Jonah 4:1-11
(KJV)
1 But it displeased
Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto
the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O
Lord, was not this my saying, when
I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that
thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repentest thee of the evil.
3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from
me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of
the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and
sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it
to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him
from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a
worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it
withered.
8 And it came to pass,
when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun
beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and
said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to
Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be
angry, even unto death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd,
for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in
a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I
spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons
that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle?
TODAY’S LESSON OBJECTIVES:
Learning Fact: To summarize
Jonah’s reactions to God’s sparing of Nineveh.
Biblical Principle: To understand why God’s love for Nineveh caused
Jonah to become irate.
Daily Application: To rejoice when others heed the Word of God.
Dear Friends,
A working definition of the word "pervasive" is spreading. May we live our lives in such a way that our love for Christ is spread, reaches into the lives of others. May we be ready to give an answer to anyone that asks about the hope that exists in our hearts.
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" - I Peter 3:15
God bless!
in Christ,
Sis. Stephanie
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