Threefold Perfection

Sing a little chorus together. Sing the chorus, Brother Taylor, I Love Him, can we? (singing) Can you sing that with me? (singing) One more time together. (singing) Can you sing it one more time with me? (singing) You can be seated. I'd like to make reference to the book of St. John tonight. Jesus talking to the woman at the well, He astounded this woman by communicating with her. And she said, How is it that you being a Jew talk with me a Samaritan, knowing that the Jew have no fellowship with the Samaritans? And as Jesus talked with her He revealed the secrets of her heart and she said, Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet. And she left her water pot. She went and told all the others that she had found the Messiah. Is not this the Messiah? He told me whatsoever I have done. And she said to Jesus during the conversation, I know that when Messiah cometh He will tell us all things. And Jesus said, I am He that speaks unto thee.  So in John, the fourth chapter, the twenty-fourth verse Jesus tells this woman, says, God is a spirit and they that worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth. To worship God you must worship Him in spirit and in truth. And tonight I'd just like to say a few little things concerning this. Maybe pick up some things with the Jews and lead over to the spirit. I was expounding the gospel a few days ago to some of the Brethren and I was trying to outline something through a little teaching. Paul said, I am a teacher and a preacher. And also I thank God for the spirit of revelation. But, anyway, I was trying to explain, as I said this morning, that everybody being born into the world is being born for a purpose. When the Lord chose the Jews He chose them for a purpose, and this purpose sometimes we miss. Sometimes we fail to see what it is and we think, Well, God chose the Jews because that's the chosen people of God, and we think, well,  for sure there must have been some reason but we don't know why. And then in this we overlook the fact that God has chosen all of the rest of the world. See? Though He chose the Jews, as to a job that He wanted done among the Jews, but what about the Gentiles? Did He not have anything to do with the Gentiles? Why was it He told Paul to go out in to the field of the Gentiles and get Him a bride? So obviously He chose a bride. So then, God is always choosing people. Choosing them for purposes like Peter said, God making a difference between us, as He told the Brethren, God having chosen me to open the doors to the Gentile church. There is a reason. There is a purpose behind this, and in these things there are great revelations and significance. Even why that He chose Peter to go out to open the door to the Gentiles.  Why did He send Paul to go get a bride? Seems strange that He would use Peter to open the doors to the Gentiles and then turn right around and use Paul to go get a bride. First of all the gospel had been committed unto Peter for the Jews. And Paul said even as God has committed the Gospel unto Peter for the Jews, so has He worked mightily in me as to the Gospel to the Gentiles.  But here Peter is, he opened the door to the Gentiles. So then, a lot of things being a mystery, we wonder about these things. Well, anyway, what I'm going to say here tonight is, God chose the people of the Jews to be the basic principles, as to the foundation of life as to set up the natural way of life, as to bring the world in to its right place, to give them an inheritance, as to a natural land inheritance, and to have them to coordinate life and to bring life back from this great extensive loss back to its originality in that He committed unto the Jews the oracles and principles, as to the desire of God as to the establishing of the earth and the throne in the earth, or the kingdom in the earth. That's why the Bible uses the terms over here when it speaks in Revelation 11:15 of the last trump when it sounds. It says, Now the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God, and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever.  So it's not just a matter of a spiritual kingdom; it is also a natural kingdom. So there is a natural kingdom, there is a physical kingdom, there is a spiritual kingdom. And God, having committed this thing unto the Jews that they would have the governing principles to set up the right way of life in the earth, then that means that the Jewish people would be responsible to God for the law and order of the world and of the land, so He processed them for many years. And  He has laid the responsibility upon their shoulders as before Calvary, to be developed in these things. And after the church ages to bring them back in to set up the doctrine of Christ in the earth as the law of those things that God demands for righteousness.  In so doing it they will have to judge the nations and all the perversion of the law that we see today, here in Monroe, wherever it's at in the world, around the world the law is perverted and they have to answer to the Jews for perverting the law, because there is no law except the law that God gave. And in the origin of the law, if you'll go back and check it out, you'll find that it comes from the ten commandments, and comes from the laws of God. The world, having perverted these laws has turned them in to a boycott, in to a selfish thing and placed an addendum like they have in the constitution of the United States until--  Even as they corrupted the constitution of the United States they've corrupted God's laws and corrupted God's ways. And Jesus told the Jews when He came, he said, You accuse me of violation of God's law (Which Jesus did not do.) said, But how is it that you teach for commandment the tradition of the elders, and you are the ones that is in violation of God's law; not me.  And so from there the violation starts. They're charged with the misdemeanors of life and some day God will purge them.  We're on the verge of the tribulations period now. God placing them through the tribulation  period, He will  purge them and when He purges them they will come back to the originality of the law and the originality of God's way of life and then the millennium will come in and they'll set up the government and all of the nations of the world will have to come before the Jews and give an account to them for having done them the way that they have done them through the holocaust and through the wilderness wandering of the Jews. The Jews about 70 A.D. being driven out of their homeland when Titus came in there and plowed the city like a field, and they've wandered all over the world. I made the statement today, God scattered them that He might bring salvation to all of the world, in that the Bible said salvation is of the Jew. Beginning at Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the world as to the Gospel, as to salvation and remission being taught in His name. So we know that God was to gather them back to their home land, and we know that God has allowed this dispersion so that He can get the Gospel throughout the world, which He hath done. And during the time of their wondering, during the time they've had such a hard, hard way of life, that they have been criticized. They have been killed. They've been through the holocaust. Nations have literally  mutilated, torn them apart, had no mercy on their homes, and all of  these other kinds of things that have happened to them.  And I thought about it, of all the horrible things. I've even thought about the races.  A lot of times the black man thinks he's really been through something.  He hasn't been through anything. The Jew is the one that's been through it. And the reason that the Jews went through it is because they said, Let His blood be upon us. And so then, in this they took the repercussion, as to the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus when Pilate washed his hands and said I'll have no part in this man's death. The wife said to Pilate, See that you have no part in it because this day I've suffered many things in a dream because of this just man.  He washed his hands and said, I'll have no part in it. And so they crucified Jesus. The Jews said, Let Him be crucified and they turned a thief a loose, and so the blood came upon them and the whole world looked upon the Jew as being a villain and a mean person that had crucified the Savior. And yet, they themselves did not crucify the Lord because it was not lawful for them to put a man to death. That is, on that particular day, or at  that particular time so they could not do that. But the Roman powers did. Now we could say a lot along those lines, but trying to stay with the thought here tonight I want to kind of build on this to give some program in your mind, or some thought as to what I would like to plant in your understanding to be able to bring out revelation concerning it later. So when we think about the Jews we thing know then that Paul tells us that the principles of God,  the oracles of God, all the divine ordinances of God were given to the Jew, and it was for the purpose of setting up the natural and perfecting the natural and bringing in a perfect law, a perfect way of life in this natural world to bring in a perfect Kingdom. And so it is in the millennium, twelve apostolic leaders which were Jews, will set upon the throne judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Each one judging a tribe, and Jesus will set as a King ruling and reigning in righteousness to rule over the Gentile people, or over the whole thing as the controller. So then, we know that God has so given it to the Jews as to their right to perfect the natural way of life and the natural ordinances to being in the perfect world. Their inheritance is land and that is why the millennium will come in. The millennium will still be this earth. It will still be this earth and their inheritance, as to the Jews, will be the earth. So they will inherit the earth as the millennium when it will blossom like a rose, and  when the vineyards will be so beautiful. According to the Bible the vineyards throughout the whole countryside will be so loaded with the beautiful grapes and all these things, like as to the grapes of Scholl. And the fields will just be filled with cattle and all kind of animals and nothing shall harm in all holy mountain, saith the Lord. And the little child shall lay down with the lion, and with those things that are wild and there won't be any danger. There won't be any death. There won't be any sorrow. There won't  be any heartaches, and God will bring in one day of rest, as a thousand years, to let man live one thousand years to show that the curse is over. That it has been conquered, and that by man, and that death came by man, then life came through Jesus Christ the man. Coming in the form of a servant and  being made a near kinsman. So then, we know that this earth is going to continue. One generation comes, it goes and another comes, but the earth abideth forever. So then, the earth will go through the change and this great garden will come. It will be back just like it was in the beginning as the Garden of Eden. I have made the statement that the end of this tribulation period that is confronting us now, that the earth will come upright on it axis. We went through this quite a number of times teaching that the world is tilted on its axis because man got tilted on His axis and everything has to answer to man, so the heaven is tilted on its axis. The earth is tilted on its axis. Humanity is tilted on its axis, and it is only when man comes upright at the end of the tribulation period that God brings in the Jew, the one that He has processed to walk upright and to do everything right in the natural. We are doing it in the spiritual. They in the natural. When they come in then the earth will come upright and it will bring in the millennium. This we've tried to emphasis and as I said in the last service scientists are now saying, sure enough, at the end of this tribulation period--  Which they're not saying at the end of this tribulation period, they're saying at the end of this thousand years, which will again end two thousand years, ending another world and bringing in a great turmoil. So they are saying that, sure enough, at the end of this two thousand years, which apparently is about seven years away that there is going to be something that is happening and they say that the thing that is going to happen is that the earth that is tilted on its axis, having been tilted all these many hundreds and thousands of years, that for some reason that they don't understand, at the end of this thousand years they say the earth is going to swing upright, and it's going to come back to its original  position. And, of  course, that's what we understood. That's what we said, and sure enough they're talking about it. So then, that means that something is on the verge of taking place. Now, as God has chosen the Jews to perfect the natural then He moved on to the Gentiles. He chose the Gentiles to perfect the physical. And so then, human anatomy, as to bodily chemistry is given into the hands of the Gentiles and they're chosen to perfect the human body. That's why they always look to medical sources, hospitals. Always studying the genetics of the body. Always teaching jogging and lifting weights, and the physique, and the clothing, and the  food and all these things, as pertaining to the human physics. Even as to the educational system that they emphasize.  Whereas, we need diplomacy, so they say. So they are chosen to perfect the body and they've worked at it for many years. And, sure enough, they're coming  to the perfection of the body. Men like this man they call Joe Weider which is muscles from his head down to his toes. Suppose to be a perfect specimen of a man. Having spent his whole life with that he has come up with all kind of vitamins and all kind of things that just makes it perfect for you to find the vitamins, and the minerals, and whatever it might be, as to the elements to make you body the perfect specimen. So they've perfected the body. And I made the statement a lot of times, what these men do in the physical relates back to what the Jews do to the earth in the natural. They are now perfecting the natural earth. And the Jews are doing something that the world has not been able to do, they are taking the salt water and by means of the use of a plastic and some other things they are making food grow out of the ground with salt water. And they are converting the salt water some way in an amazing manner that they are making the desert to blossom like a rose. Not only that but as to the potashes, and as to the minerals that are being found in the Dead Sea they are now saying it one of the greatest wealths in all the world. Israel is turning out to be, though she has been a very poor land and a small  people she is coming to the forefront to be the most fertile land of fertility that there is in all the world, and the most wealthy.  So they are perfecting the land, and all of a sudden the end of the Gentiles are here and they have perfected the body. Sure enough they have perfected  the body and every eye is on each other. Everybody is looking at the eye lashes of the woman when they flashes her eye lashes, though some of them are false, you know, and painted up like a lizard, and cheeks painted and lipstick and everything. And the man he's the same way, you know. He comes from the beauty parlors and everything is the same way. And he's pumped his muscles, and the woman she's done her whatever they call it. Aerobics, or what is it they call it? And sure enough, they're perfecting the body. So and now they say that they believe by the end of this two thousand years they'll be able to make a person live a few hundred years. Someone has said about four hundred years, but they feel like they have accomplished something to where at the end of the two thousand years they're going to be able to make  people live about four hundred years. And, of course, we know they're ignorant and don't know what they're talking about because God is going to make them live a thousand years. Let's give the Lord a hand. They're running way behind in their foolishness. But at the end of the two thousand years they're just getting a little glimpse that life is going on. So there is then another thing. If God has chosen the Jews to perfect the earth, and then He has chosen the Gentiles to perfect the body, then He hath chosen the church, as to the Christian people, which is referred to in our age as Protestants, He hath chosen them to perfect the Spirit. And so then, the last phase of this is now beginning to be phased out. We are working on the Spirit and we've come to know the ways of God, and we've come to know the will of God and we've searched out the Word of  God. There have been schools and there have been colleges that have been studying. In every capacity of  life, continual research until at last the spirit of revelation is given unto the church, and now these wonderful truths and mysteries are coming out. And in Revelation it is said that the sounding of the last trump. In the book of Revelation we know then, 11:15,  we know then that the sounding of the last trump is here. It is the sounding of the last trump. And it is the perfecting of the saints.You'll just have to bear with me if I hack a little bit. I didn't start this until I got ready to come to church. I told Betty, I said, Soon as I get there Satan will be faithful to his cause. But, anyway, we know then that we are now perfecting faith. Paul said, this we wish, even the perfecting of your faith.  Faith by the hearing of the Word, as to the Gospel. The Word of Spirit and Life. Perfecting now the spiritual man, doing this through the transformation of mind. See? We're transformated from glory to glory in our mind from one stage of life to another, and we're moving from an earthly habitation in to a spiritual world. This is the translation. This is the transformation. This will end utterly in a transfiguration. So we know that we're moving on in to this wonderful world. You're not in the world. I've chosen you out of the world. I've hid you with Christ Jesus in God's Spirit. So then, we are translated instantaneously by new birth, our spirit into the Spirit of Christ. And then we are gradually, through a graduation, from glory to glory, or a graduality moving toward a diplomacy of a transfiguration. We are between this transfiguration, as to the change of the body, the translation as to that of the translation of the spirit into the Kingdom of God. This Kingdom within us, which is the mind of Christ, the Spirit of Christ, and we are transformating in mind from glory as these truths are revealed to us, and we come closer and closer to that wonderful revelated mind of Almighty God. As we come into this mind we're leaving our mind behind and we're changing from glory to glory every time a glory comes to us, as to an inspiration we change from  the human mind. That is the defiled mind in which Satan has become interwoven, and we're moving on out of that darkness in to light and  we're becoming the body of Jesus Christ. The mind of Christ is gradually changing as the child on the inside forms. He grows more and more. And Paul said the minister travails 'till Christ be formed within you. So we're developing that mind that you might have perfect faith, moving on toward the perfecting of the faith. Once it is perfected it will no longer be human faith; it will be Christ's faith. As long as it's your faith it is your believing in the righteousness of God, and as to a partial sort of a thing. Thirty fold, sixty fold, one hundred fold saying, go on the full measure to the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus, because you are not your own you are bought with a price. You are no longer the natural man, but you are the body of Jesus Christ, members in particular, and you are spotless. You are sanctified. You are perfected forever, justified once and for all by the faith of Jesus Christ, and you are free from sin and you are free from judgment  The judgment came at Calvary and God poured out His wrath upon Calvary. Upon Calvary, as to the judgment, the final judgment, and that did away with all of the judgment. You shall never come in to condemnation. You have passed from death unto life. And many, many things that we said to our companion today that I'd like to go in to tonight, but we don't have the time. We know then, that we're perfecting the spirit, and this is the last phase of things. Now, when the spirit is perfected then it will pick up the perfect body. And then the perfect body will pick up the perfect earth. And when we pick up the perfect body it won't be these that have pumped the muscles and these kind of things. That is only symbolic. It will be the Jews that have been taught the right things of God, as to bodily discipline in the Gospel of Christ. And when they come in they'll be the perfect man. And we, as the spirit of God being in control and being the life of that body as the spiritual Jew that will be that spirit of life that has entered in to them in that they are dead without us. See? And we being fellow heirs, as to the wealth of the Jews, then we enter in to this and we pick that body up and  this life, as to the Day Star, the life, dawning within us, Christ the hope of glory, will bring about this wonderful light that will radiate through the Jewish nation and all the briars will be gone. All the curse will be gone. Every thing in the earth will be gone. First the eradication of the curse from the spirit, and then the eradication of the curse of the body to bring the Jews in. And then the eradication of the earth, as to the briars and those things that came because of the curse.  So we're working on the last phase of this thing and we know that God hath redeemed us. He hath already purchased the body. It is the purchased possession so we're not waiting to purchase the body. We're not waiting for the redemption of the body. He has already redeemed the body at Calvary. That was the purpose of Him coming in a human body, in a human form. It's God within a human body. See? So we're not waiting for that. We're waiting for the change of the body. The adoption of the body. To wit the redemption of the body. To come to where we recognize this. And this, of course, comes in with the Jews coming in because the law comes in with the Jew. And if the catching away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead. Let's just examine that just for a few minutes. If Calvary be the rent veil and the rent veil means that He was rent from the top to the bottom,  as you would cast your pearls before swine they would just turn and rend you; tear you to pieces. And at the rending of the veil, if the ultimatum of the rending resulted in a dividing asunder of the body and the sprit then it was not for His sake that He did that, but He took on the form of a servant that He might crucify the form of a servant to show that that form of a servant which you are in bondage to by the first man Adam, the sentence of death being in your body, that this body is now dead and your spiritual inner man-- Peter speaks of the inner man, that it was now free from the body and the body was now dead and God would  never again see you as a human person, as that weakness, that frail thing that you treasure so much. That He would despise it. He would smite it at Calvary. It's a bastard child. He would do away with it and everyone that was able to see that, follow that and leave behind this body going after Christ. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. God has delivered us from the body of this death by the rent veil. Now if we leave the body alone, it's planted in the water. If we leave it alone and we don't walk after the body, don't walk after the flesh. You're not in the body. You're not  in the flesh. And  we walk after the Spirit then we have a another tabernacle, and not a tabernacle but a temple in that this is called the tabernacle in the wilderness wandering of this intellectual reasoning where the demons and devils and serpents are always biting. But we are the temple of God in the Spirit. In the Holy Spirit we are now the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, even the temple of the living God. Ye are the temples of  God, members in particular of His body. We know that in the dividing asunder of the body and the  Spirit we are now a new creature, and we are looking to that new body. And if this one be dissolved we have another eternal in the Heavens not made with hands, even having born the image of the earthy so shall we bear the image of the Heavenly, even the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sown in weakness, raised in power, crucified at Calvary, delivered for our offenses, raised again in a new form for our justification. Today we are the new form. What does it mean, raised in a new form? He was delivered in the form of a servant, this form. That for of our sins and He was smitten because of it. And when  He purged this body; went through hell, went through the flames of hell, went through death, came up from the grave, then He came up in a new form which meant it wasn't the form of a servant. There is a natural body, there is a spiritual body. We're sown a natural, we're raised a spiritual. Obviously it was spiritual body because He ascended into heaven. But did that body have flesh and bones? It certainly did because when they said it is a spirit, though the second man Adam was made a quickening spirit Jesus said feel of me. A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. But it was  true that He did take life from the flesh and convert it over to the spirit. And then the spirit of that life was made manifest in the mortal genes that that body should be a spiritual body. So then, we know that God is a spirit. We know that God is a spirit. Here Jesus, they said, a spirit.  No, He said, feel of me. A spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see me have. Or that is, He could have said, My Father is a spirit. I am the Son of God. I am flesh and I am bones. I am bone of your bone and flesh of you flesh, in the sense that you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. So we are His bride because as the Bible said, as to the mystery concerning the church, a man and a woman are no longer twian but they are one flesh. And so wherever the spirit of a  man enters into a woman, as to take her to wife, and her spirit is weaker, it over powers her spirit and her spirit soon submerges into his spirit, as to one spirit, and it's him living within her body and she reproduces his image. So them Christ, when we meet Christ, as to that great wonderful angelic being of Christ, He overpowers our spirit. He drives out the infiltration that's in the body making war with our spirit. And then our spirit becomes one with His Spirit. It's no longer us living but Him. Therefore our body is His body. Our blood is divine blood. Royal blood flows through our veins and makes us to be bone of that royal blood, and flesh of that royal blood; members in particular. So we know that the rent veil was for the purpose of doing away with the body; the despised image. The blood being on the seat of atonement, we know that as long as that blood is there there is a second heaven, and that second heaven consist of grace. It is because the body of the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified that the Bible teaches that doing that then He took away the sins of all the world. God looking at all the world through the blood for the soul purpose of  preservation of the saints. Because we being in the image of the first man Adam, having not yet made the change, then that means that He's got to give grace to you and I as this present day image, until we can be changed. But at the same time, though they are illuminated with grace, and the blessings of God, as to the rain on the just and the unjust and on the tare, then that means that when this light comes from this grace, as to the blood that is on the seat of atonement, then that gives everybody a chance to enter into the love of God and into the grace of God, because that is the love of God, and that is the grace of God. But those people will not serve God. They'll be Charismatic. They'll do anything. They'll join churches. They'll create denominations but they'll turn it into social benefits, and they only reflect.  Just like we in our body reflect the grace of God, and that grace keeps us alive. It makes allowance for us, in that God does not see our body, because all human bodies are dead by the body of the Lord Jesus. And this grace must continue. There is there now no condemnation  to us, but then how is it that the world gets into this? How do they get in with their body? Because the Bible teaches that every sin is without the body. There is no sin by the body. The body without the spirit is dead. All sins are without the body except the sin of fornication and he that sinneth the sin of fornication sinneth against his own body. Why? Because the woman is  part of his own flesh. So then, he sinneth against his own body. But even then all sins are with out the body. So then, God could give grace upon all human bodies so that nobody has any sin in the sight of God. Jesus took away the sins of the world by coming in the form of a human body and was delivered as a servant to crucifixion, delivered for my offenses. So as long as this grace is there then God doesn't see their sins. That's how murders  get by, liars and cheats and swindlers. Isn't it strange how that they can go on killing and do all kind of things until they're apprehended by the law? And yet you and I, as children of God, if we stagger and stumble and get careless, as to doing what we ought to do, all of a sudden we find the judgments of  God and we find problems. Why is that? Judgment begins at the house of God. We know better. It's required of us, and our sins have to be paid for here. Cause all men's sins that are not paid for here then the Bible said these sins follow them to the judgment and must be paid for at the judgment. Folks, some men's sins go before them. Our sins, as to confession and God judges us in mercy. Every son is chastened of God. If there is no chastisement in your life you are a bastard child; you don't have a heavenly Father. But if you are not a Christian your sins are not punished now but they will follow you to the judgment. And when you come to the judgment the condemnation of your sins will put you in to the lake of fire. So then, we know that judgment begins at the house of  God. It is not the minister speaking but God. He is remitting sins. Jesus said, As my Father has sent me, so send I you. Whosoever sins you remit shall be remitted and whosoever sins ye retain shall be retained. And that's what we're here for. But when we think about the rent veil then we know that the body is dead. Every human body is dead in the sight of God. And God has allowed this grace to where we have time to find Him, in that we're elect. In that He so loved us that He gave His Son to die for us, and saved us while we were yet in our sins. Giving us this in the foreknowledge of God, writing our names down in the lambs book of life.  Like Paul said, Greet my women workers whose names are written down in the lambs book of life. So then, we find that our names are in the book of life. Now, but this is brought to light, as to the revealed light, or the revelation, at Calvary through the rent veil and then preached down through the church ages that we might comprehend the height, the depth, the width and the length to the perfecting of our faith to make manifest in our mortal genes this heavenly life that's on the inside to change this body in to that glorified image that appeared on the mount of transfiguration. And as it was at the end of the church ages when it said it was as though the sun shined within His strength. And as the woman that stood on the moon when she was illuminated with the sun, the glorification.  So then, it's very obvious that the rent veil was for the purpose to show our body dead, that from that time, as to the opening of the church ages, the dividing asunder as the seven from the four ninety from the four eighty-three as to the church ages in between, it meant that we were going to be a spiritual people, a spiritual Jew, and God was going to deal with our spirit, and that He wasn't going to deal with the body because sin is without the body. And He was going to deal with us after the manner of spirit, and justification of it was going to be faith in the atonement of what He had done. And  without faith it's impossible to please God. If there is no faith, if you in the world, as to the Gentile people you'll be cut off.  When these Jews went out of the presence of God they indicated the bodily death, going in to intellectual darkness.  The Bible said being blinded in part. That is the part of the spirit, not seeing the church. Daniel did not see the church ages. He saw four eighty-three to Calvary. He did not see the church ages of these many years, and then he saw at the end of the church age the seven years all complied together in four hundred and ninety years as determined upon his people. So then, God deals with is in the spirit. And the Jews went out to show that our body was now dead in the presence of God. And being in ignorance  God preserved them because they do not know, and to whom much is given much is required. To him that know to do good and death it not to him it is a sin and the soul that sinneth shall surely die. But he that doth not know to do the will of the Father, the Bible said, then it is not required of him to the extent of severeness. Though he should have applied himself, and he won't be without chastisement. He will be with chastisement but the Bible said after a little manner, or a little source. But he that knows much, much will be required of him. So the Jews being blinded in part, Paul said, how great is the wisdom of God. He did this to preserve the Jew to keep from destroying the body until the body could have time to be perfected. And so then, our bodies are dead in the sight of God and God does not look on our faults and our failures.  That's why the Bible said happy is he that does not condemn himself over that thing which he allows. And that's why Paul said, if I do that as to the bodily part that I would not do then it's another law warring against the law of my mind because the body can do nothing of itself. It has to be Satan giving it some parasite life that is warring against the real life on the inside, and against the law of liberty on the inside. And he said we should never condemn yourself over this because it's not we that do that. It is Satan and he's desiring to break down our shield of faith because that which the law could not do God did it by sending His Son,  condemning sin in the flesh. So I'm delivered from the wretched  body. And that which was the law, as to condemnation, us being under the curse of the law He folded it up and laid it away when He fulfilled it. Every jot and title. And today we're free from the law. So the law warring against us, as Satan using the law to bring condemnation to your mind by showing you the weakness of your body, then that's only Satan trying to do that, a to a condemnation, to kill your faith and destroy your faith in God. And the Bible said cast not away your faith which hath great recompense of reward. Don't let it put a gap in your faith. Stand steadfast in the righteousness of God. Resist him. Draw nigh to God. Be filled with the Spirit. Don't let Satan have control of your body. Don't let sin reign in your body, not for one minute, and cast down imagination. Bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Christ. Or that is, have confidence. Staunch confidence in the Word. Come boldly before the throne of grace that you might receive help in the time of need. You can come boldly, because God has taken away your sins. Jesus stepped out on board the little ship when the waves were raging and they said, Lord, carest Thou not that we perish? He said, Why are you so fearful? And we would say, Well, Brother Pike, when the devil comes and all these things happens, doesn't God want us to shake and tremble? Doesn't God want us to fear and tremble and be humble? That's not being humble. He said, Why are you fearful? He wasn't fearful. He said, Why are you fearful? He didn't want them to be fearful. He said, Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You draw nigh to God. You resist the devil and he'll flee from you. He said, where is your faith? Where is your faith? So then we know for sure that the body is dead because of sin and the Spirit, because of righteousness, it is life. The sentence of death in the body; all having sinned, our body being dead then  through the church ages and not to come to life until the end of the church ages. And when the end of the church ages comes, as to wit the redemption of the body, as to that which is perfect, then the Jews coming in to show the perfection of that body, even the members that come to the head. When the head was severed the members died. When the head comes back the members will fasten themselves to it; the hundred and forty-four thousand. And so then, that means that this body has been dead and nothing has been charged against it, and  you are without spot. You are without wrinkle. You are without blemish. You  keep yourself inwardly being sealed by the great Holy Spirit. And the Bible said  don't grieve that Spirit that you are sealed by until the day of the redemption of the body. Make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. So it said we're justified. We're sanctified. We are glorified. We are perfected forever. So God doesn't see any of your faults and your failures because His Spirit is within you. You're His child and you're developing. He has done all for you.  Many things I'd like to say tonight. But, anyway, He has done it all for you. But it won't be long, at the end of the church ages when your body comes back. When you body comes it comes in the change and there's not one spot, not one wrinkle, not one blemish. When the Jew comes in, the law comes in, the change of the body. So we know the transfiguration is near at hand, and we know that we are the children of God and everything works together for good to them that love the Lord, and those that are the called according to His purpose. Having perfected, as to this last part of it, the spirit, now it's all ready to be joined together. It's kind of like a telescope, as to one, two, three. And then  when it all done it's all back together. Jew, Gentile and church and then it's back together as one within the other, and we're just about to that place now.  Let's all stand together. Just saying a few words to you tonight to exhort you.  Sorry that I  hack through these sermons but this things goes and comes and it's just kind of a dry cough. Just something to aggravate because I've preached so much in my lifetime, being up at night and laying on my chest. I say this so often. Sometimes taking a little cold but really not that bad.  It's just the irritation of the wind pipes and the esophagus from preaching and talking and teaching all the time. I can't get any rest. I can't get away. And sometimes, you know, you'd love to just go off without, you know, like I told Betty. Wouldn't it be nice just to get in the car and ride on in to eternity? But when but when you've got responsibilities you can't just run off. The wolf, you know, he's after the sheep and the hireling flees when the wolf comes, but the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Though we might go and come to the extent that we might go off and stay a little bit trying to recuperate and then come back. And a lot of times it's the hand of the Lord wanting us to reach somebody. So you pray for us that we'll do whatever we can. That we'll continue to fight the good fight of faith, to lay hold on eternal life. Many, many things I'd like to say.  Salvation is so beautiful. The Word of God is so fantastically wonderful. It is so sweet. It is so rich to know this Word  and to follow this Word, and to grow greater and mightier in this Word. I see so many people that are religious and they act like they've got joy, and they act like they're Christians, and they act like they're just  bubbling over but when I check their spirit they're grieved and they're sad and they're making believe and they're pressing in. And they're trying to ritualistically become a Christian, will worship and all these kind of things. But, folks, I'm telling you, if you ever do get the insight of the Word, if you ever do enter into the real revelation of the Word to see what God  has done for you that is already available, already here and what you are and what you already can do and what everything is already for you in these great promises you'd be so thrilled. So thrilled that God would have to do something to your physical being to keep you around here. Paul said in my heart is continual sorrow. Jesus a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief; yet  He was filled with the mighty power of  God. See? And so then, the Lord allows that, as to the conflict of  the body, because I, myself, knowing what I know and seeing what I see and the  beauty of it, it is so wonderful until I'm thrilled so that I don't have words of expression. And if it wasn't for the conflicts of the problems I believe I'd shoot up like that. Be gone. Like the vision I had one night when I was caught up in the whirlwind and I was waving good bye. I was way up here waving good bye. I had a vision the other night. I don't really place any spiritual value on it because of the way that it came about and I'm not sure it had any spiritual potential. But there was some significance I'm sure. I was talking to people about like I am now and all of a sudden they were expecting Elijah and all of a sudden I changed.  My voice changed, like that, and I began to speak as Elijah to the people.  So now, in this  I don't place any value on that, as I said, as to a spiritual meaning and I  wouldn't want you to. But there must have been some significance as to maybe God was telling me something, that the tribulation may be a whole lot closer than we think, and it might be that those two prophets may be getting closer by all the time. Who knows? Maybe that was the significance of it. I don't know that it had any significance, but it come to my mind tonight to mention it to you. Let's just pray and believe God, and let's keep moving on doing the things that God wants us to do. Let's sing this little chorus together, Brother Taylor. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) The altars are open. If you'd like to come to the altars they're open. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Somebody say hallelujah!  Let's sing this little chorus together, Brother Taylor. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Let's lift our hands up and close our eyes. It's so wonderful to be the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular.  For ye are Gods. Ye die like men for the lack of knowing the Word of God and understanding the Word of God,  but still ye are gods though you taste of sleep to rest, yet  ye die like a man, as to the world. But really you are gods and you 're not made to die.You are made to live forever; you are not even made to sleep. Though God has allowed down through the years all men to sleep. No matter how great a man becomes in the natural or in the spiritual he finally fades out. He finally goes to sleep so that Jesus will have the great preeminence as the one who is the master of all, and who is the conqueror of death. And this continues on until we come to this wonderful great message called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, as to the coming to the ultimatum of this and the perfecting of the faith, and then the change because we don't die then. We don't go to sleep then, we just slip right on off in to eternity and through the transformation of the mind, as to that change of the body God brings it about. See? The thing is, the thrust is not the change of the body. That is the result of the thrust. But the thrust is as to the schooling. Going all the way through school and then receiving your diplomacy as the change. So the thing that is of importance is that you learn your lesson, and that you go through school. You're not a drop out, you just keep on keeping on until you eventually you finish your schooling and then there's the change. So then, the glory of this is that wonderful understanding that's on the inside of you, the heavenly treasure that must be made manifest in mortal genes. And this is where we're at today. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. It dot not yet appear what ye shall be like, as to the change, the transformation of the body. But we're not to know any man after the flesh, because the body is dead. All men's bodies are dead. We're to know them after the spirit. What kind of spirit do they have? Of what spirit are you?  Jesus said one time when James and John said something about calling fire down from heaven, He said, You don't know what kind of spirit you are of. See? We are of the Holy Spirit. We  are of the Spirit of God. We are not one that desires judgment upon people, But we're looking for grace and we're looking for mercy. So then, just remember that we are the people of  God and this is the end of the world. Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Can you  lift your hands up and close your eyes. Examine yourself and see if you be in the faith tonight. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing) I'm going to ask our Brother Brent, is it? The one that comes with our Brother Gerald. I'm going to ask him to come up and dismiss us tonight. Certainly glad to have him here with us. It's a real pleasure to have our Brother. (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