A Second Chance GodPart II

Jonah 3:1-10

BoiceWe are told that the people “believed God.” Faith should never rest in the messenger, but in God who gives the message. This is one mark of all true revival and true preaching.

William BanksWe are moved to speak of Jonah’s God as the God of the Second Chance. But honest sober reflection compels the saint to speak of Him as the God of the 999th chance! Such gracious mercy as was extended to Jonah here, and to David, and to the thief dying upon the cross, and to Peter—surely it has been granted to all believers through the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

A Second Chance God Part II

I. The King’s Repentance

II. The King’s Decree

III. The Lord’s Repentance

A Second Chance God Part II

I. The King’s Repentance

CalvinThe honor due to God alone is profaned as soon as men ascribe the smallest portion whatsoever of it to the creature.

A Second Chance God Part II

I. The King’s Repentance

II. The King’s Decree

Jonah 1:2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.

SimeonThey were not content with formal unmeaning acknowledgments. They bewailed their guilt; they saw how deeply they had merited the Divine displeasure; and they strove by earnest supplications to ward off from themselves the judgments which the avenging Deity was about to inflict upon them.

Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.

Horatius BonarI hear the words of love,I gaze upon the blood,

I see the mighty sacrifice,And I have peace with God.

A Second Chance God Part II

I. The King’s Repentance

II. The King’s Decree

III. The Lord’s Repentance

Jeremiah 18:7-8If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

Numbers 23:19God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

2 Peter 3:9The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Matthew 28:19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…