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Maybe you'd like to go. 
Anybody else ready to go to 

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Greece? 
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Anybody ready to go to Vietnam 
next year? 

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Yeah. 
Oh, Peter, to start taking 

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names. 
There are some ministry and 

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vision trips planned coming up 
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And so if you're keen to go with
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And then as well to go to 
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It's in the work. 
So now is the time to start 

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praying about that. 
I want to invite you to open 

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your Bibles to Jonah Chapter 3. 
Is it possible to have a second 

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chance? 
Is it possible that Jesus might 

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actually affectionately look at 
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Jonah and need second chances? 
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chance? 
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The right answer to that is no, 
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chance. 
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loves us so much and He also 
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That he is the God of second 
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As Tim Keller would say, we we 
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of our depravity, nor do we 
realize the incredible heights 

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and depths of God's love for us 
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Jonah struggled with this, maybe
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for others. 
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of reconciliation because he 
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mercy of God for himself. 
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chapter 2 it says the great fish
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Jonah on to the beach. 
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Jonah on the beach. 
Are you ready? 

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Jonah? 
Chapter 3. 

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Then the word of the Lord came 
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Go to the great city of Nineveh 
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give you. 
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Lord and went. 
To Nineva now Nineva, was a very

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large city. 
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journey into the city, 
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Nineva will be overthrown. 40 
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overthrown. 
The Ninovites believed God. 

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A fast was proclaimed, and all 
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the least, put on sackcloth. 
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king of Nineveh, he rose from 
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robes, covered himself with 
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dust. 
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issued in Nineveh by the decree 
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Do not let people or animals, 
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Do not let them eat or drink, 
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covered with sackcloth. 
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God. 
Let them give up their evil ways

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and their violence. 
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God may yet relent and with 
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anger. 
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God saw what they did and how 
they turned from their evil 

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ways, He relented and did not 
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had threatened. 
Heavenly Father, we set our 

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lives before you almost as if 
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beach. 
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celebrated your mercy and your 
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In our lives this morning we've 
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being under judgment and brought
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We've sung of that. 
And now, like Jonah, we stand at

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a crossroads at the beach to see
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Will we really go to Nineveh 
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adjustment we promised? 
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would show us again the depths 
of your grace towards us as your

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people, who have received a 
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Commission, would you help us to
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and ways of Jesus, our King and 
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And we ask this in His name. 
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So God gave Jonah a second 
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It says the word of the Lord 
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It's a repeat of Jonah chapter 
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In Jonah chapter one it says the
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God was waiting to see Was Jonah
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Was Jonah really going to move? 
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We translated as Go arise, but 
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Jonah, get up. 
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proclaim to it the message I 
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Do you know God is always 
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he's doing with the people that 
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And it was astonishing to Jonah 
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heart for good and not for evil,
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destruction part. 
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that even when he proclaimed his
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himself to give the full 
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A full prophetic message would 
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under judgment, and it would 
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wrong. 
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message of the Lord, I think he 
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God gave him to say. 
It just seems that he left out 

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God. 
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Notice what he says. 
Notice Jonah's message 40 more 

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days and Nineveh will be 
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Jonah's almost announcing it 
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You've got 40 days. 
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overthrown. 
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From the edges to the middle. 
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that the narrator gives us, that
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middle of the city. 
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preaching ministry and then 
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watch. 
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Chapter 4. 
Jonah is on the hill watching to

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see how Nineveh is going to be 
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One day of ministry, 40 days and
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He doesn't tell them which God. 
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does he say why. 
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begins to happen in the city. 
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to Jonah. 
People actually begin to respond

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to God. 
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the Menovites believed God in 
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message. 
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common when you were summarizing
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Jesus. 
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Jesus his message was this. 
Repent. 

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For the Kingdom of God is at 
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Jesus went about preaching 
repent and the Kingdom of God is

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at hand. 
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one day of the ministry of Jesus
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more of its teaching. 
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seem to provide the message of 
repent. 40 more days and none of

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a. 
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His message is ambiguous. 
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Overthrown. 
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really want to pay attention to 
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will be. 
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40 more days and Nineveh will be
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Wiped off the surface of the 
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terrible enemy. 
Can you imagine that If you were

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Korean and God sent you to 
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can't we? 
We have long list of traditional

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enemies. 
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you to your enemy with a 
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40 more days and you'll be 
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Or is it in your heart? 
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wiped off the planet. 
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people from Ukraine to go to 
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What's the messaging? 
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What's in our hearts? 
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For God is just, and God does 
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it says of Jesus's arrival that 
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Because we were already 
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world that he gave his only 
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believes in him shall have 
eternal life. 

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condemn the world, but because 
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And it seems that God sent Jonah
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was wanting to do something in 
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It was not Jonah's eloquence. 
It wasn't even Jonah's good 

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looking outfit. 
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after three days? 
In the belly of a whale, and 

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then a long journey across from 
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Jonah stank. 
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wasn't his good looks. 
It was simply his participation 

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in what God wanted to do. 
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The surprising turnover of 
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it says word arrived to the King
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Did you see how God is bringing 
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Edges of the city not at the 
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Jonah started with the people 
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edges, and they responded 1st. 
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to this message of a strange 
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God moved the King's heart as 
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It says he rose from his throne 
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Getting up and giving up his 
royal authority, it says he took

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off his robes. 
At that moment he set aside his 

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wealth and prestige and then he 
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Sackcloth was the common 
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mourning, I'm in grief. 
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dust. 
That was the act of humility 

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where he joined in the life of 
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God has overturned Nineveh. 
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decree. 
Cover yourselves with sock 

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cloth. 
Didn't you find it odd that he 

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wanted the animals to wear 
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Yeah, that's weird. 
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Having a big fish in chapter 2 
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But the animals. 
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The animals have a part in this 
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All creation is meant to be a 
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And so I can't imagine the kids 
putting the sackcloth on the 

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animals, but I guess it 
happened. 

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And then he says in his decree, 
give up your evil ways and the 

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violence in your hands. 
And when he says this, give up 

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the violence, which is sort of 
shorthand in the in the English,

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the Hebrew conveys a sense of 
the violence in your hands, that

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personal violence that you want 
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This wasn't just a blanket word 
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This was an acknowledgement from
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about his people is that they 
were walking around with grudges

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against others, that they were 
walking around with an 

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opportunity to do violence 
against another. 

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And he says we must give it up 
and then notice how he 

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surrenders to God. 
Who knows? 

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God might yet relent with 
compassion. 

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That is the word of surrender. 
What comes We're in the hands of

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God now. 
And this is how Nineveh was 

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overturned, strangely, in the 
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What happens in the next reign 
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actually became a great place, 
apparently, and they launched a 

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whole new set of renovations and
changes in the way they did 

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business and the way they 
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their cities. 
There was some kind of change in

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Nineveh and Assyria. 
This is what happens when God 

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overturns a society. 
Is the message of Jesus for 

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everyone? 
Yes. 

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Are we all to have a part in it?
Yes. 

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Are you aware on occasions where
you've said no to God? 

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And then asked him, Oh God, give
me a second chance. 

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He will give it. 
Do you know why he will give it?

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It's because there's another 
king who got off his throne. 

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Jesus, the High King of heaven, 
rose from the throne. 

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He took off his robes. 
He clothed himself not in 

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sackcloth but in flesh. 
And he was born in dust, laid in

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a Manger. 
Oh, this is our king. 

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This is our king who suffered 
the hands of the violence of 

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others, of empire, and was 
buried but was raised again. 

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This is the king who calls 
reluctant disciples back. 

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Did you did you notice this 
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occasion where Jesus mentions 
Jonah? 

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The first mention of Jonah is in
Matthew 16, where Jesus says of 

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a corrupt generation. 
I'm only going to give you the 

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sign of Jonah, which we would 
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tomb swallowed up by death. 
And then alive again, But in his

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conversation with the disciples,
Jesus asked who did the people 

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say I am? 
And they said, well, some of 

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them say you're Elijah, others 
say you're Jeremiah come back 

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from the dead. 
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you are the Messiah, the Son of 
God. 

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And then Jesus says the 
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He says Peter, son of Jonah. 
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humans but by God. 
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Peter's dad is John, our first 
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The book of John is that Peter 
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So what was Jesus doing when he 
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I mean, would you like that if 
someone called you son of Jonah?

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Try it out. 
Turn to your neighbor and say 

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you daughter of Jonah, you son 
of Jonah. 

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I mean, this sounds strange. 
None of us have. 

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Jonah was your dad. 
Jonah. 

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Anybody here? 
So no, no, none of us have. 

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A father named Jonah. 
So Jesus is being affectionate 

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and yet prophetic with Peter 
because Peter needed a second 

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chance, didn't he? 
Peter denied Jesus and Peter was

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restored into fellowship and 
ministry. 

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Where? 
On a beach? 

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On a beach? 
Peter, do you love me? 

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You son of Jonah and Peter would
later find himself in Jopa. 

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Do you remember Jopa? 
Jopa is where Jonah ran when he 

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was running from God and wanted 
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He didn't want to go to Nana, 
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But God had called Jonah to be a
first prophet to the Gentiles. 

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And what happened to Peter in 
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He was called to be the first 
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Do you think Jesus knew what he 
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affection to Peter, Peter, your 
son of Jonah? 

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He knows something about our 
hearts that we're not quick to 

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obey. 
We're not quick to respond 

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always, especially when it means
crossing a boundary, especially 

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when it means breaking social 
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Especially it means that 
someone's going to look at us 

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and say you're not being true to
your people. 

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Especially when it means we're 
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We're sons and daughters of 
Jonah at that moment, and we 

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need a second chance. 
Let's pray together. 

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Heavenly Father, you know what 
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That we're not just like Jonah. 
We're also like Menova. 

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That on occasion, what has been 
in our heart has been hateful 

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and hurtful. 
That we have let the powers and 

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methods of empire take root in 
our lives such that we make 

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greed and stuff of Earth and 
idle. 

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Such that we catalog people 
according to their ethnicities, 

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their backgrounds and their 
family names and where we've 

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seen them as less than and 
wished that they would be wiped 

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off from the planet. 
And yet you want to populate 

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heaven with them and us. 
And so we come to Jesus on the 

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level ground at the foot of the 
cross, and we stand in the dust,

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and we adore him as king. 
The king who took off his robes 

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after he got up from his throne,
who put on flesh and was born in

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dust, so that we might be lifted
up before you. 

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Oh Lord Jesus, inside of what 
met that love, maybe be quick to

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say yes, may we be quick to move
and get up when you make a way 

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for us to speak, to share our 
lives in the gospel, to share 

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kindness and help and hope so 
that you might overthrow once 

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again. 
The impact of powers and 

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principalities in this place and
that your Kingdom would come, 

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Come, Lord Jesus, come.