Sermon – “Shipwrecked”

Twenty seven and it is not to call it a story because accounting his make-believe, thought an account of how God was with the apostle Paul during the terrible storm that he had to Indore with other men. And this thought this passage spoke to mean it was before this storming, we believe indoor that before I get into that devilish air level story that I found it was about the stories about little parakeet named chirpy that had to Indore, the storm and its life a little sharpie didn’t get out of his cage and get outside in the storm. He had to endure the storm right in the comfort and security. These home in his own little cage. The sharpie was a newspaper one day said there just happens to be a well sharp designer decides she’s going to clean out the case with the vacuum cleaner she took the end off the hose and she stuck the hose in the back and the cage and about that time the phone rang. She reached to grab the files and to her disk, neutrality was sucked into the vacuum cleaner so she drops the fun with the bag open. Got the bag open, and therefore little chirping, still more even still alive. This realizes he’s all covered in dust and dirt. So she rushes to the bathroom and put them under the Fossett and scruffy off getting clean. Enter allows look for the sharpies shaken so she grabbed the hairdryer blows him off so military was not been washed up and blown away by the servicer by cheaper stripping back in the cage and a few days later her friend calls you he served as weapons, as although to be no one well. She says that O’Charley don’t say much anymore he discounted set their stares out the window as funny, but that’s what sometimes are lasting like .net is while my sometimes we go through those thunderstorms sometimes we does not want to stare out the window, but you know God will see us through God will see us of the storms. A man in today’s account is about the apostle Paul. Someone get a little bit brackets along Scripture reading, the resulting a one-time resort, but a little background delete what leads up to this were a begin reading the Scripture. Paul had been imprisoned and whenever he was first imprisoned Felix was a governor will Felix was a procrastinator and he didn’t want to make a decision false case all the prison for preaching the gospel make this figure: a troublemaker, so he drag drag VC and did not get Paul’s case you have made that make a decision or so, then Festus became governor. So then fast. This was a governor and King Agrippa came on this give you a really brief highlight here. What camera wanted to hear Paul said he heard him and yet he said, boy, he exiled was even believe these words to speak impulsively. I wish that the wood within CNN, he was good know where Paul says I appeal to Caesar and Paul was a very intelligent man. All was a Pharisee of Pharisees falling to the law, albeit a Roman citizen, then that it would appeal to Caesar that he would get an audience with Caesar. So he said you appeal to Caesar to see you, you shall go was a response he knew what he would get to go to Caesar, and it finally he would get an answer on his case, so will pick up with where they find a ship to get all want to try getting headed towards room acts chapter twenty seven nine two forty two. But on that applause and just leave it up there. Follow along the best you can, says no one much time had been spent in sailing was now dangerous because the fast was already a overall, advised them, saying, man, I perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much laws not only of the cargo in the ship, but also relies. Nevertheless, the centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman any order this ship that embodies things spoken by Paul and because the harbor was not suitable to winner in the majority advised to set sail from there also if by any means they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete opening toward the southwest and northwest in winter there. The face that he was talking about the fast was the day of atonement, so that they have a ton was already passive. Now they’re about to set sail for Rome, but you know the Centurion is this is the captain of the soldiers he is more persuaded by the captain of the ship and the sailors than he is by the words of Paul is like you’re just a preacher and what you know about sailing on that demolition. The longer you listen to the cathode. This should happen if he says we can go, we can go to listen to him say he just ignores the words of Paul, and they go ahead and set sail taken up with verse thirteen, when the south wind blew softly. Can anybody say that column before the storm. Well this is the calm before the storm. When the south wind blew softly supposing that they had obtained their desire putting out the same day sale close by Crete, but not long after a temperature sensuous head when a rose called the euro climbed on a may not be pronouncing that right, but that’s the best I can do so when the ship was caught and could not be headed into the wind. We never drive in running under the shelter of an island called Claudia. We secured to skip with difficulty when we had taken it on board. We use tables to undergird the ship and fearing lest we station run should run a grant all the fertile sands, they struck assailants overdriven and because we were exceedingly tempest tossed the next day they enlightened the ship when the third day we threw the ship ‘s tackle overboard with their own hands. You know when you’re out there on that cancer was seen being tossed back and forth life comes into perspective. They threw the expensive tackle overboard. They can, what good is it going to do us if we die out. You see, they put tables underneath the ship and search out thing and well it’s not really cables. It was ropes, you can envision am going to the front of the ship and learn the ropes down eleven occurred. Take the ropes back to under the ship. They put many rogues complete around the ship and I’ve been taught so that the ship didn’t burst apart because of the terrible season they were Dori, what a fearful fearful crude hot time that would’ve been out there on the ship tossed back and forth scared to there which sends many of them, Paul. Not being one of them. First, wanting now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small campus being on us all hope that we would be saying was finally given up, but after a long absence from food. Then Paul stood in the midst of them, and said man, you should have listened to me and not assailed from Crete and incur this disaster and loss, and now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship for there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve, saying, do not be afraid, Paul, you must be brought before Caesar, and indeed God is granted to all those who sail with you there what part of man, for I believe God that it will be just as it was told me. However, we must run around when a certain island, although was lost for those men, those sailors and soldiers. They could see that they been out there for many days, fourteen days, a route there. They given up all hope of surviving the storm. This storm is not a hurricane. It was a northeastern win of the extremely strong win the deal never fourteen days we couldn’t steer that ship… out there in nature ‘s mercy for fourteen days, they finally decided there is no sense worrying anymore because we know were going to die. That’s what the soldiers in the sailors of the term. And Paul says he should’ve listened to me. He’s not saying I told you so, it really is not a saying you should of listened because God revealed to me that this disaster was going to happen is not routed interfaces. The soundness because now you say in that the God that I serve revealed to me last night that no life would be lost. Do not be afraid. How many times are we regarding God ‘s word a lot when the angel angels appeared, do not be afraid. The Daniel says do not be afraid many times do not be afraid how comforting is our God, how care is our God. When a person you tell this, do not be afraid. He says you must be brought before Caesar. So imagine this God is telling him you are going to stand before Caesar. So Paul could kind of walk around that ship with the ungodly security could he not knowing now there’s a storm on around noon, I think, again, but with the disciples, and he sleep in our panic. Paul is controverted and assured that I’m going to Caesar. I know because God has revealed it to me so he had a piece that nineties. None of these others have. There were two hundred and seventy six men on that one at shipment during that storm. Paul was one at peace of God that passes all understanding. Amen. And God is granted. God is so gracious that God granted all those that were sailing with him that not only would Paul be say, but all those that were with him on that ship one half I wonder now see they found the ship was sailing to run this ship one, especially designated for Paul. This was a cargo ship so they found the ship; what if this enduring whatever listened upon said, well we better not go the ship goes ahead and sales all that shipping during that storm without Paul do we think the ship would have been saved. Not likely it’s because Paul was with them, and God said, you will go before Caesar verse twenty seven now when the fourteenth night head might come as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight, the sailors sensed that they were drawing near some land, and they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms, and when they go farther. They took soundings again, and found it to be fifteen fountains. Then, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for Datacom and as the sailors were sitting into a state leadership when they had let down the skip into the sea, under pretense of putting out anchors from the prowl. Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved than the soldiers cutaway wrote this in another falloff that the soundings they turn to wonder depth finder, right they had a fishfinder depth had always all is right hot tech stuff and have what was your depth finder. It was the road that was measured and marked say every five feet five ten fifteen twenty. It was weighted. They drop it off and watch to see which Mark it hit the water at. It was a high tech depth finder, but they found out how deep the water was because they knew they were getting close to ground close to some way you think about that if you ever been down by the any of the ports and you see these great big cargo ships and cargo ship, serenity. Their seven high normal water aren’t on the opening their huge stairway up out of the water, but when they start loading these correlations with all the containers that you see that they love actual railroad cars. Once he unload them when they they love them down and has shipped. This keeps going deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into the water. His assailant along the sea. It just looks like a short little thing split into the water so that when a paycheck, or go off topic comments there didn’t close the land they want– it is high in the waters they can so they can get his closest possible to the land sale have to swim any farther than necessary. So that’s why they need to lighten the load. Paul says unless these men stay in the ship. They cannot be say they could jump in that light, but in trying to sail away, but they were not going to say that they jump in that lifetime. If you’ve ever been on a cruise, you know that they have tenders. There may have muster stations and they make everybody on that ship, go to the muster stations and tell them what’s going to happen if there’s an emergency row that the tenders down and I wanted it off on the ship. All of the shipment in order to what vendor