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Introduction:
Have you ever had that moment when you have the opportunity to be a blessing to someone, but that someone is a person that has caused you great grief?
You have prayed about something, and God answers your prayer, and yet the person God has called you to bless, you don't want too?
Reminds me of a story about a preacher during the American Revolutionary war.
During the Revolutionary War there lived in Pennsylvania a pastor by the name of Peter Miller.
Although Miller was greatly loved by everyone in the community, there was one man who lived near the church who hated him and had earned an unenviable reputation for his abuse of the minister.
This man was not only a hater of the church, but it also turned out that he was a traitor to his country, and was convicted of treason and sentenced to death.
The trial was conducted in Philadelphia, and no sooner did Miller hear of it than he set out on foot to visit General Washington and interceded for the man’s life.
But Washington told him, “I’m sorry that I cannot grant your request for your friend.”
“Friend!” Miller cried.
“Why, that man is the worst enemy I have in the world!”
“What?” the general exclaimed in surprise.
“Have you walked sixty miles to save the life of an enemy?
That, in my judgment, puts the matter in a different light.
I will grant him a pardon for your sake.”
The pardon was made out and signed by General Washington, and Miller proceeded at once on foot to a place fifteen miles distant where the execution was scheduled to take place that afternoon.
He arrived just as the man was being carried to the scaffold, and when he saw Miller hurrying toward the place, remarked, “There is old Peter Miller.
He has walked all the way from Ephrata to have his revenge gratified today by seeing me hung.”
But scarcely had he spoken the words when Miller pushed his way through to the condemned man and handed him the pardon that saved his life.
Peter exemplified a Christ like character, but it must have been extremely difficult for him
One of the hardest commands from Christ, a command that calls us to be different
Different because it is a command that goes against the grain of our very nature
Today we are going to look at an individual in the OT, a man called by God to spread the graciousness and compassion of God to a group of people who needed it.
He was called by God specifically for this task, and yet resisted to the mission God had called him too
We are going to look at the famous child’s story of Jonah
A story not about the message, but about the prophet himself
Jonah was a prophet called to deliver a message of destruction and hope
Jonah is known for the his adventures in the belly of a whale, but it is actually about his inner conflict with a message of hope given to a very evil people
The author of the book of Jonah is unknown
May have been written by Jonah himself who may have still struggled with what God had accomplished with the Assyrian people
Or it may have been written by someone who either traveled with Jonah or knew him personally
Either way the book is a story of a very reluctant prophet
I am going to attempt to cover a whole book of the bible in about 40 min, so hang onto your seats.
Pray
JONAH CHAPTER 1
The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai
Besides the book of Jonah, Jonah is mentioned in
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