Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Everybody good? Looking great. If you got your Bible's

hope so, go to Jonah. You've had three weeks to find it. Okay, so if you hadn't found it yet,

keep looking because we've got one more week. We're in week three. We're doing a chapter a week

essentially. In chapter one, which was week one for us, God speaks to Jonah. He says,

arise and go to Nineveh. And Jonah responds by arising and going to Tarshish. And so we talked about

God's called in our life. And that no matter how far you think you've gone, and no matter what

direction you're heading, you're never too far gone, and it's never too late to return to what God

has called you to do.

And then in week two, Jonah speaks to God.

And in the belly of a whale, in utter desperation, he cries out to God and thank God that God does not respond to Jonah the way Jonah responded to God.

But God answers Jonah in his distress.

And then this week, God's going to speak to Jonah again.

You see, how many of you are so glad and gracious to him that he's not a one-and-done God?

That he gives us chance after a chance after a chance.

Amen?

This is why he can't be a Kentucky basketball fan, okay?

Because they're all one-and-done, and that's not God's way.

Do it like Georgia.

Just get some average people, let them stick around forever, and they're last.

Whatever, all right.

So, Jonah, chapter 3, verse 1, we'll pick it up there.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time.

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