How Do You Become Fish Bait?
Jonah 1:1-4
Miles Seaborn
INTRO: To some people this is ''The Story of a Whale,'' but when we look at it from God's perspective it becomes ''a whale of a story.''
Somehow in this gem from God's word we never get be- yond the whale. Can a man be swallowed by a fish and remain alive?
Phillip Brooks, the great preacher, said that, ''After all, Jonah was a minor prophet so the fish had no major difficulty.''
Some with a scientific mind would say, ''That is mythol- ogy! Others, even Bible scholars, say it is not his- torically true, but it is an allegory, just a story to illustrate. But take another look at Jonah.'' The whale only appears in two short verses, not a leading role.
THE BASIC PREMISE
So, in the beginning, we should settle this issue. It really depends on how you approach the story of Jonah and the whole Bible itself, Whether you approach the Bible as the word of God from a bias, or position, that believes in the supernatural and the power of the supernatural to operate in this world at will. Or whether you have an anti-supernatural bias and say, I simply do not believe in anything I can't see, feel, touch, or prove scientifically in the laboratory.
If I am a Christian and I believe in the gospel of Christ, then I have to believe in the greatest miracle that has ever happened--the greatest intervention of the supernatural in this world in the sending of God's son, Jesus Christ. into the world. God in the flesh-- who went tot he cross and died for our sins--who went into the grave and stayed there three days and came forth alive from the grave! There is the miracle! Now, if I premise my faith on a living Lord and a
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resurrected Jesus, I do not have any problems on these other things.
Jesus himself used this over and over again. He spoke about the example of Jonah: An adulterous and evil generation demands a sign. You are going to have a sign. As Jonah was in the belly of the whale th ...
Jonah 1:1-4
Miles Seaborn
INTRO: To some people this is ''The Story of a Whale,'' but when we look at it from God's perspective it becomes ''a whale of a story.''
Somehow in this gem from God's word we never get be- yond the whale. Can a man be swallowed by a fish and remain alive?
Phillip Brooks, the great preacher, said that, ''After all, Jonah was a minor prophet so the fish had no major difficulty.''
Some with a scientific mind would say, ''That is mythol- ogy! Others, even Bible scholars, say it is not his- torically true, but it is an allegory, just a story to illustrate. But take another look at Jonah.'' The whale only appears in two short verses, not a leading role.
THE BASIC PREMISE
So, in the beginning, we should settle this issue. It really depends on how you approach the story of Jonah and the whole Bible itself, Whether you approach the Bible as the word of God from a bias, or position, that believes in the supernatural and the power of the supernatural to operate in this world at will. Or whether you have an anti-supernatural bias and say, I simply do not believe in anything I can't see, feel, touch, or prove scientifically in the laboratory.
If I am a Christian and I believe in the gospel of Christ, then I have to believe in the greatest miracle that has ever happened--the greatest intervention of the supernatural in this world in the sending of God's son, Jesus Christ. into the world. God in the flesh-- who went tot he cross and died for our sins--who went into the grave and stayed there three days and came forth alive from the grave! There is the miracle! Now, if I premise my faith on a living Lord and a
Fish Bait/2
resurrected Jesus, I do not have any problems on these other things.
Jesus himself used this over and over again. He spoke about the example of Jonah: An adulterous and evil generation demands a sign. You are going to have a sign. As Jonah was in the belly of the whale th ...
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