Jonah | Prophetic Pagans | Jonah 1:4-17 | Week 2

Storms are an interesting deal, aren't they?  We're going to read about one in the life and story of Jonah this morning.  The book of Jonah is literary genius.  Please don't hear me saying it's fairy tale, or parable, but it's written geniusly.  It's intended to be funny.  It's prophetic, which means before it's parable, before it's literal, before it's either of those things, Jonah has a message for us.  It's prophetic.  That's the type of book it is in the library of the Scriptures.  

Jonah's going to encounter a storm.  I read about this storm in 1850, that battered against the northern island of Scotland.  The tide rose and then receded, and the storm revealed these ruins that were underneath.  Ruins that were buried underneath these grassy hills and nobody near they were there.  I think it's similar to the way storms work in your life and the way storms work in mine.  We often think the storm creates something.  I'd like to propose to you today that the storm typically doesn't create anything, it just reveals what's already there.  It reveals what's underneath.  It reveals the things that we're maybe good at keeping hidden, on normal days, but when the storm rolls in, and we get the call from the doctor about our health, or the call about the Stock Market crashing, or any other thing like that, when the storm rolls in, it has this tendency to reveal what we're actually holding onto.  It has a tendency of revealing what's underneath it all...