I am so proud of my wife for teaching this week! She did a great job covering the third chapter of Jonah. I also feel like I should mention that I chose the sermon title, not her (we’re using popular songs to describe each week, and she probably would have picked something less Johnny Cash). At any rate, she did a great job!
In chapter three, we get to see Jonah obey God’s call to go to Ninevah. The people repent and God relents. What can we learn from this portion of the story? Maybe the most important theme is of repentance of the missionary before the repentance of the people that God wants to save. Jonah needed a work done in his heart before God would do a work through his mission. There’s also a very interesting correlation between God’s call to Jonah in Joppa and God’s call to Peter in Joppa.