Jonah The Man The Message The Movement by Keith Daniel

[Music] [Applause] now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of amitayus saying arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry against it for their wickedness is come up before me but Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord and went down to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the fare that up and went down into it to go with him a Tatar cease from the presence of the Lord but the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea and there was a mighty tempest in the sea so that the SIP was like to be broken and the Mariners were afraid and cried every man unto his God and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea to lighten to them but Jonah was gone down to the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep so the ship master came to him and said unto him what meanest thou o sleeper arise call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not and they said every one to his fellow come and let us cause Lots that we may know for whose cause as evil has come upon us so they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah then said they unto Him tell us we pray thee for whose causes evil is upon us what is thine occupation and whence comest thou what is the country and of what people are Dow and he said unto them I am in Hebrew and I fear the Lord the God of heaven which have made to sea in the dry land then when the men exceedingly afraid and said unto Him why as thou Dundas for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord because he had told them then said they unto him what should we do unto thee that the sea may be common to us for the siraat and wisdom pastures and he said unto them take me up and costs me forth into the sea so Selassie be coming to you for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you nevertheless the men rode hard to bring it to the land but they could not for the sea rotten was Tim pestis against them whether they cried unto the Lord and said we beseech thee O Lord we beseech thee let us not Paris to this man's life let us not Paris for this man's life and lay not upon us innocent blood for the our Lord has done as it pleased thee thou our Lord has done as it pleased thee so they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea and the sea ceased from her aging then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly and after that agonizing prayer in Chapter two after that agonizing prayer in Chapter two we read in verse ten and the Lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land and the word of the Lord came at a tone of the second time saying arise go unto Nineveh that great city and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee so Jonah rose and went on to Nineveh into the word of the Lord now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey and so on I began to enter into the city a day's journey and he cried and said yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown 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 the 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 and he caused him to proclaim and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying let neither man nor beast heard her flock taste anything let them not feed nor drink water but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God he let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not in God God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not he did it not with even Romans 10 verse 12 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher without a preacher and how shall they preach how Sall they preach except they be sent how shall they preach except they be sent I would like for us I would like for us tonight to carefully consider three things in the Book of Jonah the man the message and the movement the man the message and the movement firstly firstly the man the man the preparation the preparation of a man whom God would use as an instrument of revival the preparation of a man whom God would use as an instrument of revival how does God prepare a man to preach how does God prepare a man to preach in such a way that a whole nation repents how does God prepare a man to preach in such a way that a whole nice and repents oh I'd like to suggest something here tonight that I don't think has ever been suggested before but something I believe with my whole heart I'd like to suggest that God God knew how Jonah would react God knew how Jonah would react when he commissioned him to go to Nineveh that great city and cry against it cry against it for their wickedness has come up before me God knew how Jonah would react Nineveh of Assyria oh these Ninevites of Assyria with a wicked people and evil people a cruel people they were hated they were feared by the nations of the world and the Israelites the Israelites had suffered terribly sorely through these wicked Eve people the Ninevites the capital of Assyria this wicked nation they feared them they hated them for what they were and what they did to the other nations of the world and to Israel it's no wonder it's know under Jonah rose up to flee to flee and the Tarsus from the presence of the Lord who beloved don't doubt it don't doubt it God knew God knew how Jonah would react God knew how Jonah would react but God knew something else also God knew something else also guarding you of the torment and the anguish and the fear and the suffering this man would endure before he finally reached Nineveh garden you garden you of the torment and the anguish and the fear and the suffering this man would endure before he finally stood at Nineveh to preach how do I know how do I know Jonah suffered so whoa chapter 2 chapter 2 the prayer of Jonah a prayer of a man who wanted to die he was in such torment have you ever prayed like that preacher the prayer of a man who wanted to die he was in such torment such dormant or beloved a very different owner a very different owner finally walked onto the streets of Nineveh to preach than the man who rose up to flee unto Tarsus from the presence of the Lord don't doubt this this man stood and preached he stood and preached in brokenness and great humility this man stood and preached in brokenness and great humility in spite of his presidents against the Ninevites CH Spurgeon you're poor if you haven't read his sermons CH Spurgeon was the only man they ever called the Prince of all preachers I fear these labels they give men you know I fear for what I've seen God do in moments to a man who touched the glory I fear these labels but you know when I read Spurgeon sermons my heart sank when I realized it's true this this was the Prince of preachers but why why was this man's preaching so revered why was this man's preaching so honored and revered above all other preachers of the history of the church what did God do to Spurgeon to make him preach in such a way that the world remembers him as the greatest preacher that ever lived what did God do to Spurgeon to make him preach in such a way the world remembered him as the greatest preacher that ever lived Spurgeon Spurgeon gave us the answer only once he spoke of it it was so terrible a thing to this man but he spoke once before he died in his old age he stood in the prophet of God and the tears the tears flowed down his face as he looked out and hesitated and then said why Spurgeon said if it wasn't if it wasn't for the sufferings if it wasn't for the storms if it wasn't for the fires for the trials of my faith for the tragedies that God allowed come upon my life if it wasn't for these things I would be poverty-stricken in the burbot of God I would be poor as a preacher in the hand of God you cannot weep with them that weep unless you've wept yourself Oh what it will cost for a man to become the instrument of revival Oh what it will cost a man to become the instrument of revival don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise Spurgeon Spurgeon said if God if God could just find one man so broken itself so broken itself that he will not touch the glory no matter what God does through him if God could just find one man so broken itself that he will not touch the glory no matter what God does through him a man so broken by God that he will be incapable of even a side with glance at the glory let alone touch it but if God could find such a man Spurgeon said the world wouldn't know of him the world wouldn't know of him the world would know of him but I would like for us to night to carefully consider three things in the book of johna firstly a man the man secondly the message the message the message what was the message that Jonah preached that brought about such an amazing movement of God beloved what was the message that Jonah preached that brought about such an amazing movement of gods oh it's a message it's a message we can hardly whisper today people are so fearful of it Jonah Jonah preached judgment Jonah preached judgment beloved America will never see revival door doubted don't doubt it until judgment is preached once again in her bill bits don't doubt it pray for revival but will you be the first to fight it in God's Way a medical never see revival don't doubt it unto judgment is preached once again loud and clear in her puppets listen to these staggering words and as a keel chapter 33 verse 7 so Thou O son of man I have set the awash man unto the house of Israel therefore thou shalt hear the word in my mouth and warn them from me when I say unto the wicked o wicked man thou shalt surely die o wicked man thou shalt surely die if thou does not speak if thou does not speak to warn the wicked from his way if thou does not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die is iniquity but his blood his blood will I require a dine hand nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it if he do not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity but thou has delivered thy saw preacher thou has delivered I saw when I was a young preacher I remember being staggered by God in one quiet time on my knees I was so staggered by God as I read a daily devotional I was so staggered I came to a stop in life for a good while as a young preacher at what I read in that devotional I was so staggered I wrote these words in the front pages of my Bible I wrote them in the front pages of my Bible art thou ready Oh preacher to take the consequences of letting the Lord speak through thee as he will art thou ready Oh preacher to take the consequences of letting the Lord speak through thee as he will all he wrote in Galatians 1:10 do I seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ do I seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ do you seek to please men sir you're not the servant of Christ 1 Thessalonians 2:4 but as we were allowed of God to be put and trust with the gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men not as pleasing men but God which try our hearts art thou radio preacher to take the consequences of letting the Lord speak through thee as he were as he were Jonah preached judgment beloved Jonah preached judgment beloved your harshest word from the pulpit of God must throb with love or God will rebuke you we look at this message now your cruelest world from your lips in the pulpit of God must so throb with love with God's love that every single person you're preaching to will become conscious utterly no man has ever loved my soul like this preacher that's how we preach judgment or God will judge us God will judge us Jonah preached judgment but here comes the shocking thing of this message Jonah cried out the judgment would come upon them as a nation because of their sin that's a terrible thing that's a terrible thing listen to Jeremiah 18 verse 1 the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will cause thee to hear my words then I went down to the potter's house and behold he taught to work on the wheels he taught to work on the wheels and the vessel that he made of clay the vessel that he made of clay was marred ruined in the hand of the Potter so he made it again he made it again another vessel as seemed good to the Potter to make it then the word of the Lord came to me say o house of Israel can that I do with you as this Potter saith the Lord behold as the clay is in the Potters hand as the clay is in the Potters hand so are you in mine hand o house of Israel at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it if that nation against whom I pronounce turned from their evil I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them and what is the nice will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it ever do evil and my sight that it obey not my voice then I will repent of the goods I will repent of the good with I said I would benefit them now therefore go to speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying thus saith the Lord behold I frame evil against you i frame evil against you and devise a device against you return you now every one from his evil way and make your ways and your doings Goods make your ways and your doings good and they said and they said there is no hope oh oh there is no hope but we will walk after our own devices and we were every one to the imagination of his evil heart nothing will stop us we want to be free from any constraint concerning sin nothing's going to stop us we want to be free from any constraint concerning sin how many nations in the world today are saying that beloved he's America saying it in the heart of her people is that what your nation is crying back to God in Psalm 2 verse 1 the psalmist cries out in confusion and great fear and so do I so do I why why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us why why do the heathen rage why do the ungodly the godless the irreligious why do they unitedly assemble and with one voice cry out for one thing why to the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing the people of the populace contemplate and meditate a tragic thing it means the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord oh they would be shocked if you told them that against his anointed saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us so they feel the pulse of the nation you know of the generation coming up that they've got to get the votes from you can't wait to tell her what's going on by the leaders in the heart of the nation let us break their bands asunder they say and cast away their cords from us think of these words the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed speaking of Christ Christianity it's influence the Gospels influence upon a nation it is break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us come let us break ourselves and free ourselves from all the slavery and bondage to God's law we want to be free from any restraint of sin we want to take away censorship and call it off we want to take away decent speech and call it free speech we went out children to hear the language of the gutter and presented as the language of the home we don't want any restrictions and films and media and books and on the stage come let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords the next verse says he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision do you want to know what I see written across America and the West and my country one world dear ISM fear confusion you think you can do without God what you saw America you reap it's not only individual applies nationally to you so perversion yury perverts and then you want to Jalen you made them there ten years old with guns why because you made Hollywood able to put crime and slaughter as something heroic so gangs are there and gangsters are there when they're 10 years old he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision then said he speak unto them in his wrath and trouble them in this sore displeasure you want to know what all your troubles are going on right now being a greatest nation in the world but look at your fearful hearts as you see crime and you see children destroyed morally before they passed the age of 10 they have no honor look at their eyes there's no innocence what have we done why have we done it why he's troubling us in his sore displeasure the arisen fear confusion hopelessness as to what are we gonna do to stop what we've started now that we've pushed God out how do we get back to decency without God you know the verses that follow fill me with hope that God can revive nations like ours that God longs to in spite in spite of generations arising that would reject God and all the influence of Christianity that their forefathers set as a foundation in the land in spite of a generation arising that would reject all the influence of Christianity that their father fathers embraced fighting to free themselves of it in spite of the supposed to see rising up a halt and a raisin in spite of it God says these amazing words yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion I would declare the decree the LORD hath said unto me thou art my son this day have I begotten thee ask of me and I should give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession to know when the high priests who stand at the right hand of God we'll ask the father such a petition is when we cry out give us America give us America plead with the father old Jesus thou son of God who he promised ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance the uttermost parts of the earth Oh for such a revival that would start and spread through the world for thy possession thou shalt break them with a rod of iron now comes the judgment if you don't turn thou some break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them and pieces like a Potter's vessel be wise now therefore ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling kiss the son lest they be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little bless her all day that put their trust in him Oh be wise now therefore all ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling rejoice and fear and trembling that there's still grace and mercy that he hasn't destroyed you yet rejoice and trembling kiss the Sun pay homage to the son of gods and knowledge him the gospel of Christ embrace there is a nation kiss the Son of God as a nation ye rulers you who are in charge be the first like the Ninevites rulers were seeking God kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little I wonder how much his wrath is kindled right now of your nation that influences the whole world America he was so blessed once now they want to follow you into anything and they will bless it all blessed are they who blessed indeed is the nation whose God is the Lord's blessed indeed is the nation whose God is the Lord Amerika Amerika the wicked shall be cast into hell and all the nations that forget God don't forget God America don't forget God America don't forget God America you will notice that the rulers were the first to seek God and Nineveh and call upon their people to turn and they call with such desperation that their people did turn somehow the rulers took the messes of Jonah and cried it out by what they did you will notice that some too cries out to the rulers now don't make any mistake of this God is not making a mistake when he cries out the rulers you judges of the earth God's making no mistake can I read something that was shocked you all George Washington cried out it is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible can I repeat what George Washington said it is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and without the Bible Oh God give you another George Washington please God no wonder you became the greatest nation on earth with such Daniel Webster long ago warned the striving people if we abide if we abide by the principles taught in the Bible our country will go on prospering and to prosper but if we and our posterity neglects its instructions and authority no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury our glory in profound obscurity firstly the man the man secondly the message the message and thirdly the movement the movement the movement if God could only find a man if God could only find a man who would without compromise preach the message with such love he'd break our hearts if God could only find a man prepare us a man I would preach without compromise the message we would see the movement we would see the movement as an innovator n-- to god we will turn to god it's honor than edwards you have to Trimble to talk of this man you know oh what a heritage you've got Jonathan Edwards broken by the state of early America New England the irreverence in the church the lack of the fear of God the hopelessness his wickedness just prevailed and no one was under conviction of sin there was nothing just the deadness in the churches this man became so broken of the state of New England early America and I'm sure you've heard the story over again but I want to tell you something perhaps you haven't heard of this man Jonathan Edwards Edwards was so fearful so broken that he got alone with God he was so desperate for three days he did not eat for three nights he did not sleep every moment of the whole day in the whole night and the whole day and the whole night and the whole day and the whole night he was on his knees weeping groaning in agony crying out God give me New England give me New England God do you know what that prayer was about because he had a pen in his hand as he prayed I hope you know and paper and a Bible open and the tears were falling onto the paper and the tears are falling onto the pages of the Bible dare unite but in his hand was the pain this man was crying give me a message that would turn this people back to God in case you didn't know and this man was crying to God for a message that God had to give him the only message that would turn the people back to God a message Edwards knew nothing of heard nothing of and there was Jonathan Edwards as God gave revelation as God made his hand turn the pages as God brought his eyes to the verses all through the holy book and this man stood up from the presence of God and brokenness and he walked into the pulpit of God and something happened before he opened his mouth God had come they looked and they shut up and they set up as they never ever set up when they looked at this man he was not charismatic in his personality he didn't have a great ability he didn't raise his hands God please we don't need charismatic personalities there are more of a hindrance than anything else because we rely on their personalities to get us through a meeting God give us a man who doesn't know how to raise his hand he doesn't even know how to raise his face they didn't even see his face can you believe that from beginning to end all they saw was the paper in the dim light that he held there without raising his hand without screaming there he was all just reading that's all God needs a holy man of God whose expectation is in God and God only who will not touch the glory because there's nothing in him to touch the glory oh this man sued and he read the sermon God gave him and you know what message God gave him when he cried give me New England oh it became the most famous sermon one of the most famous if not the most famous sermon apart from the sermon on the mount that Christ preached sinners in the hands of an angry god God gave him the message of Jonah judgment judgment judgment men as he preached began to slip onto their faces began to hang onto the pews began to cling to the pillars began to cry up men who not once in their entire life had ever been stirred under any message they'd ever heard suddenly were clinging why because judgment was being preached to a people who will happen again you know I hope you know it did it occur you know what started there and spread through New England like a flame that flame that started suits on earthen Edwards became a fire that swept across early America through young Whitfield what did whit fear preach be honest now judgment every time he student approve it he's mad and he was reformed in his theology the great reformed theologian preaching judgment that man before an appeal were made were crawling and weeping because he was obeying God you see he was a paying God that fire that started that little flame that Jonathan Edwards started that was taken by Whitfield and spread like a fire through America's came to the men like Charles Finney criticized by the world of course he will be especially the man who thinks he knows everything they're criticized Finney you know has anyone won so many souls as Finney well what if any preach judgment on a very different level to the way Whitfield preached it but would was just robbing with a judgment of God's coming upon sin and as Europe and the awful judgment of God upon sinners was crying out from his man and America rose and began to turn to God under such men through finis the prayer revival and the stepping stones to men like moody now moody preached judgment but God had to remind him very very carefully that you're cruelest harshest word throb with love Moody even if you preach the judgments of God let everyone know that God's love and they're behind the judgment is love wanting to embrace know and so these revivals with the stepping stones to the revivals that spread through the world to Ireland the only revival South Africa ever had in its history when Phinney's writings were read in the Dutch Reformed Church and a young Andrew Murray fell on his face sweeping two weeks later the only revival we've ever truly known swept through a land and turned the nation's history through your country through the revival started here Oh somehow the world wants to follow America but let me guarantee you something you follow you turn back to God the world will follow you it did before who I won't you America why won't you you owe it to the world you're so corrupt too there through Hollywood and just your greatness they want to be like you in every way beloved have you ever could you ever with all your praying for revival is it possible you'll be the greatest hindrance to revival because that's not the message I feel we should preach in dignity in 1998 to know who this enlightened age all no no the way this man carries on forgive me for the way I am I don't know if there's a man alive so desperate for revival is this poor man I hope there is forgive me because that's the only reason I preach like this I wonder if you'd ever be able to pray preach sir you who pray desperately for revival Oh God no matter what it costs me imagine praying this think about it make me an instrument of revival I've prayed for revival God I've praised for others I've prayed for my nation I want to pray differently tonight my lord I pray a different prayer tonight stop revival in me I'm the one god I haven't no right to pray for revival and I started survivor II I want to dedicate my life for the altar of God tonight without any reserve for what I dedicate Duncan's consecrate I can only dedicate make me an instrument of revival God no matter what the cost no matter what the cost that I don't become the enemy of revival [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 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Length: 53min 8sec (3188 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 19 2017