<TITLE>16. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 Now, if I always thought someone had a good case of symptoms and had a right, it was Jonah. Now, he was in the belly of the whale on a stormy sea, hands and feet tied behind him, laying down in the whale's belly full of the vomit. Now, if he looked this a way, it was whale's belly. That way it was whale's belly. That way it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked it was whale's belly. Now, I don't think there's anyone here that bad off now. See? They're--they're just in a... That--that's a terrible condition to be into.
But do you know what he said? He said, "They're lying vanities. I'll not look at them." But he said, "Once more will I look to Thy holy temple." When Solomon dedicated the temple he prayed, when that Pillar of Fire came in, the smoke behind It, and went down behind the holy place, he dedicated the temple and said, "Lord, if Thy children be in trouble anywhere and will look to this holy temple and pray, then hear from heaven." And he believed that would be right, because Solomon was a servant of God. And he prayed, and what did God do? Now, I couldn't tell you scientifically, He might've put an oxygen tank down there. I don't know what He done. But He kept that prophet alive for three days and nights in the belly of that whale. Is that right?

L-49 Well now, if He will do that on them circumstances, that a faith in a--a man that finally backslid... Solomon did, his wives drawed him away from God. If he had that much confidence in Solomon's prayer, in that kind of a condition under those circumstances, how much more ought we tonight, under these circumstances to look away from our symptoms to the right hand of God, where Jesus stands with His own Blood making intercession upon our confession. "Once more, Lord, look to Thy holy temple, where the living resurrected Son of God stands with His own bloody clothes before God to make intercession, plead for us as a High Priest upon what we confess that He's done." My, look what God did.

L-50 I read a little story not long ago, I might inject it here if you don't mind. Notice, you know, all the people of Nineveh, it was a great city, pretty near the size of St. Louis up here. All right. We know that they went down there, and they were--all had got away from God, and they were heathens. And they were worshipping idols. And their occupation there by the sea, of course, were fishermen. All the men went out early in the morning, thousands of boats out on the sea, and they drawed in fish. It was a great import. And they exported fish and things for a living.
And now, the God of the sea was a whale. And just think of all the men out there on--on--out there in their fish boats, out there fishing, and all the women and children standing on the bank waiting for hubby to come in bringing the fish and the catch and so forth. And the first thing you know, the god of the sea raises up, the whale, runs up to the bank, licks out his tongue for a gangplank, and the prophet come walking right out of his mouth. Sure. No wonder they repented. Yes, sir. Sure. They repented because the god had produced a prophet. And they listened to his words, because he came there supernatural.


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