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- 2:21Speaker 1: Good, because they talk about workers' retirement, economic slowdown, and
- 2:24Speaker 1: rising tensions in the Middle East, and changes in administrative positions,
- 2:27Speaker 1: and a decline in academic achievement, and a decline in
- 2:30Speaker 1: the appearance of the heat wave, and a decline in
- 2:32Speaker 1: the organization of the base. One of them intensifies the danger.
- 2:36Speaker 1: And you ask, why am I afraid? With all my respect.
- 5:09Speaker 1: narrates the story of the calm storm, which is of
- 5:12Speaker 1: the same threefold importance as the great shock of Jesus.
- 5:15Speaker 1: The defeat of sin on the cross, and death at
- 5:19Speaker 1: the grave, and now the fear on the sea, the
- 5:24Speaker 1: surprising fear. We know that the fear was surprising because
- 5:31Speaker 1: the storm in this case was, as the old translation says,
- 5:38Speaker 1: A storm suddenly erupted on the sea. Not all storms
- 5:40Speaker 1: come suddenly. For the farmers of Al-Barari, the vision of
- 5:44Speaker 1: the tidal waves was formed hours before its occurrence. The
- 5:47Speaker 1: storm started. But this storm suddenly erupted as if a
- 5:49Speaker 1: lion had been cut off from among the herbs. At
- 5:52Speaker 1: a moment, the students were mixing the cards of the
- 5:55Speaker 1: game of hearts in the middle of the journey. And
- 5:58Speaker 1: at the next moment, they were filling the sea of Galilee.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Kāfahā Būtrusu wa Yuhannā wa humā bāḥārāni mutamarrisāni li'ibqā'i ash-shirā'i munkhafidhan.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Wa kāfahā Matta wa huwa muḥibun li'lyābisati. Lili'htifāði bifutūrihi. Lam
- 6:22Speaker 1: takun il-' āsifatu ma tawakā' ahu jābi al-dara'ibi. Atasā' alu in kuntatastatīʿu an
- 6:28Speaker 1: talamis addahshata fi tarīqati rabtihi baynahatayni al-ibāratayni. Rakibā Yasūʿu qāriban
- 6:34Speaker 1: wa zahabā atbāʿuhu maʿahu. Jesus is sleeping in a storm.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Can you sleep? Can you sleep in a storm? In
- 9:31Speaker 1: an air vent. In a loud music concert. Jesus slept
- 9:33Speaker 1: during all these three events. Immediately. The Gospel of Mark
- 9:41Speaker 1: tells his opinion in this story. The Gospel of Mark
- 9:44Speaker 1: adds a detailed detail to my interest. Explaining that Jesus.
- 9:50Speaker 1: The Gospel of Mark adds an interesting detail to this story,
- 9:53Speaker 1: explaining that Jesus was asleep on a boat in the
- 9:55Speaker 1: late age of the ship. The fishermen of the first
- 10:00Speaker 1: century used a heavy net in their work. And when
- 10:01Speaker 1: they built their boats, they used the surface of the
- 10:06Speaker 1: boat as a place to put the net between the
- 10:08Speaker 1: fishing operations. The sleep in the late night was not practical,
- 10:23Speaker 1: because there was no protection, and perhaps it was actually
- 10:26Speaker 1: blocked by the same network. But that small hole at
- 10:30Speaker 1: the bottom of the late night was the only protected
- 10:34Speaker 1: place in Al-Qarib, and it was the most crowded place.
