The Perfect Work Of Faith

Well, let's sing a little chorus together. It's good to be back in service tonight and feel the presence of the Lord and still have the victory. It's hard days that we're living in. Satan is really on the rampage. Let's sing this little chorus. (singing) Can you sing it again. (singing) You can be seated. Without Jesus we can't do anything. You know, the secret of Jesus was, He said, I do always the things that please my Father. Because of that He was a great master. He was THE Master. And then I recall in the days of Enoch, the Bible said Enoch was translated by faith that he should not see death because he did the things that pleased God. For the Bible says before his translation he had this testimony, and that testimony was that he pleased God. So then, it's very evident that we must please God. If we do not please God then we do not have faith. John emphatically states that when we do the things that please God then do we confident our heart. And confidence of heart is faith in God. And when we have confidence that God heareth us that's all that is required. Confidence that God hears us, and if we know that He hears us we know that we have the petition we desire of him, because we do the things that please Him. Or, that is to say, when we have the confidence that God hears us we automatically know that we have all things that pertain unto life because before the world ever was these things we given to us in Christ. They were given to us in Christ Jesus before the world ever was. Brought to light at Calvary all things that pertain to life, therefore we already have all things that pertain unto life, as to God's desire in that the lamb was slain from the foundation of the world and these were freely given to us with Christ. Knowing that they are already freely given to us in Christ Jesus we already have these things and we are made heir to them by faith, as to taking them into our heart and life. And that faith is called a confidence that He hears us. When we're persuaded that he hears us that confidence in God automatically makes us heirs, as to those things being made manifest as heavenly treasure within this earthen vessel, in these mortal genes that we be partakers of health, of strength, of happiness, of prosperity, and that we stay free of fear and frustrations, and the complications of life. I think that marvelous, don't you? that God has so worked it to where we actually have faith in God. So the writer says have faith in God. Have faith in God. That's why I sang the little chorus that I did. Without Him we can do nothing. Doing always the things that please the Father. Always fighting the devil. We never stop fighting the devil, that's for sure. Why is it we never stop fighting the devil? The reason is because he never stops fighting us. He never stops. Satan never stops. He's always fighting. Always and always; he's always fighting us. If you've got your Bibles you can turn over to the third chapter of the book of Revelation. If you'll notice in the fourth chapter here, it says there is a door open in heaven. A door open in heaven, and this is right after the ending of the church ages. But in Revelations, the third chapter, the twenty second verse. We went through this verse a lot of times. "He that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches." And then it is followed by "a door open in heaven." So then, I said that to say this. When we say, He that hath an ear, let him hear, then we say he that hath an ear. Evidently the things that I say to you a lot of times about different ones hearing this, they don't really receive it because they don't have an ear to hear. And yet I would say, Well, Brethren, I have two ears; surely I can hear. This is not the kind of hearing that Jesus spoke of. He that hath an ear, let him hear. Evidently He was speaking of the spiritual ear because when He walked among the Pharisees and Scribes He told them, He said, You have never heard God's Word at any time. And yet He was the Word made flesh and He was the Word that was expressing Himself all day long among them. And yet with all of His preaching He says to them, You have never heard God's voice. No, not one time. And then as He stood within the midst, the Bible tells us that He was the express image of God. Or that is, He was the given image of God and the express likeness, the very likeness. He was God in His fullness. He was the Spirit that was made flesh, the Word of spirit and life. And yet He said to them, He said, you have never seen His shape at any time. You've never seen God. You've never even seen His face at any time, and yet there He was. Because the Bible said He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. So there He was in the world and they were looking straight at Him, as with these natural eyes, and they still didn't see God. Why? Because God is a spirit and God is only seen with spiritual eyes whereas the Bible said, And this light, this great light that has sprung up in darkness. That is to say, at the time of Calvary people were in intellectual darkness. They were in religious formalities. And with all of their service to God they had never seen God, and then here comes God and stands in their midst with is that light. The great light. And so it is said by the prophet, as pointing to this particular time of the coming of the Messiah, said, and to them that sit in the regions of the shadow of death, and them that set in darkness, great light has sprang up unto them. And there He stood, the light of the world. And John said, And he is this light that we have handled with our hands, for He is the light of the world. And Jesus said, I am the light of the world. And when He went away He said, Now ye are the light of the world. That is to say, We are His bodily member. We are the light of the world. We are bone of His bone and we're flesh of His flesh. We're the Word made flesh now as to whatever measure we have received, even Christ, the Spirit, being made manifest in our mortal genes as this heavenly treasure being made manifest in our mortal bodies. But it said this light shined in their midst it said that they did not comprehend it. They did not comprehend it. This light shined in their midst and there he stood, but they could not comprehend it so they never did see His shape at any time, they never did hear His voice at any time. And it was said then later concerning the Jews that they had the Word, of course there He was, but not being mixed with faith It did not profit those that heard it. You know, the thing that happened to Adam and Eve is that they failed to believe the Word. The whole world today is in darkness because of the failure to hear the Word. I look out across the nations and I meet the people. I talk to them. I preach to them, you know by air ways, and by personal appearances and whatever. And I look at my children here in God and I preach to them. And I think, Now, Lord, what You've said to one You've said to all. You've given grace not only to Bethlemites but You've given grace to all of the people, religiously speaking or non-religiously speaking. All of the people around the world, You've given grace to them and that You're not requiring of them as to good works, as to a means of getting into the Kingdom. Because even if you did good works you could not get into the Kingdom, for the Bible said works without faith is dead and faith without works is dead. So then, I said, You're requiring of them one thing and that is the faith of Jesus Christ that was wrought within the human body of Jesus Christ as to their sanctification, as to their salvation, or deliverance and that You're requiring this of them. And You are telling us to contend for that faith that was once delivered unto the saints. So then, we know, as Jesus said to Paul, turn my people from darkness unto light to the faith which is within me by which they are sanctified. And we are also told, Paul being a Jew, said we're kept under the law as a school master to bring us unto grace, or unto the faith that was to come. Now, he says, since THE faith has come we're no longer under the school master for we now have grace. And so he contended that a man was saved by grace of God through faith and that without the deeds of law, as to say, and if it was of works a man then could boast. But seeing it is not of works but it is the gift of God, no man can boast. We're taken to the temple where Jesus said, and two men went up to the temple and they stood there and one said, I thank Thee, O God, that I'm not like other men. I fast. I pray, and pay tithes of all I possess. And the other man said, O God, have mercy on me, a sinner. And the Bible said the man that didn't do anything but call on God, and have faith in God went down to his house justified rather than the other. So, see? it's not by works lest any man should boast; it is the gift of God. And then when we see faith, as to look at the whole world, what is God requiring out of them. Faith. Because your works are shown by your faith. And if they have faith in God through the grace that is given to them at Calvary, then just like you and I they can be saved, because that's the way we're saved. And if they have true faith in God then that means they will produce the works of Christ Jesus to separate themselves from the evil of this life and conform to the ways of Christ that they might be delivered from death. So when we see faith we look over here and here is a woman. She comes to the Lord Jesus and she says, Lord, I need healing for my child. And the Lord says, It is not meet to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. And in that day those that were without, as to the Jews, they were called dogs. And she said, I know, Lord, but the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the children's table. Solomon said humility before honor, and here this woman shows such act of humility that God is moved toward her for He has said to her, I cannot not give the children's bread to dogs. Or, it's not meet that I should do that, He said. And so then, that automatically cut her off but her faith was so, her perseverance was so that she wouldn't be denied, and she said, I know, Lord, but the dogs eat of the crumbs. What about the crumbs? I'm a dog but I'm suppose to have crumbs. Where is my crumbs? If I'm a dog then you are obligated to take care of me because I'm your dog and you're suppose to feed me; look after me. And her confidence toward God that even though she might be a dog she still belong to God, that He had created her, and she said the dogs eat of the crumbs. And Jesus saw that perseverance, that drive that she would not give up, that she was going to have something from God. And then He saw her act of humility and that humility forerunning honor, then God said, Woman, great is thy faith; whatever you want have it. And then the Bible said with this man that commanded his servant, he was in command. He said, I say to one to go, he goes; another to come, he comes. It did not phase his faith. He evidently was a good man and had the right attitude or God would not have honored his faith. He must have not been one to want to Lord over the heritage of God, or just commanded him because he could to be a Lord over them. Evidently he was the right king of fellow and had the right kind of attitude, or else why would he have sent to Jesus for the healing of his servant. He must have loved humanity. He must have loved his servant. And he said, Lord, I'm sending someone to You. I didn't feel that I was worthy to come to You, and I didn't feel that I was worthy that You should come under my roof, but I'm sending somebody to you. My servant is sick and I want you to heal him. All You have got to do, Lord, is just speak the Word. Just send me word he's going to be all right. He had that much confidence in God. And when Jesus heard that, you know, he was ready to come and heel the man. But then they stayed Him by saying, but he says he's not worthy for you to come under his roof. Then Jesus marveled and said, So great a faith I've not know; not even in Jacob. So then, when you look at that again humility forerun honor. And there is was, the great humility, the persistence, the full fledged confidence, like Abraham of old, being fully persuaded that God had said it and God was able to perform that which He said. Look at it, how great it was. And so then, the servant was healed. And look at Moses. There is Moses, and we see Moses. Moses he was considered to be the meekest man in all of the land. It was said to his brother and sister, Wasn't you afraid to speak against my man Moses? God said, Seeing that there is no one like him in all the land. He's faithful in all of his house. He's the meekest man in all of the land. See? Humility again before honor, and this is what we need, folks. Not boasting of the works we've done, or what we're going to do, or who we are, or what we could be. But what we need is real genuine humility before God because God gives more grace to the humble. We can't make one hair black nor white. We can do anything for ourselves. We can't add one cubic, as to our stature. The Bible said, Seeing that these are the little things and you cannot do them, how can you then hope to do the greater things. So we see the greatness of God and we see the greatness of humility, and we see that humility goes before honor. And then the question arises in our heart, why does humility go before honor? Why is it God uses humility before honor? Isn't there some reason? Does God do anything without a reason? Has He ever made anything, or created anything without a reason? Like scientists say, as far as action, there is a reaction and you do one thing and you draw a dividend from it because something reacts from it. But the thing is, has God ever done anything -- Even the hair on your head, isn't it to cover your brain so the sun don't hurt you up there? If you don't know that you just lose your hair. Doesn't it keep you to where you're not taking cold all the time? If you don't know that you don't know that you lose your hair. Then you find out it wasn't just to make you look pretty; it is for a purpose. It denotes something, even as a woman denotes the strength, as to the government of her husband. See? And represents as to the locks of Samson, or that of the church. So it says a man having long hair it is a shame unto him, but for the woman it is a glory unto her. So, I said that to say this, when humility comes honor comes. When pride comes destruction comes and a haughty spirit just before a fall. So then, when it is humility why is that the honorable approach? Because God is like a tender dove. He's like a little dove and he is tender and He is gentle and He is sweet. And so then for Him to get close to you, you've got to learn to be gentle and you've got to learn to be sweet. And God is that spirit of humility where Jesus humbled Himself, even to His own Brethren to wash their feet, and said I'll be your example and become meek and humble, like a lamb opening not His mouth, even unto the death. Moses being like unto this great master. See? And so then, humility fore-runs honor because humility is the power of eradication that eliminates any starchy way of life, or any pride, or any haughtiness until you humble your body to the extent that Satan, who is in this world controlling the body, cannot disturb the human senses to that extent of being macho, as they say in the world, or being some exuberant, self-esteemed person. Or haughty, in that the Bible said the rich answereth haughty, or being filled with pride. It is the eradication, it is the elimination, as the Bible speaks of charity. See? It is the bond of perfection. So when we see this take over our life, then we know that it places us at a place that Satan can't bother us, and Satan is not between us and God. So God, who cannot look on iniquity, all of a sudden sees the humility, as to Christ in your life and he passes right through that open door into your heart and he can bless you and His Spirit will make you mighty and great, because the Bible said He is able to abundantly above all that you can say, or think, by His Spirit which worketh within you. And the Bible tells us that we should search our heart and make sure we're in the Spirit, and that we have the Spirit lest we prove to be reprobates. finding that if we have not of His Spirit we are none of His. So in all of these things we can understand why there is such a thing as humility, and why it is so mighty and so great. It is the power of elimination that eradicates, washes clean, makes us the subject to where the great King, the great Father of lights, the great Savior can come right into our heart and into our lives and do a might thing that we mighty thing that we ask Him to do, as to the healing of our loved ones, or forgiving of our sins, or the salvation of our souls. Now, let me just say a few little things that I purposed in my heart to mention tonight if the Lord would let me. Humility before honor. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and He shall exalt you in due season for God resisteth the proud but gives more blessing and power to the humble. Now as I was saying to some of the Brethren today, one thing is we need to understand who we are. Who are we? It was said that I find no fault in this just man. Jesus was called the just man. I find no fault in this just man, Pilate said. For what reason would you crucify Him? for what wrong, or evil hath He done? But, nevertheless, I find no fault in Him. I wash my hands of the whole affair. Ye see to it. See, if that is true then it takes me back to a thought as of today. See? When we look at the sunshine, we know that the sunshine, according to science that sun light, the daystar is always the same. It never moves it's position. It never moves. It never takes any other route, it stays right there twenty-four hours around the clock. We say three hundred and sixty-fine days a year, or ever how many days there is found in a year. And it never deviates, not even the least. It is always there. And it never goes out. It never grows dim. It's always bright. It's always shining. It's always there. It's always there to nourish the earth, and to cause it to be wooed by this wonderful light of love that it might bring forth the light of the earth, that a resurrectional thing they strike the earth and life may be wooed until it comes to surface and then out of that a harvest. It never changes, but yet there are days that are gloomy. There are days that are filled with clouds of all kinds, sometimes storm clouds, sometimes silver lining clouds, but there are all kind of clouds but they are there. And these clouds get between the earth and the sun and then it's a gloomy day, it's a rainy day, it a bad day, it's a cold day, it's an icy day, it's a snowy day, some kind of something comes from those clouds. So we know then that the sunlight is still there but the clouds are between us and heaven. David said, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me. So when we say this earth, a valley. When we say the shadow, it is the clouds. But when we say heaven we're saying the world of light. God the great light and Jesus Christ alone dwelling in this light. He alone having immortality. So then, we know that those clouds are there and we get gloomy, and we wonder where the sunshine is, and it looks like everything is cold. We can't hardly make a living sometimes, and we think, My God! will the sun ever shine anymore? And yet it's shining all the time. It hasn't gone out at all. See? It's nothing wrong with the light. There's nothing wrong with the daystar. This thing that's dawned within our heart, as the Bible says, it's the Daystar. It's within us; we've been born again. And this bodily earth, as to from that Daystar of heaven shining upon this bodily earth, fruits of the spirit are desired. And I would, above all things, that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers, as to the natural benefits. So we know that this daystar is shining, but why doesn't it inspire us all the time. Sometimes we're inspired. Sometimes it's like a spring morning. Sometimes it's as though we can hear the birds chirping in the trees, you know, and it's just a sweet honeysuckle smell, as spiritually speaking, but then there comes clouds. And sometimes they're silver lining clouds, sometimes they're dark dismal clouds that causes everything to be bleak, and everything to be gloomy. And we say, Away with that. Away with that. Where is the sunshine? And we think God has forsaken us and we feel like the sun will never shine again, and yet God hasn't changed one bit. He is the Word. Yesterday, today and forever; He is the same to every generation. His promises are without alteration, with change. His words are the same. They are profoundly settled in heaven and can never be changed, or altered. It's always the same, but the clouds of doubt -- Whereas, the Bible says, Be ye not of a doubtful mind. The clouds of doubt come, and all kind of doubts come, see? because there is the human mind. There is a Satanic mind. There is a God mind, and all of these, as to representing these clouds representing angelic beings. So then, we know that there is war in heaven at times. Sometimes we have a war in our spirit. A continual warfare between the body and the spirit. And sometimes there's a great war there and we're battling, as to these silver lining clouds, as to the angels of God, or this that we produce from our spirit as those angelic beings coming from within this Kingdom of God within us, which is the Spirit of Christ and it's battling against these thoughts that are oppressing us. It's battling against the thoughts of doubts of God's Word. They are battling. It's a continual battle. See? It's like when you get an abrasion, you get a cut and these little powers of the body they run up there to blockade that to keep you from bleeding. And they fight against the germs and the little white corpuscles come up and these little things just die. These little cells die until they stack up to bridge that; to scab it over. See? Cause they're fighting for your life. And that's the way it is with these thoughts. Christ is gendering on the inside these thoughts and sending forth angels as in form of thoughts. And the physical world, a spiritual world really but within a physical body, see? through a warfare of the soul as to the body continually fighting against the spirit as to bring us under condemnation because of the broken law of God, as it was with the broken stone and they couldn't get over the Jordan and a continual warfare. This was going on in a continual warfare. See? And as it was when Daniel prayed. Fasting twenty-one days he waited patiently in the earthly position that God had placed him in, and making intercession to the heavenly. Here in that second realm the angels intercepted, as to the dark clouds catching those light clouds, he said, coming down. See, there's clouds in one level, there's clouds in another level. There is the stratus cloud, then there is the cumulus clouds and all these other clouds. We bring them out sometimes on tape. And see? Here's the warfare at different heights and different places. Now I said that to say this. War in Heaven. Lightning, thundering and Satan cast out. All that is symbolic because we know that this is what is happening in the spirit and that's a spiritual type of heaven. A natural type, that is, in the spiritual heaven. So then, we know that there is a spiritual warfare. But the sunlight is the same. Peace on earth, goodwill toward man through the Lord Jesus Christ. I would that you prosper whether it's winter time, summer time. Don't put your faith in that. Sow your seed. Don't try to figure out as to the season. He said, Sow your seed and just have faith in God. See? Don't worry about the cold. The sluggard won't plow by reason of the cold, neither shall he reap in the time of harvest. So then, we know that this warfare is there but the sunlight is the same. But when we get the clouds out of the way then the sunlight is just as bright as it ever was and our blessings are just as the same and it's springtime and we can get our harvest, and our seed into the ground and we can do the things that we need to do. So Christ, the great light, is always the same. God is always there. And when the war is over, whether it's the thunder, or lightning, or whatever, Satan has been cast out because the Bible said, Thank God who always gives us the victory and this is the victory that overcometh the world. You be of good cheer for I have mastered the devil. I've overcome the world. I've given you of Myself, the Holy Spirit, even Christ the Holy Ghost and He is power over all the powers of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. And He is power over all the powers of the flesh. I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hast given me power over all flesh. The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ lieth over all of the flesh, as to the afflictions, or as to death, sickness, poverty, whatever it might be, He hath given us the victory in this. Why? Because we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. So then we know that Christ is the same. Now, this brings us to a new thought. If Christ Jesus is the same, if He is the same then when we look at that sun and we say, Now, folks, we know that God is the same. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. The Word has said it and you believe it because God doesn't alter; He doesn't change. Always the same, even to a thousand generations. But then, somebody says, But is the Holy Ghost the same, because there is Father, Son and Holy Ghost? Is the Son the same? But we know that God was made flesh and that the Son was the personification of God. We know that He was exactly God. No deviations whatsoever. He was the fullness of God. So we know as the light is, as to the same yesterday, today and forever, the Bible said Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. So we know the Son feels exactly the way the Father does. They're in one beautiful harmony. Then does the Holy Ghost deviate from that? No. The Holy Ghost is God. It's the same God, the same great light. It's the same great light. Why is He then called the Holy Ghost? Because it is God in a human personification. It is God pouring Himself our as a potentiality in to a mold of image that when this mold is rent at Calvary that He may step out in a human image form, or a personification, that we might know God and we might comprehend God. Because unless God makes Himself a human being, as to a personification, then we cannot comprehend God. We do not know God, but through Jesus Christ we comprehend God because He was God in His fullness, going about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with Jesus Christ. So then, we know that's God. That's His attitude toward humanity. Good toward all men. Good will and peace on earth. And gave Jesus to substantiate this that we might have that. So today rather than as the Jews and those others that did not know their God, as it was at Mars Hill when Paul said, these people have their little signs and their prayers to the unknown God. Him I do declare unto you today. Why do you think that God is like stone and gold and silver and wood and stubble when you know that you are the offsprings of God even as Jesus? Aren't we the offsprings of God? Why doesn't God look like us? And so we find out that God, His image, He made us in His own image. And there is Jesus. Jesus. Though God is a spirit as the Holy Ghost, here is Jesus that Holy Ghost within the body. There is the body of Jesus Christ. And there it is. They have never seen the great spiritual Holy Ghost on the inside. They've never heard His voice because they are listening with their natural ears to the vibrations of tone of human utterance, as to the body. And they're looking upon a human being to know him after the flesh and not understand, as Peter saying, Thou art the Christ. Rending that veil. Going beyond that. Opening that door, looking in to heaven, and seeing the mighty personification of Almighty God as the Holy Ghost, as Christ's spirit, a man interwoven with God to the full extent, which is the head of this bodily member of the church, Him being the head of the church and the preeminence in all things, and us being His very bone and flesh. And then when we say, Well, praise God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost all are the same. All are but one and all of the same opinion. All of the same attitude, peace on earth, goodwill toward men through the blood shed of Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost within you, as to Christ's spirit. So now we know God, not as a potentiality as together, as we would say the metals out of the ground and that doesn't' t look like a part of me. Neither does it look like anything else that I might enjoy that would be made, as to a metallic form. But if it is put into the mold after it's melted down, like Jesus going through the fire being resurrected in a new form, and there He is God Almighty, the mighty God being made a quickening spirit, the second man Adam. Then we know now that our God is within a human form and we worship God through Jesus Christ to say, Glory to God, praising the Holy Spirit, the precious Holy Spirit through Jesus name. And in this we find out that we have an object of worship that is called God. The word meaning object of worship. Now, in this it was said, I find no fault in this man. What is the benefit of Christ's coming? I said the other night, every man has a purpose in the world. Jesus Christ, the man Jesus Christ had a purpose and His purpose was that we might have life and that we might have it more abundant And how can we have this life? By being crucified, becoming our sin that we might become Him in righteousness. Him in death that we might become Him in life. And so then in a new form today we are through the resurrection, whereas He died in our old form that we might be dead to sin by the body of the Lord. So then, as Paul said, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death for the law of condemnation always puts me down. Though it is a law of spirit and a law of goodness, yet because I am carnal and sold unto sin I cannot perform what God has set forth as His attributes through a law and I know then that I don't have a chance because I can't believe in His mercy. But to save us by faith of believing in His mercy, Christ the great Christ of God, the Holy Ghost come down in a human form just like I am, put on that as a veil. Veiled God and performed every act of righteousness fulfilling the law, every jot and every tittle, saying it is finished. And Paul said, We therefore conclude that a man is now justified by grace, in that this great faith has come. Now that the faith has come, now we can be justified by this. So then, we find yourself free from the body of sin and the body of sin is dead and is gone. So there is nothing charged against us, as to every sin is without the body except the sin of fornication. And he that sinneth the sin of fornication he sinneth against his own body because a woman is taken from a man, and therefore to commit evil with a woman is to sin against your own flesh in that they are one. So then, we know for a surety that God is the same. He is one great God. In this Trinitarian form He is one great God. And we know His attitude is always good toward us to thousand generations. And we know that because He is good, then we are good. We are good through Him. There is none good but God. But if you be the body and bone of the flesh of God, in that Jesus was God then I find no fault in that just man. Whatever measure of Christ you are that's what you are as to your justification. Being justified by faith, as to Christ being delivered for our offenses, raised again as proof that we are resurrected as to justification of those wrongs that we did. So then, we look at one another, we don't know one another after the flesh but as the memberly body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Who can find any fault with you? I find no fault in this just man because He hath given us of His own righteousness. Who can lay anything to your charge? No one. Because it is God that has justified you. It is Christ Jesus that died for you. And I am persuaded to believe, Paul said, that nothing can separate you from the love of God which He manifested in Christ Jesus. His love was so great He gave the best thing that heaven could afford and showed you the greatness of His love to suffer in a human body for you after that manner. Who can separate you from that love? Can heights do it? No. Can depths do it? No. Can things present do it? as to men and money and powers and the magistrates, and the law? No. Can anything that is to come? any source of power, whether it be the devil, or anything else? Can he separate you from that love? Oh, no. That love is so great that God accepted you as a creature, a perfect -- Having perfected you forever, or made you perfect forever having sanctified you once and for all by the offering up of the sufferings of Christ through the faith of Jesus Christ and having secured you forever to seal you with the Holy Spirit on the inside saying, Light cannot get near darkness, and you keep yourself and the evil one touch you not. You are perfected forever. So the love was so great that by His love He perfected you in His sight and then He said, Behold, I give unto you power over all the powers of the enemy, death, whatever. And that is over Satan. You have power over all of the enemy. Over Satan. If you have power over Satan can he then over power you? Can he then separate you from the love of God? How then could you have power over him? And the Bible said beside that God manifested Jesus Christ to destroy the works of the devil, which is sickness and poverty and fears and all these kinds of things. Death. And He also said, And I beheld Satan, as lightning fall from heaven, and I have destroyed him, even Lucifer, who hath power over death. To you he is gone. You are no longer in the flesh. Your bodily flesh is buried and gone and now you are as a butterfly to the metamorphosis. You are now a spirit hid with Christ in God, in that Spirit. Your life is in that. Your body has gone back to the dust and you life, your spirit has gone to be with Christ through the interwoven thing of Christ's Spirit. My life hid in Christ who is with God whom the heavens have received until the time of the change, the resurrection. Rejoice ye that dwell in heaven. I have made you to set together in heavenly places. You are not of the world. You are not of the earth. I have chosen you out of that body. Killed that body at Calvary and I have taken you, as the spiritual inner man, away. You said as long as I, the spiritual man on the inside, while I'm in this body, he said, I'm subject to these things, but I've put off this tabernacle. Or it has been dissolved, or will be dissolved. That is to say, I am subject to temptation. I'm subject to error. Why? Because my body has not been changed. I don't have time to elaborate on this tonight, but as I said the other night that body is in the second realm. That body is in the heavenly place It's in heaven, but it is the second realm, as to the blood on the seat of atonement, the light of that grace coming down upon you to keep you alive. And because of that all of these people around you, even the tare gets the benefit of this blessing, and Satan takes full power to set up his kingdom and turn everything in to lasciviousness to try to keep you under bondage while he uses the other bodies, entering into those things to frolic and commit all the wrong. See? But this creature, the body, will be delivered from vanity. It will be delivered from all of these things of the world and be changed in to the glorious liberties of sons of God, which son of God is already in there. For now, beloved, ye are already the sons of God and when you receive the Spirit of God you receive the power to become sons of God. To as many as believe on His name. So then, we become sons of God, and we are already sons of God. Now, if that is true then we are the body of the Lord Jesus in the sight of God so outwardly there is no sin to you for all sin is without the body and now the body is folded up and laid away. The Law, the transgression of the law is sin and where there is no transgression there is no sin and if there is no law you can't transgress it. So the law is gone, transgression is gone. Sin is gone. That means the sting of death is gone and therefore you have passed from death unto life. Knowing then that you are as no fault in this just man. Knowing then that you are made free of sin, as to condemnation, because the law hath no power over a man when he is dead. Even the natural law. And you being dead to the law by the body of the Lord Jesus in that God fulfilled it through Christ Jesus, took it out of the way then it hath no power over you so you are completely free from sin. You are born of God. We sing the song, Born Again. Ye that are born of God and he that is born of God cannot sin for God's seed, even the Lord Jesus, remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. So then, the Bible says, Blessed is the man unto whom God will not impute sin. Having took away your trespasses, covered your sin with His blood and took away the image of iniquity at Calvary, the wretched body. So then, that means that you are free from the beast part, and because your spirit is interwoven with Christ's spirit as the Daystar dawning within you, as to that light and grace that's ever the same to all generations and all people. Then this wonderful light. The Word is a lamp unto your feet. This great thing that leads you from Egypt, as to the old body and the gullible desires of the flesh, over to into Canaan, the new harvest, by way of the wilderness, as to fighting against Satan and the serpents, going through by Moses, as to the word, by Jesus who paid the price and has lead you to Canaan Land. And then going in by the Holy Spirit over the carnal mind to be changed to a quickening spirit, even as it was with Jesus Christ, to be one with Him. For everyone that hath this hope within him purifies himself as He is pure. He is that hope of glory. He alone is heir to it and at the hope of that coming you will be changed into His likeness. So it means that you cannot sin outwardly because you are dead to sin. And it means that you cannot sin inwardly because the Bible speaks of sinful flesh to you and that that was sin is taken out of you and you have the desire of God and you have the love of God and you are perfect in there and the evil one never touches you in there. So that makes you perfect forever. That makes you sanctified once and for all. That makes you justified in the sight of God. Blessed is that man because God won't impute sin unto him. And blessed is the man whose sins are covered with the blood and iniquity is taken away. And blessed is the man unto whom God imputed faith for works. His faith as to believe in the works of Jesus Christ. I have a desire but how to perform that, Jesus is my performance because this wretched body of contrariness won't perform it so God killed it at Calvary. So then, Jesus performed it all and gave me the spirit of that performance as to the fulfillment of Christ in my life to transformate my mind from glory to glory until this light is manifested in this body to the ultimatum of the change, or the transfiguration of this great mighty Christ Jesus. So then, blessed is the man unto whom God imputed His faith for righteousness. You believe and it becomes your righteousness. Or, that is, you believe in His works. You believe in His righteousness. You believe in the works that He did for you. You believe in all of these things that He did for you. And God destroyed the works of the devil by taking the law out of the way, taking condemnation out of the way, the killer of faith out of the way. Put Christ in you, the Daystar, to inspire your faith to believe in His works through the tutoring of the ministry that is here to perfect you faith. We wish this, Paul said, even the perfecting of your faith. And when we preach these things to you, faith by the hearing of the Word, then you say, My God! am I righteous? My God! am I without fault? Oh, my God, is my faith my righteousness? Just because I believe in His righteousness, I believe in His works? And I've accepted that? And that is believing. That is perfecting of faith, because what you don't know you can't believe. And what you do know, as toward the perfecting of your life to become like Jesus Christ completely without fault before the Throne that you may come boldly before the Throne of grace to receive help in the time of need without doubt, without condemnation. In this then your faith is being made perfect. So we're coming to the change of the body that when these things are fully made known and you fully believe it then you'll be saved. Eve died out of the presence of God because of unbelief. She did not believe. God said, Don't eat. Satan said, Eat thereof. I said all of that to say a little bit, just a little bit of some things that we've expounded. How secure then are we? Who is he that can lay anything to your charge? Who is he? Paul said you are God's elect according to foreknowledge, names written down in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. The Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world, saving you, as we would say, while you were yet in your sins if you look on down to the time of your coming before your new birth. And in this He has given His own blood for us and ye are God's elect. My plants, as to those I have planted, as to the Heavenly Father, no one can pluck them up. But every plant that has not been planted by the Heavenly Father shall be plucked up. Then who are we? I find no fault in that just man. Not to know each other after the flesh; not even the Lord Jesus who was delivered for our offenses, but to know them in the new form, as to the resurrection of what form you are as to membership to Him. To not to know anybody else after the flesh, or that way you disdain the members of Jesus Christ if you know the church after the flesh. You don't know the world after the flesh. You know them as demons that's walking in human bodies, as spirits as that which is reject of God if they've come to the knowledge of God and won't receive it, who cannot believe; who has the evil heart of unbelief. So then, where are we at? The Bible said, let him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. Are we getting nearer the finish line? We're beginning to understand the more of this great salvation, so it mean our salvation is nearer, which means deliverance, the change. Nearer than ever before. I want you to stand with me. These little sernonettes go on the radio and they go in books, television, wherever. They go into you heart and into your ears first. Like the babe of Bethlehem as to the head of the nations. So then you know these things and happy are you if you do these things. So then, being in the presence of this tutoring, and hearing these words and then believing what is said, it is Christ speaking unto you to perfect your faith for the change that Jesus Christ who lives within you might share with you that life adundantly, filled up and overflowing, which is His own life and that you might have health. I want you to be healthy. When you are sick, when you have problems, we all do, then when you have this problem remember one thing and your battle is more than half won. Sickness is of the devil. It is never God doing that. I know the Bible said, Can evil come to a city and I've not sent it, saith the Lord. I create the good and the evil; I have my way in both. But then as was said to the three million, do the things that I say. Honor me. Keep my commandments and I'll not allow these things to come upon you that came upon the Egyptians. It says in the Bible, I will not bring these things upon you but the original rendering is, I will not allow them to come upon you. So then, we know that God allows these things to come, as in the days of Job, as in the days when the evil spirit -- God said, Who will go for me? He said, I will. In the days he went in he was a lying spirit in the mouth of the prophets because the old king would not listen to what God had to say. We only get the secondary things when we don't accept the first. So then, what are we saying? God has nothing to do with sickness. He condemns sickness. He destroyed it. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. He did it by taking away the law. Therefore we are going to be partakers of this wonderful benefit, as to the volume of these things that are given to us in Christ Jesus merely by faith. He has already wrought it. It's already in Calvary, but the thing is for us to utilize this ability of Christ, or have the benefits of this life made manifest in our mortal genes, we've got to believe it. When we believe that Christ is above us, in us and through us, and that Christ is for us then we are on the right trail. And when we come to believe the Word to where the Bible said, And I would above all things that you be in health, you say, My God! Lord, it is Your will for me to be healthy. It is Your will. We tell ourselves that, but to really believe that, to convince the heart, see? does He really want me healthy? Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, if He does why doesn't He do something about it; He can. See? That's where the devil throws you off the trail. The Bible said that many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief. He was there. The potentiality was there. Healing was there. He was going about healing all but they couldn't believe in it. See? So then, you block it. You stop it. You cut him off. But when you say, God, Your Word says, and You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. Your word to a thousand generations, unaltered, it's never changed. It's settled in Heaven, and it said you wanted me healthy, that you're not for these things that press my body. Like for instance, the epidemic that hitting up yonder in a couple of counties. This thing that's called spinal meningitis. Which seems to start, they say, kind of like the flue. But it's striking. It's killing the little ones. It kills grownups. It struck one time before around here. We prayed and in about three days it was gone, when medically they couldn't stop it. I said the Lord showed me He stopped it and in two, or three days it was gone. Now it's struck again. And the inoculation, I think, has to be at least two weeks before the thing strikes or it won't do any good. So the epidemics are coming. Everything, as to the plagues, it's coming. You have to get ready. And remember that it is the will of God for you to be healthy. It is the will of God for you to be whole. It is the will of God, the prefect, one hundred percent will of God. I would above all things that you be healthy, and that you be in health, not just be healed of your sickness, but that you remain in health. That you have a healthy body, a healthy way of life. And remember, our iniquities separate between us and our God. The Bible said, My hand is not short that it cannot reach you. You believe I'm able to do this? Abraham was fully persuaded. My ear is not dull that I cannot hear your prayer and your word, but are you doing the things that confident the heart that He hears you? It is you that is disbelieving. It is your lack of confidence and faith. If mine iniquities are gone, I cannot sin because I've confessed my sin, I've been born again. I'm trying my best to please God. If my iniquities are gone by the body of the Lord Jesus, how is it then that my iniquities are separated between me and God and kept me back from these good things? Your unbelief. Because faith is imputed unto you for righteousness when you belive in His righteousness, and you believe in His works and therefore your iniquities are gone by Calvary. But if you do not believe the Word to the extent that you try to please God, to do the things that please God, you don't have any confidence, or faith toward that atonement. Therefore your iniquities have not been taken out of the way through the evil heart of unbelief as it was with Eve, disbelieving the Word. And so then thine iniquities and then death. So if you're intending to get the benefits of God you must first be persuaded in the Word that I would above all things be in health. Secondarily He said, I would above all things that you prosper. If you're going to pay your bills, if you're going to prosper, it you're going to have the things that are necessitated to life you've got to be convince that God wants you to prosper. I see some of these men that step out, some of these women they step out in prosperity and not as those supposing that worldly gain is godliness. The Bible said from such turn away. You did not bring anything in to the world; it's for sure that your going to take nothing out. And to get that kind of riches, as to deceitfully, or not working for riches, the Bible said you'll be cut off in the midst of your days and in the end you'll be a fool. Your brilliance. God does not care for your brilliance. It is a stench in His nostrils when you try to get education and get brilliance and try to figure out how to take advantage of somebody so you can be smart and set you up an operation. God don't want that kind of folks. He'd rather have ignorant fishermen that believe in God. Follow me and I'll make you. But when a man simply believes in God and is willing to work there is reward in all labor, and riches gotten by labor will increase. And so God will bless it that Satan cannot devour your flock, or your crop, or take your health. Honor the Lord with your substance when you get it. With your health, with your eyes, with your ears, with your arms, with your legs, with your automobile, with your home, with you finance, your strength. Love Him with all of your heart. See? Put it all to work for God. And the Bible said when you do that I'll rebuke the devour for your sake and He'll not destroy the fruits of your ground and it will come to pass because you share with the widows and the orphans your health will return to you speedily because that confidence will rise. And I will hear before you ever call. That is to say, I've already appropriated this in Christ for you before the world ever was because your my elect. So bring it to surface through faith. And remember He wants you to prosper. Don't ever let anything stay in your mind other than that. Whether it's afflictions that try to keep you from working,. whether it's distortion of mind that tries to interfere with you believing that God wants you to prosper; don't listen to that. He wants you to prosper. That's His Word. Everyday He's the same. Another thing is, the Bible says that we should remember that He wants us to be in health. He wants us to prosper, even as our soul prospers. He wants all of this to hinge on our soul prosperity. That's why faith comes from fellow shipping the Spirit and doing the things that please God. I would above all things that your soul prosper. When the devil tries to tell you that God don't love you, that something can separate you from the love of God, that because you stumble God will never help you again. Not carelessly going up and down and in and out as a double-minded person who is unstable in all of their ways, who will never receive anything from God, but trying to do your best. And God's blood avails for you and nothing is charged against you. He never sees your trespasses or wrongs because He took them out of the way in Christ Jesus. He knows that you are His children. He'll deal with you, as to chastisement, after the manner of a child. And if He doesn't chasten you then you are not a child. But He will never condemn you. He will never put you down. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you; no not at anytime. So don't let thoughts come to you and trouble you. Don't let your heart be troubled. Don't let your mind be troubled. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and He'll bring it to pass. Decree a thing in your heart, don't doubt it. Say what you will, don't doubt it. Ask in His name, don't doubt it; you have whatsoever you say. Let's sing a little chorus together. (singing) The altars are open while we sing these little choruses. Let's sing this chorus. (singing) Sing it with me now. (singing) Sing it again. (singing) Now think that over. (singing) Remember now. We've been born again. Delivered for our transgressions, raised again for our justification. We're born again. If we're born again then we're free from sin. I preached to you tonight that he that is born of God cannot sin. We're in good condition. (singing) I want to sing that again. (singing) Can you sing it just one more time? (singing) Sing that with me now. (singing) Sing that with me now. (singing) Let's sing this little chorus. (singing) Let's lift our hand up together and let's sing this little chorus. The things that we are preaching to you, give the more earnest heed to them. Remember these are not the words of a man. These are the words of Almighty God that created you and spoke the world into existence and God has come into your heart that even in this world you may have life and you may have it more abundant, filled up and overflowing. So these are words of Spirit and these are words of life. Believe these words. (singing) Somebody say hallelujah! (singing) Are you praising the Lord. Lift your hands up. Let's love the Lord tonight. While Brother Richard comes to dismiss us tonight, then let's just praise the Lord, can we? (singing) Let's just bow our heads. Father, tonight we thank You for Your love and Your kindness, for Your glory. And, Dear wonderful God, we thank You for these people tonight. We pray that You will heal their bodies, that You will save their souls by faith in Your word, even as faith translated Enoch when the heavens declared Your handiwork. So, Heavenly Father, tonight we thank You for the deliverance of these people, for truly You have delivered Your people at Calvary and there is not one accusation against them. There is not one fault against them. No one can lay anything to their charge for they are holy and without fault before Thee, keeping themselves that the evil one touch them not for they are a church without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish that is waiting with full confidence and trust, O God, in Your appearance to come, having this hope within them, that they are pure by You. You, their hope of glory. Father, You said there would be change and we know that the change is here at hand because Thy people are beginning to believe. And, Father, as we sing these little choruses together I ask You to bless us tonight. Let's sing this. (singing) Can you sing with me now? (singing) All right, let's sing this one more time, now. (singing) 

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord