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  Jonah’s God (7)     [Jonah 3:5-10]     Long time ago, when my kids were little, I was little bit shock by what one of my kids said to her sibling.  At that time I was watching a Korean drama and a guy was making a loud voice in his speech.  And my kids were playing toys together and one of the kids who heard his speech told her sibling that ‘Daddy makes loud too.’  When her sibling heard her saying it, he said to me, ‘Daddy, she said your preaching is loud.’  When I heard him saying that, I was surprised.  I thought that these two kids were thinking of my sermon as if it was “a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal” (1 Cor. 13:1).  So I thought I should repent.  Especially on that day afternoon, I learned from my mentor pastor that 'Preaching is the power of influencing' (the power of sermons and the work of the Holy Spirit), but my sermon has lost its meaning to my children because my sermon...

  Jonah’s God (3)     [Jonah 1:11-17]                   Pastor AW Tozer, who was called the 21st century prophet, said this: ‘God calls man to worship first and then to worker.’  I cannot but agree with what he said.  However, I think we are trying to do something for God like Martha (Lk 10:40), rather than trying to be true worshipers who worship God in spirit and truth (Jn. 4:23).  Here we must remember the relationship between "being" and "doing".  In other words, our actions must come from our being.  For example, our good deeds should come from our character that resembles God's goodness.  The Bible divides the true worship into two categories:   (1)     The first is the people who worship God as they focus on who God is.   These worshipers acknowledge the sovereignty of God.  Look at David...

  Jonah’s God (2)   [Jonah 1:7-17]   We Koreans seem to be good at lying.  When I watch the Korean dramas, I don’t know why people are lying so much.  Even if it is a lie that cares for a loved one, a lie is a lie.  But I don’t know why it is called 'a good lie'.  Especially I don’t understand why they keep on denying after their lies got exposed rather than acknowledging their sin of lying.  Maybe it is because they think that people are unwilling to forgive them even though they confess their lies honestly.  So what they do is they keep on denying the fact that they lied until people find that they lied.  For example, the Korean politicians keep on denying their lies even though those lies get exposed (I am sure not all the Korean politicians are like this).  The reason is because they may think that even they confess honestly, it is difficult to avoid blame.  So it seems that some...