WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.119 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:13.679 We're back. 6 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:14.359 We are. 7 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:16.199 We were just here five. 8 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.359 Minutes ago when we recorded our last one, but we're 9 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.760 back today because for you, hopefully. 10 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:22.440 It's another you made it. 11 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:23.839 That's right. 12 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:25.839 We sat here in this chair all the way. We're 13 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:26.800 back all the way. 14 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.079 So today Chris is everybody's favorite segment, is it? 15 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:30.600 Yes? 16 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.560 And oh how wonderful it must be for our first 17 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.759 time listeners to join us on a day where it's 18 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.039 everybody else's favorite segment. I can only imagine how what 19 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.039 it's like for the to be their first time yes, right, 20 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.359 to experience the glory and the wonder of your outrage 21 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.920 on behalf of all the rest of us. In this segment, 22 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.600 we love to call what made Chris mad this week? 23 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.840 By the way, because you're we vicariously are angry for 24 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:00.479 the rest of us. 25 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.840 By the way, all I hear whenever you say you 26 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.159 know we delighted it is that Chris gets labeled for 27 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.480 always being mad. Well, Jeff gets labeled for being happy. No, 28 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.079 that is not because we've done what makes. 29 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.519 Jeff happy happy this week? Yeah, but not a long time. 30 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:18.560 Yeah, that's right, that's right. 31 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.239 That's not many things which she did like three weeks ago. 32 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:22.159 That's true. 33 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.359 All right, So what made me mad this week? I 34 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:26.879 only had to think about thirty seconds? 35 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.560 Yes I know, yeah, I know. 36 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.719 But something happened in the church lobby. But it doesn't 37 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.239 have anything to do with church. So here's what happens. 38 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:40.560 I'm standing there with a group of people talking with 39 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.120 like at. 40 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.840 Least four people, okay, and this person. 41 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.319 Who I don't know very well, who literally I only 42 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:47.640 met maybe. 43 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.719 Twice, comes up to me and how dare they? 44 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.640 No, no, no, that's all I'm ahead of myself. 45 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.280 And says to me, what's my name? 46 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:00.120 Oh that's a tough one? 47 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:00.840 Is what's my name? 48 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.359 A tough one? That's a tough one. 49 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.280 Come on, you should remember what's my name? 50 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.199 And I'm like, I'm like, listen, if you're going to 51 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:10.080 do that, would you first of all, not do that 52 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:10.960 in front of people? 53 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.080 Because I actually don't know these. 54 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.400 Other people very well at all, right, and so what 55 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.159 you're doing and if they were making friends, we can 56 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:19.479 maybe laugh at all, sure, but what you're doing is 57 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:19.919 you're putting. 58 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:21.159 You're making me sort. 59 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.759 Of look like I'm a pastor who doesn't care about people. Right, 60 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.159 And by the way, they don't know if I should 61 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.400 know your name. And so this person went out of 62 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.719 their way and they weren't thinking, right, they weren't thinking. 63 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.400 Probably they were just doing that. But that's just not 64 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:37.840 very nice to do to people. 65 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:38.680 On a Sunday. 66 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.919 You only shake hands or great, a few thousand people, 67 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:43.280 A few thousands. 68 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.639 By the way, that's not exaggeration, that's clearly a few 69 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.680 thousand people. So I will say hi. I won't shake 70 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.800 hands necessarily with with that many. I'll do maybe one 71 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.800 hundred and two hundred hands, but I will probably say 72 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:00.479 hi to Let's just say at least a thousand, right, personally, 73 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:01.400 I look at them in the eye. 74 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:03.400 And say, hey, how you doing, good morning? Right, at 75 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:07.039 least a thousand, and so for this person to say, 76 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.639 what's my name? What's my name? What's what? What's my name? 77 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:10.360 You should know it? 78 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:10.960 What's my name? 79 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.599 So listen, because I introduced myself to you the last 80 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.960 time I was here a month and a half ago, correct, correct, 81 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:16.840 So let. 82 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:18.000 Me tell you. Let me tell you the brilliance. 83 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.240 I hope they're listening. I hope you're listening, and you 84 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:21.199 know who we're talking about. 85 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:22.919 Yeah, you want me to? Did you want me to 86 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:23.599 go after him like that? 87 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.080 No? No, no, I do not. 88 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:25.560 I do not. 89 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.560 Okay, Well, sorry, I'm sorry this person doesn't listen to 90 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.120 the podcast because they seem a little bit new. 91 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:31.840 But they could be. They might be, they might be. 92 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:33.960 So let me tell you the brilliance of a person 93 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.520 I met that changed my world. I'm not kidding, okay, 94 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:38.919 because I give this advice to everybody ever since I 95 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.439 met this person. Okay, and uh uh wait wait uh 96 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:48.360 a brain feart. I don't remember his name. 97 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.159 You don't have to, I don't have to, You're right. 98 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.560 So let's call him Bob Johnson. Okay, okay, that's our favorite. 99 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:56.680 I remember his name. I remember his name now, but 100 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:57.280 well we're still call. 101 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.599 Him Bob Johnson. Okay, okay, so uh so let's say Bob. 102 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.360 He meets me, right, and he walks up, and. 103 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:03.919 Here's what he does. 104 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:05.479 So shake my hand. He walks up and he goes, hey, 105 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:07.479 how you do I have Bob Johnson? And he tells 106 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:09.360 me his name, and I'm like, oh good, to see it. 107 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.439 Next time I see him, he goes, Hey, how's it going, 108 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.080 Bob Johnson. I'm like, okay, And I kid you not 109 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:17.920 when I say, he must have said his name to 110 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:22.120 me thirty times, and I said, I go, why. 111 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.560 Do you do that? I know your name by now, 112 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:25.240 And he goes, Oh, it doesn't matter if you know 113 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:26.120 my name. He goes. 114 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.240 I always assume nobody knows my name, he says. And 115 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.800 I never want to make a person feel uncomfortable, So 116 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:35.560 he goes, I always just say my name, just so honestly, 117 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.680 they'll follow suit and they'll tell me their name, he goes, 118 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:41.319 Because whether I know them or see them often or not, 119 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:42.439 it doesn't matter. 120 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:42.600 He goes. 121 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.720 But I just assume that nobody knows my name. And 122 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.920 so when I get like sometimes we'll meet at like 123 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.160 eight o'clock in the morning before church starts. I'm thinking 124 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:52.639 particularly of church, right, because I deal with crowds of people, 125 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:54.759 and most of the time that's in a church setting, right, right, 126 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.759 And so we'll pray with like a group of people, 127 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.519 like all the volunteers at eight o'clock. I always say 128 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.240 to them, Hey, here's a good practice. Don't ever assume 129 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.279 anybody ever knows your name because you're not that important. 130 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:09.720 And guess what, neither am I And I'm the guy 131 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.480 on the stage, but I'm not that important and neither 132 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.439 of you. Right, So walk up to somebody and you 133 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.639 may see them every single week, but guess what, you're 134 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.240 probably bad with names. So I say, who's bad with names? 135 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.040 And it's like three fourths of the crowd raise their hands, right, 136 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.240 So why would you if you're good with names, why 137 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.399 would you ever ever assume that anybody knows your name? Right? 138 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.839 Just be patient, be kind, consider others. And so I said, 139 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:36.480 just walk up to somebody and say, hey, guys, are 140 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:37.279 going Bob Johnson. 141 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.199 So when you and I speak at Heritage, we're up 142 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.839 on those great big screens. Yes, we're on stage in 143 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:43.839 front of hundreds and hundreds and hundred of people at 144 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.399 the time. Yes, we have to do four identical services 145 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.879 on Sunday mornings and Sterling Heights to accommodate the crowds. 146 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.759 And I'm telling you that it was the two weeks 147 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.639 before Christmas? Was it two weeks before Christmas? I spoke, yeah, 148 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.040 and a lady came up to me after the service, 149 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.120 and I was just standing out in the lobby. Yeah, 150 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.560 I was greeting people. I said, hey, so glad you came. 151 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.079 She said, do you work here? I just spoke there, 152 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:12.079 I'm a big twenty foot screen, right, she do work here? 153 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.600 I said, yeah, I do, she said. 154 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.720 She said, could you tell the gentleman who spoke today 155 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.079 that that was a wonderful message? No, she I promise you. 156 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.560 And I said, well, I'm the gentleman who spoke today. 157 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.040 What I didn't recognize you? And then it's because you 158 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.079 look so big on the screen then where there's normal 159 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:32.480 people thirty five minutes Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. And 160 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.639 then she was just surprised that I was that person. 161 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:37.680 And she said, I guess I just didn't have it 162 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:38.839 in my head that you'd be standing. 163 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:40.560 Out on the lobby, you know, talking to people or whatever. 164 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.240 So it was kind of a funny thing that you 165 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:45.560 can kind of start thinking you're kind of important. Yeah, 166 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.959 and then literally people sat in the room for thirty 167 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.360 five minutes while you were talking. Yeah, did not realize 168 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:52.600 they just met you. Right, It's kind of a funny 169 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:53.800 anything like that, you know. 170 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:55.720 So we have just like a minute. Let me let 171 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:56.639 me show this quick story. 172 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.120 My favorite, one of my favorite stories ever is I 173 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.120 was a part of very large church. Had eight campuses, 174 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.639 eight locations, which means they had eight lead pastors at 175 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.839 eight locations, and so on. One campus was a guy 176 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:11.040 named Dave. One campus was a guy named Jeremiah. One 177 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.160 campus was a guy named Clint. One campus was me, right, 178 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:15.879 and the other guy was Steve, you know, and. 179 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:16.800 A few more. 180 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.480 But I remember I did a wedding one time, and 181 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:21.040 I drove all the way to Macana Island. 182 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.360 And have you ever done the Grand Hotel? 183 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.680 I haven't ever done a wedding, but I've been there. 184 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.959 Oh you've been there? Yeah, okay, So we're on the port. 185 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.079 Pretty great, pretty great. 186 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.079 So we're on the ports of the Grand Hotel and 187 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.360 it's pretty wonderful. So they're doing pictures and so we're 188 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:36.360 all in these risers and there's probably I don't know, 189 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.160 forty people for this one photo, and we're all lined 190 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:40.920 up and I'm in the back row in these risers, 191 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.360 standing next to this guy that apparently went to our church, 192 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:45.439 you know, you know, a lot of people did, and 193 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.439 I didn't know him. And he goes, he goes, let 194 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.160 me tell you something, he goes, Hey, he goes, I 195 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.319 just want to go out of my way. I just 196 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.480 first time I ever met you. He goes, you are 197 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.480 our favorite, You're the best. 198 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.079 Blah blah blah. He just goes on and on and on. 199 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.079 I'm like, oh, that is so thank you so much, 200 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.680 thank you, you know, I really appreciate it. 201 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.000 And he goes, he goes, yeah, he goes I've always said, 202 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.600 he goes, we love you, Clint. So the entire time 203 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.519 he thought I was the other guy, the other guy. 204 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:17.800 So he give me this massive compliment. I'm like, I'm like, well, 205 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:18.560 thank you so much. 206 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:21.199 And he goes, you're the best, Clint, and I'm like, 207 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:22.839 that's the other guy. 208 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:24.720 But by the way, I didn't say anything. 209 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:27.120 No, I wouldn't either. Just just let it go, Let 210 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:27.920 it go, okay. 211 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:29.560 So it makes you mad when people put you on 212 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:31.279 the spot and demand that you remember their name. 213 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.080 Well, I mean, it's not very polite. 214 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:34.679 I will tell you. 215 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.200 They don't do it with malicious intent. So come on, guys, 216 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.240 give everybody else a break. 217 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:41.039 We had we had a young girl at the World. 218 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.679 She was like nine or ten, and when she first 219 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.200 started coming to her to church, and she's very very outgoing, 220 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.879 and she came up and she wanted to introduce herself. 221 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.559 She wanted to know my name. She told me she 222 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.720 really like me talking on stage. And her name was Kate. 223 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:56.679 That's her name. Have you met Kate? You know Kate. 224 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:57.440 She's very going. 225 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:59.720 She's a teenager now, but when she's a little girl. 226 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.759 And for a month, two months, every time she saw 227 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.559 what's my name, and I'd be like, oh, I'm so sorry, 228 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:08.679 I can't, and so I'd start making up funny names, 229 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:12.200 right right, right, and yeah, yeah, and then finally she 230 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.200 would say, don't remember my name. 231 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:13.759 Name is Kate. 232 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.679 But now I'll never forget Kate's name again. Right, So 233 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.799 there is that is a mechanism to make people remember 234 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.679 you too. Just put him on the spot. There's a 235 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.519 panic at that moment, then you remember their name. But yeah, 236 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:27.080 so anyways, well good talking about remembering people's names. 237 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.799 Jonah certainly didn't forget the Ninavites. 238 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:37.080 There, yo, therey. No, yeah, that's pretty bad. Oh boy. 239 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.080 So God told Jonah to go to Nineveh. 240 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:40.759 He didn't want to go. He got swallowed by a 241 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:45.279 fish and then the fish spits him up on dry 242 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.000 land under the beach. And now the Bible says in 243 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:51.639 Jonah chapter three. Those are the first two chapters. Channel 244 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.240 Chapter three says, then the Lord spoke to Jonah a 245 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.759 second time. I love He's a gout of second chances, 246 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.320 don't you, Yes, it says, get up and go to 247 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.639 the great city in Ninevah and deliver the message I 248 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.360 have given you this time. Jonah obeyed the Lord's command, 249 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.799 went to Ninevah. Good choice, Jonah, yes, so city so 250 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.919 large it took three days to see it all. On 251 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.279 the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted the crowds, 252 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.559 forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed. The people 253 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:19.279 in Ninna believed God's message from the greatest of the least. 254 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.120 They declared a fast and put on burlap to show 255 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.879 their sorrow. When the king and Ninevah heard what Jonah 256 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.399 was saying, he stepped down from his throne, took off 257 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.159 his royal robes. He dressed himself from burlap, and sat 258 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.559 on a heap of ashes. Then the king and his 259 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.759 nobles sent this decree throughout the city. No one, not 260 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.919 even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat 261 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.960 or drink anything at all. People and animals alike must 262 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.200 wear garments of morning. Everyone must pray earnestly to God, 263 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.519 they must turn from the evil ways and stop all 264 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:47.159 their violence. 265 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:47.879 Who can tell? 266 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:50.879 Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold 267 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.000 back his fierce anger from destroying us. When God saw 268 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:55.720 what they had done and how they had put a 269 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.480 stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and 270 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:00.600 did not carry out the destruction threatened. 271 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.279 Well there it is only ten verses. 272 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.039 Go, Yeah, so the repentance of one hundred and twenty 273 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:12.840 thousand people is all summarized in ten verses. So Jonah 274 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.720 walks around and it says it took him three days 275 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:16.320 to see it all. 276 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.720 So think about that, three full days of walking. 277 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:20.679 It's a big city. 278 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:21.440 It's a big city. 279 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.120 And so you're walking around and you're saying, hey, God's 280 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:26.759 going to destroy you for your wickedness. And it says 281 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.039 that they believed him. And then the king decreed that 282 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:35.480 every single living thing, even the animals, would would show 283 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:36.200 their repentance. 284 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:39.480 And by the way, so he got serious about it, 285 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:41.720 didn't he think about all the stories of the Bible. 286 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.240 You know, you've you've read the Bible before, yep, once 287 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.200 or twice on occasion. And so is there any other. 288 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:55.639 What example of repentance that includes the exact lawyer verbiage 289 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.679 of every single person and the quantity of one hundred 290 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.000 twenty thousand people. Is there any other example of a 291 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.799 mass repentance of this kind. 292 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.039 I don't remember when. I don't think so either, not 293 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:08.279 including the animals and all that. 294 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.240 No, no, and so not that the animals were repenting. 295 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.639 But what they're saying is everything that belongs to us, 296 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.639 We're going to just bring it all in repentance to God. 297 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:18.919 I guess it could be like if the nation of 298 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.840 Israel repents, you know, if there are a million. 299 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.879 People or something like that. Right, But the Bible doesn't 300 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:26.320 necessarily day one man. 301 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.159 It doesn't include the numbers though, right like it sometimes 302 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.639 when referred to the entire nation, and you know, you wonder, 303 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.559 is it everybody? But this is every single per like that. 304 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:38.960 That's a pretty like you said the lawyer in your head, 305 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.440 right like that. God gives us details for a reason. 306 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.159 That's right. And I think it's one of the biggest. 307 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:45.720 Yeah, I think it's one of the biggest, if not 308 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:49.639 the biggest, example of repentance. And so here's what I believe. 309 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.480 I said, I'll have to say this. I have to 310 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:57.080 believe that perhaps God was preparing the hearts of the 311 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.840 Ninavites for Jonah's arrival without even knowing it. You know, 312 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.600 sometimes when a person walks in and it just seems 313 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.759 like they've been wondering about God, or they're searching for God, 314 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:11.080 or they're thinking about God, and maybe they're in a 315 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.039 time of their life or a season of their life 316 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:15.879 where they're just ready to receive the truth. And it 317 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.120 may not be you may not necessarily be able to 318 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:21.559 point it to one particular tragedy or instance in their life. 319 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.440 It's just this was the season where they were ready 320 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:26.679 to receive. And you know what, in those moments, it 321 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.480 seems like the sermon could be on anything, and they 322 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.279 would and they would return to God. You could read 323 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.960 the phone Book, it seems like right, and it's like 324 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.240 it's like they're just ready to turn their lives over. 325 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.000 To God because God already prepared their hearts. 326 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.039 Yes, and I'm obviously being sarcastic in the phone Book, right, 327 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:48.000 but that's sort of how I view this. And there's 328 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.200 no indication that God prepared the hearts and the invites, 329 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.559 but I just think, you know, Goodness, Jonah, if that 330 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.039 is true, if God prepared the soil, you know, like 331 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.360 till the ground right, the hard ground of their hearts, 332 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.480 then you know, is that too much to believe or 333 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.159 hope for or expect that in itself would be a miracle? 334 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:09.799 Right? 335 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.879 I mean there, their reaction is nothing less, in my opinion, 336 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:14.519 than a miracle. 337 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:15.519 Right. 338 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:16.679 You know, here are these. 339 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:21.879 Wicked Assyrians who who are detestable in their practices and 340 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.399 and and ruthless and awful, and all of a sudden 341 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.960 they all immediately believe Jonah. Jonah walks around the city 342 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.440 by himself. By the way, there's no indication as a servant, 343 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:33.480 there's no indication as a companion. 344 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:35.919 He's by himself, for crying out loud. 345 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:36.879 He smells like fish. 346 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.679 He probably well, he might have bathed in the river. 347 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:44.840 Who knows a long way. 348 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:48.120 Yeah, almost six hundred, So yeah, he's he's probably cleaned 349 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.440 up by then. But but yeah, I just think that 350 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.679 I just think that there's a sermon in there somewhere 351 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:59.159 about you know, there are seasons of where God can 352 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.879 prepare the hearts of like you know, you'd say, oh, 353 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:03.240 I'm not going to go to this person and ask 354 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:05.559 for forgiveness, because they'll never I know that person will 355 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.799 wait a minute pray about it. God can change the 356 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.000 heart of that person. God can do the groundwork. And 357 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.320 so oftentimes when somebody comes up and says, Chris, will 358 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.279 you pray with me in the lobby about something, oftentimes 359 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:20.559 I pray, my wife filed for divorce. Well, guess what 360 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:22.879 if that's you know, if they want me to pray 361 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:24.720 with you, guess what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pray 362 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.879 for the condition of the spouse's heart. Right, you know, 363 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.759 they just change their heart, do something in their life 364 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:32.639 to grab their attention. 365 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.480 I've often you're asking God to do what only he 366 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:37.919 can do in that moment. Right. 367 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.799 Yeah, I've often said this, but there are probably more 368 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.080 categories than this. But I always have said there are 369 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.720 at least three categories that God uses to get our attention. 370 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.360 And the first one's conviction, which is a pretty churchy 371 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.519 word to say, you know, God will speak to you 372 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:57.960 and nudge you through the power the Holy Spirit. He'll 373 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.519 he'll speak to you, He'll nudge you, He'll give you signs, 374 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.639 he will direct you, he will bring thoughts into your mind. 375 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.279 So conviction, right make you feel guilt in a lot 376 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:12.039 of cases. So God will use conviction, misery and tragedy 377 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:16.559 and oftentimes and those aren't the only categories. But if 378 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:21.559 God does use the tragedy of Jonah, right, chances are 379 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:23.720 he tried to use conviction first. 380 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.960 Right, So that so they're almost progressive, aren't they. 381 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.039 It's like it's like conviction comes first, and when we 382 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.279 will we ignore conviction, then comes misery. And then when 383 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.559 we ignore the misery, God storm. Yeah yeah, God forbid, 384 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:42.600 then comes tragedy. Right. So so I prefer conviction. I 385 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:47.840 prefer that God only have to nudge me through conviction. 386 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.559 Oh that's really convicted. That's that's really convicting. As I'm 387 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.279 saying this, it really is, yeah, because because the times 388 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:58.759 that I that I ignore God's conviction, you know, God, 389 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.519 please spare me of misery tragedy. 390 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:00.720 Right. 391 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:01.039 Yeah. 392 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:05.880 So Jonah doesn't the Book of Jonah doesn't say with 393 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:11.880 the sins of Ninevah where But Nahem, who also wrote 394 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.640 a little book in the Bible, he wrote about. 395 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.519 The sins of Ninevah during this. 396 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:20.880 Time, and he says they had evil plots against God. 397 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.279 I don't know what that means, yeah, right, basically that 398 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:26.799 they were rejecting God. And they were doing their own thing. 399 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.400 They exploited the helpless, so they were constantly abusing, exploiting 400 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:36.880 helpless people. They had extreme cruelty in war. It's pretty horrible. 401 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:41.640