The Secret Shall Be Finished

I'd like to say that I'm grateful to be here tonight. I appreciate the wonderful presence of God, the wonderful opportunity to be here and to fellowship and talk to you about the word of the Lord. I'm sorry that I'm late tonight. I know that we're running late, but we had a chance to talk to somebody tonight about the Lord. As a matter-of-fact, I saw Brother Barrette give his heart to God in a glorious way, a wonderful way. As Frank talked with the Lord, he and I were praying together there in the basement. Nobody there but us and he was really praying and pouring out his heart to God as the tears flowed. I mean a real genuine conversion and repentance, and it really blessed my heart. So, you know, the Bible said the shepherd will leave the ninety and nine to go look for the stray. And so then I'm a little bit late tonight because we've been looking for strays. It's wonderful to see people coming back to God. I rejoiced when Brother Tommy Cartrette come back to the Lord. And we've been praying for Brother Barrette and it's so wonderful to see him yield his heart to God. And just before we read the Scripture tonight I want Joseph to come up here. Will you come up here Joe? Joe gave his heart to God just a few nights ago. The devil was really giving Joe a hard way to go, but he broke loose from a lot of things and give his heart to God and I feel like Joe ought to say something to us tonight. Will you do that Joe? (Joe speaking. Well, I don't know what to say really, but I can say I love the Lord, and I'm glad that He saved my soul, cause if He can save me He can save anybody, and that's for sure. I'd like to say that I hope I continue to do his will. That's all I've got to say. Lord Bless each and everyone of you.) Isn't that wonderful. I wonder if David is here tonight. Is David here? He's been coming to the services. I wonder where he's at tonight. Here he comes. David also, a week or so ago, gave his heart to God and the devil was trying to give him a hard way to go but he came and gave his heart to God, and he has been sincerely trying to serve Jesus. Come and testify David. (David speaking. Well, I really don't know what to say. I'm a little short of words. I'd just like to thank all of ya'll for being kind to me and I'd really like to thank Brother George and Sister Betty for helping me out the way they did. And where's Freddy? Freddy Gonzales, he's been a real good help to me.) Don't you love Jesus? Praise God. That is so wonderful. You know, how many of you believe that God saves souls? You believe God saves souls? Praise God. I don't know whether Chris is here tonight, or not. Where is Chris tonight? Chris come up here, will you? Yeah, there ain't but one Chris here that I know of, outside of my little Joseph Chris. This is also a Brother that has just recently give his heart to God. Chris has never known anything except just a baptist experience with God. God really got a hold of his heart, and he gave his heart to God, and he's really genuinely trying to serve God. He's really got an experience. Can you testify Chris? (Chris speaking. I also am of a few words. And I, you know, it's a beautiful thing what God has done in my life and what he's doing at Bethlehem. And I just want all ya'll to know if you've not been out there you ought to come out there. The truth is being preached there. I went through a lot of religious stuff, Baptist, Methodist and all of that and I just couldn't get things straight. I believed in the trinity and all this, and it took we awhile to realize it's something the devil has got rigged and it's just a beautiful experience what God has done and I just want to say thanks. I really love ya'll and I really appreciate what God has done for me. Brother George he's really helped me out a lot and anybody that has got some problems and really needs help from God, I think you ought to get in touch with him cause he'd really straighten you out, like he's done me, And I really just want to thank all of ya'll and God bless each and everyone of you. And ya'll are all in my prayers. Thanks a lot.) Steve, how about coming down here will you? How many of you appreciate Jesus? Here comes a young fellow that got an experience with the Lord the other night. I mean a real genuine experience. We had just come out of the church. As we walked out of the church this Brother had fell under conviction and he came up to where I was and we got to praying for him and I tell you, the power of God fell out there on the grounds and it wasn't long before we had a congregation. And I mean God was really moving and I mean Steve really, genuinely got born again. (Steve speaking. Well, I really don't know what to say except I wasn't living for God and saw David up there he started it, he was doing it so I said to myself, If he can do it, I can. So I thank God for saving my soul. I appreciate Brother George and all the Brethren for helping me. Jimmy Kirk. I appreciate him, talking to me on the job and things like that. I appreciate it and I love the Lord. I want ya'll to pray for me) You know, there are a number of others, boys and girls that we could call up here. One come to my room the other night crying, all broken up, and ask for prayer and said they wanted to get right with God. Numbers of them that are breaking up and giving their heart to God and I think it's wonderful. How many of you think it's wonderful? I wonder if Frank, Frank, would you come up here and say a word for the Lord? I think it's wonderful, don't you. You know, this is what it's all about, folks. Go ye in to all the world, preach the Gospel, win souls. He that winneth souls is wise. TheBible said he that winneth souls will out shine the brightness of the noonday sun. And in winning souls, if you win souls for God then you are laying up treasures in heaven. The Bible teaches that the angels in heaven rejoice over one soul coming to repentance rather over the ninety-nine just persons that need no repentance. (Frank speaking. You know, I thought I had gotten by tonight. I thought Brother George wasn't going to ask me up here, but it's good to be home. God bless you, I love you for that. I want you to pray for me. Last time I was in one of these rings I wasn't fighting for my soul. I used to box a lot, my golden gloves and Dale said, I bet you've never been in one of those. I said, yeah, I have a long time ago. But this is for a different cause tonight. I know Brother George has converted this ring to a fight for Jesus. You know, Brother George means more to me that I ever realized. He's been real patient with me. I know he's done a lot of praying for me. Stayed up nights probably. I know I've probably given him a lot to pray about. We had a long talk today and we got all that settled and that's all behind us now. And I really love him and appreciate him standing by and being patient with me. He's really shown me love when I've turned my back on him and even hurt him. You know, the last couple of years when I've been away from God I've learned a whole lot. I told Brother George today I don't think I'd have ever learned some of the things that God has shown me had I continued on like I was going, in church, not really going all out for God but just sort of drawing back, halfheartedly serving God and half the time trying, the other half the time not trying. But, you know, when I got away things sort of dried up for me. It got real lonesome out there. And believe it, or not, I was away out in sin and I begin to find myself praying, asking God to help me, and the first new you know the phone rang and somebody called me and said, I haven't seen you in a long time, Brother. I've been praying for you. Is everything all right? The Lord laid it on my heart to get in touch with you. Somebody else would come by and say, How's everything going with ya'll? said, I've been concerned about you. I just wanted to see if everything was all right. These were people in God, you know. First thing I knew I began to realized God was concerned about me. I thought maybe it was too late, but so many things were going wrong in my life and I got my eyes open, and God made me to realize that I'm His and that He wasn't just going to turn me a loose just cause I wanted to get a way from Him. . That He was going to pursue me all my life, there was nothing I could do. I either had to serve God or be one miserable human being and die and then go to hell and be miserable throughout eternity. And even thought my old flesh really didn't want to do it sometimes God just stayed on me, and stayed on me, and stayed on me, and I began to realize I had to come home. Somehow I had to get back if I could. I'm just stepping through the door and if you see me stumble don't put your foot on me, just help me get up. Cause I know how it is, and I'm just like a little baby again, you know, the spirit is willing but sometimes the flesh is weak. And I need your prayers. Everyone of you, I need your prayers that somehow or another this time I'm going to win the fight. I'm not going to be whipped again. God bless you, everyone of you.) If you love the Lord say amen. Praise God. It's wonderful to be a Christian. It's so wonderful to be here and hear people testify. They're overcomers. The Bible said that they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. And I'm glad tonight that I'm an overcomer. Are you glad? I want to read just a little bit tonight from the book of Revelation. I want to point out something to you just before we get to the Scripture that we're going to read from. But I want to read from another passage of Scripture rather than the one I'm reading from here, as far as the text. But I just want to call your attention to something here. Some of you are familiar with revelation, and you're familiar with what I say when I say the revelation. In the book of Revelation, if you've got your Bibles you can turn to the first chapter. I've pointed this out on numbers of occasions and I'd like to point it out again tonight. Sometimes people question me, you know, in their spirit as to why that I preach the revelation of Jesus Christ. Why do you preach that? Where do you get that in the Bible and what causes you to preach the revelation of Jesus Christ? Reading in the first chapter, the first part of the book of Revelation, the first verse. The first thing that you will notice, if you've got your Bibles, it says. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Notice that now. "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: (2) Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw." If you notice it says, the Revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave unto him. Now let me say this. A lot of people would say, Brother Pike, that is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, but in that that is the Revelation of Jesus Christ that is all that there is to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And in as much as the Bible tells us that if any man add to this, or take away from the writing of this book, should he add to it the plagues of the book be added to him, should he take away his part should be taken out of the book of life. In as much as God has said this, then that means that that being the Revelation of Jesus Christ that that is all there is to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. But if that is true then I ask the question again. What does Paul the Apostle mean, when Paul is preaching the gospel and Paul he terms it as the Revelation of Jesus Christ? You read in Paul's writings, and Paul calls it the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Yet Paul says something altogether different from what John says. It's altogether different, and yet I say again it is not different in that it is line upon line and precept upon precept. It is one gospel. The same gospel, but nevertheless it is different in that it is not the book of Revelation, not that which John has said. Therefore we see the Revelation of Jesus Christ is not confined to just one writing. The Revelation of Jesus Christ was given to Paul, and Paul said, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh because of my much revelation. And he terms it the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Therefore today the Revelation of Jesus Christ is the same. God is moving by His great Spirit. He is revealing things today, and He is making known to us the wonderful Revelation of Jesus, the Christ. All right. That's why we call it the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The writer tells us that we should pray that God would grant unto us the spirit of revelation. Now I want to read just a little bit from chapter ten of the book of Revelation, and then I want to comment just a little on it. And I want you to think upon it. It makes it a little difficult for us to preach in here to where you can understand clearly because of the acoustical effect. Brother Paul had an acoustical sealing in here that gave us the right sound, but they made him take it out because of fire. They were afraid that it was a fire hazard so they made him remove it. Therefore, it gives an echo. Now, therefore when I preach I get to saying my words kind of hurriedly and when I get to saying my words kind of hurriedly then it all gets to rolling together. I have to say something and then stop and let it level off, you know. Otherwise the building here is excellent for preaching. If it had the acoustical sealing back it would be ideal. Now, so if I get in a hurry, you know, and it gets a little scrambled up, you just bear with me. All right. Let's read just a little bit from the Revelation of Jesus Christ in chapter ten beginning down at the first verse. Now let's read it together. "And I saw another might angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: (2) And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, (3) And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices, (4) And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. (5) And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, (6) And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: (7) But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (8) And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. (9) And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. (10) And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. (11) And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings." In the seventh verse of the tenth chapter, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." It's a privilege to have Brother Paul and Sister Jones coming out with a regularity. I think it's so marvelous. I see that they've got some visitors. I don't know who they are. I'd certainly appreciate knowing who they are. Did they come with you, Brother Paul, out here tonight? Sister Jones, are these visitors with you? Could you tell us who they are, please? Well, we're certainly glad to have you folks out here. Appreciate you coming. I believe this is the first time you've been here. Isn't that right? I certainly appreciate you being here with us. How many appreciate these folks being with us? All right. Now, I want to say again I appreciate Howard and Franklin coming out last night, and then coming back out tonight with the Brother. I appreciate them. They're cousins of mine and I appreciate them so very much. They are very fine people. They always love the Lord, and their Dad was one of the finest men that I know of anywhere. And he brought them up to love Jesus, and it's so wonderful to have them to come to be with us. All right, now. Let to talk to you for just a few minutes concerning this. There are many things I could say about this that I'm fixing to speak of and we could get into a great disputation, but we're not going to do that. The Bible said to receive the weaker brother but not to be doubtful of him. Or that is to doubtful disputation, or not to dispute with him all the time, but rather to strengthen him and to help him. So we don't come here to preach to you to dispute with you. We come here to try to help you and cause you to grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord.Jesus Christ. Now, I know that there are some things that preachers are going to say that your mind is going to try to cast off and there is going to be a disputation arise in your thinking because you have your convictions. But, you know, a wise man -- The Bible teaches that just a word of wisdom is sufficient for the wise. You can reprove a wise man, rebuke a wise men, instruct a wise man and he'll grow in wisdom and he will love you. But you can rebuke a fool and you will get yourself a blot. Isn't that right? And so then tonight I judge you to be wise men, and Paul said, I speak unto you as unto wise men that you might here the words I say and judge the words I say. And if you have differences, and if you have convictions that are contrary I trust that you will take those convictions to God and take them to the Word of God and make comparison with the Word of God and see what God has to say about it. And that's what I expect you to do. Is that all right? All right. I appreciate you tonight. I appreciate Brother Cobb and the family coming all the way from Macon, Georgia. There was a bus load that came up the other night. I was hoping they'd come back, but Brother Cobb and the family got back with us and this is wonderful. We're going down in to Macon, Georgia for a meeting under the tent in just a few days if nothing happens. Brother Terrell is suppose to be there and I don't want to run in conflict with him so we're trying to set the meeting to where we won't have a clash and go in there at the same time. Evangelists need to work together. But we're planning on a wonderful meeting there under the tent in Macon, Georgia. Now, the Bible says in the tenth chapter, the seventh verse "And in the says of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished." I tell you again, in the original rendering, I've checked it, it says, the secret of God shall be finished. In the days of the sounding of the voice, or the trumpet of God, the seventh angel, in that day the mystery of God, or the secret of God will be finished. Now. When you say the sounding of the seventh angel, or the seventh trumpet then the question arises in our mind, What do you mean by the seventh angel, or the seventh trumpet? Many of you know because I've talked to you about it. Some of you do not know. Therefore, I speak to you concerning this that you might be edified in the Scriptures. when he speaks of the seventh angel he is speaking of the last angel that was to sound. Speaking of the seven angels that was given trumpets when God started the sounding as you read it in the eighth chapter of the book of Revelation. And John in the fourth chapter, being caught up into heaven when he saw a door open in heaven there he saw one that sat upon the throne to look upon as jasper. There he saw the four beast around the throne. There he saw the one with the sealed book, and then he saw as the seals began to be opened. And then it continued on until he beheld a hundred and forty-four thousand that was sealed in the earth, and then a great multitude that no man could number there standing before the throne of God that evidently had been raptured out of this world. Now, when John saw this he looked and he said, I saw something else. I saw an angel walk over, take a little censer. He filled it with the prayers of the saints. He took a coal from the little golden altar. Before God he put it in that little censer. He walked back, and as he walked back he got ready to throw this into the earth. And when he got ready to throw the censer into the earth, the Bible tells us that he looked and seven angels -- John looked and seven angels that had seven trumpets stood ready to sound when the censer was thrown into the earth. Now, it is my conviction that the censer indicated the end of the days of the Gentiles. You say, What does that mean, Brother Pike? Brother and Sister, it means an awful lot to me because I've been watching the Revelation of Christ for many years and it is at this point of life, even being here in this arena, that at this very time that that angel is getting ready to cast that censer into the earth that is filled with the wrath and the indignation of God. That's what this meeting has to do with here in Atlanta. So then, he took the censer, he walked over, he threw it into the earth. And when he threw it into the earth the Bible said there was lightning, there were thunders, there was an earthquake. I believe that when that censer went into the earth, though you won't see the censer, you won't see the angel; yet you will see the result that John saw. When that censer went into the earth I believe that the lightning and the thundering and the earthquake that John saw was the nations coming together in their conflict, in their atomic warfare. I believe that it will be the atomic warfare of the nation and as they hurl the missile, as they drop the bomb, that that will be the flashes of the lightning that John saw, that that will be the thundering that John heard, and the earth will reel and rock like a drunk man. This is what John saw just as sure as you're sitting in here tonight. John saw this. I saw him hurl the censer into the earth, John said, and then there was lightning, there was thundering, and there was earthquakes. About that time there was thirty minutes of silence in heaven just prior to this great shaking. Thirty minutes of silence. I believe that the thirty minutes of silence was the blood coming off of the mercy seat. I believe that the thirty minutes of silence was the blood coming off of the mercy seat. That blood coming off of the mercy seat meant that the days of the Gentiles was over and finished. And I believe that the days of the Gentiles are over and finished. I know that you cannot believe that. When I say that I don't mean like tonight, but the things that happen last night. Brother Waldron being here, watching the revelation. Even that last night pointed to the last of the days of the Gentiles. Tonight points to the days ending for the Gentile people. The church ages are at an end. Everything is at an end. There are people that believe that the man called William Branham was the last church age messenger and that with him the church ages closed out. Whether that's true, or whether that's false there is one thing for sure, the Revelation of Christ Jesus shows that the end of the church ages are here, and that the end of the days of the Gentiles are here and that God is about to pour out his wrath because God is getting ready to move the blood off of the mercy seat and when the blood is moved off of the mercy seat that God is going to let that censer come hurling into the earth and that the nations are going to tie up in atomic warfare and there is going to be lightning. There is going to be thundering. There is going to be earthquakes. It is evident that this is fixing to happen. We can look at it in the natural and we can tell that we're on the verge of this just by looking at it in the natural. But when we look at it in the spiritual the seventh verse of that tenth chapter, it says, And the seventh angel sounded. When this censer was thrown into the earth, all of a sudden, the Bible says, in the eighth chapter, one of the angels raised the trumped to sound. Now I want you to notice this, that when the first angel got ready to sound, just prior to that God had a great multitude in heaven standing before His throne. John said, I saw a great multitude standing before the throne of God. In the seventh chapter a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews were sealed. John said, I looked into the earth and I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth and they were holding back the four winds of the earth. And I heard a voice as an angel said, See that you hurt nothing on the earth until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And so John said, I looked in the earth and a hundred and forty-four thousand was sealed. Twelve thousand out of each tribe of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, and then after that John looked away to heaven and they changed his eyes from looking in this direction in the earth where the sealing of the Jews was. He looked away to heaven and when he looked into heaven he said, Behold, I saw a great multitude that no man could number of all kindred, nationalities, nations, tongues. I saw them standing before God and I heard the Lamb speaking to them. I saw Him wipe the tears from their eyes. I saw Him offer consolation and it was said unto them, that thou shall weep no more. The heat of the day shall be upon thee no more and whethersoever the Lamb goes thither shall ye go, and He shall wipe the tears from your eyes and He shall lead you to fountains of living water. I believe that that was the church. In the fourth chapter when the door is open John goes up into heaven, and then John sees in the seventh chapter this great multitude standing before the throne of God. It is evident that it is the rapture of the church and the sealing of the Jews in the earth, a hundred and forty-four thousand, it makes it evident that the tribulation period is about to break forth and so God in rapturing the church seals the hundred and forty-four thousand. And then thirty minutes of silence in heaven makes it evident that the blood that is on the mercy seat is fixing to be taken off for the angel reaches for the censer and into the earth comes the wrath of God and the earth begins to real and rock like a drunk man and there is lightnings, there is thundering. And the Bible teaches that at that moment that the angels throw up their trumpet and they get ready to sound. Seven angels, they're ready to sound their trumpets. So the first angels sounds and the Bible said there comes down from heaven fire mingled with hail. And the Bible goes on the say that as these angels sounds the waters were turned to blood and the waters became bitter, and the third part of that which was in the sea it died, and a third part of the trees was burned up. And then it goes on to say as these angels sounded it says that the bottomless pit was opened, and out of the bottomless pit came locust. And it goes on to state the horrors of the sounding of these trumpets. God began to move. God began to pour out His wrath. God began to call men into question. God had taken the church out, and God was bringing His vengeance upon mankind because they had neglected to obey the Holy Spirit and to serve the living Christ. And so then, the last three of the seven of those trumpets, we hear a voice saying, Woe, woe, woe by reason of the three trumpets that are yet to sound. So then, the three woes that Revelation speaks of is the last three of the seven trumpets. After four of those trumpets sound then we find there are three trumpets yet to sound, and then the great woes start. And the great woes, as I said, has to do with those locust coming out of the bottomless pit. And when the second angel of the three woes sounds, which is the sixth angel of the seven, all of a sudden after he sounds there is define intervention and there comes an angel down from heaven and he stands with one foot on the land, and he stands with one foot on the sea and he raises His hand to heaven and swears by Him that liveth forever and ever that time shall be no more. This great angel that John saw that came down, one foot on the land, one foot on the sea, there he saw him standing with his hands raised to heaven. John said he had a little book in his hand, he had a rainbow about his head, and he had this little book in his hand and the angel turned to John, and John said, I heard seven thunders utter their voice. I was about to write what the thunders had said. You know, it's evident that John knew what the thunders were saying, because he said, I was about to write the things that the thunders said. That means that those things which that the Thunders said are know to mankind. They are not hidden. They are known to mankind in the sense that they are available. The Bible said the secret things belong unto God, but those things that are revealed belong unto mankind and their children. Those thunders were revealed to John. John being a human being, God is no respecter of persons. John being typical of the church, he heard those thunders. He understood those thunders but God would not let him write those thunders. Therefore they are not penned in the Scriptures so far as a written word, but they are contained in the Scriptures in that everything that God ever done is concealed within the word Jesus Christ and can be found and can be revealed if we look for it according to the word of God. The thunders sounded and when the thunders sounded John was about to write but the Voice said, John, don't write those thunders. Seal up those thunders. Why should I seal up those thunders? John could have said. He said, Seal up those thunders. Why should John seal up the thunders? Because, He said, there is another voice that is going to sound. You've heard six trumpets but there is yet another trumpet that is going to sound. And when this trumpet sounds then the mystery of God will be finished. When this trumpet sounds there won't be anymore secrets. The secret of God will be made known when the other voice sounds, the last of the three woes, the last of the seven angels, when this trumpet sounds. Now, the Bible says, Lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people of their sins. When the trump of God sounds. When the last trumpet sounds. When the last of the angel sounds. When the last of the seven sounds then the mystery of God should be finished. Now in Revelation ten and seven he said, in the days of the voice John the mystery will be finished. The revelation will be finished in the days of the voice. In the tenth chapter, the seventh verse, John, don't write the thunders for in the days of the voice then when he begins to sound the mystery of God it shall be finished, as God hath declared unto His prophets. Now, notice this. In ten and seven he made the statement. Immediately in Revelation the eleventh chapter, the fifteenth verse, what do we find? The angel begins to sound. The last angel begins to sound. The last voice begins to sound. Seven and ten he says, John, get ready. When He sounds it's going to wind everything up. The mysteries are going to be finished. Eleven, fifteen and the Bible said He sound. And the voice sounded. Hallelujah! In eleven fifteen, and the voice sounded and the voice immediately following said, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and for ever. When the voice sounded He said it's the end of the way. He said it's the end of the trail. John said, I looked away to heaven and he said, I began to see something. In this eleventh chapter God had spoken about the two prophets coming on the scene, telling them to measure the temple, to leave the outer courts. And then immediately in Revelation twelve as John looked away after the sounding of these thunders, as he looks away to heaven, just immediately he sees a great wonder in Heaven. The Bible said a woman clothed with the sun. There she was clothed with the sun. She had this great brilliance about her. She had twelve stars upon her head. She stood with the moon under her feet and the Bible said she was travailing greatly to bring forth and there she stood in the heavens. And the Bible said there was a great red dragon waiting to devour the child just as quick as it was born. But the Bible said when the child was born immediately God caught it up to the throne. He caught it up to the throne. Now this is really a beautiful thing and I wish we had time to preach on it tonight, but just saying a few words concerning it here tonight here is a great pictorial thing. Look at America today. Here is a woman nation. She's travailing to bring forth her leader. She's been travailing president after president, and there is the great red dragon of communist China laying in there ready to devour, to get that leader just as quick as it is born. Look at that leader that came over her while Jimmy Carter was in office. You know we use the term J.C., Jesus Christ, Jimmy Carter. About that time comes the red dragon. What was it all about? It was that very coming that caused the people to turn against Jimmy. When he let a murderer come in to America and stand up there and do the things that were done. Reaching to devour the man child just as quick as he is born. We see a beautiful picture of it. Where was this? The Bible says the woman had her feet upon the moon. What is it that America has emphasized? The footprints on the moon. Why did it happen in this season? Why didn't it happen in other seasons? Though thou makes thy nest among the stars from thence I shall cast thee down to hell, speaking of the red dragon. I shall cast thee down to hell. Though thou makest thy nest among the stars I will cast thee down to hell. And the Bible said when the red dragon went out he curled his tail around a third part of the stars and down to the earth he went. Walking on the moon for she had her feet upon the moon. When they landed they called it the little nest. When they went with their space ship they set down the little thing on the moon, what did they call it? They called it the nest. Though thou makest thy nest among the stars from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. Though thou climbest up to heaven from thence I shall cast thee out. And so then, when we see this great thing take place, the Bible said, as in earth so in heaven. That means that there is a spiritual thing happening. If this natural thing is happening and if the mind reveals in this hour the natural thing that is taking place then Paul said, All of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world, they are clearly understood by the things that do appear. And so then if the natural things show to the mind of God, if it's revealed to the church, then somewhere in the spirit, somewhere there's got to be a spiritual thing that is taking place. Somewhere, or another, there is something spiritual that is taking place. That means that somewhere there is a spiritual man child getting ready. There is a birth of a spiritual man child. Somewhere there is a spiritual image that is coming forth. Somewhere the church of the living God is in hard travail. You say, Brother Pike, what makes you think that the church is in travail? The church is in travail today like it never has been before in the history of the world. Not in the sense of bringing forth sons and daughters as the Bible says, when Zion travailed she brought forth her sons and daughters, but in the sense of oppression. In the sense of darkness that's coming down upon her in the sense of persecution. In the sense of the red dragon laying, waiting to devour her, to take the child just as quick as it is born. I'll get a repercussion out of this for sure, but I want you to listen. Brother, the church today is in travail. What is it? In the days of the travail of the woman, as Mary carried the child and was heavy with child, they took her up to Jerusalem for the taxing. Never before has the church been taxed in America, but all of a sudden the church is being taxed. Why? Because it is that hour of travail. That great moment of the man child coming forth, it's right here at this moment. Where is the red dragon? If we see the church in travail -- Paul said, I travail until Christ be formed within you. The church travails. Christ is being formed within you. I travailed until Christ be formed within you. Ministers are fasting. Ministers are praying. Ministers are seeking God. Minister are travailing, and people that love God are fasting and praying and travailing until Christ be formed within the church. So then tonight here we stand, the man child ready to be born. The man child ready to come forth. Why? Because the church is heavy with child. The church is heavy with child. The church is about to bring forth. What is it? We're looking at it. Here it is. The Bible said that the woman had her foot upon the moon. Her feet were upon the moon. What does that mean to us? What does it mean to us in the Revelation of Jesus Christ? Her feet was upon the moon. Today we see it as America in the natural. But what does it mean to us? The law and the prophets. The law and the prophets. Founded upon the law and the prophets. Built up upon the law and the prophets. The lesser light. The veiled light. There it stands. Knowing that Israel fits this description in the natural, and that a natural nation one day will be born. We see it happening to Israel . But before we come to the hour of the nation born in one day that has to do with Israel, we see the spiritual Jew for the Bible said, He that is the Jew outwardly is not a Jew, but he that is a Jew inwardly he is the true Jew. So we see the spiritual Jew, we see them founded upon the law and the prophets. When we look for the crown of life we see that woman had twelve stars upon her head. What was that twelve stars? It was the crown of life. What kind of life? Jesus said my words are spirit; my words are life. What was the twelve stars? The teaching of the Apostolic leaders. The twelve Apostles' teachings that crowns her intellect. The teachings, the tutoring of the twelve Apostles that lives in her mind that they've indoctrinate her with, and what is it? It is the words of God which are the words of life. It is a crown of life. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! She's crowned with a crown of life. Jesus said that he that overcome I will give unto him a crown. What kind of a crown? A crown of life. When we look at this the Bible said she was clothed with the sun? What is the sun? When Jesus was resurrected in the first part of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, we see John standing here, and the Bible said he looked and he beheld and the son of God, the son of man, there He stood. The Alpha and the Omega. He stood there in the midst of the candlesticks, and the Bible said is was as though the sun shined within His strength. What was the woman's adorning of the sun? It was the Holy Ghost that was in her. It was the in filling of the Holy Ghost. It was that same radiating life that came from Moses in that day when they had to put a veil over Moses because he was so bright the people could not look at him. So then, it was the glory of God. What is that glory? The Bible teaches when one son of God is unveiled he will outshine the noonday sun. Tonight if just one son of God, if you could unveil him tonight the sun would never shine anymore. He would be so bright, he would be so brilliant, with this inner treasure, this glory of God that's on the inside that the sun would never shine again. Just one son of God. The woman had the glory of God. She was glorified. The Bible said that ye are justified by faith. The Bible said ye are sanctified by the faith of Christ. The faith by which ye are sanctified. The Bible said that ye are glorified, for God hath glorified you. Therefore we are not waiting for a glorification. We are not waiting for Christ to do something to glorify us. We are not waiting for a glorification to where this great glory can be upon us. But, Brother, Sister, we are waiting to receive the message and the understand that will enlighten us to the fact that God has already done this great thing, and the faith that will come from this message that will cause this glory to break forth as it did in the days of Moses to swallow up this outer man. For we have already this heavenly treasure in these earthen vessels. We already have this glory. We already have this treasure. It is already in our earthen vessels. We are already glorified. You say, Brother Pike, you mean to tell me that you are already glorified? I mean to tell you that I have already passed from death unto life. That I shall never come into condemnation. That I am justified, that I'm sanctified, that I'm glorified. You say, But, Brother Pike, when a man gets glorified then that means that he will never age. When a man gets glorified that means he'll never get sick. When a man is glorified that means that he is eternal. That's exactly what I'm saying tonight. I realize that this glory must break forth in this outer being. I realize that this glory must swallow up this veil. I realize that the glory of God that is on the inside of us that has glorified this inner man must break forth and this outer men, which the Bible calls the purchased possession or the redemption of the body, I realize that this man must be partakers of it. But what I'm trying to tell you tonight is that we're not waiting for God to do that. We're not waiting for Christ to do that. We're not waiting for that to come. We are trying to find the message of God and the faith of God that comes from that message that we might release this that we already have in God as this greatness comes forth from within to glorify and redeem this outer being. Now. The woman was clothed with the sun. This is the great hour. Oh, Hallelujah! This is the great moment. You know when you are waiting to become a millionaire, and you long to become a millionaire, that is one thing. When you are trying to become a millionaire that's one thing. But, my beloved Brother, when you wake up to the fact that you are already a millionaire, hallelujah, and that your Father just left you a million, and you already own the millions, then that is a day of rejoicing, that's a time of rejoicing because that makes the heart glad. I, tonight, am thankful because I've passed from death unto life. I'm not waiting to pass from death unto life. I'm not waiting to become a God. Jesus said you are Gods. You are Gods. You are Gods. Can you conceive tonight of the idea that you are Gods. Jesus said ye are Gods but ye shall die like men because of the lack of knowledge, but ye are Gods. Oh, my Brother, can you except the idea tonight? Can you accept the Word tonight? Can you believe the Word tonight? You say, What kind of word is that, Brother Pike? The word that ye are Gods. Now, let me say this again; I've said it so many times. Jesus said, For what good work to you stone me? They said, For a good work we don't stone you. For what then do you stone me? Said, You being a man. You being a man. You being a man, the man Christ Jesus. You being a man you make yourself God. You make yourself God. You make yourself God; for this we stone you. Jesus made another staggering statement. He said, Folks, I was back there with Abraham. They really got tore up. They said, You mean you are not yet fifty years old and yet you say you've seen Abraham? He said, Verily, verily, I say unto you; before Abraham was I am. Abraham saw my day and he rejoiced to see my day. Back there under the oak of Mamre when Jesus walked up to Abraham and entreated him and they looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah together and Abraham said to the Son of God, Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Jesus said, I stood there talking to him. I sat there with him under the oak of Mamre. We ate together. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Glory to God. There He was, Jehovah himself, coming down to visit the earth. He said, Abraham, I hear it's pretty bad down there in Sodom and Gommorah. I hear it's a wicked place down there around Atlanta, Georgia. Are you listening? They tell me it's a bad place. I'm getting some reports about it. But, Abraham, I've come down to look for myself. I've come down to size it up myself. I've come down to look for myself. I've heard about the report, and I've heard this for a long time, but I've come to take a look myself. You have seen Abraham and you're not yet fifty years old? Verily, verily I say unto you, before Abraham was I am. They took up stones to stone him. They said, You being a man you make yourself God. But Jesus said unto them, Before Abraham was I am. He said, Is it not written in the Scriptures that I have called ye Gods. Is it not written in the Scriptures that I have called ye Gods. Have you ever gone back and turned in the Scriptures? Have you ever went back and looked in the Scriptures. Have you ever took Jesus at His word and checked the Scriptures to see if it's written that you are Gods? My Brother, I've read it in the Old Testament that Jesus referred to. He said ye are Gods but ye shall die like men because of the lack of the understanding of who you are. You shall taste death. You say, Brother Pike, but if you were a God would couldn't die like a man. But I beg to differ with you. Jesus was God but He died like a man. He was God. Very God. God manifested in the flesh but He died like a man. He didn't die like a man from lack of knowing who He was. He died like a man so Brother Pike wouldn't have to die the death of a man So I could recognize Godship and by-pass that grave and keep them from throwing the dirt in our face. Somebody would say, Now, Brother Pike, it's appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment and all men must die. I agree to that, but I don't find anywhere in the Scriptures where it says it's appointed unto sons of God to die. I don't find any place in the Scriptures where it's appointed unto Gods to die. It says men must die. Men must die. Men must die because of sin. Because of sin. Because of sin, my Brother. No man can see God and live. No man can see God, but it doesn't say Sons of God cannot see God. It doesn't say that Gods cannot see God, but no man has seen God at anytime, nor can see God. Christ Jesus alone dwelling in that light, having immortality, He is the one that makes us bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. What a mind. What a revelation. What an understanding. What a faith it will produce, my Brother. Did you know that when the Word of God comes that it produces a believing? Did you know that everything that your intellect conceives it brings forth a believing? Have you got a moment? How many have got just a moment more? You know, I wish I had that little bitty mike. This doesn't have much cord on it. I've got one at home, but this thing is all balled up. It's like a lot of people. About the time God needs them they're all balled up. All right, now. Let's look at it just for a few more minutes now. What a message. What a revelation. Do you understand? Do you understand, beloved friend, that whatever comes to you intellect will produce fruits? And the Bible says that God will feed you the fruits of your thinking? Did you know that your thoughts produce fruits? Did you know that you are a fruit tree, and that you are either a tree of life, or you are a tree of death? And people that eat from your tree they die, or they either live? Did you know that you are in the garden of God? and that you are either a tree of life, or you are a tree of death, and that your thoughts produces death, or your thoughts produces life. To be carnal minded is to be devilish minded because the devil loves the things that are carnal. To be carnal minded, to be fleshly minded, to be worldly minded, to be materially minded, the Bible said of such you will shall die, for that is thoughts that produces death. And when you project that and help people to get more interested in that you are producing the things of death. But when you have the mind of Christ, and the Bible says let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, and the Bible said, concerning the church, ye have the mind of Christ. When you have the mind of Christ then you are producing thoughts of the spirit, thoughts of heavenly things, thoughts of godly things, thoughts of righteousness, thoughts of virtue, thoughts of purity. You are producing thoughts that give forth fruits unto life. And, beloved friend, God also feeds you the fruits of your thoughts. God does that. He feeds you the fruits of your thoughts. For the Bible said, He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity. If with you words, if with your deeds, if with your doings, if with your thinking you lead souls into sin, or into captivity to the powers of Satan, then God will allow you to feed off of the thoughts of death, and you will go into captivity. But, beloved friend, if you loose those from captivity, if you break the yoke of bondage, if you lead them into liberty, lead them into life, then God will let you do into life. Therefore God will feed you the fruits of your thoughts. What are you thinking tonight? What are you thinking tonight? What have you thought upon today? What will you think upon tomorrow? What did you think upon yesterday? God is feeding you the fruits of your thoughts. So then, you are going to feed upon the fruits of your thoughts. That is why that it is necessary for me, as a minister of God, to program your mind according to the Holy Scriptures. That is why it is important for me to be a mouth piece for God, that it be not me that speak but that it be the Heavenly Father that speaketh from within me. That all the world should keep silent as God speaks from within His temple, whose temples you are. It's important for to me that my mind be the mind of Christ, and that it be God speaking that the Scripture may be fulfilled that they shall all be taught of God. For the Bible said it shall not be you that speak but it shall be your Heavenly Father that speaketh from within you. Therefore I must program your minds accordingly. Faith cometh by the hearing of the thoughts and the thoughts must be the right thoughts. If you have thoughts of lust then you are going to have an impure heart and God will not purify your heart by faith because the wrong thoughts doesn't produce the right believing. But when you have the right thoughts it produces the right kind of believing. And when you keep a clean heart and a clean mind you have a pure heart and the Bible said the pure in heart shall see the Holy Spirit. The pure in heart through eyes of understanding, in that you understand with your heart. Solomon said, Give me a heart of understanding. The pure in heart that have eyes of understanding that can be enlightened will see the great wonderful Holy Spirit. That is, the pure in heart shall see God. God is a spirit. You must see God through the eyes of your understanding. You must be pure in heart to be able to see God, beloved friend. So then, no man can live and see God. He must become dead to the flesh. The Bible said they that belong to God have mortified the deeds of the body with the lust and the affections thereof. All right, give me just a few more minutes and we're going to close. I've already held you a good long while. Now listen. To program your mind with the right kind of thinking. Why should you think right? You must think right. You must think right. Why does man die? Why does man die? Because his mind is programmed wrong. His mind is programmed wrong. When God created Adam and Eve He programmed their mind right and they could stay alive as long as they abode within the Shekinah. I say again, Adam did not have eternal. Eve did not have eternal life. If they had had eternal life they would never have died, but they were in the presence of the Shekinah, which means they could have lived eternally as long as they abode in that because the Shekinah caused them to think right. It caused them to think right, but when Satan, when Lucifer enticed Eve and he lead her astray, and when Adam followed Lucifer reprogrammed their mind. Lucifer put an intellectual veil of sleep, or death, over their minds. Lucifer brought a covering of death, a spirit of darkness, and God said, you cover with a covering but not of me. You've left the covering of the mind Christ. You've left the covering of the Shekinah. I said the other night they were under condemnation. Why were they under condemnation? Somebody said the Bible said because they were naked they were under condemnation. My Brother, Sister, they were not under condemnation because they were naked. I say again, they were naked to begin with and they were not under condemnation. When God made them that way they were naked and they were not under condemnation. Therefore being naked was not what made them under condemnation. But, my Brother, when they lost the covering of the Shekinah glory of God, when their heart on the inside, when that heart on the inside got under condemnation, when that heart on the inside began to get impure, when the ugly thoughts of evil began to infiltrate, and when that soul and that heart began to think contrary to God they began to fall under condemnation because the Shekinah covering was taken away. That's where they were naked. They were naked in their spirits. They lost the Shekinah covering of the garment of God. That's why God left them naked in the natural to start with. Because He knew they were going to be naked in their innermost being and therefore God wanted them to know. And when God finally put skins on them, what did He do? He covered their nakedness with skins. Why did He do that? He wanted them to know that they were nothing more than a beast. That's why scientists say they're nothing more than a man that comes from a monkey. That's why. That's why scientists are always trying to trace their heritage back to a monkey. That's why they're always following their ancestors back to a tadpole, because that's where they come from. But I say again, we didn't come from monkeys. We are sons of God. We are daughters of God. We're not trying to trace our ancestors back to a baboon. I didn't come from a baboon. I came from God. I'm a son of God. The Bible said John was a man sent from God. Isn't that right? Hallelujah! I'm not going to spend my time arguing with a bunch of people that feel like their daddy is a baboon. If they came from a baboon then they're a baboon. Let them be a baboon. If that's the way they feel about it then that must be what they are. According to your believing, Jesus said, so be in unto you. If you believe your daddy is a monkey then that's what you are. But, Brother, I come from God and I'm a son of God. I'm not a son of a monkey, or a son of a baboon. I don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. I think it's crazy. But not for them. I'm talking about sons of God. Son's of God. After all they know what they are . I know what I am. All right. I'm trying to find a place to close here now cause I done hit a hard place there. All right. Now. What caused the problem? The tree of intellectual reasoning. What was the veil of death? The tree of intellectual reasoning. What caused death? Why do men die? Because they think wrong. They think wrong. Their mind is programmed wrong. Lucifer programmed their minds wrong and shame and condemnation came into their heart and cut them off from the spirit of life, which is the Spirit of the Shekinah Glory of God. They lost their covering. Is that right? All right. Then came Jesus the Son of God. Then came Jesus the Christ. Jesus said, Now, I've died for you. Oh, hear me, folks. I died for you. I paid the price. I've taken off the skin of this covering. I've taken it off. I've taken off this veil of corruption. I've taken it off. I'm going to lay it aside. The woman took Joseph. She grabbed Joseph but Joseph wrestled himself out of her hands and he would not have anything to do with her ludness. When she cried to him he said, I won't betray my master's trust. And he wrestled himself out of her hands and the Bible said the garment was left in her hands. Isn't that right? It was left in her hands and she accused Joseph and she lied against Joseph. Jesus the same way. Joseph was put in the dungeon. Put down in the dungeon but later he came up with the keys to set at the right hand of Pharaoh to have the food to feed the nation. When the great famine was on Jesus wrestled. The world laid hold on Him and the world held tight with Him, and the world said, come and do harlotry with me. But Jesus wrestled, and Jesus said, I will be faithful to my Father. I will be faithful to my Master, and He wrestled until the inner man pulled himself loose from the outer garment and left it hanging in the hands of the wicked world and went away. He went into the dungeon for it. He went down in to the dungeon. He went down among the dead. He went down into the place of the flames of fire, but there came a day when He came up with the keys. Hallelujah! And today He's got the keys to death and to hell and He's standing yonder at the right hand of God in the day of the famine of life and He's got the power of life in His hand to give you the bread of life if you'll call upon His name tonight. So then, when we think about this great wonderful thing, why do men die? And I'm going to close here. It's because their minds are programmed wrong. It's because their minds are programmed wrong from Adams fall. The day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And everything orbits around God's Word just like everything does around the sun in the natural. Nothing shall escape the Word, thou shalt die. When the child is born, thou shall die. When a child is born, thou shall die unto a hundred generations. Thou shall die, my son, because of sin for it's appointed unto man once to die. Thou shall die. But Jesus came and changed it. He reprogrammed the mind. And the Word of God came forth and put on flesh and dwelt among us. Hallelujah! That same Word that said thou shall die; it came and put on flesh and said thou shalt live. For Jesus is the beginning of creation of God, not Adam. Because Adam is the beginning of death, but Jesus is the beginning of life. And as Jesus walked that Word reprogrammed the minds. And that Word said, He that hearth my words and believeth on me hath passed from death unto life If thou cast believe thou canst live. Thou canst live. Thou canst live and ye shall never come into condemnation for thou art passed from death unto life. Thou shall live. And though Paul kept on preaching and picked up the word when Jesus went away and said behold I show you a mystery. Don't go to sleep. For we shall not all sleep. Hallelujah! But we shall be changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, from mortality to immorality, hallelujah! from this corruptible to incorruptible, from terrestrial to celestial. I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep. Lazarus is asleep; I go to away him, Jesus said. But Paul said it is not necessary to sleep anymore. Let me say this: Why do men die? But they say, Brother Pike, it is appointed unto man once to die. But the Bible said God heard the groaning of the prisoners and God looked down from heaven. It said God heard the groaning of the prisoners and God looked down from heaven and God loosed them that were appointed unto death. Come on, folks. Somebody said, I know the Bible said that, but that means -- All right, what does it mean? If you know you tell me. If that is true who was He talking to? What was He talking about? You say, He was talking about them dead folks. Why you never heard dead folks groan in your life. Come on, now. When have you ever heard a dead man groan? The Bible said He heard the groaning of the prisoners and He loosed them that were appointed unto death. He loosed them that were appointed unto death. Isn't that right? God. When did He loose them? He loosed them at Calvary. How did He loose them? Jesus said, I, I beheld Satan, or Lucifer as lightning fall from heaven. I, I have destroyed Lucifer. I have destroyed Lucifer. I have destroyed him that hath power over death. I've destroyed him. But, you say, but, Brother Pike, Lucifer is still around. Down there in your world, but not up here where you live. Glory to God, he was booted out from up here. Rejoice ye that dwell in heaven. Hallelujah! Glory to God. The Bible teaches that you've passed from death unto life. And the Bible said, God has translated you into the marvelous Kingdom of your God by His Spirit. You inner man has gone into that great wonderful Kingdom of the living God. Hallelujah! And greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Greater is He that is within you than that cancer. Greater is He that is within you than that disease. Greater is He that is within you than that oppression. Greater is He that is within you than the poverty. Greater is He that is within you for behold I give unto you power. Power over all the powers of the enemy. And to as many as believe to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even as to as many as believed on His name. Do you believe on His name tonight? Do you believe on His name tonight? Do you? I'd like to say a lot more tonight, but we're going to have to close. Can I program your mind to think right? Can I program your mind to think right? Believest thou this? Do you believe this? Do you believe this? Do you believe what I'm saying tonight? Can you believe this? Can you think these thoughts tonight ? You can feed off of the fruits of life. You can feed off of the fruits of your thoughts and the fruits of your thoughts will present life to you and it will give you life. Can you believe this tonight? Can you believe this tonight? Can you believe these words tonight? Jesus said, My words are Spirit and they are life. Hallelujah! Can you hear my words tonight? Can you hear what the Spirit is saying unto the church? Can you hear what the Spirit is saying unto the church tonight? Can you hear? Glory to God, I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. There are some people hearing what the Spirit is saying to the church tonight. I know that they are because I feel the repercussion of it. I feel the anointing. I feel the Holy Ghost. There is somebody tonight, some people tonight, some people in my midst, even here tonight that's receiving this wonderful word of faith tonight and you've passed from death unto life. You say, Brother Pike, I'm born a son of God. No, I beg your pardon. Not in the fist birth. Adam was not born a son of God. He was made in that image but he lost it. He was born a man, and in Adam all die. But to as many as believe, to as many as believe gave He power to become. Gave you power to become. You say, What kind of power? You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost comes upon you. What kind of power is that? The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit of Christ will change you into a God. The Spirit of Christ on the inside will change you into a God. Do you believe that? TheSpirit of Christ will change you into a God. You say, I've got the Spirit of Christ. Why not think like Christ then? According to your thinking. According to the measure of your thinking. Jesus -- I'm going to say this and I'm going to close. Jesus had a mind of the fullness of God. He thought in the fullness that He was God, and what did He become? God. Without measure. God without measure. Somebody said, Now, wait a minute, Brother Pike, you can't be thinking wrong. The Bible said to as many as be perfect let them be thus minded, thought it not robbery to make himself equal with God. Let this mind be in you also. David said stir up that pure mind. Jesus said ye are Gods. Is that right? Moses, I've made you God unto the people. Wasn't that what the Lord said? I've made you God unto the people. Is that right? Let this mind be in you. What kind of mind? He said you have the mind of Christ. You have the mind of Christ. Are you listening? You have the mind of Christ. How then should I thing? How should I think? Jesus believed. He grew in wisdom. He grew in stature until He knew that He was God Almighty in the fullness in the earth. In the earth. You say, But, Brother Pike. No buts about it. He said, You are bone of my bone, you are flesh of my flesh. He said, You are my body, members in particular. He said, it's not I that lives but Christ that liveth within me. Paul said, And the life I now live, I live by the Son of God. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? When you were buried in the name of Jesus Christ you were buried into His death, and the Bible said as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Have put on Christ, and what is Christ? The wedding garment. The wedding garment. The body of righteousness. He the body of righteousness when He appeared. He our righteousness. Have you put on Christ Jesus tonight? Have you? Have you got Him on? Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the desire, or the lust, thereof. Have you put Him on tonight, folks? Have you put Him on tonight? Hallelujah That Christ Spirit in you makes you an eternal God. It's going to break out in your flesh and bones and you're going to outshine the noonday sun. You're going to out shine the brightness of the noonday sun. It's gong to be the greatest thing that ever happened to you for that woman was clothed with the sun. Hallelujah! I wish we had more time but we've done sit a good long while tonight. Can you stand with me? There are just so many things that we need to say. You know what, folks? When your thinking becomes so, your mind becomes so programmed that your thoughts are of such that you begin to think according to your measure of the mind of Christ as to who you are what a day that will be. What a day that will. What a day that will be. Oh, my Brother, get as much of that mind as you can. Get as much of that mind as you can. Somebody says, Well, Brother Pike, this is a simple salvation and all you've got to do is believe and be saved. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. But ole Brother Paul said, I'm pressing forward to the prize and to the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. He said, I count all my learning but as dung that I might attain the excellency of the knowledge of God. Get all of the knowledge of Jesus that you can. You say, what's that going to do to you? It'll make a king out of you. It'll make a king out of you. There were twenty-four elders around the Throne. Twenty-four kings. There were twenty-four kings that will set upon thrones and rule with me when I judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Speaking of those twelve apostles. In the book of Revelation the Bible said He hath made us kings and priests unto our God. Isn't that right? Kings and priests unto our God. He hath made us kings and priest unto our God. They will rule five cities, ten cities and the kings of that new earth will come in and out the beautiful gates of New Jerusalem and they will put their crowns down at His lovely feet. Can you be a king? Are you a king? Are you a ruler? Are you a son of God? Get as much of the mind of Christ as you can because according to the mind of Christ that you get that will determine your measure. Thirty fold, sixty fold, hundred fold, being children, being in the famine perspective, being in the male perspective with God. What would you like to do? What would you like to do? I would like to get all that I can; wouldn't you? Hallelujah! Those boys didn't lay aside everything for nothing. They didn't lay aside everything for nothing. Praise God! Somebody said, Well, I'll be contented if I just get there. I will, too. But in as much as I can get there with both pockets full I'd rather do that. I'd rather do that. Hallelujah! Praise God! Isn't that wonderful? Somebody said, I'd be satisfied if I could shake hands with a millionaire. I would, but I'd be better satisfied if I could shake hands and go off with both pockets full. Wouldn't you? Speaking naturally, wouldn't you? No. I wouldn't care for that side of it. The Lord has blessed me naturally but if I was a natural man that's the way I'd feel about it. All right, let's sing us a song together now. It's my happy privilege to be here and speak to you concerning the Revelation of Jesus Christ, to talk about this wonderful unveiling. And when the voice sounds the secrets will be finished. The mystery shall be finished. For in the days of the voice. In the days of the voice. And in the eleventh chapter, the fifteenth verse, And the voice sounded. And in the recording of the eleventh chapter, the fifteenth verse, according to the recording when it sounded it must have been right at the end time. Though it records the sounding of it in the eleventh chapter, the fifteenth verse, yet it must have had reference to the very time of the end because just as quick as that angel sounded there was a voice that followed. It had to be the end time because the voice immediately said, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and for ever. Like the little book we wrote, The Fullness of Time. The Fullness of Time. I say this sometimes so that people can better understand. God wrought a work. In His foreknowledge He conceived a plan; He wrought a work. He done something in His foreknowledge. He done something for humanity. It was instigated in the beginning of the world, before the world ever was in the foreknowledge of God. It was manifested at Calvary, placed on exhibit through the Son of God Jesus Christ and it is now here at the end of the world in the end of the church ages comprehended. Paul said, the heights, the depths, the widths and the length. Instigated before the world ever was, manifested at Calvary, comprehended in the end time. The comprehension is the part that really does the job. That the eyes of your understanding might be enlightened, that you might be partakers of the benefits of the foreknowledge of God for ye are elect. Ye are elect. Ye are justified, sanctified, glorified, predestinated by the foreknowledge. In the end time it is comprehended because from Calvary through the church ages we are tutored toward the comprehension that we may comprehend. That when we do comprehend our bodies will be changed from this corporal body to a celestial body, that we be changed from men to God's through comprehending. That is, by faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death. By faith his corporal body, this mortality was swallowed up. This mortality was swallowed up, Paul said, by faith. This mortality was swallowed up by immortality by faith. By faith. By faith Enoch went away. What are we going to do tonight? What are we going to do tonight? It's by faith, my Brother. Faith cometh by the knowing. Knowing. It's that of the hearing and hearing is that of the Word. To understand what we know. Do you love Him tonight? I want to say again to you that have never made a commitment to God, if you've never made a commitment, that great almighty commitment, if you've never made it make it. I am persuaded, said Paul, that God is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that great day. If you've not make the commitment let me encourage you tonight to make the commitment. Will you make the commitment tonight? Will you make the commitment? Hallelujah! Do you love Him tonight? Do you love Him? Do you know? Do you truthfully know tonight that Jesus has saved your soul? Do you? Do you know that tonight? Hallelujah! Okay. Let's sing this little chorus we sang last night When Jesus Reached Down His Hand For Me. You know, I like that little chorus because He had to reach a long ways to get me. A long ways. (Singing) Do you love Jesus tonight? Do you love Him tonight? Just before we close if you'd like to have me pray for you, or with you tonight, I want you to step out here for just a minute. I've kept you. I'm a little late tonight Just a little late coming. You know, it is so wonderful. Folks, it is so wonderful. It is so wonderful to think about Jesus. The holy apostle, he made this statement one time. He said, You know, the glory, the glory, that breathe taking spectaculglory glory that is to be revealed within us, he said, there is no comparison with these things in the earth. It's so greatly, so majestically, power is so mightily above all of the things of the world that there is no comparison of this glory that you have in earthen vessels that is to be reveal on the inside of you. Do you have that heavenly treasure in your treasure chest tonight? Do you have it in your treasure chest, beloved friend, tonight? Do you have this great Holy Spirit that I feel tonight? You say, Brother Pike, do you feel it? I feel it tonight. I feel it tonight. The Bible said, if this Spirit be in you that raised up Jesus from the dead, He shall by this Spirit which dwelleth within you also quicken your mortal body. Your mortal body can feel the quickening, this great wonderful quickening. Do you feel the quickening tonight? You may be a believer as I said from night to night, but if you don't have the Spirit you don't have the power. If you don't have the power you can't become a son of God. To as many as believe, if you truly believe, if you truly believe. To as many as truly believe He gave the seal of their faith. Which is the seal of the Holy Spirit. If you truly believe you can have this seal tonight. You can have this seal tonight. Don't you love Him? Harden not your heart. The Bible said, harden not your heart as they did in the days of the provocation in the wilderness. Harden not your heart. Harden not your heart. Harden not your heart. Get your mind of off women and get your mind on God. Get your mind of off men; get your mind on God. Get your mind of off materialistic things; get your mind on God. Get your mind of off money; get your mind on God. Get your mind of off frolics; get your mind on God. Get your mind of off worldly entertainment, get you mind on God. It's a sad thing to think these things puts man into bondage. Weave webs about men and cause people to be lost, and cause people to be taken into the powers of Satan. You know, the devil he weaves the least little web and that little web that he weaves it sparkles with the dew drops of enticement. And the sparkling of those dew drops of enticement drawn men and women until they are stuck fast in the web. It looks pretty. It glitters. It sparkles like the dew drops of the morning, but when the spirit is caught in the web, and then after the spirit is caught in the web, or after the fly is caught in the web then the spider closes in for the kill. He closes in for the kill. Once they are caught in the web they close in. Satan closes in for the kill. How sad. How pitiful that men are caught in those kind of things. Aren't you glad your a Christian tonight? Aren't you glad your a son of God tonight? Aren't you glad that Jesus is with you tonight? That you have power to overcome. Power to overcome those evil things. Power to keep your soul. You know, the Bible says he that is born of God he keepeth himself. He keepeth himself. He that is born of God he keepeth himself. He keepeth himself. He keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. The evil one toucheth him not. The evil one toucheth him not. He is without spot. He is without blemish. He is a perfect church. He is that which is perfect. No spot. No wrinkle. No blemish, because he keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. While you are standing here tonight if you can lift up your heart, lift up your hands to Jesus, folks, you don't know who you are. You don't know how great and how mighty that you are tonight. You don't know how great. What a great people you are. You don't know what a great people that you are. What a great and a mighty people. So great a people. People that have the power to become God. People that are Gods. People that live on and on and on. People that live and never die. Live and never die. What a people. What a people. Tonight you are the most privilege people in the world for your hearts are hearts of understanding. Jesus said, It is not given unto the world. It is not given unto the world. It is not given unto them to understand. It is not given unto them understand. Why, Lord, do you speak unto these people in parables? Because it is not given unto them to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. But unto you, beloved friend, it is given. It is given unto them to hear the gospel that they might be guilty in the day of judgment. It is given unto them because all of the world must hear the gospel that they be condemned in the day of judgment. But it is not given unto them to know the mysteries of the Kingdom for it is the mysteries that will translate the church and cause the church not to see death. They can hear the gospel. Many evangelist are preaching the gospel. Many evangelist are preaching the gospel. Many preachers by television and radio and across the nation are preaching the gospel for it is given unto the people to hear the gospel, but the church must understand the mysteries. It is given unto you as the church to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom of God that you might be translated that you should not see death. What a wonderful opportunity. What a wonderful thing that is taking place. I want you to lift your hands again, close your eyes if you will tonight. I want to pray with you tonight. If thou canst believe, Jesus said. All things are possible to those that believe. Can you believe tonight? I know that you believe. I know that you believe tonight. If you believe I want you to pray with me tonight as I pray. The Bible said concerning the minister, whosoever you bless shall be blessed. He said concerning the minister, whosoever you curse shall be cursed. He said concerning the minister, whatever you bind in earth I will bind in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth I will loose in heaven. As my Father hath sent me, so send I you. Whosoever sins you remit shall be remitted, and whosoever sins you shall retain they shall be retained. So then, tonight as I pray for you I want you to believe tonight. I want you to believe tonight. Father of Heaven, in the wonderful name of the Son of God, I look unto you tonight. How I love you tonight, Jesus. Not because I am worthy, but because Thou art worthy. Not because I have sought Thee, O Lord, but because You have sought me. Thus Thou hast drawn me unto you. Forgive me of my sins, Heavenly Father, forgive me of my wrongs. Forgive these people their sins tonight, forgive them their wrongs for I forgive all men their trespasses against me, Heavenly Father, that You might forgive my trespasses tonight. Dear God, make this a holy place. Make this a holy place. Lord, we dedicated this arena to you for a holy place. May it bubble with the enthusiasm of God, and the saints of God. May it be filled with the glory of God and the power of God. May the richness of God be here. May every soul tonight, O God, enlarge upon this wonderful spiritual outpouring of Jesus. And, dear God, may every person be healed tonight. May Your Spirit be here. O, God, let it be here. And, God, tonight heal as you look down from Heaven, Father, hear my prayers tonight. Look down because of the righteousness of Your Son Jesus, look down because of Calvary and heal tonight, Jesus. Heal tonight. I feel You healing tonight, Jesus. I ask You to heal tonight. Move over this congregation, Jesus, and heal tonight. May Your Spirit be here and may the power of God be here tonight. And may You heal tonight. May every yoke be broken, Jesus. May every bondage be taken away. O God, of Heaven, and heal tonight. Father, sweep over the audience tonight, Father, and heal these people tonight. Father, fill them with Your Spirit, God, and heal in Jesus name. Let the glory of God be here. Let the power of God be here. O Lord, supply every need. Fill every broken heart tonight with the joy and jubilance of Christian living, Father, and let them realize the real treasure. O God, grant it in Jesus name tonight. Grant it in Jesus name tonight, Father. Grant it in Jesus name tonight. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! (Singing) God, In Jesus name, (tongues) Hallelujah! (tongues) Father, heal and save and forgive tonight. Touch Joe in a wonderful way. Touch Joe in a wonderful way. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Don't you love Him tonight? (Singing) Father, in the name of Jesus tonight, I ask you to heal David tonight. Forgive David tonight. Deliver David tonight. May the great hand of the living God be upon David tonight. Heal in the name of Jesus. Forgive in the name of Jesus. Anoint in the name of Jesus. Activate this body with the great wonderful jubilance of God. Lord, rejuvenated this body with the great joy of the Lord. Hallelujah! I feel it right now. I feel Your blessings, Jesus. I feel Your blessings, Jesus. I feel the wonderful joy and jubilance of Jesus. Lord, in the name of Jesus touch our Brother with your blessings tonight. Anoint him with the power of God tonight. Let the Spirit of the living God be in him. Let the Spirit of the living God flow through this body. Let the Sprit of the living God energize this body and heal tonight, and forgive tonight, and bless tonight. Hear me, Heaven Father, in the name of your lovely Son Jesus. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. Father, my precious Brother that's been standing here, Lord, and even through the service longing for touch from You, praying and believing and trusting that You heard his prayer, I ask You to bless him in the name of the Son of God tonight. Bless him and I feel You blessing him now. Anoint him with that great Spirit that I feel. That great quickening, that great Christ. Forgive our sins, Father. Forgive every mistake. Heal tonight. Save tonight. Bless tonight. Bless my Brother tonight. In the name of Jesus do something special. Hear me, Jesus. Hear me in Jesus name, Father. Hallelujah! Bless you. I feel Jesus tonight. I feel Jesus tonight. Hallelujah! Pray with me Ed. Father, in the name of Jesus, as I pray with Ed tonight, Lord, we agree together that You're going to bless this congregation, that You're going to heal the sick, Father, that You're going to cast out the devils. Father, that You are going to drive away every unclean Spirit. And, Father, You're going to forgive every sin. And You're going to break the yoke tonight, Jesus. I feel You doing it. Hallelujah! Bless Ed. Anoint Ed in the name of Jesus tonight, hallelujah! with Your wonderful blessings. Glory to God. Glory to God. Let's sing it again. (Singing) Can you come up here, Keith. (Singing) You know, here's another young fellow that God saved the other night. It's been just a few weeks ago that God saved him. He gave his heart to God, really genuinely gave his heart to God. He loves Jesus. You know, isn't that wonderful. Isn't that wonderful? God is saving people. God is delivering people. And, you know, we that are closer to the light are blinded the most. Isn't that right? But, God is miraculously, wonderfully answering prayer and God is doing marvelous things for us. It's wonderful to be a Christian. It's wonderful to have you here tonight. I pray that you'll be with us tomorrow night. I trust that everyone of you will come back. Invite somebody to come and be with us. Let's have a wonderful time tomorrow for Jesus. You know, last Sunday night we had a good crowd of people here. And let's pray that God will send out the folks tomorrow. Even though there are churches everywhere having services lets pray that God will bless us here tomorrow. Tell somebody to come and come and have a good time with us tomorrow. Can you do that? I want you to lift your hands up with me just one more time, now. I feel that God has broken the yoke. I feel that God has healed. I feel that God has blessed. And tonight I want Keith will pray for you, one more prayer that God will heal you, God will save you, and God will touch your body tonight in a great way. Just before Keith prays for you we'll pray for Karl's wife. They sent a little note that she was very sick and she needed prayer. We'll pray for her and after this Keith is going to dismiss us as he prays for the sick. Praise God. Praise God. Can you come up here, Karl? Praise God. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, Lord, as we lay hands upon this person Thou art able to heal. Thou art able to forgive. Thou art able to bless. Heal in the name of Jesus, and I feel you healing right now. Heal because of your Son Jesus. Heal because of Calvary, because of the spilt blood of the Son of God. Heal and forgive and sin. Heal this woman in Jesus name. Heal her, O God. Forgive every sin and heal her body. In the name of the Son of God tonight I ask You to do it. Father, touch Karl tonight. Bless Karl tonight. Heal his body. Father, if there be anything wrong with this body tonight heal and forgive sins tonight. Move everything out of the life of this couple, Lord God, to bless, in the name of the Son of God. Bless them and their children. Bless their home in the wonderful name of the Son of God, in Jesus name. Hallelujah! Can you lift your hands with me now as Keith prays tonight, can you do that? 

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord