1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,560 You know, there is in this church. 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,240 I'm going to start with this. In this church are people that 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,840 have been in prison. I know my friend Jovan. 4 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,960 I know this church. There's somebody like Chris who 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,080 so beautifully read the Scriptures. 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,280 Is, is that such an amazing transformation almost We, we saw 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,759 it. It's part of this church. 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:38,640 In this church, there are people who have been into prostitution, 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,760 but they are part of us because it's a story that God want to 10 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,960 tell. There's a story of God that's 11 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,080 actually need to go out of this place in this church. 12 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,920 I've met people who have gone to fight war in Angola, neighboring 13 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,040 country, to my own country, because they thought that 14 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,320 communism was the biggest problem in this church. 15 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,520 But we hug each other in this church because God has weaved 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,680 our past stories into his stories, and we are part of this 17 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,000 church. In this church, I made a brother 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,640 of mine who used to be a member of the MK encounter with his 19 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,800 way, but he's a brother of mine. In this church, people have lost 20 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:36,560 the loved one in this church due to crime and sometimes those 21 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,520 crime has been committed by farm workers. 22 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,720 But in this church, black and white, we are worshipping 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,920 together in this church. We are telling a new story 24 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,400 because God has got a new story for this nation and it is 25 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:57,120 starting from this church and from any other church in 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,080 Pretoria. That should be the story. 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,240 And I think that's that's why we are in Jonah today. 28 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:05,800 It's not a matter of coincidence. 29 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:11,920 God knew that today we'll be here and he actually guided us 30 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,560 in an amazing way. Sometimes things don't make 31 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,560 sense, but when we look back, it always makes sense. 32 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,360 Who came up with this idea of Jonah? 33 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,840 You know, Rory set us around the table, but I think it was God 34 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:30,320 that's knew that we needed to, to go through Jonah in this 35 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,400 church. You know, you probably ask 36 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,440 yourself when we were going through Jonah, it was probably 2 37 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,200 weeks ago when Eugene was preaching and he, and he said 38 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,920 something significant and I was actually studying at the same 39 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:51,480 time around Jonah chapter 2. And he he told us that Jonah was 40 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,720 quoting the scriptures. He was quoting the scriptures. 41 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,440 He didn't have a bubble in the belly of a well. 42 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,080 I mean, just imagine a bubble inside what was going to he 43 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,120 didn't have an iPad, you know, because you say I'll, I'll take 44 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,560 my iPad in there because I can see in the dark one with my 45 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,720 iPad. He couldn't take it. 46 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,880 The battery wasn't going to work. 47 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,360 Just going to be a monument, monumental load shedding in that 48 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:21,520 belly of a well. It couldn't take it couldn't 49 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,040 take it. He could he could actually take 50 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:31,080 his iPads, but he was quoting from memory. 51 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,560 He was quoting the scriptures from memory. 52 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,120 And I had to ask myself how can someone know the scripture so 53 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,840 well? You know, there's something that 54 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,960 theologian have actually invented or maybe study. 55 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:52,080 They call it a gas gasmus. It almost like the word where 56 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,160 the word cross comes from, where the word X come from. 57 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:01,880 In fact, to to show us that I've got a, a slide Tana, if you can 58 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,840 show us that. So, so when you there's, there's 59 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:11,280 something called parallelism into the scriptures or 60 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:17,360 repetitions or symmetry into the Scriptures and the theologian, 61 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,839 I've actually called that Chasmus, something like that. 62 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,240 It's in, it's in, it isn't in, in Greek. 63 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,960 And that's what it's one of the techniques that the Hebrews were 64 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,080 using when they were reading the scriptures. 65 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,720 So that when you are repeating verse after verse, verse after 66 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,320 verse, we remember the text. We remember the text to such a 67 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:47,120 point that even in the belly of a fish, oliveoid well of a fish, 68 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,240 I'll avoid that. Even in the belly of a fish, we 69 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,200 can still remember the scripture because we have repeated it so 70 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,000 much. I'm actually going to 71 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:00,840 demonstrate a little bit of that. 72 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:06,040 We're going to read into Psalms. We're going to look into Psalms 73 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,480 67. I wish I can find it quickly. 74 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:17,040 Psalm, Let's be honest, English is not an easy language. 75 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,200 I don't know why you say some. I see there's AP there. 76 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:31,840 I actually prefer Afrikaans because it is Basalms. 77 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,240 Guys, let's be serious. OK? 78 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,840 Let me demonstrate that to you. I'll close my bubble. 79 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,080 OK, I'll close my bubble. I'll open it. 80 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,440 The P is still there. Basalms so I, I don't know where 81 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:55,480 you got Psalm from. I'm so glad that Chris read the 82 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,240 scriptures for us in I mean, in Afrikaans. 83 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:59,880 So if we look at it's actually Psalm. 84 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:05,640 OK, Psalms 67 verse one. May God be gracious to us and 85 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,000 bless us and make his face shine upon us. 86 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,560 Let's go to verse seven. God will bless us and all the 87 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,560 end of the earth will fear him. You know I know this this this 88 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,760 scripture because somebody call Nick Chadwick wrote a song. 89 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,960 Verse two, may people, May God people praise him. 90 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:28,920 Verse three, may the people praise him. 91 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,240 Verse four, may the nation be glad. 92 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,480 Verse five, may the people praise him. 93 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,760 May the people praise him, may the people praise him. 94 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:41,200 The text you'll never forget the test the text when you use the, 95 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,760 the, the, the basically the Hebrew parallelism. 96 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,720 We've got rhymes in in English, but they've got parallelism. 97 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,320 So they repeat the the same word a couple of time to say 98 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,840 different things or they use different words to say the same 99 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:58,640 thing so that we don't forget the scriptures. 100 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,680 But more than that, they will use repetition so that we don't 101 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,480 forget verses. So when you read verse one and 102 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,000 verse seven, actually this is reminding us of Genesis 12, I 103 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,320 will bless you. May God be gracious to us and 104 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,000 bless us and make his face shine upon us. 105 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,040 So that verse seven, God will bless us and all the end of the 106 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,040 earth will fear him. I will bless you and you'll be 107 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,120 such a blessing that all the end of the earth will also fear him. 108 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:33,040 So you'll never forget Genesis 12 because you read some 67. 109 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,240 You never forget number six because you read Psalm 67. 110 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,760 May God be gracious to us and make his face shine upon us. 111 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,600 That's how he remembered the word of God. 112 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,200 Even in difficult situation, He remembered the word of God. 113 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,600 When you go into into Psalm 2, I mean into Jonah two, you will 114 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,080 hear a lot of I, me, my, I, me, my. 115 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:01,600 Even if we have to start by remembering Scriptures that are 116 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,680 selfish, scriptures that are beneficial to us, there will 117 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,120 come a time where we will actually mature and we'll start 118 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,080 now remembering even the scriptures that are beneficial 119 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,680 to others. Let's start where we are. 120 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,520 Let's start where we are. Jonah was a very selfish person, 121 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,720 but he started where he was. You know, this thing of 122 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:30,320 parallelism wasn't just in the Psalm when somebody called 123 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,039 William D Ramsay started looking at it. 124 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,039 I've got some slides there. You see the slide of the arrows. 125 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,200 Let's let's look at it again. Let's let's go to John, 126 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,280 actually, Jonah chapter 2 and let us look at the the 127 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:53,080 Scriptures, Jonah chapter two. First two, we see that Jonah, if 128 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,320 you just, I hope you brought your Bible in the middle of the 129 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,560 of the Bible. You see that chapter 2 is 130 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:04,000 referring verse two is referring to Psalm 18, verse 6, verse 3, 131 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:09,520 Psalm 888, verse 6 next slide. Yeah, yeah, that that's a slide 132 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,640 there. So if you look at Jonah two 133 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,840 chapter 2 verse 2, Psalm 18 verse 6, verse 3, Psalm 88, 134 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:24,400 verse 6, verse 4, Psalm 31, verse 2, verse 5, Psalm 69 verse 135 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,800 12. But in the some way verse 8 is 136 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:36,400 now referring to two kings 1715. And then he carries on verse 92, 137 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:43,720 King 17, sorry, verse 9, Psalm 50, verse Psalm 50 verse 14. 138 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,040 We can see there that Jonah is actually quoting the scriptures, 139 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:53,200 the Psalm. But somehow there is one kind of 140 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,440 anomaly. Everything is parallel. 141 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,040 That's why I've got a, a, a, a, a there. 142 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,000 But then on verse 8 there's AB because the primary scripture 143 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,920 that is quoting is actually 2 king 17, verse 15. 144 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,480 And then after that there's, there's another parallel that 145 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,400 comes back. There's kind of a symmetry and 146 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,080 you're going to tell me that, you know, what kind of a 147 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,200 symmetry do you see, Christian? Because it seems like there are 148 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,520 more A's at the beginning than they are at the end. 149 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,080 And then there's kind of a parallel line that is different 150 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,120 to the others. So these theologians are saying 151 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,480 you actually need to read the Scripture that parallelism that 152 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:38,800 that chaosm by starting from left to right but then from top 153 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,480 to bottom. So if we we start reading the 154 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:47,160 scriptures in the same way like that, you can see what is 155 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,120 happening there by then. Remember we are part of a 156 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,840 Kingdom of God which is different to the Kingdom of the 157 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,200 world. There is a chasm. 158 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,480 The world is looking at things differently and we have to come 159 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:06,360 with a counter culture. So if we turn that X upside 160 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:13,040 down, guess what happened? 5 verses that we started with a, 161 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:18,120 a, a, A and then there's one verse that is a bit different, 162 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,160 it's AB. And then there's another one 163 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,880 verse that is going up. There is a picture of the cross. 164 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:33,280 Even when you study the pattern that the Hebrews were using. 165 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,160 My verse point. My first point was the 166 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:43,040 repetition allows us to remember the text, but the repetition 167 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,240 also allows us to remember the texture. 168 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,160 Let's do this. If you touch your bubble like 169 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,800 this, if you touch your bubble like this, there should be a 170 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:01,240 texture that one should feel because there are mountains and 171 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,440 ridges, there are mountains and valleys, There are parallel 172 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:10,840 lines that we we should be able to feel if we were reading it in 173 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,760 Hebrew. The texture of the text is 174 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,520 actually the cross. Every scripture that we read 175 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:25,720 from Genesis to Revelation is talking to us about the texture 176 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,720 of the Scripture, which is the cross. 177 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,200 We remember the text, but then there's also a texture. 178 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,840 It's a cross. There are more people that have 179 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:42,560 looked into this parallelism, and somehow even God is using 180 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,880 this parallelism. So we read the test, the text, 181 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,480 we remember the texture of the scripture so that when we are in 182 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,800 a context, we can actually apply the scripture. 183 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,320 Somebody else look at the parallelism and pointed out 184 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,480 something quite important that when you read Genesis 37, for 185 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:07,960 instance, it's a story of Joseph. 186 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,840 We all know the story of Joseph that is being sold by his 187 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,600 brothers into slavery into Egypt. 188 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:22,560 But then when you go to Genesis 38, it's a story of Judah and 189 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:26,320 Tamar. When you carry on to Genesis 39, 190 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:30,800 it's a story of Joseph again, you see the parallel. 191 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,720 There's a parallel there, but then the parallel of God will 192 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,720 always get us to a place where we ask ourselves what is the the 193 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,920 texture? Yes, the text is written Joseph, 194 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:47,760 Judah, Tamar and then Joseph again, but what is it that God 195 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,440 is wanting to communicate to us in that? 196 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,920 If you go deeper, you realise that Joseph was sold into 197 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:02,600 slavery because the older brother could not accept that he 198 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,800 will serve. He will serve the younger 199 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:10,560 brother. Then we carry on with Judah and 200 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,960 you ask yourself by then, what's the story of Judah and Tamar in 201 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,360 there? Let's go back to the other end, 202 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,720 Genesis 38 or Genesis actually 48. 203 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,680 Jacob is blessing Joseph's children. 204 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,440 How? How does he do that? 205 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:35,720 Instead of blessing menace as the first born, he actually 206 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,920 blessed Ephraim as the first born. 207 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,200 Why? Because of the cross. 208 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:45,920 Again, the younger will actually be served by the older. 209 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,800 Guess what? Now we go back to Judah and 210 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,360 Tamar. What do we see? 211 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:57,640 Parallelism. Symmetry because Judah and Tamar 212 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,280 will have children and guess what, we don't even know what is 213 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,200 the name. You can go and read it up of the 214 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,080 older brother, but we remember the name of the younger brother, 215 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,240 which is Perez, which is breakthrough. 216 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Actually, the younger will be the one that will have a 217 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:19,200 breakthrough, while the older will serve the younger. 218 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:24,560 The texture of scripture. We are the older brother. 219 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,920 We have known Jesus before the world. 220 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,160 We have known Jesus before the lost. 221 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:37,080 We are the older brother. But the texture of Scripture is 222 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,240 that the older will serve the younger. 223 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,640 The one who will be first will be lost. 224 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,920 In fact, God was reversing the order by saying, you know, 225 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:54,640 actually the natural order where we serve the older is actually 226 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,840 going to be reversed by a spiritual order where we 227 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:04,440 actually serve the younger. So we as Christian, we serve the 228 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:08,840 lost, not the other way around, because we are the older 229 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,440 brothers. That the texture of Scripture, 230 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:16,000 it's a texture of the cross. It's a covenant message. 231 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,160 Sorry, my, my mouth is getting a bit dry. 232 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:23,880 I have some water. Sorry, there's no word in 233 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:33,350 Pretoria. So it's a bit of a problem that 234 00:16:33,350 --> 00:16:40,390 the texture of Scripture, one other thing that the Hebrew will 235 00:16:40,390 --> 00:16:45,630 use, not just so that you can remember the text, so that you 236 00:16:45,630 --> 00:16:51,150 can remember the texture. The older will serve the 237 00:16:51,150 --> 00:16:54,990 younger. The Hebrew will also just miss 238 00:16:54,990 --> 00:16:59,360 out a word from the from the scripture. 239 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,920 So if you know a scripture quite well purposely, they'll just 240 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,000 drop one word so that you can fill it. 241 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:15,319 In Isaiah 6, verse eight, the word of God says, who shall I 242 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:17,400 send? And then there was a silence. 243 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,760 God didn't say he was talking to Isaiah, but he didn't say Isaiah 244 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,920 want to send you. He just said, who shall I send? 245 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,680 So God dropped out the name of Isaiah. 246 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,320 Why? Because the Scripture is written 247 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:38,160 in such a way that we have to fill in the dot ourselves. 248 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:44,360 When God was saying, I've heard the wickedness or maybe the 249 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:48,600 wickedness of Nineveh has come to me, He didn't even have to 250 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,360 carry on by saying Jonah go because Jonah knew Isaiah. 251 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,440 He could have filled in the dot by just putting His name in. 252 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,000 But unfortunately, Jonah couldn't fill in the dot. 253 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,680 So sometimes the Scripture will just leave a blank so that we 254 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:09,160 can put in our name because God is wanting all of us to 255 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,760 participate in what He's doing. What is the dot that we have to 256 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,080 fill in? Whether you are MK veterans, 257 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:23,200 maybe maybe you are you're a farmer that has been so hurt by 258 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,440 the crime rate in this country. Maybe you are a girl that is 259 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:34,960 currently at Girls High. God is saying, who shall I send? 260 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,000 And it is for us to fill in the dot because the gospel is a 261 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,560 gospel where we participate in what God is doing. 262 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,560 And he's saying, will you fill in the dot and go? 263 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,560 Jonah said, no, I'm not going to go, I'm not going to go. 264 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,320 And if we carry on looking at the parallelism, we look at the 265 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:01,040 parallelism, you realize that Jonah one verse one to two, the 266 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:05,360 Word of God came to Jonah. Jonah 3 verse one to two, the 267 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:08,200 Word of God came to Jonah parallel, another parallel. 268 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,640 And then in Jonah one verse one to two, God says the wickedness 269 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,480 go to Jonah because the wickedness have come before me. 270 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,040 But then when you go to Jonah 3 verse one to two, there's no 271 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:26,200 wickedness that is actually referred to there because God, 272 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:31,160 Jonah was supposed to know that when God sees wickedness on the 273 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,520 land and when he sends somebody, that wickedness is actually 274 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:41,640 going to disappear because my person, my, my, my prophet has 275 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,920 filled in his name to actually go there. 276 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,000 So Jonah understood, he knew exactly what he was supposed to 277 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,040 do. He knew that the other has 278 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,200 changed. He knew that he was a Hebrew. 279 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,840 If you go into Jonah one verse eight, I think they asked him, 280 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,360 who are you? He said, I am a Hebrew and I 281 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:03,600 serve the God of Israel. I know my calling. 282 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,120 I know the calling is to be the older brother that will serve 283 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,680 the younger brother. The younger brother is the rest 284 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,680 of the world. The younger brother is people 285 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,480 who are still lost. And as an older brother, I'll 286 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,040 serve them. I will go. 287 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,120 But Jonah didn't want to go. And the question is, why did he 288 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:30,160 not want to go? You know, as as we're going 289 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:35,040 through the scriptures, studying through Jonah's, I kept on 290 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,720 asking myself, why did he not want to go? 291 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,760 Jonah 4 verse one to two, he said I'm angry. 292 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,880 In fact, I'm displeased. I'm so displeased that I'm 293 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,920 angry. Interesting. 294 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,120 When you go into the concordance in the middle of your Bible, 295 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:01,200 Luke 1528 is actually the reference, the cross reference 296 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,400 to I am angry. I'm displeased. 297 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,280 If we know Luke 15, and I think we should know we've just come 298 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,520 out of Galatians. Luke 15 talks about the older 299 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,080 brother. This is the older brother that 300 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:20,520 was so angry that the younger brother has come home. 301 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,840 I am angry, God, because the younger brother has come home. 302 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,840 Jonah is saying I am angry because Nineveh has come home. 303 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:37,880 I am angry because Nineveh has wasted so much of my opportunity 304 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,600 and now Nineveh has come home. I'm angry because you have 305 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:48,400 accepted Nineveh. I was standing under my shelter 306 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,320 hoping that you're going to destroy Nineveh, but now you've 307 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,600 accepted Nineveh. I am angry. 308 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,360 I want to die. I would rather die than have the 309 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:59,960 younger brother come home. Parallelism. 310 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,920 The man, The same man that wanted to die from the fish from 311 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,400 the boat, rather also wanted to die because they're younger. 312 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:14,280 So the same anger that was with him in chapter one is the same 313 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,280 anger that is parallel in chapter 4. 314 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,920 There's a parallelism there and God is wanting to tell us a 315 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,320 story what is happening. What was what was he so angry 316 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,960 about? You know, there's a, there was a 317 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:40,560 shaking in Jonah's life in Revelation 3, verse 5 / 7, the 318 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,920 God words comes to, I mean God's words comes to the, to the 319 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:47,040 people of Philadelphia and say stand strong. 320 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,560 I know where you are. I know you are living on a, on 321 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:55,280 a, on a land that is prone to earthquakes, just like Pretoria. 322 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,840 By the way, the name of Pretoria was Pretoria, Philadelphia. 323 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,760 I know what you're going through, the earthquakes. 324 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,960 There's always a problem, there's always something 325 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,360 shaking, but stand strong. I will make you a pillar in the 326 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:14,760 House of God. Stand strong. 327 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:20,120 There's a shaking but stand strong Philadelphia. 328 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,360 But then what happened is that the shaking became so much that 329 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,440 the change the name to from Philadelphia. 330 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:32,800 It became Neo Caesarea, which is the King Caesar. 331 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,160 So basically they named themselves after the king. 332 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,200 Mitchell Dyer said something quite profound when he was 333 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,720 preaching. The king responded because the 334 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,360 people responded to God. But here Philadelphia changed 335 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:51,400 their name so that they can be serving the king instead of 336 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:57,280 serving God. Philadelphia, Pretoria, there's 337 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,240 a shaking. Are you going, are we going to 338 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,120 to, to actually give up our name, which is Our Calling 339 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,800 Bradley love, Pretoria Bradley love. 340 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,440 There's a shaking. The shaking could be the 341 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:27,120 WhatsApp group 12 Girls 01212 twelve 1120 The shaking could be 342 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,720 that. But are we going to stop being 343 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:37,120 our brother's keeper? There's a shaking. 344 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:44,040 Maybe the shaking is how much one has lost, how much 345 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,280 inheritance we have lost because of the younger brother, the 346 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,040 Ninevite. You know, Jonah had lost a lot. 347 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,600 He had lost a lot because of the Ninevite. 348 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,680 People died in his family. I'm sure friend died, he lost a 349 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,800 lot. There was a shaking, but God is 350 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,840 saying, you know what, I'm actually going to show you 351 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,640 something. Another parallelism. 352 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,720 Look at the response of Nineveh as we were studying, I looked at 353 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,760 it and I thought, how come in Jonah 3 verse seven, I think 354 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:24,440 people of Nineveh or maybe the king decreed of fire a fast. 355 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,240 Sorry. And that fast was also covering 356 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,120 the animals. What type of a fast do you do 357 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:33,520 where you're actually forcing your dog to go on a fast? 358 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,800 I know women who don't fast because they are breastfeeding 359 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,880 because you don't want to cause somebody else to fast, whereas 360 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,440 that person doesn't have a will to fast. 361 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,480 But here the ninvite actually say where we know that our our 362 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,880 our animals don't have a world to fast, but we're actually 363 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:56,400 going to cause them to fast. What was happening, God is 364 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,680 drawing the attention or our attention, the attention of 365 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,680 Jonah to the fact that there was a great revival in Nineveh. 366 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,920 The revival was such that people accept not only they accepted to 367 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:14,320 serve God, but they accepted to to serve God with everything 368 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:20,360 that they had, even the kettle and they herd their possession. 369 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:26,520 You know, Eugene said. We are not going to go for cars, 370 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,520 We're not going to go for houses. 371 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,080 We're going to go for people. But how do you know? 372 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,920 How do we know that we have gone for people? 373 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:41,120 We know that we have gone for people when we can go with our 374 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,840 cars, with our houses, with our kettle. 375 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:58,520 Exodus 10 verse 26 says we will go with our animals because we 376 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,600 need to go and worship God. Therefore we'll go with our 377 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,560 animals. Not a single hoof will remain 378 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,720 into the land. We will go with our animals. 379 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,480 And these are the people that were the sinful people, the 380 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,760 Ninevite. They were the cruel people. 381 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,720 They were the people that wanted to destroy everything. 382 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,880 But revival came to a place to them such that they decided that 383 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,120 they are not. They are going to go with their 384 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,560 possession. And Jonah wasn't pleased with 385 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,160 that. The father saying I'm going to 386 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,960 add so many people to you so that the story that you'll be 387 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,000 able to tell will be like the story of the Ninevite. 388 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,920 They were in the dark, the chasm was so big. 389 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,480 But their conversion will be such that the people that we are 390 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,600 waiting for, their conversion will be such that they will go 391 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,200 not just themselves only, but they will go with the cattle, 392 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,440 they will go with the possession, they will go with 393 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,960 the houses. They will be part of our story 394 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,320 that so and so was involved in this crime. 395 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,880 But now he's part of three CI. And as part of three CI, he's 396 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,120 going to go with his cattle, he's going to go with his 397 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,880 possession, with his Land Cruiser, with everything. 398 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:24,080 Are you going to be unhappy about that, like Jonah, or are 399 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,560 you going to celebrate that these people were lost, but now 400 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,280 they've come home? The younger brother went and 401 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:37,040 took everything. We lost so much, but now he's 402 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,440 back. Are we going to celebrate that? 403 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,440 Jonah couldn't celebrate that story. 404 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,360 Why couldn't celebrate because he thought that he had lost so 405 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,000 much. He thought that he had lost so 406 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,280 much. And God said, OK, you know what? 407 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,040 I'm actually going to paint a picture. 408 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,280 I'm going to show you how much you lost. 409 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,160 The scripture carries on. Jonah built a suka. 410 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,640 You know what is a suka? A suka is actually a shelter. 411 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,760 A shelter, but in South Africa, we're going to call it John 412 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,000 Dole, a shack. That was a suka. 413 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,200 Jonah built a suka and that's suka. 414 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,520 If you go into the history into into into the feast of Israel 415 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,880 was supposed to be something temporal. 416 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,840 If you could maybe just have the the picture, there was supposed 417 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:41,120 to be something temporal and God said, I'm Jonah said, I'm going 418 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,520 to to shelter myself by something temporal. 419 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,640 And God said, I'm actually going to show you something even more 420 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,920 profound. I'll make it a bit. 421 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,800 I'll, I'll give you an upgrade to Yosuka, to your, to your John 422 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,040 Dole. Have you seen, have you seen a 423 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:03,960 shack that has been upgraded? Go drive next to a Township. 424 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,800 You see a shack and sometime you see that they've got a DSTV. 425 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:12,680 It looks strange. Maybe you've got an upgrade. 426 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,480 Maybe you've got an upgrade. Maybe now it's not, it's not a 427 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,600 Sheikh, but actually God is saying, OK, I'll just give you, 428 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,520 you live on an estate now. Now it's an estate. 429 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,040 It's an Jean Dolo. But actually I'll put it on an 430 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,240 estate. Maybe I'll add some megs onto 431 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,560 that car. Maybe I'll put a sound roof, but 432 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:38,480 the picture is still the same. It's a temporal habitat. 433 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,280 It's still going to be destroyed even if it has got a land 434 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:48,840 departure warning sign or even if it has got, you know, speed. 435 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,760 What is that? Cruise control? 436 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,840 Even if it has got security, even if it is still a temporal 437 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:00,840 picture, it's an upgrade of a sukkah, an upgrade of a temporal 438 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,600 picture. And God painted the picture to 439 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,720 Jonah by actually getting a worm to come and eat it up. 440 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,880 Because whatever that is earthly will be eaten up so that we can 441 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,640 only build things that are eternal. 442 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:25,160 Because what is eternal will not be heated up, will not be eaten 443 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,840 up. It will remain. 444 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:32,400 But Jonah was investing into something that was temporal and 445 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,280 God painted a picture and said, I will upgrade it, but it will 446 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,920 still die. I will upgrade it, but it will 447 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,600 still be eaten by worms of this earth. 448 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,800 The Ninevite chose something that was eternal, the blood. 449 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,680 The blood they kept, the cows, they kept the animals so that, 450 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,360 like the Egyptian, they could also go and worship that same 451 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,560 God with the cows. Something eternal. 452 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,400 But he was holding on to something temporal. 453 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,880 And he got so upset because they took things away from him. 454 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,240 I wouldn't want to end without paying tribute to my Afrikaans 455 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,000 teacher. I was born on the 1st of July. 456 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,880 One of my spiritual heroes born on the 13th of July. 457 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,360 She lost. Mandela was born on the 18th of 458 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,960 July. On the same day that Mandela was 459 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:40,040 born, she lost her whole family in a car crash. 460 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:51,400 Husband, two sons, one day gone. But you know what the word of 461 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,160 God says in Matthew 10 verse 48, I will never actually verse 28, 462 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,760 I will never forget that Scripture because I've got the 463 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,640 understanding of that Scripture because she said I am looking 464 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,840 forward to the day that I will meet them again. 465 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:16,600 The temporal absence cannot be overwhelmed, more overwhelming 466 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,720 than the eternal presence that I'm going to enjoy with them 467 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,920 when I meet them again. She could have say, look at what 468 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,760 life has taken away from me. She could have say, like Jonah, 469 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,000 look at what the Nineveh have taken away from me. 470 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,160 She could have say like some of us who say, look at what that MK 471 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,640 veteran took away from me. Or she could have say, look at 472 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,520 those farm workers, look at what they've taken away from me. 473 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:47,960 But we only say that if our perspective is only temporal. 474 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,880 But if our perspective is eternal, we'll understand that 475 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,320 this is just a sukkah. We can upgrade it as much as we 476 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,480 want. Worms will still eat it. 477 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,880 But if we we know that we've got an eternal home, we're not going 478 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,320 to be upset by what we have lost. 479 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,920 And we will actually go and welcome even those very same 480 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,199 people that have been so harmful to us and say, come, let us be 481 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,520 part of the story. The story will be we were at 482 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,840 each other where brother dwells together. 483 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,600 It's not brothers that that that get along. 484 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,000 It's brothers that we're in conflict when they get together. 485 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:33,440 God commands his blessing. I'll finish with this picture. 486 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,400 I don't know if you know that that that picture, if I say that 487 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:43,639 she is Elizabeth Elliot, you probably know the story. 488 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,480 Two years. Her daughter's there, probably 2 489 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,880 years old. So when her husband left, she 490 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,920 was probably pregnant. He went to to Nicaragua, 491 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,400 somewhere there to preach the gospel. 492 00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,000 Unfortunately, there were brutal people, almost like the 493 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Ninovite. Kill them. 494 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:10,320 Two years later, after she mourned, she didn't say I want 495 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:16,320 to die. She went to the same village and 496 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,320 preach the gospel. She could have said, look at 497 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,720 what I've lost. But she probably said this was 498 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,480 temporal. But Jim is in heaven. 499 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,760 These are the people that killed him. 500 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:35,880 But now they'll become part of the story, just like AMK veteran 501 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:41,200 is now part of the story. We are going telling the good 502 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:47,480 news of Jesus, the grace of God, just like that, that that that 503 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,880 soldier that went to fight people in Angola because they 504 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:57,160 were they were they were communists who say I'm part of 505 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,600 the story. They took away something 506 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,760 temporal from me, but actually I'm going to go to that island 507 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,480 in Nicaragua or whatever it was. I will deposit something eternal 508 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,080 in that, in Jesus name, Amen.