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*Spirit Lake Baptist Church*
*Sunday, February 1, 2009*
*Series: God’s Reluctant Messenger *
*Into the Sea #4*
*Jonah 1:10-17*
/ “But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea,” /(1:4)
In the last chapter we saw that God will bring storms into our lives.
The purpose of the storms is to get our attention.
We handle the storms in a variety of ways.
The best way however is to do some introspection and discover why we are in a storm in the first place.
As we come to our text before us we are going to discover that God will often allow His wayward servants to be tossed into the sea; into the midst of the storm (1:10-16).
It may take something as shocking as being tossed overboard into a raging sea to wake up his saints who have gone AWALL.
What would it be like to be tossed into the sea?
Perhaps it would be your worst nightmare.
Not a very pleasant thought.
I personally like water, but if I have any fears it is being surrounded by large bodies of water.
I just don’t feel comfortable surrounded by lots of water – water, water everywhere!!!
I like my feet on solid ground.
Jonah is going to be tossed overboard.
Let’s see how this is played out in his life?
* 1.
Our disobedience will affect others – v. 10*
/10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this?
For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them./
Jonah had just told these Mariners that he was a Hebrew, and that he feared the LORD (v.
9).
Now we read that these men of the sea became exceedingly afraid.
This means that they were “fear struck”.
Remember from our last study that I mentioned the difference between:
* “afraid” – v. 5
* “exceedingly afraid” – v. 10
In verse 5, they made noise, and fear was written in their faces.
In verse 10, they made a lot of noise, and fear was written over their entire being.
These men asked Jonah, “/Why hast thou done this?” /They knew that he had disobeyed his God.
Jonah had come clean.
He had told them his story.
He probably provided them the Reader’s Digest Condensed version.
Jonah had shared with them God’s calling and commissioning him to go to Nineveh, and how he decided to go in the opposite direction – to get away from God’s presence.
It wouldn’t take long to give the mariners the message of verses 1-3.
*History Lesson - Sin in the Camp*
Did Jonah recognize that his disobedience would affect others?
I can only assume that as a prophet he knew the history of Israel, and that he was acquainted with the biblical narrative of Achan.
For those of you who may not be familiar with this account it is found in Joshua 7.
After the fall of Jericho a man by the name of Achan took some items that God had expressly forbid, and he hid them in his tent.
When Israel went to battle with the city of Ai they were defeated.
Joshua went to prayer, and while in prayer God revealed to him that there was sin in the camp.
One man’s sin affected all of Israel.
Joshua called Israel together and it was determined that Achan was the guilty individual to have brought defeat upon Israel.
Achan and all that he had were put to death and destroyed.
Afterwards God turned from the fierceness of His anger.
*Present Day Example – Sin in the Camp*
New Life Church in Denver, Colorado has been in the new again.
You have probably heard that it’s founding Pastor, Ted Haggard was fired after it was discovered that he had hired a male prostitute.
Ted Haggard started New Life in his home, and it grew to a church of 10,000.
He also served as President of the National Evangelical Association.
Well, New Life is in the news again because evidently a young man stepped forward saying that he had sexual relations with Ted Haggard when he served as an intern in the church.
When this was brought to the attention of the new pastor and elders they said they didn’t want to bring additional pain upon the congregation, nor have to expose all the details Ted Haggard’s sin.
It was decided that the best way to handle the situation was to pay for the young man to receive some counseling, and to pay his college tuition.
All parties agreed not to talk about the issue to the media.
Needless to say you can’t hide this sort of thing, and it has recently come to light, and the young intern was going to go on local radio programs to expose Ted Haggard.
His words was, “Ted Haggard is appearing on national programs making it appear that he is a victim, and I’m not going to let him do that.”
Sin doesn’t just affect our own personal life, but it affects those nearest to us.
Jonah wasn’t the only one affected by his sinful decision of disobedience.
It affected everyone he came in contact with.
In this case the mariners.
One man wrote, “If we are guilty of bringing others into trouble by our lack of faithfulness to God, don’t let us add sin to sin by denying it.[1]
Charles Spurgeon said that God never allows His children to sin successfully – Jonah is proof of that truth.
And the Bible tells us in Hebrew 12:6,
/ “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”/
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The storm is proof of God’s love for us.
Will we see it in that light?
I hope that we will.
It will make all the difference.
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Others will come to us to make things right – v. 11*
/ 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous./
Since Jonah was the reason for the mess they were in, then perhaps he would also have the answer to make things right.
These “/exceedingly fearful/” mariners asked Jonah what they needed to do to him in order to have the sea calm down for them (v.
11).
That is a legitimate question.
Hey, Jonah, you brought the storm into our lives, what do we need to do to you in order to get rid of it?
The KJV tells us the following about the storm, /“for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.”
/The storm was growing worse by the minute.
/ /
/ /These mariners want immediate answers.
They see the churning of the waves.
There is no time to diddle-dattle around.
No moss was going to grow under their feet.
Action was required immediately.
There was no time to waste.
* 3.
What we tell people isn’t always the results we really want – v. 12*
/ 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you./
Let us remember that Jonah is a prophet.
Jonah tells the mariners to pick him up (hope he’s a light weight), and to toss him into the sea.
Jonah was willing to become the sacrifice.
He tells these men of the sea that when they throw him into the sea, that the sea will become calm for them.
You can almost hear Jonah under his breath saying,
“/For I know that this great tempest is because of me/.” (v.
12)
I don’t really believe that Jonah wanted to be tossed into the sea.
Had he wanted to be in the sea he could have swam to Tarshish, but we read that he paid a fare and boarded a ship.
Jonah wanted to float above the water.
However, Jonah was aware that he was the guilty individual that had brought this storm upon everyone, and that to end the storm meant to get him off the ship.
Remove the troubler, and the trouble will stop.
So, Jonah tells them to toss him into the sea.
* 4.
People will often try to save our neck by refusing to take the right steps – v. 13*
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