Jonah 4:5-11

9/4/2016

Points of Interest
Jonah 4:5-11
I. Call to Worship: Psalm 96
II. Offering passage: II Cor. 9:7,8
III. Scripture references:

Rom. 11:33-35 – “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN?”
Rom. 3:4 – ‘let God be true, and every man a liar’
James 1:20 - ‘that the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God’
Rom. 10:14 – “How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?”
Phil. 1:6 – “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus”
Rom. 8:29 – “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son …”
2 Cor. 3:18 – “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness, from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
1 John 3:2 - “Beloved, we are God’s children now and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he appears, we will be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”

IV. Cross-references:

V. Quotes:

Jerry Bridges “Transforming Grace” - ‘if we are to succeed in living by grace, we must come to terms with the fact that God is sovereign in dispensing His gracious favours, and He owes us no explanation when His actions do not correspond with our system of merits’
Spurgeon – ‘God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God’

POints of Interest