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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope

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Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: I'm working on a sermon series and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: pick up this week with the momentum that we had

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Speaker 2: last week.

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Speaker 1: Now, last week was so good that if.

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Speaker 2: The person you're sitting next to wasn't here, tell them

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, were you here last week? The title of

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Speaker 2: the series listen to this. That's what I thought. That's

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Speaker 2: the title of the series. And however, you say that

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Speaker 2: with whatever attitude you say it with. You might say

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Speaker 2: it like one of your kids was talking back to

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Speaker 2: you and you give them a look and then they

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Speaker 2: shut up, and then you say, that's what I thought.

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Speaker 2: Maybe like that, or maybe you're just confirming some things

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Speaker 2: in your life right now, just checking you know, Oh

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Speaker 2: that's what I thought. I just wanted to be sure.

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Speaker 2: But really the heart of what I want to teach about,

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Speaker 2: as you'll see today, is tracking back the actions in

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Speaker 2: our life to the thoughts that produce them, and then

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Speaker 2: bringing God into those thought processes, so that rather than

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Speaker 2: just always giving God our problems, we bring Him into

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Speaker 2: our thoughts. Clap your hands if you'd like to have

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Speaker 2: less problems to give God. And this series doesn't say

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Speaker 2: that we can always avoid the problems of life. But

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Speaker 2: I want to show you something today that I think

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Speaker 2: is really really easy to understand, but so difficult to apply.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be reading from Psalm one thirty nine,

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Speaker 2: verses seven through seventeen. This will be the foundation, and

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Speaker 2: then I'll share a story from the Old Testament to

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Speaker 2: illustrate this.

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Speaker 1: Thought today that God gave me.

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Speaker 2: Every sermon starts as a thought, and so I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you about thoughts from a thought that

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Speaker 2: God gave me, which is, by the way, why I

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Speaker 2: keep stacks of notebook paper all around my house in

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Speaker 2: case God gives me a thought.

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Speaker 1: I need to be ready to catch it, just in

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Speaker 1: case I can give it to you.

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Speaker 2: And this is so powerful. If you look at psalmone

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Speaker 2: thirty nine, David is speaking about the wonder of God.

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Speaker 2: I was going to read only verse seventeen to set

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Speaker 2: up my thought, but I feel like it'll be so

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Speaker 2: much more effective if I start at verse seven. So

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Speaker 2: listen to this. The Psalma says, everyone's standing please for the.

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Speaker 1: Word of God. If you're physically able, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Where shall I go from your spirit? Or where shall

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Speaker 2: I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven,

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Speaker 2: you're there. If I make my bed in shield, or

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Speaker 2: some translations say hell. If I make my bed in hell,

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Speaker 2: you are there. If I take the wings of the

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Speaker 2: morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

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Speaker 2: even there, your hands shall leave me, and your right

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Speaker 2: hand shall hold me. If I say surely, the darkness

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Speaker 2: shall cover me, and the light about me be night.

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Speaker 2: Even the darkness is not dark to you, the night

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Speaker 2: as bright as the day. For darkness is as light

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Speaker 2: with you. For you formed my inward parts. I heard

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Speaker 2: we had some mary Kay people here today, and we

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Speaker 2: celebrate you here. Mary Kay is good for the outward parts,

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Speaker 2: but I got something for the inward parts today. You

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Speaker 2: formed my inward parts. You knitted me together in my

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Speaker 2: mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and

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Speaker 2: wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it

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Speaker 2: very well. My frame was not hidden from you. When

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Speaker 2: I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the

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Speaker 2: In your book were written every one of them, the

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Speaker 2: days that were formed for me, when as yet there

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Speaker 2: were none of them, Verse seventeen, as our key today,

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Speaker 2: How precious to me are your thoughts?

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Speaker 1: Oh God? How vast is the sum of them?

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Speaker 2: Let's read that together, repeat after me, How precious to

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Speaker 2: How vast is the sum of them? Today I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you on this subject. When God gives

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Speaker 2: could that be possible the Holy One of Heaven would

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Speaker 2: old you. We're going to talk about that today. When

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Speaker 2: God gives a thought to you, this I recall to

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Speaker 2: my mind. Therefore I have hope. It is because of

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Speaker 2: your mercies that we are not consumed, Because your compassions

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Speaker 2: feel not they are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness,

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Speaker 2: Faithful God, I thank you that your word has spoken

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Speaker 2: through generations to.

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Speaker 1: Land at our doorstep. Today.

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Speaker 2: We receive it, we want it, we need it. It

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Speaker 2: is our necessary bread. It is our living water. Come

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Speaker 2: now like a flood, Come now like a fountain. Quench

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Speaker 2: every soul, give a thought to us in Jesus' name. Amen,

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Speaker 2: please be seated. Put the title in the comments, please,

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Speaker 2: if you're watching online, when God gives a thought to you? Lately,

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Speaker 2: I've been saying things in rooms full of people that

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Speaker 1: Why.

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Speaker 2: Just the other day, I walked into a songwriting session

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Speaker 2: I said, last night I took Holly to a concert.

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Speaker 1: We went to see Counting Crows.

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Speaker 2: They all just looked at me, and I realized something

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Speaker 2: very sad in that moment. They had not heard of

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Speaker 2: the Counting Crows. How do you not hear of the

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Speaker 2: Counting Crows? How many of you have not heard of

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Speaker 2: the Counting Crows? See now, I just feel ostracized, abandon betrayed,

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Speaker 2: never heard of the Counting Crows.

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Speaker 1: I had to tell them about mister Jones.

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Speaker 2: And round here, and they didn't want to know about

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Speaker 2: Counting Crows. So we just wrote a song The other day,

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Speaker 2: I was riding in the car with Abbey. Now she's fourteen, right,

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Speaker 2: so she was kind of quiet, kind of doing that

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Speaker 2: sometimes do, or unless she's talking sixty miles a minute,

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Speaker 2: she's totally quiet. And she was totally quiet, and I

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Speaker 2: looked over at her and said something I thought she

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Speaker 2: would understand. I said, a penny for your thoughts. Well,

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Speaker 2: she looked at me just as confused as the counting

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Speaker 2: crows just walked in the room. She said a what

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Speaker 2: I said, A penny for your thoughts? She said, what's that?

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Speaker 2: I said, it's a colloquialism. It's an idiom.

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Speaker 1: I think it has its roots somewhere in British origins.

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Speaker 2: But it's just a way of saying, tell me what

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Speaker 2: you're thinking. Like you're kind of quiet, I can tell

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Speaker 2: you're thinking about something. The wheel seemed to be turning,

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Speaker 2: A penny for your thoughts, and she goes, that's weird.

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Speaker 2: She's quiet for about ten more seconds, and then she goes,

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Speaker 2: A penny.

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Speaker 2: I thought, Yeah, you're right, that's kind of cheap, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: got to adjust this for inflation. If I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: needs to be multiple pennies at least a dime for

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Speaker 2: your thoughts. But just to set it up as an

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Speaker 2: illustration and not to be silly. And I knew God

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Speaker 2: wanted me to use this illustration because I thought of

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Speaker 2: it last minute and there was a penny sitting by

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Speaker 2: and talk about how sometimes we think too cheap, and

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Speaker 2: sometimes we undervalue our thoughts because we live in a

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Speaker 2: world that values things more than thoughts, things more than thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So if you have a nice pair of sneakers, you

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Speaker 2: would not dare wear them to a dirty Love Week event.

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Speaker 2: You would never wear your clean sneakers through a dirty atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about where your mind goes on a

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Speaker 2: daily basis. And the fact of the matter is some

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Speaker 2: of the places that we take our minds our place

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Speaker 2: is that we would never take our shoes because we

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Speaker 2: value things over thoughts. I did have a small victory

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Speaker 2: the other day usually I'm a catastrophizer.

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Speaker 1: I think of the worst scenarios.

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Speaker 2: And this is why I wanted to preach a series

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Speaker 2: called That's What I Thought, because God has helped me

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Speaker 2: so much to begin to label and identify the ways

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Speaker 2: of thinking that don't come from Him.

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Speaker 1: And I'm still a work in progress.

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Speaker 2: But I try to share with you every time that

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Speaker 2: I get it wrong, so that I can occasionally share

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Speaker 2: by failing forward. But the other I was proud. I

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Speaker 2: had ordered a new guitar online. I went to the

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Speaker 2: Was talking to Abby because she was in the front

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Speaker 2: And I had this vision right as we were pulling

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Speaker 2: I didn't want him to. So I've come a long

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Speaker 2: him to. I said, have you got him securely? She said,

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Speaker 2: the top of the jeep, and hearing the crunch of

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Speaker 1: And hearing the crunch and not cussing. It's a victory.

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Speaker 1: I did't cuss. I didn't cuss. Tell your neighbor. I

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Speaker 2: Now, I didn't speak in tongues. I didn't praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: I just didn't cuss because I had a thought. And

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Speaker 2: here was the thought. It wasn't the dog. It was

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Speaker 2: It's just a thing. Tell your neighbor, because they might

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Speaker 2: be stressed out whatever they're stressed about. Tell them it's

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Speaker 2: just a thing. It's just a thing. When it's just

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Speaker 2: a thing, it's just a thing. If it's a Boston Terrior,

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Speaker 2: it's a Boston Terrier. And if my Boston Terrior falls

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Speaker 2: I might be divorced. Now. She loves me more than

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Speaker 2: she loves the dog. She would never do that to me.

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Speaker 2: But there was something about the contrast. It wasn't bo,

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Speaker 2: It wasn't Abby. I can't get another Abby. Abby didn't

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Speaker 2: go decapitated through the garage. And the Lord is a

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Speaker 1: Because there was bubble wrap at the top of the

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Speaker 1: box and the guitar was fine, Thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 2: And then I did start praising God after I opened

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Speaker 2: the box and didn't cuss, and.

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Speaker 1: We were all fine.

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Speaker 2: But there have been so many times in my life,

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Speaker 2: no matter how much of your time I waste telling

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Speaker 2: dogs falling out of windows hypothetically, or even telling you

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Speaker 2: about old sayings and old rock stars as I start

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Speaker 2: God's thoughts enough. David in psalmone thirty nine gives a

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Speaker 2: God might give you a thought today and you won't remember.

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Speaker 2: that I think we just run around just following whatever

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Speaker 2: impression we get. And the problem with my impressions is

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Speaker 2: that sometimes my impressions are imposters and they pretend to

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Speaker 2: be God, but they're really just what I want dressed

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Speaker 2: up as God. That's what we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: from Jonah, because God gives impressions, but he also gives instructions.

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Speaker 2: And one thing I love about God is he will

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Speaker 2: never give you an impression that violates his clear instruction.

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Speaker 2: So I don't care how attracted to her you are,

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Speaker 2: if she is married, you have received an instruction on

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Speaker 2: that situation. And I don't care that her name is

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Speaker 2: Cindy and so was your grandmother's. That is irrelevant to

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Speaker 2: this situation. There is an instruction.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I think we're waiting on God to give us

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Speaker 2: a feeling or a thought because we don't want to

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Speaker 2: obey what we clearly saw that he said. And I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna stand here and preach this like I've been a

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Speaker 2: pastor for twenty years. Y'all ain't going to timidate me today,

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Speaker 2: reading all up in the Book of Revelation, trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out which one is North Korea and which one

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Speaker 2: is Israel and which one is Iraq, and you're all

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Speaker 2: over there translating that, while meanwhile the Bible says in

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Speaker 2: First Corinthians something that you don't really want to read

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Speaker 2: in First Corinthians, chapter six, this's pretty clear. This is

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Speaker 2: an instruction flee from sexual immorality.

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Speaker 1: So we can read all the revelation we want, read.

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Speaker 2: It, Underline it, highlight it, circle it, star it, smell it,

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Speaker 2: sniff it, take it, eat it, whatever you want to do.

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Speaker 1: But you still gotta do this because this is an instruction.

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Speaker 2: And he is God, and he is not my buddy, He's.

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Speaker 1: Not an influencer.

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Speaker 2: He is alpha and Omega, God don't want me to preach.

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Speaker 2: I need to go back on break bust. Somebody high

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Speaker 2: five your neighbors, say, because he said so.

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Speaker 1: Because he said so. Because he said so, his definition,

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Speaker 1: his description.

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Speaker 2: Fleet So I need a word from the Lord. There's one.

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Speaker 2: Do that all week and check in with me. Take

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Speaker 2: seven days of that. Well, I don't really struggle with

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Speaker 2: the So what you got for me?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: No? I looked up some scriptures because we said we

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Speaker 2: want a god thought. All right, there's another one in

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Speaker 2: Ephesians for thirty two. This one says, be kind to

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Speaker 2: one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ

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Speaker 2: forgave you.

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Speaker 1: Bo don't feel like forgiven. But this is not about

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Speaker 1: an impression.

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Speaker 2: This is about an instruction, because you have a father

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Speaker 2: who knows that you can never be free until you forgive.

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Speaker 2: So if he tells me to flee, I've got to go.

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Speaker 2: If he tells me to forgive, I've got to love.

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Speaker 2: It's an instruction. Those are just some of the things

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Speaker 2: that God will use to speak to you. But then

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Speaker 2: there is like Jonah, where God will give you an interruption,

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Speaker 2: an interruption to the way that you think and to

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Speaker 2: the way that you see the world, and interruption to

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Speaker 2: what you think is important, an interruption to the path

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Speaker 2: that you laid out for your own life, and so

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Speaker 2: Jonah is a prophet, and the Bible says that the

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Speaker 2: word of the Lord came to Jonah. And I got

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Speaker 2: to say this one more time in case you didn't

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Speaker 2: get it. The word of the Lord can come to you.

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Speaker 2: Do you come to the word of the Lord. I

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Speaker 2: will ask you that every week, do you come to

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Speaker 2: the word of the Lord, so that the word of

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Speaker 2: the Lord can come to you, because there he will

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Speaker 2: give you instructions that will then mold your impressions so

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Speaker 2: that they are in His image, not yours.

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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Now, the word of the Lord came to Jonah, son

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Speaker 2: of AMATAI saying, here's the details of the conversation. Arise,

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Speaker 2: go to nineve that great city, and call out against it.

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Speaker 2: Nobody wants to preach against it. Nobody wants to go

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Speaker 2: to a place that is against them. Ninevah was the

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Speaker 2: capital city of Assyria. They were brutal. They wouldn't just

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Speaker 2: kill you, they would impel you to send a message.

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Speaker 2: That's what I thought, Come try us again. They were brutal, barbaric,

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Speaker 2: and unrepentant, and they had personally oppressed the people that

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Speaker 2: Jonah was identified with. So when the Lord said go

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Speaker 2: to Nineveh and preach against it, for their evil has

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Speaker 2: come up before me, the Bible says, But Jonah rose

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Speaker 2: to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: We know because we just read someone thirty nine that

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Speaker 2: what he is trying to do is impossible. He went

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Speaker 2: to flee from the presence of the Lord. And we

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Speaker 2: know because we have someone thirty nine that if you

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Speaker 2: ascend to the heavens, he's there, and if you descend

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Speaker 2: to Hell, he's there. And you can't flee from Jonah,

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Speaker 2: but he from God. But Jonah thought he could, and

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Speaker 2: so he arose. And uh, I won't break this all

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Speaker 2: down for you. But Ninevah was five hundred miles from

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Speaker 2: the port where he was supposed to go, and Tarsish,

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Speaker 2: where he tried to go, was twenty five hundred miles,

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Speaker 2: So it was going to take him five times longer

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Speaker 2: to get where he had decided to go than where

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Speaker 2: God told him to go. But he kind of thought

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Speaker 2: he could get around it. He thought, that's what I thought. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's talk.

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Speaker 1: There are some ways that you have tried to run

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Speaker 1: from some things in your life, and you thought, well,

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Speaker 1: if I just moved to a different city.

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Speaker 2: And it's not always bad to move to a different

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Speaker 2: city long as you realize you go with you get

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Speaker 2: at least a two bedroom apartment, because there's at least

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Speaker 2: two of you's.

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Speaker 1: He tried to go to Tarshish. He thought he would

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Speaker 1: run from the Lord.

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Speaker 2: And every word of this is so instructive, but just

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Speaker 2: for the sake of time, focus in with me. On

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Speaker 2: verses three through five, he went down to Joppa. Pastor

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Speaker 2: Mickey used to say, when you run from God, you

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Speaker 2: always go down.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: He went down to Joppa and found a ship going

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Speaker 2: to Tarsish. Pastor Mickey used to always say, if you

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Speaker 2: ever want to run from God, the devil will always

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Speaker 2: give your ride.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: That's just old preacher stuff that I used to hear.

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Speaker 2: So he paid the fare and went on board. I'm

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Speaker 2: holding up my penny'll He paid the fair, went on

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Speaker 2: board to go with them to Tarsish, away from the

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Speaker 2: presence of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Surprise verse four.

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Speaker 2: You can't You can't run from any of it. You

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Speaker 2: can't run from it. Well, you can run from it,

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Speaker 2: just not very long, especially if the Lord really you.

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Speaker 2: Because those he loves, he disciplines those he really loves.

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Speaker 2: He does what it takes to bring them back. Those

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Speaker 2: that He really has a purpose for. He will even

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Speaker 2: punish you short term to prevent you from something in

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Speaker 2: your future that would be worse than the pain of

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Speaker 2: the present. I am not saying that every bad thing

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Speaker 2: happens so God can teach you a lesson. Please understand

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Speaker 2: that the number of people who I have watched die

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Speaker 2: of cancer and the number of people that I've seen

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Speaker 2: have their lives senselessly taken from a drunk driver would

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Speaker 2: prohibit me from ever skewing.

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Speaker 1: That kind of nonsense from the pulpit.

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Speaker 2: But I need to point out to you that the God,

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Speaker 2: who speaks by instructions and impressions, also will sometimes come

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Speaker 2: into your situation through an interruption.

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Speaker 1: Because the Bible says that.

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Speaker 2: The Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and

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Speaker 2: there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the.

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Speaker 1: Ship threatened to break up.

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Speaker 2: It is not the fact that there was a storm

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Speaker 2: that made me bring this passage up.

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Speaker 1: It was who sent it that made it noteworthy.

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Speaker 2: I am used to God calming storms, I am not

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Speaker 2: used to God sending them. But there was something that

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Speaker 2: God wanted to do in this situation that was important

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Speaker 2: enough for him to send a storm to stop Jonah.

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Speaker 2: Somewhere along the way he thought he was going to Tarshish,

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Speaker 2: But before he could get where he thought he was

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Speaker 2: going to go, a storm was sent upon the sea.

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Speaker 2: Now we're ready for verse five, The Bible says. Then

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Speaker 2: the mariners or the sailors were afraid. Now remember, these

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Speaker 2: men don't know God, not Jonah's God. They call on

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Speaker 2: many gods. They're polytheus. They have gods for everything. They

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Speaker 2: have God's for feasting, God's for fasting, God's for droughting,

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Speaker 2: God's for storms.

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Speaker 1: And as they're calling on all their many gods.

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Speaker 2: Many little gene, many gods that can't do anything for

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Speaker 2: you when it really counts like some of the gods

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Speaker 2: that we worship and serve, only to find out that

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Speaker 2: they are so small in the face of a great storm.

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Speaker 2: And is this why God has brought you to this

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Speaker 2: point in your life, so that you can call out

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Speaker 2: for something bigger.

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Speaker 1: But the Lord hurled the wind on the sea.

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Speaker 2: Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to

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Speaker 2: his God, and they hurled the cargo that was in

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Speaker 2: the ship into the.

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Speaker 1: Sea to lighten it for them.

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Speaker 2: But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of

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Speaker 2: the ship and had lain.

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Speaker 1: Down and was fast asleep. So the captain get ready.

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Speaker 1: Luck In came and said to him.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, you sleeper, arise, call out to

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Speaker 3: your God. Perhaps the God will give a thought to

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Speaker 3: us that we may not perish. I'm talking about when

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Speaker 3: God gives a thought to you. I know what he

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Speaker 3: meant when he said it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe if you call on God, he'll remember that we're

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Speaker 2: in this situation. Maybe if you call on your God,

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Speaker 2: he'll do something our gods can't do. When translation says

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Speaker 2: maybe he'll take notice, another translation says, maybe he'll throw

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Speaker 2: a thought our way. Maybe he'll give a thought to us.

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Speaker 1: But the phrase was so rich man, I couldn't just

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Speaker 1: take it at face value.

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Speaker 2: I realized when he said, perhaps your God will give.

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Speaker 1: A thought to us and this storm will stop.

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Speaker 2: That your God can give a thought to you that

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Speaker 2: will stop.

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Speaker 1: The storm in his tracks.

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Speaker 2: And he can do it today, and he can do

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Speaker 2: it right now, and he can do it even though

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Speaker 2: you're in your thirties, and he can do it even

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Speaker 2: while you're in your teens. Because what the captain said

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00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 2: that was so profound. He said, we need a thought

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Speaker 2: from God. I don't even know if you've got the

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Speaker 2: right one, but we need God in this situation. And

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Speaker 2: is it possible that you are in a storm right

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Speaker 2: now in your life? Not to be overly generic, but

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Speaker 2: everybody in here has some kind of storm or is

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Speaker 2: journeying with someone through a storm. And would it be

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Speaker 2: a good prayer for you to pray right about now,

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Speaker 2: God give a thought to me. See, because God's thoughts

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Speaker 2: are precious. God's works are wonderful, but his thoughts are

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Speaker 2: also precious. So it means that sometimes we're praying God

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Speaker 2: do something and God is speaking for us to think something,

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Speaker 2: because until we think something different than we've been thinking,

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Speaker 2: he can't do anything different than what he's been allowed

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Speaker 2: to do. For instance, the ship is not going to

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Speaker 2: turn around just because God wants Jonah in Nineveh.

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Speaker 1: God did not turn the ship.

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Speaker 2: God sent the storm, and in the middle of the

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Speaker 2: storm he had a decision to make.

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Speaker 1: Not will God give a thought to me. God had

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Speaker 1: his eye on this boat from the moment Jonah got

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Speaker 1: on it. The whole reason they were.

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Speaker 2: In this predicament was because of the sleeping prophet. And

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Speaker 2: now we've got some panic pagans, and now we've got

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Speaker 2: a self pitying prophet, and we've got a sovereign god

666
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Speaker 2: sending a storm on a raging sea, and we're used

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Speaker 2: to him calming storms. But the God of the calm

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Speaker 2: is the God of the chaos. And into the chaos,

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Speaker 2: the captain says something that the prophet should.

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Speaker 1: Have known for sure. We need a God thought.

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Speaker 2: We need God to do something in our family. We

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Speaker 2: need God to do something in this relationship. I need

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Speaker 2: God to do something in my business. I need God

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Speaker 2: to do something in my body. I need God to

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Speaker 2: walk in with me to this doctor. I need God,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not ashamed to cry.

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Speaker 1: Out to him.

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Speaker 2: And I can't.

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Speaker 1: Sleep down here. Get up and call on God and

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Speaker 1: maybe God will give a thought to us.

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Speaker 2: And Jonah said, yeah, I'm real sorry about this because

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Speaker 2: this is all my fall. See. I worship Yahweh, and

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Speaker 2: Yahweh told me to go to Nineveh, and I said,

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Speaker 2: no way. I'm just trying to keep it light because

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Speaker 2: it's kind of a hard sermon to preach if you

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Speaker 2: want to know the truth. But after he got done explaining,

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Speaker 2: and they cast lots which is kind of like drawing

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Speaker 2: a straw. And they realized it was Jonah's fault that

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Speaker 2: they were in this storm.

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Speaker 1: They realized, listen to this, that.

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Speaker 2: You can throw all the cargo overboard that you want,

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Speaker 2: but until you deal with the real thing that's going on,

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Speaker 2: it will stay chaotic. You can't fix chaos by losing cargo.

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Speaker 2: How much more stuff are you gonna throw overboard before

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Speaker 2: you realize Jonah has got to go?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean Jonah's gotta go?

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Speaker 2: I'm saying anything that is on your boat that is

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Speaker 2: keeping Jesus from being the captain of your peace and

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Speaker 2: your soul has.

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Speaker 1: Got to go. You can rearrange all the.

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Speaker 2: Deck chairs you want, it's still the Titanic. If Jonah

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Speaker 2: doesn't go, you can continue to throw things off and

703
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 2: spend money and waste money and buy stuff and buy

704
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Speaker 2: more square foot so y'all can sleep at opposite ends

705
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Speaker 2: of the bigger house. But until the attitudes that the

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Speaker 2: root of it change, nothing does until God gives a thought.

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Speaker 2: And it costs Jonah. Did you see how it said

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Speaker 2: he paid the fare. He paid more than a penny

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Speaker 2: for this. He paid his peace. He almost paid his purpose.

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Speaker 1: Because of a wrong thought?

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Speaker 2: How much have the wrong thoughts cost you? Because God,

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Speaker 2: your God, the God who speaks by impressions, instructions, and

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Speaker 2: even interruptions, might be using this storm to give a

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Speaker 2: thought to you, to you, to you, And don't try

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Speaker 2: to talk to your neighbor about this sermon after church

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Speaker 2: if they weren't really listening, don't try to explain it

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Speaker 2: to them.

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Speaker 1: When God gives a thought to.

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Speaker 2: You, Jonah, I just want to show you how merciful

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Speaker 2: God really is. Not only is he going to forgive

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Speaker 2: the barbaric Ninevites over there in chapter three when Jonah preaches,

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Speaker 2: and Jonah's not even that great of a preacher, the

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Speaker 2: only thing he says that they record in the Book

724
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Speaker 2: of Jonah is forty more days in Ninevah will be destroyed.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine coming to church for that? Y'all got

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Speaker 1: it pretty good, man.

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Speaker 2: If Jonah was here, that'd be the whole sermon, and

728
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Speaker 2: he just say it over and over again and say

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Speaker 2: it louder. But God used it. God did something through Jonah.

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Speaker 2: He always wanted to do something through Jonah. He wants

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Speaker 2: to do something through you. But the question is do

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Speaker 2: you value the God thought because the cost of the

733
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Speaker 2: wrong thought. What you trade with the wrong thought is

734
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Speaker 2: the god thought that replaces it. So God calls you,

735
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Speaker 2: but you turn yourself into a castaway. So God calls

736
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Speaker 2: you righteous by the blood of Christ, but you keep

737
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Speaker 2: hiding in shame from even your own friends and family.

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Speaker 2: It's the cost of a wrong thought. Oh, he paid

739
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Speaker 2: the fare to get on the ship, but he paid

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Speaker 2: more than that. And as a matter of fact, it

741
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Speaker 2: got so bad that the sailors, after doing everything they could,

742
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Speaker 2: said what do you want us to do? And look

743
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Speaker 2: what he said in verse twelve. This is the cost

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Speaker 2: of the wrong thought. He said to them, pick me

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Speaker 2: up and hurl me into the sea. Then the sea

746
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Speaker 2: will quiet down for you. And now I'm going to

747
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Speaker 2: show you something. You've been in church all your life,

748
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Speaker 2: but I don't think you've ever seen this before.

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Speaker 1: God gave it to me. Fresh the sea will quiet

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Speaker 1: down for you. I know it's because of me. I'm

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Speaker 1: the problem. It's me.

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Speaker 2: I know it's because of me that this great tempest

753
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Speaker 2: has come upon you. Nevertheless, men wrote hard, try to

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Speaker 2: get back to the dry land. They tried everything they could,

755
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Speaker 2: they could not, for the sea grew more more tempestuous

756
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Speaker 2: against them. You're not going to row your way out

757
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Speaker 2: of this one. There's some situations you can strain as

758
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Speaker 2: much as you want to in the storm doesn't stop.

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Speaker 2: But watch this verse fourteen. Therefore they called out to

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Speaker 2: the Lord, Oh Lord, let us not perish for this

761
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Speaker 2: man's life, not on an instant blood for you.

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Speaker 1: A lord has done as it pleased you verse fifteen.

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Speaker 2: So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea,

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Speaker 2: and the sea ceased from its rage. And right about

765
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Speaker 2: now you're thinking, where are you going with this depressing,

766
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Speaker 2: weird series sermons series right now? Well, the Bible says

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Speaker 2: the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a

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Speaker 2: sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

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Speaker 1: So that's good, right, they knew he was God.

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Speaker 2: But the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah,

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Speaker 2: and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three

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Speaker 2: days and three nights. Now here's my favorite verse. Then

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Speaker 2: Jonah prayed. You see what I'm saying. I think you

774
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Speaker 2: know where I'm going with this. You're overstaying. You're welcome

775
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Speaker 2: in the belly of the fish because this didn't have

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Speaker 2: to happen in Jonah chapter two, verse one. This could

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Speaker 2: have happened in Jonah chapter one, verse six. And if

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Speaker 2: it had happened in Jonah chapter one, verse six, when

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Speaker 2: the captain came and said.

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Speaker 1: Wake up, man, what's wrong with you? We're all gonna die.

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Speaker 1: Get up, don't you care? Call on your God. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: he will give a thought to us. Perhaps he'll get

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Speaker 1: us out of this, perhaps he'll notice us, perhaps he'll

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Speaker 1: do something.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps he'll give a thought to us. And Jonah's thought was,

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Speaker 2: throw me overboard. What if his thought had been call

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Speaker 2: on God. What if he would have done this chapter two,

788
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Speaker 2: verse one, but didn't wait until he got in the

789
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Speaker 2: belly of the fish to do it.

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Speaker 1: What at the moment the captain would have said, wake up,

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Speaker 1: call on God, he can stop it. Jonah had prayed

792
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Speaker 1: to the Lord.

793
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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to say that some things you can

794
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Speaker 2: pray before you get in the belly.

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Speaker 1: Do you hear me?

796
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Speaker 2: Pray to this God word today? Then Jonah prayed with

797
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Speaker 2: seaweed around his neck. Then Jonah prayed, smelling like a

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Speaker 2: fish market. Then Jonah prayed in the belly of the whale.

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Speaker 1: And here's what I noticed, he said verse one.

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Speaker 2: He prayed to the Lord his God from the belly

801
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Speaker 2: of the fish, verse two, saying I called to the

802
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 2: Lord out of my distress, and he answered me out

803
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Speaker 2: of the belly of shield, I cried, and you heard

804
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Speaker 2: my voice. Leave it right there. God will hear you

805
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Speaker 2: when you cry to Him from the depths. But you

806
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Speaker 2: also do not have to go to the depths to

807
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Speaker 2: cry to him.

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Speaker 1: God will hear you if you cry.

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00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 2: To Him from the depths, but you do not have

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Speaker 2: to go all the way down to reach all the

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Speaker 2: way up, Because the Bible says, I called to the

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Speaker 2: Lord out of my distress. And there are two choices

813
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Speaker 2: you have to make. One you can call on God

814
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Speaker 2: in your distress, or you can bring God into your decisions.

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Speaker 2: And the other day I was praying about a problem,

816
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Speaker 2: like I mentioned at the beginning of the sermon, and

817
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Speaker 2: the Lord showed me something that was so kind and merciful.

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Speaker 2: Y'all think, when God gives your thought, it's always going

819
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Speaker 2: to feel like a precious moment.

820
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Speaker 1: But sometimes it feels like the pain of surgery.

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Speaker 2: And as I was praying about this problem, it was

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Speaker 2: as if the spirit of God said to me, not

823
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 2: not loud, just done on my spirit he said, you know,

824
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't have to bring me into this problem if

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Speaker 2: you would have brought me into those thoughts. Because the

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Speaker 2: problems are the wake of the thoughts. The behaviors are

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Speaker 2: the wake of the thoughts. And sometimes we are so

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Speaker 2: guilty over that's what I did that we don't go

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Speaker 2: back to That's what I thought. Jonah thought he could

830
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Speaker 2: run to Tarsish. Jonah thought he knew who was worthy

831
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Speaker 2: of God's love. Jonah thought he knew his calling. But

832
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Speaker 2: when Jonah prayed, God gave him mercy. And when he

833
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Speaker 2: prayed and made a vow to the Lord, and when

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Speaker 2: he prayed and remembered the hand of God, when he

835
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Speaker 2: prayed and asked God for forgiveness, and when he prayed

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Speaker 2: and looked to heaven, and when he prayed and recommitted

837
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: his life in his calling, and when you pray and

838
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 2: look to God. The problem isn't has God given a

839
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Speaker 2: thought to you? Have you given a thought to God?

840
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Speaker 2: Because you can give a thought to God before you

841
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 2: go into the belly of the prayers. You can give

842
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 2: a thought to God before you are spent. You can

843
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 2: give a thought to God before you are splinter. You

844
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: can give a thought to God before your life is wrecked.

845
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Speaker 2: You can give a thought to God when you're at

846
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Speaker 2: your lowest. You can give your thought to God before

847
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Speaker 2: you go all two thousand, five hundred miles. God can

848
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Speaker 2: interrupt it today with one God thought, with one God thought?

849
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Speaker 1: Why go all two thousand and five.

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Speaker 2: Hundred miles when God has a fish for you to

851
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 2: pray for today? But see, I'm a little different because

852
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 2: I believe that the same God who will hear you

853
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 2: from the fish watch. This is also saying, if you

854
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 2: will listen to me right now, if you will obey

855
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 2: me right now, if you will put your heart in

856
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 2: my hands, not other people's hands, right now, if you

857
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 2: will guard your heart, for from it flow the issues

858
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 2: of life, if you will resurrender this thing to me,

859
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 2: you can skip the fish. In other words, I feel

860
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: like fighting the devil today. You don't have to lose

861
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 2: everything to look up, and you don't have to keep

862
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 2: shedding stuff to turn to God.

863
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Speaker 1: You can skip the fish.

864
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Speaker 2: I'm saying to a teenager, you don't have to drink

865
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Speaker 2: until you're a drunk and it takes you ten years

866
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Speaker 2: of rehab to undo it. If God has to come

867
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Speaker 2: get you in rehab. He'll get you in rehab. But

868
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Speaker 2: let's try a little prehab. Want't you taste and see

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Speaker 2: that the Lord is good? And I don't need that

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Speaker 2: to go norm because I don't have to pray every

871
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Speaker 2: prayer from the belly. I can pray before I get

872
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Speaker 2: in the belly. High five three people say, I'm gonna

873
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Speaker 2: skip the fish.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it different this time.

875
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray to the Lord before.

876
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: The pain is great.

877
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray to the Lord when I wake.

878
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: Up in the morning.

879
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say stuff like this is the tast the

880
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: Lord has made order my death.

881
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 3: In your word, dear.

882
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 2: God, if I have said to Heaven, you are there.

883
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 2: And the same God.

884
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: That'll send a fish to get me out.

885
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 2: Is the God who will give me wings to get

886
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 2: me over. And I'm trying to say that God wants

887
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 2: to give a thought to you. Say it, God, give

888
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 2: a thought to me. I thought my thoughts long enough.

889
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 2: They cost too much. My thoughts lead to insecurity. My

890
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 2: thoughts lead to greed, My thoughts lead to selfishness, My

891
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 2: thoughts lead to despair. I thought, and I thought, and

892
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 2: I thought, and I thought and I thought if I

893
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 2: paid the fair, I could get the tartish and I

894
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 2: didn't have to do it.

895
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: God, I thought I knew what was best for me.

896
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: But I need you to give a thought to me.

897
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to compare myself to my neighbor. God,

898
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 2: give a thought to me. Tell me how you think

899
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 2: of me, Tell me what you see in me. Tell

900
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 2: me what.

901
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: You've called me to do. How have you gifted me?

902
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: How have you anointed me?

903
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 2: What is my smooth stone that can bring down a giant?

904
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 2: What is my staff that can split a red sea?

905
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 2: Who have you called me to be saved again? God,

906
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 2: give a thought to me. How precious to me are

907
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 2: your thoughts?

908
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: Oh God, where can I go from your presence? If

909
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: I go to Tarshish, you were there. You cut me

910
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: off in the middle of the sea to swallow.

911
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 2: Me up, because you had a fish at the right

912
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 2: time to swallow me, and even the fish was mercy.

913
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 2: But I realized that if next time, instead of fleeing

914
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 2: with you, God, I will lean into you. God, I

915
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 2: may not have to go into the fish at all

916
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: to begin.

917
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: With, because God gave a thought to me.

918
00:51:56,239 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 2: And when God gives a thought to you, expect the

919
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 2: enemy to give an opposite thought. Sometimes you can tell

920
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 2: what God is speaking by what your mind is saying.

921
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 2: And if over and over again the enemy is telling

922
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 2: you something that's so diabolical, God is saying exactly the opposite.

923
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: So if it looks like quit, then stay.

924
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 2: I can point to so many times in my life

925
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 2: and I did not get here overnight, and I am

926
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 2: not perfect at it.

927
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: And next time my guitar almost breaks at the top

928
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: of the jeep on my cuss if that he's not

929
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: in the car.

930
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,800
Speaker 2: But the number of times listen to me, listen to me,

931
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 2: the number of times that then Jonah prayed in my

932
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 2: life happened too late, taught me to lean into God sooner.

933
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 2: I don't want my kids to go through avoidable storms.

934
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to create them. I want them to

935
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: skip some fish, you know what I mean. I feel

936
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: like that phrase right there is a God thought. Now

937
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 2: I'm ma skip the fish. I know where this goes.

938
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 2: The next time you go to through a little pity party, Now, Ima,

939
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 2: skip the fish. I don't like how it smells in there.

940
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: I don't want to go to my meeting Tuesday smelling

941
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 2: like fish. I'm not going to think like this, God

942
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 2: give a thought to me. Perhaps the God will give

943
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 2: a thought to us. He already gave a thought to you.

944
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 2: Have you given a thought to him? Or is this

945
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,919
Speaker 2: just simply still all about you and what you want?

946
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 2: Because the cost is to give your thought for His thought,

947
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 2: and that's.

948
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: What happens when we come to His word.

949
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 2: How many times did God give me a thought that

950
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 2: was greater than anything.

951
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: I thought?

952
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 2: If I really wanted the church to shout, I could

953
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 2: preach when God gives a car to you, and there

954
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,439
Speaker 2: would be shouts. When God gives a promotion to you,

955
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 2: and there would be shouts. Or I could go to

956
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 2: our young adult's chapel when God gives a spouse to you,

957
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: and there would be shouts. But the greatest gifts God

958
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 2: ever gave me came with thoughts. Because if I get

959
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 2: the things but not the thoughts of God to undergird them,

960
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 2: the things will be a burden, not a blessing.

961
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: Jonah did what God said and it worked, and he

962
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: was miserable. Why because you got to have the God thoughts?

963
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 2: Like the time she said to me after I preached,

964
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 2: I was having a pity party.

965
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: Little pity party, little preaching pity party.

966
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 2: And Holly just wisely says, I think you think you

967
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: failed in preaching today, but maybe you didn't fail.

968
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: Maybe you just didn't finish.

969
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 2: And that thought comes up here with me into this

970
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:05,280
Speaker 2: pulpit every time I preached ever since she said it.

971
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 2: Every time I think, oh, man, I didn't say that

972
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 2: like I wanted to.

973
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: The Lord would just remind me. Then pick it back

974
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 1: up next week.

975
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 2: And say the rest bozo, skip the fish and the

976
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 2: whole thing of beating up on yourself.

977
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: You said it better than most of them could have anyway,

978
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: So tell them to get up there and try. Come on,

979
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 1: they'll still need you next week.

980
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 2: You got job security. One time I was frustrated with

981
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 2: some of our staff members. It was right before in

982
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, when everything had totally shifted and all the

983
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 2: staff that had been doing one job started having to

984
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 2: do another one because obviously we weren't.

985
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: Having in person church.

986
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: We were on a zoom call, and I was like,

987
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 2: it's very important to me that we do this, and

988
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 2: we do that, and we do that. And the next

989
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 2: week I got on and I checked in and nobody

990
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: had done successfully what I asked. I said, I'm gonna

991
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 2: say this again, and it's very important that we do this,

992
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 2: and we do that, and we do that, and there again.

993
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 2: One more week goes by and I checked in and

994
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 2: it still hadn't been done. So the third week, I

995
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 2: was really angry and I kind of lost it. I

996
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 2: didn't cuss.

997
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: That's gonna be my memoir title, but I didn't cuss. Well,

998
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: I got so mad.

999
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 2: I kind of like lost my cool little bit, not

1000
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 2: too bad, but just a little bit, and ended the

1001
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 2: meeting abruptly, and when I was kind of closing the

1002
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 2: laptop intentionally slammed the laptop shut.

1003
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 1: I said, they don't care. They don't care enough to

1004
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: do what I'm asking them to do. They don't care.

1005
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 2: And the Spirit of the Lord gave me I thought.

1006
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 2: He said, they care, they just can't. They don't know

1007
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 2: how to do what you're asking them to do. This

1008
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: is their first pandemic too. It was a God thought

1009
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 2: because it took me from thinking that there was something

1010
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 2: wrong with them and it was me against them, to

1011
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 2: thinking it's us against it. You know, you can have

1012
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:16,959
Speaker 2: one God thought that's helped me so much. Even with y'all,

1013
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 2: there are so many God thoughts that had to replace

1014
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 2: wrong thoughts. Do you know when I used to preach

1015
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 2: and people wouldn't get excited, I would feel like they

1016
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: were almost like.

1017
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: I would get mad at the people. I say something

1018
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: good and they wouldn't say anything, and I would get mad.

1019
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: Now I pretend to be mad. I'm like, y'all ain't

1020
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: saying nothing. I don't care.

1021
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: I always wonder if the crowd could talk back to

1022
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 2: you know, y'all ain't saying nothing, and they'd go, you

1023
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 2: aren't either. But the Lord dropped something in me so

1024
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 2: profound it was a download. One day I was frustrated

1025
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 2: about it, and he said, they're not here for you.

1026
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: You're here for them. You serve them when you preach.

1027
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 2: They're not your audience to make you feel good about

1028
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 2: your amateur hour stand up comedy.

1029
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: If they don't laugh, you keep preaching. You're here for them.

1030
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: You're here as a servant. It changed my life. What's that?

1031
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: That's the value of a god thought? And God wants

1032
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: to give you one stand up? Please? No one leave

1033
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: and pray it out loud. God give a thought to

1034
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: my wife.

1035
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no.

1036
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: Try it again.

1037
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 2: Y'all weren't listening God, give a thought to me, Show

1038
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 2: me how you think about me, Show me how you

1039
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 2: think about others.

1040
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: Put somebody on my mind that I can help, that

1041
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: I can bless. Yes, yes, I'm gonna tell you this too.

1042
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: In twenty ten, when I started Love Week, it was

1043
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: a thought, what if everybody in this church served an hour,

1044
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: we could serve five thousand hours.

1045
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 2: Never would I have thought when God gave me that thought.

1046
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 2: You gotta realize God's thoughts are vast. God's thoughts are vast.

1047
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 2: So when I saw five thousand hours, how many have

1048
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 2: we served?

1049
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 1: Now? Over what? Over what?

1050
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 2: Over a million hours of service from this church?

1051
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: In outrage? Y'all ain't clapping. All right, I'm gonna give

1052
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: you a million dollars.

1053
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 2: Clap like that, over a million hours to our communities.

1054
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 2: We're on God's mind. God, give a thought to me,

1055
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 2: Show me how to do good, show me how to

1056
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 2: make it. And really, sometimes the problem is that the

1057
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 2: storm you're going through, it's the thoughts you're having about

1058
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 2: the storm. Because in Mark chapter four, one time Jesus

1059
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 2: was on the boat with his disciples and he said,

1060
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 2: let's go to the other side. And the Bible says

1061
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 2: when evening had come, he told them to cross over

1062
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 2: to the other side, mark four thirty five. Come, let

1063
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 2: us go over to the other side, next verse, and

1064
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 2: leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the

1065
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 2: boat just as he was, and the.

1066
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: Other boats were with him, and.

1067
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 2: A great wind storm arose and the waves were breaking

1068
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 2: into the boat so that the boat was already filling.

1069
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.

1070
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 2: What is Jesus doing, acting like Jonah? Only he's not

1071
01:00:56,320 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 2: running from God's will, He's rowing into it. And they

1072
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 2: woke him up and said, teacher, do you not care

1073
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 2: that we are perishing? Here was their thought, he doesn't care,

1074
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: he's sleeping. And he awoke and rebuke the wind and

1075
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 2: said to deceit, peace be still, And the wind ceased,

1076
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 2: and there was a great calm, and he said to them,

1077
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 2: why are you so afraid?

1078
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: Have you still no faith?

1079
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 2: And I want to talk to you before I close

1080
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 2: My message about a sleeping Jesus, not a sleeping Jonah.

1081
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 2: Because when the disciples saw Jesus asleep, they thought he

1082
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 2: doesn't care. But they could have thought, wait, he is

1083
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 2: God's son. If he is sleeping through the storm. Maybe

1084
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 2: it's not that he doesn't care. Maybe we're cool and

1085
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 2: I came to preach to somebody today. If God is

1086
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 2: not doing it exactly like you want in your situation,

1087
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 2: maybe it's not that he doesn't care. Maybe he's so confident,

1088
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 2: Maybe he's so in control. Maybe he is so sovereign

1089
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 2: over the storm that he will wake up when he

1090
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 2: needs to wake up.

1091
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,320
Speaker 1: It's all in your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So God, I pray right now that as high as

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Speaker 2: the heavens are above the earth, so are your ways

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Speaker 2: above our ways.

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Speaker 1: And your thoughts above our thoughts. How precious to me

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Speaker 1: or your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So God, I pray for those who have been having

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Speaker 2: tormenting thoughts, tempting thoughts, I pray that they would be

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Speaker 2: replaced right now with the truth of your word.

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Speaker 1: I thank you for our Savior, Jesus, who loved and

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Speaker 1: died for us. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give

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Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for

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Speaker 2: more information, and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.