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Jonah 3:10-4:4

8/28/2016

8/14/2016

Points of Interest
Introduction to Jonah
I. Call to Worship: Psalm 92:12-15
II. Offering passage: Ex. 35:4,21
III. Scripture references:

Acts 4:27, 28 - ‘for truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and the people of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place’
Acts 2:23 we read - “this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men”
Ps. 18:6 – “from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry to Him reached His ears’
I Sam. 30:6 – “Moreover David was greatly distressed … but David strengthen Himself in the LORD his God”
Matt. 1:21 - ‘you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins’
Is. 53:6 – “All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.”
Rom. 5:8 “ but God … demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

IV. Cross-references:

IV. Cross-references:

Spurgeon (salvation is) – ‘God-sourced in its planning, in its execution, and in its application; it’s also from God in how it’s sustained in the human heart and in how it’s ultimately perfected in our eternal state’

8/7/2016

Points of Interest
Introduction to Jonah
I. Call to Worship: Psalm 92:1,2,4
II. Offering passage: II Cor. 9:7,8
III. Scripture references:

Jonah 4:2 – “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 relents concerning calamity.”
Prov. 16:33 - ‘The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the LORD.’
Is. 45:9 – “"Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker—An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?'
I John 4:9,10 – “By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

IV. Quotes:

John Calvin - ‘Jonah speaks here by the prophetic spirit; and he no doubt confirms that the God of Israel was the supreme and only King of heaven and earth’
Francis Schaeffer - ‘biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world’
C.S. Lewis (‘Surprised by Joy’) - ‘I had always wanted, above all things, not to be interfered with. I had wanted (mad wish) to call my soul my own … you must picture me alone in that room … night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet’