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INTRODUCTION:
What is man compared to God?
When we consider that God is the most powerful, most wise being in all the world - who are we next to him.
ILLUSTRATION:
Perhaps the closest comparison would be my 2 year old son - who is limited to cup, please, thank you, and more.
Sitting next to a professor at a conference on astrophysics.
There is just no comparison.
That is us and God.
When we consider that God is the only uncreated being in all the universe.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ()
That means God was the one who laid the foundations of the ocean, and carved the peaks of the mountains, and sparkled the stars, moon, and planets in the Sky.
- who are we next to God?
David wrote this idea down in and in fact asks that question in .
Which means, when are majestic Father speaks
What ought to be our response?
Behold, God shouldn’t care for me - because I am so small and he is so majestic.
So I should be incredibly humbled and listening when God speaks.
gives us 2 ways ought to respond to the Word of God.
Jonah
From this text,
Proposition: We ought to Respond to the Word of God
Transition: And this text gives us 2 ways we ought to respond to the Word of God.
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The first way we ought to respond to the Word of God is by being:
there are 3 major sections.
Jonah’s challenge Nineveh in v. 1-4.
The Ninevites response to the proclamation in v. 5-9.
And God’s response to the Ninevites in v. 10.
And as we understand this text, and relate it to us as NT believers, I think we can see 2
1. Faithful Proclaimer’s of the Word.
We ought to be:
1. Faithful Proclaimer’s of the Word.
We see Jonah receiving the Word a second time in .
That verse ought to stand out to you as you consider what it says.
Doesn’t this sound familiar?
In fact, it is an exact quote from ; except this is the second time it is been given.
The God who shouldn’t even notice us - spoke twice.
And we see Jonah this time obeying the Word of God.
Jonah 3-
He should have done this the first time - the magnificent God has spoken.
But because of God’s mercy he gets a second chance.
Praise God we follow a God of 2nd chances.
If the prophet who ran from his presence of God,
defiantly slept through a God-sent storm,
and then refused to pray to him for 3 days in the belly of a fish
Got a second chance.
COMPARISON:
Then I think those who have been saved by the death of God’s own son will be given 2nd and 3rd and 4th chances.
If you running from God - don’t run because he is a God of second chances and Jonah is exibit A.
But also,
we have a similar responsibility as Jonah.
Do I believe that all believers in the New Testament are prophets?
Absolutely not.
But we do follow a prophet - and his name is Jesus.
So Christ is prophet, priest, and King.
And before Christ went to heaven to be with Father,
He left us an important responsibility.
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We may not be prophets, but the great prophet told us to
make followers of Christ
and teach them all of his teachings.
In essence,
just like the Word of God came to Jonah,
the Word of God has come to us.
Perhaps a summary of that message we received from Christ can be found in .
Paul summarizes the Gospel in those 4 verses.
John 11:23
Just like Jonah had a responsibility to proclaim the Word of God to the Ninevites.
makes it our responsibility to proclaim the Word of God to all nations.
Are you commited to proclaiming the Gospel of Christ?
We can say that we are,
but
when is the last time we shared Christ with someone?
when is the last time we invited someone to come to church?
when is the last time we comforted the hurting with the peace of the Gospel?
As Christians,
we ought to so filled with the hope found in the Gospels - that it overflows into witnessing and helping others.
Further,
when is the last time we invested in unsaved relationship - so we can can lead them to the Gospel.
Having opportunity to witness at times can simply be talking with our neighbor.
But often it takes building a relationship - perhaps with coworkers, or people you share hobbies with - in order to have an opportunity to witness.
- You can speak to those you don’t know.
You can’t help the struggling who you don’t have a relationship with.
How supportive are we of missionaries?
- Part of a commitment to being a proclaimer of the Word is having Gospel-centered, Truth-Saturated relationships with unbelievers.
Part of a commitment to being a proclaimer of the Word is having Gospel-centered, Truth-Saturated relationships with unbelievers.
These que - than anything else.
in your life - do you glorify.
Further, Scripture often speaks of our lives equally being a witness of the Gospel.
Much of 1 Peter speaks of living holy in light of suffering, discrimination, and persecution.
- partly as a witness to unbelievers.
Peter tells wives to subject themselves to their husbands as a witness in .
Peter tells Christians in general to respond to evil with good in .
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Why?- so that they can witness of the hope found in Christ.
Does your purity display the hope found at the cross?
Does you love and compassion show the hope found at the cross?
The story of Jonah demonstrates that believers can neglect, run, or ignore the call to proclaim the Word of God.
We can fail to proclaim the Word that God sent us.
As NT Christians,
we ought to be faithful in proclaiming the Word
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