<TITLE>09. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 And if Jonah... The reason he could base his faith there, because when Solomon dedicated the temple, he prayed this prayer: "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble at any time, and look to this holy place, and pray, then You hear from heaven." And Jonah, in the belly of the whale, backslid, stormy sea, hands and feet tied, laying in vomit, sea weeds around his neck, could look to the a temple, where a man that backslid later, by the name of Solomon, that prayed a prayer for the children's deliverance; how much more ought you to look, setting in the house of God, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus? Where people are being healed all the time, and look away from your symptoms, not to the temple made with hands, but to heaven itself, where Christ sets at the right hand of God with His own Blood making intercessions on your confessions. How much more ought you to say, "They're lying vanities. I won't believe it." Look to heaven. Depends on what you're looking at. If you're still looking at your hand, you ain't going never get no better. If you're looking to God's promise, you're bound to get better.
Jesus is the High Priest of our confession, setting at the right hand of God, making intercessions upon our confession. And any redemptive blessing He died for, He's there to make it right as the High Priest. Amen. That ought to make the Methodists shout. Sure. It's old time religion, been tried all--through all kinds of furnaces, and quenched--tried by all kinds of water, but is still burning. Yes.

L-29 Abraham owned it all. And he was an heir of all of it, and you're an heir of all of it, being Abraham's seed. God calls you by sovereign grace, the same way He called Abraham. Tonight you professed to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which you have to die to yourself to be borned of the Spirit as a believer. You, being dead in Christ, you take on Abraham's seed and are heirs to every promise. Amen. Don't get scared; "Amen," won't hurt you. "Amen" means "so be it," and I'm not amening myself, but I believe it. That's right.
Every promise is true to the believer, that'll take God at His Word and call those things like Abraham. The Bible said that Abraham called those things which was not, as though they were. And he staggered not at God through unbelief. He never considered his own body, said Romans 4. His own body now dead, hundred years old, neither the deadness of Sarah's womb, and he called those things which were not, as though they were, being fully persuaded that He that made the promise was able to keep it.
What about you tonight, who call yourself Abraham's seed and are heirs of the same promise? If you have the faith that Abraham had, and if you are Abraham's seed, you've got the same faith or you couldn't be Abraham's seed. Amen. That's pretty strong. Kindy goes hard on some of our pet theology.

L-30 But my mama... I was... I guess she's here tonight. But we was raised awful poor. Mama used to tell me, we'd... You know, we had to cook meat skins in a bread pan and make the grease, you know, to go on the corn pones. And every Saturday night, we had a big old cedar tub. About eight Branhams, and all them little fellows line up, a bath every Saturday night in this old tub, same water, just warm it up a little with the teakettle. Every one get a bath, and a big dose of castor oil in the wintertime. I got so sick of that stuff that I can't stand it yet. And I'd hold my nose, I'd start to mama, gagging. I'd say, "Mama, I just can't stand it; it makes me sick."
She said, "Stand still. If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
That's the same thing I say about this tonight: If it don't make you sick, it might not do you no good. It might stir you up and get your spiritual gastronomics working right to receive the Word and the promise of Almighty God. He gave it. And that's the way you have to come to Him.


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