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 Father, each of us know people who have a real problem with anger, and Father, we just lift them before you at this time.

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 Father, you know that there are some of us here who have great problems with anger,

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 and some of us, Father, who don't know that we have anger problems or anger issues at all,

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 and we ask that you, with gentle but loving power, make that clear to us.

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 But, Father, we also know that we often get angry, and sometimes we regret it, and sometimes we don't, but we should,

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 and we're just confused about anger.

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 We ask that you would speak to our hearts this morning.

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 You'd bring your word, your grace, your gospel to our hearts,

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 that we might live well in the face of injustice,

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 that we might live with anger in a way that is good for people and good for us and brings you glory.

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 And so we want to know your wisdom.

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 So pour out the Holy Spirit, and we ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior.

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 Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 If you Google this question about negative emotions,

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 and, of course, when you Google something, you always get the right answer.

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 But if you Google things about negative emotions,

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 on all of the lists that I looked at,

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 the first list that come up in every single case, anger,

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 is listed as one of the negative emotions.

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 In fact, it's often the first negative emotion which is listed.

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 But last week, I talked about how if the day ever came that in Canada,

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 every Canadian was doing a meditation technique,

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 or a type of meditation that meant that they didn't get angry,

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 or if every Canadian was in a type of therapy or counseling

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 which meant that they didn't get angry,

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 or if every Canadian was taking a drug that meant that they wouldn't get angry,

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 if in any one of those three situations or a combination of that day came

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 when something came that nobody in Canada or nobody in any country was getting mad,

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 getting angry,

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 that would be the day that tyrants and oppressors and abusers

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 would throw a party and dance a jig

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 because it would mean that they weren't being confronted ever

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 by the wrong that they were doing.

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 And so, the fact of the matter is that the Lord will never,

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 part of God's common grace is that God in his common grace

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 will never remove from human beings their sense of anger

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 because to do that, he'd have to destroy our sense of right and wrong.

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 Now, having said that, we all know that anger still is problematic in all sorts of ways.

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 Some of us get too angry.

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 Some of us don't get angry when we should because we've been so beat up.

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 Some of us get angry about the wrong things.

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 Some of us, anger becomes a type of an addiction, a type of habit.

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 And often, our anger leads to hatred.

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 And it's like a drug and it can do all sorts of harm.

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 But so, it's just complicated.

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 Anger is complicated.

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 Well, believe it or not, the story that we're going to look at is the book of Jonah comes to an end.

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 This book that was written over 2,700 years ago, almost 2,800 years ago,

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 this book that was written so long ago has such deep wisdom about anger.

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 So, it'd be a great help to me if you would turn in your Bibles to Jonah chapter 4.

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 Jonah chapter 4.

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 And we're looking at the fifth verse.

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 We've been preaching through the book of Jonah.

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 And as I've shared before, the way to look at the book of Jonah, the way to understand it,

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 as you're reading it, is to think of a Netflix series that had four or five episodes.

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 I've taken, in a sense, the fourth episode and turned it into two.

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 And, you know, if you see a good Netflix series from the BBC or from Germany or France or Belgium or something like that,

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 each episode tells a story.

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 But if you look at all of the episodes together, they tell a far more nuanced and interesting story.

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 And that's the way to understand the book of Jonah.

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 So, if you were making a Netflix special for it,

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 Jonah chapter 1 tells the story of God wanting Jonah to go to Nineveh,

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 the capital of the most powerful empire in the ancient Near East,

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 to go there and confront them.

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 Jonah doesn't want to do this.

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 He goes the opposite direction.

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 And that part of the story of Jonah, many people, secular people, people of other religions,

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 they know this part of the story.

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 It becomes clear that Jonah is the one responsible for the storm.

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 He's thrown overboard.

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 End of episode 1, great cliffhanger.

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 Episode 2, a great aquatic beast, just as Jonah's about to drown,

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 a great aquatic beast comes, swallows Jonah, and Jonah discovers that rather than being dead, he's alive.

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 Unfortunately, the good news, he's not dead, he's alive.

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 The bad news is he's in the intestines of a great aquatic beast.

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 And how he describes what happens, he does in the form of a prayer,

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 which is also a bit of a conversion prayer.

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 Him just being, in a sense, gobsmacked at the mercy of God and the kindness of God

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 and his trust in God that God will deliver him.

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 And episode 2 ends with Jonah being vomited by the great aquatic beast onto the shore.

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 End of episode 2.

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 Episode 3, he goes to Nineveh.

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 He proclaims the message.

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 He says, if you don't repent, you will be overthrown in the same way that Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown,

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 completely and utterly.

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 And to his complete and utter shock and amazement,

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 well, not entirely, but to our shock and amazement,

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 Nineveh repents from the king right down to the lowest individual.

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 And what they do is they say, even though this is a message which seems that we have no hope,

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 we are going to repent of our violence, our evil, and our injustice,

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 and we are going to cast ourselves upon the mercy of the Lord

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 in the hope that he will have mercy upon us.

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 And God relents from his justice upon them,

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 which would then make you wonder why on earth could there be any episodes after that?

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 Well, the episodes after it go at a very interesting thing

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 because, you see, the fact of the matter is,

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 is that the Bible and the Lord is concerned not just with what we do,

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 but the motivation of what we do,

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 the motivation behind why we do things,

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 what we want to have happen,

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 is also very important in trying to understand what's going on in our lives.

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 And so what we looked at last week, the first four verses,

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 is this shocking thing that the reason that Jonah had run away from God

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 was because he believed that God was merciful and compassionate and all-powerful,

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 and that it might very well be that if he went to Nineveh

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 and proclaimed their need to repent, they might repent,

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 and if they repented, God might not destroy them.

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 And Jonah hated the Ninevites so much,

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 he didn't want them to be spared.

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 He wanted God to destroy them.

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 And we looked at that last week.

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 But now, and we looked at it, we talked about it in terms of mercy.

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 But if you think about it for a second,

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 and many people in the ancient world,

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 when they were reading this for the first time,

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 they would have maybe said,

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 well, one moment, before we go any farther,

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 I don't know if Jonah was wrong to be angry,

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 and I don't know if maybe God, the Lord was,

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 like maybe Jonah was right to be angry at what the Lord did,

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 and maybe what the Lord did was wrong.

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 Like, they are, you know, I don't know if I said this last week,

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 I've said it, you know, some other time,

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 and you might or might not remember it,

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 but the fact of the matter is that Nineveh,

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 the Assyrian Empire,

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 literally, literally practiced genocide.

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 They literally practiced genocide.

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 And in fact, about,

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 if this was written around 755 BC,

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 33 years after this,

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 Assyria would reinvade the northern kingdom of Israel,

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 take all of the people away

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 in bondage and slavery,

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 and the ten and a half tribes

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 that made up what was then known as Israel

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 completely disappeared from history.

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 Like, real genocide,

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 real, complete, utter, thorough genocide.

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 These were bad people.

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 And many people in the ancient world,

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 reading this in 755 or 722 or 700,

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 they'd go, I don't know, you know,

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 maybe I don't know about this story,

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 what's going on with this story.

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 So that's why the story continues.

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 The Lord is going to press in,

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 and we're going to see,

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 well, let's just see what happens.

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 Look at verse 5.

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 So remember, what's just happened is

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 Jonah blasts the Lord

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 and says, I'm so angry, I want to die.

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 He blasts the Lord.

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 The Lord asks him a question.

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 Do you think it's right for you to be angry?

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 Verse 5, Jonah responds,

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 in verse 5,

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 Jonah went out of the city of Nineveh

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 and sat to the east of the city

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 and made a booth for himself there.

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 He sat under it in the shade

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 till he should see

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 what would become of the city.

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 In other words,

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 Jonah hopes,

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 I've just given the Lord a blast

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 and I think I'm right

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 and I think he's wrong

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 and I'm going to give him a blast

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 and I hope I've changed his mind.

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 So I'm going to just sit out here,

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 still angry,

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 and I'm going to make something

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 so I have a bit of shade

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 and I'm just going to sit

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 hoping that the Lord changes his mind

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 and fire comes down from heaven

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 and completely obliterates

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 and kills all of the people in Nineveh.

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 That's where Jonah is.

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 Well, does the Lord change his mind?

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 Well, let's see what happens

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 in verse chapter 6.

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 There's sort of a surprising thing

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 that happens in verse 6.

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 Now, the Lord God appointed a plant

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 and made it come up over Jonah

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 that it might be a shade over his head

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 to save him from his discomfort.

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 So Jonah was exceedingly glad

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 because of the plant.

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 Now, just pause.

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 What's described here,

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 the word appointed is very important.

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 It shows the Lord being sovereign

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 over the world.

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 It's the Lord appoints

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 a great aquatic beast to it.

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 Just the perfect time swallowed Jonah

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 and he appoints the plant.

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 You're going to see in a moment

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 he's going to appoint a worm.

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 He's going to appoint a scorching wind

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 and it shows how the Lord is sovereign.

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 But what the Lord does here

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 is he causes a plant to grow

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 very, very quickly

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 and it would have been like a vine

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 that sort of entwined itself

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 over the booth

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 and it would have had

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 very, very large leaves.

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 So while the booth itself,

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 which would have just been made out of sticks,

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 wouldn't have provided very much shade,

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 all of a sudden with the leaves

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 it would have provided

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 very, very good shade.

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 I don't know how many of you

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 have been in a country

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 like Iraq or like Israel.

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 The heat is if you're,

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 I mean, not if you're down by the ocean,

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 but in where this is,

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 it's a dry heat.

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 And so when it's a dry heat,

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 it means if you're in the shade

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 and there's a breeze,

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 it actually can be surprisingly comfortable

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 even though the temperature

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 might be quite high.

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 And so the Lord does this.

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 And there's sort of an interesting thing

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 in the original language.

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 The language is that

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 when it says the Lord wants to save him,

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 what it's saying is that

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 the Lord hopes

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 that by cooling Jonah off,

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 he can cool off his anger as well.

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 Because as we all know,

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 sometimes if things are just going wrong,

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 if you're a bit in pain,

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 you're more grumpy.

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 I shared last week,

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 I can get hungry

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 and not realize that

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 because I'm hungry,

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 I'm getting more grumpy.

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 Somebody in fact told me

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 there's a word for it,

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 hangry.

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 H before the word angry.

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 And so I can be prone

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 to being hangry.

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 And so there's a similar type of thing

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 that goes on here.

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 And then it says that

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 Jonah's exceedingly glad.

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 And it's a link

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 to what just happened

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 in the previous story.

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 Because if you go back

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 and read verse 1,

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 Jonah is exceedingly,

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 like just hopping,

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 unbelievably deeply

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 high level angry

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 that the Lord didn't destroy Nineveh.

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 And now that same description

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 of just unbelievably fever pitch,

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 but now he's happy.

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 He's happy over the plant.

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 And it's connecting the two stories

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 at the level of the original language.

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 So what's going to happen now?

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 Is Jonah in fact going to say,

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 oh yeah,

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 okay, now that I'm a bit cool

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 and there's a breeze,

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 I don't know,

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 yeah, maybe I have to tone down

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 my anger a little bit.

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 Maybe the Lord was right.

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 I'm a little bit too angry.

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 Well, let's see what happens.

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 Verse 7,

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 but when dawn came up the next day,

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 God appointed a worm

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 that attacked the plant.

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 Actually, in the original language,

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 if you use real technical language,

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 it's smite.

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 It's an old-fashioned word,

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 you know,

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 like he has a sword,

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 you smite,

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 he smites the plant.

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 And sorry,

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 I like old words.

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 I just,

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 for the three of you

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 out there in the room,

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 that's how you could translate it

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 who like old words.

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 We'll read verse 7 again,

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 but when dawn came up the next day,

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 God appointed a worm

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 that attacked the plant

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 so that it withered.

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 In other words,

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 it dies.

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 And when the sun rose,

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 God appointed a scorching east wind

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 and the sun beat down

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 on the head of Jonah

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 so that he was faint.

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 And he asked that he might die

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 and said,

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 it is better for me

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 to die than to live.

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 He'd said that before.

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 He was so angry,

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 it would be better for him

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 to die than to live.

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 He says that in the previous story.

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 But God said to Jonah,

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 do you do well

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 to be angry for the plant?

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 And Jonah said,

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 yes,

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 I do well to be angry,

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 angry enough to die.

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 That's what he says.

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 I probably should have said that

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 without a smile

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 to be really communicate the anger.

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 And just sort of pause there.

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 Earlier,

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 as I shared,

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 the same type of question

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 was asked in the previous story,

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 do you do well to be angry?

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 And it's very interesting.

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 In the original language,

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 it does something

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 which you can't really do in English.

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 There's many of you here

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 who speak multiple languages.

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 And you know how sometimes

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 it's complicated

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 to try to communicate something

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 in another language.

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 And that's one of these cases.

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 And really,

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 the question

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 could be understood two ways

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 or the same way,

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 but with two different senses.

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 Part of it is

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 just asking Jonah,

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 do you realize how angry you are?

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 Do you realize

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 how thoroughly,

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 completely consumed

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 you are with anger?

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 I've done counseling sessions

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 with people.

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 It's so,

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 like it's not funny,

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 but it is funny.

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 And I sit there

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 and they're across from me

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 and they're red.

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 They're red.

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 You can see veins

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 throbbing in their temples.

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 And they're either sitting there

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 grabbing the tape,

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 the arms like this,

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 or they're tapping furiously.

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 And I might eventually say,

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 do you think you,

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 like,

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 you're really angry?

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 I'm not angry.

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 They say in an angry voice.

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 And you can't even do any counseling

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 until you get them to realize,

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 one second,

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 just time out here,

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 you're angry.

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 You don't realize you're angry,

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 but you're really angry.

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 Okay,

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 and you can't have

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 any other conversation

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 about anything else

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 until the person realizes

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 how angry they are.

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 So this is like

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 a modern counseling question

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 that the Lord asks them.

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 First of all,

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 do you realize

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 how angry you actually are?

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 And the second sense of it,

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 it could also,

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 and some of your English versions

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 show the two different senses.

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 The other question is,

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 is it right that you're so angry?

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 Like,

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 do you think it's right

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 that you're so angry

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 over this?

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 Just this,

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 I know that,

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 you know,

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 in modern counseling,

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 you're not supposed to say,

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 you know,

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 make judgmental comments

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 about emotions

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 and all of that type of stuff,

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 but that's wrong.

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 It's just sometimes just wrong.

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 Sometimes it's very right.

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 You know,

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 a person has their emotions,

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 but sometimes you have to,

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 in fact,

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 in counseling,

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 you often go off,

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 you often use emotions

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 as a key

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 to figure out

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 what's actually going on

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 because emotions show

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 what we value,

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 what we think is important.

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 It reveals our moral order.

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 It reveals the idols

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 that we have.

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 That's what emotions

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 often reveal.

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 Or the good things,

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 not all bad things

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 because sometimes

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 it reveals a good sense

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 of,

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 a good way

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 of understanding the world

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 and they're very healthy,

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 but they reveal things.

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 I was just talking

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 to somebody

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 within the last couple of weeks.

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 This is a professional

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 and the court

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 had asked

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 that he do an assessment

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 of a person

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 around a particular issue

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 that was within

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 his medical area

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 of expertise

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 because it affected

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 whether or not

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 a certain type

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 of sentencing

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 was going on

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 and the person,

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 it was a very,

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 very serious offense.

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 It could mean

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 a long time

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 doing hard time

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 in jail.

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 And basically,

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 as he was sharing

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 this with me

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 and he was sort of

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 laughing about it

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 a little bit,

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 the person tried

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 to fake it

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 and they were doing

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 a terrible job

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 of faking it

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 and he eventually

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 just said,

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 okay,

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 you don't have

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 this condition,

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 you're just trying

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 to fake it.

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 And as they left

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 the room,

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 they were furious

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 with him

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 because they were

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 trying to manipulate

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 the medical assessment

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 so they could get out

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 of doing hard time

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 and he caught them

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 and their response

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 wasn't,

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 oh,

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 I'm so relieved

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 I don't have it.

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 No,

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 they were,

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 I won't say

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 all the different

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 F-bombs

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 and other types

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 of expletives

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 that they used

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 as they walked

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 out of the room

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 shaking with fury.

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 Sometimes what

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 we're angry about,

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 as we all know,

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 isn't right

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 and it's good

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 to confront them.

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 So here,

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 just to bring it

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 back to the story,

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 so what's happened?

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 God has had,

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 has shown mercy

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 to Nineveh.

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 They,

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 when they're,

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 they come face-to-face

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 with God,

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 their response

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 to coming face-to-face

00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:19.640
 to the Lord

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 is to say

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 that we're going

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 to stop acting unjustly,

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 we're going to stop

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 doing that which is evil

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 and we're going to stop

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 all of our habits

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 of violence

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 and we're going

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 to cast ourselves

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 upon the mercy

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 of the Lord

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 in the hope

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 that he will stay

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 his judgment

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 and the Lord sees it

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 and he does stay it

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 and Jonah,

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 who's not a Ninevite,

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 not an Assyrian,

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 he's furious

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 over this.

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 He's furious

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 and remember I said,

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 well,

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 maybe there's something,

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 maybe Jonah had,

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 maybe God's bit,

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 the Lord's a bit wrong

00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:53.339
 to show that

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 and maybe Jonah

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 has something right

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 but now this instance

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 with the plant,

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 the plant grows,

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 the plant dies,

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 Jonah's furious,

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 furious,

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 furious at the death

00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:07.200
 of a plant

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 and now the Lord

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 is going to ask

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 two very,

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 another very searching

00:19:15.740 --> 00:19:16.180
 question.

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 Remember,

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 he's already said,

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 do you think it's,

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 do you realize how angry

00:19:18.740 --> 00:19:19.019
 you are?

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 Do you think it's right

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 to be so angry

00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:21.720
 over the plant?

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 Is it right for you

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 to be so consumed

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 with anger

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 over the death

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 of a plant?

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 And Jonah's response

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 is,

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 I'm so angry

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 I could die

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 and then here's

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 how the Lord goes on

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 and the book of Jonah

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 is very interesting.

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 The only other book

00:19:36.340 --> 00:19:36.960
 in the Bible

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 is Lamentations.

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 It's the only other book

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 in the Bible

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 that ends with a question

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 and everything

00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:43.840
 in the book of Jonah

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 is leading

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 to these last two verses

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 where the Lord

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 is going to ask

00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:49.140
 a question

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 and here's how it goes.

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 And the Lord said,

00:19:52.120 --> 00:19:52.540
 verse 10,

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 you pity the plant.

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 The other way

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 you can translate

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 that word pity

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 is you have compassion

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 and want to do something

00:20:00.580 --> 00:20:01.540
 out of compassion

00:20:01.540 --> 00:20:02.600
 for the plant.

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 You pity

00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:04.280
 or you have compassion

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 for the plant

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 for which you did not labor

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 nor did you make it grow

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 which came into being

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 in a night

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 and perished in a night.

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 In other words,

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 if you know anything

00:20:14.840 --> 00:20:15.440
 about plants,

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 those are plants

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 that don't last very long.

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 They're very,

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 very transient.

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 Here's the big question.

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 Verse 11,

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 And should I not have compassion?

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 Should I not have pity

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 on Nineveh?

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 That great city

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 in which there are

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 more than 120,000 people

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 who do not know

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 their right hand

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 from their left

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 and also much cattle.

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 And that's how

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 the book of Jonah ends.

