You think of like flying on an airplane.

When turbulence hints, everybody freaks out.

You can tell everyone that you're more likely to get into an accident

and die on your way to the airplane than actually flying the airplane.

And yet, when turbulence hits, the wings start bending and everybody gets white knuckleed, they freak out.

But who's not freaking out?

The pilot.

The pilot.

Why is the pilot confident?

Because the pilot has been the school.

They know something about the engineering of the airplane and aerodynamics.

They've studied the thing and they have confident assurance in the airplane.

Here's the problem is that we so often, to your point, Mark, we have a pinprick understanding of God.

And what we need to do is increase

our pinprick understanding of God

so that we can have confident assurance

in the work that he has done in the cross

and the promise that he's giving to us on his second coming.

When we increase our understanding of God,

our hope increases. But the great news is

this, even for the person having the panic attack on the airplane, their lack of hope or understanding

and their safety doesn't make them more unsafe. And that's the beauty of the gospel. Even when your faith is lacking,

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