Now Is Come Power (1)

...from the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation, and let's start in the seventh verse. "(7) And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, (8) And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. (9) And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (10) And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (11) And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. (12) Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Now, I'm going to ask Gary to re-adjust there. When Brother Taylor comes up he has to re-adjust and then when I come up he has to re-adjust. That's why we have a little control tower up here, for that purpose. Now, I'd like to point something out to you if you don't mind. I'd like for you to listen to something here. Notice that in the reading of this twelfth chapter it speaks on this wise. It says, Now is come salvation. Now is come the grace of God and the strength and the power of his Christ. Now is come. All right. It shows to me that as long as Satan is anywhere in the heavenlies that the power of God cannot come into the church. Now, I want you to listen real close, now. We'll probably wade in some deep water this morning, depending on what the Lord shows and just how much that we have a drawing this morning. Now if we get the proper drawing this morning we'll no doubt get into some deep water and probably speak of some things that we see that are going to happen pretty quick, if the Lord sees fit for us to do that. And I want you to, I want you to notice, going back to Calvary, it's always our theme. Whatever we teach, whatever we preach, we go back to Calvary because I believe that most of you people, especially the brethren, are convinced at this point that there is ten times ten what people would have thought is in Calvary. Is that right? In Calvary there is so much revelation hid within the little insignificant looking this here until the whole world would be literally shocked if it was unveiled. All right. Let's go back to Calvary. And let me remind you again. To find a continuity here of thought let me remind you that the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation was written not two thousand years after Calvary. I remind you this for a purpose. It wasn't written two thousand years after Calvary. I know that here we are over here at maybe nineteen hundred and, maybe seventy years, or better. Here we are on this side of Calvary. Now. But the book of Revelation, though when we read it it appears that it has just been freshly written, and it is a fact that right now it is just now being unveiled. Isn't that right? But it is also a true fact that it was written about ninety-six A.D. Right after Calvary this book was written. That means that Jesus here, 33 A.D., that when the Lord Jesus died at Calvary it was immediately after that time that God raised up a man that had divine love. John the revelator. And because this man had love he was made perfect in the things of God. How many of you understand that love is the bond of perfection? He was made perfect in God, for God is perfect, and God is love. And to be filled with love and to be surrendered completely to love is to be a God man, which is a perfect man. Could you raise it just a little so I want have to strain so much, Gary. All right, now. It's just a little too high. I want you to notice that this book, being written shortly after Calvary, the reason that it could be written shortly after Calvary was because the revelation of Jesus Christ that John the revelator saw was exactly what had transpired at Calvary. And John, being in the Spirit on the Lord's Day__ That's why I exhort you so many times. When we come together remember we're in a world of darkness and what we've got to do is create a life and an inspiration, move back the darkness so God can step out of eternity down into the light and be in the midst of us, you light in a dark generation. Gross darkness covering the people in the end time. So then, when you come together I exhort you to get in the spirit, for God is a spirit and we are spiritual beings living inside of little houses of clay, and our communication is with God's eternal Spirit by means of the Holy Ghost, or by means of the angelic hosts of God that ministers to and for mankind. So then, when we come together I exhort you to get in the Spirit, for if John was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day and received the revelation of Jesus Christ, and if the Word of God is of no private interpretation then we are compelled to be in the spirit to be able to understand it. How many believe that's true? Men of old wrote the Bible as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Is that right? As the Spirit of God, Brother Taylor, moved upon them they wrote the Holy Scriptures. And so then, we must get in the Spirit. And when I say in the spirit, that doesn't mean jumping up and down and shouting and hollering, though that's part of the thing. Sometimes your cup overflows and you feel like shouting. The Bible says praise Him in the dance. You feel like dancing, and you might feel like doing a lot of things. Speaking in tongues, prophesying. Might be anointed of God and the gifts begin to work. Like as when the preacher is up here once he gets the anointing stirred up within him it is not him that is speaking but it is the Heavenly Father speaking to your spirit. Now I, as an individual, I standing here, and I speak to your human intelligence by means of my human intelligence, but when I stir up what David refers to as the pure mind within me, which is the mind of Jesus Christ, all of a sudden I'm illuminated with the Spirit of God and a great holy activation of God begins to stir within my being and my blood genetics become alive with the virtues of Christ. Then God is using my human intelligence to convey Himself to your spirit. It is God the Spirit then speaking to your spirit. I speak to you as a minister that I might collect your thoughts that we might get, as on the day of Pentecost, in one mind and one accord. When all of us come together in that one mind, which is the mind of Jesus Christ, God the Spirit will come to that mind. God doesn't know any other mind except the mind Jesus. God cannot work in any other mind except the mind Jesus, because it's the only mind of purity there is. So then, whatever we get we get from God through Christ the creator. Now. So then, when I get into the mind of Christ, my pure mind, then God's Spirit begins to come through and you call that the anointing. Is that right? The Bible said this anointing abideth within you, and this anointing teacheth you. Is that right? So then, it's not you speaking but it's the Heavenly Father that begins to speak. All right, now. To know no man after the flesh, for I am dead as a man. I am buried with God in baptism, through the name of Jesus. Is that right? I am laid away in death and I am buried in death. So then, it's not I that liveth, but it is the Christ that liveth within me and the life I now live I live as the Son of God. Is that right? And we are not to know any man after the flesh, but to know him as the body, or membership, of the Lord Jesus Christ for you are members of His body, Paul said, members in particular, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. If that correct? We have also of His Spirit. So then, I want you to regard what I'm saying this morning and realize that when you come in here (The Bible said, enter into His courts with thanksgiving, His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise.) come in with a heart of joy. God inhabits the praise of His people, so He wants you to come in with a praise so he'll have a dwelling place. Now then, when a praise gets in your heart God the Spirit has a dwelling place, because He's the spirit of virtue. Now. If I can get you to see the seriousness of coming into the house of God, the seriousness of what we're doing, that when you come into the house of God that judgment begins at the house of God. And according to your belief, according to your unbelief, God binds your sins to you, or God remits your sins. Is that right? By faith in what God, the eternal Word, speaks to you from His temple. Let all the world keep silent for God is in His temple. For He shall return suddenly to be glorified within His saints, and I will make them come and kneel and worship at your feet and know that I have loved you, because we're His holy temple. Defile not the temple of God for you are God's temple. The man that defiles it him will God destroy. All right, now. When we come together in the house of God like we're here this morning, realize the seriousness that we have not come together just to have a get together. We've not come together just to say hallelujah and to sing praises to the name of God. But we have come to worship the Lord and in coming to worship God, that God will come on the scene and God from Heaven, the great eternal God that made everything in heaven and earth, will come forth and speak to you. God will speak to you. Not Brother Pike. If Brother Pike speaks to you I don't profit you anything because I'm a man just like you're a man. But if we realize the seriousness, that the eternal God, that hung the stars on nothing, that scooped out the ocean with His hands, the eternal God that caused the day spring from on high, the great God of eternity, this God, when this God comes forth, this God will come forth and this God will speak to you and this God will speak to me and we will, though you hear my rusty vocal organs, as I say so many times; yet it will be God using my means of vocabulary expression. Now, if I'm a rude country man He'll use it. If I'm a polished scholar He'll use it. Whatever it is, if I'm a Japanese He'll use it. If I'm a German He'll use it. Whatever it is it will be the mind of God and the Spirit of God expressing Itself to you, to your spirit for eternal life. But it will be my intelligence, that is my brain work here, that God will be using. Actually I say my human intelligence knowing it will be my brain. God will be using His own heavenly intelligence to come over my brain faculties here. So then, if I get into that realm then it is not I that speak, but it is God that speaketh from within me. So when we come to the house of God we come with great expectations, wanting to here God the eternal Spirit come and speak to us. All right, now. When a person stands up and prophesies if they are really inspired that's God speaking to you. If a person speaks in tongues if they're really inspired that's God using His temple, using His people. Now, if I speak up here the Bible said it's not the minister that speaks, but it's the Heavenly Father working just like the gifts out there. If I get anointed up here I can prophesy. I've prophesied. I've spoke in tongues. I've interpreted. I've done those things because I can do that. I'm acquainted the anointing, because the anointing is with me. I understand the anointing. But now saying words, Paul said, that are easy to be understood. Speaking words that is easy to be understood that you might get something from God and from the mind of the Lord that might build you up in Christ and make you greater in the things of God. All right. Let's go back now and slow down just a little bit in our teachings right here. Notice this, that at Calvary the veil was rent in twain. Here differentiating between the Jesus and the Christ. I want to call that to your remembrance now. Differentiating between the Jesus and the Christ. We always have to go back to Calvary, rend the veil and differentiate between Jesus and the Christ if we get the revelation. Is that right? The first Jesus here. The part Jesus. What did Jesus represent? He represented the first man Adam that fell from the garden. That which is old is ready to be folded up and laid away. Adam, all the way down as the Jewish nation coming in, all the way from the garden is reckoned as that which God rejected. It goes back to Leah. Is that right? God. It's just like Jacob. Jacob wanted Rachel. Isn't that right? Jacob labored seven years for Rachel and wound up with Leah. Is that right? God took the first act of His dispensational move laboring to get a spiritual being. Whereas, the Bible said the second man Adam was made a quickening spirit. God came to make man a quickening spirit that He might be like God, in the image of God. But it is not the custom of nature, or life, as it was said to Jacob, here he said to Jacob, the father-in-law said to Jacob, said, it's not a custom in our land to give the younger sister before we give the older sister. Therefore, you've got to take the older sister. Is that right? So then, Jacob labored seven years for Rachel and he got Leah. Then, after that, Jacob labored another seven years and he got Rachel. So then, God's desire to begin with was not to have an Adam, which was made a living soul, but was to have a second Adam which was made a quickening spirit. Is that right? That was God's plan. Somebody would say, Well, why did God create Adam? Because you can't get the goodies in a shell without the shell. Is that right? Have you ever tried to get an egg without a shell? Try to get a chicken to lay an egg without a shell. See? See what it comes out as. See? You can't do that. You can't get the goody out of a pecan unless you take the shell. Is that right? It's not according to the law, Laban said, to take one before you get other. The laws of nature demands that there has to be a temple. There has to be a body. There has to be a shall. There has to be something that will formate that will bring about an image, a life, an invisible thing. You can't get an invisible image without some kind of a form. Is that right? That's why that God had to make Him ownself a human body that was called the Lord Jesus Christ. God, the eternal Spirit, had to do the very same thing that we have done. That is to say, He had to make Himself a human body and that body was called Jesus. Why? That He might become personified in Christ as a spirit, that God the eternal Spirit, the self existing One, the eternal fountain of life might personify Himself in the body of His Son Jesus Christ. And today I tell you again, that we don't refer to God as the Holy Spirit. It's all right is you want to call God the Holy Spirit. God is the Holy Spirit, but God is referred to as the Holy Spirit before His divine personification in Jesus. But after that God personifies a spirit it is no more referred to as a spirit. It is then referred to as a ghost, a personification of the spirit. So then, here I look at Brother Jimmy. Brother Jimmy he is on the inside a ghost. If the spirit departed from his body it would be like the prophets of old. The Bible said they yielded up the ghost. Is that right? They yielded up the personification of the inward being. Is that right? So then, God, God had to do the same thing. God being a spirit, God had no form. God is from everlasting to everlasting. God was, God is, God shall be. God is the day spring from on high. God is the bright and the morning star. The Bible said he fills heaven and earth. Heaven is His throne. Earth is His footstool. Where can you find His feet? Where can you find His hands? So then, there is no personification of God except in Jesus. I tell you again, that's why that God told Israel, said Israel, though I reveal Myself to you in the birds, though I reveal Myself to you in the trees, though I reveal Myself to you in a blazing, burning bush; yet I tell you, Israel, don't make any graven images unto God because I'm only showing you that God is the life of all things, and that someday I will take on a personification and show you who God really is. And so then He personified Himself in Jesus Christ His Son, to show us what He was. I want you to get this now. Look at this for instance. On this side of Calvary God without personification, look at it. God, who was the Father, the great eternal Spirit. God, the Father. God the Son. God the Holy Ghost. Listen. On this side was God the eternal Spirit. This is why that there is so much fussing and fighting, between the trinity people and what's called the oneness people. Both of them are right, and both of them are wrong. I've been on both sides of the fence. I've talked with both of them. Both of them are right and both of them are wrong. They're right on some points and they're wrong on some points. But, now, look at it. Here on this side, God the Father, a spirit. God the eternal spirit. He is the Heavenly Father. He is the Father of all things. He doesn't have any personification. He doesn't have any form; He's God that fills heaven, fills earth. David said, if I go into Heaven he's there. If I make my bed in hell He's there. The wings of the morning. If it takes me to the uttermost parts of the earth, he said, God is there. Paul said, This day I declare unto you the God whom you ignorantly worship. Speaking of the people of Mars Hill. He said, God who is above you. God who is through you. God, he said, who is everywhere; all around you. God the spirit; He was the eternal Father. But look what God did. God knew that we were little finites that couldn't comprehend something that had no personification, something that had no means of boundaries. God knew we couldn't do that. Now. So what God did, God personified Himself in Jesus. Is that right? Who was Jesus? Just as God was the eternal spirit back here, so was Jesus Christ the mold in which He poured Himself completely without reservation to the full extent without measure. He poured Himself into Jesus Christ to bring about a personification. Why did He want a personification? Because if God is a spirit that has no boundaries, that you can't comprehend except in a personification of Christ, God had to have a headship. Is that right? God had to have a headship. Now I want you to get this this morning. See? God in Jesus personified Himself to cause the great ever expanding spirit to have some place to head up. Is that right? So people would know how to communicate. But that same God that's still Christ in His fullness, that same God has made the church world, all of the church that loves God, the real true church, the membership of a body of an ever expanding God. Is that right? Jesus the head to the church; we're the members of the body of the church. All right. Now, notice this. This God, who is a spirit, the Father, this Son, who is a mold. The Word made flesh. Is that right? This Jesus. Then where does the Holy Ghost come in? How did the Holy Ghost get into the picture? We know there is a Father, the eternal Spirit. We know there is a Son, Jesus Christ. But now we say Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Somebody says, that ain't right. Well, why did the Bible say it? The Bible said Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The Word of God is good enough for me. You said, But, I don't believe it like that. That doesn't make any difference. Let me say this again. What we believe, what we've been taught, whether I teach you or somebody else teaches you, that doesn't have anything to do with it. We're saved by faith in the Word. Whatever the Word says. Not what Brother Pike says, it's what the Word says. It's not what some preacher said, or doctrine said; it's what the Word says. You can believe all you want to and die and go to hell. Faith comes by believing the Word. You've got to believe the Word, what the Word says. I love my mother. I love my family. I love my Daddy. I love the ministers that I meet, and if they tell me the Word I believe it. But, Brother, I don't love them enough to go to hell for them when they tell me what the believe, or what they teach, now, when it's not the Word of God. Faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. There is no God faith outside of the Word. So there is no salvation outside of the Word. So then, what is it? It says, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. There are three that bear record in Heaven. The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost. Isn't that right? Now, it doesn't use the term sonship in heaven, does it? And there are three that bear witness in the earth. What is it? The water, the blood and the spirit. In Noah's day, the flood. In Jesus' day, the Holy Ghost; the pouring out. Is that right? The water, the spirit. Is that right? Pentecost, the Spirit. Latter times, coming end times, the pouring out of the Spirit. The water and the Spirit, but then the blood, which is in the middle, Calvary. The three witnesses in the earth. All right, now. But where did the Holy Ghost come in? We've got a Father, which is without personification. We've got a Son, which is a mold where the Spirit was made flesh, because He said, My words are spirit. But where does the Holy Ghost come in? The Holy Ghost is the personification of God. That's exactly what He is. When God went into Jesus and then when the spirit was therein molded and personified, then He rent the veil, open the mold and out stepped a personification of God that's called the Holy Ghost. That's what it was. It was God in Christ reconciling the world back to Himself. God, the eternal Spirit come; now His the Holy Ghost. What can He do now? He can come to you by measure. He can come to you by measure. God gives unto every man a measure of the Spirit. To be filled with the Spirit because He is the Holy Ghost. He can come to you now by measure. Now, you say, can you found that on the Word? Let's take just a little types and shadows here. Paul said all the things are types and shadows of what God did. Let's take a type and a shadow and see if we can prove it. Look at the old feasts of the Jews. All those things were types and shadows, Paul said, of the New Testament. Let's take the Old Testament. What about the days of the Jews? What about the feasts that they had? Isn't it a true fact that they had one feast that was called Barley Harvest? Is that right? It was the Barley Harvest. Now, we can't go through all the feasts. We've got them here on tape somewhere, but just to refer back to something here to substantiate it, notice this now. That feast was called Barley Harvest. It was called the first fruits. Is that right? It was the first fruits of their Barley Harvest. What did they do? They took it up right here. They took it up in that feast with, just as it was, a whole stalk. They took it up as a whole stalk and they had the whole stalk when it came up. That was the first fruit. All right. Now what does the Bible say concerning that? It was a type of Jesus who was the first fruits of them that slept. Is that right? Check it out in the Old Testament. You'll see it come out perfectly. It was the first fruits of them that slept. Is that right? But He came up as a whole stalk, is that right? Because He didn't come up as the Holy Ghost. He came up as Jesus, the resurrected whole stalk. Is that right? The first fruits from the dead. All right, now. You know how we proved that that was the first resurrection. All right, now. But look just a little bit later. Check the feast of the Old Testament, the Jews. Go on just a little bit farther and you know what you'll find? You'll find that in a little while they took the grain and they ground it up, and then when they crossed over Jordan__ Remember now, the Red Sea. Here's Calvary. Jordan in the grave. They crossed over Jordan. When they crossed over Jordan what did they do? The Bible said that the Jews mixed leaven with unleaven. Is that right? It comes out exactly perfect that when Jesus crossed over the grave, conquered Jordan, conquered death. But He came over it, and what did He do? The Gentiles mixed with the Jews, is that right? That was the leavened and the unleavened coming together. Here they mixed with the Jew, but did you notice something? The Bible said that they took the wheat and they made it into loaves of bread. See? They took it and broke it down. What does the Bible say? A measure of wheat for a penny. A measure of fine flour for a penny. See that you hurt not the oil and the wine. That's what the writer says. Is that right? In other words they waved the loaves before God. Is that right? Because it wasn't the whole stalk. It was the Jesus that was resurrected at the resurrection of the first fruits, but it was the Holy Ghost coming back on Pentecost, and the Holy Ghost came back in measure and every man received a measure according to what he could receive. God giveth unto every man a measure of the Spirit. He give unto Jesus the Spirit without measure. When He came up He was the whole stalk. When He took the blood atonement, went back to the right hand of the Father, took the vesture dipped in blood and set the blood on the mercy seat, and from then on out we had it by measure. Today we can be full of the Spirit, or we can do like the foolish virgins. We can let the oil leak out and not have anything at the midnight cry. Is that right? So then, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. It was the Father's dispensation with the Jews. It was the Son's dispensation with the Gentiles. (Begin side two.) ... the (?) atonement to bring a day of grace. But it's the Holy Ghost dispensation to the church, the book of Revelation, which is bringing the quickening from the dead unto resurrection, because we are they that dwell in heaven. Oh, my! Some of you will never see that. You will never understand the rapture. Some of you will never make it because you will never understand it. That's right. You've been taught so long that all you have to do is sit and wait and God's going to come down and pick you up and translate you and take you away until you will never make the rapture. Brother, I tell you something. There is something happening today. There is something happening today. There is something happening. Can you see this? That in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. The same in the beginning with God, and the Word came forth and manifested Itself. Put on flesh, dwelt among us, and we beheld it as the only begotten of the Father full of grace and full of truth. The Word. In the beginning was the Word. God was a word. God was a knowledge. God was a revelation. In the beginning God was a revelation, and today God is still a Word. God is still a knowledge. God is still a revelation. That's why the Bible said, The law and the prophets until John and since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached, my Brother. You can preach this thing now, because it's a knowledge. It's a mind. It's a revelation. It's God the eternal Word. It's God the revelation, God the Spirit. He said, My Word's are spirit and life, and today it is a translating power. That's why the writer used the terms saying that God hath. God hath. I never will forget. I said, Lord, I wish You would translate me into the Kingdom of God. I wish You would do me like You did Enoch. And back then, years ago, I never knew what the Bible said. I had read it but it didn't register. I said, I wish that I could be translated like Enoch. I just wish You'd do it, God. I know that You translated Enoch because the Bible said that You translated Enoch by faith. He didn't just sit around and wait for the rapture, but the Bible said he was translated by faith. And without faith it's impossible to please God. He that cometh to God must believe that God is and that God's eternal Spirit is the rewarder of them that diligently seek God. That's why we keep a clear conscience, that we might contact God. John said, This is our confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything He hears us. We know that. And if we know He hears us we know that we have what we ask of Him. If we do the things that please Him we keep our conscience clear. Is that right? So then, I said, Lord, I wish that I could be like Enoch. And God spoke to me and said, My son, I have translated you into my marvelous Kingdom. And I tell you what, it shook me up. It shook me up. I read it in the Bible. He took me to the Bible and the Bible said, For God hath translated us into the marvelous Kingdom of our God. I said, Oh, God, I said, if this is true, I said, Why is it, Lord, that I am full of spots and blemishes and wrinkles? How is it, God, that You took me into the Kingdom? How is it that You did all of these things for me, Lord? I don't understand, God, when You told me that I'm spotted, that I'm full of blemishes. And I got to thinking, and I never remembered God telling me that. When God called it to my attention there was no place where God ever told me that. I remember the preacher telling me that. And then I began to search the Word. The Bible said to search the Scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life. These are they that testify of Me. And I began to search the Word, and I thought, Well, God never did tell me that to start with. And then I began to think, Well, what did God tell me? And here's what God said, For God hath sanctified us once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus Christ and the Bible said that God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. I said, My, God! No wonder I'm in the Kingdom. You have sanctified me once and for all by the works of Jesus here, and You have perfected me forever, not from one revival to another. And then I read on in the Bible and it said, Who can lay anything to the charge of God's people who are God's elect? Peter said, you are His elect according to what He foreknew. Now, who can lay anything to the charge of God's elect? No one, for the Bible said they are without spot. They are without wrinkle. They are without blemish. I said, But, God, I said, to be like that I'd have to__ I feel like I'd have to be glorified to be in the Kingdom. How could I ever do that? And then God brought it to me again. I'd read it, but it had never registered. And God said to me, For God hath glorified you. I checked it out in the Scriptures and the Bible said He sanctified us. He's predestinated us. He has perfected us forever by the sanctification here, and that God has glorified us. I thought, My! My! No wonder I've been so out of sorts. No wonder my faith has been like a ship on sea, tossed to and fro. I listen to the ministry and they preach me into hell one day and they preached me into heaven the next day. And the next day they've got me in between and I don't know where I'm at. One day I'm dirty and the next day I'm clean. I thought, Lord, what's the matter with me. And I began to search the Scriptures and I found out, my Brother, that we are those that dwell in heaven. That's why I was teaching that. Now is come power. Now is come strength. Now is come the glory of God. Why? Because the church believing the Word has been raptured, translated into the Kingdom of God, and glorified. And the devil has been cast out, the accuser of the Brethren, that keeps telling them they've got spots and wrinkles, that one that keeps telling them that they are separated from God. Paul said aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, by the powers of their mind up here. But God, bringing every thought unto subjection through Jesus Christ, has translated my inner man into the Kingdom of God, glorified me, perfected me forever. Made me without spot and then turned to me and said, He that is born of God cannot sin, and then turned to me__ I said, Lord, I said, When is death going to be conquered? I said, You said the last enemy to be conquered would be death. And God said to me, to wit, to acknowledge, to come to an age of understanding whereby the Word that was sent to heal them, that was sent to save them, that was sent to translate them by their faith in it, that Word, He said, coming to an age of the redemption of the body. That age of the great redemption. Coming into the age of the redemption of the body. And I said, Lord, when will death be conquered? He said, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, from mortality to immortality, He said it would be conquered. He said, Son, the final place of the conquering of death is after the millennium when the graves give up their dead. Said, The second death, the lake of fire. And said, They'll give up the grave will give up their dead in the second resurrection, which is the resurrection of the wicked. But He said to me, In the first resurrection, which is the redemption of the body, with is the catching away, He said, this is the conquering of death. I said, Lord, I said, but even at that, I said, that is at the coming of Jesus when He come yonder in the heavens. And God said, It is to the world, my son. He said, But go back to Calvary. And I went back to Calvary and the Bible said, God has shortened the days for the elect's sake lest there be no flesh spared, and God said to me, said, Where is the first resurrection? I said, Lord, it's right when the saints get up out of the ground at the coming of Jesus. God said to me, said, the first resurrection was when the first fruits of them stepped up out of the ground. And when the first fruits stepped up out of the ground, said, Them that were bound by death that was back under the law couldn't be held any longer and they got up and they walked about town, because death couldn't hold them any longer. And He said to me, Jesus was delivered for thine offenses and raised again for thy justification. And I got to thinking over it and I said, Lord, I said, How could that possibly be the first resurrection? I said, The Bible said over in Revelation nineteen, there in Revelation nineteen and twenty, I said, it refers to the first resurrection which is after the tribulation period. But God said to me, said, Don't you remember? said, when He went up right here, He set down at the right hand of the Father? That was the first resurrection. Said, But because man looks on the outward appearance man could see him no more. That why the first resurrection could not be recognized. Said, But when that same Jesus stepped off of the mercy seat over in Revelation nineteen after the tribulation period when that Jesus steps off of the mercy seat and comes back on the white horse, Enoch prophesied saying, coming back with ten thousand of His saints to execute judgment on them that do evil, He said, when He comes back, He said, that is called the first resurrection because He said, I am the resurrection and the life. Here the first resurrection got up, the resurrection Himself, and set down at the right hand of the Father, and people couldn't see the resurrection in the natural, my Brother. But it came back over there in Revelation nineteen in His own natural body and they saw that He was the resurrection. And they said, Now, the first resurrection is here. But I want you to know something. Though the world might not see it, I went back to Calvary and I saw Him when He got up out of the grave. And when Martha said, over there talking to Him said, If. Said, If you had been here my brother would not have died but, Lord, I know that whatever You say will happen. Said, Jesus said, He'll live again. Or she said, I know that he'll live again in the resurrection. Don't you see the church? The church said, I believe. I believe. What do you believe? I believe when the resurrection comes. Jesus said, I am the resurrection. I am the resurrection. I'm the life. Wherever I am that is the resurrection. I'm in the midst of them when two or three of you come together. I am the resurrection. Two or three come together, I am in the midst of you. I am the resurrection. So then, where are we? I've been translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God. I been buried in His death here at Calvary in the name of Jesus Christ. I've been resurrected from the dead and old things have passed away, behold all things are new. I'm in a new world, the writer said, since Christ saved me. I am those that dwell in heaven. You say, Where do you get that, Brother Pike? Because Jesus said, Ye are not of this world. I have chosen you out of this world and you are hid with Christ. Where is Christ? He's at the right hand of the Father and you're hid with Christ. Where? In God, in the eternal Spirit. Hid from the world in the Spirit. I am in God. Hid with Christ in God, whom the heavens have received. Not the world has received, but whom the heavens have received. We are those that dwell in heaven. We are in the Kingdom of God. Translated into the Kingdom of God by His grace, and we are yonder in Heaven with God, hid with Christ. And today we're sitting in heavenly places and Christ is in the midst of us. So are the angels encamped round about us. Is that right? Why? Because the translation is a revelation. If you get a healing it's when you get a revelation that by His stripes you were healed, and calling those things that are not as though they are you have faith in the Word. And because of that the blind eye begins to see and the deaf ear unstops and the lame begins to walk. Calling those things that are not as though they are because in the foreknowledge of God it was that way and Satan has perverted it. And by faith we bring it back to the original. Is that right? The way He created Adam in the garden, without spot, wrinkle or blemish. And the same way 'til we wit the redemption of the body, to acknowledge, to come to a day of revealing, to come to the end time when the revelation would be made known, when people would suddenly become aware of a knowledge that would translate them into the Kingdom of God. For by faith as you hear, as you believe, you accept salvation by faith. You accept healing by faith. You accept translation by faith. I say to you again, a preacher, a knowledge, a message coming forth and men going throughout the world to preach it and to indoctrinate people in their intellectual up here to make them understand. To leave them a message in their understanding, in their intelligence. Is that right? God does that. But let me tell you something, my Brother and Sister. When that message has been thoroughly put up here and everyone had gotten into the ark, God has pulled everyone of them into the message, everyone of them is in the message, then what will God do? God will transfer that intelligence up here, that godly intelligence that has just been an indoctrination, down to the heart, and with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and when He gets everyone into this message then He will, all of a sudden, in a moment in the twinkling of an eye that Jesus that will come instantaneously, this body will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. For He will transfer that understanding down to the heart and it will turn into faith because with the heart man believeth, and that faith will translate him. Everyone that doesn't get that translation message will not make the translation. I don't care how religious they are. I don't care how much they believe, I say this again, the Bride of Christ will be translated. But Brother, out of all the people in the world I picked one woman. That's all. Just one woman. If you've got a wife, out of all the women in the world you picked one woman. That's shows that little minority. That shows that just how small the group will be. Few there be that find it. God is going to take somebody that will conform to Him, that will become the Word made flesh. A woman and a man, the Bible teaches a secret concerning the church, the mystery is that they are no longer twain but one flesh. Is that right? And that man, or that woman, is going to take that Bible and take that Word and take an understanding and their going to indoctrinate themselves until they become a walking word with God. And then when they do that, God the spirit is coming back and the spirit is going to activate those people. And that glory that is going through the mind of Christ that they built up here, that spirit that goes through there will go into the blood genetics on the outside, and just like Enoch we'll go home to be with God. That's right. Now you say go home and be with God, you just said we're home with God? In the inner man I am in heaven. This outer man is dead, buried. Not active in the world any more; it's dead buried. Somebody said, Well, we believe in all the things of the world, Brother Pike, we've still Christians. You couldn't be. No way. How can a dead man get out there and play volley ball and football and go swimming and do the things of the world? How in the world are you going to do this like that? A dead man don't do things like that. Now the world can do it, but not dead men. We dead, buried, my Brother, Sister. We are buried. Inactive. The world says, You're dead. That's true, we are. But on the inside we're much alive. We're much alive. To be dead__ When you come to the great throne of judgment you're either going to be dead in your body and alive in you spirit because of grace, or you're going to be dead in your spirit and alive in your body because of worldliness, which ever you one you choose. That's right. All right, now, I'm just going to say a few more things and I'm going to close. There's a lot of things I want to say this morning but for the past two or three weeks I can't even seem to scratch the surface to get into the depths of thoughts that I'd like to get into. And I want you to listen, now. Maybe it's because these things are going on the radio and the Lord wants them thoroughly understood, broke down the more that people out there that maybe are more unlearned than you, might be able to have a better chance to understand to enter into, or find an entrance into the deeper things of God. But I want you to notice this now as I try to find a place to close. If I come back to Calvary and I differentiate between the rent veil, now, I say, Jesus. The Bible said that He made in Himself both Lord and Christ. Is that right? Twain. So here at Calvary the temple was rent what? In twain. For He made in Himself twain, both Lord and Christ. So the separation of Calvary whereas the Bible said He was the temple and the Jews thought He was talking about the temple on the natural temple on the ground. And the Bible said they knew not that He spake of His body saying, in three days I'll raise it up. So then, the temple. Destroy the temple, Jesus said. Just rend it in twain. So they rent it in twain and differentiated between the Lord and the Christ. The Christ which was the quickening spirit. The Lord, the second man Adam to pay for the debts and the sins of this man which had fallen oven here. That which is old is ready to be folded up and laid away. So He folded it up, the law, the accusations. Satan was cast out of heaven. Where? Right here. Right here at Calvary Satan when out of heaven. You say, How do you get that? Because He said, I beheld Satan, as lightning fall from heaven. When Jesus hung at Calvary He said, I destroyed him that had power over death. He said that when He hung there at Calvary, when Jesus hung there at Calvary He saw Satan fall. Said, I destroyed him that had power over death. I saw him fall as lightning from heaven. Where? In the revelation of Jesus Christ. What else? What John recorded. What did John record? What happened at Calvary. That's why in the book of revelation John sees him fall from Heaven. Jesus shows it to him. So then, what was this Calvary? It was the rending of the veil. And then Lucifer fell. What happened? Immediately after that angel set one foot on the land and sea, and we don't have time to go into that. There the rent veil. There the thunders, and there Satan went out of Heaven, and there raised up a hand and said, The Kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of our God. Now has some power and strength and joy. Now the accuser of the Brethren is cast out. And there Satan went out and the Bible said Lucifer personified Himself. Went into a human being and personified himself and raised up that number 666 that's coming to the Papacy. There personified himself because the Bible said he was cast out of heaven. Out of where? Out of the Spirit. How many know that Satan is a spirit? Sure, he's a spirit. Now. He's in the garden, is that right? The Bible said walking up and down amidst the stones of fire, which stones you are. Said, I'll remember you. My jewels. My stones. When I make up my jewels. Is that right? Now this same Satan. This same Lucifer that was in the spirit. Just give me a few minutes now; I'm going to close. The same Lucifer. The same spirit that was in the realms of grace. I want you to see that. That same Lucifer that was in the realms of grace. You say, How did he get grace? Because God once winked at men's ignorance. Back here. He couldn't destroy them. He couldn't destroy them. Is that right? He couldn't destroy them. There was no way. God was too merciful to destroy people that didn't know any better. You say, I believe He sent them to hell. No. But, you say, He let the earth open up and swallow them. He had to make them pay for it in the natural, my Brother and Sister. He had to kill that old outer man. But you can read back here, the Bible said concerning Daniel, Said, You'll rest in your lot. Concerning these that suffered in the days of Noah that were ignorant, the Bible said that Jesus went down there and preached to the souls that were in prison. Is that right? God did not cut off any of them. There was no way, until Jesus could go preach to them. And the Bible said all of these died under the law. Is that right? Not having received the promise, but seeing the promise afar off. And what was the promise? God said, Abraham, I'll give you a son. Through Him, Jesus Christ, Isaac, all nations shall be blessed. Is that right? That's right. So then, when the Holy Ghost came Peter said, This is Him. This is that personified Christ. Said, This is Him. This is the promise. This is what He said would come. So immediately that Holy Ghost promise, see? had come. He had to go down into the heart of the earth and preach to those souls in prison. Died here. Left the body went down to the heart of the earth and preached to those souls in prison. Is that right? He waded through the chambers and the flames of hell. Somebody said, Where do you get that? The Bible said He suffered not His holy One to remain in hell. His soul to remain in hell. Is that right? Nor His body to see corruption, nor His soul to remain in hell. So then, when He went down there He preached to the souls that were there in prison, my Brother, my Sister. He preached to them. Why? Because of ignorance. God could not cut them off. God could not cut them off. When He brought the first resurrection, which was not acknowledged until over there in the revelation of Jesus Christ. Is that right. Which was just a few years after Calvary. Now, we haven't acknowledged it until over here, because we wasn't suppose to get the message. Paul said, born as one out of season, the revelation to rapture the church. I show you a mystery, we'll no all sleep, but we'll be changed. We'll come to this revelation, Paul said, that will change the church. Is that right? He said it will be a mystery. It will be revealed. When? At the sound of the last trump. When that angel sounds, the last trumpet sounds, the mystery will be made known. What is the mystery? You say, What is the mystery? I could tell you what it is but you wouldn't understand it if I told you. What is the mystery? The mystery that will be revealed is that you are already in heaven. That you are already without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. That there is not one thing that anybody can lay to your charge. That's what the mystery was, that in the foreknowledge of God you've always been healed. In the foreknowledge of God you've always been the sons of God. In the foreknowledge of God you've always been saved. In the foreknowledge of God, God already saw you in heaven and saw the Jews standing on Mount Zion over there. He already saw you according to the book of Revelation. God already saw you standing before the throne and the Lamb wiping away the tears. Is that right? God already saw you that way. But we had to grow up from a little child. Is that right? Develop by faith to be able to come into this great God Word, this great spirit. This great eternal Word. This great world of mystery. Is that right? Through the blood shed of Jesus Christ by faith in His name to accept it and to wit the redemption of our body, to come into it as the knowledge was revealed in each age until we come to the fullness, proportionally, knowing in part until as the trumpet sound to reveal the mystery until the last part was sounded. Then the mystery is finished. Is that right? The mystery of God, which is the mystery of godliness. What is the mystery of godliness? Paul said, It is great and I'm a steward of it. What is it? It's a fact that you already are saved. In the mind of God you were elect from the foundation of the world. Already predestinated. You just come to the acknowledgment of it through the preaching. Is that right? Somebody say, Prove that by the Bible. Paul said, As many as are ordained unto eternal life believed. Why didn't the rest of them believe it? Why didn't the rest of them believe it? He preached to all of them. Because they were not ordained unto eternal life. Why did Judas fall away? Somebody said, Well, he just backslid. The Bible__ Before he was ever born into the world, in the Old Testament the prophet said, Let his Bishopric another take. Before he was ever born into the world. Before Jacob and Esau was ever form, ever born, the Bible said, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. Paul said, If there righteousness in God. No. God just foresaw being sovereign. He saw what you would do and what I would do and predestinated us according to our sovereignty. Is that right? God already knew. Therefore my Brother we are without spot, we are without wrinkle, we are without blemish. We are a holy people. We are those that dwell in heaven and that's why the book of Revelation said that the dragon made war against them that dwell in Heaven. Do you feel like you're sitting in heavenly places this morning? Feel like you are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received this morning? Do you feel like God has chosen you out of the world? Do you feel like Jesus did when He said, Nicodemus the son of man who was in heaven and who is in heaven, as he stood there and talked? Are you the body of Christ? bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh? Are you this morning? I tell you what, it's the great mystery that's translating the church. And I say this much. Though I'd love to say a lot of things this morning I'm going to have to close. But I say this much, if this doesn't translate the church I am a false prophet. I hope everyone of you will come around and pin something on my back, somebody hold me until the other one gets in it on there and say, Not only is he a false prophet, but he's one of the worse I'm ever seen in my life. He's the biggest liar. But I'll tell you what? It will translate the church. It's the last message going and, my Brother, it will translate the church. She's gone. You might as well get ready, she's gone. She's gone. I love you this morning. We're living in a late day. A late age. It's a very late day. Hallelujah! I feel good, don't you? I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel that personification of Christ personifying Itself in me this morning. Hallelujah! Isn't that wonderful? I want you to stand with me. I love you this morning. I want to say again we're thankful for our visitors. For Brother Baldwin and his wife and the others. I hope that we've said things easy to be understood this morning. Paul said, Rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. Sometimes we are rude in speech because we're trying to express ourself, but not in knowledge. We understand those things. What a day. What a day. What a beautiful day. I hope you can see, my Brother and Sister. I hope you can see. What a beautiful day. Hallelujah! Paul said we have heavenly treasure in earthen vessels. Heavenly treasure. Now is made known unto the church the manifold wisdom of God. We have this heavenly treasure. We've got it, Brother Bill, in earthen vessels. It's earthen vessels. Great wonderful. Great and wonderful. Let's sing that little song, They'll come from the east and the west, can we? (Singing) Do you feel faith? Do you feel faith this morning? Does your faith feel strong with morning? in the confidence and the securities of God? the eternal securities of God? Do you feel it this morning? I feel confident in Him. I'm like Paul. I'm persuaded to believe that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that great day. I believe He can do it. I'm persuaded to believe he can do it. Let's sing that little song, We'll give the glory to Jesus. Can we do that? (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord