1 00:00:00,000 –> 00:00:04,400 I’d be grateful if you’d turn in your Bibles to Luke’s gospel in chapter 8, as we continue 2 00:00:04,400 –> 00:00:10,020 our series Faith with Questions, dealing with the darkness of doubt. 3 00:00:10,020 –> 00:00:15,480 We’ve been discovering over these weeks that doubt grows for a variety of different reasons, 4 00:00:15,480 –> 00:00:21,100 and if we can identify the root cause of a particular doubt we will be in a position 5 00:00:21,100 –> 00:00:23,139 to discover the remedy. 6 00:00:23,139 –> 00:00:28,139 And we’ve seen, for example, that some doubts have their root in the mind, and therefore 7 00:00:28,219 –> 00:00:33,639 that they can only be addressed by a deeper investigation of the faith. 8 00:00:33,639 –> 00:00:39,020 Other doubts have their root in the fact that a person has never really made a clear, decisive 9 00:00:39,020 –> 00:00:44,240 commitment to Jesus Christ, that one thing one day, and another thing the next. 10 00:00:44,240 –> 00:00:51,080 Another variety of doubt we discovered arises from the distorted pictures of God. 11 00:00:51,080 –> 00:00:56,580 And today we’re going to look at the fifth variety of doubt, and let me promise you, 12 00:00:56,720 –> 00:00:59,680 this one cannot be addressed in the classroom. 13 00:00:59,680 –> 00:01:02,380 It’s very different. 14 00:01:02,380 –> 00:01:07,459 Very important for us to understand where our difficulties are arising from. 15 00:01:07,459 –> 00:01:14,459 For only when we understand their root are we going to be able to grasp the prescription. 16 00:01:14,459 –> 00:01:21,459 I want us to focus in this morning on a question that Jesus asked, and a question indeed that 17 00:01:22,480 –> 00:01:24,800 he asks of us today. 18 00:01:24,800 –> 00:01:29,300 Most of us have many questions that we would like to ask of God or of Christ if we had 19 00:01:29,300 –> 00:01:32,000 the opportunity to speak with him directly face-to-face. 20 00:01:32,000 –> 00:01:38,379 There are many questions that people ask Jesus that are recorded in the Gospels. 21 00:01:38,379 –> 00:01:44,500 But I want us to focus our attention on a question that he wants to ask you, and I want 22 00:01:44,500 –> 00:01:49,980 us to hear it as a question that Christ has for each of us personally today. 23 00:01:49,980 –> 00:01:54,220 You found it right in the middle of this well-known story that we’ve read, the story of the storm 24 00:01:54,320 –> 00:01:55,320 in the lake. 25 00:01:55,320 –> 00:01:56,360 They are out on the lake. 26 00:01:56,360 –> 00:01:57,339 The storm blows up. 27 00:01:57,339 –> 00:02:02,699 Jesus rebukes the wind and the waves and then he asks them this great question, which you 28 00:02:02,699 –> 00:02:05,839 will see there in Luke 8 verse 25. 29 00:02:05,839 –> 00:02:12,220 Where is your faith? 30 00:02:12,220 –> 00:02:19,100 Now you can be sure that when Jesus takes time to ask you a question that he is probing 31 00:02:19,100 –> 00:02:23,679 into something of very fundamental importance. 32 00:02:23,679 –> 00:02:25,399 Where is your faith? 33 00:02:25,399 –> 00:02:31,080 It must have been wonderful for the disciples to be able to talk directly with Jesus, to 34 00:02:31,080 –> 00:02:36,419 share a lunch, catch a smile, look into his eyes. 35 00:02:36,419 –> 00:02:41,240 But there must have been moments when the directness of their experience of Jesus must 36 00:02:41,240 –> 00:02:45,559 have been quite uncomfortable and I have no doubt that this was one of these occasions. 37 00:02:45,559 –> 00:02:52,520 I mean can you imagine having breakfast with Jesus? 38 00:02:52,520 –> 00:02:53,520 Think of it! 39 00:02:53,539 –> 00:02:56,520 It might have been quails or Panera bread or some other place where you like to have 40 00:02:56,520 –> 00:02:57,520 breakfast. 41 00:02:57,520 –> 00:03:03,919 Imagine yourself with me for a moment sitting in a booth that’s familiar to you and looking 42 00:03:03,919 –> 00:03:10,360 across the table at Jesus physically present with you as he was with the disciples and 43 00:03:10,360 –> 00:03:16,240 he’s eating his scrambled eggs and you begin to talk. 44 00:03:16,240 –> 00:03:19,960 You tell him about your worries about your children. 45 00:03:19,960 –> 00:03:21,320 You tell him about your work. 46 00:03:21,320 –> 00:03:27,179 You say Jesus, this place is so dark these people are so spiritually blind. 47 00:03:27,179 –> 00:03:31,580 I don’t know that any of them will ever believe in you. 48 00:03:31,580 –> 00:03:35,039 You talk about the declining standards in our country. 49 00:03:35,039 –> 00:03:40,960 How the tide of this culture pulls so strongly against an authentic Christian life. 50 00:03:40,960 –> 00:03:43,539 And you talk about your own fears for the future. 51 00:03:43,539 –> 00:03:48,220 You don’t know what it holds and you’re grateful for the opportunity to tell him your 52 00:03:48,240 –> 00:03:52,779 fears, and he listens. 53 00:03:52,779 –> 00:03:56,419 And then, slowly he puts down his fork. 54 00:03:56,419 –> 00:04:03,839 And he looks right across the table, deep into your eyes, and he says, where is your 55 00:04:03,839 –> 00:04:05,800 faith. 56 00:04:05,800 –> 00:04:14,720 Now, Jesus’ questions is a reminder to us that it is possible to have faith and not 57 00:04:14,720 –> 00:04:17,220 to use it. 58 00:04:17,220 –> 00:04:21,059 Remember that Jesus is asking this question of disciples. 59 00:04:21,059 –> 00:04:23,500 They have left everything to follow Him. 60 00:04:23,500 –> 00:04:26,260 Admittedly, they are still at the early stages of discipleship. 61 00:04:26,260 –> 00:04:32,339 They have still a lot to learn about Jesus, but they are His disciples. 62 00:04:32,339 –> 00:04:36,140 The problem is not that they are without faith. 