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00:32 >>WELCOME TO GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:36 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN, WHETHER IT'S RIGHT 00:39 HERE IN SACRAMENTO OR ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, 00:43 LISTENING ON THE RADIO OR WATCHING LIVE WITH US ON OUR 00:46 WEBSITE. LET'S START WITH #375 - WORK FOR 00:50 THE NIGHT IS COMING - AND WE WILL SING THE FIRST - WE'RE 00:54 GOING TO DO ALL THREE STANZAS. #375 - JOIN WITH US. 00:58 (MUSIC) 01:07 >>WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, WORK THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS; 01:14 WORK WHILE THE DEW IS SPARKLING; WORK 'MID SPRINGING FLOW'RS. 01:23 WORK WHILE THE DAY GROWS BRIGHTER, WORK UNDER THE GLOWING 01:29 SUN; WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN MAN'S WORK IS DONE. 01:41 WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, WORK THRO' THE SUNNY NOON; FILL 01:49 BRIGHTEST HOURS WITH LABOR, REST COMES SURE AND SOON. 01:57 GIVE EVERY FLYING MINUTE SOMETHING TO KEEP IN STORE; WORK 02:06 FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN MAN WORKS NO MORE. 02:14 WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, UNDER THE SUNSET SKIES, WHILE 02:23 THEIR BRIGHT TINTS ARE GLOWING, WORK FOR DAYLIGHT FLIES; WORK 02:32 TILL THE LAST BEAM FADETH, FADETH TO SHINE NO MORE; WORK 02:40 WHILE THE NIGHT IS DARKENING, WHEN MAN'S WORK IS O'ER. 02:52 >>OUR NEXT SONG IS #358 - FAR AND NEAR THE FIELDS ARE TEEMING 02:57 - AND THIS GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON - #358 - JOIN WITH US AND 03:02 WE WILL DO ALL THREE STANZAS. (MUSIC) 03:16 >>FAR AND NEAR THE FIELDS ARE TEEMING WITH THE SHEAVES OF 03:22 RIPENED GRAIN; FAR AND NEAR THEIR GOLD IS 03:28 GLEAMING O'ER THE SUNNY SLOPE AND PLAIN. 03:35 LORD OF HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS! HEAR US LORD, 03:43 TO THEE WE CRY; SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO GATHER, 03:52 ERE THE HARVEST-TIME PASS BY. SEND THEM FORTH WITH MORN'S 04:01 FIRST BEAMING, SEND THEM IN THE NOON-TIDE'S GLARE; WHEN THE 04:09 SUN'S LAST RAYS ARE STREAMING, BID THEM GATHER EVERYWHERE. 04:19 LORD OF HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS! 04:24 HEAR US LORD, TO THEE WE CRY; SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO 04:34 GATHER, ERE THE HARVEST-TIME PASS BY. 04:42 O THOU, WHOM THY LORD IS SENDING, GATHER NOW THE SHEAVES 04:50 OF GOLD; HEAVENWARD THEN AT EVENING WENDING THOU SHALT COME 05:00 WITH JOY UNTOLD. LORD OF HARVEST, SEND FORTH REAPERS! 05:09 HEAR US LORD, TO THEE WE CRY; SEND THEM NOW THE SHEAVES TO 05:19 GATHER, ERE THE HARVEST-TIME PASS BY. 05:29 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING WITH US. 05:32 AND, AT THIS TIME, OUR PRAYER TO OPEN UP OUR PROGRAM IS GOING TO 05:35 BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR SPEAKER FOR TODAY, PASTOR AND DOCTOR 05:39 DAVID DEROSE. >>LET'S PRAY TOGETHER. 05:50 FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE WE HAVE OF 05:53 OPENING YOUR WORD; OF TURNING OUR ATTENTION TO YOUR THOUGHTS 05:58 ON OUR BEHALF. PLEASE HELP US HEAR YOUR VOICE 06:01 SPEAKING TO US, TO DISCERN WHAT YOU'RE CALLING US TO DO AND TO 06:04 GO FORTH, FOR WE ASK IT IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 06:09 >>AMEN. >>WELL, IT'S GOOD TO BE TOGETHER 06:13 TODAY TO AGAIN STUDY THE LORD'S WORD. 06:15 WE'RE CONTINUING OUR JOURNEY ON BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES - BIBLICAL 06:21 MISSIONARIES IS THE THEME FOR THIS QUARTER AND TODAY WE'RE 06:25 STUDYING LESSON #4 - LESSON #4 - THE JONAH SAGA . 06:29 NOW WE HAVE A SPECIAL GIFT - A SPECIAL GIFT THAT'S AVAILABLE - 06:33 IT IS THE SIGN OF JONAH , A REMARKABLE LITTLE BOOK THAT GOES 06:37 ALONG WITH TODAY'S LESSON. IF YOU'VE NEVER READ IT, YOU 06:40 DON'T HAVE TO WAIT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CALL IN AND 06:43 REQUEST IT, YOU CAN GO ONLINE TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN 06:48 RECEIVE IT OR YOU CAN CALL AND REQUEST YOUR COPY - IT'S FREE 06:52 OFFER #149 - #149 - YOU CAN EITHER GO ONLINE OR YOU CAN CALL 06:59 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE. 07:09 WELL, WE ARE STUDYING THE JONAH SAGA . 07:13 NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU; WHEN I HEAR THAT WORD SAGA , IT 07:16 DOES NOT BRING UP WARM FEELINGS IN MY MIND. 07:20 NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT JUST SAY, 'WELL, SAGA, THAT'S JUST A 07:22 STORY.' BUT IF YOU LISTEN TO THEOLOGIANS SPEAKING ABOUT SAGA , 07:28 THEY'RE USUALLY SPEAKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT FACT, 07:31 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS LEGEND. 07:34 AND THE QUESTION, AS WE BEGIN, IS - THE STORY OF JONAH - IS IT 07:39 FACT OR IS IT JUST SOME ILLUSTRATION? 07:44 IS IT JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS MADE UP TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT? 07:47 NOW YOU SAY, 'WELL, THAT'S A RIDICULOUS QUESTION TO ASK. 07:50 WE'RE ALL BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANS HERE AND WE KNOW THAT 07:53 THE STORY OF JONAH IS HISTORICAL FACT.' 07:56 BUT I'LL TELL YOU, MOST CHRISTIANS TODAY DOUBT MANY OF 08:01 THE STORIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 08:03 I ACTUALLY GREW UP IN A TRADITION LIKE THAT WHERE I WAS 08:06 TOLD THAT THESE BIBLE STORIES WERE JUST - JUST MADE UP TO 08:10 TEACH LESSONS. HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE? 08:13 AND SO, WHEN I HEAR THIS TERM THE JONAH SAGA , IT'S OFTEN USED 08:17 BY INDIVIDUALS SAYING, 'WELL, THIS IS KIND OF A, YOU KNOW, 08:20 MADE-UP STORY.' WELL, I'LL TELL YOU, IF PEOPLE SAY TODAY THAT 08:25 THEY BELIEVE IN JESUS, AND I DO - I MEAN, JESUS NOT ONLY WAS A 08:31 REAL HISTORICAL FIGURE, WE'RE PRIVILEGED, AND I'M PRIVILEGED, 08:34 TO CALL HIM MY LORD AND MY SAVIOR. 08:36 JESUS ACTUALLY DISPELS ALL THESE MYTHS ABOUT SAGA IN THE 08:42 OLD TESTAMENT. LET'S TAKE AN EXAMPLE, AND THE 08:45 FIRST ONE ACTUALLY COMES TO US FROM ONE OF THE KEY SCRIPTURES 08:49 FOR TODAY. IT'S FROM MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 - 08:53 MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 AND VERSE 40. LET'S TURN TO MATTHEW 12 AND, AS 08:58 WE GO THERE, WE WANT TO GIVE OURSELVES SOME CONTEXT. 09:01 JESUS WAS CONTINUALLY HARASSED AS HE WAS CONDUCTING HIS 09:07 MINISTRY. YOU KNOW, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 09:10 OFTEN DIDN'T TAKE KINDLY TO THIS GALILEAN WHO SEEMED TO OFTEN 09:16 TURN ALL THEIR TEACHINGS ON THEIR HEAD. 09:20 HE WAS GIVING, REALLY, GOD'S WORD IN A VERY CLEAR WAY THAT 09:24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES WERE NOT GIVING AND SO, THOSE VERY 09:28 RELIGIOUS LEADERS OFTEN WERE HOUNDING JESUS AND FINDING FAULT 09:32 WITH HIS WORDS. SO I'M IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 AND 09:36 I'M GOING TO BEGIN WITH VERSE 38 - MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, BEGINNING 09:40 WITH VERSE 38. IT SAYS, "THEN SOME OF THE 09:44 SCRIBES AND PHARISEES ANSWERED, SAYING, 'TEACHER, WE WANT TO SEE 09:48 A SIGN FROM YOU.'" - NOW JUST STOP FOR A MINUTE, I MEAN, THIS 09:52 IS MATTHEW 12. UP TO THIS POINT, HAS JESUS 09:55 DEMONSTRATED AT ALL THAT HE IS THE MESSIAH? 09:59 I MEAN, HE'S BEEN FULFILLING THE BIBLICAL PROPHECIES ABOUT 10:02 SOMEONE WHO WOULD COME AND PREACH THE GOSPEL - SOMEONE WHO 10:05 WOULD HEAL, SOMEONE WHO WOULD MINISTER, SOMEONE WHO WOULD 10:08 TEACH. SO JESUS, HERE, IS COMING AS THE VERY FULFILLMENT OF OLD 10:11 TESTAMENT PROPHECY AND THOSE WHO WERE SUPPOSEDLY THE EXPOSITORS - 10:15 THE ONES WHO KNEW THE OLD TESTAMENT - THEY'RE ASKING JESUS 10:21 FOR A SIGN. BUT JESUS SAYS, IN VERSE 39, "AN 10:26 EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKS AFTER A SIGN, AND NO SIGN 10:32 WILL BE GIVEN TO IT EXCEPT THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH. 10:38 FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE 10:43 GREAT FISH, SO WILL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE 10:47 NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH." 10:50 NOW, THE QUESTION HERE IS, IS JESUS SPEAKING FIGURATIVELY, OR 10:56 IS HE SAYING, IN SO MANY WORDS, 'JUST LIKE WE HAVE THIS REAL, 11:01 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF JONAH, SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THIS VERY 11:05 SAME THING PLAYED OUT IN MY MINISTRY.' I WOULD SUGGEST TO 11:08 YOU THAT JESUS IS SPEAKING OF JONAH AS A FACT. 11:11 AND, IN FACT, IF YOU WERE TO LOOK THROUGH THE WORDS OF JESUS, 11:15 YOU WOULD FIND THAT JESUS SPEAKS OF THE HISTORICITY OF ADAM AND 11:19 EVE. ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? 11:21 REMEMBER WHEN THEY'RE CONTROVERTING ABOUT MARRIAGE? 11:23 JESUS SAYS 'IT WASN'T THIS WAY FROM THE BEGINNING.' AND HE 11:26 SPEAKS OF GOD MAKING THEM MALE AND FEMALE. 11:28 HE ACTUALLY QUOTES FROM BOTH GENESIS 1 AND GENESIS 2. 11:31 IN MATTHEW 24 JESUS SPEAKS ABOUT NOAH BEING A REAL PERSON, RIGHT? 11:37 'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.' SO ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT 11:41 PEOPLE TODAY - MANY CHRISTIANS - WANT TO SAY 'OUR SAGA' THEY'RE 11:45 LEGEND - THEY'RE MADE-UP STORIES. IF YOU ACTUALLY JUST 11:49 LOOK AT THE WORDS OF JESUS, IT PULLS BACK THAT VENEER. 11:52 JESUS IS SAYING THE STORY OF JONAH REALLY TOOK PLACE. 11:56 JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THIS 11:59 GREAT SEA MONSTER - OR FISH - AND NOT ONLY WAS IT A REAL 12:06 STORY, IT IS A SIGN THAT WILL SPEAK TO THIS GENERATION. 12:11 SO THE STORY OF JONAH IS A REAL HISTORICAL STORY. 12:16 NOW SOME OF YOU SAY, 'WELL, DR. DEROSE, WE ALL KNOW THAT, 12:19 BUT WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK HOME, THERE'S GOING TO BE FOLKS 12:22 THAT SAY, 'HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW THAT JESUS WASN'T JUST SPEAKING 12:25 OF A, YOU KNOW, KIND OF METAPHORICALLY, YOU KNOW, 12:28 SAYING, 'YEAH, YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?' 12:30 LET ME JUST SHOW YOU ONE OTHER EXAMPLE AND I'M GOING TO 12:35 INVITE YOU TO TURN TO YOUR BIBLES TO ACTUALLY LUKE 11, 12:39 VERSE 51. THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING ONE. 12:43 YOU KNOW IT'S VERY FASHIONABLE IN MANY CHRISTIAN CIRCLES, AND 12:46 YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL THAT'S USING THE TERM CHRISTIAN LIGHTLY 12:49 DR. DEROSE.' IT IS, WHEN YOU REALIZE WHAT JESUS TAUGHT, BUT 12:52 IN LUKE 11 WE FIND JESUS MAKING REFERENCE TO ANOTHER FIGURE THAT 12:58 MANY HAVE TRIED TO SAY WAS JUST PART OF SAGA, JUST PART OF 13:02 LEGEND, JUST PART OF A STORY DESIGNED TO TEACH A LESSON. 13:06 SO I'M IN CHAPTER 11. 13:07 BY THE WAY, CHAPTER 11 IN LUKE ALSO RECOUNTS THE SIGN OF JONAH 13:12 - THAT'S IN LUKE 11:29 ONWARD, BUT I'M HASTENING ON NOW WHERE 13:17 JESUS IS ACTUALLY SPEAKING ABOUT JUDGMENTS THAT WILL BE VISITED 13:21 UPON THOSE WHO REJECTED THE PLAIN TEACHINGS OF THE 13:25 SCRIPTURE. SO I'M STARTING WITH LUKE 11, 13:27 VERSE 46 - JESUS SPEAKING - "WOE TO YOU ALSO, LAWYERS! 13:32 FOR YOU LOAD MEN WITH BURDENS HARD TO BEAR, AND YOU YOURSELVES 13:36 TO NOT TOUCH THE BURDENS WITH ONE OF YOUR FINGERS. 13:40 WOE TO YOU! FOR YOU BUILD THE TOMBS OF THE 13:43 PROPHETS, AND YOUR FATHERS KILLED THEM. 13:46 IN FACT, YOU BEAR WITNESS THAT YOU APPROVE THE DEEDS OF YOUR 13:49 FATHERS; FOR THEY INDEED KILLED THEM, AND YOU BUILD THEIR TOMBS. 13:53 THEREFORE THE WISDOM OF GOD ALSO SAID, 'I WILL SEND THEM PROPHETS 13:57 AND APOSTLES, AND SOME OF THEM THEY WILL KILL AND PERSECUTE,' 14:00 THAT THE BLOOD OF ALL THE PROPHETS WHICH WAS SHED FROM THE 14:03 FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD MAY BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION, 14:06 FROM THE BLOOD OF ABEL TO THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH WHO PERISHED 14:10 BETWEEN THE ALTAR AND THE TEMPLE. 14:12 YES, I SAY TO YOU, IT SHALL BE REQUIRED OF THIS GENERATION." 14:17 WHY I THINK THAT PASSAGE IS SO SIGNIFICANT IS MANY TODAY WOULD 14:22 SAY THAT THERE WAS NO ADAM AND EVE - THAT MAN JUST EVOLVED OVER 14:26 EONS AND EONS AND FINALLY THERE WAS SOME SPIRITUAL INFUSION OF A 14:31 SOUL. 'THERE WAS NO ADAM AND EVE, 14:33 THERE WAS NO CAIN AND ABEL.' BUT WHAT IS JESUS SAYING HERE? 14:35 HE'S NOT ONLY SAYING THERE WAS A REAL ABEL, BUT HE'S SAYING THE 14:40 BLOOD OF ABEL IS GOING TO BE RECKONED TO THIS GENERATION. 14:44 THIS CANNOT HAPPEN WITH A FIGURATIVE PERSON. 14:48 ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING ME? SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE 14:51 OLD-TESTAMENT STORIES AND SOME WANT TO RELEGATE THEM TO THE 14:55 REALM OF MYTH OR SAGA OR LEGEND, JESUS IS SAYING IN HIS TEACHING, 15:01 ABEL REALLY EXISTED. NOAH REALLY EXISTED. 15:05 ADAM AND EVE REALLY EXISTED. AND, YES, JONAH REALLY EXISTED. 15:12 SO THIS MAY NOT BE ALL THAT NECESSARY FOR THOSE OF US WHO 15:15 ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY, BUT WE'RE UNDER BARRAGE AS 15:17 CHRISTIANS AS THE SECULAR WORLD TRIES TO TELL US THAT WE CAN'T 15:22 HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE BIBLE, AND I FIND JUST THE OPPOSITE AS 15:26 WE DIG DEEPLY, AS WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO DO HERE IN 15:29 GRANITE BAY. 15:31 WELL, WITH THAT BACKGROUND, WE WANT TO NOW LOOK AT THE BOOK OF 15:34 JONAH - A REAL BOOK THAT TELLS A REAL STORY OF A REAL MAN. 15:38 AND AS I TURN IN MY OLD TESTAMENT TO THE BOOK OF JONAH, 15:42 THERE IS ONE SINGLE WORD THAT JUMPS OUT TO ME IN THE BOOK OF 15:47 JONAH THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST TELLING OPERATIVE WORD IN THE 15:51 BOOK - AT LEAST FROM MY VANTAGE POINT. ANY OF YOU LIKE TO 15:54 HAZARD A GUESS? THROUGH MY EYES, WHAT DO I THINK 15:57 THE KEY WORD IN THE BOOK OF JONAH IS - AND I'LL GIVE YOU A 16:00 CLUE, IT'S ONLY TWO LETTERS LONG. 16:03 I HEARD SOME OF YOU SAYING IT - THE WORD 'GO.' THAT'S RIGHT, GO. 16:10 LET'S LOOK AT HOW THE BOOK OF JONAH BEGINS. 16:12 IT SAYS, "NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JONAH THE SON OF 16:15 AMITTAI, SAYING, 'ARISE, GO'" - ARISE, GO - "'GO TO NINEVEH, 16:24 THAT GREAT CITY, AND CRY OUT AGAINST IT; FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS 16:28 HAS COME UP BEFORE ME.'" - SO THE OPERATIVE WORD AS THE BOOK 16:33 OF JONAH OPENS IS 'GO.' NOW, OUR LESSON POINTED OUT THAT THIS IS 16:39 NOT A UNIQUE WORD FOUND ONLY IN THE BOOK OF JONAH. 16:42 ACTUALLY, WE FIND THAT WORD 'GO' AT THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL 16:46 COMMISSION. WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT MISSIONARIES. 16:49 AND, AS CHRISTIANS, AS WE LOOK AT THE CALL TO MISSION, WE'RE 16:53 OFTEN TURNING OUR ATTENTIONS TO SOME OF THE CLOSING WORDS - 16:57 ACTUALLY THE CLOSING WORDS IN MATTHEW'S GOSPEL. 17:01 I INVITE YOU TO KEEP YOUR FINGER IN JONAH, IF YOU WILL, AND TURN 17:04 WITH ME TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 28 BECAUSE THIS VERY CALL TO GO IS 17:10 ONE THAT IS GIVEN TO ALL BELIEVERS. 17:13 YOU KNOW, JESUS, MORE THAN ONCE, IF YOU COMPARE THE GOSPELS, IF 17:16 YOU COMPARE MARK 16 WITH MATTHEW 28, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS GREAT 17:20 COMMISSION WAS GIVEN IN MORE THAN ONE CONTEXT. 17:23 IT SEEMS THAT IN THOSE 40 DAYS AFTER JESUS' RESURRECTION, JESUS 17:27 WAS SPEAKING ABOUT THIS MISSION THAT HE WAS CALLING ALL 17:32 BELIEVERS TO AND IN MATTHEW 28, ALL THE BELIEVERS THAT COULD BE 17:36 GATHERED AT THAT TIME HEARD THESE WORDS - MATTHEW 28 17:40 BEGINNING WITH VERSE 18 - "JESUS CAME AND SPOKE TO THEM, 17:44 SAYING, 'ALL AUTHORITY'" - OR ALL POWER - "'HAS BEEN 17:47 GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH. GO'" - GO - 17:53 "'GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE 17:56 NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE 17:59 SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL 18:04 THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU; AND LO, I AM WITH YOU 18:07 ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.'" SO AS MATTHEW'S GOSPEL 18:13 CLOSES, IT CLOSES WITH A COMMISSION - THAT AT THE HEART 18:19 OF THAT COMMISSION IS THAT SAME TWO-LETTER WORD, 'GO.' NOW A 18:23 FRIEND OF MINE WHO IS A CAREER MISSIONARY, BASED OVERSEAS 18:27 TODAY, I'VE HEARD HIM SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS: 'HOW IS IT 18:31 THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE THIS COMMAND FROM THE MASTER TO GO 18:35 AND MOST OF US MERELY WANT TO STAY?' OKAY? 18:41 WE'RE CALLED TO GO AND MOST OF US WANT TO STAY. 18:46 NOW I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE ISN'T A MISSION FIELD 18:49 EVERYWHERE, BUT THE CHURCH IS CALLED TO DO WHAT? TO GO. 18:53 AND SO THIS IS THE COMMAND THAT COMES TO JONAH AND THIS LESSON 18:57 TRIES TO GIVE US SOME WINDOWS ON WHY JONAH STRUGGLES WITH THE 19:02 COMMISSION TO GO. NOW FOR US, THAT VERY STATEMENT 19:06 THAT I JUST GAVE YOU FROM A MODERN-DAY MISSIONARY WOULD 19:09 SUGGEST THAT MANY OF US DON'T GO BECAUSE WE'RE COMFORTABLE. 19:13 RIGHT? WAS THAT JONAH'S ISSUE? 19:18 NOW SOME OF US MIGHT NOT OR HAD - YOU MIGHT SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, HE 19:22 MUST HAVE BEEN COMFORTABLE.' BUT JONAH ACTUALLY - I DON'T KNOW 19:25 THAT THAT REALLY HOLDS WEIGHT, BECAUSE LOOK WHAT HAPPENS IN 19:28 VERSE 3 OF JONAH CHAPTER 1. JONAH IS NOT SO COMFORTABLE THAT 19:34 HE JUST STAYS, HE ACTUALLY DOES GO. 19:37 VERSE 3, "BUT JONAH AROSE" - SO GOD TOLD HIM TO DO WHAT? 19:43 HE TOLD HIM TO DO TWO THINGS: ARISE AND TO GO. 19:46 DOES HE ARISE? YES, HE DOES ARISE. 19:48 AND DOES HE GO? HE ACTUALLY DOES GO. 19:51 "JONAH AROSE TO FLEE TO TARSHISH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 19:57 HE WENT DOWN TO JOPPA" - IT'S THE CITY OF JAFFA TODAY, A MAJOR 20:01 PORT THERE IN THE HOLY LAND - HE "FOUND A SHIP GOING TO TARSHISH; 20:05 SO HE PAID THE FARE, AND WENT DOWN INTO IT, TO GO WITH THEM TO 20:09 TARSHISH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD." 20:12 SO WE GET A PICTURE OF SOMEONE WHO IS NOT CONTENT TO STAY IN 20:16 HIS OWN PLACE - THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE HIS PROBLEM. 20:19 WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM, THEN? OBEDIENCE. 20:23 WELL, ACTUALLY, WE GET A WINDOW ON THIS. 20:25 THE LESSON POINTS US TO JONAH CHAPTER 4 - AND RIGHTLY SO. 20:29 NOW WE KNOW THE STORY - MOST ALL OF US HERE, PROBABLY - OF HOW, 20:34 PERHAPS, THE GREATEST MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN IN OLD TESTAMENT 20:38 HISTORY - MAYBE IN THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE - WAS CONDUCTED BY 20:41 JONAH. BUT IF WE DON'T READ CHAPTER 4 20:45 OF JONAH, WHICH IS AFTER THE REPENTANCE OF THE NINEVITES, WE 20:49 DON'T CATCH A WINDOW ON WHAT JONAH WAS THINKING IN JONAH 1. 20:54 LET'S LOOK AT IT - CHAPTER 4 - GOD'S WRATH - GOD'S JUDGMENT IS 20:59 AVERTED UPON NINEVEH - THEY REPENT. WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT 21:03 THAT, THE LORD WILLING, SHORTLY. AND IN VERSE 2 OF JONAH CHAPTER 21:07 4, JONAH PRAYS "TO THE LORD. AND SAID, 'AH, LORD, WAS NOT 21:12 THIS WHAT I SAID WHEN I WAS STILL IN MY COUNTRY? 21:17 THEREFORE I FLED PREVIOUSLY TO TARSHISH; FOR I KNOW THAT YOU 21:23 ARE A GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD, SLOW TO ANGER AND ABUNDANT IN 21:28 LOVINGKINDNESS, ONE WHO RELENTS FROM DOING HARM.'" 21:32 WHY DID JONAH NOT WANT TO BRING THE MESSAGE TO NINEVEH? WELL, 21:42 HERE IN CHAPTER 4 - HERE IN CHAPTER 4 JONAH IS 21:45 SAYING THAT HE KNEW GOD WAS MERCIFUL. 21:49 ACTUALLY, YOUR LESSON, YOU MIGHT FIND THIS INTERESTING IF YOU 21:51 DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO STUDY IT OR, IF YOU DID, IT MAY HAVE 21:53 JUMPED OUT AT YOU, BUT IN FRIDAY'S LESSON THERE ARE SOME 21:56 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A WINDOW ON 21:59 HISTORY GIVEN US AS TO WHO THE NINEVITES WERE. 22:05 NINEVEH, YOU SEE, WAS ONE OF THE PROMINENT CITIES OF ASSYRIA AND 22:08 ASSYRIA, AT THE TIME THAT THE BOOK OF JONAH WAS WRITTEN, WAS 22:12 ACTUALLY THE WORLD POWER OF ITS DAY. 22:16 LET'S LOOK AT THIS COMMENT IN THE LESSON ON FRIDAY, IT SAYS, 22:20 "ASSYRIA" - THIS IS THE SECOND DISCUSSION QUESTION, IF YOU HAVE 22:24 ONE OF THE QUARTERLIES - "ASSYRIA WAS ONE OF THE 22:26 SUPERPOWERS DOMINATING THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST FROM ABOUT 885 22:30 TO 625 BC. ISRAEL AND JUDAH SUFFERED 22:35 REPEATEDLY UNDER HER HARSH RULE." 22:39 LET ME JUST TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT HARSH RULE. 22:44 I WAS READING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ASSYRIANS. 22:49 THE ASSYRIANS ACTUALLY WORSHIPED MANY OF THE SAME GODS THAT OTHER 22:55 PEOPLES IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD WORSHIPED. 22:58 THERE WERE NOT ALL THAT FAR REMOVED, GEOGRAPHICALLY, FROM 23:01 THE BABYLONIANS, SO THEY WORSHIPED MANY OF THE SAME GODS 23:04 OF THE BABYLONIANS. YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF MARDUK OR BAAL. 23:09 BUT THEY ALSO HAD A UNIQUE GOD. THEIR GOD THAT THEY ESPECIALLY 23:14 WORSHIPED, THE ASSYRIANS, WAS BY THE NAME OF ASHER. 23:19 THE GOD ASHER HAD A NUMBER OF ATTRIBUTES, BUT ONE OF THE CHIEF 23:24 ATTRIBUTES OF ASHER WAS THAT HE WAS THE GOD OF WAR. 23:28 AND SO, IN READING ABOUT THE ASSYRIANS, WE'RE TOLD THAT WHEN 23:32 THEY WENT TO WAR THEY WERE ENGAGING IN AN ACT OF WORSHIP. 23:38 I MEAN, THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE. 23:40 ONE OF THE ASSYRIAN RULERS WROTE THIS ABOUT HIS CONQUESTS, 23:46 REFERRING TO ONE OF HIS CAMPAIGNS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 23:50 SPEAKING OF HIS WORSHIP OF ASHER - HIS SUCCESS FOR HIS GODS, IF 23:56 YOU WILL, THIS IS WHAT HE DID: "STREAMS OF BLOOD WERE SHED AND 24:02 CORPSES WERE PILED UP LIKE MOUNTAINS." 24:09 WHAT KIND OF PICTURE DOES THAT GIVE YOU? 24:11 I MEAN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE PEOPLES THAT WERE 24:16 OPPRESSED PERIODICALLY BY THE ASSYRIANS, AS THE ISRAELITES 24:20 WERE. WHAT - THEY WERE A RUTHLESS PEOPLE. 24:23 THEY WERE A PEOPLE THAT SEEMED TO GLORY IN CARNAGE. 24:28 SO YOU'RE BEING GIVEN A MESSAGE, IF YOU'RE JONAH, AND THE MESSAGE 24:33 IS THAT YOU ARE - THAT GOD IS PLANNING TO DESTROY NINEVEH. 24:38 WHAT DO YOU THINK MOST ISRAELITES WERE PRAYING ABOUT 24:41 THE ASSYRIANS? DO YOU EVER READ IN THE BIBLE 24:48 WHERE PEOPLE ARE PRAYING FOR THE DEATH OF THEIR ENEMIES? 24:52 YOU MAY REMEMBER, HISTORICALLY, SOLOMON WAS COMMENDED BY GOD 24:56 BECAUSE WHEN GOD ASKED HIM WHAT HE WISHED OF HIM, SOLOMON DID 25:01 NOT ASK FOR THE DEATH OF HIS ENEMIES. IT WAS COMMON FOR AN 25:06 OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO ASK FOR THE DEATH OF THEIR ENEMIES. 25:10 I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF JONAH, LIKE MANY "GOOD 25:14 ISRAELITES" - IN QUOTES - "GOOD ISRAELITES" - WERE PRAYING FOR 25:18 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ASSYRIANS. 25:21 AND SO NOW GOD GIVES A MESSAGE TO JONAH SAYING TO DO WHAT? 25:28 TO PROCLAIM JUDGMENT AGAINST NINEVEH. NOW YOU MIGHT SAY, 25:34 'WELL, THAT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD. THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT THEY WERE 25:36 PRAYING FOR.' BUT CHAPTER 4 REVEALS TO US THAT JONAH HAD 25:39 THIS NAGGING SUSPICION. HE KNEW THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 25:46 AND WHAT WAS THE CHARACTER OF GOD? 25:48 LOVING, ANXIOUS TO FORGIVE. DO WE NEED THAT MESSAGE TODAY? 25:55 DOES OUR WORLD NEED THAT MESSAGE? 25:58 I HAVE A - WE WERE JUST TALKING AROUND THE TABLE AT HOME ABOUT 26:03 ONE OF THE CONTEXTS THAT OUR FAMILY HAS TRYING TO KEEP THINGS 26:09 AS CONFIDENTIAL AS POSSIBLE, BUT IN DEALING WITH AN INDIVIDUAL, 26:16 LIKE MANY YOU'VE MET, 'HOW CAN I LOVE A GOD LIKE THAT?' 26:20 'HOW CAN THERE BE A GOD IF X, Y, OR Z HAPPENS IN THIS WORLD?' 26:23 ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALONG WITH ME? 26:25 BUT JONAH SAW THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 26:31 IN THE MIDST OF THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE WORLD, JONAH SAW THE 26:34 TRUTH OF EXODUS 34. WHY DON'T YOU TURN THERE? 26:37 GOD GIVES THIS REVELATION WHEN MOSES WANTS TO SEE GOD. 26:43 MOSES WANTED TO SEE GOD. HAVE YOU EVER FELT YOU WANTED TO 26:45 SEE GOD? AND WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME IS 26:48 GOD DOESN'T LET MOSES PHYSICALLY SEE HIM. 26:52 HE SAID 'IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, YOU CAN'T LOOK UPON ME AND LIVE.' 26:55 BUT AS WE'RE TURNING THERE IN EXODUS, IT'S INTERESTING THE 27:02 REVELATION THAT IS GIVEN. SO LET'S PICK UP THE STORY IN - 27:13 WELL, THERE'S ACTUALLY SEVERAL INTERESTING DIMENSIONS TO THIS. 27:16 LET'S LOOK AT EXODUS 32 AND IN EXODUS 32 MOSES IS DEALING 27:32 WITH THE REBELLION OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 27:35 GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE BUILT THAT GOLDEN CALF. 27:39 AND IN EXODUS 32, GOD ACTUALLY SAYS SOMETHING TO MOSES THAT MAY 27:49 SEEM QUITE SURPRISING IF WE HADN'T READ THE STORY BEFORE. 27:54 I'M IN EXODUS 32, VERSE 9, THE LORD SAYS TO MOSES, "I HAVE SEEN 28:00 THIS PEOPLE, AND INDEED IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE! 28:06 NOW THEREFORE, LET ME ALONE, THAT MY WRATH MAY BURN HOT 28:10 AGAINST THEM AND I MAY CONSUME THEM. 28:12 AND I WILL MAKE OF YOU A GREAT NATION." 28:16 BUT WHAT IS MOSES' RESPONSE TO THIS? 28:20 MOSES' RESPONSE IS FOUND IN VERSE 11, "LORD, WHY DOES YOUR 28:26 WRATH BURN HOT AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE WHOM YOU HAVE BROUGHT 28:29 OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH GREAT POWER AND WITH A MIGHTY 28:32 HAND? WHY SHOULD THE EGYPTIANS SPEAK, 28:34 AND SAY, 'HE BROUGHT THEM OUT TO HARM THEM, TO KILL THEM IN THE 28:37 MOUNTAINS, AND TO CONSUME THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH'? 28:39 TURN FROM YOUR FIERCE WRATH, AND RELENT FROM THIS HARM TO YOUR 28:44 PEOPLE.'" AND AS MOSES PLEADS WITH THE 28:46 LORD, HE DOES, INDEED, REPENT. HE CHANGES HIS EXPRESSED 28:54 DECISION. AND AS THE STORY PLAYS OUT OVER 28:59 THE NEXT FEW CHAPTERS, WE FIND IN CHAPTER 34 MOSES CUTTING OUT 29:03 SOME NEW TABLES OF STONE. YOU REMEMBER HE THREW THE TABLES 29:07 OF STONE TO THE GROUND, SYMBOLIZING THE BROKEN LAW THAT 29:12 THE PEOPLE HAD IMPLEMENTED THERE IN WORSHIPING IDOLS. 29:15 AND THEN IT IS, WE FIND IN CHAPTER 34, WHERE MOSES HAS THIS 29:23 EXPERIENCE IN, IF YOU WILL, SEEING THE LORD. 29:27 I'M IN VERSE 5 OF EXODUS CHAPTER 34, IT SAYS, "NOW THE LORD 29:31 DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD AND STOOD WITH HIM" - THAT'S MOSES - 29:35 "THERE, AND PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD. AND THE LORD PASSED 29:39 BEFORE HIM AND PROCLAIMED, 'THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND 29:42 GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING, AND ABOUNDING IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH, 29:47 KEEPING MERCY FOR THOUSANDS, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND 29:49 TRANSGRESSION AND SIN, BY NO MEANS CLEARING THE GUILTY, 29:53 VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHER UPON THE CHILDREN AND THE 29:55 CHILDREN'S CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND THE FOURTH GENERATION.'" SO 29:59 ALTHOUGH THERE IS THAT EXPRESSION OF JUSTICE THERE, 30:01 THERE IS ALSO THE EXPRESSION OF GOD'S MERCY. AND IF YOU STUDY 30:08 THE PSALMS, YOU'LL AGAIN SEE THE VERY SAME WORDS. 30:10 SO THE HEBREW MIND, IF THEY UNDERSTOOD THE SCRIPTURES, WE 30:15 WANT TO SEE JESUS TODAY, BUT JESUS SAYS WE SEE HIM WHEN WE 30:20 RECOGNIZE HIM TO BE A GOD OF MERCY. 30:23 ARE THERE THINGS THAT WOULD CAUSE US TO QUESTION GOD'S MERCY 30:26 AND LOVE? ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND? 30:30 THERE ARE. THERE ARE. 30:33 WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE, SO 30:37 TO SPEAK, AND WHY SO-CALLED BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE. 30:41 WE STRUGGLE WITH THAT, RIGHT? 30:43 AND IT'S A STRUGGLE THAT'S BEEN THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES, BUT 30:46 THE POINT IS WE GET GLIMPSES OF GOD'S LOVE AND MERCY. 30:49 DID JONAH SEE IT - COMING BACK TO THE BOOK OF JONAH - DID HE 30:52 SEE IT? HE SAW IT AND HE WAS SO 30:54 CONCERNED ABOUT GOD'S GOODNESS THAT HE DIDN'T WANT TO BRING THE 30:59 MESSAGE. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT WAS? 31:04 DO YOU THINK HE SAID, 'LISTEN, IF I DON'T GO, MAYBE THEY WON'T 31:07 GET THE MESSAGE AND THEY WON'T REPENT AND GOD'LL JUST WIPE 'EM 31:11 OUT LIKE HE'S PLANNING.' DO YOU THINK THAT WAS IN THE 31:14 BACK OF HIS MIND? PERHAPS. THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN 31:17 SOMETHING ELSE ON JONAH'S MIND. TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO 31:19 DEUTERONOMY, THE LAST OF WHAT WE CALL THE PENTATEUCH - MOSES' 31:26 FIVE BOOKS - DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 18. 31:30 IN CHAPTER 18 THERE ARE SOME SOBERING WORDS. 31:34 IF THEY WERE HEEDED TODAY WE'D HAVE A LOT LESS PEOPLE 31:38 PROCLAIMING TO BE PROPHETS. DEUTERONOMY 18 - THE PEOPLE WERE 31:45 LONGING FOR SOMEONE LIKE MOSES TO COME 31:48 AFTER MOSES LEFT THE STAGE. GOD WAS PREPARING THE PEOPLE FOR 31:53 MOSES' DEPARTURE - HE PROMISED THAT HE WOULD RAISE UP ANOTHER 31:57 PROPHET LIKE MOSES. ULTIMATELY, THAT WAS FULFILLED IN JESUS. 32:01 AND IN VERSE 19, HERE'S WHAT GOD SAYS OF THAT PROPHET - 32:07 DEUTERONOMY 18, VERSE 19, "AND IT SHALL BE THAT WHOEVER WILL 32:12 NOT HEAR MY WORDS, WHICH HE SPEAKS IN MY NAME, I WILL 32:16 REQUIRE IT OF HIM. BUT THE PROPHET WHO PRESUMES TO 32:19 SPEAK A WORD IN MY NAME, WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED HIM TO SPEAK, 32:24 OR WHO SPEAKS IN THE NAME OF OTHER GODS, THAT PROPHET 32:27 SHALL" - WHAT? - "SHALL DIE." 32:31 I MEAN, IT WAS - IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES IT WAS A 32:34 DANGEROUS THING TO SAY YOU WERE A PROPHET. 32:37 YOU WOULD NOT SAY YOU WERE A PROPHET. 32:38 YOU WOULDN'T COME TO CHURCH AND SAY, 'I JUST HAD A DREAM AND I 32:41 THINK I WAS GIVEN THE GIFT OF PROPHECY.' YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT 32:44 UNLESS YOU WERE CERTAIN THAT GOD HAD GIVEN IT TO YOU BECAUSE THE 32:49 TEXT GOES ON - IT EXPLAINS HOW YOU WERE TO KNOW WHETHER 32:51 SOMEONE WAS A TRUE PROPHET OR NOT. 32:53 LISTEN - VERSE 21, "AND IF YOU SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'HOW SHALL WE 32:57 KNOW THE WORD WHICH THE LORD HAS NOT SPOKEN?'" 33:00 - IN OTHER WORDS, HOW ARE WE GOING TO ENACT THE DEATH PENALTY 33:04 FOR SOMEONE WHO PROCLAIMS THEMSELVES A PROPHET AND IS NOT? 33:09 - VERSE 22, HERE'S THE ANSWER - "WHEN A PROPHET SPEAKS IN THE 33:13 NAME OF THE LORD, IF THE THING DOES NOT HAPPEN OR COME TO PASS, 33:17 THAT IS THE THING WHICH THE LORD HAS NOT SPOKEN; THE PROPHET HAS 33:23 SPOKEN IT PRESUMPTUOUSLY; YOU SHALL NOT BE AFRAID OF HIM." 33:28 AND WHAT WAS THE PENALTY FOR THAT PROPHET WHO SPOKE A 33:31 PROPHETIC MESSAGE CLAIMING TO BE FROM GOD AND IT DIDN'T COME 33:34 TRUE. WHAT WAS TO HAPPEN? HE WAS TO DIE. 33:37 CAN YOU PUT YOURSELF IN JONAH'S POSITION? 33:40 WE'D LIKE TO LOOK DOWN AT JONAH AND SAY, 'BOY - WHAT - HOW CAN - 33:43 IF GOD TOLD ME WHAT TO DO, I WOULD DO IT.' I MEAN THINK ABOUT 33:47 IT - GOD ACTUALLY TELLING HIM WHAT TO DO. 33:49 YOU SAY, 'I'M JUST - DR. DEROSE, I'M PRAYING FOR THAT. 33:51 I'M PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD JUST SHOW ME WHAT TO DO AND I'M JUST 33:54 READY TO DO IT.' DID JONAH KNOW CLEARLY WHAT THE LORD WAS 33:57 CALLING HIM TO DO? BUT AS HE REASONED THINGS OUT IN 34:01 HIS OWN HUMAN REASONING, IT DIDN'T SOUND ALL THAT GOOD. 34:04 I MEAN, HERE, THIS WAS THE ENEMY. 34:06 THESE WERE THE PEOPLE YOU WERE PRAYING TO BE DESTROYED. 34:08 NOW - AND ON TOP OF THAT, HE KNEW GOD'S CHARACTER. 34:13 IF HE GOES AND PREACHES THIS MESSAGE AND THEY REPENT, WHAT 34:16 WILL HE BE THOUGHT OF AS? A FALSE PROPHET. 34:20 AND WHAT'S HIS REWARD FOR DOING IT? 34:23 I MEAN THIS IS PRETTY LOUSY, ISN'T IT? 34:25 I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, YOUR ENEMIES ARE GOING TO LIVE AND 34:27 YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. SO WHAT DOES HE DECIDE TO DO? 34:30 HE DECIDES TO RUN, OKAY? HE'S GOING TO RUN FROM THE 34:34 PRESENCE OF THE LORD. BY THE WAY, WHERE CAN WE GO TO 34:36 RUN FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 34:38 YOU SAY, 'HOW COULD HE HAVE SUCH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S 34:41 CHARACTER - HIS LOVE AND MERCY - AND NOT REALIZE THAT THERE'S NO 34:44 PLACE TO RUN AWAY FROM THE LORD? LET'S GO BACK TO JONAH AND TRY 34:49 TO FATHOM A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THIS FAMILIAR STORY. 34:54 THE PROBLEM IS, I THINK, AS I LOOK AT THE STORY MORE AND MORE, 34:59 EVEN THOUGH WE LIKE TO DISTANCE OURSELVES FROM JONAH, 35:03 ISN'T THIS REALLY THE HUMAN CONDITION? 35:07 THAT WE ALL LONG FOR GOD'S GUIDANCE UNTIL GOD TELLS US 35:11 SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR, RIGHT? 35:16 WELL, JONAH FINDS HIMSELF ON THAT SHIP HEADED TO TARSHISH AND 35:23 IN CHAPTER 1 WE FIND THAT THIS SHIP IS, IN VERSE 4, IN THE 35:34 MIDST OF A MIGHTY TEMPEST SO THAT THE SHIP WAS ABOUT TO BE 35:39 BROKEN UP. THE MARINERS, THOSE MEN WHO HAD 35:44 SPENT THEIR LIVES ON THE SEA, THEY ARE FEARING FOR THEIR 35:48 LIVES. AND WHAT DO THEY BEGIN TO DO? 35:52 WHAT DO THEY BEGIN TO DO? THEY'RE ALL CRYING OUT TO THEIR 35:58 GODS, BUT WHAT IS JONAH DOING? JONAH IS SLEEPING ON THE BOAT. 36:06 NOW IS ALL OF THIS STARTING TO SOUND VAGUELY FAMILIAR IF YOU'VE 36:10 READ THE WHOLE BIBLE? 36:12 THIS SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE ANOTHER SHIP THAT WAS CROSSING A 36:17 SMALLER BODY OF WATER, THE SEA OF GALILEE. 36:21 AND ON IT WERE A NUMBER OF FISHERMEN AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF 36:25 OTHER DISCIPLES NUMBERING TWELVE IN ALL, AND THERE WAS SOMEONE ON 36:31 THE BOAT WHO WAS SLEEPING. WHO WAS SLEEPING ON THAT BOAT? 36:34 >>JESUS. >>THAT'S RIGHT, IT WAS JESUS. 36:36 BY THE WAY, AS WE STUDY ABOUT GREAT MISSIONARIES IN THE BIBLE, 36:40 IT IS FITTING THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THIS QUARTER, AT THE 36:42 HEART OF THIS LESSON STUDY IS THE GREAT MISSIONARY, JESUS. 36:45 SO HERE, AS WE'RE READING THE STORY OF JONAH, AND IT'S AMAZING 36:49 AS YOU LOOK AT THE DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENS. 36:52 JONAH SLEEPING ON THE BOAT - WHY WAS JONAH, DO YOU THINK, 36:56 SLEEPING ON THE BOAT? NOW WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL 37:01 BECAUSE NOT ALL THE DETAILS HAVE BEEN REVEALED AND WE ALL BRING 37:05 CERTAIN BIASES TO OUR READING OF THE WORD. 37:07 NOW, AS A PHYSICIAN, I'M, YOU KNOW, READING THIS AND I'M 37:11 READING ABOUT A MAN WHO SEEMS QUITE DEPRESSED, NOT THINKING 37:15 CLEARLY - I'M THINKING, I MEAN, HE'S DEPRESSED LAYING IN THE 37:18 BOTTOM OF THE BOAT. WAS THAT JESUS' STATE AS HE WAS 37:23 CROSSING THE SEA OF GALILEE? NO, JESUS, ON THE OTHER HAND, 37:26 WAS RESTING IN HIS FATHER'S CARE. 37:29 AND SOME HAVE ARGUED THAT PERHAPS JESUS WAS RESTING SO 37:32 SOUNDLY AS THEY TRAVELED ACROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE BECAUSE 37:36 HE KNEW HIS TIME HAD NOT YET COME. 37:39 JESUS KNEW THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL - DANIEL 9 - WHERE IT 37:43 SPOKE OF WHEN THE MESSIAH WOULD COME, HOW LONG HIS MINISTRY 37:47 WOULD LAST - YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY THE VERY DATE BEING PROPHESIED 37:52 AS YOU STUDY DANIEL CHAPTER 9 AND THE 70 WEEKS PROPHECY. 37:56 BUT WHAT'S SO INTERESTING ABOUT THE PARALLELS IS, AS YOU READ 38:01 THROUGH JONAH CHAPTER 1, JONAH COMES UP WITH A SOLUTION AND 38:07 WHAT IS THE SOLUTION HE GIVES TO QUELL THE STORM? 38:11 YEAH, VERSE 12 OF JONAH 1, "PICK ME UP AND THROW ME INTO THE SEA; 38:18 THEN THE SEA WILL BECOME CALM FOR YOU. 38:21 FOR I KNOW THAT THIS GREAT TEMPEST IS BECAUSE OF ME." 38:25 AND SO JONAH IS WILLING TO BEAR HIS OWN SIN IN ORDER TO SAVE THE 38:31 OTHER PEOPLE. ARE YOU STARTING TO SEE SOME 38:35 GOSPEL PARALLELS HERE? BY THE WAY, THIS FREE OFFER BOOK 38:38 - THE SIGN OF JONAH - I MEAN, THAT DRAWS OUT SOME OF THESE 38:42 VERY LESSONS AND MAKES IT VERY POINTED. 38:45 JONAH'S STORY, AS WE READ THROUGH IT, WE SEE THE MINISTRY 38:48 OF JESUS, DON'T WE? JESUS CALLED TO SPEAK TO A LOST 38:53 WORLD AND HERE HE'S ON THIS SHIP - NOW JONAH'S BEARING HIS 38:56 OWN SINS, WHOSE SINS WAS JESUS BEARING? 38:58 JESUS WAS BEARING THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 39:01 HE'S BEARING OUR SINS - MY SINS. TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO ANOTHER 39:05 INTERESTING CONNECTION. IT'S MENTIONED IN SUNDAY'S 39:08 LESSON, 2 KINGS, CHAPTER 14, VERSE 25. 39:10 WE KNOW SOMETHING MORE ABOUT JONAH THAN JUST WHAT IS REVEALED 39:13 HERE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH. 39:17 2 KINGS, CHAPTER 14 - BECAUSE, YOU SEE, JONAH WAS ALREADY A 39:25 SUCCESSFUL PROPHET IN HIS OWN RIGHT IN HIS OWN LAND. 39:29 HE HAD A MINISTRY TO HIS OWN PEOPLE. 39:32 HE COULD HAVE WELL SAID, 'WELL, WHY DON'T I JUST STAY HERE? 39:35 THE LORD'S BEEN USING ME AT HOME.' 2 KINGS CHAPTER 14, VERSE 39:39 25, IT SAYS HERE, SPEAKING OF - WELL, LET'S READ - BEGIN WITH 39:47 VERSE 23 - I'M IN 2 KINGS CHAPTER 14, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 39:52 23 TO GIVE US A LITTLE CONTEXT. IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF AMAZIAH 39:57 THE SON OF JOASH, KING OF JUDAH, JEROBOAM THE SON OF JOASH, KING 40:02 OF ISRAEL, BECAME KING IN SAMARIA AND REIGNED FORTY-ONE 40:06 YEARS. AND HE DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF 40:08 THE LORD; HE DID NOT DEPART FROM ALL THE SINS OF JEROBOAM THE SON 40:11 OF NEBAT, WHO HAD MADE ISRAEL SIN. 40:16 HE RESTORED THE TERRITORY OF ISRAEL FROM THE ENTRANCE OF 40:19 HAMATH TO THE SEA OF THE ARABAH, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE 40:23 LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH HE HAD SPOKEN THROUGH HIS SERVANT JONAH 40:28 THE SON OF AMITTAI, THE PROPHET WHO WAS FROM GATH HEPHER." 40:35 IT IS OBVIOUSLY THE VERY SAME JONAH - THE SAME FATHER, 40:41 AMITTAI, THAT IS MENTIONED IN JONAH 1, BUT THERE'S A DETAIL IN 40:45 2 KINGS CHAPTER 14 THAT WE DON'T SEE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH, IT'S 40:50 WHERE JONAH IS FROM. DID YOU CATCH WHERE HE'S FROM? 40:53 GATH HEPHER. NOW YOUR LESSON QUARTERLY DOES 40:58 TELL YOU WHAT GATH HEPHER MEANS. IT'S FROM HEBREW FOR 41:02 THE WINE PRESS . 41:04 GATH, YOU SEE, IS THE WINE PRESS - GATH - AND WHAT'S QUITE 41:12 INTERESTING ABOUT THIS IS THAT THERE IS ANOTHER GATH IN THE 41:15 BIBLE, WHERE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WINE PRESS TAKES ON GREAT 41:21 SIGNIFICANCE AND IT HAS A PARALLEL WITH THE JONAH STORY. 41:25 IT'S GATH SEMANE - HAVE YOU HEARD OF GATH SEMANE? 41:28 YES, SEMANE REFERS TO SEED OR OIL. 41:32 SO IT WAS THE WINE PRESS FOR THE OIL, IF YOU WILL, GATH SEMANE. 41:37 IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE THE OIL WAS PRESSED. 41:39 AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE? 41:42 JESUS' LIFE BEGAN TO BE PRESSED OUT. 41:49 JESUS WAS GIVING HIMSELF - WAS COVENANTING - WAS REAFFIRMING 41:53 THE COVENANT MADE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT HE 41:56 WOULD DIE FOR HUMANITY'S SINS AND THIS REALLY IS NOT A 42:03 PROMOTIONAL LESSON STUDY FOR THIS FREE BOOKLET, I MEAN, BUT 42:06 THIS BOOKLET BRINGS OUT SOMETHING THAT MANY CHRISTIANS 42:10 HAVE MISSED THROUGHOUT HISTORY. THEY'VE MISSED WHAT THE THREE 42:16 DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH EXPERIENCE 42:20 WAS THAT JONAH WAS - EXPERIENCE ILLUSTRATING. 42:23 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT BEGAN AT THE WINE PRESS OF GETHSEMANE FOR 42:27 JESUS. JESUS BEGAN BEARING THE SINS OF 42:31 THE WORLD IN GETHSEMANE. AND IF YOU SAY, 'DR. 42:34 DEROSE, YOU'RE JUST FLYING BY THAT TOO QUICKLY FOR ME.' THAT'S 42:37 WHY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE FREE OFFER, BECAUSE IT GOES INTO MORE 42:41 DETAIL ABOUT THAT. BUT THE POINT I'M SIMPLY MAKING 42:43 IS WHAT PLAYS OUT IN JONAH CHAPTER 1 IS ACTUALLY A 42:46 REVELATION OF WHAT JESUS WAS GOING TO DO IN HIS MINISTRY. 42:50 HE WOULD BE IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH. 42:53 HE WOULD BE BURYING THE SINS OF THE WORLD, IN THE MIDST OF 42:55 HUMANITY, BEARING OUR SINS, FROM THE TIME OF GETHSEMANE, THROUGH 42:59 THE CRUCIFIXION, UNTIL HE WAS RESURRECTED ON SUNDAY MORNING. 43:05 THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH. YOU SAY, 'WAIT! 43:08 THIS IS GREAT NEWS!' THAT'S GREAT THAT YOU CATCH IT. 43:11 I MEAN, WE CAN REBEL AGAINST GOD AND GOD CAN USE US TO GIVE A 43:14 POWERFUL MESSAGE TO THE WORLD. ISN'T THAT GREAT NEWS? 43:17 WELL, IS IT GREAT NEWS OR NOT? CAN GOD USE US IF WE'RE 43:22 REBELLING AGAINST HIM? I MEAN, HE CAN, BUT THIS IS NOT 43:26 SOMETHING THAT SHOULD ENCOURAGE US TO WHAT? REBEL AGAINST GOD. 43:31 WELL, YOU KNOW, LISTEN, THINK ABOUT IT, IF JONAH HADN'T 43:33 REBELLED THEN HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THROWN, YOU KNOW, HE 43:35 WOULDN'T HAVE GONE ON THE SHIP, HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THROWN 43:37 OVERBOARD, IT WOULDN'T HAVE ILLUSTRATED SO AMAZINGLY THIS 43:40 EXPERIENCE THAT JESUS WENT THROUGH. 43:42 BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE THAT SPOKE FOR GOD IN THE 43:47 MIDST OF REBELLION. YOU'VE HEARD OF BALAAM, HAVEN'T YOU? 43:51 BY THE WAY, BALAAM, EVIDENCE FROM ANTIQUITY, A REAL 43:55 HISTORICAL FIGURE - HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM WHERE BAALAM 43:59 PROPHESIED, AN INSCRIPTION OF BALAAM'S VERY WORDS - WORDS THAT 44:04 WERE USED TO GUIDE THE WISE MEN - THE MAGI - TO JESUS. 44:09 ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? 44:10 THIS WAS A PROPHECY GIVEN BY BALAAM IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS 44:14 WHEN HE WAS REBELLING AGAINST GOD. 44:17 YOU REMEMBER THE HIGH PRIEST, CAIAPHAS, REMEMBER? 44:21 IN JOHN 11, I BELIEVE IT IS, WHERE HE SAID, 'ISN'T IT GOOD 44:26 FOR ONE MAN TO DIE FOR THE WHOLE NATION?' 44:28 AND THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS PROPHESYING AS HIGH PRIEST. 44:33 WAS CAIAPHAS SOMEONE WHO HAD YIELDED HIS LIFE TO JESUS? 44:36 CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING? I KNOW GOD CAN USE ME EVEN IF 44:42 I'M REBELLING AGAINST HIM, BUT I DON'T WANT THAT TO BE MY LIFE 44:47 TESTIMONY, OKAY? I WANT MY LIFE TESTIMONY TO BE 44:51 THAT WHEN GOD TOLD ME TO ARISE AND GO, I DID WHAT? 44:56 I AROSE AND I WENT, BUT NOT WENT WHERE I WANTED TO GO, BUT WENT 45:00 WHERE HE WAS CALLING ME TO GO, RIGHT? 45:04 AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE STORY OF JONAH. 45:07 SO JONAH CHAPTER 2 IS A STORY OF WHAT JONAH EXPERIENCED IN THE 45:13 HEART OF THE EARTH. BY THE WAY, HE WASN'T DEAD THAT WHOLE TIME. 45:16 HE WASN'T DEAD ANY OF THE TIME, YOU REALIZE THAT. 45:19 JONAH CHAPTER 1 SPEAKS ABOUT THE REBELLIOUS PROPHET. 45:23 JONAH CHAPTER 2 SPEAKS ABOUT HOW JONAH COMES TO HIS SENSES IN THE 45:28 BELLY OF A WHALE. BY THE WAY, HOW COME IT OFTEN 45:31 TAKES SOME CATASTROPHE IN OUR LIVES TO GET US TO REALLY, 45:36 HONESTLY CALL ON GOD? WHY IS IT - WHY IS IT THAT? WHY IS IT THAT 45:42 WHEN EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL IT'S SO EASY TO FORGET GOD? 45:45 OH YEAH, WE CAN COME TO CHURCH AND WE CAN SING THE SONGS AND 45:47 ALL, BUT TO REALLY, HONESTLY - TO POUR OUT OUR SOULS TO GOD - 45:53 JONAH DOES THAT IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH. 45:56 AND, AS CHAPTER 2 ENDS WITH VERSE 10 IT SAYS, "SO THE LORD 46:01 SPOKE TO THE FISH AND IT VOMITED JONAH ONTO DRY LAND." 46:06 AGAIN, IT'S MIRACULOUS, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S FOUNDATION IN 46:10 HISTORY. SO CHAPTER 3 OF JONAH BEGINS AND 46:15 IF THE KEY WORD OF THE BOOK OF JONAH IS REALLY 'GO' DO YOU 46:19 THINK WE MIGHT FIND THAT WORD AGAIN? WELL, LET'S SEE. 46:23 "THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JONAH THE SECOND TIME, SAYING," 46:26 - WHAT? - "ARISE, GO TO NINEVEH, THAT 46:31 GREAT CITY, AND PREACH TO IT THE MESSAGE THAT I TELL YOU." 46:36 NOW IT'S INTERESTING - COMPARE JONAH 1 WITH JONAH 3. 46:41 DO YOU NOTICE THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT? 46:44 IN JONAH 1, GOD DOES GIVE A LITTLE MORE DETAILS ABOUT HOW 46:50 WICKED THOSE PEOPLE ARE AND THE IMPLICATION IS IT'S GOING TO BE 46:54 A MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT. IN JONAH 3, GOD SIMPLY SAYS, 47:00 'PREACH THE MESSAGE I TELL YOU.' 47:04 WHAT IS THE EASIEST MESSAGE TO PREACH? 47:08 WHAT IS THE EASIEST TESTIMONY TO GIVE? YOUR OWN, ESPECIALLY 47:14 IF IT'S YOUR OWN AND YOU WANT TO GIVE IT. 47:16 I MEAN, THE EASIEST THING TO COMMUNICATE IS SOMETHING YOU 47:18 WANT TO COMMUNICATE. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE 47:21 WEATHER, HOW HARD IS IT TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER? 47:23 IF YOU WANT TO TELL SOMEONE HOW BAD YOU'RE FEELING, HOW HARD IS 47:28 IT TO TELL THEM THAT? PROBABLY NOT ALL THAT DIFFICULT. 47:32 BUT SOMETIMES THE HARDEST THING TO COMMUNICATE IS WHAT GOD ASKS 47:36 YOU TO COMMUNICATE, AND JONAH'S STRUGGLING WITH THAT. 47:41 THAT'S WHAT IS THE WHOLE BOOK TO THIS POINT - HE'S STRUGGLING 47:44 WITH IT. SO IN CHAPTER 3 WE FIND JONAH - 47:48 VERSE 3 - HE ARISES AGAIN AND THIS TIME HE ACTUALLY GOES TO 47:53 NINEVEH ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD. 47:56 AND IT'S THIS HUGE CITY AND JONAH IS WALKING THROUGH THIS 48:00 CITY - I DON'T KNOW - I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT. 48:03 IN YOUR HUMAN REASONING, WHERE COULD YOU GO TODAY AND PREACH A 48:09 MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT AND THINK THAT PEOPLE WOULD WARMLY RECEIVE 48:12 IT? REALLY? 48:15 I MEAN, JONAH IS NOW IN THIS LAND OF THE ENEMY AND HE'S 48:21 SPEAKING A MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT AGAINST THEM AND HE DOES IT FOR 48:24 40 DAYS - THAT'S THE IMPLICATIONS. 48:27 IN VERSE 5 THERE IS THIS REMARKABLE, REMARKABLE INSIGHT. 48:34 I MEAN, DO YOU - DO YOU REALIZE WHO THE NINEVITES ARE? 48:37 I MEAN HAVE YOU EVER MET SOMEONE AND YOU SAID, 'BOY, THAT PERSON 48:41 WOULD MAKE A GREAT CHRISTIAN.' OR 'THEY WOULD BE A GREAT 48:43 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST.' I MEAN, THEY - THEY JUST OBVIOUSLY DON'T 48:46 KNOW EVERYTHING - THEY JUST SEEM LIKE SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON, 48:48 RIGHT? WOULDN'T THEY BE A GREAT CHRISTIAN? LISTEN, THE NINEVITES 48:52 WERE NOT THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE. THEY WERE NOT. 48:56 SO WHEN SOMEONE WALKS INTO THE CHURCH AND YOU FIND THEY'RE NOT 49:01 A CHURCH MEMBER - THEY SAY, 'WELL I'M JUST VISITING FOR THE 49:03 FIRST TIME.' AND YOU LOOK AT THEM AND SAY, 'WOW, I MEAN, 49:06 WHATEVER, THEY'D BE A GREAT GRANITE BAY MEMBER.' THOSE ARE 49:11 NOT THE PEOPLE THAT MOST NEED YOUR WITNESS. 49:13 NOW DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME, ANYONE WHO WALKS THROUGH 49:16 THE DOORS HERE SHOULD FEEL WELCOME. 49:18 AND IT'S A BIG ENOUGH CHURCH THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT FEEL 49:21 ALL THAT WELCOME BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE YOUR FRIEND ON THE 49:23 OTHER SIDE OF THE CHURCH AND THE PERSON THAT SAT NEXT TO YOU ALL 49:26 THROUGH SABBATH SCHOOL YOU NEVER EVEN SAID HELLO TO THEM, OKAY? 49:29 I MEAN, THAT CAN HAPPEN, CAN'T IT? 49:32 YEAH, I'M GLAD SOME OF YOU - I SEE YOU RIGHT NOW, SMILING AT 49:35 THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU. I KNOW IT SEEMS LIKE MOST OF YOU 49:37 ALREADY CAME CONNECTED, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE DOING IT, BUT 49:40 HERE'S THE POINT: THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE, THEY DID NOT LOOK LIKE 49:45 THE ONES THAT YOU WANTED TO JOIN THE CHURCH. 49:49 REMEMBER, THEY WERE A BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE. 49:52 BY THE WAY, THE ASSYRIANS WERE THE ONES THAT ULTIMATELY 49:56 DESTROYED THE NORTHERN KINGDOM - THE TEN TRIBES. 50:00 THEY WERE THE ONES THAT OVERRAN AND BASICALLY SCATTERED THE TEN 50:06 NORTHERN TRIBES. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY ARE TODAY. 50:09 YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE WANT TO CLAIM THEY DO, BUT THERE'S NO 50:12 EVIDENCE THAT THEY'RE RIGHT, OKAY? 50:14 VERSE 5, JONAH CHAPTER 3, "SO THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH" - DID 50:23 WHAT? - THEY BELIEVED GOD. THEY TRUSTED GOD. 50:30 I MEAN, ISN'T THIS A HUMBLING BOOK? THE PROPHET, JONAH, WHO 50:36 GOD HAD USED UP TO THIS TIME, HE DOESN'T TRUST GOD AND WHO DOES? 50:41 THIS HEATHEN PEOPLE - AND THEY PROCLAIM A FAST AND THE LESSON 50:50 QUARTERLY SUGGESTS THAT JONAH MUST HAVE - MUST HAVE GIVEN A 50:54 MESSAGE OF MERCY, BUT I DON'T GET THAT FROM THE BOOK BECAUSE 50:57 LOOK - LOOK WHAT THE KING SAYS IN VERSE 9 - THE KING OF 51:04 NINEVEH, "WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN AND RELENT, AND TURN 51:10 AWAY FROM HIS FIERCE ANGER, SO THAT WE MAY NOT PERISH?" 51:14 'WE'VE HEARD THE MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT' - THE KING IS SAYING - 51:19 'BUT WE'VE ALSO HEARD ABOUT THE GOD OF ISRAEL. 51:24 MAYBE - MAYBE IF WE REPENT HE'LL AVERT THE JUDGMENT.' WELL, THEY 51:30 DO REPENT. THEY TURN FROM THEIR EVIL WAYS. 51:32 AND WHEN WE COME TO CHAPTER 4, JONAH, AS WE SAW EARLIER, 51:37 IS DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T GET RID OF THAT PEOPLE 51:45 THAT HAD BEEN ISRAEL'S ENEMIES. AND AS JONAH STRUGGLES, GOD 51:50 CAUSES THAT PLANT TO GROW UP. AS HE'S LOOKING OVER THE CITY OF 51:53 NINEVEH, HOPING GOD WILL CHANGE HIS MIND, APPARENTLY, AND 51:56 DESTROY THE PEOPLE ANYWAY AND HE CAN, YOU KNOW, HAVE HIS PRAISE 51:59 CEREMONY, GOD CAUSES THAT PLANT TO GROW UP AND THEN CAUSES A 52:05 WORM TO EAT IT AND JONAH STARTS COMPLAINING. 52:09 AS THE BOOK CLOSES, VERSE 10, THE LORD SAYS TO JONAH, "YOU 52:16 HAVE HAD PITY ON THE PLANT FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT LABORED, NOR 52:20 MADE IT GROW, WHICH CAME UP IN A NIGHT AND PERISHED IN A NIGHT. 52:25 AND SHOULD I NOT PITY NINEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ARE 52:30 MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS WHO CANNOT 52:35 DISCERN BETWEEN THEIR RIGHT HAND AND THEIR LEFT - AND MUCH 52:40 LIVESTOCK?" JESUS ON THE CROSS SAID, 52:45 'FATHER, FORGIVE THEM' - WHAT? - 'THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE 52:51 DOING.' YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DISTRUST GOD - WHEN WE SIN - 52:54 WE'RE REALLY DOING THAT WHICH IS CONTRARY TO OUR BEST INTEREST. 53:00 IT'S LIKE WE DON'T KNOW OUR RIGHT HAND FROM OUR LEFT. 53:02 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING AND GOD HAS MERCY ON US. 53:06 HE HAD MERCY ON THE NINEVITES AND HE HAD MERCY ON JONAH. 53:11 AND THE MESSAGE COMES FROM THE BOOK OF JONAH TO ME AND TO EACH 53:15 OF US TO DO WHAT? ARISE AND GO. 53:19 IF YOU WANT TO STUDY IT MORE, WE'VE GOT THIS GREAT RESOURCE 53:23 FOR YOU, IT IS THE SIGN OF JONAH - IT IS THE FREE BOOK THAT GOES 53:28 ALONG WITH THIS LESSON - THE SIGN OF JONAH BY PASTOR DOUG. 53:32 IT IS FREE OFFER #149 - #149 - AND YOU CAN GET IT BY GOING TO 53:38 THE WEBSITE - YOU CAN GET IT FREE RIGHT THERE, JUST DOWNLOAD 53:43 IT AND READ IT RIGHT AWAY, OR YOU CAN CALL 1-866-788-3966 - 53:53 THAT'S 1-866-STUDY-MORE. 53:58 AND THE QUESTION, AS WE CLOSE, WITH THE STORY OF JONAH: CAN WE 54:05 BETTER APPRECIATE A GOD OF MERCY? 54:07 EVEN THOUGH WE MAY STILL STRUGGLE WITH SOME OF THESE 54:09 THINGS IN THE BOOK OF JONAH, WHY THESE MESSAGES OF JUDGMENT? 54:12 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR SOME FURTHER ADDITIONAL STUDY IF YOU WANT IT, 54:16 I CHALLENGE YOU TO SEE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH THE THREE ANGELS' 54:20 MESSAGES OF REVELATION 14 - JONAH, CALLED TO GIVE WHAT WAS 54:24 REALLY THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND THE MESSAGE OF JUDGMENT, AND 54:28 TO LIVE, HIMSELF, A LIFE OF PATIENCE AND TRUST. 54:35 (MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED 54:44 CONCEPT. >>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND 54:47 THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST - FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU. 54:50 >>THESE RADIO BROADCASTS WOULD BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM 54:54 SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY, FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT 54:58 TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. 55:02 THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON 55:06 BEGAN EXPANDING TO INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS. 55:09 IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS 55:14 GROWING OUTREACH EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING 55:17 EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD. 55:20 IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE 55:25 MINISTRY, ADDING THE BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO 55:28 PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON 55:33 MULTIPLE NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD. 55:35 FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE 55:39 BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A 55:44 TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE GLOBE AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND 55:47 WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 55:51 EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S 55:54 CHURCH SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS. 55:57 AMAZING FACTS - GOD'S MESSAGE, OUR MISSION. 56:07 >> AMAZING FACTS HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE. 56:10 >> I JUST PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS. 56:11 >> AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE. 56:14 >> IT'S ALL A PROCESS, GETTING TO WHERE I AM TODAY. 56:16 >> AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN - >> I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT - I 56:18 DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED, I FELT - >> I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE. 56:21 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST - 56:24 >> I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 56:26 >> GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME - 56:28 >> THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. >> I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER 56:31 HE GOES. >> AMAZING FACTS - MORE THAN 45 56:34 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 56:38 >> AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS - AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 56:42 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HE WAS 56:45 - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING 56:48 WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP - AND I'VE 56:51 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH THIS AND 56:54 FIND THIS. I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 56:57 >> AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 57:00 THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED - INCLUDING MYSELF. 57:03 >> MY QUESTION WAS 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 57:07 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 57:10 A FATHER. >> I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT 57:13 WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 57:16 >> I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 57:20 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE AND I JUST WENT 57:25 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 57:28 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 57:33 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 57:37 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 57:40 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 57:44 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 57:46 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 57:49 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 57:53 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 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