Jesus calms the storm on the Sea of Galilee
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Jesus tells the disciples to get into the
boat because they are going to the other side. About half-way across a
terrible storm starts blowing. They become terrified while Jesus has
fallen asleep in the boat. When Jesus rebuked the storm and calmed the
sea, He asks His disciples, "Where is your faith?" So what was He
referring to? Should they just have tried really hard to believe the
storm would go away?
Jesus was rebuking them for not believing what He had told them. He said
when they got into the boat, "Let us cross over to the other side of the
lake." And when Jesus says you're going over to the other side, that
means the boat isn't going to sink!
Another example is in Matthew 14 where
Peter
and Jesus walk on the water when Jesus says "Come".
Our faith is to be rooted in the promises and the principles of God's
word. Faith in faith accomplishes nothing, because faith can accomplish
nothing by itself. Only God can accomplish anything. He and His word is to be the object of our faith.
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Christ and the Storm, Giorgio de Chirico 1914
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"PEACE, BE STILL." Matthew 8:23-34; Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-40
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THEN the evening came, after teaching all day by the sea and in the house, Jesus
saw that the crowds of people were still pressing around him, and there was no
time for him to rest. Jesus said, "Let us go over to the other side of the
lake."
So they took Jesus into the boat, and began to row across the Sea of Galilee.
Other little boats were with them, for many wished to go with Jesus. While they
were rowing, Jesus fell asleep, resting on a cushion of the boat.
Suddenly a
storm arose, and drove great waves of water into the boat, so that it was in
danger of sinking, but Jesus slept on. The disciples woke him, saying, "Master,
Master, we are lost! Help us, or we shall perish!" |

Christ In the Storm on the Sea of Galilee Rembrandt van Rijn 1632
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Jesus Stills the Tempest William Hole, 1908
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Christ Asleep During the Tempest Eugene Delacroix c. 1853 |

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee Ludolf Backhuysen 1695 |
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Jesus awaked, and rose up, and looked out upon the sea. He said to the waves,
"Peace, be still!" And at once the wind ceased, the waves were quiet, and there
was a great calm. Jesus said to his disciples, "Why are you afraid? How is it
that you have so little faith in me?"
They all wondered at Jesus' power, and said to each other, "Who is this man whom
even the winds and the sea obey?"
The Man With A Legion of Evil Spirits
They came to the land on the eastern side of the lake, which was sometimes
called "the country of the Gadarenes," from the people who lived in the large
city of Gadara, which was not far away, and sometimes "Decapolis." As they were
landing a man came running down to meet them. He was one of those poor men in
whose body evil spirits were living. He would not stay in any house, but slept
in the graveyard among the dead. Nor did he wear any clothes. They had often
chained him, but he had broken loose from his chains, and no one was able to
bind him.
When this man saw Jesus afar off he ran towards him, and fell down on his face
before him. Jesus saw what was the trouble with this man, and he spoke to the
evil spirit in him, "Come out of this man, vile spirit of evil!" The spirit
within the man cried with a loud voice, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
thou Son of the Most High God? I call upon thee in the name of the Lord, do not
make me to suffer!"
Jesus saw that this man was troubled more even than most men who had evil
spirits in them. He said to the evil one, "What is your name?" And the spirit
said, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us." A legion was a name
given to an army; and in this man was a whole army of evil spirits.
There was on the mountain side a great drove of hogs feeding. The Jews were
not allowed to keep hogs, nor to eat their flesh; and the evil spirits said to
Jesus, "If we must leave this man, will you let us go into the drove of hogs?"
Jesus gave them leave; and the evil spirits went out of the man, and went into
the hogs. The whole drove, two thousand in number, became at once wild. They
rushed down a steep place on the mountain, and into the sea, and were all
drowned.
The men who kept the hogs ran into the city near by, and told all the people how
the man had been made well, and what had come to the drove of hogs, how they had
been drowned. The people came out to meet Jesus, and they were full of fear.
They saw the man who had been filled with evil spirits, now sitting at the feet
of Jesus, no longer naked, but clothed, and in his right mind. But they did not
think of what Jesus had done to this man; they thought only of the hogs that
they had lost; and they begged Jesus to go away from their land.
Jesus turned away from these people, and went again to the boat on the shore;
and then the man who had been set free from the evil spirits pleaded with Jesus
that he might go with him. But Jesus would not take him into the boat. He said,
"Go home to your friends, and tell them how the Lord has had mercy on you, and
has done great things for you." The man went home and told all the people in the
land of Decapolis the great things that Jesus had done for him.
And Jesus went on board the boat, and crossed over the lake, and came again to
his own city of Capernaum.
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