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 Shouldn't I have compassion

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 and pity on people?

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 Shouldn't I have that?

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 That's how the book ends.

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 Just as a bit of an aside,

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 did you know

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 that the same man

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 who was responsible

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 for the long, long, long,

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 most responsible,

00:21:00.820 --> 00:21:01.519
 humanly speaking,

00:21:01.620 --> 00:21:03.240
 for the long, long struggle

00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:03.779
 in England

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 to ban all slavery,

00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:06.160
 William Wilberforce,

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 was also the man

00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:07.720
 who started

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 the first in the world

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 Society for the Prevention

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 of Cruelty to Animals.

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 Did you know that?

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 The same man

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 who worked

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 to abolish slavery

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 set up an SPCA,

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 the Society for the Prevention

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 of Cruelty to Animals.

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 The Lord has compassion

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 on animals.

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 And if the Lord

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 has compassion

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 and mercy

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 to animals,

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 we should too.

00:21:31.299 --> 00:21:31.960
 We should too.

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 Just a bit of an aside

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 as a throwaway.

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 So,

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 let's,

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 how do we bring

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 this all home?

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 Remember,

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 I began by saying

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 that if the day ever came

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 that through counseling,

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 therapy,

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 meditation,

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 or drugs

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 that we no longer

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 experienced anger,

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 then the husbands

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 who abused their wives,

00:21:52.139 --> 00:21:53.219
 the employers

00:21:53.219 --> 00:21:55.379
 who abused their employees,

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 the tyrants

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 who abused their people,

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 they would be happy

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 if people no longer

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 experienced anger.

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 And so,

00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:03.619
 we realized

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 that you don't,

00:22:04.679 --> 00:22:05.419
 that anger

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 is a complicated emotion

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 and that we don't want to,

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 we don't want to get rid of it

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 I mean,

00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:12.539
 that actually

00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:14.779
 wouldn't really be wise

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 because anger

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 is connected

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 even if our moral order

00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:22.059
 and moral understanding

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 is all confused

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 and even deeply confused,

00:22:28.879 --> 00:22:30.460
 you'd think you want to change

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 the order of understanding

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 of what's right and wrong

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 but not ever get rid of that aspect

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 that when we see

00:22:35.879 --> 00:22:37.279
 great evil being done,

00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:39.200
 great wrongdoing being done,

00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:40.460
 great sin being done,

00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:42.079
 great injustice being done,

00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:43.920
 that the proper response

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 should be that we are angry

00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:47.120
 at the injustice

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 and the wrong.

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 So,

00:22:48.120 --> 00:22:49.380
 it's complicated.

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 What we think about,

00:22:50.940 --> 00:22:51.860
 if you think about it

00:22:51.860 --> 00:22:52.220
 in a second,

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 is we want something

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 to disrupt anger

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 but not eliminate it

00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:00.220
 in a way

00:23:00.220 --> 00:23:02.360
 which also eliminates

00:23:02.360 --> 00:23:03.660
 our sense of right and wrong.

00:23:03.660 --> 00:23:07.480
 we want to disrupt anger

00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:09.460
 in the sense that

00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:10.980
 part of the problem

00:23:10.980 --> 00:23:11.800
 with anger

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 for us human beings

00:23:13.220 --> 00:23:13.840
 is that anger

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 very quickly leads

00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:15.340
 to hatred

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 and that anger

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 quickly leads

00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:18.360
 to something becoming

00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:19.620
 like a habit of anger

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 that we can go to anger

00:23:22.120 --> 00:23:23.360
 to relieve stress,

00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:24.840
 that we can go to anger

00:23:24.840 --> 00:23:26.519
 to make ourselves feel good

00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:27.440
 and lose sense

00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:28.259
 of the other person

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 and so on one hand,

00:23:29.840 --> 00:23:30.680
 anger is connected

00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:31.880
 to a sense of injustice

00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:32.520
 and wrongdoing.

00:23:32.580 --> 00:23:33.140
 On the other hand,

00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.320
 there is something problematic

00:23:34.320 --> 00:23:35.640
 in terms of where anger

00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:36.300
 can go

00:23:36.300 --> 00:23:37.620
 and so,

00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:39.280
 you need something

00:23:39.280 --> 00:23:41.060
 to disrupt the anger.

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 But here's the problem

00:23:43.020 --> 00:23:43.780
 in our culture.

00:23:45.020 --> 00:23:46.120
 Most of our attempts

00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:47.740
 to disrupt anger

00:23:47.740 --> 00:23:50.600
 want to give evil a pass.

00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:57.620
 Most of our attempts,

00:23:57.760 --> 00:23:57.980
 in fact,

00:23:58.060 --> 00:23:59.560
 all Buddhist compassion,

00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:02.139
 at the end of the day

00:24:02.139 --> 00:24:03.740
 is indifferent

00:24:03.740 --> 00:24:04.559
 to whether or not

00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:05.899
 we give evil a pass.

00:24:06.679 --> 00:24:08.059
 The meditation technique

00:24:08.059 --> 00:24:09.799
 is to lose that sense of self,

00:24:09.919 --> 00:24:10.559
 to see yourself

00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:11.819
 distant from yourself

00:24:11.819 --> 00:24:13.980
 and so you can just observe

00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:14.519
 the wrong

00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:15.440
 that you've either done

00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:16.460
 that's caused the anger

00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:16.879
 or the wrong

00:24:16.879 --> 00:24:18.559
 that somebody else is doing

00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:19.559
 and it's in a sense

00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.399
 an attempt to desensitize us

00:24:22.399 --> 00:24:23.480
 to the wrongness

00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:25.019
 of what has been done.

00:24:25.399 --> 00:24:26.440
 A lot of counseling

00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:27.079
 and therapy

00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:28.700
 is really just get over it,

00:24:28.700 --> 00:24:29.759
 which means,

00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:30.920
 okay, yeah,

00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:31.759
 they've done that

00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:33.720
 and just get over it.

00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.720
 In a sense,

00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:36.640
 it's advice to give it a pass

00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.340
 and if you take the drug

00:24:38.340 --> 00:24:39.740
 so that you don't show anger

00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:40.559
 or anything that happens,

00:24:40.660 --> 00:24:41.240
 once again,

00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:42.680
 it's giving evil a pass

00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:43.440
 and so,

00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:44.900
 part of the complication

00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:45.580
 with this is

00:24:45.580 --> 00:24:46.860
 how do we actually

00:24:46.860 --> 00:24:47.880
 disrupt anger

00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:48.980
 so that it doesn't lead

00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:49.620
 to hatred,

00:24:49.819 --> 00:24:50.819
 it doesn't become a habit,

00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:51.960
 it doesn't become an addiction,

00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:53.299
 but how do we do that?

00:24:53.340 --> 00:24:53.819
 One of the reasons

00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:55.140
 we don't want to practice forgiveness

00:24:55.140 --> 00:24:56.220
 is that for many people

00:24:56.220 --> 00:24:56.759
 in our culture,

00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:57.980
 the way we understand forgiveness

00:24:57.980 --> 00:24:59.140
 is it's going to mean

00:24:59.140 --> 00:25:00.559
 giving evil and injustice

00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:01.599
 a pass

00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:02.660
 and one of the reasons

00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:03.379
 we don't want to do

00:25:03.379 --> 00:25:04.460
 some other things about anger

00:25:04.460 --> 00:25:06.140
 is because it's going to give evil

00:25:06.140 --> 00:25:07.400
 a pass.

00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:08.119
 So,

00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:09.500
 is there something

00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:11.599
 that can disrupt anger

00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.579
 that does not give evil

00:25:15.579 --> 00:25:16.500
 and injustice

00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:18.140
 a pass

00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:20.160
 or say

00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:21.299
 that it's not evil?

00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:24.659
 that's what the book

00:25:24.659 --> 00:25:25.059
 of Jonah

00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:26.240
 tackles brilliantly

00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:27.879
 at the level of the story

00:25:27.879 --> 00:25:31.139
 because if you think about it,

00:25:31.139 --> 00:25:32.220
 we looked at it last week,

00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:33.139
 there's three things

00:25:33.139 --> 00:25:33.720
 in the Bible

00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:35.099
 that disrupt anger

00:25:35.099 --> 00:25:36.359
 in a good way.

00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:37.180
 If you could put up

00:25:37.180 --> 00:25:37.819
 the first point,

00:25:37.899 --> 00:25:38.839
 that would be very helpful.

00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:40.220
 I had a hard time

00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:41.000
 wording this point.

00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:42.119
 I'm not really satisfied

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:43.159
 with how I worded it.

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:44.099
 I couldn't figure out

00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:44.799
 how to fix it.

00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:45.220
 You know,

00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:46.039
 you folks can tell me

00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:46.740
 how to fix it later.

00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:48.059
 It's the best I could do.

00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:50.139
 Only that which is rooted

00:25:50.139 --> 00:25:52.119
 in a just moral order

00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:53.619
 can disrupt anger

00:25:53.619 --> 00:25:54.500
 in a good way.

00:25:55.740 --> 00:25:58.079
 Only that which is rooted

00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:00.399
 in a just moral order

00:26:00.399 --> 00:26:01.839
 can disrupt anger

00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:02.740
 in a good way.

00:26:08.399 --> 00:26:09.079
 Now,

00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:13.099
 I'm not going to say much

00:26:13.099 --> 00:26:13.700
 about it this way.

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.220
 There's in a sense

00:26:14.220 --> 00:26:15.119
 one of the ways

00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:16.159
 to disrupt anger

00:26:16.159 --> 00:26:16.819
 in a good way

00:26:16.819 --> 00:26:18.000
 or to start to heal

00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:18.779
 our anger.

00:26:19.859 --> 00:26:20.559
 And for those of us

00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:21.879
 who struggle with anger,

00:26:22.019 --> 00:26:22.960
 and you know who you are,

00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:23.879
 we know who we are,

00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:25.839
 part of what we have to do

00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:26.639
 is not just pray

00:26:26.639 --> 00:26:28.879
 that we won't experience anger,

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:30.579
 but partly what we need to do

00:26:30.579 --> 00:26:31.539
 is first pray

00:26:31.539 --> 00:26:32.240
 that the Lord

00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:33.799
 will heal

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:35.939
 our sense of right and wrong.

00:26:39.299 --> 00:26:40.599
 It happens in the story

00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:42.679
 in a very simple way.

00:26:43.939 --> 00:26:44.839
 Okay, Jonah, really?

00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.599
 You don't think people

00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:48.859
 are worth more than a plant?

00:26:51.439 --> 00:26:53.039
 Like, really?

00:26:54.579 --> 00:26:55.939
 Plants matter more

00:26:55.939 --> 00:26:56.819
 than a human life?

00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:57.319
 Really?

00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:00.419
 Like, what moral order

00:27:00.419 --> 00:27:01.419
 does that come out of?

00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:04.679
 People matter more than plants.

00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:07.419
 They do.

00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:09.980
 So partly the story itself

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:10.899
 in some small way

00:27:10.899 --> 00:27:11.539
 is trying to help us

00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:11.939
 to shape,

00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:12.699
 to reconsider

00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:14.039
 our moral order.

00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:14.980
 And for some of us,

00:27:15.740 --> 00:27:15.960
 you know,

00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:16.799
 we can get angry

00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:18.160
 about lots of things.

00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.220
 We can get angry

00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:21.140
 at the fact

00:27:21.140 --> 00:27:21.900
 that we're not making

00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:22.500
 enough money.

00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:23.920
 And in a sense,

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:24.759
 what that is trying

00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:25.400
 to tell us

00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:26.620
 is that having a lot

00:27:26.620 --> 00:27:26.980
 of money

00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:28.460
 is very, very,

00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:29.319
 it's right

00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:30.500
 to have lots of money

00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:31.299
 and it's not right

00:27:31.299 --> 00:27:32.100
 to have lots of money.

00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:33.539
 Or we can get angry

00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:34.680
 because we're just not

00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:35.900
 losing that weight

00:27:35.900 --> 00:27:37.680
 that we want to lose.

00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:39.160
 And the fact of the matter

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:39.500
 is,

00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:40.560
 is that losing weight

00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:41.080
 is good

00:27:41.080 --> 00:27:42.080
 and having it on

00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:42.900
 is bad.

00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:43.980
 Or we can have,

00:27:44.180 --> 00:27:44.860
 we can get angry

00:27:44.860 --> 00:27:45.420
 that we're just not

00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:46.140
 putting on the muscle.

00:27:46.320 --> 00:27:46.880
 Or we can have,

00:27:47.180 --> 00:27:48.220
 it can have angry,

00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:49.100
 we can get angry.

00:27:49.360 --> 00:27:50.200
 Here's the thing.

00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:52.380
 It is not a virtue

00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:53.380
 to have more money

00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:54.620
 than somebody else.

00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:57.660
 Bay Street,

00:27:57.840 --> 00:27:58.480
 it's not.

00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:00.500
 It's not.

00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:02.320
 It's not a sin

00:28:02.320 --> 00:28:03.640
 to be low income.

00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:05.620
 It might be a sin

00:28:05.619 --> 00:28:07.079
 if somebody's doing something

00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:07.759
 to force you

00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:09.219
 to be low income

00:28:09.219 --> 00:28:10.599
 because they're ripping you off.

00:28:10.959 --> 00:28:12.079
 That can be a sin.

00:28:12.459 --> 00:28:13.899
 But it's not a sin

00:28:13.899 --> 00:28:15.000
 to be low income.

00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:16.619
 It's not a sin

00:28:16.619 --> 00:28:18.959
 to have a few extra pounds

00:28:18.959 --> 00:28:21.579
 or not have as much muscles

00:28:21.579 --> 00:28:23.299
 or not be beautiful.

00:28:24.219 --> 00:28:25.319
 Just to be plain.

00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:26.979
 Those aren't moral things.

00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:27.659
 Those are things

00:28:27.659 --> 00:28:28.199
 in our culture

00:28:28.199 --> 00:28:29.379
 we get all upset about.

00:28:31.879 --> 00:28:33.199
 And so part of our prayer

00:28:33.199 --> 00:28:34.279
 can be the healing

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:35.299
 of our understanding

00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:36.019
 of right and wrong.

00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:37.859
 But the Bible here

00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:38.339
 is going to go

00:28:38.339 --> 00:28:39.399
 to something deep

00:28:39.399 --> 00:28:40.559
 and I want to spend more time

00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:41.399
 on something different.

00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:42.379
 There's three things

00:28:42.379 --> 00:28:43.500
 that the Bible talks about

00:28:43.500 --> 00:28:44.059
 that are rooted

00:28:44.059 --> 00:28:45.000
 in the moral order

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:46.779
 when you understand it properly.

00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:48.000
 You see,

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:49.619
 if something's coming out of the,

00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:51.019
 since if we understand

00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:52.079
 that anger

00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:53.700
 is connected

00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:54.659
 to the moral order,

00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:55.720
 you get angry

00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:56.599
 at injustice,

00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:57.899
 you get angry at evil,

00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.440
 you get angry at sin,

00:28:59.940 --> 00:29:01.180
 you get angry at that,

00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:01.799
 it's connected

00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:02.599
 to the moral order.

00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:04.039
 So maybe if there's something

00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:05.199
 that's also rooted

00:29:05.199 --> 00:29:06.319
 in the moral order,

00:29:06.539 --> 00:29:08.439
 it can disrupt anger

00:29:08.439 --> 00:29:09.779
 in a way that's actually

00:29:09.779 --> 00:29:10.879
 going to be good

00:29:10.879 --> 00:29:11.899
 for people.

00:29:12.699 --> 00:29:13.939
 And the Bible has three things.

00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:14.839
 This story only talks

00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:15.319
 about one of them.

00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:16.240
 One of them is forgiveness.

00:29:17.439 --> 00:29:18.679
 Second is mercy,

00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.459
 which we talked about

00:29:19.459 --> 00:29:19.899
 last week.

00:29:19.939 --> 00:29:21.119
 And the third is this,

00:29:21.419 --> 00:29:21.939
 compassion.

00:29:23.779 --> 00:29:24.719
 Compassion not just

00:29:24.719 --> 00:29:25.339
 as a feeling

00:29:25.339 --> 00:29:26.299
 but as an action.

00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:27.279
 In the Bible,

00:29:27.459 --> 00:29:28.500
 compassion is never

00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:29.339
 just a feeling.

00:29:29.339 --> 00:29:30.839
 It's something which leads

00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:32.299
 to benevolent,

00:29:32.939 --> 00:29:33.519
 caring,

00:29:34.579 --> 00:29:35.139
 charitable,

00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:37.619
 generous action.

00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:40.039
 It's not just a feeling.

00:29:42.159 --> 00:29:43.039
 It's something

00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:45.339
 you see.

00:29:45.539 --> 00:29:45.799
 You see,

00:29:45.859 --> 00:29:46.339
 how is it?

00:29:46.639 --> 00:29:46.899
 Well, here,

00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:47.379
 you can put up

00:29:47.379 --> 00:29:47.980
 the next point.

00:29:49.939 --> 00:29:50.859
 True compassion

00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:52.519
 is clear-sighted

00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:53.919
 about what is unjust

00:29:53.919 --> 00:29:55.779
 and or wrong.

00:29:56.439 --> 00:29:57.500
 True compassion

00:29:57.500 --> 00:29:59.019
 is clear-sighted

00:29:59.019 --> 00:30:00.339
 about what is unjust

00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:01.339
 and or wrong.

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:05.240
 You see,

00:30:05.380 --> 00:30:06.099
 that's why

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:07.359
 so many of the

00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:08.480
 meditation techniques

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:09.339
 and therapies

00:30:09.339 --> 00:30:13.240
 and drugs,

00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:14.819
 they're amoral.

00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:18.119
 And they want to dull

00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:19.700
 the sense of right and wrong

00:30:19.700 --> 00:30:21.480
 for you to move forward.

00:30:22.819 --> 00:30:23.819
 But compassion,

00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:25.019
 real compassion,

00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:26.079
 I'll give you an example

00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:26.519
 in a moment,

00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:27.419
 is clear-sighted

00:30:27.419 --> 00:30:28.079
 about right and wrong.

00:30:28.199 --> 00:30:28.619
 Could you put up

00:30:28.619 --> 00:30:29.199
 the next point?

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:31.079
 Help to nuance it a bit.

00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:32.500
 True compassion

00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:35.220
 does not do wrong

00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:37.159
 or act unjustly.

00:30:38.819 --> 00:30:40.099
 Injustice and evil

00:30:40.099 --> 00:30:41.359
 are never,

00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:43.679
 injustice and evil

00:30:43.679 --> 00:30:45.059
 are never compassionate.

00:30:46.419 --> 00:30:47.579
 True compassion

00:30:47.579 --> 00:30:48.899
 does not do wrong

00:30:48.899 --> 00:30:50.439
 or act unjustly.

00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:51.919
 Injustice and evil

00:30:51.919 --> 00:30:53.359
 are never compassionate.

00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:54.919
 I'm going to lose you all,

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:55.379
 but I'm just going to say

00:30:55.380 --> 00:30:55.820
 one thing.

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:56.700
 That's one of the many,

00:30:56.780 --> 00:30:57.640
 many, many reasons

00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:58.880
 why euthanasia

00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.420
 is wrong

00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:03.000
 and it's not compassionate.

00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:06.020
 To take the life

00:31:06.020 --> 00:31:07.500
 of an innocent human being

00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:10.000
 is never compassionate.

00:31:12.580 --> 00:31:13.540
 To use the power

00:31:13.540 --> 00:31:14.020
 of the state,

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:16.480
 true compassion

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:17.440
 does not do wrong

00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.380
 or act unjustly.

00:31:18.460 --> 00:31:19.300
 Injustice and evil

00:31:19.300 --> 00:31:20.280
 are never compassionate.

00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:21.900
 You think about that

00:31:21.900 --> 00:31:22.360
 for a second.

00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:24.079
 Imagine that Trump

00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:25.399
 loses the next election

00:31:25.399 --> 00:31:28.039
 and the day before

00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:28.979
 he leads office

00:31:28.979 --> 00:31:30.619
 all of his friends

00:31:30.619 --> 00:31:31.579
 who are in trouble

00:31:31.579 --> 00:31:33.119
 and going to maybe

00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:33.679
 go to jail,

00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:34.719
 he pardons them all.

00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:35.740
 Would you say,

00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:36.939
 oh, it's so wonderful

00:31:36.939 --> 00:31:38.159
 that Trump is compassionate?

00:31:38.419 --> 00:31:40.559
 No, you would not say that.

00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:43.419
 You'd say,

00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:45.039
 that dirty rat.

00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:50.079
 Showing compassion.

00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:50.779
 And you know what?

00:31:50.779 --> 00:31:51.259
 If the Canadians

00:31:51.259 --> 00:31:52.139
 had the same power

00:31:52.139 --> 00:31:52.920
 and Trudeau did it

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:54.019
 in his last day of office,

00:31:54.159 --> 00:31:55.480
 you'd say the same thing.

00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:57.119
 You would.

00:31:57.799 --> 00:31:58.879
 It's not compassion.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:00.299
 Okay?

00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:02.039
 If a manager

00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:03.579
 treats you terribly

00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:07.059
 and you complain

00:32:07.059 --> 00:32:08.579
 over their head

00:32:08.579 --> 00:32:10.539
 and the boss

00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:11.460
 says to you,

00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:13.319
 I think with your complaint

00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:14.460
 they've suffered enough.

00:32:14.919 --> 00:32:16.439
 I'm going to show compassion.

00:32:17.259 --> 00:32:17.839
 You'd go,

00:32:18.460 --> 00:32:19.839
 that's not compassion.

00:32:21.220 --> 00:32:22.519
 That's not compassion.

00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:26.960
 And by the way,

00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:27.319
 here,

00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:28.139
 I'll throw out

00:32:28.139 --> 00:32:28.980
 all of these points.

00:32:29.099 --> 00:32:29.740
 I'm using the word

00:32:29.740 --> 00:32:31.179
 evil, wrong, and sin.

00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:32.319
 They're all the same idea

00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:32.839
 in the Bible.

00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:33.759
 I've just used them,

00:32:33.879 --> 00:32:34.299
 varied them

00:32:34.299 --> 00:32:35.759
 for a different effect.

00:32:36.919 --> 00:32:38.039
 Evil, wrong, and sin.

00:32:38.139 --> 00:32:39.039
 Evil isn't sort of

00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:40.699
 really bad wrong things.

00:32:41.740 --> 00:32:42.699
 Wrong is evil.

00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:43.579
 Evil is wrong.

00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:44.500
 Sin is wrong.

00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:45.259
 Sin is evil.

00:32:45.379 --> 00:32:46.159
 Evil is sin.

00:32:46.679 --> 00:32:47.480
 You get the picture.

00:32:48.379 --> 00:32:48.559
 Now,

00:32:48.879 --> 00:32:49.199
 you know,

00:32:49.259 --> 00:32:49.679
 one of the things

00:32:49.679 --> 00:32:50.720
 is that

00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.959
 the Lord is described

00:32:52.959 --> 00:32:54.799
 in chapter 4 earlier

00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:56.000
 as being slow

00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:57.119
 to anger.

00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.279
 Why?

00:32:59.459 --> 00:33:00.519
 Because mercy,

00:33:00.639 --> 00:33:01.399
 as we talked about it

00:33:01.399 --> 00:33:01.859
 last week,

00:33:01.859 --> 00:33:02.599
 which is also

00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:03.919
 rooted in a clear-eyed

00:33:03.919 --> 00:33:04.639
 understanding

00:33:04.639 --> 00:33:05.480
 of right and wrong,

00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:06.559
 in a sense,

00:33:06.699 --> 00:33:08.439
 disrupts the anger

00:33:08.439 --> 00:33:08.919
 of the Lord,

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:09.459
 in a sense.

00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:10.179
 It's a different thing

00:33:10.179 --> 00:33:10.500
 because he doesn't

00:33:10.500 --> 00:33:11.339
 experience passion.

00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:12.439
 Here we see the same thing

00:33:12.439 --> 00:33:13.500
 happening with compassion.

00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:15.719
 Well,

00:33:15.879 --> 00:33:16.399
 how on earth

00:33:16.399 --> 00:33:17.019
 does this work?

00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:17.599
 And why is it?

00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:17.740
 I mean,

00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:18.219
 on one level,

00:33:18.379 --> 00:33:19.599
 at a natural level,

00:33:19.719 --> 00:33:21.119
 people do show compassion,

00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:22.240
 but on the other hand,

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:22.799
 there's a...

00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:23.199
 Here,

00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:24.059
 let's just talk a little bit

00:33:24.059 --> 00:33:24.819
 more about compassion.

00:33:24.939 --> 00:33:25.259
 If you could put up

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.779
 the next point,

00:33:25.859 --> 00:33:25.980
 Andrew,

00:33:26.019 --> 00:33:26.639
 that would be great.

00:33:26.639 --> 00:33:28.439
 You cannot act

00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:29.440
 compassionately

00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:30.840
 without bearing

00:33:30.840 --> 00:33:32.080
 a personal cost.

00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:35.100
 You cannot

00:33:35.100 --> 00:33:36.980
 act compassionately

00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:38.240
 without bearing

00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:39.160
 a personal cost.

00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:39.460
 Otherwise,

00:33:39.620 --> 00:33:40.440
 it's just a feeling.

00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:42.420
 Good example.

00:33:43.340 --> 00:33:43.840
 Let's say,

00:33:43.980 --> 00:33:44.519
 you all know

00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:45.019
 I love going

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.960
 to coffee places.

00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:47.200
 I have a great affection

00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:47.880
 for baristas.

00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:50.460
 There's all sorts

00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:51.960
 of reasons for it,

00:33:52.019 --> 00:33:53.100
 but one of the things...

00:33:53.099 --> 00:33:54.299
 And the same thing

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:54.980
 with people who work

00:33:54.980 --> 00:33:55.619
 at McDonald's

00:33:55.619 --> 00:33:56.319
 or Tim Hortons.

00:33:56.939 --> 00:33:57.500
 You know what?

00:33:57.539 --> 00:33:58.639
 These guys and gals,

00:33:58.740 --> 00:34:00.159
 they're making minimum wage.

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.439
 They could maybe

00:34:01.439 --> 00:34:02.139
 be better off

00:34:02.139 --> 00:34:02.699
 on welfare.

00:34:04.199 --> 00:34:05.079
 But they work.

00:34:05.139 --> 00:34:05.899
 They work hard.

00:34:06.679 --> 00:34:07.980
 I really admire it.

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:08.699
 I really do.

00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:11.239
 They get up,

00:34:11.299 --> 00:34:11.819
 especially those

00:34:11.819 --> 00:34:12.759
 who work in Tim Hortons,

00:34:12.799 --> 00:34:13.319
 they wear those

00:34:13.319 --> 00:34:14.799
 ugly uniforms.

00:34:17.279 --> 00:34:18.000
 You know?

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:19.019
 Or Burger King.

00:34:19.259 --> 00:34:19.699
 Ugly,

00:34:19.819 --> 00:34:20.279
 ugly,

00:34:20.420 --> 00:34:21.500
 ugly uniforms.

00:34:21.500 --> 00:34:23.219
 They show up on time.

00:34:23.300 --> 00:34:24.460
 They do a hard day's work.

00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:25.179
 They go home.

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:25.699
 You know what?

00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:26.260
 There's all sorts

00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:26.679
 of other things

00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:27.300
 they could do to be late.

00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:28.300
 I admire them.

00:34:28.380 --> 00:34:28.960
 I really do.

00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:29.440
 Anyway,

00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:31.079
 so let's say a barista,

00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:32.260
 I find out that

00:34:32.260 --> 00:34:33.139
 they're going to be moving

00:34:33.139 --> 00:34:34.619
 and I say,

00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:34.860
 you know what?

00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:35.780
 You can borrow my car.

00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:36.500
 Here's the keys.

00:34:36.539 --> 00:34:37.400
 You can borrow my car.

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.059
 I'm not doing anything

00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:38.699
 with it all day.

00:34:38.699 --> 00:34:40.280
 You borrow the car.

00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:41.139
 At the end of the day,

00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:42.079
 if they're borrowing the car,

00:34:42.780 --> 00:34:44.199
 I get a call

00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.559
 and they've wrecked my car.

00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:49.300
 And I can smell alcohol

00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:50.360
 off their breath.

00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:52.420
 Now let me tell you,

00:34:52.539 --> 00:34:53.179
 you all know

00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:53.739
 that I'm very,

00:34:53.860 --> 00:34:53.980
 very,

00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:54.559
 very wealthy

00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:55.380
 because I drive

00:34:55.380 --> 00:34:57.519
 a 1998 Honda Accord.

00:34:58.260 --> 00:34:59.619
 And nothing says

00:34:59.619 --> 00:35:01.239
 making lots of money

00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:02.179
 like driving

00:35:02.179 --> 00:35:03.940
 a 1998 Honda Accord,

00:35:04.380 --> 00:35:05.059
 which I got,

00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:05.280
 I think,

00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:05.960
 for $1,800.

00:35:06.500 --> 00:35:07.460
 But here's the thing.

00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:09.539
 It runs well.

00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:12.039
 Somebody totals

00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:13.699
 my 1998 Honda Accord,

00:35:13.699 --> 00:35:14.679
 I think I'd be lucky

00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:15.400
 to get $300

00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:16.579
 from an insurer.

00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:18.159
 and I will not be able

00:35:18.159 --> 00:35:19.400
 to replace my car

00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:20.099
 for $300.

00:35:21.099 --> 00:35:22.059
 So what do I do

00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:22.699
 to the barista?

00:35:24.259 --> 00:35:25.400
 And maybe I know

00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:26.360
 that that barista,

00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:31.139
 if I call the police,

00:35:31.340 --> 00:35:31.599
 you know,

00:35:31.659 --> 00:35:32.279
 and the insurance,

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:33.119
 I decide I'm going

00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:33.799
 to just be justice.

00:35:33.940 --> 00:35:34.480
 You're drinking

00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:35.920
 and driving

00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.179
 and you wrecked my car.

00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:39.279
 There has to be

00:35:39.279 --> 00:35:40.279
 consequences for you.

00:35:40.340 --> 00:35:41.159
 That's justice.

00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:45.119
 But if I happen

00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:45.899
 to know as well

00:35:45.899 --> 00:35:46.759
 that, you know what,

00:35:47.059 --> 00:35:48.139
 they're going to start

00:35:48.139 --> 00:35:49.719
 a new job next week

00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:50.539
 and they need to be able

00:35:50.539 --> 00:35:51.539
 to have a driver's license,

00:35:51.659 --> 00:35:52.299
 if this comes out,

00:35:52.339 --> 00:35:52.799
 they might lose

00:35:52.799 --> 00:35:53.619
 their driver's license,

00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:54.539
 might lose their job,

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:55.679
 might lose their opportunity

00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:57.399
 to no longer be making

00:35:57.399 --> 00:35:58.480
 $14 an hour

00:35:58.480 --> 00:35:59.460
 to start to move forward

00:35:59.460 --> 00:36:00.179
 with their life.

00:36:00.500 --> 00:36:01.639
 And I look at it

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:02.339
 and I decide,

00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:02.679
 you know what,

00:36:02.699 --> 00:36:03.000
 I'm going to have

00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:03.940
 compassion on them.

00:36:06.339 --> 00:36:07.359
 I'm still out of car.

00:36:09.399 --> 00:36:10.219
 I'm out of car.

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:14.839
 But I've acted

00:36:14.839 --> 00:36:15.599
 compassionately.

00:36:16.399 --> 00:36:17.159
 I haven't said,

00:36:17.219 --> 00:36:17.379
 oh yeah,

00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:17.779
 it's all right.

00:36:17.859 --> 00:36:18.460
 Yeah, go ahead.

00:36:18.739 --> 00:36:19.579
 Drink and drive.

00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:21.000
 Here I have a van

00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:22.599
 and a six-pack.

00:36:22.879 --> 00:36:23.799
 Go for a drive.

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:24.279
 No.

00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:27.399
 I decide I'm going

00:36:27.399 --> 00:36:28.139
 to swallow it

00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:29.480
 out of compassion.

00:36:33.219 --> 00:36:34.279
 You cannot act

00:36:34.279 --> 00:36:35.039
 compassionately

00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:36.119
 without bearing

00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:37.119
 a personal cost.

00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:37.679
 And you can see

00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:38.519
 how compassion here

00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:39.319
 is still clear-eyed

00:36:39.319 --> 00:36:40.319
 about right and wrong.

00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:41.400
 It's based on

00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:42.080
 the moral order.

00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:44.620
 But I decide

00:36:44.620 --> 00:36:45.140
 I'm going to show

00:36:45.140 --> 00:36:46.820
 compassion to the barista

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:48.000
 who's maybe heartbroken

00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:49.019
 over what they've done,

00:36:49.980 --> 00:36:51.780
 just pleading for mercy.

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:52.300
 And I decide

00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:52.780
 I'm going to show

00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:53.380
 compassion.

00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:56.000
 I'm going to show

00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:56.880
 compassion maybe

00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:57.539
 because I,

00:36:57.940 --> 00:36:58.380
 for a whole,

00:36:58.780 --> 00:36:59.320
 I won't go into

00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:00.160
 the reasons for it,

00:37:00.180 --> 00:37:00.559
 but I do it.

00:37:00.640 --> 00:37:01.420
 It's going to glorify

00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:01.800
 the Lord.

00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:02.920
 It's good for that person.

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:04.660
 And I'll get over

00:37:04.660 --> 00:37:05.320
 the finances,

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:06.000
 but it's going to be

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:06.580
 good for them

00:37:06.580 --> 00:37:07.140
 and it's going to also

00:37:07.140 --> 00:37:08.019
 bring glory to the Lord

00:37:08.019 --> 00:37:08.480
 that I'm going to

00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:08.920
 forgive them.

00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:10.220
 I'm going to forgive the debt.

00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:12.280
 If you could put up

00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:12.980
 the next point.

00:37:14.600 --> 00:37:15.620
 On the cross,

00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:18.280
 we see the Lord himself

00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:19.340
 bearing the cost.

00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:21.880
 We see the Lord himself

00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:22.740
 bear the cost

00:37:22.740 --> 00:37:24.120
 of showing you

00:37:24.120 --> 00:37:25.500
 compassion.

00:37:26.820 --> 00:37:27.140
 You see,

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:27.680
 one of the things

00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:28.720
 about this whole story

00:37:28.720 --> 00:37:29.580
 with the book of Jonah

00:37:29.580 --> 00:37:30.780
 is there's a riddle

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.720
 in this story.

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:32.920
 And the riddle

00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:33.780
 in this story is,

00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:34.120
 you know what,

00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:34.900
 the fact of the matter is

00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:35.580
 is the Ninevites

00:37:35.580 --> 00:37:36.160
 have been doing

00:37:36.160 --> 00:37:37.019
 terrible, terrible,

00:37:37.140 --> 00:37:37.700
 terrible things

00:37:37.700 --> 00:37:38.160
 and it seems

00:37:38.160 --> 00:37:38.980
 as if they get off.

00:37:38.980 --> 00:37:39.980
 One of the things

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:40.559
 to understand

00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:41.400
 about this story

00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:42.460
 is that when the Lord

00:37:42.460 --> 00:37:43.360
 shows compassion

00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:44.400
 in that particular case,

00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:45.199
 it doesn't mean

00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.119
 he drops the charges,

00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:47.820
 so to speak,

00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:48.860
 against the Ninevites,

00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:50.300
 but they're stayed.

00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:55.519
 By stayed,

00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:56.099
 it means

00:37:56.099 --> 00:37:57.599
 if you're charged

00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:58.400
 with an offense

00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:00.179
 and I wish we had Victor here,

00:38:00.219 --> 00:38:01.179
 I think I'm getting this right,

00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:02.740
 and they stay the charges,

00:38:02.820 --> 00:38:03.579
 it means they can still

00:38:03.579 --> 00:38:04.300
 be brought up.

00:38:04.300 --> 00:38:05.580
 It just means

00:38:05.580 --> 00:38:06.320
 you're not going forward

00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:07.180
 with the prosecution.

00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:09.260
 And at the same,

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:10.140
 maybe that's Victor calling

00:38:10.140 --> 00:38:11.620
 to give us that I got that right.

00:38:12.300 --> 00:38:14.140
 And it's the same thing,

00:38:14.180 --> 00:38:14.700
 at the end of the day,

00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:15.780
 every single human being

00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:16.360
 is going to appear

00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:17.740
 before the judgment seat of God

00:38:17.740 --> 00:38:19.000
 and nobody gets away

00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:19.740
 with injustice

00:38:19.740 --> 00:38:20.440
 and doing wrong.

00:38:20.600 --> 00:38:20.920
 Nobody.

00:38:21.680 --> 00:38:22.900
 You and I right now,

00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:24.700
 whether we realize it or not,

00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:25.960
 the city of Ottawa right now,

00:38:26.060 --> 00:38:27.000
 every single person

00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:28.380
 walking around right now,

00:38:28.680 --> 00:38:29.600
 even though they might

00:38:29.600 --> 00:38:30.880
 laugh at God,

00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:31.960
 mock God,

00:38:32.180 --> 00:38:32.940
 hate God,

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:34.320
 shake their fist at God,

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:35.860
 intentionally do things

00:38:35.860 --> 00:38:37.420
 that are against God

00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:38.280
 just because they want

00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:39.119
 to give Him the finger

00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:40.380
 as many times as they want.

00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:41.800
 They might be doing evil

00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:42.760
 as much as they want.

00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:44.039
 They might lie,

00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:45.119
 cheat, steal,

00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:46.220
 commit adultery,

00:38:46.780 --> 00:38:48.039
 do all those things.

00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:49.700
 Every single human being,

00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:50.280
 in a sense,

00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:52.400
 the charges are stayed,

00:38:53.019 --> 00:38:54.760
 but not dropped.

00:38:56.240 --> 00:38:57.260
 And so it is with Nineveh

00:38:57.260 --> 00:38:58.220
 that we'll experience

00:38:58.220 --> 00:38:59.019
 the judgment of God

00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:00.179
 and every one of those Ninevites

00:39:00.179 --> 00:39:00.900
 will have,

00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:02.039
 by now,

00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:02.880
 appeared before

00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:03.980
 the judgment seat of God

00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:05.200
 and they will know

00:39:05.200 --> 00:39:06.160
 the Lord's justice.

00:39:07.680 --> 00:39:08.880
 He has compassion on them

00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.640
 for a season

00:39:09.640 --> 00:39:11.300
 that they might repent.

00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:13.800
 So there's a riddle.

00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:15.320
 But the fact of the matter is

00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:15.960
 is that you and I

00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:17.019
 have done wrong things.

00:39:17.140 --> 00:39:18.980
 You and I are enmity with God.

00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:20.579
 And what we see is

00:39:20.579 --> 00:39:21.300
 on the cross,

00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:22.660
 we see the Lord Himself

00:39:22.660 --> 00:39:24.220
 bear the cost

00:39:24.220 --> 00:39:26.579
 of showing you compassion.

00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:28.400
 To use the story

00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:29.099
 of the barista,

00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:30.500
 in the story of the barista,

00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:32.000
 I use myself as an example,

00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:33.139
 but at the end of the day,

00:39:33.219 --> 00:39:33.940
 if you look at it

00:39:33.940 --> 00:39:35.099
 from the Bible's point of view,

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:38.440
 I am the barista

00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:40.900
 who took the car,

00:39:42.019 --> 00:39:42.500
 drank,

00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:44.119
 wrecked the car.

00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:49.380
 That's me.

00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:52.000
 And that's you.

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.460
 Can you put up the next slide,

00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:55.820
 please?

00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:57.280
 On the cross,

00:39:57.940 --> 00:39:58.699
 the Lord dealt

00:39:58.699 --> 00:40:00.000
 with your wrongdoing

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.900
 with perfect justice

00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:05.320
 and perfect compassion.

00:40:08.179 --> 00:40:10.659
 He dies in your place.

00:40:11.179 --> 00:40:12.860
 He takes your judgment

00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:14.099
 in your stead

00:40:14.099 --> 00:40:15.039
 because He knows

00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:16.320
 it will unmake you.

00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:18.519
 It's not a matter

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:19.580
 that the Lord just says,

00:40:19.640 --> 00:40:19.920
 you know what,

00:40:20.019 --> 00:40:20.220
 George,

00:40:20.260 --> 00:40:20.980
 you're so cute,

00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:21.740
 I'm just going to pretend

00:40:21.740 --> 00:40:22.300
 you didn't do

00:40:22.300 --> 00:40:23.360
 those bad things.

00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:25.600
 It's,

00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:26.480
 George,

00:40:27.740 --> 00:40:28.400
 you've done,

00:40:29.220 --> 00:40:30.539
 this is the wonderful thing

00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:31.420
 about the cross

00:40:31.420 --> 00:40:33.860
 and the fact that God

00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:35.440
 is completely just

00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:36.660
 and knows every single thing

00:40:36.660 --> 00:40:37.420
 I've ever done.

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:39.420
 Is it one of the reasons

00:40:39.420 --> 00:40:40.420
 that it can begin,

00:40:40.600 --> 00:40:42.100
 I can begin to change

00:40:42.100 --> 00:40:43.160
 my moral order

00:40:43.160 --> 00:40:44.680
 is that I understand

00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.639
 that God knows me perfectly.

00:40:46.799 --> 00:40:48.219
 He knows every single thing

00:40:48.219 --> 00:40:48.739
 I've done,

00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:50.679
 every good thing

00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:51.539
 I should have done

00:40:51.539 --> 00:40:52.419
 but didn't do.

00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:54.339
 He knows all my thoughts,

00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:55.519
 all my motivations,

00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:56.859
 all of those things.

00:40:56.940 --> 00:40:57.500
 He knows it

00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:58.639
 from the moment of my birth

00:40:58.639 --> 00:40:59.579
 to the moment of my death.

00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:00.659
 He knows it all

00:41:00.659 --> 00:41:02.639
 and all

00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:04.119
 was dealt with

00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:05.059
 when Jesus died

00:41:05.059 --> 00:41:06.259
 in my place on the cross.

00:41:09.319 --> 00:41:10.859
 So if it comes

00:41:10.859 --> 00:41:11.879
 and it will come,

00:41:12.659 --> 00:41:13.739
 I have kids

00:41:13.739 --> 00:41:14.819
 and it comes up

00:41:14.819 --> 00:41:15.319
 that sometime

00:41:15.319 --> 00:41:16.500
 whether it's next week

00:41:16.500 --> 00:41:17.119
 or next month

00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:17.759
 or next year,

00:41:17.839 --> 00:41:18.599
 one of my kids

00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:19.279
 tells me,

00:41:19.379 --> 00:41:19.579
 Dad,

00:41:19.739 --> 00:41:21.000
 you did this to me,

00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:22.099
 you said this to me

00:41:22.099 --> 00:41:23.419
 five years,

00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:24.299
 ten years ago

00:41:24.299 --> 00:41:25.079
 and it has just,

00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:26.879
 it has been really hard on me.

00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:28.819
 Now it will be hard

00:41:28.819 --> 00:41:29.339
 to hear that

00:41:29.339 --> 00:41:30.000
 from my child.

00:41:32.439 --> 00:41:33.679
 I like the illusion

00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:34.939
 that I'm a perfect dad.

00:41:36.539 --> 00:41:38.039
 I try never to believe it

00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:39.699
 but I like the illusion.

00:41:39.939 --> 00:41:40.839
 I'm a fallen human being

00:41:40.839 --> 00:41:41.319
 like you.

00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:42.900
 But you know,

00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:43.400
 one of the things

00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:43.920
 I can do

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:45.000
 is I can understand

00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:45.980
 not that it means

00:41:45.980 --> 00:41:46.700
 I get a pass

00:41:46.700 --> 00:41:47.400
 because the Lord

00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:48.080
 has forgiven me

00:41:48.080 --> 00:41:49.140
 but because I know

00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:50.440
 there is no evil

00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:51.519
 even in my past

00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:52.280
 that could be revealed

00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:52.840
 to me today

00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:53.380
 that the Lord

00:41:53.380 --> 00:41:54.220
 did not know about

00:41:54.220 --> 00:41:55.519
 when he hung upon the cross

00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:56.660
 and died for me.

00:41:58.640 --> 00:41:59.840
 That there's the possibility

00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:00.800
 that my identity

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:01.860
 rooted in the cross

00:42:01.860 --> 00:42:02.320
 and Jesus

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:03.420
 and what he's done for me

00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:03.980
 and the knowledge

00:42:03.980 --> 00:42:04.800
 of his love for me

00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:05.580
 that I can then

00:42:05.580 --> 00:42:06.400
 maybe have

00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:07.660
 the self-possession

00:42:07.659 --> 00:42:08.319
 to say

00:42:08.319 --> 00:42:10.179
 I am so sorry

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:12.119
 I did that wrong to you.

00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:17.219
 Can you forgive me?

00:42:17.319 --> 00:42:17.980
 Can you pray

00:42:17.980 --> 00:42:18.859
 that I learn

00:42:18.859 --> 00:42:19.639
 how to do it better?

00:42:22.420 --> 00:42:23.759
 And I don't have to live

00:42:23.759 --> 00:42:24.319
 in the illusion

00:42:24.319 --> 00:42:25.920
 of my perfect life.

00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:28.500
 I can live in the reality

00:42:28.500 --> 00:42:30.839
 of his perfect compassion

00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:32.400
 and bearing the cost

00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:33.180
 of my sin

00:42:33.180 --> 00:42:34.760
 upon the cross.

00:42:38.640 --> 00:42:40.720
 I can live in the real world

00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:42.720
 because Jesus died

00:42:42.720 --> 00:42:43.860
 for me

00:42:43.860 --> 00:42:45.960
 bearing the cost

00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:47.280
 for him to show compassion

00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:47.820
 to me

00:42:47.820 --> 00:42:49.600
 in the real world.

00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:53.579
 If you'll put up

00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:54.420
 the final slide.

00:42:55.680 --> 00:42:56.640
 See the gospel

00:42:56.640 --> 00:42:57.740
 shapes you and me

00:42:57.740 --> 00:42:58.460
 to desire

00:42:58.460 --> 00:42:59.880
 a healthy conscience.

00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:01.860
 and to have

00:43:01.860 --> 00:43:02.680
 compassion

00:43:02.680 --> 00:43:04.079
 disrupt your anger

00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:05.200
 for the good of others

00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:06.079
 and for the glory

00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:06.680
 of the Lord.

00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.119
 It's not automatic.

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:10.240
 But as the gospel

00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:10.980
 shapes you

00:43:10.980 --> 00:43:11.940
 as it grips you

00:43:11.940 --> 00:43:13.340
 as it molds you

00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:14.220
 as it forms you

00:43:14.220 --> 00:43:15.440
 as you think upon it

00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:17.220
 it will desire you

00:43:17.220 --> 00:43:17.800
 to have

00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:18.840
 a better sense

00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:19.720
 of right and wrong.

00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.480
 It'll give you

00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:23.559
 the sense of security

00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:24.320
 to look at

00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:24.940
 what's actually

00:43:24.940 --> 00:43:25.500
 right and wrong

00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:26.440
 without having to worry

00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:27.260
 that if I actually

00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:27.960
 acknowledge that

00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:28.660
 this is wrong

00:43:28.660 --> 00:43:29.480
 I have to say

00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:30.420
 that I did wrong

00:43:30.420 --> 00:43:31.420
 for a long time

00:43:31.420 --> 00:43:32.599
 and that's really

00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:33.500
 hard for us

00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:34.579
 but as the gospel

00:43:34.579 --> 00:43:35.139
 grips me

00:43:35.139 --> 00:43:36.219
 and shapes me

00:43:36.219 --> 00:43:36.760
 as it becomes

00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:37.679
 the air I breathe

00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:38.300
 and that on which

00:43:38.300 --> 00:43:38.840
 I stand

00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:39.960
 by which I understand

00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:40.760
 my identity

00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:41.860
 my past

00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:42.500
 my present

00:43:42.500 --> 00:43:43.360
 and my future

00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:44.900
 as that becomes

00:43:44.900 --> 00:43:45.820
 more real to me

00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:46.740
 who Jesus is

00:43:46.740 --> 00:43:47.340
 and what he did

00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:48.500
 for me upon the cross

00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:49.820
 there is the possibility

00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:51.159
 for me to look

00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:52.059
 at right and wrong

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:52.500
 in a way

00:43:52.500 --> 00:43:53.139
 that does not

00:43:53.139 --> 00:43:54.219
 threaten my identity

00:43:54.219 --> 00:43:55.179
 and I can say

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:55.639
 you know what

00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:56.300
 that's wrong

00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:57.120
 and that has

00:43:57.120 --> 00:43:57.920
 characterized me

00:43:57.920 --> 00:43:58.420
 for the last

00:43:58.420 --> 00:43:59.420
 20 years of my life

00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:00.160
 but it's wrong

00:44:00.160 --> 00:44:02.740
 and as my moral

00:44:02.740 --> 00:44:03.720
 order becomes

00:44:03.720 --> 00:44:04.400
 more healed

00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:05.400
 becomes healthy

00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:06.240
 and my conscience

00:44:06.240 --> 00:44:07.200
 becomes healthy

00:44:07.200 --> 00:44:08.860
 that will mean

00:44:08.860 --> 00:44:09.400
 my anger

00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:10.500
 becomes more healthy

00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:12.160
 but the gospel

00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:13.000
 does more than that

00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:13.519
 the gospel

00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:14.200
 shapes you

00:44:14.200 --> 00:44:14.800
 to desire

00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:15.880
 a healthy conscience

00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:16.800
 and to have

00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:17.640
 compassion

00:44:17.640 --> 00:44:20.140
 disrupt your anger

00:44:20.140 --> 00:44:21.519
 for the good

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:21.880
 of others

00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:22.580
 and for the glory

00:44:22.580 --> 00:44:23.180
 of the Lord

00:44:23.179 --> 00:44:27.419
 I am a recipient

00:44:27.419 --> 00:44:28.519
 of compassion

00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:30.980
 a very deep

00:44:30.980 --> 00:44:31.480
 and total

00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:32.139
 and complete

00:44:32.139 --> 00:44:32.899
 compassion

00:44:32.899 --> 00:44:34.599
 that frees me

00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:35.119
 to begin

00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:36.139
 to live

00:44:36.139 --> 00:44:37.099
 eternal life

00:44:37.099 --> 00:44:39.179
 and if I have

00:44:39.179 --> 00:44:39.980
 known such

00:44:39.980 --> 00:44:40.679
 compassion

00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:42.239
 maybe I need

00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:43.259
 to show compassion

00:44:43.259 --> 00:44:44.559
 in this case

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:46.460
 and I can call

00:44:46.460 --> 00:44:47.219
 out to the Lord

00:44:47.219 --> 00:44:48.119
 for what it's

00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:48.859
 going to mean

00:44:48.859 --> 00:44:49.799
 in terms of

00:44:49.799 --> 00:44:51.179
 forsaking revenge

00:44:51.179 --> 00:44:53.279
 for forsaking

00:44:53.279 --> 00:44:54.159
 what I might

00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:54.819
 like to do

00:44:54.819 --> 00:44:55.539
 in terms of

00:44:55.539 --> 00:44:56.279
 slander

00:44:56.279 --> 00:44:57.139
 or gossip

00:44:57.139 --> 00:44:58.139
 or hatred

00:44:58.139 --> 00:44:59.460
 or punching

00:44:59.460 --> 00:45:00.839
 or vengeance

00:45:00.839 --> 00:45:01.819
 or all of those

00:45:01.819 --> 00:45:02.079
 things

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:02.719
 and I need to

00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:03.379
 swallow that

00:45:03.379 --> 00:45:03.819
 and I might

00:45:03.819 --> 00:45:04.339
 have to call

00:45:04.339 --> 00:45:04.919
 out to the Lord

00:45:04.919 --> 00:45:05.579
 Lord I think

00:45:05.579 --> 00:45:06.000
 you're calling

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:06.480
 me to show

00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:07.039
 compassion

00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:08.379
 and that's a cost

00:45:08.379 --> 00:45:09.359
 I know you

00:45:09.359 --> 00:45:10.239
 showed compassion

00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:10.579
 for me

00:45:10.579 --> 00:45:10.879
 I don't know

00:45:10.879 --> 00:45:11.239
 how to bear

00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:11.839
 but Lord

00:45:11.839 --> 00:45:12.819
 I ask

00:45:12.819 --> 00:45:13.279
 I just

00:45:13.279 --> 00:45:13.879
 I know

00:45:13.879 --> 00:45:14.419
 that you are

00:45:14.419 --> 00:45:14.839
 calling me

00:45:14.839 --> 00:45:15.639
 for compassion

00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:16.480
 in this particular

00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:17.000
 case

00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:17.379
 Lord

00:45:17.379 --> 00:45:20.579
 I come to you

00:45:20.579 --> 00:45:22.139
 help me

00:45:22.139 --> 00:45:23.059
 to bear

00:45:23.059 --> 00:45:23.840
 the cost

00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:24.799
 to show

00:45:24.799 --> 00:45:25.519
 compassion

00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:27.719
 to this person

00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:29.179
 for their

00:45:29.179 --> 00:45:30.079
 true good

00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:31.239
 and your

00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:32.119
 great glory

00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:34.179
 let's stand

00:45:34.179 --> 00:45:41.199
 and let's

00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:41.659
 just pray

00:45:41.659 --> 00:45:46.219
 Father we

00:45:46.219 --> 00:45:47.219
 are so

00:45:47.219 --> 00:45:47.819
 grateful

00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:50.000
 that your

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:50.980
 just anger

00:45:50.980 --> 00:45:51.840
 at the wrong

00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:52.300
 that each

00:45:52.300 --> 00:45:52.800
 one of us

00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:53.380
 has done

00:45:53.380 --> 00:45:54.760
 not that it

00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:55.519
 was disrupted

00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:56.160
 Lord but we're

00:45:56.160 --> 00:45:56.620
 using that

00:45:56.620 --> 00:45:57.440
 language that

00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:58.480
 forgiveness

00:45:58.480 --> 00:45:59.400
 mercy

00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:00.280
 compassion

00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:01.940
 your forgiveness

00:46:01.940 --> 00:46:02.720
 is perfect

00:46:02.720 --> 00:46:03.420
 your mercy

00:46:03.420 --> 00:46:04.140
 is perfect

00:46:04.140 --> 00:46:04.960
 your grace

00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:05.920
 is unfailing

00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:07.120
 your compassion

00:46:07.120 --> 00:46:07.800
 is perfect

00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:08.559
 as is your

00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:09.240
 justice

00:46:09.240 --> 00:46:10.519
 and that you

00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:11.519
 bore the cost

00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:12.380
 Father

00:46:12.380 --> 00:46:15.240
 without

00:46:15.240 --> 00:46:16.180
 injustice

00:46:16.180 --> 00:46:16.700
 becoming

00:46:16.700 --> 00:46:17.160
 justice

00:46:17.160 --> 00:46:17.660
 injustice

00:46:17.660 --> 00:46:18.140
 becoming

00:46:18.140 --> 00:46:18.519
 injustice

00:46:18.519 --> 00:46:18.960
 without

00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:19.840
 any of

00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:20.019
 that

00:46:20.019 --> 00:46:20.420
 happening

00:46:20.420 --> 00:46:20.720
 you

00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:20.960
 bore

00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:21.720
 the cost

00:46:21.720 --> 00:46:22.840
 paid

00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:23.460
 the price

00:46:23.460 --> 00:46:24.140
 to show

00:46:24.140 --> 00:46:24.680
 compassion

00:46:24.680 --> 00:46:25.019
 to me

00:46:25.019 --> 00:46:25.300
 Father

00:46:25.300 --> 00:46:26.260
 we are

00:46:26.260 --> 00:46:27.039
 so grateful

00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:27.680
 grip us

00:46:27.680 --> 00:46:28.140
 Father

00:46:28.140 --> 00:46:29.039
 with the

00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:29.460
 mystery

00:46:29.460 --> 00:46:29.800
 and the

00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:30.140
 wonder

00:46:30.140 --> 00:46:30.640
 of what

00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:31.039
 you did

00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:31.380
 for us

00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:31.660
 on the

00:46:31.660 --> 00:46:32.099
 cross

00:46:32.099 --> 00:46:33.340
 grip us

00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:33.840
 with that

00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:34.180
 Father

00:46:34.180 --> 00:46:34.519
 that it

00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:34.860
 might be

00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:35.640
 that upon

00:46:35.640 --> 00:46:36.140
 which we

00:46:36.140 --> 00:46:36.579
 stand

00:46:36.579 --> 00:46:37.160
 that upon

00:46:37.160 --> 00:46:37.820
 which covers

00:46:37.820 --> 00:46:38.260
 our head

00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:38.780
 that upon

00:46:38.780 --> 00:46:39.240
 which we

00:46:39.240 --> 00:46:39.700
 breathe

00:46:39.700 --> 00:46:41.059
 that which

00:46:41.059 --> 00:46:41.500
 pushes

00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:42.159
 and pulls

00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:42.380
 us

00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:42.940
 and shapes

00:46:42.940 --> 00:46:43.300
 us

00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:44.639
 to live

00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:44.980
 well

00:46:44.980 --> 00:46:45.840
 every day

00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:46.460
 with people

00:46:46.460 --> 00:46:46.960
 for their

00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:47.300
 good

00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:47.719
 and your

00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:48.360
 great glory

00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:48.860
 Father

00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:50.360
 we ask

00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:51.260
 in Jesus'

00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:51.820
 name

00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:52.260
 and all

00:46:52.260 --> 00:46:52.599
 God's

00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:52.820
 people

00:46:52.820 --> 00:46:53.179
 said

00:46:53.179 --> 00:46:54.239
 Amen