<TITLE>14. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Now, Jesus speaking to them. He gave them some signs. And as my time is just about gone, I'd like to refer to some of those signs. Watch here He said just a verse behind it, "As the days... As it was in the days of Jonas, the prophet..." God in all generations has had signs and wonders. He's had servants that He dealt with. Sometimes just one. Did you know that? It got down in the days of Noah to one. And He--He gets to a type, also it said so in the coming in the Son of man, so forth. He got down until a place where He's always had His servant. Now, listen close in the next few minutes now. I think exactly I got fifteen minutes to be on time.

L-43 Notice, always when God sent His servants and sent His gifts to His servants, if that people believed those gifts, it was a golden jubilee for the people. But if they rejected them signs and gifts that He gave them, it always ended up in chaos. Now, ask any clergyman that you want to or any historian. Which I know setting in our presence is some of the best historians that I know of; I just been talking to them. And that is right. They always fail when they fail to recognize God and His gifts, His sign. God always has... Where God goes, there's always signs and wonders. All... He promised it. "These signs shall..." Not maybe, they will. Sure. Now, it's always been, foretold it would be.

L-44 Now, notice. If... He talked to them about the days of Jonas. He was upbraiding them because they failed to see His Messiahic sign. But the woman at the well recognized it, didn't she? She said...He said, "Go, get your husband."
Said, "I have none."
Said, "That's right. You've had five; and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, this is going to be the Messiahic sign. We know this is--the Messiah will do this. But Who are You?"
Jesus said, "I am He."
And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man, Who's told me the things that I did; isn't that the very Messiah? Isn't that what the Messiah is supposed to be?" And the men of the city believed on Jesus because of the saying of the woman. Do you see it?

L-45 Now, Jesus was there doing those things and they had turned Him down. So He said, "As it was in the days of Jonas--Jonah." Everybody always made fun of Jonah. I'm going to take up for Jonah. Jonah had a lot more credit than people gives him credit for. Lot of them say, "Well, he's an old backslider." No, he wasn't. "The footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord." And Jonah was a prophet. God did that purposely. Let him take that ship to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. Always felt sorry for him when he was in the belly of that whale. You know some people always look at their symptoms. Say, "Look at my hand. I was prayed for; it's no better." It never will be, like that. You don't look at your hand; you look at a promise. See?


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