Obedience Brings Blessings | Jonah 4 | Pr Jacob Koshy | Tamil Christian Message
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2022
- Lessons from the Belly of a Fish.”
As we look through Jonah chapter two, we are going to see six easy lessons we can use when we are in the belly of the fish. And you might be thinking right about now, “When I’m in the belly of the fish? Well, it looks like this one isn’t going to apply to me!” Well, maybe it does. What we’re going to be talking about this morning is what to do when it seems like everything has gone wrong in life. When it seems like your life has gone from the best of the best to the worst of the worst. Is there anyone here this morning that’s ever been in the belly of the fish? I know I have multiple times in my life. Thankfully, the Bible speaks to those kinds of situations in our lives. If you remember, Jonah was one of the most popular prophets in Israel’s history. He was well respected, and people listened to what he had to say. And yet today, we find him cruising through the ocean, inside a dark, smelly, nauseating environment. Jonah knew what it was like to have the best of life, and now he is experiencing the worst in life. Let’s see what lessons we can learn from this runaway prophet.
God hears your cry, no matter where you are
Look at what verses one and two say about Jonah’s prayer. “Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, and said, ‘I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and He heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.” In case you didn’t notice, this entire chapter is a recording of Jonah’s prayer from inside the fish. The first lesson that Jonah learned about what to do in the belly of the fish was to pray to God. Verse two paints a grim picture of how bad Jonah’s situation was. In verse two, Jonah says that he was in the “belly of hell.” And something we have to remember about Jonah is that he thought that he could get away from God as long as he left Israel. And yet now, Jonah has learned that even in the midst of the belly of hell he can cry out to God, and God would hear his voice. I hope that’s something that you all realize from the depths of your being. No matter what is going on in your life, you can take it to God in prayer, and He promises that He will hear and answer your prayer. Now, you may not always like the answer, but He will always answer your prayers. So the first lesson from the belly of the fish is to pray, pray, pray! And I don’t know about you, but in my life, this is one of those principles that looks really good on paper, but I always seem to forget whenever the rubber meets the road. I know the value of the prayer, but whenever things start to get tough, I often try to handle it myself, and fail to seek God’s assistance. Now, I eventually come to my senses, but how much additional pain did I have to go through because I failed to bring it before God’s throne? Although, in Jonah’s position, it didn’t take a whole lot of wisdom to know that there was absolutely nothing he could do on his own. Jonah had nowhere to look, except to God.
And before we go on to the second lesson, I want to briefly deal with a couple of practical questions about Jonah and his giant sea creature. The first question is, “Was Jonah swallowed by a whale or by a fish?” I mean, probably all of our Bibles say fish, but the popular idea is that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Why is that? Well, in the Hebrew language, there is only one word for both big fish and whales. Back then, they weren’t yet familiar with modern taxonomy, so they didn’t realize that whales weren’t fish. So they just had one word for all of those big things that swam out in the ocean. So really, we don’t know for sure if it was a whale or a fish. Just in case you’re interested, there are two main suspects for what type of animal may have swallowed Jonah. One is the sulphur-bottom whale, and the other is the whale shark. The sulphur-bottom whale can measure almost 100 feet in length, and the whale shark is about 60 feet in length. So of the two main suspects, one is a whale, and the other is a fish!
But this raises the bigger question, “Is it possible to stay alive in a fish?” This is an argument that has been leveled against Christians for centuries. Skeptics are very quick to say, “No one could possibly live inside of a whale for three whole days.” And frankly, we are partially to blame for this dilemma. I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, and I heard the story of Jonah, I was under the impression that Jonah had his own little Ramada Inn inside that fish. I can just imagine Jonah sitting at a little dinner table inside there, and maybe he stumbles across an oil lamp that the fish had swallowed. And oh, what’s this? It’s a copy of today’s newspaper! And really, we have to get all of that out of our heads. When Jonah was in that fish, it would have been an absolutely miserable experience. I’ve been told that whales’ stomachs can have up to five or six compartments - บันเทิง
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