<TITLE>11. Par 44-48</TITLE>L-44 So he was looking at symptoms down... Look. What if he would've looked at them down there? Well, if he'd look this way it was a whale's belly; look that way it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked it was whale's belly.
And he was in the bottom of the sea with his hands and feet tied behind him in the bottom of the sea, on a stormy sea. Now, at the bottom of the sea... Now, you talk about a case of symptoms, he really had them down there in the bottom of that sea in this whale's belly. And--and there he was, his hands tied, his feet tied, laying with the seaweeds, and what the fish had eat previous to this wrapped around him, and laying down in the bottom of the sea.

L-45 But you know what? He wouldn't look at that whale's belly. You know what he said? They were lying vanities. They just wasn't right. He was going to look at something else. He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple." Now, Jonah knew that when Solomon dedicated that temple, that he prayed and said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look toward this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven." And he had confidence in that prayer.
And you know what God did? I don't know whether He put an oxygen tank in there, or what He did, but He kept him alive for three days and nights.

L-46 Now, if Jonah could have faith, and under those circumstances, on a prayer that a man prayed (an ordinary man that later backslid) and God honored that faith, what ought we to do tonight? Not looking at a--a temple made with hands but in glory, and not a man that backslid, but the Son of God setting there with His--with His Bloody garments to make intercession upon our confession. How we should not look at our symptoms, but look at God's promise. Yes, sir.

L-47 "Ask the Father anything in my Name, I'll do it." That's all. He's the High Priest setting at the right hand of His majesty on high to make intercessions upon our confession, what we have believed and confessed. And anything that He did for us, we can confess it, and believe it, and He's there to make it good before the Presence of God. How we ought to rejoice, and don't look at any symptoms. Look at what God promised. That's a promise.
Now, we find out that's strange... Three days and nights that old whale just circled around and around in the water somewhere out there, and Jonah was alive. Now, we're told that those people were fishermen for their living. How they made their livelihood was fishing. So maybe all the fishermen out... And one of their gods was the whale god.

L-48 So all of them out there fishing in the sea, and all at once, up raised their god, run right up to the bank, and licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right out of the mouth of their god. How could they keep from believing. See? Sure. No wonder they put sackcloth on their animals, for the--the sea god had spit the prophet right out, and he told them to repent. Now, you see, Jonah wasn't out of the will of God; he was right in the will of God.
And Jesus said that a wicked and adulterous generation will seek after a sign. Did you notice that? And they will receive it. He promised that they would receive their sign. He said, "As Jonas was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth."


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