JONAH'S REPENTANCE (4 OF 6)
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10
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Jonah's Repentance (4 of 6)
Series: God's Disobedient Prophet
Richard A. Bradley
Jonah 2:1-10
Jonah 2:1-100
1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly.
2 And he said:
''I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me.
''Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.
3 For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'
5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
7 ''When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.
8 ''Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.''
10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
As we've said before Jonah could have avoided a lot of trouble by just doing what God called him to do in the first place. The problem is none of us are perfect. We all fail at one time or another, so what then? Being the man of God he was Jonah knew that nothing short of repentance would work for God.
Repentance is neither sorrow nor confession. Sorrow is just feeling bad. Confession is just admitting to wrong doing. Neither of these is repentance. Repentance has nothing to do with feeling bad. It has everything to do with admitting to wrong doing by God's definition and then making a commitment to live as God wants us to, or in Jonah's case, to go in God's direction.
Look at what we can learn about sin and genuine repentance from Jona ...
Series: God's Disobedient Prophet
Richard A. Bradley
Jonah 2:1-10
Jonah 2:1-100
1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly.
2 And he said:
''I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me.
''Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.
3 For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'
5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
7 ''When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.
8 ''Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.''
10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
As we've said before Jonah could have avoided a lot of trouble by just doing what God called him to do in the first place. The problem is none of us are perfect. We all fail at one time or another, so what then? Being the man of God he was Jonah knew that nothing short of repentance would work for God.
Repentance is neither sorrow nor confession. Sorrow is just feeling bad. Confession is just admitting to wrong doing. Neither of these is repentance. Repentance has nothing to do with feeling bad. It has everything to do with admitting to wrong doing by God's definition and then making a commitment to live as God wants us to, or in Jonah's case, to go in God's direction.
Look at what we can learn about sin and genuine repentance from Jona ...
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