Colonial Presbyterian Church

Sometimes in our life we may be asking God for something and he is continually telling us no...the hurt is still there...the pain is still there...the sickness is still there...the relationship is still broken...the person is still our boss...the coworker is still getting on our nerves...the finances are still not what I expect...

But even though we ask...God is still saying no....So, what do you do when God says no?

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This little story of Jonah is not intended to make us feel great about ourselves. It’s a wakeup call to God’s people. God has His heart set on Nineveh, and He has called us to speak the truth to a lost and perishing world. God loves that motley crew on the deck of a sinking ship, and He has placed us on that ship that we might bear witness to the One, True God in our prayers and in our service. As those entrusted with His Word, called to be a light in the midst of this present darkness, it is no time for us to be sleeping below while the storm is raging all around us.

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Let us learn from Jonah. The place of our greatest freedom is in the presence of the Lord…not away from the presence of the Lord.  The safest place for our souls is in our present obedience; disobedience is a sure path to disaster. When we are in the presence of the Lord, He pays the cost for us. When we flee the presence of the Lord, the cost is ours and ours alone. When we rest in the presence of the Lord, our identity is secure, regardless of the circumstances. When we flee the presence of the Lord, we have abandoned our Creator, our people, and our very selves.

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Is God less than loving by commanding his prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh? No. God loves Jonah, but God has every right to call His servant to be His mouthpiece to a hostile nation. Is God less than loving if Jonah suffers persecution, torture, or death as a result of this assignment? No...God is never less than loving in anything God does because God IS love. But that’s a hard pill to swallow, particularly if you are Jonah.

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Jonah is a colorful, exciting, dramatic short story that has value in and of itself.  However, the more we know of the deep history leading up to Jonah, the more we will come to grasp the profound significance of this little story tucked away in the much-neglected section of our Bibles commonly referred to as “the minor prophets”.

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This favorite story of Jews, Muslims, and Christians is still popular today. This sermon delves into the relevancy for today: who was Jonah, when did he live, and best of all, what to make of the whale.

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Today we want to move from the principle of service to the practice of service. As we said last week, The principle of service shows us the argument for why we should commit our lives to serving, especially for the matter of building bridges and breaking down walls. The practice of service shows us what it practically looks like.

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Jesus avoided the drum major instinct. Jesus consistently exemplified the message of humility. Even when his followers wanted him to make a stand and overthrow the government, his response was, my time has not come. Why, because the strongest strategy for progress and success, is humility and servitude.

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Knowing and experiencing God’s radical, costly grace leads a Christian to become a radically generous person in every domain of life including the way we treat people, the use of our time, the way we extend hospitality…we become radically generous people in every currency of life which is costly…it’s often painful…but we become generous towards others because God was so radically generous towards us. This morning we will wrap up the series by looking at what Jesus says about wealth in one of His most challenging parables found in Luke 16:1-14.

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Wisemen? Magi? Little is recorded in scripture about these men. However this well researched sermon into the oral traditions and works of ancient scholars sheds much  light on this subject.

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