#1,201 – A Cry for Salvation (Jonah 2:6)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 21 November 2020

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When Jonah is in the belly of the whale, he calls out to God and cries out for salvation.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:03.8	Jonah chapter 2 verse 6.
0:07.0	I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever.
0:11.8	Yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
0:17.0	Oh, what a prayer!
0:20.0	Prayed from the belly of a fish.
0:23.0	Jonah has been disobedient to God,
0:28.0	is now experiencing the consequence of his sin in a way I'm quite certain he never could have imagined and he cries
0:36.9	out to the Lord from the belly of a fish and this whole prayer it's so powerful as Jonah cries out to God for salvation.
0:50.0	The last words he says in the belly of that fish, Jonah chapter 2 verse 9.
0:53.4	Salvation belongs to the Lord.
0:56.2	And that's when the Lord spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
1:01.8	But the reason I read verse six in particular, I want to lead us to pray
1:06.0	according to it. I listen to it again. Jonah prays, I went down to the land whose
1:11.3	bars closed upon me forever.
1:13.8	Yet you brought up my life from the pit.
1:18.3	Oh Lord, my God.
1:19.5	Is that not exactly the story that every single person has who has experienced
1:26.8	salvation from the Lord. He brought up my life from the pit, oh Lord my God.
1:36.9	Like I shudder to think where I would be right now if God had not brought my life up from the pit, had not saved me from my sin,
1:51.5	and it's really easy to harp on Jonah and his sin in this book but part of
2:00.0	the intent of this book is to open our own eyes to our own sinfulness to the reality of
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