The key to understanding the Jonah code is getting what the Bible means when the Book of the Revelation says in 21:1, “…and the sea was no more.”
Here’s chapter 2 of Jonah and the second message in the series called, “The Jonah Code.”
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Jonah: from a marketer’s point of view, he did everything wrong; still, he enjoyed spectacular success, but he resented God for it.
Yet, Jesus said, if you want to understand me, look to him.
Welcome to the sermons that inspired me to write a book.
Talk about “besetting” sins. You would think Abraham would be over the, “pretend you’re my sister” routine with Sarah, but he isn’t. Genesis 20 reads like a re-run of Genesis 12:10-20.
So, why is this repeat performance in the Bible? Well, since it happened that’s a good reason to leave it in. But lots of things happened to Abraham that aren’t in the Bible. This is here for a reason. There is something to this re-run that repeats something we’re supposed to know.
I hope you enjoy this message as much as I enjoyed preparing and preaching it.
Blessings!
How much is a righteous man worth? What’s his market value?
That’s a crude way of putting it, but Genesis 18 does seem to treat the subject in that way.
In the haggle Abraham conducts with the Lord, the Lord states that ten righteous people are worth more to him than a city of sin. He promises that if only ten righteous people can be found in Sodom, a whole city will be spared.
Well, anyone who believes in imputation sees where this is pointing. The righteousness of Christ spares all who believe in him from the punishment for sin they rightly deserve.
That’s only one small treasure to be dug out of this field of scripture. I hope you find more. Enjoy.
God’s grace is bigger than we are. The confines of our lives — their span, their capacity — are too tight.
Grace has a way of spilling over the edges and going into the lives of other people.
This, of course, is a good thing. But we Americans have a hard time with it. We want everything reduced to the scale we can take into ourselves.
Genesis chapter 17 really shows how little of what God is doing has to do with us. But that’s not a bad thing — that is the best thing that could possibly be. As the old hymn says, God’s grace extends as far as the curse is found. And that can seem almost too good to be true.
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