Missing Your Day Of Visitation

It's good to see everybody in a good spirit tonight. It looks like they're happy and when folks are happy that means the Lord must be around somewhere. Serving God is joy. It's peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost and wherever you find peace and righteousness you find the Holy Ghost. And wherever the anointing is the yoke is broken. All right. I'm a little bit late tonight. We had traffic all day in the house and around the house. Let's sing this little chorus together. Let's sing I Love Him, can we? (Singing.) Sing it again, can you? (Singing.) Can you sing it again with me? (Singing.) One more time. (Singing.) Sing it with me now. (Singing.) Do you love the Lord? How many of you came tonight just for the soul purpose of growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus? I say so often, I know that we come to glorify the Lord. I know that we come to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. I know the Bible said clap your hands all ye people and I know we're here to worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. But then on the other hand, I press the issue a lot of times, the Bible said we come to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. To grow, how? To grow into the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. Do you feel anymore like Jesus today than you did yesterday? Have you done anything today to add a little bit more of the life of Christ to your way of life? And a little bit more to eliminate your life style? A little bit more to eradicate your mode of thinking and your thoughts? and a little more effort? Have you put forth just a little more effort, as to develop His mind as to the Word of God? His way and His desire? Just a little more here like today, have you done that? That's what it's all about. That why we come here, so that we can find the wonderful mind of God. And the Bible said let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being made in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. And this, of course, is what we've been talking about today. Talking about those things this morning, and of course we're still talking about those things. It's so wonderful to talk about those things, to know that God is with us and that God is for us and he's wanting to help us. Okay, let's sing another little chorus or two together and we'll change the order of the service. (Singing.) Sing it with me, now. (Singing.) I like this little chorus because Jesus said if you love Me you will keep My commandments. And when you say I love Him, I love Him, I love Him and you don't keep His commandments the Bible said then ye are a liar. Because if you say I love the Lord and keep not His commandments then are ye a liar, but if you love the Lord then you will keep Him commandments. And when you keep His commandments you are no liar but the truth of God is within you and you have eternal life. And we know that we have eternal life if we pass from death unto life because we love our brethren. We love our brothers and sisters in the Lord and we love to be part of what they are doing. We love to be where they are at. And around the world it goes. Our love goes out, our light goes out around the world to try to reach those that are unreached because we love the brothers and sisters. So then, we love to be where they are at and doing what they do. So, if you love Him slip your hands up as we sing this little chorus. Close your eyes and let's worship the Lord for a minute. (Singing.) Sing it with me. (Singing.) You can be seated. We're glad to have you in service with us tonight. We had a good time in the Lord this morning. We always have a good time in the Lord when we come together. You know they have a song they sing, when all of God's wonderful people get together. What a wonderful thought that is, that when all of God's people get together. Down here we have so many discrepancies of mind and thought, so many denominational barriers and so much indoctrination, as to what people have instilled within us from our youth until it keeps us, secularly speaking, it keeps us divided. All the time we're divided. And really, the people don't want it that way. And yet they are afraid. They are afraid to go a step beyond that because as the old saying, you know, and as the Scriptures gives it in the Old Testament, they'll put you out of the Synagogue. So only the ecclesticals, which really don't live right themselves, and they've just made a money enterprise out of it. They really draw you to the line and pull you on the carpet. But God's people who are so meek and loving and kind they are always like little children climbing over the fence to get to see their neighbor and to find out sure enough both of them are human beings and they've got something in common. And even though we have to safe guard against the fact that evil communications corrupt good manners then we do have to learn that we have to fellowship our neighbor and sometimes our neighbor has need of us. You know, you have to have fences when you are a little boy, or you are a little child, and so then, God has allowed for these things down through the years to protect the children, to keep them out of the streets, to keep them away from problems, but as they grow up you can't keep children in fences as they grow up. Because then they get to be grown-ups and they don't need fences anymore and they know how to unlock the gates and they're going to find out who their neighbor is. They might even marry their neighbor. So, the first news you know you've got one of them in your family. And this is the way it is, God's people will eventually come together and their going to put everything together and as it has been said to eat the pie and spit out the seeds and after awhile they're going to come together and they're finally going to decide the best thing that they can do is get their eyes on the Word of God and if the Word of God says it it doesn't matter who says different or what says different, they're going to get them a conviction of heart, as to faith by the hearing of the Word and find out that that is their foundation for eternal life and they're just going to go right on with it no matter what anybody tells them or what anybody tries to do to persuade them. You know, folks, that's the right thing to do because it is the Word of God that is a lamp unto your feet. The Bible said the Word of God is perfect converting the soul and it takes the Word of God. You know, you may be very religious, you might belong to any kind of movement in the world but that doesn't mean you are a Christian. You may be a believer but that don't mean you have salvation. If you believe, as I said this morning, so does the devil. But when it comes to the Word of God, the Word of God converts the heart. And I say again, the Bible said he that stands in the presence of God, if I send him he stands in My presence, he will cause the people to turn from their sins. And if he doesn't cause the people to turn from worldliness and going to whore after the world and the things of the world then he didn't stand in My presence. And if he doesn't speak My word he didn't come from Me. I didn't indoctrinate him. So then, he that God sendeth will speak God's word. And the Bible said he, if he testifies of Him that sent him there is no unrighteousness in him, but if he testifies of himself then his witness is not true. So tonight we come here in the name of the Lord and we come here with the Word of the Lord. We come here so that we can talk to you about the things of God and the things of God consists of the Word of God. And whatever the Word of God is that's the way it is. It doesn't matter what I think about it, it doesn't matter what I say about it. It doesn't matter what I've heard about it. It doesn't matter what somebody told me about it. It doesn't matter what my grandmother believed, my grand daddy believed. It doesn't matter what my mother believed or my daddy believed, or my brother believed or my preacher believed, or my friend believed or my neighbor believed the Word of God is what I'm suppose to believe. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and the same came forth, put on flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld it as the glory of the only begotten of God, full of grace and truth. And that Word is the same to a thousand generations. What it says to one it says to all. It never changes, it never alters to any generation. Though times may change, seasons may change. We are people of times and seasons but God is not people of times and seasons. I remind you again, Paul said to the Jews, I am afraid of you because you are seasoned and you observe times and seasons. God is once and for all. Peace on earth, good will to all men. God is once and for all. By My stripes you are healed. God is once and for all. By the faith of Jesus Christ I have sanctified you once and for all. The faith of Jesus Christ which the Bible calls the righteousness of God. So then, when we come to the Word of God we know then what we're looking for and we know what we want and we know where salvation is. Jesus said, I am the prince of life. I come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly, which means filled up and overflowing. And He says, Concerning My words they are spirit and they are life and they don't change. And this wonderful God, it is impossible for Him to lie. So, God being the Word and the Word being God and being one and the same, as Jesus the Word said, My Father and I are one. Then that means it is impossible for the Word of God to ever change or ever be altered. And the Bible said the thing that has gone out of my mouth I will not alter it, I will not change it. I will hasten to perform my word. I will watch over it and My word will not return unto me void, but it will accomplish that which I please and prosper and that whereunto I've sent it. So then, we know that this is the Word. Paul said, And our words have gone unto the ends of the earth, as said the prophets, but who hath believed our report? So then, the secret is not in hearing but the secret is in believing. For if thou canst believe, Jesus said, all things are possible to them that believe. But if you do not believe then you have an evil heart of unbelief and that's considered iniquity for it takes faith to take your iniquity away by the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. But, believing in what He hath done for us eliminates our iniquity and brings us into the spotlight of God. And then we have fellowship with God because there is no iniquity between us and God. So, tonight as I slow down just a little bit here, I'm still just a little weary from last night. I fought the devil, like I said, all night long until about four o'clock in the morning and this morning I was still a little bit weary. I still haven't had a chance to get any rest going to and fro over there; a busy day. But we're going to kind of talk a little bit about the thing that we did this morning, maybe clarify a few little pointers and maybe retrace our footsteps over a few things. Go down the same trail to the extent that I wanted to__ I wanted to impress upon your minds and hearts something that is hidden within the sayings that we brought out this morning, something that is very needful that you understand. Whether I get to do that or not I don't know. At night people are tired, their minds are tired and it just depends on how long you can hold on as to our talking. We always try not to hold you long. But, anyway, going back over to the Scripture that we referred to this morning. I'm sure that you are familiar with it. And we spoke of it this morning as he that is born of God. He that is born of God cannot sin and that's all I'm going to say about it. We brought the Scripture to you this morning, He that is born of God cannot sin for God's seed remains within him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. Now I said this morning, the seed of God doesn't just come to you, it remaineth in you. When you are born of God it remaineth in you. When there is to be a birth and a conception then that seed remaineth within the womb and brings forth a child. It doesn't go and come it remains, and it brings forth a child. So, we're not looking for a still birth because this is a living word. So if it's a living word we're expecting a live birth. His seed remaineth in you and because His seed remaineth in you then you cannot sin because you are born of God. Now. It might be as though I take a shortcut tonight with a few things. Inasmuch as I brought our some things in detail this morning I may go a little different so that I don't have to cover as much territory as to some of the things that I go through to detail this, and because of that it will probably be a little bit baffling to some of you. Some of you it will not. But if you will listen real close the great spirit of God will open your minds in the understanding of the Lord and guide you into all righteousness and all truth. Now it just strikes my mind as I'm talking, the Lord brings it to my mind, that we've got the visitors. I thought they were here this morning. I thought that Brother Williams and his wife was here this morning and they did come in about an hour before we dismissed but kind of being baffled with the situation, not knowing where to go they just kind of set it out in the car. But, anyway, he and his wife is here and I haven't had a chance to meet the mistress but he is a lovely person in God. He loves the Lord. His spirit is a wonderful spirit in God. We just had a wonderful fellowship and of course the son-in-law and the daughter is still here and they are leaving for Russia tomorrow, or at least going into the areas of New York. I think the couple is going up with them, as to the dad and mother. All right, now. It's our privilege to have you here. Some came this morning. I wasn't aware that you were here but I want you to know that we appreciate the fact that you were here and everyone that come to Little Bethlehem it makes us happy for they come here from around the world. They come here from the local areas and we are always glad to have you. But my main objective is to come here and not to preach to you, not so that you'll have a church so I can be your pastor and you can be my congregation, nor to collect the funds, nor to be comfortable in life. The Lord has provided for me all down through my life. Even in the time of my evangelism when I was without any congregation He provided me abundantly and he hath never let me be short. I've never lacked in people. I've never lacked in funds. I've never had any problems with that so that is not our purpose here. Our purpose is not to take, to receive, we didn't come here to receive. We came here to that we might give, that we might share. It's more blessed to give than receive. And we come here to do whatever we can for them around the world. You know, I've seen a lot of evangelist, they never get anywhere in life because all they know is somebody giving them something. All they know is to receive. That's all they ever do and because of that, as a consequence of that they never get anything from God, because though they preach the Word they don't really believe the Word. For to believe the Word is to give of their strength, to give of their mind, to give of their time, to give of their concern, to give of their finance, to give of their substance unto God. This is the way to be blessed and the fear of God with humility brings honor, long life and riches. So then, tonight with a little reverence I want you to listen real close and we'll try not to hold you long. When I say he that is born of God he cannot sin, he doth not sin. Now, I am not saying he that is born of God may sin or may not sin, or if he holds on real tight he won't slip up. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that if you fight and struggle and hold on that you'll make it. Somebody says, Well, Brother Pike, don't you believe it's going to be a battle? It's always a battle, a continual warfare. Well, don't you believe we really have to fight with the devil? Always. Always. He departed from Jesus for a little season. Well, then don't you believe, Brother Pike, that, you know, it's just going to be a miracle if any of us makes it in. I know the Bible says that if the righteous__ Talking about righteous folks, now. There are some in the world. A lot of people won't acknowledge that but there are some in the world. The Bible said he that is holy he's holy even as I am holy. And it says if the righteous scarcely make it, or be saved, where then shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? So it's tight. Straight is the gate, narrow is the way, few there be that find it. Fear not, little flock, it is thy Father's good pleasure to give unto thee the keys to the kingdom. Strive to enter in for many shall try, religiously try, and not be able. I know. It shall come to pass that whosoever calls upon the name Lord shall be saved. And here we go with our crusades and all of these things, and hundreds and millions of people are saying Lord, Lord. But the Bible says line upon line and precept upon precept. Not everyone that saith Lord, Lord shall be saved, or inherit the kingdom of God but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. So then, we understand that for sure. And God said to Moses, I will not acquit the wicked. No, In no wise will I acquit the wicked. I will not blot your name out though you ask Me to do that. I will blot out the name of him that sins, Moses. All right. Then when we talk about that I want you to know that I'm aware of all that when I say these things. But, folks, there is a great thing that the church world is over looking. There is a great thing that the pentecostal world__ I want you to think on this. You know, they call the Pentecostal people the offscouring of the earth but really they are the cream of the crop. And they're the ones that stood back through the years. They're the ones that stood during the time of the battle. They're the ones that stood for righteousness. There are still great landmarks in the land today and the Bible said don't move those old landmarks that the Fathers have sent. Ask for the old paths and walk therein and you'll find rest and peace to your soul. But, at the same time there has crept in among these people those unaware, to spy out their liberties and to entangle them and to become spots and blemishes in their feast of charity. And today has literally bound thousands of Pentecostal believers. They still love the Lord. They are still concerned but through the fears and frustrations that these people have pressed upon them they are in a bondage, a religious bondage and are not able to go on and do the things that God wants them to do and they are missing the great hour of their visitation. See? The Jews had a great hour of visitation coming. They had plowed the fields. They had endured the hardness of the wilderness. They had fought battle after battle. With seven nations they had fought and prevailed. They had been through terrible circumstances and God had developed their faith, see? That they might inherit Canaan land. But it's shocking to realize that when they got just right at the Jordan and was ready to go into Canaan__ Now think just for a minute. When they endured all of that, being called out three million people right at the Jordan, ready to cross over, God was so angry with them until he opened the earth up, swallowed everyone of them. And did you know that not any of them went into Canaan? Has it ever occured to you? I know people say, Brother Pike, God made them wander forty years for their wrong and then with a great hand of deliverance took them into Canaan. There is no teachings of Bible like that. They wandered forty years in the wilderness and died and never did go into Canaan. And when Paul came Paul said, And God swear in His wrath that these shall not enter into My rest because they murmured against Moses and complained all during the time of the pilgrimage of the wilderness and every time I went to communicate with them, as we would say, their hearts were back in Egypt. Their minds were back in Egypt like the world today, even many of the Pentecostals. Their minds were on automobiles and houses and securities and eating and drinking and buying and education and the frolics of the world and the entertainments of the world and the t.v's that are setting in the corner with all of the worldliness and the movies and whatever it might be. They did not have the love of God in their heart or the love of spiritual things. The Bible said if the love of the world is in you the love of the Father isn't there. So then, the earth open up and swallowed them up because their minds stayed in Egypt. We serve God with the mind, Paul said. But what God did do, He brought about a new birth and He took the children and them that were born of the people that had never been down in to Egypt that didn't have the mind of Egypt that walked with Moses and walked with the Lord for those forty years. Or that is, as they were born. When they got to Jordan God took those children right on over into Canaan and set up a nation and the elders died in the wilderness and only Caleb and Joshua went in. It wasn't that God cut Moses off, in that he wasn't good enough to go, but He had to do that because he was a prophet. He showed the Lord Jesus Christ as to die for the rest and he saw Canaan and the Lord took him into glory. He was too great, too mighty, to wonderful for God to take over into a land of milk and honey. He took him into heaven, itself. So then, we see what happens. We're right now down at the Jordan. We've done come through this wilderness of intellectual reasoning, hundreds and millions of Pentecostal believers and of other kind of people that love the Lord. Many of them love the Lord. Thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred fold. (Begin tape one, side two.) ...and now being pressed with the necessities of life and Satan boycotting with the badge and gun and with the educational systems and coming down with the IRS and all the pressures of the world, coming down on the people or making them take a bow to the golden idol and to the golden calf and to the old image. See? He is forcing them to take a bow and very few of them are really standing, as to the real ones, and the great falling away has set in. And the Bible said, Because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold and they turned back into Egypt back in their heart. Though they have come out and though they've joined the people they still have turned back. You know, like two and a half tribes on this side of Jordan, when they got there they saw the valley was fertile. They begin to pitch camp. They begin to take this land over here that belong to the children of Moab and these that were Lot's children over here that God had given to them back there. See? And in that they did God said, You can't do that unless you're going to go over the Jordan and fight with these children, or with the enemy of these children and help them settle in. And then if you don't want to stay over there in Canaan you can come back. And do you remember what happened? Do you remember what God did? He finally just gave them some land over here. He took the rest of them over. and these over here on this side of Jordan they said, Well, we'll go. We'll leave our children, our substance and our riches. We'll go but we will return and we'll come back and take our inheritance on this side of Jordan. That's what a lot of people have done. They're still doing that. A lot of Pentecostal people are doing that. A lot of religious people are doing that. They are saying, We're satisfied with our religion, we're satisfied with our group, we're satisfied with the get together. We're satisfied with our home. We have securities, we have the blessings of God. We have all of these things. That is to say, the rain is on the just and the unjust. We have medical securities. The grace of God being poured out because the blood is on the seat of atonement as to a dispensational grace. We'll take our inheritance over here. And sure enough, they have settled down with that, not really going on to fight the battle the way they ought to. There mind is still in the world and they're not looking for God and they don't want the Lord to come. They are satisfied with what they are doing. They don't even want to die and go meet the Lord because they are satisfied with what they've got over here. They are not looking forward to the coming of the Lord. They've no desire to meet God. Because the Bible said if one have this hope within himself. Paul said I've have a desire to be with God which is far better. To live is Christ but to die is gain. Well, anyway, this has gotten to being a religious business in the world today. This is what I'm saying, the Pentecostals right now, and I'm speaking principally of them that have come far enough along to know one God, one faith, one baptism, and to understand the infilling of the great spirit as salvation. Now. These people, at this time it is the hour of their visitation as it was with the Jews. And the Jews missed their visitation and it was said unto them, you have missed the hour of your visitation. Now your houses are left unto you desolate until ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Now. Here we are down at the end of the church ages and the spiritual Jew and the Gentile people, here we are reckoning with God about the situation. Look at the horrible situation of today. People have turned into sodomites. Our educational system has educated them to be beasts and sodomites and cheats and cons and we have become a prey. The good people have become a prey while the bad people have been exalted and have taken over the government and everything in the world and we have become a prey. So then, when we look at the situation we realize what the old tree of knowledge has done for them and being forced by the badge and gun for the sins of the world is the cause of it all. And sin gets its strength by the law. So then, we realize that this is the great hour of the visitation of the Pentecostal people around the world and they are missing it. They are missing it. They are missing the day of their visitation because they are not being spiritual. They are not applying themselves. They've taken roots in the natural on this side of Jordan. That is to say the flesh, rather than in the spirit. And they've got their minds so divided, so secular, and they've got so afraid of ordinances and the things of the world until they are afraid to lift up their minds and hearts anymore to get involved. They don't stand for anything anymore. Men died; women died at the stakes in the early church to keep standards. They don't make any effort to keep a standard anymore. It doesn't matter who they meet. They are like a chameleon; they change with every person to whatever they are that's what the person is that meets them. So then, the Pentecostal world is getting their visitation of the great mighty outpouring of the revealing of the Son of God and the coming of the Christ within the heart for the translation and for the rapture and the enlarging of their understanding of the revelational mind of God for the change and the church world is missing it. It's missing it. It's passing right through them and they don't see it and they're still going on like little children in their denominational barriers, still going right along in the same trend. Not that what they are doing is wrong when it comes to their doctrine. It's not wrong. Paul said it's not wrong because it is the things of God. It is the principals of God. It is the principals of God. It is the foundation of salvation. It is the teachings of the forefathers. It is the old land marks but he said, Let us go on to perfection. Don't lay that foundation of repentance over and over. Leaving the principals of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. They are still in the Word of God. And even though we don't understand the men that are having great crusades around the world, television evangelist, whoever it might be, all over the world, you know. I don't agree with many of them but Paul said, Nevertheless, the gospel is preached whether for contention or otherwise, or whatever their program is, or if they're working for some kind of great empire in this world or they're trying to build some kind of religious kingdom in this world I've nothing to say about it. At least they're talking about the Word of God and people are hearing the Word of God but will those people go to heaven? Will that evangelist answer to God for not turning them people from their sins? You know they're not going to heaven. And you know that evangelist will answer. See? It's his motive. It's his purpose and hundreds of millions of people are trying to flock together, trying to flock together. Like a place I heard of out in California. Somebody is building a great building, number of different stories and it is said that he is giving one level to a denomination, another level to a different denomination, and on and on. So many of them that all of them can have their Sunday service. All of them can have their Sunday morning worship at the same time on their level of the building. And he thinks this is grand. But the Bible is saying, Come out from among them, be ye a separate people. Touch the not the unclean things and I'll receive you saith the Lord. Not to mix and mingle and everybody coming together and saying, Well, our little differences we'll just have to bury them and we just have to come together. You don't bury the doctrine of Christ. Somebody says, Well, I don't preach doctrine, Brother Pike, because it causes too much division. We just get together and we just praise God. You're just ignorant. That's what is wrong with you. You're ignorant. The Bible says who can I teach doctrine? They that are weaned from the breast. The man that is telling you that he doesn't preach doctrine, he is ignorant. He hasn't even gotten weaned from the breast and here he is, supposedly he is a leader to you and he is blind and the Bible said if the blind lead the blind they all fall into the ditch. And the Bible said these spots and blemishes, all of My tables are full of vomit. For as the true proverb, after that the sow has been washed she goes back to her wallowing in the mire and the dog returns to his vomit. So then, it's very obvious that if all of the religious tables of the world are filled with vomit it can't be but one reason, because you are lukewarm I spew you out of My mouth. That's what is called vomit. You stand at the door and you won't go in and you hinder everybody else. But, Brothers and Sisters, the Bible said be holy in body, in spirit. And so I seek to present you blameless body, soul and spirit. Be holy in body for your body is the temple of the living God. They can say as I said this morning, it's just an old body; you don't pay any attention to that. Whether they run it through the mire of the medical world, or through the mire in the military world, or through the mire of the educational world, it doesn't matter what it is; it's just an old body, they say. Just an old beast. But I've got some news for you. Though it is thus with them as beast, some of them brute beast made to be taken and burned, but with us it is not so. It is not an old beast. It is the body of the living God. It is the temple of the living God. It is bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. It is a great lovely touch me not. It is that where the Bible said he keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. See? He that is born of God the devil doesn't play around with him. He is a virgin, or she is a virgin. See? We keep ourselves. We that are born of God we come out of the world and we have a new mind and we are a new creature in Christ. Having been baptized into Christ we are free from death and sin and we have put on Christ and we are a new creature in a new world. Old things have passed away. Old things are forgotten. No former things are remembered. And so then, here we are, they that dwell in heaven having been translated in the inner spiritual angelic being, into the spirit of Christ whom the heavens have received until the time of the change of these fibers of the body. Now. The restoring of all things. So when we think about this we realize then that we cannot sin. Now, I'm just going to take a thought here and run over it for a few minutes. Cannot sin. I remind you again. Cannot sin? Why is it we cannot sin? Because we are born of God. We are born of God. If I am born of God then that makes me bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. You know, I said this so many times. I say this__ I notice this little saying is catching on with some evangelist around different places, too, even the television artists. But I say this, it's a thing of real simplicity. It makes it easy for us to understand on all levels. A dog brings forth a dog at birth. A cow brings forth a cow. An elephant, it brings forth that little one as an elephant. A man or woman__ That is to say, when a human being gives forth birth they bring forth a human being. And so then whatever the species is the Lord said, and let everything reproduce after it's kind. Everything after it's kind. And so then, when a human being is born into the world he's a human being. When an animal is born into the world he is an animal. Now, when a son of God is born then what is he? If a man or a woman brings forth a child and he is a human being then what does a God bring forth when he brings his forth? That's why the Bible said, Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. And being a son of God we're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, being made in the form of God who thought it not robbery to make himself equal with God. Now, if a God brings forth something what is that? for dogs begat dogs, men begat men and God begat__ What does he begat? That's why the Bible says ye are Gods. In the Old Testament He said ye are Gods but ye shall die like men from the lack of knowledge. And Jesus reminded them when they wanted to stone Him to death over there, He said, And for what good work do you stone Me? They said, For a good work we don't stone you but being a man you make yourself God. He thought it not robbery. He said, Is it not written in the Scriptures that I have called ye Gods? If you are called Gods, as to whom the Word of the God went to, or came to, why do you say I've blasphemed because I say I'm the son of God? So then, beloved, we are born of God. Therefore, we are born as His bone and of His own flesh and of His own blood. And because of that then we are Gods. So, now, wait a minute, Brother Pike, wait a minute, wait a minute now. Let's stay with the Word. Somebody tell me what the Word says so I can stay with it. All right. So then, this is the Word. The Pentecostal world is missing the day of their visitation. They've been kicked around so much by the devil because of the lack of the change of the body and the lack of understanding they perish because of the lack of knowledge. See? Ye are Gods. It isn't like you are going to get to be some great thing one day. It's not like you're going to get to be a son of God someday. You are already a son of God. Now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. It's not like you are going to heaven someday. Folks, raise your ears up. It's not like you are going to heaven someday. The Bible said the law and the prophets were until John. Preach the Word, somebody says. We're talking about the Word. It's not like you're going to heaven someday. The Bible says the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached because the Kingdom of God is at hand. He told them. Jesus said just before He left, I want you to pray this prayer. They said, Teach us to pray. He said, Pray this prayer. Father, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on the earth as in heaven. Now. Why did He say that? Because He knew He was the fullness of God. For the Bible said God giveth not the spirit unto him by measure and He knew that He was fixing to rend the veil that God was dwelling in. He was going to rend that veil from top to bottom. The Bible said God sent Jesus to destroy the works of the devil and the Bible said He made Himself twain. Two. Both Lord and Christ. And He was going to rend that veil. He was going to separate the Lord from the Christ. He was going to rend it in twain, or in two, as Acts records. So then, here He was. He said, Now you pray, Father, thy kingdom come. Or that is, He was saying, I'm fixing to rend the veil and the Kingdom of God is going to be here. The law and the prophets until John, now I'm here. I'm the kingdom. I'm the kingdom. And now the Kingdom of God is at hand, and the Kingdom of God is among men. Think about that now. The Kingdom of God is among men. The Kingdom of God is at hand. And you must be translated into the Kingdom of God. And he said you go preach the name Jesus and the Kingdom of God. All right. So then, we see this great light has sprang up to them that set in the regions of the shadow of death great light has sprang up unto them and now this is the light that has come into the world. This great, wonderful, unveiled light of the Kingdom. And this is the condemnation that is in the world. You have a desire for darkness because your deeds are evil and you love the intellectual ignorance because it fits your way of life more. This is what I'll condemn you for in the day of the judgment, because He didn't come to condemn us but to give us life, but because we reject life and light. So then, let me go just a little farther. When it comes to Calvary the Kingdom came. Now Peter waxed bold and said, Folks, ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. The ends of the world. We say, the ends of the world? Oh, that couldn't be. But the Bible said, And the world passed away with water and it was the ends of the world. And then there was two thousand years and then another two thousand years and there it was, blood. And it passed away with blood. As to the blood that covered, as to the blood dipped vesture. And took away the sins of all the world just like the water took away the corruptible. Even those that are out in the world with a dispensational grace as long as that blood is on the seat of atonement. Jesus died to take away the sins of the world. How do you think you got healing medicine? How do you think you've got all these things to stop the pain with the dentist? How do you think you've got this day of grace and this day of blessings? It's because the blood is on the seat of atonement. He took away your sins. God doesn't see your sins. Oh, my! I wish we could preach tonight. I wish we had hours to go into it. Missing the day of the visitation. So then, when we look at this we say, The law and the prophet. And Jesus was saying, the Kingdom will be here. I'm fixing to go away, now the Kingdom is going to be here. Which is the great wonderful Christ spirit. That is the Kingdom of God. All things emanated from Christ. So, Christ within you the hope of glory. That is the Kingdom of God within you and your spirit is translated into the spirit of Christ. Which is also called the spirit, as to the Kingdom of Heaven. One and the same. So then, we see that this great light came, which means understanding. Given to us in Christ before the world ever was, brought to light at the rent veil of Calvary, preached down through the church ages, comprehended as to the heights, depths, width and length and at the end of the church ages makes the change as to heavenly treasures when in the earthen vessel made manifest in the mortal genes to bring forth the eradication of the curse and of the darkness throughout this world to change, restore and redeem, to bring into the millennium, or the great wonderful replacement of the garden and restore all that the cankerworm has gotten, the locust, the caterpillar, which means the old intellectual mind of brilliance saying, I will help thee, thy worm Jacob. All right. So then, we see that the law and the prophets were until John. Right there, let me just take a little thought for just a little bit. The law and the prophets were until John. Now, if the law and the prophets were until John then today where is the law and the prophets? Speaking of the prophetical things that were said concerning Jesus, He fulfilled all of them at Calvary. Speaking of the law of Moses of the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, Cursed is he that keepeth not every jot and tittle, and ye shall not pass away until every jot and tittle be fulfilled. But if Jesus fulfilled every jot and tittle then did the law pass away at Calvary. The law until John. Now where is the law today? To the Christian people of today where is the law? There is no law. There is no law. Somebody says, Now, Brother Pike, that law ain't going to pass away until every jot and tittle be fulfilled. Folks, this is what I say. They are missing the day of their visitation and their foolish hearts are being darkened and professing themselves to be wise they're becoming fools. See? There is no law. Paul said, We therefore conclude that a man is justified by grace of God through faith of Jesus Christ, the faith of Jesus Christ being the righteousness of God. And now that the faith has come the law is folded up and laid away and we're not under the law. He came to deliver us from the law. He came to deliver us from the law and now the body of sin is dead. It has been destroyed by the body of Jesus Christ. Having been baptized into His death it is forever gone and the despised image of the first man Adam is forever gone. We are born again of the a spiritual being of the second man Adam and we're not under the law. And because of this our overseer Paul said sin shall not have dominion over you. I repeat, as I said this morning, it shall not dominate you. It shall not rule over you. It shall have no place in your life. Think about that now. Why is it that sin doesn't have any place in my life? Why is it that sin doesn't have any place in your life? Why is it that sin can't have dominion over you? Because there is no sin to you. There is no sin to you. Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, you must be eccentric. No. This is wholesome. This is right. Paul said, I'm not beside myself. If I am it's for Christ. So then, what am I saying? The Bible said that the law, the law of sin and death hath placed me in a bondage. But where there is no law there is no transgression. And where there is no transgression there is no sin, for sin is the transgression of the law. But if there be no law you can't transgress something that isn't there. Does it sound right for the law to go out here to the dead people in the graveyard and say to the graves, See here, you will do this and you will do this, and if you don't do this we'll deal with you? They don't hear a word. They're not under the law. We are not under the law. What the law says it says to them that under the law and those that are fallen from grace are under the law. They will answer to God as sinners and die, be turned into a lake of fire. But, beloved children of God, you are not under the law. You are not under the law. You are not under the law. There is no law to you, therefore, the law shall not have dominion over you, neither shall sin have dominion over you for you cannot transgress the law. I want this to ring in the hearts of some of you that keep hearing this intellectually and never come into the knowledge of the truth. Always learning and never conceiving of the truth. Remember what I'm telling you. There is no law. You intellectually brilliant, you don't know how ignorant you are, how far away you are. There is no law. Somebody says, But you get too exuberant, Brother Pike. My! I could shout, pop my hands, dance, and run up and down here, you know, and shout and scream and by that time I'd get some of these intellectuals out of here and they'd just drop off just like that and then I'd get some simple minded people that say, Well, my God! You know, I believe what God said about it, not my brainy way. Somebody say hallelujah! Let's give God a hand. It's time we got some of the brainy ones out and got God's Word back in and got the mind the God among us. If God's Word said it that's the way it is for God's Word created heaven and earth. There's no changing it. Folks, the Bible said there is no law. It's taken away. It's gone. There is no law. Somebody said, Well, I can't believe that. That's because you're still under the law. You're still under the penalty of death. You're still brainy. You've never been born again. You're a believer. You come here regular but you've never been born again. You don't have the Holy Ghost or I wouldn't even feel your spirit repelling what you're saying. You just glide right in with the Spirit of God and blend right in with the things of God. There's a man in here now. His spirit__ he has been here with me for probably ten, fifteen years. That man has never got born again. His spirit is always in his reasoning to come against me. He'll set and listen for forty minutes and then after awhile it rises up. But that's because you are not born again. So when I say this it isn't because I'm disturbed at my congregation. I don't feel hardly anything out of the congregation, period, except him. Which is a regularity. But, anyway, let me say this to you. There is no law, so there is no transgression so there is no sin. So then, he that is born of God cannot sin because he's dead to the law by the body of Jesus Christ. If that's right say amen. If that's wrong say amen. All right. Then we've got a hundred percent. So then, that means that there is no more law to you. You are delivered from the law. What does that mean, Brother Pike? It means that you need to get out from under the bondage of fear of men and people and doctrines and everything else and yield your members as those that are alive from the dead, saying, My God! why to I walk around here tiptoeing around here when the devil has no power over me physically, spiritually, naturally or any other way and that the law is forever gone. And why do I tiptoe around afraid I'm going to sin against God? How are you going to sin against God? Somebody said, But I believe that, Brother Pike. I know I'm going to live and stay right in there with it so I won't sin against God. Don't be childish. It takes the nature of Jesus Christ to live the Christian life. It takes the dog's nature to live the dog's life and the man's nature to live the man's life and it takes God's nature to live the God life. So then, if you've got the God life you don't have to worry. You're not under the law. You're delivered from the law. Sin will not have dominion over you. Paul said I won't have that. I won't have sin having dominion over you. Now, Brethren, this is the thing I want to say. Sisters, this is the thing I want to say. If all of this is true, if this is the Word of God then what does this mean to us? It means we can't sin anymore. We can't sin anymore. Oh, somebody said, But, Brother Pike, everybody sins. Then everybody is of the devil. Let's give the Lord a hand. Come on, folks, let's tell it like it is. If everybody sins everybody is of the devil for the Bible said he that sinneth is of the devil but he that is born of God he doeth not commit sin. Somebody says, Well, I hold on and I don't do that. But it went farther than that. It said he cannot sin. Now what do we do with that? He cannot sin. Why? Because he is born of God. He's bone and flesh of God. He is a God. He hath passed from death unto life. How did he pass from death unto life? Because transgression of the law is sin and the sting of sin is death and he can't transgress because there is no law. So there's no sin because there is no transgression and there's no death because there is no sting. (Begin tape two, side one.) .... Oh, grave where is thy victory? Death where is thy sting? It's swallowed up in victory at Calvary. Come on, folks. That's why we praise God. You know, that's why we don't come in saying, Hallelujah, I've lived an overcoming life. Glory to God, I barely made it by the skin of my teeth but I'm praising you, Lord. You ain't praising nobody. You are vainly puffed up by your foolish mind. You know, you don't have nothing to praise God for. Paul said, If I've done this thing by my work then I have wherein to boast. But if Christ did this thing I have wherein to praise Him and say, Glory to God, my God! What is this that our father Abraham hath discovered concerning faith of Jesus Christ? Somebody say hallelujah! You see? That's where it's at, folks. So then, what does that mean to us? The great mighty day of visitation is here. You are children of God. You are they that are not going to heaven, as we say. Oh, no. It's not a matter of you going to heaven or not going to heaven, it's a matter that you made it. You are already in heaven. You have already passed from death unto life. Ye shall never come into condemnation. Ye shall never die. All you are waiting for is the change of your body. And that bodily change__ I point you to Calvary. Already the body is the purchased possession. All you are going through is the transformating of mind through the tutoring to come to your diplomacy, to wit the redemption, to recognize by the understanding and the tutoring and the opening of this revelation of Jesus Christ, that you are the beloved sons and children of God and that you are the rulers of the world and you're going to set everything in order because the whole world is waiting for you to be manifested. It does not yet appear, as to the eye, what you shall be like but the change is coming. See? You have that hope in you. Now, let me say this in trying to close because we never have time to do things justice here, as far as really bringing the sermon, but just a little sermonette. But let me say this to you. Now. If it is true there is no law, the law and the prophets until John, where did it go to? Now, if there is no law and it's been fulfilled to God's pleasure and the sinful image has been smitten to God's pleasure and the wrath of God has been satisfied by being poured out on Jesus, delivered for my offenses, raised again to prove that all the anger of God is passed, or for my justification. Now, if the law is gone, if the transgression is gone and sin is gone how do you sin? How is it in this revival that you are going to come back to God and you're going to get straightened out with God and you're going to start living for God again because you know that you left God and you went back out into the world of sin and you know that you were lost but now you're going to do it the second time? You know that ain't right. Woe unto the backslider; I am married unto you. Is God married unto a sinner? I have healed your backsliding. That's why He said woe. One woe cometh and then another, the whipping post and whatever. He's saying, folks, you're just in for problems. You belong to me. You belong to me. You know, I'm married to you. You can't go doing those things. You can't do those things. Jonah said, Well, I'll do my own thing. And where did he wind up? In the belly of hell. Oh, somebody said, Well, that goes to show you right there when you sin you go to hell. Well, what happened when he came out of hell and went to preaching? Somebody said, Well, what do you mean by that? The Bible said the gates of hell shall not prevail against you and Jesus walked through hell for you and you're the garment that's been tried in the fire. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Hell ain't got nothing to do with it. There isn't anything that can stop you. Nothing can stop you. No man can pluck up what my Heavenly Father and every plant that He has not planted, as to the Word, it will be rooted up. But let me say this in closing. Folks, we say no law and no transgression and no sin; that means no death. Isn't that right? Is that right, folks? Do you really believe that? Why do we keep on dying? Why do we keep on dying? Somebody said, Well, now, Brother Pike, it's just good reasoning; everybody has to die. It's appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment. Well, if it is let the man die. I thought that we were not men. I thought we were Gods. Is it appointed unto Gods to die? Can Gods die? Gods live on. Gods don't die. You've passed from death unto life. How can you die if you've passed from death unto life? Somebody said, Well, it's understood, Brother Pike, everybody is going to have a funeral. No, it's not understood. Not by me, anyway. Enoch walked with God three hundred years and they never did have his funeral. Elijah walked with God but they didn't have his funeral. And Moses was God, supposedly buried, but they never have found his grave. But I found him over in glory on the Mount of Transfiguration. Paul was caught up to the third heaven. John was caught up into heaven in the spirit on the Lord's Day. Now. I'm simply saying this: That's why Paul said there is a mystery. I'm your overseer. There is a mystery that God doesn't want you to die. Death is God's enemy. It hasn't been God's plan for you to die. Somebody said, Well, it's just a plan of God. That's not true. You're listening to a lying spirit. There was no plan of God for man to die. Death is God's enemy. God never instigated death. Death never came from God. Death came by man. The day that you eat of that tree, God says, Adam, you're going to die. That's the tree of knowledge. That's where you're at today; your own intellectual reasoning. Your old tree of knowledge. Your trees of diplomacies. Trying to be something in the world. He said it's death. To be carnally minded is death. So he said, The day that you eat thereof ye shall die, putting the sentence of death in the body. And the very minute that his flesh, as Eve, lusted death came for she transgressed what He told her not to do and transgression of God's Word is death. That's sin. So then, death came by man and Jesus came to eradicate it. Took the blood out of His veins so that He could end it; so that you would never have to die. So they'd never have to put you in a casket, so they'd never have to take your body and feed it to the worms. David said the dead know not anything. People get the idea, like, you know, I've got to die and be buried and then when I'm buried I'll just come forth and I'll just be holy. What's that got to do with it. A rotten, smelly body coming forth to be holy? I don't see nothing in that. The dead know not anything. God hath nothing to do with the dead. In the Old Testament they couldn't even touch the dead and be holy. They couldn't set a light for the dead. So then, folks, you're not dead, neither in trespasses and sin or otherwise. You are alive forever more. You are children of God and we have come to the age where Paul spoke of it; that we'll be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump when the mysteries of God are finished. And now we're comprehending. Now we're witting the redemption. Now the trump of God is sounding. That last trump is the voice of God for the Bible said He shall ascend from heaven with the trump of God. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. The trump of God is the voice of Jesus. He shall descend from heaven as the trump of God with a shout and then He'll come forth calling the dead. But them that are alive and remain at that time shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. What then are we waiting for? Somebody said, Well, we're waiting for the dead to resurrect. Why, that sounds like we've got the cart ahead of the horse. Then what are the dead waiting for? They don't know nothing about it. They don't know nothing about it. Then are we waiting for the dead, or is the dead waiting for us? Oh, somebody said, Brother Pike, they wouldn't be waiting on us, you know. They're waiting for somebody to resurrect them. Wasn't that what Peter done to Dorcus. Wasn't that what the prophet did when he raised the man from the dead? Wasn't that where there was so much fire in Elisha's bones that he resurrected the man when they threw him in on top? See? You say, What are you talking about, Brother Pike? I'm talking about reacting. I'm talking about you are living, walking, talking human beings that God don't want to go to the grave. He don't want you to go to the casket. It is not His will. He's not a God of times and seasons. He's a God of faith. The moment that you believe, like the little woman that touched the hem of His garment. The moment that you believe you are saved, the moment you believe you're healed, the moment that you say it and don't doubt in your heart that's the way it will be, because you are a God. So then, I'm simply saying one thing and that is that we're coming down to the end of the church ages now. The knowledge of God is coming forth and them that really love God, them that are truly born of His Spirit are getting ready now to come into the real knowledge of God, the real things of God that their minds should be opened. Faith by the hearing of the Word and Enoch translated by faith that he should not see death. So then, we're down at the place right now to where God is trying to tell you that he doesn't want you to die in your body. He doesn't want you to die in your body. Somebody says, But now, Brother Pike, what if you die in your body? Leave that between me and the Lord. Aw, somebody says, Well, leave it between me and the Lord. So I leave that between you and the Lord. Now the rest of you can hear me. God doesn't want you to die. Do you understand what I'm saying? All right. So, this thing is that God was to reveal to you in the last days that from the foundation of the world that you have always been eternal. You have always been holy. You've always been godly. You've always been pure and you were covered with the blood of the Lamb that was slain in the foreknowledge of God, given to us in Christ before the world ever was by predestination and brought to light, as to the rent veil, the understanding at Calvary, preached down through the church ages, comprehended to a benefit, as to the change, saying, Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. And the children, not having yet been born, having done no good or evil that it might not stand by works but by Him that calleth, it was said, Jacob I love but Esau I hate. So then, folks, it's not to him that willeth or runneth. And the gifts of God are not through repentance for though they sought repentance with bitter tears they didn't find any place of repentance. You pray that God will grant to them without a place of repentance. This things are given through the predestination of God. And they that are in the foreknowledge of God, as Paul preached, they that were foreordained unto eternal life believed and they that were not foreordained unto eternal life they did not believe. You are the blessed of the Lord and you belong to Lord. Come out from among the world and among the animals and be a separated people. Touch not the unclean things and I'll receive you saith the Lord. The hour has come here now so that we can be manifested as the children of God and take over the world, change the governments of the world and you not have to go by the way of the grave, by the way of the casket because death is already conquered. They died in the law not having received the promise. You didn't have to die naturally. You don't have to die naturally because you are baptized into the death of Jesus Christ and that was your death. And though He died as a sinner for you, He died. He died as unto death and we've been baptized into His death. But now that He liveth He liveth unto God. He died one time unto sin to never, never have to die again. And now that He liveth He liveth unto God. And that is you at the right hand of the Father overcoming through Him. My! What we could say if we, on and on. But I'm simply saying this one thing. It's now. Now. You are alive forever more. If He is alive unto God and dead unto sin and as He is so are you, and that's your body, and He became you in death that might become Him in life and that's you at the right hand of the Father and God sees your body here as being buried in God. Then, beloved, yield you members unto God as those alive from the law and death. No law, no death. And let's praise the Lord, be about the Father's business and let's go right on believing until this great revelating light, as it reveals itself causes a dissipation of the darkness of intellectual reasoning of your religious experience and you see this great wonderful world around you which is heaven. Being in heaven and not knowing it. Being in heaven and not knowing it. Someone would say, Could you do that? Oh, no. You couldn't do that. We are they that dwell in heaven but do we know it? How many of you know that you dwell in heaven? Let me see your hands. It's obvious that some do know it. Now, some of you that didn't raise your hand then you don't know that you're in heaven? Someone would say, Well, why is that Brother Pike? Because you are not. Let's give the Lord a hand. Could you be in heaven and not know you were in heaven? You know you couldn't. You know you couldn't. Somebody says, But I don't know, it's just a matter of my thinking. No. It's a matter of your believing. It's because you don't believe it; you couldn't be there. It's because you do believe it. Enoch was translated by faith, went into glory. So then, stand with us. And this is a little hard to digest tonight but it goes on tape. It goes into books and goes around the world and gives people a chance to go over it and go over it and go over it like a cow chewing the cud and finally get the fullness of what we're saying. Somebody would say, Well, the water is too deep for me. The prophets said up to the ankle and up to the knees and just kept coming on up. Launch out into the deep. So then, what are we saying tonight? We're saying that when we were children we spake as children. Leaving the principals of the doctrines we're going on to perfection. We're no more children but we're growing up into parenthood to lay up for the children. And you that understand, you that can believe, then believe. If it's the Word of God receive it. If you don't understand it and it's the Word of God don't come against it; just it lay there for it's the Word. After awhile it will open up to you. If you can't get a hold of it don't worry about it. Don't make your faith shipwrecked. Just stay with what you've got. Stay with what you've got; that's all you've got to do. Stay with what you've got. God will reveal it to you as time goes on. Thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold. Some are just babes in Christ desiring the sincere milk of the Word and they are nursing the breast of El Shaddai the great breasted one. But, folks, it's a journey from Egypt into Canaan. Those people had to walk. There's a journey from here over to the country across the great gulf. You usually have to fly or go by boat. But this is a journey by faith. And this journey comes from the hearing of an exposed mind and God's mind has made an expose, always in human beings. There's never been an age but what He did it in a human being. Always. And so then, that way He hides it from the eyes of the wise and the prudent and the people miss the day of their visitation and He reveals Himself in simplicity as the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and to hide it from the wise and the prudent making it revelation unto babes, such as are willing to learn. It's our pleasure to have you and to talk to you tonight. Just remember it's late. It's real late. It's not just time wise at Bethlehem but it's a late hour. It's a great late hour. So, let's sing a little chorus together, Brother Taylor while we give the people a chance to come down to the altar. (Singing.) Sing it with me now. (Singing.) While we're standing here for just a few minutes the Bible said examine yourselves. See if you be in the faith. Faith cometh by the hearing of the Word. Tonight we've spoken the Word. Do you believe the Word? Is your conviction in something you've heard or something you've that you have imagined? Or some doctrinal thing that has been handed down through generations? Or is your faith in the Word of God? Faith by hearing and hearing by the Word. And the Bible said, in the later days many shall depart from the faith. That is, they will leave the Word. Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, having their conscience seared with a hot iron. Is that the case with us, or with you? No. Believe in the Word. If the Word says it that's the way it is. If the Word says it let every man be a liar and the Word be true. So, tonight we're leaning upon the Word. (Singing.) Sing it with me, now. (Singing.) Let's lift our hands up and close our eyes tonight and let's just let our hearts and our spirits go out to God. God is a spirit and He's seeking people to worship Him by letting their spirit go out to Him. Oh, hallelujah! I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. (Tongues.) Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! (Tongues.) Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Can you lift your hands and praise the Lord tonight? The Lord is saying amen to the message. He's saying it is so. The Holy Ghost Himself is saying it is so. (Tongues.) Hallelujah! Do you believe? If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe. God is saying be filled with the Holy Ghost. The time is at hand. (Tongues.) Let him that is holy be holy still. (Tongues.) He that is filthy let him be filthy still for the time is at hand. Glory to God! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Can you say hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise God. I just feel like singing another chorus after that. (Singing. Begin tape two, side two. Singing.) Somebody say hallelujah! Hallelujah! And we'll sing this little chorus now, Brother Taylor. (Singing.) Can you sing that with me? (Singing.) You're the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. In the fullness of time God send forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that was under the law. Hallelujah! Aren't you glad you're redeemed? Come on, folks. Are you under the law or are you redeemed? Come on now. Are you under the law or are you redeemed? If you're redeemed let the redeemed say so. Let the redeemed say so. What are we redeemed from? The law of sin and death. Death shall not have dominion over you anymore. I said, Death shall not have dominion over you. Somebody say praise the Lord. Death shall not have dominion over you. If you believe that death doesn't have any dominion over you give God a wave offering. Somebody say hallelujah! Do you believe that? Do you believe that? Do you really believe that, folks? Hallelujah! Somebody say hallelujah! Do you really believe that? If you believe that tonight you ought to be praising God. I'll tell you what, go get the world of science, get them out of the colleges, get the professors, get all the brilliance of the world, bring them down here before me and prove to them that at last death hath no power over them and you wouldn't be able to keep them in this building. They would go like stark raving crazy when they suddenly realize that death, if they could believe that, that death didn't have no power over them they would run and they would scream. And have you ever noticed what they do over a football and what they do over a volley ball? Don't it make you ashamed since that's all that you've done tonight over being free from death? Come on, folks. And you expect me to believe that you believe? You expect me to believe that you believe? Come on, you'd better conceive of what I'm telling you. It's got to be not a make believe, not an intellectual concept but there's got to be something that gets down below the ribs here. There's got to be something in the heart. Something that stirs you up, not something you try to make your heart believe but something that's screaming out in your heart saying, My God! My God! That is the Word of God. That's thus saith God Almighty Himself. That's what created the World. That's what brought me into existence. That's what makes my eyelids close and open. That's what make the breath go in and out my nostrils. That's what makes me move. That same Word has said I am eternally and forever free from death to never die no more. Somebody say praise God! Come on, folks. Let me hear you praise God! You need to praise God! Left up your hands tonight and praise God tonight. My God, resurrect and come forth from the dead and let people know that you are alive. Glory to God! This is a Word of spirit and life. Jesus said life abundantly, filled up and overflowing. I've come for you to have life abundantly. Hallelujah! This filled up, overflowing, wonderful Word of God. All right. So we're going to sing this little chorus. Let's lift up our hands and let's close our eyes and let's sing this little chorus and let's go home full tonight. (Singing.) Once again. (Singing.) Folks, don't let somebody intellectually in a scholarship take away your joy and your jubilance because they are intellectually webbed up in their brain and don't know anything about the Holy Ghost and the joy of serving God in Christian living and they never really have any joy. And when you say praise the Lord they say hallelujah! You know, it don't get no deeper than their tongue. But let the glory of God rise in your sole. The Kingdom of God is within you. You spirit is in the Spirit of Christ which Spirit is in heaven. Which spirit is in heaven. Oh, somebody says, If I was in heaven, Brother Pike, I'd shout my shoe heels off. Come on, folks. What happened to the shoe heels? What happened to the shouting? What happened to the praising of God? You said if you were in heaven. Oh, somebody said, but I believe I'm in heaven. Well, I don't see you shouting your shoe heels off. I'm going to dance on them golden streets. I'm going to run up and down them golden streets. I haven't seen anybody running up and down the golden streets. Oh, somebody said, I'm talking about when we all get to heaven. Yeah, that's what we used to sing. Isn't that beautiful? We're going to leave that to them that sing that. How many of you are glad that you are them that dwell in heaven? That's wonderful. So then, we dwell in heaven. We'll let the rest of them sing when we all get to heaven. Isn't that right? There is a door open in heaven and John said come on up here. Or the voice said come on up hither. So then, if you've got God in your heart, folks, you need to be praising the Lord. So we're going to lift our hands up and close our eyes and we're going to sing that from our heart now. (Singing.) Is that coming from your spirit? God is a spirit. Is that coming from your heart? Have you got out of the natural long enough to turn your spirit over to God? Do you feel the Spirit of God tonight? Can you feel the quickening of His great wonderful presence? Somebody said, Brother Pike, when His Kingdom comes. Sister, Brother, His Kingdom did come. Oh, when I get to the place, Brother Pike, to where I live good enough. My dearly beloved Brother, Sister, in Him we've gone lived good enough. The works was finished from the foundation of the world. Well, I tell you, Brother Pike, when I get close enough to Him. Well, He said I'll be closer than a brother; I'm in you. I'm in you. Somebody said, Well, I guess it's just, Brother Pike. Well, you need to be dead. All you've got to do is come to God. Reckon yourselves to be dead by Calvary and get rid of that you and there won't be no more problem with you and that old beast thing. There won't be no more problem with you and you that have already been to Calvary, been buried in His death, that's accepted Him, there shouldn't be any problem with you. What's going on? Why can't you praise the Lord? The Bible said enter His gates with thanksgiving and with praise. Somebody said, Well, that's what we're doing, Brother Pike. Well, I'm having trouble finding it. I'm having trouble finding it. The Bible said lift up holy hands. And the Bible said make a joyful noise unto the Lord. And the Bible said make a loud noise unto the Lord. Isn't that right? And the Bible teaches there is suppose to be a shout of victory. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith. Not as they were down in the camp. That wasn't a shout of victory. They were shouting over the gold and silver, new homes and cars and education. Folks, is that what you're shouting over tonight? Is that where you're mind is tonight? Is that where your security is tonight? Is that where your faith is tonight? Then where is it tonight? In God tonight. Where is the shout of victory? Where is the shout of victory? Where is the shout of victory? Hallelujah! That's better. That's better. Hallelujah! Let God know that you're free. Let God know it's a shout of victory. Let God know that you dwell in heaven. Let God know that you're thankful. Give Him a wave offering. Tell Him how much you love Him. Tell Him how much you love Him. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Can you love Him tonight?

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christs Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord