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Jonah 1:17-2:10 - Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
Our breakdowns help us to lay down
I. Our breakdowns help us to lay down (Jon. 1:17)
a) Look up by embracing God’s Word again
II. When you are laying down, the only place to look is up (Jon. 2:1-7)
c) Look up even in impossible situations
b) Look up even in our guilt
III. Breakdowns are for our breakthroughs (Jon. 2:8-10)
d) Look up in hope
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the LORD!”
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O LORD my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the LORD,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love
1) I'm okay!
2) I don't deserve God's grace or love.
“Grace is the undeserved gift of an unobligated giver.”
- Tim Keller
1:17-2:10
Look up in Hope
1) God sent an intervention, to remind Jonah (The Storm). But Jonah was sleeping.
2) God speaks through the captain to wake Jonah up physically and spiritually.
3) God speaks through the sailors. Jonah still does not repent.
4) Jonah says, “I would rather die than obey God.” As a result, the sailors are forced to hurl Jonah overboard and the storm finally stops.
God specializes in the impossible!
17 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
When you are laying down, the only place to look is up
2 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,
“I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
3 For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’