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Secretly I am a galactic warrior from another planet but don’t tell anyone, I am here to save earth from those pesky aliens
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Welcome To Hope C Hopkins Website |
Secretly I am a galactic warrior from another planet but don’t tell anyone, I am here to save earth from those pesky aliens
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So lets talk about an example of God’s Grace, His mercy and favor. Jonah is a perfect example of this. Jonah’s name means. What a contradiction because he was the complete opposite of his name meaning. He was judgmental and hardheaded. Jonah was devoted to his people, yet he hated the Assyrians, the enemy of Israel. So let’s explain why Jonah disobeyed God and did not want to preach to the Assyrians. To give you some history, Assyria was a great but evil Empire and it was Israel’s most dreaded enemy. The Assyrians flaunted their power before God and the world through numerous acts of heartless cruelty. Yet in the midst of their cruelty, God wanted to save the Assyrians because he loved them and cared for them and wanted them to turn from their wicked ways. This is an example of God’s grace. No matter who you are or what you have done God will still forgive you, extending his grace to you hoping you will change your ways. So, in the first chapter of Jonah the heading reads Jonah forsakes his mission. He runs from the Lord. The Lord gave this message to Jonah saying, get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are. but Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board hoping to escape from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh but he didn’t listen, Nineveh was about 500 miles away North East of Israel to warn them of judgment and to declare that the people could receive mercy and forgiveness if they repented. But Jonah ran in the opposite direction, in a literal sense. Tarshish which is in southern Spain was 2000 miles away. Talking about runaway right? Since Jonah was hardheaded and did not listen to God, God took matters into his own hands. As Jonah sailed away on the boat, the Lord hurled a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm that threatened to break the ship apart. The desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw cargo overboard to lighten the ship.
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