Humility Before Honor (2)

......and visions are really something. You can be seated. They're great powerful and might when people are inspired of God. There's three kind of dreams, or there's three kind of minds. There are three kind of worlds. Three kind of people. Three forms of life, majorly speaking. And dreams, they hold a great meaning in God. They're so mighty and so great. Joseph had a dream and he held the destiny of his nation and his people out of that one dream because it was a dream by night. And he told it to his brethren, how that God raised him up, gave him the preeminence over them and they hated him and tried to kill him, and tried to stop it but they didn't stop the dream. They only aided the dream and did the things that was necessary for him to go in to the place to be raised up to become their lord. And it was Solomon, he had a dream that held the destiny of the nation when the Lord showed him in a dream, this great wisdom and this great thing that He was going to do for him. Daniel had a dream. Daniel said I dreamed, and I dreamed by night and the vision of my head troubled me because it was a vision from God because there is a dream that is a vision from God. And this great vision held the destiny of the people. So, not only that but it even reached so far that it went all the way over to the end of the world and as of yet it still hasn't come to pass, as to the tribulation period as to the time of Jacob's trouble. So they're great and they're mighty. There are three kind of dreams. There's a dream that comes from the multitude of business. Whereas, you're so busy all day long. The Bible speaks of this dream, that you just find yourself restless and dreaming and dreaming and dreaming all about things and things you've done and you're just up and in and out, you know, and around. And then there is dream, the Bible speaks of a dream, a filthy dreamer, that every time they dream they have to dream of something filthy. And it's always mixed up with passions or corruption. And then there is a dreamer. The Bible says Daniel dreamed and the vision of my head troubled me. There is a dream where a vision comes from God. Job said, and by night, said, he saw some things. And it was amazing as to the dreams he had, and the visions by night that he had. So you never know. People as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, it said that young men will have visions. Daniel was a very young man down there having visions. And you have visions sometimes where you'll just be sitting, you know. Have been sitting in a chair and fall into a trance, like Peter on the house top. Be hungry, just like Peter, waiting for Betty to fix something to eat and go off in to a trance and see things. I have, as it was said, Balaam was things with his eyes open. You'll just be sitting there and things pass before you. A lot of times these are called premonitions. People that have been sitting at the table eating and all of a sudden__ There's records and little stories where they'll just start screaming and they'll say, What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Just sitting eating a meal, and they'll say, Well, I just saw something happen to my child. I saw them drown. I saw such and such, and they say it came to pass. And phenominal thing happen. It's kind of like people that catch on fire. I read a little book on time where there were numbers of people that caught on fire, they just be laying in bed and all of a sudden their hand would turn into a blaze. Or I have heard of them standing on the street corner waiting on a bus and their whole body would just burst into a blaze. Just become combustible and turn into a blaze. Numbers of people have done this. Strange things happen, but God visits His people. And we should be alert. We should be spiritual. If we were more spiritual more things would be revealed to us. And they mocked Joseph and they called him the dreamer. But, nevertheless, God blessed Joseph and these things when have when it's revelation. We look out here and there's something there and all of a sudden it's there and you understand it, as the vision I had. Looking into heaven and you see the things that are in heaven because there are two sides of you. There's a natural side and there's a spiritual side, and Satan who is a spirit is interwoven with your body and he is alluring your spirit to keep control of your spirit that he might parasite in your body. For the whole time that he does this he stays out of the dry places. And when we say the dry places, that is he is not cut off from life because God is the only (?) of living water and Satan gets that water through your spirit by dwelling in your body and parasiting. Just like a parasite lives off of your life while you're trying to survive he's using your life up and if you don't watch out he'll get the best of it. They're only symbolic of spirits. All kind of spirits. People move by impulse. They move by the desires. They move by the enthusiasm, you know, when it comes to passions. And they are moved by inspirations, whether it's good or bad. So then, people are subject to these spirits. You're subject to devils. And when you are born into the world you're born with the spirit of foolishness in you and it takes the rod of correction, as to the complicities of life, the father's tutoring, the mother's care to get the devil off of you and out of you. And even though it's not charged against you until you come to the knowledge of sin. Where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed but as quick as you come to the knowledge of sin you're no longer, as it was said of the little children you're spirit, or angel, being in heaven, you are then accountable for your angel has entered into the world. Just coming to the knowledge and as it comes to the knowledge of the world, and knowledge is as to the tree of knowledge. That is the world, because you live in a knowledge. Someone says, Well, I live in the world. I can touch things, I can feel things, I can see things. Yes, I know. But we have also spoke to you about Jesus when He walked through the wall. What world was He living in? Somebody says, Well, He was different from me. The Bible said He was flesh and bone just like you are, but He still walked through the wall. See? So you live in your mind. Have you ever seen a man, he's drank so much until he's seeing pink elephants and all kind of things. I've met them and talked to them. And people that are insane, they live in a certain world. It doesn't matter what you say, you don't offend them. They just think you're ignorant cause that's their world, and you just don't know who they are. And there are religious people like that. They're just so religious they live in a world of their own. They're not really born again. They don't have God. They live all their life like that; they're religious parasites. See? And parasites live your life because they are spirits and they are in the world, and they just come right into your body and they are a frame of mind just like putting a disc, or a program into a computer. They slip right in to you and you don't know nothing but your thoughts. You're body won't do nothing but your thoughts. You can't discern it, and you can't see it because you are only what you're thinking and your body responds to your thinking. And no matter what anybody tells you it has no effect on you because your thinking has control of you. And this is bad because spirits of fear get a hold of you. People who should love their husband; the women, love their husband with all their heart. And maybe their husband is ten times what the old devilish (?) is that she's running after and whoring after. But that spirit has captivated their minds and they think that's the grandest thing in the world, and he's not equal to a pig wallowing in the slop. They might have a real fine man for a husband, and a man is the same way. He sees something and he runs and whores after it, and he might have one of the finest little women that ever walked on the earth. But as to him that evil gullible desire, that thing that eats at him and gnaws at him makes that women look like candy and honey when she ain't fit for nothing. She's corrupt and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God. And the same way, same problem that she's causing, as to her husband, or whoever's connected with her. She'll cause that man the same problem once he gets her, or get him killed. A man was telling me the other day that a woman caused him to be blind in one eye. The woman we mentioned this morning got the policeman killed, or got her husband killed, and the policeman probably go to the electric chair, or prison for life. Well, any way, parasites, devils, demons, cause people move by inspiration, they move by desire. It's an unction from somewhere that they move by. They move by what they want, the way they feel. By their feelings. But I say all these things just a pre-word here to say that you are, as to your first birth, subject to devils and demons, and like Mary Magdaline, some of the others. There were those that has seven devils. There were those that has legends of devils. And those things will crowd up and press you until you will be from one strong delusion to another, one problem of mind to another. From one lustful thing to another; moving by lust and desire, and by feelings, see? rather than by faith in God's Word. So that mind will have you and that mind will say, Let's go work. Let's make money. Let's have a business. Let's buy us a car. Let's get us a house. Let's go over here. Let's visit the relatives. Let's eat, drink and be merry. Let's relax. Let's rest. Let's just go from store to store, with the vain jinglings and the music. Let's visit our relatives. Let's just have a frolic. Let's laugh and giggle. Let's talk about something of the world. Let's get us some securities, whatever. For the devil savors the things that be of the flesh. But the Word of God will say, Deny thyself. Take up the cross and follow me. All of these are lying vanities. They're going to pass away, but they that do My will abideth forever. If you save your life you'll lose it, but if you're willing to give up your life for my sake, not move by feeling, lust and desire, then just follow me according to faith he can live forever. So then, we program our mind accordingly. Otherwise children are forced into school to be programed with the desire of human lust and covetousness of the world. And those desires of the world, if that is in you then the desire of the Father isn't there, as to the original rendering of the word lust, or desire. To look on one to desire them. Now. Life is in the heart. Those three dreams are there, those three ways of life, those three minds are there, and when you get one of those minds that's what you are. As to your world, that's what you are. And when you get the mind of Christ that's what you are, because whatever the mind is. The mind of Lucifer; that's what Judas was. He was a devil. Jesus had the mind of God. He was God. And we could go on preaching on demonology, or go on preaching tonight on the parasites, or preaching about these things, but there is one thing that you want to remember. Your world consist of on thing, and that's the mind. Not the things that are around you, just your mind. That's all. So according to your desire that'll be your mind. According to your mind, that's what you are. If your mind is on your face, if your mind is on your body, if your mind is on your future, as to education or being some celebrity, or whatever, that's what you are. It doesn't matter. If you've got a mind of rebellion, a mind of haughtiness__ The Bible said a haughty spirit goeth just before a fall . That's a demon. If you've got your mind in a place, as to rebellion, stubbornness, as to being stubborn, to rebel, or to be stubborn as toward submission to the things of God then the Bible said you're the same as a witch, same as a devil. You are a devil incarnate, and that's the same as witchcraft and idolatry. You might as well to worship idols because you're going to hell the same as idol worshippers, and the same as witches. The terms was used, who has bewitched you. It's a bewitching spirit. So I just thought I mention those few things here. The significance of dreams if we were more spiritual. This morning I kind of elaborated just a little bit, as concerning why that the Jewish people have had such phenomenal things. The land of Palestine. All over Israel, a few miles and a great miracle took place back through the years. Another few miles and another great phenomenal thing took place. And another, and another, and another; all over Israel. And it was because they brought their bodies under subjection, and the grace, the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world allowed God to deal with them after that fashion and great and mighty things took place. As I said, as to the soulish real of the people that's out yonder, God has allowed grace and great things takes place among them, as to educational thrust, as to reflecting the things of God and finding a knowledge that it is unreal. It was said at the tower of Babel that if I don't confound their language, if I don't go down and stop them or do something, they're ready to build a tower to heaven and nothing will be hid from them. It's obvious that they've gone as to the places of Einstein and they've unlocked the heavens and they've build up to the heavens. Whereas He said, Though thou climbest up to heaven from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. And scientific brilliance, their intellectual brilliance moves on. But then there are the spiritual people, and these are God people. And the Bible speaks of these people. They have the right to believe themselves into Godship. They have the right to believe themselves into riches, into power, into splendor, into magnificence, into glory, even God's glory. But Satan is forbidden that and others are forbidden that. And the Bible said you can get in, as to while the blood is on the seat of atonement you can get in to this wonderful wedding supper. But if you come without the body of the Lord Jesus having been baptized into His death, put on His body, then you shall be cast into the outer darkness for the intellectual ignorance of the confusion that will take hold of you, and your doom will be a place of darkness, or intellectual ignorance to where you cannot find your way to the light of God's understanding anymore. And a lot of people are doing that. That's why they are in such religious place, as to the danger that they're in right now. They have been turned over to a reprobate mind to believe a lie and be damned. They reflect things. They still feel the presence of the Lord, as to the rain on the unjust and they've convinced themselves that they are right, and that God loves them in spite of all that they have done and that they are still going to heaven. But I tell you, you're not. When the rain is over that will be it. You'll be in the dry places. The mercy of His rain, as to His love and His grace, as to His pouring out of His mercy it's here. And the door is just about ready to close. This is not a great wonderful godly generation. This is a lukewarm, Laodicean, wretched generation. Blind generation, spiritually speaking, and they are a lustful, covetous, adulterous, evil, wicked people and the Lord is just about ready to turn out the lights. I thought how phenomenal it was that even the allegoric things of the little Trailway, so abused, so much rust, work we've got to do with it. And the little discussion, as to riding this trail again, as to that relating to the Eagle nation going down, as Washington said, and then being brought back. Whereas he did not say, as we say as to the millennium, but that's what it was, from what I understand. Cause this nation will never come up again, except in the millennium. And the Silver Eagle. It's really something that so many little things fit together in such a great and mighty way. The foolish and abase things of the world to confound the wise, to bring to nought those people that feel that they are of those things that seem to be something are nothing. It just brings they to nought. So then, if you're not walking in the Spirit you should be walking in the Spirit because the Bible says that if you live in the spirit__ Someone says, I live in the Spirit, Brother Pike; I'm born of God. The Bible says if you live in the Spirit then you should walk in the Spirit. And if you are not walking in the Spirit you should be walking in the Spirit. For as many as are lead by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God, and all things work together to them that love the Lord for those that are called according to His purpose. For them that He foreknew He did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son. And them that He did predestinate He justified. Them that He justified He sanctified. Them that He did sanctify He did also glorify. And the Bible says they are without spot, wrinkle or blemish. If God be for us who can be against us. No one can lay anything to the charge of God's elect, and as to their safety and security the Bible emphatically states that there is nothing that can separate you from the love of God. There is nothing present, there is nothing to come, there is nothing from the past, there is no power at all, not even the devil's power, no demons, no devils, principalities, powers, whatever they might be, sickness, distress, poverty; not any of these things can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, which is so mighty. So you never have anything to fear other than fear itself, as it's been said. Let's just read a little bit and talk about the wonderful things of God for a few minutes. See? The secret of things with God is faith. So then, faith versus feelings, desire, human ego. What should I do? I should believe the Word. I should confess the Word. I should think the Word. I should live the Word. I should be the Word. Every thought should be the Word. I should not lean to my own understanding. If I should not lean to my own understanding, why then should I be so eager to get all of the educational certificates of the world, and all of the intellectual knowledge of the world, as to the history and science, and all of these things? Why should I go after them? Why should I be so eager to get those things if I can't use any of them? for He said, Lean not to thine own understanding. If I go after those things it's very obvious I spent my time reading and studying those things. And if I spend my time reading and studying those things that's carnality, which is enmity with God, because that mind is Satanic. That's the old power of Satan to have your mind on the flesh and the things of the world then you're not bringing every thought into subjection. You're not casting down the imagination and the ambition and your desire. Who shall remember this? Or who should remember it? The Bible said remember thy creator in the days of thy youth before you pile up all these things, as to the judgment. So we're going to read about the fifteenth chapter of Saint Matthew if you'd like to read with us. Just pick out a little bit here and read. (1) Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, (2) Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. (3) But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? (4) For God commanded, saying, Honour they father and mother and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. (5) But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; (6) And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (7) Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, (8) This people draweth night unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. (9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (10) And he called the multitude and said unto them, Hear and understand: (11) Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but tht which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. (12) Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? (13) But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. (14) Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (15) Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. (16) And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? (17) Do not ye yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the drought? (18) But those thing which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. (19) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: (20) These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. (21) Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. (22) And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. (23) But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. (24) But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (25) Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. (26) But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. (27) And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. (28) Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour." Jesus here rebuked the woman, as it would appear, when the woman came, or when the disciples came asking, as with the disciples as they would do to ask mercy. And then when they did not obtain mercy, as to her, Jesus wanting her to come that He might deal directly with her, and then when she came He spoke to her in such a harsh way when she said, Have mercy on me Lord. If I were to speak to one of you, if you came up here to my altar and I spoke to one of you that way, if I was real harsh and spoke using that terminology you'd probable pout and leave and you would never come back to Bethlehem. But Jesus wanted to deal directly with this woman for the simple reason He was God. He knew her heart. He wanted to magnify faith. In magnifying faith in this woman's heart, which He knew was in there, it would magnify God in the earth as to the wonderful hidden potentiality of God that is the Christ on the inside of this human body and they would see the miraculous take place. And so when the woman came and begged for mercy he just said, It is not meat that I should give this bread to dogs, because the Gentiles was looked on as dogs. And should I take the children's bread and give it to dogs? said, it's not right to do that. And the woman, she didn't get offended. She wasn't ugly. She wasn't self-esteemed. She didn't get upset and run away. She humbled her heart and she said, True, Lord. You know, that is, I'm a dog, as to the Gentiles; I know I'm a dog, but I still believe that You're the master. I still believe that you are merciful. And in her heart there was something that told her there was no respect of persons, whether it be Jew, whatever. Whatever. Whether it be a Canaanite, or an Israelite, as we would say. Or whether it be one, as to an Israelite down in the land of Canaan. She just felt like He wasn't a respecter of persons. And here she said, The dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the children's table. I'm not asking, she said, for the children's bread. I didn't come to ask for the children's bread. I know my unworthiness. I know my place; I'm nothing. I didn't feel worthy to come here and ask for the children's bread. I just know that there are crumbs that fall from the table and the dogs are allowed to eat those. And Jesus whose was so greatly and mightily moved by her humility. The Bible said humility is before honor, and this great humility that was emanating from her, Jesus was so fascinated that he knew that this kind of humility had drove Satan clear out of her like; that he was not as a middle wall of partition between her spirit and the Christ that was in His heart, or God. He knew that that kind of humility had over powered that body where Satan lodges, and that it was an open door for Him to reach her spirit. That her faith had penetrated and came right through that middle wall of partition, and when that faith come forth he said, O woman, great is thy faith. Neither male nor female; God's no respect of person, but He said, O woman, great is thy faith. He said, Say what you will and you can have it. So then, with humility. As I said the other night concerning the royal crown, God isn't going to give it except to charity. And one of the great characteristics of charity is humility. (Side two) Humility does not behave itself unseemingly because it is a characteristic of charity and the Bible says charity doeth not behave itself unseemingly. And here is a picture of humility. Great mighty faith because of humility. I tell you so often when I give you these little exhortations that the whole world today is lacking in one thing, that's humility. The Bible said humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and He will raise you up and reward you in due season. Don't be faint. Don't faint by the way for ye shall reap in due season if you faint not. After that you have done the will of God you have need of faith that you should receive the promise for here is humility. Working toward humility. Why is faith powerful? It brings humility. It's not always in the heart after a fast. In the day we're living in people fast to project themselves. The Bible said to smite with the fist of wickedness. To project themselves. To believe that they're some great thing. To feel like they've done something that someone else hasn't done and they get all webbed up in their own intellectual ignorance, and Satan takes advantage of them and their fast did more harm to them than good. But where true humility is, the devil humbles himself, the Bible teaches that, to get his way. But where there is true humility it's always the forerunner of honor, but where there is haughtiness, where there is arrogance, where there is a haughty spirit, the Bible said that goeth before a fall, where there is a proud spirit, it's a pride, the Bible said that is a forerunner of destruction. So then, in humility this woman found the praise of Almighty God. Paul said, I praise you in a good thing. And she found a praise of Almighty God, and honor. The Bible said in seeking honor, how can you have the honor that comes from God. And here He honored her and bestowed such great honor upon her, as to say, Great is thy faith, woman; say what you will. So you see the thing that was necessary was faith. It wasn't as if she was man, or woman, as we would say, or whether it was man or woman. It wasn't as to the rich or poor, or the intellect, or whatever it might be. It was faith. That's all it took, faith. He was the Word. The Word was made flesh, and here was faith, as to all generations, the same yesterday, today and forever. And there it was and she saw it. See? And humility, like when the woman wept. She washed Jesus' feet, though they called her a prostitute and everything else. But the Bible said the drunkards and the prostitutes, the whoremongers, they go into the Kingdom of God before you religious Pharisees and Sadducees do. He said, You hypocrites. Because you say that you will go and you don't go, and they go the way of the world in their ignorance. And when they come to the light they repent and I cleanse their heart and then they come into the Kingdom of God and they are converted and they are saved. You stand at the door. You just hinder those that are coming and you won't do in yourself. You are just a hindrance. That's all there is to it. So then, here is a great humility. There is a great humility. The woman didn't pay any attention, as to her accusers. She just wept. Wept because she knew that she was nothing. She knew that she had gotten down to the dogs. Like when Jesus met the woman that was taken in the very act, and Jesus said He forgave her and all these self- righteous people that were as dirty as a dirty rag came around accusing and they were suppose to be leaders, and they were suppose to know and they were suppose to be those that were standing between God and the people to represent God. And when they accused the woman Jesus stooped down and began to write in the sand and evidently he must have written their sins one by one. As each one looked they turned away and when He finally finished He said, Woman where are thine accusers? And she said there isn't any. There's not any. He said, Neither do I condemn thee. But He warned her. He said, Now you know. Now you know what's right or wrong. Go your way and don't sin anymore, said, next time it'll be a worse thing. She was about to be stoned to death right there. Somebody says, What could be worse? Going to hell. But, anyway, here it was humility that brought faith for her escape. The woman that washed Jesus' feet with her tears, dried His feet with her hair- As I said so many times, I'm sorry to say that a lot of people don't have hair long enough to do that anymore. But, nevertheless, it's evident that that shows that the glory of the church is gone to that extent. They've chopped it off. And as we've said in the past, anytime a woman does that it signifies rebellion against her head. Her husband is the head and anytime she cuts her hair off like that she is in rebellion to her head, according to symbolics, and it indicates a rebellious church; that the glory is gone. And the man that allows his wife to do that doesn't have very much understanding. It's sad that's she'd even confess anything spiritual. And I know we've got fanatics, you know, that their hair drags the ground, which they can't cut a bit of it off, and to this end that's their salvation. Someone says, Well, isn't that their glory? It certainly is. That's their glory. Somebody says, Well, would you cut your glory off? I said, That is your glory. It doesn't have nothing to do with God; not anything. Your hair don't have nothing to do with God. It's just a covering, as the Bible teaches you should have long hair. Like we saw the other day, a woman with her finger nails out like this. I know I saw one, and I do not believe I'm exaggerating a bit. They were at least three inches, or maybe I'm under doing it, cause I would think it was more than that. You couldn't imagine that. I guess her finger nails were about as long as her hand, or somewhere in the neighborhood. I would say they were longer than her fingers. At least as long. Now, so then, we get in a rut. We strain at a gnat and we swallow a camel. Like women wearing long dresses. To them that's their salvation, wearing long dresses, and they're more dirtier than a pig. They reproach God with those things, like the Jews reproach God. A Pharisaical sort of a thing, hypocrites, Jesus said, in your long robes, salutation in the market places, wanting the upper seats in the synagogue. He said, Because of this I'm going to turn to the Gentiles. They don't do any of those things and I'm going to bring them salvation, and he put the Jews out of His presence. Why did He do that? Did He not favor those things as to the full clothing? Of course He did. Isn't He going to use the Jews and take advantage of all those things that He gave the Jews through Moses? Of course He will. Well, why did He do that? Because they were not following Moses. They were following the tradition of the elders. They did not follow God. Paul said, You have the law and none of you keep it. And the name of the Lord is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of what you do. Some of you that wear long clothing, you are a curse in the sight of God, and you are a reproach. You are so carnal minded you don't know nothing spiritual. You don't practice nothing spiritual. Your mind is on the gullible things of the world all the time. You're just a reproach. Your disposition and your gossiping and backbiting tongue is a reproach to God and everything He stands for whether it's at Little Bethlehem, or wherever it's at. But on the other hand that doesn't cause God to turn away from the fact that it is sheep's clothing, and if you were a sheep you'd have it. You running around without the right kind of dressing, the right kind of thing. See? The first thing is to put you on the Lord Jesus Christ as to the knowledge of God, to cleanse the inside of the platter, to learn not to gossip, not to backbite, not to have these evil thoughts of adultery. Charity thinketh no evil. All this fornication, going after the things of the world. The love of the world. See? And you'll finally come to full garments on the outside. You'll finally dress like a lady. Nobody won't have to tell you to, and you'll dress like a gentleman. Nobody won't have to tell you to. But, anyway, this wonderful humility of God. There it is. See? She had humility and the Lord said, because of this this will be a memorial unto her. And today it is written in the book of God, and it is throughout the entire world. And everywhere in the world this book is published there is a memorial of her as unto God that everyone knows about this great, wonderful woman. And so it has been with women, or men, down through the ages. Then we see another act of humility that when the man came and said, I'm unworthy that You should come under my roof, neither did I feel worthy to come into Your presence. I just sent my servant to see if You would do something, or someone to come to You to ask You to just send Your Word. The Bible said He sent His Word and healed them. Just send Your Word over to my house that my servant will be all right. And Jesus marveled and He said, I have not found so great faith, no not in Israel. Of course in Jacob for all the people Israel. See? I've not found so great faith because of the humility. The humility. See? He said, I just don't feel worth to even come into Your presence. That made his faith great faith. Faith, great faith, and with that just like that he received the desire of his heart. But we're so full of self esteem, we're so full of self, as to feel like we're something special, you know, and we've got something special for God, and we know something special cause the Bible said you cannot receive anything 'cept it be of God. It is God that giveth. It is God that blesses. You didn't do nothing. You haven't done anything whatsoever. The prophet said before I was ever formed in my mother's womb God called me to be a prophet. And Judas was predestined to be a devil before he was ever born. The Bible said, Jacob have I love and Esau have I hated when the children had as of yet not done any good, or evil. That every thing stands according to election, as to what God said. And the Bible said when Paul preached that they that were ordained to eternal life they believed and the rest did not. See? There is nothing to you. There is nothing to us. Someone would say, Well, why do I do all these things to try to be right. and try to be righteous? I do not know. Let's give the Lord a hand. I cannot tell you because I do not know, other than it's just your foolishness. Well, what are you saying, Brother Pike? I'm saying with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. It's by faith. If you're doing the things that you're doing as unto the Lord, whereas the Bible says do all things as unto the Lord that you might have confidence of heart to confident your heart, then you'll have faith. For in this confidence that is faith and you will receive the things that God has for you whether eternal life, or whatever, because it doing this is to bring the confidence, then we receive the things that we ask of the Lord because he has already given us all things in Christ Jesus from the foundation of the world, and His eyes are throughout the earth beholding the good and the evil, looking for the upright in heart, going to and fro seeking out those that have faith to believe in their heart as to have the confidence so they can have those things that they want and He shows Himself strong in their behalf. So that's the way it is, to believe. If thou canst believe all things are possible to them that believe. We could go on and go on talking about faith and how that faith is so great and mighty through the act of humility. Wherever there is humility it's the forerunner of honor. And, folks, that's not a make-believe that you put on. That's not something that you try to have. It's something that comes out of a heart of charity. That is the bond of perfectness. So then, we're set here for the perfecting of your faith, that's why we teach humility. Let's stand together. Let;s sing this little chorus together. I really wasn't planning to be here tonight. Whether you are fortunate, or whether it's your misfortune I'm here, but I really did plan to leave this morning, going back out to look for some strays and somehow the Lord kept me around tonight. I enjoy being with you. Many of you are my spiritual children and from here it goes on tape and goes out to the world. But the Bible says the shepherd leaves the ninety and nine that are safe to go look for the stray. I appreciate all the kind things that you do and some of you do. You give your time. You give your substance, and that's good. It's like Chico. He came in tonight, Sheila's husband, he always come around to give his tithes. He doesn't live for God, but he always makes his way to out trailer, or our house to pay his tithes. I said, Chico, I really appreciate this. I really do, his efforts. I said, but I rather have you in church. I'd rather have you serving God. That's the thing that's important. See? And it is. And thought you do ever so many things, you know, to have a hungry heart, to hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God, and the Word of God, and the things of God, that is the thing that important. If you do that plus the other things then you can be great and mighty in the sight of God. See, if you'll do that. But, otherwise, the only thing I can say is Martha, Martha, Mary has chosen the better part, the part that will not be taken away from her. Because Mary went after the Word of God and the things of God while Martha was so cumbered with the cares of life and the things of life. Always the natural things. What God is wanting is a spiritual intuition, as to a motivation drive that it might be Him that does all of these natural things as when He said, Let there be, as he made the_- As a husband would like to enjoy the things with the wife, but this wife is always wanting the husband, you know, you go make the living. You go make the money. You go one. Wanting to kiss him on the check and push him on out, and soon as he's gone she wants to frolic and the pretty dresses, and all the buying and the eating and the drinking, and that's all she cares about him. He doesn't care much for her when he finds that out. And sometimes (?), but that's the way people are with the Word. They don't want the Word. They don't want the spirit. They don't want the knowledge of God. They don't want the truth. They don't have the drive for that wonderful knowledge of God, but that's your business. My heart hungers and thirsts after those things. David said, that just like that as to the deer, and those things that run through the woods. The animals that thirsts for the water brook. He said, My heart panteth after Thee, O God. My heart panteth after Thee. That's the way my heart is. As the hart to the water brook, so does my heart pant after the things of God, to hunger and thirst. Day and night it hungers and thirsts. I love Heaven. I love His presence. I love His Word. I love the revelation. I love the mysteries of God. I love the strength. I love the promises. I want to feed all day and all night. As far as the rest of the world it's junk. You can have it all. It is junk unless it is something that Christ is in. The body without Christ is dead. Whether you can tell it's dead, or not, it's dead. All those people out in the world without Christ, living in trespasses and sins, the Bible said, their dead while they live. God has no place in their lives. That inspiration, as to life out there is a reflection and it's all because the blood is on the seat of atonement and just as soon as God removes that they'll be in total eclipse, as to darkness, and they won't have anything. They'll be like the Jews. The Jews represented them and when God withdrew from them and they've been going through the dark ages and the heartaches and the sorrows ever since. One day their going to come out of it and be made the head of the nation. And the Gentiles are going to depart from the presence of God forever for the world is (?) Let's sing together, Frank. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Every thing is getting darker and darker. The evening lights are beginning to go out. The dark shadows are beginning to come and people are the more looking for Christ Jesus. As the darkness deepens, as the song we wrote, as the darkness deepens people who have been at one time so confident of their religious order and their religious background and that God was with them, they're not too confident anymore. As they see these things falling around them questions are beginning to arise in their hearts. Remember? We said this would happen. That darkness, and the children would begin to look for the light. Children are real bold and brave in the daytime. They don't care whether daddy is there, or mother is there. Don't make no difference to them. They can handle the situation. They don't need mother and daddy, but when the darkness begins to come then they get scared. Everything begins to get a weird and leery feeling. Then they won't to go back home to mom and dad, cause that's where the light is. That's where the security is. That where they are comforted. So the shadows are falling. The darkness if moving in all over the world and what are we doing for God? The Bible said, The servant that I find so doing I'll make him ruler over all that I've got that (?) the will of the Lord at His coming. What are we doing? What have we done, and what are we planning to do? I want to do something for God. I want to do something for God with you. I want to work with you. I want to help your faith. I am a helper of your faith. I'll do anything I can. I'm sure there are others here that will do the same thing. But when you don't hunger and you don't thirst after the things of God, as I said on numbers of occasions, when the Lord said to William Branham go west, go west for your people will not feed, go west. And he looked a saw a great mountain of bread. Great wonderful things took place from the time he went west. And it had great significance. You don't need to let it be said of you that you won't feed, because when you don't feed malnutrition sets in unawares, the dehydration and you find yourself dying. So you don't want to do that. Somebody said, Well, I feel pretty good myself. Intellectual reasoning will tell you that, but if your interested in businesses, if you're interested in frolics, if your interested in the worldly attire, money, fame, popularity, whatever it might be, you've got a bad case of malnutrition. You're actually dehydrating and don't realize it. And some of you are pretty near gone, You don't even have enough spiritual stamina to give you a drive as to hunger and thirst after the things of God, so you're in bad shape. You do you know, as it was said of Jesus, physician heal thy self. I have a better physician. That's the condition that you're in. But, nevertheless, that's your business, you know. Your business. You are the one. If you listen to the physician you shall live. If you need a physician. If you live it's because you listen to the physician, if not then you die. There is a physical. There is a spiritual. Let's lift our hands up, close our eyes. I'm not going to hold you. While we're standing here we're going to sing that little chorus Brother Taylor, Time shall be no more. (Singing) Sing that with me, now. (Singing) Once again. (Singing) Just one more time. (Singing) I'm going to ask Willie to come up and dismiss us if he will. (Singing) Just one more time together as Willie comes. (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