Present Day Truth

...try to say things from the Bible that would edify the church but sometimes it's real difficult to be able to say what I'd like to say. Real difficult to be able to get our thoughts over to you, because the Bible says great is the mystery of godliness. And I say things to you sometimes that I know you hear it, but sometimes all you hear is just me and you don't hear what the spirit is saying to the church, or the churches. So it makes it real difficult to express myself. While there is a natural man that's listening to a natural voice, as to a natural expression, there is a spiritual hidden man of the heart that's listening to a spiritual voice of a heavenly expression and these two are twins. One of them is Esau. He is hearing the natural word and he's hearing the natural expressions and he is cataloging the things of the natural letter. Then there is Jacob, which is, as to the inner man. He is also listening and he is slowly but surely taking the birthright away from Esau. Even though the first man is born into the world, has rights to the birthright as being the firstborn of the first man Adam, but through sin, through foolishness, unconcern, more concerned about the physique, the faces, the lust of the eye, the pride of life, the gullible desires and tangible substance, eating and drinking and frolicking and passions and whatever. The outer man Esau, being more concerned about that, he has lost the birthright to Jacob, who was so concerned about the birthright. So then, it's not the firstborn that finds the blessing of the inheritance as to rule and reign over the household of his father. In the Old Testament the man that got the birthright was the man that was he that succeeded the father, took the fathers place as to rule over the servants, over all of his wealth and all of the rest of the household had to be under his jurisdiction. So then, the natural man has foolishly lost the birthright. And the second born, as to being born again as to the spiritual man, has got it. And he not only is going to have the right to it in this life, as to God given as through faith, but he will have a right to it throughout eternity. Right now, at the present moment, until you mature though you be lord of all, you differ nothing from a child, because you are under the tutors until the time appointed of the father, at which time the blood will come off of the seat of atonement and all grace will be lifted and everything in this world will be utterly done away with that you may come forth after the judgments of God and set the world in order again. And in doing that rule and reign with him a thousand years and then move right on over into the great, wonderful new earth. After that the thousand years have been finished then we will move right on into the new earth. It will be changed right into the new earth. It's kind of a one, two, three, as to the stride of the Lord and then come out of the new earth. So we are they that believe in the second birth. We are not of the first man Adam, but of the second man Adam, which of course, is the Lord from heaven. We own all things. All things are ours. We must be about our Father's business and that business is to establish the kingdom of God in the earth. The law given by Moses, grace and righteousness came by Jesus Christ. The law was until Calvary, the law and the prophets, since that time the kingdom of God has come. And what is the kingdom of God? It is the spirit of Christ. Since Calvary the spirit of Christ has come. And that is the kingdom of God. It was never made known to man before, but when the veil was rent in two at Calvary, as to the Jesus and the Christ, then the expose of the covenant, as to the Ark of the Covenant came forth. Whereas the Ark of the Covenant hid behind the curtains as to the cherubs represented the spirit of Christ. And if you'll go back and check allegorically speaking, the tabernacle, as to that that is Moses record in the wilderness, you'll find that every part of it, it has to be revealed to you, but every part of the tabernacle represented a part of the body of Jesus. So then, Jesus was the tabernacle of God that was represented by the tabernacle in the wilderness when the Lord called Moses up into the mountain and said, See that you make all things according to the pattern shown thee in the mount. So then, all those natural things were allegories and types of that heavenly which was to come. Now then, the heavenly is here and we are the heavenly people. The Bible said all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, even to the eternal Godhead. So that leaves us without excuse. So then, Christ is the kingdom of God and God, who is the eternal spirit hid Himself within Christ within the bodily tabernacle of Jesus. And it was said when John baptized Jesus that this is My beloved Son in whom I'm pleased, in whom I'm well pleased. The original rendering is, This is my Son, as to the tabernacle or whatever, in which I'm pleased to dwell. So then, the Bible said, And Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily for God gives the spirit unto the Son, not by measure but the fullness of God was in Jesus and the kingdom of heaven is the eternal spirit. So now, Christ and His Father is one and now He is seeking to make us one. He became one with His Father in the fullness. Now then, according to the measure that He has dealt unto you as to whatever you seek to find then are you the same as one with Christ and the Father. Father, make these one even as we are one. That is, Father, you are in Me and I in them. So then, as the child is within the loins of the father and then comes forth to the mother and then it's presented as the third part of the family when the mother herself came from the father, as taken from the rib of Adam. So then, we see the great God family and the multiplication of the God family. Realizing that the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the kingdom of God has been preached. Now the spirit of Christ is here as the kingdom of God, then we inherit it. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, but your spiritual angelic being on the inside inherits Christ's spirit by measure. The Bible said He resurrected from the dead. He gave gifts unto men, as to the gifts of the spirit and He gave a measure of faith, as to The faith by which you are sanctified. As to the Christ faith. He gave a measure of faith, dealt a measure of faith to every man. And according to your measure, the Bible said, Go on to a full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus and be perfect. And everyone that be perfect shall be as His master. As I've overcome and set down in the throne with My Father, of course the Bible said, heaven is My throne, then you'll come and set down in the throne with me. Heaven is His throne, earth is His footstool. So then, we find that Christ's spirit is now in the world. Jesus said when he came, I am the light of the world. There wasn't any light in this world until He come. The whole world was darkness. We brought it out in revelation how He reckoned time at the act of creation from evening until morning. And Calvary brought the first day, as to when the Day Star dawns within your heart and as to the Day Star it is Jesus Christ. He is the bright and morning star. He is the Day Star. He is the evening star. He is the Day Star. The sun is known as the Day Star. And Christ dawns within your heart because He is the Day Star and He dawns within your heart as a revelation. When the revelation starts coming, that is the Day Star that has come into your heart revealing Himself proportionally in measure from glory to glory, understanding to understanding, from revelation to revelation and according to your measure, whether it be small or great, it will continue to reveal itself in you. And when the fullness of whatever measure you have surrendered yourself to, that was given to you in the foreknowledge of God as God foresaw what you would do, when this full measure, as to whatever part of the measure comes, then that's what you are throughout eternity. That makes you the member, as to whatever member of the body ye are, and that means that we are preaching today the kingdom of God and the name Jesus. That was the two things the Apostles preached. They preached the kingdom of God and they preached the name of Jesus as the door and entrance into this kingdom. As many as has been baptized in His name, that is into His death, that is to say, baptized with Christ they have put on Christ because they are dead with Him by the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary and they resurrected with Him as to, brought forth for our justification. Delivered with Him for our offenses, smitten by the wrath of God and then the wonderfulness of God brings us forth in a new form and today it's not us living but it's Christ that's living within us and the life we now live we live by the Son of God. And now we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. God never sees us anymore as we are in our first birth. He doesn't see us until the great change of Thessalonians, the Thessalonian coming of the Lord and there He sees us as changed into His bodily image. All of the rest of it from Calvary over to that is a burial and we're buried in this world by being taken out of the mind of God. So our stumblings, staggerings, our sins and whatever, God never sees them again. We keep ourself by faith and grace of righteousness in Jesus Christ and the evil one never touches us. So then, we are a church without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. Now. I thought I'd just say these few words before I read here. So, the law and the prophets were until John, since then men press their way into the kingdom. Peter opened the door when He said, Thou art the Christ. Then He looked beyond the veil and He saw the Christ, which was the kingdom of heaven. And Jesus said, Peter, you've got the keys, now go give it to the rest of them. Open the door to the rest of them, both to the Jew and the Gentile, which he did. That door that was opened at Calvary, as to the rent veil that Peter saw, the separation of the Lord and the Christ, brought in the church ages and at the end of the church ages John saw this great door open. He saw it open. He actually saw it open just a few short years after Calvary. About thirty-three years old Jesus was crucified and then coming on past the B.C's, down into the A,D's, down through Jesus' life time and then as to His death about 96 A.D. John is exiled to the Isle of Patmos because of his testimony of Christ Jesus and there the heavens are opened to him as the revelation of Jesus Christ. And he declared that, if you read it, you'll just have to pardon me with this irritated esophagus and throat because, like I say, that don't happen until I get in here then when I start talking it happens if I'm irritated a little. And the preacher usually is. But I'll read it to you. I've read it to you many times but when the Lord came to John this was the way that He came to him. Okay. I can turn these without an old fashion lick, but that's the way we used to do as a country boy. It works good. Chapter one. It says, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." That's what John saw on the Isle of Patmos. A lot of people wonder what John saw. They say his great vision, the great things he saw, but if you'll read it says, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ. That's what he saw. And it also says at the time of coming of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, it says here, "The time is at hand." The time is at hand. When John saw the Revelation of Jesus Christ that meant the time was at hand. The end of the world, because anytime that he veil is rent then comes the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It was rent at Calvary. Jesus saw it a few short years later and recorded it as the Revelation of the unveil Christ and then through the church ages it came and when we read it we think it was way down at the end of the church ages, because of the way that it is given in the writings. Whereas, it was in succession, but as to the happening it was back there and John moved right into the future. He saw things past, things present and things for the future. And the voice said, A door is open in heaven, because Peter had opened that door to the Gentiles. Jesus had made that door by the rending of the veil at Calvary and since that time you could go into that door. That is to say, you can inherit the spirit of Christ. So we preach the inheritance of the spirit of Christ. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. And the Bible said without His spirit you are none of His. So then, the kIngdom of heaven is within you. And someone said, Well, what about the kingdom of God? If you'll read, it's the same thing. kingdom of God, kingdom of heaven it's in both of them. It's in you. So you're flesh and blood can't get it. You have to die by repentance, faith, as to a new birth. And that new one lives in heaven. So when you accept the body of the Lord Jesus, as to your body being dead by faith through the new birth, you are no longer in the flesh but in the spirit. At death your spirit goeth back to God who gave it in that you are dead by the body of the Lord Jesus. Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin by the body of the Lord Jesus. Buried in His likeness, we are also raised in His likeness. Now, death has passed away, sin has passed away, the body of this death is now gone. The veil has been rent in twain, the body that Satan infiltrated, as to the weakness of the woman, the feminine part is dead and buried. Now, the masculine part, as to the Christ, that is to say, Adam who was not in the transgression, were restored back to the Garden. That is to say, Adam, in the Garden was not in the transgression. Eve, in the Garden was in the transgression. The expulsion was because of Eve, as to say the flesh, God rejected it. And now no flesh can be justified in the sight of God because it is contaminated and infiltrated. But when Adam stepped forth from the Garden it indicated that he, now, was the feminine part. And so in Adam all die. That means that all is feminine. All is feminine. And all flesh has corrupted their way before God and there is none good, no not one. So then, all of them are altogether unprofitable. Every man has turned to his own way. Every man has done his own thing. When you see people acting real religious like and real sacred like the first thing you know is they need to be born again. Let's give the Lord a hand. When you see somebody that's just what they are, as Moses said, I am what I am by the grace of God and so said Paul. Or that is, Moses said, I AM has sent me. Then you know that you've got a Christian. They are depending on the righteousness of the Lord Jesus for their salvation. Their faith is in His righteousness. And they are living holy and godly and pure to the best of their knowledge and ability, even down to the intents of their heart and reflects of their mind. But they never trust in one thing that they ever do, because they know that is as filthy rags in the sight of God except that it be contributed as unto Christ as doing all things as unto the Lord and then it becomes clean in His sight. So when you see somebody that talks about being a Christian and you don't have to do anything, you know then that they are a bastard child and they have been rejected of God and they've been turned over to a reprobate mind to believe a lie and be damned. Because you have to live holy and godly and clean and pure and those people have accepted, as they say, the grace of God where somebody says, Well, they certainly don't have it. They certainly do have it, because as long as the blood is on the seat of atonement they do have it and they can testify to having it. And they can do their frolics and their evils, go forth in the world and live like the devil and still be under grace. Because the blood is on the seat of atonement. And just as Judas was a devil he was under grace as long as he walked with the Lord Jesus Christ. And it wasn't that he become one with the devil, or the devil got into him until the Last Supper. One of these days grace is going to be over and then all of their testimony is going to be in vain. The Bible said, If any man seem to be religious among you and bridleth not his tongue this mans religion is in vain. It doesn't matter if it's the days of grace, or whatever. But you that are born of grace, the grace of God having appeared unto every man, teaching him that denying worldly lust he should live godly and soberly in this righteous world. That is, salvation grace, the grace unto salvation. But dispensational grace is just for the period of time in that God has taken away the sins of the world, because He cannot look upon iniquity and He's got to keep and eye upon this world until the saints of God develop, the predestinated are born again, come to their sonship and enter into that wonderful world with God. Then after that he'll take the blood off of the seat of atonement. He said, I'm angry with the wicked everyday. I'll pursue them until they perish from off of the face of the earth. Their prayers are an abomination in my sight. All of their offerings are an abomination in my sight. They are like the mire of the ocean. It's coming up on the bank and they never have peace because there is no peace to the wicked. All of the paths of the righteous are peace. He that keepeth his mind staid upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace. So we see that we're preaching the kingdom of God and His righteousness. And I want to read just a little bit here from chapter four, but before I do I want to relate something to you. We could go on and on and on into the wonderful anointing and the mind of the Lord Jesus, bringing out the great mysteries, the great depths, the great need of salvation for sonship. This morning kind of early we got a call from Kentucky. I don't know what time it was. Beg pardon. Yesterday morning. Okay, yesterday morning. A whole day has gone by. Yesterday morning. I thought it was yesterday morning, but I thought, My! That sure did get by mighty quick. But yesterday morning it was that, you're sure about that now? Okay. I don't want to make two mistakes in a row. So it was yesterday morning that we got a call and the call was from Brother George Smith. Some of you know him, Brother Branham's son-in-law. He was telling me that he is around in Kentucky in a number of places and is going to be there for several months and was doing a documentary on Brother Branham, as to quizzing some of the people of the past, as to his ministry. And some of the things that have happened, as to their testimonies. He said, I've had you on my mind two or three days, Brother Pike, and I thought I'd call you. And he had been wanting to come over. Whereas, he come here before. We've had a little fellowship in the past. Came here before, him and Joseph, I believe it was, but we were not here. You remember how we spoke about the revelation, how it had to do with Brother Branham's children and how that they would turn their hearts in this direction, whereas, Billy Paul has and Joseph has and Becky and George, just about all of them have. And some of them have sent letters and their regards and some of them have called. But it worked right on time, as to what I understood of the revelation, but Brother Smith was telling me that he was doing this documentary and he said, Brother Pike, I noticed in one of your books, they get our literature, and said, I noticed in one of your books that you have a picture of the cave that Brother Branham used to go to to pray. I said, Yeah, I think so. I said, Maybe in the Day Star. And then I thought, Well, no, maybe it's in a book. And then I think maybe it's in both of them. But anyway, I think it's in The Thunders, too. I could spend the rest of the night just speaking of the revelation of what this call had to do with. And the many, many things as to the branches of this tree that it would take just about all night to do it. I've related just a little of it to my wife. Was it yesterday that we went after Jeff? I see Jeff here tonight. Was it yesterday we picked you up, Jeff? Yesterday morning maybe, or evening? Maybe it was evening. And I also see Jack. I believe that's Jack back there. Raise your hand if that's right. Jack's back there. We're glad to have Jack and Jeff with us. I think maybe Jeff is going to cast His lot with us and be part of Bethlehem, I think. Maybe I'm looking a little bit into the future. I don't know, but that's what I understand. And of course, Jack, he comes. He stays here quit a lot, coming in and out. Sometimes in our Mens Meeting. But getting on with our thought, Brother Smith said, This was in one of your little books that you published, I believe. Whereas, he must have got a hold of the Thunders. And it was at one of their meetings up there that they were having, Brother Branham meeting, that quit a number of the Day Stars went out with the same picture that's on the Thunders, if you remember, Brother Taylor where we were baptizing and the light caused the dissipation of the body, which had to do with a great thing when that happen as to the giving out of those things up there at Jeff. And you know, we spoke about after that that we would get that school there that they had been having meetings in and we would have a meeting there in Jeff. And sure enough it came to pass and all of a sudden they stopped their meetings after all those years. And we took and had, the following year was it, we had out meeting? But he said, I don't know why, Brother Pike, if I didn't misunderstand him I believe he said it like this. He said, I don't know why it is but, he said, this cave has eluded us all down through the years. And the way he talked they had never been able to find it. And Sister Middy, she was a young girl, not having been married too long to Brother Branham, she had gone out to this cave with him. She was the only one so far as we know that knew where the cave was and I remember my wife asking Sister Middy where the cave was. She was talking to her on the phone and Sister Middy was planning to take a trip over that way with us in the coach and the next time we had a chance to come by, we were just passing through then on our way to preach, I believe, under a tent over in Illinois. But I think it was, or to visit with them some way, but any way we had a meeting, or we was suppose to preach. But she said, I don't know that I could find it. It has been so many years I don't know if I could ever find it. So it has remained a mystery and one day the Lord spoke to me, as you know, and said, I'm going to show you the cave. And there was a significance to it so I mentioned it to the Brethren. And as I and the Brethren were talking, coming down from Bethel Reserve out here, down a little hill, Brother Grady came up behind us and he had not known anything about what I had said. I had not mentioned it to him. He said, you know, he said, I had a dream that was outstanding. Said, In the dream, George, said, you and the Brethren, we were together. Said, We went to Indiana and we found this cave of Brother Branham's. And I thought that was really something in the conformation. So we were due to go there for a meeting. We went there for a meeting and during this time I rented a couple of rooms there at the motel, which I have to do. Betty is in one and I have to stay in the other so I can talk to the Lord. And Betty and them a lot of times they have to go out and eat and I have to fast so I have to be in one room and them in another. And sometimes she fasts with me. But, anyway, I got two rooms there in Jeff, and some of you remember the tent meeting. Had a real outstanding meeting. I think it was about, maybe about the time the girl was healed of Cancer, wasn't it? But anyway, we had an outstanding meeting and it was during this time that I went out to this place. I took some of the Brethren out there. Brother Bob Wells was with me and when he found out something about the Lord showing me the cave he said, I'll take you and show you where it's at. Whereas, I guess he really felt he could find it. I said, Well, that's wonderful. That will make it easy for all of us. So we all went out there and of course, we looked and looked and looked and Bob looked and looked and looked. And it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. We never did find nothing. So finally we give up and come back home. And it was the day following, or a day or two following and the Lord spoke to me and said, If you'll go out there I'll show you the cave, like I said. So I thought, Well, I'll guess I'll just go out there. And then I understood that I was to take just one person with me. No more. So I did. So we went out and when we got out there, instead of stopping at the place where we had stopped before where it is said that Billy Paul fished while Brother Branham would go around and pray in the cave. And the cave was located in such a way that nobody couldn't find it and yet he said that if Billy Paul cried out, as to problems, that he could hear him. And that sometimes in the night he would resort to this place. He'd go down to Green's Mill and resort to this place and maybe stay all night in it from what I understand. But when we came to this place I didn't stop there like we did before. Something said, Don't stop here, said, go on across the bridge and keep going. So I did. I went over the bridge and I kept going. And something said, Turn right here into this gap. There was a gap into a pasture there. And it went down along the same creek, or river, where Billy fished. And it came down like this, this way and it curved down here. So I pulled in the gap and went along down near the curve. Whereas Brother Smith was talking to me yesterday and I tried my best, I guess we talked, Betty said, perhaps forty-five minutes and I tried my best to position this in his mind to explain it to him. It looked like it was difficult, that he never could really grasp what I was saying, but he did ask me if I would send him the pictures of this. So, or he wanted the pictures. So during the time, let me tell this. During the time of our conversation he said that three men had found a cave several years ago, going on past where I was at, turning to the left and going up past the ranger's house there and the old mill, the Green's Mill's mill that turns. It's on a wheel. And they had found a cave back there and it was so small that he could squeeze into it and some of the other apparently couldn't. But he went into the cave and searched it out and seemed to think this was the cave. They seemed to think that this was the cave that Brother Branham resorted to. He said, The only thing is, around this cave it's real treacherous, real treacherous, real dangerous. And said, If I put this in a documentary thing, he said, people will just pour in. And he said, They get everything down to the bones that they can find. And he used these terms, he said, some of them would almost sell their mother to get there. And he said, I've got to be sure before I do this. And he talked on about the cave and a few things and said it's real treacherous in the event people did go there. And I said, Well, you know, the Lord told me where the cave was. He showed me the cave because you know, I knew that was what the Lord had done and we talked on and I said, And this cave is just like Brother Branham said. You could be right at it and never see it. Brother Branham spoke of being in it and nobody could ever know it. And my Brethren went to this cave and stood on the top of this cave and they couldn't find it. They were standing right on top of it. And David Paul found it because I had told David Paul. I said, David, now look for certain things. These are markers that we'd left. And when you see this then you'll know that this is the cave. And of course, when David Paul saw it, he said the Brethren had turned and walked off and he called them and said, This is it. Right here at this spot. And Brother Branham also said, as to what I understood, there was a little ledge like, you just come up from where the cave is, walk around like this and walk on up on top of the cave. Which that was there. And another thing was that I understood that Brother Branham had said that out in front of the cave there is a tree, or a log laying out in front of it. Whereas, he came out maybe early one morning and went out there and set on the log to see the horizon, and whatever, that is the coming up of the sun and of course, the tree is there. And when I said some of these things and I said this to Brother Smith. He said, Well, that's one thing, Brother Pike, that I can't locate is the tree. Said, I can't find no tree. He couldn't find no tree around that cave that they found over there and there are some things over there that he couldn't make them fit. I said, Well, this little cave was a small cave and had a little old ledge like in it, as to a table or bed and I believe it was Jonathan, Brother Lambert's son Jonathan, that found the nut and the file. Is that right, Jerry? Okay, he came to me and brought this to me and I laid this nut, a squirrel apparently had took in there or something, and I laid it with the file over on a little table in the room I'd been praying in. I hope you don't mind me just talking to you like this. Maybe I won't get to read. There's something here that maybe I'll bring out another time, in chapter four of Galatians. But it all would just go in harmony with what we're saying. This that I'm saying now is just a present day thing and goes into a present day revelation that would take a long time to bring out. I wish I just had time to bring it out. As a matter of fact, I thought I'd just get the Brethren, bring them in here and have nobody but the menfolk and just get up here and maybe take two or three hours and just relate to them some of the things that are happening now, as to tie them together because the church seems to be missing the present day revelation for many months now. Quite a number of months ago I'd just fight to get something to them, or I'd get the men together and talk to them until way over in the morning, night after night after night and even year after year, but it's been a little difficult to do it. In the church it always is. One thing, the children are here and the mothers get restless because the children get restless and that makes other folks restless and people get restless because some people are not spiritual. They are just not spiritual. And these things don't take, when you start talking about spiritual things they don't take. Now, as long as I'm talking to you about this natural episode of life, as to the cave and whatever, you'll listen. You can receive that because that's something natural and it holds an interest. But if I convert over to the spiritual revelation only the spiritual will be able to follow into that world. All right. So I start talking to you to get your natural mind and after awhile Christ begins to speak and you're left back there with that natural side of it like the Moses side of it and all of a sudden the Joshua side begins to speak and those of the Joshua people go over the carnal mind into that great, wonderful heavenly place. And even that little bit that I said would take quite a long time even to explain the revelation of that little bit. Great is the mystery. So I told him about the tree. He said, Well, we just can't find it. Said, I don't know why it is, but this thing has eluded us. Any way I parked that morning, it was wet, damp, the bank, grass was kind of slick with the dew, morning dew, and been raining before I think, day before, or whatever and something said to me. Said, Go right out in the middle of the stream and walk on those rocks. I thought, Well, this is strange, you know, but I went out into the middle and I got on the rocks and I walked from rock to rock. And sure enough there was enough rocks that I was walking right down the middle of the stream, or we were. And I got to a certain place and when I got to this certain place something said, Here. And over to the right the bank, the bank was low on this side, coming in from a pasture, but on this side it was exceedingly high and steep, rocky, treacherous and just gap after gap and indentures and rocks. Couldn't see nothing of a cave so again it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. And this was a place that we had not looked because we had no idea it would be there. But something said, Here. So I turned to Brother Bradley that was with me and I said, Right here. Right here. I said, Now we can't get up that incline there so what we'll have to do is go on down the stream and when we get so far we'll turn around and we'll come up the side of it. You know, like you see a little animal going up the side of some of these mountains. It was a little old rocky place. You couldn't hardly find no place to put your feet. but I said, What we'll go, we'll just hold on to the vegetation the best we can. So we did. Very safely as we could we went up there and finally we got up to this height which is still a few feet below the top that went off into another pasture. And, when we got on this little levy, began to walk over toward what I thought would be the cave. But when I got there, there was no cave. And I looked and I thought, Surely the Lord spoke to me, but there ain't no cave here. And then I look close and I realized there had been a cave in. And I looked close and I thought, Yes, this is a cave. This is a cave but it's caved in. And I looked and a big rock, in that it had caved in a big rock had caved in and rolled over down at the bottom of the mouth of it. So I took it and I pulled it away and I give it a push, a pretty big boulder and it rolled off down a step incline down into the creek. And you could really hear it. I mean it made a noise when it went down. But anyway, from I could tell then that it was a cave. I didn't try to dig into it. But I perceived that what it was there was two rocks that came together like this and fairly close together, like this, and then they stopped. And over a period of time the waters, the silt, rocks flowing down together had hung up in this opening and finally bridged it over just like you would seal it with mortar. And it had formed the cave and it was a nice pretty little ole thing. Some of you saw the picture of it. And the vegetation was so around it that you couldn't tell nothing about it even if it hadn't been caved in. And from where we were at you could never have told it was a cave, because the mouth of the cave run with the bank of the creek. That is to say, the opening of it was not out from the bank this way. But it was this way. So when you look from way down here all you saw was another indentation, as among the rocks. And being filled up there was no way you possible could detect it. But some of my Brethren went later and dug the cave out. We'd left a little ole tract there, put a rock on it and left it there at the mouth of it, maybe on The Faith or something. And they went and dug it out, and when they dug it out they went in to the little cave and they found this little ledge like a table, or a bed, or something and found this file and found this nut. And Jonathan brought these two things to me. I put them in my room where I was praying and then a strange thing happened. Brother Shelby Wright, I know you remember him. He was a special friend of Brother Branham. We've got pictures where they hunted together and Brother Branham would go to his house. And Hattie, his sister, was the one that Brother Branham spoke to and said, Because you have believed this that I'm tell you, about the act of the creation of the squirrels, then God said ask what you will and He'll go it for you. And of course, she's passed on now and so has the mother. But before her mother passed on, her mother and her, you know, her mother took sick. We went and prayed for her and you ladies made her a Bethlehem dress, one of the long dresses which she entreated so greatly, graciously, and kept it as a real prize. And her husband's name was George, that used to wash Brother Branham's feet and rub Brother Branham's feet because he was a lineman and walked many miles through the woods, you know, checking lines and of course, we could say a lot there but we had better not get off on a limb. So it was Shelby that left his home out in the country, came over to the meeting and came over to the motel and spent the night in the room where I prayed. I let him have it. Whereas, they said that was a phenomenal thing for Shelby. And it was in that room that I had placed the file and the little nut, God using the foolish and abase things to confound the wise. And here Shelby went into it. And I heard something say afterward that, you remember when I had the vision of the feathers all filed away? And here I had discovered it, when the Brethren had not discovered it and it took that to put together the eagle, the feathers in the eagle. When I came out of the vision I had put that eagle together, all together except one or two little feathers on the corner and I was rejoicing over that, fixing to put it together. Do you remember that? Ensign, what it had to do with, which is a tremendous amount of things. I could write a book over it. But anyway, you remember what Brother Lambert had to do with, even yesterday, I believe it was, or not yesterday, but the day that Brother Richard Donald got married. There was something that took place concerning Sister Lambert. She also is the one that took the picture of the dissipation of the image, you remember. Sister Betty was excited over what the Lord had shown her there. I think I mentioned something about this to Jerry. You know, when I get into this, I'm reluctant to get into it because to tell just a little bit I have to bring out so much. And it's so great, exceedingly great and so much and I try to condense it and I run into problems, because all these things flood my mind, as to those details and beautiful things in revelation that has to do with it in every instance and every place. So it's like somebody, you know, you got a family of fifteen and you say, Did you know that I've got a brother his name is, and I got a sister, and I got another brother and you know, here you go. But anyway, this is a family tree and it's a great mighty thing. But Shelby, he spent the night there and I heard something say, Now, it was at Shelby's that it was spoken of as the new creation, or the recreation, or where Brother Branham had created. As Adam, the second man Adam, the beginning of the creation of God, and we brought out some things on it later. And there was a huge cave that we went to after that, big enough for a truck to go into and what it had to do with. Numbers of things we'd just have to tell but trying to stay with just one thought here, one chain of thought. Here he was in there and that I thought so strange. Shelby, here he is in this room as a phenomenal thing of coming here and then the thing was said of the squirrel and of all things, they get a nut out of that cave and bring the squirrel into the picture by putting in right into the room where he comes. And numbers of things that just fell into place like that. So Brother Branham had said that had to do with the third pull. Whereas, he said he had been caught up beyond the veil, seen the ladies in the long dresses. He said up there they had on the long dresses. And as in his ministry, you remember, his wife was Middy and there is a midi dress and the people that followed the ministry that was the way they dressed. There is a mini and there is a midi and there is a maxi. And you remember the vision I had of my mother and in the vision I saw my mother standing there in a mini skirt, which I had never seen in my life but in the vision. And I was so embarrassed and excited I said, No! No! No! I had had a rod in my hand and my mother was standing there and I wanted her to have a new dress and I said, Give my mother a new dress, like that with that rod in my hand and she all of a sudden she was in a mini skirt. And I said, Oh, NO! No! No! And quickly I brought that down again and I said, I want my mother to have a new dress! And I looked and she was in a midi and she looked real nice, but all of a sudden something struck me and I said, No! No! And I raised it again and I said the third time, I said, I want my mother to have a new dress! And I looked and she was dressed in a maxi. So beautiful she was, like I saw her in the vision I told you the other night. She was so beautiful in this vision that I saw her. But anyway, you know, mothers are beautiful to them that love them anyway. You look through eyes of love and women that other men wouldn't even look at, you know, they are so beautiful. And men that other women wouldn't even look at they are just so handsome. And of course, you can look at some of them that are so handsome as they can be and look at them through the eyes of God and they look like a garbage can. Let's give the Lord a hand. But anyway, as it's been said you need to look for character because it doesn't matter how keen his nose is and how much her eye brows are arched, if she can't make biscuits and he can't work on a job you are going to have a hard time. Let's give the Lord a hand. She's got to learn how to make a little bread or get a hold of a little bread some way and he's got to get hold of a little food. Getting back to the major theme of our thought here, this happened and when this happened all of a sudden in the vision I felt a drop of rain and it was like I was out from Atlanta, Georgia about this distance, whereas, this place came into view later on and it is almost identical as to the distance and the position and everything that I saw in the vision. And when I saw this little drop of rain, I said, Rain. Felt more rain and I said, Rain. And it started raining harder and I was complaining, you know, because I was getting wet. And I said, Rain, rain, rain! And it was just like you started emptying buckets. You know, and I thought, What in the world is going on? And then something said, You've got the rod in your hand and whatever you say will happen. And then I realized when I came out of the vision that it indicated that the fullness had come. Which I was planning to try to talk on tonight. As to the fullness of time. But anyway, we don't have time to do that. Paul preached all night. But here the rain, it poured down to say as to my mother, the church, New Jerusalem, the mother of us all. Here the plan of God, the covering of God. My mother was fully covered, in that garments allegorically represent the covering of God, as to the beauty of them today, as to the perfection of them today and here she was fully covered, which meant that the revelation was, in the vision, finished and with that came the down pouring of the latter rain. For He said, I have given you the former rain moderately, which was that through the veil under the law and then from Calvary comes the out pouring, as Joel said, And in the latter days I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh. That is, through the blood of Jesus, through grace that gave him the opportunity to pour out the rain on the just and the unjust and there it was pouring down while I was talking to somebody on a porch of an old house. Whereas we came to this old house we're living in down here and had to completely remodeled the thing. But I said all of that to say this that this had great significance as to the third pull. And there those things were taking place. You remember the last vision we had of Jeff while we were up there this last time. And I told you about people that were in prison, remember the allegoric things? Jesus went to preach to those souls in prison and how that at this point of life that Little Bethlehem would be magnified and the people, the message would sweep around the world and what would happen. Now all over the world they are contacting us and how that had to do with the bodily part. The Jews, as to the Messiah, being rejected. A man of sorrow acquainted with grief. I spoke of the crucifixion, Brother Branham, the eagle age, how that with Brother Branham going out God likened His prophets to eagles. It also took the eagle age out, as to America and ended it. And with that comes the dove age. There things we could say much about in revelation and show it to you step by step, as to detail it to you tonight, as to the way it came, to where you could naturally see it step by step. But, as I say, as to the patience of the people, we don't have time to do this. So then, there came this vision and the Lord explained to me how that that which now, as to the law and the prophets and the quotes are folded up and laid away and how that Brother George Smith moved into Brother Branham's office over in the tabernacle and how he moved into Brother Branham's house out in Arizona and they have the den there of Brother Branham open to show the wilderness, as to that that that represented. And then the vision that we had of Brother George where he had set up his operation just outside like a fence work and it was over on Brother Branham's property. Whereas, sure enough there he is living in his house, on his property. But im the vision he was in the wrong place. It wasn't anything wrong with the property or Brother Branham and of course, him being Brother Branham's son-in-law, and with Rebecca the daughter, of course there couldn't be anything wrong with that and doing the wonderful things he's doing. But nevertheless, he was in the wrong place and the Lord showed me what he was suppose to be doing, where he was suppose to be. And we have watched him in revelation since then. But nevertheless, not to get into a lot of things here of those things because these tapes go everywhere and people hear them, because just like the book that Brother George has, Brother Smith that is, or that he had looked at. That was a sermon that we preached here. It was taken off by the ladies and that was their labor and their reward. But to try to condense this and keep it as short as possible and not grieve the spirit I keep cutting corners and doing all I can to just bring out the fact that he called, as to what it had to do with and some significance. If you remember the day that we found this cave we had on the boots that Bob Wells had traded us. I had given him a pair of boots, he had given me these boots and I had these boots on. These were the boots he had worn down into Houston, there where the pillar of fire had appeared to Brother Branham when he had that dispute there. And also as to having to do with the meeting we spoke of at Utica Pike where, so far as we know, that the pillar of fire appeared to Brother Branham for the first time there. And of course, when we went to get the Brother that's with us here Brother Eugene went up with us. Gene was the first to know about the call about Brother Smith and I told Brother Gene a few things and he drove up in his car, or drove up in mine and went up to Elberton where the prophecy came forth about the man child, having to do with David Paul. And we went up there right after Brother George had made the statement to me, he said, Jeff, he spoke about those people being in bad shape. He said, Brother Pike, Brother Branham has been gone for a long time now and now there is a new generation and we've got to get this out to the new generation. And he spoke of those people in Jeff as being the most unlikely to receive these things, in that they seem to be in bad shape. And then immediately it was brought to my mind when Brother Jim Smith made the statement, Come to Jeffersonville, Indian, Brother Pike, you have a ministry in this place, because we had people following our ministry there. And I would have gone but the Lord stopped me in a vision and showed me not to do it. Not to have anything to do with that. And showed me why. So I didn't go. I went later. The Lord Blessed us. But with this we left and it was said to us that we were invited to go up to Elberton where we had not been for a long time and we were going up there to get this young brother that we've got here by the name of Jeff. I heard the Lord speaking to me again about Jeffersonville, Indiana and Elberton, what it had to do with and one chance in a million, I would say, when we found this Jeff we found him on the street where the pillar of fire had appeared where we had the picture of it. No mistake about it. No make belief about it. There is no light shining. You can tell it's a blaze of fire. It's a pillar of fire. Sister Betty says she still has it. And they might even use it in the Day Star, I don't know, this time. And Jeff, Brother George's call and this Brother Jeff and Elberton, it would take me about two hours probably just to explain that part of what it had to do with as to these things. And there he was right there at the place. The Rock Church has been torn down. The graveyard has really done business since we've gone. It looks like it might be five times as big as it was, but the church is gone. And the house on the hill, of the minister, is gone and of course, the minister is also gone. We told you the things the Lord showed us about the vision of him and it came to pass later. The minister was a graduate from a college, Pentecostal college, an outstanding man, a business man, an outstanding men. We became friends but I saw him in the vision given to drink and he had it hid. And then when we went to him about these things later he just let it out. Finally came into this area. You probably never knew about it. He died, not too long ago, a drunkard. But anyway, these things are really phenomenal, as to what is taking place. And we could go on and go on and go on. So it would be little wonder that Jeff should turn his face in this direction. Every person's life represents something and it would be little wonder that he would turn his eyes in this direction and be here on that very day. And Brother Eugene, I spoke of him just coming out of Arizona and what it had to do with and him going up to get him. And another thing, of Brother Vince bringing a couple of caps in that had Arizona on them. And some people go the idea that we were headed to Arizona when we left. Whereas, I had Arizona on my mind but they just put us right in Arizona. And with what they were doing, you know, they were just children like. I don't have to map out my life and decide where I'm going. All I've got to do is just ask somebody where I'm going and they know all about it, you know, and if I don't know I can find out through them as to where they feel that I'm to go. But anyway, all these things took place and just a tiny fragment of what I would have to tell you to get into the Revelation of Jesus Christ, as to the present day truth as to that which is happening right now. Right now. That day, Gene really got excited that day, because the day was filled with revelation and excitement and he saw things and received things that really stimulated and activated his thoughts. These things furbish and refurbish and then Sister Maryanna has great significance. Every time she comes over there's great significance. I know when you see Sister Maryanna you see your sister. You are glad to see your sister. Some of you never connect her life with God, as her being used by God wherever she goes. The steps of a righteous person are ordered by the Lord and at her age, eighty years old, and then the celebration of her life and her being her here, as to what it has to do with right here at the cease of time. And to say the least, folks, even what I've shared with my wife has been a fragment and she can tell you that these things are so great, mighty and so outstanding just as to what I've shared with her that a person that has God that ever gets one glimpse of it they would stay on and on and on, because it is the Christ that reveals these things to us as he revealed it to John. As Solomon, the Bible says, when the Queen of Sheba came, one of the amazing things as it was to her, was that the servants of Solomon was so contented to set at his feet just to listen to his wisdom. Whereas, the Bible said as to the minister, it's not him speaking but Christ speaking from within him. Then as it was with Moses, forty days and forty nights and then back for forty more days and forty more nights he set at the feet of the Master, because he was so fascinated he couldn't leave until the Lord had finished talking. Well anyway, to say the least, Jesus never did leave the presence of the great Holy Spirit saying, I do always the things I see my Father do. Let me read this as a summary of what we said, because as I have said, we didn't really get into revelation. We just scratched the surface on a few things, as to get into the revelation and the things that I talked to Sister Betty about. Even that much of it I haven't said anything to you about that. But we can sum it up by saying to fear God and keep His commandments this is the whole duty of man and great is the mystery of godliness and I'm made a steward of His mysteries. But the one thing that we do need to try to understand and that is, coming to church is not the answer. Though you fast that's not the answer, though you pray that's not the answer. You might even get faith to where God will work a miracle for you, but that's not the answer. The answer is the mind of Christ. To let this mind be in you, because that is a life, a spirit, another world. And they that are possessed of this, or obsessed of this are swallowed up of this wonderful thing. That means that they are a candidate for that other side of the world, as you say. And they are the people that belong to it. There are the people that belong to this world. There are some people that belong to that world. And when Jesus rent the veil in two he put those that belong to this world, those that were under the firmament, as to those waters, He put them aside into the mind of darkness, into the mind of intellect, to give them the gullible desires of the world, to be subjected to their master, even Lucifer, the god of this world that savors the things that be of the flesh, for to be carnally minded is death. That is to be worldly minded. If the love of the world is in you, the desire of the world, the love of the Father isn't there. But then on the other side he put those people there, as the waters above the firmament, as to those with the heavenly mind of Christ. For to be spiritually minded is life and peace and they that believe on Him has passed from death unto life, as to the body of that death, and they are the ones that are for that world. And their diplomacy of life is from the tree of life, whereas, those that are in the world of darkness that cannot see when good cometh, their diplomacy is from the tree of knowledge, as to the intellectual institutions of today. Well, let's read chapter four, just a little bit of this. If you'll listen close, we'll try not to comment, just try to read this so that you can think on this in connection with what we said. Remember Paul was the Gentile overseer. He was the one that stayed in the desert several years for God to reveal to Him the revelation after he'd spent a lot of time of study in the Old Testament of the law, being blameless as touching the law. Chapter three, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?" All right. He goes on down to say, (Brother Pike reads verses 2 through 18.) "Wherefore then serveth the law? In was added because of transgression." Now I want you to listen real close to this last part. This is the part I really want you get. "Wherefore," Talking about from Calvary now. The law and the prophets until John. From then. This is your era. "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgression till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe, but before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith has come we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by the faith in Christ Jesus." Paul speaking as a Jew. "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Speaking to the Jews. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heir's according to the promise." He is speaking also to the believers. "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child," Listen close now. "a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father." That is, he's under the law until Calvary. "Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:" Speaking to the Jews now. "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," I'll have to stop hurrying here. All right, let's read this again here. "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law." That's one of the main things I want you to get. "When the fullness of time was come," I'm not going to talk on it. I spoke to you a little about it before. Maybe we'll enlarge on it. "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." Okay. Now, listen. "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts," That's the kingdom of God. "Crying Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." That is, you are no more under the law like the Jews, because he's speaking of the Jews coming out into the faith, or to the believers. See? You are no more a servant. All that was under the law was but servants. They did not have his Spirit, as to be sons. They died under the law. Died under the law, could not be made perfect, because that which was perfect never had come until Jesus came. He was perfection. Now God has perfected forever them that are sanctified. All right. So it is now that you have come to Sonship, caught up to the throne. You are now a son ruling with a rod of iron, but you differ nothing from those that were under the law, or the servants. You differ nothing until you can be tutored by the minister to the extent that you can grasp the fact that you are son's of God, that you are not servants, that you abide in the house forever. The servant goes home when night comes, the son just retires to his room. So then, you are no more a servant. Ye are a son. My! What we could say about that. That's why they stoned Jesus, for saying he was son of God. That was the beginning of it, right there, first brother. "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the", Paul is saying, to the "weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" That is, you're going back to the worldly side of it, and then he goes on to say here how that they are keeping days and all these kind of things, as to sabbaths and whatever. Paul said all this is fulfilled, all this is folded up, all this is done away with. It's fulfilled in Christ. He did all of those things in our behalf. Not that we transgress them, but we make manifest in our life what he did, as to the nature. Anyway, we're going to stop, because some of you'd like to go home and I can tell that I lost you when I got to commenting just a tiny bit I lost you. And when I lost you, you lost interest. When you lost interest, you want to go home. The devil said, Let's go home! So I'm sure he'll take you probably any where but home. You'll have to get the sandwich, you'll have to get the milk shake, talk a little, laugh a little, whatever you do and then after that you'll, you know. So to you that are the sons and daughters of God, I cannot help the other. I can only tell you because these things will be your judgment in the day of judgment as to the expose of what is the judgment, which is the house of God. We remit sins, we bind sins. So I can only tell you these things because there is nothing that I nor any other minister, or anybody else in the world, can do to help you because you are the rejected and you are on the Esau side of life. So there is nothing that I can do to help you. But it is still my job to preach the gospel to every creature, but to you that are elect and you that have ears to hear and you that are sons of God, you that are for that other world, whatever you do don't lethargy around, don't play around, don't get at ease in zion. Woe unto them that are at ease in zion. Don't play around on God. Get down to business and spend some time on your knees. Somebody said, Well, I think we stayed forty-five minutes, we stay two hours. I think that's long enough. Well, it is my advice that you go somewhere and stay all night on your knees with God, because when you stay all night on your knees that's not enough. You are barely scratching the surface. The thing that He said do was to give your body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto to God, which, he said, then is merely a reasonable service as that to be expected as to what God has done for you. But nevertheless, I'm just telling you this, not altogether in a way of reproof, but that you might stop and think, to realize that if the righteous_ There is a people that is righteous through the predestinated works of Jesus Christ. And if those people as the righteous scarcely make it, strive to enter in for many shall try and not be able. Make a special effort for many, millions of people will be religious, try, ritualistics, fasting, but they won't make it in. But I tell you the secret. I tell you how you can get in. I tell you. But even with all that I've told you through the years, and still am telling you, your minds still go back to the thought, Brother Pike, tells us, cause we want to know. But I've told you many many times, which proves what I said. Having ears you hear not, having eyes you see not. Jesus said, My sheep know my voice. Few there be that find it. Little flock. Let's stand together and sing a song. It just lets you know that you need to listen the more, for the Bible said when we think that we know something we still don't know something as we ought to know. One of the things is to know how to behave ourselves in the church of the living God which is the ground and pillar of the truth. To enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Let's sing that little chorus, Brother Taylor. (Leads in singing.) The lust of the eye. (Continues singing.) The pride of life. (Continues singing.) All these things keep us from this gladness of God, keep us from these wonderful blessings of the Lord. (Continues singing.) Can you sing it with me? (Continues singing.) One more time. (Continues singing.) Sing it again. The altars are open. (Continues singing and sings I Love Him and Every Promise In The Book Is Mine.) Let's sing this little chorus, Brother Taylor. (Sings There's Room At The Cross.) Brother George Smith said to me, he said, Brother Pike, said, You know we know that the end of the world is near, said, we know that the end is here. And he was wanting to do everything he could. And truly it is, it really is. And as the Bible says, the harvest has come and gone and the night is here so winter has come. Still not saved yet. Some of you are still not saved yet. That's why we sing the little choruses we do and give you a chance to come down to the altar. Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings At The Cross>) I don't know what you are planning to do. I don't have control of your life only in the sense of your submission as to Christ in within me. Paul said, Follow me as I follow Christ. I'm your shepherd, but I'm not a Lord over God's heritage. I'm only an example unto the flock and I'm a poor example at that. But nevertheless I am an example to the flock and I'm a steward. It's expected of a steward to be faithful, an example to being true, so I try to tell you what little I understand that you might get in and go with the Lord. But I do want to say to you that it could be in this generation. It's going to be in one generation for sure. And that is that there is going to be a generation that's going to be translated. They are going to get the fullness of the understanding of Christ and they are going to be translated. Whereas, every generation as to believers are translated into the marvelous kingdom of God, as to the spirit, but there are some that's going to be transfigured, as to the translation into the kingdom of God, all this beginning with Calvary. And then all of a sudden through the tutoring of the church ages, the transformation of the mind, as to the fullness of that of the mind of Christ, or as to whatever your measure is going to be and then the last of it was the transfiguration as seen on the mount, which is the rapture, or you call it the rapture of the church, or the change of the body. And we're coming to that now, that when the message is finished and of course, that call was highly significant the other day. When this is finished then there is going to be a generation that's going to be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye. They're not going to die, not going to be put in a casket, not going to sleep. They're just going to go away like Enoch did. And at that time, you can't do like the past generation. I tell you in the name of the Lord, I tell you this over and over and I know you don't grasp it. I know you don't get it. I know that because I see the lethargy, the unconcern in your life and the halfhearted endeavor toward perfection. It'll command you to go on to be perfect. And of course, you don't do it. You don't make any effort. You've still got your mind on your flesh, still got your mind on your body, still got your mind on eating and drinking, still got your mind on buying and selling, still got your mind on conveniences, where in the early church they sold all and give it to God and took up their cross. The church of today is trying to figure out how to be a dignitary or be some celebrity, or some important person in the community, or look good, or to do something to where they could have money and prestige and the comforts of life. Even the ministry keeps wanting to be some television star, dominate the people, build a kingdom, have millions of dollars coming in, have the things of the world. Whereas, God gives you all those things. He adds all of those things unto you, but you are not to seek them. You are not to be carnally minded. You are not to desire them. Satan desires those things. He's the God of this world. He's cut off from heavenly things, but you that are believers, you are not cut off from heavenly things. Why should you desire the beggarly elements of the world when you have to your good all things, whether it be natural, spiritual, whatever. I would above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. It's like a child in school. Two and two will make four. He can add. He can take four and take four from six and leave two. He can subtract, he can multiply, he can do all kind of things. And that's the way it is with God. I would above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. Those three things that he outlines there spells one thing to me and that is that if, if I'm willing to take the spiritual side of life and the physical side of life I can add that together and I'll come out with the answer as the prosperous side of life. To seek the kingdom first, to get understanding and then to build my health up, as he wants me to do will give me the wisdom and strength, that's a plus, that will equal natural prosperity. For a man that's got good understanding, got a good healthy body, he's got years, he's got plenty of time to make money and have what he wants and to manage what he wants. He's got the physical strength to achieve the purpose in life, to meet the goals and demands. He's got the understanding. Tell him how to do it, he's got the physical health, as we say, and the stamina to face those situations and out of that comes blessings and prosperity, as to the natural. So let me leave these thoughts with you tonight. I keep telling you that this generation that comes to these things is not going to be able to die out like the other generations and go by the way of the grave. Your halfhearted living won't do. You could do that in years gone by, you know, but the generation that comes to this thing I'm speaking of, you can't do that. You've got to be in a place to be translated, transfigured, raptured, or caught away and if you are not in that place then there is nothing left for you but to go through the tribulation period where they'll gnaw their tongues with pains and they'll be in total eclipse, as to darkness. You're mind is going through a stage of eclipse and it's going one way or another through the church ages, all humanity as to those seven dimensional steps of that eclipse as from darkness unto the fullness of light, as to a seven-fold light, or from that light that was unveiled at Calvary to the eclipse, as to a darkness, little by little the generation goes as to them that are out in the world. When he severed, he put them on one side, as unto darkness, and in the end total darkness. And as to the light of the church, as to the world, in that you are the light of the world and be taken out and they'll be in a total eclipse, as to darkness, at the end of the church ages. Gross darkness shall cover the people, but you that are as to the stepping stones as to the ladder that Jacob saw at Bethel, the angels ascending to and fro upon that ladder after those church ages and the understanding of God. As to the seven messengers that God sent to the church, you are going higher and higher into more light and Lucifer cast out at Calvary in that dimensional fall is going deeper and deeper into his intellectual scholarship of colleges and schools, plans and programs and all of the gullible desires of life. So, it's up to you, you know. Whatever you are that's what you are and I can't change it. But I do tell you this in closing that that generation is coming along that's not going to be able to just die out, that's half-heartedly lived, to get away from the wrath of God. You're going to go right straight through it while you are yet alive. And those are going to be brought forth, as to the evil. One thousand years later from the time of the millennium, the wicked dead will live and they'll be cast into the Lake of Fire alive. The Bible said some of them were cast in there alive, the Lake of Fire, alive. All right. That is, even before the tribulation some of them, I mean before the millennium. Let's sing another little chorus together. Can we worship the Lord? Sing the song we sing so often, I Will Praise Him. (Leads in singing.) One more time. Remember He is the Lamb that was slain. (Continues singing.) One more time together, now. I'm going to ask Brother Richard Donald to come and dismiss us. (Continues singing.) The name Richard means king of all. The wedding the other day had to do with the resurrection of the one that had passed on and the coming of that, as to the rice that was found. Sister Betty found it there on the table, or somewhere, and Sister Lambert came in from the wedding. (Continues singing.) Our black brothers and sisters in Christianity has to do with the Jews. Remember Jesus was among the Jews. Let's sing it again now. (Continues singing) Having eyes you see not. Jesus said as He stood before the people, being God made manifest in the flesh, He said, You have not seen His image at anytime. Neither have ye known Him. But Peter said unto Him, and Jesus said, I give unto thee the keys. That's what we need, is the keys, folks. We need the keys. He resurrected from the dead. He had the keys to death and to hell. We preached a message on the keys at Utica Pike. As to the resurrection, He had the keys to death and to hell. He's locked death out of my life. He took the key and He locked death out of my life. And He led captivity captive. All those things that had the power to bring Him into captivity He put them into captivity and He locked them up. Said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. The Bible said, He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity. (Continues singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord