God rescued Jonah through extreme distress Psalm 517 8 Purify me with hyssop and I shall be clean w ash me and I shall be whiter than snow Make me to hear joy and gladness let ID: 316778
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God rescued Jonah...
through extreme distress
Psalm 51:7–8Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness,
let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
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God rescued Jonah...
through extreme distress
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” C.S. Lewis
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God rescued Jonah...
through extreme distress
Psalm 119:71It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.
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God rescued Jonah...
through inescapable honesty
sin is foolishColossians 3:5Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
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God rescued Jonah...
through inescapable honesty
sin is foolishEzekiel 14:3“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts....”
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Though we do not face a pantheon of false gods like the Israelites did, we face pressures from a pantheon of false values – materialism, love of leisure, sensuality, worship of self, security, and many others. [Idolatry] may be something that most of us can't relate to – unless we include life goals that revolve around something other than God Himself. What is the object of our affections, our efforts, and our attention?
Where
does the majority of our time go? On what do we spend the greatest amount of our resources?
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A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living… An idol is whatever you look at and say, in your heart of hearts,
‘If I have that, then I’ll feel my life has meaning, then I’ll know I have value, then I’ll feel significant and secure.
’ There are many ways to describe that kind of relationship to something, but perhaps the best one is worship.” Timothy KellerSlide11
God rescued Jonah...
through inescapable honesty
sin is foolish“I was going through a rough time with my relationship…and I began to cry…I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of myself whimpering like a baby wearing a shirt that said, ‘I AM GOD.’ [That] put a lot of things in perspective.”
Dave Navarro
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God rescued Jonah...
through inescapable honesty
sin is foolishsin is treachery
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God rescued Jonah...
through renewed discernment
God is everywhereGod is holyGod is unchanging
God is powerfulGod is good
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