Running to the Character of God Jonah 2 The big fish Not plausible from our understanding. No contemporary stories are verifiable BUT…We believe in miracles.

Running to the Character of God

Jonah 2

The big fish

• Not plausible from our understanding.• No contemporary stories are verifiable• BUT…We believe in miracles• AND…Jesus speaks of Jonah’s

experience as fact

Running to the Character of God

• God is the author of salvation• Feeling the weight of judgment is good• Saving faith combines present

deliverance with hope for complete rescue

God is the author of salvation

• The Lord “appointed” a big fish

Feeling the weight of judgment is good

• God answers in spite of our guilt• God answers in spite of his judgment• God answers amid impossible

circumstances• God answers in the nick of time

Feeling the weight of judgment is good

• God answers in stages• God answers to win our loyalty• God answers to help us become like him

Saving faith combines present deliverance with hope for complete rescue

• We have been saved

Romans 5:8-11 (NIV)8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Saving faith combines present deliverance with hope for complete rescue

• We have been saved• Will our actions conform to our

circumstance or our salvation to come?• Praise the Lord for vomit