Oneness With God

Tonight as we read a little Scripture, I want you to think on this: maybe as we try to comment on your thought. Maybe we can do like we did the other night, combine a thought or two. Chapter 16 of the Book of Saint Matthew it says, the thirteenth verse...(Brother Pike reads Saint Matthew Chapter 16: 13-19.) now, if you'll notice it says that it is a spiritual revelation that Peter got. He said, For I say unto thee that education did not give you this. Intellectual reasoning, much study, research, that is, the flesh didn't have anything to do with this. Said, My Father had to reveal this to you as to who I am. In the natural your are an individual; in the spiritual you are an individual. So you say, Who am I? Who do men say that I am? Well, they say all kind of things. They say, You are a devil. They say, You are a deceitful one. They say, You are a hypocrite. They say, You are a cult. They say all kind of things. But Peter gave the right answer. He apparently had a revelation from the Heavenly Father. But the thing that I'd like for you to notice is that it says, Some say, Thou art John the Baptist, some Elijah, Now I want you to notice thias, he says in Chapter 17, verse eleven, or ten, verse 10: "And his disciples asked his saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?" This is after that He appeared in glory with Moses and Elijah. They knew that this had to be the Christ. They said, Now, why is it that Elijah must first come as to the Scriptures, and yet, you're here and we haven't seen Elijah? (Brother Pike reads: Saint Matthew Chapter 17: 11,12,13.) Now the thought is this: was he actually speaking unto them of John the Baptist? Why is it he uses the terms, "And Jesus answered and said unto Them, Elijah truly shall first come? Why does he use this like: he truly shall come as to use something like a future thing, like he's saying here, he is going to come, and then he turns and he says, He's come already. It's obvious that there's a two'fold meaning to what he says as concerning Elijah; and someone would say, Well, it was really Elijah. It wasn't no John the Baptist. But then, why is it that they said, Here, some said, You are John the Bapist, and some say, Elijah, and it uses two: John the Baptist and Elijah. Some say that thou art John the Baptist, some, Elijah. So it makes you to really wonder here what is going on? And yet, when you think back as to the days as of Moses the Bible says that God put the spirit of Moses upon the people. Now that is to say that God has given you and I the Spirit of Jesus, the Christ. He has given us the Spirit of Christ. He has put the Spirit of Christ upon us. As Jesus said, For the Spirit of God is upon me; it is upon me to preach the Gospel. And the Spirit of Christ is given unto us by measure according to what we can receive, as to whatever we're willing to submit to then we can have as to sowing so is the reaping, And Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever, He did that in the days of Moses. He took the spirit of Moses and put it upon the people; and then he Took the Spirit of Christ when Christ Jesus came and put it upon the people to this extrent He said, And in that day, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. So He has put it upon all flesh to the extent of the grace of God, that God may see all flesh as the body of the Lord Jesus, in that He died for the sins of the world to take away the sins of all the world as to give them a day of Grace that God may see the Spirit of Christ. Then the Lord Jesus, the same yesterday, today and forever. Here it says, And Elijah has come already; which it evident that he came, John the Baptist had come in the spirit of Elijah. Now being the same yesterday, today and forever we ask the question today, Would he then do that Today or could He Then do that today? Would he then take a measure of a man's spirit as in this day and put it upon somebody? Would God take the spirit of Brother Taylor an put it upon you as an individual? Would He do that? Could He do that? He could if he was the same yesterday, today and Forever. Could He take of a minister's spirit and put it upon somebody? It was that he did this with Jesus. It was that He did this with John. It was that He did with Moses. Not any of them took Moses' place, nor Elijah's place, nor Jesus' place, but as of the measure of the Spirit of Christ or of Moses as to law many that came to the message of that hour, He put that spirit upon them. And somebody would say. Well, I just don't believe that He's do that today, Brother Pike. But I saw a vision, it was a number of months ago, and He had taken of my spirit and he had put it upon somebody. In the vision He has taken it and it was the Spirit of the anointing of God that He had given me and that He had put upon me as to the Revelation of Jesus Christ and as to the measure of whatever to the individual He put it upon him. I never even mentioned it even to my wife. It's probably surprising to her. I never mentioned it to nobody that I know of. But I'm just saying that a lot of time maybe I don't mention anything to you that God is doing, and then a lot of times I mention things to you. Many multiplied things that I never mention to you. So then is there a reason for that or is there something that God is doing or something that He's wanting to do or does it mean anything as a gathering of people when we come together as to what the minister is saying or if it's a move of God why is it a move of God at this time, or what kind of move of God is it, and is it that that is thought important enough or worthy enought or as to God's evaluation that He should put this upon people as He said in the days of Moses when he put his spirit upom numbers of those people? Well, it depends on you know you believing. It's like Sister Jacqueline was telling us today, she was telling us this morning, she had been real sick and I had been praying for them and praying for Floyd and I think Floyd was back this moring. I had prayed especially for him last night. They were at church today. But she said she had been so sick and It just looked like she would die and she said to her husband that something's wrong and she went off into a deep sleep. And then she said she saw us as and individual or minister in this deep sleep and she said we took her finger like this and touched it some way or another and encircled her like this all the way around and she said. If I've got the vision right, she said, and then she saw me an individual in one of the most beautiful robes she had ever seen in all of her life and said, I believe she said, it was like a deep purple, whereas, purple indicates royolty. But I said that to say this, she said that she saw my mother and she was talking to an, individual that is sitting here that she said she was talking to in the vision, two individuals sitting here, that she said she was talking to in the vision. And she said that she said to them, Said, You all are not getting it. Said, You all are not getting it. Said, What he did or has done, it was a act of translation or spiritual thing that has happened as to this message. Said, I believe in it and said, It has translated me and she had gone up, up up, like this to come into the presence of my mother and I don't know who all, what all, but I said that again to make a point and that is she said that these individuals wasn't getting it. They wasn't getting it. Said, She could tell they wasn't getting it. But she said that she turned and she looked a little boy by the name of David Cartrette, said, He was really enthused over it and was really listening to it and seemed to be outstanding in her mind that this little one was pressing in to hear what was being said, whereas David does do that. I've got a number of little ones that do that when others seemed to be dying in the wilderness it looks like that the youth comes in. The elders they judge me. They're always judgeing me. They take me into their mind and I don't care how many times I preach to them, how many years I preach to them, there's something about their intellectual reasoning that they've made their way of life and they've received a program into their minds to where that they have a resistance in their being toward what I'm trying to do. And instead of being like a little child, you know, when Jesus said, Peter, who am I? And He said, Thou art the Christ. And he was right. See, he believed. He really believed that Jesus was the Christ. So he just up and said, Thou art the Christ. And he said, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee. That wasn't your human reasoning. That wasn't a human resistent nor a human constraint. He said, My Father in heaven, God being a Spirit, a spirit revelated, a spiritual revelation, he said, My Father in heaven has reveled this to you. So I said agian to try to get you to understand that even though I minister to you, even though I say things to you, that does not necessarily mean that God has taken of the spirit of the anointing of himself as to this ministry of this hour or of this day if it be important to your life, it does not mean that He has put it upon you. But when you believe. Like the Bible said, When you pray, believe. And when you believe, then you become partakers of this ministry. Now, I've said this a lot of times. I want to comment again on it tonight. I try to get around to taking a question, but I want to comment on this. See, whereas the Bible uses the terms that we are like the church. That is, he uses the terms that we are of the church, not like the church, but of the church, and that we are likened unto a marriage. We're likened unto a marriage, that is a man and a woman comes together. And you wonder what he means that the church is likened unto a marriage. Why does he likened it unto a marriage? Because God has made a woman that they might give forth an allegoric meaning of their life to reveal what the church is like, the church and God. If a person marrys, then a true marriage is when the woman believes so much in her companion, trusts so much in her companion, looks unto him for provision, for livelihood, and for instruction and guidance in that he is her head. She looks to him so much that she trusts in him with all of her heart. She doesn't reason, she doesn't lean to her own understanding, she don't try to figure it out in her mind, she just thinks, now I know that he'll make a living. I can trust in him. You know, I can trust in his strong arms, his body. He'll get out, he'll prevail, he'll fight the battle. He'll plow through. He'll bring home the good. I know I can. I can trust in him. My little children can trust in him. He's daddy. That is. He's the father. And I'm trusting in him. I know he'll do it; cold, rain, it don't make any difference, he'll do it. See, she gets to where she confides in him. She looks to him. She believes that he's got the right understanding, the right instruction, and even though she might disagree with him at times, she'll get off later and she'll think it over and she'll think, Well I disagreed, but down in my heart I really know that he's right. I can tell the way he said it and the way he does things, and I know he does what he says or he tries to do it. You know, the man is suppose ot look to God exactly the same way that the woman looks to the man. Whereas in this day a woman don't look to a man like that. So she really isn't his wife, like a young girl was telling me today, her husband went off and left her and left her little one. She'd come over to the house with Joe and with Randy, and Betty was introducing me to the young lady and she said, Marriage doesn't mean anything anymore. You know, it just doesn't mean anything anymore. And I thought, I listened real close to her, and if she's here tonight I don't mean no offence by it, but the way she said it, I could tell it wasn't all the man's fault. When her spirit came in her spirit came in real lighthearted as if to say, Marriage really hasn't meant that much to her. It really hasn't joined her together with the individual, because I could tell by the way that she expressed herself. See, marriage is a second institution. It is something tha God has brought about to show the church and to show the bride of Christ. So, when we don't have any sacred feeling about it, when we don't have any understanding about it, and stability toward it, to realize that until death do we part from one another, then there's something wrong with us. There's something wrong with us. We're not really man and wife, as to husband and wife, that is. We're not really man and wife. See, there's something wrong because the woman is suppose to trust in the husband with all of her heart and this is what makes her a wife. This is what makes her one with her hausband. Is that her spirit is yeilded and given to another mind. She, her spirit, her life isn't folling her mind anymore. It isn't following that. Her mind was her father's mind. Her mind was her family mind, and then when she married she took on another mind which was her husband's mind and her mind is completely transformated. Paul said, be therefore transformated by the renewing of your mind an the Husband indoctrinates her form day to day, he is giving forth a word of understanding and and inlightment to her and she enlarges upon it like the woman said carrying the the child as to Jesus said, And my soul doth magnify God. And her spirit magnifies her husband within her heart, and her conception is as it would be as to the bride to the divine one to bring forth Christ, and his image with the heart and the woman also conceived of the man's love and of his strength of his knowledge of his integrity, of his feeling toward her. He's concern and she magnifies him in her heart that she just thinks he's bigger and greater and more mighteir all the time. So then in this her spirit is gaining momentum in him, and her spirit is leaving off with her way of life and her knowledge, her thinking, and her spirit is transforming from glory to glory as we say, or spirit into the mind of Christ Jesus in that it is Christ within us that gives us the hope of that glory that he was in as he stood on the mount between Moses and Elijah, here comes the transfomation. From thougt to thought as the man daily loves her and enraptures her and embraces her and caresses her, her mind more and more surrenders to him, the more that this happens the more she relaxes. She enters in a rest. She's not struggling, she's not tyring to figure out how she's going to make a dollar, how that she's going to feed herself, clothe herself or how she's going to make provisions or whatever. She's not worried about that anymore. It takes a little time you know like I was telling my son the other day, I said, You just can't make a woman conform overnight. I said, you can't do that. I was talking to one of my sons, I said, It takes years to do that. Her mind has been with her family. Her mind has been in another world. It's a different thing altogether, and it's unfair for the man to want to just rip her away form her loved ones, her family and just tear her all to pieces and think that she ought to just conform to him overnight. Men are cruel. They're wretched. See, he is suppose to work with her like a child until she can gain confidence in him and see the stability of manhood in him and see that he is a real man, that he'll provide and that she can reason with him when she has problems. Well, anyway that isn't going to set so good. Maybe I better say something about the man. But anyway, I'm just saying that his is Christ and the Church. the more that she is indoctrinated, the more her mind transformate into this wonderfulness of her companion, and soon as the Bible says, they're no more twain, no more two minds about it. No more two spirits about it, no more two goals in the world about it, no more two goals. You see a woman, she wants a career in the world; this man wants his career in the world, a position in the world, whatever it might be, that's not God. Whatever the man is that's what the woman is. What ever that man wants to be that's what the women's suppose to be. She's suppose to get right in there with him and be one. If she wants a businesss, she's suppose to be a part of that business. She's suppose to get right in there into that. She's not suppose to have her own thing going and he has his own thing going, that's not right. Can you picture me having my own thing going and Christ having his own thing going and us being one, can you picture that? I don't see how we could ever be one like that. See, he has one thing and I am part of that. He made me. I come forth from him. I belong to him. Someone would say, But Brother Pike, that isn't the way that it is with a man and a woman. Well, if that isn't the way it is then I've missed it. But according to the Bible that's the way it is. No, you say, it couldn't be that cause see, Brother Pike, it's not like that. Because we say, I am born an individual as a woman. He's born an individual as a man, so it couldn't possibly be like that. You understand what I'm saying? Because we say, God made the Individual and naturally it's going to conform to God and the individual was one in the beginning, but see, it is like that. In the foreknowledge of God before was ever born before I ever came forth, Before my companion ever came forth then God looked down from heaven and he saw us in his foreknowledge as in companionship, so she was mine before she ever came into the world. I belonged to her as a husband before I ever came into the world. We didn't just happenly come together or happen to come together and begin to form a union. That wasn't the way it was. I was pre-ordained to that position, and when the time came we met each other and that's the way it was and that's what love is. If it wasn't that way in you life, then you missed it. You didn't get your companion. You didn't get the right rib, and that's why you have so much problems. Said, It would be a prick in your side So this is the way it is: We search, we look, we see all kind of womem or all kind of men, but after a while something clicks. Something gets a hold of us and we think, Well, this is the one and that's the one but after a while, We see this and we think, Now that man he looks handsome. He is, I know he's mine, and that's the way a girl gets. I like the way his nose is made, the way he bats his eyes. And the women she's the same way you know. A man sees her and she throws a curl around on her shoulder, women do that, and he'll say, that's mine. I just know she's mine. And he gets a little close to her and it's like that vision I had you know about the examintion of those fish, and she begins to loom out and wants to scratch his eyes out in a temper and he'll say, I made a mistake. I've made a mistake. And the same way with the man, if he wants to lounge around and drink and not work and not make a living and she says, well, I've made a mistake. A lot of times too late they find this out; and then of course a lot of times you see somebody, he doesn't look too handsome, and maybe the woman she doesn't look too pretty. She might even have a freckle or two, and you say, Well, that could never be mine, but the more that you look at her the more that you think: my, my,even her freckles are pretty. And the same way with a women looking at a man you know, she'd think, Well, I don't know I didn't think he was so handsome but there's just something about him, you know, he just fits my taste to a tee, and after a while, you're married. Folks, this is the way it is with Jesus. The Bible said, He had no beauty that we should desire him. He was a man a sorrow. He was acquianted with grief. Surely he hath born our sorrows, Bruised in our behalf. He doesn't have any beauty. You know you meet the things of the world and you meet Satan and he sparkles ad he dazzels you know, and he's got all the world, and you look at Jesus, he don't have nothing but the scars and the blood, you know, the bloodstains and you look at him a people disdain him and people put him down and people say things about him and people mocked the religious way of life, they call you a fool and all kind of things, but there's something about him that you love him. He just fits you to a tee. He fits your taste. And when a woman fits a man like this, then his spirit is put upon that woman. You know then come together and she sees him, and he might not look like she thought her husband was going to look, and he might not be what she thought in her natural reasoning, but there's something about it that his spirit has got off on her; and folks, you need to watch this, you young girls and boys for sure, a woman can put her spirit on you and a man even put his spirit on you, and they can walk by and they can be anointed of the devil with an evil spirit, a spirit of lust, a spirit of conniving, a spirit of shrewdness, whatever it is, that individual that you associate with can put that spirit over on you. Evil communication can corrupt good manners and you might be the right kind of person but you stay around that individual and in a little while you'll get to acting like they do and think like they do and working like they do, and get to be one with them. See, two cannot walk together lest they be agreed, so if they are walking together, it is obvious that somewhere they are in agreement and they are getting more and more in agreement as they walk together, that's why its important that you get away from a thing if you perceive there's no understanding in a man or a women, get away from them. Get away from them, because they'll swallow you up, they're cons and all kind of things, whoremongers. They are harlots; but anyway, a woman can pass by, a man can pass by, whatever and if you're not careful as it was with David standing out there on the roof top when he beheld that woman the spirit of that woman get upon him, the devil got a hold of him, The spirit of lust got a hold of David. And that devil of lust got a hold of David and was eating him up. He couldn't do anything see, and finally he commited murder. It cause him to commit murder. Think about that: a man after God's own heart and he was pulled so far away from his stedfastness in God that he comitted murder because of the foolishness of the flesh. So I said that to say this, if a woman is really the wife to a man or if he's really her husband then they become one. In heaven there won't be any male or female. They came to Jesus and they said, Seeing that a number of men had this woman said, Now in the resurrection whose wife is she going to be? Jesus said, You err not knowing the Scripture. See, he said, you're natural minded. Whereas, Peter was spiritually minded, these people were naturally minded. He said, In the resurrection they won't marry, neither are they given in marriage they're like the angels. That is they are not human in bodies as to human relation, as to passions. He said, they're angelic beings. They're like the angels in Heaven. They're spiritual belings. They are not living souls, they are quickening spirits and in heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage. He said, You do err not knowing the Scriptures. They do that you know, or they did that to try to trap him in his words. People do me the same way. They're always asking me questions, always saying things. They'll go off and dream up something or come up with something, and they'll say, Aha! I want to see Brother Pike. But never the less that's alright God's got the answer. You know, I don't have to keep it filed away in some file cabinate over here that it's Revelation 19 and Peter II, and whatever. Its already in my heart. It's in heaven and whenever I get ready for it I'll just tell him and he'll say, Here it is. So they could not withstand Christ, the wisdom by which he spoke no more than they could Stephen and the others; but remember, stay away from powers of evil. Stay away afrom evil communications. Stay away from spirits, and when a young girl is looking for a husband, beware. And when a young man is looking for a wife, beware, becaused you've got to become one with that spirit, if it a harlot spirit, two cannot be joined together lest if that be a harlot, lest you be a harlot also, Lest you be a whore-monger also, lest you be a drunkard, for the Bible said, If two's joined together as to one to a harlot, then ye are a harlot. Ye are also as to whatever you have joined yourself to. So young lady, when you go to marry you be sure you know what kind of spirit the man's got. Forget about his face. Find out something about him and his characteristics. You may marry what you call a handsome face, and he may be as lazy as an old dog that wouldn't do nothing. That's right. That face of his that you thought was so handsome to you it will get to looking like a pumpkin. You will hate him. I have known women to leave what they thought was a handsome husband, was suppose to be a handsome husband. He was suppose to be everything. And they've come to me and they said, I abhore him. I don't want to be around him. I dispise him. You know, I dispise him. And somebody else that wasn't suppose to be handsome, they said, He's just everyhing. He's just everything. I just see everything that I want in him. So somebody said, Well, I don't see how you could do that Well, it's easy. You know it's the difference between marrying a man that don't have no money and marying a millionaire. Let's give the Lord a hand! you can see everything you want in a millionaire. If you're looking for money. You can't see nothing in a pauper. So it doesn't matter what his face looks like. So I'm saying that, he hath no beauty. He doesn't offer us any beauty, He doesn't have anything like that. But when I think of the way he suffered for me and the characteristics of Christ Jesus and the prints of the nails and the beat back and all of these things that he went through, he pleaseth me well. Samson said, I don't want these women over here. I don't want them. I know. They're part of my kind of people, and that woman over yonder she's a heathen but she pleaseth me well. I want her. So then Christ Jesus pleaseth me well. He's everything that I want, though there's no beauty of his life, it's a life of cruelty. It's a life of suffering so far as that that was inflicted upon him, but he pleaseth me well. So I want to say this as we go along here to try to exhort you just a little bit, if you are going to become one there has to be a transformating in your spirit. It's a spiritual being that is within you and the companion, and it is a spiritual transaction, You don't see it but this woman is surrendering her rights. Faith is a form of surrender. I tell you this alot of times, faith is a form of surrender. A lot of people say, I don't know how to believe, Brother Pike. I just don't know. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, but I don't understand it, they say. Well let me show you what it is. Faith is form a surrender. If Brother Taylor comes to me and Brother Taylor tells me something and I'm contrary to it, Brother Taylor says, I want to go to California. Do you want to go to California with me? I say, No. I'm going to Florida. But he says, Oh, but you've never seen the oranges in California. You've got to go to California with me. And the more he talks about California and the Beaches and the mountains and the beautiful things, you know, they've got a little saying, about California, If you ever go there one time you'll go back again. So, they say, California's got everthing. You know. So he would be talking to me about that and after awile I'll get to thinking about California and the more I think about California the lest I'm thinking about Flordia. I think now, Wait a minute. I want to go to Florida because it's got a beautiful ocean. It's got a beautiful beach. And I think, Well, California's got that. then I say, Well, I want to go to California. I mean I want to go to Florida because of them oranges. My those those oranges of Florida. Then I think, Well, wait a minute now. California's got that. See, Frank's indoctrinating me all the time. So then I say, Well, I want to go to Florida. He says, But Florida doesn't have the mountains that California's got. Then he begins to show the things that goes along With the oranges and the beaches and all these kind of things you know. And after awhile I think, My lands, I don't want to go to Florida. I want to go the California. Now see, what has happened to me? He has converted me, and my thinking has changed over to his thoughts and he and I have become one spirit. We now have a California spirit. And on to California we go. See, Florida's ruled out. My mind of Florida is gone. I don't care about Florida no more. So all I can think about is California and the beautiful mountains and all those wonderful things of California and it is beautiful because I've been there numbers of times; but you know, I get to thinking that way about heaven. I know earth has got a lot of attractive things, and there's a lot of people that's good salesmen. They can sell you on a party down here or a career in this world or many other things, but God has sold me on heaven. I think about heaven and I don't see anything in the earth that I want. Everything in the earth that I want, Heaven has that plus; so I become minded and Jesus has converted me through His Word, through His expressions He hath caused me to conform to His way of thinking, and now I've changed over to his desire. I don't care about the world anymore. And I use to love the world, folks. That's why the Bible said, If the love of the world's in you, the love of the Father's isn't there. See, I'm converted. I've done, you know, Peter and them they walked off and left their wifes and left their homes an left everything to follow God because He converted them, See, He pleaseth me well. So then, in my spiritual being, in my angelic being, I learn to love Him, I like to think like Him, I love to be like Him. I love to do the things that He wants to do. Oh, how I love Him. In Him I see His big strong arms. I see His security. I see His benefits. I see everything that my life could wish for, everything that I could desire. See, I love Him. Well, anyway, getting along with our thought, faith then is a form of surrender. See, I have surrendered my thoughts, my believing, my conviction, my way of life to these thoughts that have come to me. For He says in His Word, thus and thus; but in my mind I'm contrary because there's a continuel warfare between the natural and the spiritual. So then, I rule out my natural and then I say, Well, His Word said it, His Word said it, His Word said it, I'm going to do what His Word said, Now, that means I am a believer. Your faith, your works, you show faith by what you do. I am a believer. See, my thoughts have all of a sudden, I have forsaken my way of life and I begin to think His thoughts. I'm not thinking my thoughts anymore. So I'm surrendering my thoughts an my ambitions and way of life and my desire to come over his thoughts, and after a while I'm thinking like Him, I'm believing like Him, I want to be like Him, everything that He said, you know, this is in my mind. I've got a new mind. I've got a new way of life. I've got new thoughts. I'm altogether different. I'm a new creature I've transformated in my mind from one condition to another. You understand what I'm saying? You get into the army, you have to transformate from a civilian way of thinking to an army way of thinking. You just have to do that. It's the same way in anything. So that is what faith is. Faith cometh by the hearing of the Word of God. You hear the but you're believing wrong. You're thinking, you're thinking wrong. See, so I am believing when I do these things that are contrary to God, I'm still believing. If I go to the ballgames, if I go to the frolic, if I go to the things of the flesh, it doesn't matter what I go to, I'm still believing. All of this time I'm still believing, but see I'm believing in the wrong direction and I am being taken into captivity by the powers of Lucifer that's working through the beast mind as to the tree of knowledge to bring me into captivity to these things which are in the world that I am a creature of bondage, to the beggarly elements of the world my life, my soul has been subjected to that wich will pass away, even the bondage of the world. Now when I come into Christ, I come into the mind of Christ it's a heavenly mind. It's not earthly at all, I'm not entangled with the thoughts of this life at all. I am not bound by the beggarly elements as to the lying vanities of the world but my mind is a heavenly mind which means I am going in to life, I am excelling into life, on every level I am moving more into life, even to a full reward of life. I'm moving to the measures of life. I'm transformating from glory to glory. I'm transformating in my mind. Every thought is bringing me into a new thought. I'm putting out old thought and I'm bringing in a new thought. My mind is being translated or transformated and I am coming into a new life, into a new world, Into a new mind, into a new way of thinking, all the time I am doing this because I am becomeing one with the Prince of Life, even the angel of Christ. So then, I'm trying to tell you that faith is a form of surrender and conformity; and that when you are going on with God then you are becoming God, And when you resist God you are becoming the devil. Jesus says here, Blessed art thou, Blessed art thou, for flesh and blood didn't give this to you. That's the spiritual Peter, that's the spiritual part of Peter. That's the God-part. Then you find him saying here, get thee behind me, Satan. That's not the God-part. Peter, get thee behind me, for that's your flesh acting up, Peter. That's your beastly way of life. That's the things of the world. Satan savors the things that be of the world and you're interested in the things of the world. Some people are interested in their face, their form. You know they lift weights all the time to create a body to where woman will lust after it or where they can feel themselves, they strip off their clothes you know they just can't stand it. They've go to get them a little short sleeve to where you can see their muscles roll you know, and they've got to get then on a bathing suit to where you can see their body and people go after that. Why do they do that? Because it is the devil in that person, or presenting himself or projecting himself in a human person, and the other people that are lusting after him are being overthrown and are becoming one with him because it is the power of the devil. It is the love of the world. It is the way of this life. And a women, she'll do the same thing. She'll get in her little suit, or she'll get in her tight clothing or she'll strip off until she's in a bathing suit and then she'll use her form, the devil will use her to draw that man to her because he knows that people are put here to multiply and to replanish the earth so he takes full advantage of the flesh and the things of the world and in that we come up with a sinful and an adulterous generation as I made mention of this morning. So that's where they're at. No sacredness in marriage anymore. In this I can see the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil, and in this I can see the difference between the way of life of God and the way of life of Satan, the love of the world and the love of God. If the love of the world's in you, the love of the father is not there. So then forms, features, whatever, has nothing to do with life, nothing to do with life. From the dust thou are to the dust thou shall return. Simon Barjona, Blessed art thou. Then Peter, get thee behind me, Satan. So we can differentiate. We can see the difference Peter walking on the water, faith in God; Peter, drowning, still believing but in the wrong directon, fear, Oh God, save me, he says. See, we can see a great man as to the inner man to know a man after the spirit, and then we can see the failure of life or the shortcomings as to the weakness of mankind when he tries to do something on his own. You can't succeed in doing something on your own. This makes people sad. A lot of times to Preach like this makes then real sad because we've got young men, young women here among us and they just feel like their face is the prettiest thing, the most handsome thing. Believe it or not a lot of the women and men that follow after them that lust after them they do feel the same way that they feel. But on the the other hand we've got some people like the virgin Mary that was pure in her thoughts, pure in her way of life, pure, she had no room for any adulterous thoughts or any thoughts as to anything as human relation. Nobody moved Mary. She had to be a perfect woman to come into what she came into, as to God coming forth through a human means. See, not very many people like that in the world like that today. As a matter of fact I don't know of any. But I do know of some that are virtuous and I do know some that are holy not because they were like Mary, but because Christ has given them of his righteousness and given them of his holiness and has refused to look at their negative side of life and has refused to look at the things that are unlike God. He looks at them through the blood of Jesus, for He hath put upon them His Spirit, His Spirit. A man looks at a woman different when she is his wife. He doesn't look at the other woman as to let his mind and his body and his thoughts go free toward that person. He cannot do that because if he does he is a whore-monger. He is an adulteror, the woman the some way. It doesn't matter how much she tries to patch it up, or make it look better or convince her husband when he reproves her, she's still dirty and filthy because she's guilty because she's guilty and so is the man. But when he looks at his wife he doesn't have any reservation of heart. He doesn't have to put up a sheild. He doesn't have to put up a guard because that's his body, that's his body, whether clothed or unclothed it's his body, it's the same, he's looking at his body. It is his body, and he doesn't have to hold back any thoughts as to anything as to the thoughts of his wife because they are one, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, because when a spirit enters into an individual good or bad they become that body becomes the flesh and bone of that spirit that that angelic being has taken on. So then it's so good to be a Christian. I have people that come in here and I watch them. I especially have a man that sets to my left with a regularity and I watch them, and they just get right in here with me and they hear me say things and they get so interested in it and then after a while when it narrows down to the spiritual being and it begins to put the natural man out they lose interest. They begin to look down at the floor and they begin to look over here and begin to get miserable and they want to get out of here, because the Bible says that the wicked cannot set in the congregation of the righteous and devils and demons begin to eat those people's minds up. They can't set still. They want to get out of there. I can feel it, you know just like it cools off when you stop the heat, I can feel it, they begin to cool off, but them that love God they gain momentum and they begin to move more and more into the wonderful things of God. So then Jesus said, Elijah has already come. Elijah hath already come. this is why I say to you a lot of times, I say this to you, Somebody said, Well, I'm looking for the coming of Jesus. Well that's great, that's wonderful. That's wonderful. But let me tell you something, Brother Taylor sings, He's here. He's Here. Paul said, Above you, in you and through you, See, it's not a matter of Him coming, it's a matter of you recognizing Him. It's a matter of your eyes coming open. It's a matter of you understanding his way of life and being programed in His way of life and coming to a conformity of His mind and His way of life. That's what it is. You know how you do that? Faith worketh by love When you begin to love Him as I said the woman and the man, you begin to love him with all your heart, believe in His word, love His word, hunger and thirst after him, trust in Him with all of your strength, and then you begin to love him with all of your heart, with all of your mind, with all of our strength, then you enter into his rest you see. He will take care of me; He will provide for me. I know that He will. I can trust in him and his integrity and his strength. Faith working by love, the more that you recognize God's love, the more that you believe that you can trust in Him, and that's faith, believing that you can trust in Him. Hearing of Him, the preacher preaches of Him. You hear Him. This is why I stay with the Word like I do, night and day, it doesn't matter where I go, who I'm talking to, what I'm doing, I might be pouring pillars down here but my heart is in Christ. I'm not interested in the frivolous things of man's knowledge and way of life. I know that's death, but the mind of Christ is life. I come ito the mind of Christ. That is life. I've transformated into it that my body might be alive forever. I've given my body to the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you that was also in Chirst Jesus who thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God. That is to say, How did Enoch get into glory? How was he translated? By faith. In learning about the love of God, wanting the love of God, following after the love of God. Several hundred years and then he was not for God took him because he thought. The Bible said to meditate in His laws day and night. Cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. To Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Lord of Jesus Christ, the transformating, to be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind. So then we take on the mind of the bridegroom and we become one with him, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh. This is so beautiful. Day and night I want to think about him. Day and Night I want to follow him. I don't just come to church you know as to preacher like the man this morning preached beautiful, but I want to be all the time with Him, meditating in His Laws. Because I want to transformate every thought. I want to go on the a full reward. So then God can and will take His Spirit and put it upon you if you're willing to listen and conform, if you believe in what's going on. And there is a translating era, moment, time, spirit, message. There is a transformating, transfomating anointing that is due to the people. It will come. As Jesus said, It's is here already; but is is up to us as to what we see, as to what we recognize, as to what we know, because every individual is somebody in the spiritual world, just like the sons of thunder. Just like Simon Barjona, just like Jesus said, Who do men say that I am? Who do you say that I am? In the Spirit there is a new birth, there is a new man, you're been born again. There is a new way of life. He's somebody, but do you know who He is, do I know Who he is? That's up to us to find out. Alright, let's stand together. I appreciate you coming out tonight and talking to you. I was going to get around to asking the question and I didn't do it. The Lord showed me that he wanted me to comment on this, and really comment to a little more but I can feel you cooling off just like the room, and when you do that that means that your carnal mind has come up, and when your carnal mind has come up then you might as well stop. It's like when I was a little boy and I'd go fishing. I always like to. I wanted a cork on my fishing line, Ands I've said so many times my uncle wouldn't fish that way because he knew that big fish struck at something that was still in the water, you know, they were very cautious; but I wanted to see it bobble. I wanted to see if it was biting. If my little stopper didn't bobble I'd quit, you know. When I don't see your little bobble out there, then it's time for me to quit. I watch for the big ones. I know there's some that love the Lord, but usually you have to catch them in a different place. Jesus said, I'll make you fishers of men, and I know different places sometimes, I get the men off by themselves, we get in a certain place, a good fishing place. I had that vision where this was a beautiful garden, the brethren had a beautiful thing. It was like a beautiful garden. My is was so fabulous in the vision, like you would be in the Everglades of Florida or some beautiful place, but one thing they had to watch for. It was such a wonderful place for fishing, hunting and those kind of things, that they had to watch for men that would come in here, trespassing on their properties and want to go fishing. Let's sing a little chorus together and I'll let you go. (They sing: Sweep Over My Soul) You may have a husband and he may not look like Prince Charming to you, but he may have the characteristics of the Christ in him with his avenues of thoughts and his presentation of works and deeds, and if so then you have a storehouse, you have a treasure, you have something that this world cannot afford, even heavenly treasure within the earthen vessel. And you may have somebody that sparkles to you, he dazzles to you, he's like Prince Charming, he can sing like a canary, you know. He's just whatever you want. His muscles just rolls, but he may be a garbage can, on the inside he may be full of lust, full of worldliness, full of gullible desire and he may be a garbage can. And if you're married to him, you're part of the garbage can. People who give their ears to anything and everything is a garbage can. The charge that God put against Israel, he called her a whorish woman. He was very bold and plain in what he said, He said, Thou openest thyself to everything that comes by, everybody, and evil garbage can, a dump for the filth of the world. So he put her away. There are woman, there are men that in their minds they're depraved. and if a man loves the Lord, if a women loves the Lord. If they are clean, upright people, then they want a clean companion and it becomes grievious, very grievious. It doesn't matter how much you reprove them, they're going to confess that they're guilty. They're not going to accept the charge. They'll just fly at you. You know, and tell you what you did. Yeah, did you ever think about what you did? You know, and around and around you'll go. But if you've got somebody that's just after money, things of the world, popularity. All these kind of things, the Bible said your gold will canker. You'll throw your money to the bats. You'll cry for the rocks and mountains to fall on you and hide you from the face of Him that siteth upon the throne. You don't have anything. Smart, intelligent, talents, skill, education, garbage, garbage; but the things of God of skill and understanding and the knowledge, the wonderful understanding of God is heavenly treasures that you're carrying in your earthern vessels. Garbage goes to the dimp. It's to be burned and all that you've got in the world will be burned including yourself. The world and all that is therein shall pass away, and utterly be burned up as I preached the other night. But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. So give yourself to God. Don't give that body, whether it be young, whether it be aged, whether it be full of the knowledge of whatever, don't give it to the world. Don't give it to the world because there's no return. We sing that song, I'll have a new body, praise the Lord, I'll have a new life. Sown in weakness, raised in power, ready to live in paradise; I'll have a new body. Praise God! I'll have a new life. You're going to have a new body. Oh somebody said, Well, I'm pleased with my body, Brother Pike. It's so nice, it's so nice, My muscles and my physique and my figure and my face and my hair, oh I just like my body. Well, it probably looks pretty good, but give it a few more years and it will canker on you and you'll find yourself trying to patch it up and put a little make-up in the dents and the different things and the further you go it will look like a prune when you look in the mirror, and after a while you'll say, Oh, praise the Lord, I'll have a new body. See, so then, God is trying to tell you something, but this is of course where love comes in when you're married to somebody. It doesn't matter, if you love them, you love them, You stay with your wife so long she gets to looking like you sister, your husband gets to looking like you brother, you think my, I need a companion. But if you love somebody it isn't like that at all. The dirty, filthy way of life it has nothing to do with your mind. You don't have to worry about a woman or a man as to their deeds because it's not going to be in their mind. They're not even going to let it be in their mind, not one thought. Alright, let's sing again. I don't want to keep holding you. I know I sing these songs over and over and over because they have meaning, they have expression and that which you sing for God it never gets old, just like the boys from Texas they were singing Jesus, about all they ever said in that song was Jesus, Jesus. It never gets old when its in God becuse its life. I'll do a new thing, the four beast around the throne day and night throughout eternity they'll bo going on: Holy,holy,holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, holy, holy, holy, holy, and it will never get old. It will never got old. Okay, let's sing again. (They sing, There's Room at the cross for you.) The altars are open. (They sing.) (They sing: At the Cross). Can you sing it with me again? (They sing) Let's sing this song: Jesus gave Her Water that Was Not From the Well. (They sing) Somebody say, Hallelujah! You know Jesus gave her water that wasn't from that well. He said, Woman, if you had ask from me, I would have give you water that you wouldn't hve had to come here to drink, or to draw. See, if I tell you something from my intellect, if I tell you something Natural. That's from man's well. If I express something to you that is natural then you're getting something from man's well. But if he said, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona because you got water that wasn't from your well. Let's sing it again. (They sing again.) Somebody say. Praise the Lord! (They sing). One more time. (They sing.) I claim Jesus first of all I claim Jesus and that's enough for me. (They sing: Reach Out and Touch They Lord). We sing that song: They'll Come From the East and the West, this morning we were talking about Pete coming out of the hills of Wyoming. People are here from Texas, people form the Carolinas, people form tennessee, People from Arizona, People people, people. Coming from the east and west looking for the Christ, seeing his star and searching as the wise men looking for him. Looking for him, not to know one after the flesh but looking for him, wherever they can find Him, They're looking for him. They're searching for Him. And they said to Jesus, Master, we've been looking for you. Oh, he said. Know ye not that I must be about my Father's business. Now if you want to be my diciple he said, Follow me. Take up your cross. You know when you follow God you don't have all the conveniences of the world, Do you? You have to forsake some, you have to sacrifice something. Isn't that right? Take up your cross and follow me. He said. Whatever I am there my disciple shall be also. And the wise men were looking for Jesus, and the wise men today are still looking for Jesus. They kept searching for Jesus. Where is he? We saw his star in the east, tell us, where is he? Where is he? The light of the star, so let your light shine that men may see the Christ, that is of your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Let's get a key and sing that song. (They sing: They'll Come from the East and the West.) Can you sing it again? (They sing.) Let's everybody stand together and lift up our hands to the Lord and our hands to the Lord. Truthfully from out of yonders world comes forth as John said, A voice that's ringing, that's entreating, saying, come unto me all that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke, not the yoke of the World, but take my yoke upon you. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Like I told somebody taday sometimes we don't know the right decisions, sometimes we don't know the right way to go sometimes we get disturbed over the situations, but if we'll remember on thing, we'll never lose our bearing, the Bible says that all the paths of God, not some of them or many of them, but all of them it's the path of peace. When you don't have peace, you don't have, you're not in the path of God. And the Bible says, You know a lot of times we say, Well, I don't known whether that's of God or not, I don't know how to entreat it. I just don't know. But the Bible says, That the wisdom that cometh from God it is pure. That's the first thing to look for. If what you hear is pure, coming from and individual, if it is pure, not adulterated, not interwoven with the things of the World, not infiltrated with the carnel mind, but if it is pure, first it is pure, and then it is peaceful, if it is peaceful to your ear and pure to your ear, if it is pure, if it is peaceful and if it is easily to be entreated, if it is something that you just long for, it is so easy to entreat it, you want it, you want to hear it, the wisdom that cometh form God is first peaceful or pure then peaceful. It's easily to be entreated. It's not partial. It's no respect of person. It is as to one what I say to one I say to all. You know, then you know that it is the wisdom of God. You know that it the blessing of God. It is the things of God. But otherwise, don't bother with it because men don't gather grapes of brambles. Figs of thistles, they don't gather figs of thistles. If everytime you go to get a fig you run into a thorn as you say, or everytime you're looking for something that's good you run into a brair and it prick you in your heart and it hurts nad you in your heart and hurts you, that's not God. Leave that individual alone. If that individual does you like that, leave that individual alone because that isn't God. God gives to a hungry man life, food. Blessings, for He's the prince of Life. He doesn't, when you are tempted. When you're having problems, don't blame God because you fell into temptation. The Bible says, God doesn't tempt anybody. Never at anytime does God tempt anybody, never. You're tempted when you're drawn away of you own lust and desire. So don't blame God. When you have problems, heartahes and sorrow that isn't God. For all of the paths of God are peace. And serving God is joy. When you're miserable you don't have joy and peace and rest in your spirit and in your minds, you're not serving God, When you're troubled you're not serving God. See, that's not God. Serving God is joy, joy. Somebody says, Well, Brother Pike, I try to make myself joyful. I believe in joy. I'm having joy. You know that you're lying against the truth. Don't lie against the truth. You don't try to manufactor joy. I see my little Joseph run across the floor, little old bitty fellow, I don't have to try to manufacture joy. He just thrills my heart. I see him running around and I know that's life on display and that little old immature mind, he does little old thing that's so, you know, it's so stirring and so exciting, and I just love little Joe, and the same way with little Paul and the others, that you know, even my little children around here. I don't have to manufacture that. That's something on the inside that stimulates me. When you've got joy, I don't try to make myself peaceful. I am peaceful. I have the peace of God that passeth all human understanding. So serving God it is joy, it is peace. And folks. I don't have to try to manufacture righteousness to do some good deed. Serving God is righteousness in the Holy Ghost. I've got the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Ghost. He does things through my body that is righteous. All the days of my life, He's my comforter, my consolation, and prolems, I don't have to try to comfort myself when something goes wrong, He's my comforter, Precious, blessed eternal, sweet, loving, comforter in the time of my sorrows and my bereavement. The song said, Let me recommend my friend to you. While you're standing here with your hands up, your thought on the Lord, we had a Pete this morning that preached to us, I think I'm going to get Pete to come up and pray tonight, Little Pete stays with Brother Johnny, as he comes tonight to pray with us. Let's pray together. Pete's still young he's a young fellow, but as he comes tonight to pray with us, let's think about that. The Bible said, And a little child shall lead them, or that is to say, folks, if you want to find the right leadership, of such is the kingdom of heaven. His little mannerism of forgiving and not holding grudges and not being bitter and being joyful and jubilant in his life then he is your leader, follow that As nature teacheth you follow that of the little child also. Alright, brother Pete.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord