What is Your Fish
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Victor Frankenstein is known for bringing a lifeless creature to life. If you don’t know about Victor Frankenstein, you know about his creation because the monster became synonymous with his creator’s last name. The word Frankenstein conjures thoughts of the monster, not his creator.
After going through a tragedy, Mr. Frankenstein desired to take lifeless items and make them come alive. He went to slaughter houses, graveyards, and even coroner’s offices to steal what he needed for his creation. He then put all of his together and brought his creature to life. This lifeless entity did come alive. His goal was to take this monster and give it life. Well, he did it. He created it, and these days we know it by his last name -Frankenstein. What he didn’t know is that he had created a beast.
The tragedy of Frankenstein is that after he was created, after he was given life, after he was nothing made into something, he turned on Victor and made his maker a victim of his own creation. Frankenstein became a monster because he took life that was given him and used it for his own purpose.
You and I have been given life by our Creator. Yet many of our lives are nothing short of monstrous because we have taken the life that He has given us and used it for something other than the Creator had in mind.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Cor
How many of you in here are rebelling against your creator? In other words you have made God a victim of His own creation.
We see in the story of Jonah a man a prophet created by God himself rebel against him, go the opposite way that God had in mind for him, but unlike Victor Frankenstein God has the power to use His creation and turn it around for good.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Therefore:
2 Corinth
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Our creator has made us knew and whipped out the old, He has restored us and we should allow Him to use us for the purpose He has for us on this earth. The problem is, we don’t fully trust him, we don’t have the kind of faith that will move mountains, we really don’t believe that he knows what is best for us, so we go and do our own thing; completely disobeying our creator. In other words we are not meek.
Kyle talking tonight to the adults on meekness.
Meekness is:
Submitting to God’s Word: (God gave Jonah a command, “get up and go”)
Submitting to God’s will: (god’s will for Jonah at this time was to proclaim the message that God gave him to Nineveh)
Submitting to God’s people:
In other words Meekness is submission. Putting your will UNDER God’s will.
Sub = underneath
mission = God’s will or yours
In the story of Jonah, Jonah did none of these things. He did not submit to God’s Word (1:2-3), he did not submit to God’s will (1:2-3), and he did not submit to God’s people.
Picture a horse that hasn’t been broken. The horse kicks, and bucks and when the trainer is out in the field the horse resists the bit and bridle. It’s not used to the hand.... its tempers have not been subdued, but when it gets used to the hand it begins to have poise. In other words it begins to listen to its masters command.
Then the horse become useful, and this is what meekness is all about. The animal is at peace and the horse is all together different than the wild chaotic dangerous creature it was before. When we resist submitting to God’s Word, God’s will, and God’s people then we lose the peace and joy that God provides.
Jonah was a prophet “a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.” So why did a prophet, an inspired teacher and proclaimer of God’s will disobey God’s will?
We saw last week by observing and study the history of Nineveh that he was afraid, because of the kind of people they were. Instead of trusting God, he rebelled and ran the opposite way to Tarshish. The running brought him to a city called Joppa, where he would aboard a boat headed for Tarshish. While on the boat we saw that God caused a great storm to arise. While Jonah was in the hold of the ship, the sailors came a woke him up and told him to cry out to his god. Then the sailors and Jonah cast lots to see who’s account this disaster has come from. The lots fell on Jonah and Jonah told them who his God was. Jonah then told them to pick him up and throw him into to the sea and the storm would cease.
This is where we are going to pick up tonight,
The Preservation of Jonah (1:17)
The Preservation of Jonah (1:17)
He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.” Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.” So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
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.
The Preservation of Jonah
The Preservation of Jonah
The Preservation of Jonah (1:17)
Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 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.
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.
Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Jonah 1:
Jonah 2:1-10
The Prayer of Jonah (2:4-7)
The Repentance of Jonah (2:8-9)
The deliverance of Jonah (2:10)
Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 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.
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.
Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
The Helplessness of Jonah (2:1-3)
The Helplessness of Jonah (2:1-3)
The Helplessness of Jonah (2:1-3)
The Prayer of Jonah (2:4-7)
The Prayer of Jonah (2:4-7)
The Prayer of Jonah (2:4-7)
The Repentance of Jonah (2:8-9)
The Repentance of Jonah (2:8-9)
The Repentance of Jonah (2:8-9)
The Deliverance of Jonah (2:10)
The Deliverance of Jonah (2:10)
The Deliv
The deliverance of Jonah (2:10)
Conclusion :
Conclusion :
The picture of submission or meekness is Jesus in:
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
God used a whale to break the wild horse of Jonah