The Knowledge Of The Lord Jesus Christ

Great and mighty things are happening in our day. I marvel as I go to and fro, and I look around me and I see the signs of the times, and I see the wonderful things of God that are happening. And then I consider as to the average individual and I can tell that they are not seeing at all. It really moves me. It really disturbs me. I can tell that there are people who are seeing the end. To some extent they know that the end of the world is here and they can tell that the signs of the times are beginning to fulfill, but as to the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful things of God it seems like they have such a hard time seeing those wonderful things of God. I'm glad to have you tonight. I noticed Brother Jerry Fason, I don't know whether Jerry's in here or not but he came. Okay. Wherever you're at Jerry can you raise your hand up? O yeah, over to the left. Brother Jerry Fason, and also Charlie from over in Mississippi. Is Charlie here? O yeah, okay. We had a little fellowship this evening and he's with us. He came over to visit with us and be in service with us and we enjoyed our little conversation today. I thought maybe we'd get to fellowship a little more, but we didn't. Then I understand also that Charlie is a public school teacher. He wanted to come over with Jerry. I talked with Jerry the other night on the telephone and he told me he was coming and we looked forward to him coming over. He's been gone for quite a bit now. Let's turn over to the second book of Peter. II Peter. I hope that if you have never had your eyes open to the wonderful things of God that you can get your eyes open. The Bible teaches that he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast, and we are continually feasting off of the wonderful things of God. I really, truthfully, before the living God, I have a continual feast. A continual feast. And my heart is ever thrilled with the wonderful things of Christ. And when I look around and I see others I wonder why then that many of you do not have a continual feast, and why you do not have your heart thrilled with the wonderful things of God, in that God is no respecter of person and he wants all of us to have it, and we're living in the day that it is given unto us, and this is the great wonderful moment of God, even though it is the hour of temptation that is setting in on the world; yet it is also the wonderful jubilant hour of the goodness of God and all of His wonderful blessings to the church. So I look around and I wonder why that I don't see more of you enjoying these wonderful things of God. We are always glad to see you come out and be with us. I might ask tonight that you remember Sam Henderson, my sister's husband, and ask God to undertake for him. He has been kind of caught in a place of just lingering between life and death for a long time. I don't know whether he has given his heart to God or not. I suppose he has by now. Sam had quite a bit of problems serving the Lord. I got a report today, I believe it was, that I think they've had to go back with the operation again, the incisions burst loose and they said today that the swelling of the stomach was so bad that, said, that if it continued to swell the way it is swelling now that there wouldn't be any hope for him, that he would die. That they could do no more for him. And said, because if the swelling continued it would burst the seams again and the operation would be, well the whole thing would be fatal. So you pray that God will do something for him. A lot of times I make the statement that we cannot know the valve of life, or the loss of the soul, unless we consider it after this fashion. And that is, that it is our life that is going and it is our soul that is lost, or the soul of that which we dearly love. And that way we can tell the worth of a soul. All right. Let's read from chapter one, second epistle of Peter. (Reads verses 1 through 13.) All right. I like the way Peter says this. Peter was a great preacher. And he says, Grace and peace be multiplied unto you. If there is anything I would want more of it would be grace, and more peace in my life and heart. The whole world is searching after peace, and it's just been recently that many of our boys from the United States gave their lives seeking to bring peace to the world, as a world order, that they might have rest. And he says here, Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, or of Jesus, our Lord. Through the knowledge. The thing we need to remember is that the only way that the world is ever going to have peace is through the knowledge of the Lord. Peace will come by the knowledge of the Lord. The grace of God comes by the knowledge of the Lord. And it goes on to say, "knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord according as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that have called us to knowledge and glory and virtue". First of all, God has called us to glory. He hath called us to virtue. He wants us to have his glory. The Bible says, Father, glorify these with the same glory I had with thee before the world ever was. He hath called us unto His Own glory. I remind you so often, that as He stood on the mountain with Moses and Elijah He appeared in glory. And as he appeared in glory he was seen by the disciples. So, we are called to glory. Now, the glory of God is a wonderful thing. I say this so often also, that there is one glory of the sun. There is another glory of the moon. And there is another glory of the stars. There is a glory of the man. And there is a glory of the woman. And there is a glory of the child. And all of these differ from one glory to another glory. And as in heaven, the Bible speaks of these heavenly bodies, as to the stars and all of these great heavenly bodies, and they differ in glory. Someone would say, Well, how could that be, Brother Pike? Well, there is the star that appeared, as to His star, which led the wise men to the manger, and it was bigger and brighter than the other stars. There is one body that is called Pluto, one that is called Uranus, one that is called earth, one that is called Jupiter, which means that they are different. And under surveillance, as they look at them real close they find that they differ in their appearance. So then, the glory of the woman is one, as to her hair being her glory. The glory of the man is another, as a young man's strength being his glory. And then the glory of the moon and the glory of the stars. And so then, there is a glory as to the terrestrial, and there is a glory as to the Celestial. And the glory of the terrestrial is one and the glory as to the terrestrial, one, and to the Celestial another. So then, we find that there is a natural body and a spiritual body, and both differ in glory. All differ in glory. And as to the measure, as to what you will receive and I will receive there will be a difference in our glory. As to one angel that flew through heaven, the Bible said, And his light was so great the glory of that light lightened all of the earth. And as to the angel that appeared on the hillside, as to the shepherds, the Bible said, And the light of the glory of God came upon them. And as the glory of God came upon them that they saw the angel. And they heard him say, Peace on earth and goodwill toward man. And so then, today we have got a glory. And the Bible said. So let you light, as to your glory, shine that men may see your good works and glorify our Father, which is in Heaven. So whatever the glory of you might be, as to whether it is one gift, as to a membership of the body, or the glory as to another gift, as a membership of the body, or as to one calling, or as to another calling, or whatever your measure might be in God, as to your glory, then so let you light shine that men may see God in your life and that they may glorify the Heavenly Father as they behold your glory. for the Bible said concerning the apostles, while they prayed they slept and Jesus beckoned unto them to awake. And the Bible said, when they awoke they saw His glory. And folks, it's not until you get the veil from off your face, and it's not until you break through that intellectual veil of death that you actually see the glory of God. This is why I say that looking around a lot of times in going to and fro, I look for the glory of God and I look and I see the dark veil of death over individuals. I see their intellectual reasoning. I see their intellectual desires. I see the intellectual ignorance of people. And I see that their desire is more for the natural, as to the glory of the world, than for the glory of God. They'd rather be a celebrity, they'd rather be a singer, they'd rather be a dignitary, they'd rather be a rich person, they'd rather be some kind of beautiful attraction, as in the earth, whether male or female. They'd rather have these things, that as to the glitter and glamour of the world, that is the glory of the world, than to have the things of God. Whereas, the Bible said, And measuring themselves by themselves, as to lift up one another, or to give each other diplomacy, as to life, whatever it might be, as to the natural, then the Bible said, Not being wise they measured themselves among themselves. And desiring the glory that be of man, He said, How can you have the glory that be of God? Or desiring the praises of men how can you have the praise that be of God? Whereas, Paul said, In a good thing I praise you. So, we read here that all of these wonderful things are given to us through the knowledge of the Lord. This is why you need a preacher. This is why the Bible teaches that God has sent a minister, as to a shepherd of the sheep. He has sent this minister so that you can have the knowledge of God, because it is only in the knowledge of God that you have these things that pertain unto life. See? Jesus said, My words are spirit and they are life. And if you have no Word then you have no spirit, you have no life. If you have no Word then you have no knowledge, you have no understanding, you have no life. My words are spirit and my words are life, and if you are going to have life you have to come to me. Jesus said, You don't have life and you won't come to me. That is, as He walked as the Word made flesh. You won't come to me so that you can have life. And so then, as you look around you, you say, Well, I know that this person has life. I know that this person has life, but you do not know that. See? Unless it's revealed to you, you do not know that. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, I see them breathing the breath of life and I know that they have life and I know that they are alive. No, that's wrong. You do not know that. Though they are breathing the breath of life and though they do have the breath of life that's all they have, is the breath of life. Someone would say, Well, they breathe the breath of life, therefore, they have life. No. They breathe the breath of life. Period. Someone would say, Well, they breathe the breath of life and they have life. Well, why is it when you do away with the breath of life there is n life left? Someone would say, Well, that's because, you know, that the life is in the breath. And that's exactly right. And the Bible said man's life, or breath, which is in his nostrils. That's all that he is. He is just a little thing that's going about that's taking oxygen in and out his lungs. And that's all there is to it. And as he walks around he picks up, as from the cosmo this cosmic energy that comes down through the Hyper-thalamus into the body that goes through the pituitary gland, as to the vibrations of the body. And every part of the body, or every thing that's within the body, and as to a certain amount of vibrations and that's all there is to it. He is a quickening, but it is an electrical quickening. I've said this a lot of times. Just rub over your arm, you know, in the dark, when you take your sweater off, your shirt off, just rub over your arm while it's dark and you can just see the little sparks jump out. It's nothing but a few electrical sparks. Or if you get right down to the nitty gritty of it, as they call it in the world, the little tiny beaters. Or as beyond that the atoms, or the molecules, or the little atomic particles. He's a constitution of those kind of things. Whereas, I said the other night that God is not like that. God is a constitution of divine characteristics. He's not a constitution of little electrical parts. He is a divine constitution, or a constitution as to, we use the terms constitution or divine or whatever, because we have no other vocabulary of expression whereby we can describe a spirit. God is the great light. He is the great spirit. He is the great light which means understanding unto which no man can approach. And which no man has seen, or can see at anytime. That is to say, the only way that I can see God is through my eyes of understanding, because God is the great invisible light, as to the great masterful understnading. And the only way you can see Him is through eyes of understanding, therefore, man cannot see Him. You must be a God to see Him. You must be a Son of God. You must be a God. A God will relate to a God, and a man will relate to a man. And the only way that you can get to be a God, the Bible said, the only way to see God is die. No man can see God and live. So then, you have to die and through Calvary, by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, one day I died. And then I was buried with Him in baptism, and I've been raised again with Him in the newness of life and now it's not me that's living, but it's Christ that's living on the inside of me and I now see God. And as Jesus said, I do always the things that I see my Heavenly Father do. So then, to be about my Father's business. As I see my Father do these things. But Jesus said, as to you, you have not seen Him. You have not known Him. Never at any time have you ever seen his shape, nor His image. Now, someone would say, Well, I know that I've seen God, Brother Pike. The Bible said that any man, or woman that has sinned has never known God, nor seen God. Someone would say, Well, I can't help but sin. Well, that means you've never know God. You've never seen God. And then besides that, if you still sin it's very evident that you are alive and no one can see God, unless they die. But if you are alive then that means as Jesus said, You sins remain. Jesus in healing a blind man, somebody contested it, and Jesus made a little remark where it sounded like that He was saying that these are the blind ones that are accusing you. And as the blind man tried to say something to them, of course, you know, they said, You being blind all your life, born in sin, you try to tell us? And then as Jesus disputed with them, they said, Are you saying that we're blind? He said, Because you say that you see your sins remain. So then, because you are alive in the natural then you are not dead to the natural and you are not born of the spirit, because you cannot be born of the spirit until you die first in the natural, as to your first death, as to the death of your first life and then you become the second life, as to the second, as to born of the spirit. And he that is born of the spirit is spirit, and he is not of the flesh and he is not in the flesh, neither is he a living soul; he is a quickening spirit. In that the first man Adam was made a living soul and all of us were made living souls, as in Adam we all die because the sin that came upon us took our life. And the body is dead then because of sin. So then, as long as this body is, as you call it, alive then you cannot have true life, which is the only life, which is the new birth. So when we talk about life__ Let's stay with that theme for just a minute, because there is just so many branches of revelation that we could get of into. Let's look at life. Do you have life? Or do you have the breath of life? I say that you have the breath of life. The reason I say that is because the Scriptures cannot be broken. And the Bible says that God breathed the breath of life into man and he become a living soul. So then, he become a living soul by the breath of life, but the soul that sinneth shall surely die and all are under the penalty of death because of sin. Therefore, without Jesus you are a dead soul. Death. Sin is the sting of death and he that sinneth is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning and the sting of death is sin and sin stings the soul, or kills the soul, or Lucifer, the spirit of death, can penetrate your body just like a stinger from a bee can penetrate your hand. And that spirit goes right into your interior into your soul, and strikes your soul, and then are you dead. Through lust, through the desires of the flesh, through the human senses, as making contact with the world then are you enslaved as to the bondage of the world, and then are ye the bondschild, in that you are attached to the world and relate to the world through your human senses and you cannot escape that because you are intellectual. And to be intellectual as to the old Tree of Knowledge is death. So then, trying to reason things out when God told you and told me not to lean to our own understanding but to trust in the Lord with all of our heart. Cast down imagination, every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and then to bring into captivity to the obedience of Jesus Christ every thought. So, we find that you just have the breath of life. As in Adam all die, as in Jesus Christ all are made alive, because Adam was a living soul, and Jesus was a quickening spirit. And there is no life except in the Spirit. So then, your breath is all that you are, and if you do not believe that, I've said this so many times, just catch your nose, close your lips tight, don't turn either one a loose, and just in a few minutes that will be it. You will be dead, because all you have is a breath of life. And if you do not get that breath in and out your nostrils, then are you dead. Someone could come up behind you and just scream at you, and people have been done things like that and caused people to die like that. A heart attack, that is to say, the heart has to pick up oxygen, as to breath, every few seconds. If you have a heart attach, in that the heart does not function properly, then you don't get any oxygen, or air, into your heart. That is to say, as to the blood bringing it to your heart, then you are gone. As to the little capillaries of the lungs, these little parts of the lungs, they pick up oxygen. You have on the inside of you a substance that is a red looking compound sort of a substance that has an affinity for oxygen, and when the oxygen comes into your lungs it picks it up. It's transferred into your blood stream, and in your blood stream then it goes to your heart. And the little heart is nothing more than, as I said before, like a little thing that just goes in and out. That's all. And I've demonstrated this. I thought one time, I believe I understand that; I'm going to try something. The Lord impressed me and I took a little can and I put a hole in it, it full of fluid, and i though now, This will react like a heart, because it can't get any air. And as I said before, then the fluid began to come out. And as it began to come out, because it could not get any air it would suck the sides in and out. And it would just go like that, just continually. As long as there was fluid in there it would go like that. Whereas, the heart always has fluid, because as to coming in to one side, as to taking the oxygen as to the red, then it goes over. After it goes through the little cells to get oxygen and life, it goes over into the other, as to the vessels, and then it comes back up, as to the veins and the vessels. And it is blue because it doesn't have any oxygen. But anyway, it goes into the heart, and then as it goes into the little cells, as you very well know, it picks up, as to the metabolism of the body it picks up the ashes, as to that which is burned up and takes it out. And through the pores sweating it out and other means of the body, but nevertheless, it is a continual circulation, as to the fluid, and the little heart just keeps on. It's nothing but a muscle and it keeps on through it's stimulation, or inspiration of life it just keeps on. And that is all there is to you. And a good jolt, a good bump. knock the breath out of a person and they are gone. While they have this life in them they must switch over. If they do not switch over then it's like a baby on milk. If the baby doesn't switch over on meat it can't make it. It cannot continue to drink milk. They say that elderly people, or older people, middle aged people, or whatever it might be, that milk is not good for them. Too much milk is not good for them. But the baby lives on milk. And to you as a babe, you desire the sincere milk of the Word that you might grow thereby. But the Bible said the meat is for the strong, they who have by reasoning exercised their senses to be able to discern between good and evil. So, you've got to switch over to the meat. See? You've got to switch over. Now then, as to the breath of life, if you don't switch over to eternal life, when the breath of life is gone you are dead, because there is no more hope for you. Satan, the spirit of death, or the power of death possesses your soul from the fall of the Garden in the first birth, and in the birth of the first man Adam you die. All die. And when you are born again the Spirit of Christ, Himself, enters into your spirit as on the inside of you, which is the Kingdom of God, and then your spirit becomes one with Christ's Spirit, and then are ye eternal. It doesn't matter if the breath of life leaves you, it doesn't matter how they torture you, it doesn't matter how long you stay in the grave, your body has nothing to do with it. From the dust it is to the dust it shall return, but in that day life, life, your life, which is hid with Christ in God, whom the heavens have received, until the time of the coming of the Lord, the restoring of all things, when He, our life appears, the Bible said. Our life is one with him and Christ is our life. And the life we now live we live it by Christ, as the Son of God on the inside of us, and as to our life, as to the living soul, it is gone. As to the breath of life it is no more, and I must switch over while I have the breath of life, because after I lose the breath of life I can never switch over then. And this is why the devil keeps on the way he does. He knows this. He doesn't understand the mystery of it, but he knows this and he's got to stay out of the dry places and to do that he has got to live in a human body. And he will come into your (Begin tape one, side two.)...and then another one will come into your body, and another one as I so say, as to Mary Magdaline as to seven devils, or as it was to Legion in the tombs when Jesus said, What is your name, and he said, Legion, for we re many. Many devils will press their way into one body. So the more devils you have the more weaker you are to the spirit world, as to fallen angels. And these angels trying to get out of the dry places they will crowd in against one another, one another, until they fill, literally fill your being and you are tormented the same way that they are tormented, and they find a little rest and peace in the lust of your flesh. See? While the blood is on the Seat of Atonement the grace is here. You are illuminated with the image that Adam fell from. You are illuminated with the image. Come and let us make man in our own image. You are made in the image of God, and that image was lost at the Garden. Jesus restored it by grace, and today you are illuminated, or overshadowed with this glory, as to this image. And devils, devils have opportunity to enter into your body because the blood is on the Seat of Atonement and it is a day of grace. And as the demons said to Jesus, Have you come to torment us before our time? Or that is to say, we have a time, they said, that is suppose to be a grace dispensation, and we're suppose to be free, at liberty, to enter into human bodies to get out of dry places, as to the waters of life being missing. And so then, have you come to torment us before our time. And so today millions of demons are everywhere. And the Bible said that Satan is the prince of the powers of the air, and the very days are evil. And these powers that are in the air, Satan is the prince of these powers as these fallen angels. Not only that but the prince of the powers of atomic particles, that the intellectual genius of mankind keeps probing into to create, as to their own destruction. God has given these things to them for oxygen, given them to them for life, given them to them for natural life. But man is always probing into this, and Satan is always trying to get this together so that he can have great power. As it was with the United States when they went against the foreign countries to prove their ability in supersonic planes and in atomic powers, and they tear up the earth and they kill humanity no matter what county it is. And the Bible says that, I will destroy them that destroy the earth. They burst these bombs under the water, creating great tremors, and the ocean bed is cracked all up. And the Bible teaches they will continue to do this until there will be a great tremor that will reach so high that it will shake the stars loose from their sockets, and they will fall out of heaven. And the Bible said the heavens, themselves, as to the atomic reaction, the very atmosphere shall be on fire. The heavens themselves, shall be on fire and melt with fervent heat. And the earth and all therein shall be utterly burned up. And seeing that these things are going to be, even as the vision we had. They are about to publish it is the Day Star now. Seeing that these things are coming, what manner of person ought we to be in all holy conversation, hastening and looking for as unto the coming of the Lord. So then, we know that this end is coming. And we know that Satan is the prince of the powers of the air, and we know that he is the cause of this destruction. He is doing these things so that he can Lord over other nations and take other people into his control until he makes it one great body of constraint to make to make them think the way he wants them to think, and to do what he wants them to do, and then he will completely swallow up humanity. Whereas, God is trying to do the same thing through love. God is trying to subdue through the Word and He beckons unto you to tell you that you are a body without life and that He has given grace for a period of time that you may breathe and stay alive, as you call it until you can have opportunity to make this change that He can win this body back to the right atmosphere to Himself and back to the Word of God that it might be filled up and overflowing with the wonderful spirit of life, for He said, I am the Prince of Life. I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundant. And that coming, God woes you back to Himself, having taken your sufferings in His body on CAlvary, having forgiven your sins to wit that God, the great Spirit, was in Jesus while in the world. And He was reconciling the people back to Himself, not imputing their sins and their trespasses unto them. So, christ in you is that hope of glory. and He is trying to get you back to your originality that you may be born inwardly of the Shechinah image as to which Adam and Eve was illuminated with, that with this great wonderful inner Shechinah glory that this life of Christ may be made manifest in your mortal genes as to change your mortal genes into that wonderful Thessalonians change, as to the glory of God as to outshining the brightness of the noonday, and as to being, not a living soul, but a quickening spirit, as to having not a terrestrial body, but a Celestial body, as sharing the glory of God. So, with this we understand why that the Lord tells us that He has given us all things that pertain unto life. I have given you all things that pertain unto life. A lot of times we preach this and people go their way and they say, Hallelujah. I've got everything that pertains unto life. That is yea, and that is nay. You do have everything that pertains unto life, as to the sacrifice of Calvary as to God giving it to you without respect of person, but you do not have everything that pertains unto life to this extent that He hath given it to us through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you don't have the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul said, I speak this to your shame. So, if you come and you do not hear, and you do not take heed how that you hear, and if you do not get the understanding of God, as to the knowledge of God then you are cut off from this wonderful knowledge, as to God, and this wonderful life that is given to you through the wonderful knowledge of God. So, this is why I love the Word. Sing them over again to me, the wonderful words of life. Let me more of their beauty see, those wonderful words, those wonderful words, those wonderful words of life. Words of faith and duty, they are words, words of beauty. Sing them over again to me, the wonderful words of life. So then, the Bible as God speaking to Israel said to Israel, Rehearse these things. Meditate in these things when you lay upon your bed at night. Put them before you as frontlets on your eyes. Put them over your door posts. Think on these things always. Mediate in these words day and night, because this is not some understanding or knowledge that will make you weary. This is not something as to some intellectual expression of something somebody has come us with through a brainstorm, as to magnify the natural man. But this is life, this is life, this is life. And all the day long and all the night long, and wherever you are at meditate in this life, this life. Like a little child splattering in the water on a hot day meditate in these laws of life. And the more you think on them the more they will revelate to you, and the more they'll open up to you and the more the inspiration will come to you and the greater your life will be, as to the filled up and overflowing abundance of Me, Me, the Word dwelling in your heart. For I, the Word said, am the Prince of Life, and I, the Word said, have come to dwell in your heart and I, the Word, as to Spirit and Life as Christ within you, bring you the hope of glory, and bring you the understanding as your understanding is enlightened to this abundance of life, as to a well of living water, or rivers of loving water and you can draw this water out of these wells with joy. For serving the lord is joy, peace, and righteousness. Or that is conforming to the Word, which is service to the Lord or surrendering your spirit to Christ, the Word is joy, abundance of joy. Anytime an inspiration comes the more you yield your spirit to the inspiration, the greater you are in life, and the more exuberant you are, and the more exuberant and activated you become with this wonderful magnitude of the Word. So then, as to words of spirit and life. So then, God hath given us all things that pertains unto life, all things, for He has called us unto glory, even His glory. He has said, Come and be partakers of My glory, come and let me glorify you with the magnificence of strength and health and happiness, joy and peace that My Father has glorified Me with, as even His presence. And He said I have called you to peace, for great peace have they that love thy laws, and nothing shall disturb them, offend them, or harm them. So then, as I said, we've got to switch over, folks. Now, a little baby doesn't have to switch over, because it has never left the presence of God. The Bible teaches their little spirit has never come to the age of accountability, and to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is a sin. They have never come to know to do good, therefore, it is not charged to them as to having sin that they may be brought to repentance to be baptized. It is not necessary. Though we dedicate babies to the Lord; yet it is not necessary for them, because their little spirit, should it depart the body has never left the presence of God anyway. Jesus said, I say unto you that their spirit, their inner spirit life is always in the presence of My Father, beholding the face of My Father. Such is the Kingdom of heaven as to your new birth. The little child, the second birth, as the little child is born into the Kingdom of God as to innocency. All right. We could go on and go on, but I just want to get this thought over. Is that if we don't make the change then we don't have life. Once you get the change, as to your spirit being translated into the Spirit of Christ, then do you have the Kingdom of God within you. A lot of times I say you have the Kingdom of God, and of course, people, they don't understand it either and they think, Well, the Kingdom of God. Glory to God, I've got the Kingdom of God within me. But see, you don't understand. The Kingdom of God means you have the Spirit of understanding, the wonderful magnitude of the presence of God. You have the faith of Christ Jesus, which means the Kingdom of God, as to the treasure of the Word, the same Word that spoke the world into existence. So, the treasure, as to the Kingdom. The Kingdom is always the treasure. And the treasure is that all things exist, or consist by the Word of God. And the Spirit through the Word said, Let there be. Or the Spirit gave an utterance that was the Word, as to the verbal sound, as to the vibrations of these things that's like a tremor in the electronic fields, and as we say, the magnetic fields. So then, as to this He says to your magnetic field, as to the hearing, as to your senses, these sounds and they come to you through vibrancy, and as these vibrations comes to your listening ear, as to the nerve senses and the recordings, and they go down into your heart. Or into your very being. You are interwoven with your energetic, inner being, as to your spiritual man. All right. So, when you look you see images, and when these things come across your eyes there are twenty-two conductive nerves from your eyes to your brains like a little teletype, or like fingers on a typewriter that's dit-dot-dash to your brain. And through the nerves you are alive. And I say this so often, do away with the eyes and you are that much dead. Do away with the hearing and then you are that much dead. Do away with the smell and you are that much dead. Do away with the taste and you are that much dead. Do away with feeling and you are that much dead. Or that is to say, all of this is feeling. All of this is human senses, and if you kill a little part of it you have lost a little part of your life, in that these senses make you relative to tangible forms of matter which has emanated from God, the great invisible spirit. So, we understand the things which do appear were not made for things which appear, but things that appear were made by the invisible, as to that which does not appear. And all of the invisible is understood by the visible, even to the eternal Godhead so that we are without excuse, in that everything is a vanity, as to a mirror, and a reflection of that invisible world. Even the human beings in this world is only a reflection of those great wonderful, ever living Gods that are in the world. As Jesus' body was a reflection as of that great Christ that was in that world, so then when He put off the tabernacle the great Christ stepped out. So it is with you, and at the dividing as to dividing asunder, or we say the splitting of the atoms, going down to the nucleus, we brought this out on tape, I remember. When this is separated, then the great wonderful drama of life comes forth and you, as the spiritual star of heaven, are there. Though the tremors will shake the stars out of heaven, not the true stars. There is nothing that can shake them out, because they are not held there by any magnetic field of any kind. They are an illumination, as to light, and they are held by their own glory, as to their status of life. But that which is rock, that which is nickel, that which is planets, and that which is those stars that are reflectors, that look just like other stars, as to say those that are hypocrites in the Church. Whereas, they are illuminated with the image of Christ, but not born inwardly of this image, they shall be shaken out of the heavens. The religious world today, is that thing that glitters along Broadway. The religious world of today is that which is in the upper offices, as to the upper echelon and the elite of life, as to all of those people that are out there in that world, even as to the president. All of those are illuminated, and they are of the great wonderful stars of that heaven. But all of that will go into darkness once the light closes out, as to the blood being taken off of the Seat of Atonement. But we that are the true stars that are shining brightly, we will remain in our orbit, as to glory eternally and forever, as to whatever status our reward might be, as to sixty-fold, thirty-fold, a hundred-fold, but all of those things are but reflectors and they'll drop into the bottomless pit as to say, into outer space to where there is no end. Where is it at? Science has never found it. And so then, we will remain forever, and forever, as the brightness of the noonday. For when the light is taken out, as the Church, as to the seven-fold light at the end of the Church Ages, so it is with the sun, as to a seven-fold light, a way in a nova and everything is gone. So, we just said these few little things to remind you that when you hear the Word it might be as to in China, it might be said in a different vocabulary expression, but it is still the vibrancy of the Spirit. it might be said in Chinese different, it might be said in the Philippine Islands different, it might be said in other parts of the world, as to Nigeria different, but wherever it's at, what ever the language might be, it still means, as to the vibrancy, when we say Jesus in one language it still, if we say Jesus in another language, or whatever we say, we are still talking about the name in which there is remission of sin, and these vibrations, as to whatever they might be they are going out to the listening ear. Someone would say, Well, my God, they can be so many kind of vibrations, Brother Pike. If that be true, where there are many sounds in the world as to types, as to vibrations, and all if them distinct as to different in sound, whatever they might be as to represent the hidden spirits, but the thing is that this is the same vibrations throughout the world, and throughout all humanity because these vibrations come from one spirit and every spirit, your spirit, in any form of body, or any human form would give off the same vibrations because that's the characteristics of your nature. And so then, the characteristics of Christ, as Christ within you the hope of glory, whether in the Chinese, whether in the German, whether in the American, it will be the same spirit, giving off the vibrations irregardless as to whatever the sound might be through the vocabulary expression. And when it strikes the ear all men's hearts are fashioned alike and they receive thus the same vibrancy as unto the preparation of the heart, and thus it is, and thus we could go on and go on and go on. But there is one thing about it. It's good to be a Christian. Let's give the Lord a hand. Can you stand with me? We're glad to have Charlie and our Brother with us tonight. We're also glad to have, I thought I saw George, Jr. in here somewhere. I can't tell it's just kind a__ But anyway, we wrote this song here a long time ago. It says all of the children are coming back home, speaking of God's children. So it is. Even our natural children coming back home. We had spoken of this that they would do that, and that with that it would have to do with the return of the Jews at a certain time when the vault doors were ready to lock, and when certain other things was ready to be fixed, and it all seemed so foolish, but yet it would be true. And according to our vision so it has happened, as to the fire and the brimstone, and that as to the millennium. And we also said as to the little dangles that used to hang right across here, how that they had to do with those as to the covering cherub, and the blood as to these red ones and as to those on the side there, as to those colorful things setting there as to the little images. And it had to do with that and all of a sudden my Dale came in here, and my Gracie came in here and took them all down. Whereas, I didn't say anything I just let it go, because I saw they wanted to remodel the church. And then when they were gone down something happened to them that they moved off and they didn't get to do anything as to remodel. Whereas, I watched it because it had to do with the blood coming off of the Seat of Atonement as to the covering cherubs, as to the seven candlestick and the way that this was made and what it was made for, and I saw my Dale as to the separation, because as to her and her husband it had to with the thing of Catholicism, as to cutting off and then I saw my little daughter Gracie. Whereas, all my children are very symbolic. I saw her go away into another country and marry somebody of another country and move off into the Islands. Whereas, it had to do with the Grace going and the closing of the days of the Gentiles, and the coming in of the Jews. And of course, all of these things started. See? And watching every step and watching everything, as to what it would be then as to Revelation where it said, And he saw them before the Throne, as to stand upon the sea of glass. And I made the statement as to what this had to do with and out here in the front of it had to do with that. And sure enough the baptism thing came along about the time, as to the redemption of the body, when the folks came in from California. We spoke of that, of what California had to do with as to the body and as to the woman, and as to the redemption. And sure enough we had the baptism and it was filled with water. And now we're contemplating it being filled with water all the time, staying right there all the time as a decorative thing. And it will be ready for baptism anytime. But anyway, many, many things we could say on and on and on. And as to some of you the foolish and abase things of the world to confound the wise. The Bible says, And God is revealing Himself through simplicity, and the Bible said they that are carnally minded shall not see the things of God. They are foolishness to the carnal mind, neither can you know them for they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual he judges all things. And the Spirit of God searches out the things of God, yeah, the deep things. We are a steward of the mysteries of God, which means that as to a world coming in, whether it be as to an elementary thing, as to an elementary grade, or whether it be as to that of high school, as we say, or that of college, as to one two three, so it has always been. That as to the primitive side of life, as to a stone man, of his knowledge so was his world. And then as to another knowledge so came another world. And to a knowledge today of our scientific brilliance, as to the electronic fields, as to the stone age, and as to the mechanical age, and then to the electronic age. And so we are here in the world of light as to another knowledge and so our environment is of such, as to modernism and convenience. And so it is with God. It has also been as to one knowledge in God, as to one measure of life is the first heaven, and then another measure of God, as to the second heaven. And then to another measure of God as to the third heaven, and so then, here we are now as to the war in heaven, as to the second heaven. It would take a long time to go into it. And Lucifer being cast out, the days of the Gentiles coming to an end. And then the man child being caught up to the throne, as to the very glory of God, as to the very knowledge of Almighty God, Himself, as to the very mind of Almighty God, Himself. And so then, the new generation is coming in. The new world is coming in, like as in the natural, the new world is coming in with the youth and they are taking over with their lust and their killing and their murdering, and their beep bop and their glitter and their glamour, and selling their souls and lives and virtue, and everything so that some devil will admire them and they will clap their hands and make a fuss over them, or that they can have a pretty face, or a pretty form to be admired, or whored after until the dart strikes through their liver and they go to feed the worms. But in this day, as to that allegoric thing so it is in the spiritual thing. It is the beautiful hour of the spirit and the voice is now revealing the inner man of the last generation for this last world, as to the third heaven that the others might diminish and they might go out, that they might go out. And we are on the verge of that grace being lifted from them at the change of the body of the Church that all of those others that look so much like the body of Christ, as to the beast itself, shall all of a sudden lose it's illumination and be in total darkness and be in debauchery and there will be no glory at all in that world, as to this world. And that will be the beggarly elements of the world into which you the child, as to a bonds child, is in bondage. And then this wonderful world of eternal life, of eternal Gods, of brilliance and riches and glory and splendor and magnificence, of them that shall shine greater than the brightness of the noonday. Let's sing a chorus together, can we? You'll have to pardon me for drinking so much water, but I'm thirsty. I'm the same way in the Spirit. In the Spirit, he that thirsts shall be filled, and I thirst, and I thirst, and I thirst. And the Bible said, Let Him that thirst come and partake of the waters of life freely, no money, and the Bible says to the inner most you, as to the well of salvation. That is, the deep place of waters that in the Spirit, as to in that which we cannot fathom, as to natural comprehension, and only through the mind of Christ can we comprehend the heights, the depths, and widths of this great light, that that the natural mind with all of it's scientific Einstine brilliance can never even touch. With this mind, the deep there that we cannot fathom, as to that calls to the deep here. And the deep calling unto the deep, the Bible said, at the water spout of God, whose water spout you are as to wells of salvation, that with Joy from out of the inner most being, as to these rivers of living water, it comes forth. It comes forth. So, the water comes out of your soul to satisfy your outer man and then your cup runs over and the thirsty around you gets a drink. Let's sing that chorus together, can we? A lot of times we sing that song Where The Living Waters Flow. I like that song. Let's sing this little chorus. I'm still having little problems as to tightness in the throat and chest, but you can handle it. (Sings Without Him.) Sing that with me now. (Continues singing.) Help me, Frank. (Continues singing.) Glad to have my Dale with me, my Suzie rather. And it won't be long that they'll be coming down. They've got everything ready now. And they'll be moving right on down and the children, as I said, they've already__ If everything goes well they've already bought and signed the contract on all of this land, practically all of this land that was for sale along here, up here along the road. There is about forty acres as to their part, and there are some of them, I think, perhaps the Finleys and the Pasdons. They've already purchased land. I think maybe Brother Finley and then have a couple of lots right back of the two that the children bought up here, and then in between there there are two or three lots, and on the other end our Brother Pasdon has bought two of those lots, I believe. And that only leaves about three and four, and four is a good lot and three it's down in a valley like with a little trench running through there, which could be made beautiful if you'd put a little arch bridge over it and some flowers and trees. But anyway, maybe somebody will get part of that third one and somebody on the other side will get part of that third one, or maybe somebody will outright buy it. There is only a couple of lots in there and perhaps some of our people will buy those two lots so they'll get those lots, or somebody that will be friends and neighbors. But anyway, our children have all these on the right side and on the left side going up the road of Bethany. And some that come around past the house where the black lady lives there on the corner. She has a little lot there and part of that land (Begin tape two, side one.) that the children purchased around the corner down the hill there a ways, all of that is their property. And they've got everything pretty well lined up. They are going to try to move in up there and if that be true then that will have them right here close to us and give us some good neighbors and somebody that at least favors what we're doing, and respects what we're doing. And of course to see my children, as to my natural children, coming back to God is a thrill to me. And I appreciate your efforts and blessings and prayers and instructions and help and patience with them, even as I've tried to help you and be patient with you because I'm concerned about their soul, because the Bible said, Go ye into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature and they are creatures. We're indebted as to bring salvation unto them just like every living human being. I request that you pray for me, give prayer for me and my children, or pray for us, because I pray for you and your children and your loved ones all the time. All right. Can we sing again, Brother Taylor? Let's sing a little altar chorus together. The altars are always open. You never know who wants to come to the altar. Somebody perhaps has had problems through the day, or somebody has come that needs salvation. I always give altar call. I repeat this again; I've done is so many times to let you know why. In preaching one morning at a church I did not give an altar call. I didn't feel any conviction much and I was a young minister. I didn't give altar call and on my way out somebody stopped me and they were so disturbed. And they said, Why did you not give altar call this morning. I said, Well, I just didn't feel like there was nobody here that was really wanting to seek God. And the person said, I was here and I wanted to seek God, and I felt like I need to come to the altar and you didn't give altar. And from that time on I said, Lord, you help me. Forgive me. Don't let blood be on my hand and I'll always try to remember. And most all the time unless I really feel moved of God I always give an invitation to come to the altar. So let's sing this. Sometimes people who already have an experience with God they just get kind of laden down and broken in spirit and they need a little lift, and just coming to the altar makes them feel better. And it strengthens them. (Sings Room At The Cross and At The Cross.) Let's sing another chorus or two just before we dismiss, can we? Give me a kind of a low key and let's try this. I'm kind of tight in singing. (Sings Tell Me His Name Again.) Sing that with me, Brother Taylor. (Continues singing and sings I Love Him.) Once again. Sing that with me. I'm going to ask Brother Pasdon to come and dismiss us. (Continues singing.) Do you really love Jesus? Lift your hands up to heaven, close your eyes and worship the Lord. The Bible said obedience is better than sacrifice. To surrender, to conform, is more than all precious gold and silver. Once again. (Continues singing.) Jesus said if you love me you'll keep my commandments. (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