The Children Of Faith

I try to share a few things as often as I can and in doing what we do to share with you, we're trying to build your faith. I brought out a few nights ago how that it was so needful to build your faith and how that there is no possible way to make the translation except in the building of the faith. The Bible teaches a minister is set here for the perfecting of your faith and I know that the ministry has made a game out of the Word of God. I'm well aware of that because we've traveled for a long time and around the different parts of the world and our ministers are playing a game. They're playing around with women and women with men and they're teaching that women are called to preach, and they're looking for money and they've just got a frolic going on. And many of them are getting killed and different things are happening to them because God is upset about it. And it's a bad situation. But they have__ Ministers are determined. Knowing the judgments of God they are determined to do these things and they go on playing around this way and people go on doing foolish things. As a matter of fact, it comes to my mind since I'm saying that that somebody was saying, that lives right next to us here, were saying that we didn't want them on the camp ground. And my! I wouldn't even want to say what they said, and it sounds so crazy and so foolish. As a matter of fact, a brother just stopped by there the other day to borrow something. He was working over here on the camp ground and thought maybe he'd just stop there to borrow something and the people acted so bad, it scared him so bad he talk like he didn't ever want to go back there anymore. They're suppose to be believers and suppose to love the Lord, but God has apparently turned them over to a reprobate mind to believe a lie and be damned. The Bible said if you have not a love for the truth then God, He'll turn you over to believe anything, or think anything, you know. And it looks like that is what is happening. But I can assure you I don't mind anybody coming on the camp ground as long they try to dress decent. They need to kind of halfway consider what we say and try to dress decent; not be a trouble maker. I don't need trouble makers on the camp ground. I've got enough of that problem now. But otherwise they are certainly welcome. As a matter of fact, I met a Brother Joe today from out of Mexico that is doing some work down in Mexico. I think it's the first time he's ever been here. He's going way back in the hill country and ministering to people back there. I understand that others are not getting to and we certainly welcome people here to be part of our fellowship, and to take part in our zeal for world evangelism. I have people here on the camp ground that some of them carry on a lot of foolishness and they reproach us. It would be a whole lot better if they didn't live here but they do live here and we tolerate it and try to help them, you know, as much as we can, knowing that the judgments of the Lord will soon find them and get them. But at the same time we're trying to do what we can for them. I love to read the Bible. I love the Scriptures. And there are many things in the Bible that I love to talk about. I'm not too much of a hand at shouting and running and jumping. And like I said, I could have been right in the middle of that, and maybe that's wonderful, you know, for them that do it. They feel to do that, want to shout, and praise the Lord, and jump and whatever, and truly to praise the Lord is the right thing. To enter into His gates with thanksgiving, coming into His courts with praise, but I love to read the Word of God because the Bible tells me to grow in the grace of God, and in the knowledge of God. And I don't see much advantage if you don't grow in the knowledge of God. The whole thing is to understand. You know, it's like a daddy, or a mother, they'll buy a little boy, or girl a tricycle, or bicycle, or wagon, or something, you know, give them a little something so they can run and jump and play and have a good time. But the idea is not to buy them bicycles all their lives, or give them little wagons. The idea is to show them your love through these things that you might get their attention and teach them the knowledge of manhood, and for them to grow up into the knowledge of being one of full understanding. And that's the whole thing. Not just to give gifts. So what we do, we try to bring you the knowledge of God. Now a lot of ministers they don't practice that because they don't practice knowing anything. They don't spend any time praying, or fasting, or seeking God, or understanding the Word of God, so when they come to church the only thing that they can bank on is to get the organ going and the music going and getting you into a shout, and getting you to hollering and praising the Lord. Which I say is wonderful. That's wonderful. In the Old Testament they played the timbrels and the stringed instruments, and they did that to bring the presence of God. And then when the presence of God came the prophets began to speak when they'd create the right atmosphere. Then, you know, they looked for the knowledge of the Lord. And in the wilderness Miriam danced and played her timbrel and the ladies they followed after her. They had a real shouting good time. But even those that did not follow after the knowledge of the Word of God that God gave to Moses, they fell into problems, and even Miriam was driven out of the camp, though she was shouting and praising the Lord. She wouldn't come to the knowledge of God, as to know what God was doing and she didn't realize the mighty Moses that was in their midst, and God got upset and just drove her out. And you remember how leprosy came, and He even got upset with Aaron and him the high priest. So there is more to it than just shouting and jumping and praising the Lord. If you want to do that that's wonderful. And you should praise the Lord all the time. But it's like praying. I try to get down on my knees through the night and pray and talk to the Lord, and that is wonderful, but see? That's not enough. The Bible said pray always; not just pray through the night, but to pray always. Well, if you're going to pray always that's means you're not going to be talking all the time, but you'll be mediating in the laws of God day and night. Praying. You know, you'll be praying from within your heart. Like the Bible speaks of being in service and if anybody speaks in tongues let them speak to God, and let them speak to themselves; not to be talking out loud unless there is an interpreter there and it's the move of God. There's a time for that. Time for everything. It's a decency and an order in the church. So I believe in the Word of God. I believe in praying; mediating all the time. And some one would say, Well, how much, Brother Pike. You've heard me express it many times. The Bible says, until ye cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and until you bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you lean not to your own understanding, but trust in Him, or His Word with all of your heart. So, I love the Word of God and the whole purpose of God is to bring His knowledge to us, as of His love, as of His concern, as of His program, as of His plan as to what He wants us to do throughout eternity in our future; the kind of person He wants us to be. To develop us into that wonderful mind of God. And as I said this morning, that's the only way a world comes about, is of a mind. A world is a derivative of a mind, and if you don't have the mind you can't have the world. So it's imperative to our salvation, our life, our future that we come into the Word of God, that we might have the mind of God, that we might project the world of God to create an environment of that wonderful way of His life. So it's important. Everybody is not going to be translated. Everybody is not going to go in the translation. I mentioned the translation today, and was talking to my wife about it even while we were riding around a little bit, and everybody isn't going to go make the translation, not going to go in the translation. The idea that because you belong to the church and you are a believer that God is going to sweep down and take you all the way is wrong. God isn't going to do that. It's going to take the mind of Christ with the faith of Christ to translate you into the Kingdom. He's just not going to sweep down and take you away, but the Bible teaches the way you're going to get into the Kingdom of God is by faith. Enoch was translated by faith that he should not see death. And if you're planning to escape death it doesn't matter how religious you are, or how much you shout, you're going to have to be translated by faith and faith cometh my the hearing of the Word of God. And if you don't have the word of God you're not going to have any faith. And if you don't have any faith you're not going to have any translation. And if you don't have any translation you're not going to escape death. Death is an enemy that man allowed to come into his life, and into this world, and it is the enemy of God and the last one to be conquered. So I tell you these things to make you to understand how needful it is for you to grow in the grace and knowledge of God, that you come together to learn. You come together to learn the Word of God, to understand the Word of God. Now, I'm sure that you've read this Bible. I've read this Bible through and through and through and through, and I'm sure you have, Old Testament and New Testament. I'm sure you've read it. But, see? That's not sufficient. You can read it and quote it from one cover to another cover. Like a Brother that comes by here. I think he's one of the finest men that I know of. He can quote the Bible. He's a walking Bible, but he still hasn't even come to the place of being baptized in the Jesus name, as to understanding the Bible. And there are people that can quote this Bible. They know all about this Bible, as the Word of God, but they still don't understand the Word of God. It has not been revealed to them. And that is again why I say that we should pray, as the Bible has taught. We should pray that God would grant unto us the spirit of revelation. You might say, Well, I have the Spirit of God, Brother Pike. That's not what it is. It's not a matter of whether you have the Spirit of God, or not. It says, The spirit of revelation. There is but one spirit, the Bible says, and many operations. And the one Spirit is God. The revelation is an operation. And healing is an operation. Prophecy is an operation. Many of these things are an operation. There is one Spirit; there are many operations. You should pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation that you might have these things revealed to you and that you might know and understand the will and way of the Lord. This is how Paul became the chief apostle and the apostle to the Gentile Church when the other apostles were not made the apostle to the Gentile Church. You might say, Well, they were Jews. That's the reason, Brother Pike. But Paul was also a Jew, and Jesus was born among the Jews. Though he was not a Jew, was not of Jewish blood, nor of Gentile blood, nor any other kind of blood, as to mankind. He was created as a new blood cell altogether by God Almighty. But still, Peter being a Jew he did not receive the revelation of Jesus Christ the way that Paul did. And yet he was mighty. He raised the dead. He did all kind of things, but when he spoke of what Paul said, he said, these things that Paul said are hard to be understood. And he said, Which some unlearned wrest as they do the other Scriptures to their own destruction. So then, Paul was given the revelation of Jesus Christ. John was given the revelation of Jesus Christ. And other men they had their way of life. These other men had the revelation of Jesus Christ, but not in the way that Paul had it, nor in the way that John had it. There was a difference. And it was like I was telling my wife today. You know, like in this world there is a difference. All of the heavenly things understood by the natural things, or spiritual things understood by natural things. There is a difference. The difference is that some are a billionaire and some are a millionaire, and some are just people who have a few thousand dollars. Some have acreage, great acreage of hundreds of thousands of acres. Some have a few acres, a few hundred, or some have an acre, or two. Or some have half an acre of land and they have a little house. Some of them have mansions. Some of them have palaces, some of them have castles. Some men have great understanding, as to great degree, as to understand the stars and the moon and the elements. Some have very little understanding, but a man grows great by means of his learning, and of his understanding. And the greater his understanding is the greater the man is. And he becomes powerful by his understanding. So then, everybody that enters into the spirit isn't going to get the same rewards. You're not going to get the same reward. I say this a lot of times. People they get misput by listening to different things and they lose their zip and their zeal. You know, naturally it sounds reasonable to think that if a man can go on the job and half work, or be out two, or three days, or just kind of play around, if he can as much money as the other fellow, well, there is no need of him worrying about it. The other fellow is just playing around, you know, well, what's the difference? Or if the other man is working and he doesn't have to work and he just plays around and all going to get the same salary at the end of the week, you know, what's the difference? Why worry about it? Now a lot of preachers have got the church thinking everybody is going to be rewarded alike, and it doesn't matter what they do, you know. But if that is true then why does Paul use the terms, Let us go on unto a full reward? And why did he speak of thirty and sixty and a hundred fold? See? Everybody isn't going to get the same reward. Everybody has not know the depths of Satan, the Bible said. Everybody has not known the heights of God, see? And everybody isn't going to get the same reward. There is going to be kings. I remind you of this again. Twenty-four kings that sets around the throne. These men are kings. They are not like the average people that are out there in that city. They are kings. And whereas the Bible uses the terms that I saw thrones and they that sat upon them, which to you and I means the twelve apostolic leaders, for Jesus said, because you have left everything for Me that you are going to be rewarded. And when I sit upon My throne you're going to sit upon twelve thrones beside me judging the twelve tribes of Israel, which to every apostle would have been a tribe. So in that there is no end to the increase of His Kingdom, how great could grow the tribes. Or how great could grow the followers of Jesus in that He'll be not only over the apostles and the twelve tribes, they under His leadership, they as kings, and He as King of Kings. They as Lords, but He as Lord of Lords. So He's got kings in this world. There are sons of God that are not just sons of God, but they are kings, and they're going to be rulers over the people. Whereas some would say, Well, I know that, Brother Pike, in the thousand years millennium they're going to do that, but it's not just in the thousand years millennium, it will continue on in the new world, as to the new earth and New Jerusalem. For the Bible said, And the kings of the earth shall come into that city and they shall throw their crowns down at His feet, and may people who do not live in that city will be under a kingship and a leadership of His great government and dominion. He is King of Kings, and the people that are not the immediate bride, in that they don't live in the city, they will walk in the light of the city as it is today. Many people do not come into the full reward, or the full measure, or the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. They don't do that, but they do walk in the light of the city. There are all kind of denominational powers and religious groups, and some of one status of life, some of another. Some have given themselves to learn more. It's like school. Some go to a few grades and then they are dropouts. Some go on to get a diplomacy and then some go on to college, and some go on to advance studies, even after they get out of college; advance practices. See? It's like a millionaire. He's been exposed to his hearts desire. He could never live on the level that we're living on. Some of them have been known to commit suicide if they ever fell to a lower lever. Even some of their children. And they could never live like we live. You know, if you're exposed to the greater side of life and more blessed side of life, it's very difficult for you to survive if you have to come back to a lesser side of life. And it's the same way in God. See? You go on to greater things. You advance to a higher heights. You come into a greater dimension. Whatever you are when you depart this life, that's what you are in the world to come. If you just know so much, you might be a child, as to the advancement of the Kingdom of God, as to the Kings, as to the rulers, as to the parents, as to the great leaders of that world, you might just be a little child. See? You'll be in heaven. You'll enjoy the heavenly things, but as in heaven, so in earth. There are spiritual children. And you'll just be a little child under the great advantages of the kings and rulers and parents of that great heavenly place. You'll never be able to experience the great wonderful thrills of the higher heights of the more blessed riches. You will be, as I say, as a little child. Maybe thirty-fold, maybe sixty-fold, maybe a hundred-fold, but you do have the opportunity to go on to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. You can be therefore perfect even as thy Father in heaven is perfect. The Bible said Job was a perfect man and that's why I say this theory of no one being perfect is a bunch of foolishness. So, it says that we should take note of them that are perfect among us and mark the end of a perfect man. Then it said, everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. That is, everyone that be perfect shall come into that of being the Bride of Christ, the high calling in the Lord Jesus. You'll come into that of being the Bride of Christ, of having all things, for the Bible teaches that all things are yours. And even though you might never get any farther along than just being a child, yet all things are still yours in that your parents own all things and God is over them and they in Christ. We are heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, which means whatever he is that's what we are and whatever He owns, that's what we own. But if you spend your time making money, and your thrill is making money and being in business and buying and selling, then you may dwarf yourself in Christ. And if you spend your time, as to the natural side of life, giving more time to the natural side of life, then you're going to have the lesser, as to the spiritual side of life. And it is when we love Him with all of our heart, all of our mind, all of our soul, and give all of our thoughts, all of strength, all of our ambitions to Him that we become as our Master, because Jesus said, I do always the things that please the Father. So when we come to the place to where we do that then we become as one with the Father. So whatever the Father shares in His joy, as to the very heights of His glory and His majesty, so we share the same. And we need to understand this, because as I said, a lot of times slothfulness has entered into the church, or people have failed to be diligent and go on with God thinking they were just equal to somebody else, or they were just good as somebody else, or they were going to get the same reward that someone else got, not understanding that every man will be rewarded according to his works. And not understanding that if you cut God short then He cuts you short. If you draw nigh to Him then He draws nigh to you. The Bible said if you resist Him, He resists you. And if you're going to spend all of your time thinking on eating and drinking and lounging around and doing nothing then you've got a great disappointment coming at the judgment. Then again it says, pray always that you may be accounted worth to escape the things that's coming on the earth. That means that there are some people that are going to escape the tribulation period with all of the harshness as to God pouring out His wrath upon the body of the beast. And there are some that's not going to escape the wrath of God. Some on them, their going through the tortures. They're going through those plagues of the locusts that comes out of the bottomless pit and the stings and the tortures, and the torments, and the sun scorching them with heat and hail falling out of heaven, and the earthquakes, and all the devastating blows from the tragedies and sorrow that are coming because of the earth's turmoil and wars and conflicts. Some people are going through those things. So it's up to you. You know, you can do whatever you want to do and you can teach whatever you want to teach and you can be whatever you want to be. I prefer to stay away from the old wives fables and give myself, exercise myself in godliness and come unto the truth. I want the truth. I want to meditate in His laws day and night. I want to seek him with all of my heart. To love Him with all of my strength, all of my mind. I'm not interested in the passions of life. I'm not interested in cheating on my wife by going out and taking up time with somebody else. I'm not interested in that. Someone says, Well, I don't do that either. I'm not interested in doing it in my mind and in my thoughts. The Bible said shun the very appearance of evil. A lot of you don't do out in to the world and do those things, but in your thoughts you're just as corrupt and rotten as you can be. See? And I'm not interested in doing it in my thoughts. And if I thought my wife did, if I picked it up it she'd be dirty to me. I wouldn't want no fellowship with her whatsoever. She'd be dirty in my sight. Because when you think thoughts the Bible said you are to bring every thought into subjection to Jesus Christ, to the obedience of the Lord Jesus. And when you think thoughts that are not holy and godly and pure then you are unclean. The Bible said let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts. When you think unrighteous thoughts you are an unrighteous person. And if you go far enough to do the things that you think then the Bible said you are wicked. Let the wicked man forsake His ways. So you don't want to think wrong. You don't want to be wrong. You want to bring every thought in to subjection to the obedience of the Lord Jesus, to be holy and godly and pure. To be like Jesus. Jesus didn't go around thinking dirty thoughts. And He didn't allow dirty thoughts to come in His mind, and cheating thoughts that was against the Heavenly Father, or against the virtues of life that He retained as a Christian, or as a man of God, or as a holiness preacher of that day. See? So we don't want to do wrong. We don't want to think wrong. We don't want to have any feelings, or intent of our heart, or reflex of our mind in anyway that is ungodly. We don't want those kind of things. We want to be holy, and we want to be godly, and we want to be pure. I believe I see Brother Joe back here. The light is a little blinding, but I believe I see Brother Joe back here with Donny. We're glad to have Joe here with us tonight, a missionary out of Mexico. I think he wrestled for about twenty-three years and then went into the ministry, and we're certainly glad to have him here. I can't tell too much, you know, who is back there sometimes when the lights are on, but we're glad to have you. If you're visiting tonight we're glad to have you. Now, I want to read some over in the third chapter of the book of Galatians, and I want you listen real good. I'm the kind of preacher that if I preach I like for my audience to listen. To some people it don't make no difference with them, as long as they've got ...(Begin tape one, side two.)....going, everybody is happy, whether they're shouting, or whatever they're doing, you know, they could care less, as to whether they heard what they said as long as everybody is saying amen, and praise the Lord, and everybody is all jubilant, you know, and everybody is happy and contented. But I'm not like that. I don't care how contented you are if you're not listening to the Word of God you're not getting anything from God, and I'd like for you to listen. Peter said, look on us. And give the more heed, the writer said, to the things that you've heard lest at anytime you should let them slip. And then the Bible said, take heed how that you hear these things. So you need to a be a real good listener and listen real good, for by these things come faith and by faith comes the transformating of the mind. And by the transformating of the mind comes the translation. So you need to be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind by this wonderful mind of God that you might have faith, that you might be able to translate your body, or transfigure your body from this earthly condition over into a heavenly condition. Because if you don't have the faith to change your body into the celestial body then you're not going to make it into the Kingdom of God. Remember that now. If you don't have the faith__ Enoch was translated by faith. Before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. And the writer said, without faith it is impossible to please God. So it's by faith that God purifies your heart and it's by the purifying of the heart that you become clean and that the Spirit of God has freedom in your life to translate your blood genetics into heavenly genetics. And we use earthly terms, as I say so often, because we don't have any heavenly terms for those things. So we have to have faith. Elijah was translated by faith and Moses went out of this world into the glory world by faith. Some would say, Well, if I die, Brother Pike, I'll go to heaven. I tell you again, dying doesn't have anything to do with it. Hundreds and thousands and millions of people have died and went to hell. Dying does not take you into heaven. Just because you're body releases your spirit that doesn't mean that you go into heaven. While you're yet in this world you either go into heaven or you go into hell. That is you either go into the Spirit of God, or you go into spirit of Lucifer. Lucifer is a fallen angel and if you're not born again into the Spirit of Christ, which takes you into paradise, it means you are abiding in death and you are dead while you live, because you are living in trespasses and sin and your carnal mind is death, and your spirit is within the powers, the radius and the reigns, and the control and confinement of Lucifer the prince, or god of this world, and you are dead while you live. Which means that the only reason you're not feeling the pangs of hell, or the flames, is because the blood is on the seat of atonement, as to a certain allotted amount of time for the human body, so that they that are without understanding might have grace until the time they could come to the understanding to be born again, or either to reject the things of God. After that there is no more grace for them and they pass on and they go into the flames of hell, or it is revealed to them as to their confinements, and as to their punishment and judgment. So whatever you are you are right now. Or whatever you're going to be you're going to be in this life. And when the spirit departs from the body all you do it recognize you're place of abode. That's all. The Bible said that the rich man died and in hell he lifted up his eyes. It says Lazarus died and the angels carried him to Abraham's bosom. So you can see what I'm saying. You're already caught within one or two of these kind of things. If you have peace, perfect peace, it's because you keep your mind stayed on Christ Jesus. All the paths of God are peace because He is the Prince of Peace. He wants you to have life, and He said, I am the Prince of Life and I have come that you might have life, and that you might have it filled up and overflowing. Or that is abundant life, which means filled up and overflowing. I want you to have everything in life. I have given you all things that pertain unto life. The natural blessings, the physical blessings and the spiritual blessings, as to an eternal security. All right. Let's see what Paul is saying to these Galatian people. He's confronting them here. He's preaching to them. Some of you have been over to the Holy Land. You've not doubt been right along where Paul stood and talked to these Galatians. And here he is, he's preaching to the Galatian people. Now, a lot of times he would leave that country, catch a ship and go over to a neighboring country. Of course, you couldn't be there where he was at unless you would do the same. But it says in chapter three of the book of Galatians, it says, O Foolish Galatians. Now that's some way to start off. You know, all I'd have to do it start off here and I'd have to say, Oh, foolish Bethlemites. So he said, "O Foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (2) This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (3) Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye not made perfect by the flesh? (4) Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. (5) He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (7) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (8) And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (9) So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. (10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (11) But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. (12) And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. (13) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree: (14) That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (15) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. (16) Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy see, which is Christ. (17) And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. (18) For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. (19) Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (20) Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. (21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (22) But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. (23) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (25) But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (26) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (27) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (29) And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Chapter 4, verse 1. "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; (2) But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. (3) Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: (4) But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, (5) To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (6) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father. (7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. (9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times and years. (11) I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. (12) Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. (13) Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. (14) And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. (15) Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. (16) Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? (17) They zealously effect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. (18) But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. (19) My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, (20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice,; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. (23) But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. (24) Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. (25) For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. (26) But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. (27) For it is written, Rejoice thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. (28) Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. (29) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. (30) Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. (31) So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." Chapter 5, verse 1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath set us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (2) Behold, I paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. (3) For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (4) Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. (5) For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. (6) For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. (9) A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." All right. It goes on to say, "(10) I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. (11) And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. (12) I would they were even cut off which trouble you. (13) For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. (14) For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love they neighbour as thyself." All right, I want to comment just a little bit on this. I don't know just exactly what we'll say; there are so many things. He tells us that there is a promise that is given unto us through Jesus Christ. I read this real slow that I might have you absorb these things that when I comment on them you might understand. I said numbers of things concerning them, but sometimes you don't seem to have understanding concerning these things. There is no justification by the law. The law is folded up. The law is laid away. That's the end of it. People are trying to tell you that about the ten commandments and all these kind of things. They are heretics. They don't understand, and when they start telling you you've got to keep the laws of the Old Testament they are heretics and they don't understand. There is a new covenant. It is called the New Testament. There was an old covenant; it was called the Old Testament. And testaments are sealed by the blood of the testator. So of necessity Jesus sealed this covenant by the new blood, for the life is in the blood and the old covenant was sealed by the blood. It was sealed by the blood, and that of beast, because the first man Adam had to do with the fall that was through the influential powers of the beast. And so then, the life that was in the blood there it was purged because of God, and because of His way of life. God cursed it because of God Himself, because of His way of life, as to His integrity of life, because of His righteousness and His state of being He had to curse it. He could not fellowship it. The life thus was cut off from God and it was gone, and there was no more life. Paul said, the life I one time had it is gone, and the life that I now have is the new life that is in the new blood by the New Testament. It is not I that liveth, as to the old man Adam, or the first Adam, but it is Christ that is living now, as to the new body, as being bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And the life I now live is the new life, or the life of Christ that He has given to me that I became cursed, as to my first birth because of the evil. For it is said, cursed is everyone that hangeth upon a tree. And Jesus came, hang upon a tree for me to do away with the tree of knowledge and the old serpent, and the life that came in my first birth that had been corrupted as unto death. Now, I have a new life. I am no longer under the curse. I'm no longer on that side of Calvary; I'm on this side of Calvary. I'm no longer in the generation of Adam, as to the fallen. I am now regenerated and in a new generation by the washing of the water of the Word, (That is, the spirit of the Word) to the new generation. So I am now a new man. I am now a new body. I am now a new life. I now have a new world. So then, He says that God made Abraham a promise. He is talking to the Jews and they are hard people to convince. He is talking here to the Galatians, as to this, and telling them that they have been foolish, because I've tutored you toward faith and now here you are turning back to the law. Here Peter is turning back toward the law. He said, if there had been a law that could have brought a life of righteousness to mankind Jesus would never have come into the world to die. So he said, I'm not going to frustrate the grace of God. Justification is not by the law. No flesh shall be justified by the law. He said, I've been perfect concerning the law. I was blameless concerning the law but still no justification. Christ Jesus came and fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law and still could not be justified by the law, because he was flesh and bone, and the Bible said no flesh shall be justified by the law. So to be our example He had to become the second man Adam, the quickening spirit, and be justified by faith. So we see the old covenant is gone. And Abraham here, Paul points out, he received a promise from God. And the promise that God gave him was not as unto seeds of many, but as to seeds of one. Just one. Isaac, the promised son. He had a promised son and he had a bondson. And later, marrying the third wife, he had other children. So here it is but one son, that is the son of promise. And he said, The promise is made to this son. Through thy seed all nations shall be blessed. For, he said, in Isaac shall my seed be called as to the natural inheritance of the natural land that they are going to receive. So that being symbolic of Christ we, as those that receive both natural and spiritual inheritance, that is to say, being a ruler over the Jews, we also receive the natural. So we are blessed through Christ. That promised Son, even Christ. Not coming as to that of the gendering of the man and woman, for the Bible said that He did not come by the will of man, but He came by the promise of the Heavenly Father, as to the seed. And it said, the promise was made as unto the seed. So then he said, we have been under the law and the law has been a tutorer to bring us unto grace. He said, and kept under the tutorers, kept under the law until the seed to whom the promise was made could come. Now, when the seed to whom the promise was made should come, that does not mean me and you as people, because it was not made to me and you as people. It was made to Christ until the seed should come. That is kept up, shut up under the law unto the grace which afterwards should be revealed by faith of Jesus Christ. It wasn't afterwards to be revealed by your faith, or my faith. My faith had nothing to do with it; neither did your faith have anything to do with it. And it was His faith. We were shut up under the law until the time when His faith came. So then, when the seed came, as to whom the promise was made, then came the faith by which we were justified; even the faith of Jesus Christ. So then, I am an overcomer today. I am not an overcomer today because I am a holiness person, or because I joined a holiness church, or I belonged to some denominational church, or I belonged to some kind of a non-denominational church. Not because I am some kind of a peculiar type person, though the Bible said, God hath a peculiar people. I am not a Christian because of that. I haven't overcome the world because of my ability. I haven't done anything to overcome the world. All I can say is that in the fullness of time, which was Calvary, that God sent forth His Son in the fullness of time, made in under the law and made of a woman. And the fullness of time was at Calvary and He gathered all things into the body of the Lord Jesus and I'm one of those things that He gathered into the body. And this thing was given me, as the writer said, in Christ before the world ever was. I am elect according to the foreknowledge of God. And so then, as the writer said, before I was ever formed in my mother's womb I was called to be a prophet. It was a divine ordination. I was preordained to be a son of God, and when the fullness of time came this was revealed. For it was given to me in Christ before the world ever was, brought to light at the rent veil of Calvary that it might be preached to us, that we might comprehend the height, the depth, and the width of this great wonderful mind of God by faith of Jesus Christ. So today I am justified by what Jesus did in His work. I am justified by faith of Jesus Christ. The faith which was in the heart of the Son of God never wavered one time. And because of that I became justified. So then, Jesus was delivered for my offenses. Because I had sinned He had to die at Calvary to do away with my unrighteousness. And then I was raised through Him, as to a justification, for if He was delivered for my offenses He was then raised again of my justification. The fact that He came out of the grave and that hell could not hold Him, and that death could not hold Him indicated that man was now justified in the sight of God and did not have to die because the powers of death now had no power over man, because man, himself, had come out of the grave. Death had come by man. They had put Him in the grave, and now justification had come by man and taken Him out of the grave. Whereas the Bible said that death and sin came by one man Adam. And so then, death pronounced upon all, but then life came by one man, even Jesus Christ. So as we all went unto death by Adam, so we came unto life by Jesus Christ. So it says here that when the seed to whom the promise was made, even Jesus Christ, Abraham, thy seed, when it came then the Bible said, this covenant, the new covenant, was then in effect. So Paul is rebuking them as the Galatians saying that this is foolishness. The thing that you are doing of trying to by justified by some silly work, he said, this is foolishness. He said, God is a spirit and God has to come into your heart. And the only purifying of your blood is by the Spirit of God coming into your heart because the life dwells in the blood, and you're going to lose your life unless the Spirit of God can come into your heart and purify your blood stream so that the new life can dwell on the inside of you. So it's like a disease. If you've got a cancer germ in your blood, it doesn't matter how many times you shake hands with the doctor, how many times the doctor says, I love you and you're my best patient, there has got to be something that is perfected that he can inject into your body to go down into your blood to kill the germ, or cancer is going to kill you while you're laying there being friends with the doctor. That is to say, it doesn't matter how many churches you join, whether it's Bethlehem, or whether you come out here and you're among the brotherhood of Bethlehem, or whatever, it doesn't do any good. Brother Pike can say, I like you; you're my best friend; we're buddies. That isn't going to do any good. The Spirit of God, the spirit of life through a new birth has to come into your heart, into your life, into your blood stream and has to kill that infection of sin unless you die. So it is a positive thing here. He said, as long as we are a child we differ nothing. We are just the same as anybody else. If I am under the law, and if I don't know anything about God, and if I've never come to a maturity, and I've never developed then I'm no more than a child in this world. I am the same as a little child. Now, I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. See? I cannot be a son of God. I cannot be a son of God unless I'm born again. I can be a servant, but not a son of God. But even if I become a son of God, if I am a child (Paul said, when I was a child I spake as a child, when I became a man I put away childish things.) if I am a child then I am no different from a servant. I can't do anymore than a servant. A lot of times the question arises. Somebody says, Brother Pike, why is it the church doesn't do anymore than it does? Why doesn't it have anymore power than it does? Why doesn't it have anymore manifestation in the church, as to the things of God that the Bible speaks about? The reason is because they are still children. You can't get them to grow up. They'd rather eat, drink. They'd rather go to the cafe. They'd rather laugh, talk. They'd rather fellowship. They'd rather visit their relatives. They'd rather do something in the world, as to having houses, and lands and money, and prestige. Even the preachers had rather have prestige, you know, and be before the audience, and be on t.v, and be a movie star than they had to travail before God, and to fasten themselves up in a secluded place with God, and come out in the knowledge and power of God. They'd rather go out here and have the fame, rather have the popularity. They'd rather have the prestige of the world. So then, it's because they are children. It isn't because God is not in their heart. It isn't because they don't have God. It is because they are not developed in God, because even though you be an heir to the things of God, and even though you be the ruler over all yet you don't different anything from a little child that's in the world out here. You don't differ anything from a servant. A servant doesn't have any right to do anything except what he's told to do. So he said, you are still under tutors and governors and rulers, but there is a time appointed of the Father. And this time appointed of the Father is the Bar Mitzvah. That is to say, when you come into the Bar Mitzvah then there is a difference. You might say, Brother Pike, what is the difference? If I'm born again, if I'm a son of God, if I'm caught up to the throne, as to be translated into the Kingdom of God at my new birth and the Kingdom of God is then within me, my spirit within the Kingdom of God, why is it that I can't just take over and begin to rule? Because the Bible said there is a time appointed of the Father, and the time appointed of the Father, as to ruler ship is not according to the new birth. It is not as to a new birth, as to being in ruler ship. A child born into the world, that's birth, but the child being born into the world that doesn't mean he's (Begin tape two, side one.) in the power of ruler ship. Can you imagine a little baby lying there kicking it's feet, you know, and gooing at you and you say, Now, son, take over the household, and whatever you say that's the way it's going to be. You know, somebody standing by over here they'd say, Why, man, he's crazy. He's out of his mind. The man is eccentric. The baby doesn't even know what he's talking about. So just being born again, being a Christian doesn't mean that we have the power to usurp authority, or to do anything in anyway, as to be ruler in the Kingdom of God. But it does say that there is a time appointed. So then, we are under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the Father. You are under the tutoring. You have to listen to the Word of God. You have to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus. We are set there for the perfecting of your faith, to reveal to you your benefits that you might believe in the things of God. I say again, you are not righteous because of what you've done. You're not justified because of what you've done. You're not justified because of who you are. I say to you, I have overcome the world. Jesus said, Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. He didn't say, be of good cheer, Brother Pike, because you have overcome the world. He said, be of good cheer, because I have overcome the world. That is, because He overcame the world then I'm free from the world. Because He overcame the world then I overcame the world. Because what He did He did it for me. He didn't overcome the world for Himself. He was in heaven to start with. He came down from heaven. He said, I'm for heaven. Ye are for this world, but I'm not of this earth. I came from heaven. He didn't have to overcome nothing for Himself, but He overcame it for me and He was delivered for my offenses and raised again for my justification. And His works were in my behalf and all that God wanted me to be He made Christ to be that. And whatever Christ is in His presence so am I in Him. The Bible said, as Christ is so am I in Christ. So whatever God wanted me to be He made Christ to be that, and then He just turned to me and He said, Now, can you with your faith believe in what I have done in your behalf. If you'll just turn, all you've got to do it just believe. You know, we get that so misconstrued. We get that so mixed up. You know, I say to my little son, I've got supper prepared out there. All you've got to do is come home and eat, son. You know, that's all you've got to do. Mommie has got it on the table. Oh, but he can't get to the table. He can't get through the door. He can't eat. Why can't he eat? Because he don't believe what I'm saying. How many of you understand what I'm saying when I speak about faith out of your heart. Somebody says, faith, faith, that great thing faith. I've got to learn what faith is. I wonder what faith is? Faith is such a mystery. I've got to believe. I've got to believe. I've got to learn how to believe. Listen, folks, faith is just good common sense. If you invite the little boy to come to supper he believes what you say, so he comes to supper and he eats. If he doesn't do that he gets in a wilderness in his mind and he get to thinking, Well, I don't know whether it's supper there, or not. I don't know whether to believe him or not. I don't know whether I ought to do that, or not. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that unreal? See? What is faith? Simply believing that he ought to come to supper because you're calling him to supper. God said, my supper is already prepared; go out into the highways and the hedges and invite them to come in. What is faith? Simply believing what He said about it. He said, I've given you all things in Christ that pertain unto life. I've done all of this work for you. I've overcome the world. I've got everything just for you. Now, do you believe what I'm telling you? That's what Jesus said. Do you believe what I'm telling you? If you believe what I'm telling you, you're all right. Everything is fine, but if you don't believe what I'm telling you, you're going to die in your sins, because you've got to get to the supper. And to get into the supper table the little boy has got to believe what Mommie said about it. He's got to believe there is some supper there. That's all that you're faith is. Isn't that simple? That's all that your faith is. And we are justified by the faith of Jesus Christ. All of the things that were required under the law, all of the ritualistics, all of the formalities, everything that was required to bring this thing to a justification of just believing in him, he has already done all of these things and simply says to you and I, as little children, do you believe what I'm telling you? Do you believe what I'm telling you? You know, you tell the little child, say, Hey, Brother Taylor, he's bought you an ice cream. If you go over there Brother Taylor is going to give it to you. See? All the little child has got to do is just believe what I said about it and soon he's licking on his ice cream. That's real simple. All right. So then, we make a wilderness out of something because we don't understand. And this upset the Lord with us, because it's so simple. Without faith it's impossible to please God. Wouldn't it be impossible to please that mother without that little one believing in her love and her consideration. And as she's prepared all things for him, what would grieve the mother? It's for him not to believe that. He was standing there saying, I can't believe that. Somebody told me something else. Somebody standing over here whispering in his ear. Remember the devil is your conflict. He is your adversary. He is always whispering in your ear. He's got your mind all fuddled up. He's always telling you something to keep you from simply trusting in what God has said. Simply believing what God has said. All right. Let's look at it again. It's says we are under the tutors and we are under the governors until the time appointed. Which I say again, it does not have anything to do with your new birth. I am a child of God. I've been born again. I am a child of God right now. I am not trying to work my way unto a certain thing to become a son of God. I'm already a son of God. The Bible said, Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. I'm not trying to work myself out here to a place to where I can be saved. This was given me in Christ before the world ever was. I am elect according to foreknowledge and the Bible says nothing can separate me from the love of God. So then, I am elect according to the foreknowledge. Paul preached to the people and the Bible said, as many as were foreordained unto eternal life they believed. He said, and the rest of them didn't believe. Who then believed? They that were elect. They that were before ordained unto eternal life. They were the predestinated, and we are predestinated in Christ. Somebody says, Well, Brother Pike, I'm not worried about it. We're predestinated, you know, why preach? Why worry? If we're predestinated the ones that are right are going to go this way and the ones that aren't predestinated are going to go that way, whether we preach or don't preach. No, that isn't right. See? You are predestinated in Christ. That is to say, because somebody goes out here and they're religious and they do all kind of ungodly things, that does not mean they are predestinated unto life. See? When they do works of righteousness that is the proof of their predestination unto life. The Bible said make your calling and election sure. If you are elected unto grace by predestination He said, make sure that you are one of them by doing these things. And He said if you can perform godliness in your life, and virtue in your life, and all of these other things then the proof of the apples nature is that the apple comes on the limb. If the apple comes on the limb that's the proof of the nature, not that the apple made the tree an apple tree. It was an apple tree by nature but there was no proof of it. And the proof of it is when the apple grows on the limb. So then, it wasn't the apple that made the apple tree an apple tree, it was the nature of the apple tree that made it an apple tree, but the apple was the proof of the nature. And if there had never been an apple on the tree how are going to prove it has the nature of apples. Or how are you going to prove it was an apple tree. Do you understand what I mean? I am a child of God. I produce the fruits of the Spirit. The fruits of the Spirit is my proof to the world, that all the world might see my fruit and know that I am the right kind of tree. I am a tree of life. But if I go out here and bear the wrong kind of fruit that is the proof that my nature is bad. Good water and bad water cannot come forth from the same fountain. The child is known by his doing. If he does bad he's bad. If he does good he's a good child. So we are by birth born as a son of God. I'm not trying to become a son of God. I am born as a son of God. I was predestinated to be a son of God. I was predestinated unto good works, or I could have been foreordained unto condemnation. Some are foreordained unto condemnation. The Bible said, ungodly men turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. I say again, that is during the days of grace when the blood is on the seat of atonement they just do their ungodly thing and take advantage of the grace and they go on because God does give them grace for the allotted period of time, in that grace is there for those that don't understand, and God cannot move the grace unto everybody comes to the knowledge of right and wrong and then after that He will move the grace. All right. So I'm saying, folks, that even when I am born of God, as to the very beginning, I am then a son of God. I've never manifested any righteousness. God so loved me while I was yet in my sins that He gave His Son to die for me. How much more does He love me now that I'm making an effort. Even if I stumble, how much more does He love me if I'm making an effort to please him. He loved me when I didn't make an effort and He gave His Son to die for me. Slew the lamb from the foundation of the world in the foreknowledge of God that I could be an Son of God. So then, when I'm born again I am a son of God. I have done neither good, or evil, but I was born again. I am then a son of God. And anything I do after that is the revealing of my nature as the Son of God, even to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. See? Righteousness does not come by ritualistics. Righteousness does not come by ritualistics. If it did it would have come by the law, because they were the most devout people in the world. So we cannot have righteousness by our supposedly holy ritualistics. See? God does not reward you like that. Ah, you say, Brother Pike, give me a proof of it. The proof is this. When God spoke of Esau and Jacob, said, He said that the children not yet having done any good or evil. I say to you that Jacob I have loved, but Esau, He said, I hate him. Esau had never done wrong. He had never been born into the world to do a wrong. It was said of Judas, before Judas ever came into the world the prophet said, let another his bishopric take. And Jesus said when He chose him, said, one of you is devil. Satan had never entered into Judas. See? Peter said, elect according to foreknowledge. Paul said, no one can charge God's elect with anything because God has purified them, that they are born of God and they cannot sin, and they keep themselves and the evil one toucheth them not. For He said, I have made perfect forever them that are sanctified. Or I have sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord on the tree. I have perfected forever them that are sanctified. I have glorified them, He said. So then, I am a child of God according to the election of grace. The proof of that is, I can make my calling sure as to whether I am really a son of God, or not, by performing these things. He said, if you can do these things you will never fall. No matter if somebody wants you to fall; you can't fall. A Christian cannot fall. That's why I said the other night over this place called New Jerusalem. See? There is no such thing as a sinning Christian. Somebody speaks of a sinning Christian. There is no such thing as a sinning Christian. Folks, a Christian cannot sin. He that is born of God, the Bible said, he cannot sin, because he is born of God. It didn't say he may not sin. It didn't say that if he tried hard he would escape sin. It said he cannot sin because of his birth. Because of his election. Because of his predestination. He cannot sin because he is born of God and the seed of God, which is the word of faith, even Christ, his hope of glory, remaineth in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. The evil one toucheth him not. So there is no such thing as a sinning Christian. You're either elect unto righteousness and perfected, as to perfection forever, or you are a devil like Judas was. And the preacher is not there to try to make you perfect through ritualistics and formalities, or these kind of things. He is there for the perfecting of the saints, as to reveal to you your rights in God, who you are and what you are by virtue of Jesus Christ that you might believe in that which you hear, because faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. And through this faith comes justification, because God purifies the heart by faith. Abraham was justified by faith, as to the promise of faith. So then, God is purifying our hearts by faith and I'm up here preaching to you to bring to you these wonderful things of God, to explain to you in detail how that God has given you all things that pertain unto life. So what can we say about these things. We are the children of faith. Therefore Abraham is our father, the faithful Abraham. We are children of Isaac. That is of Christ, even the promised son, not children of Hagar that answers to Mount Sinai, or to bondage, which today is and is in bondage with her children, as to say old Jerusalem, or the natural Jew, unto the beggarly elements of the world. I'm not under the beggarly elements of the world. I don't care for the world. I'm not laboring for the meat that perishes. I'm not trying to be some celebrity. I'm not trying to go out in the world to make myself a name. I'm not looking for riches and all those things. God gave me all of those things. He added all of those things. I'm looking for God. I'm looking for the righteousness which is by faith of Jesus Christ. Lest your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees and Scribes, as to self ritualistics and self-righteousness, you can't go in. It's got to be the righteousness of Christ, which is by faith, which is the excelling righteousness. All right. So we're under tutors. Let me say this again. I am not. I am not a son of God. I am not a son of God except by birth. And I have done neither good nor bad when this all comes about. See? I do good now, because I'm taught good. My nature is godly and good, and it brings forth that which is good within my life. That's why I'm preaching to you tonight, is because the nature took me away from the world, put me over here at Bethlehem, built this camp ground, drew the people to me, and here I stand witnessing of what He has done, of His greatness, of His power, of His glory, and that's why we enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise, because He's ever to be praised because of all the things that He's done for us. My conformity to His ways, my conformity to His Word, my conformity to His life, to His righteousness is my submission by faith in believing what He has said, because I want to bring the body to that perfect place, or that inner man, because as to what I bring the body to is my reward. It's my measure. If I bring my body to but little, then I have but little. If I bring my body to great submission, then I have great riches and treasures. And if I bring my body to a full submission then I have the full measure, the full stature to the extent that I become one with my Heavenly Father, and whatever the greatness of the Lord is, so that's what I am. So, see? God did not appoint it as unto new birth. That wasn't it. The church can't do anything. It differeth nothing from a servant because it's under the tutors. It's still in the developing state. Even though the time has already come and the promise has already come, and the seed Jesus Christ, as to whom the promise was made, already come, and the faith, which is by Him, as to our justification has already come, but then we have to be born into the world at our season, at our time, because we have no benefit in that because we have not been born into the world. And yet we do have benefit to that by the election unto grace through the foreknowledge of God. So when we are born into the world then comes our season. Then comes our time of Calvary. Then comes the promise to us. Then comes this timing. We're confronted with the preacher. When we're confronted with the Word of God then our time has come, to see what we will do with it. So then, your ruling power, your authority of what you are going to do to take over the Kingdom, as to do whatever, whether it would be a miracle, whether it would be believing for finance, whatever it would be it is not as to the new birth. But it is appointed unto you as unto the adoption. There is a world of difference as to the adoption. Now, someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, if I'm born into God how can I be adopted? If I'm born into my family, that is to my dad and mother, how can I be adopted? I am a born son. You don't adopt born sons. That's true, but I say to you again that God is a spirit and the thing that was born into the spirit world was my spirit, and at the birth of the spirit my spirit went back to God who gave it, as to the life, being released from the red dragon, as to the blood life of a wicked generation, a generation of vipers, as to that that got into the blood life through the weakness of the woman, that is to say the flesh, it got into that and that life as been in bondage and it is called the red dragon because the bondage is that of the natural blood, which corrupts and tends to corrupt unto death. So that's why the Bible said God suffered not His Holy One to see corruption. There was no sin in Him. His blood couldn't corrupt. And He suffered not His soul to remain in hell, because there was no power that could hold his soul in hell as the punishment. He only went to hell for me, to keep me from having to go to hell so that he could transformate, translate, transfigure me. So then, the powers of death couldn't hold Him. Now He came up for my justification, which means I'm not guilty anymore, that death doesn't have any power over me. That's why Paul said, Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye from this life unto that life, from mortality unto immortality, from terrestrial to the celestial, from the corruptible to the incorruptible at the sounding of the last trump. See? Which means death is conquered. Death is over. Death is gone. With Calvary man don't have to die. You say, But, Brother Pike, why does he still die? From the lack of knowledge. He has not been tutored unto his godship. He has not come to the faith of Jesus Christ that keeps him from death. Will he ever come to it? We're living in the generation that is coming to it now by the revelation of Jesus Christ. When John come into the revelation of Jesus Christ he was caught up into heaven. When Paul came into the revelation of Jesus Christ the Bible said he was caught up into the third heaven. So then, we're coming to this now. In our generation and our age we're coming to the seven fold light of the seven messengers of God, or the tutoring from Calvary in that that was the fullness of time. Now the veil is rent. The light is showing forth, and it is surmounting, and it is compiling itself unto a seven fold tutoring, as to the light being seven fold, the sun and the moon. And this, of course, as to scorching the earth, because you and I are the veil, the body of the Lord Jesus that is standing between God and the world. That's why we have such a hard time. That's why we seem to always have problems, and everybody else gets along fine. But, see? After awhile God is going to let this great light that's within us break forth through the transformating of the mind, as from glory to glory as to a certain time. And that time element is of faith, as to that certain time. And then when it goes through our bodies are changed and taken out and then there is no longer any veil between us and the people. The very day that Lot went out of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible said that in that instant came the fire and the brimstone. So then, when this veil is taken out, as to the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose body ye are, then there is no protection to the people and the brightness of His coming will destroy them. He keeps the Jews in their natural way of life, even all the way over to the millennium, to keep you and I from going out and then God consuming the world. For the Bible said, before the great and notable day of the Lord shall come, which shall burn as an oven. Before that time, not speaking of the spiritual which came at Calvary, before that time, as to the consummation, even at the end of the millennium when the elements shall be on fire and fire shall come down out of heaven and devour those people. See? Before the great and notable day of the Lord comes, I will send the prophet Elijah that he might turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers back to the children. That is, there are parents that lay up for the children. See? Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. That is, if I don't get the natural people of the Jews to become a veil between Me and the people. When the church goes out I'll have to smite the earth. So when the church goes out the Jew comes in and He takes the place of that veil. And He stands between God and the people, but at the end of the millennium the Jew has to be changed and there is not a veil then to stand between God and the people, so the brightness of God comes, the great Ancient of Days, and there is found no place for the sea, and the mountains fade away and the heavens pass away, and the earth passes away and everything passes away and God utterly consumes them. So to let things continue on that He might not smite the earth with a curse He lets the Jews come in until He finishes the restoration and the thousand years millennium in this life. All right. So then, we see that we are born of God, but we are born of the Spirit for God is a spirit. That is what it's all about. The whole dispute is over the body because that which is in the invisible world cannot make itself visible, or manifest itself in this world of tangible things unless it has a human body to work through. And Satan has stolen the human body. That is, he's taken the wife from God, for man is the glory of God. We are the Bride of Christ, and Satan, having taken this body away from God, He hasn't been able to bring forth the Bride. Even in the Jews He couldn't bring it forth, though it was a royal seed. But He is bringing it forth now. Now, let me say this to you. See? Because of this God has to have the body. He must have the body. And we must redeem the body. But He knows that we're helpless, so He gives us a new birth in our spiritual man, and then deals with our body like a little bitty child. And He reveals from within us a little bit at a time with the body so as not to hurt that body while this Christ is forming on the inside of you. Paul said, I travailed until Christ be formed within you. This is the revealing of Christ within you to make you know that you are God, even the members of God's body, bone and flesh of God's body and Christ Jesus got this revelation from God, and it was revealed to Him inwardly that He was very God, even to the full measure of the full stature to say that I am one with my Heavenly Father. And He grew in grace and He grew in knowledge, and though He was man He learned obedience by the things that He suffered. I say again, learning obedience to be my example, because in Christ He knew all things, but in His body He only knew what the Christ would reveal to Him, so He had to grow in the grace and knowledge to be my example to come to a full stature of a full man, to grow in grace with man and with God. So then, the Christ on the inside of you knows all things, but He reveals to my human body a little bit at a time that my body might keep up with the development of my spirit and I'm growing, and this child on the inside__ I just wish we had time to preach to you. I talked to my companion today about a lot of things that I had a chance to say to her, but anyway, getting back to the few little things here that we're trying to bring out. See? The body must coincide with the spirit, so God reveals a little bit at a time that the body might develop gradually into this wonderful Godship and from glory to glory, coming to the fullness of the child, and then the opening of the matrix and the expose, as to the rent veil, in that the Bible said every first born that opens the matrix shall be holy unto me. That was in the Old Testament, as to a natural. And there in the Old Testament, I tell you again, that the beast have a soul, but the soul goes down, the Bible said. But we pass from the soul realm to the spirit realm, because as to the soul, that that dies, it is that that has sinned. But as to the quickening spirit there is no soul to die. It is already taken care of. We passed from that to the quickening spirit. That is, we are a spiritual being. When I am dead by the body of Jesus__ That is to say, by the body of Jesus at Calvary, I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me. That is, my body is dead, my body is gone. My body is no more. I'm no more flesh. I am now a spiritual being. ( Begin tape two, side two.) ...death my spirit went back to God who gave it, and the Bible said, you are not of this world. I have chosen you out of this world and I have hid you with God in Christ. Ye that are sitting in the heavenly places, rejoice forever more, for I have caught you up into the heavens. Your body is dead. You are not in the flesh anymore. The beast part hath no preeminence over you anymore. You have passed from the flesh to the spirit. You are now a spiritual being. You've been born again as a spiritual being and your spiritual being is equal to the angels and cannot die. And Satan cannot touch your spiritual inner man, Paul called it, because he is sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption, which means the redemption of the body. I say this again. When I say this sofa over here, this chair over here, this fabric over here I put safe-guard in it. It has become interwoven with the fabric; there can be no more stains on it. See? God has become interwoven as His Spirit and my spirit. Satan's spirit can never stain my spirit. I'm sealed. He can never touch me. So, I'm working with the body. I'm working with the body to manifest, as to whatever my measure will be in that body, as to childhood, as to parenthood, or whatever I give, as to the surrender of my body, as to the submission of my body. If I go all the way then I shall be equal to my master. He went all the way. And I ask God to help me. See? I could never go and be as my master, except through what the master has done for me. The master has become perfect and now I can be perfect through what the master did for me, because I can, by His blood atonement, have that new life, and I can develop. Even though I stumble He does not mark it against me. Why? Because where these things are, as to the justification by faith, there is no conscience of sin. I don't have a conscience of sin. See? I am not conscious of sin. To be conscious means you are alive. Somebody says, he is no unconscious; he is conscious. And Paul said, I strive always to keep my conscience. That is, my awareness of life. He said, clear of condemnation, of any kind of feel toward man and God. See? I am no more conscious of life in the natural world. I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me. So I have no connection with the beggarly elements of this world. There is no more conscience of sin. I am not conscious of sin anymore. I am not alive out there in the realms of sin. There is no consciousness of sin where I am. The evil one touches me not. I am without spot, wrinkle and blemish. Perfected forever because He has sanctified me as the inner man. And then He says, be holy in body and in spirit. And Paul said, I would present you body, soul and spirit blameless to God. So then, we see that we are working to bring the body into a perfection. Now, I said that to get down to this. See? So then, it does not depend on my new birth. It does not depend on my new birth, as to my demonstration. Jesus went away in the wilderness, driven into the wilderness by the spirit and then returned in the power of the Spirit. So then, the power of the Spirit is not demonstrated through me because I've been born again as a child, for I'm no more than a servant. I cannot take the rule. I cannot order Satan around. I cannot drive him around. See? because I'm still yet under tutors. I'm like a little boy that has to be watched after by mother and daddy. But the thing is there is another time of appointment and this is the time appointed of the Father, not as to the new birth, but as to the adoption. So then, I am a son of God by birth. New birth through the inner man, because I'm dead, as far as the first man. If there is anything else there has to be new child to come with the new life. See? But in my body, my body which is planted in a watery grave in the name of Jesus, God never sees my flesh anymore as that. I am now a new baby. And I am now coming into perfection as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and the more this life on the inside makes these little blood cells, make these little genetics, the bigger I am and the more perfect I am as the embryo, or whatever it might be as the fetus. See? I am now developing into sonship. I am coming into life. I am coming on into form. I am coming on into the likeness of the Son of God. As I have born the image of the earthy, so shall I bear the image of the Heavenly. So I am moving into this. I am moving toward the time of the appointment. What is the time of the appointment? The adoption. But can I be adopted? Am I not a born again son of God? I am, so far as my angelic part, so far as my spiritual part, so far as my inner man. But I am not according to my body. There is nothing about your body that's ever been born again. Somebody says, Well, boy, we're wretched. No, you're not wretched, because you are dead. You say, But, Brother Pike, if my body hasn't been born again then I'm in a terrible, terrible condition. You would be if you were not dead. But in that you're body is dead, your body can't touch your spirit and your spirit went back to God who gave it when you were buried in the water. See? It's about the body. I wish we could go into it. But, anyway, I'm saying the time of appointment is as to your body. It is as to your body. What is the time of appointment? It is the adoption, for I am born again as an inner man, as to my spirit, but I cannot be born again, as to my flesh. There is no way. New birth cannot come to flesh. Therefore the Bible uses the terms, a nation born in one day, as to the Jews, to show my change of the body. The Bible speaks of the change from mortality to immortality. And it speaks of that as in the moment in the twinkling of an eye. But that has nothing to do with my sonship. I'm already a son of God. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God, John said. It does not appear what your body is going to be like when it changes. Or that is, it does not appear what you're like, but at that change we'll be like Him for we'll be bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. So then, it is a time appointed to the Father, as to the Bar Mitzvah, which is the change of the body, or what we call the redemption of the body. We're still in the spirit waiting for the redemption of the body, and yet we're not waiting for the redemption of the body. The body has already been redeemed at Calvary for it is the purchased possession, but we're waiting to wit the redemption of our bodies. That is, to comprehend the heights. To comprehend the depths. To comprehend the greatness of God, the mystery of Paul that we should not die, and that we should not sleep. I am already passed from death unto life. So far as my spirit it can never leave God, and that is death, but I have not yet overcome the sleep until the change. And Paul said there is a generation that is going to come to the knowledge to overcome the sleep. I go to awake Lazarus because he sleepeth. And he said, some of these have fallen asleep that knew about Jesus as the resurrection. So then, the time appointed of the adoption will stop the sleep of the body. So, I am waiting for the adoption. Under the tutors until the time appointed of the Father, and then we're no longer under tutors; we are then sons and we come to the adoption. So God has to adopt the body because the body is from another family, even the family of Adam. He has to adopt that, and He has to do it through the legalistics, because if you adopt a child you have to go through the law. That's why that the Jews take up that end of it, as to the legalistics, the Jews must come in, because the Jews represent the body and it has to go through the law, and the law is to be made manifest. And when this comes about that is the adoption, because the Jews has to do with the legalistics, as of the law. So then, when they come in then it brings in the thousand years millennium reign, as to them keeping the ritualistics, or those things that God laid down for the body, whatever it might be. But I am already born again. I'm already a son of God. I've already come into the wonderful things of God, and all I'm doing is waiting for the redemption, or to wit the redemption of the body. I'm preaching to you the redemption of the body, as to the knowledge of the revelation of the Son of God to reveal to you that the body has been redeemed just like the spirit has been redeemed, but that you can't change the body until you come to the mind of God. And when you come to the mind of Christ, the fullness of the mind of Christ, as to whatever it will be, then you can change the body. And those who do not come to the fullness of the mind of Christ, if they are in stride toward that, they belong to the family and they are the children. At the change of mother and daddy the children go with them, and they are changed through the knowledge of what mother and daddy know, in that they are tutoring them, guiding them, holding their hand and the whole God family is changed into that celestial body. So we are trying to tutor you to bring you to the place to where you don't have to sleep. When you come to this it will bring the Lord back and the dead will get up out of the grave because death only has power, or preeminence over those that are in the grave because of one thing. It isn't because death hasn't been conquered. It is not because death has not been destroyed. Jesus said, I destroyed him that hath power over death. A little boy called me the other night as I started out the door and he said, Brother Pike, I want to ask you something. I said, All right, what is it? He said, If God has power over the devil why come He don't destroy him and get rid of him? I said, Well, that's a good question right there. And then I tried to explain to him as I walked toward home. I said, Son, God hath already destroyed the devil. I said, The Bible said that God hath destroyed him that hath power over death. Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven. I said, That isn't the problem. I said, The problem is, you and I have never believed it. I said, We've never heard it tutored, never comprehended it, never believed it. I said, If we would listen, if we would understand and then we would believe it, that would be the end of it. He said, Oh, said, that's all right then. And on his way he went. He understood what I said. See? So the problem isn't with God; it's with you and I. We're the ones that's to blame for the situation. We're so slow developing. Like the song I wrote, you know, Jesus, why do you take so long? And He said to me, He said, I've been waiting all the time for you. So, see? This is the thing. When I get ready, He said, then we're ready to go. We're ready to go. So God is waiting for you, as to faith, as to development, as to us coming into this thing as to applying ourselves. Instead of coming for a forty-five minute sermon, say, wait, Brother Taylor, we'll stay here all night. We'll catch us a nap, get us some breakfast and we'll be right back. You know, that is, we're going to get into this thing and we're going to get it over. And after awhile it's going to grip people just that way. Out here the things are going to get so bad, the surroundings, the environment is going to be so bad, and you're not going to have any money, you're not going to be able to get rich, and you're business is just going to be something for the government so that they can pick up everything for taxes, and after awhile you'll get discouraged and quit, like a bunch of hippies have already done. All right. So then, Paul said, O foolish Galatians. Then He began to tutor then. Then He began to tell them that the time appointed of the Father, not to get discouraged. He began to explain to them that they are children of God, that they are children of light. That this thing is a living reality. It's not something somebody is saying. I already have this heavenly treasure in my earthen vessel, as to Christ, the eternal life, living on the inside of me. I've already got this thing and it's working within me from glory to glory, as I move on. Elijah did it. Enoch did it. Others did it as it moved on. And even though God shortened the life span so that we could do it as a group, to move on as a group, we are now moving on as a group. Moving on. God has got us moving on into these wonderful things of God. How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of great joy. They've published on the mountain, peace. Peace on earth and good will toward man. So then, we could stop here. There are so many things I'd like to say, but we can stop here and say that there is a promise, as the time appointed of the Father. There is a change. And as to the promise, as to the faith, as to the justification, not of human works lest any man should boast, but it is as the gift of God. And as to the faith that is dead without works, he's speaking not of the Son of God's faith, as to justification, but he's speaking of your faith and my faith. Whereas we do the things that please God, hereby we assure our heart, then do we have confidence before God and we receive what we ask of God because we do the things that please God. We know that He hears us. We know that God hears us. If you do the things that please God that proves you are a son of God. How could He do anything else but hear you. It's for sure that God hears you. So, if you know that He hears you then you know that you have the petitions that you desire of Him. But, I say again, where is the confidence, which is faith. Can you believe that mommie has the table spread. The song says, Jesus has the table spread where the saints of God fed. Come and dine, come and dine. All right, let's stand together. (Someone prophesies) Praise the Lord. Can you say praise the Lord? Hallelujah! Let's just lift our hands up and praise the Lord. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your wonderful presence, for your glory and for your kindness and Lord, your consideration. The love that you give toward us, dear God, we thank you for it. May we be inspired even unto the Heavenly places, Lord, to enjoy this wonderful thing that God has blessed us with, knowing that now man has now come down to the end of the trail. And in that He's come to the change the end of the days of the Gentiles are over, Father, and gone. They're beginning to recede, to be behind us, and the Jews are beginning to come in. And, O God, we know by that that if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead, or the resurrection, or the change of the body, O God, may it be even so. Knowing that it's near at hand, as to these wonderful things, please be merciful to us. Love us and teach us and guide us. In the sweet, lovely name of your darling Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! Let's sing that little chorus, I Love Him. (Singing) Well, the altars are open. If you'd like to come down to the altar you may. Preaching to you about the resurrection of Jesus and the resurrection and the justification. We're now justified in the sight of God from all of the things Paul said you could not be justified from under the law. And those things being a shadow, or a type of this which is to come, could never make the comer thereunto perfect. So he said, those that were under the law, he said they died in faith, not having received the promise, because without us they could not be made perfect. But when Jesus came and went down into the heart of the earth then perfection came and He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified and since we are thus, the Bible said, we are not looking through a glass darkly, but we're beginning to see face to face. And the veil of the former has been taken away and the rent veil of that which covered Moses' face, it's being taken away and we're seeing right to the end of this thing. Not as a life of condemnation, or under condemnation, in that the law was added because of transgression until the seed could come, but we're beginning to look past the veil, and we're beginning to look into the very face of God, and so we're change from glory to glory. That which is perfect has come. That which is in part is being done away with and we're being changed from glory to glory as we behold the light, the glory of that unveiled face, as beholding His glory, or His face in a mirror, and changed into the very image of the wonderful Son of God. Let's sing that song. (Singing) Can you sing it again? (Singing) Let's sing this song again, can we? We sang it this morning. Give me another key, Frank. (Singing) Sing it again. (Singing Begin tape three, side one.) Can you sing it again with me? (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Did you know that if you are born again you're ready? How many know that you are ready? Let's give Him a hand. How many know that you're ready if you've been born again? If you are born again then you're ready. Let's sing it again now; we're ready. You know, are we ready? (Singing) Sing it again with me. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Singing) Somebody say praise the Lord. (Singing) Sing it with me now. (Singing) Well, the Bible said, in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son made of a woman and made under the law to redeem them from under the law, from the curse of the law. And since that time Peter has said, ye are the people upon whom the end of the world has come. Since that time the world has been passing away. The world having been in your heart, and God speaking the world out of your heart as to the brightness of His coming, as from revelation to revelation beholding as the glory of God within that mirror, seeing Him, as to face to face we're changed into the very image. We don't know what He looks like but we know that when He appears we'll be like Him for we shall see Him as He is, and every man that has the hope within himself purifies his heart himself, even as He is pure. The song writer said, How about your heart? Is it right with God? Though people often see you as you are outside, but Jesus really knows you as you are inside. How about your heart? Is it right with God? Sing that one more time. If this is the fullness of time, if the fullness of time has come and we've been translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God, in that the Bible said the law and the prophets were until John, and since that time the fullness of time, or that is, the Kingdom of God has come and we're praying, Father, Thy will be done in this earth as it has been done there in Heaven. Or, as is done in Heaven. Coming to the fullness of time, then that means that we have been released from the bondage and the elements of this world. My body has then been buried and my spirit has gone back to God who gave it, and God has translated me, as to the inner man, into the marvelous kingdom of my God, and today I am born of Him and cannot sin and keep myself and the evil one touches me not. So, we are a church without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. And I know that when He speaks of the church in general He is speaking of the body, and He will bring the body, as to the Jews, as to the woman fleeing into the wilderness when the child goes up to the throne. I realize that. And we're right there on the verge of those things right now. But we've been born again, folks. We are they that dwell in Heaven. And the Bible said, You are not of this world. I have chosen you out of the world. If He's chosen you out of the world then that means the world is no longer in your heart and you're no longer in the world. You're not in the flesh, for you are dead to the world by the body of Jesus. You are dead to the flesh and the flesh is dead to you. So then, let's sing that song again. We're free from that. We're not creatures of time element. For, I say again, if you be of that then you die, for by the law, that is, the letter that killeth, but the Spirit that giveth us life, as the New Testament. Even the words, Jesus said, I speak unto you are spirit and life. That means that we are living creatures. Coming as the prince of life to give you life, and that you might have it more abundant, which means filled up and overflowing. For He said, I have given you all things that pertain unto life. So that means that we should rejoice forever more. We should be glad because we are now free from sin. We are now free from death. We've passed from death unto life and we're free from the time elements of this world. There is a time to die but we are not under the time elements. It is appointed unto man once to die, but we are not men; we are sons of God. For the Bible said God looked down from heaven and He heard the groaning of the prisoners. That is, them that were shut up under the law, and He received and released and gave life to them that were under the law, for He delivered the prisoners for He heard them at a time accepted and He succored them. In a time accepted He freed them from the bondage of the prison. Someone said, Well, I don't understand that. Well, the Bible said He heard the groaning of the prisoners and He looked down from heaven and He delivered them. He succored them. He saved them. He Himself said as He stood in the synagogue, for the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He hath sent me. He hath anointed me to preach deliverance to the captives, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to bring the sight back to the blind, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, to make known the day of the Lord and of His joy, and to make known the day of His wrath, as that upon the wicked. So when He came, heard us in a day accepted, Calvary, opened the door, out came the prisoners. The prisoners that were bound by death, and they without us could not be made perfect. That is, they could not find the promise of life, or be free from the grave, and they rested in their lot, as it was said to Daniel, until our day. And then they came out of the grave. And we all were in the grave, for the stone has been rolled away and we're free from the grave. And He has taken out the heart of stone and placed within us a heart of flesh, and He has written His laws upon the tables of our heart. His love has constrained us to walk in His way, and today we are known as an epistle that is known and read of all men. So, let's sing that again. Time is now gone. The world is now gone for you and I. It's gone. We are they that dwell in heaven. We made the translation. We made the change. For God hath translated us into the Kingdom, and you are now in the Kingdom of God. To wit the change of the body; that's all the we're waiting for. (Singing) In the foreknowledge of God it was given to us. He saw the angel stand. He saw everything. He saw us in the wonderful presence of God, in the marvelous Kingdom of God, and He brought it to light at Calvary, as to what He hath seen. The world has passed away with Calvary, and we are they that dwell in the new world. Old things have passed away and, behold, all things have become new. As the song writer said, I'm in a new world since the Lord saved me. Let's sing the song, The Stone Is Rolled Away. (Singing) Sing it again with me. The heart of stone is gone. (Singing) I want you to lift your hands up with me. To cross the Jordan, to get over the Jordan. While we're standing here thinking about getting over the Jordan, and the Lord said to Joshua, Cross over to the other side. Crossing over to the other side. Getting over the Jordan. The Jordan, as to the intellectual reasoning, to be carnally minded is death. And in the time of harvest Jordan overflows all it's banks. We must be in the time of harvest, because intellect is overflowing all of it's banks. And gross darkness, as to intellectual reasoning, is covering the people, and people are becoming creatures of circumstantial environment, as to an imprisonment because of intellectual indoctrination, and governmental constraints of intellectual people. Gross darkness is covering the people. But the Bible said, It shall come to pass in the evening time the veil would be rent. That of Calvary would show, and light would come at the evening time. For there has sprang up unto them that sat in the regions of the shadow of death great light. And the Bible said, even until the daystar dawns within your heart. For as the song writer said, Bethlehem. O, beautiful star of Bethlehem, brighter and brighter it will shine unto the land of perfect day. Or bringing us into the millennium of God, as today, the day of God's rest, as to the perfect day. Father, look down upon us and help us, and guide us, and teach us the wonderful ways of God. Hear our praise and our honor tonight as we give honor and praise unto You, glorifying Your lovely name, and asking you to be with us. Heal the sick bodies of the people of the people tonight. Deliver them from poverty around the world, Heavenly Father. Deliver them from fears and frustration. Take them over the Jordan into the beautiful land of Canaan, to where we can have that harvest, Lord, or that new crop that comes down from heaven, even heavenly treasure in the earthen vessels. Let's sing this little chorus together, can we, before we dismiss? (Singing) Can you sing it again with me? (Singing) Let's give Him a hand. Can you say praise the Lord? Let's lift up our hands and close our eyes and think about what God has done for you and me. Let's just close our eyes and we're going to ask Brother Len Lundebo to come and pray with us. Len has just come back from California. And while Len is coming let's praise the Lord. Can you praise the Lord? Lift up your hands and praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord, all ye people. Clap your hands, make a joyful noise unto the Lord. This is what God is wanting you to do. He's wanting you to praise Him, because He inhabits the praise of His people.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord