The Quickening

...just talk about the Scriptures a little bit. I believe that those that listened last night, I don't know just exactly who did listen, but to those that listened last night, that you might have picked up a few things that was beneficial to you. A lot of the things we repeat. We go into a new area and we have to repeat just to bring out a few things, because those people, some of them that are listening don't know anything at all about the Word of God. So we have to repeat it. We have to go over a few things. And then again a lot of times I go over those things, because some of you have never perceived or gotten hold of those things. I've been here preaching like numbers of years, and after a number of years somebody would come and tell me what a great revelation they got. And as I said to you before, I just stand and kind of look at them you know. I just, I think, Lord, can this be? Ten years ago I preached that very clearly. And it's just now that this seed has come to life. It's just now that it's taken roots. And that this person sees it. And they're so excited over it because they've seen something brand new. And it really is brand new to them. But then I've passed that by ten years, and gone on. But nevertheless see, that's the way it is. If they can get rooted and grounded in the Word of God, if they can get a revelation, if they can get into the Spirit, if they can get into the anointing, even if they're ten years late, if Jesus is still tarrying, that's okay. That's all right because they're still getting something from God and that's what's important. But it would be so wonderful if we could kind of keep up with the class as we say, and move on. As God gives something, move into it. But people are very slothful in their minds and in their diligence toward God. They just kind of lounge around you know, and they're kind of like they're in a trance. And sometimes you have to talk to them thirty minutes before they even snap out of the daze that they're in. Whether staying up late watching tv or being out in the world riding and eating, drinking and frolicing you know, whatever it might be, they've wasted their energy and their time. And when they come to church they just kind of slump. And you don't really, they may get just a little fragment of what you say. Scientist teaches that they get very little of an entire subject when you're teaching, very little they get as to their hearing. But because of the slothfulness of people, they get even less. And it makes it very difficult, because you preach fifteen sermons and they get a tiny fragment of each one. And then you have to go back and review like a teacher and review and review and have them to write in school, you know. Review and review, and then they get a few little things and they put it together. And then they get so excited. And then you think, God, wouldn't it be wonderful if they really could get into the mind of God, get the Spirit of revelation, do away with the spirit of heaviness, and come into this wonderful, unveiled mystery of the glorious things of God, to get into the deep, wonderful goodness of God? But as I said we live so much in the natural, and hunger and thirst so much after the natural, and plan, all of our programs are so much after the natural. Our ambitions are so much, our strength, the utilization of our thinking, all is in the natural. And we give very, very little time to solitude, to prayer, to conformity, to try to understand, to meditate in the things of God; whereas the Bible said, And the meat belongs to the strong. They that have spent some time in meditation as to reasoning, exercising the senses to be able to discern between the good and the evil. Let's talk a little bit from the book of Romans. If you've got your Bibles, you can read with me from the book of Romans. I'm real thirsty this morning. I'd hate to see anybody go to hell. In that just being without water alone would be punishment enough. But I would sure hate to go there, because I sure like the taste of water. Tell you what let's start a little before Romans 4. And let's read from Romans 2. Might read a good bit of Scripture here. Let's listen real close to the Scripture as we read it because from Romans 2, my the whole book of Romans it makes me want to read the whole book. It's so beautiful. Said, Eat the whole book John. Said, we could read this whole book this morning or talk on it. It's so beautiful. I think we'll just have to read a verse or two here and there. Let's start with the first chapter, the first verse of the first chapter. The first verse of the book of Romans and we'll read over a little bit. The whole book is on faith. Chapter 1: (Reads Romans 1:1-17) Now this is one thing that I want you to keep in mind the seventeenth verse of the first chapter: "For therein" speaking of the gospel now: For in the gospel, "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." That is in the gospel it is revealed to you as you study from the understanding of God, the righteousness of God, which comes to you by faith of Jesus Christ, it's made known unto you. Said, "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen." "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen." It's another thing that I want you to remember. For the invisible things, I want you to think on that as I go through the Scripture now. For the invisible things, all of us know what invisible things are. Though God is the invisible God, Paul said, all of the things of God are invisible. There is an invisible world. And he said, these invisible things. That invisible world, the invisible as we would say creatures, because we don't have a God word for it. For the invisible things of them from the creation of the world are clearly seen. That is to say, angels. All of the invisible things are clearly seen. Do I see those things? Do you see those things? He says that they are clearly seen. If he says that they are clearly seen, then why is it that you do not see them or why is it that I do not see them. Now I say to you, do you clearly see the invisible world? Do you clearly see the angels? Do you clearly see God? Do you clearly see all of the great, wonderful, invisible potentials of that world that is invisible? Do you clearly see them? Someone would say, Well no, Brother Pike. I don't see any of them. Well then there's something wrong with us. He said because they are clearly seen. See, they are clearly seen. These things are clearly seen. Angels are clearly seen. God is clearly seen. The world to come is clearly seen. It's not in a state of fog or mist. They are clearly seen. Being understood by the things that are made, you clearly see them because you understand them by the things which are made. You understand the invisible world by the visible world. You understand the world of revelation by the world of observation. Or you understand the invisible things by revelation, by revelation as they are revealed to you using the visible things to come to the understanding of invisible things. Like a formula, this world is a formula. Everything in it is a formula. Every natural thing is a formula by which you work to bring forth the invisible or the unseen as to the answer of your problem. And if you walk in the Spirit, think in the Spirit, if you live in the Spirit, then you can clearly see the invisible world by the visible world. So then these things are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. That is those things that do appear, even His eternal power. You can clearly see His eternal power and Godhead. You can clearly see the Godhead. So that they are without excuse. That means that we are without excuse because these things are clearly seen. If they are not clearly seen by us, then that means that we are not applying ourselves, and we are very fleshly, and we are very carnal. And our minds and thoughts are in carnality and in the world. And the Bible said, to be carnally minded is death because there is no life that comes to you from carnality. By carnal things you can understand life. And by carnal things as an allegoric type you can enter in through the gates as an entrance into the world of invisibility which is power and life. But like I said last night, we was trying to explain a little something about life. And of course we didn't have a chance there to really get into it. But I said last night that everything in this world is a cosmic composure. It is a cosmic, a cosmic image as we would say, or it is a constitution of cosmic energy. And that cosmic energy that comes down from what science calls the cosmos above us, it comes down through your hypothalamus and into your body to bring the vibrations to where you can stay alive. And if those vibrations stop, then you turn into corruption. If the vibrations of your eyes of your kidneys of your muscles of your genetics, if they stop, then everything becomes still and it begins to corrupt and turn into corruption. It's only kept alive by the quickening. That's why when people jog, they jog and it stimulates life. If they move about it stimulates life. That's because of vibration. Even devils know that vibration is the source of life. And you take witches, people that work through witchcraft, they work by vibrations, and not only that, but people who know of God. They understand things concerning vibrations. As a matter of fact I remember hearing Brother Branham say something one time. I never heard him elaborate on these things, and maybe he never did. I don't know. But I do remember him saying something about vibrations to the extent that he felt vibrations on his arm. And that by that he could tell the nearness of the Spirit of God. Now I remember him talking about his wife. Whereas he was trying to demonstrate one day and tell some of the people about this, about the vibrations that he felt in his hand or on his arm. And that this thing related to something supernatural; and he said for instance like, if I just laid my hand on my wife and she had some kind of disease, I would pick up a vibration from it. And he said, I'll show you. And he laid his hands on his wife, and when he did all of a sudden he was startled. Because he picked up the vibrations; and he said, he turned to them and said, Meda, I never knew anything was wrong with you. And all of a sudden he picked up something that was wrong with his wife, because of this gift of God or as to this vibration. See, I said that. That's about all that I ever heard him say about it. But by that it's obvious that he was acquainted with some of these things that we're speaking of. Because he was supernaturally endowed with a gift. And I just read to you here, or it tells us here in the gospel that Paul said, he would like to impart some gift, for I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end you may be established. So then speaking of these things as to vibrations. These vibrations are present as to a cosmic energy, or something that is coming down from the world of a cosmos, and it's coming into your body. And every cell of your body, the organic parts of your body, the bone tissues of your body requires millions of vibrations as individual parts, that it might stay alive because if it stops it corrupts. So there has to be some, it's like an instrument that you say you put two things together, a ball joint action, or a gear action, you keep it greased, lubricated. It keeps working. It don't rust. But if you stop, it freezes up. The same with you. A young man, a young woman, very young, even a child can be laid up for so long that their joints will begin to freeze up. Those joints have to move that lubrication can come in there. And that friction can work in there in these things to keep them in shape. An automobile, pardon me, one of the worst things that can happen to it is for the engine not to run. We think running it wears it out. But if you keep lubrication, if you keep oil in there, it doesn't bother it. But if it does set up to where there's no oil going up in there as to a frequent thing, then it does freeze up and you got real problems. So then a lot of people as they get older, they slow down and they're not active, and because they're not active, they're not mentally alert, and they're not sharp in their thoughts like as when they were young. But it isn't because of age, it's because of problems. They may have physical defects. Like yesterday or last night I talked to this gentleman over about one o'clock in the morning I guess it was, and he was telling me of his grandfather, which is a hundred and seven years old. And they say it is amazing how sharp he is in his thoughts. And what an outstanding personality that this man has at a hundred and seven years old. See, being agile, continually moving, continually doing something you know, and not thinking yourself to death as to age. Vibrations, you have to have these vibrations. And when these vibrations come into your body, it stimulates you and it keeps you alive, because it's active. It's the quickening. Paul spoke of this. And the quickening he said. There is nothing left except the quickening. When we preach the gospel, when we preach the mysteries, when we preach all of these things, it brings us down to one thing. And that is the great finally of it is the quickening. The great finals of all of your study is the quickening. See, all of it leads to one thing and that's the mysterious quickening of where it comes from, or what it is in it's originality, and what it takes to stay alive in your body. Your body requires the quickening. And this of course is why that we taught you the things concerning the fall. Man is here in the garden. God has made him out of the dust particles. And his body requires the quickening. And God of course is the great quickening Spirit. So God is overshadowed him in the garden. And as long as he abides under the shadow of the Almighty, as long as he dwells under this illumination of the God of light, then he is quickened, and he is alive and he cannot die, because God is life. And wherever God is, there's quickening. Like electrical, the electrical, the electricity is quickening. And the electrical is a power of quickening. You don't see it. You don't have to live in anything. It's alive. It's alive. And when I say anything, it's that that you can see, because it does have to have an embodiment of minute. But the thing is, it is a quickening. It is a power of it's own and of it's life. When we get a hold of light, we say hundred and ten volts. But we can say, Well, we have to cook so we'll have to have 220. But then on the other hand I remember an electrician was telling me about 440. And see it can come in. We can convert it. We can break it down. We can use it as whatever. But really, electrical is so powerful. You see the friction through the elements when there is a storm, a tornado. Whatever it is, hot and cold clouds coming together. And you see the lightning streak across the sky. See, and there's hundreds and millions and millions of volts of electricity that could run a whole city just out of that one flash. And sometimes it will light up the whole heavens for many, many miles. Because it is the quickening. And it represents war in heaven. It represents the fight that went on between Lucifer and between Jesus. Two lights: Lucifer a light and Jesus a light. And when these things come together as a hot and cold cloud, when they link together like that as to cross each other, then there comes sparks. Bump the two rocks together as they use to teach us in the scouts, and you can get enough sparks to start you a fire if you don't have matches. So see there is potentiality within objects. And the object is as to a work according to the value of it's potentiality. Or an object is as to the value according to the work. That is to say, whatever the value of the object is, is determined according to the potentiality of that object. I ask the Lord, I said, how can I evaluate a thing? And He said according to the potential of it. If you value it according to the potential, then according to the object whether it's small or large, if it's large, there's more potentials. Maybe not more power as the way that you would think, but there's more potential. But there are certain objects like gold verses silver. See, and when you think of these things, the potentiality of that, that is the worth of that object. So then if I evaluate according to sonship as to godliness, then a son of God has great, mighty potentialities. Because the Bible said to many as believed to them gave He the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. So then we see that the potentiality of a son of God is exceedingly great. And the Bible said, Because of this, God is able to work things abundantly, exceedingly, abundantly and above all that we're able to ask or even think according to the power that worketh within us. I can think so greatly and so mightily, but even above this, exceedingly abundantly above this, which means filled up and overflowing, God is still able to work things through us by His Spirit. You know when we're praying for the sick, when we're preaching the gospel, when we're witnessing, when we're doing things, when we're utilizing our faith in God, we should never at any time allow ourself to try to think or figure out what's going to happen, or think maybe I'm not in place to do it. Or maybe God can't work it through me. Or I just don't know how much I can do. We should keep that out of our mind. We should take the Word of God and just believe the Word of God, saying, My God. I don't know what might happen. God may take the whole top off of the building and drop fifty thousand angels down here. I don't know what He might do. He is so great and mighty, He might just take the whole church and move it from here to India. I don't know. God can do anything. You say, Brother Pike, that's erratical. I know, but to get my point over, I want you to understand that we don't need to limit the unlimited as we would say. We don't need to limit God. We don't need to try to think the thing out, figure the thing out. We need to believe the thing out. If God said it, I believe it. And if we pray for the sick, it doesn't matter what it is, don't try to think and hem our faith up within the radius of our thoughts. And get our faith all entangled in an intellectual confine of an entanglement of the things of the world. Don't do that. Let our faith go out to God. Just turn it loose. Like a balloon that's filled with gas, let it go out. And say, My God! All things are possible to me. I don't know what I might do. I might just move a mountain. I don't know what I might do. I might just fly away to glory. Oh somebody says, you couldn't do that, Brother Pike. The Bible said we can do that. Not only that, not only can we move the mountain, but we can fly away to glory like Enoch. He just believed and flew away to glory. So then we say, well I might just fly, we could say, I'll just fly away to glory. I don't know. I may just translate right now and go on to be with God. Who knows? Faith in God, by faith I might just go over to the graveyard and resurrect a dead person. Somebody said, Well I don't believe that. Yes, but the Bible said, Jesus resurrected Lazarus from the dead. And the Bible said, Greater things than these shall ye do if you believe in Me. So then we should never entangle ourself with those confines as to earthly beings and earthly habitations. See, do you desire again to bring your mind, your spiritual life unto bondage to the beggarly elements of the world? We're free from those things. We are a heavenly child. Our mind increases until we comprehend the heights, the depths, the width and the length, even from everlasting to everlasting, even eternity. So then that means that my spirit, my spirit is a little bitty thing, will emerge into God's Spirit. And as it becomes one with God's Spirit, it begins to balloon out until finally my mind, my being, I'm God. I'm one with my Father. I'm one with my God. I know all things. I am from everlasting to everlasting. I fill eternity. I know everything that's going on. See, I balloon out in God, because according to my faith I receive my measure from God. According to my believing as to study, to learn, to understand and believe in what God has revealed to me, to make known to me, I've become one with that great, ever expanding, endless God. Let's give the Him another hand. See, and we limit ourself by our human reasoning, and we dwarf ourself to where we can't have the great benefits of God. That's why I tell you, don't reason. Don't lean to your own understanding. Because you are born with a human understanding. And that human understanding is limited. And you find yourselves within the confines of human reasoning. But see, we are not as a little chick in a shell. But we are not as the worm that's in the cocoon. But we are that that has come forth. We've broke the barriers, and we are as the heavenly creature. Through the metamorphosis here we are in the heavenlies. We are beautiful like the butterfly, and we're free to go where we want to, and do what we want to and explore wherever we want to, to ride upon the wings of the wind to the uttermost parts of the earth. See, we can do that. For the Bible said, He that is born of the Spirit is like the wind. You can't tell where it comes from. So then you don't know where it goes. And you're from everlasting to everlasting. So let's not confine ourselves to a little lifetime of forty, fifty, seventy, eighty, a hundred years. Let's not bring our life into the confines of intellectual reasoning, as to live thus and thus and then die and be buried and go through the ritualistics of life. When we bypassed all of those things through the death of Jesus, and we've over-rode all of those things, and over the chasm of death, and we've gone on to everlasting. So we are the everlasting one. We are the endless, eternal one. We are gods. We are beyond the confines of mankind. And the purpose of the ministry is that he might be able to teach you that you have excelled these; and that you are not part of the things of this world as to the little cosmos. And that you're not dependent upon the cosmic energy as to your life. Though in the garden God switched man over to this because his body was made out of dust. And his body is subject to this all the days of his vanity, all the days of his life, in that all is vanity. All is vanity Solomon said, and vexation of the spirit. So then we realize that we are free from this little cosmic composure down here. And this thing that we call life is no more than a sensitive awareness. That is I have through my human senses a sensitive awareness of what appears to be life, but it's only a light as to the cosmic energy that works within the atomic particles, even in my body as an electrical quickening as to the vibrations that keep me alive. See, so I am beyond that. I am not just a sensitive awareness. That is aware of this so called life by human senses, as to sight and hear, feel, taste, smell, these kind of things. Though I'm relative to the cosmic composure of the act of God as the created objects in life, I'm relative to that by the sensitive awareness, yet that is not life. All of that is vanity. It will pass away. But beyond this transitional world of changes, I see life. This could never be life as I said last night, because it goes through constant changes and alterations. And life never is altered. It is never altered. Life never changes. See, God is the same yesterday, today and forever. God is settled in heaven. God is the Word, never changes. God is always the same. God is life. And life is a stability. So we know that this isn't life. But we are subjected to this vanity, that is to say, the body, the creature. It is subjected to this vanity, because God after illuminating Adam and Eve, Eve sinned and pulled Adam out from under the Shekinah illumination of God, all of a sudden here they're found in the environment of the great daystar as the sunlight or cosmic energy. They are caught within the radius of the power of cosmic energy. And through that little hypothalamus God is keeping them alive. And so then they are temporal creatures having a temporal life. And the day that they eat of that tree of knowledge, they died. That is to say the way they died is that the Spirit of God which is eternal life, the illumination that was over them withdrew. When He withdrew that was death. That was death as to their cosmic composure. That was death as to this constitutional image of quickening. That is by the electrons. So then when God withdrew, then they died. And they had the sentence of death in them, in that God said, the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, which is a sentence unto death. And that was in their mind, within their body, and they were under the control of that. They were spell bound by it. They were imprisoned by it, and they could not escape that, because they could not get out of it. The confines was the power of infiltration which was the great, gigantic spirit of Lucifer. That great, mighty power of understanding that had overwhelmed their little, feeble understanding in that they had never developed. And so then he took their life while they were like a little baby, taking a little baby, and putting them in the confines of a great mind, using that little child. And so Satan has misused the body because of the immaturity, because of the lack of development. God's creature had never had a chance to develop or to learn or as they say in the world, to educate and do anything. And so then Satan has used the body in the conditional ignorance of mankind. But see now the light has come. Gross darkness has covered the people, but now there has sprang up unto them, the dayspring from on high. When Jesus came, the Bible said, and they that sat in the regions of the shadow of death unto them there sprang up unto them great light. And this great light, this great understanding, the enlightenment of your mind as to understanding, to comprehend the heights, the depths, the width and the length of these things that have taken place, as down through the transitional changes of the years. See, all of a sudden we come to that. This light, now the true light shineth, the Bible said. And now the light of the world is here. And this light has broke forth from the veil of this intellectual confines of Lucifer. And now it is come forth. Jesus rending the veil of his own human body which was sin, as to the bodily confinement of the imprisonment of this thing. That is to say, Satan's spirit infiltrating the body. The body became a confinement, like the balloon confines the air within the radius of the balloon. So then we are confined within that until God breaks that confinement. And of course when the veil is rent in twain at Calvary, the Bible said, to rend the body, that is to make a new way, a sure way, to bring forth a more sure word of prophecy, or to make a way into the holies of holies. That is to get beyond the veil. That is to say, Satan's spirit is the veil of death that has interwoven itself with the body. And Paul said, no good thing dwells within my body. Now the body of death is gone. The veil has been rent in twain, which means the body separated from the Spirit, the Lord from the Christ, making in Himself twain or two, separating that. Now the Spirit is gone back into glory or gone back to God; and we're hid with Christ in the Spirit in God whom the heavens have received until the restoration of all things. Or that is we are now in glory as Moses and Elijah appeared in glory. The only thing is they appeared there within their body. Paul said, I went up into the third heaven, but I don't know whether I was in my body or not. He said, I can't tell whether I was in my body or not. But said, This I'm sure of, to be absent from the body is to be present with God. So then by the body of Jesus, we are absent from the body because we are not in the flesh. So if we're not in the flesh, then that means that we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received, and we're sitting in the heavenly places. And that's why the Bible said to rejoice ye that sit in the heavenly places. And rejoice forevermore, because there is an endless joy. Just give me a few more minutes and we're going to try to close. I hate to get in a hurry, but I know that we're taking a good little bit of time here; but I don't know any other way to try to explain the mysteries of God. Great is the mysteries. So then we've got to have the mystery, the understanding of the mystery or the church can't be translated. Because it is the glory of the revealing, Brother Branham again use to say, the stimulation of revelation. It is the stimulation that's going to translate you, we will say. And the stimulation is the quickening. So then as Adam and Eve has switched over from that spiritual quickening, because it is an overshadowing as to illumination, then they went to the cosmic quickening. Now at Calvary, Jesus switched it back over for the believers, to give you faith. To as many as believed to them gave He power, believing is faith, to believe as to power, to them gave He power. That is you can believe for the virtue. You can believe for the virtue, and the virtue is the quickening. And the virtue is life. Because the last man Adam was made a quickening Spirit. The Words of Christ, He is the Word. He was a quickening Word. A Word of Spirit, a Word of life that was made flesh. That is to say, God the quickening Spirit actually personified Himself in a human body because it was virtuous. It didn't have any sin in it. He made this little cell Himself. The Spirit brought it forth and made this little cell, as to bring forth by Mary a cell that would be without contamination and sin. We as people born into the world, we are contaminated because of the fall of Adam, because of Lucifer entering into the blood cells, that is through Eve and through Adam. And everyone born of the flesh, their blood is impure as to sin, and it's confine as to a judgment to a sentence of death to go down into the bellies and chambers of hell. But Jesus dying for us used that body for that purpose. And He that knew no sin was made sin, that I might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And now I am a new body, bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of God. And now I am a new spirit. And now I have a new life, and now I have a new world. And behold all things have passed away, the writer said. And behold, all things are new to me now. I am a new creature in Christ. I'm in a new world. So then I am in a new world. I have passed from death unto life, because the law of sin and death has been done away with by the body of Jesus, fulfilling every jot and tittle, and then folding it up and laying it away. So then I am now back to the quickening, not as the illumination to the overshadowing of the quickening, as to the outer creature, in that there was no satanic forces. God could do that to the outer creature, but now that Satan has got through the weakness of Eve into the body, God cannot illuminate the body unto life to keep it alive. So then He has to come back through the blood. He has to come back through Calvary. He has to come back as a quickening Spirit, paid the price by the body to do away with death, in that life is in the blood; and then bring a new life through the Spirit, by bypassing the body through the atonement of Christ, giving us grace; then there's no more sin to the body as to them that believe in God, by faith enters into their heart. And the Spirit of quickening goes into their blood, and changes their blood into Christ's blood, as to the royal blood which gives forth royal genetics to make us bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, as to an endless life, as to a celestial creature. So then we're waiting for the change of the body. The price has been paid. God has already entered into us. But see, the rapture of the church is the translation of the body, not the translation, but the transfiguration of the body as Jesus was transfigured on the mountain. We've already been translated in our angelic being as to the spiritual inner man. Already we've been translated 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. And men as to the inner men, the angelic being has translated or pressed their way into this kingdom. And their inner man has been translated in and sealed by the great Holy Spirit. Whereas the Bible said, Grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby thou art sealed as to the inner man until the day of the change. That is to they or to the change of the body or the restoring of all things. You're already eternal. You're already sealed. It's not make-believe. It's not just an act of faith. It was an act of faith to seal you. And then you become sealed by the great, loving Spirit of God. And the faith of Christ, that is to say the seed of God, even Jesus Christ, the quickening faith, as to the Spirit, the Word inside of you, your hope of that glory, has sealed your spirit and is transformating your mind now. So your life is sealed and hid with Christ in God. That is your inner spirit is your life. Because the Bible said, the body without the spirit is dead. Your spirit has become interwoven now with the Spirit of Christ. And that Spirit of Christ is within God, because the Bible said, He alone dwells in that light. God being the great light which means understanding, great mind. Now we're moving into that great light, that great mind because we're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And we're waiting for the redemption of the body, not as to redeem it or the price to be paid for it, but to comprehend it, because in the light, that light is the knowledge of eternal existence as to the celestial infilling of every genetic. The devil is now gone. Out of your heart, cast out by Christ entering into your heart, and now he is in the earth. And the Bible said, Woe unto them that are in the earth because he is cast out of heaven. In Revelation 12 he's in the second heaven, but now he's cast out of the second heaven, which has to do with your heart. The kingdom of God is now within your soul, within your heart, within your spirit, which is Christ's Spirit, the kingdom of God. It's now on the inside of you. It's not in this world. It's a spiritual thing. Because God is a Spirit. And now the Spirit of Christ lives on the inside you; and through your spirit, through your blood into your blood genetics, He is from change to change, glory to glory, light to light, understanding to understanding, inspiration to inspiration, quickening to quickening, as they would say in the world. He is changing every blood genetic. He is changing you, royal blood, a royal spirit, a royal body, translating your spirit in. He is transformating your mind as to your soul change; and He is going to transfigure your body into the glorious image of God at the sounding of the last trump. All right so then we see that this is a great and mighty thing that God is doing for us. And we are going through the transitional changes, but not life. Life is a stability that's drawing that which goes through changes to it, to where it can be stable and eternal. Once life gets in there it will never change. It will never have a flicker of alteration anymore. And there is not a point of changing within God. You will be a stabilization as to an eternal source, filled with the life of God forever and ever. As the nature of God is so are you. As Christ is so are we in Christ. And we are God's predestinated object. As to being predestinated in Christ as to righteousness that we may exist eternally. So we know then at Calvary there is a change. We're switching over now from the cosmic energy, and we're leaving our fellow man. We're leaving our neighbor. Two in the bed, one taken and one left. Two in the field, one taken and one left. Now we're switching back over from the cosmic energy because we don't need cosmic energy anymore. We're switching over. As long as we are flesh and blood, we need cosmic energy. But when we switch over to become a quickening spirit, we have the daystar on the inside, which means we don't need the daystar which is but a overshadowing, an illumination as to a type. That is to keep the world alive as to the beast. But we are as to the inner one. We have the daystar. For the Bible said, He that overcometh I will give him the bright and the morning star, even the daystar. And the Bible said, Until the daystar dawns within you. So we have the daystar which is life, which is the resurrection. And from our inner most being flows the rivers of living water. From this innermost being we draw water out of the wells of salvation with this joy unspeakable and full of glory. So this emanating light that's coming forth from my spirit is emanating from my spirit, from my soul, from Christ within my spirit, into my blood genetics and going throughout every little tiny brain cell. In that I'm a composition as a composure of the cosmos. So then it is going into me, and it is changing me, erratically changing me into the glory of God. We sing that song, Oh the light of the glory of His unveiled face, that's the glory that is changing me. So it is changing us into that glorious, wonderful God and making us bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And He's making us eternal. Someone of course would stumble at that and they would say, Well, I don't know, Brother Pike. After all, these things are tangible. These things are natural. These things down here, you can't convince me that these things are going to become eternal. Let me convince you in another way. Let's take another approach. And we're going to try to hurry along. It's not a matter of convincing you that these things down here will become eternal. These things are already eternal. These things are already eternal. That that emanates from God, that comes out from God is eternal. So it is already eternal. Scientists have learned that they cannot destroy any form of matter. They can change the image. They can put it through transitional changes. They can change the image of it. They can grind up a tree, and then they can compress the wood into a board. They can change forms, but they can't destroy any bit of matter, because God has made it eternal. See, the Bible said, one generation comes. That one goes away. Another one comes. And the Bible said, But the earth abideth forever. Though it goes through it's transitional changes, it's transformating stages, and so does man's mind. And so does man's body. There is a natural body. There is a spiritual body. It's sown in corruption. It's raised incorruptible. It's sown as a natural. It's raised a spiritual. It's sown as a terrestrial. It is raised a celestial. Which means that these things that we're speaking of they are eternal. These things are eternal. These things are eternal. I'd like for our, to find out what's going on out yonder, going in the car out, one of the boys out there. It's not their car, I know for sure and they took off around the house. Maybe they've gone to get something for the lady here, I don't know. But anyway, it's right before me, so it catches my thoughts. Now what I'm saying is this. That these bodies will be changed. These bodies will be preserved. Not a hair of your head shall perish. If your hair cannot perish it must be eternal. See, that which emanates from God. It is eternal. That's why that in heaven angels cannot die. And you are equal to angels in your spirit. You cannot die. Your body someone would say died. There is no such thing as death to the body. The body just goes to sleep as the absence of the spirit. See, as to the absence. That is to say your body it just goes back to dust. It goes back to it's originality. It goes back to the particles as to what it was. From dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. Death. What's that? Death. What's that got to do? Just, you know, what's that got to do with it in that you just decompose? There's no death about that. But folks, let me tell you. When the Spirit of God departs from your spirit, that's death. That's a different thing altogether. And you'll never see death. You'll never come into condemnation. I wish we had time to preach on this, but like I said, it takes all day. It takes all night. See, and I'm going to have to stop here right quick in just a few things. But into the deep things of God, the Spirit of God searcheth out the things of God, yea the deep things. And so then God is wanting to give us the Spirit of revelation, because it is from revelation as to the unveiling to the glory to glory, that causes your body to be preserved eternally. It brings it into you eternal. I know you know we think religiously and we think, God's going to descend from heaven with a shout you know. And we're preaching and we're preaching and there's a Baptist, the Methodists, the Presbyterian and the great healing campaigns and all these, and we're just moving on and on and on. And after a while, glory to God. Boom! and everything is going to happen. But that isn't the way that it is at all. There was no boom about it. Nothing special happened. Enoch just walked with God three hundred years and he was not because God took him, because he was translated by faith that he should not see death. And faith cometh by the hearing of the Word, in that in that day, the heavens declared the handiwork. And all of the invisible things was declared unto Enoch as he understood them by the things which did appear. As the Word of the Lord coming to the prophets through the manifold creation of God as an object of understanding. And the same it done it today as to the prophets today. It does it today as to the ministry today and them that walk in the Spirit. So then man is translating. He's changing worlds. He's going on into another place. Like here is Elijah. It wasn't boom and he was gone. But all of a sudden, there comes a chariot of fire. Him and Elisha just walking along together. All of a sudden just out of nowhere we would say, and yet it was out of the invisible world, just uuuah! Just like that. And he set down and Elijah stepped on board of the chariot of fire and uuuah! away it went back into the Spirit. And as Jesus that ascended up standing there as a human being, and yet ascended up, He said, I'm flesh and bones. And all of a sudden the decomposure as you would say in this world, or all of a sudden He was just gone. He could walk through the walls, those kind of things. Because it is the great mind of Christ over the creative act of matter. It is Christ's mind. The omniscience mind that's over the particles. And this is God. This is a being. This is light. This is understanding. It's another dimension. It's another world. See, and we're moving into it. And the church is being translated. It's being changed. Can you deny that? From glory to glory it's being changed. It's being translated, Paul taught. Changed into the heavenly creature. Changed into the heavenly world. Even Paul caught up into the third heaven. And like I said, it would take so long to elaborate on that, because we have to differentiate between the body and the spirit. Because man is so prone to live in the body. But folks, we're not in the body. We're not in the flesh. The flesh profiteth nothing. What's the flesh to me? What's the body to me? That's just some dust out here, dust particles. If I desire to call it together, I call it together. If I desire not to call it together, I lay it back to the dust, to do what I want to as to the spirit from everlasting to everlasting, to be where I want to be in eternity, until I take a notion to pick it up and to put it back together. That's the way an angel does. But see we even excel beyond that because we get this body as an inheritance, every hair of it. Every cell of the body, everything about you, if you serve God, if you love God, it is a present from the bridegroom to the bride. The body becomes hers, whether she has it as a decomposure, or she has it in any form she wants it in or whatever, it is hers like little children playing with the blocks that mother and daddy gave them. They can make it into a house. They can make it into a tree. They can make it into a wall. They can make it into anything that they want to. Because it is a gift from God. See, if we walk on with God, if we come to this understanding, if we transformate into this mind, if we keep educating ourself as earthly terms are used into the wonderfulness of God. But if you just go thirty-fold, that's all you are. If you just go a little ways, then you don't have a full reward. But if we continue on to the full measure of the full statue as to what Jesus was, then we know all things as to the unction from the heavenly one; and we are one with our heavenly Father; and we have become one with God Almighty, as the body of Jesus, the members of the church, dwelling in that light. Are you in that light? I'm in that light. Someone would say, But Brother Pike, Jesus alone dwells in that light. I know that. But I am no longer who I was. I am now who I am by the grace of God, even the Lord Jesus Christ. You love the Lord? So then that means that we are in the light. Someone would say, Can you prove that you are in the light? The Bible said, If you walk in the light as He is in the light, you will have fellowship one with another. Let's give Him another hand. So then we are in the light, walking in the light. There shall be light in the evening time. And the road to glory we shall surely find. The light of God shining on our pathway. All right. I'm going to have to stop right there because we're just getting started on the sermon. We just have to stop there. There's many things that we would like to say. But what is this? Herein is revealed the righteousness of God which is by faith, even from faith to faith, as to one word of understanding, and so believing, then there is a release of a glorious quickening. So then you've changed over now. You that are born again, you have the daystar. You have the generator on the inside of you. And you can generate your own light. You can generate your own life. You'll never die anymore. You've passed from death unto life. Now we're not working to get salvation. We're not working to get eternal life. We've already passed from death unto life. But we are working to change this body, to save ourselves, which is the body from this untoward generation. Because they're not going toward God. It's untoward God, and it's going in another direction. So then we are saving ourselves. We're saving our body. To as many as believed to them gave He the believing power to believe this life into them. Or to them gave He power which means virtue through believing, to purify their hearts as to eternal life. So then to as many as believe, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. And Jesus was declared to be the Son of God by power. And ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you. So then you have power. Jesus went into the wilderness. The Bible said, He returned in the power of the Spirit. And you have power now. Power over all the powers of the enemy. You would say, What is that? Power over thought. You now have power over thought. When you conquer the carnal mind to where there's no more thoughts, every thought into subjection to the thinking of God, the thoughts of Christ, the mind of the Lord. See, let this mind be in you that was in Christ. So when this comes into you, that that made Him equal to God, for He thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Let your thoughts be that it's not robbery to be one with God. So then when you come into this, you have power over every carnal thought. And that means Satan is completely helpless. Because he can do nothing unless he gets your thought. He must of necessity have a thought to work through. So I say again in closing here that this is not really life. It's only a sensitive awareness as to a cosmic composure. And you are relative to that cosmic composure by the sensitive awareness. And that because there is spiritual life within your body, and if you don't, let the spirit depart from your body, and you'll find out that these human senses die. There will be no more sensual awareness, therefore you will have no more life, no more life. And I say this again, life only consists as of human senses. This world of cosmic composure is only there in your thoughts. It's not there at all. Otherwise I say that the world is in your heart. It is a mind. And it is a world. And you're in the confines of that because you cannot escape that. Like a man that's insane, he cannot escape his thoughts. His environment is as his thinking. He thinks that he is Lincoln, he's Washington. He thinks that he owns the state capitol or the bridge in Brooklyn, or he thinks that he's the great dignitary of all times. He is insane. He has lost his stability, his thinking has changed, erratically changed because his brain work, something has happened. He's mentally demented. Something has happened to a brain cell. He thinks just like he always thought, but his thoughts are all out of harmony with God's program and system of life. The Bible said comfort the feeble minded. He's not possessed of a devil. He's just mentally depleted. Something has happened. There is an injury. There's something wrong. Some kind of interference with his brain cells. See, and his thinking is all out of order. It's not operating properly anymore. You understand what I'm saying? So then it is the same with you, except you are operating properly. People that go insane are typical of people who are not born again. People who are not born again are sick. They're out of their mind. They're out of their right mind. Jesus clothed Legion that he be in his right mind. See, and we are clothed with the bodily garment of God; and God puts us back in our right mind, and we're not insane anymore. We're not demented anymore. We can think clearly and understand heavenly things clearly by the things which do appear, in that our mind is now in order as it was created to be in the things of God in the garden. So we find then that there is a change. We're going through stages and changes. And you don't have to worry about death. God took care of this before the world ever was. People are in a state of frustration, anxiety. The reason is because they don't know whether they're going to be saved or be lost, they don't know how good they have to live to get to heaven, or if they live good all of their life, they're still not sure that they're going to make it, because questions enter into their mind from the oppressing doubts of Lucifer. But folks, this is something that God purposed in Christ before the world ever was. It was His plan. He created everything. He made everything. He made you elect. You've never been lost off from God except in your mind, except that you got in the midst of the infiltration of that of Lucifer. But you've always been God's elect. And them that are pre-ordained unto condemnation, they've never been saved. They've never been children of God. They've always been devils. Even Judas, a devil from the beginning. Though he was in the environment of this and he was with God, and he obtained part of this mercy, just like the people of the world, but this has been a great plan of God, a great program of God. And once you just pass over to the other side, the angels are waiting there to receive you saying, Welcome home! Welcome home, beloved! All of this was planned. No problem. You just went through frustration and fears and anxieties because you got lost off from your Heavenly Father, and He's been seeking you ever since. Like a little child lost from it's mother, the mother knows that she's going to get to that child. And the little child knows he's coming home. Even if they knew this, the terror of the little child coming through the darkness, searching for mother and the heartaches of mother as of the little child's anguish of heart. See, it's tormenting, but in all reality, that mother's going to find that child. She's going to find that child, and that child's going to be healthy and whole when he gets there, because she has worked out some pre-planned program to where that child is going to be safe. No matter where it's at, it's going to be safe. See, so God has it all planned. It's all worked out. It's just us like little children, we get frustrated. But folks, it's time that we understood. It's time for God to tell you. And it's time for us to realize who we are and what we are; and it will give us such boldness, such courage, such stability, a perseverance until we'll rise up and take the kingdom of this world, the kingdoms of this world. We'll just walk out and we won't have no fear of anybody or anything. The Bible said, Fear not them that are able to kill you, and after that they kill the flesh, they can do no more. See, but fear Him that's able after that He kills or destroys the body, He destroys the soul in hell. So then we know that He isn't going to destroy us. We know that He isn't going to hurt us. He'll never forsake us. He'll never leave us. He has an everlasting love toward us. And though a mother may forsake her baby, I've engraved you in the palms of my hands that I may never forget you. So this is a beautiful program, all worked out. So don't be frustrated when you see people that go after the world, having the love of the world in them. And you say, Well they seem so religious. Don't be frustrated. So was Judas religious. So was Cain religious. See, the thing is you know the child by his doings. Just keep your eyes on Jesus and watch that child that goes after the things of God, that hungers and thirsts after the things of God, that will bypass the gullible desires of this world, and the infiltrating thoughts of the lust of the flesh, the pride of life. Just leave it alone, and it's going to work out good for you. Because all things work together for good to them that love the Lord. They that are called according to His purpose. For them that He did foreknow as to His foreknowledge, He did predestinate as to their destination in the end as to eternal life. He predestinated them. And them that He predestinated, He sent the preacher. And through the preacher, He called them. And He hath justified them by believing in His righteousness as to the pre-ordination of God. And He has sanctified them once and for all by the works of Christ, in that we are His creature. Predestinated as His thing through Christ Jesus unto righteousness. And He hath sanctified us once and for all by that faith that pleased Him. And now He hath perfected forever or made perfect them that are sanctified. So that we are without spot, wrinkle or blemish. And the preacher is there for the perfecting of your faith, that he might reveal everything in detail that your faith might be complete, which means perfect. To believe, to comprehend the heights, to understand, to know the heights, the length, the width and the depth of this great, wonderful thing that was purposed in Christ before the world ever was. Let's give Him another hand and let's stand together. Let's stand together. Now, if you walk in the light as He is in the light, you'll have fellowship one with another. We sing this little chorus. Maybe Brother Taylor can remember it if I don't, or maybe you will. (Sings: We'll Walk In the Light) Can you sing it with me now? (Sings) Can you sing it with me? (Sings) Listen: for Jesus, we're the light of the, can you sing it with me? Sing it again. (Sings) I like that don't you? Let's sing that again. (Sings) We want to sing it one more time. (Sings) So let your light shine that men can see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. For Paul said, God has sent us, predestinated us as the church to shine throughout the world, even unto the uttermost parts of the earth. The light of the world, even the Gentile light, for the Bible said, this light excelleth the light of that that was first. For that light of Moses as to a veiled light, even the veil that he placed upon his face. The Bible said and that light as to a dimensional light, that light had no light as to a comparison of this light, in that was a veiled light. And it had no light as to a comparison of this light, because this light is so great that this is the light of the world. Ye are the light of the world. I am the light of the world. And when Jesus went away, He came back into your heart as Christ, and He said, Now ye are the light of the world. Let's give Him another hand. I like that, don't you? I'm glad He lit me up. I'm glad He made me a light. Hallelujah! I've got a light to give. Glory to God! I feel that light on the inside of me. And in that light there is no darkness. We don't have to be ignorant, because you're full of the glory, the glory, the heavenly awareness of that eternal state of life, that eternal state of being, which is God Almighty. You are the light! (Sings: The Light of the World) Let's sing it together again, can we? The altars are open if you'd like to come to the altar. Sing that again. (Sings) The Bible said, If you walk in the light as He is in the light, you'll have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus will cleanse you from all unrighteousness. If you don't have any unrighteousness, blessed is the man whom God will not impute sin, whose sins are gone, and iniquities are taken away. His sins are covered by the blood. Because ye are children of light. You're not children of darkness as to intellectual condemnation. That day will not come upon you unaware. (Sings) Oh, I like that. Let's sing that again. (Sings) Have fellowship one with another. Want to come to church, be around each other, talk with each other, talk about heavenly things. And everywhere we find a child of God in the world, we'll want to link hands with him. Heavenly conversation, laying up treasures in heaven, our desire in heaven. (Sings) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Sings) Let's give Him another hand. Hallelujah! Let's sing another chorus or two and we'll let you go. That beautiful light dwelling in that light as He is in the light, being members of the body in particular. No one has ever seen that light, nor approached unto that light, because that light is God. It is a great understanding that you cannot see with your natural eyes, with these little old eye nerves as to the sensitivity of living in this world as to lying vanities. But folks, with the eyes of understanding, you comprehend God, the great understanding, for He is a declaration. And Jesus dwelling in the bosom of God has declared Him, in that it's not the preacher speaking, but it is Christ declaring the Heavenly Father. As thou canst see through the eyes of understanding to comprehend; by that believe through the transformating of your mind, and to be changed by faith as Enoch, to go into the other dimension, into the other world. That's the way that it is with you and I. Look around you. That's the way that it's going to be. That's what the rapture is. That's what the translation is. If you see another one, tell me about it. This is the only one there is. Hallelujah! You love Jesus? (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) Not to eternal creatures. (Sings) Don't you see how the world missed it? The world missed it. (Sings) See the world missed it. The world is in the heart of them that are in the world. And so then they love the world because their spiritual inner being is interwoven with Lucifer the same way our inner being is interwoven with Christ. And Lucifer is the world and the prince of the world. And it's a lying vanity, a diminishing shadow. But Christ is an increasing one as to the heavenly world, as to heaven; and we're increasing in the mind of Christ all the time. (Sings) Sing it again. (Sings) He's always been there by the foreknowledge of God. We're just now seeing Him, just now comprehending Him. (Sings) Can you sing it with me? Do you feel free from time? (Sings) I once was dead, but now I'm alive forevermore. (Sings) Time to live, time to die. (Sings) These Words of life. Said, Eat the whole book, John. (Sings) What denomination are you? Why do we care about denomination? We want all the people to get together. (Sings) I'm a heavenly creature. My mind is not in captivity to the beggarly elements of this world. I've escaped. At death my spirit went away to God who gave it. And I'm dwelling in the heavenly places where there's no record of time. No beginning and no end, even from everlasting to everlasting. Jesus said, And where I was, I go back there. You go back to the dust as to them of the world; but He said, I came from heaven and I go back from heaven. How many of you came from heaven, let me see your hand? In the predestination of the foreknowledge of God you was in heaven, and the sons of God leaping for joy and shouting, saying, hallelujah! The Holy Ghost meetings where people have been dancing, God foresaw it in His foreknowledge and preordained it. And they're just jumping up and down like little babies as raindrops. Hallelujah! Say hallelujah! Don't know what it's all about, but He loves us anyway. Glory to God! Someday He'll tell us. Somebody say hallelujah! And now the some day is here and God's telling us what it's all about. Somebody has! Can you praise God? Can you love the Lord? Can you say, I love you Jesus? And He's telling us all about it, telling us all about it. They've come to the graduation, come to the diplomacy. What is it all about? It's all about God and His goodness and heaven, and eternal life, eternal securities. He's told us all about it. All we got to do is believe now, the perfecting of our faith. Now we know. Believe. Hallelujah! I can feel the transformating of the mind. I can feel the quickening of the Spirit. I can feel that living daystar, that generating life on the inside because God is there. God is within His temple. Come on folks! God's in His temple! They feel God in His temple! If you feel God in His temple, let me know about it. Hallelujah! Praise is upright for the comely. And the comely is upright to praise God. Hallelujah! Don't you feel that generating power? Hallelujah! Glory to God! The less you eat and the more you prayer, the more you fast, the more you get away from that cosmic energy, you feel that generating power, Brother Taylor. Somebody say hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Sing it again, can you? (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) All gone. (Sings) Done passed from death unto life. Said, Eat the whole book, John. Do you feel like you've eat the whole book? It will be bitter to the belly because God put the serpent on his belly, but it will be sweet as honey. Taste and see if the Lord is good. It will kill out the old creature. It will kill out the worm. It will mortify the deeds of the body. But the thing is it will be sweet as honey in your mouth. Bitter to the belly because all of the labor is for the belly. We can come out from among them that are the members of that old serpent, and be members of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and not taste of that forbidden fruit, so that we can live forever. Can you put forth your hand and partake of the tree of life and live forever? Have you put forth your hand? I've put forth my hand. I've partook of the tree of life. I'm going to live forever. Are you going to live forever? I've partook of the tree of life. Hallelujah! I'm going to live forever! Are you going to live forever? Somebody say amen, that's going to live forever! Are you alive right now? Are you alive right now? Are you alive right now? Eternally alive right now! Living forever! Not waiting for a change, but living forever right now! God will change the body, but right now we are alive. That inner man that talks and breathes. We are alive. Hallelujah! Can we sing that just one more time in closing? (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) Let's sing it just one more time, can we? (Sings) Just one more time in closing. We say one more time. (Sings) Slip your hands up. Close your eyes. Time for me is no more, no more. Time for me is no more because I'm eternal. I'm eternal. I know some of you can't get a hold of that; and you say, My God! I just can't believe that I'm eternal. But I do. I believe I am eternal. Somebody say, Well, bless God, we'll see that that body goes back to the dust, Brother Pike. Maybe, maybe not. But if it does every hair is preserved because it's eternal. The body is still eternal. Somebody says, Oh no! It'll give out. But it didn't for nine hundred years with Methuselah. It didn't for Noah. It didn't for several hundred years for Enoch, and seven hundred years for others, and five hundred years for others. So those little particles, they're eternal. They emanated from God. And the Spirit that came from God is eternal. You are of your Father's loins and of His genes, and you are eternal. So then it doesn't matter if a wind comes along and the dust settles. You're still eternal; and one day you'll just call to it, and all of it will come to it's creator, to you, one with God. It belongs to you. It's given to you. It's made in the image of Almighty God. It cannot be lost. It cannot be lost. The perversion as to the lying vanity, as to the infiltration, that perverted image will go away. It will go away. It will be cast out. It will be gone. It already has been driven out of you that believe, and you will be in His image and in His glory. Already He sees you like that in His image and in His glory. You're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And the bastard child image is dead and buried and gone by Calvary. And you are eternally alive as the glorious image of the sons and daughters of God. And you're just standing here, just waiting until it be made manifest. Somebody said, But I see you. You see a lying vanity. And they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. I'd rather look beyond the lying vanity of the image and see the mercies of God as to an eternal gift from God, as to an eternal creature, as to the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, eternally alive forevermore. Hallelujah! We don't know what He looks like as to the natural sight, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. We shall be like Him because we are like Him. And it's to be made manifest at His coming so all the world can see that we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And has been in the foreknowledge of God before the world ever was. And we've only gone through these transitional changes as to the creature, being subjected to the vanities of this world, by help of God to bring them into godship and into the heavenly family. All things working together for good to them that love the Lord. So then while we're standing here, I want you to lift you hands up, close your eyes. I want you to praise the Lord for just a minute. And I'm asking Brother Larry Bullard to come and dismiss us. And while Larry comes let's lift our hands up. Let's close our eyes. And let's just worship the Lord, can you do that? Can you worship God? Can you say, Jesus, I love You; I'm one with You; my Father and I are one; can you resolve your thoughts, as to your intellectual interference of the doubt and the anxieties of life, and the conflicting thoughts of contrariness? Can you just get those out of your mind and look to God and say, Jesus, I love You; my Father and I are one? Jesus could say that because there was no sin in His body. He was not of the flesh. His body was one with the Spirit. The Spirit had been made flesh. Today because of the grace of God by faith there's no sin in your body. And your body of sin is now dead and gone, and you're bone of the bone of the Spirit, and flesh of the flesh of the Spirit. And you can say according to your measure or whatever as to your faith, as to your believing, as to your release. I can say and you can say, Jesus, I love You. My Father and I are one. Can you say that? I say that. My Father and I are one. Oh somebody said, Brother Pike. But if that's what you believe, that's what you are. For as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. And confession is made unto the faith as to his heart. My Father and I are one. For I do always the things that please the Father. Somebody would say, but Brother Pike, Jesus could say that because He did always the things that please the Father. But Brother Pike, you stumble and stagger. I know, but He doesn't judge me by my stumblings and staggerings. He judges me by the perfection of Christ. And I'm perfect without any stumblings, so that I do always the things in His sight. I do always the things that please my Heavenly Father. Let's say, Hallelujah! And let's give Him a hand as our brother comes to dismiss us.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord