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Source
Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/amazing-jonah-part-3-severe-mercy/
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What this book knows
God's 'severe mercy' uses crisis and confinement to shatter self-sufficient autonomy and drive creatures back toward the only grace sustaining them.
self-and-identity
In God's severe mercy He may deal with us in ways that bring us to the end of ourselves — discovering the truth of how broken and selfish we are.
BP-AMAZING-JONAH-PART-3-SEVERE-MERCY-RC-015When things fall apart and we feel trapped, our default is that God's not listening — but Jonah draws exactly the opposite conclusion.
BP-AMAZING-JONAH-PART-3-SEVERE-MERCY-RC-013obedience-and-authority
He idolized his own autonomy so greatly that he forfeited the only thing he had — the grace and faithfulness and mercy of God.
BP-AMAZING-JONAH-PART-3-SEVERE-MERCY-RC-019When I realize my life doesn't belong to me, he looks to the hotspot of God's presence — Jesus of Nazareth — to remember who God is, even as life passes away.
BP-AMAZING-JONAH-PART-3-SEVERE-MERCY-RC-018faith-and-doubt
He runs from the God he thinks is a killjoy, then sees that running from that God gets him — turning back to God becomes very attractive.
BP-AMAZING-JONAH-PART-3-SEVERE-MERCY-RC-016When you see the boundary line of your life and it's not very far away, the only thing he has going for him is the fact that God is committed to him.
BP-AMAZING-JONAH-PART-3-SEVERE-MERCY-RC-017Illuminates
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