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 Just before Andrew comes and speaks to us, we're going to look at the reading from Jonah chapter 1 and it's on page 928.

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 So if you've got the church Bible please turn to that.

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 Verse 1.

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 The word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amittai.

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 Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

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 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.

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 He went down to Joppa where he found a ship bound for the port.

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 After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.

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 Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.

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 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own God.

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 And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.

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 But Jonah had gone below deck where he laid down and fell into a deep sleep.

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 The captain went down to him and said,

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 How can you sleep? Get up and call on your God.

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 Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.

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 Then the sailors said to each other,

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 Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.

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 They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

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 So they asked him,

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 Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us?

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 What kind of work do you do?

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 Where do you come from?

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 What is your country?

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 From what people are you?

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 He answered,

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 I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.

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 This terrified them and they asked,

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 What have you done?

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 They knew he was running away from the Lord because he had already told them so.

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 The sea was getting rougher and rougher.

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 So they asked him,

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 What should we do to make the sea calm down for us?

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 Pick me up and throw me into the sea, he replied, and it will become calm.

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 I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.

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 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.

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 Then they cried out to the Lord,

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 Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man's life.

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 Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.

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 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.

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 At this, the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.

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 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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 Amen.

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 Thanks, Jennifer.

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 For those who don't know me, my name is Andrew.

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 I'm one of the leadership team here at West Kilburn Baptist Church.

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 And this morning, I'll be sharing from Jonah 1.

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 Jonah 1 is a series that we'll be looking at over the coming next probably three weeks.

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 So I'll be starting in chapter one, and then Steve will continue, and Nathan will finish in chapter four.

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 Now, a little bit of content.

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 Just kind of imagine, Phil.

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 I just want your memories to kind of pitch on a few things, right?

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 So just imagine in society, right?

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 Imagine a rampant society, right?

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 Imagine headlines with scandals, female victims, child exploits, another murder hunt taking place.

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 You read it in the papers or social media.

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 Harsh dictatorships oppressing the nations.

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 Care home under special measures because of inadequate inspection.

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 Wars, terrorism, attacks.

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 The world seems to be filled and overflowing with violence, hatred and corruption.

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 Reading and hearing, and perhaps even experience some of these tragedies,

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 we begin to understand the necessities of God's judgment in a world like one we live in.

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 We may even find ourselves waiting for vengeance by any means upon the violent perpetrators.

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 Some of us might think, surely, they are beyond redemption for the crimes and things that they do.

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 But suppose that while thinking such thoughts, God told you to take his word to the worst of these offenders.

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 How would you respond?

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 Well, Jonah was given such a task.

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 Assyria, Nineveh, a great city, it was an evil empire.

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 One of Israel's most dreaded enemies.

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 The Assyrians flaunted their powers before God and the world through numerous acts of heartless cruelty.

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 So when Jonah heard God tell him to go to Nineveh and announce God's judgment to the people unless they repent,

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 he ran in the opposite direction as we've just heard.

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 The purpose of this book that we will be looking at is to show the extent of God's grace

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 and the message of salvation to all people, not just some people.

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 Its audience would have been the Jewish nation of Israel and God's people everywhere.

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 That's you and that's me.

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 I see the book as a reflection, a foreshadow of Christ's messianic kingdom,

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 where he sends out his disciples to all the nations.

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 Tim Keller might say that the book teaches about race, grace and God's mission.

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 Jonah was a prophet in the days of Jeroboam II.

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 We read about that in 2 Kings chapter 14, verse 24 to 25.

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 It tells us, it reads there,

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 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat,

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 which he had caused Israel to commit.

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 He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Leboth Hamoth to the Dead Sea

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 in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel,

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 spoken through his servant Jonah, son of Amittai, the prophet.

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 So we see while Israel was still in sin, God still showed his grace and mercy to them.

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 And God has given Jonah a purpose here, to preach or call out to the great Assyrian city of Nineveh.

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 It seems Jonah didn't care about for Nineveh, so we responded in disobedience and indifference.

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 Jonah had yet to embrace and show God's love to the Ninevites.

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 Maybe through Jonah, God reminded Israel, the book's audience, of their mission and their purpose also.

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 We must not limit our focus to our own people.

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 God wants his people to proclaim his justice, judgment and love in words and actions to the nations.

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 God calls us to be about his mission wherever we are, which he sends us wherever he sends us.

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 So we live out all we are called to be as a witness to Christ.

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 And as an example of that, I just want to share many of you know that as a missionary,

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 I work with churches in communities in London, particularly Camden and Islington.

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 And I just want to share quickly is, you know, a mission we was doing once.

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 We went and we knocked someone's door.

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 We met a young male.

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 No, sorry, it's an adult male, an elderly male who was really in a bad way in terms of his vision,

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 his eyesight was so limited, his health was limited as well.

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 He probably wouldn't walk further than 60 metres without stopping and panting for breath.

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 And meeting him, we got to know him and engage with him.

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 Going into his house would probably something that, you know, you need to really show appreciation for God's creation

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 because his house was full of flies because of the stale air in there and the way his house was kept.

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 He was someone who had a carer that comes into his house once a week.

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 So, yeah, it was not really a place where you're going to rush and run and go to.

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 But it is somebody who we know God loves and we know God cares for.

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 So we had the opportunity to engage him and journey with him and share the gospel with him

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 and see him receptively engage with us to hear God's word, allow us to pray with him.

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 He came to the church building a few times, but he had the physical church in his premises on numerous times

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 where we could get to share the gospel with him.

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 But the point I'm trying to make to you all is eventually, you know, with his poor health, he died.

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 Maybe after we journeyed with him for 11 or 12 months.

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 And, you know, where he died, we didn't get to see him probably maybe two weeks before he died.

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 But and the thing is, really, the bigger story is that's God demonstrating his loving kindness

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 and his grace and mercy to someone who would not go church of his own accord.

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 But the Lord allowed the church to go to him to share the gospel with him.

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 Because we as Christians know he will stand before the judgment seat of Christ and give an account one day.

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 That is for certain.

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 And for me, that just displays God's greatness and God's love to his creation.

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 So before I go into this text now, I just want to stop and pause a moment.

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 And I'm just going to pray that the Lord will help me to minister his word,

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 that it would be speaking to us in an applicational way.

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 Father God, we come before you this morning and I pray, Lord, that all that you've put upon my heart,

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 all that you've shown me in this text, Lord, I pray that you will help me to minister your word faithfully

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 in a way, Lord, that it would be applicationally heard and it would be received, Father,

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 so that we would see who you are and we would hear how you are speaking to us through this text.

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 So Lord, for your name's sake, we pray that you would be glorified this morning through your word in Jonah chapter one.

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 I pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

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 So God's word, it encourages us, it challenges us and it also exhorts us.

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 And in saying that, I do want to just share and hopefully I want to try and draw out of this chapter.

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 I want to draw out how God speaks to us, how God's word comes to us and how it speaks to us.

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 I also want to challenge us in terms of being awake and not being asleep like Jonah in the bottom of the boat.

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 And then also, thirdly, I just want to share how God is continually merciful and gracious to us,

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 even when we get things wrong, as we see he provided a fish for Jonah, despite Jonah's disobedience.

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 So verse one to four, we see the word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amittai.

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 Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because its wickedness has come up to me.

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 So we see God speaks to those that he has a confidential relationship with.

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 He sent his word to Jonah.

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 The word of the Lord came to Jonah.

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 God speaks to us.

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 And him speaking to us is so that God's word can be spoken to others as Jonah was meant to go to Nineveh.

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 We see with God's word being sent to Jonah, Jonah clearly went in an opposite direction.

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 But we see a glimpse of when God's word is spoken.

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 We see in verse nine, though Jonah was disobedient, he spoke.

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 We see him testifying he's a Hebrew, like we would testify with Christians.

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 He says he worshiped the Lord.

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 We declare we worship the Lord.

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 We worship Jesus.

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 And we declare he's a God of heaven who made the sea and the dry lands.

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 And we see in verse 10, the sailors, they took note of that because it tells us they knew he was running away because he already told them so.

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 But the thing is, I want to ask us is when we hear God's word, how do you respond when you hear God's word?

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 Do you respond in obedience or disobedience?

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 Do you second guess God's word?

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 Or do you not respond at all?

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 Now, verse one to four, as Jonah is commanded to go to Nineveh, a little bit more insight into what Nineveh looks like.

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 In Nahum chapter three, verse one to three, it's going to give us a glimpse what this city looks like.

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 It tells us the city was a place of blood, full of lies, never without victims, many casualties, piles of dead, body without number, people stumbling over the corpse.

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 Jonah was aware of his distant neighbors, the Assyrians, and probably knew about their atrocities.

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 This is where Jonah had to go and call out against it or preach.

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 Warning the city of God's judgment and declared they could receive mercy and forgiveness if they repented of their wicked ways.

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 Jonah's attitude and behavior could be viewed by the audience reading it.

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 As potentially a reflection or representation of Israel's reluctance to share God's compassion, love and mercy with other nations,

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 even though this was God's given mission for them.

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 Instead of accepting his call, it looks like he considered them enemies,

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 not wanting to see them obtain God's favor like they had, as we read in Two Kings with the wicked king, Jeroboam.

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 We can say he knew Yahweh, that's clear because you'll see that in chapter 4 verse 2.

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 So we did know Yahweh, but to what extent we may ask.

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 And this very question resonates with the audience, to you and to me.

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 Jeremiah will give us a glimpse what it is to know Yahweh, or the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Jeremiah 9.24 tells you,

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 But let the one who boasts, boast about this, that they have the understanding to know me,

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 to know the living God, to know who he is, to know his nature, his ways,

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 how he relates with us, and his call for us to relate with others.

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 That I am the Lord, there is no other.

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 God's word comes to us, and it is to be sent and heard from us to others.

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 We know the narrative the gospel tells us in John chapter 10, 3b to 4b,

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 it tells us,

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 My sheep listen to my voice.

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 Jesus' sheep follow him because they know his voice.

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 These first verses help us to see God's love not only extends to us,

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 but beyond us to the nations around us.

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 The nations' self-seeking ways and sinful behaviours are ever before God.

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 They too deserve the opportunity to hear and know God is not pleased with their selfish, sinful ways.

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 His word needs to be heard and spoken before them.

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 God shows concern for the great city of Nineveh,

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 because of their wickedness in verse 2,

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 come up to him.

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 And this applies to our great city here of London.

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 Just as Nona was sent to call out against it in the hope they would turn and repent,

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 I believe the Lord would have us to do the same in this great city.

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 God wants people to hear his word.

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 He wants people to take heed, to be aware of their sinful ways.

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 God loves his creation.

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 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 4 tells us,

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 God, in the ESV it says,

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 God desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

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 That is God's desire.

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 If it was his will, it would happen without our assistance.

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 But that's his desire and we have a role to play

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 as we see him speaking to Jonah to conduct and carry out his missional purposes.

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 We cannot hide from God as Jonah tries to do.

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 That's just crazy.

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 I'm sure a lot of us already knows Psalms 139 verse 7 tells us,

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 where can I flee from your presence?

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 You know, if I go down to the depths of the sea, you're there.

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 Wherever we go, God is there.

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 It's just crazy.

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 Whatever God wants to accomplish through us will come to pass,

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 as we will see that throughout this book.

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 These verses I like to ask, just like Jonah,

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 are selfish desires and self-will to do what we consider is right in our own eyes.

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 Rather than doing what is right in God's eyes in respect to our neighbours,

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 hearing the truth of God's word.

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 And if you are someone who's here today and you have not heard the call to look to Jesus as your Lord

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 and as your saviour, I want to encourage you, God is wanting you to hear his word.

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 You cannot trust in all your own ways and your shortcomings.

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 God loves you and has made a way for you to be right and in right relationship with him through Jesus.

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 Through your acknowledging all your imperfections and your flaws, which the Bible says is our sin.

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 God is perfect in all of his ways.

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 And you will stand before him one day to give an account for your life.

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 And that is a sure thing.

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 Just as the Ninevites wickedness, their evil and bad ways have come up before God, so does ours.

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 Romans 3.23 tells us,

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 We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

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 We all have this defect within us.

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 But we are encouraged through Romans 6.23 that tells us,

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 The wages of our sin is death.

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 And we know that we die, people die.

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 But death is eternal separation from God in utter darkness,

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 which anyone would probably wish no one that we ever knew would ever be in that place,

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 totally separated from God.

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 But God is gracious and declares in that chapter, in that verse,

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 But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

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 So all your ways, all our ways are before God.

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 And there's an eternal cost of living life without Jesus as Lord and Saviour.

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 We will one day stand before God and must give an account for the way we lived our life.

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 Living a life without the one who created us is not good at all.

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 We will finally spend eternity one day in heaven,

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 in a place where there's no more sickness, crying, weeping,

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 no more of this suffering that we experience in this world here.

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 Or we will live and spend eternity in utter darkness, separated from God.

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 And the words that I proclaim is God's word in his Bible.

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 And I will say until God cannot lie.

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 So these are words that we should take to heart.

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 We have a choice to make.

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 If we do not find forgiveness in God through Jesus,

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 who took all our wrongdoing, our sins upon himself,

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 so we can have peace with God,

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 we will enter judgment, which will lead to eternal separation from God,

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 who loves you dearly.

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 God demonstrates his kindness in sending Jonah

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 to make this truth known to the Ninevites.

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 And today in your hearing,

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 his word is sent and proclaimed to you,

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 so you can respond in acceptance to his kindness,

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 which he desires to show towards you.

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 God is sovereign over all things.

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 And even an evil nation like Nineveh

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 causes him to have concern about them having the opportunity

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 to know what the consequences will be for them

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 should they continue to live in such a way

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 without repenting and trusting in him,

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 which is where we are today with this nation.

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 So remember, God speaks to us.

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 His word comes to us so it can be sent through us

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 to our neighbours and the nations near and far.

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 And we know in this church,

00:22:49.779 --> 00:22:52.380
 we are a gospel-centred preaching church.

00:22:52.380 --> 00:22:54.480
 We have members from this church

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 which has gone off on an assignment to do beach mission

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 where they are going out

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 to see how the Lord would want to use them

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 to engage with people who come to the coast this summer

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 to have holiday.

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 They are seeking opportunities

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 because they're hearing God's voice.

00:23:16.020 --> 00:23:17.820
 We have a monthly outreach

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 where we go out and do a book table,

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 we go and do door knocking

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 to meet people in this very community,

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 to serve our community that God loves dearly

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 and we also love them dearly.

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 God speaks to us

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 and sends us with his word to speak to others

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 that they would hear

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 that there is a day of reckoning

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 because everything is exposed before God.

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 And even as God speaks to us,

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 I'm speaking in a missional term,

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 in a missional sense,

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 but God even speaks to us as spouses.

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 He speaks to the husband in how to speak to his wife.

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 He speaks to the wife in how to speak to her husband.

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 He speaks to the parents in how to speak to their children.

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 He speaks to the children in how to relate to their parents.

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 He speaks to one another in how we interact

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 and engage with one another.

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 So the point is,

00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:10.420
 God speaks to us.

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 We should not neglect his word and take it for granted.

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 His word comes to us

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 so it can be sent to our neighbours and those around us

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 that what we speak is the counsel

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 that God gives us through his word.

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 So we should respond in obedience when God speaks to us.

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 If he says go,

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 we should go.

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 Speak to that person

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 or give more time to him

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 or put this down that is occupying our time

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 or spend more time with him.

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 Whatever he says,

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 let's seek not to second guess what we heard

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 and figure,

00:24:49.899 --> 00:24:51.079
 did he really said that?

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 Let's step out in faith

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 and trust that he is speaking to us

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 and train ourselves

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 to be more sensitive to his voice.

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 What nation is there

00:25:02.639 --> 00:25:05.299
 that their God speaks directly to them?

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 There is none.

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 There's none where we have many people

00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.000
 on a spiritual journey

00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.799
 believing in a creator,

00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:19.079
 believing God

00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:20.579
 but do not know their God,

00:25:20.679 --> 00:25:22.019
 cannot define their God.

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 There is no other nation or people

00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:27.220
 like God's people

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 who put their trust in Jesus Christ

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 who has a God

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 who speaks to them personally

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 as well as he speaks to them corporately

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 as he's doing right now.

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 Our God speaks to us.

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 Second point we're going to look at now.

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 So we see

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 in verse 5,

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 All the sailors were afraid

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 and cried out

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 to his own God

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 and they threw the cargo

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 into the ship.

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 But Jonah

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 had gone down

00:26:03.259 --> 00:26:04.419
 below deck

00:26:04.419 --> 00:26:06.379
 and he laid down

00:26:06.379 --> 00:26:08.559
 and fell deep

00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:11.440
 into a deep sleep.

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 So Jonah lays down

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 and fell into a deep sleep.

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 Get up and call

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 on your God

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 they say to him.

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 So church,

00:26:22.659 --> 00:26:24.079
 this is a challenge to us

00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.679
 as people of God.

00:26:28.959 --> 00:26:29.559
 Awake.

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 Awake

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 to all that God

00:26:32.699 --> 00:26:34.500
 is speaking unto his people,

00:26:34.659 --> 00:26:35.879
 speaking unto his church.

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 Let us awake

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 out of sleep and slumber.

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 Romans chapter 13

00:26:41.419 --> 00:26:42.480
 verse 11

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:43.419
 tells us

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 and do this

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 understand

00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:48.519
 the present time,

00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:50.019
 the hour

00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:51.000
 has already come

00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:52.380
 for you to wake up

00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:53.340
 from your slumber

00:26:53.340 --> 00:26:54.860
 because our salvation

00:26:54.860 --> 00:26:55.940
 is nearer now

00:26:55.940 --> 00:26:57.620
 than when we first believed.

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 These urgent calls

00:26:59.820 --> 00:27:00.960
 to spiritual action

00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:01.940
 appear throughout

00:27:01.940 --> 00:27:03.500
 both the Old

00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:04.740
 and the New Testament.

00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:06.120
 The Bible

00:27:06.120 --> 00:27:06.900
 frequently uses

00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:08.280
 wake up

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 from sleep

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 and slumber

00:27:09.560 --> 00:27:10.720
 as a metaphor

00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:12.160
 for shaking

00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:12.920
 of spiritual

00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:13.900
 sluggishness

00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:15.100
 and turning

00:27:15.100 --> 00:27:16.120
 away from sin.

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 It is a direct

00:27:17.980 --> 00:27:18.819
 call to be

00:27:18.819 --> 00:27:19.400
 alert,

00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:21.000
 watchful

00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:22.519
 and active

00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:23.559
 in our faith.

00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:25.400
 As Jonah

00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:26.160
 travels in the

00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:27.200
 opposite direction

00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:27.980
 to Nineveh,

00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:29.539
 the sailors

00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:30.420
 were also

00:27:30.420 --> 00:27:31.240
 traveling their

00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:32.100
 life's journey

00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:33.420
 in the opposite

00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:34.220
 direction

00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:34.839
 to God.

00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:37.199
 we see that

00:27:37.199 --> 00:27:37.980
 in verse 5

00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:39.179
 they're calling

00:27:39.179 --> 00:27:39.740
 out to an

00:27:39.740 --> 00:27:40.459
 unknown God

00:27:40.459 --> 00:27:41.039
 who cannot

00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:41.419
 hear,

00:27:42.019 --> 00:27:42.740
 cannot see,

00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:43.939
 cannot respond

00:27:43.939 --> 00:27:44.539
 to them.

00:27:46.459 --> 00:27:46.859
 The author

00:27:46.859 --> 00:27:47.799
 lets us know

00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:49.179
 they knew

00:27:49.179 --> 00:27:50.039
 Jonah was running

00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:50.759
 away as I said

00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:51.879
 in verse 10

00:27:51.879 --> 00:27:53.899
 because

00:27:53.899 --> 00:27:55.039
 he already

00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:55.699
 told them

00:27:55.700 --> 00:27:57.000
 and I think

00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.000
 it's as if

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.580
 the author

00:27:58.580 --> 00:28:00.700
 is alerting

00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:01.400
 readers

00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:01.819
 to the

00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:02.500
 responsibility

00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:03.840
 that they

00:28:03.840 --> 00:28:04.779
 too might

00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:05.400
 be involved

00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:06.000
 in a similar

00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:06.460
 flight.

00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:08.640
 Could this

00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:09.180
 be true

00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:09.960
 for someone

00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:10.680
 here today?

00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:13.039
 Instead of

00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:13.519
 running to

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:13.819
 God,

00:28:14.360 --> 00:28:14.920
 you're running

00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:15.860
 away and

00:28:15.860 --> 00:28:16.500
 experiencing

00:28:16.500 --> 00:28:17.380
 metaphorical

00:28:17.380 --> 00:28:17.840
 storms.

00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:20.200
 I want to

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:20.840
 encourage you

00:28:20.840 --> 00:28:22.019
 to take,

00:28:22.860 --> 00:28:23.400
 I want to

00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:23.900
 encourage you

00:28:23.900 --> 00:28:24.779
 to wake up

00:28:24.779 --> 00:28:25.759
 and trust

00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:26.279
 in God's

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:26.960
 word and

00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.779
 his faithfulness

00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:29.220
 to see you

00:28:29.220 --> 00:28:30.039
 through any

00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:31.519
 situation you

00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:31.920
 may be

00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:32.619
 encountering

00:28:32.619 --> 00:28:33.619
 because he

00:28:33.619 --> 00:28:34.359
 is sovereign

00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:35.259
 and Lord

00:28:35.259 --> 00:28:35.920
 over all

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.460
 things,

00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:37.440
 even your

00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:37.879
 life.

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:39.899
 It's

00:28:39.899 --> 00:28:40.259
 possible,

00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:41.859
 it's probably

00:28:41.859 --> 00:28:42.299
 right,

00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.859
 it's possible

00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:45.180
 probably should

00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:45.879
 have been

00:28:45.879 --> 00:28:46.579
 naturally for

00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:47.000
 the sailors

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:47.480
 to throw

00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:48.440
 Jonah overboard.

00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:49.759
 We see

00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:50.599
 they've come

00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:50.859
 to the

00:28:50.859 --> 00:28:51.720
 conclusion as

00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:52.359
 Nathan just

00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:52.839
 brought us

00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:53.220
 in the

00:28:53.220 --> 00:28:54.399
 family slot

00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.700
 the solution

00:28:55.700 --> 00:28:56.420
 to this

00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:56.880
 storm

00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:57.740
 was,

00:28:58.160 --> 00:28:58.460
 you know,

00:28:59.200 --> 00:28:59.880
 after Jonah

00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:00.480
 testified,

00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:01.400
 what was

00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:01.980
 the solution?

00:29:02.580 --> 00:29:02.980
 They said,

00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:03.380
 pick,

00:29:03.620 --> 00:29:04.240
 Jonah said,

00:29:04.340 --> 00:29:04.880
 pick me up

00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:05.340
 and throw

00:29:05.340 --> 00:29:05.700
 me into

00:29:05.700 --> 00:29:06.160
 the sea.

00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:08.740
 Now,

00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:09.600
 that may

00:29:09.600 --> 00:29:10.320
 consider to

00:29:10.320 --> 00:29:10.560
 me,

00:29:10.780 --> 00:29:11.300
 where was

00:29:11.300 --> 00:29:11.900
 Jonah at?

00:29:12.060 --> 00:29:12.220
 You know,

00:29:12.340 --> 00:29:12.860
 Jonah was

00:29:12.860 --> 00:29:13.360
 not even

00:29:13.360 --> 00:29:13.980
 calling out

00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:14.540
 to God

00:29:14.540 --> 00:29:15.960
 and so

00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:16.680
 far he's

00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.019
 not even

00:29:17.019 --> 00:29:17.800
 showing any

00:29:17.800 --> 00:29:18.480
 signs of

00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:18.980
 repentance.

00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:20.080
 It shows

00:29:20.080 --> 00:29:20.740
 as he goes

00:29:20.740 --> 00:29:21.820
 down deck

00:29:21.820 --> 00:29:22.740
 into the

00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:23.200
 boat and

00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:23.920
 he sleeps.

00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:25.440
 That's a

00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:25.940
 glimpse to

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:26.259
 me of

00:29:26.259 --> 00:29:26.880
 showing that

00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:27.519
 when we're

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:28.500
 disobedient,

00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:30.180
 when we

00:29:30.180 --> 00:29:31.740
 numb ourselves

00:29:31.740 --> 00:29:32.360
 to God's

00:29:32.360 --> 00:29:32.700
 word,

00:29:32.819 --> 00:29:33.460
 to responding

00:29:33.460 --> 00:29:33.880
 to what

00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:34.480
 God calls

00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:34.840
 us to

00:29:34.840 --> 00:29:35.120
 do,

00:29:35.620 --> 00:29:36.100
 we are

00:29:36.100 --> 00:29:36.600
 often

00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:37.400
 getting in

00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:38.039
 a position

00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:38.539
 of a

00:29:38.539 --> 00:29:39.960
 decline and

00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:40.340
 this is

00:29:40.340 --> 00:29:40.940
 where Jonah

00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:41.559
 seems to

00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:42.080
 be at.

00:29:42.840 --> 00:29:43.400
 You would

00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:43.680
 think,

00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:44.220
 I would

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:44.620
 think,

00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:45.660
 being in

00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:46.200
 a storm

00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:46.620
 on a

00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:47.059
 ship at

00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:47.400
 sea,

00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:49.220
 I would

00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:49.580
 think,

00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:49.900
 you know,

00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:50.460
 it's something

00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:51.039
 where you can

00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:51.580
 turn around

00:29:51.579 --> 00:29:51.939
 and call

00:29:51.939 --> 00:29:52.299
 out to

00:29:52.299 --> 00:29:52.559
 God,

00:29:52.879 --> 00:29:53.399
 but instead

00:29:53.399 --> 00:29:53.919
 he says

00:29:53.919 --> 00:29:54.740
 throw me

00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:55.740
 overboard.

00:29:56.699 --> 00:29:57.279
 So that

00:29:57.279 --> 00:29:57.579
 would be

00:29:57.579 --> 00:29:58.199
 the solution.

00:29:58.779 --> 00:29:59.039
 But we

00:29:59.039 --> 00:29:59.980
 see the

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:00.399
 sailors

00:30:00.399 --> 00:30:01.019
 seem more

00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:01.639
 honourable

00:30:01.639 --> 00:30:02.359
 than Jonah

00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:03.799
 because they're

00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:04.639
 concerned about

00:30:04.639 --> 00:30:05.139
 life.

00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:06.579
 We see

00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:07.419
 in verse

00:30:07.419 --> 00:30:08.159
 13,

00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:09.000
 instead

00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:09.839
 the men

00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:10.339
 did their

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:10.899
 best to

00:30:10.899 --> 00:30:11.399
 roll back

00:30:11.399 --> 00:30:11.980
 to land,

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:12.740
 but they

00:30:12.740 --> 00:30:13.379
 could not

00:30:13.379 --> 00:30:13.779
 for the

00:30:13.779 --> 00:30:14.460
 sea grew

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:15.779
 even wilder

00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:17.039
 than before.

00:30:17.899 --> 00:30:18.419
 So that

00:30:18.419 --> 00:30:18.819
 could not

00:30:18.819 --> 00:30:19.279
 happen.

00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:20.759
 the storm

00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:21.099
 in this

00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:21.759
 situation

00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.839
 would speak

00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:23.460
 loudly to

00:30:23.460 --> 00:30:24.039
 the audience

00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:24.559
 hopefully.

00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:25.799
 This is

00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:26.619
 God's plan

00:30:26.619 --> 00:30:27.700
 that people

00:30:27.700 --> 00:30:28.220
 would come

00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:28.920
 to realise

00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:29.579
 their best

00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:30.279
 efforts

00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:31.579
 are useless.

00:30:32.579 --> 00:30:33.299
 We are

00:30:33.299 --> 00:30:33.859
 not fully

00:30:33.859 --> 00:30:34.399
 in control

00:30:34.399 --> 00:30:35.019
 of everything.

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.099
 Our

00:30:37.099 --> 00:30:37.539
 health,

00:30:38.660 --> 00:30:39.920
 our

00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:40.559
 relationships

00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:41.359
 we have,

00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:43.579
 our plans

00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:44.399
 often

00:30:44.399 --> 00:30:45.740
 change

00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:46.319
 due to

00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:46.879
 unexpected

00:30:46.879 --> 00:30:47.980
 circumstances

00:30:47.980 --> 00:30:48.980
 or events,

00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:51.240
 our careers,

00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:52.519
 our job

00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:53.440
 opportunities,

00:30:54.620 --> 00:30:55.480
 finances,

00:30:56.819 --> 00:30:57.799
 accommodation,

00:30:58.759 --> 00:30:59.140
 we can

00:30:59.140 --> 00:30:59.799
 go on

00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:00.579
 and on.

00:31:01.940 --> 00:31:02.579
 We are

00:31:02.579 --> 00:31:03.039
 not fully

00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:03.559
 in control

00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:04.000
 of all

00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:04.360
 things.

00:31:05.360 --> 00:31:06.319
 God is.

00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:07.240
 These

00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:07.759
 storms

00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:08.819
 experience

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:09.500
 should lead

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.180
 us to do

00:31:10.180 --> 00:31:11.319
 what Jonah

00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:12.039
 didn't do

00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:12.579
 but what

00:31:12.579 --> 00:31:13.099
 the sailors

00:31:13.099 --> 00:31:13.480
 did.

00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:14.660
 So in

00:31:14.660 --> 00:31:14.860
 our

00:31:14.860 --> 00:31:15.599
 metaphorical

00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:16.099
 storms,

00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:17.119
 sometimes

00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:18.039
 because of

00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:18.379
 our

00:31:18.379 --> 00:31:19.939
 disobedience,

00:31:20.159 --> 00:31:20.679
 sometimes

00:31:20.679 --> 00:31:21.579
 because of

00:31:21.579 --> 00:31:22.179
 we choose

00:31:22.179 --> 00:31:22.579
 to follow

00:31:22.579 --> 00:31:23.119
 a path

00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:23.480
 of our

00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:23.759
 own

00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.139
 doing

00:31:24.139 --> 00:31:24.959
 and

00:31:24.959 --> 00:31:25.379
 sometimes

00:31:25.379 --> 00:31:25.740
 just

00:31:25.740 --> 00:31:26.240
 naturally

00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:26.599
 because

00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:27.099
 living in

00:31:27.099 --> 00:31:27.459
 a fallen

00:31:27.459 --> 00:31:27.879
 broken

00:31:27.879 --> 00:31:28.399
 world,

00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:29.319
 we will

00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:29.859
 encounter

00:31:29.859 --> 00:31:30.500
 storms.

00:31:31.439 --> 00:31:31.740
 But we

00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:32.099
 saw

00:31:32.099 --> 00:31:34.179
 what Jonah

00:31:34.179 --> 00:31:34.899
 didn't do

00:31:34.899 --> 00:31:35.379
 is what

00:31:35.379 --> 00:31:35.959
 the sailors

00:31:35.959 --> 00:31:36.359
 did.

00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:37.719
 They woke

00:31:37.719 --> 00:31:38.099
 up,

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:40.119
 verse 14,

00:31:40.639 --> 00:31:40.980
 and it

00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:41.339
 shows,

00:31:41.779 --> 00:31:42.339
 then they

00:31:42.339 --> 00:31:43.099
 cried out

00:31:43.099 --> 00:31:43.439
 to the

00:31:43.439 --> 00:31:43.740
 Lord,

00:31:44.159 --> 00:31:44.659
 please

00:31:44.659 --> 00:31:45.079
 Lord,

00:31:45.339 --> 00:31:45.759
 do not

00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:46.199
 let us

00:31:46.199 --> 00:31:46.679
 die for

00:31:46.679 --> 00:31:47.019
 taking

00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:47.299
 this

00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:47.699
 man's

00:31:47.699 --> 00:31:48.019
 life.

00:31:48.139 --> 00:31:48.279
 They

00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:48.959
 acknowledge

00:31:48.959 --> 00:31:50.559
 Jonah's

00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:50.899
 God

00:31:50.899 --> 00:31:51.619
 because

00:31:51.619 --> 00:31:52.000
 Jonah

00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:52.559
 testified

00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:53.199
 who he

00:31:53.199 --> 00:31:53.439
 is.

00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:54.039
 He's

00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:54.199
 the

00:31:54.199 --> 00:31:54.399
 God

00:31:54.399 --> 00:31:54.679
 of

00:31:54.679 --> 00:31:55.199
 heaven,

00:31:55.659 --> 00:31:55.980
 made

00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:56.379
 the sea

00:31:56.379 --> 00:31:56.619
 and the

00:31:56.619 --> 00:31:57.099
 dry land

00:31:57.099 --> 00:31:57.539
 in verse

00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:58.740
 9,

00:31:59.059 --> 00:31:59.439
 and he

00:31:59.439 --> 00:31:59.859
 also

00:31:59.859 --> 00:32:00.439
 told

00:32:00.439 --> 00:32:00.819
 them

00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:01.659
 that

00:32:01.659 --> 00:32:03.279
 God

00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:03.959
 brought

00:32:03.959 --> 00:32:04.279
 about

00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:04.480
 this

00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.139
 situation.

00:32:05.639 --> 00:32:06.019
 So they

00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:06.199
 have

00:32:06.199 --> 00:32:06.500
 turned

00:32:06.500 --> 00:32:06.859
 and they

00:32:06.859 --> 00:32:07.379
 call out

00:32:07.379 --> 00:32:07.659
 to this

00:32:07.659 --> 00:32:07.839
 God

00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:08.119
 and they

00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:08.399
 wake

00:32:08.399 --> 00:32:08.719
 up to

00:32:08.719 --> 00:32:08.819
 him

00:32:08.819 --> 00:32:08.939
 and

00:32:08.939 --> 00:32:09.219
 call

00:32:09.219 --> 00:32:09.399
 out

00:32:09.399 --> 00:32:09.539
 to

00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:09.699
 the

00:32:09.699 --> 00:32:10.000
 Lord.

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.059
 The

00:32:11.059 --> 00:32:11.259
 Lord

00:32:11.259 --> 00:32:11.799
 expresses

00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:12.099
 his

00:32:12.099 --> 00:32:12.500
 will

00:32:12.500 --> 00:32:13.740
 through

00:32:13.740 --> 00:32:14.039
 the

00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:14.619
 ferocity

00:32:14.619 --> 00:32:15.019
 of the

00:32:15.019 --> 00:32:15.380
 storm

00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:15.660
 and

00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:15.859
 through

00:32:15.859 --> 00:32:16.039
 the

00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:16.460
 casting

00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:16.720
 of

00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:16.920
 the

00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:17.259
 lots.

00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:18.400
 Lots,

00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:18.900
 we probably

00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:19.519
 heard about

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:20.079
 lots again

00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:20.339
 in the

00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:20.660
 book of

00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:21.000
 Acts

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:21.380
 when they

00:32:21.380 --> 00:32:21.480
 were

00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:21.740
 looking

00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:22.039
 for

00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:22.180
 the

00:32:22.180 --> 00:32:22.440
 twelve

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:23.039
 disciples

00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:24.180
 and

00:32:24.180 --> 00:32:25.740
 lots

00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:25.920
 of

00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:26.380
 sometime

00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:26.740
 use.

00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:27.380
 But

00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:27.960
 both

00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:28.460
 of these

00:32:28.460 --> 00:32:28.680
 the

00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:29.099
 crews

00:32:29.099 --> 00:32:30.359
 accept

00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:31.000
 as good

00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:31.500
 and right

00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:32.079
 when the

00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:32.259
 lot

00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:32.640
 fell

00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:33.460
 and they

00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:33.779
 followed

00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:34.059
 this

00:32:34.059 --> 00:32:34.619
 direction.

00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:35.480
 Jonah

00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:35.960
 remained

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:36.579
 spiritually

00:32:36.579 --> 00:32:37.220
 asleep,

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.220
 prayerless,

00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:38.680
 easing in

00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:39.079
 the face

00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:39.240
 of

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.000
 eternity.

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.240
 And while

00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:41.839
 the sailors

00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:43.519
 uninstructed

00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:44.000
 in God's

00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:44.319
 word

00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:45.299
 engaged in

00:32:45.299 --> 00:32:45.579
 earnest

00:32:45.579 --> 00:32:46.180
 prayer and

00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:46.680
 faith,

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:48.039
 they called

00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:48.599
 out and

00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:49.000
 prayed to

00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:49.440
 Jonah's

00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:49.859
 God by

00:32:49.859 --> 00:32:50.380
 the special

00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:50.839
 covenant

00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:51.339
 name

00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:51.839
 Yahweh

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:52.359
 given to

00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:52.779
 Israel,

00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:53.359
 having

00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:53.859
 accepted

00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:54.420
 Jonah's

00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:54.900
 testimony.

00:32:55.900 --> 00:32:56.019
 They

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:56.599
 believed

00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:57.079
 that he

00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:57.420
 is the

00:32:57.420 --> 00:32:57.799
 covenant

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.519
 that they

00:32:58.519 --> 00:32:59.180
 believed

00:32:59.180 --> 00:32:59.920
 that he

00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.279
 is the

00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:00.579
 God

00:33:00.579 --> 00:33:01.440
 and that

00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:02.059
 he will

00:33:02.059 --> 00:33:02.539
 hear

00:33:02.539 --> 00:33:03.500
 and answer

00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:03.740
 their

00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:04.079
 prayer.

00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:05.440
 The

00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:05.740
 sailors

00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:06.019
 showed

00:33:06.019 --> 00:33:06.420
 themselves

00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:06.740
 more

00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:07.140
 honorable.

00:33:07.140 --> 00:33:09.460
 So the

00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:10.180
 Gentiles,

00:33:11.020 --> 00:33:11.700
 the sailors

00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:12.780
 now acknowledge

00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:13.380
 and come

00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:14.020
 to believe

00:33:14.020 --> 00:33:14.500
 in the

00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:14.780
 true

00:33:14.780 --> 00:33:15.120
 living

00:33:15.120 --> 00:33:15.480
 God

00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:16.020
 Yahweh.

00:33:17.340 --> 00:33:17.600
 And

00:33:17.600 --> 00:33:17.900
 this

00:33:17.900 --> 00:33:18.600
 picture,

00:33:19.100 --> 00:33:19.759
 the sailors

00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:21.280
 as well

00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:22.000
 as Jonah

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:22.280
 being

00:33:22.280 --> 00:33:22.780
 sent to

00:33:22.780 --> 00:33:23.259
 Nineveh,

00:33:24.100 --> 00:33:24.960
 these events

00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:26.160
 point towards

00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:26.680
 the coming

00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:27.360
 messianic

00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:28.060
 kingdom of

00:33:28.060 --> 00:33:28.700
 Christ our

00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:29.280
 Lord Jesus

00:33:29.280 --> 00:33:29.800
 as we

00:33:29.800 --> 00:33:30.820
 know now,

00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:32.100
 where the

00:33:32.100 --> 00:33:32.780
 nations will

00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:33.340
 be blessed

00:33:33.340 --> 00:33:33.900
 through the

00:33:33.900 --> 00:33:34.259
 promise

00:33:34.259 --> 00:33:35.240
 offspring of

00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:35.740
 Abraham

00:33:35.740 --> 00:33:36.460
 Christ.

00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:37.180
 Abraham,

00:33:37.379 --> 00:33:37.619
 which would

00:33:37.619 --> 00:33:38.200
 be Christ,

00:33:38.500 --> 00:33:38.980
 that told

00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:39.319
 you in

00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:39.819
 Galatians

00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:40.519
 chapter 3

00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:41.259
 verse 16.

00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:42.599
 God's

00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:43.119
 word was

00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:43.420
 to be

00:33:43.420 --> 00:33:44.160
 spoken by

00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:44.819
 Jonah to

00:33:44.819 --> 00:33:45.319
 Nineveh,

00:33:45.879 --> 00:33:48.180
 but in

00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:48.579
 Jonah's

00:33:48.579 --> 00:33:49.420
 disobedience,

00:33:49.740 --> 00:33:50.299
 he testified

00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:51.180
 about God

00:33:51.180 --> 00:33:52.359
 to the

00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:52.859
 sailors.

00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:53.599
 As I said

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:53.879
 again,

00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:54.279
 he told

00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:54.720
 them who

00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:55.299
 he was

00:33:55.299 --> 00:33:56.599
 and he

00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:57.220
 told them

00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:58.119
 who he

00:33:58.119 --> 00:33:58.500
 fears,

00:33:58.619 --> 00:33:59.000
 which that

00:33:59.000 --> 00:33:59.359
 didn't

00:33:59.359 --> 00:33:59.859
 demonstrate,

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:00.259
 he did

00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:00.779
 fear God.

00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:01.720
 But God

00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:02.359
 demonstrates

00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:02.920
 his missional

00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:03.539
 plan to

00:34:03.539 --> 00:34:04.420
 see salvation

00:34:04.420 --> 00:34:05.980
 extended to

00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:06.559
 the sailors

00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.359
 and all

00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:07.960
 the nations

00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:08.420
 and that

00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:09.039
 rings true

00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:09.619
 for us

00:34:09.619 --> 00:34:10.000
 today.

00:34:10.759 --> 00:34:11.239
 So let

00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:11.579
 us be

00:34:11.579 --> 00:34:12.079
 alert,

00:34:12.779 --> 00:34:13.219
 let us

00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:13.800
 awake,

00:34:14.259 --> 00:34:15.139
 be watchful

00:34:15.139 --> 00:34:16.079
 and active

00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:16.460
 in our

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:16.759
 faith,

00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:17.320
 awaiting

00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:18.139
 God-given

00:34:18.139 --> 00:34:19.079
 opportunities.

00:34:20.139 --> 00:34:21.099
 And I

00:34:21.099 --> 00:34:21.320
 want to

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:21.940
 give a

00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:22.820
 bit of

00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:23.559
 insight into

00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:23.940
 this.

00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:25.519
 Before I

00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:26.340
 came to

00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:26.759
 be who

00:34:26.759 --> 00:34:27.619
 Christ has

00:34:27.619 --> 00:34:28.219
 called me

00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:28.779
 to be,

00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:30.079
 I too

00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:31.360
 lived a

00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:31.880
 life in

00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:32.440
 South East

00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:33.159
 London where

00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:34.239
 my wickedness

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:34.960
 came up to

00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:35.859
 God without

00:34:35.859 --> 00:34:36.699
 my knowing

00:34:36.699 --> 00:34:37.639
 as many

00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:38.279
 other people

00:34:38.279 --> 00:34:39.059
 in society

00:34:39.059 --> 00:34:39.899
 without their

00:34:39.899 --> 00:34:40.319
 knowing,

00:34:40.899 --> 00:34:41.379
 walking in

00:34:41.379 --> 00:34:41.839
 their own

00:34:41.839 --> 00:34:42.519
 ignorance.

00:34:43.359 --> 00:34:44.239
 I used to

00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:45.319
 participate and

00:34:45.319 --> 00:34:46.019
 live a life of

00:34:46.019 --> 00:34:46.679
 crime,

00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:48.500
 drug dealing

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:49.500
 and many

00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:50.599
 other savoury

00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:51.179
 things that

00:34:51.179 --> 00:34:52.199
 was wickedness

00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:52.899
 that came up

00:34:52.899 --> 00:34:53.379
 to God.

00:34:53.879 --> 00:34:54.319
 But when

00:34:54.319 --> 00:34:54.819
 you're in a

00:34:54.819 --> 00:34:55.559
 place in a

00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:56.339
 state of

00:34:56.339 --> 00:34:57.239
 blindness and

00:34:57.239 --> 00:34:57.699
 darkness,

00:34:58.099 --> 00:34:58.539
 you probably

00:34:58.539 --> 00:34:59.219
 do not see

00:34:59.219 --> 00:34:59.839
 that because

00:34:59.839 --> 00:35:00.839
 you consider

00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:01.280
 what is

00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:02.059
 right in

00:35:02.059 --> 00:35:02.600
 your own

00:35:02.600 --> 00:35:03.120
 eyes as

00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:03.820
 many people

00:35:03.820 --> 00:35:04.800
 do outside.

00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:05.920
 But it

00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:07.519
 was granted

00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:07.980
 to the

00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:08.900
 faithful church

00:35:08.900 --> 00:35:09.559
 those who

00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:10.300
 knew Jesus

00:35:10.300 --> 00:35:11.260
 who have

00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:11.740
 the word

00:35:11.740 --> 00:35:12.320
 of Christ

00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:12.620
 that is

00:35:12.620 --> 00:35:13.120
 preached to

00:35:13.120 --> 00:35:13.680
 them week

00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:13.880
 in,

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:14.660
 week out.

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:15.600
 They hear

00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:15.960
 what the

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:16.600
 Bible has

00:35:16.600 --> 00:35:17.240
 to say

00:35:17.240 --> 00:35:18.800
 about the

00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:19.600
 saints and

00:35:19.600 --> 00:35:20.120
 the sinners.

00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:20.980
 And they

00:35:20.980 --> 00:35:21.500
 took that

00:35:21.500 --> 00:35:22.120
 word out to

00:35:22.120 --> 00:35:22.640
 the street

00:35:22.640 --> 00:35:23.220
 because they

00:35:23.220 --> 00:35:23.620
 heard it

00:35:23.620 --> 00:35:24.260
 from God's

00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:24.559
 word.

00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:25.300
 And they

00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:26.140
 preached that

00:35:26.139 --> 00:35:26.659
 and they

00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:27.059
 had the

00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:27.559
 opportunity

00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:28.339
 to see

00:35:28.339 --> 00:35:28.719
 me,

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:29.539
 to stop

00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:29.920
 me,

00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:30.839
 share God's

00:35:30.839 --> 00:35:31.279
 word with

00:35:31.279 --> 00:35:31.599
 me.

00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:32.599
 I heard

00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:33.059
 God's

00:35:33.059 --> 00:35:33.460
 word,

00:35:33.779 --> 00:35:34.339
 didn't really

00:35:34.339 --> 00:35:35.219
 understood it,

00:35:35.319 --> 00:35:35.980
 but I heard

00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:36.659
 God's word.

00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:37.539
 And that was

00:35:37.539 --> 00:35:38.319
 God in his

00:35:38.319 --> 00:35:39.079
 kindness and

00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:39.519
 his goodness

00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:40.179
 to me,

00:35:40.319 --> 00:35:41.159
 to allow me

00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:41.960
 to hear his

00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:42.319
 word.

00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:44.859
 And in the

00:35:44.859 --> 00:35:45.319
 appropriate

00:35:45.319 --> 00:35:46.039
 time,

00:35:46.799 --> 00:35:48.420
 God revealed

00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:49.159
 his truth

00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:50.039
 to me and

00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:50.599
 I'm standing

00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:51.619
 here before

00:35:51.619 --> 00:35:52.059
 you.

00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:53.259
 Because this

00:35:53.259 --> 00:35:53.960
 same message

00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:54.599
 that I read

00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:56.000
 here is the

00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:56.619
 same message

00:35:56.619 --> 00:35:56.940
 that he

00:35:56.940 --> 00:35:57.639
 communicates

00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:57.980
 to his

00:35:57.980 --> 00:35:58.460
 church.

00:35:59.820 --> 00:36:00.420
 And I

00:36:00.420 --> 00:36:00.679
 want to

00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:01.119
 touch on

00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:01.980
 also again

00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:04.039
 Josiah.

00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:05.880
 Josiah's

00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:06.219
 mother,

00:36:06.619 --> 00:36:07.159
 Josiah's

00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:07.500
 just got

00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:07.719
 married,

00:36:07.780 --> 00:36:08.159
 our brother,

00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:09.119
 Josiah's

00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:09.340
 mother,

00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:10.219
 I saw

00:36:10.219 --> 00:36:10.500
 on a

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:11.159
 podcast,

00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:12.559
 his mother

00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.300
 was sharing

00:36:13.300 --> 00:36:14.380
 that she

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:14.940
 said to

00:36:14.940 --> 00:36:15.420
 a friend,

00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:16.320
 can we

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:16.719
 read the

00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:16.960
 Bible

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:17.360
 together?

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:17.760
 I'd like

00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:18.079
 to read

00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:18.480
 the Bible

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:19.019
 with you.

00:36:19.820 --> 00:36:20.340
 The friend

00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:21.079
 rejected at

00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:21.519
 the time

00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:21.780
 thought,

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:22.159
 no,

00:36:22.340 --> 00:36:22.619
 I don't

00:36:22.619 --> 00:36:22.840
 want to

00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:23.179
 read the

00:36:23.179 --> 00:36:23.500
 Bible.

00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:24.179
 But then

00:36:24.179 --> 00:36:24.980
 weeks later

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:25.400
 or maybe

00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:25.980
 even months

00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:26.440
 after,

00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:27.280
 they said,

00:36:27.740 --> 00:36:27.920
 yeah,

00:36:28.019 --> 00:36:28.400
 I'd like

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:28.740
 to take

00:36:28.740 --> 00:36:29.019
 you up

00:36:29.019 --> 00:36:29.280
 on that

00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:29.619
 offer and

00:36:29.619 --> 00:36:29.900
 read the

00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:30.240
 Bible.

00:36:30.820 --> 00:36:31.360
 They sat

00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:31.619
 down,

00:36:31.699 --> 00:36:31.980
 they read

00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:32.380
 the Bible

00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:32.760
 for a

00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:32.980
 while,

00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:33.360
 I'm not

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:33.900
 sure how

00:36:33.900 --> 00:36:34.340
 long,

00:36:34.780 --> 00:36:35.639
 but eventually

00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:37.039
 that person

00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:38.000
 came to

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:38.699
 faith in

00:36:38.699 --> 00:36:39.659
 Jesus Christ.

00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:41.340
 And that

00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:41.619
 is what

00:36:41.619 --> 00:36:41.960
 God is

00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:42.199
 saying.

00:36:44.059 --> 00:36:44.519
 Whether

00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.280
 they receive

00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:45.960
 Jesus as

00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:46.340
 Lord and

00:36:46.340 --> 00:36:46.920
 Saviour or

00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:47.599
 reject him,

00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:50.139
 they are

00:36:50.139 --> 00:36:50.460
 going to be

00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:51.320
 accountable and

00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:51.599
 they will

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.300
 still stand

00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:52.840
 before the

00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:53.360
 judgment seat

00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:53.940
 of Christ.

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:54.880
 So it's

00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:55.659
 important as

00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:56.260
 a church

00:36:56.260 --> 00:36:57.079
 that we

00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:57.720
 seek how

00:36:57.720 --> 00:36:58.200
 God would

00:36:58.200 --> 00:36:58.639
 want to

00:36:58.639 --> 00:36:59.240
 lead us

00:36:59.240 --> 00:36:59.880
 and use

00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:00.860
 us to

00:37:00.860 --> 00:37:01.900
 proclaim and

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:02.460
 share his

00:37:02.460 --> 00:37:02.880
 word.

00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:03.659
 The

00:37:03.659 --> 00:37:04.340
 Ninevites,

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:05.420
 again,

00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:06.440
 they were

00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:07.220
 a barbaric

00:37:07.220 --> 00:37:08.700
 people with

00:37:08.700 --> 00:37:10.019
 atrocities and

00:37:10.019 --> 00:37:10.539
 there's many

00:37:10.539 --> 00:37:11.380
 people like that

00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:12.340
 in this society.

00:37:13.220 --> 00:37:13.800
 But we

00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:14.920
 have the

00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:15.720
 words that

00:37:15.720 --> 00:37:16.559
 bring eternal

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.059
 life.

00:37:17.700 --> 00:37:18.260
 We have

00:37:18.260 --> 00:37:19.179
 news about

00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:19.700
 a loving

00:37:19.700 --> 00:37:20.280
 God who

00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:20.700
 loves his

00:37:20.700 --> 00:37:21.280
 creation.

00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:22.100
 So as

00:37:22.100 --> 00:37:22.500
 God's

00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:23.040
 word comes

00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:23.580
 to us,

00:37:24.060 --> 00:37:24.760
 he sends

00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:25.680
 us to

00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:26.180
 bring his

00:37:26.180 --> 00:37:26.640
 word to

00:37:26.640 --> 00:37:27.100
 others.

00:37:27.640 --> 00:37:28.160
 So let us

00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:28.800
 be encouraged

00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:29.400
 and I pray

00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:29.820
 that God

00:37:29.820 --> 00:37:30.400
 would help

00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:31.580
 us as we

00:37:31.580 --> 00:37:32.100
 do mission

00:37:32.100 --> 00:37:32.440
 in this

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:32.980
 community.

00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:34.100
 The third

00:37:34.100 --> 00:37:34.620
 and final

00:37:34.620 --> 00:37:35.420
 point now

00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:35.820
 I just want

00:37:35.820 --> 00:37:36.200
 to touch

00:37:36.200 --> 00:37:36.380
 on,

00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:37.280
 verse 17.

00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:38.280
 So we

00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:39.340
 see in

00:37:39.340 --> 00:37:40.260
 Jonah's

00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:41.380
 disobedience,

00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:42.580
 in Jonah's

00:37:42.580 --> 00:37:43.380
 running away,

00:37:43.740 --> 00:37:44.260
 going in the

00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:45.380
 opposite direction,

00:37:46.040 --> 00:37:46.920
 verse 3 will

00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:47.680
 tell us that

00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:49.019
 he ran from

00:37:49.019 --> 00:37:49.680
 the Lord and

00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:50.080
 he's heading

00:37:50.080 --> 00:37:51.000
 to Tarshish.

00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:52.179
 The ESV

00:37:52.179 --> 00:37:52.920
 other version

00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:53.340
 will say

00:37:53.340 --> 00:37:54.300
 Tarshish three

00:37:54.300 --> 00:37:56.000
 times and

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:56.400
 that's just

00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:56.840
 really to

00:37:56.840 --> 00:37:58.480
 highlight Tarshish

00:37:58.480 --> 00:37:59.559
 is more

00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:01.260
 Mediterranean

00:38:01.260 --> 00:38:04.360
 Europe side.

00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:05.559
 It's not

00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:06.019
 going back

00:38:06.019 --> 00:38:06.380
 into the

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:07.000
 Middle East

00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:07.460
 where

00:38:07.460 --> 00:38:08.920
 Nineveh is.

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:09.880
 He's going

00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:10.380
 in a different

00:38:10.380 --> 00:38:11.119
 direction and

00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:11.480
 that's just

00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:12.280
 highlighting his

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:13.179
 disobedience.

00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:14.800
 Now with

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:15.400
 all of his

00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:16.159
 disobedience,

00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:17.199
 look at our

00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:17.719
 wonderful,

00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:18.760
 gracious God.

00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:20.860
 look what

00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:21.380
 God does

00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:21.820
 in verse

00:38:21.820 --> 00:38:22.580
 17.

00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:24.740
 Jonah is

00:38:24.740 --> 00:38:25.640
 outright

00:38:25.640 --> 00:38:27.160
 disrespectful

00:38:27.160 --> 00:38:28.220
 saying he

00:38:28.220 --> 00:38:28.980
 fears God

00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:29.560
 which his

00:38:29.560 --> 00:38:30.240
 actions does

00:38:30.240 --> 00:38:30.720
 not show

00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:31.060
 that he

00:38:31.060 --> 00:38:31.660
 fears God.

00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:33.040
 Some of

00:38:33.040 --> 00:38:33.360
 us,

00:38:33.600 --> 00:38:34.020
 we can

00:38:34.020 --> 00:38:34.720
 resonate with

00:38:34.720 --> 00:38:34.940
 that.

00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:35.360
 Sometimes

00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:36.380
 our action

00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:38.520
 testifies

00:38:38.520 --> 00:38:39.440
 contrary to

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:40.040
 what we say

00:38:40.040 --> 00:38:41.060
 we are and

00:38:41.060 --> 00:38:41.640
 how we live

00:38:41.640 --> 00:38:42.320
 before God.

00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:43.160
 but look

00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:43.620
 what God

00:38:43.620 --> 00:38:44.000
 does.

00:38:44.500 --> 00:38:45.480
 He provides

00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:46.160
 a huge

00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:47.160
 fish for

00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:47.900
 Jonah so

00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:48.559
 he doesn't

00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:49.059
 drown.

00:38:51.580 --> 00:38:52.120
 And that's

00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:52.480
 how God

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:52.720
 is.

00:38:54.080 --> 00:38:54.880
 God is a

00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:55.600
 merciful God.

00:38:56.720 --> 00:38:57.380
 He's a

00:38:57.380 --> 00:38:58.120
 gracious God.

00:38:58.180 --> 00:38:58.400
 He's a

00:38:58.400 --> 00:38:58.760
 loving and

00:38:58.760 --> 00:38:59.000
 he's a

00:38:59.000 --> 00:38:59.500
 kind God.

00:39:00.220 --> 00:39:01.300
 Often we

00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:01.800
 all know

00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:02.300
 how we

00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:02.700
 get it

00:39:02.700 --> 00:39:03.019
 wrong.

00:39:04.140 --> 00:39:04.880
 We know

00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:05.880
 how we

00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:06.360
 let God

00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:06.680
 down.

00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:07.280
 We often

00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:07.920
 at times

00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:08.340
 do not

00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:09.120
 do exactly

00:39:09.120 --> 00:39:09.559
 what we

00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:10.900
 know is

00:39:10.900 --> 00:39:12.400
 speaking and

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.320
 directing us

00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:13.700
 to do.

00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:15.139
 But he

00:39:15.139 --> 00:39:15.880
 still shows

00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:16.400
 his grace,

00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:16.960
 his mercy,

00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:17.579
 his love and

00:39:17.579 --> 00:39:18.119
 his kindness

00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:18.720
 to us.

00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:20.300
 And this

00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:20.740
 is something

00:39:20.740 --> 00:39:21.200
 that the

00:39:21.200 --> 00:39:22.519
 nations could

00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:22.960
 do with

00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:23.539
 hearing and

00:39:23.539 --> 00:39:23.840
 knowing.

00:39:25.720 --> 00:39:26.260
 So that's

00:39:26.260 --> 00:39:27.280
 God in

00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:27.840
 this picture

00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:28.340
 really.

00:39:28.539 --> 00:39:29.119
 He speaks

00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:29.539
 to us

00:39:29.539 --> 00:39:29.940
 church,

00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:30.740
 he encourages

00:39:30.740 --> 00:39:31.240
 us,

00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:33.000
 he challenges

00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:33.360
 us,

00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:34.019
 wake up,

00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:35.260
 wake up.

00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:35.960
 Do we not

00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:36.860
 acknowledge and

00:39:36.860 --> 00:39:37.760
 aware that

00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:38.300
 our God is

00:39:38.300 --> 00:39:38.760
 right here

00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:39.300
 with us?

00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:40.680
 And also

00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:41.980
 let us

00:39:41.980 --> 00:39:42.599
 continue to

00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:43.079
 receive his

00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:43.519
 grace and

00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:44.059
 his mercy.

00:39:44.179 --> 00:39:44.659
 There's no

00:39:44.659 --> 00:39:45.259
 need to be

00:39:45.259 --> 00:39:45.699
 condemned.

00:39:46.179 --> 00:39:46.859
 Romans told

00:39:46.859 --> 00:39:47.299
 us there's

00:39:47.299 --> 00:39:48.599
 no condemnation

00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:49.559
 for those

00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:50.199
 who are in

00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:51.019
 Christ Jesus.

00:39:51.859 --> 00:39:52.219
 So for

00:39:52.219 --> 00:39:52.719
 time I'm

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.019
 just going

00:39:53.019 --> 00:39:53.279
 to bring

00:39:53.279 --> 00:39:53.679
 us to a

00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:54.480
 close and

00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:55.299
 summarize

00:39:55.299 --> 00:39:56.399
 the

00:39:56.399 --> 00:39:57.000
 conclusion.

00:39:59.179 --> 00:39:59.619
 God's

00:39:59.619 --> 00:40:00.419
 sovereignty.

00:40:01.619 --> 00:40:01.980
 Although

00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:02.719
 Jonah tried

00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:03.099
 to run

00:40:03.099 --> 00:40:03.579
 away from

00:40:03.579 --> 00:40:03.919
 God,

00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:04.659
 God was

00:40:04.659 --> 00:40:05.859
 always in

00:40:05.859 --> 00:40:06.379
 control.

00:40:07.460 --> 00:40:07.839
 And that's

00:40:07.839 --> 00:40:08.159
 the same

00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:08.559
 with our

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:08.899
 life.

00:40:08.900 --> 00:40:09.440
 He's

00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:10.300
 always in

00:40:10.300 --> 00:40:10.860
 control,

00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:11.820
 no matter

00:40:11.820 --> 00:40:12.059
 the

00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:12.780
 metaphorical

00:40:12.780 --> 00:40:13.160
 storm,

00:40:13.260 --> 00:40:13.619
 whatever's

00:40:13.619 --> 00:40:14.180
 going on.

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:15.320
 By

00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:15.840
 controlling

00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:16.500
 the stormy

00:40:16.500 --> 00:40:16.920
 seas and

00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:17.660
 providing a

00:40:17.660 --> 00:40:17.980
 fish,

00:40:18.380 --> 00:40:19.079
 God displays

00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:19.900
 his absolute

00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:21.200
 yet loving

00:40:21.200 --> 00:40:21.980
 guidance.

00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:23.539
 Rather than

00:40:23.539 --> 00:40:24.039
 running from

00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:24.380
 God,

00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:25.519
 trusting him

00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:25.820
 with your

00:40:25.820 --> 00:40:26.340
 past,

00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:27.740
 your present

00:40:27.740 --> 00:40:28.940
 and your

00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:29.400
 future.

00:40:30.579 --> 00:40:30.860
 Being

00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:31.599
 disobedient

00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:32.400
 and continuing

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:32.940
 in sin

00:40:32.940 --> 00:40:33.760
 leads to

00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:34.440
 disasters

00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:35.000
 and a

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:35.400
 stormy

00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:35.720
 life.

00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:36.460
 And that's

00:40:36.460 --> 00:40:37.159
 exactly what's

00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:37.579
 happening in

00:40:37.579 --> 00:40:38.000
 the world.

00:40:38.740 --> 00:40:39.200
 The world

00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:40.700
 rejects our

00:40:40.700 --> 00:40:41.039
 God.

00:40:42.019 --> 00:40:42.500
 So there's

00:40:42.500 --> 00:40:43.360
 disasters and

00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:43.840
 storms,

00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:45.260
 metaphorically,

00:40:45.700 --> 00:40:46.320
 as well as

00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:46.880
 real-time

00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:47.360
 storms.

00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:48.200
 And that's

00:40:48.200 --> 00:40:48.619
 because we

00:40:48.619 --> 00:40:49.019
 live in a

00:40:49.019 --> 00:40:49.559
 rebellious

00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:50.619
 world that

00:40:50.619 --> 00:40:51.240
 wants nothing

00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:51.840
 to do with

00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:52.099
 God.

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:54.380
 Saying yes

00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:55.099
 to God

00:40:55.099 --> 00:40:56.139
 brings new

00:40:56.139 --> 00:40:57.059
 understanding of

00:40:57.059 --> 00:40:57.579
 God and his

00:40:57.579 --> 00:40:58.440
 purpose and

00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.019
 plans for

00:41:00.019 --> 00:41:00.740
 your life

00:41:00.740 --> 00:41:02.480
 and this

00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:02.780
 world.

00:41:02.780 --> 00:41:05.420
 human or

00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:05.960
 Jonah's

00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:06.360
 rebellion

00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:07.180
 evil brings

00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:07.740
 pain and

00:41:07.740 --> 00:41:08.340
 disaster.

00:41:09.820 --> 00:41:10.500
 God's

00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:11.160
 message of

00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:11.580
 love and

00:41:11.580 --> 00:41:12.440
 forgiveness is

00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:13.120
 not just for

00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:13.760
 us alone.

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:15.880
 God loves

00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:16.560
 people of

00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:16.980
 the world

00:41:16.980 --> 00:41:18.240
 who he

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:18.800
 created in

00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:19.420
 his image.

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:20.940
 The Syrians,

00:41:21.140 --> 00:41:22.360
 the Ninevites,

00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:22.880
 they didn't

00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.920
 deserve it in

00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:24.500
 our eyes.

00:41:25.660 --> 00:41:26.600
 But God

00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:27.260
 was willing to

00:41:27.260 --> 00:41:27.920
 spare them

00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:29.400
 so they

00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:30.120
 should repent.

00:41:30.600 --> 00:41:31.280
 It's exactly

00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:31.980
 the same for

00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:32.420
 those

00:41:32.420 --> 00:41:33.200
 who we

00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:33.840
 might find

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:34.260
 it hard

00:41:34.260 --> 00:41:34.800
 to love

00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:35.920
 like or

00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:36.740
 like because

00:41:36.740 --> 00:41:37.159
 of their

00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:37.900
 appearance,

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:39.420
 their behaviour,

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:40.200
 their values,

00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:41.240
 their culture

00:41:41.240 --> 00:41:41.720
 or their

00:41:41.720 --> 00:41:42.720
 belief systems.

00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:44.079
 In his

00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:44.780
 mercy, God

00:41:44.780 --> 00:41:45.260
 did not

00:41:45.260 --> 00:41:46.119
 reject Jonah

00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:46.880
 for seeking

00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:47.539
 to run

00:41:47.539 --> 00:41:48.480
 from his

00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:48.840
 assigned

00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:49.220
 mission.

00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:50.320
 God has

00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:51.059
 great love,

00:41:51.220 --> 00:41:52.119
 patience and

00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:52.639
 forgiveness.

00:41:53.420 --> 00:41:53.980
 God loves

00:41:53.980 --> 00:41:55.139
 each of us

00:41:55.139 --> 00:41:57.139
 even when

00:41:57.139 --> 00:41:57.980
 we fail him.

00:41:58.480 --> 00:41:58.920
 But he

00:41:58.920 --> 00:41:59.659
 also loves

00:41:59.659 --> 00:42:00.740
 other people

00:42:00.739 --> 00:42:00.759
 people,

00:42:01.319 --> 00:42:01.739
 including

00:42:01.739 --> 00:42:02.359
 those not

00:42:02.359 --> 00:42:02.719
 of our

00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:03.099
 group,

00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:03.799
 our

00:42:03.799 --> 00:42:04.299
 background,

00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:04.979
 our race

00:42:04.979 --> 00:42:05.959
 or denomination.

00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:07.339
 When we

00:42:07.339 --> 00:42:08.079
 accept his

00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:08.419
 love,

00:42:08.899 --> 00:42:09.399
 we must

00:42:09.399 --> 00:42:10.019
 also learn

00:42:10.019 --> 00:42:10.639
 to accept

00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:11.399
 all those

00:42:11.399 --> 00:42:12.119
 whom he

00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:12.500
 loves.

00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:14.279
 We will

00:42:14.279 --> 00:42:14.799
 find it

00:42:14.799 --> 00:42:15.419
 much easier

00:42:15.419 --> 00:42:15.859
 to love

00:42:15.859 --> 00:42:16.719
 others when

00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:17.479
 we embrace

00:42:17.479 --> 00:42:19.079
 and accept

00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:20.199
 the love

00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:20.799
 of God

00:42:20.799 --> 00:42:21.939
 unconditionally.

00:42:21.940 --> 00:42:24.119
 this kind

00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:24.519
 of love

00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:25.200
 comes from

00:42:25.200 --> 00:42:25.780
 surrendering

00:42:25.780 --> 00:42:26.440
 our lives

00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:27.059
 to Jesus

00:42:27.059 --> 00:42:27.720
 as our

00:42:27.720 --> 00:42:28.340
 Lord and

00:42:28.340 --> 00:42:28.780
 our

00:42:28.780 --> 00:42:29.340
 Saviour.

00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:31.300
 This

00:42:31.300 --> 00:42:31.960
 invitation

00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:32.619
 awaits

00:42:32.619 --> 00:42:33.480
 you today.

00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:35.920
 All our

00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.440
 ways are

00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:37.059
 laid before

00:42:37.059 --> 00:42:37.500
 God.

00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:38.320
 Our

00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:38.960
 self-seeking

00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:39.720
 selfish and

00:42:39.720 --> 00:42:40.340
 sin is

00:42:40.340 --> 00:42:41.119
 right before

00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:41.500
 God.

00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:43.179
 Today's

00:42:43.179 --> 00:42:43.780
 word is

00:42:43.780 --> 00:42:44.240
 declared

00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:45.000
 right before

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:45.280
 you in

00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:45.780
 your very

00:42:45.780 --> 00:42:46.260
 ears.

00:42:47.059 --> 00:42:47.500
 Let us

00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:48.800
 respond by

00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:49.579
 calling upon

00:42:49.579 --> 00:42:50.039
 God in

00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:50.840
 repentance and

00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:51.300
 faith in

00:42:51.300 --> 00:42:51.980
 Jesus Christ

00:42:51.980 --> 00:42:52.600
 who forgives

00:42:52.600 --> 00:42:53.400
 us and

00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:53.900
 show us

00:42:53.900 --> 00:42:54.420
 forgiveness,

00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:55.120
 kindness,

00:42:55.660 --> 00:42:56.340
 mercy and

00:42:56.340 --> 00:42:56.760
 grace.

00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:58.300
 So the

00:42:58.300 --> 00:42:59.019
 application,

00:42:59.539 --> 00:43:00.200
 take away

00:43:00.200 --> 00:43:00.539
 what will

00:43:00.539 --> 00:43:01.100
 take away

00:43:01.100 --> 00:43:01.580
 hopefully.

00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:02.980
 Know that

00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:03.560
 God loves

00:43:03.560 --> 00:43:04.420
 you dearly.

00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:05.440
 I cannot

00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:06.240
 even express

00:43:06.240 --> 00:43:06.860
 that enough

00:43:06.860 --> 00:43:07.400
 in words.

00:43:08.160 --> 00:43:08.720
 God loves

00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:09.360
 you dearly.

00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:11.960
 He chooses

00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:12.860
 to speak to

00:43:12.860 --> 00:43:13.320
 us through

00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:14.140
 his word by

00:43:14.140 --> 00:43:14.580
 his Holy

00:43:14.580 --> 00:43:15.060
 Spirit.

00:43:16.220 --> 00:43:17.100
 He knows

00:43:17.100 --> 00:43:18.080
 everybody's

00:43:18.080 --> 00:43:18.460
 language.

00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:19.260
 He knows

00:43:19.260 --> 00:43:19.920
 how to speak

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:20.519
 to you to

00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:20.980
 get your

00:43:20.980 --> 00:43:21.519
 attention,

00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:22.460
 to speak

00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:23.219
 right to

00:43:23.219 --> 00:43:24.059
 your heart.

00:43:24.659 --> 00:43:25.340
 He speaks

00:43:25.340 --> 00:43:26.099
 your language.

00:43:27.940 --> 00:43:28.240
 Let us

00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:28.740
 respond in

00:43:28.740 --> 00:43:29.519
 obedience to

00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:29.860
 what we

00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.980
 hear so

00:43:30.980 --> 00:43:31.599
 we grow

00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:32.559
 in truth

00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:33.599
 and knowledge

00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:34.500
 and know

00:43:34.500 --> 00:43:35.139
 God more

00:43:35.139 --> 00:43:35.780
 intimately.

00:43:36.820 --> 00:43:37.240
 Continue

00:43:37.240 --> 00:43:38.000
 hearing from

00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:38.519
 God through

00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:39.300
 reading his

00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:39.840
 word and

00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:40.699
 studying his

00:43:40.699 --> 00:43:41.659
 word or

00:43:41.659 --> 00:43:42.460
 even listening

00:43:42.460 --> 00:43:42.940
 to his

00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:43.300
 word.

00:43:45.179 --> 00:43:46.179
 And wake

00:43:46.179 --> 00:43:46.820
 up, let's

00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:47.519
 wake up out

00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:48.079
 of sleep.

00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:49.179
 Let us be

00:43:49.179 --> 00:43:49.740
 attentive,

00:43:49.739 --> 00:43:50.719
 alert,

00:43:50.899 --> 00:43:51.419
 watchful and

00:43:51.419 --> 00:43:52.000
 active in

00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:52.579
 our faith.

00:43:53.399 --> 00:43:54.199
 Knowing God

00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:54.919
 neither sleeps

00:43:54.919 --> 00:43:55.619
 nor slumber

00:43:55.619 --> 00:43:56.179
 but is

00:43:56.179 --> 00:43:56.839
 willing and

00:43:56.839 --> 00:43:57.279
 ready to

00:43:57.279 --> 00:43:57.879
 use us

00:43:57.879 --> 00:43:58.259
 for his

00:43:58.259 --> 00:43:58.879
 glorious

00:43:58.879 --> 00:43:59.279
 good.

00:43:59.279 --> 00:44:00.579
 Act upon

00:44:00.579 --> 00:44:01.079
 the word

00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:01.539
 of God

00:44:01.539 --> 00:44:02.219
 that you

00:44:02.219 --> 00:44:03.559
 hear and

00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:04.519
 try not to

00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:05.279
 second guess

00:44:05.279 --> 00:44:05.859
 what you

00:44:05.859 --> 00:44:06.439
 hear from

00:44:06.439 --> 00:44:06.639
 him.

00:44:07.699 --> 00:44:08.379
 And finally,

00:44:09.279 --> 00:44:10.659
 take heart

00:44:10.659 --> 00:44:11.459
 and be

00:44:11.459 --> 00:44:12.239
 comforted.

00:44:12.899 --> 00:44:13.259
 God is

00:44:13.259 --> 00:44:14.019
 merciful and

00:44:14.019 --> 00:44:14.699
 provides a

00:44:14.699 --> 00:44:15.479
 way for us

00:44:15.479 --> 00:44:15.879
 when we

00:44:15.879 --> 00:44:16.399
 trust in

00:44:16.399 --> 00:44:16.539
 him.

00:44:16.539 --> 00:44:17.239
 he always

00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:17.599
 does.

00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:19.539
 God will

00:44:19.539 --> 00:44:20.500
 complete what

00:44:20.500 --> 00:44:21.099
 he started

00:44:21.099 --> 00:44:21.599
 in you

00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:22.679
 despite the

00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:23.320
 setbacks,

00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:25.000
 the shortcomings

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.099
 and wrong

00:44:26.099 --> 00:44:26.779
 turns we

00:44:26.779 --> 00:44:27.380
 can often

00:44:27.380 --> 00:44:27.880
 take.

00:44:28.539 --> 00:44:29.000
 God is

00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:29.779
 still invested

00:44:29.779 --> 00:44:30.320
 in you

00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:32.279
 and mean

00:44:32.279 --> 00:44:33.139
 good for you

00:44:33.139 --> 00:44:33.920
 and for your

00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:34.320
 life.

00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:35.679
 Be encouraged.

00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:36.679
 Your God is

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:37.460
 the creator of

00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:38.320
 all things

00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:39.059
 and will

00:44:39.059 --> 00:44:40.039
 never forsake

00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:40.320
 you.

00:44:41.099 --> 00:44:41.880
 He continues

00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:42.420
 to have a

00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:43.079
 perfect plan

00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:43.400
 for your

00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:44.679
 life and

00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:45.460
 you can

00:44:45.460 --> 00:44:46.880
 trust him

00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:48.380
 in your

00:44:48.380 --> 00:44:48.819
 life.

00:44:49.420 --> 00:44:50.019
 Don't run

00:44:50.019 --> 00:44:50.719
 from him,

00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:52.420
 run to

00:44:52.420 --> 00:44:52.819
 him.

00:44:53.739 --> 00:44:54.279
 Let me

00:44:54.279 --> 00:44:54.579
 pray.

00:44:56.759 --> 00:44:57.679
 Father God,

00:44:58.519 --> 00:44:59.719
 we thank

00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:00.159
 you for your

00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:01.039
 word that

00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:01.559
 we have just

00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:02.799
 heard in

00:45:02.799 --> 00:45:03.059
 the book

00:45:03.059 --> 00:45:03.619
 of Jonah.

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:05.819
 And Lord,

00:45:05.940 --> 00:45:06.679
 we do want

00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:07.219
 to just ask

00:45:07.219 --> 00:45:07.599
 for your

00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:08.079
 forgiveness

00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:08.880
 when we

00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:10.099
 have second

00:45:10.099 --> 00:45:10.500
 guessed

00:45:10.500 --> 00:45:10.880
 you,

00:45:11.639 --> 00:45:12.179
 when we

00:45:12.179 --> 00:45:12.599
 have

00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:13.920
 been

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:14.739
 disobedient

00:45:14.739 --> 00:45:15.500
 and not

00:45:15.500 --> 00:45:16.199
 carried out

00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:16.559
 what you

00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:17.039
 have spoken

00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:17.599
 unto our

00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:18.059
 hearts.

00:45:19.279 --> 00:45:19.799
 Lord,

00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:20.319
 we thank

00:45:20.319 --> 00:45:21.139
 you despite

00:45:21.139 --> 00:45:22.179
 our

00:45:22.179 --> 00:45:22.799
 shortcomings

00:45:22.799 --> 00:45:23.639
 and wrongdoings,

00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:24.960
 you continually

00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:26.039
 provide a way

00:45:26.039 --> 00:45:26.699
 for us,

00:45:26.839 --> 00:45:27.019
 Lord,

00:45:27.319 --> 00:45:27.960
 to draw us

00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:28.659
 closer to

00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:28.920
 you.

00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:30.719
 Father,

00:45:30.819 --> 00:45:31.599
 I pray that

00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:32.219
 those who you

00:45:32.219 --> 00:45:32.920
 may put upon

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:33.599
 our hearts

00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:34.119
 and those in

00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:34.759
 this community,

00:45:35.019 --> 00:45:35.179
 Lord,

00:45:35.699 --> 00:45:36.159
 give us the

00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:36.539
 courage and

00:45:36.539 --> 00:45:37.099
 the boldness,

00:45:37.259 --> 00:45:37.639
 however,

00:45:37.980 --> 00:45:38.739
 however you

00:45:38.739 --> 00:45:39.400
 want to send

00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:39.559
 us,

00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:40.920
 however you

00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:41.799
 may want us

00:45:41.799 --> 00:45:42.480
 to testify,

00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:43.079
 and share

00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:43.519
 your good

00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:43.920
 news with

00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:44.319
 others.

00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:45.299
 Help us

00:45:45.299 --> 00:45:45.579
 to do

00:45:45.579 --> 00:45:45.779
 this,

00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:46.019
 Lord,

00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:46.339
 for we

00:45:46.339 --> 00:45:46.659
 know we

00:45:46.659 --> 00:45:47.179
 cannot do

00:45:47.179 --> 00:45:47.559
 that of

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:47.920
 our own

00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:48.199
 doing.

00:45:49.619 --> 00:45:50.079
 And Lord,

00:45:50.179 --> 00:45:50.880
 we thank

00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:51.259
 you for

00:45:51.259 --> 00:45:51.619
 what we've

00:45:51.619 --> 00:45:52.039
 seen in

00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:52.440
 the last

00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:52.799
 months,

00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:53.119
 Lord,

00:45:53.179 --> 00:45:53.719
 with those

00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:54.299
 who have

00:45:54.299 --> 00:45:54.759
 testified

00:45:54.759 --> 00:45:55.440
 that your

00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:55.980
 word was

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.519
 sent to

00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:56.739
 them,

00:45:56.819 --> 00:45:57.259
 they heard

00:45:57.259 --> 00:45:57.819
 your words

00:45:57.819 --> 00:45:58.119
 and they

00:45:58.119 --> 00:45:59.000
 came to

00:45:59.000 --> 00:45:59.400
 know you

00:45:59.400 --> 00:45:59.679
 and were

00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:00.079
 baptized.

00:46:01.319 --> 00:46:01.860
 So Lord,

00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:02.759
 for all

00:46:02.759 --> 00:46:03.079
 that we've

00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:03.519
 just heard

00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:03.960
 today,

00:46:04.699 --> 00:46:05.319
 we thank

00:46:05.319 --> 00:46:05.539
 you,

00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:06.239
 all praise

00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:06.839
 and honour

00:46:06.839 --> 00:46:07.519
 and glory

00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:08.019
 belongs

00:46:08.019 --> 00:46:08.719
 unto you

00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:09.139
 and you

00:46:09.139 --> 00:46:09.539
 alone.

00:46:09.539 --> 00:46:11.019
 So Lord,

00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:11.619
 I pray

00:46:11.619 --> 00:46:11.920
 that you

00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:12.219
 would just

00:46:12.219 --> 00:46:12.920
 help us

00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:15.259
 to listen,

00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:17.059
 respond when

00:46:17.059 --> 00:46:17.599
 we hear your

00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:18.039
 voice,

00:46:18.900 --> 00:46:19.420
 help us

00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:19.719
 that we

00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:20.059
 will be

00:46:20.059 --> 00:46:20.380
 alert,

00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:20.900
 attentive

00:46:20.900 --> 00:46:21.759
 and awake.

00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:23.559
 And Lord,

00:46:23.980 --> 00:46:24.599
 I thank you

00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:25.179
 for your grace,

00:46:25.259 --> 00:46:25.679
 your mercy,

00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:26.059
 your loving

00:46:26.059 --> 00:46:26.659
 kindness and

00:46:26.659 --> 00:46:27.480
 steadfast love

00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:28.019
 that endures

00:46:28.019 --> 00:46:28.539
 towards us

00:46:28.539 --> 00:46:28.840
 forever.

00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:30.259
 Bless your

00:46:30.259 --> 00:46:30.900
 people today,

00:46:30.980 --> 00:46:31.380
 I pray in

00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:32.139
 Jesus' name.

00:46:32.139 --> 00:46:32.980
 Amen.

00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:33.119
 Amen.

00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:33.179
 Amen.