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Jordan Easley - Powerful Prayers - Jonah

July 27, 2025 | S E | 28:30

Jordan Easley - Powerful Prayers - Jonah
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All In with Jordan Easley | Jordan Easley - Powerful Prayers - Jonah | July 27, 2025
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  • Male announcer: this episode of "all in" with pastor
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  • Jordan easley has been made possible by
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  • The generous support of viewers like you.
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  • Welcome to "all in" with pastor jordan easley.
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  • Today's message is about to begin, and we
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  • Invite you to prepare your heart and mind to hear
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  • An inspiring message from god's word.
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  • We hope and pray for god to speak to you today as you seek
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  • To live your life all in for jesus christ.
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  • And now from first baptist church in cleveland,
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  • Tennessee, here is pastor jordan easley.
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  • Pastor jordan: i learned a new term this
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  • Week, and i want to share it with you.
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  • In fact, if you're taking notes, you might wanna write it down
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  • 'cause perhaps you've never even heard this before.
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  • The term is illusory superiority.
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  • Illusory superiority.
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  • Lemme tell you what this means.
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  • It's a condition that elevates the ego and it leads a person to
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  • Cognitively overestimate their own abilities.
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  • It's something in our brain that tells us
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  • That we're better than we actually are.
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  • I think i've met several adults in my life who are former
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  • Athletes who currently suffer from illusory superiority
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  • Because it seems like as i'm talking to people, they always
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  • Claim to have been a great athlete back in the day.
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  • Do you know any adults like that?
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  • We're like, "no, trust me, i was awesome," right?
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  • It's like the further we get from that time
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  • In our life, the greater the legend grows and
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  • The better we become in our own minds.
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  • Now, i do realize some of y'all were actually good, some of us
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  • Were great athletes back in the day.
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  • Those days for me, unfortunately,
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  • Were elementary school.
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  • Can i get a witness? anybody else?
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  • In elementary school, i was a good athlete.
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  • I really was until this one day something happened.
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  • In fact, in my whole school, it's like
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  • Something started spreading around my school.
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  • People were getting infected by this thing that really messed
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  • Everything up, it was called puberty, right?
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  • And puberty messed up my athletic game in major ways.
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  • Before that happened, i promise you, no one in
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  • My school could throw a football like i could.
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  • There was no one in my school who could compete athletically.
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  • There was no one that was faster than i was.
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  • And there for a moment, in about the fifth grade, i honestly
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  • Believed in my own heart, in my own mind, that i was one of the
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  • Greatest athletes in the entire world.
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  • Anybody else peak athletically in the fifth grade?
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  • Anyone?
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  • I did, and i really did think i was
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  • Amazing when i was in the fifth grade.
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  • There was a moment around there in that season
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  • Where my dad recognized my overconfidence.
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  • He recognized my arrogance, and he pulled me aside one day, and
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  • We had a conversation, just my dad and i, and i'll never forget
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  • The words that he spoke to me as a young man.
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  • He said, "son, i want you to remember this.
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  • No matter how smart you are, there will
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  • Always be someone that's smarter."
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  • He said, "no matter how strong you are, there
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  • Will always be someone that is stronger."
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  • And then he said, "no matter how fast you are,
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  • There will always be someone that's faster."
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  • And as it turns out, my dad was exactly right.
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  • When i think about jonah in the bible, i think he was a man that
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  • Suffered from illusory superiority.
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  • He had an elevated ego, and he obviously thought that his
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  • Abilities were greater than they actually were.
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  • And the reason i say that is because jonah in the bible was a
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  • Man that decided he was going to run away from god.
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  • He was a man that decided that he could outrun god.
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  • And we know that that's not--it's not possible.
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  • You know that, right?
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  • Open your bibles, if you will, and
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  • Join me in jonah chapter 1 today.
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  • We're gonna look at the story of jonah and
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  • We're gonna insert ourselves in this story because
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  • We in many ways are just like him.
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  • You know, that name jonah, it means dove.
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  • But we know that jonah wasn't a bird, he was a man that was
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  • Called by god, he was a prophet of god and he was called to one
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  • Of the most wicked cities in the entire world
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  • At that time in history, a city called nineveh.
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  • It was the capital city of assyria.
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  • And the bible says in jonah chapter 1, "the word of the lord
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  • Came to jonah, son of amittai, 'get up, go to the great city
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  • Of nineveh and preach against it because
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  • Their evil has come up before me.'
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  • Jonah got up to flee to tarshish from the lord's presence."
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  • I want you to notice from this text
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  • That god called the messenger.
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  • He called the messenger, but when god called the
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  • Messenger, the messenger refused the call.
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  • Jonah rejected the call of god on his life.
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  • We can relate to that, can't we?
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  • How many of you have ever rejected
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  • A phone call in your life?
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  • You know what i'm talking about.
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  • When your phone buzzes and you look down to
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  • See who's calling, and as soon as you read that name,
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  • It's like it doesn't take you a split second.
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  • And in that split second, after glancing
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  • At the name, what do you do?
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  • You hit the red button instead of the green button.
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  • Anybody done that today? hello?
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  • We reject the call all the time.
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  • Have you ever rejected a call instead of accepted a call?
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  • Of course, you have, and that's messed up,
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  • But as messed up as that is, check it out.
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  • What jonah did was way more messed up than that
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  • Because jonah didn't just refuse the call,
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  • No, jonah did something way worse.
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  • He accepted the call, he answered the phone, he heard
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  • God's voice on the other line, he received
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  • Clear instructions from god on what he was supposed
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  • To do and where he was supposed to go.
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  • And yet we read because of his selfishness, because of his
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  • Bias, because of his personal rebellion, he chose
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  • To hang up the phone and run in the opposite
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  • Direction of where god was telling him to go.
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  • Verse 3 says, "he went down to joppa
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  • And found a ship going to tarshish.
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  • He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to
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  • Tarshish from the lord's presence."
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  • Joppa is a port city, a port city with
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  • Over 7,000 years of recorded history.
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  • Today it's known as joffa, joffa, and today i've been to
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  • That exact same port south of tel aviv.
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  • And so it's really easy for me to imagine going
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  • To this port and seeing all the boats that
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  • Would've been lined up in the day of jonah.
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  • Today you can go and you'll still see hundreds of fishing
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  • Boats that are leaving the harbor every single day.
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  • So just put yourself in that picture.
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  • You see jonah arriving at this dock knowing
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  • That god was calling him to go to this way.
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  • He was saying, "go this way, jonah.
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  • Go this way."
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  • And yet you can imagine knowing the clear direction from god on
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  • His heart, you can imagine jonah showing up and he's bartering
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  • With all the different captains of all the different ships.
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  • And he's knowing god's sending me this way and he's saying,
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  • "boys, what will it take for you to take me this way?
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  • God wants me to go this way.
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  • I wanna go this way."
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  • Jonah thought he could outrun god.
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  • He had an elevated perception of his own abilities, but he
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  • Quickly discovered that i may be fast, but
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  • There will always be someone that's faster.
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  • I wanna show you something that's really
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  • Important for us to know today personally, what we
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  • Need to know from this text today, and that is this.
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  • As children of god that are living with the spirit of god,
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  • We are called to have the mind of god.
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  • And i want us to unpack what this looks like, but i want us
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  • To process what this means as children of god.
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  • If you're a child of god, check that box, that's me.
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  • If you're living with the spirit of god
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  • And you say, "man, that is me.
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  • I've been changed and transformed by god."
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  • We are called to have the mind of god.
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  • In 1 corinthians 2:16, it says,
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  • "but we have the mind of christ."
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  • It's talking to believers.
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  • We have the mind of christ.
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  • In philippians 2:5, paul tells us that we should
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  • Have the same mindset as christ jesus.
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  • And once again, in romans chapter 12,
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  • Verse 2, he tells us, "be transformed."
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  • He doesn't say be informed.
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  • He's talking to those of us who are in christ.
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  • And he said, "be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
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  • You say, "why is that so important?"
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  • He said, "so that," here's the payoff.
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  • "so that you may discern what is the
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  • Good pleasing and perfect will of god."
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  • You get it?
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  • What that tells me is this, i can't know the will
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  • Of god and i cannot live in the will of god
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  • Until my mind is transformed by god.
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  • Do you get it?
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  • I can't know his will, i can't live in his will
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  • Until god does something in my mind.
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  • He says it over and over and over again.
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  • He said, "if i'm gonna walk with god in obedience,
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  • Then my mind has to resemble his mind.
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  • And the truth is, when my mind resembles his mind, my decisions
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  • Will then bless his name and they will honor god."
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  • They will honor god.
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  • Jonah's primary problem was that he didn't
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  • Have god's mind, he had his own mind.
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  • He wasn't thinking god's thoughts.
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  • He had his own thoughts, he had his own
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  • Goals, he had his own priorities.
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  • And when you look at it, all of those things led him to pave his
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  • Own path, and that path was one of rebellion against god's plan.
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  • When we fail to have god's mind,
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  • We will fail to follow god's path.
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  • I'm gonna say that again.
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  • When we fail to have god's mind, we will
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  • Completely fail to follow god's path.
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  • Jonah didn't see things like god saw them and his selfish mind
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  • Led him to making a sinful decision.
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  • You see that?
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  • He decided to disobey god and notice his disobedience resulted
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  • In jonah heading in the wrong direction.
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  • Be honest today, how many of you have been there before?
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  • You don't have to raise your hand,
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  • But i want you to think about it.
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  • How many of you have hung up on god?
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  • You said, "god, no thanks.
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  • No thanks.
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  • My plans are better than your plans.
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  • I know what you say, but i'm not gonna listen to that.
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  • I know what your plans read, but i don't have to obey that."
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  • We hear god has a plan for sexuality and purity.
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  • How many of us have said in our life, "no, thanks god, i got
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  • Another way that sounds a lot more fun."
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  • How many of us have heard that god has a plan for giving and
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  • Generosity, and you think, "no, you know what?
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  • My selfishness is leading me to keep the money that i have."
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  • God has a plan for serving or sharing your
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  • Faith with other people and you think, "man,
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  • I don't really feel like doing that."
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  • God has a plan for discipling your kids and teaching your
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  • Children the word of god and we think, "nah,
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  • Listen, there's people at the church, i'll just
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  • Drop 'em off and let somebody else do that."
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  • There's a whole long list of all of these
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  • Things that we know god has a plan for.
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  • He has a plan and he's communicated
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  • His plan in his word.
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  • And there are sometimes where even we decide to forego his
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  • Plans and do our own things instead
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  • In disobedience, and that's what jonah did.
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  • He rebelled against god, against his plan,
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  • Against his purpose, against his priorities.
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  • And in his rebellion, i want you
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  • To see his pride and disobedience.
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  • His pride and his disobedience put him in opposition to god.
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  • I'm gonna say it again.
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  • His pride and disobedience put him in opposition to god.
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  • How many of you wanna be on god's team?
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  • How many of you wanna be against god, in an opposition to god?
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  • No, if you're raising your hand, you're crazy.
  • 00:11:41.483 --> 00:11:44.185
  • And yet the bible says that that is
  • 00:11:44.185 --> 00:11:45.854
  • A reality if there is pride in your heart.
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  • Pride and disobedience put jonah in opposition to god.
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  • James 4:6 says, "god opposes the proud,
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  • But gives grace to the humble."
  • 00:11:57.432 --> 00:11:59.667
  • It's pride that says, "my way is better than god's way."
  • 00:11:59.667 --> 00:12:03.705
  • It's pride that says, "i've got a better plan than god's plan."
  • 00:12:03.705 --> 00:12:07.342
  • And yet the pride of jonah led to the disobedience of jonah,
  • 00:12:07.342 --> 00:12:10.712
  • And his disobedience put him in opposition to god.
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  • Let's personalize this today, thinking about your own life,
  • 00:12:15.116 --> 00:12:18.353
  • Thinking about your own actions, thinking about the decisions
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  • You're making, the life that you're living in this moment in
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  • Time, not today or not later today or even tomorrow, but
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  • Right now in this moment, are you in opposition to god,
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  • Or are you in partnership with god?
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  • Are you in opposition to him because of the pride in your
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  • Life, because of the decisions you're making,
  • 00:12:38.373 --> 00:12:40.175
  • Because you're fleeing his presence?
  • 00:12:40.175 --> 00:12:42.477
  • Or are you in partnership with god, locked up
  • 00:12:42.477 --> 00:12:44.612
  • With god, fully surrender to god saying, "god,
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  • Everything i have belongs to you.
  • 00:12:46.981 --> 00:12:49.684
  • I wanna walk with you and live for you and follow you and make
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  • A difference for you and to build your kingdom."
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  • Are you walking with him or are you in opposition to him?
  • 00:12:55.023 --> 00:12:58.393
  • And i ask the question that way because you can't be both.
  • 00:12:58.393 --> 00:13:01.930
  • In the first part of this story, jonah was in opposition to god,
  • 00:13:01.930 --> 00:13:06.901
  • And yet, may i encourage you with something today?
  • 00:13:06.901 --> 00:13:09.671
  • Even when jonah was in opposition to god,
  • 00:13:09.671 --> 00:13:11.973
  • Running away from god, disobeying god.
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  • Can i show you something that's pretty cool?
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  • God opened up a window of grace, a window of grace.
  • 00:13:16.945 --> 00:13:21.716
  • Notice it wasn't like god came down and spanked jonah in those
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  • First moments of him defying god.
  • 00:13:25.653 --> 00:13:28.156
  • He didn't come down like a lightning bolt and take
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  • Him out right in the first few moments.
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  • No, what happened? you know what happened?
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  • God gave him time.
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  • God gave him time to think.
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  • God gave him time to act.
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  • God gave him time to make plans.
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  • God gave him time to determine his next step,
  • 00:13:44.539 --> 00:13:47.742
  • His next step, and his next step.
  • 00:13:47.742 --> 00:13:51.012
  • And the bible goes on to show us that in that moment of grace,
  • 00:13:51.012 --> 00:13:54.749
  • That window of grace that god graciously
  • 00:13:54.749 --> 00:13:57.752
  • Allowed him to experience, you know what?
  • 00:13:57.752 --> 00:13:59.954
  • Jonah still got on a boat and he head in the wrong direction.
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  • Read verse 4.
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  • "but the lord threw a great wind onto the sea, and such a great
  • 00:14:06.494 --> 00:14:09.597
  • Storm arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break apart.
  • 00:14:09.597 --> 00:14:13.268
  • The sailors were afraid and each cried out to his god.
  • 00:14:13.268 --> 00:14:16.437
  • They threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten the load and
  • 00:14:16.437 --> 00:14:19.374
  • Meanwhile, jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel
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  • And had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.
  • 00:14:23.811 --> 00:14:27.482
  • The captain approached him and said,
  • 00:14:27.482 --> 00:14:29.284
  • 'what are you doing sound asleep?
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  • Get up, call to your god.
  • 00:14:30.885 --> 00:14:32.854
  • Maybe this god will consider us and we won't perish.'"
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  • I want you to imagine this scene with me today as the men
  • 00:14:36.090 --> 00:14:39.727
  • On the ship figured out what was going on.
  • 00:14:39.727 --> 00:14:42.330
  • They're looking for jonah, and they find him.
  • 00:14:42.330 --> 00:14:44.165
  • And what is he doing?
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  • He's stretched out, he's crashed, man.
  • 00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:47.702
  • He's taking a nap, and they put it it all together.
  • 00:14:47.702 --> 00:14:50.638
  • They're like, "hey, this guy is the problem.
  • 00:14:50.638 --> 00:14:53.007
  • He is running away from god."
  • 00:14:53.007 --> 00:14:55.410
  • And yet the bible tells us that these men were terrified.
  • 00:14:55.410 --> 00:14:59.180
  • Keep reading verse 10, it says, "then the men were seized by a
  • 00:14:59.180 --> 00:15:02.483
  • Great fear and said to him, 'what have you done?'"
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  • The men knew he was fleeing from the lord's presence.
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  • Why? because he told them.
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  • Man, don't miss that.
  • 00:15:13.962 --> 00:15:15.596
  • You say, how did these men know that
  • 00:15:15.596 --> 00:15:16.931
  • He was fleeing the lord's presence?
  • 00:15:16.931 --> 00:15:18.700
  • How do they know he was in disobedience
  • 00:15:18.700 --> 00:15:20.435
  • To the lord's commands?
  • 00:15:20.435 --> 00:15:21.836
  • This is it. because he told them.
  • 00:15:21.836 --> 00:15:24.572
  • He's like telling 'em straight up, "hey guys,
  • 00:15:24.572 --> 00:15:26.374
  • What are you--what are y'all doing?
  • 00:15:26.374 --> 00:15:27.709
  • You know what i'm doing?
  • 00:15:27.709 --> 00:15:29.043
  • I'm running away from god. that's what i'm doing right now.
  • 00:15:29.043 --> 00:15:31.646
  • I'm leaving god, i'm doing--i'm living in disobedience to god."
  • 00:15:31.646 --> 00:15:35.083
  • Listen, jonah knew better, he was a prophet.
  • 00:15:35.083 --> 00:15:38.953
  • He knew better and yet the bible tells us
  • 00:15:38.953 --> 00:15:41.255
  • He ran away from god anyways.
  • 00:15:41.255 --> 00:15:43.157
  • He ran away from god.
  • 00:15:43.157 --> 00:15:45.960
  • Jonah knew he was in rebellion.
  • 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:49.330
  • So he had to come to a place where he
  • 00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:51.199
  • Recognized his own rebellion.
  • 00:15:51.199 --> 00:15:54.402
  • But you know what he did once he recognized it?
  • 00:15:54.402 --> 00:15:57.238
  • He repented from it.
  • 00:15:57.238 --> 00:15:59.340
  • He repented from his sin.
  • 00:15:59.340 --> 00:16:02.310
  • There's a point in his story where he said, "you know what?
  • 00:16:02.310 --> 00:16:04.846
  • The trajectory of my life has to change.
  • 00:16:04.846 --> 00:16:08.583
  • The trajectory of my life has to change.
  • 00:16:08.649 --> 00:16:11.152
  • And instead of me looking this way,"
  • 00:16:11.152 --> 00:16:14.355
  • He said, "i'm gonna look to your temple."
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  • He said, "i'm looking to you."
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  • Not only did he repent from his sin.
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  • I want want you to see he remembered who he was.
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  • He remembered who he belonged to.
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  • The other verse says, "i remembered
  • 00:16:27.235 --> 00:16:29.470
  • The lord and my prayer came to you."
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  • Man, before that moment, he wasn't
  • 00:16:33.908 --> 00:16:35.243
  • Thinking about god, he wasn't talking about god.
  • 00:16:35.243 --> 00:16:37.678
  • The only thing he was doing is running away from god.
  • 00:16:37.678 --> 00:16:41.115
  • And yet as a part of his repentance, he remembered
  • 00:16:41.115 --> 00:16:44.018
  • Who he belonged to, he remembered his purpose,
  • 00:16:44.018 --> 00:16:47.255
  • He remembered that god had a great plan for his life.
  • 00:16:47.255 --> 00:16:51.392
  • And in that remembrance, check this out, he also returned to
  • 00:16:51.392 --> 00:16:54.128
  • His father, not just geographically, but he returned.
  • 00:16:54.128 --> 00:16:58.332
  • His heart returned to god where he was
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  • Able to say, "god, i belong to you.
  • 00:17:01.903 --> 00:17:04.338
  • I am your servant.
  • 00:17:04.338 --> 00:17:06.607
  • The purpose of my life is to serve you and to make
  • 00:17:06.607 --> 00:17:09.143
  • Much of you and to obey you in my life."
  • 00:17:09.143 --> 00:17:11.946
  • The remedy for rebellion was repentance.
  • 00:17:11.946 --> 00:17:16.084
  • And lemme tell you something else
  • 00:17:16.084 --> 00:17:17.418
  • That's pretty cool about repentance.
  • 00:17:17.418 --> 00:17:19.153
  • Repentance in and of itself is something god
  • 00:17:19.153 --> 00:17:21.189
  • Uses to open up windows of grace.
  • 00:17:21.189 --> 00:17:25.893
  • I've heard people throughout the years say, "which came first?
  • 00:17:25.893 --> 00:17:28.096
  • The chicken or the egg?"
  • 00:17:28.096 --> 00:17:29.931
  • And in the same way you could say, which came first?
  • 00:17:29.931 --> 00:17:33.367
  • Was it repentance or was it grace?
  • 00:17:33.367 --> 00:17:36.404
  • Well, in jonah's story, when you read it closely,
  • 00:17:36.404 --> 00:17:38.372
  • You'll see that grace led to jonah's repentance,
  • 00:17:38.372 --> 00:17:42.743
  • And yet repentance led to god's grace.
  • 00:17:42.743 --> 00:17:46.781
  • God provided windows of grace on both sides of jonah's rebellion.
  • 00:17:46.781 --> 00:17:52.987
  • Jonah was running in rebellion away from god.
  • 00:17:52.987 --> 00:17:56.057
  • What happened? god gave him a moment.
  • 00:17:56.057 --> 00:17:57.525
  • He gave him a window of grace.
  • 00:17:57.525 --> 00:17:59.594
  • God said, "in this moment, you get to
  • 00:17:59.594 --> 00:18:01.395
  • Decide which way are you gonna go?
  • 00:18:01.395 --> 00:18:04.165
  • What's the next step?
  • 00:18:04.165 --> 00:18:05.500
  • What is the trajectory of your life gonna be?
  • 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:07.368
  • You can choose me, you can choose your own path."
  • 00:18:07.368 --> 00:18:10.872
  • He chose the wrong path and he ran away from god.
  • 00:18:10.872 --> 00:18:14.475
  • Well, then he found himself in the
  • 00:18:14.475 --> 00:18:15.810
  • Consequences from his sin, right?
  • 00:18:15.810 --> 00:18:17.578
  • The god who called him was the god who corrected him, and yet
  • 00:18:17.578 --> 00:18:20.848
  • He experienced consequences and god cried out, or god was--he
  • 00:18:20.848 --> 00:18:25.486
  • Was there when jonah cried out from the belly of the well and
  • 00:18:25.486 --> 00:18:28.089
  • He heard the cries of jonah, and what happened?
  • 00:18:28.089 --> 00:18:30.858
  • As he repented from his rebellion, god
  • 00:18:30.858 --> 00:18:34.495
  • Opened up another window of grace.
  • 00:18:34.495 --> 00:18:37.131
  • Only this time the window of grace, it resulted in a gag
  • 00:18:37.131 --> 00:18:40.268
  • Reflex that gave him another opportunity to return to god and
  • 00:18:40.268 --> 00:18:44.505
  • Do exactly what god had called him to do.
  • 00:18:44.505 --> 00:18:47.842
  • You get to chapter 3, it says, "the word of the
  • 00:18:47.842 --> 00:18:49.443
  • Lord came to jonah a second time.
  • 00:18:49.443 --> 00:18:51.312
  • 'get up, go to the great city of nineveh and
  • 00:18:51.312 --> 00:18:54.048
  • Preach the message that i tell you.'"
  • 00:18:54.048 --> 00:18:55.816
  • Verse 3, "jonah got up and went to
  • 00:18:55.816 --> 00:18:57.952
  • Nineveh according to the lord's command."
  • 00:18:57.952 --> 00:19:01.455
  • Seeing god heard the prayer of jonah and he chose
  • 00:19:01.455 --> 00:19:05.226
  • In his mercy and he chose in his grace to
  • 00:19:05.226 --> 00:19:09.830
  • Give him one more shot at obedience.
  • 00:19:09.830 --> 00:19:13.768
  • He's like, "yeah, one more shot."
  • 00:19:13.768 --> 00:19:16.337
  • And the bible says jonah did what the lord asked him to do.
  • 00:19:16.337 --> 00:19:21.442
  • Today may be your one shot.
  • 00:19:21.442 --> 00:19:27.949
  • Today may be your one shot, and perhaps today is the day where
  • 00:19:27.949 --> 00:19:32.587
  • God is giving you a window of grace.
  • 00:19:32.587 --> 00:19:36.657
  • He's given you a moment in time, and he's saying,
  • 00:19:36.657 --> 00:19:40.428
  • "which way are you going to run?"
  • 00:19:40.428 --> 00:19:43.497
  • Today you have to decide which way you're gonna run.
  • 00:19:43.497 --> 00:19:46.300
  • You have a moment of grace, a moment of time.
  • 00:19:46.300 --> 00:19:48.636
  • You get one minute, you get one hour, you get one day
  • 00:19:48.636 --> 00:19:52.573
  • To decide where is my next step gonna be?
  • 00:19:52.573 --> 00:19:55.042
  • What is my next decision gonna look like?
  • 00:19:55.042 --> 00:19:57.678
  • What is the trajectory of my life gonna look like from now
  • 00:19:57.678 --> 00:20:00.948
  • Until the day i go into eternity?
  • 00:20:00.948 --> 00:20:03.384
  • And guess what? you're going.
  • 00:20:03.384 --> 00:20:06.420
  • This may be our one moment.
  • 00:20:06.420 --> 00:20:09.523
  • Which way are you gonna run?
  • 00:20:09.523 --> 00:20:12.593
  • You're gonna continue to run away in rebellion
  • 00:20:12.593 --> 00:20:16.030
  • Or you're gonna return to the father and you're
  • 00:20:16.030 --> 00:20:17.698
  • Going to run to jesus and repentance?
  • 00:20:17.698 --> 00:20:22.136
  • You know, jesus talked a lot about repentance.
  • 00:20:22.136 --> 00:20:25.339
  • That word repentance is listed 21 times in the bible.
  • 00:20:25.339 --> 00:20:28.943
  • The word repent is 39 times.
  • 00:20:28.943 --> 00:20:31.145
  • Repented is nine times, repentance is five times.
  • 00:20:31.145 --> 00:20:33.781
  • I mean, you see a history, a long repetition of
  • 00:20:33.781 --> 00:20:37.685
  • Repentance in the mouth of jesus.
  • 00:20:37.685 --> 00:20:40.554
  • He talks about repenting over and over and over again.
  • 00:20:40.554 --> 00:20:46.560
  • And yet when you think about revival and what
  • 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:49.830
  • That looks like for us, listen, we know before revival
  • 00:20:49.830 --> 00:20:52.800
  • Happens out there, it's gotta happen in here.
  • 00:20:52.800 --> 00:20:56.170
  • And yet, you know what this story reminds me of?
  • 00:20:56.170 --> 00:20:59.240
  • It reminds me of the fact that repentance
  • 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.575
  • Is a prerequisite for personal revival.
  • 00:21:01.575 --> 00:21:05.479
  • You say, "man, i want god to do something in my life right now.
  • 00:21:05.479 --> 00:21:08.349
  • I want god to do something in my story, in my marriage, in my
  • 00:21:08.349 --> 00:21:10.918
  • Family, through my kids, in my church, in this community,
  • 00:21:10.918 --> 00:21:14.588
  • Through my business, using my influence.
  • 00:21:14.588 --> 00:21:16.657
  • I want personal revival." can i say it again?
  • 00:21:16.657 --> 00:21:19.660
  • Repentance is a prerequisite for personal revival.
  • 00:21:19.660 --> 00:21:25.733
  • So may i ask you this question?
  • 00:21:25.733 --> 00:21:27.968
  • In this window of time, in this window of
  • 00:21:27.968 --> 00:21:31.172
  • Time, which way are you gonna run?
  • 00:21:31.172 --> 00:21:36.243
  • Are we gonna run in rebellion or are we gonna
  • 00:21:36.243 --> 00:21:39.547
  • Run in repentance and return to the father?
  • 00:21:39.547 --> 00:21:44.318
  • I think god's given us this moment, this moment to decide.
  • 00:21:44.318 --> 00:21:50.358
  • Would you bow your heads?
  • 00:21:50.358 --> 00:21:52.226
  • Hey, let's just spend a moment with him.
  • 00:21:52.226 --> 00:21:54.028
  • Nobody moving around, nobody thinking about anything that
  • 00:21:54.028 --> 00:21:57.264
  • Happens in the next few minutes, i just want us to
  • 00:21:57.264 --> 00:22:00.735
  • Sit in this moment for one second.
  • 00:22:00.735 --> 00:22:05.272
  • This is your altar moment today.
  • 00:22:05.272 --> 00:22:10.177
  • This isn't just business as usual,
  • 00:22:10.177 --> 00:22:14.715
  • I want you to insert yourself in the story.
  • 00:22:14.715 --> 00:22:18.652
  • Insert yourself in this story and say, "god, in this moment,
  • 00:22:18.652 --> 00:22:24.291
  • This is what you're putting on my heart.
  • 00:22:24.291 --> 00:22:28.295
  • Highlight the areas of rebellion in my life.
  • 00:22:28.295 --> 00:22:34.034
  • Highlight those areas that look nothing like you."
  • 00:22:34.034 --> 00:22:40.441
  • Ask yourself, do i have the mind of god right now?
  • 00:22:40.441 --> 00:22:44.578
  • Do my--does my mind look like his mind?
  • 00:22:44.578 --> 00:22:46.313
  • Do my thoughts resemble his thoughts?
  • 00:22:46.313 --> 00:22:48.048
  • Do my priorities look like his priorities?
  • 00:22:48.048 --> 00:22:50.317
  • Am i fully surrendered to god or not?
  • 00:22:50.317 --> 00:22:57.191
  • If you're not, would you run to the father today?
  • 00:22:57.191 --> 00:23:01.162
  • Would you run to the father with a heart of repentance,
  • 00:23:01.162 --> 00:23:05.433
  • Completely surrendered, yielding to his leadership in your life?
  • 00:23:05.433 --> 00:23:10.604
  • Listen, god may be giving you this window of grace, and that
  • 00:23:10.604 --> 00:23:14.775
  • Window is not going to last forever.
  • 00:23:14.775 --> 00:23:20.648
  • And yet you don't have to find yourself in the
  • 00:23:20.648 --> 00:23:22.683
  • Belly of a whale before you turn to the father.
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  • You can decide right now before you experience
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  • The consequences that are coming.
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  • You can decide right now, god, i don't need to experience
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  • Consequences to turn to you, you've opened my eyes.
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  • I choose today to point my life at
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  • Your life, my heart at your heart.
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  • I surrender to you, jesus.
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  • Father, how powerful would it be if we
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  • Were fully surrendered to you?
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  • God, i pray that as we identify the areas in our life that have
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  • Got to change, i pray that you would draw close to us, that
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  • Your presence would be made known in our lives that we would
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  • See and experience you in a real way.
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  • And god, i pray that we won't just sweep this under the rug.
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  • We know that every time we read the word of god,
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  • That it demands a response from our life.
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  • And so, god, i pray for those in this room
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  • And those watching this right now.
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  • God, i pray that every single person that is contemplating the
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  • Reality of their own existence on planet earth, as they
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  • Consider the trajectory of their lives and where they're headed
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  • And the things that they're doing, and if they honor you or
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  • Not, god, i pray that you would highlight the things in our life
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  • That need to be addressed as we are reminded that you are
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  • Still--you are still addressing those things yourself.
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  • And so god help us, help us to take this seriously, to give you
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  • The things that we need to lay down.
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  • In jesus's name we pray, amen.
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  • Pastor jordan: as christians, prayer is a powerful tool that
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  • Can help us navigate a world that can be very challenging.
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  • By studying the prayers of biblical characters, we see how
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  • Prayer is essential for finding strength and difficult
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  • Circumstances and also staying connected to god in a world that
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  • May lead us astray.
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  • I'm pastor jordan easley, and i wanna challenge and equip you to
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  • Enhance your prayer life by simply requesting a free copy of
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  • The "powerful prayer guide."
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  • Inspired by my message series entitled "powerful prayers,"
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  • This guide is crafted to deepen your relationship with god
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  • Empowering you to tackle life's toughest challenges with grace,
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  • Peace, and joy.
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  • This guide is completely free from our ministry and comes with
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  • No obligations.
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  • As you walk through this guide, i humbly ask your prayers for me
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  • And our ministry as we strive to spread the gospel globally.
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  • While our broadcast industry is new, we believe in the power of
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  • Television to reach hearts with god's word and your prayers mean
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  • The world to me as i prepare to share a message from the bible
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  • Every single week.
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  • While we appreciate any financial support for our
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  • Ministry, your prayers are truly invaluable.
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  • Thank you for tuning in today.
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  • Please know that i am praying for you and all of our "all in"
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  • Friends, and i sincerely hope that this prayer guide
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  • Will elevate your prayer life.
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  • Pastor jordan: hey, we never wanna end our broadcast
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  • Without giving you the opportunity
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  • To know jesus as your personal lord and savior.
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  • If you'd like to make the decision to trust jesus
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  • And wanna know more about what it looks like to follow jesus,
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  • Get in touch with me right now, follow the instructions
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  • At the bottom of the screen so that we can pray for you
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  • And also put information in your hands right away.
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  • Today, we celebrate your decision and look forward
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  • To being a part of your personal journey
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  • Of going all in with jesus christ.
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  • Female announcer: this episode of "all in" with pastor
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  • Jordan easley has been made possible by
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  • The generous support of viewers like you.
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  • We hope today's message encourages you as you strive to
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  • Live your life, fully committed to jesus christ.
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