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 Jonah chapter 4. There's only four chapters in Jonah and today we're on the last chapter.

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 We're preaching through the gospel according to John. We finished all the way through John 16,

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 but once a month or so we pop back to the Old Testament and we've worked through the book of

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 Ruth. Now we're working through the book of Jonah. And it's been a delight and it's also amazing to

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 see the same gospel, the same message throughout all of God's word. So we're going to read all of

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 Jonah chapter 4 as our sermon text today. We'll really begin one verse before that.

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 As I read God's word today and as you follow along, remember this is God's inspired, inerrant,

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 infallible, clear, and sufficient word. This is God's very own word for you who are his people.

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 If you receive his word today in that way, then when I'm done with the reading of the word, I'll say

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 this is the word of the God and we'll respond, thanks be to God.

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 Jonah chapter 4, but let's start one verse prior. So Jonah chapter 3 verse 10.

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 When God saw what they did, that's the repentance of the Ninevites, how they turned from their evil way,

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 God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them and he did not do it.

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 Jonah 4 verse 1.

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 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was angry and he prayed to the Lord and said,

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 O Lord, is not this what I said when I was in my country?

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 That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful,

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 slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and relenting from disaster.

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 Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

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 And the Lord said, do you do well to be angry?

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 Verse 5.

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 Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east of the city and made a booth for himself there.

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 He sat under it in the shade till he should see what would become of the city.

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 Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it grow up over Jonah that it might be a shade over his head to save him from his discomfort.

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 So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

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 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

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 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind.

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 And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint.

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 And he asked that he might die and said, it is better for me to die than to live.

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 But God said to Jonah, do you do well to be angry for the plant?

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 And he said, yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.

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 And the Lord said, you pity the plant for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow.

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 Which came into being in a night and perished in a night.

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 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left.

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 And also much cattle.

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 This is the word of the Lord.

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 Thanks be to God.

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 You may be seated.

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 The Bible says that the grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord endures forever.

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 Beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, how do you see God?

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 How do you see God?

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 As I pray for illumination that the Lord would speak through his word, ponder that question.

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 How do you see God?

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 Let's pray.

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 Oh God, you are the creator and sustainer of everyone and everything.

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 You are eternal, infinite, and unchangeable in your power and perfection, goodness and glory, wisdom, justice and truth.

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 And nothing happens except through you and by your will, as the catechism says.

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 I pray, Lord, today that by the power of your spirit through the ministry of the word, you will open our eyes to see you, God, for who you truly are.

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 That you will be glorified in our lives, we pray.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 In the Chronicles of Narnia, Lucy is learning who Aslan is.

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 Lucy is the little girl.

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 Aslan is the great lion, the creator, and the king over Narnia and over the whole world.

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 And Mr. and Mrs. Beaver are the ones who get to introduce Lucy to the idea of who Aslan is.

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 Lucy is curious, so she asks, is he safe?

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 The beaver says, of course he isn't safe.

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 He's wild, you know, not like a tame lion, but he's good.

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 He's the king, I tell you.

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 Great literature has two types of characters.

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 One is called a flat character.

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 The other is called a round character.

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 They're set up to be contrasts one with the other.

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 A flat character can be summed up in one to two sentences.

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 A flat character has traits that are consistent.

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 And a flat character is stable and more predictable.

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 The flat character serves to point a flashlight or a spotlight at a different character.

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 And that's the round or the complex character.

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 So with Narnia, you have Lucy who's a flat character.

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 She's spotlighting Aslan.

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 Lucy is consistently kind toward her siblings.

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 Lucy consistently rests, putting her hope in Aslan to come and save them.

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 But Aslan is not a tame lion, you see.

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 But he is the king and he's good.

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 We know from all of scripture that God is unchanging.

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 All of his attributes are unified in his essence.

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 But God does not reveal himself in a flat way.

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 Jonah seems to want a flat God.

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 The book of Jonah shows us God is so much bigger, Jonah.

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 God cannot be summed up in one to two sentences, can he?

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 Many of God's attributes are paradoxical.

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 And God often surprises you.

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 How do you see God, dear Christian?

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 How do you see God?

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 I believe as we walk through this last chapter of Jonah,

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 when you see God for who he truly is,

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 something will happen to you and to me.

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 As we see God for who he truly is,

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 the true condition of our heart gets exposed.

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 This was true for Jonah.

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 When God shows you who he truly is,

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 the true condition of your heart is exposed.

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 When God shows you who he truly is,

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 the true condition of your heart is exposed.

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 A couple observations on this.

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 The Lord revealed to Jonah,

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 in redemptive history,

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 these events actually happened in a real city,

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 a real capital of the Assyrian Empire.

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 God used those events in redemptive history

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 to reveal to Jonah who he truly is.

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 So God acts in history to reveal himself.

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 So we read in Jonah 4, verse 1,

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 it displeased Jonah exceedingly,

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 and he was very angry.

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 The verb displeased,

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 it displeased Jonah exceedingly.

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 That verb is used in the Bible in connection to the eyes.

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 One example is Proverbs 15, 3,

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 the eyes of the Lord are in every place,

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 keeping watch on the evil and the good.

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 So you're seeing it,

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 you're taking it in,

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 and you're determining,

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 is this pleasing or not?

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 We see here two things that Jonah saw

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 that displeased him greatly.

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 Number one,

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 Jonah saw the Ninevites turn

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 and repent.

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 Number two,

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 Jonah saw God show mercy

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 by withholding punishment.

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 So what displeased Jonah

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 is really a reference to chapter 3, verse 10.

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 Take your eyes there in your Bible.

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 Jonah 3, 10,

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 when God saw what the Ninevites did,

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 how they turned from their evil way,

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 God relented of the disaster

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 that he said he would do to them,

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 and he did not do it.

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 And so we get the reaction of Jonah

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 in response.

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 In the Hebrew,

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 the literal translation,

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 according to the experts I learned from,

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 is this.

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 Jonah determined that it was evil,

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 and it burned in him.

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 That's his response.

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 That's what God revealed

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 was inside of Jonah.

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 God forgave the Ninevites.

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 Jonah could not.

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 God displeased Jonah.

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 From Jonah's perspective,

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 Nineveh is evil, God.

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 And if you are just,

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 how could you not punish evil?

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 So Jonah thinks that God's mercy is evil.

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 Now this little story has so much irony.

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 Irony is another literary device.

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 So kids,

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 irony is when a character's contradiction

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 or you could say in this case,

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 their hypocrisy,

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 it's very obvious to us,

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 the reader,

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 but the character himself is blind to it.

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 It's ironic to everyone else.

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 We see it.

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 God put the right words

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 in the mouth of Jonah,

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 even though he's angry at God.

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 Look at what Jonah says in verse 2.

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 God says the right things about God.

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 God is a God that is merciful,

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 slow to anger,

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 and abounding in steadfast love,

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 and relenting from disaster.

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 So Jonah's words are the correct theology,

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 and Jonah is quoting what God has told his people in numerous places.

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 One of those is Exodus 34,

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 verses 6 and 7.

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 But Jonah does not like who God truly is.

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 That's the real problem here.

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 Jonah is displeased with who God truly is.

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 How do you see God?

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 It doesn't get any easier for us

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 in the New Testament, does it?

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 One example is Romans 9, verse 18,

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 which says that the Lord has mercy

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 on whomever he wills,

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 and he hardens whomever he wills.

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 How do you see God?

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 The Lord revealed to Jonah in redemptive history

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 who God truly is.

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 The Lord reveals to you and me

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 in redemptive history

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 who he truly is.

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 Second observation is that

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 Jonah's response to who God truly

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 reveals himself to be,

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 it exposes the condition of Jonah's heart.

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 So Jonah's response

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 exposes the condition of his heart.

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 In verse 2,

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 Jonah prayed unto the Lord

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 and he complained, saying,

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 this is what I said

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 when I was back in my country.

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 It's why I fled earlier to Tarshish.

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 Verse 3 says,

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 I beseech you now, O Lord,

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 take my life from me,

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 for it is better for me to die

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 than to live.

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 Well, in Jonah chapter 2,

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 Jonah prayed,

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 thanking God for sparing his own life.

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 Now in chapter 4,

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 Jonah prays,

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 asking for God to take his life.

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 God, if you're a God

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 who tolerates the sin

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 of this wicked people,

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 how can you be just?

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 Jonah can't handle

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 what God has revealed himself

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 to truly be.

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 Well, we have to ask the question now,

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 who has the right to be angry?

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 whose honor is so great

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 to show wrath

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 and whose judgment

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 is so perfect

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 to be able to be displeased

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 in this way

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 with what they see.

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 I searched the prophets

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 and I searched this time period

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 in the Old Testament

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 for the words angry

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 and anger.

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 And it's very limited to God,

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 the Lord seeing sin

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 and having a response of anger.

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 And it's also limited to kings.

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 The kings get angry.

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 So you see what Jonah is doing.

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 He's putting himself

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 in the place of a sovereign king.

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 He's making himself God.

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 One example is Isaiah 57, 15.

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 Who is it that can be angry?

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 In Isaiah's words,

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 it's the one who is high

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 and lifted up,

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 who inhabits eternity,

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 whose name is holy.

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 That God says,

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 I was angry

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 and hid my face

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 at sin.

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 But you can almost picture

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 that serpent,

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 just like the worm

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 that slithers to eat the plant

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 as it did in the garden.

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 The enemy,

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 God's accuser,

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 slithers in and says,

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 Jonah,

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 how could you love

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 a God like that?

