This morning, I'd ask you to open your Bibles to Jonah, Chapter 4. We'll read just one verse, look at some of the rest of the book in a moment. And that's found on page 775, 775, if you have a pew Bible, all right? Page 775, Jonah, Chapter 4. For the benefit of those of you who are visiting with us this morning, we're glad that you're here. We welcome you in the name of Jesus Christ. We're glad that you're worshiping him with us and here to hear his word this morning. A bit of what we've been doing, we've been going through the 66 books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, one after another. preaching one sermon on each book of the Bible and following this outline. And for those of you that have been here for this series, just a little bit of a quiz. I'm going to ask you what each of these symbols means. So the first vertical line? Creation. God's intention and design in creation was to dwell on earth with man. OK? The X? Paul. fall into sin, Genesis chapter 3, all right? However, God's plan, God's intention, and God's design are not thwarted by man's sin. God enters into a relationship with Abraham and says that in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed. And Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the patriarchs of the nation of the heart. Israel, the horizontal line. Israel was to be a kingdom of priests, all right? You'll recall that in Exodus, God said that as he brought them out of bondage and slavery in Egypt, they were to be a kingdom of priests. Also, they were to be the light of the world, all right? If God's promise to Abraham was that in Abraham's sea, all the nations of the earth will be blessed, it was through the testimony and the witness of Israel. Israel, of course, failed in that until Christ comes, all right? He is the true Israel. He is the promised and prophesied Messiah of Israel, in whom all the promises of God are yes and amen. And he is the promised seed of the woman in Genesis chapter 3. He is the one who will crush the serpent's head on the cross of Calvary, and therefore win the victory. And he is the one who commissions his church, all right? to go and make disciples of all nations. He is the one in whom and through whom the promise to Abraham will be fulfilled. And that's where we find ourselves in God's story, is right here, okay? We are commissioned by Christ to go and make disciples of all nations until second coming of Christ. When Christ returns, it will be to judge the living and the dead, as we confess in the Apostles' Creed. And then the original intention and design of man in creation will be fulfilled. We read about that in the book of Revelation. The dwelling of God is with man on the earth. And in a new heavens and a new world where righteousness dwells. And that's what we look forward to is God's mission. All right? Is one story about one people and about one way of salvation. All right? Seeking the reconciliation of creation and the reconciliation of sinners. All right. Very good. Hopefully, if you're visiting with us, that's a sufficient explanation. Let's pray and then read God's word. Lord God and Heavenly Father, we come to your word this morning and we bow before it, for it is the living word of the living God. And your Holy Spirit worked to record this through Jonah for us here today. And we pray that the Holy Spirit himself would come, that he would circumcise our ears in order that your word might enter into our hearts and bear fruit for your glory. And we ask it in Jesus' name, amen. Jonah chapter four, verse two. And he, that is Jonah, prayed to the Lord and said, oh Lord, is this not what I said when I was yet in my country? 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. Three points to the sermon this morning. First of all, a lead-in by way of introduction. Secondly, a layout as we look at the contents of the book. And then thirdly, the lessons from the Book of Jonah. What would God have you and me take away from this portion of his holy word? So the lead-in, the layout, and the lessons. God, the God of the Bible, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, God is a missionary God. God is a missionary God. And missions and evangelism is something that is communicated from God's heart to your heart and to my heart. Missions and evangelism is communicated from God's heart to your heart and my heart. And that could be a summary of the Book of Jonah. Jonah is the only minor prophet whose book is more about the prophet than it is about the prophecy. There is only one prophecy in the Book of Jonah. It's in Chapter 3 and Verse 4, and it's only five words. Five words out of 48 verses. The rest of the book is about Jonah. Why? Because Jonah is a picture of God's people who needed to know the character of God. They needed to know that God was a missionary God. And they needed to know the heart of God. That communication of mission and evangelism from the heart of God to the hearts of his people had been ruptured. And they needed to know the character of God and the heart of God. That's what the Book of Jonah is about. Three particular points. One, in the Book of Jonah, God calls his people to actively seek the repentance of sinners. In this case, Nineveh in Assyria. Secondly, God's people will experience divine displeasure if they fail to seek the repentance of sinners. In this case, Jonah in Nineveh in Assyria. And thirdly, God delights in showing mercy to repentant sinners, the character and the heart of God. Let's look at the layout. Now, boys and girls, you're here this morning, Marika, maybe you want to get out a pen, all right? Keep track. There are 12 miracles in the Book of Jonah, all right, children? So I'm giving you permission to put a check next to each miracle as we read through, all right? Even if it's a pew Bible, all right? I'm giving you permission to do that, okay? Keep track of the 12 miracles. There will be a quiz in a moment. There are four chapters in the book of Jonah. Very easy layout to the book of Jonah. Chapter 1, I won't go. Chapter 2, I will go. Chapter 3, I'm here. Chapter 4, I shouldn't have come. All right? Four chapters in the Book of Jonah. I won't go. I will go. I'm here. I wish I hadn't come. All right? Let's look at them. Chapter 1. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me. But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Now, a little biblical geography here, all right, so that you understand exactly what's happening, all right? God comes to Jonah and says, arise and go and preach against Nineveh for their evil. Nineveh is 500 miles northeast of where Jonah is in the nation of Israel at this point. Now, it's important that we know that Jonah is being sent by God to preach to Nineveh. Just as Jonah as a minor prophet is unique in the Bible, so also this is unique. It is the only time a prophet of the Lord is sent to a Gentile nation, a non-Jewish nation in the Old Testament. The only time. And it's to Nineveh we have seen over the course of the Minor Prophets and the Major Prophets thus far what kind of people the Assyrians were. And there are three strikes against Assyria and the character of the Assyrians that we see here in this text. First of all, it's that great city. Jonah comes from Israel, which was an agricultural economy. And as most people that come from the country, when they go to the city, it's like, well, it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Actually, what I really hear from people from the country that come to the city is, I really wouldn't want to visit there again. So that great city's got to strike against it, all right? Look at the text, though. For their evil has come up before me. Remember that the character of the Assyrians, these were a wicked, vicious warrior people who delighted in sadistic torture of their enemies and their captors, all right? They were an evil people. So it's a city, it's evil, and it's Assyria. That is, they're Gentiles. You can imagine, God comes to Jonah, and all the other prophets we read about, he's sending them to Israel or to Judah. Obadiah last week to Edom, which was a relative. Descendants of Esau. Jonah alone is sent to the Gentiles. Now, by this point in the history of Israel, as we see in the New Testament, the attitude of the Jewish people towards Gentiles was they were filthy, stinking dogs, the scum of the earth, and they wanted nothing to do with it. God comes to Jonah and says, go to the Gentiles. When we get to verse 3, but the adversative, the contrast, Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish. Where's Nineveh? 500 miles northeast. Where's Tarshish? 2,000 miles west. God comes to Jonah and says, go that way. Jonah says, OK, see you later. I'm out of here. You've got to be kidding me, God. That's a city. It's an evil city. And they're going, the Gentiles, to boot. But God's plan won't be thwarted. Look at verse four. But the Lord hurled a great wind. upon the sea. He found the ship, he gets on it. The Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea. Verse seven, the sailors, as the storm arises in the sea, come let us cast lots that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us. So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. Verse 12, Jonah said to them, they're debating what to do, pick me up and hurl me into the sea, then the sea will quiet down for you. For I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you. Nevertheless, the men rode hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn't. The sea grew more and more tempestuous. Therefore, they called out to the Lord. Oh, Lord, let us not perish for this man's life. Let us not lay on us innocent blood. For you, oh, Lord, have done it as it pleased you. So they picked up Jonah and they threw him into the sea. God's going to dampen his spirits. And the sea ceased from its raging. And then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows. The sailors are more spiritually sensitive than Jonah is. Look at verse 17, and the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. Now, boys and girls, you often hear this as a whale, right? The Bible doesn't say it was a whale, all right? It just says it was a great fish. It could have been a whale. Whales have swallowed men. It could have been other fish, all right? As somebody that has been a diver, I could tell you fish stories, but I won't. So Jonah's spirits are dampened, God sends great fish to swallow Jonah, Jonah's in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then in chapter two, all right, Jonah prays to the Lord and we have a psalm. And the psalm concludes in verse nine with this phrase, salvation belongs to the Lord. Jonah has a change of heart. Through the Lord's chastisement, through the Lord's discipline of him, he has a change of heart and he recognizes salvation belongs to the Lord. And as a result, verse 10, we see the Lord spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah upon dry land. Now, boys and girls, if you're keeping count, that's the sixth miracle, all right? I hope you're up to par here. It's going to be a quiz, all right? All right? Chapter three, all right? It's impossible to run away from God. And there's no limit to what God can use to get somebody's attention. Verse 1, the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, all right? And then verse 5, he goes and he goes into the city of Nineveh, yet 40 days, verse 4, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. Verse 5, the people of Nineveh believe God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least. This has to be the greatest evangelistic enterprise in all of human history. A whole city. We're told at the end of the book it was 120,000 people who didn't know their right hand from their left. If that's a reference to children, the population of Nineveh is probably about 600,000 people. We're told they all repented. Now, I can tell you, I've been out on the streets of New York preaching. I've done my share of street preaching in various places around the country. Only once have I seen somebody say to me, what must I do to be saved? Here, Jonah goes in, he preaches, the whole city repents. It's great, right? Look, let's read on, verse 6. The word reached the king. Remember what we just read, Christ shall have dominion? The word reached the king and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, satin ashes. He issued a proclamation. By the decree of the king and his nobles, let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water. Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger. so that we may not perish. Look at verse 10. 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 them. And one of the most astonishing passages in all of sacred scripture, and he did not do it. He did not do it. Nineveh responded better to the preaching of Jonah than Israel and Judah had to the preaching of all the prophets. One prophet goes to a pagan people and they repent. Israel and Judah had multiple prophets go to them and they didn't repent. And while they received the word of the Lord through his servants, the prophets, there's no repentance. And this pagan people, the whole city repents. Look at the reaction of Jonah, though, in chapter 4. Remember, Jonah is a picture of Israel that needs to learn the character and the heart of God, that God is a missionary God. Verse one, chapter four, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly. If you're looking in ESV, you see that footnote reference, look down at the footnote reference there. It was exceedingly evil to Jonah. Here are people that are more spiritually sensitive, more spiritually responsive to the word of the Lord than his own people. And what did he think? It was evil. And look, look, he was angry. He was angry that they repented. He was angry! And verse 2 that we read for our text is the key to the whole book. It tells us about the character and the heart of God. And Jonah knew it. That's why he fled. That's why he said, I'm out of here, God. Is this not what I said when I was in my own country, O Lord? That's why I made haste to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. This is a quote from God revealing himself in the cleft of the rock to Moses in Exodus chapter 34. The Lord, the Lord, gracious and compassionate, forgiving sin, abounding in grace, steadfast love. Look at verses 3 and 4. Therefore now, Jonah still speaking, O Lord, please take my life. It's better for me to die than to live. And God said to him, do you do well to be angry? Look over at verses 8 and 9, it's paralleled there. It's better for me to die than live. And God said to him, do you do well to be angry? And then verse 11 is the lesson for Jonah. And it's the lesson for God's people then and there. That's the lesson for God's people here and now. Should I not 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? Should I not pity them? There's my heart, Jonah. There's my heart, Israel. There's my character, church. Do you see into the depths of my love for sinners? Wicked, evil, Gentile sinners. Should I not pity them? What lessons do we learn? Alright children, here's the quiz. What were the 12 miracles? Verse 1, Word of the Lord came to Jonah, first miracle. Verse 4, chapter 1, the Lord hurled a great wind to Three, they cast lots. God made it clear, the lot fell on Jonah, miracle number three. Miracle number four, the conversion of the sailors. Oh Lord, let us not perish for this man's life. Verse five, they throw him into the sea, the storm stopped. Miracle five, miracle six, verse 17, the Lord appointed a great fish. Number seven, Verse 10, in chapter 2, the Lord spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah out. Chapter 3, verse 1, number 8, the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. A disobedient prophet, God sends his message to him again. Nine, the people of Nineveh believed God, verse 5 of chapter 3. Miracle number 10, verse 6 of chapter 4, now the Lord God appointed a plant. Miracle 11, verse 7, when the dawn came up, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant. And miracle number 12, God appointed a scorching east wind in verse 8. All right, children, you can show me your score later on. What lessons did we learn here, all right? First and foremost, first and foremost, we see and hear the largeness of God's heart. First and foremost, we see the largeness of God's heart. He's a missionary God, and his heart is large and filled with love. He's a gracious God, merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, relenting from disaster. Ezekiel, God says this, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked would turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways. God takes no pleasure in judgment. Wrath, Calvin said, is His strange work. He sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. God loves the world and sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. And God loves sinners and does not delight in their judgment or their perishing. or their condemnation or their assignation to hell. How did Peter put it? 2 Peter chapter 3. 2 Peter chapter 3. Not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. And of course we see this personified We see this illustrated. We see this heart of God, the character of God, come in human flesh, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who weeps over Jerusalem. Jerusalem, who killed the prophets. The crown of God's own people. The apple of his eye. The center of the center of his people in the world in Israel. He came to his own and his own received him not. They rejected him. They mocked him. They said, we don't have no king but Caesar. This man will not rule over us. As he came to Jerusalem. And he saw that in 70 AD, the Roman armies would come marching into Jerusalem as an instrument in the Lord's hand to wreak covenant curse on his disobedient and unbelieving people. just as he had done with Babylon, just as he had done with Assyria. In 70 AD, the Roman army would come, and the Jewish historian Josephus tells us that the city ran knee-deep in blood. So great was the bloodshed in that city. And Jesus Christ, at the triumphal entry, comes to Jerusalem. and mourns and weeps and sobs. Yes, it's the curses of the covenant. Yes, in Matthew it's the woes pronounced on the leadership in Israel for their unbelief and their disobedience. Yes, it's God's judgment on his own people in consistency with his covenant promises. Curses for disobedience. Does Jesus delight in that? No. Does Jesus revel in that? No. Does Jesus say, this is what you deserve, you're going to get yours? No. He weeps. He weeps. For he had learned what Jonah did not learn. that God was gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Oh, how I would have gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks, Jesus says. Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem. But you would not. And on the cross of Calvary, as Jesus hangs there, substituting in the place of sinners, as God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on that cross. Jesus looks down upon those mocking Him, gambling for His clothes, spitting on Him, rejecting Him, vilifying Him, making fun of Him. And as the spear goes into His side and the water and blood flow out, the heart of God is heard as He utters these words, Father, forgive them. They know not what they're doing. The first and foremost lesson of the book of Jonah is this, my friends. is that God loves to see sinners saved. God is a missionary God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son. His Son came to seek and to save that which was lost. And having been ascended to the right hand of the Father on high, He sends forth His missionary Spirit to empower, enable, and equip there to be a missionary church. The church is not a place to go. The church is a people who go. A people who go in the love of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, seeking and saving those that are lost. A church that reflects the character and the heart of God, calling men and women to turn from sin and to trust in Jesus, to flee from the wrath to come, to be reconciled to God. Could I ask you please to turn to Luke chapter 15, that you might see this? Because I want to encourage you. The last thing I want, and I'm convinced the last thing the Holy Spirit speaking in Jonah would want, is to guilt manipulate God's people. I want to encourage you I want to encourage you by the heart of God to have the heart of God. You know that Luke chapter 15 is famous for the parable of the prodigal son. What you may not know is that actually in Luke 15 there are three things that are lost and found. There's the lost sheep, there's the lost coin, and there's the lost son. Just quickly, in each one there's a common thread which reveals to us the heart of God and an encouragement for you and for me. Verse 3, what man of you having a hundred sheep, if he's lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, look, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost. Just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance. Next parable or what woman having ten silver coins if she loses one doesn't light a lamp and sweep the house and seek Diligently until she finds it when she's found that she calls together her friends and neighbors saying rejoice With me for I have found the coin that I lost just so I tell you there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents and then of course the lost son who is lost and when he's found, the father says, kill the fattened calf, let's have a party, let's have dancing, let's rejoice because my son that was lost has been found. Here's the point. What is it that's common to every one of the three parables? It's rejoicing when that which had been lost is found. But that's not my point. My point is, who's rejoicing? Look at the text, the answer's right there. You might say, well, it's all the hosts of heaven are rejoicing. That would be a plausible answer. Only thing is, that's not what the text says. You might say, the angels, it's the angels that are rejoicing. After all, they're mentioned in verse 10, aren't they? Yeah, that would be a plausible answer. There's only one thing, that's not what the text says. Look at the text, verse 10. There's joy before or in the presence of the angels. Who's rejoicing? God is rejoicing. It's the Father who's rejoicing when that which is lost is found. Here's the heart of God. God delights in the salvation of repentant sinners. He rejoices. God's heart is filled with joy. What's the encouragement for you and for me? This is where you and I are. We're right here. We're called to go and make disciples of all nations. And do you see in that commission a magnificent opportunity which is at one and the same time an enormous obligation? The opportunity is God will use you to bring joy to His heart. and a great obligation to do so. Well, we've been looking at three recurring themes in every book of the Bible. Where do we see Christ? Where do we see covenant? Where do we see mission in each book? Where do we see Jesus Christ? in Jonah. Look at Matthew chapter 12. Jesus says that Jonah is a type of him. You would think if Jesus was going to choose any prophet that was going to be like him, probably Jonah would be last on the list. Right? Jesus chooses Jonah. Interesting. Matthew chapter 12, verse 39. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, something or someone greater than Jonah is here. Jonah's gotten a bad rap with liberal scholarship as to whether or not it was actually a historical event. Jesus testifies and attests to the fact that it was historical. First of all, he attests to the fact that Jonah did spend three days and nights in the belly of the great fish, and he also attests to the fact that the people of Nineveh repented, just as we read in the Book of Jonah. So it's historical. But also, Jesus says, something or someone greater than Jonah is here. How is Jesus greater than Jonah? Well, Jonah was a reluctant prophet. Jesus came from the Father willingly, laying down his life for the sheep. Jonah was sent to one city. Jesus is sent to the whole world. At Jonah's preaching, thousands repented. At Jesus' preaching, millions have repented and been saved. And the type of Jonah here, just as verse 40, Jonah was three days, right, so also will the Son of Man be three days, is that Jonah is a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Now, we've not only tried to see Christ in each book of the Bible, but the gospel. Where do we see the gospel specifically in the book of Jonah? Well, I'd suggest to you that we see it in chapter 2, verse 9, when Jonah closes his psalm or his prayer and saying, salvation belongs to the Lord. The disobedient, petulant prophet is repentant at the chastisement of the Lord and confesses that salvation belongs to the Lord. It is all the Lord's doing. Why do I say that? Well, it's simply this. It's that you cannot comprehend nor can you apprehend the heart of God for lost sinners until you, like Jonah, can confess that salvation belongs to the Lord. You will not comprehend and you will not apprehend the love of God for sinners until you comprehend and apprehend that you are a sinner, that you deserve to die, that you deserve his condemnation and his just judgment and wrath, and that he has been merciful, he has been gracious, he has been compassionate to you, an undeserving, hell-deserving sinner. Until you say, salvation belongs to the Lord. Thank you, Lord, for your mercy. Thank you, Lord, for your grace. Thank you, God, for sparing me. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for saving me. Thank you for having compassion on me. Thank you for plucking me as a bran from the fire. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Are you a sinner? Do you know the love of God? Do you know His just condemnation? Do you know His deserving judgment? Do you know His love, His mercy in Jesus Christ as a Savior for sinners? It was while we were yet sinners that Christ died for us. That's the Gospel. Where do we see the covenant in Jonah? Well, remember, Israel was called to be the kingdom of priests. They were to be mediators between God and the world. They were to be the light of the world. They were to be the ones who attracted the nations to the Lord. And they failed in that. Jonah is a picture. of unbelieving, disobedient Israel that didn't have the heart and the character of God for the lost. And they're judged, just as Jonah was. Disobedience causes turmoil and sin has consequences. The covenant is a double-edged sword. Where do we see missions? I hope it's apparent. Genesis 12, God calls Abraham, says, I will bless you to be a blessing, and in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed, all the goyim, all the peoples. That was the lesson that Jonah was sent to teach Israel, is that God is a God of all nations. God is a God of all peoples. God rebuked Jonah, and in doing so, rebuked Israel for their bigotry, for their prejudice, for their racism, for their nationalism. I have no interest in entering into political discourse from this pulpit. But certainly, in recent days, in the political sphere, we've heard about such things. but in the church of Jesus Christ. Entrusted with the message of the love of Christ for sinners. A message of reconciliation. There can be no nationalism. There can be no xenophobia. There can be no bigotry. There can be no prejudice. There can be no racism. Because God is a God of all peoples. And if I could encourage you as I try to take every opportunity to do. You, however unselfconscious you are, are a testimony to the gospel and the grace of God, just in the composition of this congregation. We are a city and a nation, we hear in the media. torn apart by racial strife, segregation, antagonism, and animosity. There's strife and tension between blacks and Hispanics, between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, between New York blacks and Caribbean blacks, between native New Yorkers and non-native New Yorkers, between New York and New Jersey. There's strife. Strife and antagonism between all these things. We live and we work amongst people that are bigots, that are racists. Eighteen nationalities represented in this congregation. People that out there would be at each other's throats, in here. are with one heart and one voice praising one savior as one people believing one story. That's a testimony to the grace of God. And don't you ever underestimate it. I'd encourage you to do so more and more. Don't allow yourself to fall into cliques with those that are like you. either ethnically, nationally, age-wise, economically, whatever. Take the opportunity over coffee and bagels to get to know somebody you don't know. Meet somebody you've not met. It'd be a great blessing. God is a God of all nations and all peoples. Why? Because God is a missionary God. And missions and evangelism is communicated from God's heart. To your heart. And to my heart. Today. Before you go to sleep tonight. Get along with God. Get on your knees. Just you and him. And say God. Forgive me for being like Jonah. Forgive my lack of love for the lost. Warm my cold heart. Give me tears for the lost. Make me like Jesus. Give me your heart. Teach me to love as you love and to see people as you see people. that they might be saved. Let's pray.