Passing From Death Unto Life

Would like to say and talk about, and, and ah, always try just to follow the will of the Lord. Whatever God would want me to say, if it's just a few words, or whatever it might be. If it's Revelation, well, I love to talk about it. I want to turn over to the fourteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, and talk with you just a little bit. If you've got your Bibles, turn over and read with me. The fourteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. (Here Brother Pike reads the scriptures.) Now, there's a lot to talk about here; an awful lot, and I'd like to say a few things, if I could. I don't know how much I'll say, and how long I'll take. Try not to take long enough to weary you. But, here in this fourteenth chapter, we can see that there is a warning to the people that would take the mark of the Beast. Now, when we think about the Mark of the Beast, I suppose that people get every kind of idea that's possible. I preach, and about, no telling how many of them, they've got me down, you know, as the Beast. And some of them, before Brother Branham's death they had him down as the Beast, and then, when Brother Al preaches, they put it together and they come up with him being the Beast. And if he ain't the Beast, well, him and Brother Taylor must be' the forerunner, you know, they figure. And they figure that Hitler is the Beast. The Pope, he's the Beast. And I tell you what, they really get a conglomeration of a mess, you know, as to who it is. But, the Bible said whoever it is, that he's going to be giving some people marks. I ain't been passing out no marks yet. But, said, he was going to be giving some people a mark; and that mark, they was going to receive in their foreheads, or they're going to receive it in their right hand. And whoever this fellow is, he's going to be a pretty powerful man; whoever he might be. I don't know just who he might be, you know, lest the Lord should tell us; but whoever he is, he's going to be a powerful fellow. But, the thought that I would like to leave with you tonight, if I can get it over to you is, it said that all of the world wondered after that Beast. And whosoever it was whose names was not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world, that they took the Mark of that Beast, You follow me? Now, when we think of that, we think of some fellow down at the end of the way. Some fellow that's going to set himself up on a great throne; and that in sitting himself up, that, at the end of the way, that every person that doesn't follow God is going to come under his power and his jurisdiction, and that is true. But I'd like for you to think of it like this tonight. Every one that did not serve God, or will not serve God, according to the Scriptures, will take the Mark of the Beast. Do you believe that? That's what the Bible says. Every one that won't serve God will take the Mark of the Beast, they have not test day or night, but they're tormented forever and forever and forever in the presence of god and in the presence of the Holy Angles. Those that take the Mark; and as I say, when we think of the Mark, we think of the end of the world, and we think of some man coming that's going to pass out the Mark, because we rejected God. But, have you ever stopped to consider the fact that way back in the beginning of the world, that there was something that took place in the Garden, and because of the disobedience to God, and the act of unbelief, God placed a Mark on a man? And ever since that Mark was placed there, something has been taking place. Now, you say, Brother Pike, what was the Mark of the Beast. I made the statement the other night, a simple way to say that is, that he was marked as with sin. He was marked as an unbeliever, and that mark of sin that disfigured him, or set him apart from the Sonship of God, has been in the Earth in Cain's generation ever since the beginning of the world. That's why the Bible tells us, that everyone whose names was not written down in the Lamb's Book of Life, from the foundation of the world, will take the Mark of the Beast. You don't have to wait until the end of the world and be trying to decide within your mind whether you're going to take the Mark of the Beast or not. The Bible said they worshipped his image. They followed after the Beast. Every person that's not born again, every person that rejects God and refuses to go God's way, is worshipping the image of the Beast. How many of you know that's true? Every person that rejects God is turning after the ways of the fleshly man. And the fleshly man is the image of the Beast. And every person that don't serve God follows the image of the Beast. And he worships the image of the Beast; and all his labor is for the Belly of the Beast, cause the Beast craves it of him. All of his plans are for the plan, or is a plan for the image of the Beast, because his worship, his service, every endeavor of life is toward the image of the Beast. Lovers of self, the image of the Beast, more than lovers of God. Is that right? When you make plans for education for your children, you are worshipping the Beast. Thank you! I just wanted to be sure you heard me and understood me. When you make plans to have a big, fine, elaborate home, make plans to have popularity and fame and prestige, and have what the world calls a career, you are worshipping the image of the beast! Come on, folks. You say, why, Brother Pike, do you say that? Because the Mark got on the people from the Garden experience through the Tree of Knowledge. The Bible tells us that the carnal mind is enmity with god, and that we're not to lean to our own understanding, but we're to trust in God with all of our heart. And when we lean to our own understanding, we make preparations for the flesh, and the Bible tells us to make no provisions for the flesh, to fulfill the lust thereof. Is that right? So then, we don't have to wait to see who it is that will take the Mark ot the Beast; because the Beast was marked from the beginning. The Beast had a mark from the beginning. You don't have to wait to see who it is that will take the Mark of the Beast; because the Beast was marked form the beginning. The Beast had a mark form the beginning. You don't have to wait to take the Mark of the Beast; you're going to learn at the end of the world that you've been accepted into Sonship; you've been the image of the Beast all the time, and all the devil does in the end of the world, is to reveal to you your identity. That's all he does. You understand what I'm saying? Everything that a person does that's unlike Jesus, every person that steps aside from the leadership of the spirit, every person that refuses to submit themselves to the ministry and to the plan of God is worshipping the image of the Beast. Now, you see how far off people can be? You see how, how childish people can be in their concepts? They live day after day in this world, expecting that some day some man is going to become Satan personified, and that he's just going to pass out Marks, and all of those that God doesn't like that God's just going to let him put the Mark of the Beast on them, but I want you to understand, Children of God, that the Beast has been here every since the world started. When the Bible speaks of them, it says they are brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed. The Bible said that these were made in the beginning for the purpose to be burned. Is that right? Said, they're brute beasts made to be burned. Is that right? It said that they speak great swelling words; having men's person in admiration because of advantage. They see one fellow that looks better than another. One that has a better education. One that has a little more security, and then they begin to admire them, and because of advantages, because of conveniences, they begin to take on an admiration and a respect for them. I have no respect for a man with money! I have no respect for a man with prestige! I have no respect for a man with education! It means absolutely nothing to me! If he had a million dollars, he wouldn't look no more to me than a poor man out there without a pair of shoes on. His education means nothing to me. His money means nothing to me. His fame and popularity, it means nothing to me, because God doesn't judge people after that manner. God judges man after his spirit, after the heart of mankind; what you've got in your heart is what counts with God. If you've got righteousness in your heart, then you're great in the sight of God. Is that right? He was to be great; not in the sight of mankind, because he didn't have any money, he didn't have any prestige, he didn't have any education, he didn't have a palace; but he lived in a wilderness, he girded himself about with a camel's skin. And he ate locust and wild honey for his meat. You follow me? But the Bible said, in the sight of God, this man shall be great in the sight of God. It didn't say that Pharoah would be great in the sight of God. It didn't say that the Herod's of that day would be great in the sight of God. It didn't say that the Rabbis would be great in the sight of God; and those that had prestige and money, but it said, John shall be called a man sent from God, and shall be great in the sight of God. I like that, don't you? In the days of Daniel, back there and the King, in the days of the Kings, Brother Daniel, he didn't do the way that they wanted him to do. He didn't measure up to the prestige of the hour. He wasn't considered some scholar out of college; but the Bible said when the Angel of God came to him, he looked at Daniel and he said, Oh, thou beloved man of God! Oh, thou beloved man of God! I'll tell you what, if I could hear the Angel of God say to me, Oh, thou beloved man of God! Just think how Daniel felt! The Angel of God looking upon Daniel, and saying to him, Oh, thou greatly beloved in the sight of God. Now, I remember Mary when the Angel of God came to Mary. She was separate from all the other women. She was aside from all the other women. I'm sure she must have been an outcast in that she didn't, or wasn't included in the societies of the day; but when the Angel came and gave the salutation, it said, Oh, Mary, thou art highly favored among women. Highly favored by God! The Bible said, how can you have honor of God, when you seek honor one of another? As long as we run around like a bunch of children, and seek honor one of another, wanting some body to say some good thing about us, or lift us up on a pedestal to make us look good, or make everybody, you know, look toward us, that shows how childish we really are. And we're not mature in the Mind of God, we're not going to receive anything from God. The Bible said, how can you have that honor that comes from God, when you seek honor one of another? Old Brother John, the Baptist, he wasn't interested in what come from man. He didn't try to go to college, go over to the professors; John went into the wilderness, and began to pray and seek God. He was looking for that honor that comes from God. Old Brother Moses stepped down from the throne, and the Bible said that he chose to suffer the afflictions of the righteous rather than enjoy sin for a season, esteeming the, the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Stepped down from the throne. Pharoah would have been at his right hand, and whatever Moses had said, it would have been done. But, he was seeking the honor that comes from God. Joseph was seeking the honor that comes from God when they took him. Joseph could have lied when the woman tried to frame him; Joseph could have lied and could have got out of it, but he didn't do it. He just went on. He humbled himself. He didn't fight back. He let them put him in the dungeon. And the Bible said, God bruised him, and God taught him His ways, that God might raise him up that he could bind the princes whenever ge got ready. (Here the tape is turned over.) Blesses you and God gives you honor, and God raises you up, He puts you through the fire first, puts you through the trial first. Like the Hebrew Children, they wasn't seeking favor of man. They was seeking the favor of God. The old King said, you'd better get my favor, I have power to do such and such, but the three Hebrew Children looked back at him and said, be it known unto the, Oh King, we've got one God and that God is the God that we'll serve, and it doesn't matter what you do, we've got one God, and we're seeking favor of Him! God brought him out, brought them out, and caused the old King to bow down at their feet. I remember the case with Jesus, when Jesus Christ of Nazareth stood there at the cell door, and Pilate was there, and Pilate looked at Him and said, don't You know I have the power to crucify you, or to set you free? Jesus said, you could have no power over Me, saving it was given you from God! They marveled that He didn't offer any defense. He wasn't seeking the favor that come from man. He was seeking the favor that come form God. Brother, let me tell you, when we worship this image, and we take care of this image, and we cherish this image, then I want you to know that when we do that, if we've not been born again, and we've not come into the things of God, then we're worshiping the image of the Beast! And we're cherishing the image of the Beast! And all of our service, and all of our labor is for the image of the Beast. But, when we surrender our life and surrender our identity, and lose our livelihood to God, lose our prestige to God, lose our honor to God, and don't seek after the things of the world, then and there we become Children of God, and we become Gods in the earth, and then we receive the honor that God has promised us. Why try to figure out whether or not we're going to make it through tribulation. Why try to figure out whether or not we're going to receive the Mark of the Beast? Why should I sit around and try to wonder whether or not some man is going to overpower me, and I'm not going to be able to stand? I've already passed from Death unto life. I'm already on this side of Jordan. I've already got eternal life. I've already been redeemed! Like I said this morning, I'm redeemed, the song said, by grace divine! Glory, glory, Christ is mine. All to Him, I now resign! Because I have been redeemed! I'm already redeemed. I've crossed over the Jordan. I'm on the other side. I'm shouting and praising God. My victory and my heart is this, even the faith of Christ that overcometh the world. I've overcome the world. I can say, Jesus what's that to me, just because You've overcome the world, what's that got to do with me? I'm glad that You over come the world, but look, what about me? But see, Jesus was trying to tell us something. He said, Children, the parents lay up for you. I've come down to earth. I finished the work. I've done it, they can't do it, and they said, Lord, what must we do to work the works of God? He said, I am the works of God! Hallelujah! He said it was finished from the foundation of the world! And said, He that believeth on me, he'll never come into condemnation, but he is passed from death unto life. Hallelujah! I like that, don't you? There He was standing there, saying be of good cheer, I've overcome the world. And then I ask Him, I say now, Jesus, why should I be of good cheer, because you've overcome the world? Then I can hear the answer come back, Son, I overcame the world for you! I died, not for Jesus, but I died for George! I died for Jimmy. I died for Brother Taylor. I've overcome the world. Be of good cheer. Don't you worry about nothing. I've overcome the world. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even the faith that I've given you. What kind of faith? Faith in the fact that I've overcome the world. Let your faith be in Me. I've overcome the World for you. I don't have to worry about overcoming the world. By faith you're translated into the Kingdom of God. By confidence in what I did! By worshipping Me, rather than the image of the Beast. Hallelujah! So then, the Bible said, a hundred and forty four thousand stood on the Mount Zion, and they stood on Mount Zion, and they sang the song of the Lamb. They sang it, only the hundred and forty four thousand could sing it, because they were the redeemed. They were the redeemed, they could sing that. You know, I sing, I'm redeemed. See, I believe, I believe in the deliverance, and I know all they can preach is what they understand; I admire them for that. But let me tell you something, we're already crossed over. We're already on this side, like Jim said this morning. I buried you beneath the water! And I brought you up in the likeness of His resurrection. Hallelujah! I wasn't playing when I put you under the water. We had a funeral. The funeral procession followed me out to the water. And I buried you the same way they do a dead sailor. I buried you in the grave. I left you out there. And the fellow that come up, was the newness of Christ. The Bible said, as we have been planted with Him in the likeness of His death, so have we been resurrected with Him in the likeness of His resurrection. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, you tell me that I'm redeemed, and I've crossed over that chilly Jordan, and now I'm over on the other side? But then they look at their body and they say, well, what about this? What about this? The Bible said we're under tutors until the time appointed of the Father. Hallelujah! Somebody said, Now, Brother Pike, when is that time? Whatever it was, Enoch found it, didn't he? You know what that time was? The time when you began to believe! Paul said, when you comprehend the heights, the depths and the widths. When you begin to wit the redemption of your body! When you begin to recognize that you did cross the Jordan. That you're on this side of Calvary. And that you can be of good cheer, because the world has been overcome. You know, in behalf of today, you can shout and rejoice forevermore. You can be victorious in God by using your faith. For this is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith in Christ. So then, we're on this side Jordan. Here we are on this side, but then we say, well, what about this, Brother Pike? Waiting under the tutors, waiting till the time appointed. What is the time appointed? Paul said, when we wit the redemption of your body. When we suddenly come to the knowledge, the age, the recognition, to know that God did not make us play a game to know that we've actually been buried, been resurrected, and now we're no longer in the earth, but we're in Heaven, and we've passed over the great divide! The veil has been rent, and now we're in Heavenly Places sitting together with Christ in these wonderful places of the Spirit. When I was alive in my yesteryear, back down in the earth, back down there in the land of travail, when I was alive back there in that old beastly body, I had problems, I had heartaches, but one day God took that old body to calvary, and He nailed it to Calvary, and He took it out of the way! Then, when He took it out of the way, we buried it beneath the water in the Name of Jesus, and I planted it there in His likeness! And Paul said, as many as has been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Said, put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof! So then, when I was buried beneath the water, they left me there. I died. I died. I repented. I died. The Bible said, reckon your self to be dead unto sin by the Body of Jesus! Faith in Christ tells me that that was me dying at Calvary. The Bible said, He that knew no sin was made my sin, that I might be made His righteousness. And He died out of the presence of God, that today I might live in the presence of God. When He cried, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? That would have been Brother Pike, God would have forsook Brother Pike, He would have forsook Brother Taylor, He would have forsook Brother Al Gonzales. But Jesus was willing to be forsaken in my behalf. Cause today, instead of God forsaking me, Jesus cried out saying, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? But today, God turns to me, and He says, I shall never leave thee nor forsake thee; but lo, I am with thee always, even unto the end of the world. Oh, I like that don't you? Hallelujah! I can't help but get excited, because I like what He says! Yet, you say, what do you mean, Brother Pike? Jesus said, Brother Pike, said hear My words! And he that can hear My words, and believe on the spirit that sent the Word, he is passed from death unto life. Brother Pike, He said, My words are spirit and My words are life! Now, you say what do you mean? I mean that God's word is a spiritual promise of security. Eternal Security! That means it's life, and what it promises is life. It is a promise of Eternal benefits. A promise of eternal security, which is eternal life. And He said, because it is words of life, He said, if thou canst believe. You understand what I'm saying? See, the Jews had the word. But the word did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith. So then the word today is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Some of you've got the Word. Some of you've got Bibles laying at home, and you've got the Word, but it doesn't profit you. You know why it doesn't profit you? Because you don't put faith in it. But, Brother, I put faith in it? I've got confidence in it. That's why God blesses me. That's why God watches over me. Because I put confidence and faith in God's Word. I believe it! I read this Word. The Bible said, when you pray, you must believe. It that right. Whenever you pray, you've got to believe. He said, if thou canst believe; whenever you pray, whatever you desire of God, when you pray, believe that you have it, and ye shall have it. Is that right? If I believe in my heart, if I pray and ask God for something, and I believe in my heart that I've got it, then I've got it, then I've got it! Is that right? But, I've got to believe. I've got to believe! When I pray, I've got to believe! The Bible said, if you desire anything when you pray, believe that you receive it. Whenever you pray, believe that you receive, and ye shall have it. Why? Because it is the words of life. This word is turned into spirit. He said, It's spirit and life. It's turned into spirit. It's turned into your spirit. It's made into your spirit by God's spirit into a oneness. See, it is spirit. It is life. All you've got to do is put faith with it. Whatever you desire, whatever you need, whatever you want, God will give it to you; if thou canst believe. Jesus said, if thou canst believe. But they that have the Mark of the Beast, they that worship the image of the Beast, those that are the predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Beast, brute beasts made to be taken and burned, they cannot believe, they cannot believe! For the Bible said, all men have not faith. They can't believe. Somebody would say, well I don't believe, Brother Pike. I can't believe. Ah, but I can believe! I do believe! I do believe! I do believe! I can believe! I do believe! I pray to God, and when I desire something, like, I want to take care of the finance though it be so great, sometimes many thousands of dollars, and I go and I pray, and I say, God, My Brethern can't help me, I don't have nobody to give me a helping hand, and I can hear God whisper and say to me, He'll say, Son, what are you leaning upon? Are you trusting in the arm of flesh, or are you trusting in God? I say, I'm trusting in God. He'll say, well pray and believe, I told you I'd meet your needs. Every need, according to My riches in glory. Not according to the Brethern's income. But, I told you. I'd meet it according to My riches. And I say, Lord, I believe. God, David said, I beseech Thee, Oh, Lord, send prosperity. And I say, Lord, I beseech Thee, send prosperity. Not to me, God, because I have plenty to eat. I'm secure, having food and raiment, therewith, I'm content. But God, send prosperity to the ministry. Send prosperity to the people. Send prosperity to the Gospel across the world. And help people at little Bethlehem. And I pray. And I can hear Him answer from Heaven, and He'll say, I have granted it. I have granted it. You know, you go into the presence of the King, like Ester did. You walk in there. A lot of times you shake and tremble, maybe your need is great, and like Esther, maybe you don't feel fit to go into the presence of the king. Maybe you feel under condemnation, but sometimes you might do like she did, go on a two or three day fast, you know, but build up a confidence, but when you go into the presence of that great King and you say, kind Sir, I have a need, and you see Him by faith, as He raises the Great Sceptre, and points it over to you, and say I have granted it. I believe that. I believe that! See, when you pray, whatever you desire, He said, come boldly before the throne of grace. See, we've got a throne of grace. He said, we've got better altars than the brute beasts have. We can go before God in faith, and I, I can, I can, consider the fact that I'm not on that side of Jordan, I'm not over there in the wilderness of the carnal mind. I'm not down there, Jim. But I've passed over the Jordan. I've come into Canaan, where the milk and honey is. I'm not living in the degraded way of life. I'm not leaning to my own understanding. If I did, I'd go crazy. A man in my position, he could never lean to his own understanding. He'd go crazy. They'd have to put him in a strait jacket. I can't do that. See, I'm too far out from the shore. I can't get back. I'm too far away from the shore, I can't run back there to the arm of the flesh and grab on, you know, and say everything's going to be al-right. I've done got too far out. So, I've got to keep my eyes on Jesus. The song said, keep your eyes on the Lord. And I've got to keep my eyes on Jesus. Cause if I don't, I sink! I'll tell you something, some of you fellows are wanting to follow me, but I'm going to tell you something, if you're going to follow me, then you'd better get rid of your consolation as far as the flesh is concerned. You better get your mind off of the confidence of your ability, and the helping hand of others. You understand what I'm saying? If you're going to follow me, the water's deep out here where I'm at. Real deep! The prophet waded out in the water, and it got up to his ankle, got up to his knee, and finally just kept on coming. And the water's deep out here. Now, it's al-right to come out here, Jesus said, launch out into the deep, let down your nets for a draught, but don't come out here playing around. If you're going to come out here, remember that when you get out here, you've got to be able to swim. You understand! Don't make believe, like Brother Branham said one time, he said, I met a bear, he said, when you meet a bear, you don't want to be bluffing. He said, you'd better have the goods. The man that comes out here where I'm at, he'd better have the goods. He's better not be bluffing. He'd better be trusting God. He'd better have everything squared away in his heart. He'd better not have confidence in the arm of flesh, or be leaning to his ability. Because, when he gets out here, he's going to be in trouble! You've got to cut all the lines. Then when he gets out here, he's going to have faith in God to walk on the water. That's right! You've got to have faith in God. If we're going over to the other side, It's going to take faith in God, Children. It's going to take faith in God. I'm glad, by faith, that I have reached the other side. I know, as far as the natural, we're out here in the middle of the ocean. I know that. And the water's deep. But by faith, it's a complete work to me. By faith, it's all finished to me. Jesus said it, I believe it! And that's the way it is. I am safe on the other side. I'm just as safe as a little child in a mother's arm. I've made it over the Jordan. I'm over here in the land of Canaan. I'm in the, I have passed from that earthly realm down there into another dimension, and today, I am in Heaven with Christ. I have received my body of redemption. I have received my change. I've buried the old man. Today, I'm bone of His Bone, and Flesh of His Flesh. Peter said, another tabernacle, eternal in the heavens, not made with hands. Today, this is the tabernacle of God. I'm the Temple of the Holy Ghost! I'm not a beast! I've passed from the realms of the brute beasts. I've passed from that world. I'm a temple of the Holy Ghost today. And God walks in me, and God talks in me. I'm bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh today. I'm a member of the Body of Jesus Christ. By faith, in Christ Jesus. So then, I've been translated, the Scriptures tells me, into the marvelous Kingdom of God. And today, I have received of God. Now, we say, when, Brother Pike, can we expect the redemption of the body? Christ has died for us. Christ has redeemed us. And today, He's waiting for us. He, we are not waiting for Him, He is waiting for us. You understand? The Father puts money in the Band. The Father's wealthy, he puts the money in the Bank; but it's because the little child is immature. You understand? In other words, we're under tutors. It's not God that's immature. It's not God that's waiting. It's not a time element involved, as far as God's decision; as some would have us to think; but it's a matter of our maturity in Christ. That's why Enoch went on; three hundred years of maturity. Now, you understand what I'm saying? God cut it down, so that man could go through the process that He wanted them to go through. Now, here we are under tutors. We're under tutors until the time appointed of the Father. What is that time? Our time of maturity. Whenever we can believe; to as many as believed, to them gave He power to become the Sons of God. Now, if I can believe, if you can believe, God has got something special for you that can believe. This morning when Jimmy was preaching, I saw some of you did not understand what Jimmy was saying. You couldn't tell what he was saying. You couldn't understand. You couldn't see out in the Spiritual dimension and the depths that Jimmy was looking into. But this message is the message of redemption. Redemption is already here. Then you say, what do you mean, Brother Pike? I mean, there's got to be a message that will go through the land, that will reveal to the people that they are already redeemed. That they've already passed the Jordan. That they're already on the other side. And that the immaturity of their minds and the unbelief is what's keeping them back from the inheritance of God. You understand what I'm saying? When this message goes through the land, and people understand it, and people believe it, then my Brothers and Sisters, it will all be over. It will all be over! Because, I have passed from death unto life. Now somebody would say, well what do you mean? How many of you know the Bible tells us that to be carnally minded is death? If you're carnally minded, then you've not been born again. But, if I've passed from the carnal mind to the Mind of Christ, then the mind of Christ is Life. Is that right? What is the carnal mind? It's the tree of knowledge that was inbred in man back in the Garden. Is that right? That's what killed him. You understand that? See, it was the Mind of God in Adam that kept him alive. But when he yielded to the mind in the weaker vessel, that represented Tree of death. When he took on the carnal mind, that killed him! Alive with the Spiritual mind of Christ; but when he changed to the carnal mind, then he died! As he stood in the mind of man, he lived. He took the mind of the woman, which represented the beast, he died! You understand what I'm saying? What killed Jesus? How could God die? God could not die! Then, how did God taste death? It was because He come into the woman's realm. He took on flesh and blood, as it was the weaker vessel; made in the image of sin. You understand what I'm saying? And so then, death is in the carnal mind. Death is in the tree of knowledge. Death is in the indoctrination of your first birth! But Life is in Christ. Life is in the Mind of Christ. Let this Mind be in you. Life. Having passed from Death unto Life. I am now alive forevermore. Though I was dead, yet I am alive forevermore. If you've been buried with Christ in baptism unto death, then you have, in His likeness been resurrected unto Life. How then can you say that you do not understand? How is it that you can say that you have yet to be changed to make the pass over? Are you following me? Why should I then wait for a change? Why than I should, why should I then wait for a change? If I've already been changed into the Mind of God, then all I've got to do, as Enoch did, accept it, believe it, enjoy it! You believe that? Somebody would say, well, I don't know about that. But, see' I do know about that! That's what makes the difference. See, you could know about that, if you wanted to. You know about the things that you want to know. Somebody said, but I don't understand it. You know why you don't understand it? You've not made any special effort to understand it. It makes it more convenient for you to say, I don't understand, so that you can just piddle around with the things of God, and not get down to business. That way, you don't have to erase or eradicate the old evil, contrary nature that you've got. Come on, Folks. See, it's more convenient for you. But the Bible tells us, that when we're in that condition, we're caught in between, and it's what God calls the luke warm place. Said, I'll spew you out of my mouth. See, it'd been better if you'd never known the truth. It'd be better if you was cold, because you've got at least a dispensation of Grace. But you lose your dispensation of Grace if you get in between. God will kill you before your dispensation of Grace if you get in between. God will kill you before your dispensation of grace is over. You'd ve better if you'd stay out in the world! But when you come out here, the water's deep. When you get in between, you'd better have something. You understand what I'm saying? So then, we have passed from death unto life; not a make believe, but a real genuine. God didn't make believe when He said, I was bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh. You understand? God did not make believe. God was not, potentially speaking, God said, we are right now Sons of God! Not day after tomorrow, but right now. John said, now beloved, are ye the Sons of God. It doth not yet appear, it doth not yet appear what ye shall be like, it doth not yet appear what ye shall be like. Why? Because of unbelief. Paul said, if you'd wit the redemption, it would appear what ye shall be like. If you could wit the redemption, it would appear what ye shall be like. Jesus walking in this human body, walked up on the Mount, stood there and was transfigured before them until His raiment became glistening and as white as snow. Enoch and Elijah, Moses, they learned what it was like to believe. They spent their time with God. So then, what we have to do is believe. We've got to believe. We are the generation that's coming to the Revelational mind of God. And we've got to believe. We can't wait for death to swallow us up. Death is swallowed up in victory. What victory? The victory that overcometh the world, even your faith. By faith, Enoch escaped death. by faith, Enoch was translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God, that he should not see death. So then, death is conquered in Christ. How? Faith in God! Faith in the Word! So then, why should we die? Why should I die? Why should you die? There's no reason we should die. Are you listening to me tonight and paying attention? How many of you are paying attention to what I'm saying? Why should we die? Why should a man die? I can understand that a man should die because of sin, but if he that is born of God cannot sin, then why should he die? You're gods! But, Jesus said, ye shall die like men. Why? Because of unbelief. Men, men disbelieve. But, you don't have to do that. Somebody would say, well, Brother Pike, this is not important to me, but it is important. If you don't want to go through the tribulation period, if you want to escape the Mark of the Beast, if you want to get away from the beastly image; all of the world wondered after the Beast. They worshipped the Beast. Every time you paint your toe nails, and paint your finger nails, and paint your lips, and start prettying up your hair, and trying to be pretty, and cute and everything else, you're worshipping the Beast. (Here tapes are changed.) Brother Pike do you think that we ought to go around with dirty feet, and dirty teeth, and never comb our hair? No! I don't believe that you ought to do that. But, I don't think you ought to stand in front of the mirror and try to comb your hair and fix your body and do everything while you've got another man's wife on your mind either. I don't think it's a good idea for the husband to by something nice for the wife, and every time she gets in front of the mirror she is subconsciously having her mind on somebody in the church that she's prettying up for. I don't think that ought to be. Then, you say, well how should we do it? All things as unto the Lord. When you comb your hair, comb it for Christ's sake. When you wash your face, wash it for Christ's sake. You understand what I'm saying? When you put on your clothes, put them on according to Holiness. Dress according to Holiness, and do it for Christ's sake. The Bible said, in the millennium, they'll even have Holiness Unto The Lord on the pots and pans. You follow me? Some of you do. Passing from death unto life. I'm going to stop here. You're like an automobile that runs out of gas. I have to stop every once in a while, cause you get slap run down! We start off real good and then after I preach a little while, you figure well, he's done said all he's got to say now. It's time to quit. So you freeze up, you know, and finally I have to stop. But I want you to know something, Folks, if we don't get ahold of what I'm preaching, we're not going to make the translation! Now, you can say Church of God, you can say Pentecostal Holiness, you can say I'm a Brother Branham follower; you can turn cart wheels, and you can go to church every day and pay tithes and give and do whatever you want to; but you are not going to make the Translation if you don't get what we're preaching to you. You ain't going to do it. Somebody said, Well, why, what proof have you got of that, Brother Pike? I've got this proof, that the Bible said, Enoch was Translated by faith. And the Bible said, Faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. The Bible tells me to preach to you the Word. It would not be me that's speaking, but the Word speaking to you. If you don't get it, you certainly can't have faith in it. Al-right, I know that you don't see what I'm talking about, I know that you don't. Because your reactions are not right. I know that you don't see it. There's still questions in your heart and in your mind, and you're; What you're doing, you're taking it and you're reasoning it out, and you're trying to figure it out, and then you kill it? It's not to be reasoned out. It's not to be figured out. It's to be accepted, heard, accepted, and believed. Why should I, if God is speaking, why should I try to sit and figure out whether God told me the right thing, or God told me the wrong thing. What kind of fool would I be? Somebody would say, well I'm not sure it's God speaking. Well, then you're a bigger fool than that fool, because you're foolish enough to come here and listen to me, when you don't believe it's God. That makes you a bigger fool than the other fool. Can you say Amen? So then settle it in your heart. Either it is Christ, or it isn't Christ. If it is God speaking, then why reason and try to figure it out? Whatever it says, that's what it is. If God said, I'm bone of His bone, and I'm flesh of His flesh, then Brother, I'm bone of His bone, and I'm flesh of His flesh. Somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, what He meant was, it's not what He meant. He said exactly what it was to begin with. It's no meaning about it. I don't have to say God meant such and such. God said it, that's good enough for me. Now, if you're up here preaching and you say, Brother Pike, you're dying with leprosy, but by His stripes your healed. Now, for instance, a lot of people take it like this, and I'm going to close in a few minutes. A lot of people take it like this, say the Bible said for me to go into all the world and preach the gospel, and said, I'm supposed to pray for the sick too. Where did you read that? Where did you read that? That wasn't what He said at all. He said to go ye into the land or the world preaching the gospel; He didn't say nothing about you go pray for the sick. He said, you go heal the sick! He said, you go heal the sick. God didn't tell you to go pray for the sick. He said, you go heal the sick! He said, behold I give unto you power over all the powers of the enemy. To as many as believed, to them I gave them power. Is that right? And He said, you go heal the sick. Not pray for the sick, heal the sick. Peter didn't pray for them at the Gate called beautiful; he just said such as I have give I thee, in the Name of Jesus rise up and walk. Is that right? Am I telling the truth? When He said lay hands on the sick, it didn't say lay hands on the sick and pray for the sick, it said lay hands on the sick; they shall recover. Said, call together the elders of the church, then pray over them and anoint them with oil. Is that right? And if they've committed any sin, it shall be forgiven them, and then the prayer of faith shall save the sick. Is that right? You understand what I'm saying? So then, God says what He means. That's where we get in trouble is when we start trying to figure it out. I told a little incident when we was over in the state of Nebraska, I believe it was, or somewhere up there; there was a baby that was real sick, and they sent for me, said, come over, Brother Pike, and pray for him. I said, I'll come over and pray for him, and I started, I pulled up in front of the house, and I said, I'll go right in and pray for him, and God said to me, go in and heal the baby. And it shocked me. That really shocked me. That was many years ago. It shocked me. And something, something got ahold of me, and God said, I told you to go heal the sick. I got out of that car, I went in there, and when I got to the baby, I said, God I speak healing to this baby in the Name of Jesus Christ. Be healed and the baby was healed. That's the truth. That's the truth. And that's the difference, Brother in when we pray for the sick, or when we try to bring healing to the sick, that's the difference; that makes all the difference right there; all of the difference; right there! Jesus never prayed for Lazarus to come out of the grave. He just looked up and said, Father, I know that Thou hear me. I thank you that You hear me. I know Thou hear me always, said, I just made mention of this so they'd know that You're the one that was doing it. He said, I know that I've got power to do it, even without saying this, but I just wanted to let them know, you know, that it's not the flesh, it's You, Father, that's all I'm saying it for. He said, Lazarus, come out of the grave. And Lazarus came out of the grave. Now, that's the way. Now, you see the difference in your faith? You see the difference in your faith? As long as you're saying, Lord, will you, can You, come down here Oh God, we hope so. That ain't faith. But when you say, God said so, Man get up from there, that's faith. That makes the difference. And I'll tell you what, you get a different reaction too. Peter said, get up from there, Man. This thing's done taken care of. And that's what I'm trying to tell you. This thing's done taken care of, Gary. It's time for us to get up from here. Like the lepers, ain't no need of us sitting here and die. Jim preached to us this morning, get up from here. Amen! Believe what he said about it. Stop trying to figure the thing out. Now, that's the way I like it. Al-right I want you to stand with me. Hallelujah! Don't be of a negative mind. I remember the little boy down in Mexico; we stopped there and Brother Gonzales wasn't there, but Brother Gonzales got the report afterwards, the little boy was in bad condition; they couldn't get him straightened out. What was it that was wrong with him there, Brother Gonzales? That we prayed for him, you remember? I know he was in bad shape, and they couldn't get him straightened out. It looked like he'd die in spite of all. And they come running to me, and of course, I can't speak their language, it made it difficult for me to even know what they was saying. But, they told me the boy was in a dying condition, and couldn't get nothing done for him; and said, Brother Pike, please help him. Please do something. Well, Brother Gonzales wasn't there and it really put me on the spot. Cause I was trying to figure out what they were saying, and finally I got it all pieced together and what they was saying, and I prayed for the boy and God healed the boy! Now is that true, or is that false, Brother Gonzales? God healed the boy. The boy got along fine after that. See, in other words, it's a matter; now down there it is easier to deal with those people than it is up here. You go down there and those people are simple, and you tell them, and that's it. They accept it. That's it. But, up here, you struggle and tell them and then they sit there and they try to figure out whether it's right or whether it's wrong, or is that what God meant, or, or let's split hairs over the thing, or I don't believe it, or I don't understand it. Down there they don't do that. Now, you have people that do do it down there, but as a rule, the general, in general people don't do that down there. You tell them something, and they believe it. And mass healings take place in the Islands, and mass healings take place in places like Old Mexico because people believe it. They believe it. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we believed it? Just believe it. You know you say, Well, Brother Pike, that's so hard. I don't see where that's so hard. I don't see where it's so hard. If I tell you tonight, if I say Brother Mike, come on the outside tonight, I'm especially going to treat you to a supper tonight. Mike could believe that as sure as I spoke it. Is that right, Mike? Well, how much more, if God said something, should we believe it? If Mike wouldn't wrestle over that, why in the world should we doubt or wonder or try to figure it out, and say, I can't believe, I think I'm believing, I hope I'm believing. I'm going to try. Why should we go through all of that ritualistics? Why not say, God said it, Amen! If God said it, that's the way it is. And that's the way God wants us to be. Okay, let's sing this little chorus, "Have Faith In God." I'll tell you what, when you get out here where I'm at, and the waters get deep you'll believe it like that. You won't ponder over it. If you take too long to ponder over it, the devil would be done drowned you. Night and day, I believe it. I believe it every minute. I believe it every second. I refuse to let my mind be negative. I refuse to let my thoughts dwell on anything else. I refuse to let my my heart and my mind question the Eternal God and the Word from the Eternal Throne. I refuse to do it. That's a fool that would do that. I refuse to do it. If God said it, He is God, and if He said it, that's exactly the way it is. And I don't question it. Whatever He said, it's Amen! It's al-right with me. (Here Brother Pike leads the chorus.) I was praying for a person one time, and he couldn't walk, and I prayed for him, and I said, now you can walk. And they broke down in tears and they said, No Brother Pike, I said, sure you can. I got him by the hand and we started to walking. See, cause God said so. And then they really cried when they suddenly realized they could. Sure you can. No, no say, but, but, no but's about it. Jesus said you can. You can. You can. The little woman in Mexico on the cart, I never will forget, they said she hadn't been up in six months, off of that cart, and said she'd been that way for about a year and a half, or more. But as I preached to her through an interpreter and I talked to her about the things of God, and I said, Peter at the gate called Beautiful, said rise up in Jesus Name and walk. I said, do you believe? She said, I believe. I said, In Jesus Name, rise up and walk. She reached up with that little scrawny hand, and she come up out of there and she said, I feel unusually strong! She walked. Not only there, but walked out where we were having the Mexico Crusade, walked out into the Bull Arena, walked out there under her own power, took the mike in the hot blazing sun and testified to the delivering power of God. God gave her strength. God raised her up. It took strength to get off of that bed. I told her about the strength that the man received, for the Bible said his ankle bones immediately received strength. She said, Brother Pike, I feel unusually strong. God heals, God saves, God forgives. God wants to do something for us. Stevie wants the baby prayed for. This morning I felt a wonderful deliverance, this morning. I could have prayed for the sick in a great way, but I didn't do it. I felt to put it off. But, I felt tonight there was some that wanted to be prayed for tonight. I said, God if there is, and if You'll just send them up, then I'll pray for them. But I want you to believe. If I pray for this little child tonight, then I want Brother Stevie to believe with me. The little child can't believe. So it's up to me, and up to Stevie to believe. And if I pray, I believe. It don't make any difference to me what's the matter with him. If you're sick, I don't care what's wrong with you, I believe. And if you'll join your faith with me, I promise you, in Jesus Name, that God will heal you. I promise you that. I've got enough confidence in God that I'd give you a sworn affidavit, if my life depended on it, believing that God would heal you if I prayed for you, if you believe with me. I mean it form my heart. And I don't believe you've really got faith unless you can let your whole life rest upon it. Now, that's why that Betty and I have been put to the test that we have on the field. We put ourself in a predicament, just as Peter, when Peter jumped over board. Peter had nothing that he could stand on except faith in God. And we put ourself in predicaments to where we would have starved to death or frozen to death or some great tragedy would have happened to us or to out children. We placed ourself in that condition to prove God, and to prove our faith in God, that we trusted Him. If you've never come to the place to where you let your life rest on your faith, then you haven't really got faith. Cause, Brother, let me tell you, if you really believe; there's been many times that my little children's lives hung in doubt. I had no way to take them to the doctor. I had no money to take them to the doctor. And they were definitely in a dying condition. It wasn't a make believe. Any moment they would go out, but I, I let my whole life and the life of my children rest upon faith in God, and He brought them out. He's never failed me yet. Every time, God has brought me out. Every time! Not too long ago a sickness struck me. I was trying my best to finish my work here at Bethlehem. And a sickness struck me, and it was horrible. Many people have never experienced anything like it. Some have. A lot of them are not here to tell about it. But it was horrible. And I was so weak. Not from the flu, not from a spell of sickness like that, but I was so weak that I couldn't even hardly raise my head off of the bed. I couldn't get up, and I'd roll myself down on the floor on my knees and pray till God would give me enough strength to get up; and I kept it from the Brethren. And they never did know it. They never knew the horror, the terror. Nobody will ever know. Even my wife couldn't know, as close as she was to me. And I'm not exaggerating. My wife cried, just knowing what she did know about it. She cried. And I said, Betty, and I'm not against doctors, I'm not against medical aid, I believe if you can't do anything for yourself, that's fine. But, I'm against women putting their hands all over me.Nurses, they call themselves nurses, or whatever they want to,I'm still against it. And I said, Betty, before I'd go to the hospital and let a bunch of nurses treat me like some puppet, and put their hands all over me, and dishonor me in the sight of god, I said, I'll lay here and die. I said, I'm not going. I said, either God will heal me or I'll die. And I said, that's just the way it is. And I told God, I said, Lord, I mean business. I said, I've been serving You for years, and You know that if I tell you something, I mean business. You Brethren know that. When I told you I was going to build these things out here, It's took a lot of heartaches, and a lot of money, a lot of trouble, a lot of sorrow, but we built it. We stuck by it. It took years. And I said, now, God, You know that if I tell You this, that I mean this. And I said, now, God, I am not going to the hospital. I said, I am in a dying condition, and I may die before morning, I said, if You don't do something, and do something quick, I will die. I can't go any farther. That's how bad I was. I said, but whether I die before morning or not, God, I am not going to the hospital; and that's it! So there wasn't nothing to do then but for God to do something. And God began to work. And God healed me. God took care of my problems. Made me completely whole. Because I believed in Him. And, I said that to say this, that's the only way, Brethren, that faith will work' that's the only way. It's got to take, you've got to take everything else out. Faith, faith means Jesus, and that's all. In other words, whatever the Word says, you've got to eliminate every other thought, every other idea, every other idea, every other feeling, every other support, and just say, whatever God said, then that's the way it it. Now, tonight, if you're sick, if you're sick in your body, I promise you, if you'll take that attitude, as I live before God, you'll be healed. See, now look, Folks, either God lied, or He'll do what He said, Now, either He lied to us, and I know God didn't lie, but I say it for your sake, that either God lied, or either His Word is the absolute truth without a flaw. The truth, the anointing, the Spirit, the Word, will make you whole. It'll break the yoke. It'll break. What is the yoke? The evil spirit of infirmities or affliction. The evil spirit that's got you bound. The anointing, the spirit, it will break the yoke. It'll take it away. He sent His word and healed them. His Word is Spirit, and by faith in that Word, that promise, you turned it into your healing. That's the truth. Why not believe? Why not believe? Why not believe? Isn't it wonderful to have the privilege of believing? Why not once and for all, say My God, if I am ignorant, if I'm crazy, if they count me a mental case; God once and for all, I'm getting out of this old brain up here, and I'm getting out of this old house up here, and I'm getting out of this old rut of the wilderness up here, God I'm going to trust You with all my life, heart, soul, mind and body. Lord, You said, by Your stripes I've been healed at Calvary, and I know that's it, a past tense thing, that's happened back yonder at Calvary, it happened back there. It isn't a matter whether I'm good enough or whether you'll do it. You've already done it. And said, let whosoever will come and get it. I like that, don't you? I said, He said, if you didn't have any money, come and buy anyway. See, in other words, He's already done it. He's already done it. And just say, Lord, whatever your desire, it doesn't matter, it might not be healing, it might be something else you want, might be something in your life that you want done, might be something spiritual, some, something for the ministry, a gift, the Bible said, covet a gift, but see, it was done at Calvary. Now, the thing to do is, to accept it, and enjoy it. Is that, is that clear? Now, I want to say this again. Don't say, Lord, am I good enough? God, will you hear me? Don't say that. Don't think like that. Bring every thought under subjection to the obedience of the Word. Don't do that. Don't say, am I good enough? Don't say, does God mean me? Don't say that. Say, Lord, You said in Your Word, and You know I'm a human being. You made me like this, and You said in Your Word that back yonder at Calvary it was finished, and that everything that I wanted and needed that pertained to Life, that You had already given it to me in Calvary. I can prove that by the Word of God. I can thoroughly prove it by the Word of God that it happened at Calvary. And God, because You did it in Your foreknowledge and manifested it at Calvary, and said, let whosoever will come and partake of it, or enjoy it, then God, I come boldly before the throne of Grace, now I'm here, I want what's mine through Christ. The devil's a squatter, he's on my land, and I'm ready to run an abstract on it, and get him off. That's right. You want to run an abstract tonight? How many of you will run an abstract with me? I've got, I've got the rule book right here. I've got the records, and I can prove to you that it's your land, and it belongs to you, and the devil's a squatter and he's got it all tied up, and if you'll be bold enough to tell him to get off of it, he'll leave it. You want to run an abstract on it? Al-right then you'll have confidence, and you'll have faith tonight. That's what the Word says. Hallelujah! I'm going to pray for you. Now there's so many that's come up tonight, till I'm going to ask you to do this tonight, I'm going to pray for you, all at one time tonight, because you come up. But I want you to believe with me, and I'm going to pray, and I don't care what's wrong with you, I don't care what you want; for one time, give God a chance. Will you give God a chance for one time; will you just try it for one time? Just try it for one time. Give God a chance. So many multiplied times, Children of God, I've done this. More times that I've got fingers and toes. I've done it, and I've seen Him answer. I've put Him to the test, and I've done it, and I've seen Him answer. I've put Him to the test, and I've drawn the line, and I've said here Lord, You said decree a thing in my heart and it would come to pass, God, I decree it, and I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I didn't say maybe, or hope so, or God, if You'd consider me. I didn't say, Lord will you do it? Or God, is it possible? I said, Lord, I decree it in my heart, I've studied the Word, the Word says it, it belongs to me, I've decreed it in my heart, I said, God, it's mine, I'm going to have it. And I didn't just let that run through up here, but that run through down here. I said, I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. Not too long ago here, I had to have ten thousand dollars in one week. The Brethren couldn't give it to me. I had no place to get it, but I had to have it, I need it this week, and I'm going to have it this week, God. And that week I had ten thousand dollars. I'm just a poor boy. God will meet your needs. God will meet your needs. Everyone that's got a need, and I know you have got a need or you wouldn't be here tonight, and everyone of you that's got a need, I'm going to join by faith with you; things are going to take a terrific change. Like I said today, the first time. Things are going to take a terrific change. And I've pushed things around here and tried to do different things for you to help you. Tried to be one of you. Come down right where you was. Got a lot of battle scars from it, come down to just try to rub elbows with you, and be just like you, so that you could see that I had problems like you've got problems. And I've done what you've done, so that I could be one of you. Is that right? Just come down among you, and just be one of you, that you might see that; but now that you see it, and you see that we can master our situation, we see, you see that we can do, now, what we ought to do is to do what we want to do. And if we want to do anything outside of what God would want, then we need to get rid of that want any way. You follow me? And things are going to take a change. Because, we're going to do things a little different from here on out. And I want you to get your faith in gear. I want you to get lined up with us, now. And realize that the coming of the Lord is at hand. And we've got to do something. I've dealt with you like children, like babies. Paul said, as not being spirituals. But it's time that we really got in the harness of God, and started to believing. People come in here wanting deliverance. People come in here wanting help. I'm going to lay hands on the baby here, and then I'll pray for all of you as a whole. (Here the tape is turned over.) Bless this little child Father, I speak healing to this baby by the power of God, and the Spirit of Christ. In the Name of Jesus, whatever is wrong, I heal it in Your name tonight, Jesus. Hallelujah! Now, I want you to pray with me, and I want you to believe with me tonight. And while I pray, I want you to accept once and for all, in your heart, decree a thing, not in your head now but in your heart, decree it in your heart. A lot of people say, but, Brother Pike, I have decreed things and they didn't come to pass. That's because you decreed it in your head. You've never decreed anything in your heart and it didn't come to pass, cause that's impossible with God to lie. When He said decree a thing, He meant in your heart, and when you do it in your heart, with the heart men believeth, it will come to pass. There's no ifs and ands about it, it will come to pass. So let's get out of the wilderness of that old reasoning tonight, once and for all, say, Lord, I trust you. I wonder if we could sing a little chorus just before we do that. Could we? Could we do that? Hallelujah! Lord, I believe. Lord, I believe. (Here Brother Pike leads the little chorus, "Lord, I believe".) Now, as you say that, really believe! Can you sing it like this? (Here Brother Pike sings a little more.) Do you really believe Jesus is here tonight? Can you be supernatural tonight in your believing? In your thinking? Can you be supernatural? Can you leave the old natural trend of life for a moment, and believe that an invisible God can do a supernatural thing? Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel Him going up and down the avenues of my soul, Bob. I feel the charge of the Holy Spirit as He runs up and down the avenues of my soul. I can feel Him quickening my body. I can feel the reality of Christ. This morning I felt HIm charge my body with His presence. Today, In my room, as I prayed for you, asking God to heal you, I felt God charge my body with the virtue of Christ. And I feel Him tonight. I feel Him tonight. We sing, "Jesus is here". "Jesus is Here." Jesus is Here. Hallelujah! Jesus is here! (Brother Pike sings some more.) Now, I'm going to start drilling you more and more on faith. Because we're going through this thing a step at a time. Not a step at a time for me; I've already been through it. I've been on the field and had to live by faith, but to come back, as Jimmy said, to work with you, to get you to go through it, a step at a time, be patient and lead you, and let you see one thing at a time. And move you up one step at a time; to bring you to the redemption of the body. (Here Brother Pike sings some more.) Now, lift your hand with me. (Here Brother Pike sings some more.) Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. Don't you? I feel God tonight. I feel God tonight! I feel faith tonight. I feel it rising in the hearts of the people. God honors faith. When we believe, God honors faith. God does something when we believe. Believe. Hallelujah! Father, heal tonight. I feel faith tonight. I feel you healing people tonight. Oh, God I feel You healing them. And I feel their faith going out, and I feel You making them whole tonight. Hallelujah! Oh, God, tonight, I'm looking for testimonies to come, Jesus. I'm looking for testimonies of healing to come forth. Of Your Salvation, of Your healing, of Your deliverance, Jesus. Hallelujah! In the name of Jesus, I feel God healing tonight. Father, I feel faith in the hearts of these people tonight. I feel Your Spirit, I feel Your divine touch, tonight. Hallelujah! I feel the redemption of the body, Father. Hallelujah! God heal these people tonight. Father, grant every request tonight. Father, grant every request tonight. Father, whatever their request is tonight, whatever their desire is, Lord, You said You would give them the desire of their heart. By Your Spirit and according to their faith tonight in Thee, Father, I join my faith with Thy Spirit, and I join my faith tonight, Lord, with their faith, and through the Name of Your lovely Son, Jesus, that has resurrected from the dead, I speak healing to these people. Father, I speak healing to them tonight. I heal these bodies, in the name of Jesus tonight. Lord, You said preach the gospel; heal the sick. I heal them, in the name of Jesus tonight. I'm looking for the testimony, Jesus. I'm looking for the testimony, Dear God. Lord, I'm looking for their testimony. You said these signs shall follow them that believe, and God, You confirm the ministry with signs and wonders following, and Dear God, as we bring the people into a new step. Dear God, in the unity of the Spirit, as we've tried to bind them together to a greater place in God. Lord, let this great rapturing faith that's going to translate these bodies come up in these hearts. Grant it, Father in the name of Jesus, tonight. In the name of Jesus tonight. Tonight, I really from my heart, felt some of you touch God. I really did. I felt some of you touch God, tonight. God healed some bodies here tonight. You know, you never know what's wrong with you. It might be T.B., it might be cancer, it might be some terrible, dreadful disease, but listen, Folks, don't die. Don't give in. It doesn't matter the pain, the suffering; how uncertain you are. How tormented. He'll always say you're the weak one. Al-ways tell you and single you out, and say, well, it worked for somebody else, but you just can't make it. But don't go by that. Just say, God, if I die, I'll die believing. I'd rather die believing God, than die in defeat, and die in unbelief. I'll die believing. You said I'm healed, and I'm healed, and that settles it. I'm healed and I believe it, and I'm going to walk in it, and I'm going to accept it and I ain't going to think on nothing else. You said it, why question God? He is the judge. He is God. If He said it, it settles it. His word spoke the world into existence. If His Word said it, then as far as I'm concerned, that settles it. It's not a matter of me trying to figure it out. He said it, and that's it. How many of you accept that in your heart? Al-right, that's good. I believe you really do, because I feel faith, and I know that we'll get a report from that very thing. Can we sing one more song? Can you give me another key, Sister? (Here Brother Pike leads the song, "Let go and let God have His way'). God is the Word tonight. Let's sing that again, and when you sing that, now, we've already prayed, we've already preached, God's already promised, God's already finished. Now let's enjoy it, can we? Now, we've al-ready asked Him, we've already accepted it, we've already said it's done, now then, if we really believe it, we'll be happy. not a make believe, but if we really, truly believe that, there'll be a joy. For serving God is faith, joy and peace. When you believe, joy come up. Is that right? Al-right now, when we sing this, I want you to release yourself in God' and now you've, you've already received it, and if you really have received it, you'll just let that heart and spirit go out to God with all trust, all confidence, and you'll rejoice, and you'll feel happy over the situation. A real joy will spring up. Try it and see if it works. (Here Brother Pike sings again). Oh, Hallelujah! (Sings some more). Hallelujah! I do feel somebody letting go. I feel people believing. Oh Hallelujah! Your sorrows will vanish. And your night will turn to day. Oh, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Sing it one more time. Will you? I really feel people getting healed. I feel the joy of the Lord. That's our strength. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord