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If you feel like you've wrecked God's plan for your life, you need to hear this. Now, there are two types of Christians that I'm

addressing here. The first is the Christian who is trying. You are pursuing the will of God.

You want to please him, but you find yourself making mistake after mistake, and maybe you feel

like you've made so many mistakes that the call on your life has been completely derailed

with no hope of recovery.

And the second kind of Christian is the one who is in disobedience, in rebellion.

You know what you're doing is wrong.

Or maybe you know that you should be doing something, but you're not doing it.

Either way, I want to talk to you about the call of God on your life.

Let's go to the book of Jonah here.

The Lord gave this message to Jonah.

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 Jonah 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 leaving for Tarshish.

He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish.

Here we see that Jonah directly receives a command from God,

and he purposefully goes in the opposite direction. This is outright rebellion. Now, not all Christians

are here. Some, maybe it's just some compromise here or there. Others, maybe you're just making mistakes as you

pursue the call of God and others are like Jonah exactly in that they hear what God is saying,

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