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 How could you want to live

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 as a prophet

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 for that type of a God?

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 The accuser

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 wants to always put God

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 in the defendant's seat.

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 And to puff Jonah up

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 as the judge.

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 A creature

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 angry

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 at the creator.

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 See,

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 from the outside,

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 there's no judgment coming.

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 There's not going to be

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 a great show.

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 Jonah goes up to the hill

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 to watch this happen.

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 There's nothing to see

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 on the outside.

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 What God is revealing

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 is something

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 on the inside

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 of Jonah.

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 He has a sickness

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 of the heart.

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 And God

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 saved Jonah's life

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 physically.

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 Now he needs to save

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 his soul

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 spiritually.

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 And maybe that's the case

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 for you and I.

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 Maybe it takes

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 discomfort

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 or an unmet expectation

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 for God to show

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 that we have

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 some internal

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 bleeding going on.

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 That the great physician,

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 God himself,

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 needs to operate

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 and to restore

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 and heal you

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 on the inside.

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 Charles Spurgeon said,

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 Many a man

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 has died

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 from internal

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 bleeding

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 and yet there has

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 been no wound

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 whatsoever

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 to be seen

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 by the eye.

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 We know that God

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 doesn't look at

00:16:15.019 --> 00:16:15.899
 the outward appearance

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 like man.

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 God looks at

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 the condition

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 of my heart,

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 the condition

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 of your heart.

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 So this is gracious

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 of our Lord.

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 When God shows you

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 who he truly is,

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 he's revealing to you

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 the condition

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 of your heart

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 so that he can

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 operate on it,

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 so that he can

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 heal you.

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 We've seen how

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 when God shows you

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 who he truly is,

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 the true condition

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 of your heart

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 is exposed.

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 Next,

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 I want to show

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 how God reveals

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 the true condition

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 of your heart

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 for a purpose.

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 He does that

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 in order to minister

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 to you.

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 That's what he does

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 with Jonah

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 the rest of the chapter.

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 So God shows you

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 the true condition

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 of your heart

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 in order

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 to minister

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 to you.

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 Notice how God

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 responds in turn

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 to Jonah.

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 Jonah's there angry

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 as if he were the God.

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 But God is not

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 angry at Jonah.

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 The Lord meets

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 Jonah with patience

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 and with fatherly

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 instruction.

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 I've got four

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 observations on how

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 God ministers

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 to angry Jonah.

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 Number one,

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 God ministered to

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 Jonah through

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 personal counsel

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 with a soul-searching

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 question.

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 Isn't this God's

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 pattern?

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 He comes to his

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 people and he

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 asks you the

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 questions that make

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 you search in your

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 soul.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 The Lord said,

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 Doest thou well

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 to be angry?

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 Jonah,

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 you're determining

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 what is good

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 and bad.

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 You're determining

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 what should be

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 pleasing or

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 displeasing.

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 Now look at your

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 heart, Jonah.

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 Is this good?

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 Is this pleasing?

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 There's no response.

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 There's just

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 followed by action.

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 The action shows

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 the stubbornness

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 of Jonah's heart.

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 Look at verse 5.

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 So Jonah went

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 out of the city

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 and sat on the

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 east side

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 of the city.

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 That's the far

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 side of the city.

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 He made his way

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 all the way across

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 all of Nineveh.

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 And there's nothing

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 to buffer him

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 from the elements

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 that lie in the

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 desert beyond.

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 And there Jonah

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 made for himself

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 a booth

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 and he sat

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 under it

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 in the shadow

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 till he might

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 see what would

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 become of the city.

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 One person

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 described Jonah's

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 condition as he

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 sits under this

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 little tent he

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 made for himself

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 to watch

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 as sulky

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 despair.

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 Jonah's

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 negotiating

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 with his own

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 life before

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 the Lord.

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 Destroy them

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 or destroy me.

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 He's pouting

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 in protest.

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 He thinks

00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:04.500
 maybe my anger

00:19:04.500 --> 00:19:05.059
 will stir up

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 some anger

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 in God

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 to do what

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 I think

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 is right

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 for God

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 to act

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 justly.

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 The beauty

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 of God's

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 word is

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 we have

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 even more

00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:14.640
 situational

00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:15.579
 irony here.

00:19:15.980 --> 00:19:16.779
 His hypocrisy

00:19:16.779 --> 00:19:17.640
 is just

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 exposed

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 and set up

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 as the main

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 theme here.

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 He goes up

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 to the hill

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 and what does

00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:24.839
 your Bible say

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 he builds

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 for himself?

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 What's it

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 called?

00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:28.519
 A booth.

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 He builds

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 himself a booth.

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 That's a temporary

00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:32.019
 dwelling,

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 a little

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 tabernacle.

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 What we saw

00:19:34.899 --> 00:19:35.379
 in the Gospel

00:19:35.379 --> 00:19:35.940
 of John,

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 do you remember

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 what we saw?

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 The Feast

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 of the Booths.

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 And this is

00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:40.920
 what God has

00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:41.559
 told his people

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 to do.

00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:43.059
 Booths were

00:19:43.059 --> 00:19:43.980
 these temporary

00:19:43.980 --> 00:19:45.099
 little tabernacles

00:19:45.099 --> 00:19:46.200
 that God had

00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:46.879
 instructed his

00:19:46.879 --> 00:19:47.680
 people to build

00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:48.639
 on one of

00:19:48.639 --> 00:19:49.259
 their annual

00:19:49.259 --> 00:19:49.839
 feasts.

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 And it was

00:19:50.259 --> 00:19:51.180
 to symbolize

00:19:51.180 --> 00:19:52.559
 how God

00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:53.579
 dwells with

00:19:53.579 --> 00:19:54.099
 his people

00:19:54.099 --> 00:19:55.079
 and how his

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 people are

00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:56.379
 sojourners.

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 They should be

00:19:57.259 --> 00:19:57.579
 nimble.

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 They should be

00:19:57.920 --> 00:19:58.700
 able to stay

00:19:58.700 --> 00:19:59.379
 on the move.

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 And it was

00:20:01.080 --> 00:20:01.460
 a symbol

00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:02.000
 of God's

00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:02.500
 gracious

00:20:02.500 --> 00:20:03.120
 covenant

00:20:03.120 --> 00:20:03.880
 coming to

00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:04.280
 a people

00:20:04.280 --> 00:20:04.620
 who were

00:20:04.620 --> 00:20:05.120
 slaves

00:20:05.120 --> 00:20:05.920
 and now

00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:06.580
 he dwells

00:20:06.580 --> 00:20:07.100
 with them.

00:20:07.260 --> 00:20:08.060
 He tabernacles

00:20:08.060 --> 00:20:09.120
 among his

00:20:09.120 --> 00:20:09.500
 people.

00:20:10.360 --> 00:20:10.780
 Now there's

00:20:10.780 --> 00:20:11.340
 more to the

00:20:11.340 --> 00:20:11.940
 Feast of Booths.

00:20:12.020 --> 00:20:12.340
 It actually

00:20:12.340 --> 00:20:12.960
 got a second

00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:13.320
 name.

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 And this

00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:14.520
 comes from

00:20:14.520 --> 00:20:15.580
 Zechariah 14,

00:20:15.760 --> 00:20:16.560
 16 and other

00:20:16.560 --> 00:20:16.960
 places.

00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:17.880
 Listen to

00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:18.300
 this.

00:20:19.600 --> 00:20:20.180
 All the

00:20:20.180 --> 00:20:20.720
 nations

00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:21.500
 that have

00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:21.940
 come up

00:20:21.940 --> 00:20:22.540
 against

00:20:22.540 --> 00:20:23.340
 Jerusalem

00:20:23.340 --> 00:20:25.020
 shall go

00:20:25.020 --> 00:20:25.420
 up year

00:20:25.420 --> 00:20:26.000
 after year

00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.060
 to worship

00:20:27.059 --> 00:20:27.940
 the king

00:20:27.940 --> 00:20:28.200
 who?

00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:28.960
 The Lord

00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:29.619
 of hosts

00:20:29.619 --> 00:20:30.419
 and to

00:20:30.419 --> 00:20:30.779
 keep

00:20:30.779 --> 00:20:31.799
 the feast

00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:32.940
 of booths.

00:20:33.460 --> 00:20:34.139
 All the

00:20:34.139 --> 00:20:34.679
 nations were

00:20:34.679 --> 00:20:35.259
 to gather

00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:36.079
 and worship

00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:36.619
 the God

00:20:36.619 --> 00:20:37.000
 the Lord

00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:37.500
 of hosts.

00:20:38.019 --> 00:20:38.200
 It was

00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:38.740
 the feast

00:20:38.740 --> 00:20:39.339
 of the

00:20:39.339 --> 00:20:39.899
 nations.

00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:40.919
 Do you

00:20:40.919 --> 00:20:41.259
 see the

00:20:41.259 --> 00:20:41.659
 irony?

00:20:42.940 --> 00:20:43.220
 God's

00:20:43.220 --> 00:20:43.559
 heart for

00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:44.220
 the Ninevites,

00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:45.119
 the Assyrians,

00:20:45.220 --> 00:20:45.579
 the bad

00:20:45.579 --> 00:20:45.960
 guys.

00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:48.240
 That's what

00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:48.639
 God is

00:20:48.639 --> 00:20:49.759
 showing Jonah

00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:50.799
 with his

00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:51.399
 little booth

00:20:51.399 --> 00:20:52.099
 that he set

00:20:52.099 --> 00:20:52.279
 up.

00:20:52.379 --> 00:20:52.639
 Jonah,

00:20:52.859 --> 00:20:53.819
 I'm speaking

00:20:53.819 --> 00:20:54.319
 with you.

00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:55.539
 I am with

00:20:55.539 --> 00:20:55.919
 you.

00:20:57.059 --> 00:20:57.480
 Those who

00:20:57.480 --> 00:20:57.819
 you view

00:20:57.819 --> 00:20:58.099
 as your

00:20:58.099 --> 00:20:58.519
 enemies,

00:20:59.059 --> 00:20:59.480
 the feast

00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:00.000
 of booths

00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:00.299
 is for

00:21:00.299 --> 00:21:01.119
 them to

00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:01.799
 come and

00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:02.079
 worship

00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:02.359
 me.

00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:05.039
 The second

00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:05.579
 observation

00:21:05.579 --> 00:21:06.819
 is that not

00:21:06.819 --> 00:21:07.200
 only did

00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:08.099
 God minister

00:21:08.099 --> 00:21:08.619
 to Jonah

00:21:08.619 --> 00:21:09.240
 through this

00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:10.019
 personal

00:21:10.019 --> 00:21:10.639
 counsel of

00:21:10.639 --> 00:21:11.139
 a question,

00:21:11.299 --> 00:21:11.519
 the Lord

00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:12.379
 also ministered

00:21:12.379 --> 00:21:12.839
 to Jonah

00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:13.799
 through his

00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:14.480
 providence.

00:21:15.980 --> 00:21:16.240
 God

00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:16.879
 appointed

00:21:16.879 --> 00:21:18.240
 physical

00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:18.899
 means to

00:21:18.899 --> 00:21:19.539
 teach Jonah.

00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:21.339
 Notice

00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:22.099
 how back

00:21:22.099 --> 00:21:22.519
 in chapter

00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:22.980
 1,

00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:24.099
 Jonah 1

00:21:24.099 --> 00:21:24.980
 verse 17,

00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:25.899
 the Lord

00:21:25.899 --> 00:21:26.679
 appointed

00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:27.660
 a great

00:21:27.660 --> 00:21:28.100
 fish.

00:21:29.380 --> 00:21:29.740
 And now

00:21:29.740 --> 00:21:30.120
 in chapter

00:21:30.120 --> 00:21:30.500
 4,

00:21:30.580 --> 00:21:30.840
 we get

00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:31.320
 three other

00:21:31.320 --> 00:21:31.759
 things that

00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:32.120
 the Lord

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 appointed.

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 In chapter

00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:34.600
 4,

00:21:34.660 --> 00:21:35.759
 verse 6,

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 the Lord

00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:36.940
 appointed a

00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:37.320
 plant.

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 In verse

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 7,

00:21:38.380 --> 00:21:38.720
 the Lord

00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:39.799
 appointed the

00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:40.140
 worm.

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 And in

00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:42.039
 verse 8,

00:21:42.100 --> 00:21:42.460
 the Lord

00:21:42.460 --> 00:21:43.740
 appointed that

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 vehement

00:21:44.340 --> 00:21:45.660
 east wind.

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 A couple

00:21:48.320 --> 00:21:48.900
 insights to

00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:49.340
 really paint

00:21:49.340 --> 00:21:49.799
 this picture

00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:50.299
 for us.

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 What was

00:21:51.460 --> 00:21:51.980
 this plant

00:21:51.980 --> 00:21:52.539
 perhaps?

00:21:52.740 --> 00:21:52.860
 Well,

00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:53.460
 Jerome in the

00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:54.160
 300s

00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:55.060
 thought most

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 likely this

00:21:55.580 --> 00:21:55.920
 is a

00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:56.680
 castor oil

00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:57.140
 plant.

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 He wrote

00:21:57.980 --> 00:21:58.320
 that it's

00:21:58.320 --> 00:21:59.000
 still cultivated

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 in our

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 gardens today.

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 It is

00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:01.380
 quick-growing,

00:22:01.740 --> 00:22:02.100
 beautiful,

00:22:02.540 --> 00:22:02.779
 tall,

00:22:02.900 --> 00:22:03.380
 with broad

00:22:03.380 --> 00:22:03.980
 leaves and

00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:04.560
 a soft,

00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:05.400
 succulent

00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:05.980
 stalk,

00:22:06.660 --> 00:22:07.340
 and only a

00:22:07.340 --> 00:22:07.940
 slight injury

00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:08.400
 of which

00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:09.060
 will cause

00:22:09.060 --> 00:22:09.480
 the plant

00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:10.000
 to die.

00:22:11.080 --> 00:22:11.340
 And the

00:22:11.340 --> 00:22:11.460
 Lord

00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:11.880
 appoints

00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:12.100
 this

00:22:12.100 --> 00:22:12.860
 vehement

00:22:12.860 --> 00:22:13.259
 east

00:22:13.259 --> 00:22:13.620
 wind.

00:22:14.779 --> 00:22:15.200
 The

00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:15.420
 Hebrew

00:22:15.420 --> 00:22:15.820
 word is

00:22:15.820 --> 00:22:16.560
 hiroko.

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 It's a

00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:18.740
 hot wind

00:22:18.740 --> 00:22:19.700
 coming out

00:22:19.700 --> 00:22:20.040
 of those

00:22:20.040 --> 00:22:20.980
 deserts,

00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:21.460
 and it

00:22:21.460 --> 00:22:21.700
 can get

00:22:21.700 --> 00:22:22.000
 up to

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 60

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 miles

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 per hour.

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 And this

00:22:24.539 --> 00:22:25.039
 is northern

00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:25.400
 Iran.

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 It's

00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:27.420
 similar to

00:22:27.420 --> 00:22:28.680
 those winds

00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:29.160
 that many

00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:29.539
 of you have

00:22:29.539 --> 00:22:29.900
 come from

00:22:29.900 --> 00:22:30.720
 California or

00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:31.079
 Nevada.

00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:31.740
 You know

00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:32.279
 those winds

00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:32.539
 that have

00:22:32.539 --> 00:22:32.980
 caused those

00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:34.360
 wildfires

00:22:34.360 --> 00:22:35.059
 to spread

00:22:35.059 --> 00:22:36.279
 almost exactly

00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:36.740
 the same

00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:37.440
 conditions.

00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:38.500
 In the

00:22:38.500 --> 00:22:38.860
 book of

00:22:38.860 --> 00:22:39.259
 Nahum,

00:22:39.339 --> 00:22:39.700
 who was a

00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:40.120
 contemporary

00:22:40.120 --> 00:22:40.799
 of Jonah,

00:22:41.360 --> 00:22:41.539
 that

00:22:41.539 --> 00:22:42.259
 Sirocco

00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:43.019
 east wind,

00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:43.839
 it was

00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:44.400
 used as

00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:44.920
 an image

00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:45.519
 of God

00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:46.380
 and his

00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:46.779
 coming

00:22:46.779 --> 00:22:47.299
 judgment

00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:47.900
 upon the

00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:48.259
 people

00:22:48.259 --> 00:22:49.259
 of Israel.

00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:49.940
 In Nahum

00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:50.559
 chapter 2

00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:51.179
 verses 1

00:22:51.179 --> 00:22:51.619
 through 8.

00:22:52.659 --> 00:22:53.019
 Do you see

00:22:53.019 --> 00:22:53.879
 the situational

00:22:53.879 --> 00:22:54.399
 irony?

00:22:54.899 --> 00:22:55.119
 And do you

00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:55.359
 see how

00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:55.619
 the Lord

00:22:55.619 --> 00:22:56.399
 is appointing

00:22:56.399 --> 00:22:56.779
 all the

00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:57.539
 means to

00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:58.299
 show Jonah,

00:22:59.399 --> 00:22:59.759
 Jonah,

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 I'm the

00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:01.019
 one who

00:23:01.019 --> 00:23:01.539
 is bringing

00:23:01.539 --> 00:23:02.740
 judgment on

00:23:02.740 --> 00:23:03.200
 all who

00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:03.899
 rebel against

00:23:03.899 --> 00:23:04.200
 me.

00:23:04.539 --> 00:23:04.960
 Just like

00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:05.319
 I brought

00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:05.799
 this wind

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:06.220
 upon you,

00:23:06.419 --> 00:23:07.019
 I can bring

00:23:07.019 --> 00:23:07.500
 my judgment

00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:08.179
 to Nineveh.

00:23:08.399 --> 00:23:08.899
 I can bring

00:23:08.899 --> 00:23:09.339
 my judgment

00:23:09.339 --> 00:23:10.039
 to Israel.

00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:11.220
 Just as

00:23:11.220 --> 00:23:11.539
 you had

00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:12.480
 comfort because

00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:13.019
 of a plant

00:23:13.019 --> 00:23:13.500
 that I made

00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:13.960
 to grow,

00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:15.379
 I can remove

00:23:15.379 --> 00:23:15.899
 your comfort

00:23:15.899 --> 00:23:16.819
 and I remove

00:23:16.819 --> 00:23:17.319
 the comfort

00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:18.259
 of Israel.

00:23:18.779 --> 00:23:19.500
 I am God,

00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:20.759
 I will save

00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:21.599
 whom I will

00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:22.039
 save.

00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.119
 Salvation

00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:24.420
 belongs to

00:23:24.420 --> 00:23:24.880
 the Lord.

00:23:26.500 --> 00:23:27.140
 Is this

00:23:27.140 --> 00:23:27.480
 how you

00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:28.019
 see God?

00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:33.519
 The songwriter

00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:34.079
 got it so

00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:34.619
 right when he

00:23:34.619 --> 00:23:34.859
 said,

00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:35.519
 What e'er my

00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.559
 God ordains

00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:37.559
 is right.

00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:39.160
 He never

00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:39.839
 will deceive

00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:40.119
 me.

00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:41.319
 He leads

00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:41.920
 me by the

00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:42.799
 proper path.

00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:43.920
 I know

00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:45.140
 he will not

00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:45.740
 leave me.

00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:47.279
 I take

00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:48.460
 content

00:23:48.460 --> 00:23:50.420
 what he

00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:51.640
 has sent.

00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:53.519
 His hand

00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.240
 can turn

00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.059
 my griefs

00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:55.500
 away.

00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:57.299
 So patiently

00:23:57.299 --> 00:23:58.420
 I wake

00:23:58.420 --> 00:23:59.380
 his day.

00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:02.819
 The Lord

00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:03.500
 appointed

00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:04.259
 all of these

00:24:04.259 --> 00:24:05.079
 physical things

00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:05.559
 to teach

00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:06.319
 Jonah a

00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:06.700
 spiritual

00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:07.339
 reality.

00:24:08.660 --> 00:24:09.339
 Before we

00:24:09.339 --> 00:24:09.720
 move to the

00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:10.200
 next point

00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:11.059
 of ministry,

00:24:11.059 --> 00:24:11.440
 I want to

00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:11.880
 point out

00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:12.140
 that the

00:24:12.140 --> 00:24:12.440
 Lord has

00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:12.900
 given us

00:24:12.900 --> 00:24:13.500
 physical

00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.400
 appointed

00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:15.540
 means by

00:24:15.540 --> 00:24:15.900
 which he

00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:16.400
 shows us

00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:16.960
 grace as

00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:17.220
 well.

00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:17.880
 He has

00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:18.300
 given us

00:24:18.300 --> 00:24:18.960
 his word.

00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:20.380
 Our Bible

00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:21.100
 translator last

00:24:21.100 --> 00:24:21.640
 week challenged

00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:22.180
 us we need

00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:22.780
 to read

00:24:22.780 --> 00:24:23.540
 God's word.

00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:24.340
 And he

00:24:24.340 --> 00:24:25.140
 prays God

00:24:25.140 --> 00:24:25.380
 that we

00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:25.640
 are a

00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:25.980
 congregation

00:24:25.980 --> 00:24:26.600
 that loves

00:24:26.600 --> 00:24:27.040
 to read

00:24:27.040 --> 00:24:27.660
 God's word.

00:24:28.320 --> 00:24:28.840
 The sound

00:24:28.840 --> 00:24:29.640
 of God's

00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:30.160
 word in

00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:30.640
 our language

00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:31.160
 coming in

00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:31.620
 through our

00:24:31.620 --> 00:24:32.920
 ears ministers

00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:33.380
 to our

00:24:33.380 --> 00:24:33.780
 mind and

00:24:33.780 --> 00:24:34.280
 our soul

00:24:34.280 --> 00:24:34.960
 in ways

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:35.200
 that we

00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:35.620
 can't even

00:24:35.620 --> 00:24:36.200
 explain.

00:24:36.620 --> 00:24:37.040
 It is a

00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:37.960
 means that

00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:38.600
 God has

00:24:38.600 --> 00:24:39.800
 appointed and

00:24:39.800 --> 00:24:40.340
 he ministers

00:24:40.340 --> 00:24:40.940
 grace.

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:42.120
 When we

00:24:42.120 --> 00:24:42.460
 pray,

00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:42.820
 we're told

00:24:42.820 --> 00:24:43.000
 in the

00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:43.320
 Bible to

00:24:43.320 --> 00:24:43.740
 pray for

00:24:43.740 --> 00:24:44.180
 one another.

00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:44.840
 These are

00:24:44.840 --> 00:24:45.240
 physical

00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:45.740
 things we

00:24:45.740 --> 00:24:45.940
 do.

00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:46.100
 We

00:24:46.100 --> 00:24:46.420
 actually

00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:47.240
 go into

00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:47.920
 one another's

00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:48.420
 living rooms

00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:48.840
 or front

00:24:48.840 --> 00:24:49.680
 porches and

00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:50.259
 we pray for

00:24:50.259 --> 00:24:50.740
 one another.

00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:51.640
 This is a

00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:52.400
 physical action

00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:53.320
 we do in

00:24:53.320 --> 00:24:53.940
 response to

00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:54.320
 our covenant

00:24:54.320 --> 00:24:55.100
 God and

00:24:55.100 --> 00:24:55.740
 he ministers

00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:56.540
 as we pray

00:24:56.540 --> 00:24:57.280
 for one

00:24:57.280 --> 00:24:57.620
 another.

00:24:58.480 --> 00:24:58.860
 When we

00:24:58.860 --> 00:24:59.200
 take the

00:24:59.200 --> 00:24:59.540
 Lord's

00:24:59.540 --> 00:25:00.200
 supper or

00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:00.540
 we get to

00:25:00.540 --> 00:25:00.840
 see a

00:25:00.840 --> 00:25:01.259
 baptism,

00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:01.960
 these are

00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:02.540
 physical

00:25:02.540 --> 00:25:04.000
 means he's

00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:04.940
 appointed that

00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:05.480
 proclaim a

00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:06.019
 spiritual

00:25:06.019 --> 00:25:06.780
 truth.

00:25:07.560 --> 00:25:07.940
 We're going

00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:08.259
 to eat

00:25:08.259 --> 00:25:08.620
 these with

00:25:08.620 --> 00:25:09.100
 our bodies,

00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:09.500
 with our

00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:09.820
 tongues,

00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:10.100
 we're going

00:25:10.100 --> 00:25:10.500
 to taste

00:25:10.500 --> 00:25:11.120
 and smell

00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:12.040
 and be

00:25:12.040 --> 00:25:12.660
 reminded of

00:25:12.660 --> 00:25:13.220
 the spiritual

00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:13.820
 reality.

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:14.840
 You see how

00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:15.200
 God has

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:15.740
 always

00:25:15.740 --> 00:25:16.180
 appointed

00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:17.240
 means to

00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:17.720
 teach his

00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:18.500
 people and

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:19.100
 to minister

00:25:19.100 --> 00:25:19.860
 to us.

00:25:20.620 --> 00:25:21.600
 So what's on

00:25:21.600 --> 00:25:22.060
 us is to

00:25:22.060 --> 00:25:22.420
 make the

00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:23.259
 most of

00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:23.640
 what God

00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:24.180
 has appointed

00:25:24.180 --> 00:25:25.160
 and provided.

00:25:25.300 --> 00:25:25.620
 Make the

00:25:25.620 --> 00:25:26.100
 most of

00:25:26.100 --> 00:25:26.320
 that.

00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:28.280
 Well,

00:25:28.340 --> 00:25:28.800
 number three,

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:29.400
 not only did

00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:30.200
 God minister

00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:30.740
 through those

00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:31.500
 appointed means,

00:25:31.620 --> 00:25:32.000
 but God

00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:33.080
 ministered to

00:25:33.080 --> 00:25:33.620
 Jonah with

00:25:33.620 --> 00:25:34.500
 a lesson

00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:36.080
 from the

00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:36.620
 lesser to

00:25:36.620 --> 00:25:37.100
 the greater.

00:25:37.099 --> 00:25:41.439
 God's

00:25:41.439 --> 00:25:45.299
 glory as

00:25:45.299 --> 00:25:45.759
 the biggest

00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:46.559
 heavy thing

00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:46.839
 we can

00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:47.299
 possibly

00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:48.159
 conceive of.

00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:49.319
 God

00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:49.740
 used this

00:25:49.740 --> 00:25:50.500
 plant to

00:25:50.500 --> 00:25:50.759
 teach

00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:51.179
 Jonah,

00:25:52.179 --> 00:25:52.919
 who God

00:25:52.919 --> 00:25:53.659
 truly is as

00:25:53.659 --> 00:25:53.939
 well,

00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:54.859
 to open

00:25:54.859 --> 00:25:55.279
 his eyes

00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:55.639
 to a

00:25:55.639 --> 00:25:56.019
 clearer

00:25:56.019 --> 00:25:57.179
 picture of

00:25:57.179 --> 00:25:57.559
 the true

00:25:57.559 --> 00:25:57.919
 God.

00:25:57.920 --> 00:25:57.980
 God.

00:26:04.340 --> 00:26:05.019
 The Lord

00:26:05.019 --> 00:26:05.420
 basically

00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:05.800
 says,

00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:06.140
 Jonah,

00:26:06.700 --> 00:26:08.800
 these people

00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:09.340
 have an

00:26:09.340 --> 00:26:10.019
 eternal soul.

00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:13.100
 This plant,

00:26:13.300 --> 00:26:13.860
 I made it

00:26:13.860 --> 00:26:14.480
 grow and I

00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:15.019
 can take it

00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:15.279
 away.

00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:15.759
 Now these

00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:16.380
 souls are

00:26:16.380 --> 00:26:16.779
 eternal.

00:26:17.620 --> 00:26:18.140
 This plant

00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:18.880
 grew up and

00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:19.300
 died in the

00:26:19.300 --> 00:26:19.500
 night.

00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:20.180
 These souls,

00:26:20.600 --> 00:26:21.320
 they will be

00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:21.779
 condemned

00:26:21.779 --> 00:26:23.200
 unless I

00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:23.600
 bring my

00:26:23.600 --> 00:26:24.279
 salvation to

00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:24.519
 them,

00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:24.820
 Jonah.

00:26:26.100 --> 00:26:26.640
 So your

00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:27.180
 response,

00:26:27.340 --> 00:26:27.500
 Jonah,

00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:28.319
 take your

00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:28.680
 eyes off

00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:29.160
 the lesser.

00:26:29.539 --> 00:26:29.839
 Put your

00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:30.299
 eyes on

00:26:30.299 --> 00:26:30.640
 that which

00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:31.119
 is greater.

00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:32.039
 That's what

00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:32.420
 he's calling

00:26:32.420 --> 00:26:32.859
 his people

00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:33.339
 to do

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:34.099
 through the

00:26:34.099 --> 00:26:34.559
 lessons.

00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:36.660
 And Jonah

00:26:36.660 --> 00:26:37.180
 remains

00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:37.880
 hard-hearted.

00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:38.319
 We see

00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:39.000
 that in

00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:39.779
 every response

00:26:39.779 --> 00:26:40.220
 that Jonah

00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:40.599
 gives.

00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.059
 He pushes

00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:41.980
 himself lower

00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:42.339
 and lower

00:26:42.339 --> 00:26:42.920
 again and

00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:43.279
 that's how

00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:43.980
 the book

00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:44.440
 ends.

00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:46.819
 But it's

00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:47.480
 revealing to

00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:48.740
 us that

00:26:48.740 --> 00:26:49.119
 what God

00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:49.559
 is looking

00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:50.380
 for is the

00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:51.220
 heart response.

00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:52.779
 In chapter

00:26:52.779 --> 00:26:53.240
 two,

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:54.400
 Jonah was

00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:54.920
 thrown into

00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:55.480
 the troubled

00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:56.059
 seas,

00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:56.759
 the waters

00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:57.480
 were what

00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:57.980
 were troubled.

00:26:59.019 --> 00:26:59.480
 Now in

00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:00.200
 chapter four,

00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:01.400
 it's his

00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:02.400
 heart that

00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:02.879
 is troubled.

00:27:04.619 --> 00:27:05.160
 As someone

00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:05.500
 wrote,

00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:07.099
 look on

00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:07.839
 thyself as

00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:08.359
 in a mirror

00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:09.079
 and you

00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:09.539
 will see

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:09.980
 what a

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:10.640
 boisterous

00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:11.160
 sea the

00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:11.980
 soul is.

00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:13.180
 And God's

00:27:13.180 --> 00:27:13.759
 word, it

00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:14.279
 does that for

00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:14.400
 us.

00:27:14.460 --> 00:27:14.819
 It becomes

00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:15.200
 like a

00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:15.579
 mirror, as

00:27:15.579 --> 00:27:16.119
 James wrote.

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:17.000
 When we

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.299
 see our

00:27:17.299 --> 00:27:18.000
 reflection in

00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.220
 the mirror,

00:27:18.299 --> 00:27:18.700
 we see how

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.259
 troubled we

00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:19.539
 are.

00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:20.779
 And only the

00:27:20.779 --> 00:27:21.319
 presence of

00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:21.859
 the Lord can

00:27:21.859 --> 00:27:22.900
 steady our

00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:23.500
 souls and

00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:23.859
 bring that

00:27:23.859 --> 00:27:25.039
 peace that

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:25.579
 we need.

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:26.899
 Notice how

00:27:26.899 --> 00:27:27.200
 the Lord

00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:27.980
 applies this

00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:28.960
 lesson to

00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:29.639
 reveal himself

00:27:29.639 --> 00:27:30.920
 to Jonah in

00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:31.539
 verse 11.

00:27:33.299 --> 00:27:33.680
 The Lord

00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:34.119
 says,

00:27:34.460 --> 00:27:35.319
 should not I

00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:36.379
 spare Nineveh,

00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:37.299
 that great

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:38.279
 city, wherein

00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:38.799
 there are more

00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:41.579
 than 120,000

00:27:41.579 --> 00:27:42.759
 persons.

00:27:43.879 --> 00:27:44.559
 What's more is

00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:44.940
 that these

00:27:44.940 --> 00:27:45.920
 persons cannot

00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:47.339
 discern their

00:27:47.339 --> 00:27:48.559
 right hand from

00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:49.200
 their left,

00:27:49.779 --> 00:27:51.019
 and also much

00:27:51.019 --> 00:27:51.460
 cattle.

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:55.400
 see these

00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:56.279
 people, God

00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:56.680
 said in

00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:57.160
 verse 11,

00:27:57.259 --> 00:27:57.759
 they can't

00:27:57.759 --> 00:27:58.420
 discern.

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:00.940
 That term

00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:01.460
 means to

00:28:01.460 --> 00:28:02.779
 distinguish or

00:28:02.779 --> 00:28:03.660
 to discriminate.

00:28:05.019 --> 00:28:05.860
 That term is

00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:06.200
 used in

00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:07.100
 Ezekiel 22

00:28:07.100 --> 00:28:07.960
 and also

00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:09.120
 44 to

00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:09.860
 describe one

00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:10.140
 of the

00:28:10.140 --> 00:28:11.259
 tasks of

00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:11.880
 priests,

00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:13.059
 which was to

00:28:13.059 --> 00:28:13.500
 teach the

00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:14.000
 people to

00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:14.539
 discriminate

00:28:14.539 --> 00:28:15.640
 between clean

00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:16.920
 and unclean.

00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:18.579
 These people

00:28:18.579 --> 00:28:19.279
 need the law

00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:19.880
 of God.

00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:21.040
 They are

00:28:21.040 --> 00:28:21.580
 lost.

00:28:22.540 --> 00:28:22.980
 It doesn't

00:28:22.980 --> 00:28:23.260
 mean the

00:28:23.260 --> 00:28:23.820
 Ninevites are

00:28:23.820 --> 00:28:24.780
 morally guiltless

00:28:24.780 --> 00:28:25.520
 before a just

00:28:25.520 --> 00:28:25.900
 God.

00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:28.720
 Judgment is

00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:29.360
 threatened to

00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:30.020
 them unless

00:28:30.020 --> 00:28:30.680
 they repent.

00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:32.780
 But it does

00:28:32.780 --> 00:28:33.240
 mean that they

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:33.760
 are trapped

00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:34.620
 in their sin.

00:28:35.120 --> 00:28:35.420
 They are

00:28:35.420 --> 00:28:36.640
 helpless unless

00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:37.380
 God will

00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:38.260
 initiate their

00:28:38.260 --> 00:28:38.780
 salvation.

00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:41.380
 The Lord is

00:28:41.380 --> 00:28:41.900
 telling him,

00:28:41.940 --> 00:28:43.220
 Jonah, in

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:43.720
 this great

00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:44.400
 city there are

00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:44.960
 souls.

00:28:46.340 --> 00:28:46.980
 These souls

00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:47.520
 don't know what

00:28:47.520 --> 00:28:48.040
 they're doing.

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:50.200
 Don't you

00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:50.640
 see my

00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:51.800
 heart for

00:28:51.800 --> 00:28:52.520
 these souls?

00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:53.380
 And even

00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:53.900
 the cattle,

00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:54.220
 I'm the

00:28:54.220 --> 00:28:54.940
 great creator,

00:28:55.080 --> 00:28:55.600
 God says,

00:28:55.760 --> 00:28:56.140
 and I

00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:57.120
 desire that

00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:58.120
 none should

00:28:58.120 --> 00:28:58.680
 perish.

00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:00.820
 How do you

00:29:00.820 --> 00:29:01.620
 see God?

00:29:06.620 --> 00:29:07.280
 Well, one

00:29:07.280 --> 00:29:07.900
 last way that

00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:08.240
 God is

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.120
 ministering is

00:29:10.120 --> 00:29:11.220
 to the

00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:11.720
 people of

00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:12.240
 Israel by

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.760
 giving them

00:29:12.760 --> 00:29:13.500
 this book

00:29:13.500 --> 00:29:14.180
 of Jonah.

00:29:15.780 --> 00:29:16.260
 God

00:29:16.260 --> 00:29:16.720
 ministers

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:17.680
 through the

00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:18.680
 life of the

00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:19.420
 prophet Jonah.

00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:21.520
 God taught

00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:23.140
 Jonah through

00:29:23.140 --> 00:29:23.680
 the plant.

00:29:23.800 --> 00:29:24.220
 The plant was

00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:24.440
 a little

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:25.100
 picture lesson.

00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:26.060
 But Jonah's

00:29:26.060 --> 00:29:26.680
 life was like

00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:27.100
 the plant.

00:29:27.320 --> 00:29:27.920
 Jonah himself

00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:28.300
 was the

00:29:28.300 --> 00:29:28.880
 picture lesson

00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:29.680
 for all of

00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:30.020
 Israel.

00:29:31.540 --> 00:29:32.340
 Jonah stands

00:29:32.340 --> 00:29:32.660
 as a

00:29:32.660 --> 00:29:34.020
 representative of

00:29:34.020 --> 00:29:34.620
 the people of

00:29:34.620 --> 00:29:35.240
 Israel in this

00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:35.580
 story.

00:29:36.320 --> 00:29:36.800
 It's to get

00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:37.340
 their attention.

00:29:37.760 --> 00:29:37.900
 Do you

00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:38.240
 remember how

00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:38.900
 Ezekiel had

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:39.220
 to do all

00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:39.600
 the different

00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:40.520
 sign acts?

00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:41.180
 Like dig

00:29:41.180 --> 00:29:42.520
 holes in his

00:29:42.520 --> 00:29:43.020
 walls of his

00:29:43.020 --> 00:29:43.300
 house?

00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:43.960
 Like we're

00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:44.260
 trying to

00:29:44.260 --> 00:29:45.020
 escape exile?

00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:45.880
 You know,

00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:46.320
 shave your

00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:46.700
 head because

00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:46.920
 you're going

00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:48.040
 to be kicked

00:29:48.040 --> 00:29:48.460
 out of the

00:29:48.460 --> 00:29:48.740
 land?

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:49.319
 Well,

00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:49.740
 Jonah's

00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:50.460
 life is a

00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:50.940
 sign act

00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:51.319
 for the

00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:51.759
 people of

00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:52.079
 Israel.

00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:53.819
 Why does

00:29:53.819 --> 00:29:54.299
 the book of

00:29:54.299 --> 00:29:54.779
 Jonah end

00:29:54.779 --> 00:29:55.319
 this way?

00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:55.620
 It's

00:29:55.620 --> 00:29:56.160
 purposeful.

00:29:56.660 --> 00:29:57.000
 The Holy

00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:57.640
 Spirit did

00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:58.559
 this for a

00:29:58.559 --> 00:29:59.000
 purpose.

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.359
 Why do we

00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:01.259
 end on this

00:30:01.259 --> 00:30:01.859
 click finger

00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:02.339
 which is,

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:02.980
 I don't know

00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:03.359
 how Jonah

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:04.039
 responded.

00:30:05.500 --> 00:30:06.180
 And it's to

00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:06.819
 teach us.

00:30:07.740 --> 00:30:08.200
 But what's

00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:08.720
 the lesson?

00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:11.819
 Before I tell

00:30:11.819 --> 00:30:12.180
 you what I

00:30:12.180 --> 00:30:12.839
 think, let me

00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:13.299
 tell you this

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:13.980
 other insight.

00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:15.980
 Yom Kippur

00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:16.579
 is the name

00:30:16.579 --> 00:30:17.420
 of the great

00:30:17.420 --> 00:30:17.900
 day of

00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:18.580
 atonement.

00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:19.780
 The great

00:30:19.780 --> 00:30:20.080
 day of

00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:20.600
 atonement,

00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:21.519
 it ends

00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:21.920
 with the

00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:22.880
 reading of

00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:23.519
 all things

00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:23.940
 the book

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:24.380
 of Jonah.

00:30:25.540 --> 00:30:25.860
 And the

00:30:25.860 --> 00:30:26.360
 lesson is

00:30:26.360 --> 00:30:27.400
 this, people

00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:28.019
 of Israel,

00:30:28.600 --> 00:30:28.940
 God has

00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:29.680
 provided through

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:30.480
 the scapegoat,

00:30:30.580 --> 00:30:30.840
 through the

00:30:30.840 --> 00:30:31.740
 sacrificial goat,

00:30:32.019 --> 00:30:32.780
 he's provided a

00:30:32.780 --> 00:30:33.500
 picture of your

00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:34.340
 atonement.

00:30:35.060 --> 00:30:35.940
 But finish with

00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.460
 the book of

00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:37.340
 Jonah, which

00:30:37.340 --> 00:30:38.019
 calls you to

00:30:38.019 --> 00:30:38.980
 respond with

00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:39.820
 the heart of

00:30:39.820 --> 00:30:40.440
 God, not only

00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:41.000
 to save you,

00:30:41.060 --> 00:30:41.580
 but to save

00:30:41.580 --> 00:30:42.680
 all the nations.

00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:43.500
 From those

00:30:43.500 --> 00:30:44.220
 fishermen on the

00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:45.480
 coastlands, to

00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:46.200
 the Ninevites,

00:30:46.300 --> 00:30:46.920
 the most wicked,

00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:47.940
 despicable people.

00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:48.980
 This is who

00:30:48.980 --> 00:30:49.940
 atonement is

00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:50.700
 truly for.

00:30:52.300 --> 00:30:52.980
 There are only

00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:53.880
 two books that

00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:54.400
 end with a

00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:55.759
 question that

00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:56.220
 just hangs

00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:56.519
 there.

00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:58.720
 And it's

00:30:58.720 --> 00:30:59.300
 interesting how

00:30:59.300 --> 00:31:00.060
 both of those

00:31:00.060 --> 00:31:00.960
 have to do

00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:01.500
 with the

00:31:01.500 --> 00:31:02.039
 Ninevites.

00:31:02.660 --> 00:31:03.279
 It's Jonah,

00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:04.019
 and the second

00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:04.920
 one is Nahum.

00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:06.220
 Nahum ends

00:31:06.220 --> 00:31:06.880
 with a note of

00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:07.259
 judgment.

00:31:08.380 --> 00:31:08.880
 For example,

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:09.539
 the Lord is

00:31:09.539 --> 00:31:10.420
 slow to anger

00:31:10.420 --> 00:31:11.200
 and great in

00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.300
 power, and the

00:31:12.300 --> 00:31:13.180
 Lord will by

00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:13.980
 no means

00:31:13.980 --> 00:31:15.340
 clear the

00:31:15.340 --> 00:31:15.740
 guilty.

00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:17.700
 Nahum's a

00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:18.500
 contemporary of

00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:19.060
 Jonah, and he's

00:31:19.060 --> 00:31:19.840
 calling God's

00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:20.480
 judgment on the

00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:21.019
 Ninevites.

00:31:22.060 --> 00:31:22.500
 And though God

00:31:22.500 --> 00:31:23.120
 spares the

00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:23.860
 Ninevites in

00:31:23.860 --> 00:31:24.480
 this story with

00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:25.080
 Jonah about

00:31:25.080 --> 00:31:26.220
 40 years later,

00:31:26.340 --> 00:31:27.320
 so not 40 days,

00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:28.140
 but 40 years

00:31:28.140 --> 00:31:29.320
 later, the

00:31:29.320 --> 00:31:29.960
 Ninevites are

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:30.900
 conquered by the

00:31:30.900 --> 00:31:31.680
 Medes and the

00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:32.460
 Babylonians.

00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:34.340
 So God is

00:31:34.340 --> 00:31:35.160
 just, and his

00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:36.519
 justice never

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.000
 fails.

00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:39.320
 But Jonah ends

00:31:39.320 --> 00:31:40.019
 with a note of

00:31:40.019 --> 00:31:41.560
 compassion upon

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:42.399
 this great

00:31:42.399 --> 00:31:43.619
 worldly city.

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:45.299
 And so you,

00:31:45.399 --> 00:31:45.799
 the reader,

00:31:45.980 --> 00:31:46.639
 and I, we

00:31:46.639 --> 00:31:47.480
 must ponder the

00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:47.740
 meaning.

00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:49.299
 We must decide

00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:50.599
 now what action

00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:51.139
 to take.

00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:52.460
 We don't get

00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:53.359
 Jonah's response

00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:54.500
 to be able to

00:31:54.500 --> 00:31:55.200
 sit at a distance

00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:56.139
 and analyze him.

00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:57.720
 We are the

00:31:57.720 --> 00:31:58.179
 ones who are

00:31:58.179 --> 00:31:59.259
 called upon to

00:31:59.259 --> 00:31:59.799
 respond.

00:32:01.220 --> 00:32:02.019
 How do you

00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:03.059
 see God?

00:32:04.619 --> 00:32:05.359
 We want to

00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:06.019
 know, did Jonah

00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:07.720
 learn this mercy

00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:08.460
 from God?

00:32:10.179 --> 00:32:11.119
 Brian Estelle,

00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:11.699
 who helped me

00:32:11.699 --> 00:32:12.439
 so much through

00:32:12.439 --> 00:32:13.359
 this book, a

00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:13.959
 Hebrew scholar,

00:32:14.419 --> 00:32:15.039
 he wrote,

00:32:15.239 --> 00:32:15.819
 quote, in some

00:32:15.819 --> 00:32:17.279
 respects, that

00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:18.479
 question is moot

00:32:18.479 --> 00:32:20.279
 because it puts

00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:21.399
 you and me, the

00:32:21.399 --> 00:32:22.179
 current readers,

00:32:22.679 --> 00:32:24.159
 as well as Jonah

00:32:24.159 --> 00:32:25.399
 and Israel of

00:32:25.399 --> 00:32:26.739
 old, in the

00:32:26.739 --> 00:32:27.599
 position of having

00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:28.559
 to respond to

00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:28.919
 God.

00:32:29.819 --> 00:32:31.279
 Will you, my

00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.719
 people, learn

00:32:32.719 --> 00:32:33.679
 my mercy?

00:32:35.299 --> 00:32:36.399
 This lack of

00:32:36.399 --> 00:32:38.500
 closure teaches

00:32:38.500 --> 00:32:39.939
 us that I am

00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:41.440
 Jonah, and

00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:42.500
 you are Jonah.

00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:44.880
 The question

00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:45.640
 lingers for you

00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:46.220
 and me today,

00:32:46.600 --> 00:32:47.480
 will you learn

00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:48.620
 God's mercy?

00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:55.299
 Not only does

00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:56.279
 the Lord minister

00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:57.340
 to Israel through

00:32:57.340 --> 00:32:57.920
 this wonderful

00:32:57.920 --> 00:32:58.600
 little book of

00:32:58.600 --> 00:33:00.200
 Jonah, and not

00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:01.259
 only was Jonah a

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:02.120
 representative of

00:33:02.120 --> 00:33:03.279
 hypocritical Israel

00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:04.180
 whose judgment was

00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:04.860
 coming soon,

00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:08.619
 Jonah is also a

00:33:08.619 --> 00:33:09.559
 contrast or a

00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:10.619
 foil for the

00:33:10.619 --> 00:33:11.839
 great prophet, the

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.299
 Lord Jesus

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:12.859
 Christ.

00:33:15.059 --> 00:33:16.179
 How do you see

00:33:16.179 --> 00:33:16.579
 God?

00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:19.919
 If we go back to

00:33:19.919 --> 00:33:21.879
 Narnia, one year

00:33:21.879 --> 00:33:23.119
 of time passes in

00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:24.659
 London time, which

00:33:24.659 --> 00:33:26.159
 is 130 years in

00:33:26.159 --> 00:33:26.859
 Narnia time.

00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:29.079
 Lucy's back in

00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:29.959
 Narnia now, a year

00:33:29.959 --> 00:33:32.679
 older, and when she

00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:33.600
 sees Aslan, she

00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:35.320
 says, Aslan, you

00:33:35.320 --> 00:33:35.940
 seem bigger.

00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.740
 Is it because you

00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:39.779
 have gotten older?

00:33:40.320 --> 00:33:41.220
 And Aslan says, no,

00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:42.360
 because I don't age,

00:33:42.620 --> 00:33:43.700
 but it's because you

00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:44.840
 have aged.

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:47.640
 Aslan tells Lucy,

00:33:47.820 --> 00:33:49.240
 every year you

00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:51.299
 grow, you will

00:33:51.299 --> 00:33:52.860
 find me bigger.

00:33:54.860 --> 00:33:55.900
 The book of Jonah

00:33:55.900 --> 00:33:56.920
 reveals to you and

00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:58.620
 me that God is so

00:33:58.620 --> 00:34:01.360
 much bigger, and it

00:34:01.360 --> 00:34:02.140
 points us to the

00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:03.380
 biggest, greatest,

00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:04.160
 most clear

00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:05.440
 revelation of who

00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:06.640
 God truly is.

00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:08.880
 We saw in the

00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:09.760
 book of Jonah how

00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:11.599
 God appointed a

00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:12.360
 great fish.

00:34:12.940 --> 00:34:13.760
 The Lord appointed

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.440
 a plant.

00:34:14.740 --> 00:34:15.519
 The Lord appointed

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:16.119
 a worm.

00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:17.940
 The Lord appointed

00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:19.059
 a vehement east

00:34:19.059 --> 00:34:19.460
 wind.

00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:21.380
 And we read in

00:34:21.380 --> 00:34:22.820
 Hebrews 1, verse

00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:23.780
 1, how at many

00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:25.539
 times and in many

00:34:25.539 --> 00:34:27.099
 ways God spoke by

00:34:27.099 --> 00:34:28.340
 the prophets, but

00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:29.400
 now he has spoken

00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.000
 to us by his

00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:31.260
 son.

00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:33.000
 Listen, whom he

00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.560
 has appointed, the

00:34:35.560 --> 00:34:36.600
 heir of all

00:34:36.600 --> 00:34:37.140
 things.

00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:38.840
 He, the Lord

00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:40.060
 Jesus Christ, is the

00:34:40.060 --> 00:34:41.200
 radiance of the

00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:42.480
 glory of God.

00:34:42.860 --> 00:34:43.980
 He is the exact

00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:45.840
 imprint of God's

00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:46.440
 nature.

00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:49.560
 How do you see

00:34:49.560 --> 00:34:49.940
 God?

00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:50.020
 God.

00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:50.079
 God.

00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:55.559
 Acts 22, verse 14

00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:56.579
 says that God

00:34:56.579 --> 00:34:58.199
 appointed you,

00:34:59.199 --> 00:34:59.599
 believer.

00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:01.179
 God appointed you

00:35:01.179 --> 00:35:02.199
 to know his will

00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:04.099
 and to see the

00:35:04.099 --> 00:35:05.000
 righteous one

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.179
 and to hear his

00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:08.000
 voice.

00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:11.099
 The Lord revealed

00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:12.900
 to Jonah in

00:35:12.900 --> 00:35:14.039
 history who he

00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:14.820
 truly is.

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:15.820
 God.

00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:16.539
 And the Lord

00:35:16.539 --> 00:35:17.800
 reveals to you

00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:19.000
 who he truly

00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:19.900
 is by sending

00:35:19.900 --> 00:35:21.080
 his own son,

00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:22.519
 God the son,

00:35:22.640 --> 00:35:23.500
 in the flesh,

00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:24.600
 into human

00:35:24.600 --> 00:35:26.480
 history so that

00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:27.800
 you can see

00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:29.600
 God in Christ.

00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:32.880
 Jonah was to

00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:33.700
 take the word of

00:35:33.700 --> 00:35:34.539
 God to the wicked

00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.700
 world, but instead

00:35:35.700 --> 00:35:37.300
 he traveled far

00:35:37.300 --> 00:35:37.700
 away.

00:35:38.300 --> 00:35:39.600
 But our Lord Jesus

00:35:39.600 --> 00:35:41.480
 Christ, who is the

00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:42.220
 word of God,

00:35:42.219 --> 00:35:44.019
 he traveled into

00:35:44.019 --> 00:35:45.619
 the wicked world

00:35:45.619 --> 00:35:48.259
 to dwell close

00:35:48.259 --> 00:35:50.019
 by among you.

00:35:51.299 --> 00:35:53.339
 See God in

00:35:53.339 --> 00:35:53.759
 Christ.

00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:57.039
 Jonah felt no

00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:58.279
 pity, we're

00:35:58.279 --> 00:35:58.579
 told.

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:00.239
 But over and

00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:00.739
 over and over,

00:36:00.839 --> 00:36:01.500
 nine times I

00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:02.059
 counted in the

00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:03.159
 Gospels, when

00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:04.159
 Jesus saw the

00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:06.059
 people, he had

00:36:06.059 --> 00:36:06.859
 compassion.

00:36:07.579 --> 00:36:08.199
 And the word

00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:09.599
 is to be moved

00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:10.699
 from the depths

00:36:10.699 --> 00:36:11.859
 of his being,

00:36:11.860 --> 00:36:12.740
 with deep

00:36:12.740 --> 00:36:13.700
 compassion for

00:36:13.700 --> 00:36:14.360
 those souls.

00:36:16.640 --> 00:36:17.039
 Jonah's

00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:17.920
 disobedience

00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.400
 earned death

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:20.800
 for himself

00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:22.240
 in deep

00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:23.360
 hellish darkness

00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:23.940
 at the bottom

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:24.480
 of the sea.

00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:27.320
 But Christ's

00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:28.400
 obedience earned

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:29.880
 for his elect

00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:30.960
 from all the

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:32.280
 nations, eternal

00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:33.480
 life in his

00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:35.000
 kingdom of life.

00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:37.200
 See God

00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:38.140
 in Christ.

00:36:38.139 --> 00:36:40.559
 God's

00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.000
 justice.

00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:41.279
 Jonah went

00:36:41.279 --> 00:36:42.159
 outside the

00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:43.359
 city to watch

00:36:43.359 --> 00:36:44.299
 the condemnation

00:36:44.299 --> 00:36:44.920
 of the wicked.

00:36:46.659 --> 00:36:47.420
 Jesus went

00:36:47.420 --> 00:36:48.239
 outside the

00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:49.559
 city to be

00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:51.119
 condemned in

00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:52.059
 the place of

00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:52.480
 the wicked.

00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:54.579
 See God

00:36:54.579 --> 00:36:55.519
 in Christ.

00:36:57.799 --> 00:36:58.799
 Jonah was

00:36:58.799 --> 00:37:00.420
 unsubmissive to

00:37:00.420 --> 00:37:01.059
 God's showing

00:37:01.059 --> 00:37:01.579
 grace.

00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:03.779
 Jesus submitted

00:37:03.779 --> 00:37:05.559
 himself as the

00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:06.879
 substitute to show

00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:08.119
 God's justice.

00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:10.640
 Jonah,

00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:11.780
 whose name

00:37:11.780 --> 00:37:13.000
 again ironically

00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:14.200
 means dove

00:37:14.200 --> 00:37:14.940
 or peace,

00:37:15.640 --> 00:37:16.680
 he prayed

00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:17.519
 death

00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:18.700
 for enemies.

00:37:20.099 --> 00:37:20.519
 Jesus,

00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:21.800
 whose name

00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:22.579
 means God

00:37:22.579 --> 00:37:23.079
 saves,

00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:24.180
 he prayed,

00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:24.800
 Father,

00:37:25.660 --> 00:37:26.920
 please forgive

00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:27.240
 them.

00:37:29.740 --> 00:37:30.880
 See God

00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:31.680
 in Christ.

00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:34.199
 God's

00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:34.619
 Jonah did

00:37:34.619 --> 00:37:35.419
 not remember

00:37:35.419 --> 00:37:36.299
 God's

00:37:36.299 --> 00:37:36.839
 mercy to

00:37:36.839 --> 00:37:37.199
 him.

00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:39.839
 Jesus

00:37:39.839 --> 00:37:41.779
 remembers

00:37:41.779 --> 00:37:42.579
 your sins

00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:43.319
 no more.

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:44.599
 Hebrews 8,

00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:45.019
 12.

00:37:45.839 --> 00:37:46.899
 See God

00:37:46.899 --> 00:37:47.919
 in Christ.

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:50.239
 Jonah

00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:50.899
 dishonored

00:37:50.899 --> 00:37:51.319
 God

00:37:51.319 --> 00:37:53.539
 as though

00:37:53.539 --> 00:37:54.119
 the just

00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:54.719
 and merciful

00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:55.519
 creator did

00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:56.000
 not know

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:56.599
 what he was

00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:56.980
 doing.

00:37:58.559 --> 00:37:58.819
 Jesus

00:37:58.819 --> 00:37:59.980
 honored his

00:37:59.980 --> 00:38:01.139
 father to

00:38:01.139 --> 00:38:01.639
 save you

00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:02.039
 and me,

00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:02.859
 his killers,

00:38:04.420 --> 00:38:04.879
 praying,

00:38:05.099 --> 00:38:05.339
 Father,

00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:06.420
 they don't

00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:06.759
 know what

00:38:06.759 --> 00:38:06.980
 they are

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:07.279
 doing.

00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:11.440
 Jonah

00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:11.859
 said,

00:38:12.319 --> 00:38:12.599
 God,

00:38:12.759 --> 00:38:13.299
 if you

00:38:13.299 --> 00:38:13.599
 don't

00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:14.019
 destroy

00:38:14.019 --> 00:38:14.359
 these

00:38:14.359 --> 00:38:14.679
 sinners,

00:38:14.819 --> 00:38:15.119
 then let

00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:15.579
 me die.

00:38:17.139 --> 00:38:17.519
 Jesus

00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:17.980
 said,

00:38:18.379 --> 00:38:18.719
 let me

00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:20.139
 die that

00:38:20.139 --> 00:38:20.440
 these

00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:20.819
 sinners

00:38:20.819 --> 00:38:21.799
 may live.

00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:21.860
 love.

00:38:27.080 --> 00:38:27.820
 I love

00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:28.280
 the hymn.

00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:29.620
 I was

00:38:29.620 --> 00:38:30.080
 listening to

00:38:30.080 --> 00:38:30.400
 it this

00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:30.840
 morning and

00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:31.720
 the connection

00:38:31.720 --> 00:38:32.680
 is perfect.

00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:34.380
 Jesus,

00:38:34.740 --> 00:38:35.280
 I am

00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:35.800
 resting,

00:38:36.180 --> 00:38:36.500
 resting.

00:38:39.260 --> 00:38:39.940
 You are

00:38:39.940 --> 00:38:40.480
 the brightness

00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:41.120
 of my

00:38:41.120 --> 00:38:41.640
 father's

00:38:41.640 --> 00:38:42.100
 glory,

00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:43.300
 sunshine

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:44.519
 of my

00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:45.019
 father's

00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:45.420
 face.

00:38:46.260 --> 00:38:46.740
 I am

00:38:46.740 --> 00:38:47.480
 finding out

00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:48.180
 the greatness

00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:49.460
 of thy

00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:50.039
 loving

00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:51.019
 grace

00:38:51.019 --> 00:38:52.139
 more

00:38:52.139 --> 00:38:52.579
 each

00:38:52.579 --> 00:38:52.940
 year.

00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:54.339
 God

00:38:54.339 --> 00:38:54.799
 reveals

00:38:54.799 --> 00:38:55.119
 your

00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:55.539
 great

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:55.940
 need

00:38:55.940 --> 00:38:56.779
 and

00:38:56.779 --> 00:38:57.239
 his

00:38:57.239 --> 00:38:57.940
 great

00:38:57.940 --> 00:38:58.679
 grace

00:38:58.679 --> 00:38:59.919
 so that

00:38:59.919 --> 00:39:00.319
 you will

00:39:00.319 --> 00:39:01.159
 see God

00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:02.019
 in Christ.

00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:04.719
 Respond

00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:05.099
 to who

00:39:05.099 --> 00:39:05.719
 God truly

00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:06.239
 is by

00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:07.019
 confessing

00:39:07.019 --> 00:39:08.019
 what

00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:08.299
 Jonah

00:39:08.299 --> 00:39:08.619
 prayed

00:39:08.619 --> 00:39:09.000
 from the

00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:09.199
 belly

00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:09.500
 of the

00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:09.839
 fish.

00:39:10.359 --> 00:39:10.919
 Salvation

00:39:10.919 --> 00:39:11.539
 belongs

00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:12.079
 to you,

00:39:12.279 --> 00:39:12.519
 Lord,

00:39:12.899 --> 00:39:13.319
 alone.

00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:15.180
 God

00:39:15.180 --> 00:39:15.380
 will

00:39:15.380 --> 00:39:15.740
 save

00:39:15.740 --> 00:39:15.940
 whom

00:39:15.940 --> 00:39:16.100
 he

00:39:16.100 --> 00:39:16.300
 will

00:39:16.300 --> 00:39:16.760
 save

00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:17.720
 and

00:39:17.720 --> 00:39:17.960
 see

00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:18.120
 the

00:39:18.120 --> 00:39:18.600
 depth

00:39:18.600 --> 00:39:19.120
 of

00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:19.519
 God's

00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:19.840
 mercy

00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:20.140
 to

00:39:20.140 --> 00:39:20.559
 save

00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:20.760
 you

00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:20.900
 and

00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:21.100
 me.

00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:23.080
 Ask

00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:23.220
 him

00:39:23.220 --> 00:39:23.400
 to

00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:23.620
 put

00:39:23.620 --> 00:39:23.980
 more

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:24.120
 of

00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:24.280
 that

00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:24.660
 same

00:39:24.660 --> 00:39:25.160
 mercy,

00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:26.400
 compassion,

00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:27.120
 pity

00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:27.960
 inside

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:28.380
 of you.

00:39:28.680 --> 00:39:29.059
 We need

00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:29.200
 it.

00:39:29.500 --> 00:39:29.800
 We can

00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:30.260
 only love

00:39:30.260 --> 00:39:30.519
 if he

00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:30.920
 first

00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:31.539
 loves

00:39:31.539 --> 00:39:31.840
 us

00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:32.000
 and

00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:32.260
 fills

00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:32.420
 us

00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:32.580
 with

00:39:32.580 --> 00:39:32.760
 that

00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:33.019
 kind

00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:33.160
 of

00:39:33.160 --> 00:39:33.480
 love.

00:39:34.740 --> 00:39:35.000
 Our

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:35.260
 Lord

00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:35.539
 Jesus

00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:35.960
 Christ,

00:39:36.100 --> 00:39:36.220
 he

00:39:36.220 --> 00:39:36.600
 is

00:39:36.600 --> 00:39:36.840
 the

00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:37.180
 full

00:39:37.180 --> 00:39:37.880
 revelation

00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:38.700
 of

00:39:38.700 --> 00:39:38.840
 the

00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:39.059
 true

00:39:39.059 --> 00:39:39.480
 God.

00:39:40.740 --> 00:39:41.260
 Respond

00:39:41.260 --> 00:39:41.640
 to

00:39:41.640 --> 00:39:42.100
 God's

00:39:42.100 --> 00:39:42.480
 mercy

00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:43.160
 today.

00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:44.800
 See

00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.000
 God

00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:46.580
 in

00:39:46.580 --> 00:39:47.019
 Christ.

00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:48.460
 Let's

00:39:48.460 --> 00:39:48.680
 pray.

00:39:49.620 --> 00:39:50.220
 From

00:39:50.220 --> 00:39:50.440
 Acts

00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:50.880
 14

00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:51.320
 38.

00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:53.160
 Lord,

00:39:53.240 --> 00:39:53.660
 we trust

00:39:53.660 --> 00:39:54.180
 the promise

00:39:54.180 --> 00:39:54.559
 that as

00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:55.280
 many as

00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:56.260
 were appointed

00:39:56.260 --> 00:39:56.960
 to eternal

00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:58.039
 life will

00:39:58.039 --> 00:39:58.580
 believe.

00:39:59.280 --> 00:39:59.840
 And when we

00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.240
 believe,

00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:00.640
 we will

00:40:00.640 --> 00:40:01.580
 rejoice and

00:40:01.580 --> 00:40:01.880
 we will

00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:02.840
 glorify you,

00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:03.200
 God.

00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:04.760
 You alone

00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:05.820
 are worthy.

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:07.600
 Thank you,

00:40:07.700 --> 00:40:07.860
 Father,

00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:08.440
 for sending

00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:09.059
 your Son that

00:40:09.059 --> 00:40:10.059
 we can see

00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:10.460
 who you

00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:11.160
 truly are,

00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:12.420
 to see

00:40:12.420 --> 00:40:13.539
 your grace

00:40:13.539 --> 00:40:13.940
 and your

00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:14.400
 love

00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:15.340
 lavished

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:16.159
 on sinners

00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:16.680
 like us.

00:40:16.740 --> 00:40:17.019
 Help us

00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:17.740
 to receive,

00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:18.039
 Lord,

00:40:18.380 --> 00:40:18.920
 once again

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:19.360
 today,

00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:20.420
 your great

00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:20.900
 gift of

00:40:20.900 --> 00:40:21.200
 love,

00:40:21.200 --> 00:40:22.019
 through Jesus

00:40:22.019 --> 00:40:22.599
 Christ,

00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:23.480
 our Lord,

00:40:23.700 --> 00:40:24.119
 we pray.

00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:24.980
 Amen.