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Speaker 1: but he that believeth not is condemned already because he

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Speaker 1: Son of God. John three eighteen. Dear God, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your love and mercies. Thank you for watching over

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Speaker 1: of your unconditional love during times of doubt. I know

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Speaker 1: that I cannot do things on my own, so stand

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Speaker 1: Free my thoughts of negativity, guilt, and shame, and allow

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Speaker 1: my faith to grow with each new day. Amen. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening to to day's daily prayer for more

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Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 3: We're glad you in God's house today. Give God a hand,

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Speaker 3: and Amen, I want to invite you to reach and

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Speaker 3: grab your coffee of God's word and go back to

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Speaker 3: the book of Jonah. We are in Jonah chapter four

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Speaker 3: today going to look at those first four verses, and

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Speaker 3: we started if you're new with us, both in person

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Speaker 3: back in Easter. We're talking about running with purpose, and

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Speaker 3: we looked at the idea that we don't ever want

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Speaker 3: crying out for God's mercy, crying out for God's love.

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Speaker 3: And Jonah did all of those things. And today we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk about the idea that we need to

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Speaker 3: run sometimes from our anger with the world and with God.

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Speaker 3: How many of you, from time to time you're angery.

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Speaker 3: How many of you are never angering? If you're never angry,

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Speaker 3: he's like, man, it's his road. Rage is crazy. But Jonah,

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Speaker 3: the messages he preached. He's the only prophet that ran

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Speaker 3: only prophet. And we're going to see this as we

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Speaker 3: continue looking at this book, he never truly repents and

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Speaker 3: gains God's heart for other people. Jonah literally led a

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Speaker 3: them his grace, and Jonah responds by getting angry. Say,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of interesting. We see Jonah here in chapter

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Speaker 3: but he doesn't do it with the heart that God

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Speaker 3: there are times and many, many of you may know

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Speaker 3: In the New Testament, those were called the Pharisees, right.

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Speaker 3: They were all about fulfilling God's law, living by the law,

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Speaker 3: I ran across the study. We'll put it up there

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Speaker 3: a careran across the study. Released December twentieth of twenty

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Speaker 3: Thirty eight percent of Christians are angered by the state

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Speaker 3: But Jonah did what Instead of going to Ninevah, it says,

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Speaker 3: So here's the key. How many of you celebrate the

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Speaker 3: The second chance was to do what God told you

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Speaker 3: God saw the who, not the what. See. Jonah saw

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Speaker 3: When we think about being angry in our country. How

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Speaker 3: seems to get all the blessing, just step back and

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Speaker 3: say God, I don't get it, but I'm gonna leave

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Speaker 3: that one with you, all right. Here's number two, don't

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Speaker 3: ever estimate God's goodness. Don't ever estimate God's because that's

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Speaker 3: exactly what Jonah did. Jonah underestimated God's goodness. Here it

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Speaker 3: is in verse two, says he prayed to the Lord.

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Speaker 3: This is after they've repented. Isn't this exactly what I

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Speaker 3: said was gonna happen when I was still at home.

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Speaker 3: That is when I tried to force all of this

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Speaker 3: and flee to Tarsius, dripping with sort because and he

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Speaker 3: quotes exend is thirty four year he basically he says,

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Speaker 3: I know that you are gracious and a compassionate God,

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Speaker 3: that you are slow to anger and abounding in love.

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Speaker 3: You are a god who relents. That word relents. It

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Speaker 3: has the idea of burning, It has the idea of

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Speaker 3: flared nostrils. How many of you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: That when someone you've ever just seen someone that all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden they get a little fired up. They

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Speaker 3: haven't said anything, but you just look at the nostrils

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Speaker 3: and you can just seal me they're ready to hit somebody.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly the Hebrew word says man, God, I know

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Speaker 3: you're one that instead of flaring your nostrils, you show

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Speaker 3: your grace you show your love, and so he says,

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Speaker 3: I know that you are a God that is compassionate

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Speaker 3: and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love, a God

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Speaker 3: who relents from sending calamity. And this is indictment from Jonah.

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Speaker 3: Remember just brief outline. Remember what happened. Joanah was disobedient.

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Speaker 3: He went into the fish, He ended up on dry ground.

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Speaker 3: He thanked God for salvation, He preached it, and anamtes

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Speaker 3: God gave them salvation. Jonah gets mad. You're like Jonah,

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Speaker 3: you are completely You're the post your child for being

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Speaker 3: the recipient of God's grace and compassionate love. But you

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Speaker 3: don't want God to give it to anybody else. So

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Speaker 3: let me give you a couple of thoughts. When you

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Speaker 3: think about it. You can read that Exodus thirty four passages.

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Speaker 3: Let me give you a couple of thoughts from right

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Speaker 3: here when you think about don't ever understand and underestimate

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Speaker 3: God's goodness. Number one, don't ever forget that we serve

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Speaker 3: God that is completely gracious and compassionate, and we've all

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Speaker 3: experienced it. How many of you know for sure you've

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Speaker 3: experienced God's grace in your life? How many of you

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Speaker 3: can look back on your life when you've been more

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Speaker 3: like Jonah than you would like to admit, and you've

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Speaker 3: experienced God's compassion.

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Speaker 2: We've all been there.

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Speaker 3: And Man, as I think about how many times God

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Speaker 3: has been gracious and compassionate to me, how I should

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Speaker 3: also want God to do the same thing for us.

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Speaker 3: I love what Thesama said in someone Will three verse

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Speaker 3: eight and following.

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Speaker 2: He says, the.

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Speaker 3: Lord is compassionate and gracious. God is slow to anger

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Speaker 3: and abounding with love. He's a relenting God. He's a

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Speaker 3: loving God. He will not always accuse, nor will he

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Speaker 3: harbor his anger forever. He does not listen to this,

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Speaker 3: listen to how many times us our and we are

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Speaker 3: in here. He does not treat us as our sins deserve,

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Speaker 3: or repay us as our iniquities deserve. For as high

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Speaker 3: as the heavens are above the earth, that's the way.

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Speaker 2: His thoughts were.

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Speaker 3: So great is his love for those who fear him.

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Speaker 3: As far as the east is from the west, so

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Speaker 3: far he has removed our transgressions from us. Man, how

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Speaker 3: many of you take great comfort in those words? Right?

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Speaker 3: That God doesn't treat me as my sins deserve, as

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Speaker 3: my transgressions deserve. But instead God is a gracious God.

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Speaker 3: And as far as the yeast is from the west,

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Speaker 3: so far God has removed our transgressions and sined from us.

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Speaker 3: Don't ever forget that God is a gracious and loving

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Speaker 3: and a compassionate God. Here's number two. Don't ever forget

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Speaker 3: not only is God gracious with us those who love him,

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Speaker 3: but God is also patient with sinners. That's where God

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Speaker 3: was with the Nnabites. That's what Peter says over in

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Speaker 3: the Book of Peter says that God is not slow.

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Speaker 3: God wants everybody to come to repentance. And so that's

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Speaker 3: what Jonah didn't understand that God, why are you so

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Speaker 3: patient with sinners?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 3: Because God prefers repentance over judgment. Remember what it said

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Speaker 3: verse seventeen, John three. God did not send his son

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Speaker 3: into the world to condemn the world, but that the

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Speaker 3: world would be saved through him. That's God's desire. So

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Speaker 3: if you ever look around and say, God, why do

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Speaker 3: you put up with that? Well I can tell you why,

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Speaker 3: because he is a patient God. He is a loving God.

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Speaker 3: And then step back and do what I want to do.

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Speaker 3: And what we should always do is remember the times

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Speaker 3: that God was patient with us. Look what Isaiah said

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Speaker 3: in Isaiah forty three, verse twenty five. He says, I

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Speaker 3: even I, this is God speaking. I'm the one who

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Speaker 3: blots out your transgressions. Now I want you to read

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Speaker 3: this little phrase, this next phrase. God blots out your transgressions.

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Speaker 3: Not for your sake, But notice what he says for

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Speaker 3: my own sake and remembers your sin no more. See,

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Speaker 3: God wants to forgive you and show you his grace

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Speaker 3: and love. Why for his sake he created you in

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Speaker 3: the image of God. God doesn't want anybody to spend

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Speaker 3: eternity in hell. He wants all of us to come

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Speaker 3: to repentance. God doesn't want us to reap what we

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Speaker 3: sow if we sow to the flesh wine, because at

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Speaker 3: the end of that road, at the end of that folly,

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Speaker 3: at the end of that are the consequences and the

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Speaker 3: results of the sin we committed. So what does God do.

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Speaker 3: He wants to be patient, so instead of us continuing

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Speaker 3: down that path, we would turn away. So here's the

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Speaker 3: third thing we always have to remember about God. Not

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Speaker 3: only is he compassionate and gracious and loving, he's patient

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Speaker 3: with sinners, but don't ever doubt this.

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Speaker 2: God is adjust God.

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Speaker 3: There will come a day when grace is no more.

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Speaker 3: There will come a day when it is judgment day

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Speaker 3: until he comes the right of the But Hebrews said,

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Speaker 3: it is appointed for a man or a woman. A

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Speaker 3: person wants to die and then judgment. See, you better

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Speaker 3: make a good decision here about what you're going to

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Speaker 3: do with Jesus, because there is going to come a

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Speaker 3: day when we're going to look in God's eyes and

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Speaker 3: He's going to say, what did you do with my son?

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Speaker 3: If you said I reject, it would not be loving

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Speaker 3: for God to say, all right, I'm going to make

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Speaker 3: you spend eternity with you. Instead, God is going to say, listen,

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Speaker 3: you rejected my son on earth. Man, go live where

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Speaker 3: you want it to, an eternity apart from me. But

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Speaker 3: God doesn't want that. But don't ever doubt in the

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Speaker 3: midst of the fact that we serve a gracious, compassionate

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Speaker 3: and loving God who is patient with sinners. Don't ever

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Speaker 3: forget the fact God's just.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: Wherever you are in this room or online, you better

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Speaker 3: make a decision for or against Jesus Christ, and understand

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Speaker 3: that determines where you spend eternity with God, are apart

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Speaker 3: from God?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 3: Because God is gracious, compassionate, loving patient, But he's also

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Speaker 3: adjust God, He's also adjusted God. Here's the next thought

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Speaker 3: as we just continue to read down, look at versus

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Speaker 3: at number three, going to verse three, it says, don't

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Speaker 3: let your darkest, darkest thoughts ever control you. I don't

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Speaker 3: know where you are in your mind space or mental space.

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Speaker 3: Don't ever ever let your darkest thoughts control you.

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Speaker 2: So where do you see that? Look at verse three.

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Speaker 3: Now Jonah says, Lord, take my life away, for it

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Speaker 3: is better for me to die than to live. That's

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Speaker 3: a dark thought. That's a bad thought. Can I tell

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Speaker 3: you this? That is a wrong thought. And maybe there's

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Speaker 3: someone here that you've not been called to be a prophet,

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Speaker 3: you've not been called to preach in n of it,

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Speaker 3: but you have those dark thoughts that maybe it be

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Speaker 3: better for me to die than to live. Can I

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Speaker 3: just tell you this, that's a bad thought, that's a

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Speaker 3: wrong thought. Because here's what I know. When I look

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Speaker 3: at God's word and a look at God's character, and

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Speaker 3: when I look at God's nature, I want to look

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Speaker 3: at God's call. I want to look at God's purpose

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Speaker 3: for every person in this room or online. Let me

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Speaker 3: tell you what It is not better that you would

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Speaker 3: be dead than whether you'd be alive, because God wants

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Speaker 3: to take the life that you have, the breath that

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Speaker 3: you have, the ability that you have, the talents that

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Speaker 3: you have, the skills you have, and He wants to

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Speaker 3: bless you through you and bless others through you. So

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Speaker 3: don't ever, ever, ever let your darkest thoughts control you. Man,

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Speaker 3: something was going on in Jonah that in chapter one

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Speaker 3: he said, I'd rather go the wrong way, and so

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Speaker 3: the right way. There's something going wrong with Jonah where

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Speaker 3: he said I'd rather go in the deep, then just

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Speaker 3: repent and go back and do what God called me.

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Speaker 3: And here we are again in chapter four. He's allowing

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Speaker 3: these dark thoughts, his darkest thoughts, to control him. So

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Speaker 3: my encouragement to you, if there's someone here that you

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Speaker 3: were walking in this space, that man, would it be

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Speaker 3: better for me to die than to live? Can I

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Speaker 3: just tell you these are God's words? No, No, It's

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Speaker 3: better that you live and be used by God to

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Speaker 3: your fullest potential. And let God determine when your last

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Speaker 3: breath is how many of us.

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Speaker 2: Understand that.

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Speaker 3: Here's the last thought you're ready remember before we pick

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Speaker 3: it up in verse four, don't let your emotions run you.

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Speaker 2: Last point.

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Speaker 3: Don't let your darkest thoughts control you. Don't let your

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Speaker 3: emotions run you. His emotion was anger. Notice what it says.

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Speaker 3: But the word of the Lord came and it says,

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Speaker 3: is it right for you to be angry?

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Speaker 4: Is it right?

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Speaker 2: So let me just kind of stop this sermon where

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Speaker 2: we started.

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Speaker 3: We live in an age of anger where people are

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Speaker 3: bitter and mad, and.

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Speaker 2: So here's how we end. Are you one of those people?

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Speaker 3: Are you someone that if you think about where you're living,

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Speaker 3: truly in your space, that you're living in such a

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Speaker 3: way that you're angry with God? Can I invite you

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Speaker 3: just to pause, step back from that, confess that, and

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Speaker 3: ask God to help you deal with that. Maybe there's

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Speaker 3: someone here that man, you've experienced a loss and you're

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Speaker 3: angry with God. Maybe you've lived a good life and

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Speaker 3: hard things have come and you're angry with God. Can

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Speaker 3: I just tell you that as long as you let

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Speaker 3: your emotions control you, you will never be able to

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Speaker 3: fulfill God's ultimate.

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Speaker 2: Call in your life.

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Speaker 3: That's why we want to run from anger, because in

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Speaker 3: spite of this, and we're going to see it next week.

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Speaker 2: In the next week, in spite.

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Speaker 3: Of all of God's blessings, Jonah missed it all.

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Speaker 2: And I don't want that to be your story.

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Speaker 3: Let's pray God, thank you so much for an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to look at a prophet that you just describe so

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Speaker 3: clearly who runs from you. Never truly repents, he obeys,

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Speaker 3: but he doesn't have a harder attitude of love. Instead,

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Speaker 3: he lets his darkest thoughts control him. He lets his

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Speaker 3: emotions get the best of it.

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Speaker 2: The saddest thing of all is he missed your blessings. God.

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Speaker 3: Don't ever let that be us.

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Speaker 2: Don't let ever let that be.

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Speaker 3: The people in the room or the people online. Let

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