Series Summary:

Get up! Go! This is the message God gives to His people. What if you refuse? God tells Jonah, “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness.” Instead, Jonah runs from God. When confronted, Jonah would rather die than obey God. In his darkest moment, he turns to God. Given another chance, Jonah obeys, but with a bad attitude. Join us as we explore Jonah and examine our Get Up! Go! #Jonah #2026

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Starter

Tell about a time when you decided to go the opposite direction from the word of God? What was the result?

Pray

Lord, since the beginning of creation you have been telling your people to Get up! Go! You gave mankind a mission and work to do. Jesus you are the Word made flesh completing your mission and work declaring that salvation is from Yahweh. If we have believed and declared that salvation is from you, then we have been left here to do the work of telling others. We are your prophets, priests, and ambassadors in a lost world heading for destruction like Nineveh. You have asked us to preach against wickedness and call people to repentance to You the gracious and compassionate God. May we learn to see more of who you are and GET UP! GO! Amen

Study Questions

READ: Jonah 1:1-17

  1. When the word came to Jonah what was God asking him to do?
    1. Why might he have been against doing what God said to do? (see: Leviticus 20:22-23, Exodus 34:6-7, Jonah 4:1-2
    2. How is this very relatable to us as we are called to share in our day?

READ John 1:1, 9, 14, Acts 17:10-11, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 1 John 4:1-2

  1. According to the versers we just read, how can we know if someone actually had a word from God or if they were deceived?

READ 2 Kings 14:23-26

  1. What do we learn about God and about Jonah from this 2 Kings passage?

  2. Jonah’s other contemporary prophets like Amos and Hosea were proclaiming the coming discipline and destruction of Israel because of their sin. God allowed Jonah to give a positive prophesy to Jeroboam.

    Why might knowing this tension help us to better understand Jonah’s personal struggle and even our struggle today to preach the hard truth?

  3. Ultimately Jonah did Get up! and Go!, 2000 miles in the opposite direction. Three times it is written that Jonah was fleeing “from the Lord’s presence.” How is fleeing from what God says to tell others also fleeing from His presence?

  4. Jonah would rather die than repent, face his sin, and obey.

    1. Have you ever been to the place of wishing you were dead instead of having to obey and face God?
    2. In the past, or present, have you ever had sin that God was convicting you of that you would rather die than face?
    3. Why is it so difficult to face those things?
    4. Why is it important for others for you to face them?

  5. Who sends the storm?

    1. Why was it sent?
    2. How is this significant?

  6. Compare the responses of the sailors with that of Jonah.

    1. What do you notice?
    2. What does that attitude say about God’s people and even his prophets at times?
    3. What does this potentially say to us as God’s people and our attitudes today?

  7. When facing storms in life, what are the variety of ways that people respond (or don’t respond) to God?