63 00:04:36,140 –> 00:04:40,980 The problem is that they are not using the faith that they have been given. 64 00:04:40,980 –> 00:04:46,380 Now, I need just to comment briefly on this because some of you who know Mark’s gospel 65 00:04:46,380 –> 00:04:51,480 will remember that Mark records this story with Jesus asking the question, have you 66 00:04:51,480 –> 00:04:53,420 no faith? 67 00:04:53,420 –> 00:05:00,160 And that’s rather like the situation where we walk into a store, do that with my sons 68 00:05:00,160 –> 00:05:04,420 and they see a CD and they say, dad, will you buy this for me? 69 00:05:04,420 –> 00:05:10,760 I say to them, have you no money? 70 00:05:10,760 –> 00:05:14,359 And what I mean by that is not that they don’t have any money. 71 00:05:14,359 –> 00:05:18,399 I mean by that precisely that they do have money because I’ve already given it to them. 72 00:05:18,399 –> 00:05:23,440 They get a perfectly decent allowance, and I’m saying to them, this is the time for you 73 00:05:23,440 –> 00:05:26,959 to use what you’ve already been given. 74 00:05:26,959 –> 00:05:28,959 So the question is the same question. 75 00:05:28,959 –> 00:05:30,320 It’s not a different question. 76 00:05:30,320 –> 00:05:32,019 Have you, have you no faith? 77 00:05:32,019 –> 00:05:33,779 Where is your faith? 78 00:05:33,779 –> 00:05:37,040 It’s basically saying you have something here. 79 00:05:37,040 –> 00:05:42,160 Why in all the world, aren’t you using it? 80 00:05:42,820 –> 00:05:45,600 Faith is a gift from God. 81 00:05:45,799 –> 00:05:47,519 It is not of ourselves. 82 00:05:47,519 –> 00:05:52,679 Paul tells us clearly in Ephesians 2 in verse 8, we receive it from him. 83 00:05:52,679 –> 00:05:58,799 It is a special work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer by which he has opened 84 00:05:58,799 –> 00:06:04,679 your eyes to the unique glory of who Jesus Christ is, your need of him and he has created 85 00:06:04,679 –> 00:06:08,279 within you the capacity to trust him. 86 00:06:08,279 –> 00:06:09,660 He’s given you a new heart. 87 00:06:09,660 –> 00:06:11,799 He’s taken away the heart of stone. 88 00:06:11,920 –> 00:06:13,859 He has given you a heart of flesh. 89 00:06:13,859 –> 00:06:15,959 He has put his Spirit within you. 90 00:06:15,959 –> 00:06:17,700 He has made you a new creation. 91 00:06:17,700 –> 00:06:19,540 You are born again. 92 00:06:19,540 –> 00:06:20,820 You have the gift of faith. 93 00:06:20,820 –> 00:06:26,299 All this is true of you if you are a Christian believer. 94 00:06:26,299 –> 00:06:32,040 But Jesus’ question makes it abundantly clear that it is possible for all this to have happened 95 00:06:32,040 –> 00:06:38,380 in your life, for you to have faith, but not for you to use it. 96 00:06:39,380 –> 00:06:45,380 Now, when Karen and I were engaged, we were given a rather beautiful coffee set. 97 00:06:45,380 –> 00:06:50,399 In fact when we saw it we thought, my goodness, this is a very valuable gift. 98 00:06:50,399 –> 00:06:52,700 This is beautiful. 99 00:06:52,700 –> 00:07:00,579 And so we said, you know, we must use this just for special occasions. 100 00:07:00,600 –> 00:07:10,160 And so when we were married and we set up home we put it in a glass display cabinet. 101 00:07:10,160 –> 00:07:13,920 And it’s been there for 22 years. 102 00:07:13,920 –> 00:07:20,320 I mean, we have used it, but I have to tell you we’ve not used it often. 103 00:07:20,320 –> 00:07:27,079 It’s beautiful and it stays in the glass display cabinet. 104 00:07:27,320 –> 00:07:33,619 Now, it is very easy for your faith to become like that. 105 00:07:33,619 –> 00:07:35,420 It is the gift of God to you. 106 00:07:35,420 –> 00:07:39,559 You say, this gift of faith, this is something valuable, this is something priceless, this 107 00:07:39,559 –> 00:07:41,480 is something eternal. 108 00:07:41,480 –> 00:07:49,140 And so what we do is we put it on display in the glass cabinet of our hearts. 109 00:07:49,140 –> 00:07:55,660 But it is rarely brought out and it is rarely actually used, and that’s at the very heart 110 00:07:55,720 –> 00:08:02,559 of Jesus’ question, where is your faith? 111 00:08:02,559 –> 00:08:08,420 Have you ever noticed how often Christians will testify to the fact that when they hit 112 00:08:08,420 –> 00:08:15,420 a time of crisis, their faith just grew exponentially. 113 00:08:15,779 –> 00:08:20,239 And if you asked the question, why is that that we hear that time and time and time again, 114 00:08:20,399 –> 00:08:27,359 let me suggest to you that the reason is that faith gets taken out of the glass cabinet 115 00:08:27,359 –> 00:08:34,239 and we find ourselves actually trusting Christ in a real-life crisis and suddenly, faith 116 00:08:34,239 –> 00:08:38,059 is not put on display but instead put to work. 117 00:08:38,059 –> 00:08:41,020 Now that’s the point of Jesus’ question. 118 00:08:41,020 –> 00:08:42,539 Where is your faith? 119 00:08:42,539 –> 00:08:46,640 You know me, you believe in me, you know that I am with you. 120 00:08:46,640 –> 00:08:49,059 Now you find yourself in a storm. 121 00:08:49,059 –> 00:08:54,820 Why are you not applying your faith to the particular difficulties of this situation? 122 00:08:54,820 –> 00:09:00,580 And I am suggesting to you from the scriptures this morning that if you do not apply your 123 00:09:00,580 –> 00:09:07,380 faith to the immediate challenges of your life then you will suffer from diminished 124 00:09:07,380 –> 00:09:14,039 growth and that is actually the root of many people’s doubts. 125 00:09:14,039 –> 00:09:17,640 Let me try and describe what it looks like. 126 00:09:17,659 –> 00:09:19,979 You have this faith for which you’re grateful and it’s well-polished. 127 00:09:19,979 –> 00:09:24,539 In fact, you polish it every Sunday. 128 00:09:24,539 –> 00:09:31,760 But then for the other six days of the week, you live in what you call the real world. 129 00:09:31,760 –> 00:09:40,219 The real world is the world of contracts, lawsuits, stock markets, diapers. 130 00:09:40,219 –> 00:09:42,179 Little league. 131 00:09:42,179 –> 00:09:43,500 The problem with mother-in-law. 132 00:09:44,500 –> 00:09:51,000 Homework, athletics, and who’s going with who to homecoming. 133 00:09:51,000 –> 00:09:54,400 Longliness, confusion, fear. 134 00:09:54,400 –> 00:09:58,380 And we say that’s the real world. 135 00:09:58,380 –> 00:10:08,080 Now, if you don’t apply your faith in that world, it will not be long before you find 136 00:10:08,080 –> 00:10:12,119 it difficult to see the relevance of faith to life. 137 00:10:12,119 –> 00:10:16,640 The problem isn’t that you’ve lost your faith, the problem is that you are not using your 138 00:10:16,640 –> 00:10:22,940 faith and there is only one place to use it and that is in the real world. 139 00:10:22,940 –> 00:10:26,820 Faith is, to use another analogy rather, like a muscle. 140 00:10:26,820 –> 00:10:32,440 If you exercise that muscle, it will grow and it will gain strength, but if you do not 141 00:10:32,440 –> 00:10:39,900 use that muscle it will atrophy and it will lose its strength, and the only place that 142 00:10:39,900 –> 00:10:44,500 you can use the muscle of faith is in what we call the real world. 143 00:10:44,500 –> 00:10:50,599 Some of us spend time every day exercising certain muscles and we want them to develop. 144 00:10:50,599 –> 00:10:55,500 We say, I haven’t run for a week and I can feel the difference. 145 00:10:55,500 –> 00:11:03,080 We say that, but I personally don’t say that, it’s a lot longer than a week, but if a week 146 00:11:04,000 –> 00:11:09,080 without exercising faith, you will notice that difference. 147 00:11:09,080 –> 00:11:15,239 And the longer you go without exercising faith in any tangible, practical way, the greater 148 00:11:15,239 –> 00:11:21,679 the danger that rather like a muscle that atrophies, you will forget how to use it altogether. 149 00:11:21,679 –> 00:11:28,020 And anyone’s who had a broken arm, or a broken leg or some such difficulty, and you have 150 00:11:28,659 –> 00:11:33,320 an injury in plaster cast or whatever, and then you found that it has been severely weakened 151 00:11:33,320 –> 00:11:39,960 when the plaster is taken off, you know what it is to go into physiotherapy and you need 152 00:11:39,960 –> 00:11:46,960 to work hard to rebuild the muscle that has been weakened by prolonged inactivity. 153 00:11:48,599 –> 00:11:55,159 The physiotherapist works with you to rebuild what has been lost through the simple lack 154 00:11:55,219 –> 00:12:00,159 of use, and that’s what I want us to explore from the Scriptures this morning for us to 155 00:12:00,159 –> 00:12:06,320 learn how to rebuild the strength of faith that has been weakened and has been drained 156 00:12:06,320 –> 00:12:11,119 by the simple lack of use. Where is your faith? 157 00:12:11,119 –> 00:12:15,659 Right now, I want us to see three things that arise from the Scriptures this morning. The 158 00:12:15,659 –> 00:12:22,659 first is that faith factors in the ability of God. Faith factors in the ability of God. 159 00:12:25,159 –> 00:12:31,000 Now, if you will glance back in your Bibles for just a moment, a few pages, you will see 160 00:12:31,000 –> 00:12:36,580 if you look back to Luke in chapter 4, that the disciples had already seen incredible 161 00:12:36,580 –> 00:12:41,940 demonstrations of the power of Christ. Just flicking through very quickly, if you look 162 00:12:41,940 –> 00:12:47,299 at Luke’s gospel, chapter 4 and verse 31, you’ll see there, there’s a story about how 163 00:12:47,299 –> 00:12:57,440 Jesus drove out a demon. He has authority even over the powers of darkness themself. 164 00:12:57,440 –> 00:13:04,280 Chapter 4 and verse 40, we find Jesus healing people who have all kinds of sickness, and 165 00:13:04,280 –> 00:13:10,700 every person, not just some, but everyone who was brought to him at this time was healed. 166 00:13:10,700 –> 00:13:18,059 Chapter 5 and verse 12, Jesus heals a leper, extraordinarily complex disease. 167 00:13:18,059 –> 00:13:22,760 Chapter 5 and verse 17, the wonderful story of Jesus healing the paralytic, this was the 168 00:13:22,760 –> 00:13:27,099 man who was dropped in through the roof by his four friends. 169 00:13:27,099 –> 00:13:32,559 And then if you go on to chapter 7, at the beginning you’ll find Jesus healing a centurion 170 00:13:32,559 –> 00:13:37,140 servant, this was an amazing miracle because Jesus didn’t even go to the man’s house to 171 00:13:37,260 –> 00:13:42,979 heal him, he simply spoke and when Jesus just speaks there’s a healing that takes place 172 00:13:42,979 –> 00:13:44,500 several miles down the road. 173 00:13:44,500 –> 00:13:46,260 An extraordinary event. 174 00:13:46,260 –> 00:13:52,460 Then most of all, chapter 7 and verse 11, Jesus comes to a town called Nain and as he 175 00:13:52,460 –> 00:13:54,659 arrives he meets a funeral procession. 176 00:13:54,659 –> 00:13:56,619 Can you imagine this? 177 00:13:56,619 –> 00:14:01,320 It’s the funeral of the only son of a widow and Jesus filled with compassion, stops the 178 00:14:01,880 –> 00:14:07,739 touches the coffin and this man gets out of the coffin. 179 00:14:07,739 –> 00:14:08,739 Incredible. 180 00:14:08,739 –> 00:14:15,039 Extraordinary miracle, revealing one of three occasions in the Gospels where Jesus raised 181 00:14:15,039 –> 00:14:17,679 a person from the dead. 182 00:14:17,679 –> 00:14:20,359 Now the disciples had seen this. 183 00:14:20,359 –> 00:14:24,080 The disciples were there on each of these occasions. 