Question 1: What are you even doing?

a.      Controlling what you say

b.      True religion

c.       The to-do list in James 1:19-27

Question 2: What are you looking at?

a.      Your own human failings or God’s good Law?

b.      The perfect Law that sets us free

Question 3: Who do you think you are?

a.      Take off sin (it’s not who you are)

b.      Live in your identity as God’s child

The Pain of Failure (16:1-6)

 

The Hope in Rescue (16:7-16)

 

The Promise to Abram (17:1-8)

 

The Command (17:9-14)

 

The Promise to Sarai (17:15-21)

 

The Obedience (17:22-27)

 

Applications:

True Allegiance

True Faith

True Hope

Genesis 12

 

1.God gives his word:

The promise  (1-3)

2.Can God keep his word?

The obstacles  (4-20)

Undeserved Mercy (Jonah 4:1-11)

 

“Do you have a right to be angry?” (1-4)

 

God & Jonah Agree on:

1.    Nineveh is__________                                     .

2.    God can save_______                        .

3.    It’s God’s nature to be_______&___________                                    .

4.    God acts in accordance to His___________                     .

 

“Should I not pity Nineveh?” (5-11)

 

Mercy/pity is defined as:

 

God’s Lesson for Jonah:

 

Conclusion: All three (mariners, Jonah, Ninevites) experienced mercy in the form of deliverance from their impending judgment through their inadequate hope-filled obedience to the revealed word of God.

 

Application:

Jonah 3 - "The Mercy of God"

 

I. Unstoppable Word (v. 1-4)

II. Utter Repentance (v. 5-8)

III. Undeserved Mercy (v. 9-10)

Steve Jaeger preaches on Jonah 2

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OUTLINE:

Review: God’s heart of mercy - is often to show undeserved compassion which relieves misery, rather than letting evil and suffering go unrestrained.

OT Prophets

City of Nineveh

Mercy for those who do not know - Pagan mariners sailed to mercy’s shore

Mercy for those who do not obey - Jonah sank to mercy’s belly

God’s heart is also to show compassion, rather than just to deliver divine judgment.

Application:

Read the Book of Jonah

Ask yourself, “What do I run to in avoiding God?”

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