Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

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The Reluctant Preacher Rebeion, Repentance, & A Merciful God
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(Book of Jonah) - Several lessons can be learned from the Book of Jonah. Could we be more like Jonah than we think? - 2/16/2014

Transcript of Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Page 1: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant PreacherRebellion Repentance amp A Merciful God

GathHepher

The prophet Jonah [dove] was the son of Amittai - (11 2 Kings 1425) $

He was from Gath Hepher (2 Kings 1425) a town in the tribe of Zebulun (Josh 1910 13)

The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

Jonah prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 1423-25 - [793BC ndash 753 BC]) (Amaziah was king of Judah) (Israelrsquos boundaries (2 Kings 1425) were extended under Jeroboam who had fought back the Assyrians to Hamath - victories led to great prosperity

The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

500mi

les

The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria$

Well known as a place of cruelty (Approx 500 miles NE of Samaria amp

220 miles NW of present-day Baghdad)

Jonah 12 (NKJV) 2 Arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their

wickedness has come up before Me

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 2: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

GathHepher

The prophet Jonah [dove] was the son of Amittai - (11 2 Kings 1425) $

He was from Gath Hepher (2 Kings 1425) a town in the tribe of Zebulun (Josh 1910 13)

The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

Jonah prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 1423-25 - [793BC ndash 753 BC]) (Amaziah was king of Judah) (Israelrsquos boundaries (2 Kings 1425) were extended under Jeroboam who had fought back the Assyrians to Hamath - victories led to great prosperity

The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

500mi

les

The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria$

Well known as a place of cruelty (Approx 500 miles NE of Samaria amp

220 miles NW of present-day Baghdad)

Jonah 12 (NKJV) 2 Arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their

wickedness has come up before Me

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 3: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

Jonah prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 1423-25 - [793BC ndash 753 BC]) (Amaziah was king of Judah) (Israelrsquos boundaries (2 Kings 1425) were extended under Jeroboam who had fought back the Assyrians to Hamath - victories led to great prosperity

The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

500mi

les

The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria$

Well known as a place of cruelty (Approx 500 miles NE of Samaria amp

220 miles NW of present-day Baghdad)

Jonah 12 (NKJV) 2 Arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their

wickedness has come up before Me

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 4: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Jonah prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 1423-25 - [793BC ndash 753 BC]) (Amaziah was king of Judah) (Israelrsquos boundaries (2 Kings 1425) were extended under Jeroboam who had fought back the Assyrians to Hamath - victories led to great prosperity

The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

500mi

les

The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria$

Well known as a place of cruelty (Approx 500 miles NE of Samaria amp

220 miles NW of present-day Baghdad)

Jonah 12 (NKJV) 2 Arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their

wickedness has come up before Me

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 5: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

The Reluctant Preacher

500mi

les

The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria$

Well known as a place of cruelty (Approx 500 miles NE of Samaria amp

220 miles NW of present-day Baghdad)

Jonah 12 (NKJV) 2 Arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their

wickedness has come up before Me

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 6: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

500mi

les

The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria$

Well known as a place of cruelty (Approx 500 miles NE of Samaria amp

220 miles NW of present-day Baghdad)

Jonah 12 (NKJV) 2 Arise go to Nineveh that great city and cry out against it for their

wickedness has come up before Me

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 7: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets$

The palace covered 5 acres$Shalmaneser IV - 783-772$Ashur-dan III - 772-754

The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 8: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Joppa - about 35 miles from Samaria and about the same distance from Jerusalem$Tarshish probably Tartessus in southern Spain about 2500 miles west of Joppa

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 9: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Authenticity$Historical record of an actual fact(The Jews accepted Jonah and was included(Jesus confirmed the story and regarded it historical amp accurate - Mat 1240

The Reluctant PreacherJonah 13 (NKJV)

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the

presence of the LORD He went down to Joppa

and found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the

fare and went down into it to go with them to

Tarshish from the presence of the LORD

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 10: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

God calls Jonah$Commanded to go to Nineveh - Israelrsquos enemy(Jonah makes preparation(Went to Joppa - Found a ship - Paid for his fare(Boarded the ship - But the ship is going the wrong way

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 11: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Why Did Jonah Disobey$The war with Assyria had just ended but there were hostilities still breaking out on the border - his life would be in jeopardy (God said to rebuke Nineveh but Jonah understood that God was forgiving - what if they repented - 42

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 12: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

God calls us by the gospel$Some refuse to hear amp go their own way - Acts 2425 2628(Some hear the initial call and follow until it conflicts with what they want and then go their own way - 2 Tim 410(Our duty is to obey God - Eccl 1213 Acts 109-23

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 11-3

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 13: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Canrsquot Run From God$God sends a huge storm - 14(God directs the lots to pick Jonah as the cause - 15-7(Jonah confesses amp instructs the Phoenician sailors to throw him overboard - eventually they cry out to God obey amp offer sacrifice - 18-16

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 14: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Canrsquot Run From God$God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah - 117(Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days amp three nights - 117 Mat 1240(Fish or whale Both the Hebrew amp Greek words simply mean sea creature Miracle

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 15: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Canrsquot Run From God$No place to hide from God (Ps 1397-11 Heb 413 103031)(It is easier amp better to obey God (1 John 51-3 Mt 1128-30)(Eventually we must face God He will hold us accountable for our actions - (John 52829 Acts 1730 2 Cor 510)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 14-17

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 16: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Jonah prays from inside the fish on the brink of dying - (21)(A prayer of thanksgiving - (22)(A prayer of recognition of Godrsquos righteousness amp his sin - (23-4)(Jonahrsquos experience - (23-7)(Jonah repents - (27-9)(God spares Jonah - (210)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 17: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Jonahrsquos Prayer To God$Sometimes we need to be awakened - (Luke 1514-21)(Repentance requires a change of attitude amp action not just being sorry for the punishment(Need to know Godrsquo is willing to forgive (Ezek 183132 2 Pet 39 1 John 19)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 21-10

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 18: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

God again commands Jonah to go preach to Nineveh - (312)$

This time Jonah obeys - (33)(A huge city 3 days to walk all its streets - (33) [The palace covered 5 acres](Preached Ninevehrsquos destruction in forty days - (34)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 19: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Past failures do not determine future success$

God is willing to forgive us to save us - but God saves us to serve Him - not to continue in sin - (Tit 314 Rom 612)(God wants to use us to spread the gospel to a lost amp dying world - (Acts 84 1 Thes 18)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 31-4

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 20: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh Repents$They believed message of punishment for sins - (35)(King proclaims fast for people and animals - (36-9)(Cried out to God turned from evil - Pleaded w God - (389)(God changed His mind about destroying them - (310)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 21: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Nineveh Repents$God prefers salvation to punishment - Ez 183132(God can forgive anyone - and does forgive those who repent and obey Him - Jer 185-10(Sometimes the best prospects are the least godly people - (a rebuke of Israel) - Rom 1021

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 34-10

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 22: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Jonahrsquos anger$Expressed to God in prayer - (412)(Jonah knew of Godrsquos grace and mercy ndash thus he did not want to go to Nineveh because he feared successndash(12 42)(Desires to die - Why is he so upset - (43)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

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Jonahrsquos attitude in NT people$

The prodigal sonrsquos older brother (Luke 15)(Jews towards Samaritans amp Gentiles - (Jn 49 Acts 1011)(The Phariseersquos toward Jesus eating with sinners (Matthew 910-11)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 41-3

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 24: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Godrsquos Lesson For Jonah$God questions Jonah - (44)(Jonah leaves city to pout still hoping God would destroy Nineveh - (45)(The plant worm and scorching wind - (46-8)(Jonah still doesnrsquot get it - (49)(God exposes Jonah - (410)

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 25: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Godrsquos Lesson For Us$We should seek the salvation of even our enemies - Mat 543-48(We should rejoice when any person repents - Luke 157(Do we value things more than the souls of men - Mat 1626(Do we get it How many lost souls are in this city Children

The Reluctant PreacherThe Text - 44-11

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 26: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

We Are Godrsquos People ndash (1 Pet 2910)(We have Godrsquos message ndash (1 Cor 118)(We Are To GO amp Preach It ndash (Mat 2818-20)(We Can Be Guilty of The Same Sins That Jonah Was Guilty of

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 27: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Do Not Run From Godrsquos Commission(Be Concerned About The Salvation of Others(Realize That God Intends To Work Through You To Save Others

The Reluctant PreacherConclusion

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 28: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the

preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here

Matthew 1241 (NKJV)

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 29: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

Charts by Don McClain Prepared February 12-15 2014Preached February 16 201413

West 65th Street church of Christ13PO Box 19006213

Little Rock AR 7221913501-568-106213

Prepared using Keynote13Email ndash donmcclainsbcglobalnet 13

More Keynote PPT amp Audio Sermons13httpw65stchurchofchristorgcocsermons

Note ndash Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer httpwwwmicrosoftcomdownloadsdetailsaspx

FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823ampdisplaylang=en

The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 30: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years 24 And he did evil in the sight of

the LORD he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who

had made Israel sin

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 31: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 25 He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which He had spoken through His

servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet who was from Gath Hepher 26 For the

LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter and whether bond or free there

was no helper for Israel

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place

Page 32: Jonah, The Reluctant Preacher

2 Kings 1423-29 (NKJV) 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did--his might how he made war and how he

recaptured for Israel from Damascus and Hamath what had belonged to Judah--are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29

So Jeroboam rested with his fathers the kings of Israel Then Zechariah his son reigned in his place