The Expression Of The Light

He'll send the ones along He wants me to minister to. And we were sitting there just for a few minutes and of course, here comes brethren and my! we had brethren everywhere. We had so many of them in just a little bit. We began to minister to them and I told my wife that I felt like it had a meaning, as to the coming of the Lord. All of these kind of things, the hollering and the screaming of them things going through the air and people standing in awe and hollering and going on. And there — I remember there were some that looked like they were so hungry and fed so good, and it was said that questions were answered that have been rising up in the heart along time, wanting to know the answer. Christ is the answer. And it is just a matter of worshipping the Lord in spirit and in truth, coming into His presence and having His blessings. You can be seated. It's always good to come back and find the mind of the Lord in the membership of His body and find the people's mind toward Christ to the extent that they're enthused about the Word of God. And when we're not enthused about the Word of God it's very evident that we don't have the Word of God. No one can find the pearl of great price. No one. It has never been, it is not, and it never will be that anyone, but that if anyone finds the pearl of great price they'll sell all that they've got to purchase that field. When we see that someone has not given up all of their life, all of their substance, all of their desire, all of their ambition — Anytime you find one that has not done that then that means they didn't find the pearl of great price. But there are some that are finding the pearl of great price. And because of that they are surrendering and they're remembering what the master said in His teachings, that we were to put down imagination and all these other things that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. The writer, having such great revelation from God, realized the greatness of the Word of God and we were taught that we should cast down imagination. The whole world thrives off of imagination. All the time the mind is continually, (it never stops) it is continually imagining things. Imagining things. That is to say, things are imagized upon the brain and they are continually imagining things. And they're hearts, the Bible said their hearts, their thoughts, their minds, that within the radius and confines of their minds, that their thoughts are continually evil. It never ceases. Man or woman from the time that they awake in the morning until they go to sleep at night they are continually thinking evil. And when they go to sleep, all through the night if there is any stirring, as to the mind it will be thinking evil. For their thoughts are continually evil. And the only thing that can off set that is one coming to God and receiving the infilling of the spirit. And when that individual receives the infilling of the spirit of Christ then that doesn't mean that the evil thoughts are going to stop. It doesn't mean that at all. But it does mean that there is something that begins to contest the evil thoughts. The evil thoughts doesn't stop. It's just as frequent and just as continual as it ever was. But there is something that has come to pass in their life that withstands those thoughts and fights against those thoughts. It rebels against those thoughts and it hates those thoughts and it is in constant warfare to eradicate, to cast down and to bring into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ every thought until the whole mind is completely under the subjection of Christ, as to that which hath preeminence in their life, not allowing Satan to reign, not for a moment in their life. That doesn't mean he won't come. And it doesn't mean that the thoughts won't come as to him presenting himself, his cause, his wicked desires, but it does mean he will not have the preeminence, as to reign or to control you, or to rule over you, that he will be put down. He will be under subjection to the innermost mind and he will be robbed of his power of regime. Let me say this and we'll just drop a thought or two along in there. In the sixth chapter of the book of Revelation, if you've got your Bibles, and in the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth verse, along in there, we're told that when the sixth seal was opened that as it was opened there was a great earthquake. And it tells us that the stars fell from heaven as a fig tree shaken of a mighty wind and when it casts it's untimely figs and the heavens opened up as a scroll. Most of you are familiar with these Scriptures in here because we've read them a number of times, or quoted them to you. And the reason that I'm making a reference to this tonight is because of something that happened on this trip and something that we'll make reference to as we go along if the Lord is willing. So I just wanted to call your attention to it, if you go to read or to study to where you can have something to kind of found your thoughts on. You are suppose to be the walking epistle of Christ, known and read of all men. And these things that are in the Holy Scriptures are suppose to be preeminent in our mind and suppose to have superiority as to control and we're suppose to be the walking, living, talking epistle of Jesus Christ. Not just as to thoughts or words of expression but in deed. Our body, our very body is suppose to be a performance of the life of Christ which has been conveyed to us through a word expression. The word expression from God's own bosom brings us the faith of Jesus Christ, in that faith comes by the hearing of the Word and he that God sendeth will speak God's word. So then, that means that the thoughts of these words of spirit and of life is suppose to completely take control of us in such a way that we're swallowed up with ambition and desire for Christ and Christ only. Now, a little thought along here as we just speak one or two things to you tonight to exhort you. One of the problems that we have, and I think maybe I might have hinged on this before. I know I've preached to you these things. I've talked to you about these things, and as it was said, I know that you know these things. But I feel that as long as I'm abiding in this tabernacle I feel that I should stir up your pure mind, which is the Christ mind within you, and bring these things back to your remembrance. And so then, we're ever rehearsing this in our spirit. We're ever talking about this and Peter was one that always referred back to this body as a tabernacle. As long as I'm abiding in this tabernacle. And then saying again if this tabernacle be dissolved then we have another one eternal in the heavens not made with hands, if it be dissolved. And of course it will be dissolved. It will be dissolved. Or that is to say, knowing that within this vessel we're already, as to spiritual beings, the sons of God. Already, beloved, are ye the sons of God. John said, Now, beloved, ye are the sons of God. And already we are sons of God because the Father of heaven is a spirit. And the sons that He hath begotten are spirits that dwell in little houses of clay, or abides within this building, or this tabernacle. Whereas, Paul uses the terms, you are God's building. And you're built up into a holy priesthood as a habitation for God the great spirit, for God liveth within you and you are God's temples. And God dwelleth within you, and God walks within you. And one day God is going to make the whole world come and kneel at your feel and make the world to know that God has loved you. And they're going to glorify God within you. And they're going to worship God in you. They will actually worship God in you because you are God's temple. So we could go on and bring in some Scripture as to show where the worship will actually come. So then, God is in the temple, and the Bible said let all the world keep silent for God is within His temple. And He is within you. He is within the flesh. He walks in the flesh and if any person denies that Christ has come in the human body and lives in the human body today — Or that is to say, if they should say Christ hath not come in the flesh they are Antichrist. Not just making a confession that I believe that God has come down as Jesus Christ into the world. Or that is, the Son of God has come. If you believe there is one God you do well; the devil believes. And the devil will acknowledge that there was a Jesus that came down in this world. But to deny that Christ is presently living within this human body is Antichrist. You can be as religious as you want to but unless your deeds express Christ — That is, unless your words, your deeds, your thoughts, all of your actions express Christ to show that Christ is within you then you are Antichrist. Because if Christ is within you He is that hope of that great glory of the change of this heavenly treasure within your earthen vessel and He must be expressing Himself at all times. Like wisdom makes a mans face to shine and He has to be expressing it. You have to be in stride toward heaven and your bodily deeds must at all times be expressing the great wonderful illumination of that inward understanding. So, if you don't express Christ, and if your being does express things of the world and the love of the world and the concern of the world, then the love of the Father is not in you. But if Christ Jesus is expressed through you that people can see that, then that means that that is Christ within the flesh. And your spirit is acknowledging Christ in the flesh. And that means that you are not Antichrist. You are not a make believe. You're not just going to church and making believe but God is within you expressing Himself. And Christ is being glorified within you. It's like while we were over in the islands Betty and I were around the apartment there one day and there was a black boy came in by the name of Clifford Williams and he was around in there a few minutes. He had to do something as to maintenance and we got acquainted and I just spoke a word or two to him and he said, he kind of grinned at me and he said, You are Christians, aren't you? I said, Yes, we love the Lord. He said, It shows. It shows. And that's what I'm speaking of. You know, if He's on the inside of you then it's going to show and you're going to be expressing Christ. Well, anyway, getting on with our thought here tonight, one of the things we have to remember, Brethren, and just teaching you as children, trying to bring you up as we admonish you as to the admonition of the Lord, we are children in the Lord. You are children of the Lord and we have to learn the Word of the God and we have to understand the Word of God because if we do not understand the Word of God we will not have faith. I know, you know, it has been said all you have to do is believe it. I know that's true. And I know the person that said that meant well and I understand, as to some degree, what they were saying. And I'm not trying to be contrary but I am saying one thing. You must understand the Word of God. I say this to you so often. It is not just that you hear the Word of God but the Bible said you must understand the Word of God. Now, some one would say, Well, what do you mean by that? The Bible said the righteous shall understand. Now, if that is what the Bible says that means if you do not understand then you are not the righteous. Somebody say amen. Somebody say amen or correct the preacher. So then, the Bible says that the righteous shall understand and the wicked shall not understand for Jesus said it is not given unto them that was without to know or to understand the mysteries of God but unto you it is given. And someone would say, Well, I don't believe the mystery has anything to do with salvation, Brother Pike. Then why is it that Paul the apostle was given the mystery? Why did God bother to give him a mystery? Isn't that a waste of time to bother Paul with some kind of a mystery when nobody is going to listen at it, nobody is going to know it and nobody is going to understand it? Why do you speak to these people in parables seeing that they understand not what you say, the apostles said to Jesus. Because it is not given to them that are without to understand the mystery of God but to you it is given. If it is given to me to know the mysteries of God or to understand the mysteries of God then why am I not, as we would say, applying ourselves, or I myself, that I might understand the mysteries of God. Someone said, Well, I don't understand. Well, you need to get to be righteous. How can I do that? someone would say. Jesus said you must be born again. If you don't get born again you'll never see the kingdom of God. Because the kingdom of God does not come by human observation. Neither shall they say, Lo, here is the kingdom, or Lo, there is the kingdom. And if they say thus and thus as even in the secret chambers believe it not for as when the lightning flashes from one end of the heaven to the other end of the heaven so shall the Son of Man be at His coming. See? So then, it is something that hath to be revealed. The lightning is already there within the clouds. The friction, as to the atomic powers are already there. And those electrical forces, as the little atoms, are already there. And it's all interwoven with the clouds. And it's at certain times when these things begin to hit head on that the hot and the cold clouds begin to come together, that when they begin to come together all of a sudden something starts happening and when they rub together there is war in heaven. And then things begin to flash. Thunder begins to roll and the lightning begins to flash because Jesus said, I beheld Satan, as lightning, fall from heaven, during the storm, as we say as to the war in heaven. Now, if He beheld him fall from heaven as lightning, why did He chose to illustrate that as with lightning? Why didn't He say that He saw him all another way and that he was illustrated in another means, as to typical? Why did he not do that? Because Satan is a spirit and Satan is a light. He is an angel. He is an angel and angels are lights. And I make my angels spirits and angels are gods. They cannot die. And so then, He was showing us that the lightning coming out, that that was the fall of Lucifer. See? That was the fall of Lucifer. And then when we see this war in heaven as these hot clouds and cold clouds coming together, that there is war in heaven. And Jesus made that specifically so that we would understand symbolically these things concerning Him. Now. I'm not trying to get too deep tonight but just trying to bring a little thought out. Do we understand who we are? Do we understand what we are? Or have we gone far enough in our stride toward Christ to make our calling and election sure? Have you done anything to make sure that you are the called of God? And have you done anything to make sure that you are the elect of God by foreknowledge? Have you confirmed anything as to your flight to glory, as we would say? See? Why would there be a battle in heaven? Why would there be clouds? Why would there be lightning? Why would there be anything, as to these natural things? There is a reason. There is a reason. Why then would we be recipients of these natural things? Why would we even have a natural mind? Why would we develop this? Why would there be a schooling, naturally speaking? Or why would there be any natural thing, even a natural you and me? Why? I say this a lot of times: it is because of God's program. It is because of God's plan. God, to express Himself, to make Himself known, to bring Himself into the realms of visibility He had to devise a plan and in the foreknowledge, as His understanding, Paul said that God determined all of these things and He came up with this program in His mind. And He purposed all of these things within His ownself, as to within His mind, and all of these things were created, took place in the foreknowledge of God, or in the thoughts of God, back before the world ever was. Like He said to Job, Where were you, Job, when I laid the cornerstone of the earth? Where were you when the sons of God leaped for joy there at the foundation, or before the foundation, of the world? Where were you when the morning stars sang together? See? That is to say, Where were you, Job, while the foreknowledge of Almighty God proposed these things? put these things together? planned these things and started as an Alpha to the Omega, as to the point A to point B, and done all of these things, all of these things before He ever created the first thing to bring into what you term as to the actuality, or to being it into focus to be what you call reality? See? And God devising these things, it was a mind. It was a state of mind. It was something that He had done for God is a light. God is a spirit. God is a great mind. He's that great mighty Word of spirit and life. And the word is only something, as to us, as an expression, a vocal expression, as the air coming out of our tubes that causes vibrations. It's because it causes a disturbance, and then it creates what we call a sound, as to disturbing the atom, the flow of the atoms or the electronic flow, or that which is about us. And then when that voice becomes a sound, or as a voice, and that thing is conveyed over to us. Once it does that, once it comes to us then we hear. We hear this. We record it by the ear, as to the human senses, the sense of hearing. And we record it and then it becomes like as to a verbal thing. Or it begins to vibrate here. And so then, faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. And then when it comes here it enters into our heart. From there it goes down into our heart. And as it goes down into our heart, into our heart as vibrations then it is recorded within our heart, or within the soul. The soul, if we had time to go into it to explain the soul. It goes into the soul. Now. Remember? The rich man lifted up his eyes in hell. What was that? The body was in the grave. Now, not to get onto that because if I do I'll get off of our theme, the theme of our thought here. So then, what do we mean when we say soul? What do we mean when we say soul? What are we talking about? We're talking about the animal. We're talking about the beast. We're talking about humanity. And I know someone would say, Well, I don't know, Brother Pike. No, animals don't have souls. But they do have souls. The Bible says that the animals have a soul and it goes down. And they have, through their scientific studies run, or traced, their generation all the way back to the old tree of knowledge by knowledge falsely so-called. Science, which means knowledge. They've traced the knowledge all the way back to the beast in the garden. Or that is, they say that they are beasts and that they all come from beast. And I'm saying that that is true and that was from the beast there in the garden. So they traced it all the way back. Well, in the end, as to the omega of the thing, the first you understand when you get into the revelation of the Lord is that there is going to be a head to that beast. And that that beast is coming on the scene. And when that beast comes on the scene, as to a headship of beasts, all of the members of that beast is going to head up with him from the very birth of Cain and when the mark was placed upon him and he was sent away into the land of Nod among the beast. See? And a mark being put on him to keep the people from killing him like a common beast. From that time the beast lineage had it's origin and it got started. Now, we could say a lot there because we have to differentiate between Adam, as to the fallen, and Adam which was not the fallen. Or between the masculine, who was a symbol, or a figure of him to come when he was illuminated as the first man Adam and when the illumination left and why it left and what it had to do with. Like as when the beast said, or Satan through the beast said, Eat of the tree, it's good for fruit. And the Bible said when Eve saw it she desired the fruit. And there is what we call the forbidden fruits because in human lives there are fruits that ought not to be. Because there is a spirit that ought not to be. And it does give forth fruits and the fruits of those thoughts will get into your heart and God will feed you the fruits of your thoughts. For the thoughts are the means of accusing or else excusing one another as to perform the law or not to perform the law, as unto righteousness, in that the law is spirit and the law is righteousness. But when it comes to the flesh the flesh can't perform that. And so then, it brings death. But when it is performed by Christ in the body of Christ as it has been, and conveyed on to us according to the measure that we can receive it, then it seals our innermost spirit. It seals our soul until the change of the body. Well, it was said unto them, God doth know that when ye eat thereof ye shall become as Gods. Because Satan was a god, as to that of an angel and yet a fallen angel. What kind of fallen angel? A ruler of the darkness. Meaning what? That he was the god of this world, of the intellectual powers of knowledge, science falsely so-called, or that he is the god of this world, as to human intellect and zeal toward inventions and creative things, as to what we would call creative. Really he can't create anything. But the creative things that God made as to mind over matter, or a perverted mind that got control of matter through the weakness of man because man had not as of yet learned anything at his fall. He did not know anything. He was like a baby and Satan took advantage. So then, he said ye shall become as gods. And man did become as gods. See? To know good and evil and when he become to know it was required of him. That's why I use the terms that when you come to the knowledge of the truth by the means of the reflection of this grace that's given to you by the blood, the slain lamb from the foundation of the world, as to the foreknowledge of God, all of his works known unto Him from the beginning, determined by the mind of God from the beginning. When you come to know that then it is required of you. And then if you don't perform it the sentence of death is there so there is no atonement for sin. Well, anyway, this is what we're saying. Now. When He said ye shall become as gods to know good and evil then the first thing that was said, We have hid ourselves because we are naked. And then it was ask, who told you that you were naked? See? It had to be a derivative from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They already knew, as to the blessings of God by their human senses and they were in the presence of God because the light of God, which was God, Himself, the great light, was in the garden in the east part, or the corner, as we would say, of Eden. A place called Eden. So it was called the garden that was in Eden. Or the garden of Eden. Now, God having made man out of the dust, putting him in this garden and then illuminated him with His presence that He might meet man there, and in this illumination, which was the light of His understanding, it was to get him to a place to where he would be above the level of the beast as to that that was created out of the dust that he might look and see the tree of knowledge, which was a spiritual thing, an angel, Satan, Lucifer. And that he might also see the tree of life, which was that of Christ. Now. The word of spirit and life. Why then did he go in reverse and take first that which was the tree of knowledge? Because that was the whole purpose of God. That was the whole plan of God. He had to subject the creature, which was the body, the feminine part that Eve showed through the type. When we say as a type of the body, while as to Adam, a type of the masculine, which was the spirit which was not in the transgression. So God, having to show this, He made the woman as a type. See? And the man was not in the transgression to show that the spirit is not in the transgression but the flesh, through the weakness of the flesh. Jesus, Himself, said the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So then, he wanted them to partake of the tree of life to live forever but (Begin tape one, side two.) to the extent they had to go through the processing. That is to say, as Paul said, If all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, then how could the invisible things of God be portrayed to a human being as to this level unless he learned? How could it be unless he learned? How does he know letters never having learned? someone said concerning Jesus. He was God. Everything emanated from Him. See? He was the expression of all things. Even made as the fallen one, as in the image of sin to become a transgressor. Not that He was a transgressor but to become so in the sight of God through willingness to give Himself to be made sin when He knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ, that He might die for the transgression and we might live because we are free from the transgression. So, it is obvious that what God had to do was subject mankind to darkness and run him through this channel of darkness. Run him through this channel from the time of the first man Adam over until the time of the second man Adam. And that would be darkness, intellectual darkness. And He made Satan to be the ruler of the intellect, or the darkness. For the Bible said because the angels kept not their first estate. I would say that this is the estate of someone out here at Bethlehem. Or that is his estate over there and they live on that estate. Now. Or that has been willed to them. Or the angels had an estate of their own, but because they left their first estate and they displeased God they were cast out into darkness. Satan was made the ruler of the darkness because out of his intellectual reasoning he conspired against God because of his brilliance, because of magnifying himself and making himself to be something that he was only a reflector of. Now, the angel seeing this glory they admired him, even a third part of heaven that fell with him. The very minute that he conceived of these things his light went out. Like the Bible gives it as to one day when a man went out. In the Bible there it says he went out with all of his glitter and his glamour and he was going to make a speech to the people. He went out to make the speech and about that time he turned and the sunlight hit him like that and when it hit it just brought like a lightning and brought a great glorious flash and the people screamed out, A god! A god! And it was said because he gave ot God the glory then God smote him and the worms ate him up. So then, Satan fell, becoming the ruler of the prince of this world, or the prince of darkness, he therefore today is the power of college and school and intellect and inventions. For God hath made man upright but he hath sought out many wicked or evil inventions. And so then, today Satan willing to make himself a heaven by the reflection has sought out all these things for the convenience of the flesh. Therefore, if you follow that then you have the love of the world within you, as to money and conveniences and all of these other things. And you're desiring, as to the admiration of the flesh and you are building yourself up in your own conceit and your own intellectual ability and God will just smite you. So, like the song writer said, And we'll give the glory to Jesus and sing of His love, and sing of His love. So when I say these things I'm saying that the Garden of Eden was a place of illumination and God made man his equal as to the illumination just like the blood on the seat of atonement today hath made man to where he can come into this wonderful, wonderful light of the glory and reflect it. And that's all that Adam did. He reflected. And Eve was in the original creation as long as she was in Adam because he was the original creation. But when she was severed from his body that did not mean she wasn't in the original creation. But when she was severed from the body then she drifted off over here and she lost her sanctification as to that of the light of that glory of that wonderful illumination which was Christ, the image in which we are made. The man or woman emanated, all things emanated from that light, even Christ. See? That morning star. That bright and morning star. Which in reverse becomes the evening star and a lot we'd have to say to show what we're saying as to the revelation. Well, anyway, as quick as she did that she lost her sanctification. She got into the mind of Lucifer and that meant that she was now defiled. See? And she was no more as to the original creation. She was doing her own thing then. And she became just a reflector. Just a reflector. When she persuaded Adam it just meant that he had become one with her and lost that illumination of being one with God by the reflection. And now they were one as to the fallen, or which was not the original creation of God. That is to say, they were, as John said over there in one place, as Jesus said, John referred to it, of the wicked one. And Jesus said, You are of your father the devil. And when Satan created, as to reflecting, or subdued, or changed about or perverted through a mind, through a light and understanding, taking control of that body it became a perverted form and it became the reflection, as to a reflection, Adam saw the reflection gone, as to the overshadowing of the illumination of the Shekinah and there it was, the weakness of the woman and it was no more, no more, that great wonderful light as to the innocency of Adam that gave him right to remain in the glory of God, or to become that as to a born again thing, as to being inwardly interwoven with the light. When the second man Adam came he brought that light back. He was that light. He became an interwoven thing with the spirit on the inside and thus that's called the new birth because ye are sons of God according to the spirit because God is a spirit. So then, the illumination, even as it is today with the blood on the seat of atonement and here we are in that same illumination today because your body has never been changed. And it protects you but it gives access to all the world and the beast part continues on. And they that are fallen from grace they are under the law and no flesh shall be justified by the law. Well, anyway, I know that pressing and not saying maybe enough detail here this makes it a little difficult for you to get some of these things. But I'm saying this. When the devil says ye shall be as gods, the next thing is that we hid ourselves because we are naked. Now, were they naked? Were Adam and Eve naked? They were naked. Then someone would say, as we have spoken to you before, they have been naked all the time. They had not had on any garments. As far as human eyes they had seen each other as naked. There was no disgrace there. Adam was looking at his own flesh, at his own body. Is there then a disgrace because you look at your own flesh, or your own body? Of course not. That would be ignorance. So then, there was no nakedness. There was just his body. And there was no nakedness as he looked because that was his body. There was no lust; that was his body. It was a love there. The Bible said love your wife as yourself. Why? Because she is yourself and you should love her that way. Nobody is going to mistreat himself. But he is very cruel a lot of times, as to the man to the woman. And see? That isn't the way that Christ loved the church. The spirit, which is Christ, loves the body which is the church, so much that He gave His blood out of His veins so that He could woe the body to the extent that it would become one with the spirit and change that body into a quickening spirit that it might be preserved forever because that was His life, that was His heart, that's His glory. Man is the glory of God just like woman is the glory of man. So the glory expressed as a human form. Now then, were they naked? Yes, the were naked. And then they were ashamed. Before they had been ashamed. What had caused that? They had taken of the knowledge. The knowledge. They had never had knowledge before, neither of good or evil. But they had the knowledge of good to the extent that they were getting the benefits of that which is good until they could come into the knowledge of God and what had really given to them by going by the way of the spirit of light. But, God being the invisible and there was no way to express Himself, other than it takes darkness to reveal light because light, as it is said, you cannot see light. Light hath all the colors of the rainbow, the attributes of the beauty, but you cannot see that unless even the prism be smitten. And then the refraction of light to bring the spectrum, even as to the colors. So we see then, God the great wonderfulness as to that which was so wonderful, even the beautiful lights of color within the confines as to that that our eyes could never see. Even the light that appeared unto Paul; when Paul desired to see it he went blind. He went blind. So the only way that God had of letting us see it was through Jesus Christ as to that stone that had to be smitten to bring the refraction of light, to bring the spectrum that would reach over from the four eighty-three that Daniel spoke of over to the seven and make that heaven, or the expression of the light. Or as it would be, the angel with one foot on the land and sea in between the four eighty-three and the seven and His hands raised to heaven. And as Peter said, You're the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Or that is, the end of time. So with that the church ages are heaven. That is to say by grace. And while he was standing there, as to that angel, it shows that the rainbow was about his head. Which, of course, had to do with Jesus, and had to do with the seven church age messengers coming in down to that dispensational time, when we say time, down to that dispensational time, see? until it could be revealed to us that it wasn't time at all. It was said, And time shall be no more. And it was said, The law until the promised son should come, or the son as to the promise hath been made. And I'm just kind of pressing a little bit along because if I take my time it's going to take a long time. So I have to delete and I have to just leave off a lot of things, as to make this real plain and that causes a little bit of stumbling there because your minds don't catch it. Now if I talk to the Brethren I don't do that. I just set there and sometimes I have to but otherwise I just take my time and the spirit just speaks it because their minds stay right in there with me. Otherwise, it's a problem, especially at church because we have so many people. A lot of times women, children and even men that don't give themselves to these things and they don't understand a lot of things we're saying. They just can't get a hold of it. So just desire the sincere milk of the Word that you might grow thereby. Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation that you might here this great wonderful voice. One God, or one spirit, many operations. Well, anyway, what I'm saying here is that this great mighty light had to express itself through a devised plan, a projection. And he had to do it by means of darkness. God veiling Himself in darkness. Or that means the light, which is understanding, coming to us through a thought that we refer to as a thought, a human thought. Which means the as to the old mind of Lucifer, coming through the beast to form thought in a beast, which the world is. They all are beast, all of them. In their first birth they have the spirit of foolishness within them and all of them are in darkness. And what God had to do, He had to subject what is referred to as the candle of the Lord searching out the inward parts, your spirit, to magnify seven fold light, as to bring it to the church ages. So to magnify it seven times, as to a seven fold light, bringing it down to the church ages He had to do this. As when Peter opened the door, looked beyond the veil, the veil was rent and the door was opened in heaven because Jesus said, I am that door and the veil was rent in twain. And there when it was rent in twain, as to four eighty-seven and here heaven was. And from there, as Calvary, it's been heaven. Everybody dwelling in heaven, even the devil himself. By the devil living within the human body using this grace, as to the blood that was on the seat of atonement in the foreknowledge before the world ever was, God allowing it to be there for this period, that had to be darkness. Whereas, He would subject light, as to the sons of God by foreknowledge, subject them to the body through this darkness, run them through this channel of learning, which is intellectual darkness and Satan being the god of that as being the mind. Well, anyway, it runs on down to Calvary before he rends that veil of the flesh which is the veil of death, that intellectual thing of the woman that was taken into captivity. It's like now. The earth, the shell of the earth is beginning to slip so that the inner part, the inner part can remain the way it is so the shell slips. As scientists say, it's slipping. Right now we see floods. Right now we're finding out there is all kind of earthquakes. There is all kind of problems with the weather because the moon is suppose to have control of the tide. And we could say a lot concerning that and as to why the stars will fall and why the moon will become as blood. See? But we can't go into even a fraction of that tonight because of just these other little things that we're trying to get set. So then, you are subjected to learning. The creature, the body has been subject to vanity or made subject to vanity, or become the subject of intellectual reasoning, or the subject of Lucifer. So then, being subjected to vanity, that is to be put there and subjected to the extent that they can go either way right along. They are a sovereignty. That's what it takes to make a God. And for them to be able to comprehend the invisible, and comprehend God, that is to learn as to the shadow of all things. Paul said all these things are types and shadows. All these things are allegoric. Even Sarah shows new Jerusalem and Hagar shows old Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage with the children. That is, it answers to mount Sinai. So, when he saw these things then God the great spirit, as he walked on the way to, there as he walked His way with the disciples going on, or Jesus that is, going on into the night, going on into a house with them, then these things were put within them. And Paul, being that Christ before, before, being a Jew and then coming to that, as the Christ, the veil was moved as to the body and the persecutor Paul was taken away and then it was Christ. And with that this came to being the church ages as preached through the dimensional thing of the seven church age messengers. Or as Christ walking on the way to Emmaus, here he spoke with them and revealed these things, going back to the Old Testament, or unveiled these things to say, And here it is. Fools and so of heart to believe all that the prophets have said. Paul, as to Christ, looking back beyond the veil and looking beneath the veil of the law of the intellectual reasoning of that which was the teachings of the Old Testament as to the Jews, saw that it was a spiritual thing and that that new Jerusalem was already there and that the lively stones were already there. And that Jacob and the twelve was just a type of Jesus and the twelve, as to show this thing in one stage as to the veil of the intellect of Lucifer as to one mind and then to unveil it by the rending of the veil and then to show it in the perspective of the light, as to Christ the unveiled with the twelve apostolic leaders who became spiritual people. Jesus and the spiritual leaders in that Jesus was a spirit. Well, anyway, that introduces too many thoughts there and it all gets complicated because we don't have time to get into it and if we press so hard it will get into a conglomeration. But, anyway, staying with a simple theme and thoughts here that you do have time to comprehend a long the trail of what we're saying to follow step by step as the Spirit leads. See? So then, we know that this is a different age. This is a day of grace. This heaven. Everybody is in heaven because of the rent veil and because of this wonderful grace that's being pour out Jesus has taken away the sins of the world. We know that something has happened; already happened and we're just now coming to the understanding. We're just now coming to the light of it. What can you say? we're just now coming to our generation as to Calvary. And this generation now has come to Calvary. It's just been born into the world, as we say, and now it's coming to it's Calvary. And it must acknowledge as to beyond the veil. Paul being as to the overseer as to that one that was caught up beyond the veil and saw these spiritual things, as being Christ the capstone of this, or that great light. That great light, as to the fullness of this light. Proportionally coming up, coming up, condensing until finally the capstone of crying grace, grace. Jesus came to capstone all of this as to that that was in the natural which was the pyramid city within the veil. And the Jews did not accept Jesus as the prophet Moses, or like unto Moses. So then, they did not accept it. Seven years taken away from the four ninety left four eighty-three and it was deferred as to the capstone away over here on the other side of the church ages that when Jesus comes during the tribulation, after the church ages, coming to the Jews, they will accept Him for there will be Moses and Elijah. And when they do that capstone that they rejected, the stone that Jesus spoke of in the parable, the same having become the head of the corner, all of a sudden there it will be and they will accept Him as to the nail prints. And the seven will go back to the four eighty-three finishing the four ninety, the prophetical utterance of Daniel and what the angel had said. See? And that will be capstoned as to what the Jews said and then the seven years of the earthly part will be finished, as to the four hundred and ninety years, or the seven years of tribulation will be finished to the extent now the whole four hundred and ninety years are complete and they have accepted their Messiah. And it will be an earthly perspective because the heavenly perspective, as to the church ages, will be over. The church will have already been capstoned as to the spiritual pyramid city by Christ, even as it was to Paul in the natural and changed to Christ when the veil was taken away to show the Jesus and the Christ. When it showed the Jesus and the Christ over here in the earthly perspective as to the Jewish side of it then the veil was put away. It was put away and then away went the spirit. But during the time that the spirit was within the body imprisoned, as you would say within the confines as that which was made like unto you and I, as to the fallen, then the body had the preeminence. Over here when it's Paul it's just in reverse. The body is put away and the spirit is magnified as to the overseer Christ that is capstoning the spiritual Jew as to the spiritual period. Well, anyway, like I said, we'd just have to take a lot of time and bring that out step by step and detail it. We've been tutoring today quite a lot to some folks; quite a lot. And we were up about all night last night. But still the mind is clear. The spirit is clear. The words are clear but I have to take a lot of time. The Bible said, Be still and know that I am God and we have to learn to be still in our spirit and gentle. And the man of God has to just flow right into the spirit and let God take His time and then every bit is together. But if I hurry to try to tutor just the least bit, or press just the least bit then the mind of Christ doesn't hurry and then my mind will get things frustrated, or your mind will get things frustrated because the carnal, intellectual, natural mind in just your present everyday state of mind is enmity with the great Spirit. It's not subject to that. There's no life in the intellect. So then, when we're looking at it we suddenly realize that something great is taking place that would take hours and hours to go back over what I'm saying and detail it and put it all in line to bring it into focus to where we can believe, or grasp, or comprehend this wonderful thing that we're saying. But we don't have time to do that. With the patience of the people and the problems of the people and the unlearnedness of the people and being in the condition that they are in that all day long their thoughts are evil and they are thinking on the natural things that they can't get this. It gets into a conglomeration of a problem to them, and yet the church change is here because the revelation is the change. That is, to what you say the rapture is to be. And certainly has nothing to do with the rapture in the sense that the word rapture means caught up. And this thing that God is doing is a work before anything happens about rapture. So this is, as to simple terminology the rapture for you that can understand. And no one can understand unless it's given to them to understand because for years here we've tutored a little bit at a time, just a little bit at a time to try to bring you to this, as to moving toward the fullness of this thing that will be the change of the human body. Well, anyway, going back to what we said there in the garden, and so then they were naked. Why were they naked? Because they had left the illumination or lost the illumination of that Shekinah image which was Christ. And it was a covering of His glory and he said later through the prophetical utterance, he said, You cover with a covering but it's not of me. That is, you lost My covering. You lost, in your spirit you lost this Shekinah illumination that illuminates you to this great wonderful revelational light. You lost this. I withdrew from you and then you had to be covered with another covering and your covering is darkness, as to an intellectual covering. So then God is within darkness because you put Him within the radius of darkness. We use a little illustration a lot of times as to the little black widow. The widow eats her husband so she is a widow. And it is shown as a little foolish thing to confound the wise in that the things of God are foolishness to the natural mind. And it is a contest between the two that interferes with this wonderful radiance of the flow of this light. See? But there is the black widow, the fall of mankind and Eve had eaten up her husband. Through her foolishness she had subdued him to that mind and he was now within the confines of that mind. But being innocent to the extent that he was the head and he did not understand anything. He was like a baby and Satan had taken advantage through the weakness of the flesh. And so then, where there is no knowledge of sin sin is not imputed. Therefore, they were protected even as the Jews when they were cut off. Paul said they were protected because they did not understand. Therefore he could reach and bring them back in because they were blinded in part as to knowing the Messiah. And there are many things we could say as to having to do with the part. So then, the black widow devoured her own husband. And then there was a little red spot that was put on the black widow. And this little red spot indicated as to the blood on the seat of atonement from the foreknowledge, that during the time of this darkness, this intellectual confines of the soul and life having as to the candle of the Lord, the breath of life within the confines of this darkness and went all the way down to Calvary. See? The spider takes hold with it's hand and it's in king's palaces. So it went all the way down and then the light returned, this time not as an illumination as to the saints but it went into the saints. For them that sit in the regions of shadow of death great light has sprang up unto them. And the regions of the shadow of death meant that intellectual overcast of the sentence of death that was in the body. Which we need a lot of time to explain what it is, how it is, how it got in and all of these kind of things. But there it was and now that veil was to be rent. And so then, what was to happen. Out of the woman, out of the woman was to come man because woman had swallowed up man. At first the woman came out of a man but now the man had to come out of the woman because she had swallowed it up. So then, when it comes to Calvary the veil was rent in twain. He made Himself twain, both Lord and Christ and He divided the spirit from the body, as to the man and the woman, as to the darkness that come over Jesus as to taking the church out of Jesus, the second man Adam, because it was the same way with the first man Adam. When darkness came over him, as to sleep it represented death when Eve was taken out of him. So then, we see that the black widow there, as to the veil, destroying the darkness and the evil, doing away with it. And the Law and the prophets as to that blood that was the covering, which indicated the blood of bulls and goats, or the blood of the first life. That is, the life that was within the blood in that it indicates that that is why life has to be released from the blood, that the beast be killed, the blood be spilt and the life released. Otherwise there is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood because life has to come out of darkness. And as the preacher has the power to remit or to retain so it was at Calvary. As My Father sent me, so send I you. And that indicates that when the preacher, not us speaking but Christ, remits your sins you've accepted Calvary and that darkness is now gone. It is forever gone. And that, as to the covering over the tabernacle, as to many things we'd have to explain here as to the cloud, with, as we say at night, seeing the lightning or the fire within the cloud. Or that that we saw in the vision with the pillar of fire and the fire left as in the daytime when the cloud came down. And many of hundred and thousands of things are involved in those things. But then when that went away at Calvary the darkness was now over. These that sat in the regions of the shadow of death were no more. There was no intellectual blindness within them as to the ignorance of them that had not received this light. But now the light of the world was here, even Christ the fullness of that light within a human body as to a personification that we might through intellect comprehend God who was shown by the deeds of Jesus going about and doing good and healing all. So we know now who our God is, what are God is, how our God reacts and now we see Him through our understanding, comprehending God. And so then we comprehend all things through the learning that we go through down through the ages as to the past generations and misunderstandings;, not understanding the knowledge passed on to us. And then when we get this knowledge all of a sudden then the light comes. The veil of that knowledge is rent, as to our day, our Calvary and then when this veil is gone we look and there is the light and here we are the light of the world in that Jesus went away and His spirit is now by measure within us. We're not looking through the glass darkly, as to the veil of that which is the fallen of that intellectual mind of darkness and death, the sentence of death within the body, the old intellectual mind. See? But we are without the veil and we're looking, as it would be, into a mirror. That is, we are looking right into the face of Christ as to the revealed glory; something that Moses could not do. He could only look at the hinder part. And the Bible said, as to that light that appeared, he had to put a veil over him (Begin tape two, side one.)... Jew, and one being, as to the body, as to the natural Jew. Well, when they lost that they could not fellowship God because the children of Israel could not steadfastly look unto the end of that which was abolished, which was this great wonderful light that Paul saw as he rent the veil when the scales fell from his eyes and became our overseer as Christ to the church to capstone this great pyramid city of the light. So it's very obvious that what we're saying is that when Calvary came to the dividing of the twain, which we're not going to try to get into. Some of you understand some of that anyway. See? It was now that we were looking into the very light of that glory of God Almighty, into the very light. And that light is a power of expression that said let there be and there was. And so then, it re-creates and it changes us as we behold the light through the expression of that great wonderful emanation as to that light emanating from Jesus Christ through the rent veil and we behold the glory of the unveiling, as to that veil that was over the face of Moses, which was the prophet that pointed to Jesus Christ. So then, it's very obvious as to what we're saying, Brethren, as to the unveiled glory of His face. We're changed thus by transformation of mind from glory to glory, or from precipitation to precipitation of this light. And now the light within our spirit, interwoven, seals us from darkness and the body is now dead, as to the separation of the body from the spirit by the works of Jesus Christ that we don't have to have anymore death, anymore sorrow, anymore of the curse, anymore problems, anymore sickness. All of that is now gone simply by believing in our benefits in Christ, or believing unto righteousness in our heart. It's eradicated. It's conquered and it's gone. And we thus find ourselves in heaven. What is that? Enoch, the seventh from Adam, a type of the church being translated into the glory of God that he should not see death. The transformating of the mind. The translation of the spirit into Christ's spirit. The transformating of the mind over a progressive period of time into the mind of Christ and then the instantaneous revealing of this heavenly treasure which is within our earthen vessels into our mortal genes to the transfiguration of the body, becoming a spirit, even of that of Jesus on the mount in glory with Moses and Elijah. So where are we? As He is so are we. Where is He? He is at the right hand of the Father. Who is He? He is the body to the church; the head of that body. Then who are we? Whatever He is, whatever He's always been, whatever He shall always be. As He is so ae we in Him. And that was God perfecting us. Sin the one way unto death. Righteousness by one man unto life. So we could not help it, as unto death; neither can we do anything about it as unto life. It's Him that has done it all. We've discovered through the revealing and we praise God as to the faith within His finished love and work toward us to make us what He wants us to be merely by His love to the extent of redeeming us by His own blood. Now, so we have to go through the learning, which is the intellectual darkness, before we can ever have a mind of learning to comprehend the invisible God, which is a light. So all of the natural things of the earth are only a forerunner of the shadow of those natural things that shows us that great spiritual world of that spiritual city of the spiritual life that had to come through the veil down to the sons of God, as to them that would come to pass in the end time, that in that sixth day God made man. Well, anyway, we could go on and go on as to say this, Adam and Eve were naked because they lost their Shekinah covering. When Christ came He did not illuminate them when He came back. He became interwoven in their spirit. He did not illuminate them as the illumination of the overshadowing of the body. He didn't do that, though He did with Mary as to bring forth. So the verbal inspiration, as to the quickening, was as to interior. And then came the Christ, as to the body. Now. So, Brethren, the last man Adam was made a quickening spirit strictly form the inspiration of the quickening that went directly to the vagina to bring forth the Son of God. Now, one as the will of man as to a quickening by human nerves and sensation, as from the loins of man. The other is strictly from God as the act of creation, a new blood cell that there might be a new blood. And Jesus, as to the beast body emptying out the blood that was shown as a type. That is, that it was typical to show that the blood of the beast had been spilt, Jesus becoming the beast, as to His human body, and becoming the serpent showed that even as to Adam, the first, the form, and then it was smitten. Then the second man Adam, as to the spiritual, which was really the first. Jesus Christ the first in all things being restored, and when He came He freed man. He freed man by th dividing of that with making within Himself twain. So it shows, as we would say, the Gentile and the Jew. And it would take a long time to go into that about the spiritual Jew, and one being as to the body as to the natural Jew. Well, when they lost that they could not fellowship God; they were blind. They could not see then until the light came again. And when the light came again Jesus referred to even the Jews which were religious. If the blind lead the blind they all fall into the ditch. But, beloved friend, if your eyes have come open, as to the scales that fell from Paul's eyes then you are not blind, as to intellectual wandering, in that the ignorance that's within you, which was handed down through the tree of knowledge, it's not there because it's eradicated with the brightness of His coming. And with thee brightness of His coming Satan who tries to set within the temple, the body of Jesus Christ, as to the intellectual through that, as to where Paul said there is no good thing within the flesh. He is destroyed with the brightness of the coming, or of the eradication of that which is your own human reasoning, as to self exaltation. And then there is the light as to this innermost being, as to the day star revealed with you, over the horizon of the interior of your heart and your life. So then, we find that now the light has come. Arise and shine for the glory of God is risen upon you and we are not blind. The scale is gone. See? That is, we're not looking through the glass darkly. Well, there would be thousands of things. Thousands of things, beloved, that we would have to say to break it down, go over every bit of what we've said and break it down and put in so many, many fillers and put it altogether as a puzzle for you to be able to understand. But you that can understand, as just putting a little frame work there, you can have the spirit. He'll guide you into all truth and righteousness and go back and pick up all these things and put them all in place until you can just take that, as it would be the puzzle, and show it to somebody in such a broad way until there would be no mistaking it. Even the little children could see it to the extent that out of the mouth of babies, and sucklings He has perfected praise. Let's stand together. I didn't mean to take so quite so long and even with this I just had to condense and condense until I don't know how much you got, as to understanding, but I know that you got some. Maybe thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold, whatever. But I know that God has stayed with me. That's the thing that is important. When we read from what I read from, I want to make reference to while we were in the islands. It was very significant and we don't have time to comment on it to night. Maybe we will a little later. But while we were over there, all of a sudden, within the apartment we heard a sound as to a shotgun, like somebody was killing someone. We ran out and it fired to or three times. We kept trying to look for it in the dark, as to a number of us, and when we found out what it was it was from a ship right down below where the sea was, almost at our door; just a little walk, and it was thundering away. It was spitting out balls of something that went up into the heavens, like these fireworks that you get. So huge, and as they went up they burst and just spread everywhere. Like little stars, scattered everywhere. And then the little stars that would scatter everywhere, they would just burst and just sprinkle in every way; light, and some of them in color. Well, this went on for a good little while and we were just almost struck with awesomeness as we stood and looked. And I said, Betty, this has got a meaning. Because I knew going over there had to go with a great thing. Well, we saw it and after that we went back into the house. It went on for a long time. I don['t know how many thousands of dollars were spent as to putting on this great thing as a show. When we got back in that night, it was somewhere in the morning, I had a night vision. As far as I know it was that same night. And when I saw, I looked and it was as the heavens were filled and the same thing was happening again, almost identical. And there it was in the vision and the heavens were literally filled but instead of little stars being shot up and then exploding, it was actually the heavens filled with the little stars. Everywhere the little stars that we see in heaven. And all of a sudden they were just bursting all to pieces and sprinkling the light and the whole heavens were a conglomeration of beauty. And I saw people. And I saw as people being scared and nervous and trying to break into tears they were so tore up. I said, Don't let your heart be trouble. We're suppose to love His appearing. And they were so tore up because it was the coming of the Lord. And I told my wife that I felt like it had to a meaning, as to the coming of the Lord. Now. And at the same time, along about that time, they had the shower of stars over here where the stars actually were falling from heaven. And then at the same time, little Paul across the way had his little scope and he saw Saturn. He'd been looking for it for a long time, and he saw Saturn and there it was. I believe he made the expression he was so nervous, and whatever, he just had to lay down on the ground. But it was John Paul. Speaking again of the revelation. And there it was, see? The casting out, or the fall of Satan and the third part of the stars falling. And there it was in symbolics over there in that paradise like place, as to the war in heaven, and we were seeing it, as to the booms and the booms and all these kind of things and the hollering and the screaming of those things going through the air. And people standing in awe and hollering and going on. And there as we beheld it, like the thunder and the popping and the stars falling, I said, Betty, this is like fire raining down from heaven and if it just would come a little lower it would strike these buildings. Anyway, they shot up real high and some of them a little lower. And there it was, it was showing me something. See? All of these things taking place. And here we are. What is it? There is something fantastic taking place. Even as I said today to some of them, we're going over to Kentucky. And as we go over to Kentucky this has a turn of event that's great and mighty, something that is real wonderful and outstanding in the world of spirit. See? And it has to do with that because that's Brother Branham's home place right in there where we'll be going; and also Abe Lincoln's home place. Some of you that go may want to go up and see Abe's home place. It's right there not very far away where they have these steps and whatever, and Brother Branham's home place is just over the hill there from where we'll be. So there's a great wonderful thing that's taking place up near Sulphur Wells as to these things that's coming together. And my! we'd love to elaborate on it but it takes so long to say such little, as to this revelational mystery. For great is the mystery of godliness. Great is the mystery of godliness and we are made stewards of this wonderful mystery. And we have to push and shove and hurry and just get you together, you know, in such a way, that it's so grievous to us to try to preach to you having this little time. Not because you aren't reverent, not because you don't respect us, but because many of you don't understand that we can't take forty-five minutes and preach something that should take ten years. You can't do it. You can't do it. As a matter-of-fact, Paul, after learning all his life went away for over three years into the Arabian Desert just to get those things revelated to where he could understand enough to go back and begin to get the church on a trail. So then, this makes it very difficult for us. Very difficult. And especially going as we go and then going through all these seizures, as being up all night long and ministering to people all day long of one or another with so many people asking questions and trying to give our body without reservation, as a living sacrifice unto God to continually be the expression of God in the earth as to the best of our feeble ability, or of our ability as a human being, which is such a minute sort of a thing, as comparatively speaking to the great, speaking of the great Almighty God of almighty, you know. So then, this means that we're doing our very best and doing our little in stumbling and staggering along, trying to get a little rest, and do whatever. Like Jesus on the boat when He fell asleep and then they said, Master, Master, wake up. Carest thou not if we perish? And Jesus was so tired and weary from doing what He had done, whether it was staying up or whatever, and He was just trying to get a little rest. And He just said, Oh, thou of little faith, walked out and commanded the elements. Why? Because He knew He was the commander. He knew that He was the mind of Almighty God in a human body and it was mind over matter, as not per se, as this is a hypocritical side of life, as to science falsely so-called, but He was the mind from which all matter had emanated and He was the controlling factor of it and Satan was the problem and it interrupted the form of matter, as to it's regular routine, as to bless mankind. And He just more or less said, Devil, get out of the way and stop your foolishness. Or get behind me Satan. Or as He said when He looked up and He said, Peace. And He looked down at the waves and said, Be still. See? And it all stopped, like that, because He was the commander. And so then, you being the body of the Lord Jesus Christ you are the commander. Say what you will, decree it in your heart, let it be so. Come to the understanding that you might come to the faith of the hearing of the understanding and then believe with all of your heart and commit your body to a daily sanctification, as to your efforts to sanctify the body that it might be partakers of the divine sanctification, which is already within you, the heavenly treasure that's made manifest in your mortal genes, as to your efforts to receive whatever measure that you will. See? That you might dispense that to the people and keep everything in order because the sons of God are here. Already ye are the sons of God. And they are ready to be unveiled as to this light, or the eradication of that which is the outward and Satan is warring and fighting. He's upset because he's losing all of his power and his kingdom and we are as to the sons of God. Now, beloved, we are the sons of God as the song writer said. See? And we are taking control to rule with a rod of iron and all forms of matter are subject unto us. And with this you cannot die because you are eternal. You have already passed from death unto life. You cannot lose your youth. That's impossible. You cannot age. That's impossible. You cannot die. That's impossible for you to die. See? And these other things, these things are because you fail to believe and fail to learn so that you'll know so that you can believe. And then fail to subject your body to an endeavor of a continual aggressiveness toward the kingdom and against the kingdom of Lucifer. See? You fail to do that so you don't get the benefits. And having the knowledge of God at hand you die like men when you are Gods, made to be eternal. So there is nothing to do but change the body through your own willingness of self submission to what's called the sacrifice, as a living effort of sacrifice to God. See, that this body, that the heavenly treasure might be made manifest in your mortal genes. So stop all of this foolishness of aging, and to stop all of this foolishness as being put in caskets. Why should you put a living person in a casket? Or just because somebody went to sleep why would you cover him up with dirt? Like I heard today, as it was, some man, maybe thirty years old, some people had gone and got him and put him in a casket and covered him up with dirt. Or buried him alive in whatever they put him in for fifteen days, was it? or something that he'd been under the earth? How many? Twelve days. Okay, twelve days. Somebody said fifteen. But, anyway, fourteen, fifteen. Was it twelve days? See? God had to work a great miracle but He can do that. Like in the belly of hell, as with Jonah. See? And when they took him out I understand he was still alive. Somehow God had prevented his suffocation. Now. Why should they bury a live man. Are ye then the living or the dead? Why should we look for the living among the dead, Jesus said. See? Or the angel said. Why should we do that? Jesus is not here, He hath risen as the angel and He is the living. He's not among the dead because the Christ all live. And therefore if they that are in the world are dead in trespasses and sin while they live why then should we look for the living among the dead? Are ye then the living or the dead? We are the living. Therefore is it necessary to bury the living? And we'd have to go into a great revelation to bring that as to what Paul said, Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep. Well, let's sing a little chorus together and after that we'll let you go. (Singing.) Can you sing with me? (Singing.) Now sing it like this now. (Singing.) The altars are open. If you'd like to come the altars are open. (Singing.) Sing this with me now. (Singing.) Let's sing this little chorus together, Brother Taylor. (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) Well, let's lift our hands up together tonight. Let's sing this little chorus. Take the few words that were said tonight, though we had to condense them. It makes it a little difficult for some of you to coordinate these, as to thoughts, but just remember what we said at the first of the service and add this little bit to it, that there are three minds, as we have brought out. Sometimes we'll elaborate on it a little more. But these three minds have to use the same brain. So when these thoughts come to you remember man's thoughts are continually evil. All flesh has corrupted its way before God and there is a continual warfare between that Christ mind that's within you, as to the innermost spirit, and that mind that's in your flesh, as to the fallen, as the spirit of foolishness. And when this mind comes to you and it talks to you, as to the evil mind of Lucifer, the unclean mind, the subduing mind, just remember that inwardly you are not naked. Your spirit now has the wonderful Shekinah covering of His glory. The covering of His glory, the prophet called it. And now His glory has risen upon you, as to the revelation of the time that it might change your body, that you might not sleep among the dead. Because when Joshua crossed the Jordan sleep was over. Well, anyway, just remember when these evil thoughts come and you try to shake them out of your mind you can shake your head, you can say what you want to, you can do what you want to but it's like they're interwoven with your flesh. Because they are to the extent that you haven't been changed. But that never touches your spirit unless you make allowance to excuse that thought that it might have freedom in your life. But if you accuse that thought by the Word to rebuke it and excuse, as to accept the thoughts as to the mind of Christ and virtue and purity, then your thoughts become the means while else accusing or excusing one another, as to the fulfillment of the law as to bring the righteousness of God or Christ into your spirit, as to a seal that can never be penetrated, in that you cannot sin because the law is fulfilled within you and transgression of the law is sin and you cannot transgress the law because you're perfected in Christ. Therefore you cannot die. Well, remember that these three spirits uses your brain. Your spirit, which is an angel having right to your body. Lucifer's spirit which has no body for angels have no body. I want to present you body, soul and spirit to God. You do have a body, as an angel, and a right to the body and the natural things. Angels do not. They were given an estate, as to the fallen angels. They left their estate and they're trying to get into your estate through the body to receive, as to these inspirational feelings and it brings death. And it takes your soul as the beast, a living soul, down. And when the good angels come they work on your human senses, as to an inspirational thing as to lift you up. That is, becoming a quickening spirit, and not a living soul. You are sealed off from death because the soul that sinneth will die and you cannot sin because you are now a quickening spirit and waiting for the change of the body as to the proof of this body already having been redeemed at Calvary, covered by the blood and the iniquity taken away. So we are now moving toward the purchased possession. Not to get into preaching on that but remember, those thoughts have to use your brain, or those spirits, and it's up to you to allow the use of your brain by excusing or else accusing. And out of those minds, as to the thoughts, that is death. It is within the tongue, as to the words, as within the thoughts. And with this you are feed the fruits of whatever spirit it is, as to the fruits of your thoughts. And you are, as scientists say, whatever you feed off of. Well, let's sing another little chorus. (Singing. Begin tape two, side two.)....See? And it came at Calvary. You're just now beginning to comprehend it, as coming to the end of the church ages, or as to your day, which is the generation that hath Calvary in this hour. And with every generation, as to their day and their Calvary. They had it according to the measure. And now here we are, as to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus and the light to rise seven-fold, to melt the glaciers of that which is on the mountains in Alaska and around the world, to eradicate the waters that nourish the valley, to keep the streams to where the valley can be watered. And everything is being cut off and the waters are now spilling out of the reservoirs of the rivers. And with the water spilling out of the reservoirs of the rivers then that means that something if taking place. And ye are the children of light. Now this is the condemnation that has come into the world, that men love darkness. That is, they love the intellectual education because it fits their way of frolics and inventions and doing the things that they abasely want to do because their thoughts are continually evil. And now the light of understanding to show that up and tell them that that is wrong has come into the world. And the condemnation upon them now is that they love the darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil and they won't come to the light that their deeds be made manifest for that which is manifest is light. And that means that now there is condemnation to them which means there can be no faith where there is condemnation and the law thus becomes their death and that which was ordained unto life, which you have fulfilled by the spirit of Christ and willing submission now law that has become death to bring condemnation. But there is no condemnation within you who walk in the spirit and not in the flesh because the flesh is now dead by of Calvary and you are free from that and ye are they that dwell in heaven. So how beautiful. How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of great joy that tells you of this wonderful eternal life. Not religion, not coming to church, not people that are so ignorant that they don't understand; that's under condemnation and cut off into death that say, Well, I don't understand or say, I don't see nothing in it. Not those ignorant people that come with hostility and come with fault finding that's cut of in death that will never see light or never come into light. They will always be under condemnation and unbelief because they will never understand. You are not those children. You are children of light. Ye shall never come into condemnation because there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who are not in the flesh but in the spirit. And you are not in the flesh. Your body is dead and your spirit went back to God who gave it. It dwells in heaven and that means there is no condemnation to you and nobody can lay anything to your charge. You are free. Ye are they that dwell in heaven and there is no condemnation to you whatsoever. You are eternal. Not going to be; you are already eternal. Ye are sons of God already and ye are eternal. And there is no condemnation to you. Jesus took away all condemnation so you don't have to have any worry, even when Satan is accusing you, you don't have to worry because God substantiates not any of that. So, then someone would say, Well, when we all get to heaven. Heaven is where there is no condemnation so ye that dwell in heaven let's just praise God that we all got to heaven. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say hallelujah! Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike. I wonder how we could be in heaven? Ye say that ye are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular and He said that He dwells in heaven. He said, Nicodemus, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. Now, who is the body of Jesus Christ? Let me see your hands. I am the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul said, It's not me living but Christ for I am dead by the body of the Lord Jesus unto sin. But by the resurrection of the new body I am thus bone of his bone and flesh of His flesh and I am He that sitteth at the right hand of the Father. Somebody say hallelujah. Hallelujah! All right. We're going to sing this little chorus I Will Praise Him. While we sing this little chorus let the Lord touch you and you ladies, you learn to how to clap your hands, too. Can you try it? You have to try it and it will work. It will work. All right, let's sing this little chorus together. (Singing.) Once again now. (Singing.) Once again sing it with me. (Singing.) I'm going to ask Chris to come up if he will and dismiss us. While Chris comes let's search our hearts. The Bible said examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith. If we examine ourselves and judge ourselves then the Bible says that we have no need to be judged for when we judge ourselves and we put away the sin and the corruption and then we chasten ourselves through fasting and prayer and submission and repentance and therefore we have no need to go before the judgment bar of God that we should be judged or that anything should be laid to our charge that we should be chastened for we are they that dwell in heaven and we've passed from death unto life. And we're completely free from all sin and condemnation so why then should you feel bad? Why not let your faith be in full blossom that you might make manifest to dispense this inner glory and make it manifest in your mortal genes as to the benefit of healing and salvation and strength and the wonderful blessings of prosperity to rejoice always ye that dwell in heaven. And as Paul said, I say unto you rejoice. Rejoice forever more and again I say rejoice. And we sing that little song, Rejoice in the Lord and again I say rejoice. Rejoice. Rejoice. So while you've got your hands up and we're singing this one more time Chris is going to come. (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