Invisible God

There was a picture where Jesus, Solomon painted it in his songs, where Jesus was outside of his own house knocking at the door trying to get in, Brother Van Dyke, in to His own house. Standing out side, and the dew drops had wet the locks, and he stood there with the drops of the night in His hair, and he stood outside knocking, asking to be let in to His own house. And then in the book of Revelation we find a picture there where the Lord Jesus, Himself, is again outside. Outside, wanting to come in, but so many doctrines and disciplines and theologies and ideas and so many personal ambitions in the human spirit, and in the human heart and mind that the Word has no place, and it just stands outside and the ministry knocks, pleading. Pleading, the Word, Jesus Christ, pleading, in this age pleading, asking you to give Him a place. But, as it was at His coming in the days when a virgin conceived, so it is in our day. He can't find no place in the inn. There's no place for Him. He stands outside and knocks, no place for Him, no room for Him to be born. No room for Him to come into the heart. What's the matter? The world won't have Him. I want you to turn with me tonight. I want to take my time, not hold you long, but I want to take my time and try to share with you just a few of the things that God shares with me. I never remember going behind the Sacred Desk at any time in my life when I can truthfully say that I fully shared with the people the thing that God gave me. Though I attempt, as Paul, as to declare the full counsel of the Lord; yet it's a proven fact that we only get just a tiny bit over to the congregation of what God has given us, perhaps, in one day. Now today, the Lord has talked with me much today. Very much. He has shared wonderful revelation, and inspired me over the past revelation that has never been presented to the people. Today for hours He communed with me, but now, you know what it took for God to be able to commune with me? Just to be willing to stay inside of that room, get every worldly thing off of my mind, everything that seemed to be so important that Paul termed as beggarly elements of the world, steal away with Christ and stay right there in the room with him, and let the Spirit of God woo my soul and break down the Word of His revelation and understanding. That's all it took. That's all it takes for you. You know, I believe this with all of my heart. I believe that if God cab take the prophets, and the ministers, and cause them to leave everything behind, and give everything they've got into searching and seeking for the treasures of heaven that we can be interested thirty or forty minutes at a time. Don't you? Don't you? Well, I didn't come here to upbraid you tonight. Maybe you need it. I think we need a lot more of it, but I didn't come here for that. I came to try to share revelation with you. Praise the Lord! Reading from the book of Saint Matthew tonight. If God will help us I'd love to get in to a little revelation. You know, I want you to think on this just before I read. A minister cannot preach except by inspiration, and today my cup has run over because I've been inspired as I talked with God. But when he comes out and stands behind the Sacred Desk and he looks at the people, and I'm not mocking. I don't mean to do that. And he sees them like this: He's not inspired. And it's hard for him to get away from the carnal minded expression to get into the mind of Christ, which is the inspiration. Now remember this. When Jesus went off over in the land of the Gadarenes all they did was just say depart out of our coast, and the Bible said He left. You don't have to say anything to the Lord Jesus. You just show a disinterest in spiritual things. You just show a disinterest in God and watch the Lord lead. That's right. The Spirit of God. The Bible said, He that seeketh findeth. To him that knocketh it shall be opened. Seek ye the Kingdom. It's a searching, it's a seeking, not just coming and sitting down and saying, Well, If we get it all right. If we don't get it all right. But it's searching, seeking. I told my wife today, I said, Betty, I said, Honey, if anything ever happens to me and my mental faculties ever break down, I said, remember one thing. It's not because of the spirit of joy and peace and righteousness. I said, No man in the world could be as happy, or any happier than I am. I've got peace. I've got peace. I've got peace like no man has ever known. I've got great and mighty peace. My spirit, my mind and my heart is so peaceful that I can't describe it. I'm so much at rest and so happy deep down in my spirit, so satisfied. I said, But if I ever break down you know it's because I stayed there so long and strained these nerves and these mental faculties trying to get beyond this physical man, trying to get a hold of God, and pressing in and trying to get a hold of that which is in that other world. Just like a carpenter that stays of a job and puts in too many hours. (?) Well, we're not suppose to draw back from the cross. If that's what it takes that what we want. All right. In the book of Matthew. Let's see if we can seek just a little bit tonight, and see if the mind of the Lord will come in and take over. If you'll get just a little bit hungry tonight He just come in and He'll take over and He'll just begin to feed you. But if there's nobody hungry then you can't do__ In other words, no man has control over the Spirit. How many of you know that? He has to do it Himself, and He just doesn't feed anybody that's not hungry. Why even you don't share your food with people that's not hungry. But now you don't mind sharing it with a little boy or girl that's hungry, do you? Well, the Lord's the same way. So let's get hungry tonight. He that hungers and thirsts. Let's hunger. Ah, you say, Brother Pike, what's the need of it. Because in a little while the rapture is going to take place, and if you're ever going to get right with God, if you're ever going to get the revelation of God, if your ever going to get hungry in God you'd better start getting hungry. Brother Bobby was just telling me today about a dream he had about some folks. And said he looked at them and said they'd gone to sleep with their clothes on, and they'd slept too late to go to work on their jobs. I believe there is something spiritual there. What is it? God. Might be you. You say it's me, Brother Pike? It could be you. I'm not saying who it is, but it could be you. It could be you. It could be me, but it could be you. Let's wake up. Said He'd reward us according to our labor. Saint Matthew the twenty-seventh chapter, reading over in the forty-seventh verse I believe it is. See if we can get a thought here. "Some of them that stood there, when they heard that said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Now, I want you to especially notice here in the fifty-first verse. "And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" Now when we read the next the natural word here, I want you to think on something. God has presented through the past years Himself as a literal word off of the printed page. He has done that that you and I might acquaint our mental faculties with the Word of God, which is a written manifested description of the spiritual God that's ever present within our midst. Now God's here tonight. The Holy Ghost is here tonight. The angels of the Lord are here tonight. All of them are here tonight. They're encamped around about us. They've got their eyes on you. They're watching you. The Holy Ghost is watching you. He's watching you tonight. The angels of God are watching you tonight to see what kind of interest you show in God, to see what kind of spiritual atmosphere there is about you, they're watching you tonight. All in here. They're all in here tonight. And notice this. God, who is the ever present God, that gathers in the midst where two or three come together in His name, that God, because He is invisible__ Paul said He is the invisible God. But it said that Abraham, and Isaac, and Elijah endured as seeing Him who is invisible. How did they do all the great things that they did? They endured as seeing Him who is invisible. How did I go to Canada and preach by faith? I endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Not too long ago out in the Idaho mountains, there as we come across the mountains, Betty and I and the children, I left Portland, Oregon going over to Wisconsin, about two thousand miles. I had about twenty-five dollars, and that's all I had. I said, Betty, the Spirit of God wants us to take a step by faith. And I knew that it was snow country all the way; it was mountains. I didn't know anybody. Never had preached in that area. I knew that I had to cross Idaho. I knew I had to cross over the great states, the states of the Dakota's and so forth. But I said, Betty, let's endure as see Him who is invisible. Let's go by faith. God said, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. God said I'll meet your needs. I'll supply all of your needs according to my riches in glory if you will but take me at my word. I started off, we got on a route over there that they call the Bitter Root Mountains. I reckon the way we'd say it down south it would be Bitter Route. I reckon that's what they meant by Bitter Root Mountain, because it was a bitter root, or bitter route, ever how you wanted to speak of it. We started through the mountains and it was snowing. I didn't have any snow chains, my old tires, I didn't have any snow grip tires, just plain old tires. And I started up the mountain and the snow got deeper and deeper, and I just couldn't go any farther, and the car got slower and slower and slower. Betty was driving, and I don't know whether you've ever seen snow like that or not, but I do declare, I don't believe that I'm exaggerating when I say snow came down just about the size of a half a dollar or bigger. The snow flakes seemed to me that they were that big, and just as thick as they could be. It looked to me like within an hours time it could have completely wrapped me up, my family, my car and everything. At the rate it was coming down it looked like it was going to do just that. We were there in the mountains, there wasn't nobody travelling that route, and there we started across the mountains, and Betty got scared as the snow just completely covered the windshield. And as the snow bed got so deep we couldn't travel Betty stopped. She was almost at a stop anyway, and she stopped to let me get in the other side of the car so I could drive. And I want you to know when I got over there that car didn't do nothing but set there and spin. And up there they have what they call little emergency huts maybe, or a little old room, just a little tiny room, and maybe find one here and another two or three miles or something, and we'd just passed one and we got caught in between those little old emergency huts. And there we was way back out in the mountains in the wilderness, and when the car stopped I said, Betty, I said, This car won't move. I said, I don't know how much gas we've got. I said when the gas gives out the heat will give out. And I said, I know we're low in gas. My register wouldn't work on the car, and I said, We're low in gas. I had done tried to get gas back down the road, but it was dark and we couldn't get any. And I said, Betty, we've got to believe God. I said, God said He'd supply all of our needs according to His riches in glory. I said, God has got to come on the scene. There is no possible way out. It's got to be a supernatural work from God. And I prayed and I begin to mash the accelerator and that car begin to slid backwards, and it slide right off into the snow bank and there we set and the gas ready to run out. I said, Betty, I said, I'm glad that I'm on a rock. I said, I'm glad that I found the right thing when I did. I said, I'm glad I got the right thing, because I'm not shaken the least bit. I said, I'm not worried. God will make a way. I said, I believe it with all of my heart. It stirred Betty. It stirred the children. It was a stirring time. We knew we'd freeze to death in a little bit, or it could cover us up. It had done covered the road and got real deep. And it was covering the car over, and I knew something had to be done. I said, God, I said, I believe just exactly what You said. I said, In this time of crisis, God, You will come to the rescue. I prayed and I prayed. I said, Betty, are you sure you haven't met any cars while you was travelling? I believe she said, George, I met one car and that was way back yonder, miles and miles and miles back, and I haven't met another car. And I said, God has got to do something. And we prayed, we prayed, and we prayed. And then after awhile I got out and I dug, and I done everything I could to get it out and it just wouldn't come out. And I couldn't hardly stand to stay outside so I walked away up the dark road up there. I didn't want to get too far away from my family, but I walk up the road and I said, Well, maybe that emergency shack is close enough back by to where we can get into it. But I went up there and I couldn't find it. I went back and I dug some more, and I prayed some more. Then I said, Betty, God's going to move. God's going to do something for us. And I prayed and about that time over the top of the mountain, right when it looked like we were just at the very last step of the way, there came a car over the mountains. And I looked and there were just two people in the car and they were easing over the mountain. And when they came got close to us and they stopped. And when they stopped I went out there and it looked to me like two men. They had their hair bobbed off. Really it was two women; is what it was, but they got snow bound somewhere, or got in to the snow, and they were late coming in and they were just easing across, and she got snow grips on her car. And I began to talk with her, and I looked at one of them and one of them was so much like a man that I just knew it was a man. And it was a big husky girl, as it was, and I said, Lady. I finally recognized one of them over here as a woman, and I said, Lady, I said, I've got to get out of that snow bank. She said, Well, is there anything that we can do to help. I said, I don't know. I said, I just prayed and, I said, God sent you along. And so I looked at the other lady that was setting over there. She got out and this woman got out, and I thought, Well, now I'll be merciful to this lady, and I'll just get this man. He's a big husky man. I'll get him on one side and I'll get on the other and we'll really push that thing out of here. And so it was I told him, which was a her, I said, You get over there and I'll get over here. And I'll tell you, I don't know just how that woman felt, but I think that after that she was about ready to let her hair grow out and let people recognize what she was, because I really put her through the mill that night. I had her pushing and a tugging, and finally by the help of God, God began to move the car. But I want you to know that we tried everything we could and that car wouldn't move. I looked at that woman, and I said, Well, I said, there is just one thing about it. I said, There's just one thing. I said, God is with me. I said, I'm a minister. I said, Now, when we've done all we can to stand we've got to stand. And I said, We've pushed and we've dug, and I said, We're getting nowhere. I said, I'm going to call on the name Jesus Christ, and I said, I'm going to believe and God's going to get this car out of here. And I said, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus Christ, get this automobile out of this snow bank. And God in Heaven knows that I'll have to stand there in the day of judgment and give account of what I'm saying. The automobile after all the trouble we had together rolled out of the snow bank. And we got out there, and then after we got out of the snow bank we were sitting there in the road and this woman got in her car and we thanked her, and that was all she could do, and she went on her way. Then we got in our car and it just set there and spun. She was gone and the car was sitting there spinning. I said, Oh, my goodness. And we began to push. We were going up a mountain. We pushed it for about, I guess, a quarter of a mile spinning the tires and pushing it. Got it that far and we just couldn't get it any farther. Snow was still piling on. And I'd say it was way in the middle of the morning, I guess, by then. And I prayed again. I said, God, I said, You've got to help us. And I want you to know that God spoke to that same woman's heart. She turned around after she'd gone miles down, miles down that snowy road and come back up there to where we were, And she said, Something told me to come back. They weren't Christians, but she said, I just couldn't get away. And said, I turned to this other woman, I said, something tells me to go back up there. And she said, Well, I don't know. Said, We're just women, said, if we get stranded up here, said, we're really in a fix. But she said, If you feel like going go ahead. So they turned around. God gave them the courage to come back. And I want you to know that when they got back up there to where we were we all got in the car and then here car wouldn't go. And there we were in her car, and her car wouldn't move. So we turned her car around and pushed it around it and started down the hill. And by going down the hill all of us could get into it. But I want you to notice what happened. I had done cut my car off, and my car was over on the side of the road. But I want you to see how God worked. Even though we spent the night right where we were. You might say, How do you know you spent the night there? It was still dark. I want you to know when we turned around and started down that road here came the snow plows that had quit work hours back because of the heavy snow, and they were coming in in the morning. And just as I was leaving my car they came along and said, Wait, we've clear the way for you. And said, If you can get to the top of this hill you can coast all the way down in to the next city. Said, It's miles and miles, but said, if you'll just be careful, said, you can make it. I want you to know that God kept that woman out there with her automobile, and kept my little babies warm, and God took care of us because we endured as seeing Him who is invisible. And God made the way. We travelled thousands of miles and spent over two hundred dollars and burned out generators, and I don't know what all happened, but God met the need all the way over to Wisconsin. When we got there I believe we'd spent about two hundred dollars or something. But God met the need. Besides that while I was riding across those after we'd found the victory there, still following Him who is invisible, got out there across the lands of Dakota, snow, snow, snow, and lo and behold I just had just a little bit of money, and God said, Send Bobby Woodruff an offering. Right out there in the middle of the Dakotas. I said, Lord, I said, Betty, I said, God just spoke to me. I said, Lord, do you want me to send an offering. Let me tell you something, friend. When God spoke to that little widow to give all she had it was for a reason. God knew what little money I had I'd never make it across that plain. He knew He had to do a miracle for me, and He knew that my faith wasn't in condition to believe for a miracle after the things I'd been through with. But He knew if He could just get me to give a little bit, something that would inspire my faith, God could work a miracle. I said, Betty, God said send Brother Bobby an offering, and I said, Betty, I'm going to send it to him. So we began to look, and after awhile we found a little old store out there, way out in the Dakotas. And it was way out in the Dakotas, just a lonely little place, and we stopped and it was a place where you could get a money order. It was some kind of a little old post office, or something. And I think the lady was glad to see us come by it was such a lonely spot. And we need some crackers, or something to eat, and the lady gave the babies some crackers. We didn't have to ask; she just gave it to them. Oh, I could tell you so many things tonight. Enduring as seeing Him who is invisible. Walking with God, doing the thing that God tells us to do. So it was there, I got back in the car and my faith was a rest and I was at peace with God, because I had done the thing that pleased God. I found out later how much the offering was really needed back here, for at that time they were going through a crisis, and it was really needed. Brother Bobby was gone off over in the islands somewhere and his wife really had a need, but God met my needs, Brother Bobby. God poured out his Spirit on me, and God caused me to get telegrams in the way. I don't know how God worked it, but He did it. We made that trip successfully because we endured as seeing Him who is invisible. You know, I want to say this tonight. A lot of times we fail to do the thing that God tells us, because we think God is trying to take from us. Which reminds me of the night I started out of the Church and God said, Give the last bit of money you've got in the church. And I gave the last bit of money that I had there, and I gave it to the man there. And it was just a little bit. I said, Lord, I don't know what I'm going to do, but you said give it. And I need a set of tires for my car, and before I got to the door somebody stopped me and gave me a set of tires. I couldn't have possibly have bought them with what little bit of money I had. God wanted to bless me. God wants to bless us but we've got to create an interest in God's Word, and we've got to put forth an effort and give of our substance. (Begin side two.) How much? Give all of our living. Praise the Lord. What? Enduring as see Him who is invisible. I want you to stand with me. I just__ I haven't preached to you much tonight. I've just kind of testified, or since it's a testimony I didn't know it was going to be that long. I usually don't get into nothing like that. I usually let Betty do that, because testimonies and preaching the gospel it's just kind of two different things. Testimonies is a confirmation, but preaching the gospel__ You know, I just felt like, I don't know why I felt like doing that tonight, because God has given me some wonderful revelation that I wanted to share with you tonight, but maybe you needed that; I don't know. But I do want you to think on this tonight, because we don't have enough interest here. I feel and interest now. We could go on. But see? It's getting late. It's a little too late to get really get into a revelation message now. But that is when you have to work. I want you to create and interest. When you come to the house of God try to get interested in God's word. You say, Preacher, why do you plead with me to get interested in God's word? Listen. In just a short while you'll lift up your eyes in hell, and as I stand before God you would give ten million worlds if you could here me say just one more time, Get interested in the Word of God. There are people, friend, that's screaming in hell tonight. They've been screaming in hell for thousands of years, and if they could just hear one more time the voice of a preacher say repent you couldn't hold them. You couldn't hold them. They'd run to the altars. They're in hell tonight. Some more or on their way, and here's the sad part about it. Do you realize that we are on the brink of eternity, and that out of this small congregation that's standing right here tonight that some of you are no doubt, and I trust that you are not, but some of you no doubt are those that were before of old ordained unto condemnation, because God saw that you never would keep your spirits right, and would, in spite of all the preacher preaches within your life time you are still going to hell. You are as good as in hell tonight. Why? Because he saw what you were going to do. You say, Brother Pike, if that be so then I haven't got a chance. God said let whosoever will. He just knew who would and who wouldn't. I guarantee you one thing. If you humble you're heart, and your spirit, and your soul, and you come down here and cry out to God, God foresaw it from the foundation of the world. He foresaw you doing those things. But if you don't do it God also foresaw that, too. Don't you forget it. Peter said, Make your calling and election sure. Make sure that you're one of the called. Make sure you're one of the elect. How can I do this? He said by performing these things, gentleness, kindness, meekness, long suffering, patience. Said, if you do these things, if your nature can produce these things, Peter said, you're one of the elect. Ain't nothing can ever cause you to fall. Now, I said this, and I want to say it again hurriedly tonight. Anybody can show a good spirit when things are going their way. Anybody can do that. Anybody can pay attention when something makes them feel good. But it takes the nature of Christ when they are spitting in your face, when they are mocking you. When they're trying to crucify you it takes God's spirit and God's nature to be able to maintain love and kindness then. That's what proves what you are. So then, I ask you to come and gather around the altar with me tonight just for a few minutes. Come and talk with me for just a few minutes. As far as I know we'll close the revival out tomorrow night. Tomorrow night will be the last night as far as I know unless God should speak different. But I want to see some of you really get stirred up in your spiritual being and search for God. I want to see you get acquainted with God and realize your need for God. Friend, the end is coming. I want you to realize that the end of time is coming. When I leave here I trust that I'll see you again, but it's been about a year since I was here last time, and do you realize that the Lord Jesus could very easily have come during that period of time. And before I could ever see you again the Lord Jesus could come back into the world. It's a fearful time. In other words, the Bible said it's at the door. He said we would know when it was near. He said, Ye shall know when it's near. You are not children of darkness, He said, but you are children of understanding. You are children of light. And He said the wicked would not understand, but the righteous would understand. And He said that day shall not come upon you unaware. Do you really believe that we as children of God who have served God, and prayed to God, do you really believe that He would deceive us and let the day catch us unaware? You know He wouldn't. He said, Ye shall know when it's near at hand. And He said, Ye shall know that it's nigh, even at the door. Even at the door, friend. And I want you to know that it's nigh tonight. It's nigh to night. Everything shows that it's nigh tonight. While you're praying I want you to listen for just a minute here. The Bible said that the wise men saw His star in the east. Now I want you to think seriously on this while your praying. Keep your minds right on God. The wise men saw His star in the east, and they went to pay tribute unto this great Christ that was born in a manger. You might say, Brother Pike, you're crazy, when I say this, but I want you to hear it. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. All things has only been types and shadows of that great and notable day of the Lord. Did you know, as far as I know this is the truth, that the little place of Jeffersonville, Indiana is called Nazareth. It means Nazareth. Did you know that William Branham is a type of the Lord Jesus and that God is appearing in the body of William Branham in this age? because he is the Messiah of the age, being a type of that star among stars. The wise men knew that it was the star that ruled the stars, because it was a greater star. Stars represent angels, and angels represent ministers. I'm telling you just what God showed me. And there has come on the scene a minister that has been magnified by God above all the rest to show the head coming to the body. And the wise men are seeing that star, and the shepherds of the flock are seeing that star. And that same Jesus that could find no place to be born, it's the same today. It's the same today. A virgin body has been found, and I believe that virgin body is the body of William Branham that God has preserved for it. And in that virgin body that types out the virgin Mary, or the Church, the Christ of Heaven is being born unto His people. Born in a stable. You might say, Brother Pike, what do you mean, a stable? Remember, the people of this world are considered brute beast, and they dwell out yonder in a place that God calls the stable. And He was driven out of the Churches, and there was no place for Him in the Inn and He had to be born among the brute beast of this world, born in a stable. Shepherds, they've come to look on Him, those that are watching their flocks, they've come to look on Him. They've come around. They've took a look. Who was it that crucified Him? Who was it? Remember this: It was when the body of Jesus Christ began to go against the politics of that day they put Him on a cross. And remember though Daniel, though the Hebrew children, though Jesus never tried to cross their laws, yet they made laws that crossed the gospel they stood for that they might condemn them. And I want you to know the Catholic Church is going to cross this body of Christ that's being born. It's going to cross the ministry of William Branham, because it's teachings are contrary. And when he stands for the right do you know who's going to take him to the cross? He said, I got these nails in the house of my friends. It's going to be the Church world that don't have the revelation. They're going to call him an Antichrist because in types and shadows he is a perfect Antichrist in types and shadows, as far as the natural man is concerned, but the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. And when you reverse it around his the perfect type of Christ, and the others who seem to be the right thing are antichrists. What does it mean? It means they are not going to be satisfied until they do away with this body. I wish tonight that I could have brought forth a message here, though I wasn't trying to tonight, but I could have brought forth a message that I've got on tape that I preached in Hialeah, Florida on Joseph rejected of his brethren, concerning the body of Christ and these things that God revealed to me. Friend, I want you to know that it's nigh, it's even at the door. The sign of His coming is appearing. His star is being see. I want to say this, and I want you to think on it for just a few minutes. God who hath manifested Himself as the written word has at last come to manifest Himself as a being in this world. He promised to do it. He promised to make those Scriptures come alive. He promised a day when He would do away with the written word, as far as consuming the printed page, and that the Word would live among us, that it would not be something that we would hear, or read, but it would be God Himself manifested. And we've come to that age. We've come to the time when those Scriptures have been fulfilled. And now God Himself is appearing. The spiritual Word is appearing. I had such a great message tonight that I would like to have shared with you, but God knows. He knows what we have to say to stir. He knows what we can feed off of. But think on this. With this I'm going to turn the service back to our Brother, but think on this one thing, friend. Remember this, that when we have to feed off of something outside of what God desires to give us it just means that we're left out of that much of the mind of Christ. And it just means that we're that much longer in growing up and coming to the real thing that God has got for us. Brother Bobby.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord