JONAH 3 ....................... THE PREACHING PROPHET

Chapter 3 The Preaching Prophet

The Message Jonah 3:1-4 God of 2nd Chances Obey the 1st Time! “…the message that I tell you.”

Romans 9:22-25 22 What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—

24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one…

How the People Respond Jonah 3:5-9 They Believed God! Put faith in God, not in Jonah!

True Repentance Need the Preached Word of God. They believed God. Belief leads to Action… Sorrow for Sin Call out to God Turn from Sin

Jonah 3:10 God’s Response 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.