The Coming Of Perfection

...a real fragile life. It's like a little glass of water, you know, you're carrying around; you just tap it wrong and it will break all up. One little tiny heartbeat between you and God. That's all there is to it. We want to look back at Revelation 10 and 7 where it says, "And in the days of the voice." I just want to stop on that just for a minute or two and talk with you. In the days of the voice. First of all I'd like to say there are some things that really have taken place during this camp meeting. And during the time of this deluge, in the sense of what is called the ninety, I believe they said the ninety-three flood, or four, whatever it is, and there are some astounding things that have taken place including the coffins that came out of the ground and also including Jupiter; the things that have happened to Jupiter. And according to what I understand of it it has great significance as to a future thing that is going to be a derivative of what has taken place. So there are lots of things at this time, taking place. Phenomenal things taking place. And Jesus was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief and I'm a man that I find a lot of sorrow and a lot of grief. And though God has shielded me and taken care of me, when I think of the loss of the time, our lack of diligence, our failure to apply ourselves. And then all of a sudden here right here at the end seems like everybody is getting such a diligence at a time when they can really do nothing to the extent that they let all the time elapse when they could have done something. And it's very grievous. But, nevertheless, to be able to get up and to make an effort, that's better than just not doing anything. Even if there has been a negligence, an unconcern, it's better to at least make an effort, hoping that God will notice you but it's so cruel and unfair that there has been such a negligence to let people be lost, let people suffer and let all the things happen that I and you, together, have let suffer to happen because of our lack of diligence and concern and applying ourselves and then at the last minute realizing it's a matter of our souls and we want to get real diligent and get up and go. Which I said that's the way it would be because it's always that way with human beings. Human beings always do that; around the world they do that. Every generation has done that. Practically every person I've ever known has done that but it's still so cruel and so unfair to God and to the people that need help that you could have been a light to, to spend all of our time in worldliness and worldly concern and doing the things of the world and being attracted by the world and going after the things of the world. And then at the last minute run to try to save our soul after we let everybody else perish. As a matter-of-fact, I was saying something the other day along these lines. There was a man who didn't make any effort to serve God and he just reveled and did what he wanted to until his son, his young son, was killed. And when his young son was killed and went out to meet God without knowing God, then all of a sudden he turned and gave his heart to God. And I thought, That's fine, but that's so cruel and so wretched as in the beginning, not to lead the little son and give him a chance and then as quick as the son is gone and he doesn't have a chance and he's screaming in hell, no doubt, from now on without a chance to start over, then the man wants to preserve his soul. So it's really something, you know. I see so much of these kind of things, things that I could make mention of tonight that probably wouldn't set well if I said it. But, this is the nature of human beings. This is the way they care. This is their concern. They'll make it hard on the minister. They'll make it hard on the church for ten, fifteen, twenty years. And then at the last minute when they get scared they want to be fellows with the pastor. They want to be fellows with the brethren. They want to really get in and go. They change their mind altogether. And it's the same way when a person gets in prison. You tell them and you tell them and you tell them and it makes no difference to them; they could care less. As a mater-of-fact, it brings something to my mind when I say that. Somebody came down to the house tonight and they were all upset because somebody, taking their car had left a window down and got the seat wet. I guess during camp meeting. I don't really know the story too well. I had just come in from Athens about the time this occurred and they came to tell us. I didn't get to talk with them but they came to tell us that they were not going to come to this church again. And one of the reasons they were not going to come was because they let their seat get wet and they were real furious and upset about it. And another reason was there was somebody coming over here that they didn't want to come over here. And it was their husband. So, if he was coming they wouldn't come. And when they were reproved over it and something was said about it, said, you know, you shouldn't do like that and spoke about God, they said, I could care less about that. And I just thought as I was expressing myself, of course, you know and I know that that is a fallen angel, as to a demon spirit. And when a person does that they are bound with a demon spirit. But it just goes to show you the frame of mind that people are in and these people, it's not like they started yesterday to Bethlehem, but they've been coming over here for a number of years. And that's the depths of their salvation and experience. That's the depths of their understanding and concern. So you can see why everything is in jeopardy and everything is in problems. And why that God is letting Jupiter be torn all to pieces up there to this extent. And I believe they said the thing that hit that point, it has left a crater big enough already to set the whole world in, in that Jupiter is so much bigger than earth. And still there are eight or nine pieces to hit even after that. Which I know a number of them has hit by now. But, you know, this is the trouble with the world today. And people, they want to be boisterous. They want to be temperamental. They want to do what they want to do and they still want the preacher to be calm and gentle like a lamb. They don't want him to raise his voice not the shadow of a pin, or say anything that would be corrective, or reproving whatsoever. They want him to be very careful and very gentle when he reproaches them in the way he conducts himself and the way he says things to them. And they watch him and keep him under the gun that he should never bobble. If so he is done for. But they want to act like a renegade and they want to live like a prostitute and they want to live like a whoremonger and they want to spend and they want to be wild and they want to be crazy and their acts are worldly and gullible. And see? I'm saying a few things and you are drawing up already. Isn't that wonderful? I thank God for the backbone to say it, anyway. That's the way a lot of folks are. They want to just live wild and crazy and they want that preacher to be very quiet. But this preacher just ain't put together like that. You just got ahold of the wrong product when you got me because I just ain't put together like that. Now there are preachers in the world like that and you can find them. Like this person said, I'm going to another church. And when they told me I thought, Well, praise God, that would be wonderful. I don't know of anything that would be any better than if they would go to another church if they're going to act like that because we certainly don't need that kind of a spirit here. And this ain't the first time the person has done it. They've done it a number of times. All right. So then, tonight I just wanted to make mention of a few little things. I might not say anything that really gets on to you or really opens your understanding up. Most of the time we do when we talk to you. The Lord is good to us and he speaks to the people. We try to be honest with the people and straight with the people because we love the people. We don't want to hurt the people. We don't want to offend the people but we don't want to give place to devils. The Bible said don't give place to devils. And that's why we exhort you. Enter into the gates with thanksgiving; into the courts with praise. Come into the Lord's house wanting to know and to learn and to understand, knowing how you should behave yourself in the house of the Living God, which is the ground and the pillar of the truth. And to be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools, as to evil surmising in your opinions and your thoughts that are wrong. God sees them. And when you come don't sit in the seat of the scornful or stand in the way of sinners, but let your delight be in the lord. Praise Him and love Him. Meditate. Hear His Word and let the thought be yea and amen to His Word. All right. So, it says here, "In the days of the voice." Now, let's just talk for just for a few minutes tonight. We've been through some experiences today that were devastating, but still the Lord blessed us. We run into all kind of things. All kind of things and we have to deal with them. But I still try to talk with you just a little bit. Notice it said in the days of the voice when the seventh angel begins to sound the mystery of God shall be finished. Now, we've said this before. When it says here, The mystery of God, then we go back to the original word that this is taken from in the translation of the King James Version and you go back to the original word and it's secrets. That the secrets of God should be finished. Now, I like to bring it down to the secrets of God because that way the Word of God in this application applies a little better, as to our understanding. So when it comes to the understanding we say secrets and then we remember another Scripture, for we hear the Lord speak to us like this, They that abide under the shadow of the Almighty shall dwell in the secret place. Or the secret places of the Most High. So then, we know that if we're going to abide under the shadow of the Almighty we'll be in the secrets of the Almighty. And we know that the Bible said in that day it shall be as a man, a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. So we know then that we're shielded by Christ. Christ Jesus came in the form of a shadow. That is, God veils Himself in darkness and He came in a form of a shadow to the extent that you, as an individual, you're nothing but shadows of that which is to come, as the inner spiritual man. And you're nothing but shadows and Jesus came in the same form that you're in, in the same image that you're in as a shadow to be a shadow of a great rock in a weary land, that we might hide beneath that shadow from the wrath of God. And so then, we see that we abide in the secrets. And then we have another thing that tells us that, as Christ is so are we in Him. Which means as of His goodness, as of His royalty, of His righteousness, of His Godship. Whatever He is that's what we are. God made Him to be what He wanted us to be. And so today we are whatever God made Him by grace and by faith in Christ Jesus. So then we see what a wonderful thing that we already have. How marvelous it is. How great and mighty it is and what we already are. And this is the thing that I try to press on my congregation or on my following. I try to press upon them that this is something that we're not trying to obtain unto, but this is something that we already are. We already are. If I want to be healed then I already am healed. If I want to be saved then I'm already saved. If I want to be eternal then I'm already eternal. If I want eternal life, that is, I already have it. Whatever God wants us to be He hath already made us to be that before He ever created the world. Before He ever made the dust from whence Adam came. He had already done all of these things. He had already taken care of all these things. Everything that was to ever happen from the beginning of the world, or the beginning of creation, over to the end of the world, everything, was already done in the mind of God from the foundation of the world. And your names were already written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. And you already had salvation and you already had eternal life. And you were already the fore-ordained and you were already, as Jacob have I loved before you were ever born into the world. And it had already come to pass that he had heard you before you were ever born into the world to have a mouth to speak and call. And before you ever called on Him He said, It shall come to pass that I shall hear before you call. And then He said, And yet while you were yet in your sins, when you came into the world, long before your conversion, while you were yet in your sins I'd already saved you, He said. God so love us that while we were yet in our sins He gave His Son to die for us. So then, the whole thing centers around one little thing. And that is, it's not what God is going to do for us. He hath already done all that can be done for us. This is what is meant by it when Jesus said, It is finished. It is not what we are able to do for God, because we are able to do exactly nothing for God because the flesh profiteth nothing. So then, there is only one little thing that is left and that is for us to acknowledge by faith of the hearing of the Word, these wonderful, wonderful things that has remained a mystery down through the years, to acknowledge what He hath said, what He hath given; to acknowledge His foreknowledge and to acknowledge the predestination, justification, sanctification, the glorification of what God hath made us in Christ Jesus. And to acknowledge that it is God, the all in all, and that God hath so made us as His peculiar treasure in the earth and that we have nothing to do with it from point A to point B. We have nothing to do with it through the entirety of our lifetime. Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. And Pharoah, I have hardened His heart. I have raised Him up for this reason, to harden his heart, to show my glory by what I do to Egypt when I devastate Egypt. And the wicked, the Bible said, I am angry with them everyday. And He said, Beast. Some of them are brute beast. When the were first made, I made them to be taken and to be burned. And so, when we look at all these things it is a baffling situation unless we can understand. But the Bible said they that be born of God shall be of a good understanding. And the spirit of God shall be upon them, or Christ's spirit, to make them of a quick understanding. It was said unto them that came out of Egypt, When you go into Canaan Land you shall have such great understanding that all the nations will be afraid of you. So, when we see this then we realize that the whole thing down through the entire church ages was a transitional change toward perfection. Or bringing us from a condition of ignorance, whereas Paul said, I would not have you ignorant. That is, ignorant of the things of God, bring you from a condition of ignorance when you know nothing, to transformate your mind to an understanding of the glory and righteousness of God, from glory to glory and from faith to faith. Bringing you into the great wonderful righteousness of Almighty God that it might be revealed to you from measure to measure and from faith to faith and from glory to glory. It might be revealed to you God's great mind of foreknowledge. For all of these things, Paul said, before the world ever was, God, the great Eternal Spirit, purposed these things in His heart and in His spirit and He completely done this thing in His mind. And then when Calvary came He brought this mind to light and this mind had determined immortality for you and I through Christ. Christ, Jesus, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world in the foreknowledge of God. There, names written down in the Lamb's Book of Life, and so then from there the great mind of God had wrought all of these things. And it was finished from the foundation of the world. And when they said, what must we do to work the works of God? He said, The works were finished from the foundation of the world. That is, they were finished in Christ Jesus when He died in the mind of God on Calvary and said, It is finished, Father. And He said, I am the works; believe on me. So, that was saying, I did all the works that is necessary for your salvation. I did all the works that's necessary for your faith and the foundation of your faith. Now all I ask is that you believe in me and My faith, which is the righteousness of the Heavenly Father, shall be imputed unto you for righteousness but you've got to use your believing to make contact with my faith. My faith that was in My breast. My faith that was in my heart. My faith that was in me as a young man when I walked this earth. That faith that was in Me, that never wavered, never at one time. And this faith that brought immortality, and this faith that made Me have the courage to face Satan, even as David of old faced the lion and the bear and the giant. This faith, this courage of My heart that made me get up before the morning and as the prophet said, Before the morning light ever comes He goes to awake the dawn. And as Solomon said, looking at Him and seeing Him in the early morning when the dew drops dropped into His locks, said, I see Him standing at the door with the drops of the night in His locks. And this wonderful Christ, this wonderful Jesus that wrought all of this for us in His body. See? I have done it all; praise ye Me. Give honor and glory unto me. Lift up your voice in praise unto Me for salvation is in My name and there is none other name given under heaven where man might be saved. For remission of sin is in no other name and shall be taught in My name beginning at Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the earth, being witness for Me first, on the home front and then abroad. So, when we think of this we know what He hath wrought for us. But it has taken us six thousand years of waiting, yearning, longing, listening to preachers, going into all kind of denominations, going to hear all kind of preachers down through our lifetime, as one generation after another, to ever come to the real genuine truth. And now here it is because it is translation time. Here it is, because it is time that our faith be perfected. And the ministry is set there for the perfecting of your faith. Or that is, to bring you the truth so that you can believe your way into the Kingdom of God and believe your way into heaven. So then, now comes perfection. And the Bible said, Part; we know in part as in every generation and the preachers preached in part in every generation. Why did they preach in part? Why did it come in part? Because as little babes we could not have received it, as to the past generations. There was no way humanity could have received it. The light is so great that even when it comes after the millennium and it comes all at one time, just swoosh! like that. All of the earth passes away, the heavens passes away. Everybody in the earth passes away. Nothing can stand there any more. It was so bright there was just a little bit of it came to Paul and he just went blind that quick. So then, like a little baby with a tiny bit, as to a precipitation, or that is, to put a feebling in our heart of this wonderful light that it might break forth in a graduality of growth to the transformating of our mind, having translated our spirit into the Spirit of Christ to make His way into our body and manifest this heavenly treasure as the sun shining within your strength. So when we realize this we know that this wonderful light started to tutoring at Calvary and it has grown and grown but it was in part all down through the church ages. And the reason that it was in part was because they didn't know anything else. They couldn't preach anything other than part because it wasn't given to them and they were not allowed to do that. And even Paul, he received the revelation in such an early stage of his life, or the early stages of the generations of mankind, just openly confessed having been caught up to the third heaven as he said that I know a man, he said, seeing things that I was not permitted to speak. Or was not permitted to speak. These things were not permitted at that time. And even of the covering cherubs, those things of which we cannot now speak particular, he said in his day. And then he said also, a veil that remaineth over the face of the people, which veil is done away with in Christ. They cannot see and understand because they are looking through a glass darkly. And so in the dissolving of this down through the church ages it has been that they didn't know. They didn't understand. And though Paul received the revelation it came forth even as it did in John's writing as a mystery. And Paul's writings is a mystery. He said, When I write these writings, I write these that you might understand my knowledge in God, or in the mysteries of Christ. When John came it came in symbolics that nobody would be able to unravel it until the Spirit, Himself, took the time in the season when it was due to unravel it. A truth is never revealed out of it's season. It can never be accepted except in it's season. So then, with this we see that all down through the years they've done the best they could. They've preached repentance and people received God and like little babies they danced in the rain and they shouted and they splattered in the waters of life and they had a good time. And there wasn't much required of them because they did not know much. The Bible said, To whom much is given much is required. To that servant who knew to do his Lord's will and did it not shall be beaten with many stripes, but the servant that did not know and did things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. So then, we know that all down through the years God has protected us by ignorance. And then it says of Israel, God has done the same thing to Israel. Having blinded them in part He protected them by their ignorance. That is, God did not allow them to know the Messiah as the Word, and He did not allow them to understand so that they would not be chargeable. And Paul said, Therefore He hath kept them in ignorance that He might preserve them and this might not be charged against them until the time of their coming in to give the Gentiles a chance. Oh, how great is the wisdom of God, Paul said, seeing that He hath cut them off in unbelief until that time and to keep them in this condition to where they will not be chargeable, because where there is no knowledge of sin then sin is not imputed and transgression is not there. And in as much as there is no transgression then they are not charged with sin and the mercies of God continue. In the day that we're living in we cannot go that route. We know many, many things, thousands of things. In the colleges, in the schools, in the churches, wherever it might be, people are learning and they know more than ever before. Scientists are more brilliant than ever before. They've unlocked the celestial, as it would be so called as we call the heavens. That is to say, where Jupiter and the planets are. So when we consider these things and we know that they didn't know so they couldn't tell. And because they didn't know they couldn't tell and because they couldn't tell then the translation could not take place. And God prolonged the translation to multiply and replenish the earth, as to His desire and His pleasure, as to this efficiency of His Kingdom. And then with this He was able to weed out everything and that gave them a chance, as to the goodness of God, that they would not have a voice of accusation in the day of judgment saying that God did not give them a chance. So He gave them a chance. He said to the prophet, Go prophecy to them. Go preach to them. He said, I have set you over the nations to pluck up, to plant. And He said, Go preach to them or you're going to have their blood on your hands. Said, Even though when you preach to them they are not going to listen to you. They're not going to pay any attention to you but you still have to do it. And Paul, when he preached, he said to those that did not believe, Your blood be upon your own head. I've carried out my commission now and now your blood is on your own head. You can't blame God and you can't blame me. So the Lord did this that He might be just in that day when He speaks and when He judges the situation. So when we see all down through the years they could not preach to you the Revelation of Jesus Christ because they did not have the Revelation of Jesus Christ, only in the sense that everything is the Revelation to the extent of whatever God gives. And even in this case there are many hundreds and millions of people that are Bible scholars that know the Bible, can quote the Bible and they're in Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, all kind of churches and they still don't know the revelation and still never come to revelation and they've never even got their eyes open. And they are vomit on the table of God. They are lukewarm and they are a religious science, as to human reasoning of religion. And they are cut off. But on the other hand there is a little flock that has received these things from God, as to the name of Jesus Christ and the faith of Jesus Christ and the righteousness of Jesus Christ, to be filled with the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, they have done their work as those coming on down through the Church ages. (Begin tape one, side two.)...at the end of the church ages. And the Bible said we only know in part, but when that which is perfect has come then that which is in part will be done away. And we say, Done away with. The Scripture says done away. So, it will be done away with when that which is perfect has come. So we know then that now that which is perfect has come. But knowing in part and seeing through a glass darkly it's only been in part that we've understood and the churches have understood. And they have praised God and gone on and done what they could do but at the same time they were doing this they did not total come out of the world. They did not fully withdraw from the flesh. They only partially came into the things of God. And because of that the translation could not take place because the only way that the translation can take place in you is the same way it took place in Enoch when he walked with God for three hundred years and was not because God took him. In that he had this testimony; he pleased God and without faith it's impossible to please God. So the heavens declare his handiwork and the earth being full of the knowledge of God he was translated that he should not see death. Paul, in remembrance of this brings him all the way over to the eleventh chapter of the book of Hebrews, brings him form the Old Testament to the New Testament to tell us of this wonderful thing of faith. Why? Because Enoch was not under the law and the law never came until many years later. And four hundred and thirty years after the promise had been given to Abraham by faith, as to justification, then came the law that was added because of transgression to make sin preeminent to be recognized and make sin exceedingly sinful that we might recognize it and that Satan might not hide in the flesh any longer, for within the flesh there is no good thing. Then being under the law, guilty of transgression, the Bible says, inasmuch as no flesh can keep the law. Then being guilty of transgression, even the Lord Jesus who kept every jot and tittle because He was the great Spirit man, made flesh as to the Spirit word and then became sin that He could not be justified by the law to be our example. For great is the mystery of godliness, for God was in Christ reconciling the world back to Himself. He was in Christ. He was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit. Not justified in the flesh, but justified in the spirit to be our example. So, again when we take a look at this we see that coming on down through the ages what is meant by perfection. We see that that is meant by perfection and that is that once we come to know fully, come to understand fully that is perfection. When we come to know fully what the Lord has said and what the Lord wants us to know then that is perfectness. That is not part anymore. We do not partially understand; we know all that He wants. We know the fullness of His will and thus it is required of us, as to the fullness of His will and death then is lurking in the shadows and sin gets it's strength even the more. So, to know to do good and do it not it is sin and the soul that sinneth shall surely die. So then, we realize that perfection is not speaking of our perfection, for our perfection was before the foundation of the world and we were justified, and sanctified and glorified, and elected to grace by the foreknowledge of Almighty God. So it has nothing to do with my salvation. It has nothing to do with my eternal life. It has nothing to do with what I look like in the sight of God or what I am in the sight of God or what I have always been in the sight of God or what I will be forever in te sight of God. It has nothing to do with that. But the perfection is that we are set here as the ministry for the perfecting of your faith. And faith, that means the perfecting of your understanding to the extent that you cannot believe without the Word and when we preach the Word you hear the Word, you understand and you believe, for the Bible said the righteous shall understand and the wicked shall not understand. The wicked shall not see when good cometh. They're blinded by the intellectual darkness that's on the inside which is called ignorance as to the tree of knowledge and Lucifer. So then, when we think about this we realize then that you have to have a preacher for the Bible says, How can they preach unless they be sent, for how can the people hear if they don't have a preacher? So, how can they hear if they have not a preacher? And how can he preach unless he be sent? And he that God sends will speak God's Word and turn the people from their sins. And then faith cometh by the hearing of the Word and faith by the hearing of the Word and then you believe the Word. And when you believe the Word your manifested deeds are the proof of what you believe for a child is known by his doings. And your faith, as to your believing is made manifest by your deeds and your conformity to the Word. So then, faith. I'm here to preach the Word, as to whatever measure I understand the Word, or to whatever I know of the Word, whatever God will speak through me, as the Word, I'm here to share that with you that you might know and you might understand if you give the more earnest heed to the things that you have heard lest at any time you should let them slip and you take heed how that you hear so as not to try to incorporate God into your plans but incorporate your plans and your life into God. And change your lifestyle to God's lifestyle. So, don't get yourself a program and try to work God into them. He doesn't want that. He wants His body. He wants His bride. He wants to tell her what to do. He wants her to think exactly His thoughts and be exactly what He wants her to be. And then He'll give her the riches and the adorning and the splendor and the magnificence of all the greatness that will make her outshine the brightness of the noonday and be the most beautiful thing, as of the queen of all eternity. Now, when we see this then we realize that the perfection is that the preacher must tutor. We must be taught and we must come to these things. And in coming to them whatever we grasp, whatever we allow for, whatever we diligently search out and accept then comes faith, as to that word or that understanding or proportion or measure of that word or understanding. And then our minds have thus transformated from faith of what we did know in our thoughts to another measure of faith, of thoughts as to what we then know and it has come from one glory, as to a measure of glory of what the first of that revealed to our understanding as the thoughts we had before we transformated to new thoughts. And then comes the new thoughts and another part of the glory comes because in Christ the glory is from glory to glory. This glory within you and the hope of this glory is Christ within you and this glory emanates from Christ and it is the glory of God. And it will make itself manifest in your mortal genes once your mind is completely transformated to where the full measure of this glory can emanate from your spirit through the transformated mind into your body, into your bodily genes. This heavenly treasure will be made manifest and you will shine as the brightness of the noonday, as the stars forever and ever, as to your glorified body. Because the Bible teaches that it is His glory that is made manifest in your mortal genes and you are changed by this glory of His nature into the very image, as flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone. So then, we can see the work that God is doing on the inside of us. And it would take hours to go into it as to periodically place it to where we could understand. But just going through it in a transitional stride we are trying to bring to you what is meant by the perfection, as in the days of the voice. For when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away with. Or when that which is perfect has come it means that when you receive a perfect understanding you no longer have a part understanding. You no longer have a part. You go to buy a part for an automobile because a part has gone bad, but when the part is placed in the automobile it is no more a part it is the automobile. So then, when you bring this part to God, as to the past generation to another generation, to another generation, on down to the last generation, as to this great light as scientist say in the symbolics and the sun becoming seven fold, even so hot, as the Bible says, it will scorch the flesh on your bones. Then when it comes to this then we know that the spiritual light is breaking forth, to the transformating of our blood genetics and transformating our nerve system and our brain cells into the celestial cells and into the celestial body, into the celestial being and not just a composition, as to a constitution of molecular structure. So when we see this and we look back, we flip back a page or two, go back to the natural to look at it and we see that the Einstein theories and all of these things were just shadows, or these things in the world, as to diplomacies and studies, development and experiences, and all of this time of learning that this was just a shadow as the forerunner of the real mind of God and as it happens in the natural it means something has happened in the spiritual. And this is why we said that Jupiter, though we observe it even as religious people, and sometimes people get very shaken, but see? The wisdom of this world is not as to the wisdom of God and the children of this world, though they be wiser in their ways they're not wiser in their understanding. But the church world flows in to that because they don't know the real spiritual thing. He that is spiritual judgeth all things but while that is happening to Jupiter and that great awesome thing is taking place, as to a crater big enough to set the world in and the big blaze that is so powerful something happened in the spirit world. Something happened in the angelic world and because it happened in the angelic world then it had to happen in your natural heavens, as to show as in heaven so in earth. Or as it happened in the spiritual world then it had to happen to Jupiter as to the planet and the number of planets it is. Well, anyway, when we get to these things and we see that the church is coming on into perfection and all of the part is being swallowed up. And every part, as to you being a member and I being a member and another being a member, as the measure of Christ here and the measure of Christ there the measure of Christ here, when I bring Zion again they will all see eye to eye. They will all walk hand and hand. They'll all walk together and not break ranks and not pierce each other through. So, He's bringing them again. They've been scattered. See? The Jews were scattered, being called Zion. All over the world. But when I bring them again they won't be divided as they were in the time of their scattering. I will make them to be one people and a whole nation will be born in one day because they will be so like minded. And they'll see their strength and unity is in one another and in being oneness in mind. And at the same time the spiritual people, God, which is the spiritual Jew, the true Israelite, those that are of the true Zion will be coming together and they won't be coming together in part and they won't be members, as part but all of them will be one body. Baptized into one body by one spirit, being one spirit and one flesh and coming together. And God has given us an allegoric thing of this in the time of David and in the time of Solomon. In the time of David, David was a mighty warrior. He was a great, courageous warrior. He was so courageous that he loved the little sheep so much that he would give his life for them before he would lose them. And I said this to the brethren the other day; I say it to you tonight. The reason he was called a man after God's own heart, it wasn't because of his wretched doings. David was so wretched I wouldn't have wanted to have been his neighbor. He would have stolen your wife at the way he was going. And he did steal a man's wife and then committed murder, too. He would have been a terrible neighbor. But the thing is, though he did all of this and though he had as many wives as he did and concubines and all of these kind of things, deep down in David's heart there was a thing of love for God. And he loved God. He did not have the great eternal spirit, as to the Holy Ghost like you've got, to guide him in to truth and in to righteousness. He knew nothing but the law but he did know Thou shalt not commit adultery. So then, when it came to these kind of things then David had such a heart. He prayed about seven times a day and he had such a heart that he loved the Lord with all of his heart, to what he understood. And because faith works by love then love made his faith so powerful that he could run through a troop and leap over a wall. And because God is love then God said, He is a man after My own heart. And because his love was so great he would die before he would let anything even hurt them little sheep. And before the giant could hurt Israel he was willing to risk his life to stop the giant from hurting Israel, they were so dear to him; his love for God's people. See? And was willing to fight, run through a troop and leap over a wall, fight until the sword would cleave to his hand because of his great, wonderful courage. And courage comes from faith. And because he was so courageous it meant he was fearless. And the reason he was fearless was because the Bible said where a person fears they are not made perfect in love. But David was made perfect in love to that extent. He loved the Lord with all of his heart and he said, Father, I know my ways don't please Thee, he said, but my heart is perfect before Thee. See? Now, today we say, these people say, David that wonderful man that had that wonderful heart before God. He had a dozen wives; I think I'll get me a half a dozen to start with. And I'll just, I'll just, you know, I'll just lolly gag around, as Bucky used to say. I'll just do these things and I'll just run around and I'll be a fornicator and a liar and all these kind of things, you know. And women take the outlook that they can be adulterers. And especially this younger generation, that they can just do these things and everything is kosher with God. They're still adulterers and they need to make their confession that they are a sinful generation, a sinful, a wicked generation, an adulterous generation and God will not accept them nor their parent but he will burn them all in hell. So, when it comes to these kind of things we understand then that David courageously fought and he gathered material continually. But continually he gathered material, gold and silver and all kind of things to build the house of God. He wanted to build God a house. God had never had a temple, or a house. So God had dwelt in tabernacles in the wilderness. And he wanted to build God a house. God put this in his heart. So he fought courageously and he gathered all of these things even that would overthrow an army. See? Or nation. And he had them under his command but then when he got ready to build the house the Lord, the God of heaven, as to the spirit, said, David, you can't do it; you've got too much blood on your hands. Now you can't go it; too much war. See? There is a move of God where there is nothing but war. It's nothing but fighting. It's nothing but battle. Even Brother Branham was caught in the same era of just fighting and warring all the time. See? And then there is an era that comes to peace. And David was in this era. There was the Saul era and there was the David era. And if we had time we could go into those things real explicitly, but I'm fixing to close here in just a few minutes so I'm just kind of running it down toward the end with just a few quick words tonight. So, when it came to David he couldn't build God a house. But he said, I will let your son build Me a house. And then came Solomon, and out of all things being the son there or bring Solomon, and then Bathsheba, how could it be? But yet it had to to have do with the Gentiles. See? It had to do with what had happened. And all those things happened in David's life. And it was the act of God that suffered all those things. Whereas somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, I can't see how God condoned the evil of David, especially with many women. I can't see how He would do that. Well, God created the many women. If He wants one man for many women then God can do whatever He wants to with His many women. And then besides that it had to do with something and that was Christ Jesus, and the women had to do with churches, just like Solomon. And it shows where Solomon took in the Gentile churches as well as the Jewish church and built temples for them showing the days of grace in what God was doing, even in the days of Solomon. But then on the other hand did God condone it? No. But He did tell them he said, You know, you've committed murder. He said, The prophet, and said, And thou art the man, David. And he gave the little parable to the prophet saying, And a stranger came by. And the man spared to take of His flock and took one wee little lamb that belonged to someone else. What do you think of the judgment, David? I'm not going through the detail of it. And David said, He's worthy of death. And the prophet said, Thou art the man, David. So he brought his own sentence and showed what God thought of it. But because God allowed these things you find David standing on the very mountain that Jesus stood on when He was forsaken of all of his people and there weeping, even as David wept over the throne and over Jerusalem, being driven out as a prophet. Prophets don't dwell in palaces, in caves. He said, My wounds stink because of my foolishness when his baby was finally killed and taken, when he fasted and prayed and begged God not to do it. After that there seems to be no more record where he took anymore lives. See? And when it comes to these kind of things we have to understand so we look back there and we see this thing of David and we realize what God had done and what God had allowed. So then, there was David, God did tell him, said, Why did you take this man's wife? I've given you many. Would I not have given you another one. That is, I would have allowed for it, David? I would have allowed for it, as to what you were doing, though you have pay for it. You have to pay. You know, when you want to do something you can do what you want to, folks, but there is a price to pay and you need to set down and count the cost. And when you get this idea that you're God's David and you can go out and you can do these wretched things that you don't understand God will let you do it. One wife, two wives, married three times, adulterous generation, do whatever you want to but there is a price that you must pay. Just like David had a price to pay and the sword never did depart out of his house. All during his lifetime he had war. He lost the life of His son, his daughter was ravished, his wives were ravished before his eyes. He was driven like an animal and pursued like an animal and had to dwell in caves. And men came in on horses and bandits and stole away his wives and took them away. And all these horrible, hideous things; he paid the price. All right. So then, going on a little further finally Solomon came and God let Solomon build His house. Solomon was a peaceable man, very peaceable. He was a very peaceable man and he gathered gold like dust and he took all of this that David had gathered and because it was a peaceful era, and because he didn't have blood on his hands then God used him like a spirit of peace. And David that represented Jesus in fighting the battle, as Moses could not enter into the kingdom. That is to say, Jesus died out of the presence of God that the children of the following ones through Christ, which Solomon represented could enter in, and through the resurrection bring forth the temple of God which had to do with the resurrection of Jesus, which is at the right hand, that man being made a quickening spirit, the temple of the living God. And now ye are the temples of the living God and it's summed up like this in the New Testament where they came together in a conference and they were talking, as to the apostles and the different ones. One of the men stood up in the council and he got a revelation. And he said, Brethren, this agrees with what the prophets have said. For I will return in the later days, saith God, and I will build up the fallen down house of David, which was the temple of Solomon that would overthrow it, took it down into Babylon, as to the good of it. I will build up this fallen down house of David. And he had gotten a revelation, as to Paul's revelation, that saw these apostolic leaders as a foundation of a city. Abraham searched for a city who hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. See? There is no foundation to those planets. There is no foundation to your little ball of earth. We say, Well, like on a flat rock down here and everything is messing up our world out here. See? But that isn't the way it is. You're just a little float around with all the rest of the floats. You're just a little ball floating around, too. And these things other than that that will attack you, as to the vibrancy or whatever, leaving it's orbit. Once it leaves it's orbit, as any of the planetary life, then it is a bottomless thing for there is no end to eternity. And you call it space but there is no sides and no top and no bottom. And going on in your natural mind and your scientific exploring, you are transformating in to a world that is endless. And you are transformating in to an intellectual darkness of demon powers, Satan being the ruler of the world of ignorance, or darkness, as in the middle of the week when there will be no light given whatsoever, as in the kingdom of the beast when the light of God goes out or the blood comes off of the seat of atonement. So when we see this then we realize that this world is floating around, that it's part of that that is going to be in darkness unless you go God's way and transformate into the mind of light, then you're going to go in to the mind of darkness. And both are running side by side, as to the natural and the spiritual. So then, we see this great revelation that the man got where the foundation was to be laid. Paul said, I am Christ. Now, I'm the wise master builder and other foundations can no man lay except these that have been laid by Christ. And said, You preachers, you're builders. And said, You take heed how you build upon this foundation. And don't you build hay and stubble on this foundation. Or that is, Don't you start trying to pull for millions of dollars and go through your fancy little things of what you want to do to build an empire and go through all of this thing as to project your flesh, your intelligence, and your ability and so called gifts. He said, Don't you build on this hay and stubble for the day is going to try your works and if your works burn you're going to suffer loss. And he said, Take heed how you build there upon. And it was to be built right on up to Paul, which was that great cornerstone, even the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul, who had suffered so much, being caught up in to the third heaven, being the oversight to look down as a overseer, to oversight the whole thing. And my! how beautiful it is as it starts at Calvary. And how beautiful it is when it started in the foundation of the world. How beautiful it is to understand what is thus meant by the veil and the unveiling. See? And what is meant by the restoration, what is meant by the great wonderful Celestial. So, in this we see that Solomon built the temple. He built the temple out of the gift of wisdom and understanding, as an understanding heart. He built the temple of the living God whose temple ye are, and today, the lively stones being put together, God has erected this temple. Down through the church ages He has erected this temple. And my! we could say hundreds of things. By the time we get here your minds are open and your spirits are desiring and drawing, as to an interest and the Spirit could go on and go on. But, anyway, I just want to say that little bit tonight in the way of exhorting you, that now that which is perfect has come. It has come. All of the parts are being swallowed up now and everything that we didn't understand we're beginning to understand and everybody is beginning to come together as being ordained to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man to the full reward. Or that is, when we speak, unanimously speaking, or when we speak of coming together. When we speak of each member coming together, collectively speaking, we become the full measure of the full body and everyone shares with everyone, as to their talent and everyone stands in their place, as in the days of Gideon, that they might break, as it would be, the little clay pitcher, which is this outward man and all break at one time to let this light shine, as to what the Bible refers to as your spirit being the candle of the Lord, searching out the inward parts. And we're on the verge of breaking this all at one time around this dark valley that it might confound those that don't have a real good eye of understanding and they'll not be able to do anything because of the lack of dilation to comprehend. So everything is right at a great finale right now. And the temple has been built to that extent and the chief cornerstone is trying to find it's place. Like the song we wrote of the Chief Cornerstone or the book that was published of the Chief Cornerstone. See? And now He's seeking His place and with this it's not like the Babylon tower or the old pyramid of Egypt, that that was toward the star of the dragon, but this is after God has scattered them there and confounded their language, bringing them back together in a unanimous collection that He might put them in that pyramid city to come up to Him and that in this it would be pointing toward the Day Star Jesus Christ, and He would not confound the building of this wonderful thing but He would put it altogether in one. And though it came as tongues, as it would appear as when they were scattered that they did not understand. But, nevertheless, the Bible says when the preacher got up to preach each one of them, the Parthians, the Medes, the Elimites, those dwellers at Mesopotamia, whatever it wa, each one says, Hey, he speaks my language. God speaks my language. Or, I do hear them speak in my own native tongue wherein I was born. And all the confusion was eliminated, as to the tower of Babel and Paul stresses this, that we should not come together speaking in tongues and not having an interpretation or understanding lest the people say that we're mad. Let's give the Lord a hand. Just a few little things to make us to know what is meant by returning and building the temple of Solomon, which is the city of New Jerusalem. Abraham finally found, in God, that city that had twelve foundations that the Bible speaks of in the book of Revelation at the Celestial earth. And it did have foundations. Nothing, including this world, hath foundations. But, beloved friend, we've got a city that has got foundations that was laid by God Almighty that will never, never shake, or be given away. And Paul says we've come to the mount wherein the spirit of just men, (That is, justified by faith and grace.) the spirit of just men are made perfect, the ground and pillar of the truth, that of the church of the living God. And Paul said, God, having shook the earth in the days of Moses when the fire....(Begin tape two, side one.)....and now he said, And in this day He will not just shake the earth but He will shake the heavens and the earth thus signifying that all that can be shaken will be shaken, and all that can be shaken will pass away, even unto the stars falling and that which cannot be shaken, as to our foundations, it shall remain. And then the beautiful city shall be. So then we see where we're living today and it's a great shaking time. It's perilous times. It's the hour of temptation and it's the beginning of sorrows. All of it's here upon us now. Let's stand together tonight. I appreciate your kind attention. Trust that you are listening and you have been listening in the meetings. Since we started under the tent there has been a real listening. We've been able to say a few little scattered things here and there which you might be able to put together, or the Lord will put together for you as you go on from day to day, only to those that have an interest and a hunger and a thirst. The rest will hear. They will reflect it. God will not put it together for them because they will not have any hunger and thirst to pursue it. But those that have the spirit to hunger and thirst, the nature of Christ the same yesterday, today and forever, they'll be about the Father's business. They'll be seeking out the lost. They'll be doing whatever God hath commanded them to do in perfecting their lives before God of going on to perfection to make this manifest in their mortal body, as to this heavenly treasure and God will reveal to them all things because you have an unction from the Holy One that you should know all things and all things means perfection. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Being made in the form of God He thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God. He didn't try to get Himself a reputation. He humble Himself to the washing of feet to be a servant saying, I came to serve you, to leave you an example. You know, I heard something real sad in the last day or two. There was a girl that came here a number of years ago, she was a young girl. I prayed for her and told her at that time that Satan was going to try to destroy her. And she went away, went away back to, I guess it was her native state and I just got word in the last day or two that they found her dead. She was twenty-eight years old. They found her dead. She was a little girl and it was a horrible sight the way they found her. They found her dead. You know, another girl came here. I remember her coming here and I don't like to call names or call dad's and mother's names. Sometimes it don't set to well as to when people hear the tapes back. But she came here. She stood right here before me at the altar, what the world would call a real nice looking person, clean cut person. I believe, maybe her sister was with her and we prayed for her. Prayed for her and I think she came in, perhaps, out of Arizona, somewhere in that area. And we prayed for her and I think we baptized her; I'm not sure. But she went away and not having anybody to look to or anything, as a place of worship, she finally drifted away and then in a little while, as a young girl, she was found dead in her apartment. See? And on and on this goes with boys, it goes with girls, men and women, and it's a horrible thing; a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. And when we tell you something a lot of times you pay little attention to it, but nevertheless, many things that we could write a book of. It would fill the book in volumes of the many things God has done. Someone says, Well, I think you are exaggerating; we don't appreciate exaggeration. My hand be raised to heaven. I hope God will kill me before I get out of this building. It's true. I said, Many volumes could be written. I'm not exaggerating, not at all. Somebody still doubts that. It's still the truth. You want me to say, So help me God again? It's still true. All right. So then, no matter how discrepant your mind is it's still the truth and we're here to bear witness of the truth. So tonight I warn you as children of God, love one another and love God and take these things very seriously because the end of the world is here and in that you don't understand the end of the world then you need to take them seriously. And if we ever get a chance, I keep saying, I'm going to expound to you the end of the world and show you that you have not understood the end of the world and show you where it's at and what's going to be. But we have to find the right time. I have to feel pretty good and have a satisfaction that you are going to listen through it before I get into it. So that's why I just kind of skip around the edges and do the best I can and let God use me just the very best He can under the conditions. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) Sing it with me. (Singing.) You know, I was thinking today, my Joseph has come and give his heart to God and it really warmed my heart. During the camp meeting Adam Lundebo gave his heart to God, and a number of others. And my Daniel, he's kind of border lining. He's beginning to consider service to Christ. And my Gracie is stirred. My Susie is stirred. And the different ones and it looks like my family in general, as to my natural family, is really shook up. And that's really something because they relate to the Jews. And we spoke about that as to about a year ago and there was some changes that begin to be made and turning back toward God to show the redemption of the body, which means something is right at hand. And then the calamity of Jupiter and all of these other things that are happening in the heavens, it makes us to know that the end of the world is here. And again it is said, What is the end of the world? It makes us to know that the world is at an end and that if you and I are not ready then we will be left. God will leave us. He'll leave us behind. We have to be ready. Be ready, the Bible said, for an hour that you think not the Son of Man cometh. An hour when you expect him not, are not looking for him for as a snare shall this come upon the whole earth, and in a time when they are not aware. For as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage and all flesh had corrupted it's way before God and now we see again all flesh having corrupted it's way before God as it was in the days of of Noah. We see the same adulterous acts. We see people eating and drinking like they never have before. So then when we see this we realize that the end of the world is here. The last moments are here and time is to be no more for the Bible said in Revelation 10 and 7, And in the days of the voice. And in the days of the voice that the mystery of God should be finished and time should be no more. My! What we could say about time and the things that we could point out about time. And one night we did bring out enough to point out that time had to do with the end of the days of the Gentiles and what is referred to as the times of the Gentiles. And there is a definite difference between time and between the earth. So when we realize that we're moving closer and closer to the end that means that while you're standing here tonight with discrepancy of heart and with evil surmising of mind and fault-finding with your brother and with these that are trying to do what's right that there is something happening that you are not receiving and that you are not part of it. You didn't make it. If you had made it your heart would be sweet and mellow, no discrepancy, no fault-finding. The word would be yea and amen and you would be a full strength to the ministry of Christ that's on the inside of me and you would be doing something for God like you never have before and you would be subduing the body in such a way that you would not give opportunity to your intellectual discrepancy of mind, never at any time. You are not allowed one thought of discrepancy, otherwise you missed it. So tonight to them that are my children, them that are the children of God, them that listen and them that are believing and them that are trying to go on to the full measure of the full reward then I tell you that when that which is perfect has come that which is in part shall be done away with. Or that is, God doesn't take away anything that you know in part but he just takes those parts and puts them together to make a complete thing. Which means that make a whole, as to parts making a whole. And putting them together the parts are swallowed up in the whole. You shall set down in the throne with God. And the beauty of this is, this is a finished work unto the foundation of the world and I am here as a helper of your faith to bring you to the knowledge of this great wonderful, miraculous thing and to the faith that once it is completed and no longer in part will be the faith of Jesus Christ that you are contending for, as from part to part and faith to faith and glory to glory to make the faith to faith, that great miraculous faith that will change your body and make you eternal and will do anything that you want done. It will open blind eyes, it will unstop deaf ears, it will raise the dead, it will restore missing limbs. It will bring anything that you want done, to say it, to believe it, to ask it, to decree it in your heart. This is your goal. This is the prize of the gift of God because you are willing to sacrifice the discrepancies of your mind. Willing to die in your mind in every thought to be His mind and to give Him His body, to be His body and do His thing and not yours. And because of this then this is the reward that God will give you. Even to the change of that wonderful glorious body. So then, as we sing this chorus let's lift our hands up, close our eyes together. (Singing.) In the days of the voice. (Singing.) Once again now. (Singing.) Said He'd stand upon the land and the sea with His hands raised to heaven, swearing by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. For in the days of the voice. In the days of the voice the mystery should be finished. The revelation should be, and that that is a mystery is that which is not revealed, that is a hidden thing, but when it is revealed it is a revelation for it is a revealed mystery. When it is a mystery it is a concealed revelation. So then, the end of the world is when this great revelational light as when the pressures inside break the shell of the outer cocoon with the brightness of this light as to call the understanding of His mind and His glory appears to completely eradicate and to cause to dissipate that outward man, the villain of which you are, as to your first birth of the man Adam, and of that bastard child of that that has the poison of asp under it's tongue and it has eyes full of adultery. That corruptible flesh. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death. By faith in Jesus I am delivered. So then, the end of the world is coming. It's on it's way. I will destroy the one that's in that body, even Lucifer, that intellectual mind of discrepancy that sits there thinking that he is God and showing himself that he is God with his educational diplomacies and controlling the weather and predicting all of these other things. And with his evil inventions that he has searched out, as to destroy the morals and decencies and destroy the things of the earth. I will destroy him with the brightness of this revealed light. I will destroy him and eradicate him from my temple. I will do this at the brightness of My coming. And, folks, He's on His way. He's on His way. While you've got your hands lifted up, your eyes closed we're going to sing this one more time together. Let's sing it. (Singing.) The altars are open if anybody would like to come tonight; you're welcome to come. Time is running out and after awhile the voice of the Bridegroom won't be heard anymore. Someone would say, Well, what is the voice of the Bridegroom? I would love to hear the voice of the Bridegroom. Well, you've heard it tonight. The Bible said it should not be you speaking. You're bone of My bone and flesh of My flesh. You're dead by Calvary and buried in a watery grave. It shall be Me that's speaking and you've heard the voice of the Bridegroom and the Bible said, And the voice of the Bride shall be heard no more at all in her. And tonight when you heard somebody praise God out of their heart that was the voice of the Bride. And it isn't long now until you won't be hearing that anymore. Everything is winding up now. So if you haven't gotten in you're running late and you need to run for our life. Harry, hurry, hurry because when you take a notion to come the shades will already be down and the lights are already going to be turned off. It's like a Brother standing here tonight. He was telling me that last night he looked at the moon and the moon had as it was a veil over it and as he looked at this moon he saw later that it became very dark and a blackness moved over the moon. You know, the veil moving in over the church world, the skim coming over the eyes of understanding and then after awhile darkness coming over them as the church moves on out and leaves them because of what that moon has to do with. It's only a reflector and that's what the church world is. They don't have this light. They are not a Day Star as the sun, as the sun shining within them and coming over the horizon of their heart, as to the inward transformating. So then, you realize that the end is here. The end is here. (Singing.) One more time together. (Singing.) I'm going to ask Brother Atlee to come and dismiss us and while Brother Atlee Beachy comes to dismiss us tonight I want you to lift your hands up and I want you to close your eyes as we sing this little chorus once more. If Atlee is here. (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