Why do good things happen to people who just don't deserve it?

This was Jonah's complaint when the Ninevites were spared from God's judgment.

The prophet was angry instead of rejoicing.

We'll see why as we examine Jonah's attitude and God's response to him today on

Troop for Life Weekend.

Alistair Begg is teaching a message he's titled The Sulking Servant.

And as you're seated, I invite you to take your bibles and turn with me to the book of

Jonah in the Old Testament, Jonah chapter 4, and we're going to read from the first verse.

Actually we'll read from the 10th verse of chapter 3.

When God saw what they did and how they returned from their evil ways, he had compassion

and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.

But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry.

He prayed to the Lord, all Lord is this not what I said when I was still at home.

That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish.

I knew that you were a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a

God who relents from sending calamity.

Now all Lord take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.

But the Lord replied, have you any right to be angry?

Jonah went out and sat down at a place east of the city.

They remade himself a shelter, sat in its shade, and waited to see what would happen to the city.

Then the Lord God provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head

to ease his discomfort.

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