Jonah’s little book teaches us much about God’s sovereignty and dominion in this world. This is God's world and He is doing His good pleasure in it to do His people good and accomplish His purpose. May we all have a sense of the precious value of a soul that the Lord Jesus came to die for.

Jonah's anger at the Lord seems astonishing. How can such a thing be justified? It cannot. Nevertheless, we all are prone to Jonah's sin for our own personal reasons when Satan temps us to despair and we look for someone to blame. May we learn from Jonah and be protected by the same God who patiently cared for His wayward prophet.

By the free and sovereign grace of God the Gentile inhabitants of Nineveh were saved. God gifted them a faithful preacher in Jonah, repentance for their sin, forgiveness and faith in the blood of Christ and deliverance from judgment. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and for ever.

Jonah preached God’s gospel to Nineveh and the people of the city believed God. Here we see God’s mercy at work in the life of Jonah and in the lives of multitudes of Gentile sinners. The history of Jonah and Nineveh is an encouragement for us all to seek the grace of our merciful God.

When Jonah was in the belly of the fish he prayed and was heard by God. He confessed his sin, asked for deliverance and thanked God for his salvation. He declared 'Salvation is of the Lord'. This is the testimony of all who are delivered by the Lord Jesus Christ from their sins.

When Jonah was in the belly of the fish he cried to the Lord and the Lord heard him. The Lord will hear all who cry to him in faith from their afflictions. Here are some lessons from Jonah’s prayer.

The sign of Jonas points to the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Men and women say they are seek a sign by which they can  be convinced to believe in Jesus. There shall be no sign given beyond the death and resurrection of Christ. If you will not believe that you will not believe at all.

Jonah was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here we hear Jonah’s testimony, see Him as a picture of Christ’s ransom and discover his comfort for those who die in the Lord.

Jonah is a well-known Old Testament prophet. He is also a lovely type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here we begin a short study of Jonah's life and the lessons taught him by the Lord.

Jehovah God has given the Lord Jesus Christ to the church as the supreme evidence of His love. He has also freely given us all things with Him of which we are partakers by faith. This is our inheritance in Christ and is all to God's glory and praise.

The essence of the gospel is substitution. Christ died for our sins. According to the terms of the everlasting covenant of peace God spared not His Son but delivered Him up for all of us who are loved, chosen, called, justified and glorified in Christ.

Our ever-loving God is for us, for His people. So much so, says Paul, that ‘He spared not His own Son’. Our safety, security and hope in this life and for the next is in the grace and mercy of Him who gave His own Son, and spared Him not, to bring many sons to glory.

God is for us! Our God is for His beloved, chosen, called and justified people. He sent Christ to die for us and His Spirit to convert us. He keeps us faithful. He feeds our souls. He comforts our spirits. He does all this because He is for us. If God is for us who can be against us?

God calls His people glorious because He has made us so in Christ. Glorious is not something we shall become, it is what we now are, having been chosen, called and justified by the grace of God. And there is more to come.

In the covenant of grace, before the world was formed, God set His church apart in eternal election and justified His people in their Surety and Substitute Jesus Christ. God has always seen His people as righteous and holy under the blood and righteousness of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is The Firstborn of God and as such takes the pre-eminence amongst His brethren. The glory of man must either bow under the Lordship of Christ and be preserved by the blood of the Lamb or be destroyed as was the pride of Egypt in the day of plague.

Predestination is God placing His elect people into Christ for their everlasting good. Today we shall consider what Predestination is, what it means, what it accomplishes and the reaction it elicits from men and women.

God’s foreknowledge is not merely knowing the future. It is His eternal loving wisdom. It is personal, purposeful, particular and perfecting for the people He loved before time and whose salvation and glory He has ordered and secured.

God's calls His people from death to life, darkness to light with an effectual, spiritual call of grace. He calls us to conviction for sin, conversion through faith, conformity to Christ and completion in glory. God calls and His people are 'the called in Jesus Christ'.

We speak often of the Lord’s love for His people, rightly so. It is the most wonderful, gracious mercy upon the face of this earth. However, today I want to briefly mention our love for the Lord. I hope to show you that it is wonderful, too.