<TITLE>03. Par 8-12</TITLE>L-8 And Jesus was speaking about Jonah, and He told the story of how it happened. We're all familiar with that story.
And let's stop just for a minute to straighten my expression that I made about Jonah. I do not believe he was backslid. I believe that he was... He did what God told him not to do, but God knew all the time that he was going to do it, for God's infinite, and He knows all things.
And Jonah was taken out into the sea on his road to Tarshish. And a great storm came up, and they bound his feet and hands, and throwed him out, and a big fish swallowed him; went down to the bottom of the sea, many fathoms deep. And he kept alive for three days and three nights. I believe that to be the truth, for the Word of God said it's the truth.

L-9 And we are told, or I have read, that the people of Nineveh were worshipers of idols, and their sins had got great. And one of their gods, especially the god of the sea, was a whale. And it was the god of the sea, because it was the largest specie in the sea.
And the people, their occupation was fishing. And as all of them at their task that morning, drawing in the nets of fishes... And all of a sudden, up comes the god of the sea, opens up his mouth, and the prophet walks out. Sure, they repented. It was all in order.
God knows how to do things; we just have to follow. No matter if it seems ridiculous, go do it anyhow, if the Spirit of God is leading.

L-10 And they repented in sackcloth and in ashes, because a miracle like that taken place.
And here was Jesus standing there performing the signs of the Messiah, and that generation called it the working of a devil. Jesus said they'll raise up, for they repented with--of the preaching of Jonah, and they'll rise the day of the judgment with this generation and condemn it.

L-11 Then He goes to the little Queen of the South in the days of Solomon. Now, God had give a great gift to Solomon. And anyone who reads the Scriptures knows, that when God sends a gift to the earth, and the people reject that gift, it's always chaos to that generation. They never prosper. They end up in judgment upon the nations. And if they accept the gift that God sends, it's usually a millennium for those people. They are blessed.
And we know, as Bible readers, that in the days of Solomon was a golden age for Israel. Why? Because of all the people with one accord rallied around that great gift that Solomon had from God.
I wonder what would take place tonight, if all the churches in the United States would rally around the Gift that God has give us, that is, the Holy Ghost, God's Gift. What if all the churches would break down their barriers and would rally around that great gift of godly, brotherly love and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It would be the greatest defense this nation could have. It would be better than all the scientists, and atomic bombs, and so forth that they could invent.

L-12 For that's what God wants us to do, all of us in our different denominations, is to recognize one another as brothers and sisters, rallying around this great Gift of God, which is the Holy Ghost, that comes with power and manifestation and demonstrations of His Presence. Then there would not be one cruel word spoken against any move of God. We'd all be one, in one great big bundle of godly love. That's what it's going to take for the Church to go in the rapture.
Paul said, "Though I might speak with tongues like men and angels and have not love, it profits me nothing." I could discern or have all the wisdoms and--of the Scriptures and know them all, and have faith to move mountains, I am still nothing.


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