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SLIDE 2 Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song.
Same Power – Jeremy Camp – I Will Follow You’ll Come – Hillsong Live – This is Our God Praise to the Lord the Almighty – Travis Cottrell – Alive Forever You Are Worthy – Hillsong – For All You’ve Done Thy Will – Hillary Scott & The Scott Family – Love Remains
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Tamed or Untamed?
A Whale of a Tale (part 4) Jonah 4
SLIDE 4 Review Jonah 1 Running Westward
Eastern Call You Cannot Outrun God
SLIDE 5 Review Jonah 2 Insights into
Incongruities When you find yourself in a whale of a trial, make sure your commitments are held in faith, w/o hypocrisy, and from the heart
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Review Jonah 3 Reaching Out to Nineveh Out of God’s extravagant compassion & grace, He wants to use us to draw a lost world back to Himself
SLIDE 7 Jonah 3:10
10 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.
SLIDE 8 Jonah 4
1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong,
and he became angry. 2 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.
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Jonah 4 “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, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
SLIDE 10 Jonah 4
4 But the LORD replied, “Is it right for
you to be angry?”
5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at
a place east of the city.
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Jonah 4 There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city.
SLIDE 12 Jonah 4
6 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.
SLIDE 13 Jonah 4
7 But at dawn the next day God
provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered.
SLIDE 14 Jonah 4
8 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.”
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9 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.”
SLIDE 16 Jonah 4
10 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
SLIDE 17 Jonah 4
11 “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?”
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God is Untamable We can tend to put God in a box, trying to limit Him by our preconceived misconceptions
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God is Untamable Our view of justice & compassion is not always consistent with God’s view
SLIDE 20 Jonah 4
2 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.
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Jonah 4 “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, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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God is Untamable Our view of justice & compassion is not always consistent with God’s view
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To truly know God & be used by Him, we must be broken of our pride & self-will
In order to know the untamable God, we must first be tamed by Him
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To truly know God & be used by Him, we must be broken of our pride & self-will
Surrendering to God is not always easy
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To truly know God & be used by Him, we must be broken of our pride & self-will
When we are struggling to submit, God prefers we engage Him, rather than ignore Him
SLIDE 26 Jonah 4
3 “Now, LORD, take away my life, for it
is better for me to die than to live.”
4 But the LORD replied, “Is it right for
you to be angry?”
5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at
a place east of the city.
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To truly know God & be used by Him, we must be broken of our pride & self-will
When we are struggling to submit, God prefers we engage Him, rather than ignore Him
SLIDE 28 Jonah 4
9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do
well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” (ESV)
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To truly know God & be used by Him, we must be broken of our pride & self-will
In His grace, God is committed to break us from pride & self- will in order that He might bless & use us
SLIDE 30 Jonah 4
10 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
SLIDE 31 Jonah 4
11 “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?”
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We have a choice—to be broken by God’s compassion and truth, or to remain unbroken in our pride & stubborn rebellion
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Conclusion
Brokenness is the path to blessing
SLIDE 34 Conclusion
Brokenness is the path to blessing
“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.”
