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INTRODUCTION:
When you look at your life,
do you see such a mess you can’t help but feel trapped in?
One
ILLUSTRATION:
One such example was Janice Walsh (Unshackled Series)
I would like us to begin this morning by considering the story of x.
She grew up in an abusive home.
She regularly woke up to hear her father yelling at and beating her mom.
Eventually her mom divorced her dad and they were forced into foster care.
There she found herself in just as bad of situation - bullied by the other foster care kids.
She worked hard to go to college and married a kind gentleman from her geology class.
And
However, 2 years after marriage he changed and began to beat her.
She left him after she nearly lost her life.
By this time - she felt alone and depressed.
She was ashamed of her past, and despaired that no one ever could love her.
She was ashamed of her past, and despaired that no one ever could love her.
She felt so lonely she considered suicide more than once.
Now, Maybe our struggle is not near that bad, or maybe it is.
She felt she had no way out-
Either way,
Sometimes we come to place in our lives where we feel like there is no way out.
Sometimes we come to place in our lives where we fill like there is no hope.
He was tired of living a life that evolved around church and the religious norms of church - so he decided to start a new life.
Perhaps it is a struggle in our marriage.
You and your spouse can’t even eat a bowl of cereal without arguing.
You feel alone, desperate to get back the love you had for one another, but have no idea how to get there.
One that allowed him to enjoy life and focus on what he really wanted to do.
Or a struggle in finding a job
or a struggle of addiction
or a struggle of addiction
So he went to college - but he enjoyed college to much.
Maybe not drugs, but addiction to money, security, pornography, lieing, success … and your desires are so strong you feel like a slave to your cravings.
Whatever your struggle,
you question - is there any hope?
Can I get out of this mess?
May I say, this text tells us that when all other empty vain solutions have been tried - and failed.
There is one person in all of creation who can rescue you from your misery - God.
And it doesn’t matter how deep that sin takes you - God is always able to rescue you from that pit.
Let’s Read ,
And you think - there is no way to get out of this mess.
Might I suggest that no matter how deep we find ourselves in sin and struggle, it is never to much for God.
Jonah learned this valuable lesson in Jonah chapter 2.
The story of Jonah demonstrates that you are never without hope.
No matter how deep of trouble you find yourself in,
You can always seek God in the time of need.
From this text we learn,
PROPOSITION: You can always seek God in the time of need.
TRANSITION: And we observe 4 reasons why.
TRANSITION: And this text gives us 4 reasons why.
First, We learn that:
1) No problem is to great for God.
We see this in both the realm and the physical realm in our text.
God is more powerful than our:
- Spiritual Problems.
Perhaps, as you are sitting here - you are thinking, but you don’t know the wickedness of my heart.
I have tried right with God - and every time I failed.
I do acknowledge that having pure faith can be a struggle - and we can feel hopeless about it.
But think about the spiritual state of Jonah at this point.
Is Jonah the ideal example of Faith; a devoted Prophet of God?
Well he is prophet, but he is not the example of faith - if anything he is an example of mercy even when we rebel.
Consider this,
- Jonah fled from the presence of God when he was called to go to Nineveh.
- Jonah defiantly slept through the God-sent storm that threatened his life and everyone else’s life.
- Jonah’s solution to save everyone else was not to pray to God - like even the Pagans did; but did have himself thrown overboard.
At some point in all that we should have saw Jonah pray to God,
but he was to angry and hard hearted to call upon God.
And then the unthinkable happened - God sends a fish to swallow Jonah.
God have allowed him to die in the sea.
And we would have understood why - he was fleeing God, ignoring all of God’s warnings.
But instead, in mercy he allowed him to be swallowed.
Now picture this -
This should be a disgusting, terrifying event.
The swallow
ILLUSTRATION:
We have saw movies with terrifying shark attacks - in which the people try to swim away; only to be eaten by a shark despite their best attempts.
We have saw movies with terrifying shark attacks - in which the people try to swim away; only to be eaten by a shark despite their best attempts.
Jonah probably tried to fight off and swim away from this fish - but in the end was swallowed by it.
That would terrify me.
Then as he swallowed he finds himself in the inner stomach of a fish.
- There is no light - it would have been incredibly dark - pitch black.
ILLUSTRATION: I have been out to sea at night - and you go outside - and it is so dark can’t see your hand in front of your face.
It would have been that dark.
- Stomach’s have
- left over, decaying food - it would have smelt awful.
- It would have had stomach acid - making it even more gooey and disgusting.
In fact, v. 10 tells us that the fish had to vomit Jonah onto dryland - so he would have experienced the digestion process of being swallowed.
- And talk about lonely existence.
- You think you feel lonely and cut off - all by yourself.
- Try being in the stomach of a well.
- And finally - were told the fish did not just swim a few inches from the surface - but do the bottom of the ocean
This description is not just a story - but we can sense the fear that came upon him as Jonah describes the event.
Essentially, being swallowed by that fish was a death trap for Jonah.
It was a prison that could only lead to death.
Now in all that - how long would you expect someone to wait to call upon God?
I would be praying as I am going down the throat of the fish.
But, Jonah waited 3 days before praying.
Jonah 1:17-
What hard heart?
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