The pouting prophet
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Jonah is angry that God spared the people of Nineveh from destruction after they repented. He prays sarcastically for God to take his life. God appoints a plant to shade Jonah, but then a worm destroys it and a hot wind torments Jonah. God questions why Jonah cares for a simple plant but not the large city of Nineveh filled with people and animals. God explains that His great compassion should extend even to Nineveh if they repent, just as Jonah wanted the plant to be spared.
The pouting prophet
- 2. Jonah 4 1 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD and said, “Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who 2
- 3. Jonah 4 relents concerning calamity. 3 “Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.” 4 The LORD said, “Do you have good reason to be angry?” 5 Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in 3
- 4. Jonah 4 the city. 6 So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant. 7 But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered. 8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east 4
- 5. Jonah 4 wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” 9 Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.” 10 Then the LORD said, “You had compassion on 5
- 6. Jonah 4 the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. 11 “Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?” 6
- 8. Last chapter When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. 8
- 9. Think About This But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. 9
- 11. Strange prayer “Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.” 11
- 12. Pouting booth Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. 12
- 13. Object Lesson Begins So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant. 13
- 14. Castor Oil Bean Oil used for light Low concentrate is medicinal 14
- 16. Phase 2 Early in the morning But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered. 16
- 17. Phase 3 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” 17
- 18. God’s Supreme Authority Appointed a great fish Appointed a plant to grow Appointed a worm to consume Appointed a scorching wind 18
- 19. Different relationship with man The word of the Lord came to Jonah God asks, commands 19
- 20. Strange conversation God-Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant? Jonah-I have good reason to be angry, even to death. 20
- 22. God according to The Message What’s this? How is it that you can change your feelings from pleasure to anger overnight about a mere shade tree that you did nothing to get? You neither planted nor watered it. It grew up one night and died the next night. 22
- 23. God according to The Message So, why can’t I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than 120,000 childlike people who don’t yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals? 23
- 24. C.T. Studd Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop, Within a yard of hell. 24
Editor's Notes
- #2: Jonah 4
- #3: 1 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who
- #4: relents concerning calamity. 3 “Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.” 4 The Lord said, “Do you have good reason to be angry?” 5 Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in
- #5: the city. 6 So the Lord God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant. 7 But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered. 8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east
- #6: wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” 9 Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.” 10 Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on
- #7: the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. 11 “Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”
- #8: Pray . Pouting Kids. Recap
- #9: When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.
- #10: But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.
- #11: clip
- #12: “Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”
- #13: Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.
- #14: So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant.
- #15: Oil used for light Low concentrate is medicinal
- #16: Deadly poison ricin
- #17: Early in the morning But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.
- #18: Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop, Within a yard of hell.
- #19: Appointed a great fish Appointed a plant to grow Appointed a worm to consume Appointed a scorching wind Appointed = Assigned
- #20: The word of the Lord came to Jonah God asks, commands
- #21: Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.”
- #22: What!?
- #23: (The Message) What’s this? How is it that you can change your feelings from pleasure to anger overnight about a mere shade tree that you did nothing to get? You neither planted nor watered it. It grew up one night and died the next night.
- #24: (The Message) So, why can’t I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than 120,000 childlike people who don’t yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals?”
- #25: Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop, Within a yard of hell.
- #26: prayer