Jonah 3:1-6 – Nineveh and Jonah – Part 2
With a sense of conviction arising because of the grace of God in his life, Jonah goes into the city, and heralds and proclaims the message God has given him, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” It’s breathtaking in its simplicity and clarity, assuming that was all he declared, but there is no reason to think it’s not. If he did expand on the messages by citing reasons and arguments, it’s clear that if he did so, he didn’t obscure the message. Its simplicity and directness left no one in any doubt as to what was meant.
Simplicity and clarity are the marks of faithful Biblical preaching, and they come from two things. First, a Christ-given authority to the preacher, the ‘sent one’, and second, an unshakeable conviction on the preacher’s part that what he is heralding as the ambassador of Christ is the truth of God to man. Such gospel preaching bears eternal fruit.
Question
- What did Jonah do when he went into Nineveh?
Prayer Points
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