Kramptiz June 11

My Hope for Thursday…

Please review the above if you want. But I’d like to pursue the following on Thursday.

Come ready to listen to each other, share our stories, and to quietly ponder what this has to do with each of us personally.

Ask yourself if you have a “Nineveh of obedience” — something God has called you to, but you are running from or refusing.
If you are in a storm, look for what God may be showing you — not just asking why it is happening, but what God may be exposing or shaping.
If you have come through a storm, thank God for the “fish” He sent — the provision, people, Scripture, conviction, or mercy that carried you through.
Have you/do you pay money to go in the opposite direction?
Discuss the parallels in Jesus life to the experience of Jonah. – 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb, Jesus asleep in the boat and the disciples waken him

Here are the scriptures quoted or clearly alluded to in the transcript:

Jonah 1 — Read aloud almost verbatim (the whole chapter 1 is read)
Jonah (sign of Jonah / three days in the belly) — alluded to as a foreshadowing of Jesus’ death and resurrection (referenced when connecting Jonah’s three days to Jesus)
Matthew 12:39–40 (allusion) — the preacher refers to “the sign of Jonah” (Jesus’ own reference to Jonah’s three days and nights) when linking Jonah to Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Romans 5:8 (allusion) — “while we were still sinners” / God reaches out in mercy (sermon cites the idea that God saves while we are still sinners).
Romans 10:9 (quoted/paraphrased) — “if we confess with our mouths and believe in our heart… we will be saved” (the altar prayer language is taken from this verse).
2 Kings 14:25 (allusion) — brief mention that Jonah is referred to in 2 Kings (background comment).
General Old Testament prophetic language — “the word of the Lord came to Jonah” (prophetic formula used throughout the OT; the sermon highlights that phrasing while reading Jonah 1)