Another World

And we sat down *there and talked and it wasn't long before *there was a quite a number of the *brethren came in, *Brother Thomas, and just numbers of them. And I was watching the *revelation of some things taking place and went on talking about the *Lord Jesus and I thought how wonderful it is. I expressed it *to the *brethren. *You know, we see, we walk after our sight. We live in the world of sight and we walk after our sight and that's our world. *You know, we feel, we see, we taste, we *hear, we smell and the world of sight continues on. We live in that world of sight but *there is a place that *you can obtain unto *to where *you don't live in the world of sight anymore. And *you don't walk in the world of sight, as *to the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh but *you move into another realm, another dimension, another mind. And then as *you walk *you don't see through the natural eyes, *you see through the eyes of *your understanding. *You know, a person really, really doesn't see through natural eyes anyway, *you know. I've *said this before and I'd like *to just express some thoughts concerning it again. *We're just *here *to talk about the *Lord anyway. If Jesus was *here *He'd just talk *to *you, *you know. But we don't really see through our natural eyes, as *to the way that we feel that we see. We look at something and we say, Well, like I'm looking at the fountain, *it's so beautiful. I see the water spewing up out of it. *It's so refreshing just *to look at it. The little birds, I see them going in and out drinking. I know the little pond is filled with fish. And I look at it and I think, Now, I see that through *my eyes but in all reality if I did not know that was a fountain. If I did not know that was water. If I did not know those things, as *to a *knowledge, then I wouldn't see it. Not really. I really wouldn't see it. Like *you heard *me say, going down the road *one day talking *to *my little children – I've told this a number of times. Riding down the road I *said *to the little ones, I *said, *you see those things out *there? And we went on along and I showed them different things, the cattle in the field as we passed. They'd say, Yeah, I see them, Daddy. I see them. And I'd say, Do *you really see them? And then I started trying *to teach them spiritual things. I *said, Now, *you really don't see that with *your eyes, do *you? Oh, yes, they *said, I see them with *my eyes. I *said, Are *you sure? They *said, Yeah. I *said, Well, I *said, what is it? And they told *me, *you know. They'd see a cow and they'd see something else. Numbers of things I asked them. And then after awhile I picked out something that I knew that they didn't know what it was. And I *said, What about that over *there, I *said, what is that? And they *said, Oh, that? And they looked and I *said, Don't *you see it? Oh, yeah, they *said, we see it. I *said, Well, what is it? They looked, *you know, and they kind of got baffled and they *said, I don't know. I *said, I thought *you told *me *you saw it. Oh, we do see it. I *said, Well, what is it? And then all of a sudden they began *to get the idea that they really didn't see it. I *said, No. What it is, *you don't see it. I *said, *You know, *you see things with *your understanding and in that *your understanding has never been exposed *to that then *you don't see it. And, *you know, it really shook *my little ones up. And that's the way it is, folks. *You see *angels through *your eyes of understanding. *There are *angels round about *you and the *angel of the *Lord encamp round about them that love *Him. See? And *you see *angels through the eyes of *your understanding. That's why Paul *said the eyes of *your understanding being enlightened that *you could comprehend the heights, the depths, the width, and the length, see? that *you might see into the other world. I see into this world for *one reason. And that is because this world is in *my seeing compartment. *It's in *my heart. In *my heart. The world is in *my heart. That's why I see the world as pertaining *to the natural. I see it because *it's been placed *there. *God has placed the world in *your heart, as *to *your first birth, and so *you see it. *It's *there. That's *you world. That's *your environment. *You are imprisoned *to that extent. That is *your environment. That's what *you belong *to. That's what *you are because of *your thinking. Now *you might say, What makes *you think that, *Brother Pike? Well, *you take a man that's insane, that loses *his mind. *You know, *you take a man that's having hallucinations, take a man like that and *he sees things. A man that's having hallucinations, flash backs from dope, something that's effected *his mind. *You'll say, "Come on over *here." He says, "I can't get across, that train is in *my way." You say, "Oh, *there's no train *there." "Oh, yes, *there is a train." You know. *You say, "Oh, man, don't be crazy. Don't be foolish." As far as *he's concerned *there is a train and *he can't cross that track. See? *He's imprisoned by that and that's the way that *you are. When *you are in the world of natural creation, when *you're caught in the circumstantial environment of *your surroundings, as *to tangible things *you are imprisoned by that by *your mind. Now, let's look at it for just a minute and we'll read a little Scripture, maybe. Someone would say, Well, I don't know, that couldn't be, *Brother Pike. They'll say, Now, let's be realistic. They'll say, That man's crazy. That man's lost *his mind. *There isn't a train out *there. But yet that man knows that *it's sure death *to *him if *he crosses that track. As far as *he's concerned that train is right *there. Someone would say, Yes, but if *he'd just come on across *there wouldn't be nothing *there. No, it could kill *him. Oh, somebody says, *you're crazier than *he is, *Brother Pike. No. It could kill *him. See? The way *he thinks, the way *he sees, if *he gets close enough *to that thing and the fear that would grip *him, and that's *his world, and it would kill *him just like that. *You say, But *he could just come on through, *Brother Pike. Okay, let's look at it again now from another perspective. If *there was a train out *there and *you saw it and *he was on the other side of the track and *he was crazy and *he didn't see no train and *there wasn't no train *there *to *him, *you know, that was just a flower *garden *he was looking at and *he told *you *to come on over, now what would *you do? Why, *you say, *Brother Pike, *you're crazy. *You know I couldn't just walk through a train. This world is real; *you can feel of it. Well, that's true, but on the other hand Jesus walked through the wall. *He just walked through the wall. Just like that man that *you would say was crazy could walk through the train, Jesus walked through the wall. *There was no more wall *there than *there would have been train for *him. So, see, *there's a lot *to think about, folks. A lot *to think about. *You say, Well, Jesus was a *spirit. Well, *He *said, feel of *Me. A *spirit hath not flesh and bone as *you see *Me have. So then, *there is a lot *to think about. Sometimes we think we know something, *you know, when we don't know something as we ought *to know. *It's like scientists. Paul *said, *Knowledge falsely so-called. When Paul really came in *to understand it *he realized that that was just nothing at all. So this is why I'm saying what I'm saying: is that *there is another world and the other world consist of another mind. Whatever the mind is that's what the world is. And as *to *your world, *it's *your mind. As *to *your mind, *it's *you world. So the Bible says that *God has *set the world in *your heart from *your first birth. *It's not that *you are in the world, the world is in *you and that's what makes *you in the world. Someone would say, No, *Brother Pike, I can feel *me and I'm in the world. Well, that's a good way *to look at it, *you know, if that's the way *you want *to look at it. But, on the other hand, if *your inner *life departs from *your body, then where is *your body? It can't dispute. It can't talk. It can't feel. It can't see. It can't *hear. It can't taste. From dust *thou art, *to dust *thou shalt return. What happened? See? What happened? Where is a *life? Where is that part that sees and talks and tastes, looks and sings and feels? Gets excited, that jumps? Where is that part? See? It means that *there is another world somewhere. *There is another world and that world that *we're speaking of is a spiritual world and this natural world is in *your heart. And when that angelic being that's called *you departs from that little tabernacle *there is no more world. That's it. That's it. *You're just *laying *there like a slab cut off of a *tree. What happened? The world is in *your heart. When Eve slipped, when *she made *her mistake *she took the world into *her heart. When *she took *knowledge from the *tree of *knowledge that was a mind. That was a world. That was Satan. That was a Satanic injection. That was of *her *own sovereignty that *she did that and when *she took that into *her heart *she was then in the world. But it could not be made manifest until Adam accepted it. The reason is because Adam was the commanding power and the commanding authority of that body. That was *his members and it had *to get *to the mind. It had *to strike the heart. And when Adam finally yielded *to it then the lights went out and the *Lord came looking and *said, Adam, where art *thou? Adam could have *said, I am in the darkness. I'm in the darkness. *God *said, Paul, turn *my people from darkness into *light. *He could have *said, I'm in the darkness. *He *said, Where are *you, Adam? Have *you partaken of the *tree? Now just think, folks. It changed just that quick. Adam was lost. Oh, somebody would say, *he wasn't lost out of the *Garden. *He was still in the *garden. *You know *he was still in the *garden. Sure, *he was still in the *garden. But, now think about it. The *garden was in the east of Eden. And out of that *garden grew trees. Strange trees. *There was a *tree of *knowledge. Have *you ever seen *one of them? It would be a rare *tree *to see. Have *you ever found a place where they grow them? The *tree of *knowledge where *you could pick *knowledge off of the *tree. And *there was a *tree of *life. Have *you ever seen *one? *There's nothing like it. Just go up *to it and just pull *you a big hunk of *life off of it. Strange trees in that *garden. So that means that *there was something that *you and I don't understand unless we could get in the mind of *God. Someone would say, Well, the *tree — I mean the *garden, it just went away. Well, if the *garden went away why did it leave the rivers behind? The rivers that ran out of the *garden, it left them behind when it went away. Why did it leave the rivers behind? Have *you ever thought *there might be a good possibility they left the *tree of *knowledge behind and the *tree of *life behind, *too, since it left the rivers behind? See? *There's something *you and I don't understand unless the *Lord speaks *to *us and revelates some things *to *us. So then, at that *garden gateway *there was placed flaming cherubs, or cherubs with flaming swords, that is. Now the thing is, is we know where the rivers are but why can't we find the flaming swords and the cherubs? Where are the cherubs? They *were *there at the gateway. It seems like if we could find the rivers we ought *to be able *to find the cherubs. *You know, *there are seraphims and *there are cherubs. All kind of *angels. I'm saying that again *to say this, and that is that *there are a lot of things we don't understand unless the *Lord tells *us. That's why Paul, when *he received a *revelation *he *said, Pray that *God will grant unto *you the *spirit of revelation (*one *spirit many operations) that *you might be able *to comprehend the height, the depth, the width and the length. So then when we say another world, what is the preacher preaching? Why is *he preaching like *he's preaching? What is *he talking about? See? What is *he talking about? *There is a *tree of *life. *There is a *tree of *knowledge. *There is a cherub with a flaming sword. What happened *to Adam? *He was still in the *garden, someone would say. Still in the *garden. Why was *he lost though? See? This is another thing. Why was Adam lost? Why was *he lost if *he was still in the *garden? The Bible says *God walked in the *garden in the cool of the day. Why then was Adam lost? Why couldn't *God find *him? And another thing, in that they had *to make them clothing if that *garden was growing trees of *knowledge and trees of *life where did they get the fig leaves? It was obvious that they put fig leaves on a natural body and they obviously got some natural fig leaves somewhere. Well, *there is just a lot of things that it would take the *spirit of *revelation *to make known. Beautiful. If *you've ever been down the trail *to find out those things and understand those things it is so lovely. It is so beautiful. But, anyway, I just want *to say this. That in these things are found the *great mysteries. Paul *said, *Great is the mystery of *Godliness. Someone would say, Let's eat, drink, shout and have a good time, forget about all of this. *You know, *there is nothing *to it and *it's just a simple thing and anybody can be a preacher. All *you've got *to do is take a good notion *to preach. And if *you take a good notion *to preach and *you feel like *you can make somebody feel good and they say, that's it. Give *him a card, make *him part of the work, part of the operation. But the Bible says *great is the mystery of *godliness and I am made a steward of those mysteries. And that's why we talk like we do a lot of times. I'm not against praising the *Lord. I think *it's just so beautiful. I'm not against emotion as long as *it's *godly emotion. I'm not against any form of worship that glorifies Christ Jesus but *my interest, *my principle interest is not *to see somebody shout and somebody feel good. *My principle interest is not *to try *to heal somebody, though the *Lord has blessed *us in numbers of ways. It is a glorious thing and it is a wonderful thing *to bring healing *to people. It is wonderful. But, see? That is not *my principle interest. *My principle interest is *to win souls; saving souls from the flames of *fire. And *my principle interest is *to perfect the *church and bring the people together and bring them into the full mind of the *Son of *God, as *to *their *great wonderful inheritance. Then in that they automatically find salvation, healing, prosperity. And if we really had a chance *to go into some of those things that *we're speaking of *you would marvel. If *you've never been down those roads *you would marvel as *to the *great significance that *you would find in those things. And how satisfying they would be. I'm going *to read just a little bit *here and if *you like *you can read with *me. 

"In the beginning *God created the *heaven and the earth." I want *you *to think on this now. We sometimes speak of this. We sometimes say some things concerning it so that *you can better understand what *we're trying *to do. Now think on this now. Think real seriously on the things that we say. The Bible says give the more earnest heed *to these things that *you've heard lest at anytime *you should let them slip and take heed how that *you *hear them for as *to *your motives, as *to *your purposes, so that Satan can't misconstrue. So then, notice *here it said, "In the beginning *God created the *heaven and the earth." In the beginning. So then, all of the world without question they go *to this; in the beginning. Unless it is some scientific something that gets wild about a nebular mass spinning around out *here in space that collected the dust and the gases and got in a whirl and mama making the *her biscuits, rolling it, rolled off a biscuit *here and it was called Jupiter, *one that was called Saturn and on and on and on. Which is a *great theory, *you know, and back through the millions and the billions of years, *you know, as the nebular mass spun and finally got *to the chlorophyll and finally got *to the vertebra *age and, *you know, and the coal *age and fossils and all these kind of things. But, anyway, the only problem with that theory when *you do that and *you leave *God out and *you see *it's just a nebular mass, *you know, of gases, particles and whatever, the only thing that's wrong with that theory is we've got *to figure out where the gases and the particles came from that made the nebular mass. So when we get into these things and we see these things *it's got *to be, no matter how *you look at it, it spells *one thing and that is somewhere *there had *to be a *God. *There had *to be a supreme power. *You know, *there is something. If *your *knowledge finds an origin, a place of origin or a beginning, it has *to have something *to work with. If it doesn't have something *to work with *there is no beginning, *there is no *knowledge. Even science admits that if a *tree falls in the woods and if *there is not an ear *to record the sound then *there is no sound. Someone would say, Well, *Brother Pike, that can't be. Well, it is. *It's true. What they say is true because sound is a derivative or a *word that is manmade. *It's an application as *to explanation, as *to vocabulary expression. So then, *there is no sound because *there was nothing recorded. And when *you speak of recording *you speak of a sound and *you use the *word as an application. See? What — When we say, In the beginning was *God, the *word *God means object of worship. Jesus had called *ye *gods. I'll make them come and kneel at *your feet and know that I have loved *you. So then, *He's called *you *gods, a *god that *you can worship, even bone of *His bone and flesh of *His flesh. In a good thing, *He *said, I'll praise *you. Now. *God, *Himself, in a human body came and knelt before another human body and *God did obeisance unto *God saying *to *you and I that we should do obeisance *one *to another. And the respect, the courtesy, the respect, the feeling that we offer *one another we've done it as unto *God *Almighty. Why is that? Because *God is a *spirit. So then, when we say, In the beginning *God created the *heaven and the earth. What are we saying, in the beginning *God created the *heaven and the earth? We are saying that this is the origin of things. This is the beginning of things not the beginning of *God. *God didn't have a beginning. *There is no in the beginning with *God because *God is the beginning. *There is no beginning with *God. *God is, *God was, *God forever shall be. *God is from everlasting *to everlasting. So, in the beginning it means the beginning of the creation of things. It means *your beginning and *my beginning and *their beginning. That is if *you are made, if *you are made. If *you are created then that means *your beginning. So in the beginning *God created the *heavens and the earth. Now, when I think about that, in the beginning (Pardon me.) God created *heaven and earth *my mind goes like this: In the beginning. But then I think, as I *said so many times *to *you *here, if this is the beginning *God made trees and *God made animals and *God made all kind of flowers and birds and *God made a human being, and that is the beginning. Then *my mind goes like this: What was before the beginning then? What about before the beginning? If that's in the beginning then what about beyond the beginning? What went on before the beginning? What happened before the beginning? If that is the beginning, if the creation, or the act of creation is the beginning then what about before the beginning? This is the thing that I've been interested in a lot of times. Someone would say, Now, *Brother Pike, *you want *to keep *your stability. *You'll get off on the deep end. It is a little deep out *there. I'll admit that. But the Bible says launch out into the deep. So then, *you would say, *You don't want *to get into those things, *Brother Pike, those are *too deep. Yet the Bible says that the *spirit of *God searcheth out the things of *God, yea, the deep things. So then, I say, What about beyond the beginning? Why, *you'll say, *Brother Pike, *there is nothing beyond the beginning, because the beginning means when everything started so beyond that *there is nothing. But *to *me *it's like this. If *there is something *to be called a beginning, if *there is something that is a beginning then *there had *to be something beyond the beginning *to start the beginning. Does that make sense? How did the beginning get *here? See? *There's got *to be something somewhere greater than the beginning. Something that's far beyond the beginning. (Begin tape *one, side two.) … powerful than the beginning, greater than the beginning and it brought the beginning into existence. So the beginning is existence. But what about beyond existence? What is *there beyond existence? Oh, *there is something. Someone would say no. Oh, *there is. The Bible says all of the things of the world that *you see, all of these things that *you see, the Bible says they are a type of something. In our day, in our hour they are *lying vanities that will vanish away. This is a world that Satan is the ruler of. It is a figment of imagination. It is *lying vanities. It must pass away. *Heaven and earth shall pass away. So what is in the beginning? The *Word. The *Word is in the beginning. When *you say *Word then *we're coming back *to a sound. *We're coming back *to an oral expression. In the beginning was the *Word. That *Word came forth. That *Word put on flesh. That *Word was made into a human form. That *Word healed. The Bible says all things *were made by *Him and for *Him, and without *Him was nothing made that was made. So then, beyond the beginning *there was the *Word. And the *Word *said, *Father, restore unto *me the joys that I had with *Thee before the world ever was. So then, *there was joys beyond the beginning. And then *to Job, Job where *were *you? The Bible says at that time when the morning stars all sang together where *were *you at that time when the *Sons of *God leaped for joy. Where *were *you? Why *there wasn't any *Sons of *God before Job. *It's for sure *there was no *Sons of *God back *there before Job unless it was beyond the beginning. But, see? In the foreknowledge of *God, *God created *us. *God made *us. *God saw *us in the future leaping for joy. Before we ever came into the world we *were ordained unto the *great wonderful thing. Before, of old, ordained by foreknowledge and these *great things, as *to *son ship was seen. Given *to *us in Christ before the world ever was. So then, the beginning of the creation of *God. Someone would say, It was right *here, *Brother Pike, with Adam. Then why did it say that Jesus was the beginning of the creation of *God? Why did *He wait until way down at Calvary when the *Son of *God was born? In the fullness of time *God sent forth *His *Son, made of a woman, made under the *law. And then the Bible says *He was the beginning of the creation of *God. Why was *God so late getting started with *His creation? What was Adam if *he wasn't the creation of *God? See? *There are a lot of things we need *to think about. A lot of things that are *great mysteries. A lot of things but yet all of them have answers. All of them have understanding. So then, they are not without understanding. So then, we say back beyond the beginning. And I say this a lot of times *to clarify things. Back beyond the beginning. See? Was *there at that time, as we would use human expression because we have no other means of approach unto these things except human expression. Was *there at that time, or beyond the beginning when *there was no time, was *there in that *great beyond, as we say, something that we still don't know enough about? Something that we not still, or we still are not very well acquainted with? Is *there something way back beyond the beginning? Something so *great and so mighty that all of this sprang out from it? Everything that we are and everything that we know sprang out from that. See? Is *there a *God? *There is a *God and that *God is an invisible *God. And Paul *said *He is a *spirit, the *God that I serve with *my *spirit. Is it possible that *there was a world before this world? Is it possible that *there was a world before this world? *There very definitely was. *There was a world before this world. What kind of world was it? And I use the term world because we don't have any other application. We don't have any other vocabulary expression *to acquaint *your mind with what *we're trying *to say so we have *to use that that's available *to *us. So then, we say, And that *great world, that *great beyond, that *great world. Was *there a world? *There was a world. What kind of world? It was an angelic world. An angelic world. A *great wonderful angelic world. A world of Michael and a world of Gabriel. And a world of the seraphim. And a world of the cherubs. And a world that even Lucifer was involved in. *There was a creative act of *God, *there was an angelic world. That world, where was that world? Back beyond the beginning. Where did this world come from, as *to the beginning? It came from that world and the Bible bears that out because the Bible says we understand that all, all of these things of the world, all of these things that we see was made by that which is not seen. And Paul *said, And all of the invisible things of *God, from the beginning, from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear. So then, Paul *said, All of these things from the very beginning, all of the invisible things of *God. From the creation of the world, from the beginning, as Genesis says. The *word Genesis means beginning. All of these things, the invisible things of *God are clearly understood by the things which do appear. That's why Paul, receiving a *revelation used the terms allegories, types, shadows. When *he spoke of Sarah *he *said a type of New Jerusalem, of *heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of *us all. When It spoke of Hagar It spoke of a type of Old Jerusalem *who is the mother of children of bondage. When It spoke of Abraham It called *him the *father of the faithful which related back *to *God *who has those wives. *One of them is this world, as *to a wife of mother nature, being married unto that. That is *to bring forth as *to the first birth bondchildren. And then *God, having *heavenly Jerusalem, the world *to come, as the Bible says, bringing forth *her free children and all of them are free children. So then, are we bondchildren, or are we free children? We are free children because we are not of the world. Paul *said, Do *you desire again *to be in bondage *to the beggarly elements of the world? Having escaped these things through the death of our *Lord and *Savior now *we're children of another world. Now then we should have another mind. We should enjoy the other world and this is why I use the terms I did, as *to looking through the eyes of understanding. *One *spirit, many operations. Do I really see something with *my eyes, as it has been *said of the twenty-two conductive nerves from the eye *to the brain? Is that the way that I see? *It's for sure that I cannot see the things of *God that way, because Paul, attempting *to see that, just that *light, *he went blind. A tiny measure of that *light. And then as I *said in the message the other night, when this *great *light comes forth all of the world flees away. *There is found no place for the mountains. *There is found no place for the seas. And the Bible says at the coming of this *great *light even *heaven passes away. The *heavens which are now, they pass away. Peter spoke of the *heavens then, that was, that they passed away. So then, *there is a second *heaven, a first *heaven. *There's a third *heaven. See? *There are worlds, in the plural, the Bible speaks of. A lot of things. *Great is the mystery of *godliness. And Paul *said, I am a steward of that mystery. Then we ask our self the question, But, *Brother Pike, should we know about these things? Does *God intend for *us *to know about these things? Oh, somebody *said, *there are just something that *God just don't want *us *to know. The devil tells *us that. *God never told *you that. *You never got that from *God. See? The Bible, *to the contrary *said, We have an unction from the *Holy *One that we should know all things. And the Bible says, All that *God has made known unto *me. Jesus *said, All that *My *Father has made known unto *me I have made known unto *you. So then, through the mind of Christ we have all things. If I have the mind of Christ the mind of Christ has all things. Now, the thing is, *my human being part, *my man part, this part of *me that is considered *to be the body, the person part, as the dictionary describes it, this bodily part can have only what it receives through being a man. *God, working through the inner man, *God will give the outer man just as much as *he's willing *to submit *himself *too, or *to conform *to in the *grace and *knowledge *to grow thereby so this man on the outside can go on *to be perfect. It can go on *to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. Not always *laying the foundations of repentance over and over but going on with *God, getting up in the *great *heavenlies with *God, getting up into the places where other people have never been. See? So then, I say beyond the beginning. So we see *there is a world *there and we see the invisible world has created, or made manifest, *itself, *its invisible force by a tangible substance *to bring it into what is referred *to as a world of sight through understanding. And so then we see *one another. We feel *one another. *We're in this world. But then I say again, remember, the world is in *your heart. The world is in *your heart. *It's a *knowledge, even the *tree of *knowledge. It is in *your heart. And *your environment; *you're imprisoned by *your environment. *Your circumstantial environment makes *you a prisoner. And Paul *said *you are in bondage *to the beggarly elements of this world. *Your thoughts, *your desire, *your hunger, *your thirst. And when we transcend this realm, when we move into another dimension, when we come *to a place *to where we let *God's *Word come into our heart, then this is what we find. *God spoke the world into existence. And by *His *Word *He *said let *there be and *there was. And today *there is. And we see all of these things. So the world came forth but now *God is speaking again. *You go *to the house of *God *to *hear *God speak and then *God starts speaking. And what is *God doing? *God is speaking the world out of existence. The same *God that spoke it into existence is now speaking it out of existence. And so then, *God says something and *God brings forth something and the *light comes and the dissipating starts. Everything starts dissipating as the *light grows brighter. And the *lying vanities begins *to move out of the way. And the moonlight is not sufficient anymore, the Day Star begins *to come over the horizon and the shadows begin *to move away. And *you say, Hey, that thing isn't like I thought at all. *My! *It's getting so plain now. And *My! *It's so beautiful. *It's so much more like *we're just kind of in an imaginary world. *My! Look at that thing! Look at the beauty of it. Look at the radiance of it. See? The shadows are coming off. *God is moving away the *veil. *He rent the *veil at Calvary and then *He gave *us a seven dimensional breakdown, as *to the *church *ages, as *to comprehending, as *to understanding, as *to moving the shadows, as *to coming into this *great world. And so *we're transitionally moving, as that that's looking into a glass as with open face, being changed from *glory *to *glory into *His very image, into *His very *glory, into the image in which we *were made, as *to the *Shekinah *glory of Adam. And yet this *glory within *us, the *revelation of the *Son of *God breaking forth little by little, coming out changing our outer being, soon *to appear as it was with Jesus, the raiment glistened standing on the mount of transfiguration *there with Moses and Elijah. See? We are moving from *one world *to another world. *We're changing from *one world *to another world. We are moving into this *great wonderful world of *God, moving into what they call the world of tomorrow. See? But I keep telling the audience, Is *there a tomorrow? Is *there a world of tomorrow? Or is this the world of yesterday, in that it was before the beginning? *You'd be more fitting *to say the world of yesterday. But is *there a yesterday? And this is where we get confused, as I say so often. See? Is *there a tomorrow with *God? *There is no tomorrow with *God. Is *there a yesterday with *God? *There is no yesterday with *God. We know for sure that the sun comes up, the sun goes down and we have a daylight and we have a night. But that is for a typical purpose *to show *us the invisible acts of *God in *His invisible ways. So then, does the sun really go down? No. *You know and I know that if we get in a plane and we follow the sun we just follow it all around the earth and it will always be day. Have *you ever been *to the land of the midnight sun? I have. Over at 12:00 or 1:00 o'clock people walking around taking pictures, whatever. See? So *there is no yesterday or tomorrow. *To *us the yesterday and tomorrow is that the sun came up, the sun went down. Darkness came and then the sun came again. And that's all *there is *to a yesterday and tomorrow. So, in all reality *there is no yesterday and tomorrow. *It's just an intellectual application for mankind and *God has allowed that for types and for shadows while we *were babies *to cause *us *to have stability, *to let *us be in a realm of stability, *to let that be in a realm of stability. I need all the volume I can get, Chuck. So then, *God has given that *to *us. See? That gives *us a stability. Yesterday, tomorrow. But then when we grow up is *there a yesterday and tomorrow? No. We come *to know that *there is no such thing. *There is no such thing as a yesterday and tomorrow. Now. This really helps *us. When we get *to the place *to where we realize *it's only a type, that we lay down, we die, then we resurrect. We lay down and we die and then we resurrect. That's what it has *to do with. See? But when we come *to the *truth we are made *to know *there is no yesterday and *there is no tomorrow. That helps *us more than anything that we could find because we realize how that we have *to think about *God. If I think about *God, and I've *said this numbers of times, if I think about *God and I say, Well, *you know, a thousand years ago, *two thousand years ago, four thousand years ago, I say, and then the beginning. Five thousand years ago. *You know, that much time has elapsed. And then when I get back *to the beginning I say, Wait a minute. *There's a world beyond this. Beyond the beginning *there is a *God and *God is what started the beginning. In the beginning was whatever *He made. That was the beginning. So then, I say, *My *God! How old are *you? How long have *you been living? Where did *you come from? How did *you get *here? *You know, that's *my little finite mind. That's our little computerized way of thinking. So then, I say, Where did *God come from? *Who is *God? How did *He do this? How long has *He been *here? And I say, *My *God! *It's been five thousand years, *Lord, and *you did all these things in five thousand years? *My! What about before then? How many years was it before then that *You did some things? And I'll say, Well, a hundred years. Somebody will say, No, no, it was *there a thousand years. Or, no, it was *there *two thousand years. And I'll say, Well, what about before that *two thousand years? They'll say, Well, let *me see. *He was *there a hundred thousand. I'll say, Well, what about before the hundred thousand? Then they'll say, Well, *He was *there five hundred thousand. And say, Oh, *my *God! *He was *there before a million. *He was *there before a billion. *He was *there before ten million times ten billions and trillions and trillions. Oh, *my *God! That will drive *me crazy. And when I get through I don't know anymore about *God than I did when I started. I don't know old *He is. I don't know where *He came from. I don't know what *He is. I can't figure *Him out. I don't understand *Him. And I'm more confused than ever. Do *you understand what I'm saying? So then, what do I have *to do? And I say, *God, *you *said I could know all things and *here is something I can't even begin *to try *to understand. And then I *hear *God gentle whisper, Don't be upset. Don't get disturbed now. *He'll say, Where *your wrong is, is that *you have been acquainted with time but now *you're moving out of the era of time and with *God *there is no time. See? *There is no such thing as time and then we, *you know, we just get all shook up. We think, Oh, *my *God! What does this mean? *You know, and the *angel *he *sets *his foot on the land and *he *sets *his foot on the sea and *he raised *his hands *to *heaven and says, I swear by *Him that liveth forever and ever that time shall be no more. Somebody says, "What are *you talking about, time is going *to be no more? *You know, what do *you mean?" Because, see? That proves that if time isn't going *to be anymore *there was back beyond time and era, as we use the human terms, when *there was no such thing as time. So then, that means that *we're coming from eternity *to eternity. Then time is not the *great thing that *we're speaking of. Someone says time is of essence. Time is of nothing. Time is nothing. That's another man made application, like rapture. Time is another intellectual definition. That's all it is. *It's something *to give *us stability. I'm going *to say this again. I *said this *to some of *you, spoke *to some of *you about some of these things and *you're catching it now *to where it can go *to others and that's why *we're taking a little time *to speak of a little of it. Where does time come from? Where does it come from? *There was no time. *There was no time until man brought it into existence. What did time do? It killed man. Why is *there death? Death didn't come by *God. The Bible says death is the enemy of *God, the last *one *to be destroyed. Death came by man. How did death come? It came by time. Time and death runs hand in hand. If *there is a eradication of time *there an eradication of death. If *there is an eradication of death *there is an eradication of time. That's why that the *angel uses the term, *one foot on the land and *one foot on the sea and swearing that time should be no more. Why is time no more? Because *there is no more shadows. Time comes from shadows. Time. *There is no time in the world of *light. The world of *light is just *one *great day. With *God *there is just *one *great day. And when we say day, what is a day? Somebody *said a day is twelve hours. Well, why is it the Bible uses the terms, A day with *God is as a thousand years? So then, with *God *there is no such time, thing as time. *There is no such thing as death. Shadows doesn't fill *God's world and *to have time *you must have shadows. *You must have day *light and *you must have dark. And that's why that we look back at the little old clock that they made on the earth. Man knew that *there was a shadow that was falling. *He had a daylight but *he didn't know how *to use it and when *he drew that little old thing on the ground and put the little old fin on the ground and watched the sun as it came up. And *he watched that little old shadow from that fin. *He finally got *him a little circle and *he broke it down into a numerical thing of *one, *two, three *to twelve. And then *he would watch that shadow and *he could tell just how long *he had *to do a thing. Like a *one, *two, three and the shadow would be around the three. And then three, four, five. *He *said, I'll do this between three and four and five. And *he watched it and watched how long *he did it. And *he practiced at that until *he became a creature of time. And time is like an accordion that's opened up as being from *one end of time *to the other end of time as the accordion that's closed up, as the calendars, as the clocks, as the almanacs. Throw them away, as we would say, for time shall be no more, no more, no more. Time shall be no more. For the *angel shall stand on the sea and the land, and time shall be no more. So then, we see that time is *here because of Eve eating of the forbidden fruit. A time. *There never was a time with them. Never. *God didn't say *you'll live so long and then die. *There was no such time. But *he did say, In the day that *thou eatest thereof a time shall be, for *you shall die. And when the Bible speaks of the tribulation as a time, times and a half a time. So then, we *said the other night as a time, as a time *to *one year, as times as *to *two years, and a half a time as *to a half a year, or six months. So then, we see that *God is not a *God of time. Lucifer is the *God of time because Lucifer hath, as the Bible says, but a short time. *He is a time creature. Because of what *he did *he became a time creature. *His *life took on limitations because of what Eve did, because of what Adam submitted *to *their lives took on the time element. They became time creatures. They found a terminal point in *their *life. But, folks, when we come into this everlasting *light and this everlasting *gospel and this everlasting *life we are no longer creatures of time. We are no more creatures of time. Solomon *said *there is a time for everything under the sun. See? Because the sunlight has *to do with time. But when we can realize that even the sun goes around and the only darkness *there is, as *to *one planet being between the sun and another planet, when we realize the moon, as *to the way that it functions, and if we had time *to go into it we detail (?) , but then when we realize that we understand the shadows are the problem. Shadows are the problem. Joshua *said *to the sun, stand still and *he *said *to the moon, standstill, and *he eliminated the shadows until they fought the battle. They went over the Jordan. As long as the mind of Christ comes into *me *it's daylight. And then when the worldly mind comes into *me *it's darkness. And so then, *there is daylight and dark. Daylight and dark. And Joshua *said stop that, stop that. And *there was no more daylight and dark. *He *said, I've got a battle *to fight; I don't have time *to do that. What we need *to do is get into the mind of Christ and stay in the mind of Christ. Walk in the *light as *He's in the *light. Stay in the *light. And don't mess with that old shadowy mind. Don't go back *there *to that old glutton world. Don't go back *there *to the natural things. Walk in the *Spirit and the Bible says *you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Stay in *there. Get across the Jordan of that old intellectual reasoning. So then, when I say, How old are *you, *God? How long have *you been *here? See? I've got *to understand. *God says understand *Me like this, *son, that *there is no beginning with *Me. *There is no ending. I say, But, *Lord, I'm lost. *You've done lost *me. I can't understand that. And then *God says, Think of it like this: With *you *there is no beginning and with *you *there is no end. And then I begin *to search and I think, Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. *There has got *to be a beginning with *me. *There has got *to be an ending with *me. And then I begin *to think and I begin *to get into the mind of *God and the *Spirit of *God begins *to search out the deep things of *God. And then I say, Now, wait a minute now. If I'm a *God is *there a beginning with *me? Does *Gods have beginnings? No. I *said, If I'm a *God is *there an end with *me? Does *Gods die? No. And so then I say, Well, then I'm part of *God. I'm bone of *His bone and flesh of *His flesh. As *He was so am I in *He. As *He is so am I in *He. Then I was with *God before the world ever was. I was with *God before the world ever was. *He gave this *to *me in Christ before the world ever was. And I think, Now, wait a minute. That's what it is. *Me and *God, *we're *one. *You know, as *God is so am I. I'm not a time creature. I don't get up with the sun and go *to bed with the sun. As a matter-of-fact, I really don't. Sometimes I'm on *my knees when the sunlight comes up. So then, I think, I'm not a time creature. I'm not supposed *to be born and then die. I'm not that. I've passed from death unto *life. I shall never come into condemnation. I've been translated into the marvelous *kingdom of *God of which *there is no end. So then I think, Well, I understand that better now. Why do I want say *God is *one day old, *two days old, five days old? I'm not *one day old, *two days old, five days old. Why do I want *to say *God was *one yesterday and *two days tomorrow? Because I'm not *one day yesterday and *two days tomorrow. See? *You say, What do *you mean, *Brother Pike? I mean if I think of *God as being *God, *He's just *God. *He has always been *God, as we say. I know this is hard for *you *to get down in *your heart and mind of what I'm saying. *You have *to have *God *to suddenly inspire *you and *you move into that and *you see it and *you say, Oh, *my *God. See? But *God, *God is like a perfect state of being that didn't have *to have an origin. *There is no beginning with *Him. *There is no end with *Him. Somebody says, Well, that confuses *me, *Brother Pike. But it only confuses *you because in *your mind *you've got a beginning and an end. In *your mind *you think of a beginning and end. *It's *your thoughts that confuse *you. In the mind of Christ Jesus comprehended *God in *His mind. That's why the Bible says let this mind of Christ be in *you. See? *To realize that *God is. Not was, not going *to be; *He is. *God is. *Said, Moses go down *there and tell them I AM. Not I was, or going *to be, I AM. See? *God. Just like when the daylight's *here if *you didn't have a clock and *you didn't know the night was coming in the morning it would be daylight. In the evening it would be daylight and at noon it would be daylight. And somebody would say, How old is daylight? What are *you talking about, how old is daylight? *You know, if *you didn't know anything about hours. (Begin tape *two, side one.) You say, What are *you talking about, How old is daylight? Daylight is daylight. *It's just daylight. *It's daylight. *It's daylight. *It's, *you know. Somebody says, Well, wait a minute now. *One thousand, *two thousand, three thousand, four thousand. Way, way back yonder. Way back where? Daylight is *here. Daylight is not back *there. Daylight is *here. Somebody *said, Oh, no now, *Brother Pike. Oh, yes it is, see? Daylight? Daylight is *here. Somebody *said, Well, *it's not daylight right now; *it's dark. No. *You just got lost off. That's all. *You just go over the hill and *you'll find out daylight is still *there. See? Daylight is always daylight. *It's always been. *There is no beginning *to daylight and *there is no end *to daylight. Do *you understand what I'm saying? *It's around the clock, as *you say. So the only thing that *you've got that tells *you daylight and dark is *your thoughts. *You've been programmed *to that. So then, *it's like passing over the international date line. So then, when *you become a Christian *you pass over that international date line. See, when *you become a Christian *you go out into *God's world. *You move into the world of *light. *You are no longer children of darkness. *You are children of *light, not children of darkness. But *you are children of *light. *God *said turn *my people from darkness *to *light, Paul. All of this other is *lying vanities. That's Satan. That's the world of darkness. That's why *we're in the night, *to show *you that this world is a world of night. But when we get into the daylight, that's why *there is a world – That's why *there is a day, *to let *us know that we've moved into the world of daylight and *there is no more dark. We just follow the *great Daystar wherever *He goes and *we're always in the world of *light. Do *you understand what I'm saying? So then, if I had *to stand before *God this day and *you would say, *Brother Pike, *it's been x amount of years, thousands of years, *Brother Pike, and *God, *God, maybe *He's forgotten this thing. Maybe *He won't be so upset because *it's been so long since the crucifixion of Jesus, hundreds of years. So then, *you stand before *God, *God stands *there and *He looks at *you and all of sudden it, *you know, if *you're not a Christian now, all of a sudden it dawns on *you that *you just killed Jesus and turned around from the blood stains and found *God right in *your face. *You say, What do *you mean, *Brother Pike? I mean *there is no yesterday and today with *God. *There is no tomorrow. *There is no long stretched out — This time that *you call time, way back, back, back, back, *there's nothing *there. *It's a figment of imagination. *You're standing *here. Jesus has been crucified, *you turn around and *there is *God and *He doesn't like it. *One day. Just *one day. It happened and *there *He is. It happened and *there *He is. *He was *there watching all the time and *you did it. Do *you understand what I'm saying? *God doesn't have days. *God doesn't have birthdays. *God doesn't have darkness and *light. *God is. *God is a state of being. *You say, That confuses *me, *Brother Pike. Because what are *you going *to do with yesterday, and day before, and *two years, three years. All of that is a figment of imagination. Wash that stuff out of *your mind. Get it out of *your mind. *You say, But, *Brother Pike, how can I do that? And time shall be no more, no more. *One foot on the land, on foot on the sea and time shall be no more. The shadows are gone. No more shadows, no more darkness, no more death, no more time. I'm not a time creature. I'm not planning *to die. I've passed from death unto *life. And the Bible says a mystery, *ye shall not all sleep but be changed. What are we doing? *We're moving toward the change, *glory *to *glory. As with open face *we're moving toward the change. Do *you understand what I'm saying? *God is not — *It's not a matter of whether *He's been *here ten thousand, ten billion or whatever. *There was never a ten billion *to start with. *There was never a ten thousand *to start with. *There was not yesterday and tomorrow *to start with. *It's just *God. Can *you comprehend it. *It's just *God. *It's a state of being. *It's a state of *life without *age, no fixed being as a long stretched out thing. *It's just *there. *God *said I AM. That's the way *God is. See? So *you can comprehend *Him. *You don't get all frustrated and say, *My *God! Oh, *my *God! Ten thousand, ten billion. What was *He doing? How many worlds did *He create? What — See? It was just *God. Do *you understand what I'm saying? That *God, that present state of being that is, that was, forever shall be, just a state of being. And if everything just went out of existence *God would still be *there. See? *God. And that's the way it is with *you and I. See? And *we're born of *God. We belong *to *God. What is that, beyond the beginning? Where is that beyond the beginning? What is the beginning? The beginning of time. Why does *He say, in the beginning? *It's the beginning of time when man was lost off and *God *said, Adam, where art *thou? See? And *we're not going *to try *to get into some of the mysteries but *we're going *to say this: Lost off, then time started. The day that *thou eatest thereof *thou shalt surely die. See? And time started. But, folks, we've come over that. We've grown up now. *We're people of *God. Why do we worry about time? Time. Somebody *said, I've got *to go *to work at a certain time. I've got *to do this at a certain time. Fine. Well, that's okay. No fuss with *you, fine. But when *you get far enough down the trail and *you get a hold of *God, though *God is an understandable *God, *God will work with *you. *God knows *you've got *to work with humanity. *God knows that *you've got *to eat. *God will allow *you *to follow the time principles. *God will work with *you. *God will understand *you. *God is a good *God. But when *you get far enough down the trail, *you're going *to be this kind of fellow, *you don't care if the stars fall out of *heaven. *You don't care if *it's twelve o'clock by the clock, or *one o'clock, if *God says do something they won't see *you over the hill over *here and they won't see *you on the job over *there and they won't see *you around. *You will just be moved by the *spirit of *God and led by the *spirit of *God and do the things of *God. I *hear people so many times, I run into this different places; have through the years. And somebody says, When I retire. When I retire. That is after they — They could have *said it like this: After I've used *myself up for the devil and I've fed on garlic and onions and I've made brick for so many years until I've done nothing but fed *my belly and fed *my belly and fed *my belly and now I'm half dead and I'm *too old *to do something for *God, then I'm going *to do something for *God. I'm going *to retire. And I heard of a case just recently where a man *said that and the man died just as *he retired. I know another man that did that from the navy. Got *him a house and got everything and then *he died. I know another man that told *me, *said, *Brother Pike, as soon as I get *my little house paid for I'm going *to do something for *God. I thought, *You'd better do something for *God right now, is what *you'd better do. But *he kept *his little house. *He did something. *He worked and *he worked and *he worked. Had prayer meeting in *his home. Planned for *his ministry and just as *he got ready *to carry *his ministry *his little boy, I believe it was, got drowned in the *lake behind the house that *he gave *his *life, as *to the purchase of the ground. And *he's broken hearted. So then, *you're going *to come *to the place *to where *you're going *to be led by the *Spirit of *God. See? *God *said *to Moses, Go down *there and get those children out of the land of Egypt. Get them away from that bondage. Pharaoh has enslaved them; I want them *to be led by the *Spirit. *He *said, But, O *Lord, what are we going *to do about garlic and onions? How are we going *to feed our bellies? Don't worry about that. *You seek the *kingdom first and all of these things will be added. Out into the wilderness and *there they went from day *to day, year *to year. *God built a commonwealth and *God took care of them and the Bible says not *one of them was sick. And *their feet didn't swell and *God took care of them. Somebody would say, Hallelujah! *Brother Pike. That's the kind of person I am. I don't pay *my debts. I don't work. I don't do nothing. I just follow *myself. I'm *one of those followers. Yeah, I know. *It's sad *to say *you really are. But *you're going *to come *to a place, not as *to a lazy people, somebody that won't do anything, but *you're going *to come *to a place *to where even though *you are a working man, and a working woman that *you're going *to realize the greatness of *God and the greatness of the power of *God and *who *God is, and this *great wisdom and *knowledge and understanding that *you're pre-ordained *to have. And, *brethren, *you're going *to get faith like *you've never seen in *your *life. *You're going *to have faith like *you've never had in *your *life. I mean *you are going *to have faith in *God. *You're going *to really have something. *You know, we preach faith *to somebody and we say, faith this and faith that and faith this, and if we lost *one day on our job or *two days on our job our faith would go down like the Titanic. The only faith we've got is in that salary. Someone would say, Well, *Brother Pike, I've got *to pay on *my home. That's good. Finish paying for it so *you can lay it down at the *apostles feet and give all *you've got. Well, if *you haven't got it *you can't give it but if *you get it, it would be a good thing *to give it. Do *you understand what I'm saying? Why do we make preparations in this world for the flesh? The Bible says make no provisions for the flesh *to fulfill the lust thereof. Why then do we do it? All of our labor — Somebody *said, I've got *to labor, *Brother Pike. Why? The Bible says all of *your labor is for *your belly because *your belly craves it of *you. And the Bible says that *He put the serpent on *his belly. *You say, But, *Brother Pike, what would I do? I don't know. Maybe like Elijah, go on a forty day fast. The *angel baked *him a cake and after that *he didn't eat no more for a while. Maybe *you don't need no more for a while. Folks, do *you know what I'm saying? Is that with our foolish thinking, our programmed minds of having things our way, we've gotten away from faith. *God fed them in the wilderness. *God took care of them in the wilderness. *God watched after them in the wilderness. *God made provisions in the wilderness. And, folks, don't get the idea that I'm telling *your husband – *You ladies, don't get the idea I'm telling *your husbands they need *to quit work and be lazy. I despise the thoughts of a lazy man. I despise that kind of thing. The Bible says that if a man won't provide for *his *own *he's denied the faith and *he's worse than an infidel. When I speak about leaving off with colleges and all of these things I'm not condoning ignorance. I say that so many times. But the Bible says all them that are of a good understanding that are of *God. See? When we apply ourselves we get into a place that professors don't even know anything about. They've never even seen this place. I had a professor tell *me *one time, I believe from the Carolina's, I was talking *to *him. *He *said *to *me, *he *said, Man this must be from *God. *He *said, I've never heard anything like this in *my *life. See? So then, *God has a way. *God has an understanding. And *God is wanting *you *to follow *Him. *It's all right *to work on *your jobs. *It's all right *to do those things, but don't place *your faith in *your salary. Don't get under bondage *to a job *to where *you can't move when *God says move. *You can't stop when *God says stop. Don't get under some kind of influence that's got control of *you *to where *God can't motivate *you and move *you as *God wants *to move *you. Folks, don't do that. See? Stay a sovereignty. Stay with *God. Walk with the *Lord. Do the things of *God. See? Let *God lead *you. *God will provide for *you. *God will take care of *you. *God will make *your cup *to run over. Do *you understand what I'm saying? So then, we want *to get out of this world of time. We are a different people. We are seeing. We are comprehending. Our eyes of understanding see different things. We are living on a different plateau. *We're living in a different realm, on a different level. We are in a different place. Just as *there is a difference between the rich men and the poor men; they live on a different level, so is *there a difference between people and *sons of *God. This is a higher plane of living. All of that is a type out *there. See? This is a higher plane of living. *We're *sons and daughters of *God. Somebody *said, I want *to be a billionaire. I wouldn't give *you fifteen cent *to be a billionaire. What's being a billionaire? Somebody says, All of that stuff, *Brother Pike. *You've got nothing but what's in *your head. Tonight if *you have fifteen Rolls Royces and fourteen Cadillacs and fifteen plants over *here and thirty-five lakes and – It would all be in *your head. *You couldn't do nothing. It will all be in *your head. Well, I could ride by and look at them. *You can ride by and look at them anyway. *There's lakes everywhere. Roll Royces. See? All *you've got is what's in *your head; that's all. So having food and raiment be therewith content. See? If *God gives *you a little place *to stay cool, if *it's nothing but under a shade *tree, enjoy it. If *God gives *you something cold *to drink enjoy it. *God gives *you something *to eat, something *to wear, enjoy it. That's all *you need because that's all *you've got anyway. Somebody says, Boy, *you don't know. I've got it stacked up in the bank, *Brother Pike. I tell *you – Like somebody *said, I've got it for a rainy day and I told them a lot of times, Be sure the rainy day will come. *You stack it up and *God will give *you a good rainy day so *you will have an occasion *to use it. Say, I've got it for hard times. Well, stack it up and *God will bring *you some hard times *to see that *you use it. What *you should have done was invest in *God. *You should have given *to *God. *You should have sold out *to *God, should have done something for *God. Labored for *God. That's what *you should have done. Forget about the things of the world. Forget about that. All *you do is feed *your wife's belly, feed *your belly, feed the children's belly and then the wife *she spreads out like a palm *tree. Are *you listening? *You *lose *your physic and the children spit in *your face and say I don't like home. *You've really accomplished something, haven't *you? *You say, But, *son, daughter, don't *you see what I've got? I don't want it, *you hypocrite. Do *you understand what I'm saying? So then, let's get in our right mind. Let's get our right thinking and get our thoughts together and realize that *God is doing something and that we are a foolish people *to get entangled with the beggarly elements of this world and get our minds and *spirits under bondage *to the things of this world. That's foolishness. *God doesn't want *us *to do that. So then, what should we do, *Brother Pike? Follow Christ. Love the *Lord and do the things that *God wants *you *to do, beloved friend. Let's love the *Lord. Let's walk with the *Lord. Let's go on with the *Lord. Let's meditate in *His laws day and night. Let's cast down imagine and every *high thing that exalteth *itself against the *knowledge of *God and bring into captivity every thought *to the obedience of the *Lord Jesus Christ. Let's invest in *God with our time, with our substance, and whatever, and let's make our minds *to be that supernatural mind of *God. Not carnally minded. Getting over the Jordan and getting into that spiritual world. Walking in the *spirit, being spiritual, thinking spiritual, talking spiritual, fellowshipping with *one another, as *to these wonderful spiritual things. And what a time we will have. What a time we will have. Forget about time so far as the times of this world and let's have what we call a good time in *God. And I say that because we don't have any other *words, or any other expressions, except our feeble little computerized formulated thinking *to express *God. *He's so *great, so far beyond our expressions. So then, let's get in *God. Let's forget about when we *were born and forget about dying, and let's forget about yesterday, today and tomorrow. And let's forget about all of the things of the world, as pertaining *to time and let's get into that *one *great *eternal day. We sing that song This is the day that the *Lord has made. Let *us rejoice and be glad in it. Let *us enter into the rest of *God. Let's get away from the world and enter into *His rest. And the Bible says, And *He rested. And on that day *He rested, that *great day of *God. Let's enter into that *great day of *God. That *one endless day of *God. And then, folks, we can rest. For the *angel is going *to *set *one foot on the land and *one foot on the sea and *there is going *to come a message and *there's going *to come a proclamation. And *there's going *to come something that's going *to say, And time shall be no more. And time shall be no more and *He's going *to start calling *to those creatures that are not time creatures. *He's going *to start calling *to those people that are not time creatures. And *He's going *to call them front and center, as we say. Let's stand together. *There's a lot of things I'd like *to say tonight cause I feel like I've just got started. But, anyway, I feel like doing it this way. Do *you love the *Lord? Now, *we're not going *to give an altar call tonight. *You can come *to the altar. If *you'd like *to come *you can come *to the altar. We delight in *you coming. But *we're moving on down through camp meeting and in moving on down through this *we're trying *to coordinate people and get *their minds into a different era, on a different level and bring them into a different place *to where they can understand what *we're saying because *we're fixing *to have a meeting a *two *here and *there and *we're going *to explain some things *to people and *we're going *to get into some specifics we've never gotten into before because *there is a roundup time, as we say, and in gathering. And *we're going *to have this *to where we can do something for the *Lord. And that's why I did that the other night. Some of them thought I got *too hot when I went out. But I wasn't *too hot. I'm not *too hot. *My! I feel like I could go fifty miles an hour and just be breezing along. I'm telling *you the *truth. Somebody *said, Oh, *Brother Pike, I think *you're about whipped out, aren't *you? Whipped out. *My lands! I don't feel like I've done nothing. I feel like right now I could run a foot race and preach three solid hours without letting up. I really feel that way. See? Because as I *said, *we're moving out of the time era. So when I do things I'm not doing it for that, but I'm trying *to do something differently. *Brother John and I are working together on some things and *Brother Taylor, and the others that we had down *there today, working together *to do some things. I want John *to come up and sing a chorus with *you and while *he's singing the chorus with *you worship a few minutes and then I want *you *to *set back down just for a few minutes and I want *to try with John *to explain *one or *two little things *to *you that we'd like *to do because camp meeting will be over in just a little while. We won't hold *you long, won't drag it out but just let *me say a few little things *to see what *your satisfaction is in it. *You *said the other night *you'd like *to stand with *us. Okay, *Brother John. I want *you *to think this over now. (Brother John speaks and sings.) … Just a few minutes. We have been laboring *here for quite a long while *here at Bethlehem. We've done quite a number of things, as *to what we could, for the *Lord. But now, see? we have come *to what *you would call it, a birth, a birth. Now when I say that I know that's all of *you. I know that. Some of *you are so natural minded and carnally minded as *to eating and drinking and homes and air-conditioners and lollipops and going out *to dinner and all these kind of things, until *you could never be birthed as a *son of *God. *There wouldn't be no way, *you're *too ritualistic. But, on the other hand *there are some of *you that have made sacrifices, financially speaking. Physically, *you've fasted, *you've made efforts, *you've submitted. *You've tried *to conform. *You've changed *your way of *life. *You've cut off things. *You've left things out of *your *life that had a hold of *you and *you've come a long, long way. And *there's been a birth and *you've come into that *great world of *light. Now, in that that has happened, and *here at Bethlehem we've done that, now then Bethlehem is *to take on a new, new way of *life, as *to a different perspective. And that is not as *to a little thing of being a little inner circle, as *to building a fence around the babies, as *to keep them out of the roads and keep the animals away and keep them from getting hurt, keep them out of the neighbor's yard. *You know, *you've grown up now *to the extent that *you've come, come as we say, *to a Bar Mitzvah, in the sense of being about *your Father's business. And in this it requires effort. It requires moving around. It requires going somewhere. It requires doing something. And *you that are not coordinated with *us, *you that are not in sequences with the move of *God, or *there is not, *you know, *you haven't formed what we call a continuity. *You know. And *you could never be part of this. Now. Some of *you will go along with it and hundreds of people out *there, and thousands of people but that doesn't mean they are part of it. But *you that have been processed, *you that are those that love the *Lord, *you that are the *sons of *God, *you're *to be about *your Father's business. Now, this is no game, folks. *You know, if *my Dad ask *me *to do something, I had *great respect for *my Dad. If I *said, Yes, Dad, I'll do it, then I wanted *to do it. See? So this is no game. The *God of *heaven, the *heavenly *Father has something that *He needs done. That is *He needs *His will done on earth as in *heaven, that *He might redeem the earth and all that's in the earth and *He might bring it *to that place *it's suppose *to come *to for *Him *to *set up *His *kingdom and for *Him *to have rule over these things. Whereas, in *Revelation fifteen *He sounded and the *kingdoms of this world became the *kingdoms of *God and of *His Christ. So then, that's what *we're fixing *to do. *We're fixing *to make a move, and in this move, I wanted *to wait until camp meeting was over because I didn't see anything in that before camp meeting. Now that camp meeting is over we want *to frequent a place or *two and we want *to *set up a little meeting *here and a little something over *here and different places and not for *you *to be running all over the country side and get killed or something happening *to *you. They hazarded *their lives for the name of Jesus and *you're going *to be in jeopardy a lot of times, whether *you stay home or whether *you don't. Just going *to and fro *to work they have wrecks all the time. They get killed. *My Joseph just driving over *to Athens just the other day came *to a crossroads right *there at Richland, *you know where *it's at, broad four lane, smack, right into the side of the car. So, see? It isn't that. At the same time *He has a wreck going *to Athens Gilbert and Gerald drives down into Mexico and back, and down into Mexico and back, down into Mexico and back and didn't even have a crash. And *he runs over *to Athens and has a crash. So, see? It isn't that. It depends on what the *Lord has outlined for *you, how much *you watch, how much *you pray. Joseph wasn't seeking the *Lord. *He wasn't praying. *He wasn't watching. Gilbert and Gerald was trying *to follow the *Lord the best they knew how. *God took care of them. And I had a vision, praying for Joseph, *God took care of *him. Kept *him for being hurt. But, see? Moving in those places, maybe a tent meeting or whatever, but *it's going *to be different. *It's going *to be — We always reach out *to get people but this is going *to be something *to coordinate people. That's why Michael is taking *his trip around the world. Mike Bradley is taking *his trip around the world. And I know, a lot of times when they get out *there they get off base and I have a problem with them like I did over in India. But the *Lord still worked *His purpose. And *you that want *to be part of this, *you that want *to help with this, it might be *one way, it might be another. It might be in prayer and fasting and might be in helping in the finance. It might be that *you want *to go. Whereas, in these meetings, as *to certain meets, we'll be letting *you know from time *to time and we've got some things *here that *we're going *to press on this end that we haven't pressed before. Now. *You know, the little video that we've got *here, the little video operation that goes over the camp ground? I hope I've got this right. We, for a long time, *you know, have had it connected with the *church but not *to the extent that we could use it. But now, if I understand right, *it's connected. Is it, Chuck? *To use. Okay. Huh? Oh, I beg *your pardon, I didn't know that we *were on TV. Okay. So *we're using it right now. That it, *it's going into the homes right now. Okay, *it's going into the homes right now. Now we've had it *to where, *we're going *to have it *to where it would go into all of the homes on the camp ground. About sixth acres it is. And we've had it *to where we could do that by the tower quite a long while and we've done that. I'm enjoying seeing some of the things *myself. But now *it's *here at the *church where right now, as far as I know, if Mom is down *there, or whoever, if they've got *their TV on they can see what *we're doing up *here. Some of the people have a problem coming *to *church. Well, on this from time *to time *we're going *to boost that thing, and whether we make connection out yonder or not we've can if we want *to. We've got it fixed *to where we can just connect into the facilities and just go right on all around the country side. But whether we do that or not, for our personal use, as *to virtuous things and things for *God and for Bethlehem, and then *to spread out with. *We're going *to start flashing a few little things along and posting a few little things along and use it like a news media, as *to what *we're doing *to let *you know where *you won't be in the dark about things and where *you'll be just be right up *to par every time we go *to make a move *to do something. And *to where *you can plan for it and where *you can program everything for it. And *we're going *to let them out yonder know so that they can plan and program for it. See? So, *we're going *to try *to do that. And *you that want *to be a part of it, now *you've joined *us in quite a number of little things that we've done and then, of course, *you come up the other night and *you stood up *here and told *Brother John that *you felt like that *you should be a part of this. So, if *you really meant that then that means that *you're going *to be called on. *You're going *to be called on *to see what *you really want *to do from time *to time, and how that *you really want *to help and see if *you really want *to help. Now, I thought I'd make mention of it at the end of the service tonight. *It's about a mid-week thing *here. We've got another day or *two. Actually tomorrow is suppose *to be the end of camp meeting but we've got a few more days we'll probably go on. I don't know whether we'll take Saturday off or not. But, anyway, *we're going *to move on a little farther. And I want *you *to think this over because *we're going *to do it immediately after camp meeting. *We're going *to start moving immediately after camp meeting. *It's up *to *you as *to what *you want *to do and whether *you want *to be a part of it and whether *you want *to do something for *God. The *Lord is coming. The end of the world is *here. And what *you do for *God is the only reward *you're going *to have. *It's just whatever *you do. That's all it is, folks. And that's why Paul *said, I labored more abundantly than all of *you. Is because *he knew *there was a reward in labor. The Bible says, And *there is reward in all labor, and that *God is not forgetful of our labor in the *Lord in that we do and have ministered *to the saints of *God. All right. That's all I wanted *to say *to *you. I just wanted *to make mention of that tonight. I made mention of it *to some of them today and I want *to make mention of it *to *you and then *we're going *to enlarge upon it. And as we enlarge upon it *we're going *to try *to get *you a little brochure or get *you a little information from the sacred desk and *we're going *to try *to get Michael *to work with *us *to where we can project this thing over the little television screens. I hope *yours is working all right. Ours works excellently. *To where it will just be right *there before *you so *you can just know all about it, *you know, and it will be so good just *sitting in the home *there and just have a right straight conversation with *you, or the writings, however we project it and then *you can make preparations and *you won't have *to say, Well, did *Brother Pike say that? Is that right? Are we *to do that? I don't know. Like a lot of times, *you get mixed up. Then *you'll know just exactly *to a tee what *we're doing. Is that all right? All right. Some of *you, I'm sure, won't want *to be a part of it and that's okay. We love *you just as much. *You can keep the home fires burning or do whatever *you want *to. *It's okay. But we've got some of *you that are evangelistic. The Bible says make full proof of *your ministry, do the work of an evangelist. And I've always tried *to do the work of an evangelist. No matter what I do, home, pastor, whatever, I still try *to be evangelistic and hurl the message around the world through every medium and every power or source that I can as through electronics, radio, television, whatever. Let's stand together. I think *it's going *to be a beautiful thing. I think *it's going *to work out beautifully. *Brother Woods is greatly interested in it. I'm interested in it. *Brother John is interested in it. Others are interested in it. *Brother Conrad, *who's *here from Louisiana, *he's interested in it. *Brother Thomas is interested in it over at *his place. And *Brother Roy is interested in it and numbers and numbers of others, on and on. *They're interested in it all around the country side. *Brother Thomas was telling *me today that for *his meeting up *there where *he's wanting *us *to come, *he *said, I've already contacted more than three hundred ministers, *Brother Pike, from *here *to California. And this is what *we're planning *to do, is work together in the ministry with ministers, through ministers and many people that we have contact with and we'll be using WLAC for it, if the Lord's will, out of Nashville. And we'll be using the Caribbean Beacon, that goes into the Islands, for it. And different stations, different places, different things, television and whatever. So *you work with *us. *You pray, settle it in *your heart as *to what *you want *to do and let's get together and do something for Jesus. All right. Let's just bow our heads together. Once again I'd like *to get *Brother Woods *to come up, if *he would, and dismiss *us tonight. I want *you *to think on this thing and remember Jesus loves *you. Remember Jesus loves *you and that *He wants *to help *you and *He wants *to use *you. And *He'll utilize every bit of the ability that *you will lend *to *Him *to utilize. *You can grow up into *great men and women of *God. *Brother Kim is still work on the air-conditioning? *He was going *to have it ready tomorrow. It may not be ready. I hope it does, but they've just about got it ready, that side. And I believe with the results that we've had on this side, once we turn both of them on I believe we'll get some cooling. I certainly trust that we will because they are big powerful units. All right. As our *Brother Woods comes tonight let's consider Jesus.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord
