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We've all been hurt.

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We all have scars.

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And through a relationship with Jesus Christ, we can all overcome and we can all be healed.

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Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Hey everybody and welcome back to the Sanctuary.

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So today as we get started, I recently learned about some statistics that I want to share

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with you about podcasts.

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Now just to let you know how well we're doing really, and we're doing really, really well.

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So what I learned is that there are an estimated 3 to 4 million podcasts out there and more

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than half of those have less than 3 episodes.

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Not only that, but less than a million have more than 10 episodes.

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Out of about 500 to 700,000 active podcasts, meaning that they have had at least one new

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episode in the past year, that's right, that's how few there are, only about 150,000 produce

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a weekly episode.

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Not only have we put out an episode every single week since we went live, this is actually

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our 22nd episode.

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So thank you so much for your continued support.

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You know, I believe the Lord has smiled on us here and seen the blessing of the growth.

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It's just a testament to His glory.

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Now looking at the analytics as well, we have listeners turning in regularly all around

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the world.

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Now, of course, the goal is to improve continually and to provide everyone with quality time

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in the world.

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So please continue to let us know your prayer needs, questions, and how we can improve to

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better be of service.

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And of course, share us with anyone and everyone, regardless of where they are in their walk

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with Christ.

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Now, with that said, we're going to go ahead and we're going to pick back up in our series

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here.

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And we're going to continue right where we left off.

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Now when you're looking at the chapters and the verses and all that, it might seem a little

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off looking at the face value here.

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And I know some of you are probably wondering why we didn't just finish off with this last

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verse last time.

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Well, for one, it's all how this ties together.

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And also, if you were to look at the Hebrew text of what we're reading, right where Jonah

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chapter 1 verse 17 is, well, in the Hebrew text, it's actually numbered as chapter 2

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verse 1.

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So that's why we stopped where we did and why we're starting where we are.

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Now moving along, the last time we saw Jonah, he had just been pitched into the sea.

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And the result was not only were the sailors of that ship saved, but they also found salvation.

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Now for those following in their Bible and those taking notes, go ahead, join me now,

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Jonah chapter 1 verse 17.

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It's the very last verse in the chapter there as we continue to go through this entire book.

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Now Jonah chapter 1 verse 17, the Bible says, now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow

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Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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First thing first, it does not say whale.

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Depending on the translation of your Bible, it might simply say huge or it might say great

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fish.

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You know, maybe it was a whale.

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Maybe it was, we don't know.

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For all we know, it was the creation of the Lord for this one event, never to be seen

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again.

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Now many have said that this was simply a dream or a story, you know, a parable.

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Let's be clear, it's the word of God, period.

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So trying to dismiss the miracle that takes place here, it needs to cease, it needs to

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stop.

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All right, the haggling needs to be done with.

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You know, it could be a metaphor.

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It could be literal.

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Either way, it doesn't matter because what God wants, God's going to get.

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And you know, he put it here in the scripture for a reason.

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So we as Christians, we can't have an attitude or a mindset that takes away from God's word.

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All right?

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In Matthew chapter 12, even Jesus himself used Jonah as an illustration.

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This is where the sign of Jonah comes from.

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When the religious leaders demanded Jesus show them a sign to show his authority, this

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right here, what we're looking at right now, this is what he was referring to.

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So it's an important and valid scripture for us to learn from and to apply to our lives.

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Now you no doubt have noticed a parallel here as well.

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As we get into all this here, you know, Jonah, he was sacrificed.

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He was swallowed by death for three days and three nights.

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Hence he became a sign.

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Jesus was sacrificed and rose on the third day.

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People today still demand proof of Jesus being God.

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And today, just as then, when it happened, his death and resurrection, you know, the

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death and resurrection of Jesus tells us the truth of who he is.

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Now from a biological standpoint, from, you know, when you look at biology, if you research

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legitimate resources and don't just, you know, follow the nonsense that's out there on social

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media and what all these naysayers say, it actually is possible that this could have

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been a sperm whale.

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Now it's unlikely, however, it's not impossible, even with what we know from a scientific standpoint.

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In addition, as we'll see soon enough, Jonah will be vomited out.

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Sperm whales do have this ability to rid themselves of bile as well.

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I know it's goofy, but I've always had this picture in my mind of Pinocchio and Geppetto

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on their little raft trying to escape Mastro the Whale and that old film, you know, the

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old cartoon.

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Now that I have all that out of my system, we're going to go into chapter two here.

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So Jonah chapter two, and it's 10 verses, so we're going to go through all 10 here

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real quick and then we're going to go into the meat of it.

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All right.

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And break it down.

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So Jonah chapter two, verses one through 10, the Bible says, from inside the fish, Jonah

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prayed to the Lord his God.

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He said, in my distress, I called to the Lord and he answered me from deep in the realm

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of the dead, I called for a help and you listened to my cry.

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You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas and the current swirled

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about me.

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All your waves and breakers swept over me.

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I said, I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look again toward your holy temple.

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The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me, seaweed was wrapped around

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my head.

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To the roots of the mountains I sink down.

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The earth beneath barred me in forever.

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But you, Lord, my God, brought my life up from the pit.

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When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you, to your

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holy temple.

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Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them.

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But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you.

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What I have vowed I will make good.

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I will say salvation comes from the Lord, and the Lord commanded the fish and it vomited

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Jonah onto dry land.

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Wow.

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So truly swallowed by the darkness.

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Jonah was thrown into the sea, swallowed by this huge fish, and he was facing death.

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I mean, he was looking it right in the eye.

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In itself, there's more than enough for anyone to start wallowing in self-pity.

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For all he knew he was done for.

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This was it.

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Game over, man.

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He was slowly going to die inside of this fish with all this seaweed, the stomach acid,

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and whatever else was in there with him.

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I venture to say it probably didn't smell very good either.

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This is a pretty bad day.

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It's about as bad as it gets at this point.

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I wonder if he knew a whale that went to church for religious purposes.

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Okay, bad dad joke, but you get the picture.

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What we have here though is an entire chapter dedicated to his prayer.

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Instead of saying, oh, woe is me, Jonah prayed.

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He acknowledged how he got there.

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He messed up, and he acknowledged where he was.

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He messed up, and he was going to die.

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In verse two, he even compares his situation of being in this fish to being in the land

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of the dead.

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He's done.

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He's in the land of darkness.

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He had this time left, and instead of being sad and depressed by, oh, this is it.

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Done.

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I messed up.

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He surrendered himself fully, and he prayed.

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Thank God for hearing his prayer.

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What he's talking about here at the beginning is that prayer to save the sailors on the

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ship.

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He thanked God for hearing his prayer and asked for help.

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He knew that regardless of what happened next, that he'd see God.

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Look at verse seven, where he says his life was ebbing away.

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This is a very poetic way of saying he was dying.

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Yet, he remembered he needed to look to God.

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Even looking death in the face, he knew he needed to look to God, not himself, not focused

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on the stuff around him or anything, just God.

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It's just like us today, when things are going good, we're even better than that.

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They're going great.

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He said, thanks, God.

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It's really easy for us.

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Thanks, God, but we still take him for granted.

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We take our eyes off of him, and we start looking around at the world.

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We start looking at that storm, and that is when we sink.

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We sink in the storm, when we're focused on the world.

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Yet it's when we are at our weakest that we really remember to look to him and to ask

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for help, that we truly depend on him, that we come before him.

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We need to remember, and we need to work on our relationship with him every single day.

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I'm going to say that again, we need to remember to work on our relationship with God every

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single day, not just saying thanks for the blessings, but following what he's asked us

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to by being obedient to his word, and not just taking someone's word for what the scripture

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says or what some post on social media says, but actually reading it for ourselves.

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Second Timothy, chapter two, verse 15, reminds us, do your best to present yourself to God

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as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the

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word of truth.

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It's talking about being knowledgeable in the Bible, all right, to educate ourselves

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by actually reading the word.

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You see, we have access to the Bible in more places than ever before, ever before.

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However, studies show that less than 30% of Christians in the world ever even read the

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entire Bible, and that here in the US, more than 82% of Christians only read their Bible

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in church on Sundays.

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How good of a relationship could we possibly have with the Lord when most of us don't

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even truly know what his word says because we don't open this book?

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All right, now continuing along here in verse eight, Jonah goes on to talk about false idols

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or simply put, false gods.

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Matter of fact, depending on your translation, it might say idols or it might say gods.

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People get hung up on them and they fall into these empty, foolish things that have no real

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value or real meaning, but they still get put up on that pedestal.

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It's a reminder that we need to make sure that God comes first in our lives at all times.

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We have to remain vigilant to ensure nothing takes its place as number one.

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Even as we read through verse nine, we know that Jonah was locked in on God at this point.

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There was no room for negotiation anymore.

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There was no wiggle room.

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It was God's way.

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That's how life is.

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It's God's way or the highway, and we need to accept that.

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Jonah's entire prayer shows us the power of prayer.

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God can hear us at any time, anywhere, even inside a fish at the bottom of the sea.

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Just like Jonah was humbled at this point, we need to let go of our egos and our selfishness

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and become humble before the father as well.

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Our troubles remind us that we need to get our eyes back on Jesus and off the storm around

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When he tells us to do something, we need to do it, not argue or try to haggle with

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him, but to actually do this thing that he has placed in front of us.

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By haggling, it's that whole, oh, I'll do this if you can do that, because we like to

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try to bargain with God, especially in prayer, and that's not the way it works.

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We need to do what we're told without complaining.

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It's just like parents tell their children, you get what you get and you don't throw

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a fit.

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A lot of us have heard that before.

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It's plain and simple.

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We as God's children need to stop throwing a temper tantrum just because things aren't

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going the way we want them to.

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God always knows what's going to be best for us, and we need to trust in that.

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We need to trust in him.

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We took a miracle, a true act of God, to get Jonah to come around and agree to do as he

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was told.

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In this prayer, we see that he'd accepted his fate.

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He gave thanks and then finally did what he should have done in the first place.

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He was grateful to be spared and realized that our sins can never be too big for God

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to forgive, even the Ninevites.

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That's who he was supposed to go see, right?

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There's only one sin that is unforgivable, only one sin that God won't forgive, and

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that's the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, or in other words, turning against it by rejecting

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Jesus.

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If you recall our Reluctant Leader series, Jonah did exactly the same thing that they

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He ran.

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He ran from his obligations, and he ran from God.

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We all have these times in our lives where we're tempted to do the same.

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The task before us is to recognize it so that we run to God's will instead of against it.

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We need to remember, much like the prodigal son, we can all choose to walk away from God.

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It does not mean that God is done with us though.

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Just as he stopped them and sent them to task, these Reluctant Leaders and Jonah, he may

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well choose to do the same with us.

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Or he may just let us walk.

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However, it's a lot harder for us to turn back the longer we run.

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It's harder for us to admit our faults, our sins, and to apologize.

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Really simply saying the words, I'm sorry, it isn't good enough.

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Not that it ever really was, but these words especially.

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Many people, and I'm sure you've noticed, many people say it so often, it really doesn't

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mean anything anymore.

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In fact, just the other day I was talking with my son about something and he said, I'm

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sorry.

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It's like, what are you sorry for?

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Why are you apologizing?

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You didn't do it.

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This isn't your fault.

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Why would you even say I'm sorry?

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Instead there are a few words that are even harder to say and really we should say them

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because they make it clear what we're trying to say.

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Instead of saying I'm sorry, what we should be saying is will you forgive me?

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Or please forgive me.

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Because it speaks not only to your heart, but to the other parties as well.

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And we know it's what we should be saying.

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The Lord's Prayer even says, and forgive us our debts as we have also forgiven our debtors.

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That they're a non-believer, even better because this is a great opportunity in a great way

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not only to let God's light shine in you because you may be all that they know of God, but

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it's also a great opportunity to introduce them through action to the grace, love, and

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mercy of Jesus.

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So wherever you are in life, wherever you are, it doesn't matter, it's time to come

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home.

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Stop running from the Lord.

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Admit your faults.

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Admit your sins.

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Ask for forgiveness and recommit yourselves to doing the things that God has placed in

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front of you.

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Read your Bible and pray every single day.

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And if you're not sure where to start that, reach out to me.

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Send me an email.

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Real easy.

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I'll message you back real quick.

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I'd be more than happy to offer a suggestion on where to start and how to keep going that

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fits with your lifestyle.

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Alright, next time we're going to keep on going, so until next time, keep reading and

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keep praying.

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God bless.

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Thank you for tuning in to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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If you would like to know more about our ministry or how you can support us, you can find us

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Thanks again for tuning in and we'll catch you next time.

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God bless.