Taking Control of Your Emotions

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It’s easy to celebrate God’s blessings when they happen on your terms. But what about when He doesn’t respond the way you think He should? Do you get annoyed? Angry? What do you do when you can’t control your emotions?

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0:00.0	I wonder how many of you have ever watched a movie or a TV series, and then after the whole thing,
0:09.8	it ended with no resolution. It didn't make sense. You get to the end of it, and you're like,
0:17.5	wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I paid attention all the way
0:22.3	through. I watched for the entire season. And we get to the end and it ends like that.
0:28.6	Who knows what I'm talking about? Raise your hand. A comment section, I know what you're talking about.
0:32.0	Type it there. You get to the end. Like, I have so many questions. Did they get back together? Did the good guy live?
0:42.4	Did the bad guy die? Because if you haven't noticed, sometimes they look dead, but they're not
0:49.7	really dead. You know what I'm talking about. How many of you hate when something ends like that and there is
0:55.9	no resolution? Raise your hand. Type it in the comment section, I hate when that happens. If you
1:02.5	hate it, I got really bad news for you. You are not going to like Jonah chapter four.
1:08.6	Because this has the weirdest cliffhanger ending you've ever seen. Jonah chapter four because this has the weirdest cliffhanger ending you've ever seen jonah chapter four today
1:15.3	we conclude the message series on jona it is the most difficult chapter of jonah for me to preach
1:22.3	and it will be the most frustrating chapter for you to hear.
1:36.7	Now that I've got you excited about Jonah chapter four, let's review where we've been the first three weeks.
1:45.6	Chapter one, do you remember, the word of the Lord came to Jonah and said, go and preach to the Ninevites because their wickedness has come up before me. What did Jonah do? He hated the Ninevites because they were evil. And so he got
1:51.3	on a ship going in the other direction. God sent a storm. The sailors got freaked out. They
1:57.9	threw Jonah overboard and God provided a big fish that swallowed Jonah up.
2:05.3	Chapter 1. Chapter 2, Jonah prayed, and God had mercy. And the fish vomited Jonah up on the shore.
2:15.3	We call that beach barf.
2:19.7	God had mercy.
2:21.5	Everybody say God had mercy.
2:23.9	Say it again, God had mercy.
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