Jonah #5: Jonah's Attitude

September 3rd, 2001
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Summary
Ed covers several topics about Jonah's attitude and it's practical application in our life:
  1. Ressurected Christians haven't 'arrived'...
  2. Jonah was angry and confused. He didn't have direction and lacked purpose. His prophecy didn't come to pass so Jonah thought that God had ruined his ministry.
    1. God has to destroy our reputation.
    2. Jonah was afraid to return to Israel.
    3. He was looking for results. Did Jonah really know that they had repented? Jonah probably couldn't see into the city from his booth outside. So he probably didn't know that the Ninevites had repented. Sometimes the results of God's work is in secret.
  3. Jonah didn't understand God. He thought God had made a mistake in sparing the Ninevites.
  4. From the revelation of the gord we see that Jonah only cared about that which ministered to Jonah.
From the book of Jonah we see that God changed Jonah's heart. He wrote the book of Jonah, sacrificed his reputation, and God got the last word.
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Scriptures Referenced
Jonah 4:1-11

1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Proverbs 3:5-6

5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Deuteronomy 18:22

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

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