'GOBSMACKED!'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

by Rev. Canon George Sinclair                           

 Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
 www.messiahchurch.ca 

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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday,   

February 2^nd, 2020

http://accm.ncf.ca/images/20.02.02.mp3

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This week's broadcast is the sermon I gave at Church of the Messiah. 

The sermon was called "Gobsmacked!" 

 It is part of my series, "The Story of Jonah"

"Gobsmacked!"

  

Today’s Reading: Jonah 3  (ESV)

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, ² “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” ³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,^[a] three days' journey in breadth.^{[b] 4} Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” ⁵ And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

The People of Nineveh Repent

⁶ The word reached^[c] the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. ⁷ And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, ⁸ but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. ⁹ Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
¹⁰ When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Footnotes:

1. Jonah 3:3 Hebrew a great city to God
2. Jonah 3:3 Or a visit was a three days' journey
3. Jonah 3:6 Or had reached

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 NOTES:

No Other: The Story of Jonah
Gobsmacked!
Jonah 3

1. If the Lord cares for all of His creation with compassion then so will I.
   
2. Doing something that is wrong is not just wrong, it is also a calamity/catastrophe.
   
3. Because the Lord is God, there is no other god, hence there is no other, when it comes to people.
   
4. If my only hope in life and death is the Lord’s great compassion given to me in Jesus, then I will learn His way of compassion.
   

George Sinclair George is the Lead Pastor at Church of the Messiah.
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To listen to the above broadcast, click on the following link:

http://accm.ncf.ca/images/20.02.02.mp3