<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 My, I didn't want to start preaching. I said in this meeting I was going to stand here and talk about Divine healing. All right. Let's go back to it. All right. A wicked and an adulterous generation seeketh after signs. And they will receive the sign, the sign of Jonas.
Now, Jonah laid in the belly of the whale for three days and nights. So must the Son of man lay in the heart of the earth for three days and nights. Then listen. Bring it to yourself. It may be a new light on the Scripture. It may be something, but it's in the Scripture. The sign of Jonas would be the sign of the resurrection. The wicked and adulterous generation that's seeking a sign will get a sign of the resurrection.

L-34 Now, we got resurrection by history. But then we got resurrection by sign, that Jesus Christ lives tonight in His church. He's not dead; He's alive. Saint John 14:12, Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me..." Not, "professes to believe," but He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. More than this shall he do, for I go to the Father."
Now, I know King James says here, "greater." They couldn't do no greater. He raised the dead; He healed the sick; He stopped nature; He done everything. But the right translation in the original Hebrew, yet it says, "more than this." That is, Christ was in one Man there, and Christ is in His church universal now. "More of the same works will you do, for I go to My Father."
"A little while and the world (cosmos, world order) sees Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun as I have said.) I will be with you, even in you (How long?) to the end of the world." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-35 The evening lights are shining, and they--this generation is receiving the sign of Jonas, the Christ that they thought they got rid of. The church crucified Christ two thousand years ago, and they could not kill Him no more. He said, "I'm alive forevermore." And here He is after two thousand years among His people, showing Himself, with the same things He did back there He's doing right here again. Two thousand years has passed. He's alive forevermore, and has the keys of death and hell. Amen.
I'm so glad of that. Oh, it would make a Baptist shout. That's right. I feel pretty religious myself right now, when I think about that. Think about it. He is positive alive, not dead; alive.

L-36 I said a little thing here not long ago that sounded profound to me. I thought of Israel down in Egypt, slaves, God's people, slaves. And one day, coming down out of the wilderness come a prophet with a Light over him. And he told them that there was a promised land flowing with milk and honey. They'd never seen it. Nobody had ever been over there. But they believed that prophet. It was according... His prophecy was according to the Word, and they believed him.
They followed him till they come to a place called Kadesh-barnea, the judgment seat of the world. There was one great spring with several little tributaries, which we could go into details if we had time to explain what that was--where the waters of Life goes from the throne to the churches and so forth. But it was the judgment, and judgment begins at the house of God.

L-37 And then, at this Kadesh-barnea there was one among them named Joshua, which means "Jehovah-Saviour." He crossed over the Jordan, where none of them had been before, spied out on the land, and brought back the evidence that it was a glorious land, was good, filled with milk and honey. And everything that God had promised was in that land was there. He brought back the evidence after crossing the river Jordan (nobody never been over there), come back. "Why, there's--there's grapes growing... Two men packed one bunch. What a place it is Jehovah has give to us. His Words are true." They didn't want to believe it. Yet two of them, Caleb and Joshua, quietened the crowd while they explained it.


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