Jonah - Our Wants vs God's Will

Our Wants vs. God's Will Jonah Jonah 1:1-2 Nahum 3:1-4 - 1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims! 2 The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots! 3 Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses 4 all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft. Jonah 4:11 - 11 Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?" Jonah 1:3 Jonah 4:2 - 2 He prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relent concerning calamity. Joel 2:12-14 - 12 "Yet even now," declares the LORD, "Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning; 13 And rend your heart and not your garments" Now return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness And relenting of evil. 14 Who knows whether He will not turn and relent And leave a blessing behind Him, Even a grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God? Comparison Jonah 4:2 - You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. Joel 2:12-14 - He is gracious and compassion, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness And relenting of evil. Jonah 1:4-6 Jonah 1:7-10 Jonah 1:11-13 Jonah 1:14-17 Jonah - Chapter 2 Comparison Jonah Psalms Jonah 2:2 Psalm 18:6 Jonah 2:3 Psalm 88:6-7 Jonah 2:5-6 Psalm 69:1-2 Jonah 2:7 Psalm 18:6 Jonah 2:9 Psalm 3:8 Jonah 2 Psalm 116 Jonah 3:1-4 1 John 1:8 - 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. Isaiah 59:2 2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. Jeremiah 18:7-8 - 7 At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; 8 if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it. Jonah 3:5-10 Romans 10:13; Acts 2:21; Joel 2:32 - All who call on the name of the LORD will be saved. Jonah 4:1-4 Jonah 4:5-11 What we learn through Jonah 1. God is the God over ALL creation, including ALL people. 2. The will of God will always be fulfilled. 3. Anyone who turns from their sin and trusts in the Lord will be saved.