Revealing God’s Heroes in You

Summer Teaching Series

Ruth

Joseph

Esther

Daniel

Jonah

Risking

Trusting

Timing

StandingRunning

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Jonah RunningKNOW: You can run but you can’t hide

Chapter 1

1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me."

Jonah RunningKNOW: You can run but you can’t hide

Chapter 1

1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." 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.

Tarshish Nineveh Joppa

1:3 Go to the great city of Nineveh…Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port

Jonah RunningKNOW: You can run but you can’t hide

Chapter 1

9 I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land." 10 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.)

17 But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah

4 Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea…

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Tarshish Nineveh Joppa

1:3 Go to the great city of Nineveh…Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port

Big Fishy Taxi

Come on in, Let me show you around

Sin takes you farther than you want to go.

Sin keeps you longer than you want to stay.

Sin costs you more than you want to pay.

Jonah RepentingDO: When you hit bottom, look up

Chapter 2

10 And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.

2 He said: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.

Jonah ReturningCELEBRATE: God loves to give people a second chance

Chapter 3

1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you." 3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh…10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction

Jonah RantingBE: Grateful & Humble…it kills the root of bitterness

Chapter 4

1 But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee 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. 3 Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."

Four promises you should make to yourself if you find yourself running from God

1 I will recognize His Presence

2 I will ask for His Help

3 I will accept His Grace

4 I will share His Love

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”39 He answered, “A wicked and

adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.

Matthew 12:38-41