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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:14.759 Hey, everybody, my name is chrus Darbo. Wow. 5 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.480 That's cool. Trying not a new voice, a person, a 6 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:19.359 new radio. 7 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:21.399 It sort of sounded like I was trying to do 8 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.600 like the like WWE announcer, but it sort of came 9 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:25.800 off like a trailer, like. 10 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.480 In a world. We're a podcast studio, you know. 11 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.079 But anyway, good, Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 12 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.600 My name is Chris. This is Jeff, and we are 13 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.600 a couple of pastors who live in Well, you live 14 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:41.799 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. 15 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:43.159 I live in Shelby, Michigan. 16 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:45.520 Oh yeah, that's right, you used to live in I 17 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:45.960 used to live. 18 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.399 In Clinton Township. But thank you for that. I never 19 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:49.079 lived in Sterling. 20 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.399 Sterling Heights is where the church is, I know, I know. 21 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:57.439 Thank you for that, Jeff, Thanks Dad. But how many 22 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.439 miles were was your own house from the church for miles? 23 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:01.759 And that was Clinton Township? 24 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.439 Huh so yeah? And now two miles away and I'm 25 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.120 in Shelby Township a gun. 26 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.319 Yeah, so anyway, and I live in Troy, Michigan. 27 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:11.640 And which is how many miles Chris? I mean people 28 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:12.159 are dying to know. 29 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.159 Oh g wish, I don't even know. I would say 30 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.319 five miles, five and a half. Yeah, yeah, I probably shall. 31 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.519 So anyway, we are here in a podcast studio and 32 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.519 we record Monday through Friday, so we call ourselves the 33 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.280 Daily Bible Guys. Uh, but you know, we preach on 34 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:33.560 the weekend, so really the only day that we don't 35 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.719 throw something out there to the universes on Saturdays. 36 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.719 That's true, that's true. Yeah, yeah, And there's plenty of 37 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.799 stuff out there. If you just need more Chris than Jeff, 38 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.000 you can go Heritage Church dot com and watch archives 39 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.680 for what ten years? With archives? Oh, you can listen. 40 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.560 We got we're on episode where are we now? On 41 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:54.799 episode what it looks like? It's six nine, six twenty 42 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:56.359 nine of the Bible guys, And we had like one 43 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.000 hundred and seventy something of the HC dailies daily, So yeah, 44 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.480 you guys, eight hundred episodes here. Man, if you feel 45 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:07.439 like you having Christian Jeff on Saturdays, binge, yeah, binge, 46 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:08.360 baby binge. 47 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.080 Yeah for sure, that's so funny. 48 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.840 Yeah, well he today Desiree has put together a segment 49 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:15.000 that I've never heard of before. 50 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:15.800 It's a brand news segment. 51 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:16.319 I haven't either. 52 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:21.240 I appreciate the vigor and the creative creativity. She said. 53 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:25.120 Let's ask chat GPT. We're now in the Book of 54 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.400 Jonah and I walk through the Old Testament. For today's segment, 55 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.479 Let's ask chat GPT funny questions that revolve around the 56 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:31.199 story of Jonah. 57 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.199 Take a minute and share some of your favorite ones. 58 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.199 Okay, So here's what I did is I typed into 59 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:40.240 chat GPT suggest funny questions that revolve around the story jooning, 60 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:41.960 which is exactly what she told us to say. Yes, 61 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:44.840 and here are the questions that generated. If you were 62 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.840 swallowed by a giant fish, what would be your first 63 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:48.680 Yelp review. 64 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.599 That's pretty good, that's pretty good. 65 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.879 That's funny, and it suggested cozy interior or service was 66 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.000 a little fishy. Oh, that's fretty well, it would be 67 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:58.039 your first Yelp review. 68 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:02.960 I don't recommend it. 69 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:10.919 Yeah, I'd be like this place thinks there. Yeah, let 70 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.039 me see keep going. What do you think Jonah did 71 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.960 the past the time inside the fish? 72 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.159 Well, he talked to God as we're about to find out. 73 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.080 Yeah, yeah, he does talk to God in here. Yeah. 74 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.960 This one suggested maybe practicing as well, calls. 75 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:30.159 Oh wow, Yeah, what's do it? 76 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.520 If Jonah had a playlist while inside the fish? What 77 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:34.319 songs a be on it? 78 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:37.439 Uh? We all live in a yo. 79 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:44.719 This one suggested under the sea, under this sea, that's 80 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:46.680 a given? Yeah. 81 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:47.840 Uh. 82 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:54.439 What's the other one? What's what's the go say? I 83 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.400 forgot anyways? Living on a prayer? 84 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:59.639 Save no take me? 85 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.120 Yeah, that'd be a funny one too. Uh. When when 86 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.319 Jonah finally got to ninevah, do you think that people 87 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:08.319 were more shocked by his message or by his smell? 88 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:10.520 That's a good one because he is going to be 89 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:11.599 covered in fish vomit. 90 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.439 What would you have done differently if you were Jonah? Besides, 91 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:18.560 you know, actually going to Nina for the first time. 92 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.040 That's so funny. That's really good. That's a funny question. 93 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.199 Yeah, that was a good one. Uh. If you could 94 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:27.600 ask Jonah one question, what would it be? 95 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:33.439 Uh? Did you did you? Did you really learn the lesson? 96 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:37.040 Yeah? Did you at least get frequent swimmer miles? 97 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:37.480 Oh? 98 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:42.240 There you go, that's what it says. Jonah ran This 99 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.079 ted GPT says Jonah went ran away from God. But 100 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.319 where did he think he was going to hide? Like, 101 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.680 God doesn't have find my profit. 102 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:52.759 Find my prophet. That's pretty good. 103 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:54.519 Yeah, I got to find my phone. You ever used 104 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:55.079 to find my phone? 105 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:55.240 Oh? 106 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.000 Every day, all the time, every day, every day. 107 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.560 So right now I knew that my daughter Tory was home. 108 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.439 I just checked it in between podcast shoots. 109 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.480 Uh, are you do? You have all your family and 110 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.439 find my friends phone? 111 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:09.480 Yeah? Some of them? 112 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.720 So there they are right there. And my daughter down 113 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.519 in Florida, there she is. 114 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.240 You can't get away from your dad, right, Hey? I 115 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:22.160 ran in your daughter, daughter and her husband at the airport. 116 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:23.160 Oh. Look, and she's at home. 117 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:27.279 Remember what's that the other day? 118 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:27.720 Yeah? 119 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:31.600 She was actually uh, she was actually heading back from 120 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.319 her visit and you were heading out of the country. 121 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:34.800 That's right, you guys ran in each other. 122 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:37.759 If Jonah had brought a friend along, do you think 123 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:39.439 the fish would have been willing to do it too? 124 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.439 For one special But I'm. 125 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.240 Yeah, okay, I think I think you've exhausted that. 126 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.560 I think I think the funny ones are gone, Yeah 127 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.600 for sure. Okay, Well, there we go and talking about 128 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.920 the funny ones being gone. Jonah is not telling any 129 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:57.319 jokes in this next Okay, that's not funny. 130 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:57.920 It makes sense. 131 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:58.639 It's not funny. 132 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:03.199 It's terrible, terrible transition. So that qualifies jeff Ah. 133 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.399 That's our goal. Our goal is the worst transitions ever. Yeah, 134 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:08.000 we're becoming masters at them. 135 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.759 You know what, you always remember last week I did 136 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.639 every transition, remember, yeah, but you always remember that there 137 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:15.879 needs to be a transition before I remember, So you 138 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:17.120 always say, like, speaking of it. 139 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:19.040 I was like, oh, yeah, that's a transition. Yeah, I 140 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.000 always forget. I'm sure. I'm still wrapped up into the 141 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:21.600 Jonah story. 142 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:26.279 So Jonah two, verse one says, then Jonah prayed to 143 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.199 the Lord. Remember yesterday he got We talked about how 144 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.879 he got swallowed by fish for three days and three nights. Correct, 145 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.480 that's all it says, right, And it says, then Jonah 146 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.040 prayed to the Lord, his God from inside the fish. Wow. 147 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:40.439 And he said, I cried out to the Lord in 148 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.399 my great trouble, and he answered me, I called to 149 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.680 you from the land of the dead, and Lord you 150 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.399 heard me. You threw me into the ocean depths, and 151 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.560 I sank down to the heart of the sea. The 152 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.040 mighty waters engulfed me, and I was buried beneath your 153 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.920 wild and stormy ways. And I said, oh, Lord, you 154 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.199 have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look 155 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.439 once more towards your holy temple. I sank beneath the waves, 156 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:03.519 and the waters closed over me, and see weed wrapped 157 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:07.079 itself around my head. I sank down to the very 158 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.199 roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, 159 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.720 whose gates lock shut forever. But you, o Lord, my God, 160 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.160 snatched me from the jaws of death. As my life 161 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:18.680 was slipping away. I remember the Lord. My earnest prayer 162 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.959 went out to you in your holy temple. Those who 163 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.279 worship false gods turn their backs on all God's mercies. 164 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.000 But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise, 165 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.319 and I will fulfill all my vows from my salvation 166 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.800 comes from the Lord alone. Then the Lord ordered the 167 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.120 fish to spit Jonah out on the beach. Yeah, King 168 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:40.399 James says, to vomit. Yeah, yeah, that was one of 169 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.000 my favorite verses death as a kid. 170 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.279 Yeah, vomiting amount into the lot. 171 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.040 It's so much worse than spit. 172 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.360 Yes, yes, well, you know, regurgitated doesn't necessarily mean it 173 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.800 comes out with you know, fish stomach acid, but it 174 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.199 probably did and all and all. 175 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:57.959 The things that the fish ate. By the way, yes, 176 00:07:58.279 --> 00:07:59.160 so gross. 177 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.600 Yeah, if it's going around scooping up profits, it probably 178 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.319 got a lot of you know, if it was, and 179 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.720 I think I think Pinocchio there was like a fire 180 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:08.079 in there. 181 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:11.680 Yeah, Pinocchio actually built a fire inside the whale. 182 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:15.800 So if he could do it, yeah, sure, easily easily. 183 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:21.399 Uh the what was I gonna say about about this? 184 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.319 So Jonah's in the belly for three days and three 185 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.680 nights and the fish swam, But we do know that 186 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:35.399 the fish uh spinning back up on to the shore. 187 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.440 And really the only shore that makes sense would be 188 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:43.720 on the shore where Japa is right, because anywhere else 189 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.200 is further away from ninevah. So most college would have 190 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.919 to believe that he started out right where he left right. 191 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:54.759 So so whatever, whatever whatever progress. 192 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.039 He made on the boat was taken away because the 193 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.679 fish swam all the way back. And by the way, 194 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.639 if this was a fish big enough to hold a 195 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.960 human with air, right, we're assuming that's the case, because God. 196 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:09.120 Could do whatever he wants to do. But you know, 197 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:10.919 he probably he probably used science. 198 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:15.799 So that means that this massive fish or whale like 199 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.639 creature got close enough to the shore, because it says 200 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.759 he split spin him up onto dry land. Yeah, right, 201 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.919 so that that that thing came in on the beach 202 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.960 just right to the shore, and then and then just 203 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:31.960 somehow made itself out. 204 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.320 We appreciate the sound effects, Chris, that's great. 