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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
In life things aren’t always exactly as we see them.
We live in a day where people market things in incredible ways.
What we order is not always what we get.
Happens all the time with hotels.
You go to a place with a gym, luxury bath, and a hot breakfast.
It turns out when you get there that the gym is a small room with a broken treadmill.The luxury bath is a 2x2 stall with a shower head that detaches.
Your hot breakfast happens to be pop tarts and a toaster that only burns things.
You thought something was good, but it really wasn’t.
It can happen in the opposite way too can’t it?
It’s possible that something we experience is awful, but in reality, we needed it.
It may have saved us!
Imagine you have a nice day planned out.
You have a family picnic planned out at the park.
You’ve already made your finger foods and desserts.
You have the drinks made up and chilling in the refrigerator.
Then, all of a sudden the rain comes.
Your picnic is ruined!
It’s upsetting.
Now your perfect family outing is done.
Kids are upset cause you;re not going to the park.
Now everyone is stuck in close quarters.
You end up staying home stuck inside with sandwiches and lemonade!
All you can see is this unfair situation even though the forecast has been predicting rain all week long.
We’re going to be observing a situation similar to that this morning.
I want to look at the 2nd chapter of Jonah today.
This is a very familiar story to many of you.
Maybe all of you.
It’s still something we can all benefit from.
Meanwhile, outside your house the grass is watered.
That’s good because it’s been kind of dry.
Your flowers watered.
That’s nice because they were getting a bit droopy.
You don’t have to run your sprinklers for a couple of days.
That’s nice because the water bill has been kind of high and you needed to save some money.
That’s something small.
It can be easy enough to step back and see something good that happened in it.
A little about Jonah.
Jonah was a prophet.
God called him go to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria.
They had become very evil and God was sending them a chance to repent in order to not be destroyed.
At the time Assyria was the most powerful nation in the world.
They were nasty vicious people too.
They were not a group of people you would want to cross.
Barbarians became squeamish at some of the things they did.
This was no secret.
These guys were shooting for world domination.
Jonah wanted nothing to do with them.
He knew if he went and gave them God’s word, they would repent, and God would be God and forgive them.
It’s also possible he had heard from other prophets such as Joel and Amos that God would use Assyria to conquer Israel for their disobedience.
Jonah did not like them to say the least.
He definitely wanted to play no part in helping them.
So he turned and ran away the other direction.
He got on a boat and tried to run from God.
It didn’t work.
God sent a storm.
The men on the boat tried to figure out what was going on while Jonah slept.
They woke him up, he told them it was his fault.
If they wanted it to stop, they’d have to throw him over.
They didn’t want to.
Tried not to, but eventually did.
That is where we pick up!
Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance
17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah.
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
2 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. 2 And he said:
“I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction,
And He answered me.
“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
3 For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
17  And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah’s Prayer
2 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,
“I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
3  For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4  Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5  The waters closed in over me to take my life;
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