or resellers. They were preparing their gender. Paul says no no no, unless you stay in this ship with me you will not be say they were saved because of the presence of Paul because God told them they must stay on the ship first, thirty three, and as day was about the Don Paulin for them all to take food saying today is a fourteenth day you’ve waited and continued without food and need nothing. Therefore, I urge you to take nourishment for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any. You praise God and what he had said these things, he took bread, and gave thanks to God, in the presence of them all and we have brevity, he began to eat. Then they were all encouraged and also took food for themselves and all they were two hundred and seventy six persons on the ship. So when they had eaten enough food. They lighten the ship and through the week out into the sea through all the weed out, so that ship was high in the water. This shift they said Woodhall, two thousand six hundred Highlands of cargo. This was not a small ship. They were wrong. That was a very large ship. It wasn’t a luxury cruise liner. The day was flooding out there are not Embassy versus thirty nine to the end, when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they observed a day with a beach onto which they plan to run the ship of possible and they let go. The anchors and left them in the sea. Meanwhile, losing the rudder ropes. They twisted the mainsail to the wind and made for sure, but striking a place were to seize me. They ran the ship aground in the prow struck fasten remained immovable, but the Stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves and the soldiers plan was to kill the prisoners because they neutered the prisoners escaped that they would be held responsible may even lose their lives left a method swim away in the state, but the centurion wanting to say Paul them from the purpose and commanded that they could swim. They that those who could swim jump my report first and get the land and the rest someone boards and someone parts of the ship and so what was that all the states safely to the land, each and every last one of them. All two hundred and seventy six, not one hair of the head of a any man was lost every single man survive you know if the book of acts was made into a movie chapter twenty seven be the climax of that movie. Just look what happens. You know this forceful winds out there costing the seeing week. Yet it was a movie out many years ago called the perfect storm. This was it the perfect storm. The only difference is they survived the waves crashing against the hall could you imagine the crew screaming. The captain shouting over there shouting out the orders, tensions had to be great. Then there’s the climax. The hero which we knows Paul friends do not fear, not a single life will be lost. Do not fear God is with with us. God is revealed to me that we shall be safe. This Scripture implies that it is safer to be in the will of God in a dangerous storm than it is to be out of the God out of God ‘s will we get that straight. It’s safer to be in the will of God in a dangerous terrible storm entity out of the will of God own driveway. Sometimes we have to cut the ropes in a room lives to gain the full protection of the Lord. We have to go to storms in our lives, but we can be as Jordan God is with us that God will get his throat. We may have to endure heartache we may have adorned physical pain, but God is with us. If you read the final chapter of acts you’ll find that they landed on the island called Malta. Maybe this is why it struck me that little island of Malta is only about sixty miles south of Sicily is really going to Italy. We won’t be too far from that little island called malt, but we know that they landed they got there, they slammed that island. We know that Paul was bitten by the servant when he was put in the bungalow sticks on to the fire in a thoughtful joy. This is an evil man because leaving that he survived that storm in a shipwreck, justice has been served that is set back and watch and wait for the die, but we know what happens. He didn’t die so after he didn’t die in a little wider body must be a God. Well, it happens that a certain well-to-do man on that island took Paul to his home in this man’s father lay extremely sick and Paul Inanna Prater, regulate, handling, and he was healed completely healed reason for so they brought all that were sick and had diseases on down to Paul and he healed them all. They were there for three months, said God had a plan and a purpose. He had a little detour for Paul and all those around the ship, were in ago Giuliana Malta and show the wonders of God. Many were healed that passages not share anything about the laxly vandalizing lignin, the Christ, but there’s anybody here believe that Paul was one out of three months and didn’t preach the gospel. If you believe that you don’t know the apostle Paul, the I am pretty confident that Paul preached the gospel. I believe the the truth of God was revealed to the Islanders on Malta. I believe they heard truth and most likely some came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ can’t say all because the Scriptures been revealed, but I’m confident that Paul preach the gospel, because he preached the gospel wherever he went God is faithful God is faithful. Romans eight twenty eight, says, and we know that all things all things work together for good to those who love God, to the czar called according to his purpose. You know when things seem hopeless when our situation seems hopeless. Rest assured, brothers and sisters and we depend on God. We can trusting God when it seems like our ship might be sinking turn to God, trust in him. So whatever comes against you just turn to him and rely on him, for he is faithful. He was faithful to help us through. It might not really remove the obstacle, but he will help us through. Amen