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.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed into the Lord and said,

I pray the old Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country. Therefore, I fled before

to Tartius, or I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness and repentus thee of the evil.

I don't know about you.

Let me pause my reading in Jonah four for just a moment.

That sounds like a very good list to me.

It sounds like the divine character of God coming through grace and mercy and slow to anger and great kindness and repenting of evil.

And yet the way Jonah said it in his prayer was full of his own bitterness. He was upset. Therefore now, O Lord, he says in verse three,

take I beseech thee in my life for me, for it is better for me to die than to live. Then said the

Lord, doest thou well to be angry. It sounds like Jonah is speaking

like a petulant child, doesn't it? And it sounds like God, as he does with us, is speaking like a

very patient father. Doest thou well to be angry. The last time we studied, we began this discussion about anger in the life of a believer,

even anger in the life of a servant of God. And we excuse it, don't we? And we say, well, it's not

as bad as somebody else. We compare ourselves with others. We blame someone else for the reason that

we're angry. But let's get to the root of it today.

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