Jonah:
First he resisted God; then he
rebelled against God; and then of all
things he tried to run from God.
 You cannot hide from God, you really
cannot run from God.
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FOUR VALUABLE PRINCIPLES
 Disobedience
Brings Discipline
 It was a great city
 It was a huge city
 It was a wicked city
 Any
Christian who refuses to witness and tell
other people about Jesus Christ has the same
Jonah attitude. Their attitude is “People might
get saved, but it won’t be because of me!”
 Nineveh represents the will of God.
 Tarshish represents the will of man.
 Every time you choose Tarshish over Nineveh
it’s going to cost you.
 Sin
will take you farther than you want to go,
keep you longer that you want to stay, and cost
you more than you want to pay.
 If you are a Christian, in your heart you have a
hot line to heaven. Every time that telephone
rings God is on the other end. When you
answer God does not want you to say simply,
“Hello,” He wants to hear you say, “Yes, Lord,
whatever you ask I will do.”
DISCIPLINE BRINGS
DELIVERANCE
 This
whale was really a woodshed where
God took Jonah and whipped him for his
disobedience.
 It drove Jonah to prayer
 It drove Jonah to repentence
Psalm 119:67- “Before I was afflicted I
went astray, but now I keep your
word.”
 Deliverance
brings devotion
 Devotion brings delight
 Jonah is not primarily about a
physical miracle of a great fish; it
is about the spiritual miracle of a
gracious Father.
 It
is one thing to resist the command of God,
and the call of God, but it is quite another
thing to refuse it.
 When God speaks you better listen. Wherever
God tells you to go, whatever God tells you to
do, whoever God wants you to be, you had
better obey Him and submit to His will and do
what He tells you to do.