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

Have you ever been so overwhelmed (positive or negative) by the word and the decree of God that you chose not to eat and just sit with God? explain

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

RECAP

“The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness has confronted Me.” However, Jonah got up to flee…from the Lord’s presence. \Then the Lord hurled a violent wind on the sea and appointed a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the fish three days and three nights. Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish.”

READ: Jonah 2:8-4:1

In Jonah 2:9 he says, “I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the Lord.” The Hebrew is, יְשׁוּעָ֖תָה = Yə-šū-‘ā-ṯāh = Jesus is of or from לַיהוָֽה׃ = Yah-weh = God. Although Jonah would not have understood that Jesus was a person, Jonah would have cryed out inside the fish something like, Jesus is from or is of God. After committing himself to the Lord, “Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.” Now Jonah has a decision to make continue in his rebellion or obey. He choses to “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message.”

  1. What was Jonah’s simple message?
  2. What was the response of the Ninevites?
  3. What was the response and decree of the king?
  4. If you are familiar with they story of God’s people at this time, how was the Ninevite response to the prophet Jonah different from the response the Northern and Southern kingdoms had to the prophets sent to them? (Amos, Hosea, Joel, Elijah, Elisha)
  5. How does Jonah 3:9 expose the heart motive of the king?
    1. How is the king’s heart response different from how we often see people practice repentance and fasting toward God today?
  6. What was God’s response?

READ: Ephesians 2:1-10

  1. \How is the story of Jonah the same story that believers are given in Ephesians 2?

Jonah would have had to take a vow as a prophet. Disobeying that vow could have cost him his life. **Deuteronomy 13:1-5** The true prophets all proclaimed God’s authority and that only He could save.