<TITLE>02. Par 6-9</TITLE>L-6 Now, the tapes that Mr. Goad here, and Mr. Mercier have, they take them on the messages on recordings. They've got hundreds from all over the country. The outstanding ones was at Chicago, just recently. There's a--a group of five of them, if you people want them for recording, or your recorders. We had a real good PA system and every word was clear. And then, they have them, and they sell them just as cheap as they possibly can. I ordered one from a certain evangelist, not long ago, and I paid nine dollars for the tape. The boys, I think, gets about three dollars for them. And cheaper than that, I think, if you buy them in a group. Just about what the tape--a little more than the tape is worth. What they have to pay for it, by buying them by the hundreds of dollars worth, at a time. So you can see, my associates, Mr. Goad or Mr. Mercier. They'd be glad to take care of it for you.

L-7 The reading of the Scriptures, tonight... We have read just a portion of the infallible Word of the Eternal God. And Jesus had just been up braiding them because of their hardness of their heart, because they had not believed him. Then we find, that He, back in the former part of the Scriptures, they'd had--in this same text, or--or chapter, they had called Him, Beelzebub, because He was doing the supernatural signs.
And if anyone knew that God always dwells in supernatural, because God, Himself, is supernatural. And His children, which are His offspring, is the nature of their Father. They also believe in the supernatural. So if they cannot believe in the supernatural, then the Spirit of God is not in them, dominating their life.
And these great cultured men, those days, the priest, and the rabbis, and the Pharisees, which were very highly cultured men, fine, educated scholars, knowed the Word just the letter, and they had to live unspotted lives, 'cause he that despised Moses law, died under two or three witnesses. And they would be stoned, if they did anything wrong. So they must be a selected group, a scholarly group, an educated group. But God doesn't dwell in any of that. God dwells in humility, in an honest heart, such as will receive Him. And these men, had just said...

L-8 Now notice, if--when you go home tonight, read this 12th chapter of Saint John, and you'll see that these Pharisees never come right out and told Jesus that He was Beelzebub, but they thought it in their hearts, and He knew their thoughts. He perceived what they were thinking about. And they said in themselves, "This man is Beelzebub."
And Jesus, straightway, was condemning them for their evil thinking. And He went ahead to just say, of the great signs that had been in the earth. And He referred, previous to this, to the prophet Jonah.
And he said, "We would seek a sign from Thee, Rabbi."
And He said, "A weak and adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and there will be no sign given them, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and three nights."

L-9 Now, let's stop just a little bit on Jonah. Now, Jonah had received a commission from God to go to Nineveh. And there's nothing just providential; all God's great wheels turn perfect. Everything is working just exactly the way He had--knows that it would work. Nothing is just providential, it so happened. God is omnipotent and omniscience. He knows all thing and has all power.
Then as Jonah went on his road, he--over to Nineveh or to Tarshish, rather, trying to find a easier way, because it seemed like the ship was going that way, so maybe, the Lord just would send him to this place, to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. He thought, "Maybe that's the way God worked."
God don't always work on the easy road, and things that's at your hand. You have to struggle to do the will of God sometimes.


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