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Episode 143 - Intervention By A Reluctant Prophet · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: God is my refuge and strength. God is my rock
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  Speaker 1: and my redeemer. God is my ark of safety, my
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  Speaker 1: very present help always in the time of trouble. This
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  Speaker 1: poor man cried, the Lord heard him. Thank you Jesus
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  Speaker 1: that he delivered me from all of my fears. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I'm your host, Pastor
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  Speaker 1: al Zachary, And today we continue in this series that
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  Speaker 1: we have been looking at the God of creation, the
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  Speaker 1: God of the Bible, a man being intimately involved in
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  Speaker 1: the affairs of this world, God, government, church, and state.
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  Speaker 1: There is no separation of God from his world, from
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  Speaker 1: his creation, from his earth, from all that He has
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  Speaker 1: made for his glory, honor, majesty, dominion, and power. And
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  Speaker 1: so we a man would do ourselves well to remember that,
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  Speaker 1: keep that always at the forefront of us, and know
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  Speaker 1: and understand deep within us that God reigns and rules
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of men a man, and that he
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  Speaker 1: is sovereignly and has always been in control over all
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  Speaker 1: that happens in his creation.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so today we're going to a man look at
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  Speaker 1: another example in the Bible and the word of God
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  Speaker 1: where God intervened. Amen, But this time, in this particular case,
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  Speaker 1: not with judgment and wrath that came upon these people,
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  Speaker 1: but God's mercy.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But nevertheless, God did intervene in order to save these
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  Speaker 1: people from a man themselves and from his wrath.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So if you have your Bibles, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the Prophet Jonah on today, the Prophet
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  Speaker 1: Jonah on today. But before we begin, as always, we
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost thank God for each and every one
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  Speaker 1: ministries all over the world that God will do what
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  Speaker 1: God only can do in saving and setting the captive free. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Saving and setting the captive free. We begin with a
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  Speaker 1: word of prayer. Father, again, thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful, glorious day. We are grateful to you for
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  Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for the
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  Speaker 1: remission of our sins. We thank you for calling us
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  Speaker 1: out of the darkness and bringing us into this marvelous, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: glorious great light, where there is joy, peace, long suffering, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and a will and a willingness to do your will.
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  Speaker 1: And so we just want to praise you and give
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  Speaker 1: you the honor of the day. You are the King
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  Speaker 1: of kings, our soon coming King, and we praise and
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  Speaker 1: bless your name.
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  Speaker 2: Lowd praise.
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  Speaker 1: Your word will somewhere penetrate within someone's heart. They'll come
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  Speaker 1: to see and know that you are the true and
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  Speaker 1: living God, and there is none like you, and all
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  Speaker 1: the earth be thout glorified, be thou magnified. We pray,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. Now in our previous I believe two
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  Speaker 1: or three sessions saw where God directly intervened, directly himself
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  Speaker 1: intervene a man with a man, heads of state, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, government. And before I begin with this, I
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  Speaker 1: want to just go on to record with this, because
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  Speaker 1: the Bible is clear about this. God a man, He
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  Speaker 1: takes no delight in the destruction in the death of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked a man. And and before the judgment of
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  Speaker 1: God is UH executed upon a person, upon or upon
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  Speaker 1: a people or a nation, God gives ample time. God
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  Speaker 1: gives opportunity. God gives warnings a man for the people
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  Speaker 1: UH to repent UH, to turn away from their practice
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  Speaker 1: of wickedness and ungodliness. God is the one who examines
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  Speaker 1: the heart Uh. God is the one who knows the
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  Speaker 1: heart of man. And the Bible speaks about the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man being desperately wicked.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God knows what's within the heart. And if and when
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  Speaker 1: the heart is repentant, If and when the heart is
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  Speaker 1: broken and with contrition, then there will be a fruit
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  Speaker 1: of repentance that will manifest itself. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: a man by the way John the Baptists may mention
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  Speaker 1: of in the Gospel of Matthew. For example, when many
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  Speaker 1: of the Pharisees and the Sadducees were coming to his baptism.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, he said to them.
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  Speaker 1: He called them out for what they were, a generation
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  Speaker 1: of vibrates, and said, who warned you.
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  Speaker 2: To flee from the wrath?
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  Speaker 1: To come? Bring forth? Therefore fruits meet for repentance. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, God is looking for again that broken heart
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  Speaker 1: and that contrite spirit, that he will in no wise
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  Speaker 1: a man despise a man. And in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to see today is God sending a
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  Speaker 1: reluctant prophet by the name of Jonah, a man to
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  Speaker 1: go preach to a very wicked people of the city
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  Speaker 1: of Ninevah. Nineva, of course, was the capital of the
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  Speaker 1: nation of Assyria. And God would would not again. He
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  Speaker 1: takes no delight. He has no pleasure, he said it
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  Speaker 1: in the Death of the wicked. God has no pleasure
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  Speaker 1: in that he wants people to repent and to turn
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  Speaker 1: from their wickedness. And so he sends his prophet on
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  Speaker 1: this particular occasion, Jonah, to go to preach to these people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And God is giving them. By the way, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see this in the message that God gives to
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  Speaker 1: Jonah a full forty days. Forty days Amen to repent
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  Speaker 1: by turning from their unrighteousness, from their lawlessness, their ungodly deeds,
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  Speaker 1: to avert an inmate eminent brother. I can't get that
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  Speaker 1: word out, imminent overthrow of their city if they did
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  Speaker 1: not a man turn from their wicked ways.
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  Speaker 2: A man.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me just say this one of the most
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  Speaker 1: I believe, I believe, one of the most dangerous delusions
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  Speaker 1: that is still prevalent in our world today. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the people of Ninevah were not the people of God
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that they were separated. They were one
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  Speaker 1: of the heathen nations. A man God revealed himself to
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Isaac Jacob their seed. After them, the nation of
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  Speaker 1: Israel were considered to be God's people. But nevertheless, a
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  Speaker 1: man God still reigned and ruled over all of the
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  Speaker 1: nations of the earth, and so there was no government.
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  Speaker 1: There was no nation, no foreign nation that were working
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  Speaker 1: or operating under their own authority autonomously as it were,
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  Speaker 1: a man from a man, the sovereign rule or away
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  Speaker 1: from the sovereign rule and power and authority of God.
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  Speaker 1: And so even though Ninevah, the city of Nineva, and
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  Speaker 1: the nation of Assyria were not a man as it
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  Speaker 1: were servants of God and given the law of God.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible teaches us, of course, in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: that the law of God is written within the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man. And so, even though again they were not
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  Speaker 1: in direct contact, as it were not in direct worship
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  Speaker 1: of the True and the Living God, God, Steel holds
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  Speaker 1: all people, all nations, everywhere, accountable a man for their deeds,
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  Speaker 1: a man, because the Bible tells us he has shown
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  Speaker 1: the old man what is good. The knowledge of good
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  Speaker 1: and evil is in every one of us. We know
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  Speaker 1: what we ought to do. We have a sense of
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  Speaker 1: aughtness that's built into us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so therefore we are accountable to God, whether we
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  Speaker 1: are in the church or out of the church, whether
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  Speaker 1: we are saved or unsaved, Amen, whether we are amen,
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  Speaker 1: walking with God.
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  Speaker 2: Or walking with the devil.
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  Speaker 1: You are accountable to God, Amen, and you will answer
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  Speaker 1: to him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so this city of Nineveh was a very wicked, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and ungodly city and nation of people. The Assyrians were,
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  Speaker 1: and so God sends his prophet Jonah Amen to speak
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  Speaker 1: to them. And again, let me just reiterate that this
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  Speaker 1: is a very dangerous thing for any person, any people,
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  Speaker 1: any nation to assume that because Amen, God is not
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  Speaker 1: their God, as it were, God is not their lord,
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  Speaker 1: that the God of the Bible, the God of creation,
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  Speaker 1: is not the one they serve, that again they can
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  Speaker 1: somehow escape his hand, his knowledge, his will, his law,
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  Speaker 1: his judgment, his wrath. No, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: There are those who erroneously believe that because they don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in the God of the Bible, that they were
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  Speaker 1: exempt from his judgment and from his ways. No, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: no sir, and man, because this is the same kind
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  Speaker 1: of mindset of these idolatrous heathen nations of antiquity, who
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  Speaker 1: had their own false deities, who had their own gods
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  Speaker 1: that they had attributed power to, assigned power to. And
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  Speaker 1: just because again man's failure to acknowledge to God of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, it will not exclude anyone from being judged
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  Speaker 1: for their willful ignorance. And make no mistake about it,
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  Speaker 1: the ignorance of man is wilful. Again, Heaven's declared the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God and God has shown you, old man.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the Bible says. He has shown you. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, teaches us also that the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God that brings salvation appears to all men, teaching
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  Speaker 1: us to deny ungodliness and worldly lesson, that we should
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  Speaker 1: live holy and righteous and soberly and in a godly
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  Speaker 1: way right here in this present world. So no one
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  Speaker 1: has an excuse, and no one will be exempt a
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  Speaker 1: man from God intervening, as it were, within their little tribe,
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  Speaker 1: within their little city or state or nation or whatever
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  Speaker 1: a man. God rains and rules in the kingdom of men.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, the people of ninev we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: this in the text. I'm not, you know, putting something
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  Speaker 1: on them that's not written in the Bible. They were
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  Speaker 1: very egregiously, as it were, wicked amen in their sinfulness,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible says it's because of their sins reaching
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  Speaker 1: up to Heaven. This is what we read, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to read it now from the Book of Jonah,
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, the first couple of verses here. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible says. The word of the Lord came
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  Speaker 1: unto Jonah, the son of Amatia, saying, arise, go to Ninevah,
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  Speaker 1: that great city, and cry against it. For listen what
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  Speaker 1: he says. Their wickedness is come up before me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: God is a god of great patience and tolerance and
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  Speaker 1: long suffering and forbearance. And we sometimes we just really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really The Bible warns against us by the way receiving
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God in vain, or taking the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God in vain. And and this is something that
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  Speaker 1: is again so dangerous, but understanding. God sees everything, and
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  Speaker 1: he has an account of everything, and that as it were.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible, in a kind of a descriptive way, speaks
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  Speaker 1: of a cup, a cup as it were. And for
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  Speaker 1: for example, a person may have a cup, a nation
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  Speaker 1: of people.
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  Speaker 2: May have a cup. And when that.
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  Speaker 1: Cup is filled with all of their sins and abominations
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  Speaker 1: and disobedience and ungodliness and wickedness and evil deeds. God,
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  Speaker 1: when that cup is filled as it were, a man,
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  Speaker 1: brings judgment upon that person or that people because of
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of their iniquities. And God speaks about this
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  Speaker 1: by the way in the Old Testament the amorights, he said,
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  Speaker 1: the fullness the iniquity of the amor ights is not
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  Speaker 1: yet full a man, and God will just again give
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  Speaker 1: and as he because again, because He's a merciful and
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  Speaker 1: faithful God, because he a man, wants men to turn,
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  Speaker 1: he sends his word. He has revealed himself and we
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  Speaker 1: know again we know. But because He's so merciful, we
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  Speaker 1: again erroneously assume that God is absent, or that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care, or that he doesn't see, or that he's
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  Speaker 1: not concerned, or that he will not judge, or will
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  Speaker 1: he or his wrath will not be executed upon us
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  Speaker 1: as we continue in his forbearance. But please understand, please
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  Speaker 1: understand that God is just simply merciful and long suffering
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  Speaker 1: and compassionate. Amen, and forgiving, And he will forgive. He will.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus by the way said that all manner of sin
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  Speaker 1: will be forgiven men, with the exception of blasphemy against
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. So whatever you've done, amen, if God
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  Speaker 1: has not yet turned you over to a reprobate mind,
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  Speaker 1: you can be forgiven, you can be delivered, you can
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  Speaker 1: be saved.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. It's all a matter of.
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  Speaker 1: That brokenness. When God speaks, when he calls, when he
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  Speaker 1: stretches out his hand, when he knocks at the door
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  Speaker 1: of your heart, when his wisdom is calling out to you.
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  Speaker 1: He's turning you away and went from from from from iniquity.
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  Speaker 1: When he's turning you away from the evil, when he speaks,
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  Speaker 1: when his heart, when he speaks to your heart, when
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  Speaker 1: it when it, when he again stands at the door
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  Speaker 1: and knocks, that's your opportunity, he says.
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  Speaker 2: The day you hear my voice, do not harden your heart. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: In the book of Genesis we saw also how the
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  Speaker 1: judgment that came up on Sodom, for example, Sodomga Martin
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  Speaker 1: surrounding cities. It was because their sins had reached a man,
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  Speaker 1: the pinnacle had reached a peak a man. And God
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  Speaker 1: went down, of course, and he said, I will see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see. And of course you you remember how
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  Speaker 1: Abraham negotiated with God and there there there, if there
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  Speaker 1: are some righteous folks there, Lord, will you spare the city?
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  Speaker 1: And God said, yeah, I will, I will, even though
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  Speaker 1: these people have sinned and filled up their cup.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If there are ten, oh God help us. I hope
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  Speaker 1: we got ten. I hope we got twenty. I hope
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  Speaker 1: we got one hundred. I hope we got a thousand.
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  Speaker 1: I hope we got a plethora of people in every
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  Speaker 1: city and every hamlet, Amen, across this nation that are
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  Speaker 1: willing to say yes to the will of God.
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  Speaker 2: That are willing to bow their need.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe, I believe, matter of fact, I'm assured
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  Speaker 1: that we do have a remnant, we do have a people.
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  Speaker 1: We have enough people in this nation, Amen, that are
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  Speaker 1: calling upon the name of the Lord. And this is
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  Speaker 1: why I believe. This is my belief that God, a man,
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  Speaker 1: has not brought wrath upon us, the kind of wrath
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  Speaker 1: that we deserve, Amen, the kind of judgment that we
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  Speaker 1: have earned.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And so Amen. A God Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Intervened directly in judgment upon the nation in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Genesis particularly Amen. But now Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in this particular case, we're going to see, before judgment comes,
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  Speaker 1: God will send this reluctant prophet by the name of Jonah, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: as his spokesman, as his ambassador. And God does this
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  Speaker 1: Amen repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the Old Testament going forward, a man, particularly after
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  Speaker 1: he established the nation of Israel, he would send prophets,
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  Speaker 1: he would send spokesman, he would send ambassadors of his
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  Speaker 1: to speak on his behalf. And God still doing that
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  Speaker 1: yet today. Amen, he sends forth, He sent forth the preacher.
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  Speaker 1: He sends forth the preacher. Amen of the New Testament. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: As Paul says to.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy, preach the Word in season, out of season. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all long suffering.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And and and Paul said, knowing the terror of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we persuade men. So it is our calling, it is
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  Speaker 1: our duty, Amen, to warn people to flee from the
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  Speaker 1: raft to come.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Preach the gospel. That's what the Lord commanded and commissioned
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  Speaker 1: the church to do. Preach the Gospel to every creature.
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  Speaker 1: He that believes in is baptized shall be saved. He
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  Speaker 1: that does not will be condemned.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so, uh, you know the story, if you know
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  Speaker 1: the story of Jonah. And I'm not dealing and diving
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  Speaker 1: into the story of Jonah necessarily, but my focus is
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that God sends an ambassador. God sends
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  Speaker 1: someone before judgment comes. And God always has a witness.
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  Speaker 1: God will never be without a witness. Please understand that
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  Speaker 1: as well. So after this reluctant prophet Jonah took a detour.
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  Speaker 1: If you read that in chapter one, Amen, Jonah didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go And the explanation for that is found
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  Speaker 1: in the final chapter four of Jonah. He knew God
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  Speaker 1: to be a mercy for God. He knew God to
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  Speaker 1: be a forgiving God. He knew God to be a
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  Speaker 1: God of compassion. He knew that if these people were
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  Speaker 1: to repent, that God would have mercy. And Jonah didn't
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  Speaker 1: want God to have mercy God. Jonah didn't want these
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  Speaker 1: people to be just say. They were the enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the people of God. They were the enemies of the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: They were horrible, wicked, a corrupt people. And Jonah did
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  Speaker 1: not want them to be saved. And oh, we got
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  Speaker 1: that same kind of mindset. Sadly, even in our churches,
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  Speaker 1: some of our churches, some of us today, a man
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  Speaker 1: look on people and we shake our heads and we
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  Speaker 1: want God to take him out of here, want God
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  Speaker 1: to kill him, want God to destroy. But Jesus said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't come to destroy men's life. I came to
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  Speaker 1: save him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so God came down to save. God came down
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  Speaker 1: to set free. God has come down to deliver.
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  Speaker 2: Us, and so heymn.
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  Speaker 1: We just need to receive the message. But Jonah didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go preach it. He didn't want to, and
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  Speaker 1: so he took a detour.
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  Speaker 2: You know the story. He was swallowed up by a
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  Speaker 2: whale after he.
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  Speaker 1: Took ship, took shipping as it were, and got on
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  Speaker 1: board this ship to go away from where God was
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  Speaker 1: sending him to Tarsus. I believe it was. And God
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  Speaker 1: had a fish, a great fish. The Bible speaks of it,
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  Speaker 1: and many say, well, but it was a great fish
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  Speaker 1: that swallowed Jonah up after he was thrown overboard.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: The second time, after Amen, Jonah Uh finally repents and
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  Speaker 1: prays unto God out of the belly of the well.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us in Jonah chapter number three, after
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  Speaker 1: his deliverance from the from from from as it were,
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  Speaker 1: a type of hell, a man. The Bible says, in
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  Speaker 1: verse number one of Jonah chapter three, the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came Amen, unto Jonah the second time, Listen,
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  Speaker 1: when God has an assignment for you, when God has
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  Speaker 1: a purpose for your life, when God puts his mantle
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  Speaker 1: upon you, Amen, Uh, you must go, you must do.
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  Speaker 1: And it is not as though that God is a
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  Speaker 1: man strong arming you. But God has a way, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And and and and and and and again, especially and
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  Speaker 1: man for those of us again who are called a
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  Speaker 1: man and sent forth to preach the gospel. It's a privilege.
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  Speaker 1: It's an honor.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a privilege and an honor a man
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen by God, Amen, to take his word
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  Speaker 1: a man in our mouths. And we should a man
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  Speaker 1: be diligent about doing it. But again, in this particular case,
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  Speaker 1: it just goes to show you, in our humanity, in
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  Speaker 1: our sinfulness, in our own rebellious hearts, it just goes
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  Speaker 1: to show you how our ways are not God's ways.
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  Speaker 1: And Jonah didn't want to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And so the Lord speaks to him the second time.
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  Speaker 1: Jonah, he says, arise, go unto Nedeveh, that great city,
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  Speaker 1: and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee am.
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  Speaker 1: Reading from Jonah chapter three, King James version, go preach
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  Speaker 1: the word that I'm going to give to you, that
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to put into your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, so this time, of course, verse number three,
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  Speaker 1: Jonah arose and went unto Ninevah according to the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. That's what we got to live by.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we got to operate by, the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. So Jonah does amen. And now the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us in verse number three that Nineveh was an
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  Speaker 1: exceeding great city of three days journey, and most amen.
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  Speaker 1: People believe that, those who have studied the Bible, archaeology
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  Speaker 1: and so forth. So I won't believe in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Ninevah was about sixty miles across, because it would
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  Speaker 1: normally take about twenty miles. Twenty a day's journey would
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  Speaker 1: be about twenty miles. So this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: ways that they computed about a sixty mile with, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, a Jonah crossing amen the city of Nineveh
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  Speaker 1: a man to preach the word a man, and so
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  Speaker 1: verse number four tells us Jonah began to enter the
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  Speaker 1: city a day's journey. While he was there. On the
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  Speaker 1: very first day, he cried and said, yet forty days
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  Speaker 1: and Ninevah shall be overthrown. You got forty days. You
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  Speaker 1: got forty days. That's the mass. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very simple message. Listen. I think oftentimes we complicate,
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  Speaker 1: we over over complicate the message, the preaching of the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, the simple it really it can come
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  Speaker 1: down to one word, one or two.
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  Speaker 2: Words, and the main word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The main word that we need to be preaching is repent, repent, repent.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Johndah Baptists came preaching. That's what Jesus came preaching.
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  Speaker 2: Repent.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Peter said the first word out of his
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  Speaker 1: mouth at mouth, as it is recorded, Amen, when he
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  Speaker 1: began his message. Amen, in Acts chapter number two, after
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  Speaker 1: they ask Peter, brother men and brotherre and what shall
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  Speaker 1: we do? What's the message? What's the message? Peter preached
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  Speaker 1: the message repent. That wasn't the beginning of his message,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the beginning of the instruction.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing that John the Baptist said, the same
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  Speaker 1: thing that Jesus said, the same thing that Peter said,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing that the Prophece of Old said, the
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  Speaker 1: same thing that the apostles preach repent.
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  Speaker 2: Paul preached it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All of the apostles preached it. Repent, repent.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Jonah is preaching repentance. Amen, Because if you do
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  Speaker 1: not repent, you got forty days again God gives us time,
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  Speaker 1: God gives us space to repent, so forty days. That's
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  Speaker 1: the message, a very simple message, just like when God
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  Speaker 1: sent Moses to Pharaoh. Thus said the Lord God of
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrews, let my people go. The message is not complicated.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need a degree, you don't need a long study.
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  Speaker 2: And listen.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that God commands of us to do, we understand it.
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  Speaker 1: We understand it a man. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: in church. You've never even seen the inside of a
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  Speaker 1: church to understand and to know, Amen, what a man
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  Speaker 1: the gospel message is all about, if it is preached properly.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. They preached it a man.
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  Speaker 1: When God sent Amen Paul and others out to Paul,
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  Speaker 1: in particular to preach to Heathens, to the gentiles who
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  Speaker 1: had not been exposed in some cases a man to
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, a man, Paul would a man go a
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  Speaker 1: man and deal with them based upon the knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: they did have a man of the God who created
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  Speaker 1: all things, who has revealed himself, who has made himself known.
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  Speaker 1: And then he would preach Jesus, and then he would
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  Speaker 1: say he has commanded, for example, in Acts chapter seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: all men everywhere to repent because He's appointed a day
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  Speaker 1: in which he's going to judge the word. I mean
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  Speaker 1: anybody and everybody can understand that message without any knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible. You know that you're wicked. You know
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  Speaker 1: that you've done ungodly things. You know that you send
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  Speaker 1: You may not know all about Jesus, all about the
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  Speaker 1: cross art, but you know that you have done things
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  Speaker 1: that are wrong. Amen. And so Jonah preaches to these
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  Speaker 1: people that in forty days this great city is going
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  Speaker 1: to be overthrown. In other words, the judgment of God
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  Speaker 1: is coming upon them. Now, these people could have said,
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  Speaker 1: who are you and where are you from? What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about? No, no, no, they knew. They knew
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Jonah was talking about, and they knew the
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  Speaker 1: God of heaven, even though they didn't worship him, even
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  Speaker 1: though they didn't honor him, even though they didn't obey him,
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  Speaker 1: even though they did not acknowledge him as being their god,
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  Speaker 1: they knew exactly what Jonah was talking about, and they
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly who this god was that he was referring to,
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  Speaker 1: And he knew and they knew about the These people
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  Speaker 1: that know, they know, they had known about the judgment
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  Speaker 1: of the flood. They know, they known about Asnom and Gamara.
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  Speaker 1: They knew about the flood. You know, they knew about
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  Speaker 1: these things. Amen, they knew, and so Amen. When Jonah
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  Speaker 1: preaches this very simple message about forty days, you got
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  Speaker 1: forty days.
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  Speaker 2: Forty days. Amen, look what happens. Look at verse five.
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  Speaker 1: So the people of Ninevah, oh oh, look at this.
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  Speaker 1: The people of Ninevah believed God.
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  Speaker 2: Ah ooh.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, man, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: They believe God. It's not about believing me. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about believing because I don't have the authority. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: the power. I'm simply a spokesman, just like Jonah. I'm
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  Speaker 1: simply a messenger. I'm relaying what Jesus said. I'm relaying
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  Speaker 1: what God said. I'm relaying what the Bible said. I'm
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  Speaker 1: simply relaying the message. Amen. Jument is coming. And if
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  Speaker 1: you don't repent, you will perish. If you don't turn
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  Speaker 1: away from your ungodliness, you will perish.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: Except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself said. So the people of nine of Us
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  Speaker 1: believed God wonderful man, that's great. Do you know how
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  Speaker 1: wonderful that is? You, how beautiful that is? This was
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  Speaker 1: a great city. There were a lot of people there, amen,
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  Speaker 1: lots of children, lots of people. Some people estimate the
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  Speaker 1: population could have been as much as a six hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand or million of st people there in that city.
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  Speaker 1: And again, God takes no pleasure, no delight in the
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  Speaker 1: wholesale destruction of people's lives.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So these people need God. Look what happens now.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke earlier about bringing for fruits, meet for repentance.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, it's not just lip service. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just saying okay, well that sounds good. Okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to uh accept this message, and I'm just gonna do
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  Speaker 1: the best I can to, you know, to change my ways.
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  Speaker 2: No ma'am, no sir, no ma'am, no sir.
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  Speaker 1: One just shaking Jonah's hand, say okay, Jonah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: shake your hand and give give.
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  Speaker 2: God my heart.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says that they proclaimed a fast, they put
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  Speaker 1: on sacloth from the grittiest of them, even to the
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  Speaker 1: least of them. And then uh oh, watch this verse
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  Speaker 1: number six. The word got all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: King of nine that's the government, folk, that's the government.
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  Speaker 1: The word got to the government, the highest level of
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  Speaker 1: their government. The king of Nineveh.
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  Speaker 2: Got the word.
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  Speaker 1: He heard the word, And what did he do? The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says. He arose from his throne, and he laid
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  Speaker 1: his robe from him. He took off his robe of
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  Speaker 1: Royalty's that's see, this is what real repentance is like.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, you humble yourself.
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  Speaker 1: This man, this king, humbled himself under the mighty hand
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  Speaker 1: of God. He laid aside his robe from him, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, and covered him with cycloth and he sat
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  Speaker 1: in ashes. And then he issued a proclamation, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: he issued a decree. Oh, that's what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: Look what the Bible says. He proclaimed it and published
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  Speaker 1: throughout the whole city by the decree of the king
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  Speaker 1: and his nobles, saying, let neither man, nor beast, herd,
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  Speaker 1: nor flock taste nobody. In other words, nobody is to
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  Speaker 1: eat nobody, no more eating, no more drinking, no more nothing.
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  Speaker 1: We're going on the fast the whole city. Amen, and look, look,
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  Speaker 1: listen to what the Bible says. Look what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: After the king proclaims the fast, he said, he says,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he says, Listen, listen, listen. Who can tell
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  Speaker 1: if God will turn and repent or relent rather and
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  Speaker 1: turn away his fierce anger so that we do not perish?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this man did not? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: for a moment this man did not understand that the
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel, the God that they disregarded, the God
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  Speaker 1: that they were disobeying, the God whose laws had decrees
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  Speaker 1: and commandments and so forth they'd been violating, serving other gods,
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  Speaker 1: bowing down to other gods again, living in violence and
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  Speaker 1: hatred and malice and envy and all the other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And man, do you think for one moment that he
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  Speaker 1: did not know the God that Jordan was preaching about,
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  Speaker 1: the God who is the children the living Goud? You
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  Speaker 1: think he didn't know? Oh, they knew. He knew, they knew.
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  Speaker 1: They all knew. And that's why they went down in
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  Speaker 1: Syclope and Ashius. That's why they repented, And that's why
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  Speaker 1: the king said, who can tell if God? What God?
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  Speaker 1: They had their own gods, they had their own deities.
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  Speaker 1: Now what God is he talking about?
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about the God of creation, the God that
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  Speaker 2: he knew was the true and the living God.
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  Speaker 1: See people know. See people can act like they don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but they know.
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  Speaker 2: They know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they know. So he says, who can tell? We
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  Speaker 1: may be spared if we repent. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what the Bible says. It's not me,
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  Speaker 1: it's not my words. The Bible says a broken heart
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  Speaker 1: and a contrast spirit. God will in no wise despise
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  Speaker 1: when there is true repentance, when there's real contrition. Again,
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  Speaker 1: what is the fruit of their repentance? This king, for example, again,
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  Speaker 1: this is the government. This is the government. This is
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  Speaker 1: God sending now again in the Old Testament, in the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Genesis, God directly intervened with kings, came to them
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  Speaker 1: in dreams.
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  Speaker 2: By night, for example.
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  Speaker 1: But in this particular case, he simply sends a spokesman
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  Speaker 1: a real luck took one.
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  Speaker 2: At that.
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  Speaker 1: The heart of Jonah wasn't right as far as you know,
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  Speaker 1: having compassion for these people, wanting these people to be saved. See,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't about the preacher. It's about the message, ay man,
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  Speaker 1: the preacher. The preacher might be living in sin himself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh oh, but the word of God the word
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  Speaker 3: of God is so powerful, the Bible says, the word
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  Speaker 3: of God is quick and powerful and.
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  Speaker 1: Sharper than any two edge sword. And even if the
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  Speaker 1: messenger is flawed, which all of us are, the message
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  Speaker 1: still has the word of God, still has the power,
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  Speaker 1: the authority, the sharpness to cut, to go deep within
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  Speaker 1: the marrow and the bone, as it were. Who can tell?
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  Speaker 1: If God will turn and relent and turn away, look
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  Speaker 1: what the look what the king says, turn away from
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  Speaker 1: his fierce anger, so that we do not perish. One
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  Speaker 1: thing is guarantee, one thing is assured. If you do
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  Speaker 1: not repent, you will perish. You will perish, you will
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  Speaker 1: die in your sins, and you will face a horrible, unspeakable,
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  Speaker 1: eternal judgment that will be.
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  Speaker 2: In the lake of fire. That's the Bible, that's the
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  Speaker 2: word of God. So the king.
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  Speaker 1: Joins in and proclaims that nobody, not any man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: boiled girl, not even an animal. That nobody, nobody eat,
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  Speaker 1: nobody tastes anything, nobody drinks anything. The Bible says, Then
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  Speaker 1: God saw their works. See God, look God, look at
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  Speaker 1: he sees. What is the fruit of your repentance? People say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a believer, I'm a Christian. And they have not turned,
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  Speaker 1: they have not quit, they have not ceased. There's been
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  Speaker 1: no change in their heart. They may have felt a little. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I felt a little sorrowful, I felt a little bad,
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  Speaker 1: I felt a little remorse.
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  Speaker 2: But is their repentance.
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  Speaker 1: Repentance requires or shows forth itself, and what you do afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: not what you say with your lips. Oh help us, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, all right, let me. I'm finished. I'm finishing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm finishing. I'm finishing. I'm finishing. I'm finishing. God saw
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  Speaker 1: their works that they turned, look turned from their evil way,
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  Speaker 1: and God relented from the disaster, from the wrath, from
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  Speaker 1: the judgment that he had said he would bring upon them,
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  Speaker 1: and God spared them. So again, ladies and gentlemen, here
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  Speaker 1: Church of the Living God, please understand that God reigns
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  Speaker 1: and rules, and God intervenes in nations, in cities with
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  Speaker 1: people who do not even acknowledge Him as God. So
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  Speaker 1: don't think for one moment again that just because you
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  Speaker 1: don't believe the Bible, you don't believe in the God
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible, you don't believe what the Bible has
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  Speaker 1: to say, you don't believe in the creation.
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  Speaker 4: You don't believe that Jesus is, or that he came,
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  Speaker 4: or that he died, or that he's the savior, or
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  Speaker 4: you have your own little religion.
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  Speaker 1: Does not exclude you, sir ma'am, from the sovereign hand
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  Speaker 1: of God, from the sovereign.
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  Speaker 2: Rule of God.
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  Speaker 1: God still rules over you, over your life.
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  Speaker 2: And you will be answering to Him now. The time to.
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  Speaker 1: Repent is now. The time to bow the knee, is now.
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  Speaker 2: The time to lay aside your robe of self righteousness
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  Speaker 2: is now. The time for fasting is now. The time
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  Speaker 2: for crying.
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  Speaker 1: Out to God is now today, right now, wherever you are,
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  Speaker 1: God is here. He's there, He's there everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: His spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Is at work in the world right now, to seek
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  Speaker 1: and to say that which is lost. Father, we pray
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  Speaker 1: at your word that your spirit will move in someone's
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  Speaker 1: heart today, eyes open, ears, hearing, hearts convicted, so that
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  Speaker 1: they've come to know that You are the true and
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  Speaker 1: the living God, and there is none beside THEE. Be
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  Speaker 1: thou glorified, Be thou magnified. Today we honor you, We
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  Speaker 1: thank you, We bless your name. Amen and Amen.