”Jonah” The subversive story of a rebellious prophet who hates God for loving his enemies” Malcolm Cox, TVCoC

Jonah

The subversive story of a rebellious prophet who hates God for loving his enemies

1. Why does Jonah run?
2. Why does Jonah tell the sailers to kill him?
3. What was it like for Jonah in the fish’s stomach?
4. Why does he not say sorry?
5. What is odd about Jonah’s message?
6. Why does God provide the shade and then take it away?
7. In what ways is Jesus like Jonah?
8. In what way is Jesus different from Jonah?
9. In what ways are we like Jonah?
10. How can we be more like Jesus?

Conclusion

• Are you OK with the fact that God loves your enemies?
• ““You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43–48)
• “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while 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! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.” (Romans 5:6–11)

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