<TITLE>20. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 Now, but you see they've took the traditions and made the commandments of God of none effect.
Jesus was trying to tell them, "I've come just exactly the way the prophet said I would come, and you would believe it not."
And just a word behind here--they said, "We would seek a sign from thee. We would seek a sign." Oh, every, every generation God has had gifts in His Church.
Now, we notice (before we get to our text) He referred back to Jonah. And a lot of people has always thought of Jonah as being a man that missed the will of God. I didn't believe that any man walking in the will of God can miss the will of God. I don't believe that any man walking in the Spirit can miss the will of God. He might think he did, but God makes it all work together right. He brings everything out right.

L-60 Some of you ministers have thought, "Oh, my, why did I come to this place? What happened over here? Why did I leave this? But I felt led to do it." I talked to a little minister today, brother that's here on the platform, leaving a church and going to the Indians, where he just has to go here and there, wherever he can. Leaving a fine church. Said he felt led to do it.
I said, "Son, stay with your leading. Now, it didn't matter if you have to lay on your stomach and drink branch water and eat soda crackers, and you had to swap chicken three times a day, stay in the will of God." That's right. No matter what the price is, stay with it. God called it. Now, we find that that be true. Now, notice another thing.

L-61 Then we find that he referred to Jonah. He said, "As it was in the days of Jonah... A evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. There'll be one given them. As it was in the days of Jonas..." Now, Jonah, we know, we think, that God sent him over to Nineveh, but he got on the road and went to Tarshish. We think the prophet backslid. He didn't backslide.
I was reading something on him here not long ago. And it sounded very good to me, and here's the way it went. Jonah got on the boat, and he went down... And people thought that he was out of the will of God, but he was in the will of God. We know a storm came up, and they tied his hands behind him, and his feet, and throwed him out into the water. And God had a big whale to come up, or a big fish, and swallow him.

L-62 And anyone knows that when a fish eats, it usually goes down into the water and then rests its swimmers, its floats, swimmers, on the bottom of the water. Feed your little goldfish and watch what happens. It gets its little belly full, he will go right down, and put his little swimmers against the bottom, and--and rest awhile. See? He's got his tummy full, so he--he just goes down to rest. Well, when this whale got his tummy full of preacher, he--he goes right down and to the bottom to rest.
And I always felt sorry for Jonah. You know, Jonah... If there's anybody that's got a reason to talk about symptoms... So many of us say, "Well, I was prayed for, but I'm still sick." What has that got to do with it? You were asked to believe, not to feel, but believe. And you say, "Well, I was prayed for, I had a bad hand two nights ago, no difference. I guess I missed it." Well, you missed it at the beginning. See? If you'd have believed it at the beginning, you'd have never paid any attention to that. See?


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