1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,680 Evolution, I don't I don't get what kind of mind it takes to 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:11,080 have to, I mean, think of the things that we've learned from 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:17,760 just animals to figure out how to do things that we use now and 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,240 we think that it all happened just by evolution. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,120 It just boggles your mind. But anyways, Jonah chapter 4 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,960 often the greatest test that I find that Christians have 7 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,400 usually come after the greatest victories. 8 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:38,720 You think of Christ in the Bible when after he just gets baptized 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,440 and hears the this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,680 The next thing he faces is Satan in the desert. 11 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:53,920 Think of Elijah after calling fire down from heaven, literally 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,560 in the same couple chapters he's running from Jezebel for his 13 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:04,800 life. So often Satan works so quickly 14 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,320 after a victory because I think Christians and and sadly, we, we 15 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,320 are this way that after a victory, we are the most 16 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,160 vulnerable. We're the most relaxed, We're 17 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,040 the most vulnerable, I guess would be the word to say. 18 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,720 It's, it's one of those things where we think we're, we're on 19 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,640 the mountaintop, we're on the peak and nothing can touch us. 20 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,600 And that's as soon as Satan wants us and and gets in there 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:35,120 and he always is trying to steal God's attention got tension away 22 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,080 from God. He's always trying to take our 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,080 eyes and focus off the one that it should be on. 24 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:46,480 And, and unfortunately here, one of the easiest ways I think 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,600 Satan gets that attention off of God is to get it on ourselves 26 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,160 and, and selfishness and, and focusing on us. 27 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:00,560 And here in Jonah chapter 4, Jonah's, Jonah's more concerned 28 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,880 with being right than the revival that just happened. 29 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:08,960 He's more concerned with himself than what just happened in an 30 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,040 entire city. James 4-5 says this way of what 31 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,560 what we must guard against spirit. 32 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:20,920 We must guard against the spirit that dwelleth in US lusteth to 33 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:23,560 envy. You're there chapter 4. 34 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,440 Actually, let's look at the verse before that, verse 10 of 35 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,320 of chapter 3. And God saw their works talking 36 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,200 about Nineveh, that they turn from their evil way. 37 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,240 And God repented of the evil that he had said, and that he 38 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,040 would do unto them. And he did it not chapter 4, 39 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,280 verse one. But it displeased Jonah 40 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,000 exceedingly, and he was very angry. 41 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,360 And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was 42 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,200 not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? 43 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,880 Therefore I fled before. I fled before unto Tarsus, for I 44 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,720 knew that thou art a gracious God and a merciful slow to anger 45 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,000 and of great kindness and repentance the of the evil. 46 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,040 Literally an entire city had just been turned over to God 47 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,840 quicker than I think any revival that we read in history. 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,040 And, and even the sad part is it took longer for God to get the 49 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,160 evangelist to do the revival than it did for God to have a 50 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,080 revival there in that city. But the sad thing is the only 51 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,800 person that that didn't have a revival was the evangelist 52 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,360 himself. The one that had the, the not a 53 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,840 revival message. Don't don't think that Jonah had 54 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,560 the message of repentant and, and be saved. 55 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,040 It was you are going to be destroyed Nineveh because of 56 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,000 your wickedness. You have 40 days and you will be 57 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:02,320 destroyed. But Jonah in his all knowledge 58 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:08,120 that he thinks he has praise hear to God about I told you you 59 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,680 were going to do this. I knew this is what you were 60 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,000 going to do. And pastor talks about it with, 61 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,760 you know, talking about a creation telling the creator, I 62 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,200 knew you were going to do this. What what what right does Jonah 63 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,720 have at all to say anything to God about basically thumbing his 64 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,240 nose at God? See, this is what was going to 65 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,880 happen. I should have just went to 66 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,120 Tarshish like I was going to do. Why'd you have to make me go 67 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,280 through the storm through the what bales belly of the whale? 68 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:45,000 Get me here when you were going to do this anyways, A pouting 69 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,440 prophet ultimately, I mean, think, think of what? 70 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:57,200 OK, a prophet is in today's word a not talking about prophetic 71 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,080 things, but he's basically a preacher in our terms. 72 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,960 We don't do prophetics anymore. We don't tell about the future. 73 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,080 God doesn't give that to us. But God gives God's word to the 74 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,080 prophet just like he does the pastor's. 75 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:14,520 He gives them word, the word, and he gives us the word of God 76 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,640 to teach and preach to others. And that's what Jonah is. 77 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:24,240 And and it just nobody in the right mind, no pastor, no, no 78 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,360 any person that's in charge of a church seeing a revival happen 79 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,920 would first go verse 4, but it displeased Jonah. 80 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,160 Wait a minute, you you literally just saw an entire city turn to 81 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,400 God and the first thing that comes to your mind is it 82 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,720 displeases you. And he it wasn't just like, man, 83 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,960 that bummer. I was hoping they were going to 84 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,840 get what was coming to him. The last part of that verses and 85 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:59,040 he was very angry. It wasn't just a well, I guess 86 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,680 this I kind of saw this coming, but Oh well, you know, I did 87 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,200 what I was supposed to do kind of thing. 88 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:08,520 No, he was angry. He was mad at God for doing what 89 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,800 God does. It's a pouting prophet. 90 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,320 Let's pray and we'll get into this lesson. 91 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,320 Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for this morning for having 92 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,480 your word to be able to read and the examples that you give us. 93 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,960 God, I pray that we we learn from those examples, but more 94 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,880 importantly, we need to be in your word to even read about 95 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,840 those examples. I pray that you, you open your 96 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:32,960 word to each and every one of us this morning. 97 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,920 Give us eyesight and an open heart and an open mind to hear 98 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,040 and see what you want us to see through Jonah that you've 99 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,440 preserved throughout all eternity. 100 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,920 You've preserved this story for us to learn from, just to see 101 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,800 what it was like and to see what changes we need to make in our 102 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,320 life. I pray that you be glorified 103 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,920 through everything. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. 104 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,120 The first thing is it's a selfishness. 105 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,960 Second Timothy 31 says it this way. 106 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,320 This know also that in the last days, perilous times shall come. 107 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,840 Now, now we like to think of, you know, corrupt government 108 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,120 people that do whatever they want and and moral indecencies 109 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,040 and political corruption, horrible crime and everything. 110 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,840 But the rest of that verse is different than what we would 111 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,720 think. The rest of the verse tells us 112 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,200 that for men shall be lovers of their own selves. 113 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,680 It's selfishness that talks about. 114 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,160 What that perilous time is, is men being selfish. 115 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,040 DL Moody used to say, the man that I fear the most is the man 116 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,560 underneath this hat. Lincoln, before he became 117 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,520 president, was asked this by a reporter. 118 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,520 Who of all the candidates do you fear the most? 119 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,200 And he said, yes, I do fear one of them. 120 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,200 And the reporter asked him which one. 121 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,880 And he responded, a man named Lincoln. 122 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,840 If I am defeated, I will be defeated by a man named Lincoln. 123 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,760 Every single person in Jonah chapter 3 experienced revival 124 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,720 except for Jonah and I. And I think that it's one of 125 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,960 those things that God knew that was going to happen, But God 126 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,400 gave Jonah a choice. God gave Jonah a chance. 127 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,920 Jonah could have said, praise God, look at what happened. 128 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,120 Thank you, Lord for your loving kindness, your mercy and your 129 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,720 grace to keep these people alive and look at this entire city is 130 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,080 now turned towards you. God gave him that option. 131 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,919 It wasn't a of course Jonah was going to be mad. 132 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,640 And I think like, like I said, we've said throughout this 133 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,480 thing, when, when Jonah went on to the ship, yes, the storm was 134 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,200 to show Jonah, hey, get your attention, John, I'm trying to 135 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,680 get your attention. But it was also for those people 136 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,320 on the sailors on that ship to understand who the true God was. 137 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,360 When, when, when he gets thrown into the sea and get swallowed 138 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,040 by a whale. I'm pretty sure everybody on 139 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,520 that, that sailor that was on that ship realized, oh, that 140 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,000 Jehovah was the real one, that, that the sea is totally calm. 141 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:20,360 And now Jonah's going deep. That was the real God. 142 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,520 It was for Jonah, but it was also for the sailors. 143 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:29,560 Just like now we see Nineveh is saved and turned to God and a 144 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:32,240 revival happens. And that, yes, it was for 145 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,440 Nineveh, but it was also for Jonah. 146 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,720 It was God testing to see, OK, Jonah, what's more important, 147 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,480 you being right or souls being saved? 148 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,320 What's more important in your life? 149 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:49,200 And unfortunately, Jonah goes the wrong direction. 150 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,400 He is all about himself. Selfishness, pity parties, who 151 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,480 loves having pity parties, who love being around people that 152 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,720 have pity parties. It is never a happy ending. 153 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,520 It is never something. Even when you're in the pity 154 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,560 party, if you are the one having the pity party, you're not even 155 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:09,720 happy. But sadly we get into that 156 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,440 corner so quickly, so easily, and Paul reminds us that 157 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:19,600 selfishness kills joy in Philippians 2 two it says, 158 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,440 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like minded. 159 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,000 Having the same love being of 1 accord of one mind. 160 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,840 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in 161 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,280 lowliness of mind, let each let each esteem other better than 162 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,200 themselves. Look, not every man on his own 163 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,600 things, but every man also on the things of others. 164 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,000 It's not talking about cheating. It's just that that was always 165 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,040 the in school. I'm just doing what the Bible 166 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,280 says. Don't look at my own paper. 167 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:50,720 Look at the other person's paper. 168 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:56,000 But anyways, too often when we serve God and perhaps we're 169 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,840 doing it something right, we're doing what is right, but it's 170 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,880 not because of we're trying to serve God. 171 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,240 We're trying to get what it's out of it for us. 172 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,440 We're we're serving, we're doing things, but it's to please me. 173 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,760 It's to get me up in front of everybody. 174 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,520 It's to get me to, to get praise because of oh, nobody came out 175 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,560 on Saturday, but Josh did. Yes, I was there. 176 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,160 Well, I did it for the wrong reason. 177 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:24,320 It wasn't to serve God, it was because I wanted to be getting 178 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,400 praise that selfishness. First Corinthians 1032 says even 179 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,840 as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own 180 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,840 prophet, but the prophet of many that they may be saved. 181 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:42,120 Paul specifically says I don't do it because of me. 182 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,840 I'm here as a missionary to keep people saved, not because I want 183 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,560 to be written down forever and have a recorded list of 184 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:53,640 everything I've done for all eternity and I want the praise 185 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,560 of all the people and be called the greatest missionary and the 186 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:01,240 greatest Christian in history. I do it that they may be saved. 187 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,840 There was a difference and Jonah, again, Jonah didn't have 188 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,960 the message of repent and and be saved. 189 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,240 He had the message of you're going to be destroyed. 190 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:18,840 So there's a little bit of a difference, but he, I think for 191 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,080 as much as Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh, I think he loved 192 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,600 saying that prophet I love. I think he loved being the one 193 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,040 that said, hey, guess what? All your wickedness, you're 194 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:31,840 going to get what's coming to you finally. 195 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,160 You're finally going to get what is dealt to you, what you should 196 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,960 have gotten a long time ago. 40 days. 197 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,560 Count them. I am. 198 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,640 I think Jonah was quite ready and quite happy about the 199 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,200 prophecy that he was going to give. 200 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,520 Whether in the ministry or in your family, in society. 201 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,560 Love, the Bible says, seeketh not her own. 202 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,320 Selfishness kills any kind of joy. 203 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,160 Selfishness is almost the same in close relation to jealousy. 204 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,800 But jealousy is a little different than selfishness. 205 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,560 Jealousy is that it, it likes it. 206 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,080 It doesn't like good happening to others. 207 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,480 It it doesn't want you to to to be blessed. 208 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,800 It doesn't want you to have anything happen to you. 209 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,960 Selfishness is just what's good to happen to me. 210 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,000 But they're so close and they cap in so much to where they 211 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,640 they overlap. And here in Jonah, we see Jonah 212 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,040 dealing with both. Think think of Jonah. 213 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,320 He just disobeyed God, got on a ship, went through a storm, 214 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,720 sense was jumped, thrown overboard, goes into the belly 215 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,520 of the whale for doing what disobeying God wants. 216 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:55,360 All right, I'm going to go to Nineveh, who's literally the 217 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,400 wickedness has gotten so bad there that God says I'm 218 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:03,040 destroying it. And in a matter of days, God 219 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,440 Forgives them and wipes them clean. 220 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,040 They don't even get a storm. They don't even get half the 221 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,920 wall falling. Buildings don't fall. 222 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,640 No whale comes out. I think Jonah wanted some whale 223 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,440 time for those people. I think Jonah was mad because he 224 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,520 only did one wrong thing and has to deal with all the problems 225 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,240 that he dealt with. But these people that have so 226 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,200 wickedness that God wants to destroy him, get off so easy is 227 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,320 the ways. I think it inhuman. 228 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,440 That's how we would think I did one wrong thing. 229 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,200 You've had a mountain of stuff. It'd be like somebody that 230 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,960 steals for the first time gets the death penalty versus 231 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,040 somebody that has murdered an entire city and they go, well, 232 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,920 you said sorry, so you're good now. 233 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,920 Well, wait a minute. That's not justification. 234 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,000 Where's justice in this whole thing? 235 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,680 I think that's what Jonah was dealing with. 236 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,520 That's why he got so the Bible says was very angry. 237 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,960 He was so mad that these people that were going to be destroyed 238 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,640 got off Scotch free. He was jealous, the Bible says 239 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,720 in Genesis 37. For think of other people that 240 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,920 have jealousy throughout the Bible, Genesis dealing with 241 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,960 Joseph's brothers. And they were jealous of Joseph. 242 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,360 And the Bible says, And when his brothers saw that the father, 243 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,680 their father loved him more than all his brother, and they hated 244 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,240 him, and could not speak peacefully unto him. 245 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:39,520 Saul with David, when David slew Goliath, and afterwards was 246 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,720 fighting the Philistines, the Bible says, And Saul was very 247 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,440 wroth, and they and the saying displeased him. 248 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,240 And he said, They have ascribed unto David 10 thousands, and to 249 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,680 me they have ascribed but thousands. 250 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,880 And what can he have more but the Kingdom? 251 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,640 Think of, think the prodigal son. 252 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,680 We don't really have anything, but when when the son leaves, 253 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,520 the older brother doesn't have a problem with it. 254 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,800 The interesting thing if you read there, the father didn't 255 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,600 just give the old, the younger son his portion. 256 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,600 It says the Bible says that the father split gave both of them 257 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,080 their portion. The older brother didn't have a 258 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,840 problem with it. He wasn't going to. 259 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,360 Why is he going? He was, he enjoyed it. 260 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,160 He was glad about that. When did he get angry? 261 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:35,000 When did he get jealous? When the son came back, what 262 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,440 when? When repentance was given, when 263 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,800 forgiveness and grace and mercy happened, that's when the elder 264 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,840 brother was angry. Luke 1520 says 28 says and he 265 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,760 was angry and would not go in talking about the feast that 266 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,760 they were having because his brother came home. 267 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,240 He was jealous because of what had happened. 268 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:02,800 Proverbs 634 warns us and says for jealousy is the rage of a 269 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:07,040 man. Jealousy and selfishness is what 270 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:11,640 we find in Jonah and it's warning us don't have what Jonah 271 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,280 has. Don't be like Jonah. 272 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,480 When something that God does happens, God, God blesses 273 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,960 somebody in church and and gives them a new car. 274 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,839 Are you happy about it? Are you jealous? 275 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:26,800 That man? I've been working, trying to do 276 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,440 this. I've been praying longer than he 277 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,720 has and my car is now in the shop. 278 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:39,760 Which is it? Jealousy and anger go together. 279 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:45,640 The last part of that verse of verse one and he was very anger. 280 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:50,760 Angry. Anger is 1 short word one letter 281 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:55,800 short of danger. I don't think that's a goof up 282 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,200 or happenstance that be that way. 283 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,800 I think there's a very easy correlation that anger, if left 284 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,480 to go, brings danger. It's interesting to note that 285 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:14,080 that as we talked about in in Joseph's life with his brothers, 286 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,240 that in King Saul and the elder son that all had jealousy 287 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,320 towards the brother or or towards David or towards the 288 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,000 brother. Every single one dealt also with 289 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,280 not just jealousy, but it turns to anger. 290 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,720 Anger. Have you ever had somebody that 291 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,480 always has a chip on the shoulder no matter what you do? 292 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,640 Hi. Oh, how are you doing? 293 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,240 I'm fine. OK. 294 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,440 One of those people that you're like, I'm going to stay away 295 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,680 from this person. I was nice and that was it. 296 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:49,640 That's all. I'm going to go. 297 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,320 I'm not. I'm going to skirt around the 298 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,120 edge to say hi to them. And when we shake hands, I'm 299 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,280 going to go this way because they're going to stay in their 300 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:58,640 seat or they're walking this way. 301 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:03,960 There's somebody to avoid. When people have anger issues, 302 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,880 they're always angry about everything. 303 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,120 And they did not even the thing that they're angry about 304 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,480 everything will tick them off. The littlest thing will. 305 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,840 It's like, you know the the needle that broke the camel's 306 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,840 back or the fuse that finally got lit. 307 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:29,400 Do you find yourself angry when others are rejoicing about 308 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,080 dealing with jealousy? Do you find yourself mad that 309 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,160 somebody else got a blessing? Not just jealous, but angry 310 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,520 about it. The worst part is Jonah's not 311 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,600 angry with Nineveh. He's angry at God. 312 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,440 He's not mad that the king repented and got right with God. 313 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,360 He's not mad that with the Ninevites, he's mad with God. 314 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,560 Just like Pastor talks about the, you know, something that 315 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,760 you make out of clay coming up and mad at you because you made 316 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:07,680 it not smoosh you. I mean, I really think, and it's 317 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,600 a good thing that we're not God, because I think a lot more 318 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:16,160 people would be smooshed. But God has a specific purpose 319 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,320 in a plan, and the Bible says that His plans are perfect. 320 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,040 It doesn't matter whether it goes our way or the way we want 321 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,520 it to go. If it goes the way God wants it 322 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:31,080 to go, we need to be joyful because of it, not angry and 323 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,880 displeased exceedingly like Jonah was. 324 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,560 He called. God says it this way in 325 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:44,360 Ecclesiastes 79. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be 326 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,600 angry. Listen what he calls people that 327 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:53,000 are angry, for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 328 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,560 If you're somebody that loses their top blows, the top gets 329 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,240 angry all the time. God says you're a fool. 330 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,200 If you let anger fester, you're a fool. 331 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,760 And that's not, you know, goofy like you're a foolish person. 332 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,160 Fool. In the Bible, there's two 333 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,120 different ways of being called fool. 334 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,560 Foolish like a clown, like goofy stuff. 335 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,920 But a fool here, a fool, the Bible says, says there is no 336 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,880 God. There's a big difference between 337 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,440 being goofy and being a fool, according to the Bible, and 338 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,400 that's why it's so important to realize how much this means. 339 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,720 Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 340 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,440 Somebody said, well, my anger only lasts a little bit. 341 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,280 It's it's short, I get over it quick. 342 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,680 OK, last time I checked, the nuclear bomb went off quick. 343 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,840 Pretty devastating though. Anger has no place in a 344 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,960 Christian's life. Righteous anger that God, that 345 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,040 Christ, shows. There's a difference between 346 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,200 righteous anger and what we see here is a jealous anger. 347 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,840 Anger, according to this flesh, has no place. 348 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,720 Matthew 522 warns us of the results of anger. 349 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,120 But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his 350 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:21,760 brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. 351 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,320 There's a disgrace of anger. You're called a fool. 352 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,120 You're in danger of the judgment. 353 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:38,640 Proverbs 1417 tells us he that is soon angry Dealeth foolishly. 354 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,640 And a man of wicked devices is heeded. 355 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,520 Hated. I can't even read writing hated 356 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,480 there. There's also a damage of anger. 357 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,800 Think of this story a Quaker man. 358 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,120 You know, Quakers are always peaceful. 359 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:55,920 They they don't they don't get mad. 360 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,320 They don't go to war. They don't. 361 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,960 That was the the staple of a Quaker man. 362 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,360 A Quaker man owned a a very ornery cow and he goes out and 363 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:08,560 every time he deals with this cow, it's almost like a clash. 364 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,880 Cow doesn't want to be milked, but the, the Quaker man can't 365 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,360 really do much about it. Can't beat the cow because 366 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:18,840 that's against being a Quaker. Can't, can't force the cow. 367 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,200 So the Quaker man decided, I'm going to, to milk old Bessie. 368 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,200 And I'm going to do this the right way and I'm not going to 369 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,200 lose my cool. I'm going to do everything 370 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,280 right. And he sits down and gets ready 371 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,480 to, to milk old Bessie. And of course, the first thing 372 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,640 old Bessie does is move her foot and step on his. 373 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,800 Now, I don't know if you've ever been stepped on with a cow, but 374 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,080 that's a lot of weight. But old Quaker man said I got 375 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,920 this, bites his tongue, finally gets his foot free of her hoof 376 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:58,160 and sits back down. And her tail starts going like 377 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:02,920 this all in his face. So he moves over without getting 378 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,760 mad, without saying a word, moves over and starts milking 379 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,920 her. And halfway through getting all 380 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:15,080 that warm milk, she reels that leg up and Powell goes that 381 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:20,480 pale, all half of that milk. And if you've ever milked a cow, 382 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,480 that usually is the straw. For me, it was the straw. 383 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,920 When it's I'm not, I'm not a milker. 384 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,840 But when you finally get going and you're like, all right, I 385 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,320 got it going and there goes everything you just did. 386 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,040 That was usually the straw for me. 387 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,800 But the Quaker man said, Nope, I promised I'm not going to get 388 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,080 angry. So he picks up the pail, sets it 389 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,000 back down and finishes everything. 390 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,680 And he picks up the bucket after being done. 391 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:58,000 And boy, he's, I mean, he's, he's at the tip of, of what we 392 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,080 would say that the top is going to blow. 393 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,240 But he decides I'm not going to do anything. 394 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,200 And he shook his head. And he gets the he walks around 395 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,880 to the front of the cow, and he says this, Thou dost know that I 396 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,560 am a Quaker. Thou dost know also that I 397 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:21,560 cannot strike thee back, but I can sell you to a Presbyterian. 398 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,160 Getting a handle of your anger is probably the for men, I think 399 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,400 is the most important thing for men to deal with. 400 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:37,440 As a Christian, it's so easy for us to, to get angry like that. 401 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,680 And like I said, if, if something goes wrong at work, as 402 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,920 soon as you get home, everything is on a knife, kid does 403 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:45,960 something. It's not. 404 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:52,920 It's not that you're necessarily mad that, I don't know, your kid 405 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,480 did something silly or dumb or whatever, but you have the 406 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,680 weight of all the day waiting to just blow. 407 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,840 And I think that's one of the most important things that a 408 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,240 Christian man has to learn to control is his anger and to be 409 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,520 able to keep it inside. First Corinthians 925 says and 410 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,560 every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all 411 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,160 things. We have to have self-discipline 412 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,800 in our own spirits. Proverbs 1632 says it this way. 413 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:28,000 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he 414 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,480 that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh the city. 415 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,160 Not only do our actions get us in trouble, but a lot of times, 416 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,040 mostly it's our reaction that gets us the most in trouble. 417 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,960 How do you react when something happens? 418 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,240 How do you react when, not necessarily this case where 419 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,360 something great happens, but when bad things happens in your 420 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,760 life, when you're at work and something bad happens, How is 421 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,880 your testimony with those that you work with? 422 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,760 Are you the one that everybody's like? 423 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,960 Oh boy, what's he going to say? I ain't going to tell him 424 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,360 because the wrath that comes out of him, I ain't saying that I 425 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:08,080 ain't going over to him. Are you the one that they know 426 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,600 because you're a Christian, that you're going to handle it right? 427 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,200 That you're going to react correctly? 428 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:19,240 The last part here, verse 2. And he prayed under the Lord and 429 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,880 said, I pray thee, oh Lord, was not this my saying when I was 430 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,120 yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto 431 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:32,000 Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and 432 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,240 merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness and repentance 433 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,960 Thee of the evil. How low do you have to go to 434 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,840 blame God? I mean, I mean honestly, how low 435 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,000 do you have to get in your Christianity? 436 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,280 Not not saying that something as bad has happened, but something 437 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,120 great has happened. An entire city has turned to God 438 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:03,280 and and Jonah, the first thing that he does is blame God and 439 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,720 then tries to use God's attributes as an excuse for what 440 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:14,600 he did for disobeying God. We can never question God's ways 441 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:20,560 what we I mean, we can, but God's ways are perfect. 442 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,400 God's ways are set in and sure, Isaiah 55, eight says, for my 443 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,560 thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your neither 444 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,920 are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 445 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,440 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways 446 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,000 higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 447 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:46,440 Psalms 1830 says for as As for God, His way is perfect. 448 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,560 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works. 449 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:56,680 Psalms 14717 Be careful what you think towards God. 450 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,640 Be careful the way that you handle what happens in your 451 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,840 life, your reactions to the way that what God does for you. 452 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,840 God may put you in a trial. Be careful how you react to it. 453 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,240 God may bless you. Be careful how you react to it. 454 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:34,550 Romans 918 turn there. Romans 918 We don't need to 455 00:29:34,550 --> 00:29:40,150 question God's acts, God's judgments, God's mercy. 456 00:29:41,110 --> 00:29:43,110 He doesn't have to explain himself. 457 00:29:44,190 --> 00:29:48,760 And perhaps if if we were, and I think most of us probably would, 458 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,480 we probably would have destroyed Nineveh, We probably would have 459 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,000 said that you deserve this Nineveh done. 460 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,760 But we don't, we don't possess God's grace. 461 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,040 We don't possess God's mercy that he has you're there. 462 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:12,800 Verse Chapter 9, verse 18. Therefore hath he mercy on whom 463 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,840 he will have mercy, and whom he will have he hardeneth. 464 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:23,960 Thou wilt say unto then unto me, Why dost thou yet find fault for 465 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,640 who hath resisted his will? Nay, but, O man, who art thou 466 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,920 that replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say unto 467 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,840 him that formed it? Why hast thou made me thus? 468 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,840 Hath not the Potter power over the clay of the same lump to 469 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,480 make one vessel unto honor, and another under dishonor? 470 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,320 The Bible says you have no right to say anything to God about the 471 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,440 way He does things. God doesn't need to explain it. 472 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,840 God doesn't have to tell you why He did something. 473 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,400 Just know that His way is perfect. 474 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:09,400 Why did my father pass away so early right when it was finally 475 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,880 filmed? Like I had a dad, again, why? 476 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,000 I don't have a reason. I don't have a leg to stand on 477 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,200 to be able to ask God why I don't have a reason to be able 478 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,400 to say you were wrong about doing this. 479 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,360 God's way is perfect. I may not understand it. 480 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,640 Jonah may not have understood why. 481 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:37,000 Why of everything God, would you have me go to give a prophecy 482 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,120 that you knew ahead of time was going to to not happen? 483 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:47,680 Why would you do that to me? But God doesn't have to answer 484 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,960 him. God was concerned with Nineveh. 485 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,840 Yes, He wanted to destroy it because of their wickedness, but 486 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,760 He was concerned about those souls. 487 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,240 Don't ever think that like Noah's flood. 488 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,960 God didn't love all those people that He killed. 489 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,360 God loved every single one of those wicked sinners, just like 490 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,840 He loved Noah. But the Bible says that Noah 491 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,280 found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 492 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,360 It was because Noah's righteousness that the Bible 493 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:20,480 talks about that that's what saved him and his family. 494 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,360 But don't ever think that God hated those other peoples that 495 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,320 that he killed and and drowned in the flood. 496 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,680 God loved them just the same as he loved Noah. 497 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,160 Just like today, God loves every single person on this earth, 498 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,800 loves every single Sinner. I don't care whether you're the 499 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,040 least Sinner or you're the worst one in death row, or you're the 500 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,200 homosexual or you're the fill in the blank. 501 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,960 God loves that person. But the sin has to be judged. 502 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:56,840 And what happened here was the sin was taken care of so that 503 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,360 love could be flown freely. That mercy was able to be shown 504 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,440 because the sin problem was paid for. 505 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,680 But Jonah didn't care. And then the last part, we'll go 506 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,800 quick. The last part of that verse and 507 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,960 he talks about, Oh Lord, was this not my saying when I was 508 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,160 yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto 509 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,400 before unto Tarshish. For I knew that thou art a 510 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:27,440 gracious God and a merciful slow to anger and of great kindness 511 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:33,360 and repentance the of evil. Don't ever think God's grace is 512 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,280 an excuse for your disobedience. Don't ever think that you 513 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,880 getting away with your sin is because God loves you and 514 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,840 because God is just not going to judge that sin. 515 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,400 Be sure your sin will find you out. 516 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:53,520 The Bible says Jonah used God's attributes to say that's why I 517 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,520 disobeyed. I'm justifying why I disobeyed 518 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:02,360 you because if I knew who you are, don't ever get to that 519 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,200 point as a Christian. That's a very, very, very fine 520 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,520 line you're walking on. When you start using God's 521 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:16,320 attributes to justify your sin, you're not just backslide, 522 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:22,960 you've fallen over and you it's it's it's going to be real hard 523 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,760 of a life for you. The way of a transgressor is 524 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,080 hard. First, Peter 222 says it this 525 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,360 way, who think of Christ, think of the the, the one person in 526 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,719 life, in history that didn't deserve what he got. 527 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,320 Christ who hung on the cross, bled and died and destroyed his 528 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,719 body for you and for me. And the Bible said who did no 529 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,360 sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was 530 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,800 reviled, reviled not again when he suffered, he threatened not, 531 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:03,000 but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. 532 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,520 Next time that you think you got the raw deal, think of this 533 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:14,000 cross. You know, when, when we I'm 534 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,600 done, when we have problems happen in our life or we have 535 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,720 issues or, or trials that come in our life. 536 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,960 I think if we would understand how small that trial, how small 537 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,480 that sin that we're getting tempted to do, how insignificant 538 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,960 it it is when faced with what Christ had to deal with, we 539 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,520 would understand. I don't need to yield to this 540 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,040 temptation. I don't I my, my circumstances 541 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,920 aren't as bad as what I think they are when we compare it to 542 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,400 what Christ had to go through. We should have joy, we should 543 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,800 have rejoicing through the fact that God wants to temper us. 544 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,720 Why are you going through a trial? 545 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,600 Because God cares about you, Jonah. 546 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:07,480 You just saw a an entire city be turned around and saved for God. 547 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,480 Yes. Did it ruin your whole career? 548 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,320 Yes. Can you say anything now 549 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,360 prophetic? No, because nobody's going to 550 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,440 believe you. You are now a false prophet. 551 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:23,040 Your whole livelihood is done, but what's more important? 552 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:29,680 Those souls being saved? Are you having a job as 553 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,320 Christians? Those souls mean more anything. 554 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,520 Those souls are what made Christ come to this earth and die. 555 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,120 Your job means nothing compared to those souls. 556 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,880 And we need to have that grasp and that understanding of not 557 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,640 being selfish, not being jealous and being careful about what we 558 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,320 get angry about. And for sure you be be careful 559 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,920 what you say and react to God about what he does. 560 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,920 Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you so 561 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,000 much for your word for for what you've given us and preserved 562 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,720 for us to have for this generation and it forward. 563 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,160 God, I pray that we read it, that we learn what's in your 564 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,240 word, that we we cherish what you've given us. 565 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,440 And God, I pray that we we not forget what you gave us 566 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:25,840 ultimately, when you sacrifice your whole, your only son for us 567 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:31,520 because of us, I pray that we we get a re understanding and a 568 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,880 refocusing on how much that cost you versus what we deal with 569 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,240 every day. It means nothing compared to 570 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,320 what you deal with. God, I thank you for your mercy 571 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,080 and your grace that you showed to us every day and not giving 572 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,560 us what we deserve. I pray that you be with pastor 573 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,040 as he brings the the message this morning, filling with your 574 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,200 spirit as well. And I pray that you be here that 575 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,320 you you meet with us this morning and that you be praised 576 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,680 and honored through everything that happens here today. 577 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,840 And Jesus name I pray, Amen.