<TITLE>11. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Oh, brother, as you see the--hear the ambulance screaming. Every time you hear one, it's a marker that you're going that way. Every time you pass a graveyard, it's a marker you're going that way. Every time a wrinkle appears in the face and a gray hair in the head, it's a marker you're going that way. No wonder then Paul could say, with that real hope rooted and grounded in him, like this...?... when he got down to the end of the road, he said, "I fought a good fight; I finished the course; I've kept the faith: henceforth, there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness, the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me at that day: not only me, but all that love His appearing."
When you're sick and tired of this whole life, and you love the appearing of the Lord Jesus better than you love your food at the table, or your wife, or your children, then there's a crown laid up for you, not a crown, a gold crown they put upon your head, but a body free from pain of... crowned in the glory of God, crowned in the immortality of Jesus Christ. That's what's laid up for you, that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give you it that day. That's the day we look forward to. God has made a way of escape for every one of us, certainly He has.

L-41 When Daniel the prophet, God's child was throwed into a lion's den... There was a time that Daniel, being faithful, who raised his windows and wasn't afraid of what the king said, and when the--prayed... Regardless of what the proclamation was made, Daniel prayed anyhow, as he faced Jerusalem and prayed. If man face Jerusalem and prayed, the city where the burnt sacrifice is made... That's the reason Daniel looked that way and prayed. For the Lord had already said, "The people be in trouble at any time, look towards this holy place and pray, then hear--I will hear from heaven," when Solomon dedicated the temple.

L-42 That's the reason Jonah had the faith he did, when he had seaweeds wrapped around his neck, and standing in vomit in the belly of the whale, way down in the deep of the ocean on a stormy sea, he said, "They're lying vanities. But once more will I look to Your holy temple, God."
God did something; He made a way of escape for Jonah. What He did, nobody knows. That's God's own secret. But no matter whether it was impossible, God can cir--can alter circumstances. He can make the impossible become a probable, and not only probable, they could make it a reality, when man take God at His Word and accept the provided way, that God provided for the man.
God did something; He might have put a oxygen tent down there. I don't know what He did in the belly of that whale, but He kept Jonah in there for three days and nights as a type that Christ would lay without oxygen in the belly of the earth, and on the third day He will come out again. Was a type; He made a way of escape. He always will.

L-43 When Daniel stood there, and the lion's come running to him, there was not a fear in that old saint's heart. But he stood there, and God wasn't finished with him. And just before the lions grabbed him, a Angel spread before them.
No doubt but the same burning Light that appeared to Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. A big Light shined out, and they looked, and they didn't know what was taking place, and Saul fell from his horse, and a voice came from the Light saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
Said, "Who is it, Lord?"
He said, "I, Jesus you're persecuting."


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