Greater Works Than These

...set for the 27th, is it? The 29th. The tent meeting up in Jeff is set for the twenty-ninth, and the location thus far__ They have rented a lot. We were able to get it for about five hundred dollars a week. The man said that if it continued on for two weeks that he wouldn't charge us any more. Some of you are familiar with Jeff and the main thorough-fare that goes through Jeff. Some of you are familiar with it. What's the name? It's on 10th street. Is that the main thoroughfare? On 10th Street. I don't know whether you're familiar with the White Castle or not, but the White Castle from what I understood, had to do with the revelational thing that was taking place, and the ones that went over there with us, I believe they'll vouch for the fact that it came out that way. But it's not too far from the White Castle going out towards Green's Mill. It's right in Jeff, heading in that direction. Right on 10th Street, the main thoroughfare. It's suppose to be a real good location, and a real good ground for setting the tent. Now we may not set__ I don't know how much of the tent we'll set over there, but I think I know what we should set. I'll just have to wait and find out. But, as far as I know now I know what the Lord is wanting. But they want, people of that area, there's a number of families and churches that are real enthused. And they don't want us to wait as long as we're going to wait. They say they don't see why we can't have the tent meeting earlier. But we're going to wait just a little while and have it the time that we feel that we ought to. There are a number of places that are wanting tent meetings. Especially in the areas of Chattanooga. At Signal Mountain they are asking for the tent, and they're doing everything they can to get everything ready so that we'll come into that area with the tent meeting. And I want you to pray that God will bless us in the tent meetings, as well as in our missionary work overseas. Pray that God will bless us in our home activities, and our endeavors here on the home front, because it's necessary that we do something here on the home front. Or else it won't do us any good to go out there. So let's pray that God will help us here on the home front. If you don't have a vision and a concern let's get one. I'm going to read a little Scripture, and probably relate a few little things that happened. There is no way we can go into the revelation of it, but if we relate a few of the natural things that way we can program you're thinking, or formulate your mind so as when we do spiritually speak you can place it right on a foundation, piece it all together in bits and pieces, and after awhile have a sequence, or a continuity, of the great move of God. And thus you'll have an expose of the spiritual things of Christ. Christ from within the veil. Chapter 5, if you've got your Bibles let's read just a little bit. In the sixteenth verse, (Reads from St. John 5: 16-47.) You know, Jesus made a statement here in the 37th verse. He said, "Ye have never at anytime heard his voice nor seen his shape." He says here in another place, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." There is a number of things here that I'd like to comment on just a little bit. He said, "..I have greater witness than that of John", in the 36st verse. He said, You were willing to walk in his light, but now there is a greater witness. Praise God. I thought Brother Bill for sure would see that if anybody would. His spirit beareth witness that he does, and moving on down to Brother Gary. Jesus says, Words, he that hearth my words, and believeth on Him that sent me hath everlasting life. He hath everlasting life. He hath everlasting life, and he shall not come into condemnation. He said at this time, they that hear the voice of the Son of God, they shall hear, they shall live. Now, judgment, authority, He hath committed it all to the Son. The twenty-ninth verse, some shall come forth unto resurrection of life, some unto resurrection of damnation. A lot of people don't believe there is going to be anybody that's going to go to hell, anybody that's going to be damned, that God loves everybody. But it very definitely states__ It doesn't say anything about what you have believed. I want you to notice that now; that every man will be judged according to his works. It says, "Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice." Now I want you to notice this. When it says all shall hear His voice, a lot of times we feel like that the time shall come when the righteous shall hear his voice. But it doesn't say that. Paul said that we hold to the fact that there shall be a resurrection, both of the just and of the unjust. And it is confirmed by the Scriptures, "in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice." The drunkard, the harlot, the murderer, the thief, all of the cunning men, they will hear it. The Christians, they shall hear it. But now here is the difference. All of them will come forth in the resurrection, but the difference is, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. All right. There is one other thing I want to point out. It said here, they said to Jesus, You have made ourself equal with God, and they were all upset. Now, it was said, You have made yourself equal with God because you say that you are a Son of God. I want to introduce all of those thoughts tonight, because we'll probably kind of seesaw back and forward different thoughts here, talk to you a little. It might be scattered but we'd like to say something. I notice our Brother Thrasher is here; he and his wife, tonight. I hadn't noticed them until just then. I don't know whether they come in while I was reading or what, but we're certainly glad to have Brother Thrasher and his wife. As a matter-of-fact, I met them yesterday for the first time, and he told me he was coming to be in service with us, he is a young minister of the gospel, and he's on the radio over in Atlanta, I believe it is. Is that right, Brother? And he said he'd heard our ministry on the radio and he was telling me about some things that we had said concerning the blood that really thrilled his heart, and we're certainly glad to have them here tonight. Now, maybe one of these nights we'll mention something on the blood that's really astounding. You will probably really be astounded, but maybe we'll mention something on it. All right. Now. Let's just talk for a few minutes, and let me just be a brother to you and talk with you instead of hollering and screaming. And I probably will be before I get through. I always wind up that way. But, let me try to talk with you just a little bit. You know, preachers get excited. They get to talking about the Word of God, and they start off just as calm as a gentle summer breeze, and when they get through it sounds like a hurricane coming through, you know. They get all excited, and the first news you know they've swept away all of the debris. His fan is in His hand. He shall thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner. You know, they used to trample. Gather the wheat and they'd get in there and trample on the wheat, and on the grain. They'd just trample, trample, and then as they trampled all of that which was on the wheat, you know, all of the husks, whatever, it would just break off, the leaves, and whatever, and it would jump up, like that. And then they had a winnowing fan. They just, like that it would jump up, and then the wind would blow it away. You know, that's the way it is. A lot of times it's sad to say, but some of them that'd jump up and shout and holler, it's just the winnowing fan, and swish! contrary winds of doctrine blows them away. They don't have anything. Whereas, there are people that shout, dance, like David before the Ark of the Covenant, with all of their might. They do have something from God. A lot of times the devil will cause them to do that just to do away with the Word and cause a lot of emotion and that's all there is to it. You know, they never grow in the knowledge of God, and the grace of God, or in the wonderful things of God. There is a time for everything, shouting and praising God. There's a time for that. And then there's a time to listen to God to hear what God has to say. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, if we knew where God was so we could contact Him we'd listen to Him. But the Bible says when the minister speaks it shall not be him speaking, but the Father speaking from within him to let all the world keep silent. They shall all be taught of God, for God is in His temple. And the Bible teaches that you are the temples of the Holy Ghost. Ye are the temples of the living God. How many of you believe that is true? See? This was the thing that really upset the people with Jesus. They said, You make yourself equal with God. You make yourself equal with God. How did He make Himself equal with God? Somebody would say, Well, there is one thing for sure, Brother Pike. I wouldn't dare try to make myself equal with God. But did you know, all Jesus had done was said I'm the Son of God. Because He said He was the Son of God they said, You make yourself equal with God. Do you know what? Tonight I'm a Son of God. You know, I said this a lot of times. If a dog could talk he'd say, I'm a son of dog. You'd say, He's equal with a dog for sure. Isn't that right? A dog comes from a dog. But, I'll tell you one thing. There can't be but one thing that comes from God. If cats come from cats, and dogs from dogs, and if a son of a horse is a horse, then a son of God couldn't be anything but what? Jesus said, I have called ye Gods, and that's what upset them. Brethren, I say this again. A god is something that cannot die. A god is something that is made to worship. I will make them come and kneel at your feet and know that I have loved you. And then the Bible said, I praise you in a good thing. Let others praise you in a good thing. Do you love Jesus? For you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Isn't that right? So then, tonight what great people we are. My! If the church ever gets a hold of the real doctrine of Christ, if they ever get away from all of the fears and the worries, and away from all of the frivolous things of the world, and come into the knowledge of what they are and who they are and what God has done for them, I'll tell you, it won't be any trouble to take over the world and everything in it. Did you know that? People of the church, I'll say we to keep from saying them, Paul said. We as the church people, we've been so interested in the materialistic side of life, and fame and popularity and money, and all of the things of education, and all of the attire of the world so much that we have not really got down to business to learn about our inheritance with God, or to learn who we are. Isn't that right? What we need to know is who we are, what we are, and what we're going to do for God instead of running and being afraid and always afraid that the devil is going to get us, always afraid the bugger man is going to get us. Isn't that something? You know what causes that, a mother fills a little heart of a child with all kind of foolishness, or set them under some T.V, or some weird radio program, or let them go to the movies, or read some weird book, and their poor little hearts are always filled with fear. And the thing that causes that to happen to a child of God is one that's always playing around with something they've got no business playing around with and they get under condemnation. Somebody say amen. I said they get under condemnation by messing with that which they know God doesn't want them to mess with. And when condemnation comes their faith leaves them, or they make faith shipwreck, and then every time the bugger man howls a little bit they're on the run. The Bible said taking the shield of faith that you might be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Isn't that right? Draw nigh to God, resist the devil and he'll flee from you. So then, the secret is to draw nigh to God. Faith comes from drawing nigh to God. Faith resists the devil. Isn't that right? You should never give in to fear. You should never give in to sickness. You should never give in to poverty. You should never give in to your feelings. It doesn't matter how you feel you shouldn't ever give in to it. You might say, Oh, just wait, Brother Pike, until you have a good pain to strike you across the head. I've had some. I've never had any good ones, but I've had some hard, bad ones. I tell you this one thing. Pain is real. Heartaches are real. Sorrow is real. Grief is real. Poverty is real. And when pain and heartaches come you feel it. And I tell you, you're so tore up you don't have any power to resist it. A lot of times when you're melancholy, people have cut you to your heart, and they've done something that's wrong, got you upset or got you temperamental, you don't have any desire to resist that spirit, or that feeling that becomes interwoven with yourself. You don't have any desire to do that, but Brother and Sister that is the moment of testing, that's where your faith is being tested. It's that very moment that God is wanting to see what you will do. It's not when everything is all right that you're faith is being tested. If everything is just find and you've got a good place to live, you've got plenty to eat, you're in good health, you don't have any worry whatsoever, that's not a test of your faith. You don't even know whether you've got faith or not. But I'll tell you what. Let things begin to creep in on you a little bit, let things begin to cross you up a little bit. Let somebody rub you wrong a little bit, you get into to a real pressure, get under real pressure from financial obligations, get thrown back in a corner when everybody is putting nails in your hands, and everybody is putting thorns on your head, when everybody is speaking against you, everybody is finding fault, all kind of sickness is coming, and then raise up in the Word of God and say, It doesn't matter how I feel. It doesn't matter what I think, down in my heart I still believe what God says about it. If God said it I believe it. It's got to be the way that Christ said it. No matter what the opposition is I still believe, and then you'll see the devil get on the run. You'll see the devil get on the run. You say, But, Brother Pike, little old me. Like a preacher said, I've said this a number of times, you know. Some folks say, Well, I'm just a little old worm, and this preacher said, Yeah, said, the devil knows that so he's going to put you on a hook and go fishing with you. It's true that the Lord did say to Jacob, thou worm Jacob I will help thee. And it is a true fact that a butterfly in it's early stages he's a worm. But after he goes through the stages of the metamorphosis and comes out he's a butterfly. He's not a worm anymore. He's left the old cocoon. He's not crawling around on the ground anymore. But he's a heavenly creature. Oh, my Brother, a bird don't have to sit around and listen to the rattle of some old something laying over in the grass does he. A rattlesnake come up there and start wiggling his tail around, and shaking himself, and showing himself off, why, the bird will chirp a few times and just look at him as some big boaster and fly off and leave him. Isn't that right? Of course, if a rattlesnake got to shaking real good a lot of you'd fly off and leave him, too. But I'll tell you what, that's the way the devil is, he's just one big blow. It's true that he can cause you a lot of trouble if you will listen at him, and let him get control of your mind, and control of your spirit. But we don't have to listen to the devil. You know, it's like I've said so many times, and I remind you of this because I believe it's really needful. There are those three minds. How many of you have ever thought on that since we taught that here? Have you ever considered that. Do you ever go back to that? Do you ever refresh your mind in that, that there are three lives, there are three minds, there are three spirits, there are three powers. But all of them have to use the same brain. Isn't that right? Everyone of those great powers they have to use the same brain, because there is only one of you. There are three of them, but there is only one of you. There is a God spirit. There is a man spirit. And there is a satanic spirit, which is an angelic spirit. But there is only one brain, and all three of them is trying to use it at one time. That's what causes you to get confused. Haven't you seen the time a lot of times when you'd just like to turn that thing off like a radio. You just think, Dear God, is I just had a switch on this thing to cut it off. But, you know, it's like a computer. You think all the time. You are a thinking machine. All the time you think. You get wore out with yourself because you think. But see? You don't have to be like that. Think is not given to wear you out, and to wear you down, and to tear you up. You're thinking wouldn't do that. You body is made to do that so that isn't what wearies you, because God has made you body generate strength to where you can do that, and to where it will be enjoyable. But the thing that wearies you is that the thoughts that are coming to you, it's not your spirit, nor is it God's spirit, but it is the spirit of fallen angels, satanic spirits, demon spirits, devil spirits that