Intro to Jonah

Points of Interest
Introduction to Jonah
I. Call to Worship:  Psalm 86:8-13
II. Offering passage:  Ex. 25:1,2
III. Scripture references:    

• Ps. 119:161 – “But my heart stands in awe of Your words.”
  
• Col. 1:6 – “which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth”
  
• Prov. 14:34  - ‘righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people’
  
• 2 Kings 14:25 – “He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
  
• Eph. 2:4,5 - ‘because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)’
  

IV. Quotes:

• Martin Luther  - “sounding more strange than any poet’s fable; if it  were not in the Bible, I should take it for a lie.”
  
• Ray Stedman – ‘probably the best known yet least     understood book in the Bible’
  
• Lloyd John Ogilvie  - ‘and the reason we love him (Jonah) is because he is so much like us in our response to God’s guidance’