<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Somebody's sick there. If some of the brethren will take her out, and take--or pray for her. Just hold your hands on her, brethren, let me pray for her right here. Our heavenly Father, I pray for this sister. Let the power of Almighty God be upon her and deliver her, Lord. I ask this in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
Now, what it is, she's got real sick because of condensed around there, with the crowd setting around her. There's some man setting here, right here, looking right at me, suffering the same thing. So just... If you want to take her and walk her around, or take her out, and let her get a little air and things, then bring her back, it'll be all right.
Now, while they're doing that, you listen to what we are--are trying to say here. Now, notice. You may have to pack her, 'cause she's fainted. See?

L-25 Now, notice, Jesus said that He was rebuking those people because that they had--had done turned Him down in the things that He was doing, and they couldn't understand it. And He was telling them about it. Now, God was getting back at them, on because of their unbelief.
Now, we know this, that in every generation that's been on the earth God has always showed His gifts and signs and wonders of confirmation of His Word: always. And people are... Even in the Old Testament, in the days that Jesus was referring to here, He... Really, honestly, they depended more on the sign than they did on the theology. Because if the theology, no matter how great it seemed to be, and how right it seemed to be, if the Urim-Thummim didn't speak that it was right, it was wrong. See? They depended on the supernatural sign; but the supernatural sign just couldn't come on anything. It had to come according to the Word.
Now, that's the way we have to watch today. We have all kinds of signs, but it's got to be signs from the Word's promise--the promise of the Word to do this. And we know that in this day we can look for things that's not right. Sure we can, because Satan's throwing his whole army out there to do everything he can do to stop it. But he will never do it. The Word of God will prevail. It'll go right on. So he will never stop it. That's one thing sure.

L-26 Now, God always sent them signs, and told them to believe their prophets, and so forth, in the Bible. Then Jesus here, while He was standing there, after He had done so many things, then here comes these Pharisees up and said, "Master, we would seek a sign from you," when they had seen Him do exactly what the Bible said He would do. And yet they come back again, say, "We would seek a sign from thee."
And He looked at them, I imagine kinda discouraged and said, "A weak and an adulterous generation seek after a sign; and they shall receive no sign but the sign of Jonas (meaning Jonah, the prophet). As he was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so must the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Now, I want you... Now, watch what kind of a generation would seek for this sign: a weak, wicked, unbelieving, adulterous generation.

L-27 How many knows (and theologians and Scripture readers that knows) that always the Bible has a compound answer? It always answers and answers again. It repeats itself. It can never die. It's the eternal Word of God. And here in Matthew the--the 3rd chapter, He said here; He said, "Out of Egypt I... it might be fulfilled which was spoke of the prophet, 'Out of Egypt I've call My son.'" Run your marginal reading and find out what that was. It was Jacob His son; but it also referred to Christ His Son. It always has a compound answer.
And now, Jesus, 'course, was referring to that generation, but any wicked and unbelieving, adulterous generation... And if this wouldn't meet its qualification, this generation that we're living in today, worldwide, I don't know what did. We're living in the time of one of the most unbelieving, adulterous generations that there ever known.


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