are cut off from life, and cut off from the refreshing of God, and they're in the dark dry places, wondering through dry places, seeking rest and can't find it. And they're looking for some human body to get into to get away from those dry dreary places. That's why Jesus cast seven devils out of one woman. All of them are looking for a place. And Brother, when they find somebody that is not filled with the spirit of God, or the Holy Ghost, that don't have an resistance, those spirit begin to pour in. And when one gets in he holds the door open for another one. Isn't that right? He holds__ I tell you what, let a devil of drinking get in, get you good and drunk, and then he'll hold the door open for a spirit of lust to come in and keep him company. And the first news you know your in a mess. He might even invite a murder spirit in, lying, thieving spirit. Somebody say amen. How many of you understand what I'm saying? But see, God, otherwise God has given you a lot of energy. Oh, a man is filled with energy. If it wasn't for the fact that those evil spirits, coming in, talking to his mind, and pounding on his mind, just like somebody with a typewriter, if it wasn't for those spirits that is absorbing the virtue of his body, and pulling the very life, and strength out of him, just like a parasite, or a tick on a dog. If it wasn't for that, if it wasn't for those hideous feelings. You know, a spirit is a nature. When it comes on you whatever that nature is, if it's a lust spirit, when it hits you and comes on you you will be real lustful in the flesh. Now, some of you don't know what I'm talking about, now do you? If it's a temper spirit, when that thing ceases you you just boil like a teapot. You don't want to get rid of it. You want to get revenge is what you want to do. And when you get that old melancholy devil, he's so melancholy, he says, I think I'll blow my brains out. Nobody don't love me. They've mistreated me over at Little Bethlehem. They don't care for me no more. I've give my life to it. And the chances are, well, the devil ain't done nothing but cause trouble. And anybody that will give place to him must be friends to him. Now, you don't know nothing about what I'm talking about now, do you? (Begin tape one, side two.) It just wants to talk, talk. It don't care what gossip is about. When that think gets on you it's just got to find fault with somebody. It just can't be pacified unless it's talking against somebody, tearing down somebody, hurting somebody. It don't even know why it's doing it. It's just doing it. It's got the nature to do that. Isn't that something. Folks, let me tell you, when those spirits get into individuals and you get around those individuals you're going to reflect that thing. You know, it's been proven that one individual can be feeling fit, just to the point to where they could run a foot race, and then this other individual comes around that's got an old devil, and he starts with his groans, and his bones, and the moans, and the back aches, and the first news you know, that fellow that didn't have a pain he's ready to go to bed. He's sick. Got to send him to the hospital. You heard the man give the illustration here not too long ago where they blind-folded this man, got around him, done certain things to him, and told him he was bleeding to death. He wasn't bleeding a drop, and they said he was bleeding bad. And the man got all nervous and shook up, and they whacked him again. And he said, He's really bleeding now, it won't be but a few minutes now. And in a few minutes he was dead. They hadn't done nothing to him. He had a heart attack. Do you understand what I'm saying? A lot of people say, Well, Brother Pike, the reason I have all of these thoughts and the reason I'm all cast down is because it's little old fragile me. I'm just a little old can't help it. But did you know, that little old can't help it, according to science, according to science now, that little old fragile heart of yours and that little old can't help it person, did you know that scientist say that in a period of about twelve hours, or something, whatever it is, around the clock, or a day, that that little old heart pumps eighty-one tanks, box car tanks of blood? You know, I use to think it was something. They talked about the New York Times, they used so much ink up there until they had to bring it in by the tankers, and just bring it in and attach the hose to the wall of the machines and just go on and run day and night. I thought, My, that's unbelievable. But then when I learned, that scientist say my little old heart that we feel is so fragile it just can't make it through the day, fills up all of those box cars. I thought, My dear God! No wonder David said I am wonderfully made. What it is, Brother, Sisters, is it's not that little old fragile you. God didn't make you some little old fragile, can't help it, can't make another step sort of a person. You're not lazy and run down, because of that. The Bible said don't faint in your mind. That's where the trouble is. All of your sickness, it doesn't come because your body is fragile. It comes because of spiritual oppression, thoughts you entertain; thoughts of defeat, thoughts of weariness, all kind of thoughts of poverty. I can't do this, and I can't do that, and I feel bad because, and I'm just sick, and I can't go any farther. I don't have any strength. You'd have if your weren't lazy. It's them lazy thoughts that you give in to that causes you to get to where you don't even have any energy anymore to get up and be about your daily business, let alone the Father's business. Somebody say I love Jesus. You act like I'm speaking in a foreign language. All right, then what is this? See? It is those minds that are speaking to us. I don't want to listen to that mind of corruption. I don't want to listen to that mind of defeat. I don't want to listen to those thoughts of poverty. All of those fears and frustrations, and spend my entire life always afraid, always worrying. Worrying, worrying, worrying, worrying, worrying over everything. Worrying over everything. You know, I worry about the weather. I worry about my body. I worry about paying my bills. I worry about my children. I worry about myself. I worry, worry, worry, all the time, worry. I don't want to be like that. What kind of life is that? Folks, that's the devil. Did you know that? You say, Now, wait a minute, Brother Pike. You can't prove that's the devil. I sure can prove it's the devil. The Bible said, Let not your heart be troubled. If I let my heart be troubled then I'm contrary to the Word of God, which is the devil doing that. I'm listening to the wrong voice. The Bible said rejoice forevermore. How in the world are you going to rejoice when you're worrying about the whole world falling apart. Somebody said, Well, don't you think it's falling apart? So what, let it fall apart. I'm not worried about that. Somebody said, Brother Pike, do you mean to tell me that you're not worrying about it? I don't want to be like chicken little. Have you ever read that little story? The stars are falling, the heavens are crumbling. I don't think it was nothing but an acorn, maybe, that fell on her head. That's the way people are. Let the world fall apart. God promised me new worlds. God promised me new life. God promised me new health. God promised me happiness. I'm not worrying about what science says about it. I'm not worrying about what people have to say about it. God's Word emphatically states that all things work together for my good. And I believe it. The Bible said, God, even my God shall supply all of my needs according to according to His riches in glory. Now, Brother, if he's the one that has to afford the riches, and he's the one that has to take care of the matter, I'm going to let Him do the worrying about it. If there's any need to worry let Him worry about it. I didn't say that I could do it. I don't expect to do it. See? My little Danny and Joe, they don't go around worry about who's going to pay the light bill and who's going to put the groceries on the table, and whether there's going to be a bed over there in the corner for them at night. Why they don't have time for that. They're too busy riding their bicycle. They're having a good time; let Daddy worry about that. Daddy's the one that brought me here into the world. Him and Mon are suppose to take care of that. Ain't that the way God is? Hallelujah! Rejoice forevermore! He said consider the little sparrow. Just consider the little sparrow. Why, they don't sow. They don't have to go out and gather crops but God feeds them. Said there's not one of them that falls to the ground but what God attends their funeral; not one of them. Consider that which is out there in the field. The grass of the field, which today is in the field, tomorrow in the oven. Or that is to say, the wheat. Consider it. Who brought it up? Who gave it life? Consider the flowers. God takes care of everything. Why should I listen to all of those worries, and all of those oppressions. And folks, another thing is, when you listen to all of those degraded thoughts of lust and covetousness, and theft, and ugliness, and filth, and degraded things, you are bound to wind up in the ditch. I don't mean this sacrilegious, but if you keep feeding off of slop you're going to become a hog. So then, what should I do? Well, that's one side of life as we say, that mind of Satan that shows us all of the sides of depression, failure, heartaches, worries, abasement. But then what about the other side. We say joy, peace. You know, that third party, not God nor Satan, but that third party is man's spirit. Isn't that right? Man's spirit is a spirit, as we say, of necessity. If's not a degraded thinking like Satan;s is. It's not a joyful, jubilant hallelujah, praise God, every thing's going to be all right. It isn't that kind of spirit either. That's God's spirit. You know that spirit of confidence, faith, rejoicing. Somebody said, Well, I don't need God for that. I'll just go ahead and do that anyway. But you can't do that. Your spirit, your mind, your thinking, that other life, it's thinking of necessity. Those thoughts are like this. I must tie my shoe. I must get up. I must go to bed. I must work to be able to eat. I must pay my bills. I must wash my face. I must brush my teeth. You understand what I'm saying? That mind of necessity, that spirit, that life, God gave that to Adam. God intended for Adam and Eve to have that. We're suppose to have that. There is nothing wrong with that spirit, nothing wrong with that life. My Brother, God made that temple, and He made that spirit and He made that life for one purpose, and that's so that He, the spirit of joy and jubilance, the great power of God, the promises of eternal life, the joy of Christian living, the confidence, the faith of health and happiness, the great extensive outlook and believing of living on forever, that that mind might come in and interweave itself with our spirit of necessity to give that spirit the joy and the jubilance as Jesus said, I come that you might have life, and that you might have this life more abundant, filled up and overflowing to where that man that just thinks in the terms of necessity can think in terms of necessity like this. I must work so that I can eat. Glory to God, what a joy it is to work. I feel so good. What a joy it is to labor that I may have to give to help others. The little orphan. Oh, I just have an abundance of strength and joy and jubilance. My! You couldn't make me set at home if you wanted to. Can't make me set down in a rocking chair and rock the day away. I'm bubbling with energy. I'm bubbling with strength. I've got to do something. Somebody say amen. Somebody said, But I'm so tired, and a little bit lazy. A whole lot lazy and a little bit tired. You say, Brother Pike, what are you talking about. Brother, I'm just saying that we need to learn to differentiate between the voices that are speaking to us. All three of them are using the same brain. There is a couple of them that's entitled to use that brain. It was made for that purpose. But if your spirit is a spirit of necessity, if your mind and you life is the kind that I've described, and if it must energized with some superior life, if it's not energized, or activated with the great spirit of God to want abundance of living then that means that you have open house for the devil, and you are going to have all of his crowd setting around in their sad, stooped over way sucking on the bottle, and sucking on the weed. You know, that's the way devils and demons are. Devils and demons will set down in a circle and they'll say, Let's have a smoking party. And they start shooting it into the veins, you know, and sucking on the weed. That's all they know to do. But, oh, Brother, Sister, there is something to do outside of that. You say, Brother Pike, how do you know all that? Because I feel all that. I share all that. I enjoy all of that. Ah, you don't do that. Yes, I do. If I didn't do that I would be a liar, and all liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire. I enjoy this abundant living. Jesus said, I have come that you might have life. How many of you have got life tonight. Brother, I've got life tonight, abundance of life tonight, which is filled up and overflowing. Jesus said I've come that you might have that life. I feel strong. I feel exuberant. It's like Michael when we started to look for that cave. I said, Mike, use to when I was out in the country in the hills I was always sure-footed could bounce down through the streams and hit a slick rock, when a man ordinarily would go down on his face I could hit it just right and slip and slide and then be to the other one before the foot got out. I felt like I could still do it, and I did. Right on down the stream, right on down. And me and Michael went of down to where I'm convinced that mountain goats would have slipped off. You say, Oh, Brother Pike, I think you're exaggerating. I'm not exaggerating. I think a mountain goat would have slipped off of the hill. I'm telling you the truth. I'm convinced that the mountain goat would have slipped off of the hill. It was slick, it was slimy, it was steep, it was dangerous, it was high. Say, wait a minute. Do you mean to tell me that you're more sure footed than a mountain goat? I'll tell you what, folks, it took a whole lot of energy to go where we went. It took a whole lot of doings to go where we went. A hard strenuous task. But we moved steadily along. What made you not slip off? Well, a long that bank there was little stems, and weeds, and bushes that was growing out and we could grab from on to another, and a mountain goat can't do that. So we stay on the hillside. See? Some of you thought I was telling a fib, didn't you? I still think the mountain goat would have slipped off. Don't you Mike? But God was with us. God blessed us with that great rich abundant living. Oh, how wonderful it is to be filled with the glory of God, the health of God, the happiness of God, and be able to do something for God instead of sitting around just dying, you know, feeling bad all the time and not able to get up and go. Oh, Brother, we can live for God. We can live forever. Jesus said, if your hear my words and believe on Him that sent me I'll just let you live on and on and on. I'm expecting to live forever. Did you know that? I am expecting to live forever. You know what causes us to do that? Because we are equal with God. Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, surely you don't mean that. I mean every word of it, every word of it, because God hath made us equal to Himself. He hath made us sons of God, and today we can live eternally. Live eternally. What a wonderful thought. There is a greater light here now. There's a greater light than John. John was a light. That was a light. What kind of light was it? It was that lesser light that pointed to that greater light. For it said the latter house light would be greater than the former house light. For the latter house light would be the light of the world. Ye are the light of the world. Praise God! Don't that make you feel good? Somebody say hallelujah! The light of the world. We're the light of the world today. Somebody said, Brother Pike, are you planning to go around the world? Why I just can't hardly help it. I've just got so much energy I've got to do something with it. What are we going to do with it? We've got to do something, folks. We've got to do something. Here we are altogether; we've got to do something. And when we start listening at the right mind, when we start incorporating into our thinking, the right understanding, and we get our computer straightened out up here, and we transfer some of that data from up here down to here, and that's the right kind, and this becomes heartfelt instead of just a head full of reasoning that gives you a headache, and this thing gets down in the heart down here, Oh, Brother, what joy! It's no wonder the writer said joy unspeakable and full of glory. We was over there just a few days ago, over in Jeff out at Shelby's, and the revelation of God took place, and there stood Shelby, seventy years old, and that thing took place. Maybe we'll relate it to you a little later. It's a little late tonight. It had to do with the ring being put on my wife's finger. And there the mighty power of God came down, and the Holy Ghost came down, and Sister Betty began to speak in tongues, and praise God, and I began to praise God and speak in tongues, and some of the others began to praise God, and Brother Shelby he just began to run over and ball and cry like a baby, and that Brother that was three years in the Tabernacle there as a deacon begin to just__ He grabbed his hat off and he just come unglued, as we say. My! What a time we were having! Glorifying God, praising God, the great wonderful inspiration of Christ, the cup just running over. The joy and abundance of joy in Christian living. I remember a Brother standing there, he said, do you mean to say he gave her his mother's ring? Said, is that what he done? Yep, that's what he done. He didn't want to believe that. It's like when we were out in the woods down there when me and the Brother was coming up the side of that mountain there, and a Brother from over in Michigan looked over the hilltop. We just had gone over there and found the cave, you know. We came out from that cave and come around, and somebody up on the top of the hill looked down and said, Hey, I said, Hello. Said__ Wanted to know who I was. I started trying to explain the best I could. Said, You wouldn't by chance be looking for a cave? I acted like I didn't know what he was saying because I thought he was a scout master with all the kids. He had about seven children with him. And then there was another man, and then all of a sudden here another man looked over the hill, and he said, Brother Pike? Is that you, Brother Pike? I said, Yeah, that's me. He said, Man, said, I never expected to find you out here. But what it was, there was a great spiritual revelation taking place, and God had a great thing happening. And just as we came from that cave, they had been searching for the cave all day. Like the Brother that came over today. He's a staunch follower. They'd mentioned something about finding that cave. He said, Did you find that cave? I don't know why they get so excited over it. But it seems like the cave subject is one of the most outstanding subjects. You know, it has to do with the resurrection, that's what it is. Of course, I don't know, there might be numbers of them that have found the cave that they are speaking of; I don't know. They say that nobody has ever found it. Nobody but Brother Branham knows where it's at, other than I know Sister Branham told Sister Betty while she was talking to her. Said, I don't know of anybody that knows where it's at other than Brother Branham, and said, he took me to it one time right after we got married. And said, If there be anybody else, I don't know that he knows, said, but it would be Joseph. That Brother Branham had confidently confided in Joseph in telling Joseph. Said, I don't know that he knows, but if there be anybody it would be him. No, not even Billy Paul knew where it was, she said. But you know, it took the strength of God, the joy and jubilance, and we went out there, started down the creek, Brother Mike was talking about something, first one thing and the other concerning the cave. I said, We will find it. We will find it. And I ask the Lord to take us to it. And the cave that God wanted us to go to, wherever, He took us right directly to it. And where it's at, it is little wonder, if it be the cave that they are looking for, it's no wonder they can't find it. You can stand and look at it, be right in the front of it, and wouldn't know it. You could walk all over the top of it and wouldn't know it the way that God has let it be. But there is one thing about it. The Lord let us find the cave. Brother Mike, he decided he was going to put Limiting The Unlimited in it. And he left a tract, Limiting The Unlimited, which is the resurrection of Jesus. Many things took place on this trip that if we carefully dropped in place, step by step, it would thrill your heart, because it has to do with this great abundant life I'm speaking of, this right kind of mind that talks to you that I'm speaking of, and it has to do with living eternally, and that of course, is what Im speaking of. How wonderful it is to have the glory of God in your heart and your soul, and the wonderful jubilance of life eternal. I want you to stand with me. I could go on and go and go on tonight, especially with the Scriptures that I pointed out. I would really like to have gotten into them. You know, Jesus told them one time, upbraiding them because they didn't have that wonderful light. He told them, He said, you have never heard His voice, nor seen His shape. The Jews were so sure that they knew. Another thing, you know, say, Well, Brother Pike, what is meant by that? You say that Jesus was God manifested in the flesh. How is it that He was standing there? Jesus, the Almighty God? And they was looking at Him and He had the initiative to say, Why you've never seen His shape. How is that? Well, the Bible teaches that Jesus was made in the image of man, shapen in the image of iniquity. Isn't that right? Made in the image of man. The Bible said that offerings He would not, but a body He hath prepared, made in the image of sinful man. That's why they looked at Him, and yet they couldn't see the image. It was within the veil, for the outer image was made in the image of man. Isn't that right? And he knew that the sheep of God heard the voice, therefore He said, Let him that hath an ear hear the voice. You've neither seen His shape nor heard His voice. Only they that have an ear to hear. Let them that hath an ear to hear what the spirit saith unto the churches here. He knew that they didn't have ears to hear, which means no spiritual hearing. They did not have spiritual eyes of understanding that had been enlightened to see what the Father was doing, or see the spirit. Therefore, they did not know. They did not understand. But isn't it wonderful tonight to know that we've got ears to hear. And He said, My sheep know my voice. And isn't it wonderful to know that we can see tonight, having the eyes of our understanding enlightened, comprehending the heights, the depth, the width, and the length, Paul said. Isn't it wonderful to be able to do that? Having eyes to see you see not. That is, you don't have spiritual eyes. You don't see spiritual things. So then, he said, You've not seen his shape nor have you heard His voice. Said, But being a son of God I'm equal with Him. I'm equal with Him. Being a son of God I'm equal with Him. For everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. Somebody said, Wait a minute, Brother Pike. There ain't nobody perfect in this world. You mean to tell me that a son of God is not perfect? How can he be a son of God and not be perfect? Anything less than perfection couldn't be a son of God. Now you know that. Do you mean to tell me that a person can be a son of God, and have spots and blemishes? A man can be a son of God and be all spotted up? How could he be a son of God? God is perfection. When you say a son of God you are saying a son of perfection. That's why the Bible says, For God hath perfected forever, not from one revival to another, but forever God hath perfected them that are sanctified. And the Bible says that God hath sanctified us once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus Christ at the tree. How many of you claim to be sanctified tonight? How many of you believe that makes you perfect tonight? Sure it does. Not only that, Brother. Not only are you justified, not only are you sanctified, but the Bible said He hath glorified you. That's why you are perfect. See? Anything perfect that means glorified, glorification. Isn't that wonderful? See? Here we stand. Here we are. It's finished. Everything is perfect. Everything is done. Nothing to worry about. The Lord is coming back after us. The church without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. What are we? Sons of God. John said, Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. Now ye are the son of God, not day after tomorrow, but now. Do you love Jesus? All right. It does not yet appear what ye shall be so far as people seeing you, for they look on the outward appearance, the outward parts. But Thessalonians change takes care of that. Isn't that right? We know that when He appears then we'll see His shape as God. And then we shall be changed into His likeness, so far as our shape, for we shall see Him as He is, and thus we shall be changed. Then they also shall see us who was at that time in the Garden made into His image, which image was lost in the first man Adam to the beast image of which you are now. But, Oh, my Brother, in that day it will change back to that glorious image. When the Shekinah glory comes then comes the change. But what makes me so filled up and overflowing is that I already have that Shekinah glory on the inside. You remember the baptism, the light shining, the sunlight? The Bible said John appeared within the midst of the candlesticks as though the sun shined within His strength. Isn't that right? (Begin tape two, side one.)..in his hand. Isn't that right? How beautiful. How beautiful. Oh, I wish we had time to preach revelation tonight. Let's sing a little chorus together. Something is happening, dear Brother and Sister, far more than you could ever understand. But to love him and to believe, to trust Him, to receive the simplicity of the gospel, then to ask God to give us the spirit of revelation that we might understand the mysteries, for great is the mystery of godliness, great is the mystery of godliness. And Paul said, I am made a steward of the great mysteries of God. But the Bible said at the sounding of the last trump the mysteries of God would be finished. Isn't that right? For the things of God have an end. How beautiful. How could you feel any way but good. My cup runs over. The deep calls unto the deep at the water spout of God. If the deep is calling something has to answer back. Did you know that we're the water spout of God? The Bible says out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. You draw water out of the wells, these wells of salvation, with joy. Isn't that right? The great waters of life. All you've got to do is rejoice and those waters of life will come out and your cup will run over. Others will get a drink. Why is that? Why is that? Because David said the deep calleth unto the deep at the water spout of God. But Solomon spoke of the sad time, the sad day, that there was to come a time of mourning when the beautiful cord was broken, and the cistern was broken. And then it would be a sad day of mourning. Err the cord be loosed and the cistern be broken. Whereas, the Bible says, my people have committed two evils. One thing is, they've hewn out cisterns of their own, broken cisterns that won't hold water. And the Bible said the other evil is, they have forsaken the living God. The living God, the Spirit. Their ritualistic, but the Spirit, the living God. They don't believe in the quickening. They don't believe in the spirit. They've forsaken the living God. No quickening. The Bible said, that which quickeneth. Judge of the quickening and the dead. They that are born of God, the last man Adam become a quickening spirit. If this spirit be in you that raised up Christ from the dead, He shall also by that spirit quicken your mortal body, even by His spirit that dwelleth within you. What a wonderful moment. If you don't have the quickening spirit, then the Bible says, if you have not His spirit you're none of His. Limiting the unlimited. Let's sing this little chorus together. Do you love Jesus? (Singing.) Don't you love Jesus? (Singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord