Jonah’s Life Lessons
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Jonah’s Life Lesson 1: is in of .
📖 Jonah 1:3 ESV “ But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.”
📖 Jonah 1:2 ESV “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
📖 Romans 3:23-24 NIV “…There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”
Jonah’s Life Lesson 2: responds to .
Jonah 2:1-9 shows Jonah’s repentance.
Jonah 3:5-10 shows Nineveh’s repentance
📖 Luke 5:32 ESV “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Jonah’s Life Lesson 3: is full of and .
📖 Jonah 4:1-2 ESV “But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.”
📖 Jonah 4:10-11 ESV “And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
📖 Romans 6:14 ESV “For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.”
📖 Ephesians 2:4-7 ESV “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
Jonah’s Life Lesson 4: points to : .
📖 Matthew 12:39-41 ESV “But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.”
📖 Luke 11:29-30 ESV “When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.”
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Turn to today and put your in – He is to deliver you out of the and into God’s !
📖 John 8:12 ESV “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.””
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