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THE SIGN OF THE FISH (7 OF 7)

by Central Christian Church of Arizona

Scripture: Jonah 1:1-17, Matthew 12:1-50
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The Sign of the Fish (7 of 7)
Series: Pixelated
Jeremy Jernigan
Jonah 1, Matthew 12


1) Story: QandA at NACC workshop [picture]
a) I got heckled last year
b) This year I told my dad not to ask me anyone questions
c) ''periscope and blags''

2) Last week of our Pixelated series
a) We are looking at stories in the OT and seeing how they illuminate Jesus
b) Journals week 7
i) Title: The Sign of the Fish
ii) Open your Bibles to Jonah 1 and Matthew 12
(1) Jonah is toward the end of the Old Testament
(2) In between Obadiah and Micah (which is probably not all that helpful... but it's in between a bunch of small books)
(3) Matthew is the first book in the NT
c) I'm going to do a Facebook Live video and talk further about this
i) Picture - Facebook Live slide
ii) This is our last one of the summer
d) What does it take for you to obey God?
i) How much do you have to see before you'll truly follow Jesus?
ii) What do we do when things look Pixelated?
iii) Big idea: It's hard to see Jesus when you keep demanding more.

3) I'm going to try an experiment with you
a) Read the following line to the person next to you without moving your lips.
b) ''Dude, you should totally Google it.''
c) Your response to this activity puts you into one of two camps:
i) Some of you jump at things like this before I even tell you to go
ii) Others of you refuse to do it now but will try this in front of a mirror sometime today
d) Here's the point: it's doable if you're willing to try it
e) But do I have to prove that to you before you try it?
f) Some of you need me to do it... but I won't on principle!

4) There's a prophet in the OT named Jonah
a) God asks him to go and preach to the city of Ninevah
i) These are some of Israel's sworn enemies
(1) Imagine Nazi Germany or ISIS
(2) Or a dominant power that killed your children, enslaved your brother, and raped your sister
(3) One of the executions they practiced was to take people and bury them alive in the d ...

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