Christ Is The Kingdom Of God

I'd like to make mention of some things tonight perhaps you'd be interested in. I have them on my heart. I don't know whether I can bring them out or not. We went through these things before. I say a few things to you from time to time. We speak a lot about the Kingdom of God and sometimes maybe we don't talk as much about it as we ought to. I was reading a little article the other day where Billy Graham had about forty thousand people gathered down in Texas, I believe it was, at a meeting and said they didn't have very many people to come to God. Said they just didn't respond at all to the altar call. Maybe this was a long time back; I don't know. But it really disturbed him. Said he went away very discouraged. And said, some man met him that seemed to be a devout man that loved the Lord, and said, he told him, said, Billy, the problem is you didn't preach Calvary. And said so when he went back to preach he said he preached Calvary and said, sure enough they really responded to his altar call. So it makes a lot of difference as to what you are preaching as to a message of repentance. So it makes a lot of difference as to what you are preaching to the church. There is one Spirit, many operations, and there are two positive operations of the move of God. One is to evangelism throughout the world, as to be able to win souls, and another is to the church. To be able to perfect the church that the church might be perfected and the Lord may return for the church. So we just preach whatever the Lord gives us. Whatever He brings to our heart and mind that's what we speak and preach. And sometimes we don't understand. I know as people we don't understand. We feel like we do, but a lot of times we don't. And even preachers they preach day after day and year after year around the different parts of the world and they still don't understand. Even preachers don't understand. But they are preaching and they preach things as to the measure and depth that God will let them know them. And as to the measure and the depth they glean from their ministry, their planning. They glean. They reap a harvest according to whatever the seed it that has been planted. You know, a thing, a thing brings forth according to its nature. Take me for instance. I like fruit. I love the taste of an apple. It's got a taste that a real originality. That apple has got an original taste. There is not anything that you can find that really tastes like the apple. And it always astounds me as to the ability of the Lord Jesus. Because after I eat an apple then I want a banana. And I eat a banana and it don't taste nothing like an apple. It's so original until I can hardly believe that anything could be so different and yet be so good. And then I decide I want an orange. So I get me an orange and I bite down on the orange and it tastes different from both of them. And I just get so amazed until I say, Lord, how can it be? And then the Lord will speak to me and say, it's according to the nature, as to whatever the nature. So is human beings. One human being has characteristics as to one thing. Another human beings has characteristics to another thing, and perhaps you wouldn't be like another human being for nothing, you know. You just like the way you are. And I think about this and then I marvel when I think about the trees and the birds and the bees. And I think about the fish and the heavens, the stars, and being able to breathe, and, you know, eat. All these things I think about and I think, you know, people that don't understand God would just have to blind. That's all. They'd have to be worse than somebody that would be blind, deaf, and could not see. You know, they'd be in worse shape because when we eat the good things that God has made, when we see the beautiful things that God has made, when we breathe the fresh air that God has made, and when we do all of these things through life and know that we can talk and walk and sleep and rest and get up and enjoy our self and have companionship, and little children, and all these kind of things, you know. They used to have a little saying in the world, if anybody with one eye and half sense could understand that. You know, anybody could see that God would have to be good. How else could he be? He would have to be good. He's just one big wonderful good Holy Father. Because everything that He hath done is good. He's made all things beautiful in His time. He hath made man with appetite and then gave him everything that could satisfy. He's made man to breath and give him the fresh air so he could inhale that fresh air. And He hath given him all the wonderful things of life. So God is so good. God is so wonderful. God is so precious and there is nothing that is wrong with God. Everything is perfect with God. And the only thing that we find wrong with the world is man's mixed up, muddled up ugly mind of fault finding and accusation and filth. And as the Bible says, God looked down after the flood and saw that men's hearts were continually evil. That's all they are, is just one big family of evil, gullible, filthy, mucky thinking. That's the way it is. And, so then, God is so perfect and pure not one thought is evil, or unclean. Not one thought is selfish. Not one thought is wrong. And that's why He tells us that every man should cast down imagination, every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ. Or, that is, as the Bible has said, Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Just get rid of your old ugly mind and let the mind of purity be in you. The writer said, Stir up your pure mind. There is a pure mind and that is the mind of Christ. And get rid of that old ugly mind of death and accusation and fault finding that keeps separating you from God and His love. See? Calvary is the love of God. We sing about the love of God. Calvary is the love of God. Calvary is the love of God. Paul said, I'm persuaded to believe that nothing can separate you from the love of God. So this mind of ugliness and fault finding is always separating us from the love of God to the extent that it finds fault. It's always repelling. It's always remorseful. It's always melancholy. It's always selfish. It doesn't seek the things of the other fellow who as the Bible says, seek not your own but the things of another. It doesn't look on the things of another as someone else being better than it is. It's always trying to prove it's better than the other man. And it doesn't accept the answer from the other fellow. It's always trying to tell the other fellow that it has the answer, being vainly puffed up by the fleshly mind, you know. So it's really a mess. Man is – The best definition that I know for man is mess. He is a mess. And God is trying his best to straighten him out. He's like a little baby that just messed up his diaper and got his hands in it and put it all over his face and everywhere, you know. That's the kind of condition that man is in. God is having a terrible time with him in that He is trying to wash him. The Bible says to wash him by the washing of regeneration, to take him out of that old ugly mind of the body that's infiltrated with all these degraded, filthy things. The sow to the wallowing in the mire, and the dog to the vomit. And He's trying to get us out of it and He says all of His tables are filled with vomit. Which means hypocrisy. He's spewed them out of His mouth, in that He said, I would that you were hot or cold, but because you are lukewarm He spewed them out of His mouth. And man is down in that mess. You know, he's done got vomit all over and He's just filthy from his head down to his feet. Now, I don't know how the Lord stands the stench of it, you know, the smell of it. You know, vomit is – A person has a lot of acids in their systems and vomit, you can't hardly get in a room where it's at, you know. But still somehow God has made a human body like the Lord Jesus, subjected it to vanity, brought it down into this world and allowed it to be clean and holy and yet subjected it to this mess down here and made it sin that He might take my mess away. And then smote Jesus to finish the mess. So, it's so wonderful to know that God is so good and what He has gone through to be able to help us. And then, being dull of hearing, as I am and a lot of you are that hear me when I'm speaking. Dull of hearing, but the Bible says He hath many things to say unto us but He said, I can't because you are dull of hearing. So then, being dull of hearing we don't hear what the spirit has to say to the churches. Not having eyes to see as some, they don't see. They don't see what the Father is doing so He'll send a preacher and He'll help us. First He has to help the preacher. And in the Old Testament the Priest had to sanctify himself before he could sanctify anybody else. He was as wretched as everybody else to that extent. And the Lord finally brought Calvary, as to the son of the oath who offered once and for all His body as a lamb to end sin and the mess, so He could fellowship us. So today He doesn't see our mess because, as Paul said, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. He took away the body, crucified it, buried it beneath the water, and today you are no longer a human being as a body to the first man Adam, but you are a spirit, as to a quickening spirit. Not as to the living soul that can sin, being that mess, but a quickening spirit as to the second man, the Lord Jesus Christ, and what He sees, He sees you as a pure, clean person. Whereas, the Bible says you keep yourself and the evil one touches you not. You are without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. He sees you as a spiritual being, an angelic being that Satan cannot touch, because you have the light most precious, which is the understanding, as to faith. You cannot sin because the Christ Spirit is interwoven with your spirit. And as I say so often, the safe guard has been put in the garment. So, Satan he cannot touch you. You're completely free from the mess. But man out yonder is still in that mess, and only those that have been able to penetrate the veil enters into beyond the veil are free from this kind of thing. And you are in heaven and you are equal to the angles and you cannot die, because now you are a quickening spirit. Even one with the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Bible says, He whom God hath hid within His own Spirit. So then, we're hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things. And this is why that we had reference to the Kingdom of God when we first come up here. Now, I want to talk with you just a few minutes about something spiritual. That's why I put in a little forerunner here to make you stop and think now. You are not in the flesh. God has chosen you out of the flesh. You are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the restoring of all things. Now. And when we hear these things as children of God we believe them. We cannot deny them, because we know that it's God. And our heart yearns and longs for the deep mysteries of God, in that the Bible says great is the mystery of God. And Paul said, I'm a steward of the mysteries. Then we wonder. We say, Well, we believe what has been said, but how can these things be. See? That was the way that the Christians in Jesus' day would speak. And the people, they would say – You know, they accepted the fact that He was a man sent from God. And John was a man sent from God, but they couldn't understand it. And when He did His mighty work and He spoke like no man had ever spoken, they said, How can these things be? See? He is a man like we are a man, or a person, a human being. How can this be? And the Bible says, And they marveled that such power was given unto man. See? The power is given unto man. The knowledge. The wisdom. The understanding is given unto man. Paul said to the world it's foolishness, but unto us it's the great wisdom of God. And the Gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation. All right. So then, we're speaking then of what? The Kingdom. I want to read just a little bit from the book of saint Matthew, chapter sixteen. I want you to notice this now. 

Matthew 16:1-20 "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ."

Now, Peter had discovered here that he was the Christ. The only way that he could have done this was to look beyond the veil. His eyes had penetrated the veil. When we say the veil we're speaking of the body of Jesus. See, when the Bible speaks of the veil being rent in twain, whereas he made in himself twain, both Lord and Christ, the separation of the spirit and the body for the churches sake, in that His body could die for sin and our body would be dead and our spirit could go back to God who gave it because of the resurrection. Having been delivered for our offenses, as to our body, raised again for our justification as to our spirit, and came forth in another form. That is to say, you and I are now in another form. Not as to the form of the first man Adam, as to sin, as to the body of sin, but now bone of the bone of the Lord Jesus, and flesh of the flesh of the Lord Jesus, which is another form, a new form, the resurrected form. The second man Adam. So we see that Peter had been given the keys to the Kingdom. Then the question arises, what kingdom? Well, the Bible says the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom has been preached. So then, he was given the keys to the Kingdom that had just come into the earth. He'd looked beyond the Lord Jesus' body as a man, as sin, the sinful image, and he saw the great, holy, wonderful Christ. He'd seen this man live holy, speak great mighty words, heavenly words and do great heavenly deeds. So he looked beyond the body of fault, as we would say and he said, Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. So, He said, Peter, education and college didn't give this to thee. Though education and college can tutor your brain, as to your natural man and you can train your brain like you would a dog, said, but flesh and blood didn't give this to you, and this is not an intellectual thing of your brain work. Said, this is a spiritual thing that has come from somewhere to you. And He said, flesh and blood didn't give this to you. You didn't get this from study. He said – Let's read it ourselves. "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven." So then, he had got a revelation. Whereas, the Bible says pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation. One spirit, many operations, and we're to pray that God will give us the spirit of revelation. Why? Paul said, I would like to speak unto you as unto spirituals. That's why. But seeing that you are babes in Christ I can't do it. So then, he said just desire the sincere milk of the Word. So we see two operations. The sincere milk of the Word, as unto repentance to come to Christ. To grow by. And then the great mighty revelation of the Son of God to reveal son ship to those that are sons, and to bring them beyond the Bar Mitzvah that they might be about their Father's business and that they may rule with a rod of iron the Kingdom of the living God, which Kingdom they already have for the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached and men have pressed their way into the Kingdom of God. That is to say, the inner spiritual man pressing against the continual battle of the outer man, as to continual war of the flesh and the spirit. He has pressed beyond all of these things that the world has to say and has to offer, as to the natural man beyond that that Satan has desired in the flesh, and gone into the spirit beyond the veil, thus his spirit has withdrawn from his flesh. As Paul says, keeping under this body and going into the spirit of Christ, to be one with Christ and to dwell in that little house like a tabernacle that is in the wilderness of that intellectual frustration. And so then, as Moses the Word came so then comes the Word as to the natural man, and as Joshua crossed over the intellectual, as we have in type as Jesus preaching the bread as to doctrine, over into the type, and we find ourselves over the carnal mind, having withdraw from fleshly activities, can no more die, because we've crossed the Jordan of death, as to the infiltration of the carnal mind which came from the tree of knowledge that caused death, in that the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And we find ourselves within the Spirit of Christ, even the Kingdom of God. Everything entering into the ark of Noah, which is the body of the Lord Jesus, pitched inside and out as to the likeness of His Father against the floods of evil in that He said when the enemy comes in like a flood I'll lift up a standard against him. Likening men unto waters. So we see a great thing. God has done a miraculous thing. And we have to do as Sister Betty does sometimes. We have to get this in that this great thing happened in the mind of God before the world ever was, and then cut into many pieces. And we see how that Satan has cut it all to bits and how that it's flung to the four corners of the earth. Like the tower of Babble and the people just scattered, though they were one time, one people, now they're scattered to the ends of the earth and God has to pick up each one of those individuals. Pick them up out of the mess and the mass and multitudes of them out yonder that have scattered and messed this thing up as the membership of Satan's body. And He picks up the members of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as bit by bit. Like the song says, And He put me together again. So it picks up these things and one will have a revelation over here and another revelation over there, and another revelation over here as the body of the Lord Jesus. And He brings them altogether. Now, He tries to do this the way He would like to do it, because like most people putting a big puzzle together if it has many hundreds of pieces. He can't do it very good because people are not very good about putting puzzles together. As Brother Branham says concerning the revelation; sometimes you'll have a cow in a tree eating grass. So as long as you can get that seed to fit, you know, not knowing what it really looks like, the picture, you stick it in there and squeeze it in there until you got a satisfaction that you've done something when you just made a mess. And later somebody that knows how to put the puzzle together they come along with the right piece and they have to go to the trouble of unscrambling all this that's scrambled and put it together. And Sister Betty she's just about an expert. She just puts them together just like that, big ones and little ones. Like get up before breakfast and put one together before she cooks my breakfast. So she is just an expert at this kind of thing. But this is what we are doing. God could not put this together until He – He cannot until He finds a person that knows what to do with the puzzle. And today, like Paul said. Paul said, I am a steward of the mysteries. He knew how to put the puzzle together. So then, that's what we're looking for in this day, people who know how to put the puzzle together. And as to son ship, they can do that according to their measure … (can't hear tape) … (Begin tape two side one) … So here we are. We're talking about the keys to the kingdom. Now we're going to pick up right here and see if we can just take a little run down, a little trip here and kind of say some things to where you can understand it. It says that since you know this, Peter, I give unto you the keys. Or Jesus could have said, Because you know this then the Spirit of God has given you the key because you have just unlocked the door to the great mysteries of God. So He's not necessarily saying, Here, Peter, I'm going to give you the key, open the thing up. He just says, I give unto you the keys. Or that is to say, He would say to Peter, You know, this is it, Peter; you've got the keys. I give unto you the key; you've got the key and this key is to the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, remember, I preached over in Indiana, over at Utica Pike, I preached on the keys. We've got a message somewhere where I predicted that we would preach at Utica Pike. Remember that? And sure enough there came up something at Utica Pike and we were invited and went over to preach and I preached on the keys. Jesus came from the grave and He said, I once was dead but now I am alive forever more, and He said, I have the keys, plural, keys. I have it to death and to hell, but He didn't say anything about having the keys to the Kingdom. The reason He did not have the keys to the Kingdom, it wasn't because He did not, or had not. Did not have them in the sense that He had not the keys before. It's very evident He did have the keys to the Kingdom, else how could He have given them to Peter. Can you give a man something that you don't have? He apparently had the keys to death, and the keys to the Kingdom, and the keys to hell. Someone would say, What do you mean, the Keys, Brother Pike? Because the keys means that He had the key, as to unlock hell and loose the people that were in hell. He was the only one that could do it. Once the soul was sent to hell He was the only one that could unlock it. And the Bible says concerning the soul of Jesus that went into hell for my sake that God suffered not His Holy One, that is as to the body of the grave to see corruption, nor His soul to remain in hell. That is to say Jesus' soul in hell. His Spirit going back to God who gave it through the Spirit. So then, I have the keys to the Kingdom. I can unlock the mysteries. I have the keys to hell; I can unlock hell. I have the keys to death; I alone can unlock the grave, or death. So then, when He arose He said, I've got the keys to death, and I've got the keys to hell, but the keys to the Kingdom he gave them to Peter because here in the world is where the Kingdom is. The law and the prophets were until John, since that time now the Kingdom of God is here. And so then, you have to open the door to the Kingdom, and somebody had to open the door. And Peter said, Seeing that God has made a difference between me and you Brethren, speaking of Pentecost and them gathering together over there talking about these things, he said, Choosing me to go to the Gentiles. That is, he unlocked the door of the Kingdom to the Gentiles, because no Gentile could get into the Kingdom of God before then. But then the Scripture was fulfilled as to say, and they shall come from the east and they shall come from the west and they shall sit down in the place of the children of the Kingdom, and the children of the Kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness. And there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Which means David of old, the Israelites of old, they were the children of the Kingdom, and the Kingdom was in Canaan. And David was a king over a kingdom, and so was Solomon. It was the Kingdom of God. See? And these things they were there as the kingdom, but then when that kingdom went out as the natural kingdom then the law and the prophets were folded up and it became a new kingdom, which is the kingdom of God today, because that was a kingdom of man with a man ruling in it. Then came the kingdom of God, as it was a king as men ruling, though it was priests that ruled as in the spiritual, the religious perspective. Now it is the ministry that rules, as to the spiritual perspective, and it is the son of the oath, as to the spiritual God that rules that will reign in the millennium as the king to never change kings again. So then, we find that the kingdom was in the earth. The law and the prophets until John, since that time the Kingdom has come. Now, it might be well if we just mentioned something about the Kingdom as to what is the Kingdom of God. I would ask you, I would say, Would you tell me what the Kingdom of God is? Or could you tell me what the Kingdom of God is. Men preach about the Kingdom of God all the time. So then, what is the Kingdom of God? Someone would say, Well, it's that great vast invisible far yonder that nobody knows and sees. That's true to an extent. Now, so then we say, That's that foreign thing out yonder that nobody is ever going to be able to understand. No, it's not that at all. See? How did that far thing out yonder come down to the earth? The Bible says, And the Kingdom of God is at hand. Say not within your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven to bring him down, or into hell to bring him up? Said, it is nigh unto you, even as to your heart, that if thou canst believe in thine heart, confess with thy mouth. See, that is, the Kingdom of God is now at hand. The Kingdom of God is not of this world. Whereas the Bible says, My Kingdom is not of this world. So then, it's not of this world. But, nevertheless, the Kingdom of God is at hand, as to people. Now, this is where a big dispute could come in. Or this is where a difference would come in and someone would say, Brother Pike, you say that the Kingdom of God is in this world and here men are going into this Kingdom? If I did that then I would have things misconstrued because Jesus said, My Kingdom is not of this world, and yet it is at hand. And then if I said natural men were just going into it I would have it misconstrued because the Bible says flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. It is an inheritance though it is something you go into as to my spirit, my angel, my inner man entering into Christ's Spirit, and becoming one with Christ. And I am complete in Him, as to my shortcomings when I've made my full effort. Now. And as to receiving as an inheritance, my body, my body inherits the Kingdom of God to this extent that there is coming a day that the body will be changed from the natural body to a spiritual body and it will no longer be flesh and blood. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. God did not say that the body could not inherit the Kingdom of God, for the Bible says there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. We're sown in weakness, raised in power. We're planted as corruption. We come up incorruptible. We are as a terrestrial unto deterioration and then we become a Celestial that cannot deteriorate. So I inherit the Kingdom of God, not as my body but as His body. I have inherited the body of the Lord Jesus, the Kingdom of God which is His full image and within me then as the body of the Lord Jesus is the Kingdom of God. That is, Christ's Spirit dwells within His body. Thus I am His body, members in particular, bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh. That is to say, Given to me in Christ before the world ever was. And God looking over the chasm all the way from Calvary over here to the Thessalonian change, sees the body of the Lord Jesus and all this in between has nothing to do with me. That Adam part is dead, buried, gone and the sin of the flesh and all of these no good things that is in the body is gone and now body, bone and flesh. That is, bone and flesh of the great body of the Lord Jesus which has inherited the gift of God, for the Bible says Jesus alone has been made heir to the Kingdom of God. So he inherited the Kingdom. I am part of that Kingdom because I am part of the puzzle. I am a member of the body to complete the picture of God as to His blueprint, or foreknowledge. I am a membership to bring the thing back together which Satan has scattered, as to the rent veil and these parts gone. I am one of the children to make up the family. So then, He's bringing me in. He's drawing me in and my part fits into the puzzle. Brother Taylor's part fits into the puzzle and then we can see more of the puzzle when we look, when we get our two parts together. So that's why we're suppose to work together, to love one another, to esteem others better. So then, we see that we're esteeming the body of Jesus Christ, doing it as unto the Lord. Not as unto a human being. Because this is the body of the Lord Jesus. We don't see each other as the flesh anymore. If you behold a man as the flesh then you're perverted in your mind. See? We're not to know each other after the flesh, but after the great body of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, we see this wonderful thing, so we understand now that the Kingdom of God then is one thing and that is the Spirit of Christ because God fills all of eternity, and now He has brought one single individual as an inheritance to head everything through. And as the human body changed to a glorified, pure form, to a heavenly body, now everything that God is, everything that God has is channeled through this headship, the body of the Lord Jesus. You'll find over there in the Old Testament it says, Why do the heathens rage and imagine vain things, and why were they gather together? Wasn't it against My Christ? And He said, I have set My king upon the high hill, which is Jesus. The Spirit set Him upon the hill of Zion. So then, all of these things are working through the headship. This is why that the Jews could not go with Christ. Is, they did not receive the body of the Lord Jesus. See? They did not receive Him as their king. So then, they lost everything. And they could not receive Him at that time because they were in sin and His body was made sin and the whole thing would have been summed up as sin, so He had to die to bring in the spiritual head which was the Christ of the spiritual Jew, which is your inner spiritual son of God. So then, now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. It does not yet appear what ye shall be like, so far as this outer man that will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. If you're not in the grave at the coming of the Lord you'll be changed. You'll see Him as He is, you that remain until the day that He comes. And them that are in the grave will also rise before you do and be changed into His glorious image. So you'll see them as the sons of God, and they'll see you as the sons of God. There's a great mystery right here where they have to be resurrected before you can go. We can't get into those things. Some of these things we've kind of touched on from time to time, but this is what I want to complete is that Christ is then the Kingdom of God. And in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son. This Son was made under the law, and it was made of a woman. And in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son to gather everything in Heaven and in earth, as did Noah, into the Kingdom of God. Remember Noah got the flying things, the crawling things, everything. He took them into the ark to show that the three dimensions were gathered into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. All of these were gathered in. When I say creeping things I mean the things that walk on the earth, speaking of the things that walk on the earth. Now we use the terms creeping, that will throw you off if I had to bring out something. So then, we see that these things went in to the ark. So it was the body of Jesus. God has then gathered everything into that ark. I brought it out how the dove was in that ark, and when Jesus died, as to the waters of the wrath of God, the dove, which was the Spirit of Christ, that dove like spirit that John saw over the head of Jesus, the Christ Spirit that was in Jesus, see? to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world back to Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. So then, this dove was released and it went back just like from the ark, it went right back to God who gave it at Calvary. Then the raven, the crow we say, that was within the ark, he was turned a loose in that the Lord had trapped Satan. Coming, knowing no sin, yet His body was made sin, made your lust, my lust, your bitterness, your hatred, my hatred, your gossiping, backbiting, on down the line, you know. So being made this He had trapped Satan in that body. God lifted that body up and hung it at Calvary and made an end of sin once and for all. Thus the raven, as to Satan, no good thing within the body. God having delivered us from the body of this death by smiting that body, then Satan was put out of the human body and Christ that knew no sin passed through the chambers of death and despair and hell for you and I that we might not go through there. So today we go through it typically by faith in revelation, and that we might be separated from the body of our sin so as not to physically kill us because He could not process us if we were dead. And yet we are dead by the body of the Lord Jesus. In the sight of God we're dead, that the body is now dead in God's sight and that means that the Spirit of Satan that was in your flesh, no good thing within the flesh, he is now gone. He had to leave the dead body, went down and he had to get out of there, and he's gone out there on the waters through the body of corruption that is in the world, that is floating around, the dead bodies. They that live in trespasses and sin are dead while they live. Went out there and he's floating around with those dead bodies with the rock and roll, the government, and eating and drinking, fleshly frolics, and homes and cars, and all this mush that I speak of. All that mess. But the dove returned, as it did to the ark, since we are the body of the Lord Jesus, and dove came and resurrected the body of the Lord Jesus on the third day. Then he returned into our hearts, as it was as to Pentecost. He came. First the wave offering, as to the barley. One, even Jesus. One clove. Then after that seen of men forty days in the resurrection, then ten more days brought in fifty, which means seven times seven, forty nine, which means the last day included makes fifty. Pentecost. That makes fifty. That is to say, when they had their feast of the week, the seven weeks, as to forty-nine, and then the next day, as to the celebration. The celebration was the end of those weeks, which was Pentecost. Bringing in the feast of the harvest. That is to say the wheat, which was by measure. Which goes to you Gentiles. Not as borrowing as Jesus born of the Jews and the nation, a nation born in one day as to the barley harvest that they waved. That is Jesus will appear to them and one day they will accept it. The whole nation will do what the Rabbi says. So here we are, as to the wheat, dealing with us as individuals, and each one of us receiving by measure. That is, as to the grinding stone. Putting the grain down in the grinder and grinding it, as it was Jesus, to take away the body of oneness as to the Jews going away into the darkness, as to the intellectual, out of the presence of God, bringing in the flour, the fine flour, as to a measure to this one and a measure to that one. A measure of barley, a measure of wheat. So then, see that you hurt not the oil and the wine. So we see that the Lord did something and from the fifty days come the church ages, the seven church ages. Then we get another look through seeing this by looking back, understanding why that the angel said, Daniel, seventy weeks is determined upon thy people. And so then, Daniel, checking up with the book of Jeremiah, checking the scrolls of the prophets, he comes up with the revelation. And that is that one day is equal to a year. So he said, seven times seven and here we come with forty-
nine again, as to the feast of the weeks. But this time it is forty-nine including an O, or we bring in four hundred and ninety. Four hundred and ninety years are determined upon thy people. I say again, at this particular time it was about five hundred years before the coming of the Lord Jesus. Daniel had been taken down into Babylon as a boy. And while he was down here in Babylon he grew up. And at the end of the seventy years he knew by the scrolls and the readings of the prophets that something was about to take place because it had said seventy years, and they came down into Babylon. The crown had left Israel. When you say the crown you're talking about the kingdoms. The ten tribes have gone away into Assyria. You know, we bring in out, nine seventy-five B.C., seven twenty-one (?). And here Daniel had gone down, as to here comes the two tribes, going down unto Daniel. That is to say, Judah, as to the crown. Going down into Babylon, and seventy years has now come to an end and the Kingdom and power had been given now to a Babylon rule. And Nebuchadnezzar was called the servant of God and raised him up, in that they out there and servants and we are sons. The servant is in the house right now. Just like a servant comes in and they clean your house. They're in the house right now, see? They're in the house because the blood is on the seat of atonement. They're getting the same blessings just like you do. Grace is over them just like it is over you. That's why I say they're in heaven. It's because they're in the house. They have all these medical cures, all these pain relievers and protections and law protections. All these kind of things, but the Bible says that the servant abideth in the house not always. When night comes the servant goes home and you just go to bed. So then, they go home. They go out into the dark and they go home. So when we see this we realize that we are in the Kingdom. We are in the Kingdom forever. This is our home. We are in the Kingdom forever. So the body goes away in darkness. It's buried. It goes down into the grave. Those people are the bodily part; we're the spiritual part, and they are buried. They are buried out there. The old raven is out there working on them, but the dove, which is the Holy Ghost has come back into us. That is to say, at the end of the fifty days the Pentecost came and the Spirit returned. And Jesus has said, eat the supper. He said, I'll go away. I'll return again. He said, I won't eat anymore of this until I eat it with you anew in the Kingdom of God. And sure enough when Pentecost came, here He came back again as a spirit into our hearts. And they accused them of being drunk off of new wine because that was the true Lord's supper. They'd got over the Jordan. See? The typical part of that, like Jesus said, the bread as to the Pharisees, a type. The typical part was when Joshua started across the Jordan. We're crossing the carnal mind, as to kill the body and get the mind of Christ, to come out of the world and not have any more thoughts about that. We're dead to the world by the body of the Lord Jesus. The world is dead to us. So Joshua said prepare victuals; we're going over the Jordan. So then, to get over the Jordan is to receive the infilling of the Holy Ghost which is the new harvest. See? You have life on this side, which is the harvest, but that life is beginning to subside and to go away. And when the Lord applied the blood – Now this is coming to you, not the world. But when you come out of Egypt and He applies the blood, which is the crossing of the Red Sea, you put in on the door post. Remember? You put it up here on the door post on the side and down here. See? Calvary. Jesus said, I'm the door. You thus become a member of the body as a door to the people. See? You put it on the door post, crossing the Red Sea which is Calvary. I said that to try to bring out a thought. And that is when you get over your intellectual mind, you've not only crossed Calvary, as to leaving behind the body of flesh and blood, which is the Red Sea, but you've crossed over the Jordan after that you've gone through the intellectual wilderness wandering. The wilderness wandering. When you come out from the flesh and blood that cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, which is the people out yonder, then you've crossed the Red Sea. That is you've put behind you your carnal desires, see? as to being partakers out there in the world and you don't do those things anymore and you're dead to those things, and you withdraw from those things. And when you do you get into a wilderness because you came out of the Egyptian garlic and onions, the empire of the world, to labor for the flesh and you are now over Calvary. The blood has been applied. So then, having been baptized into Christ you have put on Christ and the body of flesh and blood is not with you anymore. You are now in the wilderness, between the Red Sea and the Jordan heading for Canaan. And that means that you have left your life, for the life is in the blood. So you've left the old harvest of going out in the world and doing the worldly things, living seventy years, or whatever it might be. You've left that harvest. You are dead to that life. You left that life behind. That's the old harvest that was given to Adam and Eve that they lost by death. So then, when you conquer that now then you're heading for Canaan. You're heading over across the Jordan to get to the new harvest, which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is the Spirit of Christ now. Not you living but Christ living within you, to get to the new harvest, which is the mind of Christ Jesus. So you're starting here. When you cross over the Red Sea you're starting your tutoring. (Begin tape two, side one.) … so then, having been baptized into Christ you have put on Christ, and the body of flesh and blood is not with you anymore. You are now in the wilderness between the Red Sea and the Jordan heading for Canaan. And that means that you have left your life for the life is in the blood. So you've left the old harvest of going out into the world and doing the worldly things, living seventy years, or whatever it might be. You've left that harvest. You're dead to that life. You left that life behind. That's the old harvest that was given to Adam and Eve, which they lost by death. So then, when you conquer that, now then, you're heading for Canaan. You've heading over across the Jordan to get to the new harvest, which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost which is the Spirit of Christ now (not you living but Christ living within you) to get to the new harvest, which is the mind of Christ Jesus. So you're starting here. When you cross over the Red Sea you're starting your tutoring. Under tutors until the time appointed of the fathers. That is to say, until you conquer that old carnal mind of yours. In other words, the Bible says, When you ought to be teachers you have need that someone teach you, which is the beginning of the oracles of God where to go on to perfection, eternal judgment, these kind of things. So then, we are growing by measure, little by little from the Red Sea to the Jordan, and demons and devils are all around us, They're just clawing at us. They're saying evil things. They're accusing us. They're saying you've done blasphemed; you've done thought wrong. You've done – See? They're demons and devils, but we keep looking at the brazen serpent, as to the body of the Lord Jesus. Being made sin He was like unto the serpent, which is Calvary. So we're looking at the impenetrable body of Jesus that Satan could not penetrate in that He said, He has no part in Me. He is brazen. Like the brazen altar. He represents that. So then, we're looking at that, see? And the devils can't penetrate that, and in that we are safe because the Lamb is dying at the big brazen altar and the blood is taken into the tabernacle. And you know how it is, into the holies of holies and whatever. Anyway, this is what Calvary was, was going into the holies of holies and give the blood of the Lamb at the evening time. We don't have time to go into that but you understand what I'm saying. I'm trying to get to something to bring out, a little something here to where you can understand better. So then, we understand now. We didn't understand before, now we understand. So that life is behind us; we're heading for a new harvest. We're in the intellectual wandering of this old carnal mind. Our life is caught in between now. Here we are bodies. Here we are blood. The body is gone, now we're the soul and here's the fire burning on the mountain, as to these serpents biting, and here we're going on into Canaan land, as to the spirit. See? So we find our self our there where the wrath of God is burning to kill out the devils and demons as our body passes through this fire; the fiery trials. Think it not strange that these things await you. See? He's burning the chaff out and this body is passing on through and when it gets to the other side it's no longer the Adam body, as sown in corruption but it is the celestial body that's going to cross right on over the Jordan. That is to say, you're going to cast down imagination. You're going to cast every thought aside and you'll bring this body to a living sacrifice and this mind to every thought of Jesus. That's the mind of Christ. No more the body of Satan. Automatically you're changed into the Celestial as to the Thessalonian change. Over the Jordan you go and you are now bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Not as you've been always, but you are as made manifest so that they can see you as you are and you can see Him, as to the head of the many members that made the body to be that with His glorious coming. So then, we see the head as the man, and the woman as the head says, No, this can't be, the woman is not charged with it. That's the way we are innocent. And over here the man makes us his own body, not being in the transgression as to the glorious change. All right. So we see all these things and now we understand when we didn't understand before. Given to us in Christ before the world ever was, opened as to the rent veil at Calvary, and then John saw it as a revelation, that which was on the inside as the holies of holies, body, soul and spirit. And then Peter is given the keys to this kingdom, which is the Jesus Spirit. That is, the Christ Spirit that has been revealed, to unlock this body that this Christ Spirit may come to you as a spirit of revelation, as an operation to reveal to you little by little, as not to the outer man of milk, the milk of the Word, but as to the inner man, the meat which is to the strong. But they who have by reasoning exercised their senses to be able to differentiate as to discern between the good and the evil. That is to say the evil body that's folded up and laid away and the good of the Spirit that we now know. And it's reveal to us as we can receive it, even by measure, as we submit. And the Bible says to go on to the full measure of the full stature. Everyone that be perfect shall be as his master, over come and sit down in the throne with Me, Heaven is my throne, even as I overcome and sit down in the throne with My Father. So then, to go on, the Bible says, to a full reward. Now that brings us to the place where I want to say this one little thing here. I had to go all the way around there to get to this little place to say this one little thing to make you understand what we're saying. So you see what the Kingdom of God is. When Peter took the key that rent the veil, which mean the open door. The curtain went back, the drama was presented; the last part of the performance of God. That is to say, all of the Old Testament, which was within that human body God had manifested Himself in all the forms of ritualistics and all these things the Jews had to keep. And now God had withdraw from every bit of that into one human body, which was the Lord Jesus Christ. One human body, and now He was going to sever this body, rend the veil of this body, take all of that, as to the ritualistics, fulfilling Himself, lay it away and let the angel go to Heaven. So that meant the end of the world. Peter said, You are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. So there was no more world. From Calvary that ended it. B.C. and then, that is before Christ, and A.D., Anno Domini. That is to say after Christ. I like to say A.D., after His death. Anyway, here we find that when the veil was rent that was the end of the world. Now, this is what I wanted to get to, because I want to take just a minute, or two, to elaborate on it. See? This is why that the Kingdom of God is at hand. Someone would say, Well, I know now that it's at hand because it came down to us. It did as to the world and the body of Jesus. It did. And we went through that door that Peter opened. Down at the end of the church ages it showed it, John being typical of the church, in the fourth chapter he goes up into heaven. Peter opens it, down through the church ages here the seven candlesticks, as to the church age messengers before the throne of God, God expressing Himself. See? And here he is, even the fullness in the midst of all of the light which is most precious. The compound light. See? And the sun shall become sevenfold and then the translation. So, see? It did come down to us in the body of Jesus, but when the body yielded it up it went back to God Who gave it. While it was in the body it was seen by the people. And yet not the Father, because Jesus said you have not seen Him at anytime, not having your eyes of understanding opened. So when the body left and the Spirit went away it came back into you and I. So today we don't have the law. We don't have the ritualistics. We don't have the judgment of God in that the law brings the wrath of God, for the law worketh the wrath of God. Because transgression of the law is sin, and nobody can live by the law; everybody sins, and that gets God upset. So He made an end of it once and for all. So that was the end of the world. No more world. He let the world go on with people until it ended. Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world has come, because he knew he had unlocked the door. See? And there was the Kingdom of God within that body. Today it's in you. I'm the light of the world. I go away and now ye are the light of the world. He was in the fullness, you are in measure. There is a lot of things we could say here but we'll have to go on. The opening of the door is seen on the Mount of Transfiguration. Here is the law and here is the prophets. Law was at hand. Prophets, a prophetical utterance to the future, as to the coming of the Lord. And here is the Lord appearing in the middle of it, which means that the law and the prophets are now divided asunder. And out of the law and the prophets comes the ark of the covenant, which is Christ himself, glistening. And the door is now open, and we see that with this the typical thing of Samson where he slew the lion to show Satan defeated, doing away with the body. Got the honey out of the lion carcass. Or that is to say, the Kingdom of God, or the ark of the covenant taken away, as from the Philistines when it came back to Israel after it had been lost in the days of Eli. So then, when Samson got it he ate the honey out of the carcass and here was Samson when his eyes was gone and all of these things are spiritually to be revelated. I wish we had time to just go through every bit of it about the eyes and whatever. But, anyway, down here in the dungeon, as to show the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, losing his eyes, as to the wisdom, the sight, of God going down. Why hast thou forsaken me, going down into the grave. He was there grinding at the mill, or that is paying for my sins. Paying for Israel's sins. He was the King of Israel. That is, he was the leader of Israel. He was a judge in that day. So here he comes up. When he comes up as a little boy, showing the new birth, takes him over, puts his hands on the pillar. These two big pillars that hold up this great coliseum like thing where three thousand people are gathered to mock him. That is to say, it was typical of the world. Like as to the trinity. And here he is, and all of a sudden he says, Father, one more time. That is, You've forsaken me. O, God, why hast Thou forsaken me. I've been in the dungeon. One more time. And the Spirit of the God went down into the body of the Lord Jesus. When it did Jesus came up and here we see Samson standing upon the mountain here, showing this just before his death. Showing what he's going to do. He comes up, appears in heaven and He takes hold of the law and the prophets, the great pillars upon which all of the world is hinged and he pulls those pillars down. He pulls the entire pillars of the world down. So what is this? It's the end of the world. The two thieves standing one of one side, one on the other, represents the law and the prophets. It shows as to one as unto death, as to say, Why don't you as the other say, have mercy on me? We brought it out as to the two men that went up into the temple. And there's a lot of things shown by those two people, as to the body going out, the spirit coming in. Sinful being rejected, as to be smitten, the other to be received, though both were the same as to people who had done wrong. But, anyway, we see this thing. We see Samson reaching out, pulling the pillars down. And strangely enough as it was, three thousand people when the pillars came down, so it was three thousand people at Pentecost that came back in, as to the dead bodies to show what God was doing. So we see this great thing taking place. Now, again I said that to say this. That we know that the world ended. That was the end of the world because when the flood came down upon the ark that was the end of the world. And the new world came in. When they crossed over from the old country, over the great gulf, Mexico or whatever, coming over here it was called the new world. When they went to the moon, see? that was for the new world. Like about twenty years since they went to the moon. People were saying they'd never go there. They'd never make it. Many years ago down in Alabama, Sister Betty recalls the place. Dale was a little child. It was about the time they had their great Christmas. I was at Mr. Foxes house when he came down and picked them up. But, anyway, it was there that I made a prediction. I believe it was over at somebody's house where we were visiting, eating with them, somewhere there in Alabama, I made a prediction. I said, And they will go to the moon. People said they'd never make it. Years later they went to the moon. So twenty years now; they're celebrating. I said they'll go to the moon as the Bible has said. The Scriptures can't be broken. Though thou climbest up to heaven I shall cast thee down to hell. Maketh thy nest among the stars. And when they went up there, you know, they called it the nest. They set it on the moon. But the devil is so clever that he hides everything that's of God. He doesn't want us to know anything about God; he's so clever. So what he did he covered up the thing that I'm going to mention to you now about Buzz Aldrin. I'm glad to see Steve and his companion and little ones coming in to visit with us. So then, twenty years are gone. I read a little article in the Guideposts they just recently published, had to do with what we're saying right now. This was up about the time Susie was having her operation. Coming on back I pulled a little whisker and it started to bleeding and I couldn't get it to stop and it went on and on and on. And when I dressed today I had that same handkerchief. I pulled it up and it was bloody. I got it on the, you know, the less alarming side as we say. But, anyway, when I said something about crossing over the Red Sea and Calvary I pulled this out and laid it down and the Lord quickened it to me as to what I had said to Brother Dale concerning Susie and the operation and us being up there at this particular time. It's like a letter that we got that had to do with something spiritually that I won't try to bring out as to the present day truth here. But, anyway, somebody wrote us a letter today and signed their name to it concerning a preacher and this person said they're getting married. And I'm just throwing this in on the side. They're getting married and said, the bride has now made herself ready. And the bridegroom has come and now they're going to get married. Whereas, I might not better mention the people. It might be offensive. People get their revelations misconstrued. But things that happen have great significance and getting this letter was of great significance. But, anyway, I just wanted to say this about Buzz and bring out our thought about the moon. When Buzz Aldrin, along with Neil Armstrong, got ready to go to the moon they gave them a chance to take a little something with them to the moon. Speaking of the new world now. And Buzz wondered what would be the right thing for him to take up there. So then, he went to his minister, who I believe was a Presbyterian minister over in the Houston area, if I've got this right, and they had a little thing called the Lord's Supper, and that's what we dealing with tonight. And when the minister gave him the little chalice of wine and the little piece of bread he folded it up, he put it in a piece of plastic and when they got on the ship away they went with it to the moon. So when he got to the moon, you remember, he called back. Buzz said, I want just a little bit of silence. You know, you say, the coming of the Lord, the end of the days of the Gentiles, away goes the flag, old glory is gone. That is, the law folded up and laid away, the end of the world. Ichabod is wrote on the door. Brought it out about Jimmy, J. C., as to Jesus, the casting out of the Red Dragon, predicting that they'd put China out, the problems that came, whatever, and on and on and on we go. And here Bush goes in as the new coming in, Reagan breaching it on over, them receiving our flag, and all of these things we've detailed somewhat. And I think they said that Mr. Gorbachev had to take a back seat to Mr. Bush when he got over into the foreign countries. Giving them money. Money answereth to all things. But to complete my thought. Thirty minutes of silence in heaven, blood coming off of the seat of atonement, the end of the days of the Gentiles. And here Buzz calls for a little bit of silence. And I found out that during this little period of silence they took this little chalice of wine and the bread, and God having his way in all things, and though they've frozen him out altogether, their plan so good, as the song writer said, they've left out his part. And here on the moon when he landed he had this little thing and he partook of it, as to the Lord's Supper, and an acknowledgment to the new world for God and as to the blood crossing that had got them over that great gulf, and as to the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. So I said all of that to say this. That they hide it but God eventually brings it out at the right time, as to the celebration to show that what I said back then was exactly in perfect harmony with what I'm saying now because it came right over and dovetailed right into it. And another thing to show that it's just perfect with it is that a couple of hundred years, as it was to the celebration of our nation. Somebody was telling me today that France has done the same thing. Has come to a new government shortly after ours. From that time it's given to Washington, or George Washington, the key to a fort, as to a great significance. And it was at the end of this period of time, having to do with the two hundred years, that Mr. Bush came in and took the keys back to France and gave it back to them when I'd made the statement that Bush had to do with Washington, that there was a beginning of the end, in that there was a complete cycle. The beginning of the new and I brought the thing all the way back around. Or that is to say, giving it to France. Which you would say, What significance is that? I understand that from France, or through that means comes our Statue of Liberty. And, see? It has to do with that thing, as to America, a period of time to completion, as to liberty and justice for all. When I preached out here I said there is no such thing anymore. Someone would say, Well, you didn't have anything to do with it, Brother Pike. Well, I've got this much to do with it, I'm a human being. I'm made of God. I'm sent as a minister. I have to pay taxes. I have to tithe to the government, as you would say. See? I'm here; I have a voice, as to the freedom of speech and the press. I sent a flag to Washington and they accepted it. Just as the Old Glory went out our new glory came in, as pertaining to what we said in the past as Brother Junior seeing this as Washington here, the building and over there Mount Vernon over here, seven governors, and the many things we spoke about, the church ages, the end of the world, and whatever. And today Sister Betty, her picture and my picture, as to the names I don't know what, but they're over yonder in the Statue of Liberty. They're in New York. And having to do with the thing that happened here and your little coming together when they erected the flag down here, it showed the end of the world coming back in a circle, and a circle as to like a boomerang it's right on time, as to the Little White House when we were down there and the things that were echoed on through Roosevelt's son, as to what it had to do with, and the many things that we could say. But, anyway, here we are. So the moon, the new world. All of a sudden something is happening as to the Jews coming in. Which means the redemption of the body. Your body has been gone all of this time. Now, the dead in Christ rise first. Paul said, If the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be but life unto death. That is, Jews that remain in our life until the change. So then, again to bring out what I'm trying to bring out as to clarify this, the Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So the Kingdom came. Today I am in the Kingdom, and the Kingdom is within me. So then, somebody says, The Kingdom of God then is in the earth. John said the tabernacle of God which is your body that has the Kingdom within is in the earth. So it is you that is in the earth. And as to the natural Jew buried in the earth. In that they are dead in trespasses and sin, that body as a body of death and a heart of stone that Jesus rolled away, as to that which was engraved within the stone, as to Moses. The law of the letter that killeth, that bringeth us to the knowledge of life, and yet sin gets its strength by the law. Maybe you understand this but I'll say this right hurriedly. I don't have much more to say and then I'll close. But I do say this. That the heart of stone is gone. The stone is rolled away, as we say. Like when we prayed for the little girl, the stone gone and up came the little girl. So I said that to bring out a thought and that thought is that the heart of stone within you brings death. It's the old intellectual mind of the concept of religion engraved in your heart of stone as to the dos and don'ts and your guilt because of you've transgressed. But He took that away with the body of the Lord Jesus and you now have a heart of flesh, as the Bible says. That is, the Word was made flesh, even flesh and bones of which you are as Jesus was, or is to the Church. The heart of flesh. And I'll engrave my laws on the table of your heart. All shall know me form the least to the greatest for I'll be merciful to their sins. So we find the Kingdom of God is not in the world. The Kingdom of God is in heaven, and the way you become heir to the Kingdom of God is through the body of Jesus. And now, the way you got into it, and it into you, is because you dwell in heaven and you are in Heaven. That is, you are in the Spirit. Heaven is God's Spirit. Anything within the Spirit is Heaven. There's no such thing as finding another place like the earth, another planet and all these crazy things people talk about. There isn't any such things. God is a spirit. So then, your spirit went into God's Spirit. It was Christ's Spirit in God's Spirit. God's Spirit is Heaven, and Christ's Spirit is the head of the body. So then, we find that we are now in heaven. That is, your inner man is in heaven. Your body, Satan can't get to it anymore through your flesh because you flesh is dead and buried. So then, this is what I was wanting to say. From Calvary all the way over to the Gentile age, all the way over through the church ages, all the way over to the coming in of the last week of Daniel, the first year, first day of that year, as it was said of Noah's Ark, coming in as to the first, that last seven years is the world coming back into view. Until then there is no world in view. The world is passed away. The world is gone. The world is over. And as to the crossing of Noah, the first world, and the old world passed away. As to the second, as to coming on down as to the blood bath. And it would take a long time to go into those things, as to the law and Moses. Coming on down then we find the Red Sea experience. We find that the world, Peter said, is gone. So the second is gone. That is to the body, which is water. That is to the soul, which is blood. And now the next one is well gone to the extent that we're living again to where I can say, and ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Even as God said it through Peter then, as through Noah then, He says it through me now. And ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. The end this time, of all things, for all flesh has corrupted its way before God as it was in the days of Noah. Now all have sinned. Jesus laid upon Him everything. So here we are. From Calvary it has been heaven. There has been no more world to them that are Christians, even though we are babes in Christ; yet we are still Lord of all though under tutors until the time appointed of the Father. That is, the coming of The Faith, which is the faith of Jesus Christ. We brought this out the other night. So here we are now. Since Calvary The Faith of sanctification has come. The law, Paul said, a tutor, a school master to bring us unto the new is gone. But they who have fallen from grace is still under the law. That is to say, the world is still with them and they are still in the world. And they're still under the law and will be judged as transgressors. Now, so the world has passed away. Passed away for whom? You and I. For at this time of the episode God has chosen us out of the world. So it has been heaven ever since for you and I. From Calvary it is the days of the church and the church dwells in heaven. The church dwells in heaven. So the stairway, as Jacob saw an angel descending fulfilling that as to them descending from heaven coming to and fro on Jesus. The door open, Him the door, and the stairway as the descent of the angels and the ascent. So then, the very house of God, Bethel. Back to Bethel, the stone, Calvary, the place where Jacob laid his head, as being the father of the tribe, making him the head that came from his loins, the twelve tribes. And, as I said, the whole house of Israel being saved, as to the son's of Jacob, which is sealed as the hundred and forty-four thousand at the end of the days of the Gentiles when the blood comes off of the seat of atonement, we say, and Buzz Aldrin said, let's have a little silence. So we see these things fulfilling so great and so mighty. So it has been heaven. That's why you've been in the Kingdom and the Kingdom in you. Rejoice ye that dwell in heaven, see? as to the angels with on foot on the land and one on the sea, hands raised to heaven. And as to four hundred and eighty-three years to Calvary and Messiah came and made an end of sin ending the five hundred years of silence to that degree in that Daniel's down in Babylon, seventy years fulfilled, to know what was to befall his people, given the vision, seventy years are determined upon thy people. Four hundred and eighty-three. Or seventy. The Bible speaks of the seventy, the four hundred and ninety years. And then four hundred and eighty-three years expires. Going back. Nehemiah, King Artaxerxes … (Begin tape two, side two.) … the walls. We spoke of these things, that is unto the Messiah. Four eighty-three. That's four hundred and eighty-three years, and then Messiah came. The Bible says He cut off, not for Himself, but for the people. Which He died for sin, our sin. Said, He made an end of sin. So sin is no more. He done away with the body of sin, the transgression of the law. Now. Pacify the wrath of God. Said, He will also bring in everlasting righteousness. See? It is not time righteousness, revival to revival, repentance over and over, as to dead works, see? And a re-sanctifying afresh as the priest did. It is not that. It is the son of the oath, as to the everlasting covenant, and the everlasting righteousness, saying, And Thou, O King, Thou O God, Thy Kingdom is forever and ever. So it is the everlasting righteousness that He brought in. Now, it said, and to anoint the most holy. Jews refused to do it so they lost it and continued on in Babylon. This time being changed from the old Babylon, as to the Tower of Babel, and Nimrod. Changed from the old Babylon, as it was with the fleeing of the priest, going over to Pergamos that's called the seat of Satan in the church ages. And then coming down into Rome. There we bring it out as to those that brought it. It even shows it in history, your history books. Bringing it down to the place, this Rome where these two children were nourished by a wolf to show that great whore that sits on seven mountains, and the Papacy who calls himself God, as to his holiness, and the number six, six, six, as (?), the number of a man. And to show that by-passing the Jews through Calvary the Jews did reject their head, and they did reject their King. And they did crucify the Lord of Glory even though it wasn't them that did it. Rome did it. That is the powers of Rome. It wasn't lawful for them to put a man to death on the feast day, but they gave their consent and said, let His blood be on us. So the blood was upon them and their children through the Holocaust, the killing, and all of these things. It has just been recently that this has been lifted by the priest. And the crown came over to Little Bethlehem. Remember? All of a sudden they done away with the crown. Why did they do away with the crown? Because it was over and the kingdom was now going back to the Jews, and the earth, and here it belong to us and it was shown up. It was now revealed over here, over here in this day, as to the church which is in heaven, coming back in Revelation 19 to pick up the Jews, as to the crown, the head, into Babylon, all the way down through Calvary. Going on over and then to the end of the Gentile age, and then the church gets it. Coming back down through Revelation and we come back to reunite with the Jew to set the Most Holy on the throne at the millennium after the tribulation, the ark going up before the tribulation, coming down. The seven years placed together with the four hundred and eighty-three, making the four hundred and ninety complete. Times determined upon the Jews to make it fully and to bring in Jesus as the Master sitting on the throne of the millennium, the everlasting righteousness, to anoint the Most Holy, to make an end of sin. So we see what God has done in bringing these things to pass. The Jews rejected it. There was a thought there I'd like to have brought out if the Lord would let me bring it out. But, anyway, the Jews rejected it. The crown went to the Papacy and they've kept it all this time, but now the thing has come to an end. The thought I wanted to bring out was this: The Jews being blinded in part when it came, and the part that they were blinded to, as I said, Moses seeing the hinder part which was the law and the prophets. We seeing over here as face to face. Paul said, the veil of death, the intellectual death of Jordan is gone. We see through the mind of Christ, the eyes of understanding being enlightened to see His as He is, and be changed into His image. The light most precious that will destroy everything and change us into His glorious image. That's what He's doing. From glory to glory, as the song says. So they were blinded in part, and the part they were blinded to was from Calvary. The new part, the heavenly part, the spiritual part, they're blinded to that. They cannot see spiritually. They're a type of those people out yonder that are dead. Casting them away, took us into heaven, the reconciling of the world. That is, grace on everybody. The blood is gone, but (?). So then, that means they are blinded to this part. They cannot see this part. The heavenly part. It is heaven from Calvary, as to the end of the four eighty-three over to the beginning of the seven years that were severed from the four ninety. Putting them together makes the four ninety. The world comes into focus again. We return to earth again and them that are dead will be changed. And that means that those that are living at that time that are Christians, they're spirits in heaven with us, they'll return into their bodies and they're bodies will be resurrected, as to be changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. The Bible says console the Brethren with this words, He is coming; the King is coming. So then, we know then that Christ, which is the revelation, as to Paul our overseer, not him living but Christ, has come back to the church since Calvary. And here we are, our eyes are coming open, and we know that Christ has come to the spiritual Jew, and the world is now over, because we're seeing. That is, the casting away of the Jews, or the reconciling of the world, now the receiving of the Jews is going to be the resurrection of the dead. So you see it's over and the Jews are blinded then to the part from Calvary on, but not as to Moses, from Calvary back, cause Moses saw the back, the hinder part. So that means the body, that was dead, as to the Jew, is ready to come back out of the grave now. Out of the presence into the darkness, that means the revelation is to go to them. Whereas, we see that the tracts, the literature, the books, the different things, prophesying down the street of Dolorosa, these things are happening. Now, looks like we'll go back the seventh time. The walls fell after the seventy time of marching around the walls of Jericho. Joshua had made it over the Jordan and then he took over. So the last time I said, we have favor with the Jews, and such it was. It wasn't the earth anymore. It was the Jews. Everything is changing now. So we come right down to knowing that we are on the verge of the last seven years coming in. And with the coming in of the last seven years then that means that this great rainbow of the church ages that has reached from the Jewish law, as to Moses and the ark of the covenant, has by means of this bridge, as we say, as the song I wrote, The Rainbow Bridge, as to the bridge, the angel and the rainbow over his head, the throne, as to water against the light most precious, that from where it stopped at Calvary, the Jews went out of the land, comes over to the last seven years of the tribulation, and there the rainbow found itself coming over this great span of the great gulf, as to the church ages, because we went away into heaven. And we are the Spirit of Christ, which is the rainbow, from one to another as it reaches around the world with humanity. As to the children of God this circles the rainbow as the ring that's put on the finger, as the angel put the ring on my finger, reaching around the world. So we see from Calvary, four eighty-three, over to the seven years, that it's all brought back together as to the coming in of the Jews. The world will then come up right. It will be here again and it will change into the millennium and it then it will be one more change, as to the transformating into the celestial, which is the new earth. There is the rainbow. At the end of the rainbow the streets of gold. The pot of gold, as you say. Our covenant ends there, because we find that's where the rainbow reaches to, from everlasting to everlasting. Or from God over here. That I've given you the bridge, which is my covenant, my blood, as to all generations, and colors of people, the red man, the white man, on down all these people, as to the rainbow, over to the coming of, we say the garden going out, the millennium, the garden coming in. But, anyway, we could say a lot more things but I just dropped that in to make you stop and think now. That's why I preach you're in heaven. That's why I say the people that are out yonder that's waiting for a rapture, they've got a wrong concept, a misunderstanding. This thing is happening in you. From glory to glory, revelation to revelation, and after awhile it's going to be over here. And to know, to think, is to think in your heart. And to think in your heart is to be whatever the thoughts are. Cause that's what took Enoch out, translated by faith. Paul said, the minister is set here for the perfecting of your faith, to reveal these things that you might be perfect in faith. And the people that don't know them, don't hear them, don't get them, then they're out there struggling around to establish their own righteousness, whether through religious ritualistics, or ignorance, whatever it might be, while you dwell in heaven. And they look for the church and it's gone. All right, let's stand together and sing a little chorus, if you will. Sort of tired from traveling, talking so much. Even my daughter Dale, coming in the other day saying, that from now on the rest of her life is for Jesus. I told them years ago, just a girl, more or less, she had to do with the Jews, how it would work out, the return, and what would happen. And believe it or not, she turned forty she came home. She got out of the wilderness. I don't mean by that, as to family life, I'm just talking about back to playing the organ and being with the children of God. But, anyway, she came home. Heaven is her home, and she wandered through the wilderness a long time. But she came home, and that indicates that it's time for the Jews to come in, as to the woman that had the great wedding, the Bridegroom made himself ready and these kind of things. The man's name had to do with that of the coming of the millennium, and the other had to do with that. That's what the Lord had accused Israel of being. And then after awhile getting straightened up to go the long way around to get to this. Well, anyway, that's kind of parabolic, sort of hard for you to understanding. Some of you might. The Lord can reveal it to you. A prayer request. Let's remember these things. A lot of people need help. Sicknesses, all kind of things are happening to them, heart trouble, TB, all these kind of things. Thank you, little man. Here comes in the Jews, I believe. Can we sing a little chorus together? (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) Sing it with me now. (Singing) Give me another key. Let's sing one, or two, more songs. (Singing.) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) Can you sing that again? (Singing) Can you sing that again? (Singing.) Everybody that will just come on down to the altar. (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (Singing) Can you sing it just one more time? (Singing) Remember now, ever since Calvary it has been the fullness of time. Hallelujah! And we went into glory at the beginning of the fullness of time. We are they that dwell in heaven. We sing as the angels because God has taken away our sins and we are the redeemed. (Singing) One more time. Remember, you are the saints that made it into glory. (Singing) We're going to sing that one more time. (Singing) Time went out with the world now. When the world went out, time went out. There is no time in heaven. You never are born to die. You live always. Always. You have passed from death unto life. At anytime we might here the angel's harps. At any time. I'm telling you. When you start getting into the spiritual mind, at anytime, like the Floyd's sing, It sounds like heaven to me. Those angel's harps may start anytime. (Singing) One more. One more time together. (Singing) Close your eyes and lift your hands and let's sing it together. (Singing) Hallelujah! While you've got your eyes closed, hands lifted up to heaven I'm going to ask Brother Jerry from out of Mississippi to come and dismiss us. While Jerry's coming to pray tonight, you know, the word Mississippi means father of great waters. While Jerry is coming to pray tonight let's pray with him. The Bible says that John heard his voice over on the Isle of Patmos and it sounded like many waters. Many waters. And the Bible says, Everything in heaven and everything under heaven, and everything in the earth and everything under the earth was praising God and giving Him glory. You're the waters, many waters, to lift up their voice in praise. Praise is comely for the upright. And while the waters are troubled, sometime God troubles the waters by moving with the Spirit. And when the waters are troubled as it was as to the natural type, whosoever stepped in was healed. Naturally they were healed. Now you can be healed spiritually if you step in, and also naturally. But to step in and be healed from your heartaches, your sorrow, your problems, all of the miseries of life, from this you can be healed. As our Brother Jerry comes to pray tonight let's remember this. Jerry drives a truck. He travels all over the nation, everywhere, day and night and he sees all kind of people and all kind of things from New York to California, wherever he goes. And tonight he sees holy people. I would that men everywhere lift up holy hands. These are holy people. Without wrath, without doubting, because when you lift up holy hands it reminds Him of Calvary and that your sins are gone. That you are the body of His Son hanging there, that He should not deny you anything, that He hath given you all things that pertain unto life. Life, the gospel that is profitable for this world and the world to come. As our Brother Jerry comes to pray let's remember Jesus. When you don't have anything else to do remember me and my wife. We're so thankful to have you with us. We're glad to see John Clyde come tonight. Also Steve and his companion and little ones here tonight. We're so thankful for the miracle that God has wrought, the wonderful miracle that has been wrought in the lives of the different people that have called on Him and trusted Him. He'll give us our joy. The magnificence of our joy. You know how the joy is coming back to the church? It's when they realize that the works is not of themselves lest any man should boast, and they won't be falling and stumbling and under condemnation. But when they realize that it's of Him, that He hath already given them eternal life. Already finished the works from the foundation of the world, and that you are already His Son and Daughter and He has called you unto liberty and life as to all things that pertain unto life. That makes your cup run over. That gives you joy. That makes you happy. That makes you want to praise Him the more. You say, Oh, I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. To think that I didn't know that you'd done this and all the time I'm struggling, now I've ceased from my own works and by faith of purification of heart, as Enoch being translated, I've been translated, as to the inner man, into the Kingdom of God, and by faith You purified my heart and filled me with Your great Spirit of life, as to the Kingdom of God. That will make you happy. That will make you happy. Forgetting those things that are behind, forget all the other things. Forgive. If you have aught against any forgive that your Heavenly Father may forgive your trespasses. The Bible says if you forgive not men their trespasses your heart won't be right to receive forgiveness of your Heavenly Father. He cannot forgive your trespasses. So keep your heart. The Bible says to do thy diligence to keep thine heart, for out of the heart comes forth faith, as to the issues of life. And just live by faith. So keep your heart. Do thy diligence to keep a clear conscience toward God and man at all times so that your faith will work and your confidence will be that whatever you ask of Him you receive for you do the things that please Him, and that your secret of life is I do always the things that please the Father.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord