Category Archives: Jonah

Jonah’s Object-Lessons, Jonah 4:6-8

“And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God … Continue reading

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Who Can Tell?, Jonah 3:9

“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”—Jonah 3:9. This was the forlorn hope of the Ninevites: “Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn … Continue reading

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Salvation of the Lord, Jonah 2:9

“Salvation is of the Lord.”—Jonah 2:9. Jonah learned this sentence of good theology in a strange college. He learned it in the whale’s belly, at the bottom of the mountains, with the weeds wrapped about his head, when he supposed … Continue reading

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The Fainting Soul Revived, Jonah 2:7

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord.”-Jonah 2:7. When man was first made, there was no fear of his forgetting God for it was his highest privilege and delight to have communion with his Maker. “The Lord … Continue reading

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The Tragedy of an Unwilling Missionary, Jonah 1-4

Introduction In great contrast to Jesus, the seeking Savior, Jonah illustrates what a missionary should not be. He was prejudiced, selfish, and disobedient. Yet the book named after him is instructive: it contrasts what Jonah was with what a missionary … Continue reading

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What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?, Jonah 1:5-6

“But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so … Continue reading

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