<TITLE>15. Par 63-67</TITLE>L-63 But remember, there wasn't a drop of rain fell till Noah got in the ark. There was no fire fell at all till Sodom--Lot come out of Sodom. Jesus said, "It was in them days, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."
The church already is... It don't have to be judged. It's already been judged; for it judged Christ, and Christ stood it's judgment. When we are in Him, we are free from judgment. If God judges you, then He's unjust. Christ took our judgment for us. "And by one Spirit we're baptized into that Body. He that believeth on Me has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into the judgment," Saint John 5:24. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall not come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life." Amen. That's the Gospel. Oh, how happy we should be just watching and waiting for that glorious time.
Now, but America condemns it, throws it out. They'd rather have their theol--theology. Now, Jesus referred here to Solomon. But before he did that...

L-64 There's one man here that I'd like to talk about just a minute, and that's that fellow, Jonah. So many people turn Jonah down, say, "Oh, he's a Jonah." But Jonah never got out of the will of God. How can a prophet get out of the will of God? He was God's prophet, how could he? I was reading a book here not long ago, on something of it. It might've been fiction, it might've been true. But Jonah took... God told him to go to Tarshish. Elijah told Elisha to tarry back at Gilead too. But he went on. See?

L-65 But we have to watch. God leads His children, and the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. They are led by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes you think you're making a mistake, but if the Spirit is leading you, go do it anyhow. The Holy Spirit tells some of you people in wheelchairs, "Get up and start walking," walk anyhow.
"How am I going to it?"
That's not your business. Just listen what the Spirit says. Tells you to come at the altar, repent; do it. "My neighbor, my pastor..." I don't care what he says. What the Holy Spirit says, go do it. "Sons of Gods are led by the Spirit of God."
Now, many times I've went to cities. I thought I made a mistake, but I just kept on battling on. After while, it wasn't a mistake.

L-66 Jonah was supposed to go to Nineveh. Nineveh was a city almost the size of St. Louis out here: thousands of people. And they got away from God and begin to worship idols. And we know the story. Jonah was supposed to go to Nineveh, but he took a ship to Tarshish. So if he'd went to Nineveh, the story would not have been written like it is.
So he was on his road to Tarshish, and the great sea begin to roar and carry on. And--and Jonah, a good, honest man, told them that his sins, and they bound his hands and feet and throwed him out in the ocean. And God had a big fish there to swallow him.
You know, I've always felt sorry for Jonah, because a lot of people look like, they say, "My hand's crippled. Well, I was prayed for; it's no different." "My tummy hurt; no different." As long as you look at that, you're not going to be any different. You got to look at what God said.

L-67 Here some time ago, I went to pray, about fifteen years ago, for a young man, laying, dying, with black diphtheria: mother and father crying for me to come. Well, I--I went there. And the doctor was Catholic doctor, and he wouldn't let me go in. He said, "Are you a married man?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
"Got children?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "I can't let you go in." Said, "That's contagious."
I said, "Sir, I'm--I'm a minister of the Gospel, I..."
He said, "I don't care." Said, "That's contagious. You're not inoculated from it."
I said, "Well, that may be true too, but God will take care of me."
He said, "Listen, sir." He said, "I can't let you go in."
I said, "Well, the mother and father standing there crying, let..."
He said, "The boy is dying. He's been dying for the last twenty-four hours."


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