INTRODUCTION

R&B: The Score – The Fugees
Alternative: Odelay – Beck, Down on the Upside – Soundgarden
Pop: Spice – Spice Girls

Contemporary Christian:
Take Me To Your Leader – Newsboys
Brown – P.O.D.
Skillet – Skillet

Ps. 107:29 – “He made the storm be still”
Jer. 23:19 – “The storm of the LORD”

Mark 4:35-41 – “On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” 41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Mk. 4:1 – “Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.”

vs.35-36 – “On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.”

“Boat,” Gk. πλοῖον (ploion), “fishing boat”

v.37 – “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.”

v.38 – “But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’”

Ps. 4:8
Pr. 3:24

“Teacher,” διδάσκαλος (didaskalos), simply a teacher

v.39 – “And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.”

Mk. 1:25, φιμόω (phimoō), “to muzzle”

v.39, literally: “Silent! Be muzzled!”

Job 28:25
Amos 4:13 – “For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!”

Psalm 107:23-27 – “Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters; 24 they saw the deeds of the LORD, his wondrous works in the deep. 25 For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea. 26 They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight; 27 they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits’ end.”

Psalm 107:28 – “Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.”
Psalm 107:29 – “He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.”
Psalm 107:30 – “Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.”

v.41 – “And they were filled with great fear.”

John 1:3
John 1:10
Colossians 1:16

Three applications
1. The presence of fear in a circumstance reveals the absence of trust in the Lord.

2. Saying “He is Lord” is not the same as submitting to Him as Lord.

3. Creation’s obedience to the Lordship of Jesus highlights the severity of my disobedience.