- 10:36Speaker 1: In it, for that reason, Jesus crawled, and he felt
- 10:40Speaker 1: some sheep from the activity of the day at the
- 10:44Speaker 1: bottom of the surface to sleep. Anwa'u al-amraadi wal-asqami bayna al-naasi.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Hal ta'lamuna anhum shahidu shifa'ahu li-abrasa bi-lamsa'tin wa khadiman bi-amrin. Butrus,
- 14:31Speaker 1: ahadu rukkabi as-safinati, ra'a hammatihi al-mareedata tushfa wa ra'aw jami'an
- 14:36Speaker 1: as-shayateena tatafarraqu kal-khafafishi min kahfin. Akhraja al-arwaaha as-sharrirata bisayfihi. Maybe
- 15:32Speaker 1: what our friend Bruce Bowen told me that he was
- 15:35Speaker 1: going to do. I was, while we were talking about
- 15:37Speaker 1: this video, late after breakfast. I said, Bruce, what do
- 15:38Speaker 1: you think you would have done if you were in
- 15:40Speaker 1: the car with Jesus when the storm hit? He said,
- 15:43Speaker 1: I was going to go to the corner and get
- 15:44Speaker 1: close to Christ and try to sleep. It is shocking
- 15:53Speaker 1: that none of the students thought about that. At least,
- 15:55Speaker 1: they didn't do that. The person might think that they
- 15:57Speaker 1: will think. Well, if it's good, then it will be good.
- 15:59Speaker 1: I will get as close as I can. But they
- 16:01Speaker 1: didn't do it. Rather, they were full of doubt and demand.
- 16:03Speaker 1: Fear is able to do that to us. Instead of
- 16:05Speaker 1: being kind to the peace of Christ, fear demands that
- 16:07Speaker 1: Christ enter the chaos of our world. Instead of being
- 16:24Speaker 1: kind to the peace of Christ. Fear calls us to
- 16:25Speaker 1: ask Christ to enter the chaos of our world. O God,
- 16:31Speaker 1: come to us. Heal me. Heal me.
- 16:32Speaker 2: Help me.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Save me. Jesus did not like to fight a fierce
- 16:35Speaker 1: war on fear in his Gospels. I want to clarify completely.
- 17:17Speaker 1: When you come close to God, a healthy dose of fear, humility,
- 17:19Speaker 1: and respect for God will protect your soul. If the
- 17:21Speaker 1: Lord's fear is still the beginning of wisdom, God wants
- 17:24Speaker 1: us to live with sacred respect for him. Fear of
- 17:26Speaker 1: danger and fear of God. These feelings may be healthy.
- 17:30Speaker 2: In fact, it.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Is important to clarify that fear is not a sin.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Humumun tastanzifu alfaraha, waru'bun yukhadiru al-yawma, wanawbatin mutakarriratun min an'idami
- 19:15Speaker 1: al-amani tushulluna wa tujamadna. Hadehi almakhawifu laysat min Allah. Lam
- 19:23Speaker 1: ya'tinaa rooha alkhawfi aw halata alkhawfi. Kalla, bal yuridu an yuhariba.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Alkhawfu almustashriyu. Don't be afraid. This may surprise you. It
- 19:49Speaker 1: may surprise you to know that Jesus, more than any
- 19:51Speaker 1: other commandment, tells us not to be afraid, not to worry,
- 19:54Speaker 1: and to replace our fears and worries with courage. The Gospels, scientifically,
- 19:58Speaker 1: count 125 things or directions from Christ. La tash'ur b'ayy
- 21:56Speaker 1: hudu'in La talmas ayy salamin Kullu ha'ulayi rijali mashluluna Mutajamiduna
- 22:02Speaker 1: minal khawfi Wala yubaluna bil-ihbati Hal hadhi hiya al-hayatu? Kalla,
- 22:09Speaker 1: laysat kathalika Lakinna hal-hayatu allati yachtaruhakathiruna liyawma Wa ana anzuru
- 22:18Speaker 1: ila ba'di al-nasi allatheena taghal khawfu ala hayatihim It is
- 22:23Speaker 1: not true fear, nor is it the respect of danger,
- 22:25Speaker 1: nor is it the respect of God. Rather, it is
- 22:31Speaker 1: some of the people whom God wishes to save from
- 22:33Speaker 1: a state or a spirit of.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Fear.
- 22:40Speaker 1: And because fear is a big problem in our lives,
- 22:43Speaker 1: Jesus' question remains stuck in the chains, because in the
- 22:46Speaker 1: midst of the storm, the calm Christ asks an influential question.
