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Let their praise share, and their joy they resource,

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Trust and obey, for there's no other way

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To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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In fellowships we, we will sit at His feet,

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Our blood won't by His side, it'll go away.

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But in sins we will do, very sins we will go,

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Never fear only trust and obey.

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Trust and obey, for there's no other way

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To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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Amen. Thank you Jennings and Macy and the choir.

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It's now time for children's church, if we got any children.

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Alright, we will be in Jonah, Jonah chapter 2 this morning.

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Jonah chapter 2, that's in the Old Testament,

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Kinda close toward the back of the Old Testament,

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It's a short little book, among some other short little books,

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So it might take you a second to find it.

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Jonah chapter 2, we'll try to do the whole chapter this morning.

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Jonah chapter 2, this is a story that some of you may be familiar with.

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Let's pray and we'll get started.

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My God we come to you this morning and we come to seek you dear Lord.

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We need you in our life, we need you to help us dear Lord.

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We need your grace, we need your strength, we need your love.

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And I pray God that we would seek you today and that we would find you,

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That you would meet us where we are in life.

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I pray that you would just bless us today from being in your house.

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I pray that your Holy Spirit would be in this place dear Lord.

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That you would move in our lives, that God you would speak to us through your word today,

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That your word would be crystal clear for us this morning.

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And I pray dear Lord that you help nothing I say to muddy the waters,

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But that you would hide me behind the cross,

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That you would take away any pride or any fear that is within me this morning.

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That every word that is spoken would be for your glory.

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That we would all come to seek you this morning,

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That we would hear from your word, that we would learn from your word,

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And that we would grow in your word.

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And I ask these things in Jesus name, Amen.

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The story of Jonah is a good story.

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If you've never read it before, you should read it.

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It's a relatively short book.

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It won't take you but just a few minutes to read the book.

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But even if you have read it before,

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I find myself turning to Jonah chapter 2 more often than I would like to admit.

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Because more often than I would like to admit,

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I find myself in trouble.

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And perhaps you find yourself in trouble.

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that's a way of taking the edge off of saying I sin when I shouldn't sin.

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Now Jonah's situation started off very simple.

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God had told Jonah to go to Nineveh to preach to the people there.

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Now this was a very simple instruction.

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This could be the shortest book in the Bible if Jonah would have listened.

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It could have said God told Jonah to go and Jonah went,

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and the people heard the message of Jonah and repented.

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But Jonah didn't listen to God.

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And maybe we can relate to that more often than we would like to admit.

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God had called Jonah and told him what he wanted him to do.

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But instead of doing what God called him to do,

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instead of following the command of God, which was pretty simple,

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instead it says three different times in Jonah chapter 1

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that Jonah was fleeing from the presence of the Lord.

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He was fleeing from the presence of the Lord.

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Now we may not recognize in our life when we are sinning that that's what we are doing.

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But when we begin to sin, when we stop following the commands of God

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and the instructions of God, and we quit listening to what God says,

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and we say to ourselves, God, I'm not going to listen to what you say

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because I don't want to do what you want me to do.

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He simply said to himself, I do not want to do what God wants me to do

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because I disapprove of God's ways.

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that we disapprove of the ways of God.

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Yet our actions may say something different.

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There may be things that God calls us to,

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and we simply don't want to do what God says

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because we don't see how that's going to benefit anything.

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He disapproved of what God wanted to do.

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a very large city, that of Nineveh.

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He wanted them to be spared from destruction.

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It says that God heard of the evils that were going on in Nineveh.

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They'd been brought to his attention, and he was going to destroy the city.

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But before he destroyed the people of Nineveh, he said, I'm going to send Jonah.

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Now Jonah, if you read through the rest of the book, spoiler alert,

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Jonah preaches the message, and the people hear the message, and they repent.

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They respond appropriately.

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They hear the word of God.

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They repent of their sin, and God relents from sending disaster on them.

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And Jonah should have said, praise God.

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All these evil people have turned from their sin, and God has spared them.

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Praise God. Nineveh, let us praise God together.

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Jonah said, I didn't want to go here, God, because I knew you were going to do this.

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I knew you were going to have compassion on them.

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I knew you were going to be gracious to them.

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And so Jonah did not want to do the Lord's work because he did not approve of what God wanted to do.

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No, we don't ever feel that way, do we?

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We want God's grace and God's mercy on us, right?

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But we want God to smite those who come against us, don't we?

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We don't want to pray for those who come against us to be saved, because we say,

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one day they're going to get what's coming to them, and we kind of find some joy in that.

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But do we find much joy when we hear that those who have done evil things and who have mistreated us,

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do we rejoice when we hear that they've turned their life around,

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that they've turned over a new leaf, that they've come to faith in Jesus Christ?

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We should rejoice.

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Maybe there's a part of us that disapproves of what God does.

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So we're not so different than Jonah.

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We don't do the things that God calls us to do.

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God gives us command after command in His Word that are very simple for us to follow,

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and yet we live in sin, and when we do so, what we are doing is we are fleeing from God.

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It's said that Jonah went and got in the boat.

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He went down to the bottom of the boat, as low as he could get,

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as far away from God as he could possibly get, and sailed away, thinking he was sailing away from God.

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But you can't escape the presence of God, at least not the wrath of God.

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And here Jonah was in this boat, and a great storm came, and Jonah, he wasn't worried about a thing.

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He had made his decision. He was fleeing from the presence of God, and Jonah thought,

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all is well, I've left God behind.

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And all of a sudden this storm came. Everybody on the boat started going crazy.

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We're going to die. What are we going to do?

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They all started praying to their gods. Nothing was happening.

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They come woke Jonah up and said, Jonah, you better get up. What's going on?

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Why are you asleep? We're going to die. You better pray to your God.

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We need to find out what's going on.

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So they cast lots to see who was responsible for the mess they were in, and the lot fell to Jonah.

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And Jonah said, look, it's my fault. Throw me overboard.

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And the people on the ship, even though they worshiped other gods, they did not throw Jonah overboard.

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They rode and they rode and they rode and they tried to get out of the storm,

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and they realized they could not get out of the storm.

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And they said, even these people with other gods, and listen to this, you know what they said?

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They said, God, don't hold this against us. We fit to throw this man over the ship.

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Don't let us be guilty of what's going to happen to him.

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Now, even these men who worship other gods feared God more than Jonah because if Jonah would have feared God,

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he would have listened to what God said and he would have done what God said.

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But Jonah had no fear of the Lord and he fled from the Lord.

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We don't ever do that, do we?

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Perhaps we need to have a little more fear of the Lord in our life.

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Perhaps if we feared the Lord and kept his commands, as the book of Ecclesiastes tells us in its conclusion,

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perhaps we would find ourselves in a much better situation than we sometimes do.

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But maybe one of our biggest problems is we don't fear the Lord.

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And if we don't fear the Lord, then we have no desire to keep his commands.

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And so here was Jonah disapproved of the ways of God, decided he was going to go his own way.

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He was going to leave God. He was going to flee from the presence of God.

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And oh boy, did he find out real fast that fleeing from the presence of God was not a good thing.

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And we discovered that in our life.

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We begin to live in sin. We see the commands of God.

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We just don't listen to what they say. We live for ourself. We live in our sin.

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as I want to get away from the presence of God, I want to get away from God's commands.

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we find ourself in a bad situation.

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And in Jonah chapter 2, he finds himself in a bad situation.

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Now it says here that a giant fish, a huge fish, came and swallowed Jonah up.

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some of your translations may say whale. Maybe it was a whale. We don't really know what it was.

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It was at the very least a big fish and that's all that matters.

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Here Jonah is. He's thrown over this boat in the midst of fleeing from God.

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He finds himself tossed and turned by the winds and the waves.

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And if that's not bad enough, a huge fish comes and eats Jonah. He gobbles him up.

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Now, you've got to think about how bad this would have been and we're going to see that as we read through this text.

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And perhaps some of us may be in a similar situation to Jonah today.

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No, we've not been eaten by a big fish.

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But perhaps our sin has drawn us away from the presence and the closeness of God

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and the joy of the relationship that we used to have with God

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and the peace that comes with the relationship with God.

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And perhaps our sin has pulled us away from the presence of God today.

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And we are living in the midst of our pain and our sorrow and our sin.

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And we are longing for the presence of God.

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And the question that we may say is how do we get back to where we were?

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Well, Jonah gives us the answer to that in chapter 2, verse 1.

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Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish.

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I called to the Lord in my distress and he answered me. Praise the Lord.

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Isn't that good news that in the midst of our distress today?

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I don't know what anybody's going through, but I suspect that some of you in here are going through some stuff

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and probably some of us in here are going through some stuff that we have brought on ourself because of sinfulness.

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But what does Jonah show us to do here is that we need to call out to the Lord in our distress.

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And we need to know today that God hears us.

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We need to know that when we humbly and truly seek God and call out to Him from the bottom of our heart, He hears us.

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Now, sometimes we call out to Him, but we don't really do it from the bottom of our heart.

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Sometimes we get in trouble and say, oh, God, help me.

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But there comes a point sometimes in our life where we find ourselves in the belly of the big fish, so to speak,

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in the worst possible place we can be, as low as we can possibly get.

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And it's in those times that we need to seek God when our heart really begins to hurt

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and our heart really begins to realize the severity of our sins that we need to call to the Lord in our distress.

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And you can know today that if you would call to God today, that He will answer you.

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He called out to the Lord in His distress. He answered him.

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He cried out for help in the belly of Sheol. You heard my voice.

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You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me.

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All your breakers and your billows swept over me.

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But I said, I have been banished from your sight.

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Now, that's a scary, scary thought.

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Maybe some of you have felt that feeling. Maybe some of you feel that feeling today.

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Jonah wanted to flee from the presence of God, and he got what he wanted.

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He wanted to flee from the presence of God. He wanted to get away from God's presence.

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He wanted to get away from God's command. He wanted to do his own thing.

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And he did what he wanted to do only to find that he had been banished from the presence of God.

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He discovered real quick that when he had fled from God, that things got bad real fast.

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Maybe some of you have heard the story of the lost son in the New Testament, the parable that Jesus told

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about the son who lived with his father and all was well until one day the son said,

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hey, give me all my inheritance so that I can go do what I want to do.

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And he left the father's house, and he went and lived how he wanted to live

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only to discover that when times got hard and he had squandered everything that hold up,

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being in the presence of the father was a lot better than I ever recognized.

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And then he longed to be back in the presence of the father.

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And here God had commanded Jonah what to do, and Jonah had fled the presence of God.

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And now he is feeling the agony of that. He is feeling the weight of that.

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He is feeling that he has been banished from the presence of God.

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And that is a scary place to be when we are so deep in our sin

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and we have been so disobedient in God and we feel the weight of that.

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And sometimes God has to use those experiences to bring about a fear that's going to turn us to him.

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And Jonah didn't have the fear of the Lord at the beginning of this story,

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but it sure sounds like he probably had the fear of the Lord here.

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and we feel just like Jonah and we say, I have been banished from your sight.

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What are you going to do today if you feel like you've been banished from the sight of God

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for your sin, for your actions, for your disobedience?

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Jonah didn't just stop his prayer there and said, I have been banished from the sight of God.

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He said, yet I will look once more towards your Holy Temple.

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Yet I will look once more. God, I have failed you. I have sinned against you.

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I have been separated from you. God, I am in a mess.

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who does not deserve your grace, who does not deserve your mercy,

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who doesn't even know if you're going to listen to me.

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But God, I'm going to call out to you one more time. I'm going to call out to you again.

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Yet once more, Jonah said, I will call out to the Lord.

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And perhaps that needs to be our prayer today.

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Perhaps that needs to be where we are today.

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Maybe today we need to be at that point in our life.

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Maybe some of you come in here today and you are broken and you feel the weight of your sin

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and you feel the weight of the world and you feel like God has abandoned you

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and you feel like you've abandoned God and you feel like you're unlovable

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and you feel like you don't deserve the grace of God.

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So do not give up today.

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Yet once more, this morning, again, call out to the Lord.

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Time and time again, we fail in our sin.

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This is the last time I'll have this drink.

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This is the last time I'll tell this lie.

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This is the last time I'll steal.

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This is the last time I'm going to be mean to my wife and kids.

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This is the last time. This is the last time.

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and say to God, God, yet once more, I call out to you.

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God, I call out to you because there is no one else I can call out to.

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God, I call out to you because you are my only hope.

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God, I call out to you.

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I know I'm undeserving, dear Lord.

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I know I'm a wretched sinner.

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God, I know I've called time and time again.

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Would your grace cover me?

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and seek him with all of our heart, if we would repent of our sins

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and yet once more call out to him, God would hear us in our distress today.

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the worst place he had ever been, but yet once more,

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he was going to call out to the Lord because there was nothing else he could do.

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Verse 5, the waters engulfed me up to the neck.

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The watery depths overcame me.

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the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever.

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Does it ever feel that way to us that we sink to the lowest depths,

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that we sink to a spot where it seems like everything is engulfed us,

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that everything is closing up against us forever, that all hope is lost?

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what this experience must have been like?

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How nasty this must have been.

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This was not a pleasant experience.

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This is not like Pinocchio when they get ate by the whale.

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Y'all might remember that.

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They get ate, him and that old man, I don't know his name,

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but they get eaten by the whale and they go in there

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and it's like they're in an airplane hanger.

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I mean this whale is huge.

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so we'll just have to live out the rest of our life here.

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No! That's not what it was like.

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You know I looked up the biggest whale in the world, it's the blue whale.

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The biggest whale in the world.

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best case scenario, here's Jonah in the belly of this thing

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that's probably the size of a minivan, along with 40 tons of creel,

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that's how much creel the belly can hold.

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It's dark, it's nasty, it's stinky, he's being sloshed around.

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If you've ever been in a pitch black dark, it is a scary thing.

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Michelle and I, we went in the cave on a trip a while back,

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and we went down in the cave and they said, we're going to turn the lights off.

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in the pitch black nasty dark?

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and we feel the weight of our sin, we see that there is no hope, that there is no light.

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We don't know what we're going to do.

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That's how Jonah felt and that's how you and I feel sometimes.

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And what in the world was Jonah going to do?

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He felt like it was over.

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What else was he going to do?

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All he could do is pray to God.

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And that's all you can do today.

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That's all you can do today is seek God.

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You can't solve all your problems, you can't right all your wrongs that you've done.

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As unworthy as we are to call out to God, God still desires for us to seek him today.

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he wants to save all of us rotten people today.

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And the people of Nineveh had enough sense to call out to him.

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he finally came to his senses and knew that he needed to call out to the Lord.

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Verse 7, as my life was fading away, I remembered Yahweh.

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Isn't that something?

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I remembered Yahweh.

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Isn't it crazy how we forget God?

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You know, all of us forget.

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Yeah, we do. We forget God.

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We have a knowledge of God, but sometimes life's going good.

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We're not having any problems. We're kind of doing our own thing.

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We do a few bad things, but God overlooks that because we're mostly good

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and we're kind of going our way and we're living life to the fullest.

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God has a way of helping us to remember who he is.

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God has a way of helping us to remember that we are not in control.

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God has a way of helping us to remember that things can change in an instant.

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But Jonah remembered him at just the right time.

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Perhaps today some of us have forgotten about God.

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Let us remember God.

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And he said, as my life was fading away,

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and some of you may feel that way today, you may feel as though your life is fading away.

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Well, let us follow Jonah's example here and remember God.

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As his life was fading away, he remembered God.

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My prayer came to you, to your holy temple.

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Those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love.

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That's a beautiful verse, verse 8.

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Those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love.

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that's more beautiful than feeling love,

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than feeling the love of family, of feeling the love of parents,

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of feeling the love of children, of feeling the love of your spouse,

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of feeling the love of a church body.

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There are a few things that are more beautiful in this world, if anything,

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that is as beautiful as when you are loved by someone else.

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He says, those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love.

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Now there is no greater love than that that God has shown for us.

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There is no greater love than that a man would lay down his life for his friends,

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and that's exactly what Jesus Christ has done for you and I.

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Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross.

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He suffered, he bled, and he died.

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He gave his life, he shed his blood so that your sins and that my sins could be forgiven,

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and that is faithful love.

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Knowing the love of Jesus Christ, why in the world would we seek love or seek joy

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or seek satisfaction in anything else?

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We do exactly what Jonah talks about here sometimes.

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We cling to worthless idols.

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We cling to things that are worthless.

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We begin to seek the things of the world.

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We begin to seek wealth.

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We begin to seek the attention of other people.

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We begin to seek all of these things that we have.

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We begin to cling to our worthless idols only to find that our worthless idols are just that.

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They are worthless.

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we realize that nothing we have in this world is going to be good enough to do anything for us,

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and we need to forsake those worthless idols, and we need to cling to the faithless love of God,

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the faithless love, excuse me, the faithful love of God, the faithful love of Jesus Christ.

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What are you clinging to today?

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In the midst of your pit of despair, are you clinging to the worthless things of this world?

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Are you clinging to the faithful love of God?

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Jonah says, as my life was fading, I remembered God,

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and those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love.

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Let us not be those who miss the love of Jesus Christ today.

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Jonah said in verse 9, But as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving.

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I will fulfill what I have vowed.

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Salvation is from the Lord.

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Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah on to dry land.

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What are you going to choose today?

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Jonah says, Look, some, they cling to the worthless.

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They forsake the faithful love of God.

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But Jonah says, Not me, not anymore.

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Jonah says, Today, Lord, I call out to you.

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But as for me, God, I'm going to live for you.

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God asked for me, I abandoned you, I abandoned your commands,

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but God, now I'm going to live for you, and I'm going to live for your commands,

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because God, I have realized that there is salvation in no other.

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he was delivered from his torment.

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He was delivered from the belly of this fish because he called out to the Lord.

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What about you and I this morning?

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Life is hard. Life is tough. It's a struggle.

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And sometimes a lot of our struggles are brought on by our own stupid choices,

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because we are sinful people who refuse to listen to God.

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We flee from the presence of God,

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and we get into spots that we feel like we are in the deepest, darkest depths

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where there is no hope.

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But I want to tell you today, the story of Jonah shows us that there is hope.

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There is hope for your life this morning.

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There is hope for us in the midst of our sin this morning,

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because God loves us.

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Let us be those today who remember God.

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Let us be those today who call out, yet once more.

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One more time, you say, I've called out to God so many times.

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I don't know if God wants to hear from me today.

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I'm telling you that if God is working on you, if he's convicting you,

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if you feel the pain of your sin, that God wants to hear from you today.

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Let us be those today who call out to God, yet once more,

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and feel his faithful love this morning.

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Let's pray.

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God, we thank you for your good word.

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Dear Lord, I pray that you'd be with us,

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because dear Lord, too many times we just do boneheaded stuff.

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Too many times, dear Lord, we are more like Jonah than we care to admit.

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There are too many times that you give us your commands,

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and we just run the other way.

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And dear Lord, maybe there are some today that are feeling the pain of that, God,

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because dear Lord, when we live in our sin, we experience those consequences.

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Dear Lord, when we flee from your presence, when we flee from your instruction,

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God, there is no good apart from you.

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And dear Lord, we are just left so many times in the pain of our sin.

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But God, you are faithful to listen to us, to hear us,

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if we would call out to you in our distress this morning.

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So God, maybe there are some here today, and they're not so unlike Jonah.

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Maybe they've been running the wrong way,

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or they've run theirself right into a deep, dark place.

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I pray today that they would remember you,

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that yet once more they'd call out to you.

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Dear Lord, maybe there are some of us in here,

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and we've called out to you time and time again for the sin that we commit.

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And God, we don't deserve for you to listen to us one more time, but you do.

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You're so faithful, dear Lord, to listen to us when we call out to you in our distress.

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The blood of Jesus is good enough to cover all of our sins, God.

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And they are great, and they are many,

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and they are far more than we even want and desire in our life.

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But dear Lord, we are just wretched sinners so often.

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So God, I pray today that we would remember your love,

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that we would remember your grace, God,

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that we would know that you're not done with us.

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You don't want to cast us aside.

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Dear Lord, you don't want us to live in sin,

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but you don't want to cast us aside.

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Dear Lord, you want to restore us.

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And sometimes our life is like Jonah.

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You have to allow us to get down to the bottom of the barrel

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so that we'll look up to you.

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So God, I pray that if there are any who are there this morning,

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I pray that they would look up to you,

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that they would call out to you in their distress,

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that they would seek you, dear Lord,

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that they would remember you this morning,

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that they would feel your presence,

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that they would return to your presence today, dear Lord,

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that you would restore the joy of their salvation today, dear Lord,

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that you would restore their soul, that you would comfort them,

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that you would strengthen them, that you would be with them in their pain,

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that you would forgive their sin, God,

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that you would let them see a little bit of light

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at the end of the tunnel this morning

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to know that they are not forgotten, dear Lord,

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if they would just call out to you this morning.

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And I ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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As we stand and sing, if God has spoken to you today,

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maybe there's something on your heart.

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Now is your chance to respond to the Lord.

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If you need somebody to pray for you,

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I'll be glad to pray for you this morning.

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But if God has spoken to you today,

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if you have been fleeing from the Lord,

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if you have been living in sin, repent.

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Today is the day that God may be calling you to repent.

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Listen to God when He calls and respond to it.

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I meet the every outmost gracious Lord,

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Who tenderly poised my life and He is my friend.

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I meet Thee, O I meet Thee,

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Every hour I need Thee,

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O bless me now, I say,

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I come to Thee.

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I meet Thee, every hour,

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Stay my dear one,

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Temptations disarm my breath,

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My heart my heart,

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I meet Thee, O I meet Thee,

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Every hour I need Thee,

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O bless me now, I say,

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I come to Thee.

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Amen. Thank you all for coming.

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Don't forget, St. Bration night,

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last one of the year.

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So if you want to come, come at five.

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We'll eat if you want to bring food.

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You can if not, come eat with us anyway.

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We'll sing at six. It's going to be a good night.

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Hope you all can be back and join us tonight.

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Dad, would you close us with a prayer?

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Good night. Thank you for a beautiful day today.