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Lesson Summary:

The Lord rebukes Jonah for his lack of compassion and grace for the people of Nineveh.

Focus Passage: Jonah 4.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. An Angry Prophet (Jonah 4:1-4)

Principle: Our Thoughts are Far, Far from God’s Thoughts.
Application: Where do you find yourself questioning God’s decisions? In which areas do you think you know better than God?
Scripture Reference

⁷Let the wicked forsake his wayAnd the unrighteous man his thoughts;And let him return to the Lord,And He will have compassion on him,And to our God,For He will abundantly pardon.
⁸“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:7-9 (NASB)

II. A Compassionate God (Jonah 4:5-11)

Principle: God Desires that Sinners Repent and Be Saved.
Application: Where have you failed to show compassion and mercy for others, especially those who need the Lord the most?
Scripture Reference

³This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
⁴who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁵For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
I Timothy 2:3-5(NASB)