God Appearing In Another Form

I want to read a little bit from the book of Saint Mark, and I've noticed here as of late some of you are not spiritual at all. I mean not at all. Some of you are just as dead as if they had already preached your funeral and buried you; but you know, as long as I am here that isn't going to stop me from bringing the Word. I'm going to bring it right on, whether you're dead or whether you're alive. I'm going to bring it right on. I've got a job to do and I'm going to do it. But I do say this, Jesus came to the Jews in the form of the Word, but the Bible said the Word did not profit them that heard it. The zeal of their own house has eaten them up, and your zeal and you figuring, and your wondering, and you putting things together in your mind and figuring it out the way that you feel it to be, and what you think about the brethren, and what you think about the work, and what you think about the pastor, and what you feel God has told you; your own zeal has eaten you up and cut you off from it, and it just makes you dead, that's all. But nevertheless, there are those that are called living stones of fire. And whether I can speak to you under the anointing that I would like to speak under, as far as being inspired, or whether I just have to bring the Word to you, I intend to bring it until He tells me to do different. A lot of you are very attentive, good listeners, but not very hungry and not very thirsty. God being a Spirit, you draw waters out of the well of salvation with joy. God being a Spirit, you have to have your spirit without condemnation that it might make contact with His Spirit by faith, and if there is condemnation there is no faith.....The Bible said that God has taken the hypocrite by surprise and you're going to be taken by surprise in what you think. You're going to find it isn't that way at all. So, I ask you this morning to work with me and help me. There is no room for people who want to pass their opinions and gossip on the campground. If you just want to gossip and talk about the brethren, then find another dwelling place because that's not what it's for. We don't want people working against us here. We want people working with us. And you are not welcome on the campground if you're going to work against us or against the brethren. You are not welcome. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, don't you think that you ought to be the kind of person that would just have a sovereignty and just let people do any way? I certainly don't believe that. The Bible said, Purge out the old leaven and be ye a new lump, and we want a new lump. Somebody said, Well, doesn't the Bible say, let them grow together? It says, yes, let them grow together out in the world. If you want to get out there in the world and grow with them that's all right, but in the church purge out the old leave, cut off the bad limb or else the Spirit will leave the whole church. So as a body, that's the way we are functioning, either be with us or leave us. Don't be hypocritical because you'll just bring trouble to your home. I want you to read with me in the book of Mark. I think I'll start in the fifteenth chapter, the forty-second verse; then we'll read on a little bit in the sixteenth chapter. Remember now, God is a Spirit. God is a Spirit and those that worship God must do it with their spirit in spirit and truth. He is the Holy Spirit of truth, cleanliness and righteousness and your spirit must worship His Spirit. Paul said, The God whom I worship or serve with my spirit. So your bodily presence means absolutely nothing, if your spirit and mind are somewhere else or contrary. As a matter of fact it's just a testimony against you because you're there to hear it. (Brother Pike reads the Scriptures.) Now, I want to take the twelfth verse and drop a thought or two in this morning if I can. If you'll give me a few minutes to talk with you and to preach a little or to teach a little. First of all, can you imagine what it would be like to take a dead man and to put him in the ground and then go back and find out that this dead man had come up out of the ground, had resurrected from the dead? Can you imagine what that would be like? Now, you know when we think about the death, the burial and resurrection of Jesus, we think of it in this way: We know that He is Christ and we know that He is God. We understand that anybody that was reasonable would have known that Jesus wasn't going to stay in the ground. We understand that, you know, because we read the Book, we read the story, we hear the testimony of how He is the Christ. But see, those people didn't know that. Those people knew Him just as I know Brother Gary here, just as I know Brother Gary Armstrong. That's the way they knew Him. In other words, He was somebody who was a man just like you're a man; and that He had been killed. He had been crucified the way they had done many people, killed them. He was dead. He was gone; and they put Him in a sepulchre. They had hewn out a place in the stone where Joseph of Arimathaea had a burial place and gave it to Jesus. They put Him inside of this thing and sealed it with a big rock. And then they came back and this man was gone, resurrected from the dead. Of course some of them didn't believe that. The Bible said, It was commonly reported among the Jews today that His disciples came and stole Him away from the tomb. There are people today that actually believe that they forced that stone away and that they stole that body and hid it somewhere, so that they could substantiate the teachings of Christ. They still believe that. But can you imagine, here was a man dead, crucified, buried, put in a grave, and here all of a sudden He is resurrected from the dead? Can you imagine how amazed the people were and how it spread throughout all the coast of Judea and all over the nations everywhere? It, no doubt spread like fire. But if we had somebody out here that we raised from the dead, and they could positively prove it, then all over the world it would spread, all over the world it would spread quickly, and it was that way with Jesus, even more so in that day. And it spread all over the nation, everywhere, that this man had gotten up out of the grave and had risen from the dead. What a startling thing! What an amazing thing! That here they found the Jesus, the Christ whom they thought was dead, had risen from the dead. What an experience! What an experience! But you know when you think about it, I also died and was raised from the dead. I also walk in the newness of life, and the stony heart has been rolled away, and Christ is living from within me. And yet people know this, but they don't get excited about it. And I not only arose from the dead, but I arose from the dead to never die anymore, never die again. Death can never hold me anymore. That's why I say I am alive forevermore. Jesus said, I am alive forevermore, I have the keys to death, to Hell. I'm alive forevermore. But here a great startling, amazing thing takes place. A human being, a human being with hands, just like the hands I have, fingernails, just like I have, teeth like I have, hair, feet, flesh and bones, every part of me, He was just like that. He was just like that. He was a human being: a human being! He had thoughts, He had feelings, He had understanding. He could see the birds; He could hear them sing. He was a human being. Have you ever thought about that? Jesus was a human being. Most people think of Jesus as being something divine, something supreme, something way off out yonder that has no feelings for our infirmities, that can't be touched, that knows nothing about us, but He was a human being. A little baby that one time was in a mother's arm, and she cuddled Him, cuddled Him and rocked Him and bounced Him on her knee, and kissed Him on the cheek and ran her hands through His hair, curled and twisted His hair, you know. Like mothers will do a little baby, kiss him and love him, you know. That's right, wash his little dirty feet, that's right, wash his little dirty hands where he played, you know, got dirty. He was a human being, every bit a human being. He cried just like little babies cry when anything would go wrong. No doubt He cried just like they cried. Every bit a human being. You say, Why do you believe that? Because the Bible says, He was mad in all way and manner like unto us, like unto us! He had to be made exactly the way that I am made. He had to cry. The Bible said, Jesus wept. He wept. He had a feeling for his friends. When Lazarus was placed in the grave, He had a feeling for him, and He stood there and wept just like a man. He stood on the mountain and looked over Jerusalem and thought about all of His friends and all the people that He knew, that He walked with, and that many of them were going to die and go to Hell, and that He was going to lose them. Just like I think about my friends, I think about my loved ones. And the Bible said, He wept. He wept over Jerusalem. He was a man. He was a man. That's where we get side-tracked. Jesus was a man. Jesus was a man! He resurrected from the dead. He was a human being. He came up from the grave! Here you know, you can't get along with a pastor, you can't get along with a pastor's wife, you can't get along with each other. And you know, when you talk to the people about it they feel this way, Well, that old human being, that old man, that old woman, that old boy, that old girl. But you know they say, I could get along with God. I could get along with God, but I can't get along with that old fellow. But did you know that God was a human being? God was a human being. And the Bible said, If you do it to the least one of these you do it to God. And He said, If you don't love your brother whom you have seen, how could you love God whom you've not seen? He was a human being. That is, if God was in one human being called Jesus, and you couldn't love that human being, you couldn't love another human being. They couldn't love Him. They nailed Him to the cross. They couldn't find any affection for Him They hated Him and despised Him. Somebody would say, Well, it wouldn't be that way with me, Brother Pike. But I want you to know today He's still in a human body. I said He's still in a human being. That same Jehovah God that was in the body of Jesus, that walked in the body of Peter, and waked in the body of John, as a membership to that great head that was here in the Earth, that same God is still in a human body, is still in a human being. And the Bible said, If you don't love Him, then you don't love God. Whatever you do to them, that is what you did to me because that's who I am. That's who I am. It's bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. In other words, Jesus was a human being. He sat down at the table; He drank wine with the people. He sat there and He satisfied His appetite. And they called Him a wine bibber and called Him a glutton, and a friend of the publicans because He talked to the sinner folks. He was a human being. But you know what the problem is? You can't have fellowship with a human being, can you? You know why? Because the devils has you separated. You're self-righteous. You feel you've got the answer. You feel you know how it ought to be run. You can't follow the leadership of a shepherd. You can't walk with the brethren, can you? But the Bible said, He appeared in another form. He appeared in another form. In the days of Moses He appeared in the form of Moses. And He said, I've made you God to Aaron and God to Pharaoh. And tell them I Am sent you, Moses. And then He came up later after this great thing, going down there, Moses down in Egypt, taking a rod that was absolutely nothing, and taking that rod and throwing it down in the presence of Pharoah, and overcoming the evils; and when their serpents came forth as the brazen serpent of Calvary, took that rod, and that rod swallowed up the evil spirits. He that was made sin, like unto an evil spirit, through that, swallowed up evil spirits that they should bother people no more; overcame it by the great power of God. Why? He was appearing to Pharaoh in another form is what is was. And when He went down there to Pharaoh, Pharaoh said, Who are you? And who told you to come down here? He said, I Am sent me. Hallelujah! I am what I am by the grace of God, Paul said. Said, When they ask you, Moses, just tell them I Am sent you. That's good enough, isn't it? I thought about David out there in the wilderness of Paran. Out there away from everybody, being driven off of the throne by the son. Having been driven away in Saul's wickedness, always pursuing David, and yet he was in line for the throne. And Saul was always after him in the wilderness of Paran, and he went down to a fellow by the name of Nabal and asked for a favor, and he wouldn't give it to him though he had been good to him. He protected his sheep over in Mount Carmel. He looked after all that he had, but he wouldn't give him anything. All he did he came down there, David, just a man, saying, Give me a helping hand. I'm fleeing from Saul. I'm out here in the wilderness of Paran. Give me a helping hand. Saul took his wife, his own daughter, Michal, that he had given to David and gave her to another man, and here David fleeing from the presence of Saul; but that wasn't just David, that was God in another form appearing to Nabal to give Nabal a chance, asking him for a helping hand, asking him for a favor. And the man was so wicked, he had his own ideas about it, his own thoughts about it. Three thousand sheep over there and all kind of cattle, a great man. He said, Who is this David that I should share with him? Somebody said, Who is that Brother Pike, and that Brother Taylor, and that minister over yonder, that I should share what I've got with him? Who is he that I should obey him or listen to his voice? And David said, Send me something to eat. Share with me. But it was God appearing in another form in the man of David. And Abigail fell down at his feet and said, My Lord, said, remember us when you come into that kingdom and into that power, and let not bitterness be in your heart toward us. Said, Remember, said, My husband is Belial, he is wicked. She said, But I come to offer tribute. I come to do something. I come to find favor. Have mercy upon us. Have mercy. And in about ten days, God killed Nabal, did away with him because of his evil. In about ten day God did away with him. What was it? It was God in the time of His helplessness. It was typical of Jesus wandering through the wilderness, the same place where the children of Israel had wandered down through the wilderness of Paran, wandering through there looking for a helping hand. What is it? It was God appearing in another form. It was God trying to reach somebody, God giving the people a chance to help Him in the time of need. David was coming to the throne. He was coming to the throne. He had young men that followed him. They followed him through the wilderness and they stayed with him. They could have gone back with Saul and had the better things of life. They could have left off. Isn't that the way it is today? Couldn't you leave off today? Do you have to wander around in a wilderness to the people? Do you have to leave off with the fine things of the world? You don't have to do that. But you know there is something coming somewhere. Hallelujah! Out yonder there is something coming. We know there's something coming. Moses didn't have to leave the throne. The Bible said he chose to suffer the affliction with the righteous rather than enjoy sin for a season. He didn't have to leave it. He was a polished scholar there at the right hand of Pharaoh. He had everything the world could offer him, but he chose to suffer the afflictions with the righteous. What God is looking for as Brother Taylor said, is the little scrub girl. He is looking for somebody that will lay down their pretty face and lay down their pretty body, and lay down there education, and lay down all the things that they've got. Brother Taylor reminds me so much of Moses, being learned in the way of the Egyptians, having about six years of college, knowing things, and having everything bright. But he laid down all of that to go suffer the afflictions with the righteous and to wander around and be ridiculed by his dad and all the others so that he could be a blessing to God's people. Why? Because God raised him up as a deliverer to help bring God's people out. The Bible said, And I'll bring delivers. He's got some Samsons; He's got some Moses; He's got some Elijahs; He's got some Davids. God has some deliverers. He's got some Abigails. He's got some Sarahs. He's got some Marys, too. He's got some Deborahs. He has some people in men and women alike that He can raise up. Not only that, but He has some little boys and girls that are in the making, too, that are going to be a testimony. Little fellows that won't fill their ears with trash. Little fellows that won't listen to the evil things, that won't joke about something. God has somebody in the Earth that is willing to serve Him and walk with Him. It's still God appearing to people in another form. It is still God trying to reach somebody in another form. God was in David and David was about to kill Nabal; and Nabal was drunk and didn't have any understanding. And David was fixing to kill him and destroy his whole household because he wouldn't listen. Drunk. And the Bible said, If they be drunken, they be drunken in the night. The old carnal mind, some of you are so drunk off of your own self, and you own ideas, and your own way of life and your own plans. You are drunken in the night, the darkness of the old carnal mind, and you can't find your way. You are drunk, just weaving about, drunk. And the wrath of God is fixing to fall upon you, and you can't find your way. And somebody says, Well, I don't believe that old pastor is right. I don't believe what he said. I'm not going to obey that. He will go to somebody else and say, I don't believe that is right. Are you going to listen to what he had to say about it? Drunk. And the first thing you know, you take a little sip of it and on that old carnal mind you're going to be drunk, too. I made the statement yesterday that it is not so bad to have a man that won't work and won't help and won't do anything. That's not so bad. It is bad enough, but it's not so bad. But that same person that will take that devilish attitude, you can't keep them away from the campground. They've got to be here and keep three or four others from working. They always have something that will stop somebody from working. They always have something that will take a leader away from his men, so his men can wander off somewhere. They'll always do that way. The boys that don't want to come to church, that don't want to obey God, you can't keep them away from the campground. They will come over here and want to frolic and wander around down here and defile the little girls, molest the women or do something evil. Women, girls that don't want to come to church, don't want to obey God, and of course; the devil always has somebody that won't come to the house of God in the morning service or the night service or the weekly service so they can get somebody down there. He always has somebody that will lay around in their trailer so somebody can come down there. And of course they are always sick. Something is wrong with them, you know. They are sick and they can't come to the house of God. They can't do this and they can't do that. But they can roam the roads and ride all day long, women and men alike, ride up and down the streets and go where they want to. It's no wonder they can't come to church, they've wore themselves out, and they are so lazy when night comes that they can't come. They use all their energy up. Talk about being sick, you liar. You are not sick. You are hypocriting around, laying around on God. I've had them to tell me they couldn't come over here for certain purposes, and I just happened to be sitting in the position when they went to visit their neighbor. I said, I happened to be sitting there when I saw them more than one time go to visit with their neighbor. But they couldn't come to church. That's why their neighbor was out. A lot of times their neighbor is not very strong, or somebody not very strong, and they know that somebody is going to come down there, and they're going to sit there and talk all day long. I've had them to do it on the campground here so many times, to keep them out of the church. I try to tell them something and I send somebody to them. We try to help them and try to straighten them out and try to do something for them. What is it? It is God appearing to them in another form, trying to reach them. But they don't listen to it. They don't listen to it, a warning. Elijah walked among the Israelites and Elijah said, Thus saith the Lord. And somebody said, Here comes that old bald headed fellow, that hairy fellow. Here he comes out of the wilderness. I wonder what he has on his mind this time. The old king said, Go over there and meet him and do away with him. And the Bible said about fifty of them went and told him what they thought about his ministry. He said, Well, we will just find out whether my ministry is any good or not, or if there is anything to it. Said, If I be a man of God, said let fire come down out of Heaven and get these fifty. And the Bible said they were gone just like that. Then another fifty came over and they were gone, too. After awhile, the next fifty that came along said, You know what, I believe this boy has got a ministry. Said, We'd better start listening to him. We'd better pay a little attention to him. They didn't come over there saying, Bless God, we've come to straighten you out and set you in order, and tell you what we think. Said, maybe we had better consider this thing and think it over, maybe there is something to what the fellow is saying. What is it? It was God. That's what it was. It was God. God was appearing to them. God was talking to them. Somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, it was Elijah. It was God. Somebody said, It's Elijah. It was God appearing to them in another form. That was God walking the earth. And then when Paul the Apostle came they tried to kill him. They threw him in prison. He was a man. They could put him behind the door. They could lock the door. He was a man like you are a man, like I am a man. They could persecute him. They could free him. They could mistreat him and put him behind bars and they did it. But it was God. It was God in that day appearing to them in another form. That was God. The Bible said when they got him behind the prison bars, the earthquake shook the prison and the doors flew open. It was God. They said, That's just that old Paul the Apostle, the trouble maker. But when they got him behind the bars and the angel of God took that jail and shook it until the doors flew open, the jailer changed his mind. He said, Look, He said, Get out of here. Paul said, I'm not going anywhere. They said, Well, you need to get out of here. He said, Tell the big officials up there that put me in the jail, that reproached the Gospel, that brought a black name against me, said, Tell them to come down here and let them tell me to get out. And the Bible said the big officials had to come down there and had to straighten it out. It reminds me of something that happened not too long ago. A bunch of these fellows around Atlanta, Georgia tried to push Brother Taylor and me around and some of the rest of them here, and I went and prayed to God. When I got through, God told me exactly what to do, and it wasn't long before the big fellows came down here and apologized. When we came here to Monroe they treated us like a dog. Everything we'd go to do, the police and everybody else reproached us and treated us like dirt. Everything we tried to do, they found fault with it, rose up against it, reproached everything we did. And I went to God, and I prayed, and I said, God, I want you to do something to this place. And Brother Taylor and I took that six-thousand mile trip out through California, and I came across the Rockies. And when I came across the Rockies, I saw that great whirlwind tearing up everything and how that God spared the city. And I came back home and a series of tornadoes began to strike everywhere. God literally tore things up; shook up many of them down here on the campground that had been making their trailers a place for gossip and wouldn't listen to what I told them. But I want you to know when that tornadoes got through whirling around, the trees were laying across the road and God literally took houses and didn't even leave a brick for the foundation. On the following Monday, sharp and bright, we got a letter. And the letter was from the sheriff saying, We make you honorary citizens of Monroe, Georgia. Paul, be quiet and peaceful about this thing; we are disturbed about it. And I told some of the police, I said, God is going to tear you slap out of the frame if you don't leave us alone out there. And leave my young people alone, we're trying to win them to God and we're trying to help them. What is it? God appeared to them in another form and they didn't recognize Him. God, coming down, appearing in Moses, coming down there trying to help them, trying to do something about it. But Pharaoh wouldn't listen. The people wouldn't listen and finally God tore Egypt all to pieces. He didn't leave anything down there. The Bible said locusts came in and got everything. And even Pharaoh's own people went over to Pharaoh and said, You must be crazy, said, You must be mad, said, Egypt is nothing but a heap of ruins and you still refuse to let these people go. The Bible said God hardened his heart so He could show His signs and wonders so that all the world from then on would fear God. A lot of times when we forget God and we forget the fear of God, God will send tornadoes like He did and move it across the entire nation and shake the entire nation, or an earthquake or something to remind you that God is still on the throne. I prayed this year before God, I said, Now, Lord, you showed me those things coming in, but I prayed you's do something. I said, Now, Lord, hear me. I said, God, in this year, don't let those things hit like they did last year. I said, I'm weary and the people are weary here and across the nation. I said, For Christ's sake, I ask you, Lord, to hold back those tornadoes. And He did. There has only been one or two, here and there, which has been normal down through the years. And He held them back and we've had peace and others have had peace. But let me tell you something folks, God is appearing in the Earth. God is walking in the Earth. God is among the people. And God has come down, as He did in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, to see if the testimony is true of the things that He's heard. He said, I've heard so much about Sodom and Gomorrah. He said, I'll go down there myself and see if the report I got is true. God has come down to find out if the testimony is true. God appeared to them in another form. He walked along the road to Emmaus. This same Jesus that had been killed, buried, all of a sudden He was resurrected. He came up out of the tomb and the two men were walking along the road to Emmaus, one saying to another, You know, concerning Jesus. And all of a sudden, the Lord stood in the midst of them and broke into their conversation, walked up in the midst of them and the Bible said they never recognized Him, because He appeared to them in another from. And He stood there in the midst of them and upbraided them. Somebody said, Well, didn't He come with a tender kiss? No, Judas did that. Judas came with a hypocritical kiss. Jesus came with reproof. And Jesus reproved them and upbraided them and said, Oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have said, all that the prophets have said. I saw somebody pervert that one time trying to get over the thing concerning our Brother Branham and said, The Bible says, Fools and slow of heart to believe all the prophet said. I said, It didn't say that. But God wants you to believe what Elijah said, what Moses said, what Brother Branham said, what Brother Pike said, and every other preacher God sends. God wants you to believe all of it. Not some of it, but every bit of it. All that the prophets have said. Somebody said, Well, wait just a minute, Brother Pike, do you believe all that the prophets said? I certainly do. I believe all that the prophets said. Somebody said, Well, said, you don't believe in the serpent seed. I certainly believe there was a fall in the garden and I believe it the way that the Bible says it because that's what the prophets said. If anybody else says anything different, that's not what the prophets said. Now there are a lot of books outside of the Bible. The book of Jasher, the Bible speaks of it in the Old Testament, refers to something and it says, This is recorded in the book of Jasher. But as far as I know of the book of Jasher is fallacy in a lot of places. I've never read it, but I know it must be from a few quotations, but it does have things that are authentic recorded in it. That's right. It does have things that are authentic. I believe that's why they never put it with the original canon of the Bible. I believe good, godly men studied it out and found out it didn't coincide with the rest of the Bible. And they only made a reference to it back there; there were some things in it. I got a hold of a booklet the other day and all through the booklet it quotes Jasher. That's the best way in the world to get off of the main line with God. The books of the Apocrypha, Jasher, and all the other books are a lot of good books and you can get some things out of it, but the best thing you can do is stay with the Bible. Stay with the Word. This is God's Word. It has been proven to be God's Word all down through the years. God has preserved it. Somebody said, Well, the Book of Jasher is God's Word too. Well, we know that this is God's Word, it has been proven to be God's Word. I've taken this Word, myself and proved by spiritual revelation that it is God's Word all the way from Genesis to the book of Revelation. I've proved that there is an invisible life and an invisible world and an invisible coin side that went right along with it. I know it's God's Word. But I can't find that in the book of Jasher. I've tried it with what quotations I've found. I've tried it in the books of the Apocrypha, I've tried it with the Catholic Bible. I've tried it with the Koran and some of the others, but it doesn't give off anything. But brother, this one does. Jesus said, Word of Spirit and of Life. This is words of life. It will come to life and it will talk to you and it will tell you some things in it. Hallelujah! He appeared to them in another form. Folks, it's a late hour. It's a lot later than you think it is. He appeared to them in another form. He talked with them. He tried to tell them something, but they didn't understand it. God has tried to talk with you; He's trying to tell you something; He's trying to speak to you, but you don't believe it. You can't believe it. If you believe it, you'd do what I tell you to do. Jesus said, If you believe me, you'd keep my Word, you'd keep my commandments. But you don't do it, do you? If you believe, you'd keep the Word of God. But you don't keep My Word. My sheep know my voice, they obey my voice and they do the things I tell them to do. Brother James Torrence came to me yesterday. Brother Torrence brought me some clippings from the newspaper and I want you to listen. I spoke of the mark of the beast coming in and of some of the ways and already the paper stated that eighteen supermarkets in Atlanta, Georgia have taken up the computerized system. And I made that statement in Olive Branch, Mississippi; I said it would come in with cards. Brother Zell said, Brother Pike, I remember you speaking of that back as far as 1969. I said it would some in with a card. So they've got a card in the supermarket and it's called the "Honest Face Card". And within fifteen seconds they can tell you just exactly where you stand at the bank. Somebody would say, Well, bless God, what's that have to do with us? All right, let me ask you something, children. I want to ask you a question. What are you going to do when it comes to Monroe and you have to take a card? Somebody said, Well, that's way off. But you see when you really thing about it, it's not so far off, is it? I said, when they come to Monroe, Georgia and you have to use the "Honest Face Card", what are you going to do? Come on. A little bit ago we were speaking of some cities back out yonder in the corner somewhere. Just a test run. But now eighteen places in Atlanta, Georgia and it must be successful or they wouldn't be doing it. Somebody said, Well, I won't go to those markets. Well, what are you going to do when it gets to be all the markets? Well, it's just a little old card. Sure, that's all, a little old card. But it's leading toward something that is going to be the damnation of the human family. What are you going to do? It's moving in fast, a lot faster than you think. We are running way behind out here. How many of you understand what I'm saying? How many of you believe what I'm saying? If you don't believe it, go to somebody and let them show you. I've got some of you here that don't believe it. You believe what you want to. Whatever I say, you put it up here in that brain of yours and that computer of yours and when you get through twisting it around, you don't know what I said. You figure it out your way and take it to somebody else and do it like you want to. I can tell some of you to do something here in the church or on the grounds, ask you to do it, but you always do it your way. You don't do it the way I ask you to do it. That's why the men here don't obey you and why the men don't reverence your authority here and why they don't have any respect for you. I've ask them. I've went to them. I said, Why don't you obey our leaders? They said because our leaders don't obey you. Said, You'd tell them something. We'd hear you preach it and make mention of it and then the leaders come and tell us something else. And they said, Brother Pike, we want to be numbered with you. That's loyalty, isn't it? Now, what are you going to do? The "Honest Face Card", Atlanta, Georgia, the papers stated eighteen markets there in Atlanta, Georgia, but that isn't all. We said that Washington would go out, that she would completely go out, as far as being the government of the United States. That also sounded like something foolish, like talking about Atlanta, Georgia becoming the controlling factor and the government being shifted to Atlanta, Georgia. That sounds crazy. Just another city set over here and a city that was hardly even noticed by the celebrities or anybody else. But isn't it strange that in the clipping that Brother James Torrence gave me, it stated that a World Congress Building with 300,000 square feet under one roof was in Atlanta, Georgia. Somebody said, Well, what is that? What is it? When have you ever heard of a world congress? Brethren, you've never heard anything about a world congress. You might have heard about the congress of Washington or the congress of some other nation, but since when do they have a world congress? When they start having a world control. That's what it is. If they have a world congress up here in Atlanta, Georgia then that means we're fixing to have world laws. You watch what I'm telling you. It means that they are going to come together with every leader in the world and instead of a congress being made up of Washington up there, it's going to be made up of the great leaders around the world. All of them will have a place in it. Wait and see if that's true. Come on folks. You don't believe it but it will be that way. It will be that way because God said it would be that way. And Heaven and Earth will pass, but His Word won't pass. In Atlanta, Georgia, right there in Atlanta, Georgia, a world congress to where every person, so to speak, around the globe can have part in it and take part in it and 300,000 square feet under one roof and all of them coming together. What is the Congress? We use the terms Congressional Congress - congregating together. A congregating that come together, that is, everybody out of every nation coming together for congressional purposes, coming together to make up a body that where as Washington in its sovereignty has ruled the entire world; Kissinger. And you're going to find out that this is exactly the way he did it. Kissinger did not go and represent the United States. Kissinger used the money and the prestige to be able to get into those open doors. But when you find out what happened; Kissinger promised them people a world government and a world congress to where they could make the law that all of them would come together. That's how he was able to make world peace when nobody else could. And the carnal mind of the leaders were not smart enough to know that when you submit to a man's proposal, you submit to a man's doctrine; you submit to what a man offers you; that you have made that man the preeminent figure because it was his idea. Somebody said, Bless God, that's what I thought. That's why I'm not going to listen to you, Brother Pike, I'm going to be different. No, you're not going to listen to me because the devil has got you, that's why. The ones that come to this centralized movement and come through this ministry, that's what they are supposed to do, because it's the mind of God, not the mind of the devil that's driving Kissinger. But listen; a World Congress Building, what did the papers state? What did it state outside of that? It said that Mayor Maynord Jackson; didn't I tell you that the black folks would take over Atlanta, Georgia and the government? Listen to me. Now, I don't mean this wrong. I appreciate out black folks here, but I have to say these things for God because black power is of the devil. It's a move of Satan. But listen, in Atlanta, Georgia, I said that the black race would take it over to show darkness coming in; gross darkness covering the people, black power; and to show the Jew becoming the head of the nation, the two-fold purpose of the black man. Didn't I say that? Somebody said, Well, I don't think much about Maynord Jackson. He's just a mayor. But that's where you are wrong. The papers stated and they gave him the write up. Now listen, you black folks and white folks alike, listen. It said that this Maynord Jackson, they held him as history's greatest messiah of peace. Somebody said, Well, so what! So, that's of the devil. The greatest Messiah of Peace is Jesus Christ, any moron would know that. He wouldn't have to be educated, and a woman wrote the article. The greatest messiah of peace; that means that Martin Luther King isn't anything. Martin Luther King, Jr. isn't anything but a school boy in the light of the statement calling Jackson the greatest messiah. Well, the black man ought to come against that. The things that Martin Luther King did for the people and Mayor Maynord Jackson hasn't done anything. Martin Luther gave his life. If they would had had any loyalty in the black power, they would have stood against that statement and raised up Martin Luther King, Jr. as a leader above that thing. But what is it? It's exactly what I said would happen to Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, Georgia they are going to fall under a world leadership. They are going to expand Atlanta, Georgia. They are already talking about expanding because it's not big enough. Atlanta, Georgia will be fed and upheld and taken care of when California falls into the ocean and when New York topples, she'll go right on. Atlanta, Georgia, why? Because the foreign black powers will see that she goes on. The foreign trade of them that Kissinger has sold us out to will see that she goes on because it's Kissinger's plan and their plan. The Arab nations will see that she goes on. She's completed her cycle. She's gone around the globe. Civilization has come up from Egypt and now it is going back down in Egypt; and cursed is the man that goeth down to Egypt for his help; cursed is he. God said, Cursed is he. A great world empire of every color: black, white, red, yellow; of every tongue, every nationality, every power, every discrepancy; everything turning together. Where? At the Tower of Babel. The great lifting up of the big thing they're talking about building that's so high it can be seen anywhere even as far as Macon, Georgia, the great Tower of Babel, the great world government. God didn't intend for it to be that way. God never would have scattered them if it would have been intended. He didn't intend for races to mix and mingle and mess up the way they've done. God loves thoroughbreds. I made this statement here, a bulldog is an ugly looking fellow when you look at him, but to God he is a beautiful creation of God. And I'll tell you what, I like a bulldog. I like one. That little pug nose and that little pug face, to me, it's a beautiful sight. I like it when it's a thoroughbred, but I don't like it when it's mixed and mingled with every hound dog and everything else. He's of no value. God loves His creation. God has no preference over a white man to a black man. You people that have that in your mind, something is wrong with you. God has no preference over a black man to a red man. What is color anyway? What is color and culture? What is culture? Education is nothing but a figment of imagination. That's all it is. The Bible said it's foolishness to God. That's right. What is color? Color is man-made distinction giving a definition. That's all it is. You follow me? You follow me? A world of definition. That's all it is. What is time? Time is nothing but just a definition. That's all it is. Do you understand what I'm saying? Everything is man-made. Everything is something Satan has put together. God suffered it to be that way to be a shadow to be a type. Him, being the prince of this world; Satan, being the prince of the world to run the thing the way he wanted to run it. Jesus said, The prince of this world cometh. But Jesus is a Prince of Peace, not Mayor Jackson. Brother, when they named him the messiah of peace, they wound me up like a little metal man. I'll tell you what, he'll find out when God drops him in the flames of Hell whether he's the messiah of peace or not. Now, let me tell you something. You might have a discrepancy with the black man. You might say, Well, I'm black and he's white. But the indians felt the same way about the white man. They say, That old pale face. He thinks you need a little color. So see, where is it at? The Jews feel that same way about all of you put together. Said, You're a bunch of dogs. God came to them. Said, Gentiles are dogs. We don't have any dealings with dogs. Isn't that the same old thing in every race? It is a devil. Isn't that right? That's what it is. Somebody said, Well, praise God! Brother Pike, at last they're getting their differences settled and they're coming together like folks ought to do. Don't you be deceived. Don't you be deceived. You can't come together that way. If they could have stayed together that way, they would have done it down at the Tower of Babel. You can't do that. That is a cover up. Everyone of those races, everyone of those nations, every move they're making is to undermined the other man. They are only coming together in a compact manner waiting for their opportunity to vote their people in and raise their people up to where they'll have control of the government. You don't put people together like that. Education and reasoning and resolutions, that doesn't do it children of God. Now, give me a little more time. You're doing real good. I'm going to close in a little bit. But you don't do it that way. What do you do? How do you do it, Brother Pike? The way we are doing it right here. When you get the Spirit of God and you love each other, you can't see anything but bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Hallelujah! This is God's way of life. This will bring in a world empire of God in the millennium where He will sit on the throne. Hallelujah! Do you love the Lord? It would be better if some people were color-blind. That's right. They would be more sanctified in that sense. Now, I want to show you something just for a minute now. What is the difference between colors? Somebody said, That old woman, she's to blame for it. That old wife of mine, old dirty dish rag laying around while here I am, I'm a man. You poor helpless creature. You poor helpless creature. I gave you a good example this morning when Belial, as he was called Nabal, couldn't even hear God because being drunk off of own ideas when his little old wife humbled her heart. And the Bible said she was of a good understanding and went and found out what the trouble was. You know, that old wife, that old daughter, you know, that old nothing, that old nobody. The Bible said in God there is neither Greek nor Jew. That means black men or white men, that means, said, There is neither male nor female. That means that God accepts no man's person and doesn't look on the outside. As far as He is concerned in Heaven, in the spirit, in the anointing, in His sight, they are all as spirits which are angels. He doesn't see any male or female. So when you get high and mighty that means nothing except you're just, well, I'm not going to use that word; they use it out yonder. Do you love the Lord? But that is the way God sees it. That's the way God sees you. All right now, what is it? Just give me a little while now. What is it? It's Atlanta Georgia shaping up for the Tower of Babel. I predict that she'll become the greatest city in all of the world. She'll be at the head of the corner because the little stone that I spoke of was a foolish thing. They traded it for a shot-gun. The Bible said, That little stone, that was considered to be nothing, it became the head of the corner. It's a head stone. It's got to be that way. Why? Because, I'd better not say that. I'll tell you this much. There is a place called Monroe and that place had seven governors that resided there; and God willing that everything should be turned in this direction, they stated in the paper, said. All of a sudden the eyes of the world is upon Monroe. Why? Because God, wanting to work this thing out in Atlanta, Georgia, and work thing out in Monroe, He let one of the greatest senators of all times pass away. And it just so happened that his home was over in a little place called Winder right next ot Monroe. That meant that this area was on television around the world. I went up there and they had the television cameras set out there. They had a flight of helicopters and planes and soldiers and everything and even the President came down to a place up there because of the burial. What was it? The eyes of the world turned in this direction because God is getting ready to do a new thing; doing a new thing. This message already has gone on radio station around the world. God willing to do a new thing. We are getting letters from all around everywhere. People that are getting interested in what we are doing here. So many business men. I made the statement; I've never seen so many business men get interested in this and I didn't go out and solicit them either. They are getting interested in this. What is it? It's God appearing to them in another form. God is appearing to them in another form. It's always God appearing to them in another form. Somebody said, Well, bless God, I don't believe it. The Bible said, Can your unbelief make the faith of God of no effect? Because you don't believe it, somebody said, Bless God, I don't believe it. And I've talked to Brother So And So and he doesn't believe it either. The reason is because both of you are unbelievers and on your way to Hell and that's why you don't believe it; whether it's one of you, two of you, or ten of you. It's the same thing. When you hatch off your little batch and you get over here in a corner and you start criticizing and finding fault, God is through with you. God is through with you. But I'm going to tell you something; black folks, white folks, red folks, yellow folks, and whoever hears my voice, wherever these tapes go, you'd better stay with God and forget about white power and black power and red power and yellow power and start thinking about God's power and get in subjection to God and get in here with God and get in with God's people and get in with God. There isn't any black power going to take over. There isn't any white power going to take over. There isn't any yellow power going to take over and there isn't any red power going to take over. God's power is going to take over. Somebody said, Well, I'm numbered with somebody; either the black, the red, the white, the yellow or something. I'm numbered with somebody, too. I'm numbered with the body of Jesus Christ, and we the saints, are going to put the black power and the yellow power and the red power and all the powers to silence because we are going to rise and take the kingdom while they're trying to take it. And we are going to possess it forever and ever. Number yourself with somebody. Number yourself with something. Get out of that old mind of hypocrisy or trouble making and fault finding and disputing and of evil and every conceiving thing and get into one mind and one accord; all in one mind. At the day of Pentecost when they started a church they had one mind. They didn't have a dozen pastors or a dozen preachers; they had one mind at Pentecost. All had one mind. And one man had the keys to the kingdom. All of them had one mind at Pentecost. The early church was with one mind. Somebody said, Well, bless God, you're just ignorant, Brother Pike. You remember when Paul came along they changed that. I agree with you. When Paul came along he went to Peter and told him there was going to be a change in his own way. He said, From now on I'm going to be the head of the church. The Jews are going to be out for a spell, Peter. And I am the one that they called the Christ be revealed in my life to the Gentile world, and I being the Gentile apostle, I magnify my office. For the duty falls upon me of the oversight of the church, is that right? Said, There is going to be a change. That means it is still one mind. Just like it was at Pentecost, one mind. That was the mind of Christ that came then. It's still the mind of Christ today, and that one mind is God's spirit appearing in another form. Hallelujah! In every age, in another form, one mind, not two, not ten, one mind. In every age appearing in another form. To him that can receive it or he that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches. For having eyes they see not and having ears they hear not, lest any time they should convert in their heart and I should heal them. There is just so many things I'd like to say this morning, but I'm going to stop here. If God isn't appearing today in another form then that means that the days of God are over. He's finished and gone. He's dead. He's buried and that is the end of Him. The Jews were right and the Romans were right. He's dead, gone, buried, and that's the end of Him; if He isn't appearing today in another form. But don't forget, as quick as that body of Jesus went back to Heaven, He came back into the heart of the followers of Jesus Christ and appeared to the world in another form. Is that right? He appeared in another form. Today He is appearing in another form. And the Bible said, It shall not be you that speak but your Heavenly Father speaking from within you. He said, For you are the temples of God and God walks in you and God talks in you. Somebody would say, Well, I believe that's in all the church, Brother Pike, I believe that was God. What you mean is you believe that was some kind of a god. Come on folks. I said, You believe that was some kind of a god. But I'm not talking about some kind of a god, I'm talking about God; the Eternal God of Heaven. He's not some kind of a god that appeared in Moses and then some kind of a god in Elijah and some kind of a god in somebody else; He was the same God, one God that appeared in Moses, then in Elijah, and then in Jesus, and then in the other apostles as they came on down. Somebody said, Well, He's appeared in everybody. That is true, if everybody is the church, the true body of Christ, everybody that is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the thing that we've got to remember is God appears by measure in each one of those vessels, in each one of those temples. And every measure goes to one and goes to another. And I said the other day, in God's army, I'll bring forth my mighty army. He's got sergeants and He's got captains and He's got corporals and He's got generals and He's got leaders and He'll always have it. And the man that doesn't accept the corporals, doesn't accept the sergeants, and the man doesn't accept the sergeant, doesn't accept the captain and the man that doesn't accept the captain doesn't accept the general; and Jesus said, If they received him that I've sent, they've received Me also. Why? Because I am not of myself, but I came of God to testify. For this cause, came I unto the world, Jesus said, to witness of God that He is true and in Him there is no darkness, there is no unrighteousness. Without respect of person, He calleth all men to repentance, to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin that you might receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for it is unto you and your children to as many as be afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. I'm going to say this and close. No, I'll just wait on that. That would get me into another sermon, so I'd better wait on that. I want you to stand with me. You know, I can't help but think about the little golden slipper. This message starting off with the little glass slipper, that's referred to in the message as the golden slipper, also. Somebody said, Now, wait a minute, Brother Pike. It can't be a glass slipper and be a gold slipper. But the Bible said that that city was a transparent gold like glass. You know, God can do anything, can't He? So then, the little slipper. I won't ever forget the statement my wife made. I don't believe she could have made it. I believe it was Jesus talking. Because when men say great things, it's not that man, it's God. Because all greatness belongs to God. You say, Now, where do you get that? How many of you know that history gives it, and so does the Bible, that when Herod got up and made his great speech, the Bible said that they accounted it as being an angel and they gave the glory to Herod and God smote him and he died. History said that the sunlight caught the clothing that he was arrayed in. It was a golden type thing that was all fixed up and it made it shine and glitter so in the illumination that it was as a god speaking. They said, It's not the voice of man, but the voice of a god. And he didn't give God the glory, so God smote him. Somebody said, Ah ha, you just say it's God's talking and watch what will happen. I said, And he didn't give God the glory. The Bible said, It's God that speaketh from within you. Now folks, we're right here at Atlanta, Georgia. Right here at the Gone With The Wind place. The film that shook the nations and perhaps the world. God With The Wind. God magnified it and it's been for many years across the nation. Still a big picture where ever it's shone. You know where it was made? In Atlanta, Georgia. Isn't it strange all the great celebrities, even Bob Hope; the other day were in Atlanta, Georgia. The richest man of Hollywood. The astronauts, the Russian astronauts and the American astronauts, having a big party for them in Atlanta, Georgia, the other day. What all about all these great baseball players, great leaders, and movie stars and different things. What is all of this? What is all of this? You know what it is? Atlanta is the ideal place. You don't have to drop down in Florida, just right here in Atlanta. That's right. Right here in Atlanta, got plenty of broad open space everywhere to expand, carry on their business, and just jump in their little old beach craft in a few hours and be right down there on the coast to frolic where they have all their investments. It's just ideal, folks. It's just ideal. Atlanta, the hub city of the south. Let's sing a little chorus together. Now, I love you. I love you with an everlasting love, and everlasting love. God loves us with an everlasting love. He loves us and the Bible said, He loved them unto the end. He loved them. Said, Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing. He loved them. He loved His enemies. He called Judas friend. He loved them but there was nothing He could do. They were His creation, but there was nothing He could do because they would not listen to the voice of the Lord. Now, I appreciate you this morning, folks. I appreciate my Spanish folks here. Sometimes some of them feel underprivileged. But I love them, I love their children. They are wonderful to me. I love my black people. Sometimes they feel underprivileged. But I love them, I think they're wonderful. I think I've got the greatest there is. And I lover my white people and sometimes they feel underprivileged. They come and talk with me, but I love them and I think I've got some of the greatest. God is blessing us. The Chinese message is ready to go out. Strange. Have you thought about this that The Faith, said, He would turn us back to the faith lest He smite the Earth with a curse. The Faith is going into language after language. In a little while it will be in nine different languages in just a little bit. And after that I don't know how many more they've already come up with, potentials of twenty or more already. And there may be many other from what I've heard that we may be able to get into. Preach the Gospel to every creature, isn't that right? Your job and my job, and if you bid it God's speed you're partakers of it. So, I ask you to help me. I ask you to work with me. Don't get interested in something natural. Don't let Satan lead you off into some worldly enterprise. Look at the people that have given up natural enterprises to come to nothing, as far as the world is concerned, and yet to come to everything as far as Christ is concerned. So, don't got interested in the things of the world. Whatever you do out there, do it for Christ's sake. Do it for Christ's sake, and you'll be glad. Make your ministry your job and your job your ministry; your efforts, make it a ministry. When you ride about, be sure you have a pocket full of tracts. I just get all disturbed if I'm traveling and I can't get a tract and I fuss with Betty. Sometimes I know she gets a little disturbed. I say, Betty, how come you don't have any tracts in here? Where are they at? What has happened to them? And I go back to the back of the trunk at the service station. I always have me a big box back there, and I'll get them too, and I'll put them in the dash, and put some in my pocket, so that every station I can give a tract everywhere. Laying up treasures in Heaven. Somebody said, Well, I just don't see doing that to everybody. But the Bible said, The Gospel to every creature. It's not how many that you gave it to. It's how many people you met and talked to that you didn't tell them about Jesus and didn't give it to them. You are chargeable to God for every soul that you meet, everyone. He said, To every creature. You may never meet those creatures again. Isn't that a good way to do it. If you thought that at this time all of the nations coming to one tract, The Faith, that it is the rapture and the gleaning of Ruth, that all of them coming into one thing, there is something taking place. You say, What? We're having to translate those messages. It's the translation. You don't believe it, but it is. It's the translation. You'll know, but you'll know too late. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Brother Pike sings, Down At The Cross.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord