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>>WELCOME TO GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE
TUNING IN, WHETHER IT'S RIGHT
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HERE IN SACRAMENTO OR ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD,
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LISTENING ON THE RADIO OR
WATCHING LIVE WITH US ON OUR
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WEBSITE. LET'S
START WITH #375 - WORK FOR
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THE NIGHT IS COMING - AND
WE WILL SING THE FIRST - WE'RE
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GOING TO DO ALL THREE
STANZAS. #375 - JOIN WITH US.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING,
WORK THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS;
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WORK WHILE THE DEW IS SPARKLING;
WORK 'MID SPRINGING FLOW'RS.
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WORK WHILE THE DAY GROWS
BRIGHTER, WORK UNDER THE GLOWING
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SUN; WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS
COMING, WHEN MAN'S WORK IS DONE.
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WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING,
WORK THRO' THE SUNNY NOON; FILL
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BRIGHTEST HOURS WITH
LABOR, REST COMES SURE AND SOON.
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GIVE EVERY FLYING MINUTE
SOMETHING TO KEEP IN STORE; WORK
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FOR THE NIGHT IS
COMING, WHEN MAN WORKS NO MORE.
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WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING,
UNDER THE SUNSET SKIES, WHILE
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THEIR BRIGHT TINTS ARE GLOWING,
WORK FOR DAYLIGHT FLIES; WORK
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TILL THE LAST BEAM FADETH,
FADETH TO SHINE NO MORE; WORK
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WHILE THE NIGHT IS DARKENING,
WHEN MAN'S WORK IS O'ER.
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>>OUR NEXT SONG IS #358 - FAR
AND NEAR THE FIELDS ARE TEEMING
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- AND THIS GOES ALONG WITH OUR
LESSON - #358 - JOIN WITH US AND
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WE WILL DO ALL
THREE STANZAS. (MUSIC)
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>>FAR AND NEAR THE FIELDS
ARE TEEMING WITH THE SHEAVES OF
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RIPENED GRAIN; FAR
AND NEAR THEIR GOLD IS
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GLEAMING O'ER THE
SUNNY SLOPE AND PLAIN.
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LORD OF HARVEST, SEND
FORTH REAPERS! HEAR US LORD,
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TO THEE WE CRY; SEND THEM
NOW THE SHEAVES TO GATHER,
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ERE THE HARVEST-TIME PASS
BY. SEND THEM FORTH WITH MORN'S
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FIRST BEAMING, SEND THEM IN
THE NOON-TIDE'S GLARE; WHEN THE
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SUN'S LAST RAYS ARE STREAMING,
BID THEM GATHER EVERYWHERE.
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LORD OF HARVEST,
SEND FORTH REAPERS!
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HEAR US LORD, TO THEE WE CRY;
SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO
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GATHER, ERE THE
HARVEST-TIME PASS BY.
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O THOU, WHOM THY LORD IS
SENDING, GATHER NOW THE SHEAVES
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OF GOLD; HEAVENWARD THEN AT
EVENING WENDING THOU SHALT COME
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WITH JOY UNTOLD. LORD OF
HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS!
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HEAR US LORD, TO THEE WE CRY;
SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO
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GATHER, ERE THE
HARVEST-TIME PASS BY.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR SINGING WITH US.
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AND, AT THIS TIME, OUR PRAYER TO
OPEN UP OUR PROGRAM IS GOING TO
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BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR SPEAKER
FOR TODAY, PASTOR AND DOCTOR
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DAVID DEROSE.
>>LET'S PRAY TOGETHER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE WE HAVE OF
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OPENING YOUR WORD; OF TURNING
OUR ATTENTION TO YOUR THOUGHTS
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ON OUR BEHALF. PLEASE
HELP US HEAR YOUR VOICE
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SPEAKING TO US, TO DISCERN WHAT
YOU'RE CALLING US TO DO AND TO
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GO FORTH, FOR WE ASK
IT IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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>>AMEN. >>WELL,
IT'S GOOD TO BE TOGETHER
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TODAY TO AGAIN
STUDY THE LORD'S WORD.
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WE'RE CONTINUING OUR JOURNEY ON
BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES - BIBLICAL
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MISSIONARIES IS THE THEME
FOR THIS QUARTER AND TODAY WE'RE
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STUDYING LESSON #4 -
LESSON #4 - THE JONAH SAGA .
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NOW WE HAVE A SPECIAL GIFT - A
SPECIAL GIFT THAT'S AVAILABLE -
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IT IS THE SIGN OF JONAH , A
REMARKABLE LITTLE BOOK THAT GOES
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ALONG WITH TODAY'S LESSON.
IF YOU'VE NEVER READ IT, YOU
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DON'T HAVE TO WAIT. YOU
DON'T HAVE TO CALL IN AND
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THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE.
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WELL, WE ARE
STUDYING THE JONAH SAGA .
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NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU;
WHEN I HEAR THAT WORD SAGA , IT
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DOES NOT BRING UP
WARM FEELINGS IN MY MIND.
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NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT JUST
SAY, 'WELL, SAGA, THAT'S JUST A
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STORY.' BUT IF YOU LISTEN TO
THEOLOGIANS SPEAKING ABOUT SAGA
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, THEY'RE USUALLY SPEAKING ABOUT
SOMETHING THAT IS NOT FACT,
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THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
SOMETHING THAT IS LEGEND.
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AND THE QUESTION, AS WE BEGIN,
IS - THE STORY OF JONAH - IS IT
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FACT OR IS IT
JUST SOME ILLUSTRATION?
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IS IT JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS
MADE UP TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT?
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NOW YOU SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S
A RIDICULOUS QUESTION TO ASK.
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WE'RE ALL BIBLE-BELIEVING
CHRISTIANS HERE AND WE KNOW THAT
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THE STORY OF JONAH
IS HISTORICAL FACT.'
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BUT I'LL TELL YOU, MOST
CHRISTIANS TODAY DOUBT MANY OF
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THE STORIES OF
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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I ACTUALLY GREW UP IN A
TRADITION LIKE THAT WHERE I WAS
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TOLD THAT THESE BIBLE STORIES
WERE JUST - JUST MADE UP TO
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TEACH LESSONS. HAVE
YOU HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE?
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AND SO, WHEN I HEAR THIS TERM
THE JONAH SAGA , IT'S OFTEN USED
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BY INDIVIDUALS SAYING, 'WELL,
THIS IS KIND OF A, YOU KNOW,
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MADE-UP STORY.' WELL, I'LL TELL
YOU, IF PEOPLE SAY TODAY THAT
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THEY BELIEVE IN JESUS, AND I DO
- I MEAN, JESUS NOT ONLY WAS A
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REAL HISTORICAL FIGURE, WE'RE
PRIVILEGED, AND I'M PRIVILEGED,
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TO CALL HIM MY
LORD AND MY SAVIOR.
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JESUS ACTUALLY DISPELS ALL
THESE MYTHS ABOUT SAGA IN THE
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OLD TESTAMENT. LET'S
TAKE AN EXAMPLE, AND THE
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FIRST ONE ACTUALLY COMES TO US
FROM ONE OF THE KEY SCRIPTURES
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FOR TODAY. IT'S
FROM MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 -
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MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE 40.
LET'S TURN TO MATTHEW 12 AND, AS
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WE GO THERE, WE WANT TO
GIVE OURSELVES SOME CONTEXT.
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JESUS WAS CONTINUALLY HARASSED
AS HE WAS CONDUCTING HIS
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MINISTRY. YOU KNOW,
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS
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OFTEN DIDN'T TAKE KINDLY TO THIS
GALILEAN WHO SEEMED TO OFTEN
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TURN ALL THEIR
TEACHINGS ON THEIR HEAD.
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HE WAS GIVING, REALLY, GOD'S
WORD IN A VERY CLEAR WAY THAT
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THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES WERE
NOT GIVING AND SO, THOSE VERY
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RELIGIOUS LEADERS OFTEN WERE
HOUNDING JESUS AND FINDING FAULT
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WITH HIS WORDS. SO I'M
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 AND
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I'M GOING TO BEGIN WITH VERSE 38
- MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, BEGINNING
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WITH VERSE 38. IT
SAYS, "THEN SOME OF THE
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SCRIBES AND PHARISEES ANSWERED,
SAYING, 'TEACHER, WE WANT TO SEE
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A SIGN FROM YOU.'" - NOW JUST
STOP FOR A MINUTE, I MEAN, THIS
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IS MATTHEW 12. UP TO
THIS POINT, HAS JESUS
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DEMONSTRATED AT ALL
THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH?
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I MEAN, HE'S BEEN FULFILLING
THE BIBLICAL PROPHECIES ABOUT
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SOMEONE WHO WOULD COME AND
PREACH THE GOSPEL - SOMEONE WHO
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WOULD HEAL, SOMEONE WHO WOULD
MINISTER, SOMEONE WHO WOULD
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TEACH. SO JESUS, HERE, IS COMING
AS THE VERY FULFILLMENT OF OLD
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TESTAMENT PROPHECY AND THOSE WHO
WERE SUPPOSEDLY THE EXPOSITORS -
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THE ONES WHO KNEW THE OLD
TESTAMENT - THEY'RE ASKING JESUS
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FOR A SIGN. BUT JESUS
SAYS, IN VERSE 39, "AN
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EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION
SEEKS AFTER A SIGN, AND NO SIGN
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WILL BE GIVEN TO IT EXCEPT
THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH.
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FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE
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GREAT FISH, SO WILL THE SON
OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE
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NIGHTS IN THE
HEART OF THE EARTH."
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NOW, THE QUESTION HERE IS, IS
JESUS SPEAKING FIGURATIVELY, OR
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IS HE SAYING, IN SO MANY WORDS,
'JUST LIKE WE HAVE THIS REAL,
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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF JONAH,
SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THIS VERY
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SAME THING PLAYED OUT IN MY
MINISTRY.' I WOULD SUGGEST TO
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YOU THAT JESUS IS
SPEAKING OF JONAH AS A FACT.
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AND, IN FACT, IF YOU WERE TO
LOOK THROUGH THE WORDS OF JESUS,
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YOU WOULD FIND THAT JESUS SPEAKS
OF THE HISTORICITY OF ADAM AND
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EVE. ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT?
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REMEMBER WHEN THEY'RE
CONTROVERTING ABOUT MARRIAGE?
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JESUS SAYS 'IT WASN'T THIS
WAY FROM THE BEGINNING.' AND HE
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SPEAKS OF GOD MAKING
THEM MALE AND FEMALE.
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HE ACTUALLY QUOTES FROM
BOTH GENESIS 1 AND GENESIS 2.
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IN MATTHEW 24 JESUS SPEAKS ABOUT
NOAH BEING A REAL PERSON, RIGHT?
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'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.'
SO ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT
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PEOPLE TODAY - MANY CHRISTIANS
- WANT TO SAY 'OUR SAGA' THEY'RE
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LEGEND - THEY'RE MADE-UP
STORIES. IF YOU ACTUALLY JUST
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LOOK AT THE WORDS OF JESUS,
IT PULLS BACK THAT VENEER.
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JESUS IS SAYING THE STORY
OF JONAH REALLY TOOK PLACE.
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JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE
NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THIS
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GREAT SEA MONSTER - OR FISH
- AND NOT ONLY WAS IT A REAL
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STORY, IT IS A SIGN THAT
WILL SPEAK TO THIS GENERATION.
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SO THE STORY OF JONAH
IS A REAL HISTORICAL STORY.
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NOW SOME OF YOU SAY, 'WELL,
DR. DEROSE, WE ALL KNOW THAT,
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BUT WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK
HOME, THERE'S GOING TO BE FOLKS
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THAT SAY, 'HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW
THAT JESUS WASN'T JUST SPEAKING
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OF A, YOU KNOW, KIND OF
METAPHORICALLY, YOU KNOW,
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SAYING, 'YEAH, YOU
REMEMBER THAT STORY?'
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LET ME JUST SHOW YOU ONE
OTHER EXAMPLE AND I'M GOING TO
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INVITE YOU TO TURN TO YOUR
BIBLES TO ACTUALLY LUKE 11,
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VERSE 51. THIS IS A
VERY INTERESTING ONE.
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YOU KNOW IT'S VERY FASHIONABLE
IN MANY CHRISTIAN CIRCLES, AND
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YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL THAT'S
USING THE TERM CHRISTIAN LIGHTLY
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DR. DEROSE.' IT IS, WHEN YOU
REALIZE WHAT JESUS TAUGHT, BUT
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IN LUKE 11 WE FIND JESUS MAKING
REFERENCE TO ANOTHER FIGURE THAT
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MANY HAVE TRIED TO SAY WAS
JUST PART OF SAGA, JUST PART OF
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LEGEND, JUST PART OF A STORY
DESIGNED TO TEACH A LESSON.
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SO I'M IN CHAPTER 11.
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BY THE WAY, CHAPTER 11 IN LUKE
ALSO RECOUNTS THE SIGN OF JONAH
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- THAT'S IN LUKE 11:29 ONWARD,
BUT I'M HASTENING ON NOW WHERE
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JESUS IS ACTUALLY SPEAKING ABOUT
JUDGMENTS THAT WILL BE VISITED
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UPON THOSE WHO REJECTED
THE PLAIN TEACHINGS OF THE
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SCRIPTURE. SO I'M
STARTING WITH LUKE 11,
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VERSE 46 - JESUS SPEAKING
- "WOE TO YOU ALSO, LAWYERS!
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FOR YOU LOAD MEN WITH BURDENS
HARD TO BEAR, AND YOU YOURSELVES
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TO NOT TOUCH THE BURDENS
WITH ONE OF YOUR FINGERS.
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WOE TO YOU! FOR YOU
BUILD THE TOMBS OF THE
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PROPHETS, AND YOUR
FATHERS KILLED THEM.
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IN FACT, YOU BEAR WITNESS THAT
YOU APPROVE THE DEEDS OF YOUR
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FATHERS; FOR THEY INDEED KILLED
THEM, AND YOU BUILD THEIR TOMBS.
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THEREFORE THE WISDOM OF GOD ALSO
SAID, 'I WILL SEND THEM PROPHETS
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AND APOSTLES, AND SOME OF THEM
THEY WILL KILL AND PERSECUTE,'
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THAT THE BLOOD OF ALL THE
PROPHETS WHICH WAS SHED FROM THE
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FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD MAY
BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION,
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FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL TO THE
BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH WHO PERISHED
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BETWEEN THE
ALTAR AND THE TEMPLE.
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YES, I SAY TO YOU, IT SHALL
BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION."
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WHY I THINK THAT PASSAGE IS SO
SIGNIFICANT IS MANY TODAY WOULD
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SAY THAT THERE WAS NO ADAM AND
EVE - THAT MAN JUST EVOLVED OVER
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EONS AND EONS AND FINALLY THERE
WAS SOME SPIRITUAL INFUSION OF A
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SOUL. 'THERE
WAS NO ADAM AND EVE,
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THERE WAS NO CAIN AND ABEL.'
BUT WHAT IS JESUS SAYING HERE?
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HE'S NOT ONLY SAYING THERE WAS
A REAL ABEL, BUT HE'S SAYING THE
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BLOOD OF ABEL IS GOING TO
BE RECKONED TO THIS GENERATION.
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THIS CANNOT HAPPEN
WITH A FIGURATIVE PERSON.
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ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING
ME? SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE
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OLD-TESTAMENT STORIES AND SOME
WANT TO RELEGATE THEM TO THE
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REALM OF MYTH OR SAGA OR LEGEND,
JESUS IS SAYING IN HIS TEACHING,
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ABEL REALLY
EXISTED. NOAH REALLY EXISTED.
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ADAM AND EVE REALLY EXISTED.
AND, YES, JONAH REALLY EXISTED.
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SO THIS MAY NOT BE ALL THAT
NECESSARY FOR THOSE OF US WHO
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ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY,
BUT WE'RE UNDER BARRAGE AS
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CHRISTIANS AS THE SECULAR WORLD
TRIES TO TELL US THAT WE CAN'T
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HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE BIBLE,
AND I FIND JUST THE OPPOSITE AS
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WE DIG DEEPLY, AS WE HAVE
THE PRIVILEGE TO DO HERE IN
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GRANITE BAY.
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WELL, WITH THAT BACKGROUND, WE
WANT TO NOW LOOK AT THE BOOK OF
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JONAH - A REAL BOOK THAT TELLS
A REAL STORY OF A REAL MAN.
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AND AS I TURN IN MY OLD
TESTAMENT TO THE BOOK OF JONAH,
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THERE IS ONE SINGLE WORD THAT
JUMPS OUT TO ME IN THE BOOK OF
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JONAH THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST
TELLING OPERATIVE WORD IN THE
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BOOK - AT LEAST FROM MY VANTAGE
POINT. ANY OF YOU LIKE TO
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HAZARD A GUESS? THROUGH
MY EYES, WHAT DO I THINK
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THE KEY WORD IN THE BOOK OF
JONAH IS - AND I'LL GIVE YOU A
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CLUE, IT'S ONLY
TWO LETTERS LONG.
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I HEARD SOME OF YOU SAYING IT -
THE WORD 'GO.' THAT'S RIGHT, GO.
00:16:03.43\00:16:10.33
LET'S LOOK AT HOW
THE BOOK OF JONAH BEGINS.
00:16:10.37\00:16:12.37
IT SAYS, "NOW THE WORD OF THE
LORD CAME TO JONAH THE SON OF
00:16:12.40\00:16:15.67
AMITTAI, SAYING, 'ARISE, GO'"
- ARISE, GO - "'GO TO NINEVEH,
00:16:15.70\00:16:24.88
THAT GREAT CITY, AND CRY OUT
AGAINST IT; FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS
00:16:24.91\00:16:28.12
HAS COME UP BEFORE ME.'" - SO
THE OPERATIVE WORD AS THE BOOK
00:16:28.15\00:16:33.15
OF JONAH OPENS IS 'GO.' NOW, OUR
LESSON POINTED OUT THAT THIS IS
00:16:33.19\00:16:39.73
NOT A UNIQUE WORD FOUND
ONLY IN THE BOOK OF JONAH.
00:16:39.76\00:16:42.90
ACTUALLY, WE FIND THAT WORD
'GO' AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL
00:16:42.93\00:16:46.94
COMMISSION. WE'RE
SPEAKING ABOUT MISSIONARIES.
00:16:46.97\00:16:49.44
AND, AS CHRISTIANS, AS WE LOOK
AT THE CALL TO MISSION, WE'RE
00:16:49.47\00:16:53.64
OFTEN TURNING OUR ATTENTIONS
TO SOME OF THE CLOSING WORDS -
00:16:53.68\00:16:57.58
ACTUALLY THE CLOSING
WORDS IN MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.
00:16:57.61\00:17:01.22
I INVITE YOU TO KEEP YOUR FINGER
IN JONAH, IF YOU WILL, AND TURN
00:17:01.25\00:17:04.59
WITH ME TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 28
BECAUSE THIS VERY CALL TO GO IS
00:17:04.62\00:17:10.16
ONE THAT IS
GIVEN TO ALL BELIEVERS.
00:17:10.19\00:17:13.56
YOU KNOW, JESUS, MORE THAN ONCE,
IF YOU COMPARE THE GOSPELS, IF
00:17:13.60\00:17:16.53
YOU COMPARE MARK 16 WITH MATTHEW
28, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS GREAT
00:17:16.56\00:17:20.30
COMMISSION WAS GIVEN
IN MORE THAN ONE CONTEXT.
00:17:20.34\00:17:23.47
IT SEEMS THAT IN THOSE 40 DAYS
AFTER JESUS' RESURRECTION, JESUS
00:17:23.51\00:17:27.04
WAS SPEAKING ABOUT THIS
MISSION THAT HE WAS CALLING ALL
00:17:27.08\00:17:32.48
BELIEVERS TO AND IN MATTHEW 28,
ALL THE BELIEVERS THAT COULD BE
00:17:32.51\00:17:36.79
GATHERED AT THAT TIME
HEARD THESE WORDS - MATTHEW 28
00:17:36.82\00:17:40.52
BEGINNING WITH VERSE 18 -
"JESUS CAME AND SPOKE TO THEM,
00:17:40.56\00:17:44.43
SAYING, 'ALL AUTHORITY'"
- OR ALL POWER - "'HAS BEEN
00:17:44.46\00:17:47.76
GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN
AND ON EARTH. GO'" - GO -
00:17:47.83\00:17:53.10
"'GO THEREFORE AND
MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE
00:17:53.13\00:17:56.30
NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE
NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE
00:17:56.34\00:17:59.87
SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL
00:17:59.91\00:18:04.38
THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED
YOU; AND LO, I AM WITH YOU
00:18:04.41\00:18:07.62
ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE
AGE.'" SO AS MATTHEW'S GOSPEL
00:18:07.65\00:18:13.96
CLOSES, IT CLOSES WITH A
COMMISSION - THAT AT THE HEART
00:18:13.99\00:18:19.26
OF THAT COMMISSION IS THAT SAME
TWO-LETTER WORD, 'GO.' NOW A
00:18:19.29\00:18:23.53
FRIEND OF MINE WHO IS A CAREER
MISSIONARY, BASED OVERSEAS
00:18:23.57\00:18:27.34
TODAY, I'VE HEARD HIM SAY
SOMETHING LIKE THIS: 'HOW IS IT
00:18:27.37\00:18:31.44
THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE THIS
COMMAND FROM THE MASTER TO GO
00:18:31.47\00:18:35.41
AND MOST OF US
MERELY WANT TO STAY?' OKAY?
00:18:35.44\00:18:41.42
WE'RE CALLED TO GO AND
MOST OF US WANT TO STAY.
00:18:41.45\00:18:46.65
NOW I'M NOT SAYING THAT
THERE ISN'T A MISSION FIELD
00:18:46.69\00:18:49.19
EVERYWHERE, BUT THE CHURCH
IS CALLED TO DO WHAT? TO GO.
00:18:49.22\00:18:53.19
AND SO THIS IS THE COMMAND THAT
COMES TO JONAH AND THIS LESSON
00:18:53.23\00:18:57.17
TRIES TO GIVE US SOME WINDOWS
ON WHY JONAH STRUGGLES WITH THE
00:18:57.20\00:19:02.24
COMMISSION TO GO. NOW
FOR US, THAT VERY STATEMENT
00:19:02.27\00:19:06.27
THAT I JUST GAVE YOU FROM
A MODERN-DAY MISSIONARY WOULD
00:19:06.31\00:19:09.44
SUGGEST THAT MANY OF US DON'T
GO BECAUSE WE'RE COMFORTABLE.
00:19:09.48\00:19:13.42
RIGHT? WAS THAT JONAH'S ISSUE?
00:19:13.45\00:19:18.15
NOW SOME OF US MIGHT NOT OR HAD
- YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, HE
00:19:18.19\00:19:22.36
MUST HAVE BEEN COMFORTABLE.' BUT
JONAH ACTUALLY - I DON'T KNOW
00:19:22.39\00:19:25.03
THAT THAT REALLY HOLDS WEIGHT,
BECAUSE LOOK WHAT HAPPENS IN
00:19:25.06\00:19:28.03
VERSE 3 OF JONAH CHAPTER 1.
JONAH IS NOT SO COMFORTABLE THAT
00:19:28.06\00:19:34.80
HE JUST STAYS,
HE ACTUALLY DOES GO.
00:19:34.84\00:19:37.44
VERSE 3, "BUT JONAH AROSE"
- SO GOD TOLD HIM TO DO WHAT?
00:19:37.47\00:19:43.38
HE TOLD HIM TO DO TWO
THINGS: ARISE AND TO GO.
00:19:43.41\00:19:46.35
DOES HE ARISE?
YES, HE DOES ARISE.
00:19:46.38\00:19:48.78
AND DOES HE GO?
HE ACTUALLY DOES GO.
00:19:48.82\00:19:51.79
"JONAH AROSE TO FLEE TO TARSHISH
FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
00:19:51.82\00:19:57.53
HE WENT DOWN TO JOPPA" - IT'S
THE CITY OF JAFFA TODAY, A MAJOR
00:19:57.56\00:20:01.53
PORT THERE IN THE HOLY LAND - HE
"FOUND A SHIP GOING TO TARSHISH;
00:20:01.56\00:20:05.23
SO HE PAID THE FARE, AND WENT
DOWN INTO IT, TO GO WITH THEM TO
00:20:05.27\00:20:09.40
TARSHISH FROM THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD."
00:20:09.44\00:20:12.04
SO WE GET A PICTURE OF SOMEONE
WHO IS NOT CONTENT TO STAY IN
00:20:12.07\00:20:16.41
HIS OWN PLACE - THAT
DOESN'T SEEM TO BE HIS PROBLEM.
00:20:16.44\00:20:19.68
WHAT WAS HIS
PROBLEM, THEN? OBEDIENCE.
00:20:19.71\00:20:23.18
WELL, ACTUALLY, WE
GET A WINDOW ON THIS.
00:20:23.22\00:20:25.25
THE LESSON POINTS US TO JONAH
CHAPTER 4 - AND RIGHTLY SO.
00:20:25.29\00:20:29.36
NOW WE KNOW THE STORY - MOST ALL
OF US HERE, PROBABLY - OF HOW,
00:20:29.39\00:20:34.46
PERHAPS, THE GREATEST MISSIONARY
CAMPAIGN IN OLD TESTAMENT
00:20:34.46\00:20:38.73
HISTORY - MAYBE IN THE HISTORY
OF THE BIBLE - WAS CONDUCTED BY
00:20:38.77\00:20:41.77
JONAH. BUT IF WE
DON'T READ CHAPTER 4
00:20:41.80\00:20:45.41
OF JONAH, WHICH IS AFTER THE
REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES, WE
00:20:45.44\00:20:49.08
DON'T CATCH A WINDOW ON WHAT
JONAH WAS THINKING IN JONAH 1.
00:20:49.11\00:20:54.15
LET'S LOOK AT IT - CHAPTER 4 -
GOD'S WRATH - GOD'S JUDGMENT IS
00:20:54.18\00:20:59.45
AVERTED UPON NINEVEH - THEY
REPENT. WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT
00:20:59.49\00:21:03.73
THAT, THE LORD WILLING, SHORTLY.
AND IN VERSE 2 OF JONAH CHAPTER
00:21:03.76\00:21:07.96
4, JONAH PRAYS "TO THE LORD.
AND SAID, 'AH, LORD, WAS NOT
00:21:07.96\00:21:12.83
THIS WHAT I SAID WHEN I
WAS STILL IN MY COUNTRY?
00:21:12.87\00:21:17.81
THEREFORE I FLED PREVIOUSLY
TO TARSHISH; FOR I KNOW THAT YOU
00:21:17.84\00:21:23.24
ARE A GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD,
SLOW TO ANGER AND ABUNDANT IN
00:21:23.28\00:21:28.28
LOVINGKINDNESS, ONE WHO
RELENTS FROM DOING HARM.'"
00:21:28.32\00:21:32.79
WHY DID JONAH NOT WANT TO BRING
THE MESSAGE TO NINEVEH? WELL,
00:21:32.82\00:21:42.06
HERE IN CHAPTER 4 -
HERE IN CHAPTER 4 JONAH IS
00:21:42.10\00:21:45.77
SAYING THAT HE
KNEW GOD WAS MERCIFUL.
00:21:45.80\00:21:48.97
ACTUALLY, YOUR LESSON, YOU MIGHT
FIND THIS INTERESTING IF YOU
00:21:49.00\00:21:51.51
DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO STUDY
IT OR, IF YOU DID, IT MAY HAVE
00:21:51.54\00:21:53.64
JUMPED OUT AT YOU, BUT IN
FRIDAY'S LESSON THERE ARE SOME
00:21:53.68\00:21:56.48
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND THERE'S
A LITTLE BIT OF A WINDOW ON
00:21:56.51\00:21:59.48
HISTORY GIVEN US AS TO
WHO THE NINEVITES WERE.
00:21:59.51\00:22:05.15
NINEVEH, YOU SEE, WAS ONE OF THE
PROMINENT CITIES OF ASSYRIA AND
00:22:05.19\00:22:08.96
ASSYRIA, AT THE TIME THAT THE
BOOK OF JONAH WAS WRITTEN, WAS
00:22:08.99\00:22:12.06
ACTUALLY THE
WORLD POWER OF ITS DAY.
00:22:12.09\00:22:16.03
LET'S LOOK AT THIS COMMENT IN
THE LESSON ON FRIDAY, IT SAYS,
00:22:16.06\00:22:20.40
"ASSYRIA" - THIS IS THE SECOND
DISCUSSION QUESTION, IF YOU HAVE
00:22:20.44\00:22:24.04
ONE OF THE QUARTERLIES
- "ASSYRIA WAS ONE OF THE
00:22:24.07\00:22:26.47
SUPERPOWERS DOMINATING THE
ANCIENT NEAR EAST FROM ABOUT 885
00:22:26.51\00:22:30.68
TO 625 BC. ISRAEL
AND JUDAH SUFFERED
00:22:30.71\00:22:35.78
REPEATEDLY
UNDER HER HARSH RULE."
00:22:35.82\00:22:39.72
LET ME JUST TELL YOU A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT THAT HARSH RULE.
00:22:39.75\00:22:44.43
I WAS READING A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT THE ASSYRIANS.
00:22:44.46\00:22:49.06
THE ASSYRIANS ACTUALLY WORSHIPED
MANY OF THE SAME GODS THAT OTHER
00:22:49.10\00:22:55.67
PEOPLES IN THAT PART
OF THE WORLD WORSHIPED.
00:22:55.70\00:22:58.94
THERE WERE NOT ALL THAT FAR
REMOVED, GEOGRAPHICALLY, FROM
00:22:58.97\00:23:01.58
THE BABYLONIANS, SO THEY
WORSHIPED MANY OF THE SAME GODS
00:23:01.61\00:23:04.81
OF THE BABYLONIANS. YOU MAY
HAVE HEARD OF MARDUK OR BAAL.
00:23:04.85\00:23:09.38
BUT THEY ALSO HAD A UNIQUE GOD.
THEIR GOD THAT THEY ESPECIALLY
00:23:09.42\00:23:14.36
WORSHIPED, THE ASSYRIANS,
WAS BY THE NAME OF ASHER.
00:23:14.39\00:23:19.09
THE GOD ASHER HAD A NUMBER OF
ATTRIBUTES, BUT ONE OF THE CHIEF
00:23:19.13\00:23:24.23
ATTRIBUTES OF ASHER WAS
THAT HE WAS THE GOD OF WAR.
00:23:24.27\00:23:28.34
AND SO, IN READING ABOUT THE
ASSYRIANS, WE'RE TOLD THAT WHEN
00:23:28.37\00:23:32.57
THEY WENT TO WAR THEY WERE
ENGAGING IN AN ACT OF WORSHIP.
00:23:32.61\00:23:38.65
I MEAN, THINK
ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE.
00:23:38.68\00:23:40.58
ONE OF THE ASSYRIAN RULERS
WROTE THIS ABOUT HIS CONQUESTS,
00:23:40.62\00:23:46.29
REFERRING TO ONE OF HIS
CAMPAIGNS IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
00:23:46.32\00:23:50.83
SPEAKING OF HIS WORSHIP OF ASHER
- HIS SUCCESS FOR HIS GODS, IF
00:23:50.86\00:23:56.23
YOU WILL, THIS IS WHAT HE DID:
"STREAMS OF BLOOD WERE SHED AND
00:23:56.26\00:24:02.90
CORPSES WERE PILED
UP LIKE MOUNTAINS."
00:24:02.94\00:24:08.98
WHAT KIND OF
PICTURE DOES THAT GIVE YOU?
00:24:09.01\00:24:10.98
I MEAN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU WERE
ONE OF THE PEOPLES THAT WERE
00:24:11.01\00:24:16.32
OPPRESSED PERIODICALLY BY
THE ASSYRIANS, AS THE ISRAELITES
00:24:16.35\00:24:20.12
WERE. WHAT - THEY
WERE A RUTHLESS PEOPLE.
00:24:20.16\00:24:23.96
THEY WERE A PEOPLE THAT
SEEMED TO GLORY IN CARNAGE.
00:24:23.99\00:24:28.33
SO YOU'RE BEING GIVEN A MESSAGE,
IF YOU'RE JONAH, AND THE MESSAGE
00:24:28.36\00:24:33.44
IS THAT YOU ARE - THAT GOD
IS PLANNING TO DESTROY NINEVEH.
00:24:33.47\00:24:38.37
WHAT DO YOU THINK MOST
ISRAELITES WERE PRAYING ABOUT
00:24:38.41\00:24:41.58
THE ASSYRIANS? DO YOU
EVER READ IN THE BIBLE
00:24:41.61\00:24:48.32
WHERE PEOPLE ARE PRAYING
FOR THE DEATH OF THEIR ENEMIES?
00:24:48.35\00:24:52.09
YOU MAY REMEMBER, HISTORICALLY,
SOLOMON WAS COMMENDED BY GOD
00:24:52.12\00:24:56.26
BECAUSE WHEN GOD ASKED HIM WHAT
HE WISHED OF HIM, SOLOMON DID
00:24:56.29\00:25:01.36
NOT ASK FOR THE DEATH OF HIS
ENEMIES. IT WAS COMMON FOR AN
00:25:01.40\00:25:06.40
OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO ASK
FOR THE DEATH OF THEIR ENEMIES.
00:25:06.43\00:25:10.77
I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED
IF JONAH, LIKE MANY "GOOD
00:25:10.81\00:25:14.18
ISRAELITES" - IN QUOTES - "GOOD
ISRAELITES" - WERE PRAYING FOR
00:25:14.21\00:25:18.61
THE DESTRUCTION
OF THE ASSYRIANS.
00:25:18.65\00:25:21.35
AND SO NOW GOD GIVES A MESSAGE
TO JONAH SAYING TO DO WHAT?
00:25:21.38\00:25:28.36
TO PROCLAIM JUDGMENT AGAINST
NINEVEH. NOW YOU MIGHT SAY,
00:25:28.39\00:25:34.73
'WELL, THAT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD.
THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT THEY WERE
00:25:34.76\00:25:36.87
PRAYING FOR.' BUT CHAPTER 4
REVEALS TO US THAT JONAH HAD
00:25:36.90\00:25:39.73
THIS NAGGING SUSPICION.
HE KNEW THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
00:25:39.77\00:25:46.74
AND WHAT WAS THE
CHARACTER OF GOD?
00:25:46.78\00:25:48.48
LOVING, ANXIOUS TO FORGIVE.
DO WE NEED THAT MESSAGE TODAY?
00:25:48.51\00:25:55.68
DOES OUR WORLD
NEED THAT MESSAGE?
00:25:55.72\00:25:57.99
I HAVE A - WE WERE JUST TALKING
AROUND THE TABLE AT HOME ABOUT
00:25:58.02\00:26:03.36
ONE OF THE CONTEXTS THAT OUR
FAMILY HAS TRYING TO KEEP THINGS
00:26:03.39\00:26:09.10
AS CONFIDENTIAL AS POSSIBLE, BUT
IN DEALING WITH AN INDIVIDUAL,
00:26:09.13\00:26:16.00
LIKE MANY YOU'VE MET, 'HOW
CAN I LOVE A GOD LIKE THAT?'
00:26:16.04\00:26:19.97
'HOW CAN THERE BE A GOD IF X,
Y, OR Z HAPPENS IN THIS WORLD?'
00:26:20.01\00:26:23.78
ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME?
00:26:23.81\00:26:25.65
BUT JONAH SAW
THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
00:26:25.68\00:26:31.19
IN THE MIDST OF THE DIFFICULTIES
IN THE WORLD, JONAH SAW THE
00:26:31.22\00:26:34.29
TRUTH OF EXODUS 34.
WHY DON'T YOU TURN THERE?
00:26:34.32\00:26:37.23
GOD GIVES THIS REVELATION
WHEN MOSES WANTS TO SEE GOD.
00:26:37.26\00:26:42.96
MOSES WANTED TO SEE GOD.
HAVE YOU EVER FELT YOU WANTED TO
00:26:43.00\00:26:45.70
SEE GOD? AND WHAT'S
INTERESTING TO ME IS
00:26:45.73\00:26:48.57
GOD DOESN'T LET
MOSES PHYSICALLY SEE HIM.
00:26:48.60\00:26:52.41
HE SAID 'IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, YOU
CAN'T LOOK UPON ME AND LIVE.'
00:26:52.44\00:26:55.54
BUT AS WE'RE TURNING THERE
IN EXODUS, IT'S INTERESTING THE
00:26:55.58\00:27:02.88
REVELATION THAT IS GIVEN.
SO LET'S PICK UP THE STORY IN -
00:27:02.92\00:27:12.99
WELL, THERE'S ACTUALLY SEVERAL
INTERESTING DIMENSIONS TO THIS.
00:27:13.03\00:27:16.73
LET'S LOOK AT EXODUS 32 AND
IN EXODUS 32 MOSES IS DEALING
00:27:16.77\00:27:32.81
WITH THE
REBELLION OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.15
GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE
BUILT THAT GOLDEN CALF.
00:27:35.18\00:27:39.62
AND IN EXODUS 32, GOD ACTUALLY
SAYS SOMETHING TO MOSES THAT MAY
00:27:39.65\00:27:49.40
SEEM QUITE SURPRISING IF WE
HADN'T READ THE STORY BEFORE.
00:27:49.43\00:27:54.54
I'M IN EXODUS 32, VERSE 9, THE
LORD SAYS TO MOSES, "I HAVE SEEN
00:27:54.57\00:28:00.61
THIS PEOPLE, AND INDEED
IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE!
00:28:00.64\00:28:06.01
NOW THEREFORE, LET ME ALONE,
THAT MY WRATH MAY BURN HOT
00:28:06.05\00:28:10.19
AGAINST THEM AND
I MAY CONSUME THEM.
00:28:10.22\00:28:12.72
AND I WILL MAKE OF
YOU A GREAT NATION."
00:28:12.75\00:28:16.36
BUT WHAT IS
MOSES' RESPONSE TO THIS?
00:28:16.39\00:28:19.96
MOSES' RESPONSE IS FOUND IN
VERSE 11, "LORD, WHY DOES YOUR
00:28:20.00\00:28:26.80
WRATH BURN HOT AGAINST YOUR
PEOPLE WHOM YOU HAVE BROUGHT
00:28:26.84\00:28:29.94
OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH
GREAT POWER AND WITH A MIGHTY
00:28:29.97\00:28:32.14
HAND? WHY SHOULD
THE EGYPTIANS SPEAK,
00:28:32.17\00:28:34.61
AND SAY, 'HE BROUGHT THEM OUT TO
HARM THEM, TO KILL THEM IN THE
00:28:34.64\00:28:37.28
MOUNTAINS, AND TO CONSUME THEM
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH'?
00:28:37.31\00:28:39.65
TURN FROM YOUR FIERCE WRATH, AND
RELENT FROM THIS HARM TO YOUR
00:28:39.68\00:28:44.89
PEOPLE.'" AND AS
MOSES PLEADS WITH THE
00:28:44.92\00:28:46.96
LORD, HE DOES, INDEED,
REPENT. HE CHANGES HIS EXPRESSED
00:28:46.99\00:28:54.73
DECISION. AND AS
THE STORY PLAYS OUT OVER
00:28:54.76\00:28:59.07
THE NEXT FEW CHAPTERS, WE FIND
IN CHAPTER 34 MOSES CUTTING OUT
00:28:59.10\00:29:03.91
SOME NEW TABLES OF STONE.
YOU REMEMBER HE THREW THE TABLES
00:29:03.94\00:29:07.21
OF STONE TO THE GROUND,
SYMBOLIZING THE BROKEN LAW THAT
00:29:07.24\00:29:12.01
THE PEOPLE HAD IMPLEMENTED
THERE IN WORSHIPING IDOLS.
00:29:12.05\00:29:15.68
AND THEN IT IS, WE FIND IN
CHAPTER 34, WHERE MOSES HAS THIS
00:29:15.72\00:29:23.59
EXPERIENCE IN, IF YOU
WILL, SEEING THE LORD.
00:29:23.63\00:29:27.23
I'M IN VERSE 5 OF EXODUS CHAPTER
34, IT SAYS, "NOW THE LORD
00:29:27.23\00:29:31.70
DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD AND
STOOD WITH HIM" - THAT'S MOSES -
00:29:31.73\00:29:35.24
"THERE, AND PROCLAIMED THE NAME
OF THE LORD. AND THE LORD PASSED
00:29:35.27\00:29:39.87
BEFORE HIM AND PROCLAIMED, 'THE
LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND
00:29:39.91\00:29:42.51
GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING, AND
ABOUNDING IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH,
00:29:42.54\00:29:47.45
KEEPING MERCY FOR THOUSANDS,
FORGIVING INIQUITY AND
00:29:47.48\00:29:49.68
TRANSGRESSION AND SIN, BY
NO MEANS CLEARING THE GUILTY,
00:29:49.72\00:29:53.15
VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE
FATHER UPON THE CHILDREN AND THE
00:29:53.19\00:29:55.69
CHILDREN'S CHILDREN TO THE THIRD
AND THE FOURTH GENERATION.'" SO
00:29:55.72\00:29:59.59
ALTHOUGH THERE IS THAT
EXPRESSION OF JUSTICE THERE,
00:29:59.63\00:30:01.63
THERE IS ALSO THE EXPRESSION
OF GOD'S MERCY. AND IF YOU STUDY
00:30:01.66\00:30:08.37
THE PSALMS, YOU'LL
AGAIN SEE THE VERY SAME WORDS.
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.84
SO THE HEBREW MIND, IF THEY
UNDERSTOOD THE SCRIPTURES, WE
00:30:10.87\00:30:15.31
WANT TO SEE JESUS TODAY, BUT
JESUS SAYS WE SEE HIM WHEN WE
00:30:15.34\00:30:19.98
RECOGNIZE HIM TO
BE A GOD OF MERCY.
00:30:20.02\00:30:22.98
ARE THERE THINGS THAT WOULD
CAUSE US TO QUESTION GOD'S MERCY
00:30:23.02\00:30:26.92
AND LOVE? ARE THERE
THINGS THAT WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND?
00:30:26.96\00:30:30.56
THERE ARE. THERE ARE.
00:30:30.59\00:30:33.40
WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY GOOD
THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE, SO
00:30:33.43\00:30:37.73
TO SPEAK, AND WHY SO-CALLED BAD
THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE.
00:30:37.77\00:30:41.90
WE STRUGGLE WITH THAT, RIGHT?
00:30:41.94\00:30:43.30
AND IT'S A STRUGGLE THAT'S BEEN
THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES, BUT
00:30:43.34\00:30:46.64
THE POINT IS WE GET GLIMPSES
OF GOD'S LOVE AND MERCY.
00:30:46.68\00:30:49.84
DID JONAH SEE IT - COMING BACK
TO THE BOOK OF JONAH - DID HE
00:30:49.88\00:30:52.08
SEE IT? HE SAW IT AND HE WAS SO
00:30:52.11\00:30:54.42
CONCERNED ABOUT GOD'S GOODNESS
THAT HE DIDN'T WANT TO BRING THE
00:30:54.45\00:30:59.09
MESSAGE. WHY DO
YOU THINK THAT WAS?
00:30:59.12\00:31:04.56
DO YOU THINK HE SAID, 'LISTEN,
IF I DON'T GO, MAYBE THEY WON'T
00:31:04.59\00:31:07.96
GET THE MESSAGE AND THEY WON'T
REPENT AND GOD'LL JUST WIPE 'EM
00:31:07.96\00:31:11.57
OUT LIKE HE'S PLANNING.'
DO YOU THINK THAT WAS IN THE
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.40
BACK OF HIS MIND?
PERHAPS. THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN
00:31:14.44\00:31:17.17
SOMETHING ELSE ON JONAH'S
MIND. TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO
00:31:17.21\00:31:19.44
DEUTERONOMY, THE LAST OF WHAT
WE CALL THE PENTATEUCH - MOSES'
00:31:19.47\00:31:26.88
FIVE BOOKS -
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 18.
00:31:26.92\00:31:30.62
IN CHAPTER 18 THERE
ARE SOME SOBERING WORDS.
00:31:30.65\00:31:34.69
IF THEY WERE HEEDED TODAY
WE'D HAVE A LOT LESS PEOPLE
00:31:34.72\00:31:38.23
PROCLAIMING TO BE PROPHETS.
DEUTERONOMY 18 - THE PEOPLE WERE
00:31:38.26\00:31:45.33
LONGING FOR
SOMEONE LIKE MOSES TO COME
00:31:45.37\00:31:48.84
AFTER MOSES LEFT THE STAGE.
GOD WAS PREPARING THE PEOPLE FOR
00:31:48.87\00:31:53.64
MOSES' DEPARTURE - HE PROMISED
THAT HE WOULD RAISE UP ANOTHER
00:31:53.68\00:31:57.45
PROPHET LIKE MOSES. ULTIMATELY,
THAT WAS FULFILLED IN JESUS.
00:31:57.48\00:32:01.15
AND IN VERSE 19, HERE'S
WHAT GOD SAYS OF THAT PROPHET -
00:32:01.18\00:32:07.06
DEUTERONOMY 18, VERSE 19, "AND
IT SHALL BE THAT WHOEVER WILL
00:32:07.09\00:32:12.43
NOT HEAR MY WORDS, WHICH
HE SPEAKS IN MY NAME, I WILL
00:32:12.46\00:32:15.96
REQUIRE IT OF HIM. BUT
THE PROPHET WHO PRESUMES TO
00:32:16.00\00:32:19.53
SPEAK A WORD IN MY NAME, WHICH I
HAVE NOT COMMANDED HIM TO SPEAK,
00:32:19.57\00:32:24.61
OR WHO SPEAKS IN THE NAME
OF OTHER GODS, THAT PROPHET
00:32:24.64\00:32:27.91
SHALL" - WHAT? - "SHALL DIE."
00:32:27.94\00:32:31.38
I MEAN, IT WAS - IN OLD
TESTAMENT TIMES IT WAS A
00:32:31.41\00:32:34.28
DANGEROUS THING TO
SAY YOU WERE A PROPHET.
00:32:34.32\00:32:37.05
YOU WOULD NOT SAY
YOU WERE A PROPHET.
00:32:37.09\00:32:38.72
YOU WOULDN'T COME TO CHURCH AND
SAY, 'I JUST HAD A DREAM AND I
00:32:38.75\00:32:41.26
THINK I WAS GIVEN THE GIFT OF
PROPHECY.' YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT
00:32:41.29\00:32:44.23
UNLESS YOU WERE CERTAIN THAT GOD
HAD GIVEN IT TO YOU BECAUSE THE
00:32:44.26\00:32:49.23
TEXT GOES ON - IT EXPLAINS
HOW YOU WERE TO KNOW WHETHER
00:32:49.26\00:32:51.57
SOMEONE WAS A
TRUE PROPHET OR NOT.
00:32:51.60\00:32:53.44
LISTEN - VERSE 21, "AND IF YOU
SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'HOW SHALL WE
00:32:53.47\00:32:57.01
KNOW THE WORD WHICH
THE LORD HAS NOT SPOKEN?'"
00:32:57.04\00:33:00.24
- IN OTHER WORDS, HOW ARE WE
GOING TO ENACT THE DEATH PENALTY
00:33:00.28\00:33:04.31
FOR SOMEONE WHO PROCLAIMS
THEMSELVES A PROPHET AND IS NOT?
00:33:04.35\00:33:09.15
- VERSE 22, HERE'S THE ANSWER
- "WHEN A PROPHET SPEAKS IN THE
00:33:09.18\00:33:13.92
NAME OF THE LORD, IF THE THING
DOES NOT HAPPEN OR COME TO PASS,
00:33:13.96\00:33:17.59
THAT IS THE THING WHICH THE LORD
HAS NOT SPOKEN; THE PROPHET HAS
00:33:17.63\00:33:23.20
SPOKEN IT PRESUMPTUOUSLY;
YOU SHALL NOT BE AFRAID OF HIM."
00:33:23.23\00:33:28.14
AND WHAT WAS THE PENALTY
FOR THAT PROPHET WHO SPOKE A
00:33:28.17\00:33:31.14
PROPHETIC MESSAGE CLAIMING TO
BE FROM GOD AND IT DIDN'T COME
00:33:31.17\00:33:34.24
TRUE. WHAT WAS TO
HAPPEN? HE WAS TO DIE.
00:33:34.28\00:33:37.08
CAN YOU PUT
YOURSELF IN JONAH'S POSITION?
00:33:37.11\00:33:40.15
WE'D LIKE TO LOOK DOWN AT JONAH
AND SAY, 'BOY - WHAT - HOW CAN -
00:33:40.18\00:33:43.82
IF GOD TOLD ME WHAT TO DO, I
WOULD DO IT.' I MEAN THINK ABOUT
00:33:43.85\00:33:47.09
IT - GOD ACTUALLY
TELLING HIM WHAT TO DO.
00:33:47.12\00:33:49.22
YOU SAY, 'I'M JUST - DR.
DEROSE, I'M PRAYING FOR THAT.
00:33:49.26\00:33:51.69
I'M PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD JUST
SHOW ME WHAT TO DO AND I'M JUST
00:33:51.73\00:33:54.46
READY TO DO IT.' DID JONAH
KNOW CLEARLY WHAT THE LORD WAS
00:33:54.46\00:33:57.50
CALLING HIM TO DO? BUT
AS HE REASONED THINGS OUT IN
00:33:57.53\00:34:01.54
HIS OWN HUMAN REASONING,
IT DIDN'T SOUND ALL THAT GOOD.
00:34:01.57\00:34:04.77
I MEAN, HERE,
THIS WAS THE ENEMY.
00:34:04.81\00:34:06.37
THESE WERE THE PEOPLE YOU
WERE PRAYING TO BE DESTROYED.
00:34:06.41\00:34:08.51
NOW - AND ON TOP OF
THAT, HE KNEW GOD'S CHARACTER.
00:34:08.54\00:34:13.42
IF HE GOES AND PREACHES THIS
MESSAGE AND THEY REPENT, WHAT
00:34:13.45\00:34:16.05
WILL HE BE THOUGHT
OF AS? A FALSE PROPHET.
00:34:16.08\00:34:20.72
AND WHAT'S HIS
REWARD FOR DOING IT?
00:34:20.76\00:34:23.06
I MEAN THIS IS
PRETTY LOUSY, ISN'T IT?
00:34:23.09\00:34:25.33
I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, YOUR
ENEMIES ARE GOING TO LIVE AND
00:34:25.36\00:34:27.76
YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. SO
WHAT DOES HE DECIDE TO DO?
00:34:27.83\00:34:30.37
HE DECIDES TO RUN, OKAY?
HE'S GOING TO RUN FROM THE
00:34:30.40\00:34:34.27
PRESENCE OF THE LORD. BY
THE WAY, WHERE CAN WE GO TO
00:34:34.30\00:34:36.60
RUN FROM THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
00:34:36.64\00:34:38.37
YOU SAY, 'HOW COULD HE HAVE SUCH
A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S
00:34:38.41\00:34:41.34
CHARACTER - HIS LOVE AND MERCY -
AND NOT REALIZE THAT THERE'S NO
00:34:41.38\00:34:44.48
PLACE TO RUN AWAY FROM THE LORD?
LET'S GO BACK TO JONAH AND TRY
00:34:44.51\00:34:49.32
TO FATHOM A LITTLE BIT
MORE OF THIS FAMILIAR STORY.
00:34:49.35\00:34:54.22
THE PROBLEM IS, I THINK, AS I
LOOK AT THE STORY MORE AND MORE,
00:34:54.26\00:34:59.09
EVEN THOUGH WE LIKE TO
DISTANCE OURSELVES FROM JONAH,
00:34:59.13\00:35:03.37
ISN'T THIS REALLY
THE HUMAN CONDITION?
00:35:03.40\00:35:07.30
THAT WE ALL LONG FOR GOD'S
GUIDANCE UNTIL GOD TELLS US
00:35:07.34\00:35:11.44
SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY
DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR, RIGHT?
00:35:11.47\00:35:16.81
WELL, JONAH FINDS HIMSELF ON
THAT SHIP HEADED TO TARSHISH AND
00:35:16.85\00:35:23.52
IN CHAPTER 1 WE FIND THAT
THIS SHIP IS, IN VERSE 4, IN THE
00:35:23.55\00:35:34.30
MIDST OF A MIGHTY TEMPEST SO
THAT THE SHIP WAS ABOUT TO BE
00:35:34.30\00:35:39.93
BROKEN UP. THE
MARINERS, THOSE MEN WHO HAD
00:35:39.97\00:35:44.64
SPENT THEIR LIVES ON THE
SEA, THEY ARE FEARING FOR THEIR
00:35:44.67\00:35:48.28
LIVES. AND WHAT
DO THEY BEGIN TO DO?
00:35:48.31\00:35:52.88
WHAT DO THEY BEGIN TO DO?
THEY'RE ALL CRYING OUT TO THEIR
00:35:52.91\00:35:58.09
GODS, BUT WHAT IS JONAH DOING?
JONAH IS SLEEPING ON THE BOAT.
00:35:58.12\00:36:06.80
NOW IS ALL OF THIS STARTING TO
SOUND VAGUELY FAMILIAR IF YOU'VE
00:36:06.83\00:36:10.83
READ THE WHOLE BIBLE?
00:36:10.87\00:36:12.80
THIS SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE
ANOTHER SHIP THAT WAS CROSSING A
00:36:12.83\00:36:17.64
SMALLER BODY OF
WATER, THE SEA OF GALILEE.
00:36:17.67\00:36:21.31
AND ON IT WERE A NUMBER OF
FISHERMEN AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF
00:36:21.34\00:36:25.18
OTHER DISCIPLES NUMBERING TWELVE
IN ALL, AND THERE WAS SOMEONE ON
00:36:25.21\00:36:31.59
THE BOAT WHO WAS SLEEPING.
WHO WAS SLEEPING ON THAT BOAT?
00:36:31.62\00:36:34.46
>>JESUS. >>THAT'S
RIGHT, IT WAS JESUS.
00:36:34.49\00:36:36.49
BY THE WAY, AS WE STUDY ABOUT
GREAT MISSIONARIES IN THE BIBLE,
00:36:36.52\00:36:40.43
IT IS FITTING THAT AS WE GO
THROUGH THIS QUARTER, AT THE
00:36:40.46\00:36:42.93
HEART OF THIS LESSON STUDY
IS THE GREAT MISSIONARY, JESUS.
00:36:42.96\00:36:45.60
SO HERE, AS WE'RE READING THE
STORY OF JONAH, AND IT'S AMAZING
00:36:45.63\00:36:49.77
AS YOU LOOK AT THE
DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENS.
00:36:49.80\00:36:52.11
JONAH SLEEPING ON THE BOAT
- WHY WAS JONAH, DO YOU THINK,
00:36:52.14\00:36:56.31
SLEEPING ON THE BOAT?
NOW WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL
00:36:56.34\00:37:01.28
BECAUSE NOT ALL THE DETAILS HAVE
BEEN REVEALED AND WE ALL BRING
00:37:01.32\00:37:05.05
CERTAIN BIASES TO
OUR READING OF THE WORD.
00:37:05.09\00:37:07.29
NOW, AS A PHYSICIAN, I'M,
YOU KNOW, READING THIS AND I'M
00:37:07.32\00:37:11.03
READING ABOUT A MAN WHO SEEMS
QUITE DEPRESSED, NOT THINKING
00:37:11.06\00:37:14.96
CLEARLY - I'M THINKING, I MEAN,
HE'S DEPRESSED LAYING IN THE
00:37:15.00\00:37:18.60
BOTTOM OF THE BOAT. WAS
THAT JESUS' STATE AS HE WAS
00:37:18.63\00:37:22.97
CROSSING THE SEA OF GALILEE?
NO, JESUS, ON THE OTHER HAND,
00:37:23.00\00:37:26.94
WAS RESTING IN
HIS FATHER'S CARE.
00:37:26.98\00:37:29.08
AND SOME HAVE ARGUED THAT
PERHAPS JESUS WAS RESTING SO
00:37:29.11\00:37:32.41
SOUNDLY AS THEY TRAVELED ACROSS
THE SEA OF GALILEE BECAUSE
00:37:32.45\00:37:36.48
HE KNEW HIS TIME
HAD NOT YET COME.
00:37:36.52\00:37:39.25
JESUS KNEW THE PROPHECIES
OF DANIEL - DANIEL 9 - WHERE IT
00:37:39.29\00:37:43.26
SPOKE OF WHEN THE MESSIAH WOULD
COME, HOW LONG HIS MINISTRY
00:37:43.29\00:37:47.56
WOULD LAST - YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY
THE VERY DATE BEING PROPHESIED
00:37:47.60\00:37:52.07
AS YOU STUDY DANIEL CHAPTER
9 AND THE 70 WEEKS PROPHECY.
00:37:52.10\00:37:56.37
BUT WHAT'S SO INTERESTING ABOUT
THE PARALLELS IS, AS YOU READ
00:37:56.40\00:38:01.58
THROUGH JONAH CHAPTER 1, JONAH
COMES UP WITH A SOLUTION AND
00:38:01.61\00:38:07.15
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION HE
GIVES TO QUELL THE STORM?
00:38:07.18\00:38:11.45
YEAH, VERSE 12 OF JONAH 1, "PICK
ME UP AND THROW ME INTO THE SEA;
00:38:11.49\00:38:18.63
THEN THE SEA WILL
BECOME CALM FOR YOU.
00:38:18.66\00:38:21.76
FOR I KNOW THAT THIS
GREAT TEMPEST IS BECAUSE OF ME."
00:38:21.80\00:38:25.70
AND SO JONAH IS WILLING TO BEAR
HIS OWN SIN IN ORDER TO SAVE THE
00:38:25.73\00:38:31.27
OTHER PEOPLE. ARE
YOU STARTING TO SEE SOME
00:38:31.31\00:38:35.14
GOSPEL PARALLELS HERE? BY
THE WAY, THIS FREE OFFER BOOK
00:38:35.18\00:38:38.85
- THE SIGN OF JONAH - I MEAN,
THAT DRAWS OUT SOME OF THESE
00:38:38.88\00:38:42.18
VERY LESSONS AND
MAKES IT VERY POINTED.
00:38:42.22\00:38:45.45
JONAH'S STORY, AS WE READ
THROUGH IT, WE SEE THE MINISTRY
00:38:45.49\00:38:48.66
OF JESUS, DON'T WE?
JESUS CALLED TO SPEAK TO A LOST
00:38:48.69\00:38:53.40
WORLD AND HERE HE'S ON THIS
SHIP - NOW JONAH'S BEARING HIS
00:38:53.43\00:38:56.26
OWN SINS, WHOSE
SINS WAS JESUS BEARING?
00:38:56.30\00:38:58.60
JESUS WAS BEARING
THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
00:38:58.63\00:39:01.70
HE'S BEARING OUR SINS - MY SINS.
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO ANOTHER
00:39:01.74\00:39:05.61
INTERESTING CONNECTION.
IT'S MENTIONED IN SUNDAY'S
00:39:05.64\00:39:08.24
LESSON, 2 KINGS,
CHAPTER 14, VERSE 25.
00:39:08.28\00:39:10.71
WE KNOW SOMETHING MORE ABOUT
JONAH THAN JUST WHAT IS REVEALED
00:39:10.75\00:39:13.82
HERE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH.
00:39:13.85\00:39:17.35
2 KINGS, CHAPTER 14 - BECAUSE,
YOU SEE, JONAH WAS ALREADY A
00:39:17.39\00:39:25.79
SUCCESSFUL PROPHET IN HIS
OWN RIGHT IN HIS OWN LAND.
00:39:25.83\00:39:29.16
HE HAD A MINISTRY
TO HIS OWN PEOPLE.
00:39:29.20\00:39:32.13
HE COULD HAVE WELL SAID, 'WELL,
WHY DON'T I JUST STAY HERE?
00:39:32.17\00:39:35.20
THE LORD'S BEEN USING ME AT
HOME.' 2 KINGS CHAPTER 14, VERSE
00:39:35.24\00:39:39.77
25, IT SAYS HERE, SPEAKING OF
- WELL, LET'S READ - BEGIN WITH
00:39:39.81\00:39:47.85
VERSE 23 - I'M IN 2 KINGS
CHAPTER 14, BEGINNING WITH VERSE
00:39:47.88\00:39:52.65
23 TO GIVE US A LITTLE CONTEXT.
IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF AMAZIAH
00:39:52.69\00:39:57.56
THE SON OF JOASH, KING OF JUDAH,
JEROBOAM THE SON OF JOASH, KING
00:39:57.59\00:40:02.00
OF ISRAEL, BECAME KING IN
SAMARIA AND REIGNED FORTY-ONE
00:40:02.03\00:40:06.00
YEARS. AND HE DID
EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF
00:40:06.03\00:40:08.70
THE LORD; HE DID NOT DEPART FROM
ALL THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON
00:40:08.74\00:40:11.51
OF NEBAT, WHO
HAD MADE ISRAEL SIN.
00:40:11.54\00:40:15.98
HE RESTORED THE TERRITORY
OF ISRAEL FROM THE ENTRANCE OF
00:40:16.01\00:40:19.11
HAMATH TO THE SEA OF THE ARABAH,
ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE
00:40:19.15\00:40:23.95
LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH HE HAD
SPOKEN THROUGH HIS SERVANT JONAH
00:40:23.99\00:40:28.86
THE SON OF AMITTAI, THE PROPHET
WHO WAS FROM GATH HEPHER."
00:40:28.89\00:40:35.83
IT IS OBVIOUSLY THE VERY
SAME JONAH - THE SAME FATHER,
00:40:35.86\00:40:41.50
AMITTAI, THAT IS MENTIONED IN
JONAH 1, BUT THERE'S A DETAIL IN
00:40:41.54\00:40:45.74
2 KINGS CHAPTER 14 THAT WE DON'T
SEE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH, IT'S
00:40:45.77\00:40:50.81
WHERE JONAH IS FROM. DID
YOU CATCH WHERE HE'S FROM?
00:40:50.85\00:40:53.78
GATH HEPHER. NOW
YOUR LESSON QUARTERLY DOES
00:40:53.82\00:40:58.62
TELL YOU WHAT GATH HEPHER
MEANS. IT'S FROM HEBREW FOR
00:40:58.65\00:41:02.66
THE WINE PRESS .
00:41:02.69\00:41:04.76
GATH, YOU SEE, IS THE WINE
PRESS - GATH - AND WHAT'S QUITE
00:41:04.79\00:41:12.30
INTERESTING ABOUT THIS IS THAT
THERE IS ANOTHER GATH IN THE
00:41:12.33\00:41:15.37
BIBLE, WHERE THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF WINE PRESS TAKES ON GREAT
00:41:15.40\00:41:21.74
SIGNIFICANCE AND IT HAS A
PARALLEL WITH THE JONAH STORY.
00:41:21.78\00:41:25.38
IT'S GATH SEMANE - HAVE
YOU HEARD OF GATH SEMANE?
00:41:25.41\00:41:28.55
YES, SEMANE
REFERS TO SEED OR OIL.
00:41:28.58\00:41:32.15
SO IT WAS THE WINE PRESS FOR THE
OIL, IF YOU WILL, GATH SEMANE.
00:41:32.19\00:41:37.43
IT WAS THE PLACE
WHERE THE OIL WAS PRESSED.
00:41:37.46\00:41:39.56
AND WHAT HAPPENED IN
THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE?
00:41:39.59\00:41:42.70
JESUS' LIFE BEGAN
TO BE PRESSED OUT.
00:41:42.73\00:41:49.37
JESUS WAS GIVING HIMSELF - WAS
COVENANTING - WAS REAFFIRMING
00:41:49.40\00:41:53.34
THE COVENANT MADE FROM THE
FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT HE
00:41:53.38\00:41:56.48
WOULD DIE FOR HUMANITY'S
SINS AND THIS REALLY IS NOT A
00:41:56.51\00:42:03.35
PROMOTIONAL LESSON STUDY FOR
THIS FREE BOOKLET, I MEAN, BUT
00:42:03.39\00:42:06.55
THIS BOOKLET BRINGS OUT
SOMETHING THAT MANY CHRISTIANS
00:42:06.59\00:42:10.96
HAVE MISSED THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
THEY'VE MISSED WHAT THE THREE
00:42:10.99\00:42:16.87
DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE
HEART OF THE EARTH EXPERIENCE
00:42:16.90\00:42:20.00
WAS THAT JONAH WAS -
EXPERIENCE ILLUSTRATING.
00:42:20.04\00:42:23.84
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT BEGAN AT
THE WINE PRESS OF GETHSEMANE FOR
00:42:23.87\00:42:27.38
JESUS. JESUS BEGAN
BEARING THE SINS OF
00:42:27.41\00:42:31.01
THE WORLD IN
GETHSEMANE. AND IF YOU SAY, 'DR.
00:42:31.05\00:42:34.08
DEROSE, YOU'RE JUST FLYING BY
THAT TOO QUICKLY FOR ME.' THAT'S
00:42:34.12\00:42:37.82
WHY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE FREE
OFFER, BECAUSE IT GOES INTO MORE
00:42:37.85\00:42:40.99
DETAIL ABOUT THAT. BUT
THE POINT I'M SIMPLY MAKING
00:42:41.02\00:42:43.06
IS WHAT PLAYS OUT IN
JONAH CHAPTER 1 IS ACTUALLY A
00:42:43.09\00:42:46.86
REVELATION OF WHAT JESUS
WAS GOING TO DO IN HIS MINISTRY.
00:42:46.90\00:42:50.77
HE WOULD BE IN THE
HEART OF THE EARTH.
00:42:50.80\00:42:53.00
HE WOULD BE BURYING THE SINS
OF THE WORLD, IN THE MIDST OF
00:42:53.03\00:42:55.17
HUMANITY, BEARING OUR SINS, FROM
THE TIME OF GETHSEMANE, THROUGH
00:42:55.20\00:42:59.67
THE CRUCIFIXION, UNTIL HE WAS
RESURRECTED ON SUNDAY MORNING.
00:42:59.71\00:43:05.25
THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE
PROPHET JONAH. YOU SAY, 'WAIT!
00:43:05.28\00:43:08.92
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!'
THAT'S GREAT THAT YOU CATCH IT.
00:43:08.95\00:43:11.02
I MEAN, WE CAN REBEL AGAINST
GOD AND GOD CAN USE US TO GIVE A
00:43:11.05\00:43:14.52
POWERFUL MESSAGE TO THE
WORLD. ISN'T THAT GREAT NEWS?
00:43:14.56\00:43:17.59
WELL, IS IT GREAT NEWS OR
NOT? CAN GOD USE US IF WE'RE
00:43:17.63\00:43:22.06
REBELLING AGAINST HIM? I
MEAN, HE CAN, BUT THIS IS NOT
00:43:22.10\00:43:26.53
SOMETHING THAT SHOULD ENCOURAGE
US TO WHAT? REBEL AGAINST GOD.
00:43:26.57\00:43:31.34
WELL, YOU KNOW, LISTEN,
THINK ABOUT IT, IF JONAH HADN'T
00:43:31.37\00:43:33.58
REBELLED THEN HE WOULDN'T
HAVE BEEN THROWN, YOU KNOW, HE
00:43:33.61\00:43:35.51
WOULDN'T HAVE GONE ON THE SHIP,
HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THROWN
00:43:35.54\00:43:37.61
OVERBOARD, IT WOULDN'T HAVE
ILLUSTRATED SO AMAZINGLY THIS
00:43:37.65\00:43:40.12
EXPERIENCE THAT
JESUS WENT THROUGH.
00:43:40.15\00:43:42.55
BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE OTHER
PEOPLE THAT SPOKE FOR GOD IN THE
00:43:42.58\00:43:47.29
MIDST OF REBELLION. YOU'VE
HEARD OF BALAAM, HAVEN'T YOU?
00:43:47.32\00:43:51.89
BY THE WAY, BALAAM,
EVIDENCE FROM ANTIQUITY, A REAL
00:43:51.93\00:43:55.10
HISTORICAL FIGURE - HUNDREDS
OF MILES FROM WHERE BAALAM
00:43:55.13\00:43:59.70
PROPHESIED, AN INSCRIPTION OF
BALAAM'S VERY WORDS - WORDS THAT
00:43:59.73\00:44:04.51
WERE USED TO GUIDE THE
WISE MEN - THE MAGI - TO JESUS.
00:44:04.54\00:44:09.48
ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT?
00:44:09.51\00:44:10.61
THIS WAS A PROPHECY GIVEN BY
BALAAM IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
00:44:10.65\00:44:14.32
WHEN HE WAS
REBELLING AGAINST GOD.
00:44:14.35\00:44:17.72
YOU REMEMBER THE HIGH
PRIEST, CAIAPHAS, REMEMBER?
00:44:17.75\00:44:21.32
IN JOHN 11, I BELIEVE IT IS,
WHERE HE SAID, 'ISN'T IT GOOD
00:44:21.36\00:44:26.49
FOR ONE MAN TO DIE
FOR THE WHOLE NATION?'
00:44:26.53\00:44:28.83
AND THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS
PROPHESYING AS HIGH PRIEST.
00:44:28.86\00:44:33.54
WAS CAIAPHAS SOMEONE WHO
HAD YIELDED HIS LIFE TO JESUS?
00:44:33.57\00:44:36.37
CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING?
I KNOW GOD CAN USE ME EVEN IF
00:44:36.40\00:44:42.04
I'M REBELLING AGAINST HIM, BUT
I DON'T WANT THAT TO BE MY LIFE
00:44:42.08\00:44:47.08
TESTIMONY, OKAY? I
WANT MY LIFE TESTIMONY TO BE
00:44:47.12\00:44:51.69
THAT WHEN GOD TOLD ME TO
ARISE AND GO, I DID WHAT?
00:44:51.72\00:44:56.26
I AROSE AND I WENT, BUT NOT WENT
WHERE I WANTED TO GO, BUT WENT
00:44:56.29\00:45:00.63
WHERE HE WAS
CALLING ME TO GO, RIGHT?
00:45:00.66\00:45:04.50
AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE
SEEING IN THE STORY OF JONAH.
00:45:04.53\00:45:07.07
SO JONAH CHAPTER 2 IS A STORY
OF WHAT JONAH EXPERIENCED IN THE
00:45:07.10\00:45:13.24
HEART OF THE EARTH. BY THE WAY,
HE WASN'T DEAD THAT WHOLE TIME.
00:45:13.27\00:45:16.75
HE WASN'T DEAD ANY OF
THE TIME, YOU REALIZE THAT.
00:45:16.78\00:45:19.21
JONAH CHAPTER 1 SPEAKS
ABOUT THE REBELLIOUS PROPHET.
00:45:19.25\00:45:22.98
JONAH CHAPTER 2 SPEAKS ABOUT HOW
JONAH COMES TO HIS SENSES IN THE
00:45:23.02\00:45:28.46
BELLY OF A WHALE. BY
THE WAY, HOW COME IT OFTEN
00:45:28.49\00:45:31.79
TAKES SOME CATASTROPHE IN
OUR LIVES TO GET US TO REALLY,
00:45:31.83\00:45:36.87
HONESTLY CALL ON GOD? WHY IS IT
- WHY IS IT THAT? WHY IS IT THAT
00:45:36.90\00:45:42.00
WHEN EVERYTHING IS GOING
WELL IT'S SO EASY TO FORGET GOD?
00:45:42.04\00:45:45.24
OH YEAH, WE CAN COME TO CHURCH
AND WE CAN SING THE SONGS AND
00:45:45.27\00:45:47.51
ALL, BUT TO REALLY, HONESTLY
- TO POUR OUT OUR SOULS TO GOD -
00:45:47.54\00:45:53.48
JONAH DOES THAT IN
THE BELLY OF THE FISH.
00:45:53.52\00:45:56.55
AND, AS CHAPTER 2 ENDS WITH
VERSE 10 IT SAYS, "SO THE LORD
00:45:56.58\00:46:01.46
SPOKE TO THE FISH AND IT
VOMITED JONAH ONTO DRY LAND."
00:46:01.49\00:46:06.46
AGAIN, IT'S MIRACULOUS, EVEN
THOUGH THERE'S FOUNDATION IN
00:46:06.49\00:46:10.63
HISTORY. SO CHAPTER
3 OF JONAH BEGINS AND
00:46:10.67\00:46:15.37
IF THE KEY WORD OF THE BOOK
OF JONAH IS REALLY 'GO' DO YOU
00:46:15.40\00:46:19.71
THINK WE MIGHT FIND THAT
WORD AGAIN? WELL, LET'S SEE.
00:46:19.74\00:46:23.61
"THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO
JONAH THE SECOND TIME, SAYING,"
00:46:23.65\00:46:26.48
- WHAT? - "ARISE,
GO TO NINEVEH, THAT
00:46:26.51\00:46:31.09
GREAT CITY, AND PREACH TO IT
THE MESSAGE THAT I TELL YOU."
00:46:31.12\00:46:36.32
NOW IT'S INTERESTING -
COMPARE JONAH 1 WITH JONAH 3.
00:46:36.36\00:46:41.50
DO YOU NOTICE THERE
IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT?
00:46:41.53\00:46:44.47
IN JONAH 1, GOD DOES GIVE A
LITTLE MORE DETAILS ABOUT HOW
00:46:44.50\00:46:50.77
WICKED THOSE PEOPLE ARE AND THE
IMPLICATION IS IT'S GOING TO BE
00:46:50.81\00:46:54.61
A MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT.
IN JONAH 3, GOD SIMPLY SAYS,
00:46:54.64\00:46:59.95
'PREACH THE MESSAGE I TELL YOU.'
00:47:00.05\00:47:04.35
WHAT IS THE
EASIEST MESSAGE TO PREACH?
00:47:04.39\00:47:08.76
WHAT IS THE EASIEST TESTIMONY
TO GIVE? YOUR OWN, ESPECIALLY
00:47:08.79\00:47:14.50
IF IT'S YOUR OWN
AND YOU WANT TO GIVE IT.
00:47:14.56\00:47:16.40
I MEAN, THE EASIEST THING
TO COMMUNICATE IS SOMETHING YOU
00:47:16.43\00:47:18.43
WANT TO COMMUNICATE. IF
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE
00:47:18.47\00:47:21.67
WEATHER, HOW HARD IS IT
TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER?
00:47:21.70\00:47:23.94
IF YOU WANT TO TELL SOMEONE HOW
BAD YOU'RE FEELING, HOW HARD IS
00:47:23.97\00:47:28.38
IT TO TELL THEM THAT?
PROBABLY NOT ALL THAT DIFFICULT.
00:47:28.41\00:47:32.18
BUT SOMETIMES THE HARDEST THING
TO COMMUNICATE IS WHAT GOD ASKS
00:47:32.21\00:47:36.25
YOU TO COMMUNICATE, AND
JONAH'S STRUGGLING WITH THAT.
00:47:36.28\00:47:41.96
THAT'S WHAT IS THE WHOLE BOOK
TO THIS POINT - HE'S STRUGGLING
00:47:41.99\00:47:44.16
WITH IT. SO IN
CHAPTER 3 WE FIND JONAH -
00:47:44.19\00:47:48.46
VERSE 3 - HE ARISES AGAIN AND
THIS TIME HE ACTUALLY GOES TO
00:47:48.50\00:47:53.40
NINEVEH ACCORDING TO
THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:47:53.44\00:47:55.97
AND IT'S THIS HUGE CITY AND
JONAH IS WALKING THROUGH THIS
00:47:56.00\00:48:00.38
CITY - I DON'T KNOW -
I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT.
00:48:00.41\00:48:03.21
IN YOUR HUMAN REASONING, WHERE
COULD YOU GO TODAY AND PREACH A
00:48:03.24\00:48:09.18
MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT AND THINK
THAT PEOPLE WOULD WARMLY RECEIVE
00:48:09.22\00:48:12.69
IT? REALLY?
00:48:12.72\00:48:15.16
I MEAN, JONAH IS NOW IN
THIS LAND OF THE ENEMY AND HE'S
00:48:15.19\00:48:21.40
SPEAKING A MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT
AGAINST THEM AND HE DOES IT FOR
00:48:21.43\00:48:24.00
40 DAYS - THAT'S
THE IMPLICATIONS.
00:48:24.03\00:48:27.07
IN VERSE 5 THERE IS THIS
REMARKABLE, REMARKABLE INSIGHT.
00:48:27.10\00:48:34.61
I MEAN, DO YOU - DO YOU
REALIZE WHO THE NINEVITES ARE?
00:48:34.64\00:48:37.48
I MEAN HAVE YOU EVER MET SOMEONE
AND YOU SAID, 'BOY, THAT PERSON
00:48:37.51\00:48:41.48
WOULD MAKE A GREAT CHRISTIAN.'
OR 'THEY WOULD BE A GREAT
00:48:41.52\00:48:43.79
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST.' I MEAN,
THEY - THEY JUST OBVIOUSLY DON'T
00:48:43.82\00:48:46.02
KNOW EVERYTHING - THEY JUST SEEM
LIKE SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON,
00:48:46.05\00:48:48.59
RIGHT? WOULDN'T THEY BE A GREAT
CHRISTIAN? LISTEN, THE NINEVITES
00:48:48.62\00:48:52.79
WERE NOT THOSE KIND
OF PEOPLE. THEY WERE NOT.
00:48:52.83\00:48:56.33
SO WHEN SOMEONE WALKS INTO THE
CHURCH AND YOU FIND THEY'RE NOT
00:48:56.36\00:49:01.54
A CHURCH MEMBER - THEY SAY,
'WELL I'M JUST VISITING FOR THE
00:49:01.57\00:49:03.87
FIRST TIME.' AND YOU LOOK
AT THEM AND SAY, 'WOW, I MEAN,
00:49:03.91\00:49:06.14
WHATEVER, THEY'D BE A GREAT
GRANITE BAY MEMBER.' THOSE ARE
00:49:06.17\00:49:11.05
NOT THE PEOPLE THAT
MOST NEED YOUR WITNESS.
00:49:11.08\00:49:13.42
NOW DON'T MISUNDERSTAND
ME, ANYONE WHO WALKS THROUGH
00:49:13.45\00:49:16.72
THE DOORS HERE
SHOULD FEEL WELCOME.
00:49:16.75\00:49:18.45
AND IT'S A BIG ENOUGH CHURCH
THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT FEEL
00:49:18.49\00:49:21.26
ALL THAT WELCOME BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, YOU SEE YOUR FRIEND ON THE
00:49:21.29\00:49:23.93
OTHER SIDE OF THE CHURCH AND THE
PERSON THAT SAT NEXT TO YOU ALL
00:49:23.96\00:49:26.73
THROUGH SABBATH SCHOOL YOU NEVER
EVEN SAID HELLO TO THEM, OKAY?
00:49:26.76\00:49:29.83
I MEAN, THAT CAN
HAPPEN, CAN'T IT?
00:49:29.86\00:49:32.00
YEAH, I'M GLAD SOME OF YOU -
I SEE YOU RIGHT NOW, SMILING AT
00:49:32.03\00:49:35.20
THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU. I
KNOW IT SEEMS LIKE MOST OF YOU
00:49:35.24\00:49:37.81
ALREADY CAME CONNECTED, THOSE
OF YOU THAT ARE DOING IT, BUT
00:49:37.84\00:49:40.11
HERE'S THE POINT: THIS GROUP OF
PEOPLE, THEY DID NOT LOOK LIKE
00:49:40.14\00:49:45.71
THE ONES THAT YOU
WANTED TO JOIN THE CHURCH.
00:49:45.75\00:49:49.32
REMEMBER, THEY WERE
A BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE.
00:49:49.35\00:49:52.55
BY THE WAY, THE ASSYRIANS
WERE THE ONES THAT ULTIMATELY
00:49:52.59\00:49:55.99
DESTROYED THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM - THE TEN TRIBES.
00:49:56.02\00:50:00.26
THEY WERE THE ONES THAT OVERRAN
AND BASICALLY SCATTERED THE TEN
00:50:00.30\00:50:06.17
NORTHERN TRIBES. WE DON'T
EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
00:50:06.20\00:50:09.34
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE WANT
TO CLAIM THEY DO, BUT THERE'S NO
00:50:09.37\00:50:12.47
EVIDENCE THAT
THEY'RE RIGHT, OKAY?
00:50:12.51\00:50:14.91
VERSE 5, JONAH CHAPTER 3,
"SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH" - DID
00:50:14.94\00:50:23.59
WHAT? - THEY BELIEVED
GOD. THEY TRUSTED GOD.
00:50:23.62\00:50:30.63
I MEAN, ISN'T THIS A HUMBLING
BOOK? THE PROPHET, JONAH, WHO
00:50:30.66\00:50:36.67
GOD HAD USED UP TO THIS TIME, HE
DOESN'T TRUST GOD AND WHO DOES?
00:50:36.70\00:50:41.34
THIS HEATHEN PEOPLE - AND THEY
PROCLAIM A FAST AND THE LESSON
00:50:41.37\00:50:50.18
QUARTERLY SUGGESTS THAT JONAH
MUST HAVE - MUST HAVE GIVEN A
00:50:50.21\00:50:54.72
MESSAGE OF MERCY, BUT I DON'T
GET THAT FROM THE BOOK BECAUSE
00:50:54.75\00:50:57.62
LOOK - LOOK WHAT THE KING
SAYS IN VERSE 9 - THE KING OF
00:50:57.65\00:51:04.39
NINEVEH, "WHO CAN TELL IF GOD
WILL TURN AND RELENT, AND TURN
00:51:04.43\00:51:10.43
AWAY FROM HIS FIERCE ANGER,
SO THAT WE MAY NOT PERISH?"
00:51:10.47\00:51:14.34
'WE'VE HEARD THE MESSAGE OF
JUDGMENT' - THE KING IS SAYING -
00:51:14.37\00:51:19.41
'BUT WE'VE ALSO HEARD
ABOUT THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
00:51:19.44\00:51:24.45
MAYBE - MAYBE IF WE REPENT HE'LL
AVERT THE JUDGMENT.' WELL, THEY
00:51:24.48\00:51:30.05
DO REPENT. THEY TURN
FROM THEIR EVIL WAYS.
00:51:30.09\00:51:32.42
AND WHEN WE COME TO CHAPTER
4, JONAH, AS WE SAW EARLIER,
00:51:32.45\00:51:37.13
IS DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE GOD
DIDN'T GET RID OF THAT PEOPLE
00:51:37.16\00:51:45.23
THAT HAD BEEN ISRAEL'S ENEMIES.
AND AS JONAH STRUGGLES, GOD
00:51:45.27\00:51:50.21
CAUSES THAT PLANT TO GROW UP.
AS HE'S LOOKING OVER THE CITY OF
00:51:50.24\00:51:53.44
NINEVEH, HOPING GOD WILL
CHANGE HIS MIND, APPARENTLY, AND
00:51:53.48\00:51:56.24
DESTROY THE PEOPLE ANYWAY AND HE
CAN, YOU KNOW, HAVE HIS PRAISE
00:51:56.28\00:51:59.28
CEREMONY, GOD CAUSES THAT PLANT
TO GROW UP AND THEN CAUSES A
00:51:59.31\00:52:05.39
WORM TO EAT IT AND
JONAH STARTS COMPLAINING.
00:52:05.42\00:52:09.32
AS THE BOOK CLOSES, VERSE
10, THE LORD SAYS TO JONAH, "YOU
00:52:09.36\00:52:16.13
HAVE HAD PITY ON THE PLANT FOR
WHICH YOU HAVE NOT LABORED, NOR
00:52:16.16\00:52:20.77
MADE IT GROW, WHICH CAME UP IN
A NIGHT AND PERISHED IN A NIGHT.
00:52:20.80\00:52:25.04
AND SHOULD I NOT PITY NINEVEH,
THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ARE
00:52:25.07\00:52:30.75
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
THOUSAND PERSONS WHO CANNOT
00:52:30.78\00:52:35.12
DISCERN BETWEEN THEIR RIGHT
HAND AND THEIR LEFT - AND MUCH
00:52:35.15\00:52:40.32
LIVESTOCK?" JESUS
ON THE CROSS SAID,
00:52:40.36\00:52:45.93
'FATHER, FORGIVE THEM' - WHAT?
- 'THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE
00:52:45.96\00:52:51.63
DOING.' YOU KNOW, WHEN WE
DISTRUST GOD - WHEN WE SIN -
00:52:51.67\00:52:54.80
WE'RE REALLY DOING THAT WHICH IS
CONTRARY TO OUR BEST INTEREST.
00:52:54.84\00:53:00.81
IT'S LIKE WE DON'T KNOW
OUR RIGHT HAND FROM OUR LEFT.
00:53:00.84\00:53:02.91
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE
DOING AND GOD HAS MERCY ON US.
00:53:02.94\00:53:06.35
HE HAD MERCY ON THE NINEVITES
AND HE HAD MERCY ON JONAH.
00:53:06.38\00:53:11.42
AND THE MESSAGE COMES FROM THE
BOOK OF JONAH TO ME AND TO EACH
00:53:11.45\00:53:15.06
OF US TO DO WHAT? ARISE AND GO.
00:53:15.09\00:53:19.43
IF YOU WANT TO STUDY IT MORE,
WE'VE GOT THIS GREAT RESOURCE
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AND THE QUESTION, AS WE CLOSE,
WITH THE STORY OF JONAH: CAN WE
00:53:58.47\00:54:04.97
BETTER
APPRECIATE A GOD OF MERCY?
00:54:05.01\00:54:07.74
EVEN THOUGH WE MAY STILL
STRUGGLE WITH SOME OF THESE
00:54:07.78\00:54:09.84
THINGS IN THE BOOK OF JONAH,
WHY THESE MESSAGES OF JUDGMENT?
00:54:09.88\00:54:12.08
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR SOME FURTHER
ADDITIONAL STUDY IF YOU WANT IT,
00:54:12.11\00:54:16.45
I CHALLENGE YOU TO SEE IN THE
BOOK OF JONAH THE THREE ANGELS'
00:54:16.48\00:54:20.59
MESSAGES OF REVELATION 14 -
JONAH, CALLED TO GIVE WHAT WAS
00:54:20.62\00:54:24.93
REALLY THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL
AND THE MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT, AND
00:54:24.96\00:54:28.06
TO LIVE, HIMSELF, A
LIFE OF PATIENCE AND TRUST.
00:54:28.10\00:54:35.07
(MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN
IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED
00:54:35.10\00:54:44.45
CONCEPT. >>HELLO,
THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
00:54:44.48\00:54:47.55
THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
- FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
00:54:47.58\00:54:50.69
>>THESE RADIO BROADCASTS WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
00:54:50.72\00:54:54.89
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
00:54:54.92\00:54:58.83
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:54:58.86\00:55:02.56
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:55:02.60\00:55:06.23
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:55:06.27\00:55:09.14
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
00:55:09.17\00:55:14.01
GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:55:14.04\00:55:17.15
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:55:17.18\00:55:20.75
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
00:55:20.78\00:55:25.19
MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
00:55:25.22\00:55:28.79
PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
00:55:28.82\00:55:33.06
MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:55:33.09\00:55:35.26
FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
00:55:35.30\00:55:39.93
BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
00:55:39.97\00:55:44.31
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
00:55:44.34\00:55:47.61
WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
00:55:47.64\00:55:51.31
EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE -
THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S
00:55:51.35\00:55:54.32
CHURCH SEE A
RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
00:55:54.35\00:55:57.69
AMAZING FACTS -
GOD'S MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
00:55:57.72\00:56:07.86
>> AMAZING FACTS
HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE.
00:56:07.86\00:56:10.10
>> I JUST PRAISE
GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS.
00:56:10.13\00:56:11.77
>> AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
00:56:11.80\00:56:14.37
>> IT'S ALL A PROCESS,
GETTING TO WHERE I AM TODAY.
00:56:14.40\00:56:16.47
>> AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN -
>> I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT - I
00:56:16.50\00:56:18.81
DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED, I FELT
- >> I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE.
00:56:18.84\00:56:21.31
>>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO
THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST -
00:56:21.34\00:56:23.98
>> I REALIZED THAT
THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE.
00:56:24.01\00:56:26.38
>> GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS.
>>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME -
00:56:26.41\00:56:28.48
>> THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL.
>> I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER
00:56:28.52\00:56:31.19
HE GOES. >> AMAZING
FACTS - MORE THAN 45
00:56:31.22\00:56:34.76
YEARS OF PROCLAIMING
GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:56:34.79\00:56:38.69
>> AND THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS - AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS.
00:56:38.73\00:56:42.60
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HE WAS
00:56:42.63\00:56:45.73
- THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT
HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING
00:56:45.77\00:56:48.34
WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND
ACTUALLY PICK IT UP - AND I'VE
00:56:48.37\00:56:51.77
NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE LET ME
- LET ME LOOK THROUGH THIS AND
00:56:51.81\00:56:54.44
FIND THIS. I JUST
COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:56:54.48\00:56:57.08
>> AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE
STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF
00:56:57.11\00:57:00.22
THESE GUYS STARTED BEING
CHANGED - INCLUDING MYSELF.
00:57:00.25\00:57:03.55
>> MY QUESTION WAS 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?'
00:57:03.59\00:57:06.99
THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT
AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS
00:57:07.02\00:57:10.36
A FATHER. >> I
LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT
00:57:10.39\00:57:13.33
WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT
IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE.
00:57:13.36\00:57:16.77
>> I WENT TO A PROPHECY
SEMINAR WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT.
00:57:16.80\00:57:20.70
THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND
SO IRREFUTABLE AND I JUST WENT
00:57:20.74\00:57:25.04
'THIS IS REAL. THIS
IS - THIS IS AMAZING.'
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
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OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
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PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
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WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
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DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
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WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
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LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED.
VISIT 'SABBATHTRUTH.COM'.
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