Jonah Reluctantly Accepts His Call
Questions for Study 2

Jonah 3:1-4:11
Memory Verse: 3:10

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I. The Lord Calls Jonah Again (3:1-4)

1. How did the Lord give Jonah a second chance to obey him? What are some reasons this would not be an easy mission? What was the Lord's message to Nineveh? How was this a word of love toward these Gentiles?

II. The Ninevites Repent (3:5-10)

2. How did the Ninevites receive God's warning? And the king? What does sincere repentance and the fear of God have in common?

3. How do we know that the Ninevites' repentance was sincere? (7-8) What did they hope for? How is our hope the same? (Rom. 5:1-5)

4. How did God respond to the Ninevites' actions? How is the Lord's compassion towards these Gentiles something that many Israelites did not expect? (Luke 11:32, 3:7-8; John 1:12-13)

III. Jonah's Deliverance and Rebuke (5:1-11)

5. Was Jonah happy that the city repented of its evil ways? Why did he react as he did? (2) To what point was he angry?

6. What did the Lord ask Jonah? (4) Why might Jonah not answer the Lord's question?

7. What do you think Jonah was still hoping would happen to Nineveh? (5) What does this say about his understanding of the Lord even though he was a prophet of the Lord?

8. What grace did the Lord God show Jonah as he sat staring at the city? Why do you think the Lord took the vine away? Was the sun and wind punishment or training to Jonah? (8)

9. What did the Lord ask and how did Jonah answer? Why was Jonah concerned about the vine more than people? What is the Lord teaching us here? (Matt. 5:43-48)

10. How does Jesus' parable in Luke 15:25-32 repeat the lesson that the Lord gave Jonah?