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Salvation comes from the Lord
Review
The Prayer in Context
Recall the uses of “up” and “down” in this book
Down has been the sinful direction.
Jonah goes down attempting to get away from the presence of the Lord and avoid obedience to His commission.
He thinks that it is better to endure the judgment of God versus the commission of God.
His focus is on himself.
Up has been the Godward direction.
The fish is the beginning of Jonah’s return.
He finally sees obedience to God is better than His judgment.
His focus, however brief, turns towards the Lord.
This is a visceral picture of the relationship between God and His created humanity.
We are made to have Him as our once and for all focus.
Anything other than that is ultimately unfulfilling and fruitless.
Jonah’s journey down has been marked with chaos and death.
However, it has also been marked with God’s sovereignty, patience, and grace.
Contrasts between Chapters 1 and 2
Jonah pays the fare to get on the boat, while the fish is free
Jonah sleeps in the boat, while he is awake and alert in the fish
Jonah is prayerless in the ship, while he is very prayerful in the fish
What does this contrast mean?
The Content of Jonah’s Prayer
Thesis: Salvation comes from the Lord.
God brings judgment and salvation
v1c Recognize God’s salvation mixed with discipline.
Divine compassion, mercy, and discipline.
Down has been the sinful direction.
Jonah goes down attempting to get away from the presence of the Lord and avoid obedience to His commission.
He thinks that it is better to endure the judgment of God versus the commission of God.
His focus is on himself.
v2 Recognize that you have a heavenly Father who love you.
Cry out to Him and He will bring salvation.
(Thesis of the prayer)
A Prayer of Thanksgiving.
This is part 2 of the prayer, thanking God for deliverance.
Hebrew word order.
“To the Lord, in my distress, I cried out, and He answered me.”
Up has been the Godward direction.
The fish is the beginning of Jonah’s return.
He finally sees obedience to God is better than His judgment.
His focus, however brief, turns towards the Lord.
v3 Recognize God’s discipline
Jonah’s salvation began with judgment.
God was showing Jonah how obedience to His call was preferable to His judgment.
v4 Recognize God as the only source of deliverance
Jonah had fled from the Lord as hard as he could.
He of all people had no right to cry out to the God he had so deliberately forsaken.
Yet he recognizes here that the God he rejected is the very God who can save him.
Jonah appeals to God’s mercy and grace for deliverance.
Jonah had fled from the Lord as hard as he could.
He of all people had no right to cry out to the God he had so deliberately forsaken.
Yet he recognizes here that the God he rejected is the very God who can save him.
v5-6a Recognize how sin separates us from God
This is a visceral picture of the relationship between God and His created humanity.
Jonah recounts his descent.
5“encompassed,” “engulfed,” “wrapped.”
-Tomb imagery
“the foot of the mountains.”
- polar opposite of where he needed to be
God gave Jonah a taste of what he wanted, and Jonah quickly realized his fault.
“but” signals a Pivot point in the prayer
6b Recognize God is the only one who can save
6b “But you have brought my life up” - no matter how far away he tried to get, God was always near.
7 Recognize where your help comes from
Jonah’s misplaced credit “I remembered the Lord”
All other places in the OT: the prayer says “YHWH remembered me.”
Giving credit and praise never to self.
“My prayer came to you” - He could either be appealing to God’s mercy pr his own self-righteousness.
Self-righteousness and pride
No acknowledgment of any wrongdoing, no confession of sin
In the next phrase he turns the focus onto how great he is
This verse and the next foreshadow the racism that is to come.
He feels that he deserves mercy but non-Israelites do not.
8 Recognize your own doubts in God
9 Recognize your own propensity to hypocrisy
“Those who regard vain idols forsake their faithfulness (“their experience of divine mercy”).”
The sailors- Jonah expresses doubt as to whether or not they would have lasting loyalty to YHWH.
9 Recognize God is continually sanctifying you
Jonah elevates himself above the sailors.
What is not in the prayer is what is most telling about this prideful tone.
No confession.
No repentance.
We are made to have Him as our once and for all focus.
Anything other than that is ultimately unfulfilling and fruitless.
Jonah’s journey down has been marked with chaos and death.
However, it has also been marked with God’s sovereignty, patience, and grace.
The practice of Repentance
Jonah’s journey of deliverance and bondage to his sin begins in the fish and continues through the remainder of the story.
We do not know how he ended up.
Recognize God’s Activity in Your Lif
God brings judgment and salvation
v1c Recognize God’s salvation mixed with discipline.
Divine compassion, mercy, and discipline.
v2 Even
v3 Recognize that you have a heavenly Father who love you.
Cry out to Him and He will bring salvation.
(Thesis of the prayer)
Probably won’t look like what you think it will look like.
v4 Recognize God’s discipline
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