What A Pity (Gone Fishing, Part 4)

What a Pity

God gives second chances.

COMPASSION

ANGERA PLANT

& A WORM

SICK TODEATH

Jonah 4:1-3(p. 631)

ANGER(Jonah 4:1-3)

ANGER(Jonah 4:1-3) Anger with Nineveh

over their sin.

ANGER(Jonah 4:1-3) Anger with God

because of the apparent injustice of His compassion.

ANGER(Jonah 4:1-3) Just like God wants

to overthrow Jonah’s anger, He wants to overthrow our anger.

A PLANT & A WORM

(Jonah 4:4-9)

A PLANT & A WORM

(Jonah 4:4-9) God provides a plant – grace.

A PLANT & A WORM

(Jonah 4:4-9) God provides a worm – justice.

A PLANT & A WORM

(Jonah 4:4-9) Just like God wants to overthrow Jonah, He wants to overthrow us in grace and justice.

SICK TODEATH

(Jonah 4:8-9)

Jonah – strict justice and control.

SICK TODEATH

(Jonah 4:8-9)

God – not under Jonah’s control.

SICK TODEATH

(Jonah 4:8-9)

Just like God wants to overthrow Jonah, He wants to overthrow our desire for control.

SICK TODEATH

(Jonah 4:8-9)

COMPASSION(Jonah 4:10-11)

•Tending (v 10)

•Longstanding (v 10)

•One thing vs. great city (v 11)

•Plant vs. people plus animals (v 11)

•Ignorance of God (v 11)


God wants to overthrow Jonah’s – and our – anger with His great compassion.


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