God's Sovereign Grace

Antonio Thomas

The Book of Jonah • Sermon • Submitted a year ago • Presented a year ago

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God uses vivid object lesson to teach Jonah about His sovereignty over creation and salvation. Today God has put you in situations and places where your comfort and desires are pressed, so that they might conform to his plan

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Recap From Last Week

Jonah is given his mandate for the second time and this time he obeys. Short sermon of 6 Hebrew words: od arba yom w(ve) ninweh hafah (Yet 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown).

The people, including the king and all of the nobles responded to Jonah’s preaching with genuine repentance.

And we learned a couple of things 1. God’s first instinct reaction is toward mercy, love, and compassion. 2. eloquence in speech is not a requirement to be actively involved in the great commission. At core, the message is simple. believe and repent.

Continuing The Narrative

Jonah 4:1–2 NIV

1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 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.

Angry here is not merely displeasure. The Hebrew word here is ḥārâ which literally means to become hot or to burn.

The idea that blessings would fall upon those people infuriated him. Many of us are not too far from having these racist attitudes.

“Jonah’s anger … at God for sparing Nineveh stemmed from his unbalanced patriotic fervor.”