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Believing God (4 of 6)
Series: Jonah
D. Marion Clark
Jonah 3:1-9
Introduction
I can remember the moment when I learned one of my most significant spiritual lessons. I was sitting on the pulpit platform at Tenth Presbyterian Church. James Boice was preaching. He asked the question, ''Do you know what God wants?'' (Why, yes, I did want to know.) He wants to be believed. I could have learned that lesson earlier if I had paid attention to the response of the Ninevites to Jonah's preaching.
Text
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 ''Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.''
Much is made by commentators of the Lord giving Jonah a second chance. I suppose it can be considered gracious of God to give his servant another opportunity to serve. It seems to me, though, that the Lord is simply throwing Jonah back into the assignment he had tried to get away from. No one can flee the presence of the Lord, and no servant can forsake the assignment he has been given. God's will will be done. So, Jonah, get to it!
3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, ''Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!''
Let's recall Jonah's original assignment: ''Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.'' Jonah's message was to be one of doom. The evil of the city has come up before God. He was not ignorant of it before, but, rather, the city's sin had reached such a grievous point that destruction was now called for. And so, Jonah proclaims its imminent overthrow - forty days.
Then the extraordinary happens.
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of the ...
Series: Jonah
D. Marion Clark
Jonah 3:1-9
Introduction
I can remember the moment when I learned one of my most significant spiritual lessons. I was sitting on the pulpit platform at Tenth Presbyterian Church. James Boice was preaching. He asked the question, ''Do you know what God wants?'' (Why, yes, I did want to know.) He wants to be believed. I could have learned that lesson earlier if I had paid attention to the response of the Ninevites to Jonah's preaching.
Text
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 ''Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.''
Much is made by commentators of the Lord giving Jonah a second chance. I suppose it can be considered gracious of God to give his servant another opportunity to serve. It seems to me, though, that the Lord is simply throwing Jonah back into the assignment he had tried to get away from. No one can flee the presence of the Lord, and no servant can forsake the assignment he has been given. God's will will be done. So, Jonah, get to it!
3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, ''Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!''
Let's recall Jonah's original assignment: ''Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.'' Jonah's message was to be one of doom. The evil of the city has come up before God. He was not ignorant of it before, but, rather, the city's sin had reached such a grievous point that destruction was now called for. And so, Jonah proclaims its imminent overthrow - forty days.
Then the extraordinary happens.
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of the ...
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