And God Saw Their Works

One of the great purposes which God has for Christians as they go about to live for Him and labor for Him, is that He has called you to go and make disciples of people around you. The command that we have received as Christ's Church is to preach the gospel to every creature. The Great Commission says that we are to go, and as we are going, that is out to be Christ's witnesses, we are to make disciples. God would have each of us who are Christians, to do His will in this regard, but perhaps you, like Jonah, may not have learned yet, how to do this out of love for fallen sinners. One of the great lessons that Jonah had to learn was how great God's love was for those particular sinners in the city of Nineveh. So, the question that I pose to you now is this: Are you willing to learn from God Himself how to love sinners around you? Because our God specializes in teaching us how to think rightly about sinful people around us. That is one of the great lessons of this book. The message that Jonah preach was a message threatening the judgment of God upon the city of Nineveh. Nevertheless, the message performed a work in those people who believed. And so I want to show you how this message preached by Jonah relates to us today in how we should preach and share the eternal gospel of Christ. I want to give you 4 observations on what true repentance is, and what we should expect to see, in ourselves or other people, so that we can discern whether it is true or not.