Jonah’s finally goes to Nineveh with a message of impending judgement. They unexpectantly repent but the only thing that can save them now is the mercy of God.

Jonah’s repentance in the belly of the fish is questionable at best. His heart is messy. Our heart is messy. We need someone to help us truly change. Who more qualified than the great mercy giver himself – God. 

Jesus is the better Jonah who goes to the gentiles willingly. Jonah represents Israel who never went or wanted to go to the gentiles. They wanted God’s mercy but didn’t want to dispense any of it to others. Are we going the same with the mercy we have been shown?

While we can’t bring about our own restoration, we can make choices which lead to our restoration or our destruction. Malachi makes this clear in the last section of his book. Listen in as Peter concludes the series.

Treasure. We all have something we value most which informs the way we live. What is mind blowing is what happens when we make God our greatest treasure - we become his treasured possession! That is incredible.

Money has been a big deal for humanity since the beginning. Everyone has a relationship with it. God is actively interested in the relationship we have with money because of the powerful tendency for it to become the god we centre our lives on. God calls us to be generous with our money and trust in his generosity to provide everything we need and more.

Naturalistic evolution and relativism have had a massive effect on humanity’s ability to clearly understand what is good and evil. The result of this is a society wide ambiguity when it comes to trauma and pain. But God is a just judge who is committed to bringing clarity and justice to humanity, first through the cross, then in fullness when he returns. He is the hope of the world.

God wants his people to be loyal – loyal to him, loyal to each other, and loyal to their spouses. To be faithful and loyal is to be like God, to be truly human. To be unfaithful and treacherous, is to be less than human.

What you offer to God says something about what you think of him. It isn’t just a task you perform or something you do, it is personal. Listen in as Peter explains the connection between these two and the way forward which Jesus has made for us by his sacrifice on the cross.

In this short message, Peter gets us ready for a short series on the Old Testament prophet Malachi - a book which calls God’s people to be relationally vigilant in their walk with Him.