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We start a new series this morning, and the Book of Jonah in the Book of Jonah.

So, as you know, has our church, our commitment, is to study God's word book by book, chapter by chapter verse by verse and even word by word when that's possible.

So let's start a new book as we go on this journey, as you study about, the prophet Jonah to learn from Joe.

Now in Jesus name, we pray amen.

Amen.

Jonah.

Jonah is a prophet in the Old Testament and the title our message.

This morning Jonah, The Reluctant Prophet The Reluctant prophet, and in this series, would we going to See, we're going to see God's unfailing love for us.

So I got you will get to see God's unfailing love for you and for all people in the world.

So Jonah only has a four chapters so that will take us to the end of the year, how each week we will be looking at one chapter in The Book of Jonah.

And today, we're going to look at chapter 1 of Jonas that we going to look at chapter 1 in the Book of Jonah is what you call a minor Prophet minor prophet.

Minor Prophet.

Does that mean that they have a little message?

It just means that the book is small, k e t o 37 chapters where you have the other ones.

Like Daniel has like 12 chapters.

But like a minor Prophet because those books tend to be very small and enjoy.

What we are going to see is that God's love God's love for everyone?

Would we going to see in the Book of Jonah is that we will see that God loves everyone.

The Book of Jonah is a book about God's will about God's will.

And how we respond to God's will.

It's also about the love of God and how we share it with others.

So we're going to be talking about God's will.

We're going to talk about God's love, how we respond to God's love and how we share God's love with others.

So, let's start chapter 10 verse run.

So the book starts with the prophet Jonah running away from God.

So the lord gave this message to Jonah son of amittai.

And 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 Joe and I 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 living for tarshis.

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

So the bookstore, it's with a preacher running away from God. you see a preacher God is asking him to do something, but he refused to We're not talking about, you know, just just just, you know, anybody we talkin about, somebody was supposed to know better.

Somebody was supposed to know God's work but God clearly calling.

Joe no.

But Jonah says no. God says go. Jordan says no. See you to give you a picture of Tarsus on the left there whenever so you'll see dropper there on the map at the bottom left.

So instead of going to Nineveh, he went as far away as he could.

He was supposed to go up but it decided to go down from Joppa and go down to Tasha.

So Jonah, The Reluctant prophet.

And what we're going to see this morning is that weekend that run away from guy? Never realize that we cannot run away from God.

There's a ride.

Go to Nineveh the great City and call out against it for their evil has.

Come up before me.

See, none of that was a very Wicked City.

Those people were known to treat their prisoners of War, very badly.

They will take their prisoners of War, as they would kill them, and they will lay them out on the street.

They would take the bodies, piled them up, let them dry on the street so people can see what they have done.

So that no other countries would even think about coming to attack them.

If I was the captain about set ABC 7:00, the capital city of Assyria and Assyria was a great fire pit at the time.

And they were ruthless.

So maybe Jonah had a point they're doing.

I did not want to go, probably doing it was scared.

We will see in chapter 4, the true motivation for.

Why? Jonah did not go.

She probably hear those people.

They were scared.

Those people were also worship the other gods.

They worship idols, for whatever reason.

Jonah did not want to go, but in chapter 4 tells us that Jonah did not want to go.

Because Joe, and I did not want the people to be safe.

Joe and I did not like them.

But when God calls you to do something, whether you like God's plan or not, God is calling us to do what?

To do it.

God is calling us to be obedient but here Jonah thinks that he knows better than God.

God says to go but I says no.

And that's never a good thing.

You see whenever there's a problem.

God will raise up someone to address it.

If it is you will you answer the call or are you going to sleep?

That's my question for us this morning whenever there's a problem.

God will raise up somebody to address it.

Are you going to rise up and answer the call?

Or are you going to flee?

Like Jonah, Jordan thinks that he knew better than God, God gave him a mission but got but Jonah didn't think that was a good plan.

You see whenever we fail to answer the call, it is because of a lack of love for God.

And for people notice here, Wicked city as I told you, but would took the initiative to restore those people.

Look up which of the initiative.

Did you see the ninevites?

Calling out to God? That's why the Bible says, while we were yet, sinners God died for us.

God always takes the initiative.

Even when we not walking with God, God is still thinking about us.

Pictures of Crazy Love.

Easy.

The song that says Reckless.

Love.

God's love is really Reckless.

The ninevites as wicked as they were.

But God took the initiative, God, call his prophet Jonah and says, go preach to those people because I love them.

Because God says I created them to God is saying they are mine too.

See.

That's why we got to love everybody.

It doesn't matter what they've done to us, but God says, we got to love some people.

We have to love everyone because that's what God does.

God.

Initiates member God is the source of love.

God, initiates, love, God.

Goes after those would do not care for him, God is the God will goes after the one leaving the 99 so that God can rescue that last one.

See God love.

We will never fully understand God.

Love the ninevites as much as he loved the Jewish people as much as you love Jonah.

An invoice 3, but Joan of rose to flee to tarshis from the presence of God.

Foolish.

Can we get away from the presence of God?