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 has no real ending.

There's no conclusion to the story.

It almost just dangles there.

If you read Jonah chapter number four, it's only 11 verses long. In fact,

it ends with a question mark. And I think that's divine design. I believe there is a great purpose

in that, even in the way the message is given to us. It's thought-provoking, it's heart searching.

It ends with a question, a divine question, God's question, a question that cuts to the heart that deals with us right where we are.

I'd like to simply point out today that the story in Jonah does not end in Jonah chapter 3.

Most of the time when people even tell the story of Jonah, they end in Jonah too, where Jonah is swallowed by

great fish and then spit out of that fish. But then he goes on in chapter three to the revival

of an entire city, the entire city of Nineveh turns to God. You'd think that'd be a good place to

end. In fact, Jonah chapter three ended this way, and God saw their works, that they turned from

their evil way, and God repented of the evil that he'd said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. I tell you, if I wrote the Bible, aren't you

glad I didn't write the Bible? And I'm glad you didn't write the Bible. No, God gave us the Bible.

If we wrote the Bible, we would end right there with Jonah chapter 3 in verse number 10 with this great glorious grand note of victory. God did something mighty there. The Lord worked in the

hearts of the people. And then you come to Jonah four, verse one. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was

very angry. Now, we're going to come back to Jonah chapter 4. We're going to look at

Jonah's emotion, Jonah's anger. We're going to try to understand why it displeased him exceedingly

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