God Loves A Cheerful Giver

2 Corinthians 9:7 KJV 1900

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

What ever we do, we should do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Everything we do for God is a chose, and according to God’s word our actions are weighed.

Jonah 3:4 KJV 1900

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

The prophecy here was conditional, to be fulfilled if the people did not repent.

Matthew 10:8 KJV 1900

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

If no mercy had been intended, should the people repent, then no preaching would have been necessary.

Nineveh could not have believed God with no word of God to believe, for “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”.

Romans 10:17 KJV 1900

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

We as Christians have a job to do, just as Jonah had a job to fulfil.

If we will not go, God will send someone else to get the job done.

So let us labor while it is still day, for the night cometh in which no man work.

Jonah 3:5 KJV 1900

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Jonah 3:6 KJV 1900

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:7 KJV 1900

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

Jonah 3:8 KJV 1900

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Jonah 3:9 KJV 1900

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 3:10 KJV 1900

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

God can save and deliver regardless of what we think and believe.

Jonah 4:1 KJV 1900

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

There should be rejoicing not only in heaven but in the church, in the believers life when someone gives their life to the Lord.

What wrong with Jonah? Here in lay the problem, the root of his sin. You can comeback to God and still have problem if you refuse to look at yourself.