Put On The Wedding Garment

Made mention of one or two people; and one of them had been out of church now for a good little bit; and we made mention of them that really need to do something. So I went home and I had a vision. While I was praying and in this vision this person died. And I got to them and they were dead. Their mouth locked up. If you've ever been around dead folks, or if you've ever held people's hands when they die, you understand what I'm saying. I have. And their mouth fastened tight and the life went out of them. They stopped breathing. And I got to him. I picked him up. And I had to pry their mouth open because it was a death lock. And you know when people die, after that they're dead, their mouth you know will go open. And what you have to do, the way the undertaker does, he takes a little thing and shoots like into the gums here, like a rivet, shoots it in. It's got wire on it and you pop them into here and here and down in the lower part, and then he'll twist them together. And then he'll set the lips you know, so that the mouth won't be open. But if you find your dead loved one in the morning, and we've found them dead where we would go in at night you know. Get them when the household was all upset and everybody was just tore up, we'd find them with the mouth you know wide open. But anyway a lot of times when you go to die, it'll lock up. And I found this person like that; and I put my mouth down over their mouth, and began to breathe for them. Not just blowing air into their mouth, but breathe as to go in and out like. And believing God while I was doing it, to start the heart back and I did. I started it back and they revived. And when they revived it bothered me, because I thought maybe they had been dead so long that it might prove to be injurious to their brain; but nevertheless it was all right. The person was all baffled and shook up and stood. It was a woman. Stood as though like a little girl in a beautiful robe. And was saying, What happen? What happen? You know. And I remember I said to them, I said, You are my little daughter named: God Is Love. That's what I said. I guess I named her because God was loving enough to raise her from the dead. But anyway, this is what happens I feel like that had to do with a spiritual death. This is what happens when people stay out of church. They don't think too much about it, but you stay out of church and begin to get the things of the world in your mind and heart. The Bible said, They that live in trespasses and sin are dead while they live. Or if the love of the world's in you, the love of the Father's not there. So then you are dead. Cut off from life. In that God is the only source of life, you are cut off from life. And I feel like that's what happened to the person. And that sure enough I saw this person and had a talk with them. And I feel like that is what maybe the Lord was showing me in prayer with them. There is something else that I thought about mentioning as to a vision. It seemed like there was something else I was going to say, but I can't remember it right now. All right we're coming to church for what reason? Can anybody tell me? What is the theme of our endeavors at Little Bethlehem in coming to church? To grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, growing right on to the full measure of the full stature, going on from thirty-fold to sixty-fold, from sixty-fold to a hundred-fold, going right on into the full reward. Lest ye seem to come short of entering into his rest, the Bible tells us. So then it's a good thing for the heart to be established. And the Bible said, that in the present day truth. So we're trying to do something for God. And when you let up and when I let up, then that means that things aren't done the way that God would like for them to be done. He has no other hands but your hands. He has no other mouth but your mouth. He has no other ears but your ears. He has no other brain but your brain. And there is a continual warfare as to battle between the soul and the spirit. Or the body and the soul as we say as to body, soul and spirit. And the soul seems to be a battleground right in between the spirit and the soul. And there is a continual warfare. It never stops. And Satan warring against the spirit or soul in the body. As Paul said, In my body there dwelleth no good thing. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? So then the war going on, we cannot do the things that we'd like to do, Paul said. There is a great interference. Satan even warring with the Lord Jesus, the Bible said, He departed from the Lord Jesus for a little season. And then after that he was right back to harass him, to try to cause him problems as to say, If you be the Son of God; and if the Lord is watching after you? And these kind of things you know as to the spirit. Now, we have a continual fight. It never stops. And one of these parts are going to win out. Either the spirit is going to take the body to Calvary, or either the body is going to take the spirit to Calvary. And one of them is going to die. And if we die in the flesh, then we live in the spirit. If we die in the spirit, then we are alive in the flesh. And the Bible said, If you are in the flesh, you cannot please God, for it is impossible to please God without faith. And the flesh hath no faith. It hath no faith. It can believe. And even at this moment just mere believing as to human faith as someone would refer to it, still Satan rules and operates the world; and people are blest by that one thing. It's hard for you to get a hold of when I say this, but the whole world is cursed. It's under a curse. And yet we wonder how it is that inasmuch as it's under a curse, how that people prosper? How are they blest? How do they get medical aide? How do they escape pain? How do they escape misery and all these kind of things? We wonder about that? But see people believe. People believe. And because they believe, then that means that the devil believing, if you believe. He believes too, the Bible said. Him believing, the people believing, then that means that the devil can enter right into that individual or those individuals and frolic and enjoy sin for a season; and the blood being on the seat of atonement, it gives them the freedom to do that. Not as an intentional thing, but because God has placed the blood there for the salvation as to bring the elect in. Then those that are being human beings are all alike. Those that let Satan into their heart, Satan can rule and reign in their heart and set in the temple of God which is the body, and show himself that he is God; and go right on with his debauchery and evil and all of the things that he does. In the high places, that is in the money powers, like it was said of Ted Turner I believe that has such a powerful, powerful outreach in the gospel. Having used religious men to build what he has. Men like: Pat Robertson and others, I understand that just recently Pat wanted to go back on the program there, and offered him maybe thirty-thousand dollars a week was it? He refused to do it. Said, I've already used these men for my purpose. Got to be a tremendous man; and he said, If women and a little drink's going to take me to hell, I guess I'll just go to hell. Whereas before he was altogether against these things, altogether against them from what I understand. But now all of a sudden Satan in his heart like Judas going into his heart, has turned him to corruption. And now his powerful outreach is devilish. You know to begin with all he projects as a rule is something that's ruthless. In sports and all these things that's worldly. Whereas before he did have at least a little religious activity on his programs. But I said that to say this, the world has gone hard after Satan unawares. They don't realize that it's Satan. And Satan has set up his kingdom within their heart and death, death has taken over within their lives and killing out their spirit; and the leeches as to the parasites of demon spirits are using up what little life they have as temporal life. So that they all will be turned into the Lake of Fire which is called the second death. So then there is a warfare. There is a great warfare. And it is a continual warfare. And the Bible said, Do thy diligence to keep thine heart, for out of it comes forth the issues of life. And the heart is desperately wicked. It's deceitful above all things, and who can know it? So then you have a job. You have a battle. And anytime you don't get vexed because of evil, and you don't get vexed because of worldly people and worldly things and worldly environment, it is because you are not a child of God. And anytime that you are not disturbed when things aren't moving in your life towards Christ, it's because you're not born again. A person that is born again is like Lot, even Lot not having the Holy Ghost, being down in Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible says, that the soul of this righteous man was vexed from day to day by the evil deeds of those that were around him. So then when you're not vexed and you're not miserable and something isn't wrong with you as to be real disturbed, when you are in a carnal environment or having carnal conversation, or thinking carnal thoughts, it's simply because you've never been born again. Because when you are born again, you will for sure be vexed when thoughts are wrong, and when words are wrong, and things are wrong and environment is wrong, then you'll be vexed. Now I'm not saying you're not a believer. You may be a believer. But a lot of times just being a believer, all that does is just put you in the kingdom of Satan. As to just believe that there is a God, you know and not really have faith. In that faith is from the heart as through a born again experience through Jesus Christ. So you're just furbishing and refurbishing his kingdom as to become a believer of religious persons. See, as long as people are religious, and as long as the blood is on the seat of atonement, then the anointing as to the pouring out of the spirit of God can come upon the tare. And the rain on the just and the unjust, that means that a preacher can get up and by the transformation of their minds, they can preach the Word of God, and this rain will come down as to the grace of God because people are believers. They've heard the Word. And when the rain comes down, then the people feel real refreshed and they feel real religious and they feel like God is good. And God is taught as being good, which He really is. As long as the blood's on the seat of atonement, He's going to remain good as toward all people. But when the blood comes off of the seat of atonement, they're not going to think God's good, even though He'll still be good, when He starts destroying the wicked and makes the blood to run to the horses bridle, He'll be just as good as ever. But it will be the wrath of God as to the fiery indignation of God that shall devour his adversaries. So then people have this tutoring. And God allows this so that the world can go on, and so that things can flourish and people can escape that curse. As of the present time, God looking on them through the blood of Jesus, they can escape the curse. Jesus having taken away the sins of the world. And having escaped the curse, then that means that they can have all this medical aide, they'll have all those blessings through life. They can make money. They can frolic and do what they want to; and still in spite of all of this, they can still be blest of the Lord. The blessing on the just and on the unjust as long as the blood is on the seat of atonement. But when the blood comes off of the seat of atonement, the Bible said, They'll literally gnaw their tongues with pain. And there won't be any healing medicines; and they won't find any place of refuge, and not even death will be a consolation. In that death will be lifted. They can't even die to get out of their misery. So you can see how things are, and why things are prospering. And these ministers of Satan, they become Bible scholars. They can quote whole passages of Scriptures. They go to college and study for years just to learn the Bible, and they are terrific in reference. And they write essays and all kind of books. See, as it was Jesus said, concerning the Pharisees and Scribes, he said, you do whatever they tell you because they set in the seat of Moses. That is they're religious leaders, but he said, Don't do after their doings. For they say and they do not. But the Bible says that the man that's looking into the perfect law of God's liberty as to the Word, if he'll continue therein, then he shall be blest. Otherwise you'll just be what they call a Charismatic. And I say again that charisma refers to salvation as to Christianity in one sense. And then if you'll check it as to mythology, it refers to paganistic practices as to paganistic gods. So it depends you know. We are Christians, having been called Christians first at Antioch, we follow after that; and they call us Christ like which means Christians. So we confess Christianity. That we are Christ like. If you'll just be a charismatic, and you'll be out in the world, and you'll be religious, and you'll be a believer. And because the blessings come, you'll think God's altogether like you. He said, You think I'm altogether one as you are because of this grace and this blessing; but someday I'll meet you face to face as a bear that is robbed of her cubs. And you that have forgotten me, I'll tear you into pieces he said. For I remind you again that the offering of the wicked is an abomination in his sight. Though they gather a lot of money, yet it's an abomination in his sight. And he said your prayers are as the wicked. They are an abomination in my sight. And said, You're like the restless waves of the sea that's ever casting their mire up upon the bank. And he said, And I will pursue the wicked until they perish from off of the face of the earth. For I am angry with the wicked every day. But it is said of the blessed, thou art blessed for the Father's sake. And he said, I will give thee the desires of the heart. Ye that delight yourself in me, I will give you the desires of your heart. I will make you to ride upon the high places of the earth. I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob, and my blessings shall make thee rich and add no sorrow. I will make all of your beds in the time of your sickness, and even the death of the saints is precious in my sight. He said, I will make you to be a tree that's planted by the rivers of the waters who shall bring forth their fruit in their season and their leaves shall not wither, and whatsoever they do shall prosper. Because if you confess your sins and forsake your sins, whatever you do will prosper. But they that cover their sins the Bible said, They shall not prosper. All right I just thought I would drop those thoughts in this morning. We know then that we are in a warfare. And folks, I'm telling you to be religious, whether you belong to Little Bethlehem, or you belong to the First Church up town, or whatever you belong to to be religious is the worst thing that you could do. When the world becomes religious, then that means the opportunity for salvation is over. Because they have become a proselyte. The Bible said, Two-fold more the child of hell. And he said, I would that thou were hot or cold. Because if you were cold and without God I could send ministers to evangelize the world, and I could send, I could continue with the grace of God, because there would people that would have to hear the gospel before the end could come. In that the Bible said, The end cannot come until the gospel be published in all the world for a witness and preached to every creature. So then I would that you were cold. Because you are not cold, then that takes away the opportunity for me to send forth evangelism. He said, I would that you were hot. That is fervent in the spirit. The Bible said to be fervent in prayer and worship and whatever. And the fervent, effectual prayer of a righteous man availeth much. And he said, I would that you were hot because if you were hot burning in the spirit of God, I could pour out the blessings of heaven upon you, and mightily anoint you as to sonship; and sons and daughters would be recognized in the earth, because of the wonderful blessings of God in their lives. But in that you're neither one. You're in between; you're religiously lukewarm, I'll spew you out of my mouth and become vomit on my table. All of my tables are filled with vomit as to the Laodicean lukewarm age. So he said, Because you are lukewarm, I'll spew you out of my mouth. Or that is to say because you've come to the knowledge of the truth, and now you won't perform the act of God, then you stand at the door. You hinder. You won't go in and you hinder them that's coming, as the Pharisees and the Scribes. And he says, because of this in that you are in this kind of condition, I will spew you out of my mouth. For he tells us because we are lukewarm, then we're neither cold nor hot. And because of this he said, being lukewarm, then the end of the world is here, because you know and won't do. And I'm not obligated to send and teach anymore. And I cannot bless you because of your evil, so I must cut you off. I must cut you off, and lift the blood from the seat of atonement that it might bring the end. And so the end of the world will come when people become lukewarm. That is to say, Once the Christians are sealed in, then the wicked are sealed out. And I read to you here even how that Gorbechov is religious. How that the great leaders of the world is religious. The Queen of London is very religious. And our leaders are very religious in America and all over the world now. The leaders are becoming greatly religious. And millions of people are becoming greatly religious. And like that millions of Bibles going into Russia. We say, Well that will bring salvation to Russia. It will be one of the great means of bringing salvation to Russia as to the Bible. But on the other hand it will cause many people to be lukewarm, as coming to the knowledge of the Lord and then not going on with the Lord. So then it will only help to bring the end of the world. And then again the Bible is not altogether as it should be in our day, because they have all kind of Bibles. And these, some of these printed Bibles as they call them, whereas the word Bible means book, you know. Or it has to do with books as to a collection of things. Like this one has sixty-six books in it. And of course the King James Version has proved to be authentic as to research, as to history, as to things that have happened prophetically. And it's proved to be authentic. So we call this the original canon of the Bible or the true canon of the Bible. See, which I believe with all my heart, it is the nearest thing to the actual expression of the apostles and of Jesus. And even though in this Bible it refers to some of the other books, some of the other scrolls; yet when you check those scrolls out, though you find what the Bible refers to as this being found like in the book of Jasher, but then we check out the book of Jasher with other things, a lot of those books are wild and you can tell that God has nothing at all to do with those books. But there are a few little things that the Bible refers to as to other books. And there is the apocrypha; and there is numbers of other books that tell some history and whatever. But when it comes to the real book, this is the book: the King James Version. And of course I don't know just exactly what's going into Russia. I know there will be enough of the Word of God that God will bless it. But again I said all those things to come to one final point of decision here, and that is there is no other absolute in the world except God's Word. And in the beginning was the Word, and in the end will be the Word. And everything is established for the Word, created by the Word, upheld by the Word, stabilized by the Word. And you cannot even stabilize your mind without the Word of God. Through all the heresy and all of the indoctrination and all of the foolishness as to diplomacies of colleges and whatever, it doesn't do you any good. It only makes a wretch out of you that you're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Bible, which is the truth as to the real Word of God. Though some read the Word of God, as Bible scholars in college, the Bible said, Their eyes are blind as to the eyes of their understanding. They still can't interpret it. They still can't understand it. And they wrest these things as of the Scriptures all the way through the Bible to their own destruction. So I preached to you the other night, and this is the point I want to get to. The thought I had on my mind when I started. And that is the Bible said, If a doctrine is not according to godliness, then it a doctrine of the devil. And the Bible said, There are doctrines of the devils by men that renew their minds, living like the devil, and then transforming their minds by the grace of God of our day. They get up and preach the Word to you. Some of you believe, and the healings come and the blessings come, because the rain is to the healing and whatever's on the just and the unjust. To give, to show the love of God, the goodness of God, Paul said, might lead us to repentance. But brothers and sisters in Christ, I'm trying to teach you not as to the grace of God only, that is poured out as the rain upon the just and the unjust, which is a dispensational grace as to your benefit in this life, and as to we'll say benefit this life as to the world has got to go on; so God allows grace that it might go on. Even that you might live here until you finish your course, or until the elect finds it's way to God. But not as just grace, that would be a dispensational grace. It would be over when the blood is taken off of the seat of atonement. Rather the grace of God unto salvation. I'm teaching you that; whereas the Bible said, This grace has appeared unto all men, teaching them that denying worldly lust that they should live soberly and righteously in this present world. So then this is the grace unto salvation that you are born of, as to the spirit of Christ. And it causes you to live soberly and righteously in this present world. And as the spirit said to John the Baptist's father, as he prophesied and the spirit said, that we should serve him in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life. So then the doctrine that I preach is the doctrine according to godliness. So let's read just a little bit here. We'll talk to you a few minutes and then we'll let you go. Sometimes I say a few pre-words as to try to collect your minds and indoctrinate enough to get your attention, that I might bring forth to you the lovely Word of God. One other thing I might say just before we read. If you remember some of you a day or two ago, I guess it's come out. Was it yesterday, Brother Taylor? Said a day or two ago the thing concerning the site of the burial of Jesus has been closed off for the first time in eight hundred years. And also the Mosque of Omar, Brother James, when did that article come out? Closed the Mosque of Omar and the burial, I mean the birth site. Okay, I believe Brother Taylor has that article here. What day was it that it went into effect? Anyway it's a recent issue, isn't it? Saturday. This of course has a phenomenal meaning. The first time in history. And I know I got a little paper it said, the first time in eight hundred years, but anyway, it says the first time in history according to this article. This has a phenomenal meaning. And I feel that this is majorly responsible for our lack of respond from the Brother over in the Holy Land where we were going to purchase the properties in Old Jerusalem. But the reason I say that is because they say that they have placed 200 Christians inside of the walls of the old city. And I thought that was phenomenal, because just the mere fact that they had made a commitment to us as to purchase that land. We'd said that it would open the door for Christians, and here two hundred Christians goes into the old city. And I thought that was really phenomenal. But nevertheless, it has upset the Jews, and they've got all kind of problems. And they're making some laws or rules and regulations that the orthodox Christians and some of the others, the Armenians, they're upset about it. And it's causing a war, and all kind of things are happening. The Moslems and whatever. And there's a number of the people killed on both sides. There's a number of Israelites killed. And people on either side was killed. So there's problems. And I feel like that God has allowed people from all over the world to come and view that birth, that place of birth and that place of burial, and that place of resurrection, and the place of the crucifixion, these kind of things. And now after the world has seen it, having been trampled down as to the Holy Land under the feet of the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. All of a sudden now he just cut him off. And saying, All of them has had a chance to see that this is not a myth. That this is reality. All kind of denominations have brought their people in there. Religious people from all over the world and all kind of nations, people from every nation. And now God is ready to bring the wrath of God. He's ready to bring the judgment after that all of them know that there really is a God, that there really is a Jesus, that there really is a Holy Ghost, or a precious Holy Spirit. And now God is ready to bring his judgment. That's what I see in it. Why would it be for the first time in the history of mankind that this would be done? See, it goes back to what we said about the finishing of the days of the Gentiles. And those calendar dates that we brought out to you. Now I remember this time the last day or two I believe it was. Tommy Cartrette came and said, his dad appeared to him in a dream and said, Tommy, whatever you do you keep going to church. And of course that must mean something close by too, if he talked to Tommy like that in the vision. All right we were instrumental in helping to bring him to the Lord before his death. You love the Lord? Some other things I'd like to say even as to newspaper clippings that have great significance. But I better just go ahead and read a little. I know that we look forward to coming to the house of the Lord. I realize that. And of course we also, we're not too diligent as to stay long enough to really get into the Word of the Lord. But I do have as a general terms, I do have reverence out of my people, and respect for the Word of the Lord and the house of the Lord. And as to the majority of them, they try to listen to the Word of the Lord. Some are very careless. Their minds are always so far out that even in talking to them and making conversation to them, they don't know what you said after you get through when you finish your conversation. But some of them are giving the more earnest heed to the things that they've heard, lest they should let them slip. And they're taking heed how that they hear. In that they are incorporating these things within their life-style, and they're trying to do something for God. Whereas if there was a time that you should do that, it's most certainly now. But others they look forward to going to eating and drinking. And this is a sad situation. No matter how hungry you get, as to your body, whether it's fasting or praying or whatever, you should not look forward to eating, but look forward to the things of God, because when you look forward to a meal from the time you get up in the morning as to going to the table and eating breakfast, or if you don't eat breakfast and you look forward as to going to the cafe just to get a meal, it takes you back to the old serpent. It means that you are the old serpent, and your labor is for the tummy. And it's calling on you. And David said, Let their bellies be a snare to them, or let the table be a snare to them. So it's not good in that the last prophetical utterance as to the end time was: they'll be eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage. Now the question I'd like to ask just before read is this. Have you ever read of a day, heard of a day in your life time where people ever ate and drink like they do now? Or where it was the adulterous generation as to say, what would be the confirmation as to this statement, to say that people are marrying and remarrying and marrying and remarrying? Have you ever heard of a generation where people ever married and remarried and married and remarried. And many hundreds and thousands of them never even come into wedlock. But like beasts they mate together, and they stay together, and they dope up, and they do everything that's so horrible: leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, man with man working that which is unseemingly, receiving in themselves that recompense of reward for their evil and error that's meet for the evil that they do. Whereas the Bible speaks of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the horrible thing there; and how that when this come about that it would bring the fire and the brimstone; that God would burn it. That He's the same yesterday, today and forever. For that sin he burnt Sodom and Gomorrah. And for that sin he will repeat it today, or he wouldn't be the same. So now that this is the generation, then we see how horrible and dirty and filthy that the generation really is. And just marriage after marriage, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, all these horrible, hideous things. Women not true to their husbands. And husbands not true to the wives. And the daughters nothing but harlots. And the sons nothing but whoremongers. And it's just a horrible situation. And in their minds that's all they can think of. And in their eating spiced foods and the things that they eat, just brings about more of this as to the books, the pictures, the billboards, the conversation, the laughing, television, eating, drinking, riding, sporting, having the good things of life. See, it's just built the flesh up in such a way until it's just rotten. And the Bible said, All of them have gone astray, and every man has turned to his own way. And God has laid upon him the iniquity of us all. And the Bible said, Every man has turned to his own way. Looking to his own quarter for his own gain. Everyone doing their own thing. And he said, And all of them have become altogether unprofitable. And there's none of them good, no not one. All of them have gone astray. So that means that unless you are the elect of God, and you've accepted your election as to come into the righteousness of God with real diligence, then you are among the wicked and the unclean. And that there's no righteousness except it be of God. And the others are the fornicators and the adulterers and the filthy generation, that he referred to as dogs and swine, that lap the vomit, that wallow in the mire. And even with the grace of God as to the blood on the seat of atonement, and the rain coming down on the just and the unjust, the old sow and the old dog is washed by the rain, but they go back. When the rain is washed the vomit away, they go back and they vomit again, and they lap their vomit. And the mud holes are still there, and the old sow goes back to her wallowing in the mire. So the mire is considered the mind of evil, and the mind of Satan. And the mind that Satan gave to Eve in the Garden as that old corrupt mind, as to the spirit of Lucifer. And the flesh wallows in it. And it's interwoven with the flesh. And in the flesh there's no good thing. And all flesh hath corrupted it's way before God. And there's no flesh that is pure or holy or godly of the entire creation and generation of mankind. And God had to make another seed, another blood seed to bring another generation. And by the washing of the water of regeneration as to baptism in the spiritual waters of heaven, he hath washed us from our iniquity, done away with the old body of sin. He's laid it to rest. And then he hath brought forth a body of purity as to bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, of which you and I are, having been separated from our iniquity, and the body of sin and death is gone. Having died out to the law, we're dead to the law of sin and death. And we cannot sin because we are now his body and bone, and in him there is no unrighteousness. They said, we find no fault in this just man of whom ye are the members in particular. All right so we're waiting for the head to come back. And of course, the life as to Christ returning is the spirit. And to the Jews it's going be a natural man that will come back as you would say, as to the blood stained body and the nail prints in his hand, as to the natural Jew, as to the natural body, in that they represent the redemption of the body. Because they're kept under those laws and ritualistics as to eat certain things and to do certain ritualistics. So then you're the life of the Jew. When you return to the Jew and the Jew returns to you, then that will be the end. Paul said, the casting away of the Jew be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jew be, but life from the dead? So then at Calvary we say, the veil rent in two. And over here on this side of the ocean as to that great dividing part which is the gulf, then we find the spirit. And on the other side we find the body, and the body without the spirit is dead. And the spirit over here is in heaven. Religiously speaking they enjoy all of the wonderful, glorious things of God; and as to naturally speaking because of the blood on the seat of atonement, they're still in heaven, because they eat, they drink, they live like queens and kings, while people over there go hungry and starve to death on the other side. But the prosperity is to shift; and the first is to be last and the last is to be first. And the spirit is to shift and leave the Gentiles and go back to the Jews. And then will be the end. If the death of the Jews as to the separation of salvation, in that salvation is of the Jew, as to when that left from the east coming west, then if this became life as to heaven, then that became death as to the burial ground. And that's why all of the battles are fought over there and the blood is spilt over there. And usually it doesn't come into your country. If the sun rises in the east, and if it moves over to the west, it's very obvious that life comes up in the east as to salvation of the Jews. And then allegorically speaking it moves west. And the seed of life that come from the loins of the man as to the eastern part of the world, it finds it's place in the vagina of the woman as to the western part of the world. And then the religious stride is on. And Paul said, travailing until Christ be formed in you. Then in the western world the child is formed. And then as the time toward the end of the forming to end the church ages, then all of a sudden the travail strikes the woman, which is America, the western world. And the child is born and yielded up. And the rapture is as up to the throne of God, which means over the tribulation period to Jerusalem, as to the throne of God and the people of God for a thousand years regime. Christ sitting on that throne in his return, and the curse lifted for the people. So we know that, we know now that the time is at the end. And I have preached to you how that you are gods. That time ended at Calvary. And how that you are free from sin and death. And you should be now ready for the rapture. And your faith, you should be ready. Somebody said, Well, wait a little longer Jesus. Or that is, I'm not doing so good, Brother Pike. Wait until I get a little better. Well, the Lord isn't going to wait for anyone. And besides that, you're not going to get any better. You're going to get worse. Because sin will increase. Wicked men will get worse and worse. Sin will be greater and greater. And if you can't handle it today, you can handle it less tomorrow. And if you can't handle it during the time of the blood on the seat of atonement, when the tribulation period comes and you can't buy nor sell, eat and drink or anything else. No liberties, it's for sure that you can't handle it. And that makes me to know that in the beginning I wasn't able to handle it. I turned it all over to the Lord Jesus. And he done a good job of handling it, cleaning me up and making me holy and just and pure and righteous, without sin as to his own way of life, as to his own wonderful doings. And I'm still trusting in that. And your problem is not that you need to wait to get a little better, but you're problem is that you've never been born again. And because of that you're still floundering around. And like the old sow, going back to the wallowing in the mire. But if you was really born again, then you would be doing your best in spite of all of your stumbling, you would do your best, not today or yesterday but every day. From the time you was born again to the time that Jesus comes, as to everything that you understand, everything that you've come into, proportionally speaking as from glory to glory, as from the revelation of this great wonderful truth, you'd be doing your very best; and you would do your very best, even until the coming of the Lord Jesus as to see him in the natural, as you would say his natural body. And yet he's a spiritual body. But coming back with the nail prints. So in that we have no other means of vocabulary expression, we have to say as the measurement of the angels in heaven so is the measurement of man. And so is they are one whether I express it by words or whatever as to terminology. But anyway we find that this is the case that you really need to be born again. When you get born again, you're going to do your very best. And every time you stumble and every time you stagger the blood is going to cover it. You're not going to have any problem whatsoever. And you're going to be thankful to God because God is going to keep you. And you're going to find yourself filled with the spirit and on your way to heaven, and without spot and without wrinkle and without blemish. Because he that is born of God hath Christ's spirit, which is power over all the powers of the devil, proved to be so while it tabernacled in that body here in this world. And because you have that, that is power over death because death is an enemy, an enemy of God. And because of that you'll be able to overcome every trial and temptation, and keep yourself; and the evil one will never be able to touch you. You love the Lord? All right. I'm just wondering back here if that was our little brother from Pennsylvania? I can't tell. Sitting back there. Oh yes. That is. Let's give the Lord a hand for these people that's come. They've come numbers of times as of late. I believe there's something in the heart that really would like to have the Lord Jesus. And God has indoctrinated them in bringing these things into their mind, that they may be programmed unto eternal life and not unto destruction. My wife wanted me to read this little thing here. It's: the young girls with the help of some of the sisters turned in $675.00 for the mailing. I think we ought to give somebody else a hand. Nothing wrong with clapping your hands. I say this so often. To clap your hands all ye people. Make a joyful noise as unto the Lord. The Bible said, Doing all things as unto the Lord. When you do this to the least of them, you do it as unto the Lord. In a good thing, Paul said, I praise thee. So I praise the people in this because we were desperately in need of money to send off the mail. We wanted to send it off first class because the brochures going up for the Saturday night meeting over in Knoxville would not have gotten there on time had the sisters not taken this outlook. So I thank God for that and for their effort. Let's read chapter 22 of the book of Saint Matthew. "And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise. And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good:" (I want you to notice the terms there is both bad and good)" and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen." (Saint Matthew 22: 1-14.) Okay so we remember one thing, and that is the call is to let whosoever will. The Bible said, Let whosoever will come and partake of the waters of life freely. So then the call is to go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And in that the gospel is preached to every creature, then that means as the minister speaks that is a call. He is giving a call to every creature. So when the minister stands up to minister, he gives his call. The Bible said, Lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people of their sin. So we lift up our voice like a trumpet, not us speaking but the heavenly Father speaking from within his temple, as to all the world keeping silent, and through the power of God remitting or retaining sin. Judgment beginning at the house of God with these words in that faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. And salvation begins at the house of God with these words. So then as to your faith, as to your believing. Jesus said, So be it unto you. And he said here that this great king gave a supper. He sent out the call. And the call was to let whosoever will come to this supper, whether you be good or whether you be bad. It went out. Let whosoever will come to this supper, this great feast of charity. For the Bible said that this is our feast of charity. In that God is love. And the fatling as to the lamb, the fatling as to the ox and the calves, slaughter has come. Jesus is that lamb. The fatling has been killed, and we are to eat of his flesh and to drink of his blood if we're to have any life in us. And this great supper of God's expression of love. For God so loved that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And so then this wonderful thing is taking place. And God who is love has given us this feast of love, or this feast of charity. And the call has went out. For he sent his servants as to say the preachers, out into all the world to preach the gospel to every creature. And it's gone to every creature, that the good and the bad can come. And the Bible says that the supper was furnished. They came. Both the good and the bad came. They came to the supper. So then we give the declaration. We told about this great feast of charity. And both the bad and the good has come. And this morning as I preach to you, then I preach both to the bad and to the good, because all of you have come to hear. For the Gospel is to every creature. As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess the things in heaven, things in the earth, and things under the earth. And this came to pass as we tell you as the Bible teaches, when it was said that, I heard a voice. John saying everything in heaven, everything in the earth, and everything under the earth saying, Praises and glory and honor, and majesty and wisdom be to the great God of heaven. So then the call has gone out. We're giving the call through Christ. And we're preaching this gospel without charge as Paul said, lest we abuse our privileges in the gospel. And this has gone out into all the world. And now it is said, Let whosoever will come and partake of the waters of life freely. And so then this call, having gone out, everybody is coming. Everybody is becoming religious. And the Bible said, In the last days as to the latter times, the house of the Lord shall be established, and all nations shall flow unto this house. And they will say, Teach us of your ways. And sure enough we see it going out in America. We see it going out in Germany. As we travel around the world in the gospel we find it going out in every nation without respect of person. Every individual has opportunity to hear this gospel of Jesus Christ because the trumpet is sounding. There is a supper. Come ye to the supper. For this great King has prepared this supper in the behalf of his lovely child Jesus. Or in the behalf of his son. So then come to this supper, we say. We bid you to come. And with all pleading, with tears, with fasting, with declaration, with asking, conversation. Sometimes weary hours preachers spend trying to get you to come to the supper. So then you come to the supper. Both bad and good come to the supper. But the thing is that we've got to remember is that when you come to the supper, both good and bad are coming. And when you come to the supper, it is expected of you to immediately put on this beautiful robe as to that which is required at the supper. You are expected to put on this robe. These robes are given to you, even as Jesus, the Bible says, Going into the heart of the earth, and he took white robes to them that were in the heart of the earth. These that had died in the faith, not having received the promise, but they were there within the earth waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus. In that the Bible says, that they died in the faith, not having received the promise. And without the promise, that is to say without us, the Bible says, we being the promised seed, without us as the body of Jesus Christ, they could not be made perfect. And the Lord Jesus when he came as unto that which is perfect, he went down into the heart of the earth and there he preached to the souls in prison. And the Bible said, That he gave them white robes, and said unto them, A little while when your brothers have died the way that you have, and we will say as to martyrdom, being martyred he said, then it will all be over. But right now you just rest, rest. They said, How long, oh Lord, before you avenge our blood upon them that dwell on the earth? He said, A little while; and he gave them the white robes. Now then he not only gave them white robes down there, but he also gave you the robes for the supper. He gave them the robes that when they're called out, they will have the robe. They will have the white robe of righteousness. And he has given unto you and I this great opportunity saying, Repent everyone of you. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. And ye shall receive the white robe. For Paul said, Put ye on the white robe, or put ye on your beautiful garments, the Bible said. Zion, Put on your beautiful garments. Like a person that puts on their garments for their Sunday gathering, or whatever they're going to do on the weekend, you know. They have their tattered clothing through the week. A lot of times people that work at construction and whatever, they wear their common clothes. And then on the week end they want their special clothing, even people that work in offices a lot of times they just wear common clothes until the weekend. Now so then we see that God gave to them white robes, and he gave you and I white robes as to say, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust of the desires thereof. Put ye on your beautiful garments. For the Bible said, He that has been baptized into Christ has put on Christ. And so then when we are baptized, we are burying our body. Our body is gone. Our spirit is thus released from that body. That body is dead and buried. The spirit goeth back to God who gave it. And the Bible said, We are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received, until the time of the restitution or the restoring of all things, that is to bring in the millennium regime. Now so then, that means that we are baptized. And we have put on Christ when we come up, having been sown with him as to the likeness of the flesh. The Bible said, Being buried in his likeness, in that he was sown in weakness, raised in power; or in that we go down as a natural person, come up as a spiritual body. And the Bible says, having been delivered for our offenses as that of the image of the bastard child, being made sin, even our sin, he was raised up in another form. And so then this other form that we come up in is the body of the Lord Jesus. It is the image of the resurrected one that came up for our justification. Because as to that, as to the bodily image of the bastard child of which you are from your first birth, in that all die in Adam, and Eve being the mother of all living, then that means that you are the bastard child image of which Jesus came in, to do away with that, and to cut down that tree of knowledge all the way from Calvary back to the garden, that he might enter into the garden again as to his extensive view, looking into the millennium, as to the restoration of the garden; seeing you as bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. To take you back to your originality, or back to the planted seed, as being made in the form of God and in the likeness of God, in taking away by his sacrifice and his sufferings your wrongs. Where the Bible says, that all of you have gone astray. Every man has turned to his own way. And every man looks to his own gain as from his quarter. So then the Bible said, God having bruised him, it pleased God that he should bruise him in our behalf. And he hath made us to be his precious children in Christ Jesus. And we are complete in him. And we are a finished product in him. And what God wanted you and I to be, he made Jesus to be, that he might grant that unto us by faith of Jesus Christ, as to say that though my faith wavers, and I could never have what I want from God, because I would be unstable in all of my ways, yet Jesus' faith never wavered. And God granted him the full blessing, thus the faith of Jesus Christ has been passed on to me. And today it is his faith. Because it is his faith, I also have his mind. Whereas the Bible said, Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Who being made in the form of God thought it not robbery to make himself equal with God. This mind did not seek to make of itself a reputation, but humbled itself, even to the washing of the feet of the disciples. So then this mind that is in you, it should think as Christ thought. And the way that that mind thought was: I must be about my Father's business. I must do what God has sent me to do. I must finish His work. I must fast. I must pray. He continued in prayer all night long. All night long the Bible said, he would continue in prayer; because this mind was in him. This spirit was in him. This desire was in him. He said, And not my will be done, but thine. That is to say, I'm dying to my own body. I'm dying to my own desire. I'm dying to my own way of life. I'm putting aside all of the admiration of my features or my forms as to anything that I could project as to human personality, or of that which I might achieve through life as to being a dignitary or celebrity. I'm laying all that aside. I'm losing my life in the natural that I might become that great one in the spirit. To lose your life is to gain it. To gain your life is to lose it. So then surrendering up our life, dying by the body of the Lord Jesus. We have then put on this beautiful robe, this garment, this wonderful robe of Christ. And today in the eyes of God, it is no more I that liveth, but Christ that liveth within me. And the life I now live, I live by the son of God. So then you look at me as that which is in the graveyard. Because the natural man is dead and he is buried and he is gone. And the image of the bastard child as to the fall through that of the garden is no more. God never sees it again. And that bodily image is now buried. And I am delivered from the body of this death. Paul used the terms: Oh wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? He said, For as to the inner man, I have a desire and a will. He said, But as to find a performance, I cannot find it. And he tells us that as you have a will, have a performance. He said, But how to perform that which is good, I cannot find it. He said, For I find a law. And this law is that when I would do good, evil is present with me. So then the good that I would do as to the inner desire of that which is spiritual as to the inner man, he said, I do not. But the outer things as to the infiltration of this body, he said, This I do. Oh wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? And he said, I thank God that what the law could not do in that it was weak to the flesh, and I remind you again, the flesh weak to perform the law, in that it was spiritual. God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; and I am now free from the body of this death, in that the law he said, hath dominion over a man as long as he lives. But if the man be dead, even to the natural laws of the land, there is no bondage as to the law. The law hath no power over him because he is dead to the law. And so then by the body of the Lord Jesus he said, Reckon yourselves to be dead in deed unto the law of sin and death and unto the world. And come out from the world and be a separate people and touch not the unclean things, and I will receive you, saith the Lord. So then I find that I am now in his sight the body of the Lord Jesus. He looks from Calvary. That ends me. And then over in the new world in the new body or in the restored earth there he sees me as his beloved. That is to say at the Thessalonians change when I'm changed in the moment in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality, from the corruptible to the incorruptible, from the terrestrial to the celestial. And the Bible said, There is a natural body. There is a spiritual body. As we have born the image of the natural, as to the natural body, which is that of Adam, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly which is the Lord Jesus, even him that resurrected from the dead. So we find then that we are free from the law of sin and death. And now that which I could not do, I could not do it because of sin and infiltration in my body, and my body was killing me. That is to say there's a continual warfare between my soul and my body, my spirit and my body. And I can't do that I want to. When I want to do good, evil thoughts strike my mind. Evil things are around me. Evil environment, and I want to do good and I feel in prison. I feel grieved. And my heart smites me as it was in the days when David did something over there to Saul. He said, His heart smote him. And my heart smites me and I think: Oh my God! Oh my God! I cannot do that. I will not do that. I have no part with that. Charity thinketh no evil. And every thought must be cast down, brought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ. And I must have a performance, even as I've had a will. And Lord, what must I do? And then I hear a voice saying, look away to Calvary. Look away to Calvary. Look upon the brazen serpent. And as the serpents go to bite, the sting will not effect you. The bite will not effect you. As Paul shook the serpent off into the fire, and the venom had no power over him as to death. And the people were amazed because of this poison thing. They thought he was a god. And sure enough ye are gods. Jesus said, Ye are gods. And so then he hath made you gods by the power of eternal life. So I look away to Calvary and I find my body dead. I'm delivered from that body of torment. I'm delivered from that body of uncleanness. I'm delivered from that bastard child image. As in Adam all die. I'm delivered from death. I inwardly keep myself in that I am sealed by the Holy Spirit; and I grieve not the Holy Spirit by unbelief or doing wrong, willfully doing wrong. See, because I am sealed by Him. And the Bible said, Grieve not the Holy Spirit by which ye are sealed unto the day of redemption, or that is unto the day when God changes this body. And I tell you again now, the body is the purchased possession. And it's already redeemed; and we're not waiting for the redemption of it. We're waiting to grasp or to wit the redemption as the minister reveals the secret of them that shall not sleep. And as he reveals the Word of God, as he, Paul said, We wish this even the perfecting of your faith, or as the minister tells you in detail what God has left for you as that of the departure of the Lord Jesus, leaving you his will, we execute this as those of, or of your attorney or whatever, to tell you that being a chief executive as to this will and this estate, we are telling you the wonderful promises of God. See, we're telling you that he has given you all things that pertain unto life, that it's yours for the partaking. So then we find that we are free from sin and death. See, we're completely free from it. I am dead by the body of the Lord Jesus unto sin. I am alive now as the body of the Lord Jesus as to the resurrection. And I once was dead in sin, but now I'm alive forevermore. And I've passed from death unto life because death was in the body. Because the judgment was upon the body of sin. So then that's taken away. And I tell you again, that's how the world got into the grace of God. That's how that revelation records, that Satan, Lucifer, climbed into the heavenlies. Though thou climbest into heaven, from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. Seeing the people go up into the Apollo, as to Apollos having to do with the devil. See, he's climbed up. Made his nest among the stars even in the natural to show that this is the casting out. And you remember how that that one caught on fire when the school teacher was in it. We brought it out how that it went down into the depths of the water, as to having to do with the bottomless pit. In that the Bible said, In the millennium there won't be any sea. It will be passed away where those weird creatures are. There won't be any of that. And we also related to you how that they say they feel that they've opened the bottomless pit or opened hell. Remember those readings. They published two or three articles on it. But getting back to the major theme of our thought, the world is in grace or under the covering of the blood of the Lord Jesus for one reason. And that is for God to reach the elect, and reach the interior part of mankind as to the angelic being on the inside, in that he is the Father of spirits, and that is their spirit. To do that God had to kill the flesh. So he killed the flesh by Jesus. Sin by one man, righteousness by one man. So then he killed out the flesh; and when he did that, it gave opportunity for Satan to come in, because the grace of God in killing out the flesh in the sight of God, not only killed your flesh and my flesh as Christians, but it killed the flesh of all humanity. And God doesn't see humanity anymore in the flesh. Because he cannot charge fleshly sin against mankind. He can't do that. Because he was the one that made man. He was the one that made part of me out of the dust. And he was the one that made him subject to vanity. So then the creature as to the body is subject to vanity, and God blames himself with that. He repented that he had made man when he saw the corruption and sin. It grieved him at his heart. And he decided that he would destroy man from off of the face of the earth. But Noah found grace in the eyes of God. And the Bible said, If Noah had not found grace in the eyes of God, then we would be like unto Sodom and Gomorrah. We would have no seed. Because God spared Noah, and from Noah came the Lord Jesus as to the royal seed. And you remember how that Satan tried to destroy that royal seed even in the days of Esther, when God moved on Mordecai and saved that royal seed. That down through that royal seed as to say, Mary and Joseph, there had to come the Christ. We could say much about that, but anyway as pertaining to what we're trying to get across here. So then the world is dead in the sight of the Lord Jesus because of sin. Now, but there's one thing about it, God is not to be blamed with spiritual sin. When you sin in the spirit, that is the soul sin. When you do that, the Bible said, the soul that sinneth shall surely die. And to kill the body is just a sleep. God said, I'll kill out that body, but I'll awake it. Like those that are in the ground asleep, so are you that are dead by the Lord Jesus. You are asleep. You are at rest. You are in paradise. Your spirit went back to God who gave it at your death. And your body is buried in a watery grave. You have on the beautiful garments. So you're coming to the supper. Now we find ourselves free, so the good and the bad can come. Because of the body, the good and the bad can come. Paul said, The body is dead because of sin, or that is the infiltration. God did that. But listen beloved friend, there's one thing we want to remember. And that is when you sin willfully, that is the sin of the soul, that is when you have a desire to sin, the Bible said, Where these things are as to the blood atonement, there is no more conscience of sin. There is no more desire to do wrong. And where you have the desire, that is not a temptation. Don't try to convince yourself that that is a temptation and deceive yourself. You need to get born again. That is not a temptation. That is sin. That is wrong. See, that is wrong. When you willfully sin once you come to the knowledge of the truth. And out there in the world you did all of these things. And it was forgiven you. Blamed on the body because God has subjected the body. He done away with that. Now he sent his spirit into your heart. Sanctified you, cleansed you, cast out the spirit, the evil spirit that wanders through dry places. He casts it out. It's seeking rest. It can't find it. And it comes into you it finds rest, but you can't find rest. Only through the frolics as to the pressures that your under because of the oppression of these demon spirits. See, so you are free from the body of sin and death. And your spirit as to the angelic part on the inside of you is sealed, and Satan can never touch you. And you are free from the law of sin and death, because the law is over the flesh. It hath control over the flesh. But the righteousness of the law it fills your spirit as the fulfillment of the law, as to natural things that is required as to the ritualistics of the flesh, or as to righteousness of the flesh. So then we are delivered from the body and the ritualistics as to the world counting beads and all these other kind of things. And we are now spiritual beings. We are the spiritual Jew. The last man Adam was made a quickening spirit. Now he is the beginning of the creation of God and we are spiritual beings. And Christ is our spiritual head, and this is the spiritual church. So then we are waiting as to the Jew to bring that redemption, as to bring the redemption of the body, as to wit this redemption, to acknowledge this redemption, or to bring the dead up out of the ground to keep corruption from them. Jesus down there he was delivered before he saw corruption. The Bible said, He suffered not his holy one to remain in hell. That is his soul or his body to remain in the grave that is to see corruption. So then we find that we are free from sin and corruption. Because he did not see sin and corruption. He did not sin. Neither was guile found in his mouth. The devil could not keep him in the flames of hell, because there was no charge against him. And his body did not remain in the grave to see corruption, therefore our body shall never see corruption. So we are delivered from sin and death. And we find that we have on the beautiful body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Put ye on the body of the Lord Jesus Christ which is the beautiful white robe for the supper. And make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust of the desire thereof. The original word desire as to lust. Sin is in the world. The Bible said, Because of lust. Eve lusted and there came the lie, Satan the father of it. So we find that we cannot do good as to our body, because when we would do good, evil is present with us. But we find that we can do good as to the spiritual man, because the Bible said, I have a will on the inside to do good. I have a desire on the inside. I have a consciousness of godliness and righteousness. And I can do good on the inside as to being holy and godly and having the right thoughts, in that out of the hearts comes forth the thoughts of defilement. When I am born again, they cannot come out of my heart. Because I now have Jesus on the inside. I have a spiritual experience with God. I have salvation on the inside, and evil cannot come out of my heart, because good water and bad water cannot come forth from the same fountain. I am a fountain of good and they are a fountain of bad. They yield accordingly as the gates of hell. I yield accordingly as the gates of heaven. And within me is the kingdom of God. And if you get to the kingdom of God within, it's Christ in me the hope of glory, you come through the gates, these gates which are open by day, and they're not closed by night. Because there is no night in this city as to the lively-stones of the holy priesthood of God, even the new city of which Jesus is the capstone. And the Lamb as to the understanding of this great word of revelation is the Light of that city. And though many people without the church as to the lively-stones is built up in this holy priesthood, they walk in the light of this city accordingly as the symbolism of that which someday will be, of those that have not received, that is to the full reward: thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. But anyway we're the bride of Christ as to one with him. So then we find this one thing, and that is that the whole world is free from sin. Jesus took away the sins of the world. And because of that then the whole world is free of sin. But whereas we take advantage of this grace of God to bring our spirit to his spirit, to be born again, they do not. They are in the rain. They're in the blessings. They get all the things of the earth and all of the things of the spirit as to the outpouring. See, but they do never come into Christ in their heart and spirit. Never do they do that. See, and so that means that they are without as to the spirit of God. The rain is upon them. And they're body is now dead. So there's nothing required as to salvation. Nothing required as to righteousness. So we all are free from the curse. Because the curse was upon the flesh as a woman's travail and the man's travail. It was in the flesh. But by faith we've escaped those things as to the blood being on the seat of atonement, as to the horribleness of the briars and the thorns which he took upon his head to free us from these things, and the travail he took to bring forth to free the woman from the travail. After Calvary she shouldn't have to travail. All she has to do is believe in God. But I want to finish just a thought or two and we're going to close. This body is now dead. So then as to a performance, you're performance is reckoned unto you as the righteousness of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ of whom ye are his body, members in particular. Flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, so then your righteousness is of God, because your body must perform righteousness for you to have redemption of your body, which you will have. As when this dispensation of time is finished, because it's the purchased possession and it is in Christ. And as I say, it has to do with the adoption because the adoption is by the law. And when the Jews come in, they bring in the law. And your spirit which is born again that which is by birth is already in the kingdom of God. You are already by faith in God translated into the marvelous kingdom of God, and ye are angelic beings living in Christ in the kingdom of God, which kingdom is within you, or Christ interwoven with your spirit. And you are in the presence of God. Because of this your whole entire being is now in the presence of God. Your body is dead to God. And yet you are in the presence of God by the body of the Lord Jesus. So then the wretched bastard child as to the image of the old serpent on his belly, he's gone forever. But you are alive forevermore. You have been born again. You are a new creature. And the old man died and is out there with the world. Because they're dead. That's the serpent. And the old cocoon is gone, and the metamorphosis has brought you to the heavenly stages. So then you find yourself another creature, another person raised in another form as we say. Sown in weakness, raised in power, sown a natural body, raised a spiritual. For there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. And this body you now have as a natural body. But that body which is Christ was made a quickening spirit. And you have that body. You've born the image of the natural, now you're going to bear the image of the heavenly as to the spiritual. So as to the quickening, I now that that I could not perform while my life as the spiritual angelic me, as it dwelt and tabernacled in that tabernacle of the body that was in the wilderness of the intellectual reasoning, where the devils and demons were as to evil spirits, I have left that. I have left that. And now I have entered over into Canaan. See, so I am free from that body of sin and death. That wretched man of evil. That always would not do right. And I am now a performer of righteousness and godliness and holiness and purity, because I am now bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. And it's not me living but Christ living within of me. My spirit is now one with him. My body is now his. The reward of his righteous body is now mine forever. So then great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit. Seen of angels, preached unto men. Caught up into heaven. So I am now free from the body of this death. For the body as to the rapture of the church, am I waiting on that? Absolutely not. For when my body died as to the cocoon, and when I was released from the cocoon, my spirit went to my body. For my body is in heaven. It's already been raptured. It is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will be coming back with the Lord Jesus in the robe of white, as to having put on the beautiful robe as to the garment of God as to the body. So the rapture then is a preaching of the Word as to a transitional journey, starting in Egypt as to your intellectual mind as to death, even as Abraham fell down into Egypt and his seed so wandered there for four hundred and thirty years and now the Deliverer has come; and out of Egypt over the Red Sea as to the blood line we come; and Pharoah is swallowed up in the blood line, in that that has to do with the fullness of time in the end of the world. And the old Egyptian body as to the intellect is dead, gone, buried in the Red Sea. And here we are on our way in the tutoring from the Red Sea under the leadership of Moses which is Jesus having to do with the Word. Going right on over to the Jordan as to the Jordan separating as the Red Sea did, separating for you and I as we go right on through the Jordan, right on through as to the stones which was the proof of it as the apostolic foundations of that city, going on through, finding ourselves on the other side and the walls of Jericho falling. To where there's no middle wall of partition between us and our desire, or as of God and God fighting our battles for us; even as in the days of Joshua when he cast down those hail stones; and even as it was when God made the daystar to stand still as to stay the sunlight, that is light within you and I, when the Bible said, And until the daystar dawns within your heart, or until the rising of the daystar as to this great unveiled revelation as to the clouds dissipating and moving away, then this thing from glory to glory is revealed within us. And in the daystar, as to our publication as we have here showing this, as to the unveiling, as to the rending of the veil at Calvary, the revealing of the daystar, then it's no more you living but the daystar. And so then the rapture was at Calvary, when time was no more. And my body was caught up and raptured as they saw it go away, then it was said, I'll come again. As in Revelation 19 when he comes again, I will be with him as bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, to set the feet upon the mount of Olives that will cleave in half, and this will be to the Jewish people. So then we have been translated. The church has been raptured. It's been caught away. Because we are no more what we was. We are now what he is forever. So then the body has been raptured. And the preaching of the translation was to bring you over to the recognition that your body is forever gone. Calling those things that are not as to your sight and understanding as though they are. And there you are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. And the Bible said, Rejoice forevermore ye that dwell in heaven. So then we know that our spirit is caught away with God. And we wonder when we're going to go through the change as to the body. Then we say, that will be the rapture. Whereas there is no such teachings in the Bible as to the word rapture, but rather to the change; but in all reality, the church went away at Calvary. And so then since that time we are without sin, without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. And God never sees any wrong with us, because we're his children. So then my performance of righteousness that I could not perform as to the body, then I performed it in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he is forever what I was suppose to be. And does that mean because of grace and all of these things that I should live wretched, that I should go out into the world and do the wretched things. I let myself go. And be filled with lethargy and unconcern. Absolutely not. The mere fact that you do that proves that you was not one of the elect. That you did not have the spirit of Christ. If you had have had the spirit of Christ, you would have been about your Father's business. The mere fact that you had that desire and have that feeling and have that longing, proves that you are those that are without, though you be believers, yet you are the bad that come; and you do not have Christ on the inside of you. Or you would not frequent those places. You would not do those things. Because Jesus said, I do always the things I see my Father do as to the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. And there's not one time that God ever looks on iniquity. He never frequents places of iniquity. The only way he can look on you is because he's done away with iniquity by the body of the Lord Jesus, having rent the veil of death as to the body of that death, or that mind of