Jonah Teaches Fear Jonah 1:4-16  

David Sharir’s Jonah (1971)

GOD REVEALS

GOD REVEALS Jonah 1:4 But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.

GOD REVEALS Jonah 1:6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

GOD REVEALS

SINNERS RESPOND

SINNERS RESPOND Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them.

SINNERS RESPOND Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them.

SINNERS RESPOND Jonah 1:12 He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”

Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Jonah

SINNERS RESPOND Jonah 1:8 Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?” 9 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” 10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

SINNERS RESPOND Deuteronomy 6:1 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.”

SINNERS RESPOND Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

SINNERS RESPOND Deuteronomy 6:13 It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

SINNERS RESPOND “Fear in the biblical sense includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by someone, worshipping someone, putting your trust in someone, or needing someone. The fear of man can be summarized this way: We replace God with people. Instead of a biblically guided fear of the Lord, we fear others. . . . When we are in our teens, it is called ‘peer pressure.’ “When we are older, it is called ‘people-pleasing.’ Recently, it has been called ‘codependency.’” Ed Welch

SINNERS RESPOND

GRACE REMAINS

GRACE REMAINS Jonah 1:14 Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.”

GRACE REMAINS Jonah 1:16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

Dennis McGeary’s Jonah

GRACE REMAINS “Jesus is really God’s ‘great wind,’ his ‘mighty tempest’ in response to human running and rebellion. Jesus is the storm!” Tullian Tchividjian

Proverbs 1:7a The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge… GRACE REMAINS Proverbs 1:7a  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge…

GRACE REMAINS