THE TRUTH ABOUT OURSELVES (4 OF 4)
The Truth about Ourselves (4 of 4)
Series: Jonah
Robert Dawson
Jonah 4
I don’t know about you but I don’t like stories to end in ‘tragedy.’ I don’t mind thrillers as long as everything is resolved at the end of the story and ends well. I like stories that end well. I like stories with happy endings. I don’t like movies, book or TV shows that don’t end well. I want the ending to make sense and bring resolution and a smile to my face and not create dissonance in my heart (bad notes in a chord that is just not finished – when you hear someone playing or singing a song and they keep missing that one note over and over and you just want to go over and hit the right note or sing it for them).
I want the bad guy to lose. I want the good guy to win and get the girl. I want the cowboy to ride off into the sunset. I want the aging ballplayer to hit a grand-slam in his last at bat to win the World Series.
Over the last few weeks we have been looking at an amazing story. We have been looking at the story of Jonah and if the book and the sermon series ended last week with chapter 3 we would have a very, very happy ending. But it doesn’t.
- If it ended last week, after the drama of Jonah running, the storm, the fish and Jonah going to this really wicked evil place filled ungodly people and preaching and then seeing God do a miracle and basically an entire city repenting and evil being squashed we would have a good ending…but it doesn’t end that way.
The last verse of chapter 3 ends with God seeing how the Ninevites repented of their sins and humbled themselves before God and God relenting of the disaster He was going to bring upon them and then you come to verse 1 of chapter 4 and we see that word again, “BUT.”
As we look at chapter 4 we find evil has once again reared its ugly head but not in Nineveh, in Jonah.
Throughout our study of Jonah we have said that Go ...
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