<TITLE>12. Par 114-127</TITLE>L-114 Under Luther it was same Holy Spirit, justification; then sanctification under Wesley; the messages; then the baptism of the Holy Spirit, making three. Three, not three steps of grace, but three stations, I might call it.

L-115   Notice like this. When a baby is born, there is three things that constitutes its birth. The first thing in normal birth... You adults listen close now; the young children will never catch it. But, let's see, the first thing in a normal birth is water, then blood, then life. See?

L-116 Now that's the same thing that constitutes the new birth; water, Blood, Spirit. The elements that came from His body is what makes His Body. See? It come from His body, is the material that takes to--to make His Bride. Because, Adam had his bride taken from his body. Christ has His Bride taken from the body. And when Christ died, there was three elements that came from His body; water, Blood, Spirit; justification through believing, water; sanctification through the Blood; the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

L-117 Now this last great step must come into the perfection, that the Holy Spirit has to live in that Church so perfectly, it'll make the Head and the Body unite together. See? See? That's the Body. He is the Head in the Body. Now we find that He promised, in these last days, that that would be done. We find it.

L-118   Now, Jonah. Many people, I have said, about Jonah, they said, "Well, that fellow was an unbeliever." No, he wasn't.

L-119 He was supposed to go to Nineveh, that's exactly right, because it was a great city filled with sin. And maybe a half a million people in it, and they was very, very bad. They was a great commercial city. Their occupation chiefly was fishing, I understand, and so they were. He was sent down there, but he got on the wrong ship and went to--to Tarshish.

L-120 Now many people try to say that he didn't want to do that. I believe it was all planned by God. I was reading a little story, it might bear record to say at this time, to kind of justify Jonah, to get in what I want to say.

L-121   Now, Jonah, when he took the wrong ship, the first thing you know, he was going the wrong way and they got in trouble. The winds begin to blow, the--the waves begin to roar, and everybody thought the ship was going to sink. So Jonah was fast asleep, and they said, "Rise, O sleeper, and call upon your God!"

L-122 And Jonah confessed that he was in the wrong. He said, "Now you bind my feet and my hands, and throw me overboard, and then the storm will cease." And they did that.
And God had a great fish prepared.

L-123   Now, I heard a scientist here not long ago, in Louisville, Kentucky; where, I used to live at Jeffersonville, just across. They had a whale frame laying on a--on a flatcar and this fellow was lecturing, this scientist, and telling about how many teeth he had, and, oh, I don't know. So then finally he said, "You know, the--the Bible story," said, "which is not true," he said, "the Bible..."

L-124 That was just too much for me, so I just moved up a little closer. I thought, "I'm going to see what he is going to say."

L-125 He said, "The Bible story of--of the whale swallowing Jonah," said, "I want you people to look. How could a man get through his throat, when you couldn't even throw a baseball through his throat?" So he said, "That's wrong."

L-126 I just couldn't stand and let that infidel say such things as that. I said, "I beg your pardon, sir. Did you ever read the Bible?"
He said, "Certainly."

L-127 "Well," I said, "then you make a statement like that? God never said it was a whale. God said it was a 'fish.'"
He said, "Well, that would be a whale."


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