1. Give Me One More Chance
(Jonah 3:1-10)

2. Jonah (3:1-10)
1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

3. Jonah (3:1-10)
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh.
4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

4. Jonah (3:1-10)
6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”

5. Jonah (3:1-10)
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

6. Give Me One More Chance (Jonah 3:1-10)
God Giving Second Chance (2:1-2)
The Coming Destruction (3:3-5)
Fast and Repentance (3:6-9)
God’s Mercy (3:10)

7. Give Me One More Chance (Jonah 3:1-10)
God Giving Second Chance (2:1-2)
The Coming Destruction (3:3-5)
Fast and Repentance (3:6-9)
God’s Mercy (3:10)

8. Jonah (3:1-10)
1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

9. Running from God
(Jonah1:1-17)

10. Prayer in Times of Adversity
(Jonah 2:1-10)

12. God Giving Second Chance (3:1-3)
God Will Forgive
God Will Use Again

13. Sunday school kid quit twice with broken clothing.

14. God Giving Second Chance (3:1-3)
We Also Should Give Other People’s Second Chances

15. Give Me One More Chance (Jonah 3:1-10)
God Giving Second Chance (2:1-2)
The Coming Destruction (3:3-5)
Fast and Repentance (3:6-9)
God’s Mercy (3:10)

16. Jonah (3:1-10)
3:3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh.

17. Inpaling enemies, scorched to death
Skinned
Thousands skulls
Killed neither sex nor children

18. Why 40?
Judgment and Testing
Noah, raining 40 days
Jewish spies in Canaan 40 days
Israel tested in wilderness 40 years
God gives them forty days to repent.

19. Jonah (3:1-10)
4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
Judgment and Testing
Noah, raining 40 days
Jewish spies in Canaan 40 days
Israel tested in wilderness 40 years
God gives them forty days to repent. 19

20. Jonah (3:1-10)
5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
Noah built ark and then shared gospel.
Lot shared. Took family
This time, people listened
Grass-root movement 20

21. Why Would Ninevites Listen?

22. A Nationwide Repentance

23. Jonathan Edwards ( )

24. American Great Awakening
“Sinners in the Hands of Angry God”
We felt that. We just suppressed the feelings.

25. Give Me One More Chance (Jonah 3:1-10)
God Giving Second Chance (2:1-2)
The Coming Destruction (3:3-5)
Fast and Repentance (3:6-9)
God’s Mercy (3:10)

26. Jonah (3:1-10)
6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. 26

27. Absolute Fast
Different uses of fasting
Simple sharing of procedures

28. Jonah (3:1-10)
8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” 28

29. Repentance (Jonah 3:1-10) Believing in God Showing Remorse
Fast and Sackcloth
Giving Up Evil Ways
Seeking Mercy of God

31. Give Me One More Chance (Jonah 3:1-10)
God Giving Second Chance (2:1-2)
The Coming Destruction (3:3-5)
Fast and Repentance (3:6-9)
God’s Mercy (3:10)

32. 约拿书 Jonah (3:1-10)
3:10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. 32

33. A Little Sail Boat