I wonder how many of you have ever watched a movie or a TV series and then after the whole thing it ended with no resolution. It didn’t make sense. You get to the end of it, you’re like, “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I paid attention all the way through. I I watched for the entire season and we get to the end and it ends like that.

Who knows what I’m talking about? Raise your hand comment section. I know what you’re talking about. Type it there. You get to the end. Like, I have so many questions. Did they get back together? Did the good guy live? Did the bad guy die? Because if you haven’t noticed, sometimes they look dead, but they’re not really dead.

You know what I’m talking about. How many of you hate when something ends like that and there is no resolution? Raise your hand. Type in the comments section, I hate when that happens. If you hate it, I got really bad news for you. You are not going to like Jonah chapter 4 because this has the weirdest cliffhanger ending you’ve ever seen.

Jonah chapter 4. Today we conclude the message series on Jonah. It is the most difficult chapter of Jonah for me to preach and it will be the most frustrating chapter for you to hear. Now that I’ve got you excited about Jonah chapter 4, let’s review where we’ve been the first three weeks. Chapter 1.

Do you remember the word of the Lord came to Jonah and said, “Go and preach to the Ninevites because their wickedness has come up before me.” What did Jonah do? He hated the Ninevites because they were evil. And so, he got uh on a ship going in the other direction. God sent a storm. The sailors got freaked out. They threw Jonah overboard.

And God provided a big fish that swallowed Jonah up. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Jonah prayed and God had mercy and the fish vomited Jonah up on the shore. We call that beach barf. God had mercy. Everybody say, “God had mercy.” God had mercy. Say it again. God had mercy. God had mercy. God had mercy because the fish vomited him out of the mouth.

When you think about it, that fish had two distinctly different exits. See what I’m saying there? God had mercy. That old boy could have come out the other side, right? Then then we would have called that uh waves of waste. Tide turn. I don’t know. Just work with me. Would God had God had mercy, right? And the fish vomited him up on dry land.

Chapter three. And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. How many of you are thankful for the God of second chances? Our God doesn’t just call, but our God calls back. And so what did Jonah do? He finally obeyed the Lord. He wasn’t happy about it, but he preached a very short, very direct message, but basically turn or burn, like you got 40 days to repent of your sins or God’s going to destroy you.