The Faith That Sanctifies

Tonight I thought I might just talk with just a little bit concerning faith to encourage some faith in some of you because Satan is hitting real hard. And right now death is striking, sorrow is striking, poverty is striking and everything is getting in gear for a great calamity in the earth. I mean a real teetotal calamity. And the last rounds are coming up for the great episodes of the things of God and because of that we need to be geared up for it. We need to get in stride with Christ and we need to get our minds cleaned and sanctified and get a vision for God. The Bible said without a vision the people perish and it's very obvious that the people of America do not have a vision for God. Though they are religious, more religious than any generation that has ever lived they are less in Christianity and less godly than any generation we have ever had. And they are receding from the things of God. They are losing out fast and becoming hard hearted and more intellectual in their diplomacies of life and their drive for materialistic valves as to continuation with them, and they are losing out with God because the more carnal minded they become, the more natural minded they become, the less God is in their minds. To be carnally minded, or naturally minded is death for there is no quickening there. There is no spiritual quickening there. So to be natural minded is death and to be spiritually minded is life. And you don't find very many people have life because they are not spiritually minded. They don't think spiritually. They don't talk spiritually. They don't desire spiritually. They are not trying to grow spiritually. They are not interested spiritually so then they don't have life. For to be spiritually minded is life and to be carnally minded__ You find plenty of people that want cars, houses, land, money, income, education, programs. They want to watch them, here them on radio, watch them on t.v.. Want to read about all the sports in the news paper. They want to tell each other about all the ball games and the scores and talk about wars and problems and calamities and all the devastations that are striking the earth, as to the bad things and the things of the world, the calamities that are coming but they are not spiritually minded. They never really want to talk about God and talk about holiness, or the mysteries of God, or getting better, or living like Christ, or doing the things that God has commanded that we do to have eternal life. Never, as a rule, do they want to bring their bodies under subjection, to equip themselves with a mind to suffer or do anyway way in conforming to the Word of God. They've not interest in the Word of God. So then, what will God do? He will cut them off. Someone would say, Well, I don't believe he will. He's already doing it. See? This is what the minister cannot get you to see, as a whole. That is God cutting you off. Where you have no interest in the Word that is God cutting you off. The Bible said He hardened Pharoah's heart. Pharoah didn't have any interest in God, nor what God wanted, nor to allow God's people to be set free, or to let those people out of Egypt to go worship God. He wasn't interested in that. He didn't have time for that and He hardened his heart more and more, As Moses told them to come out to worship God, God hardened Pharoah's heart so He could destroy him because He was upset with him. The Bible said He hardened his heart and He would not let those children go until finally God poured out His wrath and turned Egypt into an ash heap. So that's where we're at. God is hardening the hearts of the people now and He's withdrawing more and more. And the more He withdraws the harder their hearts gets. That is, the more staunch they are in their natural details and desires of life, the more staunch they are in their drive and their thrust for the natural things in the world. See? And God is hardening their heart. He is backing off hardening their hearts so that He can destroy them. He is getting ready to destroy them. And while He's backing off and pulling like this He's drawing__ Like someone says, You draw me out. He is drawing out of this cocoon and this carcass those that have the potentiality of life, as to that metamorphosis that we speak of and He's drawing that out and He's pulling that with Him as He pulls away. He's taking that with Him and as He takes that with Him He's changing those into eternal life. He is transformating their minds and getting those minds conditioned to where that life will break forth from within at that midnight hour, just break forth like that and that body will be changed into a beautiful Celestial body that will outshine the brightness of the noonday. This is what God is doing. So, first of all, we have to remember when we talk about faith (just a simple little exhortation tonight) when we talk about faith that to have faith to work for us we've got to understand the Word. It isn't like you're not going through a problem, through sickness, through heartaches and woes. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. It doesn't say many are the afflictions of the wicked. A lot of times we say, God, why me? God, why me? Why do you do me like this. I pray. I fast. I seek your Word. I study. We complain and we grumble and we groan. It's normal that we should do that. On the cross Jesus said, My God! why hast thou forsaken me? In the garden He said, Father, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, thy will, not mine, be done, as He sweated blood. See? And the Bible said concerning Paul, I seek to know Him in the fellowship of his suffering. It says concerning Paul again, Equip yourselves with a mind to suffer. So then, we go through these things in a continuation because we are killed all the day long. All the day long we're killed. The devil never stops striking at us. We're killed all the day long. We're discouraged all the day long. We're attacked all the day long. There is a brutality from Satan through people who are brute beast, made to be taken and destroyed, and there is a brutality that comes from him all the time in discouraging. He works on our creditors. He works on the mind of our creditors. He works on the mind of our fellow men. He always is putting something in their mind to cross us up. He works on our body physically because it has, as of yet, not been changed and he's oppressing. And he puts doubts in your mind as to your companions, whether man or woman. And he puts doubts in your mind as to whether you're going to pay your bills, or whether your income is going to be sufficient. And Jesus said concerning this, He said, Don't be of a doubtful mind. To be like Abraham, be strong in faith. The Bible said Abraham was strong in faith giving God glory, being persuaded, fully persuaded, that what He had promised He was able also to perform. And we're suppose to eliminate the negative mind of our doubtful thoughts and always trust in God. Problems continually. And on many occasions you'd rather be dead that be alive. Paul said to die is gain but to live is Christ. If I live I'll live like the Lord. I'll suffer like the Lord. I'll do what the Lord wants, but if I die I've got a reward and it's gain to me. So then, we know that when the Bible says many are the afflictions of the righteous He meant exactly that. Not one or two things are going to happen to the righteous, not several things and then it's going to be over. It's not that we're going to be fed at a table to feast all the time and everything is going to be rosy for us, everything is going to be well and we're not going to have any pain and misery. It's not like we're going to be able to pay our bills all the time. It's not like everything is just going to be up and above board with us all the time to the extent that we're never going to be under oppression and have problems. It's not that at all. It's just exactly to the contrary. The world shall dance. David of old said, I saw the world dance. I saw their children full, fed to the full. I saw them having a good time. They danced. There was no bonds in their death. He said, And my feet almost slipped. I thought, I've cleansed my hands in vain. Why am I serving God when everybody else is getting the blessings? For he said, All the time running, hiding in caves, running from his enemy, having a problem all the time. All the time he had problems. He said, Surely I've cleansed my hands in vain. But he said, One day God took me to the house of God and opened my understanding and made me to know the end of the wicked. Though they spread themselves like a green bay tree, he said, there comes a time when God cuts them down and they are no more. So then, it isn't like you're going to have a good time, everything is going to be sweet. Somebody says, Brother Pike, I know that serving God is joy and peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost and there is going to be joy and peace for me. I know that. I know that. I endorse that. I teach that. But the Bible said, In Me ye shall have peace but in the world ye shall have trouble. So if you're expecting to have joy and peace in the world you're going down the wrong trail. You've got the wrong understanding. Somebody said, Well, the Bible says that God blessings makes rich and adds no sorrow. I know that but the Bible also says He'll commit to your trust the true riches. He gives you the true riches which is the wealth of heaven and the great things of heaven. Someone would say, Well, you don't believe He gives us the natural things? I'll supply all of your needs according to My riches in glory, but He said, Having food and raiment be therewith content. You didn't bring anything into the world, it's for sure that you're not going to take anything out. And if I own all things in heaven and own all things in the earth why should I pack up like a pack rat with everything I can get a hold of? Why should I desire all of those things and go after all of those things? Why? It would be because I would be gullible and filled with the devil and the love and the desire of the world. Why do you want businesses? Why do you want money? Why do you want the finest things for your home? Why do you want the finest things in the world? It's a gullible devil, that's why. It's because you need to be born again. And when you get after God and you go after God you'll find out the wealth is in the spirit and you'll lay up your treasures in heaven which is your prayers, fasting and seeking God and get your mind on heavenly things, and as Paul said to die will be gain for you and you're desire will be in heaven and you'll search for the treasures of heaven. All of your labors will be in heaven and all of your conversation will be in the spirit as in heaven, and God will reward you with an abundance of all things. And as you seek the Kingdom your faith will flourish and God will take care of you in every way and all of these other things shall be added unto you. So then, it's very obvious that you've got the wrong understanding altogether of the concept of God and you're doing like a lot of people in the world; all running after the world. Running after the world. They've got to have this out in the world. Fame and popularity, money and prestige. Even ministers. I say this so often, Ministers say, Self esteem. Self esteem. You've got to get you a Ph D. You've got to have a D.D. You've got to have self esteem. You've got to have confidence in yourself. Before you can do anything you've got to believe in yourself. All of that is a lot of evil. There is nothing good about that whatsoever. The Bible is contrary to that. It says we have no confidence in the flesh, not even our own flesh. And the Bible said that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God, that we're to put down the flesh. All of our confidence is in the Word of God. Everything in the Word of God is yea and amen. We go after the Word of God. We try to understand the Word of God. We want the knowledge of God. We acknowledge the Lord, as to His mind and word in all of our ways that He might direct our path. We don't mess with our mind. Our mind is no good. Paul said, as to you as an individual, there is no good thing in you. No good thing. You are born in sin. You are born in perversion and there is not one good thing in you. In all that you do there is nothing good. Even all of your righteousness. You can do all kind of righteous acts in the earth and when you get through, he said, your righteousness is as filthy rags. There is none good but the spirit, no, not one. All have gone astray. Every man has turned to his own way, done his own thing. God having laid upon the Lord Jesus the iniquity of us all and He was the one that was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed. And there is only one righteousness and that is the righteousness of The Faith of Jesus Christ. That is because He believed. His believing was righteousness because it never wavered. And this believing is given unto us as righteousness; the faith of Jesus Christ which is the righteousness of God. Paul, turn my people from darkness of their own intellectual concept of religion and concept of life. Help them to get away from their own understanding to every thought. Cast it down, it's darkness. And turn away from darkness to light and to The Faith of My righteousness, which is by Me. Only that faith. That faith by which they are sanctified. There is no such thing as you being sanctified by your believing. You can believe. (I've told you thing a lot of times.) You can believe from now on. You can go to every healing, divine campaign, whatever, go to every church service, you can say I believe from now until Jesus comes, when you get through you've done nothing but the same thing that Lucifer has done. If you believe there is one God you do well. A lot of people don't even believe that. But the devil does believe there is one God. And you'd do well if you believe there is one God. Here, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord. So, when you believe you haven't done anything. But when you are born again by The Faith of Jesus Christ, being saved by faith, faith of Jesus Christ, then you have received something. Because by the foreknowledge of God, as to Jacob have I loved, then that means you are His and He will call that. When He calls the minister He will call that and there is a sanctification. The Bible said there is a sanctification by which they are sanctified, this faith being in Me. My faith. Now you say, This is the faith by which they are sanctified and they are sanctified in the sight of God by My believing and Christ will come into them. The great eternal Spirit will come into them when they accept My faith. Contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints of God, under the law and the prophets until the faith came. Now that The Faith of Jesus Christ has come the law has been fulfilled and we're no longer under the law for He came to take us out from under the law for transgression of the law is sin and sin is death. And everyone has sinned and come short of the glory of God and you're in trespasses and sins, dead to God and you remain that way because you're under the law. And everything that's fallen from grace is under the law and the only grace there is is by the faith of Jesus Christ. And now that faith has come great grace is upon the people and today we're no longer under the law to sin, but we are in the faith of Jesus Christ, protected. And in as much as sin from Adam killed every living human being faith and righteousness from Jesus Christ hath made all human beings alive in His faith, of those that will believe. So, we then know that there is nothing good about you, not one good thing. Until you come to that you've never even got started. There is no such thing as being born again. You haven't even got your eyes opened. You haven't even got started. Until you get away from religion, get away from the things of the world and just religious act and this thing of being pious and because you've been here a long time or you've known about religion a long time, or you've been fasting, or you've been praying, these kind of things, until you cancel out on all of that you haven't even got your eyes open. You've got to cancel out on all of that and then you've got to turn to the faith of Jesus Christ. This faith sanctifies you once and for all, not by what you do but by what He did. Before the world was ever created God did this in slaying the Lamb from the foundation of the world and made you that are the predestinated and fore-ordained you. He made you to be His workmanship in Christ and He received you and wrote your name down in the Lamb's book of life by His foreknowledge when He slew the Lamb before the foundation of the world and wrote your names down as that being secured in the Book of Life. And then sent ministries, as to call you in the day of your generation. This sanctification is once and for all. Before you ever called He heard. Before you were ever born into the world He heard. And before I was ever formed in my mother's womb, the prophet said, I was called to be a prophet. Before Judas ever came into the world it was decided another would take his Bishopric. Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. The children never having yet been born God said, I hate Esau so it wouldn't stand by works but Him that calleth. So being elect according to knowledge, Paul preached, and as many as were fore-ordained unto eternal life believed; the rest did not. He shook his raiment and said, You're blood be upon your own head. So in looking at this we realize that there is no good thing. Paul said, within the flesh there is no good thing. All of us are born in the flesh and the spirit within us lusteth unto envy and there is no good thing in and there is no way out of it. We can't pray out of it. We can't call on God out of it. We can't get out of it. We can't fast out of it. We can't study the Bible and get out of it. There is no way. There is nothing that can be done. We have to be elect according to the foreknowledge of God. So then, if we're God's foreknowledge, as to His election unto Salvation then when the ministry comes we will believe in Christ's faith. We will turn to the security of Christ's faith and we will contend for the faith which is in Christ Jesus because we will have faith in the Word of God and It will draw us by the faith that we have to the bleeding side of the Lord Jesus, to accept our inheritance in Christ that was before the world ever was, given to us in Christ before the world ever was, brought to understanding, or revealed as to a rent veil at Calvary, preached down through the church ages that we might hear through the ministry, comprehend and believe unto the change that we should be Gods to dwell throughout eternity in great splendor and glory and riches. So then, there is no good thing within you. Paul said, I can't find no good thing. And the only hope for you, he said, since the sentence of death is in you there is only one hope and that is, we've got to get in touch with Christ. We've got to hear the ministry. We've got to hear the Word of God. Faith cometh by hearing and with this believing it leads us to believe in His Word. And in believing in His Word, the faith of Jesus Christ, which is the faith of this Word, as in the works of the Lord Jesus, it brings this Spirit into our heart through the sanctification of His believing and He stand as a mediator between God and between man. And through this great wonderful channel of His faith comes this great nature and Spirit of Christ to seal our spirit to translate it into the marvelous Spirit of Christ and the Kingdom to where we can never sin, never be lost and to where we are His precious little children. And He works with us accordingly. It's a wonder He doesn't kill us all. Take one look at us He should kill every last one of us because none of us is good and He should kill every last one of us. But