Jonah, runaway Prophet (Jonah 1:1-6)
Gary McManus, 07/14/2013Part of the God's Word is Life series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
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God’s Word brings life
We don’t know much about Jonah but
Jesus mentioned Jonah.
(Jonah is also mentioned 2 Kings 14:25)
The Lord gives Jonah a job that Jonah
REALLY does not want to do.
Have you ALWAYS wanted to do what
God wants? (See Revelation Ch. 1-3)
So, do we believe that the Lord will just
allow us to run away?
In Jonah, even the heathens pray and they
even pray to Jonah’s God (our God)!
Jonah doesn’t pray until Ch 2:1!
Ever been really angry?
Is there anything you want to run from?
Read Jonah and pray.
When storms of life come your way, do you
believe this prayer?(J 1:14)
Notice that there is no replacement for Jonah.
(There is none for any of us.)
At the end of the book, Jonah is angry.
But God cares.
What you can leave with today:
Our Lord has a plan for your life. Work the Lord’s plan. (See Hebrews 12:1)
Run and you miss the blessing four ways:
--how you (how God) got (you) through it.
--ways to deal with the crisis
--the blessing that the Lord was going to bring to you THROUGH that same crisis.
--and you might wind up “in the belly of the beast”
You still get where your running takes you.
Rather,
“Seek God and live.”
--Amos 5:14, Psalm 69:32, 53:2, 70:4, Hebrews 11:6 See also John 8:12, 10:10
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