1. How to be saved from the jaws of sin
Jonah 2

2. Jonah and the Great Fish
Is this a true story?

3. Jonah and the Great Fish
Is this a true story?
YES, certainly
The Bible is True
Jonah is mentioned elsewhere
Jesus talked about Jonah

4. Jonah’s Disobeyed God Jonah tried to run away from God
He sank lower and lower into rebellion
Down to the bay, to the boat, to the bed, to the billows! A blob!

5. The Jaws of Sin
Jonah 2:2-3
2 He said: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.

6. I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;
The Jaws of Sin
Jonah 2:4a
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;

7. I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;
The Jaws of Sin
Jonah 2:4a
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.

8. The Jaws of Sin

9. How to be saved from the jaws of sin
Jonah 2:2-6
I cried
For You cast me out
Then I said, “I am out of your presence
Yet I will look toward your holy temple”
The waters surrounded me
The deep closed
The weeds wrapped
The earth closed

10. How to be saved from the jaws of sin
Jonah 2:2-6
I cried
For You cast me out
Then I said, “I am out of your presence
Yet I will look toward your holy temple”
The waters surrounded me
The deep closed
The weeds wrapped
The earth closed
BUT You brought my life up from the pit, O LORD My God

11. How to be saved from the jaws of sin (#1)
Jonah remembered the temple(4,7)
1 Kings 6 and 8 explains why

12. How to be saved from the jaws of sin (#1)
Jonah remembered the temple(4,7)
1 Kings 8:29-30
May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day…when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive

13. How to be saved from the jaws of sin (#1)
Jonah remembered the temple(4,7)
1 Kings 6 and 8, 9 explains why
1 Kings 9:3 – God answers:
I have heard the prayer … My eyes and my heart will always be there.

14. How to be saved from the jaws of sin (#1)
Jesus is Greater than the Temple
He is the Presence of God
God’s “eyes and heart will always be there”

15. How to be saved from the jaws of sin
#1: Trust the Promise of Christ

16. How to be saved from the jaws of sin (#2)
Jonah 2:8
Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs
Either you cling to the LORD or you cling to worthless idols. You cannot have both.
Your
SIN
GOD

17. How to be saved from the jaws of sin (#2)
Luke 14:33
In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.

18. How to be saved from the jaws of sin
#1: Trust the Promise of Christ
#2: Obey the Call of Christ