1. Jonah Chapter 4
March 24, 2002

2. Moby Dick
“Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters —four yarns — is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet!”

3. Exodus 34:6
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,

4. Numbers 14:18
The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.'

5. Psalms 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

6. Psalm 103:8
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

7. Psalm 145:8
The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

8. Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

9. Nehemiah 9:17
But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,

10. Joel 2:13
Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

11. The Wind
This wind may have been that sort called elsewhere the scirocco, i.e., constant hot air so full of positive ions that it affects the levels of serotonin and other brain neurotransmitters, causing exhaustion, depression, feelings of unreality, and, occasionally, bizarre behavior.

12. The Wind
In some Moslem countries, the punishment for a crime committed while the scirocco is blowing may be reduced at judicial discretion, so strongly does the prolonged hot wind affect thinking and actions.
Stuart, Douglas, Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 31: Hosea-Jonah, (Dallas, Texas: Word Books, Publisher) 1998.

13. Jonas Salk
In April, 1955, the vaccine was released in the United States ... Cases of polio, which had averaged 21,000 annually, fell to just seven cases by 1974

14. Jonas Salk
Jonah’s Sulk

15. When we believe that others deserve less because we have done more.
Sulking
When we believe that others deserve less because we have done more.

16. Other examples of sulking
The older brother Luke 15:25
The grumbling co-workers Matthew 20:1

17. The cure for sulking Put yourself in their shoes.
Look at your own blessings.
Remember that God is not fair.