Light Out Of The Shadows

The writer said in the second book of Chronicles in the twentieth chapter and in the twenty-first verse: "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth forever." You know the wonderful thing of salvation is holiness. I think of it so much how wonderful God is; and how that God is so wise; and how that he takes the unwise in their own craftiness. You know people, they're always thinking of holiness. They think of people, they say, holy rollers. Holiness, you know, that's to them the off-scouring of the earth. And I think how great and mighty is the knowledge of God that he should allow them to think like that. That is, he hath blinded their eyes that they should not see. And he hath let them look upon that which is so beautiful and so wonderful as being degraded and low class in the world. And being blind, they don't realize that God is the spirit of holiness. And that God, that spirit of holiness is the light of the world. And that light of holiness is so brilliant and so bright and so pure and so clean, so holy, so astounding, so amazing, that there is no words of description with the greatest of scholars in the world. The most polished men of ethics cannot even think as to the degree of it's greatness, and it's brightness, and it's purity, and it's royalty, and it's fame, and of the power of wealth and greatness that is to be accredited to holiness as the spirit of holiness. The spirit of holiness itself is brighter as to outshine the brightness of the noon day sun. And scholars and men that are suppose to be philosophers and orators are like garbage that's heap upon heap, to be thrown into the stench of that which is rejected of God. And they in their polished way look upon holiness as that which is degraded. And God has been so gracious and kind, that he hath blinded their eyes that Satan should vainly puff them up with their worldly doings, to make themselves something when they are nothing; and to make them think of holiness as that which is degraded; and to think of that which is degraded as something great and mighty. That is they have heaped together the garbage of the earth. And Paul called it the beggarly elements of the earth. To esteem this as being something great, when it is the stench and rotteness of all mankind. And yet holiness and that is so exceedingly great that men cannot obtain unto the explanation, as to give description of it; and God has let them think of it as something that's abased. So he has done that so that he might hid it from the eyes of what in the world is called the wise and prudent, and made it revelation unto babes such as will learn. So here we are as objects of holiness. And here we are as objects of holiness. And here we are as that which is untouchable, unimaginable, unthinkable as to greatness. And the world doesn't see it. We're camouflaged in their midst that they mighty not see it; that they might not defile this wonderful thing that's called holiness. So then it's so wonderful to see what God has done. And gradually he unveils this great masterpiece a little at a time. And the final analysis of it as to the ultimatum in God, it outshines the noon day sun. And the Bible said, the brightness of it's coming is so great that the heavens pass away. The heavens melt down and are as nothing in the presence of the spirit of holiness. And the earth with all of it's glamour and all of it's intriguing things pass away and dissipate at the appearing of the spirit of holiness. And as the spirit of that Great Light, even God the spirit of holiness, he's referred to as His Holiness, as he appears the heavens flee away. The earth flee away. The sea is no more; and there's nothing found in the presence of holiness. And it's so lovely, so great, and so mighty. And to think that we who are born again, we who belong to God, that we emanated from the spirit of holiness. That we are actually bone of the bone and flesh of flesh of the spirit of holiness, that is to say that was made flesh in Jesus Christ. And we emanate from him. And as to the others that came into the world that are not in sonship, they are but tares. And the Bible teaches that with the heat of the day the flowers of the earth, as to that which is considered as the grass before God, it wiltereth away. But we who are sons of God, we live on and on forever. We blend in with that Great Light because we are part of that Great Light: God the spirit of holiness, the Great Light unto which no man can approach, whom no man has seen nor can see. Paul, just a little of that light appeared, put his eyes out. He went blind. And we being the body of the Lord Jesus, as Jesus alone dwelling in that light. That is to say, this knowledge of holiness is so great and so astounding, that with the brightness of this knowledge the image of perdition is destroyed. And everything that is of the tares are destroyed. That is to say, when the parable was given: how did these tares get into your garden when you sewed good seed? They said, Master, didst thou not sew good seed in thy field? He said, I did. They said, From whence cometh the tares? He said, The enemy did this. The enemy did this. So we know that all of the people, all of the people except sons of God as to sons and daughters as to son ship, that they are of the devil. And the way that they got into the world was by the devil. And that God had nothing to do with their origin, that the devil brought them in. So we see that life verses death. And sons of God are standing in the shadows until Lucifer, the god of this world with his children, until the time that God destroys them, we just stand in the shadows waiting, because Adam lost this world and all that's in it. Though it was given unto him as a gift, but he lost it to Satan; in that Satan deceived him through the weakness of the woman, that is to say the flesh. And since then Satan has had this world. And God came in a human form as to the image of the bastard child, as to the one that Satan brought in: to condemn it, to overthrow it and to do away with it; that the sons of God as to the resurrection of Jesus Christ might be alive forevermore and possess this world. He redeemed it back to God. Coming in the image of the fallen one, he condemned it to death. He took it to Calvary. He smote it. He folded it up. He laid it away, that the law of sin and death could never have power over us again. So we're free from that. And Jesus told them as he came to preach to them he said, You are of your father the devil. Said, I'm of my Father. I came from heaven. I go back to my Father. Said, But you are of your father the devil. He's the one that sewed you, Jesus said. And truthfully when you go back and check the record, you find out that it was just Adam and Eve there in the Garden; nobody else. The seed was real good. And then when Eve communicated with the wrong source, and the knowledge of evil came, then there was a child born into the world. And from that time on it has been so. As to the fall of man, Satan sewed and sewed and re-sewed again and again the fields, as to intermingle the crop with bastard children: murderers and killers. That is: murderers, killers, liars, cheats, swindlers, those who love and make a lie, those who practice the love of the world, and all these things. But nevertheless the children of God are still here. And the Lord knows how to differentiate. And he will bring his forth at the right time; take this world away from those beasts; restore it back to sonship. The saints of God will rise and take the world, the kingdoms of this world. Just as they have received the kingdom of God inwardly, they will rise by strength of that, take the kingdoms of this world and rule forever and forever: some over ten cities, some over seven cities. Many kings as the King of kings that sits upon the great throne of God. All these kings will during the millennium pay tribute as to the throne. And then the new earth, they'll come in and out that great city. And they'll put their crowns down at their feet. Whereas the twenty-four elders that set there with him, we say day and night, in that there's no night in that city, sets with him continually. They will periodically put their crowns down at his feet, acknowledging that he is the King of kings, the Lord of lords. And as the song we wrote about, the Garden of Gods, he is the God of all gods. Though ye are gods, yet he is the God of gods. In the garden of gods he is the God of all gods. Like I was telling David Paul, he and I was flying around a little the other day. He was wanted me to fly his plane a little bit; whereas I'm not too much of a pilot. I don't practice that much. He likes to brag on me and encourage me to get me to fly. But we were talking about the Lord. And I again brought to his attention some of the things that I say to you. That is that with God there is no beginning; and with God there is no end. So then in the life of God there is no time element involved, because there are no days with God. There are no nights with God. There is no beginning with God; and there is no end with God. God is from everlasting to everlasting. He was, He is and forever shall be. And this is where we get confused. When we consider our own life, then there is a beginning with us. All things must have a beginning with us. And when we consider our own life, all things must have an end with us. Therefore in that we have a beginning, we have an end. And Paul said, I say that as to us, that is to me to keep from saying you. Or that is to number ourselves with the natural people of this world as to the beast. Beast have a beginning as to the act of creation. Therefore they must have an end. But as to sons of God the Bible said, This was given to us before the world ever was. And as the Lord said to Job, where was you before the world was ever created, and the foundations of the earth was laid, when the sons of God leaped for joy? See that is to say, we have been, we was, we are, we forever shall be. I am what I am by the grace of God. Having given this to us in Christ before the world ever was, that means that we are eternal. That we've always been eternal. That we emanated from God, that we came from the loins of God; that He's our Heavenly Father; that Jesus Christ was the beginning of the creation of God. And the conception of Mary was of divine act of the spirit. And he was the first brother of many brethren, as to bring to light the eternal brethren, the eternal ones, that were to be made manifest at the rent veil of Calvary: to come forth, to redeem their heritage, as to recover that, that was lost back to themselves through Jesus Christ as the first brother, that they might rise, take the kingdom and possess it forever and forever. And make manifest among beasts that they themselves are very God, as to the membership of God, that they are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. To say that at Calvary came the fullness of time. And then with that there came all things to be manifested in Christ. And just as everything was gathered into the ark in the days of Noah being typical; when the true ark came as to the Lord Jesus, then all things in heaven and earth was gathered into the Lord. That's why the Bible said, You are baptized into Christ. And as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, because you put on the Lord Jesus. Paul said, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Or that is since your body is gone by death as to the fallen image, that is to say of Calvary, now you live in the body of Jesus. God has gathered you by Calvary into the body of the Lord Jesus. And now you're in his body as to your life, your angelic, inward being. And now you are bone of his bone as to your outer man, by fore-knowledge of God and by what God sees you to be. And someday the change in the moment in the twinkling of an eye will take place to make this manifest. So then we have been eternal in him. So with us there is no days. With us there is no night. With us there is no beginning. With us there is no end. And so this again as I say: great is the mystery of godliness. This could be confusing except for them that can understand. The Bible said, The children of this world shall not understand when good cometh. For Satan, even Lucifer, the god of this world, has blinded their eyes, even the eyes of their understanding, that they should not see when good cometh. And the Bible said, If this be hid, it be hid to them that are lost. Even their polished scholars with their great diplomacies cannot understand. They are like a little babe. They are less than a child in the sight of God as to their knowledge. They cannot even register as to a child's understanding in the presence of this great, wonderful thing of God. The Bible said, God's knowledge or understanding is higher above man, that is to say the beast, than the heavens the earth. But to you and I, the Bible said, Since Calvary, the rent veil, that now is made known unto the church, that is to say the children of God or the body of the Lord Jesus, even the church, now is made known unto the church the manifold wisdom of God, this heavenly treasure that God has put within your earthen vessels, which he calls the knowledge of heaven, the knowledge of God. Heavenly treasure, he referred to it as the knowledge of God. We're all baptized into this one body. That is to say, the children of God, as to the membership. All baptized into this one body by one spirit. Or that is to say, that I have one spirit, but many members. I have one spirit of life. So there's one spirit of life that hath gathered to himself, even the God spirit, having gathered to himself every member of his body, then that means that you're connected one to another by that spirit. That's what it's meant by being baptized into the body by one spirit. You're connected to that spirit of life. And if others that don't have that spirit of life, then they just don't have life. I mean if they don't have the connection. Someone said, Well, how do you know? The Bible said, Well, you can tell them by their fruits. You can tell them by the fruits of: joy, peace, longsuffering, meekness, brotherly love, kindness, all these things. And the Bible said, The child is known by his doing. If you don't see this in a person's life, it doesn't matter how religious they are: if they fast, if they speak in tongues, if they dance, if they shout, you know, if they come to church regular, if they give in the offering, no matter what. Don't you ever dare compare them with God's children. They have nothing to do with God's children. But when you see the fruits of the spirit in their life, though you might not see what you think they ought to be doing, always remember to be careful how you speak of them, because that is the body of Almighty God. That is the children of God. The others will go after the things of the world and the flesh. For Satan savors the things that be of the flesh. And you can tell the children by their doings, because one will do after the spirit, love the spirit, his conversation will be in heaven. The other will of the things of the earth. They'll be after money and prestige, and they'll be looking at their faces and forms, and they'll want cars, houses, land, money, all these kind of things. You know, these are called wondering stars of whom the midst of darkness is reserved forever. They are called raging waves foaming out their own shame. So I said all that then to say this. I'm going to read in just a minute. So we are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, even the temple of God. Whereas the Jews were the tabernacle in the wilderness as to the intellectual mind, we're the temples of God as to that which is perfect, that which is glorified as to the mind of Christ. So I say again that God, with him there is no such thing as time. I say this a lot of times, I tell my wife and some of the others when I get a chance to talk with them; you have to remember that aging is not the results of time and years. Though we say yes: it's the result of time and years, but it's not the result of time and years. Aging is not the results of time and years. Else how was Moses way over a hundred years old, his eyesight having not waxed dim, the natural sources of his body not having been abated? How was it that Methuselah, Noah, those men were nine hundred years old and they had not aged? Because aging doesn't come from time and years. And it's the same way as I say with death. Death is not the results of aging. Else again I ask a question: If death is the results of aging, how is it that they lived to be nine hundred years old and they were still living? How was that when you die at sixty, seventy, fifty, eighty, ninety, a hundred? How is that? Neither was their strength gone; because the Bible tells you and I that if we believe, our strength shall be as our day. And the Bible said, Some shall live longer by reason of strength. So then how long will you and I be able to live? Eternally. Because we have eternal strength. For the Lord said, Be strong in the power of my might. And he tells us that we are strengthened by the power of the might of the inner man as to Christ Jesus. So then there's no wiltering in our life. There's no languishing in our life. There's no such thing as losing our strength. Even as in the days of Jacob when he got ready to depart, he just called them in and he yielded up the ghost. As it was with Christ, I have this commandment of my Father. I can lay my life down. I can take it up. No man taketh my life from me. So we see that we cannot die. Whether man come to kill us or whatever, we cannot die, because we've passed from death unto life. And I say again, how was it that Sarah received strength to conceive in her old age as we say? Or Abraham in his old age brought forth a son and then married again, brought forth a family? See, how was it that Moses, the sources of his body wasn't abated? What happened to Elijah when he just went on to be with God and didn't die? What happened to Enoch after several hundred years in the earth and then went on to be with God? What happened to all these great, mighty people that we could speak of as Jesus on the Mt. of Transfiguration and him a human body and there he appeared in glory? See, what happened to these folks? Great and mighty things, great and mighty things. So I said all that to eradicate the confusion and the conflicting thoughts. As to do away with that mind of death. The day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Then where does death come from? Does it come from aging? No it comes from carnality. It comes from the carnal mind. It wasn't until Eve took this knowledge into her heart that she died. After that she died. A man never from that time on lived beyond a God day. A day is a thousand years with God. And as it was said, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. And we brought it out how that God will restore the God day as to one thousand years in the millennium. And he will let man live a God day to show that the curse is now lifted; and that death did not come by God, but it came by man, and that because of the curse. So then to be carnally minded is death. But to be spiritually minded, what happens? Jesus said, To hear my words, to believe on him that sent me, you have passed from death unto life, and shall never come into condemnation. So then, how are we eternally alive? Because we have now come to the Christ mind; and we've laid aside the natural, carnal mind. And my, what we could say about that tonight if we were just going to talk on it. But anyway, it makes us know one thing that from the garden down to Calvary is the era of human flesh. And the atonement for human flesh as to the seasons and times was the blood of bulls and goats, which could never make the comer thereunto perfect. But was significant as to the times and seasons, until the perfect offering should come, which is the lamb without spot, without wrinkle and without blemish, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the lamb of the evening time of life, to be offered up upon the great altars of sacrifice, as to God the devouring fire, as to his consumption, consuming powers; as the Bible speaks of looking forward to the fiery indignation of God that shall devour his adversaries. So then God is a consuming fire. But from Calvary it is a spiritual regime. It is a spiritual man. And it is an eternal man. And he is to be indoctrinated from his recognition of this as to childhood as to birth. He is to be indoctrinated or tutored in this. Though he be lord of all, yet as a child, he differeth nothing from a servant. So then he is to be tutored until he comes to the Bar Mitzvah; as to wit the redemption of his body, in that his body is the purchased possession; the spirit that God has given us, the earnestness of the inheritance. And we know now that the body has been purchased, and that it has been paid for by Calvary; and that we're to come to the place to wit or to understand, to recognize, to learn, to conceive of or to hear, that it be made known to us, that it hath already been purchased and it already is eternal. And it's just a mystery that has to be revealed to you that all bodies aren't going to sleep. That when the course is finished, as Paul said, having finished his course, being caught up to the third heaven; Jesus walked into the third heaven without dying; see, all of this when we come to this: as to a generation to generation, compiling understanding to understanding, until we come to this, then we don't have the redemption of the body. But when we come to this, then in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, we're changed at the last trump when the mysteries are finished from mortality to immortality. And the mysteries are thus made known, and we sleep no more. So then God from nine hundred years has broke it down. That is to say: sin and iniquity having separated you from the good things of God; killing your faith because of condemnation of the conscience. That is to say, the law having revealed sin to us, and us not being able to perform that which is right, it hath brought death. I was alive without the law. The law came. Sin revived and I died. That is to say, condemnation took away my faith, and I couldn't get in touch with God. But when the Lord gave the atonement that we might believe in the atonement as to his righteousness, now then our iniquities are gone. And by believing in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus, he can look upon us, because we're not shapen in iniquity anymore. We're bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh; therefore we can have the desires of our heart. If we apply ourself as to believe, to ask whatever we will, and he'll do it for us. So then our sins are gone. They're underneath the blood on the cross of Calvary, as far removed as darkness is from dawn. And the Bible said, They're in the sea of God's forgetfulness, that's good enough for me, as the writer said. Praise God! My sins are gone. So again I say, that from Calvary over, we are a new man. We are a new creature. We are now bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. We are now Gods. And we're now eternal. We're alive forevermore. Now then it is made known to us. Nine hundred years Methuselah lived, three hundred Enoch lived. Now I believe it was nine hundred and sixty-nine that Methuselah lived. But now through these ages we see that God has broke it down to sixty and seventy and eighty and ninety and a hundred years. Life got less and less as to the life span as time come on. Because knowledge become more and grace had to given more. Sin doth abound. Grace doth much more abound. And as sin got greater, more required, man doing less, the days got darker, carnality as to death killing him out, because judgment is upon the spirit that entered Eve. That is to say that mind of death, that mind which is the veil of darkness, that veil which Jesus rent in twain at Calvary, when he separated the spirit from the body; and done away Paul said, with the body of that death. And so then in this we see that life span got less. And then the question arises: why? I just explained why. Sin increased. Death came. It would take a lot of detail as to explaining those things. But the Lord has perfectly given us an understanding in it. The thing that we do know is that death is powerful and preeminent in our day. And life spans are shortened. And even with all of our medical aide, life spans are still shortened. And the Bible said, the last days that young men's hearts would fail them from fear of looking after those things that's come upon the earth. And in our day statistics I believe say that, has been in the last x amount of months, that more young people die than old. And that they are wild, restless, dope, inflicting upon themselves punishment, taking their own lives, doing all these things, staying up at night around the clock, causing themselves to have heart attacks, wrecks and all these things. So then we can see that somewhere this has to be changed. And the only way to do that is by faith. God has suffered to be broken down that he might multiply the more. As to keeping man from learning this, in that man don't live as long. But now we're beginning to compile this as to each generation, that we may have the same benefits as the nine hundred year life span. Now it's coming down to the end of the world, down to the mark as to the incentive of Christ. And seeing this, then we know that we're learning, that we're not children of time, but of destiny, to the extent of being predestinated. And we're beginning to understand that we don't have any beginning of days, or any ending of life as it was said of Melchizedek. And he shall be made a priest after the order of Melchizedek. The Bible said, who had no beginning of days nor ending of life, who had no mother nor father. And then that makes us think differently. Which is hard to conceive of what I'm about to say, even though I've mentioned it to you a number of times. And though you hear it, hear it so carefully, but there's something that has to be quickened before you can understand it. And that is to say, that if there is no yesterday with God, no today, when I refer back to it; I give a little illustration, or say a few things to quicken these thoughts to your mind; as to say, six thousand years. Six days he worked, on the seventh he rested. Six thousand years he worked. Now if he's made the world in six thousand years, and on the seventh as to the coming millennium which is the day of his rest, he rests. That would be seven thousand years that God's been active and busy. But then I say, Let us go back once again to the beginning. And when we go back to the beginning, what do we find? We find God. Because the Bible said, In the beginning was God. So then we say, there is the proof that God had a beginning. When God come on the scene then things begin to happen. And that's true. God did have a beginning. In that the word god means object of worship. And Jesus was the object of worship. And it was as to a beginning in a human manifesto, as to being born of human flesh, as we would say. And yet it was the word; it was made flesh. It was on the image of the beast as to the human. So then we think about that and we realize that God who is the spirit, when it says, In the beginning, we say, God. In the beginning, then we're talking about man. That the beast had a beginning. That man had a beginning. That when Satan sewed the tares in the field, that was the beginning. Because the tares are to have an end as to be burned. But the grain gathered into the garners as to the master's use is not burned. It doth not have an end. It goes into the grainery; and then it's made into the bread. And then it enters into the body to bring strength. And the strength of this bread as Jesus said, Eat my body for it's bread. Drink my blood for it's drink. And without this you don't have any life. When it goes into the body as to the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as to this grain, that is eternal strength as to eternal life. So it never has an end. All right so we see that in the beginning, we only have a world where Lucifer comes in. That's why he's the god of this world. Because the world came, and Lucifer being on the scene, this is why that the world came to be. Oh someone would say, No. No. Brother Pike. Yes, this world you're living in. That's how it came to be. It came to be because everything in this world is vanity, lying vanities. All is vanity and vexation of the spirit, and it must pass away. Because what God creates, it never passes away. What emanates from God cannot pass away, because it is eternal in that God is eternal. So then this world is a type. It's a shadow. It's a passing object. Heavens will pass away. When the brightness of that illumination of the original image comes, there won't be anymore of this world. There won't be anymore of this heaven. There won't be anymore of those stars. There won't be anymore of those people. Because Jesus Christ as you, as the body, as the membership alone will be here. And everything else will pass away. And he said, I create new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Or that is to say that which was from the beginning, before the beginning God himself comes to be once again. And the curse is gone. Because this world is the shadows. And for this world to be, I've told you so many times, God had to recede, as to let this great light flash on the image of the act of creation, and then recede that the shadows may appear to bring forth an image unto death, which is a negative side of life. And now with the brightness of his coming as to redeem from those shadows, that is to say, to eradicate the shadow of death, which was the intellectual darkness that came over Eve. Sometimes they see a child born with a veil of death over it. To eradicate that shadow of death, that intellectual reasoning as to human understanding, and the old tree of knowledge as to diplomacies of college, school and the rehearsing of thoughts as to forms of matter. See, to eradicate that by the brightness of his coming the Bible said. And the man that sitteth in the temple of God, even in the human body, that showeth himself to be God, telling you when it's going to rain, and when the clouds are going to do this, and whether it's going to be cold, or whatever it's going to be, predicting everything, and creating everything, and everything that comes to pass, and building the house and building the car, making the garment, whatever, the Bible said, And God will destroy him with the brightness of his coming. Because whereas you wear a natural garment, I have an eternal garment. For I've put on the Lord Jesus Christ. And I have the wedding garment. And your garment is nothing but rags that deteriorate and that are burned. So then God having clothed us and that with his glory; for he said, You cover with a covering, but not of me. That is the covering cherubs as to say the covering. I have a covering. Adam tried to cover with the leaves. He tried to cover with fig leaves. Because he had lost his covering and come to shame. But I'm covered with the glory of God. I'm covered with the illumination of the Lord Jesus. I am overshadowed, illuminated as Mary was. And so then that is an eternal covering even the body of the Lord Jesus. That was the Word. That was glory and light made manifest as to human image. And went away in the change when he raised from the earth after the resurrection, he just went back into the light. Stepped out of the light like the angel did in the days of Manoah, stepped back into the fire and went away in the light. So we realize by these little pre-words that I'm saying, that with this all these images have to pass away because they're nothing but tares. And though the rain is upon them as to the blood on the seat of atonement, when the blood is taken away, they'll be no more. They say, From ashes to ashes, from dust to dust. But Jesus said, I came from heaven. I go back to heaven. You come from the earth. You are of the dust. You're fleshly. You come from the dust. You go back to the dust, from your origin to your origin. That is you must return to where you came from. But he said, I came from heaven. I'm the spirit made flesh. I'm the word made flesh. This is the god flesh. And I come from heaven. I go back to heaven. Why will there be a church that will be raptured? Because it came from heaven. It must return to heaven. There must come a time when it can't go to the dust anymore. Because it goes to heaven. And even though there are some that sleep in the dust, they are not of the dust. And they will be brought forth as the resurrection, changed into this glorified image as to eternal preservation. Now that makes us to think one more thing here as we go to change over just a little bit. And that is if there was no beginning with God, then that means what we term as a long, long time of seven thousand years is really nothing with God, nothing at all. And some say pre-historically speaking, that God created another world, and it's passed away. And that's where all the prehistorics came from as to animals or whatever, which is ironic. But nevertheless, we think back and I say to you, Well, what do you say, Brother Taylor? What do you think of God? Since God was here before the beginning, and though there's been seven thousand years as we would say at the end of the millennium as to bring in the new earth. We say, such a long time. But what about God before the beginning? What about God? What did he do? He's been here such a long, long time. Then we say, How long? A million years. What has he been doing in that million years before he created the earth? Some would then say Brother Pike, longer than that. Ten million years. Somebody said, Well, what was he doing then? Someone would say, Well. If he has no beginning he'd be here longer than that. Somebody said, Ten billion years. And then what was he doing all that time? What was he doing? We say, Well, he created heaven and earth, Brother Pike. He did that in six days. Well you got to understand what he was saying. It did say he created the heavens and the earth. But I ask a question again, what was he doing? So don't get your mind boggled down on too many thoughts and avenues. What was he doing a hundred billion years ago? Or what was he doing two hundred billion years ago? Or what was he doing a hundred trillion years ago? Or what was he doing before then? And you know what that would do? That would drive you slap crazy. You'd keep on until you would go crazy. Your mind would snap. See, and yet scientists are brilliant. We've got all these brilliant men, these scholars. They've got all the answers. Why they just know. They've just got brief cases full of answers. But nevertheless they seem to never give us an answer about these things. Have you ever heard anybody ever give you an answer as to the polished scholars, as to how far God dates back, and to what he was doing during all that time. If they're so brilliant. Somebody said, Well they don't mess with things like that. I don't know. They go back billions of years, and they tell us about the prehistorics, and what the animals was doing back there during that time. Now you say, Well, how do they get around that? One way: the Bible gives it so clearly. The Bible said, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. They're a bunch of fools. Because they don't believe there is a God. Because they don't have any answer. They can't explain it and they have to define everything. And so then they go back trying to explain the life of animals and all these kind of things; and they just block God out and say, Well, you know. I tell you this so often. I'm sure you read it and studied it in school. That a little form of matter, mass as they call it, a mass of matter, a little form of mass came forth. And then it began to spin and spin and spin. They don't know just how it began to spin. They don't know just exactly what causes it to spin. But it begin to spin; and it begin to flatten out and after a while, like mama making her biscuits: one over here and one over here and one over here, and we got Jupiter and Mars. You know, and they say that this just come from an infiltration of some kind of particles that got together to form this little matter. But they don't know where the particles came from. See, as to the earth, it dates back as to what some of them say about six thousand years; but their fossils date on back, date on back, date on back. How many of you understand how foolish that that is talking about evolution? Going all the way back to a tadpole; and then from that they went back to a sea weed. And it all sprang out of a sea weed. And yet they can't explain where the sea weed came from nor where the sea came from either. You understand what I'm saying? I said the other day, history. His story only goes back to the hieroglyphics to Egypt. And after that you have to get to the Bible or you don't have any history as to where God had Moses to write this. So then you say, Well Brother Pike, how do you explain it? It's very simple, very simple. The Bible said all them that are born of God are of a good understanding. It's very simple. It can be explained very simple. I've already explained some of it by telling you about the shadows, and how this thing got here, and it's because of sin, and why this thing is here. It's very simple. If I boggle my mind down trying to figure out how many years God was here, there's no way to explain it, no more than a bunch of foolish science can explain about pre-historic animals. I'd be like a kitty with a ball of yarn. They put them things over on people that don't stay in anytime in God as to try to understand. And they have them people to believe those silly things that they teach. Because they've got to have something for an absolute to keep people stable, from blowing apart you know, or going up like a balloon. And so they give them the stabilization of indoctrination that's from the tree of knowledge. And of course it does date back to that. And they say they all came from beasts which is a correct definition. But the thing is not the way that they have said it. Now, what do we say? Simple as I've said with you many times before. To begin with, there is no yesterday. To begin with, there is no tomorrow. Only yesterday and tomorrow comes from time: time markers as to the little dial that's in the earth, when man divided time as to sectionally speaking, so he could redeem the time, or use the time, or have some understanding as when a day begun and when a day closed out as to the shadows. And see, had there never been a shadow, there would have never been a clock. Because the little dial clock on the ground works by the shadow. And had there never been a sin, there would have never been a shadow. Because all of these things are fore-runners. As the sun comes over the horizon, then the shadow is out here. When it hits high noon as to Calvary, then we say, Get thee behind us Satan, for thou art an offense to me. And the shadows are behind us. But at high noon the victory of what Christ has done has put him under our feet as to the shadow. So we see that because of sin came forth shadows. And because of shadows came forth time. And now there's a time to die. There's a time to be born. There's a time to die, from the time that shadows came. But if there was no shadows, there would be no time. That's why the Bible said in Revelation 10:7 at the sounding of the last trump, when the last angel sounds, though great is the mystery of godliness; but when the last angel sounds, the mystery of God would be finished as to whatever it might be: life, death, time, whatever it might be. See, and so when he sounds: the hand goes up; and he says: Time no more, no more. So somebody said, Then when Revelation 10:7 comes time will be no more. When the hand went up at Calvary, when Jesus said, It is finished; the shadow was under the feet. That was the end of time. And the Bible said, In the fullness of time, which was the end of time, that he said, It's finished. See, it is only made manifest as to the writing, in that John wrote about the expose' as to revelation of what Calvary was. It was an expose'. See, and you say, But Brother Pike, the shadow went on. After high noon it goes on. I know it goes on. It goes on behind. But it only goes on for them that are still on the other side of Calvary. For if you're fallen from grace, you're on the other side of Calvary. You're still under the law. And the law doesn't pass away at Calvary except for the believer. Therefore all the world is still underneath that shadow of death. And the Bible said, Their eyes are blinded with that veil as to the shadow of death, because they cannot see beyond the rent veil, because the veil has never been rent for them. See, as to say, In his body to make a new man. All right so then we say, where does time begin? Where does time end? How long will it be? As it was said unto Daniel, And how long shall these things be as to the angel said, unto what time shall these be? Well, a real, simple way as not to take all night with this as we could; but a real, simple thing to say is this: that there is no yesterday and tomorrow. The sun goes up. And because you're on this side of the hill where you can't see the sun, then the shadows come. Because going up on this side of the hill as to the horizon rising to the mountain top, and then dropping down indicates Calvary, at the top of Mt. Calvary. So when the sun gets to its point as to it's place around the earth, it starts dropping, see on the other side of Calvary. And there at the light, and there's the shadows. And like I was telling David Paul the other day, the way I feel that this world turns as to the world being tilted on it's axis, God allowed that because of the shadows, because these things had to have beginning and end. And he let it tilt so that the great heat of that fire, which is the day star, could pull on it. And as it pulls on it, as this great fire down in the heart of the earth also pulls on it, and as there's a pulling this way, in that heat draws and vaporizes, changes forms of matter into gases; then this way the heat is pulling, and as it pulls this way, it is a gravitational power to keep men stable as to a stabilization of things, or otherwise everything would be raptured away or just go away, as to keep the earth in it's orbit. And so then the way that God has made it that it's tilted, and as the sun pulls this way, it pulls it; as from the side, and the fire pulls this way and it pulls it and it rolls it. Rolls it. And it keeps it as we would say in it's orbit. Now I could say a lot of things here, because we get into as to whether the sun moves or whether the moon moves or whether it doesn't. But I'll say this, even though you might not understand it. The sun definitely does not move. As to being the same yesterday, today and forever as the Lord Jesus. For he is the day star. He's stable, the same yesterday, today and forever. Everything else has to orbit around it. But on the other hand scientists say the sun don't move. It does move. It moves all the time. It's never at rest as to movement. It moves all the time. Because it's been proven that it is a ball of fire and that those flames are moving all the time, leaping out for hundreds of thousands of miles. It's ever alive and moving. So there's as lot to be said about it as to pro and con. But one thing that we do know: that God is the Great Light; and the sun is the great light as to symbolically speaking; and the world would freeze over if it wasn't for that great light. So all life has to come from the great light. Now, I said all that just to say this again as to simplicity and explanation of God. If there is no yesterday and tomorrow, that means there is just one day. When you get above the shadows of this world, and you go up there where the astronauts were, you can see from daylight to daylight. See, and if that's true, once we get out of the shadows of this mind being tilted on our axis, and get away from the shadows, and we come back upright, everything from as we would say here up will be in the light all the way around the world. Like this. And if it spins, it will be all around the world like this. Where there's no need to spin because the light is right there holding it in it's place. And as to the way that it's made as to this that draws this way, everything from this level as to the equator, equally speaking, down is darkness. It's destruction. It's fire. It's consummation. Anything under there is the bottomless pit, because as we say, you go out into infinity, they haven't found any walls. They haven't found any ceilings. They haven't found any bottoms. So you're out there to where there's nothing, nothing, nothing. Scientists are brilliant, but they've never comprehended that nothingness out there to tell us where the ceilings are, or where the walls are, or where the bottom is. And yet they're so brilliant. Well anyway, let's say this in conclusion: that with God there is no beginning and end. With God there's no yesterday and tomorrow. With God he was, he is, he forever shall be. Now someone would say, Well what do you mean by that? I mean while we frustrate our little brain over some kind of program that's been put into our little computer up here, we frustrate ourself over time, there is no such thing as time. So then what is time? There is no such thing as time. It's only something that came as lying vanities. It's shadows. There never was any such thing as time. See, in God's world and your world as creatures of eternity, there's not a time to be born. There's not a time to die. This was given to you in Christ before the world ever was. You leaped for joy before the world ever came. So then there was no such time. Somebody said, Well how long then has it been then since God created the world? How long, Brother Pike? Now, now. Somebody says, You're eccentric. You're beside yourself. You don't have good sense. No. I'm just saying that so that you can comprehend what I'm saying as to say, that's why they speak of time and days and seasons and months and weeks, minutes and hours, so that you'll have a stabilization as to your existence. See. How long has it been since God sat as we would say, upon the circle of the earth, beheld the inhabitants thereof as grasshoppers, and watched them crucify his son? How long has it been? How many years has it been? Folks, it's now. It's now. It's right now. See. There was no yesterday and tomorrow with God. It's right now. That blood is just as fresh as it ever was. The mob crying out, destroy him, because there was no yesterday with God. See, there's no such thing. In your mind there has to be time and distance and all these kind of thing. That's where you get all this aging and all this thing is because you are in the shadows of time. And because you are in the shadows of time, you age and you die; because you cannot comprehend the heights and the depth and the width and the length. But see, the Bible said, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you should comprehend the heights, the depth, the width and the length. See, that you might be eternal. Because all this thing about church is a game. All this thing of denominations is a game. All this thing about being faithful to church, and paying your tithes and being part of the group, these little social benefits is a game. God is the invisible light as to the spirit. And his world is that of the light. And all this other is nothing, whether it's church or whatever it is. See, and you don't get to heaven that way. That's why the Jews missed it when they said, Will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? He said, My kingdom's not of this world. They were looking for some natural thing. And someday there will be a natural restoration as to a thousand years millennium for them to know, inasmuch as they are the body. But beyond that it will go back into the celestial. So then when we realize that there's no such thing as time, we don't see no long, drawn out thing anymore. We don't see it reaching way back to last week and to last year,and on back to two years ago and five years ago, because there is nothing to look at. Where is it? It's just now. It's just now: one, eternal forever with God. It's always been. It is. It always was. So I don't have to wonder what he was doing ten million years ago, ten billion years ago. Because there was no ten million years ago. There was no ten billion years ago. That's just a figment of thought as to something for you. So I don't have to wonder about that. I just say, Glory to God! He's here! He's always been here. He's forever here. And I'm forever Him. Let's give the Lord a hand. So then we understand you know how wonderful it is. They sing that song: In the sweet forever. So we're here in the sweet forever. And it's always been with us. How wonderful, how wonderful, the spirit of holiness, the spirit of life, the spirit of these great and mighty things. So then how do you feel now? Somebody said, Well now, I'm forty years old. I feel tired. You love the Lord? Like the man said, you know, and it's not to be comical, but they ask him how he felt. He said, Well, I'm fifty and I feel I'll live to be a hundred. And they said, Well how do you get that? He said, Because I feel half dead now. So when you observe times, imagination, lying vanities, you'll be half dead. The Bible said, The wicked won't live their days half out. They'll be half dead before they know it. So then somebody says, Well how do you feel, Brother Pike? I feel like I'm in the sweet forever and time is no more. And I feel like I just got so many things to do, that you can't put a time piece on me. It'd take me too long to do it if you're going to reckon it as to be days, years and months. So the Bible said, In that city there is no night. There cometh no night, for the Lamb is the light thereof. That is, he is the word of spirit and light as to this great understanding; light being understanding as to the great knowledge of God. So he is the Light, and I have that light. For I am the temple of God. And in my temple the daystar has dawned, even the eternal light with the breaking of this day. As any day when the day star arises, as to the breaking of this day, as to my inner man, God does not despise my image. Because that bastard child is gone. He's buried. He's forever gone. I'm bone of his bone as Christ, and flesh of his flesh as to the eternal one. As he is, so am I in him, even in this world. This life of God to be made manifest in my mortal genes. Why should we then think as a bunch of beasts? Why should we go to college to get diplomacies? Them folks don't even know what we're talking about. And we go over there and we say to the pigs, would you please give us a diplomacy that will tell us how to wallow in the slop? The old pig he'll grunt, and if he could talk, he'd say, I'll not only give you a diplomacy as to join our family, but I'll provide you part of the mud hole. Isn't that right? And the old dog will say, Well come on. Be a part of the family. We'll all lap together. Let's give the Lord a hand. Folks, I tell you what. I like it on the hilltops of glory, and I like being a son of God. And I know them are animals, and I know they can't help that. And we're not mocking them,. We're not mocking them. I'm just trying to tell you who you are. That's all I'm trying to do. It's time that you recognized who you are. Someone would say, Why? Because you don't need to get so sleepy, not even in the services when you bobble about. But you don't need to get so sleepy, because you know after a little bit all that tiredness and weariness is going to be gone, and all that thing you call age is going to be swallowed up, and you're going to find yourself standing there. Somebody said, Well, what are we going to do, Brother Pike? How are we going to put this thing away from us? You are not going to do anything. He's already put it away from you. He did all that at Calvary. He brought you back to originality. All he's asking you to do is to apply yourself: to grow in this grace and knowledge as to comprehend the heights, by believing in his glory, his righteousness, his works; so that you can enjoy this eternal forever. All right let's stand together. I don't know if you can get what I'm saying? That's fine. The Bible said, The elect got it and the rest was blinded, even Lucifer the god of this world blinded them; because they have to reason everything out in their knowledge, you know. Do you love the Lord? Somebody said, Well how do you stay in the heavenlies, Brother Pike? Somebody came to me and said, You seem to be up there all the time. I don't know of anything I could answer in that you know as to say, how I do that or why I do that, in that I don't do that, and I have nothing to do with that. The earth passed away and there's no other place to be except where I'm at. Let's give the Lord a hand. So someone would say, Well, when did all this happen? Well it happened in the fore-knowledge before the world ever was. It was revealed to us at Calvary. Then preached to us down through the generations that we might understand and comprehend it. See, Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. And I've destroyed him that hath power over death. So then where did it come from? He said, I've placed the world in your heart. What is the world? It's a mind. Where did that world come from? Lucifer. It was at the garden when Eve conceived of the world as to the mind. Eyes enlightened ye shall know that ye are gods. For they are gods, I wish we had time to go into that, as to many. But anyway she took that world into her heart. And from then on she's been dying because she lost sight of God. They were hid from God. He couldn't find them anymore. They lost the covering of the glory. He came to bring back the covering of the glory, which is his Shekinah light. And at the moment the rain is on the just and the unjust. But the glory is to be revealed within us, because he has covered the inner man as to take away the shame. Having on the garments, I wish we could talk on that. Put ye on your beautiful garments, even the body of the Lord Jesus. Don't come into this realm, this era. Don't let it come upon you, unless you have the garment on, because demons will bind you hand and feet. You'll go into the outer darkness. That is, that strong delusions. Believe a lie and be damned, that old worldly knowledge. And the moment that world went into Eve's heart, death come in. In Adam all die. All of her children are killed with death; because he said, I'll cast her into a bed of adultery. In that she committed the adultery against God, I'll kill all of her children with death. Death and it's manifested in the end time. Death takes all of her children. None of her children escape death as in Eve. But as in Christ all are made alive. So then the world went out of me at Calvary. And if the love of the worlds in you, the love of the Father's not there. The world went out of me. And the kingdom that came at Calvary is now in me. And the mind of Christ eradicated that mind of the world. So now heaven is in me. For the Bible said, The kingdom of heaven is in me. And as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. As to whatever world he is in, it's his inner man. And this body is a body of death. It's nothing but a shadow, taken into captivity in the web of the spider. And Jesus has delivered us from it. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we? I know some of these things that you don't understand. You may never understand, but you that are children of light, you're going to understand a measure of them. You may never understand all of them. But you're going to understand a measure of them. And as to whatever to go on to the full measure of the full stature as to the full reward, this is what the Lord wants. It's his will for you to do that, his desire for you to do that. Can we sing a little chorus together? (Sings: Wonderful Jesus Is To Me) How many of you love the Lord? Do you think he's wonderful? (Sings: Sweep Over My Soul) The altars are open. If you'd like to come you may. John looked a saw a door open in heaven. And I told you numbers of time that door that was open in heaven was Jesus. When he came down from glory and he said, The veil is rent. That is the door is open. Peter, here is the keys. Tell the Gentiles and the Jews. And when the door was open, John saw all these things that was called, that which was revealed as to the revelation in 96 AD. He wrote of these wonderful things to tell us. And there the door being open; and down through the church ages this was taught that men should comprehend this. And at the end of the church ages John saw this door. Even as Peter looked beyond the veil; and he saw this heavenly treasures of wonderful knowledge and revelations, that we now have in these earthen vessels. He saw these wonderful things. For he had the keys to the treasures or the keys to the kingdom where the treasures are. The God light is the treasure. Like the root of the tree, knowledge of God is the root. Drinking in that light to make manifest in branches as to fruits of grace, love and longsuffering. But to us being in the shadows and being an image as to creation, all we can do is see according to our level of comprehension as to understanding. Human intelligence as to a height of beast, that's the height of it as to our diplomacies of life. So we esteem things and we call that mighty. But with God the light that made the thing, even this heavenly treasure that you now have in earthen vessels as the mind of Christ. For now since Calvary is made known unto the church the manifold wisdom of God. This that you now have. Makes you to know that professors and education and philosophers, those people are not even out of their diapers. Einstein, the greatest of them all perhaps, Einstein had to acknowledge at the end of his way that he wasn't even out of his diapers. He'd never even register to the measure of a child. So then that's why the Bible teaches that even the judges of this world and the law and all that kind of thing, don't go before the unjust as to a problem with your brother. Go before the just and let them judge the matter. Knowing that you're going to judge angels, do you consider yourself to be unworthy as to judge matters among your brethren? And you have to go to law against your brethren, and that before the unjust to have them to decide what's right and what's wrong. How much of a child are we? How little have we learned? Jesus said, Ye of low faith, little faith. Anyway, I'm just trying to explain to you that we esteem things. Things emanate from light which is God the knowledge, the word of spirit and life. A diamond is great to you. A ruby is great to you. A pearl is great to you; but that's things that emanated from the light when the light said, Let there be and there was. Folks, I want some jewels. God said, I'll remember you when I'll come to make up my jewels. Gathering jewels, I'm gathering jewels. And a man becomes a jewel in my crown. My crown in not a piece of gold to set on my natural, bony head; but it is life, even eternal life that crowns my soul with everlasting living. My soul is eternally living. That eternal living is my crown, the crown of life. And everyone that lives on in that eternal living will be one of my radiant jewels. Inasmuch as the Bible said, They shall outshine the brightness of the noon day. And as one talent is complimentary as we said today in conversation to another talent, and one skill complimentary to another skill, as to one automobile in beauty of colors complimentary to another that is of another color, so should men be one to another as sons of God. And in that day the brightness of the glory of one jewel of splendor, whether it be as to the definition spiritually speaking of a diamond, or the definition spiritually speaking of a ruby. In that the Bible said, Every star differs in glory. As to whatever the glory as to the measure of the glory, whatever the glory as to whatever it is made it to be as to that of God, having made all things for himself. All things made by him and for him. Without him was nothing made that was made. Even the destroyer, he made him to sew the tares, the destroyer to waste. Having set one thing against another as to rot against growth as to wood, and rust against metal as to maturity, that nothing be remembered. Death as to life, as to life in this world. Everything has an end and consummation. But we shouldn't be esteeming things because we come, the Bible said, to the church of the living God, wherein the spirit of just men are made perfect. And when that which is perfect is come, that which is in shadows as to parts shall be done away with. And here we are time ended. And here we are that which is perfect. For Jesus was perfect. They said, We find no fault in this just man. And he became us in death as that sinful image, that we might become him in that perfection. Delivered for our offenses, raised again in his perfection for our justification. Being bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, therefore the Bible said, He hath perfected forever or made perfect the members of his body. You, the members of his body in particular, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. So that which is perfect is come. So that which is in part is done away with. And we know no man after the flesh anymore. We're not of the world. Neither are we in the world. And we don't walk in the flesh anymore, for God hast chosen us out of the world. Hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received, until the restoring of all things, which is the millennium. And then once all lost species are restored as to the act of creation, then the glorification will come and they'll be changed into a glorified image, illuminated into a glorified form to where they can never be lost again. Darkness, shadows can never get to them again. You that are born of God as to the inward man keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not; or that is to say the light within the lamp keepeth itself. And the shadows though the soot may smoke up the globe, but it never touches the fire. It may put the light out as to it's shining that others can't see, but the fire's still in there. And that fire, the darkness don't touch it. You as the light of that inner man, darkness, even the prince of darkness even Lucifer, it never touches you. As you think in your heart so you are. Because it's thoughts of light; and thoughts of darkness have been eradicated forever from your inner man, in that the Holy Spirit has interwoven itself with you to seal you in that it is the eternal life, thus are ye the light of the world. And as to whatever source as to the measure, whatever measure you are of that light, so let your light shine that men may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven. As to your measure so let it be. Let's sing this little chorus, can we? You'll just have to pardon me as I hack a little bit because the devil tries to tie me up just enough to try to make me ruin the tapes or the films or whatever, because like as to you I can just hack a little and then explain it all over. Sing this little chorus. (Sings: Come A Little Closer) (Sings: Where Will You Be A Million Years From Now?) You know we stop and think a million years from now, where will you be? So then you say, Brother Pike, where will you be a million years from now? Well, I'll be right here in the sweet forever. Because with me there is no million years. There is no years. And it was ask of me, where will you be a billion years from now? I'll be right here in the sweet forever. I've already passed from death unto life. He's already chosen me out of this world, hid me with Christ in God. He said unto me, Son, you dwell in heaven. Rejoice forevermore. So I'm planning to stay right here. As I said in the song, the writer said, in the sweet forever. So here we are. Now let's think of this like this: David said, thou I walk through the valley, this valley as to a world of the shadows, as to say the shadows of night that come because of the fall, even evil spirits that create those shadows as to the iniquity between you and the great day star, the light as to the eradication of those dark clouds. He said, Pray in the time of the later rain and I'll make bright clouds. As to that somebody says, I'll cloud up and rain all over you. As to the brightness of those clouds is silver lining. As to the inner man, allegorically speaking, you see in the world all these things, but as to the inner man. So then we sing that song: We Thank Thee For the Valley. Let's sing that song Sister Dale. Someone would say, Well why do you thank God for the valley, Brother Pike? Isn't that what you want to be delivered from? He said, In this valley I don't fear any evil. For my heart is fixed and evil tidings shall not trouble me. For in this valley the Bible said, He prepareth a table before me in the presence of my enemies. He anointeth my head with oil and my cup runs over. Goodness and mercy follows me. All the days of my life I dwell in the house of the Lord forever. And he said, Thy rod and thy staff as to the word and the spirit, it's my comfort they comfort me. For the Bible says, And I will send you the comforter. If I go away I'll send you the comforter. And the rod as to which you will rule with shall be a rod of iron, even the Word as to the mind of God, that will drive devils out. For he created all things by his word. And the Bible says, He sent his Word and drove back the shadows as to cast out the unclean spirits. So then had it not been for the shadows, the light would have never been revealed to me. Even Lucifer said, The day that thou eatest thereof, he knew ye shall become as gods. Knowing good and evil, and we do. So then we can see good because of evil. And we can understand light because shadows reveal it. And scientists say, You can't see light. So you cannot see light, it stands to reason that no man has seen God at anytime. So light can only be revealed to you by shadows. So we sing this song. Sister Dale's been having a hard time finding a key to sing in as of late. Because I guess I'm hoarse. I have a little problem singing. (Sings: I Thank Thee For The Valley) Let's lift our hands and close our eyes and sing that song: And Time Shall Be No More. Remember the fullness of time. Can you give him a wave offering? He's coming back after a church that's without spot, without wrinkle, or blemish. And you're that church. For the Bible said, He that is born of God keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. Born of God you cannot sin. The Bible said, Therefore there remaineth a rest for God's people. And he that has ceased from his own works has entered into that rest. If you've ceased from your own works, then you've entered into the day of his rest. For he worked six days, on the seventh he rested. And then he said, Come up hither, John. So then if you've come to realize that the law is folded up and laid away, you're not struggling anymore. See. You're not struggling anymore. You've passed from death unto life, and you've entered into the day of his rest. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. What is the day that he Lord has made? Come up hither, John. It's the rapture. It's the translation. It's the revealing. The revelation that tells you that you are gods and that you're in heaven, that you always was and that you are and shall always be. You're eternal. Gods can't die. See, God's cannot die. So then you are gods. Now beloved are ye the sons of God. Death hath no power over you. God destroyed him that is Lucifer, he destroyed him that had power over death. And since you believe that, you are partakers of it. Since you think that way, you're partakers of it. Since you think that you are in heaven, so ye are in heaven. Because faith is a composition of thoughts. And that composition of thoughts has to be the Bible, because faith can only come from his thoughts. And since it's the mind of God in your heart, then your thinking has become faith. And your faith has translated your inner man into the marvelous spirit as to the kingdom of God eternally and forever. And death is now gone. And sickness is now gone. All the problems of the body are gone. Taking the shield of faith that you might be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. To believe. Decree a thing in your heart. Ask what you will. Say it and it will be done. All things are possible to them that believe. So then we comprehend the heights, the depths, the width, the length. That is the revelation. This is the rapture. This is the translation. That is the mind that transforms your mind. Be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your minds. God has translated us into the spirit by his spirit, transformed our mind by his word through the tutoring. And will transfigure our bodies as to the release of this into our mortal genes. As you believe each one according to his measure will come into the end of the trail, down to the end of the way, that you might appear in his presence, for he suddenly shall appear. As men of old they fasted and they prayed, sought God and cut themselves off from the world, and suddenly the angel would appear. And someone would say, The angel dropped down out of heaven and visited. They transformated in their minds by faith into that heaven, as Paul that went up into the third heaven, whether in the body, out of the body he said he couldn't tell. And Jesus went up into heaven in the body. Enoch caught away. Elijah caught away. So then here we are. Here we are. Where then are we Brother Pike? We followed him until he led us into heaven. And John looked and he said, He saw them around the throne and the tears were wiped from their eyes. No more tears, no more sorrows, entered into his day, into his rest. Because we don't struggle. We try to live right, to prove righteousness as to salvation. Though we struggle, fighting, striving against principalities and powers of evil that they might not have dominion over our body, sin might not have dominion to use this body for his evil doings; but that it might be fully submitted to our saviour. And that our sanctification was once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary. And our perfection was by the righteousness, even the faith by which we are sanctified, him having perfected forever them that are sanctified, even a perfect church without spot, wrinkle or blemish. And he is waiting for you to make this perfection manifest in your mortal genes as to the change. And by faith you do that. Enoch was translated by faith that he should not see death. By faith -that is to the world that they may see. But the Bible said, We believe to see. We're already that in our inner man, and we're bringing this body into subjection. Paul said, I keep under my body. I bring it unto subjection. I mortify the deeds of the flesh. All that belong to God they mortify the deeds of the flesh. They have self-denial. They don't walk after the flesh. That is they don't desire the things of the flesh. They don't make plans for the things of the flesh. They don't study for diplomacies. They don't try to heap up treasures. They don't try to map out their own life as to what they're going to do from day to day. They don't walk after the flesh. The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. They're like the wind. You don't know where it comes from. You don't know where it goes. And so then we're moved by the spirit. Even as Ezekiel was caught up and taken away to the Valley of Dry Bones, so are we sometimes taken away over into India, sometimes over to Germany, sometimes over into the other parts of the world. If thou canst believe. Jesus said, All things are possible to them that believe. But how can you believe if you don't know? How can you know if you don't hear? How can you hear if there is no preacher? And the Bible said, Him that God sendeth will speak God's Word. Thus you hear and then you can know and then you can believe and then you can translate, for then you can enjoy a heritage from God. (Sings: And Time Shall Be No More) And the mystery shall be finished at the sounding of the trump. The trump of God shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise. When you finish your course as the church, that will be it. He'll descend from heaven, the last one will come in, the last generation, they'll understand. The wicked will not understand. And when he comes from heaven, that will be the head to the body. All members will respond. Can you raise your hands to heaven? Give him a wave offering one more time. One more time. I'm going to ask Brother Wayne Dunning's son to come up if he will. Sing now.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord