Jonah (2 of 4)
Series: The OT
Jordan Easley
2 Kings 14:25
Every person in this room has a ''comfort zone.'' That phrase, 'comfort zone' has become well-known in our culture in recent days. If you've never heard that expression, the dictionary defines our comfort zone as ''the temperature range within which one is comfortable,'' but we know today... that our comfort zone goes far beyond the temperature we desire.
Our comfort zone is like a bubble that defines how far we're willing to go and what chances we're willing to take... We can SAY we live with our YES on the table, but the border of that bubble oftentimes defines the place where our YES turns into a NO.
Our comfort zone is defined by an invisible border in every single one of our lives, and as long as we stay inside that bubble (or that border) ... we feel safe... we feel financially stable... we feel like we're in control, and nothing bad is going to happen.
There's nothing wrong with having a comfort zone... but let me ask you a question:
What happens when God calls you out of your comfort zone?
How are you going to respond, when God tells you to get outside the bubble and do something you really don't want to do?
We are currently in a sermon series I'm calling ''The OT.'' And in this series, we're looking back to the Old Testament and unpacking the lives of several people that I believe we can learn from-and today is no exception as we open our Bibles to the book of Jonah.
We can learn a lot from Jonah's story-not only because God called him out of his comfort zone-but because his life was lived on a timeline just like your life and my life. I'm talking about a spiritual timeline.
When you look at his story, you can see how his faithfulness to God and his obedience to God was really like a rollercoaster-it was UP in some seasons, and it was DOWN in other seasons).
Most of us can probably relate to that. We know what it's like to be on fire for God: living for God, sha ...
Series: The OT
Jordan Easley
2 Kings 14:25
Every person in this room has a ''comfort zone.'' That phrase, 'comfort zone' has become well-known in our culture in recent days. If you've never heard that expression, the dictionary defines our comfort zone as ''the temperature range within which one is comfortable,'' but we know today... that our comfort zone goes far beyond the temperature we desire.
Our comfort zone is like a bubble that defines how far we're willing to go and what chances we're willing to take... We can SAY we live with our YES on the table, but the border of that bubble oftentimes defines the place where our YES turns into a NO.
Our comfort zone is defined by an invisible border in every single one of our lives, and as long as we stay inside that bubble (or that border) ... we feel safe... we feel financially stable... we feel like we're in control, and nothing bad is going to happen.
There's nothing wrong with having a comfort zone... but let me ask you a question:
What happens when God calls you out of your comfort zone?
How are you going to respond, when God tells you to get outside the bubble and do something you really don't want to do?
We are currently in a sermon series I'm calling ''The OT.'' And in this series, we're looking back to the Old Testament and unpacking the lives of several people that I believe we can learn from-and today is no exception as we open our Bibles to the book of Jonah.
We can learn a lot from Jonah's story-not only because God called him out of his comfort zone-but because his life was lived on a timeline just like your life and my life. I'm talking about a spiritual timeline.
When you look at his story, you can see how his faithfulness to God and his obedience to God was really like a rollercoaster-it was UP in some seasons, and it was DOWN in other seasons).
Most of us can probably relate to that. We know what it's like to be on fire for God: living for God, sha ...
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