1. Part 3: Jonah 1:17-2:10 The Steadfast Love of Sovereign Grace
The Words of Grace
Part 3: Jonah 1:17-2:10 The Steadfast Love of Sovereign Grace

2. Matthew 26:31-32
…Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”

3. Matthew 26:33-35
Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” 34 Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” 35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!”

4. Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

5. Jonah 1:3
…He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

6. Jonah 1:12
…“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.”

7. 1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

8. Outline
Descent
Distress
Deliverance

9. Big Idea
The key to peace and hope during trials, temptation, and discipline, is remembering God’s perfect, loving, sovereignty over our salvation.

10. Descent

11. Job 38:8,10-11
“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,… 10 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, 11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

12. Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.

13. Psalm 88:7
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.

14. Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

15. Acts 2:23-24
…this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

16. Distress

17. Deliverance

18. Jeremiah 31:3
…I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

19. Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

20. Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

21. John 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

22. Romans 5:8
…God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.