<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 But these men could not give an answer to their church. The thing had been done, and--and there was something wrong, and they had to give an answer. So they just placed it off and said, "Why He's a prince of all the devils."
Jesus said, "I forgive you for it, speaking that word against I, the Son of man. But when the Holy Ghost is come (referred them back to Isaiah's Scr--Scripture of the Gentiles in the last days), one word against it will be never forgiven in this word nor the--this world or the one that is to come."
So it behooves us in these last days that when we are seeing strange sights, to be careful. Place it on the Scripture. And if God said so, then believe it. If He did not say it, then be real careful, if it isn't in the Bible and a promise of God.

L-21 Now, God, in all generations, has always never been without a witness. He's always had a witness somewhere, though it's gotten down sometime maybe to one person. But God has always and always will have a witness, somebody He can lay His hand on. And Jesus was His witness in that day. And His witness today is the Holy Spirit. God's the witness in the earth.
Now, we find that they was rejecting Jesus. And Jesus was speaking how they had rejected the other witnesses, and predicted that they'd still reject it in the days to come. But there would be some that would receive it. "Straight is the gate and narrow is the way and few there will be that find it. 'Cause broad is the way that leads to destruction and many will go in thereat."

L-22 And He referred back, we notice, to men who'd God had sent before Him. And He spoke, what we read a few moments ago, of Jonah. I feel sorry for Jonah, because so many people condemn that prophet. He doesn't deserve to be condemned. He was a prophet of the Lord and did just exactly what God led him to do.
I was reading one time before he was sent to Nineveh, but taken a ship to Tarshish, and got in trouble out on the sea, and was throwed out of the ship. Bound hand and foot and throwed into the sea and swallowed by a whale... And then when the whale they said, went down to the bottom of the sea to rest hisself at the bottom... That's the way a fish does when it eats. Feed your little goldfish and watch them. They'll go right to the bottom and rest.

L-23 And this great whale had been prowling through the waters, and he--he found this prophet falling through the waters. And he'd picked him up and his great, huge mouth and had swallowed him.
Scientist sometime don't want to believe that. But God had prepared this fish. This was a different kind of a whale. God prepared this one to swallow a preacher. So he... It was a different fish.
And notice, know when he had his hands and feet bound, and he was in the belly of the whale in the bottom of the sea and a storm on top... Now, some people look at their symptoms.
"My pastor prayed for me last night, but my hand's no better. That has nothing to do with it." If you are really a believer, that--you don't even look at that. It's already settled forever. God healed you.
What if Abraham would've looked that next month to see if Sarah was going to have the baby. He never noticed that. He just noticed what God said. And any true believer looks to the promise, not what symptoms are around them. They look what God said.


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