THE GOD OF THE SECOND CHANCE (3 OF 4)
The God of the Second Chance (3 of 4)
Series: The Will of God for You in the Book of Jonah
Marvin Patterson
Jonah 3
Introduction
A little boy had just got home from Sunday School and mom was cooking lunch. ‘‘Mommy, is it true that before you’re born you’re just dust and after you die you go back to being dust?’’
’’That’s right son, why?’’
’’Well that’s just what they said at church today.’’
’’Run up stairs and wash your hands son, lunch will be ready in a few minutes.’’
About 10 minutes went by and she called out for him to come down. ‘‘I’ll be there in a minute.’’ As they were about to sit down at the table, the little boy asked again about being dust before being born and after you die. Once again mother said yes son.
The little boy looked at her and said, then you better get up to my room pretty quick, because something under my bed is either coming or going!! We have come to the third chapter of this classic in the Bible called the Book of Jonah. He found out the hard way that it does not pay to resist God. When God calls, he has our best in mind, therefore we need to follow His plan as soon as possible in life! God had Jonah’s attention now, and if Jonah would have tried to run again, I believe that God would have had a second whale out there ready to swallow Jonah, but that was not needed this second time! Jonah was called to preach to the most wicked nation in the world at that time in history, and yet he caught a ship and went several thousand miles in the opposite direction to Spain! What he did realize was that we can run but we cannot hide from the strong presence of the Lord!
‘‘Nineveh lay on the eastern side of the Tigris, and was one of the greatest-if not the greatest-of the cities of antiquity. It had 1,200 towers, each 200 feet high, and its wall was 100 feet high, and of such breadth that three chariots could drive on it abreast. It was 60 miles in circumference, and could, within its walls, ...
Series: The Will of God for You in the Book of Jonah
Marvin Patterson
Jonah 3
Introduction
A little boy had just got home from Sunday School and mom was cooking lunch. ‘‘Mommy, is it true that before you’re born you’re just dust and after you die you go back to being dust?’’
’’That’s right son, why?’’
’’Well that’s just what they said at church today.’’
’’Run up stairs and wash your hands son, lunch will be ready in a few minutes.’’
About 10 minutes went by and she called out for him to come down. ‘‘I’ll be there in a minute.’’ As they were about to sit down at the table, the little boy asked again about being dust before being born and after you die. Once again mother said yes son.
The little boy looked at her and said, then you better get up to my room pretty quick, because something under my bed is either coming or going!! We have come to the third chapter of this classic in the Bible called the Book of Jonah. He found out the hard way that it does not pay to resist God. When God calls, he has our best in mind, therefore we need to follow His plan as soon as possible in life! God had Jonah’s attention now, and if Jonah would have tried to run again, I believe that God would have had a second whale out there ready to swallow Jonah, but that was not needed this second time! Jonah was called to preach to the most wicked nation in the world at that time in history, and yet he caught a ship and went several thousand miles in the opposite direction to Spain! What he did realize was that we can run but we cannot hide from the strong presence of the Lord!
‘‘Nineveh lay on the eastern side of the Tigris, and was one of the greatest-if not the greatest-of the cities of antiquity. It had 1,200 towers, each 200 feet high, and its wall was 100 feet high, and of such breadth that three chariots could drive on it abreast. It was 60 miles in circumference, and could, within its walls, ...
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