The Existence Of The Nonexistent

Well, it's good to be here. It's good to be here and feel the presence of the Lord, and your enthusiasm for the Lord. I think we have a little problem this morning with the fumes. I ask them to go ahead and paint these floors up here before we put a covering over it. We're getting a little farther along with this part of the building and it created a little fumes and we had a little difference whether as to open the doors to give us some heat, or what to do. I personally__ Most of the fumes are in this area. I, personally, think they could have opened maybe the door back there and give you some heat up here. I don't think they'd have any problem opening these doors. I'm up here where the fumes would have ordinarily been. They should have opened these doors because I'm comfortable up here. I move around and I don't need that much heat, but you do need heat for the babies. And it's better to run the heaters even if you have to open the doors and that way you keep the chill off. You might not get it too warm but it's better. So it's going to make it a little rough this morning when we go to preach and you run the heaters cause that way it automatically messes up the radio programs. We're trying our very best to get the heat in. We're got a little differences on it, as to whatever, but I pressed the issue on it and I found out that they do have everything in tact; everything in line so it shouldn't be any problem to get it in, but naturally Satan will hinder just as long as he can. Paul said, I would have come unto you but Satan hindered me, so naturally he's going to do that. Well, let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing) Can you give Him a hand? Somebody say hallelujah. You can be seated. I want to talk with you just a little bit. You know, the Word of the Lord, the Bible says that the Word of the Lord is perfect converting the soul. There is nothing that is perfect that can convert the soul except the Word of the Lord. You can't study. You can't fast. You can't pray. You can't go to school. You can't get anything that will convert the soul except the Word of the Lord. As a matter-of-fact, scientists say if you're about twenty-five years old and you're never converted, as to your way of life, that you'll always be the same. And I believe that except for the fact that Christ converts the soul. Christ converts the soul. So the Word of the Lord converts the soul. So we come with the Word of the Lord because the Word of the Lord converts the soul. And lest we be converted then we can't have eternal life. You know, down stairs in the printing room we use what we call a converter and we convert the electric from one phase of electricity to another phase and we bring it to what we call a three phase. And so then, this gives us an efficiency as to run our presses. And most of the commercial things out in the world are three phase, so we convert our own here and make three phase. And God is a converter. He has to convert us to bring us back to our originality, that in bringing us back to our originality then we find ourselves converted and on the right road home. Until then we are in a perverted condition by the fall. Having fell from the lofty state of the protection of God then we find ourself in a perverted condition. Now, this is what we don't like to acknowledge as people. We don't like to acknowledge the fact that from our birth we are perverted. No one likes to acknowledge that. No one will accept that as a rule, but it is a true fact. You look on the world out there and you see people that are perverted that are practicing all kind of things that are so wrong. And they are just losing all the morals of life and you think, Well, these perversions, I don't want to be one of these perverts. I don't want to be one of them, but you don't understand that you are born that way. You are born into the world. That's why they try to protect their rights in saying that they can't help it, that they are born that way. They've got a misunderstanding. They're not born that way, as to a pervert, as to the way that they go about perversion, but they are born into a state of perversion from the fall and they are subject to all of those things. Not perverted to the extent that God has made them perverts, but they have chosen that way through their own sovereignty and they are perverted because of their desire. So then, everyone is in a perverted condition. One might be a pervert when it comes to human relationship, as to the passions of the body. Another may be a pervert when it comes to being a money theme, or somebody that is temperamental, or somebody that's filled with jealousy, or hatred, or bitterness, or somebody that is a gossiper, or backbiter. One of a million devils has got a hold of them and they are in a perverted condition. So that that you see out there, as to the world of sex, that is just part of what the perverted world is like and they're in that particular phase of the perversion. But, believe it or not, all people will go to the same hell. All people will go to the same Lake of Fire. All people will be punished the same way, as to the punishment of death because they are perverted unless they become converted and they are born again. They might be the polished ethics of life. They might be in the upper echelon. They might be in the legislative side of life. They might be a king. They might be a queen. They might ba a president. They might have Ph.D's. They might have all kind of diplomacies. They might be a lawyer, or doctor. They might be a preacher. They could be a laity, whatever it might be. But the thing is they are still perverted and they still will go into the Lake of Fire. All flesh has corrupted its way before God and the sentence of death is in the body and all of them are alike. I always bring this to your mind to try to stabilize you mind to put you in a certain place to where the Gospel can reach you. There is under your tongue the poison of asps. There is within your tongue deceit. Your eyes are filled with adultery and destruction and misery is before you, and the way of peace, and the path of peace you've never known. Your feet are swift to shed blood. All of your labor is for your own belly and mouth because your belly craves it of you. And you are on your belly for all the days of your life. This is your first birth and you are called a serpent, or a worm. You are called a generation of vipers and unless you go through a conversion, as to what we refer to as the stages of the metamorphosis in a symbolic thing, like the butterfly coming out of the cocoon, as to the worm. Then that means that you are still in that perverted form of the worm and you go to a hole, and to darkness. But if you go through what we call the metamorphosis of Calvary, the rending of the veil, the opening of the cocoon to relieve the inner potentiality of godliness and life that comes into you through conversion, and new birth, that rends that outer shell of your intellectual being. That is, O wretched man that you are, as to the outer man. To rend that outer man and come out of there as a spiritual being born of the Spirit, changed to a quickening spirit, leaving the intellectual of the flesh. They that are in the flesh cannot please God because it is the worm and it is the cocoon. So then, unless you can come out of the flesh and be in another world, as another person in another mind then you are still perverted and that means that you have corrupted your way and you all go into the same path, down the same trail to the same eternal devastation and death. So then, I say this to you, you know, by remembrance though you already know these things. Peter said, As long as I'm abiding in this tabernacle I feel that I should stir up you pure mind, which is the mind of Christ to make it rise above your intellectual reasoning. And even though we have desired to teach you, Jesus the teacher sent from God, we have a desire to teach you and tutor you in all of these things; yet time doesn't permit us to do that because of routines of life, and because of natures of human beings and because of their business schedules of life. Though they do not have time to take time to be holy, as to just spare the time, yet they must take time because God said take time. You know, I'll never have time to be holy. Down in Egypt Pharoah always had more brick to be made, or more work to do. Out in the world there is always something else to do to make more money. Pressed with necessity. Got to pay the IRS. Pay the light bill. Got to pay the rent. Got to pay on the car. Got to have more money, more security, get ready for winter. But the Bible said in the midst of all of that, lay it aside and take time to be holy and then when you seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness all of these other things will be added unto you. We're exhorted by the book of Timothy. In II Timothy the second chapter, the first and second verse we find we're exhorted to be strong in the grace of God. Therefore be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and in the things that I've taught you which commit unto men that are able to teach others the same. So here He tells us that we should be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus. Strong in the grace. I cannot be strong in my own strength. I cannot cope with the situation in my own strength. I am inferior to Satan by birth. I'm born inferior. I wasn't created inferior, but because of the fall I became inferior through the fall and man is no match for Lucifer. Lucifer is a fallen angel and the Bible teaches man is made a little lower than the angels. He does not have the strength to prevail against an angel. Only if he can find Christ and be filled with the angel of Christ, which is the spirit of what we call the Holy Spirit, or the Ghost which is holy, Christ coming in ghostly form. If we can be filled with this ghostly form of Christ then we have power over Lucifer and he cannot come into our house and spoil our goods, nor bind our life and our spirit to enslave us to the tribute of men, or to the human senses as a bondschild, making us to be dependent upon our human senses, or putting us upon the belly. So then, our labor comes then to be for God, then we labor that we might have to give rather than labor for our belly. We look on the things of another. We seek the things of another, and we esteem others better than ourself, and we seek to serve others rather than to subject others to service to us. So we get a new outlook all together. Now, we are strong but we are strong in His grace. What does that mean? What does that mean, that I am strong in His grace. It means that though I am faulty, though I stumble, though I stagger because of the outer man and his resistance, his continual harassment, the doubtful mind that is always plaguing me, it causes me to stagger, and stumble, and to be faulty in the sight of God. But God said, be strong in my grace. That is, I've taken care of all of this. I've killed the body. I've devastated it at Calvary. I've completely done away with the body of death. I've freed you from this through the metamorphosis from that cocoon, and I've taken you out of that. I have baptized you into the death of Christ Jesus. I have actually baptized you into the death. You know, this is a hard thing to get a hold of. We say words, and we say words so often until somebody says, Well, I can quote that. I know what that says. I've been baptized into His death, let's go on to the next thing. But, see? We never know what was said. We never know what it meant. We never understand it at all. When it says we were baptized into His death it means that we are dead. We are baptized for the dead. The Bible said we are baptized for the dead. That's why we are baptized. A lot of people that are baptized don't even know why they are baptized. They just say, Well, I'm baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus because that makes me a Christian. Or, now I know that I'm a Christian. That has nothing to do with it. You are baptized for the dead, and as many as has been baptized into Christ's death has put on Christ, which means that when you are baptized into His death then are you dead. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, I know that we're baptized into His death and I know that we're suppose to make believe that we're dead. Folks, this is no make-believe. You know, we make-believe all through our lives, but everything is fiction. We watch so much of Hollywood, and television, and read so much of sports, and always hear so much fantasy in the world that everything is make-believe nothing is real anymore. And that is why little ones are killing people and doing all kind of things. They've got that in their minds, you know. It's not really real it's just something they're doing in their games. Like the little boy a few days ago that went into the washerette, or wherever it was at, fourteen years old. He'd joined a certain gang and he had to kill somebody. So he killed a mother that is carrying a child. The child and the mother died. See? A game with him. His little ole fourteen year old mind didn't know any better. And what we've got to do is come to a reality. This world is a fantasy. It is a fantasy. We can't get a hold of that. We think, Oh, no, Brother Pike, this world is not a fantasy. When I eat and I drink and I feel, and my passions, and my enjoyment, and my laugh and my talk and my car and my house, and my body, and all of this is real. But it's not real. It is a fantasy. You know, I said this a number of times, and of course, people they just kind of look at you king of in an awesome sort of a way, you know, and they don't understand so they can't figure it out and they just feel like, well, he's just beside himself. They said, Paul, you're just beside yourself. He said, If I am beside myself it's for Christ. And they said, Well, you're just a fool. He said, Well, if I'm a fool I'm a fool for Christ. They said, Well, much learning has made thee mad, Paul. See? But the thing is, if Jesus could actually walk through the wall how did He do that? Someone would say, Well, He was a spirit. That's what they said. They said, He is a spirit. He said, No, not a spirit. Feel of me, a spirit don't have flesh and bones like you see me have. How did he walk through the wall? He was flesh. He was bones. But bones and flesh passed through the wall. Now then I'm bone and flesh. You're bone and flesh. Why is it we can't pass through the wall? Someone says, Well, it's for sure we can't. Scientist can prove to you you can't do it. Scientist don't have any understanding, that's what it is. Knowledge falsely so-called. Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. That is to say, that's all they do, is study in college. Study in school. They're always studying the DNA. They're always studying everything. Elements. Geologically. They're studying human physics. They're studying the energies. They're studying everything and they never come to any kind of understanding. Like a fellow talked to me over the telephone the other day for perhaps more than two hours. He has been studying for so many years, he knows so many things, and he knew everything from A to Z and he went through all that of the happenings, the current happenings, the papers, the t.v, everything else. Then the Bible, through the Greek and to the Hebrew, and on and on. And I just listened and I listened, and he had it all together and he told me how he understood right on through Revelation and whatever. And I just listened and listened, and I thought, now what you're going to do you're going to keep on until after awhile you're going to get tangled up like a little kitten with a ball of yarn and then you're going to look for a way out. And he did. He got all balled up and after awhile he said, But, but, but I would like to know about this. And then I started on that and he said, Well, I need to know about this and this. And then after awhile he had a string of things, this and this and this, and all of those things he thought he knew he didn't understand at all. Not at all. And we had to go through the Bible and put all of these things together by the mind of Christ and get him straightened out and he was as happy as a lark, and said he wanted to call again so we could have some more conversation. Said, I really learned some things. See? And this is the way it is in the world. People really don't know. They really don't understand. People are ever learning and they never know the truth. You can't go and tell them because they're so learned in their mind. They know the Bible. They know the Hebrew, the Greek. They know the geological studies of life. They know everything and don't know nothing. Somebody says, Well, how do you come up with a summary like that. Because everything that they're doing is in the flesh and the Bible said the flesh profiteth nothing. So then, they don't know nothing. But they that are in Christ Jesus have an unction from the Holy one that they should know all things. Not only the geological aspect of life and the world of human physics, and the world of energy. But they know all about everything. They know about the eternities. They know about what was in the past and what is in the future. I think about science a lot of times. They're talking about how they can put a man back into the past. They go through this little old childish gesture of theirs, how can we put him back into the past? It's one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard in my life, going to put a man back in the past, you know, or we'll project him out in the future. Isn't that stupidity? Somebody tell me, isn't that stupidity? Somebody says, Well, I don't know about that. Well, I'm talking about them people that do know. Some of you that know all things, isn't that stupidity? Putting a man back in the past, projecting him into the future. In the first place there is no past, and there is no future, so how are you going to put him back into something that's not there? Or project him into something that's not there? Somebody says, Well, can you prove, Brother Pike, there's no past, or no future? What do you have to prove? The word past is only an intellectual expression. The word future is only an intellectual expression. That's something that you thought of. Is that right? So then, that means there is no such. There is no yesterday with God. There is no tomorrow with God. God is forever. He was, He is and forever shall be. Somebody says, Well, that don't have to do with us. It does with us that was before the world ever was. Father, restore unto me the joys I had with Thee before the world ever was, before our time ever came to be when He said, Ye are not of this world, even as I am not of this world. Folks, if I'm of this world then that means I perish with the world. That means I don't know no more than the world knows. It means I'm in the confines of the world and whatever these intellectual confines of this world is I am in prison to that. And what the world is is that which is the intellectual. It is a confinement of reasoning. It is a mind. It is a spirit. It is Lucifer. It is a vanity. It's all vanity. Whoever is caught within the web of that is part of it. They're motivated by, they're controlled by it. But I am not in that. I've converted from that. Though I fell into that through the fall of the weakness of Adam, I escaped that through the Lord Jesus Christ and I came out of that web, and I came out of that cocoon. And now I am like the butterfly as to the metamorphosis. I am buoyant. I am a heavenly creature. There is no bonds in my death. There is no boundaries, because death hath no power over me. I do not have to fear going to hell because the gates of hell cannot prevail against me. I walk through the bellies and chambers of hell as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. I walk through the wall of death as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. I ascended and went up on high and set at the right hand of the Father through the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. As He is so am I in Him, forever young and strong and powerful and rich and full of all understanding to live eternally and to rule with a rod of iron, to say what I will, to think what I will, to ask what I will, to decree in my heart whatever I will. Why? Because He hath made us Gods. He hath made us one with Himself, that we are all things and all things are ours, and we own all things, and hell is our property. And death is our property, and we have power over death, not death over us. And we have power over hell, and not hell over us. And we have power over the grave, and not the grave over us. Do you understand what I'm saying? So then, what are we saying? What are we saying? I'm saying that we are a different people. I keep getting, anyway, get a little echo back here somewhere. Keep wondering about it. But it is a true fact. It is a true fact that we are different. We are different. Somebody would say, Well, how can we be different, Brother Pike? Because there is a difference in the glory of the stars. Every star differeth in glory. There is a difference in the glory of a woman and the glory of a man, and the glory of a child. There is a difference between the flesh of the earth, as to the flesh of the bird and the flesh of animal, as to the human being. There's a difference in these flesh. There is a natural body, there is a spiritual body. There is a terrestrial body, there is a Celestial body. Having born the image of the corruptible we then bear the image of the incorruptible. We are not as of to the terrestrial but in the finished product we are of the Celestial. And we're not of the mortality of the earth but we are of the immortality. So then, mortality being swallowed up by immortality through the fore-knowledge of God we are a finished product. Not as to that which is in the makings. But we are a finished product. It does not yet appear to you what ye shall be like, nor to one another what we shall look like, but that doesn't cancel it out. That doesn't annul the fact that it is so. See? And when we get right here, of course, we get into a few little things that's kind of deep. And sometimes if we do get into a few deep things it's kind of hard for people to get a hold of. But the thing is, you know, when you try to condense it and you don't go into detail to put the parts together, people can't get a picture of it, and it just sounds foolish. For the Bible said the things of God are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know them. He cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned. Now, the question arises, why can't he know them? Why can't the natural man know the spiritual things? Because he can't see them. He can't feel them. They're not there. So this is why the Bible said God who calleth those things that are as though they are. So then, what are we saying? If you can't see it, and you can't hear it, and you can't feel it, then good common sense said then it's not there. It's not there. It's just not there. So then, that automatically confines them that takes that stand. It automatically confines them to the world of intellectual definition, or the scope of Lucifer's mind. See? If I can see it, Thomas said, I'll believe it. I'll believe it. Jesus said, Well, here's the nail prints, thrust your hand in my side. But, Thomas, blessed is he that hath not seen that can believe. Now what is the difference? Why does He say that to Thomas? Thomas, blessed is he that hath not seen that can believe? Now you see, and that's a great thing. And now you believe, but blessed is he that cannot see and yet believes. What is the difference? The difference is to be able to believe in that which you cannot see means that you've got the faith of Christ and that you believe in the supernatural, and that is a faith that excels the human intellectual reasoning of human believing and conviction, and it means you are eternal. And if you don't have that to where you can believe that way it means you just didn't make it, folks. You just didn't make it. If just believing what you can see and what you can feel and what you can know, then you don't have it. But now, with me it has to be like this. I must call those things that are not as though they are. Somebody says, But it's not there. To you it's not there, but to me it's there. It's like a person that has lost their mind, or they're insane. As far as they're concerned they see it. You may not see it, but they see it. A person that is having strong delusions, or hallucinating, or people that are on dope, they see all these things. The other's don't see it, but they see it. That's the world to them. They want to take more dope. They want to do back into that world because that's a great adventure to them. They're venturing out, see? and the others don't get to see all these exciting things they see. Now, this is the way it is with Christians. That's only symbolic. In our day it is symbolic. Everything has to be a natural in the earth to show what's in heaven, in the spiritual world. So all of this has to come to pass for the youth to show it's in the last days as now the spiritual children of God are at last going out. We call it hallucinating. They're going out into the spirit. They're going to and fro. They're taking trips, as the world says. Great beautiful things are happening to them and the others they'll just sit there and kind of scratch their heads and they can't figure out what's wrong with them. So then, that means calling those things that are not as though they are. Simply because the Word of God said it I believe it; that's the way it is. And nobody is going to convince me different from that. So, somebody says, Paul you're just crazy, that's all that's wrong with you. You're crazy, you lost your mind. So Paul said, Well, I don't think it should be considered incredible that God should raise the dead. Why should that be thought incredible? After all He's God. What's incredible about God raising the dead. Isn't that just another day's activities to God, to raise the dead? You know, and after you go so far down the trail, even to the place I've been, as to the privileges of seeing and understanding, you suddenly realize that raising the dead is absolutely nothing. See? Somebody says, Well, how do you get that? They say, Why, it's just an impossibility. No, it's not an impossibility. If it's an impossibility how did Peter do it? If it's an impossibility how did Elijah do it? If it's an impossibility how did Jesus do it? They were all men. And if it's an impossibility to walk on the water, how did Peter walk on the water? If it's an impossibility to walk through the wall, how did Jesus walk through the wall? If it's impossible for a man to fly without wings, how did Ezekiel soar through the air? See? It's not impossible. It's only impossible to them that cannot believe, but the Bible says all things are possible to them that can believe. There is no impossibilities to them that believe. So then, why should we think it's incredible that we are passed from death unto life, and that we now have eternal life and cannot die? Why should we think it incredible that now God hath taken away our sins and we can never again sin? Why should we think it incredible that God looked down from heaven, heard the groaning of the prisoners and loosed those that were appointed unto death and in a day accepted succored them? Why should we think it incredible that now immortality has been brought to light and we can be immortal and never perish and never corrupt in our bodies? Why should that be thought? Oh, somebody says, Brother Pike, you know your eccentric; there ain't no such thing. That could never be. But I tell you in the name of the Lord it is. It is. Somebody says, Well, going to be. Oh, no; it is. Iy is. See? This is where we make our mistake. With us something has got to be. You know, something great is going to happen, Brother Pike. And an evangelist comes along and he gets exuberant and he dances a little bit and he hollers a little bit, and he catches attention a little bit, and he does his thing and he tells you, it's coming, it's coming. Folks, it's coming; a great mighty thing is coming. Somebody is coming on the scene. This great mighty thing is going to happen. It's coming. But, see? That's wrong. It's already here. See? It has always been here. The thing is, it has not come to our day so that it will come. That's not what it came for. It has come to our day that it might be made known that it always was and our believing will bring it to be because we are those, as to the promised seed. So as to the time, the promise drawing near now that the seed has come then the promise is to the seed. And now that the seed has come then that means they which can believe in the supernatural will bring the supernatural world present. They that will believe will automatically change the body, change the environment, change the surroundings because this world over here has passed away. Peter said with water. This other world has passed away. As is said, upon you has come the ends of the world, as to the blood realm and now this last world, or that's referred to as energy, or really it's religion or spirit, this world is present now. And there is a generation for this world as there was the first world. There is one for the second world. There is one for the third world. There was a mind for the first world. There was a mind for the second world. Now there is a mind for the third world. And those that occupy, those that will be the preeminent ones, those that control are now here. See? And those that have climbed up into the upper lintels, the worm, Jacob thou worm, the flesh, they that through intellectual has climbed up into the Einstein theories and up here in these things that they don't have any business it at all, having climbed up there Lucifer through the human body, having climbed up into these realms of the great mind, had no business to go up there to start with because those are heavenly places. And having climbed up into that God is going to take those Ph.D's and DD's and all these diplomacies of the devil that's pushed them in to these places to try to make void the teachings of God, and try to make themselves God through their intellectual, and through their progging with pills and everything else, God is going to take those diplomacies and burn those things along with them in the fire. So then, this is where the children of God belong. They're the ones with the answers. They're the ones that have all the answers, not part of the answers. Somebody says, But, Brother Pike, don't they have problems? Of course, they have problems because the body has not yet been changed. Job said, I wait for my change. The body has not yet been changed. Somebody says, Well, there's the hang up right there. There is my hangup, the body has not been changed. There you are right there. But, see? That's your hangup, not my hangup. That's not the children of God's hangup, because the whole purpose of this understanding and this message is for them to change the body. The body is not a hangup to them. They are going to take the body and hang it up at Calvary, and they're going to take that body and rend the veil and they're going to change that body and every element of that body is going to become glorified and changed to another stage of life altogether. So then, if I got into this this morning it would take me about fifteen hours to talk about a few of these things this morning. Somebody says, would it really, Brother Pike? Oh, yes. Just for me to run through it just in my mind to talk with God it takes hours just for me and Him to have a talk on it. So, that means that with these few scattered remarks, as to captivate your mind to cause you to be curious, or to stir you up, your pure mind, to make you start searching. I say these things that they might go on tape and they might go around the world. People are asking for this literature everywhere. It's causing a great stir. Like I said the other day, forty thousand of these were just printed over in Romania, and it's really stirred the people. And then yesterday there was a connection made where there is somebody that is asking for a half a million tracts in Romania with five hundred people ready to start distributing them. And there is another fellow we got a letter from that he had written one letter and said, Let this do once and for all where I won't even have to bother about writing again to get it. I need this many tracts, and this many books, and this many tracts and this many books and I need them periodically. Just continually. And on and on and on, and around the world this is causing a stir. People are being stirred by this around the world. Somebody says, Well, to me, Brother Pike, it's just no more that another message. I come here all the time. Yeah, I know that, and I understand that. And no hard feelings, but to them that are elect and them that are out yonder it's more than just another message. They are getting something and they're stirred to the core of their soul. They can't hardly contain them selves. So then, they're digging in the mind of God. Now. So then, there is another mind and this mind is the mind of Christ. And there is some that is obsessed with this mind. There are some that's taken with this mind. There are some under the control and auspices of this mind, and these are sons and daughters of God. These are eternal creatures and these do have power. And the power is over all things. I say this again just by way of thought. Mind over matter to the world, as to the Einsteins and the theologians and all of the studies of the indoctrinations of the their foolish little diplomacies, all these kind of things as being brainy and heady, or trying to think themselves to be something, making themselves God and putting God out of the arrangements. See? These people being caught in the web of Satan, the mind of Satan, they are nothing. They are mere beast and will go under a computerized number of the thing of electronics and be controlled by some superior mind of Lucifer. But we are under the mind of God, and though they believe in mind over matter and they keep working with the forms of matter to break it down, and break it down, come right on down to the elements and to the enzymes of the body and right on down to the atomic particles, breaking down the molecular structure right on down to the electron, the protons and the neutrons and right on down to the little packets of lights. Or that is to say the very beta and sparks. But when they get through they've discovered nothing. They're like children working with little blocks. And this mind over matter thing that they've got is Satan's mind trying to figure out matter and control matter, even the forms of your body, as to the human structure, the world of human physics. And they're trying to put it together in their little booklet and put it together, as to get themselves a diplomacy, as being a specialist in certain fields. And in doing that making themselves God, sitting in the body of God showing themselves that they are God. And the Bible said, the end should not come lest God exposed those that are sitting in the body as God. That is the devils and the demons and Lucifer, for the man of perdition must be revealed. For it's the great falling away, because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, as to the love of spiritual things and exuberance of intelligence shall be an all time high and turn into sodomites and fornicators and liars and in to animals and prey off of one another as cons and leaches. See? But then as the end comes God, the great light which is the spiritual mind of Christ, shall break forth and destroy that inner man, which is Lucifer, with the brightness of His coming. And this Word of understanding, with is light, will cause his thoughts, his mind to dissolve in to nothing. (Begin side two.) And he'll see that he ain't nothing. It will show his thoughts that's suppose to be so great and so mighty and so far out to be absolutely childish. It will be so far advanced above all of his great super intelligence, the professors and all of the discoveries and the DNA, and all of these things until it would be like a little child, like a dog chasing his tail around and around, not knowing what to do. Somebody says, Brother Pike, you talk of that to lightly; I don't believe that. I know, but I must tell you this while I tell the believers this. So as I tell the believers I know that you're not going to believe it. But to the believers remember this; it is absolutely a profound fact, no exaggeration. That's the way that it is. And to the believers, you know all things. Them people don't know nothing. They don't know nothing. They profited nothing with all of their efforts, and they're the garbage that must be burned. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, how can you say that? I said they are the garbage that must be burned. Come on, wake up, folks. They're the garbage, the dump man will haul them off. Satan is the garbage man. He's hauling them off to the dump to burn them in the fire. All of that is garbage. Every bit of that is garbage. It's rejection of God. The carnal mind is enmity with God. They're intellectually puffed up by their vain deceit, knowledge puffeth up. And all of that is rejected. God has rejected that knowledge falsely so-called. All of it is rejected. God will burn them. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God. And like Martin Luther said, the institutions have become the gates to hell. So then, that's garbage, but now comes the mind of light and the mind of light will overpower those things. Those are people of darkness. All those intellectual diplomacies, all of people that are out there that's arrayed in the glitter, drinking their wine and bubbling in their beer, and riding in their fine automobiles and fine clothing, and the money and the vain jinglings of the world. Even preachers, even all those professing preaching and all the religious sort of thing, it is nothing at all in the sight of God. It is nothing but darkness. Even though there is preachers, and there is churches and there is great revivals and all these things because the rain is poured out on the unjust and the tare. And because Joel said the last days would bring this great water down upon them, and they're doing all kind of things with their great crusades and all these kind of things on television and whatever. They're nothing but a bunch of kids playing, and the rain is just pouring down and things are happening, and beautiful things, even people getting healed, all these kind of things. And many of them are of the devil, transforming their minds to ministers of light. See? And revival goes on to the extent that God keeps calling the elect out, like with the little startina to get their minds to bring them over to sonship. But, folks, you take my word for it, it's absolutely the way that I'm saying. Everything that is in that realm is darkness. It is darkness and God has rejected it. He has rejected their image. He hates their image. He hates their mind. He hates all of their tutoring and all of their teaching and they have taken the good things of God, and the good things of life and all that He's give you, even the world of academia. And they've got it all misconstrued and balled up within the filth of the flesh, and within their intellectual corruption God until has rejected the whole thing. Boy, this don't set will, does it? Folks, don't like this kind of preaching, do they? They say, My God, what kind of preacher are you. Well, I might be original, who knows? You might find this everywhere. You might go listen to preachers, they might preach it everywhere, but then it might be original. But whatever it is, it's the truth. And not only that but heaven and earth is going to pass away. It's going to pass away. Somebody said, Well, it may pass away. Oh, no, it's going to pass away and there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. I just dropped this in by way of a thought here because I know that we can't really get into nothing much. Never can up here, but anyway this is something for you to think on. Remember, when God came forth he came forth as the Word. Isn't that right? In the beginning was the Word. Before the Word, what was God? What was God? See, the Word in the beginning. It was the Word, and the Word spoke the world in to existence. Thus the world has become existent. The Word spoke the thing in to existence so we have existence. But what we have to remember is that God is nonexistent. Back to our original thought. Calling those things that are not as though they are. So God is nonexistent, but we are existent. So everything becomes existent, and God is thus made existent, but there has to come a day when existence will be no more. But before that day comes God has to make Himself existent. And as He makes Himself existent then He has to captivate existence and take existence into captivity that He might transformate, transfigurate, and completely translate until He hath preserved existence by making it as to your definition nonexistent that it might be taken to it's originality, and yet not in it's originality as before God became existent, but as to the originality of that which was nonexistent to be interwoven with existence that it might become one and the same as a divine thing of life, a divine life and a divine keepsake of God, or this thing which is a divine preservative forever, which will take a lot of time to go into and explain if we got into the spiritual perspective of it by calling those things that are not as though they are and as to bring it to the perspective of where God said, "come and let us". Come and let us. So then, that means if there is a heaven that's going to pass away, and if there's an earth that is going to pass away, if this world came to be by the Word, you can be sure it's going to pass away by the Word. And then if there is another world to come, John said, there'll be a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness you can be sure that that one that is to come will be made the same way that the first one was to the extent it will be by the Word. So we'll just leave these few things with you here that it would take a lifetime to think on. That way you can put it all together. Let's stand together. These things that we'd like to expound on a lot of times and talk about, but nevertheless, we just have to do what little we can under the circumstances and all the problems. Satan has seen that there is always a problem at Bethlehem. Always a problem, because he hates the existence of Bethlehem and this message and me, and as it was with Jesus and the apostles, he went about daily seeking a way to destroy them and he hates this place. But, nevertheless, he did the same thing to Jerusalem and to Bethlehem of old. He's tried to destroy the royal seed and destroy Jerusalem. Again and again God has rebuilt the walls and they stand until today. So He's going to have His way in it. While all the other cities flourish he always preyed off of Jerusalem. Always pounced on Jerusalem and they've always done that to Little Bethlehem and to the people. They've always tried to divide the minds of the people. Remember this. It's hard for you to get a hold of this, I'm sure, but some do. I have to say it in such terminology sometimes. It's a little difficult to say it, especially in a mixed audience. But it's like a conception in that it starts with a birth of a divine conception. I travail until Christ be formed within you, as to the seedling of His glory, and it is like this. Flesh frolics to no end. Passions frolic. It's a daily thing so an adulterous generation. Sinful. But the thing is there is a conception. It was made that way, for multiplying and replenishing the earth. And there is a conception. And no matter what you do you are in the feminine gender. You're going to conceive in that heart. And whether Brother Pike talks, or somebody else talks, or whether it is to a minister that comes forth as this would come forth from the Sacred Desk as I speak the Word, as to a conception, or one that would be sterile, nothing but just charismatisism to jump and holler and make you feel good, and stimulate you with no conception whatsoever, as to no travail, as to no birth, as to no reward. Whatever it might be, there is one of two things happening. And the thing is there is a conception and when the wound is closed it's closed. Though you may go to church a hundred thousand times, though you may hear a hundred thousand preachers somewhere along the line somebody touched base with you, and there was a conception and a sealing in. And when it was sealed in, though you go through all the motions and everything out of all the other things that you do it will bring forth only the fruit of the wound according to that which was, as to the conception as to seed. And whether it be of darkness so shall the seed be at birth. Or whether it be of light, so shall the seed be at birth. Whatever it is it will come forth exactly accordingly. There won't be any difference, see? And I exhorted you over and over to try to be virtuous. God is looking for virgins. Five foolish, five wise to be virtuous and to stay away from sounds, and to stay away from words, and to stay away for reasoning, and to stay away from thoughts, and to stay away from the world and all of it's vain jinglings and all the soothing feelings and touching and wooing. The men's voices and their presence, and the women's voices and their presence and their soothing bewitching ways, whether religious, or whatever. And stay with the Word as a virgin to the Word. I've asked you to do that. I've tried to get you to do that. And there is some that have done it. Like Mary they've kept themselves, but very few. Very few. Out of the entire world there is very few. So there has been a conception of divinity and it will show forth as to the opening of the labia, or in the beast world called the matrix, it will come forth and we're right on the verge of that right now. Right on the verge. So we're going to sing this little chorus. I have many things to say to you. The Bible said we're slow of heart to believe and dull of hearing, as a people. Though the Spirit of God has many things to say to us. You have already gone your way. Many of you are following after those things that thrills your heart, as to movie stars. We had a discussion on this the other night. Movie stars, because it's a television star and because it's fabulous, and because of it's strength, and it's handsomeness, or it's beauty of a woman. Or it's some kind of frivolous, as to the human frame. You've gone after it head over heels because you are in the flesh and you've already conceived. And that's what you belong to. You're here with me, but you don't belong to this. You've already conceived and that's you're idol. That's your desire. That's what you're working toward. That's what you're coming to be. That's the end of you. That's what your maturity will be. That's the nature that you have taken on. And an image conforms to a nature. And you've taken on the nature of the world, or the nature of Lucifer from these things, whether religiously or otherwise, rather than the nature of the Word. So you're hunger is not for the Word. Your hunger is not for the things of God. Your hunger is for the vanity and the vexation of those things that vex the spirit, which is the natural tangible sources of matter, and the religious fervency of that which is in the world. Which some is called light on His table, as to a lukewarm thing, to dress like you want to, to deck out like you want to, to be what you want to and yet to be very religious and go about talking about religious things. Better that you be cold than lukewarm. He said, you're vomit, I spewed you out of my mouth. So then, many of you are caught in that and that is your idol. That's your desire. That's your world of fantasy. That's what you're molding yourself to be, and you're thrill is what they do. That thrills you, because that's your nature, and it's because you never were born again. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. Someone said, Well, I don't believe that. I always remind you I'm talking to the children of light that do believe that. You're just here to hear. You're not expected to believe. God hardened Pharoah's heart so that he could destroy. He hardened his heart so he could not believe. This is not something that you do. It's something that He's already done. It's not something that we work ourself unto; it's those that were fore-ordained unto eternal life and that are elect according to what He foreknew before the world ever was when He said, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. This is His works. What must we do to work the works of God? His works. The altars are open and you can come when you want to. So then, be strong in His grace. His grace. Though I be faulty and stumble, yet His grace is sufficient. My faith is established in the grace of His Word and of His works. (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) One more time. (Singing) Sounds like home to me. Let's sing this little chorus together. While we sing a chorus, or two, let's worship the Lord. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing it one more time, can you? (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) Sing that with me now. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) Let's just lift our hands up and worship the Lord. The Bible said examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith. Faith by the hearing of the Word. I'm not here to try to force you to believe what I'm saying, nor to do what I'm saying, but I'm here to offer you the opportunity to serve the Lord and to become a Christian. If you do not accept my offer I am here to tell you there is nothing but heartaches and sorrow left for you and the devastations of life and that the end of it all is chaos in a Lake of Fire. I am here to tell you that, but I do offer you the opportunity and the way of escape so that you can have this wonderful thing that we call God. And it's such an exciting thing because if you ever come into this wonderful mind of Christ it is a continual feast in your ever going. So wonderful all these people going to school, college and these kind of things that you seem to have been robbed of and wish that you could be in, which is only lasciviousness and the lust of the flesh and the pride of life, and corruption and death and a stench in the end of cancer and all the diseases of the earth. You have the opportunity to be in the real group of people, or the colleague of righteousness. Or you a babe are in the school, in the school of God, as to the school of the prophets, and you are learning these wonderful things in your changes from glory to glory, and you really have the joy and jubilance of your own campus, of your own way of life, of your own learnings to ever study and get deeper and greater in these wonderful things. If you were not diligent in your studies and concern, and research as they are as book worms then it would be so great because you're not a worm, but you relate to the butterfly. And if you could be as diligent as the book worms are, how wonderful it would be. How wonderful it would be. The worm is on his belly. You are not on your belly. You are a heavenly creature. So while you've got your eyes closed and your hands lifted to heaven let's just think on this, search our hearts. In the heart man believeth unto righteousness, confession is made unto salvation with the lips, for what a man speaketh cometh from his heart. And just ask yourself, Am I in the faith of the Word? What is my conviction of believing? Am I in the faith of the Word? It's more blessed to believe and not see than it is to see and then believe, because we believe to see. The blessing is then in not seeing and yet believing because the Word has said so, so we believe it. Examine yourself and see if you be in the faith of the Word. Only one faith, that comes by the Word. So while we lift our hands up and close our eyes let's sing this little chorus together. (Singing) Will you praise Him? Will you praise Him? Can you praise Him? Do you praise Him? Do you enter into the gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise? Do you praise Him? Do you make melody in your heart? Do you think on those things that are virtuous? Are you thoughts in Christ? Do you mediate in His laws day and night? Are you looking unto God to give you strength and to give you power so that you can be the lovely children of God? to live eternally and be alive forever and to do the perfect will of the Heavenly Father? Are you doing that? Let's lift our hands up, close our eyes, sing it together. (Singing) As you sing you're dismissed.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord