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Have you ever felt like running away
The business of day to day life.
the stress and weight of our responsibilities.
If we are honest.
all of us have had that feeling or desire to escape life.
even if it’s just for a little while.
These thoughts and feelings can arise in our spiritual lives as well.
When God calls us to certian task.
God calls us as believers to love our enemies to pray for those who persecute you.
God calls us to go and share the gospel regaurdless of the lines of division we might face.
Sometimes God calls us to specfic task that don’t fit into our plans.
he calls us out of our comfort zone to share our story with a total stranger or to help someone.
when God calls us out of our comfort zone everything inside us says run .
I would say if anybody knows anything about running its Jonah.
Jonah 1:1-3 “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, for their evil has come up before me.”
But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.
So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.”
God has called Jonah to go and to cry out against that great city Nineveh.
Jonah was a prophet to Jeroboam 2nd.
He is mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25 where he successfully counceled against the Syrian threat.
Nineveh isn’t just any city.
Neineveh is know for it’s evil.
The book of Nahum gives great detail about the evil of Nineveh and God’s anger towards them.
Nahum 3:1 “Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!”
Nineveh was a city of violence, known for it’s burtal treatment of those it conquered.
They were notorious for amputating hands and feet, gouging out eyes and skinning and impaling their captives.
I can hear the conversation Jonah had with God in my head.
You want me to do what?
I’m not going over there.
Do you know what they would do to a guys like me?
You don’t need me to cry out judgment aginst them judge em.
I don’t like them anyway.
There evil.
do you ever not like the way God does things.
You want it your way or no way.
One of the first thing that I learned in celebrate recovery is relize i’m not God.
I don”t have to control everything.
As a church we have set a goal to see 100 people come to know Jesus and be baptized in our church.
That seems like a lot But do you relize God is sending Jonah because he wants to save the hole city.
We serve a big God that wants to do big things and if we will go to the Nineveh that God has given no matter how hard it may seem .
We will see God do big things.
God gives Jonah the comand but Jonah rose to Flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Jonah knows he can’t run from God’s pressence but he can run from where God’s pressence is stongest.
He thinks if i can run from the temple where the pressence is strongest.
If he can get to a place where God is not honored or know.
He want hear God’s message to Him.
Jonah had rather be 2500 miles out of the will of God than 500 miles in the will of God.
Psalm 139:7-10 “Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.”
Tell Stephanies story of God’s pressence in Atlanta.
Jonah 1:3 ““ But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.
So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.”
Something to notice When we run from God we are always going down in the Wrong direction.
Jonah went down to Joppa and found the ship and paid the fair and went down into it.
Running from God will cost us something.
It will cost you money, it will cost you time, it will cost you Joy and peace.
Running from God is miserable and God won’t let you do it for long.
Hebrews 12:6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.””
have you ever had God hurl a storm at you?
tell my story of my storm.
Jonah 1:4-6 “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.
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.
But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.
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 a thought to us, that we may not perish.””
This was a supernatural storm.
It was a storm with a purpose and it had Jonahs name on it.
These mariners had seen many storms but this storm was diffrent.
It was so diffrent that the mariners were afraid and cried out to their god’s.
They cried out to there god’s with no luck.
Jonah 1:5 “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.
But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.”
When you run from God it not only affects you It also affects those around you.
verse 5 says they tosed the cargo to lighten the load.
In other words there pay check just went in the sea and if they make it the cargo will cost them.
Meanwhile Jonah is down in the ship fast asleep.
Jonahs justy snoozing
The mariners have exausted everything they know to do.
they’ve cried out to their god’s with no luck.
They’ve tossed the cargo.
so what’s left?
Jonah 1:6 “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 a thought to us, that we may not perish.””
We can get so comfortable in sin and diobedence that all hell can be breaking loose around us we can just sleep right through it.
The sinner had to wake the preacher to pray.
I can hear the captian in my head .
What’s wrong with you were all about to die and your going to sleep.
Call out to your god that he may have compassion on us that we might not die.
The world is in a bad place when the sinner has to remind God”s people to pray
The captians request for Jonah to pray is a great opportunity for Jonah to witness and demonstraite the power of the Lord but Jonah remains silent.
We have a great opertunity as believers in Christ and the church to be a great witness to a world that is in the middle of a storm.
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