Lucifer that was as to the human senses, he's done away with it. That death is no longer between you and God. Like the glasses that was brought to me yesterday as to them that we was putting in the bus. It has great significance. Somebody had painted them black. But Brother Jim and I took with some of the others took some stuff and it just completely eradicated, took away all of that black paint that blacked out the light. And then we put them into the coach, as to the eradication. Now, let me say this in closing. Many things we would like to say unto you. Jesus said, Many things he'd like to say unto you and me too. Said, But you are dull of hearing. So then the spirit saith unto the churches and, the world cannot get it. The bad comes but they cannot get it, because the eyes of their understanding are not enlightened. So then they cannot get it. They're in the dark. They see the tree. They see the animals. They see whatever. And occasionally they get a little bit of light as to the moonlight, in that the moon is a reflector. That is to say, them that are without they reflect, just like the thing about Gorbechov. They are very religious and they reflect enough light to where they can distinguish images enough to work with it. But they're in the dark. And those that hear me they're in the dark unless you're elect. And if the daystar comes on the inside of your heart, then the morning light breaks over the horizon, and it begins to dispel the night, and night begins to dissipate. And you begin to see the image just loom out in their full strength and visibility. And they're no longer vague. They come out to you; and you look and there they are, and you see them as they are. Not seeing through the glass darkly as the moonlight, but yet seeing face to face. Not looking as through the veil when they looked through Moses' face, but rather as to the veil of the intellect gone as to that old mind of ignorance. And now the sunlight of his understanding as to the revelated mind, and there you stand beyond the veil, that is to say on this side of Calvary. So then you can see that the body is taken away as to your intellectual ignorance. And now it's not the tabernacle in the wilderness. But ye are they that are on the other side, whereas this beautiful temple of God as to the new city is there; and you are in it with Christ as your spirit in your new body of what we say the mansion. I use the term as to the mansion he went to prepare as to membership of his body. In my Father's house which means in his body or many members as to many mansions. Or that is the life according to the measure dwells within that. So ye are the temples of the Lord God of heaven. And you made it in. You made it in. And because of that, you're free from the law of sin and death. Somebody says, Well I don't feel heavenly and I don't feel that good. I got problems and I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills, and all these kind of things. If you call that heaven, away with it. I'm going to hold on to that doctrine that tells me that I'm going to change and be heavenly. I'm going to heaven. Well, that's fine. That's fine, but I want to tell you this. And I want to bring it back to your remembrance. When your struggling to get into heaven, you're not doing as well as the devil done. Because John in Revelation 12 saw him in heaven. He was in heaven and all of his devils with him. So you're not even doing as good as he done. There's one thing about it. Inasmuch as the Bible says that he'll be cast out, that since I've come up there, that we're going to cast the devil out. And that's what we're doing right now. The Bible said, He cast out the devils with his Word. And I'm trying to reach you, because you that are heavenly creatures and heavenly born, I want to cast the devil out of your life and heart, and get him out of you; and let the kingdom of God rule and reign in your heart by faith, that you might have the health and this wonderful thing as to the transformation as from the inner man into the outer man, that this inner life of Christ may be made manifest in your mortal body, as to change this body from glory to glory as to the illumination, even your countenance as this light penetrates as it did Jesus, as it did Stephen, as it did Moses, as it did Brother Branham, as it will do you. For wisdom makes a man's face to shine. So this inner life coming out. See, I'm trying to tell you that you call those things that are not as though they are, because God has already made them to be. And you are in a world of lying vanities. And you deny these vanities to which you have fallen. And you confess that of which you are originally, in that you are the original creation of God in Christ, made as to his image. And you confess that while the others stagger in this wilderness at the lying vanities of their human reasoning. So then if they've got the mind of death, let it be so. But if they have the mind of life as to Christ, let it be so. For to be carnally minded as to that which Eve received at the fall is death, but to forsake your own understanding, the world of education and human reasoning, and get the mind of Christ, to believe that whether you see it or not, it says it. The Bible says it. You believe it. The Word of God comes. You believe it; and you have the mind of Christ. You have your world. You have your health. You have your happiness. You have your freedom from sin and death. You are altogether Christ. You belong to him. You're the body of the Lord Jesus. Christ Jesus living in his presence without fault, without blame, without spot, without blemish. To believe this and to strengthen your faith in this is to elude and escape the things of the world. You know I know I need to close and I'm fixing to close. But it couldn't have been more perfect the other night. If I had two or three more hours I could explain what I'm saying. But the other night we preached to you and in preaching to you, we left and when we started away, Brother Chuck caught us just as we went past the video room out here, and he handed me a little thing that you check voltage with as to have that in the coach in case I get a shortage there. And it lights up like a flame of fire. And walking out into the dark, I just had talked to you. And the call had come through from Brother Smith and many things that that has to do with. You that are spiritual can discern. But nevertheless, he said, I believe that we found the cave, Brother Pike. You know how that it eluded the people of Brother Branham's following all these years. Nobody had been able to find it, but we found it. And by the help of the Lord we found it; and it fits exactly as to the tree, as to the walk around as to being able to reach up and catch a man by the leg, as to everything that was said about it, even to the pyramid rock that Brother Smith wanted to know, was this inside the cave? Which it is and the picture shows it very clearly. So these things was very clear; and you could see them and good for printing. No doubt Rebecca will probably publish them in her magazine, Only Believe. It ought to be coming out pretty soon now. But anyway, we sent the pictures of that, I guess Sister Betty's already sent the pictures and whatever, we had the pictures for them. And we sent them some pictures that we had that they did not have of Brother Branham and the wife in their youth. But after the service, I went out. And Chuck handed me this. And I don't know if I accidentally done it or he done it or whatever it was, but immediately a blaze of fire come out. I just talked to them about the pillar of fire, the resurrection as to the tomb when it's discovered, what it had to do with, and we just briefly said a few things to you. Not bringing forth too many things as to a present day truth in these particular things. Because some of you are very dull of hearing when it comes to understanding what I say, as to the foolish and abase things of the world to confound the wise. Or as Brother Branham said, As God revealing himself in the simplicity, as to a mockery, you know, you do that. And I just don't say anything to you about it. But anyway here God like revealing himself today in the whirlwind you know. Here he was revealing himself and Johnny and I saw this. As we went on down I'd touch it, and that blaze of fire would come, because remember by night, having to do with Brother Branham's life and the pillar of fire that appeared to him. By night the pillar of fire came and they were led by the pillar of fire. And God was in the pillar of fire. Which means that this world here that will be in gross darkness is already in darkness. And Jesus is the light of the world coming. Now ye are the light of the world, in that the light is the spirit of God on the inside of you, that great light of understanding. Your understanding being enlightened. See, you are the children of light. But when you go out, there is no more light because the world is darkness. Then it becomes gross darkness. You understand what I'm saying? But to you the veil is gone. So you are the light. Christ is in you. Now, by night the pillar of fire was there, which means the blood of Jesus. And God was looking at the world through the pillar of fire as to the blood. And that blood is over all the world, to take away the sins of the world, for the world is in darkness. And to have a light you have to to have a flame. That sun that you see up there is a flame. Three stages as to fire and heat and then light. See, and ye are in the light. So the fire is out there, but the light is there by grace. Now scientists say that at the end of time that all of a sudden that the sun is just going to burn up everything. Whereas they feel like that it will draw closer and closer and get brighter, brighter, brighter, brighter. It will just burn up things and away it will go into a nova, and move far off and it won't be anymore light in it. Whereas the Bible teaches that it's going to brighten up like seven times as we say. And be so hot that it's going to scorch the people on the earth until they actually curse God. And the hail like you saw yesterday is going to be the weight of a talent crushing men. They're going to curse God, but this heat will be so fierce until it will become seven fold, which will make even the moon light up as to a sevenfold because of the reflection. Or that is to say, the knowledge of God will be so plentiful. It will fill the earth, the sea, the sky. It will be everywhere. Just like it's brightening up now. So that sinners will be without excuse. To know the right way. And you will brighten up with the knowledge of God as to sevenfold of this light, to where you will actually just keep on brightening and brightening and brightening, until finally they'll look for you and you will be gone. Like the light when I was down at the lake baptizing Brother Taylor was standing over here. And then the light brightened, and the light brightened and then the image dissipated. Put it on The Thunders. And I think this is where Brother Smith saw this cave. But anyway now, this cave had to do with the resurrection. He said, I believe the Lord has let me know that we found it. I and the son we climbed the side of the hill there to get to it. Said, Rebecca could not climb it. Said, But we climbed up it and we found it there. Which again is great and allegoric in that it was he and his son. But anyway, the woman not being able to go up there. There was something to that as to her being the daughter of Brother Branham. But nevertheless, here it was. Because she's one with him. Which had to do with that resurrection. Only Believe. They've got the house in Tucson, Arizona, coming out of Tucson. He's got the office of Brother Branham or he did have over in Jeff. See, and now he's wanting to come here. Remember Brother Branham said, When I come again, I'll come by your place. Now, here we see the revelation moving. We see this thing happening. We see the light brightening up. The world coming into existence by the receding of God. As he flashed the light on the image, made it in his image, and then he receded. And as a receding the darkness came and took the image as to intellectual reasoning, the expulsion from the garden. And then the whole world went into darkness as to sin because of the mind of Lucifer as to lust. But as he comes again through the ministry, comes again through the revelation, comes again in the time of Egypt, that is the deliverance from Egypt, or as the deliverer comes, Christ in you the hope of glory, he starts brightening up. He starts coming. And as he starts coming, springing forth as the daystar within your heart, then the image out yonder is despised, because the grace is lifted and he puts the bastard child away into the darkness. But you, you are the brightness of the sun, even Jesus Christ that dwells in that light as flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. And brighter and brighter it gets. And the more you reflect the glory back to God. And as this comes then the world dissipates. As the light does away with the darkness, as the sun on the hillside melting you know. Doing away, the sun doing away with the ice and the snow and the vegetation in life showing forth. As they say concerning those glaciers. They said the ice is going to melt. The ozone is going to be penetrated, whereas it's already, the ozone is already breaking down because of the gases and the different things. It's already breaking down. And as it breaks down the heat comes through more, more, more. And as these zones break down, the heat comes through more. Now the waters that will come off of the glaciers as they are melted will go back into the sea and put more weight and more water back into the sea. When the days of Noah was here, this water went up. The Bible said, I covered every high hill under heaven. It was not a, every mountain like this was completely covered over. See, and there wasn't a mountain that was showing. Every high hill which would have took in Mt. Everest. It said, Every high hill that was under heaven, every mountain. See, and then when the waters started back down, this zone that God had made as to the cold up here, the way it condenses the cloud, it condensed that water and it turned it into ice. And the ice remained up there. And when the ice remained up there this brought about a calamity as to the flipping of the earth, or making it heavy, to be titled as to a certain degree. And in doing this it caused the sun rather than hitting up here, it caused it to hit here. And it's going around like this. The earth is tilted like this and the sun is going around like this. See, and of course we could say a lot about that. We've got some tapes. I've mentioned some things. I'm trying to hurry to get through. But anyway when this ice melts, the earth will come back up. Because the ice on those glaciers will melt. It will go back into the sea. It will shift from the position it's at now that caused the tilt back to the position that it was in, when it was upright as to the weight. God made the heavens, the earth and the seas, which puts it down here. When it goes down here, it will bring it back upright. Not only that ice will melt, but out in Arizona, Colorado, every place they've got, places for skiing and whatever where the snow is up there and the ice is up there, all of that will melt. It will come down as the fierce heat comes. Come back down and then the world will be upright. But see, this brightening in the light as to the natural things, the spiritual things are understood. The brightness of this light it's coming to you. Because you are the mountains. John said, And every high hill shall be made low. And every valley shall be brought up. And it speaks of you. Mountains are a type. Some men are great mountains as to billionaires. Some folks are little mountains as to poverty. Then there's just valleys among these mountains. See, but there had to come a time of evening which was Calvary. John spoke of it. Now then in the sight of God there's no great, righteous people or wicked people in the sight of God. There is no rich and poor in the sight of God. For he through Christ Jesus has made all men equal. And now every man's depended on God or he isn't righteous. Every man is of an equality. There's no difference in races and nationalities and creeds. All are the same in the sight of God. All are without except through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So see, and when this thing comes to pass, it will show spiritually like you. Being a mountain some of you, you're covered with ice. You're nothing but a glacier. You're frozen in. You're dead, you know. And this ice will melt down. That is to say as to the winter time. You are frozen in. Some of you it's different. Some of you are over here like in the tropics of the sun. But as to one, as to the other, ice can preserve the dead unto life. For the world says that you are dead. They say them people's dead. They don't do anything. And we are dead to the flesh. Dead to the world. We've come out from among them. We're a separate people. But then the prehistoric as the scientists refers to it, science falsely so called. The prehistoric, all these animals as to the restoration. See, that's been preserved has to come back to life and fill the millennium. And so then as it is with you. Some are beasts. Some are sons of God. But in the millennium, there will beasts. So then it depends on good beasts or bad beasts. In the Old Testament, if there was an ox that gored somebody, it was a bad animal. They killed him. See, but the others they kept them nourished. That was part of their kingdom. The lamb and the lion will lay down together. The ox and the lion will be together. The lamb, all of them will eat straw together as we would say. So then this is going to melt down. This light is getting brighter. And the more that this light comes, the more that the world dissipates as to the darkness and the images of the night, as to that which is brought by the moon, because that is the world of darkness. And then the daylight world comes. As when they crossed over the Jordan and the sun stood still at the command of Joshua. And the moon stood still, which means that this light of the daystar on the inside isn't going up and coming down anymore. In your spirit you don't go to sleep and wake up anymore. You are awake forever. In this city there is no darkness. Because it is the light as to the Lamb within your heart. And this daystar is forever. And the sun shall never light upon you again. See, you are the lively stones of the holy priesthood, and Christ in your midst. And the angels of God encamp around about you. So then the capstone of that is the great mind of revelation that comes to that spiritual angelic being on the inside. They knew it was the Christ because they saw the magnitude of the star. They said the star is so great. It's so mighty. And they followed that star, and they found it to be the babe. And that's what it's doing. It's leading the wise men, see, day by day. And with this heat growing greater as to the spiritual light, not heat to you, but to them as to the consummation of the fiery indignation of God, but light to you. And as to this light, then that means that you're brightening up and you're brightening up. And the ice is melting that which has you frozen in or whatever it is as to your faults of ignorance are melting away from thought to thought, until all of this completely is gone. And with that all of a sudden, this that's over here in the ice, the last being first and the first being last, it flips up into heaven and in the presence of the Son, and the light is fully upon it as the day that it had been raptured into God's presence. And these on the other side that has been just the opposite goes into the freeze zone as we say. Goes into that, and yet it's not that as it is hot ice as we've expressed it. Ice gets so cold it becomes hot ice; and you touch it and it will burn you and it takes the skin off. So the thing goes to the uttermost as to the extreme and it becomes hell as to the Lake of Fire. And all that is to say love as to God turns into wrath. And all because of the individual as to serve yourself. You know you got to the restaurants, you serve yourself. But anyway we said this to let you know that the end is here. And as we walked out that night, having to do with the grave, having to do with the pillar of fire, and God looking at the people through the pillar of fire, it indicated that the light which has been the cloud that you have not seen, in that it was by day as to the grace being on the seat of atonement, now it's beginning to lift. Now the blood as to the wrath of God which is upon the Jews is to bring the night, gross darkness now as to Brother Branham as to that latter part coming in, as to bodily redemption that is to say the blood again. It's no more the spiritual church as to the days of the Gentiles. But that's fulfilled. And now the body as to the Jews coming back in, which is that same thing having to do with the blood running to the horses' bridle or the pillar of fire or the wrath upon the Jews. He always brought them through the slaughter. Always the spilling of their blood. And always the scapegoat for you that are spiritual. That's why you sacrifice in your body. That's why you commit your body to death. That's why you reckon yourselves to be dead as to the body, and alive in the spirit to do spiritual things. To have thoughts that are heavenly. To have your conversation in heaven. To lay up your treasures in heaven. See, because I say again if you willfully, desiringly have an inclination toward the world, you don't have the spirit of Christ. But you that have the spirit of Christ will do your very best to be holy. And then are ye nothing. But God imputes righteousness unto you as faith. Faith is righteousness. Blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven, whose iniquities are covered by the blood of Jesus. Blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven, whose iniquities are covered by the blood of Jesus. Blessed is the man upon whom God will not impute sin and iniquity. Blessed is the man unto whom God imputeth faith or righteousness without works. So then because you make your efforts as a pure, or are one that is doing your very best to be dead to the world, then this is proof that this is Christ's spirit being about his Father's business. Doing his best in that old faulty body. And every time you stumble or stagger it's not charged against you, because your righteousness is not of your efforts. That's a daily sanctification as to the utilization of the spirit within you, as to surrender, submission. To give way that it might work through you and Christ might be seen within you. See, but your righteousness is of God and of the works of God; and your body is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your mind is the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your spirit is the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ which means you're perfect, blameless, dead to the law of sin and death without blame completely. No spots, no wrinkle, no blemish, the perfect church. That's why he took you away into glory. Let's give the Lord a hand. That's why Jesus said, The son of man who was in heaven, the son of man who is in heaven. Let's stand together. Let's sing this little chorus: I Love Him. The good and the bad has come to the supper. But the shocking amazement was this: have you been baptized into the Lord Jesus Christ, having been dead to yourself by that watery grave as to be identified with him in death, in that you died with him through the crucifixion of Calvary, in that you deny self? Have you put on the Lord Jesus Christ, having been raised again with him in his likeness, that it's not you living now but it's Christ? And that you've never messed with the world and the things of the world, in that you don't think those evil thoughts? In that the Bible said, He that minds the things of the world and the flesh, then is he worldly and he is in death. But he that thinks their mind, that is have a mind of thoughts of holiness, whereas charity thinketh no evil. Do you then have the heavenly mind? Is your conversation in heaven and your thoughts in heaven? In that you've been delivered by faith of revelation to be revealed to you, the understanding of the great transitional changes as from Egypt into Canaan, that now you are in heaven. That you will not forget God in that you are fed to the full. And that you will praise the Lord. The light has stood still for you. Are ye they that dwell in heaven? Jesus said, His body was in heaven. It never left heaven. Are ye then the body and bone of this flesh? Are ye that dwell in heaven as to your body? Or are you accounted for as to the body of sin and death which is under the law? The old cocoon as to the serpent that's on his belly; whereas all of his labor is for the natural desires of life. Do you mind earthly things? If you have a mind of earthly things, then are you earthly? Do you mind heavenly things as to meditate in his laws day and night? Every thought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ, in the casting down as to the imagination, or that is to say, Any evil thought, anything that assails you, that you never think on it, that you never allow for it. Their thoughts being the means while accusing or excusing one another. And to say that everything that comes to you is considered vain imagination. And you will not accept it, because it's all lying vanities. In that your soul and spirit is free from the body of sin and death, and all of that is charged against the body; and God killed it at Calvary because of it's iniquity. And now ye have the mind of Christ. And your life is hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. So then do you meditate in his laws day and night? As to conquer this body, to be holy in body and spirit, as to do the things that please him, to take the shield of faith to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Are ye as Paul said, Not you living, but Christ? So then as he is right now in perfection, so are we in Him complete in Him? In Him then are we perfect. Having sanctified by his faith, perfected forever, shut up under the law until the coming of that faith. Now we have that faith. Under the tutors until that faith, which faith ye receive by measure to come to that fullness, as to call those things that are not as to the lying vanities of this world, that is the outer you, to call it as though it is not, and those things that are not as though they are. So then it is no more you. You say it's no more I, so you say, It is not. Though the world says, It is. He says, It's no more I but Christ. And then the world says, We're going to wait. You say, You wait. I call it as though it is. The world is no more. I am now in heaven. And so it is all of these other things will take place with the world and with the natural. But you as to this great, wonderful ultimatum in God, as to the transformation of the mind, the translation of his spirit. First: the transformation of your mind, then the church ages, and then the transfiguration of your body as to the ultimatum at the last trump. And that's what's coming forth. For the trump of God shall sound. It shall not be you speaking but the heavenly Father from within you. Lift up thy voice like a trumpet which means: John said a voice as many waters. His robe down to his feet, fully clothed. That's the church. The golden girdle. Hair as white as wool. And then that is to say that we are his body. We're his bone. We're the fullness of him. If you have to go, ease on out because your spirit's interfering with my spirit. Your mind went to the your stomach. Ease on out. Cut across the finishing thoughts right there. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You eat yourself to death. That's why David said, Let their table be a snare. We just had two or three thoughts, closing out so the church could get it, and you just let the devil in, that old carnal mind that's the enemy of God and knocked it for a loop. Just one person did that, just one person. That's all. Got their mind on eating, one suffer, they all suffer. That is to say, You suffer lose from that unless I can pick it up, but anyway I brought enough to you that this would have really been beautiful as to you, because it's in the spirit, and you have to dive deep to get it. It would have been worth something to you. All right, how many of you love the Lord? All right, let's sing this little chorus together, can we? (Sings: I Love Him) One more time now. The altars are open. You see, we're not ready to go just because I say the last words. So getting your mind on your stomach won't do any good. Unless you got your pre-planned schedules, you'll just have to go on out. We're here to worship the Lord. You love Him? One more time. (Sings: Every Promise In the Book Is Mine) To worship him in spirit and in truth, this is the way. God has freed us from the law of sin and death. That gives us an incentive toward righteous things and makes us want to rejoice forevermore. How could you do anything but rejoice forevermore? If it's all over and it's all finished, how could you do anything but rejoice. But somebody says, But Brother Pike, the way I feel. No. No. It isn't the way I feel. Oh yes it is, somebody says. Oh no. It's not the way you feel. It's the way you think. Let's give the Lord a hand. When you think right you believe right. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. If you're having problems, it's because you're thinking problems. That's right. When you think iniquity, you do iniquity. You are guilty of these things because you are a child of bondage, even to the beggarly elements of the world, you're flesh is still under the control of that mind of the wrong thinking. But folks, let these thoughts be there: casting down all of your thoughts, and think his thoughts. And when you do that, you think all of your problems away. You think your sins away. Somebody said, Well, are you talking about Church of Science? No, that's science falsely so called. Let's give the Lord a hand. Science means knowledge, and I'm thinking about true knowledge. They're ever learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth. Trying to tell you those things. But I'm talking about faith in Jesus Christ as to the understanding that comes in the heart. When you think right, then are you right. When you think health, then are you healthy. When you think sickness, then are you sick, when you think righteousness, then are you righteous. Then when you think the blessings of God as to power, then do you have power; when you think in your heart as to God giving you prosperity, as to finance, whatever, as to the desires of your heart, then are you so. For the Bible says, I will give thee the desires of thine heart. Why then not think accordingly and enjoy the desires? Someone said, Well, I thought that but I didn't get them. That's lying vanities. You was vainly puffed up by your fleshly mind is what it was. Sound like you got bit by the serpent and got all swelled up. You know, but when you think according to godliness, then you live according to godliness. Then you believe according to godliness, because you do the things that please God. Then do you have faith. And the Bible teaches your health will return to you speedily. Because the Bible said, When you give to the poor, do those things for the orphans and whatever, then comes your health speedily. And when you think righteousness, the Bible said, Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: that you visit the widows and the orphans in their afflictions, then keep yourselves unspotted from the world, or that is come out from the world. Be not partakers of the unclean things. I will receive you, saith the Lord. So then if you're doing the good things, it will assure your heart. For ye are a doer of the Word, a doer of the Word. Like I said the other day to some of them. Some of the brethren won't come around and fellowship the other brethren. Some of the sisters won't come around and fellowship the other sisters. They don't have salvation. Somebody said, But I know I pray. I fast. I don't care what you do. I don't care what you do. Fast all you want to and pray all. They said, Why do we fast? Why do we pray and you take no knowledge? You've got your personal motives. You've got your personal ambitions. You're planning somewhere down the road to project self. All this is to your self. And you'll convince your wife of that lie. You'll get her believing that until you don't let her go to church. You don't come to church. Or she'll convince you that God's with you until you won't come to church. And all of it's a lying vanity. See, the Bible said, The only proof having passed from death unto life is that you stay around the brethren. Come around the brethren. You love the brethren. You visit with the brethren. You're part of what the brethren do. The other has nothing to do with it. I don't care how much you learn. You understand what I'm saying? I was telling somebody the other day, I said, this is the problem. Some of the brethren never come around the other brethren because they don't like reproof. Some of the ladies don't like reproof. They don't like for you to reprove them. They don't like it. They come to church one night and stay out three nights, because you say something that cuts across their grain. They've got so much temper, it takes them three weeks sometimes to be able to get over that little thing. But when you come to the brethren they'll going to reprove you. You're going to get reproved. Boy, this ain't setting well at all. We ought to give the Lord a hand here. All right so it's wonderful. This is wonderful. Let us go on talking about this good old way, talking about the Lord. I guess we ought to sing that song: Wonderful, Brother Taylor. Try another key. (Sing: Wonderful) You love the Lord? Don't you just love to praise the Lord? It's like glory in my soul. It's like the writer said, I'm living my religion. I'm living my religion. They can see it day by day. I'm enjoying my religion. So then where should my mind be? Should it be then thinking on defeat as to the negative mind, or should it be thinking on the victories of God, in that this is the victory that overcometh the world, even his righteousness as to what he did for us? What should we be thinking on? See, should I then be in between? Maybe I'm not thinking negative? Maybe I'm not thinking positive? Maybe I'm lukewarm. You know and I'd be thinking, I believe the Word of God. And yet don't really believe the Word of God because I don't do the things that please God. Could it be that way? Paul said, I say I to keep from saying you? Could it be that way with us as we would say? See, the thing is we're so busy with the world. We're so busy with our business. We're so carnal minded that we can't be spiritual minded at all. Do you know to think on your business is carnality? To think on your paycheck is carnality. To think on what you're doing as your job, did you know that's carnality? To think about getting up and going to your job and to your business, did you know that's carnality? To think on your automobile and your house and your wife and your children, and whatever it might be, did you know that's carnality. All that's carnality. That's not being spiritual at all. That's not being spiritual at all. I say again, you can have those carnal things, but when your carnal minded, you're dead. You're not going to help Brother Pike. You're not going to help the cause of God. You're not going to evangelize the world. You're not going to do anything, because you are a child of bondage. You're in bondage to the beggarly elements of your daily activities as to your own ways and your own doings; and you're caught in that snare and you can't get out of it. You're like a dog running after it's tail. But you are children of liberty. Those that believe. Looking unto the law of liberty, you continue therein. And you find peace and rest. And all of his paths are peace. His blessings of prosperity and good. And God is doing all these wonderful things for you because you're his children. He hath given you all things that pertain unto life. And Satan has robbed you of them by the mind of vanity and the mind of vanity, in that you have been in unbelief and you have been in ignorance and didn't know what to believe, but now you're no more that way. For we brought you the Word of light. And now ye are the children of understanding which means light. You know that that belongs to you. You know that you're separated from the children of darkness. And that children of darkness and children of light have no fellowship. The temples of Belial have no fellowship with the temples of God. Jesus rent the veil. Put the waters above the waters and the waters below the waters. And so then you're children of God. Let's enjoy our inheritance. Let's quit waiting on it. Let's enjoy it. Let's quit saying, It's coming. Let's enjoy it. Let's quit worrying about the redemption of the body. He's already redeemed the body. Let's enjoy it. Let's get the fullness of that full thing; and just walk right on over and around these that's got to have businesses and got to have money and got to be at their businesses; and don't have time to do nothing for God, whether it's natural, spiritual or whatever. You know you can be a spiritual person and do natural things, if you do them for God. But if you are as you believe to be a spiritual person doing natural things, you're not spiritual at all, if you're doing them for self. For if you're doing them for God, then you have a business, you have a work. You labor that you might have to give. Not labor that you might complain all the time about God not meeting your needs. I have people that are in business. I have people that have just come to church here workers and say, My I can't never get ahead. I can't never pay my bills. My business is just going to crumble up. No wonder. You're backslide on God. You're not living right. You're not trying to do anything for God. You've got your mind swallowed up in it. You're just staggering around and you're drowning in perdition, with thoughts of riches. Just as religious as can be. Just as religious as Cain. Coming all the time, coming to church, being right here in every religious activity, but don't have a thing. As empty as if you'd poured the water out of a jug. All right, let's sing again. Can we? We're going to let you go in a little while. You just hold on, hold on. Don't lose hope; and we'll probably let you go before the sun goes down. Let's sing again. You know it's so wonderful to be a Christian. I know you know that. Let's sing this chorus: I Will Praise Him. I know someone would say, Brother Pike, supposing that worldly gain is godliness, from such turn away. That's the reason I don't prosper. That's wrong. You misinterpreted something. That's definitely a misinterpretation. That's not right at all. The Bible said, Whatsoever that man doeth shall prosper. If you confess your sins, forsake them, you prosper. If you're business is not prospering, there's something wrong with you. If you're life is not prosperous, there's something wrong with you. If you're not prospering in health, something's wrong with you. God promised and said, I would above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospereth. I know you might put your life to the grinding stone for Christ, whereas Paul said, There are some that were nigh unto death, because they spared not their body for the glory of God as to give yourself unto God. I realize that. But all this other, brethren, don't fool yourself. You don't have God. You have your mind on your business. You have your mind on your income. You have your mind on your job. You have your mind on making money. And you're trying as hard as you can to make it. And every time you get it, you put it in a bag with holes in it. And God blows on it when you bring it home. And you can't even pay your bills with it. God said, I'll supply all of your needs according to my riches in glory. He never altered that. He never changed that. He never lied. The Bible said, He will not alter the thing that's gone out of his mouth, neither will he change it. He will hasten to perform his Word. His Word is settled in heaven. It's not altered or changed. It's the same to a thousand generations. So see, you're just not right with God. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Can you lift your hands and close your eyes as we dismiss? (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Let's sing this now. (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) Sing it again with me. Remember now, Calvary ended it. It's all over, ended and gone. Time ended it. You are they that made it. You are they that was translated into the kingdom of God. You are they that went into that heavenly, wonderful, heavenly place. And you're hid with Christ in God to rejoice forevermore. Remember that. You've got to believe it or you're not going to be the ones that's translated. You've got to believe it. This is the last message. It's got to get to the church. The church will never be translated with what they're believing. Ball games and having preeminence and being celebrities and dignitaries, they're all mixed up with the world. If the love of the world's in them, the love of the Father's not there. But folks, this is the message that tells you to call that that is not as though it is. Because that's the way it is in the origin. In the origin you was in the presence of God. You wasn't in lying vanities. Only a mind seized you. And Christ came and rent that veil and took that evil mind away, and now are you back to his presence. Precious and elect. (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) Remember time ended at Calvary. You are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. All of them that are fallen from grace are under the law, but not you. You're in the world of light. For God has since Calvary, the law, the prophets, then the kingdom and you've been translated into the marvelous kingdom of your God. (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) When the last trumpet sounds, the mysteries of God should be finished. I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep but be changed. (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Going to ask Brother Snyder if he'll come up and dismiss us. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) How can you do anything but rejoice forevermore if you're thinking right? Then you don't have all those heavinesses and all those things. Somebody said, Well, I don't believe that. Well, they've proven that people that are insane, that are thinking another way even as insanity, as to a malfunction of the mental faculties that they can do certain things to them, they don't know anything about it. They just had all kind of joy with their world, a strong delusion. That's a mental faculty thing where it's been broken down. Comfort the feeble minded, the Bible said. Those that are possessed with demons are having problems, demon possession. But ye do not have a breakdown of a mental faculty. It is a transformation of your thoughts as from your thoughts of weariness to his thoughts of joy and jubilance of which he hath forevermore. Don't grieve the Holy Spirit by bringing back the old shadows of night, the old repercussion of that which is dead and buried and gone. Don't grieve him. Don't grieve him. Have faith. Rejoice forevermore for God is joy. Serving God is joy. Go forth in all victory, in all faith, in all confidence. Don't do those things that cut across your conscience. To cause you to be cast down with them old weary thoughts. But rejoice. The Bible said, And you are sick, because you rejoice not in the Lord. Or that is you serve not the Lord with joyfulness of heart. All these diseases come upon you because a merry heart doeth good like a medicine. It expels all of those evils. You do away with the door and you do away with the door that let's in all those terrible interruptions of life as to poverty and whatever it might be. For I would above all things that you prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospereth. Not as supposing that worldly gain in the world is godliness. From such turn away. You're dead to that, but your gain is in God and he adds all things. For he giveth thee all things that pertaineth unto life. Naturally, physically, spiritually. One more time together. (Sings: I Will Praise Him)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord