Intro to Jonah Pt 3

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’