Jonah’s discipline
Ronald Hanko provides an exegetical meditation on Jonah 1:4-17 that illustrates the Reformed doctrine of the perseverance of the saints through God's disciplinary work in Jonah's life. The article emphasizes how God's sovereign grace, not human effort, ensures the ultimate salvation and restoration of the elect, even when they stray into disobedience, using Jonah's experience as a case study in divine discipline and sanctification.
Jonah 1:4-17 The doctrine of the perseverance or preservation of saints is beautifully illustrated in what happened to Jonah when he tried to escape his commission to Nineveh. God does not and cannot forsake His own or leave them to perish. He always rescues them from their disobedience and sin and brings them to repentance and new obedience. God, who has chosen His own from eternity, redeemed them by the blood of His Son, and sent His Spirit to work in them, cannot forsake them without being...
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