<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Many people think that symptoms... When they see symptoms, that--that's what they look at. You can't be saved on what you see. You've got to be saved on what you believe. Is that right? You're not saved by feelings; you're not healed by feelings.
Why, when I was first converted and received the Holy Spirit, the devil beat me harder than he ever did. I still believed I had the Holy Ghost. Because I had met God's requirements. And God gave me the Holy Ghost and I know He did. See?
Now, that's the same thing. Now, we take for instance, like a fellow in the Bible (I'll give you just this before we read). There was a man in the Bible who really had an awful case of symptoms. And that was a fellow named Jonah. The Lord told him to do something and he didn't do it, then he backslid. And he got out on the sea, and the sea was all roaring and going on, and--and the ship was about to sink because there was a backslidden minister on the--the ship.

L-15 And he confessed that he was the guilty one. Didn't want the whole congregation to perish with him. So they tied his hands behind him and threw him out of the ship. God was determined to have His Word preached just the same. And there was a big fish or whale swallowed up Jonah.
And the fish when he prowls through his wa--the waters until he finds what he's... food. Then he goes down to the bottom and rests his swimmers on the bottom of the sea. Feed your goldfish and watch them do the same.
Well now, look at this preacher now. He was on a stormy sea, backslid, hands tied behind him, in the belly of a whale, in the bottom of the sea. Talk about symptoms, he had them. If he looked this a way, it was a whale's belly. He looked back this a way, it was a whale's belly. Perhaps setting up, down there in that whale's belly. And the seaweeds wrapped around his neck in the vomit of the whale. He... Everywhere he looked it was a whale's belly. And he's worse off than anybody in here tonight. Well, he looked at all that, but he... What did he say? "They're lying vanities." He said, "Once more will I look to Your temple, Lord."

L-16 'Cause when Solomon dedicated that temple, and the Pillar of Fire went in behind that temple and settled down; Solomon asked God if His people got in trouble anywhere and would look towards that temple and pray, then for Him to hear from heaven.
And Jonah believed that--that God heard Solomon's prayer. And you know what? God kept him alive for three days and nights and brought him right back and loosed him, and put him in Nineveh to preach the Gospel.
Now Jonah, under those circumstance, could refuse to see the whale's belly, could refuse to see his backslidden condition, but with faith looked beyond that stormy sea, his backslidden condition, the depth of the water, the whale, his conditions and where he was, and say, "I'll look to Your holy temple."... And God delivered him upon that faith in that earthly temple, how much more ought to you--tonight, to refuse to see your stomach trouble, heart trouble, whatever it is, and look beyond the veil yonder, where Jesus Christ sets at the right hand of the majesty of God, with His bloody garments waving back and forth, making intercessions upon your confessions. My.
Just refuse to see any of it. The devil brought it to you. Just throw it right back in his face and walk away from it. Just refuse to have it. That's what we got to do. Is that right?


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