Fountain Open In The House Of David

You get awful dry in here with this heat. But anyway if you got your Bibles turn with me over to the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation and lets try tonight to really got our minds right in the spirit of God. Let's just ask the Lord tonight to help us get in the spirit of the Lord. Will you? All right Now, we want to read together from the fourth chapter of the book of Revelation, and I want you to try to get right in the mind of the Lord Jesus and I used to not understand why it was when you come to church that it seemed like it was harder to get into the spirit at church than it was at home. How many of you know that? That's its really harder? It's harder to get into the spirit of God and the anointing at the church than it is at home. And the reason for that is because you have got so many minds there, so many spirits that's divided and they're going all sorts of ways and you can't concentrate and for God to be able to bless you He's got to get your spirit. He can't bless you unless he comes through your spirit. The Bible teaches that God is a spirit and the only entrance He's got into your fleshly blood genes to make you feel that wonderful feeling that you love is to go through your spirit. To be able to get into your spirit the Bible says with the heart men believeth unto righteousness. The first thing He's got to do is to be able to get your natural attention, because as a man thinketh in his heart so he is and God's got to get his natural mind. Then when He gets his natural mind then He can begin to inspire him and his faith goes up. And faith is the door to the heart where the spirit is. And then the Holy Spirit comes in through the door of faith into your heart. And then your spirit feels inspired. How many know that your spirit is all in your blood genes? Your spirit is all in your blood genes. That's what keeps you alive. And so then, when His spirit comes into your spirit, it's just like putting a coloring in a glass of water, it just all becomes one and you feel Him all in your blood genes. And you fell Him over you nervous system that Holy sensation that comes from God. Now the feeling is not God, the feeling is because of a nerve reaction, because of a human element to the body. It's a sensation. Tongues is not God. The Holy Spirit is inspiring you and the Bible says they spake with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance. Now if you'd a been over in Germany they might of been speaking in English, It's just the utterance of it that the Holy Spirit gives. And it;s the same way with the sensation that we feel, God within us. Just His presence, His very presence makes us feel that way, and feel that good. Now, that's why you hear me a lot of times saying that the just is not to live by feeling. How many of you know that? A lot of church members has wrecked up because of feeling. They've gotten out here in the wilderness and they can't feel the things that they used to feel, and so they've wrecked up and they've just got in a state of confusion and they don't know where they're going. That's like, I believe it was Isaac over there when Jacob and Esau came to him and if he'd a went be the thing that he heard, the Bible said " faith cometh by hearing, and the hearing by the word", if he'd a had faith in the word hat he heard he wouldn't have give the birth right to Jacob. He'd a give it to Esau because Esau was to suppose to have it, but he would not go by what he heard. He said your voice sounds just like Jacob's, but he wouldn't go by that. He said I'll feel of your arms, and he felt of the goat skin that his mother had on him, or that lamb, and said but you feel like Esau. So, a lot of people go by feeling and because they go by feelings then they lose out with God, but what you want to do is go by faith in what you hear, In the word of the Lord. If you'll go by faith in what you hear, you will never go wrong. The mind of Christ will always lead you. But if you go by feeling you'll always wreck up, because you might feel good today and you might feel bad tomorrow, and you might feel like you're Paul the apostle today and you might feel like your Judas the next day. So, you can't go by feeling. You might come to church and feel a real sweep of the Holy sensation of God over you one night, and you might come ten nights and not feel a thing. You might speak in tongues one say and you might go three days and not speak in tongues. So see, you can't go by that, but by faith in the word of God. When the word of God says you've passed from death into life, let that settle it. If he said it I believe it and that's God's word, I don't care how I feel, the Bible says I've passed from death unto life, and if God said it that God's word's right and I don't care to change it. I'm not going to frustrate the grace of God, that's what he said, that's what it is. And, so then, we just go right on anyway. Don't we? All right, Now then, I'd love to talk with you tonight about some things that goes right along with what we're saying, and I'd like for you to listen to me, and give me your attention tonight. Do everything you can to draw the virtue of the Lord. Now, I know before I start talking, that there are some of us that are under condemnation, and the reason is because, we've got things in our lives that ought not to be there. I can't do anything about that. If I tell you, or the minister tells you not to do those things, and you do them anyway, then you are going to have trouble. If I tell you not to be a pervert and you go out yonder and you let the devil possess you anyway, then you are in for trouble. If I tell you not to do al these things that you do then you go and do them anyway, then you are going to get in trouble. Now, I can't help it. The condemnation is going to come in against your faith. Your faith's door is going to close and the grace of God can't get in to inspire you, so you are not going to fell anything. The Bible said, " thine iniquities has separated between you and your God." Said, " His hand is not short that He can not reach you" He can get to you all right. And it said, "His ear is not dull of hearing hat He can not hear your cry." He said, But thine iniquities, that are in your fleshly body has come between your spirit and God's spirit of eternal life. So then God has bride it down by tearing down the meddle wall of partition at Calvary. He done away with the middle wall of partition by making an end of sin in the flesh. By making Him sin that knew no sin, and the Bible said they esteemed Him smitten of God. So then, God bruised one body to get rid of all sin, because son come by one body, which was Adam's body, and He bruised on body to get rid of it, which was Jesus body, or his own body. Now then, because the Lord knew that He was responsible for humanity being in this world, He knew that He was responsible for you being in this world, therefore he bore your sins. He bore your sins. So then, He knew that he took our sins. God knows that He hath made the creature subject to sin. That is the outer man, the body, we wait for the redemption of our body, and He said, " When all these things come to pass, look up for the redemption of your body draweth nigh," which is the change. So then, God knew that he has made your body subject to vanity. The Bible said he has made the creature subject to vanity, and He subjected the same with a hope. A hope of glory. So then. He knows that he made us subject to vanity, so here is what He done. He came down in the body of Jesus Christ, came down from heaven. That's right. In a body called Jesus Christ, to take your sins and all the sins of every drunkard, and every harlot, of every defiled person in the world. He took it all away, and today there is no such thing as being in the flesh. How many know that? God took away sins of all the world. Every creature in the world. And there is no such thing as sin in the flesh, therefore, you cannot--- you cannot sin in the flesh anymore because he took it away. Because you knew that HE had made the flesh subject to the things of the word that cause sin, and He knew that if He'd left that charge against you, in the day of judgment somebody would have said, Well you made me and you put me in the world and you responsible for me. But God cannot be accused. He is too wise for that. So what He done, He just done away with all the sin of the flesh and He said I'm not going to count do's and don'ts as sin. But I'm going to count unbelief as sin. I'm just going to make it a plan of believing. And I'm going to leave your believing up to your works. If you work right, then you'll believe right. And you will move condemnation faith without works is dead. Your works will stir yo your believing and you'll believe right. He said, but if you're the wrong kind of person, and you do the wrong things, then your faith will take a nose dive and you'll be an unbeliever, and that way I can prove you and keep you in line. And so it is today, the only sin that there is, is the sin of the spirit. He said, The soul that sinneth shall surely die. Not the flesh that sinneth, but he said the soul that sinneth shall surely die. I can't help so much being in this world, and I can't help it cause I'm subject to things of this world and make mistakes, but I can help going out and doing wrong with a will. Now, I might be over taken in a fault when I'm trying to do my best to get around it. Trying my best to go the other way, I might be over taken in a fault, but God said I won;t charge that to you because I took away sin in the flesh. But now, I can help just willfully going out, giving myself over to the lust of the flesh and over to the things of the world, and being caught in a web. I can stop that. I can help that. And God knows that I can help it, for He told me, and He said, The soul that sinneth shall surely die. You say what do you mean, die, Brother Pike? I mean, in the garden, He breathed the breath of life into a man, and man became a living soul, and the Bible said at death the spirit of life goes back to God who gave it, and God said, simply made a statement, He said, I put the breath of life in the human soul. HE said but if you don't appreciate it enough to obey the laws of life that I set up to protect it, He said I'll just draw it our of your soul, and I'll let that soul die. Now, there's a lot to that. We could go into it, but I'm just telling you that's what He said. He'll just withdraw the breath of life and that soul, it won't be death in the body, but it will be death in the soul. That's the second death. We die in the body at the first death, but then, He spoke of the second death, said they that come out of the first resurrection, said the second death won't have any power over them. Now we'll never die in the soul, because it doesn't have any power over it. Now, lot's of saints have already died in the flesh, but the second death, which is the death of the soul has no power over them. They'll never die in the soul. They've passed from death unto life, as far as life of the soul. So then, we see that, that God knows all things and He has fixed it to where we can't accuse Him. So we might as well get that out of our minds. We might as well quit feeling sorry for ourselves, and say well, God done this and God done that, and God subjected us, because God has already changed those things around to where we can't accuse. Now then, God's too wise for you to have a chance to accuse Him in the day of judgment. All right now, He not only did that but He made a way of escape when it comes to the soul. Now so then, let's read just a little bit from the fourth chapter of the Book of Revelation, and see if we can get a few thoughts tonight. (Brother Pike reads Revelation 4) Now I'd love for you to notice one thing tonight. Notice that John here in the 3rd verse of the fourth chapter, John speaking, he was praying and got caught away in the spirit, and when he did he looked up toward heaven, and he said I saw a door that was open in heaven. I saw a door that was open in heaven. How many of you know that tonight, that there is a door open in heaven? In the tears gone by the door that's been opened in heaven was not revealed to mankind. There was never an entrance into the glory would as far as being made manifest in this world. There was not a door. There was not an entrance. Man had fallen from the presence of God after the creation and there was no way to ever get back into the presence of God. Even Satan who had been cast out of the glory world, he had tried so hard to find his way back into the presence of the spirit of the Lord. The Bible said that the evil spirits wandered through the dry places seeking rest and cannot find it. Did you know the reason a lot of you are tormented tonight, and the reason a lot of you have been tormented in the past, because your spirit your spirit has become one with the spirit of Satan, or the evil powers that have wandered through dry places and you've become one with them and you are wandering in the same places they are. You are tormented. If it's da spirit of fear and you give your spirit to a spirit of fear, then you become one with fear. You become a person that's taken into captivity by fear. You just fear all the time. It looks like there's just no way out for you to shake loose from it. You're just afraid. You're afraid that something's going to happen to your children. You're afraid something's going to happen to your wife, something's going to happen to your home, afraid something's going to happen to your car. You're afraid something's going to happen to your soul. You are just afraid. You just can't get away from fear, and it's the same way with the spirit of lust. If you are given to a spirit of lust, you're just lustful all the time. You just feel that thing going through your body, and through your blood genes. You are just continually lustful, and the thoughts that go through your mind os continual lust, lust, lust. You lust after this man's wife¨ You lust after this man's wife. You lust after this man's daughter. You lust after this woman, and so on and so on. You lust after, after automobiles. You lust after homes. You lust after clothes. You lust after everything the world can afford. A continual chain of lust. Why? Because your spirit has gotten in prison to an evil spirit of lust. There are some people that cam become drunk off of the cares of life. The Bible said not to be drunken off of the cares of life. You know you can just get so carried away with the cares of life that you just get drunk. Just like you get drunk, get drunk on the Word of God, like they did on the day of Pentecost. They just got filled with the Spirit of God so much they just got drunk off of it, and people have just gotten drunk off of the cares of life. They've wanted this, and they've wanted that, and they wanted this and they wanted that and they've just, just went around in a circle so to speak. And they just want something all the time and they've found that they've just got plumb drunk off of the desires of the flesh. There are people that you can't even talk to about God, because they are drunk off of the cares of life. Their minds are just staggering to and fro. They can't even follow a straight course in life. They can't even pay their debts, because they can't control their mind, and can't control their desires. They can't even pay for one thing before they go in debt for another thing, and they are so miserable all the days of their life they are just miserable because they're drunken off of the cares of this world. Now, what is it? It is a spirit. It's a spirit. You're in a prison. You're in bondage. When those things aggravate you, and those things bother you, it means that you are in bondage. You're in bondage. Jesus said that God hath anointed me. He stood up in the synagogue, and he said, He hath anointed me, to preach the gospel to the poor, and He said to open the doors of the prison. That what ministers do. That's what a true child of God does, when he comes into the strength of His father. They lay hands on the people that need help, and they open the door of the prison, and the prisoner comes out. The prisoner comes out. Jesus said, I was sick and in prison and you visited me not. You visited me not. Somebody said, Well what does he mean? I've been down to the jail house? God wasn't talking about going over to the jail house. That's one way to visit people in prison, but he said, you're bound in a spiritual prison. You're bound in spiritual prison. The only way to visit a person in a spiritual prison is to fast and pray, and study the Word and serve God in Holiness and righteousness, and be clean so that you can have faith, and loose that person from that prison by preaching of the Word of God, for the Holy Spirit is bound in prison in the body of some humanity. When they are honest in their heart, they love God but they are too weak, the Bible speaks of the weaker brother, and they are too weak to go on and search and to seek after God. I remember Paul one time, he said, Receive ye the weaker brother. I know that we've got in to a day to where we just don't receive anybody if they are not as strong as we are. But he said to receive the weaker brother, and he said don't judge him, said because he's not able to stand. And so, he said receive the weaker brother. And so then, he said not to doubtful disputation or that is not to be doubtful of him all the time, and wonder if he's a christian, because he's weaker than you are, Or not to dispute with him all the time because he doesn't understand the way that you understand. It's not your job to go around disputing with people. It's not your job to hinder the work of God. It's the minister's job to preach the gospel to the congregation. It's his job to dispute with the people. It's his job to correct the people, but not your job to go around daily disputing, and be in doubt, and say, Well you believe that and you believe that and we don't believe this and drive them away from the house of God, but rather He said you go and compel them to come in that his might be filled. Leave ot to the minister. Let him preach the Word to them and they won't got offended. They'll listen to the Word and if they are the seed of Abraham they'll come to it. Jesus said, Father I have not lost a one of them that you give me. IF they are the seed of Abraham they'll come to it. If they are not the seed of Abraham, then they will reject it and go their way, and the Bible said, "They went out from us, because they were not of us, that it might be made manifest that they were never of us." Now then, as I said, you can get into some prisons and then a lot of good christians can fail. They mat be good christians, but a lot of good christians can fail to come to your rescue and open the prison doors. They can fail to come and let you out. I've been in prison. I don't knew whether you've ever been in prison or not, but I've been in spiritual prison, and I remember in Atlanta, Georgia, Betty and I was trying to do a work for God. We were young in the ministry, and I had got into a spiritual prison. And I remember how glad that I was to see some saints of God. I longed to see some saints of God. I looked forward to the time when somebody would come and pray the prayer of faith. I wasn't trying to find out how good they lived. I wasn't trying to find out what they believed. That's because they talking about Jesus. I thought they had more faith than I had. I thought they had more power than I had. I thought they could deliver quicker than I could, or I wouldn't be in a prison. And so I was glad to see them. Oh! You just don't knew how glad I was to see them! I'd prayed and ask God to send somebody and so they came and when they prayed for me I just, accepted it just ike it had been Michael himself standing there. That's right, I believed. I said Lord, I said Just let them pray, I don't care what they are. Whether they are Baptist, or Methodist, or whatever they are. If they are the children of God, if they believe in the word, just let them pray for me. And so they did and I felt the deliverance. Today I don't even know whether they even live right now or not. I wasn't interested in that. All I wanted to do was get in touch with God. All I wanted was somebody that could inspire me to believe in the Word of Lord, that I might get out of prison. Now you say, how can I get out of prison, Brother Pike? All right, the Bible tells us here, John said, I looked and behold a door was open in heaven. He said, I saw a door. And said the door was open in heaven. Tonight, standing ajar in heaven, for the first time in the history of the world, beginning back yonder at Calvary, God opened a door in heaven. John said, I saw the Arc of the Testament. He said because whereas there was never an entrance into the Kingdom of God, he said, I looked away and said I saw the door open in heaven. And tonight we have an opportunity to enter into the very presence of God, because there is a door that's open in heaven tonight. Now, Jesus said, I am the door. I am the door to the sheepfold. I am the door, Jesus said. John said, I saw the door. And Jesus said, John, I am the door. I am the door onto heaven. I am the door into the Spirit of God. I am the door into the revelation. I am the door into the inspiration of the Lord. I am the door into the heavenly streets of gold and the streets of pearl. He said, I am the door. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life, he said and so He told them here. He said, I am the door. John said, I see the door. I see the door open in Heaven. A lot of people never get into spiritual revelation and consequently they never see the door that's ajar in Heaven, but I want you to knew that John had devoted his life to God and he had gotten into a place to where he saw a door that was open in Heaven. If you and I tonight could see the door that's open in Heaven, then we could see that Jesus is standing just beyond the door. And he's standing, that is the Holy Spirit. And He's asking us to come through the door, which is the word of God. The word of God is the only entrance into the Spirit. Now, you remember that. The Bible said that no man can come to the Word except the Spirit draw him to the word. Somebody said, I chose God and I have chosen a good way, and I'm going to serve God. You never chose God. You never chose this good way, and you are not going to serve God unless God chooses you. You might say, What do you mean? I mean that Jesus He said, I have come to seek. You didn't seek me. He said nobody sought me, but the whole world has gone astray. Every man has turned to his own way, his own ideas his own feelings. He said but I came to seek and to save that which was lost. I came to seek him, he said. He said you never chose me. He said but I chose you. I chose you. How many of you knew there are a lot of us called and not chosen? The Bible said, Let whosoever come, and that's when he called us. Let whosoever come. Now, he calls us. He can call them. He said, the bride said come. The word said come. And He called them, but many of you are called but not chosen, because He called you and you never obeyed him. With many of them that came out of Egypt, the Bible said GOd was not well pleased. But even after they come out of Egypt, the Bible said they were cut off in the wilderness because they mumbled and grumbled against the ministry. They murmured against the ministry. They murmured and they complained about the message. They murmured and they complained about God taking care of them and he told them, He said, You have not chosen me but I have chosen you. I have called you with a Holy calling, He said, but part of you are not the chosen one. He called you but you are not the chosen one. Now then, He said, there are some people who are chosen, who are the elect of God, who are the souls that's anointed of God. He said these are a chosen generation, A royal priesthood. Brother you can be called, but not chosen. There was a preacher, an old time preacher, one time made a statement concerning some of the preachers. He said some are called, and some are sent, and some got there because they went, and that's just the way it is. God called some of them, and God sent some of them, and some of them got there because they took a notion they wanted to go, but God has a chosen generation. He has a royal priesthood, and you can be a chosen generation if you want to, if you'll submit yourselves unto the Lord. He said, Let whosoever will, and so then, John being one of the chosen, he said, I see this door standing open in Heaven. I see it standing ajar. There is a door that's open in glory tonight, and you can't come to the Spirit except you come through the Word, which is the door. God alone inhabits eternity. He inhabits eternity. God alone. I don't think we realize how little that we are sometimes. Did you know that this world, which we think is so big, that scientist have proved is only a ball floating around in space. Just one of the many planets that God has made, floating around in space out here. So then, where is God? Where is God? If this is just one little ball floating around in the great atmosphere, or in the great space that God has created, where is God? Where is God? Oh, He is bigger than this world. When we go to pray and we talk to God, and we just like He was one of out brothers, or one of our sisters and why, if we'd just stop and think that we are just a little tiny speck in the universe of God. Why David said, What is man that God should listen to his prayer? What is man that God should take notice of him? What is man that God should hear him? For we are just a little speck in the universe. What is man that God has listened to him like he has? Made him a little lower that the angels, crowned him with the blessings of glory, and set him over the works of His hands. What is man that he would take notice to him or do a thing like that. What is man? So then, here we are. What is God? Where is God? If this is just a ball floating around in the universe, where is God? Where is God? The Bible said He inhabits eternity. Hi is from everlasting to everlasting. He is. He was. He is and He shall be. He's the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley. He's Alpha and Omega. The first and the last. He's the Day Spring from on high that's visited His people. He's God. He is God. He always has been God, and he always will be God. He's never changed. He's God, The word. He's expressed himself to us. His spiritual being has expressed Himself to us in the form of a written word. In the form of a printed page. What good is a printed page? What good is a printed page? Someday God will do away with the printed page. Some day we won't need the printed page. Why? Because God, He will make His word flesh as He did in Jesus. Will make it flesh, but since the word has been taken away from humanity, and since humanity has gone into apostasy, then God had to preserve the Word by the printed page, giving it to you and I watching over it to perform it, until the day that He can make it flesh again. When it's made flesh again it will me miracles and signs, and wonders, and power and demonstrations, be knowledge and wisdom and discernment, like God wants it to be among the church in it's fullness, not in part, but in its fullness. And so then we won't need the printed page, for when the time comes, we'll be a living epistles that's knew and read of all men. They'll see Jesus everywhere. The Bible said the Heavens will declare his handiworks, that the whole earth, the Heavens and earth and everything, even the sea will ne full of the knowledge of God. Oh! It's growing. It's the little stone that was hued out of the mountain, that came rolling down through Babylon, tearing down the kingdoms of this world, and the Bible said it grew until it filled all the earth. Brother, today it's expanding above every bit of ideology, theology, every bit of this science falsely so called, Paul said. It's becoming greater and greater, and greater. It's filling the whole earth. It's the mind of God being revealed. It's the mind of God being revealed. My what a day we're living in. What a happy creature I am. Somebody said, It's such a burden to serve God, Brother Pike. You poor, poor thing. I've never seen a day through the pages of history where I've desired to be more than I desired to be in this day. Jesus said many great men desire to see what you've seen. But they've never had the opportunity. He said you've entered into the harvest of other men's labors. They labor but we're harvesting the field. The greatest opportunity that man has ever had. The greatest day that man has ever had. The chance to escape death, and to escape the grave. We have the chance to escape death, and to escape the grave and still with all these things before us we're still like children. We still won't press our way into the kingdom. Still won't push the powers of Satan out of the way, and the carnal mind, and the carnal desires out of the way, to come in and get this great treasure, this great wisdom. The Bible said all the riches of God, which is the wisdom of God, Paul said, is hid in the word, which is Christ. It's hid in the word, and John said when I started looking for heaven, he said I found the door. I found the door. I found the door, and the door was the Word of God. It was the Word of God. No man can come to eternal life, which is the Spirit of God within, unless he comes through the door. No one can do it! You've got to come through the door. Now, no one can come to the door, except the spirit of God draws him. No one can come to the door, except the Spirit of God draw him. John said, I saw this great door. The door was standing ajar. Folks you've got the greatest opportunity that anybody has ever had. There's never been a generation of people that;s ever had this great opportunity. And not only that, but there will never be another generation on earth that has it. This is your great opportunity. This is the great moment that the whole world has waited for. Why? Because we have at last come to a generation that's never going to die. This is the generation that's never going to die. The Bible said the last enemy to be conquered is death. Death! And said when we conquer it we will look back, and we will say, O grave! where is thy victory? Oh death! where is thy sting? Did you know that you are going to die? Did you know that everyone of you are going to die unless you make this discovery? That's right. When I say this is the generation that's not going to die, I mean the generation that finds Christ isn't going to die. I don't mean the whole generation, because many of them we'll trample their ashes under our feet. This is the generation that has the knowledge. Now, remember this, when I say this is the generation that's not going to die, I don't mean the whole generation, because they are going to die. They are going to go through the regime of the antichrist, and then, what they don't get during the regime of the antichrist, we're going to come back on white horses and then kill the rest of them. Until we trample the ashes of the wicked under our feet, following the great leader Jesus Christ. Folks, this is the generation that has found the knowledge of God. Solomon said, Keep searching. He said search for wisdom more than you seek for gold. He said calleth thy kinswoman. Thy kinsman, he said. He said and seek after it and soon thou shall discover the knowledge of God. The knowledge of God, in the last days, shall fill the earth. Fill the sea. Fill the sky. He said search and thou shall discover the knowledge of God. What good is the knowledge of God, Brother Pike? It made the stars. It made the heavens. It made the universe. It created every little baby the breathed the breath. That's right. It created the things of this world. It made the trees. It made the atmosphere. It makes the rainbow to come across the heavens. The knowledge of God. He said you can find the knowledge of God, if you seek after God, he said you'll find the knowledge of Almighty God. You can have the mind of Jesus Christ. You can become Gods. Satan told them in the garden, he said, Ye shall be as Gods, to know good and evil. I wish we could get into that tonight. He said, Ye shall be as Gods and know good and evil. Now then, God didn't deny it, did he? He didn't say Satan you lied to them. He partially lied to them. It was God's way to make them like that. Why he never even told them they were God until after they had eat of the tree. Then he said now you have become as one of us to know good and evil. See, Satan told them the truth in a sense. Didn't he? He knew, because God let him know, that he might tell them for His purpose and for His plan, but the thing that God didn't let Satan know, didn't let the others know, that the heartaches and sorrow that were laid out before them was the process that God would put them through because they did have to choose good and evil. He did that,He subjected the creature to vanity,and put him between food and evil, that good might pull at him on this side, and evil might pull at him in this side. As I said the other night, to be able to create within him a mind, a mind to where it wouldn't be like a little child, to where it could determine between good and evil, because God doesn't want anybody to serve him by force. Somebody said, Well some preachers just scare people into getting saved. If I could scare a person into salvation, I would do it. I tell you before God, if I could scare them into eternal life I would do it. But yo can't do it. It doesn't come like that. If you scare them into eternal life somebody else can scare them out of eternal life. He's got to come because he loves God. Now we've got to warn the people. We've got to tell them what's going to happen to them, but it';s up to them to serve God, because they want to serve God. But then it's up to them to do what they want to. Bow God has made a door in Heaven, Folks. He's got a door that's standing ajar, and you can enter into the very presence of the spirit if you so desire. If you are willing. If you are willing you can escape the grave. If you are willing you can escape the grave. Now, you can come to church, and not pay attention. You can come to church, and the Bible said to men press their way into the kingdom of God, because evil spirits are pressing against them. The carnal mind is warring against you. There is a continual warfare between your carnal thinking and the thinking of the Bible. there is a continual warfare. And your carnal thinking keeps you going this way and that way and yonder way, and all around, Satan keeps it going. Always something to keep you from developing the mind of Christ, and keep Christ from translating each one of your thoughts to the Bible mind. He'll do anything. He'll cause any kind of confusion, any trouble, any movement, and disturbance to cause that carnal mind to be aroused. Once we get you into one mind of the Spirit then he'll start moving, causing this and that, drawing it back into the carnal mind. Why? Because it is his desires to keep you in bondage, because when he is cast out of you, he wanders through the dry places seeking rest and can't find it. He is in many of you tonight. Satan is in many of you tonight, and he is working his will in you, and he knows that the word of God will drive him out and he'll have to wander through the dry places, and he don't want to get out of your life. That's why he keeps probing at you, and keeps probing at you, keeps probing at you, because the very minute that he goes out, he goes back into those tormenting areas. You just don't know. You don't know how he is tormented. You just don't know. You can feel a little of it, because it comes into you, but die you know that if you want to see somebody that's tormented, let somebody be possessed by the devil, and give their whole life to the devil, and then watch them when they begin to get old, and look at their faces. Their faces become so grave and so sad. Why? It's the spirit that is within them. Satan one time laughed within them. He one time had a good tome within them. He one tome inspired them to do the evil of the world, because they were young and lustful, then he could fulfill his desire. He could get the thrills that he wanted. He could get the inspiration that he wanted through the human bodies, because they were young. Young. But see, after he gets to where he can't use them, then he becomes very sad, because he knows that body is going to die out. That even if it doesn't die out they are getting old and he can't get the inspiration he needs, and he becomes very sad, because soon he'll have to leave the body and if he doesn't have to leave it soon, he'll remain in it and he can't use them to get that inspiration that he needs. So it becomes very sad and that person is so sad. You can be around that person, that person is one with that spirit, they're so sad, because that spirit has sapped the very life, that God has placed within them, out of them. How many remember back there in the garden? I remember here the other night when I was trying to talk to you about it, how that God back in the early days, how that He watered the earth with a mist coming up from the ground? Watered the earth with a mist until man sinned, and when man sinned, then God began to send the rain down from heaven? What did it mean spiritually to us?j It was concerning the inspiration of the spirit that I spoke of while ago. What does it mean to us? Why was it that God stopped watering the earth from within, nd started watering it from heaven? Because when he created Adam and Eve he could water it from within. He could inspire from within. He could give the Holy inspiration from within, but when Adam and Eve sinned against god, then God would have lost his creature if He had not watered him from without. The rain on the just and the unjust, sending it down, see, that's why it's in the briar today. That's why it's on the hypocrite today. That's why it's on all flesh today, but one day God will stop that. He's not going to let it continue to come on the just and the unjust. But He has to do it. He has to do it. The Bible said, God is angry with the wicked everyday. Somebody said It's just God's love to them. I know it;s Gods love to them, because He's long suffering. But really what God thinks about the wicked is this: The Bible said He's angry with the wicked everyday. Somebody said, I thought He loved them. The Bible said He is angry with the wicked everyday. And the Bible said, The prayers of the wicked are an abomination in the sight of God. I don't care how much they pray. I don't care how much they repent. I don't care how much they say they are sorry. The Bible said their prayers are an abomination in the sight of God. Somebody said, Well, I'll just pay my way in. I don't care how many offerings you give. I don't care how many offerings you give. He said the offerings of the wicked are an abomination in the sight of God. Everything you do, unless you do it in the nature of Jesus Christ by being born again, it is an abomination in the sight of God. I see people going around to big tent revivals, and just giving, and giving, and giving, but it's an abomination in the sight of God. That's right. It's an abomination in the sight of God. God said when the little widow offered her two mites, said she has cast in more than all these rich men. Said cause she has cast in of her living. In other words, it took faith to do what she did. It took faith, and faith moved me. That's what Ge was trying to tell the disciples. It didn't take any faith for the other men to do what they done. Cause they had plenty left over. It doesn't take faith to give an offering if you've got plenty left in the bank. But it took faith in God to give her living. It took faith and what moved Jesus Christ was her faith. God is moved by faith. So then, we see the inspiration coming down on the just and the unjust, and yet God is angry with the unjust everyday. He said, I'll pursue the wicked until they perish off the face of the earth. I'll pursue them, He said, until they perish from off the face of the earth. The water coming down from Heaven on the briar, and on the wheat alike until the time of harvest, then what do they do? They go in and they gather the wheat, and they take the tares away, and they bind the tares in bundles. And then when they bind them in bundles, what do they do with them? They cast them into the fire. But the wheat is gathered into the garners of God. Can you see where the briars is going? Can you see where the briar is going? Can you see those denominational bundles of Church of God, and all these things around you, these Presbyterian churches and Methodist. All these denominational bundles that He binds the tares in. That's the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. He's bound them in denominational bundles. Why? So He can cast them into that power of communism, which is the great lake of fire that is burning. You've heard them call it Red Communist, Red China, that great lake of fire. He's going to cast every one of them into the National Council of Churches. Right into the powers of communism. And communism hates religion. Hates religion. He said He'd bind them into denominational bundles, and He'd cast them into this blazing fire. Into the wrath of these people. Now then, but the rain now is coming on the field. Coming on the field. Now you know this one thing. You know whatever the planting of the seed is, that's what the harvest will be. You can't make it nothing else. The rain just makes it grow. That's all. The rain that's coming down out of heaven, it just waters the kind of seed that's planted in the ground. It just makes it grow according to what's planted there. If it's a seed that's a briar it makes it grow into the fullness of a briar. If it's a seed of eternal life He makes it grow into eternal life. The rain or the spirit or the grace of God, just makes whatever is planted grow in that fashion. Now then, He's sending the rain on the field on the just and the unjust. Why? Because the inspiration of life was cut off from within man. It could not get within man's heart. Because man let darkness in He could not get in there to water man from the inside. He had to water him from the outside through grace. That's how the wicked gas survived all these many years. So then, He stopped the water from coming up form the mist of the earth watering it to show us by revelation what had taken place. So then what is He doing? He's watering it from the outside. Watering it from the outside, but did you know that He said in the Old Testament, that HE said there shall be a fountain open in the house of David? He said it shall come to pass that in the day of barley saith the Lord that I will open a fountain in the House of David. I will open a fountain in the House of David. SO then, He;s watering the just, He's watering the unjust. How many remember the wells of Jacob over there? The well of Abraham? How that they dug wells and they brought forth good water in those barren places, but Abimelech's servant always covered them up. Always struggled and took them away and used them. And you've seen it around the country. You've seen it happening right around in your own area. How that God would dig a well over here, maybe a Methodist well and it would give forth good water, and it would be a real revival of sanctification, but soon they would build a wall around it and they would drive Jesus away from it, and drive the elect away from it. Then he would open up a Baptist well and it will be a good well of water, and they will shout and have a good time. But then they drove him away from it. Then they will fill it up with dirt after they have drank all they want, and then finally come on down here and He opened up a pentecostal well, and they had a good tome and they shouted around it, and God watered them, but it wasn't long before they made a denomination, too. And did you know that Isaac dug one well that they never bothered. He kept digging wells and they pushed him away. Digging wells and they pushed him away, but one day he dug a well and they didn't want that well. You know the last well that God has dug is the best one of all¨ The say this is just a hard headed bunch of people that wont be under on kind of government, that just won't be in no kind of denomination, that just won't do no way. They say we can't use those people, but it's the best well of water that God ever dug. It's spiritual revelation! It's spiritual revelation! It's the well of water springing up into eternal life. For He said out of your belly, out of your belly shall come the fountain of David. Out of your outer temple shall come living water. Living waters! Hallelujah! Springing up into eternal life. The prophets said it's a well, and then he got excited and he said no, it's a river. Praise God, it's more than a well. He said it's a river! It's a river! He just got excited and he said that's a river. That's more than a well. So then, we see that last well opened was the very best one of all. What is it? It's God, giving us revival after revival, so He can keep us alive, but we've come to the hour, I want you to get this tonight. We've come to the hour over where God is fixing to do something great. He said I will open a well in the house of David, or I will open a fountain in the house of David. He said, I will do it. I will put a river within your soul. What was it? He knew that some day some where He would start watering the earth from within again. Someday, somewhere, He would get back into the heart of mankind, and in the day when He got back into the heart of mankind He would water it from within. What will He do in that day? He'll cut off the outer inspiration. There won't be anymore water coming down form heaven. And the wicked will began to wither. They'll begin to wither, Now listen real close. Did you know that in the years gone by, God has inspired us with just about everything that a man can be inspired with. He gave us the sense of hearing, the sense of sight, the sense of smell, the sense of taste, and the sense of feel, and He knew that human spirits have to be kept alive by inspiration. They have to have inspiration. Esau came into the field, and Esau said, My spirit is faint. And he wanted some of Jacob's pottage. He's sold all for the world, sold his birthright, and in the evening time after he had his good time, he come in and he'd sold out, so he wanted the pottage. He wanted some of Jacob's pottage that he had made, and so he said my spirit is faint. My spirit is faint. Listen, a lot of people's spirit in this day has become faint. Did you know that? They have become so faint. The Bible said even the heart of young men shall fail. The spirit in them is not inspirational enough to keep them alive. The inspiration of the church is dying out. What is it? When they went down through Egypt you remember what happened? When they come out of Egypt they had a revival because God killed out their enemy. They had a revival. Miriam took the tambourine and they shouted and they had a good time, but the church had some dry places to go through. After they had the revival God said, You ain't in Canaan yet. Just because you have been shouting and playing the tambourine and having a good time. You are not in Canaan yet, there is still more revelation to come yet. So they shouted and they acted like a bunch of children and had a good time, and God shouted with them. Had a good time with them, but after a while they got into the dry places. They got out there where the serpents began to bite them, Brother Joe. They got into the wilderness. They got to murmuring and grumbling and complaining. And they said, We don't understand. We came out of Egypt. We give up our cars. We give up our homes. We've give up everything we ever planned for our children to have college educations, and everything else, and we have just cast our lots together, to have all things common, but said, now where is this Moses that led us out here? Said he's the one that promised us all these things. Where is he? Just about the time they got out of there the Lord smote him and that's what happened to Brother Branham. Didn't it? About the time they got out there God smote him and them they couldn't find there way, but remember before God smote Moses, you know what he done? He gave them a law. He said, you shouted and had a good time but now it is time to learn the word of God. You can't shout because I'll let the serpents come in on you. And slow you down a little, to show you you've got a need for conforming to God's mind. Why, if he had let them shouted on, they would have just shouted on and never learned nothing about God, but when they begin to have a hard time and the serpents begin to bit them, and all these torments begin to come against them, and they begin to search for God. They begin to look for a way out. People are beginning to look for a way out now, because they are going crazy. They are losing their mind. They are losing their health. Cancer is coming on them, T.B., paralysis, all these things are wrecking their homes. Their children are going wild. Why? The serpents have been turned loose on them. Why? Because God wants to teach them the law. He said, Moses, give them the law. Give them the law. Moses went up there and he got the law and he come back down. They had been shouting. They had started shouting again. They just shouted, that's all they wanted to do was shout, so they started shouting again. Moses come down off the mountain, and the Lord said, What are they shouting Moses? Now He didn't ask that when they came across the Red Sea, did he? Why, He shouted with them over there. HE had a good tome with them over there at the Red Sea. Because ti was time to shout. He had conquered their enemies, but He said what are they shouting about now? He said, now listen folks, He said, that God wasn't in the arrangements in the last shout. God isn't in the arrangements in all this shouting we got today. It's a rock and roll party. It's something that's built up. God's not in it. God is standing off saying, What are they shouting? So Moses said, God he said, because he didn't know. He didn't know. He couldn't answer God, but the Lord said they are shouting over a golden calf. What is it? He said, they have taken up such a big offering, they've got a big tent, they've got a tractor, and they are shouting over the tractor. They drive the tractor through the tent and blow the horn and say, look at me, look at me. Shouting over gold. People had give their rings they had give their bracelets. they had give their watches. They had give everything, and they had molded it into a golden calf, and they had what they call a shouting good time, but God said, Moses you just get out of the way. He said, I'll destroy all of them. But let me tell you folks, the grace of God is the only thing that's keeping God from destroying people. They've made a mock out of religion. They've mislead the people of God. Done everything. Caused God's people to err, and only the grace of Jesus Christ is allowing for their mistakes. If it wasn't for Jesus holding up His hand saying wait a little longer. If it wasn't for the ministry of God in this earth that's saying wait a little longer Lord. There's still a few elect out there wait a little longer. If it wasn't for that God would destroy them off of the face of the earth. They've been corrupt. They've done everything from the jitterbug to the boogie-woogie under the tents, and in the temples of God. This is the abomination that Daniel spoke about, making the spirit leave the church and making the temples desolate, for the overspreading of abomination, the things that GOd doesn't like. He said they've done it in the temple of God. Now then, He said, Moses them people are shouting over their riches. Said, that's all they are doing. Moses went down there, and as I said here one night in the service, he ground it up. He ground it up, and they had to swallow it down. That's right. And I said this the other night, a lot of them's going to have to swallow them big tents down, cause GOd's going to send a man of God to them and they are going to have to swallow it if they are the real saints of God. That's right. They are going to se their error and it's going to be bitter. Why? I went to one not to long ago. The next thing they had him up for twenty-five thousand dollars, because he rejected God. He had to swallow hard. He's still swallowing hard. He will swallow if he's the elect of God. What is it GOd said? You're not into Canaan land yet! Going through the dry places. Said the evil spirits wandered through the dry places seeking rest and can't find it. You've hit the dry places. How many of you know that Satan's kingdom is between Heaven and earth? When you leave this earth going to Heaven, if you see the door, if you even get to see the door, and you leave this earth going to heaven, you've got to go through those regions of the damned. Sure you have. When Jesus died on the cross where did he go? He went to the heart of the earth. Didn't he? But he had to go through the regions of the damned before He come to the Resurrection to show our journey. He'll protect us in it. He died to take out place. Sure he did. All right, now then, where are we right now? Going through the dry places. You say, What kind of dry places? THe rich man said just give me a little of the Spirit of God. Just one little sip of it. Just let me taste of the waters of life. That's all I want. Just let me taste of it one more time. He said I'd be happy. But those evil spirits have been cut off from the presence of God. They've cut off from the waters of life, and it's dry out there. No inspiration. Why is it? It's because they've not come to the Canaan land of God, The church is still going through the dry places, because it hasn't reached the Canaan land yet. But we are approaching the Canaan land. Joshua is being moved in by God, and he is going right on over Jordan. Now, how many of you know what going over Jordan is? The Bible said all of them was Baptized in the Red Sea unto Moses, and in the cloud unto Moses and the fire was there, which was fire, spirit and water. All three baptisms was there unto Moses. Wasn't it? They were baptized unto Moses, and they moved with the cloud. The little tents just moved when the cloud moved, and then it stopped. When the cloud wasn't moving they just stopped, but a lot of them didn't stop, did they? A lot of them just went on any way. A lot of them even told Joshua, said we'll just take our inheritance of this side of Jordan. Why, we'll just settle for the big tractors, and we'll settle for tents and we'll settle for the bank rolls and we'll settle for a mew car, and Joshua said, All right go ahead. Said but go ahead and fight with us anyway. They said, Well, we'll go to church with you. We don't mind going to church with you. We don't mind giving in the offering, but said, we ain't looking for Jesus to come. Our heart is not with Jesus coming. Why, we are satisfied over here. He has made us pretty well off over here. Made us pretty well off over here. So, then they did not go across Jordan. What is Jordan? Death! Death. They did not conquer death, did they? THey did not get the revelation, did they? They did not follow the Holy Spirit in the mind of Christ, and say death where is thy sting. they said we'll settle on this side. So they have gone through those dry places. They are wandering through those dry places, but let me tell you something folks, we are on the verge of crossing Jordan. We are right now getting ready to cross Jordan. That's right, now you say, Brother Pike, you said that we have already passed from death unto life. We have in out inner man. We have. We've been translated into the Kingdom in our inner man, but Im talking about the redemption of our body. The change of our body, when our bodies won't die anymore, when they'll become immortal, they'll become eternal. Paul said there is a natural body and a spiritual body. We have born the image of George Pike, and Brother Edwards, and Brother Joe. He said, that we will bear the image of the Heavenly, which is the image of Jesus Christ. The fullness of his image that's the spiritual life. That's the Heavenly body. Now, then our natural mind is our death. How many of you know that, a mind is a spirit, and the spirit is what causes a body to conform to its image? That's why Brother Edwards children conform to his image, and Brother Joe's to his image. It's their spirit. It causes it. It causes the conforming, and how many of you know that if you've got the spirit of God it causes you to be conformed to his image? It'll make you into His image. When I had the mind of man, I was conformed to me Daddy's mind, but now I've got the mind of GOd I'm being conformed to his image. We don't know what he looks like, but we know that when he appears that we will be like him. Praise God, cause we got the hope of purification within us. This is what brings inspiration that purifies, Jesus said, and keeps us clean. Now then, we are still headed for the Canaan land, nut the church is going through the dry places. Mumbling and grumbling saying where is the revival? Where is GOd? But God is still here. God isn't dead. God is still among us though we have mumbled, and grumbled, and complained. God is still here. Why is the rest of em having a shouting good tome and we are not? Cause we are seeking God. Joshua and Moses and Caleb was off looking for God while the rest of them was shouting over the good times. Let the good times roll they call it. You know how many got into Canaan's land? Joshua and Caleb. That's all. All of them had their good time. All of them had their rock and roll party. Sure they did. ( tape turned over) I told the man the other night. I said it's the midnight cry The Bible spoke of the midnight cry when they all came and the Lord had taken five wise virgins in the five foolish come knocking, come knocking. He said you are too late. He said it's too late, said the Bride is shut in now. She's shut in. She's done got the revelation and she's shut in. Her message of kindness or her message of forgiveness. Her message of out stretched hands. He said it's over. Said because you didn't conform to the image, the revival of the world is over, and said the message of judgment is upon you now. Not let whosoever will but telling you didn't straighten up. You didn't live right¨ You are not clean. You are not living holy. He said she is shut in now. Shut in. He said you was foolish. You settled for the big times, and the good times. You settled for that. Said you were foolish. You were foolish. You settled for those things. But you didn't follow the revelation. You didn't care about the oil of God. You didn't care about the infilling of the spirit. You didn't care about the righteousness of God. Said you wanted the world so you got it. Now what is it? They are settling for all those things out yonder, but the wise virgins are pressing in for the oil. They know the night is here. How many know what darkness is? It's the trinity teaching covering the world. It's the power of Catholicism. It's the carnal mind. The darkness is enveloping the people, and the mind of Jesus Christ is being shut out. Now just a few of them has got the mind of christ. It is being pushed out of the world. He said work while it's day. While you have got protesting in the land, work. He said soon. soon the darkness will come. While the mind of Christ is here. Since you have had America established by the mind of God and He gave you freedom established on the principals of religion, said work for God. Said because when Catholicism takes over nobody works. Nobody. They'll kill you. they'll kill you, think they do God service. Nobody can work in the darkness. Wish we had time to go into the hours of God.But anyway let's go on with the inspiration. What is it? He said He would cut off the waters from Heaven. All right, now listen real close. He has cut the waters of Heaven off. Say what you want to. Say what you want to but He has cut it off. Sure he has. That's the reason it's so dry in the churches. That's the reason you can't shout. That's the reason you can't get a revival. That's the reason things are not going like you want them to go. You say but they are still shouting under the tents. Sure. It's fleshly inspiration. It's rock and roll, but even that's wearing off. God has give inspiration through the medium of the five senses all down through the years because He knew that to keep man's spirit alive after he got separated from the spirit of God they had to have temporal inspiration, temporal inspiration, and He gave'em food to inspire them. Food refreshes them, but their spirit is faint like Esau. He gave them sex to inspire them. That's right. Family relations to inspire them. That's inspiration. He gave them beautiful things and surroundings to inspire them. He's let them have ball games. He's let them have parties. He's let them have all kind of things around them to inspire them. Give them inventions to give them inspiration to keep them alive. But now man is growing weary with all his inventions. He is growing tired of all ball games¨ They don't inspire him anymore. The televisions don't inspire him anymore. Why? God has cut the waters off. That's right. Solomon spoke of it. Spoke of it when he spoke about the silver cord being loosed. Now then, here it is. we are going through the dry places. When those waters from Heaven stop it'll cause people to go through the dry places, the regions of the damned. THat means we are getting close to Canaan's land. Satan's kingdom is between there. Between Egypt and Canaan land was the wilderness where the serpents were. And we have come out of Egypt and we are almost in Canaan. We've been going through the dry places. God has cut the inspiration of life off, and people are dying. That's why we have so much cancer and T.B. They just can't find no joy. I don't care what they do they are still sad. You can crack jokes but it don't thrill them. THey are still sad on the inside. You know that I'm telling you the truth. You know you are sad. You know no matter what's said you are still sad, and the only thing that makes you happy is when you really believe God's on your side. The very minute you believe God's for you get inspired. Now he has cut the waters of heaven off. Why? It's to let humanity perish. It's to let humanity perish. It's to stop the blessings on the unjust. It's to let the tares dry out, to get ready to burn. But what is He doing to you and I? What is he doing to us? While the nations around Moses perished, because they didn't have God, what was he doing with the children of Israel? He was leading them and giving them His word. Did you know that God,right now with in our hearts? Right now! Did you know that HE has opened a fountain in the House of David, and did you know that he is inspiring us from within with revelation? He us giving us revelation to keep us alive. As we go through these dry places He's inspiring us, keeping us alive with revelation. One revelation right after another and we get inspired while the rest of the world perishes. We are kept alive. Kept alive. Why? It's the end of the wicked. The end of all flesh is at hand. Noah said, It's the end of the wicked. We have come to the end of the wa. God, now, He has opened up that fountain again. He said I'll just send the rain on the just and the unjust until the day I open the fountain. Said, when I open the fountain in the House of David, said Im going to cut the waters off from the outside and them nobody will get revivals. Nobody will get the revivals. Nobody will get an inspiration, except the spiritual jew. When he turns back to the natural Jew it shows that the Holy Spirit has turned back to the spiritual jew. Closed himself within. In u. To stop the revival to the world. That's right! Did you know there;s no revival to the world when the inspiration is cut off that comes down upon all flesh. He said He'd poor it out on all flesh, but when he stops pouring it our on all flesh there is no revival to the world because there is no drawing, no wooing. That's why they don't come to church anymore, but the spiritual jew, the spiritual jew is being ministered to. The fountain is open. It's open. The inspiration is here. Now, you say, what are you talking about? I said there is a door open in Heaven. And that door is the word made spirit in out heart. And just like you go down to the gin and you take you cotton, and put your cotton down there and the big fan pulls on it until it brings it through the screen and takes all that stuff out of it that was mixed with it. God, God the great power is drawing. Is drawing us through His Son Jesus. Screening us down. Screening us down. Getting the good part. Dropping the, dropping all the other aside. Screening us down through the word, drawing us down through the word, drawing us, the spirit is drawing us through the word. His son pulling us through the door. The door that is open in heaven, the holy spirit is pulling through it. Screening us down. Why? Now, get this. we are going to try to come to a close. In the garden, there in the garden when God spoke, if a man had believed God's word he could have lived. The Bible said by faith the just shall live. By faith in the word they draw the eternal inspiration of life. they will draw it. By faith in the word. But when they, were cut off from the word by unbelief, they went into apostasy. Went away from God, didn't they? Gods word. God's word has spoke life into them, and breath into them. Didn't it? Didn't He do it? God's word spike them into existence and spoke life into them. God;s word did it. HE set the whole course of the universe according to the way He wanted it. Bit did you know, that when man sinned, God's word spoke again and said thou shalt die. His word changed the course of the universe, didn't it? He appointed them unto life. He changed the course of the universe. Didn't it? He appointed them unto life. He changed the course of the universe, with his word, He appointed them unto death. Didn't he? Didn't he? All right, God has spoken again. After all these many years He has spoken again. He spoke men unto death, and you told your children, and your children told their children, and their faith was set to die. Set to die. Set to die. And the spirit of death come and took advantage of them because everything in this world, orbits around the word of God. Did you know that? There's no human mind, no human spirit, no element that can escape the Word of God. Everything orbits around the Word of God. That's why you believed like you did. He appointed you unto death, and you can't escape the word of God. But He has come back and He has spoke again. He come back in the body of Jesus Christ. And He said, He that believeth on me, He that believeth on me. He said, the works that I do, and he said, if he'll believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and believe in the name of Christ that he has passed from death unto life. Now the same Word that spoke you unto death, that spoke the world into existence through the mouth of His body of many members, and He is speaking, He is speaking and changing the course of the universe again, that we can speak to out children and educate them unto life instead of unto death. Faith in this word. He'll set your minds again. And you will live forever and you won't have to go ny way of the grave. Because it's the hour when the knowledge of God is revealed. It's the hour when God has given the mind of Christ that created all things. And our mind orbits around the Word. It orbits around the Word. And so they just as it orbits around the Word to educate our children unto death, now I tell you in the Name of the Lord, you have passed from death unto life. You are in the generation that can live. You don't have to die. Let your mind orbit around the Word of God. Say I'm alive. I'm alive! When we need help what do we have to do? We have to believe that we are healed before we're healed. Don't we? We have to believe that we are saved before we are saved. Don't we? We have to believe that we are changed because before we changed. To get the change. Everything of God is confession and faith. You believe it up here and it don't work, but that's where it starts. You have to start confessing it up here in your intellect, and then it don't work, but you keep on telling yourself and after awhile it gets into your heart and becomes faith. And you're changed, changed. You confess your healing to God, and after awhile it becomes faith. Say, Amen. It'll become faith, and you'll be healed, and you do the same thing with salvation. You just keep confessing it up here and after awhile you get to believing it down here. And then the spirit of God saves you. And the same way with the change. When we say that we have passed from death unto life, that God has spoke and said He sanctified us forever, and perfected us forever, and changed us and translated us into the Kingdom of God. If we start confessing it and believing it something is going to happen to us. Because everything orbits around the Word of God. Somebody said, I can't confess a lie, Brother Pike. Don't you know that when you confess your healing, that you are not confessing a lie. In the foreknowledge it was sen before the foundation of the world. It's finished. Don't you now your salvation was there and you was elected according to grace? Don't you know God saw the change in your body? He has already seen it glorified. Then you start confessing it to make it effective. Faith! That's what Enoch discovered. That's what Elijah discovered. It's faith in God's word. We are the generation that's discovered the Revelation, and the knowledge of God, and we are ready to go out. The rapture is at hand. But the world doesn't know anything about it. How can I have the rapturing faith of Jesus Christ? It's not my faith, His faith. THe faith that was once delivered to the saints. How can I have it Brother Pike? How can I have it? You keep confessing it. Keep confession to God. Keep believing it. Keep confessing to God. And after while you'll find, and this is the way you do it. From Glory to Glory, from Revelation to revelation. This si the way He does it. He reveals the truth in each season. We know in part. He reveals a part of His mind in each season. He reveals a truth and if You'll believe that truth, you've changed that much and grown that much. Like the song says, Oh the light of the glory of His unveiled face is changing me. From glory to glory. Now then, when the Lord said way back yonder said I've justified you. We latched on to it. Didn't we do it? And then, when Wesley said He sanctified you. We latched on to it. And another one said He filled you with the Holy Ghost. We latched on to it, didn't we? Said He's healed you. We latched on to that too, didn't we? Why? From Glory to Glory, each truth revealed in the season. then He come on down. He justified us. He sanctified us. then it got a little closer that. Then He has perfected you forever. He's made you perfect for now on. I don't care how much condemnation, the Bible said if your heart condemn you, God's greater than your heart, and knoweth all things anyway. I ain't gong to worry about the condemnation. the Bible said,. He has made ne perfect forever, without spot, wrinkle or blemish, and if He said it then I need that Kind of faith to change my body. I need unhampered faith because, as long as it's spoken faith, it's human faith. For when I believe in the mercy of God with all my heart it is Christ's. It's broken faith. It's translating faith, in the word of God. the same thing that translated Jesus as He stood on the mountain, and was transfigured before the people. He didn't have to die, except for your sins. He had done found the way. He had done found the way. John didn't have to die either the only thing was he was living in th age when he couldn't escape death. That's all. god had purpose in it. Had a purpose in it. Bit He did let two men slip in. Enoch and Elijah. To show us it could be done. He did let Son of God, our example, stand on the mountain to show us it could be done. Paul did say, in the last days, I'll show you a mystery, We'll not sleep, but be changed. Be changed, all of us ain't going to die. Now listen to this right quick. We are going to close, I promise you we will. Those people back there were perfected in part according to their faith, according to the measure they had been given, but they had to pay the penalty of death. But we in this age, we have to go through the sufferings of fears and tortures of torments that they didn't have to go through with, because they went through the physical and had to die in the physical, but we are going through tortures in the spiritual, but, but what's our reward? They had to die. We got the fullness of the knowledge, the fullness of the spirit that's give to us by measure. Said my words are spirit. We'll get the fullness of ti. The mysteries of God, the revelation of God is being finished and we don't have to die. Why, I'd rather be in this day. I'd much rather live a little closer to God, go through a little more torture,and, and not have to die,and go by the grave, than to live back there and have part of the knowledge, and get by a little easier in the flesh, and have to die. We are living in the great age. So then, from glory to glory, we are changed folks. And this last bit of revelation is being made known, you are perfect. You are perfect? You are perfect. You are perfect. I don't care what the carnal mind said. The Bible said you are perfect forever. I don't care how many times you stumble, how many times yo fall, nothing can separate you from the love of God. The Bible said you are perfect. And if God said, I ain't going by feeling, if the bible says it I'll believe it. I'm perfect by him. For He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified the Bible said He has sanctified me once and for all by the offering up of the blood of Jesus. So then, this last thing is translation. We have passed from death unto life. Let's believe. Let's believe that we are in the hour of translation. Let's believe it. I'm telling people all over the country, everywhere I go, let's believe it. This is the hour and God moves by faith. When you believe God moves. When we believe that we are in Gods hands and ready for the translation and the rapture, god's going to move. he is getting us all into the mind of Christ, which is the arc of Noah. He is getting us all there. One at the time He is getting us in there. Now He is beginning to shut the door, because he is turning back to the jew. He is beginning to shut the door. He is getting us all in there and it is just going to be like this room, you fill it with gasoline. After you get us all into the mind of Christ. The Bible said down in Egypt Joseph got all of them shut away just right, then he revealed himself to them. Said I'm Joseph the Lord is in our midst. He is in our midst. I know you don't believe it, bit He is in our midst. All shut in to the mind of Christ. And the revelation of God is going to say, Im Joseph and that inspiration is going to be just like a room full of gasoline. Yo strike a match and swoop! We'll be changed in a moment, in an twinkle of an eye. Say amen. He's getting is in. He's getting us in. The doors closing. Don't be left out folks. Don't be left out. Don't be left out. this is the last Glory that;s coming in for that change, and I want to be changed don't you? Be come one with the Word, in your thinking, one with the word in your believing, one with the Word in you living. To be the Bride of the Word. To be one with him. Will you do that? All right, let's stand together.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christs Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord