<TITLE>10. Par 103-118</TITLE>L-103 But, she was real cute. And this little girl had just got saved, and she had her Bible over her heart, just singing.

L-104 There was an old infidel lived up the road there, in a little city called Utica, Indiana. And he said, "What you so happy about this morning?"
She said, "Well, I just found Jesus."

L-105 Said, "How do you know you found Him?" He said, "What's that you got in your hand, a prayer book?"
She said, "No. It's a Bible."
Said, "I guess you believe It?"
Said, "I believe every bit of It."

L-106 And said, "You believe that story in there about Jonah and the whale?"
She said, "Yes, sir. I believe every word of it."
He said, "Ah, it's not so, honey. Don't you believe That."
She said, "But I believe it is so."

L-107 "Well, now," said, "how you going to prove that it's so, outside of faith, as you call it?"

L-108 "Well," she said, "when I get to Heaven, I'm going to ask Jonah." So...

L-109 And the infidel said to the little girl, said, "What if Jonah isn't There?"

L-110 Said, "Then you'll have to ask him." So that's just about the way it is, you know. If he wasn't There, they know where he was at.

L-111 So, it's just like It said. If the Bible said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I'd believe it, if the Bible said so. So I believe that all those things are true, every Word of It, every phase of the Bible.

L-112   And many people bawling out Jonah. Now let's, as Christians... being that we're talking about him, as one of the fellows here that Jesus referred to. Back, many years before Christ, he was a sign to that generation. And let's just think of him a minute.

L-113 There he was, with his hands tied behind him, and his feet. And the whale was prowling through the waters, to find something to eat. Well, when a fish eats, we know he goes right down to the bottom and rests, them swimmers, on the bottom of the--of the ocean.

L-114 Feed your little goldfish, and watch him. He gets his little belly full, he'll go right down to the bottom of the jar and rest a while. He is fed, just like any other animal.

L-115 The African lion, when he... He prowls till he finds something to eat, and he'll kill anything. He just soon have missionary chops, as anything. So, but when he--when he eats, he'll go over and lay down. And you could walk right over him; he wouldn't bother you. He might get up and roar, a young lion, or run you away, but he has eaten. That's all. He uses his great strength just to kill, to eat.

L-116   And the fish, when he had eaten, he had went down to the bottom now. And he was pretty well filled up, I guess, in his stomach. He had this prophet down there, in his belly. And I always kind of felt sorry for him, because you...

L-117 People is always talking about, "Well, Brother Branham, I had a crippled hand, and I was prayed for, a week ago. Brother So-and-so, my pastor, prayed for me, and really I'm no better." You'll never get no better, as long as you look at the hand. You can't look at the hand. You got to look at the promise. You always look and say, "Well, I been having an ulcer in my stomach, and it still burns." That, that don't have one thing to do with it. You've got to believe. That's the thing that does the healing, is your faith. See?

L-118   Now, look. Talk about symptoms? Jonah had a real case of symptoms. Looky here. Let's think he was backslid. And he's in the belly of the whale, maybe forty fathoms deep in the ocean, in a storm on the ocean, and laying in vomit up to his neck, looking around, sea weeds wrapped around him, everywhere. And he looked this way, it was whale's belly. That way was whale's belly. This way was whale's belly. Everywhere he could see, was whale's belly. Now, he had a good case of symptoms. There is nobody in here, that bad off, tonight. I'm sure.


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