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Opening
Recap
Resistance to God
Experiencing God’s reach
Coming to terms
Peripheral effects (Sailors)
Ministry behind the ministry
OPENING QUESTION Formation of prayer
What are factors influenced your life of prayer?
Scripture
parents
culture/perception
agpeya
church
understanding of what prayer is
personal relationship with God
its important to consider what are the key influences on your life of prayer and who’s prayer life could you be influencing?
Intro Discussion
Jonah’s psalm plays a pivotal role in the book.
The story line could be completed without Ch 2 but it would be lacking in depth.
It shows Jonah’s partial change of heart that lead to obedience
Thanksgiving for his rescue by God and his personal experience of God’s mercy
Jonah’s overall personal growth
The psalm sets up the major irony of the book in that Jonah could receive God’s mercy despite his rebellion, but that he wanted to deny Nineveh from mercy.
Jonah’s psalm is a good example of Hebrew psalm-poetry as it is c/w literary style of psalms and OT scripture.
Jonah serves as an example of what Biblical prayer is like.
i.e. using lines from the book of hours…they become our words
Jonah’s psalm, like other psalms of adversity, carry certain elements
A cry and God’s response to prayer
account of personal crisis
Divine rescue
a vow of praise and obedience
Prayer in the depths
Jonah 2:6 (NKJV)
6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Sheol - life as a continuum
QUESTION: What is Sheol?
people in sheol were seen as separated from God
Its like being in the grave but alive…brink of death
Death in the OT was seen as a process rather than an event.
The further we move away from God, the more we take on the characteristics and nature of death.
One could still be living, yet resemble death.
YET, God has access to Sheol
The concept of Sheol as a process is important to grasp because it mirror the reality of our personal lives and struggles with prayer.
We are all at one point distant from God, taking on more characteristics of death than life
Feel that we are off His radar and can no longer ‘see His face’ and being removed from all other people (v.6)
Realize that our own actions and hardness of heart have brought us to a place of Sheol
But God is still present and there is hope!
Understanding Sheol is also important because it allows us to see the extent of God’s power and mercy because it can reach the depths of Sheol.
Jonah 2:6 (NKJV)
6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
The realization and experience of God’s mercy brings with it hope and a renewed sense of trust in the Lord.
God’s Sovereignty over the worst of situations.
QUESTION: What is interesting about verse 8.
Verse 8 is interesting because it speaks to the irony of the book in which Jonah could receive mercy after changing his way but he didn’t want Nineveh to receive the same mercy in their own repentance.
Jonah’s Idol was his own desire
Turning from our idols open us up to the mercy of God
Theme of Salvation and repentance unfolding
Sailors in Ch 1
Jonah in 2
Nineveh in 3
the discussion of salvation between God and Jonah in 4
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