Now if you will turn with me
to the book of Daniel, I mean Jonah, I'm sorry. Got Daniel
on the brain this morning. Let me just tell you a little
bit about this man Jonah. There can be no doubt that Jonah
was a prophet of God. No doubt whatsoever. And that
he prophesied of things to come. Because he's confirmed in 2 Kings
chapter 14 and verse 25 as so doing. So we know that this is
God's prophet and that he prophesied just as Jeremiah did, just as
Isaiah did, just as Daniel did. He prophesied of things to come. And some of those things were
fulfilled while Jonah was still alive. He tells us that over
here in 2 Kings 14 and verse 25. And if you will, let me, well,
let me just go on a little bit before I do that. Now, the Lord
himself also speaks of Jonah. He speaks of him over in Matthew
chapter 12 when the Pharisees and the scribes
came to him and said, we would see a sign of thee. Give us some
evidence. Give us some basis of your claims
to be the Son of God, the Messiah. And he said to them, he said,
an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. And no
sign, no sign shall be given it except that of the prophet
Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and
three nights in the heart of the whale down at the bottom
of the ocean, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. And he said, the people from
Nineveh is gonna rise up in judgment against this generation. Why? Because they repented at the
preaching of Jonah and this generation didn't. And they're going to
sit in judgment on you. I wanted you to know those things
because I want you to see this is, I took my title. He said
those people in Nineveh are going to rise up in judgment against
you because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and are
greater than Jonah is here. And as I read that, and I had
already studied in depth, I preached on the book of Jonah verse by
verse all the way through it years ago. But I had all of these
things in Jonah in mind, all about the gourd and all about
the whale and the city of Nineveh and all these things. And then
I read that in Matthew and I thought, wow, I need to apply that back
here to Jonah. If there's one thing I want you
to take home with you this morning as we read through the book of
Jonah, it's that a greater than Jonah was there. And a greater than Jonah stood
there on that day talking to those Pharisees, and a greater
than Jonah is here today. You see, God was back there in
that book of Jonah. God the Holy Spirit inspired
this man to write the Lord Jesus before his appearance on this
earth, arranging all things, arranging the providence that
attended this man's life. This man's life, our life, all
the lives of all these prophets, they were all arranged for the
glory of God. And that's what I want you to
see. There's a greater than Jonah here. As to Jonah, he was there in
the inspiration of his writings. The Lord Jesus was there. The
Holy Spirit of God was there in his writings, and he was there
in the providence of the day, and he was there in the preaching
of his gospel. I've showed you that in 2 Kings,
he gives evidence of this man being a prophet of God and prophesying
of things to come. But the book of Jonah is not
a prophecy as such. It's one of the few books in
the Bible that's not a prophecy by a prophet, but rather a clip
out of this man's life, kind of an autobiographical clip. God has preserved this little
space and time in this prophet's life to say something to us. This took a little portion. Now
his life amounted to a whole lot more than this. But this,
God said, I'm going to preserve and I'm going to use. This clip of the life of Jonah
begins with God instructing to his prophet to go to a Gentile
city. You can read it back in chapter
1, verse 1. The word of the Lord came to
Jonah. And he told him to go down to
this old Gentile city, this city of Nineveh, and cry against it. Condemn their actions. Condemn
their ways. Condemn their society, condemn
their religion, cry against it. Now, if you can imagine, I live
in Taylor, Arkansas, population 600. If the word of God came
to me and said, go to Washington, D.C., and cry against it, huh? I think I'd do like Jonah. I
think I'd go the other way. I'd take a look at that power
and a look at that defense and a look at everything that's going
on there. And I'd say, you know, why don't
you just take me out and shoot me? And this is what God told this
man. And Jonah didn't want to go. He did not want to go. And he wasn't shy about it. So
he took to the sea. Nineveh, way over here, Jonah's
here, and he's going down to Joppa and going to Tarsus. That's
way over here. That's the opposite direction
from Nineveh. So he took to the sea, and he
was headed in the opposite direction. And he set himself in direct
opposition to God. And so God sent a great wind
and that ship was about to perish. It was just bouncing around out
there on that sea and they were throwing stuff overboard trying
to lighten the ship. And knowing himself to be the
problem, Jonah called for the ship's crew to throw him overboard. Now you can read the story for
you. I'm telling you exactly what it says. They didn't know
what was going on. They said, OK, we're going to
cast lots. So whatever that was, they cast the lots, and the lot
fell on Jonah. And they said, what have you
done? And he said, well, I'm a prophet of God, and he told
me go this way, and I'm headed that way. And that's why this
storm is on you. Well, now, you try to put yourself
in their shoes. If God is going to destroy that
ship and that crew, over an issue he has with his prophet, what's
he gonna do to you if you throw his prophet out of the ship?
Bet him he won't do it. Jonah insisted, and that crew
reluctantly threw him over the side of the ship. But God prepared a great fish
to swallow up the prophet. When did he prepare this fish? We know because of Matthew's
writings it was a whale. When did he create that whale?
Way back at the beginning. Before he ever created a man,
he created a fish that was gonna swallow a man. You think about
that. You think about the details of
God's purpose of grace that he would create a fish so large
that it could swallow a man and hold him inside of it for three
days. Now this is before our countries
went out killing all these things, so I can imagine an unharassed
species being huge, growing to its full potential. But my point
is this. God prepared this fish, and he
tells us that. Why did he prepare a whale just
for this reason? Why did God create a hornet so
he'd drive those evil men out of their countries? Why did God
have this certain disease, hemorrhoids, to cause those heathens to do
his will? And you can go on and on and
on. God prepared the emirate. He prepared the hornets. He prepared
this. He prepared that. Locusts. On
and on. Allowed armies to rise up and
evil kings and so on and so on. They reluctantly did what God
forced them to do. And they threw him overboard.
And this great fish came along that God had prepared. And it
took him down into the depths of the sea. And after much suffering,
the prophet prayed to God. And he said in Jonah 2.9, but
I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I'll
pay that that I have vowed. This is, as a prophet, I've vowed
to the Lord to preach salvation is of the Lord. And he said,
I'm ready to do that. I'm ready to do that. And so
God calls that fish to take him in the right direction. This
is a fish. We say God doesn't control fish,
don't he? He controls everything that is.
In him we live and move and have our being. He controls everything
that is. He took that fish with his prophet
in it, took him right over on the bank, going right toward
Nineveh, and spit him out on the, vomited him out there on
the beach. I don't think that prophet washed
his face. I don't think he cleansed his
clothes. I think he took off for Nineveh. Full blast. Look down here at chapter three
in verse one. And the word of the Lord came
unto Jonah the second time, the second time, saying, Arise and
go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching
that I bid thee. So Jonah rose and he went on
to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was
an exceeding great city of three days' journey. That didn't mean
it was three days' journey away. It meant that it was three days'
journey from one end of it to the other. This was a huge city. Some say the greatest city in
the ancient world was Nineveh. And long story short, he preached
to them, and from the king down, they all repented, and God spared
Nineveh. Now there's just endless lessons
to be taught from this book, but today I want to use the whole
book and the prophet himself to show you what our Lord declared
to those Jews concerning Jonah and Nineveh. I want us to focus
on three things this morning that I hope will be an encouragement
to you as well as a help to you to understand the strange things
set forth in this book. The first thing is this. This
book is intended to show the bigoted Jews that God's eternal
purpose of grace includes the heathen. That's what it's there
for. That's what he's doing. That's
why he took this little clip. Jonah didn't want to go to them
people. He hated them people. Them people were disgusting to
him. Their lifestyle was disgusting.
Their morality was disgusting. Their rule was disgusting. They
worshipped idols. They were not clean. They were
nothing like the Jews. And the Jews despised them. They
hated them. They'd been nothing but a trouble
and enemies to them for years and years and years. And God
said, go to Nineveh. And the prophet bowed up and
he said, I don't want to. I ain't going down there. I hate
them people. The calling of the Gentiles was
set forth in many places in the Old Testament. On one occasion,
our Lord said to the Pharisees, he said, there was many widows
in the land of Israel in the days of Elijah the prophet. But
to none of them was Elijah sent. He was sent to a Gentile widow, a widow of Sarepta, the city
of Sidon. And there were many lepers in
Israel in the days of Elisha, but none of them were cleansed
except Naaman the Syrian. And you can read that in Luke
4, 25 through 27. Hosea spoke of the day. When it would be said that they
are not my people, in that place where they say those are not
my people, there they should be called the people of God.
All through the Old Testament, these prophets spoke of the Gentiles
being an object of God's grace. And those Jews were so blinded
by their bigotry and their prejudice that they couldn't see it. Isaiah
said, I was found of them that sought me not. I was made manifest
unto them that asked not after me. Now if you will, turn with
me to Ephesians chapter 3. As I said, Jonah didn't want
to go to Nineveh. And he plainly tells us this
in Jonah 4, 1 through 3. He tells the Lord, I knew what
you were gonna do. I knew when I went down there
that you're a merciful God and you're gonna have mercy on them
and your long suffering and all those things and you're gonna
turn and repent and you weren't gonna destroy them. That's why
I didn't wanna go to Starkville. He was mad even after God saved
him because he was still blinded to the fact that these Gentiles
were according to the eternal purpose of God. This man was a highly revered
Jewish prophet. Couldn't stand the thought of
these Gentile dogs without any godly history receiving the same
mercy and grace and provision that was granted unto him. Now
watch this here in Ephesians 3 verse 1. Paul said, for this cause I,
Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles. He was locked
up in order to minister to these Gentiles. and because that he
did. If you've heard of the dispensation,
that is the stewardship, of the grace of God which was given
me to you, how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery,
as I wrote afore in a few words, whereby when you read you may
understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. which in other
ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now
revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, that
the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, now watch this, and of
the same body, and partakers of his promise
in Christ by the ghost. What's that mean, Larry? That
means that God's given you, if you're His elect, that means
God has given you the very same grace that He gave Abraham. That's
what that means. God has purposed your salvation
just as much as He did Abraham. That means that you're as much
of an heir of these promises as Abraham. And Paul teaches us that in Romans
chapter four toward the end of that chapter. It wasn't written just for Abraham's
sake, it was written also for our sake. Same body, same partakers of
his promise in Christ by the gospel. Verse 7, whereof I was
made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God
given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me
who am less than the least of all saints is this grace given.
that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
of Christ and to make all men see what is the fellowship of
the mystery. That's what we're looking at
this morning. The fellowship of the mystery which from the
beginning of the world hath been hid in God who created all things
in Jesus Christ. You see that? And all of this, verse 11, according
to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus,
our Lord. Isn't that something? Gonna take his prophet and this
little clip out of his life. Now he said, I'm gonna show you
something beyond your imagination. I'm gonna show you my purpose
868 years before I appear on this earth concerning the Gentiles.
And that's so after I raise from the dead, and the gift of the
Spirit comes to you, you're gonna go out and you're gonna go back
there and you're gonna use Jonah, and you're gonna use Isaiah,
and you're gonna use Nahum, and you're gonna use Amos, and Joel,
and all these men, and you're gonna preach this mystery that's
been hidden since the beginning of the world. God sending his prophet to Nineveh
some 862 years before the coming of Christ plainly declared God's
eternal purpose of grace to save a people out of every nation,
kindred, tribe, and tongue under heaven. And as far as I know,
this is the only example where God saved an entire city from
the king all the way down. which makes Nineveh a perfect
type of God's heathen elect. How many of his heathen elect
is he gonna save? Every one. Every one. Not many mighty, not many noble
are called. The Queen of England said, I
thank God for him. It could have said not any, but
it said not many. God saved some kings. I believe
he saved Nebuchadnezzar. I do. God took him out, caused
his nails to grow like bird's claws and his hair like feathers,
let him sit out there, and then he brought him back in. And he
enlightened him. And that man served God and dared
anybody in his nation not to serve him as long as he lived. But this makes Nineveh a perfect
type of God's heathen elect, of which he said, I will lose
nothing, but I'll raise it up again at the last day. And the
salvation of the Gentiles was declared all through the Old
Testament, but the Jews were blinded, as was Jonah, by their
own prejudice. And I'm convinced this is why
the apostles used that word world. I don't know if you've come to
see the difference in God's election and universal salvation, but
the apostles used that word, world, and Armenians jump on
it, like in John 3, 16. God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son. I thought saying he loved every
individual in the world He said that because of the prejudice
of the Jews. God doesn't just love Jews. He
loves people all over the world. And that's what was going on
here in Nineveh. This was going to be an expression of God's
love to the heathen. Jonah was blinded to it. He didn't
understand it. You find that word world, and
I believe this is the reason why the apostles used it under
the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. He says it in John 3.16, John
2.2. We know that we have a propitiation
for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the
whole world. John was a Jew, and he was telling them that
propitiation ain't just for Jewish sins, it's for Gentile sins.
And then in many other places. So what does all this have to
do with you and I? Everything. We're Gentiles. If what I'm telling you this
morning is not so, you and I don't have any hope. The basis of our hope is that
God extended his love to even the heathen. Even the Gentiles. And if God has not purposed to
save the Gentiles, then you and I cannot be saved. And you remember back I read
this where Paul said he received it by revelation. He's not talking
about he received something out of the blue that's never been
written in the Word of God. He's simply saying that God revealed
to him that what he wrote back there in Jonah, what he wrote
back there in Isaiah, what he wrote back there in all those
places, this is the meaning of it. You remember Peter, after
he received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, he said,
hey, this is what Joel was talking about. All of a sudden, he realized
it wasn't a new revelation. It was already revealed back
in the book of Joel. He just didn't understand what
Joel was talking about. And it's the same thing with
the Jews. Same thing with the disciples. They didn't understand
what he was talking about, salvation of the Gentile. But it was revealed
to him. So here's the first thing declared
in this Book of Jonah, God's eternal purpose of grace to save
his elect who are not all the children of Abraham. The second thing declared in
the Book of Jonah is that this saving of the Gentiles would
be marked by a prophet who would be raised from the dead And don't even attempt to think
about the resurrection of Jonah as a second effort that God had
spoke to him the first time and he went off in the opposite direction
and that plan failed so now he has a second plan. No, that's
not what this was all about. This fish was prepared at the
dawn of creation with but one purpose and that was to swallow
this prophet and take him to the depths of the sea. And I
want you to I want to read for you again what I read to you
earlier, or quoted to you earlier in Matthew 12. So if you want
to turn over there, Matthew 12. I want you to look down here
at verse 38. Certain of the scribes and Pharisees
answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee, some
evidence, some proof of your office and ministry. And he could have, if he would,
have given them evidence, undeniable. But he'd already done that. But he answered and said unto
them, an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.
No sign shall be given it but the sign of the prophet Jonah.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,
so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth. So what the death, burial, and resurrection
of Jesus Christ declares is that salvation is of the Lord. When this resurrected prophet
comes who's gonna be the evidence, the evidence set forth concerning
me, Christ said, here's the evidence, I'm gonna be buried. You're gonna
kill me, nail me to a cross, bury me, and I'm gonna raise
from the dead and ascend into glory. And that's the only sign you're
gonna get. It's not how you think it is,
it's not how you were taught it is, it's not the way, perhaps,
that mom and dad said it is. Salvation is of the Lord. It's of the Lord, and this issue
must be put to rest by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus
Christ, our Lord and Savior. It's the only sign this wicked
world will ever receive. And that sign was plainly declared
by Jonah. It is the death, burial, and
resurrection of Christ which now empowers his messengers to
go to the Gentiles. We say he was just one man. Jonah
was just one man. I'm just one man. Now listen. Christ sent out 120
preachers. Everybody told him, he that heareth
you, heareth me. Now you write it down. If that
man that stands before you is called of God, it's not just
him speaking. It's the God of whom he is just
an ambassador and he's speaking. He that heareth you, heareth
me. He that despises you, now listen,
despise of man. This was Christ going forth to
Nineveh, not just Jonah. A greater than Jonah was there. You see what I'm saying? Our Lord, after he rose from
the dead, told his disciples, all power in heaven and earth
is given unto me, go ye therefore. and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Peter said, this Jesus of whom
David prophesied hath God raised up and seated him on his right
hand. Therefore let all the house of
Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom
you crucified, both Lord and Christ. This is the evidence God declares through Jonah's
experience that the prophet whom Moses and the others prophesied
of would die, be buried, and raised from the dead, and would
evidence this gospel age, set the mark of this gospel age and
the salvation of the Gentile. And then thirdly, God plainly
declares that the means he'll use to accomplish this salvation
is the preaching of the gospel. What did he tell Jonah? He said,
you go to Nineveh and preach. He didn't say go down there and
present a letter of introduction and then go in there and sit
down with the council and talk and hope to get an appointment
with the king. He said, you go down to Nineveh and preach. Well,
let me tell you something about Nineveh. Nineveh was larger than
Atlanta, Georgia. If you get on the bypass in Atlanta,
it's 60 miles around that city. Nineveh was larger than that.
It was almost 90 miles. It was three days journey just
to walk straight through the middle of it. It had a wall that
surrounded it that was 100 feet tall. probably 50 foot thick at the
bottom, and as it tapered up and got up here 100 feet in the
air, there was room to drive three chariots with horses side
by side around on top of that wall. There was 1,500 towers
that went 100 feet above that 100 foot wall. There was watchmen up there,
experts. They had machines of war. They
could shoot multiple arrows or whatever it is that they devised. Catapults, who knows what they
had. This was an impregnable fortress. You didn't just walk into Nineveh. No army in their right mind would
have attacked Nineveh. How are you going to get in? God said, you go down there and
preach. You think that wasn't a bold
prophet? He walked up, the doors opened. Opened the doors. It's just one man. What harm
can he do? There's an open door. Come on
in. Jonah walked right in. He walked a day's journey, walked
right into the heart of that city. And all the way across
there, he's preaching salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is
of the Lord. God took that city down with
one man, and he took it down through the preaching of the
gospel. I know many of you are disturbed
by the politics of our days and the things that's going on, and
I'm disturbed too, but I'm going to tell you something. God's
on the throne, and God will take this city down. He can take it
down with ease, but if he does, he's going to take it down through
the preaching of the gospel. Nothing else. God has determined
this means to glorify himself. It's the last thing in the world
that the natural man would ever imagine. Nobody in Nineveh expected
any kind of danger from the preaching of the gospel. And this man went
into that city and met absolutely no resistance. You know why? Because the preaching of the
gospel is irresistible. when the Spirit of God moves.
You couldn't resist it if you wanted to. And believe me, you won't want
to. You won't want to. From the king all the way down
to the servant. I've saved that whole outfit.
And He's going to save all His elect. Every one of His elect
through the preaching of the Gospel. Oh, He said the Word of the Lord
came unto Jonah the second time. Now this is an interesting fact
you might want to think about. In Hebrews chapter one and verse
one, Paul said, God, who at sundry times and in, that is, in different
times and various manners, spake in time past unto our fathers
by the prophets. When God spoke, anything God
wanted you to know, you're gonna learn it through the prophets.
Don't learn it anywhere else. If God intends to do something
and reveal his will about something, he's gonna tell you in the prophets. Anything and everything that
God purposed for us to know, he made known to us by the prophets. Are you with me so far? Now watch
this. Hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his son. The word of the Lord came the
second time. You see what I'm saying? It came
through his prophets. I ain't gonna speak to his son.
That's who John represented when he went into that city, the son
of God. That's who I represent this morning
as I'm trying to teach you and preach to you the gospel of God's
sovereign grace in Christ. He hath in these last days spoken
unto us Actually that you see that word in italics you take
that out and said he has spoken unto us in son That is in the
language of his son Whom he has appointed heir of all things
by whom also he made the world who being in the brightness of
his glory and express image of his person and Upholding all
things by the word of his power When he by himself purged our
sins sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high And everything
that God intends for chosen sinners to hear today, they're going
to learn through His Son. That's the language of the preaching
of the Gospel, is the language of Christ. Paul said, I'm determined
to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. We preach a person, a glorious
person, the Redeemer, the Savior, the Reconciler of all God's elect. Salvation of the Lord. And what
a type of Nineveh, the Nineveh. What a type this is of God's
Gentile elect. Dug in by religion, have built
a fortress, surrounded by these huge walls and towers. God says in the very last chapter,
I think it's, in fact, the last verse of the last chapter in
Jonah. He said that there were 600,000 in that city who couldn't
discern their left hand from their right. Three score, is
what he said. That's 120,000 infants. With
no birth control, how many adults would that be? My family, just
a short while back, had nine in it. My mother's family had
14. Now you go back to that day and
just use an average figure of 10 and take 120,000 and then
add 10 times that amount to it, now you're well over a million
people in that city. It was a huge city. Might even
say what the Lord inspired John to write in the book of Revelations,
a number that no man can number. That's the Gentiles. It was an impregnable fortress.
No army would try to do anything. But this resurrected prophet
walks up, the doors open to him, he walks in without resistance
and preaches to them, and his message is effectual to the saving
of your soul. He told those people, you got
40 days and God's gonna turn this place into rubble. How many
times in the scripture have I read to you over there in Hebrews
chapter 3, today is the day of salvation. Today, that's all
the promise you have. Today is the, and it's capitalized. And he says it three times. Don't harden your heart, don't
resist the Holy Ghost. Today is that day. He said, total destruction. And
so irresistible was this man, message, sin of God, that everybody
in there would listen to him. Every one of them. Can you imagine
that old king stripping that robe off of him and putting on
sackcloth and ashes? Repenting, crying before the
Lord. Who can tell if the Lord will show mercy? Because salvation's
in Him. God has an elect people all over
this world, a number that no man can number. And God has chosen
through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. He
has a people walled up behind closed doors, reigned over by
the strong man armed. Religion has built for him an
impregnable fortress, a refuge of lies, it says in the scriptures.
And Paul said the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, We
don't get a poster and go downtown and march. We don't try to religionize
politics. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, but they're mighty through God. Now listen to the
pulling down of strongholds, casting down of imaginations. Every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God and bringing us into obedience
and submission to his word. In Luke 11, 21, it said, when
a strong man arm keepeth his palace, his goods are at peace.
There wasn't a person in Nineveh trembling when that man walked
through the door. They had a man just look at this
city, look at the strength, look at the security, look at all
of these things that we have. And that's what the lying wonders
of Satan do. They say look at religion, look
how big it is, look how monstrous it is. And they sue them and
they're at peace and they feel like they're protected and have
some security. Until God sends his man with
a message of Christ. And the walls come down. The
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through
God. They're spiritual weapons. And a greater than Jonah was
there. He was there. One more thing and I'll quit.
Why was Jonah there? Because God purposed to save
Nineveh by the preaching of his chosen messenger. for the glory
of his name. May the Lord teach us something
about that name. Now, I want to tell you this
by way of encouragement. My friend told me how to go on
my site and find out where our messages or if our messages are
being heard. And In the first 23 days of this
year, we had over 900 plays of our
messages all over the world. I want you to think about this. Including the United States,
these sermons have been played in 22 countries. They've been
played in South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
Canada, Spain, Bruxelles, Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, Germany, Indonesia,
Italy, Austria, Bangladesh, France, Cambodia, Puerto Rico, Russia, Slovenia,
and Samoa. Do you think about that? I'm
sitting here preaching to a handful of people, and God's taking this
message just like He did with Jonah, and He's taking it out
to all His elect all over the world. I'll tell you, if that don't
encourage you, there's something wrong with you. If that don't
make you want to, let's get this message out, I don't know what
else to preach. I think it's amazing. I'm amazed. But why wouldn't you be? It's
the Lord. Now maybe next week, Lord willing,
maybe we'll talk about that gourd. Jonah went out, sat down outside
the city. He didn't want nothing to do
with them people. He's still blinded by his own prejudice,
and he's mad at God for saving them. And God taught him a lesson,
and he used a gourd to do it. All right, come here, Walter.