God Saves the Running Prophet

if we've not been in Jeremiah for a while. So, Jeremiah, and then we're going to go into the minor prophets. Back in Zephaniah. These are in the minor prophets. These are minor prophets. Oh, too far, too far. I'm in Malachi. Come on, Brian. I'm a major prophet. Daniel's a major prophet. Oh, come on now. Micah. Micah and Jonah are by each other. There we go. Jonah, Micah. There we go. Jonah, chapter 2.
All right. So, Jonah, what's happened yesterday in Jonah, chapter 1, is he was thrown into the sea and immediately became calm. So now we're at Jonah chapter 1 verse 17, so right up here, and we'll read through chapter 2. So let's have some coffee, we'll pray.
Well, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. We're going to read Jonah chapter 2 and find out about what happens to Jonah once he's thrown off the ship. So let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's Word. It's hot. It's warm. Alright, that's good. Don't do that. Don't do that. Do you get a sip of coffee? Not drink all my coffee. All right. Let's pray.
God, thank You so much for this day. Thank You for Your Word. Thank You for tying them together. Thank You for the blessing that we have of getting to read Your Word. And we pray that Your Spirit would work in our hearts, that we would read it, understand it, and that we would live it. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
Living is the hard part. Well, believing is the impossible part. Only God can make us do that. Living it... It's really hard. Yeah, it's really hard. Winning God's help with that, too.
All right, you want to read verse 17? Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly.
So what happened to Jonah? Swallowed by a giant fishy. A whale? No, not a whale. We don't, it just says a fish. A mega fish. Alright. So it could be like a whale as big as a whale. Or something else. Fish as big as a whale. Or a whale as big as a fish.
Alright, well here's what Jonah said, I cried out to the Lord because of my afflictions, and He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me. All your billows and waves passed over me. Then I said, I have been cast out of your sight, yet I will look again toward your holy temple. The water surrounded me, even to my soul. The deep closed around me. Weeds were wrapped around my head. I went down to the moorings of the mountains. The earth, with its bars, closed behind me forever. Yet you have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God."
Oh boy. How can he breathe? That's a good question you think there may be there's oxygen in the in the belly of the whales or the big fish or something Maybe just filled with water. Maybe maybe not No, I mean well blue whales have big things that they suck up a lot. Yeah, I don't know Maybe just with a bunch of parasites. Yeah, I don't know you want to read verse 7?
When my soul fainted with me. I remembered the Lord and my prayer went up to you into the Holy Temple. Into your Holy Temple. Yeah. Those who regard worthless idols forsake their mercy, but I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
So Jehovah spoke to the fish and it Vomited just like Jonah. Oh, yeah this morning or Judah vomited that was yeah, it was a big that was a big boy Pete up to How much it would be I don't know and it vomited Jonah on to dry land all right, so So what's what's going on in this section? What's it about?
Yeah, I'm not paying a god to live awesome I Okay, praying that God delivers him. Okay. And it happens.
Yeah. Well, it's interesting. Like, this is a giant prayer song type thing. And he's crying out to the Lord. I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction. And he answered me. The question is that some people have asked, like, Is he saying this after he's already been vomited up or before he's been vomited up? Is this something he wrote later or is this something he was writing when he was in the belly of the fish?
Mmm. Yeah, so mostly, yeah. Well, it could be him remembering what he said, like writing it later, but remembered what he said. Because then he says that God's heard his voice, right? And he's saying that, like, he was good as dead or dead. Sheol is like the place of the dead. But he was almost covered in water. Yeah, covered in water, down to the roots of the mountains, head covered in seaweed. And I don't know how he breathed. It's quite a wonder. I know, it's a thing that you're wondering. No matter what, it's a miracle.
I would love to be able to breathe forever and just go underwater and swim. I could just arm wrestle a shark. Yeah, arm wrestle a shark. The point being, buddy, is no matter what, this is a miracle, right? God throws him into the ocean. He has the sailors throw him into the ocean, and it's a miracle. Everything gets calm right away. God calls a great fish, and it comes, and it swallows him up. How it keeps him alive, I don't know. He's as good as dead. Some people think he actually did die in there. But then when he was vomited back up, somehow he came back to life. It must have been some miracle of vomit. Some miracle of vomit.
So they say like when it says, so the Lord spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land. Like all of a sudden he revived. The vomit might have been kind of a miracle-ish. Vomit was a miracle. I think all of this is miraculous. It was a miracle vomit.
So what would you say this section is about? Yeah, put it in your own words. Miracle of the Vomit. The Miracle of the Vomit. I would say Jonah's psalm song when he stopped running from God. Because remember he had gone down to the ship of Tarsus. He went to Joplin. He tried to get as far away from Jerusalem as he could. And now he's going back to the Lord. Well, he's in the depths of the ocean, but he can still breathe. I don't know how. Yeah, I know. I wish I could, too. It'd be sad. Just go under the pool and get all the... Yeah.
Well, the point being, what do you think is the best verse to summarize this section? If you could underline one verse in your Bible there, what verse would you underline? I think of one. Oh, verse 10? Okay. Yeah. I think for me, I would probably say verse 6 or 7 would be what I would say.
But let's go ahead and talk about sea calling. So what's this call us to do? And where does this point us to Jesus Christ? I think it points us to Jesus Christ because He saved Jonah, even though Jonah disobeyed Him. Oh, okay. So God saves even a sinner prophet like Jonah. Yeah. Do you want to know what Jesus says about Jonah? What? He says, no sign will be given you except for the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days, so also the son of man will be in the, he'll be buried in three days and come back to life. Then Jonah might've been dead. That's what some people say. Like maybe, maybe he actually was dead. But point being, right, Jonah is a picture, a type of what's going to show us Christ. Maybe. I'm still thinking of the physics. He would have probably gotten crushed from the pressure of the water. That's a definition of a miracle. The pressure from the water should have crushed him. It's like five bosses stacking on top of it.
Yeah. Well, let me ask you the question. How does he come back to life after getting vomited out by the fish? Miracle vomit, like it is. Miracle vomit. How did Jesus come back to life after three days? I don't know. Maybe... No miracle vomit there. It's the miracle nails. Well, the nails are gone. Maybe it's... Miracle feet. Maybe it's the miracle God.
So, hey, you ready to pray? Yeah. Okay. Father, thank you so much for this day. Thank you for your time to spend with each other. Thank you that you are a miraculous God. You are not bound to the laws of nature, because you created the heavens and the earth. You created that great fish that swallowed up Jonah, and you are the one who created us. and You're able to bring us both to death, bury us and go to Sheol, but You also are the one who can bring us to life. Lord, we thank You that this is a picture for us, that the resurrection is our true hope, and that You indeed are gracious even to sinners like Jonah and us. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Maybe the fishies want to eat. You want to say goodbye? Bye. Bye.