We live in a fast-paced, ever-moving world where everyone seems to be rushing in every direction.

And yet, in scripture, God desires to teach us that walking with him is our greatest and most important adventure.

Join Scott Pauli along this journey as we rediscover the joy of our walk with Christ.

Do you know what Jonah's name means?

The name Jonah literally means dove. Now that is very

significant for a couple of reasons because first of all when the book opens what is Jonah doing?

He is fleeing from the presence of the Lord. We might say it this way. He's flying away. He's moving in the wrong

direction. He's taking flight running from

God. By the time you come to the end of the book, now he has turned around. That's really a picture of

what repentance is, and he's moving in the right direction. He is obeying God. He's doing what God

has given him to do. And that's most appropriate because, in fact, the first time a dove is ever found in Scripture is in Genesis chapter 8 and verse number 8, where it is a bearer of good news. He remembers it's connected to Noah and the flood. The dove's a picture of peace. That was the message that Jonah was sent to deliver. Somebody said, I thought he was supposed

to preach about judgment. Oh, he was, but the bad news was to lead people to the good news.

The message of sin and judgment was to lead people to a place where they could have peace with God.

He was a messenger of mercy. In fact, Jonah is the only Old Testament prophet to whom Jesus likened himself.

Matthew chapter 12 and verse number 41, and Jesus said a greater than Jonah is here.

Jonah was to be a messenger of mercy.

The Lord Jesus came as a messenger of mercy and you and I are called on to carry a message of mercy to carry

to carry Christ to a sin-hardened world to go to our own Nineveh so let's read a little of this

the story the end journey of Jonah Jonah chapter three verse one and the word of the lord came into

Jonah the second time saying arise going to Nine, that great city, and preach unto it the

preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose and went into Nineveh, according to the word of the

Lord. Now, Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey, and Jonah began to enter into

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