Storm-saved

Follow Along with the Message

"You can run, but you can't hide."

An encounter with God and the unsurrendered part of me.

--STORM  "The Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm."--1:4

     Symbol of struggle, danger, adversity

     Angry God--Numbers 11, Mark 3

     "He will not leave them unpunished."--Exodus 34:7

     Discipline--"My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; for those the Lord loves He disciplines."--Hebrews 12:5-6

     Supernatural

     Natural/circumstantial--"He gave them over."--Romans 1

     "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap."--Galatians 6:7

--SORROW

     "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."--Hebrews 12:11

     "For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation."--2 Corinthians 7:10

     God continues to speak.  The sailors are good men.  God is sovereign.

--SURRENDER

     Then Jonah prayed--2:1

     And He answered me--2:2

     Insight comes--Holy Temple, sympathy for lost men, surrender, joy. 

     "Salvation is from the Lord."2:9  (Jonah's summary lesson)

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     If the Father had 1000 children, they (we) would all be somewhere on this continuum.