Title: God's Interest/Jonah 1:1-3
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Text: Jon 1:1-3
Title: God's Interest and Human Interest
Introduction
1. The name Jonah means dove in Hebrew. The dove symbolizes peace, purity,
It is a bird that symbolizes sorrow, etc. Therefore, Jonah means peace and purity like a dove.
It can be seen that the name is derived from
However, some consider Jonah to be a symbolic figure representing the people of Israel.
Some even claim that he was not a real person. That is, the book of Jonah
The people of Israel disobeyed God's commands and were immersed in a narrow-minded way of thinking.
It is an episode written to warn you. But 2 Kings 14:25
It is clear that the prophet Jonah was active during the reign of Jeroboam II.
He was at Gathheber, about 5 km northeast of Nazareth in Galilee.
He was born as the son of Amittai in a town called Jeroboam II, where he was active.
The era of 793-753 B.C. was the heyday of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Jeroboam II was in Hamath language.
From the ear to the sea of the Arabah, Israel was restored.
The Arabah sea points to the Dead Sea, and the mouth of Hamath is the northern border of Solomon's kingdom.
It is a region adjacent to the Western Assyrian Empire. Jeroboam II ruled the Assyrian Empire in general.
This area was restored by taking advantage of the weakened by the
Israel thus became the largest and most influential nation since the time of Solomon.
and maintained peace for a while. At the same time, a sense of hostility with the Assyrian Empire
was very high. Moreover, for Jonah, Jeroboam was restored to the mouth of Hamath.
Because it had already been prophesied (2 Kings 14:25), the hostility to Assyria was
had to be different.
2. Nineveh was built on the eastern bank of the Tigris River (now northern Iraq).
As a city, at the end of the 8th century B.C., King Sennacherib of the Assyrian Empire expanded the city.
After making it the capital of the empire, it was captured by the combined armies of Babylon and the Medes in 612 B.C.
It has always been the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
Nineveh was more than 800 km from Palestine, especially in the time of Jonah.
Assyria had hostile relations with Israel, so Jonah's going to Nineveh
It would never have been easy.
3. In verses 1 and 3 of the text, different interests are introduced. God's interest and
Jonah's interests and those of the people of Nineveh were different.
That's right. We live in different interests.
.God's concern is human love.
A. He watched Nineveh (v2).
1. Their iniquities reached up to heaven.
* Ethical crimes must have been extreme. Similar to the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.
* It was an atheistic and anti-God structure of consciousness.
2. To them, God was not a matter of concern.
* How to enjoy life?
*How can I make more money?
B. And God loved them (v1).
1. God does not give up a single ray of hope until the very end.
2. Jonah sent an evangelist. This is a concrete, positive sign of love.
to be.
3. God wanted them to repent.
C. God's interest is always toward us.
1. He wants us to live a healthy life.
* There is no way that a mother cannot remember her nursing child, but maybe she
Even if something unforgettable happens, God does not forget us.
*
*God's concern is always human love. But what about us?
.Humans are only interested in themselves.
A. The people of Nineveh: It was a life of atheism.
1. It was a life of my own accord.
2. It was a life without remorse.
3. It was a miserable and miserable life.
B. Jonah's interest: It was a self-centered, closed life.
1. He was a prophet.
* A prophet is a mediator who receives the Word of God and delivers it to humans.
* A prophet must be appointed by God. That is, no one can
none.
2. A prophet should not be bound by his own personal affairs.
* We must seek the glory of God before our own interests.
* It is necessary to distinguish what is for God.
3. But Jonah rejected God's command.
*There was a problem with his spiritual condition.
*Forgetting his duty as a prophet. His duty is to obey orders.
It is to follow God's instructions. Disobedience is evil. God wants us to obey unconditionally.
you want to
4. He has nothing to do with Nineveh and is in the opposite direction, the port city of Tarshish.
made an escape with
*When he arrived at the port, there was a ship in the port.
It was a chance to make it happen. People do their own thing in this case.
I'm trying to justify it. In other words, it seems that things are working out quite well in the first place.
*In the end, Jonah chose the extreme of disobedience.
C. Where is our attention today? Only yourself like the saras of Nineveh
Isn't he a man who lives only for himself? Or, like Jonah, he accuses himself rather than God's will.
Aren't you living as a slave to your Sims? Once Jonah got on the ship, he would have been delighted.
Even if it seems that what we are doing is going well right now, we mistakenly think that that is everything.
must not stand
conclusion
1. Parents always think about their children. But their children are only them.
God cares about us and cares for us, but we care only about you.
only god
2. Jonah's concern was thorough self-rationalization. He refused God's command and
What he chose to do with his own ideas seemed like a success.
The fact that the present reality that used to be will lead you to a tragic misfortune from which it is difficult to recover.
would not have thought. We will next see the huge impact of human misguided attention.
I will see the wave.