“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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… And now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying, Go at once to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me. But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. he went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board with them to go to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came up upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up. And then the sailors were afraid and each cried to his God. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down below to the hold of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. And so the captain came to Jonah and said to him, What are you doing? Sound asleep, get up, call on your God. …
… Verses 1 and 2. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their wickedness has come up before me. so get the picture God gives to Jonah a responsibility an assignment a job God gives to Jonah this assignment go to Nineveh cry out against it their sins have come before me their issues their practices their disobedience to what my will is for their lives. He says, go to the end of the world. Now, I give you that point because guess what? Jonah had an assignment and guess what? So do you. Everybody in here has an assignment from God. When you accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, he also gives you a assignment. Amen, thank both of y'all. I thank you, I appreciate it. Thank both of y'all. I know you don't wanna hear it. I know you don't like it. I know you may not even know what it is, but you have an assignment. …
Sisters and brothers, it's so good to be with you. Our scripture lesson for today comes from the book of Jonah, chapter 1, and I'm going to read verses 1 through 3. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying, Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me. but Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord he went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish he paid his fare and went on board to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord we're going to stop right there and I want to speak to you this morning on the topic, the garment of grace. The garment of grace. sisters and brothers I was on the web the other day and came across a web article that really got my attention the name of the article was clothing as a tool of resistance and that article began to detail how people who were active in the black lives matter movement were intentional about what they wore, that they took their messaging really seriously. People were wearing face masks that said enough is enough, or a shirt that said stop killing us. There were shirts and masks that said we march, or love is love, or celebratory, like young, gifted, and black. And then there were the shirts that had quotations from leaders of the past and present. And most of those quotations …