Call to worship:

11 Teach me your way, O Lord,
    that I may walk in your truth;
    unite my heart to fear your name.
12 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
    and I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
Psalm 86:11-13

Gathering Video

Questions for Reflection:

How sincere was Jonah’s repentance?

What aspects of the satirical literature of Jonah bear weight on our lives today?

What character traits of Jonah do we see reflected in ourselves, and how can we surrender those traits in sanctification?

Corporate Prayer:

Our Father in Heaven,

We are a people prone to run. Please forgive us for the ways in which we do not trust You. Show us the joy of walking in step with Your Son, and please grant us the strength of Your Spirit so we might persevere. May we always and ever delight in the perfection and mystery of Your glorious will.

In the name of Jesus,

Amen

Notes//Quotes//Slides:

Jonah 2 - Rezek

Title- Satire & Salvation

Slide 1

“Literature in general, and the narrative prose of the Hebrew Bible in particular cultivates certain profound and haunting enigmas, delights in leaving its audience guessing about motives and connections, and above all, loves to set ambiguities about word choice and image against one another in an endless interplay that resists neat resolution.”- Robert Alter

Slide 2

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Psalm 74:13–14

You divided the sea by your might;

you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters;

You crushed the heads of Leviathan;

you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Slide 3

“The great fish is a comic version of an ancient nightmare.”- Phillip Cary

Slide 4

Jonah 1:17, (NIV)

Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow (l’belah) Jonah

Jonah 2:10

And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited (v’yeqa) Jonah out upon the dry land.

Slide 5

Hosea 8:8–9

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel. For they have gone up to Assyria…

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.

Slide 6

Matthew 12:39–41

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.