No Repentance
 
I kind of had something else in mind tonight but seems like things went just a little bit different; still maybe this is what I should do. We're back from Israel and as I said, a number of times, the Lord said, I'll take you to Israel for the third time and so He took us to Israel for the third time. Coming out of the valley of Sorek, or over in that area where Samson slew the lion. Was getting ready to leave Tel Aviv and all of a sudden the Lord said, I'll bring you back to Israel and this time it had great significance in us going there. Our trip to Israel this time had to do with the wrath of God coming upon Israel, and we'll be hearing about it. It's for sure that we'll be hearing about it. I want to read just a little bit from the thirteenth chapter of the book of St. John. We had Brother Thomas with us on Friday night. He spoke for us here. And coming today, coming back from Israel I felt that I should say something to you. You know, I was telling the Brethren__ I love to just sit around and talk, which we do, and I was telling the Brethren. I said, I really enjoy sitting around talking, but sometime I'm just a little bit evasive when it comes to communicating with different ones, because some people are what you call change talkers. And they start talking from the time they meet you and they never stop. And there is no such thing as holding a conversation with them; all you do is just listen at them talk. Which is good. A lot of times people are saying things that are real encouraging and you enjoy hearing them talk. But a one way conversation doesn't last very long, as to people enjoying it, unless it is the voice of God speaking and they that are listening are able to discern that it is the very voice of God. And sometimes I'm a little bit evasive of people because of that. They weary me. They will begin a conversation with me in the morning and they don't stop all day long and I get so weary because I believe in doing something for God. I don't believe in spending my time just doing nothing and I love to hear people tell about their experiences, and some people have such great experiences that it's really thrilling just to hear them tell about their experiences. But I get weary of people just telling me about their experiences and preachers that are telling about their experiences. I get weary of that because my mind doesn't function like that and I have no desire for listening to experiences. I do like to maybe spend the day sometimes, maybe I'll spend the day with a preacher just listening to his experiences. A whole day. I do it many times. A lot of times for the preacher's sake, to have fellowship and a lot of times because his experiences are great. But I love to talk with people when they are wanting to hear from heaven. When they want to hear from heaven, when they want to hear spiritual things and they're wanting to hear the voice of God, and they're wanting something new right out of heaven, right off of the altar. Hear the voice of God, the voice of the Spirit speak to them. And I don't care about hearing them tell about their businesses and their cars, and their lands, and their programs and their plans and how great their ministry is, and what they're going to do and what they've done and what__ I don't want that. I get very weary with that kind of thing. I get weary in such a way that the next time, if I get a chance I'll be evasive and I'll go another way, you know. I want to sit down and if the anointing of God comes on somebody and they're speaking of heavenly things and I hear the voice of God speaking, I want to sit there and listen until I get every bit of it. Until every bit of it I get. And I put it in my treasure chest. And if I'm going to be speaking I don't like to talk about a lot of vain repetition and take up a lot of time. I love to get right into the Spirit of God, and I love to speak by revelation, or speak by the quickening of the Spirit, as to enlightenment of Heavenly dimensions and of revelational depths. And this is my life, and this is my interest, because we are a people that are transformating from one dimension to another. And as you very well know, I don't believe in the rapture theory the way people teach rapture. I was taught that in my early life and I believed it because I had confidence in my tutors and when God opened my mind I found there was no such thing as the word rapture in the Bible, that that was something they had put together themselves and that wasn't the way it was at all. That what it is, it is a transformation from one life to another, from one world to another and it is what the Bible refers to as a change. That we are changed from glory to glory, and Paul said, Being therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind. So then, I found out that they were in error, so when I talk, when I have a conversation I love to get into that dimension. I love to get into that spirit. I love to get into that anointing. And I love for it to transform my mind from glory to glory, from revelation to revelation, from one delightful thing to another delightful thing. When I met a person that is carnal, I know there are a lot of babies, and I talk to them about natural things, and they're natural minded, and they're carnal minded and all their conversation is about natural things. I talk to them because they are babes and Jesus said, feed my lambs if you love me. But then, on the other hand, there are some that are advanced. The Bible said the meat is for the strong, they who have by reasoning exercised their senses to be able to discern between good and evil. And those people talk about heavenly things, and they talk about spiritual things. And they contribute to your treasure and you contribute to their treasure. So I love to talk with people like that. When I come to church I don't like to talk to people. I don't like to preach to people, or teach people that have their mind on eating and drinking and buying and selling and lounging, you know, and education and position and all the carnal things of the world. I don't like to talk to people that have got their mind like that. Paul said, I would that you were spiritual. Said, I want to speak unto you as unto spirituals. Said, I know that I'll have to speak to you as unto babes because you're carnal. You know, there is envy. There is strife. There is malice. All these things upon you which proves that you are still carnal, but he said, the carnal mind is enmity with the Spirit of God and you can never have eternal life through the carnal mind. You may have a new car through the carnal mind. You may have a new home through the carnal mind. You may have a skill. You may have a talent, you may have an ability. You may have an intelligence. You may, you know, may do many thing. Paul said, I've sown unto you the spiritual things; I'd love to reap your carnal. I enjoy the chariots, and houses, and all the conveniences and all of that. That's fine, he said. That's fine. Have all of them you want. All of them you want, millions of dollars, whatever, he said, there's nothing wrong with it. Said, I'd like to enjoy some of them with you, he said, but, Brethren, it's a mistake when you become carnal minded. He said, that is death. To have carnal things is not death. You can have those and have the blessings of Christ, but to be carnally minded is death, and there is no eternal life. When your mind is on those things and you're concerned about those things, and you live in the dimension of those things in your mind then you are dead while you life. The Bible said they that live in pleasure are dead while they live. So then, if you are carnal minded then you can never get into the greatness of God. You can never enter into that great dimension of Christ. This is going to be the detriment of the church. There are hundreds and millions of people in all walks of life, including what is suppose to be the strictness of holiness. In Pentecostal churches, Baptist churches, Methodist churches, all kind of churches, there are hundreds and millions of people that are just as carnal minded as they can be. They know nothing of God as a spirit, as the invisible God, as a very present help in time of need. They are not aware that God is with them, and God is in their heart, and that God is a quickening power that is alive and capable and willing to supply all of our needs according to His riches in glory. See? They are not spiritual at all, and when the time of the coming of Jesus comes about they are going to be left in that carnal mind and condition. And they are going to fine that though they have been ever so religious they belong to the natural, and they belong to the carnal, and their life has been in the carnal, and all of their thoughts have been in the carnal. All of their investments. All of their labors, all of their efforts, it has been in the carnal, and they are going to find out that the treasure that they thought that they had attained unto that they did not attain unto it at all. So then, it's going to be a very disappointing time. It's going to be a time of disappointment and they're going to find themselves in derision and they're going to realize that this thing called salvation and the Word of God, and eternal life was altogether different from what they thought it was. So I love to speak to an audience that is concerned about Heaven, and concerned about heavenly things. I preach divine healing because God is the divine healer, and we've seen God, in a miraculous way, heal many times. I love to preach prosperity because God is a provider of prosperity, and He has said that whatever we do shall prosper. And I love to preach about hell. I love to preach about prosperity and financial gain and all of these things. The blessings of the Lord maketh rich and adds no sorrow. We've got many tapes of this. We've preached many sermons abroad of this, and it's wonderful. But I want you to know that when you preach divine healing and you have a healing line, you'll have a flock of devils in that healing line, because they'll be right there to get that healing. And when you preach prosperity and you hold out a hand of blessings, you'll find a flock of devils will be there to receive that financial blessing because the devil savors the things that be of the flesh and of the world, because he is the prince of this world, and anything in religion, as to a blessing from God to the flesh, the devil is going to grab it. And though we preach all of these things for the benefit of God and His people, knowing that Lucifer is there to do these things, yet I love to come to the revelation of the Son of God, the spiritual benefit of the opening of the heart and of the spirit and of the mind to the dimensional depths of a great degree of understanding that is heavenly, that is not taught in college, that cannot be obtained in college, and that cannot be obtained by experience. It cannot be attained in any form, or any way. It must come through God by revelation. It must be given to the individual that is willing to learn and submit himself to Christ, as to a conformity as to overcoming the flesh. The Bible said if you do this that you shall be given the hidden manna to eat. You don't get this hidden manna, this revelational hidden manna unless you overcome. The Bible said, to him that overcometh I will give to him of the hidden manna. Jesus said, I have meat to eat that you know not of. And said, You that overcome I will give to you of the hidden manna that you may eat. And you say, Overcome what? Overcome the flesh. Overcome self. Overcome human desire, human ambition, and all of the egos of your own personal life. And then you will discover this wonderful invisible hidden manna that comes down from God. So this is what we like to talk about, and when we get into a real sincerity, real depths, a real consecration, a real submission to the Holy Spirit and to His mind, we always feed from the table of the Lord. But He warns us in His Word, He said, all the tables of God are filled with vomit. Which means that people are lukewarm. I would that you were hot, or cold. He said, you stand at the door and you are religious, and you won't go on in and really get spiritual, and you hinder everybody else that's coming. So He said, all of my tables are filled with vomit. That is, you're lukewarm; I'll spew you out of my mouth. You are nothing but vomit. He said, you can't eat at the table of God and eat at the table of devils. So then, we come to the table of God, and we want a clean table. And we want to be fervent in the spirit. I want to read just a little bit in the thirteenth chapter of the book of Saint John and comment just a little bit. And, of course, if we really get into the mind of the Lord, the Lord will speak to us by revelation. If we don't then, of course, He won't. Saint John thirteen, the twenty-first verse. "When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. (22) Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. (23) Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, who Jesus loved. (24) Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. (25) He then laying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? (26) Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. (27) And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. (28) Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. (29) For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. (30) He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. (31) Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. (32) If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. (33) Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. (34) A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (35) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. (36) Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goes thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. (37) Peter said unto him, Lord why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. (38) Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice." Chapter 14 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I got to prepare a place for you. (3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (4) And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know." Now, as you know I never, as a rule, in my ministry at anytime, pick any Scripture to read from. I learned something for the Lord a long time ago, and I come to the sacred desk and I ask the Lord what He wants. He leads me to it, and always it's right in the moving of the Spirit for the time element and everything that's involved. Tonight as I came I opened my Bible, I read these things to you. Jesus said, I go to prepare a place. I just returned from Israel. I told you before I left, I said the trip has to do with one thing. I said, it has to do with, I go to prepare a place. This morning I related it again to you at my return. I said the moving of the Spirit at this time in us going to Israel has to do with I go to prepare a place and if I go to prepare a place I will return again to receive you unto my own that where I am there ye may be also. And I told you what took place over there, some of the things that took place. And tonight when I go to read God, willing to confirm it to keep everything right in order, as to the moving of the Spirit, this is the thing that He leads us to. I go to prepare a place. But see? Here we are in this building as always, and here we are in the living, moving, active power of the living God. In the move of God. It has been the move of God ever since we've been here. It has been, through the years it has been active and alive, and God constantly doing things here and abroad, on the home front and all around that's connected with this movement right here. And He's been continually doing it, not only continually doing it as a living, wonderful ministry that's alive; not only has He been doing it but He has involved everything from the President to the Pope, to the foreign powers, to the local authorities, to the states, to foreign countries, to individuals, to even the people that are right here hand in hand with us, and it has carefully told their lives and their purposes, and their future and their past, and to what has happened and to what is happening, and what is going to happen, of the great men of the United States and of the world, and of Little Bethlehem, and of your life and of our own life, as well as exposing the life that has been within the veil. That is to say, of the apostles and of Moses and the prophets. So then, it has been, as it was said of Jesus when Jesus resurrected from the dead and He walked on the way to Emmaus, appearing to them in another form. The Bible said that these men, after that He disappeared out of their presence, they said, Did not our hearts burn within us as he open the Scriptures to us by the way. I can say, and I'm sure there's many others that can say, through the numbers of years, that my heart has burned like fire within me as Christ has opened the Scriptures to me. It has been such a burning fire that my life is in such a state of ecstasy that there is no comparison of anything in the earth, or in the world today. And my heart is literally thrilled and running over with the wonderful things of God. And as you know tonight, I'm hoarse, you can see that, my throat is tied up and even though we've overcome the problems of the battle that we had going to Israel and returning, in that Satan viscously attacked us, but even though we are kind of hoarse, tight in the chest and throat I still want to expound a few things and see if God will say a few things to us. It is a privilege to be a Christian. I said earlier here that it is the most glorious thing that has ever happened to me. I love being a Christian. I've been a Christian for many years and I have never at any time felt that I wanted to be anything else. Nor today do I have any desire in any way to be any thing but a son of God and to love Jesus. You know, I'm glad of one thing. I'm the kind of person that I love with all of my heart. I love with all of my heart. When I met my wife I loved her. The first time I ever saw her I loved her. I loved her with all of my heart. Today I still love her with all of my heart. When I met Jesus I fell in love with Jesus and I loved Him with all of my heart. And it doesn't matter what I've been through the years it hasn't changed that. No matter what has come, whether it be sufferings, whether it be heartaches, whether it be problems, I still love Jesus with all of my heart. I love Him with all of my heart. I love His ways. I love the way He thinks. I love the way He speaks. I love the way He does things. I just love Him in every way. He's just, as Samson said when Samson found his wife, that she pleases me well. Jesus pleases me well. And so then, I love being a Christian. That's why I continue year after year on the radio, t.v., under the tent, across in the foreign countries, on the home front, out in the streets, doesn't matter where it's at, I continue to talk about Jesus because He is my first love. And I've never turned away from my first love. I love Him with all of my heart. He is everything to me. I want the same zeal, the same ambition. I want to have the same drive, the same ambition that I had when I first met Jesus. And I want even a greater ambition, as to my first love toward Jesus. Some people have a love toward Jesus. God gave them a love and they had a zeal when they first came to Jesus but it wasn't long before that zeal went away and they didn't have that love. A lot of marriages are broken up, crashed on the rocks because the first love that the woman had for the man isn't there, and the first love that the man had for the woman isn't there. It's not like that anymore. God doesn't tolerate that. You may tolerate that in your home, even to the point of wrecking your life, but God doesn't tolerate that. God said, repent or I'll move your candlestick. He said, And you go back to your first love. If you're going to love me, God said, I want you to be just as joyful over my presence, have the same ego that you had when you first met me. Have the same drive. Have that same youthful desire to do something for me. God said, I want that first love back. I want that first love back. He said repent and do your first works over, come back to your first love. He said, you've left your first love. And, folks, I still have my first love. That's why I enjoy serving God. That's why I have the joy and jubilance in serving God, is because I'm just as enthusiastic today, or more enthusiastic to serve Christ today than I was when I first met Him. So then, I'm just as enthusiastic today to come to self denial and put away the lust of the flesh, and put away the things of the world. I'm just as enthused about it, or more enthused about it than I've ever been. I spend my time through the day, and through the night when I'm awake, all day long, whether I'm on the plane, or wherever I'm at, I spend my time saying, Help me, Jesus. Be with me, Jesus. Program my mind, Jesus. Make my heart pure, Jesus. Make me perfect in Your sight. O Lord, I want to be perfect. I want to be just exactly what You want. I want to be Your very desire, Your very thought, God. Every thought of my heart, every intent of my heart, I want it to be just perfect before You, Jesus, and I want to put everything aside that's unlike you. I don't want anything in my life. I don't want to be confronted by anyone in my life that's going to lead me in anyway away from Jesus. And so then, I love the Lord, and I'm glad that I'm a Christian. Jesus is upbraiding someone right here. He said there is someone that had walked with me. You don't love me. You've been with me, He said, but you don't love me. He said, You are a betrayer. You know, I've got people that walk with me. They don't love me. They're betrayers. They're betrayers. There are men that have a wife, the wives don't love them. They're betrayers. They betray the man in their mind and lust after other men. That is they betray their husbands, the wife does, and lust after other men. All day long they betray because they are a betrayer. And when they get out of the man's presence they do the things that are wrong. And then vise versa. The man does the same thing. There are men that are betrayers. Though they live with the women they are betrayers. But a real wife, a real husband in their heart and in their mind they are always conscious of the fact that they have a wonderful companion, that they have a wife that is good, and a good mother, or they have a good husband and their heart and their mind is continually feeding off of that as to be one as that companion. And you know, if your not one with your companion in that way then God has not joined you together. God has not joined you together. See? You've got to be one spirit. The man and the woman has got to be one spirit. It doesn't matter if somebody unites them according to the law. That doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter if the dwell together in the same house. It doesn't matter what they do for each other. Their spirits must be one. And if their spirits are not one then they are not one. Eve was one with Adam. Eve was one with Adam. She was taken of Adams spirit; taken of Adam's bone. And taken of Adam's flesh. She was one. The Bible said they that are married are no longer.....(Begin tape one, side two.) ...one. He was one flesh. I'm married to the Lord Jesus Christ, and I'm one with God. Jesus said, Father, make these one even as we are one. And I'm one with God. I'm bone of His bone and I'm flesh of His flesh. That is the Lord Jesus Christ; I'm one with Him. We are no longer twain. But I'm one with Him. Paul said, It's not me living but Christ that lives within me. And he said, The life I now live I live by the Son of God. The life that I now live is not the life that I had on my own, but I live the life of the Son of God. I want to be like Him. I want to think like Him. I want it to be His mind. Whereas, the Bible said, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. I want His mind in me. I don't want my mind. The Bible tells me not to lean to my own understanding but to meditate in His laws day and night. And it tells me to cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ. So then, that it should not be me living but Christ living then I want to be like Jesus. I want to walk with Jesus. I want to do the things that Jesus did. I want to be just like Jesus in every way. At night when I wake up I want to think about Jesus. In the morning when I wake up I want to think about Jesus. If I go to sleep I say, Lord, let me dream about you. I want Him on my mind all the time, day and night, til every thought is brought in to subjection to the obedience of the Son of God. So then, here is a man by the name of Judas that has obtained a part of the ministry, has walked with the Lord Jesus, has walked with the disciples, has seen the miraculous, has seen all the wonderful things that have been done, but this same man is a betrayer. He is a betrayer. He isn't pressed in any way that he has to do those evil things that he done. He has not been pressed. There is nothing that is pressing him. He is protected by the Lord Jesus. He is protected by the group that he is with. He has all the benefits. Nobody bothers him. He does whatever he wants to, but his mind is still on the things of the world. His mind was on the money bag. When the woman came to anoint Jesus unto the burial he said, this is a waste. It could be sold and given to the poor. But the Bible said he cared not for the poor. But in that he carried the money for the group, it said he was concerned about the wealth that the woman had squandered, as he termed it, when it wasn't squandered. It was put on the Lord Jesus for the burial. So then, this same Judas from the time the Lord reproved him there, he began to betray Christ. See? The same Judas. There was nothing that made him do that. There was no reason that he had to do that. There was no reason for him to do the things that he did. You say, Well, Brother Pike, the man was a devil. Jesus said, I've chosen twelve and one of you, you're a devil. How could the man do anything else? The man was a devil by foreknowledge. By foreknowledge God saw that he would be a wicked, contrary person. With all of the opportunities to hear the truth and to do the truth God saw he would still squander and still evade the truth and love unrighteousness and darkness. In the world today there are hundreds and thousands of people that are hearing the truth, but in spite of all of this they still go the way of the world, and they still want the things of the world and the wealth of the world. And the Bible said if the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not there. And they still want to be carnal minded. They still want to frolic in the world. And the Bible says that they love the darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. So then, He said, this is the condemnation that has come into the world, that light has come into the world and you love darkness rather than light because your deeds are evil. So there is Judas. He didn't have to do wrong. He was not a devil in the sense that Satan had never entered into him, but he was a devil by foreknowledge. Jesus saw his end. Jesus saw that he would never do right so he was a devil from the beginning. But it is a true fact that if you'll check the Scriptures you'll find out that Satan has never at any time entered into Judas until at the super when the great betrayal came and it was time for the devil to be shown up, and then the Lord gave Judas a sop. And when he gave him the sop the Bible says that Satan entered into Judas. He then entered into Judas. You know, you'll go to church for years. Many people have gone to church for years, and you'll go for years, and if you're not straight with God you'll find yourself, as many people have found themselves, Satan entering into you. After many years of hearing the gospel, and many years of going to be what seems to be the right road, all of a sudden Satan enters into you and you go out and manifest what kind of character you are and what kind of gullible desire you've always had. Though you are among the religious, just like Cain; he was among the religious. He was very religious. As religious as Abel, but in his heart he was wicked. And the Lord told him when he came to offer his sacrifice, Why are thou wroth? the Lord said to him. Why art thou wroth? He was wroth because God had not received his sacrifice. And God said unto him, If you had done right, Cain, if you were the right kind of person, or if you had the right kind of heart wouldn't I receive you just like I would your brother. Said, But if I don't receive you there is something wrong. There is sin that is lying at the door. Like Esau, he sought repentance with bitter tears but he didn't find any place of repentance and finally he gave it up. He had sold his birthright for a morsel of bread. You know, the Bible teaches that repentance comes before knowledge. You can't get repentance any other way. It comes through foreknowledge. It is granted through foreknowledge by God. Did you know that people that are out here in the world that are sinners cannot come to the altar and repent. Did you know that people that are in the world that are sinners cannot go to repent. Even though preachers preach all the time that they can, they absolutely cannot. It is out of the Bible when preachers preach that to them. They cannot come and repent. There is no way they can come and repent. Because the Bible said that God heareth not the prayer of a sinner. That is why that the Bible says that we are a royal priesthood. We are the ones that make intercession and the Bible tells us to pray that God will grant repentance unto them that are without. We are the intercessors. And the Bible said we are in Christ's stead, as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular. We are the ones that are praying that God will grant repentance unto them that are without. That's why a lot of times people who have loved ones they come and they are saved, and other people that have loved ones they never get saved. The difference is that ones people that are saved pray for their un-saved love ones, and other people that are saved do not pray for their loved ones. So that's the consequence of it. See? God has peculiar ways of dealing with them. Here Judas is found unclean. The Bible speaks of cleanliness. Give of that which you have, and behold, all things are clean unto you. Ministers they'll get up and preach to the people, you know, that everything is all right. We say, Give of that which you have, and behold, all things are clean unto you. Now, if you're going to give to God you've got to be a clean person. You've got to be an upright person. You've got to be a godly person because God won't accept it any other way. The Bible said the offering of the wicked is an abomination in the sight of God. Ministers will receive it. They'll just take anything, but not God. God won't receive it. See? You bring your offerings and the Bible said you suddenly become aware of the fact that there is something between you and your brother. Don't bring your offering, God isn't going to accept it. But He said, Go thy way and be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer your offering and God will receive it. So then, when we say give of that which ye have, behold all things are clean unto you, did you know that if you do not give to God, if you do not give of your tithe and of your offerings to God, if you do not give of that of your substance, or whatever it might be, did you know that things aren't clean to you? Has it ever occured to you that the automobile that you have is dirty in the sight of God? Has it ever occured to you that your wife is dirty in the sight of God? and that you are dirty in the sight of God? and all of you finance, all of your income, all of your ambitions, your business, all of your desires, everything that you are is dirty in the sight of God? Has it occured to you that your children are dirty in the sight of God. The Bible says else your children be unclean. Did you know that your children are dirty in the sight of God and all that you have is dirty in the sight of God. It is little wonder that hundreds and thousands of people are being killed with diseases that are suppose to be religious people. They're having wrecks. Things are happening to them, and the devil is literally devouring their substance because they've never been taught the truth to the point of understanding. And some of them that have heard the truth they haven't conformed to the truth. And so then the devil is literally devouring their substance, taking their strength, taking their mind, taking their health and he's pouncing on those things and the people cannot understand what is happening and they think that God should do something about it. But has it occured to you that God cannot do anything about it? The Bible said in one place that many mighty miracles He could not do because of their unbelief, or many mighty works He could not do. Does it sound reasonable that God created a buzzard that he might eat the dead carrion, or the carrion along the street? That God made the buzzard to eat the carrion? And can God then, the One that made the buzzard, go to the buzzard and say you have no right to that carrion? Did not God make him to eat the carrion? Didn't God make his mind and his appetite to desire that. Can God then go to him and say it's unclean; you can't eat that? Didn't God make the dog to lap the vomit? And didn't God make the swine to wallow in the mire? Can God then say, You can't do that; you have no right to it? So then, the Bible said God has created the waster to destroy. He has created the devourer. God has done that. God made Lucifer and Lucifer has a right to all uncleanness. He is the ruler of the darkness. It is his dominion. It is his kingdom. And that's why we preach against the carnal things of this world. Everything in this world is unclean. There is nothing in this world that is clean. And everything in this world is in darkness. There is not anything in this world that is in light. When the Lord Jesus came down from heaven He came down from the world of light in to the world of darkness, and the ruler of this darkness is Lucifer, the prince of this world. And the Bible said, the prince of this world, even Lucifer, the ruler of darkness has blinded your eyes with darkness that you cannot see, the eyes of your understanding that you cannot see. So then, Jesus came down as the embodiment of the light, and He said, I am the light of the world in this dark, dark world of your intellectual darkness. And when Jesus lit the little candles of each heart and shared the spirit by measure with different ones, he went away and he said, Now ye are the light of the world. And we've been lighting little candles ever since. Like they have a candle lighting service; you know, we've been lighting little candles ever since to make it a little stronger. You know, these lights around you, you call them candle power. They__ Great light, fluorescent light, whatever it is, it is accounted for as candle power. Down through the years more candle power, and more candle power, and more candle power. See? The natural showing the spiritual. God has lit more candles and more candles. And as we compiled it, as we have come together we have a greater light in the world today. We have a more constituted power, of candle power. It's a greater light today than it was in the early times and it's growing greater and greater until it will reach the great wonderful light of the coming of the Ancient of Days that revelation speaks of, and the light shall be so bright that everything in the earth shall utterly diminish at the coming of that light. And, folks, this is what revelation has to do with, the coming of the light. I know I won't be able to get into much tonight but I'd like to say just a few more things. Can God-- Can God rebuke the buzzard for eating carrion? No. Can God come down and rebuke the devourer for your sake? Can God say to Lucifer, you cannot feed off of the rotten decayed carrion? Can God say to Lucifer, You can't feed off of the unclean, when God made him unclean? He made him upright to begin with but when he sinned against God he became unclean and became the ruler of the darkness. God made him to do that. Just like he said there are people, brute beast made to be taken and burned. Not that God wanted to burn them. Not that God wanted to destroy them. Not that God had any desire to hurt anybody. Said, It's not my will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have everlasting life. What then does He mean that these are brute beast made to be taken and burned? It means by foreknowledge, before they ever came into the world God saw they would be like Judas. And he saw that they would be evil and wretched. And so then, from the very time that they were created they were created as brute beast made to be taken and burned. The very creation of it pointed to the fact that they came into the world to be destroyed because He foresaw what they would be. So then, before Judas was ever born it was said, let another his Bishopric take. Can God then rebuke the devourer for your sake? He can't do it. You see? Give of that that you have and behold all things are clean unto you. Can God then rebuke the devourer for your sake? He said He would rebuke the devourer for my sake. And He said if you will do this, bring the tithes and the offerings into the storehouse and try me herewith saith the Lord of hosts. I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you will not be able to receive. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground. So then, can God rebuke the devourer for our sake when we fail to do that? when God said, you've robbed me, even the whole nation has robbed me in tithes and in offering. Bring the tithes and offerings in to the storehouse that there might be meat in my house. Prove Me, saith the Lord. Can I then expect God to rebuke the devourer for my sake. I cannot unless I conform to His ways. I cannot unless I conform to His desires. You know, I hardly ever get on to this subject but it's such a wonderful subject for revelation, as to your life. And don't get afraid cause we're not going to take an offering. We're not preaching as some preachers preach, you know, to preach you up to a point and take an offering. So you won't be worrying about no offering. You can cancel out on that. See? But I'm trying to tell you what's wrong with your life. What's wrong with your life. I'm trying to tell you that the devil is devouring you. The devil is eating you up. The devil is consuming you all because you don't understand. The Bible said my people perish from the lack of knowledge, from the lack of understanding. This is why I love to get into the dimensional depths of things. And I love to get into the deep, deep mysteries of God. The Bible said the Spirit of God searches out the things of God, yea the deep things of God. And we've got into many hundreds of deep things of God. Paul said, Great is the mystery of Godliness, and I am a stewart of that mystery. And Paul said, when you come together have a doctrine, have a tongue, he said, but have a revelation. And he said, Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation that you may receive this great revelation that I may speak unto you as unto spirituals. So then, if we want to have a wholesome life, a real good life, a life that will be healthy, a life that will be whole, then let's do the things that God tells us to do. Let's conform to the things that God wants us to do. If I conform to the things God wants me to I'll have a healthy life. I'll have a whole life. If I don't I'll have a problem. If I preach the truth then God is going to bless me. If I don't preach the truth then God isn't going to bless me. As I've said many times, God has made my cup to run over to where I've had to share with people around the world. See? God wants you to have all the good things of life. But, folks, he wants your mind to be on Him. He wants your mind to be spiritual. He wants you to have automobiles. He wants you to have homes. He wants you to have land. He wants you to labor that you might have, so that you can give. And God will multiply your substance, even to the extent He will make you cup overflow. But he wants you to have your mind on God. He doesn't want you to be automobile minded, you've got to trade cars everyday, you've got to trade this everyday, you've got to buy this everyday. All you ever think of is trading and buying and doing something. When you get like that you're carnal minded. You're the enemy of God. And He doesn't want you to always have your mind on land, and on houses. He doesn't want you to have your mind on passions and feelings. He doesn't want you to have your mind always on your husband, or on your wife, or on your children, on your relatives. God despises that kind of thing. It's enmity with God. God can never have part in your life. God doesn't want you with your mind on riding and going and talking. He doesn't even appreciate one that calls himself a minister that just wants to roam the roads, or be on t.v., or be on the radio. And there is nothing wrong with that. You know, we're on t.v., we're on the radio. We've been on quite a number of t.vs, lot of radios. God wants you to have the tents and the tractors, and all the other programs to reach people, but God doesn't want you to be television minded. He doesn't want you to be movie star minded. God doesn't want you to be self minded. God doesn't want you to be educational minded. God wants you to mediate in His laws day and night, to have the mind of Christ, to be spiritual. God wants you to be spiritual minded, because spiritual minded is to have life. But to be carnal minded, that is to have a mind of the things of this world. If your mind is constituted of your talents and abilities and programs and all of these ambitions that you have for career in life then you are dead while you live and you are the enemy of God, and God cannot help you. God does not want to help you, to the extent of your rejection of Him. He said, Draw nigh to me and I'll draw nigh to you. And if you don't want to draw nigh to Him He doesn't want to help you. He said, I will pursue you until you perish from off of the face of the earth. And all nations that forget God I will turn you into hell. But He said, in the last day I'll still establish the house of God, and all nations will flow to it. So then, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. So, if I'm going to have a wholesome life then I must get back to my first love. I must repent and conform to the things of the gospel. And, you know, and I could say something here. I ministered a little bit on this a few nights ago. We have it on tape. I could say something here that would really tear you up. Leave you in derision and just tear you all to pieces, and I'm not going to do that, but I'm going to say something here that is going to stir you a little bit. I casually mentioned this the other night. Remember__ I don't have time to elaborate on this tonight, but remember that you cannot find repentance by crying and coming to the altar, or suddenly deciding that you don't want to be in the world in anymore. There is no such thing. That is a strong delusion. The Bible said because the people have not a love for the truth I will send them strong delusions and I will cause them to believe a lie and be damned. You cannot find repentance that way. I remind you again, the Bible said that Esau sought repentance with bitter tears. He cried, he wept, he repented but there was no repentance for him. If repenting is crying, if repenting is submitting yourself why did he not find repentance. He did all of that, if that is repentance. That is not repentance. Coming to the altar and crying and weeping is not repentance. Repentance comes from God, and the Bible says that if you get repentance God has to grant it unto you. And I remind you again, God said to you and I that you are a royal priesthood. You are the body of the Lord Jesus, in Christ's stead beseeching the world to be reconciled back to God. And that God heareth not a sinners prayer. Therefore He cannot hear anything that they say. Anything that they say concerning God, any form of act toward God, He cannot hear any of it, because He heareth not a sinners prayer. But when we as a royal priesthood, as the body of Christ, intercedes for the lost, then God grants repentance unto them and they find a place of repentance. And this is why that there is great revivals in the land. A lot of times there has been in the past great and miraculous revivals. Revivals that will sweep the community. Sometimes it would sweep the state. It was all because there were a few little women somewhere that got on their knees and fasted and prayed and talked to God. Like Billy Sunday. The story of Billy Sunday is so great and outstanding. And the meetings that he had were so phenomenal. Almost unreal, but when they searched it out to find out how the greatness of Billy Sunday did it, they found out it had nothing to do with Billy Sunday's greatness. There were a few women that followed him, elderly women, that fasted and prayed and stayed in prayer, even when he was preaching, and this brought the great revivals. You say, What do you mean by that, Brother Pike? I mean that a lot of times when a revival breaks out, it might be some fellow that's just an old farmer. It might be some women, like the little story Cinderella. It might be some women that's back off in the kitchen somewhere that nobody knows anything about, or maybe two, or three people in that area that has for weeks and months prayed and fasted and ask God for revival, and ask God to grant repentance to their neighbors and win souls. And then, all of a sudden, God reaches down and that great anointing comes, that great stirring comes. And that area is completely illuminated with God's presence and the preacher comes through and he begins to preach, and people by the hundreds just begin to fall into the altar and cry and begin to scream, Hallelujah! I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. Because they go right through. They find that place of repentance, and hundreds and thousands of people find God. I know that at the same time there is a lot of reflectors that come in; wondering stars that really don't get anything, and after the revival their back to the same old hog pen. But I'm saying this. That God gives His gift of eternal life without repentance. Now listen. I'm going to close in just a few minutes. He gives His gift without repentance. God gives you eternal life. You get it by the foreknowledge of God without repentance on your own. It comes through the foreknowledge of God, of what God has made us in Christ. When you get a gift of healing, when you get a gift of the ministry, the callings of apostleship, or the callings of the pastors, or the gift of miracles, or whatever it is, you cannot repent and get those things, as to praying, as to fasting, as to crying. You can't do that. God gives that to you through foreknowledge. All of His gifts are given to you without repentance, the Bible says. They are given through foreknowledge. And even though God saw you repent, if you are sincere. And it is a true fact that because He saw your attitude He gave you the gift, but He gave you the gift before you were ever born into the world. The Bible says concerning a prophet, before I ever came into the world, before I was ever formed in my mothers womb He knew me, and all my members were put together and He called me to the be a prophet. So then, remember this. Repentance is a great thing. It must be given of God. And this is the thought that I want to leave with you. I elaborated on it a little bit the other night, and one night I really want to go into it thoroughly. Many people are losing their soul. And many people have already lost their soul. They can never get their souls back. It's already gone because they have been falsely indoctrinated, and because they would not have a love for the truth and played around and God turned them over to a reprobate mind. Now they've lost their soul. They've sinned and the soul is dead and they cannot be saved. So they're what the Bible calls twice dead, plucked up by the roots. The Bible says that once you have come to the knowledge of God. Paul said, having come to the knowledge of God, once you have come to this knowledge of God, this understanding of God, once you've come to the knowledge of God, and once you've tasted of His blessings, once you've been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, of God pouring out His Spirit upon you...(Begin tape two, side one.)....tasted of the power of God, and the Word of God, you've heard it. You've tasted of the power of God and those wonderful things that come from yonders world. Now listen. He said, once you've do this, once you've repented and you've come to this and you've tasted of this, He said, then if you fall away there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. There is only to you a looking forward to of fiery indignation from God that shall devour His adversaries. Well, the Bible says if you willfully sin after that you have come to the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice. That is, there is no more atonement. There is no more blood from Calvary. You don't have anymore blood from Calvary. You don't have any more sacrifice. God will not receive you again unto repentance. For the Bible says it is impossible for those who were once enlightened to renew them again unto repentance. Therefore, leaving the foundation of repentance let us go on to be perfect, and let us go on unto perfection. For it is impossible to renew you again unto repentance. I will have to have another Jesus. I will have to have another crucifixion. I will have to spill the blood of My Son all over again, and you will crucify Him afresh and put Him to an open shame that you may again have a place of repentance. He said, I'll never do that anymore. It's impossible to do that. You can't do that. See? So it means that all this playing around, of coming into religion, getting the enlightenment of the truth and then going back and coming back, it will not work. Back sliding in this revival, coming back to God in the next revival God won't receive such stuff. That's not of God. God won't have that. That's evil. That's wretched. That's reflectors. That's people that are not right with God. The Bible said He that is born of God He cannot sin. It's impossible for Him to sin. There is no conscience of sin within Him. He cannot sin because He is born of God. He is one time repented. He is a one time repentance. He is a one time salvation. He is a one time Christian, and he can never sin any more. So we can remember this one thing. A lot of people, being babes in Christ, have been protected from this great detriment by one thing and that is ignorance. Not understanding, not knowing they were not enlightened. Though they did come to church and they did join the group, and they did stay for a period of time. But even the preachers a lot of times are in such a condition of ignorance that they can't enlighten the people. They have so much desire for the things of the world. And it makes it bad for the people. Their desire is so gullible for the things of the world. If the love of the world is in them the love of the Father is not there. So God has through ignorance protected many of them. But, folks, I'm telling you from my heart, we've come to the age of enlightenment. We've come to the final thing, and we've come to the place where as Peter said to Ananias and Sapphira, why did you lie to the Spirit? We've come to the place of eternal damnation. And the Bible said, let us go on. Leaving the foundation of repentance, let us go on to perfection, not turning again to lay the foundation of repentance of dead works, and of faith toward God. He said, Let us go on. Go on to the laying on of hands. Go on to eternal judgment and these things we will do if God permit. Let us go on. Peter said, Ananias and Sapphira, you've lied to God and eternal judgment struck them. These things we have the power to do. You know, I don't claim to be anything except a child of God, and that's everything. But by the grace of God I am what I am. But, you know, just in my life alone I have to watch what I think. I really, truthfully do. And I have had to do it down through the years. I have to watch what I say to my wife, to my children, to my friends. I'm very conscientious about what I say from the Sacred Desk, as to how I leave that thing, because so many multiplied times I just speak to a person, or speak concerning a person, and judgment, or death, or sorrow. I had a vision last night where I had warned the people and the most horrible thing happened to them and it just tore me up in the vision. And I heard a person walk up and say, You just warned me. See? So we have the power to bless you. We have the power to curse you. We have the power to remit your sins. We have the power to retain your sins. Judgment begins at the house of God. Jesus said, As My Father has sent me, so send I you. Whosoever sins ye remit shall be remitted. Whosoever sins ye retain shall be retained. Whoever you bless shall be blessed. Whoever you curse shall be cursed. And the Bible said, Seeing that he is the minister of God he is set there to execute judgment upon them that do evil, will ye then not be afraid? And that for consciences sake, because He is there for your blessing if you do that which is good. So then, submit yourself unto them, they that watch for your soul for they must present you to God. And Paul said, I seek to present you unto God as a chaste virgin; a virgin that is clean and pure. So then, folks, it is a serious thing, a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. And when you fall into the hands of the living God it is when you have come to the knowledge of the truth. I want you to stand with me. This is the age when people are coming into the knowledge of the truth. I appreciate you bearing with me tonight, being tied up in my throat and yet I felt that I was to exhort you concerning these things. The Bible said exhort the more as you see the day approaching. I appreciate you being patient and listening. I want to say again I appreciate having Albert, wife and family from out of Mississippi. Haven't seen them in a good long while. And glad to have our Brother Joseph from out of the Islands. Thankful for our Christian Brother and Sister from over in College Park. And also the gentleman that I saw come in back here, he and his wife. I'm not sure that I know them. Jimmy do you know this folks? Could you tell us your name, please? Are you local? Atlanta. We're certainly glad to have you here with us, Brother. How many appreciate these folks being here with us. We give you a hearty welcome to Bethlehem and to the church. We hope to be able to do more than we're doing for God. Folks, I think we should. I very definitely believe that we have a responsibility upon our shoulders, that if we are careless and neglect this that we are going to feel some problems. Paul said, if I preach the gospel everything is going to be all right with me, he said, but if I don't preach the gospel then a part of this is committed unto me, as to the judgments, or the problems, or whatever. The whole world needs help and it's up to you and I to do something about it. Let's sing a little chorus together. While I try to sing, being hoarse like I am, you can sing. (Singing) Can you sing it with me again? (Singing) Do you love the Lord? God is so good to us, isn't He? Isn't He good to us. Let's sing this little chorus, I Love Him Because He Is Mine. (Singing) Sing it with me now. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing) Sing it again. And tonight I'd like for you to step down to the altar as we sing it. Let's sing it again. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) Do you really believe that? I really believe that every promise in this Book belongs to me. Every promise. I've often said this. They tell me that there are thirty-two thousand promises in this Book, and I believe everyone of them belongs to me and I use them. I call on the Lord; I use them. If I need something, if I want something I call on the Lord and I use it because I believe it belongs to me. You know, I find something and I decree it in my heart. And when I decree it in my heart I don't give up on it. I say, It's mine. It's mine. Sing it again, now. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing) You know what makes a happy Christian? Is people that believe that. That's what makes you happy. Could you be unhappy knowing that thirty-two thousand promises from Almighty God is freely given to you? How could you be unhappy? Even the thought of the promise would move unhappiness. Thirty-two thousand promises of everything that heart could wish for, of all things that pertain unto life and you couldn't be happy? You know, we're glad to have Brother Don back. He's been down to the boat, down in Vicksburg. Brother Don has been down there for__ Brother Don Kleineicht has been down there for, well ever since we left to go to Israel before. Been down there for a couple of weeks, and Brother Willie went down there to take his place. He and his family are down there now. Brother Cobb and Brother Atlee, the others, they're down at the other ship down in Appalach. Chris also came to me just before service and he said he was wanting to go back to the ship. He has just about got to where that's his home. But, you know, even the ships, the planes and all the other things should be doing something for God. You know how we got them? By the promises of the Book. They should be used the same way. One more time we want to sing it. (Singing) This is what makes a happy Christian if you believe it. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus. Give me another key. (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing) If you love the Lord say amen. I want you to lift your hands up with me. You know, there is always a desperation through life. There is always a need through life. Out of every individual here tonight each one will have some kind of a need. Some kind of a need tonight. It might be a need to be released from oppression. Some people have great oppressions. You may need to be freed from oppression. You know, some people have never encountered oppression so they don't know what it is, but I've encountered oppression in my lifetime. Before I came to know God and the greatness of His Word, and the power to break the yoke, I was in derision in many ways, and I was under great oppression and many times it looked like my mind would snap, and my nerves couldn't stand it. And, oh, the torture and the torment. The Bible teaches that they that have fear they have torment and a person's mind can get so out of control because of oppression that it is like a wild computer. It never stops. You're mind is just running away with all kind of thoughts. Hideous thoughts, evil thoughts, devilish thoughts, oppressing thoughts, threatening thoughts, thoughts of fear. It is constantly. You find yourself just robbed of strength and happiness and you just cry on the inside. If you ever do get just a little bit of light, or a little thought of faith, you break all to pieces on the inside and you just sigh. You know, the Bible says concerning the Old Testament, the angels said go through the city and mark them that sigh. sighing. The Bible said Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus and he looked up to Heaven and He sighed. He sighed in His spirit. Isn't that something? There is a lady that's standing here with the group tonight, a young lady. And this Sister is reaching out to touch Jesus. She's reaching out to touch Jesus. She's got faith in God. She believes. And she believes in what she's heard here tonight and she's excepting this wholeheartedly in her heart, and the little bit of heaven, the little recipient of heaven. You know, it's so beautiful. Like the lovely dew drops of the morning, you know, when the dazzle in the sunlight, sparkle like a jewel, God passes by and the radiance of His love and the precipitation it just come down like the dew drops of heaven, and the refreshing, you know, and you just sigh. You feel it and it wakes you up and you feel so relieved and the oppression is gone, and you think, Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord, I feel so free. Oh, Lord, I feel so relieved. I feel the strength. Oh, Lord, don't ever let it quit. Don't ever let this be taken away from me. See, the Lord has something for every individual and we're standing here tonight and we're people that are in need. All of us are in need, and if we'll just reach out and tough Christ, tonight if we'll decree the thing in our heart, and if we'll reach out and touch Christ tonight God will grant unto us the very desire of our heart. God will grant it unto us tonight. He will grant it. There's a sister here tonight she's oppressed. She is so greatly oppressed. I can pick up her spirit tonight and what is causing it is she feels like her life is being wasted. So many problems and disappointments, and she feels like her life is being wasted and she longs to find peace. She can't find peace. She believes in the Lord. She loves the Lord, but she can't find peace because she's got her life in to a complex. She has been careless with her life. At a time in her life if she had not been careless she would not have the problem that she has and she knows that. But she's got the complex of her life now and the oppression in her life. It's torturous to her. It's tormenting to her. And she really needs help and that's why she's here at Bethlehem. She knows that there is help here. She knows the anointing is here to break the yoke and the truth is here and the truth will make you free. She knows that. God has led her here. This is a consolation to you, Sister, in as much as God has lead you here there has to be hope. Though Satan has told you there is no hope, and though he has mistreated you in many ways in trying to convince you that there is no hope, remember one thing. The Lord would not have lead you to this place, nor would you have ever know of it had there been no hope, because God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. Therefore, having lead you here, He has lead you here that you might have the freedom, and you believe that because I pick up your spirit right now and in your heart and your spirit you accepted that. It went straight down into your heart and into your spirit. Though the weight was heavy and the oppression was great but you grasped that and you took that, and that alone broke the yoke. And if you'll hold to that there will never be anything that will stop you from the peace and the desire that you want. Now let me say this, there is a Brother that is standing over here. This Brother, as I said this thing concerning the Sister, he felt that I was speaking of his wife. He was so sure that I was speaking of his wife. When his spirit came in it testified of that, but I wasn't speaking of your wife. I definitely was not speaking of your wife, but I do say this concerning your wife, your wife has a great need. She has a great need. She is almost at the point of despair, but the reason for this is because she is not affiliated with Sisters to the extent of having a vision. Without a vision the people perish, and she is exiled in her mind to the extent that she is almost in despair, the point of despair, and she needs a vision and she will receive strength only by finding something to do in this place. Let's lift our hands again and let's love the Lord. The Sister that I first spoke of that turned her heart, her affection, and desire toward this, you know, if you keep that attitude you're going to be really blessed of the Lord, because you've got something in your heart, even though you are caught in some worldly things. You're caught in some worldly things and they're besetting to you. The Bible said lay aside every weight and the things that does so easily beset you, and run with patience the race that is set before you. You're caught in some worldly things but you've got a great thing in your heart, as to respect and desire, as to the real supernatural God. And this thing will be a great, great victory to you if you'll just continue that way and listen to the voice of the Lord. I want you to lift your hands up and I want to pray for you. I want to pray for you as a whole tonight. Someone has requested a personal prayer. I'm going to do it this way tonight. I trust it will be all right with them. Let's just lift our hands up, close our eyes and thank God for the wonderful opportunity of being a Christian. Folks, has it ever occured to you that you are a son of the living God? That you are right now, already a son of God, and that you have already passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation, and that God has made you to where you can never sin against Him? that He might give you the fullness of His love, and the fullness of His power? And, Sisters, has it ever occured to you that you are also the daughters of the Lord, already, and that He has done the same thing for you? And that you have great opportunity while you live in this life to be a great light and a mighty power for God in the earth. Let's don't take this lightly. Let's remember it's ours. It's here now. It's already given to us. We don't have to work for it. We don't have to do any special thing to attain unto it. God said, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe. If you have a need, and I know that you have a need, I want you to decree it in your heart. I've said this numbers of times to you. I want you to think of it right now. If it's the brother to be saved, or the sister, or the mother, or the dad. If it's healing for your body, or someone, if it's financial blessing that you need, or want to do something for God, to labor that you might have to give, ask not to consume it on your own desire, but for His cause and He'll make your cup to run over. If it's a skill, if it's a talent. You know, I ask the Lord one time...(Begin tape two, side two.)...I want to write music. I don't know nothing about music and I want to write music. I said, I don't know nothing about music, and it was just a wilderness. I said, I just don't know what to do. And the Lord spoke to me and said, I will teach you to write music, and I thought, How can this be, you know? I've got to have a teacher. I've got to have somebody. Folks, I'm telling you the truth, so help me God, and there are brethren here who can confirm this because I've instructed them, within twenty to thirty minutes, on how to understand music when they've tried for days, weeks and months, and sometimes years, and hadn't understood it. And they were flabbergasted, as they the world say, as they saw it. Within a few minutes. One day I picked up something and I was just going to try to observe it. Picked up my guitar and within a few minutes I understood the guitar and how to write music on the guitar. And all of a sudden, I understood how to write music from a piano. And even though Brother Taylor writes my music now, I taught Brother Taylor how to write music. Gave him the first steps of it, as to what to do all because I believe in Him. I decreed it in my heart, see? That means if you want a talent, if you want a skill, if you want an ability God will just give it to you. That's all there is to it. He won't withhold any good thing from them that walk uprightly before Him. So tonight if you have something that you want to decree in your heart to have, you do it now. Don't turn loose of it. Decree it in your heart. Say, God, I ask this in the name of Jesus, and You said whatever I ask I could have, and I ask it in the name of Jesus and it is mine. And ten thousand devils can't tell me that it ain't mind. They can gnaw at my mind like a worm if they want to but, God, it's mine and I'm going to be strong in faith, like Abraham was, and I'm just going to go around having a good time in my heart because of what You give me, and having a hallelujah time because You gave it to me. And when you think over what you want it'll make you happy, folks. He'll make you glad. So can you accept it? When you desire it pray; believe that you receive it and you shall have it. It is yours. God gave it. That simple. Faith, just that simple. You do what I tell you and if it doesn't work__ You do what I tell you. Be sure you do what I tell you, and if it doesn't work come back and say, You are a liar, preacher. I'll be willing to listen to it. Just do what I tell you. Decree it in your heart. Jesus said, Don't doubt, just believe. Decree it in your heart; it will come to pass. And you'll come back and tell me, and you'll say, Brother Pike, so help me God, that thing happened. All right, let's lift our hands up. Let me say this right quick. We were having revival over in Mississippi years ago. A man was coming faithfully to the meeting, faithful, but he had to get up real early in the morning. Real early, maybe like three, four o'clock, but he still came and he was worn out. And he was so faithful until he said he wished God would do something for him, to give him a day job. And you know what? We just prayed. We just prayed and decreed it in the heart, and I believe it was the next night, or in the next night, or two, he came and said, You know what? It happened. It happened. After all__ I believe he'd been on the night shift I believe for a number of years. No way he could be on the day shift, but see? It doesn't matter. Just whatever you believe, whatever you want. He wants you to have the desires of your heart. You know, any father wants you to have the desires of your heart. He just loves for you to have it. Remember that. You know, that's the first thing is settled between you and God, is that God wants you to have it. Did you know that's one of the biggest hang ups that people have. They can't get it in their mind that God really wants them to have it. But, folks, God want you to have it. Take my word for it. See? I'm a minister; if I lie to you I'll go to hell. And if I lie to you I've got no business up here preaching to you. So I'm here to tell you that God wants you to have it. It is his desire. He delights in you having the desire of your heart. What is the desire of your heart? Let's just thank God for it. Let's lift our hands up. Father, God of heaven, I love you, Jesus. Thou hast never denied me anything, Heavenly Father. And Thou hast given me all the money, Lord, that I could spend, and Thou hast given me all the blessings of Heaven. And Thou hast blessed me and my children and my family, and Thou hast taken me around the world, Heavenly Father, and my cup just runs over. All the glory and the praise and the honor be unto You, unto Jesus. Lord, in the name of Your lovely Son Jesus I do give Thee the honor, the praise and the glory. And, Father, these people standing before me, help them to realize the power of faith, Father, Lord, that You've granted unto them these things, Lord, through faith by Your name, I grant this blessing unto them. I have the power to do that through Your name, Father. You said whoever I bless would be blessed. I bless them in the name of Jesus because it's your pleasure and your delight that they be blessed. And, Father, I remit their sins in the name of Jesus. All that will believe, I remit their sins in the name of Jesus. And, Lord, I bless them with the desire of their heart that they may go their way rejoicing because You granted the desire of their heart. Let them believe that, Father, because it is true. And Oh, God of Heaven, as we stand together in faith, any two of us having agree upon anything it will be granted of the Heavenly Father. I agree with them, Father, and they agree with me through the mercy and bowels of compassion of Your lovely Son Jesus, the blessings of God and the greatness of God be upon these people. I ask You to do this in Jesus name. Let's sing this little chorus together, Everybody Ought To Know. (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Sing it one more time. (Singing) Lift your hands up one more time. I'm going to ask Brother Ron Clyde if he will to come and dismiss us in prayer tonight. Let's everybody remember the services from time to time. We trust that our visitors will come back and be with us. That they'll make this their home if they don't have a home church. And those that attend the men's meeting tomorrow night, don't forget the men's meeting. Don't stay away, folks, because it's what you do for Christ that's doing to determine your treasure in heaven. And if your treasure is in the earth you won't have a treasure in heaven. So where we put our time and the way that we invest in that that belongs to God will determine our heavenly wealth. May the Lord bless you as our brother comes.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord