Faith From The Heart

But I thank the Lord for Joe. He Helps Me. Now in that we took a little bit of time for the singing I'll try not to hold you very long. Maybe talk a little bit. We have had, in the past, a few times where we ask a question or two, that is let you ask a question or two, and we haven't done this in quite a long while. For the last few services I've been pretty much bringing out what is happening. We've been ministering to you, and we've tried to bring out what is taking places right now, and how near the coming of the Lord is.The last service we kind of Got into revelation, but other than that we've been trying to talk to you about the present day truth; things that are happening. Like the thing over in Russia, and the things that's happening locally. We're trying our best to keep you up to date on everything that we understand as to the coming of the Lord, because the coming of the Lord is so near at hand, and the averge individual doesn't understand it at all. They don't know anything at all about the coming of the Lord. So that makes it real bad. I thought tonight we'd just let you ask a question or two, and maybe we might comment just little bit. I'm going to read from over in St. Mark, Chapter three, and it says here in the twenty-second verse: "And the scribes which came down form Jerusalem said," How many of you know what the scribes where? How many of you know that was the scribblers? That is the scribes, the scribblers. Those that scribed, and they scribed in the writing, whatever. The scribes, it was a sect of people. There were the Scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees. (Brother Pike reads on through verse thirty.) Right there there is some pretty serious talk. When you stop and think, Can some one actually eternally doom themselves? Can they actually do something that will actually eternity doom themselves? Can a man actually say something in the way of words? Is it possible that he can say something in the way of words, or expression, and eternally doom his soul? See? Is it possible that a person can get beside themselves, and do something that seems small to him, and yet cut himself off eternally from the things of God? He can. He can. See, here? It's very obvious. It says, verily I say unto you, all sin shall be forgiven unto the sons of man. See? It doesn't matter what kind of sin that you commit. God will forgive it. All sins, He will forgive it, and even if you blaspheme, you know, to speak against, or just to pounce on somebody and say ugly things as to blaspheme, whether it's against one thing or another, and blasphemes, whether soever you blaspheme, He said, it doesn't make any difference. You may blaspheme a thousand times. You blaspheme a thousand things, but He said, I'll forgive that. If you ask me I'll forgive that. And if you curse men, say all kind of things against them I'll forgive that, He said. I'll forgive that. They cursed Jesus. God forgave that? He forgave that, but He said, There is one thing I will not forgive. He said, If you blaspheme against the Holy Ghost I'll never forgive you, For, said, There is no forgiveness for that in this world, nor in the world to come, which means in the millennium when Jews shall judge the world. Judge the nations, that is. See, but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation. But someone would say, Well, what is blasphemie of the Holy Ghost? It makes it real clear. They said that He hath a devil, and they said that He hath Beelzebub, which is the cheif of the devils. You know, there is Michael, there is Gabriel, there's Beelzebub. See? They said He hath Beelzebub which is the prince of the devils. And said, He's casting out devils by the prince of the devils, which is absurd. You can't cast out a devil by a devil. Jesus made it clear that a divided house can't stand. There ain't no way that you could do things like that. See? And he says here, This is because they said He had an unclean spirit. They said that. Now that's blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. When they spoke against Jesus' Spirit and said that He was doing the Holy, wonderful things of God by the devil, He said, I won't forgive that kind of talk. Someone would say, Well, how serious is this? He goes on to emphasis it. He said, one word. Just one word. Think about that folks. Your salvation hinges on your saying one word, as to right or wrong. He said, One word spoken against the Spirit of God, one word spoken against the Holy Ghost, said, It will never be forgiven. See, that's why that I say a lot of times that we should be serious. We should be up front with what we do. We should be always conscientious, because one word spoken against the Holy Ghost and we're eternally doomed. Brother Pike can't get you through. Nobody else can't pray you through. Nobody can get you forgiveness. You are eternally damned and doomed. Just one word spoken against the Holy Ghost. That's why the Bible said be sober. Be sober. Always be sober minded. Don't get carried away with buying and selling, and laughing, and joking, and listening to something on T.V., or radio, or reading magazines, or papers, or ballgames, and especially taking dope, going out and taking dope, no matter what kind of dope it is, taking whiskey, beer, anything that can get you off balance just a little bit in your thinking, don't you dare do that. While you're in that condition you can make one slip, speak one wrong word, (Claps Hands.) and your soul is doomed that quick. You're eternally doomed and damned. It doesn't matter if you go to church from now on. That's it. I told you of a case where a man supposedly blasphemed the Spirit. He spoke against the Spirit, and when he did after that he said that when he walked He said he could walk through the woods, and said when leaves brokes, and little little fragments, limbs and whatever, broke under his feet, as I've heard them break many times walking through the woods, especially as to a hunter, he said it sounded like the flames of hell crackling under his feet. And he was taken in such a way that he actually went by the church and throwed rocks at the church it had got a hold him so bad. And let me tell you something, folks. This is why that things are like it is in the church world today, and like it is in America. There is so many people in America that have blasphemed the Spirit in this age that Jesus called them a sinful, a whole generation, sinful and adulterous, He said. That's why they are so free to commit adultery, and go out and dress the way they do, and put things on their chest up here, or on their back in worshiping Satan, and making all kind of remarks. See? They blaspheme the Holy Ghost, and the Bible said they've gotten past feeling. See? They get passed feeling. You've got a feeling here. Paul said, I strive always to keep my conscience void of offence toward man and God. And you've got a feeling down here, and you get passed that feeling you can do anything, I never will forget Brother Branham said one time. Brother Branham said they were having a service, and he spoke to this woman in the name of the Lord, and told her that she should come to God, and she made a smart remark toward him, and just made a big joke out of it, didn't come to God, and he said it was a number of years later, he was in the same area and while he was in this area he passed by and this women passed by, of course there was some change over a period of time, he said he didn't recognize her. She apparently looked like and old hag. She was a terrible looking thing. Whereas, apparently she was a fine looking person before then. And said, she stopped him and said, Preacher, said, do you remember me? Said, No, No, I don't remember you. And she said I'm the women that you spoke to on a certain night years ago. And said, Preacher, since you spoke to me and I did like I did, she said she'd got passed feeling. She said, I could kill my own mother. Said, it wouldn't bother me. And she'd gotten into that kind of condition. See, to go contrary to God, to do contrary to God, just one little thing, take you a little dope, get out in a frolic, start laughing and joking, and all of a sudden before you realize it you get in a big way, and somebody says something, and (snaps Fingers.) you say the wrong word, and when you do it doesn't matter how much you repent over it, it doesn't matter how much you call on the Lord, how much you say I'm sorry, How much you go the the preacher, no matter what you give him, no matter what you do, you are eternally doomed and damned. That is what the Bible means when it says some are dead, and twice dead, plucked up by the root. See? You are dead, because when Adam sinned all of his seed came to death. For He said, the day that thou eatest therof, Adam, thou shall surely die. And all Die. In Eve all die. All die. They are dead to God in Eve, but that's only dead as to sin and trespasses. They still have a chance for redemption, to come to God and be born again. But when you commit this unpardonable, when you go the wrong way, and you wait too long then you kill the root of life. The root of life. And then the Bible teaches that you are twice dead. Plucked up by the roots. It doesn't matter it you are alive and breathing in this world. That doesn't matter. You are still plucked up by the roots, and you can never be saved. You are twice dead. And see? This is why you should never frolic. This is why you should never press the issue. This is why you should never go contrary to what the ministry is trying to teach you, or what the church is trying to do for you, because that's the love of God toward you. I tell you this so often; I know I haven't gotten around to letting you ask a question, but anyway I try to tell you that God loves you. I believe that you believe me when I say that God loves you. God loves you. God doesn't want you to blaspheme against the Spirit, and be cut off. God doesn't want you to be lost. God isn't against you. Though the devil harasses your mind all the time, he's always putting thoughts of condemnation in you heart to accuse God; yet you are the one that gives place to that. The Bible said the little foxes spoil our vines because our vines have tender grapes. You do a little something, whether it's watching T.V., or reading a magazine, or whatever it might be as a nonvirtous things, a conversation, whatever. See? You get into this, and you do those little things, as you would say, and then the devil he gets a shot at you. He gets opening at you. You open the door to him. You bring in condemnation. And then the devil he perches up there and he starts accusing God. And he's always accusing God. Paul said, Within my body, that is these thoughts that I get, These feelings I get, these desires that I get, being subject to vanity as a creature, he said, there's no good thing. I can't find no good thing among these things. He said, on the inside of me, and my heart, having been born again, those that are born again. He said, I have a desire to do good, and I have a desire to do right, he said, but to perform it, with this outer being, as to this man, this body he said, I can't get it to do right at all. He said, For when I would do good evil is always present with me. When I want to think good, When I want to try to do good, evil is always there, the accusations, the condemnations, the thoughts of Wretched man that I am. I'm a wretched man. Though I've been born again, he said, I'm a wretch so far as my body. He said, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. Said, this is a death. And this body is to blame for it. How can I get aloose from this body? Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? How can I get aloose from it? And that's when he said, I thank God, that what the law could not do, in that the law gets it strength, or sin gets it's strength by the law, and the law come to do us good, but the law couldn't do it, because the law only reminds me of my wrongs and brings condemnation because I'm weak, To the creator as being subject to the vanities of this world. He said, And what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His Own Son to Calvary condemned the body of flesh, in that Satan savors the things that be of the flesh. And he's the god of this world. He lures the flesh. He controls everything in the world. So, he said what the law couldn't do God sent His Own Son in the form of sin. Made an end of it. Smote His Own Son to do away with my image of sin, and your images of sin to where He would never see it again. He smote it. He took it. He buried it. That's why we're baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sin. It's to do away with the outer image, the first man Adam, that in Eve all die. And to be resurrected in His likeness, to come forth in a new image. The Bible said Jesus appeared in another form. A new image, even flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone to be the image of the Lord Jesus. See? To be free from sin to never sin again. He that is born of God cannot sin. I remind you again the angel said to Daniel, Messiah will come and make an end of sin. And He came and made an end of sin, and now we are born of God as to the inner man. And the outer man is dead and God never sees it again until the Thessalonian change as to the new man that will come forth, even Christ. He sees us as bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of His Son, and His Son's Spirit is within us, and our Spirit is sealed until the day of the redemption and charge of that body,and the evil one never touches us at any time. Never. Never. We are sealed from sin, and we are free from sin, therefore we cannot sin, and the devil never touches us. we never sin again. He that is born of God cannot sin. It doesn't matter what a preacher tells you. It doesn't matter what I tell you. It doesn't matter what anybody says. It doesn't matter anyway that you read the Bible, the Scripture's said, He that is born of God cannot sin, because the seed of God, which is the Word, Jesus Christ, the Spirit, the faith of Christ remains in you and you are justified by faith, and purified by that faith seed within you and you cannot sin, because you are born of God. You are His Son by one virtue. God gave His Son, took that Spirit of His Son, set that body as a blood atonement yonder on the mercy seat. It's on the mercy seat tonight, a vesture dipped in blood that will appear in Revelation 19. It's there and the Spirit and Life of the Body returned into you, and into me, Brother Taylor, all of them that believe in God. And according to the measure of it that you received is your hope of glory. He alone being made heir to the glory of God, He with in you is the hope of that glory. And that glory, as I say, was there with moses and Elijah on the Mountain, and this glory is given to you by measure. Whatever the measure of Spirit is that's His Son's Spirit, and because His Son's Spirit is within you then you are His Son. Because when that Spirit was in Jesus that was His Son. And now that Spirit is in you you are His son, though it was in Christ without measure it's in you by measure. And whatever measure you allow for he's commanding us to go on to the full measure of the full stature, or go on to a full reward, but that measure that you've allowed for, that Christ within you, that's the measure that you have. You have that measure within you. And that is His Spirit. That is the Son of God's Spirit. So if the Bible says you have not His Spirit you are none of His, if you have the Spirit, even as the measure, whatever the measure might be, that makes you the son of God. You are a Son of God by virtue of that Spirit. He requires that. So I said that to say this. That with this Spirit we become His, but if you don't have that Spirit then you've been born again. And if you do have that Spirit, then God loves you and God wants He wants you to have the very best. He wants to give you all things that pertain unto life. He wants to give you health and happiness and life and everything that pertains unto life. It is His staunch desire to give it to you. You know, it's like this. You go to pray for somebody with blind eyes, you go to pray for somebody with deaf ears, you go to pray for somebody that's in desperate need, that needs healing, you go to pray for them, and you think, Well, I don't know whether God wants to heal them or not. I don't know whether They are good enough or not. I just don't know whether God's going to hear me or not. What you have to remember is that God, the great eternal Spirit is like water that's behind a great dam, and that water it has that dam under pressure. It would break through at any time it could fine just a little crack in that wall. That whole body of water with all that force would break through. That's the way God is. He has split His blood out of His veins. He's given it to let you know that he loves you, and he is trying to break through the wall of iniquity. The Bible said, Thine iniquities have separated between thee and thy God, and have kept thee back from good things. God can't fellowship that iniquity. He can't get near that iniquity. If he could he would come right down when all of these sorrows happen, all these things happen to little children, and widows, and orphans, and all these horrible situations in the world. God would immediately eradicate those things and come down and change it, but He can't. He can't. Like I said to you before; many mighty miracles He could not do because of their unbelief. That was Jesus. A power house. A power house of God with the full measure of God that would have healed them in a minute. Went about doing good, healing all, delivering them from devils, setting the Captives free. But when he got to this group of people their iniquities See, their iniquities, their unbelief, He couldn't do anything for them, because light cannot fellowship darkness. It's utterly impossible for light to fellowship darkness. Whatever light comes it eradicates darkness. Light and darkness can never get together. And your iniquities are there. Now if light comes to you it will eradicate your iniquities of darkness. It will do away with it. But it cannot come to you because you are allowing for the iniquity. If it was something where you stumbled and staggered, asking God to move it, you're under the blood, Jesus could come to you through the blood; that is God through the blood of Jesus, He would eradicate your iniquities, and immediately heal you and do whatever you needed. But He can't do that, because you are willingly allowing that you become an habitual transgressor. It is an allowance. You are allowing for it, and because of that God cannot come. Satan says, No, because I am the possessor of this house. The Bible teaches that before a strong man can spoil the goods of the house of another strong man he must go in and bind the strong man, which there's no problem with that. God can go into your life, into your house. Peter called this a house. He can bind the strong man, Satan, and cast him out, but if you are a habitual violator or if you are willingly doing the things of the world God can't get near you. But the very minute that you call on the Lord, the Bible said it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. When you call on the Lord then that means you don't want those iniquities, you don't want those transgressions, you don't want those wrongs. And though Satan has power over the creature, The creature subject to vanity; yet God will sweep down from Heaven in His light, eradicate the problems of the house, move the iniquity out and sanctify the house, and then fill it with His Spirit. Fill it with His Spirit, and the devil can't get back in. He can't touch you. And even your outer man, your outer will have the best, the very best of all things that God has given you as all things that pertain unto life. You will have the very best as long as you use your faith. But if you don't really use your faith and stay strong in faith, taking the shield of faith to eradicate all the fiery darts of Satan, then the devil will rob you of all the good things that you have for the body, even though you have sealed on the inside, and though you've got God's seal on the inside of you, because you don't apply yourself to be strong in faith. The Bible said if you faint in the day of adversity your strength is small. If you don't apply yourself then you don't get the benefits of all these wonderful things that God has for you. So then, God is like that water behind the dam. He wants to get to you. When you go to pray for the blind man you've got to think like this: It's not a matter of whether or not God wants to heal him. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever, He went about healing all that was oppresses of the devil when He was here. He's the same today. Two or three gathered together in my name there am I in the midst. He goes about to heal all of them. All of them. Because your justification is not by your doings or by your righteousness, but it's by faith of God. It's the faith of Jesus Christ that sanctifies you and cleanses your heart that the Spirit of God can come in and heal you and save you, and do the things for you that you need. See? It is by virtue of Christ. So then, all you've got to do is believe. When the preacher preaches it then you believe. Blind Bartimaeus setting by the wayside just cried to God. He said, What would you have me to do for you? He said, Restore my sight. He ask the question many times, he said, Do you believe that I'm able to do this? He said, Yea, Lord. According to your faith. Said, Whatever you want? Accordingly to your faith. He said, Ask what you will I'll do it. Decree a thing in your heart. It'll come to pass. He said, Say what you will and don't doubt in your heart. I'm the High priest of your confession. Say what you will, don't doubt in your heart, and you'll be healed. It will come to pass, and you'll have whatever you say. Whatever you say. It don't matter. You just say that you want to say. And it will be according to your faith. It will be according to what you say. Don't doubt. That's a great challenge, isn't it? Now, you say, Brother Pike, that realy doesn't work. I know that it's working. I know it's working. Not that it has worked, even though it has worked many times for me, but not as though it has worked. It is working for me right now. I live by it everyday. The just shall live by faith. Everyday of my life I decree things in my heart. I say certain things are coming to pass, and thus it comes to pass, because that's the way it is. That's t he way it is. I said the other night to my wife I said, Betty, Sister Francis mother is fixing to die. That was that night. That day at dinner she died. Now, see? I said that not to believe her to death, but because God made me to know that. See? He gives you prophetical utterance. If we say something it comes to pass. Prophesy something, or speak something then that's God. You should reverence. You should respect the Spirit that said those things. See? So I decree a thing in my heart, and I've done this many times through the years. And I've said, Betty, it's going to be like that. I go overseas and I spend thousands and tens of thousands of dollars. You know I do that? By faith. I get on my knees. I go to God. I pray, and I say, Lord, I feel that I should go over into a certain country. and I say, Lord, I don't have the money, and I must pay the bills at home. I must take care of the home front, and I want to share with the poor and the needy. and I say, Lord, God be with me. Lord stand by me. and as I am praying, the Bible said, when you pray believe, and I pray until I begin to feel His anointing, feel His favor, and then I lock in and I say, (Claps hands) That's it! I say it's going to be that way and ten thousand worlds can't change it. That's the way it will be! And I go off with that and I don't give, not at all. That's the way it works. and it always works that way. Never fails. So then that means that we've got to believe God. We've got to believe God. If you are going to pray for somebody we've got to have this feeling. When we go to pray for somebody we've got to have this feeling. It's not a matter of whether he's good enough, or she's good enough, or whether God wants it. We have the Bible. It's already said that God, by His stripes we were healed at Calvary. That settles it. That passes. He's already given it to us. it's that treasure up there that He's laid up for us. It's already in the bank for us. He's already done it. It's not a matter of whether he will do it. He's already done it. It's a matter of me just going to the bank and writing the check and getting what I've already got. You know, He said let the weak say I'm strong. I want to say this to you again, as I said the other night. Let the weak say, I'm strong. Now, if I say, Brother Taylor, the Bible said, Let the Weak say I'm strong. I'm weak. I can't say I am strong, because I'm weak. If I did that I'd be lying, because I'm weak. But see? The Bible said, Be strong in the power of My might. The power of My might. See? If God's already given me this in Christ Jesus I'm not lying. That belongs to me. I'm not confessing that so He'll give me that out yonder in the future. I'm confessing that because it already belongs to me. If I say to Stevie I've got a Cadallic, and I've got a Cadallic, even though Stevie don't see it, I'm not lying. I've got a Cadallic. If I say, Brother Taylor, I'm strong, because I've got plenty of strength. And he says, No, Brother Pike, you're weak. You're weak. No, Brother Taylor. (Begin side of two of tape one.)...... He is the high Priest of my confession. I've confessed what God done for me, whether it's by His stripes I was healed, or whatever, and then when I really believe that in my heart, then I say, Oh my God! Like the little women that felt the virtue that come out of Christ, something happens. Something happens. It doesn't matter what it is. Whatever it is. If it is faith in God, you've already got it. And when you have faith in God you get your healing. When you have faith in God you get your salvation. When you have faith in God God delivers you from all of your problems, but without faith in God you don't get anything. You must have faith in God. That's why Jesus said so often, Have faith in God. You are an individual. This is an individual thing. you are a individual. You must believe it. Man or woman you must believe it. I can't make you have this. Your wife can't. Your husband can't. No one can. It's your individual life, as to salvation, as to healing, or whatever. So when I pray for the sick this is the way I pray. I pray for the sick like this. I think that water is behind that dam, and it's pressing to get to this person. God's already justified them. the same to every creature. The blood is on the seat of atonement for all the world, and here is a creature that's calling on the Lord Jesus, and that water is pushing trying to break that dam, and I say, Give me your attention. Listen at me. believe what I'm saying to you. The Lord is wanting to get to you so much He split the blood out of His veins trying to get to you. He's Trying to get to you. He's trying to get to you. Will you listen at me? Will you believe what I say? Can you grasp that? Can you actually believe that He loves you that much? It's the truth, so help me God, and He's pressing and He's pushing, and He's trying to get to you. And all I'm trying to do is get your attention, and tell you what He's told me to tell you. and that is His love, and that He's given you all things that pertain unto life. And then when I get them stired up and their faith begins to illuminate them, and I feel that open door. Like Paul, he turned, and the Bible said he perceived that this man had faith to be healed. This man all of a sudden lit up, and his faith come up, and Paul suddenly realized that this individual over here had been stirred, and his faith was stirred, and he turned over there and spoke to him in the name of the Lord, and immediately something happened. Immediately something happened. I never will forget. Down here, I was speaking one day and I was trying to reach Jimmy Smith. Jimmy was spitting up blood. I knew that Jimmy was going to die. I knew he was going to die, but I kelp trying to reach Jimmy. and I thought, How can I reach Jimmy? How can I reach him? And I kept talking. I was speaking indirectly. And I would speak indirectly here, and I would speak indirectly there, and finally I got Jimmy's attention. And Jimmy didn't know nothing about it. He was listening, and it was a kind of conversation, and then I went down a certain route. I come around a certain way, and I thought, When I lay this down there there ain't no way in the world he is going to be able to escape it. That thing's going to hit him like a ton of bricks. And I worked that thing around, and I laid everything in order, and when I got to a certain place, then I said, (claps hands.) Like that, and boy, that thing hit Jimmy. I could tell it was just like you had put an arrow in a bow and shot it right into his heart. And that thing went clear through Jimmy. And I thought, There you are. You are healed. You are healed. And sure enough he was healed from that night on. See? And that's the way it works. Peter walking on the water Peter was just walking on the water. There he was believing, walking on the water, which is impossible. Walking on the water. It was just faith. That's all it was, because just the very minute he looked down at the water, saw the boisterous waves, and his natural mind returned to him, as to the danger, his faith went away. And when his faith went away, down, down, down, he was going. And he only retained enough faith and confidence to say, Lord, take my hand. See? You can be a master, or you can barely hold on. The Bible said Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that what God had promised He was able also to perform. So see? This is so important that we believe. See? You can believe. No matter what age you are you can believe. As long as you are old enough to understand what we're saying. Doesn't matter whether you are aged, or whether you're young, Whether you're a woman. It doesn't matter, a man, whatever. You can believe. That's the beautiful part about this. No difference, male or female in God. You can believe. And this is great. It's like a woman that told a man one time in the old Testament. She said if you won't do what God tells you, said, I'll take that honor. And she took that crown, and she went off an got the job done. So, see? It just doesn't matter. That's how beautiful it is. So, I'm telling you this tonight; that you've got to understand God loves you. With all of these accusations of mind, With all of these threats of mind, God has already secured you soul. Satan can never touch you in spite of all those threats. Speaking of those that have been born again. you are free from it, but if you listen to those things; though he's already sealed your soul from sin, if you listen to those accusations, or if you do the little things that bring condemnation to kill your faith, then that means the devil will rob you of all those things. He will spoil your vines, and you will never have the blessings that God wants you to have in making you rich and adding no sorrow in making you to ride upon the high places of the earth, in making all of your beds in time of your sickness, that is to say He will heal you. And in giving you the desires of your heart because you delighted yourself in the Lord, and you love to serve Him. Satan will rob you of all those things by those accusations when they don't count against you, because the body is dead. It's gone. See? God has taken away the accusations, Brethren. Remember this. God has taken away the accusations, so far as Satan gaining any strength with God for God to accuse you. He's already done away with your sins so God has no reason to accuse you. See? So that side of it He has eliminated. There is nothing from God but peace on earth and good will from God toward mankind, That's once and for all. God unchangeable. He never alters or changes things. Peace on earth and good will toward man, He said to the shepherds, because now you have a Saviour. I'll never be upset at you again. See? Jesus was delivered for my transgressions, and He was raised again for my justification. Now am I justified in the sight of God by faith in what He did for me. So I said that to say this; He's done away with that side of it, but one He can't do away with. It's up to you to do away with this side, and that is, you listening to the devil to accuse Him. He did away with it as to accuse you, but you have to do away with it as to accuse Him. You've got to quit listening to that. You've got to remember that's gone. And if you stumble, and if you stagger, if you make a mistake don't condemn yourself over that thing which you allow. Go on by faith. Keep your faith up, because you didn't mean to do that. You wasn't practising that. You didn't go outo do that. You stumbled into that, and that's what the blood was for. God never sees that, you are still perfect. But, beloved friend, remember one thing. When you become a habitual violator, when you become one that practises those things, when you allow for the flesh, and the lust of the flesh, and the desire of the flesh, and you go about doing this, in that you allow for it and you say, Well, I didn't mean to do that you are in trouble with God, because God will get you for that. And He cannot get to you. When I say God will get you I want to clarify something there. God can't get to you because you've allowed for iniquity, and His love and desire is still toward you, like He looked at the rich young ruler and loved him, but the rich young ruler turned away sorrowful, because he would not do what Christ said. But He still looked at Him and loved him. Even Judas, He said, Friend, friend. Offering him love, because Judas wasn't a friend to Him, but He was a friend to Judas. Still loving him. He loved the rich young ruler. See? He still loves you but He can't get to you. So then, that means that your fields will be burned. Satan will come in and burn your barley fields, as Brother Jack Coe used to say. So, I'm saying this to you that we have to get our minds straightened out, our thoughts straightened out. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, that loved the Father, and believed in the Father, and wouldn't listen to any accusations, a clear mind, a wholesome mind. And don't feed your mind off of T.V., and magazines, and derogatory things in this life. Don't put that garbage in your mind. Keep it clean so you can have a, Paul said, a pure heart. A clean heart. The pure in heart shall see God. He purifies the heart by faith. Sanctifying it by faith of Jesus Christ. Get all of those things out of your life. See? Keep a conscience void of offense toward man and God. That way you'll have faith. You'll have faith. And that's what faith is all about. He said it. The preacher tells you, you believe it, and that's the way it is. That way you don't take a chance of blaspheming, you don't take a chance of being cut off. You don't take a chance of losing you soul. I was going to ask a question or two tonight, but I felt to say these things. I perceived that somebody was wanting faith. I picked it up that somebody was wanting their healing, and the Lord took me down this trail tonight. I'm just talking to you. I'm just exhorting you a little. I'm not screaming and preaching at you. I'm just exhorting you a little bit. But folks, this is such a beautiful thing. How beautiful it is to think that you can have it. Let whosoever will come and freely partake of the waters of life freely. And to think that God loves you so much that it's nothing to do with God, as to your failure. It's just listening to the lies of Satan. It's so wonderful to love Jesus, and to know His love for you. But remember, He can't fellowship iniquity. He's light. He can't fellowship darkness. And You can't have these blessings by hypocriting around and telling yourself it's going to be alright, because it isn't going to be alright. When there is iniquity in your heart the Bible said, He that regardeth iniquity in his heart God cannot hear him. God cannot get to you. Thine iniquities have separated between thee and thy God, and held thee back from good things. Jesus rent the veil. He took that body out of the way, and all the iniquity, if you'll call on the Lord and trust in His goodness and His love. But, folks, I'm telling you. You're going to have to do things that are good. Follow after things that are virtuous. Listen to things that are right. What the things that please God. The secret, Enoch translated. Before his translation, this testimony, he pleased God. Jesus, I do always the things that please the Father. So you see, when we do these things John said, Doing the things that please God, hereby we convince our heart, then do we have confidence toward God. That is faith. That is faith. You understand what I'm saying? This is confidence in God. That is faith. Can you stand with me? You can't make believe. You can't manufacture it. That is faith. That is faith. All right. So then, you se where faith is. You see what faith is. You see the reality of faith. You see the difference between believing and make believing. You understand? Another thing is, when you pray you must believe. Jesus said he that cometh to God must first of all believe that there is a God, ot believe that He is. And then he must believe that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. You've got to believe that is you pray to God, and you seek God, That God is going to reward you. That that's His desire. You've got to believe that, and in doing that that makes way for God. And how could you believe anything else? You know, if Brother Taylor came to me tonight and he said, I love you, Brother Pike. I'd say give me proof of it. And he just reached over, he cut his wrist, and reached over and cut his wrist, and he said, Here's my proof of it. And I'd say, Hey, Brother Taylor you're going to bleed to death. He said, I haven't given you the kind of proof I want you to have until I breathe my last breath. I love you, Brother Pike. I tell you I couldn't hardly deny that. Couldn't hardly deny that, and especially if he died, and then resurrected from the dead, and I knew that he resurrected from the dead, and he come back and says, Do you Believe my proof of my love? I say, Well, how could I believe anything else? He says, All right, now that you believe it I'm going to give you all things that pertain unto life, because I'm all powerful and I'm able to do it. From now on, Brother Pike, you're like a babe in it's mothers arms. Everything you con desire, your hearts desire, from now on it's yours. Do you believe me? And I say, Well, I don't know, I don't know. That wouldn't make any kind of sense at all, would it? If I really know he was able to do it. Jesus said, Do you believe I'm able to do this? How many of you believe He's able to do it? It wouldn't make any sense at all to doubt that He would do it if you knew He could do it. When He's told you all the things that He did, and Give you the proof of your salvation how con you believe that He saved you if you can't believe that He's healed you? How could you? What's the difference? How can you believe that He's saved you if you can't believe He wants you to prosper and be in health in all things as you soul prospers? You understand what I'm saying? We need to understand God. In the last days they that know their God shall do great and mighty exploits. That is; they that understand their God will have confidence and faith, and go forth in mighty power, But I tell you in the name of the Lord, making belief, your mind on your faces, on you body, on the world, on prestige, on all of these kind of things, not doing anything for God, you are never going to have faith. You're never going to have confidence, because that is not serving God. But in the real service of the Lord confidence will build. You've just got to have simplicity and a sincerity toward Christ, accepting His Word. Do you love the Lord? How wonderful it is to be a Christian? That's why it's wonderful? How could anything be more wonderful? Having a business, having a job, making money. Somebody says, But, boy, I could make thousands. I can be a millionaire. I'm talking about something that makes a billionaire look like a toad stool. I'm talking about the riches in Heaven that we can have in earthen vessels. Paul said that makes all the riches of this world nothing more than beggarly elements. Beggarly. Just beggarly elements. All that you are, all that you can be, all that you could ever have it just makes it beggarly elements. So then, we say we are excited, as I told somebody today. We are excited. Said, well, what are you excited about? I've got a good job. I can make a lot of money. I got a nice automobile. I've got a home. I've got a plantation. I've a good income. I've got three healthy children. I said today, Fine. That means you can have one funeral, two funerals, three funerals. You can dig more holes. Feed the worms better. That's what you've got to look forward to. Vanity of vanities. Solomon had it all. Vanity and vexation of the spirit. See? This world means nothing, Brethren. It means nothing. But if you have all of these good things of life that God gives you, should lack no good thing if you walk upright before me, then yo are living, and you ain't going to die. You can't die. You've passed from death unto life. You just live, and live, and live, and enjoy this life. Health, happiness, promises, securities, and then pass right on over and continue to live and live and live. You don't stop living. You just go to a greater plateau of life, and excel the more in life, move to a different dimension, and keep on living and blossoming out the more. Now that you can enjoy. You can enjoy what you've got. You can enjoy what you've got. You can enjoy it like me. I enjoy what I've got. I use it for God. I give it to God. He multiplies it. He looks after it. He watches after it. I'm not planning to die anyway. Solomon had to die and leave his. And he said, Vanity, vanity, vanity, vexation of spirit. It's not vanity to me, and vexation of the spirit to me, because I gave it all to God. I laid up the treasures in Heaven. I've given away Cadillacs and Lincoln's, and whatever. It didn't bother me. Brand new ones. Roll them out of the showcase, as we say. Give them away. Do you know why I gave them away? Because I differentiated like this, and I thought like this, and I reasoned like this. I said, Now if I keep that car within just a year or two it's an old car, and there it is and I've lost that beautiful, lovely Lincoln, but I said, Now, if I give that to God it doesn't matter if it rots a few years from now. I've still got that nice beautiful Lincoln laid up in Heaven, and can't nobody bother it. And I've got some up there. Spiritually speaking as to what God has given me, Something far excelling that. But I've got that forever, that treasure forever, because I gave it to God. And, folks everything you've ever done, Whatever you've give to God, if it was just one moment of you time you've got that forever. And every thing that you used for yourself, for the flesh, you don't have it. It's lost. It's gone. It's gone. That's why the Bible says, If a man seeks to save his life in this world, as to the preservation of his own desire he loses it, but the man that gives his life to Christ he preserves it eternally, forever. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we? I didn't mean to keep you so long. Wasn't intending to talk to you that long. But I was just going to ask a question or two, but somehow it turned out that way. All right, let's sing together. (Brother Pike leads in singing, I need Thee.) Can you sing that with me? (Sings Don't Turn Him Away, and There's Room At THe Cross For You.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.) Sing this with me. (Sings At The Cross.) The altars are open. (Continues Singing.) You love the Lord? Give me a key, Frank. (Sings He Was There All The Time.) Can you sing that with me? Sing it with me. (Continues.) Sing it one more time. (Continues.) you know that's the way it is. Jesus, He just kind of waits in line, you know. You've got so many things to do. You're so busy. And you say, Lord, when I do this. And Lord, when I do that, and God give me a little more time, and when I do this, after awhile I'll get around to you. And He just stands patiently in line. Sing that again. (Continues sing.) Let's sing another little chorus or two before we go tonight. (Sings Let Tomorrow Be Tomorrow.) Sing it with me. (Continues singing.) Sing it with me, can you? (Continues.) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Continues, and sings After All). Can you raise it just a little bit? (Continues.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings Come By Here, My Lord.) Sing it with me. (Continues singing....Begin Tape Two, side one.) Sing that with me, can you? (Continues singing.) One more time. (Continues.) Do you love the Lord? If you love the Lord Let's give Him a hand. Somebody say I love you, Jesus. Can you do that? Can you sing another chorus or two before we go? Give me another key, Frank. (Sings They'll Come From The East And The West.) Sing it with me now. (Continues.) Can you sing it one more time? (Continues singing.) Can you give Him another hand? (Sings Cross Over To The Other Side Of Jordan.) Can you get over the carnal mind tonight? (Continues. Sings Swing Low.) Sing it with me, now. (Continues.) Give me another key.(Sings Time Shall Be No More.) I want to remind you again, as I often do; Calvary was the fullness of time, which meant the end of the world. And in the fullness of time He sent His Son to gather all things in heaven and earth into His Son. As Noah did the things of the ark. As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the son of Man. The Bible said, This is as the waters of Noah to Me. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God. And because of that Hw said, I've got to shorten the days unless there be no flesh spared. But for the elects sake, He said, I'll spare them. I'll shorten the days. So we sing the song, Time No More. I know it's hard for you to grasp. I know it's hard for the church world to get ahold of that we're preaching such a message that the world ended. Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world has come, and back there the world ended. It was the fullness of time. And since that time God has been revealing Himself through the dimensional projecting of His Son, even the Christ, even the Spirit of Jesus, bringing it down to the full measure of the full stature toward the end of the world that we might preach to you the liberation of Christ, making and end of sin at Calvary and the partakers, as to whom it might be. And that generation, and the following generations, and down to your generations, as to complete this thing in your generation that when you came into the world God could complete it. And then making a completion of it here in your generation that the great translation, as to the change of the body, the ultimatum of what God set out to do, even the purchase possession, the body, the creature itself, to be redeemed at the Thessalonians change to bring it down to this generation to the change of the body. Held it back till this generation that I might come and reveal to you, or the minister might reveal to you the wonderful things that have always been your's in Christ before the world ever was. They were given to you in Christ before the world was, the Bible said, and the brought to light at Calvary at the rent veil. Made known to you. And now you are possessors of this wonderful thing, and now is made known to the Church the manifold wisdom of God, even the Heavenly treasure, the Bible said, from glory that you have in your earthen vessel, and now is made known to the church this manifold wisdom of God that gives you faith to become one with God. To be changed and translated out of this world into an eternal body, because you are already eternal in your soul. You have already passed from death unto life and you can't die. There's no way, because you can't sin. Sin is to die. The sting of sin is death, and when sin is gone then you can't die. It's not possible for you to die. But you can still go to sleep in the body. But Paul said, behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. Now we're coming to the redemption of the body. There is a Terrestrial. There is a Celestial. The Bible said a natural body, a spiritual body. We've born the image of the earthly, he said, we're going to bear the image of the heavenly. So then, if this tabernacle be desolved, the writer said, we have another one eternal in the heavens not made with hands, which means bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh. Which we already have in the foreknowledge of God, and we're waiting for the change. To accept it, when it's preached believe it. Conquer death and that's it. And we are the generation. So then, the world is ended. Time is no more. It's gone. You know how we preach time. The orgin of time, and the dispensation of time, and now that it's all gone. To you, some of you, it's a joke. To some of you it's a fairy tale. To some of you it's a myth. It's a make believe. But that's not it at all. It's the absolute Word of Almighty God, and it is changing you into an eternal creature. To you that can get it all of you will receive to the extent you will make believe. You'll get it in you intellect, but in the heart, as with the heart man believeth unto the change. So it becomes faith. Not an intellectual indoctrination, but it is faith. That's what I was preaching on tonight. Faith. A heartfelt salvation. A heartfelt conviction. Millions and millions in the world will be turned away. Many of them that came to Bethlehem, many of them that went to Pentecostal churches around the world, they'll never make it. They believe, but the Bible said if you believe you do well. The devil believes there's one God. That won't save you. Faith is what saves you, and that's from the heart. And you have to convince your heart by doing the things that please God. Always the things that please God. Jesus said, I do those things. Enoch had that before his translation. So it's no joke. That's why we sing this song, time is no more. For you that have passed from death unto life time is no more, because I say again, it's a time to die. When you've passed from death unto life you can't die. So there's no more time for you. Don't let anybody deceive you. You can't sin. You are born of God. Have faith in God. Have faith in God. Let's sing that little chorus together again, can we? (Leads in singing Time Shall Be No More.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues.) Sing it with me now. (Continues.) Sing it again. (Continues.) Can you sing that one more time. (Continues.) Can you sing that one more time. (Continues.) Just one more time. Do you really believe it? (Continues.) Let's just lift our hands up together tonight. Time can be no more, not for me. I've passed from death unto life. I'm not seeking to get into heaven. I say again, the Bible said, I'm not in the flesh for God has chosen me out of the flesh. He hath hid me with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the change of the body. My inner man is sealed and cannot sin because the seed of God remaineth in me. He purifies my heart by faith. He's sealed me and the evil one cannot touch me. He that is born of God, the Bible said, he keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. And we're not in the world. The Bible said He's chosen us out of the world. Hid us with Christ in God, whom the heavens have received. So you're not in the flesh. And the Bible said, If you are in the flesh, that is, you've never been born again, for he that is born of spirit is spirit. If you're in the flesh, as unto Adam and Eve, all die. So, if you're in the flesh you cannot please God, because there's no faith there. But he that is born of God cannot sin. You're not in the flesh. So there is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, in that you are not in the flesh. You can't walk after the flesh. Because you are not in the flesh. You are not in the world. You are not in the world because you're not in the flesh, because the flesh is in the world, and Satan is the prince of the world, and he savors the things that be of the flesh. For the world is within you heart as from the Tree of knowledge before you new birth. And when Christ comes in he moves the world out of you. If the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not there. He moves the world out, because the world is a mind, even the world as a mind of Satan, the Tree of knowledge, of human reasoning. But we lean not to our own understanding to cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whereas we have the mind of Christ. He said, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being made in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. So then, that mind is in you which is the Kingdom of God. And the mind of the world is gone, which is the kingdom of Satan. So you cannot walk in the flesh. Neither do we war after the flesh. So, beloved friend, tonight that inner man is gone, for at death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it, and that outer man has been buried out of the sight of God forever. It's gone. and we're in a new form. As Jesus resurrected in a new form, so are we bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh. In the sight of God we are forever His beloved children. His sons and daughters. Without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish, the Church that He's coming back after. So hold fast to you faith. Don't cast away you faith that hath great recompense of reward, and don't let the devil accuse you, casting down every thought, every imagination, every thought of accusation, for God has made you perfect. The Bible said, God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, and sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus. The faith of Christ Jesus by which we are sanctified. So don't spend your time worrying about those things, and don't do those things that let the little foxes in to spoil your vines. Do everything that pleases the Father that you can have that staunch confidence which is faith toward God, and have the desires of your heart, to have the mighty power of God, and the mighty blessings of God in your life, have health and happiness. That's what God want's you to do. Like the mighty waters behind the dam, He's pressing to get to you. Move that middle wall of iniquity. That dam has been broken, as to the iniquity that separated you from the garden, the time of the garden. You don't have that anymore so let's believe. Let Him purify your heart. Let Him flow into your life. Let Him flow into you life. Lift you hands now. I'm going to ask Brother Atlee to come and pray with you tonight, and while Brother Atlee Beachy comes to pray with you, I want you to let that flow into you heart tonight. Don't let any thought at all be in your heart outside of faith in the love of God. Faith worketh by love. Faith worketh by love. That is to trust in love makes you believe the more, and God is love. Trust and love. Put you faith in love. Let you believing be in love, because that's the strength of your faith tonight. Let you strength be faith and love. He loves you. Peace on earth and good will to men by the spilt blood, or the given blood of Jesus Christ. Eternally and forever, without change or alteration. Once and for all He has said it to you. He'll never alter it. As our Brother comes to pray with you tonight receive you healing out of love. Let love heal you. He sent His Word and healed you, and that Word was His love, even Jesus, His word. God is love. The writer said, Mail order from heaven, a package of love, sent down from the father above. Let it heal you tonight. Brother Atlee.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord