According To Your Faith

… not see much, maybe very simple in their approach but they are of great importance if you can just consider the few simple statements that I might make tonight. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) Sing it again, now. (Singing.) I want to sing that again and I want you to really think of what you're saying now. (Singing.) Remember that. (Singing.) The Bible says it please God to bruise Him for His people. (Singing.) I think we ought to sing that one more time. Are you really thinking about what we're saying? (Singing.) It pleased God to bruise Him. (Singing.) The Bible says He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. He bore the sorrow for you. Wounded for you and bruised for you; a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief and the world esteemed Him not. The Bible says His soul was poured out for you. It pleased God to bruise Him for you. And why was My servant bruised? It was for you. So when you think about that you say, Lord, I thank You because You were wounded at Calvary. They wounded Your hand and Your feet when they pierced them with the nails. And because You were wounded I don't have to go to Calvary. Jesus signed my pardon. He came to set me free and Jesus signed my pardon, took my place at Calvary. So then, He was wounded for my transgressions and they beat on His back and He was bruised that I might be healed. By His stripes I'm healed. And He brought me peace. He was bruised so that I could have peace with God. Peace on earth and good will toward man. He was bruised. The angel came and said, Peace on earth and good will toward man because a little babe is going to be born in a manger and He's going to be a Savior and he's going to be wounded for your transgressions and bruised for your iniquity so that I will spare you and you won't have to go by that great whipping post and you won't have to hang at Calvary and you don't have to die and you don't have to go to hell. You can by-pass even the grave by going on with God because it's not needful for death anymore. Death is over and passed, peace has come. Deliverance is here. He came to deliver from the law and to take you out from under the law for everyone that is under the law is cursed and they that are fallen from grace is under the law. And by the law shall no flesh be justified. So then, He came to take you out from under the law and He came to take Israel out but Israel had to wait until the church ages was over to give us a chance before He would reveal Himself to them as the Messiah so that we could recognize Him as the Messiah and be delivered, and so it is we've been delivered. So then, when we sing that song we ought to have deep feeling. Deep feeling within our heart as praise and honor to think that He has done that for us. Once again as we sing it Brother Taylor. (Singing.) You can be seated. I want to say again that I'm glad that the Brethren are back safe. A lot of things are happening. Let's all take our minds over to second Peter, first chapter the second verse. "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord." Now, that Scripture goes on to say that there are given to us in Christ, great, exceedingly great and mighty promises. And through these promises we are partakers of life and godliness. Or life in this world and in the world to come life through the promises. And it goes on to say that in this these things are revealed in the knowledge of God. And it tells us that through these things that are to be found within us, as to what the Bible speaks of as patience and temperance and godliness, brotherly kindness and long suffering and virtue, that in this we find the Spirit of God and eternal tranquility and peace; that it all comes through the knowledge, Peter said. So this is why that I'm ever pressing the issue about knowledge. I'm always talking to you about knowledge, true, godly knowledge. The Bible says, Solomon was the one that was doing the talking. He said that if you will search, diligently search, you will find the knowledge of God, which is really understanding. It is really the tree of life, the word of spirit and life. But then there is another knowledge that is ever present and this knowledge doesn't have to be sought out. It's ever present with you in this world because Satan is the god of this world. And Peter says that we escape the sin and death and sorrows of this life, the sorrow, sin and death which is here because of lust. That is Satan, the spirit of lust, or Eve lusting with her eyes, allowing the spirit of lust, even Lucifer the Son of the Morning, to come into the heart of humanity, defile the blood stream and because of that the sentence of death was in the body and within the blood of the beast because it went to a beast blood and God had to withdraw, as to the Shekinah covering that Adam was illuminated with. And in that, in the withdrawal, it left man into the hands of Satan and under the auspices of the god of this world, which is Lucifer the spirit of lust. The creature, which means the body, the animal part, being made subject to vanity, not willingly – That is, the creature doesn't want to be subject to it. It isn't the creature's desire, but by reason of God, or Him which subjected the same in hope giving to us the hope of glory, the Christ within you. Hoping that we'd come through these things, as through the training, and as always, if we have the time, to break it down. You know, the last service we just pressed in and you listened real good. There wasn't too many here, the brethren being gone, some of them, but you listened real good and we got in quite a lot of things but I had to hurry, hurry, hurry to be able to say them. That makes it real difficult to really fill in the details because things that I said in the service last should have taken several months just to expound and to bring in a little detain on those things. But great is the mystery of godliness. Someone would say, Well, how great is the mystery of godliness, Brother Pike? Well, the Bible says great is godliness, or the mystery of godliness, for God, Who is a spirit was manifested in a human body called Jesus. God, being manifested in Christ, justified in the spirit, preached to the Gentiles, seen by angels and caught up into heaven to wit that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world back to Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. So then, great is the mystery of godliness and how great is that mystery? When we think that we've comprehended it and we think that we've got it and we've heard a few sermons this might help us to get balanced. How great is it? How long does it take us to understand it and to learn it? Well, it's so great that it's shocking to us who think like that because it is so great that the Bible says if the books been written of the things that God did as Christ, that the whole world couldn't contain the books. So you can see that college is like a waste basket where the garbage is thrown because if you get real knowledge and understanding the whole world can't even contain the books that you'd have to read. So then, there is only one answer and that is science falsely so-called, which means knowledge falsely so-called from the old tree of knowledge of reflecting what you really are of an endless beginning and an endless end. That is there is no beginning to you and there is no end to you. You are as you are and forever shall be and even from everlasting to everlasting has God been doing things. So that means that all we can do, or hope to obtain unto is to receive the spirit of Christ within our heart that it might be within our heart, not as some great volume of learning, or books, or these kind of thing as it is in the world of academics, but rather that Christ is in my heart, which is the fullness of God, as to whatever measure of Christ I will allow to be in me. And by being in me it doesn't matter what may need to be brought to my brain and my understanding, even if it's from everlasting to everlasting or before the world ever was, He is in there to bring it to me. He is my God memory bank of all things for He is God. And God giveth not the spirit unto Him by measure though He was a little human form like I am but He give Him that mind of understanding. He is seeking to do the same thing with you for everyone that be perfect shall be as His master. No man shall be above His master but He that overcometh shall eat of the hidden manna and set down in the throne with Christ. Which I say again is heaven, or heaven being the throne which is the world of spirit, and the ruling power to rule with a rod of iron. Which means the mind of Christ or the word of Christ. So then, this is given to us through the knowledge of God and through our Lord Jesus Christ. So when it comes to the great Spirit emanating from the body of Jesus Christ we have both heavenly perspective and earthly perspective and He is seeking to make the spirit flesh. For the last man Adam was made a quickening spirit as to the first man Adam, a living soul. So He's seeking to make us a quickening spirit taking us from the realm of the living soul. And to say the least at this time, which is probably shocking to some of you, maybe not so, but it probably would be to the church world and to the world and they've dispute it and they'd probably want my head for this and mock me and whatever. But, according to what I understand, there is now enough of the revelation and enough that has been made known to my heart, and enough that's been made available, as to what measure different once have received it in a sporadic sort of manner, being spastic in their approach. Whereas, we should have been constant and been in a continuity, or a continuation, of our searching and seeking and studying. We've just got bits and pieces, to come a little and stay out a little and learn a little and half hear a little until we just fragmentally picked up things. But at this point of life there's enough already to translate the church, enough already to change the human body. Already. It has already come. It's already here. That means that something is bound to be taking place that you don't see or understand, if you'll allow me to use that term. But, anyway, it's here. Those things are here and things are happening. Great and mighty things are happening because great and mighty things have been given to us in Christ from the foundation of the world to the slaying of the Lamb for the blood was put on the seat of atonement from the beginning of the world. And these exceeding great and mighty promises, not just Biblical printout, not just another book, not a Bible, which is a collection of twenty-six books, but it's not that. It is this living Word of revelation. You could have a Bible that would be a vitamin Bible. As a matter-of-fact, they've got a vitamin Bible. And it's got all about vitamins in it. It's called a Bible because that's what it is; a collection of books of understanding. But when we speak of the Word of God we're not speaking of a printed page. The Bible says the Word of the Lord came unto the prophets. A printed page didn't come unto the prophets. As a matter-of-fact, the Bible says these holy men, while being moved by the Spirit of God, wrote these things, as the scribblings, or what is called the Scribes. And through the scribing of these things we have a record of them today. But the Word was spirit and life for the Word is God and Jesus was the Word made flesh. And this Bible is the Word made print. So then, God is desiring not that we should know the Bible, for Bible scholars in seminary know the Bible. But He desired that we should know Him Who is a spirit; come to know God. He said, "In that day you say you prophesied in our streets, You did many mighty things, Lord, in our homes and with us and we've prophesied in Your name and all kind of things. But He'll say, I never knew you. But He wants us to come to know Him that He might know us in the intimacy of the heart and that He might be in our heart as Christ that we might know God. And to know God is as a knowledge, but that we might know God, as to our intellectual reflects to a concept of vibrations by the listening of the ear to the word, or the vocal expression of the ministry. But He wants that transferred from the stages of academic action and brought down into the heart and turned into spirit and life, glory and the revealing of that thing which is from glory to glory or light to light, understanding to understanding, or faith to faith, as to measure to measure, toward the full measure of the full stature to the full reward of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, He wants us to come to know that He is a spirit, to worship God in spirit. Like He told the woman at the well, Ye say in this mountain you're suppose to worship. Indeed they did give it to you, Jesus could have said, and I gave the program like that. Just like the tabernacle in the wilderness. But all of that was shadow of this that was to come. That was only symbolic of the invisible world, that all of the visible world was for one purpose and that is a cocoon. Or, that is, an allegoric shadow, an approach before the sunlight gets here. And this is the forerunner, as to symbols and types and shadows and the world is all vanity and all of the knowledge of the world is but shadowy thoughts of vanity. And all of the academic world of diplomacies is nothing but a shadowy approach and there is nothing real. It's all synthetic. It is all a by-product. It is not at all the authenticity of God's Spirit. So then, God, veiling Himself in the shadows of darkness to bring Himself to visibility by means of creating darkness which are those shadowy things that He might form light or project images of light that cannot be seen by human beings, project that through the instrumentality of human beings and of things that are made in the earth. So then, there is a god of this world which is lust and all of these things of the world belong to him. He testified of that when he said to Jesus, All of these things are given into my hands. If you will worship me I will give them unto you. I can give them unto whomsoever I will. Because he is the god of this world and he is the god called the spirit of lust, which is the Son of the Morning. My! It would be nice to bring those things out as to the deepness of why he's called the Son of the Morning. But, anyway, as to these little things that we say, then there is the God of love. So then, Lucifer is not the light at all but a reflector. He is really a ruler of darkness and when the blood is taken off the mercy seat grace will be gone and he will be totally darkness and all of his followers totally dark, which means ignorant, But ignorance of darkness that is within you that cannot comprehend this light. Because anytime the light comes to darkness it eradicates the darkness and the darkness is no more. So I say to you again, God creating a bird and God creating a fish and God creating a house and creating a human being, that can make all these things of vanity was nothing but an allowance as darkness, for this world is darkness, and your mind is darkness and you are creatures of darkness, falling from the light of the Shekinah that departed from Adam. And in you is sin and death and no good thing within your flesh. And the poison of asps on our lips and on your belly. See? And desiring the things of the world. No way of escape unless the head of the serpent is smitten of the intellectual world of academics, that at Calvary, to escape. And that's why Jesus chose ignorant fishermen and others that the glory might not go to the world of the academics. So, when we think about this then we know that what Paul meant when he said all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear. That is, the invisible world is clearly understood by the visible world because the visible world is the shadow of that which is to come, which is the invisible world. And the visible world is nothing at all but vanity. It's not real. It's just a passing shadow. It's a vanity of mind which, of course, takes a lot of explaining, as I've said, to be able to come to understand that, as in detail, to grasp it in your intellectual concept. But, that means there is a world somewhere, a real world, and Abraham sought this world. He sought this city whose builder and maker is God, a city that hath foundations. In that this little ole ball is floating around, as scientists say, out yonder in space somewhere and there is nothing really to this little ole world. Though we think of it as the great and mighty all in all; yet it's smaller than the other planets according to their defining. Just floating around. And then you wonder. You say, My God! How is it, if this is just one among millions, how is it that God Almighty had a preference to this little ball? and this one little thing floating around? Why not a preference to all of them? Why did He come to this one little ole ball and down here let His Son be born on this one little ole global ball? Why did He do that when He had millions and billions of things that He could have let Him come to? Or has He done this many millions of times? Or is it just the once and for all, that it redeems everything in space, everything in heaven, everything in the earth? Is this the only place where there is human beings and multiplying? Or has He been doing this for billions of years? and that we're going to discover that on all the others places, as worlds without end, the Bible says, that He has done the same thing over and over and over? Well, we're not going to find out anything about any other world. And all these people preaching about the pre Adamic world, there was no such thing. There was no such thing. They just don't understand what they're saying. But the thing is, He did choose this little ole globe. And then we think again, we think, Well, the patriarchs up there in the ground of this little ole globe, and we're looking forward to the millennium of a thousand years regime in this little ole world. And then besides that we're looking for the great city of New Jerusalem to come down out of heaven and set down on the new earth and this little ole globe is going to be a new earth. And still God is going to hold to this little ole globe. Well, some of those things are true and some of those things aren't true. They are Biblically true, as to what I'm saying, but there are some understanding that goes along with this. And that is, when it comes to that new earth and it comes to the heavens passing away it also says earth will pass away. Nevertheless, it says a generation comes and goes, another generation, the earth abideth forever. So we have to understand the mystery and the revelation of greatness in God to know that it isn't just going to be a new earth that's going to reach from California to Florida, or it's going to reach from Jerusalem over to the end of the western world, or somewhere like that. It isn't going to be that at all. So there's a lot to be understood, as to whether God is going to be confined to a little ball throughout eternity and all eternity is going to consist of is that God is going to be riding on this little ball and great New Jerusalem is going to be on this little ball. And the great new earth is just going to be this little ball. So, there is a lot to understand. And that's why a lot of times I say we don't understand and we need to go on, go on and go on for great is the mystery of godliness. But, anyway, in these things that we are saying, see? There are some things of simplicity that we need to know. And that is a simple approach of just plain faith in God. And God has made it very simple to us as children and He pities us. The Bible says He looks down and pities us because of all the problems we've got. And we just take days and months and years of consecutive talking and explaining, to expound as to these mighty promises of this mighty Word which is not a printed page but a spiritual thing that is coming through the human body to make that human body into a Celestial thing, the same way that it will make this world into a Celestial thing and for us to see the results of both. So, when we say faith, you know, simple faith Jesus spoke about these things of healing, of salvation, of prosperity. John spoke of these things. I would above all things that you prosper, be in health even as your soul prospers. Peter spoke of these things, saying, Seeing great and mighty promises are given to us in Christ Jesus. And things through these promises that we might be partakers of the divine nature of our God, which nature makes us into godliness, as to experience godliness. So Paul says that He, being made in the form of God, should not think it robbery to be equal with God. Jesus didn't. Jesus, being made in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He never sought a reputation. He humbled Himself as a servant unto death to be our example. But, nevertheless, this is the mind. He said, Let this be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who thought like that. So the spectacular thing of the ministry of Jesus was the simplicity of faith. And when people had problems, needed to be born again, whatever it was He simple said, Believe. All you have to do is believe. That made it so simple. He didn't say work this or work that. They said, What must we do to work the works of God? How long should we fast? What should we do in the way of penance because that's all they ever knew, were things of ritualistics and things that Moses had imposed upon them, even though those things were only imposed upon them, Paul said, until the time of reformation, which was the coming of the promised seed, even the Lord Jesus. And the promise was unto Abraham that Abraham, I will return at the time of life unto Sarah and she shall have a son and through him shall all nations be blessed (Begin tape one, side two.) … or as the seed of Isaac, which is the Jews, for in Isaac shall the seed be called and not everyone that's called a Jew. But through that, as being the head of the nations in the millennium, all nations will come under the leadership of the blessing of the Jews when they are put through the fire. For being the scapegoat they go through the fire while the Gentiles get the blessing. So did Jesus, the head of the Jews, while Christ comes to us in the Spirit and we are spiritual Jews and we get the blessings of God. So then, realizing that we are special people, as the bride of Christ, because Christ has come to us. And Paul said, I'm Christ. Not me living but Christ. And Paul, I've set you for a light to the ends of the world, to the Gentile and all the ends of the earth shall come to your shining. As to you and I, arise, put on your beautiful garment, Zion, for the time of your shining has come and all of the world shall be brought to this light, this wonderful understanding, this wonderful message, this wonderful revelation. So, when we think about this we know that we are the true Jew. We are the true Israelite. We are the great wonderful bride of Christ. Not as to Jesus, but the bride of Christ and Christ has come into our heart and now we have conceived of the seed of the Christ Himself, in our heart even as Jesus conceived of the Christ spirit and the seed of Christ to become the Word that the Word might be made flesh, or that the word of spirit and life might become flesh to the extent that the flesh would be changed into a quickening spirit that it might be not as a living soul of the first man Adam, but a quickening spirit as to what God had intended for Adam to be before the fall. And, of course, when I say these things they are so compact, so minute in expression, that it would take hours just to put the fillers in to make this broad enough to where you could conceive of it, or understand it. Well, anyway, Jesus just used a simple little approach and that is, the works was finished from the foundation of the world. All they ever knew was works. And all they ever knew was to do those things, but when the promise came, Isaac the promised son, and yet not Isaac, but Isaac being a symbolic shadow of that. When Christ Jesus came then the Bible says that which is in part shall be done away with for when that which is perfect is come. We know that in our heart when that which is perfect is come and Christ is perfection. Then we are not in part anymore for we are perfected forever, once and for all by the sanctifying of the perfect one. And they that were under the law that died in the faith of Abraham, concerning the promise, they went to the bosom of Abraham. Which meant died in the faith that came from his bosom. But couldn't get over Jordan because the promised seed of perfection had never yet, at that time, come. And the Bible says they without us could not be made perfect. So they slept and they were in the paradise that was within the heart of the earth, as it is expressed. And Jesus went to preach to the prisoners in the heart of the earth. And so then, when the time came of the reformation and the fullness of time came God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law to deliver them from the law, or the curse of the law or death, to take them out from under death from the plagues of the law and the keeping of ordinances of all these things that was imposed upon them until the time of the reformation, making a complete change as to that not being sufficient, as to the sanctifying of the person inwardly, seeing that even the priest, himself, could not be sanctified and it was not sufficient to move in from the conscience and clear the conscience. There had to be a new thing that would be brought forth with Christ's new blood that could actually enter right into the holy place, to go right down into your heart, as to the quickening Spirit of Christ, and there take away your sins and root out all of the iniquity. And through the process of transformation of mind bring this wonderful glory into your body to transfigure your body that this light of understanding might be made manifest in your mortal genes, the Word being made flesh, this wonderful knowledge of these wonderful promises, even the promised land of God. So then, seeing that when He that is perfect came in the fullness of time all things were gathered into Him in heaven and earth and He rulers all things. That is to say, grace everywhere, took everything in. Let the whole world rejoice because Jesus reigns and even the tare can rejoice and the grace is poured out upon all during the time, especially during the time of the blood being on the seat of atonement, which blood was on there from the foundation of the world because God, to spare the world and to perfect the saints and to kill the Lamb in His foreknowledge before the world ever was to have blood on the seat of atonement to give us this in Christ before the world ever was so that He could reveal it to us at the rent veil of Calvary when the promise seed came. And so the veil was rent and there we are down through our generation. Now. I said all of that to say this, that we are predestinated in Christ and it is revealed to us at the coming of the Lord. That is why it is said in the Scriptures your heart should be prepared for the coming of this great wonderful revelation. The great wonderful revelation. And this will be exposed at the time of the revelation for though you can't grasp this, a lot of you, the coming of the revelation is Christ. It is Christ. It's not like it's going to be Christ. Paul had the revelation. He said, I am Christ. The coming of Christ to the spiritual Jew is a spiritual God. And the coming of Jesus, being born among the natural Jew indicates the change of your body, in that the Jews parallel the body, for Paul says in the revelation at the casting away of the Jews. In the sixth chapter, the sixth seal showing this as to untimely figs falling when they are shaken of a mighty wind. Said, and with the casting away of the Jews that being the reconciling of the world. But if this be the reconciliation of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be, as to the first of Daniel's last week but the resurrection from the dead, which means the changing of the body. Until the Jews come in your body cannot be changed because I say to you again, We're saved by new birth and we're translated into the spirit of Christ, as to a new birth inwardly, which means as to this child forming within us at his very birth of being born again. He was caught up to the throne and the Kingdom of God, as to the throne, is within you. And Christ is within you and the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. It doesn't come by observation but it's within a man, He told the Jews. But as to the Jews untimely because they said, Will you at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel. Said, It's not given to you to know. Christ said, My kingdom is not of this world. Jesus was crucified. He'll come again in His time, in Revelation 12. In Revelation 14 He comes to have His kingdom. So when we see this coming to Calvary then we understand that we expect Christ and that from Christ, as to the rent veil to make known the revelation in that now, it was said, the light is come. The true light, which means understanding the mind of Christ, is now seen. And to them that set in the regions of the shadow of death great light, or understanding, has sprang up unto them at Calvary. And now the ends of the world have come. But for you, as to the body, you cannot come in except through adoption. Though spiritually you're already born again, you are already sealed in. You are already perfected forever. You are already justified, glorified, sanctified, predestinated through and in the Word Christ, or your spirit translated into the Word Spirit of Christ. Hid with Christ in the body of resurrection, sitting at the right hand of the Father, overcoming, sitting there on the throne with Him. But the bodily change is when the head comes and appears at the end of the church ages. Your body cannot make that change until the coming in of the Jews because the body is born of somebody else. It's already born. It was born of Adam. Therefore for it to get into the Kingdom of God it has to be adopted in and that brings you in line with the Jews for the Jews are not born in the Kingdom. They have to be adopted into the Kingdom. So then, Paul speaking as from a Jewish perspective and toward the redemption of the body he said, When we come to the Bar Mitzvah, which is about the age of twelve as it would be in the natural, and about the time that Jesus went up to the temple and confounded the wise men, the son taking over, see? And when we come to the Bar Mitzvah – That is to say, when they come it will bring in the law and the adoption is by law. If you're going to adopt somebody from another birth you've got to go by the way of the law. And when the Jews come in the law will come again as last week of Daniel to bring about that as to the millennium regime and rule and the days of grace will be over, as to this woman world of America, as we say. Especially America. So then, we find out that when the law comes the body will be adopted and Jesus, being a Jew, as it would be, and yet He's not because He didn't have Jew blood. But, nevertheless, as a Jew born among the Jews, being the head of the Jews, whereas Pilate put it over the cross, the King of The Jews, and they said, Say not that He is king of the Jews but rather that He says He is the king of the Jews. Pilate said, What I have written I have written. So He's king of the Jews. Now, I said that to say this: When He appears in the heavens in the last week of Daniel, right there at the first of it, in the sixth seal when the heavens roll back like a scroll and the stars of heaven fall as figs from a tree, though it is showing Calvary, as to the fall, yet it shows also at that time the coming in of the Gentile church to the closing of the church ages, or the going out of the world, as it would be to us. Which means Calvary. And then it reflected over by the world to Revelation 12 in the last week of Daniel, which is again back to the perspective of the natural. Great is the mystery. We don't have time to explain it. But, anyway, when it comes to this the law comes in. And when the law comes in Jesus appears and that's to the Jews. And on Mount Zion, the fourteenth chapter, the new blood cell. The beast blood is over and then they become equal with us who already have this blood. And yet we are still unchanged in our earthly image. That is to the fall through Adam and in the beast level. So then, that means that when we get our new blood, as to the change, or this glory inwardly that is manifested in our human beings as our body that this heavenly treasure within these earthen vessels being made manifest in our mortal genes to shine as the brightness of the noonday. When we get this the change will be sudden, right in the moment in the twinkling of an eye. And that means that the adoption will be there because the law has come in. The Jews have come back in and the Jew indicates the resurrection. If the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jew be but life from the dead. Or that is to say, If the casting away of the Jews brings in the spiritual perspective or the spiritual Jew, what will be the resurrection but it's the body being changed because you are dead in trespasses and sin until that time. But this glory is working on the inside and will be made manifest in your mortal genes. Which there are hundreds and thousands of things which could be said about that. So then, there will be a change as to your body coming in and being adopted and then the new birth will be made effective to body, soul and spirit. Now. The simple terms faith. And we're just going to say a few things and then close. The simple terms faith. Jesus had the Word or was the Word and when He met somebody that had a need spiritually He would tell them to believe. Paul said it shall come to pass that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If thou canst believe in thine heart that God has raised up Jesus from the dead thou shalt be saved. And then when it come to things that were a natural need, and being a derivative from a spiritual source, or come to that to where we had to super naturally believe for our healing Jesus simply said, Do you believe that I'm able to do this? Whereas, the Bible uses the terms like this: Abraham being fully persuaded that what God had promised He was able also to perform, do you believe I'm able to do this? And then when it comes to Jesus John used the terms like this: Brethren, if we do that which pleases God in our physical being then do we have confidence of heart, and we assure our heart before God that He hears us. And if we know that He hears us we already have all things from Christ, I say, through Calvary. Exceeding great and mighty promises that have given us all things that pertain unto life from the foundation, or the foreknowledge of God. Now, Jesus said, standing at the tomb of Lazarus, Father, I know that thou hearest me always. I know that. And, He said, I do always the things that please you, Father. You put those things together. I do always the things that confidence my heart to believe that you are near me and that you hear me for I do the things that please you and I know because of that you hear me always. For if we do that we know that God hears us. We know that we have the petition that we desire of Him. So Jesus' secret was as Enoch; before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. Without faith it's impossible to please Him for you have to believe in Calvary and the atonement of Jesus Christ to be able to have God even look at you to sanctify you by their faith to come into your heart or to heal you. So then, I said that to say this, that we're made to realize that it is our faith. Our faith sanctifies us to where God can get to us. Otherwise, He cannot get to us. He cannot heal us. He cannot save us. I say this so often. Do you think that God would stand by and let a man dash a baby's brains out? Let a mother kill and choke it to death? Put it in scalding water? Let all the horrible, hideous, things take place through life? Of course He would not. He definitely would not if He could do anything about it but He cannot do anything about it. Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, God can do anything. There is nothing too hard for God. I know that. I know that. But then what do we do with the Scripture where it says it is impossible for God to lie? God can do anything He wants to do but God don't want to lie. It's impossible for the spirit of truth to lie. Though men take the truth, the Bible says, and change it into a lie but God remains the same. It's only a perversion of their minds to misuse the Word for their evil ways and cults of life. So when we think about faith in God He simply said, Do you believe that I'm able to do this? And they would say, Well, I believe. He said, All right. Do you believe? I believe. Like the man that cried and said, Lord, I believe; help my unbelief. But He was saying, Do you really believe? They said, We believe that you're able to do it. Or them that came to Jesus and they said, Lord, if you will you can make me whole. Jesus simply said, It's My will. It's My word. I'm the Word. I'm God manifested in the flesh. It's God's will; peace on earth, good will towards you. I would that you be whole, healthy, prosper, be in health, have all the securities of life. I would. I would. I will that you be healed. So that settled that question right there. And He said, Do you believe I'm able to do this? Fully persuaded. One could say fully persuaded. Have no doubt. Not of a doubtful mind. You're the Word; it's yea and amen. If you said it that's the way it is. And He did say by His stripes we're healed. So then, when we look at this we say. Lord, how? He simply said, According to your faith. If thou canst believe; all things are possible to them that believe. Whereas someone would say, Well then, Brother Pike, this is where the hang up is because I just can't believe. See? I'm just one of them that can't believe. Now, see? That's where you're lying against the truth because the Bible says God hath dwelt unto every man the measure of faith. You have to have believing to get up and down, to eat, to drink. And He gave you a measure of faith that it might cause you to know and understand to the extent that you can believe and have opportunity to believe. But if you don't give yourself to anything spiritual, anything to the Word of God, to any activity toward God there's going to come a day when the crisis is going to come upon you and all kind of sorrow and problems. And then you're going to want to believe. And then you're going to want to pray. And then you're going to want to seek God but it's going to be too late. You've given all of your time and practice to eating, your belly, going after the things of the world, laughing, watching movies, televisions, visiting. No real concern; we're just Christians, that's all. We're just really interested in our salaries and the comforts of life, but we're Christians. But you're going to find out that you're not. So then, when it comes to this thing Jesus said, According to your faith. See? According to your faith. You should practice things that are right. And just as you train to be a nurse, just as you train to be a pilot, just as you train to be an engineer. You have enough believing. God has given it to you as an initiative toward that to where if you put a little time in practice you can become that. He hath given you the same thing on a spiritual level that if you are willing to apply yourself then you can come to this wonderful thing called faith in Christ Jesus. If you don't then you give yourself to the world and it's understood that all men have not faith. You won't have faith because it's Christ's faith. So your faith is suppose to bring you to Christ's believing. And of course, that's by which you're sanctified. Now, this is a little thought here I want to leave with you. Jesus said according to your faith. According to your faith. Just whatever you believe. Just whatever you believe. Now, a lot of times we ask God for something and we don't seem to get it and we continue on in the problems that we have. The problems remain and we go right on in the same condition. See? And then the question arises, Oh, God, what has happened? You said if I ask anything in Your name You would give to me. And then we say, Lord, why did you not do it? See? That proves unbelief. The fact that we question Him proves that we didn't believe it. Because if we had believed it, it would have happened and we would not have had opportunity, or occasion, to go and say to God, Why did you not give it to me? Or when we go back to God to ask over and over. Whereas there is nothing wrong with calling on God as an importunity to get God to notice you. But it isn't like He has neglected you. It isn't like He hasn't heard you. It isn't that He can't hear you, but your iniquities have separated between you and God and you've not believed in the righteousness of God nor the atonement of Christ to eradicate those iniquities by faith of deliverance to the extent that it eradicates your sins and iniquities so that the spirit can come into your heat purifying your heart by faith so that the spirit of healing and deliverance can come into your heart. See? So when we look at it and understand it this way, without faith we can't please Him because He can't even get near us until there is a believing, until there is a shield against iniquity, until there is a dissolving, eradicating of the impurities as the filth of the flesh and us forsaking the carnal mind of darkness and the intellectual ingenuity of our own conceit and ability to obtain unto that which we can never obtain unto seeing that the carnal mind is enmity with God, all the diplomacies of life. The Bible says measuring yourself by yourself with the diplomacies of life you're not wise. If you seek honor one of another you can't have the honor of God. Now. Jesus said according to your faith. I ask, Lord, would you give it to me? And the Lord says according to your faith. That is He said, Ask anything in My name and you can have it. Say what you will and you can have it. Decree it in your heart, don't doubt and you can have it. So, you see, even when He says decree it in your heart, don't doubt, Peter, whatever's been done to this tree you can do the same thing. Say to this mountain be removed and it will be removed. But you have to not doubt in your heart. Walk on the water, Peter; believe. He did. Doubt, Peter; sink. He did. Look at Me and believe again. I am the Word; I'll save you. And He did, like that. It works that quick. That is just a spontaneous thing. So then, He says to you, I gave it to you. All things that pertain unto life through these exceeding great and mighty promises. All you have to do it believe what I said. This is the Word. I was wounded for your transgression, the chastisement of your peace was upon Me. By My stripes you're healed. So then, we look and we see this and then something arises in our heart. Did God really do it for me? Why isn't it working in my life? I don't believe that He changes His Word. I can't doubt that there is a God. He that cometh to God must believe that He is and believe that He is a rewarder of them that seek Him. Or believe that there is a God. So, them that diligently seek Him. So then, I believe that there is a God. So does the devil. If you believe there is one God you do well; so does the devil. See? So I believe there is a God. I believe that this God keeps His Word, that It's never altered or changed, even to a thousand generations. What He says to one He says to everyone of us so I believe. What is wrong, God? What is wrong? He says according to your faith. I believe that but am I fully persuaded that He, as an invisible super natural that I can't see, not acquainted with, only by faith, that He can, in this day and time of the modern life, do these things, as to the miraculous? Can I really make myself believe that or am I just making believe and trying to make myself believe that? But to actually come to the place to where my soul will scream out and say, My God! It happened because He did it before it is ever noticed in the flesh. Because He said, My God! it supernaturally happened to me. See? This is where the little catch is. Right there. Can you say it and not doubt? If you doubt you're not sanctified. If you're not sanctified He can't even look on or get near you so you've got to keep in stride with a daily sanctification for the body because you're sanctification is by Jesus' offering up. It's once and for all for your soul, as to salvation, but a sanctification of the body is a submission and a daily walk with God as submitting your thoughts and transformating in your mind and coming to God in humility and fear of God and it brings honor, long life and riches. So then, when He says according to your faith then that's where the problem is. All of those things of ask and believe. If thou canst believe in thine heart. Decree it in thy heart and not doubt. Say what you will, don't doubt. It all hinges on belief. So He said, According to your faith. According to your faith. The man said, I believe, help mine unbelief. The man that came to Jesus in humility said, Lord, the servant, I need help. He didn't even come to Jesus. He just sent a servant to Jesus saying, I didn't think I was worthy to come to you. Humility before honor and pride before destruction. And he said, I never thought I was worthy to come to you and I don't think I'm worthy for you to enter in under my roof but I know that you are a man of authority. I am a man of authority. I say to one go, go, another come and he comes. All I want you to do is just speak the Word. And He marveled and He said, I've not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. Or, that is, He could have been talking about Jacob, or of Israel, but the thing is, he went home and found his servant healed. Or, that is, when he went to the servant the report came back. Then when the little woman came and ask for the healing of her daughter and He said, It's not meat to give the children's bread to the dogs. Healing is the children's bread. They have a right to that. You are the children, children of God, children. Do you have any meat? The children of God have a right to healing. So then, He says, It's not meat to give this to the dogs. You people are dogs. You're nothing but swine. You are animals and this is bread for the children. But, see? The woman said, But, Lord, the dogs eat of the crumbs. This really got to Jesus because that proved that she wasn't no dog. She was willing to humble herself like a dog but she wasn't a dog. She wasn't an animal. She wasn't a beast, or a brute beast made to be taken and destroyed. Jesus recognized that she was a daughter of the Lord and her persistence, her importunity, continually. Like the little parable was given, if you go to a man and you ask him for bread and he says, Away with you, it's night. I'm in bed and my children are in bed. I will not arise and give you. But says, Because of your importunity, or your determination to keep knocking, knocking, saying, There is somebody come to my house; I've got to have bread. He wouldn't give it to you because he's a friend but because of your importunity. As the judge said, If I don't go something to avenge this widow she's going to drive me crazy. I don't fear God nor man but she'll drive me crazy asking so he avenged her of her adversary. See? And will not God hear even that as to a little sparrow? Will He not hear you that's worth more than sparrows? Will He not hear your every cry and will He not supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory? Will He not bountifully give to you whatsoever you ask of Him? And this is your fruits the way you ask that you may have. See? So I said that again to say this: He gave the woman what she wanted because of humility. It made her faith great for He said, Great is thy faith, woman, and your persistency, a consistent thing, you won't let up. You are determined to believe that I'll give to you. And because she wouldn't let up, even going by the way of the crumbs, then that was faith. Now, in this I said all of that to just make a point here and we're going to close. And that is, always remember, it's according to your believing. Whereas, if you didn't get it then that's the condition of your believing. If you did (Begin tape two, side one.) … Is God respect of persons? No. No, this thing's to a thousand generations. What I say to one I say to all. Even the rain on the tare. How much more on the children. So then, what are we saying? See? The condition depends on you as to your condition of heart. If you condition the heart. If you do the things that please God. Deny self. Bring the transformation of the mind with the Word. Think on Him. Bring every thought into subjection. The more you walk with Him, the more you talk with Him, the more you fellowship Him, the more you love Him, the more you forsake the world of things and academics, and the thoughts of human reasoning, the more you get away from the molecular side of life and the more you come to God you're leaving the vanity of the world. See? Whether you fast, whether you pray, whatever, it isn't like that to get your faith to work. Though faith without works is dead He said, I've done the work. But it is for you to condition your heart because all He requires is believing. But you're not going to believe, in that there is no good thing within the flesh, until you make some effort to get the devil out of you and get your old carnal greed out of you and your old spirit of lethargy of intellectual reasoning out of you and your over-confidence of human thought, as to being in God, when you're not even living one percent in Christ. To get that out and to break down that old haughty spirit of pride and contrariness and to get out of the world and to get the devil out of you to condition that heart to believe. That's where your hang-up is. So, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. And when you do come to God sincerely and you do ask of God and nothing seems to have happened then when you go to say, Lord, You promised and I don't have it, why is it I don't have it? And the Lord answers back, But I kept My word. I didn't alter it. I didn't change it. I kept My word. You do have it. I gave it to you. So then, you say, But, Lord, I feel the same, Lord, I've still got the same problems. Lord, how could I have it? And then He says, According to your faith. That is to say, Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. By it the elders obtained a good report and the people had the dead raised to life again. According to you faith. He says, I gave it to you when I gave you faith. Faith is the substance. You've already got it. You've already got it. You say you believe; you've already got it. Where is it? It's that faith. That is the substance. That is the thing you ask for. It's all done. It's all wrapped up. It's in the package of love from God. So then, you burst out with praise, as Abraham, strong in faith. Fully persuaded now. And you say, Oh, my God! I thank you for giving it to me, Lord. I thank You! And that faith is expedited, set on fire because you already have it and you're praising God that before the foundation of the world it was given to you in Christ and then was brought to light at Calvary and that all of that is your inheritance in Christ and all you have to do is start praising Him for it, rejoicing and being strong like Abraham, giving Him glory because He did it. He gave it to you. It's your faith. According to your faith. So then, we can tell by that, that is what happens. That's where we fail God. Let's stand together. Just a few little thoughts tonight that might help you. What happens is we sink on the inside. Our heart becomes faint and problems arise from that because we are weak in faith and Jesus said on the boat, Where is your faith? When He commanded the weather He expected it to happen. Where is your expectation for the great miraculous of God? If thou canst believe in thine heart. Not an infatuation of your human senses though you do have to get those human senses in line. But, you see? There is one thing we have to remember. God has wrought a work within our spiritual angelic being on the inside. He hath wrought this work and this is a finished work and at Calvary He said it is finished, and that is ready. That is finished. That is sealed unto the day of the change of the body which is called the redemption. And even though the purchased possession is the body, the creature, it's already redeemed by the blood. But, as I said, it's waiting for the Bar Mitzvah, the change. Now. What we have to remember is that though we are an angelic being already in heaven, already in the Kingdom of God within us and translated into the Spirit of Christ, which is the Kingdom of God. We have to remember that. Our sins are all gone. There is nothing that can keep us from our faith. We can't say, Well, I'm not good enough or Lord, thus and thus, and Lord, thus and thus, because you can't call common and unclean what He's cleansed. His blood is sufficient. He cleansed you once and for all so you don't go around condemning yourself. Happy is he that doth not condemn himself in that thing he stumbleth into when he's trying his best not to do it, or that which he alloweth. See? To take down the shield of faith. He is sanctified. He is purified. He is glorified by the blood. Now. Though we are an angelic being, though we glow in heaven, and though we're spiritual that still don't bring it to pass. That don't bring it to pass. Though we have believed in our heart, as a spiritual thing, and a spiritual benefit came and a spiritual translation came as a spirit within you as the angelic being into the spirit of Christ, which is an angelic thing, into heaven which is a spiritual world and it all happened. It's all over; it's all finished. But now, if we're going to get something in the natural world, something in the natural body, something in the physical realm then there has to be a physical mate to that spiritual thing. There has to be something that mates to that and that's the woman. Because on the inside that's masculine. But if the seed goes into the womb of the woman to bring forth as a reproduction there has to be a body. That's the feminine. And that's where the catch is. The law comes by hearts and hearts are united together and God seeks favor in the heart. Looking for the upright in heart to show Himself strong in their behalf. As you think in your heart so you are. I will feed you the thoughts of your heart, or those thoughts. I will feed a person the thoughts, their own thoughts. Now. So, when this spirit comes to the place to where it is willing, and it is through the birth, to take on the body which is unwilling and master the body in putting down the opposition of getting the devil out of the body, or the power of God within you in that greater is He that is within you than he that is in the body of the world. Paul said within the flesh no good thing. And when you become angelically concerned to the extent that you will mortify the deeds of the body, stop looking at that old image, admiring that fleshly lust that warreth against the soul and stop making provisions for the human desire to feed the belly and you'll get away from that and put that thing to death, as to why Christ killed it at Calvary for you. See? When you start walking in His steps with a mind of suffering then Christ begins to be presented in your body. The Word is made spirit, or flesh in your body. Now. And when it comes to this the heart begins to be conditioned right. You are doing the things that please God and the child is known by his doings. Now, when you start doing this it is your heart and your heart is a muscle. That's fleshly. That's part of you. That's the woman. That's the part that God has chosen to relate to the spirit, as to the masculine. And the heart takes the conception. It is the womb of your heart and the seed of God remaineth within you which is the spirit of Christ, as to the Word. Conceiving of that Word, the great and mighty promises and the conception within the heart to bring forth life. Christ forming within you. Until then I travail. So when this heart, this muscle reacts to that virtue of the Christ spirit on the inside, (The Bible says virtue went out of His body healing all) then this virtue floods the body. It goes into your blood veins and like Paul when that venom of the snake went into the blood veins he had so much virtue in him he just released his faith. It killed it. If you drink any deadly thing is shall not hurt you. So, when it comes to the heart, believing with the heart, the muscle reacts and responds to the condition of the spirit which is a soul confidence of God. You assured it and of confidence, hereby we assure our heart. The natural part. Truth, as to the spirit of truth, Christ, is found within the heart. When the heart is conditioned the reflects of the heart is the determining factor, as to your healing. If thou canst believe in thine heart. If you can subdue that heart to where you are not of a doubtful mind, which is your intellectual mind that's in the carcass of the human senses. Convince your mind which is in your heart. Your thoughts. And get them in line with the Word. Paul said, Oh, wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body, of this contrary thing. I have a desire on the inside, a will to perform but in the body I cannot get a performance out of it for it is contrary. The woman has somehow conceived of the wrong thing, as to the mind of the tree of knowledge, now she's contrary to me, as Adam would say and Adam finally was over powered by her and was lost. But the second man Adam came in the form of the woman as the weakness of Adam and the living soul and He mastered the body through the masculine on the inside as Adam should have done and restored it back to its original and put the woman, which is the feminine part under subjection. And the woman is happy to do that. If she sees the God mind in you she becomes one with the God mind and she has riches all in heaven and earth. If she sees that old gullible, intellectual mind of yours then she becomes the same gullible person because she gets over powered by your spirit which is stronger in that she is the feminine, the weaker, and then the first news you know she's just as gullible and just as raunchy as you are. So when it comes to the heart, if thou canst believe, convince thy heart, doubt not, truth in the heart, let this be made manifest in your mortal genes and when it hits the blood stream it will race through there as virtue. When it does it will kill every germ in your body. It will do away with all of the aging. It will do away with all of the death. It will restore you back to your originality, back to your youth as Adam in the garden when he was illuminated and this time not illuminated, as to that that is to the blood on the seat of atonement, but the royal blood on the inside. You will become the royal blood of the new life, the uncontaminated. The body of death will be gone. The woman, as to that body, has been purged, put into the grave as the body. They soul into hell as to the blood, or the bleeding and then raised again as the spiritual body on the other side as a new creature, a new world, as to come to believe this, make it effective in the body will change the body. The change is close by. Change the body, and in doing this the woman is pulled out of travail. And as in Israel's time, the last three and a half years in the wilderness, a place prepared for her, she comes back at the end of that three and a half years and joins the masculine which is the husband, as to the twelve sitting upon the throne, ruling, as it would be in the millennium. So then, the body is close to the change. Now, you've got to do this, and this is the part that's left up to us for us to subdue. Though the outer man perish yet the inner man is renewed day by day. When you make this to be that way your blood is not beast blood anymore. The curse isn't there anymore. Satan is gone. You are not under the law anymore. And see? That is eternal life, as to the great quickening spirit within that blood stream that was created in the womb of Mary, passed on to us through Christ from the rent veil. When you have this on the inside of you and have this as that Christ within you the hope of that glory and to be made manifest to the change of your body like His was on the mount of transfiguration. Like His was at the end of the church ages, the sun shining within His strength, wisdom making your face to shine as it was with Stephen. Moses so bright they had to put a veil over his face. See? This penetrates the blood genetics. And this inward treasure that you now have in your earthen vessel will be made manifest in your mortal earthen vessel, in the earthen genes to where the illumination will change you into a celestial God, a celestial body. Will you make it? It all depends. According to your faith. It depends. And I tell you, the way that some of you play around, the way that some of you esteem the Word, the way that you are so confident in your intellectual of these things and don't understand nothing yet. See? And in that you won't make it. Take my word as your pastor; you won't make it. But you that have listened and acknowledge that you don't know and he does know and you're listening even until this time to try to get tonight what I'm telling you, or not I, but what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Having an ear you'll hear and having eyes you'll see, if it's eyes of understanding. Ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. So then, if you do you will do what I say and you will change it. So the child is known by his doings, otherwise you'll continue on in the rut you're in with the confidence that you know and you won't make it. So everybody isn't going to make the change. Let's sing a little chorus together. I tell you the truth and I lie not. My conscience and my spirit bearing witness with my conscience in the Holy Ghost that this is absolutely the profound fact of God. For you to make it you have to love these exceeding great and mighty promises for it is His Word that is spirit and life. Unless you can conceive of it to do what I'm telling you, you will never give birth to the child. So the woman, as to your body, will never have the inheritance because in the Old Testament without the birth of a child, if the woman was barren she didn't get an inheritance and if the child came forth, as to your change of the body into the image of the child, which is the Lord Jesus Christ, then you have the inheritance of heaven and earth. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) Can you sing that with me? (Singing.) Can you sing it like this now? (Singing.) Think about that now. (Singing.) You know, like the writer said, it must have been cold standing there within my shadow, for He was here all the time waiting for the shadow to dissipate for the coming of the bright dawning of the Day Star within our hearts that He might eradicate the shadow of the coldness and bring us into the beautiful world. You know, this comes to my mind while I'm talking. Great things are taking place. The great moment of His arrival. Like the song writer says, The trumpets are sounding. We can see His coming down the street. The King is coming, the King is coming. And I was thinking while we were talking. I believe it was last night down at the parliamentary house, or what they sometimes call the Father's House, and Joseph said to me, Dad, I want to cut a doorway in the back of the church. I've not talked to Joe about cutting a doorway back there but I always wanted a doorway back there. I thought maybe someday I'll do that, I guess. But he said, I just want to do it and I said, Well, maybe we can work that out, I was trying to tell him and a few things that I wanted to do. And Brother Bradley spoke up and he said, I can't hardly believe you're saying that, because it's really rough to cut through those walls. Cutting through that wall right there was like a nightmare, many hours of working on it. We finally had to chisel it out bit by bit. But, anyway, he said, I just can't hardly believe that. And then he looked at me and said, Do you remember a dream I had a long time ago, or a night vision that was given me? And then it snapped back to my mind and then I remembered that while I was up here trying to minister – I don't exactly remember how the vision goes but all of a sudden the doors were opened, or they opened them, opened the front doors and all of a sudden there came into the front door a great ball of fire. And the Brother said it was so awesome when the ball of fire came in. When the people saw it they were kind of nonchalant to start with, the way he talked, but when they saw it they were in such awesome fear that it just tore them up. They were just paranoid. And he said, And this ball of fire started to moving down toward the sacred desk and then he could tell it was a man. A man. Almost like he was sitting on a throne. It was a man and said the ball of fire came right down the aisle way and it came right down to where we were standing and while I was standing here it went right through me. And said when it went right through me that it went out a doorway that was back here. And of course, there is no doorway here. But he said, I can't hardly believe you're saying that. And right now, me saying the things I'm saying, that I have said, and I was talking to them at that time about Brother Branham and the eagle nation of America and prophets being liken unto eagles and that Brother Branham a prophet, his ministry was referred to as that. And on the back of the book they always but an eagle on it. As a matter-of-fact, little Bill came and gave me a cap with Pike's Peak on it and had an eagle on it, which really had a meaning. Yesterday I believe it was, because there was a number of other things that happened yesterday. If we brought them all in line you'd understand what I'm saying. Many things I say to the Brethren I don't get to say here. Whereas, I wish I could say them here because I want to get this on tape. Satan has hindered us here and kept us from saying things here and kept the people from working with me here for one reason, majorly, and that's to keep it off the tape to where it wouldn't go into books and get out yonder in the world. Satan figured if he could just get it to where nobody could hear it but the Brethren that he would keep them interested in business and money and side tract this thing and then squash the whole thing with this little group and it would never get to the world. Never the less God is letting it spring up in sprigs out around the world. We just got another translation in Persian and another translation in some other language, and just got another translation of a book in Russian, Little Glass Slipper. All this things have happened. Numbers of translations. But, anyway. And then the same day they sent and asked me if they could put a dove on all of our books. Which was fantastic because I was talking to them about – I talked to them about the dove leading the eagle as Brother Branham said in his lifetime. And I explained to them. I said, What that is, is the coming in of the millennium where Jesus will reign for a thousand years. I said, And the dove nation will then leave America and she won't be the government any longer as the eagle nation, in that she chooses the bald eagle for her bird, and the prophet of the church ages showing that under the law, under the law and the Old Testament are here in America. And then I brought out how that when we were at the grave of Brother Branham where I'd seen this vision and numbers of visions, but this particular vision. And what I'm about to say might not tie in altogether as to one vision. I can't remember. But, anyway, it all ties in together as to the revelation of the vision. But, anyway, I had looked in the vision and when I looked I was at the graveyard where Brother Branham was buried and at the graveyard I was like over on this side of the graveyard, as I would say, and was looking across the graves with the old tombstones, and whatever, in that it was an old ancient graveyard and I was looking over here at the tomb of Brother Branham. Which if you've ever been in the graveyard, some of you have, you know what it's like. Numbers of things took place there at the graveyard that's real symbolic if we had time tonight to say something about it. But, anyway, over here at the grave I looked in the vision and here was Brother Branham's followers lined up one behind another at his grave. And then I looked and it was getting dark. The light was going out. The Day Star was leaving and the light was going out. And as I looked I thought, Well, night is going to catch those people over there. Night is going to catch those people. Now. You say, What does that mean, Brother Pike? Well, I believe many of them looked for a resurrection of Brother Branham, which I said it won't come. It won't come until that day when they'll all be resurrected. But they believed that anyway and they kept looking to him because he was a prophet. That was normal. Followers of Brother Branham looking as they did to Paul and to the wonderful things that's in the ministry of Paul as concerning the Word of God and the doctrine of Christ. So then, I saw that. And this is what I seen. Still looking for Brother Branham, at the grave expecting a resurrection. (Begin tape two, side two.) … and the eagle not being able to stay on there, he was soaring away, flying away, saying this is over. This is over. And coming to a pyramid but not yet a capstone. And coming to these things that I spoke of tonight, faith, charity, brotherly love into a capstone. Now. Charity being the capstone where I saw the vision where charity gets the crown. So the eagle kept flying away. Looking to Brother Branham, or the word, or the message, not going on with the message to what Brother Branham referred to as the third pull. For a lot of times it makes me think about it when I see panoramic view where he said there would be a panoramic cathedral, a booth in the middle even when I looked at this up here. Which these things were not planned. And then I see these things like this. And then the ball of fire, the back door, all of these kind of things, see? And him looking down from up here at that as to a cathedral, which is the wilderness, as to his day was liken unto a tent, or a tabernacle. In Solomon's day it was a temple. See? But, anyway, in this it means the human body, a tabernacle, and the intellectual wilderness a temple within the mind of Christ. Brother Branham here the smiting of the head, the killing of the serpent, as to the serpent seed and the bruising of the head showing the Lord Jesus over here if we had time to go into the revelation of the present day truth showing the Lord Jesus and the smiting, the thorns in the head, the glass, mutilated, bruised. And the Bible says his countenance was marred more than any man. They said every bone in his body seemed to be broken. And then with the crucifying of that, the Spirit of Christ might be released from that body, becoming sin, as it would be, when they blamed him, as to the serpent seed, not understanding what the man was trying to say. And his followers running the thing into the ground with lust and Satan, the God of lust, took advantage of the Word, even as to the first man Adam which Jesus represented. Being bruised for our transgression, as to this age, and all the great ministers coming down on him when they were not even worthy to dust his shoe off. Pardon me is I sound a little bit partial, because I'm not. But, nevertheless, coming down on him like that and then as Jesus being made that serpent to be hanged at Calvary, that serpent of the wilderness and Moses to stop the serpents from biting. Bringing the thing to a close, as to the tabernacle and the pillow of fire over the tabernacle. Peter says, As long as I'm in this tabernacle. And seeing the angel of the Lord in that pillow of fire. Now, I said that to say this: And then from Calvary, the church ages of the revelation and not bringing in the change of the body, as to Brother Branham coming back until the end of the church ages, as to the resurrection and some things I talked to Brother Taylor about today. Now. Coming to this I saw the darkness of their intellectual reasoning coming back on them as they drifted off into ball games, as I see them drifting back off into the world, waiting for something that isn't going to happen and getting more intellectual and carnal with quotes, the darkness catching them, their intellectual taking over, the worms getting into the bread. I will help thee, thou worm Jacob, of thy human reasoning. See? And left behind even as the Jews. When the Jews couldn't come into the fullness as to the change because they couldn't comprehend it only through an intellectual quote of the law, until the Gentiles come in, as to say the spiritual Jew, as to the revelation of this wonderful thing of Christ that was to come forth. And then I saw these people, night catching them, and I went out of the vision. Then it came to pass that I was at the graveyard. Something really happened as to the law, the flashing light, the police dog they had with them and night coming while I was there, which we won't go into. But, anyway, when I come in this time I was with my wife, as to the time I'm making reference to, and when I came in I was going to make a circle on this side. Come in this gate, make a circle on this side, come around the tombstones and go out this side of the gate. Which I eventually did. But when I came in I looked and saw them lined up at Brother Branham's tomb and I realized the vision was coming to pass. And I thought, I can't disturb those people because those people are standing at the grave of the one that they love, the prophet of God for the age that brought them into this wonderful thing of Christ and I can't bother these people. And it was kind of like the people, the women around the tomb of Rachel mourning when we were over there just like she had just died. I thought, What can I do? I thought, Well, I'll back out but then I couldn't back out because the road was crooked and I'd back over the tombstones and I couldn't do that. I thought, Lord, I can't do that, that would be irreverent. I just can't do that. So, I thought, I'll go forward, and when I went to go forward I saw a tent spread out and I saw cars around it and I realized it was a fresh opening for a fresh grave and I thought, Well, God, I can't get out that way and I can't get out this way and can't get out this way. What in the world am I going to do? And then something came to me, Go on around behind them and I did. I thought, I don't know what's going to happen. I hate to interrupt this. I'll just go over here behind them and I'll reverently park. But did you know, when I got up behind them, just as I come in behind them they reverently, respectfully got into the car like they had just finished, got in their cars and moved on out before night. And then I saw something. I saw what God was doing and then as it would be, while at the graveyard, either then or whenever, I was standing there and something said to me, The eagle is gone. I thought, That's strange. Something said, You've got a dove. And I thought, Now, wait a minute, a dove. I have got a dove. And we had a dove with us in the car and it wasn't a dove, not as a living dove like you think of a dove, but anyway it was a dove that one of the children had or we had in the car or something. And something said, Now, you take that dove and you go set it on top of that tombstone. And I said, David Paul, come here. David got that dove and he took it out there and set it right on top of the tombstone. And I began to see what the Lord was telling me. We could go on and go on and go on with things that we're saying as to bring things up to a date, or a present time of the truth. As Brother J. T. said, I looked and behind the sacred desk was something like the arc of the covenant and something was to be revealed that had never been revealed before at Little Bethlehem. And said, I looked out of the front of the church and there was the tree of life. Now, if you go through this wall and you cut through this wall that means you've got to go straight through the garden. This is Cypress Gardens. And when Jesus was transfigured on the Mount of Transfiguration he went right through the covering cherubs and the covering cherubs that protected the tree of life and kept everybody out, Jesus, falling to the stages of the animal, as to the manger, rose up, perfected the church, even our body, walked back into glory, was transfigured there in glory to say the church has now by-passed the grave. It could go out. Paul's mystery that we shall not sleep. Now. He said, it has happened. Stepped back down into this world to be an atonement for our sins so that we wouldn't have to go the way of the grave, in that we are already baptized for the dead. In this, back through the door, he said, now I'm the door. The cherubs went either way. Moses and Elijah. Made Himself twain to rent the veil into. Great is the mystery. And Elijah and the seven years, Moses the prophet like unto and the four hundred and eighty years and the gap as to the open door in the middle which showed the church ages and the throne, even the candlesticks, even as the symbol here as to the arc of the covenant that was seen behind the sacred desk. Now. We could say a lot there. It would take hours but I said that to say this. When He rent the veil and pushed Elijah and Moses aside then came the Christ, the open door. I am the door to the sheep. I dwell in heaven. I'm the door in heaven, that is that John saw. That is the door. The sheep come in and out by Me and they have pasture by Me. And if any man tries to get around Me he's a thief and a robber. You have to be baptized into My death, put on Christ. Resurrected to come out on the other side as a new creature. Passing through death, Calvary, and through the grave, as to the burial, and through hell, as through the blood. That is, spilling of the blood. So, each power, first, second, third power. There's a different thing that represents a different thing in each power, as to fire representing one power. So when it comes to this then you go right straight through the garden. And the strange thing was that Joe, not even thinking as they had under the tent, the white tent when it went over to Indiana. A lot of things we've said about it. We could say more about it. When the woman said, This reminds me of what Brother Branham said about a tent coming here and everything would be over. This kind of tent. And sure enough it was. Middy went out, Brother Branham was gone out, his brother went out, everything is gone. And you remember even the mayor, how the mayor came against us and we came against his doings and overthrew the law and folded it up and laid it away when they said, You can't. It's never been done since the tent of Brother Branham set by the river. We said, We can. We will. The Brethren set the then and we did. So, you remember how the news media came in from Kentucky and Indiana and the newspapers carried it and all of these things were so strong the mayor had to back down and write us a letter and say, Welcome to Indiana. And since that time they've had the tents. Even over at the spoken word inside of that confine where the spoken word is they were able to set up a tent there; never before. So I said all of that to say this: That going back into the garden the revelation has come. There's enough to make the change. The hour is at hand. And ever how you look at it it's your fault if you don't make it. According to your faith. See? So with the door open, the door in heaven, then that means you have a chance to go in. And with that, and when this closes out, I tell you again, it's a closing out of the church ages. Sodom, Gomorrah, when Lot went out the fire came. The very moment he went out, the very day he went out of Sodom. Lot vexed by their filthy conversation was symbolic of the church. When he went out the fire came. God is ready to rain the fire down, even as I saw the explosion in a vision concerning Atlanta. And all this other it has to do with the fire and the rain that was to come and all of this rain that we just had that actually brought the dead out of the grave indicated the later rain that I saw when the rod was in my hand and the resurrection of the dead. And some of them won't go back in the casket. They can't even find them. And those things started to coming up out of the ground in Macon, Georgia where Israel is the mayor, because at the casting away, the reconciling the, coming in of the Jews and the resurrection of the dead and they came up and there in Macon, the same place where I saw the vision when I went through the night, about midnight, flying through there when I called them from the grave. And about the third time, like Brother Branham said, the third pull, and I said, Come out of the grave. When they didn't, about the third time then they heard and they came out. That's what is happening right down to the last here. I haven't been able to get the people to believe. They've played around and played around. They've not listened. They've been dull of hearing. Jesus said, Fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have said. Having ears you hear not, being dull of hearing. Many thing I have to say to you but here at the last I can tell that the voice is penetrating and they are beginning to pop out of those graves. Dead while they live in trespasses and sins. Having the love of the world in them, the love of the Father isn't there. Make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust and the desire thereof. So then, coming on over Calvary, over Jordan as to that sacrifice of Brother Branham and then as to the dove that they want put on the book, it means that the millennium is at hand and the world of peace is at hand and they're going to cry peace, peace and sudden destruction is going to come in but peace, as to the dove, will come in. And as Washington said, I saw America fall and then I saw her rise again after the great smoke and all the blast and all these things which seemed to come from the foreign countries. And I made the statement, America will never rise again, never. Only in symbols. And Mr. Washington just didn't understand. He was a spiritual man of prayer but not spiritual enough to understand that America will never rise again and God was showing him America rising only in the spirit as being symbolic of the spiritual, or the millennium, world coming in. Which will be the rise and the restoration of the government which America represents symbolically. And we're right there at that very thing. It's like when the black brother came in the other night, just coming out of prison, His name being Washington and a number of other things that we could say that seems so insignificant but they are so outstanding. God revealing Himself in simplicity to hid it from the eyes of the wise and the prudent, thinking that these things are foolish and we are fool for Christ to the world of academics and learning, the world of diplomacy. Well, anyway, we could go on and go on but just remember what I'm telling you. These things are true. Let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing.) That reminds me, the Bible says when that sixth seal is opened in the sixth chapter of the book of Revelation at the first of Daniel's week, and we spoke of the calendar's time and what is happening, that the moon will become as blood. And I just got a report yesterday, I believe it was, said scientists have said, though people are not aware of it, they referred back to the Bible and said as to what the Bible says about the moon turning to blood. Said, It's already doing it. Said, It's already doing it. Whereas, the Bible doesn't give it as turning to blood when it speaks of it in Revelation. It only says it shall become as blood and the stars of heaven shall fall. See? The time of the tribulation for the Jews also, the change of the church. So, things are happening everywhere. So let the Lord come into your heart. Remember these words. Every word, to give the more earnest heed. Take heed how you hear them. For if you haven't heard these things and put them together like a puzzle, if you don't fit them together then you don't understand. If you don't understand that means you're children of darkness because the Bible says the righteous shall understand. And God has given us the spirit of understanding and we are of a good understanding, He said. And the spirit of Christ shall be upon them and make them of a quick understanding. And if you don't understand then your foolish heart has been darkened by the ignorance of your own conceit within you and you cannot comprehend this light as the transformating light of your mind, which is the transformating toward the change, for the translation that you're waiting for has been taking place every since Calvary and the Kingdom of God since Calvary and the true light shines since Calvary. And men have been translated into the Kingdom of God, which is the Spirit of God since Calvary. And the veil is taken away and now great light has sprang up unto them that set in the regions of the shadow of death. And now is condemnation that they loved darkness, or intellectual diplomacy of life better than the light of God's understanding which is righteousness that really exalts the nation, or exalts the people, but they love the mind of sin because their deeds are evil and the academic life and diplomacies of this life fits real good as the old tree of knowledge and the houses of prostitution. So that's where it all started. That's the way it all started. That's the way it will end, even it Sodomy, perversion, leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another working that which is unseemly, man with man, receiving the recompense of reward for their error. God casting into a bed of adultery the great whore, which has lost all of her virtue and burning her children with fire. Sodom and Gomorrah, burning the day that the church goes out. So, we're right down there at the end. Everything is at an end. Let's sing this little chorus or two together and we'll let you go. (Singing.) Great and exceeding promises. (Singing.) Let's lift our hands together. (Singing.) I'm going to ask Brother Richard the Jew to come and dismiss us if he will. (Singing.) Remember, at the midnight cry the wise virgins had oil. That oil is the spirit. The others are just believers in their charismatic fad and denominational thrust. They're just virgins set aside but no oil. But to you that love the Lord are virgins filled with the oil of gladness and God has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows because you love righteousness. So put on your garments, your beautiful garments, Zion, for the hour of your light has come. Let your light shine that men may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Lift your hands up and close your eyes as Brother Richard comes.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord