Receive Ye The Holy Ghost

You ask whether or not charity might think a little bit of evil and a little bit of good? It doesn't think any evil at all. Now we've been saying some things night after night that has been teaching and this is the first time we've had to upbraid you in two or three nights as far as really saying some things, but you come in with the wrong attitude tonight; and so the Lord talked to you in a different way. The Bible said, Draw nigh to me, I'll draw nigh to you. He said, If you resist me, I'll resist you. See, whatever you do to Him, that's what He does to you. You come in with your thoughts of finding fault with Him and He'll find fault with you. You come in loving Him and He'll love you, because He knows your thoughts. Jesus said I know your thoughts, and He knows your thoughts. Reading from the book of Saint Luke. The gospel according to Saint Luke. The first chapter, the first verse. (Brother Pike reads the first chapter of Saint Luke.) That's reading the whole chapter. You know, there is a number of things that is outstanding here. You may wonder as we read the last part of this why that his mother called his name John when it appeared that his father had not agreed with her in this or she did not consult him; but if you remember the first part we read here the angel came to him said, she'll have a son and thou shall call his name John. So it is obvious that he had already told her that there was to be a son and that she was to call his name John. She was in agreement with him. When you read the latter part you know you get the idea, here God spoke to this woman above her husband and her husband just has to follow along and say "yep", she said John; it'll be John. That wasn't it at all. God had told him and he had indoctrinated his wife and when the time come she said his name shall be what the father said it shall be, John; and then when they consulted with him he said it shall be John. Because that's what the angel had said that it would be. If you'll notice here also it said that he had scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. You know where people get in trouble is in the imagination of their heart. People always get in trouble in the imagination of their heart. God gives us a real lesson here in the book of Saint Luke, and tells us exactly what we must do. When Zechariah prophesied, he said it is the divine ordination of God. And remember now, it wasn't him talking but it was the Holy Ghost. That it is the divine ordination of God, that we should serve Him in holiness, in righteousness, without fear all the days of our lives. God doesn't want us to be afraid. God doesn't want us to be filled with fear. The first thing that we should do is get rid of fear. Where there is fear in the heart of a person that means that faith is absent. If you are filled with fear it is because of condemnation. You are under condemnation. You are not communicating with God. You are not praying to God properly. You're not living a life of soberness with God. You are trying to do something somewhere or other to include something that is of the flesh, or that is not pleasing to God in the Word. Because the Bible teaches perfect love casts out fear. So then, when you perfectly love God, when you perfectly love the Word, when you perfectly desire His way, there is no fear in your life. For how can you fear when you perfectly love God? Because when you perfectly love God, then love is perfected in your life and there is no room for fear. Where there is love, there is no condemnation. Wherever love is there is no condemnation. Faith worketh by love, and where there is faith there is no unbelief, there is no fear; because fear is faith in reverse or unbelief. Therefore, when you have the love of God you don't have to worry. And here the Holy Ghost himself speaking, saying that we should serve Him, serve God in holiness, righteousness, without fear. When we serve God in holiness, when we serve God in righteousness, brother, there won't be any fear. But when we fail to serve God in righteousness, when we fail to serve God in holiness, then we have fear. You must have holiness and righteousness in your life. You know, I'm thankful because God has shared a lot of things with me in my lifetime. I was telling my wife coming home last night, the Lord has opened my heart, He has opened my understanding. He has opened my mind to know just to a tee, just exactly what His desire is. What His will is, what His purpose is, what His plan is. Just exactly to a tee, what a person has to do that God's spiritual gifts can work in their life, and just to a tee, how that those spiritual gifts work in their life. And I'm so grateful to God because all down through the years I wanted to know. I searched the Bible, I read it through many times. I've read the scriptures through many times, but still didn't know. I've prayed, I've fasted, I've spent many hours in prayer, but I still didn't know, but there came a day when God made me to know and made me to understand. Because I love His Word. I love His spirit. I love His way. I hate every forward way, David said. Every wicked way, David said, I hate it. I hate those kind of things. Every forward way, I hate them. I love the way of God. When you get to the place where you hate every wicked, adulterous way. When you get to the place where you love every way that God's got, everything that God wants to do. Friend, you're gonna get the surprise of your life. Because God's Spirit is gonna come down in your heart, and it's gonna go on the inside of your Spirit, and you are gonna feel that dark veil of intellectual reasoning of sin begin to dissolve and begin to vanish away and your thoughts and your mind is going to become very clear, and you're gonna begin to see and think like you've never seen in your entire life. But until the day that you get the feeling and desire that you want to be perfect in His sight, that you're going to hunger and thirst after the things of God; until the day, you will never have this experience. Until you can get the Holy Ghost on the inside of you, you'll never live an overcoming life. Now you can be a believer. You may be a believer, and you may want to serve God, and you may try to serve God, and you'll find yourself doing this or that; but there is one thing about it, you'll still feel that it doesn't hurt for you to mix and mingle with the social benefits of life a little bit. Because you don't have the Holy Ghost. You may be a believer, but you'll feel like there's nothing wrong with it. But brother, let me tell you, the day that the Holy Ghost come in your life you'll begin to think different, you'll begin to act different, you'll begin to desire different. Your thirst and your hunger will be different, and you will find yourself becoming a different person. But until you get God's Spirit, you'll never become a different person. I've watched people down through the years that are believers and I've watched people down through the years that have the Holy Ghost and there's all the difference in the world in them. Believing is good but remember one thing; if you do not have the Holy Ghost you will not make the translation. Now, you say, Brother Pike, you're wrong about that. Well, if I'm wrong about it you don't have anything to worry about, but just in the event that I'm right about it you're really in trouble. Did you know that? You're really in trouble. So then, I say according to what I've been made to understand of God, the man or woman that doesn't have the Holy Ghost will not make the translation. They will be here to go right on through the tribulation period. Now, somebody would say, Brother Pike, do you believe that there's people that's gonna go through the tribulation period after the church has gone out of here? Why, don't you know there's not going to be nobody but the Jews! No, that isn't right. There's gonna be people that is going to go right through the seven years of bad government. The seven years of tribulation. They'll pass right on through that. Now you say, where do you get that? Because the Bible teaches that. They'll pass right through that tribulation period. The church will go out at the first of the week. Those people will move right on through that tribulation period right on over toward the millennium. Now you mean to tell me that all those people that don't go in the rapture will move through the tribulation period and then come out in the millennium? No, I don't mean that at all. But I mean that all of those that do not go in the rapture will move through the tribulation period and will continue on until the mark of the beast come in. And everyone that takes the mark of the beast will be cut off. And everyone that does not take the mark of the beast, those will pass right on through to the millennium, unless it is those that are killed for the sake of Christ. Those that are killed will die, of course. They will be resurrected at the end of the week. The righteous will. They'll be resurrected at what is called the first resurrection. But the other people that escape that will pass right on through into the millennium. Now you say, Brother Pike, there's not going to be anybody out there like that. Then what do we do with the fact that the Bible teaches that in the day all nations shall come up to Jerusalem. And that if any nation fails to come up to Jerusalem they won't have any rain on their crops. What are we gonna do with that? People will pass right on through, all nations will pass right on through the millennium. Every nation that's on the earth today, they'll pass right on through, go right on through into the millennium, and those ... You know God, He's got what you call friend's of the bridegroom. Isn't that right? If you don't have the Holy Ghost you're not going in the rapture. You're not gonna be the bride of Christ. But there are those that are friends of the bridegroom. Tonight you may be a believer, you may be a friend of the bridegroom tonight, you may be some kind of helper, you may be doing something. You may be working with us right here and you may be a friend of the bridegroom. You may befriend the bridegroom and you may get over there in that great wonderful age, but I'll tell you one thing, you're gonna pass right through that tribulation period. You remember what I'm telling you. You're gonna pass right on through that tribulation period, and it's going to be horrible. There's going to be suffering and there's going to be a time such as you have never known, and if you are not right with God in the sense of really being a friend, then when you get over there you're gonna take the mark of the beast and you're gonna be cut off from God eternally, and the smoke of your torment will ascend up forever and ever. So then, I tell you tonight, if you want to get the Holy Ghost then you had better get started, because friend, that midnight hour is approaching. That time is upon us where the foolish and the wise virgins rise up and when they start coming up, I tell you again, that those believers, those people that's been in the Assemblies of God, in the Pentecostal Holiness, in the Church of God, in the Baptist, in the Methodist and all kind of movements, in the U.P.C., those people, many of them, those people are gonna run for the oil. They're gonna realize that they need the Holy Ghost. There's people in the Assemblies of God and the Church of God today that are being taught that they do not have to have the Holy Ghost to be saved. I tell you in the name of the Lord, you have to have it. You'd better get it. The Bible said, If you have not My Spirit, you're none of mine. How many spirits are they? How many spirits are there? There's but one Spirit. Who is He? The Holy Ghost. Somebody would say, But Brother Pike, there is God's Spirit, there is Jesus' Spirit, there's the Holy Ghost's Spirit. No, that isn't right. The Bible said Jesus made in Himself twain, both Lord and Christ. Isn't that right? The body was the Lord and the Spirit was Christ. That was God in Jesus. Isn't that right? How many of you understand what I'm saying? The Bible said Mary conceived of the Holy Ghost. Who is the father of Jesus? The Holy Ghost is the father of Jesus. So, that means He's got to be God. And if you have not the Holy Ghost, if you have not My Spirit, you are none of Mine. So then, you've got to have the Holy Ghost. Jesus was born of God's Spirit. He was born of the Holy Ghost. Now, when the Holy Ghost come on the inside of you, I tell you again you won't be, you won't have all that resentment, all of that jealousy, you won't be finding fault. You won't come into this church with the attitude you do, you won't have your mind on wanting to go buy and sell and get gain and ride, and just listen to the jingle and jangle of the world all the time. You understand what I'm saying? You won't do that. You'll have your mind on God. You'll have your mind on fasting and praying, telling about Christ Jesus; have your mind on doing something for God, but until you get full of the Holy Ghost you'll never have your mind on spiritual things because you will never be spiritual. Saying that you are a Christian, that's one thing, being a Christian, that's another thing altogether different. What is a Christian? Not one that confesses. For the Bible says that you may confess me with your lips, but your heart is far from me. What is being a Christian? It's indeed living a holy life, dressing holy, talking holy, living holy, being holy in body and in spirit. That's living an overcoming life, and friend, if you do not have the Holy Ghost on the inside of you, you cannot live a holy life. There's no one that can live a holy life without the Holy Ghost. You must have the Holy Ghost on the inside if you're going to live a Holy Ghost life. There's no way to live for God without the Holy Ghost. Why do people teach that folks can be God's people and not have the Holy Ghost? Don't you know that's wrong? Folks say that you don't have to be baptized. There are preachers that say that you don't have to be baptized, it's not necessary for you to be baptized. All you have to do is believe because you are saved by believing or by faith. Friend, be reasonable. What is believing? What is faith, being baptized? Somebody would say, Brother Pike, that can't be. Why isn't that right? The Bible said faith cometh by the hearing of the Word, and said, Show me your believing by doing what the Word tells you to do. That's what faith is; is doing what the Word said do. What did God, the Word, say do? Repent be baptized. What did He tell the disciples to do? Go into all the world, preach the gospel baptizing them. What did the Lord say? He that believeth and is baptized. That's the conformation of his believing. Show me your faith without your works, I'll show you what I believe by what I do. It's the conformation of my believing. Is that right? Somebody would say, But I don't believe that you have to be baptized. Well, why bother to repent? Why bother to repent? Why is it necessary to repent if it's not necessary to be baptized? Somebody explain it to me. Why is it necessary for me to come and get on my face up here somewhere and repent before God if it isn't necessary for me to go down to the river somewhere and be baptized? And why did Jesus waste His time being God in the flesh? Why did God waste His precious time going down to a muddy river to do something that's not necessary to repent because the same Bible that said to repent said to be baptized. If it's not necessary to obey that part of it then it's not necessary to obey the other part of it. I believe what God said about it. If it's necessary to repent then we should repent. If it's necessary to be baptized then we should be baptized. If the same Bible said to be filled with the Spirit, or filled with the Holy Ghost and walk in the Spirit, then we should be filled with the Holy Ghost and we should walk in the Spirit. That's the way I understand it. I believe that we should do exactly what the Bible tells us to do. If it tells me to be baptized with the Holy Ghost, I should be baptized with the Holy Ghost. When Jesus said, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, you gotta go one way or another. You gotta either say God meant he that believeth and is baptized with the Holy Ghost, if that is true ... Tape turned over ... the rest of it all. That same God that said all unrighteousness is sin. Is that right? If all unrighteousness is sin, then we have to leave all unrighteousness off. The same God that said that be holy in body and in spirit. Not just in spirit, but in body. That means you can't gossip, folks. You can't say those things that you are saying. He that bridleth not his tongue; that same God said, that same Bible said, He that bridleth not his tongue that man's religion is in vain. The same God that said believe said bridle the tongue, and if you can't bridle it, then all of your believing is in vain. That man's religion is in vain. My, look how powerful that is! Say believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved! I come through here and I say, Glory to God, that's the way is ain't got nothing to worry about. Brother Taylor come through and says, Bridle your tongue or all of you will be lost. Kill everything I said, unless you bridle your tongue. Somebody would say, I love Jesus. So then, brother, it's line upon line and it's precept upon precept. We must grow in the grace and knowledge, and to this knowledge virtue, and to this virtue patience, and right on the Godliness and all these wonderful things as we grow in the stature of the Lord Jesus Christ. IF we stop at any part of God's commandment, then we do not have any benefit of the first things we started. If we go half way and stop, we lose everything. You say, But Brother Pike, I'm a Christian. I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. I might not get to all them other things. My friend, you'll be lost and die and go to Hell if you don't get to them other things. If you do not know anything else, if you never understand anything else, when you're doing your diligence to understand, God will never require anything else. Just what you understand that's what you'll have to do. But beloved friend, if you understand the other things, then God is going to require the other things out of you. He's gonna require them, and if you stop short of any one of those things you lose all that you started. For the Bible said if you do righteously and if you turn and do wickedly (how may times have I told you this) if you stop in the middle of the stream, if you turn and you start the things of the world, all the good things that you ever done, God said, I won't give you nothing for it, so far as eternal life is concerned. Now, in this life you will be rewarded. You can't give a cup of water without getting a reward. You might get an extra thousand dollars. You might get an extra ten thousand dollars. He night give you a home in this life when another man has to live in a hut. He might give you a nice new automobile when another man has to live in a tent. He'll reward you, but when you come to that side of the river you won't get one thing. He'll say you've had your reward. Now you say, Brother Pike, you don't think we can have a nice car here, and a home? A man can have a nice car, he can have everything here. God gave David a Palace. But friend, let me tell you something. There is a price to pay for everything you hold back from God. Don't you ever forget it. God will give you whatever you want in this life and He will give you those things that you desire. But like Ananias and Sapphira there is a price that you must pay. You must remember that God will give it to you but there is a price to pay for everything that you have here. Now, if you're giving to God and you're sold out to God and you're doing everything you can for God, God will bless you until your cup runs over. But if you hold back from God, God will cut you down and put you in the fire. You say, Brother Pike, you don't believe that God is so touchy? God isn't touchy. Let me tell you something friend. Look at this angel Gabriel that come from the presence of God. Now I want you to look at this angel. Now remember, the ministry has far more authority than an angel does. You remember that, and look at the authority of this angel and listen to this angel. The angel Gabriel said to this devout priest, spoke to him and said, Your wife is gonna bring you a son and all the man did way say, but how can this be? He said, Thou shall be dumb, thine unbeliever. Somebody say I love Jesus. Say, He didn't say it like that. That's what it amounted