Jonah 2
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From Death to Life
From Death to Life
Martin Luther was a pastor/theologian during the reformation. The story goes as he was traveling home one stormy evening, the storm got so bad that he at once made a vow to God that If he lived he would become a monk.
After seeing the holiness of God and his own sinfulness, Luther tried to bring himself enough grace to cover his sinfulness. He climbed sacred stairs, went on a pilgrimage and even went to confession over and over. As Luther continued to grow weary, he went to the scriptures. There he found the truth of the Gospel, that the righteous shall live by their faith.
Luther understood then that faith is what brings a sinner from death to life. Trusting in the God for salvation, rather than self to bring about life from death. Later on in life he would compare the resurrection of the believer to the birth of a child who moves from the confines of the womb into the world.
He wrote, “Just as an infant is born with peril and pain from the small abode of its mother’s womb into this immense heaven and hearth, that is, into this world, so man departs this life through the narrow gated of death. and although the heavens and earth in which we dwell at present seem larege and wide to us, they are nevertheless much narrower and smaller than the mothers womb in comparison with the future of heaven. Therefore the death of the dears saints is called the new birth.”
The Christian’s life is often described as a movement from death to life. We who were spiritually dead in our sins, separated from God because of our own iniquity, must be reborn.
When we last left Jonah we saw him spiritually dead in the belly of the whale. Thrown overboard because of the temptest that was surrounding the sailors. He was plunged to his death awaiting to be reborn.
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Jonah’s Plea
Jonah’s distress (1-2)
Jonah’s Acknowledgement (3-4)
Exalting Jesus in Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk Thankfulness Helps Us Realize Our Depravity (Jonah 2:1–7)
When you listen to the stories of how saints came to know Christ as Savior, it seems that many people were near rock bottom in their lives when they cried out to the Lord. Someone once asked me why this is so. It is because before we hit rock bottom, we think we can handle being thrown into the sea. Once we actually hit the rough waters and start drowning—once all of the things that masked how bad life is are gone—then we are at a place where we must cry out to God or perish! God does this to us so that we will stop lying to ourselves about what is going on in our lives.
Jonahs Deliverance (5-7)
God hears those who call out to him. Those who acknowledge their sinfulness and their inability.
He disciplines
Hebrews 12:5–11 “And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
Proverbs 3:11–12 “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”
God’s Response
God’s Mercy (8)
God shows mercy upon those who repent.
Solomons Temple
IF people stray they turn and cry out to the Lord, you will hear them and rescue them
Those who erect idols for steadfast love, will forsake any hope for steadfast love. Idols do not love
God’s Redemption (9)
The Lord acts on the behalf to bring salvation to Jonah even before he prays
God’s Rule (10)
control over the situation so that the Nineties would come to know of that Salvation belongs to the Lord.
Matthew 12:40 “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.”
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