<TITLE>10. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 Now, it got in the heart, something wrong with his heart. The cardiogram showed that it was way down. It was just beating so many times per minute. And the old mother and father stood there by the side of the boy. I got on one side of the bed and them on the other. And a little nurse stood there watching us, fine looking little lady of about, oh, I guess, twenty-five years old. And so I put my hands upon the boy, and prayed, and just asked a common prayer.
And when I said, "Amen," the old father grabbed the mother and begin to hug her, and him--hug each other. They said, "Oh, Mother, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful? Thank you, Lord Jesus, for healing our boy."
The boy was just as bad as he ever was, and they just wiped the tears from each others' eyes and just praised God. And that little nurse, standing there, she couldn't understand that. And she said. "Sir, it's all right, I guess." Said, "I don't belong to your religion, but--your kind of religion." She said, "But I want to ask you something. How can you act like that, you, and the mother of this child act like that, and that boy laying there dying?"
He said, "Madam, the boy's not dying."
"Why," she said, "he's been in a coma for three days."

L-36 And some kind of a machine there showed that this hand ever dropped that far, never in medical history did it ever come back again. The old father (I'll never forget it) wiped his eyes, and walked over, and put his hands on that young woman's shoulder. He said, "Child," he said, "you're taught to look at that machine. And that's all you know about, is watch that machine." Said, "That--that's... All that machine knows is tell what's going on here. That's true." Said, "You're looking at that machine. But I'm looking at a promise that God made."
Depends on what you're looking at. That boy's married and got two children. See, it just goes to show. See? He laid like that another two or three days, but he come right out and got well. See, it just goes to show what you're looking at. You've got to see what you're looking at. Don't look at your symptoms.

L-37 If anybody had symptoms, Jonah had it. Now, remember, he was in the belly of the whale. Let's say he was twenty fathoms deep out there in the ocean, his hands tied behind him, his feet tied, and in the belly of the whale, laying in the vomit of the whale in its belly, seaweeds all around his neck. Now, that's really some symptoms. He would look this a way, it was whale's belly; that way was whale's belly; everywhere he looked was whale's belly. Now, that's really symptoms. There isn't any of you that bad off tonight, I'm sure (That's right.), not that bad off. Everywhere he looked it was a whale's belly.
But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities. I won't believe them." What did he say? "Once more will I look to Your holy temple," turned over on his back, and faced, the best he could, towards the temple.
Why? When Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed that day. When the Pillar of Fire come in and went down behind the holiest of holies, Solomon prayed, and said, "Lord, if Your people be in trouble anywhere, and look towards this holy place, then hear from heaven." And he believed it.
And God did something. I don't know what He done. He might've put a oxygen tank in that whale's belly. I don't know what He done. He kept him alive for three days and nights, and delivered him at his course, where he was supposed to go.

L-38 And if Jonah, under those circumstances, could believe in a prayer that was made by a man that later backslid because of women, as Solomon; and believed on a temple that was built with the hands of men, how much more ought we tonight look to Christ, Who's setting at the right hand of God, with His own Blood making intercession upon our confessions? How we ought to believe it. "Nothing, no symptoms, standing in the way, I'm looking towards God's promise that He said He would do it." That's the only thing. Look at that. There he was.


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