Jonah the Son of Amittai Jonah 113 Nineveh Difficult Challenging Known Tarshish Foreign Exotic Unknown The Lord calls us all to Nineveh We flee to Tarshish The Lord Hurled a Great Wind ID: 285450
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FLEEING & FALLINGSlide2
Jonah, the Son of
Amittai
Jonah
1:1-3
Nineveh: Difficult, Challenging, Known
Tarshish
: Foreign, Exotic, Unknown
The Lord calls us all to Nineveh.
We flee to
Tarshish
.Slide3
The Lord Hurled a Great Wind
Jonah 1:4
Nature is the Lord’s servant. We are the rebels.
George
Whitefield:
“When
the creatures rise up against us, it is as much as to say, You have sinned against God, and we take up our Master's quarrel.”
Isaiah 57:20-21 “But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt. There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”Slide4
They Hurled the Cargo
Jonah 1:5-6
The carg
o represents the sailors livelihood.
This was a fight for survival.
When the storm rages, we realize that the cargo is not that important after all.Slide5
What Is This That You Have
Done
Jonah 1:7-10
Ancient gods were local gods.
“the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land”
The sailors recognize the truth before Jonah: you cannot run from a god who rules over heaven, earth, and sea!Slide6
They Hurled Him Into the Sea
Jonah 1:11-16
There is only one more place for Jonah to run – the depths of a watery grave.
The sailors give it one last valiant try: “the men rowed hard … but they could not.”
Try as we might, not effort of human will puts us right with the Almighty God.
Jonah’s journey
reaches its
inevitable end.Slide7
Fleeing & Falling
Fleeing from the presence of the Lord means …
Hiding down in the ship
Sailing
from God’s calling
Being hurled into the sea
Sinking down into the depths
Fleeing is falling, because apart from God, there is nowhere to go but down.Slide8
Another Option
Mark 4:35-41
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And
leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
…Slide9
Another Option
Mark 4:35-41
… And
he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”