Running from God (Part 9)

Jonah, like us, was so into doing what he wanted to do he would end up getting the full experience of his rebellion. Running from God can lead to quite the smelly affair. Here we see Jonah end up in the belly of a fish three days and three nights only to get vomited...

Running from God (Part 8)

Jonah in controlling his destiny, ended up going where he did not intend to go… into the wet raging sea. Jonah 1:15 gives us the account of this. Yes, he told the mariners that casting him into the sea would calm the sea (v12) but this was not his original...

Running from God (Part 7)

Did you know that our running can cause more work for others? It is a lie from the devil that our disobedience only affects us alone! It is true, Look at Jonah 1:13. Here we see the mariners rowing hard. This is not an easy task against the raging waves of the sea....

Running from God (Part 6)

We are so funny in our rebellion! Jonah was running from God because he did not want to testify to Nineveh the very thing that God told him to. Yet we see in Jonah 1:9-10 and Jonah 3:3, that running did not make it so Jonah did not have to testify. In fact he ends up...

Running from God (Part 5)

We have seen that running from God brought a storm, cost Jonah, and cost the mariners. Yet that is not the scariest part of the story to me. Read Jonah 1:5 carefully. Running from God can make us oblivious to the danger around us. Jonah was not on alert at all, and...

Running from God (Part 4)

When we run from God we sometimes cause a storm for others. Look at Jonah 1:4-5. Jonah was running and God sent a storm. Did you notice who was in the storm with Jonah? The mariners. Not only did it affect them it also cost them the precious cargo, cutting into their...