Sermon Tone Analysis

*Jonah ch.4 *(Intro): Jonah symbolized Israel                                                                  5-27-07

Man’s Anger (1,4,9,9) but not the righteous anger of Eph.4:26

Why was he angry?

(v.4)

Why was he angry?

(v.9)

            ~* Matt.20:11 11hr vineyard workers…..Lk.15:28 elder son……Gen.4:6

Cain’s offering

            What makes you angry?

……….Whom are you made at? (God)

God’s Compassion~/Concern~/Mercy (2,11, 3:10) on the lost and wicked

            Sailors (ch.1);

Jonah (ch.2);

Ninevites (ch.3)

Jonah’s Prayer (v.3) compare his on land with his in the ocean (fish)

God’s Question #1 (v.4,9,11)

God’s Provisions (6,7,8)

            Wind & Storm (ch.1), great Fish (ch.2),

Vine, Worm, Scorching wind

Attitude Adjustment:     From shore to shade, he reverted to his old ways traveling 500+ miles

Last Question: for Jonah or for us?

 

~* if we ended in chap.3,

Jonah would be a hero

 

*4:1*  But Jonah was greatly displeased and became *angry.*

Pero Jonás se apesadumbró extremo [se disgustó, le cayó muy mal], y se enojó.

~* he was means to bring a whole city to faith in God but amazingly Jonah didn’t love those he preach to

~* Why was Jonah boiling mad?

 

*2* He prayed to the LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home?

That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish.

I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.

Y oró a Jehová y dijo: Ahora, oh Jehová, ¿no es esto lo que yo decía estando aún en mi tierra?

Por eso me apresuré a huir a Tarsis;  porque sabía yo que tú eres Dios clemente y piadoso [tierno, bondadoso y compasivo], tardo en enojarte [no te enojas fácilmente], y de grande misericordia, y que te arrepientes del mal [anunciado].

~* *compare* ch.2 prayer --- broken heart VS angry heart…..save my life VS take my life

~* imagine, complaining to God about his goodness!!!!

 

*3* Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."

Ahora pues, oh Jehová, te ruego que me quites la vida; porque mejor me es la muerte que la vida.

~* it’s not enough to do God’s will, you must do it from the heart (Eph.6:6)

de corazon hacienda la voluntad de Dios

~* He missed the joy of his ministry due to *self-centered* – 9 ref to “I”~/me~/my in original!

*4* But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be *angry*?"

Y Jehová le dijo: ¿Haces tú bien en enojarte tanto?

~* God’s 1st question *reveals diff in hearts*, both look at same situation but w~/ diff hearts

 

*5* Jonah went out and sat down at a place east of the city.

There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city.

Y salió Jonás de la ciudad,  y acampó hacia el oriente de la ciudad, y se hizo allí una enramada, y se sentó debajo de ella a la sombra, hasta ver qué acontecería en la ciudad.

~**What was Jonah thinking*?

*6* Then the LORD God provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the vine.

Y preparó Jehová Dios una [planta] calabacera, la cual creció sobre Jonás para que hiciese sombra sobre su cabeza, y le librase de su malestar [incomodidad]; y Jonás se alegró grandemente por la calabacera.

~* first time he is *happy, delirously*

 

*7* But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered.

Pero al venir el alba del día siguiente, Dios preparó un gusano, el cual hirió la calabacera, y se secó

~* ironic that the *theme of message* was destruction and only thing ruined was the vine!

 

*8 *When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah's head so that he grew faint.

He wanted to die, and said, "It would be better for me to die than to live."

Y aconteció que al salir el sol, preparó Dios un recio viento solano [del este], y el sol hirió a Jonás en la cabeza [le daba a Jonás directamente en lacabeza], y se desmayaba, y deseaba la muerte, diciendo: Mejor sería para mí la muerte que la vida.

~* 4th things *God prepared* (wind~/storm; great fish; now a vine, worm, hot wind)

 

*9 *But God said to Jonah, "Do you have a right to be *angry *about the vine?" "I do," he said.

"I am *angry* enough to die."

Entonces dijo Dios a Jonás: ¿Tanto te enojas por la calabacera?

Y él respondió:  Mucho me enojo, hasta la muerte.

~* he called others to repent but he wouldn’t repent himself

~* the waves, worms, fish, Ninevites submit but Jonah won’t

God 2nd question *revealed Jonah’s pettiness*

~* Moses,Elijah,Jeremiah wanted to die in course of ministry, God said NO, U can’t quit!

 

*10* But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow.

It sprang up overnight and died overnight.

Y dijo Jehová: Tuviste tú lástima de la calabacera, en la cual no trabajaste, ni tú la hiciste crecer; que en espacio de una noche nació, y en espacio de otra noche pereció.

~* Contrast physical welfare with spiritual welfare

~* *What is Wrong, Jonah?*

1st: He is still not reconciled to will of God, in spite earlier miracles!

2nd, He’d forgotten @ God’s mercy (perhaps along 500mi trip after the fish spit him out)

3rd, He didn’t know God as well as he thot……enough to love the lost, grieve over sin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*11* But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people [children] who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well.

Should I not be concerned about that great city?"

¿Y no tendré yo piedad [compassion] de Nínive,  aquella gran ciudad donde hay más de ciento veinte mil personas [niños] que no saben discernir entre su mano derecha y su mano izquierda,  y muchos animales?

~* only asked for 10 in Sodom

~* Nahum also delt w~/ Ninevah and also ends in a question

~* sad when Gods servants are means of blessing for others but miss the blessing themselves

*Simple Test of Character*:

What makes me happy?

What makes me angry?

What does it take for me to give up?  

~* the issue isn’t how Jonah answered the question, but rather, how do we answer the question?

~* at every point God’s character is in contrast with Jonah’s character

~* can any of us rightly rightly resent God’s grace shown to any other person?

Jonah.

God has the first word (Jonah 1:1–2) and God has the last word (4:11), and that’s as it should be, but we aren’t told how Jonah answered God’s final question.

It’s like the ending of Frank Stockton’s famous short story “The Lady or the Tiger?”

When the handsome youth opened the door, what came out: the beautiful princess or the man-eating tiger?

We sincerely hope that Jonah yielded to God’s loving entreaty and followed the example of the Ninevites by repenting and seeking the face of God.

The famous Scottish preacher Alexander Whyte believed that Jonah did experience a change of heart.

He wrote, “But Jonah came to himself again during those five-and-twenty days or so, from the east gate of Nineveh back to Gath Hepher, his father’s house.”

Spurgeon said, “Let us hope that, during the rest of his life, he so lived as to rejoice in the sparing mercy of God.”

After all, hadn’t Jonah himself been spared because of God’s mercy?God was willing to spare Nineveh, but in order to do that, He could not spare His own Son.

Somebody had to die for their sins or they would die in their sins.

“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

(Rom.

8:32).

Jesus used Jonah’s ministry to Nineveh to show the Jews how guilty they were in rejecting His witness.

“The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here” (Matt.

12:41).

How is Jesus greater than Jonah?