<TITLE>12. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 I want to drop this a little bit too, while we're going on, if it'll be good to you. Watch. He said, "And the people of Nineveh shall rise in this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And a greater than Jonah is here."
Now, watch when they'd asked him, He said, "There will be..."
Said, "Give us a sign," after so many things He'd done. See that devil?
Just like he said, "Perform a miracle here and turn these stones into bread." Put a rag around His face, and they hit Him on the head and said, "Tell us who hit you. We'll believe it. You're a prophet; tell us who hit you."
That same devil will do the same thing... "Heal this one here; let me see You heal him." See that, that's that same devil living in religious people. "Let me see you perform a miracle. I won't... Old man so-and-so sells pencils down there on the corner has been crippled. Let me see you Divine healers heal him." Just remember that's the devil. See?

L-45 We don't clown for them. God never; Jonah never; no one else does. They just... Let them alone. They be blind leading the blind. So just don't say nothing to them; just keep moving on. We got more that believes it, than to fool with unbelievers.
But watch; Jesus said, "A evil and an adulterous generation would seek after a sign. And they will receive no sign, but the sign of Jonah. For Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights; so the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."

L-46 Notice. Now, get it. What kind of a generation? A wicked, evil, adulterous gener... He was speaking of this generation, or any generation that would say, "Perform me a sign; show..." That's what they was telling Him.
Now, these guys today that don't believe in Divine healing, and don't believe in miracles is asking, "Let me see you heal this one; let me see you heal that one." The Bible said they would get a sign. What kind of a sign would it be? The sign of the resurrection. Hallelujah. We have it. Amen. It's here now.
Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, and is alive after two thousand years, showing Himself among us. A wicked and an adulterous, evil generation, adulterous generation that's this generation. Like Sodom, we come back to it again. He said, "That generation will seek after a sign, and they will have a sign. The sign will be the resurrection." You get it?
And's now they call it, to make--send them farther away from God they say, "It's a devil. It's mind reading. It's telepathy, or something," not knowing that it's the resurrection of Jesus Christ among His people. Glory. Oh, as it was in the days of Jonas (See?), many...

L-47 Now, we come to Solomon. In the days of Solomon, any Bible reader knows that that was the golden age of Israel. That was their best days they ever had. That was their amateur millennium. Everything prospered under Solomon. Why? When God gives a gift to a people, or a nation, or a people, and those people will recognize that gift, it's a golden age for them. If they turn it down, it's chaos for them. That's the reason He kept saying, "A greater than Solomon is here." And they were turning it down.
Well, let's take Solomon for a few moments. Solomon was given a gift of discernment, and all of Israel rallied around it. Everybody believed it. Why, he had a gift of discernment, and he could discern for the people. And everybody was one heart, and one accord, around the great gift of God. "Praise God, great Jehovah," they sang the songs; they built the temple; they done great things, 'cause they were happy. Jehovah had put a gift of discernment in one man, Solomon. And they was all happy about it.


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