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SUNDAY SERMON NOTES

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JANUARY 2

The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 1:1-2

For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

Luke 11:30

ADDITIONAL READING: Proverbs 1-2

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JANUARY 3

But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.

Jonah 1:3

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

Psalm 139:7

ADDITIONAL READING: Proverbs 3

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JANUARY 4

Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”

Jonah 1:4-6

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth Who makes lightnings for the rain, Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Psalm 135:7


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JANUARY 5

Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

Jonah 1:7

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

Proverbs 16:33


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JANUARY 6

So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?” He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.

Jonah 1:8-10

You alone are the LORD. You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all their host, The earth and all that is on it, The seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them And the heavenly host bows down before You.

Nehemiah 9:6


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JANUARY 7 LIFESTYLE PRAYER

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JANUARY 9

The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?” “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

Jonah 1:11-12

David said to God, Is it not I who commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, but these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand be against me and my fathers household, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”

1 Chronicles 21:17


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JANUARY 10

Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.” Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him. Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 1:13-17

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, And He brought them out of their distresses.

Psalm 107:28


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JANUARY 11

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. He said “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,and you listened to my cry.

Jonah 2:1-2

For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted Nor has He hidden His face from him But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

Psalm 22:24


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JANUARY 12

You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all Your waves and breakers swept over me. I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

Jonah 2:3-4

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Psalm 42:7


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JANUARY 13

The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit.

Jonah 2:5-6

He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit, And my life shall see the light.

Job 33:28


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JANUARY 14 THE LORD’S PRAYER

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JANUARY 16

When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple.

Jonah 2:7

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path.

Psalm 142:3


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JANUARY 17

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.

Jonah 2:8

All this is nothing compared to you, O God. You’re wondrously great, famously great. Who can fail to be impressed by you, King of the nations? It’s your very nature to be worshiped Look far and wide among the elite of the nations. The best they can come up with is nothing compared to you. Stupidly, they line them up—a lineup of sticks,good for nothing but making smoke.

Jeremiah 10:6-9 MSG


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JANUARY 18

But I, with shouts of grateful praise,will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’” And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Jonah 2:9-10

But the time is coming when you’re going to hear laughter and celebration, marriage festivities, people exclaiming, “Thank God of the Angel Armies. He’s so good His love never quits,” as they bring thank offerings into God’s Temple. I’ll restore everything that was lost in this land. I’ll make everything as good as new.’ I, God, say so.

Jeremiah 33:11 MSG


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JANUARY 19

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

Jonah 3:1-2

“Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that’s what I had in mind for you.” But I said, “Hold it, Master God Look at me. I don’t know anything. I’m only a boy” God told me, “Don’t say, ‘I’m only a boy.’ I’ll tell you where to go and you’ll go there. I’ll tell you what to say and you’ll say it. Don’t be afraid of a soul. I’ll be right there, looking after you.” God’s Decree.

Jeremiah 1:5-8 MSG


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JANUARY 20

Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city it took three days to go through it. Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

Jonah 3:3-4

The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 MSG


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JANUARY 21 TABERNACLE PRAYER

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JANUARY 23

The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

Jonah 3:5

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

John 1:12-13


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JANUARY 24

When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.

Jonah 3:6

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Luke 15:7


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JANUARY 25

This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything do not let them eat or drink. But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.

Jonah 3:7-8

Seek God while he’s here to be found, pray to him while he’s close at hand. Let the wicked abandon their way of life and the evil their way of thinking. Let them come back to God, who is merciful, come back to our God, who is lavish with forgiveness.

Isaiah 55:6-7 MSG


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JANUARY 26

Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

Jonah 3:9-10

Change your life, not just your clothes. Come back to God, your God. And here’s why: God is kind and merciful. He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot, This most patient God, extravagant in love, always ready to cancel catastrophe. Who knows? Maybe he’ll do it now, maybe he’ll turn around and show pity. Maybe, when all’s said and done, there’ll be blessings full and robust for your God

Joel 2:13-14 MSG


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JANUARY 27

But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.

Jonah 4:1

“The older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and tried to talk to him, but he wouldn’t listen. The son said, ‘Look how many years I’ve stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends? Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast’ “His father said, ‘Son, you don’t understand. You’re with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours—but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he’s alive He was lost, and he’s found’”

Luke 15:28-30 MSG

ADDITIONAL READING: Luke 15:11-32

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JANUARY 28 PRAYER & SCRIPTURE DEVOTIONAL

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JANUARY 30

He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:2-3

But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth.

Psalm 86:15


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JANUARY 31

But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Jonah 4:4

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

James 1:19-21 MSG


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FEBRUARY 1

Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. Then the Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.

Jonah 4:5-6

Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you? Don’t these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God.

Galatians 3:5-6 MSG


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FEBRUARY 2

But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered. When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”

Jonah 4:7-9

They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down For He who has compassion on them will lead them And will guide them to springs of water.

Isaiah 49:10


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FEBRUARY 3

But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

Jonah 4:10-11

God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost Not a man, not a mouse,slips through the cracks. How exquisite your love, O God- How eager we are to run under your wings, To eat our fill at the banquet you spread as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water. You’re a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light.

Psalm 36:5-9 MSG


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