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JONAH, THE MAN WHOM GOD
GAVE ANOTHER CHANCE
Extracts from a Sermon Preached at the First Baptist Church
by Rev. W. H. Faust
The minister read several passages
from the prophecy of Jonah and said
in part;
Though many of the would be schol
ars of the world have tried to deny
the authenticity of this great little
hook 1 still believe with the mass
of Christian Scholars that it is the
inspire and word of God and my faith
in Gods omnipotence is so great that
I could believe not only that he
made a fish big enougli to swallow
a man but that he could if he chose
make a man big enough to swallw
a whale. He wi o made the seas and
mountains and all tl.at is in thenii and
then made man to have dominion
over them all could surely make a
fish big enough to swallow a man
and then carry out his purpose with,
both man and fish. Jesus in his
public ministry referred to the book
and stamped upon it his imprimatur.
Let us note some of the many les
sons from Jonah.
1. The Call to Nineveh.
•To the average preacher it would
possibly have been what it wa to
Jonah; an undesirable appointment.
One at Jerusalem or at some other
place was preem* ently preferable
hut God knew where he wanted Jon
ah and where he was most needed
and also where he would do the most
good and he went there even though
he had to be given the second
chance to do so. The Lord still
calls nun and it Is the firm belief
of the speaker that nxt n are called
today to merchandize and practice
law and medicine and farm evt n as
others are called to preach. No vo
cation is or should be tco common
for God to call men into. The suc
cessful man in a business, I mean
in its distribution as well as its ac
cumulation is called man. And God
does the calling. Lots of failure*
in many callings are because God
did not call, and that he was left
absoluetly out of consideration.
2. Fleeing Jonahs.
When Jonah saw what he was up
against lie fled. The field was toe
hard and lie decided tluU he km v\
mere about the matter than did the
Lord and so he-did what many anot!
er good man has done. He ran and
hdid it ignominously careless ol
results or consequences to himself
or others.. He is a big example of
a man running from opposition and
duty and a hard task. We need like
Teddy of old to buck opposition. To
stand on the right even though the
bottom fall out. Hut first of all
we must be sure that we are right.
Did you ever see a minster flee
fre m his duty on a hard field and
offer as his excuse that God had a
more important work elsewhere or
that he believed that a man ought
not to stay at a place with consider
able opposition to him. That may
be the very place where God wants
a man and if there bo no opposition
and no hard places surely someone
else is needed for tlie place.
3. Neglected Nineveh.
Jonah forgot for the time being
it seems Nineveh or its needs and
only thought of himself. There are
needy fields all over Georgia today
in various denominations and among
the various churches but there are
few seekers after the hard places.
L ts of candidates for the First
Churches but few hunting for tlie
remote rural work where sacrifice
is commenced with a big S. More
than fifty per cent of our own peopl
need to be saved. The world is
blindly griping after God everywhere
and few are willing to give enough
of their valuable time to help the
seekers find that for which they
are si arching.
4. The Note, The Sleepers.
Today there are vastly more sleep
ers in the church militant than
there are pillars. Great big men
actiDg like babies neither helping or
alltwing anyone else to help them,
selves. Keepnig the workers en
gaged in helping them and solv
ing fool problems wheih they cre
rather than allowing them to help
t e lost come to the Savior. Non
payers, non workers, non-doers. When
needed are off at some secondary
task of a selfish or a worldly nature.
You can almost count on the fing
ers of your two hands the real ac
tive workers in an average church.
Most of the members are occasion
al workers.
We need another golden mouthed
prophet like Isaiah to call upon the
sleepers to wake and get busy for
humanity and the Lord.
5. The Whale Gods Sheriff.
But the Lord always has an arrest
ing agent when his servant goes
beyond the prescribed metes and
bounds and somtieme it is a fish
specially prepared and others it is
a coffin that comes in and closes up
on the form of a loved one, at ohers
It is sorrow while with others it
is success. In his own good time
lie brings things to pass according to
his will. It may not be after Jonahs
liking cr aft r his own choosing but
in his own way he gets glory to him
self and good to his wayward child.
6. FT.h Un versity.
In other words the worlds Great
est School is that of Experience Here
we to pay dear tuition but we
never forget a demonstration and
every incident is indellibly imprint
ed on our minds. Three days
for reflection in such a school is
worth three years in some of the
present day colleges. A diploma
fre m the College of Experience is
worth one from any other of the
great schools. There seems to be a
lo t of aristocracy among college
bred men today and unless one can
boast of the same alma mater as
the others he israther thrust aside
But the onegreat school we can all
attend is “Fish University, and its
diploma is worth striving for. Its
course is hard and its graduates be
ll ng to all walks of life and its di
pl ma puts one in fellowship and
touch with a varied crowd but all
the studends from this school know
how to sympathize with their fellow's
and a remarkable company are they
to be sure and a royal fellowship is
theirs, a select circle into which
only the elect can enter.
6. Jonah Cafft Out.
I imagine after his period of
thoughtfulness and li is experience
and time for reflection and repent
tance that when God gave Jonah the
second chance and the fish spit him
out that he hit the ground running
and kept it up until lie reached his
destination. Somtimes one has tc
be cast out to get in the right sort
of company. So it was with Jonah
and Joiin Wesley and John Bunyan
and Whitfield and others who by
being thrust out became great and
useful. John was thrust out of a
city and got in exchange an entire
island for his possesion and a view
of all heaven and its glories for it
in exchange. His being cast out gave
him a fine opportunity again. The
Second chance here came in. The
Lord is remarkably good to give us
an opportuity te> redeemn our mis
takes and remedy cur errors. At
first John Mark was not profitable
to Haul in the work but when an
other opportunity was offered he was
r ady. We hear Haul telling Ills
fritnd to bring Mark for he was prof
itable to his ministry. Peter proved
that It was worth while to have a
s cond chance by hlswork on the dav
of Pentecost.
7. Then Came Success and Dis
satisfaction.
Flic prophet preached with powc
and salvation came to hundreds oi
thousands of Nineveh citizens but
tills dipleased Jonah and he grouch
ed about until God let him sleep
and he beheld a gourd vine and saw
it destroyed by wind and worm and
then he complained at its destruction
and God let him get the great les
son of his mercy and care for the
tiiousands of liis creatures who wen
wortli more infinitely than the gouri
vine. Oh, the patience and mercy of
Gcd In his dealings with his crea
tures. How he shows us our mis
fakes and allows us to remedy them
And then lie always has the last
word.*' This is a most serious thought
The prophet lias occupied the plat
form for quite a while now Divini
ty comes on and has his time to
speaJu It Is well to consider this
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