<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 You know, I think, if anybody had a right to claim symptoms, it would've been Jonah. You know. Look at him. We want to think he was backslid, though he wasn't. And he was on a stormy sea in the belly of a whale, hands and feet tied, seaweeds all around his head, in the vomit of the whale, laying in the bottom of the sea. Now, there's nobody here, that bad off. I'm just sure of that. But just to show that you can't hide a real believer from God...
Now, I can just imagine seeing Jonah turn over on his back... And talk about a good case of symptoms: he looked this a way, it was whale's belly. Back this-a-way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly. He was in an awful condition, lot of symptoms. But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities." He said, "Once more will I look towards Your holy temple, Lord." For Jonah remembered that when Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed and said something like this in his prayer, 'Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and then look towards this holy temple, and pray, then hear from heaven.'" And Jonah had faith in God, and faith in the prayer of Solomon, and God delivered him from the whale's belly.

L-15 Now, there's no one here in that bad a condition. We're not in a whale's belly, and we're here seeing the hand of God move every night. And if Jonah could place that kind of faith, in the condition that he was in, in the belly of a whale in the bottom of the sea, and refuse to see anything contrary to the answer to his prayer, when he looked to a temple where a earthly man prayed, and a earthly people built the temple, how much more ought we to have faith to look to heaven where Jesus sets at the right-hand of God to make intercessions upon our confessions. Why, certainly. Nothing should be able to stand in our way.

L-16 Jesus, the Son of God Who was crucified, dead, rose again on the third day, ascended into heaven, sent back the Holy Spirit that bears record night after night, that He's here; then how much we keep looking, saying, "Oh, look at my hand. Look at my finger. I'm still sick at my stomach." Oh, my, that's terrible. "Once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord," where He's setting there tonight, with His own Bloody garments wrapped around Him, making intercessions upon our confession...
Oh, how it would... Depends on what you're looking at. If you're looking at your symptom, you can't get well. But refuse to see your symptom: look at what God said. It depends on what you're looking at. And the Christian always looks at the unseen.

L-17 That's the only way you can be saved, is by faith. You've got to look at the unseen. And a whole armor of Christianity is supernatural. The people... How that a man can say that he believes in God, and preaches in a church, and says he does not believe in the supernatural, when the full armor of God, the full armor of Christianity, is supernatural?
What is the armor of Christianity? Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, patience, faith, Holy Spirit: all those things are supernatural. What is love? What is joy? Go down to the drug store and buy me a quarter's worth of it; I need it right now. See? You can't buy love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, patience, gentleness, faith. You can't buy it; it's supernatural. And the whole armor of the Christian is supernatural, and we're bidden by the Scriptures to put on the whole armor of God. Be girded about--the whole armor.


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