Making Man God

(David sings I'll ride this trail one time.)

You'll have to give me a few minutes to get this thing in tune here. Sing that again, David. While he's singing these let's lift our hands up to the Lord tonight. Let's worship the Lord. It's so beautiful, all the things that we want to say and all the things we want to do, and all that we do is for Him tonight. He's the star of the show. He's always the great and mighty God, the Savior. And I thought about Dave as he was singing the song I'LL RIDE THIS TRAIL AGAIN, the Lord Jesus rode it one time. He rode it and brought salvation to the entire world. And now He's going to ride it one more time and that is He's coming by to pick up all of them that He purchased at Calvary on this one great ride. He's coming back now. He's moving to gather together all of them that belong to Him. Can you love Him tonight? Can you make love to Him tonight? I read in the book of Psalms and the book of Solomon where they made love to God. Remember, you're His bride tonight. You should love Him tonight. How sweet it is to be the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, the great wonderful God of heaven and of earth. The mighty God. They mighty God of Jacob; the God of Abraham. We have the same God tonight; the God of Abraham, the God of Jacob, the God of Isaac. That's the only God I want. That's the only God that will do. Hallelujah! Can you praise Him and love Him tonight? Can you love Him tonight? My! Wonderful things are happening in heaven tonight. I remember the vision I saw that I tell so often where I was in heaven. I was lifted up between heaven and earth and I was looking and there as I looked into the heavens I saw all these things in heaven. The whole heavens was filled with the glorious, wonderful things of God. I looked back. As I was suspended in the air I looked back and I looked back at the great multitude and I saw the earth filled with the masses of people. And I screamed back and I said, Look at those things in heaven, folks. Look at those things in heaven. I said, Don't you see those things in heaven? But, you know, they didn't see them. When I looked they didn't see them. But that's a shame isn't it because you and I do see them. Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of anyone at any time the things that God hath prepared for them that love Him. But the Bible said He hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. By His Spirit. Do you believe in revelation? If you do lift your hands up and say praise the Lord. Somebody say praise the Lord! Come on, folks. Praise the Lord. Somebody praise the Lord! Let's praise the Lord for a few minutes. Enter into His gates with Thanksgiving, His courts with praise. Hallelujah! Is that right? that we should praise Him? that we should do that? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise God! Hallelujah! Let's sing this little chorus together, David. Can we? Let's all sing this together while we're praising the Lord. (Singing.) Sing it with me again, now. (Singing.) Can we sing that one more time? (Singing.) Give Him a wave offering. Give Him a wave offering. (Singing.) Can we sing it just one more time together? (Singing.) Somebody say hallelujah! (Singing.) Gory to God! If you feel like shouting shout. Hallelujah! The Bible said David praised Him with all of His might. He danced before the ark of the covenant with all his might. Praise Him in the dance. Praise Him in the shout. Hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord! Praise ye the Lord! Praise ye the Lord! Enter His house with praise. Hallelujah! Somebody say hallelujah! I feel the Holy Ghost here, don't you? How many of you feel the Holy Ghost here? I feel the moving of the mighty Holy Spirit tonight. Glory to God. Makes you not want to set down, don't it? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Somebody say Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Glory to God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! If you can you can be set down. Praise God. Okay, Chuck, work with us tonight, son, on a little bit of treble. I know it's hollering up here but work with us as much as you can. Okay? Now. I'd like to say first of all that I'm glad to be here in Sulphur Wells. And I'm glad to be here with the people. It's a real privilege for me to be here with the people and feel the wonderful presence of God and know that He loves us and cares for us and to know that you care about God enough to come out on a cold, cold night to worship the Lord. We've got a lot of people on the outside, from what I understand, some of the men and the lady folks and they're watching it over the screen out there. And I hate because it's turned off cold. They would have enjoyed it a lot more. I remember just a few days back when we were down in Mexico. We had the tent there, our big gospel tent, and we had a filled up place and they had the things outside where the people could watch them and it was nice and warm down there and they really enjoyed watching the screen on the outside. But, anyway, we're still here tonight together to talk about the Lord. I have just a few things on my mind I'd like to say to you if you don't mind and would like to listen. Just be patient with me just a little bit. Last night we were getting into some things and just as the anointing of the Lord begin to move there was an interference. A little one got all out of sorts and Satan, he kind of worked on that little one until everything just_ — But anyway, we got into a few things last night for Christ and tonight, I feel like we'll bet into a few things tonight. There's one thing that I did pick up last night and that is that there are people here in this area that perceives spiritual things and that they could get into spiritual things because last night we got into a few little spiritual things last night and would have gotten into more if we had not had the problem the way the thing interfered. So I know by that you can get into the heavenly places. When you get into the spirit you're in heaven. See? The only heaven there is is spirit. A lot of people don't know that, you know, because we're so intellectually minded and so carnal minded until the only thing that we can think of is to eat, to drink, to buy, to sell, to go, to laugh, talk, visit, whatever and that is all we understand. But in spite of that heaven is a spiritual dimension and it is a spiritual world and God is a spirit and He seeketh such as be of the spirit to worship Him. And so then, that means that God is in our midst. Now. We say, Well, where is God, Brother Pike? Well, the Bible said He is in us, He's above us, He's through us. God filleth all in all. You know, one time David wanted to build Him a tabernacle, Solomon. They wanted to build a tabernacle; David gathered the materiel, Solomon built Him a tabernacle, or a temple. But when they got ready to build it God said, And who can build me a temple; I fill heaven and all of the heavens of heavens can't contain Me. What kind of temple could you ever build Me? But nevertheless, Jesus Christ was the temple of the living God and God did dwell in Him in the fullness. Or that is, God does administrate through Him, or the blood, in the fullness. And no man can get to God except through the Son and no man can get to the Son except the Father draw Him. So, God being a spirit, the great, mighty, eternal Spirit, the great light unto which no man can approach, who no man has seen at any time, nor can see. You know, we really need to think on that now because we get all mixed up a lot of times concerning the things of the Godhead. Whereas, the Bible said there is no need for that because all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, even to the eternal Godhead, so that we are without excuse; that we should clearly understand. So then, God the great eternal Spirit. The Bible said He's the great light; the Heavenly Father who no man has seen, in that science says you can't see light. No man has seen Him at anytime. Nor no man can approach unto Him. And no man shall ever see Him as that great mighty light. The only way they will ever see Him is through Jesus Christ. And when they see Him through Christ, through the mind of Christ, God will be that great mighty light that will be comprehended and He will be the great eternal Father in the body of His Son. For the Bible said, God giveth not the Spirit unto Him by measure, but it is pleasing to Me, God said in the original rendering, that I should dwell in this human body. That's what He said. This is My beloved Son in whom I'm pleased to dwell, and in the original and I'm pleased to dwell in this tabernacle, or this body. So we know then that God the great light tells us that Jesus Christ alone dwells in the midst of that light unto which no man can approach, and no man has seen nor can see. So, He is the power of declaration. He hath declared God and God is the great eternal Spirit now to us. I know, beloved, to us, the way we feel about this is what we see, what we touch, we talk about, these kind of things and we say, Well, now, that's the thing right there. If I can see it, if I can taste it, if I can touch it. These things are real. These things that I can get a hold of, these tangible sources of matter, this is life. But I say this again to you and it might be a little bit shocking as I say it to you, but nevertheless, I say it to you. You're really in this life nothing but blind people. Nothing but blind people. All that you do, all that you do is just an act of sensory. All that you do, you're like a bat. See, from the fall, as to the garden experience, you become blind and there is a veil over your face and you are like a bat. Though you ever, you might reach intelligence in such a great way, you're ever so alert to all the natural things of the world, the human feelings and characteristics of life, yet you are like a bat. And so then, anything that you do it's by feel. When you look and you see something and you say, Now, this is beautiful. All you did was reflect that thing by twenty-two conductive nerves from your eye to your brain. That's all. And if you put those nerves out you don't have any sight. You don't see anything because all you are is just a mass of bones and entrails and nerves and these different things. Though we are wonderfully made David said; yet this is all that we are. Now, this is kind of shocking as to these things that we're saying here. But that's all that we are, see? That's all we are. Now. And at that we are blind. And blinded because, like a bat, all we do is feel our way around. Feel our way around. But when you come to know God you're no longer blind then. The eyes of your understanding becomes open and you comprehend this great mighty God. You can't see God with your natural eyes. Like Paul. He saw that light on the way to Damascus and immediately, just that quick, his eyes went out. Just at the glimpse of that light. See? And so then, what we do, we comprehend God. Now, the Bible said this great wonderful light that came at Calvary, it shined in the midst of darkness. That is, intellectual darkness and the darkness could not comprehend it. They couldn't comprehend it but you and I can because we're children of light. So then, Paul said to comprehend the height, the depth, the width and the length of this great marvelous thing, see? And we see. Not to us seeing is this world. And to us this is life. All these tangible sources of matter; this is a great mighty world and if you get out of this scope, this confinement, this environment, we feel like, well, it's nothing. But, folks, it's just to the contrary. The Bible said all that is of this world, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life and all that is of the world, and all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, as to the human senses, and the pride of life, and that some people have sensually separated themselves from the faith of God by these human senses. See? And they know nothing of God. And this is the pride of life and the Bible says it all passes away. Think about that now. All is vanity and vexation of the spirit, and all that is of the world shall pass away, and all that is in the world shall pass away, which means that if you are in the world you're going to pass away. Think about that now. Now, someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, you know that we're in the world. Oh, no. I tell you again, the Bible said ye are not in the world. I have chosen you out of the world and I've hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things, which is the bringing in of that great millennium time when God said I will restore all that the caterpillar has got, the locust has got, and the cankerworm has eaten. And He said, Jacob, thy worm. That is, all of this that He called the serpent that He's put on their bellies, and all of their labor for their belly and their mouth because it craves it of them. The generation of vipers, He said. He said, This is a worm, this is a caterpillar, this is a locust. He said, This is what has destroyed the morals and decencies of mankind. And this is what has wrecked all of what God wanted to do, just by taking on the mind of Lucifer from the fall in the garden and passing it on down through the first man Adam, and all are dead in His sight. For the day that thou eatest thereof, Eve, thou shall surely die. The day that you eat of that tree ye shall surely die. Let me say this: In John 10:10, "And the thief cometh but to steal, kill and destroy. I am come that you might have life and that more abundantly." I've never taken that for a text before but the Lord told me to take that for a text tonight. So then, I want to dwell on that thought just a little bit but I want to go on with the theme of our thought here and I want you to think on this, now. As the generation of vipers, that means the whole world coming through Adam is dead. And Jesus said you are dead in trespasses and in sin and you are dead while you live. Now, I can say that as a statement from the Bible and be exactly correct and you will believe it and you know it. But if you knew the revelation of it you would say, Well, my God! He's right. We really are dead if we're not in Christ Jesus because there is more to it than just the little printed page. There is a spiritual understanding of this thing which is that great light. God is that great light which is that great understanding. That's what He is. And Satan is that ignorance of that darkness. Paul said this ignorance which is within you. And because of that we cannot comprehend this light. For they shall not comprehend this great wonderful God. That's where eternal life comes in. That's where your translation comes in. See? I say again, as I said last night; If I was going to translate this Bible into another language I would take it word by word until I changed it. See? And the Bible said that we're going to be translated into the marvelous kingdom of our God. For when the Jews came to Jesus they said, Will you, at this time, restore the kingdom to Israel. Since you are the Messiah will you restore the kingdom to Israel? We know that the kingdom belongs to Israel and the kingdom is gone. Are you going to restore it? He said, The kingdom of God cometh not by observation. Neither shall they say, Lo, here is the kingdom or lo, here. He said, The kingdom of God is within you. It's within you. Christ in you, the hope of that glory that we keep talking about. Do you understand what I'm saying? You are the temples of the living God. God is a spirit. Though we place all kind of emphasis on this world, our evaluation is improper. See? And we don't give the right priority to things. So then, when we realize that God is a spirit and that, as Peter said, I, the inner man; I, the spiritual being, the son of the spirit, I dwell within this tabernacle, this little clay body. Then when we begin to realize that God... (Begin Tape one, side two.)...and that within the configuration of a human being. And then He came down in a little body Himself and configurated to your image and became your sin and became your iniquity, and came in the likeness of your body that He might be the head of all of this great wonderful, wonderful move of God, and that He might be the reservoir that was filled up and overflowing. I am the prince of life and I've come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly. Didn't it start with light? Wasn't it the great light that came forth. When the great light came forth there wasn't anything but darkness upon the face of the deep. Isn't that right? And God said let there be and there was. And so then, light began to come forth. As the Spirit of God moved upon the waters then light came forth. As it moved into the darkness then light sprang forth. When He said let there be there came forth and then He filled you, as through Adam. And today ye are that which hath life. Ye are a body that hath life. Ye have life in you according to the measure, whatever, you have life. Some have more life than other. Some live longer than others because of the strength. But even in your temporal life you have life. You breathe the breath of life. You are alive. You move. You are not robots. See? God's plan is so magnificent it would take many, many months just to expound the great revelational truths of the understanding of the act of God and the creation of God. Why He made you, why you went through the sorrows you have; it was all the plan of God. Folks, let me say this. Don't ever let Satan tell you that there was a great mistake in the garden and man didn't do what God wanted him to and so man fell and the devil outsmarted God and God just lost out in His plan, and He's a great God but He just didn't have enough understanding to outwit Satan and Satan outwitted Him and took His creation from Him and subjected these people down here to all these sorrows and heartaches and God is all tore up and crying over it. Let's don't do that. If that's all God can do, if that's all God can know, let's forget about God because if He couldn't even help Himself it's for sure He can't help us. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say Hallelujah! So then, we know that the story is altogether different. It isn't like that at all. God did exactly what He set out to do. He did exactly — It was in His plan to create man. It was in His plan to let man fall. It was in God's plan to put Him through all of these things. Oh, somebody said, not so, Brother Pike. But yet the Bible says, I create the good and I create the evil and I work all things after the counsel of My own will. Now, did He slip up? Did He slip up? Did Satan take advantage of Him? Did Satan outsmart Him? No. No. See? He said, I work all things after the counsel of My own will. Can evil come to a city and I've not sent it? saith the Lord. Somebody say hallelujah! He's a great God. He knows exactly what He's doing. You're just as saved as you can be, just like in a mother's arms, just cuddling her baby; kissing on it. Because God, He knows who you are and before you were ever born into the world He secured you in Jesus Christ. And the Bible said these things were given to us in Christ before the world ever was and our names were written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. Come on, folks. Paul said, Greet my women workers, whose names are in the Lamb's Book of Life, while there were working right here with him. Isn't that right? See? And He said Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated before the children ever done any good or evil, ever came into the world, so that it wouldn't stand by works but by election of him that calleth that God may have the glory. And He's so unselfish. He doesn't want the glory just because He wants somebody to worship Him, but He is the fountain of living waters and He wants us to love Him to the extent of worshipping those waters that we might be abundant in life. Isn't that unselfish? that life itself says worship me? Worship me, not because I want somebody to worship me but because I want you to live and I'm the abundance of life. And the more you love Me and drink of me and the more you worship me the greater and mightier you are in the abundance of living. Somebody say hallelujah! That's how unselfish He is. And He's made us equal with Himself. Now. The Bible said, Now we, being made in the image of God, should we then think it is robbery to be equal with God? Oh, no, someone would say, Brother Pike, surely to God you're not eccentric enough to think that you are equal with God. Paul said let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who, being made in the form of God He did not think it was robbery to be equal with God. Come on, folks. I said, He said, let this mind be in you. What kind of mind? To think that you are equal with God. Let's give God another hand. Hallelujah! Why not? Glory to God, we're born of God, you know? This is shocking, folks, but nevertheless, this is what we want to say tonight. God had great intentions. And what was His intentions? Well, He didn't slip up so you'll have to listen close to what we're saying. He intended to do one thing when He created the world and all that's in the world. Now don't ever think anything in the world is going to be lost, so far as the tangible sources of matter. That which He has created, as to the elements, not one element is going to be lost. Not one hair of your head is going to perish. He's got it all preserved for you. You are going to enjoy ever last bit of it. It isn't going to be taken away from you; He's just going to purge it, get the iniquity out of it. Think on it, now. What was God's intentions? What was He doing? He had one great intention; He meant to make man God. Come on, folks. He meant to make man God. He made a great mighty world and He set man over that and He said, Adam, now you are over it. Whatever you call it that's what it will be. Isn't that right? Now, He was saying, Adam, I am the abundance of life and from Me emanates life; flowers and birds, animals, human beings, trees, fruits, the sky,, the species of the sea, stars. All of these emanates from Me. I am life. I am life in abundance. The word abundant means filled up and overflowing. Now, I have come forth to do this great thing; to make man God. Now His desire was that He should live in man. That He should live in Adam and Adam should be God. The word God means object of worship. That's the terms that we have, you know. We give God the title God because we have to have an object of worship. In the Old Testament they worshipped all kind of things. They worshipped the stars and all kind of things. And God said, don't do that. Someday I'll send you the object of worship, and one day Jesus came; the light, the object of worship. So we know what we worship now. Paul said, You don't know what you're worshipping. We know because we're the Jews, He said. Now. So, when we talk about this we look way back and we say, God — In the beginning was God. In the beginning was God. Now. This is where we get off trail, right here, if we're not careful. In the beginning then, Brother Pike, was God. Or in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. The word was with God; It was God. In the beginning was God. So, we get the feeling that there was a beginning of God. Isn't that right? In the beginning was God so we say, Well, now that's where He got His beginning. But let's stop and think now. Was God really saying that? No. There is no beginning with God. God never had a beginning. There is no ending with God. As it said of Melchizedek, without father, without mother, without descent. He hath no beginning and no end. Even from everlasting to everlasting He is. So then, we say, in the beginning was God. In the beginning God. That's what it is. In the beginning of what? In the beginning of you and in the beginning of me, and in the beginning of the creation of the world. In the beginning of the act of creation there was God. He had to be there. And then we say, Well, what about this, Brother Pike? we say the beginning. But let's take a look beyond the beginning. See? Let's look back beyond the beginning. Oh, you say, well, you couldn't do that, Brother Pike. There's no way. I can do that. Now, you that love God, you that are born of God, you can do that. Now someone would say, Well, how could you do that? Because Jesus said, Father, restore unto me the joys I had with Thee before the world ever was; back before the beginning. Come on, folks. Back when God said, Come and let us make man in our own image; back when the angels were there. Isn't that right? See? Back before the beginning. Someone would say, Well, that's Jesus though, Brother Pike. I know but the Bible said I'm bone of His bone and I'm flesh of His flesh. Do we have anybody else like that here? Then He said, it's not you living but Christ living within you. Isn't that right? And Paul said, The life I now live within my flesh I live by the Son of God. Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death, as to my first birth. Heart foolish from the beginning, desperate wicked above all things; who can know it. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God. Even after the flood God said, And the hearts of man are continually evil. His thoughts are continually evil. Who shall deliver me? Paul said, Seeing that the law was weak in the flesh, that the flesh could not perform what the law ask of us. Seeing that we are sold unto sin we are carnal. He said, then that meant death to me. That which was life meant death. And it wasn't the law, he said. Because the law is spiritual and the law is good and the law is holy then I am carnal, sold unto sin. So the weakness is within me, he said. And what the law could not do because of the weakness of my flesh God sending His Own Son in the likeness, or the image of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh that there should be no more sin in the flesh. Hallelujah! Do you know what that means? That there should be no more sin in the flesh. It's no wonder that the angel appeared to Daniel four hundred and eighth-three years before Calvary and said, Messiah shall come and He shall make an end of sin. Did He do that? Of course He did. Four hundred and eighty-three years later He came. He made an end of sin. He came in the likeness, or the image of sin, to make an end of sin. Inasmuch as the children were partakers of the flesh and blood He partook of the same. And yet the original word is: He partook, but not all. So He partook of the bones. He partook of the flesh, but He didn't partake of the blood. And so then, He came and He made an end of sin. How did He make an end of sin? Let's dwell on that just for a moment or two. How did Jesus make an end of sin? And Messiah shall come. We know He came. Now, if He came He must have done what it was predicted that He would do. So He made an end of sin. Now, if He made an end of sin, sin isn't around anymore. Somebody say hallelujah! Come on, folks. Somebody say hallelujah! I said if He made an end of sin, sin isn't around anymore. Isn't that right? Someone would say, Well, how do you get that? Well, it's real simple. And yet there is a mystery to it. It's real simple because the Bible said in Adam all die. Though these that followed Adam in the generations had not sinned after the similitude of Adam; yet they still died. So in Adam all die. So, by the sins of one man, death upon all the world. Isn't that what the Bible says. If I get out of the Bible you scholars stop me. You're suppose to be watching after the people. So then, He said, And by sin of one man and all are under death. But he said when Jesus came, by the righteousness of one man all are made alive. Hallelujah! That's why that in the world today the Bible said that you cannot tell the difference except you be elect, because people shout, they sing, they praise God, they go to church; the church of their choice. They do whatever they want to. They are blessed just like you're blessed. They've got all the healings. They've got all the blessings. They've got everything just like you've got. As a matter-of-fact, they are better off than ye saints of God to this extent: The Bible said, if in this life only we, as saints of God, have hope we are of all men most miserable. Because we're going through self-denial. We're trying to conform to the way of God. We're putting the world aside. We're coming out from the world. We're being a separate people. We're not messing with those kind of things. We're more miserable than anybody else. While they eat, they drink, they laugh, they have a good time; and yet they have all the blessings that you have. Why? Because Jesus' blood took away the sins of the world. This is hard to digest, folks, but Jesus' blood took away the sins of all the world. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, I thought He just took our sins away. Oh, no. That's where you're mistaken. He took away the sins of all the world that no more sin — There is no more sin in the flesh when God looks down. He did that to spare the church. And He did that to spare you and I that until we could come out from among them, be a separate people and get to the place to where He could change our bodies into a Celestial body. Otherwise, He had to make allowance for all flesh for our sake. So then, when Jesus died His blood took away all the sins of the world. And the revelation shows it like this: And this is as the waters of Noah to me, the Lord said, Or, that is to say, because grace went out everything was brought into that ark. That ark was symbolic of Jesus and His death. And the door open as that down in the side where the spear went in and that blood. And because of that blood over all the world, remember? in that ark there was the lower part; it had the creeping things in it. It had in the second lever the walking things. And then in this upper part it had the flying things which were relative to the spirit. All of those things are spiritually discerned and we could break them down. Tonight we don't have time to do that, but the thing is, when the blood came it took in all of the things, your murderers, your adulterers, your killers, your liars, your cheats. That's why men can set in their offices and push the right button and make millions and billions of dollars by enslaving humanity in the intellectual institutions of the old house of prostitution, or from the tree of knowledge and they work with their diplomacies and they control the entirety of mankind. Why? Because they don't have any bonds in their death. David said they dance, their children dance and they're full. They have no bonds in their death. And said, My feet almost slipped until you took me to the house of God and showed me, Heavenly Father, what's going on in this thing. So then they've got all the blessings. Now, why do they have all the blessings? It's because they're in heaven. Remember, I said that last night? They are in heaven. Oh, no. Oh, no, Brother Pike. No. Oh, yes they are. They're in heaven. Paul spoke of being caught up into the third heaven and seeing things that he was not permitted to speak. See? He couldn't speak it at that time because the church had a certain time to be translated. Now, so then, they are in heaven. Now, someone would say, Well, Brother Preacher, are you saying tonight that we are in heaven? Of course we're in heaven. Saints of God should know right off that they're in heaven. You're not of the world. I'm going by the Scripture now. You're not of the world. I've chosen you out of the world. I've hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. Rejoice forever more, ye that dwell in heaven. Is there anybody dwelling in heaven tonight? Ye saints rejoice forever more that dwell in heaven. Oh, somebody said, Well, I know the Bible said we're sitting in heavenly places. Where is heavenly places? Where is Kentucky places? Where is Georgia places? If you were sitting in Kentucky places tonight (which we are) where would you have to be to sit in Kentucky places? Thank you. If we were sitting in heavenly places tonight, somebody tell me, where would we have to be? Come on; let's give the Lord another hand, folks. All right. So we know that we're in heaven. There's no dispute there, but the only thing is, it's because our body hasn't been changed and it's still among the molecular structure of today which is the human beings, human physics, the world of human physics. The world of chemistry, as we say. See? That means because we are among them, not having made the change as of yet in our body of the transfiguration, then God has to give a grace, a dispensational grace, which is the blood as to the ark taking in all. All. So to do that He had to do away with sin, bring the Messiah. Four hundred and eighty-three years later following the prophecy of Daniel, in the later part of the seventy years; Babylon. And when He came He done away with iniquity. How then are we in heaven? We are in heaven. I just touch base a little bit with that about Calvary to use as a pivot point here so we don't get lost off and lose our way. We have to have some stabilization of formula here to stay with what we're saying. All right, now. So then, how are you in heaven tonight as a Christian? Your spirit has been translated into the spirit of Christ. Which spirit is within you as the safeguard within the garment, interwoven with the garment, that though the spots might strike it, it can't penetrate. So then, you're spirit and Christ's spirit is one and your body, which hath the sentence of death because of Eve's transgression, see? it is dead. It has the sentence of death. It had to die. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? It's so contrary, Paul said, I have a desire on the inside to do right, have a will on the inside. The Bible said, If there's a will you have to have a performance. And he said, I can't find the performance. I can't find anyway to make this body do what I need it to do or what it should do. I can't even do that. It's so contrary. He said, I find a law that when I would do good evil is present with me. And he said, Within me I delight in the things of God after the inward man but I see another law in my members, in my flesh, warring against the law of my mind bringing me as to the inner man and to the captivity to this evil power that's in my body as to this wretched man. And I can't make him do right. He's always in error even at my best effort. And I find there's a continual warfare between the body and the spirit and it's between the thoughts. He said the thoughts are the means as to this great conquering. And it's within the radius and the confines of your thinking. As a man thinketh in his heart so he is. I will feed him the fruits of his thoughts, as to his heart, not his head, his human senses, now. But these human senses are producing something up here. He said, And it's warring against these thoughts down here. And he said, This is within my flesh for there is no good thing within my flesh, for to will is present by how to perform that which is good I find not. He finally concluded by saying — And we could go into a lot of things here, but to stay with the theme of our thought, the major theme of our thought, he concluded by saying, My performance is yonder at the right hand of the Heavenly Father. When Jesus did what He did that finished it at Calvary. That was all my performance. All of the law of ordinances, as to keeping anything, He fulfilled every jot and title. He took it out of the way. This is how he made an end of sin. Now listen real careful. Translating us in our spirit into the marvelous spirit of Christ, Christ's spirit being the fullness of God's spirit which is the fullness of the kingdom. And that is the kingdom, And when Christ's spirit goes into your spirit then you have the kingdom on the inside of you because the fullness of God is through Christ. Nothing else. All right. So then, we know that when Jesus came what did Messiah do to make an end of sin? He walked in this earth. He fulfilled every jot and every title of the law. What was it that caused death? Eve transgressed God's law. So then, what is sin? Sin is the transgression of the law. Isn't that right? Paul said sin is the transgression of the law. And what did Eve do? The law said, Thou shall not. Thou shall not; you can't eat of that tree. But she did. And she transgressed that law and that brought death. Now, was the sin the cause of the death? No. What caused the death? Lust. There are two great powers in the world. They are powers of motivation. Both are great angelic beings, superior. One is called Lucifer; one is called Christ, and these great powers of motivation they have control. Lucifer because of the fall has control of all of the world. He is the prince of this world. He is the God of this world. He controls this world and those fallen angels are the prince; they are the powers that's in control in the air, of all of the powers of the air, of your atomic particles, down, right down to your electrons, your protons, your neutrons, right down to your beta, to your spark, right down to the very nitty gritty, as we say. They control all of that. Satan is in control of the molecular structure. Now, don't run away when I say this. He's in control of it. So then, what does that make you if you're not born again. What does that make you if you're not born again? Talking about abundant life now. What does that make you? It makes you nothing more than a molecular structure. It makes you nothing but a mass of potentiality as to natural energy. That's all you are, a mass of natural energy. So then, if I am a mass of natural energy I'm no more than anything in this building, or no more than the building, no more than the floor, no more than the walls, no more than these things that we see around in here. All of these are potential energy. So then, if it is a matter of mass then you're just a form of mass. Then you're nothing but potential energy. And if you're broken down you're nothing but little atomic particles; nothing but molecules and broken down to atoms and from atoms to electrons and protons and neutrons. And then broke down to the betas and to the spark, down to little packets of light. And that's all you are. Now, someone would say, Oh, no. I'm more than that. Oh, no. That's what you are. Now let's just think on it for just a few minutes. See? That's all that you are. You are no more than that. Now, if I had some way, as to mind over matter — And remember, Satan's mind is over all forms of matter. That's where you intellectual comes in; your PHDs come from. That's your institution of learning, from the old tree of knowledge, so that Satan can control matter, all forms of matter, all of the world, and have mind over matter. But, see? That's wrong. It's not suppose to be Satan's mind over matter. Matter did not emanate from Satan. It emanated from Christ. It's suppose to be Christ's mind over matter. And it's not suppose to be the sons of Satan that control this world. Jesus told them over there, said, Ye are of your father the devil. Said, You do his will. You are the sons of the devil. You control this world. Satan is the prince of this world. But, see? When God said, Let there be, that was God. Everything emanated from God and it was given to Adam who was called the son of God. While he was illuminated he was called the son of God. And it was given to Adam because he was the son of God to control all things; whatever he said. But when Eve strayed, as to Adam's flesh and went this way to the tree of knowledge and took on that intellectual ignorance. She became blind. And being Adams flesh she conveyed this right over to Adam and as soon as it went into Adam then he became double-minded. If your eye is single, your eye of understanding, your whole body is full of light. But if you let something else come in then you've got intellectual reasoning and then you are double-minded. You are unstable in all of your ways. The Bible said you can't receive anything of God. Isn't that right? All right, now. So then, we know for a certainty that something went wrong somewhere and the whole creation fell into the hands of Lucifer. And I wish we had about two months; we'd explain some of it. Now, so then, when it went into the hands of Lucifer he's had control of it ever since and God has processed His children and all of the world, even the waves of the sea; everything is mourning and it's groaning and it's waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Why? Because they are suppose to rule with a rod of iron. They're suppose to take over and they're suppose to control and it's going to be mind over mater. Christ's mind over matter and Christ's mind is going to say, Let there be and there will be. He said, You say whatever you will. Somebody says, Oh, Brother Pike, I could never do that. Say to the mountain, Be moved, and it will be moved. Oh, somebody said, I could never do that. That's because you have never applied yourself. You've never applied yourself. You just took it for granted, Well, nobody can do that. But that's wrong. That's wrong. They said, Lord, increase our faith. He said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed you could move the mountain. Isn't that right? We've not applied ourself. Wasn't Jesus a man? Could He move a mountain? Come on, folks. What did He — Didn't He heal the sick? Didn't He raise the dead? Didn't He say,, And greater things shall ye do because I go to the Father? Somebody said, Greater than raising the dead? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Now. Someone would say, What are you talking about? I'm talking about when He gave the atonement. He said, Once I give the atonement. He was simply saying, I'm confined to one body while I'm here; this righteous body, and the whole world is in darkness. And what I would like to do I can't do because I have to come here to die for you and go to the cross. But once I pay that price, once this blood goes there and it reaches out all over the world, folks, there ain't no limit to what you can do. Somebody said hallelujah! There ain't no limit to what you can do. You're sons and daughters of the living God. I'm talking about right now, folks. I'm talking about right now. I'm not talking about becoming sons of God. Somebody says, Well, the Bible says, Brother Pike, to as many as believed gave He the power to become the sons of God. That's exactly right. So somebody says, I'm going to become the son of God one day. I'm going to live right one day and God is going to accept me one day and I'm going to be His child one day. That's all wrong. Now, that's all wrong. Peter said, We're already the sons of God. John said, Now, beloved, are we the sons of God. It doth not yet appear what we shall be, as to see, because we've not changed as to the transfiguration, but when you place all of the emphasis on your body that means you're carnal minded. That means you don't see anything spiritual. You don't understand that God is a spirit and you don't understand that His sons are spirits inside little tabernacles, as to this mold and being molded, as to the transformation of the mind to warn the transfiguration by means of the virtue of the translation. See? We call it divine transology. So then, when we think of this, you're already the sons of God. When you received Christ's spirit you immediately are a son of God. Come on, folks. When a baby is born into the world he's a baby but he's a human being right then. Isn't that right? Have you ever been born again? What would that make you? Come on, folks. (Begin tape two, side one.) If we had some dogs that brought in a litter what would we have? And if we had some cats what would we have? And if a lion brought forth a little cub what would it be? And the bear? and an elephant? And if a man brought forth one? and if God brought forth one? Come on, folks. Let's give Him a hand. Hallelujah! So then, we know where we're going. We know where we come from. We know who we are. Now, so God's plan, as I said, was to make man God. Did His plan fail? Oh, no. Oh, no. Who was he going to make God? He was going to make Adam God. We can't go into all these things. We've just barely scratched the surface tonight. But He had to divide, as we say, take Eve out of Adam so that He could give us an allegoric thing, as to learning, because we can't see in the spirit unless we get to the spirit. So to tutor all of the world that was not of the spirit He had to take Eve from Adam so that He could show the masculine and the feminine. But in all reality the masculine is the spirit. Christ, the image from which Adam emanated, just like Eve was taken from Adam. And first power, second power, third power, as to what dimension you're talking. And so then, when we speak of the masculine we speak of the spirit, the angelic being of Christ, see? And when we speak of the feminine we speak of the body. That's why you are called the bride. That's why you are called the bride. It is the body. And so there is an Eve and there is a Mary. And one is a divine conception, as from the great eternal spirit of the new blood cell. My! I wish we could go into that tonight. Israel is waiting on it. They don't know nothing about it yet. See? And this life — The life is in the blood, remember. This little hemoglobin that has an infinity for oxygen, that picks up this breath of air. God breathed into Adam; he became a living soul. And from that, that's where the problem came in. Right there. Not as to the breathing into Adam, see? but as to a little later on, through the transgression, and it's made very clear. Satan is called the red dragon, which means that of the blood. He hath taken the blood, he hath taken the life into captivity in the blood; that breath of life. And being the prince of the powers of the air he still holds it because you have to breath that breathe. Now we don't have a chance to really go into that but trying to stay with the major theme of our thought here. So then, we know then that we are born of God. Isn't that right? We're born of God. Now, if we're born of God what did John say? He that is born of God. Can you say that a little louder? He that is born of God make not commit some sins. No. But if he holds on tight. Oh, no. Well, if he tries real hard and he has enough work. Well, I started to say something; I better not. But, anyway, what do we do about that? He that is born of God He doth not commit sin. But then He says further on, For he cannot. He doth not commit sin. Why? Someone said, Well, he doth not commit sin because he tries to live right. Oh, no. God have mercy on us. If that's the only hope we got we got a terrible situation because the Bible says all flesh has corrupted it's way. Every man has turned to his own way. Said concerning the people, He said, You're tongues, you've used deceit with it. The poison of asps are under your lips and your throat is an open sepulchre. And he said, And misery and destruction is in your way and the path of peace you've never known. And there is no fear before your eyes and you become altogether unprofitable. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There's not a man living that sinneth not and God has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all and he was bruised for our iniquity and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, by whose stripes we are healed. All of us having gone astray like sheep. So then, it said, He doth not commit sin. And the reason he doth not sin is because he cannot sin. Now that's all right there, isn't it? Somebody would say, Well, I know, Brother Pike; I'm a Bible scholar. Well, that's great. That's what I need, is some Bible supporters right here. Now, somebody would say, Well, what are you talking about? I'm saying this, that we, if we walk not in the flesh, but if we walk after the spirit then we do not sin. Isn't that right? Now, if we walk not after the flesh — Paul said, I'm talking to them that walk not after the flesh. So then, we get that misconstrued and we say, Now, right there is where it comes in. If I don't live real good before God I'm going to wobble over here in the flesh and then I'm going to sin against God. No, beloved. He didn't say that for that reason. He was telling you that you can't walk in the flesh. Come on. There is no way you can walk in the flesh. Oh, no. Oh, no. See? Paul was only saying that as to give you a differentiation between people who are in the flesh, who have never been born again and people that are not in the flesh. Someone would way, Well, prove it. That's what the Bible said: Prove all things. Hold fast to that which is good. See? Biblically, if God sends a man he'll speak God's word. And your faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. Otherwise, it's just ole wives fables; it won't work. Now, what is he saying? He's saying that you can't walk in the flesh. If ye have not His spirit you're none of His. It doesn't matter about all of the believing and joining the church. You must have his spirit. A baby must have a spirit when it's born or it's dead; it's a still birth. See? When you're born of Christ you have His spirit; then are ye born again. Then do you have life. See? And if you are born into that world that's it. You're translated into the kingdom. Your spirit went into Christ's spirit; that's what the new birth is. See? And when you are, from that point on you are sealed and you can never sin again. God is a spirit. Once you are born again your spirit, the child, is caught up to the throne, which throne is within you, as to Christ. Translated into the spirit of God and you are eternal and can never sin. No, never again. And besides that you were already without sin before God because you were in His foreknowledge, as His elect. And your name had already been written down in the Lamb's book of life before you ever were created. And the Bible said, And God chose us in God before the world ever was and this was given to us in Christ before the world ever was and then brought to light at Calvary with the rending of the veil that He might bring it forth to be preached down through the church ages to indoctrinate us with these things that we might believe and comprehend the height, the depth, the width and the length through the mind of Christ until this great transfiguration of change that takes us up into glory, as we say. Now. So then, it means that you can't walk in the flesh. Someone would say, Well, prove that. The Bible said ye are not in the flesh. Let's give Him a hand. Now, explain to me, how can you walk in the flesh if you are not in the flesh? He said, I have chosen you out of the flesh. And I've chosen you out of the world. And how did he do that? By killing the body at Calvary. Now this gets into another mystery. We're going to have to stop here in just a few minutes because there is a lot of things we need to say. When Jesus said, Destroy this temple; I'll raise it up in three days, and they said, Well, all these years it took us to build this temple, what's the matter with that fellow? But, see? The Bible said they understood not that He spake of His body. And after three days He brought that body back out. They destroyed it. For the Bible said they sought how they might destroy Jesus. Now. So then, when it was destroyed, as to what they thought, three days passed, or on the third day He came forth. Now, when He came forth the temple was there, but at Calvary the temple was rent in twain from top to the bottom. It was rent in twain for the Bible said He made in Himself two; twain, both Lord and Christ. And because of that His body had to be rent in two. In twain, to separate the spirit from the body. He did not do that for Himself. He did that for you. He came in the likeness of your sinful flesh. And he did that for the sake of your salvation. He rent the body in twain and separated your spirit from the body by translating it into the kingdom of God and hid you in Christ, whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things. And Paul said, When He, our life, appears. No life except in the spirit. When your spirit returns again. Right now it's in heaven; it's in Christ. It's hid away; Satan can't touch it. You are without spot. You're without wrinkle. You're without blemish, as to the inner man. And the Bible said you keep yourself and the evil one never touches you. And the Bible said all of these things will fall around your dwelling and can't come near you. They can't come near because you dwell in heaven. They can't get near your dwelling. Darkness can't come near light because light will eradicate it. And you are now a light on the inside, translated into the marvelous light, the great understanding of God and this ignorance cannot penetrate it. It cannot penetrate it. Now. So, your spirit has been chose out of the body. Now your body is dead. Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. God killed it at Calvary. Condemned sin in the flesh. Made an end of sin. Took your body, separated it from your spirit, killed it, wrapped it up in the blood and set the head right yonder at the right hand of the Father, resurrected it and said, This is the head to the church. This is the head of the many membered body. Now your performance is finished; you are according to whatever I wanted Him to be. Ye are my workmanship in Christ. I finished your work and your operation in Christ and whatever I wanted you to be I made Christ to be that. And I gave Him a propitiation for your sins and through my forebearance, as to grace, I let your sins pass away and now there is no more sin to you. There is no more sin to you. How did he do it? In iniquity did my mother conceive me. The image of sin, even the abasement, as to the man and woman gendering together, it's still iniquity. It should have been love, not lust. And they gender in lust and the produce in lust and they bring forth in lust. It was never God's plan because it is Satan's stimulation and he takes life into captivity immediately and reproduces it, right on down and all of them are in death. But it was suppose to be in love and without the travail, without the briars, without the suffering, without the heartaches, all to reproduce of love, of God. But the wrong tree, see? And so then, if the last thing is a generation of vipers and adulterers and fornicators and lairs and cheats and sodomites. All right. Just give me a few more minutes. I need to clear something here because we don't have anymore nights. So then, you say, Brother Pike, what are you talking about? He rent the veil in twain. So, today your body is dead because of sin and it's buried in a watery grave in the name of Jesus, being identified with Him, delivered for our offenses. And when you are identified in baptism in the name of Jesus it means that you are dead, you're gone; it's all over. That bastard child image that was out of wedlock by Adam and Eve, that thing that came into the world that's nothing more than a beast, that's been traced back as to the origin, it's nothing but a beast. They are nothing but a molecular structure. They don't have God. They don't have life. All they have is a breath of life and they are just a mass of energy, as to a quickening and that's all that they are. And they are dependent upon the sun, as to the sunlight, as to that, and Satan having taken that light into captivity, which we don't have a chance to explain tonight, uses and makes use of the molecular as to that electrical force, as to the atomic powers and the powers of the air. And he motivates you and he controls you and one little jolt and you are dead. Hold your nose, stop up your mouth and you're dead. Just hold it for a little while. See? Put you under water a little while, you're dead. See? You're nothing but a breath of life and that's all that you are, wandering through the world today. The great masses with all of their diplomacies, all of their great brilliance, the sparkle and the glitter and all of this heaven that they are in today as a reflection of that which is the great spiritual world, through the mercies of God, as to the pouring out of grace to allow a second heaven to come into existence, Satan being the prince of the powers of the air and being the God of this world. Now, that calls for a lot of teaching and explaining, but just these few things running down a trail tonight to try to get something over because this meeting has great significance. We wouldn't even be here at Sulphur Wells if it wasn't for the great wonderful allegoric meaning that it has toward the resurrection of the dead or the change, or the catching away of the church. You say Sulphur Wells, do you remember when Sodom and Gomorrah was burned. Salt and sulphur. Go back and check it out. Over there. We've been right there in Sodom and Gomorrah. We've been into Israel about eight different times, preached there numbers of times. We were there, as I said the other night, during desert storm preaching right there. Own a place in side of the old walls. Now. So I'm saying that you are nothing but just human physics; a body of chemistry, or chemicals. And you are a molecular structure. You are a potentiality of mass energy, or potential energy. And if you were dissolved, broken down, you turn into kinetic energy. That's all, because heat will move those atoms until they start moving and then all of a sudden splitting the atoms, fusing the atoms; all these kind of things. People have been know just to be standing waiting for the bus and burst into flames. Somebody lying on the bed, they've been known that their arm would burst into flames, or something else would happen. And that's all you are, see? A chemical reaction. Now, and that's all that you are and you are just an animal; that's all you are. See? But when you are born again you are restored, not to the Shekinah glory of the illumination, but you are born of the spirit of that light of illumination that departed from Adam; the sonship that went away. For as long as he was illuminated with that, the same illumination that brought Mary the conception of divinity. As long as he was illuminated he was the son of God but when that image went away he was no longer the son of God. He had fell to the beast level. He had been made in the beast level, put up here in a God level in the East part of Eden in the Garden and illuminated with this light to see these trees and given the opportunity for divine conception even as Mary that he might conceive of life, the Word of life, the tree of life and bring forth Christ on the inside that he might become God. But being the feminine part he was to show the feminine part as the first man Adam and the next man Adam was to show the masculine part, the second man Adam which was the quickening spirit. And moving from a living soul to a quickening spirit, all of this was a process. And Satan said, And ye shall become Gods. Ye know that the day ye eat thereof ye shall become as God. God confessed that; as Gods. As Gods. Said, Now they have become as one of us, but put them out. Don't let them get near the tree of life because if He had Satan living in that would have partook of the tree of life, had the whole generation and all the people from then on, and controlled the entire world and God could never have done anything. But He shut them out. I'm taking a lot of short cuts right here to close out. So then, what are we saying tonight? I am saying that though we boast ourself of being great, and though we spend our life time eating and feeding the belly, and though we go to college and though we do all these things and we become dainty in our ways and chose all of these foolish things, of spending our time and our life and soon it's gone. And we spend our life gathering things and getting things and intermingling with one another, as to the human senses of gendering and coming together with the gullible desires of the world when we're nothing. We're nothing but vanity. All is vanity and vexation of the spirit. All of this world has to pass away. All that's in this world has to pass away. See? And we're on the verge of it right now. So then, it means that we that are born of God, we have been changed back from this electrical force of the energy of the sun. This molecular structure is no more with us. We are changed back to the quickening that went into the womb of Mary, that recreated a new blood life, in that the first was contaminated and lost and all down through the ages God had to have them sacrifice a beast, sacrifice a beast because Adam and them was nothing but a beast. And He had to restore it back to that perfect lamb, as Adam was before the wroth, and a perfect woman as to the virgin, as Mary was, before He could ever correct the wrong. And so then, to offer up a human sacrifice because it was a human error, and yet it was a beast, as to a lamb. See? Gentle. And Jesus came to do exactly that, the second man Adam. So then we know what God has done. And spilling the blood, the old red dragon; get that blood out, spill it and with this I'll let that do until the day of reformation, until the seed comes, as to whom the promise is made, the Lord Jesus. From the very first before the world ever was He slew the lamb in His mind, He put the blood on the seat of atonement that everything would be just right. When man fell it would take care of him all of his life and Satan has taken full advantage of that mercy and of that grace and continued all down through the years to make himself a place to have havoc, and to frolic and to use you up generation after generation because he doesn't die. Angels don't die. And he can just use generation after generation. But you that are translated into the spirit of Christ you are the angel of Christ; one with Christ. Make these one even as we are one. And you can't die because the Bible said in the spirit in heaven you're equal to the angels and angels cannot die. So then, we know that this little bodily tabernacle is to be dissolved. But if it be dissolved we have another one eternal in the heavens not made with hands. We are going to dissolve it by the light on the inside of us, Christlike, that comes forth in great wonderful abundance, as to this understanding and it will dissolve it and transfigure it as Jesus transfigured His as He stood on the mount of transfiguration. From the manger of the beast to the wonderful glory of God. Not by the way of Calvary. Paul said I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. But, folks, let me tell you, that that they call rapture, going up — There's a whole lot to do before a person gets their diplomacy from school, or from college. And you are suppose to have spent a lifetime transformating in your mind to these wonderful glories of God to where this glory on the inside of you of heavenly treasures might be made manifest in your mortal genes to change your body to a transfiguration of that that was a finished product at Calvary, Christ Jesus the head of the church with was the church in it's completion of what we are in Christ's mind, as to God's mind, by foreknowledge. And this mind was to reveal to us what we are by the divinity of Almighty God from the very beginning unto the justification of no wrongs and no sins, saving us while we were yet in our sins when we haven't done anything at all. Paul had a dispute with Peter one time and said, Peter, I blamed him to his face because he was to be blamed. Saying to the Galatians, Oh, foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ evidently was set forth and was crucified. Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit that now you are made perfect by the flesh? I'm not going to frustrate the grace of God. If it all came by the law as to righteousness Jesus Christ died in vain. So then, it's very obvious it is the work of faith. It is very obvious that what God has done He hath finally made Adam God. He hath finally made Adam God. Someone would say, What do you mean by that? Wasn't Jesus the second man Adam. Isn't Jesus God? Wasn't that God's plan from the start. Let's give Him a hand. So then, we're talking about the God family. Ye are members of His body in particular, bone and flesh, and ye are His children and His whole plan was to make Himself a God family. So then, we see that He succeeded in doing it, not as to the woman, as to Adam the feminine part, but through the masculine, as to the spirit coming, redeeming the woman from her transgressions. And the body from the transgression and now the great God family is made by who? By Christ. As in Adam all die, as in Christ Jesus all are made alive and now sin is ended and iniquity is gone and to you there is no more sin. There is no more sin. They that are fallen from grace are under the law. And the transgressors of the law are sinners. But ye are dead to the law by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ; you cannot transgress the law no more than a man that's out here in the grave can transgress the law. You are free from the law and Jesus said the law shall not pass away until every jot and every tittle has been fulfilled. And if you break one of the very least of these things and teach men so ye shall be called the least in the kingdom of God. But He went to Calvary. He said, Pray (just before He went to Calvary), Father, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as in heaven. So he went to Calvary, He fulfilled the law; every jot and every tittle, folded it up and laid it away. And Paul said, We therefore conclude that now a man is justified by the grace of God through faith without the deeds of the law. And that where there is no law there is no transgression, and where there is no transgression there is no sin. And where there is no sin there is no sting of death. And where there is no sting of death there is no death. And where there is no death the grave does not have a victory. Oh, death, where is thy sting? And oh, grave, where is thy victory. And this saying shall be brought to pass. Can you tonight say, Oh, death, where is your sting? Somebody said, What are you talking about? I'm talking about what you call the rapture. Getting ready, now. This is the only kind of faith that will ever change the church. This righteous today and backslid tomorrow and coming back to God and these things of believing that you can and maybe, and all, it will never translate you. It's got to be in the affirmative. You've got to hear the Word and know the Word. Faith by the hearing of the Word. To come to Christ's faith it has to be Christ's mind. And this is Christ's mind. See? And let this mind be in you. And we are here to perfect your faith. A five-fold ministry for the perfecting of the faith. And if you receive this and if you understand this and if you believe this you can tell how close the church is to the change. See? Enoch was changed by faith. Translated by faith that he should not see death. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. And so then, if you are coming to this that means that we are on the verge of the change. So what? Someone said, Well, I don't believe that. I said this is the last year. Two months. The last year of the last two thousand years. The next seven years shows tribulation. Someone said, Is it going to be the tribulation? Is the church going to be changed? I said that we will wait and see. The thing is it may be ten years from now but the thing is it shows it by the calendar just like I'm telling you. And the first two thousand went out with the calendar and the second two went out with the calendar, and the third will go out with the calendar. Now, it might be a little off this way or whatever, because Satan seeks to change the times and the seasons and when Jesus went up to the temple it was as to 9 and 12. They disputed as to it about three years difference there. Or where they had an offset as to the B.C. and the A.D. Now. So then, when we consider these things then what can we say? He made an end of sin. And what did the Bible say? He will bring in everlasting righteousness. Not righteousness from one revival to another and to pray through over and over, but everlasting righteousness. Is there anybody in here that has everlasting righteousness? Someone would say, Well, what is everlasting righteousness? His righteousness. And the Bible said when they went up to the temple the man said, I fast. I do all of these things. He didn't notice him. The other name said, Just mercy, God. Mercy. And he went home justified. Therefore, being justified freely by the grace of God through the propitiation of Jesus Christ; faith in His blood. So then, what are we saying tonight? We are saying, To God be the glory. And we are saying that He paid it all. And we are saying that He is our righteousness and performance at the right hand of God. And as He is so are we in Christ as God's workmanship. Whatever He is. What is He? He is justified, He is sanctified, He is glorified. What are we then? The Bible said God has predestinated you, He has sanctified you, He has justified you. Sanctified you once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And them that He has sanctified He has perfected, made perfect for ever. Everlasting righteousness. And the Bible said, And He has glorified you. So it's all a finished product in Christ. Jesus said it is finished. And it's being revealed to you through the ministry that you might transformate into My mind, glory to glory, to come to the full ultimatum of this, to understand this as to the grand finale of the transformation to the transfiguration that started with the translation of your spirit, coming to the transformation of your mind, going to the transfiguration of your body. The transfiguration as to the divine transology of God. So, beloved friend, just a few words to say tonight to try to explain to you who you are, what you are and that's where we are tonight. So remember that if this be true that means it's over. It's over and the mysteries of God shall be finished, Revelation 10 and 7. And so then it's over. The Bible said, And the things of God do have an end. And when this comes in it will bring THE FAITH of Jesus Christ by which you are sanctified. Kept under the law as a schoolmaster until THE FAITH comes. Now that THE FAITH of Jesus Christ, that faith that was in His body, that justified, sanctified, and brought us this light. Paul, turn My people from intellectual darkness to this wonderful God understanding of light and to THE FAITH which is in Me, Paul, by which they are sanctified. Now that faith has come we don't need the law anymore. See? We have fulfilled every jot and every tittle of the law in Christ Jesus, our thoughts being the means. And if you'll read over there you'll find out this is why Paul disputed with the Jew. He that is a Jew outwardly is not a Jew but he that is a Jew inwardly, a spiritual Jew, a true Israelite, and he said, And these that fulfill the law, on this side, their thoughts being the means, while excusing or else excusing one another. He said, Will not these judge you that have the law, as to the letter and not keep it when they fulfill it in their hearts, as to their thoughts and conscience being the means. So then, let's stand together. Tonight I appreciate your kind attention. I didn't mean to take so long, but last night we got off tract because of the little one crying and we introduced so many thoughts last night that we had to cover just a little bit of territory tonight to be able to bring this out. I say this again, and this still remains a mystery to some of you I'm sure. But over a period (Begin tape two, side two.)...because I've done been down that trail. See? But you go home and you try to dispute this, you find it out and you'll find the Scripture and you'll read it and say, Well, bless God, that proves it's wrong. But read on a little farther, line upon line and precept upon precept and then ask God to give you the understanding and you'll say, Well, my God! The man was right. See? And you'll find that it is exactly one hundred percent to the very jot and the tittle. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. So then, I say this one more time in closing tonight. And that is: There was only approximately five hundred years of the world, as to the natural. Only five hundred years from the end of the seventy year period down in Babylon. And the angel said, Four hundred and ninety years, Daniel, is determined upon thy people (which was the Jews) and Daniel did not see the church ages. He only saw the four hundred and ninety years. He said. This is to make an end of iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness and then to anoint the most holy king, which they will do in the last seven years as to bring in the millennium. See? But he did not see this great dividing asunder as seven years were taken away from the ninety, leaving four eighty-three at Calvary which would bring in almost two thousand years of heaven. If the seven years had not departed from the four hundred and ninety years the world would have ended when that four hundred and ninety years was finished. That's all that was left. But God knew what He was doing, to bring in the Gentile age which was to be a heavenly age. That's why they discovered America as called the new world to show it. Now. The lady of America is gone, which means the church ages are over. It's finished. It's closing out now and the lady is gone. Always we had America as the lady; no more. This woman says, I don't want to be a lady, so she's gone. Now that she's gone that means that the church is gone. The church is already sealed in and the inner man is gone. Everything is right there for the change now and the government is over and there is no government where there is no God. Government from the beginning of the world starts with the Jew and it's God. And it's been passed down and the laws have been perverted and the whole thing is a perversion and some day all nations will stand before the Jews and be judged for perversion of the law and enslaving the people, boycotting. See? But it's gone. The government is gone. The law is gone. And now it's gone because God hath withdrawn from America. I know people say, Oh, no. But it has. It has. We made the statement: When they go Sodom and Gomorrah God will withdraw. The very day that Lot went out of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible said, fire and brimstone came. Which was symbolic of the church and you are on the verge of going out I said they will legalize that stuff. It will come one day and they'll legalize it. And it happened exactly that way. And I said Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever, He'll burn it. Only one thing He's waiting for. What is that? For you to get this message right here. When you get this in your mind. Go home and try to dispute it. See? Fine out if it's wrong. You can't. There ain't sin no more. Saints of God, you listen to me tonight. You can't sin. There ain't no sin to you. Don't let the devil fuddle up your mind in trying to get out of the dry places to get into your body and get control of you and fuddle up your faith and injure your faith. There is no way that you can sin. This is everlasting righteousness and this is your translation into the kingdom from your birth. The law and the prophets. Once the law was fulfilled the kingdom came now let His will be done. Now let His will be done in your heart; in this earth, for the saints shall be worn out with the frivolous things of the beggarly things of the world and then they shall rise and take the kingdom. Not just the kingdom of God within them, which we already have, but the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ and we shall reign for ever and for ever. He hasn't lost one element of this thing; He's just going to purge it. My! It's going to come back in the millennium and then after that He's going to transfigure the thing, translate it to that beautiful crystal like city and it's going to be forever and ever with you who have gone through the same thing with your body. But it's got to bring those Jews back to that day of the Sabbath to prove that death is no more in God's day. One thousand years and no death and we'll know that death is gone. Man dies within the radius of a thousand years. Lives nine hundred; that's about the longest. Nine sixty, nine seventy. See? And God is going to do away with that. So let me complete this thought. Just four hundred and ninety years. That's all. So that means that there is only seven years left of this world. Just seven years outside of the two thousand years, or there about. Two thousand years of heaven. Once the heavenly dispensation is over that heaven will have to pass away because it's defiled by Lucifer. Revelation 12, you find him in heaven, as I said the other night, because he's in your body if you're not a Christian. And you have the grace of God and through the grace of God you reflect this wonderful blessing of God, of healing and all these other things. And I say one more time, if you do not believe that you are in heaven wait until you get into hell and there will be no healing medicine, even from the middle of the week on, as to Daniel's last week of tribulation. They won't even have enough understanding to perfect a bottle of medicine. They'll gnaw their tongues for pain. Total darkness and eclipse, that is as to intellectual darkness. No understanding as to light of God. And all this great world, that is the heaven, it is only the reflection of the saints. They're getting it from the saints. They didn't get it from the tree of knowledge. That's ignorance; that's darkness. See? Reflecting, and that's why they are so great and mighty in their powers of ingenuity. And as quick as the saints of God go out they'll be ignorant to the extent they can't perfect one bottle of medicine to stop the pain for they'll be gnawing their tongues for pain. So hold on, children, everything is all right. Everything is all right. All right. Let's sing a chorus or two here. David and the girls can help me. (Singing.) Let's sing it again now. (Singing.) Let's lift our hands up together, love the Lord as we sing a little chorus or two here tonight. I want to say again that I appreciate you so very much. Things are so wonderful. Think of who you are. Don't think of who you're going to be. You say that you are born of God, what then are ye tonight? Ye belong to God. Ye are already God's. Somebody says, Oh, but this flesh. The flesh profiteth nothing. Hath nothing to do with it. Pay no attention to that. All of that is taken care of. That's the purchased possession at Calvary. That's covered with the blood. That's at the right hand of the Father. All of that's finished. All of these errors, all fo these stumblings, all of these arguments, all of these problems that fuss with your mind; pay no attention to it. That's Satan that's trying to deceive you and take you away from the faith of Jesus Christ as to your righteousness. Listen close, now. You can't sin. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, are you telling me that I don't make mistakes and stumble through life. I'm not telling you that. Sometimes it looks like Christian people make more than anybody else. And as to sin per se, if somebody defined it as sin they'd be guilty of stumbling and staggering like a drunk man. But, folks, that's not where it comes in. See? The Bible said, Blessed is the man, the woman. Blessed is the man unto whom God will not impute sin. Is there such a man in the world? Is there such a woman in the world, that a person — The Bible said where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed. But is there such a person in the world that God will not impute sin unto? The Bible said blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven. His iniquities are covered. God took them away in Christ Jesus and covered them by the blood. And blessed is that man unto whom God imputeth faith for righteousness. Faith for righteousness. With my heart I believe in the works of Jesus Christ for I believe unto righteousness with my heart and confession unto salvation in made from my heart through my lips and they overcame him, Satan, by the blood of the Lamb, the works of Calvary. And their testimony, as to testifying to what He hath done in their behalf. Somebody say hallelujah! Glory to God! I'm glad somebody believes in here. Somebody say hallelujah! The translation may take place any minute. Glory to God! I said when you begin to believe this and put this in your heart it's going to change the church. You're hearing it tonight. Get ready, folks. It's not going to everybody's heart. But it's going to somebody's heart. It did to Enoch's and he was translated by faith that he should not see death. It's going to somebody's heart. Is your heart right with God tonight? The pure in heart shall see God. Do you see God tonight? Do you see God with your eyes of understanding tonight? Can you believe tonight? If thou canst believe, Jesus said, all things are possible. Your healing is here. Your salvation is here. Your deliverance is here tonight. All of the oppression is gone tonight. Folks, lift those hands up and love God tonight. (Singing.) Can you praise Him? (Singing.) Come on, folks. (Singing.) While they are singing if you want to come to the altar, if you can get up to the altar, you're welcome. If you'd like to give your heart to God wherever you're at tonight. (Singing.) Give Him a wave offering. Somebody say hallelujah! (Singing.) Come on, now. (Singing.) Come on, folks. Hallelujah! I'd like for some of my ministers, could I get some of my ministers to come up here and stand with me? Some of our ministers come up here and stand with me. (Singing.) Can I get some of my ministers to come up here? Come up here and help me sing tonight. Let's worship God. (Singing.) Come on, folks. Come on, folks. Worship God tonight. (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