Sermon
Peace – Overcoming Anxiety
By Tim Keller
Sermon
They Greatly Feared
Tim Keller | September 23, 2001
Overview
Jonah runs away for two reasons: fear and hate.
God has told Jonah to go to Nineveh to warn them, but Jonah refuses. He’s afraid to put himself in the midst of his enemies, but he’s also filled with hate toward them. So the book of Jonah addresses in a real way the questions “What do I do about my fear?” and “What do I do about my anger?”
Let’s notice three features of the story: 1) the stormy sea shows us who we are, 2) the religious sailors show us the wrong thing to do about it, and 3) the willing substitute shows us the right thing to do about it.
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