Running away from God's Call
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Introduction
One of my favorite Old Testament prophets is Jonah. We are going to take the next few Sundays to go journeying with Jonah. It is one of the so called “minor prophets” - “minor” does not mean it is minor in importance, but simply that it is one of the short books of prophecy. You can read the whole book in about 15 minutes.
The book of Jonah only has 4 chapters, but it is a very important book. Just as the rest of God’s precious word, it is a book that contains a message for today. In this book there are important lessons for us individually as well as lessons for nations that away from God.
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Before we dig into to the actual text, I went to give you some important words of introduction to this book.
Before we dig into to the actual text, I went to give you some important words of introduction to this book.
Jonah 1:1-6
The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
The Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up. Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep. So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”