Summary
So Jonah receives this call to go to Nineveh because he needs to proclaim the word of the Lord and tell them of their wickedness because the wickedness is before the Lord. It's a city that is filled with thin and destruction that Jonah had been called to proclaim the Word of the Lord to, but it wasn't the Nineveh and fear of the Nineveh that moved Jonah to flee to Tarshish. And notice here that Nineveh is to the northeast so he could have if he had leaned into his call he would have been going northeast into Nineveh, but instead he went to flee to Tarshish which is West. Four times the distance that he had been called to go to Nineveh to proclaim God's word and instead he tried to flee over five times or four times the length to Tarshish to be away from the presence of the Lord. In sin, Jonah tried, he tried so hard to run as far as he could as far as the east and from the west, Jonah tried to run, but he could not flee God. And so we use this time, this time of nourishment, this time of strength, this time of being built by the Word of the Lord, to go forth and to proclaim that good news, that sins are forgiven in Christ and Christ alone, and that no one, no one, needs to hide or try to hide from the presence of the Lord, because He will find you every time.
Video citations
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