Title One more chance (Jon 3:1~10)
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Jonah, who was supposed to go to Nineveh, disobeyed God's command and went to Tarshish when a great storm met with a storm. The sailors said to Jonah, who was sleeping on the bottom of the boat, "Tell us what cause of this calamity has come upon us" (Jonah 1:8).
Jonah answered, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea, and the sea will be calm for you. The sea became more ferocious, so the sailors picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea. They were thrown into the sea, and the sea ceased to roar.
The Lord had already prepared a large fish to swallow Jonah, so Jonah stayed in the fish's belly for three days and three nights. Jonah prayed to God in the belly of the fish. God commanded the fish to vomit Jonah to dry land.
Why! Did God send Jonah back into the world?
I. To give you one more chance to fulfill your mission.
Verse 1 says, “The word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time.”
When the second word of God has come, it means that God has given you another chance to fulfill your mission. It is to forgive all the sins and transgressions of the past and give them another chance to work. Because God has made a mistake once, because he has sinned once, he never forsakes him forever. God loves His workers.
He makes useless workers into useful workers. God refines his people through suffering and refinement just as he refines gold in a crucible. May you be washed through repentance, and fall down before the Lord in thanksgiving and humility. Suffering and trials are one way God trains His children.
He trained the Israelites for 400 years in an Egyptian fire furnace.
Moses trained for 40 years in the palace of Pharaoh by the grace of God. But the first thing Moses did for his own people was to kill the Egyptians who were fighting the Israelites.
A person with living blood cannot achieve God's righteousness.
God sent Moses to the Wilderness of Midian, and after training Moses for another 40 years, he called him again.
David committed murder to cover up his sin of adultery. But God did not forsake David, who sinned. By enlightening the prophet Nathan of sin, David was reborn as a new person through thorough repentance that lights up the night and brings the bed to tears.
And he said, “I found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart.
ira. I will do all my will” (Acts 13:22).
Jesus did not forsake Peter, who denied Him three times a night. Through the second crowing of a rooster, he awakened Peter's conscience and made him walk through the valley of repentance in mourning.
“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” he asked. The Lord said, “Do you love me?” the third time, and Peter was grieved. Peter now denied Jesus and was unable to leave.
Then the Lord said, “Feed my sheep.” Then the Lord said, “Follow me.” Peter, who passed the fiery furnace of repentance, was not the Peter he had been before fishing in Galilee. He became a believer who could be martyred by hanging upside down on the cross.
Why did God give Jonah one more chance today?
It was given to restore the love of God. to restore mission
that you have given There is still work to be done for Jonah.
II. Giving you one more chance means living a life of determination.
Verse 3 says, “Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, just as the LORD had said.”
Jonah 1:3 says, “Jonah arose to flee from the presence of the Lord, and fled to Tarshish.” Jonah got up. But the meaning is different. Before he repented, Jonah got up to flee from the presence of God. But after repenting, Jonah got up to follow God's word. The direction and purpose of life has changed. The old man Jonah was not interested in the souls of his neighbors. The new man Jonah became a lover of the soul of his neighbor. The old man Jonah was a man of disobedience. The new man Jonah became a man of obedience.
He got up immediately. But Nineveh is a great city. It is said that there were a hundred and twenty thousand people who could not distinguish right and left. They travel through a huge city of a million people, proclaiming judgment that “in 40 days Nineveh will be overthrown.” How difficult and dangerous to proclaim destruction?
However, the missionary does not convey his message. A missionary does not live his own life. We must live the life God wants us to live. A prophet cannot add or subtract from the Word of God. A prophet lives for a mission and dies for a mission. “Whether we live or die, we are the Lord's” (Romans 14:8). Then, the prophet can receive power and experience blessings.
For this, God has given us one more chance.
Ⅲ. You have been given one more chance to create a new history.
Verse 4 says, “Jonah went into the city, and went about a day’s journey, and cried out,”
“In 40 days Nineveh will fall” - whose voice is this? It is the voice of God. But what is this? In just one day, the world has changed.
Verse 5 says, “The people of Nineveh believed in God and proclaimed a fast, and they were clothed in sackcloth, small and small.” Verse 6 says, “The king rose from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat down on ashes.” In verse 7, the king issued a decree, “You must not eat or drink water.” Verse 8 says, “Let us cry out to the Lord with all our might, and let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence of his hands.”
The gospel of Jonah completely destroyed Nineveh in just one day. “The people believed in God” (verse 5). Unbelief exploded. The king took off his robe from the throne (verse 6). Pride has been blown up. The decree was issued, and you must neither eat nor drink (verse 7). Disobedience was blown up. Depart from evil ways and from the violence of your hands (verse 8). All kinds of sins were blown up. Cry in sackcloth (verse 8). The hardened heart was blown up. God gave Jonah one more chance to create a new history for Nineveh.