Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith, and I'm here with the

incredible John, by the way. Welcome, John, by the way. Thank you. If you've been following

Follow Him Favorites this year, you know that we're taking a single question from every lesson,

and we're just talking about it. The question this week, John, is what are we supposed to learn

from the story of Jonah? This is just a crazy story of Jonah running away from God and being

swallowed by a fish and by the end of chapter one, you're going holy cow, what is happening here?

So, John, what do you get out of the story of Jonah? Oh, man, there's a few things that I think

are kind of interesting. One of them is that he gets a call to go to a place that is known for being

really wicked and really brutal to Nineveh. And I kind of like the words it used to describe. He went

down to Japa and went down into a ship and then fell down into the water, or they threw him in

the water. And then he goes up the swish fish walls and he vomits him up on the shore. He goes up to

Nineveh. It's kind of like when you're going away from God, you're going down, down, down. There's

something to learn about. If the Lord calls you to do something that sounds really harder and possible,

you can do it with this help. And that's a beautiful part. The fun part is Hank. And we've talked

about this before is that Jesus talks about the story of Jonah. When the scribes and Pharisees

are demanding a sign, we would see a sign of the Jesus says, I won't give you one, except for the

sign of Jonah. So, what does he mean by that, do you think, Hank? I'd love the sign of Jonah, the

idea that I can give you a sign that Jonah was in the whale for three days and three nights. And

here's a sign for you. I'm going to come out of a tomb after three days and three nights. In the

belly of the whale, Jonah was there three days and three nights. Somewhere he never should have

come out of. And yet he came out of it. And I think the sign Jesus is talking about is I can do

something even bigger than Jonah did. Not just come out of a fish. I can come out of death after

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