1. JONAH
A Whale of a Tale

2. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4
Jonah the The City that Jonah - A Man
The One that
Reluctant Turned back on Fire for God
Got Away
Prophet to God
In the In the In Nineveh Outside
Ship Fish Nineveh
The Prodigal The Preaching The Pouting
The Praying
Prophet Prophet Prophet
Prophet

3. Jonah 1:1-2
The word of the LORD came to
Jonah the son of Amittai
saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh
the great city, and cry against
it, for their wickedness has
come up before Me.”

4. • Nineveh
Joppa
• Jerusalem

6. Lessons from Jonah 2
 What you Learn in the Light will be
Valuable in the Darkness
 You can pray anywhere

7. Humor from Jonah 2
 “I cried for help from the belly of
Sheol” (Jonah 2:1)
 “I have been expelled from Thy
sight” (Jonah 2:4).
 “All Thy breakers and billows
passed over me” (Jonah 2:3
quotes Psalm 42:7).

8. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4
Jonah the The City that Jonah - A Man
The One that
Reluctant Turned back on Fire for God
Got Away
Prophet to God
In the In the In Nineveh Outside
Ship Fish Nineveh
The Prodigal The Preaching The Pouting
The Praying
Prophet Prophet Prophet
Prophet

9. Jonah 3:3
Now Nineveh was an
exceedingly great city, a
three days' walk (NAS).
Now Nineveh was a very
important city-- a visit
required three days (NIV).

11. Jonah 3:4
Then Jonah began to go
through the city one day's
walk; and he cried out and
said, “Yet forty days and
Nineveh will be overthrown.”

12. Jonah 3:9
“Who knows, God may turn
and relent, and withdraw His
burning anger so that we
shall not perish?”

13. God’s Appointments
 God appointed a Plant (4:6)
 God appointed a Worm (4:7)
 God appointed the East Wind (4:8)

14. Jonah 4:10-11
Then the LORD said, “You had
compassion on the plant for which you did
not work, and which you did not cause to
grow, which came up overnight and
perished overnight. 11 And should I not
have compassion on Nineveh, the great
city in which there are more than 120,000
persons who do not know the difference
between their right and left hand, as well
as many animals?”

15. Lessons from Jonah
 God is the first cause of all things
 God is a Saving God
 God wants repentance
 God is compassionate