Focused Teaching from
Brick Lane Community Church
Delve is the home for a series of focused teaching from the Pastors, Staff, and Members of Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania.
In this educational series, the student will Learn about God’s Grace Toward Insiders and Outsiders, how Salvation Belongs to the Lord, A Most Unlikely Repentance, and Amazing Grace or Accustomed Grace.
The content here is taken from a series of sermons by David Royes focusing on the book of Jonah.
Speaker: David Royes
Scripture: Jonah 1:1-16
November 14, 2021
Originally recorded during the 11/14/21 Worship Service and Sermon, the video below begins at the portion containing the sermon on Jonah.
Scripture: Jonah 1:1-16
Key words: Missions, Disobedience, Grace, Mercy
God is trying to get the attention of a Gentile nation that is heading toward destruction (showing grace and mercy to a people who "don't know their right from their left"). To do this, he tells Jonah, a prophet of Israel, to go to Ninevah, the capital of Assyria, a nation that had been a source of torment for Israel for many years.
Jonah is not on board with God's plan, so he runs in the opposite direction. Every step he takes away from God is a step down. He goes down from the mountainous region of his hometown to Joppa on the coast. He boards a ship for Tarshish and goes down below deck. He will later ask to be thrown overboard to stop the raging storm, where he will be swallowed by a "great fish" and taken further down into the depths.
God shows his mercy and grace not only toward the Ninevites, but also toward the pagan mariners and his own prophet.
The audio clip below contains the entire sermon on Jonah taken from the 11/14/21 Worship Service and Sermon. You can listen from here or download the entire clip.
Speaker: David Royes
Scripture: Jonah 2
November 21, 2021
Originally recorded during the 11/21/21 Worship Service and Sermon, the video below begins at the portion containing the sermon on Jonah.
Scripture: Jonah 2
Jonah 2 is a poem sandwiched between two proses. Jonah "knew" doctrine, but he didn't "possess" the doctrine.
1. Recall: The Horror of Sin
Jonah realizes the horizontal consequences of his actions.
Disobedience to God's word never lands us where we think it will. It never comes through on its promises.
2. Perceive: The Exaltation of God
Salvation belongs to the Lord.
His judgement is real: God always judges sin.
His presence is joy: Joy is God Himself. He is the wellspring of life.
Jonah found only misery apart from God.
Idolatry is choosing sewage over clean water. His reign is supreme: God heard Jonah's cry from the deep.
3. Experience: The Operation of Sovereign Grace
God fashioned a unique way of saving Jonah from drowning. God is both willing and able to save you and me from our sin.
The audio clip below contains the entire sermon on Jonah taken from the 11/21/21 Worship Service and Sermon. You can listen from here or download the entire clip.
Speaker: David Royes
Scripture: Jonah 3
January 9, 2022
Originally recorded during the 1/9/22 Worship Service and Sermon, the video below begins at the portion containing the sermon on Jonah.
Scripture: Jonah 3
1. A Recommissioned Prophet
* Highlight’s God’s perfect patience
2. A Repentant People
a. Their repentance is Godward
b. Their repentance is sincere
c. Their repentance is comprehensive
3. A Relenting God
JONAH 3 (ESV)
1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”
3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6 The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,
8 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
The audio clip below contains the entire sermon on Jonah taken from the 1/9/22 Worship Service and Sermon. You can listen from here or download the entire clip.
Speaker: David Royes
Scripture: Jonah 4
January 16, 2022
Originally recorded during the 1/16/22 Worship Service and Sermon, the video below begins at the portion containing the sermon on Jonah.
Scripture: Jonah 4
“We sing about ‘amazing grace’ and speak of ‘amazing grace’, but far too often it [grace] has ceased to amaze us. Sadly, we might more truthfully sing of ‘accustomed grace.’ We have lost the joy and energy that are experienced when grace seems truly amazing.” ~ Sinclair Ferguson
Literary Structure of Jonah:
Jonah 1: Jonah commissioned & disobedience → Jonah 3: Jonah recommissioned & obedience
Jonah 1b: Jonah & pagan sailors → Jonah 3: Jonah and pagan Ninevites.
Jonah 2: Jonah’s grateful prayer → Jonah 4a: Jonah’s angry prayer.
Jonah 4b: GOD Schools Jonah in Compassion. (*1)
1. Accustomed Grace: Jonah’s Angry Prayer
2. Amazing Grace: God’s Gracious Pursuit
a. His appointing is perfect
b. His word is persistent
c. His compassion is plentiful
3. Extending Grace: The Author’s hanging question
(*1) Adapted from David Dorsey, Literary Structure of the Old Testament (Baker Books, 2004).
The audio clip below contains the entire sermon on Jonah taken from the 1/16/22 Worship Service and Sermon. You can listen from here or download the entire clip.