0:11 2 at the end of chapter 1 Jonah has been
0:15 swallowed by the prepared great
0:18 fish and has been in the inwards of that
0:21 fish three days and three nights it's
0:24 tragic when there are those who fuss and
0:27 fight over a simple Miracle like this
0:31 and miss the whole message of the book
0:35 then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God
0:37 out of the fish's
0:39 belly and
0:43 said I cried by reason of my Affliction
0:45 unto the Lord and he heard
0:49 me out of the belly of sheol that's the
0:50 place of the
0:54 Dead cried I and thou heardest my voice
0:58 for thou has cast me into the deep in
1:01 the midst of the Seas and the floods
1:04 compassed me about all thy Billows and
1:07 thy waves passed over
1:12 me then I said I am cast out of thy
1:15 sight yet will I look again toward thy Holy
1:16 Holy
1:19 Temple the waters compassed me about
1:22 even to the soul the depth closed me
1:26 round about the weeds were wrapped about my
1:27 my
1:30 head I went down to the bottom mountain
1:33 of the mountains the Earth with its bars
1:36 was about me forever yet hast thou
1:38 brought up my life from corruption oh
1:42 Lord my God when my soul fainted within
1:45 me I remembered the
1:49 Lord and my prayer came in unto thee
1:51 into thine Holy
1:55 Temple they that observe lying vanities
1:58 forsake their own
2:01 Mercy but I will sacrifice unto thee
2:04 with the voice of Thanksgiving I will
2:08 pay that that I have vowed
2:11 salvation is of the
2:16 Lord and the Lord spoke unto the fish
2:20 and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry
2:23 land we have no problem with this
2:26 miracle because Jesus had no problem with
2:27 with
2:30 it if you have any argument with Jonah
2:32 about this particular Miracle your
2:34 argument is not with Jonah your argument
2:38 is with Jesus because he used this as an
2:41 illustration a type of his own death
2:43 burial and
2:45 Resurrection now if you want to know
2:47 what a person is
2:50 like I mean really know that
2:53 person there are several tests that you
2:56 can use one is to notice what makes that person
2:58 person
3:01 laugh you reveal character considerably
3:03 by what you laugh
3:06 at or what You Weep over find out what
3:08 makes a person weep that will help you
3:10 to find out something about his
3:12 character or what gets him
3:15 excited what does he really get excited
3:19 about or what will he really sacrifice
3:22 for to what extent will he toil and work
3:24 for something this helps to indicate
3:27 what his values are what his character
3:30 is what price will he pay to have his
3:33 own way it's a good
3:37 test but one of the best tests is
3:40 prayer I don't mean the pious public
3:43 prayers that all of us have recorded on
3:46 cassettes somewhere in our system and
3:48 when the right button is pushed out
3:49 comes the regular prayer I don't mean
3:52 that kind of prayer we all have
3:54 those I mean the kind of prayer when you
3:56 find yourself in the kind of situation
3:58 Jonah was in the kind of prayer Peter
4:04 sinking what do we pray about when we
4:07 really have to pray what do we pray
4:10 about when we find everything around us
4:13 falling apart that tells
4:16 character then Jonah
4:18 Jonah
4:26 pray now this was a very costly
4:28 experience for Jonah it wasn't an easy experience
4:30 experience
4:35 I want us tonight to notice the four
4:39 stages in Jonah's experience with the
4:42 Lord because perhaps somebody here
4:45 tonight is in one of these stages if you
4:47 aren't just file them away because
4:50 someday you may find yourself
4:54 there stage number one
4:57 Disobedience then Jonah prayed unto the
4:59 Lord his God
5:03 not when he was at home contemplating
5:05 his ministry to
5:07 Nineveh not when he was heading down
5:10 toward the port waiting for a ship not
5:20 ship when did Jonah Pray when he was in trouble
5:26 Disobedience now it's a remarkable thing
5:28 that Jonah should disobey the Lord Jonah
5:32 was a Jew and the Jews owed a lot to the
5:35 Lord he had called them he had saved
5:38 them he had given them his Covenant he
5:40 had given them his word he had given
5:42 them the priesthood he'd given them the
5:45 temple he'd given them the sacrifices
5:47 he'd given them the prophets and the
5:49 promises as a Jew he should have fallen
5:51 before God and said oh God whatever you
5:54 want me to do I'll do it but he
5:57 disobeyed he had good
6:00 theology over in chapter 4 he tells us
6:03 what God is like verse two I knew that
6:06 thou art a gracious God and merciful
6:10 slow to anger and of great kindness and
6:12 repent us thee of the
6:15 evil he had good theology he could have
6:18 pass a theology course in the Bible
6:20 Institute is it possible to have good
6:23 Theology and be disobedient yes here in
6:27 Chapter 2 we have Jonah quoting the
6:30 scriptures now Bible students have
6:33 different ways of looking at this but I
6:35 sat down and tried to find where these
6:37 quotations were and I find that he
6:40 quotes seven statements from six
6:42 different Psalms Jonah could quote the
6:45 word of God but my Bible says Thy word
6:46 have I hid in my heart that I might not
6:48 sin against thee it's not enough just to
6:57 scripture chapter 2 Jonah is just simply
7:00 reeling out one verse after another
7:02 of course he'd probably met some
7:11 ship he had memorized all this
7:13 scripture but it didn't stop him from disobeying
7:15 disobeying
7:18 God in fact it made his Disobedience a
7:20 lot more
7:23 tragic because he was sinning against a
7:29 light he would expect Jonah to obey God
7:31 but he didn't obey God now his prayer
7:36 tells us why he was disobedient verse 7
7:39 when my soul fainted within me I
7:42 remembered the Lord he forgot the Lord
7:45 that's where his trouble started he had
7:47 good theology he had memorized scripture
7:50 he was called to be a preacher he was a covenant
7:52 covenant
7:55 Jew but he forgot the Lord what's it
7:57 mean to forget the Lord it means you
8:00 don't bring him into the circumstance of
8:02 life when his calling came he forgot the
8:05 Lord then came the word of the Lord to
8:07 Jonah saying arise go to Nineveh that
8:09 great City and preach unto
8:13 it but he forgot the Lord and when he
8:15 packed his bags and headed down to
8:20 the pier he forgot the Lord and when he
8:22 got on board that ship he forgot the
8:25 Lord he forgot God's grace and God's
8:28 love and God's power and God's mercy he
8:31 forgot the Lord when you start leaving
8:34 God out of the decisions of life we're
8:36 heading for
8:40 trouble he forgot the Lord he neglected
8:44 prayer look at verse 7even and my prayer
8:51 sooner first we start forgetting the
8:54 Lord then we start neglecting
8:57 prayer when the word of the Lord came to
9:01 Jonah Jonah didn't say oh God let me
9:03 pray about this I know you want me to go
9:05 I know the best thing is for me to go I
9:07 don't want to go now Lord help me FB
9:09 Meyer in one of his
9:13 books he's written a shelf of them tells
9:16 of an experience in his life like this
9:18 where God called him to do something and
9:20 he said Lord I can't do it I don't want
9:22 to do
9:24 it he said Lord I'm going to be honest
9:25 with you because you know my heart I'm
9:27 not going to pray some Pious
9:30 hypocritical prayer you know my heart
9:32 heart I'm not willing but Lord I'm
9:35 willing to be made
9:38 willing I'm willing to be made willing
9:40 and Meer said that was a turning point
9:41 in my
9:44 life where God said all right I'm glad
9:47 you're honest with me I will work to
9:48 make you willing to be
9:51 willing ever had to pray like
9:53 that you see God doesn't want our
9:56 service against our
10:00 will my Bible says doing the will of God
10:06 heart but Jonah's heart wasn't in
10:09 it and Jonah stubbornly rejected God's
10:11 will he neglected
10:13 prayer I'll tell you friends when you
10:14 neglect prayer you're going to do what
10:17 Jonah did verse 7 he fainted men ought
10:24 faint but he tells us in verse 8 another
10:28 reason why he disobeyed God first he
10:31 forgot the Lord secondly he neglected
10:33 prayer thirdly he believed
10:38 lies they that observe lying vanities
10:41 forsake their own Mercy he believed
10:43 lies he believed for example that the
10:45 will of God was something you could just
10:47 accept or
10:49 reject he believed that the word of God
10:52 was something just accept or reject now
10:53 the word of the Lord came to Jonah
10:56 saying well I don't want
10:58 it now if you believe that you believe a
11:00 lie the will of God is not something for
11:02 me to accept or reject the will of God
11:05 is something for me to obey there are no
11:08 options when you sit down at the Lord's
11:10 table he doesn't hand you a menu and say
11:15 alart he hands you the dinner and says
11:17 this is it I've prepared this especially
11:19 for you it's the best thing for
11:23 you but Jonah you see believe lies they
11:26 that observe lying vanities the word
11:30 vanities means emptiness the Hebrew word
11:33 vanity means what is left when you break
11:38 bubble and instead of Jonah getting his
11:42 hand on true realities he got his hand
11:45 on lying
11:49 vanities lots of Christians believe
11:51 lies they believe well I can sin and get
11:53 away with it they believe well I can
11:57 change God's mind they believe well I'll
12:00 never get caught and Jonah believed lies
12:03 like this and it got him into trouble
12:04 now if you'll turn back to chapter 1
12:07 you'll see all that Jonah lost because
12:09 he disobeyed
12:12 God I say it to you with all the
12:14 Simplicity and yet all of the heart that
12:18 I can muster when we disobey God we
12:22 lose nobody ever gained by disobeying
12:26 God what did he lose he lost God's
12:30 voice in verse two God spoke to Jonah
12:32 but in verse four God didn't speak to
12:34 Jonah in a voice he spoke to him in the
12:37 wind and the storm watch out when God
12:38 can't talk to you
12:41 anymore when we start disobeying God we
12:43 don't hear his voice he has to shout at
12:46 us with a storm and with wind in fact
12:49 God spoke to Jonah down in verse 6
12:51 through the voice of a pagan ship
12:54 captain it's a terrible thing when God
12:56 has to speak to his children through the
13:02 he lost God's
13:06 voice he lost his spiritual energy verse
13:08 five he was fast asleep in the midst of
13:11 the storm lots of Christians are
13:14 sleepwalking over and over again in his
13:15 Epistles Paul makes statements like
13:17 awake thou that sleepest and Christ
13:19 shall give you light we are the children
13:21 of the day we are not Children of the
13:24 Night therefore let us not sleep as in
13:28 the night wake up he lost his spiritual
13:30 energy there are a lot of Christians
13:33 today who are just
13:36 anemic they can't get excited about
13:38 salvation they can't get excited about
13:40 Sin they're just
13:48 Geritol he lost his
13:51 testimony verses
13:54 7-10 he had to confess to these Pagan
13:57 Sailors that he was a runaway preacher
13:59 who had resigned his calling and he was
14:02 trying to go on his own lost his
14:03 testimony he couldn't talk to
14:07 him he almost lost his life if it hadn't
14:09 been for the grace and the mercy of God
14:10 he would
14:13 have Disobedience at stage
14:16 one stage two
14:19 discipline what did God do to Jonah did
14:23 God give up on Jonah no
14:26 no did God tell the great fish to digest
14:34 no I have said often let me repeat it
14:38 God is as concerned about the worker as
14:44 work last week in the first message in
14:47 this series I said to you that Jonah
14:51 needed Nineveh as much as Nineveh needed
14:54 Jonah whatever God calls you to
14:59 do is there to bring out of us what God
15:01 wants to bring out when we are in the
15:03 will of God it brings the best out of us
15:04 when we're out of the will of God it
15:07 brings the worst out of
15:10 us that's why when husbands and fathers
15:12 are out of the will of God the home is a
15:14 hell on
15:16 Earth that's why when wives and mothers
15:18 are out of the will of God the children
15:20 want to leave home that's why when
15:21 children are out of the will of God
15:23 there's trouble at
15:26 home that's why when church members are
15:27 out of the will of God they're problems
15:29 in churches
15:31 wherever in the Bible you find a
15:38 trouble discipline what did God do he
15:42 disciplined Jonah he chastened
15:45 him now the greatest chapter in the
15:46 Bible on chastening is Hebrews chapter
15:49 12 I'm going to ask you to turn there I
15:51 will not deal with the entire chapter
15:53 chapter Hebrews
15:56 Hebrews
16:00 12 verse three for consider him
16:04 Jesus that endured such contradiction of
16:07 Sinners against himself lest ye be
16:10 wearied and faint in your
16:13 minds ye have not yet resisted un blood
16:16 striving against sin he's saying to
16:17 these people I don't know how much
16:18 trouble you're going through but you've
16:20 never gone through what Jesus went
16:22 through for
16:26 you he in his battle against sin ended
16:28 up giving his life you haven't gotten
16:30 that far yet
16:32 and you have forgotten the
16:35 exhortation the
16:38 encouragement which speaketh unto you as
16:43 unto Sons my son despise not thou the
16:45 chastening of the Lord and that word
16:48 chastening is the word discipline or
16:52 child training or instruction or
16:57 education for a child immature to become
17:01 a son mature involves discipline you
17:03 permit a child to do whatever he wants
17:06 to do when he wants to do it and you're
17:12 monster that's why the society's in the
17:17 today God doesn't do that with his
17:19 children God will not have any spoiled
17:20 brats in his
17:24 family that's why he has discipline my
17:26 son despise not thou the chastening of
17:28 the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked
17:31 of him for whom the Lord loveth he
17:35 chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he
17:36 he
17:38 receiveth I've heard
17:42 parents say oh I could never spank my
17:46 child I love him too much and my answer
17:48 to that is oh no it's not that you love
17:50 the child you love yourself too
17:53 much it hurts the parent more to
17:56 discipline the child than it hurts the
17:58 child I didn't believe that when my
17:59 parents told told me that I thought they
18:02 were lying but I've learned it's
18:05 true God does not chasten us because he
18:09 hates us he chastens us because he loves
18:12 us if ye endure chastening God deals
18:14 with you as with mature Sons for what
18:18 son is he whom the father chasteneth
18:21 not but if ye be without chastisement of
18:23 which All Sons are partakers then are
18:25 you illegitimate children and not Sons
18:27 I've never spanked the neighbor's children
18:28 children
18:30 I felt like it but I've never done
18:34 it they aren't my kids and if somebody
18:37 professes to be a Christian and lives in
18:44 repeatedly arrogantly
18:45 arrogantly
18:49 willingly and no chastening comes he is
18:54 not saved did you get that we have a lot
18:55 of people they say oh yeah I'm saved I'm
18:59 saved and they're living in sin
19:01 but nothing's ever happened they've
19:03 never had any
19:06 chastisement and my Bible says look if
19:08 this happens you just write it down and
19:10 remember it you're not God's child
19:12 because if you're God's child he
19:15 chastens you when Abraham went down to
19:18 Egypt God loved Abraham too much to let
19:23 him when
19:27 Jacob started scheming and running away
19:30 God loved him too much much God spanked
19:34 him when David disobeyed God David who
19:36 wrote the
19:39 Psalms God says I love you too much to
19:41 let you do it your own way and he
19:44 spanked him he paid for it now there's a
19:47 difference between chastening and
19:51 Punishment a judge punishes a criminal
19:53 to uphold the
19:57 law but I'm not under law I'm under
20:02 grace therefore my father chastens me to
20:09 love the judge doesn't love the criminal
20:11 the judge has to punish the criminal to
20:14 uphold the law but God doesn't look upon
20:16 his sinning children as criminals
20:18 they're still God's children he looks
20:20 upon them as children who need
20:29 chastens if you endure chasteness aha
20:32 that's the secret furthermore we have
20:35 had fathers of our flesh Earthly fathers
20:37 human fathers who corrected us and we
20:40 gave them reverence shall we not much
20:43 rather be in subjection unto the father
20:46 of spirits and
20:49 live the suggestion there is if we are
20:53 not in subjection we may not
21:03 for they our Earthly fathers verily for
21:07 a few days chastened us after their own
21:09 pleasure that doesn't mean they enjoyed
21:12 it it means as it seemed good to them
21:15 but he God chastens us for our Prophet
21:18 that we might be partakers of his
21:20 Holiness now no chastening for the
21:22 present seems to be
21:25 joyous we can all say Amen to that but
21:27 Grievous we can say Amen to
21:34 Woodshed I've known the chastening hand
21:36 of God you have
21:41 too why nevertheless afterward it the
21:45 chastening yieldeth the Peaceable fruit
21:48 of righteousness unto them who are
21:51 exercised by it now the writer is
21:54 telling us that God disciplines because
21:55 he loves
21:57 us God disciplines us because he wants
22:00 to perfect us he wants us to grow in
22:03 Holiness afterward comes the fruit of
22:06 Holiness God disciplines us to remind us
22:08 of his
22:10 word and you know there's another reason
22:12 why God disciplines us this is one
22:15 reason why he disciplined Jonah now you
22:17 just listen
22:21 closely God disciplines us to remind us
22:29 Christian he's saying all right you
22:30 don't want to do my will you want to go
22:32 your own way fine find out what it's
22:36 like not to have me taking care of
22:39 you I learned this from Phil Lassie Phil
22:41 and I are working together on a book on
22:43 Jonah and God teaches him some things
22:45 and God's taught me some things we're
22:47 putting them together and he said to me
22:49 you know he said I really believe that
22:51 God put Jonah down in the depths and
22:53 many people believe Jonah really died he
22:56 actually died his soul went to shol the
22:57 realm of the dead and God raised him
22:59 from the dead
23:01 Phil said I really believe God put Jonah
23:02 down there to let him know what it was
23:04 like to be
23:07 lost Jonah wouldn't go to those
23:09 ninevites and God said okay Jonah I want
23:11 to remind you of what it's like to be
23:14 lost down down down in prison in the
23:17 realm of the Dead darkness and death and
23:20 despair and hopelessness Jonah that's
23:29 Nineveh so God chasen Jonah
23:30 God disciplined
23:33 him now God disciplines Us in different
23:38 ways verse 5 of Hebrews 12 he can rebuke
23:41 us sometimes God disciplines Me by
23:44 rebuke he rebukes me from the word he
23:46 rebukes me by a preacher or a song He
23:48 rebukes me by a
23:50 Christian sometimes God rebukes if we
23:52 won't listen to the rebuke then God has
23:55 to start spanking he starts
23:58 scourging talks about that in verse six
24:02 he scourges every son that he receives
24:03 what should our response be to God's
24:05 chastening well you get the impression
24:07 that for 3 days and three nights Jonah just
24:09 just
24:11 resisted just going to have his own way
24:14 then he woke up and said hey I'm alive
24:16 man I'm alive I'm still in this great
24:17 fish but I'm
24:26 indigestible and then Thanksgiving
24:29 flooded his soul and his prayer is
24:31 really a prayer of Thanksgiving to God
24:34 for keeping him alive in such a
24:36 difficult situation now what should our
24:39 response be to the chastening and the
24:41 discipline of God well there are several
24:44 responses possible here we can respond
24:46 by despising
24:51 it down in verse five my son despise not
24:52 thou the chasing of the Lord I I've seen
24:55 Saints do that they get angry at God and
24:59 get bitter and they despise it or we can
25:01 uh resist
25:03 it fight
25:06 it or we can faint under it now those
25:09 are all wrong God doesn't want us to
25:11 faint and God doesn't want us to fight
25:14 God doesn't want us to fume God wants us
25:16 to submit the whole purpose of
25:19 discipline is to break the
25:24 will if we parents do not break the will
25:27 of a child will never make the will of a child
25:28 child
25:30 now I'm not talking about annihilating
25:32 his will I'm not talking about making
25:36 him a non- entity some kind of a puppet
25:39 no but if a child's will is not broken
25:40 that child will never grow up to be a
25:43 mature adult it's like a
25:47 cult a cult has to be broken power has
25:50 to be under control the Greek word for
25:52 meekness blessed are the meek that Greek
25:55 word means power under control it's the
25:57 word that was used for a horse that had
26:01 been broken a is useless until it's
26:03 broken unless you kill it and make glue
26:06 out of
26:09 it now you see God had Jonah's mind
26:11 Jonah knew what he was supposed to do
26:14 but God didn't have Jonah's
26:17 will and until he got Jonah's will he
26:19 couldn't control Jonah's body and get
26:21 him off to Nevan so in Chapter 2 he
26:26 broke Jonah's will which leads us to the
26:28 third stage in Jonah's exper
26:32 experience he didn't resist he didn't
26:34 fight he didn't argue he
26:38 submitted his third stage was dedication
26:40 he went
26:43 from discipline to dedication notice
26:46 what he says in verse 9 I
26:48 will I
26:50 will now you should have said that back
26:51 in chapter
26:54 one this book ought to read like this
26:56 and the word of the Lord came unto Jonah
26:58 the son of amiti saying arise go to of
27:00 that great City and preach unto it and
27:06 will it doesn't read like that by the
27:08 way does your story read like
27:11 that in between the
27:13 call and the
27:18 recall you've got storms and
27:21 danger he could have had a crown on his
27:22 head as a soul winter instead he had
27:25 weeds around his
27:27 head could have been walking in the
27:29 light here he wasn't the
27:31 darkness could have been out catching
27:41 him the whole problem his will so he
27:43 moved to stage three
27:46 dedication he dedicated himself again to
27:51 God I remembered the Lord and I prayed I
27:53 will sacrifice with the voice of
27:55 Thanksgiving now Lord you don't want me
27:58 to come and bring a lamb or a goat or
28:00 you want to hear my voice from my heart
28:09 will I will pay that which I have
28:13 vowed salvation is of the Lord now twice
28:17 here he talks about um the temple verse
28:21 four then I said I am cast out of thy
28:23 sight well quit complaining that's what you
28:25 you
28:29 wanted he got exactly what he wanted the
28:31 word of the Lord came to Jonah and Jonah
28:33 said no I'm not going to go and he arose
28:35 to flee from the presence of the Lord
28:37 and that's exactly what he got boy that
28:39 just says something to me about backslidden
28:40 backslidden
28:44 people they don't want God they don't
28:46 want God's will they don't want God to
28:48 do anything and then when they get in a
28:50 mess they say oh I don't have the Lord
29:00 wanted I am cast out of thy sight
29:04 yet I will look that's where it all
29:07 starts I will look again toward thy Holy
29:09 Temple now that's the Old Testament
29:11 version of 1 John
29:14 1:9 when Solomon dedicated the temple he
29:15 said something like this now Lord
29:18 Jehovah when your people are out away
29:19 from this place and they get into
29:21 trouble they're overcome by their
29:23 enemies or there's some problem if they
29:26 look toward your temple and pray in your
29:28 name hear them and forgive them that's
29:30 what Jonah
29:32 did now there was no problem looking
29:39 up up he didn't have a road map he
29:41 didn't have an atlas or a compass he
29:43 said out there someplace is God's Temple
29:45 God's going to hear me I'm going to cry
29:46 out to God I'm going to look toward his
29:51 Temple he says this um up in verse
29:54 7 my prayer came in unto thee into thy
29:57 Holy Temple this is the Old Testament
29:59 Version of First first John 1:9 if we
30:01 confess our sins he's faithful and just
30:03 to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
30:05 from all
30:07 unrighteousness that's where dedication
30:11 starts I will look then I will sacrifice
30:14 from the lips I will pay what I have
30:17 vowed I'll do what I've told you I do
30:18 dear God forgive me for going on a
30:27 am I'm glad that our God is the kind of
30:30 a God who giv gives us another chance
30:32 the Saints won't give you another
30:35 chance you fall on your face the Saints
30:36 will remember that
30:39 forever they'll take uh polaroid
30:42 pictures of it and put it in their album
30:44 the Saints cannot forget that you make a
30:46 mistake the Saints cannot forget that's
30:48 why David said let me fall into the
30:50 hands of the Lord great are his mercies
30:53 let me not fall into the hands of
30:55 men people who can't remember Bible
30:59 verses remember the sins of the Saints
31:00 and they work for the devil who's the
31:02 accuser of the Brethren has the best
31:04 record of anybody when it comes to what
31:09 wrong I'm glad that our God isn't like
31:15 forgiveness it's a good thing that God
31:18 was this way Jonah knew it I knew that
31:20 thou art a gracious God and merciful
31:22 slow to anger great kindness repentantly
31:24 of the evil he was glad to get this for
31:31 and so Jonah came to the third stage
31:32 which was
31:35 dedication let me remind you that the
31:40 Victorious Christian Life is a series of new
31:42 new
31:44 beginnings you will never make a
31:46 decision in your life that will keep you going
31:48 going
31:50 forever now your decision to trust
31:52 Christ that saves you forever you say
31:54 well oh I was in a meeting and I had a
31:56 step of dedication and that's going to
31:59 last me oh no it's not
32:01 not no it's
32:04 not I don't know if one verse in the
32:06 Bible that says you can take one step of
32:08 commitment and that's it for the rest of
32:10 your life the Victorious Christian Life
32:13 is a series of new
32:16 beginnings it was so with Abraham it was
32:19 so with Jacob it was so with David it
32:24 Jonah it does not mean that our previous
32:27 commitments were false it just means you
32:30 don't stay in the same Plateau you keep
32:33 moving which leads us to our fourth stage
32:35 stage Deliverance
32:37 Deliverance Disobedience
32:39 Disobedience discipline
32:40 discipline
32:44 dedication Deliverance God forgave
32:47 him the Lord didn't speak to Jonah he
32:49 first spoke to the
32:51 fish and said to the fish all right you
32:54 can get rid of him now you've done your
32:59 work God changes circumstance es when character
33:00 character [Music]
33:02 [Music]
33:05 changes until Jonah came to the place
33:07 where his character was what God wanted
33:09 it to be and he still had some growing
33:12 to do until he came to that place he
33:19 fish sometimes we say to God oh God how
33:22 long you going to keep
33:24 sandpapering dear Lord how long are you
33:27 going to keep filing on me and God
33:29 answer is always the same till the job gets
33:30 gets
33:34 done but isn't that enough no no there's
33:36 still some areas that need to be straightened
33:37 straightened
33:41 out God spoke to the fish and the fish
33:43 obeyed everything in this book obeys God except
33:45 except
33:48 Jonah the fish does and the wind does
33:51 and the storm and the
33:55 Worm but not the preacher and it vomited
33:58 out Jonah on the dry land
34:05 muddy and he came out and I'm sure he
34:07 looked a lot different from the way he
34:10 went in I'm convinced although I cannot
34:12 prove it this is simply a
34:15 supposition but I'm
34:18 convinced that God permitted those
34:20 gastric juices to work on Jonah so that
34:42 experience and when Jonah walked into
34:44 ninev he didn't look like the last
34:47 preacher that came to
34:50 town and you should understand that news
34:53 travels rapidly in Oriental
34:56 countries and the I'm sure that the that
34:58 the men on board that ship were already
35:01 spreading the word boy when that storm
35:03 ended they went back to Port they didn't
35:05 go to
35:07 tarses that when Jonah got to
35:11 Nineveh he looked like a walking
35:13 Miracle that's what happens when you
35:15 have death burial and Resurrection
35:17 you're a walking Miracle Lazarus was a
35:20 walking Miracle people you know Lazarus
35:22 doesn't say one word in the Bible did
35:24 you know
35:27 that Lazarus does not say one word
35:28 course he had two sisters didn't have
35:31 much of a chance to say very
35:34 much Lazarus does not say one word in
35:37 the Bible and yet people people looked
35:39 at Lazarus and got
35:42 saved they looked at Lazarus and got
35:44 saved because they' had seen him
35:47 dead they had been to the
35:50 funeral and here he comes walking what
35:53 was it that won them to Jesus a miracle
35:55 death burial and Resurrection why was it
35:58 Jonah was able to do such a mighty piece
36:00 of work in Nineveh was it only his message
36:02 message
36:06 no he was a walking Miracle he had been
36:09 delivered from Death he was a new man
36:12 and you can see the
36:15 difference that's what we need
36:17 today it's good for us to pass out
36:19 tracks it's good for us to give our
36:22 verbal witness these are all
36:25 important but my Bible says like as
36:27 Christ was raised up from the dead dead
36:30 by the glory of the father even so you
36:32 also should walk in newness of life you
36:34 know what people need to see today in
36:40 members walking
36:43 Miracles that was a secret of Mr Moody's
36:46 Ministry he always had a Congregation of
36:47 people who had been resurrected from the
36:50 dead and folks would come and say man
36:52 what's going on down there well here's a
36:55 man who used to be a drunkard and look
36:56 today he's a new man here's a woman used
36:58 to be a street walk her look she's a new
37:02 woman here's what God's doing for
37:06 people Deliverance God forgave
37:08 him and God delivered
37:12 him God resurrected him I'm convinced I
37:14 will not make it a test of anything but
37:16 I'm convinced that Jonah
37:20 died and God raised him from the
37:23 dead a beautiful picture of our Lord
37:25 Jesus Christ with some
37:29 contrasts Jonah died unwillingly Jesus dieded
37:30 dieded
37:34 willingly Jonah died for his own sins
37:42 world Jonah died because he was
37:44 disobedient Jesus died because he was
37:46 obedient unto death even the death of the
37:47 the
37:50 Cross but both of them had one thing in
37:52 common beside the three days and the three
37:53 three
37:58 nights both Jesus and Jonah
38:00 were raised from the dead that the
38:03 message might go out to
38:06 others and our Lord when he met with his
38:09 disciples didn't say to them I've been
38:10 raised from the dead now let's just sit
38:12 down and enjoy this he said you take
38:14 this message of my death and
38:17 resurrection and you spread it
38:20 abroad that's what Jonah did as we're
38:24 going to see in chapter 3 he was
38:27 delivered because he submitted himself
38:30 in dedication but it took discipline to
38:32 bring him to dedication but that
38:34 discipline was caused because of his
38:36 Disobedience had he never disobeyed God
38:38 he would never have had to go through the
38:38 the
38:40 discipline but had he not gone through
38:42 the discipline he would never have
38:44 dedicated himself but when he did
38:46 dedicate himself then he was delivered
38:48 and his ministry was picked up once
38:50 again you can't have a Deeper Life
38:53 without a deeper
38:55 death when Jonah died he had to die to himself
38:58 himself
38:59 die to
39:02 himself he didn't do it by signing a
39:04 card even praying a prayer he went
39:06 through an experience of
39:08 mortification humiliation he went
39:11 through an experience of death and
39:13 burial then God raised
39:16 him now God is not likely to send some
39:19 great fish to swallow us
39:22 up but God can send great experiences to
39:24 swallow us
39:27 up have you felt all the waves and the
39:29 Billows of
39:34 God in your life Jesus did I have a
39:37 baptism to be baptized with said Jesus
39:42 and how I am constrained until it be
39:45 completed our friend Jonah
39:49 knew who had caused all of this
39:52 God he didn't say those Sailors threw me
40:01 if he had just submitted
40:05 sooner if he just submitted sooner I
40:07 have told this story here before some of
40:08 you haven't heard it if you have it Bears
40:09 Bears
40:12 repeating about the former president of
40:15 the Moody Bible Institute Dr William
40:18 Culbertson he was sitting in the old
40:20 sweet shop that's not there
40:23 anymore having a cup of coffee or
40:25 something with some of the men at The
40:28 Institute and a student came running in
40:29 all a
40:32 glow and he said Dr culbert said Dr
40:34 Culbertson I've got marvelous news I
40:36 have been wrestling with the Lord since
40:38 10:00 last night all night long I've
40:40 been wrestling with the Lord and I've
40:42 gotten the
40:45 victory in his own quiet way Dr
40:47 Culbertson said God bless you God bless
40:49 you the boy went
40:51 away and Dr Culbertson turned to the
40:54 other men and said it's really too bad
40:55 he could have gotten the victory at
41:03 sleep you know we think we're so super
41:10 God Jacob didn't prove himself to be a
41:12 great man by wrestling with God he
41:14 proved himself to be a
41:18 weakling why fight God
41:21 surrender if only Jonah in chapter one
41:35 way don't learn the hard
41:38 way there's an easier
41:45 will gracious
41:47 father perhaps there are some of us here
41:50 tonight who are fighting and
41:54 resisting despising you are chastening
41:56 you are dealing with us and yet we
41:58 resist we fight forgive
41:59 forgive
42:01 us perhaps someone here tonight has
42:03 never been born again has never
42:06 experienced this wonderful salvation in
42:08 Christ May that one come and Trust the Savior
42:10 Savior
42:13 tonight father for that one believer who
42:15 may be here resisting your Will May that
42:18 one surrender tonight Lord May many of
42:20 us tonight in our hearts if not with our
42:24 lips say Lord I
42:27 will I pray in Jesus name amen
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