The God Mind

I believe we read the seventh chapter of the book of Revelation was it, Frank? Okay we'll read the eight chapter in the book of Revelation. If you've got your Bibles you can turn with us. Brother Taylor's going to come and read this chapter and we're just going to discuss just a few things with you. We're going through the book of Revelation as you remember on these nights to acquaint your minds with the book of Revelation. Some people have never read the book of Revelation through. I've read it through many times, many times. Sometimes three and four times in one day I've gone through the book of Revelation. But some people have never even read it through a whole lifetime. So Brother Taylor's going to read it so you can understand. Come on over Brother Taylor. And let's everybody real, listen real good and take your Bibles and read along with him. (Praise the Lord. Reading from chapter eight in the book of Revelation. Reads Revelation 8:1-13.) You can be seated if you like. Now I think that the book of Revelation is probably the most complicated book of the entire Bible. And it can only be understood if we get into a spiritual mind to understand it or to discuss it. How many of you remember our discussion on the four winds? I think that was our last discussion before we left a week or two ago. Is that right? Now how many of you have retained something from the discussion of the four winds? Did you get anything? Have you kept it? All right now here in this eight chapter of the book of Revelation here is the opening of the seventh seal. Now I don't know whether you are forming a continuity or not of these things like I ask you too, but I ask you to be sure to keep a continuity. And I went back all the way to the first of the book of Revelation and explained it a little bit at a time and tied it together to where you could have a continuity of what was taking place. Now, remember the seals in the sixth chapter, the seals in the sixth chapter. The seals in the sixth chapter: "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals," One of the seals, the seven seals now. Remember John is in heaven. How many of you understand what we said the other night about the Lord giving Peter the keys to the kingdom and Peter unlocked the kingdom. Never before in the history of the world has the kingdom of God been unlocked to humanity. Never before but at this particular time He gave a key. And Peter unlocked the key or unlocked the door to the kingdom of God, to the kingdom of God. You know when you talk to people about the kingdom of God it's just a figment of imagination or something that goes through their mind. It's just some kind of thought that when you say the kingdom of God, that's really something, the kingdom of God. You say, Brother Pike, the kingdom of God, I know that's a great thing but where is it at? It's on earth. It's on earth. The Bible said, Preach that the kingdom of God is at hand. It's here. It's present. Not only is it present but there is people that are being translated into the kingdom of God. There is people that's going into the kingdom of God, while other people are just carnally minded and naturally minded and just sitting around not paying any attention to anything, and not thinking on anything concerning God or a spiritual thing. Other people are being translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. That is they're being raptured up out of this world and being raptured into a great kingdom that you can't see. You know that's the calamity of mankind is he lives by sight. He has to see everything. You can't tell him anything because he has to see it. He wants to see it. Like scientists they say if you can show it to me, I'll define it. I'll put it under a microscope. But you can't define God under a microscope. You've got to believe your way into a kingdom of God. You've got to believe your way in. It's a spiritual translation into an eternal kingdom and into an eternal life that we'll, we'll have from now on if we can just get into it. That's why the church world can't get in. The church world as a whole will never get in. The preachers as a whole will never get in because their hearts are not right with God, and they're looking for some outward manifestation, some outward thing that's going to take place that's going to put them in the kingdom of God and that will never be. Jesus when He was talking to the Jews, remember He told the Jews. The Jews said, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom as Jesus said, it's not given to you to know that time. He said it's not given to you to know that time. Now they had reference to the restoration of the kingdom of David, which was in the millennium or in the Canaan land which was to come in the millennium. But Jesus being naturally Jesus in the body was talking to a natural Jew about a natural kingdom, and they were asking about the restoration of the natural kingdom. But the spiritual God on the inside of this natural Jesus was talking to a spiritual Jew about a spiritual kingdom that you could not see with natural eyes. Everything in the natural is only type and a shadow of the things of God. Like you've heard me say so many times: there is a natural body of people following a natural William Branham, but at the same time there is a spiritual body of people that was following God or the revelation within Brother Branham. At the same time when people that was following the natural Brother Branham hit a hard place and they were scattered about. They still haven't gotten back together yet. All divided up over doctrines and issues that they don't understand. The same way with Jesus. The Jews that believed in a natural Jesus hit a hard place. And they were scattered throughout the earth. They were dispersed. Like the dead they went away from God. And they were considered to God as the dead. And when they're gathered back Paul said, they will considered as the resurrection. As long as the Jews is scattered from God then Jesus said, God reckons the people to be dead. God reckons you to be dead. But the day that He gathers the Jews back together in their homeland and returns back to them, Paul said, then those that are dead and buried in the earth will come forth in a resurrection in a new body. We sing the song, I'll have a new body. I'll have a new life. So they'll come forth in a resurrection right out of the grave. And we're living right close to that time right now. The Jews are returning to their homeland. They're all going back. The song says, Israel's awakening. The nations are breaking. They're going back over into the Holy Land because it is time for the resurrection of the dead. Now Jesus said, The kingdom of God, the kingdom of God. Somebody said, Brother Pike, what good is the kingdom of God to me? What good is the kingdom of God going to do me? It's not going to do you any good because you're carnal. You're carnal. And the Bible said to be carnally minded is death. But I am speaking to you that are of a spiritual mind. Paul said, Speaking unto you as spiritual. Those that think about heaven, that think about God, that think about spiritual things. These things are important to you. These things are enlightening to you. What good would it do for somebody to tell me what the President wants to know? Or to tell me what Congress ought to know. It wouldn't do me any good. Because I'm not the President, neither am I Congress. But if I was the President tonight and I had the responsibility of the whole world resting on my shoulders, and I had to make decisions that would involve everybody that could throw the whole world into a turmoil, or that could cause your sons and daughters to go out on a battle field and be killed, my friend, then it would be important for me that I know what the President needs to know. Now I'm a son of God. Some of you are sons and daughters of God. If you are then it's important for you to know what God is planning to do and what the move of God is in the earth. Because the Bible said that the whole world is groaning. The whole earth is in travail. The whole earth is begging and pleading and waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. That they can correct the disorder, that they can do away with wars and do away with tornadoes and do away with murder and lust and concupiscence and all the evils of the world, to eradicate from the earth the evil, conniving money hogs, do away with them and bring decency and order in the earth. The earth is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. They are not waiting for the sons of God because already we're the sons of God. But they are waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. You know what it's going to take to bring the manifestation of the sons of God? Is when they are endowed with the mind of God. When God gives them His mind then they're going to be manifested and take over the world. I've said this a lot of times in trying to exhort you know or talk to you about the things of God. And I want you to understand it tonight that we are sons of God. That it is important for us to have the mind of God. That we're living in the Laodicean age when everybody wants their rights. The word meaning people's rights. We're living in that time and we're living in that age. Right now, we're living in it. And every race, every nation as you've heard me say so many times has risen up expecting to take over the world. The Negro, the Japanese, the German, America, everybody expecting to take over the earth and rule and dominate the earth. Communist expecting to do it. Capitalist expecting to do it. The Protestant church expecting to do it. But my friend, I want to tell you again there is only one body of people that will take over the earth. It's not a maybe. It's not a hope so. It's not if they can get up the right kind of warfare. It's not if they can get the right kind of education, or if they can get the right kind of bombs or the right kind of science. That's not it. They are preordained of God to take over the world and they're going to do it. There is nothing nobody can do about it. It's not maybe they'll to do it, but they will do it. God has preordained that the sons of God and the saints of God take over the world. The Bible said, Satan shall wear out the saints of God, but the saints of God shall rise and take the kingdom and possess it forever and forever. Hallelujah! They're going to do it. It ain't nothing can stop it. I want to be on the winning side. It's important to me tonight to know the mind of God. It's important to me to do the will of God. When we started on this trip some of them begin to tell me, said, Brother Pike, I feel, I feel uneasy about you. And numbers of you have felt uneasy. And I know that that was God dealing with you. But I want you to know that I wasn't caring about that. I wouldn't listen to that. Because Paul when he started to leave he told them when they began to say those things to him, he said, I'm not only ready to be offered unto God, to go out there to suffer but I am ready to die for Christ. That's the place that we need to come too is to be ready to die for Christ. If anybody goes to discourage your faith even if it's something from God, they said the Holy Ghost witnesses in every place that bonds and afflictions await for Paul. But he just kept right on going anyway. And it doesn't matter. When God wants you to do something, you've got to do it. You can't let nothing rest on your mind. You've got to go carry out whatever God has got for you to do. And did you know consequently even though the Holy Ghost said, Paul, bonds and afflictions await thee, yet you study the Scripture and Paul escaped every bit of it by the power of God. Now he suffered bonds and affliction. They hit him, but if you'll check up he come out of every bit of it and went on for God and had a testimony for a number of years right on for Christ Jesus. He went on. Now we need to know God's will. We are children of God. We don't need to just come to church because we got a building. We don't need to just come to church because we're going to give out some literature, or because we got a radio program, or because we want to hear somebody preach. We don't need to have a preacher just get up there and preach to us. That's not what we've come to church for. We're coming to church to grow in the grace and in the knowledge of Jesus. That's why we're here. If you're coming to church just because this is your home church you're wasting your time. If you're coming to church just because you like to come to church or it makes you feel good, or it does something for your conscience, you're wasting your time. My friend, we've got to grow in God's grace. And there ain't no way to grow in God's grace except we grow in God's knowledge, to grow up into the fullness of the stature of Jesus Christ. If you're coming to church just for prosperity so God will favor you, so God will keep you healthy in this world, and God will give you something to eat and God will give you the finer things of life you are wasting your time. You need to come to church because you are sons and daughters of God. And we are about our Father's business, and we are trying to establish the kingdom of God in this earth, and we're trying our best to overthrow the kingdom of Satan by the power of God and by every means that God will place within our hands to do it. The kingdom of God has suffered violence in this world. It has come down in this world. And the Bible said the law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom has been preached and men are pressing their way into it. They're pressing. There's evil powers pressing against them and Satan is pressing against their mind. And he's trying to trample down the mind of humanity. But by the strength of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit we're pressing against him. And we are pressing our way into the mind of God and into the kingdom of God. And the revelation, the spiritual things of God we're pressing our way into it. Pressing against him every day. We refuse to let the body have it's way. Refuse to fail to keep the body under subjection. We've got to bring it under subjection. We've got to kill it out. We're here for a purpose. The kingdom of God is in the earth and it's suffering violence at the hand of men. And that evil violence is taking it by force and coming against him and hindering it. And every time God wants to do something, Paul said when I would do good evil is present with me. Every time the kingdom of God wants to do something good, then comes evil. Evil comes along and oppresses. Like this evening I believe it was or sometime today, we started to turn a good deed toward somebody. We was riding down the road and in the midst of a lot of traffic I was wanting to go another way, but I felt to go that way and I just wouldn't let myself go the other way. I went against the body and the feelings of the body and I went down that road. A little while we looked and over here was a little sign that said, Tent - Last Day Message. So I knew automatically that meant Brother Terrells' followers because that's what they believe in. And we turned off and went down there and got down there and there was a little old tent. A little old, I tell you what, you ought to be so glad that God's blessed you. If you could have been there and seen what those people was trying to work with for Christ and still going on with a family of how many? Ten, Betty, twelve, eight children. And trying to go on for God and do something for God down there. And, and, and, and way, way back off of the road in a little old narrow place with a little old tent that it's hard to describe. Setting back there was a truck and an old trailer that you'd just have to see it. That's all and right here at a graveyard. And the Lord led us down there and down around to that little old place. And we got down there and the Lord dealt with our hearts to do a little something for them. And that person was more thankful for what little we tried to do for them than a little bit that a lot of people does when you just give them tons of it. Grateful, I mean exceedingly, abundantly grateful to the extent they just yelled out to God, there in our presence and in the presence of whoever was around. Crying out to God, trying to do good evil is present. Evil is present. What little they was trying to do Satan was oppressing them on every hand, coming in against them, trying to overthrow them. But the Bible said that men pressed their way into it. Look, if you don't have a nature to press in, you'll never make it. If you don't have a nature to push in past your feelings and swear to your own hurt, to get past your own thoughts. If you don't have a nature and only one nature can do that. That's the God nature. If you've never been born again then you're not partakers of the divine nature of Christ and your nature will not resist your flesh. Your nature will not resist your flesh. Your nature will always give in to your flesh. It will always do it because it was made to do that. But the nature of God was made to overcome the flesh and to resist the feelings of the flesh and resist those desires and thoughts of the flesh, that it might bring the flesh into subjection and subdue the flesh to the pleasures of God, until it kills out every desire. If you've never been born again you don't have that nature. If you don't have that nature then you can't resist the flesh. That's why the Bible said the child is known by his doings. You're known by what you do. Just exactly what you do that's what you are. And a person that's never been born again it's not hard to tell what they are. Because a tree bears fruit according to it's nature and if they're not born of God then they're bound to be born of Adam. And if they're born of the flesh then they're going to do the things of the flesh. They going to have a desire for the things of the flesh. It's just going to be in them to want to do what the flesh wants to do. It's just going to be a desire and there's nothing they can do about it. I mean absolutely nothing they can do about it. When somebody crosses them up just a little bit, cuts across the grain, they're going to fly off the handle. They're going to say words back to them. They're going to get temperamental. They're going to curse a little bit, snort a little bit you know when they get upset because they're not born again. But a person that's born again, has a nature like Jesus and swears to their own hurt, they swallow down their feelings. Somebody said, Well Brother Pike, I do that but I don't want too. That proves you're not born again. And really you never done it. See, because if it's the nature of Christ it does want too. The Bible said that when we delight ourself in the Lord, when serving God becomes a delight to us and when we delight ourself in the things of God, and we delight ourself in serving God. You need to be born again. The kingdom of God, where is it at? It's here. It's here. It's here. The kingdom of God is here. Somebody said, Where? It's here. It's here. The kingdom of God is here. Somebody said, If I could just get to it. You can but you've got to be born again. Nicodemus, He said, You've got to be born again or you'll never see it. You got to see it with your eyes of your understanding. It's a message. It's a revelation. It's a mind. It's a divine Spirit that transforms, that translates, that transfigures you into a new realm, a new dimension, a new world. It's the mind of God. Somebody would say, What is the mind of God, Brother Pike? The mind of God is the thing that spoke the stars into existence, that's what the mind of God is. Solomon said, Keep searching and you'll find the mind of God, the knowledge of God. And the Bible said, Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, the mind of God. That's what made the stars. That's what made the moon and the sun. That's what made, you know scientists they defined this little planet we call earth here and they really think they done something. You know in their little old finite minds they wrestle and finally decided that a bug is a bug. They've decided that. An acorn is an acorn. They've decided it. And they've twisted it around and worked around and they find this little world that we're living in. And they feel like they're great, big masters. But God never just created this little world, but as far as we know there is billions of worlds. And this little world that we live in is one of the smallest ones up, billions of them out yonder. And God made them all in six days and rested on the seventh, the Bible said. Scientists hasn't even got started yet. And we comprehend Germany and Russia. We comprehend the United States and the big ocean. If we can get that in our mind we've done pretty good. But I want you to know tonight there is a kingdom of God. Man is nothing but a little speck in the universe. There is a God. There is an ever expanding. A God from everlasting to everlasting, there is a God, an eternal Spirit, a self-existing One, that is responsible for every, every phase of life, every bit of the creation of life. He is responsible for it and He is giving you and I the opportunity to enter into the kingdom. There is a door that's open in heaven. Peter opened the door in heaven and John caught up in the Spirit a little bit later over on the Isle of Patmos he saw that door, he said, Behold, there is a door that is open in heaven. And John just went right up, a symbol of the church, just moved right up and through the door, and when he got up and through the door, then his eyes was opened and he was in heaven; and then he began to see the things that was going on in heaven. That's what Brother Taylor read to you tonight. John was up here. John had gone through the door and John began to see this great throne of God and he began to see deity sitting upon it. And these beasts that was around the throne and began to hear them say, Holy, holy, holy, holy day and night. We come to church and sometimes we're so backslidden and so cold we don't even as much as say amen through a whole service. (Side 2) That's right. But the Bible said to enter into His courts with thanksgiving, His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise. Come into it. To praise God. God inhabits the praise of His people. Where is our praise? Where is our enthusiasm in God? And the Bible said that these beasts they didn't just say, Amen and glory to God and hallelujah! But the Bible said without ceasing they never stopped. Think about that. Throughout eternity: Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, just and true, holy, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, just and true, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. Never stopped. It's going to make us look pretty bad when we can't even get a good amen, can't give Him a good praise. That's why Brother Taylor read you here when John was in the presence of these things he looked and these seals was opened. Now we brought it out the other night. These seals were opened. This door was opened in heaven. The kingdom of God was present. John pressed his way into it. And then when he got into it the mysteries was revealed to him. The seals began to be opened. It's when you press into the kingdom of God, it's when you go through the door of the Word, Christ Jesus. He said, My words they are Spirit. They are Spirit. It's a filter that we pass through getting to God. And it's when we're able to enter into the Word into the Word. God is a Spirit. And when my spirit is able to enter into God's Spirit and God's Spirit is able to enter into my spirit and when we become interwoven as one on the inside, He said, I'll come in and sup with you if you open the door. When my thought pattern becomes His thought pattern, my spirit. Jesus said, My Words they are God. In the beginning was God, the Word Spirit. And this is the door. This is the entrance. If you're to take your spirit, your thought pattern, your words and if you can apply your thoughts against His thoughts and His thoughts against your thoughts and surrender your spirit to His Word Spirit, then your spirit will begin to emerge into an eternal God mind that cannot perish. Hell and earth will pass away but the Word will never pass away. There is no place of safety except in the Word. Now you got to be spiritual to understand what I'm saying. Jesus said, Lest you eat My flesh and drink My blood you have no life in you. And they said, This is a hard saying. Said, We can't understand it. The man sounds like a cannibal and they left Him. But Jesus said, My words are Spirit and they are life. They can be interpret as to meaning something. And you got to understand what we're saying tonight. But my friend, you've got to be spiritual. People who are naturally minded are not born again. I see people coming to church all the time and they're suppose to be Christians. They come to church with a regularity, but they've never been born again. They've never been born again. All they know to do is to go to church. That isn't going to save you. Going to church isn't going to save you. You've got to be translated into the kingdom of God by new birth. You've got to press your way into the kingdom of God. You've got to get in the Word. Jesus said, If My Words abide in you and you abide in My Word you can ask what you will and it will be done unto you. I told a man that on this trip. And he said, What did you say? He was in the back of the car. A young hippie on the road, I picked him up and started talking with him; and he listened to me talk and he didn't comment too much. And then when I got down to a certain part of the Scripture, I said, the Bible said, If you abide in My Word and My Word abides in you, you can ask what you will I'll do it. And he said, What did you say? And I repeated it. And he wanted me to tell him over. He said, What did you say? And he wanted me to explain to him that, do you really mean that, that God will do whatever I ask Him to do if I abide in His Word and His Word abides in me? I said, That's what it said. And you know it really got ahold of him. It had really shook him up. He was from Colorado and he was going out ot New Mexico. And it really shook him up. But let me tell you something tonight, Christian friend. Now I just come here just to talk with you just a little bit tonight because I'm tired. But let me tell you something, coming to church is no good. You're wasting your time. I want you to understand that. You are wasting your time to come to church and pretend to have Christianity. You are wasting your time to come to church and just be a church member or to call yourself a Christian. Now it's no good but when you get into the mind of God and you get hungry for the mind of God and you get hungry for the thoughts of God; and the Bible said, He that hungers and thirsts after the righteousness of Christ shall be filled. And when you get so hungry you just want to talk about God, think about God. You just want to feed off of God all the time, and you want the knowledge of God. You can't rest day nor night. The Bible said the man of God meditates in the laws of God day and night. And when you get to where you just got to meditate in the mind of God all the time, then you're getting somewhere with God. Then you're getting somewhere with God. Until you come to that place you're not going to do any good. You're not going to do any good. The kingdom of God is present tonight. It's here. It's here. What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with it? It's here. Now you say, Well Brother Pike, if it's here, Praise God. But that's not good enough for you. It's here. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? God has brought it here through the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ. But what are you going to do about it? Now when I say that I know what some of you are going to do, you're going to continue on just like you are. You're never going to be spiritual. You're never going to get into the mind of Christ. I know that. But you that are spiritually minded, what are you going to do about it? You who are sons of God, are you going to be up and about your Father's business? Are you going to be concerned about God and the mind of God and the knowledge of God and the things of God and about winning souls to God and establishing God's kingdom and spreading God's kingdom? You're sons of God. Are you going to do it? You say, Brother Pike, there is no sons of God here. But there is. The world isn't waiting for the sons of God. They're already here. That's something you need to get your eyes open too. Somebody said, Now if we had Brother Branham in our midst. If we had Brother Paul in our midst. If we just had Elijah the prophet in our midst. But my friend, there's something greater than that. There's something greater than that. When the Bible said that the sons of God are here. The sons of God are already here. Not somebody that God is going to change into a son of God if he does good, if he gets real good and he does real good and he doesn't make any mistakes and if he pleases God. Not somebody He's going to change into a son of God. That isn't what He said at all. There is already sons of God. They're already eternal sons of God, already sons of God. That don't, that don't register just right. I know it don't. If I said to you tonight I'd say, Nixon is over in Washington tonight, but his son is here with us tonight. Did you know what? That would really draw a respond. But I tell you that the sons of God are here. They are here. Somebody said, Well glory to God! That means we're all sons of God. No it doesn't either. God ain't saying you're all sons of God. I said the sons of God are here. They are here. The sons of God are here. That's something isn't it? A son of God. You know what he is? How many of you know what a son of God is? He is a God. He is a God. So many times when it said that cats beget cats and dogs beget dogs, men beget children, men. God beget gods. Jesus said, Ye are gods. If you are sons of God ye are gods. You know what a god is? Somebody that can't die, can't die. Sons of God, Gods in the earth. The world is waiting for these to be manifested, not for them that come, but for them to mature in the mind and be manifested. There's a lot that I'd like to say on that. But for them to mature in the mind and be manifested that they might correct the disorders of the world and they will do it. And they will set up an everlasting government. They will do it. It won't be a little churchianity and a little group of getting together like this. That won't be what it is. No. Now you say, Well if you was dealing with Washington and politics and dealing with the world and all of the governments of the world it would be important. My friend, that's exactly what I'm dealing with tonight. I'm dealing with an eternal government. A government where Nixon will be nothing, where every leader you've ever had in the world will be nothing. But the government that will establish something far better than the White House, the White House won't be nothing. And the government will be of the earth. Then the people will have to abide by it. The Bible said they'll be a rod of iron, God's Word. And the Bible said, As I live saith the Lord, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. With constraint they will bow. And he said that he would take a sword and the sons of God that followed Him would take swords, and everybody that would resist that he would spill their blood on the earth. He would spill their blood. Everyone. Not making believe, not a type and a shadow, not an allegory. I'm talking about your real blood, a real sword running through your heart and your real blood pouring out on the ground. And said that he would call the buzzards to eat you. That's Bible. There are a lot of times we get misput. We say that God is love and God is good which is true. But because of these things we get misput. And we get the idea that God is love and if we want to do right we can, if we don't want to do right we don't have too. But my friend, God is the God of judgement. And the Bible said He'll save His people by judgement. And God is angry with the wicked every day and God was angry from the time that Adam sinned in the garden, He prepared hell in the time of that anger to put those in that caused Him the trouble. He has never changed it. The Bible said, Since that time He has been angry and is angry with the wicked every day. There's just a span of grace over in the church world so that he can't destroy the church until they mature and all the rest will be utterly destroyed. He is angry every day. He's never changed from that. He's just waiting. He can't pluck up the wheat or the tares without getting the wheat. He's just letting them grow to maturity to cut them all down and divide, take one and put it in hell and one and put it in heaven. That's right. He is angry every day. I want to pursue the wicked until they perish from off the face of the earth. So see He hasn't changed not at all. Not at all He hasn't changed. So let's be thankful for His grace and let's get into the kingdom of God before these sons of God begin to walk the earth because they're going to do it, before they begin to walk the earth. All right let's everybody stand together. Let's sing the little chorus Amazing Grace. Now if you're here tonight, if there's any doubt in your heart and mind as to your being a part of the kingdom of God, now's the time to make it right. Now's the time to get in, really get in and stay in. Don't be in and out, but get in and stay in. If you've never been born again, now's the time. It shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Sings) I wonder while he's playing if we all could gather around the altar for a few minutes tonight. We've been gone for a week or two now. And if we could make a new dedication to God to ask God to do something special for us. To really, really get serious with God and ask God to do something for us, and ask God to help us. The day is fast drawing to a close. If Brother Branham was right we've got two or three more days until April and this month could be the ending of all things because of his predictions, this month, two or three days away. But there's one thing for sure. If he isn't right, the end is coming. Noah warned that the end of the world was coming and they laughed at him as they mocked him. But it came just as he said. They said, Well this never happened before Noah, but it happened. We've never seen anything like that before, Noah, but it came to pass. What he said was true. It's going to happen. I want you to lift your hands up with me and I want you to close your eyes tonight and I want you to sing that little chorus with us as we ask God to help us and examine ourselves. The Bible says examine yourselves and see if you're in the faith lest ye be reprobates. You might think that you're a Christian but Paul said, Prove yourself lest ye be reprobates. Let's just praise God and let's examine ourselves tonight. And let's say, Lord, how long? How long? What have I been doing? God, what have I been doing? What's the matter with me, Lord? Help me, Lord, to snap out of it. Help me God to realize the greatest treasure is my soul. And if I lose it I've lost everything. If I've gained my soul I've gained riches, honor, glory, happiness, peace, joy eternally. (Sings) You know standing here your heads bowed and your eyes closed, lifting up our hands it reminds me of something. The vision I had before I left where in the vision this lady came and said, You are William Branham. I didn't understand that. I still don't. But on this trip I really had a vision that's hard to understand. On this trip standing with our hands up tonight reminds me of it. But I was in the vision with my hands stretched up like this, and I was crying out to God in the heavens. And suddenly something began to happen and in the vision I was Elijah the prophet standing there with my hands lift to heaven and calling on God and I looked. When I looked it was like horses with men setting on them coming out of the heavens, rolled out of the heavens. I couldn't tell just exactly how many but it looked like it was about five to seven horses that came out. Big, huge, muscular horses, strong, sturdy horses and men that set upon the horses, sturdy men, strong, sturdy, well proportioned men that set there on the horses as it broke open and came out this way. And it looked like that it was like a draught or something was setting in. And all of a sudden it was like people discovered what was happening and they began to run to try to get there just as hard as they could. Everything from the way the vision was shown that as quick as they could that they had to get there. Like something was taking place that was a matter of life and death. And you know I believe that something is taking place that is a matter of life and death. I believe that with all my heart. I know that we're carnal minded and I know we think as men. And the Bible said we walk as men. But in spite of all of that though Jesus was a man yet He was God from heaven. Though Ezekiel was a man he was one of the greatest prophets that the earth has ever known. And though Abraham was a man that eat, drink, walked, slept, married, had children just like you. But the Bible said he was a great prince in the earth and he was the father of the faithful, considered to be perhaps most the faithful man that ever lived on the earth. Just a man, Brother Jim. Noah was a man, a man. And then when you come down to Elijah, the Bible said, Elias was a man of like passion. The same as you. But he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. I do believe that the spirit of Elijah's on the church. I believe that. I really believe it. And I believe that something is taking place. I believe that something is taking place. And I believe that that fiery chariot of God is getting ready to come down. I really believe that. Something happened out in Del Rio that I would like to relate to you sometimes. I want us to sing a little chorus before we dismiss tonight. (Sings) I hope tonight that everything is well with you that inside of your heart that you really believe that the chariot of God is coming down to pick you up and to take you home. I believe He's coming. And when He comes I want to step on board, don't you? I want to be ready. The Bible said, Be ye also ready for in the hour you think not the Son of Man cometh. And who knows? It's like a man Jesus said that's gone into a far country. Said unto every one of his servants, I give you something to do. Watch for someday I'll return. And Jesus said, In the day that He comes blessed is the servant that He so finds doing what He appointed him to do. Said, I'll make him ruler over all that I have. Said, But if that wicked servant should say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming, and begins to eat and drink with the drunken and to be drunk off the cares of life, said, the God of that servant shall come in a time when he isn't expecting him, and shall appoint him his part with the hypocrite and there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Can we sing it one more time before we dismiss? (Sings) Hallelujah! Let's just lift our hands up tonight. And I want to pray for you tonight. We'll pray for these little ladies here. I want to pray for you tonight. All together... (end)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord