Simple Sermon Outlines Of The Book Of Jonah

By Pastor Bruce Oyen

Email: bk_oyen@hotmail.com

Jonah and the Big Fish

   

Introductory statements

    The Old Testament's Book of Jonah is short and simple. But it packs a punch! It relates to everyday life. The purpose of this posting is to present some simple sermon outlines on all 4 chapters of this Old Testament book. And the purpose for doing so is two-fold: 1) To give preachers outline-ideas of how to preach through this book. As one has put it, outlines are sermon skeletons on which to put some meat. 2) To give interested persons an easy-to-grasp survey of the book, with the hope that this will plant some seed-thoughts in their minds that might bear fruit, whether now or later.  

    It is not my intention in this posting to go into much more detail about Jonah's book. Bible students can get a lot of help from the standard Bible commentaries and study Bibles, provided they are commentaries and study Bibles that are by authors who believe the Bible to be what it is: the inspired Word of God correctly transmitted to us in the words of men.

Here are a few conservative study Bibles I recommend:

• The Ryrie Study Bible ( It has 10,000 notes and other helps)
• The NKJV Study Bible (My favorite. It has 15,000 notes and other helps.)
• The Zondervan KJV Study Bible (My second favorite. It has 20,000 notes and other helps.)
• The Zondervan NASB Study Bible (This has the same notes and helps as the last one.)

Here are a few commentaries I recommend that would comment on the Book of Jonah.:

• The multi-volume Expositor's Bible Commentary set.
• J. Vernon McGee's Commentaries.
• The multi-volume Pulpit Commentary set.
• Warren Wiersbe's commentaries.
• Believer's Bible Commentary, by William MacDonald. One volume covers the whole Bible.
• Unger's one-volume commentary on the Old Testament.
• Charles Lee Feinberg's one-volume commentary on the Minor Prophets.
• The two-volume Bible Knowledge Commentary, by John Walvoord and Roy Zuck.
• The multi-volume commentary set by Keil and Delitzsch.

Chapter Outlines of the Book of Jonah

 Chapter One:

    A. His Commission.

    B. His Rebellion.

    C. His Guilt.

 Chapter Two:

    A. His Punishment.

    B. His Repentance.

    C. His Forgiveness.

 Chapter Three:

    A. His Re-commission.

    B. His Obedience.

    C. His Success

 Chapter Four:

    A. His Anger.

    B. His Blessings.

    C. His Rebuke.