The Removing Of The Veil (1)

I clarified quite a number of things today. There were some things I didn't get to clarify that I would have like to. Maybe in what we talk about to night maybe we can bring some of those things in. Great is the mystery of godliness. I appreciate being here tonight and we appreciate you being here tonight. I thought I saw David Jameson sitting back there. I believe that's David, isn't it? David's been away a good while and I have to take a second look. We're certainly glad to have David here tonight. I pray a lot for David, and for the boys. Always praying for them and I'm sure you do to. Now. It was said, I repeat this again to you, it was said, In the day thou eatest thereof thine eyes shall be opened. And sure enough the eyes of their understanding came open to sin and to evil and it brought death, for to be carnal minded is death. Following this experience came Cain and Abel, and we spoke some on it this morning. Remember, in the beginning the Lord caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam, and out of Adam came his wife Eve. Having taken a rib from his body he said this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. That is why today we are now bone of the bone of the Lord Jesus and flesh of the flesh. I brought out a little something concerning the rib that was taken out a long time back. Why it was the rib that it was that was removed and what it had to do with as to the woman. So it all pointed to Calvary. They were not ashamed until their eyes came open to evil and then they were ashamed. Today we are still ashamed. This is why that the woman wore the veil; shamefacedness. We are, as the body, ashamed in the sight of God, and we wear this veil. As we approach Him, seeing through a glass darkly, we wear the veil of the intellectual reasoning as that that has come upon us from the shame of the experience of the garden. We who have been born again, we that love the Lord, we are shedding this veil because He has taken us, He has taken us into the secret chambers of the mother. That is of the church. And we are going into the deep mysteries, and as we do the intellectual veil is being taken away; the veil of death. The words of sorrow. The words of heartache. The thoughts. Those thoughts of evil that has become like a stigma. Those things that are evil, the thoughts of evil, which is a life, a mind, a spirit of evil. Those thoughts. We're shedding those thoughts and we're being transformated in out minds and our thoughts are changing. As to the life within the blood, that is to say the spirit of life within the blood, the mind of Christ, or the thoughts of Christ within the blood, our blood thus has become royal blood and God is creating royal blood that makes royal cells for a royal body. And He is eliminating and eradicating death. He is doing away with it. And this body, that is to say, God having breathed the breath of life into the body of Adam he became a living soul. God only made him a body with a breath of life because God knew that he was going to fall by the foreknowledge. And God knew that Satan was going to live in that blood stream and that that blood was going to produce thoughts that would constitute a body of corruption, as to the blood, as to the cells. That is, as to the life on the inside and the cells of the body. And the body would be a body of sin, a body of corruption. Paul said, within my body, that is to the first birth, there dwelleth no good thing, for to will is present but how to perform that which is good I find not. So then, a body was to come forth. That body came forth through Adam, and in Adam all die, for the carnal mind of evil thoughts has created and produced a blood life that is referred to as the red dragon and the body is a constitution of corruption and must perish. But this is bone of the bone of the Lord Jesus and flesh of the flesh of the Lord Jesus, which is of the royal blood, as to the mind of Christ. So then, that means that we can live forever. There is a mind that says we are to die. We are under condemnation, God doesn't love us. But Jesus said there is another mind that says, thou art mine. Thou art the apple of my eye. I have given thee all things that pertain unto life. Ye shall live forever. Ye have passed from death unto life. See? He said, believe in these thoughts, not the other thoughts. Don't lean to your own thoughts, because your thoughts are now defiled, as to the interwoven infiltration of death and sorrow and misery, heartaches and fear and anxiety, worldliness and gullibleness and all these things. Corruption. Don't lean to your own thoughts. You are now dead to that body, but now take on the mind of Christ of peace and happiness and faith and confidence, and hope, and eternal security, and on and on we go with the wonderful multitude of the thoughts of our darling Savior Jesus Christ. So then, we see that He hath produced a body. We see Cain and Abel as Cain and Abel are born into the world. Then we see that which shows us the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. Or, that is to say, we find a body, a body that is called Cain, a person that is evil and wretched that has risen up and has slain his brother Abel. And the Bible said, Wherefore slew he his brother? Because his deeds were evil and his brothers were good, and that he was of the wicked one. So then, the fulfillment of what the Lord had spoken came to pass. And I will place enmity between the woman and between the serpent, and I will place enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. So we see the enmity between Cain and Abel and we see murder as the result of that enmity. So then, we see that there is a seed of the serpent. But now this morning I made the statement. I said, in spite of this we've got to understand what he was saying. See? We've got to know what the Lord was trying to tell us. All of the problem of the entire thing concerning the generations has been built around birth. Why is it built around birth? Everything of the Scriptures it goes back to the birth. That is, as to being born again. Why is it? It's because of the act of debauchery in the garden. This is the reason why. I explained a little of that this morning. So then, it's built around that. Then it goes on from that. It doesn't leave the prospective of birth, or that as pertaining to reproduction. The next thing it goes on to is the circumcision, the covenant of circumcision. Why the covenant of circumcision? Because again it relates to the birth. And this, of course, goes on into the deep mysteries of God of why it still centers around this. All right. "And He said, And what hast thou done? The voice of thy brother crieth unto me from the ground." This is the fourth chapter of Genesis and it is the tenth verse. The eleventh verse says, "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; (12) When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. (13) And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (14) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. (14) And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him." Now, I want to drop a thought, or two, in. I didn't get to clarify my thoughts this morning so I want to drop a thought in. If Cain is truthfully, as to the natural side of life, as to a natural father, if he truthfully is, as to the natural semen, the seed of the serpent, if he truthfully is a beast, an animal__ I want us to understand now. If the beast in the garden is the father of Cain, then he is an animal because that was an animal. That was a beast. That was a beast. Now, my thoughts are these. I try to clarify in your mind all that I possible can and put the truth in your mind, because the truth is something that makes you free from frustrations and doubt and when somebody comes with different winds of doctrine and they say things to you, you don't have to ponder, be caught in a snare and just wander to and fro. You can answer very discreetly and just directly, as to what the answer is. Now. There has been a lot of problems concerning this situation. I'm persuaded to believe there has been a lot of misunderstanding. A man had a vision a few days ago, I related it to you. I believe I related it to you, about the rocks, the flesh and whatever, and the rottenness of what was taking place. Now, when you say Cain is the son of a beast, let's consider this. First of all, if he be a beast, and he has a genealogy in that he has children, wives, posterity in the earth, what are we going to say concerning this if we are ask questions? Is he then a beast? Is he then an animal? Does he then have relatives, children, or a generation in the earth, or the world today? Does he? If he does how are we to look at it? Are we then to say that he is a beast and all that is of him are beasts? For could anything come out of a beast but a beast? Is all of his children then beasts? all of his generation then beasts? Does he then have a chance to be saved? Does he then have a chance to be saved? This is what we have to consider. Will God then grant salvation to beasts? They are human beings. Cain was a human being. That is to say, if his lineage was animals then in the world today there is perhaps millions, and perhaps billions of Cains. Then are they beasts? As human beings are they beasts? And if they are beasts hath God then given a blood atonement, as to grant redemption unto salvation to animals, or to beasts? It makes you stop and ponder, doesn't it? A lot of times we say things off of the top of our heads and we say it thus and thus and thus, and we argue about it when we don't even know what we're saying. You say, Well, we don't have to take that outlook. Well, let's look at it the other way. Well, then if he, if he is an animal and all of his generation is animals, then in the world today there are billions of people who do not have a chance to be saved. If he is an animal and if he cannot have salvation, if God will not grant salvation unto Cain because he is an animal, and all of his descendants are animals, then can God grant redemption unto animals? Hath the blood then atoned for animals, as to say that a beast can call on the name of the Lord Jesus and be saved? Does the blood apply to it? I want you to look at it with me now. We've got to take one outlook or another. If he is of the beast, if the beast is his father then that means that God has to grant salvation unto beasts. Come on, folks, stay with me now. I mean, let's look at it like it is. They've got a little saying in the world, tell it like it is. This is the way it is. We've got to look at it one way or another. If that was a beast in the garden, and we know that it was, and if it was the father of Cain, then that means that Cain was a beast and everything that comes from Cain is a beast, and God has either got to grant salvation unto beasts by saying the blood atonement is for let whatsoever will, if it's a human being, or either we've got to take the other outlook that if he is a beast that there is no possible way for him to ever call on the name of the Lord to be saved. Now I know that they that are born as the serpent seed, as to the spiritual prospective of it, I know they are going to be lost as a predestinated thing. But every individual according to the Bible has a chance to be saved, to call on the name of the Lord, and they are sealed out of eternal life and the presence of God because they choose to be. So if you choose to be then you don't have to call on the name of the Lord, but the Bible says that it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Can then Cain call upon the name of the Lord? Or can his descendants, of the millions of people that belong to Cain today, can they call on the name of the Lord? Someone would say, Oh, no. Why not? Because they are the seed of the serpent. That is, they are beast. Then they cannot call upon the name of the Lord, for God doesn't give salvation unto beast. So they cannot call upon the name of the Lord; they are a beast. They are the seed of the serpent. Is that then true? Should I preach that? Would you back that up? Would you say amen to that if I preached that? Come on, now. Stay with me. Would you say amen if I preached that there is a serpent seed in the world today? Cain's seed? Hundreds and millions of people that cannot call on the name of Jesus? Wouldn't do no good to call on the name of Jesus. They don't have any right to call on the name of Jesus. They are beast. He hasn't granted unto them the right to call on the name of Jesus, though they are human beings, and though they don't know their right hand from their left. And you can preach the gospel to them all you want to but it doesn't do any good because God hasn't granted unto them a chance to call on the name Jesus? Should I preach that? Would you say amen to that? That means there are a lot of human beings in the world today that it's not a matter of whether they can call on the name of Jesus and be saved, or not, away with them. That ends it. Now am I to take that outlook, or am I to take that outlook and Cain is a beast. His father is a beast no matter how you look at it, Brother Pike, any trail you want to run. All right, so then, I take that outlook and I preach this. I say, Okay, Cain's seed is a beast. It's a beast. So we say, Cain's seed is a beast. He's a beast. His father was a beast. So then, they are all beast. But God will grant the blood atonement so that Cain's seed can call on the name of the Lord if they want to be saved. Can then the serpent seed call on the name of the Lord and be saved? Or can Cain's seed call on the name of the Lord and be saved? If I preach that, if I preach that they are beast, but that all of those people of his generation can call on the name of the Lord just like anybody else and be saved, the blood is for them, would you say amen to that? Would you say amen to it? How many of you understand what I'm saying? And then the question arises like this. If he is a beast and that God hath not granted salvation unto a beast, why did God look at Cain and say, if thou doest well wouldest thou not be accepted? Would God then accept the serpent seed, or the beast? Would he do that? We first of all would say no, because if he does well then he would not be the serpent seed. Then how is it that God told him, said, thou doesn't evil so then sin lieth at the door. Can a beast then sin? Does a beast know anything about sin? Why did God tell him that if he did well He would accept him? But the reason that he rejected him was on the basis of sin. Not on the basis that he was an animal, or a beast, but that he had sinned. Can a beast then sin? Does a beast have a conscience? I know that a beast has a soul. The Bible said that an animal has a soul, but an animal does not have a conscience. See? We have a conscience. If I mistreat Brother Taylor something is going to cut me across my heart. If Brother Taylor mistreats me something is going to cut him across his heart. But a dog can take another dog's bone and it doesn't make him sad a bit. And as a matter-of-fact, if the other dog finds another bone he'll leave off with the bone he's got and go get that bone and he'll growl at him if he comes near it. He doesn't have any conscience. He doesn't have any feeling about right and wrong. When a lion roars he doesn't have any conscience as to whether it should eat you, or not eat you. Or kill you, or not kill you. If he's hungry, as far as he's concerned, you're to satisfy his appetite. He doesn't think it over at all. So, there is no conscience with an animal. This is why Paul said, I strive always to keep my conscience void of offense toward man and God. And this is why the Bible speaks of certain people that have seared their conscience, as with a hot iron, and they are passed feeling. Now those are beast; brute beast. But the thing is, these people are beast by choice. They had a conscience and they seared it, and now they are passed feeling. So then they are in the realms of the beast. They don't have any feeling for you whatsoever. All right. So here we are. What must I preach? I'm the preacher. You're the laity. You are suppose to say amen to what I preach. What am I going to preach? I must then preach that Cain is a beast. You say, I don't care what, that beast was his father. He is a beast. All right. So I say if that be so Cain is now a beast, which way do I go? I've got to go one way, or another. I've got to preach now that God grants salvation to the beast because He told Cain that if he doeth well He would accept it. And I've got to say that God has granted a right to call on the name of the Lord Jesus to the seed of Cain, which is the serpent seed, to the beast. Somebody would say, Well, God was going to let them call on Him, but He wasn't going to listen to them. I don't see much use it letting them call on Him, you know. So then, there is the beast. The beast. What must I do with it? Well, somebody said, six of one, half a dozen of the other. I don't care myself, you know. Well, I have to care because I have to explain. I have to tell it the way it is. I have to tell the truth about it. It's a matter of telling the Word of God, and preaching the Word of God, and being ready to give every man an answer of the hope that lieth within me. If he approaches me I've got to ask him, What are you going to do? What if he approaches you? What are you going to tell him? Well, they will approach you. What are you going to tell them? So then, there it is. He is a beast someone says, and the beast is his father. So then, that settles it, Brother Pike. Either way you go that's what it is. So, if that settles it and he is the natural father of this natural Cain, and he is a natural beast, a natural animal, then there has to be one of two things that we've got to accept. And that is that the blood of Jesus atones for beast, and that beast have a right to be saved, so far as his generation of animals. Or either we've got to accept the fact that he is the serpent seed and there is no opportunity for him to be saved, and the blood does not apply to people like that, as to his generation, and so then, in the world today there are millions of people that there is no hope for, so far as them calling on the name of the Lord as having opportunity as to whosoever will. All right. So that's where we're standing. Now, just think that over some, will you? What are we going to do? See? We find that the problem is, as I said, it's evil. Did the evil knowledge__ It's a knowledge of evil. Did the knowledge of evil enter into Eve, and not into Adam? Did not Adam take and eat just like Eve did? Didn't the knowledge of evil enter into Adam? Isn't that where the dual thing got started, as to the twins; Jacob have I love and Esau have I hated? Isn't that the way it came about? Isn't that what Paul meant when he said, within my flesh no good thing? Isn't that the thing when he called them a generation of vipers? You know, the Bible said, he shall strike at thy heel and you'll bruise his head. He'll bruise your heel and you'll bruise his head. Why does it say that we will bruise his head? Wasn't Calvary, wasn't that the bruising of the head of the serpent; Jesus being made like unto sin, as to the serpent that Moses lifted up in the wilderness? Wasn't that the bruising of the head of the serpent, the image of the serpent? Jesus being made in the likeness of sin, even the sinful generation? Come on, folks. I said, wasn't he bruised for my sins? Didn't he come down in the image of the fallen one, even the generation of vipers, as it was concerning Adam in that all die? Wasn't it all the way from the garden down to Calvary? Wasn't that the generation of vipers? Those that were not born again? Didn't John say, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath of God to come? Wasn't Jesus bruised for that reason? Wasn't he bruised to take away the image of the serpent? and to divide asunder, as to the rending of the veil that he might put one on that side of Calvary, as to the serpent seed under the law, and of sin and death, and another on this side of Calvary, as to the woman seed of light and life? Isn't the enmity that God placed between them Calvary, as to the battle, as to the war, as to the killing out of one, or another, as to the crossing of the Spirit, and of the flesh? Or isn't it that at Calvary that this thing took place as to the dividing asunder? And to take away the seed of death? That is to say, as to the law? We speak of the law, the knowledge of good and evil, wasn't that what it was for to lay that away, and all that partook of it? Didn't Jesus come against the Jewish people who He used to be a type of of this? Didn't He do that? Wasn't the sign of circumcision given? Wasn't the sign of circumcision given, as to the cutting away of the foreskin at eight days, as to the resurrection, as to the bruising of the head by the sharp stone, as to the bloody thing the Bible speaks of when he called Moses a bloody husband because of the circumcision of the child? When Moses failed to do it, see? wasn't it the wife that stepped in? See? A beautiful thing, if you can understand what I'm saying. Having to do with Calvary. The Inn keeper sought the light. So then, you say, what are you saying, Brother Pike? I'm saying that when you say circumcision isn't that the removing of the veil? Isn't that what it's about? Isn't it the smiting of the head of the serpent, and the removing of the veil, as to the death veil? As to the intellectual? Didn't God put them on skins when the sinned? (Begin tape one, side two.) Didn't Jesus come to Calvary that the veil might be rent, that He might, within his body, bring a better way? opening a way, the Bible says, through His flesh to take away that part? To restore from the skins of that which He had covered them with back to the headship of Adam, in that Eve was one with Adam in the beginning. See? Isn't that the removing of the veil? Why did God give them such a strange covenant? He was simply saying that the death veil of the intellectual reasoning, the darkness, that of Lucifer, the covering of this body. He was simply saying that you are not mine unless you have rent the veil. Not just the outer garment but as that of a type. You must rend the heart, and you must roll away the stone of the heart. Wasn't He saying that has to be moved or you are not in the covenant? that you've got to cross over the intellectual mind of the serpent, the old reasoning of darkness, and be on this side of Calvary in the mind of Christ Jesus or you're not mine, you are not in the covenant? If the veil of death isn't moved then you are not in the covenant? And my! at the things we could say about that. Doesn't the serpent strike at our heel? Why? Because earth is God's footstool, and we are they that dwell in heaven. And as earth is God's footstool and we are part of God so then our feet are in the earth. This bodily part that is not yet changed is our heel. It's on the footstool. It's in the earth so the serpent strikes at it. The old intellectual mind is always trying to put us down, or jump on us, so this bodily part is the heel. But we strike at his head. We are always striking at his head because isn't it the intellectual powers of education and the world's system that oppresses the mind of Christ? science, knowledge falsely co-called? Isn't that the reason that David put a little stone within the sling and struck at the head of the giant of opposition, as we would say? So then, why did God give them the covenant of circumcision? Because that was to say that we are to unveil, unveil the true head that is covered up by the intellectual sources of death. It is to be unveiled by the cutting away of the foreskin of the sharp stone as to the circumcision of the eighth day, as to the resurrection. Isn't that why God is bringing a restoration, so far as the millennium a thousand years reign? And after that God is cutting away the clouds. God is taking away the cloudiness of the intellectual reasoning and bringing the eighth day, as to the circumcision, completely doing away with the world. And the Bible said the heavens passed away, and the earth passed away and all passed away. Didn't God completely circumcise the earth in His foreknowledge, as to the millennium, as to a full restoration to completely do away with everything so there would be nothing but the spiritual expose of that, that as it was with God in the beginning. So then, we can see that God has chosen the sign of circumcision, as to tell us that He is taking away our body, burying this body. By the blood Jesus, the works of Jesus Christ He is circumcising the spiritual man, taking away the flesh and burying it in a watery grave in the name of Jesus so that we come forth as a presentation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the true headship of God, the one and only, for we, in Him, are as one for He said, Father, make them one even as we are one. And it is very obvious that in what He did it means that we are not a by-product. Somebody would say, Well, we are a by-product. Or, they would say, the woman is a byproduct. If the woman is a byproduct that means that we are a byproduct because we are the woman. Then are we a byproduct? Yes, we are, as to those that have fallen from grace, those that are under sin, we are a hypocritical source. We are lying vanities. We are a byproduct. For the woman without the man is a byproduct. But according to the Bible the woman was in the original creation just exactly like the man was, because Adam was man and woman. Didn't the Bible say He made both male and female in His image, in the image of God made He male and female. Is the woman then made in the image of God? Does she look like God? Then does the man look like God? Is there two kinds of looking like God? Are is it that Eve in Adam was made in the image of God, and that she is Mrs. Adam, and her name was called Adam? And that she is just as much the original creation as Adam was? As long as she abides in Adam isn't she the glory of Adam? for the woman was made for the glory of man. And isn't Adam in the glory of God, if he abides in the glory of God, is he then a byproduct? Or we then a byproduct? Only if we abide out of the glory of God. Well, wasn't they illuminated with the glory of God? Isn't man for the glory of God? So then, we being the glory of God are we then a byproduct? Absolutely not. We are in original creation. Jesus said, I came from Heaven. So came I from Heaven. He came from Heaven, He goes back to Heaven so I go back to Heaven. I am in Heaven because I am of Heaven. I am born of the Spirit. I'm not born of the flesh. I'm not of this world. The Bible said, ye are not of this world even as I am not of this world. He turned to those others, He said, you are not of the world. From the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return, but I'm not of the world. And then He said to you and I that have been born again, He said, you are not of the world. Because we are Him; we are the body and bone of Him. Therefore we are not a byproduct. We are the positive, not a negative side of life. So when we think of this we see that the covenant of circumcision had a great meaning. Wasn't Adam the head? Didn't Adam fall into Eve, and wasn't it out of the woman that the new generation came, as to Jesus? because the man had fallen into that? And isn't that the meaning of the spider that is called the black widow? The black, as to intellectual darkness of death. And the little blood spot, as to the covering of the blood, as to the mercy of today. And in that the black widow will kill her own companion and swallow him up, isn't that the way that Eve did when she got the old dark mind? She went right straight to Adam and said, I'll swallow you up; eat as I eat. And so she did. So then, the removing of the veil, isn't that as to the rending of the veil, as to the opening of the matrix? That is to say, the first born, and as of that which comes from the womb of mother earth. Isn't that what the Bible is telling us? Let's look at it for just a minute. As to the gendering unto life, as to the stone that produces life, why is it as it is? When we look at it as to a physical dimension we can see as to what I'm saying. If we look at it as to the mount that burned with fire we see Moses wrestling, Christ wrestling with the devil. Moses eighty days on the mountain wrestling with the flesh. Eighty days of not eating, wrestling. Forty days is usually counted as a covenant. You can tell this by reading the Bible. See? Forty days equal to a covenant, as to finishing the judgment and then bringing deliverance, as to rainbow from end to end. Forty days. And here Moses is forty days up there. He comes down and he goes back forty more days. Why? Because two covenants are involved. Look at Jesus, forty days seen of them at the resurrection. Forty years the children wondered in the wilderness, as a day to a year. Forty days the flood was upon the earth, as to the ark crossing over. See? What was it? There were two stones that were given. These stones were the stones from which life came. They came from these two stones. But notice. One of these stones was broken. The Bible spoke of the broken stone of an individual and it not coming into the covenant of God, not coming into the house of the Lord. Why is that? For the simple reason that one stone was broken. When Moses got the two stones one of the was broken and it indicated the elders that came out of Egypt that turned back into Egypt in their heart, and it indicated the broken stone, or the seed of death and corruption. That is, that which brought the condemnation of death, and it was the seed, or the stone that was broken. And with that those that come, or the first man Adam died. And then what was the second seed? or the second stone? And as unto life that was Joshua, that crossed over the carnal mind, as to the Jordan, and went into Canaan, as unto the second Adam, which lived and the covenant was not broken and brought life. So then, it's obvious that when you say the stones you are saying the seed. Like I would say the stone of a peach, the seed of a peach. The life within the stone. The life within the seed. So then, one seed was as unto corruption. Death. The earth opened up and swallowed it up. And then we see the children going into Canaan, as to the new birth. Representing the new birth of the children. And under the leadership of Joshua the covenant was not broken. The Bible said if the first covenant had been sufficient then there would not have been a place sought for the second covenant, Paul said. But, in as much as the first one was broken it was not sufficient as under the law, a law of lesser light, that this light was so much more glorious, because that was within the veil, and now the circumcision of Calvary has done away with the shadows of night and the Day Star, even the head itself, is here. So then, the true produces of life, as to the removing of the veil, then Christ goes ahead to bring life entering into the sacred place of that of an open door in Heaven to where the child itself is. So then, Paul said, I travailed until Christ be formed within you, as to the moving away of the skin that was placed on the people when God clothed them with skins. As to bringing us out of the generation of vipers, bringing us out of those people that are without. Bringing us out of those people that are in the world, and moving away the ugliness of the imperfections which have veiled us and kept us closed off in darkness. That is, ignorance and in death. In that if you are ignorant then you are in death, because you cannot believe that that you don't know. But when we come to light and we come to life, then we find that we have, we have not ignorance, but an understanding. Paul said, that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may comprehend with all saints what is the height, the depth, the length and the width. So we see the beauty of what God has done. Still centering around that as to reproduction. God doing that because it was His way to do that. Whereas, in the garden the love of God, as it was when Mary overshadowed. There the love of God overshadowed and the divine conception of that which God was looking forward to, as to the reproduction. And so then, Jesus was born into the world, as to the illumination of the man and the woman, as to such love, such love projected. And we see this. We see this, that in the day we're living in we have had a divine conception. By the love of God I've conceived within my heart of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul said, I travail until He then be formed within you. So then, it is a travail, because when you conceive of the great Holy Spirit and the life of God is in you, the Christ is within you, then the world mocks you. You have to hide away. You are disfigured, as to them. So then, you hide away because they mock you. You are not part of them, see? and you're trying to protect the little one. And without the little one, the Old Testament teaches, there is no inheritance. If the mother had no child she had no inheritance. You remember the act of harlotry, as it was with Judah, and with the daughter-in-law. Because the son had died the wife had no inheritance, in that there was no children. Then as it was with the son that was to go to her, and the Bible tells of the thing that happened that displeased God so because he would not raise up children unto that woman because he knew it wouldn't be his seed. It would be of his brother. And God was very angry because of what he did. And then there was another son that was promised unto her; she did not get him. And so then she go upset because she knew she was cut off from the inheritance and she feigned herself to be a harlot and sat by the way and enticed Judah. And in doing that unto the evil, and then before that she took his ring. She took the signet. She took his staff. And the Bible said, as to the time when the little one came, that they were going to stone her to death, or burn her, because that was the penalty. You couldn't play the harlot and get by. But at that time she was secure because she knew that time would come and she presented the staff and the signet saying, To whom these belong then this is the cause. And so then in this, he said, she is more just than I. And she received her inheritance. If you don't have the divine conception of Christ within you you don't have an inheritance. If you can't__ You might say, I go to church. You might say, I shout and dance. I do all the things others do. But, see? That's not travail. It is when the conception comes, that travail comes. And when you are not so pretty to the world. And when you pull out from the world and this is when you go through all the bumps and the hard knocks as the mother that brings the little one into the home. This is where all the problems and the heartaches come in, is leaving off with the world. If you can be out there in the world, and be pretty with the world, and be part of the world and be a dignitary in the world and have all the things of the world, have all the goodies of the world when it comes to the things of the flesh, then that means that you are not in travail. But in the early church they sold all that they had and they gave it unto God. And they did not say anything was theirs. And they went on their way praising God because they were in travail as to bring forth the life of Christ. So then, as I say, we are they that come out of the world, as to the opening of the matrix, as to the born again experience of the child caught up to the throne and they are left behind. And as it is with the church world, then the woman goes into the wilderness as is shown by the Jews, and for a certain period of time, as to her purification, She goes through this purification before she can return to her husband. That is to say again, the dispute of the body. The body must be purified. The woman had to be sprayed with all kinds of deodorants. She had to smell like a rose when she came into the presence of the king. So then, we find in the book of Ester this was done by the Holy Spirit. She did this by the precious Holy Spirit, and won the favor of the king. Can we then today do the same thing and leave off with the things of the world? Right now it's the celebration of Snow White. And we spoke of this, as to the Snow White celebration. See? With this thing happening right now it is the church. The church. The garment of iniquity with the stains of evil, are being washed and taken away and we are putting on our garments that are beautiful. The Bible said, put on your garment. Even put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the raiment tried in the fire. Put ye on your beautiful garment Zion. That is, put ye on the Lord Jesus and make no provisions for the world to fulfill the lust, or the desire thereof. All right. So then, what did God say unto Cain? (Genesis chapter four) "(5) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. (6) And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (7) If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him." Now, if thou doest well wilt not I accept thee? Let's look at it. If thou doest well, beast, wouldn't I accept thee and give thee eternal life? But in that thou sinnest, beast, thou doest not well, then I will not accept your offer. Is that the way it is? You know that couldn't be the way it is. God has never said to a dog, if thou doest good, or don't do good when the dog growls and bits. So a dog is a dog whether you give him a biscuit, or a bone. If he's a dog he's expected to stay in the place of a dog, and you're to treat him like a dog. You're not suppose to be hugging and kissing him. You know, I know people do it. So, what is this then? It means that just as the Bible said, in Adam all die. Not as a beast. All die in Adam because of sin. Sin is the killer. All die in Adam. Can we then say that he came from Adam? What can we say? We say, even if he came of Eve, she was Adam's body, wouldn't that still be in Adam that all die? So, see? Again you don't know where to place that, do you? So you have to look at it like it is. The Scripture said, if thou doest well. Come on, folks. That means if Cain had got anybody in his genealogy that can do well they will be accepted. And if they sin they're going to be cut off. Come on, let's give the Lord a hand. That's what God said. I believe in the Word of God, don't you? No matter what people's opinions are, the Bible said, if thou doest well. If anyone of them can do well that's all they've got to do. But if they sin they're just like anybody else. And to be able to sin you've got to have what? A knowledge of good and evil. Did Cain there have a knowledge of good and evil? Of course he did. Then was he a beast? or was he a god? And they shall become as gods. Somebody said, Well, the beast knew that. There's no record of it other than Satan within him. Other than Satan within him. There is no record where the beast said, I am as a god. He said, But God doth know when you eat. Satan speaking through him. When you eat ye shall become as gods to know good and evil. So then, what can we say? We have to admit that Cain had a knowledge of good and Cain had a knowledge of evil, and Cain could have done good as well as he could have done evil, but he chose to do evil and in choosing to do evil he was smitten. Someone would say, Well, I don't believe that, Brother Pike. Then that means all of his descendants could not choose to do good; all they could do was choose to do evil. And if all that they can do is choose to do evil then how is it that God said that whosoever will come? How is it that the blood atones for all men? How is it that all men have sinned and come short of the glory? How could they sin if they don't know anything about good? They could not sin. Just like Eve. She had to know something about evil before she could sin. So then, you say, But, Brother Pike, you reverse it and you say they have to know something about good. Sure they have to know something about good. Where do you get that, Brother Pike? Because the Bible said, to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is a sin, and the soul that sinneth shall surely die. Then that means that he had a soul. And that means that he had the breath of life. And that means he had a knowledge of good and of evil. And that means he could have done good. Not in the sense that the Bible says, can he that is accustom to do evil do good. A man that is accustom to do evil cannot do good. The Bible said that he cannot, because if he can then the leopard can change his spots and the Ethiopian can change his skin. And the Bible said you cannot make straight that which is crooked, neither can you make crooked that which is straight. But that is again as a sovereignty by a choice, for God said let whosoever will. All men have sinned. In Adam all die. All men have sinned. They choose to do good, or evil. Somebody said, Well, he couldn't do anything but kill his brother, because he was a devil. Well, why didn't he kill his brother sooner? There was no doubt a number of days he didn't kill his brother. He had power not to kill his brother, and he didn't kill his brother. And why didn't he continue on to kill afterwards? There's no record where he killed anybody else. See? There is only one way to look at it. And that is God is a just God, a good God. God is a God that has granted salvation to whosoever. It shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It didn't say no Cain seed, as the seed of the serpent, or Adam's seed as the son of God. It didn't say anything about it. And I'm going to say this in closing. There is just a lot of things I'd like to say tonight, but in that I kept you quite a long time this morning I just want to say this in closing. I said it would make the blood of Jesus of none effect if it was according to the way that the people, some people, say that it is. And let's look at it like it is. So then, Adam, though he was a son of God, he fell from that image of sonship. And in him all die, and to die they have to sin. So then, in Adam all die. It's obvious that that is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the first man Adam, as unto the law, as unto Moses. But the prophet like unto, which is the second man Adam, it is obvious that that is the tree of life. Whereas the law has said, as to the first man Adam, because of the curse, being under the law, cursed is everyone that continueth not in the law to do all things that are commanded therein. So then, in the law, as to a knowledge of good and evil, Paul said, I was alive until that knowledge of good and evil came by the law. Sin revived and I died. The knowledge of evil came, he said. Unbelief. But look at Jesus, the Word of Life. My words are Spirit and they are life. I am a spiritual being within a bodily image, as to your benefit. But I am a spiritual tree, a green tree. And if they do this in a green tree what will they do to one that doesn't have any life in it, as to a dead tree? For you are in Adam and in Adam all die. I'm not of the earth; I'm from Heaven. I'm a green tree. I'm alive. I'm the tree of life, for what I speak is words of life. It is spirit. It is life. So it was a spiritual tree. The thing that took the first man Adam, as to the blood life, or the red dragon unto death. And the next was an angelic being, as to the image which Adam was made in that the Holy Spirit took as a new blood life, and lived within it as the Christ seed to give forth life. As I said, in the book of Revelation you don't find the tree of knowledge anymore, but you still find the tree of life on either side of the river. So we can think of it anyway we want to, but I prefer to think on it according to the Holy Scriptures. Let's all stand together. Somebody asked the question to some people, as to the serpent seed, if Cain was. We know for sure that a person that was a wretched and evil as the seed of the serpent. Not by natural birth, but by the mind of evil. For to be carnal minded is death, to have the love of the world in you is not to have the love of the Father there. Somebody says how was it that the seed of the serpent got over the flood? How was it? And it was suggested that it was through the woman, which could be, but the time that they were on the flood prevents the fact of such a thing, as to a natural happening, or a natural affair. Then how did the seed of the serpent get over the flood? Because all have sinned. Old brother Noah was just like all the others. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and old brother Noah was just as guilty as anybody else. Brother Noah didn't get over the flood because he was righteous of his own doings, for the Bible said there is none good, no not Noah. (Begin tape two, side one) But he did find favor in the sight of God because he sought righteousness, and he followed after virtue and purity, as to realize that he was imperfect, calling upon the name of the Lord therefore he became perfect. As it was said of Job, Job was a perfect man. Somebody would say then, Job did not sin. Why then did Job say, I have sinned? If he then sinned, how was he then perfect? By the foreknowledge of God, as to the blood of the Lamb, as given to us in Christ before the world ever was. God heard before we ever were born into the world to call. So then, is righteousness of God? or is it of man? Why did the Bible use the terms, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated? Before the children were yet born into the world, having done no good or evil, so that it might stand of Him that calleth and not by works it was said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. By His foreknowledge God saw the attitude, the way of life, and that is why it is a predestinated thing as to why one it won't do no good to call on God, because when they call on God they cannot call on God out of a good heart. For the Bible said, can sweet water and bitter water come forth from the same fountain? Can they that are accustomed do evil can they then do good? Can a man with an evil heart bring anything good out of his heart. Isn't it out of a good heart that a man brings forth his good treasure. So then, it is all because of predestination. God foreseeing their life before it's ever displayed in this world and predestinating them accordingly so their doom is sealed, as to bad, or they are sealed as unto good, and we are God's workmanship in Christ, which means that God, whatever He wanted me to be He made Christ to be that, and made His faith to be that without wavering. And hath thus imputed His faith unto me without any works. Righteousness hath been imputed unto me. So God hath cleansed my heart by faith. He hath made me a son of God. He hath put His Spirit within me. If you have not the spirit of Christ you are none of His. The righteousness of law has been fulfilled by the Christ that is within me who fulfilled it in my behalf. Gave up His body. Laid His body away, and made it sin and said, George, I'll move into your heart again. I have no body, and if you'll let me move into your heart I am righteous. I am the righteousness of God. Thus royal blood will be produced from My thoughts, My mind, My life, My spirit, and your genetics will become bone of My bone and flesh of My flesh. I will move into your body according to the measure that you will allow me to come in, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. Let's go on to a full reward, Paul said. I will come in an tabernacle within you. I stand at the hearts door and knock. If you'll open the door I'll come in and sup with you. So then, I'll tabernacle with you. It will be a supping time of that supper, that marriage supper. I will come in and I will sup with you because My body is gone. It's gone. It's a blood dipped vesture sitting yonder at the right hand of the Father as an atonement of bruises, My countenance marred more than any man so that the Father will never be upset with you again. And now you can be the beautiful body, the membership of the Lord Jesus Christ if you'll let me live on the inside of you. And that's the way it is folks. It is a spiritual thing for God is a spirit. Lucifer is a spirit. That was a tree of knowledge. That was a tree of life. It has nothing to do with the flesh. The flesh profiteth nothing. The flesh is just some cells that have been constituted by the divine Word of God out of the dust. From the dust thou art and to the dust thou shalt return. And no matter what you do in life all of you go the same way, the rich and the poor, the Kings, and the pauper. All go back to the dust because of the great sin. And we could go on and on and really bring out some things concerning this. But these things we bring out in kind of a sporadic way to where you can have enough to thrive off of, or to consider as God leads you into the wonderful knowledge, the treasures of the transformating of the mind of Almighty God into the heavenly places. Sitting together in the heavenly places. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing) Sing it with me again. The altars are open. (Singing) Can you sing that song, I Love Him? (Singing) Do you love Jesus? Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (Singing) Brother Jimmy was telling me that over in his area, said that Brother Webster's daughter listening to one of our tapes and she heard us singing I'll be ready when the Bridegroom comes and she fell under conviction and went to her mother and daddy and said, I am going to wear the long dresses. Her mother said, You're going to wear the long dresses? She said, I am going to wear the long dresses. Let's sing that again. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing) One more time. Lift up your hands. (Singing) Are you ready? (Singing) Sing it one more time with me. Are you really ready? (Singing) Lift your hands up and praise the Lord, can you? Can you say hallelujah? Let's give the Lord a hand, can you? Let's sing that gain, just one more time anyway. (Singing) He's coming. (Singing) Let's close our eyes together. I trust that you are ready. I hope that you are ready. It says, No school tomorrow. Any sisters that are interested can help in the tract room. Help is needed badly. Be at the multi-purpose at 8:30 AM tomorrow. School will be Tuesday. All right. I'm going to ask Brother Steve to come up. Brother Steve Douglas to come up if he will, and while he comes to pray I want you to think this over. The young lady apparently got to thinking__ The way you sing I'll be ready when the Bridegroom comes, she apparently got to thinking that maybe she wouldn't be ready. And the way that you sing you sound like you would so she decided that maybe she needed the long dresses to help her be ready. Can you give the Lord another hand? Hallelujah!

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord