1 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:05,100 I would like to invite your attention to the Book of Jonah. 2 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:11,600 This morning, Jonah, if you don't know as part of the twelve 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,500 books as we classify as the Minor Prophets, it is the last 4 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:19,500 12 books of the Old Testament and there are the the Major 5 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:23,200 Prophets which are just before. Then and you may be thinking, 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,400 well what's the difference between Major Prophets of Minor 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,700 Prophets? Well, the difference is not 8 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:31,300 because the Minor Prophets have it were Less important than the 9 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:34,000 Major Prophets, The only distinction between the Major 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,600 Prophets and the Minor Prophets. Is that the Minor Prophets were 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,800 just shorter in length than the books and it's unfortunate that 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,100 they're classified as Minor Prophets, but they still hold a 13 00:00:43,108 --> 00:00:46,400 very important message. As we're going to see this 14 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,000 morning throughout the Book of Jonah. 15 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:52,800 Jonah is part of the is probably the most recognized and popular 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,000 book of the Minor Prophets among Bible students and really it's 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,900 popular due to the great fish that swallows up the prophet. 18 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:02,900 Don't Jonah. This fascinated me as a kid. 19 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,600 It's fascinating to my children. When Ravine about such a story 20 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:12,300 is this and I can remember when I first heard about the story of 21 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,900 just drawing this picture and that the time I drew a well and 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,700 this coming up out of the water and swallowing up Jonah and it 23 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:22,800 just, I don't know why it's so vivid in my mind, but it just 24 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,100 made an impression on me in my early childhood. 25 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:29,700 But it's from this event that makes people want to discredit 26 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:34,100 the story as being a true story and thinking it is more of a 27 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:37,200 myth or a tail and not really an actual event. 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,000 Some people just can't believe that a great big fish, would 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 swallow someone up and for that person to survive in the belly 30 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 of that, great fish for three days, And so that brings 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,500 skepticism towards other people but you no matter what, no 32 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:55,000 matter what the Skeptics say or think about the story in the 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,300 Bible, there is one who believed that what is written here in the 34 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:01,700 Book of Jonah was true. In fact, we find that he 35 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:04,700 referenced it in the New Testament and that is Jesus 36 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:08,100 Christ. We find that he says this in 37 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:11,900 Matthew chapter 12 because he referred to Jonah as an analogy 38 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:14,500 to his own death and resurrection and he mentioned 39 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:18,700 that Jonah was a sign because it says in Matthew 12 verse 39, 40 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:22,000 through 41, but he answered and said to them, this is Jesus 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,100 talking here. He says an evil and adulterous 42 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:29,300 generation seeks after a sign and no sign will be given to it 43 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:32,800 except the sign of the prophet Jonah Crest. 44 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,600 Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,200 fish. So will the son of man be three 46 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,100 days and three nights in the heart of the Earth, the men of 47 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:44,000 Nineveh will rise up in the Judgment with this generation 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,300 and condemn it because they pre are there because Repented at 49 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:50,900 the preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is 50 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,600 here. This alone with Jesus 51 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,600 referencing Jonah and the events that happened within the Book of 52 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,200 Jonah is ample proof that this was a true event that we are 53 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,500 going to discuss here this morning. 54 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,600 This is no fairytale, this is nor myth this actually happened. 55 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,700 And so the words of Jesus with him referencing it and saying 56 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,600 that Jonah was a type of himself, being three days, and 57 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,000 three nights in the belly of the whale. 58 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,600 So, will the son of man to his red being buried and then 59 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,800 there's the resurrection. And so this is what these 60 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,100 inspired words. I want to now, take a look at 61 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:33,700 what this book contains for most of you. 62 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:37,100 This is nothing, nothing new within this book but there are a 63 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:39,400 few things that I like to discuss with you as we go 64 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,700 through this book and see if we could better Our Lives as 65 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:46,900 Christians and learn a few things from the character of 66 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,800 Jonah. As a book, first opens, we see 67 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,400 that God has a message for His prophets and we see here in 68 00:03:55,408 --> 00:04:00,700 verses 1 through 3 of chapter 1, Says, now the word of the Lord 69 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:05,700 came to Jonah, the son of a May Atty saying, arise, and go to 70 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:09,100 Nineveh that great City and cry out against it for their 71 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:14,600 wickedness, has come up before me, but Jonah arose to flee to 72 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,300 tarshish from the presence of the Lord. 73 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,400 He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to tarshish so he 74 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,300 paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to tarshish 75 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:30,400 from the presence of the Lord. So We find right at the very 76 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,500 outset here that God has this his message for the prophet. 77 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:40,200 Jonah is simply this you go to the city of Nineveh and you tell 78 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,300 them to repent that is all you have to do. 79 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,700 And so we understand if you if you do some historical 80 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:52,900 background about the city of Nineveh, it was a gentile City 81 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,800 and it was a capital of Assyria. And at this particular time in 82 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,500 Jonah's day the nation of Assyria had was becoming a 83 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,000 rising power and they were feared by many surrounding 84 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,600 Nations due to their ruthlessness among the 85 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,900 surrounding Nations around them. And God had used this. 86 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:15,200 He the nation later on in the years to carry out his Judgment 87 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:20,600 by conquering Israel and leading Samaria away into captivity. 88 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,800 Well at first glance you can see, you can kind of see why 89 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,700 Jonah didn't want to go. I mean, These people are the 90 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:29,200 enemies. These people are going to take 91 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,200 him captive. You want me to go over to the to 92 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:37,800 the enemy and risk my life. Among these people is kind of 93 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,700 what Jonah might have been thinking. 94 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,300 Well there's no telling what they would do to him and someone 95 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,800 think that he didn't go to the great distance that he would 96 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,200 have to travel to tell a he the nation and a brutal Nation to 97 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,500 repent of their Wicked Ways. And if you look at the map of 98 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:57,300 where Jonah was and where Nina was, it was about a 500-mile 99 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:00,700 journey for him to go all that way to a nation. 100 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:02,700 That's not going to treat him very well. 101 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:09,600 He may risk his life and so one may think well certainly 102 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,100 certainly we understand. Why Jonah doesn't want to go? 103 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:15,400 No wonder he wants to go somewhere else than Joe then 104 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,000 Nineveh. Well, hold that thought for a 105 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,500 minute because we're, there's another another reason that's 106 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:25,400 going to pop up in chapter 4 of why he didn't want to go to 107 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,300 Nineveh. Well since he doesn't want to 108 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:30,900 go, he tries to run from the presence of the Lord as the 109 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:36,300 Bible says and here's his first mistake, he tried to get out of 110 00:06:36,308 --> 00:06:41,300 his duty from God by picking and choosing what God wanted him to 111 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:44,800 do. And since he was already a 112 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,500 prophet of the Lord, I doubt he really believed that he could 113 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:49,700 actually free from the presence of the Lord. 114 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:55,200 But even be that as it may, his intent was to get away from the 115 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,800 situation as much as possible and then come up with some kind 116 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:04,200 of excuse as to why he didn't carry out the Lord's message. 117 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:09,200 And so in his attempt to get out of his mission from God, Jonah 118 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,400 had this plan to get away as far as possible. 119 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,500 So we read that he got into a ship, he headed for the city of 120 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:17,500 Tarsus. Now, when you look at Tarsus on 121 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:21,200 the map compared to Nineveh Tarsus was four times the 122 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:27,200 distance than a then Nineveh was were where Jonah was at. 123 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,500 So it was about 2,000 miles away, that Jonah was going to 124 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:34,600 flee from the Lord. And so he gets on board. 125 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,500 He heads to tarshish and I would think at this particular point 126 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:42,500 that John of Jonah thought I've done it, I've got out of my 127 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:45,500 duty, I don't have to go to Nineveh. 128 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,400 I'm busy doing other things and so his plans are going well. 129 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,100 He had run away from God, well, remember God new jounin. 130 00:07:56,300 --> 00:08:00,300 God knew his plans and God was now going to show his 131 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:03,100 disapproval of what Jonah had done. 132 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:07,400 And so we see in verse number 4 here, in chapter 1 where it 133 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,400 says, but the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea and there 134 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,200 was a mighty Tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to be 135 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,000 broken up. So we find here that while Jonah 136 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,900 was selling off to tarshish, God causes this great storm on the 137 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:23,600 seat. And it was so rough that these 138 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,900 men on the ship feared that the ship was going to Fall apart, 139 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,200 these men made a desperate attempt to save themselves in 140 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,600 the ship by throwing the cargo overboard and then offering 141 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,900 prayers unto their false gods. Now, while all this was going on 142 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,500 Jonah is not mentioned. Where was Jonah? 143 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,600 You know, where Jonah was gentle was down in the bottom of the 144 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,300 boat sleeping. Now, how one could sleep through 145 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:54,600 such a storm like that is beyond me? 146 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:58,100 Perhaps, he was just a heavy sleeper, I have no idea. 147 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:00,700 But the captain knew her Jonah was. 148 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:04,200 And so the captain came on down and he joined, he told Jonah to 149 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,400 wake up and start to question. Jonah. 150 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,400 Why is all this happening to us? Are you responsible for all this 151 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,900 great storm that's happening to us after all we're about to lose 152 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:14,900 our lives. Here we got through all the 153 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:17,500 stuff overboard just to save the save the ship and save our 154 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:19,800 lives. And so they begin to question 155 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,400 Jonah here in verses a 8 through 12. 156 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,000 So they said to him please tell us Us for whose cause is trouble 157 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,100 upon us. What is your occupation? 158 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:32,400 And where do you come from? What is your country and of what 159 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,100 people are you? So he said to them, I am a 160 00:09:36,108 --> 00:09:38,800 Hebrew. And I feared the Lord, the god 161 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,000 of Heaven who made the Sea and the dry land, then the men were 162 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,100 exceedingly afraid and said to him, why have you done this for 163 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,300 the men? Knew that he fled from the 164 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:52,800 presence of the Lord because he had told them, then they said to 165 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,700 him. What shall we do to you? 166 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:57,600 That the See may become for us for the sea was growing more 167 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,600 temptress. And he said to them, pick me up 168 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,700 and throw me into the sea, then the sea will become calm for 169 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:07,400 you. For, I know that this great 170 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:13,200 Tempest is because of me. And so we see here that Jonah 171 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,800 tells the truth. He tells them all that. 172 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:15,700 What's going on? Why? 173 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:17,700 They're experiencing this great storm. 174 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:23,000 And why it had come about and he knew it was a punishment from 175 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,700 God because of his Disobedience to do what God wanted him to do. 176 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:30,900 We've seen in times past where God told people, you need to do 177 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:35,000 this, you need to obey my word. And if you don't, you will be 178 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,500 punished time and time again that happens. 179 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:42,300 No matter to a nation or to a certain group of people or to 180 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:45,600 one individual. It happens over and over and 181 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,300 over again. God said, please do what I tell 182 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:51,000 you to do, but if you don't there's going to be a punishment 183 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:55,200 and God is faithful to his word. If you do not do it, you will be 184 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,900 punished. And so is the case with jota and 185 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:00,600 Jonah knows that Jonah's in trouble. 186 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:06,400 Now, And so after Jonah had told him all these things he said you 187 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,000 know I have a remedy just throw me overboard and the Sea will 188 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,700 become called become calm and you guys will be okay. 189 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,900 Now. The main had heard this but they 190 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:22,900 didn't want to quite jump to conclusions, quite yet as to the 191 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:28,600 remedy for for this storm to call because they tried in their 192 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,900 own power, to try to save this ship even more. 193 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,600 But after a while they decided, we can't really save ourselves. 194 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,000 We can't really save this ship and so what they did, they 195 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,300 finally decided to throw Jonah overboard. 196 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,600 And you know what? Just like that, the storm called 197 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:50,900 Just like that. Now, it's interesting to note 198 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,800 that from this event. In verse number, 16 that those 199 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,900 men who had believed in their false gods had now become 200 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:05,000 Believers in the one true God. that kind of jumps off the page 201 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,900 for me and it's interesting to me because you never know 202 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:15,100 Through whatever circumstance, whatever you say, whatever you 203 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,800 do, you never know. When one person could become a 204 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,800 believer in the one, true God, in whatever circumstance, I 205 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:28,300 highly doubt Jonah would have realized that these people will 206 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:32,500 be leaving God because the then throw me overboard and the salt 207 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:34,400 loudness. See just call me like a dude. 208 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:38,000 But they did. They Worship the Lord? 209 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,300 After that, see had calmed and they took the, the operative 210 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:48,000 sacrifice to him and they took vows, as well as the Bible says, 211 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,700 so Jonah. He's now out at Sea, all by 212 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:55,700 himself, with all this cargo that have been thrown overboard, 213 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,200 and here's what happens. Next, in verse number 17, now, 214 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,700 the Lord had prepared, a great fish to swallow, Jonah, and 215 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:04,100 Jonah was in the belly of the fish. 216 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:11,200 Three days and three nights. Now, I put myself in Jonas shoes 217 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,500 many times before, when thinking about this particular situation. 218 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,600 Now, I don't know about you, but I'd be so scared to death being 219 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,400 out in Open Water like that, all by yourself. 220 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:27,900 Because you're helpless, they are floating. 221 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:30,500 You're trying to fight for your life, to stay afloat. 222 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:33,000 You have no idea what's underneath you. 223 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,800 And just that openness to me is scary enough. 224 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:43,000 But now all of a sudden. And I know, I don't know how how 225 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 all this came about. Of course, the Bible says that 226 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,500 the Lord had prepared, this great fish to swallow Jonah. 227 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:51,900 I don't know if it's surfaced a couple times and Jonah kind of 228 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:56,400 seeing out that thinking, what in the world is that I've got to 229 00:13:56,408 --> 00:13:59,000 swim away as quick as I can before that thing gets to me. 230 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:05,400 But then this thing coming up with its mouth wide open and the 231 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:10,900 swallowing Jonah up that scares me just to think about something 232 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,300 like that. And Jonah thinking this is it is 233 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:16,400 how I'm going to die. I'm going to drown. with, in the 234 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,900 belly of this great fish that the Lord had prepared, But 235 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:25,700 that'd be so horrifying, but in this one event, here's where 236 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:27,700 people get all caught up in their skepticism. 237 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:30,600 Saying that there's no way that a well can swallow a human and 238 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,400 even for a human to survive, three days in the will, but 239 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,300 there is one thing to note about this. 240 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:42,500 Whoever said it's a will. Where do we read in the Bible? 241 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:46,600 That this is a? Well, in the Book of Jonah, we 242 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,700 have no idea if it's a well or not. 243 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:55,000 All we know is that God prepared a great fish and it did swallow 244 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,300 him. Now we have no idea what the 245 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:00,100 great fish would have been. It could have been some creature 246 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:04,600 that is extinct for all we know it could have been a well but we 247 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,700 don't know. Even Jesus referred to it as a 248 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:09,600 great fish in Matthew 12 and verse 40. 249 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,200 But whatever it was that God had intended to use to swallow. 250 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,600 Jonah, it happened, and we just need to take the Bible for what 251 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,200 it says. And again, like I said, if Jesus 252 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,800 is backed up the story that's Not for me, we just believe that 253 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,800 this great creature swallowed up Jonah. 254 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:31,200 And so here Jonah is. Now he's all scared. 255 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,800 Probably worn out from the Raging Sea. 256 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,100 He's just been swallowed by this great fish. 257 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:39,300 And he can't see a thing. It's dark in there. 258 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:45,400 Autumn ajan is pitch-black and to me that make it even more 259 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,900 scary, but to add to it, he had to stay alive by trying to keep 260 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:51,100 his head on top of the water while in the belly of that, 261 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:53,200 great fish. Well, needless to say, things 262 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,300 are not going well for Jonah. He think he thought things were 263 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:58,200 going well when he got on that ship. 264 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,100 But now look at his situation. It's completely reverse. 265 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:05,500 He's in the laughing that situation now. 266 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:09,800 And I'm sure I'm surely thought this is how he was going to die, 267 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:15,100 but we come to chapter 2 now. And in all desperation. 268 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,600 Jonah gives a prayer to God. And I want to read this prayer 269 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:24,200 verses 2 through 9 of chapter 2 here. 270 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:28,800 And he said, I cried out to the Lord, because of my Affliction, 271 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,700 and he answered me, out of the belly of she'll like ride and 272 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:36,600 you heard my voice. For you, cast me into the deep 273 00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:40,400 into the heart of the season. The flood surrounded me all your 274 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,500 Billows in your waves passed over me. 275 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,900 Then I said I've been cast out of your sight, Eli will look 276 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:51,000 again. Your Holy Temple, the waters 277 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,200 around me, even to my soul. The Deep closes around me, weeds 278 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,600 were wrapped around my head. I went down in the Moorings of 279 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,600 the mountains, the Earth with its bars. 280 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,200 Close behind me forever. Yet you have brought up my life 281 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,500 from the pit O Lord my God. When my soul fainted within me, 282 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:13,700 I remembered the Lord in my prayer, went up to you into your 283 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:17,700 Holy Temple, those who regard worthless Idols forsake their 284 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:21,400 own Mercy. But I will sacrifice to you with 285 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,300 the voice of Thanksgiving. I will pay what I have valid 286 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:30,600 salvation is of the Lord. I like this prayer. 287 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:35,400 I like it because we see a turn in his life. 288 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,100 It is a change in Jonah's heart throughout this prayer. 289 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:46,700 He realized he had done wrong. He now one of the Second Chance 290 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:49,100 in his life to do, the Lord's will in verse 4. 291 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:52,600 He says that he will look again to his to your Holy Temple which 292 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,100 is the turning point of his repentance. 293 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:59,200 He did not do this at the very beginning when when he was told 294 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,000 to go to Minima and to preach the message of God but he is now 295 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,500 ready to carry out. This message that God had told 296 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:07,500 him to carry out to those people. 297 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:11,300 There are Nineveh and the sprayer is so deep felt by 298 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:14,500 Jonah, it was a life or death situation for him and he wanted 299 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:16,800 to Saved. He wanted to live. 300 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,500 But Jonah, he knew who to turn to. 301 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,800 He knew to turn to God because he was the one who is in 302 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,100 control. And as the Bible says here, as 303 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:33,400 he prays, he knew were salvation came from from no other man from 304 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,000 no other being. Then the Lord, that's whom 305 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,600 salvation comes from And we see keep this in mind, there are, 306 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,600 there are things that sometimes that just don't go right in our 307 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,300 lives. Maybe we get into trouble with 308 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:51,300 debts or, or as an extreme, maybe maybe were found in life 309 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:55,400 percent or death situation but it but really it's a Times Like 310 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,400 These that really make us think of the whole scheme of things 311 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:01,600 because at that time like these, when we're feeling so down and 312 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,800 so whoa. That we tend to think about our 313 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,200 Lord, don't we? And when we tend to think about 314 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,300 our Lord, we realize he knows what's going on. 315 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:20,000 He's in control. And it makes us want to pray 316 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,800 more, doesn't it? I don't know what it is, but in 317 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,500 times, like those, we just feel more closer to God. 318 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,800 Because we know that he can get us through it. 319 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,600 Jonah realized that. And we would do ourselves a 320 00:19:37,608 --> 00:19:41,800 world of a world of good. If we would realize that two 321 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:46,600 moments, like this can bless us because it allows our lot allows 322 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,300 us to refocus Our Lives to Christ and to rededicate our 323 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:53,600 life to him. This certainly was Jonah 324 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,100 situation and the hidden made him want to do what God had 325 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:58,700 commanded him. And so because of this prayer as 326 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:01,400 we see in verse number 10 of chapter 2 and so the Lord spoke 327 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,300 to the fish and it vomited Jonah upon the dry land. 328 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:07,800 In other words, God gave him a second chance and God will ever 329 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,600 give us a second chance too. Because he wants us to do what 330 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,700 is right? And if it takes two or three or 331 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:19,800 four chances, God is willing to give us those chances and praise 332 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:24,700 be to him because of that. Now, it's at this time that the 333 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:29,300 Lord gives Joan another command. The message doesn't change the 334 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:33,200 command doesn't change. He wants Jonah to dude just as 335 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:38,100 he had told him before because he says in chapter 3 now verses 336 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:39,900 1 and 2. Now the word of the Lord came to 337 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:44,100 Jonah the second time saying, arise, go to Nineveh that great 338 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:46,800 City and preach to it. The message that I tell you, 339 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,400 that's exactly the first message that he gave him. 340 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,700 And so Jonah took God's command this time because we find in 341 00:20:56,700 --> 00:20:59,500 verses 3 and 4 of chapter 3. So, Jonah arose and went to 342 00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:01,600 Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. 343 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,100 Now the animal was an exceedingly, great City at three 344 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:07,700 day journey and extent and Jonah began to enter the city on the 345 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:10,900 first day's walk. So he cried out and said yet 346 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,900 forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 347 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:19,000 And so we see that Jonah goes up to the city of Nineveh. 348 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,700 If it says it was a great City and it was a three-day journey 349 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:25,200 in extent in some debate as to what this phrase. 350 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,000 Me. But I, particularly believe that 351 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,100 it refers to the extent of the city being so great. 352 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:34,600 Some have tried to measure the cities with based upon the 353 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,800 three-day journey, and some would suggest that this city is 354 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,100 about five to eight miles across. 355 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,000 And if that's the case, Joan has got quite a bit of preaching to 356 00:21:44,008 --> 00:21:46,200 do. Around the city of Nineveh. 357 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,200 He's got some work to do. But when Jonah enter the city, 358 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,700 he began to preach this message and it's simple, it's short. 359 00:21:55,700 --> 00:22:01,500 It's pointed yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 360 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:11,200 even if it was just that simple today, Well, this message was 361 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,900 enough to get the people to believe God and the change their 362 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:17,500 ways. These people changed in fact, 363 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:21,400 the Bible goes on to say that they were sackcloth they fasted 364 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,000 and it was a widespread movement throughout the entire city and 365 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,400 the word got to the king and the King did just the same as the 366 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,900 rest of the people who were hearing this message from Jonah. 367 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:35,000 And he even made a decree that all men, but not only men, but 368 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,200 all animals to should neither eat nor drink to the due to the 369 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,400 message of the prophet of Jonah. And the King even commanded that 370 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,400 everyone turn from his evil way. And from the violence that is in 371 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,600 his hand and verse number 8. And the reason why as verse 372 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,600 number 9 says, was to try to escape the wrath upon them. 373 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:02,200 They didn't want to destruction. They want to be saved too, and 374 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,300 so here was their moment of repentance. 375 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:11,100 And so listen to verse 10. Then God saw their works and let 376 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:15,300 me emphasize works here. He saw their works that they 377 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:19,700 turned from their evil way and God relented from the disaster 378 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:24,000 that he had said he would bring upon them and he did not do it. 379 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,000 God, spared them. Why? 380 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:34,800 because they heard the message and they repented, that's why 381 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,700 they change their ways. And if you talk about a perfect 382 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:44,200 example of repentance, here's a perfect example of repentance 383 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:48,800 repentance is not just not being sorry for what you've done. 384 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,400 Repentance involves works as was evident with these people here, 385 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,900 in Nineveh, it involves first, hearing the message and then 386 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:00,300 being sorry for what you've done. 387 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:03,500 But it doesn't stop there because it also involves making 388 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,200 a change in your mind that you're not going to do that 389 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,500 again. You're not going to do that 390 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:12,400 again. And then produce Works to show 391 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,300 your repentance unto the Lord God Almighty. 392 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:18,600 It was God's mercy that had spared Nineveh because of their 393 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,600 change and the same is true today. 394 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:27,200 It is God's mercy that spares us from his Wrath. when we change 395 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:33,300 our lives to do his will, And we are, we should be so thankful. 396 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:40,100 That god holds his wrath from us because of the repentance that 397 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:43,300 we show. Because none of us want to feel 398 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:49,500 the wrath of God. None of us. but our attention 399 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:58,800 now moves on to chapter 4, Now. When people change their lives 400 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,400 for the better, when people decide to dedicate their life to 401 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,300 the Lord. There is great rejoicing 402 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:07,900 involved. I mean there's gladness. 403 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:12,000 Even the Bible says there's there's rejoicing in heaven over 404 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,000 one sinner that repents I mean, not only yes, but even Heaven 405 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,200 rejoices over those who change their lives to dedicate their 406 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,500 lives with the Lord. But Jonah here. 407 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:27,700 It's a different story and it's remarkable to me. 408 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:32,400 The fit that Jonah polls here in chapter 4 about the great change 409 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,400 that the people of Nineveh made. Due to this message preached to 410 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,500 them, it says in verses 1 through 4, but at this please 411 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:43,500 John exceedingly and he became angry. 412 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:48,900 So he prayed to the Lord and said, ah, Lord was not this. 413 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:52,500 What I said when I was still in the country, therefore, I fled 414 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,100 previously to tarshish for. I know that you were gracious 415 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:57,800 and merciful god slow to anger and abundant in the loving. 416 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,300 Kindness one who relents from doing harm therefore now. 417 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:04,700 Oh Lord please take my life from me for it is better for me to 418 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:09,900 die than to live then the Lord said Is it right for you to be 419 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:14,800 angry? Jonah was obviously upset that 420 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,200 God had showed his mercy upon Nineveh. 421 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:22,800 In fact, this was the very reason why Jonah did not want to 422 00:26:22,808 --> 00:26:25,700 go to Nineveh. It wasn't because of the miles, 423 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:28,700 it wasn't because he feared his life is because those people did 424 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:33,600 not see fit to receive salvation or Mercy from God. 425 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,900 In Jonah's mine, at least. He said, I knew that you were 426 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:42,800 going to be merciful to them. They change their mind. 427 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,700 That's why I didn't want to go in the first place. 428 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,600 Please kill me now. Get it over with. 429 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:51,800 You talk about a poor attitude. Jonah. 430 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:57,700 Had a poor attitude here. Well, it didn't matter how 431 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,700 Wicked those people were it didn't matter what they had done 432 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,400 as long as they repented, God was merciful. 433 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:10,900 Unto those people got Jonah just didn't see fit for these people 434 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:12,800 to repent. He had chosen Destruction for 435 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,500 these people now In view of Jonah's attitude this calls for 436 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:22,400 some self-examination on my part of an early on all of our part, 437 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:24,900 you know. Sure we may not have the kind of 438 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,400 hatred and anger that Jonah had towards our fellow man. 439 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,100 But perhaps we need to be careful about prejudging. 440 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,000 Who should hear the gospel of Christ? 441 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,100 I'd made it's easy to stay within our own comfort zone 442 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:40,000 until those around us about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 443 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,300 After all, it's comfortable for us because these people are our 444 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:45,400 acquaintances, they're our friends or our family. 445 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,600 But when you consider the big picture, the gospel is just not 446 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:56,300 for them, it's for everybody. Everybody. 447 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,200 It's for the wealthy, the middle class the poor. 448 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,800 It's for those who don't have any shelter, it's for those who 449 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:08,200 have hit rock bottom and so on and so forth. 450 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:13,800 It's for everybody. We interact with all kinds of 451 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:20,400 people in our lives. Sometimes sometimes we may have 452 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,200 a we make become interacted with a person that may be a complete 453 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,600 stranger. Sometimes we have visitors. 454 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,000 We have visitors this morning. We're glad that you're here this 455 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,600 morning. We're so glad that you were 456 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600 here. We have all kinds of people that 457 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:44,400 we interact with and it doesn't matter why people come here. 458 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:48,200 Whether it be for maybe their own personal reasons, maybe 459 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,400 they're looking for something, maybe, look, they're looking for 460 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,800 directional, at it does not matter. 461 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:59,000 But as we as a member of the body of Christ, a child of God, 462 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:05,300 we cannot prejudge others in their motives or why they're 463 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:07,900 here. Well, we're glad that they are 464 00:29:07,900 --> 00:29:13,200 here and we have the awesome privilege to tell them about the 465 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,900 saving power. Jesus Christ. 466 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,800 What a wonderful privilege that is after all. 467 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,600 That power has saved me, it is saved you and it could save 468 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,900 other people. Let's not withhold that from 469 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:33,700 someone, let's not put forth that wall. 470 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:39,100 And risk someone salvation because we might have the 471 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:42,400 attitude of Jonah that they don't deserve salvation or 472 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,500 they're so. So, so down there, lap that, 473 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:47,900 there's no way that they could ever come back up. 474 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:50,900 Let's not make that decision for them. 475 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,700 Let's offer them, the gospel and let them make the choice, 476 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:56,500 whether they want salvation or not. 477 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:02,600 We have a great Duty and responsibility but also a 478 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,200 wonderful privilege. To tell the lost to any are to 479 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,400 tell the gospel to 81. And just think we might gain a 480 00:30:12,408 --> 00:30:14,200 brother or sister because of that. 481 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,100 And praise be to God when souls are saved because of the 482 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:20,800 preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 483 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,100 Well, Jonah had this bad attitude, he had prejudged him. 484 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,400 He wanted judgement upon these people. 485 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:32,600 But God had a lesson to teach to Jonah. 486 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,800 It says in verses 5 through 8, so John and went out the city 487 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800 and sat on the east side of the city and there he had made 488 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,400 himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade to he might see 489 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,600 what would become of the city and the Lord God prepared a plan 490 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,900 and made it come over, came up over Jonah that it might be 491 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:52,500 saved for his head delivered to deliver him from his misery. 492 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,400 So Jonah was grateful for the plan but as morning dawn the 493 00:30:56,408 --> 00:31:00,400 next day, God prepared a worm. So what was that? 494 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,100 So it and so it damage the plant that it withered, And it 495 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:06,900 happened when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement 496 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,100 East Wind and the sun beat on Jonah's head so that it grew 497 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:13,500 faint, then he wished death for himself and said it is better 498 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,200 for me to die than to live. Now, you thought Jonah was mad. 499 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,500 Before? Jonah was even hotter now 500 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,700 because of what has is happening now, all these things are 501 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:27,500 happening there. I mean, he's waiting there for 502 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:31,200 the destruction of Nineveh and all these bad things are 503 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,800 happening. Now, this great way in the shade 504 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,100 now at the shades gone there. Now this great winds picked up 505 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:42,300 nothing's going right for Jonah, Please kill me is what he's 506 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:46,400 pleading with the Lord. But the lesson that God was 507 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,200 teaching, was this in verses 9 through 11, then God said to 508 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,200 Jonah, is it right for you to be angry about the plants? 509 00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:58,300 and he said, it is right for me too, angry to be angry, even a 510 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:04,600 death but the Lord said, You've had PD on the plant for which 511 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,800 you have not labored, nor made it grow which came up in a night 512 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,700 in Paris tonight. And should I not pitting in Ava 513 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:18,800 that great City in, which I'm more than 120,000 persons who 514 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,700 cannot discern between the right hand or their left and much 515 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:29,400 livestock. so, the lesson is this, if Nona was so concerned 516 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,000 about the plan over, which he had no control whatsoever, 517 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,300 should he have had some understanding of God's 518 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:41,100 compassion for city was the Lord had total control over well, 519 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:45,300 certainly, he should have souls are more important than plants. 520 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,100 And Jones should have realized that. 521 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,800 He advised the plant Over The Souls of the city. 522 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:59,300 Now, just by way of passing, it mentions 120 120,000 persons, 523 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:02,000 who cannot discern between the right hand and the left most 524 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,600 agree that's talking about children. 525 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:07,700 And if that's the case, we could kind of make a rough estimate of 526 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,600 the number of people within the city. 527 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:15,500 It has been said to be, at least maybe 600,000 people in the city 528 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,200 of Nineveh. If that's the case that just 529 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:23,000 shows about the great great epic proportions of repentance in 530 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,500 this city. Oh, and yet Jonah, didn't even 531 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,500 care. What is that attitude? 532 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:33,700 And none of us should ever have that type of attitude toward 533 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,900 other people. Well, I don't know if Jonah ever 534 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,900 changed his mind after this because this is simply how the 535 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,600 story ends. I would hope that he did. 536 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,500 But this story of Jonah should stay stay in our hearts because 537 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:50,400 of its great teachings. And we've learned three things 538 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,300 this morning from the story. Number one, we learn to not run 539 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:56,700 from the Commandments of God because if we do, we're going to 540 00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:58,800 be held accountable for it. And we going to be punished for 541 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,400 it. If we choose not to do, what 542 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,500 God's will is number two, we learn not to prejudge others and 543 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,100 make our own decisions. Whether there's fit Or not to 544 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:09,100 receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 545 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:12,199 And the number three, we have learned what true repentance 546 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,600 has. Again repentance. 547 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:20,300 Just doesn't mean I'm sorry it involves Works, involves works 548 00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:24,000 May the example of many of us repentance, remind us of what 549 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,600 Jesus said again. In Matthew 12:41 says the men of 550 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,100 Nineveh will rise up in the Judgment with this generation 551 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,400 and condemn it because they repented at the preaching of 552 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:39,900 Jonah And indeed. A greater than Jonah is here. 553 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,600 And certainly greater than Jonah is here, and that's the Lord 554 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,100 Jesus Christ. And he preaches, the same 555 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:51,000 message as Jonah did to the people of Nineveh. 556 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:56,000 He preaches repentance He preaches to change your life. 557 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:02,000 Change your life, put your life in a direction that God would 558 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,800 want you to live. Come to him be saved by his 559 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,500 gospel. Obey the word of the Lord and 560 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:16,800 you will be saved by it. 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