God of 2nd Chances - WK3 - Nineveh's Response to God's Message

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All right. Are you glad to be in God's the house this morning? I really am as well. My heart is full of information. I want to share with you.

God's word. RTD besides being possessed today, so it wouldn't work for me. So if it's okay, I'm not going to use it today, but I want to talk to you. I love Jennifer. So, if you have your Bible, turned into your Bible to Jonah chat. and we talkin about,

The dealings with Jonah and God and His dealings with the cinema lights. Know, it's an important story. The Bible, actually, I think, the entire Bible, the entire word of God is important, is the authority, by which we do everything. As a, I use the word sometimes that I don't know if, you know that where is evangelical and that word simply means there's about five, five terms. If you will, I need them. Jello full is one that leaves in the authority of the word of God, and I'm one of those. And I'm also one of those people that preached a Salvation message. In other words. There must be a good time and you're lying for you receive Jesus Christ as Savior Lord. Otherwise, she will not go to heaven. If you do not pass, go, do not collect $200. You go straight to hell when, when the end happens and it's a, it's not a happy message for me. But it's not that sometimes where you have to hear the message. You have to hear the truth of God's word. There has to be that point in your life. Christ. The savior is born. And you might be yourself what I've done that, but I never got back to high school baptism. Doesn't save you, that isn't is simply an outward expression?

So you need to be born again? The Bible says John 3:16 important message for us today, and we need to take it serious. But as we look at Jonah chapter 2, There's a summary. If you will, let me summarize. What we've been talkin about the last week since we missed last week.

He wasn't going to go, John ran from God and he ran from God's word and no matter how far. God.

Do berries or deals. If you can talk by the ship and various other things. Jonah finds himself in a big fish? In a sticky situation, if you will. And God damn Faith. His power over that fish and enjoy the story. Jonah is near death experience turns to God for deliverance. God delivers Jonah and then give him a second chance. I'm sorry. God spoke to the big fish and the big fish vomited Jonah on drop you back already.

And it could be just as valid from you today. God spoke to you and he said, go and you said Sometimes. Sometimes when God speaks to you, you run from God's word from hearing God's word and not just you, but me as well. I'm not, I'm not judging anybody here and no matter how far we run from God, God still pursues.

Do berries or deals in my life? I find myself in a big fish. I find myself in a sticky situation. The document has demonstrated his power in our life. And hear that near-death experience that might not be a near-death experience, like fish. But if you think about it, if you don't make a decision for Jesus Christ, you're in a near-death experience because of you. You will not receive it. Got you can turn the God for deliverance. God delivered, Jonah. Got delivered me and gave me a second chance. God speaks in your sticky situation. And deliver shooting on drive. And is that not true of anyone in the Bible? Amen. Of the Book of Jonah. First God is a god of Second Chances. Amen, he's a god of Second Chances. Third chances for chances. Just chances. You can name it. He's a God that's long-suffering that he would not want any of us to perish. But what do we do? We grab our life and try to pull onto our lives and try to control our life. Carmike. This toy. I have no kids. I don't know if you've heard of it.

Play the song. It's not wireless. So, you know, it doesn't connect to the internet. Etch-a-Sketch with a fun toy. There's a lot of toys we had as children, right? That were just simple like going to go out and grab a stick and pretend it's a gun. 4 Simple Things by the simple sketch. And we sit here, and if you're familiar with it, you know, you turned one novel to go for article, you turn the doorknob as well hard time, and you just try to make these really cool pictures with it and just have hours. Is today Pride wouldn't understand hours of fun? Maybe not. And actually, there's an art to this where people actually can do really elaborate pictures. But the problem is with the extra sketch, just like in our lives, we have an ugly. W sometimes a strong and you know that why that is cuz guess whose hands are on the knob.

And we're sitting here and we're trying to draw what we would think of is a beautiful picture and not the god saying to us. Let me let me hold them.

And you know, it was a nice about the Etch-a-Sketch just like in her Christian walk.

When you ask Jesus in your heart to be your lord and savior. Does this.

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Amanda, he washes it all Cano. Start all over, not to beat again. But this time when you receive today, you should let God.

The desire. The pleasures of your life, the things that God wants us to do, you need to let God have control.

