The End Of The Veil

I'd like to read from Psalms, second Psalms, first verse. "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? (2) The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, (3) Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. (4) He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (5) Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. (6) Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. (7) I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. (8) Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. (9) Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. (10) Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. (11) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. (12) Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little, Blessed are all they that put their trust in him." Well, we talked about some things that was kind of deep the last time we talked with you. And I thought I might review one, or two things in the Lord. Reading from II Corinthians, chapter twelve. "(1) It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. (2) I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. (3) And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) (4) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (5) Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. (6) For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. (7) And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. (8) For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (9) And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (10) Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." You'll notice here, Paul had such an experience with God that it just wasn't possible for him to retain his composure, as to mortal man, or as just mortality. He had been exalted to a place of godship in such a way that even when people sought him and heard him speak the marvelous things that he spoke, that they actually fell down at his feet and would have done sacrifice on different occasions unto Paul. And as it was that on occasion that Paul rent his clothes, pleading with them not to do sacrifice unto him saying, I am but a man as you are a man, and he was so illuminated with the glory of God and the brightness of God that the people couldn't restrain themselves. It's like when Moses was on the mountain. He was so illuminated with the glory of God that the people could not look upon the brightness of his countenance. And so it was that Moses had to put a veil over his face so that the people could not look upon the glory of God that was in Moses countenance. And this was done for a spiritual significance in that the Bible speaks of the veil over Moses face, which veil over the Old Testament, as Moses represented the Old Testament, this veil remaining until today untaken away, never having been rent, as Paul was saying in his day, therefore they could not steadfastly look to the end of that covenant, or that which was given. That is, they could not look to the end of it, because there was a veil between them and the glory of God. So then, when we read about God, as to the Old Testament, and the Jews read about God, as to the Old Testament, then they could not see beyond the veil. There was the veil of the law, as to the intellectual, and they could not see beyond that. So then, it's kind of like the DC 10, I believe it was that just crashed. People were killed on it. They say that a Jew, a priest perhaps, standing outside of the crash, lifted up his voice to God and cried out aloud, Thank God! Thank God! Thank God! for sparing my son. Did not know how to approach, perhaps, as to thank the Lord Jesus who is really God; the only God. The true and the living God. But just knowing God, as Moses had taught it, he still worshipped God in the only way he knew how to worship God saying, Thank God! And he could not see beyond the veil. So the other night I made mention of it, how that Calvary, from Calvary going backward is the veil. And I explained how Moses saw the hinder part of God. Seeing the hinder part, you'll notice there's something that is striking, as to this particular thing. I got choked up a little last night. I don't like to do it, but I do it anyway if I try to pray, for some reason I do it. You'll just have to pardon me for a minute. Like I say, I appreciate Brother Larry Key leaving his car this morning so we could drive it up here. Ours was not at home. If I bark a little along just pardon me. All right. There is something there that is striking I'd like for you to notice. I trust that Bill and them can cut this out on tape. When they looked upon Moses they saw a veil. This we know, and this we consider, that they looked upon Moses they saw the veil. But a lot of times the thing that we do not consider is the fact that when Moses looked upon them he also saw to that. And sometimes because of this if the Lord doesn't reveal this to us then we don't see it, and then when we do not see it then we, of course, are like Israel. We are seeing in part. We don't understand that as Moses being made God, as the Bible said, God had made him God to Aaron, the people, then him looking from this direction toward Calvary from the great mountain here he is looking at the people through the veil so he doesn't see beyond Calvary. He's on the mount. He's typical of the Jesus part that has to die. Whereas Joshua is showing the part that did not have to die, as to the Christ part. So then, we see that Moses, looking at the veil and the people looking at the veil, then there was a veil between the glory of God and between the people, in that Moses was made God, he had the glory of God in his countenance. Then there was a veil. So then, Paul having a revelation, Paul said, And this veil remaineth until today. This veil between the glory of God, or God and the people, this veil remaineth even until today, speaking of his day, untaken away, which veil he says is done away with in Christ. That is to say, the Old Testament comes up to Calvary. It is still veiled. It is like a fog that you cannot see through. And then on this side of Calvary the veil is lifted because the veil is rent in twain, and the veil is folded up and laid away. Now when I talk about these things I know that you're not going to get them. I know that you are not going to understand them as a whole. Even when I'm speaking of deep, deep hidden mysteries I see somebody's face is over like this, looking around at somebody else. And I see somebody else, you know, I catch their spirit just wandering around and on things, and I find just a rare few that are sons of God, and daughters of God that is among us. And they, in their spirit, I catch their spirit so deeply concentrated toward the voice of God, in that the Bible said it's not you speaking but Christ that is speaking from with you, and we are bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh. It's not us living but Him that your visitation may be of God. And even as He told Israel, said, and thou knewest not the day of thy visitation, therefore thine houses, that is to say your body in our day, is left unto you desolate. Christ doesn't abide in there, doesn't live in there. That great wonderful knowledge of the revelation of the fountain of life isn't within you. That's why the devil causes a little cough here and a little cold there. Any little thing to afflict the body because the body hasn't gone through that change and he does anything he can to create a problem physically, or whatever, to keep you from getting these wonderful things. That's why Paul pleaded with the Lord, said, move these infirmities. Move the things that buffet me. Move these problems that are constant in my life. Have you ever noticed, it looks like God's people are afflicted continually one way or another. For instance the Bible says, many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth them out of them all. This is the way he builds his faith. This is the way he grows. From affliction to affliction, from problem to problem, from harassment to harassment, from demon power to demon power as he overcomes and believes. So then Paul said, I take pleasure in infirmities, when I feel these things. I take pleasure in reproaches when people reproach me and say things against me. And I take pleasure in necessities when I am shortcoming, as to the things that I should have in life and I do not have. And in persecutions when people revile me and think evil of me, and say wrongs against me. In distresses for Christ's sake, he said. When I'm in deep distress, for when I am weak then am I strong. I find out that when I am insufficient, as to my own capabilities, or my own abilities that Christ will take my part, and that with Him coming, he is my strength, thus am I strong. So then, the devil will do anything. It doesn't matter what it is, the continual harassment; a problem to interfere. Paul said, I would have come unto you but Satan hindered me. And he'll do anything he can to hinder, and to keep things from going smooth to where people can receive it and there won't be any interruption. And we have to be wise and pick__ As I said many times, picking the berries when I was a little boy to get me enough money to go to town and buy me something, I always wound up with briars in my fingers and my hands all scratched up and I had to stop and pick the briars out. We just have to kind of pick the briars out. And like Brother Branham said, spit out the seed and go ahead and eat the pie. I'm trying to get back to the original thought here. Paul said that I knew of a man that went up to the third heaven. A lot of people don't even know there is a third heaven. But he said this was paradise. So then, we know that the third heaven is paradise, for it makes it real plain here. Caught up into paradise. We also know that the third heaven is the undefiled heaven. That is to say that John sees in the book of Revelation, in Revelation 12, he sees somebody in heaven. He sees the woman in heaven. He sees the woman travailing in birth to give birth to a child. He sees this child born. He sees it caught up to another heaven, and then he sees the red dragon in heaven. You say, how do you know Brother Pike that that was heaven, in that he said the child was caught up to heaven, to God's throne? I know it because the Bible says, I, John, looked and I saw a great wonder in heaven. So then this woman was in heaven, and this red dragon was waiting to devour the child. And all of these things are symbolic. They're typical. So then, I explain the dragon, as to the generation of vipers, as to the body of humanity that is not born again, the bastard child, then are they Satanic, then are they the dragon, then are they the generation of vipers. And he is called the red dragon because he extends all the way from the garden, as to the expulsion down to Calvary. And when John laid the axe to the root of the tree, he cut down that tree, the tree of knowledge, and the family of bastard children that were born in Adam. As in Adam all die. So Calvary killed them all with Jesus. That's what John did; he cut down the tree. He introduced the Christ as the Spirit came in the form of a dove saying, this is the Lamb of God. That is to say, this is the one to die. The tree is now cut down; the axe is laid to the root of the tree. Jesus being made sin, as to the first man Adam, the tree was cut down. And everything died all the way from Calvary back to the garden. In that it cut off occasion from Satan, and Satan was defeated. That's why that I use the terms, as the Scripture says, I beheld Satan, as lightning fall from heaven, and I have destroyed him that hath power over death. With the smiting of Jesus that destroyed Satan. That's why I say there is no more devil. There is no more Satan. There is no more Lucifer to you, because you are they that dwell in heaven. I purposed in my heart this morning I was going to talk to you and teach you just a little bit, try to explain some things. There is no more earth from Calvary over to the last week of Daniel, as to the saints of God. When you are dead in the body then you are dead to the earth, for earthly life is one thing, and heavenly life is another thing. In heaven you are as the angels. Even when Rhoda came out when they were making prayer for Peter to get out of jail, they could not believe that his body had been released from prison. They said, it must be his spirit; it must be his angel. In heaven ye are as the angels. At death the spirit, the angel, goeth back to God who gave it. So if your body is dead, your angel went back to God. Your angel is no longer in the body. Your angel is now in heaven, and it cannot be defiled. He that is born of God keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. The reason is because he is in heaven. He is a spirit, a quickening spirit. No longer the living soul, he is the quickening spirit, as to the generation of the second man Adam. Regeneration by the washing of the waters of regeneration. So you are not in the generation of Adam, you died to that. You were born, you lived, you died. And those that are still alive, as to Adam, must be punished eternally. Cut off from God because they are the bastard child image. But now you are born again as a new creature in a new world, in a new generation, even the generation of the quickening spirit. That is to say the second man Adam. In doing that if you'll go back to the Old Testament you'll get a revelation when you look beyond the veil. When you see beyond the veil as there in the teachings of the Old Testament when the veil covers it, it's called the waters of separation. And these things are brought out in a story like form, parabolic, and it is the waters of separation as it is given as in the natural. Well, this is Calvary and this is where the dove comes up, and this is where the veil is rent in twain and John likens people to waters. And in the book of Genesis we see the revelation again that He placed a firmament at Calvary between the waters to separate the waters that was above in the heavens from the waters that were below the heavens. And He made a great firmament to show that you are separated as one body of people on one side of Calvary, as to another body of people on the other side of Calvary. And those on the side of Calvary where the law is are transgressors of the law, having fallen from grace to the extent that these that were under the law died, were buried not having received the promise that God made to Abraham concerning eternal life in the son Isaac, even the promised one. So they died. They rested in their lot and they were not made perfect, for the Bible said the law makes no comer thereunto perfect. The blood of bulls and goats. So then, we see that they died all under the law, confessing that they were pilgrims and strangers even as Abraham. I'm seeking a city whose builder and maker is God. That is to say the city of New Jerusalem. He said a city with foundations, even the foundations of the apostolic leaders, as to teachers that Jesus the Christ laid when Paul, the writer, said, no man can lay any other foundations. Peter taught, no man can lay any other foundations. So we see immediately that on this side of Calvary the lively stones are re-gathered, as to having shucked down the corn, having taken the kernel out of the shuck, or the little peanut out of the shell, or the egg, out of the hull, or shell. See, we see that Babble, the tower of Babble bringing in Babylon, which later was to be changed to mystery Babylon. Babble. Nimrod, the great hunter that built it, there the scattering of Israel, God then on this other side re-gathering Israel, so we see that God has shelled down the corn. The grain is gathered into the garner. Or that is to say, the shuck is on one side, as to the swine that eats the husk, in that Jesus said they are swine, and dogs that lap their vomit. But ye are sons of God. They are just animals to you. We say, be kind to animals. They are our beasts, our animals. Some of them we don't like. They are brute beasts; they are made to be taken and burned. That is to say we are going to kill out those that would bite our children, those that are dangerous. Good animals will live right on through the millennium. Vicious animals of the Old Testament had to be killed, even an ox that would gore a person. So then, we see that being shucked down, the body being the shuck, had been laid away to rest because the law says it is a sinner and a transgressor and it brings forth sin, as unto death. So then, the Lord killed us by the body of Jesus. So the man Adam is dead. The first man, as to that face that you powder and paint, the muscles that you try to build and the pretty form that you want and the lust that you carry on, as to your human desire, as to your ego to project yourself, as to popularity and fame, as to who you are and what you are, and what you look like, and what you desire to be. Even as in your youth when God has said deny it and remember your creator in the time of your youth, to project Christ. So then, God has killed the body and the body is now dead because of sin. Paul said, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? So then, the body of this death is gone. He said, I thank God, the great Spirit that has delivered me from this human body. I do not therefore desire a career, though he could have had one of the greatest. I do not desire to be intelligent, as to prove my point and be admired, in that I count my learning and education, as we would say, as dung. That is as waste. It was wasted time, we would say. And then I'm not going to project the outer man, for though the outer man perishes I subject him to conformity of the Spirit to bring him into a spiritual world, or regeneration. He is now dead. It is not me living but now it is the Christ, as to the second man Adam, as to bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. God seeing me over this great chasm from Calvary to the Thessalonian change and not seeing anything in this low valley of death. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for the clouds of doubts and demons and despondency hang over me, yet there are clouds of bright silver linings that are angelic beings that minister unto me. And over this valley God looks to see me in Thessalonians, as to the change. All His works known unto Him from the beginning, therefore I am now the Lord Jesus Christ. So as to whatever measure, to whatever member of the body, even as I was of Adam so am I now of the Lord Jesus. So the corn has been shucked down. The grain at Calvary was gathered in the garner as it passed over Calvary to this side, in that in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law that all things in heaven and in earth might be gathered into the garners. Or, that is, in the clouds. As Noah, the type, everything into the ark. Human beings, fouls and beast. First heaven, second heaven, third heaven; three parts of the ark. So then, we see here on this side of Calvary we have eluded the veil. We are not looking at the Lord through the veil, for the Bible said that you see through a glass darkly. Paul spoke of it as the Jew, we now see through a glass darkly. Being under tutors until the time of appointed of the Father. That is to say, the Bar Mitzvah, as Jesus said at his age, to be about my Father's business. Or, that is to say, speaking of a Jew, he is looking through a glass darkly, the veil. Because he is blinded in part he cannot see beyond Calvary. So they're laid away. The Jew is dead so God doesn't charge any sin against him, as to his stumblings because he doesn't know right and wrong, as to Christ. And those that died under the law did all that they knew. To whom much is given, much is revealed, it is then thus required. So then, on that side of Calvary they all went to rest not having received the promise of eternal life, but embraced the promises of God, as to father Abraham. And they all laid in their lot, as to Daniel, ye shall rest in your lot. So they did. And they were covered up; they were gone. Sin had claimed them, as unto death. Death had claimed them because of transgression of the law. There are some things we could say here that we won't say. I'll maybe just make mention of one, or two things (Begin tape one, side two.) ....but our Brother Abraham from over in Nigeria, in our meeting in Nigeria, running in harmony with our seventh trip into Israel, as it appears that it will be, has great significance as to what we're saying. Him being with us in camp meeting and Chris not being able to come, there was a great significance. You that are spiritual I know that the Lord will talk with you. The Bible said the Holy Ghost, even the Spirit of revelation, will guide you into all these truths and righteousness. So then, the corn has been shucked down, which means the harvest has come. The Bible said the night is past and the harvest is now here. The harvest is ripe, Jesus said when He came. Pray ye therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send labors into His vineyard, for the labors are few. So then, the harvest comes and Jesus said, Now the reapers, as to the angels, will go forth into all the world, for the gospel to every creature, as ministering spirits to heirs of salvation. And they'll go into all the world, and they'll reap down the harvest. He said, this is a parable. They'll reap down the harvest, but first He said, everything must be cut down; not as to one, but all. At Calvary He cut down all. It cut down Moses, Abraham. Everybody. Isaac and Jacob. It cut down everything because all of us are human beings. And so the stalks were cut down. Everything was cut down. And like when we were out in the fields, as a boy, pulling the fodder, we'd take the old Father Time like blade and walk along and cut down the stalks. Let them dry out so we could feed them to the horses, to the mules. That is to say, give the husks to the animals. So then it all was cut down. Jesus said, as to the parable, then it was to bind them into bundles. Which we did. To bind them into bundles and that which was not fit for the animals we'd burn them, for these are to be bound into bundles and burned. But, see? The harvest had come and the corn was now shucked down, and the grain was now ready. For on this side of Calvary it was now the harvest and every thing, as to the veil, as to the husk, was rent open and left behind. So then, as I say, when the curtains opens the last great drama comes. That is to say Calvary again. I remind you that these things, as pertaining to life, all things that pertain unto life, He has given us all thing that pertain unto life. Though we do not accept them. We do not use them. We do not use our faith; yet they are still ours. He has made us to ride upon the high places of the earth, made us rich, no sorrow. All of these things. See? God gave these to us in Christ when the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world in His mind. Wrote our names down in the Lamb's Book of Life and we became sons of God. So now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. It doeth not yet appear, as to your body, what ye should be like because it is dead and buried, as to the old man Adam. But at the thessalonian change then it shall be seen clearly as to your glorified body, because there is a natural body and a spiritual body, and your natural body is now dead and gone and you are now in the sight God the spiritual body, as to the quickening spirit, the second man Adam made a quickening spirit. You are now him living and you are living in heaven where He is at. You are there with Him, even the head of the many members. The rest of the world is on the other side of Calvary. They are buried. They are dead. They are gone, even though many people come past Calvary on to the day that we are living in and they are not accounted for as you and I, but they are accounted for as the dead. Even the Jews that went out of the presence of God to cause the death, as to an extension to extend from beyond Calvary, as to the sin, on past Calvary right on over continuing to the days of the Gentiles, as to represent the dead. For if the casting away of the Jews be the dead what is the remaining but the living, or the shuck being gone, we have nothing but the grain. Or if the casting away of the Jews, Paul said, be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead, in that they represent the dead. So that everybody would be dead to God cutting down all things, as to parable. That everything might be dead unto God, then He killed it all by the body of the Lord Jesus. He cut it down as John laid the axe to the root of the tree. Everything is thus cut down from Calvary back, and everything that doth not go into heaven, as to the translation of that grain that's coming out of the shuck from Calvary, as to the door, Peter open the keys. John saw it open after the church ages. This, if we don't pass through the door that sacrifice of this Lamb of the evening time on the brazen altar, then we are cut off. So then, they that are without Christ in grace are still in the earth. We are in heaven. We are eternally strong, eternally rich, eternally young, eternally healthy. We can never die because we are gods. So then, as in revelation, caught up to the third heaven, to the throne. That's the third heaven. Anything below the throne is the second heaven, as between earth and the throne. Then the second heaven, as I said, was where Satan was seen, because you are in the second heaven. The woman is in the second heaven. At that time Israel was in the second heaven. We can't break all those things down. on tape we have some of these things. So we see that between heaven and earth is the second heaven. We see that the first heaven is in the earth. When God is with His people, as Emmanuel, God with you, as it was with the Jews. Jesus walked with them. Or God was with Israel, as to the kingdom as to the first heaven. For as I say again, people who are out yonder with the blood on the seat of atonement, those people are in heaven. They don't realize it but they are in heaven. And when the grace is lifted and they go through the pain until they gnaw their tongue, and these things, then they'll know that they have been in heaven. So then, we see these heavens and we see the child caught up to the third heaven, even the throne to rule with the rod of iron, which has happened to you and I. As to the inner you, the angelic being, it went away at death. Reckon yourselves to be dead by the body of the Lord Jesus, the body dead because of sin, and then it transgressed. God had to kill it. So then, the angelic you went up to heaven, and it is dwelling in heaven. It can never be contaminated. It can never be defiled. Satan can never touch it because there is no more Satan to you. He's destroyed. The only place that Satan exists is in hallucinations and wild imaginations, as to the perversion of the mind of carnality, even the perverted mind of Lucifer that created that realm, as to his kingdom, through the instrumentality of God by weakness of the flesh called the woman, the feminine gender. So then, we see that Satan is in the earth. Woe to the inhabitants of the flesh, of the earth, for he is among you, having been cast of the spirit he knoweth he hath but a short time so he goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Be steadfast in the faith, resist him. Don't give place to him, no not for a moment, that he should reign even in your mortal body. Consider it to be death by faith. Conqueror it as much as you can, and in every effort do every thing possible to make it perfect. And then when Satan trips, or causes you to stumble, I don't mean going out practicing drinking and cursing and snorting, doing the things of the world, coming back saying, I'm going to believe my way through. But doing all you can when you do stumble, or Satan takes advantage, don't even consider it. Don't even be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Don't even consider it because it didn't even register in the sight of God. It never came into your dwelling. The Bible said it never came nigh your dwelling for your dwelling in is heaven. All these things fall around you and comes to the earthly inhabitants. So then, you have no sin. You have no problems. You have no trespasses. You have no nothing that will ever be charged against you. Though you are asking forgiveness of your sins and your trespasses and your ill manners, as to stumbling and staggering and communication, corrupt good manners as to you still being among the thieves, as we say, where there is no honor among thieves. But there is nothing that is charged against you. To wit that God was in Christ, the great Spirit, the Father in the body of Jesus, the Son in whom I'm well pleased to dwell. To wit that God was in Christ, reconciling the world back to Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. That is to bring us back to Him, as we were with Him before we fell from Him when the expulsion at the garden came. Jesus is that open door, that sacrifice, that means by which we come to it, and no man can come to Him except through the Father, or by the Father. Or by the Son, that is to the Father. So then, when we think about these we realize that we are exiled from the world and we are here in heaven. John was in heaven on the Lord's Day; caught up in the Spirit. What is heaven? The great Spirit. God is that which filleth all in all, without beginning, without end, without boundries, without measures; the fullness of all. So our spirit has translated into the Spirit, now God's Spirit and your spirit you are one spirit, and the flesh profiteth nothing. The shuck is to be burned, thrown to the swine as they bubble in the slope of their own intellectual reasoning and their vomit, as the dog laps his vomit. So then, we see that we are in heaven. We are they that dwell in heaven, the third heaven. Though the body is in a second heaven, as to being buried like in a casket, like a bed of rest, a paradise of sleep. See? It is at rest, but your spirit is in the third heaven. Paul said caught up to the third heaven, whether in my body, or not, he said, I can't tell about that. But he said he was caught up into the third heaven knowing that someday the body will be changed and be in the third heaven. But as of now buried, dead because of sin. So you, the real you, that lives in this little house moved out, and as I bring out in revelation a lot of times, as moving the veil, within the little house that people lived in in the Old Testament, the priest would find streaks through the wall, veins as something running through the wall. These were plagues. The priest would go in with hyssop, and different mixtures, as to put on these things. Before they would do that they would make the people move out. See? That is to say you move out of your body, in lays down to rest. Because when you are dead Jesus the High Priest comes in to officiate and He checks it all out, and checks your heart out, purifies your heart by faith. He checks it all out and He checks the things that are running through the walls of it, in that the body is the walls. He checks this out and he applies the blood and the spirit, and if the blood and the spirit eradicates this vein then it's not terminal, as cancer, being a type of it. The serum does away with it. You are resurrected from the dead, in that you are clinically dead by cancer, and then you come back to life. So then, you see that if everything is all right the priest will come out. And as the Bible said, we return with the Lord, Revelation 19. We return as the spirit of them that are dead, as to the body which is the Jew, to bring them together as one. Or, that is to say, your spirit is gone from your body, Christ now within your body, checking the walls, you're dead. After everything is checked out then you return into that body. See? Paul said, I keep under this body. I put a bridle on it, that is. I keep, I bring it into subjection, lest after I preach to others I myself become a cast away. So then, from within this body you are withdrawn away as the life in the kernel that the body might die. We see this as one ages. See? He is dead. He is aging, because he is withdrawing in his bodily members, as to his human senses. He is dying to those. Those human senses as life withdraws from that, coming into the stone of the seed of the heart. The soul. See? Then the members out here begin to wither and the life begins to withdraw because this on the outside must go to seed, as from dust to dust it goes. As from the man Adam, it dies. Back to the dust Adam went, back to the dust it goes from whence it came, because it was only a carrier. As the mother carries the little one; it's only a carrier. As the birth then the mother fades into the background, the little one is projected and the people make a fuss, not over the mother but over the child. And then comes the restoration of the mother when she regains her composure and she normal in appearance, and whatever, again as going through the tribulation when that wonderful person sets upon the throne with Jesus, as to the purification as it was with the Old Testament. Then the fuss is made, as to the husband making a fuss over the wife because she presents and cares for his little one, them being one. So we see then as caught up into the third heaven Paul became a capstone on this side of Calvary as Christ the third heaven to the stones that would be put together in the second heaven to rest upon the foundation of the Apostolic leaders, in that the Jews inherit the natural, as to land and whatever, to rest upon the foundation in the first heaven. So then, we see New Jerusalem descending out of heaven as a bride adorned for her husband, as to the spiritual prospective coming down, as to it's lofty, it's foundational part to reach to it's lofty peak as to stones of beauty. Jesus said, I'll remember you as I make up my jewels. So then, we see these__ I wonder if somebody could take the little one maybe over to the nursery up here. It would help me a lot. The little one keeps crying and crying catching my attention. I know they're precious but we have to remember to do something. So then, we see that there is then this beautiful city coming down from out of heaven, the foundation, the lively stones, and then Paul said, not me but Christ the capstone. We see these things and through the church ages we think of Calvary kind of like, here's Calvary and we just kind going down through the church ages. But that isn't the way it is. Here is Calvary the light breaking through the prism, the capstone and the seven-fold color, Jesus. That is, the Spirit through the body, the characteristics of the seven candle sticks all within Jesus. And as these attributes are broken down as the seven church age messengers we're coming from Calvary up Jacob's ladder, this way. The angels ascending and descending upon Jesus as it was Bethel the stone and the angels coming from heaven to where Jacob was. Jacob being the head of the tribe represented Jesus the twelve tribes as the sons. That is, sons from whom the tribes came representing the twelve apostolic leaders from which the tribes came, as to the lively stones built up into this holy Priesthood. So Babylon is gone, as to the shucking down, scattering, and now the grain is gathered into the garner, as to that which is lift on this side of Calvary to build unto heaven as unto Christ, and not as Babble as the thing that we see in Egypt that is un-capstone and God refused it. That is, over there the pyramid as unto the star. As unto the star that represents the dragon. So Egypt, civilization comes from Egypt and all of the world has built a great pyramid because everybody is Egyptian. That's where their civilization comes from except for the children of God. And as a matter-of-fact, over in Memphis where we spoke of it concerning our brother being moved to the graveyard over here and what it would come to pass the way it did, and it had to do with Egypt. They're building a pyramid over there in Memphis. So then, we see that the people that are without that are not children of God, they are the great pyramid of Egypt, because all of them have their civilization and they're education from the old tree of knowledge and from Egypt. And they have built the great Pyramid, but God has refused it. He won't capstone it. He won't come to it. They have their great industries of today, their education, their celebrities. They have all of their forms and ritualistics, whether through any religious type of worship, or whatever, and they are all frustrated because they feel like God should come to them, but he won't, because they're built up unto Adam and Adam is dead. In Adam all die. So the great pyramid has never been capstoned. But one day Lucifer is going to become a man. He has manifested himself in a fullness. I don't have time to go into that, but anyway he will endeavor to capstone the pyramid of Egypt because there has to be a type as in the earth so the coming of Christ as to capstone you and I which are the spiritual pyramid, as to the lively stone of the city built up into a holy priesthood that Christ may capstone it, even as the revelation when He appeared in Paul to take him to the third heaven. Taking you, as the membership right in there with it, bringing the glory of that light from that great mind of Jesus that he said let be in you, coming down through the capstone down through the stones, remembering you as a man remembers his son, when I make up my jewels. Down to the foundations of the teachings of this apostolic biblical instructions that we find saying, these foundations, even the twelve foundations. When I build something today it's foundations. You know it's the foundation of this, and the foundation of that, or we belong to the foundation of the Sunshine Foundation, as my daughter belongs to that. See? And the foundations even of Little Bethlehem, or whatever. Foundations upon which no man can build anything except what God has said, and you can't lay another foundation to start something on. All right. Let's go on just a little bit farther. So then, we see that the veil is taken away. Moses was looking through the veil and the people are looking through the veil. There is therefore a veil between God and the people in that Moses is made God, so they could not steadfastly look to the end of that that was a covenant of that day, as to that glory it was wonderful. But it hath no beauty, or radiance, as to glory compared to this unveiled glory that we have today, for today it is the unveiled glory. Not as to see God as the people saw Moses through the veil, but the veil being taken away, in that Jesus made in Himself twain, both as of the glory and of the body that He might separated the two as to the Christ, which is God the glory. Shucking down the corn he laid away the body that is a recipient of the glory and died out of the presence of God, and darkness out of the presence of His Father, and the wrath, and in the darkness of the intellectual, as to the first man Adam, unto death, (To be carnal minded is death.) that we might live, as to the resurrection, Him having been delivered for our offenses, raised again as Christ for our justification. Therefore being justified by faith, our faith in God, or the faith of Jesus Christ. Then we find that we have peace with God, and we see now the radiance glory. Though, the Bible said, it does not yet appear what ye shall be like. That is, He hasn't let the world see it as of yet. He lets your body continue on to cover it up. So then, in the earth you cannot see it. It is not made manifest. For as you died, so is it hid because without a body it cannot be made manifest. How can life be exuberant enough, something that does not exist, or manifest itself if there is nothing to manifest itself in? The whole plan of God was to manifest Himself, which is life in the form of birds, the form of trees, the form of water, in the form of fire, in the form of human beings. So then, that form of you is gone, so it does not yet appear what ye shall be, as to people seeing you. Not even each other can see it if they know you after the flesh. But if we know you after the spirit, as to the angelic glory, then in heaven is the brightness beyond the noonday sun. And there you outshine, as with your light most precious, the noonday sun. When you return in Revelation 19 the noonday sun will quit shining because the daystar, even Jesus Himself of whom ye are a member of that body, shall come forth, as to the Bible saying the daystar dawning within you, which is the Christ as of now. Then will come the body as to be manifest, as to the manifesto, as to be seen as the Christ showing Himself, we being like Him, for every man who hath this hope within him purifies himself even as he is pure, and the hope within you is Christ, that hope of glory that will be changed into His very image. And then it will be made manifest in the earth, as to the resurrection of your body, for your body then will be seen as the glorious Son of God. So we see then that we are in heaven. What is the rapture? The rapture is translation by faith. I say again there is no such word as a rapture. I say it because you use it. It is change from glory to glory and that as Enoch translated by faith that he should not see death, and as you have already been. You have already been translated. The Bible said God hath, right presently, right now, translated us into the marvelous Kingdom of His Son, which means your spiritual being that once was in the body, in bondage and imprisonment to Satan which was in your flesh, the bars of bone is gone. The spirit went back to God who have it. Christ is now interwoven with your spirit as a safeguard in the garment; Satan can never touch you again. You are now in the world where there is no Satan; there is no Lucifer. So then, you are safe eternal. You have passed from death unto life because you passed through the body, and Paul said the body of this death. Within my flesh there dwelleth no good thing. So then, I've been delivered from the body of this death; O wretched man that I am in the body, but not wretched now that I am in the spirit. I am perfect in Him for He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of His body at the tree. Hath justified by faith, sanctified and glorified. So then, we are the glorified ones that dwell in heaven. Though the glorification is not seen in the body as of yet, yet the body will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last coming. So the last trump. And here is what we've got to look at the flesh profiteth nothing. You are not to pay any attention to the flesh, it's dead, it's nothing. It's nothing. So here we are. He that is born of spirit is spirit to a spiritual head which is Christ. This thing coming, Christ suddenly appearing within His temple to change this body, to glorify it, whose temples ye are. Man defile it then it is not God's temple; He will destroy it, the body. Becomes a worm and not the butterfly. We are going through the metamorphosis of Calvary, we are now the great butterfly with the great beautiful covenant. So we see the attributes of Christ winging its way over the church ages. That is to say, the steps back to glory. So when John saw the revelation he looked up, saw the sealing in the earth, as to the Jews in the foundation, he saw the woman in the second heaven, here this that had to do with the walls, and he then, as Paul said, the recognition of the child being caught up to the throne. Paul, the child, Christ, third heaven then it was capstoned. So then we see that by this, that's why the Lord calls us a peculiar people with a king, a nation, zealous of good works. We are now they that dwell in heaven. Rejoice ye that dwell in heaven for you are not in the flesh. I have chosen you out of the flesh by killing the body of flesh and the spirit went back to God who gave it, and you are not in the body; you are in the spirit. Ye are not in the world for your angelic you would have to be in the body, which body would be in the world. So then, you are in heaven and the body is buried. When I look at you I know then that you are not in heaven when I see your body. I say, now this body is not in heaven, it is buried in this world of dust. From the dust to the dust. It is now dead. They that live in trespasses and sin are dead while they live, and now your dead by the body of Jesus. So then, all cut down to put grace so that the world could continue until we do through our transitional changes. So then, your body is free from sin. You cannot sin, because you are born of God, because you are not in the body to sin. Where these things are there is no conscience of sin and the spirit has to sin through the body. There is no way the body can do it by itself for the body without the spirit is dead and the dead knoweth not anything. So the sin, God has accounted for it as of the body in that you were ignorant and took your spirit away before Satan could touch the heart, as to the worm in the apple. Just a little bad place and a bruised place to cut off so you wouldn't have to throw the apple away, as we say. So then, we find that the spirit is now filled with the Holy Spirit, as to the safeguard and can never sin now. Satan lost his chance at Calvary. That means he can't never touch us now. We can never sin now, because we are born of God, as to the inner you. So then your body is dead (Begin tape two, side one.) in this world. It is buried with those dead folks out there. You are part of the dead folks out there. You are part of the dead folks. All of those folks are dead in the sight of God by Calvary. So the Lord lays nothing to the charge. He lets grace go on. He let's them continue on and let's the Jews continue on, but after awhile the wrath of God will be turned on them and all these infirmities that we've had, the Bible said that if in this life only we have hope we are of all men most miserable because these things that we suffer, as infirmities and problems, and besetting things, as wondering through the wilderness of this intellectual journey. See, all of that is nothing in the sight of God and not worthy to be compared to the glory that is going to be revealed to us at the coming of the great light that is most precious, as we the stones of the new city, as to the city in Jesus, the head as the capstone, descend out of heaven. That is, out of the spirit, coming back in Thessalonian 19. Or that is, Revelation 19. Caught up. That is, recognized in Thessalonians as the lively stones and then come back. Our body will be picked up, not just our spirit. Our spirit is already picked up. We've already received the Kingdom of God within us, but then the kingdoms of this world, which means the body, will also be changed and become the Kingdoms of God at the sounding to the last trump and the finishing of the mysteries. That is when it is known, as to what it is, and how to believe it then faith will bring it to pass as it was with Enoch. So then, now you are recognizing that you have been raptured, that you have been translated, that you are gone out of the world, that you are not of the world, that you are not in the world, that He has chosen you out of the world, and to the utter shocking amazement as the saints come the others that have played church, the others that have been ritualistics, the others that have been with you, as them that came out of Egypt, God is not pleased with all of them. But those that had the carnal mind, that want to eat, drink, buy, sell, revel, the old natural mind, they're going to find out that they are still of the world because the natural mind is the world, and the spiritual mind is heaven. And to be carnal minded is death. And those that wanted to retire and have little homes and have money, and have all the advantages of life and still want to be with the Christian, God has allowed them to go along, as believers, but so does Satan believe. That's the way he runs his kingdom. But all of a sudden it's going to dawn on them that they didn't make it, because if you don't have the Holy Ghost you didn't make it. The Holy Ghost is the seal, as to the safeguard as to your garment, sealed. Grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby thou art sealed, as to the inner man, by his spirit so Satan can't touch him unto the day of redemption. That is to say the change of the body. And the world will not see it for their intellectual reasoning of leaning to their own understanding of their corrupt disputes, backbiting, fault finding, all these other things, as churchism with ritualistics, as religion as to ritualistics. See? They'll not see when good comes because they are of the intellectual veil, which is over the mind of that life of God. And they cannot see when good comes, as to their understanding, their eyes of understanding being enlightened. So they're in darkness even until now, but we're children of light. Not upon us unaware will it come, we see knowing that it is nigh even at the door. So then, we find out that God has wrought a great thing. Now it is revealing time, as to the revelation and the Lord is beginning to reveal to them that made the rapture, the translation and those that are in heaven for God hath translated us. Already, not going to, translated us into the marvelous kingdom of our God. Somebody said, Well, I just can't see that, Brother Pike. Well, then the question arises, where is the man that used to live in the little house of clay that's laying out in the cemetery? The little house of clay is out in the cemetery, what happened to it? Still has its nose and its fingers and its toes, in most cases, and its eyes and whatever. What happened to it? Something went somewhere. You didn't see it. You still don't see it. You don't know where it's at, but I know where it's at. And you that believe in the Scriptures know where it's at, because the Bible said the spirit went back to God Who gave it, at death. So we don't have to wonder about it. The world does. With all of their education they can't tell you where it's at. So we are they that understand, as to having our eyes of understanding being enlightened to comprehend the heights, the depth, the length and the width of this great wonderful thing. Having eyes single, not as of doubled minded, as to religion and then worldliness. The mind of Christ and the mind of Lucifer. Tasting of the good things of God. Going back to the world, trying to hold on to eternal life here, and over here with this hand trying our very best to hold on to the world. See? I said you can't do that. It is ripped asunder. Torn in two. Jesus made twain. And the veil was rent in twain, see? and one part of you has got to be dead. You're body is dead and buried then your spirit is alive in heaven. You are eternal. You made the rapture, the translation. He translated you into the Kingdom of God cause there is no such thing as rapture. The change of your body is waiting for the Thessalonian change which will not come to pass until you have recognized that you are already in heaven, that you have already passed from death unto life, that you already cannot sin, that you already are the sons of God in that healing comes when you believe that you are already healed pointing back to Calvary by His stripes. All the thing of God are always finished from the foundation of the world, and you are only made heir to them as they are revelated to you and you believe, and then the power of God through faith brings it to pass. Someone would say, Well, it's running behind, Brother Pike. Because I believe over here and the time passes and He heals me over here. Not with God. There is no time with God. The healing was before time ever came. There is no time with God. He heals you and He says, Look, here's your healing. You have to come over here. Mother makes the biscuits, she puts them on the plate, she says, You have to come over here to eat them. So then, the strength comes when we eat the biscuits, or the food. Everything in the natural shows the spiritual. So then, now we are at that moment of the great revelation of the son of God. We're at that moment now that is being revealed to you, and not this rapture thing, but that they that are of heaven in heaven, translated, and now their mind is being built through the months, the years, as unto this mind of God, as to their measure, that they dwell in that realm and this is their measure, as to their inheritance, as to what they've got while the others wanted money and prestige and fame and popularity. As it was with Solomon, he had many wives, many concubines. He put the concubines off with the gifts, and all through life you see people prophesying, speaking, and the Bible said, prophesy in part that that will fail. All these other things as to gifts and healings and all of these kind of things, by the act of faith in that the rain is on the unjust, the unjust can still feel; mercy is there. You just stir their faith up. And even Satan, having been transformed into an angel of light, that is to say he is an angel, fallen angel, an angel of darkness which means intellectual reasoning, as that which projects itself through the tree to Eve to bring it to death, as to carnality could be death. The Jordan, as we say. So then, that spirit has through the blood on the seat of atonement, through the grace of God become so religious as to listening to the Word down through the years, and knowing the Word that he is now an angel of light, as to the transformating of his mind. That is to say, a perfect reflector. And he even quoted the Scripture to Jesus. And now ministers that are under his power and jurisdiction have transformated their mind into ministers. That is to minister, to preach to you to say these things. Ministers of light. That is of the Word. They get up and preach the Word, stir faith and things happen. So you cannot tell the difference. It is so close it would deceive the very elect if it were possible. But you have an innermost vision. You see beyond the veil. You have a mind of enlightenment; so then your life is not spent, as to the desire of eating and drinking and washing dishes and buying and selling and planning. And the Bible said it's no time to build houses and plant vineyards and all these kind of things. Your world is not built around that. Your world is built around one thing and that is not to meet your budget, and to make sure that you and your wife's belly is fed, and your children are going to have goods whether the others do, or not. But it's built around self-denial, as the widow to give her all and take it by faith. To lay it on the alter and walk by faith. And as in the wilderness to walk by faith that he might meet your needs with the hidden manna day by day. And those that are not in these circumstance, as to which I described here, they are not in God. They are not part of God. Though it's just a little thing of making provisions for the flesh just for their little family, they're still not born again. They missed it. They went their way with their carnal reasoning to lean to their own understanding, and they have their little place. That's why we took the campground like we did, to give them a chance that wanted to do something for God to have a place to stay, to work together. Not to retire, to homestead. Like the songs said, Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, whatever it is, as to them that build on the sand, the writer said, I say, pity the man. Pity the man. For they build their homes and their houses and each man runs to his own way of life and let's the house of Lord lay waste. Then he tries to run in, as Ananias and Sapphira and say, here is some; I'm going to keep the rest. But God says, you lied to the Holy Ghost; now you're dead. Some of you twice dead and plucked up by the roots. Said, you've blasphemed the Holy Spirit, lying to the Holy Ghost and now you've crossed over; you can never come in. See? Because as it is said, they wanted a little something for themselves, a little on the side. Not much, just to gossip a little, or backbite a little, haughty and contrary, fight a little bit, to evil surmise a little bit, to have their ministry as they say, to do their thing as they say, and all of these things shut them out into the dark to where they have exactly nothing. Having nothing. But you that have received the Spirit, it might be a little even by measure, as to whatever it is, then so are ye in Christ. As you think in your heart so are you. And you've got to admit that you can made your head think a lot of things, but it doesn't profit you. Education, as to the world, the bastard child, you can get something. Bodily exercise profiteth at least little. But the exercising of the senses to be able to discern between good and evil, as unto righteousness, as unto godliness, as to come into this thing which is spirit, as you think in your heart, that is faith and confidence in God's Word, so are ye. So then, the mind of Christ is a Biblical word of promise. I've hid His Word in my heart, the writer said, that I might not sin against God. So then, on the inside, by faith of that Word, He hath purified my heart now life exists in there. And my thoughts are heavenly, as to the mind of Christ, and I think I belong to God, and I think I'm one of His children. And I think I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And I think I've passed from death unto life, and I think I'm sealed that Satan cannot touch me. And I think that God has saved me, and His seed remaineth in me, and I cannot sin because I'm born of God. I think like that. I don't try to convince myself of it, I think like that in my innermost being. And on and on and on. I think that I dwell in heaven. I think that I have all things that pertain unto life. I think that He is my Father and I'm His Son. So then, this is the church. This is the people of God. We've got so many things to say here we'd never be able to say them. So we stop again as to saying, as a man thinketh in his heart so he is. When you think of who you are, and what you want to be, and your programs in life and your plans in life, and all of the things of life, it all centers around you for if a man's testimony be of himself it's no true. Like a man came through not too long ago. I one time knew the man, that he had got into religious things to try to testify of God. When he got up here before you I listened at him and all his testimony was of himself. He testified of what he had, what he was going to do, how he had been discovered, the money he was going to get out of it, and that's the way it is with the world. It's always that way. You that go out into the world you do that. All day long you testify, the dog to his vomit, your mouth is running with vomit and you are bubbling in the slop. See? That is to say, you are talking about you and your business and your money and who is your means of income; how much and when you're going to get it and how many hours and how you feel, and how you don't feel, and your wife and your children, and your cars and visiting with your relatives, and doing this and doing that, and everything that is natural. To be carnal minded; everything that is carnal, which is natural. That's your mind. That's the constitution of your thinking, which is in your head, which means you're dead. You are dead, and you are living in the world, in the mind. The mind is the world. He's placed the world in your heart. So the world is in your heart. And if the world is in your heart the love of the Father is not there. But Christ, heaven, is within me, for He said the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. I have the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the mind of Christ, and so then I mind heavenly things. I think on heavenly things. You mind earthly things, which there is an end of earthly things. They'll all be burned, destroyed. But heavenly things, angels cannot be destroyed. You're equal to the angels; you're a spirit. So then, to be spiritual minded, as Paul said, I would like to speak unto you as unto spirituals. That by this the child of righteousness and the child of foolishness is discerned, as to tell the difference; the child know by his doings. So then, you know where you are living and who you are, and as the revelation comes more brighter, as the light most precious, you will know the more that you are the bastard child, in that you have sold your birthright for a morsel of bread, even the earthly things, as to your own mind of ambition, so busy with a plan well programed, you know, that you have left out his part. And those that are not sullen and melancholy and fierce, and temperamental and greedy, and gullible, they're children of God with love and patience, long suffering and meekness. You wanted what you wanted and so you got your home and you house and your land. In the early church they did the opposite; they gave it all to God. You gave it to yourself. You got it because that's what you wanted. And you say, But, Brother Pike, I've done things before. I know, but that doesn't count. The Bible says, unless you are found doing that at the coming of the Lord, all that you've done will not be remember in your behalf, but your sins will be remembered against you; in your sins ye shall die. But the ones that are doing it at His coming then He said, blessed is he that I find so doing at my coming. I'll make him ruler over all that I've got. So you've got what you wanted. That was for you. Though you went right along with it, as the Israelites did until they got down to the Jordan, then the people got fascinated. I've stood on this side of the Jordan in Canaan looking back over the Jordan and I've seen the place down there, the cities of refuge where those people stopped short of the mark. They were willing to come on in, as to taste of the heavenly gift, partakers of the Holy Ghost, made partakers of these things as to taste of these things, to fight the battle with them that they might have this heavenly thing. That is, to be believers in the church, do work in the church, whatever, even give to the support of the project. But when the battle was over they all went back across the Jordan, down to their inheritance which was on the other side of the Jordan that Sister Betty and I stood and looked at. So when everything is over you'll find yourself, the blood gone off of the seat of atonement, the mercy lifted, all of a sudden you'll look and find that you are on the other side of Jordan, still haven't crossed over the intellectual mind of the lust and the gullible desires of the world, the love of the world in you. And the others, all of a sudden, that light will cease and you'll find that that down there, the grace, is gone and they'll find themselves in heaven where the light never ceases, where the grace never ceases. The inner woven glory, as to the spirit and nature of the Lord Jesus in that you're partakers of the divine nature and nature is what causes the conformity, as to the image, having His nature therefore we'll be like Him at His appearing. All right, let's stand together. Many things we'd like to say this morning, but all we can say is that the world is blinded and the elect receive it. So Paul said, they that were foreordained unto eternal life they believed, and they that were not they did not believe. So, to live after the body, the flesh, to follow it, to do the things that it wants and projecting itself, to give itself to the world. You know, people strive. Satan takes the body and people strive to give themselves to the world and they say, here I am; I'm your creature. I'm nice looking, you know. You know, I'm built right. I'm on T.V. I've still got plenty of hair, you know. I have given myself to you, the world. Oh, somebody says, as a President, or as a Senator, as a singer, as a celebrity, as a millionaire, as a business man, or whatever, here I am, world; I'm part of you. I've given myself to you. That's the outlook. I'm educated, I'm smart. But with the children of God it's a funeral and they take the body and they bury it. And as Joseph that would not commit harlotry with the old harlot, as to the body, the woman that committed the wrong, as to Eve and her children which shall be burned with fire. Down through the heart of the earth, as to the rejection out of the body, suffering death and then back to God who gave it. He that remaineth faithful 'til death, the Bible said, I'll give him a crown. That is to believe until death. So then, we through the transitional changes of life move into greater perspectives of heaven, as to the different levels. And whatever it is, as to that glory, and in the presence of the great light, some within the city, and some without the city walking in the light of the city, as to whatever we can attain unto, as to that measure of that great light most precious. So will it radiate through us as that great wonderful vivid understanding of God, as to the mind of Christ, as to this body being changed as to recipients of life in its abundance. Sometimes we use the terms__ There are men that are great and mighty in muscular, physical forms and so women are just, as to say elite, toward things like this. But these men that have such power and strength are only a type, as to say that you have the right to spiritually develop every God muscle to where you can be the perfect specimen, as to the species of the Sons of God, as to that innermost strength that Samson used to kill the lion with. So, inwardly you can be bulging with the strength and the glory and the beauty that if you should drop off your robe that you spiritual body, in that there is a natural body and a spiritual body, your spiritual body would be the most beautiful thing that was ever looked upon, not as to lust and covetousness, but as to power and might and glory and strength, and great, great significance of godliness. So then, though the body perish outwardly and you don't build too many muscles, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. Let's sing another little chorus together, can we? Remember thy creator even in the days of thy youth when the evil days of reaping and revelating, the revelating knowledge, or understanding suddenly tells you that you are the bastard child, that you give yourself to the world. Remember Him now. So the glory that is unveiled is the glory that we're looking at as changed. Looking into His face, changed from glory to glory. We're going to sing this little chorus. Dale remembers it. A lot of these choruses I sing she remembers, or Frank remembers. I just king of in a sporadic sort of a way say something. Give me another key, Sister. (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (One more time. (Singing) Can you sing it with me? (Singing) One more time. (Singing) The altars are open. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) Can you come a little closer? The altars are open. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Let's give the Lord a hand, can you? Don't you feel like you are getting closer and closer to the Lord? You know, whether we realize it, or don't realize it we are getting closer to the Lord all the time. Because every time that you hear the gospel, every time your eyes are opened then more of the knowledge and revelation of the heavenly treasure comes to your earthen vessel and you know more, which means you are higher. Whatever you excel to in school, so is your education. As to the diplomacy of college, so are you in life. And as it is with God in this mind of Christ, so are you, moving on to the diplomacy, as to the full measure, every man that be perfect shall be as his Master. This is what Paul calls a full reward, forgetting those things that are behind. Can we worship the Lord for just a few minutes this morning? Do you want to lead us in another chorus, Dale? Pity the man, or who am I? (Singing) Can you sing it with us? (Singing) Can you sing it? (Singing, begin tape tow, side two, singing) Who am I? Let's sing another little chorus together. We sang that song If You'll Move Over Just A Little Bit the other night. That's what the Lord wants us to do. See? He's been down the same old road and all we've got to do is just move over. And a lot of times you are around people that have been down this same old road, and Christ within them will reach over and give you a helping hand. Can we sing that together? (Singing) Can you give Him a wave offering this morning? (Singing) Can you sing it just one more time? (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Somebody say hallelujah. I want you to lift your hands with me this morning. Before we dismiss the service check your heart, see where you're going. See if you've really listened to the minister, as to a self advantage, or as to salvation, in what way? placing the greater value on the thing that is of the greatest importance, having our priorities straightened out, then we know that to be spiritual minded is life; to be carnal minded is death. So then, this morning search your heart, search your mind. God has in your lifetime given you a chance to do something for God. Many times he has given you land. He's given you houses. He's given you finance. He's given you strength. He's given you youth. He's given you many opportunities to where you could have spoke up for Him, or said things, and you didn't do it. You kept it for yourself and you did it your own way. Now we're coming to the place to where He doesn't need it. And you've come to the place to where you don't have it, or can't do it, or waited too long and you lost out. But thank God for them that did give their substance to God, to honor Him with all of their life, their heart, their mind, their soul, their body. Did not have a reservation of heart, as to save this life and then loose it. But as to give this life a sacrifice unto God that they might have attain it in Christ, that they might gain that life eternal and immortal. So immortality is what we're looking for, folks, to love Him with all of your strength, to do something for Him instead of using your strength for the gullible desires of the flesh and to prosper, as to your own way, every man looking to his own gain, his own house, his own quarter. A lot of times the man wanting to do something for God and the woman so gullible she won't let him rest day or night because he makes a sacrifice when she would have been a queen in heaven. And a lot of times the woman wanting to do something but the man is so gullible as to the loss of his companionship to frolic with him in the world, he makes a proselyte out of here two fold more the child of hell. She is just religious and that's all. And then sometimes it is a boycott, as Ananias and Sapphira were two conspirers, as to a conspiracy against God. And they're going to among the people and to partially take part, but not really to get in and surrender their will and desire, as not to gossip and backbite and find fault and to do the things, as to withhold and to rob God even of their time and strength and substance. But, anyway, we're thankful for the opportunity to preach the gospel. It goes to every creature, and to them that can hear, having ears to hear let them hear what the spirit is saying unto the churches. And them that have eyes to see, even his eyes, in that you are his body, then let them see always the things that the father does. Let it be so with them that their testimony is that I do always the things that please my precious Father, even as Enoch before his translation, this testimony he had that he please God. And without faith, as to believe the Word, as to honor the Word, as to obey the Word, as to believe the Word, without that it is impossible to please God, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is. That is, believe there is a God. And you must believe that He is, that He is present with you right now; all the time, to believe that He is a present help in time of need. To believe that He is, and to believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. For if you do the things that please God, you ask what you will He'll do it for you, if you abide in Him and His words abide in you. To please God. So then, to believe in the Lord, the confidence of Christ is, I do the things that please Him my confidence is that He hears us, I know I have the things I ask of Him, cause I do always the things that please my Father. Let's just close our eyes, lift up our hands. Standing here thinking about the goodness of God, the power of the Lord. So wonderful to be a Christian. I'm going to ask Brother Clyde Cobb to come up and dismiss us. As Clyde comes let's examine ourselves and see if we're in the faith, which faith is by the hearing of the Word. Faith by the hearing of the Word. Let's see if we are in the faith. For in the last days many shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, getting past feeling, doing anything, to where they can just do anything with a reprobate mind, for God has turned them over to a reprobate mind to believe those things and be damned. All right. Brother Clyde is coming. While he's coming let's remember the services tonight. Try to come back. Remember we sang the song Bringing In The Sheaves. Let's remember those things and bring somebody back tonight. Go out into the highways and the hedges, compel them to come in that My house might be filled, the Lord said. He wants His house filled. He wants His house filled and sheep begat sheep. So go out, find somebody. Make it your program of life to always find somebody. When you get that one in find another. And you are laying up treasures in heaven. Treasures. Everyone of the will become jewels in your crown. Some folks are not doing very much as to have jewels, which proves that they don't believe very much. Because if I sent you out to gather diamonds and told you the field to get them in you'd gather a bucket full, all that you could get. So it's very obvious you're in unbelief and because you unbelief your cut off in the darkness, as to the foolish heart darkened and you failed to get that eternal life which is through the grace of God.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord