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Slow to Anger
Throughout the story of Jonah we see that God is slow to anger.
Time and time again Jonah, the sailors, and the people of Nineveh all do things that are worthy of destruction, yet it’s God’s will to save them all!
Jonah claims he would rather be dead than to obey God and go preach to Nineveh.
Yet God saves him!
God’s Great Patience
Today most of us can’t even tolerate a different idea, different view, or different belief.
We want instant punishment on anyone that we don’t like.
But notice God gives the Ninevites 40 more days.
God could have destroyed them instantly, as he did Korah ().
Yet he even gave Korah a long time to repent, and years of grumbling.
God could have destroyed Nineveh in the same way, but he wanted to save them!
God’s slowness to anger is a means of saving as many as possible.
God’s Patience Allows Sinners to Repent
Why is there evil in the world?
Sin.
And God abides with it for a time because he wills that none will perish.
There was a time in most believers lives when if God dealt with our wickedness as we think he should, we would have been destroyed before we repented.
The wages of sin
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Everyone has done wrong.
All of us, and the penalty for this is death.
But God wants to save all people.
Jews and Christians, Red & Yellow, Black and White, Muslim and Hindu, Democrat and Republican, Pro Choice & Pro Life…All are made in the image of the one true and living God and He wills that none will perish.
And within this framework, God calls Jonah to go preach the saving message of God.
And Jonah didn’t want any part of it.
Yet God is still patient with Nineveh, he’s still patient with Jonah, he is still slow to anger with you and me when we sin, and he is still slow to anger when you and I refuse to go where he is calling us…just like Jonah.
Romans
Consider the Prodigal son.
The Father (God) puts up with the son’s rebellion.
If he had followed Torah, the son would have been stoned to death for this rebellion ().
Yet the father was patient because he wanted the son to return, to repent.
And he did.
And within this framework, God calls Jonah to go preach the saving message of God
God has every right to strike you dead right now where you sit because you are a sinner, yet he was patient because he wanted you to repent.
And some of you have.
But not all.
This is why Jesus came to the earth, this is why he taught us, this is why he lived a perfect life, this is why he died on a cross and this is why he arose from the dead on the third day.
This is the Gospel that we are to preach, this is the Gospel we are to respond to, and yet we don’t....time and time again, we don’t.
Summarize this portion of Jonah, God is slow to anger, but the clock is ticking.
He wants all to repent, but those that refuse will be destroyed just like Nineveh was supposed to be.
They repented, but will you?
God’s relentless grace is real.
But will you relent/repent and follow him?
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