Jonah Needs to Learn

Jonah Needs To Learn: “Because God Loves Us”

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:11

The purpose of our time on earth is not primarily about:

• Life is about love and developing relationships.

• You can at other things, but failing here is to miss why God created you on earth.
• Learning to is life’s most important lesson.

This is the great and foremost commandment.
Matthew 22:38

Why? Because God is and God wants to through you.

God loves and .

But!!!

• Love is .
• It’s “human nature” to think of first.
• We naturally do what’s in our own .
• Self-centeredness is the of practically every .

Real love is placing the of others before our own.

Love is not a – it is a .

Love is for others.

You must develop relationships with many different kinds of people in order to practice loving others.

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
1 John 4:11 NLT

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
John 13:34 NLT

Biblical guidelines for getting along in love

• Let guide your .

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and a good reputation In the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:3-6

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8

• Let God the .

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:8

We are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
2 Corinthians 10:5

• Look for God’s .

teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.
Matthew 26:52

and that this entire assembly may know that the Lord does not save by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will hand you over to us!”
1 Samuel 17:47

• Lean on the of .

But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16

Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5

There is a way which seems right to a person, But its end is the way of death.
Proverbs 14:12

• Look for true .

 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12

• Lay down .

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
2 Corinthians 10:3-5

• Learn to use .

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
2 Corinthians 10:4

With every prayer and request, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be alert with all perseverance and every request for all the saints,
Ephesians 6:18

• Learn to .

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:12