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Introduction
Illustration
Where do you find hope?
Hope tends to be in a change in something or someone.
Positive change – I have a new job!
Negative change – my annoying co-worker got fired
In both cases, hope is in a change.
Even when people hope that things will stay the same, we are hoping that things will not do what they do which is change.
Many times the idea of “trust” is associated with “hope.”
The more one trusts a change more hope they will have.
One can cultivate hope in your life if you can imagine a change happening.
It requires imagination, but if you look past your circumstances and imagine a change you will develop hope.
The bible relates hope with a feeling, i.e.
Prov.
13:12
We can infer that it is important to know exactly what in what you are hoping.
Your hope must be in something trustworthy.
Historical Context
We have see an incredible repentance from Nineveh.
They have repented, and God repented.
They turned from their evil and God turned from the evil that He was going to do to them.
Proposition
Real hope comes when we joyfully serve God, and compassionately love those whom God loves.
I.
We Must Joyfully Serve God v. 1
Jonah 4:1 The narrator introduced Jonah again.
After Jonah’s message, he just disappeared.
We were so excited about the fact that Nineveh repented, God repented and we almost didn’t realize that Jonah has ducked out.
How is Jonah?
The city repented, not just verbally, but they had a change in attitude and actions.
The king and the nobles repented and were dirty with ashes, they were hungry, even the animals were fasting before the Lord.
God repented.
God was going to judge Israel harshly, but He turned from that action.
Right now a war is happening between Russia and Ukraine.
Different political leaders have tried to mediate peace.
I hear on the radio that the prime minister of France, Emmanuel Macron, has tried to talk with Vladimir Putin.
Can you imagine the reaction of the political leader that is able to broker a deal?
That person would be very happy!
They would say things like, “it really was nothing, I only had a small part to play.”
But how is Jonah reacting to peace between Nineveh and God?
“And then He (God) did evil” (וירע Qal.
PTN 3 Masc.
Sg.) – the word “displeased” is the word for “to be evil, displeasing (in someone’s eyes)” (HALOT, s.v.
“רעע,” 3:1269).
The difficulty of the sentence is that the verb has a subject, but one has to guess who has done the “evil.”
The interpreter has to assign a subject.
Subject could be Jonah, but Jonah appears as the object of the preposition, which would make a really weird sentence structure and make no sense.
Contextually, the subject is God, and His action, in Jonah 3:10.
Therefore, the one who has done the “evil” is God.
“to Jonah a great evil” (אל–יונה רעה גדילה) – answers the question “to whom has evil been done?
To Jonah – the idea is that Jonah has evaluated God.
Just as God had evaluated Nineveh in Jonah 1:2, now Jonah is evaluating God.
Jonah’s evaluation was that a “great evil” was done.
“And then he became angry towards Him” (ויחר לו Qal.
PTN 3rd Masc.
Sg.) – “to be/become hot:” (HALOT, s.v.
“חרה,” 1:351).
Who got mad with whom?
The verb has a 3rd Masc.
Sg. “he” but no other subject is mentioned.
The subject could be God, as in God is mad with Jonah.
Or, more probable, the subject is Jonah.
I believe contextually that it makes sense that Jonah is angry because:
1. Jonah complains to God
2. God as Jonah why he is made in vs. 4.
Before we go into Jonah’s prayer, I want us to see what the narrator is communicating.
There is a vocabulary relationship between Jonah 1:2 and Jonah 4:1.
In Jonah 1:2 God saw a “great” city and He saw their evil.
In Jonah 4:1, Jonah looked at God, and considered God’s action as something as evil, as it does not pass Jonah’s approval.
Jonah is judging God like God judged Nineveh.
Jonah judged God and found God wanting, God did not meet Jonah’s standard.
We must joyfully serve God v. 1
A. Obey is not the same as Joyfully Obeying
The image that we have of Jonah is that he is not happy.
He went to Nineveh
He preached in Nineveh
But he is not doing it because he loves God.
Rather, God has forced him to go.
Jonah has an intense three day lesson on the sovereignty of God.
You might be tempted to think that obeying half-heartedly is better than disobeying.
But you have failed to think properly.
Those who follow God, christians, are not to distinguish between good things and bad things.
Obviously you are not supposed to do the bad things!
The believer is supposed to distinguish between good things and the best!
Many Christians never advance in their Christian walk because they only think and distinguish between good and bad.
For example, biblically there is no reason why a person cannot buy a car with all the cool gadgets.
It isn’t bad!
But is it the best decision?
To answer that question a person needs to think beyond good and bad
The person needs to think “is this wise?”
Maybe a cheaper good car should be purchased and the rest of the money used to help the poor.
Jonah should be obeying joyfully because that is what is best, especially considering that God saved him from the belly of the fish.
We must joyfully serve God v. 1
Obey is not the same as obeying joyfully
B. Obeying Joyfully Requires We Examine Our Heart
Jonah was mad, which is an emotion.
Our emotions indicate what is going on in our heart.
Many believe that emotions only indicate what is going around us.
I.E.
The children used up all the hot water so I am bad because I had to have a cold shower.
I would not be anxious but there is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine.
The Bible presents emotions as a reflexion of what is going on in your heart: I.E.
Daniel’s three friends were at peace, even while the oven was being heated up seven times, because they knew God was in control (Daniel 3).
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