He doesn't do that. Through the mercy and grace of God He deals with us like little children because we don't know and we don't understand. So He gives us grace. He gives His grace to everybody. But when we start coming to the knowledge of the truth it's required of us and then if we choose not to do right then the grace lifts and we're in trouble then and we're on our way into the fire. Because there remaineth no more Calvary, or sacrifice for sin as to the blood, once you come to the knowledge of the truth and reject it but only the fearful looking forward to of the fiery indignation of the God that shall devour His adversaries for it's impossible. After once you come to the knowledge of the truth and then turn away it's impossible to renew you again unto repentance again seeing that you crucified Christ Jesus afresh and put Him to an open shame. So then, we know that we are contending for the faith. This faith is sufficient, as to a once and for all sanctification forever, as to your inner man. And it translates your inner man into the Kingdom of God for God is the great God of the spirit world. And He is the great God of your spirit. And the flesh profiteth nothing. It's from the dust and the dust belongs to the devil. Right now it's under His auspices and from the dust thou art and to the dust thou shalt return. So then, God has preserved the inner angelic spiritually being having translated that into the marvelous Kingdom of God, which means He has taken your spirit and translated it into the spirit of Christ to make you one with Christ and put that Christ Spirit into the resurrected body of the Lord Jesus and set it at His right hand until the coming of that body. And by that, because He hath put this within your heart as to His Spirit that is in the earth, then this hope of that glory will change you at His appearing when the contact is made between that little spark in here where you've lit your candle, in that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching out the inward part. Right at the midnight cry when it lights up in hope, then the flame from heaven appears that it should be lit and then it makes contact and that comes all the way through you and all the way from Him and this middle wall of partition of vanity and the image of the fallen one is completely done away with, as Peter said, and He will destroy the image of the perverted one with the brightness of His coming. And having a natural body it will go away like that and you will be changed into a spiritual body. For there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. There is a terrestrial body which is in the image of the fallen one and there is a Celestial body which is in the image of the resurrected one. As we've born the image of the earthly to the fall as the first man Adam, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly to the resurrection, which is the second man Adam, which was made a quickening spirit. So God is the God of heaven. He's the God of the great Spirit. But we have to remember, the body is the purchased possession. Though it is as the woman it's the weakness and there is no good thing to the woman. There is no good thing. She is infiltrated. She went astray. It's like I was telling somebody today. It's hard for us to conceive of but Paul in His teachings he spoke of the woman and her glory. And a woman's hair, of course, is her glory. Woman is made for the glory of man and man for the glory of God. In Christ there is neither male nor female. But when Paul spoke of this he said that the woman being in the transgression should be subject to the man for the man was not in the transgression. How could he be? he's made for the glory of God. But it was man's glory that got messed up, which was the woman. And so then, being His flesh He was to blame. And the glory of God which was the Shekinah that illuminated Adam, that from whence they emanated when he was man and woman. All one in Adam before the separation of Eve from Adam. See? This image went into iniquity when the light went away, the glory of God went away. And then as the Bible said, you cover with a covering but not of Me. It is a covering of lust, a human desire, an ego of the flesh, faces and forms, all the things in the world. See? A spirit of lust, an angelic being that is a god, but a god of quickening, sports and all the frolics of the world. But when it comes to God, who is the spirit of love, He isn't like that. His is a self-denial of that image of iniquity, knowing that that body is defiled and that's the weakness of the woman and He rejects that. He won't have that. He won't have anything to do with her. The second man Adam won't have anything to do with her. See? He takes her to Calvary. She has to go by the way of the travail, as to bring forth her children and to separate that unclean thing that's within her from the holy thing, which is God as it was with Cain and Able, as it was with Esau and Jacob; there is a continual warfare between the body and the spirit. And that body is the villain. And that body is the intellectual beast. And that body is the tree of knowledge and that thing is bound by your human senses as a bondschild. And then the other one, as to the twin, is the inner spiritual being, that of God, the breath of life and that which God has preserved, as to them that have received His Spirit, having been translated into His Spirit. And therefore there is a continual warfare between your body and your spirit and your body relates to that which is out in the world, as to the people that are bonds children, that have never been born again inside. They don't have this conflict. They have the grace over them and they can be as religious, to the point of being religious vomit, having been spewed out of the mouth of God because of being lukewarm. But the rain being on the unjust and the tare they go right along with their frolics and they don't have this conflict of mind and body. They can come to Bethlehem and be with you and they go and do their things, watch the wrong thing, act up; you never see them in a conflict. You never see them in a divided mind. You never see them having remorse. You never see them under oppression because they've killed their conscience. See? They don't have any problem with that and they still get the outside blessings just like you are, as to the blood being on the seat of atonement and the rain and the sunshine. But, see? You've got a problem because the twins are wrestling within the womb as to who gets the birthright. So then, when you see these things, God taking the woman through travail, being saved in child bearing if she continues in soberness, or sobriety, and continues in holiness, being a symbolic thing of Calvary. And when Paul speaks of this he said the woman should have power on her head because of the angels. That is, she should not cut her hair off for her hair is her covering. And it is her covering to the extent if she cuts her hair short it's all the same as if she were shaven for it is said the government shall be upon the shoulder and she is symbolic of the church and as Samson's seven locks was, as to his strength, when it was gone then that meant he didn't have any strength. And so then, the church age messenger is shown by these seven locks showing us our power and strength and mastery as to the Word of the Lord. Here we are made to realize that when the woman doesn't have her hair on her shoulders, as we would say, it's symbolic that she has rejected her husband's mind. For her husband's mind is the governing power of his body and she is his flesh. And he controls her with his mind and that mind is suppose to be interwoven with Christ as one mind to control that body in Adam and in Eve. So then, the man controlling the woman she should have power on her head. Her power is the mind of her husband. She should have the covering of his glory, which is his mind. See? And when it says because of the angles it has reference to fallen angels because without this covering she is naked. That's what happened to Eve. Who told thee that thou wast naked? And when she rejected the mind of her husband, which was that illumination of the Shekinah then she got herself in trouble. (Begin tape one, side two.) ...into the woman which means as to you and I that we are in the feminine gender unto God, as the human body, and if we reject the ministry of this teachings of the church ages and the ministers, if we reject the church age Word of God during the church ages it means that we do not have the covering of His glory. He said you cover with a glory but not of me, or a covering, that is, but not of me. See? We are His glory and we are His body and if we've been baptized into Christ Jesus, having put on Christ Jesus then are we the glory of God because the body of Jesus Christ is the glory of God, but the bodily image of that which you are born with is the glory of the devil. You are in the image of the devil and in the fallen image. Not in the image in which you were made when you were taken from the glory of God, as to the Shekinah image in the garden. And this Shekinah image has returned by new birth into us and we're suppose to yield our body by daily sanctification. The sanctification of The Faith of Christ is sufficient for once and for all for our salvation and our spirit, as to the purchased possession which is our body. Grieve not the great, mighty, Holy Spirit within you whereby thou art sealed until the day of the change, or the redemption of the body. So, being interwoven with the safeguard of His Spirit your spirit and His Spirit is one spirit, being the mind of His government that breaks forth, being made manifest in your mortal genes as heavenly treasure, to bring about the change, the manifestation of His glory that you may be the glory of God made manifest in the earth. So then, when we come to this we realize that you that are not born again you are the glory of the devil and you are of your father the devil. And you are the image of the devil and his will you will do. And that's why Jesus said, concerning the Pharisees and Scribes, You are of your father the devil. You have his nature. You are his image for the image comes according to the nature. Unless you be born again to have the divine nature of Christ you don't belong to Me, He said. And if you did have the nature of Christ you'd be about your fathers business and have a hunger and thirst for spiritual things and heavenly things and be trying to set up the Kingdom of God in the earth and going after that that makes for the spirit world and your conversation would be delightful in God's presence as that which pertains to thoughts of righteousness and godliness and the great mysteries and the revelating things of God. See? So it means that we are to have this covering of His glory. You cover with a glory but not of Me. My covering, as to Christ being the glory of God, am I thus covered with it. If I'm not covered with that body I do not have the mind of my head. But I must have the mind of God, which is God's glory and covering which makes me to have the body of Jesus Christ. Whereas, without that body then am I naked for the Bible said, And I will look at you and when you come before Me, I say unto you that are naked and blind, you need to get raiment that has been tried in the fire. Be baptized into Christ Jesus, put on this body that you be not found naked in My presence. So then, putting on that body we are one with the flesh of the Lord Jesus, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. That makes us one with the robe of righteousness and the wedding garment which is the body of the Lord Jesus and He said if you come in here without that wedding garment you'll be bound head and feet by that intellectual thrust of darkness and desire of human lust and be cut off to never come into this wonderful revelating life, never again. In the middle of Daniel's week God cuts off the light, casts the devil out of heaven and the whole dark, whole kingdom of the beast, or that is the flesh, goes into total darkness and they never have a revelational light, never again. Never have one little precipitation of spiritual understanding coming from God. Never again. Their kingdom is eternally in darkness and the beast, that means you, you that have never been born again, you are the beast. You come from the beast. You are born of Adam. You are the image of the beast. You are born of that and you are a generation of vipers. Jesus said a generation of vipers. How can you escape the damnation of hell? Because you get the warning from the ministry, you don't do anything about it and you see the judgments and you go on to do it, you are a generation of vipers, He said. So all of your labor is for your belly and your mouth because your belly craves it of you and God put the old viper on his belly. So John said, A generation of vipers, whoever warned you to flee from the wrath of God to come. So when we see this we realize that the woman needs power on her head because of the angels. She needs the covering of her husband. She needs to submit to the mind of her husband and he needs to submit to God because he really is the woman and she part of his body. But, as in the symbols of life, the woman represents the church symbolically and he, without the transgression not being in the transgression, he represents Christ, which doesn't give them any reason to be puffed up. All flesh has sinned and come short of the glory of God and it's only symbolic. God has this order so that you can have the right kind of home, making the woman the weaker vessel and Satan being able to take advantage of her spirit and if she doesn't have the mind of her husband to stop the devils and the demons, then she doesn't have the innocency of him that was not in the transgression. Christ was not in the transgression, as the man that knows the transgression and says, Nay, my wife shall not be punished thus, she was innocent. Then we know why Calvary came. For the Lord has purged us and he's washed the filth of our garment through the washing of regeneration, washing us in His own blood and now we are clean and we are holy before Him. And now we have on the beautiful garments of God, having been baptized through the washing of the regeneration of the washing of the water of the Word. Having put on Christ Jesus we are now a new creature, resorted to what Adam was before the Shekinah glory left him. And now old things have passed away. We are in a new world and now forever we will be in a new world and we are a new creature to where we can never sin again and nothing can never touch us. But it is necessary until the change comes that we have a daily sanctification. Not as to a sanctification for us unto salvation, that is a once and for all. For the Bible said having been sanctified once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary we are perfected, or made perfect for ever and we are justified, sanctified and glorified, elect according to foreknowledge. Now. But the thing is, we've not been changed, as to making this heavenly treasure within us, which is the Christ Spirit or His mind. Never having given ourself to it like we ought to to make in manifest in our mortal genes to the change, as to the sun shining within the strength. Then we keep daily denying ourselves, daily killing out the beast, daily killing out the mind and desire of the intellectual thrust for the world. Daily getting away from worldly diplomacies and turning to the yea and amen of the Word. Daily acknowledging the Lord in all of our ways that I might have a path of peace and be children of peace that God may direct our paths. So daily we are being sanctified by mortifying the deeds of the flesh. That is my part. That is your part. God sanctified us once and for all by his part. But now to make this manifest in these mortal genes we've got to bring this body under subjection every day to re-sanctify every day by renewing our mind and our covenant in prayer and fasting and putting down the outside man. Though the outer man perish yet the inner man is renewed day by day and building up the inner man in prayer and fasting and faith. See? And putting down the outer man of the flesh, or the beast part, because he's dead by Calvary. And in doing this, transformating in mind until every thought of the outer man of the beast is gone and then it's Christ living and not you. And then this life is made manifest as to the wisdom that maketh thy face to shine, that changes your body into that wonderful, glorious light, to appear in glory for that light is in glory. So, being the glory of God__ And this is the thing we have to remember: God is good. God never afflicts you, never. Though affliction is accredited to God He said I afflict not willingly. And God never afflicts you. He has to allow that. He never afflicted Job. He had to allow that. There is a reason. See? He never afflicts you. He never withstands you in your cause. He never perverts a man in his cause. He never oppresses a man. He never comes down on a man or a woman. He never does trouble them. He never at any time comes against them. He never neglects them. Like a mother sweating blood with tenderness of love, He is always there. Never, at any time, does he steal your days. He wants to fulfill the number of your years. He isn't just satisfied with you living a normal life down for fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, whatever the years might be. Some live longer by reason of strength but He isn't satisfied with that. He wants you to live eternally. Death is His enemy. Death came by man, not by God. And He conquered it through Calvary hoping that we would get a hold of it by faith, the infilling of His Spirit, and wash the filth of death out of our garments, and the filth of affliction out of our garments, and the filth of poverty out of our world and He will never be happy. Jesus will never be happy until every blind man can see, every deaf man can hear, every dumb man can speak and every crippled man can walk. He'll never be happy until the mutilated are fully restored. The Bible said, Let all the earth sing. Let them rejoice for the Lord God of Heaven reigneth. So there will come a time of His reigning. He already reigns in our heart and we can believe that and come to those good things, or when the millennium comes He will reign over all the earth. And nothing shall harm in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord. So them God is never against you. He is always for you to give you the desires of your heart, to make you a blessing, or give you a blessing that makes you rich in this world and the world to come. Let's stand together. Just a little time, or a few minutes to exhort you tonight. There will come a time down the road when you'll want to know about these things because affliction will come. Many are the affliction, but remember, God will deliver you out of them all. Satan is out to get you and afflictions will come. Heartaches will come. Sorrows will come, woe will come, poverty will come but you can surmount everyone of them by faith in His promises. Always remember, He will never leave you nor forsake you, that God is with you always even unto the end of the world. And when you have problems, He said they will gather together against you but not of Me. Always remember God is still on your side. Don't go to wandering if you're righteous, don't go to wandering if you're sanctified, don't go to wandering if you're clean. Don't look at yourself and say, Ah, you're just an old unclean person; that's all that's wrong with you. The Bible said, Call not common what I've cleansed. Don't call yourself unclean, for God cleansed you with His blood. Don't you dare do that, but you just remember one thing; that the cleanliness is not of you. The righteousness is not of you. It's by God Almighty and you've got a sacrifice to the extent of sanctification daily, to sanctify that body, to make it partakers of this wonderful, eternal, indwelling sanctification which is by the works of Jesus Christ to keep that faith staunch and to keep that faith always in His Word of promise that He has perfected you forever and that you keep yourself and the evil one touches you not. So you are without spot, wrinkle or blemish. All right. He has sealed our faith. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) Sing that like that. (Singing.) Have you anchored your soul in the Word of God. The Bible said it's a good thing that you should anchor in the present day truth. Is your thoughts completely anchored in the Word of God? The Bible said not to give place to Satan; no, not for a minute. Keep your shield of faith and you'll quench all of his fiery darts. Remember, the only way that demons and devils, or fallen angels, can get into you is through thought. Somebody said, Well, they afflict me. They cause me problems. They attack my body. No. They can't do that. They've got to get into your thoughts. They come through thoughts and then after that the affliction. That's the way you get it; you stray. You get on Satan's off limits territory. See? And when you do that then you're in problems because he can't get to you any other way. There is no other way that he can get to you. Nobody can do you any harm except you. I know we say, But, Brother Pike, there are people that are stumbling blocks to me. They get in my way. They cause me problems. No. No. It's true they can hinder you in your walk with God only because you allow them to hinder you. You know, you don't have to do that. You don't have to stay and listen to their gossip and you don't have to listen to their complaints and you don't have to get around so they can beat on you. You don't have to get around so they can abuse you. You don't have to go around them. And even with your family as a man you are the head of the house. You've got control. If it's out of control it's because of you. See? If you were walking right, living right, talking right, you'd have control and the woman would be happy because she wants to have that peace and tranquility. And if you're having problems it's because of you. Someone would say, Well, you don't know, Brother Pike, I just got a bad one. She's just no good. Well, then that means she's got a fool for a husband. Somebody say Amen. I said she's got a fool for a husband. Let her act up. Nothing but a fool would live with a woman like that. See? If she is a bad one God gave you a reason to leave her and not stay with her and if you live with her then are you a fool. But, otherwise, if she's the right kind of a woman, or a wife, she's fine. So the problem goes right back to you. See? And that means that you don't have any problems except you. And when you stay in tune with God and keep your mind in tune with God__ He that keepeth His mind stayed upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace. All of the paths of God are peace. You are peace makers. Wouldn't be any war in the world today__ From whence cometh the wars? Somebody said, From wicked men. No, it comes from wicked thoughts. From whence cometh these wars? Is it not from the war, that lust that warreth within you? Isn't that where it comes from? It certainly is. It's from your thoughts. And when you get your thoughts straightened out everything will be all right because with God it's peace on earth, good will toward man, eternally and ever. That's what He meant. That's what He wants. Some people can't get along with each other. It's no wonder God let the devil have them because He can't use them. He can't even get along with them and they can't even get along with each other. But, folks, when you turn away from the devil and you begin to talk with God and you want to think right and you want to do right He won't give you into the hands of the devil. He won't turn you over to the devil like Adam and Eve. He'll redeem you. He'll reach and get you back because He has use for you then. But, otherwise, He just gives you to the devil and let's the devil have you because He can't use you. See? You get your mind all clutter up with the things of the world and human desire, which is lust. The Bible said make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. See? And when you get caught up in all those things God can't use you. There ain't no place for God. The zeal of thine own intellectual reasoning has eaten up the mind of God. He hath no place in you, as to the thoughts. So, this is the thing we need to remember. If we're going on with God we need to get on one side of the fence or the other because is you stay in the middle, you're luke warm, you're just vomit, He'll spew you out of His mouth. If you get out there in the world you're cold and you don't know nothing about Him you'll probably lengthen your days for a few days. But if you just get in between and you learn about Him and you won't go on with Him you can never be cold then. You'll never be hot then and He'll spew you out of His mouth and the wrath of God will be poured out upon you for these are they that stand at the door and they won't go in and they hinder them that are coming and the wrath of God is continually upon them. The Bible said if you abide in unbelief then is my wrath continually upon you. There is no sanctification for you, there is no atonement for you because you've come to know and now you're in unbelief; you won't do. So the wrath of God is upon you every day. I'm angry with the wicked every day and I'll pursue the wicked until they perish from off of the face of the earth. I'll smite the wicked. I tear them into pieces. Everyone that forgets me I'll turn them into hell, He said. All nations that forget God I'll turn them into hell. Which means America also. So then, the altars are open while we sing another little verse or two here. I know that my words are not going to find a lodging place in your heart. I know that. There'll be a few of you, a real rare few of you. And you'll pick up a few of them and a few of them will find a place. But as a whole I know that there not going to find a place in your heart. Coming to church is just routine with you. It's just because you live here and you've done got into the stride of it but as far as really having a mind to serve God and a mind for spiritual things and a hunger. I know that you don't have it and I know that you won't. But the Lord said to the prophet, I've set you over the nations to pluck up and to plant. And I want you to go warn them. He said, If you don't warn them their blood is going to be on your hand. He said, But it you warn them they're not going to listen at you, but I'll at least remove the blood from off of your hands. And Paul said concerning this, he said, Your blood be upon your own head. I've ministered to you. I've delivered now my hands of the blood. Now you're blood be upon your own head because your blood means your life. The life is in the blood. When you don't have the blood of Jesus Christ, as to the life of the new blood, then you don't have life because you're life is beast blood and your beast blood be upon your own head because when you continue to go on as the beast, you have the breath of life that's in the little hemoglobin of your blood cell and that's all you are. And if you don't make the change over to this eternal life of the blood cell of Christ Jesus, as to the quickening of the eternal spirit, the great holy spirit, then that means that you are nothing but just an animal with the breath of life. and as the animal dies so die you and that's all there is to you. Just a little cosmic energy, the quickening, and that's all and you have that just to see what you're going to do, to see whether you'll make the change or not and if you make the change to come to eternal life to adorn yourself with the Word of God and to adjust your attitude and ways toward Christ and the quickening then He says, I purchased you with My blood. This is what I want for My world to come. Because this is just a dressing room and this is just a trial basis. And if you fail the test here He doesn't promote you. He doesn't take you into that world because He put you out in the pastor unto Lucifer, the god of this world, to see what you would do. And if you prove to be more than a beast by the adjustment of your attitude and the way of life to accept this mind then He changes you from that cocoon into the wonderful butterfly of God, as we say. So, it takes you by the way of the metamorphosis of Calvary and He makes you eternal. But if you don't then you perish with the glory of the world. Once again let's sing together. (Singing.) Sing it again, now. (Singing.) He's really passing by through the church ages giving you a chance to reach out and touch Him. When He passed amid the crown a lot of people got near Jesus but one little woman really touched Him. And the Bible said virtue went out from His body and healed her. And everyone that touched Him with that special touch of faith, the Bible said, virtue went out from His body and healed them all. Though many people were around Jesus and touched Him but really they didn't get anything. But they that touched him by faith received the blessings of God. Don't ever say can He do it? Am I good enough so He can do it? Or, Lord, there is something in my heart the reason you can't do it. Don't do that. That allows for doubt. You say, But, Brother Pike, there is things in my life to where He can't do it because He can't look on iniquity. I know. That's what I teach you. But rather than doing that and acknowledging that what you need to do is get straight with God. Get down on your face, call on God, get them things out of the way and when you look up at Him you look up at Him in faith with no other thoughts but, God, there is nothing too hard for you. You healed me through Calvary; that's my inheritance and no devils are going to keep me from it. It's mine. See? That way there's no room for doubtful thoughts. Jesus said be not of a doubtful mind. Get all of those discrepancies out so you won't have any thoughts there except, He has, He can, He will, He's done it. That's the way it should be. While your hands are lifted up and your eyes are closed, just talking to you about a few little things tonight, helping you to understand better. We're getting nearer and nearer to the cross, getting nearer and nearer to Calvary. The veil is being rent more and more. People are beginning to feel the rending of the veil as some people are struck from their head down to their feet with sufferings, all kind of things. But God is having to do it. We learn obedience by the things that we suffer. He's rending that veil to separate that inner spiritual you, that angelic you, from that outer man of the crust that's causing the problems. The villain of that beastly person that you are with the desires of your own intellectual ingenuity of the flesh and your passions and desires. So then, let God rend the veil. Don't make it so hard on Him and He won't make it so hard on you in trying to rend the veil. Just say, Lord, help me. Help me, Lord. I yield. Nevertheless, not my will by Your will be done, Lord. And everything will work out right for you and if you don't do that then He'll rend the veil and you'll learn obedience by the things that you suffer. Jesus, though He was a Son, being our example He learned obedience by the things that He suffered, even unto death at Calvary and the veil was rent in twain and the Christ escaped the body of the beast in that He was made to be the beast, to be hung up. Made to be the serpent to be hung up so the wrath of God would strike it and release that Christ on the inside that was made to be you and that you might be that resurrected body of the living One in the presence of God while He was that which is on that side that was diminishing as Jesus hanging upon the cross as a body of atonement, suffering your pain and misery, bruised for your transgressions that He might die out of the presence of the Father that you might live in the presence of the Father. And that He might be made sin, even your sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God, which is in Christ the spirit that comes into us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Delivered to Calvary for our offenses. Because we offended He had to die. Raised again from the grave in a new form for our justification. And now that He lives then we live also for death is now passed and because of that resurrected body we are now His bone and flesh and can never die again. I once was dead but now I'm alive forevermore. Having passed from death unto life, old things have passed away and behold, all things are now new and I am a new creature in a new world, forever and eternally. This is what's going to cause the church to change. If you are not following this trail from glory to glory, from transformation of mind to transformation of mind, from faith to faith as to one part of the teachings to another part then you're not going to make the change. It is coming to the wholeness of this and coming to the fullness of this, to the full measure of the full stature of the full reward that's going to make the change in you. So, while you've got your hands up and your eyes closed we're going to sing this little chorus. (Singing.) Once again now. (Singing.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord