<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 I picked up a paper as I flew over Hollywood here not long ago, or Los Angeles, and was reading where that seventy-four major crimes was committed every night, major crimes, in one city, Los Angeles. I was reading in a Chicago paper not long ago where three--twenty-five thousand abortion cases was recognized in the city of Chicago per month. Think of it. And where homosexual on this west coast had increased thirty percent since last year... Think of it. A adulterous generation...
Oh, if we just had till about two o'clock in the morning to dig into that: wickedness, adulterous generation. That would be the kind, and they would get it. What was it? The sign of the resurrection. Now, where are we at?

L-29 "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale, the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth." Many people today think He's still there; but He's not dead. He's risen from the dead and's here with us now, appearing among us, proving Himself, up and down the coast, around the world everywhere, that He lives. And the wicked and an adulterous generation sees a sign that Jesus Christ is alive and not dead. A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and they'll get it: the sign of the resurrection. Let it soak real deep now. Study hard.
While you're letting that soak I want to ask something about Jonah. Jonah was a prophet. Many people condemn Jonah and say, "Well, he was a old backslider. He..." He wasn't backslid. A man of God... "The steps--the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord." Do you believe that? And I don't care what the man of God does, if he's ordained of God. He might do things that he thinks is crazy to himself; but if you only watch, it works right out exactly right, if he just goes the way he's led.

L-30 Now, God told Jonah to go down to Nineveh, a city about the size of St. Louis. Wicked, oh, my, and perverted, perverse, everything was wrong with them. He said, "Go down there and cry out against them." And he went down to the ship and bought hisself a fare. Instead of going to Nineveh... Perhaps was not any ships going that way, so he just goes over to Tarshish. I do not believe that it was foolish, after I got the real revelation of it, and see what happened, and read the books on it. And I see where he was right.
And on the road out into the sea he got in trouble. And the storms come up, and they thought the ship was going to sink. And Jonah told them it was his fault; tie his hands and feet and throw him overboard. And God had prepared a whale to swallow him.

L-31 Now, some years ago, about twenty-five years ago, they brought the--the frame of a whale to Louisville, Kentucky. That's just across the river from where I live. And they had how big its mouth was, and some little professor standing there, that had more education than he had gumption to control. So he was telling all about this whale.
And he said, "Now, you've heard the old legend about the--the whale swallowing Jonah." He said, "If you'll notice, you couldn't put a baseball in his throat." Said, "It isn't no such a thing."
I--I was just too Irish to stand for that. So I said, "I'd just like to say something to you, fellow. There's one thing you missed. That whale might not be able to do it; but if you notice, God prepared this one. This was a special kind. You could've throwed the whole boat down his throat maybe." See? God prepared a fish for Jonah. See? He was a special built--built to order, to swallow the prophet. And he... And it wasn't no such a thing. People...


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