Revival Ready (3 of 8)
Series: Jonah
Ross Lester
Jonah 3
Intro:
Howdie. Good to see you all today.
Week 3 of 8 weeks in the ancient prophetic narrative of Jonah. The sermon today is titled "Revival Ready". I really wanted to call it "Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through a fish's stomach." But no one in our comms department finds me as funny as I do.
This study has been challenging and extremely helpful so far. It is amazing to me how the Scriptures speak to so many in such different ways every time they are faithfully read and taught.
Here is what happened in the narrative so far:
- God called the rebel Jonah to preach repentance to the wicked Assyrian city of Nineveh, showing that God calls rebels to reach other rebels who live in rebellious places.
- Jonah said "no thank you" and ran the other way to Spain and as he did so he attempted to flee from the presence, or the face, or the conviction of the Lord.
- God, doesn't let up on people so easily, and so he sovereignly sent a storm and some Pagans became believers and Jonah got thrown overboard into the depths of the stormy sea.
- Where we left him in the story he was sinking to the bottom of the Mediterranean.
What we will read next shows us that he thought he was done. He thought he was dead, and he thought he was going to die outside of God's grace and presence.
The whole story has been a constant back and forth - God said...Jonah said...But God did...then Jonah did. What does God do next with his rebellious prophet?
Jonah 1:17 - 2:10
17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Just stop for a moment and consider this. We have fable-ised this situation so much that we don't actually stop to think what it must have been like. If we do imagine him in there, we imagine him sort of walking around in a cavernous space.
Allow me to say just one more time in this series, that I know t ...
Series: Jonah
Ross Lester
Jonah 3
Intro:
Howdie. Good to see you all today.
Week 3 of 8 weeks in the ancient prophetic narrative of Jonah. The sermon today is titled "Revival Ready". I really wanted to call it "Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through a fish's stomach." But no one in our comms department finds me as funny as I do.
This study has been challenging and extremely helpful so far. It is amazing to me how the Scriptures speak to so many in such different ways every time they are faithfully read and taught.
Here is what happened in the narrative so far:
- God called the rebel Jonah to preach repentance to the wicked Assyrian city of Nineveh, showing that God calls rebels to reach other rebels who live in rebellious places.
- Jonah said "no thank you" and ran the other way to Spain and as he did so he attempted to flee from the presence, or the face, or the conviction of the Lord.
- God, doesn't let up on people so easily, and so he sovereignly sent a storm and some Pagans became believers and Jonah got thrown overboard into the depths of the stormy sea.
- Where we left him in the story he was sinking to the bottom of the Mediterranean.
What we will read next shows us that he thought he was done. He thought he was dead, and he thought he was going to die outside of God's grace and presence.
The whole story has been a constant back and forth - God said...Jonah said...But God did...then Jonah did. What does God do next with his rebellious prophet?
Jonah 1:17 - 2:10
17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Just stop for a moment and consider this. We have fable-ised this situation so much that we don't actually stop to think what it must have been like. If we do imagine him in there, we imagine him sort of walking around in a cavernous space.
Allow me to say just one more time in this series, that I know t ...
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