The Old Testament Book of Jonah is not the story of a great fish.

It is the story of a great God.

In a world on the verge of judgment and desperate for a spiritual awakening,

it holds a message we all need.

Salvation is of the Lord.

Join us in the book of Jonah today

as we study God's Word with Scott Pauli.

We are living in an angry world.

There's no question about that, but the anger that is most destructive is not the anger in the world.

It is the anger, unrighteous, unholy, uncontrolled anger in God's people.

And I must tell you, at this time in history, there are a lot of frustrated people

worked up about so many things that have allowed themselves to become so filled with

the spirit of anger.

They cannot be filled with the love of God.

We're in Jonah chapter number four, and you'll remember that Nineveh has just repented.

Praise God. And the Lord repented. That's the Bible word. They turned to him. He turned to them.

They turned from their sin to the Lord. He turned from his judgment to them in mercy. Praise God.

And yet, there was still someone who needed to repent, and that was

Jonah. Because the Bible says in Jonah 4, verse 1, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

You can tell a lot about a man by what makes him mad, what he gets worked up about. In fact, this theme of anger

is woven all through the chapter in verse number four, then said the Lord, doest thou well to be angry?

Verse number nine, and God said to Jonah, doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said,

...