<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 Now, watch, Jesus could've used His power, but He didn't; He used the Word. He said, "It's written men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
And He stood three times and defeated Satan all three times and "three" is the confirmation of a witness. Amen.
He defeated Satan on his own ground with the Word of God. And the weakest Christian here tonight can defeat Satan anywhere, any place, any time, under any conditions with THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right. You just believe it. God said so.
"How do you know?"
"God said so."
"What if..."
"By His stripes I'm healed."

L-35 What is confess? "Confess" is "to say the same thing." That's what you--what a confession is. Confess is to say the same thing, and say the same thing He said. Say what He said; don't say what your feelings say; don't say what your neighbor says; say what God said. Confess it and believe it.
Don't look at your symptoms; the symptoms is the worst thing the enemy... God has to fight against. Symptoms. Everybody says, "Well, I was prayed for, but my hand's no better."
It'll never be like that. Never will. You're looking at your hand. Don't look at your hand; look what God said. What if Abraham said, "Now, Sarah... The first month... Now, he had lived with her for--for years, and since she was about seventeen, eighteen years old, and here she was sixty-five now, many years past menopause. See? If she's going to have children, she'd have had it then. They were both sterile. And he said, "Well, how could she have the baby..." What if he had said that? "Why, it's the first month past," said "Sarah, how you feeling?"
She said, "No different."
"Well, I guess maybe, I--it wasn't God talked to me."
Oh, My. God couldn't have--couldn't have put His confidence in Abraham.

L-36 But no matter what Sarah's condition was, it was not Sarah's condition he was looking at; it was the promise that God made he was looking at. It ain't the condition of your hand, or your ear, or your cancer, or whatever it is; it's God's Word you're looking at. God said so. Now, don't try to bluff it; it won't take bluffing; but if you have got the goods, it'll recognize it. That's right. You got to have the real goods.
Now, don't look at your symptoms. You know. Let me tell you a fellow had some symptoms one time, worst case I ever seen in my life. It was a fellow named Jonah. And God sent him down to Nineveh and he kinda got cold feet because the ministerial association had been against him down there. So he--he went over to Tarshish, so easy over there, a lot of saints. You see? But on his road, trouble come up. You know, you usually get that way when you do something God tells you not to.

L-37 The sea got to raging, and waves a licking in the boat; and finally Jonah confessed that he was the cause of it. And they tied his feet and hands and throwed him out in the ocean. Now, look. God had a big old whale around there, and he come and swallowed Jonah. And then, anyone knows that when a fish eats he goes right down to the bottom and rests his swimmers on the bottom. Feed your goldfish and watch what happens.
So this fish was prowling through the water for his prey. And God directed him over there and here was a backslidden preacher. And he throwed him out, and he swallowed this preacher. Here he was down there in the belly of the whale, backslid, seaweeds around his neck, laying in a big belly full of vomit, in a stormy sea, many fathoms deep in the ocean, perhaps, where this whale went down after he eat Jonah, and was down there. And if he looked this way, it was whale's belly; he looked that way, it was whale's belly; everywhere he could see was whale's belly. And backslid, and on a stormy sea, and his feet and hands tied behind him... There's no one that bad off here.


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