Jonah 3:2
3:2 “Go immediately
to Nineveh, that large city,
and proclaim to
it the message that I tell you.”
Isaiah 58:1
The Lord Desires Genuine Devotion
58:1 “Shout loudly! Don’t be quiet!
Yell as loud as a trumpet!
Confront my people with their rebellious deeds;
confront Jacob’s family with their sin!
Jeremiah 1:7-10
1:7 The
Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ But go
to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.
1:8 Do not be afraid of those to whom I send you,
for I will be with you to protect
you,” says the
Lord.
1:9 Then the
Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
1:10 Know for certain that
I hereby give you the authority to announce to nations and kingdoms that they will be
uprooted and torn down, destroyed and demolished, rebuilt and firmly planted.”
Ezekiel 2:7
2:7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.
Ezekiel 3:5-9
3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech
and difficult language,
but
to the house of Israel –
3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand
– surely if
I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you,
because they are not willing to listen to me,
for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
3:8 “I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.
3:9 I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house.”
Micah 3:8
3:8 But I am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives,
and have a strong commitment to justice.
This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion,
and Israel with its sin.
Matthew 10:18
10:18 And you will be brought before governors and kings
because of me, as a witness to them and the Gentiles.