There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on

enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture. Today, on the

weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given through Scott's

pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent

days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. I'd like you to open your Bible with me, please, to the gospel according to Jonah.

Would you find Jonah in your Bible?

Some people think the gospel is not to get to the New Testament, but that's not true.

The good news of salvation is the redemption

cord woven through the whole of Scripture. From Genesis to Revelation, the great message is the

message of God's salvation for lost humanity. Aren't you glad that our God is a Savior? And he wants

us to know him. And when you come to the book of jonah you come to one of the great

gospel books in fact jesus pointed us to jonah i'll show you that in a moment and jonah points us

to jesus now i'm going to skip some verses but don't get mad at me we'll come back in the evening

meeting i promise in the bible study hour, we looked at

the first three verses, and we learned something about living in the now. That's how the book

opens. Now the word of the Lord came. Would you come to the last verse of chapter one? And may I ask,

what is the first word of verse 17 please that sound vaguely familiar to anybody

here we are again it's a Hebrew conjunction that implies that there is a a continuing story

for the record anybody who says the Bible is boring has never read the Bible.

It is, as old Graham Scrog used to say, the unfolding drama of redemption. There is no

adventure, quite like the adventure, of watching God step into mankind's mess and bring something beautiful out of it. And when you come to Jonah

chapter one, that's exactly what's happening. Look at verse 17. Now, the Lord had prepared a great fish

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