Christ The Hope Of Glory

Well, it's good to be back tonight. It's always a real privilege to come and be in service with you. Whether we're here in Boone or wherever we're at it's good to be with the people and talk to them about the Lord Jesus knowing that the coming of the Lord is near at hand and knowing that it's high time that we awake out of our sleep for our salvation is nearer now than ever before. And the Bible says when the awoke they saw the His glory. And it's not until you awake out of the deep sleep of the night of darkness of this world that you really see the glory of God. But it's here. Brother Taylor sings that little chorus, He's here. He's here. Yes, He's everywhere. And of course, He's been here all the time, as the song writer says. But the thing is we haven't been able to see Him because our eyes have been beholden. And as it was when He arose from the dead and was on His way to Emmaus and He expounded the Word and they said, Did not our hearts burn within us as He opened the Scriptures to us by the way. And He began from the prophets, coming on down to the time of His coming and expounded the Scripture and unveiled it and told them of the wonderful glory that was awaiting the son of man. And He said to them, Oh, fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have said. Should not the son of man suffered and entered into His glory? Should he not have suffered to enter into that glory? And then there's a glory, as I preached in one of our services not too long ago. There's a glory for everyone of us and we have to enter into that glory. And God has it waiting for us but we have to go through of whatever is ordained for us until we reach that place with Christ Jesus. And it is a true fact that He is our savior and He is nearer that you could ever imagine. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we? Let's sing that little chorus we sang the other night. (Singing.) Let's sing this now. (Singing.) One more time together. Can we sing it? (Singing.) Let's give Him a hand. Somebody say hallelujah! All right. If you're glad to be here say hallelujah. Hallelujah! You can be seated. It's good to be here. I appreciate everyone that's out tonight. There are some that follow this ministry. Wherever it goes they follow it. Whether we are at times off a long ways, off a long ways, preaching the gospel from California to Florida, way up into Jersey, up into that area, the New England states, down to Mexico and Central America and South America, into Alaska, into Hawaii and all over, everywhere, all around, into the northern states, the eastern states, the southern states, the western states, and all around the different parts of the world. We've been able to share a little bit here and there with the gospel of Jesus Christ. And it kind of warmed my heart tonight when our Security met us. He was up last night but he didn't get over to the service. He was telling me tonight, said, During the day I communicated with the Chief of Police here in Boone and said he was just telling me that there was one thing that he really wanted to be, was a Christian. And said, You know what, said, I want all of my officers, my entire police force to be Christians and to love the Lord. I thought that was real good. But, anyway, we're glad to be here tonight. Glad to see you and those that follow the ministry, either in my life, or somebody's life. They follow the ministry because they are children of God and they love the Lord. And they don't care about this world. They have no desire for this world. They love the Lord. Whereas, the Bible says, Come out from among them, be ye a separate people, touch not the unclean things and I'll receive you, saith the Lord. And they are those that love the Lord. And their interest is not in the natural tangible sources of matter, though all natural things emanated from God and it's the act of God's creation. But the thing is, it's contaminated and God has to run it through the filter before we can have it. Whereas, if we seek the Lord, give of that which we have, of our time, of our substance, of our mind, of our heart then the Bible says all things are clean unto us, and God has sanctified all things for us because all things are yours. It's hard for us to grasp the fact that all things are ours, but all things are ours. Everything. The moon and the stars, the ocean. Everything belongs to us and we belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. All things was made for Adam and when Adam forfeited his right to it by losing it to Satan, as to Lucifer, and Satan took over and through Adam became the god of this world, confiscating everything and contaminating everything, it put the children of God, those that were to come, in a bad predicament because in this world everything is contaminated to the extent the Bible says, The world and all that's in the world, the lust of the eye, the pride of life, everything is contaminated and it is the lust of the flesh, and it must be destroyed. Even the stars must fall from heaven and the elements must melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all therein must utterly be burned up. God must purge it and He must completely renovate it. And then He must bring forth – The Bible says there will be a new heaven and a new earth. Heaven and earth shall pass away but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. And the Bible teaches that in that day, when that great light comes, as that great light dawns, coming down that there won't be nothing left. All the earth will pass away. The ocean shall pass away. The mountains will pass away. The heavens will pass away. Everything will pass away. The people will pass away and there will be nothing left except the bodily members of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they alone as the body of Christ dwell in that light. That great marvelous light unto which no man can approach. God, the great mighty light, the great understanding as from everlasting to everlasting, and we dwell in that light, that light being a knowledge, His understanding, His great wonderfulness, His majesty, His glory. And so we alone dwell in that light. The professors of today, great learned men of today, even mighty men like Einstein, (We've said this on numerous occasions.) mighty men like Einstein are but like tiny babies in their diapers. I know that's hard for you to conceive of because that's the best that the earth can produce. But God in heaven knows that's the truth if I ever breathed the breath of life. He is like a little tiny baby when it comes to the knowledge of God and the revelation of Christ, that even in my own life, in my ministry it has been revealed he is so tiny and so small he doesn't even register in the eyes of God. He never did even make it to the registration of Almighty God. But ye are the children of God. And now beloved ye are the sons of God and it is given to you to know all things. All things are yours and it is given to you to know all things. Jesus said, My Father hath made known unto me these things and these things I have made known unto you. And all that He hath made known unto Me I have made known unto you, or you have opportunity to receive it, to grow on to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. So you have this wonderful opportunity and if you don't do it it's just your own fault because God wants you to go thirty fold, sixty fold, hundred fold, to the full measure of the full reward of Christ our Savior. And it's a great wonderful opportunity today. It's like people that are in school and college and they're going on to the diplomacy that they might be able to take over the father's business so that they might become some great person of renown in the earth, whether a celebrity, you know, whatever it might be. They are moving on toward this goal in life. And this is all symbolic of you and people of God. You're right now going through your schooling and through you're transformating into that wonderful world, as to the great heights and dimensions that you can obtain unto. You know there are great heights in God. A lot of people say, Well, we're just going to heaven and that's it. But that's not the way it is, folks. There's more to it than that. See? The Bible says thirty fold, sixty fold, a hundred fold. There is much more to it than just going to heaven. You can attain unto great things. The Bible says, And one shall be ruler over five cities, over ten cities and the Bible teaches that even in the great wonderful celestial world, not only in the world as to the millennium, the restoration, but in the great wonderful celestial world, the Bible says, there in the presence of God and around the Throne there will be twenty-four elders that will be kings sitting upon thrones. And even the apostles said to the Lord Jesus, Seeing that we've left our families, we've left everything that we have in the world, what then do we have in that we've left all to follow You. And He said, When I sit upon my Throne in my glory ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones beside me judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And the Bible says that in that great wonderful celestial world that throughout that world all nations walking in the light of that beautiful, beautiful city whose light is like a jasper stone, the light most precious, even the Lamb, the light thereof, for the understanding, as to the great powers of government that will completely envelope the earth, even in that wonderful great celestial world the Bible teaches there will be kings over the nations and they will come in periodically into the gates of the this lovely city, where the gates will never be closed by day and there will be no night in that city, no need of the sun for the Lamb shall be the light thereof. And they will walk in the light of that city, and these kings will periodically come through those gates taking their crowns and throwing them down at the feet of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. So then, there are kings and there is a King of Kings. There are lords and there is the Lord of Lords. And what a glorious opportunity this is for you to excel to those great wonderful heights of glory, the wonderful heights of glory, on to a full reward and then there is also going the other way as to the descent, there are greater punishments. As to just going to hell, that's not all there is to it. There are greater punishments. And on one occasion Jesus said to one that He called a devil, He said, It would have been better if you had never been born. And He spoke of the greater damnation. And these shall receive the greater damnation, as it was in the days of the Hebrew children when the king said, Heat the furnace seven times, one seven times hotter than it ordinarily would be heated. So we know then that this is a wonderful age. This is glorious age. This is a thrilling age. There is no words to express it. I was talking to my wife again today. We've talked quite a bit since we've been up here because this has to do with great, great revelation. Us being up here it has to do with the move of God as to coming to an ultimatum. And coming up here, if you're not spiritual you wouldn't understand. Paul said, I would that you were spiritual. I'd like to speak unto you as unto spirituals. Jesus said, Having many things to say unto you but I can't say them because you are dull of hearing. And not giving the world opportunity to understand they said, Why is it that you speak to these people in parables? He said, It's not given unto them to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but unto you it's given. So then, we follow the revelation of Jesus Christ even to the very present day revelation. The Bible says it's a good thing that the heart be established and that in the present day truth. And so we watch, not only as to look at the allegoric thing of the veil over the face of the people in the reading of the Old Testament, as to remove that veil and look and to see, as it was when the veil was removed from Rebekah's face when she went into the secret chambers, Isaac could behold the beauty of her face. To the marriage. Not only that. We not looking through a glass darkly but seeing face to face we see this wonderful glory of God as beholding, as it would be in a mirror the glory of God, and we being changed into the marvelous glory of God to be one with Him. So we watch the present day revelation. When the scales fell from Paul's eyes he told the Jews, said, You don't understand and you don't see. And indeed I can truthfully say today since the scales have fallen from my eyes, the world as a whole today doesn't understand. They don't see. They don't even begin to understand. With all of their understanding, as to the natural things of the world, and the brilliance, they've not even got started yet in the spiritual things of God, in the real heavenly things. All they've been looking at is allegoric types, and being caught in the valley of the shadows. And with all of their learning the Bible says, they are ever learning and never able to come to the truth knowledge, or the knowledge of the truth though they are ever learning. But to you to is given to know. To you it is given to understand. The righteous shall understand, but the wicked shall not understand. It doesn't matter how much education, how much understanding that they've got, the Bible says, this understanding of God is higher above their level of understanding, as to human beings, than the heavens is the earth. With all they know it's still that much farther above their learning. And it's given to you to know this great wonderful light that is shining in the midst of the intellectual darkness of today. The Bible says, They shall not see when good cometh. And the Bible says they cannot comprehend this light. Though this light shines in the midst of this generation they cannot comprehend this light. They cannot comprehend this light, for Satan, Lucifer, the god of this world hath blinded their eyes that they cannot see even the eyes of their understanding. But you, being children of light, that day shall not come upon you unawares for you shall know when it's nigh, even at the door. I say a lot of times, that is as close as anybody can get without coming in at the door. They're knocking; they're right at the door. Said, Ye shall know. The coming of the Lord is even so close that you would know even when it's nigh at the door. And he rebuked the people of His day. He said, You are hypocrites. He said, You cannot discern the signs of the times. He said you discern the signs of the weather but you can't discern the signs of the times. Said you're hypocrites. Which means if you can't discern the signs of the times then you are in hypocrisy and you are just making believe with your religion. But, folks, we're Christians; we're not hypocrites. We can discern the signs of the times. And we can tell when it's nigh even at the door. And I'm telling you right now it's nigh, even at the door right now. And we need to be spiritual so God can speak to us spiritually. Praying, Paul said, that we should receive the revelation of Jesus Christ, or the spirit of revelation. One spirit many operations. Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation. I remember a number of years ago when I started praying for the revelation of the Lord Jesus. I pass this on to my audience occasionally, and tonight I'd like to pass it on to you. I'd preached the gospel across the nation. I had fasted. I had prayed. I mean I had really tried my best to live a perfect life from the very intents of my heart, from the very reflex of my mind, from the very impulse of my body. I do this always, trying to do this and have down through the years, but still I had never come to the revelation of Jesus Christ. With all that I'd taught, with all that I knew, with all that I understood I did not know that there was such a thing. I had read about it in the Bible but I did not know of such a thing. And one day the Lord spoke to me and said to me, I want to give you the revelation of Jesus Christ. And this just literally astounded me because I didn't even know what He was talking about. I couldn't understand and it didn't even register at the time that the book that John wrote is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It didn't even register. I had read in the Bible where Paul had spoke about something about the revelation of Jesus Christ, but much of Paul's writings I couldn't understand to save my life. I would read his writings and it was so beautiful and so fascinating, but I just couldn't understand it. But when He took me away the first thing I thought was, I thought, I'm losing my mind. Oh, my God! I'm losing my mind. You know, because down through the years we've got these old horny heads, like, you know, they'll say, There's some things God don't want you to know. And they'll say, Now, don't study too much and don't do this because you'll lose your mind. You know, I really had that in my heart. I thought, you know, maybe they're right. And I found out that's one of the biggest lies that Satan ever, ever told, and those are some of the biggest liars. And of them, of course, are innocent. They don't know. They are just like I was; it was just passed down to them. Old wives fables. That is, fleshly fables. But I went away with the Lord and I begin to talk with the Lord and I prayed before the Lord and I slobbered like a mad dog. I mean I got away, I found me a place in, like a dug out, as to a cave, a basement. And I got in there, it was just plain ground, and I got in there and I began to pray and I began to talk to God and the Lord began to bless me and I prayed until I was a mess. I mean I was just slobbering, but I was sincere. I felt God take a hold of my heart and as these things began to unveil to me I thought, My God! I really am losing my mind. And you know, I found out I really did. I lost my mind and got the mind of Christ. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say Hallelujah! So the Lord began to open my mind and my heart and the scales fell from my eyes. The Lord had struck me down like He did Paul and put me in the ministry. I was real busy. I was busy in the world, just a real young guy and I loved my wife with all my heart and had one or two little children and I wanted to build them a home. And I wanted to be successful in life, as to provide for them, and I would tell myself, I'd say, Nobody is going to have to provide for my little family. I'm going to provide for my own family. They're not going to be a bunch of beggars, you know, and leaches and somebody have to take care of them. And I was real independent. And I remember even when we were trying to build our first little old home, how that the neighbors, as to a fine Methodist community, and people tried to help me and I said, I don't want the help, you know. I'm not a bum. I make my own way. I realize now how arrogant and ugly that was. But I didn't know it at that time. But, anyway, I kept telling myself, you know, that I was going to do this. I was going to do this. And I was on a job working, working late one night and I was doing some work on the side and I was re-finishing a floor for somebody. Trying to make me a little extra money, trying to build my house, and I had had a lot of experience in a lot of things from the insurance business to the newspaper business, all kind of things, been involved in it. And then I was working on the side here in the construction way. I'd had a lot of experience in the construction so I was trying to do whatever I could, you know, to make an extra dollar. And all of a sudden while I was communicating with this fellow that was working with me, just a couple of us, he said something and I laughed. I said something and he laughed. And all of a sudden he laughed and laughed and laughed. And I laughed and laughed and laughed, and then while I was just carried away with merriment something shocked me. I said, Oh, my God! something is wrong here. What he's saying isn't that funny. Something is wrong. And I jumped up to my feet and I ran to the door because I realized that what it was, was that we were getting overcome of the lacquer fumes that we were using. And when I went to this door, it was probably four or five steps down, concrete steps into the yard, a grassy lawn out there. And when I stepped to the door and pulled the door open, or stepped to the opening, all of this air hit me and I was filled up with those fumes and when it hit me, just like that, just like you'd hit me with a ball bat. And when it hit me I looked and I saw the end of the world. And there it was before me. The Lord had come in the end of the world and it jolted and shocked me so bad that I don't know how I got down the steps. I don't know what happened to me. All I know is I went down the steps and I was going around and around and around. And the next thing I know I hit the ground and there I lay. And the next thing I know there was a lady bending down over me with a wet towel and she was putting it all over my face. And I come to myself and I looked up and from that time I was just a nervous wreck. I was torn to pieces, the shock was so great. And I began to try to find a means of rehabilitation. I said, Oh, my God! Oh, my God? What is this? What is this? I went to the doctor and the doctor said, I'm sorry. I can't help you. Man! You might as well to have took a gun and shot me and killed me, because I never knew anything but a doctor. And then I had to turn to another source. I turned to God and I began to call on God and I said, Lord, what is this? I don't even hardly know God. I don't know what to do. I was real young. I thought, I don't even know what to do, and I began to call on the Lord. And as I began to call on the Lord the Lord began to rehabilitate me and bring me back to reality, as far as having control of my nerves and my body, and whatever, and being stable in thought, you know. And I said, My God! Oh, my God! What is this? And I found myself saying, Lord, I'll do what you want me to do. I'll preach the gospel. And I thought, My God! I don't even know what the gospel is. I don't know what I'm saying. But nevertheless, the Lord knows. He ordains and He has something for us and here is a glory that we must obtain unto. And like Paul He struck me down. And when He struck me down He finally got me over to the street called straight. And when He got me over to the street called straight I was baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sin. I was planted in the water and I came up a new creature. And I came up mighty and great in the mind of God as the days passed on. And the Lord made it greater and more mighty all the time. Well, as I said, when I come to this part of the revelation I didn't know it. Paul, about three years or more in the desert, having learned at the feet of Gamaliel, had such a terrific reputation that going before those great mighty men they marveled because they knew of the reputation of Gamaliel and the reputation of Paul, and said, Paul much learning hath made thee mad. And they thought he'd lost his mind. And so when I read the readings of Paul and I saw this it really got a hold of me and I thought, But I don't understand. I'm preaching and I don't understand the writings of Paul. There's many things I didn't understand as to the teachings on adultery. And I couldn't understand that. It was just too much for me. And I couldn't understand the Godhead and I couldn't understand baptism and I couldn't understand the thing of Paul being caught up into the third heaven. I couldn't understand how there was seventy with Jesus that had cast out devils and then run off and left him when the devils was subject to them in the name of the Lord. I couldn't understand how Judas could obtain part of the ministry and then fall by transgression. Well, needless to say when I came into the revelation of the Lord Jesus I understood every bit of it, every bit of it in detail without any problem whatsoever, down to the very tee. Not only that but all of the writings of Paul that I never could understand, I understood it beautifully, everything that he said right straight through. And in the book of Revelation where John wrote of the revelation of Jesus Christ I could not understand that. That was such a foreign thing to me that I went through that book so many times, reading this New Testament through on my knees without getting up. You know, just reading it. Maybe I'd read, as we would say, four or five books at one time. And read the whole thing through on my knees. And the book of Revelation, I went through it so many times that I can't remember. I'd read it, or go through it all the way through and start back over it all the way through, and all the way through. And I still couldn't understand it, but when I got the revelation of Jesus Christ it unveiled all the way from the beginning all the way through to the end. And not only that, beloved friend, but it's the truth. All liars will have their part in the lake of fire. And having given my life to God throughout my life time and then stand before you and lie I would be no exception. But God knows this is the truth. He not only opened up the Bible form Genesis to Revelation, I mean completely through, and made it an unveiled thing so beautiful and so lovely it astounded me. It staggered me. It was so different from what I'd been taught. It was so different even reading the New Testament, and reading it verbatim, and looking at the words and understanding what the writer said, when the veil came off of it was so different until I couldn't hardly believe what was happening to me. And not only that. Someone would say, Well, I think that is nothing less than phenomenal. Folks, that belongs to all of us. It's given to all of us freely. Let whoever will come and partake of the waters of life freely, for the Bible says He that lacketh wisdom God gives to everyone freely. He doesn't upbraid any He just gives it if you'll come to Him. But that's not so phenomenal as the fact that not only this but many hundreds and thousands of things of deep mysteries in revelation aside from that open up, that came to found itself upon the precious Word of God. You know, the Bible tells us that, as to the prophets of old, as to the Word of God said, And the Word of the Lord came unto the prophets. It was a spiritual thing. It wasn't Scripture as to a scribing. You know, we speak of the scribes, like Ezra, or the scribblers, or them that as scribes they wrote the Scriptures, or the Scripture means scribing. So then, it said before they become a scribe, or a Scripture that this wonderful Word came to them by inspiration. And said all Scripture is given by inspiration. And then they wrote it down. And it become, as this collection of books that's called a Bible – The word Bible … (Begin tape one, side two.) … in the book, sixty-six books. And they put it all together. King James watching over this and having people to work this thing out, put it all together to where we would have a record. God watched over it to where we could have a record, even to the dark ages, using the monks to pen this thing and bring it on through during the time of the dark ages. See? And this Bible is with us. But today the same great Holy Ghost, the same mighty Christ, even the Christ that was with them, today is in you and I. And this is a greater day than that day. And thought the prophets were great, mighty, Abraham and Elijah and Moses and John the Baptist, none greater than John. But, folks, nevertheless, notwithstanding, he that is least in your day, he that is least in your age is greater than John. For John was under the law, but you're not under the law. You are the very body and bone of God Almighty, as to His body, which is Jesus Christ. And you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and John was just a prophet. But you are the very God body that dwells in the light of this great wonderful knowledge of revelation. And tonight when I say some of these things to you, I know that they might be a little shocking to you, because the church is walking in such a small, small measure of what they are ordained unto, being ordained unto the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus, saying, Let us go on to be perfect. For everyone that be perfect shall be as their master. Overcoming. He that overcometh I will give to him to eat of the hidden manna. So, when I say these things I know it's shocking. But tonight I'm just talking to you a little bit tonight. But tonight you are great mighty people. We find in the book of Mark 11: 22, I've spoken on this numbers of times. "Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God." Have faith in God. Last night we spoke on faithless generation. Have faith in God. And if I can get around to saying a few little things here I'd like to bring some things to your mind. I doubt seriously I'll be able to get to them because this being the last night of the meeting and the time changing, that set us about an hour back anyway, and being the last night of the meeting I doubt seriously I'll get into those things. But I am going to say a few things here that might stir your interest and might cause you to want to search the Scriptures. Jesus said one time to the Jewish people, He said, You think that you have eternal life. You think that you have eternal life. Folks, there are a lot of people in the world today, they thing that they've got eternal life and they are positive that they've got eternal life and they are convinced that they are Bible scholars, and no matter what you tell them that they are a Bible scholar and regardless to what you tell them they have a level and they can't get beyond that and there's no way that they can conceive of the thought that you would know more than they know, or understand more than they understand because that's man. Man has to be like that to keep a stability of his faith as to what he does learn. And so then, he finds himself in such a complex situation that he never really grows in the things of God. For until you can realize that there is more in God then you cannot grow. If you are satisfied with what you've got and you won't listen to anybody to tell you anything else then you'll never be anything except what you are, because all that you're going to listen to is yourself and what you can find for yourself. And you'll never grow any bigger than yourself. But when we realize that God is a spirit and that there are many members to his body and this ministry God has set for the perfecting of the saints and we're looking to God and looking beyond the veil of flesh to follow a man as he follows Christ, having no confidence in the flesh, folks, we'll grow taller than trees. We'll get big and mighty. We'll grow up into things we never dreamed God had for us. For eyes hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man at any time. No matter, Einstein, or whoever, the things that God hath prepared for them that love him. But he hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit, having made them revelation unto babes which are willing to learn, or pray for the spirit of revelation. So then, great and mighty things we have. Just talking to you tonight as Jesus would when he pushed out in the little boat. Just tutoring you a little bit, teaching you a little bit. See? We know that we are children of God. We know that we are children of God for the Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are children of the resurrection. And because we're children of the resurrection then that means that we are more than just a man. Paul said, Follow we as I follow Christ. Now this may sound alarming to you, but the Bible says we are they that have no confidence in the flesh. We don't have any confidence in our mother. We don't have any confidence in our father. We don't have any confidence in our brother. We don't have any confidence in our sister. We don't have any confidence in the preacher. We don't have any confidence in nobody. We don't have any confidence in our self. Oh, somebody would say, Brother Pike, I teach exactly the opposite of that. I teach you've got to have self confidence, self respect and all these kind of things. All of that can go down the drain. Jesus said it and this is what He said I was to preach. And he that God sendeth will speak God's Word and there is no confidence in flesh. The Bible says all flesh has corrupted it's way before God and God has laid upon Jesus Christ the iniquity of us all and He was bruised for our transgression and the chastisement of our peace was laid upon Him by whose stripes we are healed. So then, the Bible says – This is some strong preaching. The Bible says that as the great multitude followed the Lord Jesus they followed hard after the Lord Jesus. In doing this all of a sudden to their utter amazement He turned and looked at all of them, and they were in such great admiration of Him in His ministry, and as they followed Him and He turned suddenly and He looked at them and He said, Let me tell you something, folks. He said, If you're coming after me you're going to have to deny yourself and you're going to have to take up your cross and follow me. And wherever I am there My disciples will be also. And He said, Let me tell you something, folks. He said, Unless you can hate your father, unless you can hate your mother, unless you can hate your brother, unless you can hate your sister, unless you can hate your own life, He said, you can't be My disciple. Those people were so flabbergasted they didn't know what to say. There were just literally astounded standing there. This awesome thing had come to them and they didn't know what to say. And, folks, let me tell you, today they still don't know what to say. When you say this to them today they're just as torn up as ever before. They don't know what to say. And yet we stand as ministers, and yet we stand as people and testify. We do all of these things saying that we are children of God. We say that we're Christians. We say that we know. We say that we understand. But nevertheless, we set in awe and we think, My God! What kind of preaching is this? This is just a good old fashioned Holy Ghost preaching, the thing that spoke through the body of Jesus, the wonderful Christ who is the same yesterday, today and forever. What is He saying? What does He mean? My God! How in the world can I follow anybody that talks like that? Then He turned to these others, seventy of them that had been with Him preaching, and they came to Him and they were rejoicing, and they said, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us in your name. And He said, Don't rejoice because the devils are subject unto you, He said, but rather because your names are written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. And, folks, this is another great problem of today. We've got evangelist teams around the world, and Jesus said you compass land and sea to make a proselyte two-fold more the child of hell than yourself. See? And here we are. We're going with this thing and we have them by the thousands and the tens of thousands that come and they stand and they make confessions and all of these kind of things. But I said last night, that's not good enough. That's good enough. See? Like these seventy you might have cast out devils. You might have done all kind of things. The Bible says, In that day they'll say, We cast out devils in your name. Lord, you taught in our streets. Didn't we eat bread with you? But Jesus, when He came to a certain teaching, He said to them, He said, Lest you eat My flesh and drink My blood you don't have any life in you, and that sounded too cannibalistic and so they left Him. The seventy left Him and went their way. Seventy of them. And Jesus turned to the twelve and said, Will ye also go? And they said, Well, where will we go? You alone have the words of eternal life. And they didn't know what to do. And here seventy forsook Him. See? Remember, they had cast out devils in His name but He had told them, He said, Don't rejoice over that. Remember, the blood is on the seat of atonement and grace is upon everyone at this time. And Jesus died to take away the sins of the world. The sins of all the world is gone right now. There is a day of grace right now. If Jesus the sins of the world He would let the earth open up and swallow them immediately because He's the same yesterday, today and forever. But, see? All of the world right now with that blood on the seat of atonement the rain is coming down on the tare and on the wheat. It's coming down on the just and the unjust and the inspiration is there and the grace of God is upon all of them. Surely the grace of God leadeth us to repentance and it's there to show the love, and for God to woo them, to draw the church out of them, or all of them that are the elect, as to the predestinated of God, to draw them out. Come out from among them. Be ye a separate people. Touch not the unclean things and I'll receive you saith the Lord. And so then, this grace is coming down but it's only a dispensational grace. And the Bible says many of these people that's getting this grace, they're ungodly, wretched people, turning the grace of God, as to this dispensational age into lasciviousness. That is, they are sporting their diamonds and pearls. Lavishly sporting their diamonds and pearls, their frocks, their faces, their bodies, all of their monetary values and their positions of life and overlooking the real wonderful things of God. And they're doing this around the world today. So then, these people are spots and blemishes in your feast of love, charity, as you eat of His body and drink of His blood. That is to say, the Word being made flesh as you drink of His spirit and you eat of the wonderful Word of God. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And so then, when Jesus said you must hate all, He was saying all flesh has corrupted its way before God. And you've got to be willing, like Abraham, to give up your very son. I gave up mine. You've got to leave mother and father. And the Bible says He that will not forsake mother and father for me he cannot be My disciple. He that loveth wife or children more than Me he cannot be My disciple. See? Should I then hate my father, my mother, my brother, my sister, my loved ones? Should I then hate them? Only in the sense of the flesh. If they won't serve God, if they won't go with God then they are my enemy. They're my enemy. Oh, no, someone would say, Brother Pike, not that. They are my enemy. Anybody that doesn't love my Lord. Anybody that won't serve my God. Anybody that won't follow me. Follow Christ, that is. Or follow Christ in me. Paul said, Follow Christ in me. So anybody that won't do that they are my enemy. They are not my friend; they are my enemy. And they are a bodily temple of the devil. They are a house of prostitution. They are an evil place of lies and this place, as to God's house, this physical being, as to this temple that would be the temple of God, they filled it with lasciviousness and lies and cunningness and gossiping and backbiting and the frolics of the world and the love of the flesh. That is, in the last day lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, and they're my enemy. And they are a house that houses the devil and devils, like Mary Magdalene, seven devils. Legend. A whole legend of devils. See? And they house devils and they give place to evil. You know, tonight if you was housing, or allowing, somebody that peddled dope to stay at your house you would be an accessory after the fact. See? And if you went before the courts of today and the judges, they'd do to you the same way they'd do to the others because you'd be just as guilty. You'd be just as guilty of all of the killings, of crimes, of all the evils. And folk, let me tell you something. It's hard for you to conceive of but you that do not belong to God, you that do not serve God, you that do not love God you are a renegade in this life, and you are a servant of sin, and you are of the devil and filled with the devil until you prove that you are the elect of God as to come to God and submit to God and confess Christ and receive Christ. Otherwise you are the image of the devil. Jesus said to Peter when Peter just said a few simple words, Nay, Lord, nobody's going to hurt you. Jesus realized that was the devil and the concern for the flesh and He looked at him and said, Get thee behind me, Satan, thou savorest the things that be of the flesh and not the things that be of God. And so then, when you will not serve the Lord, whether it's daddy, mother, brother, sister, whatever it is, if you will not, then you don't belong to God. Jesus said to them one time, they were talking with Jesus and Jesus communicated with some of them there saying, I am the Son of God. And they said, We'll stone you to death for that. And Jesus said, Why? What wrong have I done you? What have I done that you should want to stone Me to death? What good work have I wrought among you that you should stone Me? They said, For a good work we don't stone You, but said, You being a man make Yourself God, for this we stone You. Now, sometimes this is a little hard to get a hold of when we get to this bridge right here. Some folks don't want to cross it. But He said, For what good work would you stone Me? You being a man make yourself God, for this we stone you. Jesus said, Is it not written in the Scriptures that I call ye gods? If then ye unto whom the Word has come, if ye be called gods, how much more am I a son of God, He was saying? How much more am I a son of God and they railed on Him. And Jesus said, You know what's wrong with you? Said, I am from heaven. They said, We be not children of fornication. We are children of Abraham. He said, I am from heaven. Ye are of this world. He said, Not only that, He said, but I was sent of God. I didn't come of myself, but He sent Me and if ye had been of God, and if Abraham had been your father, said, you would have loved me. I come in My Father's name and you received Me not. But if ye had been of God you would have loved Me. Said, But you don't. Said, The reason you don't is because you are of your father the devil. And said, His will you are going to do. Now, listen. He said, Generation of vipers. He said, Hypocrites. He said, Fools and blind. Blind guides that strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. He said, You're hypocrites. Kept saying over and over, Ye are in hypocrisy. Ye are hypocrites. You know, you produce a product of make-belief, not a product of faith. But an intellectual concept of God to a religious end, as people around the world today, being lukewarm I'll spew you out of My mouth. You don't have My Spirit. But they said, Lord, we prophesied in Your name. We cast out devils. He said, Depart from me ye that work iniquity. I never knew you. The door is closed to and they knocked, and they knocked. At the midnight cry, all of them were virgins, but some were foolish because they didn't have the oil. The others did have the oil and they lit their lamp. Whereas the Bible says, And the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching out the inward parts, and unless you do the right thing I'll remove your candlesticks. So then, in this we see that they knocked at the door. And they said, Oh, Lord, open unto us. But He said, I never knew you. When the man knows his wife, a conception, a travail and then a child. Paul said, I travailed until Christ be formed within you because a divine conception of your heart, as Mary the virgin, she conceived of this great wonderful thing. And we conceive in our heart of this great wonderful thing. But this is what we have to remember. Though we have conceived there is a time of travail. There is a time of carrying the child. There is a time that we are to be separated as the women of old that withdrew when they were unbecoming, as to their bodily form, because they didn't fit the world, until their child was born, as the woman in the wilderness, even the Jews going through the tribulation period, as to the purification, a place in the wilderness for times, time and half a time. The word time, of course, means a year. Times means more than one, or two years. Half a time a half a year. But anyway, for three and a half years. See? When we speak of this thing of us, we conceive. We conceive and therefore we must go through this period of travail. And then a Christ child is born in our life. Like as in the days of Solomon when it was said that there were two harlots. Remember we are all harlots. By birth every last one of us is guilty of the transgression through Adam. As in Adam all die, and so we are all in the harlot form. And Solomon gave this wonderful parabolic thing as a typical thing of the coming day in which we live. And these two harlots, as in the night, their children, they had their children and one of them during the night smothered the child to death. And during the night took the child from the mother that had protected hers and put the dead child over there in her arms. When she awoke she was alarmed and she recognized her child. And when this was taken before the court of that day, as to Solomon the great one that had such great mighty wisdom, nobody could settle the problem. Nobody knew except the two. But when it was taken before Solomon, Solomon said, Bring the sword. And take the child and divide it asunder. Divide it in half and give this mother half and this mother half of the child. Why would he do that? That sounds so heathenish. But, nevertheless, in that day if you didn't have a child you didn't have an inheritance. This was the thing of Judah. If you've ever read the story of Judah. Because of the harlotry she committed with Judah because he failed to give her a son that she might have a child unto an inheritance. Without a child, not inheritance. See? And the one that was suppose to raise up seed to his bother refused her and God killed him. That is why they married – A man would marry the wife as one brother died, another. Jesus spoke of this, the seven that had had her unto wife. And in this Solomon said divide it asunder. And the woman whose child it was not, she was contented because half of the child would give her an inheritance. At least, as to half. And the mother said, Oh, no! Oh, no! Don't do that. Said, Don't hurt the child. Don't hurt the child. Just let this woman have it. Solomon turned and said, Give the child to this mother. The child belongs to her. She has love for the child and it's her child. Forget about this woman right here; it doesn't belong to her. See? And that means, folks, that even though today we're in this world and there are two mothers in this world and the two mothers they have brought forth a child, or they are bringing forth a child. And at the great judgment it's going to be that one of those children are dead, because in the carrying period of this intellectual darkness wherein you are carrying a child, as to the image of Satan, or the image of God and you're body is going to come out to be the image of the devil. Whatever kind of spirit is in you, if it is a devil spirit it will be a devil. Jesus said, I have chosen twelve of you and one of you is a devil. And when the devil got on Peter He said, Get thee behind me, Satan. But if it be a Spirit of Christ within you it makes you a god. It makes you a god. Even if it be the spirit of the devil you are a god, but you are a god as to the fallen one. But when it is Christ in you it makes you the very body of the Lord Jesus Christ, even a god. And it makes you that wonderful body of the Lord Jesus Christ that is due to receive the glory of the Heavenly Father, even His own glory. So then, you are carrying a child and there is going to come a birth and you are going to go through the travail of these things. So then, you are either going to die out to God or you are going to die out to Satan. If you seek to save your life in this world you'll lose it in that world to come. If you seek to lose your life in this world you'll gain it in that world to come. So then, giving our body to Christ to Whom it belongs, and eradicating the impurities, as to the infiltration from our body that we might be the very Christ in the earth, as to Paul saying, Not I that live but Christ that liveth within me, and the life I now live in this mortal body, in the flesh, I live it by the Spirit and life of Jesus Christ that this heavenly treasure, as this wonderful mind, the spirit of God within me to be made manifest in my mortal genes. All right. So then, we go a little bit farther here and we find out that there comes a time of the birth. Then when the birth comes, if your child is the Christ child then you have an inheritance. For he, that child on the inside, Christ Jesus the hope of glory, for He alone was made heir to the glory of God and you conceive of Him and Christ within you is the hope of that glory that Christ Jesus stood in on the Mount of Transfiguration when He appeared in glory with Moses and Elijah. And so then, this Christ being in your life you carry your child, and during this dark night of intellectual reasoning you don't smother your child to death with the lust and covetousness of worldly desires and as a foolish mother that doesn't care for her little one and she tries to frolic during the time she's carrying that little child and she has a still birth. So we find out that there is one image as unto death. Your image is unto life and in that day you'll stand there as the great image of God as this child is born within you to make you the very body and bone of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this you won't have any fellowship with darkness whatsoever during the time of the carrying of this child. You won't allow it to be marked by the beast. There is a mark of the beast that's coming. And everyone in this world is a beast. You are born as a beast in this world because of that thing that Satan got into in the garden as to the beast. That serpent being put on his belly, and that being a typical natural thing to illustrate, or allegorically show us what happened as to the male and female coming forth. And Adam was that serpent that was put on his belly. And he was put on his belly and he became the head of the generation of a generation of vipers. And in Adam all die because Adam sinned, and the Bible says because of one man's sins all die. But when Jesus came, being the beginning of the creation of God He was the first born of the brethren. And He was the beginning of the creation of God and the act of God in humanity, and the body of the Lord Jesus came forth, which Adam was a figure of before he fell from that Shekinah glory as to that Shekinah image which He was made (?). Jesus brought that Shekinah image back that was lost, went into our hearts, and this inner man has become interwoven with that Shekinah image, as being made in the image of God. But that outer man fell and Satan ceased him. And the old tree of knowledge, as from that Satan enter into Adam and the worldly knowledge and understanding of that thing of the old tree of knowledge still has in captivity today his seed, the seed of the serpent. And the Bible says of the woman, her seed – A woman doesn't have a seed but she did give forth a seed conceiving of the great Holy Ghost. The Bible says it shall come to pass a woman shall compass a man. And so then, this great seed of Christ, the Bible says, Her seed shall bruise the head of the serpent and the serpent shall bruise the heel of her seed, or strike at the heel. And we know by that, revelationally speaking as to the way God looked at it, heaven is His throne and we that have overcome we are dwelling in heaven. And He has chosen us out of this world and we are not in the flesh but in heaven. And we're there saying, Rejoice forever more, ye that dwell in heaven. And I wish we had time to go through this and detail it tonight, but we don't. So we know that we are with him. He that over cometh shall sit down in the throne with me. Heaven being the throne, earth being the footstool. So, we know that this part of us that's unchanged, as to the bodily beast part, it's in the earth, and Satan got a chance at it through Adam and that's the heel part. That's the foundation of life there as to this natural world. And the old serpent, as to the generation of vipers, and the old bonds child it mocked, it's always striking at this part. Though many are the afflictions of the righteous; yet God delivereth him out of them all. But the thing is that we are always striking, by the Word of God, at the head of the serpent, that generation of vipers, that intellectual body that's such a great giant that's reached up even into the heavens through the grace of God, in that the blood is on the seat of atonement and they are in this rain in the presence of God and these wonderful things. And must be excommunicated at Revelation 12 to the expulsion and I wish we had time to go into those things. But, anyway, I'm just saying that all the way down from the garden, down to Calvary, came that generation of vipers. John was upset. He said, You generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath of God to come. And Jesus said, You blind and fools, you strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. He said to the Pharisees, He said, you are whited sepulchers that do not appear. You are full of dead men's bone. Or that is, you are guilty of all of the blood from righteous Able down to your time. And said, You do not appear. Men cannot tell that you are full of dead men's bones because you are religiously whited and polished. He said, But you are guilty of all of this and men fall into you unawares. You take them through your philosophy. The Bible says don't let anyone spoil you through vain deceit, as to philosophy, after the rudiment and the things of this world. So then, we know that the generation of vipers has come. They've had their time. They've had their day. Old Brother John was given the axe and Jesus said go lay the axe to the root of the tree. And he went there at Calvary and when Jesus came John laid the axe to the root of the tree and he cut that family tree down, all the way back to the garden of that old tree of intellectual brilliance and knowledge. Cut it down and then the tree of life came forth, as Jesus said, if they do this in a dry tree, or a green tree. That is, Me. Then what will they do in a dry tree. That is to say you that don't have the sap of life. For the trees of God are full of sap. Hanging Him upon a tree, for the Bible says, cursed is everyone that hangeth upon a tree. Bearing our curse. Taking us out from under the curse. Out from under the law and the curse, today we are children of liberty. My! how long it would take, the many hours, just to do into those things and explain them. But the beauty of it is that we are the beginning of the creation of God. Who shall declare his posterity. Now, we are the resurrected one, delivered for all of our offenses. That tree cut down, all of those things gone, and I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven, becoming our sin, becoming the serpent that Moses hang up in the wilderness that we all might look back upon that and know that that was the end of that thing, and that old blood life called the red devil as to the reproducing of the natural image of that which is the adulterous side of life and coming over to this, as to the righteous side of life, and leaving the adulterous side of life. Someone would say, Well, what do you mean by that? I mean that Paul said this body was married to Lucifer. It was married to Lucifer. It was married to the first man Adam as the image of the devil, Jesus saying that you are of your father the devil. Your deeds prove that. A child is known by his doings. And so then, in this we were married to Lucifer. Paul said, Having been married unto another, now that that other is dead the woman is loosed from the laws of her husband and rather than being married to him, as to sin that was delivered for our offenses, we are married to Jesus Christ, the one that is resurrected from the dead and Christ has come into our heart. And it's not Lucifer anymore. It's not the spirit of that fallen angel, but it's Christ and He hath married this body. And this body now belongs to him and we are now married to another. Not as the adulterer, but we are delivered from the fornication of life and we are pure and we are holy in spirit and in body. And today what are we? I preached last night that we cannot sin because we've passed from death unto … (Begin tape two, side one.)..believe that tonight, but I am saying this. We are what? We are gods. Jesus said, Ye are gods. I went back and checked the Old Testament and checked the writings back in the book of Psalms to see what He meant, Haven't I called ye gods. I knew it had to be in the Scriptures, and I went back there and I checked it and sure enough He said it. So then, we are gods. Jesus said, Ye think ye have eternal life. All of the formalities of today. He said to them, Ye think ye have eternal life, as to the Jews. He said, And in the Scriptures you think you have eternal life. He said, But you need to search the Scriptures for all of those writings are these that testify of me. All of those Scriptures, all of those writings was that that pointed to My day. The meal offering and the meat offering and all of these things pointed to Me. I am the eternal life of God. I am the seed unto whom the promise was made. And the Jews missed it, in as much as the Bible says concerning Abraham, The Lord said, And in thy seed all nations shall be blessed, even the Gentiles shall be fellow heirs with the Jews. But they only felt like it was to the Jews, not all nations. But today we know better. Father Abraham. He's our father Abraham, the father of the faithful. And today we are the precious predestinated, the glorious ones that belong to God. And with God there is no respecter of persons, Jews nor Gentiles. They are proved all under sin, Paul said. And today we who are born again are true Jews. He that is a Jew outwardly is not a Jew, but he that is a Jew inwardly. And we're the true Israel, Paul said, and we have the true God, which is Christ that has come to us. Within us. I'll return. I'll be in you. The world shall not see Me, but ye shall see Me. We emphasized and magnified that last night. So then, beloved friend, we are gods tonight. What is gods? Gods is that that cannot die. It's in every generation. We cannot die because immortality has been brought to light and it's been brought to light that this was given to us in Christ before the world ever was. We're now discovering that we're gods and that means that we are headed for the changed. This body, by this transformating of mind to the diplomacy of the transfiguring of this body as to the glorious image for we are already sanctified, justified, glorified, already. And now this mind of God is revealing it to us and tutoring. Through the ministry He is perfecting our faith in this Word that comes to us, for faith comes by that Word, as to the change. Enoch being changed by faith that He should not see death. So then, that means that we've come to this time of life now and we're discovering this and everything else is behind us and the gold is coming out from the dross. And we're coming out as refined gold. We are now gods. I say this every once in a while. We've been preaching this for a god long while. Never heard this in my life, but as the many things that's been given us through Christ it was there, but I've noticed that since we started preaching it that it is springing up everywhere and people are calling each other gods. And not only that, the television artists are being to have it and teach it and they're running into some real problems with it. And now they've even got a movement of it. But, you know, this isn't the way that God gave it to us, as to the way that they're doing. It is a true fact that they would have discovered this. They were to discover that they are gods, but they don't realize it but many of them have discovered that they are gods in that the Word of God came unto them and they were called gods in that Satan said, In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt sure become Gods. Or shall be as Gods. And so then, they are discovering that they are gods, but they are the fallen god. They're the power of Lucifer and they're the intellects, even to the bewitching of the things that they do today. And they're only going to find out that they are reflectors of this great wonderful God who is the great light, which is the children of God, members in particular. His body is the tabernacle of God in the earth, these through which this wonderful glory must be manifested as to outshine the brightness of the noonday, called the manifestation of the inward sons of God, which you already are. So, we have this heavenly treasure in these earthen vessels. Ye are gods, and I say sometimes this little simple thing that it might make you to understand. I've said this a number of times to some of you as we've traveled around. When I say ye are gods a lot of people draw back from that, you know. But the thing is, I illustrate by saying this. If I had a little cat and it brought forth some kittens we wouldn't have any problem knowing that those little kittens were cats because a cat brings forth cats. And if it's a matter of an elephant giving birth, we don't have any problem in defining as to what that is. Because we know that an elephant brings forth elephants and a dog a dog. And if it was man, if there was a birth as to a man we would know that was mankind. Though it was a girl or a boy we would still know that was a man, because a woman really is of the man, or the wife as and the husband are but one. One flesh. And so then, we would know that was a man, but why is it that it's so questionable even as they questioned Jesus. If God brings forth something why is it questioned as to what that is? Why are we so slothful as to be able to define that? Jesus said, I came forth from God. He was born of God. He was begotten of God. The Bible says He was the Son of God. When God created Adam and illuminated him, just being illuminated, not born of God as we are, but just being illuminated, the Bible says it was a figure of Him to come and was called THE son of God as long as the illumination was there. And here we are, we are born of the Shekinah glory on the inside and we confess that we are born of God. If I want to ask the question tonight, I would you say, would you raise your hand tonight if you've been born of God? Would you do that? Would you raise your hand? And you believe that you're born of God with all those hands? If you be born of God then being born of God did you come out of man? No. When you were born of a man you come out of man. If you're born of God then what did you come out as? If a dog begets dogs and a cat begets cats and a man begets man, then what does God beget? Gods. We are gods. It's very simple if you define it. we are gods. Jesus said, Ye are gods but ye shall die like men. The reason that you die like men, this body hasn't been changed. On the inside, beloved, you are already sons of God, John said. And it's going to be made manifest as to the change of this body. It's coming. The redemption of the body is already here. He's paid for it with His blood. It's the purchased possession. The spirit is the earnestness of the inheritance, and we are developing into Christ on the inside, the full measure to the diplomacy that we might be transfigured as He was when He appeared in glory. Not by way of grave or death. There's a generation that will never go to the grave, for Jesus completed that chorus from the manger, or this old stable of this old world to the great glory of God and then stepped down to go to the cross so you wouldn't have to go by the way of the grave. So, this is Paul's mystery. We expounded that only to one, that I know of. That's my wife. It's a great mystery. Many things could be said about it, but we're coming into the age of it right now. So then, ye are gods. If ye be gods do you feel that you are a god today and tomorrow you are a backslidden man and a woman again? Is God God one day or every day? Is a dog a dog one day or every day? Is a man a man one day or every day? Is a God God one day or every day? How can gods sin? How can you be a son of God and then sin? See? If I had time to break it down, which we don't. We're fixing to close now. I could easily show you. I can say this much is simplicity that sin is the transgression of the law. And where there is no law there is no transgression. And where there is no transgression there is no sin. And where there is no sin there is no death, for the sting of death is sin. And without the sting of death the grave doesn't have any victory. Oh death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy victory? So then, we know that we are not under the law. Jesus fulfilled every jot and tittle, saying to them, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one jot nor tittle of the law shall pas until all be fulfilled. Think not that I have come to destroy the law and the prophets but rather to fulfill them. He went to Calvary, fulfilled every jot and tittle. There was not one thing they could put their finger on but what He fulfilled it. Everything. And the law was folded up and laid away. And Paul said, We therefore conclude that now in our day that we are justified by grace by faith. By grace through faith are you saved and that not of yourselves, not of works lest any man should boast, but we are free from the law and we are saved by grace without the deeds of the law. And when somebody teaches the deeds of the law unto salvation the Bible says they are heretic and after the first and second admonishing, as to admonition, reject them because they are heretics. All right. So then we know where we are tonight. We know where we've been, we came from. We know where we're at. We know where we're going because we are gods. We are mighty gods, to rule and reign throughout eternity. Somebody say hallelujah! I want you to stand with me. We're going to sing a little chorus together. It's my pleasure to be here to talk with you. You've been a congregation, through all three of these services, that has been very attentive, very, very observing, shown the greatest kind of interest and I'm not surprised. In the Carolinas it looks like that we run into this, almost in every place in the Carolinas, especially North Carolina. And it seems like these people in North Carolina there is something about them that regardless to the fact that I know that many of them, hundreds of them, don't live for God, and don't follow God, but they're still greatly God conscious with a fear of God for some reason. And they have the greatest kind of reverence for God. And I trust that because of that God will move mightily among you and throughout the Carolinas, and that you will be saved and many hundreds and thousands of people, as to the Carolinians, shall receive this wonderful grace of God. I'm grateful. This is very unusual. We usually pay for our own buildings, or whatever, though we have people that pay for our radio broadcast and the different things. And people that get together, they pay for us a place to have meeting. But it's kind of unusual in this way, because Brother Green, himself, wanted this ministry up here and paid, altogether paid for this. So it's really something. We're so grateful to he and Sister Green and their little family. God has really blessed them, prospered them. They're very dear to us. And there are others that are very dear to us. We love you. We appreciated you. And many of the people that we speak to from time to time in different places, they're are our children in God. They're out spiritual children. Paul said, As a minister we must present you to God and we seek to do it without the spot, wrinkle, or blemish and we seek to present you body, soul and spirit blameless. A lot of time people don't understand that kind of talk, but you've got to remember that there are angelic beings that don't have a body. There are cherubs, there are seraphims, there are many kind of forms of angels, angelic beings, and in heaven ye are as angels. That is, in the spirit you are spiritual son of God. And those sons of God are going to marry this body, for the sons of God shall marry the church and they're going to be manifested as that life in the mortal body for this is called the creature, and this is the beastly part that is subjected to vanity. It can't be subjected to the things of God. It has to be killed by Calvary and through faith we accept that, as to the death, delivered for our offenses and raised again for justification as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, a new creature in a new world. So all things have become new. By faith calling those things that are not we though they are we accept them as of right now and draw the benefits of them and this wonderful Son of God on the inside shall be manifested as the children of God in this body. Being children then are we partakers of the benefit. All things ours in Christ. And this inward man or woman, (Really no male or female in Christ.) the Son of God, shall be manifested in your mortal genes as to the glory of God. We don't know each other after the flesh; we just know each other after the spirit. But there's coming a time when this body is going to be changed. And this glory, as to this heavenly treasure that's already in the earthen vessel, shall be made manifested as the life of Christ in your mortal genes to the wonderful change of the Son of God that shall outshine the brightness of the noonday. All right. So we hurried through tonight, going just a little bit fast. My wife she fusses when I go that, but just trying to get over just a little bit, seems like it's so hard. It takes – You have to say so many things just to get over just a little bit. And that makes it real difficult to be able to tell you about the wonderful words of life, and this glorious creature that you're going to be. You're going to be such a lovely creature, such as you've never dreamed of being. And so wonderful, so outstanding it's going to be, as in these things. So in this world the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and the things as pertaining to the image of the beast, as the flesh, these things – These things belong to the world and they belong to Satan, but you belong to God and you're going to outshine the brightness of the noonday. And you're going to be great and mighty; you already are. It just hasn't been made manifest to those that are around you. It just hasn't been made manifest as of yet. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. Satan will do anything to interfere with the services. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) Can you sing this with me? (Singing.) Let's sing this together now. (Singing.) Let's sing it like this now. (Singing.) Let's try to sing it like this now. (Singing.) The altars are open, and while they are singing let's gather around the altar tonight and worship the Lord for a few minutes in spirit and in truth. God is a spirit and the Bible teaches that He is seeking such to worship Him in spirit and in truth. He told the woman at the well – She said, Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. He said, But lady, or daughter, or woman, He said, the time has come. The time has come. The time now is that the true worshippers shall worship God in spirit and in truth. For God is a spirit and God seeketh such to worship Him in spirit and in truth. And God is a spirit. And Jesus said to the scribes and the Pharisees, You look for God, and you look for a kingdom with eyes of observation, said, but the Kingdom of God cometh not by observation. The Kingdom of God is within you. Christ, the Kingdom of God. Christ in you, the hope of the wonderful glories of the everlasting Kingdom. So then, let's sing this little chorus together. (Singing.) Sing that with me. (Singing.) Let's sing this chorus. Just taking a moment or two tonight to worship the Lord. (Singing.) Sing that with me. (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) Somebody say hallelujah! Going to abide with Him forever. Can we sing just another chorus or two before we go tonight, being the last night of the meeting let's just sing another chorus or two and worship the Lord together tonight. I believe you love the Lord. (Singing.) Give me a little more, Chuck. (Singing.) Sing it again now. (Singing. Begin tape two, side two. Singing.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing.) Love your enemy. Do good to them that despitefully use you. (Singing.) Can you lift your hands up and sing it with me? (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