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*Note: I have not completed the revisions,
and some points of Mark Swett’s Transcript
Are not accuruate either by omission or by
subsititutions of what is being said in the
Audio Archived Sermon. A good example
Of such can easily be seen in the opening moments
of this particular post in this presentation. While such does not have to do with the sermon itself, rather a discussion of a visitor outside Mt. Carmel when this audio track was being made. But there are other inaccuracies in Mark Swetts work here which need to be revised. Still, Kudos to Mark Swett for his efforts as transcription is a very TEDIOUS process.
Jonah Part A
MARK YouTube Video TIMELINE 09:08
(*Transcript beginning in this post corresponds to 09:08 on the Timeline of the audio Track of the video above)
Steve Schneider: Vernon, there's a guy at the gate that just stopped by and
wants to hear. No one knows who he is.
David: Well, what does he look like? Anybody know - recognize him.
Male: He's a pretty clean guy. He has a pickup truck.
David: Huh? Well, go out there Terry and see. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. So what's the object lesson here? What's the object lesson? Huh? Well, Jonah served a real God - a living true God who had power over the land, earth, and sea . Anything contrary to the God of that temple that Jonah prayed to is vanity. Now Jonah knew enough of
this God that he explained to the guys that the reason why this was - cause he had turned away from an obligation God had committed to him, and this obligation was for the sole salvation of many people, wasn't it? To cry
against Nineveh, the great city of Assyria. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. What was the vow that all Israel was to make unto God?
Class: {unintelligible}
David: That's the vow of Israel since the days that God brought Israel out of Egypt by the hand of Moses. {For their seed and their seed cease
throughout all generation to obey the present truth? And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. So we can say at this point Jonah realized that he was nothing but puke, right? Right? Jonah
wasn't nothing but old puke was he? So who was he to deny the authority of the most high, and to fear man, or the son of man which was made as grass, right? Now people always think that prophets have to be holy and divine,
but this story is a record to show you that God is the one in charge of salvation, and God is the one who chooses whom he will choose. God could
have easily slain Jonah and chose a multitude of others, but the story is written so that we might be confident that God's purposes are His purposes
and we're not to judge or misjudge God's reasons for doing what he does. God used Jonah to save, even though Jonah wasn't {in any hurry} to be in
the ministry, was he? God chose to raise up the sea, and to use Jonah as an object to save, not that Jonah would tell a man anything. Here's the
keynote. And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching
that I bid thee. Ok. Here's the object lesson. So Jonah arose, and went
unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. Let's pay attention. Let's pay
attention, Rachel. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be what?
Class: Overthrown.
David: Now class here comes a message - here comes a messenger whose purpose is to threaten a city - given an allotted time period. Now you've
got to imagine the kind of men that were inhabitants of this city. You have
to meditate, and realize that in a city such as Nineveh the capitol of Assyria - you know how the Assyrian's were - that they would even consider
a message not even from their own origin. Jonah was a Hebrew - a stranger -an alien to this society, and yet here comes a man out of his social atmosphere, and he comes and tells the world's greatest city at this time
that God's gonna destroy them within forty days. So the people of Nineveh
believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. Now that's strange. But now
we've got to meditate upon the object of this lesson - the book of Jonah.
The object is the reason why this book is written. First of all, we see the
purpose of God. Second of all, we see the man whom God has chosen to use.
God has chosen Jonah. Jonah fled from his responsibility. Fact? And
nevertheless God, for some purpose unbeknown to us at this point, God
decides to use Jonah even still. There's other stories in the Bible where
God informed men to do certain things, and they refused, and they were
slain. But this is in the scripture for a reason.
Let's proceed:
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. You could say that by the authority of this spirit, that the king of Nineveh was convicted. Now remember in our study the other day. When God confronts the arm of the LORD, God say's: Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? Now the Bible student is fully aware that Rahab the harlot was not any wise cut or wounded by any sword of man. For this woman, while time permitted, was to partake of the covenant given to Moses. That is, the covenant that God told to Moses, of all the nations that you shall come up against, if they shall war against you, you shall utterly destroy them. But if they shall proclaim peace against thee, and shall come unto thee saying, we will serve thy God, and be under thy yoke. Then what was Moses to do to those nations? To bring them in, and they were to be as one of Israel. Weren't they? Now Rahab the harlot, a champion no doubt for the service of Satan, in that any harlot would be - right? Rahab was given opportunity by the situation and circumstance to show faith in the purposes of God, right? She knew well that God's purpose was to give Israel the whole land - the land of Cannan, and by the example done unto Egypt, and by the power manifested by the Red Sea being opened. Rahab quit while she had a chance, didn't she? Who convicted her of the impossibility of her having victory against these Hebrews?
Class: The Holy Spirit
David: The Holy Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit can convict of sin - reprove
the world for righteousness, right? Ok. Now when God confronts the arm of
the LORD God explains: Art thou it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the
dragon? We were talking earlier about the commission of God to Adam and
Eve. The warfare's between the woman and the dragon. The seed of the woman
is to wound the what?
Class: The head of the dragon.
David: The head of the dragon. And the dragon is to wound the heal. Well,
we have a lesson don't we? It's been through the working of the spirit of
God that men - men who have been led of Satan have had their minds blown.
The ultimacy of God's purposes: His mercy, His goodness, His truth, and
this is what causes true conversion. And we can see the wisdom of God for
our benefit. When Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. Here is
God represented as a snake. Well, we thought the devil was the snake. Well,
they thought Christ was the devil, until he was lifted up. Then he would
draw men to him though the wisdom of God. We were wrong, he was right. This
is the object lesson, isn't it? So we see that through this message of
Jonah - through God's efforts - the God who had made the whale, or the
fish, the God who had made the sea, and the land, the God who had caused
the tempest, the God who had done everything so forth, that these men by
hearing the words of Jonah were convicted, not by the presence of Jonah,
but by what?
Class: The spirit.
David: The Holy Spirit who had power over all this situation, correct?
MARK: YouTube TIMELINE 18:30
(*Written Transcript beginning in this post corresponds to 09:08 and on the Timeline of the audio Track of the video above and Ends at 18:30. Track should be set to 18:30 in next post to resume synchronization with written transcript)
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