<TITLE>22. Par 76-79</TITLE>L-76 Now, "Although he's dead, Lord, he's been dead four days. He's corrupted. His body is--is rotten; skin worms is crawling in his body; bugs is eating him up, out there in the dirt. I know he's gone. All hopes that way is gone, but even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." Oh, I like that. "Even now Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." If you people in this building today that's sick and afflicted, if you'll get your mind off the symptoms and get onto what God has said, it'll take place right now. "Even now, Lord."
I think of Jonah. If there ever was anybody in the world that really had some symptoms, it was Jonah. Don't you think so? That guy was on his road down to Nineveh. God told him to go to Nineveh, and he backslid and went over to Tarshish to get--get an easier road.

L-77 And on the road down there... Any backslidden preacher is going cause some trouble. That's what's the matter with the world today. So, they... First thing you know, a trouble's come up. And Jonah said, "Now, you tie up my hands and feet, and throw me out in the ocean, everything will be all right." So they picked him up, and throwed him out in the ocean. And then the first thing you know a big fish come by and swallowed him. I was talking to somebody about that the other day.
They said, "Preacher, do you really believe that--that that fish... Why," said, "I can prove it that an orange can't go down a whale's neck." Said, "Why, it couldn't do it."
I said, "But this is a special fish God prepared. See? This is a good one. This one could swallow a man easy without any trouble at all."

L-78 It reminds me of a little girl on that story, used to come to the Tabernacle. Oh, she was--got saved down there and filled with the Holy Ghost. Her little face just a shining. She was going up the street, and and old man Dorsey up there that lived at Utica, a infidel to the core, he was standing out there hoeing weeds on Sunday, you know, cleaning his tomato patch out. This little girl come up the road singing:
Jesus loves me,
This I know.
Just a singing to the top of her voice.
Mr. Dorsey said, "Hey, what are you doing?"
She said, "How do you do, Mr. Dorsey?" Said, "Praise the Lord. I just got the Holy Ghost."
He said, "Nonsense." Said, "Where you been down there? Billy Branham will run you crazy."
She said, "Well, I just feel awfully good."
Said, "What's you got in your arm there?"
She said, "It's my Bible."
Said, "You believe that story in there about the fish and the whale, or the--the whale swallowing Jonah?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Do you believe that--that the whale swallowed Jonah?"
She said, "Well, if the Bible said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I'd believe it." See? Whatever it was.

L-79 She said... He said, "Nonsense." He said, "How are you going to prove it any other way but by faith that that whale swallowed Jonah?"
"Why," she said, "When I get to heaven I'll ask Jonah." That's exactly.
Well, he said, "Then perhaps what if Jonah ain't there?"
Said, "Then you'll have to ask him." He'd be in hell, exactly. Said, "You'll have to ask him."
That's a good--that's a good question. That's a good thing. Said, "If Jonah's not in heaven, then you ask him. 'Cause he'd be where he'd be." Oh, that's right, brother.
And this Jonah, God throwed him--had him throwed out of the ship, and this whale swallowed him. I believe it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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