Entering Into The Spirit World

(Applause) I appreciate that. I appreciate all the good things you say and do. I always appreciate the fact that we always have a good spirit on Sunday morning, people coming to worship the Lord. Let's sing a little chorus together. I appreciate the Lord undertaking for Brother Taylor. Brother Larry Allen went off to help Frank and he had not had any sleep. He had worked all night long the night before and was waiting around through the day to try to do something about getting a cooler moved back out that we had to move and the men didn't show up that was suppose to help him so he decided to go off with Brother Taylor and help bring back some plywood that had been given us from a park. A tremendous load of plywood. And plywood is almost doubled, as to the cost of it, and we really needed it and wanted it so he volunteered to go with Brother Taylor. And then they could have lost their lives. I've had that to happen to me out on the road where all the lugs would come off and I've had just one just hanging on. I remember in my real early ministry how that happen to me on a little hillside that could have cost me my life. And also I appreciate the fact, God protecting our other people. Protecting Brother Bill Cartrette. He was telling me that he was riding down the road with some of the fellows when all of a sudden he just fell asleep at the wheel. And he said that his wife, Sister Marcia, had about the same time felt God move on her that she should pray for him and apparently it saved his life because he said it was for sure that he'd fell hard and fast asleep and would have just went right off into the ditch and into the field had it not been for God. Whereas that reminds me, Brother Dwight was telling me that – . He said, Boy! I'm bad about going to sleep. Said, Sometime I just pull up to the red light and go to sleep before I can get off. Well, anyway, I'd like to say we're glad to have Sister Sylvia. She's moved up from Florida. She used to be up in this area. And some of the others, her daughter and different ones. I think maybe it might have put quite a stirring in her home from what I've heard, from what Betty was telling me, seeing her move off from Florida, coming up here. She's got settle in and we're certainly glad to have her back. All of you that come to Bethlehem to worship with us, we're glad to have you. I have so many different people coming in here and I don't know that they're here. They come, and maybe they come two or three times and I don't know it. I try to always be sure that I find out, you know, but a lot of times I don't know it. I'd like to apologize for the fact that I don't know it. You're certainly welcome. Little Bethlehem the home of the soul. We're actively engaged in world evangelism, trying to do our best. And people from everywhere becoming interested in it. I mentioned the other day about the boy calling. Beaushay I believe was his name, Ted Beaushay, called from the Carolinas, that had picked up our program on one of the radio stations. Well, people in the past, they have picked us up on radio and television and come to Bethlehem to find out about it and to meet us personally. And some come to stay and they have stayed. But through literature, radio, television, evangelism, whatever it might be, I think it is wonderful to have a part in the gospel and tell people about the love of Jesus Christ. If you've got anything better than that I wish you'd share it with me because I've never heard of anything better than that and I don't expect to make any changes until I do. The greatest and most fascinating thing that has ever been in my life is to witness for Jesus Christ and talk about the love of God. Let's sing this little chorus together. Try another key, Frank. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Can you sing that with me one more time? (Singing) I think we ought to sing it one more time. I believe you really feel that this morning. (Singing) Just one more time together. (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Sing that with me.(Singing) You can be seated. You know, in the book of Saint John we're told in the fourth chapter that God is a spirit. Jesus was communicating with the woman at the well and was instructed to worship God in spirit and in truth and you know when we talk about God being a spirit I know that the first thoughts are, we know, we know. We understand, and we accept the fact that God is a spirit so we worship the Lord in spirit. And then in all reality when we carefully analyze our lives we find out that we don't know that God is a spirit and we're not even acquainted with the spirit. We don't even know what a spirit is, and neither do we worship God in spirit because we are very carnal in our approach. Carnal in all of our doings. Carnal in our thinking. Carnal in our plans. Everything that we do is carnal, and the Bible says to be carnal minded is death. So then, we realize that we really genuinely, like the song we sang earlier, we have to be born again. If we're going to worship God in spirit we have to be born again. And another thing, we can't just be a believer and worship God in spirit. We have to have Christ's Spirit. The Bible teaches that if you have not His Spirit then you are none of His. And I emphasize this to the people over and over. I must have God's Spirit. If I'm going to live Brother Pike's life I must have Brother Pike's spirit, but if I'm going to live God's life I've got to have God's Spirit. So then, to be a Christian I must have Christ's Spirit, because what Christianity is it is living the life of Christ, bringing every thought under subjection to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ and doing away with the imagination. You know, we are a human being and all our endeavors orbit around us. All of our plans and our thoughts orbit around us. It doesn't matter who we are, or it doesn't matter to what point of life we are at; there is just something about it that all that we think, all that we do, all of our plans, all of our desire, all of our projections, every endeavor of life, it still orbits around us and comes right back to us. And it puts us in the position of desiring the preeminence. And feeling like we're the one, and feeling like we know. And feeling like we have to do it. And feeling like somehow or another we're special, and somehow that people should cater to us. You know, this is just a human ego of life and it's something that emanates from a human being and desires the admiration and all of the attention toward it. Now, what causes that? It's the devil. It's the devil within the human body. See? The human body ought not to be like that. God didn't make a human being like that. He made a human being so that this human being would relate to life, and its whole desire would be toward God and the Spirit of life and the abundance of living, to a filled up and overflowing life. But that isn't the way man is, because Satan is within his flesh. Paul said, Within my flesh there dwelleth no good thing, and because Satan is within the flesh it doesn't matter whether he is intellectually indoctrinated, as to the exuberance of the natural things in life, or whether he is religiously indoctrinated as to religious sources of life; he still has those feelings and characteristics I spoke to you about. So what must we do in a case like that? It is those desires that entices us and draws at us and allures and are always suppressing our mind. See? And it is human passions always at an all time high that are relating to the male and the female all the time. And so then that means there is a continual warfare between the body and the spirit. And it is a very detestable sort of a thing. Once you come to Christ and you realize Christ and you love Christ and you get far enough along to where you can see that, you literally detest that human being and that human image and this thing that is always enticing and alluring and always trampling down the mind of humanity. You get to where you hate it. The very garments that is spotted with sin, the Bible says, hate it. Pull ling the souls out of the fire. And you get to where you want to be like Jesus, and you want to be free from all those things. Paul said, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. It's just a body of death. There is a continual warfare, Paul said. It never stops. It never stops. Being born of Adam and Adam being infiltrated with Satan to the extent of the fall then all of his children are born unto death. And this nature always works within them to cause them to go after the things of the flesh. Satan savors the things of your own personal being. Satan savors the things that be of the flesh and he desires the preeminence. He desires a lot of knowledge and attention. He desires money. He desires business and fame and popularity. That's what is wrong with our government today, that's what happened to it. I was telling my wife here a long time ago. I said, Betty. A good while back, I said, these two people that are going in office, what you're going to see is they are gradually going to uproot and move out and replace until every person that they can replace in power and authority they will replace them until that individual that is replaced in the office will look directly to them and know that they are in office because of them, and these people will continually try to put one out and another out until they get control. And when they get control of all of them that are in office then they'll run the government like they want to and they'll abase it to sodomites, lesbians and gays and all of these kind of things and just before humanity reaches corruption – . That is they'll bring on this move of corruption. Paul spoke of these people being the baser sort. So just before corruption moves in then God will burn Sodom and Gomorrah and He'll redeem the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. See? This is what Satan is after. He is working to do that. I think they said they fired ninety leaders at one time and replaced them. Said, they'd never had a president to do that. But, see? working it around, the man is going to be an image and the woman is going to take over because she's a lawyer. And everything is falling right in line, see for the end of the world. For this is the thing that you get to where you hate. You literally hate that kind of thing. You hate – . The Bible says unless you hate your own life you cannot be my disciple. And you finally come to where you literally hate your own life. See? You look at your own self and you don't see no good thing. You look at your wife and you don't see no good thing. And you look at your children and you look at your friends, and you look at your neighbors, and you look at your brothers and sisters in Christ, and unless you can see the body of the Lord Jesus Christ beyond the veil of this intellectual fallen one, as to Adam and the image of Satan, which is the bastard child image, then you just can't find no good anywhere. You can't find any good anywhere because the body has not yet been changed and there is the all of it just one big mass of corruption. All flesh having corrupted its way before God. And so then, we look beyond that and we try not to know each other after the flesh but we know them after the new birth. And we know them after the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, that holy wonderful body which is yonder at the right hand of the Father, and God accrediting to us that body because of the redemption then we look at Christ, and we look at Him as our righteousness so with the heart we believe unto righteousness. Or that is, with our heart we believe unto this body of the Lord Jesus Christ, who we are sitting at the right hand of the Father. So we believe through Calvary unto this body that is sitting at the right hand of the Father, which is holy and godly and spotless, and we say, That's me. That's me, I've overcome. Be of good cheer for I have overcome the world, Jesus said. Or that is I have overcome the world for you and now all you have to do is believe for this is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith, or confidence in this new body that I have for you sitting at the right hand of the Father. Peter said, As long as I am in this tabernacle I feel that I should stir up your pure mind for God has shown me that I must shortly put off this my tabernacle, and if this tabernacle be dissolved I have another one in Heaven that is sitting at the right hand of the Father, the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have another one in the Heavens not made with hands. I have borne the image of the earthy, as to my first birth, even Adam unto corruption, and now this one will be dissolved. Everything dissolved and done away with, even the earth being on fire; now I will bear that one in heaven, that heavenly tabernacle. Or it's a temple. I will bear that one that's not in the wilderness of the intellectual wandering but that temple that is in the mind of Christ, and garnished and adorned with the wonderful mind of His revelational light. And this will change in to God's doing a work on the inside, as to a gradual transformating to bring us to the ultimatum of this change, which is called the adoption, which I'd like to say a lot about. But, anyway, we are gradually moving away from this old bastard child image. Away from this old grave cloth, and we're gradually moving into the wonderful world of God. And we're moving away from this old corruptible flesh, this old beast image, and we're moving more and more into the glorious image of God. But, you know, in the midst of this many church people are still entangled with their human senses of this life. They're still so given to passions and their human senses that all day long the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, and the alluring and desire of their human ego keeps them in a bondage, and keeps them in prison to where they never really get free of the parasites of evil spirits that is ever eating at them like a canker worm. The Bible says, And I will restore, saith the Lord, all that the canker worm has taken and eaten, and all that the palmer worm has eaten. And all that the caterpillar, the locust, all this that they got, I will restore it, saith the Lord. The Lord looking at Jacob, saying, thy worm Jacob, it's evident that he meant that He was speaking of the educational system of people who are in the worm stages, as being upon their belly, their labor being for their mouth, their belly. Their belly craving it of them, being in the old generation of vipers that is referred to as the worm. And God is saying that I'll bring the millennium, and I'll bring the restoration, and I'll restore everything that these people have eaten and torn down and corrupted through their evil generate way of life. So then, we know then that God is trying to help us. God is a spirit. God is not flesh. The Bible says God is not a man that He should lie. He is not flesh. God is a spirit, and God is the invisible God, the invisible spirit. He's in another dimension. And God has entered into our life, and entered into our soul, and entered into our heart. And the illumination of this great wonderful brightness of His coming is in our heart, in our spirit, and in our mind. And God is trying to heal your being with His presence. The Bible says, Be filled with the spirit. In the early church they tarried again and again until they were filled with the spirit, and walk in the spirit that ye don't fulfill the desire of those human senses, as to the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. For all that is of the world is the lust of life. It's the pride of life and it is going to pass away, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. You know, I say this to you, and I want to repeat it again today. People say, Well, I'm young. I've got a life, Brother Pike. I feel fine, why do I want to go to heaven? I'm happy down here. I'm enjoying what I'm doing. And they really are. The Bible says Moses chose to suffer afflictions with the righteous rather than enjoy sin for a season. So you are enjoying sin. You do have a world. It is a glitter. It is a glamour. It is eat, drink, buy, sell, laugh, talk, frolic, passions, whatever. It is for the satisfaction of the human being. Why is it? Why is it so great? It is because it is heaven and you are in heaven. Because of the blood on the seat of atonement that travails in behalf of the church. So you are enjoying it. Buy, sell, loan, have, be a celebrity. Find your place as a dignitary. Have people to look up at you, and bow at your feet. Have money to control them and be a Lord over the heritage. See? You do enjoy it. Why not? You're satisfying your flesh. Satan savors the things that be of the flesh. His educational system keeps it in tack. It started with the old tree of knowledge and it's still at high tide. And to work into the human senses he's confiscated. He's took control of the body and the dispute is over the body. The body belongs to the Lord and is suppose to be filled with Christ, the abundance of living and not corruption. But, anyway, Satan has made himself a heaven. How did he do it? By being a reflector. And God, knowing that man was going to fall put the blood on the seat of atonement from the foundation of the world. The Bible says, Jesus Christ the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world and the blood was on the seat of atonement to take care of mankind when he fell until God could get those that were His own body out from among them, saying, come out from among them and be a separate people. Touch not the unclean things and I will receive you, saith the Lord. Until He could get the people out from among them, that is the church. He had to give a complete covering, as to the blood on the seat of atonement. That is to say, when Jesus died the grace of God covered the world like the dew drops covers Dixie, as we say. And so it covers the world. It covered all the world and everybody found themselves within grace. And therefore, because of this Lucifer reflecting that light. He could not come into the presence of that Light, though he one time had been upright and God had made him upright and the Bible says all his pipes were upright, as to the creation of Adam to show Adam become the garment of that evil thing. So, being the most beautiful tree in the garden Adam was because he was illuminated with the light. But then when he got lifted up, and he lifted himself up, he lost that brightness, because the very minute that Adam listened to Eve, as to self -esteem and that tree of knowledge and human reasoning the Shekinah Light left him like that. He was no longer that tree of life of understanding. He was no longer that one in the garden that produced life as life eternal, that which he could have produced through the Shekinah image, for the tree of life, as to what it was. Whereas the Bible refers to the people of God as to being trees, or the people of the world. And He said if they do this in a green tree, when they were weeping for Jesus at Calvary, what will they do in a dry tree. That is to say, the trees of God being full of sap. Some of you don't even have the Spirit of Christ, or the Spirit of Life. So then, we see the two trees and we see Adam as the tree of life and we see Eve as the tree of death, the tree of knowledge of good and evil because Adam was reflecting God and His understanding and that Shekinah light, the image in which he was made. And Eve strayed away and she began to reflect that of that light darkly that the Bible speaks of. And in the world there is a dark light. And she began to reflect that light in the sense that she became the tree of death. But when Adam yielded to that thing that was in Eve then they were back one again. One again, but on the perverted side of life. So it brought in the feminine gender to show, Eve showing by type, mankind as the feminine gender. Adam showing by type God, as to the angelic being, which was the masculine part of mankind. So then, as a type of it we see it and then when the falls comes here we look at humanity and we know that they are in the feminine gender and we know that God is the great masculine. And we also know that Satan is in the masculine, therefore as man's spirit being stronger than a woman's spirit the masculine spirit takes her spirit in marriage and soon she becomes one with the masculine spirit. And that woman will be just exactly like her husband. That is, if she loves him and cares for him. She actually becomes him. Every time she speaks it'll be his spirit speaking through her, as a rule. And other than her feminine attributes of her feminine gender then she'll be just exactly that man. And it's the same way with Christ. If He comes in us He takes control of our spirit and He makes us His bride and His wife and reproduces through us His image. It's the same way with Lucifer, as to the dispute over the body. The two angelic beings, Lucifer the son of the morning and Christ that bright light that Lucifer reflected, as to the covering cherubs. So then, when Adam fell this was because he had listened to Eve and Satan entered into him thus he was lifted up. Though he was the brightest tree of all he was then lifted up. The most beautiful tree in the garden but he was lifted up. Then out of the garden he went. The expulsion came and he fell. From the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. Though God made him out of the dust of Eden, picked him up, put a garden in the corner of Eden. Put him in that garden and when he sinned against God the cherubs were put there, the expulsion, out he went back to the level of a beast; what he had been made like, and Satan entered through that beast and into that beastly part of Adam and has today ruled and reigned and is still today ruling and reigning over humanity, as through the beast part, which is the passions and desire of the human body and he has it in a rage by the tree of knowledge and he is forcing it by powers and authorities, badges and guns to stay in that kind of condition as he forces your children into school. And people like Clinton, wants to do away with private schools to where Satan can, ecclesiastically speaking, have more boycotting control. We see that this thing has happened and we see that which reflected Lucifer, when that light was out then he was nothing but a reflector; a ruler of the darkness. And that is where darkness comes from. And when he saw the opportunity to seize upon the body, to get back into the presence of God, or in to the light of God, to get out of that world of darkness then he took full advantage through the weakness of the beast, and from that, that not being a high enough plane of living to suit him, or to satisfy his ego because he had lived such a great life. Like a man that is rich and lives a great life and then tries to live as a pauper. So then he sought to get into the woman, which was a higher plane of living, which he succeeded in doing. And when he got into the woman he saw that she still wasn't the ruling powers of authority so he sought the higher plane of living by getting into a man because a man was in control. So when he sought to get into the man he knew that Adam was the son of God and if he could get past that Shekinah that would eradicate him in a moment with the brightness of that light, then if he could get into Adam he could reflect that Shekinah through the veil of Adam because God would give grace to His creature. Whereas before the world ever was God did give grace in that this was going to happen and to allow for His creation until He could bring His creation to surface, and then after that he would do away with it. That's how the second heaven got to be. The blood was on the seat of atonement, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, this having been given to us in Christ before the world ever was. All of this was already when man fell. So all of the works of Christ known unto Him before the beginning He had made preparations for this, even to everyone having written their names down in the Lamb's Book of Life. And everyone that you've given me, Jesus said, I will raise him up in the last days, Heavenly Father, for I have not lost a one of them except the Son of Perdition. All that You have given me will come to me. All right. So then, we see that in this with the fall, then when God came forth there was darkness and He said. Let there be light and there came light and He had invaded the domains of Lucifer, pushing that world of darkness back. And when He did that then Satan sought the advantage and he got into mankind. And he had thought that if he could get past that Shekinah that he would reflect that Shekinah, as to partake of the tree of life, which was Christ, and live forever. See? And that's why the Bible says after the sin. It says, Now lest man puts forth his hand and partakes of the tree of life, and that is, he would have lived forever. They put him out of the Garden. That is Christ did, put him out of the garden. Now, here is what I'm trying to say. That there was two trees there. One was Lucifer, an angel. An illuminated angel that was one time exceedingly bright. Greater than any angel in heaven. So great that all the angels, to some extent, admired his greatness and a third part so devoutly fastened themselves to him until when he fell they also fell with him. Which denotes the nickel, the rock of those that are not burning, shining daystars as our sun is, as the children of God are. The true stars. The nickel and rock and denotes Lucifer as the moon which is a reflector. Whereas the true sunlight with true sunlight, as to the stars that have their own light are still to be left in Heaven. But, anyway the Bible speaks of this and it speaks of these two trees. Both spiritual trees. Adam and Eve could see spiritually because of the illumination of the grace that was given unto them through God though they were made out of the dust and was given to the extent that it was to remain with them until the change that they could eat of the tree of life and become eternal gods. That is why they were subjected to a vanity of life, or life of vanity, or world of vanity and this is why God allowed this vanity so that He could make them into gods as it was when Lucifer had subdued them that he said, You are gods. You now know good and evil. Or He told them that this would be their way of life. That they would understand good and evil and be as gods. So then, sure enough they became gods because Satan entered into Adam and Eve and Satan, being a god, which is an angel, angels are gods, then when this angel entered into Adam, and into Eve they became gods and they knew great and mighty things, but it was from the tree of knowledge. It was not from the world of understanding. And they're in the same kind of condition today. In Adam all die. And so then, when we look at this we realize that they were exiled from God. God could not look upon iniquity and they were shapen in iniquity. Even in my birth I came forth in the image of iniquity. You came forth in the image of iniquity. In iniquity did your mother conceive you because of the fallen way of life and to the gendering of mankind. So then, we know that these two trees were there. It was the tree of life, as to Christ, the great bright shining star. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, as to know about life to that extent through the reflection, which was Lucifer, an angelic being that reflected this. A lot of people say, Well, Brother Pike, there just is no devil. I had somebody tell me not too long ago there is no devil. Well, if there is no devil there is no God. There is no Christ. There is no Holy Ghost. There is no nothing if there is no devil, because if the Word of God lied about saying that there is a Lucifer, that there is a devil, that there is a wicked one then wouldn't He have lied about all the rest. So then, there is a devil. What is the devil? He is an angelic being. He is a fallen angel. He is a mighty angel. Like the Bible speaks in the book of Revelation and it says, And an angel came down from heaven with such a great tremendous light that his light lit up all the earth. See? And this light is an understanding. And so then, there is a Lucifer and he will enter into you. And he has thousands and millions of fallen angels that are demon spirits and they're looking for bodies, and he's looking for bodies that he might causes these angels, even seven in Mary Magdalene, a legion in the man of the tombs, to cause these devils to crowd into you and get them out of the dry places. And in you they are at liberty to work for him, to confiscate to take this world over, to set up his heavenly realm, and to cause his militant powers, we would say in natural terms, to be great and mighty as he devastates humanity and controls humanity, to subdue humanity. Like the IRS. We say, Well, the IRS is getting a lot of our paycheck, and they're going to keep on until they'll have a third of my paycheck. Folks, that's not what IRS is doing. IRS is set up by the devil and God is allowing it because of the gullible desire of the world of letting the people go hungry, and widows go lacking, little orphans go lacking. See? And IRS has set themselves up to take over your paycheck, not a third of your paycheck. Satan is going to take over your entire income. He's going to confiscate it and take over your entire physical being and all of the natural properties that you own to where he's going to have, us as to the government, control of everything and bring it to a communist government and to an abased sort, as ravishing the little girls and the little boys until everything is nothing but swine, and mire, and dog, and vomit. And he's going to try to control, holding the church in bondage like somebody that would take a little child, run off with that little child and blackmail the parents. This way as long as he can hold the church in bondage of a religious ignorance of intellectual worship then that means God can't bring the end, because He can't bring the end until He gets the church out of the world. And the Gospel has got to go into all the world and the Gospel has got to be preached by the church, by the God people. And if the God people don't come out of the world and come to this, away from the old intellectual tree of knowledge, they could never preach the truth to them, as to going to all the world, preach the gospel of the Kingdom. The law and the prophets until John, since that time the Kingdom is here and we preach it. So then, I said that to say this, that we know then that we have a job to preach the Gospel and we've got to come away from the tree of knowledge and we've got to come out of the world. And we know as long as the devil has got us then that means he's blackmailing God. He can cause this whole world to be filled with the lasciviousness and corruption, and go right on with his kingdom, right on with his program, right on with his plans. And God cannot do anything about it. So, a lot that I'd like to say about some of these things as to detail them, but just passing on from one thing to another to bring a little exhorting this morning. We realize then that those two trees, that one was life and one was death. And those two angelic beings are disputing over the body, and the dispute is; as to Lucifer is saying, and Eve is mine. She related to me. She related to me. He wanted to reproduce his image through her so that he would have a body. And Jesus, or Christ, that is to say Adam, he is saying, she is mine. And the dispute is between the beast that was in the garden and Adam. Or between Lucifer that was in the beast and Christ. And today we're looking at it on a spiritual level because we know that we are natural people and we know that angelic beings are seeking to get into these bodies. Whereas true angelic beings, not fallen ones as demon spirits, they are ministering to these bodies and relating to these bodies. And they enter into these bodies to the extent of inspiration and life. Like when Jesus was on the long fast how the angels came and ministered to him to inspire him and give him strength to resist the devil. The Holy Spirit, which is the angelic Spirit of Christ, the tree of life, it also comes into us and seals our spirit inwardly that this life of Christ might be made manifest in our mortal genes to the extent of health and happiness, triumph and victory over poverty, and whatever it might be, over the problems, the oppressions, the demon oppressions of life, moving on with a gradual transmission of mind to an ultimatum of the transfiguration of the body, as to the adoption. Translated into the Christ Spirit, the Kingdom of God, by faith in our spirit and then transformated gradually as that light comes from that seed of life, or seed of understanding, or the mind of Christ. Like a baby it comes from that mind and it gradually grows and we gradually develop and we're transformating from glory to glory. That is revealed light to revealed light of the Gospel to the tutoring, the perfecting of your faith, until finally we get that full understanding of God, and then we get the full faith of that understanding which makes it the faith of Christ in the moment in the twinkling of an eye. And the whole life, that heavenly treasure in that earthen vessel is made manifest in your mortal genes to be changed as Jesus' body that stood between Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration. So we're moving on toward this, waiting for the Jews to come in, as to the adoption and the change. Whereas, there is so much to be said about that. But I said all of that to say this that God is a Spirit and God said, I am seeking people to worship me in spirit. I want your spirit. I am the God of spirit. I want you to be spiritual, Paul said. I want you to have the spirit of revelation, and I'd like to speak unto you as spirituals. I want you to walk in the spirit, live in the spirit. I want you to leave this flesh, leave this world, leave these natural things. Take a mind to suffer, a self-denial. Get away from your flesh. Get away from that image. Get away from those passions. Get away from those human senses because they are under the control of Lucifer and the auspices of Satan and I want you to get away for those things, and I want you to consider yourself dead by my body as that wretched man, that bastard child, buried in a watery grave. And I want you to be the resurrected Christ, as that which came forth in another image. Not in the image of a servant as to what Christ put on as a garment to begin with when He came into the world, perfecting that body as to the church, taking it to the Mount of Transfiguration, coming back to Calvary, as a human form, a servant to be smitten to eradicate the beast part. I don't want you to have that. You have known me after the flesh, but not anymore. You know me after the Spirit. That beastly part has been smitten. But as resurrected in a new form. Not you living but Him in a new world, new faith. Everything is abundant, glorious, having been delivered from sin, perfected forever. So then, God wants us to worship Him as a Spirit, and in Spirit and in truth. This is the Spirit world we speaking of. There is a natural world and a spirit world. And in this spirit world there is only going to be a few that will come from the natural world to enter into it. Won't be a great mass of people the way that you think. Out of the great multitudes there will be few that find it, and it will be a straight gate, a narrow way. And the Bible says this few, little flock, will find the Kingdom of God. So there won't be very many that will find this. Not very many shall find it and you should do your diligence to enter into it because you can minister to others and after that, after ministering to others you can become a cast away. So we are not to base this on being a minister that we should make it, being a laity that we should make it, belonging to any sect of religion that we should make it, giving to God that we should make, or praying or fasting that we should make it, studying and knowing a lot of things that we should make it. It is based on one thing and that is if you have not His Spirit you are none of His. If you have His Spirit then you belong to God. Let's stand together. I'd like to talk to you more but I don't feel enough hunger and strength this morning to talk to you much, but there is quite a number of things here that I did need to say to finish our thought, to detail it for the sake of getting it on tape. That's one reason I push, not all together for your sake because if I don't feel the hunger and thirst it's better that I close out and let you just go on and do whatever you feel to do. But there are some that have some hunger and there are some that are like babies. They don't have very much strength but they try to get whatever they can. And for this reason, as I say so often, we don't get to do much in the church. But I press a lot of times for I need to get this on tape, because this goes out around the world to people so I press to try to get enough on tape, to kind of detail it to where they can understand it because I'm not there with them as an individual to interpret this things and to teach and tutor them the way I am here to teach and to tutor you, and explain things to you as we fellowship. That's puts them in a precarious sort of a situation so I try to press as much as I can to do whatever I can. But this is the place that we're at today. Satan is reflecting the great light through the body of humanity. That is to say, the Christian. Otherwise the light would destroy him. Someday the blood will come off of the seat of atonement. There'll be no more allowance for the human body no more because the human body, as the church, will be changed. And when they go out the light will go out. The blood will come off of the seat of atonement and people will be in a total eclipse, as to total darkness, and will gnaw their tongues with pain. And Satan, being in them, will not reflect that light anymore, and when this light comes then at the end of the millennium it will completely eradicate, destroy, as it picks Satan back up after a thousand years of being bound in the bottomless pit and the seed of Gog and Magog, it'll pick them up and with this light coming there won't be no reflection, as to the blood on the seat of atonement and will utterly destroy them turning the whole thing into a mass of flames, eternal flames Satan will be cast into. And the Bible says where the fire is not quenched and the worm dieth not. The worm, that is the soul, as to the body. Jacob thou worm. So we know then that right now he is reflecting that great light that has created the heavens and it is the second heaven, so people eat, they drink, they frolic, they have their ball games. They do all the things that they want to do in the flesh and they enjoy it and they don't feel any need for God. They've got their medical cures and whatever. So they were in heaven. They don't have any hunger. They don't have any desire. They're fully satisfied. They're filling their belly with the husks that the swine eat. So they're happy. They're enjoying sin for a season. They're very contented. They're looking for exuberance in the natural, and they're looking for a manifestation of this exuberance as to what strength and to what youth, or life they can project from the human body, or obtain from this body. Folks, let me tell you, I want to tell you again, especially you young girls and boys, you listen at me, you young people. That isn't going to last. Don't be deceived. This world is vanity. It's the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. It's going to pass away. With Lucifer there will be no more reflection when he goes out, so there will be no more second heaven. This world is the second heaven and it is illuminated with the grace, and it so came to be at Calvary after the rent veil. I wish we could detail it to you, but you don't have enough strength and concern and interest in heavenly things. You will wish that you did in just a little while. And nevertheless, Satan is fixing to go through the expulsion. God has already confirmed it at Calvary, to be made manifest in the last seven years of the tribulation period, and we go out just prior to that at the beginning of the tribulation period when the great day of His wrath comes. This means that this heaven is going to pass away and all that you have given to the flesh will pass away with it. He that doeth the will of God abideth forever. You know, I say this again. Ninety-three. Seven years left. Two thousand years, another world ended. Now they tell me half the scientists have agreed to the fact that the world will come upright at the end of the tribulation period, or that is the end of two thousand years. So I said this the other day. I was talking to some of them. God worked in six days; He done all of his work. On the seventh day He rested. And Peter said, a day with God is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day. Whereas we don't have any substantiation as such statement as to explanation, but Peter apparently knew what he was talking about; he had the keys to the Kingdom. But there is a substantiation in the Bible if we can understand it. That is to say, how do I know that God's working days, six day resting on the seventh? How do I know that one day is equal to a thousand years, or a thousand years as one day? It was said, Adam and Eve, in the day thou eatest of this tree thou shalt surely die. We know that man don't live a thousand years and we know that he has to come to a thousand years as to a days’ rest, or restoration, to show that death was by and man and is conquered and that man is free from it before the Celestial comes in. But we also know that when He said the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die, having the sentence in the body within the body by corruption, and God not being able to look at the image of iniquity. We also know that what He was saying that the illumination of light will withdraw from you. My presence. I won't be able to get near you and that is death. You'll be dead. Some are already dead in trespasses and sins, some having crossed the dead line, twice dead and plucked up by the roots because they can't get forgiveness. So then, we ask ourselves the question, How do we really know a day is equal to a thousand years and a thousand years as a day? Why did Peter make that statement? Well, I look at it like this. We do know that he did say that He would work six days and rest on the seventh, and we do know that all things follow types and shadows; that man usually works six days and rests on the seventh. And it was called the Sabbath, which as we say, the day of God's rest, the seventh day, that's really the day of our rest down here. We get it all mixed up with God's rest. It's only a symbol of man's rest. Like the fertility of the ground. The Bible says work the ground six years, let it rest on its Sabbath which is a Sabbath to the natural, a Sabbath to the physical, a Sabbath to the spiritual. And we get them all balled up because we don't understand revelation. But anyway if man had done that he wouldn't have had to put in all this insecticide. He wouldn't have had to put in all of this fertilizer and the different stuff. The earth would have re fertilized itself, but we've used it up. The same way with our body. We use it up. We don't give it any relaxation at night, any rest. Always gazing at television. Always going frolicking. You know, we use it up. The same way spiritually. You use it up, your spiritual Sabbath. This is the day that the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. John entered into the spirit on the Lord's day. So there is a lot to be said about His rest; entering into His rest. So when we think of six days and then resting on the seventh then we look at the seventh day and we say the seventh day of God's rest. And we say the millennium which means intellectual terms as to a thousand years. So we say the millennium, the day of God's rest. The seventh day coming in. We know for sure that is a thousand years. So when we make comparison then why would we think that the days, as to day per, as to week would be any less than a thousand years per day. If the seventh day is a thousand years why wouldn't the sixth day be a thousand years. And so then, when we consider it all we know for sure that God works with humanity six thousand years and the world ending as to the third world, in that last little episode of life, then we have to crowd seven years into the tribulation period. And the reason for that is to bring it back from the four ninety back to the four eighty-three, earthly perspective as to the seven, to complete the prophesy that was given to Daniel. Four hundred and ninety years on the body, as to the Jews, and bringing it back to an earthly perspective as we said some things concerning the capstone. Won't try to get into it. But, anyway, bring the seven years back, as to come back to the earthly perspective. And so in that there is seven years left for that. And to show the fall of Satan the way that God would bring this thing to a world ending. And as scientists say, that at the end of the tribulation period the world is going to come upright, as to what we said would happen. And they say at the end of two thousand years. But remember, the world cannot come upright before the tribulation period is over. It is through the tribulation period, the stars falling, the sun being smitten, the moon being smitten, all of these things, this is where the earth is coming upright, even as we said, in the last vial being poured out just before the millennium comes in. We said it would be poured out in to the air, and the Bible says at that time such earthquakes so as the world has never known. And the cities of the world, as to a nation, fell. Crumbled to the ground. It's very evident that when the world comes back upright all those buildings, all of those things are going to crumble. It's going to affect heaven and earth, and that will bring upright, at the end of the tribulation period the world upright on its axis cause that's where the last vial is poured out. And with this the millennium, the last day as to God's day of restoration, and God's day of rest. So then, we know that the end of the world is here. We've said this over and over. We could say a lot of things about it but said many things about it and we'll say many more things about it as we go along. So we know the end of the world is here because the church goes out seven years before the ending of the two thousand, though it might be off one way or another, as to the calendar, and shift one way or another but it has to happen. So then, when we look at it we know that the signs of the times are fulfilled because we're not in hypocrisy; we're living light. And we know it's nigh, even at the door when we see these things. And the Bible says exhort each other the more as we see the day approaching, which makes it evident that we can see the day approaching, and will see the day approaching, and that this day will not come upon the children of God as that unaware. For He is not trying to pounce on us unaware. He wants us to be aware. It shall come as a snare upon all those that dwell upon the earth, but we don't dwell upon the earth. We're chosen out of the world. We're hid with God in Christ whom the heavens have received. Rejoice forever more, ye that dwell in heaven. So then, we know that as I said, it is not us that die. It's appointed unto man once to die, after that the judgment. We've passed from death unto life. And we realize that all things are for our good, and works together for our good because we love the Lord. The end of the world is here. What are we going to do about it? Are we going to take heed? No. No, the world won't take heed. You say, What do you mean by that? Already I've heard that for the coming event of the great ending, world ending, of the two thousand years of bringing in the new millennium, or the next thousand years, they say that there are ships, numbers of great ships that are already sold out as to the tickets for cruises. And even that for ahead as to ninety-nine, that the concord is sold out, as to reservations. And all of these things are already set up for the great, great frolic of bringing in the new world, or era, as we would say. And evidently it's kind of like the Titanic, you know. Because it's sure going to hit an iceberg, as we say. That means they're not going to listen. But he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. Be ye also ready for in an hour that ye think not, as to the world, the Son of man cometh. Be ready. Be ready. See? You're going to take heed to it. You that love the Lord. You that know the voice of the Lord. You that hear the voice of the Lord. Not just hearing something in your natural ears but a in a conception, a divine conception of understanding, ye that know that, ye that hear that, you're going to accept that and you're going to prepare and you're going to be ready. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together, Brother Taylor (Singing) The altars are open as we sing this little chorus together. (Singing) Sing it with me again, now. (Singing) Let's sing this chorus.(Singing) Let's lift our hands up, close our eyes together. Let's sing this little chorus. (Singing) Sing this with me. (Singing) I'm going to ask Brother Fontaine if he'll come and dismiss us. While he's coming I remind you again, the Bible says we should examine ourselves to see if we be in the faith. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by Word of God. The Bible says he that God sendeth will speak God's Word. How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of great joy. They preach to you a risen savior. So we preached to you the wonderful word of God this morning. Examine yourself and see if you're in the faith of the Word. (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