<TITLE>10. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Jonah was on his way to--to Nineveh, of course. And the Bible says that the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. Then Jonah could not have done anything, being a prophet, without God leading him.
I've done things myself, and so have you. You thought it was silly to really what you thought was right, but come to find out it was just exactly right. See? God always does that, because He leads the righteous. You just go the way the Spirit leads.
And Jonah got in trouble out on the sea, and we know how the story goes, that he was tied hands and foot, and throwed out of the ship; and a fish come along, and picked him up, as we call the whale. And he went down in the bottom of the sea after eating Jonah, or swallowing him up. And he got down in the bottom of the sea, and so they...

L-39 That's a story that always baffles science, 'cause science says that the whale's swallow isn't big enough to take a man in. But if you notice the Bible said that God prepared this one. This was a special kind of a--a fish. God... He's Jehovah-jireh; He can provide anything He wants to do, because He's God.
Abraham called him Jehovah-jireh, 'cause He spoke that sacrifice into existence. He's still Jehovah-jireh; He can provide what He wishes. And He prepared this fish.
A little girl, happy one time coming from church with her Bible, she was going on; the infidel met her and said, "What you so happy about?"
Said, "I just got saved; Jesus is in my heart."
Said, "Nonsense." Said, "What you holding there, a Bible?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "I guess you believe that story about the whale and Jonah."
Said, "Oh, yes, I believe it, every word. What God says is the Truth."
He said, "Well, how are you going to prove it, otherwise than faith?"
She said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah."
That's right. He said, "Then what if Jonah isn't there?"
Said, "Then you ask him." That's a good idea of it? "You ask him." All right.

L-40 God always has the answer, if you'll just open your mouth when He opens it. God made a special fish for Jonah, and he swallowed him. I believe it, every word of it.
And he went down into the sea, and a fish when it feeds... Feed your little gold fish; you'll notice him he goes right down to the bottom, rest his little swimmers on the bottom of the fish bowl. Did you ever feed him? Get his little belly full, he go right down rest at the bottom of the fish bowl. A fish does that. After he goes out and feeds, he comes right back over the nest and rests.
Well, this whale had swallowed this prophet went down to the bottom of the sea to rest. And here was Jonah wallowing around in that vomit down there in the bottom of the sea. And I always thought... People'd say, "Why, my arm is no better, and my--my foot's no better; I don't feel any better."
You'll never feel any better looking at that; you're looking at your symptoms. Long as you look at your symptoms, you're not going to see nothing else but your symptoms. It depends on what you're looking at.


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