It costs you time, it can cost you money, it can cost you health, it can cost you peace.

Dr. Tony Evans says if we're running from God, we're also running up a tab that eventually

has to be paid.

Because when you're in the will of God, God picks up the tab.

When you're on your own, you've got to pay for it yourself.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe

Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Even when we're fighting God, God can be using us.

Today, Dr. Evans will show us how and why God does that as He encover some important lessons

from the life of Jonah.

Let's join him.

Our series is called It's Not Too Late and we're looking at some folks who got tow up from

the flow up and whom God still did something with.

And things weren't going right and God was able to turn it around.

Today I want to talk about Jonah, the rebel God used.

Jonah is one of those intriguing minor prophets, four short chapters encompasses his book,

and the word came to him.

Verse two of chapter one, to arise, go to Ninevah, the great city, cry against it for their

wickedness has come up before me.

But Jonah rose to flee to Tarsha's from the presence of the Lord.

When down the job, a founder ship was going to Tarsha's, paid the fare, went down into

it to go with them to Tarsha's from the presence of the Lord.

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