As In Heaven So In Earth

One of the greatest subjects that has ever been used in the presence of men is the Bible. There is nothing that compares with it in anyway, and it is the most exciting book. It is so deep that you cannot fathom its great depths. It is filled with the great adventure of Christ and the mysteries of life. And Paul said that he was a steward of the mysteries of Christ. The Lord saw fit to make me a steward of the mysteries. And he said that God had shared with him much revelation. I trust that you and I today can share the same enthusiasm with Paul in that wonderful testimony that we have the wonderfulness of Christ in our soul. There are a lot of things that we can say, and I'm always so excited over the Scriptures until I hardly know where to start unless He speaks to me, because the whole book of Revelation is such a great adventure. The whole book of the Bible, as for that matter, but especially Revelation in that I'm looking at it right now. Let's just read just a little bit and see if the Lord will give us a starting place here. Maybe He'll say something to us. Now, I want to say again at this time, this is an exciting moment. For those that cannot see, it's not exciting. And religion to the world, rather than being exciting, it's a great burdensome thing, and they would rather do most anything, from eat, drink, ride, buy, sell, get gain, anything outside of be religious. But I can tell you for sure that you've never been where I've been, and you've never seen what I've seen, because if you ever do, you'll leave the garbage can and you'll never go back no more. So then, *you say, Now, *Brother Pike, *you could not refer *to the things of this world as a garbage can. That's what the Bible called them. It called them the beggarly elements of this world. So then, if they are beggarly elements I don't know of anything *they're any good for than the garbage can. If I had something around the house that wasn't nothing but a beggarly element, *you know, and I didn't have *to use it I'd throw it in the garbage can. So then, I have *to use these beggarly elements, but *one day *we're planning *to take them over *to the dump and burn them up. Have *you ever been down *to the dump. If *you notice when *you go down *to the dump *there is always a fire burning down *there. And *you just take everything *you don't want, *you throw it over in the dump. Somebody *said, But, *Brother Pike, *my new house – I'll tell *you what, *you go by and look at the new house of some of the patriarchs of old, or some of the fathers of old, and *you'll find out *it's just a heap of junk. *You go by and *you'll find out that *it's just deteriorating and crumbling down, and some of the nice things that they had in that day, and some of the fine automobiles, and clothing, is nothing but a bunch of junk. See? Time does away with materialism. *It's nothing but junk. From the dust it comes, *to the dust it goes. Even *your *own body, from the dust *you come *to the dust *you go. *God *said *to Adam and Eve, from the dust *thou art *to the dust *thou shalt return because they had lost the illumination of the *great, wonderful presence of *God. So then, *there is nothing in this world that is of any value, nothing at all of any value except the *Spirit of the living *God. That's the only thing that's ever been given in this world that *you can really esteem as being valuable. That's *heavenly treasure that's in *my earthen vessel. I want *to take good care of it, don't *you? How many of *you has got the *Spirit of *God in *your heart? That's *heavenly treasure in *your earthen vessel, and I want *to take good care of *mine, because that's that wonderful abundant living, or *eternal *life that *He promised *to them that love *Him and that would obey *Him. So I'm real excited about it. And when *you come over *to this world where I'm living, and in this place where I'm at, and see the *great, wonderful abundance of the *great things of *God *you don't care about playing with the children's toys anymore. *You don't try *to take them away from them, because, *you know, the children of this world have *to have something *to play with. As a matter-of-fact, I notice as of late that they've gotten *to the place *to where even the rich men, *you know, with *their refineries of *life, *you know, and *their boats and whatever, they'll say, This is *my toys. And I bought *me some toys. That's what the rich men call them, or the wealthy men. They buy things, and they get them a boat, and they get them a motorcycle, and they get all of these things, and they'll tell the banker, say, This is for *my toys. And of course, the children of the world play with the toys, but when *you grow up, Paul *said, As a child I spake as a child, when I became a man I put away those childish things, and I don't play with the toys anymore. Now, so then, *here in the book of *Revelation, the first chapter, I read this occasionally *to kind of indelible stamp this upon *your mind in way of remembrance that *you might understand why that we lift up the *revelation of Jesus Christ. We preach the *revelation of Jesus Christ. 

Chapter *one it starts off, first verse, "The *Revelation of Jesus Christ." That's what we believe in. That's what we preach. It says again, "The *Revelation of Jesus Christ, which *God gave unto *him, *to shew unto *his servants things which must shortly come *to pass; and *he sent and signified it by *his *angel unto *his servant John: *Who bare record of the *word of *God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that *he saw. Blessed is *he that readeth, and they that *hear the *words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." All right. Now. I'd like *to just point out *one or *two things, if *you'll let *me talk with *you this morning, and don't press me.

First of all, if *you'll notice it says *here that *God gave this *revelation *to Jesus. Now, when it says the *Revelation of Jesus Christ it is saying none other than the expose, or the unveiling of *Him *own self. It is Christ Jesus, *Himself, making *Himself known *to mankind as the *Almighty *God through *His bodily, or earthly tabernacle or membership. The attributes of *Almighty *God, the endless, wonderful, fathomless abilities of *God put on display in the body of Jesus, a *great exhibition, an exhibit for all the world *to see. Now, we've seen the *great exhibition of *God in the handiwork of the *heavens, and all the *great marvelous things that *He did. But, *Brothers and *Sisters, *there is a lot of things that *you've not seen yet. *You've not seen anything yet, as *Brother Marlow often says back *there when *he's prophesying. Wait until *you see into the *Spirit. All right, it says that this *great unveiling, within it is contained the *knowledge of the world *to come, for it says *here that *He gave it *to John, signified it by *His *angle, and it was *to show John the things which shortly must come *to pass. Which means that within the *revelation the future was contained, and *to be able *to latch onto the *revelation, or break into the spiritual, was *to understand the future. *He *said again here, "Blessed is *he that readeth, and they that *hear the *Words of this prophecy." Now then, *there is no other book of the Bible that I know of that expresses *itself after this fashion, that the man that gets a hold of the *Revelation of Jesus Christ, or is able *to see into the *revelation, the Bible says, blessed is *he. Blessed is *he. So then, even the *Revelation of Jesus Christ that we see *here in the printed page, it says, "Blessed is *he that readeth, and they that *hear the *Words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand." All right. Paul spoke of the *Revelation of Jesus Christ, and then over *here in another Scripture, another place, *we're told that we should be ready at the appearing of the *Lord, and the writer used the terms at this particular time, saying that we should be ready at the *Revelation of Jesus Christ. That's the terms that *he used. Now, if *you'll read it the way that *he wrote it was that *you should be ready at the coming of the *Lord. For *he *said *you should be ready at the *Revelation of Jesus Christ, which mean the coming of the *Lord. So then, we say, and have *said, that the *Revelation of Jesus Christ is the coming of the *Lord. We say that the *Revelation is the coming of the *Lord. Now, *you might dispute that, and *you might say, *Brother Pike, I don't believe that the *revelation is the coming of the *Lord. But it is the coming of the *Lord. Now, *you say, how can *you prove that *it's the coming of the *Lord? All right, read *here in the book of *Revelation, in the first verse and see if it doesn't say, "The time is at hand." The *Revelation of Jesus Christ, the time is at hand. And read in the writings of the book of *Revelation and see if it doesn't also state in this particular book, Let *him that is filthy be filthy still. And let *him that is *holy be *holy still. It says that in the book, because it is the coming of the *Lord. Let's look at it again now. Is it really the coming of the *Lord? All right. The coming of the *Lord is in the end of the world. Isn't that right? How many of *you agree that the coming of the *Lord is in the end of the world? Let's just look at it for a minute. In the coming of the *Lord, where is the coming of the *Lord? It is Calvary. Why is Calvary the coming of the *Lord? It is the *revelation of Jesus Christ. How do *you fit all of that together? Because it is stated over in the New Testament in the writings concerning John, that *he was exiled *to a little island. *Here *he wrote the book of *Revelation. Just a little island off of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a little rocky island. *Here the disciple of love was exiled, took away from everybody, placed *there *to write the book of *Revelation. But, I say again, what was the book of *Revelation? The book of *Revelation was the expose of the rending of the veil at Calvary. Isn't that right? It was the rending of the veil at Calvary. So then, the *Revelation of Jesus Christ is when Jesus, the *Lord, was separated from the Christ. For the Bible says *He made in *Himself twain, and *here the Bible says in the book of Acts, *He made within *Himself twain, both *Lord and Christ. And that at the rending of the veil the *Lord was separated from the Christ. Isn't that right? So then, we see that the rending of the veil is the opening of the door in *heaven. *Revelation, fourth chapter, And *there was a door that was open in *heaven. And *there we see at the end of the *church *ages the open door in *heaven. Why is it that *here at the end of the *church *ages when people believe, commonly believe, that *Brother Branham was the close out messenger, why is it at the end of this particular *age that all of a sudden they go *to the moon? All of a sudden Shepherd breaks through, we say, the spheres of *heaven, and leaves a door, whereas *there had never been *one before. Through the open door men have gone since Shepherd, gone up *to the moon, gone into the galaxies, and seen these *great things. How is it that this has taken place at the end of the *church *ages? Why didn't it take place before? Why didn't it take place during the *church *ages? But see, on earth it has *to be as in *heaven. Everything that is happening in the *Spirit has *to have a natural parallel, whereas they are running side by side. Whatever *you are in the *Spirit *there is a natural man that walks side by side, and hand and hand with that inner person, that inner nature, and whatever *he is that's what *you are in the natural man. As *he makes a change *your natural man makes a change, for the good, or for the bad. Whatever *you are that's it. If *you are a devil on the inside, if *you've given *your *spirit *to corruption on the inside, *to the love of the world and the lust of the flesh, the Bible says if the love of the things of the world, the beggarly elements, is in *you the love of the *Father is not *there. If *you love houses, money, power, prestige, the love of *God hasn't found a place within *you. Those *two beings, inner and outer *you, they are walking side by side. Now, if *you are a devil on the inside, in that *you have given *yourself over *to the *spirit of Satan, corruption, then *you are a devil on the outside. That's why Jesus *said *to Peter, Get *thee behind *me, Satan. *He numbered Peter with the same wicked power that *he had given place *to. Isn't that right? This was before Peter received the *Holy *Ghost. Isn't that right? It was before, because *he was subject *to that thing. Now look at Judas. *Here is a good man, Peter, giving *himself *to the wrong *spirit. Jesus *said, Get *thee behind *Me, Satan. *Here is Judas, the Bible says a devil from the beginning, so far as foreknowledge is concerned, but the Bible says *he obtained part of that ministry. Is that right? Do *you see what I'm saying? The *grace of *God working, numbering *you with whatever *you are. *You say, But, *Brother Pike, if Judas was a devil from the beginning how do *you get what *you are saying? Because the Bible says that Satan did not enter into Judas until the supper when *he gave *him the sop. Therefore, being a sovereignty, being a human being just like everybody *he was considered on the inside not *to be a devil until Satan took *him over. But by foreknowledge Jesus *said, I have chosen twelve; *one of *you is a devil. It has *to be that way, because the Bible says that *he obtained part of that ministry. Now, no devil ever obtain part of the ministry. Is that right? So then, *he had *to be all right until that particular thing took place. We see that as in *heaven so in the earth. Look at the *church *ages. Look at the end of the *church *ages. Look the door that's open in *heaven and then look at the door that's open in the *Spirit. All of a sudden *it's discovered. Never before, never before that I ever heard of, or know of the ministry coming forth as it is coming forth in this move that's going forth. All kind of ministries. *There *were *great mighty men, *great powers in the earth, *great people, but never the ministry the way *it's going forth now. Why? Because this is a different thing. I'll do a new thing the *Lord *said. This is an open door. Discovering the open door. Discovering the open door that Peter unlocked, as I *said in our earlier messages at Calvary. This is the thing that we want *to realize is that though the door appears at the end of the *church *ages; yet the door is not opened at the end of the *church *ages. The door is opened at the beginning of the *church *ages because Jesus *said, Peter, I'm the door *to the sheepfold; *you've discovered *Me. *Who do men say that I am? The Christ, the *Son of *God, I say. *You've discovered the door, Peter. I'm the door. *You've discovered the door. *You've looked beyond the veil. *You've seen more than a mortal man; *you've seen the Christ, therefore, here's the key. When a man is able *to see into the *Spirit, go beyond the veil, it means that somewhere, someplace down the line *God has given *him the key. *He has received the key somewhere. *There is no way that *he can get behind the veil and enter into the *Holies of *Holies if it was not for the fact that *God had given *him the key. So then, *here is Jesus at Calvary, *here is the rent veil, the *Lord separated from the Christ. As I *said the other day for the purpose of showing that *my body was dead because of sin, and that *my *spirit had withdrawn from *my body, and that I'm not active in *my body anymore, that *my *spirit hath gone back *to *God *who gave it at the death of *my body. The Bible says at death of the body the *spirit goeth back *to *God *who gave it. Therefore, Jesus becoming *me at Calvary *He died in *my behalf. At *my death *my *spirit went back *to *God *who gave it, and *my body was thus dead and I was buried in a watery grave in the name of the *Son of *God, Jesus Christ. *There in the watery grave *my body was placed. I lost *my identity in death. *My *spirit was separated from *my body, the *Lord from the Christ. Therefore, *my *spirit went back *to *God *who gave it, for the Bible says I am hid with Christ in *God *whom the *heavens have received until the time of the restitution, or the restoring of all things, which is the millennium. Therefore, *my *spirit is with *God. *My *spirit is not in the earth. *You cannot find *my *spirit in the earth. *You see *my body in the earth, because from the dust *thou art, *to the dust *thou shalt return. Thus the water being a grave we are buried in the water. But *my *spirit is not in the earth. *There is no way *to find *my *spirit in the earth. That's why the Bible says *he that is born of *God cannot sin. If *your *spirit is not in the earth it is not subject *to the laws of sin and death. Having died *to sin *one time the powers of the *law causing *me *to be in that condition, in that Paul *said I was alive without the *law. Until the *law came sin revived and I died. Being free from that *law by the body of Jesus *my *spirit is with *God. *My *spirit is sinless, *my *spirit can never sin anymore. *My *spirit can never at any time transgress the royal laws of *God. The reason for that, Jesus took care of it. The faith that I could not produce, the unweltering, the unwavering, the faith that could not be penetrated, I could not produce it, because I, as a creature, the outer being, was made subject *to vanity. So then, Jesus being a near kinsman, that is being made in the image of sin, and for sinful flesh became the Brazen Serpent like unto the serpent that caused the problem, hang at Calvary, and thus *He was smitten of *God *to *God's *own satisfaction until sin was at an end. Then the body was taken down and laid away, and a voice spoke, and *said *He was delivered for *my offenses. I have gone *to Calvary, Jesus *said, *Brother Pike, because *you offended against *God. I paid the price, and now, *Brother Pike, *you are free from this *great offense, for I have been delivered as an *atonement. I've been delivered as a sacrifice for *your offenses. And *your offenses caused *me *to go *to Calvary, *to be made sin that *you might be made the righteousness of *God in Christ. Then *there came the day when that body came out of the grave, and the Bible spoke again, and the *Spirit spoke again. And the *Spirit *said, But I was raised for *your justification. Today the body comes forth from the grave. Sin, death by *one man Adam, *life, immortality by *one man Jesus. Thus it is restored and the body being free from the grave, free from death, can never die anymore, and the fact that it overcame the grave is a positive proof, a positive proof that death hath no more power over the human body. *You are now justified in *His sight, see the resurrection. This proves that *you've been loosed from death. When *He came out it was the positive proof that *you are justified in the sight of *God, in that death could hold the human body no more. This is why that Paul waxed bold when *he received the *revelation of Jesus Christ. And Paul made the statement, I show *you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we'll be changed. Changed! *He saw that sleep, which is death, which is the earth, which is the grave, doesn't have any more power, or victory, over *you. For this is the victory that overcometh death, even *your faith. *Your faith in Christ Jesus, the unweltering, unwavering faith of the *Son of *God, that *great wonderful, mighty faith of *God, that faith of the *Son of *God. That faith never wavered *one time, as we say, from the cradle *to the grave. It never doubted *one time. It never grew weak *one time. It never fluttered *one time. Thus it became the perfect lifeline between man and *God. And today I have the faith of Christ. I have the mind of Christ. I have the *life of Christ. All abiding within *me, dwelling within *me all because of what Jesus did in *my behalf. So then, that *great wonderful faith Jesus used *to save *my soul. Today I have *to use *my faith *to lay hold on *His *great faith. Whereas, the Bible says contend for the faith of Christ. It was once delivered *to the saints. The faith by which *you are sanctified that is once and for all. This faith pleased *God so well coming from the *Son of *God during *His lifetime that *God sanctified all of humanity through it. The faith by which *you are sanctified. Therefore, being sanctified by *His faith *one time, and forever, the Bible says, Thus *He hath made *us perfect in the sight of *God by the offering up of *His body. Thus we are justified by *His faith. Thus we are sanctified by *His blood, and *His offering. And thus we are illuminated in *God, predestinated, fixed *to where we cannot sin. And the Bible says, *God hath glorified *us. We are already glorified. The only thing is, *Sisters and *Brothers, though we be already healed, though we be already sanctified, though we be already justified, though we be sinless in the sight of *God, though we be already glorified; yet we as creatures perish from the lack of the *knowledge of *God in understanding these things and the devil takes full advantage. Little children that don't understand, in that we are still under the tutors, still under the tutors, waiting for the Bar Mitzvah, or the time of the adoption, waiting *to wit, waiting *to grasp, waiting *to see. That little *son, *he is still the same little fleshly body, still the same little bony body. *He is still the same little *one that was under the tutors. And all of a sudden it dawns on *him because of development. *My *God! I am the *son of the *Father. I'm over this thing. What am I doing under tutors? Suddenly it dawns on *him that *he is the master of the entire situation. When *his mind is developed thus *he has become the owner of *heaven and earth. Not that *he has become the owner in that *he wasn't already the owner, for the Bible says *God hath given *us all things. Through Christ Jesus all things are *yours. But becoming the owner in that *he is ready now *to accept *his rights, accept *his inheritance *to be ready *to do what *he wants *to whenever *he gets ready. *You know, I made the statement the other day, and I know this sounds farfetched, and I can understand it, but what Joshua did when *he made the moon and the sun *to stand still, what Moses did when *he made the waters *to roll back was the minor things. (Begin tape *one, side two.) Said, those *were minor things. *You say, *Brother Pike, I think *you are crazy. No. Those *were things that *God allowed, minor things, in that the Bible says concerning *you, concerning the body of Jesus, that they that are the least in the *Kingdom of *God as the bodily members of the *Lord Jesus Christ, passed Calvary (The *law and the prophets *were until John.) They that are least are greater than John, and *there never was a greater that John. Joshua, Moses, or whatever. The very least of *His members, bone of *His bone and flesh of *His flesh, are greater. And the Bible says in Mark, the eleventh chapter, that the *sons of *God, they that believe, they that have faith, the Bible says that they can say what they will, and not doubt in *their heart and it will come *to pass. And they shall have whatsoever they say. Joshua could not have whatsoever *he *said. Neither could Moses have whatsoever *he *said. Never has *there been a prophet in the past, back beyond Calvary, that could have whatsoever *he *said. But *sons of *God can have whatsoever they say. *You say, Well, *Brother Pike, what's the problem? Getting out from under the tutors, coming *to the Bar Mitzvah, coming *to the place *to where we can develop, *to where we can accept what *God has *said *to *us, and appropriated for *us. Coming *to the place *to where we do not doubt within our heart, do not waver, do not *wonder, do not frustrate the *grace of *God by trying *to figure something out. Whatever *He says, if *thou canst believe in *thine heart, and doubt not, *ye shall have whatever *you say. I believe that. Somebody *said, I don't believe that *you believe that. I don't care if *you don't believe that I believe it; I still believe that. And what *you think about it doesn't concern *me in the least. I believe that. What *God has *said about it I believe it. Now, I feel in *my heart that we are the greatest generation that's ever been on the face of the earth. Not because we have a specialty in this later time that they did not have in the early *church. Paul had this, Peter had this, James had this, the people down through the *church *ages had this. But *there is a difference. *There was a continually war in the days of David, and David fought continually. David wanted *to build the house of *God but *he couldn't build it, because *there was such an interference. Even Nehemiah in the days of King Artaxerxes trying *to build the walls back *to Jesus, or the coming of the Messiah, *there was a continual interference by the evil *one Sanballat. Therefore, that interference in keeping them from the walls, or constructing the walls, keeping the walls from being built back, that interference that always caused David *to war, *to keep *him from having peace, that illustrates *to our mind, or projects *to our thinking, enlightens *us *to understand that that was typical of devils, and demons, thoughts, interference, all of these frustrations that we encounter through *life. Satan constantly, in a complete barrage always assailing, attacking the mind, the *spirit, *to keep *us from building the walls back *to the Messiah, *to keep *us from having that perfect faith in *God, that perfect faith in *God, doing anything *to interfere, anything *to interfere *to keep down this perfect faith. Paul *said, We wish this, even the perfecting of *your faith. What is the perfecting of *your faith? What is perfect faith? The perfecting of the faith is the work of the ministry. The perfect faith is the faith of Jesus Christ. Therefore, will our faith becomes perfect, but do *you realize that *your faith will never become perfect in the sense that *you, *yourself will get *to the place *to where *you never stumble and make a mistake. But did *you know that it is the more than *you are tutored, the more that *you learn the benefits of Christ, the more *you learn how complete *you are in Christ, and how much good, blessings and promises of *God are appropriated for *you in the Scripture, the more that *you do this the greater *your confidence will be until finally *you'll come *to the place *to where *you will realize that *you are not *to condemn *yourself over a stumbling, staggering mistake. I don't mean practicing sin. A person that practices sin is not making a mistake; they need *to be born again. They do not have Christ, but I am talking about stumbling, staggering when *you know in *your heart that *you are honest with *God, and *you're doing *your very best, but *you stumble and *you stagger, and *you make a mistake. The Bible says, Happy is *he that doth not condemn *himself over that thing which *he allows. Why? Because *he is perfect in *God. It doesn't matter if *he backslides, it doesn't matter if *he stumbles, it doesn't matter if *he staggers *he still belongs *to *God. *He is still perfect in the sight of *God. Somebody would say, Now, *Brother Pike, *you don't believe that. I certainly do. *You say, Where do *you get that if a man backslides *he's still perfect in the sight of *God? Because the Bible says, Woe unto the backslider for I am married unto *you. And *God isn't married *to anybody, or anything that's imperfect. Not anything. How could that which is perfect be married *to the imperfect. Therefore, *God *said, I have healed *your backslidings. With *God *there is no backsliding. The only backsliding is through *your tutoring *to *you. But with *God *there is no such things as man backsliding after Calvary. *There is no such thing as spots, and blemishes, and wrinkles. *There is no such thing as man sinning after Calvary. Once *he is born of *God, the Bible says, the seed of *God remaineth in *him, and *he cannot sin, because *he is born of *God. Now, I want *to get this over. A lot of people would say, *Brother Pike, I realize that if we do right we won't sin. The Bible didn't say that. *You know, *one thing that really alarms *me a lot of times in talking with people and ministers. They frustrate the *grace of *God. Paul *said *to Peter, I'm not going *to frustrate the *grace of *God. Now, Peter, *you see *here. If *there had been a *law that could have saved man Christ Jesus died in vain. Why do *you run back *to the *law in *your dos and don'ts for shelter? *There is no perfection in *your works; *it's like filthy rags. But the blood of Jesus has cleansed *us from all sin. *He did not say if *you live good then *you won't sin, if *you hold on then *you won't sin. *God did not say those things. *God *said, *He that is born of *God cannot sin. *There is no way *he can sin. Yesterday, today, or tomorrow, *he can never sin. From the time *he is born again *he a *son of perfection, a *son of *God. *He is a *God. *There is not *one spot, *one blemish, *one wrinkle from the time that *he is caught up *to the *throne at *his birth as the man child, never again is *his *life spotted in any way. *Your stumblings and staggerings cannot be counted sin. *God *said pray, *Father, forgive *us our trespasses as we forgive those *who trespass against *us. Now, *you say, But, *Brother Pike, what does the Bible mean when it says, I write unto *you little children that *you sin not, but if any man sin *he hath an advocate with the *Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous, *who is the propitiation for our sin. Now, see? *You didn't even think I knew that, did *you? Because I was saying what I was saying *you thought *you knew something I didn't know. But see? The *spirit knows what *you know, *too. A lot of times we judge people and say, Well, *he just doesn't know. But maybe *he does know, and maybe we don't know. Maybe *he's been down that trail and we just haven't given *him a chance *to express it. What does it mean for that, *Brother Pike, that a man can't sin? Exactly what it *said. When the Bible says, If any man sin, if any man sin. All men have sinned. If any man sin. Every day of *your *life *you stumble, *you stagger. All of those *great mistakes would be sin *to *God if it was not for the propitiation, if it was not for the *atonement, if it was not for the advocate. If any man sin don't worry about it. Go *to *God. Ask *God for help, because if *you are a child of *God *it's not counted as sin against *you, because *he that is born of *God *he cannot sin. Like Paul *said *one time, I'm speaking *to *you after the infirmities of the flesh. Seeing that *you are mankind I have *to talk *to *you after the infirmities of the flesh. But how can *he sin? *You are bone of *His bone and flesh of *His flesh. In the sight of *God, in the foreknowledge of *God *you're the *son of *God. *You are members of *His body in particular. Do *you mean *to tell *me that Jesus' body is a harlot? That Jesus' body is sin? It cannot be. *There's no way it can be. *He that is born of *God cannot sin. That's why the rending of the veil came. *My *spirit, the *Lord, separated from the Christ. The man is the *lord over the woman. Is that right? Sarah *said, *My *lord Abraham. In the old country they *said, *My *lord, thus and thus. When somebody knocked upon the door, or rang the door bell they'd say, I will see if *my *lord is *here. Separating the *spirit, the power of lordship, the inner part that's over this fleshly, feminine part, the *Lord from the flesh, the *Lord Christ from Jesus, the body, both *Lord and Christ. Or the *Lord part *there, the flesh, and the Christ taken away in that through the lordship of the body that body was perfect. Whereas, *your body is only perfect through the shed blood of Calvary. Do *you understand what I'm saying? So then, *my *spirit perfect in *God, gone back *to be with *God. David *said, *My heart, *my *spirit, *my inner man by the works of *God, the *Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, *my heart is perfect before *God. It is perfect before *God. I am therefore justified according *to *my heart condition, not according *to *my feeble stumblings. For the Bible says with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rend the heart, not the garment. *My heart, *my confidence, *my faith in *God is perfect. Though I stumble, though I stagger I cannot help but believe *He loves *me. I cannot help but believe *He still is with *me. I cannot help but believe that though *He'll lay the lash on *me and chasten *me as a *son because of *my trespass and error I still cannot help but believe that *my *Father hath *me in *His perfect care. I cannot violate the seed of *God, the believing. I am justified by faith. Righteousness is now by faith. The priesthood is now by the ministry. So then, *my *spirit has gone back *to *God *who gave it. *It's not in the earth anymore. *It's not *here. It is with Christ. I am hid with *God, *God being a *Spirit, *my *spirit is hid with the *God *Spirit. *My *spirit is hid with the *Spirit through Christ's *Spirit. Christ made a quickening *Spirit. *My *spirit through Christ's *Spirit hid in *God *who is a *Spirit. For *Heaven is *God's *Spirit, for *God is the *Spirit. *He's above *you, *He's in *you, *He's through *you. Wherever *God is that's *life and existence. Out of the presence of *God, out of the *Spirit of *God *there is no *life. If the sunshine withdraws *there is no more *life in earth. Wherever the sunlight is *there is *life. So then, it is a true fact that *God is the *great illumination of *life. And we that are found as subjects that are in the illumination of that *light, or *life, we are as though the sun shines within our strength because we are illuminated from within in the *light, and by the *light of Jesus. The *spirit of man being the candle of the *Lord that searcheth out the inward parts. Christ, as the old lamp lighter has lit *us up. I come, because I am the *light of the world, into a world of darkness void and without form. But now I have lit the little candles, and I go away; yet I go not away in that I will come *to *you again. And *whosoever looks for *Me I return unto *him. The world shall not see *Me, but I'll return unto *you. I go away *to come back in the comforter. So then, *here I *light the little candle, I *light *you that *you may be the *light of the world. So then, the *light *you see is understanding. The *light of our *great understanding, comprehending the heights, the depths, the width, the *great understanding of the mind of *Almighty *God, that's what *light is. That's what spiritual *light is. That's what *God is. *He's the *great understanding. The *great *light unto which no man can approach, *whom no man has seen, nor can see, Jesus Christ the *Word of *life alone dwells within the illumination. So then, we see the rending of the veil. What is it? The *Revelation of Jesus Christ. John, what is John writing? Just a few short years later, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five, sixty, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-five, eighty, eighty- five, ninety, ninety-five, just a few years later. I did it so *you comprehend what I'm saying. A few years later, from thirty-three *to ninety- six, *here is Jesus crucified at Calvary, a few years go by, and 70 AD, which is a few years after Calvary out goes Paul. Titus comes in and plows the city *life a field. Rome burned as the *great man of that day fiddles. Like we spoke of Atlanta *here a while back, what happened *to it. Over *here at 96, the little rocky island, John over *there just writing away penning the *Revelation of Jesus Christ. What is *he doing? *He is seeing the expose of Calvary. Is the *revelation the coming of the *Lord? Sure it is! Why? Because *it's Calvary. How can it be the coming of the *Lord? Because Peter *said the *Lord would come at the end of the world, didn't *he? And the Bible says, In the fullness of time, made under the *law, born of a woman, *God sent forth *His *Son. When? At Calvary. When was *He born of a woman? At Calvary! So then, Peter *said, *Ye are the people upon *whom the ends of the world have come. The coming of the *Lord. It was the coming of the *Lord. They built the walls back. Five hundred years, the silent centuries, from the time of King Artaxerxes and the going out of the last prophet over *to Calvary. Nehemiah building the walls back *to the coming of the Messiah. It was the coming of the *Lord, but they missed *His coming. The Jews couldn't get a hold of it, therefore, they went away into darkness. And the Bible says *there was weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, because they went away into darkness. They went into spiritual darkness. They went away at Calvary, and Jesus told them. *Said, I tell *you Jews something. They *said, Are *you going *to restore the *kingdom at this time? If *you be the Messiah why come *you don't do it? That's what the Bible says *you will do. That what the Old Testament says *you'll do. And where is Elias? *You *said *he's suppose *to come before *you get *here anyway. *He *said, John, the Baptist. I say *to *you Elias has come already, if *you can understand it. And at the coming of the *Lord they *said, Well, where is the restoration of the *Kingdom? *He *said the *law and the prophets *were until John, since that time the *Kingdom is *here. But they *said, We don't see it. Why don't *you do something about it? But the *Lord had come. What was it? They didn't see it. They didn't see it. But *he *said, I tell *you of a *truth *they're going *to come from the east and *they're going *to come from the west, and Bill Cartrette is going *to come over *here, George Pike is going *to come over *here, and Atlee Beachy is going *to come over *here, and Frank Taylor is going *to come over *here, and *they're going *to enter into the *Kingdom. And though *you Jews are the children of the *kingdom *you're going *to be cast into outer darkness. And *here they come from the east and the come from the west. They come from the north and the south, everywhere. *He *said if I be lifted up I'll draw all men unto *Me. And the Bible says *God hath translated *us into the marvelous *kingdom of our *God. And *He hath chosen *us out of this world, and *we're not of this world. *We're hid with *God in Christ *whom the *heavens have received until the *setting up of the millennium, which was the expectation of the Jews at that time. So then, they *said, Will *You do this? *He *said, *My *kingdom is not of this world. Now, look at the testimony of Christ. Christ on the inside of the flesh. Not the flesh speaking but Christ, that Christian headship, Christ. That *one that was invisible coming after a Christian membership, an invisible body called the *Church that the eye could not see. And *here it came. Christ *said, *My *kingdom is not of the world. *My servants would fight. I came *to bear witness of the *truth. And so it was. Somebody would say, Well, *Brother Pike, if *He came down *here as a king, and *He came down *here as the coming Messiah, why did *He leave *us down *here and do *us like *He did? *He didn't do that. *He didn't do that. *He *said, Where I am *there shall *my servants be also. I am hid with *God. I have chosen *you out of this world. *You are not of this world, for I've taken *you with *me, and *you are *sitting together in these *heavenly places. *Your inner spiritual being, Paul *said Christ formed within *you, that Christ part of *you, that inner *life of *you, that part that when *it's gone *your body is dead, that living *you, I have taken it with *Me. When I came in as Christ I took *My members with *Me. I took them away, and the Jews went out of *My presence. They went out of the presence of *God. They've been killed, they've been slaughtered through the dark *age, blood spilt, the wailing walls, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, constantly calling on *God, because they rejected the Messiah. Thus it shall be in the *Revelation of Jesus Christ. Whereas, that was the Christ coming forth from the inner veil, the separation of the *Lord from the Christ, or the Christ from the body. If that be the case, then, *my *brother and *sister, I say this again in *your hearing, that at the end of the *church *ages, the end of the world has already gone. *It's past. That was the end of the world. Peter *said *ye are the people upon *whom the ends of the world have come. But that was the end of the world. *You say again, What was it since Calvary? The *church *ages. Not the world, the *church *ages. The *church *ages. *We're not in the world anymore. *My *brother, for the saints of *God the world ended at Calvary. We *were chosen out of the world, and the Bible says *you are not of the world. And I've chosen *you out of the world. So then, our spiritual living part doesn't function in the body *to frolics, running around, our women in bathing suits, and our men frolicking around after the things of this world. *We're not hungry for money and power and prestige and education, because *we're not of this world. We don't love the world, nor the things of the world. *We're interested in *God. We *own the world, lock, stock and barrel. All the educators of this world, all the rich men of this world, all the millionaires of this world are nothing but squatters. And someday when they run that *godly abstract *there, when they do back and check that land out, and they begin *to go through that *heavenly thing, go through that thing *they're going *to find out that that title deed belongs *to the children of *God. It belongs *to the body of Jesus Christ for Jesus took it out of the hands of Satan, restored it back *to the second man Adam. So the first man Adam that's in sin don't have nothing *to do with it. But I *own it lock, stock, barrel; I *own everything. I *own the ocean. I *own the stars. I *own the moon. I *own the trees. I *own everything. *Life in abundance. I've come that *you might have *life, and that *you might have it more abundantly. So then, at the separation, the rending of the veil, *my body is dead *to the world. I am dead *to the world, Paul *said, and the world is dead *to *me by the body of Jesus Christ. I've been baptized into Christ. I have put on the *Lord Jesus Christ. Today *God sees bone of *His bone and flesh of *His flesh. *You may see *my fumbling. *You may see *my stumbling. *You may see *my ever diminishing personality, or *my frame work. But oh, *my beloved *brother, *God looks from *Heaven and *He says, *He must decrease, but I must increase, and that inner Christ in *me is ever increasing giving youth, and power, and strength, and greatness in the *Almighty *God, ever rising in the power of Jesus Christ. So then, it is a true fact that while *we're *here, this veil having been rent in *two, we behold the *Revelation of Jesus Christ. John unveiled it. *He saw it unveiled at Calvary. The *heavens rolled back when that body opened up, and *there came out the Christ, which was the ark of *His testament, which was that beautiful thing. And the *heavens opened at the rending of the veil, and then came forth Christ. And the *church *here in the earth, this tabernacle of natural physical being caught in the wilderness of this intellectual *wandering, ever learning, never able *to come *to the *truth in that the things of *God have an end. But the intellectual learning is a bottomless pit. It ever pulls *your *spirit down in the darkness, the dark hole has been discovered. That tabernacle that *you've got, oh, *my *brother, it is the tabernacle of *God. John *said, I seen the *revelation. *It's among men. They don't see *His tabernacle. *They're blaspheming *His tabernacle. Do not the rich men of this world oppress *you and blaspheme the worth name by which *you are called, or the name of *your tabernacle, *your identity in Christ? Peter *said, As long as I'm in this tabernacle. They don't know that *you are the tabernacle of *God. *You are the temples of the *Holy *Ghost. The Bible says, *God is speaking from within; let all the world keep silent. I will make them come and kneel at *your feet, and know that I have loved *you. I will suddenly return into *my temple *myself. If I go away I'll be back. Don't look for another. I'll be back. So then, the tabernacle of *God is in the earth. What is the tabernacle of *God? The body of Jesus Christ, for *God, the *Holy *Spirit tabernacled in the body of *His *Son Jesus. Are we then the *sons of *God, the body of the *Lord Jesus Christ? Did *He not say, *Ye are *gods. Are we not the body and bone of *His flesh? So then, *here we are. What is it? The *Revelation of Jesus Christ. Be *ye ready! Be *ye ready! Be ready for what, *Brother Pike? At the *revelation of Christ. If *you are not ready *you're going *to be left. *You say, What do *you mean, the *revelation of Christ? I mean the mind of *God appearing in humanity that is speaking away the veil. With the brightness of *His coming *He'll destroy the veil. As *He comes in the brightness of *His coming the veil will melt away, because *you are what *your thinking is. As a man thinks in *his heart so *he is. If I think in *my heart naturally I am a natural man. I am controlled by natural things. I am subject *to natural vanity. I must live off of that which is earthly. *My *brother, all I see is this natural thing around *me, for the Bible says *God has put the world within *their heart. But, *brother, when *God took the world out of *my heart, and put the *Kingdom of *Heaven in *my heart I think as a *heavenly creature. I am in the *heavenly places. The Bible says rejoice *ye that are in *heaven. Woe unto them that have the world within *their heart that's in the earth, for Lucifer savors the things that be of the flesh, and *he is among *you. But *ye that be in *heaven, *ye that have the *Kingdom of *Heaven in *your heart, *ye that have the love of *heavenly things, and *godly things, and spiritual things within *you, *you are a spiritual quickening *spirit as the second man Adam. *You are not a living soul anymore. *You are not subject *to death, and vanity, and Satan, evil. *Ye are the *sons and daughters of *God. If I think *heavenly then am I *heavenly, for as I believe and think in *my heart, whatever I think I shall have. Whatever I say I shall have. I think it and so am I. I say it and so shall it be, because I am *one with *him. The *Revelation of Jesus Christ, the veil melting away with the *knowledge of *God, the veil melting away with the brightness of *His illumination, *His understanding, *His spiritual illumination of the *church, and *you don't see the old *dragon anymore. *You don't see the old serpent anymore. *You don't see the many membered body of the serpent. *You are free from it. *You are the body of *God. *You are in *heaven. What is it? The rapture! How can I be raptured? I must believe *my way into *heaven. If *my hand be withered how can I get *my hand not *to be withered? I must have faith, and *God will change it *to that wonderful hand that was not withered. If I have a new body *eternal in the *spirit, which is the body of Jesus Christ in the *spirit, the body *eternal in the *heavens not made with hands, Christ's body that Adam was made in the image of. if that body is in the *spirit, *my *brother, if this tabernacle be dissolved I have that body. Is this tabernacle dissolved? I saw it dissolved. I saw it melt away. John *said, fervent heat, and the elements of which it is composed being on fire, and not on the natural earth melted, but the physical earth melted away, those dust particles over which Satan, the prince of the powers of the air has control *to cause *you sufferings and problems. I saw it melt away. How? With the *great power of the judgment when *he *said, I looked and *He that *set upon the *throne, from *whose eyes and face the earth fled away, and *there was no place found for it. Oh, *my *brother, when the *revelation speaks something away it can never be that again. When it unveils something and *you see it in *its spiritual reality, in *its originality, that which is the veil, that which was is forever gone. *Your mind has been transformed, *your mind has been changed. *You are thinking different. *You can never think that way again. *You can never be that way again. From *glory *to *glory *you are changed into *His marvelous *glory. The *glory of *His unveiled face. Therefore with the brightness of *His coming all of the earth fled away. *There was no sea. *There was no place but the mountains. Oh, *my *brother, be ready at the *Revelation of Jesus Christ, the coming of the *Lord. Why? For the *Lord shall suddenly appear within *you, *His temple. All the world shall come and kneel at *your feet and know that *he hath loved *you. *There is the illumination that is coming forth, the *great wonderful, wonderful *light that is expelling the shadows. (Begin tape *two, side one.) … image that is doing away with the perverted image, and nothing shall be left at that *light but that image that can reflect the *glory back *to *Him. As that sun gets closer anything that can't reflect that *light back soon burns *to a crisp. But, Oh, *my *brother, I don't say look at *me. Oh, *you don't say look at *you. I've got a *great education. I've got a *great talent. I've got a *great ability; let *me do it. I know how *to do it, somebody would say. *You don't do that. Say, *Glory *to *God. *God did it for *me. Without *God I can do nothing, and the *glory goes back, and the *glory goes back, and we alone dwell in that *light, that immortal *light, because it cannot consume *us. It illuminates *us with *its beauty and radiance of that which takes the *glory *to *itself. Educational systems, and powers, and monetary values, after awhile it is consumed, and it fades away into nothing, for with the brightness of *His coming *He shall destroy the image of perversion, and do away with Satan, a man of perdition *who *sets in the body, the temple of *God, showing *himself that *he is *God, making *you *to believe that *he is the giver of *life in that *he is the prince of this world. The rending of the veil. What is it? The *Revelation of Jesus Christ. Folks, Peter *said, *Ye are the people upon *whom the ends of the world have come. The world is fading away, fading away now, fading away. Somebody *said, But, *Brother Pike, those people, those people, why *you know they are going *to see the coming of the *Lord. The Bible says that the wicked shall not see when good cometh. *He *said, *There is none good but *God. *He *said that the wicked shall not see when good cometh. They shall not see, but *ye are children of *light. *Ye shall know when *it's nigh, even at the door. The Bible says every eye shall see *Him. Every eye shall behold *him. Even they that narrowly – They that crucified *Him shall narrowly look upon *Him. And *Brother, *you reason it out. At the coming of the *Lord they that crucified *Him are in the ground. They are in the ground. How are they going *to look upon *Him? As it was *said concerning the *Revelation of Jesus Christ, And everything in the earth *said, *Glory *to *God. *Glory *to *God, when *He comes with the nail prints, coming *to the Jews, when that natural head called Jesus shall come *to a natural nation called the Jewish people. But, *Brother, by then that spiritual Christ, which is a spiritual head, has already taken a spiritual membership, which is a spiritual Jew, *to *Himself, and translated them into the marvelous *Kingdom of our *God, made them safe that with the coming and manifestation of those nail riven hands, and the judgment of *God, that this body that shall utterly be consumed, that *you cannot hurt the oil and the wine. A measure of wheat for a penny, a measure of barley for a penny, but see that *ye hurt not the oil and the wine, as the darkness fell so *he *said. Now, where are we today? We are hid with Christ in *God *whom the *heavens have received. Rejoice *ye that are in *heaven. Rejoice *ye that are in *heaven, for *thine adversary the devil, goeth about like a roaring lion. Somebody *said, Well, *he was talking about the *angels. In *heaven we are all as the *angels. But *he was talking about the *angels. But the Bible says *thine adversary. The devil never gave an *angel a hard way *to go, only through trying *to help mankind. Do *you love Jesus? All right. So then, we see where we are at. And *it's an outstanding moment. The *Revelation of Jesus Christ, the coming of the *Lord. Oh, I wish *you could understand. I can tell many of *you don't. *You still don't understand. But I trust that *you will. Pray that *God will grant unto *you the *spirit of *Revelation. *Your eyes being enlightened that *you may comprehend the heights, the depths, the width and the length, for the Bible says this *light, this understanding, this greatness, it shined in the darkness. Gross darkness covered the people. They *set in the regions of the shadow of death, *their intellectual reasoning and education. Turn *my people from this darkness unto the mind of Christ, Paul. They are dark. They've got a veil over *their mind. They can't see. Take away this death veil, this *great *light is springing up *to them, but this *light that shines in the darkness, that darkness can't comprehend it. Intellectual reasoning can't comprehend it, because carnality and the carnal reasoning is enmity *to *light. *It's darkness. Where *there is darkness *there is no *light. Where *there is *light *there is no darkness. But, *Brethren, we comprehend the heights, the depths, the width and the length. Though the intellectual darkness can't do it, we are the children of *light with the mind of Christ. We comprehend it. Let's everybody stand together. Calvary, the rending of the veil, the separation of the *Lord from the Christ, the *Revelation of Jesus Christ. John wrote it on the Isle of Patmos. What is it? The end of the world. Why? *He *said the end of all things is at hand. Let *him that is *holy be *holy still. Are we thus *holy? The Bible says, *Ye are a *holy nation. I *said this the other day. We are a royal priesthood, a peculiar people. We are not a village. *We're not a community. We are a nation. We are separate from America. We are separate from Germany. We are a nation. *He *said, *Ye are a nation. I am *your king, Jesus *said. I am *your king. I am *your king. That is what upset Caesar. That's what upset Pharaoh. That's what tore them all up. They *said, Jesus is our king. Nay, but Caesar is our king. No. Jesus is our king. *We're just passing through *your country. *We're just passing through the land of Esau. *You've been taxing strangers. Why we just came down *to pay *you a visit. John, a man sent from *God *to pay a visit, *to pilgrim *here. Just *to be a pilgrim *here, *to pilgrimage through the people, around the people, *to let them know about the danger and the oncoming wars. See? Pray always that *you might be counted worthy *to escape the things that's coming on the earth. Visitation of *heavenly beings. Be careful how *you entertain strangers. Some have entertained *angels unaware. Whereas, *there are a number of ways *you can do it. I say again, *angels encamp round about them that love the *Lord. So then, if a person loves the *God *you are entertaining *angels unaware. Be careful how *you entertain that stranger. And likewise, *who knows, sometimes an *angel stands in human flesh it is *said concerning the seven *church *age *angels. So then, *who knows? John, a man sent from *God. They called Elijah the man of *God. So, *there are people among *you. *Who are they? They could be dignitaries, kings. For I have made *you kings and priests unto *your *God. *There is going *to be kings in the new earth. *They're going *to be *setting on thrones. They are going *to have subjects. *They're going *to be kings, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people, a chosen people, a *holy nation. *There's going *to be kings out *there. Around that *throne *there *were twenty-four kings. And Jesus *said *to them twelve disciples, Why, *you're not just preachers. *He *said, Because *you've stuck with *me through the regeneration of mankind when I *set as the king *you're going *to *set on twelve thrones beside *me. *You're going *to be twelve kings. And the Bible says the kings of the nations, for *he has made *us kings and priests unto our *God, and the kings of the nation shall bring *their *glory from the new earth into the beautiful gates of pearl *to throw down those crowns and *to bow before, not the king, but the King of all the Kings. The King of Kings. Not as *Lord, but the *Lord of all the Lords of the nations. Many Lords shall be *there throughout the nations, but all of those Lords shall bow *to that *one *Lord, for we have but *one *Lord, even Jesus Christ. Therefore, the *Lord of Lords, the King of Kings. If *there be no *Lord and *there be no Kings, how can *He then be *Lord of Lords and King of Kings. But *He shall be throughout the nations. Nations of the world. So then, we see what a *great moment it is. We are a *holy nation. We fly our flag out *there. That flag says the *Kingdoms of this world are the *Kingdoms of our *God. Why? Because Jesus is our King. Because we are a nation, beloved *Brother, *Sister. We are a *holy nation. We have our *own government. Which is the *Word of *God, the Bible. We have our *own King. We have our *own King, which is the *Lord Jesus Christ. We have our *own House of Parliament, which is our ministry. The ministers, that's our House of Parliament. We make our *own laws; we legislate our *own ways of *life. So then, *who are we? We are the *sons of *God. *Brother Taylor sings that songs, Now We Are The *Sons Of *God. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. I appreciate *you being *here. The Bible demands *us *to grow in the *grace of *God. Whereas, everybody likes *to grow in the *grace of *God. *Grace is in our day; in our *age. *You can eat, drink and be merry, but *God didn't just say grow in the *grace. *He *said grow in the *knowledge. Because *one day the *grace is going *to end, but the *knowledge of *God in *your heart is going *to bring *you a salvation. The *grace of *God unto salvation that hath appeared unto all men, teaching them *to live soberly, righteously, *holy, *godly in this present world. Going *to change *you into *His lovely *light. And that *grace that allows for harlots, and drunkard, and murderers, and liars, and cheats, and robbers, hypocritical people, that is going *to be done away with, the dispensation, or days of *grace. It will be gone. The blood will be off of the mercy *seat. That's the ending of the days of *grace. But *ye are children of *light. *You understand. The world don't understand what *we're talking about. The world don't understand what *we're saying. The world don't have the understanding that *you have. If *you think so talk with them. They don't understand. But *you understand. *You say, Well, that's wonderful, *Brother Pike? Wonderful; yet fearful. The Bible says, It is a fearful thing *to fall into the hands of a living *God. When *you understand *you have fallen into the hands of *God *you become subject *to *Him for judgment. For unto *whom much is given much is required. *To *him that knoweth *to do good and doeth it not *to *him it is a sin. Withhold not good from people when *it's in *your hand *to do it. The Bible teaches that they'll curse the king if *he withholds the corn in the time of famine. Let's sing this chorus, can we? How many of *you are concerned about the work of *God, *your soul, the *knowledge of *God, the ways of *God? Invite somebody *to come in. Compel them *to come in. All of them aren't going *to stay. Let *whosoever will. The *gospel *to every creature. And *God will weed them out, and sift them out, but we'll keep the ones *He wants. And *God will add unto the *church daily such as should be saved. I believe I see *Brother Morris back *there. I caught the gleam of *his glasses. I hadn't seen *him. I'm so glad *to see *Brother Morris. *He's so precious *to *me. All right. Let's sing this song. Give *me another key, Sister. (Singing.) You know, I'm glad *to have David *here this morning, *Sister Charlotte's *son, David. *He come in. *He's been out on the road. *He got *him a haircut. Come in, been helping *us some. *Said *he wants *to get *his *life straight with *God. About seventeen years old, and the devil has tried *to give *him a hard way *to go. But David *said *he made up *his mind. *He wants *to be part of *God, part of the things of *God, and I think that's marvelous, don't *you? How many of *you think that's wonderful? While we sing this I want *you *to come and stand around the alter just for a moment. Can *you sing with *me again now? (Singing.) Can *you come now? (Singing.) Can *you sing it with me? (Singing.) Let's lift our hands up for a moment and love *Him now. Now then, if *you've never found Jesus dear *to *your soul, if *you've never made that trip into *heaven, if *you've never been translated into the wonderful *Kingdom of *God, into *his marvelous *Kingdom *to see these beautiful, wonderful treasures and things, Oh, *Brother, *Sister, I invite *you into Canaan today. For *there is a door that's open in *heaven. *There is a door. Jesus *said, I am that door. I'm that way. I'm the door *to the sheepfold. No man can come *to the *Father but by *Me. But *he that can go in and out this door will find green pastures. *God will lead *you into the wonderful places, the wonderful places of richness, and greatness, and *glory. Don't *you feel the dew drops of *heaven. Don't *you feel the rain of *His *glory. Don't *you feel the presence of *His quickening, even the same *spirit that was in Jesus Christ, that raised *Him up from the dead. Don't *you feel that *spirit quickening *your mortal body. Every now and then *you'll feel it quickening. *Your faith will register and *you will feel the quickening. Did *you know that *there *were men of old like Ezekiel, Philip, men that got *their faith just right? and it wasn't just a little quickening, but it was so *great and so strong and so constant until Peter could walk on the water *he was so *light in *his physical being. Ezekiel was picked up into the air and moved through the air over *to the Valley of Dry Bones. Philip caught away in the *spirit appeared many miles away. Thus it shall be at the rapture, the *spirit shall get stronger, and stronger, and stronger. *You have the power over mortality, *my *Brother, *Sister. *You have power over mortality. *It's been proven on this side of the grave *you have power. *You don't have *to go *to the grave *to have power. I say again, *laying in the grave, what good does that do *God. Because *you lay in the grave five, ten years, and corrupt, what benefit is that *to the *Holy *Spirit? *You are more benefit *to *God not corrupting. *You don't have *to go through the stages of *laying in the dirt for *God *to raise *you up. If *God can raise *you up from the particles of the earth, *my *Brother, *Sister, how much more can *he raise *you up while *you are yet living. *He that heareth *my *words and believeth on *Him that sent *me shall never die, for *he shall never come into condemnation. *He has passed from death unto *life. Behold! I show *you a mystery. All of *us will not be planted in the earth. All of *us shall not sleep. *There are going *to be some that's going *to believe, and be changed like Enoch and Elijah was. Enoch translated by faith that *he should not see death. How did *he do it? Because *he was not under the *law. Do *you love Jesus? *He was not under the *law. That's how *he did it. How are we going *to do it? Because *we're not under the *law. We'll do it by faith. *We're not under the *law. *We're back where Enoch was. Somebody *said, Well, I sure hope *one day *He'll catch *me up. I hope *He will, because if *you ever come up *here we'll have good fellowship. *You know, *one of these days Christians will awake *to the fact that *God has done something for them. I *said, *Lord, won't *you translate *me like *you did Enoch? Won't *you translate *me into *your *Kingdom like *you did Enoch? The *Lord *said, For I have translated *you into the marvelous *Kingdom of *your *God. Hallelujah! I *said, *Lord, if *you'll just take *me into *heaven. *He *said, *Son, *you are hid with Christ in *God *whom the *heaven have received. Rejoice *ye that dwell in *heaven. And every time I talk *to *Him *He talks back *to *me. *He can't say nothing but *His *words, now can *He? That's all *you can say is *your *words. That's all *He can speak is *His *words. And the *Lord speaks back again and again. *You are precious, folks. *You are *great and wonderful, *you don't realize what kind of place *you are in. The devil hounds *you. *You say, Well, *Brother Pike, how is it the devil beats on *me and pecks on *me if I'm in *heaven? How many of *you know that the devil had climbed into the upper lintel? The Bible says the serpent has climbed up into the upper lintel. How many of *you know that? How many of *you know that in *Revelation 12 when that man child was born they looked over *there and Lucifer was *there *too? How many of *you know that *he went before the *Throne of *God, and *God *said, Have *you considered *my servant Job? How many of *you know that *he up *there just because *there is some *grace going on? But after awhile the blood is going *to come off of the Mercy *Seat. *Brother, *he isn't going *to be up *there. But I'm going *to stay up *there. I'm going *to stay up *there. I'm going *to stay up *there. I'm going *to stay up *there. But *him and all of *his workers, a third part of *heaven, them *wandering stars that's always reflecting that revival, them *wandering stars that's always shouting and dancing and hollering and being religious, them *wandering stars that's always sharing our blessings, partakers of our feast of charity as they reflect the *glory of *God. *One day *they're going *to be turned out, because when the blood comes off of the Mercy *Seat the veil of death is going *to go between *us and them, and that *light won't get *to them anymore and they won't be illuminated anymore. They'll be stars, *wandering stars for *whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. They'll go down into the deep darkness of *their intellectual reasoning of the *Tree of *Knowledge, and the bottomless pit, the dark hole. Down they will go. And they'll never reflect the *light of those true *sons and daughters of *God again. Never again will they be religious. They'll be vile and wretched and temperamental. They'll gnash upon each other with *their teeth in the fire, and in the darkness, because they will be in the bottomless pit. Down into the regions of the damned they will go. They'll never be illuminated again *to get a drink of that water of *heaven. Never again. But *you'll never thirst anymore. The soul shall be satisfied and the thirsting shall be quenched, for out of the wells of salvation we draw water with joy, and out of the innermost being flows rivers of living water, and the deep calleth unto the deep at this well of *God, which is the water spout of *God. But the Bible speaks of that time, err the cistern be broken, and the cord of *God be loosed. And then *He warns them saying that the people have committed these *two evils. They have hewn them out cisterns, even broken cisterns, that won't hold the *Spirit. It won't carry water. *Their vessels are all broken and bruised by sin. They leak. They won't hold water. And they've committed another evil, and that evil is they have forsaken the *Spirit. They have forsaken the living *God, the quickening, the *Spirit, the *Word, the understanding of *light. They have forsaken it. These *two evil they have committed. Err the pitcher be broken, or the cistern be broken, and the silver cord be loosed. Then shall come the long day of mourning when all men shall mourn, for the *Spirit of *God shall be lifted from the earth. No more water shall be drawn out of the wells of salvation. No more, never no more, but right now *you've got a *great opportunity. *You that dwell in *heaven, the blood will be coming off of the Mercy *Seat soon. As it comes off all of *you that have *eternal *life, all of *you that are hid with Christ in *God, all of *you that are partakers of the glorious, wonderful, divine benefits of the *Son of *God and *His *atonement, *ye shall live forever and forever and forever. Never no more will *you be troubled. Jesus *said, Let not *your heart be troubled. Never no more will *you have problems. Never no more will anybody be able *to be a stumbling block unto *you. Nobody will be able *to hinder *you. *There will be no more tears for the Bible says *God shall wipe all tears from our eyes. That *great wonderful moment. And *it's so close. Hallelujah! *To wit, *to wit, *to wit the redemption. *To wit. Oh, *my *Brother, like the *angel *said *to Washington, as George Washington stood *there and the *angel *said, Oh, *thou *son of the republic, look and learn. *God says look and learn. Look and learn. Look and learn. We need *to learn. What a wonderful thing, for where are we headed for? The land of learning. Where will be dwell? In the midst of the *Word, for *who is *He? In the beginning *He was the *Word. *Who is *He today? The *great understanding. In the midst of the land of understanding, and in the radius of the illumination of the *Word, so shall we dwell in that wonderful world of learning. Look and learn. Let *us understand, for *my *words are *spirit and they are *life. Let *us live in *His presence. Let *us understand. Let *us comprehend. What a day. What a journey. What a pilgrim. Everybody in transit. We sing that song, tell it *to *your neighbor, sing it, tell it on the phone, time *to get started on the way home. Let's just lift our hands up for a few minutes. If *you've not made peace with *God, if *you've not found *Him dear *to *your heart, then I invite *you *to do it. The *great chasm is just ahead. *It's just ahead. I never will forget the vision I had. In the vision I went down, down, down a *great incline. I was going down, down toward the bottom of it. I was going. And in the bottom of the *great chasm, the *great gulf, and as I got down *to the gulf, I remember in the vision I had fallen over, like in a deep state of sleep just before I fell into the gulf. And then I come *to *myself and *there I was, and *my head was *laying in the ashes and the hot colds *were nearby, and the *great gulf within a few feet. And I raised up, and I caught *myself, and I come *to *my reasoning, and I stood upon *my feet, and I turned away from the *great gulf, and I begin *to walk up the incline. I begin *to walk toward the top of the hill, farther and farther toward the top I walked. As I was walking I suddenly was made *to realize that I was headed for a beautiful *garden that a friend of *mine had, a beautiful place of rest. And I was going *to rest. And as I went up the hill all of a sudden I noticed that I begin *to be restored *to a person like eighteen or twenty years old. And I noticed that every imperfection of *my body begin *to be changed. And *my hair became thick and bushy like a youth. And *there as I begin *to walk up the hill, up the incline youth was completely restored as I was on *my way *to that beautiful *garden. Oh, *my *Brother, *Sister, *you don't know *who *you are. *You don't know what *you got. *You don't know *your ability, and I say this humbly before *you. *To sell out as Judas for the beggarly elements of this world, for a few pieces of silver, *to throw *your *life and *your *glory and *your crown and the magnificence of *your *great being, *to throw it away for the beggarly elements of this world, and *to have *God *to reject *you, it is so sad. *You say, *My *Brother Pike, *God wouldn't do that. Listen *to *me. I heard a voice the other night in a night vision, and I heard this voice, and it spoke of a person that comes *to *church *here. And I've talked with this person, and I've talked with this person. I've not mentioned this *to anybody but Betty, and I hope *she won't mention it unless I tell *her *to, and I hope *you won't ask *me. If *you're *my relative I hope *you won't ask *me. I don't want even David Paul *to ask *me. I don't want any of *you *to ask *me, because I want *to protect the individual if I can, the *one of *whom I'm about *to speak. And I want *to pray that *God will, *you know, *God repents over things like *He did Israel when *He would have destroyed them. But this person has been able *to do something for *God. They've been able *to help, and I've pleaded that our people do something for *God and they wouldn't do it. And *he stood back and let the others carry the load. And I heard the voice say very clearly, I am through with *him. It *said, I am through with *him. And I heard the voice say, *to *Brother Pike, and concerning all of *you, And I will do the same if *you do not honor and obey. So *you remember, folks. The Bible says be not *high minded, but fear. If the natural branch, which is the Jew, was cut off, and *you being wild by nature was grafted in, fear lest *you be cut off. Don't ever get *to thinking *too highly of *yourself and feel like *you're some special person, because *you know a lot, or heard a lot, or because *you've done a lot, or made a lot, or been a lot of places. Don't do it, because it *said, I am through with him. (Begin tape *two, side two.) … may have told *me about *him. Whereas, *he may be through with *you, and maybe *he just hasn't told *me about that. It might be a number of *you. But let's pray for *him that we do know about, and ask *God if *He will repent over that, and if *He will, through *his *great love and understanding, give *him another chance. Somehow I believe *he will. I believe *he will. *He may not, but I know *He's kind. I know *He's considerate. I know *He's compassionate. And *He came *one time and *He told the man that was over the vineyard, *He *said, Cut that *tree down. And the man *said, Sir, will *you be kind enough *to let *me keep it a little longer? I've kind of grown fond of that *tree, as we say. I think a lot of this *tree. Would *you let *me work around it a little longer, and maybe it won't be like *it's been in the past. All right. *You can have it for *one more year, *He *said. I'll give *you a chance. Dung around it *one more year, but if I come back next year and *there is no fruit, *He *said, I'm going *to cut *you down. I'm not going *to have *you in *my vineyard no more. We have our fruits unto holiness and the end thereof everlasting *life. Folks, if *you're compromising with the world and *you don't have fruits of holiness get some holiness in *your *life, and forget about edging around the corners *to get prestige, and *to get fellowship with the world. *To be a friend of the world is *to be an enemy of *God. Run from the friend and fellowship of the world, the friendship, run from it. Run from it, because *it's deadly. So then, I believe *God is going *to grant it. When I told *my wife *she really tore up. *She *said, Oh, I pray *to *God that won't happen. I pray *to *God that *God will be merciful. I love everyone of *you and *you're dear *to *me, and *you're dear *to *God, everyone of *you. But, folks, *you're going *to have *to remember that what I'm telling *you is the *truth. And *God is no respect of person. *He'd cut *Brother Pike off as quick as *He would *you. *He'd cut *you off as quick as *He would *me. I could have a million dollars. It wouldn't make no difference; out I'd go. I could have a dine; out I would go. *You can be the greatest celebrity in the world; out *you'll go, just that quick. Or *you can be a pauper; out *you'll go. So then, I ask of *you *to do something for Jesus and for the people of *God. Consider the cause of Jesus. Will *you do that? Will *you do that? For Christ's sake, and for *my sake, and for the brotherhood's sake will *you do that? Will *you consider for *your sake? Not that *Brother Pike needs *your help. I need it in the sense that I need all the help I can get for world evangelism, but *Brother, *Sister, Jesus *said *He'd supply *my need. So if *you went out *He'd just put another *one in *your place. But I need *your help. I need *your fellowship. *God needs it. *He needs it. Let's sing this little chorus. Let's sing this little song, I Need Him. (Singing.) I was going *to sing I Love *Him. Let's sing I Love *Him. Maybe *He wants *us *to sing that. We'll sing that and then we'll sing I Need Him. (Singing.) Do *you love Him? (Singing.) Will *you sing it with *me like this now? (Singing.) Come around *here, Little Benny. I want *you *to pray for Little Benny. *He's been having a problem. And I guess *he must be hurting in *his stomach, are *you? I think Little Benny is learning the hard way that sin don't pay. *You know, at this time *there is a real *revelation taking place. I was watching last night the things that was taking place, the things that's been happening *to Little Benny, and I've not known *him *to get into any problems before, but Satan enticed *him and the first news *you know *he was in problems. Let's pray for *him this morning. *He's just a lad, and *he needs help and strength, but if *you will lift up *your hearts and minds *to Christ and let's pray. Can *you do that, as we pray with *him? Precious *Heavenly *Father, *Lord, as we pray for Little Benny, I ask *Thee first of all for the forgiveness of *my sins, *Heavenly Father. (Speaks in tongues.) O *Father, in the name of Jesus. (Speaks in tongues.) Father *to heal this little lad, O *God. *Father *to heal. Heal, Jesus. *Lord *to free from the bondages of evil. *Lord, not only Little Benny, but every little Benny around the world today, *Father. *Father, may *your *spirit, may *your blessings, may *your power, may *your greatness, may *your kindness touch every little boy and girl in the world today. O *God, every person in the world today, *to heal, *to save, *to forgive. In the mighty name of Jesus I ask for *your blessings, in Jesus name, and *your healing. Hallelujah. *You know, this come *to *my mind while we *were standing *here. I related it *to the *Brethren last night. Our *Brother from Macon was telling *us yesterday. *He was actually talking *to *Brother Jerry. *Brother Cobb was talking *to *Brother Jerry, and *he was telling *Brother Lambert about the time that we *were over in Macon, Georgia, and touching the lives of some of the people *there, and how that we had put on a little play. We *were working with the young people *there a number of years back, and we had put on a little program, and a little play, and they *were having something over the way at the school, and the women *were dressing out in the wrong kind of clothing, and it was a school program, very obscene and very bad, but it was a school program and a regularity. *You know the world don't think anything about that. Flesh on display. And they had pressed on *us, and on *Brother Cobb and the *Brother Sonny Garrett. They'd pressed on *us *to put the program off. *You know, that's unbelievable, but *you know, the *church wanted *to go over *there. They wanted *to be *there, some of them, at that display of flesh. And they wanted *to be at the program *too. A holiness *church, now. So they wanted *us *to put it off, and it was a big attraction; people went. But I and the *two *Brethren, we got together and we decided we *were going *to pray. I *said, I believe *God will do something about it, and we prayed and the *Lord let it rain. That was numbers of years ago. And it rained and it rained until it rained them out and they couldn't have it. And *Brother Cobb was telling *me yesterday, *he *said, *Brother Pike, *it's the *truth. *Said, Never again have they ever had it, never again. *Said, They've never had it again. *Said, That ended it. *God will do something if we pray. Isn't that right? I remember when we prayed when Floyd was having such a hard time with *his automobile. *You've heard *me tell it. We prayed, *Lord, protect *him, because they *were going *to take *his automobile away from *him. *He was trying *to work and *he couldn't get work. And we prayed and I want *you *to know that they lost all records of that automobile, and they never did sent *him another bill. That ended it. *God will *hear if we pray. Now, *you say, Why do *you say that? Because I think some of *you thought the first was coincidental, so we'll tell the second. Establish it in the mouth of *two witnesses. *You love Jesus? All right. Let's just lift our hands up together. I love *you. Jesus loves *you. *You are very dear *to *Him. *You are very precious *to *Him. *You are a *great and a mighty people. *You don't realize how *great. And I tell *you again, *you are a nation of *your *own. *You are a *holy nation. *You are *God's *holy nation that owns the earth, that will rule *heaven and earth, and have everything that heart could wish for. Folks, do something for Jesus. If *you're not doing something for Jesus don't let Satan paralyze *you in *your spiritual system. Don't become a paralytic spiritually speaking and helpless. Do something. Function within the body of Jesus. Be living and alive, and enjoy and draw this *great radiant *life, and let it exhilarate *your being, and activate and move through *your being until *you can be alive and whole, and not crippled, because *God won't receive a halt, blind, or a lame sacrifice. And *you're *His *lamb. *You're sacrificed all the day long, as a *lamb *to the slaughter. Be a complete whole, healthy sacrifice. Be a *light, be a testimony. Let *your faith be spoken of throughout the world. Help *us in world evangelism. Do something for *God and *you'll have plenty left over. And if *you don't do that *God will take *you away from all of it. Like the rich man *said when *he made the statement, I'll tear down *my barns, and I'll build bigger ones, because I don't have enough places *to store all *my goods. *He *said *his cup was running over. *He *said, but *he wasn't going *to share. *He wasn't going *to give it away. *He wasn't going *to labor that *he might have *to give and help the needy and hungry. *He was just going *to build *him some more barns. And *God got upset at *his statement and *said, *Thou fool. *Thou fool. I give *you all of this, so *to speak. I give *you all of this. I've made *your cup *to run over. I've blessed *you with everything, but *thou art a greedy, greedy man. *Thou fool. I'm going *to take everything *you've got away from *you now. And the Bible says, And when *you're gone *whose shall all these things be. Solomon *said, Shall *you leave them *to a fool? Children fuss and fight over them and squander over them? By wisdom *you got them, by sacrifice *you got them, but a fool spends them. But, oh, *my *Brother, *to share and *to enjoy, *to love, that's the beauty of living for *God. For if *you sow bountifully *you shall reap bountifully, and if *your sow sparingly *you shall reap sparingly. Though it may look like *you're reaping bountifully all of a sudden it will go down into a suck hole. All of a sudden *you will be taken away from it. All of a sudden *there will be hospital bills. All of a sudden *there will be tragedies. All of a sudden *there will be something that will grab it away from *you, because *you cannot break the *Holy Scriptures. If *you sow sparingly, though *you might gather, as it would be millions of dollars, *you'll put in bags with holes in it, because *He'll take it. *God cannot lie. But, *Brother, the Bible says give of that *you've got and behold all things are clean unto *you. Consider the hungry, consider the needy, consider those that gathered a little, and *you that gathered much don't let them have any lack. Even if *you don't have nothing left over let's share and let's remember this *great treasure. I tell *you in Jesus Name *you can be blessed and still have this treasure, but *you can't be greedy and selfish and have them both. *You can't do it. Just lift *your hands up now as our *Brother Taylor comes *here *to dismiss *you and *to pray with *you I want *you *to worship the *Lord just for a minute, and I want *you *to ask Jesus *to help *you. *You know, *you or I, any of *us today, might start on our way somewhere, we might get killed. We might get killed. *You can't ever tell. *You say, But, I'm a Christian. *Brother Branham was a Christian. Others *were Christians, *great men *were Christians, they got killed. Paul was a Christian; *he got killed. How many of *you know that? Others *were Christians; they *were killed. Being a Christian don't keep *you from getting killed. But I tell *you what, being a Christian can give *you faith *to protect *you until finish *your course. I believe *Brother Branham finished *His course. I believe Paul finished *his course. Paul made the statement *he had finished *his course. I believe *Brother Branham had. *God took care of them. *He'll take care of *you *too, *Brother, *Sister, if *you'll believer. Let's love *him. Let's love *him. *Brother Taylor.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord