1 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,239 All right. I got worried there. 2 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,280 I thought everybody was getting tired of Jonah, so they didn't 3 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,520 come for Sunday school. Go ahead and turn in your Bibles 4 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:27,600 to Jonah chapter 3, Jonah chapter 3, and we'll start in. 5 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,960 Verse 5. We're towards the end. 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,160 This is lesson 10 of 13 SO. After today we got. 7 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,560 Three more weeks. A Jonah. 8 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,000 And then we'll be done with Jonah. 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,080 But I want to. Look at the. 10 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:49,400 Process of justification. Is what we see here in chapter 3 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,120 verse. 5. Start in verse five. 12 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,160 So the people of Nineveh. Believed. 13 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,640 God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the. 14 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,360 Greatest of them? Even to the least of them. 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,400 For the word. Came under the king of Nineveh, 16 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,600 and he arose from the throne, and he laid his robe from him, 17 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,560 and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,880 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,200 Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,680 neither man nor beast heard, nor flock taste anything. 21 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:26,560 Let them not feed nor drink water. 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,240 Now that's a. Fast. 23 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,280 No, now you can't even have water. 24 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,440 Talk about a fast right there, but let. 25 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,440 Man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,800 God. Yeah, let them turn everyone 27 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,360 from his evil way and from the violence that is in it in their 28 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,040 hands who can. Tell if God. 29 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,080 Will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that 30 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:56,000 we perish not and God. Saw their works that they. 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Turned from their evil. Way. 32 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,680 And God repented of the. Evil that he had said that he 33 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,640 would do. Unto them and he did it not. 34 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,400 God is always. Looking for a repentant Sinner? 35 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,440 He's always looking. Oh, there's a fan. 36 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,720 I was like, I put my hand down. Here, and I'll say it was cold. 37 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,440 Hold on, that's going to screw me. 38 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:22,960 That feels weird. All right, sorry. 39 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,560 I put my hand down. It got cold for a second. 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,120 Anyways, God is. Always looking for a repentant 41 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,960 Sinner. He's always looking like. 42 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,800 We've talked about the the prodigal. 43 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,600 Son and the Father. He's always. 44 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,360 Looking for his son and daughter to return. 45 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,480 He's also looking for the Sinner that's lost to come home. 46 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,280 God made everyone. God made the lost and the saved. 47 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,640 So just because they're saved. And coming home. 48 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,480 Doesn't make that relationship any more important than a Sinner 49 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,600 coming home. God is looking. 50 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,480 For his. Children to come home, Micah, 51 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,040 718, says. Who is? 52 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,240 A God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passes 53 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,160 by the transgression of the remnant. 54 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,040 Of his heritage he. Retaineth not his anger. 55 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,880 Forever because he delighteth. In Mercy. 56 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,320 God. Delights in mercy. 57 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,640 But repentance is more than just kneeling down and saying I'm 58 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:24,560 sorry for everything I did. The repentance is more than just 59 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,440 a one time prayer. Please. 60 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,600 Forgive me Lord of blanket everything, I'm not going to 61 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,840 change, but please forgive me of those sins. 62 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,880 And Pastor said it many times. When we do the Lord's Supper of 63 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,840 of taking. The Lord's Supper unworthily, 64 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,160 and he talks. About. 65 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,760 How Judas was there? At the table. 66 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,360 Even says is it I? And and kisses him and does 67 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,600 everything and sounds like he's just one of the other disciples. 68 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,520 But we know. In his heart, he's. 69 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,600 Just going about to go out. And to portray Jesus. 70 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,040 There's a difference between lip service and a heart service. 71 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,880 There's a change in your life and that's what repentance is. 72 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,960 It's a change. It's not a. 73 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,920 Oops, I got. Caught sorry, forgive me and I'm 74 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,360 just. Going to keep going and doing 75 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,560 what I've been doing. It's a. 76 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,399 Change of direction you. Know that what you did. 77 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:24,040 Is wrong and it is sin, and you ask for forgiveness, not just so 78 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,360 that you can get that sin cleansed. 79 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,600 But that you. Change your direction. 80 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,160 You're not walking in the same. Direction. 81 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,680 Proverbs 2813 says. He that covereth his. 82 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,840 Sins shall not. Prosper, but. 83 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:42,640 Whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. 84 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,680 So I want to look at this. Justification. 85 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:47,200 What? What did Nineveh? 86 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,000 Do that, God said after God has said. 87 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,840 In chapter 1, arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and 88 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:00,640 cry up against it, for their wickedness is come up before me, 89 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,360 so much so that I'm going to destroy it in 40. 90 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:10,400 Days to, then at. The end of chapter 3 and God saw 91 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,520 their. Works that they had. 92 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,120 Turned from their evil way and God repented. 93 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,760 Of the evil that he had said he would do unto. 94 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,520 Them. What change that made God? 95 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:21,480 Go. I forgive you. 96 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,760 And I'm going to change what I'm going to do for you. 97 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,680 It's this. Justification that not just. 98 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:31,120 The loss has the. Ability to do. 99 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,520 I think a lot of Christians. Need to learn from? 100 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,560 It this example of what Nineveh? Did to get. 101 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,800 Right with God. Let's pray and we'll get into 102 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,520 the lesson. Heavenly Father, I thank you for 103 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,840 this morning. God, I thank you for this week 104 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:46,800 that you've given us the the protection that you. 105 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,840 Gave us the the opportunities to talk about you. 106 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,120 I pray that you help us to. Listen. 107 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,840 To our classes. This morning and listen to your 108 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,320 word and what you have for each and every one of us. 109 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,280 God, I pray that through your word, we. 110 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:04,320 See what Nineveh did to get a hold of your attention. 111 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,280 To get a hold. Of your heart to understand that 112 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,440 there's a judgment coming because of our sin and that even 113 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:14,440 though. We're saved. 114 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,840 There's still a punishment, and it may not be hell, but it it's 115 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,480 punishment here and I. Pray that we learn. 116 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,520 From Nineveh, from this. Example that you've. 117 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,880 Given us of an entire city being able to turn from their wicked. 118 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,680 Way and be. Able to get forgiveness for 119 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,920 their sins. I pray that we we take it as an 120 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,080 example. Of how we should deal with our. 121 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,240 Sin and how? We should deal with. 122 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,400 Getting right with you, I pray. That you be glorified. 123 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,000 Through it all, in Jesus name I pray, Amen. 124 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:47,840 Job said it asked this. Question in job 9, how should a 125 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:50,960 man be? Just with God later. 126 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:52,840 On in chapter 20. Five, he says. 127 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,920 How? Then can man be? 128 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,360 Justified with God. Or how can he be clean that is 129 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,800 born of a woman, behold even to the moon, and it shineth not? 130 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,000 Yeah, the. Stars are not pure in his sight. 131 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,320 How much less, man? That is a worm. 132 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,800 And the Son of Man, which is a. Worm. 133 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,400 You see, our only hope of ever finding forgiveness from. 134 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,440 God is through Christ. Romans. 51 says therefore. 135 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,760 Being justified by faith. We have peace with. 136 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,200 God through our Lord Jesus Christ, so the. 137 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,080 First thing we see there in. Chapter 3, verse 5 is so the 138 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,240 people. Of Nineveh believed God. 139 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,360 Notice they didn't say they believed Jonah what he was 140 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,560 telling. Them was true, they went to the 141 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,680 source of the problem. They went to the. 142 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,240 Source of their solution. And it was God. 143 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,640 Faith is the first. Thing that starts in an 144 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,880 unbeliever. Faith is the first. 145 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,880 Thing that gets somebody to realize my sin and I I have a 146 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,360 sin problem. I have a sin nature and yes, 147 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,320 it's with my. Fellow brother, but it's. 148 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,560 Ultimately with God, that's. Who I I. 149 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:09,400 Have my account. Recorded against is God. 150 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,120 Not to those around us, not to. Our family, our friends and 151 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,480 stuff that we. Sin against and and those that 152 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,320 we don't even know. But it's to God. 153 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,520 Ultimately and they. Go. 154 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,560 Straight to the problem. They go straight to the. 155 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,400 Solution. So the people of Nineveh. 156 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,680 Believed God it takes. Faith. 157 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:35,400 And unlike religion, faith is putting our trust in God, not in 158 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,559 in. What we think or what we know? 159 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,320 Of because everybody has. Faith. 160 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,000 When you sat down in the chair. You had faith it would hold you 161 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,480 up. Some of us might question it 162 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,480 first. Before we did it, but we didn't 163 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,320 check the bolts. We didn't check all the. 164 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,000 Screws to make Brian. Sure, he. 165 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,520 Got it all together before everybody showed up. 166 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:55,880 We just. Plopped down and sat. 167 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,160 In it assuming that. It's all. 168 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,680 Good you had. Faith, even those that are 169 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:00,640 unsaved. Have. 170 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,240 Faith. They have faith. 171 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,480 When they get in their car that they're going to turn the key 172 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,480 and it's just going to start. They don't go around. 173 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,920 And check the spark plugs. Some people do some they don't 174 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,280 go check the oil, they don't go check the exhaust, they don't do 175 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,440 all those things before they get in the car and start it. 176 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,240 They just get in the car and start it and then when it 177 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,600 doesn't they go whoa. What? 178 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,880 Happened. They have faith in things. 179 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,360 The difference is there's an obligation of faith. 180 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,840 It's not an option in this word. There's there's no option of 181 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,320 having faith or not having. Faith if you want to have. 182 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,960 A home in heaven. If you want to be saved, there's 183 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,520 no option. It's not one of many options. 184 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,800 It's not one of many. Choices to have. 185 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,840 Peace with God. Define. 186 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,320 Forgiveness. Faith is. 187 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,000 Is a requirement Romans? Three says therefore. 188 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,400 We conclude that a man is. Justified by faith without the 189 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,200 deeds of the. Law, the Apostle Paul. 190 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,120 I guess probably I would say that. 191 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,400 Attempted and accomplished more for God than anybody else in 192 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,160 history. His resume is. 193 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,400 Filled with things that we could. 194 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,440 Never even come close to but he says it this way in Philippians 195 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,640 39 and be found in him not having mine own righteousness. 196 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,440 Which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of. 197 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,920 Christ, the righteousness. Which is of God by faith as. 198 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,480 Christians, we understand. That. 199 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,960 Salvation is through faith alone. 200 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,280 But yet, if we believe that for faith, for our salvation, why is 201 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,720 it so hard to live by faith? We take it for. 202 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,600 Granted that I need. Faith to get saved. 203 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:48,880 But after I get. Saved. 204 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,640 I don't need faith. Anymore I can just live my life 205 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,560 the way I want to live, Luke 18-8 says. 206 00:10:55,560 --> 00:11:00,480 Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith 207 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:06,080 on the earth? That's at the end time. 208 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:07,760 That's when he comes. Back. 209 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,280 Shall he find faith? On the Earth. 210 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,480 What's your life? Today, if it's not with faith, 211 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,640 what's your salvation? If it's not with. 212 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,480 Faith, What's your separation without? 213 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,640 Faith, What's you're? Trying to live holy. 214 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,400 Without faith, what's your doing any good? 215 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,240 Thing if it's not. With faith. 216 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,040 You have an. Obligation to have faith. 217 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,080 But there's a specific object of that faith. 218 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,800 Many people, like we said, have faith they have faith in. 219 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,800 Themselves, they have faith in their job. 220 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,240 They have faith in their bank. Account they have faith. 221 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,880 In their government or their other people around them. 222 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,520 But the people of Nineveh realize. 223 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:58,040 Where they had to put their faith, it was they had to 224 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,320 believe God. We as. 225 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,000 Christians have to remind. Ourselves every. 226 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,480 Single day that you. Cannot live this. 227 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,360 Christian life without faith. You can't. 228 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,280 Start every day just. Trying. 229 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,120 To get through it. You have to have a. 230 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,320 Reliance on God we. I read this. 231 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,560 Verse earlier in the in in the. Series and stuff. 232 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,000 But John chapter 15, verse 5, the ending of that verse. 233 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,360 Says for without. Me you can do. 234 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,240 Nothing not you can do. Most of the things. 235 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:33,920 Or you can do. The. 236 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,640 Easy stuff, God says. For without. 237 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,520 Me you can do. Nothing. 238 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,280 We have to have. Our object of faith. 239 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,960 In him. To be able to do. 240 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,600 Anything in this world, and that's what we see here in 241 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,120 Nineveh. Is what they did. 242 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,200 They put their. Faith in God. 243 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,520 So. The people of Nineveh. 244 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,280 Believed God. The next thing we. 245 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,680 See is they? Fasted look. 246 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:01,120 There in the rest. Of that verse. 247 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,080 And proclaimed a fast and put on. 248 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,400 Sackcloth. From the greatest of them even 249 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:08,400 to the. Least of them. 250 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,760 And they? Skip a little. 251 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,160 And he? Caused it to be. 252 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,920 Proclaimed and published talking about the king through Nineveh. 253 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,640 By the. Decree of the king and his 254 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,800 nobles saying, Let there neither man nor. 255 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,080 Beast heard nor flock. Taste anything, let them not 256 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,640 feed or drink water. You see, when when we understand 257 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,240 that our state as an unsaved person is hell and and. 258 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,560 Without God there. Is no way to get out of that 259 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,480 ultimate end. That that's the. 260 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,640 Only way of salvation is with faith but fasting. 261 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,240 Here it it's interesting. That. 262 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,440 This is a this. Is Nineveh. 263 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,920 This is a Pagan city, a a great city, but a total. 264 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,960 Pagan city and the first thing they. 265 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:56,760 Do when they realize? Who? 266 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,840 God is and who? They are as they. 267 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,880 Fast the King. Says let's fast. 268 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,400 The one that is in. Charge of the greatest. 269 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,840 City around the one that has the. 270 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,320 Word to say off with his head. Kill Jonah. 271 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,120 Get rid of this. Get out of here. 272 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:17,640 He's the one that says let me. Take off my robe, let me 273 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:22,280 humiliate myself by putting sackcloth in and sit in ash. 274 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,720 It started at the. King and he understood the 275 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,800 importance of who God was and. Ultimately who he was. 276 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,720 A fast. Is a contrition that changes 277 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,440 everything. Think of this King Ahab. 278 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,880 What do we know? King Ahab is? 279 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,520 Is he? Is he known for being the best 280 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,760 uncle, best father, a great king, a happy following God? 281 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,960 No, we know him as the Wicked King. 282 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,720 But first Kings 2127 says it this way, and it came to pass 283 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,320 when Ahab. Heard these those words. 284 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,080 That he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and 285 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,120 fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 286 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,160 Even King Ahab knew the only way to get. 287 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,640 A hold of God. Is to put myself underneath him, 288 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,800 humiliated Psalms 5117, says the. 289 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,920 Sacrifices of God are. Are a broken spirit a broken and 290 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:26,920 contrite? Heart. 291 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,960 Oh God, thou. Wilt not despise if you want to 292 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,280 get. Right with God. 293 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,680 As a child of God, you. Have. 294 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,320 To do what? The word of God. 295 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,320 Says and not think, oh, I'm I'm, I'm a I'm a son of God. 296 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,800 I'm just going to come. Boldly. 297 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,600 Into the throne of grace and ask for. 298 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:46,720 Forgiveness. No. 299 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,800 The Bible. Says you kneel before there's 300 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,880 humiliation and understanding. I am a Sinner. 301 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,480 I might be a. Child. 302 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,640 Of God, but I'm still a Sinner and I still have to come before 303 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:06,760 His throne as a Sinner in humiliation in in repenting of 304 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,160 my heart and wanting to do what I need. 305 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,640 To do to realize. And to change the state that I'm 306 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,920 in, the other thing, that's amazing. 307 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,400 Is the universal commitment we see here in in Nineveh. 308 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:24,200 It wasn't just the king that decided I'm going to take off my 309 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,120 robe. And get right with God. 310 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,640 It was a universal commitment, not just the king who fasted and 311 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:36,160 prayed, and not just the animals, every single person 312 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,160 from from the king down to the sheep. 313 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:45,800 Fasted. While God can hear and answer 314 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:46,920 your. Prayer. 315 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,360 It's a big difference when it's a whole group of people. 316 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,840 Why is it important that we have prayer? 317 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,640 Meeting on Wednesday night. Why is it important for you to 318 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,560 come here? Couldn't you just stay in your 319 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,280 car and. Pray yes. 320 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,000 God will hear you. As a child of God, God. 321 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,800 Hears you, but there's. Something about having. 322 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,000 A group of people. Praying. 323 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,319 Think of it this way. What? 324 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:14,359 What do we think of of? Pentecost when? 325 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:20,440 When 3000. Were saved, go there. 326 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:25,839 Actually. Now I'm going off the cuff. 327 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:27,440 See. That'd be an. 328 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:34,440 Axe. No it wouldn't. 329 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:44,960 Yes, Axe. 2 is when it happens and we see that 3000 get. 330 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:52,920 Saved, but look at. Verse in chapter 1 No I I should 331 00:17:52,920 --> 00:18:03,200 have wrote it down. Verse 8, No 14. 332 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,920 These all. Continued with 1 accord in 333 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,880 prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of 334 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,960 Jesus, and with his brethren. It was a group effort. 335 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,760 Notice that it it. Wasn't just that. 336 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,320 Peter got up and. Preached and all of a sudden. 337 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,600 Thousands got saved. There was a. 338 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:25,920 Group effort A. A. 339 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,040 Commitment for the group of them to. 340 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,920 Get right with God. And to. 341 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:31,840 Do what? God. 342 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,280 Wanted to happen. In his and because. 343 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,960 Of that commitment because. Of. 344 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,600 Universal commitment. It results. 345 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,600 In unbelievable changes. You think of. 346 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,120 The Story of. Spurgeon and people coming and 347 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:47,400 visiting and asking. How do you do this? 348 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,920 How is there so? Many people, how are you having 349 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,840 so much fruit? And he took them down. 350 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:53,640 Was it? Spurgeon took him down to a 351 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,720 basement. And there was a multitude of 352 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,400 people. Down in the basement, praying, 353 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,320 that's how you get a hold of God. 354 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,560 That's how you see. And God. 355 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,960 Sees that there's a. Difference being changed in you. 356 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:15,600 What? What when you when you were a? 357 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,960 Kid and and mom or dad? Caught you doing something and 358 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,640 you said I'm sorry I got caught. I'm I'm sorry about. 359 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:27,440 Doing whatever it is. If you go back and do it again, 360 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:28,920 was there. Really much in that. 361 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:33,520 Sorry, was there really much in in your you're asking 362 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,560 forgiveness? Yes, you're asking. 363 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,640 Forgiveness and. And you might have been sad 364 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,240 about. What you did, you know it was. 365 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,600 Wrong and and you wanted to change. 366 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,240 But you just went back into it versus? 367 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,040 And I'd never done this and I. Can't say that I've ever had a 368 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,880 kid do. It and I've never heard of a kid 369 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,640 doing it getting. Caught. 370 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,720 Doing something and then. Because not because they're 371 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,040 getting punished for doing this. Telling their parent I'm not 372 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:07,080 having dinner tonight if one of my. 373 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,680 Kids said. I'm sorry, Dad. 374 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,720 You know, I lied about that. Because of that, I'm not going 375 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,280 to eat dinner. Time out. 376 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,360 It's. Going to get my attention. 377 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,200 Hold on, you actually. Want to not do? 378 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,760 Something that is your. Necessity, not just. 379 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,400 You don't get to go out and play. 380 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,400 Bummer. I guess all right. 381 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,440 No feeding yourself. Drinking water. 382 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,360 That's why I said. When when the king commands this 383 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,640 feet fast. Feast fast. 384 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,920 It's not just. Don't eat anything. 385 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,200 Don't eat anything or. Water at. 386 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,880 All don't drink anything, don't eat anything. 387 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,360 He never. Actually says how? 388 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:50,080 Long either, by the way. He never decrees and says let's 389 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,920 do it for the day and see what. Happens. 390 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,480 All he says is. We're going to he commands the 391 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,840 fast and verse 9 who can. Tell if God will. 392 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,120 Turn and repent, I think the king of. 393 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,800 Nineveh Fully. Had in his mind, we're going to 394 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,720 do. This until. 40 days are done 395 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,320 because that's when God's judgment is going to fall and. 396 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,640 Until I hear otherwise. I'm going to fast and every 397 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,200 single one of us is going to do the exact same thing. 398 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,200 That's how important the king understood getting. 399 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,960 Right with God was. That I'm going to withheld any 400 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,360 kind of food, any kind of drink, anything that can literally keep 401 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:31,600 me alive. Because. 402 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,320 This is more important and it's. Sad that a. 403 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,800 King, that was wicked so much. So that God wanted. 404 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,160 To destroy everything because of him. 405 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,080 And yet Christians. Won't even not eat. 406 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,040 Something because of something that they did. 407 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,160 Won't take. Sin seriously in their life. 408 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,240 And understand how much. It hurts God for what you do, 409 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,040 and yet we just bow our heads, say forgive. 410 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,040 Me and then move on like. That's enough I've I've. 411 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,480 Done it all right, Wash my hands like Pilot in the bowl and then 412 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,600 I'm clean. And goes right back to doing 413 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:16,080 what we do. Sin meant something. 414 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,920 The king of Nineveh understood. This judgment was because of 415 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,320 them. Because of what they've. 416 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,920 Been doing and. Because of that, he took it 417 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,400 serious, so much so that for 40 days. 418 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,600 I'm not going to eat anything. I'm not going to drink anything, 419 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,280 you know. Most people will die if they 420 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,120 ever. Tried to not eat anything, Not 421 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:40,480 so much. For 40 days, but. 422 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,000 Drinking. Water for 40 days you'll. 423 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,640 Shrivel up and die the king. Said I'd rather die. 424 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,800 Getting right with God. Than just having the pleasure 425 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:57,360 and surviving. He knew and understood. 426 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,800 What it meant to get a hold. Of God. 427 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,400 The third thing we see there in verse? 428 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,840 8. But let man and beast. 429 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,560 Be covered with sackcloth. And cry mightily. 430 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,200 Unto God, Yeah, let. Them turn everyone from his evil 431 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,760 way and from the violence that is in their hands, forsaking 432 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,560 their sin. Biblical repentance, yes, 433 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,840 involves agreeing with. God. 434 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,920 That this is sin. This whatever. 435 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:36,200 It is is sin according to God, but there's a difference between 436 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,200 just accepting that and forsaking it. 437 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,000 The Bible. Says in Proverbs 13. 438 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,240 Reminds us that forsaking along with confession is necessary for 439 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,240 that mercy. Ephesians 420. 440 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,680 Two that you put. Off concerning the former 441 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,040 conversation of the old man. Which is corrupt according. 442 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,600 To the deceitful lusts, Isaiah 55, seven says. 443 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,400 Let the wicked forsake his way. And the unrighteous man his 444 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,240 thoughts, and let them return unto the Lord, and he will have 445 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,240 mercy upon him, and to. Our God for. 446 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:16,800 He will abundantly pardon. It says there in verse. 447 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,480 Eight. Yeah, let them turn everyone 448 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,960 from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hand. 449 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,240 There had to be. A forsaking of what was 450 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,160 happening, not just the. Oops. 451 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,680 We got caught, we're going to get destroyed in 30-40. 452 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,200 Days Let's let's not do that for 40. 453 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,400 Days and see what. Happens. 454 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:35,640 We'll go back. To it after. 455 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,400 That and just see how long it works. 456 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,600 It was a forsaking. It was a going this direction, 457 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,880 turning and going the. Opposite. 458 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,840 Direction. That's what repentance and 459 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,600 dealing with getting repentance is doing when you ask for 460 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,520 forgiveness for God. It's not oops, I'm going this 461 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:54,320 way. Sorry. 462 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,840 Forgive me for sinning. And going this way and just keep 463 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,920 going this way. And so many Christians. 464 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,840 Do that, we ask. For. 465 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,360 Forgiveness, we hear a. Message at church or on the 466 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,320 radio. And it breaks our heart and God. 467 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,080 Shows us our error. And we say sorry, and we ask 468 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,000 for. Forgiveness. 469 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,360 And we ask for. Repentance for what we've. 470 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,560 Done. And then we get up and do it 471 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:26,080 again. There has to be. 472 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,680 A forsaking of that sin repentance involves a change of 473 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:36,880 direction. People in Jonah, in Jonah's day 474 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,200 and here in Nineveh were were challenged to not just 475 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,560 understand what they've. Been doing is evil. 476 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,080 And wrong. Notice the king. 477 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,320 Himself says. Turn everyone from his. 478 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:54,000 Evil way. The king didn't think. 479 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,640 It was. It's just the way we do things. 480 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,280 He understood that it was evil. But we have to. 481 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,080 Change. We can't go the same direction 482 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,880 to have forgiveness. Repentance also in involves a 483 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,840 changing of our. Deeds there at the end, he says. 484 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,840 And from the violence that is in their hands. 485 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,040 They they were. It wasn't just that they. 486 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,120 Had. Evil continually in their 487 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,360 hearts, talking about like when Noah was around. 488 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,000 It was that their deeds. Were evil. 489 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,520 Everyone wants to change their direction from hell to heaven. 490 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,160 You you ask anybody? Do you want to go to hell where 491 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,600 it's? Burning and whipping and 492 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,800 gnashing of teeth and and fire that never goes out, no. 493 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,520 Who wants to go there? Then they want to escape God's 494 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,280 judgment. And you want to have. 495 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,800 God's blessing, but not. Everybody is. 496 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,600 Willing to change? Their lifestyle. 497 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 What happens when you get? Saved. 498 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,720 Behold all. Things are become the same. 499 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,280 Become new. There's a. 500 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,200 Change there's not. You don't stay the same. 501 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,160 The old man is not still in control, or shouldn't be. 502 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,760 When you get saved, there is a new. 503 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,920 Creature, but the sad. Thing is, people want God's 504 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,400 blessing while hanging on to. The the world. 505 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,200 So much and and just like last. Week with Pastor's message. 506 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,680 They want to straddle this fence and walk this fine line of. 507 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,200 Well, I'm I'm still saved. But I'm as close. 508 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,320 As I can get to the world. I don't. 509 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,240 Know about you, but we like yesterday we were. 510 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,920 Walking, firing and knocking. On doors and the kids always 511 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,960 like to walk on the. On the curb because they can't 512 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,120 walk in the road and I don't want them walking so they. 513 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,280 They walk that curb. What ultimately happens when you 514 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,280 walk a curb? Do you always stay? 515 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:56,600 On top of the curb. No, you fall you. 516 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,160 Put 1 foot one way. 3 foot, 1 foot, the other way you will 517 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,840 always go one. Direction. 518 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,800 And sadly, Christians never really. 519 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,120 Go the right. Direction. 520 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,720 If they're already. Walking the fence. 521 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,360 They're already bent towards that way if if you. 522 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,280 Want to? Argue and say no. 523 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,800 I'm, I'm I I'll. Fall the right way. 524 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,880 Then why are you? Ever even close to the edge? 525 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,480 Just like I heard a story of a. Company that wanted to. 526 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,360 Hire a A. Driver for some, really. 527 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,520 I don't know if he was. Famous or rich or important 528 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,840 person and and the. Test was. 529 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,240 Here's the edge of the Cliff. I want these three. 530 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,520 Drivers I want. You to go and see how close you 531 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,640 can get to that edge. And stop without. 532 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,520 Going over trying to test the the driver's capability. 533 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,680 First one goes. And he gets close, but he's not 534 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,080 quite to the end. The second one goes and his 535 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,960 tires are. Literally almost off the. 536 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,040 Edge. The third one starts. 537 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,960 The car and puts it in park. And says I'm done and he. 538 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:04,920 Gets the job why? Because he's the one that knows 539 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,160 that's the edge, that's the Cliff. 540 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,320 I'm not going near it. Why would I want to go over the 541 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,560 edge? See how close I can get to it? 542 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,760 But Christians, we. Play that game every single. 543 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,720 Day all our life. We play the. 544 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,080 Game of How close can I get to the edge? 545 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,520 Why? Why do we do that? 546 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,160 Nineveh. A wicked city so. 547 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,960 Much so that God. Wants to destroy. 548 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,800 It goes this is evil. This is wicked. 549 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,880 We're not even getting. Close to the edge. 550 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,720 We're turning and. Forsaking everything that we've 551 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,800 done. And turning and trying. 552 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,240 To go towards God, by the way. I don't know if God's going to. 553 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,760 Spare us who? Can know it, he says. 554 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,640 I don't know. If God's going to spare us or he 555 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,680 still is going to. Destroy this place in. 40 days 556 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,520 but but. Before those 40 days, each of 557 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:58,720 us. Are going to be clean. 558 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,000 Each of us are going to be repentance. 559 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,040 Each of us are. Going to have our relationship 560 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:08,080 right with God. Whether or not we survive it or 561 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,200 not, we're going to do what's right. 562 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,560 True repentance. Like I said. 563 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,600 Before in 2nd Corinthians 517 talks about old things are. 564 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,240 Passed away. Behold all. 565 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:29,200 Things are become new. Not some things, all things and 566 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,320 if you want to. That's the word of. 567 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,360 God that says that. That that's not some. 568 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,360 Some preacher that wants it. To be true. 569 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,440 That's not somebody that says. Well, if you think. 570 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,760 Good thoughts you'll have. Good things. 571 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,720 The Bible says that. When you get saved. 572 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,240 All things are become new. What are you doing to keep it 573 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,360 though when you get? Saved I I truly. 574 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:53,960 Believe all. Things become new. 575 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,800 But as you progress, and as we get back into the world, and as 576 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,520 we sin. We don't. 577 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:00,600 Try. We don't keep. 578 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:07,840 Those all things. New We can't determine or demand 579 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,360 God to do anything. The last. 580 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,960 Last thing I want to look here is the forgiveness there in 581 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,960 verse 9. Who can tell it if? 582 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,040 Will, if God will. Turn and repent and turn away 583 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:26,400 from his fierce anger that we perish not and God saw. 584 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,080 Their works that they. Turn from their evil way, and 585 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,400 God repented. Of the evil that he had said. 586 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:38,320 He would do unto them, and He did it not, Acts 822 says. 587 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,040 Repent therefore, for their. For thy wickedness, and pray 588 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,080 God, if. Perhaps the? 589 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:51,120 Thought of Thine heart may be forgiven thee first, John 19, if 590 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,400 we confess our sins. He is faithful. 591 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,680 And just to forgive. Us, our sins, and to cleanse us 592 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,720 from all unrighteousness, the attention of forgiveness. 593 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,280 Has to be on God. God's the only one that gives 594 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,920 the forgiveness there in verse 10 and Jonah saw their. 595 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,440 Works. No and. 596 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,840 God saw their works. John 20 Jeremiah 1710 says. 597 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,800 I, the Lord, search the heart. God's. 598 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,160 Attention is drawn to people who are repentant. 599 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,000 There the attention has. To be of God. 600 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,160 But the atonement? Has to be of. 601 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:41,440 God, Psalms 103. 17 says it this way, but but the mercy. 602 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,040 Of the. Lord is from everlasting to 603 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:49,160 everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto 604 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,560 children, unto children's children. 605 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,560 Joel 213 says it this way, sums it up. 606 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,920 What happened to these people in Nineveh? 607 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,640 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto 608 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,720 the. Lord your God, for he is 609 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,600 gracious. And merciful, slow to anger, and 610 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,600 of great kindness, and repenteth him. 611 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,200 Of the evil. We ought to be thankful that 612 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,800 God's mercies as. Lamentation says they are. 613 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,200 New every morning. That option is there. 614 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,920 Every single day, that option to be able to come before the 615 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,000 throne of grace. Is there? 616 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,320 As a child. Of God. 617 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,600 Don't be afraid. To go to God, king of Nineveh 618 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,880 could have just said, well, guess we're guess we're going to 619 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:44,760 be dead in 40 days. But he took a chance. 620 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,280 He had faith in something he didn't. 621 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:54,040 Even know will this work I. Don't know you want us to fast 622 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,080 and not drink water. And sit in. 623 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,000 Ashes and have sack off and and do the. 624 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,080 Same with our our. Animals and you don't even know 625 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,120 if it's going to. Work. 626 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,120 Nope, I don't, but I want to be right with God. 627 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,600 Hebrews. 725 says ends it this way. 628 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,199 He ever liveth. To make intercession for us, for 629 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:21,719 them, God's waiting for. You to get right with God, but 630 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,080 God. Wants you to get. 631 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,560 Right with him, his way. Not our way. 632 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,360 Saying words doesn't mean that the heart's changed. 633 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,199 That's why. Saying a prayer of. 634 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,639 Of getting getting saved. And repeat after me one 2-3 and 635 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:41,679 now you're going to heaven. It's not. 636 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:43,880 Words. It's a heart. 637 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,800 It's a change inside of you, and that's what God's looking for. 638 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:56,040 In the lost, yes, but in his own children, how changed? 639 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,200 Are you when you come before God? 640 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,080 How? Much different, are you? 641 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,880 When you get up. After asking for forgiveness 642 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,480 than when you knelt down. Because there should be a 643 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,800 change, there should be a change in the way that you. 644 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,960 See whatever the sin. Was because you what brought you 645 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:15,880 to? Your knees was. 646 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,800 Knowing it was sin, but when you get up it should be abhorrent to 647 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,640 you of that sin. That sin should make you. 648 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,080 Weep because of what it did to Christ. 649 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,400 So much so. That I'm not going to ever do it 650 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,040 again. By God's power, by God's grace, 651 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,520 I'll never. Do this again. 652 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,480 That's the way. A repentant Sinner. 653 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,760 Gets right with God. Not. 654 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,120 Sorry I got caught. Sorry, it's. 655 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,280 Against your words. Sorry I got. 656 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,680 Did this but it. Doesn't matter if it happens 657 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,720 again because I'm. Human we sin. 658 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,320 Oh well. That's how so much. 659 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,760 Christianity is today. Oh, we'll ask for. 660 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,240 Forgiveness, but don't ask. Us to change. 661 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,200 I'll ask that I know what I did was wrong, but I'm going. 662 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:08,040 To do it again tomorrow, God's looking for a repentant. 663 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,120 Heart to come to him. God's looking for a son that 664 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,560 wants to change and not. Do it again. 665 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,040 Yes, you are human. Yes, you are. 666 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,240 Still. Enveloped with the old. 667 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,600 Man, but with. God's. 668 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,000 Power you can change. That you get God's. 669 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,760 Power. You can overcome that. 670 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,320 That's how Nineveh. Got a hold of God the wicked? 671 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,400 Great city. Got a hold? 672 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,680 Of God, how much more can the. Child of God, do it. 673 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,560 Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you for 674 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,040 today. I thank you for having your word 675 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:49,480 and the examples that you give us in it to change our lives to 676 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,280 be more like You. Lord, to realize the. 677 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,320 Seriousness of sin and what it does. 678 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,920 To grieve your heart, I pray that we. 679 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,720 We learn to abhorrent that we learn to as your. 680 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:03,880 Word says that you. Hate sin. 681 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,360 I pray that we. Learn to hate sin. 682 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,080 That we don't get comfortable with it, that we don't just. 683 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,640 Go a long life and ask for forgiveness when we need it and 684 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,480 just keep the same. Way God, I pray. 685 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,120 That you change. Us that we'd not. 686 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,080 Be the same as we were today. That we're new. 687 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,360 That we're new. Creatures. 688 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,920 All things are new. I pray that you help us with 689 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,000 that. Pray that you be glorified. 690 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,880 Through the next sermon. I pray that you be lifted. 691 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,160 Up and ever pleased with everything that goes on here 692 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,440 today. In Jesus name I pray. 693 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:36,360 Amen.