Jonah 1:2 ESV – “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”

Jonah 3:10 ESV – When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Jonah 4:1 ESV – But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Jonah Questions God. God Listens

Jonah 4:2a ESV – And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country?

Jonah 4:2b ESV – That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Jonah 4:3 ESV – Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

What Makes You Angry?

Jonah’s Anger? God is too gracious to Assyrians!

Jonah 4:2b ESV – That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

What Makes You Sad?

James 1:20 ESV – for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God

Jonah 4– Watch Your Anger

Jonah 4:4 ESV – And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”

God Questions Jonah

Jonah 4:5-6 ESV – Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there.He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. 6 Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort.

Jonah 4:6 ESV – the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant

Jonah 4:7 ESV – But when dawn came up the next day, But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered

Jonah 4:8 ESV – When the sun rose, God appointed (there’s that word again!) a scorching east wind,

Jonah 4:8-9a ESV – And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” 9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?”

Jonah 4:9 ESV – 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.”

Jonah 4:10-11 ESV – And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons….

Jonah 4:11 ESV – And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Watch Your Passions—are your passions God’s passions?

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” – C.S. Lewis

Isaiah 5:20 ESV –  Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

Jonah 4:10-11 ESV – And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Jonah 1—God Calls Jonah, “Go to Nineveh”

How is God calling you to “Go”

Who is your Nineveh?

Jonah 2—Jonah Prays

How is God leading you to pray?

Confession to make?  Praise to offer?  Vow to make?

Jonah 3—Jonah Obeys

God called Jonah a second time.

How is God giving you a second chance?  A second calling?

What Words is He giving you to share?

Jonah 4—Jonah Fumes

How is God exposing your heart?

Misplaced Anger?  Misplaced Passions?

How will Jonah’s Story Continue Through You… the rest of your life?