First Baptist Church Delray

Sermon Application Questions

July 27, 2025

Pastor Jimmy’s Message: “Where is Your Faith?”

Scripture: Luke 8:22-25

Review the Exegesis of the Scripture:

Read Luke 8:22

One day he (Jesus) got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out.

1. What might it indicate about Jesus’ training technique that He would purposely take His disciples out into the nearby Sea of Galilee, a lake well below sea level and surrounded by mountains, and so known for unexpected storms developing in minutes?

Read Luke 8:23

and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. 

2. How are we assured here that Jesus was fully man?

3. What might the disciples have felt when this mayhem of unusually intense wind and rain and crashing waves filled their boat with water and put their lives in danger?

Read Luke 8:24

And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

4. What did the disciples, some of whom were even fishermenexperienced in sailing and bad weather in the sea, realize they needed to do?

5. What did Jesus do?

6. How were the disciples shown a picture of the deity of Jesus here, that He is not only fully man but also fully God?

7. What did they learn about Jesus in the storm that they could never learn otherwise?

Read Luke 8:25

He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

8. How did Jesus rebuke their weak and misplaced faith?

9. How had Jesus grown their incomplete faith?

10. So bottom line, why did the Lord walk them into this storm?

Make Personal Applications of the Lessons:

11. Consider how this statement may be true of your life: Weare either in a storm, coming out of a storm, or about to go into another storm.

12. What life storm, trial, or temptation made you realize you are not in control of everything in your life?

13. How did the Lord use a challenging life experience to show you something more about Himself?

14. How did the Lord grow your faith in Him through it?

15. Key question: Do you have mature faith in the Lord, not a feeling but a trust developed through getting to know Him in relationship and seeing Him at work over time believing that He is able to take care of you and trust the way in which He does it?

16. Make plans to further mature your faith in God:

a. What will you do to stop wallowing in fear, let go of control, and turn to Him with your current challenge with your finances, health, family, business, relationship, marriages, or kids?

b. What better patterns of daily engaging with the Bible, prayer, and reflection will you start and listen for His voice and receive His power?

c. Where will you look for God to supply you with mature Christians who speak biblical truth to you, pour into you, and love you?

17. What area of your life do you need to submit to God’s authority over?

18. Will you obey God in every area of your life even when you don’t understand it, even when it hurts, even when it may cost you something?

19. Will you start by fully committing 100% to Jesus every day for the next 30 days and see what happens?