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This is from the Sunday Gathering worship service at 9AM at PAX Christian Church on 08/10/2025
We are a non-denominational church in Gardnerville, NV.
Get the notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49473905
NOTES:
On a scale of 1-10 (one being unlikely, ten being very likely) how willing are you to turn to the Lord for help?
Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.He said: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.’ ”And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
The Book of Jonah Recap
Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
The Old Testament points to Jesus.
The account of Jonah displays salvation coming to a nation of unbelieving people after the prophet is saved from a watery grave and receives new life.
When the Pharisees question Jesus’ authority and demand a sign, Jesus says they will be given the sign of Jonah…
Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.
Jesus points to his own death and resurrection as the ultimate sign of his authority and proof that he is the LORD.
Jesus’ death and resurrection offers each of us that same new life.
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.He said: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.
Jonah didn’t pray when the storm came.
Don’t wait to call on the Lord.
“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.’ ”
What is Jonah sacrificing?
He is on death’s doorstep.
He is laying down his sin…his opinions, wants, desires, self-righteous judgement of others.
Sometimes, the Lord allows us to come to a moment where we are finally willing to give up the things we cling to and elevate above him, to lay down our idols, because we recognize our desperate need for him.
And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Don’t wait to call on God…but if you do, he is faithful.
After three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, Jonah is raised to new life and given another chance.
The Lord heard Jonah in his distress.
The Lord shows great mercy to Jonah. Mercy that Jonah does not feel for Nineveh.
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
We have all been like Jonah, dead in our sins and because of what Jesus has done, we have all been given a chance to be raised to new life.
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on himfor, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Are you willing to call on the Lord today?
Are you willing to lay down your idols and turn to him?
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