Jonah and the Whale: Lesson Three

Your disobedience touches the people around you.

The sailors were afraid, cried to their gods, and threw their cargo into the sea. They paid a price for a choice Jonah made.

Jonah 1:5 (KJV): Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

A shipmaster who did not know the LORD had to wake the prophet up and tell him to pray.

Jonah 1:6 (KJV): So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Jonah knew the storm was there because of him.

Jonah 1:12 (KJV): And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

When Jonah went over the side, the sea stopped raging.

Jonah 1:15 (KJV): So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

Scripture References: Jonah 1:5 Jonah 1:6 Jonah 1:12 Jonah 1:15