The Day God Changed His Mind
Jonah 3:1-5,10
Pastor Bob Hiller
1/25/2015
Series:
Epiphany
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Jonah 3:10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
1. It is true that there are times in the Bible where we are told that God ____________ His ____________.
2. It is also true that God ____________ ____________.
3. Yesterday, today, and forever our God is the God who ____________ of ____________ and ____________ ____________ for Christ's sake.
Scripture Readings
Jonah 3:1-5,10
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Mark 1:14-20
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The threatening effected the deliverance from the peril. The sentence of overthrow put a stop to the overthrow. O strange and astonishing event! The sentence threatening death, brought forth life! The sentence after it was published (Jonah 3:4) became cancelled; the very opposite to that which takes place among temporal judges! For in their case the proclamation of the sentence causes it to become valid, is fully to ratify it; but on the contrary, with God, the publication of the sentence, caused it to be cancelled. For if it had not been published, the offenders would not have heard; and if they had not heard, they would not have repented, and if they had not repented, thy would not have warded off the punishment, nor would they have obtained that astonishing deliverance. For how is it less than astonishing, when the judge declares sentence, and the condemned discharge the sentence by their repentance!
St Chrysostom, Homilies on the Statutes, 5.16