The Weapons Of Our Warfare

Pray for me and believe with me, we, still tied up just a little bit in the throat, but it'll work out. Now we stayed around inside over in the evening. We didn't get out and visit with the brethren. We just stayed around in the house. And the Lord has His way in things like that. And sure enough we got a call from Brother Herman Baldwin over in Mississippi. He was asking if we'd come over and minister some, he had been wanting us to come over. There had been some brethren that had told us that he was wanting us to come over and minister some. It's been a long time since we've been there at Cedar View to minister. Always had a house full of people and a good time over there in praising the Lord. And of course we just enjoy going over and being with Herman. He said that he sure would love to fellowship us some, talk with us about some things. And thinking about coming over here and visiting with us. And think maybe there's another church or two that kind a would like to work with us if we'd go over in that area. And I had more or less laid it aside as to really saying that I would go over. But then today I felt like God had kept me in that He wanted me to communicate with Herman. And Herman said he felt like God had kept me in for the same purpose. And he also ask about Brother Douglas, and he wanted to know how they were doing and the ones that had come over. Things are going along pretty good with him according to what he said. Brenda, he mentioned his daughter having some deadness as to the face or body or something that bothered her and she was terrified, and she was wanting prayer. And then Brother Jerry Airwood, a couple of children, I believe maybe he has a boy or two or twins or something, I don't know just exactly what it is; but anyway, one of them has a severe condition that has developed as to the head. And he was asking for prayer. And he mentioned quite a number of things he was real excited over. But you pray about it. I told him that maybe we could get over maybe about the second of March and minister some. And Sister Betty answered Sister Green as to the Carolinas up near the Virginias, that they was wanting us to come up there and minister at a place up there. And I told them that we would try to give them a date on it pretty soon, and get up that way and minister a little bit. But you pray as to these requests that comes in from the different parts here in the states and the different parts of the world. We have numbers of them that come in and they ask us to come and share with them. And I enjoy going, I just like to be in the will of the Lord, and not run as one that beateth the air. I love to be able to accomplish something you know in going. And you pray that God will guide us, bless us, lead us and tell us exactly what we ought to do. The Bible said, Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of your ministry. And we've always tried to do the work of an evangelist. We haven't been as efficient at it as we would like to be, but at least we have accomplished a little something by the grace of God. Well I'd like to say again, we're glad to have you here tonight. I was just looking for Brother Bullard. He must have left and went back home. I thought maybe he was suppose to stay through the night service, but apparently he didn't. He must have went home. If you're here and you've never been here before, we want you to know that we're glad to have you. And if we recognize you, we would tell you right off. I wonder if this is somebody here that I don't know in the balcony where Pete is sitting? Do you know the gentleman here, Pete, or do I know them? Could you tell us your name, sir? Brother Harry Smith from Commerce? Have you ever been with us before? Shedd from Commerce, Georgia. Have you ever been with us before, Harry? Well, we're certainly glad to have you with us? Is this your two young fellows here? All right, let's give these folks a hand, can you? Now I say again if you're here and you haven't been here with us before, the Lord bless you. We're so glad to have you. Little Bethlehem, the home of the soul, indeed it is the home of the soul. And we're actively engaged in world evangelism, reaching around the world to do what little we can as to the body of Christ. There's so many things in the gospel that I love to talk about, and that I love to share with you that is difficult to know just exactly where to start, because I love to preach on the wonderful, wonderful things of God. To me the whole Bible is just one great sermon; and you just talk about a little of it, and then you go on you know. And then you talk about a little more of it later. But anyway let's turn to II Corinthians over in chapter 10 and beginning at the first verse and read here something concerning the gentleness of Christ, the meekness of Christ. It says (Reads: II Corinthians 10:1-18; II Corinthians 11:1-9) All right Paul tells us here in the tenth chapter: for we do have weapons he says, but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And he says: and having in a readiness for to revenge all disobedience when our obedience is fulfilled. Or that is to say, we don't have any business trying to tell anybody else how to live until we get our lives straightened out. For the Bible said, if you first get the beam out of your own eye, then shall ye see clearly as to be able to get the mote out of your brother's eye. And he tells us that when we have fulfilled our charge as from God, then we should have a readiness to revenge and help others to get straightened out. But he tells us here that we do have a weapon that's powerful. And the weapon that we have is not as to wrestling against flesh and blood as the Bible said, but against spiritual wickedness, powers that are in high places. And that in this they are present in our lives as to human beings by means of thoughts, whereas the Bible said, And their thoughts being the means while accusing or else excusing one another. And so then he tells us that in this power that God has given us as to an indwelling, that we should cast down imagination. Because imagination is part of the kingdom of Lucifer. And that we should bring into subjection as to the obedience of Jesus Christ every thought that is contrary to the knowledge and mind of God. Now this is a great charge, because as to a religious people you know, we think of it as saying, Well, I shouldn't do this and I shouldn't that. And I don't want to do this; and they tell me that all the dos and don't are such and such and such. But see it is more than that. It's like when they came to Jesus they said as to those that were acquainted with the law that had been under the law, they said, Lord, what's this about adultery? Whereas we put our wives away, Moses said, Give them a writing of divorcement. He said, But it wasn't so from the beginning. He said, For in the beginning God made them male and female. And for this cause said that a man should leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife; and that they should no longer be twain but one. Said, This is the commandment of God; and that the woman is bound to her husband, or as to the laws of her husband so long as he liveth. And said that Moses only gave you the writings because of the hardness of your heart. That is to say, I had to keep peace among you so I had to do something. So I made allowance, but it wasn't so from the beginning. See and he tells us here in the Scriptures that this was the way it was to be. And then as if all of a sudden he just turned around and he as if to say, Now if you think this is hard, and if you think that's drawing things to the line, then you listen at what I've got to say. He said, You say, you know that this is adultery as to dos and don'ts. He said, I say unto you that if any man look on a woman to desire her, to lust after her he's committed adultery with her already in his heart. That is He brought it right down to the nitty gritty as the world says; or He brought it right down to the thoughts and impulses of the body as to the reflex of the mind and as to the intent of the heart. And He said, Adultery being committed is in your thoughts. So then a lot of times we express it like this that the act between human beings is an instigation of God, as to multiply and replenish the earth; and there is nothing unclean about that, for the Bible said, the bed of the marriage is undefiled in all. But the whoremonger and the adulterer God will judge. So then He said the last days would bring forth an adulterous generation, an entire generation, as to marry one time, two times, ten times or not even marry, just live together like beasts. They would dress in such a way that they would lust continually after one another, as projecting their bodies or being protruding, whereas women were commanded to be shamefaced as to withdrawn, and that men were to be grave as to dead as to reflex toward women, as to the gigglings and the goings on and the frolics and always projecting themselves out. They should have a reservation of heart, to keep down intermingling as to spirits. He was saying, And this thing is not of the body. The body is an instigation of God, but this thing is of the spirit. That when you desire something that is not yours, if you look on anything to lust after it, that is the lust of the eyes. Thou shalt not covet that which is thy neighbor's, no matter what it is, whether it be his ox, whether it be his wife, whatever it is. And so then Jesus narrowed it down that if there's thoughts in your heart then He said as a man thinketh in his heart so he is. If he thinketh as that as is covetous toward the things of the world, having the love of the world within him, a gullible desire toward the things of the world, then is he worldly. If he has a hunger and thirst within his heart as to the things of God, then is he godly. And if he had holy thoughts, then is he holy. If he has the wrong thoughts then is he wrong. And so then Jesus said, I say unto you, that it is consistent as to a consistency of your thinking that according to your thinking so you are. And that whatever you are in thought, then it will manifest itself in deed, and deeds will follow as to being enticed, drawn away from your steadfastness in God, and once you're drawn away from your steadfastness in God, then the Bible said there is a conception of the lust. And when the conception comes, then there is iniquity born within your heart, and then is that sin against God. So we find that God is telling us to cast down imagination, every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ. And the Bible said not to lean to your own understanding, because you are born into this world as a bastard child. You're born into this world as in iniquity, for the Bible said, In iniquity did my mother conceive me, and you are an image of iniquity, and you only have means of escape by the death of this bodily image. That is the first birth. And that is why the Bible said, Down in Egypt that the first birth, the first born was smitten. Everyone that did not have the blood upon them was smitten. In your life and my life, in the life of all humanity as from the beginning of the world unto the consummation of the world, that every human being that is born into the world is the firstborn. And everyone that is born in the world will be smitten because it is a bastard child image. Unless we accept Christ Jesus as to the body of image of iniquity, having been smitten in our behalf, and the wrath of God pacified as to sin and that bastard child image that is out of wedlock because of the act of the beast there at the garden. So then we know that we're born into iniquity. We're shapen in iniquity, and God cannot look upon iniquity. Therefore all of humanity is rejected as to the expulsion of the garden, put out of His presence. And the only way that He could save us was by giving a blood atonement as to the blood of Jesus on the seat of atonement until the day of reconciliation, as that which as to the seed that was appointed should come, unto whom the promise was made. So then we realize that this body is dead because of sin. This body is a body of iniquity and God has smitten it at Calvary. He has smitten all of the firstborn. And the only way that we have escaped is by the blood of Jesus. And there is no remission without the shedding of blood. And having been delivered for our offenses as to the smiting, He's raised again for our justification, in that today we are not considered the firstborn, but we are considered the second born. And as it was with Jacob and Esau as to the firstborn, losing the birthright to the second born, because even as the hand came as to the breech and the little ribbon was tied over it, before the firstborn came, so it has been that before the world ever was, God chose us in Christ before the first born ever came as to that of the birth of the flesh. And we're carrying that wonderful, that wonderful thing of God as to the blood application. And we are before them. So then before the world ever was, I am Jesus said. And today we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We are bodily members in particular. So then before the firstborn ever came as to the flesh, the act of creation so came we into the mind of God as to the sanctification as to the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world in the mind of God, so are we in Christ. As He is, that is to say, as God has made Him. For He made Him to be what He wanted us to be. And today we are what He hath made Christ to be, even the righteousness of God. We brought this out clear this morning. All right so then we have a battle. And the battle is a continual warfare between the body and between the soul as to say, casting down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. That is the mind of Christ as to the thoughts of Christ, warring against our human thoughts, our human thoughts being infiltrated with the spirit of Satan as to the mind of Satan as to that darkness of death, that carnality and lust of the world in that he's prince of the world. See, we are in Christ Jesus as to the spiritual one warring from the inside, in that our inner man has been interwoven with the Spirit of Christ. It is warring against the outer man and the infiltration of the body as to Lucifer, as to the mind of Lucifer, as to carnality, as to the love of the world, as to those things that gender unto death. So then we find that to be carnally minded is death. To be naturally minded as that which is firstborn into the world, to want to do the things of the flesh and the things of the world, then are ye of the devil. But when you are born again, then the Bible said, the body is dead because of sin, because within the body there dwelleth no good thing; that we should reckon ourselves to be dead in deed unto sin or unto the body of iniquity, unto the image of iniquity by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, in that He was delivered for our iniquities. And that we should reckon ourselves to be resurrected with Christ Jesus as in the new body in that we have put on Christ, in that we have been baptized into His death. And the Bible said, As many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ; therefore, being resurrected in Christ Jesus, then are we up from the dead to die no more, having passed from death unto life we are alive forevermore. Because today we are as to the body of the Lord Jesus that was raised for justification in the sight of God, as it was said, In this just man I find no fault. I said this morning, that one of the great things that we need to remember is that: he that is born of God cannot sin. Because the inner man is sealed with the Spirit of God, and there's no way that he can sin. I know that down through the years you know we've been taught that we can sin, and from one revival to another. We have to repent of our sins and come back and get born again all over. And we have to come back and get to be a Christian all over. Or we backslide and we have to come back to God. But like I said this morning, the Bible says, now the Bible said, He that God sends will speak His Word; and His Word says that we have passed from death unto life. I want that to really register in your heart. We have passed from death unto life. I say this again, the only way that you can pass from death unto life as pertaining to the inner man now, is that you must be to where you cannot sin. Because the Bible said the sting of death is sin. And the thing that kills, that causes you to die is sin. If sin is conquered, then you cannot die. You've passed from death unto life. But if sin is not conquered, that means that you can still sin, which means you are still subject to the sting of death. And as long as you're subject to death, then you will die. But beloved friend, when you are born again, you are not subject to the sting of death, because there is no sin to you. God has taken away your sins. In Christ Jesus there is no sin. I tell you again, John said, he that is born of God he cannot sin. For Christ Jesus, even the seed of God remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. And the Bible said, he that sinneth is of the devil, because the devil sinneth from the beginning. And when we testify to sin that we sin every day, then are we of the devil. And we're giving a testimony of the devil. But when we testify that God has taken away our iniquities and in Him there is no sin, and we've passed from death unto life, and can never come into condemnation, then do we give a testimony of victory as Christ Jesus doing away with iniquity and being resurrected for our justification. So then we realize that we must cast down this imagination of human beings which is an accusation. That is the warfare of Satan with that intellectual carnal mind of reasoning. And as I said before, faith versus reasoning, the Bible teaches that faith does not consider circumstances. Faith does not consider human reasoning. Faith does not consider opposition nor circumstantial environment. Faith takes one thing and that's the Word of God. It says, Yea and amen. God said it. I believe it and that settles it. And I say again as I said this morning, Paul said, I did not come to you preaching to you the Word of God as yea and nay. I came to you preaching the Word of God as yea. And it's all yea and amen. There is no nay in God. When God said something, that's the way it is, unaltered, unchanged, settled in heaven, the Word to accomplish that that I please. I said to return not unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that that I please. So then we know that we have a strong hope toward eternal life, and a consolation that's great and mighty in God, because it's given to us in Christ Jesus by the righteousness of God. And this is why that we emphasize the righteousness of God today. Am I then good enough for these promises, or am I then good enough to have these things? It's not a matter of whether I'm good enough to have these things. It doesn't have anything to do with my ability. It doesn't have anything to do with my righteousness as pertaining to works of my own ability. It doesn't have anything to do as to my features and my form, and as to whether I look one way or look another, or whether I'm young or whether I'm old, or whether I'm strong or whether I'm weak, or whether I'm sick or whether I'm well, or whether I'm wealthy or whether I'm poor, whether I'm educated or not educated. It doesn't have anything to do with that. See, the thing is Christ is my life. And the Bible said when He my life appears, I shall appear with Him in glory. And it has to do with His righteousness, for the Bible said, God hath made me the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And the Bible said, As He is in the sight of God, so am I in Christ in the sight of God. Because whatever God wanted me to be, He made Christ to be that. And then we exchanged bodies and I became the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as members in particular as in life; and He became my body as in the image of sin and was smitten in my behalf. So today we are separated from the world. Today we are set apart for the glory of God. And today we are separated from death. And death cannot get to us. And as the Bible said, he that is born of God keepeth himself as the inner man. We've been sealed by the Holy Spirit and evil cannot touch us. The Bible said he keepeth himself. He's born of God and evil toucheth him not. So then that means that we're never touched during our whole administration here in this world. As to the transitional changes of life as we go through life, Satan never touches our inner man, never at any time does he ever touch us. Because on the inside we're sealed with the Spirit of Christ. We are separated from sin. We are a holy people, godly people without spot, without wrinkle and without blemish. So then what are we trying to do? Our bodily image as to the bastard child image of iniquity is dead in the sight of God. But this inner man is life because of the Spirit of God. So then we're working with the inner man to make manifest this God life on the inside, of righteousness and holiness as to the life of Christ, manifested in our mortal genes, that we might change these mortal genes from the corruptible image that it is, into the wonderful image of the resurrected Christ as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We'll know what He looks like, but as I said when He appears we know that 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. So again we come back to imagination. Now if I can cast down imagination, then I can get rid of the accuser of the brethren, because he works through the weakness of the flesh as to the woman part, as to that which is feminine. In that a man was both woman and man in the beginning, as to male and female before the woman was taken out of it. And the woman represented as to a type the weakness of the flesh. And the man was not in the transgression, represented Christ Jesus as to the head of the church. So then we see that being in the feminine gender that we are weak ones as to the flesh. Jesus confessed that the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So then we find that the flesh is now dead in the sight of God, and He never sees that image again. So then we are free from death. And that death as to the body by Calvary, our spirit went back to God who gave it. And the Bible said, Ye that dwell in heaven, rejoice forevermore. So being free from sin, being free from these things, let us yield our members unto righteousness as those that are set apart. And should someone not yield their members unto righteousness but unto iniquity, it is the positive proof that Christ is not dwelling within them, nor has their spirit been translated into this marvelous gospel. Because as to a nature so is the performance of a life. And as to the nature so is the conformity of a life, because a nature makes a thing to become as to the conformity; that is to say the image as to whatever the nature might be. And the Bible said, we are partakers of the divine nature of Jesus Christ. Thus the child is known by his doings, in that he will do according to his nature or the indwelling of whatever spirit it might be on the inside of him. If he is worldly in his activity and desires, then he is worldly in his spirit. If he is born again of Christ, he doesn't have to make an effort to get out of the world and all these kind of things. There is an unction from the Holy One on the inside. It's not a will worship, but it is something from Christ that makes him hunger and thirst after the things of God, and causes him to go after the things of God, that he does not lust within his spirit. He does not lust with his eyes. He does not go after those things as to yielding his body and his way of life to those things, but he's withdrawn. He doesn't want those things. He comes out from among them things to be a separate people. He wants to be holy. He wants to be godly. He wants to be pure. And all of the temptations as to the power of suggestion through thoughts as to imagination, whatever it might be, he doesn't lean to his own understanding, knowing that he's born in contamination, he counts that dead in the sight of Christ. He doesn't listen to that kind of reasoning. He doesn't lean to his own understanding. He accepts the righteousness of God. He doesn't practice anything in that world of iniquity as to its own human reasoning, but the mind of Christ is in him. And he follows it day and night, moving always to the mind of Christ and that which is the pleasure of God, that he might be separated from sin and from iniquity. All right so we see that we are great and mighty in God. In the world we are nothing. The flesh profiteth nothing. So then we're nothing but just something to be put in the grave and the worms to eat. But in Christ we are eternal gods, not men, we are gods. See the Bible said, it is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment. If you are a man then it's appointed unto you to die. So you must die. Because of sin you must die. If you are a man as to neither male nor female in Christ Jesus, but if you are a man as in the natural then you must die, because it's appointed unto man once to die because of sin, and after that the judgment of God. But now if you've passed from death unto life, in that you've accepted Christ, because the Bible said that God looked down from heaven, heard the groaning of the prisoners, loosed them that was appointed unto death, accepted them in a certain day as to succor them. So then at Calvary, death bypassed us. Our man part was gone. The man that was born unto sin is the first born was smitten. And we accepted that of God that has been smitten in our behalf. And so then we esteem Him smitten of God as to bruised for our transgressions. So then we died at Calvary as a man, and now we are alive as a god unto God, in that gods cannot die is gods. And we are members of the body in particular of Jesus Christ, the God of heaven and of earth, members in particular, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, which bone and flesh cannot sin, which Spirit cannot sin, which flesh cannot die. Jesus said, I was dead but now I'm alive forevermore. We being resurrected with Christ Jesus, we are alive forevermore. And He said unto us, Ye are gods. Ye are gods, but because of the lack of knowledge you die as men. And yet our death as men indicates that if we feel what we call death, it's not death, because we go to sleep. Someone would say, Well, six of one, half a dozen of another, it's the same thing. When you're dead you're done. Like a man told me I believe it was over in New Jersey one time or somewhere back up in there. When you're dead you're done. Baltimore, Maryland, that's where it was. We was preaching up in that area ministering there. Now he said when you're dead you're done. But folks, I'm telling you again, even though you may have problems differentiating, there is a world of difference between going to sleep and dying. What is going to sleep that people refer to as death? When the eyes are closed and they put them in a casket or a coffin, what is that? It is a sleep if you are a Christian. But it is death if you're not a Christian. Someone would say, How can that be? They're both dead and in the coffin. No. They're not both dead in the coffin. One is asleep in the coffin. The other is dead; because I say to you again that when your spirit departs from the body as to the world terminology, and the body without the spirit is dead. And when the spirit departs from the body, then are ye dead according to scientific definition. But according to God when you are born again and your spirit departs from your body, you are asleep. Because death is not when the spirit departs from the body. Death is when the Spirit departs from your spirit. When God's Spirit is departed from your spirit, or when God is cut off from your spirit and cannot enter into your spirit, then are ye dead, because Satan hath entered in, and the spirit is defiled as to say, the temple defiled, and God will destroy the temple. But when Christ Jesus enters into your spirit, and your spirit has become one interwoven with Christ as the new Spirit, as life, your spirit, your angelic man, your inner man, the Bible speaks of, can never die. There's no way it can ever die. It is illuminated with light and darkness cannot get near it. It is interwoven with Christ who is a triumph as to the victory and the champion over all death, all sorrow, over misery, all the powers of the devil. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world, even Satan in the world, that is the prince of the world. So then we find that when your spirit is interwoven with Spirit as to Christ's Spirit by new birth, then you are eternal and alive, because it is the Spirit that quickeneth. It is the Spirit. The flesh profiteth nothing. It is the Spirit, the inner man that has become one with Christ, and you are eternally alive forevermore, because you cannot sin as to the sin of the Spirit. There is no way that the Spirit can sin because it is now one with Christ. So you are eternally alive forevermore. And when something happens as to going asleep, the Spirit goes back to God who gave it, because it's already with God as to the interwoven. And it just moves out of the little tabernacle, and the little tabernacle is laid down. As Peter said, If this tabernacle be dissolved, we have another one eternal in the heavens, not made with hands, even the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as to being the body of Christ, members in particular. So then we find that when a person is a sinner, if they've not been born again, if they're not elect or if they are one that has come to know God, know the truth and rejected the truth and did not take Christ on the inside, just became religious, but did not receive Christ as to the interwovenness of their spirit, as to the safeguard within the garment, then that means that they do not have eternal life, because Christ and their spirit is not one. It's not become interwoven. They do not have life. Satan has come in if they have come to the knowledge of the truth. Satan has come in if they've come to the knowledge of the truth. Satan has entered in and now their spirit is one with death. And when they pass from the scene of life it is not sleep. Because their spirit is departed forever from God because they leave this world of the illumination of grace as to the blood being on the seat of atonement. So then they don't have a chance anymore. But while you're in this world, you still have a chance. As to your spirit coming to Christ's Spirit becoming interwoven with Christ's Spirit by new birth, then you are eternally preserved to where you can never die. That's eternal life. You've passed from death unto life. You cannot sin. Sin and iniquity is forever gone from you. All right so then we can see that God has done something special for us. And that is He hath paid the price for sin and iniquity, which is of the body because we were ignorant to the wrong. And as long as you are ignorant to the wrong, then you are still eligible for the blood that is on the seat of atonement which is the grace of God. But when you come to the knowledge of truth, once the ministry has completed its course in this world, people will have known the truth. Once they come to the knowledge of the truth they cannot continue in the things of the flesh, as to the reveling of the world or to do the things of the world; because if they do, then Satan has entered into their spirit and then the temple is defiled, because that's willingly. That is a willful sin and there's no remission as to blood for that as to a willing or a sin that's made allowance for. So when you come to that your temple is defiled, and God must destroy it because He can never enter into it, because there's no remission without the shedding of blood. And the Bible said that there remaineth no more blood, no more sacrifice for sin once you come to the knowledge of sin and you reject the things of God. And of course in the day that we're living in, the world is fast coming to the knowledge of the things of God. And that's what means the end of the world is here. When the gospel has been preached in the world for a witness to every creature, then shall the end come. Because whoever hears as to a creature will accept and get in, the others will not get in. They'll harden their heart. They'll turn away from it. And they that as unto destruction while the others will go on unto eternal life. So again we're back to the mighty weapon of God as to the casting down of the strongholds. Not wrestling against one another, not wrestling against the body, because the body was created of God. Not wrestling against flesh and blood, but wrestling against spiritual powers as to your spirit wrestling against ungodly thoughts, wrestling against evil. That is why we need to be filled with the Spirit. And as the Bible said, We need to have charity in our heart, because the Bible said that charity thinketh no evil. Charity is the bond as to the seal of that of the perfectness. That is to say if I take Christ in my heart as to the love of God, I abide in love, then God abides in me, or faith worketh by love as to life. And love is as strong as death. That is to say if I have the Spirit of God on the inside of me, I have God who is the Spirit of charity. If I have Him on the inside of me, then is my spirit sealed unto a perfection. For the Bible said, For God hath sanctified once and for all them that are sanctified as to believing in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus, or sanctified by the faith which is in Him, and that God hath perfected or made perfect 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 the bond of perfectness, he keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. He is perfect without spot, without wrinkle and without blemish. When he spoke a little bit of today about that as concerning the rent veil, to show you what actually had taken place as to the separation of the body and the spirit. All right let me say just a few more things here now. We're just exhorting you a little bit tonight. The Bible said, Exhort each other the more as you see the day approaching. And I see the day approaching, nigh, even at the door. Just coming back from Israel, seeing the things as to the people being paranoid over there and those things that was happening, having a chance to share just a little bit of excitement as to the fears and frustration. It gives us a little more feeling toward Israel and to those that are in desperation. And in this it makes us feel more responsible as to our calling through our life as to the ministry, knowing that when a person leaves the scene of action, that if his spirit is not one with Christ, he immediately sinks down into hell. He doesn't go into the lake of fire. He goes into hell. Now I say this again to you and I want you to remember, hell is not eternal. As to a place of abode it is not eternal. It was not made for man. The Bible bears it out that it was not made for mankind, but the Bible said it was made for the devil and his angels in the time of God's anger as to Satan enticing mankind and causing the problem that he caused God. So God in His anger just made hell. Instead of letting him be the ruler of the darkness and pushing him out, God said, I'll just turn him into hell because of what he's done to humanity. Now but there's one thing about it, the Bible said at the end time, and hell shall deliver up them that are in it, as the rich man that was in hell when he cried unto Abraham. See, hell shall deliver up the dead that is within them. I know a lot of people say, Well hell is the grave. That is an expression of hell, but the Bible said, the rich man he explained that I am tormented in these flames. There is no flames in the grave. The Bible said, The dead know not anything as to the body as that which is in the grave. See but beyond that is the grave as to what is referred to as dead. The Bible says as to the spiritual being, that from hell the rich man lifted up his eyes, and seeing Abraham who was as to righteousness in paradise, said, let Lazarus come and dip his finger in some water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in these flames. And I expressed today I believe it was, that when you get so hot, that even your tongue is burning, that is terrible, folks. And not being able to find any relief from that or anything from that, that is a horrible thing to know that the body will not perish; in that the Bible said, where the flames are not quenched and the worm dieth not, in that God referred to Jacob as the worm. Speaking of the body, that is the cocoon or the serpent part. All right so then when we think of this, then we know that there is a difference as to differentiating as to where we go. And we understand that the body is therefore that which shall go into hell if we don't do the thing that God tells us to do. So then casting down imagination, coming back to faith, we realize that there is a bottomless pit. This bottomless pit is between paradise and hell as to the flames. And the spirits that are wandering are bound in this bottomless pit. And it's called the great gulf as Abraham looked down across the great gulf. And the rich man looked up across the great gulf, and he said that we cannot come from here down there, neither can you come from down there up here. That is you don't get across this bottomless pit which is the great gulf of division. So then we realize then that there is a great difference between Christians and those that are non-Christians. That is to say as to death and as to sleep. As to the resurrection of those that shall be awakened. Unto the resurrection of the dead, and there will be a resurrection of the dead after the millennium, but it will be those that will be actually picked up by the power of God as to take them, hell delivering up its dead, and hell being cast into the lake of fire, and that is the end of hell. But the Bible does not speak of an end of the lake of fire, for it says where the fire is not quenched as to eternal flames. It doesn't say anything about forever and ever which is as a rendering of spaces of time as to certain use; whereas that when the application is that Jonah was in the belly of the well forever, when he was only there for a few days. But it says eternal damnation, and he said, eternal flames. And hell delivers up the dead that is in them as a temporary place to receive people, in that it was not made for people, but yet the Bible said, Hell from beneath has enlarged itself without measure and moved itself for to meet thee at thy coming because of sin. So then hell will deliver up the dead that is in them, and the grave will deliver up the dead that is in it, and all of these shall be cast into the lake of fire. And the Bible said be tormented in the presence of the angels and of God forever and ever. But folks, we're expecting better things out of you, though we thus speak. We're expecting that you are children of God, that ye have passed from death unto life. And the Bible said, if you're passed from death unto life, I want to say this here in closing, that when you're passed from death unto life, it does not mean that you cannot sleep as to the spirit separating from the body, even as others would sleep. It does not mean that. That is not the death that it says you passed from. But it means the second death which is the only death, because there is no death as to separation of spirit from body. And Jesus spoke of this as to Lazarus, when He said, Lazarus sleepeth. I go to awake him. Because Lazarus was a righteous man. But they did not understand. So He said plainly, his death. And then Paul said, Behold, I shew you a mystery, we shall not all sleep. There is coming a time when the body is going to be changed at the Thessalonian change, where even your body will not go by the way of the grave. And we're approaching that real hurriedly now. So the time is coming on us that it's going to be the translation of the church. But we have to remember that death is the lake of fire. And the Bible says, Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection over which the second death hath no power, speaking of the lake of fire, which is the only death as to the separation of God's Spirit from your spirit, and then you being cast into the lake of fire. That is death. So then we are trying to let you see as to differentiate between this as to sleep and death, when the Bible says, you have passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation, it means that your spirit is translated into the Spirit of God. And that there's no way that your spirit can ever be separated from God's Spirit which is death. And if you happen to go to sleep as to Jesus tarrying, then that means that you will be awakened. You don't have to worry about death. So it makes me happy to know that I have eternal life. I don't wait to get eternal life. It's not as a religious conviction of saying, Well, I've got as good a chance as you've got. And when we all stand before God, God shall evaluate as to whether I've done as much good as I need to do as to balancing the scales. It won't be like that at all. Judgment begins at the house of God. The minister remits or retains your sin. You are born again here as to believe in the Word, and then you are eternal forever, and you never have to worry again. If you're born again you cannot be unborn. So somebody said, You can die out from this. No you cannot die out from this. Now as to the first birth, you could die from that. But you cannot die out from this because this is a born again experience unto eternal life. I say this a lot of times, people dispute those things because they say, Well, look at Adam and Eve the perfect people, and there they had eternal life, and they died out from it, or they were separated from God. But I tell you again, Adam and Eve did not have eternal life. If they had eternal life they could never have died; and the Bible would not say that in Adam all die. See, they did not have eternal life. They were illuminated with God's presence. Him being eternal, and they only had the breath of life, not life, but the breath of life. And if that breath is knocked out of you, that's the end of your life. And if you don't switch over in your lifetime from the breath of life to life itself by letting God the Spirit of life come into you, then you cannot have eternal life. So then they were illuminated with life, but they could be enticed out from that illumination. It's the same way today as the blood being on the seat of atonement, many millions of people are under the presence of that illumination. And they have life as long as they're there. But when that's gone life is over. But ye that are born again there's no way that you can be enticed from the things of God, because you're interwoven with life on the inside and your spirit is ever eternal. You have eternal life. And whereas you could die out from the natural life, you cannot die out from this life. Because natural life is temporal life. This life is not temporal. It's eternal. And so then there's no such thing as dying. That's what eternal life is. And I say again to you as to somebody said, Well what about the backslider? He said, I'm married unto you. I'm married unto you. I will heal your backsliding. God healed it at Calvary. The Bible said, Look down from heaven, heard the groaning of the prisoners, loosed them that was appointed unto death and succored them in a time accepted. And so then you have been loosed from the appointment unto death, because you're no longer a man but ye are gods. Ye are the body of God Himself, as the members of His bone and flesh in particular even Jesus Christ. And so then He died. He once was dead. He's alive forevermore because He lives so do we live. And He is our life, and when He appears we shall be like Him. And every man that hath this hope as to faith in God within him purifies himself even by that faith as He is pure. Even the faith of Christ by which we're sanctified. Contend for that faith. So in our little thought tonight, I want you to differentiate and remember now, if you've been born again, then your problems and worries are over, and you do not have to worry about sinning; you don't have to worry about going to hell. You don't have to worry about those things. But you should have a concern as to failing God to this extent, that thirty-fold, sixty-fold, a hundred-fold, going on to a full reward unto the full measure of Christ Jesus, you have to be concerned as to the utilization of your potentiality as to an ability as a human being, which is your sovereignty in Christ even though you're born again. That is to whatever measure you want to yield your body to Him, so then that is the measure that He gives back to you. And I want to go all the way with Christ. Paul said, Not that I have obtained unto, but this I do, forgetting those things that are behind I press forward to the prize and the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. So then that is to say the full measure and the full reward. So let me say unto you, that ye should be encouraged in the Lord, realizing that God is with you. Cast down imagination. Don't listen to those accusations because that interference as to that thinking of Lucifer, this is your own thinking, in that sin is interwoven with that because of the fall. Ye should not listen to that, because that puts a breech in your faith. That hinders your faith. That keeps your faith from being steadfast; and you stagger in that you are going and coming. And the Bible said, If you waver, you can't have the things that you want from God. So put it all out. Thank God for His wonderful blessing. Thank God for His righteousness. Say, Lord, You're going to reward me not because I'm good, but because You're good. And I'm going to do the very best I can, because my nature on the inside is a God nature that will produce the fruits of the Spirit. I'm going to do everything I can to trim this tree up and to purge it and to yield it unto Thee as to a fullness, that I might gain the fullness of the blessing of God, and let You live in this body as to Your use, that You might reward me with the abundance of abundant life, as to abundantly living which is Christ the Prince of Life, who promised to give us life, filled up and overflowing. All right so then we know that we've passed from death unto life. We know that we're born of God and we cannot sin. We know that we're not in the earth. We are dwelling in heaven. Rejoice forevermore, ye that dwell in heaven. At death the spirit went back to God who gave it, and your body is dead by the body of the Lord Jesus, buried with Him in baptism; and now ye are as to what God sees you in His mind as to the change, the body and bone and flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And God does not see your iniquity as to the image, because He cannot look on it. He smote it at Calvary. He could not look upon it. The darkness done away with that when He became dark as sackcloth of hair meant, God the light withdrawing because He could not look upon His Son when He took on our iniquity. He was separated in death from us. God giving His only Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. And life being in none other name as to salvation, beginning at Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the earth, that salvation should be preached in His name. For there's none other name given among men whereby men must be saved except the name of Jesus Christ. For there is remission of sin in no other blood as to no other name. All right the Lamb without spot, wrinkle or blemish. And here we are right at the end of the world. And here we are coming together as the church, trying to do what we can in our little way. I say so often as Brother Taylor said, Let your little light shine, being the light of the world as the church, the light, let it so shine that men may see your good works, glorify your Father which is in heaven. So you understand now that you should yield your bodies as to keeping the imagination out of your mind, so that your faith would be firm, would be perfect. Do the things that please God to encourage your heart, to have the confidence that God is listening to you. And of course you automatically have what you want because it was given to you in Christ before the world ever was. It's just a matter of convincing your heart, in that the heart is desperately wicked above all things. It's hard to know the heart. No man knoweth the heart, but you can convince it by doing the things that are right as to your faith, as to works with your faith, not as to works to His faith. Not as to that that has to do with your salvation, which is His works, His faith and God's works in Christ Jesus, that ye are His work in Christ Jesus, but as to a utilization of your works and your faith, that you might utilize your bodily potentials in the behalf of lost souls, that you may be rewarded accordingly: thirty-fold, sixty-fold, a hundred-fold. Even some that will set on thrones as they said to the apostles. They said to Jesus, And what do we receive in that we've give up our families, our homes, our lives, everything? He said, No man has given this up for My sake, but what he won't receive the same thing in this present world of those riches. But said, And in the world to come everlasting life. And because you followed the Son of Man in the regeneration, when I set upon my throne ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones beside Me, again saying as the Bible says concerning Jesus, for He hath made us kings and princes unto our God, and we shall reign with Him. All right let's stand together. We're glad to have you tonight. We appreciate this opportunity to exhort you, trust that you're getting something out of the services and out of the knowledge of God; because the Bible tells us to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and that to the full measure of the full stature that we may have of the full reward. So then we invite you to come back every time that you get a chance to talk with us or to listen at us expound the Scriptures or to sing and worship with us, because this is the house of God. So the Bible said, And that you might know how to behave yourself in the house of the God which is the ground the pillar of God as to the house of truth, the ground and pillar. So then when we come into the house with thanksgiving and praise, we come to worship the Lord. You love Jesus? Do you understand what I'm saying? Someone would say, Well, I don't understand? Someone would say, Well I do understand. The Bible said, And the righteous shall understand and the wicked shall not understand. If you get born again you'll understand as to a babe, you'll grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, that to the full measure of the full stature. But if you do not call upon God as to get your iniquity out of the way, the Bible said, And that veil remaineth over the face of the people, untaken away except in Christ, that veil of death. The Bible said, The wicked shall not see when good cometh. They shall not see when good cometh. But the Bible said, The veil being taken away as to comprehending the heights, the depth, the width and the length of this great, wonderful thing, you'll understand the mysteries. It's not given unto them that are without to understand the mysteries, but unto you it's given. And the Bible said, Even the wicked of this world whom Satan, the god of this world, having blinded their eyes, even their eyes of understanding, that they should not understand or see when good cometh. Whereas the Bible said, And this light shined in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. But He tells us that as it shines to you, you can comprehend the heights, the depth, the width and the length of it. At the evening time it shall come to pass there shall be light. We sing that song, We'll Walk In The Light. Walk in the light. Let's sing that little chorus. Brother Taylor probably remembers it. (Sings: We'll Walk In The Light) Sing it again, can we? Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings: Remind Me) Can you sing that with me? (Sings) Sing it with me. (Sings) Can you sing that with me again? The altars are open. (Sings) Don't you love the Lord? Give me another key and let's sing this little chorus while we worship the Lord. (Sings: Sheltered In The Arms of God) Sing it with me. (Sings) Sing that chorus again. (Sings) Let's give the Lord a hand, can you? God is so wonderful to us. Blesses us day by day. Let's sing this little chorus, Frank. Find a key in just a minute. Sometimes we sing new songs that maybe Frank's acquainted with, maybe he isn't acquainted with. Sometimes he sings some I ain't acquainted with. But the thing is we're still trying to worship and glorify the Lord. (Sings: In The Valley) Sing it with me. (Sings) Now then it was just a little bit high because I'm hoarse tonight. But the Bible teaches that Jesus restores our soul in the valley. It's when we're going through trials and troubles. Drop it just a little bit and let's see if we can sing that chorus again. (Sings) Can you sing that with me again? (Sings) Jesus restores my soul in the valley. Let's sing this little song, Brother Taylor. We've been kind of tied up in our throat today, but I love to try to sing for the Lord. Give me another key. That's why sometimes I take a few minutes finding a key because we get a little hoarse, and try to have to switch around to some keys. (Sings: One More Valley, One More Hill) (Sings: Someone Who Cares) Sing that with me. Sing that again. You love the Lord? Jesus is your friend and He cares for you. You love the Lord? Let's sing another little chorus before we close. (Sings: Bringing in the Sheaves.) All right let's sing this little chorus together. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Sing it again with me. (Sings) Now we've come to the end of another service. And I wonder what you'll do between now and the next service. I wonder if you've grown any in the Lord. And I wonder if you've made any changes as to things concerning Christ? I wonder if you have anymore zeal toward winning souls? Or I wonder if you'll go back in the same old way of life as to the same old shortcomings, as to the same old unconcern, as to the same old being you, as to the same old failure that you've always been. As to the same old frame of mind as to the same old doubt, as to the same old problems and the same destruction that will await you at the end of the way. Or I wonder if you've become a new creature in Christ Jesus, if you've changed things in your life. The day ends and the people are a little tired. And as the day comes to the close, then we realize that tomorrow the Lord being willing we start another week. Some come to the services in the morning and in the evening. Some comes to the services in the morning or the evening, and some don't come to the services at all. But those that do come as with a regularity that's concerned about growing in the grace of the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that to the full measure of the full stature, and that of the perfect man Christ Jesus, then let us invite you to be part of our world evangelism and to take part in what we're doing. We're setting up some new rules and regulations as to giving other people a chance that's not had a chance to do something for God. And we're still interested in world evangelism. Not altering or changing at all as to our world outreach; intend to all that we possibly as to the coming of the Lord. And the Bible said, Exhorting the more as you see the day approaching. And you that, if you have been negligent, now is a good time to shake that off and get in with us and really do something for God, really do something for Jesus. Many things that we'd like to say to you because our heart is filled up and overflowing with the wonderful revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we love to sing with you and praise the Lord. And many songs perhaps you've never heard sung here you know so as us singing them, we'd like to sing them with you. And we do introduce one ever once in a while, but if we don't work just a little bit with the pianist, the musicians, then we don't get the right kind of key or background, so we just have to introduce a little bit at a time something as to sing with you and to share with you, to get you as to the lyrics to where we can sing together. And of course I always have a time with this thing right here. We have one of the finest sound systems there is as to the acoustics in here. And one of the most problems as to a problem as to our PA system, even though we have the finest of public address system, we have a problem with it. And this is why that I'm always saying something to them, not to be arrogant or to be ugly, to get them to work with me, or to set those keys and not to turn them you know, because it's up and down and in and out, and even though it looks like I don't know it down here, it really interferes with everything I'm doing, and it causes me to go back to the natural frame of mind. And I don't know what it is, but it looks like when people set at a board, they can't leave those things along. There's just something about man that he's fidgeted and it really creates a problem. But we're still working, praying, hoping; and we have a problem here in that this thing at the highest peak is just loud enough. And if it isn't turned up as high as it should be, then it's not sufficient for the cause. And if it is turned up to the peak, then it has a tendency to whistle unless I'm very careful as to where I get as to being close to it or away from it. And this is why you see me look up at Chuck and these kind of things. But nevertheless, it's, he's trying to do his best and I'm trying to do his best and I'm trying to do my best down here. And I wish there was some way to fix this thing. I don't know why there isn't but there should be. I don't know why but there isn't. Nevertheless, we tolerate it as we go on. And it interferes in that we have to work together, because these tapes go out on the radio and the different places around the different parts of the world. And also these films go out on tv and that means that if there's any whistling or whining or whatever, then it causes a problem. You don't understand of course. As it is with tv, when you take a film to a tv station, they have a problem if there's little glitches in it or if there's certain things about it that if it doesn't register just right, they can fine the tv station a terrible amount of money. And that makes the tv a very problem, you know it makes it a real problem to us to get those things just right. And that's why we also try to work with the cameras as much as we can. We've run into this problem a number of times, but God has always blessed us it. But the tv stations are real leery if that isn't just right, because it really costs them some money. All right you love the Lord? So you just bear with us as we try to bear with you and work with you, you try to work with us, because we're not just ministering to you, but we're ministering to people around the different parts of the world. I want to say thank you again to the ladies that put so much time even as my wife into taking these sermons off the tape, bringing them to paper as to be printed in books. Because it takes a lot of work, a lot of work, a lot of work to be able to take those books off, put them into sermon form to where they can go into the world to the other people. And people plead for these books and for these things. As I said concerning the chaplain that was up at one of the prisons up here in Atlanta, she got a hold of a book. She's a woman chaplain. She got a hold of a book on the life of Ruth and she was so fascinated with it, she said, she just loved that book and said she wished she had a whole collection of those books. And people write such astounding things concerning the revelation. We get things that sometimes is almost unbelievable as to their expression as to what this does to them when they first hear the wonderful Words of revelation. And you got a duty here as to world evangelism being those that are on the home front, and God having chosen you as to the group that's here at Bethlehem to dispense this thing around the world, then you've got a real responsibility, and God is holding you responsible and He's holding me responsible. And as to our conduct before the people as to live right, in that the Bible said, that every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. If you bear the vessel of God then be holy. And as to those that are work... as to doing the thing, the Bible said not to bring God the halt, the lame and the blind. He said, I'm a great God. Don't bring it to Me. Said, Take it to your governors. See if he'll receive it of you. Bring forth fruits unto perfection. Do everything you can as perfect as you can whether on the home front, or whatever it is as to living for God or doing something for God as to presenting something to the people as pertaining to the gospel. Do it with all of your heart and do it as perfectly as you can. Don't just do it any old way because, God is going to reward you according to what you do and the way that you do it. And I want to do it the best that I can. I say so often that I'm jealous over my thoughts. I preached tonight of the casting down of the wrong thoughts. I am jealous over my thoughts with a godly jealousy, that I should never think anything wrong, that I should never think one thought wrong, for charity thinketh no evil, and that I should never have an intent of heart or reflect of a mind as to anything that would be unlike God, that I do my very best to have it perfect before God as to my thoughts in to the intents of my heart, because I believe that's the way God wants it; and that's the way that it should be, and we should do those things, and we shouldn't be a stumbling block one to another or to hinder one another, whether it is an operation as to helping one another or whatever it might be as to what God has called us to be, and to our calling. Let us abide in our calling. Let us be diligent to do whatever God has commanded us to do. You love the Lord? (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Can you stand with me? Can you stand with me. Lift your hands together as we come to the close of the service. Don't forget the midweek services. Come back. Go out and tell somebody. Bring those people in to be with us, and let us worship the Lord together. Okay, let's fill up the house of God. He that winneth souls is wise. And when you go out to win souls you're laying up treasures in heaven where thieves don't break through and steal, where moth doesn't corrupt. And the Bible said, Wherever your treasures are, there your heart shall be also. Let your heart be in God, folks. Let your heart be in God. Give God to your youth. Give God your strength. Give God your understanding. Give God your desire. Give God the ambition of your life. Let God illuminate you with His presence that you might be great and mighty in God. God said to David, David, I've taken thee from among the sheepcote. I've given thee a name like unto the great men of the earth. And the Bible said, God magnifies. He lifts up kings. He makes and princes reign by God. And God can magnify you as He said to Joshua, This day I shall begin to magnify thee before the people. Don't seek the magnitude of the world as to vanity, as to men measuring themselves by men as to diplomacies. For the Bible said, They're not wise, but let this measure I set by God, and move on to the full measure of the full stature, to love one another, and let God magnify us as an individual in His kingdom. Because God wants to use you. God wants to use you. It's His desire to use you. And every individual can be born into the kingdom of God and be a member in particular of the God body. What is the higher calling than the God body? To be one with God, to be perfect with God, to overcome, to set down in the throne with God. For heaven is His throne, earth is His footstool. What is the greater than this than to be like Jesus? Is there anything greater than that? There's nothing greater. All right. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) While we're singing together, if David will bring little Israel, we'll dedicate him tonight. Got a little one born here. His name is Israel. And I thought that was kind of unusual. The dad's name being David and him being Israel. I noticed today that somebody brought us a little ark. Brought us in a little ark. Sister Betty made a fuss over it. It was a little ark that had a lot of the animals in it, and a rainbow over the top of it, and we was just speaking about the ark that came in, the piece of the original ark according to what they said that they had taken from off of Mt. Ararat where they found the ark. And tonight we're dedicating little Israel. I made the statement that having gone to Israel it had great significance, great significance. And that having gone to Israel, that if you notice that Israel, as natural Israel has not retaliated, which we had said at the first that they would not retaliate, but they've continued. That that have not retaliated. And that's very unusual. It's very evident that by this God has gotten a hold of Israel's heart. And in that He has got a hold of Israel's heart, then that means that the sealing of the 144,000 is getting close by. Because as before God though they're a very religious people, God never has really been able to get a hold of their heart as to get them to listen to anybody, not even the American people. But Mr. Bush being raised up for the purpose as it is, then God got a hold of their heart through Mr. Bush, and they have been as to a reservation of heart, not retaliating, and that means that something is happening. And the time is coming now as to the sealing of Israel, which means if that be true, then somewhere in the world somewhere somehow there has been something as to a message that has gotten over to the people that have brought spiritual Israel in and hath revealed to them that they are now sealed, and that the church has been translated as to the inner man into the kingdom of God. And that people are beginning to realize this, and they know that their in heaven, which means the church is gone out. And only the flicker of the change which will be (snaps finger) quicker than that. In a moment of the twinkling of an eye that's the only thing that is pending. And that of course is as I say, if I was talking to you tonight, and I would say, Do you want to go in the rapture? Whereas there is no such thing as a word rapture in the Bible. But it's a man-made application, and it can throw you if you're not careful, in that it's from glory to glory as to the inward change. But if I said to you, do you want to go in the change, or that is in the rapture? To make you to understand what I'm trying to say, I would say, Would you like to go in the rapture? And when I finished saying that, I said, Would you like to go in the rapture? I say, You missed it. When I popped my finger you missed it. I would say, Would you like to go in the rapture? You missed it before you could answer. It's done happened in a moment, in the twinkling, just bat your eye, of an eye. See, so really there's nothing to that except the change as to what you do, it has nothing to do with it. What we're doing now is what it has to do with it. And so then as to being ready, as to being translated in, as to being sealed in, then if you're sealed in, you don't have to worry about missing it. Because if it's in a twinkling of an eye, you don't have to worry because you're already translated in. You're already in heaven. You're already sealed in by the great, wonderful Holy Spirit, and you don't have to worry, and the twinkling of an eye is you was already there. All right, as we dedicate little Israel, which as I say has a significance here as to this, then I want you to pray with me. It is a beautiful little, little child. He's a little bitty fellow. It's so tiny that I'm reluctant to take them sometimes. They're so little. And he is a pretty little old fellow. Usually little boys they look kind of rugged. He's a pretty little fellow. And he's a wonderful little baby. He looks like he's healthy. He's well. He's strong. And that's so beautiful, because the Bible said, That children they are an heritage as to the gift of God. And tonight this one of course has great significance as to the dedication of it. And I wish that you would consider what I'm saying as to Israel being sealed in, because if the church is in this condition, that means that something could happen anytime, anytime. Are you ready? Are you ready? The songwriter said, Are you ready? Are you ready for that great day to come? (He prays: Precious wonderful Father of heaven, as we hold this precious little child in our arm which You have given to David and his wife. Lord, he's very precious. We thank You for the health of it. Oh God for Your blessings upon it. And we pray dear God that even as You've given it to David and the wife, they give it back to You. And that You will receive it as Your very own, heavenly Father as we dedicate it to Thee. Even as little Samuel was dedicated to Thee, we dedicate this little child to Thee, that Father, should there be anything as to a calling, even before his coming into the world that it should be shown, in that if he's dedicated to You from his infancy Lord, You have a chance to deal with his little heart to make him great and mighty in Thy sight, to keep evil away from him, to develop his mind, to make his enemies to be Thine enemies, oh God. And Father, whatever it might be as to those that would come against him, that You would come against them. That You claim this little child for Your very own, heavenly Father. And I feel the wonderful anointing of God upon me as I pray to You, and You are receiving him. And dear wonderful God, may they bring him up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord, as a responsibility to Thee as to taking care of Your child. And dear wonderful God we pray that thy blessings would be upon him all the days of his life. God, that ye should feed him when he is hungry, that ye should take care of him, heavenly Father. Lord, keep fears and anxieties and frustrations from him. Father, give him faith and confidence, and when spirits began to come upon him, Father, to aggravate him, we pray that You would rebuke those evil powers, to create an atmosphere of peace, dear wonderful God. Safety, wherever he might go and whatever he might do in his lifetime, Father, we pray that there would be an air of safety as to give Your angels charge concerning him, that they might lift him up Father, protect him in all of his ways, as you said, lest he should dash his foot against a stone. I ask You Lord to receive him. Bless this precious little child. Give him health and strength and happiness. Fill him with salvation and Your Spirit as to the wonderful exuberance of righteousness in Jesus' precious, wonderful name. Amen. All right, let's sing this little chorus, can we? (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) Can you sing that with me one more time? Once again. Can you close your eyes now? Lift your hands up. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) I think I'll get Brother Gary Armstrong if he will to come up and dismiss us tonight. And while Brother Armstrong is coming, can we worship the Lord? Is Brother Armstrong among us? Is he not here? All right, here he comes. Once again can we sing? (Sings) Lift your hands up, close your eyes and let's worship the Lord. (Sings)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord