Have you ever suffered an injustice?

Mercy vs Justice

Mercy vs Justice

Jonah 1v1-3: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.”

But Jonah … sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.

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Jonah 3v1-2: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.”

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Jonah 1v2: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and

preach against it”

Jonah 3v2: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and

proclaim to it the message I give you”

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Jonah 3v3-4: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”

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2 Kings 14v21-25: Jeroboam king of Israel reigned in Samaria for forty-one years.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord …

He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from LeboHamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord

spoken through his servant Jonah the prophet son of Amittai

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Jonah 3v5:The Ninevites believed God.

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

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Jonah 3v5:The Ninevites believed God.

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

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Genesis 15v6:Abram believed the Lord,

and it was credited to him as righteousness

Jonah 3v6-7: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.

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.

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Jonah 3v8-9:“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.

Who knows?God may yet relent and with compassion

turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish”

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Jonah 3v10 – 4v1: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.

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

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“Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown”

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“Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned”

• Psalm 66v6: “He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot.”

• Jeremiah 31 v13: “I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow”

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Does this story have any basis in history?

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Romans 3v21 -26:But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made

known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who

believe.

There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

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Romans 3v21 -26:God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,

through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith.

He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left

the sins committed beforehand unpunished—

he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just

and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

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Mercy and Justice meet together in Jesus

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Have you ever suffered an injustice?

Mercy vs Justice

Mercy vs Justice