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All right, my Bible in 365 
brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the book of Jonah. 
Jonah, Oh my goodness, what a 

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great book and you are going to 
love reading it because there. 

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Is. 
So much there that so many 

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people neglect. 
Listen, I am begging you, if you

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want to learn more, you want to 
get in depth into this amazing 

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book, go to jamescadice.com and 
grab my Bible studies on this 

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book. 
Matter of fact, once I finish 

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Part 2 of my revelation, a book,
I I have Part 1. 

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Let me see. 
If I can find it. 

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Right here kind of blends in 
with the background. 

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Part 2 is almost done. 
Then I'm going to do Daniel, 

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then I'm going to do Jeremiah, 
and then Jonah comes after that 

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because it is an incredible 
book. 

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Now with that said, let me just.
Simply say this because it's 

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really really really. 
Important. 

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There are a lot of facts about 
Jonah that most people will 

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never know and never hear 
because it'll never get taught 

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to them. 
And I am going to today share 

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those facts with you. 
And then I'm going to talk about

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a couple of other things that I 
think is really interesting that

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I think will be very applicable 
to you because it is important. 

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So let's talk about the what I 
would call the strongest lesser 

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known facts about Jonah, things 
people don't know. 

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First and foremost, Jonah was a 
real previously established 

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prophet. 
He appears actually in Second 

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Kings chapter 14, I think it's 
around verse 25 as Jonah the son

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of Amitay. 
Now this is important to 

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understand this because he 
prophesied during the reign of 

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Jeroboam the second around the 
8th century BC. 

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Now, this is critical because 
Jonah came from a place called 

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Gath Lefar in Galilee, which is 
near the area that we know of 

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today as Nazareth. 
He was a northern Kingdom 

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prophet. 
He was not a southern Kingdom 

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prophet, OK? 
He was not a prophet from Judah.

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That's kind of important because
he ministered to a group of 

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people whose heart were 
completely hard and towards the 

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Lord. 
Now, before Nineveh, Jonah 

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delivered a favorable prophecy 
concerning Israel's territorial 

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restoration. 
We have that, by the way. 

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He was accustomed to announcing 
good news for Israel. 

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This is our general assumption. 
God then commands him to carry a

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warning to one of Israel's 
greatest enemies, the northern 

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Kingdom of Israel, to one of the
northern kingdom's greatest 

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enemies, and that explains to 
help his resistance for why he 

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didn't want to go do it. 
Nineveh was a major Assyrian 

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city, although it probably had 
not yet become the the Assyrian 

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Empire's official capital city 
during Jonah's ministry. 

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That's an important thing to be 
able to note here because it was

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part of like this power center 
of a nation that was known for 

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evil. 
It was known for conquering and 

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terrorizing surrounding peoples,
but not just that torturing 

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them. 
I mean, I can't help but to 

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think of kings like Shalmaniser 
or or one everybody's favorite 

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if you know any kind of history.
And I'm saying that with with 

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with deep sarcasm, but ticklish 
policer who's actually the 

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inventor of modern day terrorism
as we know it today. 

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They were all Assyrian kings. 
Tarshish. 

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By the way, I should probably 
note this cannot be identified 

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with absolute certainty. 
We like there's a lot about 

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Tarshish that we still don't 
know. 

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It's frequently associated with 
like southwestern Spain. 

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You understand why I'm bringing 
that fact in because it's sort 

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of creates a different 
understanding of what's going 

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on. 
The essential point here, and, 

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and I want to point this out 
because this discussion of 

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Tarshish becomes large when we 
start getting into understanding

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the geopolitics of the region 
and how it associates things 

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going on today. 
The essential point that I'm 

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trying to bring up here is that 
Jonah boarded a ship heading 

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West. 
That's the point. 

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He for sure went W when Nineveh 
was far to the east. 

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OK, He was attempting to travel 
in the opposite direction. 

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We know that for sure. 
Jonas. 

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By the way, I should also note 
this kind of interesting fact as

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they come up. 
I'm just sharing them. 

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Jonas, Hebrew name. 
Actually means. 

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Dove. 
OK. 

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And his father's name. 
I just mentioned this before. 

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Amitai is connected with the 
principle of truth or 

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faithfulness. 
So there's an interesting, for 

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lack of a better term, kind of a
tension between his identity and

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his actions because Jonah 
initially behaves neither 

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peacefully or faithfully. 
I mean, if you think about it 

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right, the by the way, I should 
also point this out before I 

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lose touch with some of these 
facts. 

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The expression that we read 
Great Fish does not identify the

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creature as a whale. 
People talk about that all the 

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time. 
The text deliberately leaves the

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species unidentified for a very 
specific reason. 

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We can spend hours talking about
that reason. 

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The important fact is that God 
appointed the creature for that 

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specific purpose. 
And by the way, from what we can

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read in the Hebrew, he wasn't in
the actual belly, He was very 

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likely in the intestine of the 
fish, which is just, that's a 

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whole other, a whole other 
thing. 

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So I would also venture to say, 
Speaking of the whole fish 

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story, God appoints far more 
than the fish here, right? 

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He commands or prepares the 
storm. 

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I want you to picture that. 
Then the fish he deals with the 

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plants. 
Remember the story of the plant 

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and in the worm that destroys 
it, the east wind. 

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The book continually shows God 
controlling creation while his 

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prophet continues to rebel. 
Now this is what's really. 

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Interesting, Jonah. 
'S recorded message to Nineveh 

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is only 5 words in the. 
Hebrew language. 5 words. 

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Now, if I were to say it in 
Hebrew, it wouldn't make sense. 

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But I'll tell you the English 
translation, Even though it's 

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five Hebrew words, yet 40 days 
and Nineveh shall be overthrown,

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and that's more than 5 words in 
the English language, but in the

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Hebrew language it's 5 words. 
Granted, it may be a summary of 

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what his total preaching was, 
although I'm not so sure that's 

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the case, But the extreme 
brevity emphasizes, in my 

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opinion, that response that was 
extraordinary. 

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The man goes in and gives 5 
Hebrew words. 

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And the repentance reached from 
the ordinary citizens all the 

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way to the king. 
Even the animals. 

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You guys were included in the 
public display of mourning. 

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Like, think about that for a 
second. 

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Jonah may have been the most 
successful prophet in terms of 

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results to ever be recorded in 
the Bible, and yet he resisted 

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every second of it. 
He was angry because God spared 

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Nineveh, not because his 
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Think about that for a second. 
He may actually be the only 

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preacher that I can think of in 
the Bible who saw an entire city

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respond and was angry by the by 
the result. 

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Like literally displeased by it.
If you think about that, it's 

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wild. 
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I do want to say this because 
it's important. 

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Nineveh's repentance undoubtedly
delay judgement for Nineveh and 

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for the Assyrians, but it didn't
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The city eventually was 
destroyed by the Babylonians and

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the Medes in. 
Would. 

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Have been right before the 1st 
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So it would have been in 612 BC.
Now I, I want to say this 

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because this is important and 
I'm bringing this all up for a 

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reason. 
This book that you read, it's a 

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very short book. 
It's, it's most extraordinary 

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surprise is that Jonah is not 
primarily a story about a 

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rebellious city. 
It's not. 

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It's a story about a rebellious 
prophet and a merciful. 

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God, there's a deep lesson to 
take home here, and it's 

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critical. 
Many of you are probably 

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watching this video thinking. 
About things that you've done in

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the past that you are not happy 
about. 

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Maybe you have? 
Regrets about a life lived that 

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you want to take back. 
Maybe. 

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You're just overwhelmed with 
depression and sadness. 

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Because things don't seem to be 
the way. 

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You always thought they would 
be. 

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Here's what we learn. 
God is a God of mercy. 

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God is a God of grace. 
God is a God of restoration. 

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God is a God of second chances. 
God is a God that can take the 

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most basic and difficult and 
hard story and turn it into the 

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most complicated, radical, 
powerful. 

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Storyline. 
That nobody ever thought 

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happened. 
God can give the writers of 

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Ocean 11 and 12 and 13 for. 
That matter a run. 

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For their money, yeah, it's a 
good, good movie. 

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Well, not really. 
Well, you know what I mean? 

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I like watching. 
I like watching. 

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Ocean's 11. 
Here's the deal. 

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Why not let God write the rest 
of the chapters of the book of 

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your life? 
Why not you join me in stop 

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rebelling against what God wants
to do in His grace and mercy and

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being a part of one of the most 
extraordinary changes in human 

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history? 
What happened with Jonah was 

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remarkable. 
What happened with the story of 

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Nineveh was remarkable. 
But I'm here to tell you that 

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the best is yet to come. 
I'm here to tell you, but the 

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greatest part of this remarkable
story is in front of us today. 

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Take advantage of it because God
is faithful and God is good. 

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He is capable of fixing 
anything. 

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His mercy is unbelievable, His 
grace is extraordinary, and His 

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love endures forever. 
I love you guys. 

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God bless you. 
Keep fighting the good fight.