JONAH 1:1-6 1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Ami8ai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for

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2 JONAH 1:1-6 1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Ami8ai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

3 4 But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. 6 So the captain came and said to him, What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.

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5 Jonah is a storied presentason of the gospel. It s a story of sin and grace, of desperason and deliverance. It s a story that reveals that while you and I are great sinners, God is a great savior. It s a story of how a God of great expenditure relentlessly pursues self- righteous fugisves. It s a story that shows that while our sin reaches far, God graces reaches further. It s a story that shows that God s capacity to clean things up is infinitely greater than our capacity to mess things up. Tullian Tchividjian

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7 It indicates what it meant to be a prophet. It meant you were the recipient of a communica6on from God. It meant to have a clear and fresh light shed upon oneself, a society, or the na6ons, by the living God. It meant to be drawn into God s presence to see things from his perspec6ve. Sinclair Fergason

8 His file in Scripture is astonishingly meager. His name, and the name of his father and nothing else. Where does he dwell? Mystery. Who are his friends, his teachers, his enemies? Impossible to ascertain. What was he doing unsl the incident that made him famous? What became of him a\erwards? Nobody tells us. Without Nineveh and its sinners, Jonah might not have figured into sacred Jewish History at all Elie Wiesel

9 2KINGS14:26-27 For the LORD saw that the afflicson of Israel was very bi8er, for there was none le\, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel. 27 But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

10 2KINGS14:25 25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo- hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of AmiOai, the prophet, who was from Gath- hepher

11 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah.

12 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. Running has mulqple dimensions.

13 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. Running has mulqple dimensions. It s outward.

14 GEOGRAPHY

15 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. Running has mulqple dimensions. It s outward. It s inward.

16 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. Running has mulsple dimensions. Running has a progression.

17 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. Running has mulsple dimensions. Running has a progression. Running has results.

18 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. Running has mulsple dimensions. Running has a progression. Running has results. Running is a universal reality.

19 SURPRISE 2: the Response of Jonah. SURPRISE 3: the Pursuing Grace of God.

20 Ephesians2:1-5 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved

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