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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Jonah 3:1-2 1 And the word [dabar] of the LORD [Yahovah] came unto Jonah [Yonah] the second [sheniy] time, saying [amar], 2 Arise [quwm], go [yalak] unto Nineveh [Niynaveh], that great [gadowl] city [iyr], and preach [qara] unto it the preaching [qariy'ah] that I bid [dabar] thee. KJV-Interlinear 1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 'Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.' NASB Jonah struck out the first go around. Now he has a second chance. He received orders from God and ran away. God brought him right back to the starting point for a second chance. Jonah learned his first lesson but he still has more lessons to learn about the grace and plan of God. We are all continually functioning in our lives. Our spiritual lives do not stay in the same place. They are either moving forward or backward. When you are positive toward God and studying and learning and so forth, then you are advancing forward in your spiritual life. But, when you go negative (indifferent, lazy, apathetic, antagonistic, etc.) toward God, then you begin to regress in your spiritual life. You lose ground or go backwards, so to speak as in a race to the finish line. You fall behind and that is ground you have to make up again, ground that you have to re-travel just to get back to where you were before you went negative. Unfortunately many people spend their lives advancing and regressing in their spiritual lives. They never advance too far because they are just not consistent or dedicated enough to get ahead. They continually go negative and fall backward. Their advance is often related through the emotions of a holiday or some dramatic event in life. That event could come from something personal, or just from watching an emotional movie. Jonah shows us this principle. He ran away, and God had to bring him right back to the starting point again. We all have a purpose in life. Most of us have multiple purposes which relate to our daily lives and the various responsibilities imposed on us during our life. Jonah was a student of the scriptures, he was also a teacher of the scriptures much like we study our Bible today, and he was a prophet or a communicator of doctrine. Now God has a special job for Jonah. He was to be a messenger to Nineveh. A messenger of doom as well as an evangelist of the gospel of salvation. Jonah preferred to teach his own people and not have anything to do with those heathen people in Nineveh. Thus his first reaction and rejection of Gods command. We all receive Gods commands throughout our lives. Most folks ignore those commands. The most common command (after you have been saved) to us all is to grow up in our spiritual lives. This requires a consistent daily study program. Then from that you learn the rights and wrongs of life. What is sin and what is not. And this is where many folks mess up their spiritual lives. Like Jonah we all have some preconceived ideas about life and what we want to believe and what we don't want to believe. All of this overflows into the pattern of life we choose for ourselves. All too often our personal beliefs and preferences come into conflict with that taught in the Bible, and there is our Jonah type failure. We reject Gods teaching and we hold on to our own beliefs, even though we are wrong. Our stubbornness becomes the seed for our failure in our spiritual life - and, I might add, our flirting with the storms and fish's of life. If you understand this concept by now. Through stubbornness you have to fall on your face before you begin to learn. Some folks learn quick. Others have to learn the hard way several times in their life before their little light of understanding comes on. Twinkle, twinkle! God repeats the command to Jonah. God repeats His commands many times to you everyday of your life. The question is now, 'What will you do?' End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.

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