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 Amen. Thank you for that song.

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 We do not yet live in that final day of great rejoicing, but we can certainly look to it with great expectation.

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! It seems so often that sickness and sadness reigns in this day, but our God does indeed.

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 I think today we're going to have to accept as part of the normal noise of the room, our typical children,

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 being in the service with us, which we're so happy for because we love children.

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 I think we're also going to have to include in that coughing and sniffling, which we don't love so much.

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 It's part of that in-between, part of the curse that we deal with such things.

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 I'm really glad to be back with you in this manner this morning, able to preach as I've been in and out and sick.

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 We had the Advent season the past four weeks, so we took some turns preaching,

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 and the turn I was meant to have, I had to give up.

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 Clay very graciously preached on my behalf as I was diagnosed with pneumonia just two weeks ago,

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 and I'm gaining in strength.

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 I think I've felt a bit obligated to say that each time I've seen you that I've been getting a little bit better.

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 I know last Sunday I told Stan that I was at 80%, and then at 90, I saw him at the grocery store last night,

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 I said 95%. I'm probably being a little generous in all of that.

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 Sometimes I'm feeling like I'm drowning from the inside,

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 so forgive me if I take a moment and a break in the midst of preaching to clear myself in that way.

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 Prior to Advent season, we were working through the book of Ecclesiastes.

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 And I think, if I'm not mistaken, we were seven sermons in.

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 I think we got to chapter 2, verse 8, somewhere in that realm as we were marching through the book.

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 We're going to take a break from it.

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 We're going to stop preaching in Ecclesiastes.

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 And here's why.

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 The book of Ecclesiastes is an interesting book.

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 It's written. It's unique in all of biblical literature.

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 Certainly unique as a wisdom book.

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 And it's a difficult book to lay some bearing on because it has no real discernible outline.

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 It at times really seems like the ranting of a madman.

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 And you have to, in each and every time you pick up the book of Ecclesiastes,

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 you really need to either read it in a sitting or in the preaching of it.

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 You've got to get to the conclusion.

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 You've got to bring some sanity to what the preacher is saying in the book.

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 And his summary of it, we find in a single verse in Ecclesiastes 12, 13,

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 he says,

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 The end of the matter, all has been heard, fear God, and keep His commandments.

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 For this is the whole duty of man.

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 And he gives us some reason for that in verse 14.

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 Verse 14,

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 For God will bring every deed into judgment with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

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 And so he's saying to us that we need to rightly recognize,

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 we need to understand that we are created beings,

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 and we have a creator who has a standard.

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 This is the fear God, and we are meant to keep that standard.

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 The book of Ecclesiastes just drips with the gospel because it presents us with the great problem.

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 And all of the things in the world, all of the vanities, all of the pointlessness of the world,

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 he brings us this summary of this,

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 and we're left with this issue of fearing God and keeping commandments.

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 This is our duty as people, certainly as Christian people.

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 So we're going to take a step away from the book.

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 And we're going to go to the book of Jonah.

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 So let me invite you to turn there.

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 The Old Testament prophet Jonah.

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 As an example of a man that didn't do this well.

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 The book is characterized by Jonah's rebellion against God's command.

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 And it so well for us serves Jonah's life as a wonderful backdrop to consider the character of God

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 as we consider what it means to fear Him and to keep His commandments.

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 And so, kind of hear this as a continuation of our time in Ecclesiastes,

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 as a biblical example of how this is meant to work out in our lives.

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 Now, my apologies to you if this is incredibly disappointing,

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 if you were really hoping to work all the way through the book of Ecclesiastes.

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 So to that, I would just say, if that's a desire of yours, stick around.

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 Maybe build a house in the area.

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 If you're young, get married and have children.

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 And maybe at some point we'll revisit together the book of Ecclesiastes.

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 I'll make no promises, but likely we will at some point get into it.

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 But for the next three weeks, I want to preach from the book of Jonah.

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 I want to structure it in this way.

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 The first week being this morning,

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 we're going to look at the rebellion found in the book,

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 the theme of rebellion in the book of Jonah.

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 This morning we're going to look at chapter 1, verses 1-16.

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 Secondly, so next Sunday,

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 we're going to look at the repentance that's found in the book of Jonah

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 by looking at chapter 1, verse 17, through chapter 3, verse 10.

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 And then finally, on the third week,

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 the regret found in chapter 4.

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 So let's look at together, as I read to you,

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 Jonah chapter 1, verses 1-16.

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 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

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 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it,

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 for their evil has come up before me.

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 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

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 He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.

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 So he paid the fare and went on board to go with them to Tarshish

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 and away from the presence of the Lord.

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 But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea,

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 and there was a mighty tempest on the sea,

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 so that the ship threatened to break up.

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 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his God.

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 And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea

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 to lighten it for them.

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 But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship

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 and had lain down and was fast asleep.

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 So the captain came and said to him,

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 What do you mean, you sleeper?

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 Arise, call out to your God.

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 Perhaps the God will give a thought to us that we may not perish.

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 And they said to one another,

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 So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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 Then they said to him,

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 Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us.

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 What is your occupation?

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 And where do you come from?

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 What is your country?

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 And of what people are you?

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 And he said to them,

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 and I love this,

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 I am a Hebrew,

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 and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven,

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 who made the sea and the dry land.

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 Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him,

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 What is this that you have done?

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 For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord,

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 because he had told them.

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 Then they said to him,

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 What shall we do to you that the sea may quiet down for us?

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 For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

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 He said to them,

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 Pick me up and hurl me into the sea.

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 Then the sea will quiet down for you,

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 for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.

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 Nevertheless, the men rode hard to get back to dry land,

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 but they could not,

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 for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

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 Therefore they called out to the Lord,

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 O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life,

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 and lay not on us innocent blood,

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 for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.

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 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea,

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 and the sea ceased from its raging.

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 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly,

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 and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

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 I think that most of us are fairly familiar with the story of Jonah.

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 We at least know the plot line of the story of Jonah.

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 We're aware of his rebellion,

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 and therefore what happens to him as he's swallowed up by a great fish.

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 But the rebellion in the story of Jonah goes beyond Jonah himself.

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 It's not just Jonah's rebellion that we ought to see together.

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 And so I want to look at that,

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 and then I want to step away from that a bit to look at God's character,

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 as we see in these first 16 verses.

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 So notice first, Nineveh's rebellion.

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 Chapter 2, the word of the Lord to Jonah is,

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 to arise and go to Nineveh, that great city,

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 and call out against it,

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 for their evil has come up before me.

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 The people who lived in Nineveh were Assyrians,

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 and they were wretchedly wicked,

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 as I will show you in just a moment.

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 So they were rebellious against the Lord God.

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 Jonah's message, you'll see in chapter 3, verse 4,

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 is yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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 So God is bringing judgment,

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 and a call of judgment down on Nineveh,

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 unless they repent and turn from their ways.

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 Notice also the Mariner's Rebellion,

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 those who are sailing the ship.

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 As they're in this storm,

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 they call out to all of their gods.

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 It seems that they all have a god of their own making,

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 apparently.

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 These gods are silent,

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 they do not answer,

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 but yet they don't worship the one true God,

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 and are also in need of repentance.

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 And we see them in this text,

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 they do in fact repent,

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 and we'll talk a bit more about that next week.

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 And then certainly highlighted in the midst of all this

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 is Jonah's rebellion.

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 Jonah's given a very clear command.

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 I love how the author,

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 we don't know who the author of Jonah is,

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 but gets right to the point.

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 In this first couple of verses,

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 there's a call to Jonah to go to Nineveh,

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 and then very quickly in verse 3,

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 but Jonah.

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 Despite what God had commanded him to do,

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 but Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish

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 from the presence of the Lord.

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 What caused Jonah to run in the other direction?

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 Was it the size of the task?

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 It's a major task that God put before Jonah.

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 Nineveh, called that great city in chapter 1, verse 2,

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 took three days to cross.

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 Chapter 3, verse 3,

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 probably because they're counting the suburbs

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 around Nineveh as well.

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 Nineveh itself was 18,000 acres

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 within the city walls.

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 It contained parks and a zoo.

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 It was the Assyrian capital in that day.

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 The wall was 100 feet tall

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 and 30 feet thick.

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 In chapter 4, verse 11,

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 God says that there are 120,000 small children,

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 we presume.

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 Persons who don't know their right hand

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 from their left hand.

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 Hopefully, we know about what age that is.

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 Small children, 120,000 of them.

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 What a task for a single preacher.

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 Would you be overwhelmed by such a task?

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 Was that the issue before Jonah?

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 Was it the danger of the mission?

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 The Assyrian people were extremely wicked.

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 In Nahum's prophecy, chapter 3, verses 1-4,

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 he's speaking out against these very people

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 that Jonah's been asked to go to.

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 And he writes,

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 Woe to the bloody city,

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 all full of lies and plunder,

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 no end to the prey,

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 the crack of the whip and rumble of the wheel,

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 galloping horse and bounding chariot,

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 horsemen charging, flashing sword,

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 and glittering spear,

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 hosts of slain,

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 heaps of corpses,

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 dead bodies without end.

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 They stumble over the bodies,

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 and all for the countless whorings of the prostitute,

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 graceful and of deadly charms,

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 who betrays nations with her whorings

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 and people with her charms.

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 Incredibly evil,

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 incredibly dangerous people

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 that Jonah is asked to go to

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 as a solitary preacher

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 and preach to them destruction.

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 Were these the reasons that he didn't go?

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 The size of the task

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 or the danger of the mission?

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 No.

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 These weren't the reasons.

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 So why then?

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 Why then did Jonah go

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 in the opposite direction

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 from the place that God had asked him to go?

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 Nineveh is about 600 miles northeast of Jerusalem.

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 It's modern-day Mosul, Iraq.

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 Joppa is 30 miles northwest,

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 which is modern-day Jaffa, Israel.

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 And Tarshish, we're not sure about,

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 but it's likely located in Spain.

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 So get that picture.

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 He's meant to go one direction.

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 He walks out of the front of his house,

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 and rather than turning right

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 to head down the road,

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 he turns left.

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 He goes in directly the opposite direction

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 to get on a ship

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 and to sail far away

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 across the Mediterranean.

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 Why did he flee in this way?

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 Why did his flight take this course?

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 The book of Jonah answers that for us.

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 In chapter 4, verse 2,

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 after we see the repentance of the Ninevites,

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 he said,

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 O Lord, is not this what I said

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 when I was yet in my country?

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 That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish,

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 for I knew that you are a gracious God

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 and 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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 Jonah hated the Ninevites.

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 They were enemies of Israel,

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 and he knew of God's character

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 that he was merciful,

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 and that if he were to go

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 and preach destruction to these people

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 and they were to turn from their ways,

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 that God would show them mercy.

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 And he did not want that to be the case.

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 I fear that in so many ways,

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 we do this as a people.

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 James Montgomery Boyce,

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 in his commentary on Jonah,

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 says,

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 we can understand the geography

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 and Jonah's motives

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 if we can imagine the word of the Lord

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 coming to a Jew who lived in New York

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 during World War II,

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 telling him to go to Berlin

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 to preach to Nazi Germany,

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 and instead of this,

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 he goes to San Francisco

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 and takes a boat for Hong Kong.

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 And this is the issue before us.

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 This is the life of a man

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 that we ought to filter

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 our own lives through.

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 Who are your Ninevites?

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 This could be on a grand

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 and political scale.

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 This could also be interpersonal,

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 an individual that you just don't care for,

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 or a group of people

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 that you just don't care for.

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 I remember back to my high school days.

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 I was not a big fan of the jocks

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 at our school,

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 with some good reason.

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 But it's God's mercy

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 not good for them

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 should they not also repent

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 and believe.

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 And we categorize people

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 and we break them up in this way

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 and we should not.

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 So I want to show you,

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 with that as the backdrop,

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 three things about our God.

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 I want to show you God's purpose

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 in this text,

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 God's power,

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 and God's presence.

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 And God's purpose in this world,

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 I want to sum up in this way,

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 is to make Himself known.

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 To seek His own glory,

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 His own acclaim,

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 to make Himself known

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 primarily through the merciful redemption

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 of His people.

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 Let me give you some text to this end.

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 Isaiah 43, 6 and 7.

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 God says,

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 I will say to the north,

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 give up,

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 and to the south,

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 do not withhold.

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 Bring My sons from afar

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 and My daughters from the end of the earth.

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 Everyone who is called by My name,

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 whom I created for My glory,

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 whom I formed and I made.

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 God has always had

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 worldwide intentions

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 for His glory.

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 He has always intended to save peoples

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 from every tribe

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 and every nation

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 and every tongue.

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 This theme maintains itself

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 all throughout the Old Testament.

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 God didn't just intend

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 to have Israel as His people.

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 The book of Jonah

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 is a wonderful expression of that.

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 Go to the great city of Nineveh

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 and preach destruction

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 that they may turn to Me.

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 There's always been an inclusion

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 in God's people.

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 Habakkuk 2, 14.

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 God says,

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 For the earth will be filled

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 with the knowledge of the glory

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 of the Lord

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 as the waters

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 cover the sea.

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 For time,

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 there's two Old Testament

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 examples for you.

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 This has always been

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 God's intention.

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 How is it that He accomplishes

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 this great work

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 of the glory of His name

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 by the redemption

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 of His people?

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 He accomplishes it

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 through preaching.

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 And I don't mean

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 only this kind

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 of preaching.

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 I mean the kind of preaching

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 that's so often

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 translated in that way.

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 The Greek word means

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 gossiping.

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 Like in Acts 8, 4.

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 When the early church

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 is split up

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 because of persecution,

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 it says that they went

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 about preaching

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 the Word of God.

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 It means that they told

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 anybody and everybody

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 as they're dispersed

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 back across

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 the known world

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 about the good news

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 How is it that we find

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 Christianity

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 on three continents

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 in one generation?

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 Because God's people

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 preach the good news

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 They saw that they were

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 meant to go

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 and to make disciples.

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 Romans chapter 10,

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 13 through 17.

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 Beloved, hear me.

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 I often read

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 these common texts

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 and I think,

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 oh, I need to come up

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 with more creative texts.

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 Right?

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 That people haven't heard

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 so much.

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 But I wonder if I say

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 Romans 10, 13 through 17

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 if you go,

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 I don't read that.

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 You should.

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 Okay, so hear me.

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 You should.

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 For everyone

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 who calls

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 on the name of the Lord

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 will be saved.

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 Do we care about people

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 to that degree?

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 Right?

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 Even our Ninevites

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 that we would want people

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 to have what we have.

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 Right?

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 The mercy of God

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 to us in Jesus Christ.

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 Everyone who calls

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 on the name of the Lord

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 will be saved.

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 How then will they call

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 on Him

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 in whom they have not believed?

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 And how are they

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 to believe in Him

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 of whom they have never heard?

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 And how are they to hear

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 without someone preaching?

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 This is that Greek word.

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 Don't think that this

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 excludes you.

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 Right?

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 This isn't just a text

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 for the pastor.

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 This is a text

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 for the believer.

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 And how are they to preach

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 unless they are sent?

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 As it is written,

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 how beautiful are the feet

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 of those

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 who preach

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 the good news.

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 But they have not all

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 obeyed the gospel.

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 For Isaiah says,

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 Lord,

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 who has believed

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 what He has heard

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 from us?

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 So there's not a promise

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 that everyone's going to turn

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 to Christ.

00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:05.340
 Right?

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 We can see that here.

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 Right?

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 But there's a command to go.

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 Verse 17,

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 So faith comes from hearing

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 and hearing

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 through the word of Christ.

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 Jonah seemed to understand this

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 better than we do

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 so often.

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 He didn't want to go

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 because he knew

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 they probably would believe

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 that God would save

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 their souls.

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 Psalm 96.3,

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 the exhortation,

00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:34.399
 declare His glory

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 among the nations,

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 His marvelous works

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 among all the peoples.

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 Matthew chapter 28,

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 another text

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 you should be very familiar with.

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 Right?

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 Just the first part

00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:46.199
 of verse 19,

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 Go therefore

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 and make disciples

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 of all nations.

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 Acts 1.8,

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 You will receive power

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 when the Holy Spirit

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 has come upon you

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 and you will be

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 my witnesses

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 in Jerusalem,

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 in all Judea

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 and Samaria

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 and to the end

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 of the earth.

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 If we are disciples

00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:11.460
 of Jesus Christ,

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 we will care about

00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:14.740
 what Jesus Christ

00:22:14.740 --> 00:22:15.839
 cares about.

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 Luke 19.10,

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 For the Son of Man

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 came to seek

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 and to save

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 the lost.

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 This is the means

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 by which

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 He carries the Gospel

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 to all peoples.

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 And don't hear me

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 just making a mission call.

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 Certainly include that

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 in this.

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 Some of you may need

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 to go

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 and go to the ends

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 of the earth,

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 to the weirdest

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 and most remote places

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 where people live.

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 All of us need to go

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 to wherever we're going

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 this week.

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 To see that we are

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 first and foremost

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 disciples of Jesus Christ.

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 Everything else

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 falls underneath that.

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 Everything else

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 is subservient

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 to the fact

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 that we're God's people

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 and we're meant

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 to take the good news

00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:03.359
 of Christ

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 to everyone

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 everywhere.

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 To be messengers

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 of the mercy

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 of God.

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 And this book

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 just drips

00:23:13.460 --> 00:23:14.660
 with that.

00:23:15.379 --> 00:23:16.420
 God displays

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 abundant

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 mercy

00:23:18.600 --> 00:23:19.820
 toward mankind

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 in the story

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 of Jonah.

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 I am always

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 so thankful

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 for the conjunction

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 but.

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 You see that

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 this command

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 is given to

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 Jonah.

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 Verse 3,

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 but Jonah.

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 He's given a command.

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 Instead,

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 he goes and does

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 this thing.

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 And instead of God

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 doing the warranted

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 thing for Jonah's

00:23:40.820 --> 00:23:41.220
 rebellion,

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 right?

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 I read these first

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 three verses

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 and in my mind

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 I want God

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 to smush Jonah.

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 Be done with him.

00:23:49.180 --> 00:23:49.279
 Right?

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 Ah, rebellious.

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 Go on to the next guy.

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 Right?

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 Somebody else

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 in Jerusalem

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:55.680
 certainly would have

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 gone.

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 But verse 4

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 says,

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 but the Lord.

00:24:02.139 --> 00:24:02.679
 And there's this

00:24:02.679 --> 00:24:03.619
 great intervention

00:24:03.619 --> 00:24:04.639
 on his behalf.

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 He sends a great

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 wind and a great

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 fish because

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 he loves

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 Jonah.

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 Because he's

00:24:12.220 --> 00:24:13.599
 merciful toward

00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:14.259
 Jonah.

00:24:14.939 --> 00:24:15.679
 He's got this

00:24:15.679 --> 00:24:16.419
 mission for him

00:24:16.419 --> 00:24:16.960
 that he intends

00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:17.559
 to carry out

00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:18.480
 and he does not

00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:19.619
 need him to

00:24:19.619 --> 00:24:20.299
 accomplish this

00:24:20.299 --> 00:24:20.639
 thing.

00:24:20.919 --> 00:24:21.519
 Could God not

00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:22.259
 in some other

00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:23.559
 way preach the

00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:25.039
 good news to the

00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:25.699
 people of Nineveh?

00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:27.100
 Certainly he could.

00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:28.200
 But he chooses

00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:29.080
 to use Jonah

00:24:29.080 --> 00:24:30.120
 and to express

00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:30.600
 his mercy

00:24:30.600 --> 00:24:31.519
 through the

00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:33.319
 work of Jonah.

00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:34.440
 He shows this

00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:35.519
 abundant mercy

00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:36.340
 to him.

00:24:36.360 --> 00:24:36.799
 And he does it

00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:37.180
 on more than

00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:38.279
 one occasion.

00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:38.680
 He does it

00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:39.700
 again in chapter

00:24:39.700 --> 00:24:40.019
 4.

00:24:40.100 --> 00:24:40.880
 Again, I want

00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:41.380
 Jonah to be

00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:42.319
 smushed by the

00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:43.519
 thumb of God.

00:24:43.620 --> 00:24:44.120
 But God

00:24:44.120 --> 00:24:46.019
 stays his

00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:46.720
 anger toward

00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:47.000
 him.

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:48.779
 He shows mercy

00:24:48.779 --> 00:24:50.000
 to the mariners.

00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:51.180
 We see their

00:24:51.180 --> 00:24:52.100
 repentance and he

00:24:52.100 --> 00:24:53.140
 stays the storm

00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:53.940
 for them once

00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:54.880
 they throw Jonah.

00:24:55.700 --> 00:24:56.279
 overboard.

00:24:56.900 --> 00:24:57.160
 And he

00:24:57.160 --> 00:24:57.720
 certainly shows

00:24:57.720 --> 00:24:58.680
 mercy to the

00:24:58.680 --> 00:24:59.299
 people of Nineveh

00:24:59.299 --> 00:24:59.779
 as we see the

00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:00.420
 greatest revival

00:25:00.420 --> 00:25:00.980
 that has ever

00:25:00.980 --> 00:25:01.920
 happened in all

00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:03.080
 of history in

00:25:03.080 --> 00:25:04.539
 the book of

00:25:04.539 --> 00:25:04.799
 Jonah.

00:25:05.740 --> 00:25:06.559
 We see God's

00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:07.920
 purpose in

00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:08.200
 Jonah.

00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:09.500
 The redemption

00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:11.700
 of people from

00:25:11.700 --> 00:25:12.240
 every tribe,

00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:13.200
 every nation,

00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:13.980
 and every tongue.

00:25:14.100 --> 00:25:15.080
 This includes

00:25:15.080 --> 00:25:16.759
 all of the ways

00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:17.580
 that we section

00:25:17.580 --> 00:25:18.480
 ourselves out.

00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:20.160
 This includes

00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:20.779
 the hipsters.

00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:27.139
 God's power.

00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:27.680
 The second thing

00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:28.019
 I want you to

00:25:28.019 --> 00:25:28.240
 see.

00:25:28.740 --> 00:25:29.379
 God's power.

00:25:30.879 --> 00:25:31.399
 There's a number

00:25:31.399 --> 00:25:31.859
 of things that we

00:25:31.859 --> 00:25:32.639
 see in the text

00:25:32.639 --> 00:25:33.220
 that we can speak

00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:33.819
 about God's

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:34.220
 power.

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.259
 He calms a

00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:35.579
 storm.

00:25:35.779 --> 00:25:36.200
 Think about

00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:37.440
 Jesus speaking

00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:37.980
 to the storm

00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:38.339
 on the Sea of

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:38.819
 Galilee and

00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:39.460
 calming it.

00:25:39.500 --> 00:25:40.299
 He commands

00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:41.119
 a great fish.

00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:42.059
 He's got power

00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:42.859
 over the

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:43.720
 creation.

00:25:44.339 --> 00:25:45.039
 We see that

00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:45.519
 he changes

00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:46.039
 hearts.

00:25:46.180 --> 00:25:46.519
 We see that

00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:47.559
 the Ninevites

00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:48.579
 and the mariners

00:25:48.579 --> 00:25:50.019
 turn to God.

00:25:50.019 --> 00:25:50.400
 We see all

00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:50.900
 this expression

00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:51.359
 of God's

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:51.579
 power,

00:25:51.660 --> 00:25:51.940
 but I'm

00:25:51.940 --> 00:25:52.359
 referring

00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:53.240
 specifically

00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:54.379
 when I talk

00:25:54.379 --> 00:25:54.799
 about God's

00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:55.440
 power from

00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:55.900
 this text

00:25:55.900 --> 00:25:57.400
 to God's

00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:57.920
 sovereignty.

00:25:58.619 --> 00:25:59.700
 His ultimate

00:25:59.700 --> 00:26:00.759
 and complete

00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:01.960
 reign over

00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:04.180
 all things.

00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:05.660
 Nothing

00:26:05.660 --> 00:26:06.720
 escapes

00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.059
 God's

00:26:08.059 --> 00:26:08.779
 control

00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:09.879
 and power.

00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:11.019
 And we seem

00:26:11.019 --> 00:26:11.660
 as a people

00:26:11.660 --> 00:26:12.400
 to have no

00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:12.900
 trouble with

00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:13.519
 God's sovereignty

00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:15.039
 in the natural

00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:15.819
 order of things.

00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:16.319
 An example

00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:16.759
 of this

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:17.160
 would be

00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:17.579
 gravity.

00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:18.980
 Have you ever

00:26:18.980 --> 00:26:19.400
 heard a person

00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:20.000
 complain?

00:26:20.660 --> 00:26:21.119
 That God

00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:21.799
 is in control

00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:22.480
 of the way

00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:22.980
 in which

00:26:22.980 --> 00:26:23.940
 we stay

00:26:23.940 --> 00:26:24.440
 on the ground?

00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:25.259
 I never have.

00:26:25.339 --> 00:26:25.740
 I'm thankful

00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:26.240
 for it.

00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:27.639
 I can rest

00:26:27.639 --> 00:26:28.339
 in that fact

00:26:28.339 --> 00:26:28.900
 that I know

00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:30.019
 that I'm

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:30.500
 on the ground

00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:30.920
 and gravity

00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:31.220
 is going to

00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:31.740
 function and

00:26:31.740 --> 00:26:32.619
 continue to

00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:32.960
 work.

00:26:33.379 --> 00:26:34.180
 This is under

00:26:34.180 --> 00:26:35.000
 God's purview.

00:26:35.259 --> 00:26:35.740
 He is in

00:26:35.740 --> 00:26:36.720
 control of

00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:37.799
 this right

00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:38.559
 now that

00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:39.519
 we're where

00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:39.839
 we are.

00:26:39.940 --> 00:26:40.240
 We're held

00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:40.660
 together.

00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:41.460
 You're not

00:26:41.460 --> 00:26:41.940
 going to float

00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:42.299
 up out of

00:26:42.299 --> 00:26:42.740
 your seats

00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:43.299
 all of a

00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:43.579
 sudden.

00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:44.599
 Unless the

00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:44.980
 sermon gets

00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:45.660
 real good.

00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:46.660
 You're going

00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:47.279
 to stay put

00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:48.259
 in your seats.

00:26:48.259 --> 00:26:50.000
 We have

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:50.440
 no trouble

00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:50.900
 with this

00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:51.400
 kind of

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:51.720
 thing.

00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:52.339
 We say,

00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:52.779
 oh sure,

00:26:52.900 --> 00:26:53.200
 God is

00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:53.579
 sovereign and

00:26:53.579 --> 00:26:53.920
 in control

00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:54.400
 of that.

00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:54.799
 The orbit

00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:55.299
 of the planet.

00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:55.619
 Yes,

00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:56.079
 God is in

00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:56.960
 control of

00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:57.140
 that.

00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:57.400
 But we

00:26:57.400 --> 00:26:57.720
 seem to

00:26:57.720 --> 00:26:58.279
 really struggle

00:26:58.279 --> 00:26:58.740
 with it

00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.319
 when it

00:26:59.319 --> 00:26:59.700
 comes to

00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:00.339
 the experience

00:27:00.339 --> 00:27:00.960
 of life.

00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:02.900
 Suddenly we

00:27:02.900 --> 00:27:03.339
 become,

00:27:03.539 --> 00:27:04.140
 because we

00:27:04.140 --> 00:27:04.660
 experience

00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:04.980
 something

00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:05.500
 different,

00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:06.379
 we become

00:27:06.379 --> 00:27:07.059
 gods in

00:27:07.059 --> 00:27:07.559
 ourselves.

00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:08.539
 And we

00:27:08.539 --> 00:27:08.660
 say,

00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:08.799
 oh,

00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:09.200
 we couldn't

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.039
 possibly be

00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:10.579
 sovereign over

00:27:10.579 --> 00:27:12.119
 all things.

00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:13.879
 we struggle

00:27:13.879 --> 00:27:14.219
 with it,

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:14.619
 with things

00:27:14.619 --> 00:27:15.559
 like a

00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:16.079
 wayward

00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:16.939
 saint.

00:27:18.179 --> 00:27:18.719
 I think

00:27:18.719 --> 00:27:19.139
 all of us

00:27:19.139 --> 00:27:19.359
 have been

00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:20.000
 around long

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.439
 enough that

00:27:21.439 --> 00:27:21.919
 we've seen

00:27:21.919 --> 00:27:22.679
 a person who

00:27:22.679 --> 00:27:23.500
 professes faith

00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:24.159
 in Christ,

00:27:24.639 --> 00:27:25.479
 who shows so

00:27:25.479 --> 00:27:26.259
 much evidence

00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:26.799
 of that,

00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:27.639
 and then just

00:27:27.639 --> 00:27:28.500
 seems in so

00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:29.639
 many ways to

00:27:29.639 --> 00:27:30.679
 rebel against

00:27:30.679 --> 00:27:31.259
 God.

00:27:31.799 --> 00:27:32.500
 To run

00:27:32.500 --> 00:27:32.819
 off.

00:27:32.939 --> 00:27:33.339
 People are

00:27:33.339 --> 00:27:33.879
 coming to my

00:27:33.879 --> 00:27:35.059
 mind that

00:27:35.059 --> 00:27:35.399
 have been

00:27:35.399 --> 00:27:35.819
 here and

00:27:35.819 --> 00:27:36.219
 have left.

00:27:36.579 --> 00:27:37.259
 And this is

00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:37.539
 not the

00:27:37.539 --> 00:27:38.079
 magical place.

00:27:38.179 --> 00:27:38.479
 You've got to

00:27:38.479 --> 00:27:38.779
 be here if

00:27:38.779 --> 00:27:38.979
 you're a

00:27:38.979 --> 00:27:39.199
 Christian.

00:27:39.479 --> 00:27:39.779
 But they

00:27:39.779 --> 00:27:40.579
 go off and

00:27:40.579 --> 00:27:40.939
 with their

00:27:40.939 --> 00:27:41.659
 life,

00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:41.980
 they just

00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:42.840
 kick against

00:27:42.840 --> 00:27:43.920
 God.

00:27:45.580 --> 00:27:46.160
 Does God

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:46.519
 not have the

00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:47.019
 ability to

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:47.840
 actually crush

00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:48.460
 our wills?

00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:48.940
 Certainly He

00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:49.240
 could,

00:27:49.320 --> 00:27:49.600
 and sometimes

00:27:49.600 --> 00:27:49.940
 I just

00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:50.279
 wish that

00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:50.740
 He would.

00:27:51.259 --> 00:27:51.720
 That He

00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:52.460
 would just

00:27:52.460 --> 00:27:53.040
 actually make

00:27:53.040 --> 00:27:53.460
 me a

00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:53.779
 robot.

00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:54.100
 I would

00:27:54.100 --> 00:27:54.560
 be fine

00:27:54.560 --> 00:27:54.960
 with that.

00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:55.560
 Help me

00:27:55.560 --> 00:27:55.940
 to walk

00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:57.640
 in righteousness.

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.300
 So we

00:27:58.300 --> 00:27:59.640
 struggle in

00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:00.180
 this way.

00:28:01.460 --> 00:28:02.040
 Jonah speaks

00:28:02.040 --> 00:28:02.620
 to this.

00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:04.560
 Jonah speaks

00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:04.779
 to this.

00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:05.900
 God is

00:28:05.900 --> 00:28:07.240
 in control.

00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:08.700
 His providence

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:08.980
 raised.

00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:09.480
 Look at the

00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:09.840
 way that He

00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:10.300
 deals with

00:28:10.300 --> 00:28:10.720
 Jonah.

00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:12.500
 to accomplish

00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:13.100
 His purpose

00:28:13.100 --> 00:28:14.060
 with Jonah

00:28:14.060 --> 00:28:15.740
 indirectly.

00:28:17.060 --> 00:28:17.640
 Could God

00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:18.259
 have, and

00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:18.720
 certainly He

00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:19.240
 has, there's

00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:19.640
 some accounts

00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:19.860
 of it in

00:28:19.860 --> 00:28:20.220
 the Scripture,

00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:21.580
 of changing

00:28:21.580 --> 00:28:22.259
 somebody in

00:28:22.259 --> 00:28:23.100
 a way that

00:28:23.100 --> 00:28:23.779
 causes them

00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:24.220
 to do a

00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:24.540
 thing?

00:28:25.320 --> 00:28:26.000
 Couldn't He

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:26.240
 have done

00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:26.700
 that here,

00:28:26.840 --> 00:28:27.080
 right?

00:28:27.840 --> 00:28:28.279
 Couldn't

00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:29.640
 verse 4

00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:29.940
 read,

00:28:30.380 --> 00:28:31.259
 but God,

00:28:31.740 --> 00:28:32.300
 but the

00:28:32.300 --> 00:28:32.759
 Lord,

00:28:34.060 --> 00:28:34.680
 as He

00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:35.100
 was turning,

00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:35.980
 as He

00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:36.360
 was going

00:28:36.360 --> 00:28:37.240
 toward Joppa,

00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:38.480
 changed His

00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.400
 heart and

00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:39.840
 caused Him

00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:40.240
 to walk

00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:40.559
 the other

00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:40.899
 direction

00:28:40.899 --> 00:28:41.079
 to

00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:41.319
 Nineveh.

00:28:41.399 --> 00:28:41.679
 Certainly,

00:28:42.059 --> 00:28:42.359
 He could

00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:42.559
 have.

00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:44.339
 But here,

00:28:44.459 --> 00:28:45.179
 God works

00:28:45.179 --> 00:28:46.259
 indirectly.

00:28:46.679 --> 00:28:47.019
 He works

00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:47.199
 through

00:28:47.199 --> 00:28:47.959
 circumstance,

00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:48.359
 a great

00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:49.179
 storm and

00:28:49.179 --> 00:28:49.539
 a great

00:28:49.539 --> 00:28:50.259
 fish.

00:28:51.299 --> 00:28:51.500
 Jonah

00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:52.159
 recognizes

00:28:52.159 --> 00:28:52.659
 God's

00:28:52.659 --> 00:28:53.079
 intervention

00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:53.799
 in His

00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:54.220
 repentance,

00:28:54.579 --> 00:28:54.919
 which we'll

00:28:54.919 --> 00:28:55.299
 talk about

00:28:55.299 --> 00:28:56.000
 next week,

00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:56.799
 and does

00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:57.220
 the thing

00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:57.599
 that God

00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:57.919
 had said

00:28:57.919 --> 00:28:58.339
 Him about

00:28:58.339 --> 00:28:59.299
 doing.

00:29:00.199 --> 00:29:00.399
 His

00:29:00.399 --> 00:29:00.819
 providence

00:29:00.819 --> 00:29:01.740
 reigns at

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.279
 all times.

00:29:02.459 --> 00:29:02.879
 It never

00:29:02.879 --> 00:29:03.339
 does it,

00:29:03.419 --> 00:29:03.879
 even if our

00:29:03.879 --> 00:29:04.819
 experience

00:29:04.819 --> 00:29:06.639
 doesn't seem

00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:07.120
 to affirm

00:29:07.120 --> 00:29:07.500
 that.

00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:09.259
 Beloved,

00:29:09.320 --> 00:29:09.720
 the Scripture

00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:10.140
 is our

00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:10.540
 great high

00:29:10.540 --> 00:29:10.920
 authority,

00:29:11.060 --> 00:29:11.380
 not our

00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:11.920
 experience.

00:29:13.060 --> 00:29:13.940
 Psalm 115.3,

00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:14.920
 Our God

00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:15.220
 is in the

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:15.500
 heavens.

00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:16.420
 He does

00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:17.280
 all that

00:29:17.280 --> 00:29:17.820
 He pleases.

00:29:18.820 --> 00:29:19.080
 Proverbs

00:29:19.080 --> 00:29:19.980
 16.9,

00:29:20.340 --> 00:29:20.740
 The heart

00:29:20.740 --> 00:29:21.160
 of man

00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:21.880
 plans his

00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:22.180
 way,

00:29:22.300 --> 00:29:25.780
 but the

00:29:25.780 --> 00:29:26.140
 Lord

00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:27.380
 establishes

00:29:27.380 --> 00:29:28.820
 His steps.

00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:30.320
 Proverbs

00:29:30.320 --> 00:29:31.120
 21.1,

00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:31.940
 says of a

00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:32.360
 king,

00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:33.259
 and it

00:29:33.259 --> 00:29:33.740
 says it of a

00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:34.140
 king because

00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:34.580
 the king

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:35.139
 was in

00:29:35.139 --> 00:29:36.379
 absolute

00:29:36.379 --> 00:29:36.939
 control in

00:29:36.939 --> 00:29:37.179
 the mind

00:29:37.179 --> 00:29:37.359
 of the

00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.079
 people over

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:38.539
 everything that

00:29:38.539 --> 00:29:38.819
 was under

00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:39.759
 his reign,

00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:40.199
 right?

00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:40.919
 But the

00:29:40.919 --> 00:29:41.279
 king's

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:42.299
 heart is a

00:29:42.299 --> 00:29:42.699
 stream of

00:29:42.699 --> 00:29:43.159
 water in

00:29:43.159 --> 00:29:43.379
 the hand

00:29:43.379 --> 00:29:43.559
 of the

00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:43.679
 Lord.

00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:44.139
 He turns

00:29:44.139 --> 00:29:44.819
 it wherever

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:45.539
 he will.

00:29:45.919 --> 00:29:46.359
 Effortlessly

00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:47.079
 he turns

00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:47.220
 it.

00:29:47.259 --> 00:29:47.559
 And certainly

00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:48.039
 this gives

00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:48.939
 application

00:29:48.939 --> 00:29:50.359
 to us.

00:29:51.379 --> 00:29:51.939
 God is

00:29:51.939 --> 00:29:52.500
 sovereignly in

00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:53.299
 control of

00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:53.919
 all things.

00:29:54.019 --> 00:29:54.179
 Now I

00:29:54.179 --> 00:29:54.379
 don't want

00:29:54.379 --> 00:29:54.619
 to even

00:29:54.619 --> 00:29:55.059
 try to

00:29:55.059 --> 00:29:55.339
 work out

00:29:55.339 --> 00:29:55.579
 all the

00:29:55.579 --> 00:29:55.980
 implications

00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:56.359
 of that

00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:56.740
 with you.

00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:57.599
 I don't

00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:57.899
 think we

00:29:57.899 --> 00:29:58.439
 will on

00:29:58.439 --> 00:29:58.819
 this side

00:29:58.819 --> 00:29:59.299
 of glory.

00:29:59.559 --> 00:29:59.759
 I think

00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:00.019
 it's a

00:30:00.019 --> 00:30:00.500
 thing that's

00:30:00.500 --> 00:30:00.899
 far too

00:30:00.899 --> 00:30:01.279
 high for

00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:01.500
 us to

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:02.119
 completely

00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:03.479
 understand.

00:30:03.919 --> 00:30:04.379
 How it

00:30:04.379 --> 00:30:05.519
 is that

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:05.819
 God is

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.239
 sovereign over

00:30:06.239 --> 00:30:06.759
 all things

00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:07.339
 and yet we

00:30:07.339 --> 00:30:07.859
 are responsible

00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:08.259
 for our

00:30:08.259 --> 00:30:08.659
 actions,

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.899
 I don't

00:30:09.899 --> 00:30:10.099
 want to

00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:10.419
 try.

00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:11.719
 I don't

00:30:11.719 --> 00:30:11.799
 want to

00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:11.939
 try.

00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:13.419
 Listen to

00:30:13.419 --> 00:30:13.719
 this quote

00:30:13.719 --> 00:30:14.419
 from Charles

00:30:14.419 --> 00:30:14.799
 Spurgeon.

00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:16.159
 This is on

00:30:16.159 --> 00:30:16.459
 the front of

00:30:16.459 --> 00:30:16.839
 your bulletin

00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:17.059
 that you

00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:17.519
 don't have

00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:17.839
 because it's

00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:18.079
 sitting in

00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:18.319
 the hall.

00:30:19.459 --> 00:30:19.959
 So I'll

00:30:19.959 --> 00:30:20.299
 try to read

00:30:20.299 --> 00:30:20.719
 it carefully

00:30:20.719 --> 00:30:21.379
 and you

00:30:21.379 --> 00:30:22.419
 can go

00:30:22.419 --> 00:30:22.719
 back and

00:30:22.719 --> 00:30:23.259
 reread it

00:30:23.259 --> 00:30:24.179
 if you

00:30:24.179 --> 00:30:24.599
 manage to

00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:24.859
 pick one

00:30:24.859 --> 00:30:25.079
 of those

00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:25.339
 up.

00:30:26.919 --> 00:30:27.659
 He once

00:30:27.659 --> 00:30:28.139
 said,

00:30:29.219 --> 00:30:29.779
 opposition

00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:31.079
 to divine

00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:31.699
 sovereignty

00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:32.680
 is

00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:33.420
 essentially

00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:35.039
 atheism.

00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:37.080
 Men have

00:30:37.080 --> 00:30:37.840
 no objection

00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:38.299
 to a

00:30:38.299 --> 00:30:38.779
 God who

00:30:38.779 --> 00:30:39.600
 really is

00:30:39.600 --> 00:30:40.440
 no God.

00:30:41.019 --> 00:30:41.519
 I mean

00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:42.259
 by this

00:30:42.259 --> 00:30:43.259
 a God

00:30:43.259 --> 00:30:43.680
 who shall

00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:44.279
 be the

00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:44.720
 subject

00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.480
 of their

00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:46.160
 caprice

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:46.740
 or temper

00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:47.420
 tantrums,

00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:48.380
 who shall

00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:48.960
 be a

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:49.660
 lackey

00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:50.519
 to their

00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:50.940
 will,

00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:52.200
 who shall

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:52.640
 be under

00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:53.200
 their

00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:54.039
 control.

00:30:54.900 --> 00:30:55.480
 They have

00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:56.220
 no objection

00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:56.680
 to such

00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:57.160
 a being

00:30:57.160 --> 00:30:58.360
 as that.

00:30:59.100 --> 00:30:59.580
 But a

00:30:59.580 --> 00:30:59.940
 God who

00:30:59.940 --> 00:31:00.600
 speaks

00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:01.319
 and it

00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:01.839
 is done,

00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:02.819
 who

00:31:02.819 --> 00:31:03.619
 commands

00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:04.500
 and it

00:31:04.500 --> 00:31:04.799
 stands

00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.419
 fast,

00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:06.579
 a God

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:07.099
 who has

00:31:07.099 --> 00:31:08.099
 no respect

00:31:08.099 --> 00:31:08.559
 for their

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:09.259
 persons but

00:31:09.259 --> 00:31:09.899
 does as

00:31:09.899 --> 00:31:10.539
 he wills

00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:11.000
 among the

00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:11.559
 armies of

00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:12.459
 heaven and

00:31:12.459 --> 00:31:12.819
 among the

00:31:12.819 --> 00:31:13.699
 inhabitants of

00:31:13.699 --> 00:31:14.199
 this lower

00:31:14.199 --> 00:31:14.679
 world,

00:31:15.159 --> 00:31:15.919
 such a

00:31:15.919 --> 00:31:16.639
 God as

00:31:16.639 --> 00:31:17.919
 this they

00:31:17.919 --> 00:31:18.219
 cannot

00:31:18.219 --> 00:31:18.579
 endure.

00:31:19.899 --> 00:31:20.779
 Oh, I hope

00:31:20.779 --> 00:31:21.039
 we're not

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:21.599
 those people.

00:31:22.459 --> 00:31:22.899
 I hope

00:31:22.899 --> 00:31:23.139
 we're a

00:31:23.139 --> 00:31:23.879
 people who

00:31:23.879 --> 00:31:24.919
 rest in the

00:31:24.919 --> 00:31:25.359
 sovereignty of

00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:26.299
 God over

00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:27.299
 all things,

00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:28.819
 who believe

00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:29.379
 the promises

00:31:29.379 --> 00:31:30.799
 of Scripture.

00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:31.759
 The same

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.180
 way that we

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:33.259
 rest in the

00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:34.639
 sure promise

00:31:34.639 --> 00:31:35.139
 of gravity,

00:31:35.940 --> 00:31:36.539
 we can rest

00:31:36.539 --> 00:31:36.819
 in the sure

00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:37.200
 promise that

00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:37.500
 God is

00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:37.980
 sovereignly in

00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:39.019
 control of

00:31:39.019 --> 00:31:40.419
 everything.

00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:42.019
 Young

00:31:42.019 --> 00:31:42.480
 people,

00:31:43.379 --> 00:31:43.960
 this should

00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:44.659
 help you

00:31:44.659 --> 00:31:45.279
 as you

00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:46.200
 consider what

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.919
 comes next

00:31:46.919 --> 00:31:47.519
 in the future.

00:31:48.339 --> 00:31:48.759
 I know this

00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:49.079
 is one of the

00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:50.099
 great questions

00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:50.899
 on your

00:31:50.899 --> 00:31:51.379
 mind.

00:31:51.899 --> 00:31:52.680
 What am I

00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:53.200
 to do

00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:53.740
 next?

00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:54.359
 What is

00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:55.539
 God's will

00:31:55.539 --> 00:31:56.619
 for my

00:31:56.619 --> 00:31:57.059
 life?

00:31:58.059 --> 00:31:58.500
 God

00:31:58.500 --> 00:31:58.879
 accomplished

00:31:58.879 --> 00:31:59.200
 it with

00:31:59.200 --> 00:31:59.539
 Jonah,

00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:00.940
 even when

00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:01.339
 Jonah was

00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:01.759
 running in

00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:02.240
 the opposite

00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:02.779
 direction.

00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:04.220
 He'll do

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:04.859
 the same

00:32:04.859 --> 00:32:06.079
 for you.

00:32:07.159 --> 00:32:07.480
 I'm not

00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:07.879
 saying don't

00:32:07.879 --> 00:32:08.500
 be wise,

00:32:08.639 --> 00:32:08.839
 I'm not

00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:09.379
 saying don't

00:32:09.379 --> 00:32:10.240
 seek counsel,

00:32:10.659 --> 00:32:11.579
 walk in the

00:32:11.579 --> 00:32:12.019
 way of the

00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:12.339
 Lord,

00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:13.119
 pray about

00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:13.500
 what you

00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:14.079
 should do,

00:32:14.339 --> 00:32:14.839
 but rest

00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:15.099
 in the

00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:15.559
 fact that

00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:16.299
 God is

00:32:16.299 --> 00:32:16.740
 in

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:18.099
 control.

00:32:19.539 --> 00:32:20.099
 Thirdly,

00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:21.000
 God's

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:21.759
 presence.

00:32:23.659 --> 00:32:24.220
 God's

00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:24.619
 presence.

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:26.200
 There's

00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:26.920
 an interesting

00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:28.119
 little phrase

00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:28.759
 in this

00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:29.639
 first chapter

00:32:29.639 --> 00:32:32.059
 expressing

00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:32.659
 what it is

00:32:32.659 --> 00:32:33.420
 exactly that

00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:33.879
 Jonah is

00:32:33.879 --> 00:32:34.879
 fleeing from.

00:32:35.539 --> 00:32:35.920
 It doesn't

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.399
 say the

00:32:36.399 --> 00:32:37.019
 command of

00:32:37.019 --> 00:32:37.399
 God.

00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:38.220
 It says

00:32:38.220 --> 00:32:38.500
 that he's

00:32:38.500 --> 00:32:39.119
 fleeing from

00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:40.000
 the presence

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.559
 of the

00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:41.839
 Lord.

00:32:42.019 --> 00:32:42.460
 It's twice

00:32:42.460 --> 00:32:42.779
 in verse

00:32:42.779 --> 00:32:43.159
 three,

00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:44.099
 it's once

00:32:44.099 --> 00:32:44.460
 in verse

00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:44.920
 ten.

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:45.180
 He's

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:45.599
 fleeing

00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:46.399
 from the

00:32:46.399 --> 00:32:46.940
 presence

00:32:46.940 --> 00:32:48.180
 of the

00:32:48.180 --> 00:32:48.420
 Lord.

00:32:48.899 --> 00:32:49.079
 What does

00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:49.720
 that mean?

00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:50.339
 It's such

00:32:50.339 --> 00:32:50.920
 an interesting

00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:51.440
 thing.

00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:52.799
 I think

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:53.099
 we all

00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:53.539
 understand

00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:54.359
 that God

00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:55.539
 is omnipresent.

00:32:56.399 --> 00:32:56.779
 The scripture

00:32:56.779 --> 00:32:57.779
 affirms that.

00:32:58.459 --> 00:32:58.959
 Psalm

00:32:58.959 --> 00:32:59.979
 139,

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:01.199
 7-10,

00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:02.039
 which Jonah

00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:03.299
 should have

00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:04.119
 been aware

00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:04.419
 of.

00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:05.139
 He's a bit

00:33:05.139 --> 00:33:05.779
 of a later

00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:06.939
 Old Testament

00:33:06.939 --> 00:33:07.699
 character.

00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:08.419
 The Psalms

00:33:08.419 --> 00:33:09.219
 were completed

00:33:09.219 --> 00:33:10.039
 at this

00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:10.439
 time.

00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:10.839
 They would

00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:11.199
 have been

00:33:11.199 --> 00:33:12.119
 canonized.

00:33:12.179 --> 00:33:12.319
 They would

00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:12.899
 have existed

00:33:12.899 --> 00:33:13.699
 and distributed

00:33:13.699 --> 00:33:14.659
 at this

00:33:14.659 --> 00:33:15.079
 time.

00:33:15.879 --> 00:33:16.579
 I believe

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:16.819
 he would

00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:17.000
 have been

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:17.299
 familiar

00:33:17.299 --> 00:33:17.919
 with this

00:33:17.919 --> 00:33:18.699
 text,

00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:19.379
 which says,

00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:20.740
 where shall

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:21.319
 I go

00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:21.939
 from your

00:33:21.939 --> 00:33:22.459
 spirit?

00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:23.380
 Or where

00:33:23.380 --> 00:33:23.840
 shall I

00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:24.920
 flee from

00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:25.059
 your

00:33:25.059 --> 00:33:25.539
 presence?

00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:26.460
 If I

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:26.860
 ascend to

00:33:26.860 --> 00:33:27.019
 heaven,

00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:27.299
 you are

00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:27.660
 there.

00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:28.160
 If I

00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:28.559
 make my

00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:29.019
 bed in

00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:29.360
 Sheol,

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:30.200
 you are

00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:30.600
 there.

00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:31.380
 If I

00:33:31.380 --> 00:33:31.779
 take the

00:33:31.779 --> 00:33:32.279
 wings of

00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:32.680
 the morning

00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:33.440
 and dwell

00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:33.700
 in the

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.120
 uttermost

00:33:34.120 --> 00:33:34.720
 parts of

00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:35.059
 the sea,

00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:35.819
 even there

00:33:35.819 --> 00:33:36.440
 your hand

00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:37.220
 shall lead

00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:37.420
 me,

00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:38.079
 and your

00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:38.940
 right hand

00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:40.180
 shall hold

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:40.420
 me.

00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:43.440
 But yet,

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:44.059
 it's recorded

00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:44.880
 that he was

00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.000
 fleeing from

00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:47.740
 the presence

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:48.519
 of God.

00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:49.900
 It seems

00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:50.200
 that Psalm

00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:50.720
 139,

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:51.319
 7-10 was

00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:51.859
 written for

00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:52.059
 Jonah.

00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:52.519
 Once again,

00:33:52.579 --> 00:33:53.019
 we get this

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.819
 dwelling in

00:33:53.819 --> 00:33:54.339
 the uttermost

00:33:54.339 --> 00:33:55.259
 parts of

00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:55.579
 the sea.

00:33:55.700 --> 00:33:56.039
 Who has

00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:56.639
 ever done

00:33:56.639 --> 00:33:57.240
 that except

00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:58.539
 for Jonah

00:33:58.539 --> 00:33:59.259
 for three

00:33:59.259 --> 00:33:59.639
 days?

00:34:01.679 --> 00:34:02.099
 James

00:34:02.099 --> 00:34:02.419
 Montgomery

00:34:02.419 --> 00:34:02.899
 Boyce

00:34:02.899 --> 00:34:03.960
 suggested he

00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:04.740
 liked to

00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:05.740
 imagine the

00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:06.519
 name of the

00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:06.919
 ship that he

00:34:06.919 --> 00:34:07.299
 got on,

00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:07.579
 which we

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:08.059
 don't know

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:09.159
 was Wings

00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:09.420
 of the

00:34:09.420 --> 00:34:09.659
 Morning.

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.779
 He took

00:34:11.779 --> 00:34:12.239
 the wings

00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:12.480
 of the

00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:12.719
 morning,

00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:13.699
 and he

00:34:13.699 --> 00:34:14.319
 later dwelled

00:34:14.319 --> 00:34:14.519
 in the

00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:14.779
 uttermost

00:34:14.779 --> 00:34:15.079
 part of

00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:15.460
 the sea.

00:34:16.059 --> 00:34:16.619
 Maybe this

00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:16.920
 is the

00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:17.199
 text.

00:34:17.319 --> 00:34:17.739
 Maybe this

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:17.980
 is the

00:34:17.980 --> 00:34:18.299
 way that

00:34:18.299 --> 00:34:18.840
 God spoke

00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:19.139
 to him

00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:19.480
 as he's

00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:20.039
 in the

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:20.500
 belly of

00:34:20.500 --> 00:34:21.340
 that great

00:34:21.340 --> 00:34:22.000
 fish.

00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:22.539
 That even

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:23.059
 in these

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:23.579
 places,

00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:24.579
 God's hand

00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.159
 was leading

00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:25.460
 him,

00:34:25.659 --> 00:34:25.960
 and his

00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:26.659
 right hand

00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:27.980
 was holding

00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:28.320
 him.

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:30.699
 So what

00:34:30.699 --> 00:34:30.920
 does it

00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:31.500
 mean that

00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:31.760
 he was

00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:32.280
 fleeing the

00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:32.940
 presence

00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:34.519
 of God?

00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:36.139
 Jeremiah

00:34:36.139 --> 00:34:37.059
 7-23,

00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:38.559
 God speaks

00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:38.940
 and says,

00:34:38.940 --> 00:34:39.599
 obey my

00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:40.119
 voice,

00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:39.599
 obey my

00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:40.119
 voice,

00:34:40.860 --> 00:34:41.200
 and I

00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:41.500
 will be

00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:41.700
 your

00:34:41.700 --> 00:34:42.159
 God,

00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:43.059
 and you

00:34:43.059 --> 00:34:43.260
 shall

00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:43.820
 be my

00:34:43.820 --> 00:34:44.760
 people,

00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:46.059
 and walk

00:34:46.059 --> 00:34:46.500
 in all

00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:46.840
 the way

00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:47.119
 that I

00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:47.519
 command

00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:47.860
 you,

00:34:48.659 --> 00:34:49.000
 that it

00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:49.440
 may be

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:50.400
 well with

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:50.619
 you.

00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:52.599
 And I

00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:53.780
 think what's

00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:54.619
 happening in

00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:54.980
 the book of

00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:55.200
 Jonah,

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:55.740
 and the

00:34:55.740 --> 00:34:56.260
 reason for

00:34:56.260 --> 00:34:56.820
 this record,

00:34:57.420 --> 00:34:58.019
 is not that

00:34:58.019 --> 00:34:59.400
 Jonah could

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:00.440
 actually flee

00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:00.980
 from God

00:35:00.980 --> 00:35:01.480
 himself.

00:35:01.780 --> 00:35:02.159
 God is

00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:02.519
 going to be

00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:03.039
 present in

00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:03.639
 those places.

00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:04.500
 But what

00:35:04.500 --> 00:35:04.900
 they're trying

00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:05.380
 to express

00:35:05.380 --> 00:35:05.980
 is that out

00:35:05.980 --> 00:35:07.139
 of Jonah's

00:35:07.139 --> 00:35:08.199
 disobedience,

00:35:08.820 --> 00:35:09.159
 he was

00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:09.860
 fleeing from

00:35:09.860 --> 00:35:10.860
 communion with

00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:11.240
 God,

00:35:11.460 --> 00:35:12.059
 with God's

00:35:12.059 --> 00:35:13.139
 pleasure with

00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:13.440
 him,

00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:14.980
 that he was

00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:16.820
 severing that

00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:18.179
 which was good

00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:18.780
 in the garden,

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:20.240
 which was so

00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:21.099
 beautiful and

00:35:21.099 --> 00:35:21.780
 precious about

00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:22.219
 the garden.

00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:22.480
 It was

00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:22.900
 paradise,

00:35:23.260 --> 00:35:23.840
 there was no

00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:24.340
 evil,

00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:24.880
 there was no

00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:25.179
 death,

00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:25.780
 all of those

00:35:25.780 --> 00:35:26.219
 things.

00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:27.420
 But the

00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:27.840
 beautiful thing

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:28.119
 about the

00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:28.500
 garden is

00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:28.980
 that Adam

00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:29.179
 and Eve

00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:29.860
 had communion

00:35:29.860 --> 00:35:30.400
 with God.

00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:31.079
 He walked

00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:31.559
 with them

00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:32.300
 in the

00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:32.619
 garden.

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:33.400
 And this

00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:33.699
 is something

00:35:33.699 --> 00:35:34.400
 that ceased

00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:35.280
 at the fall

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:35.780
 as their

00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:36.600
 cast out

00:35:36.600 --> 00:35:37.080
 of the

00:35:37.080 --> 00:35:37.300
 garden,

00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:37.480
 they're

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:37.920
 cast out

00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:38.120
 of the

00:35:38.120 --> 00:35:38.519
 presence

00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:39.540
 of God.

00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:41.220
 Christ brings

00:35:41.220 --> 00:35:42.240
 us back

00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:43.160
 to that.

00:35:43.240 --> 00:35:43.560
 That's what

00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:43.880
 the great

00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:44.320
 restoration

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:45.820
 is for us,

00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:46.080
 that we get

00:35:46.080 --> 00:35:46.680
 to be back

00:35:46.680 --> 00:35:47.380
 in relationship

00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:48.740
 with God.

00:35:49.560 --> 00:35:49.940
 But even

00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:50.360
 as those

00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:51.040
 who are now

00:35:51.040 --> 00:35:52.160
 positionally

00:35:52.160 --> 00:35:52.600
 back in

00:35:52.600 --> 00:35:53.220
 that place,

00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:54.160
 we can still

00:35:54.160 --> 00:35:55.260
 sever communion

00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:55.700
 with the

00:35:55.700 --> 00:35:56.280
 Lord by our

00:35:56.280 --> 00:35:57.040
 disobedience.

00:35:57.560 --> 00:35:58.200
 We walk

00:35:58.200 --> 00:35:58.580
 in evil

00:35:58.580 --> 00:35:58.980
 ways.

00:35:59.300 --> 00:35:59.740
 We don't

00:35:59.740 --> 00:36:00.640
 walk by

00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:01.100
 the Spirit.

00:36:01.860 --> 00:36:02.560
 He is

00:36:02.560 --> 00:36:03.540
 always there,

00:36:04.220 --> 00:36:04.680
 but yet we

00:36:04.680 --> 00:36:05.160
 shut him

00:36:05.160 --> 00:36:05.500
 off.

00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:05.699
 And I

00:36:05.699 --> 00:36:06.039
 think that's

00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:06.179
 what's

00:36:06.179 --> 00:36:06.380
 trying to

00:36:06.380 --> 00:36:06.480
 be

00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:06.840
 communicated

00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:07.139
 here.

00:36:07.219 --> 00:36:07.519
 The author

00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:07.860
 of Jonah

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:08.179
 is trying

00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:08.579
 to say

00:36:08.579 --> 00:36:09.260
 that Jonah

00:36:09.260 --> 00:36:09.800
 by fleeing

00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:10.159
 from the

00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:10.519
 will of

00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:10.860
 God was

00:36:10.860 --> 00:36:11.139
 fleeing

00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:12.260
 from the

00:36:12.260 --> 00:36:12.840
 relationship

00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:14.099
 with God.

00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:16.219
 It's good

00:36:16.219 --> 00:36:16.599
 to be with

00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:16.980
 the Lord,

00:36:17.420 --> 00:36:18.400
 even if

00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:18.980
 He's saving

00:36:18.980 --> 00:36:19.679
 our enemies,

00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:21.619
 that we

00:36:21.619 --> 00:36:22.400
 would walk

00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:22.800
 with Him

00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:23.260
 because He's

00:36:23.260 --> 00:36:23.639
 our greatest

00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:23.900
 good.

00:36:24.019 --> 00:36:24.820
 Psalm 119.

00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:25.500
 35

00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:26.199
 says,

00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:26.699
 Lead me in

00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:27.280
 the path

00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:27.960
 of your

00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:28.440
 commandments,

00:36:28.579 --> 00:36:28.960
 for I

00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:30.360
 delight in

00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:30.579
 it.

00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:32.000
 It is good

00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:32.280
 for the

00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:32.639
 people of

00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:32.879
 God,

00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:33.119
 to be

00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:33.619
 with

00:36:33.619 --> 00:36:35.159
 God.

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:37.500
 John

00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:37.920
 writes in

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:39.759
 1 John 2,

00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:41.319
 3-6,

00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:42.219
 and by

00:36:42.219 --> 00:36:43.400
 this we

00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:44.619
 know that

00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:45.019
 we have

00:36:45.019 --> 00:36:45.559
 come to

00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:46.199
 know Him.

00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:48.119
 We've

00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:48.679
 positionally

00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:49.219
 changed.

00:36:49.759 --> 00:36:50.679
 We know

00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:51.579
 that we have

00:36:51.579 --> 00:36:52.059
 come to

00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:53.379
 know if

00:36:53.379 --> 00:36:53.960
 we keep

00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:54.900
 His

00:36:54.900 --> 00:36:55.799
 commandments.

00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:56.840
 We don't

00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:57.120
 keep His

00:36:57.120 --> 00:36:57.460
 commandments

00:36:57.460 --> 00:36:58.019
 so that

00:36:58.019 --> 00:36:58.260
 we can

00:36:58.260 --> 00:36:58.560
 know,

00:36:59.420 --> 00:36:59.740
 but we

00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:00.140
 know that

00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:00.560
 we know

00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:01.320
 because we

00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:02.440
 keep His

00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:02.800
 commandments.

00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:03.860
 Whoever

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:04.220
 says,

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:04.780
 I know

00:37:04.780 --> 00:37:05.160
 Him,

00:37:05.640 --> 00:37:06.000
 but does

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:06.620
 not keep

00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:06.740
 His

00:37:06.740 --> 00:37:07.120
 commandments,

00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:08.220
 is a

00:37:08.220 --> 00:37:08.519
 liar,

00:37:09.080 --> 00:37:09.460
 and the

00:37:09.460 --> 00:37:10.640
 truth is

00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:10.980
 not in

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:11.200
 him.

00:37:12.100 --> 00:37:12.519
 But whoever

00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:12.980
 keeps His

00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:13.380
 word in

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:13.560
 Him,

00:37:13.640 --> 00:37:14.080
 truly the

00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:14.600
 love of

00:37:14.600 --> 00:37:15.580
 God is

00:37:15.580 --> 00:37:16.240
 perfected.

00:37:16.740 --> 00:37:17.420
 By this

00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:17.740
 we may

00:37:17.740 --> 00:37:18.460
 know that

00:37:18.460 --> 00:37:18.720
 we are

00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:19.160
 in Him.

00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:20.340
 Whoever

00:37:20.340 --> 00:37:21.100
 says he

00:37:21.100 --> 00:37:21.740
 abides in

00:37:21.740 --> 00:37:22.039
 Him,

00:37:22.560 --> 00:37:22.880
 ought to

00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:23.500
 walk in

00:37:23.500 --> 00:37:23.900
 the same

00:37:23.900 --> 00:37:25.500
 way in

00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:25.780
 which He

00:37:25.780 --> 00:37:26.159
 walked.

00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:27.840
 This brings

00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:28.199
 us back

00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:29.159
 to God's

00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:29.659
 purpose.

00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:30.840
 God's

00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:31.119
 purpose,

00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:31.460
 God's

00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:31.860
 power,

00:37:32.539 --> 00:37:33.159
 and God's

00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:34.639
 presence.

00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:36.340
 So let me

00:37:36.340 --> 00:37:36.699
 ask you a

00:37:36.699 --> 00:37:37.019
 couple of

00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:37.539
 questions in

00:37:37.539 --> 00:37:38.639
 conclusion this

00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:38.900
 morning.

00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:41.280
 Are you

00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:42.719
 a rebel

00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:44.139
 this morning?

00:37:45.739 --> 00:37:46.659
 Are you a

00:37:46.659 --> 00:37:46.840
 rebel

00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:47.800
 positionally?

00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:48.960
 Have you

00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:50.159
 never believed

00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:51.380
 in Christ,

00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:52.099
 His person,

00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:53.179
 His work,

00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:54.360
 His perfect

00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:55.039
 sacrifice,

00:37:55.500 --> 00:37:56.500
 on your

00:37:56.500 --> 00:37:56.980
 behalf?

00:37:57.739 --> 00:37:58.199
 Do you

00:37:58.199 --> 00:37:59.280
 stand as

00:37:59.280 --> 00:37:59.659
 the

00:37:59.659 --> 00:38:00.659
 Ninevites

00:38:00.659 --> 00:38:01.179
 or the

00:38:01.179 --> 00:38:01.739
 mariners

00:38:01.739 --> 00:38:02.440
 stand,

00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:03.219
 never knowing

00:38:03.219 --> 00:38:03.599
 God,

00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:04.840
 being cut

00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:05.199
 off from

00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:05.460
 Him?

00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:07.539
 The call

00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:08.000
 to you is

00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:08.539
 to repent

00:38:08.539 --> 00:38:09.719
 and to

00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:10.159
 believe.

00:38:10.500 --> 00:38:11.059
 Destruction

00:38:11.059 --> 00:38:11.480
 is your

00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:13.760
 end unless

00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:14.300
 you repent

00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:15.480
 and believe.

00:38:16.900 --> 00:38:17.500
 Or are you

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:17.960
 a rebel

00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:19.199
 functionally

00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:19.739
 this morning?

00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.539
 Have you

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:20.800
 repented

00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:21.239
 and believed?

00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:21.599
 Are you

00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:22.519
 positionally

00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:23.500
 found in

00:38:23.500 --> 00:38:24.059
 Christ and

00:38:24.059 --> 00:38:24.780
 yet you

00:38:24.780 --> 00:38:25.320
 don't walk

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:25.800
 in His

00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:26.139
 way?

00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:27.739
 And don't

00:38:27.739 --> 00:38:28.159
 think that

00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:28.559
 you're waiting

00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.719
 for the

00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:30.280
 word of the

00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:30.619
 Lord to

00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:31.019
 come to

00:38:31.019 --> 00:38:31.239
 you.

00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:31.760
 That you

00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:32.119
 need a

00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:32.760
 vision for

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:32.960
 Him to

00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:33.320
 speak to

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:33.559
 you for

00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:33.920
 what you

00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:34.380
 should do.

00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:35.000
 You have

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:35.500
 His word

00:38:35.500 --> 00:38:36.239
 already.

00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:37.539
 He's given

00:38:37.539 --> 00:38:38.659
 you command

00:38:38.659 --> 00:38:40.119
 to walk

00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:40.340
 in.

00:38:41.739 --> 00:38:42.460
 Do you

00:38:42.460 --> 00:38:44.179
 love the

00:38:44.179 --> 00:38:44.599
 purpose of

00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:44.960
 God?

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:46.300
 Do you

00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:46.980
 believe in

00:38:46.980 --> 00:38:47.559
 the power

00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:48.400
 of God?

00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:48.840
 Do you

00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:50.660
 walk in

00:38:50.660 --> 00:38:51.260
 the presence

00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:52.340
 of God?

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:52.780
 Of course,

00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:53.200
 to all of

00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:53.660
 these things,

00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:54.460
 all of us

00:38:54.460 --> 00:38:55.320
 should say

00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:56.600
 imperfectly

00:38:56.600 --> 00:38:56.840
 no.

00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:58.320
 Imperfectly,

00:38:58.480 --> 00:38:59.100
 I hope

00:38:59.100 --> 00:38:59.460
 yes.

00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:01.780
 And in

00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:02.180
 this,

00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:03.220
 as you ask

00:39:03.220 --> 00:39:03.420
 the Lord

00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:03.760
 to search

00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:04.220
 your heart,

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:05.340
 the call

00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:05.880
 to you

00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:07.360
 is repent

00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.039
 and believe.

00:39:09.539 --> 00:39:10.160
 Turn from

00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:10.620
 your sin

00:39:10.620 --> 00:39:11.920
 and turn

00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:12.519
 to Christ.

00:39:13.220 --> 00:39:14.039
 Don't be

00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:15.360
 Jonah.

00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:17.559
 And we'll

00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:17.840
 look more

00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:18.220
 in the coming

00:39:18.220 --> 00:39:18.579
 weeks.

00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:19.240
 What the

00:39:19.240 --> 00:39:19.480
 rest of

00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:19.720
 the book

00:39:19.720 --> 00:39:20.079
 has to

00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:20.340
 say to

00:39:20.340 --> 00:39:21.559
 us about

00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:21.980
 our God.

00:39:22.700 --> 00:39:23.180
 Let's pray

00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:23.440
 together.