- 22:55Speaker 1: He lifts Jesus' head from the cliff and leaves the
- 22:56Speaker 1: ship late into the storm and looks at the disciples
- 22:59Speaker 1: and says, Why are you afraid? He asks this question
- 23:02Speaker 1: in the midst of the storm, so he will ask
- 23:05Speaker 1: the storm to calm down after a few moments. But
- 23:07Speaker 1: before he does that, he says to the disciples, Now,
- 23:10Speaker 1: why are you afraid? My father used to ask me
- 23:11Speaker 1: this question all the time. When I was six years old,
- 23:13Speaker 1: he allowed me to spend the night with the rest
- 23:16Speaker 1: of the family to watch the movie, Al-Dhikbi. What a
- 23:27Speaker 1: regret he made for this decision. Since we watched a
- 23:29Speaker 1: movie in the arena, I was convinced in my little
- 23:32Speaker 1: mind that the bald man spends every night wandering in
- 23:35Speaker 1: our arena, swinging between the resting chair and the chair,
- 23:39Speaker 1: and hiding under the coffee table, waiting for his favorite meal,
- 23:43Speaker 1: a boy in the first row.
- 23:44Speaker 2: And he did.
- 23:53Speaker 1: This looks like a problem, because to get from my
- 23:55Speaker 1: room to the kitchen, I had to pass through the barn.
- 23:58Speaker 1: And it seems that I used to wake up every
- 23:59Speaker 1: night and want to drink a cup of milk in
- 24:01Speaker 1: the middle of the night. But to do that, I
- 24:03Speaker 1: had to pass. Nearby are the clothes and clothes of
- 24:05Speaker 1: the man who is hiding in the shade. And he
- 24:45Speaker 1: would open one of his eyes and look at me
- 24:46Speaker 1: and say something like, Why are you scared? How is
- 24:50Speaker 1: it not known? And I would remind him of the
- 24:55Speaker 1: horror that he was camping on the path. He would
- 24:59Speaker 1: get up from his bed and fight bravely. As you know,
- 25:04Speaker 1: he was never afraid to pass through that dark place.
- 28:56Speaker 3: You don't have to be near me, you don't.
- 29:02Speaker 2: Have to stay close, as long as you're somewhere out there,
- 29:13Speaker 2: that's enough for me.
- 29:14Speaker 3: I don't need to hold you near me, don't need
- 29:22Speaker 3: promises to keep.
- 29:25Speaker 2: There's a quiet kind. I don't need forever I just
- 29:33Speaker 2: need you to exist.
- 29:57Speaker 3: You don't have to stay with me.
- 30:00Speaker 2: You don't have to feel the same.
- 30:03Speaker 3: Just as long as you're still out there.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Calling softly through my days.
- 30:10Speaker 3: You don't have to look my way. You don't have
- 30:14Speaker 3: to be my home. It's enough to know you're living
- 30:21Speaker 3: in a world I'm not alone.
- 30:27Speaker 2: I won't chase you through the distance.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Won't disturb your chosen life.
- 30:34Speaker 2: I'll just keep you in my silence like a star
- 30:37Speaker 2: that shines at night. Through the dark and through the blue.
- 30:48Speaker 3: I still think of you. You don't have to feel
- 30:57Speaker 3: the same just as long as you're still out there
- 31:02Speaker 3: calling softly through my days. You don't have to look
- 31:08Speaker 3: my way. You don't have to be my home. It's
- 31:13Speaker 3: enough to know you're living in a world I'm not alone.
- 31:34Speaker 2: I don't need to be your light.
- 31:38Speaker 3: I don't need to cross your mind All I need
- 31:41Speaker 3: is just the truth That you're somewhere.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Still alive.
- 31:50Speaker 3: You don't have to stay with me You don't have
- 31:54Speaker 3: to feel the same Just as long as you're still
- 31:59Speaker 3: out there Calling softly through my days You don't have
- 32:04Speaker 3: to look my way You don't have to be my
- 32:09Speaker 3: home It's enough to know you're living
- 32:16Speaker 2: In a world I'm not alone.