We love stories don't we? I wonder if one of the reason the Olympics Opening Ceremony was better received than the Closing was that it told a story. We like stories because we're caught up in one, and despite post modern attempts to deconstruct it, we need to be involved in one.
Stories, as any five year old can tell you, need a beginning, middle and end. The Bible's full of stories will endings, but some of them stop, well, they just stop. What do we do at the end of Jonah, with the shorter ending of Mark or the way Luke stops telling us about Acts? I think those books finish in that way to turn the attention to the reader and make us think about our response.
Jonah
Jonah tells the story of a disobedient prophet who enjoys and shares the grace of God despite his best efforts. In chapter 4, just after Nineveh has repented and God has turned His anger away Jonah sets up on a hill to watch the action. He makes a booth out of a plant the shade him, but God sends a worm to kill the plant. Jonah stamps his foot and gets upset about the loss of the plant, and God looks at him and asks whether or not He should pity Nineveh. We never get an answer from Jonah, we're supposed to work it out for ourselves. What do we do with God's challenge to Jonah? Do we care about the lost or not?
Mark
If we take the shorter ending of Mark as the end of the original text, then it ends with the women at the tomb being terrified because they had been told Jesus was risen. Douglas Moo offers a couple of a couple of alternatives, maybe the last page of Mark was torn off and lost, or that Mark died before writing the end, or this was where he meant to finish. Why? To turn around and look at us. Mark wants us to consider who Jesus is, and this is the final part of his evidence.
Acts
The way Luke finishes Acts is sort of out of character with the rest of his work. His Gospel and his history are so well organized that i can't believe he'd end it like that. So what happened? Maybe he died, maybe his plan was to write another installment later, or maybe he meant to turn the spotlight on us. The Gospel had reached Rome. It had gone from Jerusalem, through Judea and Samaria to the ends of the earth. Are we going to join in? Jesus had led Paul to Rome, the Gospel was at the heart of the world, now what about you, reader? Will you take part in Paul's mission, in Jesus' mission to spread the Gospel around the world?
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Jesus is Better Than Jonah
Typology is one of the ways we behold the glory of the Gospel of Christ in all of the Scriptures. The Old Testament is full of 'types' of Christ and His work. Most notably King David and the Exodus. Jesus Himself tells us that we can learn about Him from Jonah. He tells the people challenging Him for a sign that no sign will be given except the sign of Jonah. He warned His listeners that the men of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now someone better than Jonah is here.
So is Jonah a 'type' of Christ? Sort of. Jonah might be better understood as an 'anti-type,' and it's against his dark backdrop that Christ shines all the brighter. If Jesus is the sweetest, brightest character in Scripture, and obviously, He is, then Jonah is certainly the opposite of that.
Jonah comes across as an inveterate racist. He hides his faith from the pagan sailors and stamps his foot when Nineveh is saved. Jesus comes to bring the gentiles in. In Christ there is no race or creed or colour.
Jonah refused to go to Nineveh. God called him east and he tried to run west. He is determined that Israel will keep the blessing of knowing the living God to themselves. Jesus comes to give life to any who will have Him.
Jonah disobeyed, and complained and pouted. Jesus brings us the heart of His Father. Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God, the exact imprint of His nature. Jonah couldn't have been further from the Father's outgoing heartbeat, Jesus is that heartbeat.
Jonah is more concerned about his plant than about those who don't know God. Jesus is so concerned that He, the Son of God, was born in a stable to bring them in.
Jonah was angry enough to die because things didn't go his way. Jesus did die, laying down His life for the glory of God, and the benefit of His people.
Jesus is better than Jonah, thank God!
So is Jonah a 'type' of Christ? Sort of. Jonah might be better understood as an 'anti-type,' and it's against his dark backdrop that Christ shines all the brighter. If Jesus is the sweetest, brightest character in Scripture, and obviously, He is, then Jonah is certainly the opposite of that.
Jonah comes across as an inveterate racist. He hides his faith from the pagan sailors and stamps his foot when Nineveh is saved. Jesus comes to bring the gentiles in. In Christ there is no race or creed or colour.
Jonah refused to go to Nineveh. God called him east and he tried to run west. He is determined that Israel will keep the blessing of knowing the living God to themselves. Jesus comes to give life to any who will have Him.
Jonah disobeyed, and complained and pouted. Jesus brings us the heart of His Father. Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God, the exact imprint of His nature. Jonah couldn't have been further from the Father's outgoing heartbeat, Jesus is that heartbeat.
Jonah is more concerned about his plant than about those who don't know God. Jesus is so concerned that He, the Son of God, was born in a stable to bring them in.
Jonah was angry enough to die because things didn't go his way. Jesus did die, laying down His life for the glory of God, and the benefit of His people.
Jesus is better than Jonah, thank God!
Monday, 13 August 2012
Jonah 4
We’ve seen that when we run, God chases, when we pray, God answers, when we repent, God forgives, in chapter 4 we see what God does when we sulk. When God does something that we don’t understand, or that we don’t like, how does God respond to us?
Chapter 4 breaks up into two parts. We find Jonah’s angry prayer in v1-4, and God’s lesson to Jonah in v5-11. Verses 5-11 are the climax of the whole book. Everything else in Jonah happens twice. He is sent in ch1 and ch3, he sees pagans come to know God at the end of ch1 and the end of ch3, and he prays in ch2 and ch4. But the end of the book is the only time that God challenges Jonah about his attitude.
Let’s look at Jonah’s prayer:
V1. He’s angry that God has saved the people of Nineveh. If you don’t understand this point of view, that’s a good thing! Jonah is an anti-example.
V2-3. Like he’s telling the Lord, ‘I told you so!’ This is why I ran the other way, I knew you were gracious, and I knew they’d repent. Jonah is so angry with the Lord for saving the Ninivites that he’d rather be dead than see them worship the Lord.
V4. God has a gracious but challenging answer…’do you do well to be angry?’ Is it a good thing to disagree with the Lord? Is it good that you think you know better than me, the Lord asks. This is the essence of all sin isn’t it? Whether it’s racism and pride as here, or lust, or materialism or laziness or whatever. The root is thinking you know better than God.
In verses 5-11 God teaches Jonah a gracious, fatherly lesson.
V5-6. Jonah sits outside the city to see what will become of it. It’s hot in the desert, so the Lord appoints a plant to come over him and give him some shade. Jonah was in discomfort because of the heat of the sun, the same sort of discomfort he was in when God showed mercy to Nineveh. He was comforted by the plant that gave him shade.
V7-8. Again, Jonah does not come off well here, something that adds to the authenticity of the book. God sends a worm, it destroys the plant, Jonah gets too hot and wants to die! Wants to die! He’s so angry again.
V9-11. Here’s the lesson for Jonah. He pities the plant. Shouldn’t God pity Nineveh. Jonah didn’t make the plant, but God made Nineveh. The plant ‘came into being in a night and perished in a night,’ but there are more than 120,00 people in Nineveh. Shouldn’t God feel compassion on them, if you feel compassion on a plant?
We never learn Jonah’s answer. It’s like he turns round and looks at us. What about us? Where do our sympathies lie? With the unsaved, or with our own comforts? Are our priorities God’s priorities? What does God do when we sulk? He lovingly, but firmly challenges our priorities.
Let’s look at Jonah’s prayer:
V1. He’s angry that God has saved the people of Nineveh. If you don’t understand this point of view, that’s a good thing! Jonah is an anti-example.
V2-3. Like he’s telling the Lord, ‘I told you so!’ This is why I ran the other way, I knew you were gracious, and I knew they’d repent. Jonah is so angry with the Lord for saving the Ninivites that he’d rather be dead than see them worship the Lord.
V4. God has a gracious but challenging answer…’do you do well to be angry?’ Is it a good thing to disagree with the Lord? Is it good that you think you know better than me, the Lord asks. This is the essence of all sin isn’t it? Whether it’s racism and pride as here, or lust, or materialism or laziness or whatever. The root is thinking you know better than God.
In verses 5-11 God teaches Jonah a gracious, fatherly lesson.
V5-6. Jonah sits outside the city to see what will become of it. It’s hot in the desert, so the Lord appoints a plant to come over him and give him some shade. Jonah was in discomfort because of the heat of the sun, the same sort of discomfort he was in when God showed mercy to Nineveh. He was comforted by the plant that gave him shade.
V7-8. Again, Jonah does not come off well here, something that adds to the authenticity of the book. God sends a worm, it destroys the plant, Jonah gets too hot and wants to die! Wants to die! He’s so angry again.
V9-11. Here’s the lesson for Jonah. He pities the plant. Shouldn’t God pity Nineveh. Jonah didn’t make the plant, but God made Nineveh. The plant ‘came into being in a night and perished in a night,’ but there are more than 120,00 people in Nineveh. Shouldn’t God feel compassion on them, if you feel compassion on a plant?
We never learn Jonah’s answer. It’s like he turns round and looks at us. What about us? Where do our sympathies lie? With the unsaved, or with our own comforts? Are our priorities God’s priorities? What does God do when we sulk? He lovingly, but firmly challenges our priorities.
Monday, 6 August 2012
Jonah 3
We've already seen in the first two chapters that the book of Jonah is about so much more than a man and a big fish. We've seen God chase Jonah as he ran away in chapter one, we've seen God answer when Jonah prays in chapter two, now we're about to see what happens when we repent.
Jonah is recommissioned in v1-2. Jonah is called again and is sent again to Nineveh, this time he goes. God tells him that Ninevah is a ‘great city,’ suggesting that He cares for it. The message looked like judgement in ch1, now it looks like grace. We see that God cares about Nineveh.
Verses 3-4 are the only lines of actually prophecy in this prophetic book. 40 days and the city will be destroyed. Jonah walked around for three days preaching. What would you do with a message like this? If you heard the call to repent, what would you do? How would you respond to being told that in a certain amount of time judgement, disaster, overthrow, was coming?
Nineveh repents in v5-9. They believe God and they repent. The message reaches the king, and he orders his people to put on the official clothes of mourning and repentance, and they wait, and they hope. Who knows? They say, maybe God will relent/ Jonah knew about God’s mercy, but didn’t repent quickly, Israel knew, but barely repented at all, Nineveh didn’t know, but repented. What do we know of God that helps us repent?
God relents in v10. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster… Isn’t that a beautiful verse. God relented when the people repented. Jonah had won a whole city to the Lord with just one recorded verse of preaching. Nineveh repented, and God relented. The city turned away from their idols and towards the living God of the Bible.
So what would you do in Nineveh’s position? Would you hear the crazy preacher man and repent? If you’re not saved, then you are in Nineveh’s position, and this crazy preacher man needs for you to come to Christ and be saved. What did Jesus preach? Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand. We need to hear Jesus just as the Ninevites needed to hear Jonah. We must hear, and we must repent. And when we do repent? God will relent. Jesus Christ is for all who will have Him. Turn from your sin, just like the Ninevites and have Christ instead.
As Jesus says in Luke 11:30 Jesus tells us that as Jonah was a sign to Nineveh, so will Jesus be to us. Jesus is a better sign than Jonah. Jonah was a miserable racist, Jesus shines from the pages of history with beauty and love. He calls us away from the things we love that would kill us to Himself, to ultimate satisfaction and fulfillment. He calls us away from judgement to life, He calls us away from death and away from sin. All of us are terminally curved in upon ourselves until Jesus calls us.
Jesus is better than Jonah, will we have Him today?
Jonah is recommissioned in v1-2. Jonah is called again and is sent again to Nineveh, this time he goes. God tells him that Ninevah is a ‘great city,’ suggesting that He cares for it. The message looked like judgement in ch1, now it looks like grace. We see that God cares about Nineveh.
Verses 3-4 are the only lines of actually prophecy in this prophetic book. 40 days and the city will be destroyed. Jonah walked around for three days preaching. What would you do with a message like this? If you heard the call to repent, what would you do? How would you respond to being told that in a certain amount of time judgement, disaster, overthrow, was coming?
Nineveh repents in v5-9. They believe God and they repent. The message reaches the king, and he orders his people to put on the official clothes of mourning and repentance, and they wait, and they hope. Who knows? They say, maybe God will relent/ Jonah knew about God’s mercy, but didn’t repent quickly, Israel knew, but barely repented at all, Nineveh didn’t know, but repented. What do we know of God that helps us repent?
God relents in v10. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster… Isn’t that a beautiful verse. God relented when the people repented. Jonah had won a whole city to the Lord with just one recorded verse of preaching. Nineveh repented, and God relented. The city turned away from their idols and towards the living God of the Bible.
So what would you do in Nineveh’s position? Would you hear the crazy preacher man and repent? If you’re not saved, then you are in Nineveh’s position, and this crazy preacher man needs for you to come to Christ and be saved. What did Jesus preach? Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand. We need to hear Jesus just as the Ninevites needed to hear Jonah. We must hear, and we must repent. And when we do repent? God will relent. Jesus Christ is for all who will have Him. Turn from your sin, just like the Ninevites and have Christ instead.
As Jesus says in Luke 11:30 Jesus tells us that as Jonah was a sign to Nineveh, so will Jesus be to us. Jesus is a better sign than Jonah. Jonah was a miserable racist, Jesus shines from the pages of history with beauty and love. He calls us away from the things we love that would kill us to Himself, to ultimate satisfaction and fulfillment. He calls us away from judgement to life, He calls us away from death and away from sin. All of us are terminally curved in upon ourselves until Jesus calls us.
Jesus is better than Jonah, will we have Him today?
Monday, 30 July 2012
The Sign of Jonah (Jonah 1:17-2:10)
Last time we saw how Jonah is about more than a man and a big fish. We see more of this idea when we read Matthew 12:40, as Jesus, in typical meek and mild style tells His listeners that evil and adulterous people look for a sign, no sign will be given them apart from the sign of Jonah. Jesus will be three days and nights in the earth, just as Jonah was three days and nights in the belly of the fish. What's the sign of Jonah? A man rising from the dead. This sign should be enough to rest our faith on.
So how does the rest of Jonah 2 point us towards the sign of Jonah?
When we pray, God hears.
Sometimes we can think that we need to be 'doing well,' with the Lord to pray effectively. Now, it's true that when we're mired in sin our prayers will lack the clarity and passion that they will otherwise, but does Christ ignore the prayers of the sinful heart? of course not! He'd have to ignore every prayer if He ignored any prayer. Christ's name is the signature on our crumpled dirty cheques. If He hears Jonah in the fish, he hears you and me, no matter how far we feel from Him. Why? Because of the sign of Jonah, because He died and rose for us, Our sins are dealt with, we can pray freely.
All things for good, even fish.
Jonah doesn't pray to be saved from the fish. He's praying because he's been saved by the fish! Romans 8:28 reminds us that God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. So? So, when Jonah get's swallowed by a fish, he still knows that God hasn't forsaken him. And no matter where you end up, God is working it together for good, and you will again look upon His holy temple. This has to be tyre iron that holds up the bruised reed of our faith. Our faith goes beyond our circumstances. Why? Because of the sign of Jonah. If God didn't hold back His Son, how will He not also graciously give us all things that we need? Can you see the logic? God did the hard thing, He gave us Christ. Jesus died and rose, and now that means good things, in all circumstances, forever.
Salvation belongs to the Lord.
In some ways Jonah is just like Israel. Called to be a canal, but decides to be a puddle. He doesn't want those people getting saved, so he's off to Tarshish. But he realises that salvation isn't his to dole out as he pleases, it belongs to the Lord. It takes him a while to work out all the implications of that, chapter 4 stops rather than finishes. It's almost like Jonah turns to us and says 'and how about you...?' Do we share our faith with the confidence that salvation is the Lord's not ours? Do we take risks for the risen Christ as we step out and witness? When we grasp that salvation belongs to the Lord, we become liberal sowers of the seed, flinging it left and right, knowing it will find good soil. Why? You guessed it, because of the sign of Jonah! Because Jesus died and rose again, carried sins to the watery depths, so we can share our faith in confidence, knowing the results are in the hands of the sovereign Lord.
So how does the rest of Jonah 2 point us towards the sign of Jonah?
When we pray, God hears.
Sometimes we can think that we need to be 'doing well,' with the Lord to pray effectively. Now, it's true that when we're mired in sin our prayers will lack the clarity and passion that they will otherwise, but does Christ ignore the prayers of the sinful heart? of course not! He'd have to ignore every prayer if He ignored any prayer. Christ's name is the signature on our crumpled dirty cheques. If He hears Jonah in the fish, he hears you and me, no matter how far we feel from Him. Why? Because of the sign of Jonah, because He died and rose for us, Our sins are dealt with, we can pray freely.
All things for good, even fish.
Jonah doesn't pray to be saved from the fish. He's praying because he's been saved by the fish! Romans 8:28 reminds us that God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. So? So, when Jonah get's swallowed by a fish, he still knows that God hasn't forsaken him. And no matter where you end up, God is working it together for good, and you will again look upon His holy temple. This has to be tyre iron that holds up the bruised reed of our faith. Our faith goes beyond our circumstances. Why? Because of the sign of Jonah. If God didn't hold back His Son, how will He not also graciously give us all things that we need? Can you see the logic? God did the hard thing, He gave us Christ. Jesus died and rose, and now that means good things, in all circumstances, forever.
Salvation belongs to the Lord.
In some ways Jonah is just like Israel. Called to be a canal, but decides to be a puddle. He doesn't want those people getting saved, so he's off to Tarshish. But he realises that salvation isn't his to dole out as he pleases, it belongs to the Lord. It takes him a while to work out all the implications of that, chapter 4 stops rather than finishes. It's almost like Jonah turns to us and says 'and how about you...?' Do we share our faith with the confidence that salvation is the Lord's not ours? Do we take risks for the risen Christ as we step out and witness? When we grasp that salvation belongs to the Lord, we become liberal sowers of the seed, flinging it left and right, knowing it will find good soil. Why? You guessed it, because of the sign of Jonah! Because Jesus died and rose again, carried sins to the watery depths, so we can share our faith in confidence, knowing the results are in the hands of the sovereign Lord.
Friday, 27 July 2012
Cool Things Happen On The Third Day
Jonah was three days and nights in the belly of the great fish, on the third day he was vomited out. Cool things happen on the third day...
Abraham took the son of the promise up the mountain on the third day, and he was ransomed for a sacrifice that God provided.
Genesis 22:3-5 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and
took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for
the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes
and saw the place from afar.5 Then
Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy[a] will go
over there and worship and come again to you.”
As they walked through the wilderness, it was on the third day that the LORD met Moses and gave Him the law. On the third day in the wilderness the story of revelation continued.
Exodus
19:1-3 On the
third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of
Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They
set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they
encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the
mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall
say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel
After being chased through the wilderness and fighting a war, on the third day, God's anointed King, David, was crowned King, with the news that Saul was dead.
2
Samuel 1:1-3 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from
striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. 2 And on
the third day, behold, a man
came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came
to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.3 David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to
him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”
On the third day, showing her total faith in God, Esther went before the King to represent her people. She was the only one who could have an audience with the King, and it might've cost her her life.
Esther 5:1-3 On the third day
Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the
inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the
king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the
entrance to the palace. 2 And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won
favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his
hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. 3 And the
king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be
given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”
On the third day, God's people will be revived, they will return, they will be raised up.
Hosea
6:1-3 Come, let us return
to the Lord;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will
bind us up.2 After two days he will
revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his
going out is sure as the dawn;he will come to us as the showers, as the
spring rains that water the earthTuesday, 17 July 2012
Jonah and the Storm
Jonah and the whale is a classic kids story isn't it? And it should be, it's got everything a good story needs. Drama, suspense, a shipwreck, and of course, a whale. But there's so much more in this book, and on Sunday we started looking at this book together in Teen Sunday School.
On the run from God
God called Jonah to go east. Jonah got on a boat and headed...west as quickly as he could. So far west in fact, that he was more or less on the edge of the known world. He was trying to 'flee from the presence of the Lord.' That sounds pretty hopeless doesn't it? Where can one go from the presence of the Lord? We want to say 'nowhere!' Jonah would have known that, so why did he go? We learn later that he simply didn't like the people he was called to preach to.
We may not get on a boat, but don't we want to get away from the presence of the Lord sometimes? There are words, thoughts and actions we simply don't want the Lord to know about. Hopeless of course, because He knows and sees everything. So how did the Lord react? Graciously, as always. What happens on the boat? There is a tremendous, terrifying storm, which Jonah deals with (more of that in a minute) which leads to the men on the boat making vows and making sacrifices to the Lord. Even on the run, the Lord is using Jonah, even on the run, the Lord is gracious. Jonah had to learn, as we have to learn, that salvation belongs to the Lord. Get on board and enjoy the victory!
Man asleep in boat calms storm
There's a huge storm, terrified experienced sailors, and a man asleep in the boat as it takes on water. What does that remind you of? Jesus told us that no sign would be given to the sign seekers except the sign of Jonah. Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days, just as the Lord was in the ground for three days. But, there's a sign of Jonah here too isn't there? Jesus calmed the storm with a word. Jonah calms with with an idea. Throw me over, sacrifice me, i'll face the storm so you don't have to. I'll face the storm so you don't have to? Isn't that what Jesus did.
Jesus is safe, and we are suffered the effects on our sin. Jesus saves us by getting out of the boat, and conquering the storm of our sin. He faces it head on, pays the price with His blood, with His life. Our response on knowing this has to be that of the sailors doesn't it? Thanksgiving and sacrifice, our hearts being turned to the God of Jonah, the God of Jesus, the God who calmed and conquered the storm...
On the run from God
God called Jonah to go east. Jonah got on a boat and headed...west as quickly as he could. So far west in fact, that he was more or less on the edge of the known world. He was trying to 'flee from the presence of the Lord.' That sounds pretty hopeless doesn't it? Where can one go from the presence of the Lord? We want to say 'nowhere!' Jonah would have known that, so why did he go? We learn later that he simply didn't like the people he was called to preach to.
We may not get on a boat, but don't we want to get away from the presence of the Lord sometimes? There are words, thoughts and actions we simply don't want the Lord to know about. Hopeless of course, because He knows and sees everything. So how did the Lord react? Graciously, as always. What happens on the boat? There is a tremendous, terrifying storm, which Jonah deals with (more of that in a minute) which leads to the men on the boat making vows and making sacrifices to the Lord. Even on the run, the Lord is using Jonah, even on the run, the Lord is gracious. Jonah had to learn, as we have to learn, that salvation belongs to the Lord. Get on board and enjoy the victory!
Man asleep in boat calms storm
There's a huge storm, terrified experienced sailors, and a man asleep in the boat as it takes on water. What does that remind you of? Jesus told us that no sign would be given to the sign seekers except the sign of Jonah. Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days, just as the Lord was in the ground for three days. But, there's a sign of Jonah here too isn't there? Jesus calmed the storm with a word. Jonah calms with with an idea. Throw me over, sacrifice me, i'll face the storm so you don't have to. I'll face the storm so you don't have to? Isn't that what Jesus did.
Jesus is safe, and we are suffered the effects on our sin. Jesus saves us by getting out of the boat, and conquering the storm of our sin. He faces it head on, pays the price with His blood, with His life. Our response on knowing this has to be that of the sailors doesn't it? Thanksgiving and sacrifice, our hearts being turned to the God of Jonah, the God of Jesus, the God who calmed and conquered the storm...
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