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Turn the Bibles this afternoon 
to Jonah chapter 1. 

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Jonah chapter one. 
Man, that's not fair. 

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I don't think my dad wants to 
get his job taken for me. 

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Preaching too good. 
So he's trying to get me to cry 

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before I start. 
But that's good. 

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It's a good service this 
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One thing I want to remind you 
of before I start this afternoon

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is thank God for our pastor. 
He does. 

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He's done so much work to, to 
he's poured so much work into 

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me. 
But if you could see how much he

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does for this church throughout 
the whole week and on Sundays, I

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mean, getting here early all the
time to make sure everything's 

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ready. 
He does so much that nobody else

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gets to see. 
And I'll tell you what you see 

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is what you get. 
He's he's the same here as he is

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at home and anywhere else. 
So thank God for him. 

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I also thank God for him being 
my dad because last night I had 

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to find out the hard way how to 
cut my own hair and it didn't go

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as well as I was thinking it 
was. 

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I got down to here and I was 
thinking, wow, I'm doing pretty 

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good. 
And then and then I went down to

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the three and went all the way 
up here with it. 

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So he had to fix that. 
And you should have seen how 

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hard he was laughing last night.
Couldn't believe it, but so I'm 

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thankful for him being there to 
be able to clean that up too. 

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And then also thank God for 
Johnny. 

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Thank him for for all the years 
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him. 
I'm only 16, but I count it one 

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of the greatest privileges of my
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to know Johnny and to be friends
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So I thank God for that. 
This afternoon Jonah chapter 1 

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And we'll start in verse one 
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It says, Now the word of the 
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Amitai, saying, Arise, go to 
Nineveh that great city, and cry

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against it, for their wickedness
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But Jonah rose up to flee unto 
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the Lord, and went down to 
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And he found a ship going to 
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So he paid the fare thereof and 
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them unto Tarshish from the 
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But the Lord sent out a great 
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there was a mighty Tempest in 
the sea, so that the ship was 

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like to be broken. 
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and cried every man unto his 
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that were in the ship into the 
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But Jonah was gone down into the
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and was fast asleep. 
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and said unto him, What meanest 
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Arise call upon thy God, if so 
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that we perish not. 
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that Jonah is on the run from 
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God told him to go to the people
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Assyrians, and to preach 
repentance to them and to try to

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get them to turn away from all 
the sin that they were in before

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it was too late, before God had 
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And as I said, the people of 
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They were known for their 
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And I think that's one of the 
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all that enthusiastic to go see 
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They were known for for 
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And, and I think another reason 
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because, as we'll see you later 
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selfish, but these people were 
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want to be messed with. 
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give you an idea of how crazy 
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the things that they would do 
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people while they were still 
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And then they would impale 
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They were crazy and they were 
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mess you want to mess with. 
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Jonah essentially backslides 
away from God and we find him in

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a boat headed the opposite 
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Now from Joppa, which was his 
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Tarshish, which is where he was 
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while Nineveh was only 550 miles
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It took him way more effort and 
he used way more resources to go

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away from God than if he had 
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wanted him to do. 
But anyway, we find Jonah in the

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bottom of the ship that's on its
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The shipmaster comes to him and 
says, what meanest thou? 

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O sleeper, arise, call upon thy 
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If so be that God will think 
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The Solomon message this 
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passage and Jonah one verse 6. 
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arise. 
Let's pray and then we'll get 

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into the message this afternoon.
Your father, thank you for this 

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day. 
Thank you for the service and 

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thank you for just the the 
blessing you gave us of, of 

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being able to meet here this 
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well. 
Pray that you keep everybody 

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safe as they're travelling home 
this afternoon. 

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Pray especially for Brother 
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to college. 
Pray that you keep him safe. 

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And then also be with Brother 
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California. 
Pray that you just keep him safe

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with that as well. 
Pray that you'd be with this 

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message. 
Pray that it would touch the 

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hearts of the people that are 
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learn something from the life of
Jonah this afternoon. 

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Pray Jesus give us a good rest 
of our day-to-day in Jesus name,

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Amen. 
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into the points, I want to say 
the message I have for you this 

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afternoon is a lot similar to 
the kind of the kind of what we 

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heard through the Bible 
conference and even what we 

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heard this morning some. 
But I think God's laid it on my 

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heart to preach this and, and I 
just, I hope that it will maybe 

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maybe when you're hearing these 
things again, will will touch 

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your heart in a different way. 
So the first point I have for 

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you this afternoon is what 
meanest thou, O sleeper? 

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What meanest thou, O sleeper? 
Why are you backsliding? 

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Jonah can be compared to a good 
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They're they've backslidden away
from God and they're spiritually

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asleep. 
So what does backsliding look 

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like? 
It comes and oftentimes it comes

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in the form of excuses. 
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well, just a little bit of this 
sin is OK or just a little bit 

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of that sin is OK? 
I'm fine with with doing this as

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long as I can get away with it. 
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away from from your daily Bible 
reading, from studying the Bible

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and do you find yourself getting
away from praying? 

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Do you find yourself making 
excuses for why you can't be in 

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the in the Bible and praying? 
Do you find yourself making 

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excuses for why you can't go to 
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You find yourself acting and 
dressing more like the world and

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listening to the things that the
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If you're, if you're doing these
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indication that you're 
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If you're not going forward for 
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backward. 
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his year long discipleship 
course that we've been going 

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through on Wednesday nights, he 
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The Christian life is a lot like
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kayak or a canoe. 
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upstream, but the moment you 
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the moment you start going 
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And, and that's, that's the way 
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that you can keep going forward 
for Christ, but the moment you 

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stop is the moment that you're 
going to start backsliding away 

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from him. 
So turn in your Bibles to 1st 

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Corinthians chapter 10. 
First Corinthians chapter 10, We

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have no excuses for backsliding.
God has saved us. 

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He's done something that that we
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He's done something that no one 
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He paid. 
He died on the cross to pay for 

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our sins so that we can go to 
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can have a relationship with Him
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Shouldn't that make us want to 
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Shouldn't that make us want to 
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Shouldn't that fact alone keep 
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First Corinthians chapter 10 and
verse 13 says this. 

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There hath no temptation taken 
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man, but God is faithful who 
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tempted above that you're able, 
but will with the temptation 

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also make a way to escape that 
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God tells us in this verse that 
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He'll give us what we need. 

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So when we're tempted to, to do 
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backslide away from him, he 
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through the temptations with us.
So we see that we have no 

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excuses for backsliding, but 
then we also have no excuses for

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being self-centered. 
Jonah was very self-centered in 

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the way that he didn't 
necessarily want the people of 

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Nineveh to repent and, and to 
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And, and we should also not be 
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Christ has done so much for us 
and we're, we're in such a great

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debt to him. 
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that we're nothing without 
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to serve him because of all he's
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So we've seen that it makes no 
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of backsliding. 
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But my second point is this. 
Arise, arise. 

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We live in a time when we need 
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We need Christians who will get 
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We're in a fight for souls. 
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We're in a fight against the 
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It's not a time to sit back and 
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It's a time to wake up and start
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We need Christians who will not 
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We see too many, especially 
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churches just like this that are
giving up everything that 

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they've, they've ever been 
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have known. 
And, and they're, they're 

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backsliding. 
And, and that's, that's not the 

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type of Christian we need today.
We need people who will stand up

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and fight in our churches. 
But then secondly, we need 

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churches to wake up. 
Churches have fallen asleep. 

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They've gotten so close to the 
world with their with the 

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pastors and with the the music 
groups that they have in and 

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it's just, it's crazy. 
But, but churches used to lead 

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their communities and and now 
they're one good musician away 

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from being just like the world. 
But but now they're, they're 

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more than they're just a little 
more than a feel good speech on 

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a Sunday morning for a couple 
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concert. 
It's time for churches to stand 

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up and to fight again for the 
cause of Christ and we need to 

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be a church that does that. 
We need to be fighting and we 

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need to be always going forward 
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We must seek to stand up once 
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in our community and not try to 
fit in with what the world is 

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with is pushing. 
We need to stand up and fight 

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and we need to lead as many 
people to Christ as we can with 

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the time that we have. 
But then thirdly, we need to 

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arise now. 
You don't know how much time you

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have left to serve God. 
We just came back from the, from

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the funeral of, of one of my 
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He was 31 years old. 
You know you don't, you don't 

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know that you have 31 years old,
that you have 31 years to do 

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something for Christ. 
You don't know when your last 

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breath on this earth will be. 
And then also another example, 

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one of my best friends at at 
school, Eli Freeman died when he

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was thirteen years old, a tragic
accident. 

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You, you don't know how much 
time you have. 

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So it's time now to wake up and 
to get in the fight. 

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We also we also know that Christ
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we don't know how soon that is. 
It keeps it's getting closer and

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closer. 
So we need to we need to take 

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the opportunity that we have now
to serve Christ and to and to 

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lead as many people to him as we
can. 

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So we've seen that Jonah was 
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We've seen that who is in need 
of arising. 

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And then lastly, the shipmaster 
wisely told him to call upon thy

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God. 
Call upon thy God. 

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The first thing this means for 
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accepted Christ as your Savior, 
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salvation. 
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needed God for salvation from 
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They couldn't do anything 
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that they were in. 
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same #1 you're drowning in your 
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If you have not accepted Christ 
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in your sin. 
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heaven. 
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guess, reiterated many times, 
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lie, what does everyone call you
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If you steal one thing, what 
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So if you commit one sin, then 
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is enough to keep us out of 
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perfect, He cannot let sin enter
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So number one, you are drowning 
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you're in need of a Savior. 
You're in need of a life 

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preserver, so to speak. 
You can't get to heaven by 

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anything but Christ. 
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illustration before. 
If someone throws you a life 

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preserver, you're not going to 
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You're not going to pay any kind
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You're not going to lean back on
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You're just going to grab it. 
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you take the gift of the life 
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you. 
And Jesus Christ is that life 

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preserver. 
He, he died on the cross. 

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He paid for our sins so that we 
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when we die. 
So once you realize that you're 

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drowning in your sin and that 
you can't get to heaven on your 

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own because of your sin, that 
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need of a Savior, then third, 
you must call upon the Lord, 

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call upon Him to, to save you 
and to and to, to forgive you of

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all your sins and to come into 
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have a relationship with Him and
so you can go to heaven when you

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die. 
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called upon Him for salvation, 
which I hope many of you in here

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have already done, we must call 
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We must use God's power. 
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this recently, but, but God 
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It's, it's there, it's at our 
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to use it. 
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his power? 
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his word. 
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getting into his word and 
studying and, and seeing what he

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has for us to do. 
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power if you're reading the, the
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But then second, we can access 
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Pray and ask God every day to 
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Power to witness, power to be 
bold for him and, and, and power

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to to get through the everyday. 
Neither Jonah nor the men with 

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him had any power to stop the 
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God is the only one who could 
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He's the only one from whom we 
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So, so first, we must call upon 
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And then lastly, we must call 
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Sometimes in the Christian life,
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It may be a loved one dying, it 
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sin or your backsliding away 
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We may lose a battle here and 
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And when these troubles come, we
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He'll, he'll give us strength. 
Second Timothy 17 says, For God 

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has not given us a spirit of 
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and of a sound mind. 
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when, when we need it and when 
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So he will help us in our time 
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And we can give everything that 
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can handle it. 
And so first, Peter 57, many of 

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you know this verse says casting
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careth for you cast everything 
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He cares for you and he can he 
can handle any situation that 

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you ask him to help you with. 
So we can rely on God's strength

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to help us get through this 
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So we've been able to learn, 
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learn a lot from the from 
Jonah's life and from the lives 

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of the men that were on the ship
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In closing, we see that Jonah 
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Thankfully, he it took took a 
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He had to get swallowed by a 
great fish and and then thrown 

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up. 
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God told him to do and we and 
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was able to get a lot of good 
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So how about you this afternoon?
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If you are that I beg of you to 
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It's time for for us as 
Christians to wake up to get in 

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the fight. 
Have you called upon God for 

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salvation? 
If if that's you, I beg you that

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you get your eternity settled 
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You don't know how much time you
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then remember that since you 
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have left, serve God with all 
the time that you do have and 

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make today count for Christ. 
What a powerful lesson from the 

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life of Jonah. 
Are you asleep? 

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Then I beg of you, O sleeper, 
arise. 

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Let's pray your Father, thank 
you for this day again. 

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Pray that you'd just touch the 
touch the hearts and the lives 

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of the people here. 
Thank you for their willingness 

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to to be here and to to hear all
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this this church. 
I thank you for this church and 

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for the pastor. 
Pray that you'd continue to give

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us power and help us to to be 
able to make an impact in this 

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community and in this world for 
you and also to be able to lead 

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many people to you in the time 
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Pray that you give us a good 
rest of our day today in Jesus 

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name, Amen.