1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,480 All right, we're on the last one of Jonah last lesson. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,960 Go ahead and turn to Jonah chapter 4. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,400 Who thought 13 weeks out of Jonah it just it just goes to 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,600 prove that there's a difference between reading God's word and 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,160 studying God's word. You can read Jonah in an 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:28,640 afternoon and and be done. But to study Jonah obviously 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,400 took me 13 weeks. There's a difference. 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,920 And you can get a whole lot more out of the Bible. 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,000 And that's why the Bible says study to show thyself approved, 10 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:40,800 not read. And that's it. 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,800 It says study. But we're here. 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,680 We're at the end of Jonah, Jonah chapter 4. 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:53,360 We're going to start in verse. Well, we'll just start at verse 14 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,080 one. But it displeased Jonah 15 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,640 exceedingly, and he was very angry. 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,240 And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,319 not this my saying when I was yet in my country? 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,560 Therefore I fled before unto Tarsus. 19 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,360 For I knew that thou art a gracious God and a merciful and 20 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,800 merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness and Rep and 21 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,360 repentance the of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take I 22 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,000 beseech thee my life from me, for it is better for me to die 23 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,640 than to live. And here's our our our text for 24 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,280 to the ending of today. Then said the Lord, dost thou do 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,920 well? Yeah, let me say that again. 26 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,600 Then said the Lord, doest thou well to be angry? 27 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,560 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the 28 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,320 city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the 29 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,640 shadow, till he till he might see what would become of the 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,320 city. And the Lord God prepared a 31 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,360 gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a 32 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,120 shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief. 33 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,840 So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd, But God prepared a 34 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,759 worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd 35 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:13,400 that it withered. And it came to pass, when the 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,880 sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement E wind. 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,840 And the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and 38 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,440 wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die 39 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,240 than to live. And God said to Jonah, Doest 40 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,400 thou well to be angry for the gourd? 41 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,600 And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death. 42 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:42,280 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for that 43 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,120 which thou hast not labored, neither made it grow, which came 44 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,480 up in the night and perished in the night. 45 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,840 And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,520 more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern 47 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,080 between the right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle? 48 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,440 We see in the end, Jonah hasn't changed. 49 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:14,280 Jonah's still the same selfish, scornful, bitter man that he 50 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,640 was. That when he started in chapter 51 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:23,040 1, being being disobedient as a as a prophet, not just a child 52 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,760 of God, but as a prophet of God. You, you've probably heard you 53 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,400 make your bed, you're going to lie in it. 54 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,880 You've heard that saying before. That's what we find Jonah. 55 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,080 We find Jonah that he's basically at the same place as 56 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,400 what he was at the beginning. He remains unchanged even though 57 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,600 countless souls have been saved around him and lies have been 58 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,960 changed. The one person that has not is 59 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,720 the one man of God that came to preach to that city. 60 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,560 And sadly, I would almost say that he's more miserable now at 61 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,640 the end than he was when he was in the belly. 62 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,520 He never called for for God to kill him and destroy him and be 63 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,720 done with this when he was in the whale's belly. 64 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,800 But now that he's been redeemed, now that he's been thrown up on 65 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,480 the on the ground, given a second chance, he sees a whole 66 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,360 city have a revival. He's more miserable now than he 67 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,920 was when he was suffocating and trying to stay alive in the 68 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:32,600 Wells Wells belly. I'm afraid that a lot of people 69 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,360 do the same thing that Jonah is doing here. 70 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,880 They make a prison around them without bars. 71 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:45,920 They get so, so enwrapped with hate, with bitterness that they 72 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,600 can't be used of God anymore. With that bitterness, God cannot 73 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,360 use you with that hate towards somebody, a group of people like 74 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,760 here in Nineveh, God couldn't use Jonah anymore. 75 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:05,240 And he tries to in the end, he tries to comfort Jonah, tries to 76 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:07,760 Jonah. I, I know it's bad. 77 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,600 I know what you wanted to happen didn't happen. 78 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:16,240 I can still use you if you get out of this hole that you're in. 79 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:21,240 With this bitterness, he, he grows A gourd for him to, to 80 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:26,720 help shelter him. And then he uses that gourd to, 81 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:32,240 to display what his mercy means and who God is and who really 82 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,880 Jonah is. And sadly, Jonah doesn't get it. 83 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:40,200 Jonah decides, I'm going to stay in this prison that I've made 84 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,120 myself into. I'm going to stay bound in the 85 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,200 bitterness that I've created. And that's where I'm going to 86 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,200 stay. And that's why we find nothing 87 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,600 else about Jonah. We don't hear Jonah too. 88 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,680 We don't hear about Jonah being talked about in all the other 89 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,760 prophets in their books. Jonah's done after Nineveh. 90 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,080 Let's pray and we'll we'll look at this painful prison that 91 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:10,080 Jonah puts himself into and why I think God puts this book in 92 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,080 his word for us to see and to reflect on. 93 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,280 Don't be like Jonah. Don't let the bitterness get a 94 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:21,640 hold of you so much that you can't get over it and you can't 95 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,400 be used to God anymore. Let's pray and we'll get into 96 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,760 this lesson. Heavenly Father, I thank you so 97 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:31,000 much for this morning for having a a place to come worship you, 98 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,480 open your word and and learn what you have for each and every 99 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,160 one of us. Lord, I just pray that your name 100 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,680 be lifted up and you be glorified through everything 101 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,800 that happens this morning. I do pray that you help us to 102 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:48,120 understand that Jonah is no different than us, that that 103 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,320 we're not above what Jonah has done and that we're not above 104 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,760 being just like Jonah, but that we need to change and, and put 105 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,720 our trust in and in our our lives and our emotions in your 106 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,040 hands and to not stay like Jonah. 107 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,600 I pray that you be glorified through it all. 108 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:13,000 Jesus name I pray, Amen. Look there in verse 4 of chapter 109 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,280 4 then said the Lord doest thou well to be angry and later on 110 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:24,840 Jonah replies and he says and he said, I do well to be angry even 111 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,160 unto death. It's it's amazing how God has 112 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:35,560 been merciful, gracious, slow to anger and plenteous of mercy put 113 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,880 on Jonah and yet he remains disgusted in spirit. 114 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,000 He he gets the the second chance out of the belly. 115 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,560 He gets all the second chances, all the mercy that God shows him 116 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,040 he could have again. God could have just left him in 117 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,960 the sea to drown. God could have left him in the 118 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,600 whale's belly to be digested and be done. 119 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,960 God could have had him thrown up on land and said I'm done with 120 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,280 you. But God continues to give Jonah 121 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:15,480 mercy and show him his mercy. And yet, through all the grace 122 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,920 that God gives me, Jonah Dota doesn't care. 123 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,080 Jonah is, he has an incorrigible attitude towards these people of 124 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,440 Nineveh and ultimately towards the people towards God, 125 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,520 ultimately because he blames God for see this. 126 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,120 I already knew you were going to do this. 127 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,120 Why did you send me and do all this? 128 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,280 Why'd you make me come here when I knew you were going to repent 129 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,360 of this? You weren't going to follow 130 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,000 through because you're a merciful God. 131 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,080 OK, we already talked about that. 132 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,920 You, you're on shaky ground, Jonah. 133 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,160 Just go do what God told you to do. 134 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:56,080 Fine, I'll go do it. I go preach in Nineveh, but he 135 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,000 has that spirit on him that attitude. 136 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,760 Proverbs 2027 says this the spirit of a man is the candle of 137 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,000 the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly. 138 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,920 It's it's said that attitude determines your altitude and 139 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:19,560 here in this, this, this disgusted spirit, this this bad 140 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:24,640 attitude that Jonah has God had can't use him. 141 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,280 He has no value to be used by God. 142 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,000 He says I'm just let me die, I'm done. 143 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,160 I don't care about my life anymore, Just let me be done and 144 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,320 I'm out of here. And the most dangerous thing 145 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,960 about an evil spirit is that it's a contagious spirit. 146 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,400 It when we talk in the New Testament a little Levin 147 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:51,600 Lemonth, the whole thing. It's it's something that I think 148 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,560 that's one of the reasons why God grew the gourd tried to get 149 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,160 Jonah to get out of this state, because you just have an entire 150 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:08,400 city newly converted, ripe to harvest, ready to be discipled 151 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,360 and to be to be grazed up. And Jonah could have easily went 152 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,280 in there and made things go the wrong way. 153 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,920 And I think God uses this at the end, trying to get Jonah to say, 154 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,000 leave this alone. I'm going to try to help you. 155 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,280 I'm going to try to get you back out of this, but I can't let you 156 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:33,040 be by these new converts. A new Christian is the worst 157 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,240 thing a new Christian can do is go on YouTube and start watching 158 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,320 a bunch of videos because they'll find everything and 159 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,760 anything under the sun and, and they'll be they'll have one 160 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,400 verse for it. They won't have the whole Bible 161 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,160 for whatever they find. But all of a sudden they turn 162 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,960 into praying that God would kill all the the homosexual people 163 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,560 and kill all these heathens. And hold on. 164 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,200 It's not, not what the word of God talks about. 165 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,560 Well, that's what. And he'll, he'll go off on a 166 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:05,880 tangent. And that plant that was ready to 167 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,600 be grown is now not able to be used. 168 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:15,280 And I think God uses the ending of Jonah to try to pull Jonah 169 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:20,520 out, get him away from his new children before something wrong 170 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,640 happens. Proverbs 29 eight says scornful 171 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:31,120 men bring a city into a snare. James says it this way. 172 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,560 But if ye have a bitter envying and a strife in your hearts, 173 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,840 glory not and lie not against the truth. 174 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,560 The wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, 175 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:46,000 devilish. For where envying and strife is, 176 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 there is confusion and every evil work. 177 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,360 Paul said it this way in Romans. Now I beseech you, therefore, 178 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:00,280 brethren, mark them which cause division and offenses contrary 179 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,600 to the doctrine which he have learned, and avoid them. 180 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,400 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their 181 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:14,600 own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts 182 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:20,800 of the simple. He has the wrong attitude. 183 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,800 The other thing look at Well, we'll get there. 184 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,720 Jonah builds bars around himself. 185 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:36,000 That's why I this is a prison. Proverbs 522 says it this way. 186 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,720 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall 187 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,200 be Holden with the cords of his sins. 188 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,680 Romans 6 says, Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourself 189 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:53,720 servants to obey his servants? Ye are to whom ye obey, whether 190 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,400 of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. 191 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,400 The way Jonah's at, where he's at in this position is brought 192 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,360 on to himself. It's brought on to himself. 193 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,640 There's no, no reason if, if a normal person would come in and 194 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,120 say, oh wow, look at that city. And here comes a prophet and he 195 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,720 declares that the city is going to be destroyed because of their 196 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,000 evilness and wickedness. And then they repent and get 197 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,280 right with God. The reaction to a normal person 198 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,720 would be praise God, look at what God did. 199 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,400 But Jonah's here sitting so angry and stewing about this. 200 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,440 It's like you, you can play with Sin for a little while, and it's 201 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,080 like getting a Python. I don't know why anybody would 202 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,280 get a snake as a pet, but whatever. 203 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,000 A baby Python is fun to play. No, it's not. 204 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,840 But you can play with a baby Python. 205 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,600 A little, little thing doesn't do much. 206 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,480 But just like Sin, that Python is going to grow and it's going 207 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,920 to get to a point where it can wrap itself around you. 208 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:06,600 And Jonah is in the spot where, just like Acts says in 8/30/23. 209 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:12,200 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in 210 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,120 the bond of iniquity. You can get so wrapped up in 211 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,920 your sin that you can't get out. You're so focused on yourself. 212 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,480 You're so focused on that bitterness inside. 213 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:27,920 His attitude was just beyond what a normal person should 214 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,120 think of as a Christian. Look at verse 5. 215 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,960 So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the 216 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,600 city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the 217 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:45,120 shadow till he might see what would become of that city. 218 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:55,840 Through this book, we see one thing, even when when Jonah's in 219 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,400 the fox, I call it the the belly of the whale, he prays that 220 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,040 foxhole prayer of please Get Me Out of this. 221 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,840 I don't want to be in this situation. 222 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:06,120 Get Me Out. Save me. 223 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,960 The sad thing is, nothing's changed in Jonah's heart from 224 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,360 chapter 1 to Chapter 4. He's still doing that, which was 225 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,240 right in his own eyes. I don't want to go to Nineveh 226 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,240 because I hate them, because look at the wickedness. 227 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,680 I don't want to go there. Fine, God, I'll go. 228 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:28,520 There does goes and does it. Now God repents and they have 229 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:33,040 mercy from God and he decides not to destroy him. 230 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,760 And now Jonah's mad about it. Revival always brings joy. 231 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:45,320 Turn, turn to Acts, Acts 5, Hold your finger and Jonah turn to 232 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,680 Acts 5. No, Acts 8. 233 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:56,880 Sorry, Verse 5. Then Philip went down into the 234 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,240 city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 235 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,960 And the people with 1 accord gave heed unto those things 236 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,160 which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did 237 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,160 for unclean spirits, crying with loud voices, came out of many 238 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,360 that were possessed with them and lick. 239 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:21,560 Let's look at this. And many taken with palsies and 240 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:27,080 were lame were healed, and there was great joy in that city. 241 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,640 You know what I think Nineveh sounded like after they found 242 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:37,000 out God had mercy upon them? I'm I'm pretty sure everybody 243 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,680 was really quite happy. We're not going to get 244 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,240 destroyed. We're not going to be 245 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,200 annihilated and wiped off the face of the planet. 246 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,560 I'm pretty sure they were pretty happy about that. 247 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:52,080 Revival brings joy and that same spirit that was in with Philip 248 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,840 in Samaria. By the way, Philip going to 249 00:16:54,840 --> 00:17:01,720 Samaria, same idea as Jonah going to Nineveh, who Philip was 250 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,880 a Jew. Samaria was a the enemy the the 251 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:11,040 city that they hated. Jonah was a Jew, Nineveh was the 252 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,960 enemy, the city they hated. But yet Philip still goes. 253 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,880 We don't ever read about Philip going into the belly of the 254 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,079 whale. We don't ever hear about any of 255 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:23,280 that. But no doubt there was the same 256 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:28,200 type of spirit of enjoyment of happiness in Nineveh after 257 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:33,040 hearing it's not going to be destroyed because of our our our 258 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:38,280 turning from our repentance, our changing to towards God. 259 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:44,400 God's showing mercy. There's joy in the joy in 260 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,240 Christian life does not come because of what we know. 261 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,160 First Corinthians says knowledge puffeth up. 262 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,080 The joy is a result of what we do with those things that we 263 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,240 know to be true. John says it this way. 264 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,920 If you know these things, happy are ye if you do them. 265 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:09,680 A lack of joy is always a result in a lack of obedience. 266 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:15,440 You you have a whole city revival and you have one man 267 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:23,200 pouting out on the east side. Not only is he upset in his mind 268 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:28,840 that God had treated them unfairly got God you, you, you 269 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,720 got basically they got off Scott free. 270 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:37,440 Proverbs 634 says, For jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore 271 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,000 he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 272 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,960 He will not regard any ransom, neither will he will he rest 273 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,440 content, though thou give us many gifts. 274 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,880 Song of Solomon says it this way. 275 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,720 Jealousy is cruel as the grave. The coals thereof are coals of 276 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,760 fire, which have hath a most vehement flame. 277 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,160 But then look at what? Turn back to Jonah, look at what 278 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,080 he does. He is just God has said that I'm 279 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,960 not going to destroy it. And even though Jonah has just 280 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:18,760 to me gotten bold and said stuff to God that he should never have 281 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,400 saved, should never say to God using God's attributes as that's 282 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,640 why it's bad. That's why you're doing this 283 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,880 because you're merciful. OK, thanks. 284 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,720 You're you're you're it just doesn't make sense. 285 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,440 But look at verse 5, even after learning all this, Jonah. 286 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,760 So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the 287 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,680 city, and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shadow. 288 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,040 Why? Till he might see what would 289 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,880 become of the city. Even though God has basically 290 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,600 told me that, that He's repented of the evil and he's not going 291 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,480 to destroy it, I'm still going to see if it's going to happen. 292 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,240 I hope it's still, I hope one thing comes down and does this. 293 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,760 Really, Jonah? You're so bitter and mad about 294 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,960 this. You pitch a tent, It says a 295 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,000 booth, a booth. That same word is the same word 296 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,400 that's used as the Tabernacle or tents. 297 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,840 It's, it's not that he just like finds a tree and sits under it. 298 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,360 He builds a tent. I'm going to pitch my tent here 299 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,320 and I'm going to watch this city burn. 300 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,360 Jonah, you're you're missing the point. 301 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,280 God's the the good thing is God's word is obey when it's 302 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,440 obeyed. God has a biblical track record. 303 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,400 Aren't you glad that he forgives and forgets? 304 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,520 He's not like Jonah where he proclaims and I'm still going to 305 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,560 come over here and watch and see if it's going to happen. 306 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:51,400 I hope it does man. I'll tell you one of them says 1 307 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,800 bad word. God's going to rain fire down. 308 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:59,800 I can't wait. God Forgives and forgets as far 309 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:05,880 as the east is from the West with this gourd. 310 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:10,240 Look, look there in verse 6. And the Lord God prepared a 311 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,160 gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a 312 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,040 shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief. 313 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,400 So Jonah was exceeding glad of his of the gourd, But God 314 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,920 prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote 315 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,400 the gourd that it withered. And it came to pass, when the 316 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,960 sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement E wind. 317 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:37,640 And the sun beat up on the head of Jonah, that he fainted. 318 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:42,000 And he wished himself to die, and said, It is better for me to 319 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,480 die than to live. And God said unto Jonah, Doest 320 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,880 thou well to be angry for the gourd? 321 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,920 And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death. 322 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,320 Jonah's glad for the gourd. Don't don't. 323 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,240 He's it even says he's glad for having that gourd grown and 324 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,360 giving him more shelter and more shade. 325 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,560 But he never recognizes this from God. 326 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:12,080 He never, never sees it as a gift or a mercy from God. 327 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,480 He just great, there's a gourd here. 328 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,960 So happy there's a gourd here. I don't know why you would just 329 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,880 randomly think I'm sitting in this plot and a gourd fully 330 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,320 grown and a big leaf comes out of nowhere. 331 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,280 Don't recognize that's from God, but he doesn't care. 332 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:34,240 He's so focused on his hate for the city, but he was not 333 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,680 grateful for the gourd or God who provided for it. 334 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,800 He's the missing characteristic of Jonah is thankfulness. 335 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,760 He's not thankful for what God has done for him. 336 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:55,440 Again, I disobey, flee to Tarsus, totally against what God 337 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,800 wants me to do. God puts a storm that's going to 338 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,360 destroy the ship. God saves the me out of the 339 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,680 storm, puts me in the belly of the whale. 340 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,880 I get out of the belly of the whale on dry ground, still 341 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,120 alive, still breathing. God gives me a second chance to 342 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,360 get to Nineveh and to proclaim what He wants me to do. 343 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,080 And even though I am so mad about doing this, I do it. 344 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:32,680 I go and declare. And then God sees a miracle 345 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:33,840 happen. Or no. 346 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,120 Jonah sees a miracle happen and they repent of their evil. 347 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,520 They're there. They change and are lit 348 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,320 insurance. Technically they're saved. 349 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,440 They change, they repent. They were going this way and 350 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,280 they repent and go a different direction, not knowing if they 351 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,560 got if God was still going to destroy him. 352 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,920 The king didn't do it because, oh, if we do this, we'll get 353 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,600 away and then we go back to doing what we want to do. 354 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,160 Oh, they repented not knowing if that was going to save them. 355 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,640 And God shows a miracle to Jonah that the entire city has 356 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,480 revival. I don't, I don't remember quite 357 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:18,640 many other parts in the Old Testament of a whole city having 358 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,840 revival and Jonah gets to be a part of it. 359 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,120 But he's missing that characteristic of being thankful 360 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:33,200 for what God's doing. Check through the entire book 361 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:39,680 of, of Jonah, find anywhere that he's thankful or he says, thank 362 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,400 you, Lord, thank you. It's not in there. 363 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,760 He wasn't thankful for God's will in his life for being able 364 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,240 to be called a prophet. He wasn't thankful for the 365 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,000 chastisement that God brought his way because of his dis, his 366 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,280 disobedience. He's not thankful for the second 367 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,200 chance that God gives him after he's been thrown up out of the 368 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,680 whale's belly. He's not thankful for the 369 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,880 revival of Nineveh. And then we see a gourd 370 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,240 instantly grow and shade Jonah, and he's not even thankful to 371 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:20,320 God for that. If we don't have a gratitude 372 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,440 attitude, all we have is an attitude. 373 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,960 If if we're not grateful for what God has done in our life, 374 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:34,520 the good, the bad, to bring you to where you are, you're not 375 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,680 grateful for what God's done for you. 376 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:42,320 God puts things in your life. The fact that you're sitting 377 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:47,000 here in America, you should be grateful for the fact that 378 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,240 you're sitting in a church that preaches what this Bible says 379 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,440 and not what I think and what I just want to say, and pastors 380 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,120 leading it to just come up, get baptized and all the false 381 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,280 stuff. That's all in this country, in 382 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,400 this shallow Christianity. But you have a solid church that 383 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,600 you're in. You should be grateful for God 384 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,880 for that. Be thankful that you have what 385 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:16,560 you have, even when it comes to you have cancer, your loved one 386 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:22,240 passed away, this happened. God, I thank you for what you've 387 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,680 done in my life because if you don't, you're going to end up 388 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,840 like Jonah so many times. And I've watched it where 389 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,000 somebody dies in the family and the family, the kids get so 390 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:39,120 bitter to God, so mad that God took them away from me. 391 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,560 And they changed their entire life in the trajectory that God 392 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,400 had for them because they can't understand God has a plan and 393 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,440 God's will is perfect, but they don't understand that and they 394 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,840 won't get out of being bitter. And so they are in the same 395 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,600 position that Jonah's in. They can't get out of the 396 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,600 they're wrapped up in their own iniquity. 397 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,880 I can't get over being mad at God. 398 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:13,080 Romans one lists some pretty despicable sins in verse verses 399 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:18,440 26 to 31 and the people that says this, they describe these 400 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,720 people who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit 401 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,280 such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have 402 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,800 pleasure in them that do them this. 403 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,440 These people have gotten so much that they they know who God is. 404 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:41,120 They know what God says don't do this and then they laugh in the 405 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,240 the punishment to scorn. How does that person get to that 406 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,560 condition? How do you get so bad that you 407 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,720 understand I shouldn't do this, but boy, I love doing it. 408 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,600 I don't care what the consequences are. 409 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,080 I love doing this sin. It says it in that earlier in 410 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:04,600 that verse because that when they knew God, they gloried him 411 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,560 not as God. Neither were thankful. 412 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,800 Just knowing God and knowing what his books says doesn't do 413 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,400 anything for you. There's a lot of people that 414 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,040 know of God and know of what the word of God says. 415 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,040 And no, I know the 10 commandments and I shouldn't do 416 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,280 these things, but I still do them and I still hang out with 417 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,760 those guys that curse and takes God's name in vain and do 418 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,000 everything in this book that says don't do. 419 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,560 And I, I have fun with them. How do you get to that point? 420 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:44,160 They know God, they glory him not as God, neither were they 421 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,560 thankful without a thankful heart of what God has done for 422 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,800 you, what God's put in your life, how God's used your life. 423 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,320 Be careful, Christian, because you're going to end up just like 424 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,840 them. You're going to backslide so 425 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,840 much that you're going to know what you should and you 426 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,840 shouldn't do. But it doesn't matter. 427 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,280 I'm still going to do whatever I want to do. 428 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:15,200 God's mercy will cover it. Do you know who God is? 429 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,760 Is he the God in your life? Or like Jonah, are you trying to 430 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:26,360 be your own God? I'll end it with this look at 431 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:33,280 verse 10 of Jonah. Ford then said, the Lord, thou 432 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,880 has had pity on the gourd, for the which thou has not labored, 433 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,160 neither made us that grow which came up in a night and perished 434 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,400 in the night. And should I not spare Nineveh, 435 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:51,200 that great city wherein are more than 6 core score thousand 436 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,640 persons that cannot discern between the right hand and their 437 00:29:54,640 --> 00:30:01,960 left hand, and also much cattle? God close closes this book with 438 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:07,920 a reminding to us and to Jonah of who God is and what his mercy 439 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:14,640 is. Perhaps we're like Jonah, we 440 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,760 know. And yeah, did Nineveh deserve to 441 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,040 be destroyed? Most definitely. 442 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,560 Did Nineveh not deserve God's mercy? 443 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,480 No. And I think that's one of the 444 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,120 biggest reasons why God has preserved this book in here 445 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,640 because I mean, of all the books, this is the an odd 1. 446 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:45,280 You have a prophet of God that is basically the most 447 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,800 disobedient and and almost reminds me of it. 448 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,920 If Samson almost almost like Samson, you're a judge. 449 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,040 OK, I'm going to do everything I'm told not to do and take a 450 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,040 vow. Then I'm going to do everything 451 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,400 against it. Jonah's the same way, because 452 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:09,920 God's trying to show you and us God's mercy is available to all. 453 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,040 Even in the end, even after Jonah has spoken to God the way 454 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,640 that he has, he still tries to show mercy. 455 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,200 Then Jonah still tries to draw his child to him. 456 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,320 The truth is, Jonah didn't deserve mercy. 457 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,840 Nineveh didn't deserve mercy. We don't deserve mercy either, 458 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,000 Titus 35 says. Not by works of righteousness 459 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,800 which we have done, but court according to His mercy. 460 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,560 He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the 461 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,680 Holy Ghost. Lamentations says it is of the 462 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,760 Lord's mercy that we are not consumed. 463 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,760 First Corinthians says by the grace of God I am what I am. 464 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:04,760 This little book. 4 chapters God's trying to point out and 465 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,960 show us there's two ways you can be as a Christian. 466 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,760 You can either be a bitter Christian or you can get better, 467 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,000 but it's your choice. God gave Jonah many 468 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,440 opportunities all right Jonah, what what's the best thing that 469 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,240 could happen to you as a prophet? 470 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,560 What what's the best thing as a preacher that that could happen, 471 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,440 that you would just be ecstatic with joy. 472 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,400 Every person you just preached to get saved, an entire city 473 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,920 turns to God. Wow, I'll get him out of this. 474 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,200 He's been disobedient. I'll give him a second chance. 475 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:52,440 Just watch Jonah just get ready to be wowed and it happens. 476 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,520 And Jonah's decides I'm going to stay bitter instead of being 477 00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:00,840 getting better and going to say they didn't deserve that. 478 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,160 Me going through a ship with that's about to have a 479 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:11,000 shipwreck, going into the whale's belly, getting redeemed 480 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,600 and getting mercy every. I deserve that. 481 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,000 That's what I'm I'm a prophet of God. 482 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,680 I'm supposed to have that. We can get to the point where we 483 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,320 think we deserve stuff because we're a Christian, because I 484 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,840 dress right, because I act right and I say stuff right. 485 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,040 You don't deserve anything because you're a heathen. 486 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,800 That's what Jonah's like. Don't be a Jonah. 487 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,400 Be somebody that understands, like Philip. 488 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:49,960 God calls him to a city that as a Jew, no, no, thank you, Lord. 489 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,440 I'm not going there. I'll stay with the I'll stay in 490 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,680 Jerusalem. I'll preach to them. 491 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:01,320 God calls Philip to go to Samaria and to tell them about 492 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,440 him, and he does it, and he obeys. 493 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,920 And look at the joy that happens because of it. 494 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,440 The song says. Marvellous grace of our loving 495 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,800 Lord, grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt. 496 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,080 Yonder on Calvary's mount out poured there where the blood of 497 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:25,480 the Lamb was spilled. Grace, grace God's grace, grace 498 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,760 that will pardon and cleanse within. 499 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:33,600 Grace, grace, God's grace, grace that is greater than all our 500 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,679 sin. He died on the cross for you, 501 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,719 but he also died on the cross for every single person out 502 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,880 there. Every person that hates what 503 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,239 God's done, every person that hates everything this church 504 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,920 stands for, God died for them. Don't get bitter at them. 505 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,240 Be like Philip and preach to them because they need 506 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,960 salvation. And if we have the same idea as 507 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,720 Jonah is and we're like Jonah, we have the bitterness in US. 508 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,880 God can't use you. God couldn't use Jonah anymore 509 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,600 because Jonah wouldn't get out of being bitter against Nineveh 510 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,320 and against God. Don't be like Jonah. 511 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,520 Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you so 512 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,200 much for your word for for all the examples that you've 513 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:32,360 preserved for us to see and to read God just to to show the way 514 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,480 that we should not be, but more importantly, to show us who you 515 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:42,800 really are and to show us who we really are in in accordance and 516 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,200 against what everything that you've done. 517 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,680 You still loved us enough to save us. 518 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,160 God, I pray that we just take the mercy that you've given us 519 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:59,280 and show it to others and not be bitter about the what you choose 520 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,000 to do in this world. And that we trust that your will 521 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,360 is perfect and and that your will will be perfect in coming 522 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,320 out to be what you need it to be. 523 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,400 And that we just be obedient and be thankful for what you've done 524 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,000 in our lives. I pray that you be with Brother 525 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,800 Brian as he brings the message this morning filling with your 526 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,720 spirit and I pray that our hearts be opened and our ears be 527 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,080 opened to be hearing from your word and Lord that we change not 528 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,920 the same way that we came in, but we changed. 529 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,680 As we leave closer to you and getting things right with you to 530 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,520 be able to be used by you and to please you. 531 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,560 I thank you for all that you do. In Jesus name I pray. 532 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,320 Amen.