<TITLE>08. Par 26-27</TITLE>L-26 Yes, Abraham's to look around. This stream's his; that fountain's his; this mountain's his. Abraham could look around and see what he had. Why don't you tonight? If you're sick, why don't you thumb through the arcade here, and see if He wasn't wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. If you're all down (as we call it, the street expression) in the dumps, "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed." All these blessings belongs to you. They're yours, your personal property. Christ died that it might be so.
But you look at symptoms. Oh, if you didn't get healed, you say, "Well, there's my arm; I accepted it last night, no difference this morning. Well, you know I had a stomach trouble, last night, I noticed this morning I still got it." You can never get no better like that. Symptoms...

L-27 You know, a man, one time, had the greatest case of symptoms I ever knowed of was Jonah. He was on his road down to Nineveh, backslid. He went to Tarshish, and he got out there and got in trouble. When you backslide, look out; trouble's in the way. And the sea got angry, this preacher trying to go the wrong way, take the easy road... How many of you preachers tonight, is trying to take the easy road, trying to place Divine healing somewhere else, the praises of God, Angels ministering, Holy Ghost, Spirit and all, trying to put it in some place back. You better come on back, brother, than go to Nineveh. Be some trouble waters one of these days...
And they took Jonah and tied his hands behind him, his feet, and throwed him out into the sea. God had a great big fish, and he swallowed him. And a fish, when it's eats, anyone knows... Feed your goldfish. After it prowls through the water hunting it's prey, it goes to the bottom of the water, rests its swimmers, fins on the bottom. I don't how many fathoms deep, the sea must be out from Nineveh there. But Jonah in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind him, backslid, on a stormy sea, in the whale's belly in the vomit, talk about symptoms, he had them. If he looked this way, it was whale's belly. He looked that way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked it was whale's belly. Now, you're not in that bad a shape. But what did Jonah say? He said, "They are lying vanities. I won't believe one of them." He said, "Lord, once more, will I look to Your holy temple." He didn't see the whale's belly; he was looking for the temple.
Don't look at your symptoms, look at the promise. How bad you're sick, look Who great a Person give the promise. God said so.


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