This week we kick off a fall teaching series on the book of Jonah. Our attention focused on the first two verses, “The word of the LORD came to Jonah so of Amittai: ‘Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness has confronted Me.’” In Surprised by Grace, Tullian Tchividjian comments, “This book’s original audience, hearing or reading those opening two verses in Jonah for the first time, might immediately have high expectations about what should come next. Will it be a thrilling scene-by-scene unfolding of how an obedient messenger courageously carries God’s warning to the very face of his enemies—followed up perhaps by a plenty of wrath-of-God fireworks?”
Before settling into the familiarity of this story, take time in your group or on your own to soak up how the story begins.
Read 2 Kings 14:25-27. This reference to Jonah in 2 Kings is the only Old Testament Reference to Jonah outside of the book of Jonah. What can be learned about Jonah from this passage?
Read Deuteronomy 18:15-22. What does this passage reveal about the role of a prophet?
Application:
Read Jonah 1:1-2.
Have you ever sensed that God was asking something of you that was unrealistic or impossible? How did you respond?
If you ignored God’s call, do you think He would find someone else or repeat His call until you obeyed?
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