Entry Points For Fallen Angels

I claim Jesus first of all and that's enough for me. I'm going to read from the book of Job, chapter 17. (Brother Pike reads the entire chapter.) You know, this is Job speaking from out of his sorrow and his problems. He was so much in misery, so much in hurt, and would scrape himself with a potsherd, and his friends sitting around mocking him because he had been exceedingly rich, he'd been exceedingly wise, so that when he come into the gates of the city the elders and the wise men would stop Job and just sit around and listen at him talk. And so he was so outstanding, so exceedingly rich that he had the answer to all the problems naturally, physically and spiritually. But there came a day when God tried Job and put him through the fire and during all this time it was a sad situation, suffering so because he was symbolic of the Lord Jesus and symbolic of the sufferings of Christ Jesus. Though he had done no wrong, yet he had to suffer. And as I've said to you a number of times before, the Lord could find no reason for Job to suffer, and the devil could fine no reason to attack him, so then, the only thing that gave place to this was the fact that Job's children had sinned against God. And Job praying and fasting and they still wouldn't repent, and then they grew up into womanhood and manhood and went on with their frolics. And even at the time of Jobs sufferings as they begin to set in, they were over somewhere dancing and frolicing and making a mock of everything. And it was because that God saw that he was going to have to smite the children and just tear Job's heart up, that there was no way to get around it, that this thing was to take place with Job and the sorrow and the fear was to strike him. And God seeing that this was the closest thing to his heart, and this was just going to tear Job up, then God through this just allow Satan to plow his fields completely to make a great and a mighty testimony of Job to the people. Do you notice how he said here, he said, the righteous shall also lay hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger, or this will give them a greater testimony, Job said. Here he said, My breath is corrupt. That is, my breath stinks because of the rottenness of my body. And he had gotten to the place to where the skin worms was actually in his flesh. And Job said, Though the skin worms devour my body, or my flesh, yet in my flesh shall I see God. I will see Him stand upon this earth in the last day. That is to say, with the skin worms actually working in his body his faith was so strong he said, I'll still elude this and I'll still come forth in the resurrection in the last day. And he said, If a man die shall he live again? And then he goes on telling the sorrow that he was experiencing. See? That is to say, this was Jesus, this was the prophetical utterance of the Holy Spirit that was speaking of the Lord Jesus. This Spirit had come into Job as resistance against Satan's evil doings and this Spirit was breaking forth in utterance as to the Spirit of Christ testifying as to His suffering in the body when He was in this world. And job said, My breath stinks. He said, The skin worms are eating me up, and there is no rest for my nerves system. my brain, you know, as we would say, is about to explode and my nerves are going to pieces and the miserable comforters all around me, as they were around Jesus, mocking Him, saying, if thou be the Son of God now come down from the cross and we'll believe you. And see all these things. And God did that to show the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. The Bible teaches that after that God had put Job through these things then He lifted him up, He made him richer than ever, wiser that ever, more wonderful as an individual through life than ever, and declared that Satan would never again bother Job. So, see? When we go through these things there is a reason for it. For instance, suppose the Lord put forth His hand to touch our loved ones, could there be anything that could happen to us that would be worse than that? See? And seeing that Satan is going to get a strike at us sometimes through such things, then God allows, a lot of times, sufferings, and allows, a lot of times, pains and miseries that we might be partakers of the benefits of God, or that we might increase our faith, or that we might grow stronger in God to be tried and then to overcome. For when Satan comes against us if we out wrestle him, if we are stronger than he, if we are able to rise up like Jacob of old did and wrestle with the angel all night, and win the victory then even as Jacob. In that Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today and forever then God changes our name, as we say, as from Jacob to Israel which means a prince, or the Father of a great nation. And as it was with Peter and James and John, calling them the sons of Thunder and those kind of things. And even as He Himself wrestled with the flesh, and then the Heavenly Father said, Because thou has manifested My name I will give thee a name that no one will know but thee to whomsoever that I should reveal it. So then, we see great things come out of trails and tribulations. And I've said this a lot of times, it was when Daniel was thrown in the lions den that he really gained his prestige for the Kingdom. It was when the Hebrew children were thrown into the fire that they gained their prestige as being rulers down in Babylon. And it was said the king was so stirred that when the Hebrew children came forth in their victory out of the fiery furnace that the king made a declaration and said, From henceforth, he said, any man that will not serve the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, said, I'll turn his house into a dung hill. So, see? The bringing forth of our God, the manifestation of our God, to prove our God, see? This is what it's all about. There were prisoners that were held in Iran, they held them, they were cruel, and you know the letter that we wrote, and you know the things we said, how that God would get the man and plow his field. And ever since then through communism and everything else, they've tortured, and killed out, and one thing right after another, and they continued to hold that vice and to do evil even until this very hour to the extent that when America, after having been mistreated the way they had been treated by Iran offered help, then they sent them word that they would not receive it except through private organizations, as to society and whatever. That is to say, we're not going to bow to your government. See? But nevertheless, I've said all of that to say this. That God with their arrogancy and their evil was so moved that He has sent a major catastrophe, or a calamity had befallen these people such as I have never heard of. Perhaps somewhere in history I've overlooked it in my reading, or never run across it, but I've never, in the history of the world I've never read, nor heard of an earthquake that took such a toll, and that done such a thing. There wasn't but about, I think, a hundred and eighty some thousand in this particular place that I read about that the quake had to do with. And if a hundred thousand was injured and if another thirty or forty thousand was killed then that didn't leave very many. And out of the shock of the whole disaster the people that had lost their loved ones and being shocked by it, and being driven out of their dwellings, and they said that the papers stated, or I believe the news, that they were so afraid they would not even enter back into their dwellings. Through this that means that was a devastating blow to the extent the whole city, the mass of people was driven and torn and bruised and killed just by the act of God. And folks, that's the act of God. In the Old Testament that's the way God did. When God got upset He said, Let the earth open up. And it would just swallow up thousands of them at a time. And see? God has come to the place to where He's tired of the foolishness of mankind. And when I say these things I'm not sacrilegious, nor am I abusive, nor is this verbal abuse, as somebody as through their philosophy tried to point out that it is. I am just telling you the truth. I am sent of God to preach the gospel to every creature, into all the world. And I'm telling you the truth, that God is tired and weary of the paganistic practices of people worshipping Mohammed and Allah and Confucius and all of those foolish images, or those things that they calls gods. God is tired and weary of that foolishness of thousands and millions of people going to these paganistic gatherings and worshipping idols of stone and of rock that can neither see, nor speak, nor hear. And God is tired of these paganistic practices to the extent that, folks, if you think that Iran was a calamity you just stand by and watch what happens. I said a number of years ago as to a certain time, I said, from here on calamities will begin to strike the earth, and I said, and it won't stop it will grow worse and worse. I said, and the wars won't stop. I said the conflicts will grow worse and worse and worse until it ushers in the millennium, or that is, it brings in the tribulations and the judgments of God. And then these horrible hideous things you'll see in a sequence. Now, see? I said that again to say this, that with that thing that has happened the Lord looks at it like this, that there was a time in the history of mankind when God winked at man's ignorance. He didn't know any better. He worshipped sticks and stones. He worshipped the stars. He worshipped the moon. He worshipped the sun. He just didn't know any better. And God allowed him to get by with that. The Bible said God just kind of closed His eyes, or winked, at man's ignorance, but said, now since the light has come that it is commanded unto all men that they should repent of their sins, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus, repent of their sins to call on the name of the Lord, being baptized to wash away their sins that they might believe on the Lord and have eternal life. For the Bible said, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned, for it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now, see? I am saying that since there is satellite for television, since there is news media that reach around the world, even to the exchange of the big newspapers, and since there are missionaries in every part of the world, since there are millions and millions of pieces of literature that has gone into different countries, and people and evangelists and testimonies, and Americans, or other people moving into those areas and living there that had God, or talking of God, now then God knows that those people are not ignorant. He knows that they are not ignorant, that they know about the true and living God, but through their foolish pride and through their governmental act, they make their religion their government and they go on with their pride and their foolishness in the worshipping of Buddha, and of Allah, and of all these other paganistic gods. Like in India, thousands of gods. So then, God is tired of it. And even in this Iran area here the Moslem worship of the ignorance of the millions of people that follow after some silly fad, or fable. See? I've told you, having studied the history of it, I've told you how that one man who was just a nobody and a nothing got with one woman and begin to work for her, as we say, out in her yard and around the house. She took a liking to him, you know, and married him, and whatever. And I don't know what all was involved in the thing, as to whatever it was. I say married; they came together. And from that man's foolishness, and fables, and talk, sprang forth this thing, you know. That is to say, Mohammed. From him sprang forth this thing as a prophet, as to be a conflict with Israel and all of the world as the true and the living God and to grow to show man's foolishness, and to show the evil of man's heart. Every man's ways being right in his own eyes, this thing has grown until now, you know, they come up with the God, Allah. That was the way they did it. And they worshipped this paganistic thing by the millions. Even to the extent that I saw a vision, and in this vision I was in a wide broad area of a great road that was a dirt road. And I looked and for miles it stretched out, and I looked up into heaven and the entire heavens was covered with clouds and I looked and there came forth from the clouds a great image. It was so big it looked like it filled the greater part of heaven, and it was like with a little ole beard, and whatever, you know, as an ancient oriental look, and I looked at it and I saw millions of people, or thousands of people that were moving down this road in masses looking at this image and going toward this image. And then I come to realize that what it was, as far as I could tell was the devil himself, as to this God, Allah. And sure enough I've seen pictures where millions of people, they get together and go to this certain place called their holy land, or holy place, and there for days worship this paganistic foolishness. See? God is tired of this, folks. And we say, Well, Brother Pike, good enough for them. Well, I don't feel that way and neither does God feel that way. The Bible said, Ye ministers lay in the altar all night long and howl for my people for the calamity and for the judgments that's coming upon them. God wants to see them repent. The Bible said it's not God's will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance and have everlasting life. And that it's not His will that even the wicked should perish, but that they should repent of their sins. See? So it is a terrible grief to God to see mothers and little babies, sisters, brothers, mothers, daddies, all these things. He sees these sorrows, these heartaches, not only of the deaths and the injuries and the mutilating, and whatever of the body, but He sees the loss of the substance where they have no home, no clothing, no nothing, and when they do get a place to live they've lost their little ones, they've last their love ones, you know, and life is not worth anything. But nevertheless, their paganistic desire in resisting God has done it, because for many, many, many years God has been patient with the nations, asking them to turn away from these things. Like Russia with their atheistic practices, God let that terrible calamity befall over there to shake them up, because I told you, I said, they are going to find out, God has revealed to me they are going to find out that Gorbachev is a religious person. See? And God was wanting to break through, break down that iron curtain and get in there to those people. And we prayed continually while we were in Russia that He would, see? so that He could break it down. So He brings to office a religious man, but in spite of that the communist people of Russia was so atheistic and hard that they didn't even like Gorbachev. They spoke against Gorbachev in our presence, or made a joke of him, see? But God knew he was the kind of man that would find fellowship with the people of the United States and the other nations, and God could break down that barrier so He brought him into office. And I'm not trying to hold him up as a leader because he's got his problems, but right now at the present time God is using him. God uses everybody. God uses Bush, God uses Gorbachev. God has used people over in the foreign lands as to kings and queens, and whatever. See? And God used Judas, and God used Pharoah, and God used others. For this purpose have I raised them up that I might show My glory, He said. And then He smote them at the end. He does what He wants to. He has His way in the affairs of men. He works all things after the counsel of His own will. Can an earthquake come, can a famine come, can sorrows come, and I've not sent it? saith the Lord. Don't I have My way in everything. When there is a great calamity, I'm God, I'm the one that allowed it. When this happened to Job, could this happen to Job unless I gave permission for it to happen. Didn't Satan go before God and say, Job, I'll make him curse You to your face if you'll turn me loose on him. God just told him in so many words, there won't be any days like that with Job. He's a perfect man and no matter what you do he's not going to rise up against Me. And he never did. The Bible said, through all of Job's sufferings, through all of Job's heartaches never one time did he accuse God. And folks, that's where you and I get in problems. When these things come, as to the wrath upon the unjust, see? when this wrath comes we are as the righteous, but a lot of times we get into the problems. See? Because the rain comes on the just and the unjust as to the blessings, so does the calamities come on the just and the unjust in that we are in the midst of an unjust people. So then, we have to endure the hardness like a good soldier, and we have to continue on to believe God and praise God in the time of these sufferings. Job said__ When the woman said, curse God and I, Job said, Shall we not receive evil at the hand of God in that we receive good. Shall we then just receive good and never any evil at the hand of God. Not that God brings evil, not that God is evil. And then the Bible said, God creates the evil and He creates the good. He's the one that created the evil. He's the one that created the good. But it is a true fact that when you check the situation out you find that when God made Lucifer, he was upright. And the Bible said all of his pipes were perfect, that is to his organic parts as you would think of it, you know, as in a man. That is to say, manifest in Adam as the son of the morning, or the beginning of mankind, as in Adam all die. Satan getting into him. So then, He spoke of him as a man, saying all of his pipes were upright. When I made him, he was perfect. That is to say, even Adam. Adam was perfect. Lucifer, the son of the morning. See? When God created He created good. He said the very day that Satan lifted himself up, in that he looked at God and said, I'll be like the Most High. I will ascend into the mountain of God, and I'll set my throne there. You know. He said he would exalt his throne above the stars. See? And the Bible said the very second, or minute that that happened that that was evil, and that was Satan coming forth as the beginning of evil. And then the Bible said that the very minute that Eve did the thing that she did that lust came into the world. And now sin and death is in the world, because she just lusted. The Bible said the lust of the eyes, as to look at the tree. And she saw it was good for fruit and desired it. And the original rendering of the word lust goes back to desire, so she lusted with her eye, and the very minute she did evil entered into the world. So then, we see that God has done all of these things. And I brought out to you how that God had made this thing to where it would work after the counsel of His own will, as to bring forth a reflector. You know, a mirror is just as bright as the light that shines out in front of it, but it's nothing but a reflector and you turn the light off and the mirror goes dark. And it's the same way with Lucifer. It was the same way with the act of creation, but it is a true fact that everything was created right. Everything emanated from God as that which was good, and then when it got perverted and went into the stages of perversion it had to go all the way around, as we say, through the cycle like as to eternity, or ever how far God has reached out to make ordination, or to come back to it's originality. And everything eventually will come back to it's originality because in the beginning was good. And in the beginning was God, and there was nothing bad. And so then all of the perversion, as to evil, has to run it's course and do it's thing as to what God has ordained it should do, and then it will come back to it's originality. You know, people misunderstand the plan and program of God. Man, he just kind of gets it in his mind that God has put woman down her and put a man down here, and their purpose in life is to hug and kiss, you know, and lust after one another, and live happily ever after. That's their mode of life and that's their thinking, you know. And then we get me and my four and no more I'm responsible for them and that's it. You know. And is your bother mine, well, I'll claw your eyes out, you know. And if you kill my neighbor that's your business. We'll let the law take care of it. You know. But that's not the way it is, folks. God didn't put you down here, even though you young girls and boys are suppose to marry, and the Bible said the bed of marriage is undefiled in all. And that's great. Don't you ever turn away that. You remember that, that the love, your little girl friend and boy friend if you marry, or whatever, you know, you should do that. Love them, the Bible said, your wife as yourself. But we need to understand that God created man for one reason and that was to multiply and replenish the earth, and he was to have a paradise to where it would be forever, but when he sinned against God the ordination of God was that men should die. Which means that you are born to marry and then multiply and replenish the earth, and then that's the end of the hugging and kissing and all the things that you are doing and you die, because that's the end of it, because that's all that was allowed. That's all God intended for it to be. Not to live happily ever after and get richer and richer and more land, and more things, and all these kind of things as your foolish mind would have you to think. That's not what God intended. You multiply, you replenish. That's your job, then you die, you go on out of here, and then when you get out of here you go on into the glory world. You know, and when you get into the glory world that is the end of marriage. That's the end of all those kind of things. There is nothing there. You don't have any sons and daughters and wives and husbands and those kind of things, and mothers and daddies over there in that land of glory. You don't have that kind of thing when you get into the celestial world, because all of them are just human beings and they are sons and daughters of God. See? It's like I said the other day, this foolishness of somebody preaching about cohabiting as to angels with women in the early days before the flood, that that's where the giants come from, but that's not true. It is true that the cohabiting was there, but as I've taught you that spirits enter into bodies. And the great disputed is between the mind of God and the mind of Satan, which is a spirit, or a light, warring against each other. And that the war that they are having is over the body and that God has made this body for him as a spirit to live in and the abundance of life to pass through this body, that a man might be God, or a God, and be eternally one with God and live forever and have everything that heart could wish for, even to the reflects of the mind and the intents of the heart. See? And God intended for him not to go through labor and travail and all these sorrows and heartaches. He didn't intend for a woman to go through all this travail of bringing children into the world. That's a curse. See? God didn't intend for man to labor among the thorns and all this to try to figure out every morning how he is going to work and make their living and all of these kind of things and be aggravated with that. God wanted him just to be happy, just to do what he wanted to do, go where he wanted to, and everything would be taken care of, and God had paid all of the way. This is the way that God intended for it to be. But when man sinned and fell from the Garden then it shows us that man failed the test. God would not have put the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden, He would have only put the Tree of Life *there had *it not been for the fact that man had to be a sovereignty to develop a mind, as to understanding and to have a power of choice, otherwise *he would have been like a robot. And that's the only reason *he placed *it *there. *He did not place *it *there for a snare to man, to cause man to fall, but when man went to this and the test came, *he failed the test. And when *he failed the test, *it was not as to the man being in the transgression, but the woman as to the weakness of the flesh, showing *God and the Church, as we say, in a parabolic type *there. See? Showing *it was not *God in the transgression, in that man sinned, and that death did not come by *God. *It came by man. That is to say, the feminine part, or the weak part, which is the flesh. All flesh has corrupted *it's way before *God and every man has turned to *his *own way, and *God laid upon the Lord Jesus the iniquity of *us all. Or that is to say, *God *who is a *spirit is made a human body to be the head of humanity and has come down to dwelt and tabernacled in that body that from this body that *you may have the emanating life of the *God Almighty as the great light, as the great knowledge and understanding as to the tutoring and developing of bringing forth an understanding to bring *you back to the originality of *your creation, which would be without sin. So, sin is in the world today by lust. So, we look back and we see the Bible scholars that are even teaching *it today. And somebody told *me yesterday, *you still hear *it where they are teaching this cohabiting with women (Begin tape one, side two.)...let *me tell *you, *spirits have no organic parts, as to multiplication. They are *spirits. They are not bodies in human beings. That's why devils and demons as fallen angels enter into bodies, is because they don't have *it. That's why the dispute is over the body, because *God, *Himself is a *spirit. And Satan, *himself is a *spirit. And for them to enjoy all of the act of creation that has emanated from *God, as to the benefit of *God through mankind, they've got to be in a human body. So then, the true wife is the body to the *spirit. And the true children are those that are born in the reproduction as to that of going out and declaring *his generation, or *his posterity, or bringing a spiritual *word that *you might conceive of a divine sort. Whereas, the Bible said, and I travailed until Christ be formed within *you to bring forth a Christ. That is to say, everybody the same mind and one body. As a family all of the same mind as the father's mind, coming from the same mother, as to te church, and coming forth, as to the image of Almighty *God as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular that *God may have supreme control of all members as *God making manifest of *Himself in the human body, and *you having that as to the blessing and reward of giving *your body to life, *your life overflows within *you. So then *you see, angels cannot do that. That's foolishness. This was one of the things that Jesus spoke about when *He spoke to the Scribes and the Pharisees. They came tempting *Him and they said, Master, master. *You know they'd come with *their evil tongue of flattery. The Bible said don't meddle with *him that flattereth with the tongue. And if *you perceive *there is no understanding in a man go from *him. But they come saying, Master, master, answer our question, tempting the Lord Jesus. And a lot of times the Lord would say, Why tempt *thou *me, *ye hypocrite? And on this particular occasion they came to Jesus and they said, Lord, said, we would ask of *Thee a question, or we would hear of *Thee something. So *He said, All right. *You know, just say on, as we say. So, they said, *There was at one time a woman, *you know, *she was married to a man and the man died, and then of course, *she married the brother, and on down the brother, and *it came down, Lord, until seven had had *her to wife. Now, they said in the hypocritical way of thinking they really had Jesus bound so tight *he wouldn't know what to say, *you know, and confidenting themselves as the great scholars of that day with *their diplomacies of *their colleges, *you know, we've confounded this foolish fellow, *you know. But Jesus looked back at them and told them, said, *You're ignorant. Isn't that something? Let's give the Lord a hand. Now, *you say, Well, *he didn't say *it just like that. Just read *it, *you can interpret *it. *You can tell. *He said, *You know what? *He said, *You are ignorant, as we would say, not knowing the Scriptures. *He said, In heaven they didn't neither marry nor or given in marriage, for they are as the angels. And the Bible said, I make *my angels *spirits. So *He said they are as the angels. They neither marry nor are given in marriage, for in the *spirit *there is neither male nor female. See? *There is no such thing in heaven. So then, how can angels do these things that writers say that they can do when *there is no such thing in the *spirit world. I'm in the *spirit world now as to *my *spirit. *My *spirit has moved off into yonders world. The only thing that I as a man can do, or *you as a man, or *you as a woman can do, the only thing that *you can do, or *my wife can do is according to *her *spirit or *my *spirit, or *your *spirit, or *their *spirit, or our *spirit working through the flesh. This is why *it's important to live a Christian life. Fallen angels cannot, *there is no way that they can come into *your body except that they come through *your *spirit. I know *you confident *yourself to be wise, and *you're the one that *setting here that knows the revelation. *You're just waiting for *me to get through because *you know, but to *your utter amazement *you don't know. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. Somebody said, *who am I speaking to. I'm speaking to Brother Pike, and *you, and all that hear. And what I say to one I say to all. So then, we're all taught of *God. So then, the demon *spirits, the evil *spirits cannot at any time come into *your body unless they have a port of entry, or unless they have a door opened to them. Now, the only door *there is to *your body is *your *spirit, which is *your angelic being, which is called *your inner man. See? And they cannot come in. *It is utterly impossible for them to come in unless *you give them *your *spirit. And what they do, they buzz around *you like a bee, and they woo *you, and they talk to *you, and they entice *you, and they tempt *you, just like the *spirit of Satan did through the beast *there tempting Eve, until they can get *your attention. The Bible said, first *you're enticed. That is they catch *your eyes and *you're enticed, and *you look away to the new home, and the new car, and the pretty painted face as *you call *it, and the pretty form, and all these other things and the riches and splendor and magnificence of life. *You turn away, *you look away to those things, the Bible said first being enticed, and then *you're drawn away. *There comes an alluring then, because Satan is an angel. *He's a power, and *he begins to allure *you and *you begin to feel something drawing *you that's enticing and feels good because *it's a power of stimulation, and *you can feel that thing. See? *He's stimulating *you from without just like the rain of *God stimulates, coming down on *us. *He stimulating *you. *He's stronger than *you are. *His *spirit is much stronger than *your *spirit so *he's greater in power and might, as to say strength. So *he's stimulating, *he's wooing, and *he's drawing *you. Like a man *he'll see a woman, a woman will see the man, each one will *set *their eyes on one another, and *she'll catch *her curl and *she'll do like this, and *she'll walk around, *you know, and the Bible said *she will mince with *her feet as *she goes, *you know, clip clop with *her high heels, and *she'll move *her body around, and all these things. And after a while *he'll notice *her, because see? man knowing that woman's made for man *it's when *she begins to go through all these things that *he's enticed because they are made for production. The other woman over here isn't doing that, the other girl over here isn't doing that so *she's catching *his attention and here *he goes. Then when *he notices *her after a while *she'll give *him a little smile and a little grin, *you know, and flip *her hair back and flirt off like that, *you know, and off *he goes like a dog to the kill, *you know. So then, *he doesn't realize that that is a devil. And *there is a place where a woman can do certain things that are not a devil; *it's just *her feminine nature as to cater to the man if *she's looking for a husband, and if *he's single. Not to cater to somebody else's man, or somebody else's woman, *you know, as the world is doing like a bunch of dogs now and just coming together, no marriage and whatever. Today *it's one woman, tomorrow *it's another woman. Today *it's one man, tomorrow *it's another man, *you know. Not that kind of thing. But anyway, I wish we had about two hours to go into what we'd like to go into in revelation on this, but anyway this is what happened. And the man *he's the same way, *you know, *he's *setting over at the counter and the woman's *setting over here, and *he'll turn *his eye around like that, *you know, and raise *his eyebrow a little bit and move *his head and flip *his coin, *you know, and pull out *his pocket book so *she can see *it and start paying *his bill, and all of these things. And *he'll go by and *he'll brush against *her, anything *he can. That's the way the world is. See? *It's where *he's got *his little prancey walk that *he does, and all these kind of things and this is the way that people are in the world today. But when these things happen, as to that enticement, then Satan comes in. Once *your *spirit gets out of bounds, as to moderation, and graveness, and shamefacedness, and these kind of things, Lucifer comes in. That *spirit comes in. That fallen angel is trying to get out of those dry places. That is to say, *he has no inspiration and *he is trying to come in, and Satan the, king of the bottomless pit, is trying *his best to make way for *it to build *his kingdom so that *he can transform *himself into an angel of light to make way, as to woo, and to say and to do, even Scriptural, see? to make way for *his *spirits to come in, as to *his fallen angels. And when these come in, as the Bible said, a third part of those stars fell from heaven as to the devil and *his angels being cast out. Then these that's going through these bodies, or into these bodies, once they get in *there they feel at rest, and they settle down just like a man moving into a house, and then the woman hangs up the pictures *she wants, whether obscene or whatever. They begin to decorate the heart with all kind of thoughts, as to evil or whatever *their thoughts might be, and after a while they get *it garnished with everything they want, as to filth and lust and evil and laughing and joking and dirty thoughts, and whatever, *you know. And then off to the ball game, and off to the wrestling, and putting on the gowns that's split, and ripped out up here, and the boys with *his tight pants on, and *his shorts, and off they go. And here they go and the world and the devils just come together with *their bodies, and the drool over those bodies. And I hope *you'll pardon *my expression because I like to tell *it like *it is, because I don't like to build *it up as ice cream and cake and have people to run after *it. So they drool over these bodies one after another and here they are, they've done sprayed themselves to smell like oranges and apples, *you know, and painted themselves up to look like a red apple, or whatever, or a lizard, or whatever, and they are all painted up and then they go after these bodies. That one devil goes after this body, and other devil meets *him with a hug and a kiss and a slobber, *you know, and if *it ain't a bad day of cold where *it's running out the nose, *you know, and where *it's coming out the other places, and smell and a stink, and whatever, they just chew with each other and bite each other, and go on and finally they turn into perverts because these devils are so thirsty and so hungry that they can't be satisfied with a moderation, and *it takes twice as much for them and they eat, they cause the individual to eat themselves to death, to drink themselves to death, or do something through lethargy and unconcern and not working until *their body runs down, or the mind, *you know, goes bad from sin. The devil will say, Let's *set up together tonight. Let's watch the late show, *you know, and the Lord will say, Use a little sense and go to bed so that *you can save *your eyes, which will save *your nerves and everything in *your body, or *you'll be in bad shape. But the devil says, No. Let's drink soda pop, and let's ride, let's laugh and joke, and if we're going to sleep we can lounge around some through the day and when the night comes all these rum bum bums start, and all the laughing starts, and the girls they run out with *their shorts to say here we are, the old baggy whore that we were the other night, now where's the boy friends. And here's all the boy friends all doped up and drinking and they run out, and daddy, mother have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are on edge. Or that is daddy has provided a car for sissy, and for junior and over here the police, though they have a curfew, like here in Monroe, they don't enforce *it. They prepare a place on the corner over here to where all of them can come together in *their dirty, filthy appearance and lust over each other. Folks, let *me tell *you something, if they would enforce the curfew, if daddy and mama had not got those cars for them, if the law would have a curfew to where them boys and girls couldn't be on the streets at night, and force the places to shut down at night unless *it was just some place for an emergency as to where *there was patrols around *there, I'll guarantee *you wouldn't have these devils and demons crawling all through the night, and *your boys thrown in jail, and *you girls thrown in jail, and going to the insane asylums, and if *it wasn't for the television shows and the movies and all *it wouldn't be like that at all. When I was a boy coming up in the country *it wasn't like that at all, but as they added the more and added the more, and the mothers and daddies eat the sour grapes and got the children's teeth on edge. Now, they've got a conglomeration of a mess. *It's a mess in the church, putting the pool rooms in the basement of the church, bringing the ball games into the church, having social parties, all of these kind of things and building night life. Okay, Give *me just a little chance to tell *it like *it is. And so then, the *spirits go wild. Finally they get *your *spirit, they entice *your *spirit, and *you *spirit is subject to vanity because *you are made as a temperate, moderate, indwelling person within this little tabernacle to eat and to drink, and to buy and to sell, and all this in moderation, because this is life. *You know, but these devils and demons that are drunk they come in *there and *they're out of those dry places and *they're just like that *you know, like a nervous man that's half starving to death, or like a man that drinks and *his nerves are about to go to pieces because *he can't get a drink. See? And in this conglomeration of confusion devils and demons have possessed humanity by violating the principals of moderation, in that the Bible said be temperate in all things, violating as to a confidence, which is called faith in *God's program of life as to the conforming to *his way that we might have life and that more abundant, see? in that *His *Word has been sent to heal *us, in that *God is the *Word and *He is the *Word made life, as to the body, and *He comes inside and *He heals *us. When I say *God sent *His *Word and healed *me, then I'm healed if I believe *His *Word, because *God is the *Word, and *God is a *spirit, and *God is life, and *God is the healing. So then, I claim *my healing just by hiding *His *Word within *my heart, or hearing *His *Word. See? Because that is *God coming to *us in an intellectual, or vocabulary expression, as from the minister, but in all reality *it's *spirit, and when *it strikes *you *it'll change into *spirit and go down into *your heart and bring forth life. But anyway I said all that to say this, that we are the ones that are responsible. We allow Satan to come in. And folks, if we'll be filled with the Holy *Spirit, Jesus seeing the detriment of man and all of this thing, and seeing that the very thoughts of men's hearts are evil, and all flesh has corrupted *it's way before *God, and the whole earth is filled with violence, then *God destroying all of them, repenting over that, the fact that *he ever made man grieved *him in *His heart, and then seeing that man was just like that, because when *He started the world again here is Noah, *he's got drunk, see? And seeing that the world is like that, that people are like that, that men's hearts are continually evil *He sent forth *His *Own precious Holy *Spirit, suffered the price of Calvary, and the sufferings of the cross that *He might do away with our sins and not be angry with *us anymore as having smitten *His *Own body that *He might free *you. And in doing this *He has sent forth *His Holy *Spirit into our heart. Faith as to *His works as to paying the price, as to sanctifying *you, and to take *you out of prison, and then to let *His Holy *Spirit come into *your heart that *He might seal *your *spirit, that in spite of the aggravation and the things that Satan does in enticing *you, yet *he can never penetrate and get into *your *spirit to inhabit *your body, or to come into *your temple. And here *he is closed out and if *your spiritual deity of *God as cleanliness and sanctification *he never touches *you. The evil one never touches *you at anytime. And *God has given this to *you, and then simply stated that *you as an individual should have enough love for *me now that *you would conform to *my ways and follow *me, and follow *my understanding and listen to *my ministers and to *my tutors that I might take this body that Satan is aggravating and move from this dimension to another dimension. In that I've paved the way for *it I can do this even without putting *you in a casket, or *you don't have to go by the way or the grave. The grave means nothing except the worms are going to eat *you; *there's nothing *there for *God. See? And I've planned this thing and if *you'll work with *me I'll eradicate death, I'll eradicate sickness, I'll eradicate poverty. I'll do away with all of these things, and I've now made *you a *God and *you can have this life abundantly filled up and overflowing that inside of *you to emanate from *your very person, as to the live of Christ being made manifest in *your mortal genes, and day by day *you'll act like Christ, think like Christ, talk like Christ as *He's manifested. And as Christ comes forth then *your body will suddenly become a great and mighty *God as a member of the *God body. So then, *you'll be great and *you'll be mighty and Satan will be helpless, but *you've got to work with *me. *You've got to work with *me because this rain is upon the just and the unjust through *My sufferings that I might woo and draw, that I might get *you that have already allowed Satan to come into *you and get *him out of *you, because if *there ever comes a day once *he woos *you, remember when *you are born into this world *you are a little child. And even then Satan takes advantage of *you as to be interwoven with *your members, but the Bible says that because *you are a child then *it's not charged against *you. To know to do good and not to do *it is a sin. Since *you don't know then *it's not charged against *you, but still even as a child the *spirit of foolishness is bound in *your heart and the Father has to take a rod of correction to drive *it from *you to hold *you in line to mold *your mind, as to when *you do get to the place of manhood if this *spirit takes advantage of *you that *you know something about *God. And as *you get old enough to comprehend to understand righteousness to come to what we refer to as the knowledge of truth, that in that time that is the crossing of life, and the crossroads of life, and the place of detriment, that *there *you must make the decision. Until then the rain is upon *you, until then *you can go to church, until then *you can be partakers of the Holy Ghost like the Holy Ghost filled them back *there in that day. *You can have experiences and speak in tongues and gifts will work and whatever, but still not having eternal life because *you don't have the gift of the Holy Ghost. *You then finally come to the crossroads of life and *you know right and wrong, and then if *you continue with *your religious experiences then that is hypocrisy. And even though *you might have the rain on *you and all these other kind things *you are dead in the sight of *God, and having the love of the world *you are dead in trespasses and sins while *you live though *you are among the religious even as Judas was. See? But when *you come to the crossroads and *you say, *My *God! Like somebody told *me *setting over to *my right. *He told *me the other day, said, I *set in *your services when *you were preaching, having been with *us a long time, for a number of years, said, And all of a sudden I got real fearful. Said, Something struck *me and I got real afraid. Said, Because *it hit *me all of a sudden. I heard something say, *You have come to the knowledge of the truth. See? And from that time on then that means that *you've got to perform. *You've got to do *it then. *You've got to lay that thing to the line then, because if *you turn away from *God then and *you go on with *your frivolous ways of *your temper and the things of the world, and the love of the flesh, and these kind of things without crucifying, putting the flesh down, conforming to the ways of *God then *you are eternally damned and doomed and *there's no preacher that can reach *you. The Holy *Spirit cannot reach *you; no one can reach *you. *You have crossed the deadline and the Bible said that once *you've come to the knowledge of the truth *there is no more sacrifice for sin, but only a fearful looking forward to of the fiery indignation that shall devour *God's adversaries. Just bear with *me a little bit if I stumble here, because I've gone a little longer that some of *you think I ought to go and *you wanted to go to dinner a long time ago and now I have to wrestle through *your minds the rest of the service. That's why this happens like *it does especially toward the end. All right. Now. So then, we are aware of the fact that we are the one that let Satan in. We let Satan in. See? *You are hungry for *your belly because *God has put *you on *your belly. *You are this very person I'm speaking about, about the old serpent and having been religious and these kind of things, see? and when the belly calls *you're ready to go. But we are those that, as *it was with Jesus when they said, Jesus, *you've not eaten. *He said, I must be about *my Father's business. Know *ye not that I have manna to eat that *ye know not of, or bread, or meat that *ye know not of, see? And we're interested in feeding the inner man. We're interested in staying with the inner man. Some of *you are not. I know *it's few; *there are very few of *you that really are that hear *my voice, that's right here listening to *me now. See? Very few of *you, because Jesus said *it's a little flock and few *there be that find *it, and straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and all of the world has gone after the beast. That is to say after the flesh and the things of the flesh. So then, the mark of the beast is ready here to get *his toll. That's why thousands and ten of thousands go out in earthquakes, because the mass of death indicates the frivolous of mankind, the unconcern of mankind. All of the mass of diseases and calamities, *it indicates that man is walking in the shadows, because *God told Israel, said, if *you will keep *my commandments and do the things that I tell *you to do I will bring none of these afflictions and diseases upon *you that I brought upon the Egyptians. And the Bible said those that kept *it *their feet didn't even swell. They didn't have to have a family doctor. Moses didn't need no family doctor and *he lived to be a hundred and twenty years old. When *he got eighty years old took forty years for a ministry when everybody else at eighty ordinarily would be dead, or just about dead. See? So all that thing about having family doctors and having money in the bank and where *you can go to the hospital, they didn't have those kind of things. Folks, *it's because of *your sins. *It's because of *your evil that the mercy of *God has allowed these things to be in *your day by not going on with *God, by not believing *God, by not giving to *god, by throwing *your money to the wind and *your substance to the wind, and by not conforming to *His *Word, *setting around a television all night, riding around, eating, drinking, relatives, frolicing, all these kind of things. The Bible said being fleshly minded, carnally minded. *It's death to *you, because *God isn't in *your life. See? *God isn't in *your life. When *you do those things *God is not in *your life. When *you enjoy riding and eating and drinking and buying and selling and visiting with *your friends and relatives and talking, joking, laughing *God isn't in *your life. A man that has *God, or a woman that has *God is grave and sober and sound minded, and the Bible said to be sober minded for *thine adversary, the devil, goeth about like a roaring lion seeking *whom *he may devour. And the Bible said *you weep now, and *you moan now, and *he said, *your heart is made better, *he said, for the laughter of fools is like the thorns crackling in the fire that's under the pot. *He said, But someday *you will laugh and then they will mourn, and they will weep, and the last shall be first and the first shall be last. Folks, remember one thing. This whole world, this whole system__ And I'm pushing on because *you are trying to press the life out of *me, some of *you, about the belly. I wish *you would always go out like I've ask *you to so I could finish *my sermon to get *it one tape to where people could hear *it. No matter *who, *it wouldn't make no difference *who, if *you would just go on out *it would be happy days for *me. But the devil isn't going to do that. *He's in hypocrisy. *He's going to *set *there religiously, and *he's afraid *he'll miss something, too. See? But anyway this whole world, this whole world is of the devil. All of the world, all of the system, everything that's in this world, even *you are of the devil, *you as a people, unless *you are born again. All of *you are of the devil, and all of *you have gone astray. And all of *you have done bad, and *there's none good, no not one of *you, see? except through Jesus Christ. So then, we realize that *his world belongs to the devil, and *it belongs to Esau and *it belongs to the devils people. And the Lord said *you'll pass through the land of Esau and don't *you bother with *it. *You go on into Canaan, because over in Canaan on the other side that is *your place of abode. And *you must pay *your way. *You can't cheat, lie, swindle, rob, con, *you can't do that. *You must pay *your way through *it. *You must have a good name. All right. I'm going to go ahead and finish, folks. I still feel *you pressing *me. Even after I said what I did some of *you are still pressing *me, but I'm still going to stagger on and I'm going to finish what I started to say. I know some of *you are clapping *your hands just as hypocritically as *you can, but thank *God for the ones that clap *their hands that's not hypocritical. All right. *You just join the crowd, because the good folks clap *their hands for *me to finish, for *God to keep speaking to them. Satan in *his carnal power, *he grabs minds. One suffer they all suffer. When this force comes in *it's a force against the tender mind of the Lord Jesus. One person can act up to *set in the seat of the scornful and the way of sinners, and *it is force, force. If one mind fails to submit to the minister and the moving of the *spirit *he's a devil and *he's an enemy of *God. And the carnal mind is an enemy to *God. Any form of lust, any form of arrogancy, any form of resistance, any form of questioning unless *it's a godly question, as not understanding, saying Lord, help *me, any form of anything from carnality, *it's a devil that's warring against the mind of Almighty *God as *God speaks. And in the day of judgment when *you stand before *Him *it will be written down *there as to what *you do, as to having *set in the seat of the scornful and stood in the way of sinners, because of the lust and concern of *your eyes and *your belly, and *your desire to get out and turn that body a loose. I don't know why people do the things that they do. *It's like just in the last day or two, and of course I get to exhorting *you trying to get *your mind back together and that takes away from what we wanted to get to *you as a complete message and to help *you to withstand the wiles of the devil and to have true faith instead of wild imagination of what *you think is believing. In the last day or two we got a call. *My wife got a call. Here, *there are some people that says that__ They talk like that they did not understand *me saying they were a bunch of devils and they were going to go to hell and because of such and such as a thing that they done to somebody. Whereas I don't understand *it either. But they couldn't understand *me and they were more or less crying on *my wife's shoulders as to *it, and I said, Betty, I've not even thought any such thing toward them people. I said, *It never even entered into *my mind, let alone said anything like that. But, what happens is, people, to defend themselves if they are blind to this work, to defend themselves if somebody crosses them whether *it's a brother, or sister, or neighbor, or somebody that *they're buying from, or selling to, or whatever, they'll jump up and say, Bless *God, *my preacher said, *my pastor said, and this is the way *he feels about *you. That's about as rotten as a person can be. To use *God for an alibi for *your filth and *your lying and *your corruption, I don't know that *you could stoop any lower. I said, Betty, those things are lies and the Bible said all liars will have *their part in the Lake of Fire. Why add to the *words of the man of *God when *it's *God speaking. Don't *you know the Bible said if *you add anything unto this I'll bring upon *you the plagues and the whole world is covered with these plagues because they are so religious, and think that they don't have to listen to no leaders. They'll do anything. They'll listen to the leader of a band. They'll listen to a leader, or tutorer to teach them how to fly, or to teach them in school, or anything else, but when *it comes to *God everybody knows and they do *their *own thing, *you know, and so they are eaten up. Eaten up, Job said, to the extent that *you call a worm *your mother. *You call a worm *your mother. Or that is, *you've given *your lives out here to the flesh when *God referred to Jacob, or the flesh, as a worm. And that was the cocoon. And *you call a worm *your mother, and *you've been breed from a worm which goes back to the old serpent, and been upon *your belly, that *you should be upon *your belly all the days of *your life, as *you crawl and creep around. See? *He said *you turn to corruption and *you call *it *your father. Born of corruption, born out of the seed of corruption, and *you call *it *your father, for truly *you come forth from a birth of corruption for *God didn't put the tares into the world (Begin tape two, side one.) for the Bible said that the tares came into the world from the enemy. So then, *you are of our father, the devil, *who is the *spirit of corruption. See? So, here we are folks. We give place to the devil when *God tells *us not to give place to the devil. By not having the Holy *Spirit to come in and seal our *spirit against these evil forces, then we give place to the devil and the devil comes in and we willing give ourself to *him. We become eternally doomed and damned and cut off. And when we do this we are all together, all together cut off from eternal life and *God cannot do anything but destroy *us, because *he that defileth the body *him shall *God destroy. So, the dispute goes on over the body. And let *me say this in trying to find a place to close here. Now, *you think that *you are going to heaven and *you think that *you are going to make the translation, and I think that I'm going to heaven, and I think that I'm going to make the translation, because all of *us are religious and every man's ways are right in *his *own eyes. No matter what *he wants to do *he includes that in *his religious experience, and *he feels that everything is all right. But let *me tell *you something. *There is no one, not any one, that is old enough to be accountable, that understands righteousness, *there is not one individual that will make the translation unless *he, or *she, has the gift of the Holy Ghost, not an experience of the Holy Ghost, of the *Spirit being upon *you and *you speaking in tongues, or being filled with the Holy Ghost in that *you had a great experience and cried and done all these kind of things, and *God works some miraculous thing. Not that. But unless *you have the gift of the Holy Ghost *you will not go in the translation. *You will not go in the rapture. These people that are preaching that *you can be saved, that *you don't have the Holy Ghost, they say *you can be saved. Then they say *you can be sanctified and be filled with the Holy Ghost. All that is a bunch of foolishness. *You remember that. That's a bunch of foolishness. *There's no such thing as a bunch of saved Christians as they teach *it, and then a bunch of Holy Ghost filled Christians. *There's no such thing as that. And then a bunch of sanctified Christians. *There is no more that than *there is, as *you would say, one person as a Father, and one person as a *Son, and one person as the Holy Ghost. *There is no such thing as that. See? All that's a bunch of foolishness. Devils and demons do those things and those are doctrines of devils that send people to hell. And they are causing multitudes to fall into the fire and the same calamity that has befallen Iran because of *their paganistic worship will befall these people that are in America that's teaching this doctrine of the devil. All right. So then, we know that we're going to have to have the gift of the Holy Ghost. *You're going to have to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, because the Bible said if *you have not *my *Spirit *you're none of *Mine. And though *you taste of the Holy Ghost, be made partakers, as to being filled and these experiences; yet *you still fall away, and *you cannot be *God. *You can go right on just like Judas still *you'll fall away in the end and not have *God when the judgment comes. So, see? When *you get the *Spirit of Christ on the inside of *you this is the thing that's going to change *your body at the translation, that when Christ appears in the body of Jesus with the nails in *His hands and *He appears in the air. When *He appears that *Spirit in *Him is going to activate this measure of *Spirit that's in *me, as to the head, and the measure that's in *you, and *it's going to activate *you. And when *it activates *you *it's going to quicken *you like that, and in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye *you are going to be illuminated with *God's presence and be changed and *it's going to take *you out. But if that power of *Spirit is not on the inside of *you as Christ's *Spirit to make *you as a member relative to that head as one body, as bone of *His bone and flesh of *His flesh *you won't go because that's *His bride. *My wife is bone of *my bone and flesh of *my flesh, because *she hath *my *spirit. *My *spirit has over the years overpowered *her *spirit and *she's had to submit to *my *spirit to be *my wife, because *God meant *it like that. And if a wife doesn't do that, I say again, *she's got a devil. That marriage is improper. They did not get the right rib, as somebody said. They didn't come together right, because if that *spirit will not submit to the *spirit of the man *she is not bone of *his bone, and *she is not flesh and that's why that *God will not bind a temple of light to a temple of darkness, or a child of Belial to a child of *God. Light and darkness has no fellowship, as to saying this man understands and is gullible after the things of the world and the pride of life, and this person over here has the *Spirit of Christ that wants holy things and godly things that trying to go after the things of the *Spirit. Whereas, the Bible says lay up *your treasures in heaven. Walk in the *Spirit. Let *your conversation be in heaven. *God don't bind them together. They are not bound together, because marriage consists of one thing as to being bound together as *your *spirit is bound with *her *spirit, and *her *spirit is submissive to *your *spirit that *her *spirit is one *spirit and *you are the mind of that *spirit. And *her mind is secondary as *her *spirit, as to work through *your mind. And *you love *her so much because of this that *she gives *you *her body for reproduction, and to go through the suffering to reproduce *your image, and *you love *her so much because *she conforms to *you and submits to *you that *you love *her even as Christ loved the Church to give *her all the riches and splendor and glory and magnificence of all things, that *she can be arrayed beautifully in *your eyes and be *yours, to love *her and to be tender and kind to *her. *You know, *you don't lazy around, *you don't dope around. *You don't drink around. *You don't con. *You don't run out here and flirt around. *You don't run out here and do the things of the world and let *her and *her little children half starve to death, *you know, and go through this ritualistics with *your lips and with *your vain puffed up mind, as the old serpent to talk *her into something, *you know, and every time *you do *her this way *you come back when *she cries and says something, and *you point out precisely in *your evil adulterous hypocritical way how that *it's all right and what *your doing *it's suppose to be like this, *you know, until finally *God just kills *you, *you know. *You don't do those things. Not in this life and get by with *it when *you walk with Christ Jesus. So then, we understand each other now, don't we? We understand what *God is doing now. We understand where the devil stands, that *he don't just come in to *us. We have to invite *him. That we have to give place to *him, and we can't go around and say *he's beating *my brains out and I'm doing everything I can to serve the Lord, but *you know how *it is. *You know the devil. Because the Bible said, Greater is *he that is in *you than *he that is in the world, and behold, I give unto *you that Christ, that seed, that hope of glory within *you, which is power over all the powers of the enemy, and the power to become the *sons of *God by surrendering, by conforming, submitting to that *Spirit, and I give unto *you this power, even over death, that death hath no power over *you. Sickness hath no power over *you. Poverty hath no power over *you, None of the temptation of life has power over *you. Because *you kept the *words of *my patience I will keep *thee, as to say this day that we're living in, from that hour of temptation that's to come upon all the world to try them. So then, *you see we're the ones that let's the devil in. Death did not come by *God but man let *it in. So then, Satan got in by man. Satan stays in by man, and eternal life comes by man, as to the man Christ Jesus and the great Holy *Spirit comes by man. See? That is through a man called Christ Jesus. Do *you love the Lord? Let's give *him a hand. *There's a lot of things I'd like to say, but anyway I'm glad *you kind of backed off *there for a minute at least to give *me a chance to close out. *You've missed many things. The Bible said *thine iniquities have separated between *thee and *thy *God and kept *thee back from good things. *My ear *it can hear. *My hand *it can reach *you, but the thing is, *your thirst and *your hunger and *your desire is to laugh, talk, be free where *you can laugh and talk and go and ride and buy and sell and eat and drink. See? Because that's *your world, see? And so then *you don't have the hunger and thirst after righteousness, to hunger and thirst day and night, and stay before *him, as to lay in the altars all night. *You don't have that thirst as to self denial and doing away with that old person of *yours and that old individuality of *yours to kill out the outer man and to lose *your life for *His sake that *you might gain that great life. *You can't do *it. *You're too much of a philosopher, too much of a thinker, too much of a desirer as to this world and the things of this world, and too much given to the flesh. So by that *you dwarf *yourself and *you don't grow very much and *you never really come to that full measure, nor to that full reward. Let's stand together and sing a little chorus. We're not scolding *you, we're just exhorting *you. I'm just trying to tell *you like *it is. That's the way *it is, folks. *God has come to a time when *he is weary of these paganistic practices of all the nations, including the great America. Folks, we've got all kind of people in the world today, as to philosophers, educators, witch doctors, all kind of folks. All kind of folks. All kind of minds, but in all of this *you have to look back and remember that in the beginning *there was no such thing as a white man and a black man and a Japanese, a yellow man, and an Indian, as a red man, and a German, and a Russian. *There was no such thing. *There was no such thing even as *their features of being a variety. *There was but one man, that was Adam. And *God made that one Adam to *His *Own pleasure, and that one Eve to *his *own pleasure. Out of that came forth the people, not the Jews. Somebody said out of that came forth the Jews. That's not true. *There was no Jew in the beginning. The Jews came from the name, as to a title, where David recited and where *he was *there when *he become king of the people and they were called Jews. And then Paul denied that, as to being a Jew, because *he said, *He that is a Jew outwardly is not a Jew but *he that is a Jew inwardly. The only Jew *there is is a spiritual Jew, if *you want to use the Jew as *God's people as to the apple of *his eye. So then, Paul said all people are the same. *There was just one man, just one woman, and out of that came forth the people that we know of. Those people as Abraham, those people as Noah, those people as Seth, those people back *there as Enoch, those people as Methuselah, see? And then when the thing came to the second dimension of life, as to this side of the flood, the old whoremonger called Nimrod, the great hunter, one that married *his *own mother, in that the nations were scattered because from the beginning of that came forth the building of the tower and the great tower of Babylon, as we say, see? and building *it unto a headship, as to Lucifer, drawing everything up unto *him that *he might capstone *it with *his preeminence as *he will as the beast in the end of the world. *God will allow *it, and all of them that is building that great tower of confusion will come up and head up in *him. But we that love the Lord, as to the pyramid city of the lively stones are heading up in the Lord Jesus, and we're building up toward *his appearing in Thessalonians when *He shall appear in the heavens to capstone this great wonderful work and achievement, as to coming to the all see eye as to the seer, the revelation of Jesus Christ, narrowing down to that one point everything. Now. See? *God is tired of all the foolishness, and now *He's about to overthrow the world as to *their system and bring in *His *own system as to *sons and daughters of *God. So, being down, we as a people, all of the world down at the end of the trail, the gospel having gone into all of the world by news media and satellites, and testimonies, and all kind of things, publications, whatever *it might be, narrowing down now to the coming of the Lord. Only they that have *his *Spirit belong to *him. Only they that have *His *Spirit will be part of this great city. Only they that have been willing to deny themselves as to take on the mind of suffering, to conform to *his way, and to bring every thought under subjection to obedience of Jesus Christ will be part of the big wonderful world of light, that great wonderful mind of Christ, even the understanding of *God in comprehending the heights, depths, widths, and lengths that we might be part of that body, and that *God might live in *us and dwell in *us even as *His temple. For *ye are the temples of *God, and now beloved are *ye the *sons of *God. So then, *there was no such thing as a variety of people, but when *God confounded these people, as to change *their language, or that is to let the devil mix them up to where they couldn't communicate, as to one language, *he scatter them abroad throughout the earth. And then according to that that *He gave them, as to *their language, as to *their color, as to *their form, and as to whatever, then came forth all of these races. All of these races came forth, and *He did that that each race might represent a certain thing, as to an attribute of *God, or the act of *God, whether *it be light, or whether *it be darkness, whether *it be as to the red man as to the fire, or the yellow man as to the sun, whatever *it is both of them represents as to the moon and the sun, and the things that are in the natural, each one of them represents something. Every nation represents something, even in *their faces as to when the Chinese's eyes are down, and the Japanese's eyes are up, as to whether *it be an inspirational appearance, or a non-inspirational appearance, or whether *it be a child that's born afflicted, that is as a freak, *it has no eyes, or that has no legs, or whether *it the mutilated as to those that are crippled up, or whether *it be the big people, or the small people, the skinny, the tall, the lanky, whatever *it might be, the giants, whatever, everyone of them has a spiritual significance. And that's why *God allowed *it and at the end of the way they'll all come back to one people. Just like *it was with Adam. And as in Adam all die as to that generation of all people, *it the end *it will be the second man Adam that as the beginning of creation, Jesus, the beginning of creation of *God. All of them sprang forth from *Him as *His posterity, and the whole world will be filled with that wonderful nation of people. All right. Let's sing together. (Sings Sweep Over *My Soul.) The altars are open if *you'd like to come to the altars. (Continues singing and sings Haven Of Rest.) Can *you sing that with *me? (Sings I Need *Thee, Don't Turn *Him Away and I'll Go With *Him Through The Garden.) Turn the little boys face away from that bench. (Continues singing.) Let's sing this little chorus. Give *me a key. (Sings Jesus Sweet Jesus.) Can *you sing that with *me? (Continues singing.) One more time together. (Continues singing.) Let's lift our hands up together, close our eyes. I appreciate the attention that *you gave this morning. I tell *you that these things go on tape. And *you know *it's like I was telling some of the brethren the other day. I said this to the sisters also. *You don't know how much *you've hindered *me in the work of *God, and *you don't know how much *you've hindered the work of *God, and the Kingdom of *God. These messages that *you've made *it so hard for *me to preach that has gone on tape and video, people have had to listen to *my stumblings and *my staggerings when sometimes I've stayed all night long on *my face so that when I come here that wouldn't be. Nevertheless, *you've done *it. And so hundreds of thousands of tapes going out all over the world and *you're to blame for *it. *You *set in the seat of the scornful and *you've stood in the way of sinners, and *you've let carnal reasoning hinder the great wonderful voice of the moving of Almighty *God. Wherein, the Bible said, They shall be taught of *God. Judgment beginning at the house of the Lord. Saying, that we should enter into *His gates with thanksgiving, into *His courts with praise, to know how that we ought to behave ourselves in the house of the living *God, but *you and others come in visiting, and things have been said and done in and without that's been a great hindrance to the move of *God and *it must be paid for in the day of judgment, and paid for in this life, as to *you creating problems among the sisters, among the brethren. Whereas, to *you being withdrawn and not fellowshipping is a proof that *you do not have eternal life, and that *you are just religious and as going *your way and discouraging and causing division. The Bible said mark the them that cause division among *you. Said, I hate them that cause division among the brethren, and that they all should dwell together in the unity of the *Spirit. *There is one mind. That's the mind of the Shepherd, as to the mind of Christ. *He should have the mind of Christ, and they should have *his mind and be obedient, in that Paul said I must present *you to *God, and I seek to do *it without grief, or without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. *You are the sheep of *my pasture in that I'm over *you and yet *you're *God's sheep. I'm not a hireling. I'm a member of *His body, and we stay to fight the wolf. The hireling fleeth when *he sees the wolf come. *He goes to another place, but we stay to fight to try to give our life. And we have given our life here as a living sacrifice, to some extent, for the sheep and for *God's people. And the Lord will bless *you and *He will bless *me, and *there's been trouble makers among *us in the past, *there will be trouble makers among *us in the future, and Paul said among *you *there is false brothers and false sisters, religious and some of them not even aware how false they really are in *there religious ego to be something in this life. But nevertheless, through the simplicity of the gospel and them that love *God, such are they that love the Lord, and to *whom Christ has come to dwell within *your heart and to give *you that wonderful life abundant filled up and overflowing. Somebody gave *me a beautiful cup. I had never even seen *it before. I don't know *who gave *it to *me. Sister Betty had sent *it into our room just as of last night. I got up and was going over to the mirror and as I laid *my billfold and different things *there, and I look up, looked in the mirror, looked at *my billfold, I looked over to this shelf and I saw this cup *setting *there that said, George Pike, *my cup runneth over. *It's so beautiful. I don't know *who gave *it to *me, but I really appreciate those little things. They are always bringing *me cups and bringing *me food, and all kind of things. One will bring one thing and one will bring another, and sometimes I don't get a chance to say thank *you for the coconut cake or the pie or whatever *it might be, shoes or socks or shirts, all kind of things, but I'm so deeply indebted to *you, as to *my feelings. Paul said, even as to the world, as to preach the gospel to every person as much as life within *me, whether Greek or Jew, and especially to *my *own brothers and sisters. So deeply indebted as to the fact that *you've shared with *me *your time, *you've shared with *me *your substance and entrusted and trusted *your life and soul and little ones to *me. And I trust I'll never betray *you. And as long as I follow Christ I will never betray *you. So *you follow *me as I follow Christ. Don't dare follow *me if I don't follow Christ. *You follow Christ. And *you glorify Christ in *me, as they did in Paul, if *you see *it in *me and I'll do likewise with *you. Follow *me, don't follow *your *own understanding, or follow at *my understanding. Don't follow *you *own understanding because *your understanding will deceive *you quicker than anybody else, because the Bible said every man's way are right in *his *own eyes, and in *your eyes *your ways are right. So *you don't want to follow *yourself. That's the last person *you want to follow. The Bible said lean not to *thine *own understanding. Get rid of every one of *your thoughts. And today as *you go out always remember what the shepherd tells *you. Watch. Not just watch, but pray. *It doesn't do any good if *you watch and don't pray. *It doesn't do any good if *you pray and don't watch. Like the Bible said, When *you pray believe. *It doesn't do any good if *you pray and don't believe. *It doesn't do any good if *you believe and don't pray. But pray, and then believe, and watch and pray. And that way *you will elude the devil. (Begin tape two, side two.) And *you'll have *your mind on *God and *you won't get frivolous and *you won't get foolish, won't get wild with merit. *You'll be sober and the devil won't be able to devour *you. *You remember this now. The Lord loves *you. We love *you, and I'm sure *you love one another, because that's the proof of eternal life. And if *you do *you work with one another, *you stay with one another, *you dwell with one another, and *you don't try to put one another down. *You don't gossip, backbite, tear down and talk about one another, go off to *your relatives and laugh and make a joke of the church, *you don't stay out of church and just come when *you take a notion, but *you're together. And the Bible said they all were together. Not some of them together. Not some of them were so busy they had things to do, or they had other programs and other plans and *God lead them in another direction. *It wasn't that way. The church of three thousand people, and the Bible said the only church, and they all were together. All of them were together. All right. If *your not with *us then *you are not for *us, but if *you are for *us, then are *you with *us. Let's sing another chorus together. (Sings Sweep Over *My Soul, Haven of Rest, and I Will Praise *Him.) Give *me another key. (Continues singing.) Let's praise the Lord. I felt to sing another chorus or two. That's why we go off in the wrong key. I thought, Lord, *they're tired. I'm going to let them go. The Lord was still wanting *us to worship. I hold *you sometimes a little bit in our worship, and I do *it for *your good, but sometimes I can tell that *you want to go. Some of *you don't, and sometimes we run into a little complication in not moving like we'd like to in the *Spirit. (Continues singing.) We need to really watch and pray, because I believe *it was Brother Gary Armstrong that cane to *me the other day and said *he'd had a dream, and said, in this dream, or night vision, whatever *it was, *he saw people dropping dead on the camp ground. And others have visions. *You never know when *your day is over. *You might say, Well, Brother Pike, I understand that. We've got some elderly people living here, but the ones that died before wasn't elderly people. If *you recall just about everyone of the others that died wasn't elderly people; they were young men. They were young women. They were young people. See? And I don't know *who *it was. The Bible said *it shall come to pass that the heart of young men shall fail because of the fear of looking after those things that come upon the earth. Just like seeing those devastating blows over in Iran and the other places, not having *God as a consolation that makes people fear greatly, they tremble. See? Whereas, they should tremble before *God. The Bible said, Blessed is the man that will come into *My presence and tremble at *My *words rather than *setting down with the confidence, *you know, that they know something, they've got a great outreach and a great work, and they are a great person, all these kind of foolish things, *setting *there learning and listening and trying to incorporate the things of *God into *their lives so that they can have a great life, and not vainly puffed up by what they know. They should fear and shake and tremble at the *words of *God, because *it's the *word of life, and *it's the *word of judgment, and *it's the *word that can bless them, *it's the *word that can curse them. So then, thinking ourselves to know something a lot of times we don't know something as we ought to know and we're not wise, professing ourselves to be wise according to the diplomacies of life and according to the things that we do in life, as to what we think, *you know, and what we figure out then we become fools. And the Bible said because they did not recognize *God when *God came into *their midst, or the foolishness of preaching *it pleased *God that men should be saved, and *he turned them over to a reprobate mind to send them strong delusions, to cause them to believe a lie and be damned. That is to believe *their ways were right as in *their *own eyes. Jesus said, I am the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. No man comes to the Father but by *me. While we sing this again, I Will Praise *Him, I'm going to ask Brother Gerald Williams to come and dismiss *us. Since the Lord seemingly wanted *us to sing a little longer I hope *you'll be careful as we dismiss. A lot of times *God does things because of the pressures of the people. And a lot of times *it's to our detriment. *God will suffer a lot of things, not as *His perfect will, but as *His permissive will. And *he suffers a lot of our wrongs and still gives *us grace and even in the days when Jesus came and they said, Why did Moses then give them a writing of divorcement? Jesus said, for the hardness of *their heart *he gave them this precept. *It wasn't so from the beginning. *It wasn't *God's pleasure from the beginning, but they couldn't dwell together. They couldn't get along, fussing and fighting, and *he had to do something. And still today the law, as the law follows the same thing. Because of *their foolishness and adulterous ways they get divorce and they marry another and go through all of these ritualistics. But *it wasn't so from the beginning. From the beginning *God made them male and female and for this cause let a man forsake *His mother and father, cleave to *his wife, that they should be one flesh. And let the wife so honor the husband even as Sarah that called *her husband Lord, *whose daughters *you are if *you do well without amazement. (Continues singing.) Can *you give *Him a wave offering? (Continues singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord