Jonah Wins – Chantilly
September 27, 2026
Brett Andrews – Sept 27. 2026 – Jonah Wins
Jonah 3:1-10
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.” 3 Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.
Now Nineveh was an extremely great city,[a] a three-day walk. 4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!” 5 Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.
6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:
By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. 8 Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing. 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
10 God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
Jonah 2:9-10, I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord. Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
God Calls Jonah a Second Time
Jonah 3:1-2, The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”
Jonah 1:1, The word of the Lord came to Jonah… 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it…
Ephesians 2:4, But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, 5 made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
John 3:16, 17, For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God calls Jonah to Action
Jonah 3:1, The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”
- The “Someday” Syndrome
John 4:35, “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready for harvest.
Jonah 3:1, The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”
God Calls Jonah to Deliver His Message
Matthew 28:18-20, Go, make disciples, baptizing and teaching them to obey….
Matthew 5:16, …let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Jonah 3:2-4, “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.” 3 Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.
Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, a three-day walk. 4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!”
Jonah’s Message
- Simple. Bold.
Isaiah 55:11, God promises:
my word that comes from my mouth
will not return to me empty,
but it will accomplish what I please
Jonah 3:3-4, Now Nineveh was an extremely great city, a three-day walk. 4 Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!”
- Hopeful. Good News.
John 3:18, Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
John 14:6, Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Luke 19:10, For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
John 3:16, For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
Circle one label, “Wholeness”
Circle two label, “Brokenness”
Circle three label, “Jesus”
Jonah 3:4, Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!”
God Changed Lives
Jonah 3:6-10, Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least.
6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
James 2:14,17, What good is it….. if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?
In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.
Jonah 3:7, Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:
By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. 8 Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.
9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
10 God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
Proverbs 14:34, Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
…And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: “Men have forgotten God.”
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize winner (1983)
John 10:10,
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
Next Steps
- For Nineveh
- For Jonah
John 5:14,16, You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden….let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
