Jonah chapter one.

These little minor prophets move quickly as we're going through the Bible,

but they're small but mighty as we learned on Sunday.

Some of you, if you're coming only on Wednesday,

or what happened to Obadiah?

Well, we took that on Sunday and did those 21 verses of that small but mighty book.

And so covered that ground on the weekend.

And now we're in the book of Jonah.

We have here a story of a man who is called by God to ministry.

And it's an interesting, you know, it's an interesting thing because God had a

purpose and a plan for Jonah. But it reminds me, maybe some of you are old enough to remember,

remember when Christians, you know, especially the prosperity teachers of the, you know, TV,

you know, evangelists, televangelists, you know, it wasn't just them,

but I think it's part of the four spiritual laws. There was kind of a whole thing where people would walk up,

do you know that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life? But the pastors that said there was a

certain way, God, you have to kind of swoop when you say God. God loves you and has a wonderful

plan for your life. And it almost became sort of used car salesman a little bit. If you're around

in those times growing up, and it just kind of seemed a little bit weird. But the problem is

sometimes God's plan, we know that that statement is true. But what they leave out, if you walk up to some guy in the street, he says, do you know that God's plan, we know that statement is true,

but what they leave out, if you walk up to some guy in the street,

he says, do you know that God loves you,

has a wonderful life of your life?

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