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Today I have a question for you. Have you ever felt like you were

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the wrong person for the job,
Like, what did you get yourself into

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You didn't have the right experience or
the right skill set. Well, I

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know I have and you probably have
too. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,

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the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick
Warren. Okay, today we're going

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to continue with the series the Manifestation
of Your Life Mission. Rick is showing

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us that no matter how big the
thing is that God is calling us to

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do, we don't have to run
away from it. We can actually run

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toward it. This is such a
good message, and I hope you'll invite

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a friend to listen along with you
as we discover how to embrace God's calling

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on our lives and how we can
live according to the purpose and plan that

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He has for us. And let's
get right to Rick as we start with

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part one of a message called what
to Remember When Things don't go your way.

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Today, we're ending a series we've
been in for several weeks on the

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Life of Jonah. We've been looking
at your life Mission. I've said this

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every week. You weren't put on
this earth simply to live for yourself.

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No, no, no, you
were made for a much greater purpose than

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you. You weren't put here to
just make money, retire and die.

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God has a plan and a purpose, and he actually has what's called a

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life mission for your life. Only
you can fulfill your life mission. If

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you don't fulfill it, you just
missed the whole purpose of your life.

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So what we've been talking about is
extremely important, and we've been looking at

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the manifestation of your life mission.
Now I told you there are three ways

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you can learn about something like,
for instance, your life mission. You

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can learn by explanation. You can
learn by example. You can learn by

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experience. You don't have enough time
in life to make all the mistakes yourself.

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It's wise to learn from experience,
but it's wiser to learn from the

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experiences of others. Then you don't
have to make those mistakes. You can

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learn from people who are more successful. You can also learn from failures and

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go I don't want to do that. In the Bible, there's this little

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book called the Book of Joonah,
only four chapters. Jonah does almost everything

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wrong in his life mission, and
what we're learning from this story are what

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not to do with your life.
It's in there as a warning saying,

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don't do it this way and save
you a lot of heartaches, save you

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a lot of pain, save you
a lot of frustration. But you were

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made for a mission. Now,
this guy, Jonah, he is a

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rogue prophet. He is a reluctant
prophet. He is a resistant prophet.

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I told you earlier he was a
bigot. He was racially prejudice. And

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when God told him, I want
you to go to the city of Nineveh,

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which was the largest city in the
world at that time, the capital

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of Assyria, and I want you
to proclaim a message to them. He

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goes, I'm not going to do
it, though, are my enemy.

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They're politically different from me. I
don't like those guys. I hate them.

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I don't want you to bless them. I don't want you to use

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them. I don't want you to
forgive them. And so he runs the

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opposite direction. Instead of going east
to Tarsha's, I'm east to Nineveh.

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He heads west to Tarsha's, a
seaport on the coast of Spain. You

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know, they have the big ship, a storm in the ocean. He's

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thrown overboard. He's swallowed by this
giant fish that the Bible says God had

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prepared, uniquely prepared. He's there
in that fish that he turns them around,

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spits him out in the right direction. And we've been following his life

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learning what not to do now so
far, here's what we've learned. In

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chapter one, up here on the
screen, we saw Jonah rebelling and running

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from God. He goes, God, I don't want to do your plan.

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I want to do my plan.
I don't want to go with your

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mission for my life. I want
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to do. Chapter two, we
see Jonah repenting and running back to God

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and goes, Okay, I'll do
it. Then last week we looked at

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chapter three where he's restarting and he's
running with God. It goes, okay,

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I'm gonna do He has a bad
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doing what God tells him to do. Now, in this last chapter,

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we're going to see Jonah regretting and
resenting because God changes the plans and Jonah

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doesn't like that. What we're going
to look at today is quickly, I

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want to review the mistakes that he
made that we've seen up to this point,

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point out a couple more mistakes that
he made in this chapter, and

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then look at what to remember when
things don't go your way. Because you

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figured out by now most of life
doesn't go your way. Everything in the

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world is broken because of sin.
Economy's broken, the weather's broken, relationships

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are broken, your body's broken.
Nothing works perfectly on this planet. And

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your plans don't work perfectly. A
lot of times you make your plans and

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what happens is the exact opposite.
Jonah had his plans for what he wanted

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God to do. God had his
plans, and when God did his plans

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instead of Jonahs, Jonah gets resentful
and regretful. Now we're going to look

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at what to remember when things don't
go your way. But first I want

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you to see, for so far, we've seen five mistakes that Jonah made.

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You don't want to make these because
these make your life miserable. Number

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one, Jonah thought there on your
outline. He thought he could ignore his

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mission, so he runs from God. Now you can run from God the

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rest of your life. But then
what are you gonna do. You're gonna

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run into God. You can run
from God the rest of your life.

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Then you can't run anymore, and
you just wasted your life. Number two

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Jonah was prejudice against people that God
created in love. That's going to always

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make you miserable. If you're prejudice, if you're a racist, you're bigot.

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Number three Jonah cared more about his
politics than people's salvation. God says,

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I want to go save that city
called Ninevah, and he goes,

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no, they're the enemy. I
don't want you to save them. He

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cared more about his politics. By
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to your nation greater than your allegiance
to God, there's a word for that.

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It's called idolatry, and it breaks
the first two of the ten commandments,

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where God says you're not to have
anything before me. I'm to be

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number one in your life. Okay. Then he says Number four Jonah was

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only interested in his nation, not
the whole world. That's a mistake.

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And number five Jonah reluctantly fulfilled his
mission, but he does it with a

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bad attitude. As we saw last
week. He eventually goes to Nineveh and

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instead of giving a message of love
and forgiveness and God wants you to change

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if you'll turn back to him.
He walks in and goes, you guys

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are going to die by not exactly
positive popular message and not exactly expressing the

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love of God. Now, in
Jonah chapter four what would come to today,

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we find two more mistake and both
of them involve resentment resentment. Because

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Jonah doesn't get his way, he
gets resentful. Now, let me just

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say here, resentment is the most
worthless emotion in your life. Any time

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you get resentful, you're gonna hurt
yourself more than you hurt the person you're

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resentful against. If I ask you
to remember somebody who's hurt you, you

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could probably pretty quickly bring up somebody
in your mind who's hurt you, and

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you've had resentment against them. You
think by resenting them, you're holding them

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accountable. But actually, when when
you're resenting somebody, all you're doing is

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make yourself miserable. They're not even
thinking about you while you're thinking about them

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all the time. There are people
who hurt you a year ago, five

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years ago, ten years ago in
your life. You're still holding on to

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that hurt that's dumb. They can't
hurt you anymore. Unless you hold onto

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the memory of it. That's called
resentment. They're not even thinking about you

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while you're stewing and spewing and go, I hate the fact that they did

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that to me, And you're going
over and over in your mind gets bigger

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and bigger. They're out there cooking
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ice cream, and playing golf.
They're not even thinking about you. Who's

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the miserable one you? Resentment never
helps, it always hurts you. Gotta

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let it go, You gotta let
it go. Now. These are the

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next two mistakes that Jonah makes.
I don't want you because I care about

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you, because I love you.
I want your life to be happy.

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I want your life to be successful. You got to get this resentment stuff

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out of your life. No matter
what people have done to you, they

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can't hurt you anymore unless you hold
on to it. The resentment now here.

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Now. While resentment is is bad
against anybody, the worst kind is

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when you have resentment against God.
And you may have never even thought about

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this, but you have had times
in your life. We all have where

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we're resentful against God. God,
why did you do that? Why didn't

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you do this? Why did you
let that happen? And you get resentful

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against God? That causes all kinds
of problems. Now here are the two

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mistakes that Jonah may. I want
you to write these down so you don't

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make them okay in your life.
Number one is resenting God's plan when it

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doesn't fit my plan. That's what
Jonah did, resenting God's plan for my

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life when it doesn't fit my plan
for my life. Have you ever done

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that? Of course you have.
You got mad at God when you had

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a plan and your plan for graduation, for marriage, for that job,

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for whatever didn't happen. Resentment is
a deadly poison. It's like drinking arsenic

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and hoping it kills your opponent,
like aiming a shotgun at yourself and pulling

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the trigger so you hit your enemy
with a kick of the recoil. It's

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always going to hurt you more than
it hurts anybody else. But resentment against

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God is especially bad. Now why
was Jonah resentful? I'll tell you why.

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Because he wanted his enemies, the
city of Ninevah, to be destroyed.

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God's going I want to forgive them, I want to warn them and

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hope they'll turn back. To me, God, Jonah's gone. I don't

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want you to forgive them, and
so he doesn't want God to let him

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off the hook. In Jonah Chapter
three, verse ten, the last verse

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the last chapter, and first verses
of the next chapter, it says this

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on the screen when God saw that
the people of Nineveh had put a stop

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to their evil ways, and they
really were a pretty wicked city. They

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were kind of like Nazis of that
day. They were very, very brutal.

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When Ninave had put a stop to
their evil ways, he had mercy

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on them and he canceled the destruction
he had threatened. Now, this change

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of plans upset Jonah and he became
furious. So Jonah complained to the Lord

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about it. Now, I remember
I told you last week. When God

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warns you about something, you know, if you don't change this, it's

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gonna be They're gonna be problems,
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Whenever God warns you, that's a
good sign because the warning means I

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don't want to do it. I
don't want to discipline you. I don't

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want to publish. I'm just warning
you. When God warns you, if

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you walk off that cliff, you're
gonna fall. That's that's for your good,

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not for your bad. So a
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God just wanted to punish you.
He just punished you. He doesn't

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warn you, he just does it. And so God says, I want

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you to go to Nineveh and warn
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things are going to change. Well, that's a symptom that I want to

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forgive them, and that's what God
wanted to do. Well, Jonah doesn't

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want that. When God warns,
Jonah's hoping that he has destruction. So

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he gets resentful. Because God decides, I'm going to forgive these guys because

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they've turned back to me, so
I'm going to forgive them. Jonah blows

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a gasket. He gets upset,
He gets resentful against God. Now,

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how do you know? You?
How do you know when you're resentful of

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God? You're going to find five
emotions in your life. Write these down.

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These are signs that subconsciously you are
resenting God right now. Number one

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is frustration. Frustration in your life
is a sign that you're resenting God.

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The Bible says, this change of
plans upset Jonah he got very frustrated.

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He got very upset, he got
ticked off. Now, this revival,

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when God said I'm going to forgive
him, it's good news for everybody except

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Jonah. When God says I'm going
to forgive the whole city, everybody's rejoicing

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except one guy, Jonah. Why
because he's the guy who doesn't want them.

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He wants them to be destroyed.
So he's frustrated. Second thing is

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anger. It says Jonah became furious. That word there in the Bible literally

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means he lost his temper. He's
in a rage. He's livid. He

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is indignant that God did not destroy
the people who had hurt him. Why

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didn't you destroy those people? And
so he's he's not only frustrated, he's

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angry. Number Three self pity.
When you have self pity, often behind

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it will be resentment. It says, he complained to the Lord and he

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goes, oh poor me. Nobody
likes me, everybody hates me. I'm

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gonna go eat worms. And he
has a pity party and he invites me

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myself an eye. Have you ever
done that, had a pity party for

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yourself? Oftentimes there's resentment behind that
frustration, anger, self pity. Now

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in the next verse, it's as
this. Now Jonah says, I ask

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you, Lord, please kill me. Huh, please kill me, for

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it's better for me to die than
to live. Oh, this guy's way

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off. Now, okay, this
guy is seriously are you kidding me?

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This is extreme resentment. God,
just kill me. I'd rather be dead

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than alive. Now here are the
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It's better for me to die than
live. That's severe depression and suicidal

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Lord, just kill me. Okay, I don't want to live. My

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plans didn't work out, so I
don't want to live. Just you know,

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take my life. Now, how
rational is this? Okay, this

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is extreme resentment. Okay, Now
it's not rational because think of all the

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things that God has done for Jonah
so far in his life, all the

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stuff he's survived because of miracles.
He survives a storm at sea, he

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survives being thrown overboard by those sailors
that we looked at a couple weeks ago.

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He survives being swallowed by a giant
fish. All these things have happened

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that he's still alive, and he's
going I just want to die. I

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just want to die now? Why
is that? This is what happened when

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hate fills your heart. Hate filling
your heart will cause these emotions. Resentment

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filling your heart will cause these emotions. And actually they actually come in order,

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because it starts with frustration because things
aren't going the way you want them

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to do. Then it goes from
frustration to anger. I'm ticked at God

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because things aren't going the way I
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there to self pity, and I
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Then it moves from there to depression, and then it could move to I

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may as well just die. It
progresses. That's what happens when you hold

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hate in your heart. I am
begging you, as your pastor, I

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am begging you, whoever you're holding
hatred against, whoever you're holding hurt against,

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whoever you're holding resentment against, let
it go. Let it go,

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because if you hold it in your
heart, hatred in your heart produces and

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resentment in your art produces frustration and
anger and self pity and depression. And

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I remember many many, many many
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married. The first year, about
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not getting along in our marriage,
and we were fighting like crazy and we

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were like brand new newlyweds. Kay
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I ended up in the hospital.
I literally was in the hospital, and

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I remember a psychiatrist came in.
This is like forty five years ago.

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Psychiatrist comes into me and he goes, so, what's your problem? I

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said, well, I'm depressed.
I'm depressing. So really, what are

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you angry about? I said,
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I'm just depressed because anger, depression
is sometimes frozen anger when you swallow your

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emotions your stomach. He's score.
And I was so angry at Kay,

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and I was swallowing it. I
wasn't expressing or I was repressing it,

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and it was causing depression in me. When you hold anger, when you

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hold hatred, when you hold hurt, when you hold resentment in your heart,

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you're not hurting the other person,
You're just hurting yourself. You gotta

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let it go. That's a mistake
that Jonah made. I just want to

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die. It always hurts you more. Now here's the second mistake that Jonah

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made. First is resenting God's plan
when it doesn't fit my plan. I

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resent God because his plan doesn't fit
my plan. The second resentment is resenting

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God's mercy and goodness to other people. I mean, God is good to

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people. I don't want him to
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When God is merciful and forgiving to
people, I don't want him to

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forgive. Then I get upset.
And that's what happened to this guy,

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Jonah. Jonah hates that God is
forgiving people. He doesn't like that,

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not only as political enemy. As
I told you, he's racially prejudiced against

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these people Jonah, Chapter four,
verse two. It says this. Then

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Jonah complained, Now, who's he
complaining to you? To God? He

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says, didn't I say he's talking
to God? Didn't I say before I

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left home that I knew you would
do this, Lord, in other words,

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forgive these people. That's why I
ran away to Tarsius. You know,

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he said, this is why I
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I knew that you are a gracious
and compassionate God. I know you're slow

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to get angry. I know that
you're filled with unfailing love. I knew

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how easily you could cancel your plans
for punishing these people. Now, Notice,

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Jonah says, I ran from God, and I ran from my life

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mission. I ran from what God
had told me to do, because I

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knew what a good God he is. He said, Notice the four things

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that God knows about God. He
says, I knew you're gracious and compassionate.

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He says, I knew you're patient. In other words, you're slow

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to get angry. God doesn't get
ticked fast. He's patient, he's slow

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to get angry. He says,
I knew your love is unlimited, it's

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everlasting, it's eternal. And he
goes, I knew that you would rather

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forgive people than punish them. And
all this knowledge, what does it do

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to Jonah? It depresses him,
really, really, all these good things

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about God and Jonah gets depressed.
Why here's why. Because Jonah had a

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problem that you and I have to. We want forgiveness for ourselves and we

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want justice for everybody else. Thank
you for listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

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You know, I know that you
would love to live a life of

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significance. But have you ever wondered
if you could make a contribution so unique

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that no one else in all the
world could do what you've accomplished. Well,

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you need to stop wondering, because
God created you to make a difference

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in the world. He created you
to fulfill a mission that only you can

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accomplish. I know you may be
thinking that God couldn't use you like that,

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but you know what he can.
And not only can he, but

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he will. It really doesn't matter
what you've done or what you've failed to

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do. It doesn't matter how young
or how old you are. It is

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never too early or too late to
start on the mission that God has planned

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for you. And that's why I'm
so excited to let you know about a

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brand new Bible study from Pastor rig
called Rising to God's Call a Journey through

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Jonah. In this study, Rick
is going to show you how God had

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an incredible mission for Jonah and it
went well beyond being swallowed by a big

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fish. Jonah's story is really about
second chances and redemption and the rescue of

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an entire nation. And more importantly, it's the story of God, the

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one who shows grace to everyone he
created. You know, the story of

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Jonah is really like a blueprint from
God. It shows all of us how

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He can use you to do significant
things no matter where you are in life

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right now, and just like Jonah, you're going to find that pursuing God's

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mission for your life is the greatest
adventure that you will ever go on.

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And we're going to send you Pastor
Rick's brand new Bible study Rising to God's

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