#1,200 – Obeying God's Calling on Our Life (Jonah 1:1–3)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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When God clearly calls Jonah to bring the gospel to unreached people, he turns and runs away from God's call.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:05.0	Jonah chapter 1 verses 1 through 3.
0:08.6	Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amatai saying,
0:12.0	Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
0:15.0	and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.
0:19.0	But Jonah rose to flee to Tartius from the presence of the Lord.
0:25.0	Did you hear that language?
0:29.0	God clearly says to Jonah,
0:32.0	arise, go to Nineveh, and Jonah rose and fled to Tarsish.
0:38.6	Like the exact opposite of what God was telling Jonah to do.
0:44.5	Jonah did.
0:47.0	When I read this, it's just so stark.
0:48.7	This is the very beginning of the book of Jonah.
0:51.7	And from the very start we are introduced to a man a
0:57.6	center just like you and me who is prone to hear the word of God and do directly opposite to what God has said.
1:10.0	Would you just pause in your life right now and think, are there any ways that you are directly disobeying God's word in your life right now or is there any way in
1:28.9	which God has spoken through his word, his spirit, and you have either not done what he has told you
1:38.8	to do or done what he has told you not to do.
1:44.0	This picture of sins of comission and omission.
1:48.5	Other words, comission being us doing things that God has said don't do.
1:53.5	But omission, that's what we're reading about here in Jonah,
1:56.3	not doing what God has told us to do.
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