Running from the Cross

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I want to invite you to take out your Bibles and turn with me to the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, and you can remain standing for the reading of God's Word.
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We're going to be in Matthew chapter 12 tonight, and we're going to read verses 38 to 42.
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The title of tonight's message is Running from the Cross.
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In Matthew chapter 12 and verse 38, Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.
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But he answered them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah.
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And behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
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The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon.
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And behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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Father in heaven, I thank you for your word.
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I thank you for the opportunity to preach your word.
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I pray, Lord, with as much humility as I can, that you would keep me from error.
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For Lord God, I do not want to mispreach your word or mishandle your truth.
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I pray that you would keep me from error for my sake and for the sake of everyone who will hear my voice.
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I pray, Lord, that you will bless this time of preaching.
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Lord, that you would use it to encourage the saints.
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And Lord God, if there are those among us tonight, which there certainly are, who have yet to bow the knee to Jesus Christ, who are still running from the cross, I pray that tonight would be the night that you would, as you did with Jonah, Lord, reach out and take them as your own.
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For Lord, we know that we cannot save a soul, but you, God, you can save a soul.
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You can change a heart.
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You can regenerate a dead life.
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And we trust you, Lord, to do that which only you can do.
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In regard to the preaching of your word, we pray that, Lord, it would be in accordance with your truth.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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You may be seated.
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When you think about Jesus' life, it really is a relatively short note in human history.
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Thirty-three years is not really that long of a time.
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And then if you condense that down and say the time that He spent in ministry was only three of thirty-three years, then it's even shorter still.
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And it's amazing to consider the fact that in those three short years, Jesus changed the course of human history.
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In fact, we now date our entire lives around His life.
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We call it the Gregorian calendar, but it's based on a BCAD model.
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That which happened before Christ and that which happened Anno Domini, which is in the year of our Lord.
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This is the year of our Lord, 2017.
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During those three years, Jesus found Himself at odds with many people.
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And it's an interesting thing that the ones who were most negative against Jesus were not the ranked sinners.
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The people who were most negative with Jesus were not the prostitutes or the tax collectors.
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The people who had the biggest problem with Jesus were the religious people.
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The people who had the biggest problem with Jesus were the people who felt very self-righteous, very, very prideful about their own, what they considered, position with God.
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And in our text tonight, we find Jesus engaging with the scribes and the Pharisees, which were the educated scholars and the theologians of His day.
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I often wonder, in our day, how many theologians would argue with Jesus if He were to come back? How many theologians would say, no, you're wrong, Jesus, that's not right.
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And I'm not discounting the value of theology.
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Theology matters, and the study of theology is important.
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I'm certainly not saying that.
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But we have a responsibility to be responsible with our theology, to seek to have the theology of Jesus.
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These men have come to Jesus asking that He do some sign to demonstrate His power.
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And I want you to know that, and you probably realize, Jesus was not against performing miracles, He did it a lot.
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In fact, most of the miracles in the Bible are recorded in the four Gospels.
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Very few miracles are recorded in Acts.
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I mean, there are some, there's Pentecost, and there's other things that happen in the book of Acts, the raising of the young boy who fell out of the window while Paul was preaching a very late sermon.
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And there's stories in the Old Testament of the parting of the Red Sea, and the ten plagues, and all those things.
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But relatively, the vast majority of the miracles that were done in the Bible are done by Jesus, and they're done in the four Gospels.
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So Jesus is not opposed to doing miracles.
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Sometimes His miracles were done quietly, and He would tell people, don't say anything about this, don't go out and tell people this, it's not yet my time.
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Other times He would do miracles and everybody knew.
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And it wasn't that big a deal that everyone knew because He did it publicly.
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When you feed 5,000 people, you can't really say, okay, now keep it quiet.
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We got 5,000 people getting fed from five loaves and two fish.
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Everybody kind of knows.
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And that was pretty special.
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So you don't really keep that one hidden very long.
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But these men were not looking for a reason to believe in Jesus.
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They were looking for a way to condemn Jesus as a heretic.
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Had He performed a miracle, it would have been challenged as witchcraft, or the power of Satan himself.
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In fact, if you read this passage down to verse 24, or up to verse 24 rather, it actually says that.
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It says, you do this by the power of Beelzebul.
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You do this by the power of the devil.
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They've already said, and He's saying, you're seeking a miracle, you're seeking a sign.
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And you've already said that the power that I have is coming from the devil anyway.
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Even if I rose someone from the dead like I'm going to do with Lazarus, you would just say that's some kind of trick.
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Or I'm a witch.
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As a result, Jesus condemns them for seeking the sign because He says that it is an adulterous generation that seeks for a sign.
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That may seem kind of harsh.
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And I imagine that some of you, and I imagine if you were honest, you might say, you know what, I'd love to see a visible manifestation of the work of God.
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And the presence of God.
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And, I mean, who among us would not want to witness a genuine miracle where God interrupts natural law and does something powerful and intervening? I mean, you know, but here's the difference, and this is the key.
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If I said I'd love to see a miracle of God, that wouldn't make me a believer.
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You realize miracles never make believers? You go to the Old Testament, you read the Old Testament.
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Those people saw the Red Sea part.
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They saw manna fall from heaven.
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They saw miracle after miracle after miracle, and they still didn't believe.
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Miracles don't make believers.
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So when Jesus is saying an evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, He's not saying that if you would love to see a manifestation of God's power, that makes you evil and adulterous.
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What He's saying, He's saying if you think that that's what's going to make you believe in Me, you've already demonstrated that you have an evil and an unfaithful.
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The term adulterous simply means unfaithful.
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Unfaithful to God.
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You have a heart that's unfaithful to God already.
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You're asking for this miracle not so that you can believe, but so that you can condemn.
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Jesus makes it clear.
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They will not be given a sign to satisfy their demand.
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He will not bend to their wicked request, because He knows it would do nothing to change their heart.
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So Jesus tells His detractors, He will not be performing any parlor tricks for them to use against Him to satisfy their curiosity.
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But He adds a caveat, and this is going to be the focus of tonight's message.
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He says, but you are going to see something.
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I'm not going to do a miracle right now.
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I'm not going to do something to cause you to be able to condemn Me.
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I'm not going to do something to give you something to hang the title of witch, or to attack Me as a heretic.
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But you are going to see something.
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Know this, you are going to see the miracle of miracles.
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You are going to see something that is so amazing, that it's going to change the course of human history.
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But here's the problem, even then, you're not going to believe.
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And that's why a judgment.
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Those people who Jonah preached to, and they repented, they're going to look at you, and they're going to say, we heard Jonah and we believed.
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You saw Jesus and you didn't believe.
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Now most of us are familiar with Jonah, and this takes me to Jonah, and it's sort of my focus for the evening.
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Most of us are familiar with Jonah.
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In fact, if you grew up in church, you probably have seen nursery pictures of a whale.
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And before anybody says it, the Bible doesn't say whale, it says fish.
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And I realize that that is an issue of contention, whether or not it was a whale.
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I'm going to say this, it was a big old animal, with a big old belly.
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And somehow, God used it to save Jonah from drowning.
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But what I want to do is, I want tonight, because Jesus references Jonah here, I want us to look at the narrative of Jonah.
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And I want us to look at some observations that will help us to understand tonight, why we've gathered.
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It's Good Friday.
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We've gathered tonight because of the cross.
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But here's the thing.
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The vast majority of people, and we hear them driving by, the vast majority of people could care less about the cross today.
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You know, I went about today doing some things in the community, and I was handing out tracts, and I would say, you know, happy Good Friday or, you know, happy Resurrection Day or whatever, and people just look at you.
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It's no big deal.
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But I want to show the connection between Jonah and what we celebrate today.
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Jesus makes the connection.
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He makes the connection to the fact that Jonah is three days and three nights in the great fish, and he's three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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But I want to show something else.
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Come back to Jonah chapter 1.
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If you're in your pew Bibles, it's page 982.
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If you brought your own Bible, I have no idea.
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But it's Jonah chapter 1.
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It says, Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it.
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For their evil has come up before me.
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But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish.
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Tarshish would be the name for the area around Spain at this time in history.
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From the presence of the Lord.
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He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.
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So he paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
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Now again, Jonah is one of the most arguably, one of the most famous of the Old Testament prophets.
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And this really isn't because of anything profound that he preached.
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But rather it is the way in which he arrived where he was commanded to go.
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Jonah was a prophet in Israel and he was commanded to go and preach in Nineveh.
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Nineveh is the capital of Assyria.
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And just for a little historical background, we're going to spend a lot of time on this.
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But if you think of the reason for all of this and why it matters, Nineveh is the capital of the nation with which Israel is at war.
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That was a terrible way of saying that, so let me start again.
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Israel and Assyria are enemies.
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Assyria is a very ungodly nation.
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They are a nation of pagans who worship in pagan ways.
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They do all kinds of human sacrifices and all kinds of things that were just ungodly.
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And they were the enemies of Israel.
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Nineveh is the capital of that nation.
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Jonah is called by God, go into the heart of your enemy's camp.
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Go into the belly of the beast, as it were, and preach repentance.
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Now, when Jonah received that command, he rebelled.
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You know, I would never commend rebellion against God, but I do understand, at least in part, the heart of Jonah at this time.
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And I think if I were to point you to something like to say, okay, God has called you to go preach repentance in a Taliban camp, you might run the other way.
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You might seek your own ship to Tarshish.
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This is the enemies of Israel.
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These are the people who are murderous and dangerous, and go preach to them.
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Go preach repentance to them.
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So Jonah runs the other way.
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And we actually, real quick, before we go any further in chapter 1, look at chapter 3, just turn one page over to chapter 3, verse 10.
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This actually tells us why Jonah didn't want to go.
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Because what I just said about Jonah not wanting to go because it was a dangerous place, that's not the only reason he didn't want to go.
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Jonah didn't want to go because he didn't want him to repent.
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Look at verse 10 of chapter 3.
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It says, when God saw what they did, that is the Ninevites, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of this disaster that He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it.
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So Jonah has gone to preach in Nineveh, and Nineveh has repented, and the Bible says from the top down, and Jonah has done what God has told him to do, and he's preached repentance, and it worked.
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Wouldn't you think that the prophet would throw up his hands and say, praise the Lord, it worked! They didn't kill me, and they repented! Chapter 4, verse 1.
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly.
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That's an example of biblical understatement.
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He was mad.
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It displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry, and he prayed to the Lord and said, O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarsus, for I knew that You were a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
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Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
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Just kill me! See, Jonah wasn't so much afraid of the Assyrians as he did hate them.
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Have you ever hated someone so much you didn't want them to repent? Have you ever hated someone so much that you'd rather see them in hell than in Christ? That's where Jonah was.
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He hated Nineveh.
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And when they repented, he hated them still.
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And because of his hatred, he ran.
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He ran from God.
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Going back to chapter 1, God said, Go to your enemies and preach repentance.
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Jonah said, No, I'm not going, and I'm going the opposite, the absolute opposite direction.
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I'm going to go preach.
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Or rather, I'm going to go hide elsewhere.
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Verse 4, it says, But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
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And then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his God, and they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them.
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But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had laid down and was fast asleep.
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So the captain came and said to him, What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise! Call out to your God! Perhaps the God will give us, rather, will give a thought to us that we may not perish.
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And they said to one another, Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account the evil has come upon us.
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So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
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Then they said to him, Tell us whose account this evil has come upon us.
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What is your occupation, and where do you come from? What is your country, and of what people are you? And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
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Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, What is it that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
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Then they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
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He said to them, Pick me up and hurl me into the sea, then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.
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Nevertheless, the men rode back to get back to dry land, but they could not.
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For the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
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I want to stop right at verse 13 and say this, those men loved Jonah more than Jonah loved Nineveh.
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Realize those are pagans.
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And he says, Just kill me and you'll be safe.
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And they fought to keep him alive.
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Sometimes the unbeliever shames the man of God.
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Verse 14, Therefore they called out to the Lord, O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood.
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For you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.
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So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
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Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
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Interestingly enough, Jonah didn't intend to, but I think he got those guys saved.
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I mean, God had a plan in all this.
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Those guys saw the hand of Almighty God, and they knew that the God of Israel was the God who created heaven and earth, and so they turned their hearts to Him.
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Or might we say, He turned their hearts to Him.
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But it's at this moment in the narrative that it takes a fantastic turn.
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As Jonah is sinking into the sea, he's going down into the depth of the sea that he believed was going to bring his own demise.
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He is rescued by an unknown sea creature.
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And it is an event which almost sounds like it could be taken from Greek mythology.
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Jonah is swallowed whole by a great sea creature, and kept alive inside that creature, so much so that he's able to pray from inside the beast.
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And we have chapter 2 as the recording of his prayer.
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And all it says...
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Here's the great thing about the Bible.
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Again, the Bible is so masterfully understated at times.
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Because all we get is verse 17 of chapter 1.
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And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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No elaboration.
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No explanation.
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God did it.
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God sent the first submarine, and here it comes.
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I mean, it's just that simple.
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And it's not...
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I mentioned Greek mythology.
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It's not mythology.
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The Bible is, in this account, not coming to us as a proverb or a poetry reading.
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This is narrative.
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This is what we call historic narrative.
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And historic narrative intends to relay to us a truth.
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An actual, physical truth.
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And some people have issue with the story of Jonah.
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And they say, well, I have a hard time believing that a man can live inside of a sea creature for three days.
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If you believe that God can raise the dead, and He will, how hard is that? I mean, really, when you start getting on the issue, well, I think it was...
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I don't know how God could create the world in six days.
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I don't know what took Him so long.
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I mean, really? He can do it by speaking it into existence.
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Six days is a long time.
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When you don't have to take time to do anything.
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God can do anything He wants in a second.
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He chose six days for a purpose.
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But don't think for a second that six days is an amazing thing in the sense of God's timing.
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Any more than it is that He would send a great fish that can take a man from point A to point B because that's where He appointed him to go.
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And furthermore, if you really want to know why I believe in the tenacity of the historicity of Jonah, it's because of Jesus.
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Because somebody might argue that Jonah is a poem in the Scripture, not intended to be taken literally.
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But Jesus took it literally when He said, just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so I will be in the heart of the earth.
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Jesus takes the narrative of Jonah and uses it as a type of Himself.
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He says, just as that happened, so too will my resurrection happen.
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So if we have issues with the three days in the fish, we might have issues with the three days in the tomb.
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Both were equally miraculous in the sense of God had to intervene to make them happen.
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Jesus was going to go to the cross, die a substitutionary death.
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He was then going to be buried in the earth for three days, much like Jonah was buried in the belly of the fish for three days, at the end of which time He was going to be released from the hold of death in the tomb the same way Jonah was released from the innards of the animal.
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And some may say, well, okay, but what does that have to do with today? Well, today is Good Friday.
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And as we've already noted earlier in the service, we call it good because this is the day that Jesus Christ died for our sins.
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Some may question why we call it good.
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We call it good because this is the day the atonement was made for our sins.
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He took in Himself the punishment we all deserve, and His death was no accident.
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It was an intentional sacrifice for sin.
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And Jonah corresponded to Christ in the way He went down in that fish for three days and was released.
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And that's the comparison that Jesus gives us.
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He says, just like Jonah was in that fish for three days, I'm going to be in the earth for three days.
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But I believe Jonah's narrative also corresponds to something else.
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And this is my real thesis for tonight, and I know it's taken me a little while to get here.
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But I believe that Jonah's narrative, not the part about the fish, and not the part about being in that.
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I think that has its correspondence in Jesus.
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But I think there's another part that corresponds to many of us in the life of Jonah that we often don't like to think about.
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And that's the part where he ran from God.
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You see, Jesus used Jonah as an example of what was going to happen to Him on Good Friday.
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And tonight, I would like to suggest that Jonah is also an example for many of you.
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Because I believe there are people under the sound of my voice who are just like Jonah.
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There are people who have been given a command by God, but instead of obeying that command, you have fled from God.
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You say, well, what are you talking about? Jonah was a rebel.
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Jonah was a rebel against God because God had given him a command.
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And the moment he received that command and went the other direction, he became a rebel against God.
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He committed cosmic treason the minute he boarded that ship to go away from the command of his Lord.
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And I believe, I believe in my heart that there are people here tonight who do that as well.
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And some may say, well, preacher, how can you say that? Are you saying that just because I haven't come to Christ yet that I'm committing treason against God? Yep.
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Because, and hear me, this is the thesis for tonight.
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The gospel is not a suggestion.
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And the gospel isn't even really an invitation.
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The gospel is a command.
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We have been commanded, repent and believe the gospel.
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It comes in the imperative, repent and believe.
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And when we run from that command, that is an act of rebellion against the king.
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Jonah received a command concerning Nineveh and he defiantly went the opposite direction.
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The world receives a command from God concerning Jesus and it defiantly runs the other direction.
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And that's where the parallel is.
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Jonah ran from Nineveh because he didn't want the people to repent.
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But we run from Jesus because we don't want to repent.
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So I wonder tonight, and I know there's a small group tonight.
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Maybe some of you are thinking, well, I came here saved.
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What are you talking to me about all this running from God? Let me say this.
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I found out this week that a man who has been a very prominent, very famous teacher of the Bible for as long as I've been alive has abandoned the doctrine of sola fide.
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He has abandoned justification by faith alone and he has joined the Orthodox Church which does not believe in the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone.
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You say, well, does that mean he is an apostate? I don't know, but I know this.
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I know if you believe in there's justification by grace through faith plus works, you don't believe the gospel.
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And what I'm trying to get around to saying is, I'm not trying to condemn him or anything, but what I'm trying to get around to saying is you can be in this church and you can have been here for a long time and you can still be lost.
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And I don't go around just trying to kick people in the teeth and make them think that they're unsaved.
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But I will tell you this, the devil does two things really well.
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He makes unsaved people feel saved and he makes saved people feel unsaved.
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That's two things he does really good.
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He makes unsaved people feel saved because then they don't think they need to do anything.
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And he makes saved people feel unsaved because that way they feel unsure and unable to do what they should do.
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So I'm not going around kicking in the teeth, but I am saying where are you? Have you recognized the command of the gospel as a command from God and repented of your sin and bowed the knee to Jesus Christ? Or like Jonah, are you on the run from the cross hoping to find some place of relative safety, maybe even the safety of the seat of a church? Because like the hull of that ship, you found a place where you can sleep and no one will bother you.
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And see, only you in your heart of hearts know if you're running from God's command or if you've submitted your life to Christ.
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Growing up in church does not save you.
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Being a member of a church does not save you.
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Only Jesus Christ can save you.
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I want to end with the words of Christ back in Matthew 12, verse 41.
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He says, The men of Nineveh will rise up at judgment at this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
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Jesus tells us that at judgment, the people of Nineveh will be saved.
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And they will stand as a testimony against those who heard the gospel and rejected it.
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And this is a reminder of one thing.
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At judgment, there is only going to be two groups.
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At judgment, the Bible says that God is going to separate the sheep from the goats.
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He is going to separate His people from those who are not His people.
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And you say, well, how do I know that I am His people? Have you repented of your sin and trusted in Jesus Christ? And has that trust in Christ changed your life? You have heard the command of the gospel.
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Do not, like the world, run from the cross.
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But instead, turn your heart to Christ.
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For only He can save you.
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Father in Heaven, I thank You for the truth of the Word.
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And I know ultimately, Lord, that only You can turn our hearts.
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Only You can change our minds.
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I pray, Lord, like You did with Jonah, when You reached down and You brought him back, because he was the one You chose, I pray that tonight that You would do that work, that miracle work of regeneration in the heart of someone here.
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For Lord, I know it's a small group, but I also know in this group, there are people who have not bowed the knee to Jesus.
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There are people who have heard the command of the gospel many times and have not repented of their sin and trusted in the only One who can save.
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And Father, I pray, I pray for a miracle.
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Not so that we can see something like a parted sea or manna from Heaven, but Lord, that we can see repentance in the heart tonight.
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I pray, Lord, for all this.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.