184 00:14:24,080 –> 00:14:32,599 They had seen then that Jesus has power over demons, Jesus has power over disease, and 185 00:14:32,599 –> 00:14:37,320 Jesus has power even over death. 186 00:14:37,320 –> 00:14:43,919 They have seen a revelation of the unique glory of the Lord. 187 00:14:43,919 –> 00:14:47,760 They have seen the ability of God. 188 00:14:47,760 –> 00:14:52,679 Now in Chapter 8, the story we’ve come to today, they’re on a boat, they’re on a lake, 189 00:14:52,679 –> 00:14:59,679 they’re in a storm, and the problem is that although they have seen the ability of Jesus 190 00:14:59,679 –> 00:15:06,760 Christ, His power has been incredibly and repeatedly revealed to them. 191 00:15:06,760 –> 00:15:12,320 They are unable to make the connection between the power of Christ on the one hand and the 192 00:15:12,320 –> 00:15:16,479 situation they find themselves in on the other. 193 00:15:16,479 –> 00:15:18,900 They can’t bring the two together. 194 00:15:18,900 –> 00:15:24,020 So although they know about the power of Jesus Christ, they look at the situation of the 195 00:15:24,020 –> 00:15:28,320 storm and they evaluate it in purely secular terms. 196 00:15:28,320 –> 00:15:33,619 We’re in a storm, big storms, boats go down, we drown. 197 00:15:33,619 –> 00:15:35,299 That’s all they could see. 198 00:15:35,299 –> 00:15:37,299 And so they panic. 199 00:15:37,299 –> 00:15:44,440 And Jesus says, where is your faith? 200 00:15:44,440 –> 00:15:47,140 You’ve seen what I can do about demons. 201 00:15:47,559 –> 00:15:50,900 You’ve seen what I can do about disease. 202 00:15:50,900 –> 00:15:56,280 You’ve seen what I can do in the face of death. 203 00:15:56,280 –> 00:16:00,820 And now you’re in a crisis and you’re panicking. 204 00:16:00,820 –> 00:16:08,119 Why could you not factor into the crisis that you’re facing now, what you already know about 205 00:16:08,119 –> 00:16:10,059 what I can do. 206 00:16:10,059 –> 00:16:13,640 Where is your faith? 207 00:16:14,080 –> 00:16:19,260 Now here’s my very practical question for application this morning at this point, where 208 00:16:19,260 –> 00:16:21,940 do you need to exercise faith in God? 209 00:16:21,940 –> 00:16:27,260 Where do you need to factor in the ability of God? 210 00:16:27,260 –> 00:16:28,599 Is it loneliness? 211 00:16:28,599 –> 00:16:31,760 Is that the big storm for you? 212 00:16:31,760 –> 00:16:35,700 Is it the spiritual blindness of some members of your family? 213 00:16:35,700 –> 00:16:36,820 Is it a health issue? 214 00:16:36,820 –> 00:16:39,780 Is it to do with marriage? 215 00:16:39,780 –> 00:16:42,659 Is it the battle to live an authentic Christian life? 216 00:16:42,700 –> 00:16:46,380 Is it the fear of being different? 217 00:16:46,380 –> 00:16:52,820 What’s the big battle for you where you need to factor in what you know about the ability 218 00:16:52,820 –> 00:16:53,820 of God? 219 00:16:53,820 –> 00:16:58,380 Because the danger is that when we look at the crisis we’re facing in what we call the 220 00:16:58,380 –> 00:17:03,340 real world, we evaluate it in purely secular terms. 221 00:17:03,340 –> 00:17:07,599 We don’t connect what we know about Jesus to this situation. 222 00:17:08,040 –> 00:17:11,520 And that’s why we go around saying, you know, there’s no hope. 223 00:17:11,520 –> 00:17:14,280 It’s beyond what I can do. 224 00:17:14,280 –> 00:17:16,439 I can’t see any way out. 225 00:17:16,439 –> 00:17:19,280 I just don’t have the strength. 226 00:17:19,280 –> 00:17:24,500 Have you factored in the ability of God? 227 00:17:24,500 –> 00:17:33,479 For the living God is the God of the impossible situation. 228 00:17:33,479 –> 00:17:37,920 I enjoyed breakfast with my good friend Raju Abraham just on Friday of this week. 229 00:17:37,920 –> 00:17:43,140 I’ve known Raju for nearly 10 years and watched how God has used him to pull together a network 230 00:17:43,140 –> 00:17:48,260 of church planters in North India, one of the hardest areas for Christian work in all 231 00:17:48,260 –> 00:17:50,420 of the world. 232 00:17:50,420 –> 00:17:56,040 In the last year, more than — and this is incredible — more than 5,000 cell groups 233 00:17:56,040 –> 00:18:04,839 that are the basis of new churches have been planted, established, across that hardest 234 00:18:04,839 –> 00:18:06,319 area of North India. 235 00:18:06,319 –> 00:18:12,319 It is remarkable as anyone who knows the scene will agree. 236 00:18:12,319 –> 00:18:19,400 Raju has prayed for leaders and for resources for years and years. 237 00:18:19,400 –> 00:18:21,839 And God is answering in incredible ways. 238 00:18:21,839 –> 00:18:27,439 But he told me a wonderful story that I’ll repeat for you on just last Friday about a 239 00:18:27,439 –> 00:18:29,560 businessman in Hyderabad. 240 00:18:29,560 –> 00:18:37,280 A man who had lived an indulgent life, knew nothing of the Lord, pattern of excessive 241 00:18:37,280 –> 00:18:43,400 drinking and smoking so severe that it had led him to a heart attack. 242 00:18:43,400 –> 00:18:48,239 After his heart attack some Christian believers in Hyderabad who had come to know him began 243 00:18:48,239 –> 00:18:51,660 to minister to him and to pray for him. 244 00:18:51,699 –> 00:18:53,839 The man’s life never changed. 245 00:18:53,839 –> 00:18:59,319 Then, he had a second heart attack and doctors in Hyderabad determined that he needed open 246 00:18:59,319 –> 00:19:01,839 heart surgery. 247 00:19:01,839 –> 00:19:08,599 The day of the surgery, there was an unusual rainfall and all of the operating theatres 248 00:19:08,599 –> 00:19:12,040 were flooded, so the surgery had to be canceled. 249 00:19:12,040 –> 00:19:15,000 Believers came and prayed for him again. 250 00:19:15,000 –> 00:19:19,500 This man’s sister who lives in Boston flew him over to Boston for the surgery there. 251 00:19:19,719 –> 00:19:21,719 She said, no that’s it, I’m bringing you over here. 252 00:19:21,719 –> 00:19:22,719 Let’s get this done. 253 00:19:22,719 –> 00:19:26,680 And when the doctors checked the angiograph in Boston, there was no evidence whatever 254 00:19:26,680 –> 00:19:30,819 of the blockage that had been previously identified. 255 00:19:30,819 –> 00:19:35,079 This man has since committed his life to Christ. 256 00:19:35,079 –> 00:19:41,020 Sold his business, given the money in its entirety to the work of church planting in 257 00:19:41,020 –> 00:19:46,660 North India, and is now one of the leaders of the church planting network. 258 00:19:46,660 –> 00:19:56,020 And I listened to my good friend, who I trust, telling a story, and I cannot but smile. 259 00:19:56,020 –> 00:20:05,800 For who, in their wildest imagination, could conceive that God would supply leadership 260 00:20:05,800 –> 00:20:13,900 and funding for ministry in one of the hardest areas of the world, by intervening in the 261 00:20:14,079 –> 00:20:20,619 life of a drunk businessman 2000 miles away and giving him such an extraordinary life 262 00:20:20,619 –> 00:20:27,319 change that he was led into a whole new meaning and purpose? 263 00:20:27,319 –> 00:20:34,180 With God, all things are possible, and faith factors in the ability of God. 264 00:20:34,180 –> 00:20:40,420 And so, as I think about who God is, and I look into the scriptures of what God can do, 265 00:20:40,619 –> 00:20:47,619 I’m challenged with this question, Colin, where is your faith? 266 00:20:47,859 –> 00:20:53,260 For the danger is that I drift through life evaluating everything that I look at in purely 267 00:20:53,260 –> 00:20:56,020 secular terms. 268 00:20:56,020 –> 00:21:03,020 Second thing, faith not only factors in the ability of God, but faith submits to the sovereignty 269 00:21:03,719 –> 00:21:04,880 of God. 270 00:21:04,880 –> 00:21:07,579 This is very important. 271 00:21:07,579 –> 00:21:11,979 Because, you see, as soon as we talk about the ability of God we are faced with some 272 00:21:11,979 –> 00:21:15,579 serious questions that may already have occurred to you. 273 00:21:15,579 –> 00:21:20,060 We rejoice in stories of God’s miraculous intervention in people’s lives like the one 274 00:21:20,060 –> 00:21:25,060 that’s just been related, bringing salvation, deliverance, healing, and we know that God 275 00:21:25,060 –> 00:21:27,619 is able to do these things. 276 00:21:28,380 –> 00:21:29,780 these things. 277 00:21:29,780 –> 00:21:35,060 Our question, of course, is well, if he has this ability, why are there other situations 278 00:21:35,060 –> 00:21:37,300 in which he does not do them. 279 00:21:37,300 –> 00:21:43,780 Now, faith factors in the ability of God but it does more than that. 280 00:21:43,780 –> 00:21:49,020 It also submits to the sovereignty of God. 281 00:21:49,020 –> 00:21:54,780 And if you factor in the ability of God without submitting to the sovereignty of God, you 282 00:21:55,500 –> 00:21:57,579 yourselves in all kinds of confusion. 283 00:21:57,579 –> 00:22:01,500 That’s so important, I’m going to say it a second time. 284 00:22:01,500 –> 00:22:09,859 If you factor in the ability of God without also submitting to the sovereignty of God, 285 00:22:09,859 –> 00:22:12,640 you will soon find yourselves in all kinds of confusion. 286 00:22:12,640 –> 00:22:15,719 And that is where many Christian believers are. 287 00:22:15,719 –> 00:22:22,719 J. C. Ryle, the 19th century famous Bishop of Liverpool preached a very famous sermon 288 00:22:23,699 –> 00:22:27,640 on the storm on the lake, and I’m going to read a paragraph from it. 289 00:22:27,640 –> 00:22:32,839 He points out that Christ often leads his people into storms. 290 00:22:32,839 –> 00:22:38,459 If you are a believer, he says, you must reckon on having your share of sickness and pain 291 00:22:38,459 –> 00:22:43,079 and sorrow and tears, and losses and crosses, deaths and bereavements, and partings and 292 00:22:43,079 –> 00:22:46,959 separations, and vexations and disappointments so long as you are in the body. 293 00:22:46,959 –> 00:22:50,959 Has he given enough variations on that for you to get the point? 294 00:22:51,020 –> 00:22:56,780 Christ never undertakes that you shall get to heaven without these. 295 00:22:56,780 –> 00:23:01,280 How should we know who are true Christians if following Christ was the way to be free 296 00:23:01,280 –> 00:23:03,380 from all trouble? 297 00:23:03,380 –> 00:23:09,439 How should we know the wheat from the chaff if it were not through the winnowing of trial? 298 00:23:09,439 –> 00:23:13,859 How should we know if men served Christ for his own sake or merely for selfish motives 299 00:23:13,859 –> 00:23:18,939 if his service always brought health and wealth as a matter of course? 300 00:23:18,939 –> 00:23:26,060 The winds of winter soon show us which trees are evergreen and which are not. 301 00:23:26,060 –> 00:23:31,739 The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. 302 00:23:31,739 –> 00:23:37,079 So if you desire to serve Christ and to be saved, I entreat you to take the Lord on his 303 00:23:37,079 –> 00:23:38,900 own terms. 304 00:23:38,900 –> 00:23:43,819 Make up your mind to meet with your share of crosses and sorrows, and then you will 305 00:23:43,819 –> 00:23:45,739 not be surprised. 306 00:23:45,739 –> 00:23:51,319 For want of understanding, thus many seem to run well for a season, and then turn back 307 00:23:51,319 –> 00:23:56,000 in disgust and are cast away. 308 00:23:56,000 –> 00:24:00,859 Now let it be very clear from the story this morning as well as from the history of Christian 309 00:24:00,859 –> 00:24:08,380 experience that God never promises a storm-free life. 310 00:24:08,380 –> 00:24:11,540 Whose idea was it that they go across the other side of the lake? 311 00:24:12,540 –> 00:24:18,219 One day, Jesus said to the disciples, let’s go over the other side. 312 00:24:18,219 –> 00:24:20,500 He got them into this. 313 00:24:20,500 –> 00:24:25,719 Following Jesus lead them right into a difficulty that they would not otherwise have experienced. 314 00:24:25,719 –> 00:24:31,300 They could have been having a barbecue on the beach if they weren’t following Him. 315 00:24:31,300 –> 00:24:32,699 And it will sometimes be like that. 316 00:24:32,699 –> 00:24:39,339 There will be situations in which your life would have been easier if it was not for Jesus. 317 00:24:39,339 –> 00:24:42,939 Christ never promised fair weather sailing. 318 00:24:42,939 –> 00:24:48,900 Only He has promised that we will arrive at the destination. 319 00:24:48,900 –> 00:24:52,599 And it’s very important for us to remember that God has a place for storms as well as 320 00:24:52,599 –> 00:24:54,880 for still waters. 321 00:24:54,880 –> 00:25:00,959 So while faith factors in the ability of God, and I desperately need to do that, I at the 322 00:25:00,959 –> 00:25:06,500 same time need to submit myself to the sovereignty of God. 323 00:25:06,560 –> 00:25:13,780 Biblical faith is never a matter of coming to God and saying it has to be this way. 324 00:25:13,780 –> 00:25:16,319 Faith submits to the sovereignty of God. 325 00:25:16,319 –> 00:25:21,939 It uses its freedom of ask of a God for whom all things are possible. 326 00:25:21,939 –> 00:25:28,020 But it always submits its requests to the sovereignty of God. 327 00:25:28,020 –> 00:25:31,140 Of course, the great model of this is Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 328 00:25:31,140 –> 00:25:35,199 Remember the three characters in the story of Daniel, who were put in the fiery furnace, 329 00:25:35,479 –> 00:25:36,640 and they said to the king, 330 00:25:36,640 –> 00:25:42,900 our God is able to deliver us from these flames. 331 00:25:42,900 –> 00:25:46,199 You see, that’s factoring in the ability of God, isn’t it? 332 00:25:46,199 –> 00:25:54,099 But they said even if he does not, we will not bow down to your idol. 333 00:25:54,099 –> 00:25:58,939 That’s submitting to the sovereignty of God. 334 00:25:59,400 –> 00:26:03,859 And that by the way is the difference between biblical faith 335 00:26:03,859 –> 00:26:07,959 and the psychology of positive thinking, 336 00:26:07,959 –> 00:26:11,599 and it’s very important for us to understand the difference between the two. 337 00:26:11,599 –> 00:26:16,479 Some Christians have got these two things completely confused. 338 00:26:16,479 –> 00:26:21,040 Positive thinking is all about mind over matter, 339 00:26:21,040 –> 00:26:23,680 the power comes from inside me, 340 00:26:23,680 –> 00:26:25,439 I make the change. 341 00:26:26,160 –> 00:26:32,640 That’s what positive thinking, psychology of that school is all about. 342 00:26:32,640 –> 00:26:37,060 But biblical faith is the power of God over matter. 343 00:26:37,060 –> 00:26:39,819 The power comes from God. 344 00:26:39,819 –> 00:26:42,359 God makes the change. 345 00:26:42,359 –> 00:26:45,719 There’s all the difference in the world between these two things. 346 00:26:45,719 –> 00:26:49,819 That is why biblical faith must in its very nature submit to the sovereignty 347 00:26:49,819 –> 00:26:53,180 of God, because no power in the world 348 00:26:53,439 –> 00:26:57,839 can make God do what God does not want to do. 349 00:26:57,839 –> 00:27:01,479 So if you want to discern when you’re listening to teaching 350 00:27:01,479 –> 00:27:04,319 whether you’re hearing the power of positive thinking 351 00:27:04,319 –> 00:27:06,680 or whether you’re hearing biblical faith, 352 00:27:06,680 –> 00:27:11,439 and you will often need to discern between these two things these days, 353 00:27:11,439 –> 00:27:18,060 just ask the question, who is ultimately in control here? 354 00:27:18,060 –> 00:27:22,339 And if the answer to that question is, you are, 355 00:27:22,339 –> 00:27:27,400 then you’re listening to positive thinking, not biblical faith. 356 00:27:27,400 –> 00:27:29,099 That’s how you know the difference, 357 00:27:29,099 –> 00:27:33,280 be sure that you remember to apply the difference. 358 00:27:33,280 –> 00:27:34,880 That’s why it’s a great cruelty, you see, 359 00:27:34,880 –> 00:27:38,599 when someone says after, perhaps, there has been prayer for healing, 360 00:27:38,599 –> 00:27:43,479 oh, well, you know, it didn’t happen because you didn’t have enough faith. 361 00:27:43,479 –> 00:27:45,140 And you just didn’t know which world you’re in 362 00:27:45,140 –> 00:27:47,959 when you hear that kind of thing. 363 00:27:47,959 –> 00:27:51,400 Biblical faith factors in the ability of God 364 00:27:51,400 –> 00:27:53,099 for whom all things are possible, 365 00:27:53,099 –> 00:27:56,880 but at the same time, it submits to the sovereignty of God 366 00:27:56,880 –> 00:28:00,239 who does whatever he pleases. 367 00:28:00,239 –> 00:28:04,719 Remember that there is a place in his plan for storms, 368 00:28:04,719 –> 00:28:07,780 as well as for still waters. 369 00:28:09,060 –> 00:28:10,680 Faith factors in the ability of God. 370 00:28:10,680 –> 00:28:14,060 Faith submits to the sovereignty of God. 371 00:28:14,060 –> 00:28:16,339 Then, finally, this morning then, 372 00:28:16,400 –> 00:28:21,400 faith trusts intentionally in the goodness of God. 373 00:28:22,180 –> 00:28:25,540 Now I want to emphasize that word intentionally 374 00:28:25,540 –> 00:28:29,060 because faith is not something that works automatically. 375 00:28:29,060 –> 00:28:33,939 It does need to be brought out of the display cabinet. 376 00:28:34,900 –> 00:28:37,540 I’ve been greatly helped many times by an illustration 377 00:28:37,540 –> 00:28:40,219 used by Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones. 378 00:28:41,060 –> 00:28:46,060 Most of us have at home, a heating and a cooling system 379 00:28:47,300 –> 00:28:49,500 that works on a thermostat. 380 00:28:50,459 –> 00:28:52,900 Now, a thermostat is a marvelous thing. 381 00:28:52,900 –> 00:28:56,939 You set it to click in at a certain point. 382 00:28:56,939 –> 00:28:58,579 In the summer when it gets hot, 383 00:28:58,579 –> 00:29:02,099 the thermostat clicks in and turns on the cooling. 384 00:29:02,979 –> 00:29:04,839 In the winter when things get too cold, 385 00:29:04,839 –> 00:29:09,839 the thermostat clicks in and starts the heating. 386 00:29:10,579 –> 00:29:13,739 And the marvelous thing is that once you’ve set it, 387 00:29:13,739 –> 00:29:16,119 it all happens automatically. 388 00:29:16,119 –> 00:29:18,819 You don’t even need to be in the house. 389 00:29:18,819 –> 00:29:22,540 Marvelous thing, an automatic thermostat. 390 00:29:23,739 –> 00:29:27,459 Now, a lot of people have fallen into the grave mistake 391 00:29:27,459 –> 00:29:32,459 of thinking that faith is like a thermostat. 392 00:29:32,459 –> 00:29:35,079 You’ve got the idea that it somehow should 393 00:29:35,079 –> 00:29:38,439 click in, if you have it, automatically. 394 00:29:38,439 –> 00:29:40,859 That when some great crisis comes, 395 00:29:40,859 –> 00:29:43,560 there should just be some way in which 396 00:29:43,560 –> 00:29:46,119 automatically, your faith buoys you up, 397 00:29:46,119 –> 00:29:48,619 rather like a kind of ring, holding you up 398 00:29:48,619 –> 00:29:49,760 if you were in water. 399 00:29:51,880 –> 00:29:53,839 Now you only need to look at this story 400 00:29:53,839 –> 00:29:55,800 and Jesus’ question to understand 401 00:29:55,800 –> 00:29:58,020 that that is obviously a complete fallacy. 402 00:29:59,119 –> 00:30:01,479 If faith worked on automatic, 403 00:30:01,479 –> 00:30:02,800 it obviously would have clicked in 404 00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:04,079 in the storm on the lake. 405 00:30:05,260 –> 00:30:08,000 And the disciples would have not been in any difficulty. 406 00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:09,819 But when Jesus says to them, 407 00:30:09,859 –> 00:30:12,859 Where is your faith? 408 00:30:12,859 –> 00:30:15,640 His question makes it very clear 409 00:30:15,640 –> 00:30:20,359 that faith works on manual not automatic. 410 00:30:21,900 –> 00:30:26,900 In other words, you have to put it into operation. 411 00:30:27,319 –> 00:30:30,660 And that’s what the disciples evidently failed to do. 412 00:30:30,660 –> 00:30:34,599 You have to take your faith out of the display cabinet 413 00:30:35,479 –> 00:30:38,800 and apply it to this particular situation 414 00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:41,439 that is weighing on your mind right now. 415 00:30:43,699 –> 00:30:46,979 There is an intentional activity here. 416 00:30:48,020 –> 00:30:50,979 You look straight in the face of the pressure 417 00:30:50,979 –> 00:30:53,180 and the situation that is facing you 418 00:30:53,180 –> 00:30:56,219 and you factor in the ability of God. 419 00:30:57,239 –> 00:30:58,939 You then knowing that this God 420 00:30:58,939 –> 00:31:03,160 can do exceeding abundant above all that you ask or think, 421 00:31:03,160 –> 00:31:05,800 you submit yourself to the sovereignty of God. 422 00:31:06,739 –> 00:31:11,439 And then you trust intentionally in the goodness of God, 423 00:31:11,439 –> 00:31:13,060 you refuse to panic. 424 00:31:13,979 –> 00:31:15,800 Because you know that whatever happens, 425 00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:18,199 your life and everything that concerns you 426 00:31:18,199 –> 00:31:21,000 is in the hand of this God who loves you 427 00:31:21,000 –> 00:31:23,780 and who plans for your ultimate good. 428 00:31:24,959 –> 00:31:27,060 And when you have worked that through, 429 00:31:28,060 –> 00:31:33,079 you will then be in a position to begin to think with faith. 430 00:31:33,979 –> 00:31:36,439 That’ll change your patterns of thought. 431 00:31:36,439 –> 00:31:41,439 To pray with faith, that’ll bring prayer alive for you now. 432 00:31:41,439 –> 00:31:44,219 To speak with faith, people will say my goodness, 433 00:31:44,219 –> 00:31:47,280 he’s entirely different in his attitude to this situation, 434 00:31:47,280 –> 00:31:49,359 and to act with faith. 435 00:31:51,579 –> 00:1:55,920 The world will begin to wonder what made the difference. 436 00:31:57,160 –> 00:31:59,359 And here’s the very last thing this morning. 437 00:32:00,280 –> 00:32:04,199 In this series, we’ve identified each week 438 00:32:04,199 –> 00:32:09,199 a spiritual discipline that will be like a prescription 439 00:32:10,099 –> 00:32:13,219 for each of the varieties of doubt. 440 00:32:14,739 –> 00:32:18,040 Now, what is the prescription for a person 441 00:32:18,040 –> 00:32:22,079 whose doubts arise from diminished growth? 442 00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:26,800 Whatever you do, don’t send that person to the classroom. 443 00:32:26,800 –> 00:32:29,199 That’s not gonna help them, is it? 444 00:32:29,420 –> 00:32:30,239 It really isn’t. 445 00:32:34,579 –> 00:32:38,640 If your faith has been sitting in the display cabinet 446 00:32:38,640 –> 00:32:42,020 instead of being used, there is only one answer 447 00:32:42,020 –> 00:32:43,839 to this condition, only one way in which 448 00:32:43,839 –> 00:32:45,199 you’re gonna move forward. 449 00:32:46,400 –> 00:32:47,599 Are you ready for it? 450 00:32:47,599 –> 00:32:52,439 It’s a spiritual discipline of service, of service. 451 00:32:54,959 –> 00:32:57,859 What I want to say as the last thing this morning 452 00:32:57,939 –> 00:32:58,739 is simply this. 453 00:33:00,339 –> 00:33:03,099 Some of us have been splashing around 454 00:33:03,099 –> 00:33:05,660 in the shallows of faith for too long. 455 00:33:08,180 –> 00:33:10,260 And what you need more than anything else 456 00:33:10,260 –> 00:33:13,060 is a man-or-woman-size challenge. 457 00:33:15,979 –> 00:33:20,979 You need to be stretched outside of your comfort zone 458 00:33:21,219 –> 00:33:24,900 to the point where you’re beginning to exercise 459 00:33:24,900 –> 00:33:27,619 the faith that God has given you 460 00:33:27,619 –> 00:33:30,900 in the accomplishment of what he has tasked you to do. 461 00:33:33,760 –> 00:33:36,739 And Christ asks, where is your faith? 462 00:33:38,579 –> 00:33:42,540 If the answer is, Lord, it’s on the display cabinet, 463 00:33:44,280 –> 00:33:46,939 then it is time to ask the question, 464 00:33:46,939 –> 00:33:50,599 well now, Lord, what is it that you want me to do? 465 00:33:52,099 –> 00:33:53,439 That really is the only way in which 466 00:33:53,439 –> 00:33:56,540 you’re going to move forward from where you are right now, 467 00:33:56,560 –> 00:33:59,160 if this is your condition in your Christian life. 468 00:34:02,140 –> 00:34:05,140 I have a letter at home that I will treasure all of my life. 469 00:34:06,060 –> 00:34:09,199 It was written to me by my college tutor, 470 00:34:09,199 –> 00:34:10,979 the one I was closest to, 471 00:34:10,979 –> 00:34:13,879 who was giving me counsel when, at the age of 22, 472 00:34:15,139 –> 00:34:17,219 I had been invited to become the pastor 473 00:34:17,219 –> 00:34:20,379 of the church in London that we then served for 16 years. 474 00:34:21,780 –> 00:34:25,219 I’d asked him for his advice, 475 00:34:25,659 –> 00:34:26,979 should I do this? 476 00:34:30,100 –> 00:34:31,399 And this is what he wrote, 477 00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:35,959 if you take on this task, 478 00:34:37,739 –> 00:34:40,199 you will find that you are out of your depth, 479 00:34:43,379 –> 00:34:45,419 and you will prove God in ways 480 00:34:45,419 –> 00:34:47,020 that you never thought possible. 481 00:34:50,500 –> 00:34:51,320 And I have to tell you honestly, 482 00:34:51,560 –> 00:34:54,600 and I feel still today that that is the story of my life. 483 00:34:58,479 –> 00:35:01,120 And I’m more deeply convinced than ever before 484 00:35:01,120 –> 00:35:05,679 that Jesus Christ calls us all out of our depth. 485 00:35:07,000 –> 00:35:11,000 He invites us to lounge out into the deep. 486 00:35:14,120 –> 00:35:15,860 For some of us, the reason 487 00:35:15,860 –> 00:35:18,959 that we’re really struggling right now 488 00:35:19,080 –> 00:35:22,719 is that we have remained in a sort of kindergarten of faith. 489 00:35:24,840 –> 00:35:28,120 We’ve never allowed Christ to really stretch us 490 00:35:28,120 –> 00:35:29,840 with something that will 491 00:35:31,719 –> 00:35:34,159 cause us to cast ourselves anew on Him. 492 00:35:38,800 –> 00:35:39,899 And He says to us, 493 00:35:42,320 –> 00:35:44,379 let’s go over the other side of the lake. 494 00:35:46,560 –> 00:35:47,600 Where is your faith? 495 00:35:49,899 –> 00:35:52,979 When Christ calls us to launch out into the deep, 496 00:35:52,979 –> 00:35:55,199 there are maybe some big storms. 497 00:35:56,760 –> 00:35:59,139 But if you are where Christ wants you to be, 498 00:35:59,139 –> 00:36:02,000 and you’re doing what He’s called you to do, 499 00:36:02,000 –> 00:36:06,360 He will bring you through. 500 00:36:06,360 –> 00:36:07,459 Let’s pray, together. 501 00:36:09,760 –> 00:36:12,199 Father, none of us want to be splashing around 502 00:36:12,199 –> 00:36:14,580 in the shallows all the days of our lives. 503 00:36:15,459 –> 00:36:21,260 There’s something compelling about your call, 504 00:36:21,260 –> 00:36:29,899 your invitation, that we want to follow. 505 00:36:29,899 –> 00:36:32,939 Some of us recognize that today really 506 00:36:32,939 –> 00:36:35,699 has identified our primary spiritual problem. 507 00:36:35,699 –> 00:36:36,780 It’s diminished growth. 508 00:36:39,300 –> 00:36:43,179 Never really faced up to a man-sized or woman-sized 509 00:36:44,179 –> 00:36:45,260 challenge. 510 00:36:45,260 –> 00:36:47,939 It’s going to stretch the gifts that you have given, 511 00:36:47,939 –> 00:36:54,320 the faith that you have given, in a whole new way. 512 00:36:54,320 –> 00:36:59,520 But we know that you’re speaking to us about that right now. 513 00:36:59,520 –> 00:37:01,540 All those of us have come here, and we 514 00:37:01,540 –> 00:37:02,739 know that we are stretched. 515 00:37:02,739 –> 00:37:05,179 And we are grateful that you speak to us at that point. 516 00:37:08,260 –> 00:37:10,840 We want to factor in your ability. 517 00:37:13,820 –> 00:37:17,459 We want to submit to your sovereignty. 518 00:37:21,479 –> 00:37:24,659 We want to be very intentional about taking faith off 519 00:37:24,659 –> 00:37:27,899 the display cabinet and applying it 520 00:37:27,899 –> 00:37:32,260 to that area in which we are being stretched and challenged 521 00:37:32,260 –> 00:37:32,919 right now. 522 00:37:36,139 –> 00:37:40,620 We thank you for your grace that enables us to do this. 523 00:37:40,620 –> 00:37:42,659 Thank you that you’ve given us the gift of faith. 524 00:37:42,659 –> 00:37:46,620 Lord, let us use it. 525 00:37:50,459 –> 00:37:54,580 And in using it, let that faith grow. 526 00:37:54,580 –> 00:37:56,419 And as it grows, let us be changed. 527 00:37:56,419 –> 00:37:58,580 And as we are changed, let us glorify you. 528 00:37:58,580 –> 00:38:01,300 And as we glorify you, let your purposes 529 00:38:01,300 –> 00:38:05,820 be advanced, and let it all be for your glory. 530 00:38:05,820 –> 00:38:11,659 For these things, we ask in Jesus’ name. 531 00:38:11,659 –> 00:38:12,620 Amen. 532 00:38:12,659 –> 00:38:14,219 Amen.