to. Said, Because of your unbelief you will be dumb and can't speak. Why the man didn't do anything. What about some of you people that gossip, backbite and say the things you do. You say, will that's different. No, it's not different. That's the New testament I'm speaking of. That same Gabriel today still comes in our midst. You say, But brother Pike, he doesn't do that since Jesus came. Oh, yes he does. Oh, you he does. Why is it that Michael is seen over there having war in heaven? Why is it that those angels are seen flying through the heavens at the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation? Somebody say I love the Lord. Why is it that Paul made the statement, said, During the night, the God whom I serve and believe and the angel of God came to me and spoke to me. See! The angels are made ministering Spirits to them that are heirs of salvation to strengthen them, and for them that are heirs of salvation to perform great feats and miracles in their behalf. Now, I'm going to close in a few minutes, but I want you to get this thought tonight. Folks, the Bible says that we are so haughty, we are so lifted up, we are so contrary, we are so self willed that we will just go out blundering through places that the angels wouldn't dare set their feet. Say, Well that just shows you we get by with more. You don't get by with nothing! The Bible said every transgression will receive a just recompense of reward! Every word you ever said, every thought you ever thought, every deed you ever done. Paul said God would judge the secrets of men's hearts in that day by My gospel. Said to bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ, for I will scatter the imagination of the proud. Every thought that you ever thought every word you ever said, every deed that you ever done, you've got to give an account ot God in the day of the judgement. Some of you women here that know that it's wrong to do the things that you do and still you go on and do those things. And your husbands that will set back and sull up on me when I hit that thing and you know that your wife is guilty of it. Instead of saying, My God, I know that's my wife. I should have said something. I should have done something. Now God is on our trail. Instead you sull up, set back. You say, Well, so what? I've had men to do that and I've had men to come to me because I said it. And the men are dead and in their graves tonight. Not all men. They're dead because they said something to me about it because God didn't like what they were doing. When God showed me the wretchedness of the heart of the companion, a lot of times was an evil companion and they being too blind to see it and fight back and stand up against it and God took their lives. Oh, let me tell you something friend, this thing is a serious thing. You cannot play with this. You can go to the ball games and you can go out here and do other things in the world and you can go to the bankers and get upset and blow up at them. But I tell you, you can't do that, Brother Arthur, here. God will get you for it. He'll get you for it. You can't think your thought here. God will get you for it. You can't do your things here. God will get you for it. You're gotta think according to Godliness. You're not that good fella that you think you are. There's none good, no not any of you. He alone is good. So then, God will meet you face to face some day. You keep on and He'll get a little closer, and He'll get a little closer, and He'll get a little closer, and He'll get a little closer, and after awhile it'll be too late for you. Like it was with Ananias and Sapphira. He will give you a warning. He'll tell you. He'll flash the light at you again and again. But you keep on feeling that you are so good that He can't touch you. It's not you. No, not you. And that self-righteous devil will cause you to lose your soul. And it'll cause God to turn on you like a bear that's been robbed of her cubs. I love you. I had a man come up here one night. He hardened his heart. There's a man setting here tonight that's hardened his heart. I had a man that come up here and hardened his heart and I told him to his face right here. I had to openly rebuke him. He has been through one heartache after another, even tonight he's as wretched and miserable as he can be. He still can't get his bearings. Why? Because he knew better than to do what he done but he willfully did it. There's another man tonight. He is wretched. He'd like to take his own life if he could get out of it. Why? Because he wouldn't live for God and he come into the sanctuary as a hypocrite. Stayed in here and me preaching the gospel and pleading with him, but tonight he's a wretch. Why? Because he wouldn't listen. And some of you religious fellas, you watch, there's something on you trail. Oh, you say nobody's gonna do that. Some of you older men, there's some women in your life and they're on your trail and they're gonna get you. Watch and see. No, not me Brother Pike. You watch and see if it don't happen. That man I spoke of while ago was 62 years old. 62 years old and one of the greatest deliverance preachers in the nation, but they got him. Now you say, Brother Pike, that man didn't have nothing. In the vision it showed that he had a gift. In the vision it showed that he had a real genuine gift. Say, But he couldn't Brother Pike. Did Balaam have a real genuine gift? Say, Yes, but he was of God. The Bible said he loved the wages of unrighteousness. Went up to Ramoth-Gilead with murder in his heart to kill David. Some of you set here with murder in your heart tonight. You slay me in your thoughts and in your thinking. Oh, you say, But Brother Pike, we believe in you. You lie! You don't believe in me! You say, we're for you. You are a liar. You're not for me. The man that is for me, his spirit is sweet as honey to me. It's interwoven with me. You may come and act religious and may act pious and act all kind of things, and you may come up and say, Oh, Brother Pike, you are this and you are that, but you're a liar. Brother Pike ain't watching none of that. He that flattereth you diggeth a pit for you to fall in. You may say all kind of good things to me, but Brother, that don't mean a thing to me. When I find your spirit ... The Bible said not to know a man after the flesh but after the spirit, and when I find your spirit I know who you are. I know what you think. I know whether or not you are my enemy and I never change my mind about it from then on. Never. From then on it's always the same. I don't care how you act, what you do, I know who you are, and I know who sent you, and I know what you're here for, and I watch you from that day on. I make it my business to find your spirit when you first come with me. It might take me a little while, but it's just like the men that came here that many of you are familiar with. Brother Bill was so shocked over one day. I told my wife, I said the man might have fasted many years, he might have preached for many years. He might have been a deliverance minister. I don't know about that, but the man ain't right with God and I said if you ever cross that man, I said, you're in trouble. He'll kill you. I saw him in a vision, I asked God to show me his spirit. God did, and then God confirmed it with a vision and I saw the man with a gun and I saw him rise up and I saw his evil way of doing things. It came to pass and Bill said, Brother Pike, I was so shocked one day when I set down in his car and there I was a revolver laying in his car. And tonight the man has left his wife, run off with another woman and the whole thing is messed up. Why? Because he wasn't right with God. He wasn't right with God. And there's some of you that's not right with God. The same God that said he wasn't right with God, and showed he wasn't right with God showed that you are not right with God. That same super spiritual radar of God that moved over the audience that tells the life of a man. Folks, you need the Holy Ghost tonight. You need the Holy Ghost! You need to get the Holy Ghost! I've got men here with me that are so temper mental, if you rub them wrong one little bit they just fly up. Feathers, as we way, fly everywhere. It's because you don't have the Holy Ghost. You may be a fine man. You may be an outstanding man. You may have accomplished much in you life, but you don't have the Holy Ghost, and you're not going in the rapture. Some of you women are the very same way. You have talked and gossiped until you have almost lost your life. You've almost died. They've almost had to put you in the ground, and still, God undertaken for you, and you're still doing the same thing. And some of you men are just a s bad. It's because you don't have the Holy Ghost. You don't have the Holy Ghost. God has ordained that we should serve Him in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives, and I tell you again, in the Name of the Lord, when this Holy Ghost comes into your heart, when this great Spirit enters your life ... The Bible said there is a veil over the minds of the people un-taken away, even until today it remains. That veil is done away with in Christ. That mind is in your heart. That veil that's over it is that same dark cloud that came over Adam and Eve, that same spiritual darkness that's in there. Great light springs up to them that set in darkness. That darkness is in your heart and that great light will come down in here and shine out of your heart, and radiate with the glory of it's lovely sun, and that darkness will be dissolved and just melt away. Just like the frost, or just like the cloud or fog on a foggy day. I will just vanish away and all of a sudden, though you look through the same eyes, apparently, you will see different. You will understand different, you will think different. Brother Gary, you know that's the truth. I can see the way you're shaking your head about it that you've experienced it. It is a difference. I tell you in the name of the Lord. I've experienced it. It's different. I tried to serve God, Bill. I tried to walk with God. I fasted, I prayed, I done all of those things, but it wasn't until the Holy Ghost came into my heart that that thing dissolved and I came out into another world. And I said, My God, look at this; it is a new world. It is a new way of life. It is a new thing. And I found out that my spirit has to be translated into another world before I can experience that wonderful world of God. Behold, old things have passed away and all things have become new. Let me say this in closing. With those minds, folks, those three minds that I spoke of, with those three minds, those minds, one of the Devil, one of God, and one of man; they're using your brain. Won't you remember that. Those minds are lives, they're spirits, they're angelic powers, angelic beings. Either the angel of the Lord, or the angel of Satan, or your angel is using your brain, and if you don't do right ... The Bible said, in Mary Magdalene there was seven devils. And the Bible said, when you're cleaned up, when God calls you and He sanctifies you, and He purifies you; Satan, the unclean spirit, that spirit that you are born with from the fall, that spirit is driven out of you. You are sanctified, you are purified. You're not glorified with His Spirit, but you are clean. You are free from bondage, but when that spirit gets ready to come back, and it's coming back, because it's going to wonder through dry places, and there's not going to be any rest for that fallen angel until he comes back to you and knocks at your door. And when you don't let him in he isn't going to take no for an answer. He's going and pick up seven of his friends and he's coming back and they're gonna entice you, seduce you, war against you, harass your mind, do something through somebody to cause you to get temperamental or upset or be led astray, or cause something to come across your path until they can get a break and they're coming in. And the last state of that man is gonna be worst than the first for they forced themselves in. But, my friend, if you get full of the Holy Ghost they can't come in. They can't come in. You get full of the Holy Ghost, and you're like a bulwark and they can't come in. They can huff and they can puff, but they can't blow the house in. They can't come in. Now, I tell you this tonight, and I want it to bear on your mind. One of those lives is using your brain tonight. One of those lives is using your brain, and when those evil, dirty, filthy, ungodly, low-down thoughts of abaseness of human relation that is out of wedlock and of another man's companion, or another man's daughter, or something that you know ought not to be there, those things of resentment, and jealousy, and backbiting, and hungers and thirsts for the things of this world, riding and loafing, and just running your tongues. The Bible said, in many words there lacketh not sin. Those things are there. The Devil is using your brain like a typewriter. Using your brain. He has teamed up with your appetites, with your God given appetites. Whereas, your own spirit can use your brain to eat, to drink, to sleep, to refresh itself, to go and buy, to get, to sell, according to a normal status of life, according to an ordinary means of life, according to a temperance of life. Being moderate, your own spirit can do that and there's nothing wrong with it and God will bless you. Because that is the human way of life and it is granted to you, but when that thing gets over charged with that devilish evil way of gluttony and willing to let children starve to death, and do without, and the church go down and you don't have no time for God or nobody, no feelings or nothing else, you are on your way to hell. The soul that sinneth shall surely die. Now, I'm going to say these things, and I'm going to shut up; but I feel like God wants me to say this before I shut up. If there is a mind that comes to you of holiness, and righteousness, and godliness, and virtues, and pureness, and all things that be lovely, concern, and love, and adoration to help your neighbor, your fellow man, to swear to your own hurt, to stay away from resentment, to stay away from jealousy. If something arises in your heart say, No, I won't think like that. No, I won't believe that way about Brother Taylor. I won't feel that way toward Brother Pike. I won't feel that way toward Brother Ellis. I won't feel that way toward my fellow man. I won't feel that way toward my creditor up yonder that I know that I done wrong not meaning to and because he's upset with me. I won't feel harsh at him, call him a devil and everything else. If you got something in you that rises up that kicks that evil back, that pushes that evil back, something that causes a continual warfare that keeps putting that back, a continual struggle and striving and saying no, no, no! Day and night, no! That's the mind of Christ. That's the Spirit of Christ. That's the life of Christ on the inside of your heart friend. But, I'll tell you if you give in to the other you do not have the Holy Ghost; you do not have Christ. Charity thinketh no evil. It makes allowance for not one thought of evil, not one impulse of evil, not one reflect of evil. It won't have it. It won't submit to it. It won't except it. Not one, and tonight you're going one way or another. You're going one way or another tonight. Good water and bitter water don't come forth from the same fountain. You can't just think evil one minute and say, Well, I just give into that little bit, but I'm fighting that thing. You are of the Devil. You are of the Devil, because that one little thing you give into you know you shouldn't have given into it. It was the Devil that made you give into it and the Holy Ghost wasn't in your heart to start with or you'd have never given into it. You say, Oh, but Brother Pike, it was. But the Bible said if you'd been of us you no doubt would have continued with us, but you went out from us that it might be made manifest that you was never of us. That every time you come to church and the preacher was preaching, when you was so religious that it was the Devil setting in that congregation; spying out the liberties of the children of God under a religious guise. You never was right in you heart to start with. When the sons of God come to present themselves, the sons of Satan come also. So tonight, remember this one thing, beloved friend. There are sons and daughters of the Devil that come to little Bethlehem as well as sons and daughters of God, and it depends on the mind that's in you as to what you are. Christ in you the hope of glory. That veil is done away with in Christ. Christ in you will dissolve that darkness in your mind. The hope of glory. The only hope of glory, and you'll be able to come out of that dark veil that Paul said is over the minds of the people. In the heart it will dissolve, and you'll come out and see the great daylight of God. For to the great light is sprang up. There shall be light in the evening time. I want you to stand with me. You can go where you want to and hear all the preachers you want to, but I'm going to tell you wherever you go it's going to be this kind of preaching that's going to take you into heaven. If you don't get this kind of preaching, you're not going to make it. If they preach it at Brother Walden's you can listen and go to heaven. If they preach it at Brother Wilson Hembrey's you can listen and go to heaven. If they preach it over here at the church over here in Monroe you can hear it and go to heaven, but Brother, if you don't hear it at any church, if they preach anything else, Paul said, Let them be accursed. As I said unto you so I say it again. If it be an angel that come to you or if they worship an angel or call it an angel or whatever, let him be accursed. If any man think himself to be spiritual, let him be accursed. If any man think himself to be spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Living God, the commandments of the Almighty God. If you are spiritual tonight, don't forget children of God, these are the commandments of the Living God. I want you to search your hearts tonight and your mind tonight, and I want you to ask yourself the question; many of you don't have to ask yourself the question, Who are you and where are you? You know that you are not living for God. You know you haven't lived for God, and you know you're not going to live for God, because you don't have any plans to give up what you desire and what you are doing. You know you don't. But there's some of you that have been blinded by the Devil and when you come into the true light of God, you are going to make a change. You are going to want to make a change and you are going to want to straighten your life up. And I tell you tonight, if God has opened your eyes; like the song said, I once was blind but now I see; if, when you come into this, ladies, when you come into a place to where you say, My God, I've heard the preacher preach it over and over, Wives honor and obey your husband in all things and yet I just let it slip by. I let it slide on by saying, Well, I know that but God knows; you know my husband gets upset and God knows what I have to go through, and God knows I'm trying and well, I know. We got to do all them things, I know that Brother Pike's right, but I ... But I'm gonna tell you one thing , you had better start practicing what I tell you. Not the hearers of the Word are justified but the Bible said the doers of the Word shall be justified. He that doeth and keepeth His sayings. You better get started and make sure that every jot and tittle, every thought is brought to the obedience of Christ. You better get started. You say, Why Brother Pike? Because the translation, which is the rapture, is an inner work of thoughts. You are raptured by inner thoughts for rapture is translation. There is no such word as rapture in the Bible. It is translation. Enoch was translated by faith. With the heart, man hath faith or believes. That means it must be an inner work of faith or the thoughts of the mind of Christ. And the Bible says that God purifieth our heart by faith. You better get your thoughts perfectly in harmony with God because you are not going to make that translation. We are being changed from glory to glory, from faith to faith. You'd better do something. Because I can tell the way you're thinking and the way that your thoughts come in here that you absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, are not going in that direction and you are not thinking those thins. You are not doing it. Let's sing this little song. I once was blind but now I see.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord