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[Sermon] Jonah 1:1-17 What Jonah learnt from Mission

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Jonah on the L plate in mission
Scene 1; Catch me if you can
Scene 2; I don't care
Scene 3; Big fish swallows Jonah
What fish can swallow Jonah? Tuna.

What's so special about Jonah?
Key idea of the book of Jonah.
V17. it was GOD WHO ARRANGED the fish to swallow Jonah
One purpose; Mission

Lesson 1
God hasn't ignored them
Those pople that Jonah has ignoree, God hasn't ignored them.
v1-2 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me."

We are like Jonah, we ignore those who are not out own people.
Do you think God has forgotten them?

Lesson 2
Please don't run away from God's mission.
We need strategies in mission.
Jonah has effective strategies to avoid mission.
v3-4

Today, we also have strategies to avoid mission.
-I won't want to see.
-I don't want to hear.
-Let's not talk about mission today.
-Yes, Lord, please send him.
-Let's do well with all ministry in this church first...
-Other strategies...

God has strategies to pull them down!
God stirs up a storm to stop Jinah from running away.

Lesson 3
The pains of the unsaved
Jonah doesn't want to see others die because of him.
v12, 15

God gives Jonah the experience of the pains of the unsaved.

From deep in the realm of the dead, I called for help, and you listened to my cry.

I said, 'I have been banished from your sight, yet I will look again toward your Holy temple'

To the roots of the mountains I sank down;the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, Lord  my God,
brought my life up from the pit.

Acc. NT, the sufferings of Jinah has while inside the fish, Jesus compares this experience of Jonah to His death & burial.
The pains of death are real to those without salvation. They are locked up in the pits.

Lesson 4
God loves sinners.
Jonah 3:4
He doesn't preach about the love and mercy of God, but of the judgement. (1/2 the Gospel)

God shows loving kindness to Jonah.
3:6

God loves the worle, the people whom He created in His own image...
Each person is dearly loved by God, just like us.

What is mission?
Receiving the love of God, and passing this love on to other people.

Do you think that Jonah has learnt the lesson on mission?
Have WE learnt the lesson in God's mission?
God hasn't ignored them, and He doesn't want us to run away from mission.
We need to know the pain of the unsaved, but despite this, every person is dearly loved by God.

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