<TITLE>11. Par 119-127</TITLE>L-119   But you know what Jonah said? He said, "They're lying vanities. I won't look to them, but once more will I look to Your holy temple." There you are. He refused to see the whale's belly. He refused to see the symptoms.

L-120 Why? He knowed that when Solomon dedicated that temple to God, when the great Pillar of Fire and cloud hung out there, That (the prayer of Solomon) passed over and went down and took Its resting place with the ark of the covenant. And when--when Solomon prayed, he prayed, "Lord, if Thy people anywhere be in trouble and look towards this holy mountain, or this holy place, and pray, then hear from Heaven. And Jonah had confidence that God heard the prayer of Solomon, because he was a servant of God.

L-121 And if he could have that much faith upon the prayer of a man that was dedicating an earthly temple; and a man, praying the prayer, that finally, in his life, backslid; and under them circumstances, with them kind of symptoms, could have that much confidence that God would hear his prayer; how much more ought we, tonight, who is setting in the Presence of the resurrected Jesus Christ, look away from our symptoms, to the Heaven Itself, where Jesus sets at the right hand of God, with His Own Blood, to make intercessions upon our confession! When, thousands around us and around the world, where the great healing revivals are striking now, right at this very hour there is people being healed, all around the world. The hour is here.

L-122   Now, we look at our symptoms? Shame on us. When, Jonah, and under them circumstances, could look away from his symptoms. He said he refused to look at them. He said, "They're lying vanities. I'll look towards Your holy temple."

L-123 O God, give us men and women with rugged faith, who will not look to symptoms or look at anything the Devil hands you! Hand it back to him. Say, "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe in His all-sufficient power. I believe that His Presence is here now to set me free from any bondage that Satan put upon me. And I look to the... Where He sits, at the right hand of God, ever living to make intercessions for me."

L-124 With His Own Blood, as the High Priest, He sets There, over it. How much more ought we to look to the Holy Place of God, where Jesus Himself, our Mediator, the only One between God and man, stands with His Own Blood, to make intercessions on our confession! Amen. Don't get... Amen means "so be it." I believe it with all my heart. Notice.

L-125   You know what God did? This is a baffle to scientists. He... I don't know whether He put a oxygen tank down there, or what He did, but that man stayed alive for three days and nights, in the belly of that whale. I don't know what He done. But He took him a free ride, all the way from Tarshish, back over to Nineveh.

L-126 And you know, the commercial men of that city, their occupation mainly was fishing. And one day as... They worshipped the whale, being "the god of the sea," the greatest monster in the sea. When all the men was out, about eleven o'clock one day, pulling their nets in, up come "the god of the sea," that they had worshipped. He run up to the bank, stuck his tongue out, and the prophet walked right out of his mouth. Their own god spit the prophet out. No wonder they believed him. God had produced it for them. And no wonder they repented, and put sackcloth on the animals. They believed his message. God knows how to do things.

L-127   Look what Jesus said here about Jonah, see, about him. He said, "A--a wicked and an adulterous generation seeketh after a sign." I might stress your faith a little bit here, but I believe that He was referring to this generation. I'm going to tell you why. For, we know that this is a wicked and an adulterous generation.


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