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Show HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW GOD? "He prayed to the Lord, "0 Lord, is this what I said when I was still at home? not That is why I was so quick to flee to Tars his h. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from 2) Jonah sending calamity. never told us " (Jonah 4: before but here in Scriptural text of chapter 4 verse 2, he tells us why he was so reluctant to go this to Nineveh. He did not want the Ninevites to be forgiven. He wanted them to be destroyed. He did not want God's mercy but God's justice. He did not want God's compassion but God's anger. He did not want the people saved 1 pieces and wiped out. He did not want leniency and forbearance but what they deserved and were entitled to. You might say he was cold-hearted, forgiven himself but not forgiving, helped but not helpful, out of the dumps but trying to keep others there. For but broken into Jonah knew that God cared and that He would do people. anything to save a perishing How well do you know God? When I hear people talking about my best friend, I know my friend well enough to say that what they say is either true or false. I friend would can honestly say, my would not act that way. Jonah knew God so well that before God or acted, Jonah knew what God would do. While he was still in his comfort zone at home, Jonah knew what God 2 during the of trial, temptation, and judgment. would do in another land times In fact, Jonah tells us that he knew God well that he determined to go in another direction away from the presence so of God. He did not want to be associated with the God that he knew. *Jonah knew that God was • gracious. The Woman adultery caught in the *Jonah knew that God compassionate. The man act of was born blind Gathering the children as hen gathers chickens-Matt 23: 17-18 *Jonah knew that God anger. Paul persecuting 3 was slow to the church *Jonah knew that God was abounding in love. artha,ary,Lazarus David loved Jonathan a woman more than -2 Samuel! :25-26 *Jonah knew that God would relent from sending evil. Relented from Noah and Nineveh 4 destroying all in |
