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What are WE doing with Jesus Christ?
“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, Man kills God, Man creates dinosaurs… Dinosaurs eat man.”
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”
Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command. Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, a three-day walk.
Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!”
Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Then he issued a decree in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.
Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.
Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
I. Obedience is always better than sacrifice.
I. Obedience is always better than sacrifice.
For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him.
If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” and yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.
If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say, “We have not sinned,” we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
II. We are stewards of God’s message.
II. We are stewards of God’s message.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.”
Isaiah 6:1-
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
Seraphim were standing above him; they each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
And one called to another: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Armies; his glory fills the whole earth.
The foundations of the doorways shook at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke.
Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs.
He touched my mouth with it and said: Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking: Who should I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me.
And he replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.
Make the minds of these people dull; deafen their ears and blind their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed.
Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,
and the Lord drives the people far away, leaving great emptiness in the land.
Though a tenth will remain in the land, it will be burned again. Like the terebinth or the oak that leaves a stump when felled, the holy seed is the stump.
Later he appeared to the Eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table. He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he had risen.
Then he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”
He told them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
He also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day,
and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.
And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high.”
III. Why are we surprised when God acts like God?
III. Why are we surprised when God acts like God?
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”
Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command. Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, a three-day walk.
Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!”
Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Then he issued a decree in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.
Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.
Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
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You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.
You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.
I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
Genesis 22:
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
Application
Application
Do you KNOW Jesus?
Do you FOLLOW Jesus?
Do you SERVE Jesus?