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The Second Time
The Second Time
Series on Jonah
Introduction
The City God wanted to Save … Nineveh
A great and wicked city
Modern Day Iraq - Mosul -
Capital of Assyrian Empire
Prior to the Assyrian defeat of Israel
A city that was in the countdown to judgment
The countdown of wickedness, of life, of prophetic fulfillment
Six weeks until destruction
Jonah … The Reluctant Prophet
Called, chosen, but flees
SO many Christians could fit this profile: Called, but...
Many, like Jonah, just don’t want to go
There is hope for them: Consider Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah..
Others get distracted by the things of the world,
Others are offended, and so, won’t go
Many Christians who God purposes to do great things through, but are on their way to Tarshish, sleeping through the storms....
Swallowed by the great fish: A type of death, burial, resurrection
Jesus referred to this as a sign
The Word of the Lord came the second time
Jonah
The second call came after Failure and Chastening (chaps.
1, 2)
So many things about Jonah’s response to God’s call were wrong
His attitude was wrong.
He knew better than that
It is amazing how many Christians have terrible attitudes, even while they know better than that...
So many Christians are easily offended, often angry, divisive, and making excuses instead of repenting: They know better
His running away.
He knew better than that
are you running from God instead of running to God?
Choosing self will.
He knew better than that
Is your life based on God’s will?
Or your self will?
Just showing up does not prove that you are in God’s will
Consider Moses at the rock...
Just being in the church, or calling yourself a Christian does not fulfill God’s will:
Are you submitted to HIM?
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Jonah had it wrong in so many of these points:
Chastening comes to the wayward child of God
Christians can never get away with sin ()
That storm was no accident
The great fish was no accident
Examples of those under God’s chastening
Israel wandering in the wilderness for forty years
Samson grinding in the prison house: blind and powerless
But God’s grace reaches those who have failed
Samson would return and regain his strength
Peter, even though he wept because of his denials, became a main spokesman of the Church
And God will meet you where you are
The second call came with Jonah’s old Commission (3:2)
This second call is evidence of God’s wonderful grace
Jonah must have thought it was all over for him
He had surely blown it
even after the fish spit him out, he must have thought it was over as far as being used of God
like the prodigal son who thought he would go back just to be a servant of his father
Rising there on the beach: exhausted and done in
Probably Thought deliverance was the best that could happen
Probably doubted that God would ever use him again
But God called Jonah the second time with the same message
The God of the second chance: not for salvation, but service
The blessed message of
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The second call came in spite of the Fact that Jonah would fail again (chap.
4)
Jonah was displeased with Nineveh’s repentance
Here is a man who is disappointed with his own success
Here is a preacher who regrets that God has used him
Here is an evangelist who is pouting over a whole city of penitents
What hard hearts we have!
Still God loves us
Perhaps you have missed some opportunities in the past
Maybe you should have responded to God’s call long ago...
Whatever your past, God will meet you today!
Regardless of past (and present) failures: God will meet you today
Even if you are not sure if you will be weak and fail Tomorrow, He will meet you today
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