<TITLE>07. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 And Jonah, down there in the vomit in the whale's belly--speaking of symptoms, he had a right to have them. If he looked this way, it was a whale's belly. He looked back this a way, it was a whale's belly. All around him was whale's belly.
But what did he say? He didn't believe any of them. He turned hisself over in the whale, and he said, "Lord God, once more will I look to Your holy temple." Not at his symptoms, not at the condition, not how sorry his hopes had gone, but he said, "I'll look to Your temple."
'Cause when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, "Lord, if Thy people any time, be in trouble and will look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven."
And he believed that God heard Solomon's prayer. And Jonah in those conditions... There's no one here in that condition, as bad off as that. But in that condition, he could refuse to look at his symptoms. And so "I look towards the temple," a natural temple, where a natural man built, where a natural man, a real man, that was just a sinful man, that later backslid, and could believe God that He heard the prayer... How much more ought you and I under these conditions to look to heaven where Jesus sets at the right-hand of God to make intercessions upon our confession. We refuse to see the symptoms, have nothing to do with it.

L-25 I want to straighten Jonah in your mind to think. The people of Nineveh, if you study the history, they were fishermen--very wicked. And they worshipped idols. God knows how to do things. Just follow the leading of the Spirit.
Jonah had to take that, because (that ship)--because he was led to. And now, after three days and nights, he stayed in the belly of the whale. The people of Nineveh worshipped the idols. And their god of the sea where they made their livings was the whale.
And now, they were all out in their fishboats, fishing. Here come the god up and licked his tongue out, and the prophet walked out on his tongue like a gangplank with a message of repentance, of miracles. God always performs miracles when He's around. Sure they would believe it. The god spit the prophet out. Sure. And they repented at the preaching of Noah--of Jonah.

L-26 And Jesus said that a greater than Jonah is here. He said, "Those people who didn't know which was right and left hand would rise in the judgment and condemn this generation." Because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. Nothing like that was ever said in the Scriptures that he would do that. But he did it. But here was Jesus, from Genesis was predicted to come with being the Messiah, and He would be a God prophet, and they failed to recognize it. Said they'll--they'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation. One more little quotation on Jonah before we go somewhere, a different case.
Did you notice they said, "Sir, we would seek a sign of thee." Now, listen at him. And if some critic might get a hold of it, they put a wicked and a--an evil, and an adulterous generation seeks after signs. If that prophesy was ever fulfilled, it's today. When did we ever have more evil and an adulterous generation? When the divorce courts are full of marriage and divorcing, marrying and giving in marriage, Jesus said it would be. A Reno, Nevada, leading people, they had four or five different times, just leave wives and marry another one, and leave a husband and marry another one. Just like... Worse than animals. When was there a more evil and an adulterous generation?


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