The Fall (2)

A man definitely does reap what he sows. Don't ever let anybody tell you that you don't reap what you sow. You reap exactly what you sow. When we can, maybe tonight, I don't know, we'll explain it real carefully so that you'll understand how that your sins can be forgiven and you can still reap what you sow. Tonight I really don't know where to start in what I'd like to say because my heart is continually in revelation. The Lord has really been talking to me in the last day, or two, and my heart is continually in revelation. So my heart being continually in revelation then, of course, I like to talk about revelation. Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation. I'm going to read a little bit here from Genesis. And I don't know that I'll even comment on the book of Genesis, or anything in there because I don't know which way the Lord will go. But, you know, it's up to you. It's up to your heart. The hunger, the thirst, that that you desire is what God brings to you. It's like I was telling a Brother today. A lot of times in discerning things I will discern a man's life, or I'll discern a woman's life. I'll discern their spirit. I can tell exactly where they're going, where they're coming from as the world says, and what is at the very moment transpiring in their life. No problem. Very clear. Paul said the Spirit speaketh expressly. But not always can you do that. One of the reasons is because if I go to discern a man's spirit, a lot of times he don't know where he's going, and he don't know where he's coming from, and he don't know what he wants to do. And when I pick it up it's just like muddy water. I can't tell what he's going to do, or what he ain't going to do cause he don't know Himself. In his spirit he's all fuddled up in his mind. But if the Lord wants to work a miracle and give us an insight of what He in His Spirit hath planned for the man then I can pick up God's Spirit and see exactly what his future would be. Which we've done this. But picking up people spirits, the Bible said Jesus perceived their thoughts in His Spirit. There is a divine perception. In the world they've got what they call an ESP. ESP. And they say that people that can do that, you know, with ESP. An extra strong perception. Whereas, that's what God does. It's an ESP. It's an extra strong perception but it's not an ESP as based upon the foolishness of man and his conglomeration of confusion of guessing and trying to figure something out, as to witchcraft. It is a godly, holy extra strong perception that comes from God. Whereas the divine anointing of Christ gives you that extra strong divine perception and as Jesus came to them He had extra strong divine perception and He perceived their thoughts in His spirit. So we do this a lot of times and that's why I say that what we say up here a lot of times depends on your desire. As to your desire, then the Lord feeds that desire, as to your strong desire. As to our strong perception then a lot of times by the divinity of Christ we perceive your hunger and thirst and the Spirit of God answers accordingly. The Bible said it shall come to pass that He will answer before we call, which means that these things were given to us in Christ before the world ever was and brought to light at Calvary, which means before we were ever even born into the world to call He answered us. All these things are laid up for us. Everything. All things that pertain unto life; we've already got these. We don't have to try to figure out whether we're good enough, or whether God will let us have them or not have them. All of that, see, is Satan working to hinder your faith. So God has given us these things before we ever call. What has He given us? All things that pertain unto life. So we know then why that He made the statement, Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. The children not yet being born He heard before they called and answered them accordingly. Not yet being born, having done no good nor evil, but that it might stand according to the predestination of God of him that calleth, and not of him that runneth, or him that works lest any man should boast, so it would stand by the foreknowledge of God as unto election, then He said, Jacob have I loved; Esau have I hated. God foreseeing their future, and seeing the outlook, Esau and the way he would do in his lifetime, and foreseeing how that Jacob would do in his lifetime, God predestinated them accordingly, and before they were ever born into the world this is what they did as in the foreknowledge of God. So it was given to them in Christ before the world ever was and then brought to light at Calvary, as to their birth, at the rent veil. So it is with you and I. And many, many things that we could say concerning this. So we can see that the great knowledge of God has determined everything. And when we come together like this to talk the Bible said it's not the minister that is speaking but it is your Heavenly Father that is speaking within him. Let all the world keep silent for God is in His temple. He is on the inside of us and He has all the answers. We don't have all the answers, as a human being. He has all the answers. And because we have left the realm of the human person and become one with Him then we have all the answers. There are not any answers that we don't have. The Bible said we have an unction from the Holy One that we should know all things. God having made known all things unto Jesus, then Jesus said, All that my Father has made known unto me I have made known unto you. So we could go on and on and on, but we have to approach it in such a way. God is like a dove, very tender, very sweet, and we have to approach it that way. If we approach God in a real tender, loving, kind spirit then He will speak through our spirit cause our spirit it has been subdued under His Spirit and He will speak through us to the audience. And if there is a hard person in the audience they won't receive it. And if there are a few hard people in the audience it hinders the moving of the Spirit. If one suffer they all suffer. If everybody is willing to be sincere, not hypocritically humble. There is a humility that is hypocritical. Not that kind of thing. The Bible says the devil humbles himself to get what he wants. So not a false humility. I never will forget, in a Sunday School Class, I was sitting there and this man was teaching and he said, Some people have a problem. He said, They are humble and they are proud that they are humble. So pride goeth before destruction. You can be like some of the Jews were, having what you call humility and then having a pride, as to think that you are pentecostal, or you are humble, or you are some kind of Christian, or something, you know. Something that other people are not. But just being what you are, being plain what you are, being sincere, being humble, having humility. See? Tonight I could preach on sixteen sermons tonight, but I know that I can't do that with your listening; you're not going to do that. You're not going to listen. That if you would stay awhile and then the body would get tired and you'd go to sleep on me. If not closing your eyes outwardly you would close them, as to the eyes of understanding inwardly. You'd become weary. So we work with you like children and we try to bring you just whatever God gives us as we come to it when the atmosphere is just right. The prophets of old wouldn't dare prophesy until the atmosphere was just right. If things were wrong they'd get somebody to play a timbrel and they'd get music, and they'd get the atmosphere just right. And then that way, when the anointing of the Lord came it would just flow like honey. Milk and honey. It wouldn't be any interference as to their own mind getting into it. It would be the anointing. And, of course, every preacher seeks to do that if he's really a man of God. I'm going to read just a little bit here in the book of Genesis, in the third chapter. We have dealt thus far with the beginning, which is called Genesis. In the beginning God. And we came all the way over here with these two or three pages, or chapters, right on over to where man found the expulsion and was sent out of the garden. And we explained to some degree the problem. Not what I would have like to explained, but we've explained to some degree the problem. Now, the Brethren have an advantage a lot of times, because like in the last two, or three days, I have sat and I have talked with them down around in the basement, and I have explained many, many things to them, even some of the things pertaining to this. And went into some minute details, as to the origin of Satan, and how this thing happened with him, and how he came about. Which, again, I wish we had the time to go into it. But we don't, so I just have to say the few little scattered things I can say, close out and the next time I come try to say some more things. But we got down to the nineteenth chapter. We read on through the twentieth chapter, and I'm going to read from the twenty second__ Got down to the twentieth verse. I beg your pardon. The third chapter, the twentieth verse. And I'm going to read from the twenty-second verse. And just as I can correlate the minds, that's the way I'll work. Because, see? When I'm up here if I let God talk then that means that I am so sensitive that the tiniest, the least, tiniest thing, it distorts my mind and it moves, like this, and causes me to stumble in what I'm saying. Not because I don't understand. Not because the anointing isn't there, but just that little tiny thing, see? Like a dove, as the spirit presenting Itself, and you have any tiny resistance. This is why the devil always tries to make the people move around. Like I told the children today. One of them just had to move his feet. Kick at another's feet. Push on another's shoulder. I said, Little folks, the Bible says study to be quiet. First you want to be quiet. I said, It tells us that we should be still. Be still and know that I am God. And see? The Holy Spirit is very tender. It's very still. It's very calm. Least little thing disturbs It. And the devil is, you know, a gang buster, and a holler, and a rip, and a snort, and mash down on the motor cycle, you know, and snatch it around and put you a loud muffler on the car, and laugh and talk, and joke and bubble in the beer. That's the way he is. See? And he tried to keep your human senses preoccupied with all of these things, as to what you feel is important. And in the church he does the same thing. Make a lot of noise. Be emotional. Do everything. That way the tenderness of the dove of Christ can't move. This is why the dove landed on Jesus. A dove will land on a lamb. They'll just go an light on him, because he doesn't have any__ You know, the dove doesn't feel any retaliation as he touches the lamb. And this dove came to Jesus because it was the spirit of meekness, tenderness. Take My yoke and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart. The Bible said a meek, humble spirit is of great value in the sight of God. Said Moses was the meekest man in all the land. So then, the Spirit of God is the spirit of meekness. And it comes to you. And when it comes to an audience, or it comes to the preacher, comes to anybody else, it comes to them so that He can just speak right through them. And it's up to you and I as to whether we fast, or we pray, or we keep ourselves full of virtue, or whatever, as to stay in touch with the Spirit. A lot of people never reap anything from God because they're body won't allow it. Their body is tense. Their body is quick tempered. That is, as to the guilt of these things, and their body is flashy. Their body is a gossiping sort, a money making thing, or it's got it's mind on it's face, or wanting to pump steel, as we say. Or always something. Some vain popularity to be something. To present itself. See? The body always wants to do that. Satan. No good thing within my body, or my flesh, Paul said. So, we don't find the tenderness, the meekness, the submission, as to God being able to work through us, because we eat, eat, eat, eat. And we drink, drink, drink. And we don't pray enough and we don't spend enough time with God to have our bodies in shape to where God can work through us. So, as a result of that there is no virtue in the body and we don't have any healing, we don't have an deliverance. We don't have any revelation. We don't have any leadership of God. We don't have God to tell us anything. That's bad, to be carnally minded is death. My! how I wish I could take a week just talking about that. But reading here from the twenty-second verse (of chapter three in Genesis), "And the Lord God said_" I want you to notice that now. The other night I emphasized this. The Bible says, Who is God? Who is God? Has anybody ever ask you that question? The Bible said, Who is God, but the Lord. How many of you know who God is? Somebody tell me who God is. Who is God? He is the Lord. That's what the Bible says. Who is God but the Lord. All right. It says, And who is a rock but our God. Upon this rock, even Me the Lord, He could have said. I say unto you that you are Peter, but upon this rock. Though your name means little stone, said, upon this rock I'll build my church. The Spirit speaking out of Jesus said, upon this rock, the Lord Jesus. The Catholics were in error. They thought He was talking about Peter. So it was Peter's revelation, or understanding, even the Spirit of Christ, that revealed it to Peter cause He said, Flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in Heaven. Upon that rock, My Father. Who is a rock but God the Spirit, My Father. On that rock the church is built. I've come to establish the church. To bring the body, that is, into a perfection. So it says in the Old Testament here, the Lord God walked in the cool of the evening. Thomas said, My Lord and my God. And the Lord God is the one that said unto the serpent. And the Lord God is the one that did all of these things. "(22) And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" Lest he do this now, eat of the tree of life and live for ever God had to put him out of the garden, because as I said the other night, Satan was inside of man. And Satan being inside of man if man could have eaten of the tree of life then Satan could never have been destroyed, because man could never have died. See? Satan cannot die to start with. The Bible says, In heaven ye are equal to the angels. Angels cannot die. See? Today we are equal to the angels. We've been born again, now then, we are equal to the angels; we cannot die. We cannot die. Thus we have been made gods. But even before this divine act of God, as to new birth, as to those that are gods. (Have not I called thee gods, Jesus said.) Yet it is said here, even by God Himself, that man has become gods. Said, He has become as one of us. He's got a knowledge now. A pro and con. He has to choose for his ownself. He has a knowledge now of good and evil. To begin with he did not have a knowledge of good and evil. He only had a knowledge of good, and he didn't have to worry about anything. But here he now has a knowledge of good and evil. Now why did the Lord let that happen? God let that happen so he could be like God, because before this happened he wasn't like God. Adam wasn't like God. Neither was Eve like God. They were overshadowed by the presence of God and could have remained in that condition forever, but they still would not have been as gods, because now man has become as one of us. Now he has the opportunity for the highest plane of living. Satan being a reflector, having reflected God, God raised him up for this position, this service. God doing that. Now they had listened to him to the extent that they had become as a God. Let's look at it for just a minute. God knowing that he had to have something that would lead man all the way from the beginning of the creation of the world, all the way to the consummation of the world. He had to have something that would lead man constantly in an aggressive upward trend, as a stairway to glory. To lead him he had to have something to do this, and this is where Lucifer got his origin. He could not let man start with the beginning and continue all the way through, all the way to the end. He could not do that. For his plan to work He had to let man die out. Every generation die out, die out, die out He had to do that, and there was a reason for that. There was a reason. I wish we had time to go into it. But, God knowing this, He had to have one supreme power that would not die out. That would start in Genesis, as to the act of creation, and go through every year, every month, every day, through the entire episode of life, until He comes down to the final consummation of the world. That was Lucifer. So then, God having nothing that was equal to Himself, having nothing that could do that, knowing that He had to have that, He himself could not lead man because He had to be separated from man, and He was the only thing that could fit that condition of life as to start in the beginning and continue on as Alpha and Omega. So what He did, He created something and He magnified it. He created this thing and He magnified it and He kept magnifying it. He made it to where it was a reflector of His own glory. And He created it to where Lucifer would reflect the glory of God. And the more he reflected it the more God magnified it. Until finally God magnified him as to an equality of Himself, as to the reflector. Thus he had become god. Now, with this the Bible teaches that the admiration of this great illumination was so great that even a third part of the angels, as we would say, turned and said, My God! He's like God. He's god, too. You know, and Lucifer, boasting as he would do, was saying, Sure I am. See? Look on me. Look on me. I'm not only like him, Lucifer would say, but Lucifer said that he also would rise above Him. Said, he would rise above Him, and he would set his throne above the stars, and he would be above the Most High. Whereas, the Bible says that God has given us a great wonderful thing. An equality with God. For every one that be perfect shall be as his Master. No man shall be above his master, but everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. And here was Lucifer perfect. The Bible said there was not a flaw found with him. Said, When I made you I made you perfect, and said, all of your pipes were perfect. Now, let's look at it for just a minute. There's a lot we would have to say to explain what we're trying to bring out here. Does a spirit have pipes? Of course not. Why did He say that Lucifer had pipes? Because the only Lucifer that there could be, so far as that which eyes could see, had to do with Adam. Adam. That's why He made a man, and made man in His own image, so that man would reflect His glory. And in that man would reflect God's glory, the Bible said, And come, let us make man in our own image. And the Bible said God made man, male and female. In the image of God made He male and female. And Adam began to reflect the glory of God. So then Adam was overshadowed, as we say, with the wonderful glory of God. Completely illuminated, like Moses was. Like Jesus was on the mountain. Like Stephen's face was. He was completely illuminated, and Eve was also illuminated, because Eve was taken out of the side of Adam. Why was Eve taken out. Eve was taken out for one reason. She was taken out for one reason, and that was to show Adam being taken out of God. That Eve being a type, in that she was feminine she was a type of Adam, who was the woman. Who was the woman; the flesh that is the woman. And that's why the Bible speaks the of it the way it does as the great whore. So then, here was Adam reflecting the glory of his creator, and he was illuminated. So then, being illuminated he was none other than the sun of God Himself. There he was, the son of God. There he was, equal with God; yet he had done nothing, but he was equal with God. All because God had shared Himself with Adam. God had shared Himself. A man shares himself with his son to bring about a son, thus his son is equal to him, and will grow up and will eventually take over his name and his business. So here was Adam, ruler over all things. Illuminated by the Shekinah glory of God and so was the wife. And with this he became the son of the morning. The son of the morning. How art thou fallen, O Lucifer? The name Lucifer, the light bearer. That is, you've taken on the Shekinah glory, the Shekinah image. Bearing the light of God. How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, thou son of the morning? For thou who were called the son of God, or made in the morning, how art thou fallen? And so then, Adam fell. He fell, not because he was found in the transgression, as to partaking of the tree. I explained that the other night, but he did sin against God. For God said to Adam, said, In as much as you ate of the fruit and partook of the fruit that I told you not to partake of. Now, see? There's the transgression. I told you not to do it, but you did it anyway. Did Adam really sin? The Bible said all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And did sin bring death? The Bible said, In Adam all die. Which means that in the day thou eatest thereof, Adam, everyone of your descendants shall die. Everyone of your children, everyone of your reproductions shall die in the day that thou eatest thereof. So then, in Adam all die. But in Christ all is made alive. So then, the bearer of the light in the morning time, the son of the morning, Lucifer, how art thou fallen? Said, he was the most beautiful tree in the garden. That's why I said the other night that Lucifer was that tree of good and evil. It said, And you were the most beautiful.....(Begin tape one, side two.)... garden. I said, and it had to do with Adam. The first man Adam. Why did they put on the fig leaves if it wasn't that there was a tree. Just as quick as they knew that they were naked they began to put on fig leaves to make it known that they were the tree. Both of them. Eve represented that tree of death. All of her children came forth to death. A man's children come forth to life. As to the seed, or semen, of reproduction. So then, when it was shown, as to the fall, the two trees were right there in the fig leaves. But when the fall took place, to the extent of the expulsion, then it had to do with the man being the feminine part, and in him all die. So this is what I was saying when I spoke about the thing that happened to Adam and Eve. Eve is a type. She's standing over here. The Bible says, First enticed. She was enticed. Her eyes beheld the fruit of the tree. And the Bible said being enticed she saw that it was good for food, and a tree, or a fruit to be desired. So then, she beheld. Now, the Bible said sin is in the world because of lust. And we say lust, desire. The original rendering desire. So we say lust. Lust of what? The lust of her eyes. She looked and the lust of her eyes. See? And in came sin. Because the sin that came in, the wrong that came in__ We use the terms, the evil. The good and the evil. The evil that came in was a mind. That's what it was all about. It was a mind. See? It wasn't what they did. That had nothing to do with it. The Bible said to be carnal minded is to die. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, they did evil. What it was, it was the things that they did that constituted the evil. The thoughts that constituted the mind. It was the mind of evil. She already had a mind of good, and the good things, but now here was a mind of evil to contrast. So then, she had a mind of evil. I said the other night, where did the evil come from. There was no evil. There was no evil. So where does evil come from. There was no evil except for the fact that the Bible says when Satan tried to exalt himself iniquity was found in his heart. That was the evil. I would exalt my throne above the stars. A lie. The father of a lie. He couldn't do it. God said, Though thou makest thy nest among the stars, from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. Speaking of the day we're living in, science falsely so-called, as to going to the moon. So then, the only evil there was was Lucifer. The only thing that could be in that garden that would be good and evil would be Lucifer. God would not have let him in the garden. Not for anything would He have let him in the garden. But for one reason God allowed him to approach Eve, and that is to give man a chance to power of decision so that he could be like God. He was to have a chance, as to power of decision, and if he did not get that he would be a robot. So he had to have power of decision, and the only way that God could do that was to allow the evil side to come forth. So He allowed the evil side to come forth and put the tree of life here that they might eat of the tree of life and live for ever. But, see? No one enticed them to the tree of life, and they were just eating the fruit everywhere. But something enticed them to the tree of evil, and God made allowance for that that Lucifer, through the weakness of the beast, might entice Eve to his ownself, to the tree. That is, the power of good and evil enticed Eve through the weakness of the beast to the tree of good and evil, because Satan could not touch her because she was illuminated, and neither could he touch Adam. They were illuminated, therefore he could not just go to them and touch them. But because the beast had a body that was so much favorable toward mankind there was a conversation that started between Eve and the beast. And Satan, working through the beast, saying, Ye shall not surely die. See? A lie; the father of it. So then, they question is, did they die. They sure did die. When you leave a world you die. They were in a spiritual dimension and they left that dimension. They died to that world. They could no more be in that world. See? God, taking dust, just taking the dust and making a man out of the dust. Just taking the dust of the earth, the water world, taking the dust. Remember? God created the heavens, the earth and the seas. He created the earth, the heavens and the seas. He created in three dimensional steps the heavens, the earth and the seas. Here God took the second part as to the earth and made a man out of it. To be able to make the man out of the dust he also used that which was the water world. That's why scientist tells us that the biggest part of our body is water. And that's why Adam and Eve could thrive off of fruit because it was a water world. It was a water covenant. See God had made this covenant. Said, And ye shall eat of all the trees of the garden except. That is to say, all of these things yielding herbs, yielding fruits, man could have a life of water, because there are three that bear witness in the earth. Water first, the blood second and then the spirit third. All of these bear witness in the earth. How can the spirit bear witness in the earth? Cause there's a form of energy that man has on the inside. This spirit, this life lives in the body as a breath of life, as an electrical friction. And it lives in the human being. He lives by this. Man lives this way. God breathed the breath of life into man's nostrils and he became a living soul. I brought it out the other night about the soul being attached to the body. I wish we had time to really go into these things. It would take so long that you can't hardly get one little thing in. Great is the mystery of godliness. Paul said, I am a stewart of the mysteries. The mysteries is what changes you, what translates you. The things that we say about the mysteries is transformating your minds to where you become the super intelligence, as to the mind of Christ. That through that mind of spirit changes your body into the glorified body of Almighty God, the eternal preservation. See? And there are so many limbs to this tree that there is no way to hurry through. I can walk with the Holy Spirit and you can tell him all night long and point out every leaf on the tree, but if I try to cut corners and go here and go there it just gets it all jumbled up, see? trying to hurry along so you can a little of it. This is the only problem we have. So then, God has so made man that he has, according to scientific definition, according to human anatomy, or the chemistry side of life, as to the chemical make-up of man, he has the thalamus and the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and with this he lives. I breath and into the little capillary comes oxygen. And I have little cells in my body that's fed by the oxygen. And I breath this air into my body and it brings me oxygen and I have little__ I have what you call a compound. It is a compound that has an affinity for oxygen. I have this on the inside of me. See? Through the little corpuscles, through the little blood cells, see? I have this. And when I breathe, like that, the oxygen comes in and it lights up. It turns red, and this is what we call blood. It could be the blood of the grape, water, that turns by the stains of the grapes. See? Blood could be anything, but we speak of blood, as in the world of chemistry. That is, in the human anatomy. So then, it turns red. As I say, it goes down like we use to say, you've got blood vessels and blood veins, and it goes down one of these and if it's red, and if it takes the oxygen and it feeds the little cells then it returns back up. And as it goes down, like as to a vein, back to a vessel, however, it returns to the heart. When it returns back up it doesn't have any oxygen, so it doesn't have any red appearance. See? The compound that has an affinity for oxygen is gone, so then it is blue when it comes back up. So if you look at the veins, if you look at the vessels, if you look at the lungs, you have all kind of colors. Especially blue and red. So it returns without the oxygen, cause it goes back through to pick up the air again through the little capillaries through the lungs. And we have detailed this a little more, and if we had time tonight we'd just go into it and detail it right down to what the little sacks are, and whatever. But it comes in, and when it comes in, that is the air, it hits the blood stream. It's so thick to where it hits the blood stream__ I understand exactly how it does it. It hits the blood stream, when the air goes in it turns red. When the oxygen goes in that is your life. The breath of life. The breath of life. This is where you get your blue babies. A blue baby they have to do something to it right quick. They have to put some more blood in there, take that blood out. That blood doesn't have any oxygen; that's why it's blue. See? And you've got to get oxygen into that blood vein or that baby will die. So then, we see two things. We see the red, as to representing the life. We see the blue as to representing the law. And here is the law, as to the blue baby. The letter killeth. My! What we could say to that. It would take hours just to go into that. But, anyway, here we are. We have__ We don't have life. As I said in a sermon the other night, we have the breath of life. God made man out of the dust and breathed into his nostrils and man became a living soul. He was already a soul. God had already made him a soul. Like the little filament in the bulb, like I said the other night. It's already there, but see? it doesn't light up until the fire comes. Until the electrical force comes in. And so then I explained it the other night to you. Explained about the soul, and I wanted to explain how it was that Rachel's soul departed from her when Benoni was born, as Benjamin. So then, we see that the life, not the life, but the breath of life came into Adam. He was already a soul. But it was when the breath of life came in that he became a living soul. The breath made him live. So when the Bible speaks of man, It says man whose breath. Man whose life is in his nostrils. And I've said this to you a lot of times. If you don't believe it just close your mouth and hold your nostrils and that will give you the proof. So your life is the breath that goes in and out. You can knock the breath out of you and, if your not careful, that's the end of the trail right there if you can't get the breath back in you. That's why a lot of times if a person dies somebody will go over and start massaging the heart. They catch them while the blood is still warm and the flows is still warm and get that pump going like that again, and it'll start going chu, chu, chu, like that in the blood and it's going again and the friction, the life is right there cause it starts saying chu, chu, bringing in the oxygen. Or, as it was with the prophet when he put his mouth over the baby and blew into the babies mouth, forced the air in there so the little pump would be like that, see? And that's all you are. That's all you are. Though it's a delicate little pump, and it's the most outstanding little pump that has ever been made, cause any kind of pump you made will wear out. But that little ole pump has been known to go for nine hundred years. So it isn't the inferiority of the act of creation of God that causes the complication, or death. Death didn't come by God. How many of you know death didn't come by God? Now, if the body is weak__ I wish we had time to go into this. Maybe one day we'll preach on it. Having the keys to death and to hell. Maybe we'll preach on having the keys to death, or the key to death. Maybe we'll go in to it. We preached on time in Utica Pike on the keys. But as we started to say, Life by breath . See? Life coming in by breath. It's just a breath. Let's stay with the thought here, lest I stray off. I started to stray off on something a little deeper as to life and death. But let's stay with this. Here man has these things I made mention of. If he can bring air into these bodies then it can go through the transitional stride of the hypothalamus and the thalamus. One being the bumper. Like one being something to correlate like. Like a transformer. The other being a bumper to break it down to where we're not burned to death by the cosmic energy from the cosmo, or the cosmic light that's coming in, as to the electrical forces. Man is nothing but an electrical force. He's a frictional operation, and that's why you can rub over the arm like that, or pull off a garment and see sparks fly in the night. So then, it is an atomic thing. He is a constitution of atomic particles. And with this oxygen coming in, going through the hypothalamus, and the thalamus and down to the pituitary gland to work. The pituitary gland can control it, as to severally sending it to different places. That is to say so many viberations to the kidneys. So many viberations to the brain. So many viberations to the heart, maybe five billion to the heart, five hundred million to the brain, and it's just unreal as to the quickening. Paul said, there is nothing left but the quickening. We can say what we want to about the body, but the body without the quickening is dead. It is nothing. It profiteth nothing. It takes the quickening. And God knowing this, when man sinned, God just put the breath of life in him. Remember now. When He made him He just put the breath of life in him and man became a living soul. He could breath. He could breath. I won't get to say much tonight, but maybe I can enough to where you can understand some of the things I'm trying to get over to you. See? So what He did, He made man both a spiritual being and a natural being. Not that He made man a spiritual being, as to his human form, but He made him a spiritual being by exposing him to that world of the overshadowing of the light of the Shekinah, which made him relative to God and he could see. His understanding was opened and he could see that tree. That tree was a tree of knowledge. Like I said, where do you grow knowledge on trees? See? It was a tree of knowledge. What was the tree of life? It was Christ Jesus. Sure it was. And what was the tree of good and evil? The tree of life was Jesus. The tree of knowledge of good and evil was Lucifer. See? That's why the law came. The law came to reveal to us good and evil. And Paul said, I was alive without the law, but when the law came sin came in. Sin revived and I died, and that which was ordained unto life I found to be unto death. All right. So I could say a lot about that, but I'm saying this, that in that God made man out of the dust, made him a living soul, then he overshadowed him with the Shekinah light. The light bearer Lucifer. So over this the light came. The beautiful light of the glory of God. So then, Adam was then relative to heaven and to the spirit world, and relative to the natural world. And this is how that the beast was able to deceive, or beguile Eve. It's because her natural part, being made out of the dust here Satan was in that world. He was in that world, as to being exiled. And he could look upon the nudeness of the body, and here he was in that world. How many of you know that people that are not born again, that are not the predestinated, are beast? And there is a reproduction of beast all the time as beast reproduce in the world. Some even brute beast made to be taken and burned. So then, here when you see it you see that her natural part was here, and her spiritual part was the God illumination. And the only way she could be beguiled, or defiled in any way, as to Adam's companion, she had to be enticed out from under the Shekinah glory. See? There had to be something that could get to her mind and Satan couldn't do that. Being evil he could not do that, because light and darkness has no fellowship, and her overshadowing of the light__ We use the terms overshadowing which really isn't the right word but we don't have any spiritual words, or vocabulary express so we have to use natural terminology. As in heaven so in earth. He gives us that so we can understand it. So rather than overshadowed she was illuminated. She was illuminated with this light, with this glory, and as long as she was within the radius of the illumination she was eternal. She could not die; neither could Adam. They had to leave this illumination. See? there was no way that they could die. Like Jesus on the mountain with Moses and Elijah. So then, here was illumination and all Satan could do was stand off and look at it, because he couldn't get close to that, because that would eradicate shadows. That would eradicate any kind of darkness. Which means human reasoning, or human understanding. Like God said, Paul, turn my people from darkness unto light. That is, you are illuminated with the light on the inside, or give you the revelation so you eradicate from their minds from glory to glory, from word to word, from teaching to teaching. You eradicate the darkness of any intellectual reasoning that they have until you bring them into the great wisdom and understanding of God. So when he enticed Eve he had to go around through the beast because the beast had a right in the garden. The beast had a right to approach the illumination, because the beast had no sin. There was nothing wrong with the beast and the beast could approach unto Eve's natural form and still not disturb the illumination. So then, Satan had to get into the beast, approach her through the beast, and through the beast entice her. He enticed her so he could get her attention. And the evil was the thing that he planted in her mind. It was a mind. His spirit projected itself through the beast into her understanding. And as it went in, the beast having a right to make the conversation, Eve allowing him to commune with her. Now is she had not wanted him to communicate Satan could not have got to her at all. But in that she listened, and she wanted to hear, and she was enticed and then drawn away from her own steadfastness she looked in that direction of Lucifer, which was the evil thought. Immediately she was in violation and he had penetrated the illumination. In that the illumination withdraws; it will not fellowship evil. If Eve had wanted to she could have kept him from even getting near her. He could not have penetrated the illumination. But by her yielding to the natural side of it then God had to back away according to her desire. My! I wish we had time to get into it. But, anyway, here Satan projected himself into her mind and her mind began to be filled with evil, because the thoughts that were coming were of debauchery of a depraved nature of that which was contrary to all that was good and holy. And her body was exposed to him, and all of these things that were there, as to passions, as to human senses, or whatever, that she was relative to on that side Satan began to think thoughts and began to speak to her and take her in to the adulterous side of life. The fallen side of life. The side of life that is death. The Bible said, And the body was not made for fornication. It was made for the Lord. Your body is the Lord's. You should glorify God with your body. So then, she fell in to the web. She fell into these things, and then this is the way that Adam got caught in it, that was already bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. He was already in trouble. In that she was in it, it was no problem for her to approach unto Adam because she was already part of him. And coming to him then Adam was also enticed because she said, Look. Look, Adam. I've eaten of the forbidden fruit. You see? I'm not dead. See? God said we would die. See? He didn't tell us the truth, Adam. Said, And I talked to the beast over yonder, which was the serpent. I talked to him and he explained the whole thing to me, and he told me, said, You're not going to die. Said, God just__ You know, we say it like this, just lording over you, and as long as He can keep you blind He can make you do what He wants you to do. You know, but if you'll listen to me you'll become as gods and you'll know all about this. So it was she listened. Said, See? I didn't die. So that proves that He didn't tell her the truth. But Adam, you know, he looked at it. She said, you know, You eat, too, and he partook also. Then their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked. See? They knew that they were naked. Eve didn't understand. Before Adam got a hold of it she was all right. See? He could make a thing void because he was her head, but when he partook of it their eyes came open and then they were dead. But when their eyes came open to the natural side of life, as to which God had made them out of the dust. From the dust thou art; to the dust thou hast returned. Then they lost the illumination of heaven. Like a man having a vision and he's in a vision over here, see, and he's illuminated, like John caught up into heaven. But when the illumination is gone the garden is gone, and all of a sudden here's John on the Isle of Patmos. See? Or that is, here is Adam and Eve standing here; they're not in the spirit world at all. They don't know the spirit world. But God let them look, let them see so that they would be in the spirit world and they would have this, as bringing it on down to the children down through the years. And then, as I said, Satan being a reflector having been illuminated, all of a sudden the light went out and then it showed up, as to that light which is within you then it's darkness, even as Adam who had sinned against God, and now he was in the world with an understanding, but not the illuminated light so extra strong in his perception that he could see in that world. Wasn't in him anymore, see? Now he had come down to man's stride of life. Satan was within him as an understanding. For the Bible said if that light within you be darkness. That is, Satan retained as a memory bank from the reflection and man is led by that, because this world does not belong to God. This world is Satan's world. And he is the prince of the world, and he is the god of this world. And he has blinded the eyes of all, even the eyes of understanding, that you cannot see when good comes unless you belong to God. So Paul said, having your eyes enlightened that you might comprehend again as Adam did, as to that height, to that depth, to the width, as to that length. So then when we look at it we see that they came to the natural depraved side of life. Nothing but the breath of life. The eternal preservation was now gone. They wasn't to experience it anymore until Adam came the second time. Not with fallen Adam, as to Lucifer the son of the morning, the light bearer, or the one that had had light and lost it. But as to the second man Adam, as to the Shekinah image in which Adam was made, that when he came back at Calvary, us being born of it. You and I being born of it, it having gone on the inside as it was when I saw the vision down at the marina where it went on the inside of me. Being born of the spirit and the Kingdom of God being placed within us. See? We cannot be enticed out of that place. This beastly part cannot entice us away, as the beastly part of Eve enticed Adam from his steadfastness in God. So, it is shown again, as I say, by the man. So there is no good thing within the flesh. Paul said, Who shall believer me from this beast, or the body of this death. And it would take a lot to go into those things. See? So__ The beast can't do it, cause Satan can't touch you. Though there is no good thing within the body, in that Satan is in the world and the body is still subject to Satan in that he has not been changed into the Thessalonian change. Yet he cannot penetrate the seal. I brought it out to you the other night, that if Christ comes within my heart, as to the new birth, it is life, the safe-guard, as to going into the fabric of your sofa, or into a garment to where the stain will not penetrate. So my spirit is interwoven; it is sealed. Lucifer can never stain it. He can (begin tape two, side one.) never get in. He can never defile it. He can never touch it. Though I'm outside in the rain, as we say, or the rain is beating down on my house, I'm outside in the rain as to my outer man. And yet my outer man is but a house, is but a tabernacle, and it is going to be dissolved and I'm going to have another one eternal in the heavens, even the Lord Jesus' body, which is my house, which is the mansion He promised to prepare, even His own body. So, as to be a membership of that, baptized into that body by the Spirit, so in the Father's house, in that the Father in His fullness dwells within the body of Jesus, it is the Father's house, and much, much we could say about that and New Jerusalem. But, anyway, speaking of this we find that we, the inner man, we're on the inside of the house while the storm and the rain is coming down. And the little ark is well fortified, and we're just passing right on over through all of this going to the other side. Now, some of you I've talked to in detail about a number of things that this ought to fall in place just like that to you. I've enlarged upon some of these things to you, whereas I'm just having to condense a few little things here trying to keep a sequence of thoughts. So life. Do we have life? We only have the breath of life so Adam and Eve they lost the Shekinah illumination. And the Shekinah illumination did not return until Calvary. And this, of course, goes back to the covering cherubs. Paul said, which we can't speak particularly of, in his day. And we have spoken of quiet a number of things concerning the covering cherubs, as to some of them, or some on tape. So then here, as to the illumination, away went the illumination. Away went the life. There was nothing but the breath of life left. So, you that have never been born again, all people that have never been born again, all you are is a breath of life. And you're like a babe on milk if you don't switch over to the meat during your lifetime then you're gone. There is no such thing as redemption after death. There is no such thing unless you make the crossing before death. And the crossing is, as of to the Jordan, which is your intellectual mind of death. For to be carnal minded is death. That is not to have the illumination of God, as to your interwoven, as with Christ. It means that you think of eating and drinking and pride and gossip and backbiting, and the frivolous things, the trifling things of the flesh. You're just in the flesh. Your life, your breath of life is in the confines of the flesh, and all you do is walk and talk within the body. But we're not in the flesh, for our spirit has withdraw from the body. And Paul said, I keep under the body, cause my angelic being is now in heaven. Because it's hid with Christ in the Holy Spirit, which is God, until the time of the redemption of my body. And my body is dead by baptism. It's out there buried in a watery grave and all of my stumblings and errors will never be charged against me again. Never. Never. Because sin has to be of my spirit, and when I'm born again there can't be any sin in my spirit. Where these things are, as to the atonement, where these things are, as to the illumination of the inner man, where these things are as to the body of Christ in the sacrifice for sin, where these things are as to faith and conviction of heart there is no conscience of sin. See? On the inside of my spirit I don't even have a conscience of sin. That is, I'm not conscious of sin anymore. I'm conscious with my human admiration, as to human senses, as to this I see and feel as to light, as to air, as to whatever, cold or hot. See, I'm conscious. That is a conscious mind. I'm conscious of these things. But being hid in Christ my spirit is never conscious anymore to sin. My body is dead by the body of the Lord Jesus and Satan, which is the prince of the world can't work through my body to get to my spirit so I am dead to the world and dead to sin. I have no conscience of sin. I'm not aware of anything that is sinful. I have no conscience of sin. Therefore, if I stumble and stagger it is an error of the body. It has nothing to do with me on the inside because I have no conscience of sin in here. This is what Paul kept speaking of within the body. Who shall deliver me from the body. We're not in the flesh. All these kind of things. If you are in the flesh you cannot please God. All right. We break down some of these things in the tutoring on other tapes. But let me take just a little longer. I'm having to bring so many things in that I'm condensing it in such a way that it's about fifteen, or twenty-five sermons just in a few words that we're bringing out. I can't take time to detail it. So then, life. I would love to get in to that more, as to what life is and what death is. But life. Life then is a beautiful thing. But do you have life? No. If you're not born again you don't have any life. You only have the breath of life and Lucifer, which is confined to the darkness, wandering through the dry places, as to having no heavenly water, he, by the blood of Jesus and the grace of God, through the blood atonement that's on the mercy seat Satan comes into your being, and he comes into your body because your body is unredeemed, so far as the change. Though the price of redemption has been paid God says to you, as to the inner man, redeem your body. That is, He said, save yourself from this untoward generation. I've given you the power. I've given you the life. I give you the protection to where Satan can't touch you, now you move forward and bring this body into holiness and into perfectness. And perfect holiness and bring forth perfect fruits in this body, and make this body do right because there is nothing that you can do. Paul said, the will on the inside is present but how to perform that which is good in the outer man I can't find, so God said you are very sinful. You are very ugly. All have sinned. All have come short of the glory of God, so I'm going to seal you on the inside to where Satan can never touch you. Give you eternal life, and then I'm going to leave you down there and I'm going to let you redeem that body. I'm going to let you transformate your mind from the seed that I've injected within you from this to perfect the mind of Christ by transformation, glory to glory, understanding to understanding to the fullness of the mind that you might bring this body to that that through this mind the light of God, the Eternal Spirit, the Light might change your blood genetics, from glory to glory, or bring it to the instantaneous change of Thessalonians. In the moment in the twinkling of an eye. And, of course, there's a lot we've said to the Brethren about this, and we'd like to say about life. Why the Thessalonians change will be like it is. I know that many of you are not understanding what I'm saying tonight though you are trying real hard, but I know you're not because it's so compact. Bringing something that is compact and comprehensive. But it would have to be broken down in detail before you would ever understand what I'm saying. But if I bring it in a compact manner later maybe I can take a little bit at a time and break it down and then you'll understand it just like that. So then, Adam and Eve, you've become as gods. Now you've become as gods. You know good and evil, from now on it's up to you. It's up to you. I've kept you as a little child but now you are on your own. Daughter, you've gone out, you're going to experience some things you never have before; the bitter side of life. Daddy's has cuddled you. Same way with son. You're going out, you'll be a man of your own now. Now you'll have to make it on your own. You'll have to be among the thorns, and the briars, and the sorrows and the heartaches and woes and the problems and the travail. The pain and the misery. You've got to make it on your own. So he said, Now you have become as one of us. You've become as a god to know good and evil. It's up to you now to put forth your hand and partake of the tree of life. You've got to search the tree of life out and you've got to find it, see? And, of course, it would take a lot of explaining again to get to that. So we find that we are as gods, knowing good and evil. Therefore we must make the choice. I set before you this day good and evil, a blessing and a curse. You must choose. You are a sovereignty now. You must choose. You have to ask God. You have to follow God. I'm just kind of pushing on to say these things because your spirits are not drawing. Not because you don't want it. You do. Not because you're not hungry. You are. But because the way I'm presenting it to you there is a block to the extent that you can't receive it. You can't get a hold of it. You can't follow it. You can't light up. You can't become illuminated and that makes a resistance back as the Spirit tries to speak it to you. But, anyway, I've got to go on. We're trying to clarify a few thoughts here. Now, the other night in the other message it wasn't like that. You latched onto it and just right through it, just like that. But the reason for that is I took the Scripture and I went one step at a time with a chapter, a chapter, a chapter and explain it, and just like that. All right. So then, you have become as gods. Now you know good and evil. You've got to make your choice. See? What has happened? Their eyes have come open. They're dead. They're now dead to God. They are alive, as to the dust part. They are dead to God. God. There is no life without the spirit. The body without the spirit is dead. So the Spirit went away. The illumination went away. Now the body is dead and God is looking at a dead body. From the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. So now they're dead. Adam and Eve they're standing there but they're dead, because the spirit has left them. And we could say a lot about Cain and Abel concerning this. But, anyway, they're dead. So in Adam all die. Everything is dead from then on. All people are dead. When you were born you were born in to death. All are dead. You had a still birth. As to your natural you had a still birth. There was no life. Only the breath of life remains. And I say this again. That breath of life, God switching man over from the spirit, as to the illumination, as to life, until the time that He could bring that life to him at Calvary, God switching him over from that put him on cosmic energy. Switched him over to the daystar, or the sun, which is a type of God, that he might live by the cosmo, or the cosmic energy, by vibrations. That's why devils and demons, that's why witches work by vibrations, see? And they were switched over to the vibrations, which comes through the breath of life, as to the quickening of the vibrations and that is all you are. That is all you are. You say, Well, I don't believe that. All right, I'll tell you what. Just sever the spinal cord and then you don't get any vibrations through the nerves from there down to your feet and your legs and see if they are still living. They are dead. You're dead. When you cut that main trunk the nerves are dead. There is no quickening because the cosmic energy has to run the trail of the nerves. It has to work through the nerve system and there is no vibration so you don't have any. Somebody would say, But, Brother Pike, the life is in the blood. I know that. The blood will still be running. It'll still be running through you legs. You'll have plenty of life down there so far as the life being in the blood, so far as the oxygen coming in, but you won't have thing to record life. You cut, you severed the power that records life. You know, you've got a radio, you've got a television, you've got all the mechanisms, you've got the tube that can pick up the picture but when you unplug it there is no vibrations. There is no quickening, so there is no picture. There is no sound. So then, that means that you are nothing more than a bundle of nerves, as to vibrations, and this is why you have so much problems. The nerves are set at a certain place with God to record life, in the sense of vibrations, and when it goes beyond that it is a pain. It is a misery. Did you know the same life that you have right now, as to your human senses, as to these five senses that's so rich to you that are young, when you get to a certain place, as to the suffering, whereas an injury, or a problem, or even an aging, when you get to a certain place those same things will become a prison, and you'll loath what you one time loved because the vibrations won't come in the same. And it won't come in, as to a sweet, melodious thing of appetite, and your relations of the human body, and all these things. You will loath it. See? That is to say it is like a record all scratched up. Or it's like somebody that is trying to play an instrument that is out of tune. It's just a conglomeration of a mess. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because the vibrations are not according to the tuning. We have a tape here somewhere where we ministered concerning vibrations as to music and the way that it's made, and how that this relates to the things of God. So then in saying this, I want to just make a point here, and that is, the difference between life and the breath of life. The day that they eat they die, but they did become as gods. Their eyes were opened. They died from God's world. They were cut off. The body without the spirit. The spirit was taken away from them and then they were dead. The Bible said, they that live in trespasses and sin are dead while they live. They had sinned. Lust of the eyes had brought sin. Enticed. Drawn away from the steadfastness, then desire, which is lust, conceived and through the conception had brought forth sin, which was unbelief in God's Word and command. And from sin there came death. So then, God did not bring death. Think on that for just a minute, now. Death is not a friend of God. It is an enemy of God. God hath no pleasure in death. So then, God didn't bring death. The day that thou eatest thereof, Adam, you'll bring death. Death came by man. Adam brought death. See? God warned him against death. So then, God did not bring death. That is a positive proof that when man dies, or man ages, or man gets to where he's helpless, or whatever, that it has nothing to do with his physical being. Not anything. When man dies it has nothing to do with his bodily parts wearing out, or anything else, as to what God made, because when God made it God made it to last from now on. He did not make anything to die. If God has nothing to do with death He could, there could be no inferiority about any of the acts of God. He made all things beautiful in His time. Your body is made to last eternally. If it is not made to last eternally, and if there is a deficiency as to the chemistry of the body, then that means that death came by God. But in that God proved that that wasn't right in that Enoch lived three hundred years, or more, and Methuselah nine hundred years, and in that God is going to give a restoration to cause a man to live the entirety of one God day, a thousand years, before he changes things as a proof that there is nothing inferior about the body. See? as a proof that God did not have anything to do with death He let these things happen. So nine hundred years, but in the day thereof thou shalt die. So he didn't live a thousand, but with the millennium the full day and then God will change everything a preserve it, as to the illumination once again. So I said all of that to say this. Man don't have to die. When you get to be thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety-five, as it was when Armstrong went off of the scene, you're just getting started. Moses a hundred and twenty. The Bible said the natural sources of his body wasn't abated. His eyes had not even waxed dim. Caleb crossed the Jordan. When he got ready to fight he said, I'm just like I was with Joshua when I came over the Jordan. Ain't do difference. Said, I'll fight my own battles. Abraham up in age, the little child came, so as it was with Sarah, Abraham got on a camel, went out and fought a war. See? So we say what is it then, Brother Pike? Death came by man. How did death come? By unbelief. For the Bible said the just shall live by faith. If they had kept believing in God's Word they would have continued to be illuminated. But through the unbelief, see, Adam? It didn't kill us. See? Through the unbelief, as to listen to the serpent, then the illumination of life was lifted. So then, man dies today because of unbelief. And his lifeline is shorter and shorter and shorter. And because of iniquity abounds, see? man gets farther from life, farther from life, farther from life. So then, that means that we've got to reverse it. How can I reverse it if He says, thou shall surely die? I've got to get out of the generation of the first man Adam. I've got to get to the generation of the second man Adam by the washing of the water of the Word. That is the Spirit. I've got to get into a new generation. I've got to be born again. I'm dying to that world, and I'm dead to that world because of sin, for in Adam all die. That's my first birth. But now in Christ all are made alive. So Him being delivered for my offenses, now this other has been raised as a new body and a new form for my justification. So I've passed from death unto life. See? And on this side I am believing. I am believing. Enoch believed his way into life and the Bible said he was not for God took him, for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. Without faith it's impossible to please God. Paul said therefore, he was translated by faith that he should not see death. So, where is the answer? We overcome as if by faith. Faith in that wonderful atonement of the Son of God. So we just have to go on and go on to the new birth, and many other things to bring that out. But we are bringing you to a new horizon, to a new doorway if you can just get your balance and see what Jesus did for you. I want you to stand with me. Lot we'd like to say concerning life. (Somebody asks a question) He was not in the transgression. The Bible said, And Adam was not in the transgression. One thing is because Eve was that part of Adam that had already done the wrong. Now, it would take a little time to explain what I'm saying. But she had already done the wrong, and the wrong was partaking of the tree. Adam didn't partake of the tree. He only ate what Eve brought him. He never bothered with the tree. That was Lucifer. He didn't go around where Lucifer was. To do what Eve did was the transgression. To have the fellowship with the unclean spirit. He didn't do that. He only fellowshipped his wife, shared what she offered him. Someone would say, Well, what? What kind of fruit was it? The Bible makes it real clear. Said it was the knowledge of evil. The knowledge of evil. It was the fruit tree of the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil. She couldn't share no good with him cause he already had it. So she shared the knowledge of evil. That was the transgression. See? when she received that. So, communicating with his wife, you know, all he could do was listen and she would have told him before he would have known what was happening. See? He was not a willing thing with Adam. Nor a desiring thing. But it was something that through a compulsory act it was just the interwoven cause she was Adam when she partook of it. So that is to say it was not the controlling factor, as to the head, but it was as to the membership. He had already been subjected to that. God allowed Adam to go out into the thorns and the briars, not because of the transgression, but to protect and to keep Eve secure so that she would have somebody to watch after her. And besides he would never have been happy without her, that is to his desire. And another thing going out here after her, how could he do anything else. That was his own body. Whatever happened to her happened to him. They were one. Lot could be said about that. But, anyway, he was not in the transgression. The man was not in the transgression because the transgression was, you are not to partake of that tree. To partake of that tree is a transgression, that is. And he did not partake of the tree. He only took what she shared with him. Now, another thing is what was the act of debauchery, as to that which was shared? Whatever was the act, the depraved act of the beguiling, or the molesting of her body, or whatever happened, had she shared even her body with her husband she would not have been in the transgression because God had already told them to multiply and replenish the earth and he had right to her because that was his own body. That was his own body. The Bible teaches that if a man commit fornication he sins against his own body. Every sin is without the body. Every sin. Always remember that. There is no such thing as the body sinning. Every sin is without the body. So Eve could not have done anything with her body to sin. The results of the knowledge of evil causes the body to be dishonored. The Bible said, because they did not like to retain Him in their knowledge. That is godliness, pureness, virtue. Having the mind of Christ He turned them over to a reprobate mind to dishonor their bodies between themselves. So then, there was the dishonoring of the body because of the wretched mind. So then, as to man and wife there would have been no transgression. Even if it had been anything, as to the human relation; there would not have been anything wrong. He could not have been in transgression even there. So there are many things we could say about it, and many things I would like to say about it, but we're going to stop right here because I don't have the time to get into it. It would take a lot of time because it takes in a lot more things. Maybe from time to time we can pick up a few things here and there and clarify in your mind a little more, as to what we're saying. I want to take a little more time in another message with it to clarify something and make it real clear. Let's sing a song together, can we? Any way that you look at it, it all comes out the same way. I can prove that, maybe in the next sermon. Somebody would say, But what about this? and what about that? Well, the Bible says those things that are done in evil, we're not to make mention of them; not one time. They're not to be on our mind. What is your mind doing running off in the wrong direction? Said, If anything be virtuous, if anything be godly, anything be holy, anything be pure think on these. Somebody said, Oh, but I know__ I know, you have become as a god. You're eyes have become open. See? But in the wrong way. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing) We're trying to bring you the things of understanding, the things that you can know about. I know you women are always talking about things you ought not to talk about. I know that. You know. Everyone of you women, and everyone of you men. I know that. You talk about things, think about things that you ought not to talk about. I talk about holy, godly, pure things here and you get all frustrated and strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. But as I said the other night, to the pure all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving is there nothing pure. Before Adam and Eve became defiled all things were pure to them. Their thoughts were pure, but when they became defiled and unbelieving was there nothing pure to them. Even their conscience was defiled and there had to be an atonement. (Begin tape two, side two.) If you're born again, if you are a child of God, then you've got a holy, clean, pure, loving mind, as to the multitude of His thoughts. And if you're the other way, what can we do anyway? You know, the beast is dirty. They're going to wallow in the mire and they're going to return to their vomit. There is nothing we can do anyway. Do you love the Lord? Let's sing a little chorus, can we? (blank place on tape) I don't believe in them. I believe in being holy and godly and pure in my mind. But I hate to see people who have been defiled, as to exposure to doctors, men and women together, dentists and everything else, as a filthy lot of garbage. I hate to see them with their old dirty, filthy mind find fault with something that is holy and sacred in what God is trying to do. I hate to see that. You know, wouldn't you hate to have the garbage man come by and him stinking, messing with all the garbage and you got a good clean piece of bread and he has to come by and tell you how dirty it is? So people, don't be foolish. Don't be foolish. Even in the schools today, as to the exposure of the minds of the children, dirty, filthy. Your precious little child that is so clean and holy, you don't know what a garbage can her mind is, and his mind is. You just don't know. You just never took the top off and smelled the stink. Oh, somebody said, Not Bethlehem! Oh, yes! Baptist and Methodist and Presbyterian and Pentecostals, and Catholics and all the rest. And the Bible said God looked down from heaven and their thoughts were continually evil. Said none of them was good. No, not one. So you that are looking through dirty windows to find fault with something holy that that a clean wonderful Spirit has spoken, as to godliness. You need to be careful. You need to be careful. Don't never call unclean what God has made clean. If you are born again and God has washed your soul and heart, and you have given yourself to Christ, even though you haven't escaped the evil thoughts just like Eve didn't. She's the mother of all living. She gave it to you. It's inbred within you and the thoughts are continually evil; yet they're not charged against you if you are holy and godly in your spirit and sealed with the Holy Spirit in that you don't listen to those things and you don't pay any attention to those things. Like the water on the ducks back, we cannot penetrate the feathers. Or, that is, if you don't give yourself to t.v. and books, and magazines and jokes, all this other filthy conversation, as to lewdness, that if you don't go to those things and allow for those things, then are ye holy for God has made you holy. For he that is righteous is righteous even as He is righteous. But there is no righteousness in the sight of God except His own righteousness, as to that as to the atonement of Jesus, purifying your heart by believing in His righteousness by His righteous Spirit which comes to purify your spirit, which is within your heart. Can we sing this chorus again. Let's sing this chorus. (Singing) Will you follow Him? (Singing) Let's lift our hands up and close our eyes and let's pray together. There's many wonderful mysteries. Many wonderful mysteries of God that are so wonderful. Great is the mystery but it all is not without understanding. All of it can be explained only by the revelation of the son of God for that that is a mystery means something that is veiled, hid, but that which is reveal means to be unveiled, or revealed as the revelation of the mind of Christ, the expose of the great mind that knows all things. So then, there is much to be said in the next little talk, as long as you allow me to have these little talks with you, as Jesus when He just sat down and talked with them, or sit down in a boat pushed out from the shore. In the next little talk, if I'm allowed to pick this up we'll explain something that may be really beneficial to you. I trust that it will. It might really clear up something in your mind. We might have time to detail it, time to run back over a few things that we said, as to a greater enlightenment. And you may really understand the way that you would like to understand. Whereas, it for sure that God wants you to. Father, God of Heaven, we're grateful tonight for Your wonderful blessings and for the wonderful words of light. We ask You to be with us. Help us and deliver us. Lead us. Keep us from all sin, from all malice, and all wrong. We ask you to do this in Jesus name. Let's sing another chorus, or two, together. (Singing) I want you to bow your heads with me again and I won't ask you to come to the altar. I'm glad that you listened and paid attention tonight. I'm sorry we had to compact things in such a way that it made it very difficult for you to understand, but these things you will retain in your mind and later on, as things are said these different things will fall into place. Just remember one thing, and that is, all that you have, as a human being, is the breath of life and the illumination of life has been taken away from humanity. And only through the blood atonement, as that that is on the seat of mercy, can you feel secure. As to the world out there, they have nothing. You've been born again. You have life, not a breath of life. Jesus breathed on them when He resurrected from the dead and said, Receive ye life, the Holy Ghost. Receive ye my Spirit, Life. You're eternally alive. Sealed with the safe-guard of the inner man and Lucifer can never touch you. You cannot sin because you are born of God. The seed, or the safe-guard, remaineth within you and the stains cannot penetrate. So it's a beautiful thing if we had time to explain it. But just remember, you are safe. More safe than the little babe that's in the mother's arm. Satan cannot ever touch you. Satan can never touch you. The evil one toucheth you not. These things will fall all around you but they cannot come nigh your dwelling because your dwelling is in heaven. Which means in the spirit of life. Ye that dwell in heaven. And darkness cannot get close to life because it is eradicated when it gets close to light. So you don't have to worry. It might be that the storm may beat on your little house, it might break the window panes some times. You might have to fix a leak in the roof, but as to the inner man, as to the Christ, you are hid, as to the spiritual man, within Christ and Satan has to penetrate the strength of Almighty God, as to the strength of Christ, as to the Spirit of Christ into your spirit, and he cannot do that because though Christ be the stronger man to bind the strong man of the house, as to Lucifer and spoil his goods, yet Lucifer cannot spoil the goods of Christ because his strength is not the equality for Jesus defeated him at Calvary. So greater is He that is within you, that is within the Kingdom of God within you, than he Satan, the one that is in the world, that savors the things that be of the world, being the god of the world, and this world belonging to Lucifer. I explained the other night the earth and the fullness thereof belongs to God, but this world is to pass away. Taste not, touch not, handle not that whereby the soul is to perish with the use, as to the commandments and ordinances of mankind. If anybody comes to your place, your home, your abode don't bid them godspeed unless they bring this gospel. Bid them not godspeed. Don't invite them it to give them a place of dwelling lest you be partakers of their evil and you bid it godspeed. Let's bow our heads together, close our eyes. I'm going to ask Brother David Durden to come up, or Burton, to come up and dismiss us. While he's coming let's look to God, can we? Just look to the Lord. Remember Jesus loves you. He's loved you with an everlasting love. That is to say, the kind of love He gave you. Paul said, nothing can separate you from the love of God. It is an eternal love that has secured you as an eternal security so nothing can cause Him to forsake you. Said, I'll never leave you, nor forsake you. Nothing can cause Him to forsake you. And nothing can take you from that love. That love was so great that He loved you while you were yet in your sins that He died for you as a human being. And now that you're trying to serve Him it is so much more great, as to your security. But even so there is nothing, not even the powers of Lucifer, death, sorrow, problems, whatever, can't separate you from the love of God. He loves you with an eternal love, the one that saves from now on. David.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord