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>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
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>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS
AND THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
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FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
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GROWING OUTREACH
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
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SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
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AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
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(MUSIC)
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IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE
THAT THIS IS THE TENTH AND
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FINAL PRESENTATION IN
THIS SERIES AND WE HOPE THAT
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THE WORD OF GOD HAS
TOUCHED YOUR LIVES AND YOU
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WILL CONTINUE THIS
STUDY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE
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POWER IS. AND SO
WE, IN OUR HEROES
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OF FAITH PRESENTATION,
TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO BE
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TALKING ABOUT THE SIGN OF
JONAH - THE SIGN OF JONAH.
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NOW, THE TITLE FOR
THIS MESSAGE COMES FROM A
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STATEMENT THAT JESUS
MAKES - HE ACTUALLY MAKES IT IN
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THE BOOK OF MATTHEW,
MARK, AND LUKE - AND YOU CAN
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READ IT IN CHAPTER 12,
VERSE - OH - 39, "BUT HE
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ANSWERED AND SAID TO
THEM, 'AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS
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GENERATION SEEKS AFTER A
SIGN, AND NO SIGN WILL BE
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GIVEN TO IT EXCEPT THE
SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH.
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FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE
DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN
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THE BELLY OF THE GREAT
FISH, SO WILL THE SON OF
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MAN BE THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART
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OF THE EARTH." -
AND IT GOES ON AND SAYS,
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"THE MEN OF NINEVEH
WILL RISE UP IN THE JUDGMENT
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WITH THIS GENERATION
AND CONDEMN IT, BECAUSE THEY
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REPENTED AT THE
PREACHING OF JONAH; AND INDEED A
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GREATER THAN JONAH IS
HERE." THE SIGN OF JONAH
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- WHAT IS THAT?
WHAT DOES HE MEAN?
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HE SAYS, 'NO SIGN WILL
BE GIVEN BUT THE SIGN OF
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JONAH.' NOW, I KNOW,
THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME SKEPTICS
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OUT THERE THAT ARE SAYING,
'PASTOR DOUG, YOU CAN'T REALLY
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TAKE THE BOOK OF
JONAH SERIOUSLY.' WELL, I DO
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BECAUSE JESUS DID.
JESUS STATED IT VERY
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EMPHATICALLY THAT HE
BELIEVED THE BOOK OF JONAH
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WAS REAL AND HE SAID
THERE'S THINGS THAT WE CAN
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LEARN FROM THE EXPERIENCE
AND THE STORY OF JONAH
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THAT CAN HELP US
IN OUR LIVES TODAY.
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I REMEMBER HEARING ABOUT
A LADY WAS RIDING A BUS -
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SHE RODE EVERY DAY AND
SHE'D OFTEN READ HER BIBLE
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WHILE SHE WAS
RIDING ON THIS PUBLIC BUS.
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AND A MAN, WHO WAS
AN ATHEIST, HE SOMETIMES
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WOULD EVEN GET UP AND
GIVE HER HIS SEAT - SHE WAS AN
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OLDER WOMAN - AND HE'D
STAND THERE HOLDING ONTO
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THE BAR IN THE BUS
OVERHEAD AND SEES SHE'S
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READING HER BIBLE AND
HE USED TO THINK, 'OH, I
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CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE
ACTUALLY READ AND BELIEVE
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THE BIBLE. AND
ONE DAY, AFTER THEY'D
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SEEN EACH OTHER SEVERAL
TIMES HE SAID, 'GRANDMA,
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I NOTICED THAT I SEE YOU
READING YOUR BIBLE QUITE A
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BIT.' SHE SAID, 'YES
SIR. IT'S THE WORD OF GOD.' HE
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SAID, 'NOW, WHEN YOU READ
IT, DO YOU TAKE IT LITERALLY?
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DO YOU THINK THAT THE
THINGS IN THERE ARE ALL TRUE?'
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SHE SAID, 'ABSOLUTELY,
SON, I BELIEVE THAT EVERY
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WORD IS TRUE.' HE SAID,
'EVEN THE STORY OF, LIKE,
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ADAM AND EVE AND
THE SNAKE AND THE APPLE?
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YOU BELIEVE THAT'S
ALL TRUE.' SHE SAID, 'I
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BELIEVE IT. GOD'S
WORD SAYS IT.' AND
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HE SAID, 'AND YOU
BELIEVE NOAH AND THE ARK AND
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TAKING TWO AND THE
WHOLE WORLD WAS FLOODED?'
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SHE SAID, 'GOD'S WORD
SAID IT, I BELIEVE IT.' HE
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SAID, 'NOW YOU CAN'T
POSSIBLY BELIEVE THE STORY
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OF JONAH, THAT HE WAS IN
THE BELLY OF A GREAT FISH
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FOR THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS AND CAME OUT
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ALIVE.' SHE SAID,
'WELL GOD SAYS IT, I BELIEVE
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IT.' HE SAID, 'HOW CAN A
MAN SURVIVE INSIDE A FISH
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FOR THREE DAYS?' SHE
SAID, 'WELL, I DON'T KNOW.
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I SUPPOSE WHEN I GET
TO HEAVEN I'LL ASK JONAH.'
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AND HE SAID, 'WELL, WHAT
IF JONAH'S NOT IN HEAVEN?'
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SHE SAID, 'WELL THEN,
YOU CAN ASK HIM.' (LAUGHTER)
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NOW WHEN YOU LOOK
OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE, IT
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ACTUALLY - NOT ONLY DOES
JESUS REFERENCE JONAH, BUT
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JONAH IS MENTIONED AS
THE SON OF AMITTAI IN 2 KINGS
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CHAPTER 14, VERSE 25 HE
IS CALLED THE PROPHET OF
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GATH HEPHER. HE
IS A REAL INDIVIDUAL
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THAT LIVED AND
HIS EXPERIENCE, THOUGH
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ADMITTEDLY
INCREDIBLE, REALLY HAPPENED.
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I DON'T KNOW WHETHER
OR NOT YOU'RE AWARE, BUT
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THERE WAS A MAN NAMED
JAMES BARTLEY THAT IN 1891
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HE WAS ON A WHALING
SHIP CALLED THE STAR OF THE
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EAST OFF THE FALKLAND
ISLANDS AND IT'S RECORDED
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THAT WHEN THIS 80-FOOT
SPERM WHALE THAT THEY HAD
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SPEARED, BREACHED THE
SURFACE AND STRUCK ONE OF
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THE WHALING BOATS, THAT
IT SWALLOWED JAMES BARTLEY.
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THAT WHALE ALSO DIED
FROM ITS WOUNDS AND SO WHEN
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THEY WERE DISSECTING
THE WHALE - THEY DIDN'T
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REALIZE THAT HE'D BEEN
SWALLOWED - WHEN THEY WERE
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DISSECTING THE WHALE 24
HOURS LATER, THEY GOT DOWN
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TO THE STOMACH AND THEY
SAW SOMETHING MOVE - THEY
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THOUGHT THEY IT WAS A
GIANT SQUID BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
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SPERM WHALES EAT - AND
THEY OPENED UP THE STOMACH AND
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OUT SLID JAMES BARTLEY -
UNCONSCIOUS, BUT STILL VERY
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MUCH ALIVE. AND
THEY PUT HIM IN THE
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CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS AFTER
CLEANING HIM OFF A LITTLE BIT
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AND HE FINALLY REGAINED
CONSCIOUSNESS AND HE VAGUELY
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REMEMBERED BEING ENVELOPED
AND SWALLOWED AND PUSHED
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DOWN THIS SLIPPERY TUBE
AND HE WAS INSIDE THIS DARK
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INTERIOR AND HE FELT
LIKE THE SURFACE SHRANK AT HIS
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TOUCH AND THEN HE
BLACKED OUT FROM THE HEAT.
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BUT THAT'S - AND HE GOT
BACK TO ENGLAND AND LEFT
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THE SEA AND NEVER RETURNED.
(LAUGHTER) AND IF YOU GO
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LOOK AT HIS GRAVE IT SAYS
RIGHT ON HIS GRAVE, 'JAMES
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BARTLEY, A MODERN JONAH'.
SO SOME OF YOU MAYBE HAVE
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- REMEMBER THE THROUGH
THE BIBLE RADIO SERIES WITH J.
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VERNON MCGEE - BEEN ON
FOR MANY YEARS AND HE ACTUALLY
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SHARED THREE ACCOUNTS
IN MODERN HISTORY OF PEOPLE
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THAT WERE SWALLOWED BY
VARIOUS SEA CREATURES AND
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CAME OUT ALIVE.
SOME, ADMITTEDLY, NOT FOR
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VERY LONG, BUT THE BIBLE
SAYS GOD PREPARED A FISH.
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BUT NOW WE'RE
GETTING AHEAD OF OURSELVES.
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WE SHOULD PROBABLY
START BY GOING TO THE STORY OF
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JONAH - IF
YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES.
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YOU MIGHT BE
THINKING, 'HOW IS HE A HERO OF
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FAITH?' STAY WITH ME.
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GO TO THE BOOK OF JONAH
CHAPTER 1, "NOW THE WORD
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OF THE LORD CAME TO
JONAH" - THE WORD 'JONAH' BY THE
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WAY, MEANS 'DOVE' -
"THE SON OF AMITTAI, SAYING,
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'ARISE, GO TO NINEVEH,
THAT GREAT CITY, AND CRY
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OUT AGAINST IT; FOR
THEIR WICKEDNESS HAS COME UP
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BEFORE ME.' BUT JONAH
AROSE TO FLEE TO TARSHISH
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FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD."
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NOW GOD SAID,
'JONAH, YOU'RE A PROPHET.
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I'VE GOT A WORK FOR YOU TO
DO. I WANT YOU TO GO PROPHESY.
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I WANT YOU TO GO EAST
TO NINEVEH AND TALK TO THE
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WICKED PEOPLE
IN THAT GREAT CITY.
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TELL THEM THAT THEY
ARE GOING TO BE JUDGED FOR
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THEIR SINS.' BUT YOU HAVE
TO KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE OF
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NINEVEH DIDN'T GET ALONG
VERY WELL WITH THE PEOPLE
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OF ISRAEL ANY MORE
THAN THEY DO TODAY.
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AND CAN YOU IMAGINE AN
ORTHODOX JEW DRESSED AS AN
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ORTHODOX JEW WALKING
THROUGH DOWNTOWN SAUDI
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ARABIA TELLING THEM ALL
THEY'RE WICKED AND GOD IS
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GOING TO DESTROY
THEM? THEY MIGHT NOT
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LAST VERY LONG.
SO JONAH, YOU COULD
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UNDERSTAND HIS RELUCTANCE.
NOT ONLY THAT, THEY HAD
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BEEN PERSECUTED - IT
WAS ASSYRIA THAT CARRIED
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AWAY TEN OF THE TRIBES.
THEY HAD BEEN PERSECUTED
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BY THE ASSYRIANS AND
THE LAST THING JONAH WANTED
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TO DO WAS GO WARN
THEM SO THEY COULD REPENT.
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HE KIND OF THOUGHT,
'WELL, IF GOD'S GOING TO JUDGE
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THEM, I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
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LET HIM JUDGE THEM.' THEY
WERE THE AVOWED ENEMIES OF
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ISRAEL. AND SO IT SAYS HE AROSE
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TO GO TO TARSHISH.
NOW EVER HEARD THAT
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EXPRESSION 'I'VE BEEN
ASSIGNED TO TIMBUKTU'?
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THAT'S BECAUSE THE
FURTHEST OUTPOST THE
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MARINES HAD
YEARS AGO WAS TIMBUKTU.
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THEY CALLED IT
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
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AS FAR AS THEY KNEW,
BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, THE
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FARTHEST YOU COULD GO
WAS THE OUTER COAST OF SPAIN
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WHERE IT WENT OFF INTO
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, THROUGH
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THE GATES OF
HERCULES, THEY HAD A CITY THERE
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CALLED TARSHISH AND
WHEN YOU SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
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TARSHISH', IT WAS LIKE
SAYING, 'I'M GOING TO THE
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ENDS OF THE EARTH'
BECAUSE THAT'S AS FAR AS THE
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PHOENICIAN SAILORS
WENT OUT INTO THE ATLANTIC.
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AND SO, GOD TOLD HIM TO GO EAST.
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INSTEAD, HE WENT WEST.
MAYBE JONAH WAS THINKING,
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'WELL, YOU KNOW, THE
LORD - IT WAS A SUGGESTION.'
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NO, IT WASN'T A SUGGESTION.
GOD'S WILL TOLD HIM WHAT
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TO DO, BUT HE DIDN'T
WANT TO DO WHAT THE WORD OF
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THE LORD TOLD HIM TO
DO. THE WORD OF THE LORD,
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FURTHERMORE, SAID
'ARISE.' GOD'S WORD ELEVATES.
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BUT JONAH DIDN'T WANT TO
DO IT AND IT SAYS HE WENT
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DOWN. HE AROSE TO FLEE FROM
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TARSHISH FROM THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
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CAN YOU FLEE
FROM GOD'S PRESENCE?
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ISN'T THAT SILLY?
YOU WOULD THINK THAT AT
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LEAST A THEOLOGIAN, LIKE
A PROPHET, WOULD KNOW THAT.
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JONAH COULD READ WHAT
DAVID WROTE IN PSALM 139,
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"WHERE CAN I GO
FROM YOUR SPIRIT?
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OR WHERE CAN I
FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE?
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IF I ASCEND INTO
HEAVEN, YOU ARE THERE; IF I MAKE
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MY BED IN HELL,
BEHOLD, YOU ARE THERE.
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IF I TAKE THE WINGS OF
THE MORNING, AND DWELL IN THE
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UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE
SEA, EVEN THERE YOUR HAND
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SHALL LEAD ME, AND YOUR
RIGHT HAND SHALL HOLD ME."
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YOU CAN'T RUN FROM GOD.
HE SEES YOU ALL THE TIME.
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AND JESUS SAID, 'THOSE
THINGS DONE IN SECRET WILL
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BE PROCLAIMED
FROM THE HOUSETOPS.
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ALL THINGS ARE NAKED
AND OPEN TO THE EYES OF WHOM
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WE HAVE TO DO.
AGAIN, YOU CAN READ IN
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JEREMIAH 23, "'CAN
ANYONE HIDE HIMSELF IN SECRET
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PLACES, SO I SHALL NOT SEE HIM?'
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SAYS THE LORD; 'DO I
NOT FILL HEAVEN AND EARTH?'
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" SO THE IDEA HE COULD
RUN FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD -
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BUT WHO KNOWS?
MAYBE JONAH WAS THINKING
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TO HIMSELF, 'WELL,
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT.
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I'M GOING TO GO DOWN TO
JOPPA' - THAT'S WHERE THE
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SEA PORT WAS - 'AND IF
IT TURNS OUT THAT THERE ARE
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ANY SHIPS GOING TO
TARSHISH, I'LL TAKE THAT
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AS A SIGN FROM THE LORD
THAT IT'S OKAY THAT I GO.'
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SO HE GETS TO JOPPA
AND, SURE ENOUGH, THERE ARE
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SHIPS IN THE HARBOR
GETTING READY TO DEPART
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THE NEXT DAY. HE
SAYS, 'LORD, I'M GOING
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TO THROW OUT ANOTHER
FLEECE. IF IT TURNS OUT THEY'VE
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GOT ROOM FOR ONE MORE
PASSENGER, THEN I'LL TAKE
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IT AS A SIGN IT'S
OKAY FOR ME NOT TO DO WHAT
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YOU ARE SAYING.
SURE ENOUGH, HE ASKED AND
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THEY SAID THAT THEY HAD
ROOM. AND HIS CONSCIENCE IS
00:11:20.04\00:11:22.34
STILL BOTHERING HIM
SO JONAH SAID, 'LORD, ONE
00:11:22.34\00:11:24.41
MORE THING: IF IT TURNS
OUT THAT I'VE GOT ENOUGH
00:11:24.41\00:11:25.85
MONEY FOR THE FARE,
THEN THAT'LL BE A SIGN YOU'RE
00:11:25.85\00:11:29.32
GOING TO LET ME OFF THE
HOOK AND I DON'T HAVE TO
00:11:29.32\00:11:30.99
TALK TO THE ASSYRIANS.
SURE ENOUGH, THEY TOLD
00:11:30.99\00:11:34.02
HIM HOW MUCH IT
WAS. IT WAS JUST ENOUGH.
00:11:34.02\00:11:36.26
BY THE WAY, IT
COSTS YOU TO RUN FROM GOD.
00:11:36.26\00:11:39.59
SO HE PAID THE FARE AND IT
WAS EVEN NICE SAILING WEATHER.
00:11:39.59\00:11:47.34
SO HE FIGURED, 'YOU KNOW,
00:11:47.34\00:11:48.50
EVEN THOUGH THE WORD OF
THE LORD TOLD ME, I DON'T
00:11:48.50\00:11:50.44
REALLY WANT TO DO IT,
AND GOD'S JUST GOING TO -
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WE'RE GOING TO IGNORE IT
AND IT'LL GO AWAY.' HAS GOD
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EVER TOLD YOU SOMETHING
HE WANTED YOU TO DO OR DIDN'T
00:11:55.91\00:11:57.81
WANT YOU TO DO AND
YOU THINK, BECAUSE THE SUN
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KEEPS SHINING AND THE
BIRDS KEEP SINGING THAT
00:12:00.32\00:12:02.02
IT MUST BE OKAY
THAT YOU CONTINUE TO LIVE
00:12:02.02\00:12:04.12
IN DISOBEDIENCE? I
HAVE MET PEOPLE BEFORE
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- I REMEMBER COUNSELLING
WITH A MAN AND A WOMAN
00:12:07.66\00:12:10.16
- THEY JUST LEFT THEIR
SPOUSES AND GOT TOGETHER.
00:12:10.16\00:12:16.23
THEY WERE LIVING IN AN
ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP
00:12:16.23\00:12:18.53
AND THEY SAID, 'BUT YOU
KNOW, PASTOR DOUG, WE JUST
00:12:18.53\00:12:21.60
- THOSE OTHER MARRIAGES
WERE A MISTAKE.' - THEY'RE
00:12:21.60\00:12:23.47
STILL MARRIED TO
THESE OTHER PEOPLE - 'AND WE
00:12:23.47\00:12:25.34
JUST SEE HOW GOD IS
BLESSING AND IT SEEMS LIKE
00:12:25.34\00:12:27.88
EVERYTHING IS GOING BETTER NOW.
00:12:27.88\00:12:29.81
WE HAVE PEACE AND IT
MUST BE GOD'S WILL.' I SAID,
00:12:29.81\00:12:32.51
'WHAT ABOUT THE WORD OF
THE LORD THAT SAYS, 'THOU
00:12:32.51\00:12:35.08
SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY'?
AND THEY WANTED TO SKIP
00:12:35.08\00:12:38.19
OVER THAT PART
BECAUSE THEY HAD ALL THIS
00:12:38.19\00:12:39.99
CIRCUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE IT WAS OKAY.
00:12:39.99\00:12:43.36
WELL, JONAH THOUGHT -
THAT'S JUST - BY THE WAY,
00:12:43.36\00:12:47.13
FRIENDS, IF YOU DIDN'T
CATCH IT, WE CAN CONVINCE
00:12:47.13\00:12:48.86
OURSELVES TO
BELIEVE WHATEVER WE WANT TO
00:12:48.86\00:12:51.57
BELIEVE AND THE DEVIL
WILL GIVE YOU A THOUSAND
00:12:51.57\00:12:54.17
RATIONALIZATIONS TO DO
WHAT YOU WANT TO DO THAT
00:12:54.17\00:12:57.07
MAY NOT BE THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:12:57.07\00:12:59.51
THE WORD OF THE LORD
SAID, 'JONAH, GO EAST.
00:12:59.51\00:13:02.71
PREACH. YOU'RE
A PREACHER, THAT'S
00:13:02.71\00:13:04.21
WHAT I WANT YOU TO
DO.' HE DIDN'T WANT TO.
00:13:04.21\00:13:06.75
WHATEVER HIS REASONS
WERE, HE DIDN'T WANT TO.
00:13:06.75\00:13:08.18
SO HE'S GOING
THE OTHER DIRECTION.
00:13:08.18\00:13:10.99
HE'S RUNNING FROM THE MISSION.
00:13:10.99\00:13:12.52
AND YOU CAN KIND OF UNDERSTAND.
00:13:12.52\00:13:13.86
THE JEWS DIDN'T DO A
LOT OF PREACHING TO THE
00:13:13.86\00:13:16.49
GENTILES BACK THEN.
YOU KNOW WHERE JONAH
00:13:16.49\00:13:20.30
LEAVES ISRAEL? A
TOWN CALLED JOPPA -
00:13:20.30\00:13:23.20
BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT
TO TALK TO THE GENTILES - 800
00:13:23.20\00:13:26.43
YEARS LATER GOD SPEAKS
TO AN APOSTLE NAMED PETER IN
00:13:26.43\00:13:30.54
JOPPA, HE SAYS, I WANT
YOU TO GO TALK TO THE GENTILES
00:13:30.54\00:13:33.98
- CORNELIUS AND HIS
FAMILY.' AND PETER GOES.
00:13:33.98\00:13:38.05
IT WAS THE VERY SAME
TOWN OF JOPPA WHERE GOD GAVE
00:13:38.05\00:13:41.38
THE MESSAGE TO PETER TO
GO TO THE GENTILES, WHERE
00:13:41.38\00:13:44.19
JONAH WAS RUNNING FROM
THE MISSION TO GO TO THE
00:13:44.19\00:13:47.06
GENTILES. AND
SO, HE PAYS THE FARE,
00:13:47.06\00:13:51.33
FINDS THE SHIP, GOES
WITH THEM TO TARSHISH - BY THE
00:13:51.33\00:13:57.13
WAY, I HAVE A HARD
TIME, WHENEVER I READ THIS -
00:13:57.13\00:13:59.47
THAT WAS MY MOTHER'S
MAIDEN NAME - RUTH TARSHIS
00:13:59.47\00:14:03.77
- IT'S A JEWISH WORD AND
OUR GRANDFATHER SAYS THAT
00:14:03.77\00:14:06.24
WE'RE RELATED TO
JONAH, BUT HE SAID A LOT OF
00:14:06.24\00:14:08.48
THINGS THAT WEREN'T
TRUE, SO WE'RE NOT SURE.
00:14:08.48\00:14:10.25
(LAUGHTER) "BUT THE
LORD SENT OUT A GREAT WIND" -
00:14:10.25\00:14:15.42
YOU KNOW HOW EVERYTHING CHANGES?
00:14:15.42\00:14:18.09
HE'S FLEEING FROM THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD, "BUT
00:14:18.09\00:14:22.42
THE LORD SENT OUT A
GREAT WIND" - NOW THIS WAS THE
00:14:22.42\00:14:25.86
SAILING SEASON. IT WAS SUPPOSED
00:14:25.86\00:14:27.20
TO BE GOOD.
EVERYTHING LOOKED FINE -
00:14:27.20\00:14:29.16
"...AND THERE WAS A
MIGHTY TEMPEST ON THE SEA, SO
00:14:29.16\00:14:32.77
THAT THE SHIP WAS
ABOUT TO BE BROKEN UP.
00:14:32.77\00:14:35.54
THEN THE MARINERS
WERE AFRAID; AND EVERY MAN
00:14:35.54\00:14:39.04
CRIED OUT TO HIS GOD,
AND THREW THE CARGO THAT WAS
00:14:39.04\00:14:41.68
IN THE SHIP INTO THE
SEA, TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD."
00:14:41.68\00:14:44.81
- NOW, I MENTIONED
EARLIER I LIVED ON A SAILBOAT IN
00:14:44.81\00:14:48.12
THE MEDITERRANEAN FOR A
WHILE AND WE ACTUALLY GOT
00:14:48.12\00:14:51.09
IN ONE SIGNIFICANT STORM
GOING FROM NORTHERN AFRICA
00:14:51.09\00:14:54.79
OVER TO SPAIN AND IT
WAS PRETTY FRIGHTENING.
00:14:54.79\00:14:59.66
IT WAS IN DECEMBER AND
THE BOAT THAT WE WERE ON WAS
00:14:59.66\00:15:02.43
150 FEET LONG AND THE
WAVES WERE SO BIG THAT THE
00:15:02.43\00:15:05.73
NOSE OF THE BOAT WOULD
GO DOWN IN THE TROUGH OF A
00:15:05.73\00:15:07.67
WAVE AND PART OF THE
WAVE WOULD ROLL OVER THE BOAT
00:15:07.67\00:15:10.81
FROM BOW TO STERN,
WASHING THINGS OVERBOARD AND WE
00:15:10.81\00:15:13.58
WERE ALL CLINGING AND
EVERYBODY WAS SEASICK AND
00:15:13.58\00:15:16.38
THIS WAS A MODERN
VESSEL AND YOU'RE OUT THERE AND
00:15:16.38\00:15:19.25
YOU FEEL VERY VULNERABLE
WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE.
00:15:19.25\00:15:20.98
THE MEDITERRANEAN, ON
A MAP, IS ONLY THAT BIG.
00:15:20.98\00:15:23.49
BUT YOU GET OUT IN THE
MIDDLE OF IT AND YOU CAN'T
00:15:23.49\00:15:25.39
SEE SHORE ANYWHERE.
IT'S A BIG SEA AND IT'S
00:15:25.39\00:15:29.62
DARK AND THE WATER WAS
COLD AND PEOPLE WERE SCARED.
00:15:29.62\00:15:34.56
AND SO WHENEVER I READ
THIS I THINK THIS WAS AN
00:15:34.56\00:15:36.50
EVEN BIGGER STORM IN A
MORE PRIMITIVE SHIP AND
00:15:36.50\00:15:38.90
THESE WERE EXPERIENCED
SAILORS AND THEY WERE
00:15:38.90\00:15:41.40
PRAYING AND THEY REALIZED
THEIR LIVES WERE AT RISK.
00:15:41.40\00:15:44.51
THEY'RE MAKING THIS
JOURNEY FOR PROFIT AND
00:15:44.51\00:15:46.68
GAIN, BUT THEY WERE SO
AFRAID THEY'RE THROWING
00:15:46.68\00:15:49.54
ALL THE VALUABLES OVERBOARD.
00:15:49.54\00:15:52.88
'WHAT PROFIT IT IS IT TO
YOU IF YOU GAIN THE WHOLE
00:15:52.88\00:15:54.92
WORLD AND LOSE YOUR
SOUL?' WHAT GOOD IS THE BUSINESS
00:15:54.92\00:15:58.12
DEAL IF YOU'RE
GOING TO LOSE EVERYTHING?
00:15:58.12\00:16:00.49
SO THEY WERE WILLING TO
UNLOAD AND THEY BEGAN TO
00:16:00.49\00:16:02.52
THROW ALL THE CARGO INTO
THE SEA EVEN THOUGH IT WAS
00:16:02.52\00:16:05.39
A GREAT LOSS, BECAUSE
THEY THOUGHT, 'WHAT'S MORE THAN
00:16:05.39\00:16:08.60
LIFE? WHAT IS
WORTH MORE THAN LIFE?'
00:16:08.60\00:16:12.50
AND THEY'RE PRAYING -
AND THEN IT SAYS 'BUT' AGAIN.
00:16:12.50\00:16:16.24
THE SAILORS ARE
PRAYING - THE SAILORS ARE
00:16:16.24\00:16:18.27
SACRIFICING - THESE ARE
THE PAGANS - BUT THE JEW,
00:16:18.27\00:16:21.68
WHO'S SUPPOSED TO KNOW
GOD AND KNOW THE TRUTH, HE'S
00:16:21.68\00:16:23.65
DOWN IN THE LOWEST PART OF
THE SHIP AND HE'S FAST ASLEEP.
00:16:23.65\00:16:28.18
EVERYBODY AROUND HIM IS PRAYING.
00:16:28.18\00:16:30.45
EVERYBODY AROUND HIM
IS MAKING A SACRIFICE.
00:16:30.45\00:16:33.09
THEY'RE CALLING OUT TO
GOD AND THE PROPHET OF GOD IS
00:16:33.09\00:16:36.26
SLEEPING. NOW
YOU KNOW THE - MANY
00:16:36.26\00:16:39.76
OF THE JEWISH SCHOLARS
BELIEVE THAT JONAH IS A
00:16:39.76\00:16:42.60
TYPE OF THE JEWISH
NATION - IT'S A TRUE STORY, BUT
00:16:42.60\00:16:45.70
THERE'S A LOT OF
SYMBOLISM IN THESE TRUE STORIES
00:16:45.70\00:16:48.40
BECAUSE GOD CALLED
THE JEWISH NATION TO BE A
00:16:48.40\00:16:51.54
WITNESS TO THE NATIONS
AROUND THEM, BUT THEY SORT
00:16:51.54\00:16:54.24
OF BECAME PREOCCUPIED
WITH THEIR OWN COMFORT AND
00:16:54.24\00:16:56.85
THEIR OWN
PRESTIGE. AND WHILE THE OTHER
00:16:56.85\00:16:58.88
NATIONS WERE LOOKING
FOR GOD, THEY WERE OFTEN
00:16:58.88\00:17:01.08
SLEEPING AND
IGNORING THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
00:17:01.08\00:17:04.85
BY THE WAY, THAT WOULD
ALSO BE AN ANALOGY OF THE
00:17:04.85\00:17:06.76
CHURCH IN THE MODERN TIMES.
00:17:06.76\00:17:08.89
THE WORLD AROUND US IS
LOST AND WE GET TOGETHER
00:17:08.89\00:17:11.09
FOR OUR SOCIAL
GATHERING ONCE A WEEK.
00:17:11.09\00:17:13.73
THEY'RE PRAYING, TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IN THE
00:17:13.73\00:17:15.13
WORLD IS GOING ON
AND WE'RE SNORING.
00:17:15.13\00:17:18.57
WHAT DOES JESUS
SAY? THE TEN VIRGINS WERE
00:17:18.57\00:17:20.17
SLEEPING BEFORE
THE BRIDEGROOM CAME.
00:17:20.17\00:17:23.24
AND SO, JONAH'S FAST ASLEEP.
00:17:23.24\00:17:26.41
HE'S NOT JUST
ASLEEP, HE'S FAST ASLEEP.
00:17:26.41\00:17:28.14
NOW JESUS SAID, 'NO SIGN WILL
BE GIVEN BUT THE SIGN OF THE
00:17:28.14\00:17:31.08
PROPHET JONAH.' YOU HAVE TO
PAUSE RIGHT THERE CONSIDERING
00:17:31.08\00:17:34.32
OUR MESSAGE THIS
MORNING ABOUT JESUS ON THE SEA.
00:17:34.32\00:17:37.65
JESUS ASLEEP IN A BOAT
DURING A STORM WHEN THEY
00:17:37.65\00:17:40.66
WERE AFRAID THEY
WERE GOING TO PERISH.
00:17:40.66\00:17:43.22
JONAH ASLEEP IN A BOAT
DURING A STORM WHEN THEY
00:17:43.22\00:17:45.66
WERE AFRAID THEY
WERE GOING TO PERISH.
00:17:45.66\00:17:47.60
VERY SIMPLE CONNECTION
THERE THAT WE SHOULDN'T
00:17:47.60\00:17:49.83
MISS. SO THE
CAPTAIN COMES BELOW DECK.
00:17:49.83\00:17:52.63
HE'S LOOKING AROUND FOR
ANYTHING ELSE THEY CAN THROW
00:17:52.63\00:17:54.10
OVERBOARD AND HE
FINDS A SNORING HYPOCRITE.
00:17:54.10\00:17:58.34
HE COMES TO HIM
AND HE SAYS - VERSE 6 -
00:17:58.34\00:18:01.44
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, SLEEPER?
00:18:01.44\00:18:04.05
ARISE, CALL ON YOUR
GOD; PERHAPS YOUR GOD WILL
00:18:04.05\00:18:08.72
CONSIDER US, SO
THAT WE MAY NOT PERISH."
00:18:08.72\00:18:11.72
THE VERY SAME WORDS
THAT WERE SPOKEN TO JESUS:
00:18:11.72\00:18:14.46
'MASTER, CAREST THOU
NOT THAT WE ARE PERISHING?'
00:18:14.46\00:18:18.53
NO SIGN'LL BE GIVEN
BUT THE SIGN OF JONAH - BUT
00:18:18.53\00:18:21.50
THERE'S MORE - IF
YOU ORDER NOW - GET YOUR
00:18:21.50\00:18:23.90
CREDIT CARD OUT - NO.
(LAUGHTER) SO THEY SAID TO
00:18:23.90\00:18:28.37
ONE ANOTHER - HE COMES
UP DECK AND HE'S RUBBING HIS
00:18:28.37\00:18:30.77
EYES AND GOING, 'OH NO,
I WAS AFRAID OF THIS.' HE
00:18:30.77\00:18:33.74
KNOWS RIGHT AWAY WHEN
HE SEES THIS HOWLING STORM.
00:18:33.74\00:18:35.64
IT'S A SUPERNATURAL
STORM THAT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE.
00:18:35.64\00:18:39.75
JONAH KNOWS IN HIS
HEART THAT SMOOTH SAILING WAS
00:18:39.75\00:18:42.52
JUST - GOD WAS GIVING HIM
TIME TO REPENT - HE WAITED.
00:18:42.52\00:18:45.75
"AND THEY SAID TO ONE
ANOTHER, 'COME, LET US CAST
00:18:45.75\00:18:48.29
LOTS, THAT WE MAY KNOW FOR
WHOSE CAUSE THIS TROUBLE HAS
00:18:48.29\00:18:51.33
COME UPON US.'" YOU SEE,
THEY DID EVERYTHING PHYSICALLY
00:18:51.33\00:18:54.50
THEY COULD DO
TO SAVE THEMSELVES.
00:18:54.50\00:18:56.56
THEY THREW EVERYTHING
OVERBOARD, THEY BATTENED
00:18:56.56\00:18:58.20
DOWN THE HATCHES, THEY'RE
DOING ALL THEY CAN AND NOW
00:18:58.20\00:19:00.07
THEY'RE JUST AT THE MERCY
OF THIS RELENTLESS, HOWLING
00:19:00.07\00:19:02.57
STORM AND HE SAID,
'THIS IS A SUPERNATURAL STORM.
00:19:02.57\00:19:05.74
THE GODS ARE ANGRY
WITH SOMEONE ON THIS BOAT,
00:19:05.74\00:19:10.21
TRYING TO DESTROY THIS
BOAT.' YOU KNOW WHY THAT
00:19:10.21\00:19:13.82
STORM CAME TO JESUS ON THE SEA?
00:19:13.82\00:19:16.32
I BELIEVE IT WAS A
SUPERNATURAL STORM.
00:19:16.32\00:19:17.95
I THINK THE DEVIL WANTED
TO SEND JESUS DOWN TO THE
00:19:17.95\00:19:20.49
BOTTOM BUT HE
COULDN'T DO IT BECAUSE GOD WAS
00:19:20.49\00:19:24.59
WATCHING OVER HIM.
AND THE SAME TIME, THEY
00:19:24.59\00:19:27.60
KNEW THERE WAS
SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL.
00:19:27.60\00:19:30.30
'LET'S CAST LOTS.' THEY CAST
LOTS AND THE LOT FELL ON JONAH.
00:19:30.30\00:19:35.37
NOW VERY QUICKLY, WHAT
THAT WAS - IN BIBLE TIMES
00:19:35.37\00:19:37.21
THEY HAD A WAY OF
LIKE DRAWING STRAWS.
00:19:37.21\00:19:40.58
THEY WOULD HAVE LIKE A
JAR THAT HAD A NARROW OPENING
00:19:40.58\00:19:43.41
AND THEY WOULD PUT ALL OF
THESE BLACK STONES IN THERE
00:19:43.41\00:19:45.71
AND ONE WHITE STONE,
DEPENDING ON HOW MANY
00:19:45.71\00:19:47.32
PEOPLE THEY WERE
CASTING LOTS WITH.
00:19:47.32\00:19:48.88
THEY'D SHAKE IT - KIND OF
A LIKE A LOTTERY - THEY'D PUT
00:19:48.88\00:19:51.19
THEIR THUMB OVER IT AND
THEY'D DROP OUT ONE STONE
00:19:51.19\00:19:54.22
AND WHOEVER GOT THE
WHITE STONE, YOU WERE THE ONE
00:19:54.22\00:19:56.19
THAT WAS BUSTED. YOU
WERE THE ONE THAT PICKED
00:19:56.19\00:19:59.83
- AND ONE BY ONE THEY'RE
GOING AROUND AND PROBABLY
00:19:59.83\00:20:03.40
JONAH WAS THE LAST ONE
AND OUT COMES THE WHITE STONE
00:20:03.40\00:20:06.33
AND THEY ALL LOOK AT HIM
AND HE LOOKS UP AND HE KNOWS.
00:20:06.33\00:20:11.61
HE'S BEEN RUNNING
FROM THE WORD OF GOD.
00:20:11.61\00:20:14.01
MATTER OF FACT, HE 'FESSES UP.
00:20:14.01\00:20:16.31
THEY SAID TO HIM,
'PLEASE, TELL US' - THEY'RE ALL
00:20:16.31\00:20:20.08
FIRING QUESTIONS AT HIM
- "...FOR WHOSE CAUSE IS
00:20:20.08\00:20:23.32
THIS TROUBLE UPON US?
WHAT IS YOUR OCCUPATION?"
00:20:23.32\00:20:26.42
USUALLY WHEN THE WEATHER'S
NOT - WHEN THE WEATHER'S
00:20:26.42\00:20:27.82
BAD YOU DON'T TURN TO THE
PERSON NEXT TO YOU AND SAY,
00:20:27.82\00:20:29.46
'WHAT DID YOU DO?' (LAUGHTER)
RIGHT? BUT THIS IS NO SMALL
00:20:29.46\00:20:33.76
STORM. THIS IS LIKE A
SUPERNATURAL STORM AND THE
00:20:33.76\00:20:37.10
BOAT IS CREAKING AND
GROANING WITH EVERY NEW
00:20:37.10\00:20:38.93
WAVE AND THEY FIGURED
AT ANY MOMENT IT'S GOING TO
00:20:38.93\00:20:40.90
BUST TO SMITHEREENS.
"WHAT - WHAT IS YOUR OCCUPATION?
00:20:40.90\00:20:46.98
WHERE DO YOU COME
FROM? WHAT IS YOUR COUNTRY?
00:20:46.98\00:20:49.88
WHAT ARE YOUR
PEOPLE?" THEY'RE JUST FIRING
00:20:49.88\00:20:51.71
QUESTIONS OUT AND
FINALLY HE SAYS, "I AM A HEBREW;
00:20:51.71\00:20:55.82
AND I FEAR THE LORD,
THE GOD OF HEAVEN, WHO MADE
00:20:55.82\00:20:58.89
THE SEA AND THE
DRY LAND." RIGHT?
00:20:58.89\00:21:02.39
WHEN HE SAYS HE'S THE
GOD THAT MADE THE SEA.
00:21:02.39\00:21:03.93
YOU SEE, THEY HAD ALL
THESE DIFFERENT GODS AND
00:21:03.93\00:21:05.66
HE WANTED TO BE CLEAR 'I
WORSHIP THAT GOD WHO MADE
00:21:05.66\00:21:07.76
EVERYTHING ALL YOUR
GODS ARE MADE OUT OF.
00:21:07.76\00:21:10.57
I WORSHIP THE GOD OF
GODS.' "THEN THE MEN WERE
00:21:10.57\00:21:12.97
EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID," -
YOU KNOW, AFTER THEY WOKE UP
00:21:12.97\00:21:16.64
JESUS AND HE CALMED
THE SEA, IT SAYS THEY WERE
00:21:16.64\00:21:18.17
EXCEEDINGLY AFRAID -
"THEN THE MEN WERE EXCEEDINGLY
00:21:18.17\00:21:21.41
AFRAID AND SAID,
'WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS?'
00:21:21.41\00:21:23.98
" - THAT'S A GOOD
QUESTION: WHY WOULD YOU
00:21:23.98\00:21:25.18
RUN FROM GOD? THE
BIBLE SAYS EVERY GOOD
00:21:25.18\00:21:27.25
AND PERFECT GIFT IS FROM
GOD. WOULD GOD EVER ASK YOU
00:21:27.25\00:21:30.69
TO DO SOMETHING
THAT IS ULTIMATELY BAD?
00:21:30.69\00:21:34.52
THINK ABOUT THAT.
WHY WOULD YOU NOT DO HIS
00:21:34.52\00:21:35.72
WILL THEN - IF
GOD'LL NEVER ASK YOU TO
00:21:35.72\00:21:37.53
DO SOMETHING BAD?
BECAUSE WE DON'T TRUST HIM?
00:21:37.53\00:21:41.60
OR WE WORSHIP OUR
IDEAS MORE THAN GOD?
00:21:41.60\00:21:44.70
WHY DID HE DO THIS? HE
NEVER GIVES AN ANSWER -
00:21:44.70\00:21:48.80
"FOR THE MEN KNEW THAT
HE FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF
00:21:48.80\00:21:51.41
THE LORD,
BECAUSE HE HAD TOLD THEM.
00:21:51.41\00:21:53.81
THEN THEY SAID TO HIM,
'WHAT SHALL WE DO TO YOU
00:21:53.81\00:21:57.28
THAT THE SEA
MAY BE CALM FOR US?'
00:21:57.28\00:21:59.68
- FOR THE SEA WAS
GROWING MORE TEMPESTUOUS."
00:21:59.68\00:22:02.92
THE LONGER THEY WAITED
IT LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE
00:22:02.92\00:22:04.62
RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
EVERY TIME THE BOAT WENT
00:22:04.62\00:22:07.22
DOWN IN THE TROUGH OF A
WAVE, MORE WATER CAME IN
00:22:07.22\00:22:09.42
AND THEY WERE
PROBABLY BAILING WITH ALL THEIR
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.66
MIGHT AND STILL THE
BOAT WAS GETTING LOWER AND
00:22:11.66\00:22:13.70
LOWER IN THE WATER AND
IT LOOKED LIKE THE NEXT WAVE
00:22:13.70\00:22:16.06
WAS GOING TO BE THE LAST
ONE. AND JONAH SAID SOMETHING
00:22:16.06\00:22:18.97
PECULIAR, "PICK ME UP"
- VERSE 12 - "AND THROW ME
00:22:18.97\00:22:23.51
INTO THE SEA; THEN THE
SEA WILL BE CALM FOR YOU.
00:22:23.51\00:22:27.64
FOR I KNOW THAT THIS
GREAT TEMPEST IS BECAUSE OF ME."
00:22:27.64\00:22:31.25
THIS GREAT
TEMPEST IS BECAUSE OF ME.
00:22:31.25\00:22:34.55
YOU KNOW WHY WE HAVE ALL
THIS TROUBLE IN THE WORLD?
00:22:34.55\00:22:37.55
BECAUSE THE DEVIL HATES JESUS.
00:22:37.55\00:22:39.62
THE DEVIL WANTED JESUS' PLACE.
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.76
THERE'S A GREAT
BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
00:22:41.76\00:22:43.56
YOU AND I ARE THE
PAWNS. I KNOW WE DON'T LIKE TO
00:22:43.56\00:22:45.76
THINK OF IT THAT WAY BUT
THE DEVIL KNOWS THAT JESUS
00:22:45.76\00:22:48.03
LOVES US SO HE WANTS TO
HURT JESUS BY HURTING US.
00:22:48.03\00:22:51.07
THIS GREAT BATTLE IS
BECAUSE OF ME - THROW ME -
00:22:51.07\00:22:55.37
"NEVERTHELESS,
THE MEN ROWED HARD TO
00:22:55.37\00:22:57.54
LAND, BUT THEY COULD
NOT, FOR THE SEA CONTINUED TO
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.88
GROW MORE" - YOU WONDER
HOW MUCH MORE TEMPESTUOUS
00:23:00.88\00:23:03.38
CAN THE SEA GET.
IT KEEPS SAYING 'MORE'
00:23:03.38\00:23:05.08
'GREATER' 'MORE'
'GREATER' - IT GREW "...MORE
00:23:05.08\00:23:08.45
TEMPESTUOUS AGAINST
THEM." YOU KNOW, IN THE TWO
00:23:08.45\00:23:10.85
STORIES OF JESUS ON
THE SEA, ONE THEY WAKE HIM
00:23:10.85\00:23:13.56
UP, THE OTHER THEY ROW.
HERE THE MEN WAKE UP JONAH
00:23:13.56\00:23:16.59
AND THEN THEY ROW -
TRYING TO SAVE THEMSELVES.
00:23:16.59\00:23:20.16
THEY'RE MORE
CIVILIZED THAN THE AVERAGE PAGAN
00:23:20.16\00:23:24.50
BECAUSE YOU'D THINK,
'WELL, WHY DON'T THEY JUST
00:23:24.50\00:23:26.13
THROW HIM OVERBOARD?'
BUT THEY SAY, 'WE DON'T
00:23:26.13\00:23:28.67
WANT TO DO THIS,
THAT'S INHUMANE.' SO THEY'RE
00:23:28.67\00:23:31.91
DOING ALL THEY CAN TO
TRY TO SAVE THEMSELVES.
00:23:31.91\00:23:35.51
THEY ROWED HARD TO
RETURN TO LAND, BUT THEY COULD
00:23:35.51\00:23:39.35
NOT. THEY'RE BEING WASHED
00:23:39.35\00:23:40.62
FURTHER AND FURTHER OUT TO SEA.
00:23:40.62\00:23:43.05
"THEREFORE THEY CRIED
OUT TO THE LORD" - THEY KNEW
00:23:43.05\00:23:45.12
THE NEXT WAVE WAS GOING
TO BE THEIR LAST AND THEY
00:23:45.12\00:23:46.96
THOUGHT, 'WELL, WHAT
HAVE WE GOT TO LOSE?'
00:23:46.96\00:23:49.26
- "...THEY CRIED OUT
TO THE LORD AND SAID, 'WE
00:23:49.26\00:23:50.99
PRAY, O LORD, PLEASE DO
NOT LET US PERISH FOR THIS
00:23:50.99\00:23:55.33
MAN'S LIFE," - GOD SO
LOVED US THAT HE GAVE HIS
00:23:55.33\00:24:00.04
SON THAT WE MIGHT NOT
PERISH BECAUSE JESUS GAVE
00:24:00.04\00:24:03.14
HIS LIFE - "AND DO NOT
CHARGE US WITH INNOCENT
00:24:03.14\00:24:06.61
BLOOD;" - YOU KNOW WHAT
PILATE SAID AT THE TRIAL
00:24:06.61\00:24:10.31
OF CHRIST? 'I
DON'T WANT TO BE GUILTY
00:24:10.31\00:24:12.55
OF THIS MAN'S INNOCENT
BLOOD.' WERE THEY CASTING
00:24:12.55\00:24:15.85
LOTS AT THE
CROSS? WERE THEY CASTING
00:24:15.85\00:24:19.82
LOTS FOR JONAH?
JESUS SAID, 'NO SIGN'LL
00:24:19.82\00:24:23.56
BE GIVEN BUT THE SIGN OF
JONAH - "FOR YOU, O LORD,
00:24:23.56\00:24:27.76
HAVE DONE AS IT PLEASED YOU."
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.56
YOU READ THE PROPHECY
ABOUT JESUS IN ISAIAH 53
00:24:29.56\00:24:32.67
AND IT SAYS 'IT PLEASED
THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM FOR
00:24:32.67\00:24:35.10
OUR SAKE.' 'LORD,
YOU'VE DONE AS IT PLEASED YOU.'
00:24:35.10\00:24:39.17
SO WAS JONAH A
WILLING SACRIFICE?
00:24:39.17\00:24:44.01
HE SAID, 'YOU MUST
THROW ME OVERBOARD.' AND THEY
00:24:44.01\00:24:47.05
GOT SIX MEN OR SO AND
THEY EACH GRABBED THE HANDS AND
00:24:47.05\00:24:49.92
THE FEET OF JONAH AND
THEY SAID, 'ONE' AND THEY SWUNG
00:24:49.92\00:24:53.49
HIM OUT AND BACK.
'TWO' THEY SWUNG HIM A LITTLE
00:24:53.49\00:24:56.32
FURTHER. 'THREE'
HURLED HIM OVER THE SIDE.
00:24:56.32\00:25:01.70
AND WHEN HE HIT THE
WATER, INSTANTLY THE WAVES BEGAN
00:25:01.70\00:25:04.43
TO FLATTEN OUT AND THE
WIND STOPPED LIKE IT HAD
00:25:04.43\00:25:07.37
PUT ON BRAKES AND
THERE WAS A GREAT CALM.
00:25:07.37\00:25:11.44
THE SEA CEASED FROM ITS RAGING.
00:25:11.44\00:25:14.41
DID JESUS CALM THE SEA?
DOES JONAH CALM THE SEA?
00:25:14.41\00:25:19.55
NO SIGN'LL BE GIVEN
BUT THE SIGN OF JONAH.
00:25:19.55\00:25:22.78
THEN THE MEN FEARED
THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY.
00:25:22.78\00:25:25.95
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN
JESUS CALMED THE SEA?
00:25:25.95\00:25:27.06
I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT
IT, BUT HERE IT SAYS IT AGAIN:
00:25:27.06\00:25:29.36
"THEN THE MEN FEARED
THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY, AND
00:25:29.36\00:25:32.06
OFFERED SACRIFICE TO
THE LORD AND TOOK VOWS."
00:25:32.06\00:25:34.73
WHEN JESUS CALMED THE SEA
THEY SAID, 'WHAT MANNER OF
00:25:34.73\00:25:36.53
MAN IS THIS THAT EVEN
THE WINDS AND THE WAVES OBEY
00:25:36.53\00:25:38.80
HIM?' THEN IT GOES ON TO
SAY, "NOW THE LORD HAD PREPARED
00:25:38.80\00:25:44.94
A GREAT FISH TO SWALLOW JONAH."
00:25:44.94\00:25:50.55
I CAN SEE IT, JUST AS
THOSE MEN ARE PRAYING -
00:25:50.55\00:25:52.41
THEY'RE WONDERING WHAT
HAPPENS TO JONAH AND THEY
00:25:52.41\00:25:54.42
SEE THIS BIG LOOMING
SHADOW COME UP FROM THE
00:25:54.42\00:25:56.32
ABYSS AND IT
SWALLOWS THE PROPHET.
00:25:56.32\00:26:00.89
THEY SEE THE FLIP OF
A TAIL AND IT GOES DOWN.
00:26:00.89\00:26:06.23
GOD HAD PREPARED A FISH
AND JONAH WAS THREE DAYS
00:26:06.23\00:26:09.70
AND THREE NIGHTS IN
THE BELLY OF THE FISH.
00:26:09.70\00:26:13.30
HAVE ANY OF YOU HEARD
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO
00:26:13.30\00:26:16.47
HARRISON OKENE IN MAY
24, 2013? A NIGERIAN COOK
00:26:16.47\00:26:27.02
20 MILES OFF THE COAST
OF LAGOS, NIGERIA, WAS ON A
00:26:27.02\00:26:32.42
TUGBOAT - 12 MEN IN THE
CREW - THEY WERE DOING SOME
00:26:32.42\00:26:36.52
TUGBOAT WORK FOR A BIG
CHEVRON TANKER AND SOME
00:26:36.52\00:26:42.46
ROGUE WAVE, I GUESS THEY
CALL IT, IT CAME ALONG IN
00:26:42.46\00:26:44.73
THE NIGHT - IT WAS ALREADY
ROUGH - CAPSIZED THE BOAT
00:26:44.73\00:26:48.87
AND SANK IT IN 100 FEET
OF WATER - TRUE STORY - AND
00:26:48.87\00:26:55.24
MOST OF THE MEN
DIED IMMEDIATELY.
00:26:55.24\00:26:58.68
HARRISON WAS ACTUALLY
ASLEEP - IT WAS ABOUT 2:00
00:26:58.68\00:27:00.58
IN THE MORNING WHEN IT HAPPENED.
00:27:00.58\00:27:02.08
HE JUST WOKE UP AND
FOUND HIMSELF GETTING PITCHED
00:27:02.08\00:27:03.75
AROUND INSIDE HIS CABIN,
WHICH WAS DOWN IN THE LOW
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.92
PART OF THE SHIP AND
HE REALIZED THE BOAT WAS
00:27:05.92\00:27:08.32
UPSIDE DOWN AND GOING
DOWN AND THE PRESSURE WAS
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.33
RISING AND THINGS WERE
BUBBLING UP AND HE JUST -
00:27:10.33\00:27:12.13
THERE'S NO WAY TO SWIM
DOWN AND GET OUT, SO HE
00:27:12.13\00:27:15.16
RETREATED FURTHER UP
'TILL HE CAME TO THE LAST LITTLE
00:27:15.16\00:27:19.33
POCKET OF AIR IN
THIS CAPSIZED VESSEL THAT
00:27:19.33\00:27:21.97
SETTLED DOWN ON THE BOTTOM.
00:27:21.97\00:27:24.14
OF COURSE THE LIGHTS WENT
OUT AND HE WAS IN THE DARK
00:27:24.14\00:27:26.94
AND HE WAS THERE
FOR THREE DAYS IN AN
00:27:26.94\00:27:33.28
EVER-DIMINISHING
POCKET OF OXYGEN.
00:27:33.28\00:27:36.82
JUST BEFORE THIS ALL
HAPPENED - THAT DAY - HIS
00:27:36.82\00:27:40.52
WIFE, A CHRISTIAN, HAD
TEXTED HIM A SCRIPTURE FOR
00:27:40.52\00:27:44.53
HIM TO CLAIM A
PROMISE. SHE SAID, 'CLAIM THIS
00:27:44.53\00:27:46.73
PROMISE TODAY -
PSALM 54, "REMEMBER ME O
00:27:46.73\00:27:50.23
GOD, DELIVER ME."
AND HE KEPT SAYING THAT
00:27:50.23\00:27:53.87
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
00:27:53.87\00:27:56.24
MEANWHILE, THEY SENT A
SCANDINAVIAN - IT WASN'T A
00:27:56.24\00:27:59.57
RESCUE CREW, IT WAS A
SALVAGE CREW TO RECOVER
00:27:59.57\00:28:02.21
THE BODIES AND THEY -
GOING DOWN IN A HUNDRED
00:28:02.21\00:28:05.21
FEET OF WATER THEY
HAD SPECIAL GEAR THAT WAS
00:28:05.21\00:28:07.82
TETHERED TO THE TOP
AND THEY HAD CAMERAS ON SO
00:28:07.82\00:28:10.25
THEY'RE NAVIGATING
THEIR WAY THROUGH AND THEY'RE
00:28:10.25\00:28:11.99
TRYING TO FIND THE BODIES
AND THEY MAKE THEIR WAY UP
00:28:11.99\00:28:13.69
- THEY'LL START AT THE BOTTOM
AND THEY'LL WORK THEIR WAY
00:28:13.69\00:28:15.66
OUT. THEY - HARRISON IS
JUST FIGURING IT'S ALL OVER NOW
00:28:15.66\00:28:19.29
AND HE DESCRIBES IT - ALL
HE HAD WAS A LITER OF COKE
00:28:19.29\00:28:23.83
THAT BOBBED UP TO THE SURFACE.
00:28:23.83\00:28:25.27
THAT'S ALL HE HAD TO
DRINK FOR THREE DAYS AND THE
00:28:25.27\00:28:28.54
SALT WATER WAS BEGINNING
TO BURN HIS SKIN AND HIS
00:28:28.54\00:28:31.21
TONGUE AND IN THE
DARKNESS HE COULD HEAR THE FISH
00:28:31.21\00:28:34.24
BEGINNING TO WORK ON
HIS SHIPMATES THAT HAD DIED.
00:28:34.24\00:28:37.98
IT WAS A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
00:28:37.98\00:28:40.38
AND THEN ALL OF A
SUDDEN HE'S PRAYING AND SAYS,
00:28:40.38\00:28:42.75
'LORD, TAKE CARE OF
MY FAMILY.' HE FIGURED
00:28:42.75\00:28:44.12
NOTHING WAS GOING TO
HAPPEN - THREE DAYS - 72
00:28:44.12\00:28:45.82
HOURS - AND THE WATER
BEGAN TO TURN GREEN AND
00:28:45.82\00:28:49.52
THEN LIGHT AND HE
DIDN'T KNOW IF HE WAS
00:28:49.52\00:28:51.29
HALLUCINATING AND HE
SAW BUBBLES AND THEN HE SAW
00:28:51.29\00:28:53.03
SOMETHING COMING UP AND
HE DIDN'T KNOW IF ONE OF THE
00:28:53.03\00:28:54.73
SCAVENGERS WAS
COMING UP FOR HIM.
00:28:54.73\00:28:58.40
MEANWHILE, THE
RECOVERY CREW, THEY'RE GOING
00:28:58.40\00:29:02.04
THROUGH THE REMAINS OF
THE SHIP LOOKING FOR BODIES,
00:29:02.04\00:29:05.51
WHICH HAS GOT TO BE A
PRETTY SPOOKY THING TO DO.
00:29:05.51\00:29:09.08
AND THEY'RE GOING
AROUND AND YOU CAN HEAR THEM
00:29:09.08\00:29:10.68
BREATHING, YOU CAN HEAR
THE BUBBLES AND ALL OF A
00:29:10.68\00:29:13.35
SUDDEN A HAND COMES
DOWN AND GRABS ONE OF THE
00:29:13.35\00:29:16.38
DIVERS (LAUGHTER)
AND YOU CAN HEAR HIM YELP
00:29:16.38\00:29:20.09
(LAUGHTER) AND THEN HE
REALIZES THIS PERSON IS
00:29:20.09\00:29:23.32
STILL ALIVE IN
THIS POCKET OF AIR.
00:29:23.32\00:29:24.83
HE SAYS, 'WE HAVE A SURVIVOR!'
00:29:24.83\00:29:27.66
AND IT WAS QUITE A
MANEUVER TO GET OXYGEN -
00:29:27.66\00:29:30.33
FIRST THEY PUMPED OXYGEN
IN SO HE'D STAY ALIVE AND
00:29:30.33\00:29:32.40
THEN THEY HAD TO
DECOMPRESS HIM AND BRING
00:29:32.40\00:29:33.87
HIM UP, BUT HE SURVIVED
AND HE HASN'T BEEN TO SEA
00:29:33.87\00:29:36.67
SINCE. (LAUGHTER) BUT CAN YOU
00:29:36.67\00:29:41.54
IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD
BE LIKE FOR JONAH THREE
00:29:41.54\00:29:44.75
DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS?
BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, I
00:29:44.75\00:29:47.08
NEED TO EXPLAIN THAT.
PEOPLE OFTEN WONDER ABOUT
00:29:47.08\00:29:49.68
THE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.
00:29:49.68\00:29:50.89
THEY SAY, 'WAIT A
SECOND, WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK DID
00:29:50.89\00:29:52.42
JESUS DIE?' WHO
KNOWS? WHAT DAY DID HE DIE?
00:29:52.42\00:29:53.96
>>FRIDAY. >>FRIDAY, CORRECT.
00:29:53.96\00:29:55.89
THAT'S WHY THEY
CALL IT GOOD FRIDAY.
00:29:55.89\00:29:57.39
AND HE ROSE WHEN? >>SUNDAY.
00:29:57.39\00:30:00.00
>>EARLY IN THE MORNING SUNDAY.
00:30:00.00\00:30:02.13
SO YOU'VE GOT FRIDAY
NIGHT, SATURDAY NIGHT, AND
00:30:02.13\00:30:06.07
THIS IS SUNDAY
MORNING - JESUS SAID, 'AS
00:30:06.07\00:30:08.34
JONAH WAS THREE
DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS' -
00:30:08.34\00:30:11.77
IT'S VERY CLEAR - VERY
EXPLICIT. HOW DO YOU GET THREE
00:30:11.77\00:30:13.84
NIGHTS OUT OF THAT?
AND I'VE SEEN PEOPLE TRY
00:30:13.84\00:30:16.31
TO MOVE THE DAY OF
THE CRUCIFIXION AND THEY -
00:30:16.31\00:30:18.51
THEY DO ALL THESE
THINGS TO TRY TO ACCOMMODATE -
00:30:18.51\00:30:20.42
BY THE WAY, THIS IS ONLY
FOUND - THE THREE DAYS AND
00:30:20.42\00:30:22.52
THREE NIGHTS PART -
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 12.
00:30:22.52\00:30:25.72
THEY MAKE A COMMON MISTAKE
OF ASSUMING, WHEN IT SAYS
00:30:25.72\00:30:28.52
'THE HEART OF THE
EARTH' THAT MEANS THE TOMB.
00:30:28.52\00:30:31.66
JESUS SAYS, 'AS JONAH
WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE GREAT
00:30:31.66\00:30:34.20
FISH THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS, THE SON OF MAN
00:30:34.20\00:30:36.06
WILL BE IN THE HEART OF
THE EARTH.' WHEN YOU SAY
00:30:36.06\00:30:38.80
THE LORD'S PRAYER -
THY WILL BE DONE 'IN EARTH'
00:30:38.80\00:30:41.57
DOES THAT MEAN THE TOMB?
SEE, JESUS HAD ALWAYS BEEN
00:30:41.57\00:30:45.87
PROTECTED BY GOD FROM
THE ASSAULTS OF THE DEVIL.
00:30:45.87\00:30:49.01
WHENEVER THEY TRIED TO
STONE JESUS OR THROW HIM
00:30:49.01\00:30:50.78
OFF A CLIFF,
ANGELS PROTECTED HIM.
00:30:50.78\00:30:53.28
HE JUST PASSED
THROUGH THEIR MIDST.
00:30:53.28\00:30:55.32
BUT AFTER THE LAST
SUPPER WHEN CHRIST SAID, 'NOW IS
00:30:55.32\00:30:58.02
THE HOUR OF DARKNESS'
AND HE PRAYED 'NOT MY WILL,
00:30:58.02\00:31:02.62
THY WILL BE DONE.' THAT
NIGHT THE FATHER WITHDREW
00:31:02.62\00:31:06.23
HIS PROTECTION FROM
JESUS AND THE MOB CAME AND THEY
00:31:06.23\00:31:09.03
BEAT HIM AND THEY TIED
HIM UP AND HE BEGAN TO SUFFER.
00:31:09.03\00:31:11.83
FOR THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS JESUS WAS PAYING
00:31:11.83\00:31:14.74
THE PENALTY FOR
THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
00:31:14.74\00:31:17.17
SEE THE PENALTY FOR
SIN IS NOT JUST DEATH, IT'S
00:31:17.17\00:31:19.74
SUFFERING AND DEATH.
AND JESUS TOOK THE SUFFERING
00:31:19.74\00:31:23.91
DURING HIS TRIAL
AND DURING THE BEATINGS.
00:31:23.91\00:31:25.88
THAT WAS BEFORE HE
EVER GOT TO THE CROSS.
00:31:25.88\00:31:27.45
IT HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH THE TOMB.
00:31:27.45\00:31:29.72
THREE DAYS AND THREE
NIGHTS JESUS WOULD BE -
00:31:29.72\00:31:31.62
THE WORD IS 'CARDIA' -
'IN THE HEART' - IT'S WHERE
00:31:31.62\00:31:34.22
YOU GET CARDIAC - OF THE EARTH.
00:31:34.22\00:31:35.92
HE WAS IN THE CLUTCHES
OF THIS WORLD AND THE DEVIL
00:31:35.92\00:31:38.43
IS CALLED THE
PRINCE OF THE WORLD.
00:31:38.43\00:31:40.53
THURSDAY NIGHT, FRIDAY
NIGHT, SATURDAY NIGHT -
00:31:40.53\00:31:43.73
THREE DAYS AND THREE
NIGHTS HE WAS PAYING THE
00:31:43.73\00:31:45.30
PENALTY FOR OUR SIN -
THE SUFFERING AND DEATH.
00:31:45.30\00:31:47.94
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT NOW?
SO YOU DON'T NEED TO MOVE
00:31:47.94\00:31:49.87
THE CRUCIFIXION DAY,
IT STILL WORKS WITH THE
00:31:49.87\00:31:52.74
BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING.
SO THERE FROM THE BELLY
00:31:52.74\00:31:57.38
OF THE FISH JONAH
PRAYS - LIKE HARRISON OKENE.
00:31:57.38\00:32:01.65
NOW THIS IS ONE OF THE
REASONS JONAH IS SOMETHING
00:32:01.65\00:32:05.85
OF A HERO FOR ME. AT
WHAT POINT DO YOU GIVE
00:32:05.85\00:32:09.29
UP AND THINK
THERE'S NO MORE HOPE?
00:32:09.29\00:32:12.26
I MEAN, IF I WAS IN
THE STORM AND I KNOW THIS
00:32:12.26\00:32:16.13
STORM IS HAPPENING -
THESE GUYS THROW ME OVERBOARD -
00:32:16.13\00:32:18.50
I WOULD THINK, 'OH WELL,
I'M GETTING WHAT I DESERVE.
00:32:18.50\00:32:21.30
IF SOMEONE'S GOT TO
GO, IT'S GOT TO BE ME.
00:32:21.30\00:32:22.70
ALL THIS TROUBLE
HAPPENED TO THEM BECAUSE I'M
00:32:22.70\00:32:24.57
RUNNING FROM GOD.'
JONAH REALIZED THAT HE NEARLY
00:32:24.57\00:32:26.68
KILLED EVERYONE ON
THAT SHIP BECAUSE HE WAS
00:32:26.68\00:32:28.38
RUNNING FROM GOD.
HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED
00:32:28.38\00:32:31.51
YOUR DECISION TO SERVE
GOD OR RUN FROM GOD NOT ONLY
00:32:31.51\00:32:34.15
AFFECTS YOU, BUT IT WILL
AFFECT PEOPLE AROUND YOU.
00:32:34.15\00:32:37.95
>>AMEN.
>>CHRIST HAS MADE IT VERY
00:32:37.95\00:32:39.65
CLEAR THAT YOUR
DECISION TO RUN FROM HIM OR TO
00:32:39.65\00:32:43.63
FOLLOW HIM WILL REACT
AND REACT AGAIN IN SAVING OR
00:32:43.63\00:32:49.56
DESTROYING LIVES AROUND
YOU. NO MAN IS AN ISLAND AND IF
00:32:49.56\00:32:54.17
YOU MAKE IT TO THE
KINGDOM YOU WILL SEE ON THE
00:32:54.17\00:32:56.84
STREETS OF GOLD,
PEOPLE THAT WERE NO DOUBT
00:32:56.84\00:32:58.57
INFLUENCED BY
YOUR POSITIVE DECISION.
00:32:58.57\00:33:01.41
AND IF YOU'RE IN THE
LAKE OF FIRE AND IT CREEPS UP
00:33:01.41\00:33:03.61
AROUND YOUR ANKLES, YOU
WILL SEE PEOPLE THAT WERE
00:33:03.61\00:33:05.65
INFLUENCED BY YOUR DECISION.
WHAT KIND OF DECISION -
00:33:05.65\00:33:08.62
WHAT KIND OF
INFLUENCE ARE YOU HAVING?
00:33:08.62\00:33:10.72
JONAH REALIZED
'THEY'RE BEING LOST - THEY'RE
00:33:10.72\00:33:12.55
PERISHING - BECAUSE I'M
RUNNING FROM GOD.' I WOULD
00:33:12.55\00:33:16.22
HAVE GIVEN UP AT THAT
POINT, BUT JONAH NOW, HE'S
00:33:16.22\00:33:19.53
GOING ON THIS
UNSCHEDULED TOUR INSIDE THIS SEA
00:33:19.53\00:33:24.30
MONSTER - YOU WANT TO
KNOW WHO THE FIRST SUBMARINER
00:33:24.30\00:33:27.14
WAS IN THE WORLD, THAT
WOULD BE JONAH - BUT THEY
00:33:27.14\00:33:31.54
DIDN'T GIVE HIM A PORTHOLE.
00:33:31.54\00:33:33.61
AND SO - YOU KNOW,
I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT, IF JONAH
00:33:33.61\00:33:37.11
WAS ALIVE INSIDE THE
FISH, WHAT IF THE FISH HAD SOME
00:33:37.11\00:33:41.58
HORS D'OEUVRES BEFORE JONAH?
00:33:41.58\00:33:45.32
YOU KNOW, HAVE A FEW
JELLY FISH - YOU EVER BEEN STUNG
00:33:45.32\00:33:47.79
BY A JELLY FISH?
I HAVE. IT HURTS.
00:33:47.79\00:33:51.49
HAVE A FEW SEA URCHINS
AND SOME OCTOPUS TO, YOU KNOW,
00:33:51.49\00:33:54.83
GET THE LITTLE STICKERS
ON YOU IN THE DARK THERE,
00:33:54.83\00:33:56.70
INSIDE THE
FISH'S DIGESTIVE SYSTEM,
00:33:56.70\00:33:58.20
SURROUNDED BY ALL THAT
SUSHI (LAUGHTER) IN THE
00:33:58.20\00:34:01.60
DARK - LITTLE
BIOLUMINESCENT THINGS
00:34:01.60\00:34:03.81
FLASHING - 'WHAT'S
THAT?' - YOU KNOW, SEA URCHINS
00:34:03.81\00:34:06.64
JABBING YOU AND - IT
MUST HAVE BEEN MISERABLE.
00:34:06.64\00:34:10.75
I KNOW WE'RE JOKING
ABOUT IT, BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE
00:34:10.75\00:34:12.05
HOW MISERABLE THAT
WAS? IT'S DESCRIBING THE
00:34:12.05\00:34:14.72
SUFFERINGS OF
JESUS. THREE DAYS AND THREE
00:34:14.72\00:34:17.99
NIGHTS BUT JONAH, EVEN
IN THAT, HE PRAYED FROM THE
00:34:17.99\00:34:22.76
BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAINS.
NOW IF THERE'S A PLACE YOU
00:34:22.76\00:34:24.79
CAN RUN WHERE GOD
CAN'T HEAR YOUR PRAYERS, IT
00:34:24.79\00:34:26.66
WOULD NOT BE JOPPA
OR TARSHISH OR TIMBUKTU.
00:34:26.66\00:34:30.07
BUT I THINK, IF
YOU'RE INSIDE A WHALE, IN THE
00:34:30.07\00:34:32.13
DARK, AT THE BOTTOM OF
THE MOUNTAINS, THAT WOULD BE
00:34:32.13\00:34:33.97
ABOUT AS FAR AWAY
FROM GOD AS YOU COULD GET.
00:34:33.97\00:34:36.84
CAN YOU PICTURE,
GEOGRAPHICALLY, ANY WAY TO
00:34:36.84\00:34:39.44
HIDE BETTER FROM GOD
THAN TO TRY AND SNEAK OFF IN
00:34:39.44\00:34:43.21
THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF
A FISH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
00:34:43.21\00:34:45.48
MOUNTAINS AND SEE,
'MAYBE HE'LL FORGET ABOUT ME.'?
00:34:45.48\00:34:48.28
IF, YOU KNOW, THIS IS
WONDERFUL BECAUSE IF GOD
00:34:48.28\00:34:50.95
COULD HEAR JONAH'S
PRAYER FROM THERE, IS THERE HOPE
00:34:50.95\00:34:55.59
FOR YOU? >>AMEN.
00:34:55.59\00:34:58.29
>>AND YET, FROM THAT
PREDICAMENT, JONAH PRAYED.
00:34:58.29\00:35:02.03
AND HE HAD TO PRAY PATIENTLY.
00:35:02.03\00:35:03.87
SOMETIMES YOUR
PRAYERS AREN'T ANSWERED RIGHT
00:35:03.87\00:35:05.07
AWAY. IF I WAS IN THAT I'D SAY,
00:35:05.07\00:35:06.10
'LORD, HELP ME NOW!'
(LAUGHTER) AN HOUR LATER
00:35:06.10\00:35:09.07
I'D SAY, 'HOW LONG O
LORD?' AND A DAY LATER I'D SAY,
00:35:09.07\00:35:12.51
'I DON'T KNOW IF I
CAN LAST MUCH LONGER.' HE
00:35:12.51\00:35:14.94
PROBABLY DIDN'T SLEEP VERY WELL.
00:35:14.94\00:35:18.55
GOD MADE HIM PAY FOR
WHAT HE DID, BUT HE PRAYED AND
00:35:18.55\00:35:24.99
HE KEPT PRAYING AND HE
SENT HIS PRAYER TO GOD IN
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.72
HIS TEMPLE. "I WENT DOWN" -
VERSE 6, CHAPTER 2 - "TO THE
00:35:27.72\00:35:30.83
MOORINGS OF THE
MOUNTAINS;" - THE PLACE
00:35:30.83\00:35:32.16
WHERE THE MOUNTAINS ARE
TIED OFF - "THE EARTH WITH
00:35:32.16\00:35:33.96
ITS BARS CLOSED BEHIND
ME FOREVER; YET YOU HAVE
00:35:33.96\00:35:37.27
BROUGHT UP MY LIFE FROM
THE PIT, O LORD, MY GOD.
00:35:37.27\00:35:41.60
WHEN MY SOUL FAINTED
WITHIN ME, I REMEMBERED
00:35:41.60\00:35:43.94
THE LORD; AND MY PRAYER
WENT UP TO YOU, IN TO YOUR
00:35:43.94\00:35:47.04
HOLY TEMPLE."
THROUGH CHRIST, YOU ARE
00:35:47.04\00:35:51.21
ALWAYS A PRAYER AWAY
FROM THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:35:51.21\00:35:55.02
YOU AND I CAN COME
BOLDLY BEFORE THE THRONE.
00:35:55.02\00:35:58.02
WAS JONAH IN TROUBLE
BECAUSE OF WHAT SOMEONE
00:35:58.02\00:36:00.72
ELSE DID OR WHAT
HE DID TO HIMSELF?
00:36:00.72\00:36:04.09
DON'T WE OFTEN GET
INTO TROUBLE BY MAKING BAD
00:36:04.09\00:36:05.99
DECISIONS? >>YES.
00:36:05.99\00:36:08.03
>>AND YET, IN SPITE OF
THE FACT HE CAUSED HIS OWN
00:36:08.03\00:36:10.43
MISERY - GOD COULD HAVE
SAID, 'LOOK, YOU MADE YOUR
00:36:10.43\00:36:13.30
BED, SLEEP IN IT.' BUT
HE PRAYED AND GOD FORGAVE
00:36:13.30\00:36:17.77
HIM. AND THE BIBLE SAYS, "SO
00:36:17.77\00:36:21.44
THE LORD SPOKE TO
THE FISH, AND IT VOMITED
00:36:21.44\00:36:25.41
JONAH ONTO DRY LAND."
GOD IS SO GOOD - HE COULD
00:36:25.41\00:36:28.65
HAVE BURPED HIM OUT
AND MADE HIM SWIM TO SHORE.
00:36:28.65\00:36:31.09
(LAUGHTER) BUT ONCE HE
FORGAVE HIM, HE BROUGHT
00:36:31.09\00:36:34.42
HIM UP SPECIAL
DELIVERY. HE GAVE A GOD-INSPIRED
00:36:34.42\00:36:37.79
HEAVE AND OUT CAME JONAH.
AND I HEARD ONE PASTOR SAY
00:36:37.79\00:36:41.20
THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW
YOU A HYPOCRITE WILL EVEN
00:36:41.20\00:36:43.30
MAKE A SEA MONSTER
SICK. (LAUGHTER) NOW JONAH'S
00:36:43.30\00:36:50.81
THINKING, 'WOW,
THAT WAS SOMETHING I WILL
00:36:50.81\00:36:53.11
NEVER FORGET.
THAT MADE A MEMORY.
00:36:53.11\00:36:55.11
NOW I'M GOING TO GO BACK HOME.
00:36:55.11\00:36:57.51
I NEED A LITTLE R&R
AFTER THIS EXPERIENCE.' BUT
00:36:57.51\00:37:01.35
BEFORE JONAH EVEN DRIED
OFF, THE WORD OF THE LORD
00:37:01.35\00:37:05.02
CAME TO JONAH THE SECOND TIME.
00:37:05.02\00:37:07.29
NOW DOES GOD MODIFY HIS
MESSAGE OR IS IT IDENTICAL
00:37:07.29\00:37:10.26
TO THE WORD THE FIRST
TIME? AND HE SAID, "ARISE" - YOU
00:37:10.26\00:37:15.00
KNOW, WHEN JONAH
RUNS, HE GOES DOWN.
00:37:15.00\00:37:17.00
WHEN GOD'S WORD COMES
IT SAYS, "ARISE, GO TO
00:37:17.00\00:37:19.57
NINEVEH, THAT GREAT
CITY, AND PREACH TO IT THE
00:37:19.57\00:37:22.04
MESSAGE THAT I TELL
YOU." SO DOES JONAH ARGUE NOW?
00:37:22.04\00:37:27.51
HE FIGURES, 'LOOK, I'D
RATHER DIE IN NINEVEH THAN
00:37:27.51\00:37:29.08
GO BACK TO SEA.' (LAUGHTER)
"SO JONAH AROSE AND WENT
00:37:29.08\00:37:32.65
TO NINEVEH, ACCORDING
TO THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:37:32.65\00:37:35.02
NOW NINEVEH WAS AN
EXCEEDINGLY GREAT CITY, A
00:37:35.02\00:37:38.32
THREE-DAY JOURNEY IN
EXTENT. AND JONAH BEGAN TO ENTER
00:37:38.32\00:37:41.69
THE CITY ON THE
FIRST DAY'S WALK."
00:37:41.69\00:37:43.36
NOW THIS PASSAGE HERE IS
A LITTLE BIT MYSTERIOUS TO
00:37:43.36\00:37:46.26
SOME OF THE WRITERS
AND YOU'LL NOTICE SOME
00:37:46.26\00:37:48.43
VERSIONS SAY 'THREE-DAY'S
JOURNEY IN EXTENT' OTHERS
00:37:48.43\00:37:51.93
ARE WONDERING 'THREE-DAY'S
JOURNEY FROM WHERE THE
00:37:51.93\00:37:53.84
LORD CAME TO HIM AGAIN.' I,
FRANKLY, BELIEVE THE LATTER.
00:37:53.84\00:37:57.61
I THINK WHEREVER JONAH
WAS WHEN THE WORD OF THE LORD
00:37:57.61\00:37:59.57
CAME TO HIM, HE HAD
NINEVEH THREE DAYS AWAY.
00:37:59.57\00:38:02.18
BECAUSE EVEN YOU AND I
WALKING FIVE MILES AN HOUR
00:38:02.18\00:38:05.65
- THERE'S NO CITY IN THE
WORLD WHERE YOU WALK THREE
00:38:05.65\00:38:07.75
DAYS AND IT'S
LIKE 150 MILES ACROSS.
00:38:07.75\00:38:11.12
AND ANCIENT NINEVEH WAS
BIG, BUT IT WASN'T THAT BIG.
00:38:11.12\00:38:14.62
IT WAS THREE-DAY'S
JOURNEY FROM WHERE HE GOT
00:38:14.62\00:38:17.03
THE MESSAGE AND THEN HE
ENTERED THE CITY A DAY'S
00:38:17.03\00:38:20.40
JOURNEY - LISTEN VERY
CAREFULLY - NO SIGN'LL BE
00:38:20.40\00:38:22.30
GIVEN BUT THE SIGN
OF JONAH - THREE DAY'S
00:38:22.30\00:38:25.77
JOURNEY - HE ENTERS
THE CITY A DAY'S JOURNEY -
00:38:25.77\00:38:29.24
THERE WERE 24 HOURS IN
A DAY, 12 HOURS A DAY, 12
00:38:29.24\00:38:32.87
HOURS A NIGHT - SO
THAT'S THREE AND A HALF - YOU
00:38:32.87\00:38:35.21
STILL WITH ME?
AND HE PREACHES IN 40
00:38:35.21\00:38:38.31
DAYS THE CITY
WOULD BE DESTROYED.
00:38:38.31\00:38:41.48
THREE AND A HALF AND 40.
HOW LONG DID JESUS MINISTER?
00:38:41.48\00:38:45.92
>>THREE AND A HALF
YEARS. >>THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:38:45.92\00:38:49.22
DID JESUS SAY, WHEN HE
WEPT OVER JERUSALEM, HE
00:38:49.22\00:38:53.43
SAID, 'THIS GENERATION
WILL NOT PASS AWAY TILL
00:38:53.43\00:38:55.63
ALL' - WHAT'S A GENERATION
IN THE BIBLE? 40 YEARS.
00:38:55.63\00:38:58.73
THE LORD TOLD MOSES
THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
00:38:58.73\00:39:01.84
WOULD WANDER 40 YEARS
UNTIL THAT GENERATION WAS
00:39:01.84\00:39:04.47
CONSUMED BECAUSE
THEY DID NOT BELIEVE.
00:39:04.47\00:39:07.68
JESUS PREACHED TO HIS
OWN PEOPLE FOR THREE AND A
00:39:07.68\00:39:11.41
HALF YEARS - A DAY
IN PROPHECY IS WHAT?
00:39:11.41\00:39:15.52
SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT -
A DAY IS A YEAR - THAT THAT
00:39:15.52\00:39:18.22
GENERATION WOULD NOT
PASS AWAY AND JUDGMENT WOULD
00:39:18.22\00:39:20.59
COME. WHEN WAS JERUSALEM
00:39:20.59\00:39:22.06
DESTROYED? 40
YEARS LATER IN 70 AD.
00:39:22.06\00:39:25.33
JESUS SAID THE PEOPLE
OF NINEVEH WILL RISE UP
00:39:25.33\00:39:28.63
AGAINST THIS GENERATION
BECAUSE THEY REPENTED AT
00:39:28.63\00:39:31.50
THE PREACHING OF JONAH
AND A GREATER THAN JONAH IS
00:39:31.50\00:39:34.70
HERE AND I'M GOING TO
PREACH, NOT THREE AND A
00:39:34.70\00:39:37.04
HALF DAYS, BUT THREE AND A
HALF YEARS. AND IF YOU DON'T
00:39:37.04\00:39:39.34
REPENT IN 40 YEARS,
JUDGMENT IS GOING TO COME.
00:39:39.34\00:39:43.81
HE SAID IT'S A
SIGN TO THIS GENERATION.
00:39:43.81\00:39:45.75
YOU WANT A SIGN. HERE'S YOUR
SIGN. READ THE BOOK OF JONAH.
00:39:45.75\00:39:47.98
THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN TO GOD'S PEOPLE IF
00:39:47.98\00:39:49.98
THEY DON'T REPENT.
IT TELLS US ABOUT THE
00:39:49.98\00:39:52.85
PATIENCE OF GOD, BUT DO
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:39:52.85\00:39:55.42
NOW JONAH, I GUESS HE
MUST HAVE BEEN PRETTY SCARY,
00:39:55.42\00:40:00.93
BECAUSE HE WENT TO NINEVEH
AND HE STARTED PREACHING.
00:40:00.93\00:40:02.60
HE WALKED UP AND DOWN
THE STREETS, '40 DAYS AND
00:40:02.60\00:40:06.10
NINEVEH WILL BE
DESTROYED.' AND INSTEAD OF
00:40:06.10\00:40:09.57
THEM KILLING THEM -
HE PROBABLY HAD THAT WILD
00:40:09.57\00:40:12.74
LOOK IN HIS EYES AS
THE GUY THAT HAD JUST BEEN
00:40:12.74\00:40:14.68
THROUGH A FISH
(LAUGHTER) PROBABLY HAD A LITTLE
00:40:14.68\00:40:18.15
OCTOPUS TENTACLE STICKING
OUT OF HIS COAT AND, YOU
00:40:18.15\00:40:21.22
KNOW, LOOKS LIKE HE'S
BEEN BLEACHED AND - YOU'VE BEEN
00:40:21.22\00:40:26.55
THROUGH AN EXPERIENCE
LIKE THAT AND YOU LOOK
00:40:26.55\00:40:27.92
DIFFERENT.
(LAUGHTER) AND, YOU KNOW,
00:40:27.92\00:40:32.23
GOD'S PROPHETS ALREADY,
YOU KNOW, THEY WORE CAMEL
00:40:32.23\00:40:33.80
SKIN AND LEATHER BELTS
AND WERE A LITTLE WILD AND
00:40:33.80\00:40:35.63
HERE JONAH NOW HAS
JUST GONE THROUGH THAT.
00:40:35.63\00:40:37.63
HE SAYS, '40 DAYS.' AND
HE GOES UP AND HE CAMPS ON
00:40:37.63\00:40:40.80
THE HILL. NEXT DAY,
'39 DAYS.' '38 DAYS.'
00:40:40.80\00:40:46.17
THE PEOPLE IN
NINEVEH ARE BEGINNING TO
00:40:46.17\00:40:48.21
GET CONVICTED, 'YOU
KNOW, WE ARE PRETTY WICKED.
00:40:48.21\00:40:50.45
IF I WAS GOD, I'D
DESTROY ME TOO.' AND PRETTY SOON
00:40:50.45\00:40:53.52
IT REACHES THE KING
THAT THERE'S THIS JEWISH
00:40:53.52\00:40:55.25
PROPHET PRONOUNCING JUDGMENT.
00:40:55.25\00:40:58.92
'25 DAYS.' '24' - AND,
YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE
00:40:58.92\00:41:01.59
UNNERVING AS HE DID HIS
COUNTDOWN EVERY DAY GOING
00:41:01.59\00:41:03.63
UP AND DOWN THE
STREETS SAYING, 'JUDGMENT IS
00:41:03.63\00:41:05.83
COMING BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS.'
00:41:05.83\00:41:07.13
THE KING
PRONOUNCES A PROCLAMATION AND
00:41:07.13\00:41:11.43
MAN AND BEAST
REPENT. THEY PUT SACKCLOTH
00:41:11.43\00:41:14.77
ON MAN AND
BEAST. THEY DON'T EAT.
00:41:14.77\00:41:16.57
THEY DON'T DRINK AND
THERE IS THE GREATEST REVIVAL
00:41:16.57\00:41:20.31
AND TURNING TO GOD THAT
IS SEEN ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE
00:41:20.31\00:41:23.85
- FROM THE MOST RELUCTANT
EVANGELIST IN THE BIBLE.
00:41:23.85\00:41:27.78
AND YOU WONDER
IF GOD CAN USE YOU.
00:41:27.78\00:41:30.75
JONAH DIDN'T
EVEN WANT TO PREACH.
00:41:30.75\00:41:33.02
IT'S THE SHORTEST SERMON
- '40 DAYS AND NINEVEH WILL
00:41:33.02\00:41:36.76
BE DESTROYED.'
PRETTY SHORT SERMON.
00:41:36.76\00:41:40.20
BUT WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE
SPIRIT OF GOD AND IF THE
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.26
LORD TELLS YOU TO GO,
HE WILL PREPARE THE HEARTS
00:41:42.26\00:41:44.10
AHEAD OF TIME.
THE WHOLE CITY TURNS
00:41:44.10\00:41:47.24
FROM THEIR SIN.
THE WHOLE CITY REPENTS.
00:41:47.24\00:41:49.90
AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE
00:41:49.90\00:41:51.84
CITY. AND THEN JONAH GOES UP ON
00:41:51.84\00:41:54.21
THE HILL - I'M SUMMARIZING
THE STORY FOR YOU - HE
00:41:54.21\00:41:57.55
GOES UP ON THE HILL AND
WHEN HE GETS COUNTING DOWN
00:41:57.55\00:42:01.72
AFTER HIS LAST MESSAGE
- HE'S MADE A LITTLE BOOTH
00:42:01.72\00:42:04.69
UP ON THE HILL
AND HE'S WATCHING.
00:42:04.69\00:42:06.92
HE WANTS TO SEE FIRE
COME DOWN ON NINEVEH LIKE
00:42:06.92\00:42:08.76
IT DID ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
00:42:08.76\00:42:10.93
HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT
LORD, I'VE WARNED THEM.
00:42:10.93\00:42:13.23
I WENT THROUGH A LOT.
NOW HERE COMES JUDGMENT.
00:42:13.23\00:42:18.97
AND AFTER THE 40TH
DAY, NOTHING HAPPENS.
00:42:18.97\00:42:22.97
HE WAITS ANOTHER
DAY. NOTHING HAPPENS.
00:42:22.97\00:42:25.14
NOW JONAH'S FEELING
LIKE, 'NOW I REALLY LOOK LIKE A
00:42:25.14\00:42:27.41
HYPOCRITE.' INSTEAD
OF REJOICING THAT GOD HAS
00:42:27.41\00:42:31.68
SHOWN THEM MERCY
BECAUSE THEY REPENTED - DOESN'T
00:42:31.68\00:42:33.85
THAT TELL US THAT GOD
IS MORE WILLING TO SAVE?
00:42:33.85\00:42:36.69
GOD'S NOT JUST WANTING TO
JUDGE PEOPLE, HE'S WANTING
00:42:36.69\00:42:38.09
TO SAVE PEOPLE. YOU
KNOW THE AMAZING THING
00:42:38.09\00:42:41.46
ABOUT THE STORY OF
JONAH? EVERYBODY IN THE STORY OF
00:42:41.46\00:42:43.66
JONAH IS LISTENING TO
GOD EXCEPT JONAH. (LAUGHTER)
00:42:43.66\00:42:47.60
THE STORM LISTENS TO GOD, THE
00:42:47.60\00:42:50.10
FISH LISTENS TO GOD, THE
SAILORS LISTEN TO GOD, THE
00:42:50.10\00:42:54.47
CAPTAIN LISTENS TO GOD,
IT SAYS EVEN THE PEOPLE OF
00:42:54.47\00:42:58.44
NINEVEH - THEY LISTENED TO GOD.
00:42:58.44\00:43:00.88
AND THERE'S THIS
GREAT REVIVAL - THERE'S THIS
00:43:00.88\00:43:02.21
GREAT REPENTANCE AND
THE ONE WHO'S THE MOST
00:43:02.21\00:43:04.48
DIFFICULT IN THE
WHOLE STORY IS JONAH.
00:43:04.48\00:43:09.12
THE BOOK OF JONAH
TALKS ABOUT METEOROLOGY,
00:43:09.12\00:43:12.55
ENTOMOLOGY, ZOOLOGY,
SOCIOLOGY - IT JUST COVERS
00:43:12.55\00:43:18.06
JUST THE WHOLE SPECTRUM.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THE MOST
00:43:18.06\00:43:20.60
IMPORTANT MESSAGE IS
IN THE BOOK OF JONAH?
00:43:20.60\00:43:23.03
IS THAT GOD HAS A
CALLING FOR EACH ONE OF US.
00:43:23.03\00:43:26.17
>>AMEN. >>GOD
CALLED JONAH WITH A
00:43:26.17\00:43:28.67
WORK TO DO TO SAVE OTHERS
AND SOMETIMES HUMAN NATURE
00:43:28.67\00:43:33.07
- WE'RE
RELUCTANT TO DO WHAT GOD IS
00:43:33.07\00:43:34.84
CALLING US TO DO.
AND WHEN JONAH RAN FROM
00:43:34.84\00:43:37.98
THE WILL OF GOD, IT WENT
VERY BADLY AND IT NOT ONLY
00:43:37.98\00:43:43.18
WENT BADLY FOR
HIM, IT WENT BADLY FOR
00:43:43.18\00:43:44.99
THOSE AROUND HIM. AND
WHEN JONAH SURRENDERED
00:43:44.99\00:43:48.46
TO THE WORD OF GOD AND
WENT TO DO WHAT GOD TOLD
00:43:48.46\00:43:50.66
HIM TO DO, PEOPLE THAT
WERE DOOMED WERE SAVED.
00:43:50.66\00:43:55.40
ONCE JONAH SURRENDERED
TO THE LORD IN THAT BOAT AND
00:43:55.40\00:43:59.00
HE SAID, 'I'M THE
CAUSE. THROW ME OVERBOARD', THE
00:43:59.00\00:44:01.24
SAILORS FOUND PEACE.
WHEN JONAH SURRENDERED
00:44:01.24\00:44:04.31
AND HE WENT TO NINEVEH,
A WHOLE CITY FOUND PEACE.
00:44:04.31\00:44:08.51
AND GOD HAD TO
REASON WITH JONAH.
00:44:08.51\00:44:10.18
IN THE END OF THE BOOK
HE SAID, "SHOULD I NOT PITY
00:44:10.18\00:44:13.35
NINEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY,
IN WHICH ARE MORE THAN ONE
00:44:13.35\00:44:16.72
HUNDRED AND TWENTY
THOUSAND PERSONS WHO
00:44:16.72\00:44:18.99
CANNOT DISCERN BETWEEN
THEIR RIGHT HAND AND THEIR
00:44:18.99\00:44:21.12
LEFT?" JONAH WAS WORRIED BECAUSE
00:44:21.12\00:44:23.96
HIS GOURD PLANT DIED
THAT WAS GIVING HIM SHADE.
00:44:23.96\00:44:27.23
HE DIDN'T CARE.
SOMETIMES WE'RE MORE
00:44:27.23\00:44:29.16
CONCERNED WITH OUR
DAILY INCONVENIENCES THAN WITH
00:44:29.16\00:44:31.87
THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
AROUND US THAT ARE LOST.
00:44:31.87\00:44:35.74
NOW YOU KNOW WHY I
SAVED THIS MESSAGE FOR LAST?
00:44:35.74\00:44:38.94
WE'VE BEEN TALKING
ABOUT THE STORIES - HEROES OF
00:44:38.94\00:44:41.14
FAITH - THAT
DEAL WITH SALVATION.
00:44:41.14\00:44:43.08
WE MADE SEVERAL
APPEALS FOR PEOPLE TO COME TO
00:44:43.08\00:44:46.01
JESUS THAT YOU MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:44:46.01\00:44:48.75
BUT WHY DOES THE
LORD WANT TO SAVE US?
00:44:48.75\00:44:51.39
WHY DID HE SAVE
JONAH? HE SAVED HIM AND THEN
00:44:51.39\00:44:54.39
SAID, 'I'VE GOT
A MISSION FOR YOU.
00:44:54.39\00:44:56.99
GO AND TELL THE PEOPLE
THAT ARE PERISHING THAT
00:44:56.99\00:44:59.46
THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
00:44:59.46\00:45:03.23
IN LIFE IS THAT YOU
COME TO GOD - JESUS CALLS IT
00:45:03.23\00:45:07.34
THE GREAT INVITATION.
00:45:07.34\00:45:08.74
COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO
ARE WEARY AND HEAVY LADEN -
00:45:08.74\00:45:11.57
HE INVITES US TO COME TO
HIM. BUT HE DOESN'T STOP THERE.
00:45:11.57\00:45:14.44
THE LAST THING THE LORD
SAYS IN MATTHEW 28 IS 'GO
00:45:14.44\00:45:17.05
YE THEREFORE AND TEACH
ALL NATIONS.' ALL OF LIFE IS
00:45:17.05\00:45:21.98
INVOLVED IN THOSE
TWO GREAT ENDEAVORS.
00:45:21.98\00:45:24.55
IT'S LIKE YOUR HEART IS
CONSTANTLY TAKING IN AND
00:45:24.55\00:45:28.72
IT'S GIVING OUT.
AND THAT'S HOW LIFE IS.
00:45:28.72\00:45:31.59
WE RECEIVE FROM GOD
AND THEN WE GIVE FOR GOD.
00:45:31.59\00:45:34.03
THE GREAT COMMISSION IS
SUMMED UP IN OUR COMING TO
00:45:34.03\00:45:36.20
JESUS - THIS IS THE
VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP -
00:45:36.20\00:45:39.57
AND THEN WE GO FOR
JESUS. I ALWAYS FEEL A LITTLE
00:45:39.57\00:45:42.34
LIKE THE POPE WHEN I DO
THAT. WE COME TO JESUS AND WE
00:45:42.34\00:45:44.37
GO FOR JESUS
(LAUGHS). BUT IT IS - IT'S THE
00:45:44.37\00:45:46.14
VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP
AND THEN IT'S THE HORIZONTAL
00:45:46.14\00:45:48.31
RELATIONSHIP WHICH DOES FORM
A CROSS. THE CROSS IS TALKING
00:45:48.31\00:45:53.35
ABOUT LOVE FOR GOD -
WHAT'S THE GREAT COMMANDMENT?
00:45:53.35\00:45:56.18
LOVE THE LORD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART.
00:45:56.18\00:45:58.05
AND WHAT'S THE SECOND
ONE? LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:45:58.05\00:46:00.39
AND SO, AS WE TALK
NIGHT AFTER NIGHT ABOUT OUR
00:46:00.39\00:46:02.86
COMING TO GOD, DON'T STOP
THERE BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T
00:46:02.86\00:46:06.13
USE YOUR CHRISTIANITY,
YOU LOSE YOUR CHRISTIANITY.
00:46:06.13\00:46:10.47
WHEN GOD GIVES YOU
SOMETHING TO DO TO TELL
00:46:10.47\00:46:11.70
OTHERS, DON'T BE
AFRAID. JONAH WAS AFRAID.
00:46:11.70\00:46:14.80
LAST THING IN THE WORLD
HE EXPECTED WAS THE BIGGEST
00:46:14.80\00:46:16.94
REVIVAL IN THE
BIBLE. I MEAN, NOAH SAVED
00:46:16.94\00:46:19.24
EIGHT PEOPLE.
JONAH SAVED A WHOLE CITY.
00:46:19.24\00:46:25.75
AND IF GOD COULD USE
JONAH, AS RELUCTANT - AND,
00:46:25.75\00:46:29.05
YOU KNOW, HE
PROBABLY WROTE THE BOOK SO HE
00:46:29.05\00:46:31.22
ADMITTED THAT 'I WAS
A RELUCTANT PROPHET.' HE
00:46:31.22\00:46:36.19
UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS
WRONG. IF HE COULD USE
00:46:36.19\00:46:38.83
JONAH, CAN HE USE US? >>AMEN.
00:46:38.83\00:46:41.50
>>IF HE COULD ANSWER
JONAH'S PRAYER, CAN HE
00:46:41.50\00:46:43.33
ANSWER OUR PRAYERS?
SOME OF US, LIKE JONAH,
00:46:43.33\00:46:46.90
HAVE RUN FROM GOD AND
WE'RE - WE MIGHT BE INSIDE
00:46:46.90\00:46:49.04
THE WHALE RIGHT NOW
GOING THROUGH SOME HARD TIMES
00:46:49.04\00:46:52.71
- GOING THROUGH SOME STRUGGLES.
00:46:52.71\00:46:54.38
AND MAYBE WE NEED TO
HAVE ONE OF THOSE EXPERIENCES
00:46:54.38\00:46:56.98
LIKE JONAH, WHERE
WE REACH THE BOTTOM.
00:46:56.98\00:46:59.11
TALK ABOUT REACHING
THE BOTTOM - AND WE SAY,
00:46:59.11\00:47:02.68
'LORD' AND WE SURRENDER TO HIM.
00:47:02.68\00:47:06.22
JONAH MADE A COMPLETE SURRENDER.
00:47:06.22\00:47:08.12
HE WAS WILLING TO DO
WHATEVER GOD WANTED HIM TO
00:47:08.12\00:47:10.43
DO AND WHEN HE DID THAT,
GOD THEN WAS ABLE TO TURN
00:47:10.43\00:47:13.90
EVERYTHING AROUND AND
GOD WAS ABLE TO USE HIM.
00:47:13.90\00:47:16.63
HE HAS A PLAN
FOR EACH ONE OF YOU.
00:47:16.63\00:47:18.90
YOU KNOW, WE ARE SO
THANKFUL THAT YOU'VE BEEN
00:47:18.90\00:47:21.34
TUNING INTO THIS
PROGRAM AND LEARNING ABOUT THESE
00:47:21.34\00:47:24.04
HEROES OF FAITH, BUT I
ALWAYS FEEL A LITTLE MIXED
00:47:24.04\00:47:28.58
SADNESS AT THE END OF A
SERIES LIKE THIS BECAUSE I
00:47:28.58\00:47:31.18
JUST - I FEAR THAT PEOPLE
ARE GOING TO THINK, 'OKAY,
00:47:31.18\00:47:34.72
IT'S OVER. NOW WHAT DO I DO?'
00:47:34.72\00:47:38.29
FRIENDS, I'D LIKE YOU
TO THINK OF THIS AS JUST A
00:47:38.29\00:47:40.06
NEW BEGINNING. >>AMEN.
00:47:40.06\00:47:41.92
>>THE BIBLE IS FULL OF
TRUTH THAT GOD WANTS TO
00:47:41.92\00:47:43.99
REVEAL TO YOU, BUT YOU
WON'T FIND IT UNLESS YOU
00:47:43.99\00:47:46.29
SEARCH FOR IT. BUT
HE PROMISES, IF YOU
00:47:46.29\00:47:48.96
SEEK, YOU WILL FIND.
THE LORD HAS A PLAN FOR
00:47:48.96\00:47:52.70
EVERYONE'S LIFE AND I
CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT GOD'S
00:47:52.70\00:47:55.54
PLAN INVOLVES USING YOU
TO TOUCH THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
00:47:55.54\00:48:00.54
IF YOU'RE WILLING TO
DO HIS WILL, HE HAS A WORK
00:48:00.54\00:48:03.58
FOR YOU TO DO. IT DOESN'T
MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE.
00:48:03.58\00:48:07.08
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT
YOUR STATION, IT DOESN'T
00:48:07.08\00:48:08.48
MATTER WHAT YOUR EDUCATION IS.
00:48:08.48\00:48:10.12
IT'S INTERESTING THAT
GOD COULD USE JONAH - JONAH,
00:48:10.12\00:48:13.62
YOU COULD SAY, WAS A FISHERMAN.
00:48:13.62\00:48:15.49
HE CAUGHT THE
BIGGEST FISH IN THE BIBLE.
00:48:15.49\00:48:16.83
(LAUGHTER) AND JESUS
USED FISHERMEN TOO, DIDN'T HE?
00:48:16.83\00:48:21.50
AND HE WANTS TO TEACH ALL OF US.
00:48:21.50\00:48:22.83
HE SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME AND
I WILL MAKE YOU A FISHER OF
00:48:22.83\00:48:25.47
MEN.' YOU MAY NOT BE ONE
YET AND SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW
00:48:25.47\00:48:27.70
HOW I COULD EVER BE
USED, LORD, TO REACH OTHER
00:48:27.70\00:48:30.04
PEOPLE.' THAT'S
WHAT I ONCE THOUGHT.
00:48:30.04\00:48:32.51
WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK
(LAUGHTER) THAT GOD COULD
00:48:32.51\00:48:35.71
USE ME? BUT HE SAYS, 'FOLLOW ME
00:48:35.71\00:48:38.48
AND I WILL MAKE YOU A
FISHER OF MEN.' AND HE
00:48:38.48\00:48:42.75
WILL USE YOU TO SAY - CAN
YOU THINK OF ANYTHING THAT
00:48:42.75\00:48:45.29
WILL BE OF MORE VALUE
THAN GETTING TO THE KINGDOM?
00:48:45.29\00:48:48.56
I MEAN, SOMETIMES I'LL
TALK TO PASTORS AND I'LL
00:48:48.56\00:48:54.23
TELL THEM, 'I'M THANKFUL
FOR DOCTORS BUT EVERYBODY
00:48:54.23\00:48:56.70
A DOCTOR EVER TREATS
WILL SOMEDAY GET OLD AND DIE.
00:48:56.70\00:49:00.37
I'M THANKFUL FOR
BUILDERS. I LIKE HOUSES THAT
00:49:00.37\00:49:02.57
ARE BUILT WELL. I'M THANKFUL FOR
00:49:02.57\00:49:05.84
MECHANICS, BUT EVERY
HOUSE AND EVERY CAR - EVERYTHING
00:49:05.84\00:49:10.98
IS GOING TO BURN UP IN THIS
WORLD. THE ONLY THING THAT IS
00:49:10.98\00:49:14.18
GOING TO LAST FOREVER
IN THIS LIFE ARE SOULS THAT
00:49:14.18\00:49:18.59
ARE TRANSFORMED
BY THE POWER OF GOD.
00:49:18.59\00:49:21.89
WHAT YOU DO FOR GOD, IN
YOUR LIFE, TO SERVE HIM IN
00:49:21.89\00:49:24.59
THIS LIFE IS THE ONLY
THING THAT IS REALLY GOING
00:49:24.59\00:49:26.59
TO MATTER AT THE END. >>AMEN.
00:49:26.59\00:49:29.80
>>AND THE LORD HAS A
WORK FOR EACH ONE OF US TO DO,
00:49:29.80\00:49:32.17
BUT WE'VE GOT TO COME TO
HIM AND SURRENDER AND SAY,
00:49:32.17\00:49:34.44
'LORD, I'M WILLING TO
DO YOUR WILL.' I'D LIKE TO
00:49:34.44\00:49:37.27
MAKE A SPECIAL APPEAL AT
THE CONCLUSION OF THIS SERIES.
00:49:37.27\00:49:40.91
GOD HAS A BIG PLAN FOR
EACH ONE OF YOU, BUT IT
00:49:40.91\00:49:44.05
ALL BEGINS BY COMING TO JESUS.
00:49:44.05\00:49:47.32
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHOSOEVER
WILL COME UNTO ME, HE WILL
00:49:47.32\00:49:51.89
RECEIVE.' YOU COME JUST
LIKE YOU ARE AND THEN HE
00:49:51.89\00:49:55.42
GIVES YOU HIS SPIRIT.
AND IT MAY NOT ALL HAPPEN
00:49:55.42\00:49:58.86
IN ONE DAY, BUT HE'LL
GIVE YOU A WORK TO DO.
00:49:58.86\00:50:01.56
HE WANTS TO USE YOU TO
REACH OTHERS AND THERE IS
00:50:01.56\00:50:03.43
NOTHING MORE VALUABLE
THAN THAT. AND WHEN YOU GET TO
00:50:03.43\00:50:05.90
THE KINGDOM, WHAT A JOY
IT WILL BE FOREVER AND EVER
00:50:05.90\00:50:10.44
TO SEE PEOPLE THAT ARE
THERE BECAUSE YOU DECIDED
00:50:10.44\00:50:13.21
TO SURRENDER
YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD.
00:50:13.21\00:50:16.34
YOU KNOW, WE WANT YOU TO
KEEP STUDYING AND, IF YOU
00:50:16.34\00:50:20.25
DON'T MIND MY SAYING
SO, IF YOU GO TO THE AMAZING
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FACTS WEBSITE, THERE
ARE MORE BIBLE STUDIES THERE
00:50:22.72\00:50:26.15
WE'D LIKE TO
ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE.
00:50:26.15\00:50:27.89
NOT ONLY DO WE WANT YOU
TO DO THE BIBLE STUDIES,
00:50:27.89\00:50:30.39
WE'RE HOPING THAT
YOU'LL SHARE THE BIBLE STUDIES
00:50:30.39\00:50:32.16
WITH OTHER PEOPLE - THAT
YOU'LL CONTINUE TO STUDY.
00:50:32.16\00:50:35.66
KEEP WATCHING 3ABN -
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE OTHER
00:50:35.66\00:50:37.37
INSPIRING
PROGRAMS. BUT YOU NEED TO
00:50:37.37\00:50:40.07
STAY INVOLVED.
SPIRITUAL HEALTH IS LIKE A
00:50:40.07\00:50:44.21
MUSCLE - IF YOU
DON'T USE IT, IT GETS WEAK.
00:50:44.21\00:50:47.21
IT'LL ATROPHY. USE
YOUR FAITH EVERY DAY.
00:50:47.21\00:50:50.65
THERE ARE THREE SECRETS
TO STRENGTH AS A CHRISTIAN.
00:50:50.65\00:50:54.12
ONE IS PHYSICALLY,
YOU'VE GOT TO BREATHE - YOU NEED
00:50:54.12\00:50:58.15
TO PRAY. YOU NEED TO EAT - YOU
00:50:58.15\00:51:00.49
NEED THE BREAD OF LIFE.
YOU NEED TO EXERCISE - YOU
00:51:00.49\00:51:04.29
NEED TO USE YOUR
FAITH AND SHARE IT.
00:51:04.29\00:51:06.83
THESE ARE THREE
BASIC PRINCIPLES.
00:51:06.83\00:51:09.46
IT'S LIKE IN THE
SANCTUARY, IF YOU KNOW THAT.
00:51:09.46\00:51:10.97
IN THE HOLY PLACE THEY
HAD THE LIGHT - YOU'VE GOT TO
00:51:10.97\00:51:14.34
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE.
THEY HAD THE BREAD - THAT
00:51:14.34\00:51:17.47
REPRESENTS THE BREAD
OF LIFE - THE WORD OF GOD.
00:51:17.47\00:51:20.14
AND THERE WAS THE ALTAR
OF INCENSE - THAT'S PRAYER.
00:51:20.14\00:51:22.74
THOSE ARE THE THREE
SECRET WEAPONS IF YOU WANT TO
00:51:22.74\00:51:24.61
HAVE A VITAL CHRISTIAN
LIFE. AND SO, WHEN THIS SPECIAL
00:51:24.61\00:51:27.88
SERIES - THAT'S WHAT
WE'RE PRAYING FOR EVERYBODY.
00:51:27.88\00:51:30.79
WE'LL SPEND TIME - I'VE
ONLY SKIMMED THE SURFACE.
00:51:30.79\00:51:33.19
THERE ARE SO MANY
OTHER HEROES OF FAITH AND
00:51:33.19\00:51:35.29
THERE'S SO MUCH MORE IN
EACH ONE OF THESE STORIES,
00:51:35.29\00:51:37.49
FRIENDS, BUT YOU'VE GOT
TO DECIDE 'I WANT TO SEEK GOD
00:51:37.49\00:51:40.96
FIRST.' (SOFT PIANO
MUSIC) OFTEN WHEN I SIGN A BOOK,
00:51:40.96\00:51:44.03
SOMETIMES I'LL PUT A
SCRIPTURE IN THERE - IT'S
00:51:44.03\00:51:46.80
JEREMIAH 29:13 AND IT
SAYS, 'YOU WILL SEARCH FOR
00:51:46.80\00:51:50.94
ME AND YOU WILL FIND
ME WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR ME
00:51:50.94\00:51:54.48
WITH ALL YOUR HEART.' CAN
YOU THINK OF ANYTHING THAT
00:51:54.48\00:51:57.08
WOULD BE WORTH MORE
THAN SEARCHING FOR GOD?
00:51:57.08\00:52:01.02
FIRST QUESTION IN THE
BIBLE, GOD SAYS, 'WHERE
00:52:01.02\00:52:04.49
ARE YOU?' FIRST QUESTION IN THE
00:52:04.49\00:52:06.79
NEW TESTAMENT MAN
SAYS, 'WHERE IS HE?'
00:52:06.79\00:52:10.33
WE HAVE BEEN SEPARATED
FROM GOD BECAUSE OF OUR
00:52:10.33\00:52:12.26
SINS AND GOD SENT HIS SON
INTO THE WORLD - JESUS IS,
00:52:12.26\00:52:16.03
OF COURSE, THE
ULTIMATE HERO OF FAITH.
00:52:16.03\00:52:19.07
GOD SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD.
00:52:19.07\00:52:20.70
HE IS DESPERATE TO SAVE YOU.
00:52:20.70\00:52:22.37
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE SAVED?
00:52:22.37\00:52:24.64
>>AMEN. >>HE SAYS YOU COME TO
00:52:24.64\00:52:25.71
HIM, HE WON'T REFUSE
YOU. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF
00:52:25.71\00:52:27.84
YOU'RE AT THE
BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAINS.
00:52:27.84\00:52:29.51
COULD WE PRAY TOGETHER,
FRIENDS, AND ASK HIM ONCE
00:52:29.51\00:52:31.28
AGAIN? FATHER IN HEAVEN, LORD,
00:52:31.28\00:52:35.02
WE'RE THANKFUL FOR
THE SIMPLE STORY OF JONAH.
00:52:35.02\00:52:37.79
HOW, IF WE COME TO
YOU JUST AS WE ARE, YOU'LL
00:52:37.79\00:52:39.92
ACCEPT US AND FORGIVE
US. AND THAT YOU CAN SAVE US
00:52:39.92\00:52:42.79
FROM THOSE LOW POINTS
AND BRING US INTO HEAVENLY
00:52:42.79\00:52:46.06
PLACES AND USE
US TO REACH OTHERS.
00:52:46.06\00:52:48.70
THIS IS OUR PRAYER THAT
YOU'LL DO FOR EACH ONE OF
00:52:48.70\00:52:50.47
US, LORD, AND WE ASK
IT IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:52:50.47\00:52:54.44
(MUSIC)
00:52:54.44\00:52:55.37
>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH
AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY?
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>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
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>>I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT I
HAD A WONDERFUL CHILDHOOD.
00:53:37.35\00:53:39.65
GROWING UP, I WENT TO A PRIVATE
SCHOOL UP UNTIL THE SEVENTH
00:53:39.65\00:53:43.25
GRADE - UNTIL JUNIOR HIGH. I
BELIEVE IT WAS AT THAT POINT,
00:53:43.25\00:53:46.09
IN JUNIOR HIGH, THAT
MY LIFE BEGAN TO CHANGE.
00:53:46.09\00:53:51.19
GOING FROM A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
INTO A PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS A BIG
00:53:51.19\00:53:54.46
DIFFERENCE. THERE
WAS A LOT OF SECULAR
00:53:54.46\00:53:57.63
INFLUENCE - PEER PRESSURE -
AND, FOR ME, IT WAS THE MUSIC.
00:53:57.63\00:54:03.77
I STARTED LISTENING
TO HEAVY METAL MUSIC.
00:54:03.77\00:54:05.64
EVERY CONCERT THAT WOULD
COME TO TOWN I WAS THERE.
00:54:05.64\00:54:08.28
IT HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON
ME. I STARTED USING MARIJUANA,
00:54:08.28\00:54:13.21
PROBABLY AT THE AGE OF 14. I
STARTED DRINKING - USING A LOT
00:54:13.21\00:54:18.32
OF COCAINE AND THAT LED
TO METHAMPHETAMINE AND THAT
00:54:18.32\00:54:21.52
COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE.
I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL MY
00:54:21.52\00:54:25.79
SOPHOMORE YEAR AND WENT TO
WORK. I WOULD GET OFF OF WORK
00:54:25.79\00:54:30.93
AND WE'D GO TO A BAR UNTIL 2:00
IN THE MORNING AND I'D GET BACK
00:54:30.93\00:54:33.67
UP AT 5:00 AND GO BACK AT IT
AGAIN - SIX, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
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AT THE AGE OF 20, I LOST
MY DAD TO A HEART ATTACK.
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I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE
LOSS SO I TRIED TO MASK MY PAIN
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WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUGS. I
GOT THREE DUIS IN ONE YEAR.
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I WAS ARRESTED. THEY
GAVE ME A YEAR IN THE
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COUNTY JAIL AND THE MOMENT I
GOT OUT I WENT BACK TO DOING THE
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SAME THING, HANGING WITH THE
SAME PEOPLE - THE SAME CROWD.
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I WAS INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AND I WAS
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CHARGED WITH A FELONY DUI.
EVEN THOUGH AT THE TIME OF THE
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ACCIDENT I WAS NOT UNDER
THE INFLUENCE, I STILL HAD
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METHAMPHETAMINE IN MY SYSTEM.
AT MY SENTENCING DATE I LEFT
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THE COURTROOM AND
I DIDN'T COME BACK.
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AND THAT LEFT ME
WITH A FELONY WARRANT.
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AND I HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AT
A PARK AND I WOKE UP TO A PARK
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RANGER KNOCKING ON MY WINDOW.
I KNEW THAT I WAS WANTED AND I
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KNEW THAT I WAS NOT
GOING TO JUST TURN MYSELF IN.
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I TURNED TO HIM AND I MADE THE
COMMENT, 'NOT TODAY.' AND I TOOK
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OFF. I LED FIVE
DIFFERENT AGENCIES ON
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ABOUT A 35-MINUTE CHASE AND
I REALIZED AT ONE POINT THAT I
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WASN'T GOING TO GET AWAY AND
THIS WAS GOING TO END UP EITHER
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ME KILLING SOMEBODY OR
MYSELF. AND SO I MADE A
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DECISION TO PULL OVER.
AT THAT POINT, EVERYTHING
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THAT I HAD, I LOST. I
WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN
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STATE PRISON AND IT WAS
THERE THAT GOD GOT AHOLD OF ME.
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AND IT WAS THROUGH
AMAZING FACTS MINISTRIES.
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I REMEMBER LISTENING ON MY
RADIO TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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I WANTED TO GET
TO KNOW THE BIBLE.
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I WANTED TO KNOW GOD. AND
SO MY AUNT MARILYN SENT ME
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THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY
GUIDES AND IT WAS THERE THAT MY
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RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST BEGAN.
I HAD CALLED HOME AND I KNEW MY
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MOTHER WASN'T DOING
WELL, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT
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SHE HAD CANCER. SHE
HAD ABOUT A 30-PERCENT
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CHANCE OF MAKING IT
THROUGH HER SURGERY.
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SHE HAD TOLD THE DOCTORS THAT
SHE WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE CHEMO
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AND SHE WAS NOT
GOING TO HAVE RADIATION.
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THAT, IF HER GOD WAS
GOING TO SAVE HER, THEN HE WOULD
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SAVE HER. I
REMEMBER HANGING UP THE PHONE
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TO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MY
LAST CONVERSATION WITH MY MOM.
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I TURNED AROUND, I GOT DOWN ON
MY KNEES, AND I PRAYED TO GOD.
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I SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE
THERE, PLEASE SAVE MY MOTHER.
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WHEREVER YOU LEAD ME IN LIFE,
WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO DO, I AM
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YOURS.' AND I HAD A FEELING OF
SUCH PEACE, THAT I KNEW THAT MY
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MOTHER WAS GOING TO BE OKAY
AND THAT MY LIFE WAS GOING TO
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CHANGE. THERE ARE
NO WORDS THAT I CAN
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ADEQUATELY EXPRESS TO AMAZING
FACTS AND PASTOR DOUG - TO SAY,
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'THANK YOU' TO ALL THOSE
PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE MINISTRY.
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I AM A PRODUCT OF YOUR SUPPORT.
MY LIFE IS CHANGED BECAUSE OF
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THIS MINISTRY AND I THANK
YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
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