July 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Have you ever found yourself running in the opposite direction of where God is clearly telling you to go? Jonah, that reluctant prophet from the Old Testament, took an over 2,000-mile detour away from his divine assignment to Nineveh.
The fascinating thing about Jonah isn't just the dramatic "big fish" moment we all remember from Sunday School—it's why he ran in the first place. Unlike many biblical heroes who hesitated out of insecurity or fear, Jonah fled because he knew exactly what would happen if he succeeded. He understood God's compassionate nature so well that he was certain the Ninevites (people he despised) would repent and receive mercy. His prejudice was so strong that he literally preferred death over seeing his enemies forgiven.
God's response wasn't abandonment but a divine "timeout"—three uncomfortable days in the belly of a great fish with heat, humidity, and darkness forcing Jonah to reconsider his choices. This wasn't punishment; it was redirection. And when Jonah finally delivered his reluctant five word sermon, an entire city turned to God, from the king down to the livestock.
The story takes a surprising turn when, instead of celebrating this spiritual awakening, Jonah throws a temper tantrum. He's more concerned about losing the shade of a plant than the potential destruction of an entire population. Through this, God reveals the real issue: Jonah's heart didn't reflect divine compassion.
What's your Nineveh? Who is God calling you to reach that you'd rather avoid? The beautiful promise throughout Jonah's story is that even when we run, God pursues—not to punish but to redirect us toward our true calling. And unlike Jonah's dramatic commission, our calling is simpler: just be more like Jesus to those around us. No prophetic warnings required, just authentic love and presence.
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Angus MacLeod (00:00):
What's up?
Fellow truth seekers andwanderlusters, jonah, here it's
been a day, or, more accurately,a divine directive.
You know how sometimes you'rejust chillin' and then BAM, the
Almighty himself drops abombshell.
Okay, so here's the scoop.
The big guy upstairs bombshellGo to Nineveh.
Nineveh, can you believe it?
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My immediate thought Hard pass,nope, not happening.
So I decided on a strategicdetour.
I am definitely opting out ofthis one.
All right, fam.
New location we are at the portof Joppa.
The vibe here is so much betterless impending doom.
Check out this view and guesswhat?
I found a ship heading toTarshish.
That's like the literalopposite direction of Nineveh.
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Here's the plan Get on thisship and get far away.
Wouldn't let someone elsedeliver that message?
Wish me smooth sailing.
Okay, so this is not ideal.
The waves are getting prettygnarly.
Everyone on board is freakingout.
They think some god is mad,which wouldn't surprise me.
At this point, my stomach isdoing acrobatic flips.
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They got together anddetermined I'm to blame.
They're asking me what weshould do and honestly, there's
only one answer Throw meoverboard.
Seriously, it's the only way tosave them.
Um so, quick update I'mcurrently inside a giant fish
Not a metaphor A very large,very dark, very fishy fish.
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The air quality in here isquestionable.
My internal monologue has neverbeen louder.
I've had a lot of time to think.
You know.
A near-death experiencefollowed by three days in a
Piscine prison really putsthings into perspective.
I think.
I think I'm ready to go toNineveh now.
I've reached my quota formarine biology experiences.
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Well, that was an exit prettydramatic.
I think I just got vomited ontodry land.
Talk about an unceremoniousre-entry.
But hey, I'm alive.
So I guess this means Nineveh.
Here I come this time nodetours, just me and a message
that's going to be delivered.
Wish me luck, fam.
I'm going to need it.
This might be my toughestchallenge yet.
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So about 11, 12 years ago wewere at Independence High School
.
My wife was a theater teacherthere and I would bring at the
time it was just Gavin and I'dbring him after school and I'd
help out with the tech and,being a three, four-year-old,
the need arose for a timeout andso we found a quiet spot in the
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theater and he sat there and hedid timeout.
Now we did timeout a littledifferently, because when we
first became parents we ended upgoing to a marriage conference
and because I had no idea whatI'm doing, we took a class.
We took a parenting class andin that class they talked about
how to do timeout and we lovedthe idea and so we implemented
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it in our household.
And so what it looked like is,when we did timeout, we'd put
one of our kids in a spotwithout lots of activity and
we'd explain to them why theywere there.
Then we'd give them one minutefor every year that they were.
So at the time Gavin was threeor four years old, so three,
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four minute timeout, and thenwe'd let them sit there.
Afterwards we would go to themand ask them what they had done
wrong and then we would givethem an opportunity to pray for
forgiveness.
They'd ask the Lord forforgiveness, they'd ask us for
forgiveness and they wouldapologize for what they had done
wrong, and then we'd give hugs.
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Well, what we would do then iswe would pray over them.
We'd pray a blessing over themand then we would do hugs and
kisses and after that thepunishment was over.
The air was kind of cleared andunbeknownst to Annie as she goes
through this whole process, itdidn't take very long, but there
was a student standingliterally in the wings there
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behind a big black curtainwatching her and he said that
was incredible.
I've never seen anything likethat.
He said when I'm a parent,that's how I'm going to do
timeout.
You know, it was a prettyimpactful moment for both of us
because we finally felt like wewere doing something right.
You know, now, contrast that tohow we did timeout when I was a
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kid Still somewhat effective.
What it looked like to dotimeout in our household was
grab a bag, a grocery bag, andwe'd have to go out and pick
weeds for 15 minutes.
And when we ran out of weeds topick which happened we had a
horseshoe driveway that haddifferent colored rocks, and so
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we would sit there and sortrocks, dark rocks from light
rocks and the thing about theway we did timeout when I was a
kid is it was never too hot, itwas never too cold and it was
never too dark.
So we'd be out there at seveno'clock 8 o'clock at night with
flashlights and bags, and if wedidn't fill the bag up enough,
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we'd have to go back out again.
Needless to say, the McLeodshad one of the nicest looking
lawns on the block and it waskind of a joke in the
neighborhood because they alwaysknew when we had had an
argument because there would beall four of us out there pulling
weeds.
Well, today we're going to betalking about someone else who
spent some time in timeout.
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We're going to talk about Jonah.
I'm really excited to continuethis series on the minor
prophets and so, with that,we're going to talk about Jonah
today.
Now, before we go too far, Iwant to just give you some
context about who Jonah was.
One of the things that I loveabout this series is because the
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prophets are, be honest, it'sone of those group of books that
sometimes you gloss over or youread it real quick as you're on
your way to the fun stuff,because the prophets.
They've got some pretty heavymessages, and so what I like
about this series, what we'vedone, especially from hearing
all the different voices, is youget to kind of piece it
together who was where at whattime and who was talking about
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what, and all of those things.
And so today we're going totalk about Jonah, who was a
prophet during the 8th centuryBCE, during the reign of King
Jeroboam II.
So, if you remember, a coupleweeks ago I was able to bring a
message about Hosea.
He was also ministering at thistime, as well as Amos, who
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we've also heard about, and soit's nice to know, when you kind
of put, who was out ministeringin what areas and when and
where.
It really helps you to completethe puzzle.
So before we get ready to gointo it, let's just take a
moment and pray.
Father, I thank you for thisopportunity here today.
Lord, I just pray that youwould speak to us about Jonah,
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that you would help us topersonalize this message, help
us personalize this story, andthat you would speak to us
exactly what you would have ushear specifically.
Lord, I just pray that youwould open our hearts, our minds
and our ears to what it is thatyou would say to us today.
We pray this in the mighty nameof Jesus, amen.
So in Jonah 1, verses 1 and 2,it says Now the word of the Lord
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came to Jonah, the son ofAmittai, saying Arise.
It says now the word of theLord came to Jonah, the son of
Amittai, saying arise, go toNineveh, that great city, and
call out against it, for theirevil has come before me.
So Nineveh.
Why didn't Jonah want to go toNineveh?
There was a few reasons.
One he hated the Ninevites.
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Plain and simple, he justdidn't like them.
You see, they were a part ofthe Assyrian empire.
And again, if you remember,back to Hosea, one of the things
that Hosea was saying is look,israel, you need to get things
figured out or I'm going tobring the Assyrians to take you
over.
So now God is sending Jonah tothe very same people who might
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come and take over Israel.
So there was that part that hejust didn't like them.
There was a lot of politicsinvolved in that, but the second
part of it was Jonah knew whoGod was.
He knew that God is a forgivingGod, and so he was afraid that
if he went and spoke a messageof repentance, they'd repent and
God would forgive them.
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And he didn't want that.
He looked forward to theirdestruction Verse 3,.
But Jonah rose to flee toTarshish from the presence of
the Lord.
He went down to Joppa, found aship going to Tarshish, so he
paid the fare and went down intoit to go with them to Tarshish,
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away from the presence of theLord.
Now when you think, oh, what'sthe big deal?
He just took a little detour,right.
Well, he took a 2,000-miledetour in the opposite direction
.
See, we don't know exactly howmuch of the world they knew at
that point, but what we do knowis that when God told them to go
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this way, he went that waybasically all the way to the
ends of the known earth.
That would be kind of like whenthe Lord said hey, pastor Jay,
I'm going to have you plant outwest from this location and he
goes okay, I'm moving to Florida.
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That's kind of what it was like.
And so Tarshish was the mostremote destination that he could
find and it was known for itswealth and its gold.
And we know that because wefind it referenced in 1 Kings
10.22.
That because we find itreferenced in 1 Kings 10.22.
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For the king had a fleet ofships of Tarshish at sea with
the fleet of Hiram.
Once every three years, thefleet of ships of Tarshish would
used to come bringing gold,silvery, ivory, apes and
peacocks.
So we know that there was.
It was a great place to beright.
So Jonah thought you know what?
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I'm going to let somebody elsedeliver this message.
I'm going to go sip some drinkson the beach.
What happened instead was agreat storm came.
What happened instead was agreat storm came, and it was a
really big one, it said.
The Lord sent a great wind onthe sea and such a violent storm
arose that the ship threatenedto break up.
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All of the sailors were afraidand cried out to his own God,
and they threw cargo in the seato lighten the ships.
And they were trying to figureout who was at fault for this
big storm.
And they went and were lookingfor Jonah.
And where did they find him?
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But in the bottom of the boat,sleeping.
He was perfectly content in hisrunning from the Lord.
He was so settled that he had agood nap.
And so the captain calls him upand they are trying to figure
out who's at fault for this, andso they cast lots to see who it
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is.
And they figure out that it'sJonah.
He admits to the fact that thisstorm has probably come about
because he's in disobedience toGod.
So in verse 12 and 13 it saysPick me up and hurl me into the
sea, then the sea will quietdown for you, for I know it is
because of me that this greattempest has come upon you.
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Nevertheless, the men rode hardto get back to dry land, but
they could not, for the sea grewmore tempestuous against them.
Jonah disliked the Ninevites somuch he was willing to be
thrown overboard in the middleof a storm and die than to go
and talk to these people.
Have you ever disliked somebodythat much that you're willing
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to die just to not talk to them?
I've disliked some people, butnot that much.
So then the men feared the Lord, exceed sorry.
Therefore, they called out tothe Lord this is verse 14 and 15
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, and they said O Lord, let usnot perish for this man's life
and lay not on us innocent bloodfor you, o Lord, have done as
you pleased.
And they said rather than theyknew what they were doing when
they were about to take this manof God and throw him off the
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boat that it was going to be hisdemise.
And so they just said Lord,don't let it be on us.
He asked for it.
So they throw him overboard andthe sea calms down and it says
and the Lord appointed a greatfish to swallow up Jonah.
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And Jonah was in the belly ofthe fish for three days and
three nights.
God said all right, jonah, I'mgoing to put you in timeout.
God put him in a place that hecan consider his actions.
He could think about his hearttowards these people.
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Now I'll tell you.
A couple weeks ago I was up inthe ceiling of the church here
installing some exit signs.
It was dark, it was hot and Ithought, man, I wonder if this
is what Jonah felt like.
I thought, man, I wonder ifthis is what Jonah felt like.
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Now I admit that it wasn'tnearly as smelly, but it got me
thinking about it.
I looked up what is theinternal temperature, the body
temp of a blue whale?
It says a great fish, but theclosest thing we can have is
probably a blue whale.
A blue whale's internaltemperature is about 99 to 100
degrees.
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So I thought about that beinginside of a whale at about 100
degrees, the humidity that wouldhave been in there, the smell
that was there.
And then I thought you knowwhat, lord, I'm ready to do
whatever you tell me to do afterabout 15 minutes in this
ceiling.
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But it took Jonah three days inthose conditions to finally go.
I'm done, I'm ready.
So in Jonah 2, 9 and 10, in thesecond chapter, he begins to cry
out to God and in his own wayhe doesn't in a direct way say
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Lord, I'm sorry, I'll go.
But he does say but I shoutwith shouts of grateful praise
and will sacrifice to you what Ihave vowed, I will make good, I
will say salvation comes fromthe Lord.
And the Lord commanded the fishand vomited Jonah onto dry land
Yuck.
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So after he says all right,lord, I'll go, I'll do what
you're saying, he goes toNineveh and his message to
Nineveh.
It wasn't a really long sermon,but see, nineveh was a big city
.
It was three days to travelacross the city, and so he went
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and he said this to the peopleJonah began by going a day's
journey into the city,proclaiming 40 more days and
Nineveh will be overthrown andthe Ninevites believed in God.
That was it, that was hismessage.
I've already taken longer togive you this message than Jonah
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took to give the Ninevites.
And so I think about that as apastor.
If just went three days inphoenix and said, okay, here's
what the lord says.
You need to turn from your waysbecause he's going to destroy
phoenix and everybody did it,man, that's a great day of
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ministry.
I would love for a responselike that.
But see, god doesn'tnecessarily talk to the people
in the same way as he didthrough these books of the
prophets.
The message that he gives us tobring is a lot more simple.
It's a lot more palatable tobring to people what he tells us
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as Christ followers, as hispeople, to do.
When he calls us to others, hejust wants us to love God, make
disciples and reach the world.
And we do that by being morelike Jesus.
See, he calls us to speak topeople, to reach them in all
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sorts of different ways.
Could you imagine walking up tosomebody and saying, hey, you
need to accept Christ, becausein 40 days, in today's day and
age, you wouldn't get a verygood reaction, and that's why
we're called to be more likeJesus.
But see, back in these daysthey responded quite differently
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.
It says in 3, 5, and 6, that afast was proclaimed and all of
them, from the greatest to theleast, put on sackcloth.
That's kind of like burlap.
When Jonah's warning reachedthe king of Nineveh, he rose to
the throne, took off his royalrobes and covered himself with
sackcloth and sat down in ashes.
By the decree of the king andhis nobles, do not let people or
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animals, herds or flocks tasteanything.
Man, they made their pets fast.
They were so serious about thismessage.
They were so worried that Godwas going to come and destroy
them after that short messagethat they made their goldfish
fast.
They didn't let their cats haveany food.
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You know what that would havelooked like cats have any food.
You know what that would havelooked like.
Let everyone call urgently onGod.
Let them give up their evilways and their violence.
Who knows, god may yet relentand, with compassion, turn his
fierce anger that we will notperish.
See what's amazing that we willnot perish.
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See what's amazing.
I was talking to somebody inbetween services and he told me
this perspective that I thoughtwas incredible because after
Jonah was thrown from the boat,the fishermen, they all came to
know God.
They sacrificed and vowed toGod, because it shows in there
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that they were all heathens.
So even in disobedience, jonahsaved a literal boatload of
sailors, but then, in hisobedience, he saved an entire
city.
What does that look like inyour life?
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If you're obedient, god can doincredible things.
Just don't bring yourself to aplace where you have to be
putting time out.
So what was Jonah's reaction toall this?
Three days of ministry?
A message that takes less thanfive minutes.
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Everybody fasts, everybodyrepents, praise God, right, oh
no, jonah was not happy.
He still had a little bit ofattitude with the Lord.
He still had a little bit ofattitude with the Lord.
In 4, verses 1 and 2, it saysbut to Jonah this seemed very
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wrong and he became angry.
He prayed to the Lord.
Isn't this what I said, lord,when I was still at home?
This is what I tried toforestall by fleeing to Tarshish
.
I knew that you're gracious andcompassionate, slow to anger
and abound in love, a God whorelents from sin and calamity.
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He said see, god, I told you, Iknew that if I came to this
place you'd forgive him, and Icouldn't watch the fireworks.
But he didn't just stop there.
He goes.
Therefore, now, oh Lord, pleasetake my life from me, for it is
better for me to die than tolive.
And the Lord said do you dowell to be angry?
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How many of you have everthrown a temper tantrum?
I still throw temper tantrumsas an adult, sometimes before
the Lord, and his response isusually the same with me.
So Jonah's pretty upset.
So he goes and then putshimself into a self-imposed
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timeout.
So he goes and then putshimself into a self-imposed
timeout.
He goes and sits outside thecity, crosses his arms and still
probably crossed his fingersand went oh, maybe there's a
chance, maybe he'll still bringdestruction on these people.
God just looked down at him andsaid oh how cute.
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And gave him some shade.
While he was waiting, he causeda tree to grow up behind Jonah
so that he could have some shade.
Did that change Jonah'sattitude?
No See.
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And so the next day God caused aworm to come and eat that plant
and the plant died and hisattitude was back and worse than
before.
He started now to not onlycomplain about what was
happening previous, but now he'scomplaining that he doesn't
have a plant there to shade him.
And the story ends with Godcalling Jonah out.
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God said to Jonah Is it rightfor you to be angry about the
plant.
It is, he said, and I'm soangry I wish I were dead.
It is, he said, and I'm soangry I wish I were dead.
You see, instead of celebratingthe victory that he, through
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the Lord, had and the salvationof all of these people and them
coming to the Lord in the citynot being destroyed, he was more
upset about the fact that hisshade wasn't there.
Now, being a people who knowabout shade, I can understand
being upset, but not at the costof hundreds of thousands of
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lives.
So our goal today is to learnfrom somebody else's time out.
What is God calling you to do?
He may be calling you to reacha workplace.
He may be calling you to startsomething new.
He may be calling you tosomething much bigger than you
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could have imagined.
He might be asking you to dosomething you really don't want
to do.
You know, in talking withvarious brothers and sisters
here at the church, one of thethings that I hear all the time
is well, I don't know if Ishould join a, if I should be
serving anywhere.
The answer is yes, you shouldbe.
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You see, and that's one of thereasons why we have life groups
is because God calls us to be aconnected part of the body of
Christ, and life groups is anincredible way where we can do
that, where we can connect, growand serve with each other.
And so maybe that's what God'scalling you to.
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It might not be to go and reacha city to save them from
destruction.
He might just be calling you toget connected, to grow in
relationship with the peoplearound you.
The other question is who is Godcalling you to?
Because, as believers, we don'tlive in this bubble surrounded
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away from other non-believers.
Being out in the marketplace,we rub elbows with all kinds of
people of all varying faiths andpractices, and so I can almost
guarantee you the Lord iscalling you to somebody, and I
just thank God that he's nottelling me to go say, hey, go
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tell that person.
In 40 days, something's coming.
I'm so thankful that all hedoes is just say, hey, go over
there, be more like Jesus.
And that's why I'm so glad thatwe use this imagery here of the
disciples walking with Jesus,because it takes so much of the
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pressure off of us to be perfect, because none of these guys
walking with Jesus were perfect.
They were all in process, andso when the Lord says go, the
thing is he'll go right therewith you and all you have to do
is be more like him and as we dothat, we reach those people, we
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reach those places that God iscalling us to.
But I have a question.
If, maybe, all of this is pastyou, maybe God is calling just
you, maybe he's calling to youand you're already in a far-off
place and he's just calling youto be closer.
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So my follow-up question tothat is have you embraced Jesus?
You see, in Romans 10, 9, and10, it says this because if you
confess with your mouth thatJesus is Lord and believe in
your heart that God raised himfrom the dead, you will be saved
, for with the heart onebelieves and is justified, and
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with the mouth one confesses andis saved.
I'm going to ask the worshipteam if they would come, and I'm
going to ask all of you toplease stand where you are.
Like I said, perhaps the Lordis just calling out to you.
Maybe you've often been livinglife in your own way, and so he
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sent me here to tell you Godloves you and he wants you to be
a part of what he's doing, andso, with every head bowed and
every eye closed, I'm just goingto ask that if that's you and
you recognize that you've neverreceived Jesus as your Savior
for the first time, would youjust go ahead and raise your
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hand up really quick, so I cansee who I'm praying for, and
then you can put it back downquick, so I can see who I'm
praying for and then you can putit back down.
Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus.
And together I'm going to askif we would all pray this prayer
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.
The words aren't magic, butit's the matter of the heart
that brings you in relationshipwith the Father.
Together we say Lord, thank youfor loving me, thank you for
sending Jesus.
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I believe Jesus died on thecross for my sins.
I believe he rose again.
Forgive me of my sins.
I surrender my life to you.
In Christ's name.
We pray Amen, amen.
Friends, if that's you, wecelebrate with you today.
We are so excited for you and Iwant to encourage you to go
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back to where we have our peoplepraying for you.
We've got a gift for you tohelp you on this journey.
But for the rest of us, justconsidering the things that you
know, god is calling you to theplaces, the people.
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My question to you is do youneed to make some adjustments?
Do you need a timeout?
My prayer is that, with whateverGod's calling you to, you would
do it without him having to putyou in a timeout.
You see, the cross is a symbol.
It's a place of forgivenessthat we can come to when we
recognize we've been doing ourown thing, when we've been going
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in our own direction.
When God's called us to a placeand we decide we want to go
somewhere else, we can alwayscome back to the cross and say
Lord, I'm so sorry, help me.
And so, if that's you, I want tojust open up this, this time
for the altar that if yourecognize maybe you haven't been
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moving on something, or movingin the opposite direction, or
not going to the person orpeople or place that God's
called you to, here's anopportunity for you to come and
say Lord, I'm sorry, give me thestrength, give me the courage,
give me the energy to do what itis that you've called me to do.
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Father, I thank you so much forthis time that we've had today.
Lord, I thank you that you'renot a God of judgment, you're a
God of compassion.
Lord, I thank you that evenwhen you've called us to
something, no matter howdifficult it is, you're patient
with us when we balk against it,when we try and not do what
you've called us to do.
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So, lord, I just pray right now, as we open this altar, that
you would help us to examine ourhearts, examine those things
that you've called us to, andget on the right path.
Today we pray this all in themighty name that is Jesus Christ
, amen.
Annie MacLeod (30:39):
I'm going to ask you to stand with us.
We're getting ready to saygoodbye to this part of the day,
but your Sunday is going to beamazing.
We understood that sometimesGod has to put us in time out
and sometimes we have to putourselves in it, but I just want
to remind you August 10th,we're going to have a water
baptism.
If you just made your firststep towards Christ and the
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relationship with him today,happy birthday.
But also that next step is thatwater baptism.
And as we get ready to go intoschools, I'm just going to ask
you to pray with teachers.
Pray with us.
I say this because I'm one ofthem.
It's the hardest thing, so praywith us as we're getting ready
to welcome kids back.
For some kids, it's the safestplace they're ever going to be,
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and so just pray for thoseteachers and pray for everybody.
That's going to be a part ofschools.
Angus MacLeod (31:30):
Yes, also, I want to just thank you.
If you're joining us for thefirst time today, we want to
invite you to come and connectwith us out at the cafe, also to
remind you to come and connectwith us out at the cafe, also to
remind you that we have a newsemester of life groups that are
going to be starting up.
So check out the catalog andsee what's there, see where you
can get involved.
I want to say a quick prayerfor our teachers and for our
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students, and then I'll send youout with a blessing.
Father, god, we thank you somuch for all of the teachers,
all of the students who aregetting ready to head back to
school, and I ask that you wouldalso be with the parents.
The start of school is a bigshift in life.
So, lord, I just pray that youwould be there.
Give your students, yourteachers, your parents, give
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them favor in the marketplace.
In the mighty name of JesusChrist, amen, may the Lord bless
you and keep you.
The Lord make his face to shineupon you and be gracious to you
.
The Lord lift up hiscountenance upon you and give
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you peace.
May the Lord's blessing be uponyou this week, be upon this
church and be upon thiscommunity.
We pray this in the mighty namethat is Jesus Christ.
Amen.
We love you very much here atCornerstone.
Have a great week.
What's up?
Fellow truth seekers andwanderlusters, jonah, here it's
been a day, or, more accurately,a divine directive.
You know how sometimes you'rejust chillin' and then BAM, the
Almighty himself drops abombshell.
Okay, so here's the scoop.
The big guy upstairs bombshellGo to Nineveh.
Nineveh, can you believe it?
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My immediate thought Hard pass,nope, not happening.
So I decided on a strategicdetour.
I am definitely opting out ofthis one.
All right, fam.
New location we are at the portof Joppa.
The vibe here is so much betterless impending doom.
Check out this view and guesswhat?
I found a ship heading toTarshish.
That's like the literalopposite direction of Nineveh.
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Here's the plan Get on thisship and get far away.
Wouldn't let someone elsedeliver that message?
Wish me smooth sailing.
Okay, so this is not ideal.
The waves are getting prettygnarly.
Everyone on board is freakingout.
They think some god is mad,which wouldn't surprise me.
At this point, my stomach isdoing acrobatic flips.
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They got together anddetermined I'm to blame.
They're asking me what weshould do and honestly, there's
only one answer Throw meoverboard.
Seriously, it's the only way tosave them.
Um so, quick update I'mcurrently inside a giant fish
Not a metaphor A very large,very dark, very fishy fish.
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The air quality in here isquestionable.
My internal monologue has neverbeen louder.
I've had a lot of time to think.
You know.
A near-death experiencefollowed by three days in a
Piscine prison really putsthings into perspective.
I think.
I think I'm ready to go toNineveh now.
I've reached my quota formarine biology experiences.
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Well, that was an exit prettydramatic.
I think I just got vomited ontodry land.
Talk about an unceremoniousre-entry.
But hey, I'm alive.
So I guess this means Nineveh.
Here I come this time nodetours, just me and a message
that's going to be delivered.
Wish me luck, fam.
I'm going to need it.
This might be my toughestchallenge yet.
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So about 11, 12 years ago wewere at Independence High School
.
My wife was a theater teacherthere and I would bring at the
time it was just Gavin and I'dbring him after school and I'd
help out with the tech and,being a three, four-year-old,
the need arose for a timeout andso we found a quiet spot in the
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theater and he sat there and hedid timeout.
Now we did timeout a littledifferently, because when we
first became parents we ended upgoing to a marriage conference
and because I had no idea whatI'm doing, we took a class.
We took a parenting class andin that class they talked about
how to do timeout and we lovedthe idea and so we implemented
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it in our household.
And so what it looked like is,when we did timeout, we'd put
one of our kids in a spotwithout lots of activity and
we'd explain to them why theywere there.
Then we'd give them one minutefor every year that they were.
So at the time Gavin was threeor four years old, so three,
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four minute timeout, and thenwe'd let them sit there.
Afterwards we would go to themand ask them what they had done
wrong and then we would givethem an opportunity to pray for
forgiveness.
They'd ask the Lord forforgiveness, they'd ask us for
forgiveness and they wouldapologize for what they had done
wrong, and then we'd give hugs.
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Well, what we would do then iswe would pray over them.
We'd pray a blessing over themand then we would do hugs and
kisses and after that thepunishment was over.
The air was kind of cleared andunbeknownst to Annie as she goes
through this whole process, itdidn't take very long, but there
was a student standingliterally in the wings there
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behind a big black curtainwatching her and he said that
was incredible.
I've never seen anything likethat.
He said when I'm a parent,that's how I'm going to do
timeout.
You know, it was a prettyimpactful moment for both of us
because we finally felt like wewere doing something right.
You know, now, contrast that tohow we did timeout when I was a
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kid Still somewhat effective.
What it looked like to dotimeout in our household was
grab a bag, a grocery bag, andwe'd have to go out and pick
weeds for 15 minutes.
And when we ran out of weeds topick which happened we had a
horseshoe driveway that haddifferent colored rocks, and so
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we would sit there and sortrocks, dark rocks from light
rocks and the thing about theway we did timeout when I was a
kid is it was never too hot, itwas never too cold and it was
never too dark.
So we'd be out there at seveno'clock 8 o'clock at night with
flashlights and bags, and if wedidn't fill the bag up enough,
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we'd have to go back out again.
Needless to say, the McLeodshad one of the nicest looking
lawns on the block and it waskind of a joke in the
neighborhood because they alwaysknew when we had had an
argument because there would beall four of us out there pulling
weeds.
Well, today we're going to betalking about someone else who
spent some time in timeout.
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We're going to talk about Jonah.
I'm really excited to continuethis series on the minor
prophets and so, with that,we're going to talk about Jonah
today.
Now, before we go too far, Iwant to just give you some
context about who Jonah was.
One of the things that I loveabout this series is because the
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prophets are, be honest, it'sone of those group of books that
sometimes you gloss over or youread it real quick as you're on
your way to the fun stuff,because the prophets.
They've got some pretty heavymessages, and so what I like
about this series, what we'vedone, especially from hearing
all the different voices, is youget to kind of piece it
together who was where at whattime and who was talking about
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what, and all of those things.
And so today we're going totalk about Jonah, who was a
prophet during the 8th centuryBCE, during the reign of King
Jeroboam II.
So, if you remember, a coupleweeks ago I was able to bring a
message about Hosea.
He was also ministering at thistime, as well as Amos, who
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we've also heard about, and soit's nice to know, when you kind
of put, who was out ministeringin what areas and when and
where.
It really helps you to completethe puzzle.
So before we get ready to gointo it, let's just take a
moment and pray.
Father, I thank you for thisopportunity here today.
Lord, I just pray that youwould speak to us about Jonah,
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that you would help us topersonalize this message, help
us personalize this story, andthat you would speak to us
exactly what you would have ushear specifically.
Lord, I just pray that youwould open our hearts, our minds
and our ears to what it is thatyou would say to us today.
We pray this in the mighty nameof Jesus, amen.
So in Jonah 1, verses 1 and 2,it says Now the word of the Lord
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came to Jonah, the son ofAmittai, saying Arise.
It says now the word of theLord came to Jonah, the son of
Amittai, saying arise, go toNineveh, that great city, and
call out against it, for theirevil has come before me.
So Nineveh.
Why didn't Jonah want to go toNineveh?
There was a few reasons.
One he hated the Ninevites.
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Plain and simple, he justdidn't like them.
You see, they were a part ofthe Assyrian empire.
And again, if you remember,back to Hosea, one of the things
that Hosea was saying is look,israel, you need to get things
figured out or I'm going tobring the Assyrians to take you
over.
So now God is sending Jonah tothe very same people who might
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come and take over Israel.
So there was that part that hejust didn't like them.
There was a lot of politicsinvolved in that, but the second
part of it was Jonah knew whoGod was.
He knew that God is a forgivingGod, and so he was afraid that
if he went and spoke a messageof repentance, they'd repent and
God would forgive them.
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And he didn't want that.
He looked forward to theirdestruction Verse 3,.
But Jonah rose to flee toTarshish from the presence of
the Lord.
He went down to Joppa, found aship going to Tarshish, so he
paid the fare and went down intoit to go with them to Tarshish,
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away from the presence of theLord.
Now when you think, oh, what'sthe big deal?
He just took a little detour,right.
Well, he took a 2,000-miledetour in the opposite direction
.
See, we don't know exactly howmuch of the world they knew at
that point, but what we do knowis that when God told them to go
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this way, he went that waybasically all the way to the
ends of the known earth.
That would be kind of like whenthe Lord said hey, pastor Jay,
I'm going to have you plant outwest from this location and he
goes okay, I'm moving to Florida.
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That's kind of what it was like.
And so Tarshish was the mostremote destination that he could
find and it was known for itswealth and its gold.
And we know that because wefind it referenced in 1 Kings
10.22.
That because we find itreferenced in 1 Kings 10.22.
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For the king had a fleet ofships of Tarshish at sea with
the fleet of Hiram.
Once every three years, thefleet of ships of Tarshish would
used to come bringing gold,silvery, ivory, apes and
peacocks.
So we know that there was.
It was a great place to beright.
So Jonah thought you know what?
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I'm going to let somebody elsedeliver this message.
I'm going to go sip some drinkson the beach.
What happened instead was agreat storm came.
What happened instead was agreat storm came, and it was a
really big one, it said.
The Lord sent a great wind onthe sea and such a violent storm
arose that the ship threatenedto break up.
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All of the sailors were afraidand cried out to his own God,
and they threw cargo in the seato lighten the ships.
And they were trying to figureout who was at fault for this
big storm.
And they went and were lookingfor Jonah.
And where did they find him?
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But in the bottom of the boat,sleeping.
He was perfectly content in hisrunning from the Lord.
He was so settled that he had agood nap.
And so the captain calls him upand they are trying to figure
out who's at fault for this, andso they cast lots to see who it
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is.
And they figure out that it'sJonah.
He admits to the fact that thisstorm has probably come about
because he's in disobedience toGod.
So in verse 12 and 13 it saysPick me up and hurl me into the
sea, then the sea will quietdown for you, for I know it is
because of me that this greattempest has come upon you.
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Nevertheless, the men rode hardto get back to dry land, but
they could not, for the sea grewmore tempestuous against them.
Jonah disliked the Ninevites somuch he was willing to be
thrown overboard in the middleof a storm and die than to go
and talk to these people.
Have you ever disliked somebodythat much that you're willing
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to die just to not talk to them?
I've disliked some people, butnot that much.
So then the men feared the Lord, exceed sorry.
Therefore, they called out tothe Lord this is verse 14 and 15
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, and they said O Lord, let usnot perish for this man's life
and lay not on us innocent bloodfor you, o Lord, have done as
you pleased.
And they said rather than theyknew what they were doing when
they were about to take this manof God and throw him off the
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boat that it was going to be hisdemise.
And so they just said Lord,don't let it be on us.
He asked for it.
So they throw him overboard andthe sea calms down and it says
and the Lord appointed a greatfish to swallow up Jonah.
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And Jonah was in the belly ofthe fish for three days and
three nights.
God said all right, jonah, I'mgoing to put you in timeout.
God put him in a place that hecan consider his actions.
He could think about his hearttowards these people.
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Now I'll tell you.
A couple weeks ago I was up inthe ceiling of the church here
installing some exit signs.
It was dark, it was hot and Ithought, man, I wonder if this
is what Jonah felt like.
I thought, man, I wonder ifthis is what Jonah felt like.
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Now I admit that it wasn'tnearly as smelly, but it got me
thinking about it.
I looked up what is theinternal temperature, the body
temp of a blue whale?
It says a great fish, but theclosest thing we can have is
probably a blue whale.
A blue whale's internaltemperature is about 99 to 100
degrees.
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So I thought about that beinginside of a whale at about 100
degrees, the humidity that wouldhave been in there, the smell
that was there.
And then I thought you knowwhat, lord, I'm ready to do
whatever you tell me to do afterabout 15 minutes in this
ceiling.
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But it took Jonah three days inthose conditions to finally go.
I'm done, I'm ready.
So in Jonah 2, 9 and 10, in thesecond chapter, he begins to cry
out to God and in his own wayhe doesn't in a direct way say
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Lord, I'm sorry, I'll go.
But he does say but I shoutwith shouts of grateful praise
and will sacrifice to you what Ihave vowed, I will make good, I
will say salvation comes fromthe Lord.
And the Lord commanded the fishand vomited Jonah onto dry land
Yuck.
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So after he says all right,lord, I'll go, I'll do what
you're saying, he goes toNineveh and his message to
Nineveh.
It wasn't a really long sermon,but see, nineveh was a big city
.
It was three days to travelacross the city, and so he went
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and he said this to the peopleJonah began by going a day's
journey into the city,proclaiming 40 more days and
Nineveh will be overthrown andthe Ninevites believed in God.
That was it, that was hismessage.
I've already taken longer togive you this message than Jonah
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took to give the Ninevites.
And so I think about that as apastor.
If just went three days inphoenix and said, okay, here's
what the lord says.
You need to turn from your waysbecause he's going to destroy
phoenix and everybody did it,man, that's a great day of
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ministry.
I would love for a responselike that.
But see, god doesn'tnecessarily talk to the people
in the same way as he didthrough these books of the
prophets.
The message that he gives us tobring is a lot more simple.
It's a lot more palatable tobring to people what he tells us
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as Christ followers, as hispeople, to do.
When he calls us to others, hejust wants us to love God, make
disciples and reach the world.
And we do that by being morelike Jesus.
See, he calls us to speak topeople, to reach them in all
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sorts of different ways.
Could you imagine walking up tosomebody and saying, hey, you
need to accept Christ, becausein 40 days, in today's day and
age, you wouldn't get a verygood reaction, and that's why
we're called to be more likeJesus.
But see, back in these daysthey responded quite differently
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.
It says in 3, 5, and 6, that afast was proclaimed and all of
them, from the greatest to theleast, put on sackcloth.
That's kind of like burlap.
When Jonah's warning reachedthe king of Nineveh, he rose to
the throne, took off his royalrobes and covered himself with
sackcloth and sat down in ashes.
By the decree of the king andhis nobles, do not let people or
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animals, herds or flocks tasteanything.
Man, they made their pets fast.
They were so serious about thismessage.
They were so worried that Godwas going to come and destroy
them after that short messagethat they made their goldfish
fast.
They didn't let their cats haveany food.
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You know what that would havelooked like cats have any food.
You know what that would havelooked like.
Let everyone call urgently onGod.
Let them give up their evilways and their violence.
Who knows, god may yet relentand, with compassion, turn his
fierce anger that we will notperish.
See what's amazing that we willnot perish.
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See what's amazing.
I was talking to somebody inbetween services and he told me
this perspective that I thoughtwas incredible because after
Jonah was thrown from the boat,the fishermen, they all came to
know God.
They sacrificed and vowed toGod, because it shows in there
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that they were all heathens.
So even in disobedience, jonahsaved a literal boatload of
sailors, but then, in hisobedience, he saved an entire
city.
What does that look like inyour life?
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If you're obedient, god can doincredible things.
Just don't bring yourself to aplace where you have to be
putting time out.
So what was Jonah's reaction toall this?
Three days of ministry?
A message that takes less thanfive minutes.
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Everybody fasts, everybodyrepents, praise God, right, oh
no, jonah was not happy.
He still had a little bit ofattitude with the Lord.
He still had a little bit ofattitude with the Lord.
In 4, verses 1 and 2, it saysbut to Jonah this seemed very
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wrong and he became angry.
He prayed to the Lord.
Isn't this what I said, lord,when I was still at home?
This is what I tried toforestall by fleeing to Tarshish
.
I knew that you're gracious andcompassionate, slow to anger
and abound in love, a God whorelents from sin and calamity.
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He said see, god, I told you, Iknew that if I came to this
place you'd forgive him, and Icouldn't watch the fireworks.
But he didn't just stop there.
He goes.
Therefore, now, oh Lord, pleasetake my life from me, for it is
better for me to die than tolive.
And the Lord said do you dowell to be angry?
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How many of you have everthrown a temper tantrum?
I still throw temper tantrumsas an adult, sometimes before
the Lord, and his response isusually the same with me.
So Jonah's pretty upset.
So he goes and then putshimself into a self-imposed
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timeout.
So he goes and then putshimself into a self-imposed
timeout.
He goes and sits outside thecity, crosses his arms and still
probably crossed his fingersand went oh, maybe there's a
chance, maybe he'll still bringdestruction on these people.
God just looked down at him andsaid oh how cute.
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And gave him some shade.
While he was waiting, he causeda tree to grow up behind Jonah
so that he could have some shade.
Did that change Jonah'sattitude?
No See.
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And so the next day God caused aworm to come and eat that plant
and the plant died and hisattitude was back and worse than
before.
He started now to not onlycomplain about what was
happening previous, but now he'scomplaining that he doesn't
have a plant there to shade him.
And the story ends with Godcalling Jonah out.
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God said to Jonah Is it rightfor you to be angry about the
plant.
It is, he said, and I'm soangry I wish I were dead.
It is, he said, and I'm soangry I wish I were dead.
You see, instead of celebratingthe victory that he, through
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the Lord, had and the salvationof all of these people and them
coming to the Lord in the citynot being destroyed, he was more
upset about the fact that hisshade wasn't there.
Now, being a people who knowabout shade, I can understand
being upset, but not at the costof hundreds of thousands of
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lives.
So our goal today is to learnfrom somebody else's time out.
What is God calling you to do?
He may be calling you to reacha workplace.
He may be calling you to startsomething new.
He may be calling you tosomething much bigger than you
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could have imagined.
He might be asking you to dosomething you really don't want
to do.
You know, in talking withvarious brothers and sisters
here at the church, one of thethings that I hear all the time
is well, I don't know if Ishould join a, if I should be
serving anywhere.
The answer is yes, you shouldbe.
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You see, and that's one of thereasons why we have life groups
is because God calls us to be aconnected part of the body of
Christ, and life groups is anincredible way where we can do
that, where we can connect, growand serve with each other.
And so maybe that's what God'scalling you to.
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It might not be to go and reacha city to save them from
destruction.
He might just be calling you toget connected, to grow in
relationship with the peoplearound you.
The other question is who is Godcalling you to?
Because, as believers, we don'tlive in this bubble surrounded
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away from other non-believers.
Being out in the marketplace,we rub elbows with all kinds of
people of all varying faiths andpractices, and so I can almost
guarantee you the Lord iscalling you to somebody, and I
just thank God that he's nottelling me to go say, hey, go
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tell that person.
In 40 days, something's coming.
I'm so thankful that all hedoes is just say, hey, go over
there, be more like Jesus.
And that's why I'm so glad thatwe use this imagery here of the
disciples walking with Jesus,because it takes so much of the
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pressure off of us to be perfect, because none of these guys
walking with Jesus were perfect.
They were all in process, andso when the Lord says go, the
thing is he'll go right therewith you and all you have to do
is be more like him and as we dothat, we reach those people, we
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reach those places that God iscalling us to.
But I have a question.
If, maybe, all of this is pastyou, maybe God is calling just
you, maybe he's calling to youand you're already in a far-off
place and he's just calling youto be closer.
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So my follow-up question tothat is have you embraced Jesus?
You see, in Romans 10, 9, and10, it says this because if you
confess with your mouth thatJesus is Lord and believe in
your heart that God raised himfrom the dead, you will be saved
, for with the heart onebelieves and is justified, and
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with the mouth one confesses andis saved.
I'm going to ask the worshipteam if they would come, and I'm
going to ask all of you toplease stand where you are.
Like I said, perhaps the Lordis just calling out to you.
Maybe you've often been livinglife in your own way, and so he
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sent me here to tell you Godloves you and he wants you to be
a part of what he's doing, andso, with every head bowed and
every eye closed, I'm just goingto ask that if that's you and
you recognize that you've neverreceived Jesus as your Savior
for the first time, would youjust go ahead and raise your
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hand up really quick, so I cansee who I'm praying for, and
then you can put it back downquick, so I can see who I'm
praying for and then you can putit back down.
Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus.
And together I'm going to askif we would all pray this prayer
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.
The words aren't magic, butit's the matter of the heart
that brings you in relationshipwith the Father.
Together we say Lord, thank youfor loving me, thank you for
sending Jesus.
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I believe Jesus died on thecross for my sins.
I believe he rose again.
Forgive me of my sins.
I surrender my life to you.
In Christ's name.
We pray Amen, amen.
Friends, if that's you, wecelebrate with you today.
We are so excited for you and Iwant to encourage you to go
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back to where we have our peoplepraying for you.
We've got a gift for you tohelp you on this journey.
But for the rest of us, justconsidering the things that you
know, god is calling you to theplaces, the people.
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My question to you is do youneed to make some adjustments?
Do you need a timeout?
My prayer is that, with whateverGod's calling you to, you would
do it without him having to putyou in a timeout.
You see, the cross is a symbol.
It's a place of forgivenessthat we can come to when we
recognize we've been doing ourown thing, when we've been going
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in our own direction.
When God's called us to a placeand we decide we want to go
somewhere else, we can alwayscome back to the cross and say
Lord, I'm so sorry, help me.
And so, if that's you, I want tojust open up this, this time
for the altar that if yourecognize maybe you haven't been
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moving on something, or movingin the opposite direction, or
not going to the person orpeople or place that God's
called you to, here's anopportunity for you to come and
say Lord, I'm sorry, give me thestrength, give me the courage,
give me the energy to do what itis that you've called me to do.
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Father, I thank you so much forthis time that we've had today.
Lord, I thank you that you'renot a God of judgment, you're a
God of compassion.
Lord, I thank you that evenwhen you've called us to
something, no matter howdifficult it is, you're patient
with us when we balk against it,when we try and not do what
you've called us to do.
(30:20):
So, lord, I just pray right now, as we open this altar, that
you would help us to examine ourhearts, examine those things
that you've called us to, andget on the right path.
Today we pray this all in themighty name that is Jesus Christ
, amen.
Annie MacLeod (30:39):
I'm going to ask you to stand with us.
We're getting ready to saygoodbye to this part of the day,
but your Sunday is going to beamazing.
We understood that sometimesGod has to put us in time out
and sometimes we have to putourselves in it, but I just want
to remind you August 10th,we're going to have a water
baptism.
If you just made your firststep towards Christ and the
(31:00):
relationship with him today,happy birthday.
But also that next step is thatwater baptism.
And as we get ready to go intoschools, I'm just going to ask
you to pray with teachers.
Pray with us.
I say this because I'm one ofthem.
It's the hardest thing, so praywith us as we're getting ready
to welcome kids back.
For some kids, it's the safestplace they're ever going to be,
(31:23):
and so just pray for thoseteachers and pray for everybody.
That's going to be a part ofschools.
Angus MacLeod (31:30):
Yes, also, I want to just thank you.
If you're joining us for thefirst time today, we want to
invite you to come and connectwith us out at the cafe, also to
remind you to come and connectwith us out at the cafe, also to
remind you that we have a newsemester of life groups that are
going to be starting up.
So check out the catalog andsee what's there, see where you
can get involved.
I want to say a quick prayerfor our teachers and for our
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students, and then I'll send youout with a blessing.
Father, god, we thank you somuch for all of the teachers,
all of the students who aregetting ready to head back to
school, and I ask that you wouldalso be with the parents.
The start of school is a bigshift in life.
So, lord, I just pray that youwould be there.
Give your students, yourteachers, your parents, give
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them favor in the marketplace.
In the mighty name of JesusChrist, amen, may the Lord bless
you and keep you.
The Lord make his face to shineupon you and be gracious to you
.
The Lord lift up hiscountenance upon you and give
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you peace.
May the Lord's blessing be uponyou this week, be upon this
church and be upon thiscommunity.
We pray this in the mighty namethat is Jesus Christ.
Amen.
We love you very much here atCornerstone.
Have a great week.
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