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Okay, my name's Kimberly Hernandez, and I believe I started doing worship ministry here

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Easter two years ago, I think sounds about right.

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And the last time I was up here, I read the whole genealogy of Jesus, and so we don't have

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as many complicated names today, so that's good.

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All right, we're gonna be looking at Jonah 1, which was read last week, but we're gonna

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be going into that, so we're gonna be rereading it today.

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So today's scripture reading is Jonah 1.

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The word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amity.

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Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it, because their evil has

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come up before me.

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Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the Lord's presence.

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He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.

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He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the Lord's presence.

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But the Lord threw a great wind onto the sea, and such a great storm arose on the sea that

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the ship threatened to break apart.

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The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his God.

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They threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten the load.

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Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, and it stretched out and

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fallen into a deep sleep.

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The captain approached him and said, what are you doing?

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Sound asleep, get up, call to your God.

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Maybe this God will consider us, and we won't perish.

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Come on, the sailors said to each other, let's cast lots.

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Then we'll know who is to blame for this trouble we're in.

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So they cast lots, and the lot singled out Jonah.

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They said to him, tell us who is to blame for this trouble we're in.

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What is your business, and where are you from?

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What is your country, and what people are you from?

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He answered them, I am a Hebrew.

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I worship the Lord, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.

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Then the men were seized by great fear and said to him, what have you done?

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The men knew he was fleeing from the Lord's presence because he had told them.

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So they said to him, what should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?

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For the sea was getting worse and worse.

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He answered them, pick me up and throw me into the sea so that it will calm down for

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you.

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For I know that I'm to blame for this great storm that is against you.

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Nevertheless, the men rode hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn't because the

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sea was raging against them more and more.

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So they called out to the Lord, please Lord, don't let us perish because of this man's

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life and don't charge us with innocent blood.

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For you Lord have done just as you pleased.

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Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

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The men were seized by great fear of the Lord and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and

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made vows.

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The Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the fish

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three days and three nights.

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This is God's word.

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Thank you Kimberly.

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Quite the assignment there.

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Kimberly's just a few verses, but it was more than a few.

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Last week Nick cracked about how we're going to make it all the way through Jonah.

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Well, we'll see.

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I'm not entirely sure either.

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But today we'll make it through chapter one and that will be good.

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And so I've been excited about this week.

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I've been excited about studying Jonah and preparing and hopefully the Lord continues

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to speak to us through it and finds us where we're at.

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Like I said last week, takes Jonah and that story and the narrative of it and turns it

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like a mirror back on ourselves so that we too might be exposed along with Jonah.

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So we're continuing in the Prodigal Prophet series, which is exploring the book of Jonah.

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And Jonah is one of the minor prophets, often times called the 12.

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It's minor not because it's young in age or unimportant, but it's minor because it's

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shorter and shorter than the majors.

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And it's minor because it's got a more narrow focus on what it's talking about.

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Although Jonah is an interesting book among the minor prophets, it stands out for sure.

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Now last Sunday we laid the groundwork for our time in Jonah and we set the historical

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stage.

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We took a look at the first three verses of chapter one.

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The word of God comes to Jonah, right?

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One of Amitya and we discovered that Jonah means dove and his father's name means faithfulness

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and he is the furthest from the name that he has been given.

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We talked about the fact that the book starts in a way that tips us off that it is a standard

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prophetic book like Isaiah or Jeremiah, Haggai or Hosea.

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But instead of being a book of pronouncements like many of the other prophets, it's a book

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where the prophets speak or they write down what God is saying and what God's perspective

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is on it.

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That's what a typical prophecy book would be about.

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We find that this one instead is about a prophet.

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And as we'll see over the course of the story, the prophet's story itself becomes a sort

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of prophetic message, a parable about what God is doing and the dangers we face when

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we forfeit the grace of God in order to follow our own way.

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So much more than that, but at least that.

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And so a command, get up, go is how it began.

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But it wasn't just a command, it was an invitation to move with God, to speak with God's perspective

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on the spiritual condition of the nation of Syria.

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It was an invitation to be a first hand witness of God's redeeming mercy and grace.

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Command, get up and go.

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So Jonah gets up and with urgency and immediacy he runs.

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And he runs as far in the opposite direction as is possible in his time and place.

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Go and put that chart up again, Nate.

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He runs to Tarshish as far away as he can get.

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He says, see you later.

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I quit.

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I will not go to Israel's mortal enemy.

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I will not stand before them and deliver your stupid message.

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I will not watch as you show mercy to the ones I hate.

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My security, my future plans for myself, my reputation with my friends and my neighbors.

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Oh my goodness, these are my life.

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God you must be trying to end my life.

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Or as we are finding, is he inviting him into a true life or a truer life?

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So it begins our time today in verse four where it picks up and says, the Lord threw

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a great wind onto the sea and such a great storm arose on the sea that the ship threatened

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to break apart.

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The sailors were afraid and each cried out to his God.

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They threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten the load.

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Meanwhile Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and

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fallen into a deep sleep.

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The Lord called to Jonah and Jonah responded by rebelling and fleeing.

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The Lord responded by hurling a great wind which caused a great storm to rise.

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A couple things to point out first that throughout this book the name used for God in most of

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your translations will be the Lord.

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And most translations or many of the modern translations will have all caps, L-O-R-D.

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And what that is is the translators using the word Lord to translate the word Yahweh,

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Y-H-W-H.

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And that is the personal covenant revealed name of God to his people.

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This is the covenant name to his covenant people and that's important.

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It's important to remember because Jonah is a man of the covenant.

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He is called to be God's beacon of truth in the world.

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He is called to display the glory of God to the nations through the knowledge and worship

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of Yahweh, the Lord.

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And being a covenant person meant that you were called to be a blessing to all nations

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and that there was good for obedience to God's law and God's word and there was bad for disobedience.

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There was good for obedience and bad for disobedience.

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And my friends, he chose disobedience and what do we find here?

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We find that sin brings storms.

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Sin brings storms.

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Not every storm is because of sin, but every sin brings storms.

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If we violate God's word, we are violating our own design since God built us to know,

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serve, and love him.

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An Old Testament scholar named Derek Kidner writes this.

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He said, sin sets up strains in the structure of life which can only end in breakdown.

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Sin sets up strains in the structure of life which can only end in breakdown.

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If God created us to live for him, then there is a spiritual giveness to our lives.

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A spiritual giveness.

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We are spiritual physical beings.

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And that means that sin or living for anything other than that, for that which we were made

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for, anything else is cutting against the grain of your own design and your own being.

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Sin is spiritual suicide.

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Jonah's disobedience results in a swift and immediate fury.

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The Lord Yahweh hurls a great wind.

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What an image.

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And that's something that many people will struggle to come to grips with as well.

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The Bible is not bashful on this issue.

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The storm here was caused by God.

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The Lord, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the maker of the sea and the dry land

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has absolute control and sovereignty over all that he has made.

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There is nothing beyond his gaze and nothing beyond his reach.

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The winds obey his command.

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The waters respond to his command.

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The ship, the ship even in the language as we translated it, it may become a little obscure,

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but the ship itself by the author is given a personality.

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In the actual original language, it literally says that the ship thought about breaking

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up.

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It's like God's coming against us.

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He's throwing wind and it's causing waves.

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I think what I'll do is I'll let all my nails go and I'll let this, I'll let this mug fall

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to the bottom of the ocean.

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I'm out of here.

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But is this a mad, flying off the handle, short tempered response of a fickle deity?

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Anything you might read in the myth of the Greeks and Romans?

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No.

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This is what one commentator called God's severe mercy.

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God's severe mercy.

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Could God command the muscles and the body structure of Jonah to move in such a way that

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Jonah finds himself in Nineveh and his tongue is moving and he doesn't want it to, but nonetheless

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it's moving and preaching a message?

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Yes, he could.

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Could God command that Jonah would want to go and that his passions and emotions would

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reflect that desire?

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Yes.

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Could God strike Jonah under judgment and just disintegrate him?

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Poof.

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He's going to pick someone else and say, you're going.

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Or could God open the heavens and with a trumpet blast make the declaration himself?

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Yes.

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But something else is afoot.

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The Lord, the Lord is intent on showing Jonah us and others something about his character,

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something about who he is, that a storm, a ship, and some pagan sailors were perfect

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for.

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And speaking of sailors, how do they respond to the storm?

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So these are seasoned seafaring men and they can tell something is not right from the get-go.

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Something is not right about this particular storm.

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And they discern right away that there's a spiritual undercurrent to this one.

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So they begin crying out to their gods.

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They are throwing everything that's not nailed down overboard and they're trying whatever

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they can do to save the ship and to save the human cargo.

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Here you have sailors who are terrified.

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They're terrified, it says.

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They have fear over the top fear.

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Why?

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Because of Jonah's disobedience and his abandonment of his calling.

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They're wondering if this is it for them.

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Will this be the last time that they saw their loved ones?

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Will they end up at the bottom of the ocean?

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And you would think Jonah is right there with them, right?

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Oh my gosh, what's going on?

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Is this it?

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But where is he?

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He's asleep.

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He's asleep.

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And the text goes to great lengths to tell us he's asleep in the very belly of the ship,

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the depths of the ship.

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He went down, remember last week he went down?

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He went down?

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He went down?

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And he's going to go down.

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Jonah is experiencing the sleep of sorrow.

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And this kind of sorrow is so much deeper than simply an emotion.

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The kind of sorrow that comes from loss of purpose, loss of hope, and loss of communion.

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It is a physical response to a spiritual condition.

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It is the kind of sleep that is the result of being absolutely spent on powerful emotions

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like and being drained to the end on things like guilt and anger, anxiety and grief.

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Jonah is in the depths of despair, the kind of despair that makes us humans oblivious

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to the sufferings of those around us, including the ones that we are actively hurting.

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These sailors are scared, and Jonah, the prophet of the Lord Almighty, is in a stupor.

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Jonah is thoroughly absorbed by his own problems, and these pagan sailors are working tirelessly,

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terrified for the common good.

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See we see that upside down narrative going on here.

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People aren't acting the way they ought.

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Again, Jonah is in the lowest part of the ship, and he's in the deepest of sleep.

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So the captain approaches him and says, what are you doing?

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What are you doing sound asleep?

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Get up!

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Call to your God.

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Maybe this God will consider us and we won't perish.

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Come on, the sailors say, let's cast lots.

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That'll tell us who's to blame, right?

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And lots were probably a common way for them to do that.

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They would have cast lots or they would have, you know, something like dice or they probably

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pulled sticks that had their names written on it.

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And it pulls the stick of Jonah, the fingers pointing at Jonah.

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Let's cast lots.

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It goes to Jonah.

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Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we're in.

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What is your business?

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Where are you from?

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What is your country?

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And what people are you from?

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And he answers them, I'm a Hebrew.

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I worship the Lord, the God of the heavens who made the sea and the dry land.

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This is great.

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This is great.

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So finally the captain finds him and says, what are you doing?

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Get up and you'll see something familiar there.

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Something that sounds very familiar, right?

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This is how the whole story started.

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Get up!

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And it started with God's voice.

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It's the same phrase that was used in the beginning where God comes to Jonah and says,

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get up, go to Nineveh, but now it's in the mouth of a non-believer.

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Now instead of God calling on Jonah, it is the captain calling on Jonah to call on God.

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This is quite the call to repentance, isn't it?

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God sent his prophet to do what?

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Point pagans, point non-believers toward the Lord.

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And here a pagan non-believer is pointing the prodigal prophet back to God.

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So they cast lots and the sailors ask Jonah a series of questions.

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Who are you?

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Where are you from?

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What are you doing?

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Why are we here?

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What's going on?

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And he answers, I'm a Hebrew.

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I worship the Lord.

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I hope you see the irony in all those statements.

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He says, A, I'm a covenant man of the covenant people.

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He says, B, I worship.

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And the actual word worship there is fear.

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So everyone say it, I fear Yahweh.

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I fear the Lord.

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Really?

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And then he says, God, the God, the Elohim of the up there realm.

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That guy.

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Oh, that guy who created the sea and the dry land.

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And these sailors probably are out of their mind.

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They're like, you offended that God?

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And then you got in our boat and got on the sea that he created.

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His realm is the sea.

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His realm is the dry land.

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And are you kidding me?

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What have you done?

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Then the men were, this says, the women and men were seized with a great fear.

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And they said, what have you done?

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What have you done, covenant man, who fears the Lord, the God of the sea, and the dry

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land and who created everything?

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What have you done?

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And here's something that many of us may not like hearing, but those who are outside of

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the faith, those who are nonbelievers have every right, every right to scrutinize us,

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to see if our conduct matches our confession.

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They have every right to scrutinize us to see if our conduct matches our confession.

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The sailors are looking at Jonah, who has the audacity to say that he is a Yahweh fear,

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fearer.

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Yet his conduct has shown that he has no regard, that he is rebelled, that he has fled from

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the presence of God.

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And even when the Lord Yahweh, the one he fears, hurls wind at the ship, he sleeps.

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What have you done?

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Why haven't you used your supposed faith for the common good?

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Why doesn't your conduct match your confession?

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As Hugh Martin asks, why don't you use the resources of your faith to bear on the sufferings

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of others?

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Why not?

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What good is your confession?

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The world has a right to rebuke the church when she will not display love in practical

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ways.

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The world has a right.

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Maybe you've heard it from a family member or a neighbor, those are the worst to hear

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it from.

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I thought you were a Christian.

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Oh, I thought you were a believer.

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I thought you fear Yahweh.

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I thought you worshiped the Lord.

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Why did you cheat that person?

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I thought you were a Christian.

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Why did you deceive them?

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Oh, look at him.

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He's the Christian.

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Look at the mouth that he has.

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Look at the curses that fly out of his mouth and not blessings.

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Why did you use your resources on self-fulfillment when there was suffering you could alleviate?

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Why?

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The covenant man, the God-fearer, the God of the up-there realm who made the seas and

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the dry land.

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This is my God.

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And they say, what have you done?

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And it's valid.

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And so they turn to Jonah and they say, what should we do then?

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Jonah, what do we do?

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And he answered them, pick me up and throw me into the sea so that it will calm for you.

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For I know that I'm to blame for this great storm that is against you.

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Nevertheless the men rode hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn't because the

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sea was raging against them more and more.

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So they called to the Lord, please Lord, don't let us perish.

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So they called to the Lord, all caps.

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They called to, remember they first said, call on your God, all lowercase.

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And now it says, they called to the Lord, all caps.

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Yahweh.

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They called to the Lord, please don't let us perish because of this man's life.

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And don't charge us with innocent blood for you Lord have done just as you please.

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There's some debates over whether or not Jonah's idea of throwing him overboard was actually

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his ultimate attempt to flee the Lord.

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He just throw me down there and he won't find me there.

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We will see that he says something to the effect of I would rather die than witness

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God's mercy, God showing mercy to a people that he thinks are undeserving.

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He's already in this kind of spiritual suicide mode.

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And maybe that's at play now as well.

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The author doesn't say for sure, but the story sets us up so that we can be skeptical of Jonah

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either way.

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This guy is sketchy.

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Jonah does not use the covenant language of repentance.

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As a man who would have been understood the law, he would have used the covenant language

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of repentance and he doesn't use that here.

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He uses instead language about what is the effect that is having on them.

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And there is some hope in this.

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So let's look at this for just a second as we kind of come to the end here.

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There's some hope in the language he does use because embedded in his response, in his

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response of pick me up and throw me into the sea, it will calm down for you for I know

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that I'm to blame for this gravestorm against you.

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Embedded in his response is this faint outline of a sketch of grace and it begins to appear.

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While we don't know his motive, we don't know what Jonah was thinking at the time.

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We don't know, we do know that he was willing to do something.

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We know that Jonah was willing to do something in order to save the sailors.

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That's important to see.

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After all of this, he comes to a place where he's willing to do something to save the sailors.

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His answer says nothing of God, but it does say throw me in so that it calms down for

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you.

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The great storm that is against you.

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And so what is this sketch of grace that we begin to see in the story of Jonah here at

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this moment where he says throw me in and it will go well for you.

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Throw me in and this will save you from the great storm.

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And that sketch of grace is substitution.

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Substitution.

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Tim Keller said of this moment in Jonah, we have a quote that will go up on the board.

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Jonah's pity arouses in him one of the most primordial of human intuitions, namely that

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the truest pattern of love is substitutionary.

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Jonah is saying I'll fully take the wrath of the waves so you won't have to.

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True love meets the need of the loved one, no matter the cost to oneself.

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All life changing love is some kind of substitutionary sacrifice.

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He goes on, Tim Keller from the book that that quote comes from, he goes on to use the

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example of a parent and a child.

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And he said children need you to read to them.

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And when you're done reading to them you know what they need?

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You to read to them.

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And when you're done reading to them, you know what they need?

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You to read to them.

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And it's a lot of reading, right.

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And then they also need a whole lot of holding.

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And just when you put them down what do they need?

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You to hold them.

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And then they need you to hold them.

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And when your back breaks and you're hunched over they still need you to hold them.

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and they need you to talk to them as they get older.

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It's what they need.

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They actually need this.

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In fact, they need you to talk and hold and care and read

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and in case you guys didn't know, you need to feed them too.

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So feed them ever so often.

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And by doing so, by doing so,

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you are actually helping their well-being emotionally,

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mentally, their intelligence, their ability to develop

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as a human being.

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They're all massively shaped by the time that they spend,

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the time they spend with their parents.

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Parents must disrupt their lives for years,

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years upon years to invest the time that's necessary

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to do good for them.

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And if you don't, they will suffer for life.

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They will suffer for life.

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And so it comes down to them or us.

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Them or us, for your parents out there.

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Our loss is their gain.

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We must decrease so that they increase.

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And what Jonah does in this story, in this moment,

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after this crazy 17 verse chapter,

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is he says, throw me in and it'll be okay for you.

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And while we are not going to elaborate from that

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some amazing moral character in Jonah,

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we are gonna say something is showing through

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in this moment.

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Jonah takes the role of the scapegoat.

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Jonah says, he will sacrifice himself to save them.

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And that sketch, I called it a sketch of grace

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because that sketch, once fully developed

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into a complete picture, will show us

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the work of Jesus Christ.

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Not for his own sin, but the sin of humankind.

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Not thrown overboard of a ship,

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but to a wooden Roman cross.

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Jesus will take our place.

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He will say, save for you, death for me.

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I will take upon myself your sins and transgressions.

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It's similar and dissimilar.

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He is not dying for anything he has done.

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And yet he is taking on to himself the sin of humankind

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so that he might go and pay for it.

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Speaking to the scribes and Pharisees

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who had asked Jesus for a sign, a sign of his messiahship.

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Jesus replied that the only sign that they would receive

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was the sign of Jonah.

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It's the only sign and that is a loaded statement.

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He goes on to talk about the three days and three nights

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in the belly of the fish.

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But the way scriptures work is when someone says something

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especially something profound from the Old Testament

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and the New Testament,

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it is immediately to recall in the reader's mind

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and the good student of the Bible the whole story.

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And Jonah ends up in the belly of the well

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because at this point Jonah comes to a place where he says,

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put me in, I'll take it.

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And again, we are not here to glorify Jonah in his position.

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We already see this guy is wackadoodle.

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But it's a glimpse, it's a sketch,

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a grace to come in Christ.

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The sailors here, Jonah, and yet they still try

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with all their might and heart to not do it.

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Still looking for the good of all on the ship.

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And so after trying to know avail, what do they do?

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They call out to Yahweh.

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They call out and they begin to pray,

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please Lord, don't let us perish because of this man's life.

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And don't charge us with innocent blood

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for you Lord have done just as you pleased.

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And they picked up Jonah and they threw him into the sea

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and the sea stopped its raging.

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The men were seized by great fear of the Lord.

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And they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

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What began for them as great fear for their lives

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results in great fear of the Lord.

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Sacrifices of worship, vows of fidelity,

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sacrifices of worship, vows of fidelity.

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These are the first non-believers to encounter Jonah

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on his trip.

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And ultimately they encounter Yahweh the Lord.

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And their lives are changed.

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They experience along with Jonah,

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God's severe mercy in the storm.

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And they say, the Lord has done just as he pleased.