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Sunday, October 30, 2022
Series: Relentless ~ The Book of Jonah
LIVE Message: GRACE BENEATH THE WAVES
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10 ESV
Podcast “Living The Message” Episode 42
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture Reading Psalm 116:1-9 ESV
Psalm 116 ESV and Audio
I Love the Lord
116 I love the Lord, because he has heard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
2 Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
3 The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
4 Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
our God is merciful.
6 The Lord preserves the simple;
when I was brought low, he saved me.
7 Return, O my soul, to your rest;
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
9 I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
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Sunday, October 30, 2022
Series: Relentless ~ The Book of Jonah
LIVE Message: GRACE BENEATH THE WAVES
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
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Message: GRACE BENEATH THE WAVES
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Series: Relentless ~ The Book of Jonah
Message: GRACE BENEATH THE WAVES
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture Reading: Jonah 2:1-10 ESV
Jonah 2 ESV and Audio
Jonah’s Prayer
2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,
“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
3 For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
SERMON NOTES
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Series: Relentless ~ The Book of Jonah
Message: GRACE BENEATH THE WAVES
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Alan Redpath (former Senior Pastor of The Moody Church from ‘53-‘62) famously said: “When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man and crushes him.”
Pastor Redpath understood that certain kinds of traits that tend to get you ahead in life, like driven-ness, strength of will, self-confidence, and ambition. But, these things are spiritual liabilities until they’ve been tempered, chastened, and humbled.
Just as coal must be crushed to become a diamond, and gold must be purified in the fire, there is a brokenness we must learn if we’re ever to be useful to God. And that’s exactly what’s happening to Jonah. God crushes Jonah to temper him so that he can be useful.
In this sermon, we join Jonah as he finally comes to the end of himself and the beginning of his usefulness in ministry. There are four significant moments for Jonah’s redemption from this passage:
Recognition
1) Recognition: Jonah perceives the Lord’s discipline and begins to realize that God loves him enough to stop him in his tracks and bring him to the end of himself.
Remembrance
2) Remembrance: Jonah remembers the Lord’s covenant. In the moment of Jonah’s greatest distress, when all hope seems lost, and he comes to the end of himself, it is God’s Word that comes to mind.
Repentance
3) Repentance: Jonah returns to the Lord’s steadfast love. He lays down his idols and returns to the hope of steadfast love.
Redemption
4) Redemption: Jonah glories in the Lord’s salvation. The only thing Jonah contributed to his salvation was his sin and rebellion and distress. Every ounce of his salvation belongs to the Lord and the Lord alone!
Takeaways:
- There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
- Salvation belongs to the Lord!
Benediction
Revelation 7:10b, 12 ESV
Revelation 7 ESV and Audio
A Great Multitude from Every Nation
“Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
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Episode: 42: Coming Home to God
Podcast: Living The Message
Episode 42: Coming Home to God
Pastor Philip and Pastor Eric
Podcast Updated Weekly
Have you ever felt far from God, distressed and overwhelmed? The story of Jonah teaches us how we can find our way back to God.
In this conversation, Pastors Philip and Eric relate Jonah’s distress in the belly of the fish to our need for redemption today. Key questions include:
1) How can distress feed our faith?
2) How does scripture help us anchor our soul?
3) Why does Jonah say that he expect to see God in the temple?
4) How do we make idols out of good things?
5) How do we know if we’ve put our idols above God?
6) How can we pray, like Jonah, that “Thanksgiving, sacrifice, and salvation belongs to the Lord”?
7) If we’ve been running away from God, how do we yield and rededicate ourselves to the Lord?
Questions about this Series: “Relentless ~ The Book of Jonah” ~ Sermon, GRACE BENEATH THE WAVES ~ Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10 ESV Submit them to 312-682-1888 or by email to livingthemessage@moodychurch.org. Your submissions will help us shape the conversation for our Live Weekly Podcast, Living the Message.
PASTOR TO PEOPLE
Salvation belongs to the Lord! — Jonah 2:9
After all his running from God, after all the consequences of his sin, after all the chaos of coming to the end of himself, Jonah finally cries out for mercy and grace. Like the prodigal son in Luke 15, in the shame of the muck and mire “He came to himself.” In this beautiful psalm written from the belly of a great fish, Jonah describes the distress that brought him back to God. This is his moment of repentance. And it is a moment where God’s grace shines through.
The very last line of Jonah’s psalm proclaims, “Salvation belongs to the Lord!” Jonah brought nothing but his sin and rebellion into this equation. All the saving grace and mercy belong to the Lord. He is the one who ran after Jonah. He is the one who pursued Jonah to the depths. He is the one who sent the great fish. He is the one who saves and delivers. From beginning to end, salvation belongs to the Lord, and to Him alone.
So it is with our salvation. When we were dead in our trespasses and sins, God made us alive in Jesus Christ. All we contribute to our salvation is the sin and shame that must be atoned. All the saving grace and mercy belong to the Lord. He is the one who came after us. He is the one so sent His one and only Son. Jesus is the one who saves and delivers. The Spirit sanctifies us. The Father will glorify us. From beginning to end, salvation belongs to the Lord, and to Him alone.
Let us praise our God together today, for He alone is worthy of all honor and glory and majesty and power. Salvation belongs to the Lord!
Which is why we are loved, more than we know.
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