205 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.440 Yeah, so he's covering fish vomit and then he has 206 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.639 to make the track for six hundred miles. It's like 207 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.879 five hundred and ninety miles ish north east. 208 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.840 And by the way, I was as you were reading this. 209 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.720 I actually looked at the notes and the Life Application 210 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:55.000 Study Bible and actually quoted verse number seven where it 211 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:59.360 says Jonah said, quote as my life was slipping away, 212 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:03.639 I remember the Lord. Verse seven, it says often we 213 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.320 act the same way when life is going well. We 214 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:09.240 have a tendency to take God for granted, but when 215 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.480 we lose hope, we cry out to him. This kind 216 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.080 of relationship with God can result only in an inconsistent 217 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:18.080 up and down spiritual life. A consistent daily commitment to 218 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.080 God promotes a solid relationship with him. Look to God 219 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.240 for both the good and the bad. Times and you 220 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.120 will have a stronger spiritual life. Yeah, and that's that's 221 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:28.759 a good lesson. 222 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:29.360 That is good. 223 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:30.000 Yeah. 224 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.720 You know, we get tempted just to shout out when 225 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:33.879 we need help, Hey I got this when it's good, right, 226 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.240 and it's just when we need help. 227 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:38.919 But yeah, whenever we give the gospel, and we usually 228 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.000 give the gospel almost every week at our church, so 229 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:44.240 we'll give the you know, the Plan of Salvation, and 230 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.799 we'll tell people that Jesus died for their sins and 231 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.200 that if they wanted to, today could be the day 232 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.320 where they put their faith in trust in Christ for 233 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.919 the first time. And it's almost every Sunday that we 234 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:58.039 do this. And I would say that whenever I do that, 235 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:04.480 I am almost always thinking of the person who number 236 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.440 one doesn't know God obviously, but number two, their life 237 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.320 is going great. Yeah, And I don't necessarily think of 238 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:13.960 the person who is ripe, right, because those people, you know, 239 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.559 it's like, hey, that's that's great. Hopefully they'll pray the prayer, 240 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:19.799 Hopefully they'll cross over the line of faith. 241 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:21.840 Hopefully they'll you know, make the decision. 242 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.720 But it's the people that need to be convinced that, like, 243 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.200 why do I need God because life's going great, right, 244 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:30.559 and to which I would just say this, if that's 245 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.960 you today, and you're a skeptic and you're an agnostic, 246 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:37.600 or you're a person that doesn't necessarily consider themselves a Christian, 247 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:40.519 but you're curious enough to explore what God's word says, 248 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:42.720 which is why you're listening to the podcast, I would 249 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:48.000 just say life is better with God because everybody spends 250 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.799 eternity somewhere, right, yes, and so and so you know 251 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:55.080 the stakes are too high for you to. 252 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:57.440 Just say I don't need God because my life is 253 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:57.960 going great. 254 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.799 Yeah, you're right, that's good. Do you know what I've 255 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.200 always thought is the weirdest thing about this chapter. 256 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:07.399 The fact that he's in the belly of a fish. 257 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:11.240 No what, the fact that he recognizes that the belly 258 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.919 of the fish was God rescuing him. Oh well, so 259 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:17.240 this whole chapter is a prayer is It's not a 260 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.720 prayer for deliverance, it's thanking God for the fact that 261 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:20.679 God rescued. 262 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.440 Him well, because because he knows, He knows. We'll think 263 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:24.759 about it. 264 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.279 I don't know if getting eaten by a big fish 265 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:31.320 makes me go Because he thinks he's going to. 266 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.200 Drive to do a general push back here, a general pushback, 267 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.679 which is this. It's because oftentimes when we read things 268 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.919 as facts, we don't go through the emotional journey, right, 269 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.879 Like the emotional journeys, you know how sometimes a movie 270 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.240 will stretch out to bring you on an emotional. 271 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.759 Journey, you know, like a puff of bun, you know whatever. 272 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:55.080 Yeah, So anyway, the emotional journey is throw me over word, 273 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:56.000 I'm gonna srifice my life. 274 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:56.440 I'm gonna die. 275 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:57.399 Yeah, I'm gonna die. 276 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:59.799 And then they throw them overboard. Guess what there goes. 277 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.200 I'm watching the boat right. 278 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.919 And you're thinking, okay, God, I can't swim very much longer, 279 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:06.879 and who knows, by the way, he could have literally 280 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.480 been treading water for hours. And then he's like, okay, 281 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.960 that's it. I'm dead, and he's accepted. 282 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:13.799 The fact that it says in verse three, I sank 283 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.279 down to the heart of the sea. There it is, 284 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.840 the mighty waters engulfed me. I was buried beneath your 285 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:20.840 wild and stormy waves. 286 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:21.480 There it is. 287 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.279 He thinks he's going to die. There it is, he 288 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:23.919 thinks he's dying. 289 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:28.240 So he is literally resolved, you know, or sort of 290 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:30.840 surrendered to the fact that he has sacrificed his life. 291 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.159 He's going to die, and all of a sudden, it's 292 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:35.960 not by coincidence that not only did this fish grab him, 293 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:38.600 but then also he's able to breathe and survive in 294 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.799 the middle of this probably a whale, right, and so 295 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:46.080 why wouldn't he consider that God's hand? 296 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.799 Yeah, the terror of it. I sank beneath the waves, 297 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:53.360 the water closed over me, seaweed wrapped itself around my head. 298 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:58.279 Oh that's terrifying, right, that's not fun. I I was 299 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.679 imprisoned in the earth whose gates locked shut forever. That's hopelessness. Now, yes, right, 300 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:07.320 I'm just surrendering to this moment. I'm dying. Yes, but you, 301 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:10.159 oh Lord, my God snatched me from the jaws of death. 302 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.639 It's in that moment of sinking and dying because. 303 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:16.399 The odds, it's like, it's like, it's like what I 304 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:18.279 would have never prediculed a million years. 305 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.320 And I love the snatched word because that's how fish 306 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.080 eat Fish don't just come up and go go right right, 307 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.200 So literally snatched me from the And then he says, 308 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.799 as my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord 309 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.000 and my earnest prayer went out to you in your 310 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.200 holy temple. Yeah, right, he said I was dying. So 311 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.279 you know, when you read this and you think, oh, 312 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.840 he's miserable and he's asking God, he's not. There's not 313 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.120 one moment where he's asking God to rescue him. 314 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:43.600 Right. 315 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.159 He says, I called out to you in my trouble. 316 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.120 You answered me, right. And the whole thing is it's 317 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.919 a thanks This chapter is a thanksgiving prayer. It doesn't 318 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:53.039 record his desperation. 319 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:57.320 He's already acknowledged his sin on the boat like he knew. 320 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:00.679 Like he's sort of like, oh, I get what I deserve, right, 321 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.960 God told me directly, and I mean he literally told 322 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.080 me a direct command and I literally disobeyed it. 323 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:10.240 And so he ends it with my salvation comes from 324 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.840 the Lord alone, Yeah, which is such a great phrase. 325 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:15.960 There's no other place, there's nowhere else we can be delivered. 326 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.039 There's nobody else that can rescue us in life. It's God. 327 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:20.799 My salvation comes from the Lord. 328 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.159 So you know what he has to be forced to think, Like, 329 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.039 think about this. If you're a Jonah, here's what you think. Immediately, 330 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.720 God obviously wants me to go to Nineveh. He told 331 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.559 me what to do. I ran, I disobeyed. I thought 332 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.039 I was going to die because of my sin. And 333 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.600 then all of a sudden, God sends this whale. What's 334 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.480 holy calm in the belly of a whale? I'm breathing right, 335 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:42.879 or a giant fish. It doesn't say whale, but it's 336 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:44.720 probably a whale. And then all of a sudden, you're 337 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.240 thinking yourself, okay, the whales swimming. I can feel it 338 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:54.039 right right, like the whale's moving, which means God's not 339 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.720 through with me yet. And if God was through with me, 340 00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:57.440 I would be dead. 341 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.799 Yeah, you know it's funny. Oh wait, talking about the 342 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:04.240 differ between an optimist and a pessimist, right, a pessimist 343 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.759 would have been like, oh no, how bad is this? 344 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:08.759 At first I was sleeping comfortably and they woke me 345 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:10.120 up in the middle of a storm. How bad is 346 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.240 this going to get? Then they rolled dice and they realized, Hey, 347 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.799 I'm the one. I realized, I admit it. Throw me overboard. 348 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.519 They throw me into this horrible storm. Life can't get 349 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.879 any worse. Then I'm drowning. I'm getting covered in seaweed. 350 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:27.399 Life can't get any worse then? A big fish scoops 351 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:32.519 him up, eats him, and now he's like, wsh. That's 352 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:35.879 an optimist, right, right, Ooh, I almost died. He's inside 353 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:37.919 of a fish and he almost he almost died. But 354 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.919 he's like, thank God, God rescued me. The optimists would 355 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:45.679 have the pessimist. It's getting worse, right, But at this 356 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.120 point he didn't have any reason. He couldn't bargain with God. 357 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.879 There's no debate. He's not asking to be ready. He 358 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.519 believes God rescued him, but he hasn't been spit out 359 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.200 on dry land yet. There's no indication to God communicated 360 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.960 to him that he's gonna rescue him. But he's already 361 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.440 believing God's going to rescue him in that moment. And 362 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:10.079 I think there's a lesson there about your outlook, about 363 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:13.039 your perspective, right that the things happen in your life, 364 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.359 if God's allowing these things in your life, God's in control. 365 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.079 And I think that, I mean, what are the chances, 366 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.119 what are the chances of being alive after having been 367 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:26.240 swallowed by a big fish and he's conscious. During the 368 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.519 tent where he was going unconscious, he said, I was dying. 369 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.640 I was being buried. Yeah, and then he's conscious inside 370 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.920 this fish, so his perspective is, Okay, God's still This 371 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.759 is a crazy moment. But I think I don't think 372 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.880 God's done with me yet. I think, okay, God, thank you. 373 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:44.599 And then he says, I'm going to offer sacrifices to 374 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:46.279 you with songs that prayer. Well, you couldn't offer any 375 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.519 other kinds of sacrifices. So you want to know what 376 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:51.680 he was doing. Chat GPT asked us what was he doing? 377 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:54.400 He was singing, That's what it says. He was singing, 378 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.799 and I will fulfill all my vows. There's some optimism. 379 00:17:58.079 --> 00:17:59.920 How's he going to fulfill all the vows of the 380 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.079 he'd made to God as a prophet unless God let 381 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:07.240 him come out? And he says, because my salvation comes 382 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.599 from the Lord. And then the Lord ordered the fish 383 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.160 to spit Jonah out onto the beach. 384 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.680 And another sermon that we can find in Jonah chapter 385 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.880 two is that God is a god of second chances. 386 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:18.759 Yeah, so Jonah disobey. 387 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:19.839 I think that's the big idea. 388 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.960 Yeah, Jonah disobeys, and God sends him a fish, and 389 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.200 God reminds him. 390 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:27.039 That he's going to still use him. 391 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:29.119 And you know what, you may be out there thinking 392 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.119 I have made horrific mistakes. I have made decisions that 393 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.000 have destroyed my family. I hear this from people who 394 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:39.480 are in alcoholics anonymous, or narcotics anonymous or selvary recovery, 395 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:42.160 and they say, I have made decisions that have just 396 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:46.319 destroyed family and they've destroyed relationships, and you know, but 397 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.160 yet still they have a lot of life to live, 398 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:51.599 and so they think, you know, I can't, I can't 399 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:55.240 ever recover from my mistakes. But guess what God is 400 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.480 in the habit of using broken people for great things. 401 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.680