Run Jonah Run

Well, we are jumping into a brand new series today.

I will give you one guess what it's on.

Y'all are smart people, man.

It is on Jonah.

So if you would take the word of God with me

and turn to the book of Jonah in the Old Testament.

And we will begin in chapter one.

This is a four-part series.

If you need help finding it,

Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah.

Jonah chapter one.

And before we get started reading in the text,

I'd like to give you a little bit of a background

on what is going on.

So the Assyrian army is one of the greatest military forces

the world has ever seen in the history of the world.

They were very fierce, ferocious,

kind of took no prisoners type of army.

They were feared greatly by all their enemies

or prospective enemies.

When the Assyrians came in,

you knew that you were probably going to lose

or at least have a very bloody long fight on your hands.

Nineveh was their capital city.

And it was a great city in the ways of the world.

It was very populated.

It was very advanced.

It was beautiful.

And it was the kind of city that could just never be conquered by an enemy.

So that was their reputation.

And one of their great opponents was the nation of Israel

or the tribe of Judah, the nation of Judah.

And so back in this day, in the context of Jonah,

the Assyrians or the Ninevites, which was their capital city,

those people were at odds with the people of Israel, God's people.

So that's the context in which we find this.

Jonah is a prophet.

You know what I don't have on me right now is my little clicker.

So I'm really sorry.

Would you mind?

I might have left it back in my office.

But until then, would you mind just clicking through these slides with me?

And I'll try to tell you when to advance them.

So Jonah, as we open up, Jonah chapter 1 and verse 1.

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This is not the first time we've heard of the prophet Jonah.

There was another time back in 2 Kings when it's talking about King Jeroboam,

an evil king, the son of King Joash, who was actually a great king who feared God.

But his son, Jeroboam, did not continue in that faith.

And he did, the Bible says, what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

And so King Jeroboam, in this previous instance in which we find Jonah mentioned in the Old Testament,

King Jeroboam is getting ready to go to war.

And he calls in two prophets of God to try to tell him how this war is going to go.

And the first prophet was Jonah.

And Jonah tells him, don't worry, king, you've got this.

You're going to see a mighty victory today.

And then the other king was Amos.

And if you happen to know your Bible a little bit,

you'll know that there is an entire book of the Bible dedicated to the words of Amos.

A great prophet in God's eyes.

And unfortunately, Amos tells him, Matt, you're a hero.

That's not what Amos told him.

That was a little side note.

Thank you, Matt.

All right, we're good now.

Amos gave the exact opposite prophecy from Jonah.

And he said, king, not only are you going to lose, but you're going to die today.

And his prophecy came true.

So we already have an instance of Jonah being unreliable.

You could maybe even call him a false prophet, willing to say what is necessary to please his listeners, his hearers.

So Jonah, we don't have a good context for when we start reading in Jonah 1.

So if you're there, Jonah chapter 1, if you're able to, would you mind joining me in standing?

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And let's read these first three verses together.

And then we'll go on.

Jonah chapter 1 in verse 3.

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I'm reading from the New Living Translation.

The Lord gave this message to Jonah, son of Amittai.

Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh.

Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.

But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord.

He went down to the port of Joppa where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish.

He bought a ticket and went on board hoping to escape from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish.

Let's pray together.

God, I pray that we would learn a lesson from Jonah.

Over these next few weeks, God, help us to see the Jonah in us and help us to be pointed to how great you are,

how in control you are, and how compassionate you are.

It's in Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

You may be seated.

Verse 1 of Jonah starts us off like 60 miles an hour,

and we're about to get up to about 100 miles an hour in this story of Jonah.

So he starts us off saying,

Jonah, I'm about to ask you to do a scary, difficult thing.

Go to perhaps the most feared city of that world

and tell them that they have sinned against God,

and God is going to judge them.

And what happens?

What happened?

He didn't do it.

He did the opposite.

Jonah says,

Okay, here's what I'm going to do.

God wants me to go this way.

I'm going to run in this direction as far and as fast as I can.

So what does it say?

Verse 3,

Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord.

First of all,

do you think his understanding of God was a little flawed?

We understand,

with the benefit of the whole Bible

and centuries of Christian teaching passed down from generation to generation,

but really we just understand from God himself

that God is omnipresent.

It means he's everywhere.

You can't get away from the face of the earth.

Back in the Old Testament it said,

How can I run from your presence?

How can I escape from your presence?

If I go over here, you're there.

If I go over there, you're there.

If I go behind closed doors, you're there.

You're with me everywhere I go.

Jonah apparently hadn't wrapped his head around that.

He said,

I'm going to get away from God

by going in the opposite direction of where God wants me to be.

Like God's over there waiting for me to get there,

but I'm going to pull a little number on him

and I'm going to go the other way

and he's going to wonder where I am.

So in verse 3,

he went down to the port of Joppa.

Now,

let's look at this.

Nineveh is about where modern day Iraq is.

So he goes down to the nearest seaport,

which is Joppa.

And then that's a 550 mile trip.

Then he's going to go all the way across

to about where modern day Spain is now,

Tarshish.

So these were kind of the opposite ends

of their known world at the time.

You want me to be in Nineveh,

but I'm going to go as far as I can

to get to Tarshish.

So overall,

this is a,

somebody do the math for me here.

3,000,

3,050 mile journey.

Thank you.

I was an English teacher,

not a math teacher.

Okay.

It's not my strong suit.

Well,

I happened to actually look that up ahead of time

and I said,

what's about that far away from Henrietta, Texas?

And it's about Juneau, Alaska.

So if y'all decided,

God wants me in Henrietta.

Instead,

I'm going to jump in my car

and I'm going to drive all the way

to Juneau, Alaska.

Well,

you'd be pretty far,

wouldn't you?

But you think you'd outrun God?

Think you'd be able to get away from God?

Think God be waiting for you in Juneau?

Sure he would.

Think God is everywhere.

So here's a question for us.

Why do we run?

Why do we run?

We do it all the time.

Maybe not as physically

or as drastically

as what Jonah did.

Although maybe there have been times

in your life

and maybe you're in one now

where you are actively living

in an opposite way

of how you know God wants you to live.

Maybe you know God wants you somewhere

or wants you to be doing something

and instead of following God,

you're going in the exact opposite direction

because you don't trust

that God is good,

God is right,

and God knows what's best.

You don't trust that.

It's hard for us to trust that.

It's easy for us to say that.

It's easy for us to sing that.

But it's much, much harder

for you and for me to live that.

Do our actions,

do our thoughts,

do our choices,

does the trajectory of our life

back up that we believe

that God is good,

he is right,

and he knows what's best?

Or are we a little bit more like Jonah

than we would care to admit?

Have we said,

I don't think so.

I don't like those people

in Jonah's case.

Why in the world would I go

and warn them of God's coming judgment

why doesn't he just smite them down

and destroy them?

Why doesn't he just wipe them out?

They don't deserve to be forewarned.

They don't deserve a chance to repent.

That was Jonah's hang up.

That was his problem.

That was his lack of faith in God,

God's goodness,

God's justice,

and God knowing what was best.

So, why do we run?

You ever seen the movies

where they're usually movies about police

or maybe a prison guard or something,

and all of a sudden,

you see the guy who's trying to get away

sneak out,

or you see a cop come up

and approach somebody on the street.

Sir, I need you to put your hands behind your back,

and what do they do?

They run.

They take off running.

And what does the policeman or the security guard

or whatever inevitably say?

We got a runner.

We got a runner!

Inevitably, there's a microphone

or they've got a walkie-talkie or something,

and they say,

we got a runner,

and then the chase is on.

And for the next five minutes or so,

there's a chase,

and you know that at some point,

the guy is going to get caught,

and justice will prevail.

That picture really has nothing to do

with anything else in the sermon.

It was just too good,

and I had to put it in there.

So,

some high-speed,

high-stakes car chase

like you see in the picture there.

I really want to know the story.

Is that photoshopped,

or did that really happen right there?

Amazing.

Can we just run out and grab the kid and stuff?

Anyway, that was fun.

Why do we run?

Well, we run because of our lack of faith.

Maybe we run in those movies

because their lack of faith in the justice system.

If I get caught,

I'm going to get in trouble for what I did.

Or maybe if they're wrongfully accused,

if I get caught,

no one's going to be able to get me

off of the charges that I've been accused of.

Whatever it is,

and so they run

because they have a lack of faith

in surrendering.

Well, you and I

also often run

because we have a lack of faith

in surrendering to God.

So, we actually have a little bit

in common with Jonah there.

Say,

we can easily look at Jonah

and say,

man, why didn't you just do

what God told you to do?

Because it was scary.

Because Nineveh's not a place

you wanted to go,

especially if you're preaching

a counter-cultural message.

Nineveh's not the place

as an Israelite

to walk in and say,

you guys aren't following the right God.

You need to follow our God.

And he says,

you're wrong

and he's going to destroy you.

Well, what do you think

is going to happen to him?

So, he's scared

and he's got a legitimate concern.

But instead of surrendering that to God

and saying,

I am your prophet.

Literally,

my mission and commission

is to go out

and preach your message

to those who will hear.

So, instead of just surrendering to that,

he runs.

Tim Keller,

the late Tim Keller,

died just last year,

I believe it was.

Great pastor up in New York City area

and wrote a lot of very helpful books.

This one came from

the prodigal prophet on Jonah.

He said,

Jonah concluded

that because he could not see

any good reasons

for God's command,

there couldn't be

any good reasons

for God's command.

Jonah doubted

the goodness,

wisdom,

and justice of God.

How many times

have you and I

done the same?

Doubted God's goodness,

wisdom,

and justice.

I think sometimes

we find ourselves doing it

almost without

consciously making that choice.

Just our subconscious

surrenders to our flesh

instead of surrendering

to the Holy Spirit,

and we doubt

that God is good,

we doubt that he is all-wise,

and we doubt

that he dictates

what is just.

God's justice

trumps our justice.

So Jonah says,

I don't see any good reason

for that,

so there must not be

a good reason for that.

And I think we put ourselves

in his shoes

far too many times.

because I don't see

any good reason

to make this change

in the church,

because I don't see

any good reason

to step out

and volunteer

in this new ministry,

because I don't see

any reason

to go do this

kind deed

for someone else

because, you know,

they probably won't

appreciate it,

or it probably won't

make the difference

that everybody

thinks it will,

or maybe I'll be embarrassed,

maybe I'll look bad.

Whatever our reasoning is,

could be something

completely different

that your flesh

and your mind

convinces you of

in your wisdom,

but instead of saying,

I don't see a good reason,

so I'm not gonna do it,

God is waiting on us

to say,

God, I don't get it,

but like Peter,

when Jesus said,

Peter, launch back out,

put your fishing boat

back out there

even though you were

out there all night

and you didn't catch anything,

and Peter says,

God, we already tried that,

it didn't really work,

but at your word,

I will let down the net.

That's the difference

in what happened with Jonah

and what happened with Peter.

Neither one of them

loved the idea

that God told them to do,

but Jonah,

instead of saying,

I don't get it,

but I'll do it anyway,

he ran.

Peter said,

I don't get it,

but I'll do it anyway.

He stayed

and he saw God's miracle

right away.

He didn't have to endure

this great trial

before it happened,

so there's a difference there.

Why do we run?

Our lack of faith.

Secondly,

why does God pursue us?

Why does God pursue us?

Let's look back at the text,

Jonah chapter one

and verse four.

But the Lord hurled

a powerful wind

over the sea,

causing a violent storm

that threatened

to break the ship apart.

Fearing for their lives,

the desperate sailors

shouted to their gods

for help

and threw the cargo overboard

to lighten the ship.

You see,

Jonah's mistake,

his sin against God

is already costing other people.

They had to throw

their cargo,

the very reason

for their journey

on this ship,

they had to throw it overboard.

But all this time,

Jonah was sound asleep

down in the hold of the ship.

He's just content,

relaxed in his running

away from God.

Sometimes we get this idea

that if we flee from God,

if we sin against God,

our lives are just going

to immediately be a wreck

and we're going to be

stressed out all the time

and freaked out

and nothing's going to be right.

You know,

you can actually go a while.

You can actually go a while

feeling just fine

about yourself.

And maybe you have.

Maybe you've gone a while

running from God

and you're feeling just fine

about yourself.

Like Jonah,

you're down there

just sleeping soundly

and peacefully

and thinking,

I got away

and everything is all right.

Can I tell you,

the storm is coming.

The storm is coming.

The Bible says,

be sure your sin

will find you out

and just like Jonah,

his sin found him out

and it cost those around him

and your sin

will find you out

and it will cost

those around you.

My sin will find me out

and it will cost

those around you.

None of us are exempt.

So Jonah,

sound asleep

down in the hold.

Verse 6,

so the captain goes down.

The captain went down

after him.

How can you sleep

at a time like this?

He shouted,

get up

and pray to your God.

Maybe he will pay attention

to us

and spare our lives.

Then what happens?

The crew cast lots.

The crew cast lots

to see which of them

had offended the gods

and caused the terrible storm.

When they did this,

the lots identified Jonah

as the culprit.

How many of you guys

know what we're talking about

when it says

the crew cast lots?

Yeah,

I was probably about

where you are.

She got it.

So,

closest thing

that we could find,

there's a couple

different here.

Have you seen

this little matchstick thing?

You don't have to use it

with matchsticks,

but you're holding them

in your hand

and the back of the sticks

is kind of behind your fingers

where they can't see

how long they are

and you are holding

a group of sticks

and it looks like

they're all the same length.

But in reality,

behind your hand,

one or more of them

are shorter

than the others.

So,

have you ever heard

the expression

drawing the short straw?

So,

that's kind of

where it came from.

It was this idea

and a lot of it

was wrapped up

in mysticism

and all this,

but it was the idea

that the gods

would cause

the person

that they want

to draw

the short stick

or the short straw.

So,

when they're casting lots,

that's what they're doing.

It's this game

of chance

that they believed

was up to fate

or God

to determine.

So,

they play this

and I absolutely

love God's

sense of humor

in making sure

that Jonah

was the one

who drew

the short straw.

It's also a lot

like a game

of dice

and this was kind

of dice

that they would

maybe use

back in those days.

So,

whoever would

draw

the unlucky

number

would be

the one.

So,

they're playing

this

in the middle

of a storm

trying to see

whose fault

this was.

Apparently,

this was unusual

for their journey.

Something about

this storm

made them realize

this is not just

nature

taking its course.

This is a God's

judgment

upon

our journey

and our ship.

So,

let's get back

to it.

Jonah chapter

one in verse

eight.

They see

that Jonah

draws the

short stick

and they say

why has this

awful storm

come down

on us?

They demanded

an answer

from him.

Who are you?

What is your

line of work?

What country

are you from?

What's your

nationality?

Tell us all

about you

because something

is wrong here

and we gotta

fix this

or none of us

are gonna live.

Jonah answers,

I'm a Hebrew.

I worship the Lord,

the God of heaven

who made the sea

and the land.

So,

the sailors

then are terrified.

He'd already

told them

that he's running

away

from the Lord

and now

he tells them,

oh,

by the way,

I'm a servant

of God.

I'm a prophet

of the God

that I'm running

away from

and he is

the one true

God,

not just the

God of the

wind or not

just the God

of the stars

or not just

one of the

Greek gods

that,

you know,

would have

their area

that they

controlled.

He says,

I serve the

God of everything

and I'm running

away from him

and I'm his

prophet.

So,

they're looking

at him like,

what are you

thinking?

Have you lost

your mind?

They say,

oh,

why did you

do it?

They groaned

and since the

storm was

getting worse

all the time,

they asked him,

what should we

do to you

to stop

this storm?

What does

your God

want us

to do

to you?

And Jonah,

the ultimate

martyr,

says,

guys,

you can just

throw me

in the sea.

Throw me

in the sea,

it'll all

get better

for you.

It'll become

calm again.

I know this

terrible storm

is all my

fault.

I heard

somebody say

this about

Jonah's

request to

throw them

in the sea.

He said,

suicide

is never

the answer.

Suicide

is

honestly

the most

selfish act.

and maybe

there have

been families

or lives

in this

room who

have been

touched

by that

tragedy.

There's

usually

mental health

issues and

all kinds

of things

that lead

up to

that

ultimate

final

act.

But

Jonah

is

literally

giving up

his life

instead of

repenting

to God

and saying,

God,

save me

from this.

I repent

of running

from you.

I surrender

myself to

your will.

Do with

me as

you will.

But God,

I repent,

I surrender.

Instead of

doing that,

Jonah says,

end my

life.

Throw me

into the

sea,

and then for

sure I'll

never have

to go to

Nineveh.

God,

I

don't

know.

But the

sailors didn't

take the

bait.

They said

instead,

they rode

even harder

to get to

the ship

to the

land.

But the

stormy sea

was too

violent for

them and

they couldn't

make it.

So finally

they say,

okay.

But they

cry out to

Jonah's

God,

who he

was unwilling

to cry

out to.

And they

say,

oh,

Lord,

immediately

recognizing him

as Lord

and said,

oh,

Lord,

clearly you

have control

over everything.

Even nature

responds to

your command.

They said,

don't make us

die for

this man's

sin.

Don't hold

us responsible

for his

death.

Oh,

Lord,

you've sent

this storm

upon him

for your

own good

reasons.

So they

pick him

up and

they threw

him into

the raging

sea.

And what

happens?

The storm

stops at

once.

And the

sailors were

awestruck

by the

Lord's

great power.

they offered

him a

sacrifice

and vowed

to serve

him.

How crazy

of a scene

is this?

God's

preacher,

God's

prophet

is running

away from

him.

This great

storm comes

down to

grab his

attention and

draw him

back to

God.

And instead

he says,

forget it,

throw me

over.

I'm just

going to

end my

life.

It's all

over for

me anyway.

So they

do it.

He finally

talks them

into it and

they do

it.

Begrudgingly,

they don't

want to.

They feel

terrible.

They're saying,

don't let this

man's blood be

on our

hands.

Jonah doesn't

care if the

blood's on

their hands.

They're begging

God, forgive

us for this.

We don't know

what else to

do.

This is your

prophet.

He's telling

us to throw

him in.

Clearly your

judgment is on

him.

We surrender

ourselves to

you.

they did

what Jonah

was unwilling

to do.

And as

soon as

he hits

the waters,

how surreal

was that

experience?

The storm

stops.

Instantly,

the sea

becomes

calm.

Not just

a regular

day on the

ocean with

the waves,

it becomes

calm.

can you

imagine

how crazy

those sailors

what they

just experienced?

So they

said,

we offer

you a

sacrifice.

We vow

to serve

you.

God just

got some

servants in

that moment.

Meanwhile,

Jonah,

with the

calm sea

above him,

he's now

falling down

through the

depths,

thinking

that's it.

His life

is over.

You wonder

what's going

through his

mind.

Is it

regret?

Is he

having second

thoughts?

What did

I just do?

In my

pride,

in my

selfishness,

in my

ego,

ego,

what did

I just

do?

My

life is

now over.

There's

no hope.

I'm in

the middle

of the

ocean.

I'm

falling

down

under

the

water.

I'm

without

hope.

And the

story could

have ended

there.

And Jonah

would have

been a

cautionary

tale for

you and

for me

to always

do what

God commands

us to do.

don't run

from him.

Don't be

like Jonah.

But to

answer the

question we

asked earlier,

why does

God pursue

us?

To draw

us to

himself.

God was

not done

drawing Jonah

to himself.

So let's

look back

at the

last verse.

The Lord

had arranged

for a

great fish

to swallow

Jonah.

Jonah.

And Jonah

was inside

that fish

for three

days and

three nights.

Was it a

whale?

Who knows?

Nobody

knows.

There was

a preacher

who said,

I believe

whatever the

Bible tells

me,

if the

Bible had

told me

that Jonah

swallowed a

whale,

I would

believe that.

Whatever

God has

complete control

over his

creation,

if he

wanted to

bloat up

a goldfish

so big

that it

could swallow

Jonah,

God could

certainly

arrange

that.

But whatever

it was,

call it a

whale or

a great

fish,

Jonah was

in there

for three

days and

three nights.

How crazy

is this

story?

It just

keeps getting

crazier and

crazier as

we unfold

new chapters

of this

tale.

Now,

Jonah is

falling through

the sea to

his death,

and God

sends the

whale.

Jonah

was

a

whale.

The creator

of VeggieTales, Phil Vischer, had this really interesting quote to say about this story.

It's pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God.

It was God saving him from drowning.

So it was actually provision to give him a second chance.

The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

Now, about day two, Jonah probably wasn't feeling like this was a great thing.

Sitting in that whale's belly, all the stinking rotten fish everywhere, and wondering how in the world he's ever going to get out of that.

He's thinking, man, I was going to drown to death, and then it would have been over, but now I have to starve to death and whatever inside this whale's belly.

So I'm going to die this way. This is more of God's judgment on me.

But the whale was actually God's second chance. It was God's way of escape.

And you know, sometimes in our life, God sends new trials in the midst of trials.

Have you ever heard, ever felt like you're just being piled on? You ever heard, man, it just gets worse and worse?

It goes from bad to worse.

Jonah might have felt like being swallowed by this great fish was going from bad to worse.

But it was actually God's rescue.

And maybe whatever is happening in your life is God's rescue.

Maybe he's going to use it as a way to give you a second chance to do what he told you to do all along.

So, what is the point of this entire story of Jonah?

We're going to get into it in chapter 2, chapter 3, and finally chapter 4.

But it begins here.

This story points us to the sovereignty of God.

It's a big word, meaning God is in control.

God is sovereign.

His sovereignty, in his wisdom.

We don't just believe that God is omnipresent.

He's everywhere.

We also believe that he is omniscient, all-knowing.

And he is all-wise and always right, always just.

And in his master plan, he allows terrible things to happen.

And sometimes it's to draw us to himself.

When we run, God pursues us to draw us back to him and to show us his sovereignty.

So, our takeaway today is God's plan always wins.

God's plan always wins.

And that's going to be really the takeaway, the theme of the entire book of Jonah.

As we race through this book along with Jonah, because this story does not slow down.

God's plan will always win.

Despite you and me fighting against it sometimes, God's plan will always win.

Despite us not liking what he's always doing, his plan will always win.

In the end, he will win.

From Genesis to Revelation, God's plan always wins.

In Jonah's story and in your story and in my story, God's plan always wins.

In your family, in your circle of life, in the things that you think you're in control of,

God's plan will win.

In this church that sometimes you feel like is yours and you've got ownership of it,

in reality, God's plan for this church will win.

Don't fight against God.

Don't run from God like Jonah did.

God will pursue you to draw you back to himself.

And in the end, his plan will win.

Let's surrender to his plan.

Would you bow your heads with me?

God, I pray that you would help us surrender to you.

Teach us.

Don't let us go running from your face, running from your command any longer.

God, don't let us take down others with us and harm others in our process of running from you and resisting you.

God, don't let us fall through the depths of the sea.

Spend days in the belly of the whale, so to speak, running from you.

Help us to turn and repent and surrender long before any of that happens.

And God, if some of us are far from you, let this be a wake-up call from your prophet who ran, your prophet who resisted.

And help that to grab our attention and turn it back to our Heavenly Father.

We'll give you all the glory for it, knowing you're in control.

And we'll trust that you always win.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Church, would you take a moment just to pray?

Brother Greg's going to lead us in this song.

If you'd like to join in singing, you can.

Change my heart, oh God.

Make it ever true.

That's what we need.

Jonah needed a change of heart.

And you and I have the opportunity to do that every day with God.

So would you take a few minutes and pray through what God has for you?

Would you bow your heads with me?

And I want to ask just a couple of questions.

We haven't done this in a couple of weeks.

One, if there's somebody here who doesn't know Jesus as your Savior.

And you say, I'm not a child of God yet.

I need to place my faith in Him for the first time.

Would you slip your hand up now and I'll pray for you?

Thank you.

There's someone else who says, would you pray for me?

Because I've got some things I'm struggling with in my life and I need some prayer.

Maybe it's someone else who's on my heart.

Or maybe it's something that I'm dealing with who's on my heart and I need some prayer.

Would you slip your hand up and I'll pray for you?

Thank you.

Thank you.

God, you see these hands and you know what's going on.

I just pray your power and your blessing over every situation.

And we'll thank you for it in Jesus' name.

For those of you who raised your hand or anyone else, I'll be waiting down front if you'd like to come speak with me.

If you'd like to take advantage of these steps and bring you or your family down for a time of prayer, please do that.

That's what this time in our service is dedicated for.

Brother Greg, would you lead us in singing?

Well, it's like a prayer.

Okay.

Agmat iron.

Have a great day, though.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Bye.

I'll say again.

Good night sam an ocurrasca.

Woo.

Bye five.

Thank you.

Good night.

Bye.

Bye.

Good night.

Good night.

Journey.