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INTRODUCTION:
Do you struggle with anger?
Are you bitter against someone today?
Do you love the unlovable?
Do you have compassion on sinners?
There are many places in the Gospels where we see Jesus having compassion on those no one else did.
His love and his mercy extended past sin, past social norms, past hate and past anger.
His love and his mercy extended past sin, past social norms, past hate and anger.
One such example was the women at the well.
Notice the Surprise of the women that Jesus would even speak to her.
John 4:
And then again, the surprise of the disciples when they return in v. 27-28.
Jesus at the well, stone the lady ....
The reality is often God is more compassionate than we are.
We hold onto hate, anger, and bitterness -
- put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander,
- tells us not to be bitter.
Jonah is an example of how we often fail to have the same compassion God has.
Jonah
Read of the bitterness, anger, and lack of compassion in Jonah’s life.
Yet, what is the problem - we are not compassionate.
Examples of our lack of compassion in our life
Fruit of the Spirit
Fruit of the flesh.
Read the bitterness, anger, and lack of compassion in Jonah’s life.
From this text,
PROPOSITION: We ought to live as compassionate people.
Transitional Statement: And the story of Jonah teaches us how to be compassionate.
Do you struggle with anger?
Are you bitter against someone today?
Do you love the unlovable?
Do you have compassion on sinners?
If the answer is yes, then let’s -
1. Recognize our bitterness ()
1. Recognize our bitterness ()
The first step often is knowing we have a problem, but for many of us - we are blind to our anger and bitterness.
Jonah was blind to his own anger.
Notice the -
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The bitterness of Jonah.
We see in an incredible display of repentance.
The city of Nineveh turned from their evil and violence.
From the least to the greatest.
The King to the cattle.
As we read that story last week,
we pictured going through -
the city gates
the streets
the markets
- And every citizen was crying to God.
- Every person and cattle was fasting and wearing sackcloths on their head.
This town was mourning at the judgement of God and asking for him to not condemn the city.
And God in his great mercy and steadfast love - relented of his judgement.
This is a marvelous thing - the least like, most unexpected to repent - has repented.
We ought to stand here and go - wow look at what God can do!
But is that how Jonah reacted?
Listen to the bitterness of Jonah.
Jonah
When Jonah ought to be rejoicing at the repentance of the Ninevites.
- Rejoicing that people are coming to the one true God.
- Rejoicing that God is so merciful,
the same God who saved Jonah from the death sentence of being swallowed by a fish, at the bottom of the ocean.
And instead,
- He is angry!
AND
- he is disgusted.
And why?
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The cause of Jonah’s bitterness.
We have been waiting for the author to really explain why Jonah fled from the presence of God in chapter 1 -
and Jonah’s confession is found in v. 2.
He fled the presence of God - because he knew God would forgive them.
He says,
“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.”
It’s almost amazing,
that someone can confess that about God in disgust and hate.
But Jonah shows it is completely possible.
What is so bad about people getting saved?
Well when your heart is full of bitterness and hate and anger - it can be the worst thing in your life.
Now,
it is not to say that Jonah does not have good reason to be bitter and to hateful.
Consider who the Ninevites are -
The Ninevites are the social and cultural icon of the Assyrian nation.
The same Assyrian nation that Hosea and Amos prophesied would conquer, destroy, and exile the N. Kingdom of Israel.
Further, they are known for their incredible brutality
Inscriptions have been found showing the Assyrians
Skinning their enemies alive.
Beheading their enemies.
Poking the Eyes out of their Enemy.
And forcing them to ground the bones of their ancestors.
[https://www.biblearchaeology.org/publications/bibleandspade.aspx]
So for Jonah,
The Ninevites repenting was repulsive.
It disgusted him.
It displeased him.
You can think through how he must have felt.
Do you know what this people have done?
They don’t deserve mercy.
This is the enemies of God.
And this is the enemies of the Jews.
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