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Jonah, chapter 2, verses 1 and 2, then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,

saying, I called out to the Lord out of my distress and he answered me out of the belly of

sheol I cried and you heard my voice. What a picture on so many levels, right? Number one,

Jonah's in the belly of a fish and I really look forward to diving into secret church on Jonah

and talking more about just that reality. There's a ton we could talk about there, but what is he doing

from the belly of this fish? He's praying. He's crying out the Lord and listening to the language

out of my distress, out of the belly of sheol, which I can imagine. That's probably what the

belly of a fish feels like, but the beauty of Jonah's saying, you heard my voice from the belly

of the fish. Think about it. Jonah is experiencing not just distress in general, but he's experiencing

the consequences of disobedience, the consequences of sin and rebellion against God, and in the depth

of those consequences, Jonah cries out to God. The God he has run from, the God he has rebelled against

and God hears him and God answers his cries. Is this not such good news that even though we rebel

against God, the holy God of the universe before whom our sin warrants infinite eternal judgment

that God in his grace hears our cry for mercy. And he answers it. He answers our cry. I mean,

you read all the way down in this prayer. It's an amazing prayer. And you get to Jonah chapter

two, verse nine. And the last thing he says is he prays is salvation belongs to the Lord. Praise

God. Just pray. God, prays you for your salvation in our lives. You know, though we have rebelled

against you, though we deserve eternal separation from you. We deserve judgment from your holy

righteous hand. We praise you for your relenting. We praise you for your unrelenting mercy and grace

for your pursuit of us. Even when we have found ourselves in some even maybe right now,

finding themselves at a low point experiencing the consequences and distress associated with

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