Title: Lips Faith (Jon 01:7-10)
Description: God sends Jonah to sleep and sends a command to the captain to get up and ask your God.
but it has no effect.
Jonah does not turn back, does not understand, does not look to God, and God never gives up on Jonah.
A saint who can hear the great winds of God sent to correct our own disobedience, the cries of the sailors, and the shouts of the captain.
A saint who realizes how long God is patient to save and bless us, and how he struggles to correct disobedience.
But Jonah saw and heard all of that. Nevertheless, Jonah is enduring.
If you fight until you bring the land into subjection to the LORD, you will come back innocent before the LORD and before Israel, and the land will be your inheritance before the LORD. Know how to find [Numbers 32:22-Numbers 32:23]
Sailors at first called their gods, dropped cargo, and even asked for prayers from an unscrupulous person like Jonah (Jonah sleeping alone at the bottom of the boat while others struggled to survive). However, the result did not change and the storm got stronger and stronger, so the crew thought that this was not just a disaster, but that someone had bought God's wrath and suffered this kind of suffering as a result, and decided to find the culprit.
Let us know from whom this calamity has come upon us (7) Jonah, who does not repent of his mistakes and does not look to God. But what happened to the people of Nineveh later? He decided to leave Gangpo.
The book of Jonah speaks of the fact that the Gentiles are far superior to God's prophet Jonah.
Jonah's disobedience and Nineveh's obedience are a curious contrast.
The sailors drew lots to determine the culprit of the disaster.
③ When Saul was chosen as the first king of Israel, lots were also cast.
New Testament - Filling in vacancies By lot, Matthias was obtained, and he joined the eleven apostles [Acts 1:26]
God caused Jonah to be drawn by lot the method used to select sinners in the Old Testament.
A man casts the lot, but it is with the Lord to decide what to do [Proverbs 16:33] Jonah's idea of running away from God itself is nonsense and comedy.
God does not leave us alone with the betrayals we ride and flee to Tarshish.
When Jonah boarded the ship from Joppa to Tarshish, he hid his identity and expected that he would be buried in a foreign land.
However, the enchanting voyage, which I thought would land on a smooth start, was driven to a single path in the stormy sea by a lottery method.
The Gentiles are speaking to Jonah.
Go Hara (18) Now she had to be interrogated by strangers.
Jonah, who ran away after giving up on the stranger that God had told him to save, is ironically being interrogated by the stranger. The appearance of Jonah surrounded by the judges of the Gentiles and the courts of the Gentiles.
The ship that had been able to hide and conceal one's identity has now become a place where one has to reveal one's identity. Jonah hid his identity in a bag. No one wanted to know him, and he did not identify himself.
Jonah, fleeing from God, was ashamed that he was a Christian, that he was a child of God, and that he was a prophet, and was afraid that anyone would recognize him.
As if we are believers.-Today, believers demand anonymity.
A believer who does not reveal that he is a Christian.
Just like Jonah.
If anyone confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 10:32)
In the end, Jonah was in danger of revealing everything to the barrage of questions from the strangers.
Tell us why this calamity has come upon us. What is your livelihood, where did you come from, where is your homeland, and what nation did you belong to?
Why did Jonah have to be humiliated like this because he neglected the Word of God.
Because they did not obey God's commands.
The word of God is not always pleasing to my ears. Therefore, obedience is necessary.
You have to receive the Word as it is given. If you choose to eat according to your taste, you will harm your spiritual health.
The Word of God should not be received from my theological thoughts, my knowledge, my religious prejudice, or my knowledge base, but should be received humbly in the spirit of obedience.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness [2 Timothy 3:16]
Those who do not neglect the Word of God are fervent in their prayer life, zealous witness to the gospel, fervent service, and fervent devotion.
If you neglect God's Word - a helpless Christian, a burdened life, a poor life.
I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
In 1:6, he was reprimanded by the captain and his pride was hurt, but now he is being questioned by strangers, and he is finally talking about himself.
Jonah prides himself on being different from the Gentiles, first emphasizing that he is a Hebrew.
Also, I would like to introduce myself as a person who fears God. profession.
If so, he shouldn't have gone to Tarshish.
Jonah's words are contradictory.
The life of reverence, the holy life, sanctify in your hearts the Lord Jesus Christ, always ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, doing it with gentleness and fear [1 Peter 3:15] .
But Jonah's life was a life of disobedience, a life of shunning the face of the Lord.
The intimacy of the LORD is with those who fear him; he will show them his covenant [Psalm 25:14] But Jonah is turning away from God.
Therefore, Jonah's answer was only his lips.
And Jonah confesses of God, saying, 'He is the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land'.
The fact that he knew that God was omnipotent, Creator, and Savior.
He knew the power of God.
However, he did not accept God as the master of his life.
Jonah spoke with his lips, but with his body he believed and did not follow him.
Jonah is a model for believers who keep the distance between their faith and life.
At Jonah's attitude, the sea became more and more turbulent.
They were very afraid. (10) The sailors found out the cause of all this.
And they couldn't help but be afraid.
The God who causes the storm and even participates in the wicking.
In particular, the ancient East considered the sea to be a power of evil, but when they saw God's power to control the power of evil, they were afraid and rebuked Jonah.
Why did you do this? The words of the Gentiles to Jonah.
These are the words God spoke to Jonah.
Unbelievers have expectations toward believers.
Therefore, only the members of the church are required to live right, and only the church demands that the church be right.
Also, the appearance of Jonah does not fit with the unbelievers, nor with logic.
If Jonah himself is a Hebrew, a chosen people, and fears God, then this cannot be the case.
This is the second time Jonah receives this rebuke.
The captain went out and said to him, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and ask your God, that perhaps God will think of us so that we will not perish." [Jonah 1:6] Jonah did not repent at the voice of God's rebuke.
Even though the opportunity for repentance came, Jonah did not turn back.
Isn't it the same as the members of the church who are criticized for having only their lips alive and speaking well? We are believers who have faith in the body, not the faith of our lips.