Lord of the Storm

The chapter has four parts to it: the sign (miraculous feeding of the 5000) the storm, the sermon (vv. 25-59) and the sifting (the withdrawal at the end).

Today, we look only at the storm in the context of the whole chapter (the Galilean Crisis) and we'll learn that WHEN PEOPLE SEEK JESUS they really don't know what they're in for BUT when they begin to see Him for who He IS… it's traumatic (like Peter: "depart from me, Lord…") AND yet to those who admit Him INTO the trauma, who trust Him, THEY FIND HIM TO BE unimaginably better than they once thought.

There are three SEEKINGS in this "Storm Story" and that'll be how we look at it -
the 1st seeking
the 2nd seeking and
the 3rd seeking