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Disobedience Brings Trouble · The Bible Bit Podcast

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  Welcome back. This is Kimmy Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries bringing
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  you another Bible bit for you to enjoy.
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  Disobedience Brings Trouble Today as we journey through the scriptures,
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  gleaning truth from God's word, we are going to continue discovering lessons
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  God has for each of us through Jonah's experience running from God's call on his life.
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  This account in Jonah 1-3-4 clearly demonstrates how sin will cost you more
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  than you want to pay, take you
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  further than you want to go, and keep you longer than you want to stay.
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  God emphatically called Jonah to go to Nineveh, but he didn't want to go there,
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  so Jonah fled to Tarshish instead.
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  In Jonah 1 verses 4 through 16, we read the results this sinful decision brought
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  Jonah and those around him.
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  Jonah 1 4 through 6 says, But the Lord sent out a great wind into sea,
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  and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
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  Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his God,
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  and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea to lighten it of them.
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  But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship, and he lay and was fast asleep.
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  So the shipmaster came to him and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper?
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  Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not.
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  Jonah's disobedience had caused great danger not only for himself,
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  but for those around him.
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  The cost of disobedience was great. It cost Jonah money.
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  He had to pay a fare to board a ship in Joppa, headed to Tarshish,
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  so he could flee from God's purpose for his life, Jonah 1.3.
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  It cost him his peace. While at sea, God sent a strong wind that threatened
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  to destroy the ship, disturbing Jonah's sleep and peace, Jonah 1.4-6.
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  And again, trying to take matters into his own hands, he put his life in even
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  more danger because he agreed to be thrown into the sea to calm the storm, Jonah 1.12.
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  But perhaps the most horrible consequence of his sin of disobedience was he
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  put the pagan sailors in danger for their lives.
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  His running from God nearly cost the mariners their lives, and clearly they
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  were not ready to meet the one true living God when they boarded the ship.
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  Jonah's sin affected those around him because God sent a great storm,
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  and God, being sovereign over all nature, commanded the waves of the sea to
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  rise and become tumultuous.
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  These pagan sailors suffered right alongside of Jonah, putting them in grave danger.
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  My friend, private disobedience often produces public consequences.
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  Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth,
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  that shall he also reap. Galatians 6-7.
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  The dangerous storm was terrifying. However, the honest truth is that Jonah's
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  most terrifying moment wasn't facing the storm at sea.
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  It was that he had become indifferent to God's presence around him and insensitive to the voice of God.
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  Jonah was asleep while God was demonstrating his power all around him.
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  While the sailors cried out, Jonah was asleep.
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  Friends, sin can make you insensitive to spiritual things, even danger.
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  Running from God makes it very difficult to hear God when he is speaking.
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  Running from God makes us hardened to the voice of God and the ways of God.
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  Running from God can make us apathetic to the world around us.
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  The pagan sailor showed more concern for life than Jonah initially showed.
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  My friends, repent and follow Jesus. Don't linger so long that you become complacent
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  to God's voice and accustomed to disobedience.
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  Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you. Join us tomorrow as we continue to
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  explore the lessons learned from Jonah's attempt to flee from God.
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