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Jonah chapter 1, verses 1 through 3.

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amatai, saying,

arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it,

for their evil has come up before me. But Jonah rose to flee to

Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Thus begins the book of Jonah. It all starts with God saying to Jonah, there is people the Ninevites a great city that they live in

and they have sinned against me why is God sending Jonah there because God loves sinners because God desires to make a way for their salvation the

message God is putting in Jonah's mouth here is for the Ninevites to repent to turn from

their sin and be reconciled to God, be saved from

his judgment. From the first verse in this book, we see that God loves sinners, that God

desires their salvation. And yet, by verse three, we find a reluctance in God's people to proclaim this good news of God's love.

It doesn't make sense, does it?

Why would God's servant, Jonah, be reluctant to share God's love with the Ninevites?

There's so much we could talk about here when it comes to prejudice against even hatred for the Ninevites among many Israelites.

But get the picture where we, even as God's people, are prone to prejudice, even hatred. God is prone to love. Not just prone to love,

God clearly loves. So I want you to think, just examine your own heart. Is there any person or type of people that you have

prejudice against? That you are prone to think negatively of. That could be somebody

right around you in your work, even in your family, in your community,

in the city where you live, is there any type of person that you're prone to think negatively

about? And then broaden that. Is there any type of person in the world that you are prone to

prejudice against, prone to think negatively about? Step back and realize that while God hates

evil, that's clear here in Jonah chapter 1, verse 2. God graciously loves sinners and desires their

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