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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 22 1950 sunday school lesson joxui lrarxs gods missionary pirposk golden text salvation is of the lord jonah 29 thoroughly selfoccupied ihere is pride that so readily finds a con genial place for growth and expan sion in the heart of any saint out of communion verse 4 doest thou well to be angry the tender question of the lord might well have broken jonah down had he not been so the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson the book of jonah has a unique place in the old testament it is primarily the book of the divine sovereignty the confession of the pagan mariners thou o lord hast done as it pleased thee jon ah 114 is emphasized throughout we are told that the lord sent out a great wind into the sea v 4 the lord had prepared a great fish v 17 the lord spake unto the fish 210 the lord god prepared a gourd 46 god prepared a worm v 7 and god prepared a vehement east wind v 8 it is the sovereign of the universe who worketh all things according to his own will eph 111 this answers every question that foolish unbelieving skeptics might raise regarding the strange experiences recorded typically jonah sets forth the great mystery of christs death and resurrection as he himself tells us in matthew 123940- thus he very definitely puts his seal his divine imprimatur on this book s in verse 11 also where he confirm tje account oi the conversion of the ninevites looked at uspeiisunonily we my see in jonah a picure of the di obedient jewish jicvipl who si cid have been gos messengers to the nations but instia 1 took the path of selfwill and have been swallowed up among the gentile who however have neve- ben able to assimilate them whoa delivered at last they will assun the role to which they were criminally ap pointed and will be used of god to bring the spared of the gentil world to repentance an i subjection to the king of kins in no other book of the old testament do we have a clearer testimony to the love of god for all mei and his desire to bring them to a know ledge of himself verse by verse jonah 33 jonah went unto nineveh according to the word of the lord this great as syrian metropolis was one of the most magnificent cities of the an cient world and probably the most corrupt jonah detested the charac teristics of its people and had no desire for their salvation but he obeyed the voice of god and sped on his way verse yet forty days and nineveh shall be overthrown his was a declaration of impend ing doom but evidently intended to be a call to repentance with a view to warding off the disaster forty in scripture is the number of trial testing and probation god gave the ninevites forty days to face their sins and thus avert the judgment verse 5 the people of nine veh believed god there was a marvelous response tie entire city gave heed to the message and received the very word of the liv ing god the lord jesus christ dwelt upon this as a warning and encouragement to the people of his day matt 1241 luke 1132 verse g tile king sat in ashes ninevehs mighty ruler trembled before the prophets mes sage and laying aside his royal robes adopted the oriental garb that expressed contrition and re pentance chap 1 1 it displeased jonah exceedingly when all heaven was rejoicing at the repentance not of one sinner but of a vast multitude we are told that jonah was very wretched yet he is alto gether unconscious of it puffed up with a sense of his own impor tance the weal or woe of so many of his fellow creatures is as nothing compared to his own reputation verse 2 i knew that thou art a gracious god so utterly uncon scious is he of the wretchedness of his state of soul that he can turn to god and express his shame ful failure as though he had not failed at all or even as though the failure if there were any was on the part of the lord himself verse 3 it is better for me to die than to live it seems almost unbelievable that a servant of god could be in such a frame of mind but alas it was but an aggravated form of that insidious disease no reproach just the serious and trials by dying saying it is bet ter for me to die than to live verse 9 god said doest thou well to be angry the prophets stubborn rejoinder to the lords tender inquiry made mani fest the fact that he was still har boring resentment because of gods mercy to nineveh verse 10 thou hast had pity volunteer tractor units organ ized as a mennonite relief effort are swinging into action in south ern manitoba to speed seeding on irecenllv inundated farm lands solemn question that ought to on the gourd 1 he previous verses thisrelief service was announc- have awakened him at once to his show how troubled jonah was bej bv q j r mana of the itrue condition of soul i cause god bad shown grace to the uiennbnite central committees mennonite tractor units to aid west verse 5 jonah went out of the heathen of nineveh instead of des- city on jonahs iart there was troy in them yet he was concern- no response in words but acting ed greatly about his own comfort in selfwill and wounded vanity an1 s much distressed when a he goes outside the city and after quickgrowing gourd winch had building a booth sits under its sheltered him from the fierce blaze shadow to see what would become of i sun w destroyed of nineveh and of his prophetic verse 11 should hot i spare reputation verse 6 the lord god pared a gourd which growing sizing the ignorance and need of very rapidly soon overshadowed tllc parents and the little children the petulent prophet and thus tlt great pagan city was he sheltered him from the fierce rays mole concerned about a gourd than of the almost tropical sun because abo 120000 children not to speak it ministered to his comfort jonah th vlsl numbers of adults was exceeding glad of the gourd jonah does not answer but as he nineveh god challenged p the heart of his servant by empha- wrote the book we may see in it the acknowledgment of his grave fault in failing to appreciate the love of god for needy men every where dont let bacteria from uosanitized utensils eat holes in your milk cheques use lobax noxsoil just before milking sterilize equipment with a lobax rinse with 50c available chlorine it kills bacteria almost imme diately on contact right after milking clean utensils with fast thorough noxsoil the new dairymans cleanser at your nearest dtnltr this is the first note of joy on his part that we find recorded and is in fact the last as well his glad ness was as truly from selfishness as was his sorrow verses 7 and s god prepared the heart of lie lesson a worm god prepared a vehe- gods love and grace transcend ment east wind god next pre- all national boundaries his heart pared that which would blast this goes out to all the world he would joy a worm was permitted to ties- have all men repent and come to troy the gourd and then a vehe- the knowledge of the truth that ment east wind was likewise pre- judgment may be averted he has j canadian headquarters mr rem- pel has just returned from touring the flood stricken areas he has had charge of many mennonite relief projects and fsls the need in manitoba is deeideiy acute kscpect 100 machines from enthusiasm shown by church leaders in the flood dis trict we expect to have at least 100 tractors participating said mr rempel they will be manned i by farmers of the sector and by mennonite students in neighbor ing communities who have volun teered to help one of the smaller churches alone has pledged to pro vide 10 tractors mr rempel said seeding in the flood district is a race against time the tractor bees were being arranged when he left winnipeg he expects they are in full swing by now our churches have taken an active part in succoring the flood sufferers mr rempel explained besides that we would like to pared by him who has his way no pleasure in the death of the j undertake some activity which i in the whirlwind and in the storm wicked ezek 1823 he delights perhaps being missed by other the sickening heat almost over- in mercy mie 718 judgment is j came jonah so that he fainted his strange work isa 2s21i it and reputation than about the and in his chagrin and wretched- i- a great pity when his servants needs of men to whom they are ness he wished once more that he fail to recognize this and are more commissioned to go as gods mes- might be permitted to escape his concerned about their own ease sengers 30ba your building supplies joist studding sheeting siding flooring trim moulding cement lime wallboard masonite arborite theboard plywood brie siding asphalt shingles asphalt rolls doors sash prefit window units blue coal p r wilson lumber fuel locust hill phone markham 72j3 agencies the decision to provide flood but their numbers are by no tractors is not being duplicated by means predominant in the area to be tractorhelped we are opera t- utilization as well we feel it as most any other or s practical mportant operate from three centres tractor brigades will operate from three centres in 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