19. What do we learn from this true story?
Jonah was peacefully sleeping on a lower deck (Jonah 1:4-5). This forms another parallel to Christ’s life as Jesus also slept through a fierce storm that his disciples thought would sink their boat (Luke 8:22-25).
Lessons: A. No one can outwit or manipulate God to one’s own human purposes. Jonah’s attempt to guarantee his own desired end for Nineveh by disobeying God resulted in the exact opposite outcome which Jonah anticipated. WHAT IS PLANNED FOR EVIL, GOD TURNS AROUND FOR GOOD. B. Jonah’s disobedience was not at all an act of rebellion against God. Jonah fully expected to die because of that disobedience and he was reconciled to his fate. WHY DO I say So? Jonah V1-3 he went to a place where people did not know him running in the wrong direction reason. He paid the fees to go to a place who do not know …show more content…
God saw Jonah’s self-sacrificial attitude and did a profound miracle to keep Jonah alive, and give him a second chance to complete his assigned mission.
D. Finally, we now know why Jesus Christ compared himself to Jonah instead other Old Testament prophets. There were three parallels between Jonah and the Savior’s life which came centuries later.
1. Both could sleep in a boat in the middle of a raging storm despite of the storms AROUND THEM. 2. Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a beast even as Jesus Christ was three days and three nights in the belly of the earth (the grave).
3.Jonah’s willingness to offer himself as a personal sacrifice for his entire nation exhibited the same attitude of self-sacrifice that the Savior would exhibit in offering himself for the salvation of all nations.
Grace is getting what you don’t deserve. But there are times when God, having given us his grace, hears our appeals and says, “My grace is sufficient for you”. Is he being unfair? That’s MERCY.
Jonah has many lessons for us, but let’s review a few important
Jonah was peacefully sleeping on a lower deck (Jonah 1:4-5). This forms another parallel to Christ’s life as Jesus also slept through a fierce storm that his disciples thought would sink their boat (Luke 8:22-25).
Lessons: A. No one can outwit or manipulate God to one’s own human purposes. Jonah’s attempt to guarantee his own desired end for Nineveh by disobeying God resulted in the exact opposite outcome which Jonah anticipated. WHAT IS PLANNED FOR EVIL, GOD TURNS AROUND FOR GOOD. B. Jonah’s disobedience was not at all an act of rebellion against God. Jonah fully expected to die because of that disobedience and he was reconciled to his fate. WHY DO I say So? Jonah V1-3 he went to a place where people did not know him running in the wrong direction reason. He paid the fees to go to a place who do not know …show more content…
God saw Jonah’s self-sacrificial attitude and did a profound miracle to keep Jonah alive, and give him a second chance to complete his assigned mission.
D. Finally, we now know why Jesus Christ compared himself to Jonah instead other Old Testament prophets. There were three parallels between Jonah and the Savior’s life which came centuries later.
1. Both could sleep in a boat in the middle of a raging storm despite of the storms AROUND THEM. 2. Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a beast even as Jesus Christ was three days and three nights in the belly of the earth (the grave).
3.Jonah’s willingness to offer himself as a personal sacrifice for his entire nation exhibited the same attitude of self-sacrifice that the Savior would exhibit in offering himself for the salvation of all nations.
Grace is getting what you don’t deserve. But there are times when God, having given us his grace, hears our appeals and says, “My grace is sufficient for you”. Is he being unfair? That’s MERCY.
Jonah has many lessons for us, but let’s review a few important