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There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God.

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Jonah chapter 4 verse 11

and should not I pity Nineveh that great city

in which there are more than 120,000 persons

who do not know their right hand from their left

and also much cattle?

And thus the book of Jonah ends with a question.

It's one of the rare times we see in the whole Bible, a book end with a question.

And it is a penetrating question.

There's so much we could talk about from the whole story of Jonah leading up to this point.

But the picture here in Jonah chapter 4 verse 11 is God's heart for Nineveh, for the Assyrian people

who have sinned against him, who deserve his judgment, but whom he loves and he

pities. He has compassion for. He cares for. This is the greatest news in the world that God

cares for has compassion for sinners who have rebelled against him, sinners like you and me.

But the problem in Jonah is that Jonah wants to receive that kind of mercy from God,

but he doesn't want others, particularly his enemies, the Assyrians, to receive that mercy from God.

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