All we like sheep
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All we like
sheep have gone astray
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All we like sheep
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All we like
sheep have gone astray
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We have turned We have turned
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Every one to his own way
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Every one to his own way
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All we like sheep
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Have gone astray
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Have gone astray
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned
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Every one to his own
way Every one to his own way
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We have turned We
have turned We have turned
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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Every one to his own way
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All we like sheep
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Have gone
astray Have gone astray
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Have gone astray
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Have gone astray We have turned
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We have turned
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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We have turned We have turned
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Everyone We have turned
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Everyone
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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All we like sheep
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All we like
sheep Have gone astray
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Have gone astray We have turned
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned We have turned
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We have turned We
have turned We have turned
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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We have turned
Every one to his own way
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And the Lord has laid
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On him
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And the Lord
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Has laid on him
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The iniquity
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Of
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Us all
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God, we do
need that gospel 24/7,
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it's the best news
there is in the universe.
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We who have gonna stray,
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You've taken all our sins
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and You've laid them on Him
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we call our
Savior, our Lord Jesus.
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But, O God, it
is not enough for us
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to know that good news,
it is simply not enough.
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Teach us this morning
through Holy Scripture.
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We will listen to
You in the name of Jesus.
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Amen.
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Do you realize
that this morning,
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in this worshiping community,
I mean right here right now,
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there are four
generations right here
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and you're part of
one of those generations.
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We have the GI
generation here today
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that would be those
born in the 20s and 30s.
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We have the baby
boomer generation here,
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those born in the 40s and 50s.
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We've got the Gen
X generation here,
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those born in the 60s and 70s.
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And we have the
millennials here,
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those born in the 80s and 90s.
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Three, count them,
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three out of
the four generations
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have already conquered
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a new frontier.
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I want you to watch
the screen for a moment.
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We'll play some
archived pictures
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in a video clip
about those frontiers.
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Take a look at this.
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Yeah, you
started to clap too soon.
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Three of the
four generations here
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have already
conquered new frontiers.
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In case you didn't catch it,
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let me remind you what
those new frontiers are.
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The GI generation
conquered inner space.
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They didn't get very far.
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You saw John Glenn
ride stuff, not too far,
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us baby boomers came
along and then came outer space.
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That was Neil Armstrong talking
on that first step on the moon.
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And then came Gen Xers and
they discovered cyberspace.
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But there's a
fourth generation left.
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And the question is,
is there any space left
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to conquer for the millennials?
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And I'm not
talking about my space.
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All right, it's not
what I'm talking about.
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All right, there is an answer
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and I believe the answer
for the millennials is found
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in a very long ago story.
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At the very end of
that long ago story,
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there is an answer
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and I want you to write it down.
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Please write it down.
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Take out your study guide that
is in today's worship bulletin.
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Thank you ushers for standing
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because I just know
that there are people
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who got in here
without those study guides.
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You didn't get a
worship bulletin,
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some dynamite quotes,
you've gotta have them,
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hold your hand up,
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hold your hand up,
we'll get it to you.
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And while we're
doing that, those of you
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who are watching on
television right now,
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let me give you a website,
put it on the screen for you.
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There it is, www.pmchurch.tv.
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That's our website.
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If you go to this series
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that we're doing
called "Eternity's Edge,"
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you're looking for
the teaching today,
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"When God's Last
Question Becomes Our First."
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Click on there,
when you see that,
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you'll see the word
study guide, click study guide.
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You'll have the
identical study guide here
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from the back of the
balcony to the choir up front.
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Grab that study guide.
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I want you to write it down,
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one last frontier
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to conquer for God.
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Ready to go? Got your pen?
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All right, the GI generation,
what did they conquer?
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Inner space.
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All right, write
it down, inner space.
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The baby boomer generation,
what did they conquer?
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Outer space. Write that down.
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Gen Xers, what did
they helped us conquer?
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Cyberspace.
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All right, now the
millennials, put millennials up.
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What are we going
to put in that space,
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that blank space?
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There's another five letter word
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that goes right
in that blank space.
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There's a Bible book
that ends with a question.
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And in that question,
there is that five letter word,
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don't even try to figure it out.
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You won't guess it.
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Open your Bibles
instead with me, please,
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to the Book of Jonah, a
little tiny Book of Jonah.
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That would be the Old
Testament in the Minor Prophets.
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And while you're
finding that book,
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I need to tell
you that last Sabbath,
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do you remember in the middle
of my sermon last Sabbath?
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I said, "Man, I can
hardly wait till next week,"
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because we're going to share
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from the only book in the
Bible that ends with a question,
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hallelujah.
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And then I went
ahead and preached
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the last half of the sermon.
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As soon as... This
is in second service.
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As soon as the sermon is over,
I went down to the front row,
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and to sing the closing hymn
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and there was a
young co-ed there.
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And she leaned over
to me and she whispered,
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"Which book of the Bible is it?"
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Well, that's the whole point
of not announcing the book,
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you want a
little sense of mystery.
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So I said, "You'll have
to come back next Sabbath
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and find out."
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To which she replied,
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"Well, since you said that
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I've already been
going through the Bible,
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and I found two books
that end with a question."
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I said, "You're
kidding me. Show me."
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She was right.
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You can't believe
everything that preacher says,
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I'm just telling you,
you just can't believe it.
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And so I said,
"Well, I want to have
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to apologize next week,"
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which is what
I'm doing right now.
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And I'm thankful for that
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young Andrews University student
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who spent the
last half of my sermon
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not listening to it,
but trying to find out
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if what I'd said was true.
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She's right, there're
two books in the Bible
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that end with a question,
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but a little bit
of redemption here.
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Let me get the two
books, Nahum and Jonah.
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Here's the redemption.
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Both books deal with
the same city Nineveh.
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Keep your pen
moving, write it down.
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It's Jonah, however,
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Jonah not only
ends with a question,
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it is packed with 13 of them
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in rapid fire
sequence, boom, boom, boom,
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I'm gonna give
you all 13 right now.
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Hold on to your
seat. Let's go Jonah.
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Have you found Jonah?
This would be page 623.
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If you didn't bring a Bible,
grab that pew Bible, page 623.
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Take a look at
these 13 questions.
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Here we go.
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Question number one.
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That would be verse
6 in Jonah 1, verse 6.
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I'm in the New
International Version today.
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Now, "The
captain went to him..."
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That would be
Jonah, the runaway prophet,
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asleep in the
bottom of the boat.
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"The captain went to him
and said, 'How can you sleep?'
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" There it is,
question number one,
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"How can you sleep? Get
up and call on your God!
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Maybe he will take notice
of us and we will not perish."
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What's going on here?
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Ladies and
gentlemen, what's going on is
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we have this
humongous cyclone of a storm
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and the boat is going down.
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Now, Jean-Marcel
Clouzet, my friend,
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one of our
student leaders on campus,
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just a few weeks ago,
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preached his heart out
from the Book of Jonah.
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Jean dealt with the
first half of the book.
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Today, we're going to take
the second half of the book.
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All right?
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How can you sleep?
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Question number one.
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By the way, I'm reading a
book through right now entitled,
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Preaching to a Shifting Culture.
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And in that book,
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there's an essay
by Hayden Robinson,
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who makes an
interesting observation
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about sleeping, Jonah sleeping.
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I put it on the screen
for you, get a load of this.
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If ever, I'm quoting now,
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"If ever there was a man
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who lived in direct
disobedience to God,
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it was the prophet Jonah.
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God directed him to preach
to the citizens of Nineveh,
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but he boarded a ship
and sailed away from God
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rather than do what God
had commanded him to do.
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During his fligh a
violent storm arose
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that terrified
the pagan sailors,
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but Jonah was below
deck in the boat asleep.
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Evidently, Jonah had peace
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about the decision he had made."
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Now hold on,
notice the contrast.
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"On the other hand,
if ever there was someone
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who was doing God's will,
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it was Jesus going to the cross.
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Yet, in the
Garden of Gethsemane,
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he was in
anguish, he didn't sleep,
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and his sweat was like drops
of blood falling to the earth."
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And here comes this punch line,
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"Peace is not evidence we
have made a godly decision."
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You want to have peace,
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making the godly
decision for your life?
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You just hang on to this story.
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That information
will come to you.
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Okay, here comes
question number two,
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question number
three, question number four,
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question number
five, question number six.
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They're all in
one verse, verse 8.
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Drop down to verse 8.
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So they, that would be
the pagan sailors up top,
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top side.
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Jonah has just
stumbled up there.
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By the way, they just cast lots,
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and it's landed on Jonah.
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You're the cause of this.
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And so verse 8,
"They asked him, "Tell us,
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who is responsible for
making all this trouble for us?
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What do you do?
Where do you come from?
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What is your country?
From what people are you?
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Just like a
prosecuting attorney,
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boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom.
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You must be bad to
get the God this man.
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And Jonah
calmly is in that boat,
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pitches in ease.
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Jonah calmly
says, "I'm a Hebrew.
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I worship the Most High God
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who made all of
this in the first place."
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And now here comes
question number seven.
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What verse is
it? That be verse 10.
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"This terrified them
when they heard about him
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worshiping the Creator God.
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And they asked, here
comes question number 7,
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"What have you done?"
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They knew he was
running away from the Lord,
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because he had
already told them so.
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Now here comes
question number 8, verse 11,
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"And the sea was
getting rougher and rougher.
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So they asked
him, 'What should we do
00:14:27.33\00:14:28.90
to make the sea
calm down for us?'
00:14:28.93\00:14:30.90
" You know, when you're running,
00:14:34.14\00:14:36.04
like Jonah, from
our guilty conscience,
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you're going to
come to that moment,
00:14:40.44\00:14:41.78
or else it'll drive you
to either drink or despair.
00:14:41.81\00:14:44.11
You're going to
come to that moment
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when you're going to
have to have a Mea culpa.
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That's Latin for my fault.
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That boat, that little
piece of Phoenician driftwood
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shoots to the heavens
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and as it drops into
that canyon of water,
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Jonah offers a Mea culpa.
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Would be verse 12,
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"Pick me up and
throw me into the sea,"
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he replied, "and
it will become calm.
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I know, here it comes, I
know that it is my fault,"
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Latin Mea culpa.
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"I know that it is my
fault that this great storm
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has come upon you.
00:15:18.45\00:15:20.35
It is my fault."
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How many of our relationships?
00:15:24.12\00:15:26.22
How many of our
marriages could be saved
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if we just had the
honest courage to say,
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it is my fault?
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How much heartache I could spare
00:15:35.70\00:15:38.33
if this boy here would
live a little more often
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with those words on
his lips, on my lips?
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I'm sorry.
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It is my fault.
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Men are gonna
throw him, verse 13,
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"Instead the men did
their best to row back to land.
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But they could
not, for the sea grew
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even wilder than before."
00:15:57.59\00:15:59.75
The sails are tattered now.
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Then verse 14, "They
cried to the Lord, oh, Lord,"
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they just met this God,
they just, thanks to Jonah.
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"Oh, Lord,
please do not let us die
00:16:06.19\00:16:08.10
for taking this man's life.
00:16:08.13\00:16:09.46
Do not hold us accountable
for killing an innocent man
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for you, O Lord have
done as you pleased."
00:16:11.63\00:16:14.10
Then we're going
to have to do it.
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Verse 15, "They took Jonah
and they throw him overboard
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and the raging, boom,
that raging sea grew calm,
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miraculous."
00:16:21.04\00:16:22.61
And look what
happens at this, verse 16,
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"The men
greatly feared the Lord,
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and they offered a
sacrifice to the Lord
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and they made vows to him.
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I accept you now as
the God in the universe.
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Just got saved, old
boat full of pagan sailors.
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And what's
happened to the Jonah?
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That would be verse 17.
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"But the Lord provided a
great fish to swallow Jonah,
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and Jonah was
inside the fish three days
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and three nights."
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Now, what follows in Chapter 2
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is not a single question,
not one question in Chapter 2,
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just one very long confession.
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And I want you to
go to the very end
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of his confession
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because it's the theme
verse of the entire book.
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Go to Chapter 2, drop
down to the very end, verse 9.
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By the way, verse 5 tells us
that Jonah has seaweed wrapped,
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kelp wrapped around his head
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as he is
praying this confession.
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I don't know about you,
but I don't think that'd be
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a very pleasant environment
00:17:16.93\00:17:18.83
in which to go on my
knees before God, Jonah does.
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And this is verse 9,
00:17:22.07\00:17:24.37
"But I, with a
song of thanksgiving,
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will sacrifice to you.
00:17:27.01\00:17:28.64
What I have vowed,"
00:17:28.68\00:17:30.01
I know I used to
sing that hymn in church,
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I'll go where you want me to go.
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Dear Lord, I'll do
what You want me to do.
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What I have vowed,
dear God, I will make good,
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and now here comes
the punch line for,
00:17:38.49\00:17:40.56
"Salvation comes from the Lord."
00:17:40.59\00:17:44.76
Hallelujah.
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That's the theme of Jonah,
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"Salvation comes from the Lord."
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The pagans
discovered that truth.
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Jonah just now
confesses that truth
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and as we know, an entire
city will embrace that truth.
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Come on, what
greater truth is there
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in the universe than that one?
00:18:00.41\00:18:02.61
Is there greater
truth that you know?
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We have heard a joyful sound.
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
00:18:09.22\00:18:13.56
spread the glad news all around.
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Jesus save, Jesus save,
00:18:17.93\00:18:22.26
hallelujah.
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You know what?
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You can't run too far.
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You can't sink too deep.
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But God is gonna find you.
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God is going to save you.
00:18:34.94\00:18:38.01
Centuries ago somebody
wrote a metaphor about God
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called the hound of heaven.
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I think on the basis of
Jonah, we got a better metaphor,
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God is the whale of heaven.
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He will never let you drown.
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They may throw
you out of the church.
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They may throw
you out of the school.
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They may throw
you out of the job.
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They may throw you
out of your marriage.
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They may throw you out,
but when you get thrown out,
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the whale of
heaven will be right there
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to keep you from drowning.
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Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
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Wow.
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Well, we're now ready
for question number nine.
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But first, we got to
get Jonah out of that whale.
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We have a pet dog
named Sadie Hawkins.
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Yeah, I'm serious
00:19:17.62\00:19:18.95
and because we
got on February 29.
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And I tell you what?
00:19:21.39\00:19:22.72
Sadie can throw us
into an adrenaline rush
00:19:22.76\00:19:25.59
in a split second every time
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she begins to vomit.
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I don't know if you have
a... Do you have a dog at home?
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I think all dogs have the
same sound when they vomit.
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Don't they?
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I mean you go...
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And it gets higher and higher
00:19:39.97\00:19:41.31
and you just
know it's coming up.
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And boy when we hear
that, we can be sound,
00:19:43.04\00:19:44.71
it's like, boom, we're both up
00:19:44.75\00:19:46.15
to the bathroom
tile, out the door.
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I know what a dog
sounds like when it vomits.
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I cannot imagine what a
whale would sound like, can you?
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But it sounds like God is
the God of second chances.
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Hallelujah.
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Look at this, guys,
this would be Jonah 2:10,
00:20:04.10\00:20:08.14
"And the Lord commanded
the fish and it vomited.
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You know that
fish had no manners.
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That is so noisy to do.
00:20:16.14\00:20:18.51
It vomited
Jonah on the dry land.
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Hallelujah.
00:20:22.45\00:20:23.79
Look at 3:1,
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"Then the word of the Lord
came to Jonah a second time."
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Mark it down,
ladies and gentlemen,
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He is the God of second chances.
00:20:28.66\00:20:31.29
Don't you ever give up?
00:20:31.33\00:20:32.66
Don't you ever,
ever, ever give up
00:20:32.69\00:20:34.03
because God has
not given up on you.
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"And the word of the Lord
came to Jonah second time:
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'Go to that great city
of Nineveh and proclaim
00:20:38.80\00:20:41.17
to it the message I give you."
00:20:41.20\00:20:43.07
And hallelujah, verse 3,
00:20:43.10\00:20:44.44
"Jonah obeyed the
word of the Lord."
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He got, I got the point.
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I got it. I got it.
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"And he went to Nineveh.
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Now Nineveh was a
very important city,
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a visit requires three days."
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Verse 4, "And on the first
day Jonah started into the city.
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He proclaimed 40 more days
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and Nineveh
would be overturned."
00:20:59.42\00:21:01.59
And guess what happened?
00:21:01.62\00:21:02.96
Verse 5, "The
Ninevites believed."
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Can you believe this?
00:21:06.19\00:21:07.53
"The Ninevites believed God.
00:21:07.56\00:21:09.76
They declared a fast
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and all of them from
the greatest of the least
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put on sackcloth."
00:21:13.74\00:21:16.20
And now comes question nine,
00:21:16.24\00:21:18.04
a royal decree commanding
that city while it fast.
00:21:18.07\00:21:22.01
And in that royal
decree is verse 9.
00:21:22.04\00:21:24.18
And the king asked
the question, who knows?
00:21:24.21\00:21:26.95
Question number
nine, "Who knows?
00:21:26.98\00:21:29.42
God may yet relent
and with compassion
00:21:29.45\00:21:32.02
turn from his fierce anger
so that we will not perish."
00:21:32.05\00:21:36.56
And I'll thank
God, there is verse 10.
00:21:36.59\00:21:38.53
"And when God saw what they did,
00:21:38.56\00:21:41.36
and how they turned
from their evil ways,
00:21:41.40\00:21:43.73
he had compassion
00:21:43.77\00:21:45.27
and did not bring
upon them the destruction
00:21:45.30\00:21:47.77
he had threatened."
00:21:47.80\00:21:49.70
Ain't that great?
00:21:49.74\00:21:51.07
Apparently, guys, apparently
God can save an entire city,
00:21:51.11\00:21:56.91
no matter how
wicked that city is.
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And by the way, it was
wicked, wickedest of the wicked.
00:21:58.61\00:22:01.65
And that's precisely why
Jonah did not want to be sent.
00:22:01.68\00:22:06.52
God saves Nineveh
and Jonah is so happy.
00:22:06.55\00:22:12.73
Chapter 4:1,
00:22:12.76\00:22:14.46
"But Jonah was
greatly displeased
00:22:14.50\00:22:18.23
and became angry."
00:22:18.27\00:22:19.73
Here comes question number 10.
00:22:19.77\00:22:21.10
"He prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord,
00:22:21.14\00:22:22.97
is this not what I said
when I was still at home?'"
00:22:23.00\00:22:26.04
Question 10.
00:22:26.07\00:22:28.51
"That is why I was so
quick to flee to Tarshish.
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.95
I knew that you are
gracious and compassionate God,
00:22:30.98\00:22:33.18
slow to anger and
abounding in love,
00:22:33.21\00:22:34.58
a God who relents
from sending calamity."
00:22:34.62\00:22:37.95
Question number 11, verse
4, God comes right back at him.
00:22:37.99\00:22:40.79
"But the Lord replied,
'Have you any right, boy?
00:22:40.82\00:22:43.86
Have you any right to be angry?'
00:22:43.89\00:22:49.36
" Jonah storms
in a huff and a puff
00:22:49.40\00:22:54.14
and he finds a spot on
a little hill overlooking
00:22:54.17\00:22:56.91
Nineveh still hoping
00:22:56.94\00:22:58.27
that there's going
to be a spectacular
00:22:58.31\00:23:00.08
divine pyrotechnics show i.e.
00:23:00.11\00:23:02.94
fire still going
to come from heaven.
00:23:02.98\00:23:07.15
But all he gets is
a little vine from God
00:23:07.18\00:23:11.22
that grew up over his head
and created some blessed shade
00:23:11.25\00:23:14.92
from the blazing sun.
00:23:14.96\00:23:17.33
All he gets the next morning
is a little worm also from God
00:23:17.36\00:23:20.60
that ate the vine,
that grew over the head
00:23:20.63\00:23:22.63
and the vine shrivels
00:23:22.66\00:23:24.00
and now that
fiery ball just burns
00:23:24.03\00:23:27.47
red into that scalp,
00:23:27.50\00:23:30.17
and pouty, Jonah
begs to die, he's so mad.
00:23:30.21\00:23:34.98
Question 12, here it comes.
00:23:35.01\00:23:37.98
This would be verse 9.
00:23:38.01\00:23:42.08
"God said to Jonah,
00:23:42.12\00:23:43.45
'Do you have a right to
be angry about the vine?'
00:23:43.49\00:23:45.99
'I do,' He said, 'I
am angry enough to die.'
00:23:46.02\00:23:50.59
" And now, ladies and gentlemen,
00:23:50.63\00:23:52.23
here it is, question number 13.
00:23:52.26\00:23:56.83
A single question
00:23:56.87\00:23:58.70
with the
profound portrait of God
00:23:58.73\00:24:01.24
who loves the
ugliest of the ugly,
00:24:01.27\00:24:03.67
the worst of the worst,
00:24:03.71\00:24:06.17
the meanest of the mean.
00:24:06.21\00:24:08.68
God speaks now, verse 10.
00:24:08.71\00:24:11.78
"But the Lord said, o boy,
00:24:11.81\00:24:15.75
'You've been
concerned about this vine,
00:24:15.78\00:24:18.25
though you did not
tend it or make it grow.
00:24:18.29\00:24:20.59
It sprang up
overnight and died overnight.'
00:24:20.62\00:24:22.82
" Verse 11, "But Nineveh
has more than 120,000 people
00:24:22.86\00:24:27.43
who cannot tell their
right hand from their left
00:24:27.46\00:24:29.56
and many cattle as well.
00:24:29.60\00:24:31.47
Should I not be concerned
about that great city?"
00:24:31.50\00:24:37.64
The end.
00:24:37.67\00:24:41.84
That's all he wrote.
00:24:41.88\00:24:44.91
But that's enough.
00:24:44.95\00:24:47.08
For has not the
time come in history
00:24:47.12\00:24:49.12
when God's last question should
become our first question?
00:24:49.15\00:24:53.69
Write it down.
00:24:53.72\00:24:55.06
Should I not be concerned
00:24:55.09\00:24:58.09
about that great city?
00:24:58.13\00:25:02.10
Keep your pen moving.
00:25:02.13\00:25:03.47
It's not going
to stop for a while.
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.40
Do you know that
one week ago today?
00:25:05.43\00:25:08.30
Last week at this
time, no, not at this time,
00:25:08.34\00:25:10.11
7:19 in the
evening, one week ago today.
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.67
"According to
the US Census Bureau,
00:25:12.71\00:25:14.98
jot this down,
00:25:15.01\00:25:16.34
the world's population turned
to 6.5 billion human beings."
00:25:16.38\00:25:21.68
A week ago today.
00:25:21.72\00:25:25.09
Keep your pen moving.
00:25:25.12\00:25:26.45
"It is now estimated that
47% of earth's inhabitants
00:25:26.49\00:25:30.59
live in a city, not a suburb,
00:25:30.63\00:25:32.73
not a town, not a
little village like this,
00:25:32.76\00:25:34.53
not out in the country.
00:25:34.56\00:25:35.90
47% of earth is inner city,
00:25:35.93\00:25:37.67
which inner city
which by the way means,
00:25:37.70\00:25:39.17
jot this number.
00:25:39.20\00:25:40.54
You have a few
zeros to write here,
00:25:40.57\00:25:41.90
3,055,000,000 people on
earth are urban dwellers.
00:25:41.94\00:25:47.71
They live only in a city.
00:25:47.74\00:25:51.25
In fact, earth's
cities have become so large
00:25:51.28\00:25:53.78
that they are now being
called, write this down,
00:25:53.82\00:25:55.42
"agglomerations,"
00:25:55.45\00:25:57.72
aggregate and conglomeration
just put it all together,
00:25:57.75\00:26:00.29
what is an agglomeration?
00:26:00.32\00:26:01.96
An agglomeration is
defined as contiguous spreads
00:26:01.99\00:26:06.86
of inhabited
buildings and streets.
00:26:06.90\00:26:08.66
There's a website, check it out.
00:26:08.70\00:26:10.03
That word was new to
me just this last week.
00:26:10.07\00:26:11.63
I'm gonna now give
to you, here they are,
00:26:11.67\00:26:13.17
we're not gonna write them down.
00:26:13.20\00:26:14.54
Take a look at this, the
top 10 agglomerations on Earth.
00:26:14.57\00:26:18.41
And number one
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.38
is the city I was born
in, Tokyo Japan 34,200,000.
00:26:20.41\00:26:27.05
Number two,
Mexico City, 22,800,000.
00:26:27.08\00:26:32.39
Number three,
Seoul, Korea, 22,300,000.
00:26:32.42\00:26:37.86
Look at this, number
four, New York City, 21,900,000.
00:26:37.89\00:26:42.80
Number five, Sao
Paulo, Brazil, 20,200,000.
00:26:42.83\00:26:47.57
Number six, Bombay, also
known as Mumbai, 19,850,000.
00:26:47.60\00:26:53.58
Also in India, number
seven, Delhi, 19,700,000.
00:26:53.61\00:26:58.91
Number eight,
Shanghai, China, 18,150,000.
00:26:58.95\00:27:03.25
Number nine, Los Angeles,
the City of Angels, 18,000,000,
00:27:03.28\00:27:08.39
and finally again from Japan,
00:27:08.42\00:27:09.82
number 10, Osaka,
16,800,000 people.
00:27:09.86\00:27:14.46
Grand total, you
need to write this down,
00:27:14.50\00:27:15.90
grand total for the top
10 agglomerations on earth,
00:27:15.93\00:27:19.53
355,650,000.
00:27:19.57\00:27:23.97
And by the way,
when you add the next 10
00:27:24.01\00:27:25.67
that would be the top 20,
00:27:25.71\00:27:27.04
the total jumps to just
short of a half a billion people
00:27:27.08\00:27:31.95
living downtown in cities.
00:27:31.98\00:27:34.95
And by the way,
that's just the top 20.
00:27:34.98\00:27:37.09
In fact, keep your pen moving,
00:27:37.12\00:27:38.45
there are now estimated to
be 438 agglomeration cities
00:27:38.49\00:27:43.29
with 1 million
or more inhabitants.
00:27:43.32\00:27:48.06
Have mercy.
00:27:48.10\00:27:49.73
If the cry of God
that ends the Book of Jonah
00:27:49.76\00:27:53.10
were only for one city,
it was only for one city.
00:27:53.13\00:27:55.40
Can you imagine the
depth of the divine cry today?
00:27:55.44\00:28:01.48
Do you wanna know how God
really feels about cities?
00:28:01.51\00:28:05.51
Jot this down in
your study guide.
00:28:05.55\00:28:07.08
Luke 19:41, "As Jesus
came near and saw the city,
00:28:07.12\00:28:10.92
He wept, He wept over it."
00:28:10.95\00:28:14.89
There are only two
places in the gospel record
00:28:14.92\00:28:17.03
where it
describes Jesus as weeping.
00:28:17.06\00:28:18.86
Once He wept over a dead friend,
00:28:18.89\00:28:21.06
and once He wept
over a lost city.
00:28:21.10\00:28:24.67
I remember
hearing a Baptist preacher
00:28:24.70\00:28:26.80
turned professor,
his name Robert Logan,
00:28:26.84\00:28:29.84
I'll never forget this
sentence as long as I live.
00:28:29.87\00:28:31.64
I want you to have it too.
00:28:31.67\00:28:33.01
He said, "We need
to come to the place
00:28:33.04\00:28:34.58
where what
breaks the heart of God
00:28:34.61\00:28:37.55
breaks our hearts, too."
00:28:37.58\00:28:41.25
Jesus saw the city and He wept.
00:28:41.28\00:28:42.92
What do you and I do?
00:28:42.95\00:28:44.29
Oh, thank God, we
live in a village.
00:28:44.32\00:28:46.52
Thank God,
00:28:46.55\00:28:47.89
the inner city is
someone else's problem,
00:28:47.92\00:28:49.26
not mine.
00:28:49.29\00:28:50.63
Thank God, it's
none of my business.
00:28:50.66\00:28:52.16
Are you crazy?
None of your business?
00:28:52.19\00:28:54.16
That is
precisely Jonah's attitude.
00:28:54.20\00:28:56.16
And that's why about got lost.
00:28:56.20\00:28:57.97
It is your business.
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.57
Jonah says, "Who cares?
00:28:59.60\00:29:01.34
Who cares?
00:29:01.37\00:29:03.24
Do you care?
00:29:03.27\00:29:04.84
Do I care?"
00:29:04.87\00:29:06.21
A 100 years ago,
00:29:13.45\00:29:16.82
there was a woman
who also had a heart
00:29:16.85\00:29:18.25
that broke for the cities.
00:29:18.29\00:29:19.62
I had these words,
00:29:19.65\00:29:20.99
and more scribbled all
over my pages of Jonah.
00:29:21.02\00:29:23.69
I wanted you to have
00:29:23.73\00:29:25.06
and so you're
having the study guide.
00:29:25.09\00:29:26.43
Take a look at what she wrote,
"Work the cities without delay,
00:29:26.46\00:29:29.90
for time is short."
00:29:29.93\00:29:31.77
That was a century ago.
00:29:31.80\00:29:33.84
"At such a time as this,
00:29:33.87\00:29:35.20
every hand is to be
employed in the city."
00:29:35.24\00:29:37.74
Now, the emphasis here is mine.
00:29:37.77\00:29:39.57
"The burden of the
needs of our cities
00:29:39.61\00:29:41.58
has rested so heavily upon me
00:29:41.61\00:29:43.78
that it is sometimes
seem that I should die."
00:29:43.81\00:29:46.92
Have you ever felt,
00:29:46.95\00:29:48.28
I am gonna die
because of that city,
00:29:48.32\00:29:49.92
it's not reached for Christ.
00:29:49.95\00:29:51.45
I never felt
that way in my life.
00:29:51.49\00:29:54.46
A burden of those
cities is so heavy on me.
00:29:54.49\00:29:57.79
I've sometimes
thought I was gonna die.
00:29:57.83\00:30:01.10
Wow.
00:30:01.13\00:30:02.46
Here's another one,
00:30:02.50\00:30:03.83
" Wake up, wake up
00:30:03.87\00:30:05.20
and enter the fields in America
that have never been worked.
00:30:05.23\00:30:09.00
There's a work to be
done in foreign fields.
00:30:09.04\00:30:10.37
And I want to say this,
00:30:10.41\00:30:11.74
I realize we
have over 90 nations
00:30:11.77\00:30:13.68
represented in Pioneer
and at Andrews University.
00:30:13.71\00:30:16.58
And God knows you
have challenges there.
00:30:16.61\00:30:18.25
But I tell you what?
00:30:18.28\00:30:19.61
We need to see this
sentence as well in America.
00:30:19.65\00:30:21.65
There is a work to be
done in foreign fields,
00:30:21.68\00:30:23.25
but there is a work
to be done in America
00:30:23.28\00:30:25.49
that is just as important.
00:30:25.52\00:30:27.86
The Missology department
00:30:27.89\00:30:29.69
wants to cast our
eyes over the seas.
00:30:29.72\00:30:31.56
We do need that
vision over there.
00:30:31.59\00:30:33.53
But we cannot forget
the cities here at home.
00:30:33.56\00:30:36.77
Just as important.
00:30:36.80\00:30:38.50
Now go on, there's
more to that, isn't there?
00:30:38.53\00:30:39.87
Yeah.
00:30:39.90\00:30:41.24
"In the cities of America,
00:30:41.27\00:30:42.60
there are people of
almost every language."
00:30:42.64\00:30:44.44
Do you know how many
languages are in Chicago?
00:30:44.47\00:30:45.94
Do you know how many nations
00:30:45.97\00:30:47.31
are represented
in the Windy City
00:30:47.34\00:30:48.68
just around the
corner of the lake?
00:30:48.71\00:30:50.38
These need the light that
God has given to His church?
00:30:50.41\00:30:54.48
Wow.
00:30:54.52\00:30:56.95
I have a book in my library,
written by John, excuse me,
00:30:56.99\00:31:00.62
John Dawson.
00:31:00.66\00:31:02.79
Title of the book,
Taking our Cities for God.
00:31:02.82\00:31:04.46
I've read it
through three times.
00:31:04.49\00:31:05.83
And I know I'm going
to read it a fourth time.
00:31:05.86\00:31:08.20
In that marvelous stirring book,
00:31:08.23\00:31:11.23
Dawson has written these words
00:31:11.27\00:31:12.77
and you have them
there in the study guide.
00:31:12.80\00:31:14.67
"The emergence of a
worldwide urban culture,
00:31:14.70\00:31:18.37
I like that, is
setting the stage
00:31:18.41\00:31:20.84
for the world's first
truly global awakening.
00:31:20.88\00:31:23.75
From China to
Brazil, cities are becoming
00:31:23.78\00:31:26.28
more and more
uniform in culture.
00:31:26.31\00:31:28.02
Entertainment in
the form of movies,
00:31:28.05\00:31:29.58
rock music and television
00:31:29.62\00:31:30.95
is discipling the
youth of the world
00:31:30.99\00:31:32.32
into a universal urban culture.
00:31:32.35\00:31:35.19
English as a second language
00:31:35.22\00:31:36.96
is spoken by the elite
of most world-class cities,
00:31:36.99\00:31:39.49
thus creating the potential
00:31:39.53\00:31:40.86
for the rapid spread
of a product or an idea."
00:31:40.90\00:31:44.77
You know, when I read
that it suddenly hit me,
00:31:44.80\00:31:46.13
wait time out.
00:31:46.17\00:31:47.50
Do I, hold it, do you understand
00:31:47.54\00:31:50.37
that all because of
these agglomeration cities,
00:31:50.41\00:31:53.27
God has actually set up
00:31:53.31\00:31:55.14
His everlasting
gospel for success.
00:31:55.18\00:31:58.25
Success today. Why?
00:31:58.28\00:31:59.61
Because we have
mass communications now,
00:31:59.65\00:32:01.58
we have the English language
00:32:01.62\00:32:03.35
that's spoken almost
the whole world over.
00:32:03.39\00:32:05.55
And number three, we have
this global urban culture,
00:32:05.59\00:32:09.19
you can go dress like
this into any city on earth,
00:32:09.22\00:32:11.43
and you look like
just one of the boys,
00:32:11.46\00:32:13.36
one of the girls,
00:32:13.40\00:32:14.73
you don't have to
change your uniform now.
00:32:14.76\00:32:16.70
It's the same
culture in the world cities.
00:32:16.73\00:32:19.90
God has set us up for success.
00:32:19.93\00:32:23.47
But Dawson says,
these are urgent times,
00:32:23.51\00:32:27.34
and then let me read,
these are his words again,
00:32:27.38\00:32:29.14
more than half, listen to this,
00:32:29.18\00:32:30.51
"More than half the
people who have ever lived
00:32:30.55\00:32:33.42
are now alive.
00:32:33.45\00:32:34.85
If we don't have an
awakening in this generation,
00:32:34.88\00:32:37.89
more people will go to
an eternity without Christ
00:32:37.92\00:32:40.36
than in all the past generations
00:32:40.39\00:32:42.56
put together.
00:32:42.59\00:32:44.23
Wow.
00:32:44.26\00:32:45.59
I can't see God
allowing that to happen."
00:32:45.63\00:32:47.00
He writes, "Business-as-usual
is not good enough,
00:32:47.03\00:32:49.63
there is not enough time."
00:32:49.66\00:32:53.54
Which is why my dear people,
00:32:53.57\00:32:55.50
it is high time to
make God's last question
00:32:55.54\00:32:58.91
our first question,
00:32:58.94\00:33:00.28
should I not be
concerned about that great city?
00:33:00.31\00:33:05.68
And I was just saying, you say,
"No, Pastor, come on, please.
00:33:05.71\00:33:08.48
There's no way, I
can't move to Tokyo.
00:33:08.52\00:33:10.52
I can't move to Moscow.
00:33:10.55\00:33:12.95
I can't show up in Bombay.
00:33:12.99\00:33:16.42
I'm stuck here
in Berrien Springs."
00:33:16.46\00:33:18.19
Well, so am I.
00:33:18.23\00:33:19.96
But there are
two things we can do,
00:33:20.00\00:33:21.46
jot these down in
closing, two strategies for us
00:33:21.50\00:33:23.80
who live right here right now.
00:33:23.83\00:33:25.17
Strategy number one
00:33:25.20\00:33:26.53
begin with a
city closest to you.
00:33:26.57\00:33:29.24
Twelve miles up this road,
00:33:29.27\00:33:32.44
we have according to
The Wall Street Journal,
00:33:32.47\00:33:35.48
the second most depressed
00:33:35.51\00:33:36.88
inner city per
capita in the United States.
00:33:36.91\00:33:39.88
Twelve miles away,
it's called Benton Harbor.
00:33:39.91\00:33:44.22
If God's heart
breaks for that city,
00:33:44.25\00:33:46.35
shouldn't our hearts break too?
00:33:46.39\00:33:48.22
If God's messenger could explain
00:33:48.26\00:33:49.96
that the burden of the
needs of the city are so great,
00:33:49.99\00:33:52.43
it is sometimes
seen that I should die,
00:33:52.46\00:33:54.10
can't we let the
same Spirit of Jesus
00:33:54.13\00:33:59.13
bring that
passion to us as well.
00:33:59.17\00:34:04.44
It's time to fill
in that last blank,
00:34:04.47\00:34:06.11
the one that we left
blank at the beginning.
00:34:06.14\00:34:08.48
Fill it in.
00:34:08.51\00:34:11.61
It's true, five
letter word here it comes,
00:34:11.65\00:34:14.48
it's true, the GI
generation conquered inner space
00:34:14.52\00:34:17.85
and the baby boomers
conquered outer space,
00:34:17.89\00:34:20.79
Generation X has
conquered cyberspace
00:34:20.82\00:34:23.36
but what about the
millennial generation?
00:34:23.39\00:34:26.19
Urban space.
00:34:26.23\00:34:27.76
Write it down, urban space.
00:34:27.80\00:34:30.23
It is the greatest and
most monumental challenge
00:34:30.27\00:34:33.27
that faces Christianity,
00:34:33.30\00:34:35.70
along with our particular
community of faith today.
00:34:35.74\00:34:39.07
Listen to me carefully.
00:34:39.11\00:34:40.44
We do fine in the villages.
00:34:40.48\00:34:42.21
We do great in the towns.
00:34:42.24\00:34:43.85
We're perfect out in the country
00:34:43.88\00:34:45.31
where there's hardly anybody.
00:34:45.35\00:34:46.68
We're so-so in the
suburbs, but I'll tell you what?
00:34:46.72\00:34:49.08
We are an abysmal
failure in the cities of earth.
00:34:49.12\00:34:52.32
There is one frontier
left for this generation.
00:34:52.35\00:34:54.69
That's the unconquered
frontier and you're it.
00:34:54.72\00:34:57.33
God has picked you
because we have got to go
00:34:57.36\00:35:00.36
where we have never gone before.
00:35:00.40\00:35:02.03
Is that Star Trek?
00:35:02.06\00:35:05.63
Go where we have
never gone before,
00:35:05.67\00:35:08.20
your generation
and we will help you.
00:35:08.24\00:35:10.91
Your generation must
conquer another frontier.
00:35:10.94\00:35:14.64
We don't need to go to Mars.
00:35:14.68\00:35:17.71
We gotta go to Madrid,
00:35:17.75\00:35:20.65
Minneapolis,
00:35:20.68\00:35:22.95
Moscow,
00:35:22.98\00:35:25.99
Melbourne,
00:35:26.02\00:35:27.66
We gotta go.
00:35:27.69\00:35:33.09
Unconquered cities,
the agglomerations of Earth
00:35:33.13\00:35:35.96
unconquered for
Christ and His kingdom,
00:35:36.00\00:35:38.33
which is why, which is
why I'm absolutely unabashed.
00:35:38.37\00:35:41.30
I believe God has
raised you up millennials.
00:35:41.34\00:35:43.47
He has raised you up
00:35:43.51\00:35:44.94
for this final
frontier to conquer.
00:35:44.97\00:35:46.64
I don't care what your major is.
00:35:46.68\00:35:48.01
I don't care what
your career is going to be.
00:35:48.04\00:35:49.38
Take that career to a city,
00:35:49.41\00:35:51.28
please don't
live it in a country.
00:35:51.31\00:35:53.52
Take it to a city.
Don't live it in a village.
00:35:53.55\00:35:55.72
Take it to a city and
let God set you ablaze,
00:35:55.75\00:35:59.52
downtown for the
kingdom of Christ.
00:35:59.55\00:36:03.12
Begin now, it's not too early,
00:36:03.16\00:36:04.99
start dreaming
of a city on Earth.
00:36:05.03\00:36:07.06
You know what you can do?
00:36:07.10\00:36:08.43
You can go to your niece
00:36:08.46\00:36:09.80
when you pray now at
night before you go to bed.
00:36:09.83\00:36:11.17
When you first, when
you get up in the morning
00:36:11.20\00:36:12.53
and you have in
your private worship,
00:36:12.57\00:36:13.90
you can be
adding to your prayers,
00:36:13.94\00:36:15.27
God, there is a city on earth
that You have designed me for.
00:36:15.30\00:36:19.27
Before I finish
Andrews University,
00:36:19.31\00:36:21.24
show me that city.
00:36:21.28\00:36:22.64
I will go, I
will fulfill my vow,
00:36:22.68\00:36:24.58
I will go to that city for you.
00:36:24.61\00:36:25.98
It might be
here in this country.
00:36:26.01\00:36:27.45
It might be
across one or two oceans,
00:36:27.48\00:36:29.08
it might be who knows where,
00:36:29.12\00:36:31.65
but you begin to ask
God, God show me that city.
00:36:31.69\00:36:34.42
Give me that place.
00:36:34.46\00:36:35.82
Tell me, impress me, one
day I'll know this is it.
00:36:35.86\00:36:39.03
This is where I
must go for Christ.
00:36:39.06\00:36:43.57
The new missionaries
of the third millennium.
00:36:43.60\00:36:46.74
There they are,
the new missionaries,
00:36:46.77\00:36:49.94
the cities, the last
unconquered frontier.
00:36:49.97\00:36:53.68
I tell you what?
00:36:53.71\00:36:55.71
The strategy is begin
with a city close to you,
00:36:55.74\00:36:57.38
we desperately need
you in Benton Harbor.
00:36:57.41\00:36:58.78
Hundred and fifty
of our Andrews students
00:36:58.81\00:37:00.52
are going to get on
the buses this afternoon.
00:37:00.55\00:37:01.88
But you know what?
00:37:01.92\00:37:03.25
There is way more to do
than 100 and 450 students.
00:37:03.28\00:37:06.32
Three o'clock this afternoon
those buses will line up
00:37:06.35\00:37:08.12
in front of
Lampson Hall, we need you.
00:37:08.16\00:37:09.76
We need you so bad,
00:37:09.79\00:37:11.13
but we not only
need students up there,
00:37:11.16\00:37:12.49
we need
community members up there.
00:37:12.53\00:37:14.33
We have just, you
might have forgotten
00:37:14.36\00:37:16.67
planted a
fledgling little church
00:37:16.70\00:37:18.57
called a new plant church
00:37:18.60\00:37:20.00
in the inner
city of Benton Harbor
00:37:20.04\00:37:22.17
12 miles away.
00:37:22.20\00:37:23.54
We desperately need
help with that church plant.
00:37:23.57\00:37:26.88
In fact, let me
share this with you.
00:37:26.91\00:37:28.54
I got this email a few days ago.
00:37:28.58\00:37:31.45
From one, this is from one
of our young adult mothers.
00:37:31.48\00:37:33.75
All right.
00:37:33.78\00:37:35.12
She comes here every
church, sits right there,
00:37:35.15\00:37:36.55
every church first church
00:37:36.58\00:37:38.69
with her little two
little boys and her husband.
00:37:38.72\00:37:40.72
And as soon as
first church is over,
00:37:40.76\00:37:42.36
they're in a car
and they're driving up,
00:37:42.39\00:37:44.26
they're driving
up to Benton Harbor
00:37:44.29\00:37:45.63
where she will
spend the rest of the day
00:37:45.66\00:37:47.80
in that little church
plant, a young adult Gen Xer.
00:37:47.83\00:37:51.27
She sent me this
email, Pastor Dwight,
00:37:51.30\00:37:53.27
we really, really need help.
00:37:53.30\00:37:55.37
Her name is Becky Vanderpulaski.
00:37:55.40\00:37:57.37
As you may know,
there are 10 to 15 people
00:37:57.41\00:37:59.31
trying to run new plant,
00:37:59.34\00:38:00.68
maybe you can share with people
00:38:00.71\00:38:02.04
that there are very
simple things they can do.
00:38:02.08\00:38:04.18
We aren't asking
for a big commitment.
00:38:04.21\00:38:05.61
Even if they could commit
00:38:05.65\00:38:06.98
to one Sabbath a
month as a student.
00:38:07.02\00:38:08.85
Yeah, just one Sabbath
a month, it would be great
00:38:08.88\00:38:11.49
because then the people
that are there every week
00:38:11.52\00:38:13.46
could have a break.
00:38:13.49\00:38:15.06
Even if people are
scared to interact with kids,
00:38:15.09\00:38:16.93
that's okay.
00:38:16.96\00:38:18.29
If all they can do is
wash dishes and clean up.
00:38:18.33\00:38:19.93
We do all, we love
to have and do the rest.
00:38:19.96\00:38:22.16
If we had a few extra hands
00:38:22.20\00:38:23.60
to sit with kids in
church and Sabbath School,
00:38:23.63\00:38:25.67
help prepare food,
00:38:25.70\00:38:27.04
we could have a point
person who they could come to
00:38:27.07\00:38:28.77
and that person
could tell them what to do.
00:38:28.80\00:38:30.54
It's terrible to
admit. Now listen to this.
00:38:30.57\00:38:31.97
She's opening up her heart.
00:38:32.01\00:38:33.34
It's terrible to admit,
00:38:33.38\00:38:34.71
but sometimes I
dread the Sabbath,
00:38:34.74\00:38:37.05
I dread it.
00:38:37.08\00:38:38.78
Because I know that
I'm going to be working
00:38:38.81\00:38:40.15
from 10 to 3
after she worship here.
00:38:40.18\00:38:42.25
And then to have
the kids in church
00:38:42.28\00:38:43.62
come over to our house.
00:38:43.65\00:38:44.99
It's almost overwhelming.
00:38:45.02\00:38:46.35
I think that we are burning out
00:38:46.39\00:38:47.72
the few new plant
people that we have.
00:38:47.76\00:38:49.22
I see so much good in
these kids at new plant,
00:38:49.26\00:38:51.06
we just need extra
hands to love them.
00:38:51.09\00:38:52.83
Once you get
involved in new plant,
00:38:52.86\00:38:54.20
you realize
that this is probably
00:38:54.23\00:38:55.56
the greatest service you
will ever do for the Lord.
00:38:55.60\00:38:58.30
Anyway, just my thoughts
that I thought I'd share.
00:38:58.33\00:39:02.07
I read that the first time,
just tears sprang to my eyes.
00:39:02.10\00:39:04.51
Here's a woman, a young adult
working herself to the knob
00:39:04.54\00:39:08.94
because God has
broken her heart for a city.
00:39:08.98\00:39:11.78
She needs help guys.
00:39:11.81\00:39:13.62
We need help up their bad.
00:39:13.65\00:39:15.85
Sabbath afternoons,
we're going to sleep,
00:39:15.88\00:39:19.69
we need your at 3 o'clock.
00:39:19.72\00:39:21.06
We need those buses,
we can get more buses,
00:39:21.09\00:39:22.56
don't worry about that.
00:39:22.59\00:39:23.93
We gotta have help.
00:39:23.96\00:39:25.33
Should I not be
concerned over that city?
00:39:25.36\00:39:29.20
In fact, I put the address,
00:39:32.60\00:39:34.14
you see that, I put the
address on our study guide.
00:39:34.17\00:39:35.80
It's right there, the
address to the new plant church.
00:39:35.84\00:39:37.97
In fact, if you
reach inside your bulletin,
00:39:38.01\00:39:40.18
I think in the
bulletin you got today,
00:39:40.21\00:39:42.44
you're going to see
something, it looks like this,
00:39:42.48\00:39:43.88
1,113 different ways
to help Benton Harbor.
00:39:43.91\00:39:46.31
Turn it over, you got a map.
00:39:46.35\00:39:47.68
Everything's there, the address,
00:39:47.72\00:39:49.05
the map, everything.
00:39:49.08\00:39:50.42
Just go up one Sabbath.
Please go up just one Sabbath.
00:39:50.45\00:39:53.22
Go up one Sabbath,
and see for yourself.
00:39:53.25\00:39:59.23
See for yourself.
00:39:59.26\00:40:01.73
See if God doesn't tug
at your heart. All right.
00:40:01.76\00:40:03.40
I'll sit down
with a second strategy.
00:40:03.43\00:40:04.77
Here it is. They're
just two simple strategies.
00:40:04.80\00:40:06.84
Go to the beginning of
the city closest to you
00:40:06.87\00:40:08.87
and finally strategy number two,
00:40:08.90\00:40:10.27
give for the
cities all around you.
00:40:10.31\00:40:14.04
Thanks to mass communication,
00:40:14.08\00:40:15.41
and television, and
radio, and the internet,
00:40:15.44\00:40:16.78
Pioneer is now potentially
00:40:16.81\00:40:18.51
touching nearly
every city on Earth
00:40:18.55\00:40:20.22
through the three
satellite networks
00:40:20.25\00:40:21.58
that carry our worship services,
00:40:21.62\00:40:23.05
plus there are 90 dear people
00:40:23.08\00:40:24.45
and I call them our
TV pioneers right here.
00:40:24.49\00:40:26.62
Who every single
week are giving $10 a week
00:40:26.65\00:40:29.99
in order to reach
1.75 million viewers
00:40:30.03\00:40:32.99
right here in the Michigan
area and I thank God for them.
00:40:33.03\00:40:36.13
But you know what,
folks, Michigan is not enough.
00:40:36.16\00:40:38.70
With the world's
cities on our hearts,
00:40:38.73\00:40:42.14
including Chicago
weighing heavy on my own.
00:40:42.17\00:40:44.54
I must appeal to you today
in the name of Jesus Christ.
00:40:44.57\00:40:48.61
Please help us financially.
00:40:48.64\00:40:52.55
We need it,
00:40:52.58\00:40:53.95
our church meeting
and business session
00:40:53.98\00:40:55.32
just last month voted.
00:40:55.35\00:40:56.99
The Evangelism Council came in
00:40:57.02\00:40:58.35
with the most
aggressive evangelism budget
00:40:58.39\00:41:00.32
in the history of this church
00:41:00.36\00:41:01.69
$150,000 for 2000
for this very year.
00:41:01.72\00:41:05.53
But that's not only
150,000 for the master plan,
00:41:05.56\00:41:08.96
there's another 50,000
00:41:09.00\00:41:10.33
that these pioneers are raising,
00:41:10.37\00:41:11.70
plus another 50,000
00:41:11.73\00:41:13.07
from some gifts to hire
someone on to our staff,
00:41:13.10\00:41:15.27
it's a $250,000 a year budget.
00:41:15.30\00:41:19.27
You say, "Come on,
Dwight, come on, Pastor.
00:41:19.31\00:41:21.64
I don't know if I could do that.
00:41:21.68\00:41:24.05
I want to tell you something,
00:41:24.08\00:41:25.41
I got some very
good news for you.
00:41:25.45\00:41:26.78
It's simple.
00:41:26.82\00:41:28.18
Inside your bulletin,
you'll find a little card
00:41:28.22\00:41:31.59
that looks like
this reaching the cities.
00:41:31.62\00:41:32.95
Would you pull this card out?
00:41:32.99\00:41:34.32
You are going to be
amazed how simple it is.
00:41:34.36\00:41:35.76
We can do it together.
00:41:35.79\00:41:37.23
Watch this. Do you know what?
00:41:37.26\00:41:38.59
If you would give just $1 a day,
00:41:38.63\00:41:42.00
one measly little dollar a day,
00:41:42.03\00:41:44.20
that's less than a pizza a week.
00:41:44.23\00:41:46.27
That's less than
two rental DVDs a week.
00:41:46.30\00:41:49.07
That's less than
three gallons of gas a week.
00:41:49.10\00:41:52.47
Just $1 a day.
00:41:52.51\00:41:55.84
If we each everybody
here would give $1 a day.
00:41:55.88\00:42:00.78
You say, "What am
I supposed to do it?"
00:42:00.82\00:42:02.15
Well, when you come here,
just pull a tithe envelope out,
00:42:02.18\00:42:03.52
drop down to line five.
00:42:03.55\00:42:04.89
It says NPE master
plan of evangelism.
00:42:04.92\00:42:06.69
You just write in
the $1 day amount,
00:42:06.72\00:42:08.32
whatever it is,
00:42:08.36\00:42:09.69
however often you
want to fill it out
00:42:09.72\00:42:11.06
during a month.
00:42:11.09\00:42:12.43
One dollar a day.
00:42:12.46\00:42:14.50
All of us here.
00:42:14.53\00:42:15.86
We could reach
every city on Earth
00:42:15.90\00:42:17.23
for the Lord Jesus Christ
00:42:17.27\00:42:18.60
or we could all
got, we can't all go.
00:42:18.63\00:42:21.20
But we could go right from here.
00:42:21.24\00:42:23.41
One dollar a day.
00:42:23.44\00:42:27.24
I wanna appeal
to you dear student,
00:42:27.28\00:42:29.54
you say, "Come on, you
know how tight my finances are?"
00:42:29.58\00:42:32.08
I know how tight
your finances are, I know.
00:42:32.11\00:42:34.35
And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna,
00:42:34.38\00:42:35.95
I'm not gonna be in
your face over this.
00:42:35.98\00:42:37.32
Forget it.
00:42:37.35\00:42:38.69
You know, 50 cents a day.
00:42:38.72\00:42:41.82
Now, for you, 40 cents.
00:42:41.86\00:42:44.53
No just a dollar a day.
00:42:44.56\00:42:46.93
Just a dollar a day.
00:42:46.96\00:42:48.90
You say, "Dwight,
there's no way I could do."
00:42:48.93\00:42:50.27
Okay, dollar every other day.
00:42:50.30\00:42:51.97
Some of you say, we got a
note in seconds or several notes
00:42:52.00\00:42:54.17
saying, "Oh, Pastor,
00:42:54.20\00:42:55.54
we're already doing
way more than this."
00:42:55.57\00:42:56.91
Oh, hallelujah.
00:42:56.94\00:42:58.27
Don't drop it
down to a dollar a day,
00:42:58.31\00:42:59.64
please drop it down
for you at a dollar a day.
00:42:59.67\00:43:03.41
That's what I'm gonna do.
00:43:03.45\00:43:04.78
I'm gonna add,
just add dollar a day
00:43:04.81\00:43:06.68
to whatever it is
you're doing right now.
00:43:06.72\00:43:08.32
One dollar, if we all
added one dollar a day,
00:43:08.35\00:43:11.72
ladies and
gentlemen, we could do it.
00:43:11.75\00:43:13.25
We can do it
together, the cities of Earth.
00:43:13.29\00:43:16.56
I gotta tell you this.
00:43:16.59\00:43:17.93
I didn't know
this was happening.
00:43:17.96\00:43:20.40
But our little Sabbath
schools are what is this,
00:43:20.43\00:43:23.13
pre primary Sabbath schools.
00:43:23.16\00:43:25.67
Unbeknownst of
me, we're taking up
00:43:25.70\00:43:27.04
an offering for Benton Harbor.
00:43:27.07\00:43:28.40
I just found out about it
like three or four days ago.
00:43:28.44\00:43:30.54
And they said, "Oh, Pastor,
00:43:30.57\00:43:31.91
could we come and
bring that money to you?"
00:43:31.94\00:43:33.27
And so they
came in first service
00:43:33.31\00:43:34.64
and some kids came up
and they brought their money
00:43:34.68\00:43:36.44
for Benton Harbor.
00:43:36.48\00:43:37.81
One little boy, get
this, one little boy.
00:43:37.85\00:43:40.92
They've been paying the kids.
00:43:40.95\00:43:42.68
This is a novel idea.
00:43:42.72\00:43:44.05
They're paying the kids
to learn their memory verses.
00:43:44.09\00:43:46.55
I like it.
00:43:46.59\00:43:48.19
It's very creative.
00:43:48.22\00:43:50.43
Entrepreneurial,
00:43:50.46\00:43:51.86
because Lord
bring it back to you.
00:43:51.89\00:43:53.90
And it's not all their
memory verses just Psalm 23,
00:43:53.93\00:43:56.06
we will give you
dollar, we will give you dollar
00:43:56.10\00:43:57.43
if you memorize Psalm 23
00:43:57.47\00:43:58.80
they said to all these
little, this is preschool.
00:43:58.83\00:44:00.37
All these little
kids, will give you a dollar
00:44:00.40\00:44:02.30
one little boy
perfectly recited Psalm 23
00:44:02.34\00:44:04.34
they gave him a dollar
and you know what he did?
00:44:04.37\00:44:05.71
He walked right over to
that Benton Harbor little bucket
00:44:05.74\00:44:07.48
and he gave his
dollar to Benton Harbor.
00:44:07.51\00:44:10.65
Come on.
00:44:10.68\00:44:12.18
Where's the kids?
00:44:12.21\00:44:13.55
Where's little Ruth Burns?
00:44:13.58\00:44:14.92
Where's Matthew Beckwith?
00:44:14.95\00:44:16.75
Where's teacher? Gabriela?
00:44:16.79\00:44:18.62
Are you here?
00:44:18.65\00:44:20.32
Gabriela?
00:44:20.36\00:44:22.29
A teacher?
00:44:22.32\00:44:24.26
I see Ruth. Come on Ruth.
00:44:24.29\00:44:26.80
Come on Matthew.
00:44:26.83\00:44:28.16
You go my man. Bless your heart.
00:44:28.20\00:44:29.56
You're representing
all the Sabbath School.
00:44:29.60\00:44:30.93
Hallelujah. You stay right here.
00:44:30.97\00:44:32.47
Ruth.
00:44:32.50\00:44:34.37
I see you're not gonna come.
00:44:34.40\00:44:36.34
Thank you very much, Matthew.
00:44:36.37\00:44:38.11
I'm so proud of you.
00:44:38.14\00:44:39.67
I am so proud of you.
Because you know what?
00:44:39.71\00:44:41.98
Because you care enough
00:44:42.01\00:44:43.48
and I can tell
this is a lot of money.
00:44:43.51\00:44:46.25
And because you care,
00:44:46.28\00:44:48.32
Jesus is going
to use your money,
00:44:48.35\00:44:49.68
you know what He's going to do?
00:44:49.72\00:44:51.05
He is going to
multiply it a 1000 times,
00:44:51.09\00:44:52.99
just because you were willing
to love His cities with Him.
00:44:53.02\00:44:57.33
God bless you, man.
Sure do love you, man.
00:44:57.36\00:44:59.46
God be with you.
00:44:59.49\00:45:00.83
Thank you, Matthew
and all the children
00:45:00.86\00:45:02.20
that are
represented, like Matthew.
00:45:02.23\00:45:04.30
Hallelujah.
00:45:04.33\00:45:07.10
Some of you, some
of you are saying,
00:45:07.14\00:45:09.04
"Hey, come on,
Pastor, what's in it for me?
00:45:09.07\00:45:10.87
What's in it for me?"
00:45:10.91\00:45:12.24
You want to know
what's in it for you.
00:45:12.27\00:45:13.61
Take a look at that
picture of the cross.
00:45:13.64\00:45:14.98
Take a look at Jesus
hanging on the cross.
00:45:15.01\00:45:17.51
From the dying lips of
God comes the question,
00:45:17.55\00:45:20.82
Should I not be
concerned with that city?
00:45:20.85\00:45:27.32
You know what?
00:45:27.36\00:45:29.39
Jonah cried out from the
belly of the whale salvation
00:45:29.42\00:45:32.79
comes from the Lord.
00:45:32.83\00:45:35.06
That's the truth.
00:45:35.10\00:45:36.43
And by the way, the
salvation will only come to you
00:45:36.46\00:45:39.60
if you allow it
to go through you.
00:45:39.63\00:45:41.67
Jonah would be lost.
00:45:41.70\00:45:44.44
He would have been lost
if he had not turned around
00:45:44.47\00:45:46.27
and got to Nineveh that city.
00:45:46.31\00:45:48.04
Because he turned
around, he got saved.
00:45:48.08\00:45:51.11
What's in it for you?
00:45:51.15\00:45:52.48
Home, mercy, salvation,
but there's something else.
00:45:52.51\00:45:55.42
And, Kim, I want
you to come on up here
00:45:55.45\00:45:56.82
and I want Ann to come up here.
00:45:56.85\00:45:58.19
I want you guys to sing a song
00:45:58.22\00:45:59.55
because you know
what else is in it?
00:45:59.59\00:46:01.02
I want you to
imagine going to heaven.
00:46:01.06\00:46:02.46
Kim is going to
sing this very picture.
00:46:02.49\00:46:04.49
I want you to
imagine going to heaven
00:46:04.53\00:46:06.06
and one day a
boy coming up to you
00:46:06.09\00:46:07.66
and say, hey, were
you the one that gave?
00:46:07.70\00:46:09.43
Were you the one that
came on Sabbath afternoons?
00:46:09.46\00:46:11.80
Were you the
one that volunteered
00:46:11.83\00:46:13.34
a new plant church,
00:46:13.37\00:46:14.70
that little Benton
Harbor boy says to you,
00:46:14.74\00:46:16.24
I want to tell you
something. I am in heaven today.
00:46:16.27\00:46:19.91
I made it from
Benton Harbor to heaven,
00:46:19.94\00:46:23.11
because you
cared enough to come.
00:46:23.14\00:46:26.48
I want to tell you when
you get that thank you guys.
00:46:26.51\00:46:28.78
Trust me.
00:46:28.82\00:46:30.15
When you get that thank you,
00:46:30.19\00:46:31.52
you will have
received the greatest reward.
00:46:31.55\00:46:34.86
Eternity will bring the joy
00:46:34.89\00:46:37.29
of seeing other people in
eternity because you cared.
00:46:37.33\00:46:41.83
Kim's gonna sing that
song, I want you to be thinking,
00:46:41.86\00:46:44.73
in fact, what I want
you to be doing right now.
00:46:44.77\00:46:46.63
Don't start singing yet, Kim,
00:46:46.67\00:46:48.04
I need you to fill
this out right now.
00:46:48.07\00:46:49.57
Please, we're going to
pick these up right now.
00:46:49.60\00:46:51.87
This isn't rocket
science, this doesn't take time.
00:46:51.91\00:46:54.51
You just put your name
on there, please will you,
00:46:54.54\00:46:56.38
your name and
check that little box.
00:46:56.41\00:46:57.91
Dwight, I can help
with a dollar a day
00:46:57.95\00:46:59.55
for Pete's sake.
00:46:59.58\00:47:01.12
What's a dollar a
day, I can give it,
00:47:01.15\00:47:03.59
I'll put it in a tithe envelope.
00:47:03.62\00:47:04.95
I'll mark it on line
five, master plan of evangelism.
00:47:04.99\00:47:07.86
I'll give dollar a
day, 30 dollars a month.
00:47:07.89\00:47:10.26
Count me in.
00:47:10.29\00:47:11.63
I have it, I have it for Jesus.
00:47:11.66\00:47:14.16
I want God to love
his cities through me.
00:47:14.20\00:47:16.90
I want to hear
that thank you one day.
00:47:16.93\00:47:18.97
I want to see that
boy come up and say,
00:47:19.00\00:47:21.07
it's because you
gave that I'm here.
00:47:21.10\00:47:24.41
Would you take a moment
right now while Kim is singing?
00:47:24.44\00:47:28.81
Put your email address
on there too, would you?
00:47:28.84\00:47:31.55
If you put your
email address on there,
00:47:31.58\00:47:33.42
I'll make this promise to you.
00:47:33.45\00:47:35.12
I'll send you an personal
email every single month.
00:47:35.15\00:47:38.39
And I'll tell
you what's happening
00:47:38.42\00:47:39.75
in the cities of the world
and particularly Benton Harbor.
00:47:39.79\00:47:42.42
I'll send you an email,
00:47:42.46\00:47:43.79
I'll tell you stories
we will never tell here.
00:47:43.83\00:47:45.83
I want you to share God's
love for the cities with me.
00:47:45.86\00:47:49.96
Jot it down, fill it out.
00:47:50.00\00:47:51.33
If everybody here
fills out one card, just one,
00:47:51.37\00:47:54.64
one for two for a couple,
three for a family of three.
00:47:54.67\00:47:58.14
If everyone here
fills out one card,
00:47:58.17\00:48:01.41
Jesus can love the
cities through you and me.
00:48:01.44\00:48:04.81
I dreamed I went to heaven
00:48:13.59\00:48:17.79
You were there with me
00:48:17.83\00:48:21.53
We walked upon
the streets of gold
00:48:21.56\00:48:25.60
Beside the crystal sea
00:48:25.63\00:48:29.67
We heard the angels singing
00:48:29.70\00:48:33.48
Then someone called your name
00:48:33.51\00:48:37.61
You turned and
saw this young man
00:48:37.65\00:48:40.38
And he was smiling as he came
00:48:40.42\00:48:44.15
He said friend,
00:48:44.19\00:48:45.99
you may not know me now
00:48:46.02\00:48:48.69
And then he said but wait
00:48:48.72\00:48:52.69
You used to
teach my Sabbath school
00:48:52.73\00:48:56.56
When I was only eight
00:48:56.60\00:49:00.34
And every week
you would say a prayer
00:49:00.37\00:49:03.61
Before the class would start
00:49:03.64\00:49:07.61
And one day when
you said that prayer
00:49:07.64\00:49:10.45
I asked Jesus in my heart
00:49:10.48\00:49:16.35
Thank you
00:49:16.38\00:49:19.65
For giving to the Lord
00:49:19.69\00:49:24.69
I am a life that was changed
00:49:24.73\00:49:31.10
Thank you
00:49:31.13\00:49:34.44
For giving to the Lord
00:49:34.47\00:49:39.44
I am so glad you gave
00:49:39.47\00:49:45.55
Then another
man stood before you
00:49:45.58\00:49:50.09
He said remember the time
00:49:50.12\00:49:53.76
A missionary Came to your church
00:49:53.79\00:49:57.69
His pictures made you cry
00:49:57.73\00:50:01.60
You didn't have much money
00:50:01.63\00:50:04.63
But you gave it anyway
00:50:04.67\00:50:09.40
Jesus took the gift you gave
00:50:09.44\00:50:12.04
And that's why
I'm in heaven today
00:50:12.07\00:50:18.01
Thank you
00:50:18.05\00:50:21.15
For giving to the Lord
00:50:21.18\00:50:25.69
I am a life that was changed
00:50:25.72\00:50:31.73
Thank you
00:50:31.76\00:50:34.80
For giving to the Lord
00:50:34.83\00:50:39.57
I am so glad you gave
00:50:39.60\00:50:46.17
One by one they came
00:50:46.21\00:50:49.28
As far as the eye could see
00:50:49.31\00:50:53.45
Each one somehow touched
00:50:53.48\00:50:56.32
By your generosity
00:50:56.35\00:51:00.89
Little things that you had done
00:51:00.92\00:51:03.63
Sacrifices that you made
00:51:03.66\00:51:08.23
They were
unnoticed On this earth
00:51:08.26\00:51:11.00
In heaven now proclaimed
00:51:11.03\00:51:17.44
And I know up in heaven
00:51:17.47\00:51:20.41
You're not supposed to cry
00:51:20.44\00:51:24.61
But I am almost sure
00:51:24.65\00:51:27.32
There were tears in your eyes
00:51:27.35\00:51:31.02
As Jesus took your hand
00:51:31.05\00:51:34.16
And you stood before the Lord
00:51:34.19\00:51:38.29
My child look around you
00:51:38.33\00:51:41.20
Great is your reward
00:51:41.23\00:51:47.90
Thank you
00:51:47.94\00:51:51.47
For giving to the Lord
00:51:51.51\00:51:56.54
I am a life
00:51:56.58\00:51:58.75
That was changed
00:51:58.78\00:52:03.52
Thank you
00:52:03.55\00:52:06.09
For giving to the Lord
00:52:06.12\00:52:10.89
I am so glad you gave
00:52:10.93\00:52:14.46
I am so glad you gave
00:52:18.33\00:52:24.61
Thank you, Kim.
00:52:39.35\00:52:40.76
Hallelujah.
00:52:40.79\00:52:42.82
Thank you, thank
you, given to the Lord.
00:52:42.86\00:52:46.96
Would you take
this turn it upside down
00:52:47.00\00:52:48.86
and just hand it, hand
it to that aisle there.
00:52:48.90\00:52:51.13
Would you please and
hand it to those aisles,
00:52:51.17\00:52:54.77
these two side aisles.
00:52:54.80\00:52:57.97
I know our
greatest joy will be to hear
00:52:58.01\00:53:03.21
that thank you one day.
00:53:03.24\00:53:05.65
Ann,
00:53:05.68\00:53:09.68
let's just, I wanna
sing that chorus again
00:53:09.72\00:53:11.45
because we have
to give the ushers
00:53:11.49\00:53:12.82
just one more
second to get down.
00:53:12.85\00:53:14.59
Let's just sing, do
you know that chorus
00:53:14.62\00:53:16.39
thank you for giving to
the Lord, yeah, let's do it.
00:53:16.42\00:53:18.63
And we're gonna sing that again.
00:53:18.66\00:53:20.00
Kim comes come stand by me
because I need to hear you.
00:53:20.03\00:53:23.37
Thank you.
00:53:23.40\00:53:25.33
I want you to
stand, go ahead and stand.
00:53:25.37\00:53:27.20
If you still
haven't turned your card
00:53:27.24\00:53:29.00
and just pass it right
down, keep it upside down.
00:53:29.04\00:53:31.87
Just keep it
upside down, just hand it,
00:53:31.91\00:53:33.71
we'll pick it up for you.
00:53:33.74\00:53:35.08
Keep going,
ushers, ushers keep going
00:53:35.11\00:53:36.54
all the way to the back.
00:53:36.58\00:53:37.91
Bless you.
00:53:37.95\00:53:39.28
Thank you
00:53:39.31\00:53:41.75
For giving to the Lord
00:53:41.78\00:53:46.42
I am the life that was changed
00:53:46.45\00:53:52.73
Thank you
00:53:52.76\00:53:55.93
For giving to the Lord
00:53:55.96\00:54:00.64
I am so glad you gave
00:54:00.67\00:54:06.94
Thank you
00:54:06.98\00:54:10.21
For giving to the Lord
00:54:10.25\00:54:14.85
I am a life that was changed
00:54:14.88\00:54:20.96
Thank you
00:54:20.99\00:54:24.39
For giving to the Lord
00:54:24.43\00:54:29.33
I am so glad you gave
00:54:29.36\00:54:33.87
I am so glad you gave
00:54:36.94\00:54:43.75
Oh Jesus, heaven
will be cheap enough.
00:54:43.78\00:54:48.82
To hear you, we say thank you.
00:54:48.85\00:54:51.15
We should be thanking You
that You would ever thank us.
00:55:01.53\00:55:07.64
Oh, Christ, whatever You want.
00:55:07.67\00:55:11.47
Everything we have is Yours.
00:55:11.51\00:55:13.07
It all came from You.
00:55:13.11\00:55:14.68
It's going back to you.
00:55:14.71\00:55:17.98
Take our little
dollar bills, a dollar a day.
00:55:18.01\00:55:22.28
Oh, Christ,
please multiply this.
00:55:22.32\00:55:28.42
The children have lead us today.
00:55:28.46\00:55:32.69
What breaks Your
heart breaks our hearts.
00:55:32.73\00:55:36.46
You don't sleep at night.
00:55:36.50\00:55:37.83
We do.
00:55:37.87\00:55:39.77
But we want to help the cities.
00:55:39.80\00:55:43.71
Oh Jesus.
00:55:43.74\00:55:45.07
I want to pray
for these millennials
00:55:45.11\00:55:46.44
before I say amen.
00:55:46.47\00:55:48.28
You have a city for him.
00:55:48.31\00:55:50.55
You've already
picked out a city for her.
00:55:50.58\00:55:54.52
Send the word.
00:55:54.55\00:55:57.89
Let them hear quieter here
00:55:57.92\00:56:01.69
and then send them from us,
00:56:01.72\00:56:03.93
the new missionary generation
00:56:03.96\00:56:07.70
to conquer the last
frontier for the kingdom.
00:56:07.73\00:56:10.57
When that frontier's
conquered, it's over.
00:56:10.60\00:56:12.37
We don't need Mars.
It's the cities we need.
00:56:12.40\00:56:16.37
Oh God, tell her,
teach him what it is.
00:56:16.40\00:56:21.61
And use us right now
00:56:21.64\00:56:22.98
with the city
that'cs closest to us.
00:56:23.01\00:56:25.48
To get that thank you in heaven.
00:56:25.51\00:56:28.22
It'll be worth it all.
00:56:28.25\00:56:30.02
Thank you, Jesus.
00:56:30.05\00:56:31.39
No, no, no, no,
00:56:31.42\00:56:32.75
we thank You for saving us.
00:56:32.79\00:56:38.36
And now to Him
00:56:38.39\00:56:39.73
who is able to do immeasurably
more than all we ask
00:56:39.76\00:56:43.57
or imagine
according to His power
00:56:43.60\00:56:46.94
that is at work within us.
00:56:46.97\00:56:50.17
To Him be glory in the church
00:56:50.21\00:56:53.38
and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations,
00:56:53.41\00:56:57.51
forever and ever.
00:56:57.55\00:57:00.95
Amen.
00:57:00.98\00:57:03.79
I wanted to take an extra moment
00:57:03.82\00:57:05.15
to let you know
how grateful I am,
00:57:05.19\00:57:06.52
you joined us in worship today.
00:57:06.55\00:57:08.02
I hear from viewers like
you all across this nation
00:57:08.06\00:57:09.96
and literally around the world.
00:57:09.99\00:57:11.66
And I'm thankful.
00:57:11.69\00:57:13.09
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00:57:13.13\00:57:15.73
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00:57:20.40\00:57:22.14
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00:57:22.17\00:57:24.14
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