Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this episode, Paul continues through his Bible study, the gospel, one chapter at a time.

And today, Paul will continue summarizing the minor prophets as we take a look

at Jonah, Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk. Here's Paul with a summary of the book of Jonah.

You sort of have to ask yourself, why in the world is Jonah in the Bible? This weird story of this rebellious prophet and this big fish.

And it's listed as a prophet, but there's almost no prophecy in Jonah, a 48-verse weird narrative.

Well, I would propose that Jonah is in the Bible

because this narrative captures an entire biblical worldview in a podcast.

There's four elements that are part of a biblical worldview that are so powerfully depicted in Jonah.

First, you have in Jonah a God of awesome, inestimable glory.

This God is in absolute control of his world.

I love, as you begin to go through the narrative,

first you see God's sending a storm.

He's that in control.

And then it says that he appoints a fish to do something.

Now, either you say that that's just a metaphor or this is real history. Near the end of

Jonah, we find God appointing a worm. I mean, think how many worms are there that a single worm will do the

bidding of this one is a God of just mind-boggling power and glory. You see a world that's

terribly broken by sin. You see sin in its ugliness in Jonah, both in a huge corporate sense in Nineveh, which was a wicked city,

and in the heart of Jonah who would rebel against God and fall into such spiritual insanity

that he could actually believe that he could escape the presence of God.

Let me just say this.

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