Free From The Fear Of Death

...Seems like I ought to know them. Your brother Ricky? He's never been here before has he? Well, Rick we're certainly glad to have you here. Are you also out of Tennessee? We're certainly glad to have you. I remember now, I believe Randy was telling me his wife's brother whom she had not seen in about maybe seven years? is that correct, or a long time? that he was coming to visit with them. Well, it's a real privilege to have you people here with us. We're just home folks talking about Jesus and the wonderful things of God and looking forward to the coming of the Lord, knowing that the time is near at hand. We're just trying to do our little bit. Now, I've been trying to convince you that our sins are gone, and convince you that God is on your side, and convince you that if you have the Lord Jesus Christ, that you are no longer that which God had rejected from the fall, that you are now a holy person, a godly person, a righteous person; not by your holiness, your goodness, and your godliness but by His holiness and His goodness and His godliness, that now you are an eternal creature. That is to say, though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. And when I say walk in the flesh, in that that is you are looking at me in the flesh and I am looking at you in the flesh; and yet I'm told I should know no man after the flesh and you are told that ye should not recognize anyone after the flesh, but that you should recognize them according to the spirit for the Bible said we're not in the flesh but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you and if you have not HIs Spirit, then of course, you are none of His. There is but one spirit, many operations. So then, having been born of the spirit, the Bible said, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned. If you don't go to heaven then you go to hell. There ain't no in between. You know, you have to remember that now. Somebody says, Well, it's just a matter of choice, if I want to serve God or I don't want to serve him and I just don't know about that right now. But it's not that at all. Jesus said you either go to hell or you go to heaven. That is, you repent of your sins and you go to heaven, or you go on in your sins and you go to hell for the Bible said if you reject God you will perish. Everyone that believes and is baptized he shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. That's the Words of the Messiah. He shall be damned. God will cut him off or the wrath of God will abide upon him. And the Bible said, In the morning I will hate your image if you are not born again to change into that glorious image as to the new body of the Lord Jesus. He said if you remain in the image that you are in now, as to that that you are born in, as to Adam, in Adam all die. That is the bastard child image and I will hate it in the morning, for He hates it. All through your life time He hates it. If He could see it one time He would smite it and destroy it. The Bible gives it that the blood is on the seat of atonement right now to take away the sins of the world and he doesn't even see the sinner in their evil right now. They are getting by, as to the blood on the seat of atonement right now because he does not see your wretched doings. O wretched man that I am, Paul said, in my first birth. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death. So, he would destroy you if one time the blood was moved. The grace of God would leave. See? That means that when he comes back in Revelation 19 immediately, as to the blood lifting off of the seat of atonement, he cannot even look at you, because the Bible said His eyes are so pure He cannot behold iniquity and you are born and shapen in iniquity. The Bible said, in iniquity did my mother conceive me. So then, that means that you are the image of iniquity. And Jesus said unless you are the elect of God as to accept righteousness by faith you come unto Him that He might move your sins, said, you are born of iniquity, shaped in iniquity, and He said, Ye are of your father the devil and his will you will do, as to the lust of the flesh and the gullible things of this world in that you have his mind and his spirit. But he said unto you that love the Lord, you are my children and if children then heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Having given you all things that pertain unto life, from health to wealth to riches, whatever it might be God has made you His very sons and daughters, and in doing that by the blood He has sent the Spirit of His Son, Jesus Christ into your heart, severally dividing it with each one that it might cry Abba Father. So then, the Spirit of Christ in you is crying out to God, Abba, Father. So then, we are sons of God. Mow, beloved, are ye the sons of God. It doeth now yet appear what ye shall be like, but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope within him purifies himself even as He is pure. And the Bible said offer this as a consolation to the brethren, telling them this over and over, that at His appearing, the Thessalonian change, if we have this hope within us we will be like Him. So, I tell you that tonight. So, I just have been trying to get over to you that you are now a new creature in Jesus, and you should be happy to rejoice forever more, the Bible said. Ye should rejoice forever more. You should never be sad. You should never have your spirit cast down, because what do you have to be sad for? I know that problems come, evil tidings come, but David of Old said, My heart is fixed, that in God. He said, And evil tidings they shall not trouble me. So, he said, Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house, He said, there are many mansions. I go away to prepare a place. If I go I will come again to receive you unto my own that where I am there you may be also. Said, if this was not true I would have told you. So it must be true that there is a place. And if this be true then we are sons of God. We now have eternal blessings, eternal wealth, eternal peace. He that keepeth his mind stayed upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace. And the Bible said all the paths of God are peace. So then, we are children of peace. We love peace and we make peace, for peace is made by the children of peace. There is no peace to the wicked. They may say, in the Middle East or somewhere else, we're going to have peace, they may sign peace treaties, and they may agree among themselves, but the Bible said their agreement at their tables will not stand, for there is no peace to the wicked. And when they cry peace that sudden destruction shall come upon them as a woman in travail with child. So then, we know there is not going to be any peace in this world until Jesus, Himself, comes and bring peace in the great millennium age. So, I say again, I am trying to talk with you and trying to convince you that we are now at the end time. And because of that the revelation of the Word of God, as to Jesus Christ, that it is coming to you that you may believe, because with this teaching of today, as to reveling in the world and being partakers of the things of the world, and going out into the flesh, the gullible desires of the flesh, the carnal mind, that that will never, never perfect the church. Never! You can never be perfect in Christ that way. Never. The things that they are teaching, as in general, will never perfect the church. as teaching you that you repent today, and then you've got repent tomorrow, and repent the next day, and you know, you do all of those things and God understands that you revel around in the world and do all these things that's unlike Him, but as long as you come and repent__ See? That's still the teachings of Catholicism. Repent and the Priest will forgive your sins, in that the Bible says concerning the minister, Whosoever sins ye remit shall be remitted, whosoever sins ye retain shall be retained. So, it's the same old thing as confessing but not forsaking. The Bible said to confess your sins and forsake your sins. And he that covereth his sins shall not prosper, he will die in his sins. So I said all of that to say that as long as we are not enlightened, whereas the Bible said, And the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye might understand the heights, depth, width and length of this wonderful salvation of God. As long as we are not enlightened then that means that we are not going to understand. The Bible said that the righteous will be enlightened, they will understand, but the wicked will not be enlightened. They are in darkness even until now. And the Bible said they will not see light when good cometh, for Satan, Lucifer, the god of this world has blinded their eyes, even their eyes of understanding as we would say that they should not see good when good cometh. And if the salvation of this gospel be hid it be hid to them that are lost whom Satan, having blinded their eyes has cut off from the wonderful light of God. So your image, pardon me if I cough a little bit but, as to your image, I know we think a lot of the old image of sin where out in the world, you know, they powder the face, they paint the eye brows and they fix up the body, and they look for the pretty clothes and they want the money, and they want the places of convenience, all these kind of things to eat and drink and revel and give themselves to the passions of the world, and listen to the vain jangles of all these things, and look for positions in the world. I know that they do this because they love the body, and they are self-esteemed. The Bible said, esteeming that which should not be esteemed, as to self-esteem of that which is not right. But rather that ye should esteem that which is in God and highly esteem those that labor among you, giving double honor to them that labor in the gospel. But not to esteem the things of the world. Self-esteem is the things of the world, for Satan savors the things that be of the flesh. And the Bible said for you not to do that, that you should look on the things of another, esteem others greater than yourself and seek the welfare of another rather than seeking the security of your own self, as men always seek, even as the Gentiles that cater to the things of the world. And so then in this, we are told that we should lay aside every weight that doth so easily beset us and run with patience the race that is set before us. That is, laying aside the sinful ways of life and the human desires of life, to make no provisions for the flesh as to fulfill the lust, or the desire thereof. And as the early church that followed the Lord with all of their heart and with all of their substance. So tonight let's read in chapter 2 in the book of Hebrews. This is a great wonderful book. I wish we had time to read the whole thing and talk to you about it. Chapter 2, the book of Hebrews. "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." (Reads chapters 2, 3 and 4 through verse 13.) Now, I read quite a bit of Scripture there, but I want to drop back right here. He's speaking of the provocation, or the provoking of God. That was forty years in the wilderness. But we drop back to a place here where he is speaking directly to us in the conquering of death. In the conquering of death. For, it says, "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor that He, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. Then he tells us here in the Scripture, he says, "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Now, I don't know what you get out of that, and I don't know how you understand that, but I know, as a minister, what is in that and what it means to us. And I say this so often, the Bible said, And God looked down from heaven, and having heard the prisoners, in a day accepted that he succored those and he loosed them that was appointed unto death. Which means everybody was appointed unto death because of the fall of Adam, but when God looked down at a time appointed, as to the Moed, as to calvary, and accepted that day in my behalf, then the Bible teaches that at that time He tasted death for me and he loosed me from the bondage of death. All my life, I, as in my lifetime, have been subject to bondage, because of the fear of death. But when Christ came into my heart I lost the fear of death and I have no more fear of death. Today I have no more fear of death. I haven't had any fear of death since Jesus came into my heart. And the reason I don't have any fear of death is because I cannot die. Though a man might mutilate my body, and though a man might shoot me, a man might cut me, and I wouldn't want to be cut and beat and banged on anymore than anybody else because it hurts through the human senses. But as to my life, as to my life on the inside, having a fear for my life, I have no fear of death whatsoever. So we that are Christians have no fear of death. If you fear death then the Bible said you are not made perfect in love. and the Bible said, God hath made perfect, or perfected forever them that are sanctified, having sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary. So then, if you are afraid all you need ot do is get born again, and when you get born again then you won't be afraid. Someone would say, But I am a believer, Brother Pike. I do believe and I still fear death. I did not say if you were a believer. I said if you were born again. The Bible said if you believe there is one God you do well, the devil believes and trembles. But He said, If you have not my Spirit then you are none of mine. And if the Spirit be in you that raised up Christ from the dead, He shall also by His Spirit quicken your mortal body by the Spirit that dwelleth in you. Like I said about little Jonathan Whitlow the other night when the Spirit of God came upon Him, the Holy Ghost came in him, he had his sleeves up to here and we looked over there and what you call goose pimples were all over his arms, everywhere, like the hairs standing up. Job said, And an image passed before me and the hairs stood up on me when He passed before me. And so then, spirits that move into your spirit, whether it's good spirits or bad spirits you'll feel a result of that spirit. If it's a spirit of lust you'll find that the passions of the world just gets interwoven within your taste buds. It's as though you can just eat one another. And of course this leads to perversion and all those kind of things. The same way with the gossiping of the world, or the reveling of the world, or the sports of the world, or anything else in the world that's gets inside of you through spirits and Satan that savors the things of the world and just literally eats you up and you can't, you can't control your passions, and you can't control yourself, and you go after whiskey and you go after dope, you go after buying and selling, and eating and drinking, and frolicing, and all these things of the world. See? You do that because you are not right with God and because Satan is using your body and thus it is that Satan defiles your body and then God has to destroy the body because God made you His temple to dwell in that temple. And when you do not let God dwell in that temple, and you let Satan in that temple it is defiled and God cannot dwell in it. So then when you come to the knowledge of the truth you are in great danger. From that time on you are in great danger for the Bible said if you come to the knowledge of the truth and then you turn back to the things of the world then there is no more sacrifice. You are gone. There is no more sacrifice for sin. You are gone out into the waters of corruption and you've gone out to death and God rejects you and you go into hell. So when you come to the knowledge of the truth you have to accept it. When the Jews come to the knowledge of the truth they are going to have to accept it. Paul said the way that God has preserved the Jews down through the years, Oh, the great wisdom of God, he said, in concluding them in unbelief that He might not have to impute their trespasses unto them. For the Bible said though sin reigned over man all the way from Adam down to Moses, yet where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed. And they did not get the knowledge of sin until the law came in the day of Moses, so if we look at the Jew, the Jew has not got the knowledge of sin. God has not let them know that the knowledge of sin is. All of those wrongs they have done, God has not imputed them unto them. As in the world the blood is still on the seat of atonement and those people are still saved to this extent that they may go on to their destruction, but so far as God, He is allowing them to go on to have medical aid and to have all these wonderful cares of the body, cares of life, whereas when the blood comes off of the seat of atonement there will not be any medical aid, not even any healing medicines. Your physicians won't have enough understanding to even perfect a medicine. And the Bible said in that day, when God takes the blood away then you'll know that God's healing was that which He gave as through the medical world in letting them reflect the wonderful divine power of His deliverance and mind and understanding. And when that blood is gone and the wrath of God is upon the unbeliever, and the Bible said they won't even be able to die. They'll beg for death and won't even be able to die. God will let them gnaw their tongues for pain, and the Bible said all of the kingdom will be filled with darkness, as to intellectual ignorance. And the Bible teaches that it will be so horrible, pain and misery, such horribleness and persecution, and tribulation upon the people as was not since the world ever was. But it will be upon them and He tells you and I as Christians to pray always that we may be accounted worthy to escape those things that's coming on the earth, or be ready at the translation, or the change and the fulfilling of the days of the Gentiles just before the Jews come in. And folks, we're right there at it with this war over in the east, and the things happening as it's happening, then we're right down there near the coming of the Lord. All right. So then, we see here, he says, and by death He destroyed Satan. Now remember this. I've preached it to you for a long time and lot of times you still don't understand, and you still don't see. The Bible says all of our lives we were subject to bondage because of fear of death. For you are the bonds child, as to the Ishmael child, or the Ishmaelite, as to the type, you are the bonds child of this world, being in bondage by reason of your intellectual reasoning. For the Bible said, And Satan taketh the people of this world into bondage and captivity at his will. You are in bondage as to the beggarly elements of the world, as to the desire of eating and drinking and buying and selling and reveling and doing all these things, as to the passions and gossiping and backbiting, the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh. All of these things you are in bondage to because of your human senses. So then, we that are born again are not in bondage to that because our body in the sight of God is dead. And the Bible says we are free from the body of sin and it's buried in the lovely name of Jesus and forever taken away, and in His sight we have no sins. Now, so we see that Jesus by death overcome death for all men, having been delivered for my offenses that He might be made my sin, being raised again for my justification that I might be made His righteousness, God's righteousness in christ Jesus. And now I am free from the body for at death the spirit goes back to God who gave it. My spirit went back to God, in that the Bible said at my new birth it was hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received and when He, in Revelation 19, appears on the white horse__ And the Bible says when He, my life appears, or returns, even in Thessalonians change then my life will come back to me, because that is my life. He is my life and my spirit is interwoven with oneness as to Him. And that spirit is in God and that spirit is free from the body in the sight of God, because the Bible said for us to reckon ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin by the body of the Lord Jesus as to the delivering of offenses as to Him being sent to Calvary for my offenses. So then, I am free from sin. And the Bible said, He that hath been baptized unto Christ Jesus has put on Christ Jesus. And therefore it is on longer you living but Christ. As Paul said, it's not me living, but Christ Jesus. I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. It's not me speaking but the life I live now is Christ on the inside of me. Or that is to say, in God's sight He never sees me as to my first birth, as the natural image, as the first man Adam, which is born unto death, for in Adam all die. But He sees me as the Christ, as to the resurrected one, in the new image. And the Bible said as we have born the image of the earthy, that is to say Adam, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. That is to say, that Celestial body, the eternal body in the heavens not made with hands, even the body of Christ, as to bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Which ye are already in the sight of God. For now beloved, ye are the sons of God. It doth not yet appear what ye shall be like, as to visual sight, but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is and every man that hath this hope on the inside of him purifies himself by faith. The Bible said purifying the heart. Purifieth himself even as He is pure. And so then we know that we are no more what we were, as the old creature, but old things have passed away and we are now in a new world and He said, Behold, I make all things new. So then, if you have a new spirit, then are you a new person. And God does not see your old body and the faults and the stumblings and the staggerings anymore. He sees you in the future as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and He accredits this to you while you are yet here in this present world. And He said you that are born of God cannot sin in that the Holy Spirit has sealed your spirit against anything that Lucifer can do. And you are by the body of corruption, sin, dead. The Bible said, and the body is dead because of sin. So then, if the Lord by death destroyed my body of sin, then my spirit is with God and I cannot sin against God. For he that is born of God cannot sin. He keepeth himself and the evil one touches him not. In that the spirit of light, even Christ has sealed your spirit and darkness cannot get close to light because light eradicates darkness. And because the devil is the one that causes the trouble and since he is not around to cause us trouble then we cannot sin. See? That is to say, if we believe the Word of God, and we are saved by faith in the Word of God, and he that God sendeth will speak ( Begin tape one, side two.) God's Word. You say where do you get that, Brother Pike? That's what the Bible says and I believe the Bible. And I'm sent of God and He said he that God sendeth will speak God's Word, and He said it's not you speaking anyway. It's God speaking from within His temple. Let all the world keep silent. Let God be truth and every man be a lair, as to his own surmising, the Bible said, as to the modern knowledge of this world, science, education, he said it's falsely so called, falsely so called. Said, They are ever learning and never able to come to the truth knowledge, or the knowledge of the truth. All right. So then, when we look at this we know then that God, through Christ Jesus has destroyed Satan. Isn't that right? The Bible said He hath destroyed him that hath power over death, even the devil. Isn't that what the Bible says? Somebody say Amen if it is. He said, And Jesus was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil. Wasn't the works of the devil sickness? Arrogancy? Jealousy? Haughtiness? The lust of the flesh? Contrariness to God? Intellectual ignorance? Isn't all that of the devil? The love of the flesh? The Bible said if you have in your being the love of the world, the desire of the things of the world, ye have not the love of God within you. So you are none of His. So then, He destroyed the works of the devil, as to the oppression, as to the worry, as to the nervousness, as to the poverty, as all of these things, and we as children of God are to come into these things by faith. And we are born into the kingdom of light and in the kingdom where it says, I have given you all things that pertain unto life. And old things have gone away. So ye have all things. So we are in that world where we have all things, for God's blessing maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. It is God's blessings and Spirit that giveth thee the power to get wealth. So then, we are on this side of the Jordan, as to the carnal mind of intellectual reasoning. As to the death that came upon Eve, he said, In the day that thou eatest thereof. Now we have the mind of Christ, even the mind from the tree of life. And today our leaves don't wither. Our fruits come forth in the season. Whatever we do prospers. Having then passed from death unto life, now we are alive forever more and the gift of God is eternal life. So we've passed from death unto life, because we left the body of corruption and the body of sin. So the Lord not only destroyed the body of corruption and the body of sin, but in so doing to you and I he destroyed the devil that hath power over the body. That is to say, if I have no body of sin, what power does the devil have over me. If I'm not in this world and I'm not of this world, and God has chosen me out of this world and I'm not in the flesh and I've been translated into the marvelous world of God and the marvelous kingdom of heaven and I have been taken up and hid with Christ in God, whom the heavens have received until the restoring of all things, and the coming of that great millennium day of rest. I've already entered into that rest, because of His goodness. Then how can the devil bother me. Where is the devil? Somebody said, Well, he's beating my brains out. Well, you need to get off of his territory. You need to get out of his world. You need to go to another place. The devil don't beat no Christian's brain out. In the first place he doesn't have any living brains to be beat out. The thing that God did was destroy that old brain to start with, because it wasn't nothing but trouble. He done away with the body of death and this understanding that we have now in the sight of God and this brain, these eyes and hands, and whatever, God sees them as holy, godly, pure even though we may stumble and stagger, not allowing for these things, not condemning ourself when we do stumble, keeping our faith in God's Word that He hath kept us from sin, for if we willfully do these things that are wrong after that we come to the knowledge of the truth that's proof we do not have the Spirit of God, because the Spirit of God would never do a thing like that. Jesus, always the same, yesterday, today, and forever, He goes after the things of God. He does always the things that pleases the Father. When that Spirit of Christ was in that body, as that Spirit of Christ is in my body, he still does the same thing today because He is the same thing yesterday and today and forever. And though I receive this by a measure, every person receiving by measure this measure should grow into to greater measure, on to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. Or that is to say, I should take this measure and enlarge upon this measure until I can get as Paul and say it is not me living but Christ. So then, though the body is still in this world as people see it visually, yet we don't know each other after the flesh. Whether it be a sinner out there, we know him, as it was with Judas, that that is a devil and that's the image of the devil. And that the father of them people are of the devil. But to the elect of God and them that love the Lord, they are beast, they are not swine, they are not dogs as the Lord referred to them that are without. We are those that are within and we are not devils, and we are not dogs. We are not swine, neither are we the image of the devil. But having been transformed in mind, translated in spirit, we have in His mind already been transfigured to this wonderful image of holiness which is His Son, even Christ. And so then He counts our image dead until the time of the change, as to the Thessalonian change. It is dead in the sight of God and He accredits to us right now that wonderful body of Jesus Christ that is in the future of the glorified change of that heavenly body for Paul said there is a heavenly body and a spiritual body. Having born the earthly we will bear the image of the heavenly. So we can see by this that death is gone. He destroyed him, even the devil. So the devil to you and I is destroyed. Where is the devil, then? Where is the devil to cause me trouble? Somebody would say, Well, all this sounds good, Brother Pike, but I'm just not spiritual enough to get into that. That's right. You are not spiritual enough to get into that because you are not born of the spirit, for he that is born of spirit is spirit and you've never been born again. So your carnally reasoning and you are in the carnal mind, and the Bible said the things of God are foolishness to the carnal mind. You have to bring science. You have to bring something about in the astronauts. You have to bring something about an airplane, something about a locomotive, something about eating and drinking, something about buying and selling, something about the powers and ingenuities of this world. And then it will lighten you up, as dancing and frolicing and music and singing and all these things. It will strike your five human senses and you will light up. See, because you are of this world. But we are not of this world. See? And therefore we that are spiritual give the more earnest heed to these things lest we let them slip. And we take heed how that we hear these that we might incorporate them within our everyday lifestyle. So we see by this that God has destroyed him that hath power over death. I say this to you kind of forceful when I see a little bit of dwindling, as to not staying with me. I feel the carnality because as I say, these go on tapes and they go to people all over the world and they go on video and they go to different places. So I have to forcefully keep on until I can finish it, because these people will want to hear and they'll be hungry. They are not here, as I say so often, with you to where they can feed everyday. All right. So then, we know for sure, for a certainty. We know that the devil has been destroyed. He's gone. He is no more, though there be many preachers that preach that would contest that with me. You know, but that doesn't make any difference. That's what the word says and heaven and earth shall pass away, but it will be there in the day of judgment and I'll be there to witness with it and for it. So then, the devil has been destroyed in that your body is now dead. You are dead to the world by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Leave it that way. Yield your members as unto God as unto holiness, as unto the desire for spiritual things. Let your conversation be in heaven, go after the spiritual things, and leave those carnal natural things alone and God will add unto you all of those natural things as to whatever you need in life, giving you the desires of your heart but keep your mind on God. To have the natural things of the world is for Satan to have you under his control if you are carnally minded, but to have the mind of God is to dwell in heaven in your spirit and then God will give you all these carnal natural things he made for your father Adam and for you to enjoy that you can have the fullness of all those wonderful things. So then, to walk in the spirit you'll not walk in the flesh and fulfill the lust of the flesh. That's what we need to do, is walk in the spirit. I can feel Satan interfering again and again now because we're getting close to the end of the service and he always does that. He never fails, but I still, as I say so often, I have to continue on regardless. I have to continue on. I've got a job to do; I've got to finish my job. So then, we know the devil is gone because there is no body for him to work through. There is not a human body present for him to work through when it comes to the saints of God. He hath nothing to work with. He can't work through the human body, because your image in the sight of God and your human body is dead and buried. It's gone. It's been buried in a watery grave and your sins are remitted through the name of Jesus Christ. Beginning at Jerusalem then to the uttermost parts of the earth you must preach the gospel to every creature. And the promise of the Holy Ghost is unto you, as those in Jerusalem, and unto your children, and unto the Gentiles as us in this day as them afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Saying, as I speak this to one, I speak the same thing to all people, the God, the Messiah of all people that will believe. All right. So then, we see that Satan is destroyed. He is gone. There is no devil to Christians. A lot of times I say this and some people look at me with a kind of hollow expression, as if to say, Well, bless God is there is no devil, who's causing me all this problem? Well, the one that's causing you all that problem is you. Oh, somebody said, Brother Pike, that couldn't be. Well, Eve caused herself problems. Somebody said, The devil caused her problems. The devil didn't no nothing to her. She done what she wanted to. The Bible said she looked and saw the tree and lusted after it. The devil had no power over her until she gave herself to the devil. And did you know to prove that's true, that there is coming a time for a thousand years millennium reign when God is going to let the nations be there, and the Christians be there and God is going to let the nations have opportunity to come up to His house to worship. In that day the house of the Lord shall be established, the Bible said. All nations shall flow into it. In that day He's going to let them come up there. Did you know that in that day they still won't come to the house of God? And the Bible said in that day there won't be any rain on their crops, and in that day that if they act up that the plague from heaven will come down immediately and consume them until their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. Did you know that? See? To prove that it's you, that's it not God. Death came by man, it didn't come by God. Man was the one that did that. And he gave place to the devil and now God has come down in human form as Jesus, give you the opportunity as Adam had to completely stay away from that. And now you are a sovereignty. You have the ability to stay away from that unless you invite him into your own life and go on with him, and then he is a nightmare to you for the rest of your natural life. He is a nightmare to you because if you woke up and you saw the light__ The Bible said when they awoke they saw his glory. Then you know that the glory, as to the light of God, did away with the darkness and all the hideous things as to the terrors of that nightmare, that it doesn't exist. It's only lying vanities as is sickness and poverty and all the other things, and even the world that will vanish away around you. For all is vanity, vanity, vanity and vexation of spirit, Solomon said. So, it's a mind, and when you have the mind eradicated the mind of God comes into you which is the mind of life, light, eternal life and happiness, prosperity and blessings. So there you are. If you want to believe it you can. If you don't want to believe it you don't have to, you know. If we deny him, the Bible said He remaineth faithful and cannot deny Himself. And with this I'd like to try to close out right here. A lot of people don't believe because the way the ministry has been people have preached this as some mystic sort of a thing where you have to believe it into existence and if you don't believe it into existence then it don't exist. If you don't believe it into existence then it didn't happen, and if you don't believe it then it never was there. But folks, that isn't right at all. There was a man that walked this earth by the name of Jesus. He was a natural man. He gave his natural blood out of his natural veins. And it's there as a record today. You can go over there and see the tomb where He lay. You can go to the Holy Land where He was born and where He was reared up as a child and it's all actual facts. There's no preaching of it, where you have to believe it into existence. This is, or that is, it's not a lying thing. It's actual facts and you can go see it for yourself. You can accept it for yourself, you can hear it for yourself, know it for yourself. It is actuality. It's not a myth. It's not something that you have to believe into existence. And faith is nothing more or nothing less than you hearing the Words of God that brings to your understanding these actual facts and historical facts that took place. And faith is nothing more or less than you believing that that you heard. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. I tell you and you just accept it. And if you don't accept it you make God a liar as in your own way of life, and the wrath of God abideth upon you. So then, we're not preaching some kind of a mystic thing that you have to believe into power. If you deny Him He remains faithful and cannot deny Himself. These things actually happened. He actually did these things for you. He actually destroyed the devil. He actually destroyed the body of sin. It's gone forever. He took a natural body and destroyed it because sin came by one man, righteousness came by one man. All the world unto sin because of one man, all the world unto righteousness because of one man. And that's why that all over the world today the blood prevails that even sinners get by with what they are doing, and the very minute that blood comes off of the seat of atonement no more grace. Revelation 12, Satan goes through the expulsion. He is cast out of heaven and the people on the earth go into darkness and the wrath of God, because God cannot even look at their image. And only you that are born of the Spirit of God will continue in the grace and blessings and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, even with the eternal joy and riches of life. All right. Let's stand together. It makes it real hard on me, as I said, when we get down toward the end you, in your spirit, you begin to go to sleep. Jesus said one time, praying, could you not watch with me for one hour. He found them asleep. The second time He went back and prayed and He went back again and He found them asleep. The third time He went back and prayed and He went back again found them asleep. So then, couldest thou not watch with me one hour? I find that even one hour of ministering in the day that we're living in, that though people will look right at you and be reverent, their minds and spirits are gone. But, nevertheless, as Jesus said, When they awoke they saw His glory. And should you ever awake you will see His glory. And if you don't ever awake then you won't see His glory, because the Bible said that the wicked shall never see this good. They shall never see this glory. They shall never see that beautiful city. They shall never see that wonderful, wonderful, life of God and the glory that God has given to Jesus. But he that hath Christ Jesus within him, the Bible says Christ in you is the hope of that glory, even the glory, as I say so often, that appeared as He stood with Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration. So then, you that are hid with Christ in glory, and you that have this glory in your heart, then rejoice forever more. Because though this sounds like a fairy tale to you; yet it's real. I live in this world. I'm part of that world and that world is part of me. And all that's born into that world is part of that world and that world is part of them. But you that are not born again that have not received His spirit are like wandering stars wandering through the earth from one place to another and never contented, never satisfied. It's like that song that we sing, I have found that joy all complete that my soul was searching for. So, we're down at the end of the way now, as to the Gentiles and the Jews are about ready to come in. The days of the Gentiles will be over, there won't be any chance to be saved after that. The blood is moved off of the seat of atonement for the Gentiles. You're not going to have a chance to be saved then, as to this wonderful grace of God. All right. Let's sing it together, can we? (Sings I Love Him.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.) Once again, now. The altars are open. (Continues singing and sings Every Promise In The Book.) Let's sing this little chorus together. (Sings Without Him.) Can you sing it with me? (Continues singing.) Can you sing that with me, now? (Continues singing, sings Standing Somewhere In The Shadows and Supper Time.) Can all of us just come to the altar tonight? (Continues singing.) Can we lift our hands up, close our eyes? The Bible said, Today is the day of salvation, now is the accepted time. Take no thought for tomorrow for tomorrow will take thought for the things of itself for the evil is sufficient of the day thereof. The Bible said, It shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And the Bible said, Call upon His while He is near. Call upon Him while he is nigh. Work while it is day for soon the night cometh and no man can work. So if you have never committed your heart spirit and life to the Lord Jesus, if you've never made the great commitment you need to make it. I was just thinking, Sister Marie left today to go down into Mexico. Her dad died, they knew he had taken sick. They went down there and tried to talk to him about salvation. He's had great opportunity. I trust that he came in. But, anyway, they had to leave this morning. During the night, I think, he died. A few days ago a Sister over in Mississippi died, a relative to some of our people of God here, and all the time different ones are dying. As a matter-of-fact, I saw a night vision last night where there was a crash, two different crashes I saw in the night vision. Bad crashes. And then graveyards appeared and people at graveyards. Then I saw as it was, not in a night vision, but as I see some times when I'm just kneeling and praying, or sitting around or laying around, or whatever it might be. I saw two other things that I made mention to the Brethren about and to my wife about that I'm expecting to hear something from it like we always here when we see these things. The Lord is moving throughout the world. We sing that song, Move, O Lord, In Us. God is moving by His spirit, move O Lord, in me. I wonder, you know, concerning the Bethlehemites, or they that are at Bethlehem. How many of you are actually giving your body to God day by day? The Bible said the body is the Lord's and we should present it a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And if you do not present your body unto God a living sacrifice then that means Satan is going to take your body and he's going to use it for human desire. He's going to use it for the human world, as to knowledge, and he's going to use it up, and then it's going to be gone and there's not going to be any refurbishing, there's not going to be any change for you. There's not going to be that of you bearing the heavenly, because God is not going to refurbish. You are going to be gone. See? If you use it for Satan then it's going to be gone. If you use it for your worldly desire then it's going to be gone. If you follow after money and passions and the things of this world then your body is going to be used up by Satan. But if you'll give your body to the Spirit of God, He'll use it. It will be holy, it will be godly. It will be eternal. It will be beautiful, it will be wonderful. Someday it will outshine the brightness of the noonday with the glory of God. For the glory of this world is one glory and the glory of God is another glory altogether. They that are billionaires and millionaires have the glory of this world. They sparkle, they glitter, as to the movie stars and all those kind of things, their money, the bright lights, the new apparel, the fine automobiles, all of the things that they have. See? But your glory will be greater than that glory for the Bible said, The glory of the later house shall be greater than that of the former house. And it shall be the eternal glory of the brightness of the noonday, outshining the brightness of the noonday. For he that hath turned many to righteousness, the Bible said, shall shine as the brightness of the noonday. So we come here to hear the Word of God. When you hear the Word of God do you actually give the more earnest heed to it. Have you actually listened to what the spirit said to you tonight. The Bible said, Let him that hath an ear hear what the spirit is saying unto the churches. The world will never hear this. They don't have an ear to hear it. They will never know these things. But have you actually listen carefully, and have you taken heed how that you heard that you might incorporate this within your lifestyle? Have you heard these things as to the salvation of your soul? Have you heard them as to incorporate them in your body? Are you taking heed? Did you pay attention to them? Or did your mind wander off? as I know that numbers of you did there at the latter part of the service, and as you so frequently do. Folks, the Lord will leave you. I perceive that He will leave. He would leave many (Begin tape two, side one.) of the Bethlehemites if it was it not for the fact that he uses this for a soul winning station and a launching pad to send the gospel around the world. Therefore He tolerates your wrongs, putting up with you just like He tolerates the world's wrongs, putting up with them until he can change the body of the Christian into that glorified image. But someday He'll leave you, someday. He has left some of you already. And unawares He's gone, and though you are religious and though you walk as believers, they that hear and see as I speak; yet He's gone. And you've left him through your worldly attire and your gullible desire and you are just ritualistic as to religion anymore, and there is nothing to you. But still there are those that love the Lord. The Bible said to serve Him in Holiness and righteousness all the days of our life. There are still those that are walking after Him, that's given their bodies unto Him, and trying to conform to His way of life. More and more they are trying to be like Jesus, as the song writer said. And of course, this is what I want to do. I want to do what I can for Christ. I want to be like Jesus, as the song says. Let's sing that little chorus together while we're standing here. (Sings To Be Like Jesus.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.) One more time together. (Continues singing.) Let's sing this, eyes closed and hands lifted up. (Sings I Will Praise Him.) Sing it again with me. (Continues singing.) One more time together. (Continues singing.) While we're singing I'm going to ask Brother Roger, if he will, to come up and dismiss us. Somebody was telling me that they had a vision of Brother Roger, or a dream the other night. And in the vision said he was really pleasing God, and in the vision they heard the Lord say, or it was as the Lord made them to know that Roger could have whatever he wanted if he'd just ask the Lord, because he had pleased the Lord. So I ask him tonight to come for the benediction. I ask him to come and pray with us tonight. He's really tried. (Continues singing.) Once again. Can we sing it one more time as he comes. (Continues singing.) Can you call on the Lord Jesus tonight? It will come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the Lord shall be saved. Will you ask Him to save you tonight? Will you say, Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sins. Oh, forgive me Lord, for my sins. Take away my sins tonight, Jesus. 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