"When We Protest God" (Jonah 4)
09/15/19 • 30 min
What right do we have to be angry at God's justice and mercy?
I. Just as His thoughts are not our thoughts, His justice and mercy are not our justice and mercy.
a. Jonah wanted vigilante justice
b. Jonah wanted vindictive retribution
II. Just as Jonah would rather die than truly live, humanity chooses resentment over reconciliation.
a. Resenting others
b. Resenting God
c. Resenting grace
III. Just as Jonah thought he had a right to bitterness, humanity chooses weight over bitterness
a. The weight of grudges
b. The weight of hatred
c. The weight of self
IV. Just as Jonah had a short-sighted view of grace, God's people sometimes need an expansion of God's love.
a. God's love for the other
b. God's love for the lost
c. God's love for our neighbor
d. God's love for us
Conclusion: Lay down your anger at the Cross
What right do we have to be angry at God's justice and mercy?
I. Just as His thoughts are not our thoughts, His justice and mercy are not our justice and mercy.
a. Jonah wanted vigilante justice
b. Jonah wanted vindictive retribution
II. Just as Jonah would rather die than truly live, humanity chooses resentment over reconciliation.
a. Resenting others
b. Resenting God
c. Resenting grace
III. Just as Jonah thought he had a right to bitterness, humanity chooses weight over bitterness
a. The weight of grudges
b. The weight of hatred
c. The weight of self
IV. Just as Jonah had a short-sighted view of grace, God's people sometimes need an expansion of God's love.
a. God's love for the other
b. God's love for the lost
c. God's love for our neighbor
d. God's love for us
Conclusion: Lay down your anger at the Cross
Previous Episode
When We Are Rescued from Ourselves (Jonah 2)
Theme: God can raise us up from self-inflicted ruin
I. Repentance precedes restoration (vv. 1-4)
a. Jonah reached a literal and figurative bottom
b. Jonah brought about his decent
c. Jonah was lifted up by God through repentance
II. Dead-ends precede new directions (vv. 5-6)
a. Jonah was facing literal and metaphorical death
b. Jonah found hope from hopelessness
III. Rebirth precedes resurrection (vv. 7-10)
a. Jonah was born-again
b. Jonah was delivered from death
c. Jonah's deliverance is a picture of the Cross
Conclusion: Have you died to self and live in Christ?
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"There's a Place at the Table for You" (Acts 11:1-18)
God is drawing the most unlikely of people into serving for His Kingdom, including you.
I. We are called to minister to the most unlikely of people, even when others will criticize us. (vv. 1-3)
a. Loving others will get people talking.
b. Loving others will bring you criticism.
II. We are called to minister to the most unlikely of people, especially when God will direct us. (vv. 4-10)
a. Like Peter, we must challenge our presuppositions of others.
b. Like Peter, we must make sure our views are in fact the Biblical view.
III. We are called to minister to the most unlikely of people, and not try to get in God's way. (vv. 11-18)
a. Go where God leads you and have no hesitation
b. Go towards and accept God's grace with no hesitation
Conclusion: No further objections and praise God for what he's doing in your life and the lives of others.
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