God's Evening Sacrifice

To where I can capture your mind. To start preaching revelation when your minds are divided is to waste the substances of God. That's why Brother Branham took so long when he would first come up to talk to them in his preliminary part. He had to do that to preach revelation. I've tried it the other way. There's no other way to do it. You've got to collect the peoples minds and interests. Sometimes with a little love. Sometimes with a little rebuke, reproof and different things and if you collect their interests and then of course, when you get it you drop in a few things that might be beneficial to them. I want to try to spend a few minutes with you if you'll let me. Maybe I can say something that might help you. I hope to relate back to one or two things this morning if I can. Somethings I brought out the other day. Now, I don't know whether I can or not but I'm going to see if I can. You know the Bible speaks of the raven of the valley plucking out your eyes. The ravens in that sense has to do with evil spirits and eyes of understanding. This world is a valley when you look down from heaven, you know. Jesus called it the valley of the shadow or David did and the ravens of that valley can pick your eyes out if you don't have the right vision. If you've got your Bibles turn over to the book of revelation. I'll read a little bit here in the Book of Revelation. This kind of coincides also with First Kings. I'll read just a little bit here in First Kings first. The eighteenth chapter, the first verse. (Brother Pike reads the entire chapter.) Now, that's reading the whole chapter there. I started to read that and the Lord gave it to me and I thought, Lord I read this the other night and I preached from it but the Lord told me he wanted me to read it again. So He's got a reason. Then going over into the Book of Revelation, in the fourth chapter it says, "After this I looked, and, behold a door was opened in heaven;" Now, that's all that we are going to read from there. I want to talk with you just a little bit and say something that might help you, if you'll give me a few minutes to talk with you. First of all, as I brought out in a previous message not too long ago, here when the prophets of Baal had a contest with Elijah, it was obvious that the reason God did not answer was because they did not understand the ways of God. It is true that when a person calls upon God and God doesn't give an answer it is because they do not understand the ways of God. Now a thought here that might sound kind of strange, but I want to inject it into your minds and thought pattern, anyway. Here the prophet Elijah, after being hid for so long, God had pulled him away for a number of years. The tribulations runs about three and one-half years. Pulled him away during the time of the Jezebel reign, which apparently had to do with the Catholicism of today and the evil powers that's coming in. The Lord pulled him away, hid him and then after Ahab had searched through every nation and every place, every kingdom, and couldn't find him, people had took an oath that he was nowhere to be found in the land, all of a sudden Elijah comes back to life. He comes out of hiding and they find him. They don't know where he's been. They don't understand but yet he comes out of hiding. And then when he comes out of hiding, he goes to Ahab. He reproves Ahab for his wrong and he tells Ahab to gather together all of the prophets of Baal. About nine hundred and fifty prophets, get them all together. Four hundred and fifty prophets eating from the table of Jezebel, get them all together, out of the grove, get them all together. Put them all together and then he called a show down. And here is what he told them. First of all, he said, I want you to get all of the prophets that you have got because, he said, there are a lot of you and only one of me. Said get all of the prophets that you can get. All that you have got and bring them together. We don't want to leave any of them so that one of them will say, well, God had me preserved over here in the corner and I could have done it but I just wasn't there. Said get them all. Get every one of them together and then after you get them all together, I want you to bring them down to Mount Carmel. We are going to have a contest. A world of contest. So they brought them all down and Elijah told them, he said, Now, there's a lot of you prophets here but he said I, and I alone am left as the prophet of God. I and I alone as left as the prophet of God, said but you've got lots of prophets and said get them all together. And somebody said, as it was in the days of Elijah. Somebody said he's the only prophet, but God had a lot of prophets in that day. But if He did there is no record of it. Elijah did not lie, nor did God lie. He said, I and I alone am left as the prophet of God. He did not lie. There was not a lot of prophets in the land. There is no record where there was any other prophet in the land but Elijah. Not one. Somebody said Elijah lied. God has seven thousand. There's no record of it. If God had seven thousand there is no record of it in the Bible. I don't know where you ever read that. But there is no record of it in the Bible. Somebody said, well, Brother Pike, I know that he had them cause I can show it to you. Well, you need to do it, You need to do it. You here, or abroad or where ever you are at, you need to do it, because if you know it's in there that's all you've got to do is just show it to me. But there is no record where Elijah like when he said, I, and I alone am left, and said you've got lots of prophets, but he said, I and I alone am left as a prophet of God. And according to the word of the Lord, and according to the Bible and according to what Elijah said, he told exactly the truth. There wasn't another prophet in the land that God had to carry on His work. He did have seven thousand people that had never bowed their knees to Baal, but there is no record where either one of them was a prophet. He said I, and I alone am left as a prophet to face the situation. He said get them all together we are going to have a contest. Brother Wilson preached a sermon here, One at a time, Sir, one at a time. God has never at any time had a whole flock of people in leadership to cause confusion. God doesn't work that way. There has to be stepping stones of authority that run out from Sheriffs to governors to senators to presidents or kings. If you are going to have any order in the earth there has got to be an over sight to the over sight that has and over sight. Do you follow me? Now, everything is stepped up one at a time to a certain place to a certain level to a certain degree and then as it was in the days of Moses when he set up a common wealth and men were set out there they were oversights that were over oversights and oversights that were oversights until it come up to the man Moses and there was no oversight in the earth that was qualified to be his oversight so God became his oversight. Making God the head stone and the supremacy of all things. So then, God has a system. I've often made the statement and I still stand by it; take people and put them together and try to set up a little organization as a, you know kind of like a fellowship. Set it up. put two men together and let them be partners. It'll never work. It'll never work. Try any way you want to. It might go good for a few days or a few months, but after awhile it's going to blow up because it won't work. You know why? Everything has to follow the pattern of Christ. Everything has to follow the order of God. And God ordains that there has to be membership and has to be a headship in all things for it to function right because that is the creative way of God's life. Now, you set up a coop put a president at the head of it, it'll work good, but you do it any other way it won't work. The same way with the church. Set the church up, I've been in churches, in my life back in the state of Nebraska when I was younger, they'd come in, no pastor or preacher, no leader, it was a bunch of rebellious people that had got together, every one of them wanting to be the leader, but the only way they would keep down leadership form the other man is to say that they didn't want to be it, and they'd get every body together you know and say, when the spirit moves we'll get up and say something. That's one of the biggest, most confusing messes that I've ever seen. I stood there in the midst of those people that was waiting for God to move, and a message in my heart, could have preached to them. I just went over to pay them a visit. And others set there and during the Liberty a women waiting for the moving of the spirit decided that she would change the babies diaper on the alter while they were all waiting and that's what she did. I think God did that to show her, to show them what a stink it is in the sight of God when people try to evade leadership. That's right. To evade leadership and want to get around the powers and authorities of God. You understand what I'm saying? Now, you say, Brother Pike, you are against little babies? I love little babies but when people make too much fuss over them there is a devil of lust for somebody's wife. You say I don't believe it? Check it out and see. It'll always run that way. So then, Elijah said, I and I alone, am left as a prophet of God. I and I alone am left as a prophet of God. And he said, get the rest of them together and let's have a show down and let's have a contest and see if it works out like that. And so they got them together and it worked out like that. They got a bunch of prophets together and they prophesied and they done everything that they could do and they built alters and they had everything just the way that they felt like it ought to be but when they called on God. God didn't answer them. God wouldn't answer them, God wouldn't direct them. God wouldn't tell them nothing. You know why? They were worshipping the God of the flesh. The God of the flesh, which was Baal, and Baal being God of the flesh it goes back, as we said to the trinitarian move in the early dark age when they begin to worship Baal and changed it into a trinity doctrine. I made the statement in my previous message speaking form this passage of scripture that from the early morning until the late evening time of this very life we are in right now, the trinity Chruches of God, Pentecostal Holiness, all of the Baptist and the Methodist and all of the others have called and hollared and shouted and begged and pleaded and done everything but God has not answered them. They've promised and promised and promised, but God has not answered them. You know why? Because God works according to his plan, My Brother. Works according to His plan. And what was His plan? He said it shall come to pass in the evening time, there shall be light. Why? Because He said, behold I send you Elijah the Prophet in the evening time and in the evening time he'll know that that's the time to offer the sacrifice. In the evening time. Another thing is, they no doubt had