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/Tonight I want to talk to you about getting your chores done.
I suppose most of us are old enough to remember when kids did chores.
If you grew up on a farm you recall chores like milking cows, or feeding animals, or weeding gardens, or chopping wood.
If you grew up in town, like I did, you remember washing dishes, sweeping or vacuuming floors, taking out trash.
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/ My sons still do chores in our home.
On occasion,(not lately) they share with me that none of their friends do chores.
When they aren’t in school (so they say) all they do is play video games, watch TV, or play basketball.
“Daddy, why do I have to do chores, and they don’t have to?”
I smile at them and explain, “Because they don’t live here.”
Dad and mom, if your kids live with you, you need to teach them to work, and one of the best ways to do that is to give them chores.
If you don’t teach them to work, they will learn to be lazy.
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/ Even when you grow up, though, you still have chores to do, don’t you?
You have to work for a living.
If you’re a husband with a day off, you get a honey-do list.
If you’re the wife, your chore list is usually the largest in the family.
If you’re single, you do all the chores.
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/ Tonight I want to talk to you about another kind of chore—the chores your Heavenly Father has for you to do.
God has chores for us, and if we love Him and want to please Him, we need to be about our Father’s business.
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/ This is why I want us to look in *Jonah 1*, at a man who tried to run away because he didn’t like the chores God gave him to do.
Let’s see what we can learn about getting our chores done from old Jonah.
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*PRAYER*
* Heavenly Father, would you please help us hear your Word tonight.
So often the worries and troubles and events of our day cry out so loudly we cannot hear what your Spirit says to us.
Help us focus our heart and mind on your Word, that we may not just hear it, but obey You from a heart that loves and adores you.
In Jesus’ Name.
Amen.*
* *The first thing Jonah teaches us is:
*I. **GOD CHOOSES OUR CHORES (v.
1-2)*
* *Who decides who does what in the home?
When I was growing up, it was my parents.
“Michael, you vacuum the carpet, Randy you do the dishes, Cathy you fold the clothes.”
Sometimes mom would ask for volunteers (I always wanted to vacuum, and hated washing dishes!)
But most of the time my chores were chosen for me by my parents.
God chose Jonah for a chore.
He calls Jonah to be a prophet, a spokesman for God.
You might remember Jonah was first famous for giving a good message to Israel back in *2 Kings 14:25*.
I imagine this wasn’t the only time Jonah delivered God’s Word to His people.
But at some point, *vs.
2* tells us, God chooses another chore for Jonah, this time not to Israel, but to the capital city of Assyria, the great city of Nineveh.
/Cry out against it!
Warn them that I see their wickedness!
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/ /I want you to notice a couple of things about God’s chore for Jonah:
/It is communicated clearly.
/Jonah doesn’t have to decipher the message; God makes it very clear to Jonah what He wants him to do.
We don’t know whether God spoke directly or indirectly, but however he spoke, Jonah knew exactly what chore God asks him to do.
/ It is a personal call.
/The understood subject of this command is /you.
I’m not calling Amos or Hosea or Isaiah—I’m calling you, Jonah./
/This is a task I have chosen you to do./
/Jonah isn’t the only person God ever had chores for.
He gave Adam and Eve work to do in the Garden; Moses’ chore was to lead Israel out of slavery.
Joshua’s chore was leading Israel into the Promised Land; God called David to be King of His people.
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/ Throughout history God gives ordinary folks like you and me chores—tasks he calls us to do.
Like Jonah, His call is communicated clearly and personally, so there can be no doubt what He wants us to do.
Does God have chores for you to do? /
*Lk 10:27* /…You shall love the Lord// your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”/
*Mk 1:17* /Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men./
*Eph 5:22* /Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord./
*Eph 5:25* /Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,/
*Eph 6:1* /Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right./
*Heb 10:25* /not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together…/
/ //The Bible is full of chores God calls us to do.
But there are other chores that are more specifically personal.
God calls you in some specific area of ministry in the church, or to share Jesus with some specific person in a specific situation.
Many of God’s chores are addressed to you personally, and nobody else.
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/ What chores does God have for you?
I really cannot fully answer that question.
I can tell you what the Bible says, but you must keep the ears of your heart open to the Spirit of God to hear Him speak.
What I do know is He will clearly and personally communicate what He wants you to do, just as He did for Jonah.
You may not hear voices or see visions, but God will show us you what chores He has for you—if we you’ll pay attention.
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/ But what if you don’t want to do your chores?
You could do what Jonah did: /
/ /
*II.
**YOU CAN REFUSE TO DO YOUR CHORES (v.
3)*
Chores were never optional when I was growing up.
I would sooner have cuddled up with wounded wildcat than tell my mom or my dad /No /when they told me to do chores.
It just wasn’t safe.
But what I wouldn’t say with my mouth I would sometimes say in my heart.
A mother punished her son by making him sit in a chair in the corner.
She sits him down, he gets back up.
She sits him down he stands back up.
A couple of swats on the bottom, she sits him down once more.
She walked away, then turned back and asked, “Johnny, are you still sitting down?” to which he replied, “I’m sitting down on the outside, but I’m standing up on the inside!”
Scripture doesn’t record what Jonah says when God reveals his chore to him, but there is no mistaking by his actions Jonah is standing up and saying to God a very loud /NO!/
/ /Once Jonah receives his chore list he runs as hard and as fast as he can go in the opposite direction.
He books passage on a boat to Tarshish (=probably somewhere on the coast of modern day Spain.)
On Jonah’s map, this is as far as you can possibly get from Nineveh.
He runs to the edge of the world to escape God’s call.
He doesn’t take a camel caravan or mule train, because he wants to get away fast as possible—which means sailing on a ship.
Why does Jonah refuse to do his chores?
First of all, Israel and Assyria are bitter enemies.
Assyria was always pillaging and raiding, trying to get rid of these pesky Jews so they could have Palestine for themselves.
They probably won’t appreciate some Jewish prophet waltzing into town, telling them God is mad at them.
In fact, they were known to be merciless to their enemies.
Ancient records record them bragging about skinning their enemies alive, piling their skulls in heaps, and committing other unspeakable atrocities.
Anybody who challenged these brutal folks was taking their lives into their hands.
Think about a modern day Israeli walking into the capital of an Arab country and calling them to repent, and you get the idea of what God is asking Jonah to do.
God gives Jonah quite a challenging chore.
It’s not hard to figure out why he runs.
Where are you headed, Jonah?
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