<TITLE>06. Par 52-61</TITLE>L-52 And the young man sit there a minute. He said, "Daddy, I love you. You've been my daddy, and you've tried to raise me right. But I wonder if we could switch the switch back to the time that Jesus of Nazareth done the same thing on the shores of Galilee, if you would be willing to call it a cheap carnival?" The man left his post of duty, and came and was convinced.

L-53   You see, Jesus was trying to tell them, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. Who of you can condemn Me of sin, which is unbelief? If I haven't fulfilled all the words that was written of Me, then you can point your finger at Me; but I've done just exactly what the Scripture said I would do."

L-54 Oh, if the church could only take that stand, tonight, as a representative of Jesus Christ, and say, "Where are we short? God, I want to live to see the day that the church of Jesus Christ can be one in purpose and heart and body, standing in the full anointed power of the Holy Spirit, to perform and work like Jesus Christ did, with God in them, too."

L-55   Now He begin to go back and upbraid them. They knew that God, in all generations, sends gifts. And when God sends a gift to the earth, and it's rejected, that nation or that generation goes into judgment. And if God sends a gift and it's received, that generation is blessed.

L-56 I was thinking tonight, as I was coming over, thinking on this, that, "What would it be if all America, tonight, believed the gift of God that we have received?"

L-57 Jesus here refers to the time of--of Jonas, or Jonah is really what it really is. And many people condemn Jonah, and they say that Jonah was a... You say, "He was a Jonah. He did this, that," because Jonah, we think, got out of the will of the Lord."

L-58   But let me try to justify that, tonight. The Bible said, "The footsteps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord." Sometimes, He makes us do things very contrary to what we think; but we're always, if we are following the leading of the Spirit, we are always in His will. God does what He wants to. He raised Pharaoh up for the same purpose; and called, said He loved Jacob and He hated Esau, before they was ever born. Now God's purpose must be fulfilled. Can the potter... or the clay say to the potter, as we find in Romans 8 and 9.

L-59   Watch, we find here that Jonah was commanded of God to go down to Nineveh, to preach, and to say that within forty days that city would perish, because Nineveh was a great city full of sin, a heathen country. They worshiped idols. They were, their occupation mainly was the fishing, because they were beside the seashore. And their--their occupant was to... occupations, was to fish. And Jonah, instead of taking a ship... And perhaps the ship wasn't going out just at that time. But he took a ship to Tarshish. And we find and understand the trouble that Jonah got into, out there on the sea. I believe that all that was ordained of God. The sea got troubled, and Jonah said, "Tie my hands and throw me overboard." And God had a fish prepared, as we call "whale," and to swallow the prophet up.

L-60   Few years ago, I was in Louisville, Kentucky, they--they had a whale on... the bones of one, upon a--upon a flatcar. And this little Ricky standing there, with his glasses over his nose, and seemed to have more education than he had intelligence to control, he was trying to explain about this whale. He said, "You know, the old legend of the Bible, that a whale swallowed Jonah." He said, "That's just a legend." Said, "Because, you see, you could hardly throw a ball through his swallow, it was so small, and he could not have swallowed up a man."

L-61 That was just too much for me to stand. I--I said to him, I said, "Sir, I--I want to correct that."
He said, "What's that?"


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