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Biblical Giving    "Biblical giving  does not flow out of a sense of guilt  or a desire to win God's favor;  it flows out of a sense of God's grace."   (Iain M. Duguid, "NUMBERS : GOD'S PRESENCE in the WILDERNESS")

God's grace  "God's grace is most powerful and effective at the moment of my greatest weakness."   (Paul David Tripp, "INSTRUMENTS IN THE REDEEMER'S HANDS")

  God's grace     "’Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.’  …  ‘Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you’"(Jonah 1:2, 3:2).                       When we compare Jonah 1:2 with Jonah 3:2, there is a similarity.  Both the first word of God to Jonah (1:2) and the second word (3:2) begin with the same words: “Arise, go the Nineveh the great city.”  But comparing the two verses, there is also the difference.  The difference is that in the first word of God, God told Jonah the reason why Jonah should go to Nineveh ("because its wickedness has come up before me”) (1:2) while in the second word of God, God told Jonah what he should proclaim, the content of the message (3:2): “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overth...