And then God's dog. Second Chances. We see that in chapter 3, which is the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time saying, arise go to Nineveh a great City and preach against is the message that I would tell you. So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now, none of the city on the first date. Then he cried out and said yet forty days and none of us shall be over. You think God is asking Jonah. I'm going to tell you again. What I want you to know that when you go in at 2 and don't worry about what you're going to say, because I'm going to give you the

Don't worry. Let me see a

Whether it was the Labyrinth sermon. 40 minutes. You'll be overthrown. Powerful message or did we just get those from outside? Looking at Jonah, writes about the situation? Harry is about to destroy. Now, we're not giving John his attitude is demeanor. We're not told at this point whether John

It doesn't say whether he wanted them to be condemned yet. It doesn't say whether he wanted them to repent. It didn't even say. Salvation.

Jonah just said in our word in the word of God 40 days and none of them will be overthrown. Amen. It's a message. It's important. Now go to my own, a few things, not going to be an easy task. He may certainly face certain death because we know of the Armenian people and may not respond. Would you choose that? God can bring him out of big fish? That God to deliver them in the but here's the thing that what gets me is

God can deliver them in a box.

Maybe you can come for the city. Is God asking you to do something? Is that asking you to do something today? That needs to be done? Is God asking you to get your life right with him before. It's too late. It's got asking you. This song is. Who not only?

Rose from the grave.

A man is God talk to you about that today is God talking to you about maybe following him and Believers baptism. Very the likeness of his death rays and likenesses runs, or maybe God's talking today about joining a good Bible believe in church. I don't know what you can wait to send it to you, but it's God, talking you today because I believe that's how God works. God talks through his word.

Maybe today you been in the church so long. Do you feel like I do? I would like, I was a Christian because I grew up in this church. I grew up in churches. But did you ever receive Christ as Savior and Lord? That's the point that I'm trying to drive home today. Have you ever given your life to Jesus? Time is shorter and shorter everyday. No, I'm not what you would call a conspiracy theorist, by any me any, such an imagination because all I focus on what God's word says. I don't really care what the news is telling you today. I don't care about covid-19 care about those things. I don't know. I know what the Bible says. The Bible says, fear is not a of the Lord. Hey, man, so I'm not going to fear. I'm going to live my life. According to God's word at all cost. Now. We should all sit here in our church today. Say no matter what. I'm going to struggle or whatever it is, but I'm going to follow God's word, whatever that is. A man cuz it's getting worse.

But I want you to notice the second life lesson that we got from the story. And that is the message of God was taken seriously by the ninevites. Those that it Verses 4 through 9. Enjoy the beginning of the city, the first day's walk noticed. We also found out that the rate. They said it takes 3 days to go from one side to the other on the first day that he Jonah cried out and said 40 days and then if I should be over from. So the people have never believed God proclaimed the fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them and he arose from his throne and lay beside the door. Covenants of the stock wash, sackcloth and Ashes and he calls me for playing the pun.

His mobile saying that neither man nor Beast heard North Locke case. Anything do not. Let them eat or drink water. But let every man and be covered with that cloth and cry my my dreams and God left. Yes, let everyone turned. Waving from the Vergara, but it is in her hand. God will turn and relent and turn away from the so that we cherish.

God wants his word to be taken, seriously. Hey, man. Either we're going to be at church that says we stand by the word of God, or we're going to be at church. It says, we do not stand by the word of God.

And we were the second one that I won't be here, very long. Trust me, because I believe in the mighty power of the word of God. We're coming up to church and our life is coming under attack right now.

We need you need. I need to stand on the word. Amen. We could see that I'll come back to this as far as their repentance, but I want to share with you. What I talked about previously. Can you call the sea for Bill or Bill? Okay, this bill which is passed in Canada, make the attempt to convert a transgender or a homosexual. Up to five years in prison.

What's the business of our church?

Saving souls are job. Our mission is to stand on the word of God, to share the word of God and converts energy. That's our mission that are cha. Canada. Has approved as built C4, which makes it a crime to try to convert a homosexual attraction.

To have built.

Now, if that's coming in Canada, how long do you think it's going to take before? That comes to the US and they come to our churches on our front door, and they said, you cannot convert. Sinners to say you.

This is frightening. This is evil.

I don't know if you know about the preacher who I respect. Dearly John MacArthur written several Bibles and various other things, but he spoke out in a sermon. He recently And I actually watched on YouTube, I was surprised, because I was going to Utah.

Message this week and I listen to an hour-and-a-half message where you talked about this C4 bill. and you see a the word of God showing from the Bible that this is us and this is wrong. His method was labeled hate speech.

Hate speech.

And I'm going to tell you right now, brothers and sisters.

What does? Are going to be. in the future if not already and They're going to say if you believe that Bible that you hold dear. You're a big.

They say that. All right, you believe that kind of stuff. Yes, I do. Yes, I do know, we talked about it, but Sunday school class and I'm going to make it.

There are times to be smart in our delivery, but there is also time for us to say enough is enough.

We want to follow God's will at all cost. If it's just 38 of us, following God's will so be it. We have to follow God's will. We're not going to sit there and we're not going to give to a nation or country or to a philosophy or a culture things that we hold dear that I don't. Like personally. I really don't like the focusing on those particular stands. Because I think there are other things that we do in the church that are just as bad as homosexuality and transgender. But we're going to stand on the truth in the word of God. Even if it sometime.

That's what I'm going to do. That's the mission of the Church of God says for us to present the church as a bride, a virgin bride to himself. And did not allowed the crazy stuff is going along in some of these churches. I mean, it doesn't.

And Corinthians and stuff like that with Paul, dealing with issues.

We have to say,

God says You must be born again. So, what does that mean? Will you must be born again? God says to do this, will that work? I mean, forget it. Then you forget.

But sometimes, we have to be Crystal Clear where we draw the line and we draw the line at the mission of the church, is to save Sinners. So they'll have eternal one day. That's the mission of our church is to win the law. Amen. Amen, I don't care if you call me a bigot. I'm not hateful, Look up the definition of David.

God words that don't do this. Well, apparently we should not do that. Whatever that is. Just don't do this. I don't do that. At the centers are having such a great time and I'm not having a good time. Give me eternal life in the church, and I love that. But my issue today is the number to Sky, give you a second chance, but he wants to take his words seriously, and we falling away from that. Sometimes we get in the church service sometimes and it's like the tradition overtake. Common sense. I know. I know I'm stepping on toes here. But sometimes, the tradition. Where is that? Where is that in the Bible? Have we gotten so far from the Bible that we forgotten what the Bible says? How about this one? The Bible says do you therefore and make disciples and baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit?

When's the last time our church has gone. He there for? When's the last time you invite people to church? When's the last time you better knock on your neighbor's door and buying them to church? Even though you know that they're not a Christian. Maybe they need to hear the gospel message. We need to get back to the basics. If that's what God's word says cuz he got in far from it. And I'm not just thinking on this church.

That's why a lot of times I believe, when we talked about the book.

That's why I believe they're actual Church.

Julianne Moore. I would rather you be hot or cold, but not lukewarm. And that's what most of the churches in America have in common.

He thinks the seven churches are seven distinct types of churches that we have in our church could find herself. Why Prince is the first church in Revelation? Is alert. The church in Ephesus. Every Church except for the last two. Says, I have something that you've done positive and I have something you've done - he does it all throughout the Book of Revelation in those, Stephen Curry. Except for the last two, he says something positive about the 6th church, and he said something.

what he says in the Book of Revelation for the, Church of God.

You forgotten your first love. What's the first one?

Have we gotten so far? That we do not allow the Comfort level in this church, or any church to be. So that we're just comfortable with our current people to come here. That come here, but we're not opening the doors and open our hearts to come into us and be part of the family of God.

We open the doors of our church to Sinners that needs a savior regardless of their lifestyle. We hated to do that. For the third thing. I want to come. When I reveal to you today. For life. Lesson is their gods. God responds to a retentive part. Did you notice a diversion and Godfather works and they turn from your evil ways? And God relented that from his disaster that he needs his hometown and they said he did not do it. I'm sorry.

Did they turn from their evil ways? And God religion from the disaster that he had said he would bring it on down and he did not do it. God relented gone release.

Just like the Book of Revelations. Is it God? The Lord holds the churches in his hand? And those are effectively when people to Christ they're growing and those that are not, they're closing. And I think person, during this time of covid-19 is weeding out. The curs in the weeds, the church. Are you going to stand for me? Are you not understand when you? Are you going to make me or you not going to stand from you? And those that have no faith goes to have no backbone to stand on the word of God are dying quickly. We need to stand on God's word.

God responds to a repentant heart, but I want to share with you too, because it's about to be in your mind here today, but limited. But we know the Bible says in Romans 8:37.

Well God didn't change his mind in that like you said in the sense. I was realizing he made a mistake or backpacking or trying a new track. God doesn't mean that God gave them the command 40 days and none of us will be overturned. He gave him a conditional clause, which stated no, and it's pretty interesting that even the king.

Maybe if we. Maybe God will save us.

They weren't given any, we don't, we don't see it. But yet. He did that. And this is what they call. He was sticking condition upon the Syrian response. We know this because he is serious, serious repented, and God did not, in fact, me down. Did not change his mind, rather his message in there, but was one

And his warning was sick.

Going to change his mind.

He? Allow the MB to repent and turn to work in.

My heart says it today. Be honest with you more than it has been all week. And I'm almost out of here. Take my stomach because of what's happening with our country. What's happening with the C4? You know, we have to stand up on the word of God that you might not be strong and God's word. That's okay. But if you learn a few things about God, if you read the Bible a little bit because you don't read the Bible in the Bible where you can approach it. And praise God for it.

Hold on to it. Don't let anybody talk you out of it. God says his word for God. So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. That whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Hey man, this is not a promise. We can all hold on to him today.

You might say, I don't know.

Diamond cross. So that I can have eternal life. The Bay song?

I need look. Also in that chapter, what might I do.

Amen. I realize this week. I'm doing some research on our church and where our church is going, what's been doing the last 10 years and Is this like a light came on to me? And I realized where the troubles were coming, because what I'm doing is not Wonder.

Let me share with you a second. My mission. Mission is to win, Sinners to himself. To be given a chance to respond to his message and get right with God before. It's too late. Now, the pictures I've been involved in. What's happened is usually a preacher preaches. A message. There's conviction. Did he walks down? And He makes himself available to anybody. That would want to respond. Today, not tomorrow. Push it off.

You're by yourself. I've also seen singing preachers of get down there and

And they pray.

I realized when I was doing. This trip hasn't been done.

You know, I'm I'm looking to see, okay? And Linda's doing.

In Last 5 Years.

How many people is it?

How are you sleeping, good messages or are we not preaching for decision?

If we bow down now to bills like she for you might as well just close the door of this church. Where are you going to stand? Are you going to stand on God's word and his promises of eternal life. Are you not going to stand for it? There's a decision that we have.

I've just been really, really wanted to share with you. That. I know, I do things. Here are a little different. Then, maybe you're familiar with weather weather was packed here or Bob, or doctor, Koozie, or whatever. You're familiar with work or been with. But my mission here is to free the inerrant infallible word of the Living God, and to preach it in such a way for a decision to be made for you to have eternal life. If you were here today, and you said brother, I'm a Christian. I can pay you back in 1987. I gave my heart to Jesus Christ as a youth camp. That's fine. Did my job here day is it help you walk one step closer to the Lord and walked one step closer and then one step closer. Because we're not perfect. We all suffer. We all make stupid, stupid decisions. But you know, if you're good babe, you don't know. Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Wipe your sins as white as snow. Isaiah 1:18 says it this way. Come now, let us reason. Together says the Lord, though, your sins be as Scarlet. They shall be as white as snow.

If you don't know, Jesus Christ, the savior. Today.

Dear father, praise you and thank you for your word and praise you, and thank you for your Holy Spirit. We praise you, and thank you for everything you're doing in our life and it like this church lower. we have gotten their eyes off, you, and we've gotten our

All right. Play by this world. Lord, I praise you and I thank you that you give us your word that you would allow us to study, has to know that, I will know that direction in our life. Lord, I can say is that the spirit work on the the hearts those that are here in this church today, Lord be with them. Give them wisdom. That the words that I spoke today, weird, but yours. Lower than the station. Did they have to make whether they're going to be stronger in their walk with God?

But you would give him strength to do. So. It's difficult for me to understand in this is this season days is going to be harder and harder. And harder will be called names and childish things, because we just happen to believe the Bible is true.

The Lord give us strength to hold onto your word, hold onto your promises.

It was spring floor to grow closer as a family of Believers here, Bethlehem. Help us to reach out to run, say, friends family, before it's too late.

How much did white people to hear the word of God?

In Jesus, precious name and where his sing?

We're going to have a invitation.