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Halloween 2016

Jonah’s Three “But God” moments

• God’s relentless love (Jonah 1:4)• God’s redeeming love (Jonah 2:6b)• God’s refining love (Jonah 4:9)

God’s Love is Relentless – Jonah 1

Ark of the Covenant

“If you work long and hard in the cause of Christ, there may be times when you feel that God cares

about what you are doing more than He cares about you. It isn’t so. If God cared only about getting His work done, He would have ditched Jonah and sent someone else to Nineveh. If the work was all that

mattered, God could have abandoned Jonah in the self-indulgent resentment that gripped him after the

people of Nineveh had repented. But God cared about Jonah, and God cares about

you more than you can imagine.” – Colin Smith

God’s Presence Transforms our Affections

• God is Omnipresent• Psalm 139:7• Jeremiah 23:23-24

• God is Worthy and Faithful• Psalm 37:4• Philippians 1:6

“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are

being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the

Lord, who is the Spirit”

– 2 Corinthians 3:18