<TITLE>10. Par 94-105</TITLE>L-94 Now we find out that in this time, Jesus showing His Scriptural sign, and yet they called that Scriptural sign... Because they didn't want to believe that to be a Scriptural sign, they had to find an answer to the people, so they said, "It's--it's His mind. He's--He's possessed of a devil." And He is called, they called Him, "Beelzebub." And He was rebuking them for that. What will It be when He comes again?

L-95   Notice, He referred to Jonah. "As it was in the days of Jonas," meaning Jonah, "so shall it be in the Son, coming of the Son of man."

L-96 Now many people condemn Jonah. I do not condemn Jonah. You know, they say, "Well, he's a Jonah." You've heard that expression. But you mustn't do that, Christians. You shouldn't condemn God's servants. Jonah was a prophet. He was not out of the will of God. He did just exactly. He must do that for a sign. Everything happens, not by just happening, it happens for a sign.

L-97   One time, a prophet had to marry a prostitute, have children by her. One laid on his side for three hundred and forty days, then turned over on the other side. One stripped his clothes. And just everything did for signs, see. And Jonah had to do it for sign.

L-98 Remember, Abraham had to marry Hagar, against his own will, when Sarah give the handmaid, but he refused it. But God appeared to him, said, "Listen to Sarah, because the freewoman will not be heir with the bondswoman." She had to have the child be cast out. What was it? A sign. All of it is signs. God does things for signs.

L-99   And Jonah was a sign. Now if you notice, Jesus refers to it here, "A weak, wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after sign, and they'll get it. For as the prophet Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so must the Son of man, see, be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights." What was Jonah then a sign of? He was a sign of the resurrection. All right.

L-100   Now, if there ever was a perverted generation, we're living in it. We know that. It's perverted, mentally, physically, sexually, everything. It's perverted. A wicked generation, unbelievers, more I guess than we ever had. They're--they are the--the ecclesiastical type of unbelievers, and that's the hardest to deal with.

L-101 I'm a missionary. I've stood on the fields and seen where they brought the heathen up, that didn't even know which is right and left hand. They wouldn't know. Well, he--he comes in his condition. He never heard of God. Now he wants to see something. And as soon as you can prove to him what's Truth, he'll accept it.

L-102   But the educated heathen; see, that's an awful word to use, but it's the truth. See, the educated heathen, he wants to draw his own opinion about it, see, he knows so much about it. He can't humble himself to just faith, to look at God's Word.

L-103 That's the way those Pharisees was in that day, they couldn't just look at the Word. There It was, but they wouldn't want to see It. And the pitiful part, to know that they were actually blind. God did that for a sign.

L-104   Now see today then, the sign that this wicked generation that we're living in will see, will be the sign of the resurrection. He didn't say there will be "one." "A wicked and adulterous generation seek after sign, and they will receive the sign of Jonah; the resurrection." And in this wicked, adulterous, perverted generation that we live in, world-wide! Don't think you got it all in New York. You haven't got them; they're all over the world. Don't think America is the only one that has them; they're all over the world. Right. "Adulterous generation," see, they are the one to receive the sign of the resurrection.

L-105   In all these days, that when we got Buddha, Shiites, Jains, oh, every kind of a religion, thousands of them forms around the world, every one of them can take you to the grave of their founders. But Christianity has an empty tomb. See?


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