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

What tends to be a reoccurring source of anger in you life? Why?

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.” God has the fish spit Jonah out. Jonah choses to “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message.” “The men of Nineveh believed in God.”! A public repentance was called for and practiced. “God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster.”

READ: Jonah 4:1-11

  1. Why was Jonah angry?

  2. 2 Kings 14:25 tells us that Jonah was known as the prophet that prophesied the success and reestablishment of the northern border of Israel. Today, he is barely known for that prophesy and the decades of peace and prosperity that followed.

    In light of what was prophesied by the other prophets about Assyria and what Assyria would do to Israel (in just 40 years), how does that make it easier to understand Jonah’s anger?

  3. What does Jonah immediately do in the midst of his anger?

  4. James 4:3 explains Jonah’s prayer,“You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.” How do believers today in the midst of their displeasure and anger pray prayers like Jonah?

    1. How do our prayers expose our hearts?

READ: Exodus 34:5-7, Psalm 103:8

  1. Jonah prays, “isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country?…I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster.” We are given insight into the fact that Jonah actually believed God’s character from the beginning of God asking him to go to Nineveh. He simply tried to rejected and refuse the part of God’s character he did not want to share with others.
    1. How do we see people (even those who claim to be believers) refuse to share God’s full character in our day?
    2. What tends to happen to people emotionally when they reject part of God’s character?
  2. Many today can act like they are much more spiritual than Jonah saying that they can’t understand why Jonah would be so upset. Be honest. How do you get angry in the same ways as Jonah?

As you read these verses, note what God say about anger. READ: Proverbs 10:12, 14:17, 15:1, 18, 16:32, 19:11, 20:3, 22:24-25, 29:9, 11-12, 37:8-9, Psalm 4:4, 37:8, Ecclesiastes 7:9

  1. Anger is an emotion that comes from God. What does God say about anger in these verses?
  2. Psychologists often say that depression and anger are two sides of the same coin. How do we see this in the life of Jonah?