SALVATION IS FROM THE LORD (2 OF 4)
Scripture: Jonah 2:8-10
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Salvation is From the LORD (2 of 4)
Series: Jonah: More than a Fish Story
Michael White
Jonah 2:8-10
''Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters- four yarns- is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what depths of the soul Jonah's deep sealine sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us, we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God.
Such were the words of Father Maple in Herman Melville's classic work, Moby Dick. So what is the lesson of Jonah? It's about God's Mercy, how he extends salvation lavishly upon sinful people, but most of all it's a demonstration of his utmost sovereignty.
The lesson is that no one can defy the sovereign purposes of the Almighty God. It's a story about a sovereign God and a rebellious prophet who vainly sought to defy him. And as we have learned these past few weeks, that though Jonah was certain of his carefully made provisions God had other plans for him.
I was listening to a sermon on this passage and one pastor said:
''Never forget that your arms are too short to box with God.''
Such was the experience of Jonah. How quickly he discovers that he was overwhelmingly outclassed in his foolish attempt to outmaneuver God. When we fight God he even uses our acts of autonomy against us to serve his purposes.
In Chapter 1 God gives him a definitive commission to go and preach to the Ninevites. Jonah says no. He hated the ninevites. He knew that God was merciful and he did not want God to forgive them.
So Jonah decides that his plans were better so instead of obeying God's commission to go 500 miles ...
Series: Jonah: More than a Fish Story
Michael White
Jonah 2:8-10
''Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters- four yarns- is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what depths of the soul Jonah's deep sealine sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us, we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God.
Such were the words of Father Maple in Herman Melville's classic work, Moby Dick. So what is the lesson of Jonah? It's about God's Mercy, how he extends salvation lavishly upon sinful people, but most of all it's a demonstration of his utmost sovereignty.
The lesson is that no one can defy the sovereign purposes of the Almighty God. It's a story about a sovereign God and a rebellious prophet who vainly sought to defy him. And as we have learned these past few weeks, that though Jonah was certain of his carefully made provisions God had other plans for him.
I was listening to a sermon on this passage and one pastor said:
''Never forget that your arms are too short to box with God.''
Such was the experience of Jonah. How quickly he discovers that he was overwhelmingly outclassed in his foolish attempt to outmaneuver God. When we fight God he even uses our acts of autonomy against us to serve his purposes.
In Chapter 1 God gives him a definitive commission to go and preach to the Ninevites. Jonah says no. He hated the ninevites. He knew that God was merciful and he did not want God to forgive them.
So Jonah decides that his plans were better so instead of obeying God's commission to go 500 miles ...
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