Intro to Jonah Pt 4

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:

• Matthew 12:38-41
  

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’