<TITLE>08. Par 75-83</TITLE>L-75 Now, if Jonah, under those circumstances, could have faith in a prayer of a man, a human being, that later backslid; and over a temple that was built by the hands of man, that God came into; and was delivered from such, such symptoms as that; how much more ought we, tonight, under our little circumstance, right in the midst of the Presence of the great God Himself, where we see people healed, saved, and filled with the Holy Ghost! Don't look towards a natural temple; but look to the temple in Heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of the Majesty, and the power, with His Own Blood, to make intercession upon our confession. We should be ashamed of our weakness. Now, until you can have better faith than Jonah had, don't criticize him.

L-76   Notice, then we find that God, under that prayer and that faith... He could have put an oxygen tent there; I don't know what He did. But he stayed, according to Christ's Own Word, three days and nights in the belly of that whale. And then let's think of it, about, might have been about eleven o'clock in the day, all the fishermen was just about ready to go in for their midday lunch, and they was about taking up their nets. And these heathens worshiped animals, and the god of the sea was a whale. And just about a middle of the day, here come the sea-god coming in, the whale, licked out his tongue, and the prophet walked right out of his mouth. No wonder they repented, sure, because the god spit out the prophet. And he went through the streets, saying, "Within forty days this place shall be destroyed." See, God knows how to do things.

L-77   Now, they asked Jesus for a sign, and He told them that, "A--a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs." And, now, I know there is an interpretation that He was meaning them. That's true. But I'm going to just carry it on, having a compound meaning.

L-78 When did we ever have a more wicked and adulterous generation than we have right now? A wicked and adulterous generation! They will say to you, go out on the street, say, "Are you a Divine healer?"
"No. Christ is."

L-79 Well, if you're a healer, or you believe, you say you're a healer; I know a guy is down here sick, come heal him. I know you say you raised the dead; a man died and you raised him up? We got a graveyard full of them down here; prove it to us."

L-80 Remember, that's that same old devil that said, "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be bread."

L-81   It's the same old devil that put a rag over our Lord's eyes, in the palace that morning, covered up His eyes, and they took a stick, those drunken, brawling soldiers, and hit Him on the head with it, and then passed the stick, one to another, and said, "We understand that You know the secrets of heart. We understand that You're a prophet. If You're a prophet, prophesy and tell us who hit You. We'll believe it then." See, that's that same old devil. See? God don't clown for nobody.

L-82 It's the same old devil that said, "Come off the cross. Let's see You perform a miracle." That devil lives today.

L-83   And Jesus said, that, "A wicked, weak, adulterous generation would seek after a sign, and they would get it. For as Jonas was in the belly of the whale, for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth." Then what kind of a sign was He speaking of? A sign of the resurrection. And after two thousand years of Gospel preaching, two thousand years of criticism, the Bible has rode through all of it. And, tonight, Jesus Christ is in our midst, in the power of His resurrection, doing the same things He did when He was here on earth. This is that weak and adulterous generation.


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