Sunday Preview

Depiction of Jonah in a champlevéenamel (1181) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, Austria.

1 Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.” 3 This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. 4 On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed! 5 The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow. 

10 When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.
                                                                                    (Jonah 3:1-5, 10 NLT)


We continue to look at the traits of people God uses this week as we find ourselves in Jonah and discover that God uses people with a past...in Jonah's case a rather disobedient past!

While in this world your past may discredit you from certain types of service, God takes a radically different approach to people with a past.  We will see how God used Jonah even after he had done exactly the opposite of what God wanted for him.  Hope to see you at either 9:40 or 11:00 this Sunday at Andover.