Jonah
"The story of Jonah is controversial, but it's a foreshadowing of Jesus – and Jesus clearly spoke of it as being a real event in history," Driscoll stated, and explained in the beginning of a video posted on his website on Monday that many people wonder whether the story of Jonah is real or not.He also pointed out that some critics of the Bible also focus on the seeming implausibility of a grown man surviving inside a fish as evidence that the Bible itself is not trustworthy.
"This just shows you are all crazy," he said of what non-believers say to Christians about the story.
Still, Driscoll analyzed three possible explanations people have for how Jonah could have indeed survived inside a fish. The pastor offered that a minority believe that the biblical prophet could have found an air pocket or something along the lines and found a way to physically live through three days and three nights inside the creature – though Driscoll admitted that it seems "a bit far-fetched."
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/mark-driscoll-3-ways-to-explain-bibles-jonah-surviving-inside-fish-171497/#HlJk35uRDEUpkKvi.99
"This just shows you are all crazy," he said of what non-believers say to Christians about the story.
Still, Driscoll analyzed three possible explanations people have for how Jonah could have indeed survived inside a fish. The pastor offered that a minority believe that the biblical prophet could have found an air pocket or something along the lines and found a way to physically live through three days and three nights inside the creature – though Driscoll admitted that it seems "a bit far-fetched."
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/mark-driscoll-3-ways-to-explain-bibles-jonah-surviving-inside-fish-171497/#HlJk35uRDEUpkKvi.99
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JONAH 1:1:
NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JONAH, SON OF AMITTAI SAYING. |
"The word of the Lord" is used seven times in the book of Jonah
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Jonah 2:8-9:
“Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. |
Any time our deepest desire is for something other than God because we think that will satisfy or rescue us, a dangerous "soul idol" is forming. We may idolize the approval of people, our own comfort, or maintaining control. All of these things can become "idol lies," things we value more than God. We cling to those idols, and in so ding, as Jonah said, we 'forfeit the grace that could be ours." --Dee Brestin "Idol Lies" p4-5
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The doctrine of grace may be the hardest doctrine in the Bible to accept. It’s not that grace is hard to understand. We know what the word means. Our problem comes in the application. Grace asks us to accept two things we don’t want to accept:
1. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves.
2. If God doesn’t save us, we will never be saved.
Nothing more clearly summarizes the true meaning of grace than the simple phrase found Jonah 2:9, “Salvation is of the Lord.
That statement is both striking and humorous because it comes from the world’s worst missionary.
1. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves.
2. If God doesn’t save us, we will never be saved.
Nothing more clearly summarizes the true meaning of grace than the simple phrase found Jonah 2:9, “Salvation is of the Lord.
That statement is both striking and humorous because it comes from the world’s worst missionary.
