It is written on our hearts,

song upon our lips,

let every generation hear the sound of the ones.

Amen and amen.

How we're doing, church, doing all right? Everybody's looking good. If you got your

Bibles, and I hope you do, we're going to be in Jonah again this week. Again, it's a very hard

book to find. If you need to go to the table of contents, feel free to do that. There's no shame in

that game. If you don't have a Bible, there's one in front of you. It's our gift to you, or you can take your teaching notes, and the majority of the text is in there. If you weren't here last week, we started a brand new series called Jonah. For the next four weeks or three weeks from now, we will be studying this book about God's relentless pursuit of his rebellious

people through this reluctant missionary. And we talked last week about this, this idea that God

comes to Jonah, the word of the Lord comes to Jonah and tells him to go to Nineveh.

It was the arch enemy of Israel, and he thinks I'm not going there because it's dangerous,

and I don't like those people, and so he heads in the exact opposite direction.

Now, Nineveh is in modern-day Iraq.

That's where it is.

And interestingly enough, this week, as I was getting ready for this message, actually today, I got an email from a concerned dad in North Carolina

that listens to the podcast. Now, I just need to warn you, I rarely, rarely, rarely, rarely return emails,

okay?

And this one popped up and I read it.

And it's just very nice words.

We listened from North Carolina, heard me speak somewhere, love what you say, except week one of Jonah.

So we've got this incredible rock star daughter. She's a sophomore at NC State. She's

studying to be a chemical engineer. She's got all these like super sweet internships lined up for

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