Oakwood Church
Second Chances - Jonah 2
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Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Jonah’s time in the belly of this fish was not divine judgment, but a divine second chance.
Romans 11:33
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”
Second chances reveal God’s grace so we can respond in new ways.
A. Second chances reveal God’s grace.
Jonah 2:4
“I am driven away from your sight.”
Jonah 2:4
“I am driven away from your sight.”
A. Second chances reveal God’s grace.
1. God’s protection: Jonah’s protective haven from the sea
1. God’s protection: Jonah’s protective haven from the sea
Jonah 3:4
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
“You’re safe not because of the absence of danger, but because of the presence of God.”
A. Second chances reveal God’s grace.
2. God’s communion: Jonah’s private sanctuary with the Lord
2. God’s communion: Jonah’s private sanctuary with the Lord
In our moments of failure, the crucible that was meant for our discipline is often the same place that we discover God in fresh ways.
His voice to you, as it was for Jonah, is not to see the crucible as condemnation but rather an opportunity for divine communion.
A. Second chances reveal God’s grace.
3. God’s resurrection: Jonah’s personal transport to the coast
3. God’s resurrection: Jonah’s personal transport to the coast
Matthew 12:40
“For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
“For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Hebrews 10:19
“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.”
“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.”
Our days of humiliation and discipline are designed to result in hearts of new devotion!
Matthew 15:8
“These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”
“These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”
B. Second chances require a new response.
1. I recognize your hand at work here.
Jonah 2:3
“For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea…all your waves and billows passed over me.”
1. I recognize your hand at work here.
Jonah 2:3
“For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea…all your waves and billows passed over me.”
B. Second chances require a new response.
2. I turn my eyes back to you.
Jonah 2:4
“I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.”
2. I turn my eyes back to you.
Jonah 2:4
“I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.”
Matthew 6:22
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Hebrews 12:2
“Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith.”
“Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith.”
B. Second chances require a new response.
3. I thank you for your compassion.
Jonah 2:6
“I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.”
3. I thank you for your compassion.
Jonah 2:6
“I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.”
B. Second chances require a new response.
4. I renew my commitment to you.
Jonah 2:8
“Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay.”
4. I renew my commitment to you.
Jonah 2:8
“Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay.”