PPT-Jonah – “The Man of Calling”

Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying Arise go to Nineveh that great city and call out against it for their evil has come up before me Jonah 112 ESV. You are , or should be turned to Jonah 2:8. Jonah. An Excurses. I Propose the we be henceforth . called:. The Harvester Class. Matt 9:37-38. "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." . You are , or should be turned to Jonah 2:3. Jonah. A Reprise. The prophet has fled from the presence of the Lord. In the process he has separated from the presence of his entire world;. Country. People. You are , or should be turned to Jonah 1:17. 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. . In the midst of punishment, God remembers mercy. What is repentance?. a . change of thought . to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged. a . confession to God . and stopping the sin against God. includes an . admission of guilt. Lesson 6 for May 11, 2013. HISTORICAL CONTEXT. If that conversion had been kept, Assyria would have avoided its total destruction a century later as prophet Nahum prophesied. .. Jonah’s preaching in Nineveh took place sometime during the reign of the Assyrian King Adad-ninari III (810-782 BC) who was contemporary with King Jeroboam II of Israel. purpose. God pursues Jonah for a purpose. God pursues Jonah for . repentance. God pursues Jonah for a purpose. God pursues Jonah for . repentance. God pursues Jonah for . rescue. God pursues Jonah for a purpose. Jonah Jonah 3:1 - 10 Jonah 3 1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” 3 Jonah obeyed JONAH. Assyria . (Nineveh). Pre-Exile. ~ 782 . -. 753 BC. Likely timeline. 1 Jonah . 2 Joel . 3 Amos . 4 Hosea . 5 Micah . 6 Nahum . 7 Zephaniah . 8 Habakkuk . 9 Obadiah. 10 Haggai . 2 . He prayed to the . Lord. , “Isn’t this what I said, . Lord. , when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to . Tarshish. . I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. . God called. Jonah ran. Jonah. God called. Jonah ran. Things got ugly. Jonah slept. A fish gulped. Jonah relented. Nineveh responded. Jonah sulked. God loved. Jonah 1:17. Jonah realized his sin!. . He pronounced his own punishment (vs. 12). . He thus admits HE DESERVES DEATH! . . Romans 6:23. It was Jonah’s just reward. God PREPARED a great fish/punishment. Ninevites. believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on . sackcloth.. Jonah 3. 6]When . the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.[7]Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.[8]But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.[9]Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."[10]When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.. Jonah 3. So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying,. (Jon 1:17) Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. .(. Jon . 2:1-4) . Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.