Divine Rescue

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As we continue in our series, “Divine Intervention,” Pastor John explores the story of Jonah to reveal how God's discipline, rescue, and mercy work in the lives of sinners—even when they are actively rebelling. He emphasizes that the very one we sin against is also the one who rescues us, calling us not just to repentance but to join in His mission of redemption. No one is too far gone for God's grace, and our past does not disqualify us from sharing His mercy with others.

Divine Discipline

Divine Rescue

Divine Mercy

Life Group Discussion:

When was the last time you asked God if a difficult season was the result of disobedience? What happened next?

Have you ever felt unworthy of rescue? How does Romans 5:8 speak to that feeling?

Who in your life might be “too far gone” in your eyes—and what would it look like to share God’s mercy with them?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning Harris Creek. Good to be with you guys. So my freshman year, I was here, Baylor Bear, living in Pennland, and it would rain all weekend. I was from out of state, rained all weekend, super cabin fever. I'm like, hey, load up. I had this old 85 Ford Bronco. I was like, we're going to go budding. And ladies, in case you don't know what that is, it's when you get in a car as a guy,
0:22.2	and you try to get your car as dirty as possible. So we're looking for mud. And we drive out to Lake Waco near the airport, and all the public land has these, like, steel barriers. So we're like, we've got to find something else. So we're like, not public property. let's go find some private property that doesn't have any barriers.
0:38.7	And so we're slinging mud public property, let's go find some private property that doesn't have any barriers.
0:38.7	And so we're slinging mud, driving around, and we make a turn, and we see this like pit that's perfect, just like mud pit.
0:46.0	Go straight down into it, throw the gas, go to crank the wheel, and just slide to a complete stop.
0:53.6	And I open my door, and the mud is level with the floorboard of my
0:58.6	truck. I was like, oh, we are not going anywhere, like super stuck. And I mean, this is before
1:06.8	cell phones, at least before I had a cell phone, like Zach Morris brick phone. Like, I didn't
1:10.6	have one. We're stuck stuck, like so far from campus. And right about then is we're like, you know,
1:16.2	standing there and our red wings trying to figure out what to do is like, all these floodlights
1:23.1	turn on, cue beams. And it's like, oh boy. And like, like hey are you the boys that have been shooting up
1:31.2	our construction trailer it's like no no are you armed no no what are you doing mudding
1:40.8	what we're just driving in mud. You've got to be kidding me. Are you the one shooting?
1:50.3	No, sir. No, we're just driving around mudding. You know, you're trespassing? This is private property?
1:58.3	It is? It's like, you have five minutes to get off this land. I was like,
2:07.3	oh, we're not getting off the land. Like, there's no way to get off this land. My truck will
2:13.5	forever be on this land. It's like, you have five minutes,
2:17.9	and they'll start walking away.
2:20.4	I was like, um, sirs, what?
2:27.8	I noticed you have a bulldozer.
2:32.2	Is there any way you could pull me out?
2:34.9	He's like, you've got to be kidding me.
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