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This document provides background information on Jonah and the sailors and Ninevites mentioned in the Book of Jonah. It discusses how Jonah was from a godly family, had a relationship with God, and was called to be a prophet and go to Nineveh. However, Jonah was reluctant and barely obeyed God. The sailors feared God after their ordeal with the storm at sea. The Ninevites believed Jonah's message, fasted, and humbled themselves in repentance. The document suggests we should emulate humility and ensure our preferences do not override God's mission for our lives.
Jonah_Potential_Updated
- 5. Illinois State University Illinois Wesleyan University Heartland Community College Normal, Illinois
- 8. Potential 1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
- 10. Background: Jonah • From a godly family (1:1 “son of Amittai”)
- 11. Background: Jonah • From a godly family (1:1 “son of Amittai”) • Has strong, clear relationship with Jesus
- 12. Background: Jonah • From a godly family (1:1 “son of Amittai”) • Has strong, clear relationship with Jesus • Called to be a prophet
- 13. Background: Jonah • From a godly family (1:1 “son of Amittai”) • Has strong, clear relationship with Jesus • Called to be a prophet • Commissioned to go to Nineveh
- 14. Background: Jonah • From a godly family (1:1 “son of Amittai”) • Has strong, clear relationship with Jesus • Called to be a prophet • Commissioned to go to Nineveh • Empowered to declare transforming Word
- 15. Background: Sailors & Ninevites • Pagans
- 16. Background: Sailors & Ninevites • Pagans • Practice false worship
- 17. Background: Sailors & Ninevites • Pagans • Practice false worship • Worldly businessmen and travelers
- 18. Background: Sailors & Ninevites • Pagans • Practice false worship • Worldly businessmen and travelers • Satanically compelled to torture and humiliate the conquered
- 19. Reality: Our past does not dictate our future
- 20. Jonah 3 – 4:4
- 21. Responses: Jonah • Reluctant traveler to Nineveh
- 22. Responses: Jonah • Reluctant traveler to Nineveh • BARELY obeys (3:4)
- 23. Responses: Jonah • Reluctant traveler to Nineveh • BARELY obeys (3:4) • Misquotes God’s Word
- 24. Responses: Jonah • Reluctant traveler to Nineveh • BARELY obeys (3:4) • Misquotes God’s Word • Anger-fueled death wish preferred
- 25. Responses: Sailors & Ninevites • Sailors = called out to…feared…sacrificed to…made vows to Lord
- 26. Responses: Sailors & Ninevites • Sailors = called out to…feared…sacrificed to…made vows to Lord • Ninevites = believed Jonah’s message…city-wide fast…humbled themselves with sackcloth & ashes (mourned sinful state)
- 27. Today, how are we responding to God’s Word?
- 28. Reality: Do we repent & receive our Father’s grace or do we resent it? Do we have to understand everything God is doing and approve of it?
- 29. Application 1) Humility is a key virtue of our lives Deuteronomy 8:2-3 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- 30. 2 Chronicles 7:13-15 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
- 31. James 4:6-10 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double- minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
- 32. 1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you
- 33. “Pride is the mother of all sins” Augustine of Hippo
- 34. “For every one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” Robert Murray M’Cheyne
- 35. Application 1) Humility is a key virtue of our lives 2) We must ensure that our preferences stay as preferences
- 36. “2 Kings 14:25 tells us Jonah ministered during the reign of Israel’s King Jereboam II (786-746 BC). In that text we learn that, unlike the prophets Amos and Hosea, who criticized the royal administration for its injustice and unfaithfulness, Jonah had supported Jeroboam’s aggressive military policy to extend the nation’s power and influence. The original readers of the book of Jonah would have remembered him as intensely patriotic, a highly partisan nationalist. And they would have been amazed that God would send a man like that to preach to the very people he most feared and hated.” ~Timothy Keller. The Prodigal Prophet. p12
- 37. Application 1) Humility is a key virtue of our lives 2) We must ensure that our preferences stay as preferences 3) The mission of the Kingdom is THE mission for our lives
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- 41. Bless E L L S
- 42. B Eat L L S
- 43. B E Listen L S
- 44. B E L Learn S
- 45. B E L L Send