The Bastard Child

I'm going to make an attempt. I don't know how far I'll get. Somebody said one time, you never know what you can do until you try so I'm going, I want so much to be able to bring out a little something and I don't know just exactly whether I can or not. I know I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. Maybe we'll turn over to chapter four of the book of Revelation anyway. Wait just a minute, not chapter four. Chapter ten. Turn to chapter ten of Revelation and put your marker in there in case we want to go to it and then let's turn back. I don't know whether somebody has been mistreating my Bible up here or what but it looks like we are just about to have to do a little bit on the binding of it. Now can I talk with you? Can I talk with you? O.K. When I start into the Bible especially into the Book of Revelation, I always, when I say the Book of Revelation, I mean into spiritual revelation. I don't know where to start and I don't know where to end and I have to wait until I can find, until I can break into it through the Spirit of the Lord, and then when He shows me where to stop then I stop. Lots of times we attempt to do something and we can't even get into it, but I hoping tonight that maybe He'll let me get into something. After I came back today from where we had driven off to for a little bit, I said, Well, I'll spend the rest of the evening with the Lord and I went into the back room and I had a visitor and we visited quite a long while and then I had another visitor and we visited quite a long while and then I was going to take a little time and I looked and it was six-thirty. And I had enough time to get ready. All right.

So then, the Lord knows what He is doing. The Book of Genesis, if you want to turn over to the first chapter. Brother Taylor come and read for me. I want you to read tonight. I'll get Brother Taylor to read for you tonight. I feel like getting him to read this. So if you will come and read this. If you've got your Bibles, now let's turn to first Genesis and read all the way through the first chapter. I want to read the whole first chapter and to get us a foundation here. (Brother Taylor reads the chapter of 1st Genesis and Genesis 2:1). Pardon me. Thank you, Frank. All right. You already knew that but nevertheless I wanted to read it and let you think on it now. In the third chapter, after that God had created man and woman, we find in the third chapter, the Bible said that the serpent was more subtle than the beast of the field, any beast of the field. And we find that in the third chapter, God highlights the fall in the garden. Now let's just read a little of it. (Brother Pike reads from beginning of chapter three through the entire chapter.) All right. Now. You know, I'd like to say this tonight, if you are going to let me talk with a little bit, and you are going to just relax, settle down, stay a while. Now, you know, there is a spiritual world. There is a spiritual world and there is a carnal or a natural world. There is a spiritual man and there is a carnal or a natural man. All right, now. That's what it's all about. That's what it is all about. Now we can twist it up, mess it up, make it look ugly, whatever we want to do, God will let us do with it whatever we want to. Our life is our own to do whatever we want with. Our minds are our own and we can be degraded in our thinking and be abased in our thinking or we can be holy and virtuous. We can be lifted up and puffed up in our thinking or we can be humble and holy in our thinking, but see, whatever it is, it is up to us. We know that Adam and Eve were naked. The Bible said they were naked. And I preached a message here on why God allowed them to be naked, what it had to do with. And that God only used a natural symbol to show us, or to bring us a spiritual meaning. If we will take the natural side of life and realize that God is a Spirit and if we will apply the natural side of life toward a spiritual application, then we can understand God, for God is a Spirit. I preached on the covering of His glory and why they were naked. How that they were uncovered and what God was trying to tell us. Now see, God is a Spirit. When we come together here, we have to realize that we are reading from a natural book, that we are a natural man and a natural woman, that has come together in a natural building, but we have also got to realize that though we are every bit of this as far as the outward appearance, yet we are different from the world. We are different from mankind and that we are a quickening spirit. That we are a spiritual people. Paul said, I would that you be spiritual. What is spiritual? Being Christ like. Being God minded. When he said, ye walk in the Spirit. If ye walk in the Spirit, ye shall not fulfill the lust, that is the desire of your human infatuation. Not be carried away with your human passions. How can I then walk in the Spirit? By walking in the mind of Christ. See, there is a mind of God, there is a mind of man, and there is a mind of Satan, and if I am to be spiritual and not carnal then I must walk in the mind of God. Is that right? Now, there is nothing wrong with carnal things. You understand what I am saying? Paul said, If I have sown unto you spiritual things, shall I not reap of your carnal things, which are natural benefits, but the trouble is that Satan is cut off from heaven. He is cut off from the great heavenly things and because he is cut off from the heavenly things, therefore he is looking for earthly things. You follow me? Now, so then, the only kingdom he can have is the kingdom of this world. Is that right? Satan is the prince of this world, and we wouldn't have any trouble enjoying the earth, enjoying the trees, enjoying the rivers, enjoying the streams, but the devil who is a spirit, he infiltrates all of our thinking. He infiltrates the entire earth, the entire world. The whole world is under a curse because Satan through the weakness of mankind, which is the woman part. The woman typified it in the garden. Satan, through the weakness of the flesh, has taken man's inheritance away from him. You understand what I'm saying? Through the weakness of the flesh, he has taken the inheritance that belonged to Adam and to you and I. So then,, he is the prince of the world, and he has got control of this world through you, in as much as you've forfeited your right to your inheritance by submitting to him through Adam. You understand what I'm saying? All right. Now, so then the trouble is that Satan gets into the carnal side of life, the carnal side of thinking and that's where the war comes from. That's why the Bible said, to be carnally minded is death. It isn't that God wants to do away with the world, that's not it. God wants to purge the world. God doesn't want to do away with your body. Your body is the temple of God, but God wants to purge your body. See, like the physician. The physician is trying to get the disease out of your flesh, your mortal part. So that he can save the life that is inside of you. If he doesn't get the disease out. It will eventually kill the life and the body and life and all will be gone. That is what God is trying to do. God doesn't want to injure the body but He's trying to get the infiltration of the powers of iniquity out of you that has become interwoven with your mind and body and that iniquity is headed for your spirit, headed for your soul and if your heart ever conceives of iniquity, you are defiled and God will destroy the temple, because you will be a whore and you will be bringing forth a bastard child from the womb of your heart and God will not have you if you do that. All right. You understand what I'm saying now? All right. So then, we know that God is a Spirit. When I get up here and I start talking, I stand here believing that there was a God in our midst and in my heart and in your heart and that God is a Spirit and that God will take this word that I am thinking upon and He will transformate that word, change that word. How many of you know that you can change the word? You say change it? How, Brother Pike? The Bile said, the people of the world, the devil has changed it into a lie. Is that right? He has changed the truth into a lie. Isn't that right? We can convert this word, that is transform this word into a spiritual benefit, a spiritual life and a spiritual revelation. We can do it. But the only way that we can do it is by the faith of Christ. That's the only way. It's by the faith of Christ that we are healed. I'm not healed by Brother Pike's faith. If I was healed by Brother Pike's faith then I would never have any problem, but I've got to contend for the faith that comes from the mind of Christ. Now it's going to take the mind of Christ to give me that faith and that's the faith that's going to translate us and take us out of this world. That's why the church hasn't been translated already, is because we have a religious conviction, we have a intellectual concept of religion and though we are religious people yet we have not conceived in the sense of bringing forth Christ in our lives. That's why that God exhorted them through Jesus to contend for the faith. Through Paul, He exhorted them to contend for the faith. What Faith? The faith that was once delivered unto the saints of God. The saints of God can have that faith. All right. So then, God is a Spirit and God is a gentle personality. He is in our presence and God is desiring to change our thoughts into spiritual thoughts. God is desiring that when I see that word, that I get a spiritual understanding of it. A spiritual revelation of it. That was the difference between Peter and Paul. Paul, though Peter saw visions, though Peter could raise the dead, yet Peter had never come to the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now Paul, when Paul came to the revelation of Jesus Christ, God showed that the Revelation of Jesus Christ had preeminence ever working miracles of having the keys to the kingdom of any thing else. He magnified Paul until Paul went to Peter before all the people and said, I blame Peter to his face because Peter was to be blamed. Now, why did God do that? It was because God wanted the people to see that the revelation was the preeminence among all of the teachings of mankind. So then, when we come up here, we stand here not trying to get anointed because we are God's anointed. I never come to the pulpit trying to get anointed, I get anointed in my room and all I have to do is shut the door. I don't even have to do that, I just walk out of here, walk in here, and I feel the anointing of God. That's not necessary, but what I'm trying to do when I'm up here is get the anointing to you, to get you to receive the anointing. To get you turned on as the world says, to where you can light up with the anointing of God. That's what creates an atmosphere is when you begin to believe, you begin to expect, you begin to look for something, you begin to have a little faith. When Jesus would go into the area and He would go to do something then He would seek faith. The Bible said, Paul turned around and he saw and perceived that the man had the faith to be healed and he told him to get up. Is that right? It didn't say Paul turned around and healed the man. It said that he perceived that he had the faith to be healed. Is that right? And when Peter healed the man at the gate called beautiful, he wanted them to know that the man had the faith to be healed. Are you listening? And it holds true because the Bible said many mighty miracles Jesus could not do because of their unbelief. It is always the faith of the audience that brings something to pass in their life. It is my faith that brings something to pass in my life. It is your faith that brings something to pass in your life. Somebody would say, If that preacher was anointed I could feel the Spirit. You couldn't feel anything. A dead man doesn't feel anything bit I can tell you what, when you get anointed you can feel something. It doesn't make any difference whether the preacher is up there or not. All you've got to do is lift your faith up to heaven and I guarantee you that you'll have something. If you put your faith in the preacher, you aren't going to feel the anointing. But, Brother, if you put your faith in God and realize that God is a spirit and that God gave you His word that He would be here in the midst of us, you'll begin to feel something because you believe something. All right. I saw Brother Rebe struggle the other night. He stood up here and struggled and struggled and he couldn't get nothing to take among you. I saw Brother Jameson struggle this morning until he got disgusted and was ready to sit down because he couldn't get anything to take among you. I know. I'm a preacher. I know. I can tell what's going on. Now, but the thing is, if you believe you can have something from God but if you don't believe God will move out of your midst and take it somewhere else. All right. Now. We are a spiritual people. We have to believe spiritually, folks. We've got to turn this thing into spirit. I deal with you different from the people out in the field. When I'm out there on the field, I go to my room and I pray and I seek God and I try to stay there and when I come out, all I'm interested in is just going out there and busting everything up and breaking the fallow ground and driving in and getting their attention and tell them about Jesus, but when I'm here I have a different feeling about it. If I come plowing out through here just try to bust the ground and run up and down, you know, I feel like I'm playing a game with you, because you know, the things of Christ and you need to wake up. You say, Well, Brother Pike, don't you think we need any preaching. (tape turned over)...preaching or teaching, Paul, the same thing. Now. I believe you do but that's the milk of the Word for the babes, and we need it and we've got to have it and we do have it, God gives it to us. Now, but the thing is we need to grace and the knowledge of God. We need to come into the meat of the Word for the meat is for the strong and we've got to get into the meat of the Word if we are ever going to make that translation. You remember that. We are going to have to have the faith of Christ. You can sit around here and say, Well, the time element isn't right and we are waiting for the time element, all of these kind of things, but that won't ever do it. It's not a matter of a time element. God didn't place anything on a time element. God is not a God of time. God is a God of the spirit and God placed it within the realm of faith. If you want to believe for a miracle tonight, God will give you a miracle and the other fellow can sit here for the next ten years saying it isn't true. Some of them said it's not time to build the house of God and God let them sit there. Others got up and said let's go build the house of God and God made the way for them to build it. All right. So then, God is a God of faith. That's what God is. Old Brother Enoch said, felt like God was a God of faith so he just turned on his faith and spread out his wings and sailed off to glory. Is that right? That's what God is. God is a God of faith. God said to stir up your own selves. Stir up your own mind. Is that right? God wants you to stir up your selves. Stir up your minds. Move about in the spirit of God and get stirred up for Christ. All right. So then, we are a spiritual people. We are standing here as spiritual people and see, when we come in here, what we've got to think is like this, that this is the Word and the preacher is preaching the Word but God, we want that anointing to turn that Word into spirit to where it is revelation and it is life. Hallelujah! That's the way it works. When that Word is turned into the anointing, turned into the spirit, then it becomes a quickening power. It becomes a stimulation. It becomes an enlightenment of your understanding. It leads you into a world of life. That's what we have got to do. Now. Otherwise it's just a printed page. The Jews had it. The Bible teaches that they had it, but it did not profit them in that it was not mixed with faith. Is that right? Now. If I come up here, I come by faith. I come believing that God wants to speak to you. If I come in the faith of Christ and you come in the faith of Christ, if any two of you agree, God will do something. If I stand up here and every person in here freezes up on me, but just one individual like the little woman did when she came to Jesus, and I can take hold of faith and that faith will take hold of me, God will do something for that individual. Hallelujah. God works with individuals, not groups. All right. So then, we come here wanting something spiritual. We look at this. We consider this and we try to understand something spiritual. We say God is in our midst. So then, God tell us something. God transformate something. God quicken something. God unveil something. God enrich us with your presence. Now, it's like somebody came to me a day or two ago and they were talking about the serpent seed. The seed of the serpent. And they said a certain man made the statement, one that's been trying to oppose us, made the statement that if it wasn't certain, certain way then there was no need of Jesus spilling His blood at Calvary. And I made the statement, I said, I don't see where that's got anything to do with it at all. I don't see anything it's got to do with it. Do you understand? I don't see where that's got to do anything with it, or has anything to do with it. Now, I don't see where somebody lying with a beast or somebody having to have a fellowship with a beast has anything to do with Christ spilling His blood. God didn't come down here and spill His blood because somebody lay with a beast. That'sabsurd. God spilt His blood for the redemption of mankind because of sin. That's what the Bible teaches. He tells me to preach the Word. All right. Now then, of Christ spilt His blood because of what they say happened, then what about the report where women have fellowshipped dogs, and puppies have been brought forth? Why doesn't God send somebody to die for that? God doesn't send His Son to die for such foolishness. That's not what it is. My Brother, there is a sin and that sin is unbelief and that unbelief works in the spirit and all of the natural things of life are only a typical thing. They are only types and shadows that point to those things, and whatever happens in the natural is only typical of what happens in the spirit. Why is it that Paul says there is a continual warfare between the body and the spirit. If it is a matter of just one man being a beast and producing a generation of beast, I've said this a lot of times, if Cain is a beast and his father is a beast and his children are beast, why did Christ have to die for that? Somebody said, Well, that's why He had to come and die. Pray tell me why did He have to come and die for that? He isn't going to take any of those beasts into heaven. He said they are brute beasts made to be taken and burned. Why would He spill His blood for a beast? No reason for it, it doesn't make sense, but Brother Somebody got mixed up somewhere. They got entangled with something somewhere and Christ had to come and die that we could be free from that entanglement of sin. What is that sin? It's the sin of unbelief that got into the heart of Adam and every Son of God that was born into this world, every person had that unbelief on the inside and since that time, the twins have struggled in the womb and there has been a continual warfare between the body and the spirit. That's what Paul found out. That's what the revelation is all about. The spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ, what is it? That's what it's about. It's about the twins in the womb. All right. So then, God is a spirit and God is trying to help us. God is trying to do something for us and God wants us to be spiritual. He wants us to understand spiritual things. Why did Jesus die? He didn't die for a bunch of beasts. That wasn't what He died for. He died that I might have life and have it more abundantly. He said I could have life filled up and overflowing. That's why Christ came. Hallelujah! I said this morning the reason Christ, or God, instigated death was simply for the reason that we might understand the value of life. Hallelujah! When we see the awfulness of death then we can evaluate properly and we know the greatness of life. Is the right? Hallelujah! So then, God having instigated death, what did He do? He didn't ask somebody to conquer it, did He? God didn't ask somebody to conquer it. He just more or less stood up and said, I instigated it for my purpose, I create the good and evil. I'll come down there. I'll walk in the veil of humanity. I'll show you how to conquer death. Hallelujah! And He went to Calvary and did it for me. Glory to God! So then, I don't have to worry about death. Death isn't anything but God's servant. He just used it in His plan. And I'm glad that He used it, even though my precious dad is laying out in the graveyard because of death and my brother is laying in the graveyard because of death yet I'm glad that God brought it about because it shows me the beauty of life. It takes death to reveal to me God in His greatness. Hallelujah! So then, through death, I know God. Paul said, I seek to know Him in the fellowship of His suffering. Been made conformable unto His death. Unto His death. Unto His death. What's the purpose of it that I might know Him in the power of His resurrection. Hallelujah! If God had not sent forth death, I could never have known the power of His resurrection. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! All right. So then, we see that this thing is a spiritual thing. That beast part has nothing to do with it. I've said this over and over that the beast part has nothing to do with it, that God used that for a typical thing. The nakedness of Adam and Eve was a spiritual thing. Now, you say, you don't believe that they were naturally naked. I'm talking about what God was trying to show us. Does God care for naked people? Certainly not. God is not interested in naked people or none naked people. God is a spirit. He said all flesh is as the grass that passeth away. There is nothing to the flesh. Bones. A little ole bit of sinew. What does God care about that? Is that right? What God is interested in is man's spirit. God is interested in your spirit today. Brothers, God gets your spirits, He can make millions of bodies. He can make the rocks cry out praise. He is interested in that spirit on the inside of you. Hallelujah! So then, that takes it out of the hands of the devil and puts Satan in a cage. See, it is a true fact that we are looking at a spiritual thing, my folks. That's why God uses the woman and says that if that woman has her head shaven, she is altogether in God's sight naked. Is that right? Said if she be not naked or shorn, let her be covered. Is that right? Because her covering, as I brought out in the revelation, was her covering, is her husband. What is her husband? Her husband is her hair. What is her hair? Her hair is her government. And that's on the shoulders of the body. And that covering is there. And that's what Eve lost in the garden when she rejected Adam, she rejected her covering and when she rejected her covering, she became a whore. I said she became a whore. That's why God calls the Catholic church the great whore. That's why the Catholic church shaves all their hair off and puts on a dark veil up here because the veil of death covers them, because she's a whore. That's what she is. The great whore that sitteth upon many waters. Hallelujah! And the Bible said they that are abhorred of God shall fall there in. What is the whore? That old carnal mind of religion. That's what it is. That old intellectual mind that's out yonder in seminaries and out yonder in the intellectual parts of the world. All right. So then, let her be shorn and if she won't have the covering of her husband then let her be naked in the sight of God. Somebody say amen. I said if the church won't let God speak to them through the five-fold ministry, let her be naked. And if she can't have the covering of God as the mind of Christ, let her be naked, for she will be naked in the sight of God. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. Don't you? Amen. God doesn't want us to be naked. He doesn't want us to be shorn. What does He want us to do? He wants us to have that beautiful glorious covering of His glory. That covering of the glory. He said they cover with a glory, but it's not God's glory. It's not God's covering. Amen. The Catholic church has got a covering of their own. What kind is it? It is an old dark intellectual veil of conceit. It's shown by that thing that they put on the top of their head. An old dark intellectual veil of deceit. That's what it is. Coming from the serpent. Coming from that old evil mind in the garden. They've found out for a fact that you go into the monasteries and what do you find? When you get in there, what do you find in there? You find pools, acid pools, where there have been illegitimate births and where they've taken the children and thrown them into the acid pools. Amen. To keep down the evils. Amen. And the federal government, that is the government of the world, can't go in there because they believe in church over state. And their iniquity is covered. Is that right? That's what it had to do with when I went to New York, back up there in New York, that was a monastery up there. What was it? What was the thing I attacked right openly in the church? I attacked the evils of the serpent, the brutality of the beast. That's what I came against and when it went out of heaven, what was it? It went out of heaven, and when the thing went out of heaven, God said, woe to the inhabitants of the earth for he among you. What is it, that old blood stream, that old blood life, that blood that came all the way down, a crooked, a perverse generation. That's what it is. That's why when Jesus hung at Calvary, He spilt the blood. The blood of those innocent animals had to be spilt. That blood had to be spilt. There was no other way to get around it. It had to be spilt. Why did that blood have to be spilt under the law? BEcause the life is in the blood. You understand what I'm saying? The life is in the blood and the beast blood had it in captivity. This part is nothing but a beast, my brother. Is that right? It's nothing but a beast. Somebody said this body is part of God. Where do you get that? He said from the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. Is that right? That's where the beast came from. From the dust He made it. You understand what I'm saying, folks. So then, when it comes to the beginning of the creation of God, where do we find it? We don't find it in Adam. We don't find it in Adam. He said, Adam, thou art from the dust. You'll go back to the dust. You amy be under the covering of God in this age of grace, you may be walking on and doing your thing and you may be Baptist and Methodist and Presbyterian. You may be Catholic, what ever you want to be, but Brother, you are from the dust and to the dust thou shalt return. Hallelujah! But that Son of God that's resurrected, Paul said to know Him in the power of His resurrection. That great Christ that came up from the grave. What did He say about it? He said this is the beginning of the creation of God. Christ is the beginning of the creation of God. Is that right? Hallelujah! Born of the spirit. From the spirit thou art. To the spirit thou shalt return. I came out from God. I go back to God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! He said I'm headed that way. They said where are you going? He said, You don't know now. He said, But a little later you can come. I came from God and I go back to God. I'm not of this world, Jesus said. Hallelujah! Brother James, I'm not of this world. That's why I act peculiar, is I'm not of this world. Hallelujah! When you act peculiar, you are not of this world. Glory to God, we are not of this world. You are a different people. Hallelujah! So then, who are we? When God took Jesus and He placed Him there at Calvary, He nailed Him to the cross. Somebody said, Brother Pike, those wicked men nailed Jesus to the cross. The Bible said we esteem Him smitten of God. My dear brother, no man could have taken Jesus to the cross. There isn't a man living that could have taken Jesus to the cross. Jesus was so courageous that when He walked into the temple, the Bible said He turned over the money tables. Hallelujah! He shouted and He popped the whip. No one would dare touch Him. They were afraid of Him. Nobody took Jesus to the cross. Jesus said I have this commandment of my Father. I can lay my life down or I can take it up. You can't do anything with me. Hallelujah! So then, God smote Jesus. Is that right? We esteemed Him smitten of God. That's what happened. God smote Him. Why did He smite Him? There was a reason that God smote Him. What was that reason? That reason was that God looked upon Jesus and I want you to hold on now, when God looked upon Jesus, He saw a bastard child. Come on. He saw a bastard child. Somebody said, Brother Pike, you must be crazy. I'm not crazy. Said, you are calling Jesus a bastard child? Jesus wasn't a bastard child. The Bible said, this Jesus I'm talking about knew no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. But the Bible said He was made in the image of sin. My sin and your sins, my brother. He was made in the image of sin. He was made like unto the bastard child. Come on, now. He was made in the image of sin and He took that image and He picked it up by that God life. That Christ on the inside picked that image up, that was made in the likeness of man. What is man? He's a bastard child.. Somebody said, I don't like that. What was Jesus made in the image of? He was made in the image of that old carnal mind. What produced that bastard child? It was the act of human relation that God didn't instigate. Back there in that state of debauchery. You understand what I'm saying? It was a blood birth. That's what caused the trouble. So then, what did He do? He came down and He was made in the image of that bastard child. What bastard child? That natural birth. Is that right? You are not born of the will of God. What are you born of when you come into this world? You are born of the will of man. You are born of passion. You are born of desire. Isn't that right? Where does that come from? That comes from Satan. That comes from that tree in the garden. That comes from knowledge. That comes from human passions and desire. You say where do you get that? DAvid said in iniquity did my mother conceive me. Come on now. Wasn't holy matrimony. Said in iniquity. Somebody said, Well, when you are married. it's different. That';s all right. God has hallowed. God has blessed it, nut tell me who was it that married Adam and Eve? Who was it that said ADam do you, and Eve do you? And who was it that stood there and said to Adam and Eve, so be it after they said I do? It's a true fact that there are people out here in the world that have never been before a preacher, never been before anybody, that's chosen them a companion, and they are getting along a lot better than some of them that has the certificates. Somebody would say, now wait a minute. Brother Pike, you are not condoning that, are you? I certainly am not. It's rotten. But I'm just trying to tell you that getting a piece of paper and having somebody say you are married, that doesn't mean anything. My Brother, there has got to be some love down in here. Did you know that? The thing that binds people together is love. Real genuine love. And what does that love do? That love causes a woman to submit to that man as her head. She receives a covering. Is that right? If that man doesn't live for God, if that man is intellectual,if that man spends his life out here in the human realms of reasoning, she's married to a beast, and she is in a prison. God have mercy on her soul. But if that is a Son of God and he has the mind of Christ and he is walking according to the liberties of the Sons of God. Hallelujah! Lady, you've really got yourself something. I'll tell you right now. If you've got one of those, you hold on to him because whatever he is, that's what you are. Hallelujah! So then, God saw a bastard child. He saw that old image of the natural birth, and God so loved the world, He looked down and, Paul said, He made an image, Jesus, being made in the image of sin, God brought Him forth to where He would look like a bastard child. That's why God allowed a virgin birth, so that they would say, He's the bastard child. He hasn't got a father. God allowed every bit of it. As far as the natural, they felt like they could substantiate their claim, but there was a spiritual thing that God had given, Hallelujah! And that spiritual thing was the life that came from God. He had a father. Hallelujah! What did He do with the part that was called the bastard child? What did he do with it? He hung it up at Calvary. He poured out His wrath on it. Because He said, I will despise thine image in the morning. Somebody has said, Oh, I think I;m so cute. Like a fellow not so long ago, he felt like he was so cute. He talked about how he looked in the mirror and how he felt like he looked so very good to himself. That old bastard child. That same somebody is out yonder tonight, as far as I know, smoking and drinking and taking dope. You understand what I'm saying? But there was a Christ. Hallelujah! There was a Christ. What did Jesus represent? The first man ADam. What was the first man Adam? That which fell from grace. What had to be done with it? It had to be folded up and laid away. Why? So that the second man Adam could come forth. Why? Because from the dust thou art and to the dust thou shalt return. He represented the bastard child that had to come down from Calvary and be laid in the dust. He had to do the very same thing that Adam did. And Jacob said back there, we go the way of the world. He said, Call the children in. I'm fixing to yield up the ghost for I must go the way of all the world. All of the dustlings of the earth. We all lay down to sleep together. Hallelujah! I might get there before you do. You might get there before I do, but there is one thing you can be sure of, that if you get there first, the man that is behind is following and he is on his way. Hallelujah! So then, the old bastard child, out there in the world. What is he? He's a bastard child. Somebody said, Brother Pike, I don't believe God is pleased with you calling those people bastard child or children, but they are bastard children. Where is the heavenly Father? Where is the name if they are not bastard children? Hallelujah! Is that right? Where is the name? If they've got a father, where is the name? Somebody said, Well, Satan created them. Satan can't create. You know better than that. Amen, and where does the name come from? There is only one name. What is that name? That name is Jesus. Is that right? I loose my identity in death. Why? Because God smites the first birth. The bastard child. Fro it's written in the holy scriptures that the elder shall serve the younger. Is that right? The first born has got to come under subjection to the second born. Who is the second born? The spiritual man. Christ from heaven. That's who He is. You follow me? All right. So then, we look at this thing as a spiritual thing. Where are we going? What are we doing? Why did God pour out His wrath upon Jesus? He made an end of the bastard child. That was the end of the bastard child. The blood lineage was over. It could go on further. Jesus, having to go through the role of the bastard child, looked up toward heaven and said, My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? I've done nothing, oh God, that would displease you. Why hast Thou forsaken me? For He knew no sin and neither was guile found in His mouth. But He that knew no sin was made sin that God might smite Him as a bastard child. Not that He was a bastard child but God had to show the release of that inner life that had gotten into captivity back there through the weakness of the woman. Is that right? From the fall of Adam when that life became subject to a woman. You say, Brother Pike, that life never did become subject to a woman. God put the breath of life in Adam's nostrils and the devil through Eve took that life into captivity and the devil ruled over Adam. Come on, now. That's why God said the man shall rule over the woman because the woman is the church and the man is God. You understand? So then, that life that God gave to Adam went to the weaker part of Adam which was Adam's flesh then the flesh ruled over the spirit. Somebody would say, what do you mean? I mean that Eve was taken out of the side of Adam. That continual warfare between the body and the spirit. The woman represented the flesh. The weakness thereof. She was taken out of the side of Adam. She was the weak part of God. Is that right? Man represents the strong part of God. Woman represents the weak part of God. Is that right? You say, God doesn't have any weakness. Yes, He does. What is His weakness? You and I. Amen. We are a part of God. Did you know that? Did you know that? Hallelujah! so then, what was it? When that life came from Adam, it went into, it went into the control of the mind of Satan. That mind that had gotten into the weaker part of Adam, which was Eve, and the intellectual reasoning that got into Eve's mind was transferred over to Adam and when that came over to Adam, Adam willingly, freely gave away his sovereignty and went under the control of it. (tape changed).. reoccurred when Jesus went forty, for forty days and nights in the wilderness, that same evil power came right back and said if you be the Son of God, he said, let me see you turn these stones into bread. Jesus, in as much as said, you did that to Eve but you'll never do it to me. Hallelujah! To whom so ever I submit, I'm his servant. I have the power to do that but I'll never give you the satisfaction, Satan, of ruling over me. Telling me what to do. The devil was conquered. He was conquered. Jesus boldly stood and said, the prince of this world cometh but he hath np part in me. Is that right? I've conquered him. I've conquered him. This Christ on the inside of me, the spiritual part drives my natural part into the wilderness and I was there for forty days and nights and Satan wrestling through that natural part, trying to tempt me in every way through my passions and desires. Trying to me to sin against God, but He said, I'll never do it. I'll never do it. And out He came. Out of the wilderness and the Bible said He returned in the power of the spirit. That's why Paul said, I seek to know Him in the power of His resurrection. See, we've got to know Him in the fellowship of His suffering. The Bible said he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin. Is that right? If you have never suffered in the flesh, you can't cease from sin. You've got to suffer in the flesh. And when you come to the place where you suffer in the flesh, then you've ceased from sin, my brother. You follow me? Hallelujah! So Paul said, When I'm weak then am I strong. He said, I take pleasure in all of my necessities, in all of my infirmities, he said, because the thing I've learned of God is that there is a spiritual being and if I walk in the spirit, I won't fulfill the lust of this flesh, that I must mortify the deeds of my body. I must mortify the deeds of this flesh. I must mortify my deeds. You follow me? You know what a mortician is? I must mortify the deeds of this old body. I've got to conquer it. I've got to kill it out. I've got to get control of it. Is that right? I can't let the woman rule me. I can't let her rule me. Hallelujah! Your war is not with your wife, my brother, that's out there, that natural woman you are living with. That isn't your war. Now I know you've got problems and I understand that. She's got problems, too, but I'll tell you one thing. Your war is with that you. Amen. When you conquer you, you won't have any trouble out of her. Hallelujah! When you conquer you, everything will be all right. So then, the war or the continual warfare is not between you and the wife out there. It is between you and that body that you've got. There is a continual warfare between your body and between your spirit. Is that right? Woman and man alike. All right. Now see, the thing that is taking place here, God is letting us know that that act that we looked to where they call the act of the beast, that that didn't have anything to do with it. I've said this before. If Cain reproduced Cain and Cain reproduced Cain, and Cain reproduced Cain, then the whole family is Cain. If Seth reproduced Seth and Seth reproduced Seth and Seth reproduced Seth and Seth reproduced Seth, then the whole family is Seth. There isn't any need for the spilling of blood. Somebody said, to atone for sin. For what sin? I'd like fro you to tell me what sin it is? If Adam was the Son of God and the Bible said he was not found in the transgression, and if Seth was the son of Adam, then Seth was not found in the transgression. And Seth's seed wasn't found in the transgression, and the seed and seed, and seed wasn't found in the transgression, then why should Jesus come down here and die for somebody that wasn't found in the transgression? You understand what I'm saying? So you've got to understand, folks, what God is trying to tell you. Don't you know that you can't cross that blood lineage? Where are you going to cross it? I've said this before in preaching a sermon here. If Cain reproduced, it was CAin. The woman is only a carrier. Scientist say there is not a drop of a mother's blood in there. It wouldn't have made any difference if Cain had married a daughter of Seth. That wouldn't make any difference. If Cain's descendants married Seth's descendants as women, if Cain's were men, they wouldn't have reproduced anything but Cain's. There wouldn't be a drop of Seth's blood in the lineage. Is that right? Vise versa, if Seth's sons took Cain's daughters, every seed of reproduction, what would it be? It would be a Seth. There wouldn't be one drop of the Cain blood in there. Cause it doesn't mix. How many you understand what I'm saying? And besides that, if it was a beast, it wouldn't mix anyway. Scientist say if you put a beast's blood in there, it would kill you. Are you listening? All right. Then what is it? Well, what are we trying to say? I'm trying to say that if everything was a beast that came down through Cain's lineage, why did Jesus die? What was the need of Him dying? The blood won't save a beast because God doesn't spill it for a beast. They are made to be taken and burned. Then, God doesn't have to spill the blood for a righteous man. Come on, now. So why would He spill the blood if all of them were Sons of God. Ah,I see something is going on. Hallelujah! Something different about that situation, and besides that, I ask this questions again. IF your theory, and that's what it is, it's a theory, it's not Bible. If your theory is right, then I'd love to know one more thing. If your theory is right then I'd like for you to explain to me how that you get a Cain out of one family and a Seth out of the same family. How do you get a murderer out of one family and get a preacher out of the same family. Come on now. Are you listening? They say John Dillinger's daddy, I believe it was, was a preacher. And John Dillinger was a devil. Come on. How did both ot them come out of the same family? How is it that one comes out of the family lives for God and walks straight and walks holy and the other man come out and be a devil and go straight to the pit. If the blood won't cross, how did they get all mixed up? See. How did it come in? How did it do it? I'll tell you how it did it. It was a spiritual thing. Now when they use the terms, they get down in the flood. They say it went over on the flood. How in the world do you get that? How can you get that something like that went over on the flood? I'd like for you to explain that to me? I 've never found anybody that could explain it to me. I'd like for somebody to explain it to me. Are you listening? The Bible said that Noah and his family were the only ones that were saved, and those to whom they were married. Somebody would say, well, that's the way it got over. What do you mean? The Bible only speaks of Noah's sons. It didn't say anything about Cain's sons going over. Did it? And even if it had been Cain's son, on the other side of the ark, all they would have reproduced were Cains. Still would have been mixed up. All of them been doomed for hell and all the sons of God would have been pointed to heaven. Somebody said, what it was, said it was one of those women. Said one of those women had cheated on her husband. Where do you ever read that in the bible. There isn't any such thing as that in the Bible. Don't you know that the Bible doesn't bear that out. The time that they were on that ark proved that that statement couldn't be true. Because there was a conception and there was a birth, but it was by the sons of Noah and the Bible gives the allotted time of the conception and it gives the allotted times of the reproduction and it had plenty of time for God to number it according to the bible and according to the period of time that they were on there, but if the woman had been with child when she went on that ark, there would have something had to have happened during the time of that pilgrimage, during the time of that flood and there was no such thing had happened. The Bible doesn't record it. AFterwards it gives a record of what happened. Come on now. Somebody said, well, I believe. I don't care what you believe. You have just got some kind of theory and some kind of idea. The Bible told me in the Word of God to preach the Word. When Christ sent me, He said preach the Word. I'm telling you what the Word said. Not what I think about it. All right. So then, if there is a general mixture, what kind of mixture is it? There is a mixture all right. What kind of mixture is it? The devil is a spirit. Come on now. SAtan is a spirit and SAtan has been cast out of the presence of God. Have you got just a minute to listen? How many of you have got just a minute to listen? Listen just a few minutes and I'll try my best not to hold you long. Now, what is it? There is a mixture. God made Satan, Lucifer, the Son of the Morning. How many of you remember the message on the Son of the Morning? I preached on the Son of the Morning. Is that right? And I preached that Lucifer, I brought out something concerning Lucifer. Is that right? Remember he was a covering cherub. Is that right? And the covering was lost. Is that right? Lucifer, the Son of the Morning. Why was he the Son of the Morning? He was the brightest thing in Heaven. That's right. As we would say, to stand up and lead the angel choir. All of heaven admired him. You know, folks, you might as well wake up and realize that there are some angels somewhere just like you are human beings down here. You know, we like to think of Heaven as a fairy tale and we talk about Lucifer, the Son of the Morning and Michael and Gabriel, we like to think they don't exist, but they do. They do. Man is made a little lower than the angels. They are up there whether you believe it or not. Is that right? Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, what was it? He was so much in that light of God, he was so much in the presence of God, that God's beaming radiance, brightness, hallelujah, he caught it first. Somebody would say, where do you get that, Brother Pike? I preached a message here, how that Lucifer got control in the garden, how that God, to get to that light on the inside of man has to go through that dark intellectual veil.. He reckoned time from evening until morning, and Paul said, looking through that veil, that dark veil, we just peep through it. Looking through a glass darkly, Paul said. Is that right? Types and shadows. Picking it up by types and shadows. Is that right? Paul said that veil. That veil that was over Rebecca when she came from down there in her natural family. Where are you? Folks, when you are born in to this world, that glory of God, that life on the inside of you, it's got an intellectual veil over it. God veiled that life with those skins. Those coat skins. God veiled it. It's in a veil. When it comes from the family down there. When it comes in the natural, bastard side of life. It's an intellectual veil. It's a human veil. God, the eternal spirit came down inside of Jesus, veiled himself. Is that right? That's why when Moses stood on the mountain up there, the Bible said he put a veil over his face. Why? He was a prophet like unto Jesus. What did God do? Great is the mystery of Godliness, for God, God come down in a veil. For God veiled Himself in humanity. God put on a human skin and came down here and walked in this earth. Is that right? God did that, my brother and sister. God did that. Why? To show the veil. Why did he do that? Because He had to rend the veil. And when he took that old veil of that bastard child, He hung it up at Calvary and said, See here now. Oh, glory to God. He said, See here. You watch what I'm fixing to do. Amen. He said Adam lost his covering in the garden. Did he? Sure. What was the covering? It was the image of God. He was the woman. Eve was only a type of it. What did he lose? He lost his covering? What was his covering? The image of God. It was the image of God. He had been made in the image of God. He was under the Shechinah. Is that right? He lost the image of God. He lost the covering. What kind of covering did God give him? Those skins. Give him a beast covering. Made in the image of the beast. Is that right? He put him on, He put him and her on skins or coats. Isn't the right? He took a coat. He took a skin and He put it on them. Isn't that right? And from that time on, He spilt the blood of beasts to show the condition of things. Jesus said, You see here now. Hallelujah! You just watch me now. Glory to God. If you don't think My Heavenly Father loves me. Joseph said, You just watch me when I slip on this coat of many colors. You watch my brethren get jealous and you watch them do everything they can to get this coat away from me. Amen. But Joseph out it on. He got that beautiful thing on and then he headed for the dungeon. Glory to God. I said the other day, to get the heights that you want, you have got to find some depths somewhere. Amen. The devil had come out of the light of God's presence and been put in the depths of the darkness, is that right? And he was the ruler of the darkness and no one dared to go where he was. He was the king of the pit. Is that right? But the Son of God came down as the champion of justice and said to him, you might have gone deep, but I want to show you what deep diving is. Hallelujah! You might have gone down a little ways, but below there, there's a pearl of great price and I'm going down there to get it. Hallelujah! If you believe in skin diving, I'll show you how to dive. Hallelujah! And he saw it in the depths and he went down and got it. He brought it up out of the deep. Hallelujah! He came back up out of the deep, and the devil couldn't do anything but stand there. He had met his master. Glory to God. When the devil went down there, that deep, he really thought he had done something, but Jesus went down there and went right to the base of that trunk and went right on down to his root and plucked him up. Hallelujah! That's right. Glory to God. And put him in a cage and lit a light down there and said, let your little light shine. Hallelujah! Glory to God! He said to Adam and He said to Abraham, and He said to Elisha and those others down there, He said, Come on, let your little light shine. Hallelujah! Is that right? This dark prison can't hold you any more. Hallelujah! I wish you were spiritual tonight. I've got a fellow that's sitting here, he feels like he's so spiritual that he's over my head, you know, and he has done left me a long time ago and I've been watching him and he hasn't even got what I said. Hallelujah! Oh! Hallelujah! Let your little light shine, Jesus said. Glory to God. Light it up. See if there is any oil in those vessels. Hallelujah! That old intellectual veil. He did away with that covering. He did away with that covering. He said, You've got a covering but it's not of God. You cover but it's not of God. You lost your image but see here, I am made in the image of God and there Jesus came up. He took that perverted image which was the bastard child. He took it to Calvary and He nailed it to Calvary and He opened the garment. He rent the veil and out stepped the second man Adam. Out stepped the quickening spirit. Out stepped the image of God. What image was it? He said he was a quickening spirit. How many of you know that God's a spirit? Brother, to be made in the image of God, you've got to be made as a quickening spirit. God is a quickening spirit. God's not a man that He should lie. God is a quickening spirit. Is that right? That's why God's got a Son. Jesus Christ is that son. That son came down here and was willing to be made in the image of sin that He might take the wrath of God that belonged to you. Is that right? That image is the head of this church. Hallelujah! He went through the suffering. He's the Son of God. Every bit the Son of God. Is that right? Hallelujah! That's the earthly part. Everything in heaven and earth is named after Jesus. That's the God family. He's the beginning of the creation of God. Behold the tabernacle of God is among men. Is that right? And that old bastard image, that brute beast is blaspheming the tabernacle and the name of the tabernacle. And the rich man will oppress you and they take you before the mercy seat and blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called. What is it? The beast. Brute beast made to be taken and burned. So then, what does it have to do with? It's just like what recently happened. In the meeting over here in Mississippi. Why did we go over there? Why did we put those pictures in Harvester's Herald like we did? They put it in there because it had to do with the resurrection. What does that have to do with? The new covering. The resurrection. The power of His resurrection. Why are we going with Brother Blake down there at Waycross? Why is it that Brother George Junior is down there with him? Why is that down there like that? Because Reuben is down there. What is Reuben? The first born. And the Bible said, the first born shall serve the second. Is that right? Why? Because it said he went up to his mother's couch. Is that right? When you commit adultery, you go up to your mother's couch. Somebody would say, what are you talking about? How many of you know the flesh is your mother? Amen. That's what it is. So then, what is it? See. It's the change over. The veil of death. The covering being taken away. There is something that is taking place even at this present moment. That's why we went to the Meridian meeting like we did. The resurrection in the Meridian meeting, what was it to do? It was to come up in the Meridian meeting and then when it boomeranged back here we were to be caught out of here because when Jesus came up out of the grave as the second man, what did He do? He was raptured away. How will we do it? By the way of the cross. Down by Waycross. You understand what I'm saying? Coming up out of the grave, it went away. Hallelujah! It went away. What did it do? It went over into that city. Going back over across the waters to the sweet land. Hallelujah! Getting back over there to where the headship started. Is that right? Going way back over there. That's why that the people that we spoke of, those that were cast out. Do you remember? That that had to do with the casting out. Where did they go? They went over to Ewall Franks. Is that right? But he just had written a letter and what was the letter? He wasn't inviting anybody over. Most assuredly, invariably every time you reject this, God has got something else for you. Come on now. God will give you the truth and give you a chance for it, and then you reject it and He'll turn you over to a reprobate mind and let you believe a lie and be damned. What is it? The land of Frankenstein. The monster. That's where they created it over there. What is it? Brother Perry got with him. What is that? Didn't I say that Brother Branham's followers would go right in to it? Brother Perry representing the following. Been into ninety different countries, they said. Is that right? All the world wondering after the beast. What beast? I'll come out there and bash your head off, they said. What was it? Hot tamales, they use the term. You understand what I'm saying? But God cast it down. Said it's not to be in Heaven. And so then, what did it do? Like the vision I had meeting Frankenstein way up yonder. Somebody can quote scripture, heady, high-minded, but his head went off of his shoulders. What is it? Brother Branham's following after the beast. That's what it is. They are going headlong right down to no man's land. Is that right? Sure. What is no man's land? Go down to Mexico. Over here, it's America. Over there, it's Mexico. In between, it's no man's land. That's where the battle is. That's where Satan is. Between Heaven and Earth. Is that right? What is that no man's land? Them double minded people that are half-breeds out there. No man's land. They won't be with this going on over here with Brother Branham. They won't be with that that's going on over there with Brother Pike. They have to get something of their own and get in between. Intellectual, high-minded, heady, no man's land. That's what it is. You understand what I'm saying? All right, then. Going over there, what is it? Climbing up into the second heaven. But there is a place higher than that. Oh! Hallelujah! Going to the land of the midnight sun. There's a place that is greater than that. What is that place? There is another place. So then, that thing running it's interference, what is it? At the way of the cross, caught up. The death of the first born, caught up. When it's caught up, where does it go? It goes up yonder and what does it do? It stays up there for about ten days and then what does it do? It comes back for a Pentecost. Hallelujah! A fourth of July celebration. Is that right? Hallelujah! Something is taking place. God ahs got something going on. Isn't that right? Hallelujah! Seen forty days of the Brethren. Is that right? And then resurrected. Was that right? And then caught up. Hallelujah! And then came back about ten days to Pentecost. You see what I'm saying? The fourth of July. The breaking forth. Signs and wonders and miracles. Something is happening. Something is taking place. God's doing a new thing. Hallelujah! What is the new thing? The redemption of the body. What is the redemption of the body? The covering that was lost. The covering. What kind of covering? Not that old intellectual traditions of the elders which build you into a false hope of your religious affair which you call the image of God. They stand up and say, intellectually, my brothers, don't you worry. You are made in the image of God. And I'm preaching to you and God is coming back for you. You're, that's right, you're made in the image of God and there is a God that is coming back for you all right. You are a bastard child and a bastard God is coming for you. To turn you into hell. Come on, folks. Somebody said, I wouldn't preach like that for anything. That's why I have to do it. Cause you wouldn't do it. All right> So what do you say, Brother Pike? I say that Satan is the God of this world, but there is an image of Christ that is Sonship. Is that right? What is that image? Sons of God. Have you got time to listen a few more minutes? What is the image? It's sonship. What is that? All right, listen just a minute. It's sonship. What is that? It's a God-child that Christ is coming back after. That's the one that He's coming back after. Amen. That's the one, when He breaks the clouds, is coming back. Now listen just a minute. You know we take our intellectual indoctrination and we just esteem them so high and we sit there and say, Bless God, you tell me. Come on now. We are smart, you know, tell me. How many of you know God is smarter than you are? Sure. Somebody said, you tell me. They got Stephen over there and stoned him to death. You tell us. We are the rabbis, but the Bible said they could not withstand the wisdom by which he spake when the mighty presence of God came upon him. You understand what I'm saying, children of God? So what is it? Somebody would say, I'm standing right here, the Bible said some day He'll split the clouds of heaven and every eye shall see Him and we are going to see Him and we know that we are right. Come on. All right, after service I'd like for you to hem me up and I'd like for you to tell me how that every eye is going to see him when some people are on one side of the earth and some on the other. Come on now. Come on now! The Bible said, come and let us reason together. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, He's going to be way off. But the sun is way off, ninety-three million miles, I believe it is, but the other side of the earth still doesn't see it at the same time. Come on now. Every eye shall see him. Somebody would say, I don't know if it's going to be at the midnight cry. I don't know if it's going to be at the cock crowing. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't know when it's going to be. Come on now. I'll tell you how it's going to be. It's going to be like he said. How is that? He said, One or two in the bed, one taken and one left. That's the night side of life. Is that right? He said, one in the field, or two in the field, one is taken and one left. That's the daylight side of life. Come on now. Is that right? Is that right? You might be in the field working, you might be in the bed sleeping, it might be over here in the cock crowing, it might be in the midnight cry, but what ever it is. my brother, Christ is suddenly coming to you. How then shall we see Him? We shall see Him as He is. He is a quickening Spirit. You say every eye shall behold Him. The Bible said God shall suddenly return unto His saints to be glorified in His saints. He shall suddenly come from Heaven and return or appear in His saints to be glorified in His saints. There is an eye of understanding where every eye shall see Him. ( Tape turned). Say why not, Brother Pike? Because the bible said the wicked dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. So they couldn't be standing on the earth. They are looking from down in the abyss of the pit, but they shall see Him coming. You don't have to be on the earth. Every eye shall see Him. They that have pierced Him shall narrowly look upon Him. You understand what I'm saying? You say but how is that going to be? Oh, Hallelujah! The Bible said the brightness of His coming, the whole earth vanished away. Come on, now. Said the mountains fled away, the earth fled away, said there wasn't anything standing between you and Him. Oh, Hallelujah1 There isn't anything standing between me and God. There isn't anything that can stand between you and God. Every eye shall see Him! If they are down in the bottom, they'll still see Him. Why? Because the veil has been rent in twain. There is a new covering. Oh, Hallelujah! And John said, I saw New Jerusalem descending out of Heaven as a bride, that new covering, that new body, that bride, that new Eve, hallelujah, as a bride adorned for her husband. I saw that new covering coming down. Oh, hallelujah! Somebody said, You mean the woman is the covering? Sure. How many of you know that you are the woman? How many of you know that that inner man is covered by her. Sure. All right. Now, there's a lot things I want to say, but I know it's getting late. We are just getting started. Can I say just a little bit more? Let's sy just a little more and I'll let you go. What about Lucifer, the Son of the Morning? What did he have to do with it? He was a covering. Is that right? The covering cherub. Covering? Sure, he was a covering. But not of my covering, God sad. He is a god. He is an image. He is the covering for life, but it is a perverted covering. It is a covering of harlotry. It's not God's image. He is a covering cherub but God cast him out. Oh, hallelujah! What is the covering cherub of God? It's Christ Jesus. That's the covering of God. It's the Son of God. If you are found in the image of Christ, if you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, then He is your covering. Is that right? He's the covering of God. Is that right? He said I counsel of you to buy of me a raiment that's tried in the fire. Hallelujah! What is the raiment? That's Jesus. That went down into the heart of the earth and went through the bellies of hell. That's the garment that was tried in the fire. And it came out. He said, You didn't have the wedding garment. You didn't have that which was tried in the fire. Is that right? You didn't have it. That's my covering. That's the covering cherub of God. Hallelujah! That's all that God can look at. Is that blood of Him. Oh, hallelujah! That royal blood with that;lovely coat of many colors. Oh, hallelujah! That lovely cherub with the coat of many colors. Oh, it's the covering cherub of God, that rainbow about the throne. What is that rainbow? He said, This is my covering. Hallelujah! Amen. I give to you no other covering of the ark. I give to you th e ark of my covering. This is my covenant. Is that right? The ark of my covenant, Noah. I wish we could go on. But listen. Lucifer, the son of the morning. What happened to him? He blackmailed God. I brought it out on tape. Is that right? Sure. God couldn't get to His little children because when that life, which was the little children, fell into the wrong covering, that veil of iniquity, thine iniquities, no good in the flesh, Paul said. No good thing in your flesh. Is between the inner life which is that spiritual image. That child of God forming in the womb. That veil is in between that image and between God. Is that right? And God is afraid that devil image will kill that little child. I brought it out here where Christ stands off so meekly and so sweetly and when that woman, she gets so arrogant and she gets upset, he just says, That's all right, honey. That;s all right. Isn't that right? Ah, somebody said, don't be silly. I'm not silly. I'm not silly. I'm just as sound as I could be. When she gets all out of sorts, God just looks over in His sweet tone and He says, That's all right, honey. That's all right. I know you are carrying that little child. I don't want that old beast part of yours to mark it. That's all right. Just go ahead. I've got plenty of grace and where iniquity abounds, grace is much more. But after awhile, after awhile, Lady. After awhile. Glory to God! You get by with it now, but after awhile, when that little fellow comes forth. Amen. At the rending of the veil, when he comes forth and then he is caught up to the throne, and Daddy's got him in his arms, Mama, you had better line up. Hallelujah! Said, I'll make Jacob pass under the rod. Seven days of purification before she can come back to her husband. Mama, you had better line up. You can't mark the little child then. You can't mark him with that old intellectual beast mind of yours. To late then. Hallelujah! He doesn't have the mark but everyone that is not of Him will bear the mark. They will bear the mark. What is the mark? Sin, of course. He that is born of God, he cannot bear the mark. Because the seed of God remains in him and he cannot bear the mark or sin because he is born of God. Is that right? All right. So then, let's say this right hurriedly. Lucifer. What did he do? He got out of the presence of God. He transformated out of the presence. What is God? God is the great light. Where light is, there is no darkness. How could there be darkness for I will destroy with the brightness of my coming in your intellectual reasoning. When my wisdom by which you cannot speak or understand or resist as in the days of Stephen, with the brightness of my presence, with the revelation of all things when I appear, you can't withstand it. Now, well, somebody would say, that can't be God, but he said, it's not me speaking but God speaking. It's God speaking. Somebody would say, I don't believe it. I'm not talking to you unbelievers. You are doomed anyway. See, because you didn't believe on the on begotten of the Son. Who is the begotten of the Son? The Word. What did the Word say? It's God speaking. You are lost to start with. Now, so what is it? My sheep know my voice. What is it? He transformated out of the light? And what did he do? He got so far out of the light. Out of the light. Out of the light, and in the distance, he became the ruler of darkness. Is that right? All he remembered was what he had seen. He had a blue print up here. A blue print. What was it? It was an intellectual religious blue print. So he said, I think I'll start a church. And I'll cal the mother of it Mother Harlot. And I think I'll produce me some daughters and we'll get us a bunch of bastard children and we'll take this world over. Come on now. Come on now. The great whore. Is that right? That is what he planned to do. Is that right? He got to be ruler of the darkness. All he could remember. He had an intellectual imprint of what one time was life, because Adam was under the covering of that great Shechinah glory. He was not born of it. He was under it. But when that light went away, when that light went away, the bastard image of Adam came forth. The intellectual image of that weakness of the woman. God said, Now unless they get ahold of that tree of life and live forever, that is to say as a bastard image, you get out of here, Adam. From the dust thou art, unto the dust thou shalt return. Said to the Sons of God, pray that ye might have the right to the tree of life. Isn't that right? Said, How am I going to get back to it? That covering cherub. That flaming cherub. Who is he? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! And the Bible said, He stood there with a two edged sword. Isn't that right? That flaming cherub guarding that tree of life. He was the covering cherub. Is that right? He's the one that covers it. Amen. To get back to it, what have you got to do? Die. Pass through the fire. CAn you die? No man can see God and live. How can I get in there? Only one way. Paul said, Be baptized into His death and put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust, the desire thereof. Is that right? So He transformated out of the light of God. And the ruler of the darkness he is. Is that right? What is that darkness? It's the darkness of your intellectual reasoning. The fall in the garden. Now, listen for just a minute now. FAn the coals for just a minute. All right. What is it? There is a light, but that light is darkness. That light is darkness. There is a light. That light is darkness. You understand? What is that light? The Bible says, That if that light in you be darkness, how great is that darkness. There is a dark light. What is that? Lucifer, the Son of the Morning. He was a light. He was a light. How many of you know that Lucifer is a light? He is a light. Sure. What is a light? An understanding. He's got an understanding, folks. Sure, he has. You don't have an understanding if you are not born of God. You think you've got an understanding because you've got two years in college? Six years in college? You ought to meet Lucifer and have a talk with him. He is a light. Amen. He's a light. But he is a dark light. He transformated out. He got in reverse. You understand what I'm saying? He went out of the presence of God. Ah. There is so much we could say when we get right there. Is that right? That's why God said, when he looked down out of heaven and He said He saw the earth void without form. Void without form. What is it? It's that intellectual you. It's that intellectual you. When the light of this gospel arises over you. When your glory has come and God looks down and He sees you. You are all out of shape. You have lost the image of God. You're dark. You are in darkness. You're in intellectual darkness. You're dark and you're without form, you are not in the image of God anymore, but the light of God has arisen. And with the brightness of His coming, I will destroy the image. Is that right? I'll destroy the image. Why? Because as that brightness coming. As the brightness of that coming, it will literally destroy the bastard child as He smote Jesus at Calvary, He will destroy it and nothing can stand there but the veiled sons of the living God. Sons of light versus the sons of darkness. That's why that that revelation took place over in Israel because we were standing there where it spoke of the sons of darkness and the sons of light and we came out of there and went right up on that pyramid of rocks and there we stood and it came out on Spiritual Conquest. Is that right? The resurrection of the sons of light. The transformation of God. We are not children of darkness that that day should come upon us unaware because we are not intellectual scholars from some college but we are children of light which means revelation. We are revelated, understanding children that see the light of God and know when it's nigh at hand and know what God's doing. So then if you walk in the light as He is in the light, you will have fellowship one with another. Isn't that right? And the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse you from all sin. I'm going to stop right there. There's just about a whole lot more that I need to say. When I get to the light, right to the light, to enter into the light, then in I go to the light, in you go into the light and there we are in the glorious light of the Sons of the Living God. And then we can really start telling about God. What He is really doing. Is that right? That's when the Bible said that Satan transforms himself into an angel of light. Why? Because Lucifer was an angel of light. A dark light, but he was, and he has a knowledge. A transformation of light, that's understanding. Sure he can do it. He's religious because he knows the religious side of it. Through a transformation. You understand what I'm saying? I know that some of you understand some of it. Some of you don't. Some of you haven't even heard it, but one thing about it; There was a whole lot in what we said tonight. And if you can get a hold of it. You say, what good is it to me, Brother Pike? It is the divine pilgrimage from earth to heaven. Those that walk that trail with me tonight, those that moved along with me tonight, those that held the hand of the invisible tonight, you don't live in the same place you did when you came to church tonight. Amen. You moved to a higher ground as the transformating, transformating, transformating, and if I started in, I'd have to, I appreciate your attention tonight. We are not trying to prove anybody to be anything. We are just telling you about Jesus. Paul said to know Jesus. He just forgot about everything he knew when he met the revelation. It was so lovely, so wonderful he didn't want to know anything but the revelation from then on. Hallelujah! So then, the revelation will take you into the third heaven. Behold, I show you a mystery, ye shall not all sleep but transformate from glory to glory. When he said, shall not all sleep, you know very well in the message we brought out, you certainly are not going to die. Because death is the death of the soul. That's the second death. It don't have no power over you. So he isn't talking about that. Somebody would say, Well, he's talking about that second death. No. Not this time. He's talking about that sleep. Lazarus sleepeth. He's talking about that when you go to sleep. You don't have to go by the way of the grave. Ye shall not all sleep. Somebody's going to discover something. If when you discover something, if you discover it right, you make the right application, death don't have any power over you. Death is conquered. Death is gone. Death is defeated. The only power death has over you is what you allow. That's right. All right. You say, Well, bless God, if that be so, I ain't allowing him to do nothing to me. That ain't worth the time it took you to say it. The Bible said to resist the devil. How do you do it? By drawing nigh to God. You can't just say get out of here, devil. How can you keep him from killing you? By faith. Faith. Amen. He deforms a hand, you just believe it back into existence. Is that right? You cut it off. You just believe it back into existence. Is that right? If he causes your heart to go this way, you just believe it to go that way. He believes things to get all tore up up here, you just believe it to get straightened out. Come on. Isn't that right? The devil brings you to lay down in the casket, just say, excuse me, I'm getting back up. Believe yourself right out of it. You love the Lord? Sure you can do it. By faith. By faith, Enoch, Enoch just said, step aside, satan. Amen. And when he got ready to go home, the spirit of death came by, said I ain't got time to bother with you. I'm busy. Didn't even bother to tip his hat at him, just passed on by and treated him like a stranger. That's what Nathan called him anyway. A stranger. Over there, he said a stranger came by, when he was talking to DAvid, but he said to us, we won't hear the voice of a stranger. Isn't that right? If David had been full of the Holy Ghost, he wouldn't have heard the voice of a stranger either. I'm glad we can be full of the Holy Ghost. The Bible said be filled with the Holy Ghost. Filled with the Holy Ghost. A stranger they will not listen to. They won't follow him. That's why so many of you get into trouble, is because you are not children of God and that stranger keeps speaking to your intellectual powers and you follow him. That old stranger, he'll come by and he'll say, Brother So and So didn't treat you right and that old temper of yours will flare up like a wet hen. Amen. Somebody say, Hallelujah. That's right. That old devil will come by a Son of God and say, Old So and So didn't treat you right. Poor fellow, God have mercy on my precious Brother. He doesn't understand. Forgive him. The mind of Christ versus the mind of darkness. Let's sing. Sing a little chorus together, folks. (Brother Pike leads the congregation in singing, Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Savior.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord