The Time Of The End

(Singing) Well, I'd like to say first of all that I'm glad to be here. I appreciate being here. May the Lord bless you. We love you and we really appreciate you from our hearts. And I want to say just a few things here before we get started in any direction. First of all, I say this so many times in my meetings and so many places, and people can't hardly get a hold of it. And I know, I understand that they can't get a hold of it. Whereas, some do get a hold of it, but it's just a few that's able to get a hold of it. But there is something that is so spectacular, so phenomenal that's taking place here tonight. That's been taking place in the meetings where Brother J. T. set the tent. But tonight it's such a spectacular thing, and such a phenomenal things until — I've said this so many times. If the people knew the things that were happening at the different times and intervals of these meetings in places where different men of God are going, there would not be enough room within a hundred miles. Within a hundred miles of this place to get a car parked. I know that's too much for you. I know that. But, folks, don't think I'm exaggerating because I've got a feeling it would be within a thousand miles or more. Let's give the Lord a hand. I just put it kind of mild and said a hundred miles. There is — I share a little bit along as I can with some of the people that we're with here and there, and to speak out a few of the mysteries and the deep thing that God has revealed to us. Most of the time, like tonight, we don't really have time to preach a message, or to get into anything tonight, you know, because of the custom of the people. The Bible said render custom unto whom custom is due. We just try to have a little sermonette and go on, but where we can speak to people about it we try to. I was just telling some of our people just recently, while we were over in the Philippines we ministered to those people something like — I believe one day we ministered to them something like seven hours. Ministered five hours, I believe, consecutively and then they took a little break and came back and we ministered about two more hours to them. Not the Philippines, India. Over in India it was. And, of course, over in the Philippines, I mentioned it to you. We'd get started about three o'clock in the evening and they'd go way over into the night. And then all day long the next day they're talking about Jesus and fellowshipping and worshipping. Isn't that right? Some of you that were there with me raise your hands if that's true. Brother Ron was there. It's true, isn't it? And like our Brother Abraham from Nigeria. Haven't seen him since he came over, but he and I were having fellowship while we were over Africa, over in Nigeria. I ministered there in his church. Brother Abraham, can you come on up. He has been a real wonderful person in fellowshipping, and he is the chairman of the churches there in Nigeria and he has, more or less, touched base with the people up in Northern Nigeria and also down into the southern part of Nigeria. Nigeria is a big country. And people love the Lord there. There are hundreds and thousands of people that come out to listen to the gospel. And, as I say, with here, like we rush in here to be with Brother J.T. for a night or two. We don't have time to really preach to you, or get into the hidden mysteries of Christ. We don't have time to really fellowship. We fellowshipped a little bit last night after the service, but I can assure you of one thing. And that is one of the most phenomenal things that has ever happened in the history of mankind is happening now. It is a true fact that this man that is predicted the coming of the Lord in the year '88, Brother John, I talked with him over the telephone today. He's there in Memphis. Said, Brother Pike, the papers of Memphis is carrying it and, said, the people are really stirred up. And down in Nashville, Tennessee there are numbers of groups tonight that are coming together to wait for the coming of the Lord. Whereas, Rosh Hashana is not really until the 12th. Today I believe is the 10th. They light their first candle, I believe, tomorrow sundown. It's starts tomorrow as to lighting the candle and then, of course, Rosh Hashana the 12th. It goes on until Tuesday 'til sunset. And that's a great outstanding thing, and the sounding of the trumpet is for about thirty days, and ceases a little interval there, and then the trumpet, the Sophar, sounds as to the Rosh Hashana. And people all over the different parts of the nation, and the world are shook up, because the man has predicted and accurately laid out dates, as to the feast or whatever, as to the coming of the Lord between tonight and Tuesday night. He declares before the living God it's going to happen. He's no fool. I looked at the few things he had and he's one of the most brilliant men in the world, that's given his life to it. The Bible societies are carrying it. And the things that he says concerning it is nothing less, literally, than astounding. Astounding. But in spite of all that there are going to be a lot of disappointed people because the Lord is not going to come back to rapture the church. He won't be here between now and Tuesday. Somebody says, Well, you don't know. Well, that's true. I don't know. If I speak as a man, I don't know, but you'll see after Tuesday. There will be some of them that won't be disappointed. They're holding their breath. They'd be so thankful to God He didn't come. But there will be a lot of disappointed people. Brother J.T. said he hopes He does. There's one thing about it. How many are for it? Let me see your hand if you'd like to see Him come on back. Even so come Lord Jesus. Let's give the Lord a hand. I was wanting Abraham to come up and I'd like for Abraham to say something to you tonight. We really don't have time to minister to you in the one or two nights, even tonight, and really do what we'd like to do because I like to get out into the deep, deep mysteries of Christ. I'm glad to see Brother James Dokes and his wife back here, all the way from Macon, Georgia. We appreciate James. I didn't get to see him today but we're thankful for these people to be with us. And I keep looking around. I thought I saw somebody from way down in South Georgia, but I don't know whether to say so, or not. I can't tell from here. The light are just a little bit glaring; I can't tell. But, anyway, whoever is here we're glad to have you. Let's give everybody a hand. All right. Can you set that mike back around here? We'll set this mike back around here. Okay, Brother Abraham. Brother Abraham. This has a great significance in Abraham being here. As I said, he's chairman of the churches of Nigeria. A powerful man there and he loves the Lord. He's got a great congregation in his church, and a very good congregation. I've preached to them. And he's here tonight. He's going throughout America to different places, and he came to be with us. We had our Chief Security to bring him up so he could be with us tonight, and I think he's going to be with us over in Memphis. Are you, Abraham? Over in Memphis, and I'm hoping Brother J.T. will, so ya'll might have to help him take the tent down tonight. Let's give Brother Abraham a hand. (Brother Abraham speaks.) Well, as I told you, Brother Abraham is a wonderful person. He is really concerned about his people. He watches his people. He watches the Sacred Desk, as to what comes to his people. And certainly tonight as to any good thing that he might have said we're not worthy of that. That belongs to the Lord Jesus. Anything that would be of any value belongs to Him, because it's not anything that we've done in any way. We're just a servant of the Lord. We come here to try to talk with you and to help you, and it's our pleasure to have Abraham with us. We're looking forward to going back into Africa, especially into Nigeria. We're really looking forward to a crusade in Nigeria. As I've said so many times — And we take up a lot of time in saying things like I'm saying now, when perhaps we could just drive and preach to you, but I love the deep mysteries of God and I've been given thousands of them. Paul spoke of his much revelation. And, of course, when a man says that, you know, the first thing that we think of is that it couldn't be in this day. And yet we do acknowledge that the Lord Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. We say that, but then when it comes to really believing that He is, as to do the same things that He did and that He will share with us the same great wonderful mysteries (?), but the Bible does tell us that now is made known to the church the manifold wisdom of God. Even to that great knowledge of God that's in the heavenly places. And I, tonight, I'm always reluctant to get started to preach because I don't know how to preach. I never did learn how to preach, and the only way that I know to do is to do whatever He....(Begin tape one, side two.).....the Bible said it's not you speaking but the Heavenly Father speaking from within you. And in that it is that I'm always reluctant, because it takes me a few minutes for Him to start speaking and then when He starts speaking then by that time a lot of times it's too late to get over a message, so far as the people are concerned; not Him, but so far as the people are concerned. Somebody would say, Well, I don't think the Lord really takes that long. Well, believe it, or not, He took more then three years to talk to Paul before He got through. He took about eighty days on the mountain to talk to Moses before He finished. And in a lot of cases it took Him quite a while to say what He had to say, because He's no little God and He doesn't have few words to say. There's a lot that He's got to say. So it does make a lot of difference. I'll probably at least get to comment tonight. It just depends on the way that the Spirit of the Lord leads. What is wrong, if you'll allow me to say this. What is wrong, the problem is that people don't have their eyes open. And in that they don't have their eyes open they don't know what is going on so they come to church, as I said last night. They come to church and they're not expecting anything. They didn't come looking for nothing. They just come to church because it was church night. It was routine for them to come to church and they felt like — They feel that if they're ever going to get to heaven, you know, they've got to do this, so they come to church. And then, of course, they kind of speculate in their mind about how long the singing ought to be and how long the preaching ought to be. And how long the offering ought to be. A lot of times — You know, I don't mess with offerings. I don't mess with personal offerings. I don't mess with offerings period. But ministers do take offerings to help carry the gospel. And like our Brother Abraham said, there is a lot of need in the world. Americans don't have that much need. They're plush, but there is a lot of need. But I have seen somebody take an offering and somebody would time them, you know, and would say, it took twenty minutes. And I've heard the Lord speak to me, and I've heard the Lord talk to me, and I said within my heart listening to the Lord, I said, well, if he took all night an offering, what's that? If he took all night long taking an offering, dismissed everybody and went home, and came back the next night start all over again, before he done anything else take another offering and then come back the next night and take another offering, he wouldn't be taking too long. He wouldn't be taking too long, because there are hundreds and millions of people in the world that are starving to death that needs help. And if he's doing to for God that's fine. Now, somebody would say, Well, I don't think he's doing it for God. Well, if he isn't doing it for God He don't have no business taking an offering at all. Not at all. And if he is doing it for God we don't need to bother him. We need to let him do whatever he's going to do. And the same way with the preaching, you know. If he's not of God, he isn't sent of God, then we need to just leave him and not pay any attention to him. And if he is sent of God we need to let him say whatever God has to say. Because that's very important. Always remember one thing. Keep this in mind. A preacher, he loves you. He isn't going to say anything to hurt you, or try to tear you down if he's a real man of God. The Bible said he that God sendeth will speak God's word. But whatever you do always remember that he is God's minister. The Bible says that he is the minister of God and he is set there to execute judgment upon them that do evil. Will you then not be afraid for conscience sake, in that he has the power to curse you, or to bless you. For he is God's minister and you should fear, because he does have the power of judgment. And he isn't just local, like Brother Abraham coming all the way from Africa over here as a minister. We go all the way over there. Brother J.T. just came out of Haiti. See? He said, I have set thee over the nations to pluck up, and to plant. All right. A few days ago we were real privileged. Over in the Philippines we preached to about seven thousand people and the fascinating thing about it was that it was just a running in and out. Just a quick little thing to go in there and the people cried, they shouted, they praised God. Even some of them singing in the choir was just tore all to pieces. I'm talking about, I said last night, real, honest, sincere. Praising God. Loving the Lord. Just tore all to pieces, wanting us to stay and preach the wonderful, loving Word of Jesus. I'm going to read a Scripture here for the book of Daniel, and like I say, I probably won't even get to do anything much but comment because the time is pretty much gone, as to the routine of preaching, and whatever here in America and as to the custom of the people. Whereas I want to read just a little bit, and I won't hold you, or weary you. This is found over in the book of Daniel. It's found in the twelfth chapter and it's found in the ninth verse. "And he said," that is the angel speaking to Daniel, "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end." Let's read that again, can we? "He said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end." Now isn't it strange that this is in the twelfth chapter, and it's right here at the first of this chapter, "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. (2) And many of them that shall sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (3) And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (4) But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Now he's telling Daniel to shut up the book, seal the book until the time of the end. Then when John the revelator comes along he sees almost identically what Daniel sees. You can make the comparison. And he tells John not to seal the book for the time is at hand. Which makes it obvious that the seal came off of the book. But the astounding thing is that this is the twelfth chapter of the book of Daniel, and it says Michael shall stand up, to show the similarity between Daniel and the book of Revelation, and you go straight to the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation and it's starts talking about Michael that stood up and there is great war in Heaven. It's really astounding when you can understand holy things and spiritual things. So then, the thing that we would mention tonight is just maybe exhort you a little bit unless God should really get into it, just to say a few things to you concerning the time of the end. Now with the prediction that is going on, Brother J.T., as to the papers of Memphis and Indiana, and the different places, as to this man predicting the end of the world we must be at the time of the end. If this is the time of the end that means that the veil if off. Now to preach on that it would easily take all night just to preach on the rent veil. But maybe we can say at least a word or two that might create a hunger, or stir within you a hunger for the wonderful, spiritual things of God. Folks, this is what we've got to remember. We've been to Israel about five times. And I want you to remember this. Over in Israel those people are natural Jews, and they don't know anything about spiritual things. They are blinded in part. The Bible said, Israel, having been blinded in part until the time of the Gentiles come in. When we say blinded in part what do we mean by Israel being blinded in part? We mean that they can see to Calvary. They can see all the way to Calvary, but beyond Calvary they cannot see into the realm of grace and see Jesus Christ as the Messiah so they are blinded in part. The part they cannot see is from Calvary over. And as far as we know Moses is the one that wrote the book of Genesis, being caught up into the mount that burned with fire, here he wrote these things as God gave them to him concerning the garden of Eden, because we had no record of it. So Moses apparently was looking back and God had put Moses in the cleft of the rock so that Moses could see His hinder part. The Bible said, No man can see my face and live. Moses had to look at the hinder part. When you say hinder part you're speaking again of Israel being blinded in part. The hinder part is from Calvary back this way. He wrote of those things. He spoke of those things. But, see? We are not blinded in part. The Bible said we are not looking through a glass darkly, but when that which is perfect is come we shall see, not as through a glass darkly, but face to face. Now if you are going to see face to face that means that you've got to be dead. Dead by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, buried in the water baptism in the lovely name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are no more in the flesh, but in the spirit. If I know you after the flesh then I am out of order all together. That means I just didn't get into the Kingdom of God. I have to know you after the spirit. I know you after the spirit. Did you know that John the baptist, denied that he was Elijah? But did you know, Jesus knowing him after the spirit and knowing that he'd come in the spirit of Elijah said, Elijah has come already, because He knew who he was. See? You don't know who I am and you don't know who Brother J.T. is, and we don't know who you are, as to your spiritual birth. You are a natural person, as to a name and a birth, and then you are a spiritual person. As to James and John, He said, You are the sons of thunder. So then, he spoke of Peter. He gave another name. Paul. He changed his name from Saul to Paul. Because you are sons and daughters of God. Not going to be, but you already are. You are not going to pass from death unto life in a time to come. The Bible said we have already passed from death unto life. Come on, folks. I said, we've already passed from death unto life. Somebody say hallelujah! Glory to God! I feel the presence of the Lord. Hallelujah! Don't you get excited when you think about that? That really excites me. I guess I'd better calm down again. But, anyway, when we — You'll have to forgive me for getting excited. All right. So then, when we think about this then we know something is happening. Now then, let's speculate just a little more here and talk about the Scriptures. When we say that this thing was given to us in Christ before the world ever was. Think about that. The Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world, and it was given to us in Christ before the world ever was. Then the Bible said it was made known to us, or was revealed to us, at Calvary. That is to say, when the veil was rent in twain then the life came and all of this was made known, as to what God had done for us before the world ever was. Here comes the Son of God to give His blood. The veil is rent in twain. Now, someone would say, What do you mean, the veil was rent in twain? Well, the Bible said He made a new way, giving a more sure word of prophecy. That is to say, through His flesh, His body. He made a sure way. He rent the veil of His own flesh. According to the Bible, now. He rent the veil of His own flesh and He brought to light things that had been hidden from the foundation of the world. And the Bible said that these things that had been hidden from the foundation of the world that many, many wise men had desired to see it and had never seen it. So then we say, What do you mean, Brother Pike, by the rent veil? Foreknowledge. The Bible said you are elect by foreknowledge and then the rent veil here at Calvary. It is instigated in God before the world ever was. It's given to you in Christ here at the rent veil by the blood atonement, and then as it is revealed to you here it is comprehended seven church ages away, as to comprehending the height, the depth, the width and the length of the great mysterious things of God. In that the veil is rent in twain now is made known to the church the manifold wisdom of God, or that which is in heavenly places, and you now have heavenly treasures in earthen vessels. And we'd have to preach all night just on that one thing to explain it. But let's just think about this. When you say the veil is rent in twain what do we mean. I hope you don't mind me talking to you just for a few minutes. What do we mean, the veil is rent in twain? It means that Jesus Christ, the Spirit — Christ, the spirit, was taken out of Jesus, the body. Christ, the Spirit, was taken out of Jesus, the body. Now there was a great wonderful meaning in this. There was no way that salvation could be wrought unless the Christ Spirit would separate from the natural body, we would say, of Jesus. See? Being made in the image of sin, He that knew no sin, even Jesus, was made sin that we might be made the righteousness of Christ. So then, it had to be that this sinful body had to go to Calvary. It had to be smitten and release the inner Christ. This is called the rent veil. The thing is, why did God do that? Because there is no other way that he can look at you except as dead people. He cannot look at you in any other way because you are born in the image of sin, and He calls you the bastard child. And you have fallen from the image in which He made you. And He said, In the morning I will despise your image. No matter who you are, what nationality you are, what you look like; whether you think you are pretty, or not pretty. Whether you think you are rich, or not rich. He said, I will despise your image. So the only thing that He will accept is the new birth. You have to be born again, to become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh; otherwise He will despise you. He will destroy you. He said, I will pursue the wicked until the perish from of the face of the earth. All of the wicked, the Bible said, even their offerings are an abomination in my sight. Even their prayers are an abomination in my sight. Everything that they do is an abomination in my sight. I will pursue the wicked until they perish from off of the face of the earth. Beware ye that forget God lest I tear you in to pieces. All right. So then, the only way you look at me is through the blood. He must look at me through the blood, and by the death of the body of Jesus then I'm covered with the blood of Jesus. And I'm to reckon myself to be dead. So far as this outer individual, I am to reckon myself to be dead indeed to sin and the things of the world. To come out from the world and from the people, to be a separate people, and touch not the unclean things and then He said, I will receive you. Like Brother Abraham, the washing of the water as of the Jews. His name Abraham. There is a great meaning in His being here tonight. I could get into spiritual revelation tonight and preach on why Brother Abraham is here and why Brother J. T. is here. And why this tent is sitting here, and why this is Sulphur Wells. And it would take hours and hours and hours of nothing but the deep mysteries of God just to bring the present day truth of what's happening right now. I mean it's happening in heaven right now. So, see? But we come as natural people and we just have to talk to you that way, as to desiring the sincere milk of the Word that you might grow thereby. See? Because that's the way that people are. And you don't want to offend them. You don't want to hurt them. You don't want to lose them, and yet you can't compromise. You've got to preach the gospel, else you can't help them. All right. So it's the time of the end. Now you might look at me with kind of a hollow expression and say, Brother Pike, is it true that you really understand deep, hidden mysteries and heavenly things that you are not telling us? Before the living God that's the truth; thousands of them. Thousands of them. But most of the time in meetings you can't do that. You get people — Now like I had the people sitting down here a while back, five solid hours we talked to them. Went home, refreshed themselves a little, two hours more we talked to them. Then they came back the next day and three or four hours, solid hours, more we talked to them. And every day before I could hardly get up out of the bed they were there, waiting for hours and hours for me to talk to them. I talked to them for hours. Now in something like this I was able to get over a little of the deep mysteries of God. Just a little bit of it out of this. That's why Paul preached all night long. That's all he could do, just to get over a little sermonette. Took all night long. Someone would say, What makes you think that? Because it took him more than three years to get the revelation, away in the Arabian Dessert. And beside that he had studied all of his life before then and still took him three years just to get the things together. So then, it's like children going to school. You can't expect to start into an elementary school and go two hours and graduate. Look at the days and years and months of waiting and listening and studying and applying yourself. And then if you're not careful you still won't get a diplomacy at the end of the way because you've not applied yourself to understand. See? So this is a great, mighty thing. The Bible said great is the mystery of godliness. And Paul said, I'm a stewart of those mysteries. So naturally we don't get to preach those mysteries to you. But we feed off of them. We stay with them. We live in them. We walk in them, because it's just heavenly. It's nothing less than heavenly. It's so exciting that, as I've said in the past. It was so exciting that when I came into it that I shut myself off from my wife. I didn't want to be around my wife. I didn't want to be around my children. I didn't want to be around my mother, my daddy, my neighbor, my friends, my brothers, my sisters. I didn't want to be around church people. I didn't want to be around anybody. I was in such a heavenly state of mind, and such a place that, like John on the Isle of Patmos, I just wanted to be with God. And God spoke to me and said, You can't do me any good like that. Said, You're going to have to get out and tell people and preach the gospel, and finally I was just like a man getting out of service, I had to have a new rehabilitation. I had got so caught away in it that I just didn't want to be around anybody. See? Because, first of all, your mind is altogether different. The Bible said, Casting down imagine and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not to lean to your own understanding, meditating in His laws day and night. See? You don't think nothing but Jesus. Why if I talked to some of you like that, as to say, Look, Brother. Sister, you can't think nothing but Jesus. Tomorrow morning when you get up it's got to be Jesus. All day long it's got to be Jesus. While you're eating it's got to be Jesus. While you're working it's got to be Jesus. And all, all of your thinking has got to be Jesus. Why you'd say, Brother Pike, your eccentric. You're out of your mind; nobody can do that. But there are people that are going to do that. See? You're going to do that. I've been working on the job thinking about Jesus. I've been working on the job, working hard in my lifetime. Fasting the whole time. Fast all day. Work hard. I mean strenuous labor. Work hard. Fast all day. Go home at night, preach a revival. Preach over in to the night. Leave that, come home to my room, not go to bed; pray. Sometimes pray all night until the morning light. Or pray all night, see? And get ready to go back to work the next morning. I'm talking about serving God, now. Serving God. We're talking about serving God. Not playing games, but serving God. All right. So then, we're just exhorting you a little bit tonight. Not really preaching to you. I'm just saying a few things to you. It's the time of the end. I believe that it is the time of the end. Now, I'd like to comment just a little bit. Not take long, because like I said, I really don't have time to preach to you. But it's the time of the end. You notice we've got this little mike here. This is an expensive little mike. About three thousand dollars. As a matter-of-fact, my Brethren bought it for me. I was preaching — I made this statement. I was preaching over in a wrestling area, and I was out in the area in the wrestling arena, and I had that cord on there and every time I turned around — I kept turning around until I just wrapped completely up in it. And then I'd find myself, I have to start unwinding and I'd unwind. And finally my Brethren they just got tired of that so they just cut the whole thing off. And I heard something say, The old serpent is gone. Praise God! Hallelujah! Praise God! I'm just talking about a little present day revelation. Something is happening here tonight. I know you don't know it. I know you don't know it because I can pick up your spirit. And I'm saying foolish and abased things that confound the wise. God, as Brother Branham one time said, He is revealing Himself in simplicity. There is so much revelation taking place here tonight that I could write a great book. And not only a book but a volume of books on what is taking place tonight and what is taking place in Sulphur Wells with this tent being up here. Somebody says, Brother Pike, you're lying. So help me God, that's the truth if I've ever told it in my life. I am not lying. I could write a volume of books on what is happening right here in Sulphur Wells and with these connecting things of this revelation, and the thing of the revelation of Jesus Christ that is happening right here that involves you, that involves me, and involves Brother Abraham and the different ones that are here. A volume of books on spiritual revelation of the invisible, glorious, godly things. But, you know, television minds, football minds, eating and drinking, money, all of these things, why you can't get this into those people. The Bible said you can't put new wine in old bottles. Why they'll just bust up. They'll leave you. They'll go away. They'll get in their car, they'll drive off. They'll go back to the television. They'll go back to the ball games. They'll go back to the things of the world because they love those things. And the Bible said if the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not there. See? We are spiritual people. And we are in a spiritual frame of mind. And we're looking for spiritual things. And as long as we're in the frame of mind as to be a natural person, then are we natural. If we are in a natural frame of mind to desire the natural things of the world then are we natural. But, folks, when we become spiritual then we want to cut off the entire world, and we want to go on with God with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our strength, to love Him, to think on Him, to meditate in His laws day and night. You know, when sometimes when preachers say something about people being babes in Christ, or not being spiritual, people get offended. You know, the get offended and they think, Well, who does he thing he is? Why don't he know that I know all of these things? Come on, folks, I know your thoughts. Jesus knows your thoughts. Jesus said, Why does thoughts arise in your hearts? I know what you're thinking. But, see? The thing is, you don't realize how much of a babe you really are. You think that they insult you in saying that, because they are speaking to you as though you don't understand. You don't know how much you don't understand. Why they're making in very light. It is so unbelievable as how much you don't understand. And when you speak of babes in Christ, not even big enough to take your hand and lead you to take some steps, still in the cradle with the diapers on. Somebody say hallelujah! I'm talking about a little bitty babe. I'm talking about people that are suppose to be spiritual people that are in this kind of condition. I'm not talking about the world. Somebody said, The world might be like that. Well, the world has never been born yet. They couldn't be a baby in a cradle. The people that out yonder in the world, their eyes are not even open. It's not a matter of them seeing just a little bit. They don't see nothing. The Bible said when the wicked come they shall not see any good. When good cometh the wicked shall not see it, for the Bible said, Satan, Lucifer, even the god of this world has blinded their eyes that they cannot see. They can't understand. See? They don't see anything. They couldn't be a babe in a cradle in a church that has already gotten into the things of God. I'm talking about the church as a whole. Folks, we travel all around the different parts of the world and we travel across America, up into Canada, down into Mexico, and the church is a little bitty baby. Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, what are we going to do about the rapture? If the church is still a little bitty baby after all of these years what are we going to do. Well, the Lord took care of it, because the Bible says just as soon as He was born He was caught up to the throne. So you don't have to worry about it; it's all right. It's all right. But still at the same time the Bible speaks of the holy prophets of God and the holy men of God. Did you know that there are people that are holy in the world? There are people that are righteous, and then there are people that are holy. There is world of difference between a righteous man and a holy man. A man might be righteous and the Bible speaks of righteous men. And that's a great thing to be a righteous man. And there is lots of righteous people in the world. But when it comes to holy people — He said my holy apostles and my holy prophets, and then He spoke of holy men of old that were moved by the Spirit of God as God's Spirit moved them. He said, And these are holy men. See? We're speaking of holy men tonight. Men that are coming into the things of God and the great knowledge of God. There is not a lot of them in the world, but there are people in the world that are holy people, godly people. Let me say something right here. It might not hit right, I don't know. It's talking a little bit. Somebody say hallelujah! You know, in the days of Elijah — I've heard people jump on this a lot of times. You know, they'd get on the preacher. And in the days of Elijah — We speak about the days of Elijah, and somebody says, Yeah, there he is Elijah. There he is Elijah. There's that Elijah that thought he was the only prophet in the land and God had seven thousand, somebody said. You never read that in the Bible. Ain't no place in the Bible that said God had seven thousand. I don't know where you got that. How many did he have? Somebody said, Hundreds. You never read that in the Bible. Come on, folks. Somebody said, That prophet Elijah, talking like he's the only prophet. What does the Bible say? He was the only prophet. Let's give God a hand. Hallelujah! Glory! I said he was the only prophet. There's nowhere in the Bible that says there was another prophet around. It does say that God had seven thousand of them. He does. They've not bowed their knees to Baal. They were people that loved God but it doesn't say anything about them being prophets. Let's give God another hand. Hallelujah! He was God's prophet for the hour, and he was God's only prophet for the hour. So then, there is not a lot of holy men around. Not a lot of holy people. He was the great mighty man of God. And God has men in this day. There's some men of God that are sitting under this tent tonight. I know some of them. See? But the thing is, are we telling the people the truth? The truth shall set you free. Are we telling the people the truth? Come on, Brethren. If I get up here and preach a love message that's fine. There is a time for all things. I preach the love of God sometimes, of how wonderful it is and bring out the revelation of God, as to how God is cuddling His people and the way that He has secured His people and it is so phenomenal until it sounds unreal. The security. The eternal security that He has for His people. But, folks, on the other hand there are times when you've got to tell the people what they're doing wrong. And you've got to help the people get into the right place. You wouldn't want to go to a doctor and have the doctor to examine you and know that you've got cancer and know that you're going to live just maybe ten or fifteen days and say, Look, you're all right. Just go on, you're all right. You wouldn't want to go to a doctor like that, would you? I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to do that. See? I would want somebody to tell me the truth. And if they could help me, I'd want somebody to help me. See? If they had some kind of strong medicine I'd want them to share it with me. Aw, they say, this is too strong for him; I better not tell him that. I might lose my patient. I might lose my subject. I might lose some of my paycheck. Somebody say hallelujah! But let me tell you something. Hallelujah! When God sends somebody, God is going to make him speak God's word. (Begin tape two, side one.) Somebody say praise the Lord. When God sends somebody he's going to cause them to speak His word. Amen. And you know what will happen? The yoke will be broken. The yoke will be broken and the Spirit of God will be felt. Hallelujah! The yoke will be broken and the Spirit of God will be felt and the Spirit of God will begin to move and somebody will say, Oh, hallelujah! I feel free. I feel the liberty of God. You know what? The Bible said as Peter preached to them the Holy Ghost fell on them, and I feel the Holy Ghost falling already. Just talking to you I can feel the Holy Ghost falling already. Already it's falling on the audience. Somebody say praise the Lord! Come on, folks, let's worship God. God inhabits the praise of His people. God is wanting praise tonight. Even if I just exhort you for just a few minutes God wants you to praise Him. Lift your hands up and let's love Him tonight. Hallelujah! So then, God moving by His Spirit He breaks the yoke. He heals sick bodies. Did you know that when the yoke is broken that people are getting healed? Do you know that? You might have a disease tonight but did you know that when the anointing of God begins to fall that that disease will leave because the evil spirit begins to leave. See? Just as quick as the anointing comes the evil spirits begin to back out. Where there is light darkness can't come. Somebody say hallelujah! You say, What do you mean, preacher? I mean God wants to heal you and the Bible said, He sent His Word and healed them. And when you speak His Word God is healing. Somebody say praise the Lord. Come on, folks, let's praise the Lord. So then, when you begin to speak this Word then the yoke begins to be broken. All of a sudden the evil powers begin to go away and then God has a chance and that dove like Spirit, that lovely presence of His just can move in and woo you, and love you and heal you. Somebody say hallelujah! You know the kind of life I believe in? Is when you get rid of the devils and then God can love His people, but you've got to be lovable. You know, your wife comes in and she says, Where have you been? Come on, folks. You that have got a wife. What have you been doing? You say, Well, honey, give me — I don't want to hear it. I don't believe it anyway. And somebody says, Why don't you — Tribulation, J.T. says. Somebody says, Why don't you love that dear little wife? You reach out to love her and woosh, she pops you. She slams the door, and sometimes on your finger. You know, how are you going to love her? Somebody says, the audience says, Come on, Brother Pike, preach love to us. Preach love to us. God wants to love you. He really does. He wants to love you but your going to have to be lovable. Even Solomon said if your going to have friends you're going to have to show yourself friendly. Some folks don't even show themselves friendly in the church. Come on, now. They'll come in there and they'll sit down and they'll start scrutinizing you, and start watching you and everything you do they'll start watching you. Isn't that right? They'll do it. They'll start watching the things you do and you go along, you start hitting something pretty hard and especially if it's down on the street they live on and they'll look at their watch. They'll look back and they'll look at the watch. That's why we sing that song, And time shall be no more, no more. Amen. We're not time creatures, are we? Makes me feel like getting into revelation, sure enough. Don't you feel like shouting? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! So then, we're talking about the time of the end, folks. We're in the end time. This is the time of the end. God is doing something like he's never done before in the history of mankind. This is the end time. Do you believe it's the end time? It's the end time. Are you ready to meet Christ? If you are raise your hand. Let me see your hand. Are you ready to meet the Lord? Folks, if it's the end time that means that Jesus is fixing to come back. Somebody said, Even so come, Lord Jesus. But are you ready to meet Him? That's why they sing that song, Wait A Little Longer, Please, Jesus. Wait a little longer, please, Jesus. Somebody says, So I can get my loved ones in. You know better than that. Wait a little longer, please, Jesus, so you can get straight. That's why you sing that song. Wait a little longer, Jesus, so you can get straight. But I'm going to tell you, if we're waiting a little longer to get straight, in the sense of the Church getting straight, then it's getting worse all the time. Oh, no, somebody says, Brother Pike, it's getting better and better all the time. I said, It's getting worse all the time. As a matter-of-fact, it's getting so bad that the Bible said that if God didn't shorten the days for the elect's sake there wouldn't be any elect saved. Somebody said, You can't prove that, Brother Pike. Well, according to what I just read a few days ago, it was just a few years ago that it was twice what it is now, as to people going after God, going after the Word of God and doing the things of God. Cut it at least half into. Come on. It's getting worse all the time. You know what it is, folks? God has a plan and that plan is salvation by grace, and God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Listen at me now. The love of God. God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, and sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus Christ at Calvary. That's where you get your salvation. It's not of works lest any man should boast, but it is the gift of God. He hath made perfect forever. How long is forever? Well, somebody said, Jonah was in the belly of the whale forever. Like somebody says, The flames that are in the Lake of Fire, they're not eternal. I know that hell is not eternal because the Bible says, Death and hell delivered up the dead that was in them and death and hell was cast into the Lake of Fire. But, Brother, when you talk about the flames it doesn't say everlasting flames. It says eternal flames. And if the word eternal isn't eternal then we can't depend on it being eternal life. I said, And it said, Eternal flames. And it said, Where the worm dieth not, and the flames are not quenched. The fire is not quenched. And God said, Jacob, thy worm I'll help thee. And when he said where the worm dieth not, that sounds like that's going to be me and you unless we can come to that state of metamorphosis and get out of that old cocoon of the worm and turn into that heavenly butterfly and show ourself off as a heavenly creature. Somebody say amen. As long as your in that worm stage the Bible teaches that you're going into the fire and you're going to be in a flame that never can be quenched and the worm is never going to die. Somebody says, Well, if you stay there and live and live you're going to be eternal. That's true. Somebody says, Well, you've got eternal life. No, there's a difference between living and existing. Some people exist, some people live. You tell me that's living, being tormented every day, every minute, every hour, even a person with cancer that's tormented they'll tell you that they're not living. They'd rather be dead. Death is sweeter. They beg for death. So there is a world of difference in being in that fire. See? Angels can't die. How many of you know angels can't die? When you're born again you're equal with angels and you can't die. Even angels, fallen angels has to be destroyed. They can't die. God has to destroy them. And when you get eternal life that means that you are eternally alive forever. And, folks, the things I'm trying to tell you is that this has already happened. I said, this has already happened. Somebody said, If I can hold on, Brother Pike, I'm going to make it in. I'll tell you something. You'd better get in so you can hold on. Somebody say hallelujah! Hallelujah! Who ever heard of — You know, you're out here in the middle of a lake somewhere and the boat is going by and you're going to try to hold on; you'd better get in the boat. That's what you'd better do. Somebody say praise the Lord! So then, what is this that's happening? It's the end time. It's the end time, and the Bible teaches that many people are going to be lost because it is the end time. So then, what are we saying? I'm saying that if you are not in you need to get in. We're not waiting for the Kingdom of God. The law and prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached and men press their way into it. It's time to get into the Kingdom of God now. Now is the time to get into the Kingdom of God. See? You press your way against the evils of this world to get into the Kingdom of God. You need to get into the Kingdom of God now. Your inner man needs to be translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God. Come on, folks. You know where the problem is? You know each other after the flesh. You're so much caught up into the flesh that the devil eats you like a worm. All of your thoughts are to project yourself. All of your thoughts are to project your intelligence. All of your thoughts are to project the body when the Bible said the flesh profiteth nothing. It profiteth nothing. So then, why do we look to the flesh? I'll say some things here I'll probably wish I hadn't said since I don't have time to explain them, but you start talking like this and people get interested and they get hungry. Let me say this. Now, you stay with me. Think it over. God has done a great thing, folks. You say, Well, I know that. No you don't know it either. I beg your pardon. You don't know it. Unless it's been revealed to you, and it has to some, you don't know it. See? God has done a great thing. You say, Well, I know God has done a great thing. But I'm talking about a great, great, great, great thing. I'm talking about something so much greater than what you think about until you'd never get it in your thoughts as to what it was, because the Bible said it is higher above the heavens. Higher above your thinking than the heavens is above the earth, or His mind above your mind. See? It's so high you can't get to it. You can't fast and get to it. You can't study and get to it. You can't pray and get to it. You can't do anything and get to it. God has to reveal it to you through the grace and through His work, and through His love. As dear children He reveals it to you. But even tonight as we set here, am I trying to come into sonship? Am I trying to get to be a son of God? Am I really trying to get to be a son of God? Or am I already a son of God? If I'm born again I'm already a son of God. See? John said, Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. Oh, somebody says, that's potentially. Ain't no potential about it. I don't know where you got your schooling, but it's not potential at all. You didn't read that in the Bible. It said that you are already the sons of God. Come on, folks. Somebody says, Well, that's kind of strong. That's not near as strong as this is. The Bible said and we have already passed from death unto life. Aw, somebody says, I know all about that. I can tell you don't know nothing about it. I can pick your spirit up and I can see the expression on your face and tell you've never heard nothing like it. Oh, I know that. No, you just heard something pass by. The Bible said the wicked shall not see when good cometh. You didn't get any of it. If you really thought tonight that you got over that thing to where you were never going to die — Oh, somebody said, Brother Pike, what are you talking about, never having to die? Now I didn't know that was what you were talking about. Well, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about never dying. Isn't that what salvation is about? What am I doing preaching here tonight if I'm not preaching eternal life. What is eternal like? Somebody said, Well, eternal life is like Adam and Eve had in the garden. Adam and Eve didn't have eternal life in the garden. They never had eternal life. If they had had eternal life they would never have died. The fact that they died proved they were not eternal. They didn't have eternal life, but I've got eternal life. All right, somebody would say, Well, what's the proof of it? The proof of it is that I'm never going to die. Somebody would say, Well, I'll wait around and I'll see. I don't know. You might not get to wait around if you think like that. So then, what am I speaking of tonight? I'm speaking of real Gospel. Real eternal life. I'm talking about the real things of God. That Jesus Christ did not die. He did not spill His blood just for some foolishness, to play some game, to make a church a society. But He died that men might have eternal life. And if you think that is strong give me just a few more minutes. Brethren, let me tell you, we have passed from death unto life. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, why is it that men still go into the grave? Why is it that they still go into the grave? If men are not going to die why is it they still go into the grave? Of course we're speaking of Christians. Why do they go into the grave? I see them dying everyday. You've never seen a Christian die. There's never been one that ever died. You've never see a Christian die. You're never going to see a Christian die. Christians don't die. They can't die. They have eternal life. If they could die they wouldn't have eternal life. You say, Well, what do you mean? When they put them in the ground, they through dirt over their face they're dead. Not a Christian. Somebody say I love the Lord. There's never been a Christian put in the ground that ever died. Never will be. Praise God. I think I'll take my shoes off. Talk about standing on holy ground. At least I'll give my feet a rest. Somebody say hallelujah! I'm talking about a God that wrought a work, such a great mighty work that men don't die anymore, that believe on Him. And we have passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation. Never come into condemnation. Never. For there is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Come on, folks. And the Bible said, Happy is he that does not condemn himself over that thing which he allows. You know, going around here and messing around with different things, around different places, all of a sudden some little thing happens and you get under condemnation and then your faith goes down. That's as good as the devil wants. Your faith goes down. That's your shield. You don't want your faith to go down. You say, Well, how can I keep it up? By not condemning yourself over that thing which you allow. Somebody would say, Well, bless God, Brother Pike, do you mean that I'm to go out here and I can live like the devil and not condemn myself over it and just keep on going. Well, you can go out here and live like the devil if you want to. Because that's the way the devil lives. But I'm talking about Christians. I'm talking about Christians. If you're a devil you're going to live like a devil. Somebody said, Don't call me no devil. Jesus said, I've chosen twelve and one of you is a devil. Religious. I said they were religious. Cain was a devil or he would never have killed his brother. Peter? What about Peter? Said, Get thee behind me, devil. Peter? No, He was talking to the devil. When Peter got rid of the devil He said, Peter, follow me. I'll make you fishers of men. So then, what are we taking about? We're speaking of a spiritual world. We talking about being spiritual. Folks, let me say this. Just a little bit to exhort you tonight because we're in the end of the world. The end time. You're the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Let me say this to you tonight. We have passed from death unto life. What does it mean when a person goes into a casket and they put him into the ground and they bury him, if he is a Christian? What has happened to him? He has gone to sleep. Oh, somebody says, Six of one and half a dozen of another. What kind of joke is that, Brother Pike, when you are dead you're dead. Oh, no, folks, there is nothing less, nothing less than a world of difference. An entire world of difference. A Christian goes to sleep. How does he go to sleep? His spirit departs from the body. Jesus said Lazarus sleepeth; I'll go wake him. They said, But if he sleeps leave him alone; he's all right. Maybe he needs to rest, they could have said. Jesus said, You don't understand. He's dead. According to your terminology he's dead. But if he'd been dead He'd never have woke him up. How are you going to wake the dead up? If they're dead you can't wake them up. But Lazarus was asleep. Righteous. A righteous godly man that lay there asleep. And when Jesus went over there He said, I'm going to wake him up. Oh, Martha and Mary crying. You're our friend Jesus. Just a little brook Kidron coming down on the eastern side there across that little place Kidron. He'd go over there near the Mount of Olives, go over to Bethany, go over to Lazarus' house. He'd set there, He'd talk with them. He'd talk with Martha and Mary and they just loved Him. And when he stood by the tomb He wept, and they said, Oh, how He loved him. He stood there, and all of a sudden, something was said about Lazarus coming back to life. Oh, they said, we know that he will, you know, in the resurrection he'll come back. He'll come back. In the last day we know that he'll live. But Jesus said, Martha, Mary, I'm the resurrection. I'm the resurrection! I am the resurrection! I am the resurrection! I'm the truth! I'm the life! Hallelujah! He that believeth on me, though he was dead; yet shall he live. Believeth thou this? Hallelujah! And then He just whispered and He said, Lazarus. And Lazarus shook the grave clothes, so to speak, he came up out of that tomb. I've been down into that tomb where he was. And there he come up out of the tomb and stood there. He stood there. I said, Lazarus stood there. Can you image what happened to those people that were standing around there? If I had been around there and if I hadn't been a Christian, in a little while I wouldn't have been around there. I wouldn't have been around there. When dead people start getting up and walking around, if I wasn't a Christian I wouldn't be around there. Because when I wasn't a Christian, and they talked about dead folks getting up, I'd just hear tales about it — My Grandmother — I tell you what, I didn't stay around long enough to listen to her. I got so nervous and I got so shook up I just couldn't even listen to her tell the tale. She had some Indian in her. Now, let me say just a few more things, and we're going to close cause I'm just exhorting you a little bit. Now, you say, That's strong, Brother Pike. But it's not as strong as it's going to get in a few minutes. And so then, what is it? The spirit of life had departed from the body and the body was planted, as a seed. But the spirit had gone back to God who gave it. It had gone back to God who gave it. I wish we had time to preach on this tonight and explain what I'm saying so you could understand better. (?) have some help. Let me tell you. When the spirit departs from your body, then the Bible says the body without the spirit is dead. That's your terminology. But, see? That's when the body is asleep. And someday the spirit will reenter into that body and wake it up. And wake it up. But you say, Brother Pike, you said we've passed from death unto life, why is it they put our body in the ground? Because the body profiteth nothing. The body has nothing to do with it. God is a spirit. Life is in the spirit. The quickenings are in the spirit. This body is nothing. What's that got to do with it? Are you listening? Just a house like you said at the first. Did you know, speaking of that in the Old Testament. The house. These people that lived in this house. If there came a plague in the house, or some kind of streak in the wall of it, you know what they did? They called for the priest. The people had to move out. They would go in there and check this thing out and see if it was terminal. You know, like cancer in your physical body, And they'd go in there and check this. Now, if this thing could be washed away, if they could take the hyssop, if they could take the mixture of the Priest, go in there and kill that thing they didn't tear the house down. They let the house remain. They cleaned the plague out and then you could move back in the house. And see? When you lay this body down if there is no plague of sin in it — Now, you might have sinned. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but if there is no plague of sin, as to willful sin, as to a plague in that little house, when it's laid down the High Priest, even the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, He has gone in there and washed it. As Brother Abraham said, it's in the heart. And He's washed that little house out and He's killed that plague and He's laid that little body down, and some day He'll let you move right back into that little house. It will be clean. It will be eternal. It will last from now on. That's what the Old Testament teaches about it. That's what it was all about. So then, when we see that we are, as a spiritual being, departing from the body, that does that mean to us? It means that we have passed from death unto life, because death is in the body. And when you are born again there is no death in your spirit. Now, listen for just a few minutes. So then, where is my spirit, Brother Pike? Talking about the rent veil of Calvary, now. And the veil was rent in twain so that your body could be dead in the sight of God because sin is corruption in the flesh. And so that your spirit as Christ's spirit could go back to the God who gave it, for the Bible said at death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it. And the Bible teaches concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, that when Christ went back that Christ is hid in God, and we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring, the restitution of all things, or the coming millennium. Are you listening? So then, that means that your body is asleep, so that isn't death. See? Paul said, Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. Lazarus went to sleep. If you go down in the earth and they throw dirt on you your body is asleep. But we don't have to do that in this generation. We don't have to do this in this age. You say, Brother Pike, what do you mean? I mean when the Bible speaks of Enoch, the Bible said by faith he was translated that he should not see death. Come on, folks. I said, that he should not see death. Being the seventh from Adam, a type of the rapture of the church, the Bible said he should not see death. Somebody would say, Well, He's going to have to come back and die. He doesn't have to come back and die. He wasn't under the law. Why should he come back and die. Death is by the law. Come on, folks. I said death is by the law. Death is by the law. You don't have to die if you're not under the law. I'm not under the law. I've passed from death unto life. The law is folded up and laid away. Taken away. I'm like Enoch. Enoch was before the law. Before the law, four hundred and thirty years before the law ever came Abraham was justified by faith to be the father of the faithful. Here we are on this side of the law. Moses and Elijah will have to come back and die because they were under the law. Now, somebody says, Brother Pike, they're in glory. How can they come back? Somebody said, Moses is already dead. No, the dispute is over the body. I wish we had time to go into the revelation of it. For when they came after the body, remember? When the death angel came after the body the angel of the Lord said, The Lord rebuke you, Satan. And he didn't get the body. Where is the body? They've never found it. Somebody says, They buried it. But they've never found it. But I found it. Somebody says, Where did you find it? I found it on the Mount of Transfiguration in glory. Come on. Somebody said, That was his spirit. It wasn't Christ's Spirit. It was Jesus. It wasn't Elijah spirit; it was his body. What makes you think that was the spirit of Moses? It was the body of Moses, symbolic of the dead and the resurrected saints. Jesus symbolic of the living things that couldn't die. And Elijah symbolic of the translated saints. All of them on the Mount of Transfiguration. Somebody said, But if it had been glory, Brother Pike, they couldn't come back and die. Jesus was up there and he walked right back down and they put Him on Calvary and killed Him. Come on, folks. That means that Moses and Elijah could do the same thing. Moses and Elijah could do the same thing and will do the same thing. Hallelujah! Do you love the Lord? Say, Well, that's strong. Well, it's going to get a little bit stronger, just hold on. All right. So then, we've passed from death unto life. Someone would say, Well, how is it that we've passed from death unto life? We've passed from death unto life because it is not the spirit departing from the body that is death. That's sleep. It is when your spirit departs from God's spirit. That is death. What did He then mean when He said you have passed from death unto life? He means that your inner angelic spiritual man, (The Bible speaks of the inner man.) you're inner spirit inner angelic man has passed from death unto life because sin is no more. It has escaped sin when it escaped the body by the rent veil, as to the body being dead in the sight of God. And your spirit is one with the Spirit of Christ, even God's Spirit, and it can never be separated from God's Spirit. So what is he saying, passed from death unto life. He means the second death. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection over which the second death hath no power. He's speaking of the Lake of Fire. You'll never go into the Lake of Fire. You've overcome the second death. As to your spirit separating from the Spirit of God, it will never be separated from God's Spirit. That's death. Your spirit maybe separated from your body, your body go to sleep. But, folks, when it comes to death your spirit has to be separated from God's Spirit. God's spirit is life. And that means to do into the Lake of Fire, and you'll never go into the Lake of Fire. You've passed from death. The second death. You've passed from death unto life. So when you bury a Christian you never see a Christian dead. You see a Christian go to sleep. Now what is this? I'm talking about the end time. And He said, Daniel, seal it up until the end time. Folks, we're in the end time right now. He said, John, don't seal it up. Will you give me just a minute or two more? So then, we're saying, What do you mean by that? I mean that we have passed from death unto life. We don't have anymore condemnation. Why is it we don't have any condemnation? I'm talking about salvation. I'm talking about rapturing faith. Did you know this faith that we've got where we're going and coming like a yo yo, why we're never going to get into heaven, folks. The Bible said you ask in faith nothing wavering. You're never going to get into heaven that way. You may think you are but you're not. You're going to have to come to the faith of Jesus Christ by which you are sanctified. And the Bible said contending for that faith that was once delivered unto the saints of God. See? You must have a faith that don't waver. And there is but one faith that doesn't waver and that confidence in His work. Confidence in His work. Doing the things that please God we assure our hearts. Hereby we have confidence that God hears us, and we know if He hears us we have the petition that we desire of Him. Whatever we ask we get it. So then you say, What do you mean by that, Brother Pike? I'm saying that we have passed from death unto life and I'm saying there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. There is no condemnation to them. Why is there no condemnation to them? Hold on now, folks. Why is it that there is no condemnation to them? There's got to be a reason. You know why there is no condemnation? I told you it would get stronger. Why is there no condemnation? Because they can't sin. Hallelujah! Somebody say hallelujah! Thank you, God, we you can't sin! The Bible says you can't sin. It's not something that I'm saying. The Bible says he that God sendeth will speak God's Word. Somebody says, Well, I try not to sin myself. Well, let's do better than that. Let's get a better case of salvation. Somebody says, Well, I'm holding on, but sometimes I sin. Well, let's get born again and stop that foolishness. Come on, folks. Come on, folks. Somebody says, Well, I just sin a little bit, Brother Pike. I know. It's the little foxes that spoil your vines and you haven't got any fruit. Somebody said, Well, I'm just a little bit dead. Just a little bit. If you offend in one point you're guilty of all. Let me tell you something, folks. Christians don't sin. Christians don't sin. Somebody would say, Well, I don't think — I think maybe if they do right they don't sin. Christians don't sin. It's not a matter of what they do. They don't sin. Somebody says, You can't prove that. Brother J.T. says that's what the Bible says. Yes, sir. It's right there in John. Read it. That's good; read it. Okay. He that is born of God, John said, he cannot sin. Come on, folks. Why do we want to twist the Scripture around? Somebody said, Rightly dividing the Word. That is rightly dividing the Word. You know, somebody comes up and says, Brother Pike, do you want a glass of water? I say, Let me rightly divide what you're saying. Somebody says, You're crazy man. You're thirsty. Take the water; that's the right way to do it. God doesn't need you to twist around what He says. (Begin tape two, side two.) .....that's born of God cannot sin. It didn't say he may not sin, or if he does real good he won't sin. It says there ain't no way he can sin. No way he can sin. Why is it that he can't sin? Because he is born of God. Come on now. It's going to get — If you think that's strong, it's going to get stronger than that. He can't sin. It isn't a matter of may not sin, or slip back. Somebody said, Well, I know I've seen them backslide. No, you haven't seen them backslide. I know we preachers use those terms to make it kind of easy on you. Get you to snap to attention. You don't see Christians backslide. Somebody says, What do you mean, Brother Pike? Because He said, I'll heal your backsliding and at Calvary He healed it. He healed it. Now, Israel was a backsliding heifer. He's going to heal her one day when she sees the blood. See? He that is born of God can't sin. There is no such thing as backsliding except in the sense that you might drift back and get a little cold in God. Come on, folks, hold on. Hold on. So then you can't sin. That's why there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. That's why the Bible says happy is he that does not condemn himself over that thing which he allows because in his heart he doesn't allow anything. He is in the flesh to the extent the flesh is still around and yet he's not in the flesh, in that he's born again. And the devil works on him and the devil suppresses him, and the devil fights him, and the devil brings condemnation to his thoughts. He stumbles. He staggers. He didn't mean to do it. I said this a lot of times. You might be walking along, you fall down in the mud. You didn't mean to fall down in the mud, and it doesn't make you a pig because you fell in the mud. All you've got to do it get up and wash it off. You're still a human being. That didn't change you to a pig. Do you actually believe, folks, that we are the kind of people that today we're with God and tomorrow we're out in sin, and then we have a revival and the preacher preaches and we get saved again, and than we go back and we get saved again, and then we go back and get saved again? Do you think that God has such a foolish wishy washy way of doing things? Come on, folks. How many times have you ever seen a dog that was born as a dog. That's the only way they can be born. How many times have you ever seen a dog changed into a chimpanzee? Or change into a cat? and come back and repent and say, Look, I know I'm a dog. I've got to get straightened out. I want to be a dog again. You've never seen anything like that. Come on, now. I said it was going to get strong. You say, Well, what do you mean by that? Well, we're getting around to it. See? folks, we're not to know anybody after the weakness of the flesh. Oh, you don't know who you are. I said at the first of the service, you know, we need to learn we are. You say, Well, bless God, who are we? We're Gods. I told you it was going to get strong. We're Gods. Oh, somebody said, my God, you've done blasphemed, Brother Pike. You've really played it now, you've done blasphemed. Somebody says, Now, you say that you are God and there you are now, you're taking His glory. Somebody say hallelujah. I didn't take His glory; He just gave it to me. Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, the Bible says God will not give His glory to another. But I keep telling you I'm not another. I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. I'm the body of Christ, members in particular. He gave me His glory. I didn't have to take His glory. Jesus openly stated said, Father, glorify these with the glory that I had with thee before the world ever was. Let's give the Lord a hand. I said, God gave it to me. Hallelujah! Jesus Christ in you, that's the hope of glory. There it is right there in St. John. He that is born of God cannot sin for the seed of God remains in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Come on. That's the Word of God. Read it for me. (Brother J. T. reads.) "Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father........Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not. Whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteous is righteous even as he is righteous. He that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for His seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." What did he say? Somebody said, Well, I sin. Well, Brother J. T. says you are of the devil and he's the Pastor around here. Come on. He was the one that said it. You heard it. Somebody say, glory. You say, What does this do to us, Brother Pike? It gives us rapturing faith. No condemnation. Nothing between me and my Heavenly Father. Hallelujah! Even so, come Lord Jesus. Talking about the end time. Somebody says, Wait a little longer. I've got to get a little better. You ain't going to get any better; you're going to get worse. You'd better have faith in the righteousness of the Son of God. And the Bible said be baptized into Christ, and put on Christ. Somebody say, I love you, Jesus. Hallelujah! Don't you feel like being raptured? Speaking of the end time. Glory to God! That's why there is no condemnation. That's why I say that you are Gods. And I'm going to close in just a minute or two. I just want to clear my point. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, why do you say we're Gods? Because a God is something that cannot die. Anything that is eternal is a God. If you didn't have nothing but a tree out there in that field, if that tree could never die it would be a God. If you just had a dog and the dog couldn't die, all the people in the world would come to see it. It would be a god. There would be people falling down and worshipping it every where. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, you mean they're going to worship us? Paul said they glorified God within me. And the Bible said, I will make them to come and kneel at your feet and know that I love you. And the Bible said, God shall suddenly appear within His temple, whose temples ye are. That the world may see God in His temple. Somebody say hallelujah! Talking about gods. Folks, you can't die. You've passed from death unto life. You can't die. You're not a human being. You're not with the beasts. You are not to know anybody after the flesh, but after the spirit. You are alive eternally. Christ Jesus alone, the Bible said was made heir to the glory of God even from the promise of our Father Abraham. That's what Abraham has to do with being here tonight. If we'd go into the spiritual revelation, even from the promise of Abraham. And the Bible said, And the promise was not unto seeds as of many, but as of the one, even Jesus; the promised Son. So if He alone is made heir to the glory of God that's what the Bible means when it says, And He, Christ within you, is your hope of glory. It's having Him. That's the only hope of that glory you've got, because He's the only heir to it. Wasn't Moses and Elijah in the same glory that He was in? Didn't they appear in glory? Wasn't he giving them His glory right there? Why not? Wouldn't you let your wife stay in the same house with you? Come on, now. I said, Wouldn't you let your wife stay in the same house? Just give me a minute more, or two. Can you? See? Would you send her out to the dog house, saying, Young lady, you're not good as I am. No. She's one with you. No longer twain; she's one with you. Isn't that right? You know, some people say, Well, one day God is going to judge us. He's going to stand us before Him and He's going to say, Listen here, young lady, and He's going to judge you and He's going to judge — God is never going to do that, folks. Do you mean to tell me that God is going to do that? How can He do that? We're translated before the tribulation period, caught up to the marriage supper. This is judgment beginning at the house of the Lord. We're caught up to the dressing room, go to the marriage supper. Come on. Is that Bible? He's going to marry us. Said, Woe, unto you backsliders, I'm married unto you. Come on. He's done healed your backsliding. Still your wife whether you like it or not. Got to put up with her ways. Them that I love I will chasten, but I'm still married to you. You believe He's married to a sinner? No. All right, let's say this. At the end of the tribulation period He's going to reign with her a thousand years. Is that right? Can't you just picture them. He's going to live with her a thousand years and the Great White Throne of Judgment is coming and He's going to say, You stand here, young lady, and let me see if you're fit for anything. Let's give the Lord a hand. There ain't going to be no days like that, folks. Somebody say I love you, Jesus. I said, there ain't going to be no days like that. God is a spirit. God is with us today. Right now, folks. God is moving by His Spirit right now. And God is stealing out the Bride right now, taking her out of that old carnal intellectual darkness right now. Somebody say I love you, Jesus. Gods. We're gods. Let me ask you a question. When a dog has a, I guess you would call it a litter of pups. I might not be so good at knowing what I'm saying here. Okay. And a cat has a litter of cats. Okay. I got a confirmation. Now. If a dog has a dog what would you call that? A dog? Why would you call that a dog? Somebody tell me why you would call that a dog just because a dog had a dog? Son of a dog. And somebody says, He is a dog. He is a dog. And when an elephant brings forth an elephant what do you call him? Why do you call him an elephant? And a cat brings forth a cat. And a God brings forth a God. Come on, folks. Somebody say hallelujah! Somebody say I love you, Jesus. Let's praise God tonight. I said, Ye are Gods. Jesus said you shall die like men because of a lack of knowledge of knowing who you are and what you are. When you a born of God you are a God. Dogs begat dogs and elephants begat elephants and Gods begat Gods. Oh, my God, somebody says, this is more than I can take. I don't blame you, folks. When you are not a God you are just not a God; you can't help it. When you are earthly you are earthly. But I'm speaking of people that are Gods, people that cannot die. People that have eternal life, that have eternal youth, eternal strength. Great and mighty knowledge. They have this. Somebody said, Well, the world will never have that. Thank God for that. And the one thing is, they can't ever get that. They said, Jesus, why do you speak to these people in parables seeing that they understand not what you say? He said, Because it's not given unto them to have it. It's not given unto them to know the mysteries of Kingdom of God. And He said, When good comes the wicked shall not see it for the eyes of their understanding shall be blinded by the god of this world, even Lucifer that savors the things of the football field, the baseball fields, the frolics, the races, down along the beaches stripping off, doing all the things, eating, marrying, giving in marriage. Half a dozen wives. Somebody say glory to God. Still preaching the gospel. How many believe I'm preaching the gospel. If I'm not in the Word have a backbone. Stand up and tell me. Glory to God, that's what this if for. Somebody says, Okay. Okay. Come on. I caught that little inclination of thought there. It didn't get a hold of you. You didn't let it go far enough to get a hold of you, but I picked up a little bit there. You got stung the other night in my meeting. Now is the time for you to stand up. Somebody say glory to God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! That's what this gospel is for so we can stand up and speak your piece. Stand up. Glory to God, stand up in the meeting. The man that came down — I get a little excited. Like the man that came down to our place. Stayed around there a number of days and I didn't get to talk to him. Something from some place. He said he was one of the seven thunders. He came down there — Anyway he stayed around there for awhile and he'd been to a number of churches and he caused a real ripple in the water and he came down there and I didn't say nothing because I was trying to help the man and love the man. We just try to help everybody we can. He came there and kept staying around, you know, on the camp ground and saying something to the Brethren and different ones. And told them how that he was going to challenge me and what he was going to do, and I still didn't do nothing, cause I know a lot of people are just little babies. They mess up their diaper and you just have to change their diaper; that's what you are for. So he was going to -- And one night I just got kind of weary of it. He's just going on and going on 'til one night he was sitting up in the balcony and I stepped out and I said, I understand there is a brother here that wants to challenge me. I said, Right now, if you'll stand up we'll let God judge between us right now. He didn't move. He just sat there. He didn't say nothing. He left after that. He didn't stay around. He left after that. He went over to the land of Israel and he was going to prove himself to be a prophet and died. Somebody say I love you, Jesus. I said, he died. I know a number of people who have come to us that's died that's suppose to have had a word of prophecy. They didn't have nothing but a brain storm. Like a computer out of control. I'm not trying to be ugly. I'm just trying to be positive. Brother Branham said nail it on so the wind don't get it. Let me say this and I am going to close. Just give me just a very few minutes here. So then, you are Gods. Folks, let's look at it just for a minute so I can complete this. Now a lot of times this goes on tape and it goes to numbers of people in the world. All over the United States. Brother Bill, our man, is over there tonight. He's helping me and they're taping this. Listen, folks. You are Gods. You are Gods. You die like men because you've never come to the knowledge of it. Jesus stood here and He talked to those people and they were going to stone Him to death. And Jesus said, I've opened the eyes of the blind. I've unstopped the death ears. Said, For what good work do you want to kill me? How many feel like that about me? He want to be their friend. He said, Why do you want to stone me to death? They said, For a good work we don't stone you. We don't desire to stone you because you've been healing the sick, but said, You being a man make yourself God. Now, somebody said, Now wait a minute. Jesus didn't preach that kind of doctrine. It's surprising, isn't it? Said, You being a man make yourself God. He must have been preaching something to make them think like that. Said, You being a man make yourself God. They said, But you say you've seen Abraham. You've seen him. You're not yet fifty years old. But the Bible said, back under the oak of Mamre. I've been there to that oak of Mamre. Said, back under that oak of Mamre you came to visit with Abraham. Isn't that right, Brother J.T? He visited with him back there. He said, Well, I don't believe he was. Abraham said, Shall not the God of all the earth do righteous? When He was going to judge Sodom and Gomorrah? He had seen him. He said, Is it not written in the Scripture that I've called you Gods? Come on, now. He said, Isn't it written in the book, in the scrolls that I've called you Gods? I went back and checked it out. In Psalms it said, Ye are Gods. Says, ye are Gods. You die like men for lack of knowledge but you're Gods. See? And Paul said, I show you a mystery. There's going to come a time when some of you are not going to sleep. You're not going to sleep. Lazarus sleepeth. There is a generation that's going to believe in this and they're not even going to be put in the ground. They're not even going to throw dirt on them. They're not going to sleep. The redemption of the body is coming. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. The Bible says we'll be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump from mortality to immorality. We're not going to sleep. Because, as I say so often, we're not sleepy. So then, we are Gods. We are born of God. It's reasonable to think that we are Gods. We are born of God. See? Can God sin? Can God sin? Folks, can God sin? We are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We're His glory. Can God sin? The Bible said he that sinneth is of the devil. We're not talking about a sinning church. That belongs to somebody else; that doesn't belong to us. We're not talking about sinning churches. Do you love the Lord? All right. Let me finish. So then, what am I saying? I'm saying that we are dead to the law and sin is the transgression of the law, and where there is on law there is no transgression. Come on, now. We are dead to the law by the body of Jesus. And transgression of the law is sin. And where there is no transgression there is no sin. And Paul said, We therefore conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. The law is folded up and laid away. The law has nothing to do with us. The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us by the works of Jesus Christ. Now. If the law is folded up and laid away and we can't transgress the law — Remember Paul said, I was alive without the law. When the law came sin revived and I died. Said, Because sin gets it's strength by the law. If there is no law where is the strength of sin? Come on, now. It's going to get stronger. What are you talking about, Brother Pike? You'd really be surprised. Even at this point you'd be surprised. I wish I had time to preach it. So then, the law is folded up. It's put away. Every jot and tittle was fulfilled. Not pass until ever jot and tittle be fulfilled. Jesus fulfilled every jot and tittle. It's passed away. There is no more law. Can a dead man transgress the law? You're dead to the law by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Dead to the things of the world and the world is dead to me by the body of Jesus. You're not even in the world. How are you going to sin? You've got to be in the world to sin. You've got to be in the flesh to sin. And the Bible said you're not in the flesh. We're not to know anybody after the flesh. God has chosen you out of the flesh and hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received unto the restoring of all things. Isn't that right? So you're not even in the flesh. You're not even in the world. You're body is dead because of sin. You're setting in heavenly places. I have to be in California to set in California places. Georgia to set in Georgia places. Right now I'm in Kentucky places. He that is born of God has already passed from death unto life. His spiritual being is chosen out of the body and the body is dead and buried for the spirit went back to God who gave it at death. The veil has been rent in twain. The body of Jesus. That means that you can't sin. It means that you can't die because them that are in heaven are equal to the angels. You can't die. Are you listening? Angels have to be destroyed. You can't die. All right, now. If the law is folded up and laid away then we can't transgress the law. How many of you agree to that? Can you transgress the law if there is no law? Tell me now? Can you transgress the law if there is no law? I was alive without the law. When the law came sin revived and I died, and that which was appointed unto life I found to be unto death because of the weakness of my flesh and not being able to perform it. But Paul said, I thank God that what the law could not do, in the it was weak through the flesh, God sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh condemned sin in the flesh. He done away with sin. The angel said to Daniel, And Messiah shall come and make an end of sin. I'm talking about making an end of sin. Come on, folks. He said He'd make an end of sin. Do away with sin. Where is sin? Why do you want to burden God's people down by trying to tell them they sin every day. Amen. God's people need the burden lifted. The need the cross lifted. Jesus took it away. There is no sin to a Christian. And you don't need to be getting under condemnation all the time. When you stumble and stagger pick up your faith. Take your shield of faith, go right on. Do the things of God. Enjoy the things of God. Say hallelujah! Praise the Lord. Be about your Father's business. Quit worrying about all these things about sin. Going around with a heavy load all the time. That makes you feel like dancing, don't it? The Bible said David danced in the spirit with all his might. Hallelujah! So then there is no law. Brother Taylor, there is no transgression. Where there is no transgression there is no sin. Getting stronger and stronger. I said, Where there is no transgression there's no sin. And where there is no sin there is no death. There is no death because sin is gone. The sting of death is sin. Oh, sin where is thy sting? Death where is your victory? Grave, tell me where the victory is. Tell me. There is no sting anymore. So there is no death anymore. And there is no victory to the grave anymore. Come on, folks. Where is thy victory, O grave? Where is thy sting, death? Glory to God! Jesus took the sting out of the bee. He took the sting out of death. He folded up the law and said no more transgression. And Paul said, What the law could not do Jesus came and done it. Glory to God. The master came and done it. And the Bible said they that were back under the law could never be made perfect by the blood of bulls and goats. But the master came, offered a redemption, once and for all a sacrifice. The Bible said those old time sacrifices brought sin to God's remembrance every seventh month on the tenth day. Come on. Do you understand what I'm saying? Brought it to His remembrance. But when the Son of God, the spotless lamb of the evening time laid the blood down, put it on the Seat of Atonement. It was taken away. It don't never come to God no more. God don't ever see sin no more. Did you know Jesus took away the sins of the entire world? Did you know that doctors and lawyers and murderers and whoremongers and everything else, that God can't see their sins. If God saw it He'd tear this world to pieces. He's got the blood on the Seat of Atonement, loving you while you were yet in your sins to redeem you; doing the works for you. And He took away the sins of the world. And those people are still living out there eating and drinking, having medical, having healings, all these things because the blood is on the Seat of Atonement. But it's a dispensational grace. One day it's coming off of the Seat of Atonement. And only the grace that's bringeth salvation, that's appeared unto all men teaching them to deny worldly lust and the ungodliness of this world. Living soberly and righteously in this world. That's the only thing that is going to prevail. Which means that one day when the blood comes off of the Seat of Atonement God is going to look down, and just about the time He's going to look at iniquity, He can't behold iniquity, and swoosh... Everything will be tore up. Somebody would say, When is this, Brother Pike? The Bible said heaven and earth shall pass away. And John said when the great throne, the white throne of judgment came heaven passed away to fulfill that Word. And earth passed away, and there was no more sin. Everything passed away because He can't look at iniquity. And there was a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. So then, there is no law. Come on. You're under grace. They that have fallen from grace is under the law, but we're in grace. There is no law. See? There is no sting because sin is the transgression of the law, and sin is the sting of death. And there is no law and where there is no law there is no transgression, so there is no sting, which means there is no death. Which means that you've made it. I said, You've made it. Somebody said if I could just make it. Let's give God a hand. I said, You made it. I said, this is the end time and you've made it. Come on, folks. I said, You've made it. You've made it. You've made it. By faith in God you made it. That's why I saw the vision the other night when I had a hold of the devil and I wouldn't turn him a loose. I thought, Praise God, I ain't turning you a loose, and he got fierce and he got long and he got great and he whirled around the earth until fire and brimstone came down from out of heaven and I still didn't turn him a loose. And God consumed him until he wasn't no more. This message is eating him up. I said, this message is eating him up. It ain't leaving even a stalk. When he brings his little gimmick of condemnation he ain't even got a foot to stand. I'm talking about a faith that's not in and out like a swing and up and down like a yo yo. Hallelujah! I'm talking about the Word and faith by the hearing of the Word. And Paul said, we're here to perfect your faith. That when we preach this and you believe that the devil will have to get on the run because there ain't no place for him to live. I said, there ain't no place for him to live. He can't stay in the shadows cause there ain't no shadows. Come on. If I'm wrong stand up and say it. Wherever I go in the world I say stand up and say it. Prove it to me by the Scriptures. Give me word and verse. Glory to God. I say this because you can't do it. I said you can't do it. Nobody can do it. Nobody in the world can do it. Hallelujah! It's God's Word that created heaven and earth. He sent His Word and healed them. Somebody said, Well, you're going to find somebody someday, a great Bible scholar. I had one over in Indiana. A german. A great mighty one. He popped up and he said, I say — I said, Set down, Sir. You are out of order. The spirit left him and he set right back down. Do you love the Lord? All right. So what are we saying? What are we saying? See? You've passed from death unto life. You shall never come into condemnation. The sting of death is gone. It's over. It's the end time. It's over. You made it; it's over. The preaching was up to that point. And, oh, I wish we could get into the mysteries. And it's over. It's the end time. And now the faith of the saints — That's what this tent has to do with. That's what this program has to do with. All of these things that's coming together right now. See? You made it. Somebody said, Made it where, Brother Pike? Into the Kingdom of God for the Bible said the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached. Men press their way into it. And the Bible said you pass from death unto life, that you are already the sons of God. Already. You love the Lord? Can you bear with me just a tad? I won't say a minute. J.T. said there ain't no more. Not saying this to be comical but it kind of substantiates what we're saying. A woman went into a place to get some boxes and the man said, How many do you want? Said, I've got a whole slew of them. She said, Just a half a slew. (Begin tape three, side one.) ....like I understand, somebody came down here to this water one day and some one was drinking and some woman said, My! Son, that tastes like rotten eggs, don't it? Says, I don't know, mam, we don't eat rotten eggs around here. Children of God don't eat rotten eggs. Do you love the Lord? Paul said, bear with me a little in my folly. I just wanted to get the point over. I'm going to let you go in a few minutes. All right. So then, that means there is no more sin. Aren't you glad you don't sin? If you sin you die, but if you don't sin you don't die. How many glad you don't sin? Somebody said, Well, I just don't want to believe this. Well, hadn't you rather believe it than die? Somebody say hallelujah! Come on, folks. You know you can't prove it wrong. Heaven and earth will pass away, but that Word won't pass away. As a black man said one time. He said, I'd rather be standing on the Word than standing on the streets of gold. Somebody said, Why? He said, Because heaven and earth is going to pass away and the Word of God ain't going to pass away. He had the right idea just had some wrong understanding there. First heaven, second heaven, third heaven. Paul said, Being caught up into the third heaven. There is one of those heavens that's going to pass away. I wish I had time to preach on that tonight. But, anyway, let me say this in trying to close. See? There is no death. There is no death because there is no sting. And there is no sting because the sting of death is sin. There is no sting because there is no sin. And there is no sin because there is no law because transgression of the law is sin. So it's folded up and laid away. You're free. You don't sin. He that sinneth is of the devil. He that sinneth has never seen God, never known God. That's why he sinneth. When you come to know God, you come to see God, you never sin anymore, never. Never. Just like justification. If I go before the judge and the judge justifies me it means I didn't do it. It don't mean he let me off. If He says — The lawyer proves my point and the judge says not guilty, what does that mean? Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. It means I'm not guilty. It means I didn't do it. Come on. Somebody says, Brother Pike, what in the name of reasoning are you talking about? What are you talking about? Paul said, Folks, it's not me that doeth it. Ain't that Bible? Said, But sin that dwelleth in me. Said, If on the inside I want to do good and something inside of my body wants to do wrong, he said, I just determine in my heart that's not me doing that for there's no good thing dwelling in my flesh. He said, That's the devil. Said, O wretched man that I am, what am I going to do about this? What a horrible death this is, the body of this. He called it the body. But he said, I thank God He took care of it. He killed the body and that's the end of it. I'm free from it. Come on. I'm not going to pay any attention to it anymore. It's not me doing it but sin that dwelleth in me. I'm not going to pay any attention to it anymore. Are you going to leave it alone from now on and not pay any attention to it? He ain't going to quit talking to you because he's the prince of this world. He wants to trample down the mind of humanity. But, folks, let that faith in your heart get out there. Let it get out there and share it and evangelize the world, and let's go preach to them people and tell them and the knowledge of God, that they don't have to — They are free. Free. Free from sickness and sin and poverty and the things of this world. They're free from it, and the Word of God has made you free and he that the Son makes free is free indeed. Glory to God. Somebody says, Now, if you'll just shut up. I'm just fixing to, hold on. Just fixing to. J. T. said, give me just a little more time. J. T.'s wanting to take this tent down. He's wanting to keep somebody around. Do you love the Lord? Let's stand together. I an going to say a word or two, but I'm closing. I don't mean to weary you. What I'm telling you is true folks. This is true. It's not something we're guessing at. If you'll check your Bibles, check the Scripture. Look at it, you'll find out it's exactly that way. Just exactly that way. I've had people that have come from different parts of the world and they'd say, Brother Pike, I've got some Scripture. I want to show you something. I say, That's fine. That's what we're looking for. And so they'd open it up and start reading. I'd say, Now what did It say? And they'd stop and say, Wait a minute. I never knew it said that before. I said, It didn't say it the way you thought it did. I said, But it did say it the way that we said it. Said, Yes, but I never knew that. It never struck me that way before. See? The Bible said there is a veil over the face of the people that is untaken away, and the reading of the Old Testament which veil remaineth until today. They can't see when good cometh, but this veil is done away with in Christ Jesus. That is, the veil is rent in twain and the true light now shineth. So we're Gods. We've passed from death unto life. Somebody says, Well, now the devil tried to do that one time. He sure did. He said, I'll make my nest among the stars. I'll be like the most high. God said, Yes, and I'll cast you down to hell. Somebody said, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. That's right. He cast him down to hell. He kept His Word. You know why? Because He said, I won't give my glory to another. He was another. I said, He was another and God cast him down to hell. But, folks, we're not another and He said, Father, give these thy glory. Glorify these with the same glory I had with Thee before the world ever was. And He took Moses and Elijah up and he done it and Christ in you is the hope of that glory. The hope of that glory. So when we leave tonight I'd like to go on, because there are some other things I need to say about this but I know I can't. I know it's getting late. You've been real good. Been real patient to listen this long. But, folks, I'm talking about real salvation. I'm talking about eternal life. I'm talking about a God of love. You're talking about love. Have you ever heard of love like that? Love like this was never know, Jesus dying for His own just as the sun went down. Whoo!. That does something to me. I think, My God! What a love! You did all the work. You took away all the sin. You took away death and You reached down here and You loved me, and You cuddled me to the extent that the devil can't even touch me. I said, Can't even touch me. Somebody said, I know that you're eccentric now, Brother Pike. The Bible said He that is born of God keepeth Himself the evil one toucheth him not. He's without spot. He's without wrinkle. He's without blemish. We're not like the woman at the well. Every man had played around with her and she's going to be your bride; you don't want no whore like that. The great whore. The great whore. But them that come into the lovely name of the Son of God, the Bible said, And the evil one toucheth them not because they keep themselves. They are without spot. They're without wrinkle, and they're without blemish. Somebody said, Well, how good are they? Perfect. Be ye therefore perfect even as thy Father in Heaven is perfect. Let us go on to perfection. The Bible said, here to perfect your faith, as to the ministry. And the Bible said, For God hath perfected, made perfect forever them that are sanctified and sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have we got any sanctified? Sanctified? Raise your hand if we have. Any sanctified, perfect people? Come on, folks. Sanctified perfect people. You say that you are sanctified. He said, once and for all and has perfected forever them that are sanctified. So if you're sanctified that means you are perfect forever. Are you perfect? That's the only way you're ever going to make the rapture. Coming back after a perfect church. I'm going to tell you, and I think Brother J.T., he's a preacher; he'll tell you this. If God didn't perfect you, if the blood of Jesus didn't perfect you just dismiss yourselves. Forget about the preacher, because is the God of heaven couldn't make you perfect it's for sure Brother Pike and Brother J. T., or no other preacher can do it. Let's give the Lord another hand. He said it's finished. He perfected you forever, folks. We're just here to tell you what He said. and to tell you about that perfection that you may believe in it to perfect your faith. That's what we're going. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. If I keep on I'll even have Brother J.T. being tired. Let's sing that song I love Him, can you? Can you sing with me while the (?). (Singing) Can you sing with me now? (Singing) Sing with me now. (Singing) Do you believe that He perfected you? that He purchased your salvation? (Singing) Let's sing it again. (Singing) We're going to sing this little chorus. It's called There's Room At The Cross For You. We're just going to sing a chorus or two and we're going to let you go. Let's sing it together. Give me a key, brethren. (Singing) Can you sing it with me, now? (Singing) Do you love the Lord Jesus? Let's sing this little chorus. I want David Paul to come up here, and George, Jr. to come up here and let's sing this little chorus together, can we? It says, Sweep over my soul, sweep over my soul. Let's sing it together. (Singing) sing it with me. (Singing) I want my ministers to come here. (Singing) Brother Abraham come up here. (Singing) Don't you just feel good all over? Don't you feel like He done it all? Don't you know that's why we praise Him? You know, if I had done it all you would have to praise me. If you done it all you'd have to praise you. But in that He done it all let's praise Him. Can you say hallelujah? (Singing) Sing it with me. Hallelujah! (Singing) Come on, folks. Let's come to the altar tonight. I want everyone that's perfect in here to come to the altar tonight. Hallelujah! Glory! Canst thou believe? Jesus said all things are possible to them that believe. Believest thou this? Can you believe the Word of God? Hallelujah! Somebody say I love you, Jesus. Can you lift up your hands and say I love you, Jesus? (Singing) Somebody say hallelujah! Make love to Jesus. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus. Give me a key, Brother. (Singing) Sing it with me now. (Singing) Ministers come on the platform with me. (Singing) Sing it with me again as our ministers come. (Singing) We're going to sing another one here. (Singing) Can you sing it? (Singing) Can you sing it with me? (Singing) Don't you really believe that you can? I want to sing it one more time. Now, you're looking over into the city, now. And you know that Jesus has done all the work. Now, don't you believe that you can make it after all? Some of you that thought you couldn't make it, don't you believe you can? Lift your hands up if you do. (Singing) Let's lift that up a little bit. Let's lift that up a little bit. We want to sing this together. Give me a key. (Singing) Sing it. (Singing) Let me say this to you. That's still a little bit low for us to sing it, but let me say this to you. When a Jew goes to get married, what he does when he's courting his wife, he takes a cup of wine and he gives this cup of wine to her. He sends it in to her, sets it there before her. And he's courting her. Now if she drinks that wine — He's ask her to marry him. If she drinks that wine then that means she's accepted the proposal. If she don't it means that she don't. So she turns the wine up. Like a communion now. Like the communion of the Bride. Turns it up, she drinks it and she sets it back down. He knows that she's his. So then, he goes away, sometimes two long years. About like a couple of thousand years, you know, the Lord went away. Said, I'll come again. Goes away and he builds a nice, beautiful little cottage for them. Builds a beautiful cottage. After he gets it built, she sits there. Every night about twelve o'clock she sits there with her window open waiting, because he's going to come back sometime. She's done said she's his. She sits there with the window open and one night, here he comes. And then comes somebody that's in the bridal party, the groom party, and they walk a little ways off from the groom and they pull up the window and they shout out. They say, Behold! Behold! The Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him. Hallelujah! Behold! Are you ready for Him to come? Hallelujah! When that cry comes it's over in the middle of the night. Now, she's in her night clothing. She has to hurry. Get up, change clothes, and her lamp has to already be full of oil. Hallelujah! Has to be full of oil. She lights up her little lamp. She goes about. She gets dressed and off she goes with the bridegroom. And they don't even see her anymore. Nobody even sees her for seven days. Like the tribulation period now. Just before. Nobody don't see her for seven days, because she's away with her bridegroom. Somebody say hallelujah! Are you ready for the Bridegroom? Are you ready for the Bridegroom? Have you got your lamp all trimmed? Have you got oil in your lamp? Have you been playing around with the world? Are you ready for the Bridegroom to come. Can you sing that again? (Singing) Sing it. (Singing) Haven't been flirting with anybody else. Haven't been flirting with the world. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm ready for the Bridegroom to come. Even so come, Lord Jesus. You know what's going to happen when that Bridegroom comes? Let's sing it one more time. It's a little bit low but we can sing it. (Singing) All right then, if you are then we'll sing this. Give me another key. (Singing) I need Brother Taylor at the organ. All right. No, I think we've got Susie over there tonight. Okay. (Singing) Let's modulate and lift that up. (Singing) Now, listen to me. As we come to the closing listen to me. Remember — These are a little bit low for me to sing. We usually have it a little higher. You're not time creatures no more. Remember this. This is the end of time. You know what the end of the world is? The end of time. End of time. Remember, I told you that time came with shadows. Drew the little clock on the ground, set the little fin there as the sun came down, which ever way the sun moved the shadow moved. Had to know how to do their work. Drew that little circle, divided it up into twelve parts so they would know how to judge a day. When Adam sinned shadows came. And Paul speaks of the types and shadows. But when the angle sets it's foot, one on the land and one on the sea, lifts his hand to heaven, swears by Him that liveth forever and ever that time shall be no more, because the angel is fixing to finish the mysteries that means there won't be any more types and shadows. So that means the end of time, because time is on a numerical order. That means there won't be any more time. And if there is no more time there is no more death, because Solomon said there was a time to die. If there is no more time there is no more death. Time is a killer. You're not creatures of time. death has no more power over dead men. Time has no power. Death has no power. He's done paid the price. Are you listening? Time is no more. And the angel lifted his hand to heaven and swear by him that liveth forever and ever. Swear by him that liveth forever and ever that time is no more. Time is no more for you. Time is gone. There is no more time for you. I challenge anybody in the world to prove there is more time for the saints of God. You're dead to the world. You're dead to sin. You are dead to time. Time has power over people that live. Time brings you birthdays. You are eternal. You are Gods. You are alive forever more. You're not in this world. Time is in the world. God has chosen you out of the world. You're in heaven with God. God has hid you in heaven. With Christ in heaven, with God. No one can lay anything to the charge of God's elect. There is no such thing as time any more to you. (Singing) Can we sing it? (Singing) If you believe what I'm saying sing it. If you don't, prove me wrong. (Singing) Come on, now. Lift your hands up. You made it. You made it. Somebody says we're going to be raptured. I said, And He chose you out of the world. I said He chose you out of the world. Somebody says, Well, I see bodies all around me. But the flesh profiteth nothing. It's dead. It's gone. You've got to get in the spirit and come together and then in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when you come together God will change this corruptible creature. Change to Gods. You're Gods. You're eternal. You made it; your sins are gone. Underneath the blood of Calvary. The writer says, as far removed as darkness is from dawn. That's good enough for me; my sins are gone. (Singing) Can you sing it again? (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord