February 2nd, 2009
SERMON – “A Whale of Tale”
By Bryan
Bless thou, the words of my lips and the meditations of our hearts
that they be of profit to us and acceptable to thee, oh our rock and
our redeemer. Amen
Today I want to tell you a whale of a tale, it is about the prophet Jonah, and perhaps it too is about us.
Jonah was a man of faith, a man who loved his God and his people, yet Jonah got himself into a mess of trouble.
It all began when the word of God came to Jonah in a dream.
In this dream God told Jonah to leave Israel and to go to the great city of Ninevah and to preach against it because of its great wickedness.
God’s opinion of Ninevah did not come as a great surprise to Jonah, the evil of Ninevah was known throughout the world.
Ninevah was an ancient city, built in the dim recesses of time by Nimrod, the mighty warrior, and the violence of Nimrod seemed to have been stamped upon his city – it was a den of iniquity and the source of much suffering upon the face of the earth.
