<TITLE>18. Par 67-70</TITLE>L-67 You talk... You people talk about symptoms, he had a case of it. Some of them get prayed for, said, "You know, I--I... My hand's no better." What's that got to do with it? Thought you believed. See? Say, "I--I still got a headache." What's that got to do with it? As I said the other night, if you got the quarter that purchases the bread, the bread's sure to come. See? You got the purchase price.
And here was Jonah. If there's any man had a right to have symptoms, he had it. Look, if he looked this way, it was whale's belly; looked that way, whale's belly; this way was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly, and his hands was tied and his feet was tied. And he was in the bottom of the sea in the belly of a whale on a stormy day. Talk about symptoms, nobody in that bad a shape here, I'm sure. And there he lay.
But you know what he said? He said, "They're lying vanities. I'll not believe any of it. But once more will I look to Your holy temple."
He knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed a prayer, and said, "God, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look towards this holy temple, then hear from heaven." And he believed it.

L-68 And God... I don't know what He done: put an oxygen tank or something down there and kept him alive for three days and nights, because he looked towards that temple that Solomon dedicated, and later backslid. But he was under inspiration when he was praying. And God honored that prayer and kept him alive for three days and nights.
If God would honor his prayer with that kind of a symptoms, what ought He to do for us today? When people are being healed all around us everywhere, and we don't have to look towards the temple made with hands of men, but a temple of God where Jesus sets at the right hand, with His own Blood (Hallelujah.), a temple that can't fade away. What ought we to do then? Amen. Hold to it and walk on.

L-69 You know, them people down there in Nineveh was heathens. They worshipped all kind of heathen gods. And the god of the sea was a whale, of course. Like the Indians here used to worship the grizzly bear. He was the chief of the woods, Opekahs.
So then, when they--when they... The chief god of the sea was a whale, and the occupation was fishermen. And here all on this warm sunshiny morning everybody was out there casting their nets; thousands up and down the bank casting their nets. Up come the god of the sea. Everybody raised up to worship. He licked his tongue out. A prophet walked right out of his mouth.
God knows how to do things. Sure they'd listen to him; their god spit the prophet out on the bank. See, nothing works wrong. God makes everything work right. And he preached, and God honored his prayers. Sure.

L-70 No wonder He talked about Solomon's generation, or--or, Jonah's generation. A sign of the resurrection... Then, quickly now in closing. He mentioned the queen of the south, in the days of Solomon.
Now, anyone knows that when God sends a gift to the earth, and it's rejected, it's chaos for that generation. How many knows that? Sure you do. And if they receive that gift, it's a golden age for them.
Oh, how they received Solomon and his gift, everybody one heart and one accord... Why, it went throughout all the world. What a great time. Everybody, "You ought to see over in Israel. They got a man over there; they made him their king. Oh, the Spirit of their God is right in the man. Why, he's got a gift of discernment. You never seen anything like it. It's perfect." What a talk.


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