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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">March 16, 2013</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
26 - JONAH 3-4 - OBEDIENCE, COMPAINT AND REBUKE</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:1-2 (ESV) JONAH: RECOMISSIONED. <font size="3">“Then the word of
the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2
</font><font size="3">‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and
call out against it the message that I tell you.’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Kingdom Father, is Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit!
You desired </span><span style="font-weight:normal">for</span><span style="font-weight:normal">
the people of Nineveh to experience this. For this You commissioned
Jonah the second time. </span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
3:3-4 JONAH: PREACHES TO NINEVEH. <font size="3">“So Jonah arose
and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh
was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">4
</font><font size="3">Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s
journey. And he called out, ‘Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown!’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Sometimes
Father, we do Your will from a grudging heart </span><span style="font-weight:normal">-
</span><span style="font-weight:normal"> even Your servants! O
forgive us for such an ununited heart! </span><b><i> Your :kingdom
come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
3:5 (3:5-9) NINEVEH REPENTS. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">And
the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on
sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We
marvel Father, at this city-repentance by a wicked city! And we
marvel too at this revelation of Your heart! In the light of this, we
can more easily see why we with our faith can so pray. </span><b><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
3:10. NINEVEH SPARED BY GOD. <font size="3">“When God saw what
they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the
disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How our works prove our
faith! O forgive us Father, for failing to comprehend Your forgiving
heart. Give us a heart like Your heart. Make us like David, people
after Your heart. </span><b><i>Our :daily :bread Give us this day.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
4:2b (4:1-4) JONAH’S ANGER AND COMPLAINT. <font size="3">“That
is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a
gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast
love, and relenting from disaster.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Ah,
here we hear Jonah: true testimony concerning You Father, even though
he did not approve. He had the spirit of James and John before
Pentecost. But </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">we know</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
what You are like! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
4:5 (4:5-8) JONAH’S SORROW. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Jonah
went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth
for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see
what would become of the city.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, our hearts our sorrowful for Jonah’s hard sorrow. May we
rather rejoice in Your heart of mercy, compassion and forgiveness.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And bring us
not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
4:11 (4:9-11) JONAH’S LESSON. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more
than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their
left, and also much cattle?” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
bless You for Your last word, Father. We vindicate You and justify
You. We choose to side with Your way of doing things. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
3:8-9 (3:5-9) NINEVEH’S KING: HIS DECREE. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out
mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the
violence that is in his hands. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">9
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Who
knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so
that we many not perish.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we marvel at the heart of this wicked, heathen king! May it never be
said that we have less faith and trust than him!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Committees Waste Their Time”</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
- While committees waste their time over resolutions, do something.
While Societies and Unions are making constitutions, let us win
souls. Too often we discuss, and discuss, and discuss, while Satan
only laughs in his sleeve. It is time we had done planning, and
sought something to plan.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 86:10-12 (86) GREAT IS YOUR STEADFAST LOVE!
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For you
are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Teach
me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; </span></font><u><font size="3">unite
my heart to fear your name</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">12
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">I give
thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify
your name forever.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, by this confession, we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">hallow
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Title:
“A Prayer of David.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
have here one of the five Psalms entitled Tephillahs, or prayers.
This Psalm consists of praise as well as prayer, but it is in all
parts so directly addressed to God that it is most fitly called “a
prayer.” A prayer is none the less but all the more a prayer
because veins of praise run through it. This Psalm would seem to have
been specially known as David’s prayer; even as the Nineteenth is
“the prayer of Moses.” The name of God occurs very
frequently in this Psalm. Sometimes it is Jehovah, but more commonly
Adonai, which it is believed by many learned scholars was written by
the Jewish transcribers instead of the sublimer title, because their
superstitious dread led them to do so: we, laboring under no such
tormenting fear, rejoice in Jehovah, our God. It is singular that
those who were so afraid of their God, that they dared not write His
name, had yet so little godly fear, that they dared to alter His
Word.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Bow down
Your ear, O Lord, hear me. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
condescension to my littleness, and in pity to my weakness, “bow
down Your ear, O Lord.” When our prayers are lowly by reason of our
humility, or feeble by reason of our sickness, or without wing by
reason of our despondency, the Lord will bow down to them, the
infinitely exalted Jehovah will have respect unto them. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For
I am poor and needy. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Of
all the despicable sinners, those are the worst who use the language
of spiritual poverty while they think themselves to be rich and
increased with goods.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For I am
holy: O You my God, save Your servant that trusts in You. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Lest
any man should suppose that David trusted in his own holiness he
immediately declared his trust in the Lord, and begged to be saved as
one who was not holy in the sense of being perfect, but was even yet
in need of the very elements of salvation. </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Unto You, O
Lord, do I lift up my soul. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">As
the heliotrope looks to the sun for its smile, so turn I my heart to
You. You are as the brazen serpent to my sick nature, and I lift up
my soul’s eye to You, that I may live. I know that the nearer I am
to You the greater is my joy; therefore be pleased to draw me nearer
while I am laboring to draw near. It is not easy to lift up a
soul at all; it needs a strong shoulder at the wheel when a heart
sticks in the miry clay of despondency: it is less easy to lift a
soul up to the Lord, for the height is great as well as the weight
oppressive; but the Lord will take the will for the deed and come in
with a hand of Almighty grace to raise His poor servant out of the
earth and up to heaven.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:6.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Attend to
the voice of my supplications. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Here
are repetitions, but not vain repetitions. When a child cries, it
repeats the same note, but it is equally in earnest every time, and
so was it with the suppliant here.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:10.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You are God
alone. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Alone
were You God before Your creatures were; alone in Godhead still are
You now that You have given life to throngs of beings; alone forever
shall You be, for none can ever rival You. True religion makes no
compromises; it does not admit Baal or Dagon to be a god; it is
exclusive and monopolizing, claiming Jehovah nothing less than all.
The vaunted liberality of certain professors of modern thought
is not to be cultivated by believers in the truth. “Philosophic
breadth: aims at building a Pantheon and piles a Pandemonium; it is
not for us to be be helpers in such an evil work.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:12.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I will
praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart. </span></i></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">When
my heart is one</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
I will give you all of it. Praise should never be rendered with less
than all our heart, and soul, and strength, or it will be both unrea</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">l
and unacceptable.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">86:13.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And You have
delivered my soul from the lowest hell. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">There
are some alive now who can use this language unfeignedly, and he who
pens these lines most humbly confesses that he is one. Left to myself
to indulge my passions, to rush onward with my natural vehemence, and
defy the Lord with recklessness of levity, what a candidate for the
lowest abyss should I have made myself by this time. For me, there
was but one alternative, great mercy or the lowest hell. With my
whole heart do I sing, “Great is Your mercy towards me, and You
have delivered by soul from the lowest hell.” </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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