Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, November 3rd.

God blesses those who obey him, but when we resist his will, we miss out on his blessings.

Let's find out more in part two of the costly

decision to run from God. I want you to turn to the book of Jonah. Now I want to

settle once and for all right up front. Somebody says well now

wait a minute I don't that's all that stuff about a big fish or a whale that's just

the parable and that's not really true. Well I want to show you why it was true.

First of all I want to show you that Jonah was not some figure that somebody came up with

but he was a prophet in the time of Jeroboam and here's what the scripture says. up with

but he was the prophet in the time of Jerbooim and here's what the scripture says to him all the way back in

second kings the 14th chapter and the 25th verse it says speaking of the king

he restored the border of

visceral from the entrance of Hamath as far as the sea of the Arava

according to the word of the Lord the God of Israel which he spoke through his servant Jonah, the son of a

Mid-Thire, the prophet who was of Gath Hef-Hefahra. And that's about three to five

miles from Nazareth where Jesus was born. Then when you come to the

12th chapter of Matthew and the scripture says here concerning Jonah, verse

38. Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, teacher, we want to see a sign from you.

But he answered and said to them, an evil and adulteress generation craves for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of

Jonah the Prophet. Jesus spoke of Jonah the Prophet as an actual historical

being not some figment of somebody's imagination. So what we're going to read in

Jonah is an actual account of an actual person of what happened. And so here's what

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