Series: Castaway Week 3: Can I Get a Witness?
Jonah 2:10—3:10
4 purposes of the book of Jonah:
(1) To show how God pursues sinners.
(2) To contrast the difference in God’s heart for lost people & ours.
(3) To give you a glimpse of the real Savior.
(4) To show you how God uses His people in the world.
Becoming an effective witness involves believing 2 things:
(1) Salvation belongs to the Lord (Jonah 2:9).
God works in people to bring them repentance. John 1:12-13; Ephesians 2:8-9.
People are not persuaded by our eloquent speech or persuasive powers, but by the power of God.
(2) Faith comes only by hearing (Romans 10:17)
If you get this, it should lead you to do 2 things:
- Get the Word of God into people’s hands.
- Pray like crazy.
If God answered, in one fell swoop, every prayer you prayed last week, would anybody new be in the kingdom?
The bottom line is this: Jonah is what stood in the way of Nineveh’s forgiveness.
Jonah 2:8: Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit not only their own grace, but the grace God wants to extend to others as well.
