Revival Its Struggle - Jonah 02

Revival It’s Struggle

JONAH

Renewal.

Chuck Swindoll “Strike the Original Match”

(rediscover the warmth and joy of marriage)

- Using the context of remodeling a home

- “Renewal will take longer than you planned,

- Cost, more then you figured,

- Be messier than you anticipated,

- Require greater determination than you expected.”

- Jonah reveals the struggle of himself and the people of Nineveh

Hebrews 11:1KJV

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:7KJV

7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

STEPS TO RENEWAL

Jonah

1. Hear the Word 1:1

2. Know my need - 1:2

3. Obey His voice - 1:3; 3:2-3

4. Realize that the Lord will deal with us - 1:4

5. Know my decisions effects others - 1:8-10

6. Pray - 2:1

7. Repent - 2:4

8. Thanksgiving & Praise - 2:9

9. Believe - 4:2

Nineveh

♦ Royal city of King Sennacherib (704-681 BC)

♦ Sacked (612 BC) by the Medes

♦ Spared judgment for 100 years

♦ Assyria's pride (Isa. 10:5-19).

♦ Built on the left bank of the river Tigris, along which it stretched for some 30 miles, having an average breadth of 10 miles or more from the river back toward the eastern hills.

♦ Ruled for more than six hundred years with hideous tyranny and violence

♦ 4:11 – POP 600,000 if 120,000 are children = 20%

♦ Judgment – Blotting out – Abandonment

- Destruction 3:4; Fierce anger 3:9

♦ Nahum & Zeph 2:13-15 Judgment on Nineveh

1. Hear the Word - 3:4

2. Believe - 3:5

3. Be determined & disciplined (fasting) - 3:5, 8

4. Humble themselves - 3:5, 8

5. Pray 3:8

6. Repent - 3:8

7. Be inclusive 3:5-9