We're going to begin in the book of Jonah.

If you have a copy of the scriptures, Jonah Chapter 4,

to be precise.

And I believe it's a passage of scripture that not only is appropriate for our day,

but prophetic for what I believe needs

to happen inside of us to be properly postured to minister in our day.

Of course, when you think of Jonah, and I'm sure many of you did not see that coming,

okay, so you're going to speak to race and speak to discrimination and speak to give a message

that is hopefully going to help make us help us make sense of these events that we've been seeing

and to do so you want to talk about a guy swallowed by a whale.

It's a stretch, pastor.

Actually, I want to talk about what happened after that.

And I want to talk about even what happened after what

happened after that. You see, because Jonah famously did not obey

God and yes he was swallowed by a whale and then he was spit out on a beach and then the word of

God came to him once again to do something and this time he did it and was obedient to do it even though it still wasn't his heart to do it.

And so when he finally did do that thing, which happened to be preaching the gospel in what was then the most significant

city in the world.

And by all standards of comparison,

the equivalent would be, would need to be

preaching in the middle of New York City,

in our day.

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