your hiding stuff
• Wonder when/they going to find out about my secret
• your tormented by something God already forgave
• difference conviction/shame
Conviction is good it shows you what to fix and it gives you God’s power to help fix it
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• So they wake Jesus…don’t you care if we die.
• Mark 4:39…3 words then/wind died down…completely calm.
• v. 40….why are you so afraid
• don’t you know when I tell you were going to get to the other side were going to get to the other side.
• V. 41….if you thought they were sacred of the storm….
• three words he could shut it off like a shower head.
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When Jesus is sleeping in the stern easy to deduce
• “were going to die” “he doesn’t care”
• I’m never going get another boyfriend/job/ better job/
• My husband never going to change/….
• They eventually got to the other side.
We wonder why doesn’t God do more of all the chaos in our lives.
• Why doesn’t he fix situation before they get that bad?
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We celebrate when God heals someone of cancer but silently we wonder why they had cancer to begin with
• I don’t think Jesus was upset when they woke him up
• I think he wanted them to wake him up
• It was the way they woke him up, “you must not care.”
• In everything it says in Phil.
• You’re supposed to ask God he wants you too.
• Lord I need you help me with this…..
• But don’t assume he doesn’t care. …
• I believe Jesus put them/storm not/test them but/teach..
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Because the real waves that take you down are not out there there the ones in here.
• You think it’s/circumstances making you anxious it’s not
• you think it’s the other persons reactions it’s not
• How do I know this James 1:6…
• That’s why God lets me experience winds/waves in my life
• So He can teach me/calm/winds/waves within…
• the real waves are within.
• You’ll never/peace till you can speak peace/waves within.
• Jesus said, be still and the waves stood….now it’s your turn.
• What I just did/sea/what I want you do/your anxious heart
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Next time/winds of what if start blowing/negativity start blowing….
• I want you to get up from/stern/ship
• Hold up your hand and say quiet be still…
To learn/calm/waves within you can learn to ride/waves without
• We’re going to go deeper into this teaching next week
• You think the problem is God won’t calm the waves without
• Real problem is you haven’t learned to calm/waves within.
• Learn to be peace keepers in our soul.
