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Jonah Dave Royes Jonah Dave Royes

Amazing Grace or Accustomed Grace?

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Jonah 4
January 16, 2022

Sermon Outline

1. Literary Structure of Jonah

  • Jonah 1: Jonah commissioned and disobedience → Jonah 3: Jonah recommissioned and obedience

  • Jonah 1b: Jonah and pagan sailors → Jonah 3: Jonah and pagan Ninevites.

  • Jonah 2: Jonah’s grateful prayer → Jonah 4a: Jonah’s angry prayer.

  • Jonah 4b: God schools Jonah in compassion.*

2. Accustomed grace: Jonah’s angry prayer
3. Amazing grace: God’s gracious pursuit

  • His appointing is perfect

  • His word is persistent

  • His compassion is plentiful

4. Extending Grace: The author’s hanging question

“We sing about ‘amazing grace’ and speak of ‘amazing grace’, but far too often it [grace] has ceased to amaze us. Sadly, we might more truthfully sing of ‘accustomed grace.’ We have lost the joy and energy that are experienced when grace seems truly amazing.” — Sinclair Ferguson

*Adapted from David Dorsey, Literary Structure of the Old Testament (Baker Books, 2004).

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