Sermon Outline
- God is Actively Involved in our world
- God is Judge (Jon 1:3-4)
- God is judging the actions of Jonah. (Ps 7:11)
- God will judge all the unrepentant (Rev 20:11-15)
- God is Discipliner
- Discipline is about training people to obedience
- God wants us with our heart and mind to not only obey him, but to want to obey him therefore he disciplines us in order to:
- Exposes our sin
- Warns us about our sin
- Save us from our sin
- My sin deserves death. (Rom 3:23)
- This illustrates a fault in our thinking about discipline
- Often we think discipline is retributive – that is aimed at punishing us.
- God doesn’t discipline in order to destroy. (Ps 118:18)
- God disciplines in order to restore us (Heb 12:10-11, 1Cor 11:32)
- Discipline is aimed at repentance (Rev 3:19)
- Interesting point we ought to observe here about the discipline of the Lord
- Aimed at Jonah, but it involves a lot of people
- Sailors, Passengers, Other Ships (Jonah 1:5)
- Cargo
- Achan and Israel (Josh 7)
- God will use whatever means available in order to discipline us,
- Are there any storms in your life that God is using to turn your course?
- God is Creator
- The Sailors pepper Jonah with Questions and their answers (Jonah 1:8-9)
- God is the Creator ( 40:28, Rom. 1:25)
- God is One worthy of Fear
- Fear can be associated with Terror or worship (Jon 1:5, 9, 16)
- Irony: While the irreligious sinners are praying, Jonah is sleeping
- “I fear the Lord” really?
- What kind of fear Jonah? Terror or worship
- Jonah has terror and rightly so for his disobedience
- b/c Fear associated with Worship breeds:
- Walk, love, service, obedience (Dt 10:12-13)
- Moral conduct (Exodus 1:17)
- Rehearses of the great things of God (1Sam 12:24)
- Irony: Sailors worship, Jonah fears
- Fear can be associated with Terror or worship (Jon 1:5, 9, 16)
- God is One worthy of Worship
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