Series: Castaway

Jonah is what stood in the way of Nineveh’s forgiveness. Their sin wasn’t the obstacle. Jonah’s failure to get them the word of God was.Are you keeping people from experiencing the grace that could be theirs by your failure to pray for them & get the Word of God to them?

There is a point where you surrender to God because you feel like you have to; then there’s a point where you start to love like God loves. You do what God does because you desire what God desires. God is not just after obedience, He’s after a whole new kind of obedience. He wants real repentance.

Jonah didn’t want to do what God told him to do. Why? (1) He was given a difficult job to do. Jonah had to expect that he would be mocked & treated harshly. He might be attacked & killed if he did what the LORD told him to do. (2) Jonah didn’t want the Assyrians in Nineveh to escape God’s judgment. So, why we don’t we what God tells us to do?