offerings that was spotted blemished and every thing else, but when Elijah the prophet was to come he was to have a sacrifice without spot, without blemish, without wrinkle, he was to have a sacrifice that God would receive. Is that right? Who was that bringing it? John, the Baptist. Behold, Elias is here, is that right? He came and then came the Lamb of God in the evening time. Is that right? Behold I send you Elijah. He came and you didn't know it. Is that right? And so then according to the Bible there was to be a sacrifice, But if you get a bunch of people together with mini skirts on, Long hair, form fitting clothes, and everything that looks like the world and try to offer it to God as a sacrifice, God will reject it. That's what they have tried to do. They've built churches and congregations and audiences and everything else and like Cain they have brought it to God and said here it is. But God rejected it. God rejected it. But when Elijah brought his sacrifice it wasn't a sacrifice of the flesh. Was it? It wasn't that at all. What was it? It was a sacrifice of the spirit. It was a sacrifice of the spirit. If you are not dead to your own self this morning, if you are not dead to the flesh, and if you haven't turned away form the things of the world then there is one thing you need to know, and that is that you are not a sacrifice in the sight of God. Like this morning I picked up a woman's spirit this morning. A spirit of lust. She over done it, to begin with in coming to church with her plans and when she got here she let the devil get on her with a spirit of lust and she set there, set there, that spirit of lust on her until she couldn't do nothing with it. Now, that's not a sacrifice well pleasing in the sight of God. You men that come in here with your minds everywhere but on God, God is not pleased with you. You that fight, fuss, an bicker, backbite at home, you are not a sacrifice on the alters of God. You that murmur and grumble when the Bible said do all things without murmuring, you are not a sacrifice to God, but God's got a clean sacrifice. A holy sacrifice. One without spot wrinkle or blemish. He's got one somewhere in the earth. You know when it was to come on the Scene? In the evening time. In the evening time of life. Somebody said, well, bless God, he didn't receive it at the hands of Jezebel and all these others, Brother Pike, what makes you think that God will receive anything at you hands? But he will receive it because it's one without spot wrinkle or blemish. It's the kind that he's looked for. It's the kind that he's looked for. He will receive it. He'll recieve it. Elijah made the alters. He knew exactly what to do. He said get the wood. Why? Because it was to typify the rugged cross of Calvary. Said I got a revelation. I got an understanding. I got something that I want to do here. Said you do it according to the way I tell you to do it and said it will work out right. It takes the Word of God to be able to reach the People. It takes the Word of God to Be able to bring to pass what God is trying to do. Elijah said, there is a revelation here and he said if you'll put it down just exactly the way that I tell you God will take notice to it. But if you make it after the flesh, after Baal, which means the God of the flesh, your own desires, your own reasoning, you can make it pretty, you can do whatever you want to but God won't look at it, but he said if you will lay the old rugged cross down, put it down there, he said, and then take just one thing without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, and lay it across the top of it, said he will see it. He will see it, Then he said put the wood down. Put the lamb on top of it. Put you sacrifice on top of it. And then he said put me in a couple of measures of seed. Got to have two, first and second man Adam. Got to have both of them. Put them both in, he said. Moses had two stones. Always twins. God always does things in terms of twins. It's always twins. Two pieces of wood to make a cross. Two eyes to see out of. Two nostrils. Two ears. Two legs. Two hands. Isn't that right? God does that. Why twins? Five here and five here? Foolish and wise. Isn't that right? Ten toes. The nations coming up out yonder, the end of the world the Bible said. Those ten kingdoms. So then God does things like that. And He said, put the sacrifice down. And the Bible said they plowed his back as though it had been a field. Throw me a furrow and put some water in it he said. Put some water in. The Bible said to be filled with the spirit. I like that don't you. Put some water in. It takes a seed, plowed ground, drop the seed in, then after you drop the seed in a little sunshine from heaven. Is that right? A little sunshine from heaven, but you've got to have some water in there or the sun will just kill it. Isn't that right? And God knew that He was a consuming fire. He'd take care of the sunshine part. Scientist say it is a ball of fire. He'd take care of that part. What He wanted them to do, is just get everything ready. Get it ready, folks. Get it ready. Take up your cross and follow Him. If you haven't got a cross, get a cross. That sacrifice has got to be laying on a cross. It's got to be carried by a cross. If you don't have a cross you are not a fit sacrifice. Clean up you life. Get you a cross and at the end of the way there will be a crown for you. And the Bible said when everything was just right. The time was right. The time of the evening sacrifice. The cross was laid in order and the seeds was put in, and the water was there, and the sacrifice was laying there. Everything was just right. Isn't that right? Everything was just right. God had it just right. Then the old prophet, He didn't have two prophets, He didn't have to have ten prophets He didn't have to have fifteen prophets. All He needed was just one prophet. Why does God work like that? Why is it that God works with one prophet? Why does God do that? He does it because it shows Christ. It shows Christ. Any time you work with two you've got problems. Anything you work with three, you've got problems. It always is one to show CHrist. Now why is that? It has to be like that. God has to do it like that. Is has to work out like that to keep down confusion. You can't have two heads in the home. The woman can work with you but if she takes over and she says, now, bless God, see here. This is going to be a fifty.....Turn tape over........ Twins, and in that I said it was a two-headed freak. When a woman takes authority and man takes authority, You've got a two-headed freak in the family. That's right. That man has become in God's sight a two-headed freak. That's what it is. I made the statement concerning Cain and Able, The inseparable twins. How many of you understand what I'm saying? So then, God uses, as He moves, a headship in everything. Everything is so beautifully illustrated. Everything is so beautifully laid out, and God does it. Tho the Bible says the gospel is given by God and many publish it, many carry it. Great is the multitude of them that publish it and that is true, but when God does a specific work, though He had twelve men in the days of the apostolic church, he had twelve men. He had the disciples, but when He got ready to make the specific move, He made it through one man which was Paul the Apostle. The Bible doesn't say He gave Peter the revelation. It doesn't It doesn't say He gave the twelve the revelation. But it does say that He gave Paul th revelation. Isn't that right? The record says that He had seventy working with Him. There was seventy people that walked along beside Him and they worked with Him and the Bible said they worked miracles. Somebody said, now, if we could just get miracles this and miracles that and they'd just vindicate this and vindicate that, the Bible said they worked miracles. Seventy people worked with Him, just like the heaking of today with the great leaders of today. And some of them come across my mind just like that, That work miracles and wouldn't preach a Jesus name message for nothing. Come on, folks. I said they wouldn't preach a Jesus name message for nothing, but they work miracles. Somebody said now, bless God, I know that they work miracles. I know they do too, because I've been there. That's right. But that don't prove nothing. It don't prove nothing. Somebody said, now, Brother Pike, if there was a miracle worked that proves something. Well, if that is the case, then down in Egypt when the magicians done everything Moses done, there in the beginning of his services, then that means that they were also right with God. Is that right? No. That wasn't what it was. You know what it was? God was letting Mosses and the magic workers run along together until the time of the evening sacrifice. They all done it together. God did that. But after while it begin to stretch out like a rubber band and they begin to say wait a minute we don't know what all this is about here. Now, we don't understand this part. Now, we know right down to this and it comes down to this denomination and that denomination and what Brother so a so indoctrinated us with and what Grandmother said, but where does this come from. The Jews said we can go along with some of that, or we believe some of that but now where does this other come from that you keep talking about. Said we never heard about that. The wise men, Jesus at the age of twelve, just a little bitty boy, say we never heard about that. Where does that come from? See, who taught you this? In other words, everything worked fine with Moses and the magicians right along together until a certain time came and then after awhile, everytime Moses would do something the magicians would do it, and everytime that Moses would try to tell them that it was God, why the magicians would do the same thing. Old Pharoah just hardened his heart and just set back, you know, like the denominational world of today. We've got a little interprise and a good income. We've got more on the board that you have. Our congregation is bigger. We can get Billy Graham and you can't get him over there. It's alright. You can say amen. Billy has done quit the field anyway. I think he officially stated he was through. I believe the radio stated, was it yesterday or the day before yesterday, I made a prediction. I said he'll quit and I said that will be it and sure enough I understand, or somebody told me yesterday or a day or two ago, said he quit, Bill who was telling that? Was it you? Who was telling me? Somebody said that they was officially, Brother Wayne up here, they officially heard that he said he quit the ministry. Now, but they run along together and everytime that God wanted a way out always the magician was doing the same thing. I mean they did the same thing, but after awhile. according to the Bible, after awhile something took place. It was different altogether. What was it? After awhile Moses did something that they couldn't do. I said he did something they couldn't do. Cause they didn't know nothing about it. Hallelujah. They didn't know what was on the menu. Amen. And I'll tell you, like old Belteshazzar and them down there when their bones begin to shake and they begin to tremble, and the Bible said their joints came loose. Old Pharoah begin to get shook up. He wasn't so confident anymore. He begin to want to know what was going on, for when Moses worked something that the magicians couldn't do it, they'd done run out. And I'll tell you that they've run out. Some of them are trying to make a come back. But they've run out. God's got it and gone. Hallelujah. They've run out. They are trying to make a come back but they've run out. God allowed them to do it back there, and now they are trying to do it, But I've heard some of em', of some of the meetings that they have, people are not responding. They are not getting any response. It's a hoop and a holler. The crowds are not turning out for it either. What is it. They've run out. The lights have gone out. And they are running back and saying we've done run out of oil. We can't do it no more. Well, let me tell you, when the day's of grace is over, when the dispensaton of God is by-passed, they can't work their magic anymore. God calls it magic. Lying signs and wonders. A man work a miracle in a day, when there is a day of grace, where God is giving grace, To God that's not the moving of the spirit. Anybody can do that in the days of grace. Any man that exercises faith can work a miracle in the days of grace. Somebody said, now, Brother Pike, the Bible don't teach that. But the Bible does teach that. And the Bible said the deadly wound was healed. It didn't say it looked like it was healed or it was a deception and they thought it was healed, but the Bible said the deadly wound was healed. Somebody said, now, what are you talking about? Well people have got all kind of ministries. Healing ministries. Discernment ministries. All kind of ministries. Somebody said, but you just wait until you can tell them what is going on. People do that everyday. Everyday people do that. That's right. I heard Brother Harry Woods say watch television the other day and said that every case that came before the man he told them, and said he was shocked. Shook up. Said because at the end of his sermon, he turned to the ones with mini skirts on and the others and said, why you don't have to worry about that. That's alright. You ought to go ahead and wear them. But Brother Harry Woods was so shook up, though he said he knew the man was false, he was so shook up that unawares the other day, he was talking to me and told me that he was going over into the Carolinas to here the man again. So close that it would deceive the very elect if it were possible. See, what is it? The multitudes will follow that. The multitudes. I stopped at a great camp meeting, an international camp meeting, just a few days ago, in route to my meeting, and I had a few of my young fellows here with me, and I stopped there and the multitudes, the ground was covered like ants. You couldn't even get near the building and that's the truth. They were around it on this side and that side, You had to go through the crowd to even get near the building. There was that many people. But no preaching Jesus name. Not telling folks they ought to repent of their sins and be baptized in Jesus name for the remission of sins. Somebody said, well, Brother Pike, I believe that they told them to repent of their sins. I'm sure that they did. The devil has got to have something, that's for sure. The devil will tell you you've got to repent of your sins. He'll tell you that. Esau repented. Working for the devil he repented, but the Bible said he found no place of repentance. The devil don't care how much you repent as long as you don't do nothing about it. But God said, confess your sins and forsake your sins. Is that right? That didn't get him the birth right, The Bible said repent and them be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins. Repentance don't mean nothing. People repent all the time. They repent all the time. But how many of you know that the callings and gifts of God are without repentance? How many of you know that? The Bible said they are without repentance. If it had been given through repentance Esau would have got it. Isn't that right? But it was without repentance. Is that right? God didn't give it through repentance. He said the remission of sin is in the name of Jesus Christ and there is none other name given under heaven whereby you must be saved. That's why Elijah knowed what to do. When he placed the cross down there he took the name of the Lord, and he called on God in the name of the Lord. Somebody said, well, bless God, he didn't know what the name was. Can you prove it? The Bible said there is no where where it's written in the Old Testement. That don't mean Elijah didn't know it. I said that don't mean Elijah didn't know it. Them boys called in the name of the Lord. That's why they got results. The other people didn't know it. The other people couldn't get a hold of it. But Brother Elijah had a straight line between heaven and earth. He knew what name to call upon. He knew what he wanted to say and he said it and it worked. It worked. It came down. He said, he went over there with a message and his message was, he said, if the Lord is God. Somebody said, but he ain't the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is God. But he said, If the Lord be God. God of the flesh, Baal, trinitarian teachings. Is that right? That's what the word means. That early thing they set up at the Nicene Council. Now they done everything they could but they didn't have a revival, but after awhile when all their sacrificing was over. Well, somebody said, don't you believe they fasted, prayed, sacrificed? I know they did, but the Bible speaks in one place where the People sacrificed unto devils. Is that right? Just because there is a healing, that doesn't mean God is pleased with what's going on. Over in Virginia, just a little bit ago, I talked to a man up there and that man has been with all these different moves of Today and there was hardly two or three out of all of them that he made mention of that he said was straight with God. Everyone of the big fellows that he named he said they were out of shape, said I know because I've split the spoil with them. Said until I got scared and run from it, thought God was going to kill me. Now, what is it? You say don't you believe that there is nothing out there? There is something out there and God has got some people out there. That's right, but that light has gone out that they had out there. There was light among the people but the light has gone out. It has died. Withered up. Passed away. It is no more. It is gone. Why? Because God said I'll do a new thing What is that new thing? The ministry that's comeing on now. This is a new thing. Them people don't understand it. They don't know what we are talking about. They don't understand this. Somebody said well, wait just a minute Brother Pike. Brother Branham came and brought the new thing and that's it. That is not it. Brother Branham came and brought a new thing, That was a new thing for his day. Brother Branham is dead. This is another day. God said I'll do a new thing. I'll do a new thing. God didn't die when Brother Branham died, No more that he died when Elijah passed off of the scene. God said I will do a new thing. This is a new thing. Some of them that is following Brother Branham's message is having to confess it's a new thing. They said it was the same thing until they went and made comparison and they found out that God is giving something fresh in this day. Somebody said, well, bless God, I don't want it. I don't want it. Well, that's alright. I'll take you part of it. If you don't want it just slip it on over to my plate. I'll take it and there are hundreds there are hundreds and thousands of others that will be glad to get it. So don't you worry about any left overs. Just push you plate back and get up and leave, and you'll find out that is will be alright. You know, God has a strange way of doing things. Isn't that right? My wife was telling me about something that happens when tourists go over into Jerusalem and different places, waitress picking up the plates too early, you know, and not finishing with their food. They couldn't understand it. But they have a habit of laying their knife on their plate like that and they say that over there that's a signal that you are through eating and to come pick up your plate, and Americans do that you know. Said don't ever do that. Said always lay you knife and fork down a make a cross out of it. Said if you make a cross they'll never touch it. They will leave it alone. Hallelujah. So then, he knew the revelation. He knew what was to be done and he knew exactly how to do it. He had the right message. The right understanding. What was the message? The Lord is God. If the Lord is God, and then when God came down and the great thing took place then the people with one voice altogether said the Lord He is the God. The Lord He is the God. Is that right? Not the Lord is a God, but the Lord is the God. Is that right? He is the God. The Lord He is the God. He is the God. He proved that He was the God. The Lord was the God, and He came down and He got the sacrifice. Why? It was the right time. It was the evening time. Folks, let me tell you something. The sacrifice of Elijah denotes the rapture. They've done everything they could to get the rapture but it hasn't come. The Bible said it consumed the cross. It consumed the seed. It consumed the water. It comsumed the stone. The twelve that symbolized the apostolic foundation to the teaching of Jesus name to substantiate the message. It picked them up and took them too. The whole thing was raptured away, caught away. There wasn't nothing left. They've tried from early morning until night to make it work. But they haven't made it work. But this is going to work. This is going to work. This one is going to work. Why? Because it's God's sacrifice without spot wrinkle, or blemish. It's going to work. He's going to receive this one. Another thing, it's the evening time of sacrifice. It's the right time to offer it up. If you want to be a member of this body then you can made it. You can make it. God is doing a new thing. The old body is dead. The twin that took the mark died. But this, this that's coming up now, is the right thing. All of that will head up in the Antichrist out there, but this is the right thing. This body will be cleansed purged, purified, and then be saved. And Elijah said, there are seven thousand but only one prophet. Moses, a whole commonwealth millions and millions of people that had been down there in that barren land, and Moses brought out enough to set up a whole commonwealth but there was just one Moses. That's all that there was just one Moses. Lot of people but just one Elijah. Multitudes of humanity but just one Jesus. Only one Jesus. The Lord He is the God. The Lord He is the God. I wish this morning that we could have really got into this message. I wish that you had been just a little bit more giving in your spirit, but you've got too mush wandering and figuring, you know, and trying to figure it out, and see what I'm intending and what I'm trying to do and whether you want to go that path or not until I can't really get down to where I'd like to get this morning. I want to say a few more things here and then I'm going to close. But there is one thing for sure. The message that is coming forth now, not Brother Pike, not Brother Branham, not Brother Taylor, not any other Brother, it's the message of the hour and it's the translation for the kingdom of God, it is the message of eternal life and it will bring eternal life. It will do it. It will change the church. Well, somebody'd said, I don't believe it. I don't care if you don't believe it, it will do it anyway. I'd be some poor fool if I stood up here declaring it was going to do it while I knew it wouldn't do it, but it will do it. Somebody said, well everybody that ever come, Brother Pike, believed that. No they didn't. No they didn't. Even Brother Branham said if this ain't it, it'll do'til that comes. But I don't say if this ain't it, it will do'til that comes. This is it and this will do right now, cause there ain't nothing else coming. One reason, there ain't time for nothing else. The mark of the beast is closing in. There ain't time to get nothing else. There ain't time for nothing else to come, to mature. This is it. Somebody said, you just wait, After awhile somebody is just going to work miracles, miracles, miracles, I know it, and while they are working them, the Bible said, the deadly wound shall be healed. If you want to see it, you can be there. It's pretty close at hand now. Somebody said we'll join that crowd. Well, he's got lot of room for you. All he requires is just a little mark. That's all. He just marks them that belong to him. I believe with all of my heart in the power of God and the super natural vindication. I believe that but I also notice that the people that run after that is them that's been in marriages, double marriages and everything else. Jesus said, and adulterous generation always seeking a sign. Like one said the other day, come off of the field, said he wasn't going to preach no more. Said why? Well learned, able to out preach ten men, said he wasn't going to preach no more. Why? Said he was going to wait until that vindication comes, but it just so happens that the man is mixed up in a double marriage. God don't miss. God don't lie. God knows what He is talking about. Is that right? There is something we need to follow and that is Christ. we need to follow God, not signs and wonders, and miracles, and heresies and and ideas, and doctrines, and opinions but we need to follow Christ and that's the Word. And there will be plenty of signs and there will be plenty of miracles, and the Bible said these signs will follow them. They won't follow the signs. They won't stick up a campaign sign our here saying come over here I've got it. I can heal you. I've got miracles over here, a landslide of miracles of healings. They want project it all over the televisions and radios and everywhere else. That's right. Do you know why they do that? You know why they do that? They put up their big signs and say Brother So and So, divine healer, better come on over got the gift of healing. Why do they do that? They've got a reason for that. They know that an adulterous generation is looking for a sign and they can get the adulterous generation and get their pocket book with it. So they let them know that they have got a sign, and that's what they go after. If you don't believe it look in their magazines and see them half stripped off, mini skirts and everything else running after it, playboys with long hair sweeping down on their collar here. See if that isn't right. Sure that's right. Or some denominational interprize with a big fat salary. Position and prestige. That's right. I made the statement in one of our earlier messages, every bit of that will go to the governor. They've got to have the governor down there in their meeting and they want the president down there in their meetings and they've got to have Brother Celebrity down there in their meetings. All of these kind of things because they know the world has got their eyes on them. That makes them big. A lot of them has got big in their campaigns by doing things like that. That's right. What is it? It's the world. It's going after money. It's going to the higher power. And I made the statement the other day. Anytime a message goes to the upper class it's not God. Moses' message defied Pharoah and all his upper class. All of his powers and authorities and his dignitaries, but them poor people that was in bondage, them poor people that was slaveing down there, they found favor in the sight of God and his message found favor in their hearts. Pharaoh didn't like it. You know why they will never cater to this? Because it tears down their interprize. It tears down their kingdom, The other kind of messages say, why, sure, Brother Banker, go right ahead and slip your little deals, just give us fifty on the side. Why, we don't care if you are a banker or whatever you want to be, doctor, lawyer, makes it look better in our denomination. Why if you want to stripe off down at the pool that's alright as long as you support this doctor. It's alright. God understands. The same old Catholic devil, the same old Catholic system that's always done the same thing. Mother Harlot and her daughters all coming together. But not in this. God said, Banker, you are going to get out of the hog pen and clean up your dirty, filthy life. Doctor you are going to lay down your medical practice if that's what it takes and clean the dirt off. Then you can join the body of Christ. This is without spot, wrinkle or blemish. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Women you are not going to set around and make eyes at another man. Men you are not going to set there with a lust devil in your heart toward other women. You are going to clean up. Somebody'd said, well, Brother Pike, I come to this church and you just don't know what's going on. No, I come to this church and you just don't know what's going on. The Bible said, God knows them that are His. You come to this church. That's true. But David said they come and went from the Holy place and was turned into hell. That don't mean nothing. Coming here don't mean nothing. But Brother, if you are a member of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, if you've got the mind of Christ, it'll bring you the faith of that rapturing message that will cause you to be translated into the marvelous kingdom of your God. This is real, Folks. This ain't no make belief. This is real. If the Lord be the God, then let's follow the God. That's right. But there is one thing that we have got to remember. God veils Himself in humanity. Like brother Branham said one time, He changes His mask. In the days of Moses that was His mask. In the days of Elijah that was His mask. In the days of John the Baptist, though He worked no miracles at all, that was His mask. In the days of Brother Branham, that was His mask, because God always works in humanity. Every age, God visits His people always. Always. He always visits His people. And some day when these ages are over, out in the great millenium, the preeminent Christ, the head, Jesus, Himself will set down upon the throne, and in that day He alone shall be exalted, He alone, Not three. Not Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three. Not that. He alone, in that day will be the God, and He shall be exalted. He, alone. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Somebody said, well, don't you believe the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost made this world? Jesus said, I the Lord stretched out the heavens. He said, I did it by myself, and there was no one to help me. That's Bible. Nobody was there. I did it by myself, Jesus said, Somebody said, well, don't you know they are coequal? You know the trinitarian, they say they are coequal. Jesus said, where is mine equal. Said, I don't know of any. I don't know of none. That's Bible. Read it. Said, where is my equal. They ain't no equals with God. He's the God. The Lord He is the God. That's the way I believe it. believe it the way Elijah preached it. Elijah preached a message and I've get confidence in his message. He said, the Lord is the God, and I believe it. I believe he is the God and the rest of them can preach the God whatever they want to but I believe the Lord, He is the God and I believe He is the only form of God in the veil of humanity that we will ever see, my Brothers and Sisters, cause I believe that God is a spirit, and I believe that the Holy Ghost is also spirit living in your heart, and I believe that one spirit is the life that lived in that one body of Jesus Christ and my spirit and my body is one. You love the Lord? I'm going to close here. Where is just so many things that I'd like to have said this morning, but I know that I can't get to say them. But I want you to consider what I've said. You say, why do you preach like this Brother Pike? Because it is the time of the evening sacrifice and it's time that all others got out of the way except Jesus. It's time that everything else is laid aside and the confusion is over and the people can see that it is but one, and just one and one alone and that's all. Not two, not three, not a dozen different denominations, it's just one message, one God, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. That's all. One Christian life to be lived. And if anything contrary to it comes up it's of the devil. I don't care who is the head of it. You love the Lord. I'll tell you one thing. Not only is it time for that to happen but my brothers and sisters, it's going to happen. It's going to happen. I mean that's for sure. It's going to happen. Nobody don't have to ask permission if it can happen from some state overseer. It's going to happen. But while it's happening there's going to be another fellow that's going to come on the scene, too. And he's going to be passing out marks. That's right. Somebody said, what kind? The mark of communism. You ever heard of Marx? He wrote the book of communism. He's going to be passing out some marks, too. It's going to be the regime of the beast. and everybody that receives it's going to reject capitalism, which is typical of God. They are going to reject it and they are going to come under that evil power and influence of that evil head and reject the truth of God and they are going to come into a oneness. They always believe in a oneness anyway. that's right. They might try to confuse you and say they believe in a trinity when it comes to a religion but you ask them who is their leader and they say the papacy of Rome. Ask them who's their leader and they say the President. Who's their leader. The king. the queen, Isn't that right? Put her picture on everything. But they'd like to keep the...(tape Stopped)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord