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The Assyrian Empire and their Warfare
Military might was a central part of this people of Nineveh
All men had to serve in the military | 3 yr cycle | build/war/home repeat
One of the first to use psychological warfare
had tablets created illustrating their torture procedures
skinned alive, blinding, imp-ailing / draped their skins over the walls / piles of heads outside the city gates
Chance to surrender or eat own excrement
ears/nose/lips cut off
wear a necklace of heads
slavery
Advanced seige weapons - invented battering ram
complete obliteration - killing not enough
Even the assyrians themselves experienced PTSD because of their warfare
Jonah 4 (ESV)
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2 And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country?
That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
3 Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”
5 Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there.
He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
6 Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort.
So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.
7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.
8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint.
And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?”
And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
10 And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.
11 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Parables
Matt 18.21-35 = Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
Lk 15 = Parable of the Lost Sheep / Lost Coin / Prodigal Son
Helping Verses
Rom 5.8 “8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
1 Co 6.11 “11 And such were some of you.
But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
Do you have a Biblical framework of God?
who do you say that I am
communicable and incommunicable attributes of God
Gods love does not negate Gods justice
if you do not have a biblical framework for who god is then you do not have the God of the Bible.
Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ?
the sailors knew God / the Ninevites knew God / Jonah knew God
you know God that is good even demons know God
you cannot fully know the God of the Bible outside of Christ.
Do you trust the Lord?
Look at all that God appointed
even in the midst of active disobedience there is mercy and grace
we do not want immediate justice for ourselves we want mercy
do you have a biblical framework of forgiveness?
Do you have a Nineveh in your life?
we say love the sinner hate the sin but do we do that
we often care more about our smart phones then we do the lost
are you seeking to respond as Christ or as Jonah
Beware the growth of the self-righteous vine rather pray that God will graciously appoint spiritual worms to reveal to us our true condition before a Holy God.
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Unforgiving Servant
Prodigal Son
GROUP QUESTIONS
What are some things over which you have been extremely angry only later to find out you were wrong about injustice being committed toward you?
What was driving your original perspective on the situation?
What later information helped you to think differently?
When have you been angry with the Lord about unfulfilled dreams or missed expectations?
What was your original hope that went unfulfilled?
Why was that expectation so significant to you at that period of your life?
When have you failed to express righteous anger—moral outrage or a cry for justice—over an occupational, familial, communal, or church issue, realizing in hindsight you should have made your voice known?
Why is it sometimes difficult to express righteous anger when there has been a social miscue but easy to express unrighteous anger over mild discomforts?
What truths about Christ do we need to embrace in order to grow in rightly expressing anger?
Name a recent experience in which you rejoiced in the Lord’s grace, mercy, or patience toward you.
Why did you need such grace, mercy, or patience?
How did you feel about the Lord when you had this experience?
Almost every sovereign country has another nation of people that identifies itself as enemies.
Think of an enemy of our home country.
What are your feelings toward the people of that nation as a whole?
How would you feel about a member of that nation moving next door to you, marrying your child, or becoming an elected official in your municipality?
What does Jonah teach you about how you might view tolerance toward such nations and peoples as a follower of Christ?
What has been your response to people within your congregation who have experienced long-term despair or maybe even suicidal thoughts?
What sort of practical, faithful, compassionate acts might turn them from their despair?
What acts from Christian friends have been most helpful to your moments of greatest despair?
Consider the following verses in Jonah: 1:17; 4:6, 7, 8.
These verses reveal the Lord “appointed” an event four times.
What attributes of God do such events reveal?
In what realms of the created order does God reveal these attributes in Jonah?
Consider again Jonah 4:6, 7, 8.
Is it normal for the Lord to appoint events and causes of natural “evil,” such as the hurling of the violent wind (1:4), the scorching wind, and devouring of the plant?
How should one view events of natural evil within the will of the Creator?
(See also Job 5:9–10; 28:26; Isa 45:7; 50:2; Nah 1:3–5; Mark 4:39–41.)
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