<TITLE>03. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 If--if righteousness is what pleases God, which it does, but all that God requires, the Pharisees were found blameless, but yet Jesus said, "Ye are of your father, the devil," because they did not believe, that horrible thing of unbelief.
And Jesus had done many works in the city, and said to them, "Oh, you, Capernaum, who are exalted into heaven, shall be brought down to hell. If the mighty works had been done in you, that--that's been done in you, had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it would've been standing until this day."
That great unbelief, self-styled, exalted into heaven, holier than thou, that attitude... And Jesus had done mighty works in Capernaum, and they had called him, Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, and He was upbraiding them because of it.

L-12 And I say this with respects: Friends and Christians, if God lets this nation get by... He just can't let him get by with this awful wave of sin that's sweeping our nation. If God would let us go on in the way we are, without judging, then He being just would have to raise Sodom and Gomorrah, and apologize for destroying them, with such a wave of sin of the same kind.

L-13 God is no respect of nations or people. He loves the sinner, but He hates sin. And we are doomed; just mark that you who I see are taking notes, that I said it. There is nothing left for America but judgment; that's all. So just get ready for it. But the Church will be gone before the judgment comes. God promised it.
We've just had a few weeks to stay on those things to build up to it. But listen, Jesus had said, "That if the works had been done in Sodom that had been done in these cities, they would've repented.
And then, we understand that God in all ages has had gifts and wonders that He's worked through, calling the--the people. In every age, practically, God has had a servant, or somewhere a person sometimes, that He could lay His hand on, or a people. He's never been without a witness, and He never will be without a witness, as long as there is an earth, to bear witness.

L-14 And He'd been referring back to the day, He said in the previous meeting, like as in the days of Jonah, the prophet. And He was concerned, because they had called the Spirit that was in Him, Beelzebub. That means He was a--a demon power. And if you will notice, because He had discerned their thoughts and knowed what they were thinking. They never called Him Beelzebub to His face; they wasn't even gentlemen enough to do that. They thought in their heart, and Jesus said, "He perceived their thoughts." They thought He was Beelzebub, and they were all upset because He didn't agree with them in their theology. And then some came to Him, after all He had done, and said, "We would seek a sign from Thee."
And He said, "A weak and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and there will be no sign given this adulterous generation, except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of man will lay in the heart of the earth for three days and nights."

L-15 Before we get to our text, or what I wish to say, I would like to examine that quotation from our Lord. They were seeking a sign, and He said that a--a weak and adulterous generation would seek for a sign. And I believe that our Lord was referring to this generation. All Scriptures has compound meaning; any student knows that, for instance in Matthew 3, when He said, "That it might be fulfilled out of Egypt, I've called My Son." If you'll run the reference to that, it was His son, Israel, but it also pertained to His Son, Jesus. Scriptures have compound meaning.
And Jesus said that a wicked and weak generation, adulterous, would seek for a sign. Now, I want you to listen close. He said they will receive a sign, and that sign will be the resurrection sign, the resurrection, for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.


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