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Jonah 3 begins in almost exactly the same way as Jonah 1. Jonah 3:1 is nearly identical to Jonah 1:1.
Jonah 3:1 reveals that God is a God of second chances. After Jonah’s blatant rebellion and shameful disobedience of chapter 1, and after Jonah’s self-righteous, unrepentant behavior in chapter 2, God still calls Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach to it the message that God to him.
Many people think the Gospels are stories only about Jesus. But there were Caesar Gospels in the Roman Empire about the Caesars. The four Gospel accounts of Jesus are patterned after the Caesar Gospels.
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As we have studied through Jonah’s prayer in Jonah 2, I have been fairly critical of Jonah and what he says. But what does God think of Jonah’s prayer?
This question is answered in Jonah 2:10. This verse contains God’s response to Jonah’s prayer, which is what we look at in this episode of the One Verse Podcast.
The gospel of peace leads us into a life of peace. The gospel is not just about how to receive eternal life, but also about how to live this life. Any time we use the gospel to produce anything but peace, we are misusing and abusing the gospel. So follow Jesus into peace, for if you are not following Him into peace, you are not following Jesus.
If I say “salvation is from the Lord,” what do you think of?
If you are like most Christians, you think of how God forgives your sins so you can receive eternal life and go to heaven when you die.
Well, the phrase “salvation is from the Lord” is found in Jonah 2:9, which are looking at in this podcast episode, and we will see that it means something quite different from what many Christians think it means.
