Jonah: A Clanging Cymbal

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 13)

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

How An Unloving Ministry Effects Others

I. The Effect on the Audience

I. The Effect on the Audience

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 3)

5 Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. 6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 3)

7 He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. 8 “But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. 9 “Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

I. The Effect on the Audience

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 3)

10 When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

II. The Effect on God

II. The Effect on God

10 When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 6)

Genesis 6:6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 The LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

II. The Effect on God

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 3)

8 “But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands.

III. The Effect on Jonah

III. The Effect on Jonah

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

1 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD and said, “Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

III. The Effect on Jonah

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 4)

3 “Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”