The Birth Of The Child

...to talk to you about and not been able to do it. The other evening we were able to talk to you some and there was a real good spirit of interest and concern, and you kind of holding on to the things of the Lord you caused me to be able to say some things I ordinarily couldn't have said but you did have enough interest and strength to hold on to some things and allowed me to say a few things I, perhaps, would not have said. But I was talking to my wife the other night after service. When was it? Was it__ I stopped counting the days, to keep up with the days__ Today is Wednesday, is it? I was thinking it was on Sunday night. It was. It was on Sunday night that I talked with you and while I was talking with you the interest got real keen, and the strength to pull, and cause the Lord to speak was here, and so then, I got into some revelation and I still didn't get into what I would like to have gotten into, but I did get into a few things. And after I left on Sunday it was about twelve o'clock that night before I finished ministering, because I continued to minister to my wife after that I had left, and I ministered until about twelve o'clock and the Lord brought out a lot of things. I was trying to get some things in sequence so that Betty could understand because she talks to some of the ladies. And I was trying to get some things together so I thought that after twelve o'clock I had them pretty well together, and then I thought, Well, there are so many more things that I need to mention. So the next day, as it was, I started to ministering to her again. I ministered to her a long time and by then condensing, just going from one thing to another, just hitting the highlights in that Betty is familiar with a lot of things, then I realized that we had covered enough to where it was in a sequence to where Betty could explain. So when I finished I said, Well, what do you think, Betty? And she looked at me and she said, I don't think nobody will ever get it. I said, Now, Betty, you got it. She said, Well, she just couldn't get it all together. I said, Well, nevertheless, you got it. You know, if you hear it you got it. Scientists say you don't ever forget anything that you hear, so she heard a lot of things. She said, I don't think they'll ever get it. So, you know, if that's the case then it's a hopeless case. But if the Lord intends for you to have it you'll get it. And there have been many things that have been given out here. And it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It's not A revelation. It's not something that we've dreamed up, or something that we have gotten that might be wild. It's the Revelation of Jesus Christ and it is so wonderful, all the way from beginning to end, and it is from beginning to end. Someone would say, Well, what makes you think, Brother Pike, that there is an end? Because the Bible tells us that the things of God have an end. And so there is an end, and though God hath no end, He is from everlasting to everlasting and doing new things. He said, I will do a new thing, and My mercies are new everyday. So there is not going to be any end to the newness of God. But there is an end to the things of God, as per se. That is to come far enough to grasp something that has a beginning and something that has an end that helps to enlighten us on our way and causes us to be able to understand the hidden mysteries of Almighty God. And indeed these are the hidden mysteries, and they're not written in the Book, as reading the Word, but they're definitely within the Word, as to that that is revelated to the children of God from the Word as they read. And this means that, as the Bible said, Great is the mystery of godliness. And Paul said, I'm a stewart. He spoke of the much revelation. So, patiently for about twenty years, I've tried real patiently to work with you and to do whatever I could to help you understand it. And God's Spirit enlightens us and helps our infirmities and we continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, going on to the wonderful things of God, and still there are so many things that need to be known. So many things that need to be taught. So much that we need to grasp, until it's almost shocking even at this point. And then if you ask yourself the question, will we have the patience to tutor? And will we have the patience to learn? Or, as Sister Betty says, Will we ever get it? She realizes. Betty is a very, very alert person and very quick to perceive. very quick. Amazingly quick. When the average person won't perceive anything she'll perceive it. But, still at the same time, when she hears the revelation, as to the way it was the other night, she realizes that it is an impossibility for a human being to get it, or to have it, with all of the brilliance of listening unless it is revealed to them, or quickened to them. And she said, I wish I could have a tape just to play it over and over, you know, as to listen at it, the way she was expressing it to me. And, of course, I wish that we had it on tape. But many, many of those things that I said to her are not on tape. They're not even in the ears of the listening Brethren, for they've not even heard them. When you have a companion and she's going to be right with you it's needful for her to know all that she can know, because if she's going to work with you, and she's going to understand you, then she's going to have to know what's going on. And this is why that I talk with her and try to explain. I wonder tonight, you know, if we can go back to Revelation 10. It could be that we may not get into anything. I don't know. When I come up here I'm already in it. I'm already wanting to talk about it. It's just a thrill to my heart to even think about it, but I don't know what I'll run into to. I just come up here and I talk around for a little bit and kind of stumble around, wait to see what I can do, or see what I can find out, or find out where the spirits of different ones are, and how much strength I have in the audience, as I say so often, to be able to__ Before I start. I'll put it like that. Before I start to try to expound. It says in Revelation 10 and 7. We've read it to you many times. It says, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." So here again it is said, and the mystery shall be finished. The mystery shall be finished. So again, as I said, that's very obvious that by the reading there that the mystery will be finished, and because of this that there is an end to the things of God, and that there is a designated time, as to when these mysteries will be finished. So then, we ask the question, is there a mystery? It says there is, and Paul said, great is the mystery. And then we ask ourselves the question, How do we get the mystery? The Bible said, pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of Revelation. So, one Spirit, many operations. And then we say, Well, when is the finishing of it? Does the things of God have an end? They do. Then when is the finishing of it? It says here, In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound then the mystery of God should be finished. So then, we ask ourselves the question then, What is meant by the seventh angel? What is meant by the seventh angel? Like somebody said, How many seventh angels are there? Because a lot of people are going about and they're proclaiming themselves to be the last angel, but the thing is, we do know there is a last angel. And it said, And in the days of the voice. Obviously this angel has a voice. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel then the mysteries of God should be finished. So then, as I said, evidently he has a voice and with this voice there must be something that he is going to say. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, we understand that Brother Branham was the seventh angel; what do you thing about that? Well, that could be. I have no pros and cons on it to say yes, or no. If you know then you say, as Jesus said, thou sayest. And if I don't know I don't need to say. And if I do know anything then I need to preach what I know and what I understand. And I do know this. I do know that this seventh angel, as to who he is, is one of the seven angels that sounds beginning in Revelation 8. And all of these angels sounds until they come down to this particular place, and then there is a breach between that sixth and seventh angel. And there is a reason. The last three trumpets of the seventh trumpets which begins to sound immediately when the seventh seal is opened. The last three of these trumpets are called woe, woe, woe. Woe! That is sorrow, heartaches, problems upon the earth. That as these three trumpeters sound that it means there is going to be some problems. It just isn't going to be like the sounding of some trumpets that really doesn't have any meaning, but there is going to be great sorrow following these trumpets. Now our question is, has there already been two of the woes? Or in Brother Branham's day had there already been two of the woes before he sounded? And was he the sounding of the last woe? Or the sounding of the last trumpet, or did the last woe come to pass? That was over twenty years ago, was it? See? We ask ourself a lot of questions, as to say, if these things is one, as one would say, is correct, then surely all things should line up together. All things because there is line upon line and percept upon percept, a little here and a little there, the prophet said, but all of it has to be in sequence, all of it has to run accordingly in a continuity. So then, we know that that is what that angel was to do. Again we know the original rendering of the word mystery, we brought out before, is secret. That in the days of the sounding of the voice of that last angel then the secrets of God should be finished. And then we brought out a little thought. He that abideth under the shadow of the Almighty shall dwell in the secret places of the Most High. And we said this: that God veils Himself in darkness, as to the shadows. And then we also said this: that Paul, speaking to the people of the Old Testament law, the Jewish people, once the light had shined and it had revealed the scales over his eyes, he suddenly realized that there was a veil over the minds of the people. The scales over his natural eyes made him to understand spiritually, in that he was a very spiritual man, and the Bible said he that is spiritual judgeth all things, he suddenly realized that with all of his brilliance, all his ability that there was still scales or, we say, a veil that was over the face of the people called the Jews in the reading of the Old Testament. Though they were great scholars, yet they did not understand. They did not see beyond the veil. Which was the case of Daniel when he saw the vision, he was within the veil. It was said, Daniel, seal it up. That is, it's in the veil. But when John came it said, See, that ye seal it not, John, because that was called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the revealing, or the veil gone, because then the veil of Calvary had been rent and now John was seeing as with open face in a glass. When I say all of these things and I quote these Scriptures, you know, ever one of these have a dimensional depths of revelating, and it just thrills my heart as the Spirit revelates them and puts them forth. And when I talk with you I'd love to take it step by step and reveal unto you the wonderful revelating truths of the Lord Jesus Christ, to bring out in every word to where it could be so profoundly established within your understanding, as to the wonderfulness of His Word, the revelated truths of God. Each time, knowing that time won't permit it, I have to just go along verbatim, as to the Word, and then break in here and there as wherever and bring out a few things as best I can. This angel, another thing about this angel when we think about the veil being gone then we know that on this side of Calvary we're seeing face to face. Maybe we'll comment on that tonight, maybe not. It's kind of late. It's getting here kind of late. But we know another thing about this angel, and that is this angel sounds toward the middle of Daniel's last week. It's accounted for as in the middle of Daniel's last week. Or somewhere in that area, after about thirty minutes of silence in heaven, and after that thirty minutes of silence then these trumpeters begin to sound. And it is after that the seventh seal is opened and it is the last of the angels sounding, as to the last of the three woes. And it is after the breech, whereas there is a breech and a great angel with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea and his hands raised to heaven swearing by him that liveth forever and ever, his head reaching up to the heavens, it is after he comes forth and swears by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. And then he has the little book in his hand that he says to John, come and take the little book. Or a voice says to John, and John takes the little book. And he said, eat it, it will be bitter to your belly, it will be sweet in your mouth and eat all of it, because you must stand before kings and rulers. Still some preaching to be done, John. Still some prophesying to be done so eat all of the book. Well, it's evident that this same John that ate the book wrote what is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It is evident that this same John that wrote the book had been caught up into heaven, and had seen these great marvelous things in a parabolic means and so wrote accordingly. And this same John, that though he heard what the seven thunders uttered that he did not write it. It is evident that the thunders did utter their voice, and it is evident that John did not write it, because it said, See that you write these not. So then, in just reading the book that doesn't mean that the mysteries are finished. There has got to be something somewhere. It's written in the book, as to the fullness of the message of God. But it is continued on, as to say, aren't we the book? Are we an epistle that's known and read of all men? And didn't He say, I will take out the heart of stone and write upon your heart, upon the tables of your heart My laws? And didn't the Bible speak of Jesus and the book? So, I'm going to stop right there. The angel did say, time no more. And there is something I would like to say tonight, but I'm know if I get started in it I know that I'm going to have to break into it at one point and I've got a feeling about the time I get started it will take a little while just to explain this. And by the time I get to this that I won't be able to get to the other things I'd like to get to. But, anyway, let's break in right here. ......Calvary is the pivot point. I say that Calvary relates to that angel. Perhaps you don't agree with me, and perhaps I'm wrong, you know, for the benefit of the doubt. But I say that he relates to Calvary. Now. Going back to Calvary as the pivot point of the revelation of the open door, I say that the thing that John wrote about was the rent veil. And I say that the Revelation of Jesus Christ was the rent veil. And that in the rending of the veil is where the revelational knowledge it came from that's called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. So then, I say that John, shortly after the Calvary, 96 AD, exiled to the little rocky island over in Patmos, island called Patmos, you find it on the map just off of the coast of Asia Minor, here, being exiled for that purpose, I say that just a few short years after Calvary, from 33 AD, we say, until 96, a few short years in there that John, being exiled he wrote this book about what had taken place when the veil was rent at Calvary. So then, we go back. And when we go back, as I say, if go to the future, to the right, then I have to go through the door. If I go into the past I have to go through the door. You know, they've got this in the world of science today, they can put you back in the past, or they can project you into the future. But you know it's a bunch of junk. There is nothing to it. But the thing is, in the Bible I've actually gone back into the past and I've been projected into the future. So then, it is true that this does happen. .....with their fiction and science knowledge, falsely so-called, means nothing. All of those things being symbolic, it is a true fact that you can do it. And I've done it and it's wonderful to be able to do it. But you need to do that with the Lord, and you need to go through the door. You don't need to try to get into heaven unless you go through the door for if you climb up any other way then you are a thief and a robber. And one would say, Well, Brother Pike, is it possible that somebody can climb up the other way? They certainly can. They can climb up the other way. Well, how would they do that? I tell you again that when Jesus came, the fullness of time, the scope of grace took in all people so all people are in heaven. All people are in heaven. So then, if He died to take away the sins of the world and all people are in heaven, then that means that some have climb up another way. Some have climb up into heaven another way. Now if you climb up another way you'll be bound hand and feet, (and I wish we could elaborate on that tonight.) and then you'll be cast into the outer darkness. All these people that are coming to church, are they really where they need to be? Someone would say, Well, aren't they in heaven? Isn't that where they need to be? Well, let's look at it just for a minute. When I say all is in heaven, what do I mean? I mean that all have gotten up into heaven. Like it says, Thou I make my nest among the stars, from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. Climbing up into heaven through the intellectual tree of knowledge, which Satan has done, and he's gotten himself into heaven because of grace that allows for those people that belong there. But, now, if there is something in heaven that doesn't belong up there it will be cast out. So, when the man child goes up those people are cast out. Lucifer, the generation of vipers, those bodies in which Satan hibernates, or like an old bear he dwells inside of those bodies, and those bodies being illuminated with grace, thus it is a heaven. And their heaven is an illumination. And their heaven is a reflection, and it is a reflection of the real, genuine thing. It is called the second heaven. It is a reflection. It is something that Satan has created by being an angelic being, having right to the spirit to that extent. Though he's ruler of the darkness; yet in reflecting and reflecting having know God, having been a great reflector of that light, and being brilliantly lit at one time to the extent that a third part of the angels rebelled against God and when with Satan at the expulsion, then that means that he retains the ability to __ Satan, Lucifer, the son of the morning, he retains the ability to transform himself into an angel of light. He is already an angel. He is already a spirit. He's already an angelic being and so then all he has to do is be able to captivate that light and transform himself into an angel of light. Now, if he can transform himself into an angel of light that means that light is heaven, and that means that he is in a condition of reflection by the transformating that he can through grace, while grace is on the seat of atonement, transform himself into an angel of light and project this light in a great magnificence to make himself a heaven. His ministers, those that are in the earth, those human bodies that are in the earth that minister, that are false, they have the power to transform their minds into the ministry of light. Which, as I say, they can go out and be gullible in their evil minds, whatever, come right in in the presence of this grace. And as soon as they get into this grace then they start being blessed in the sense that the rain is on the tare and it's on the wheat, and all of a sudden they feel real religious and their minds begin to transformate into the exuberance of telling you about this Word. So then, they have the ability to transform themselves in their minds so you can't tell the difference between the preachers. See? So that creates a problem, and only we, as the elect, can tell the difference. Otherwise, the very elect would be deceived, but in that we have something that is the power of an inner discernment we can tell the difference. But the average religious leader cannot tell the difference. So, Satan has created himself a heaven. And there is within the radius of his confines those false stars, those that reflect the light that he is able to bring forth through his transformating. And then they are held in their orbit. Or, that is, they are under his control, under his auspices, and they are held into orbit by the power of that light, otherwise they would fall. When we say fall, what is meant by fall? You know, that is human terminology and tonight it would take a lot of tutoring, a lot of patience, a lot of time for you to just listen to break down word after word to where it would be profoundly, indelibly printed within your spirit, or in you heart. (Begin tape one, side two.) What is meant by fall when we say fall? It simply means, as in this expression, that all of a sudden there is no light and they are in darkness. They had fell from light to darkness. They have fallen from light. So the thing that keeps them from falling is light. As scientist say nickel and rock floating around out in the elements, those things up there, (I explained it the other night.) Being metallic, they glitter, they glisten, they reflect light. And the heat through that metallic it hold them into orbit, even as the sun, the power of the sun, as to draw. And when the thing comes that the moon is going to be disturbed then these things that are up there that is nickel and rock, all of a sudden, they're going to be turned a loose as the sun draws closer and closer. Meaning that this life of the gospel, as to the seven church age messengers, the light is getting brighter and brighter and brighter toward the finishing of the mysteries. And with this, all of a sudden, this light will get so bright it will burn out all of the nickel. It will melt out everything and there will be nothing to hold those stones in place. And then down they will go into the darkness. There will be no light. Their light will go out. And as the come down, this being melted out of them will leave, as we say, a stone that is brimmed, or a brimstone. Or we try to express it to where you can understand it by saying, Look in your little bowl where your fish are, or look in the sea and you'll see stones where all, everything as to potential, are eaten out of these things, as to certain elements and it is brimmed, or it's left in a brimmed condition. Whereas, this will happen to the sun and the stars and then they blow apart. .....and through the friction and the melting out and they'll just blow apart. They'll be heated up as stones and there'll be fire, fire in the brimstone. Or fire and the brimstone, and it will blow apart and it will rain down upon them. Now, when we think of this this is what's happening in the church. There is a natural world, there is a physical world, there is a spiritual world, and in this you go to school and you are in awe of the natural things of life because they are types and they are allegoric, and that is the husk and it looks a lot like the grain. But the husk belongs to them that are looking for PhD's and diplomacies, because that's what the grain grows in. God veils Himself in darkness. That is to say, through the tree of knowledge. He comes through that, as to the intellect, and that would take a long time. These are some of the things that we've expounded to Sister Betty, as to the negative, and as to the positive, and how this thing comes about and where it ends; where it is in it's origin. So then, when this comes to pass that we differentiate between the grain and the husk, then we give the husk to the beast. I've done it when I was a boy. Our horse and mule, we'd plow them in the field then we'd feed them the husks. And so then, you give them the husks. And as it was said of the prodigal, he vain would have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat had he not come to his senses and realized that there was food aplenty in the father's house, and that he had strayed away, that he wasn't a swine. He wasn't a dog, though Jesus said those without are swine and dogs, that he did not need, as to the intellectual and the diplomacies and the governmental privileges of today, and all of the fantasy ways of life, as to security and whatever it might be, that that wasn't him. He wasn't looking for worldly prestige. And he wasn't looking for comforts and securities of the world, as to project himself, to be a certain somebody in the world, that he wanted to go to the father's house. Looking for real life, as we spiritually would say. Looking for life, real genuine life. So when we think about these things then we know that within the radius and confines of the church, as to the physical__ We have a natural. We have a physical. We have a spiritual. All those things that are without are allegorics and they are, though they are great powers of education, as to seminaries and all of these kind of things, and they give great diplomacies, as to men measuring themselves by themselves. The Bible said, doing this they're not wise. See? They should seek favor of God. Desiring favor one of another they're not very wise. What can a man do for you? Even giving you a little ole piece of paper that you spent your life trying to get, and put your eyes out trying to understand it; what kind of stuff is that? See? But we're looking for life. What are you going to do with all of that when death comes knocking at your door. Where are all of your treasures? Where are all of your efforts? Where are your accomplishments in life? Where are all of these things that you've gathered together? Solomon said, I've gotten them by wisdom, but who knows but what I'll leave them to a fool. Is the body not more that raiment, and the light more than meat? So then, when we consider this then in school, as into your natural schooling and understanding, we run into the first power, and then we run into the second power, and then we run it through the third power. Or we say the first and the second, and the third dimension. So we realize that those things are allegoric. But we are not filling our bellies with the husks. We are filling our hearts, the grain of that understanding. We are feeding upon that grain of the understanding, because we're not beasts. We're not put here to plow the field. We are put here to become God's. To as many as believe to them gave He the power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believe on his name. And what is a son of God? It is a god. So then, we're put here to discover something. What is this that we discover? That we are the very body of Almighty God. We are members in particular. We are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, in that Jesus was the very tabernacle of God, or the body of God, or the express image of God, or the fullness of the Godhead. The Godhead, bodily speaking. Being the head of the church, and we are the fullness, as to the membership, til we all come into the unity of the faith, fullness of the measure of the body, as to the full stature, collectively speaking. Then we know that there is something spiritual. When we get to this we have to really ease into something and take our time, or we have to take another route. Tonight I chose to take another route because I'm so late. Do have a spirit of interest. Do have some that would understand, press to stay with us, but knowing that it is going to be a deep subject, and knowing that it's going to take quite a bit of time, we come just to the place to where we're understanding there is a second heaven. How do we then differentiate? ......for such a one as I was caught up into the third heaven, and in that we know that the devil was seen in heaven over in the book of Revelation, in that there was war in heaven and Michael and his angels fought and the devil fought, Lucifer fought, and they were cast out and there was no place found in heaven anymore for them. And the child, all of a sudden, was caught up to the third heaven. And we know that during the time of the battle that this woman that was heavy with child and in travail, that she was there and the devil was fighting her trying to devour her child as quick as it was born. Now. We say, Well, what heaven was she in? The Bible says the child was caught up into the third heaven so it's evident that the devil was not in the third heaven, and it's evident that the woman was not in the third heaven, or else how could the child have been caught up into the third heaven. So then, if they weren't in the third heaven, then we say, well, then, Brother Pike, what makes you think they were in heaven? If they were not in the third heaven what makes you think they were in heaven at all? How do we know there is any more than one heaven? Well, it's like John said. The Bible said, I looked and I saw a great wonder in heaven. I saw a woman travailing in birth to bring forth a child, and I saw a red dragon waiting to devour the child. I saw this in heaven. So evidently they were in heaven. Now if they were not in the third heaven, where would they be at? Where would they be? They were high enough in heaven that the dragon could be cast out. They were low enough from the third heaven that the child could be caught up. They were relative enough to what would be the first heaven that a woman was not cast out, neither was she caught up. But, all of a sudden, she found a place that was prepared for her for a times, time and a half a time in the wilderness, but it doesn't say she was put out of heaven. It doesn't say she was caught up to the third heaven, it doesn't say that she remained in the second heaven. So then, we ponder again. Sometimes we need to get into this teaching a little more, but let's just stop here just for a moment and say, Now, we then know there is a third heaven. So then, what is this as to the child in the third heaven? It said, as quick as he was born. So then, that make me to know that there is a child somewhere, and what was that child? Or who was that child? What was that woman? Or who was that woman? I say, I've been born again. Somebody says, You have? I say, Oh, yes, I've been born again. Then somebody would say, Well, how were you born again? I'd say, Of the Spirit, in the Spirit. And then they would say, Well, where is the new one of you that's born again; this new one? since I know that you were born of your father, your earthly father. Where is this new birth? What is this? Shall I enter the second time into my mother's womb and be born again? Nicodemus said. That's when Jesus said, No man has ascended into heaven, Nicodemus, except the son of man who has come down from heaven, and who is in heaven. So again we're baffled, just like Nicodemus was. Though we read the Word and we're Bible scholars, and we heard what Nicodemus said, and we heard what Jesus said but we still don't understand, being a Bible scholar. So that means that it has to be something revelated to us. Not given to them to know the mysteries, but to you it is given. Great is the mystery, being the steward of mysteries. Pray that God will grant to you the spirit, as to revelation, and the spirit of mysteries. So when we think about this then we say, if Satan then is in heaven and his followers are in heaven then where is that heaven at? The same way we ask about the child. Where is this new born one? Peter said, Now, beloved. Speaking of the inner man, the spiritual being, or we the children of God. Now then are we the sons of God. There has been a son born. There has been a semen, as to conception, divine. And we travailed until Christ be formed within you. So in the virginity of your heart there is a Christ, and the child has been born. And now, beloved, He is the Son of God. And as long as he's tabernacling within your body, as Peter said, as long as we are in this tabernacle. And if we decide to leave this tabernacle, should it be the act of God, then this tabernacle will be dissolved, all this burning. Even this will go back to the dust. The elements being on fire, everything being dissolved, we have another one eternal in heaven, not make with hands. That is to say, if I have born the image of the earthy, as to the earthy Adam, the....tabernacle has finished it's course, as to the wilderness of this intellect that I came out over the Jordan into Canaan, and there I am now the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is to say, the second man Adam that was made a quickening spirit. And then it appears, as to my bodily change as to the adoption as to the Jews coming in, as to say that what I am, as the world might see. So then, we realize that in this, because of this then there is something that has been born again. There is something that we do not see. There is someone else. So, if there is something that is born, that is within my heart then I'm carrying it. If I'm carrying it then I must be feminine. If I'm feminine then I must be the woman. And if I'm the woman then I must be carrying the child. If I'm carrying the child then it must be His child. And if it's His child I must be married to somebody. If I'm married to somebody I must have been divorced from somebody else. So then, if I'm married and I'm carrying a child and this is His child then I must be His wife. I must be His bride. And not only that, but I must be divorced from someone else, because Paul said we are divorced from another then we are married unto Him. So then, if I've been married to the law. Or, that is to say, if I've been married to the nature that was inbred within me, as to no good thing within the flesh, as to that bodily image that came out of Adam, which is the rejected, and it's making war against my spiritual being in that no good thing within the flesh, as to will is present, but how to perform that which is good I find not, and the good that I would do I do not for I find a law that when I would do good evil is present with me, as to these thoughts constantly. Constantly. God looking down from heaven and seeing the thoughts of men's hearts are continually evil. If God washed it out of my heart then I am now in His Spirit. And if I am now in the Spirit I am not in the flesh. And if I'm not in the flesh then my nature is not the same, for the nature that had the body took my life into captivity, that nature, as to the death of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ is now gone because He came in the form of a servant, as to the fallen one, and as to the serpent, as the first man Adam and was delivered to Calvary for my offenses that He might be raised again that He might be raised again for my justification in a new body, in a new form. And they said, And He appeared in a new form to them on the way to Emmaus. And did not our hearts burn within us as He open the Scriptures to us by the way. And so then, we are then a new creature. My! I wish we could detain this as we did to Sister Betty as to the many things. But we are now a new creature. And now there is a new world and we are in a new world, and we are in a new creature. And old things have passed away, and we died by Calvary, and the Lord poured out His wrath on that bastard child image, and then He took it down and He buried it, and there we were buried. As to the baptism, we were buried. It was us that died. It was us that was buried. It was us that was raised again. So then, being the body of the Lord Jesus we, as in death, He took on the form of a servant and it was us. And so then, we were put to death. The wrath of God was poured out upon us and we were buried in a watery grave, as to this that is represented when we are buried to say that that was us that they took down from Calvary and they laid away in the tomb. And if it was then it stands to reason that when the resurrection comes then it was also us. If we are buried with Him in His likeness, as unto death, isn't it reasonable to think, as Paul said, we are also resurrected with Him in the newness of life and it's not you living but Him that liveth. If that was not Him that liveth but us that liveth, that was crucified, it's evident that He that resurrected from the dead it is not Him but us. That is to say it is now us living. If He took my place there in death then I've taken His place in life. And if He died out of the presence of the Father crying, Why hast Thou forsaken me, now I am privileged to live in the presence of the Father to never be left, nor forsaken. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So today we are a new creature, and we are not our own, and we are bought with a price. And now we are the body, bone and flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, and therefore we should not let sin reign in our body, no not for a moment, and we should cast down every thought til there is no thoughts but His thoughts. That this is His body, and this is His mind, and this is His life. Not as a temporal life but an eternal life, and that we are eternally alive forever more. We are free from sin. If we are free from sin then we are free from death, in that death comes by transgression of the law, and Jesus fulfilled it, folded it up, took it out of the way and where there is no transgression of the law there is no curse. So we are free from the curse of sin. We are free from the curse of sickness. We are free from the curse of evil and of death. So then, we are alive forever more and here we are over the Jordan, as to the intellectual because that died at Calvary and that was the Jordan. All that went down the drain and now it is not our thoughts, as to that intellectual tree of knowledge, it's finality, being carnal minded, then to you die, those that die. But if there is no carnal mind then there is no death, for I am not carnal minded. That died. But I am spiritual minded because this is the body of the Lord Jesus, and this is the mind of the Lord Jesus. And I mediate in His laws day and night, and I delight in His things, and I want to follow Him and I want to be like Him, because this is Him. So then, we then say that this is Christ that walks and talks within us, and the life we now live, even in the flesh, Paul said we also live by the life of the Son of God, which is in us and He that loved us enough to give Himself for us. Therefore yield your members as unto God as those that are alive from the dead. Seeing that you yielded your members to that which was not as unto God, now what fruit do you have? as in those things of darkness seeing that you are children of light. And God has said, Paul, turn my people from darkness unto light. And the Bible said that God had taken us out of darkness, that intellectual mind of death and darkness away from the ruler of darkness and translated us, as to our mind and spirit, into the marvelous kingdom of light, or His lovely spirit of life, that we are alive forever more for light is life. Now, in this when we think about this then that means that something has happened to us. Now, if it has happened to us then we're on this side of the Jordan and we're getting our new harvest. We don't feed off the husk. We are feeding off of this thing that God has given unto us, as to the revelated side of life. Not everyone. To as many as believe to them gave He power to become the sons of God, to as many as believed on His name. When I received His Spirit I became a son of God. Now, beloved, am I a son of God. And I am maturing, as to a development, as to the opening of the matrix and the coming forth, as to the change. The woman, as we say, she has been divorced. She has been divorced. That is to say, the old has died and gone and that's out of the way and the Bible teaches that the woman is bound by the laws of her husband so long as her husband liveth. But if he be dead then she is at liberty to be married to another and not be called an adulterer. But if she be married while he is living she is an adulterer. We know then that we have divorced the old. And we know it is because he died. He's gone. Jesus destroyed the first man Adam. And we're no more married to him, and all of that is gone, and now our life and our spirit inner woven with Christ is now married, as to our nature, to the Lord Jesus Christ, and we now have the Lord Jesus Christ. And so then, our bodies have been purged by going into the grave, going down into hell, going through the fire. I counsel you to bring me raiment that's been tried in the fire. And this body of the Lord Jesus Christ that's been baptized into His death, as many as have been baptized into His death have put on Christ. And we've been baptized into His death because it is not necessary for you to ever die. So then, we know that he that is born of God, baptized in the spirit through the three-fold doings, or that is as to the doctrine of baptism, as to life, as to death, as to resurrection of your body, of your soul, of your spirit. And that body in the grave, as to the baptism of water, which would take a long time, as to the first world that passed away. And then, as to the second world, as to the baptism of fire, for He suffered not His soul to remain in the fire. Or in hell. And then the baptism of your spirit, as to the great loving Holy Spirit that comes into our spirit, as to that which is inner woven with our spirit, as to the eradication of anything that would be impure. So then, we don't have time to go into all that, nor as to the (?), nor as to the time. But we will, the Lord helping us, a little bit along we'll do whatever we can. So then, it is evident that you are now divorced. Being divorced from that you are now a new creature, raised in a new form, and you are married to the Lord Jesus. And that is why that the child is within you, moving toward the diplomacy, as to the change of that which is called the adoption, or the change of the body, or the transfiguration, as a translation of the spirit into His Spirit and a transformation of the mind into His mind, and transfiguration of the body into His body. We are moving toward that ultimatum, as to the law, the conformation of the adoption, bring in the Jews as the bodily perspective, which we have much to say about that. But, anyway, coming to this then we know that the woman's hope of the glory of this beauty that she so desires, symbolically speaking in the world, pretty hair and curly hair and painted lips and their eyebrows, and her bodily form, and her beautiful clothing and her dazzle, and all these kind of things that we see in the movie stars and all these things of the world, that her body and (?) nature craves. See, all symbolic and that's but rubbish because it is the second heaven, as to that which Satan has made, which is a world, and it's through the grace of God, having a good time, frolicking. See? Which is going to be over before long. It's the dispensation of grace. Now, all of the constrain of intellectual reasoning, as to the control of the tree of knowledge, or what is called education, knowledge falsely so-called. So then, we know then that we are married to another, and we know then that they are in heaven. But then, what is the difference between us and them? And between that woman that has gone after those kind of things? That child inside is the hope of her glorification, as to that that was shown in the mount when Jesus stood there on the mount of transfiguration, dazzling and whiter than any fuller's soap could white it, and dazzling, glistening. He was dazzling as He stood there. See? This is the woman. This is the way she will look as the Bride of Christ, the most beautiful, the most elegant, the most fascinating thing that has ever come to pass. In all of the history of mankind there is no comparison. Beggarly elements of the world, as to Satan's second heaven, and his jeweled crown. So, when we think of this what is the difference? If I differentiate what is the difference between we, as to where we're at, and them, as to where they're at? There is a world of difference. Nothing less than a world of difference. We are in the third heaven. We have been translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. Our spiritual man has been translated into it and it's working for that spiritual translation through a graduality, or graduating, of the mind of transformation, until our mind becomes His. And with that the fullness of that light and love and power within that Spirit, as to Christ's Spirit, breaking out through that soul part, as to the mind of transformation to the ultimatum, or the transfiguration, as to the blessing of the woman, in that her blessings come because she has a child. And with a child she also gets the blessings. So without a child there is no inheritance. That is her hope, that glory. She alone being heir to the glory. So we know that we're working toward that change. That's what the tutoring is about. The child is growing; he's developing. My! I wish we could say something about that. Said something the other day to some of them about this. It took quite a long time, quite a lot of things in explaining to show it so clearly, as in detail. So then, just coming to church is not just coming to church and just hearing a sermon is not just hearing a sermon, but there is something to be said. There is something to be taught. There is something to heard. There is something to know about. The little child is feed through the placenta and that means that there is something that the mother must do. She must feed the child. So, knowing that it doesn't have a drop of the mother's blood there is the new testament. It's the blood, not of bulls and goats of the old, but of the new, which we also have much to say about. And the mother is feeding it. Now, and it will come forth in the father's image. Now, with that, just a few more little things here to say and we'll close. Probably later having reference back to this same Scripture a number of times to be able to clarify some things. The things your going to ponder on, I know, what I've said about the seventh angel and whatever. But we'll try to clarify what we understand of it as the Lord brings it out from night to night. So then, we know that we are in the third heaven because the child was caught up into the third heaven. And we know that the war and the conflict is in the second heaven. As it was when the angels came to answer Daniel's prayer, coming from up there they hit that second realm and the Prince of Persia, as to Satan, having appointed demon spirits over the kingdom of Persia, being under his control, these things withstood the angels to keep them from going down to Daniel knowing that that would injure the kingdom of Satan. And Daniel being a beloved man with that kind of understanding and knowledge and faith would cause things to come to pass even as it did when he withstood those things in the lions den, and the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, became the third ruler and caused the king to convert over, as to a great injury to Satan...(Begin tape two, side one.)....In later years we find in history that they were actually having some pentecostal meetings down there. Whereas now it fallen into the hands of Hussein and things are sure taking a change, and they will as to the restoration of the detriment of that that is a threat to Israel, as to the coming of the Antichrist. But, anyway, not trying to get into all of those things, just simply saying a few little things here. Now. So we know that we are in the third heaven and we know the reflection is going to pass away. It's only that of grace as long as the blood is on the seat of atonement, and as quick as that is taken away then that means the kingdom of Satan will be filled with darkness, which means intellectual ignorance. And he won't reflect anything, as to religious stability, or understanding of that which pertaineth to the soul. But I'm not going into that because we'd have to say a lot about that also. So then, we know there is a difference, so we're all in heaven. There is a difference, folks. We have heaven within us; they don't. They don't. They're in the light of it, even as Adam was who lost that image, just a reflection, and found himself in darkness and so it will be with them, as those that are the first man Adam, yet they are in grace right now. That will never happen to you that are born of God. So then, let us say this in closing right here, because, as I say, we could go on, and we could go on. I'm just trying to clarify a few little things along and get it to where it would be on tape. I appreciate your kindness in just letting me talk with you .....Jesus a teacher. That we might get these on tape and that they might be there to where if they play them on the radio that the people can kind of listen, or if they put them into the book it will be clear. Or if you play them back on tape you can kind of go over them and enlarge upon them and God will reveal many things to you. So let me say this as just some words as being said tonight in connection with our little exhortation. First of all, as I said to the Brethren today, and I repeat this for about the third, or fourth time. I do not understand the way that people project Jesus Christ, and I do not understand their teachings, as to religion. I'm sure that they are innocent. I'm sure that they mean well, and those things are needful, a lot of those things, as to children. But when we talk about Jesus, the Lord Jesus came into the world for a purpose. That was to seek and save the lost. We know that. And to die and to pay for our wrongs that we might be again in favor with God and take out the middle wall of partition of sin and iniquity that stands between us and God, which is your body of the first birth, which is called an image of iniquity. In iniquity did my mother conceive me. And God smote that at Calvary by sending an image called the Lord Jesus Christ, and did away with that. But now, though we know this; yet He came for a purpose. What was the purpose, as to us? That was for us, as to our behalf, but what was it to us? He said, I am the Prince of Life. Now, this is where we differentiate, and this is the difference a lot of times that I have with people. He came, saying, I am the prince of life. Said, the prince of this world is coming, even Lucifer, but he doesn't have any part in me. That is, he doesn't have any life, as to what I am. There is no darkness in me. He's not partakers of me. So, when you say life, what are you talking about? See? What do we mean? Life is when you breath. When you laugh. When you move. Bring it down to the molecular structure as to something you can understand. See. Life. We breath, we move, we go. The Bible said, He maketh me to laugh, not as with the giggles of the world, but the thing is, what am I talking about when I say life? Life? You buy, you sell, you eat, you drink, you own, you possess. You know, you splatter in the water, the rain comes on you, the sunshine, you enjoy your baby, kiss him on the check, and all of these kind of things, as to when you feel the full extent of your human senses react in a passionate sort of way that's godly, as to your companion, or whatever it might be. See? What is life? And as to life of reproduction, which is very pure. Very holy, though Satan has made a pig pen out of it, and a dark pit. Turned it into filth. Demons getting the human body so gullible for desire, or the quickening and the thrill of human senses....dark places, as to the intellectual torments, the dryness of being without life, and overcharging the human bodies until the burn them up. Use them and burn them up in lust, instead of love and reproduction. And now they've become like pigs. They're so gullible that they don't have any control over themselves and they just get in there and they just eat and eat until that person eats themselves to death and they can't get rid of that eating devil, that demon, because it's such a stimulation and thrill to their appetite. And somebody else that would never do that has one to come in as just and old lust devil that works on their passions continually, and they can't be satisfied with one wife, or five wives, or we've got to have something on the side, signboards and gullibly drinking up this in television and books, and conversation, and any abase conversation, or whatever, and going on with this gullible desire until everything is slap out of bounds. Some just mad for making money, or their doing something, a hundred million kind of things. See? And finally becoming gays and sodomites because they don't have any constraint, no stopping sense, because those things just eat the body up because they're trying to satisfy themselves. Because man is a little lower than the angels, therefore it requires a number of times the inspiration, as to them and they use you up in a few short years and your body is gone, and diseases, because everything is breaking down and the blessings of God is gone and nothing can protect you. And instead of reproducing in love, as to the fullness of your strength and your body being strong and healthy and well, as a young man, or a young woman, and doing that which is wonderful and pleasing in the sight of God, as you see the robust and health of everybody and enjoying what God has appropriated for you, you become an old hag, or an old dog-like slut. And you become an old beast, and an old barfly, drinking and doping-up and all these kind of things and death sets in. Age sets in because of sin, and death sets in. Whereas, the Bible says your strength shall be as your day. So then, what can we say? I say, Well, my day shall never end. I'm eternal, so then my strength shall be eternal. Or, somebody says, but you've got to die. I say, No, your having strong delusions, I've passed from death unto life, and can never come into condemnation, how then can I die? You must sin to die, and he that is born of God cannot sin. So then, we go on and we think, and we think, Well, what else? You cannot die; you don't need to sleep, because there is no need for caskets and there is no need for holes in the ground. That's why Jesus did it for you; so that you wouldn't have to do it. He went through all of that so that you wouldn't have to do that. It said, from the manger to the transfiguration into glory. Not from the manger to Calvary. I go from the glory to Calvary for your sake. You don't have to do that. I come that you might have life. I am the Prince of Life. Or, someone would say, But, Brother Pike, to be like Jesus, a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief, beat, kicked, our countenance marred more that any man. What can we say? To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, on earth I long to be like Him. From Bethlehem's manger came forth a stranger; on earth I long to be like Him. So then, we say, to be like Jesus. But, see, folks? We miss understand. That Jesus, that body, that form of a servant, that was you. He did that for you. He was wounded for our transgressions, and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him by whose stripes we were healed. That bodily image of the servant that was you. All that was placed upon Him so that you would not have to go through the sickness and the sorrows and the heartaches and the woes, and the death, and the crucifixional punishment of a capital punishment of the wrath of God poured out in all of His fury. So then, you're the children. You are partakers of the benefit. I've given you all things that pertain unto life. Even in Christ before the world ever was, and brought it to light at Calvary to preach to you down through the church ages, to indoctrinate you unto faith of all these wonderful promises. Someone said thirty-two thousand promises. And all of these things that you might believe. When we say believe then what do we mean? We say believe, and I hope you'll give me a few minutes because that's all it will take to clarify that. Then what do we mean millennium? We believe because we say, Lord, heal me. Oh, God, heal me. Lord heal me. Lord save me. And indeed we do that, because when a person is in misery, or a person is fearful they'll do anything. And that's the way we call on the Lord. But then, on the other hand, is that proper? Is that right? Does the man plow always? Or when he finishes plowing does he plant. So then, do we beg always, or do we believe? The Bible said when you pray believe, watch and pray. And when you pray believe. So, what do I do? What then is faith? What is faith. Faith. The Bible says you draw water out of the wells of salvation with joy. So then, with joy I rejoice. I say, Brother John, I just found out something. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Say, Well, what is it, Abraham? as it would be in his day. What is it? I got a promise; we're going to have a little one. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Amen! And, you know, you think, it's going to be so sweet. I'm going to name him__ What am I going to name him? My! I can't wait to get my hands on him. Oh, somebody says, but what if he doesn't come? That has nothing to do with it; that's not faith. Abraham strong in faith, giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that what God had promised He was able also to perform. That is to say, you know, like the man handing his little boy a dollar, and the little boy has got his eyes on it, and he's looking at the other little guys and he's saying, I've got a dollar! I've got a dollar! I've got a dollar, because his daddy says, Here it is, son. Here it is. And he can't get the other dollar he's so thrilled to tell all the rest of them what he's going to do and what he's going to buy. But he knows he's got that dollar, and as quick as he turns around he just__ You know, it's already his dollar; he doesn't have to put his hands on it. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you never put your hands on. Or that you've not seen. It's the proof it belongs to you, that when you conceive this in your heart that takes care of it. It;s eternally and forever yours. So then, when we say faith, what am I talking about? So Abraham rejoiced. He rejoiced because he had a promise. God has given us a promise that all things that pertain unto life, just to do that which pleases Him confidence the heart that He hears us. Then we know that we have the promise. Whatever we desire,, because we do the thing that please Him. That's faith. Confidence. If we don't do the things that pleases Him then we live a lie as to make an effort, because it isn't going to happen. So God has already done it for us. The works are already finished from the foundation of the world and what I do, I suddenly discover something that the preacher is saying, or the Spirit is saying, and that is that Jesus was wounded for my transgressions and I've got peace because He was chastised. And He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, which He did at Calvary, and that I'm no longer under the curse. I am His child with all things that pertain unto life. And then I say, John, hallelujah! Glory to God! John says, What's going on, Brother Pike? I say, Did you know that I'm not under the curse? And he would say, You're not? I would say, Oh, no! I don't get sick anymore. I'm not under the curse. I'm not in poverty anymore. I cannot die anymore. Hallelujah! Glory to God! you know, in joy, brings that water out, and I'm praising Him, and I thanking Him that I am going to be partakers of all of that just by rejoicing over the fact that it's mine. I possess it. I start to use it. That's what faith is. And there it is. There it is, and when the doubtful mind comes, when all these other things come you don't listen to that. You say, Oh, my God! I ain't believing, I ain't believing. Lord, help me. Oh, my God! there it goes. You know, that's foolishness. It is a finished work. It is at Calvary. You're His children. You have all things that pertain unto life. Don't listen to the lying vanities of Lucifer that is always telling you and whispering in your ear it can't be and you ain't good enough, and you've got to do this, and what can you do, and you haven't got the faith. Don't put up with that kind of junk and that kind of foolishness. Let him peddle his junk. I've told him. He's come to me and I've told him, You'll have to go today and peddle you're junk somewhere else; I don't need it. See? So here is what we are, folks, in this. He is the Prince of life. I've come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundant, and He gave it to us freely through Calvary. All things that pertain unto life. You, it's yours and you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God. So when we think of this we say, Then You want me to have life? I am the Prince of life and I've come that you might have life. You already have life through the suppression, the problems, the fall and all of these kind of things, but I've come that you might have life more abundantly. And the word means filled up and overflowing. I've come that you might have a filled up, overflowing life on eternal basis. That is, it's from now one. What is life? To grieve, to be healthy, to be robust, to be filled with exuberance, everything that He's made for you. Everything is mine. All of these are mine. What is life? The eradication of diseases. The eradication of problems. The eradication of oppression. The eradication of anything that would hinder, or make you sad, or take away your joy, or get in your way, or any kind of thought. It doesn't matter what it is. The least of thought that might interfere with your day, as to having a good day. Filled up and overflowing, abounding with joy, saying hallelujah. Somebody would say, And someday it shall be. No, it already is. It already is. It's not going to be someday, it already is. It was given us in Christ before the world ever was and brought to light at the rent veil to make it a revealed thing, as to be preached to you, to tell you that you might believe and in believing, as to hear these words transformating of you mind from doubt, as to despondency, your intellectual failure of human reasoning, into the brilliance of the mind of Christ, as to all of the abundant living and that Word of Spirit and life. Rejoicing over it and giving him glory, fully persuaded as to your conviction of faith that what God has promised He is performing, or going to perform in your life. So then, filled with joy, with this you have faith. With this you have all things that pertain unto life. God has freely given these to you because that is the filled up, overflowing life. David said, my cup overflows. So, I do not understand how we preach a service as being a funeral home. I do not understand how that we let the devil get us carried away with the second heaven, as to the glitter and the glamour, though we are there just like the rest of the world, as to our natural body, and God has allowed the second heaven that they that are without might come into that light to know about this wonderful thing. That is to say, all will be guilty but the sow will go back to her wallowing in the mire and the dogs after they are washed will go back to its vomit, as to those that are without, and especially when the light is gone. But the thing is it will be there until they come to the knowledge of the truth, or until they finish turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, as to the end of the world, as they would say. Maybe we'll get into that later. But saying this is coming to a closing of our thoughts. We are in the body, and God has given that light as to an illumination, even as Adam, until He can call us out from among them through this knowledge of coming out, not being part of their intellect. See? that we might be changed. But we inwardly are in the third heaven. That spiritual man on the inside is in the third heaven, and we just have this problem because our body is still here in the second heaven, as to the allowance as long as grace is there, and until everybody has a chance at the gospel, to go into all the world to pull them out, as to the elect, and then God is angry with the wicked everyday, shall devastate and all of that will be intellectual darkness as to the end. So then, children of God, we need to get together. We need to come out. We need to not touch the unclean things that God may receive us, and we need to subdue this body, as to change it, to make manifest in our mortal genes this heavenly treasure that we already have, as to the life of Christ that we might think like Him, walk like Him, talk like Him that we might hurriedly go along to the change of this body to the fullness of those blessings, and not mess with that negative mind that's out there that keeps enticing you and pulling you away from your true reward with those lying vanities. Somebody says, Well, hurry now. I'm hurrying. Just got a few minutes, I told you; just let me get through. It isn't a matter of you hearing this; it's a matter of it going on tape and others hearing it to understand. You say, Well, I understand. But they won't. They don't know near what you know in some things. So then, where are we at? What am I saying? I'm saying that these things are given to us and that God is giving to you a filled up overflowing life, and serving God is joy. An abundance of joy that brings this water out of the well of salvation that it may be all around you. And many things that I'd like to say, as pertaining to this. As a matter-of-fact, in exhorting some of them with this we said many multiplied things to them that we cannot say. And even already I feel like it's closing time, as to your thoughts because you feel like you've got what I'm suppose to say. But, nevertheless, it's enough to suffice us being on tape, and enough to suffice you that have very little time for the gospel. And as to them that have tried to endure long enough as to war against this outer being which is saying, let's go, let's get out of here, let's go something. Let's do something fleshly. Let's eat, drink. Let's ride, talk, let's laugh, let's do something. Let's get out of here. And then run from the words of life, run from the words of Spirit, though the world itself is looking for life, and though all medical professions are spending millions for life, and though golfing and playing ball and all the olympics are searching for the exuberance as to life, and boating, and buying, and millionaires, and all these kind of things, of pumping steel and jogging, and pretty faces and buying and having, all looking for life. See? which is a perverted life to the extreme, saying this is what God wants, as to mix darkness with light, as to that second realm out there, and turning the grace of God into lasciviousness while lavishly doing the things that they are doing and being cast out as the dog, and the swine, as to wallowing in the mire, lapping their vomit, though the grace of God has been as to be washed to give them opportunity. But their nature compels them to go back, as to say all of My tables are filled with vomit because they came into a religious realm and I spewed them of My mouth because they are lukewarm. So then, everybody is looking for life, but here are words of Spirit and life. Doesn't it sound reasonable that the thing that you would like to get a hold of is life. Somebody would say, But I'm young, Brother Pike. I've got plenty of life. Perhaps so, like the little fourteen year old boy that Brother Jerry ask me to pray for dying with cancer. Like the little ten, or eleven year old boy that they just ask me to pray for that has leukemia, and now it has struck his liver and he has a few days and then he will die. See? Do you have life? You don't know what you've got, but with you being young, you know, you think life. But don't forget age is going to overtake you, and death is going to overtake you. And don't forget that life is that little boy, like Pete drawing the picture. Down here in the pool, he's fishing and the butterflies are around and it's a beautiful spring day with everything green, because God gives life and there the little boy is, a gift from God. But then, as the other picture they (?) to speak, he drew at the top and the man like this, with his head in his hand and he has waxed old and he's beginning to wither, and life is gone and he is miserable, and the tree of knowledge is there, and his human reasoning is that tree growing out of his head and he can't figure out where life is and what happened to his life and where is the abundant life? Where is all of this that I was suppose to have with my PhDs and all of my diplomacies, as to enjoy myself in this great wonderfulness, as to surround myself with all of the purchases and all of my desires? And there in despair, as to go to the insane asylum, or to go to the grave, or having committed wrong, as to be in prison, caged like an animal, to the electric chair, or at the very least dying. Death has come. See, to me I love life. I love the Lord. I love to talk about the words of life. Let them search in their vanities of vanities, all is vanity. But I like the words of life. I love to understand the words of life. I love to talk about life because this is that abundant thing that everybody is looking for. I'm not worried about things, because when I have life I have all things. And if I live longer you're going to die and leave it and it's going to be all mine. If I live eternally then all the rest you're going to die that don't live eternally so I own all things. Whether it's the millions, whether it's the stars, whether whatever it might be it's all mine. These are all mine. So I love life. I want this life, this wonderful strength, this wonderful godliness, this wonderful life. And that's what I'm looking for, and that's what I've given my life to, and that's what I preach, and that's what I believe in. That's what the ministry is about and it's not a religious thing as to the devil causing a fantasy sort of a thing to depress people to say, Well, I would get in religion but it's so drab and I would like to be like Jesus but__ You know, that same Jesus, a man of sorrow acquainted with grief, that was for you, but on the inside there was somebody else that was resurrected from the dead, opening blind eyes and unstopping deaf ears, as to that at the tomb of Lazarus that called him forth, that was the abundance of life. That was the Christ that lives in you today and God intended for you to have all the others. Sometimes you see me, or a minister, subject themselves to things, as to whatever, as to fall. Many things you'll suffer for my namesake. Because He wanted that fullness of the blessing as to thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. He willingly equipped Himself with a mind to suffer. Made the off-scouring. (?) things while we make many rich, they say, we're poor, that you might dance and that you might have the fullness as the children. I would that you abound. That's what God wants, so if we subject ourself to something, as to the ministry, as to bring on the fullness of this wonderful exuberance to project to others that the others might dance and sing and praise God and have the abundance of living that's wonderful. All right. Let's stand together. Appreciate your patience and you kindness in letting me finish a thought, or two, to get it on tape that other that don't understand this wonderful eternal abundant living that they might know and understand, that they might seek whether through you, me, or whatever as to the fruit of spirit as from this tree of life that they might learn to get away from the old tree of knowledge, as to the intellectual PhD, so they'll stop dying and find life, as to the words of Spirit and life as to the fruits of the Spirit, that eternally as to life abundantly. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we? (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing. Begin tape two, side two. Singing) You know, while we're singing this, Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and that filled up and overflowing. Not to say, I've come that you might have life so then here is life to you. I'm sorry. Woe be unto you. I know you'll be sick, and I know that you'll be in poverty. I know that you'll have problems, but have patience. Have patience. I know you're gradually dying; I hat to see it, but there is nothing that I can do. Have patience. And when you die, die in hope. God bless you. No. No, that wasn't the way it is. That isn't the way it was. That isn't the way it is. But He came to say, I am the master. I am victorious over death. I am victorious over hell and the grave and I've got the keys to the Kingdom. I've come that you might have life abundantly, and I want you to receive this life in such a way that they'll never put you in a casket. They'll never put you in the ground. I know that I'll have to be patient with you as a little one until you can mature. Though you be gods you shall die like men from the lack of your knowledge of knowing of me and this life abundantly, but be patient and hold on and keep on trying. I want to indoctrinate you. I want to bring you to the generation to where one can stand and say, He word is true. I want you to move from the manger into that glorious image on Calvary. Not from the manger to Calvary and to death. I did that for you. But you move from the manger to that wonderful transfiguration on the Mount of Transfiguration. You go on and you transformate from life to greater life and greater life, and more power. Ye are sons of God. Ye have passed from death unto life. All things are yours. Say what you will and it will be yours. Decree a thing in your heart and it shall come to pass. Ye shall never die and there is no need for you to sleep. So then, just keep on walking and keep on believing and keep on loving. Keep on listening. Keep on testifying. Keep on rejoicing. Keep on thanking God for this abundant life of Christ Jesus that I've eternally given to you. Just keep on and after awhile you're just going to walk right on and walk right on and walk right on to the great wonderful jubilance and joy of the abundance of living and blessings here in this world that others may see your light and come to the shining, and then all of a sudden, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, just walk right on in. No interruptions, we're just walking along and we're just enjoying life, and we're just enjoying life, and though one generation walks along and the earth swallows them up because they murmured and they complained and they did not listen to the ministry, and they did not get over the Jordan. But then came another generation and just picked up where they left off and they kept walking, and they kept walking and after awhile, all of a sudden, they walked right over the Jordan on dry land, and the waters rolled back there was no death. Jordan, no death. And they walked right into Canaan. As to a harvest they were eating and Joshua said, prepare vituals tonight or today. We're going over the Jordan, we say, as of tomorrow, and so then, they just walked right on in, folks. That's the way it's going to be. That's the way it's going to be. So then, let's remember that tonight. And while we're singing praise the Lord. Let's not be looking forwarded to the funeral, nor looking forward to the grave side, not looking forward to sorrow, sorrow and poverty and all these other things, but as Jesus said, Peter, come to me. And just keep walking on the water. And the song writer said, Keep you eyes on Jesus and He'll calm the troubled waters of your soul. Don't look down at the deep depths of despair and death, just keep your eyes on Jesus. He said, Come. Somebody said, But I can't do it; that's supernatural. But, nevertheless, He said it; I believe it. Keep on walking. Keep on walking. Brother Taylor sings the little song, walk with me, Lord, walk with me. As You walked with Elijah walk with me. And ole Brother Elijah just kept on walking. Kept on walking and he walked over the Jordan and down came the chariot of fire and the prancing horses and he stepped on board and Elisha watched as he went away. Keep on walking; it's going to turn out real good. And everything is going to work out real good. Don't feel weary in well doing. Don't get tired. You've got plenty of strength. You've got plenty of strength. Your strength is eternal. Your life is eternal. If you feel weak, let the weak confess strength. Be strong in the power of My might. And as the man that set at the gate called Beautiful expecting to receive something, Peter said, Such as I have give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And the Bible said immediately his ankle bones received strength and he went leaping and praising God. God will give you all the strength you need. Just love Him, praise Him, keep on going. So then, we ask Him to come into our heart. We ask Him to sweep over our souls. Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) There's room. (Singing) Don't you want this abundant life? Don't you want these words of Spirit and life? Wouldn't you like to give your life to something? your time to something? You body to something? You will. You are. You do. Is there anything greater than giving it to life. I've got life, but Jesus said, just keep on coming. Get more of it, and more of it. Somebody said, But I feel so bad. That's not life; that's you. That's your problem. That's your reasoning. That's your affliction of the body. That's what life swallows up. Abundant living; that's what God wants you to have. Ye are the vessels of abundant living. You should be filled up and overflowing with this life, this joyful life of God. (Singing) Remember now. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus together. (Singing) Sing that with me, now. (Singing) You know what? When we sing that song that's the way it is with those that will not live eternally, and those that have not accepted the Lord Jesus, as to accept all things because these things are borrowed and ye that are under grace you have opportunity to enjoy the rain upon the just and the unjust. But then the writer said, Remind me, remind me, O Lord. Or, that is, let's awake. It's high time that we awake out of sleep. Our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Jesus said, as to the disciples, said, canst thou not watch with Me one hour? Let's awake, for when they awoke they saw His glory. So let's wake up and let's take hold of these things because they're given to us for ever and for ever and for ever. Lift your hands up with me and close your eyes, examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith. See if you've listened to the words of the Spirit. Let him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches, for it's not the minister that speaketh, but it is the Spirit. And it is the words of life and it is words of Spirit, and if you can receive these__ You can receive nothing except it be given you from God, but if you can receive these things then all these wonderful, abundant things are given are given to you, to be happy, to be wholesome and full of life, to be a light to the world and to be a testimony that will burn like coals of fire into the hearts of the listener as they see the abundance of living in your life and the blessings of God upon you, of giving you all things. How wonderful it is. How wonderful it is. Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) One more time now. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) Can you sing that with me, now? (Singing) Sing it with me again, now. (Singing) I'm going to ask Brother Paul to come up and dismiss us and while Paul is coming let's sing this together. (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (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