Ye Think You Have Life

It's a wonderful treat to be here in Columbus, Georgia. It's been a number of years since we've been out in here. I hate to get a hold of a mike that there is something wrong with to start with. We have two or three mikes that we try to keep with us. One of them I thought I had with me but I must have left it over at the motel. But, anyway, it's a treat to be here with you tonight and see you here. I wonder if you could raise those curtains just a little bit on that side over there, Brother Butler. We'd appreciate it so much, just getting a little cross breeze here for the people. We're so thankful to be here tonight and we count it a real privilege to be here in Columbus, Georgia. We had a hard time finding the tent. Ordinarily I would have come right over to it, but for some reason the Lord lead me around two or three different places and I had a chance to witness to different ones here in Columbus so I perceived He was wanting me to tell somebody about Jesus., Whereas we did. You know, I come to the meeting__ We've been fortunate to preach all over the United States, Canada, Mexico and into the Islands and foreign countries, Palestine, Europe. I've enjoyed my ministry and enjoyed the Word of the Lord in a wonderful way. We've been blessed. And, you know, we have won many people, as friends, across the world. Been on many radio stations. Sometimes as high as thirteen, some of the biggest in the world. But there is one thing I have learned, that the church world in general (I'm not speaking of the people that are not in the church, but I'm speaking of the people that are in the church.) are so shallow in the Word of God. They know so little about the things of God until it's almost impossible to preach a sermon to people. You have to go in and find some Scripture and read to them and feed them, you know, a little bit at a time to where they can understand, and to where they can digest it and just take a little simple message and preach to them faith and divine deliverance and something that will encourage them to be able to go on for God. But this does not change the heart of the minister, in that his longing and deepest desire is to make known to the people the great and mighty things of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul one time spoke of his much revelation from God. He said unto the people, said, I would like to speak unto you as spirituals, but seeing that you are babes in Christ I cannot. He said then, just desire the sincere milk of the Word. So it's a very rare thing for you to be able to preach the revelation of Jesus Christ that John received on the Isle of Patmos, and Paul received in the Arabian Desert. So then, we continue to go on, and there are a few places, especially back at Little Bethlehem at the tabernacle, people that we've worked with a number of years that we're able to break the revelation to. And there they record it. They put it on tape and they send it out to people around the different parts of the world. That way people can go into their own bed chambers and different places and sit down and listen to the tapes over and over until they begin to understand. Whereas under the tent and different places we might preach a sermon to a person tonight and you may never see them again. You might say just enough__ If you get into revelation you might say just enough to make them question what you're preaching and never come back anymore, because people__ How many of you understand that people live within the environment of their own little world? Are you listening to me now? See? People live within the environment of their own thinking. Isn't that right? All right. I want to read a little Scripture here, and I want you to listen to me tonight, and I want to try to talk with you for just a few minutes before I preach to you, just get acquainted a little bit. This is the first time that I've ever met you people and I'd like to get acquainted with you just a little bit. All right, now. Over in the book of Saint John, if you've got your Bibles I'd like for you to read with me, and it's in the sixth chapter of the book of Saint John. I'd like for you to listen here real close as I read a little Scripture to you. In the forty-seventh verse of the sixth chapter. "Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (48) I am that bread of life. (49) Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. (50) This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. (51) I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (52) The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying,, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? (53) Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verity, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. (54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. (56) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. (57) As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. (58) This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. (59) These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. (60) Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? (61) When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? (62) What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? (63) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you they are spirit, and they are life. (64) But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. (65) And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." Now, I want to dwell just a few minutes on some things here, talk to you about the Word of God. First of all, most of us will readily admit that we don't want to die. How many of you would like to live forever? Now, see? There is one thing that we've all got in common tonight and that is unless Christ undertakes we're all doing to die. Isn't that right? The elderly people here are not far from death. The younger people here in the day that we're living in, it's death on every corner and many of them are passing away at a young age. The Bible said in the last days young men's hearts shall fail them for fear of looking after those things that are coming upon the world. Now, so then, you don't want to die. I don't want to die, and the reason that God sends the ministry is for one purpose. Jesus said, I have come that you might have life, and that you might have it great abundance, or more abundantly. And the word abundant means filled up and overflowing. God is a spirit and he is the spirit of life, and the thing that all of the world is searching for is life. Millions of dollars, billions of dollars are spent every year in medical research searching for a way to sustain life, or to restore you, or some way that they might be able to extend life. Is that right? But they've not been able to find it. They will never be able to find it because there is but one form of life, that's Christ. When a person rejects Christ life is gone. Youth is gone. Wealth is gone. Happiness is gone. Joy is gone. Everything is gone for the person that rejects Christ. That's why people resort to the television programs and the ball games and the swimming pools and the races and all the excitements of the world. They are looking for a little something that might spark life again. Something that may make them feel better. Something that might take away the heaviness and the load and the weariness of life that they feel, but they still don't find it in that. That's a temporal inspiration that comes from the life of the natural birth. That's the only inspiration that you'll ever find, is an inspiration from natural birth until you come to know Jesus and know the new birth. Jesus spoke after this manner. I am the bread that comes down from heaven, Jesus said. They that eat of this bread shall never die. He met the woman at the well and the woman began to speak to Jesus. There He told her, He said, if you drink of this water here you'll thirst again, but He said, there is a water that I know about that you don't know about, and He said, If you ever get a drink of this water you will never thirst again. Never again. Now, let me say this tonight. You know, we are so quick to judge people. Isn't that right? If there is a man that is running for president right away we judge him. We look at him on television, or hear him on the radio, read about it in the new paper, and right away we judge him. We say, Well, that's the way we feel about him. There is a neighbor. We judge the neighbor right away. We judge our wives. We judge our children. Isn't that right? We judge the people, but we never judge ourselves. But the very one that God commanded us to judge was our own state of being. Isn't that right? You don't have any right to judge another man's servant. All of us belong to God. We don't have any right to judge one another, but the Bible said examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith. Isn't that right? But a person will feel this way, Well, Brother Pike, I've got the right to judge. That's true. The Bible said judge righteous judgment. You've got a right to reason, but the Bible said come and let us reason together, speaking of the Word. There is no right to reason outside of the Word. No right to lean to our own understanding, for the Bible tells us not to lean to our own understanding, but to trust in the Lord with all of our heart. So then, what do we do? Young people, old people, middle aged people, teenagers, whatever it might be, you've got a world. Isn't that right? Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, my world is the environment that I see out here around me. But that is wrong. Your world is your thinking. You have one world and that is your little realm of thinking. Whatever you think, that's your world. Do you understand? Your soul, your life consists of what you think. In other words you orbit around in that one little place because it's all that you know. If you've been to college, now like this young brother here, six years of college, if you've been to college then you've got a great extensive outlook at things in the intellectual field. Isn't that right? You're broad minded. You've got a great world. You've travelled as far as California, or Florida you've got a greater outlook. Now, then, so we all orbit around in this little world of ours. Some of us are more limited than others. We judge people according to the world, and our environment of thinking. That's the way we judge humanity. Instead of searching out the Word of God and understanding God and understanding God's ways. What we do is judge people according to our own thoughts, our own little world, instead of trying to broaden our world, trying to understand it. The Bible said even the children of this world are wiser in their ways than the children of light. Why is that? Because they broaden their world. They broaden their understanding. They go to college. They go to school. They spend their time studying as lawyers and doctors, and everything in the world. But a lot of times the church people sitting in just one little place, they never broaden their understanding. They never search the Scriptures. Jesus said to the Jews one time, they thought they were such great people and had such great knowledge, and Jesus said, Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life. Come on, folks. I said, Jesus said, you think you have eternal life. The Baptist feel they have eternal life. The Methodist feel that they've got eternal life. The Catholics feel that they've got eternal life. The Pentecostals feel that they've got eternal life. But the Bible said, search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life. Is that right? But these are they that testify of me, Jesus said. Now then, when Jesus said that He was speaking to the Jews. The Jews denied Christ. They did not believe that He was the Messiah. Jesus said, search these Scriptures. You Jewish people, you feel that you have eternal life, He said, but search the Scriptures for these are they that prophets the Scriptures. These are they that testify of Jesus. All the prophets and laws, He said, testify of me. If you had eternal life you would have known me, because all the Scriptures testify of my coming. And so it is today. You know, just a few weeks ago we came back from Palestine. There we were in Capernaum, the same place we read about here. And I observed the Jews, and I observed the visitors. I observed the different people from over the nation. And I talked to some of them and preached to some of them over there in Palestine, and I though, God, these are no different from anybody else. It's no wonder but that God has put everybody on the same plane of living, placed them in the same category of life, because the Jews are no different from nobody else. Paul said, God has concluded them all under sin. All of them has gone astray. Every man has turn to his own way. And God has laid upon Him, Jesus, the iniquity of us all. He was chastised for my iniquities and my healings. Christ went to Calvary for me. Oh, if we could see that tonight. If our world and the broadness of our mind tonight could reach out and see what I'm speaking of. As we crossed the Sea of Galilee on the boat as I preached to the people, I thought about it as I was the great Sea of Galilee and remember as Peter walked upon the water by faith in God, and I thought, Lord, how limited the church is today. And the men of old that was suppose to be ignorant and unlearned, that didn't know anything about God could walk on the water and us of today that is supposed to be the advanced church is in the condition we're in, and where are we, folks. It looks like the church world is going backward, doesn't it? Amen. It looks like they're going backward. We're suppose to be the great church that is prepared for the rapture, the coming of the Lord. We're suppose to be the great scholars that has the answers. Isn't that right? But the truth of it is, Jesus said the last church would be Laodicean, would be lukewarm. Would say, we're rich and have need of nothing, and not recognize the fact that it's the coming of the Lord, that they are wretched and naked and blind. So then, where are we today? We're suppose to be the great church of the hour; the rapture is at hand. Oh, my! As God caught me away with Him, and God began to speak to me, I had fasted and I had prayed and I had sought God. Sometimes for many long hours without getting off of my knees, I had prayed and talked to God and read the Scriptures for many multiplied hours, but one day Jesus said to me, I want to tell you something. After fasting, after praying, after spending years with God, after hearing the greatest Bible scholars in the land I thought, What can God tell me that I don't already know? I've prayed. I've studied. I've read the Bible. I've been from cover to cover again and again and again. And I thought, What can He tell me? Folks, when you think you know something you don't know something as you ought to know. Hallelujah! The church world today thinks they know something, but they don't know something that they ought to know. And that's that they ought to know that the revelation of Christ is still here for the church of today and God has preserved it for this last hour. Not to give it to the church world, not to give it to the people of the world, but to give it to the saints of God that will come and seek the graces of God with Him. He's getting them ready to go in the rapture. Hallelujah! Jimmy Carter doesn't have the answer. Hallelujah! Amen. Ronald Reagan doesn't have the answer, neither the Pope. Amen! All of the rest of them doesn't have the answer, but God has the answer. Hallelujah! As I rode down the road today I told my wife, I said, A man is nothing less than a fool, Betty, to think that he can rule the earth without God. He's nothing less than a fool to feel that he can handle mankind. This is God's creation We love God and God is (?). Hallelujah! No wonder Washington was so great in his administration. No wonder Abraham Lincoln was so great. It was because he took God in the arrangements and, Brother, today is we take God into our homes today our homes will become great. Our understand will become great and our understanding will enlarge, and our world will enlarge, and then we'll know what God has for the church. Hallelujah! Praise God! So then, what is it? This is the greatest hour that mankind has ever known. Hallelujah! On the radio they advertise miracles. All you have to do is go and get them by the bushels. Just load your wagon down with them. Amen. That's right. Somebody said, Don't you believe in that? I sure do. Signs, signs and wonders. Load your truck up with them. Amen. In the synagogues we've got all kind of learning today. All kind of books. They sell you this book and that book and another book. And then when you get through all you know is just exactly what they know. Do you understand what I'm saying? What is it? They've turned the house of God into a place of merchandise, folks. Amen! That's what Jesus did. He came and He turned over the money tables. He took the whip and popped the whip. Everybody is looking for an offering. Everybody is looking for a name. Everybody is looking for popularity. Everybody is looking for a position, but God is looking for His saints. God is looking for holiness. God is looking for righteousness. God is looking for something on the inside of us, people. Hallelujah! Amen! I never knew. I never understood. I never realized that God was so great. I never knew the plan of salvation was so great. I never knew the things of God were so rich. I never understood what Paul meant when he said the treasures of God. I never knew what he was talking about. I've been to the Baptist Church, been to the Methodist people, been to the Catholic people. I've been to all kinds of people. But, folks, they haven't got it. Amen! Do you love the Lord? Somebody would say, Brother Pike, do you mean to tell me they haven't go it? They haven't got it. Amen! It isn't there. You mean to say they don't know about Jesus? Sure they know about Jesus. They know about Jesus. The Baptist knows more than the Pentecostals do. Amen! They know about Jesus, hallelujah! but that's not enough. It's like people say, I received the Holy Ghost. They say, Repent, receive the Holy Ghost, confession your sins and God will fill you with the Spirit. And that's good. Amen! They'll tell you to do that, but there is one thing about it, my Brothers and Sisters. There is more to it than being filled with the Holy Ghost. Somebody says, If I've got the Holy Ghost that's all it takes, my Brother. But God said something else. Amen! Oh, hallelujah! Glory to God, there is something else! Why did that Holy Ghost sigh? Did you know when a child is born into this world he's got life. Isn't that right? But that life is just beginning to mold him into a great human being of understand. It takes years of development. It takes following after life and growing in the stature of a man to come to the fullness. That's why God commanded us to grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Grow, my Brother. Grow, my Sister. How? In the grace of God grow. Grow. How can we grow? Grow to the fullness of the stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. How can we do it? In the knowledge of the Lord. In the knowledge of the Lord. What is it? What is the Holy Ghost for? Listen, Brothers and Sisters, when you get the Holy Ghost you just have got life. You just have come into the world. You're a little toddling baby. Amen! You're a little toddling baby. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, you don't really mean that. I sure do. Amen. Sure do. You say, do you mean to tell me that if the mighty Holy Ghost of God is on the inside of you that you're just a little toddling baby? I mean to tell you that if you've got the Holy Ghost on the inside of you, you can still be a little toddling baby. Amen! God deals the Spirit by measure. How many of you know that? Amen! The Lord Jesus Christ, how many think He had the Holy Ghost? Amen! When He was a little bitty boy. Isn't that right. Glory to God, we were over in Nazareth just a few days ago where He played when He was a little kid out in the streets. Amen. Right now in Nazareth, in the little city of Nazareth, or it's a big city now, right there in a bookstore, in the hospital, different places, the tracts that I write on faith goes out in (?). Amen. Those people need to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord. Being a Jew is not enough. Paul said, He that is a Jew is not outwardly is not a Jew, but he that is a Jew inwardly that's the true Jew. There is no difference with God. Amen! We're all God's people. That's why I say man is foolish. President, leaders, whatever. Man is foolish to try lead God's creation, and God's people, and God's way of life without having contact with God. Amen! Hallelujah! I made the statement not too long ago that the Baptist would start speaking in tongues. Somebody said, it will never happen. It will happen as sure as you live. I saw it in a vision. Saw it by revelation (?). Somebody said, They won't do that, Brother Pike. But they will do it! I made the statement also that the entire world would go Pentecostal. Hallelujah! Somebody said, You mean to tell me, Brother Pike, that you believe the Methodist is going to turn to Pentecost and the Baptist is going to turn to Pentecost? I mean to tell you that your President will go Pentecost. The Baptist will go Pentecost. The Methodist will go Pentecost, and the Catholics will go Pentecost. All of them will go Pentecost. Somebody says, You're crazy. No, I'm not crazy. Amen! Paul said, this thing wasn't done in a corner. I'm not screaming and yelling about some wild idea I got, or something I heard. Hallelujah! I feel the Holy Ghost. Amen! I'm tell you what I know I heard from Heaven. As the song said, I just I just got an answer, Amen! I tuned in on Him. Something is happening up there in that place, folks, that some of you don't know anything about. Amen! You need to tune in on glory. The entire world will go Pentecost. Hallelujah! While I was over in Palestine a few days ago we stopped at a place there, a diamond place. You know, they put out more diamonds perhaps than any other place in the world. I stopped in there to look at them, and as we stopped there, my wife and I, and when I started in the Lord said to me, said, I want you to meet Pat Boone. I thought He was talking about a few days hence, or maybe a few months away, but God said, I want you to meet him, and He took me in there and He wanted me to meet him right then. I walked through the door and, of course, there he stood. I walked in and began to talk with him, I began to him about God. I want you to listen to this now. How many of you know the singer I'm speaking of? Any of you acquainted with him? He's a singer. I began to talk with him. I said, Pat, are you a Christian? He said, Why, of course. We got in a little conversation and here is what he told me. He said, Brother Pike, you know what I'm doing over here? I said, Brother Pat, what are you doing over here? I want you to get this now. This is a movie stars and a singers. I said, What are you doing over here in this country, Pat? The papers had already interviewed him. I read the papers where they took his picture and interviewed him, the ones that were with him (?). I guess two or three huge plane loads came out there with him. I said, What are you doing over here? He said, We are walking through these Cathedrals of these Paganistic gods. Said, we are going from one to another, and said, as we walk through the Cathedrals of these Paganistic gods says, We're calling on Christ to throw them down and to bring them to naught so that God can live in the hearts of the people. Come on, folks. Amen. I mean I'm talking about that's a movie star talking like that. Amen! And I got a letter from him not too long ago (Start side two.)... Amen. The paper carried the article just a few days ago confirming it. And the reporters stated, said, Ladies and Gentlemen, it's only been a few months ago, a year or so ago, when men that were in the realms of politics could not discuss religion, but all of a sudden they said today everything is religion. All of them, including Jimmy Carter, and the others, are talking about religion. Why? Why? Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, it's because all of us are getting right with God. That's not what it is. I made the statement a few years ago, I said, at the end time everybody will become religious. I said, When they become religious it will be the worse thing that ever happened in America. Come on, folks. I said, it will be the worse thing that has ever happened to humanity. You say, Why is that? Because Jesus said, I would that you were hot or cold. Amen. When you are cold God will deal with you. Amen. God will be merciful to you because you don't know any better. When you are hot, you're on fire for God, God will bless you with your health and with blessings and with prosperity. The Bible said the blessing of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. Isn't that right? Hallelujah! But, Brother, let me tell you something. When you get religious, when you get religious then you're not cold anymore. Like my son came to me not too long ago. He's been away from God for a good little while and I said, Son, you better get right with God. I said, things are coming to an end. He said, Well, look, Dad, you always preached hot or cold. I said, that's right. He said, But, Dad, I'm cold. I don't have nothing to do with religion. He said, I'm cold. See, Dad, God will have mercy on me until I come back in. I said, No, son. I said, that's where you're wrong. I said, when it said hot or cold, I said, that means somebody that don't know about Jesus. Come on, folks. Amen. Or somebody that don't know about death. I said, You can't come to know about Jesus and then be cold any longer. You might not go to church, you might not participate in the things of God but, my Brothers and Sisters, when you know the Word of God, when you get the understanding of life, you can't be cold any longer. Amen. To whom much is given much is required. And to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is a sin, and the soul that sinneth shall surely die. Amen. How many of you understand what I'm saying? All right. Now let me say this to you. See, I say again that we live within the little world of our own understanding. Is that right? Some of you come here tonight, I don't know if you're Baptist, or Methodist, or Pentecostal, or Church of God, or Presbyterian. I've preached to all of them. That's right. I've preached in their Cathedrals. I've preached to all of them, but the thing is here's what I'm trying to tell you tonight. When you come here tonight you come to judge Brother Pike. You come to judge the conditions. You come to judge the atmosphere. You come to see what I was to say. Isn't that right? That's all right; you want to know. That's all right, but Jesus said, Come and let us reason together. Did you come here tonight to try to find out whether it was the Word of God? or what you thought about the Word of God? whether it was it was the Word of God, or what somebody has told you about the Word of God? Amen. You know, the Jews thought they were all right. They had the traditions of the elders. They had told them all about the Word of God, but they come to find out it wasn't the Word of God at all. Amen? Hallelujah! A lot of things that Grandmother has taught you ain't God. A lot of things you parents has taught you ain't God. A lot of things that you've heard ain't God. A lot of things that you've heard on the radio is not God. A lot of things you've read in the newspaper is not God. A lot of things you've seen on the television screen, that's not God. Hallelujah! Praise God! Amen. I've had people to get up and walk out from under the tent. I've had people to leave while I was preaching in the churches. Young men would leave because they did not accept what I said, or did not believe what I said, and maybe a year, or two years, and three years later I would run across them and they'd come back and they'd say, Brother Pike, forgive me for being such a novice, and being so foolish as to judge you the first time I heard you. Now I realize how wrong I was, and far from me in knowing anything about God I was. Hallelujah! This is a great hour, folks. I feel the Holy Ghost. Amen! I've never known a day like this, and you've never known a day like this. This is the great hour of the visitation from God. This is our great opportunity. This is the beginning of the greatest thing that God has ever done. Amen. That's right. God is doing something like He's never done in the world before. Hallelujah! But the thing is the church world won't get this. The Baptist won't get this. And the Methodist won't get this. And the Pentecostals won't get this. Nobody in the church world won't get this. But only God's elect will get this. Only the saints of God will get this. Those that are blood bought, and blood washed will get this. Hallelujah! The church world will be left behind to go through the tribulation period. And Brothers and Sisters, I know that I can't get it over to you tonight in one sermon. I couldn't get it over to you in a dozen sermons. But there is one thing I want you to know tonight. I know that that's true. I know what to tell you to prove it's true, but you don't have the patience and I don't have the time here to do it. But there is one thing I can tell you as a minister of God. If you've ever run for you life, you run for your life. If you ever quit criticizing the minister, you stop now. If you ever quit tongue lashing you stop now. If you ever quit backbiting, you stop now. If you ever started to living holy, talking holy, and dressing holy, and being holy, it's time that you got started right now, because we're already running late. That's the truth, so help me God. Amen. I've tuned in on heaven and I know that this is true. This is not just another tent meeting that's come. It's not another advertising of miracles that's come. I believe in healing of the sick. We pray for the sick and God heals the sick. I believing in prophecy and we prophesy. I foretell things of the nation. I foretell things of the local community. I foretell things of peoples lives. I foretell things of the government and they come to pass. We've got hundreds of tapes if you'd like to listen at them; it can be proved. But let me tell you something tonight, folks. I don't have the time to go into that. You don't have the patience. Satan has worn the saints of God out with ritualistics, with all kind of revivals. With all kind of false settings, with every thing they are literally worn out. They don't know what to believed anymore. They don't know what they hear anymore. They don't understand anymore. They're so confused. It's like the government; they don't know what's right and what's wrong. They don't know what their constitution is. It's the same way with religious people; they don't know what the Bible says anymore they've brain washed them so much. I'll have to confess that the world needs a brain washing. Amen. They need it by the washing of the water of the Word. Amen. Hallelujah! Some folks need to be brain washed but they need to get it done by the washing of the water of the Word. .......(?) .... Amen. But I bear you record tonight, and you remember what Brother Pike is telling you. Under this little insignificant tent tonight, under this place tonight that seems to be just a nothing here on the corner, something that nobody knows about and one little place on the corner of the world will bear me record tonight that I didn't come here for a meeting tonight. I didn't come here for a revival tonight. I came here because God said go the Columbus. I came to Columbus. Georgia and God told me the revelation of why I was coming to Columbus, Georgia, why this man Brother Butler had to be here at this particular moment and what I was to come here for and what it had to do with you, and me, and him. And the world affairs, not only of the United States but in the foreign fields. That's the truth, so help me God. All liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire. Amen. I didn't come here to received an offering. I can truthfully say this from my heart, if you came to give me an offering tonight you couldn't give it to me. I do not take personal offerings. God spoke to me years ago and said, Son, the priests love gifts. Said, Don't you take gifts. I want you to do something for me. I don't want nobody to have strings on you. I don't want nothing to touch you. I don't want you to take an offering. Wherever you go I'll meet your needs. Amen. And, Brother, He appeared to me in Miami, Florida. Came unto me when I was weary and laying upon a bed. Walked in there and laid down and God came in the room where I was, and I wasn't asleep. Everything turned dark and God walked into my room. I couldn't see Him but I knew His presence was there. He walked into my room and I was as I was paralyzed. Daniel said as a dead man. And I laid there and I couldn't do anything but think, couldn't move a muscle, and God came into my room. God came over there where I was. He walked up to me and I couldn't see Him but He picked up this hand right here. He picked it up and when He picked it up I heard His wonderful voice. And it said unto me, He said, where is the stone of thy birth? I was like a man paralyzed; I couldn't do nothing. All I could do was say, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. That's all I could do. I felt Him lay my hand down as gentle as a (?). He went out of the room and He said, I shall get thee one. I felt His presence leave the room and it was still dark. I couldn't see a thing. In a little while He came back in the room. The same Jesus. When He came back in the room He picked my hand up and I felt Him slip a ring on my finger. Hallelujah! And the Spirit of God filled the room and I heard God's voice speak to me, and God said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, but lo! I shall be with thee in the time of trouble and in the time of need. I've been stranded in the mountains. I've been stranded in the desert. And I been in the different places of the world but, Brother, not one time has He failed to be with me. At all times God always spoke and He'd say to me, Son, remember the words I spoke unto you. Hallelujah! Folks, when He placed that ring upon my finger it was like ten thousand lights lit up in the room. All the darkness that was there vanished into nothing. All of a sudden, instead of lying on the bed I was standing up on my feet and I was turned in a different direction, and I looked there standing before me and there was a great tall huge fellow, well proportioned and it looked like he had chestnut hair with a white garment flowing down to his feet, and looked like he was so tall, if we were in the house__ I don't know where we were at, but if it was he was so tall it looked like he would have had to hump over from the sealing. Amen. He dropped a little something out of his hand. When I reached down and picked it up I had to look up to him to hand it back to him, and when I handed it back to him he smiled at me in a very pleasant sort of a way and behold, the vision went away. For a number of years I didn't understand it. I cried to God. I begged God. I said, Lord, what is the manner of this visitation? I don't understand. But God told me what is was, and Brothers and Sisters it shook me. It shook me in such a way, I thought, Lord, can it possibly be? But it is. Amen. And tonight I wish it was possible that I had the time tonight to share with you what He told me. If I only had the time tonight to share with you the hour that we're living, and what I understand and what He's made me to know. But He told me said, don't take personal offerings. Don't take anything, my son. He said, I will meet you're needs. Today, Brother Butler, He's met my needs in hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has blessed me with the finest car to ride in... (?) ....... He's blessed me with a good place to live. He's blessed me with things to give others, some evangelists as high as fifty and sixth thousand dollars. My faith has supported them and put them under huge gospels tents that you could set two or three of these in. Amen. God did it. God did it. He's still doing it today. He's still doing it tonight. Why? Because faith is real. The blessings of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. God heals. God saves. God forgives. God is the answer to our problems, folks. Amen. In that day no man shall save them. No man. For Christ said, I alone shall be exalted in that day. Jesus Christ shall out shine them all. He alone in that day shall be exalted. Hallelujah! I want you to stand with me. There's so many things I'd to say tonight. So much I'd like to tell you, but I know that your time is limited. I know that some of you work on jobs. You have to get up early. And I know that some of you have to get home and get a little rest. Now, we're not going to get to be here but a few days. We're already scheduled to be here tonight, tomorrow night and Friday night. And then after that we're already scheduled to be in Mississippi. Olive Branch, Mississippi. From there we have to go down to another place in Mississippi and over into Charlotte. And I want you to try to come and be with me if you will. Now this is the first night. This is the first time I've ever met you and maybe in these few short minutes, or sermons, maybe I'll be able to say something. And I'm sure the revival will continue longer than Friday night because I know there are going to be some people here Friday night from out of state, from out of town, because I've had some to tell me, and there'll be some that's coming in here toward the last night, or two, of the meeting. But the thing is, I want you to come and listen for these two, or three night, and the few things that I can say to you, which will be very few compared to what I would like to say to you, I hope that in this we can find a little bit of something that will make you realize that you need to push on for God and really get a hold of God. And I tell you, it's the truth in God, if you ever have made a special effort, folks, to get a hold of God, for Christ sake, do it now. Honestly, this is the truth from my heart. I wouldn't lie to you. I don't want to go to hell. Flames are awful. If you don't believe it just stick your foot under the hot scalding water in the bathtub somewhere and you'll see what I'm talking about. Let me tell you something. Being here in Columbus, Georgia it has a specific meaning. It has a definite purpose. It has a purpose that tonight it would take me hours just to tell you why that I'm in Columbus, Georgia and what God is doing concerning the Gospel and the entire world, and government, in this little bald-headed fellow being here in Columbus, Georgia. And that's the truth, my hand be raised to heaven. That's the truth, so help me God. Now. So then, we've got a little crowd here, not much of a congregation, have we. I mean compared to what we have had, and compared to what you've been with and other preachers and different things. But, folks, I bear you record tonight. God has a specific meaning for you to be here. Meaning it's something than you'll ever know. That's right. It's so close. It's so close. With our coming here the thing that He is doing, it's so close until tonight, I tell you the truth. Now, you're going to laugh at this. You're not going to believe it. But as I live before God tonight, if some of you knew it we'd have to put you in a strait jacket. You'd lose your mind (?). That's right. Not only that, but if the people of Columbus knew it and the state and nations around the world knew it, you'd have people flying in here from overseas to be here. You couldn't get within ten miles of this place. Amen. That's right. That's right if they knew for a surety__ It's like a fellow who came to me the other day and he said, Brother Pike, he said, I had the strangest vision. I said, What kind of vision did you have? The man fasts forty days at a time. He's done it a number of times. Always fasting and praying. I said, What kind of vision did you have? He said, Here at Little Bethlehem I saw an amber cloud fall down over this place and said, so many people came here, said, it went slap from the tabernacle through the city, and said, I couldn't even get a parking place around, even city wide. He said, People were coming from everywhere running. Folks, I hope you can understand tonight. That doesn't mean that Brother Pike is any different from anyone else. I'm just a man, but I'm telling you something tonight. It's happening in the spiritual realm that the church world knows nothing about. I confess that I knew nothing of it until I fasted and prayed and been in many churches and to many people in the best (?). I knew nothing about it. But tonight I'm fortunate enough to know. All right, as they play a little bit on the organ tonight, I hope that something has been said in these few words that will make you think, make you consider tonight. I'll tell you what I'd like to do tonight, this being the first night of the meeting. On Tuesday night__ I meant of Thursday night, which is tomorrow night, and Friday night if the Lord is kind to us, and if he's willing, I'd like to pray for the sick both nights. Tonight I just want to pray for you as a whole tonight, but we were late getting in. I know you're a little weary and I'm a little weary, but I tell you what I want you to do tonight. While they're playing on the organ I want you to step out tonight and I want you to step up here with me around the altar. Will you do that? Come on up, folks. Step up here around the altar. Come on. Some of you say, Well, I'm a sinner, Brother Pike. That's all right. The Bible says, Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. You've got breath tonight. That means you owe praise to God. Whether you're a Christian, or not, you've got breath. He's let you live. He's been kind to you. He's give you grace. I owe Him praise tonight. You owe Him praise tonight. I know you might not be a Christian come on down and stand here with us tonight. You know, I tell you, folks, don't ever be in a hurry to go from the presence of God. Hezekiah, one time because he took a little time for the Lord, God gave him fifteen long years. Amen? Because he took a few minutes for God. And tonight you may take fifteen minutes from God and God may take fifteen years off of your life. You may give Him five, or ten, minutes; God may add five, or ten, years to your life. You know that? Hezekiah said, I've done that that pleased You. Old Brother Isaiah said, Thus saith the Lord, said, set your house in order; you're going to die. Isn't that right? Amen. That same prophet, as old brother Hezekiah cried to God and said, Lord, I love You. I love you, Jesus. I've tried to do what You told me. God said to that prophet, said, Go back out there and tell him I've added fifteen years to his life. Isn't that wonderful? Now, I wouldn't doubt a bit but what this very night that there is some of you standing right here that would be in your grave tonight. Amen. From some sickness, or some tragedy, or something, out on the highway, somewhere. I wouldn't doubt it a bit but what you've prayed to God, and found favor with God because you tried to do the right thing, and God gave you more years. And that's why you're here tonight. How many believe that's true? Hallelujah! I want us to sing a little chorus together tonight. I really feel God here tonight. I feel His wonderful presence. I feel faith in the hearts of you folks. It's good to see our Brother here with us tonight. I feel faith in the heart of you fellows tonight, you ladies. I feel the presence of God here and I feel faith in some of your hearts. And I feel a humility, and a humbleness toward the things of God and I want to unit with you tonight my faith and your faith with me tonight. And I want us to pray that God will do something for the community and God will do something for the area. How many of you pray for lost souls? You know, the Bible said pray. You know, we have to pray that God will grant repentance unto life to them that are without. Did you know that? See God believes in a sovereignty. He can encroach on your rights. He can't do it. They are a sovereignty. They may go for years not ever interfering with them, but if we pray, if they've our loved ones, our neighbors, if we pray then God can do something to catch their attention from our prayers. Do you know what I mean? If I pray and I say, Lord, save my son. God isn't going to, you know, just pounce right down on him and take away his sovereignty. That's just like a man bursting into your home. God isn't going to do that. But what He will do, He'll let a wreck happen out here close to where he's at. In other words He'll prepare his heart to be over here in a certain area where a tragedy happens, or where a man of God is testifying, or something is happening to get his attention. And He'll keep dropping something around him here and there until finally He gets his attention and pulls him in to where he can deal with him. Isn't that right? But if we don't pray for people God can't get to them, folks. I know that doesn't sound right, but that's the truth. We stand in Christ's stead beseeching the world to be reconciled to the Lord Jesus Christ. So you've got a job tonight as intercessors, a royal priesthood to pray that God will grant repentance of life unto them that are without. That's a great calling from God, did you know that? Samuel said, I wouldn't dare fail God, or sin against the people, or against God by not praying for the people. Would you? So, see? It was a sin against God when we didn't pray for the people. All right, now. We're the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. That's what the apostles said. Temples of the Holy Ghost. God walks in you, talks in you. You are living temples of life. And John in the book of Revelation__ Just dropping in a little tab of revelation tonight. John in the book of Revelation said, Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men. The world doesn't know that, see? They say, Ah, he's a man just like I'm a man. She's a woman just like I'm a woman. But the Bible said you are the living tabernacle of God. John saw you in a vision from the earth and God on the inside walking inside of you. We're the tabernacle of God and God is in you wherever you go and the world doesn't know that. They don't know it. They say, Oh, he's a man just like I'm a man. Just a woman. But you're more than that. WE're sons and daughters of God. Hallelujah! All right, now. I want you to sing this little chorus with me and after than we're going to pray for you as a whole tonight, and God is going to heal. How many believe that God will heal you? When I say God will heal you, I really believe that. God has healed me so many times and other people we've prayed for. And God will heal you, my Brother, Sister. I want you to believe with me tonight. I feel faith. Some have faith because I feel it tonight. Hallelujah! I feel that virtue that Jesus spoke of. It goes out of the body of Jesus Christ when people believe. Is that right? Have you ever felt that when somebody around you believed? You just feel that virtue coming out of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's healing virtue. Is that right? That's healing virtue. Salvation. Let's sing this little chorus together. Sing this little chorus like this. (Singing.) Sing it like this. (Singing) Sing it like this now. (Singing) All right. I want you to lift your hands to heaven now and I want you to close your eyes for I feel the presence of the Spirit here tonight. I want you to close your eyes with me. I want you to life your hands up tonight and I want to pray for you tonight. From the bottom of my heart I want to pray for you with all of my soul and all of my heart. The Bible said the fervent effectual pray of a righteous man availeth much. It said to make a straight path for yourself lest that which is lame be turn aside, but rather let it be healed. All right. Tonight I want to pray for you. When I pray for you to night God's going to do something for you. You mark what I'm telling you. As sure as I live tonight when I pray for you somebody is going to get healed tonight, and somebody is going to get a touch from God, and there is going to be some evil spirits that will be broken off of people, devil and demons that have been troubling people. There is going to be a liberty in some of your hearts that you never felt before. There's going to be some oppression taken away that's never been taken away before, as we pray tonight. Hallelujah! God is going to bless you tonight, my Brothers and Sisters. He'll bless and He'll break the yoke of unbelief off of you to where God can prosper you and bless you in health and happiness and pay your bills, and with financial blessings God will bless you tonight. Amen. The blessings of God maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. I'm going to pray for you and I want you to believe with me tonight. Hallelujah! I want you to believe that from this hour that things are going to change in your life and things are going to be different from what they've ever been at any time in your life. I want you to do that with me tonight as I pray. Will you do that? Hallelujah! Father, tonight these people I bring before Your throne, these people tonight, Father, with their eyes turned to heaven. They're your people tonight. Oh, God, they're believing tonight and they're looking to Thee, Jesus. Hallelujah! Father, they're expecting of Thee tonight, God, that You should do something for them. I feel their faith tonight. I pray, O God, that Thy Spirit will come down tonight and, Father, every sick person tonight, I pray, God, that you will heal them. I feel you healing them right now, God. I feel you doing something for them right now. I pray, God, that you will heal tonight and make them well. In the wonderful name of Jesus tonight heal these sick bodies. Restore life as You did for Hezekiah, and give them a special touch from God tonight. A healing in their body. Father, tonight. Break the yokes off, the oppressing spirits tonight, Father, and take them away. And may life be richer and more abundant and greater tonight, Father, than every before in their life. May they feel something tonight that they've never felt before, God, as they give their spirits and hearts and lives unto Thee. I ask you tonight in the wonderful name of Your love Son Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord