The Answer Of The Change

Some of the questions are why is it that we don't go through the change? If we have the message then why is it that the body is being changed? Well, since we thought about questions and answers tonight, I answered Danny and I said, Well, Danny, it's like this. I said, There is none good but God. There is but one human being that's good. That is God. And I said, Since there is one that is good — I didn't have time to explain all of this to Danny, and maybe I can explain it a little better to you. I have brought it out to you that sin came by one man Adam. By one man sin came and all under sin because of the sins of Adam. I know, someone says, but, Brother Pike, it wasn't Adam. Adam wasn't the transgressor; it was Eve. But that was Adam's body and Adam was blamed with it. So then, sin covered the world by one man Adam. So it wasn't necessary but for one person to live right to take away sin. If one person sinned and brought death upon everybody it's only reasonable to think that all you need to do was to have one man to live right. Or that is, that man that sinned to come and correct his wrong. So, life would be upon all people because they had life to start with, as to life upon the two that was in the garden. So when Adam came the second time, as to say the second man Adam, or the Lord came as the second man Adam. He corrected the wrongs of the first man Adam, because Adam was called the Son of God before he sinned, and he was not in the transgression. But since it was the weakness in the body this great wonderful illumination which was Adam, the great spiritual one, the male, came searching for the female like the turtle dove calls unto it's mate, and found this body which is its mate. And when the spirit found this body then it changed this body. As to the spiritual inner most one it changed it by translating it into itself, the spirit. Translated the spirit of the body into itself and made it one with life and restored it, taking it from the fall. But it did not do that to the body, only in the sense that the body became the purchased possession and the Lord Jesus, the second man Adam, became our sin, as to our body, that we might become the righteousness of His body. And coming to the manger where we'd fallen as through the beast, (That is to say, man had fallen through the beast.) picking us up as a body He walked perfect and changed it back to the originality of sonship by passing through Moses and Elijah, or the covering cherubs, back to the tree of life, perfected it and once He stepped into glory and had done the work for the church body, whose body ye are, members in particular. Then He stepped out of that glorious life, went to Calvary, into darkness as God departed from Him and became that as to the rejected so that we could have the light of God shining within our heart, as to the Day Star dawning, that we might have this wonderful eternal life in the righteousness of God. So we're made the righteousness of God in Christ by faith of Jesus Christ, which faith is the righteousness of God. Being baptized into Christ we've put on Christ. Who then shall deliver me from this wretched body, this body of sin, or this body of death, for there is no good thing within the flesh. So, I said, Danny, I said, what we have to remember is that we don't have a performance. Paul said, O wretched man that I am. Inwardly I desire to do good but how to perform that which is good, as to my inward desire, I don't find anyway to perform this in my outer man, he was saying. And I'm just breaking this down, as a teacher would and putting it in words that you can understand. He said, I can't get this body to perform what I want to do on the inside. I desire the good things and the pure things and the holy things in my inner mind, he said, but I see another law in my members, the members of my body, the outer man, and it's making war against my inner mind and it's the human senses, he could have said, that's subject to the vanities of this world by means of survival in that the creature is made subject to the vanities of this life, as a cocoon, to process the inner man, to mold him and one day release him from the mold and then the mold be done away with in that there is a natural body and a spiritual body and this is the natural body of the mold. This is the cocoon for the butterfly. It's a true fact that when the butterfly potentiality is released from the worm of the cocoon, still if you notice, the butterfly still has a little body like a worm. So there is as in the spiritual body, it means that we still are the same to the extent that we're made in the likeness of God. So what He does is change the inner natural and the spiritual part of us. Well, I said, Danny, what happens is we're translated into the kingdom by the spirit, our spirit becoming one with Christ and then it starts a work of transformation that emanates from our spirit. That is, Christ's spirit through our spirit. And then it begins to transformate our minds in a graduality toward the diplomacy of this thing that brings us into our profession of life, as we typically speak. I said, And this is what happens. I said, And God transformates our mind until we get to the ultimatum of the change, which is the transfiguration. I said, And then the body changes. I said, But, in as much as God had to perform the work for the human body, which is called the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's the only righteous man and the only atonement, and that's all that God would accept, I said, that means that He cannot change your body under those conditions until you transformate to that Christ on the inside, as it was Paul when he was caught up into the third heaven saying, I don't know whether I was in my body or out of my body. Or he said, I know of a man. So, I said, this means because of that we have to wait. I said, we transformate in mind and it is a secret work, that is, until the time of the change of the body. I said, And the body will not be changed until the Lord steps out from heaven, because He is my performance. Paul said, How to perform that which is right I can't find in my body. So, who will deliver me from the body of this death, for O wretched man that I am. And he said, I thank God that what the law could not do, in that it was weak and I am weak, not the law, but weak through the flesh, I'm sold unto sin. And though the law is spiritual I cannot perform it. Through this weakness Satan has taken advantage of me, sin has taken advantage. It deceived me and slew me. And he said, I find a law that when I would do good evil is present with me and the evil that I don't want to do, he said, I find I'm overtaken in this. But this I allow not for. I said, Danny, these things that harass your mind, these things that are suggested through your mind, these allurings, I said, these enticements, all these things, you don't make allowance for it. You kill the body. You bring it into subjection lest like if I preach to you and I don't bring my body under subjection I'll become a cast away. So I keep under my body. That is, I as an inner man, I withdraw from my body. I don't preamble in this natural mind. I don't go out into my body; I withdraw from the body, is what Paul was saying. And I'm sealed as a spiritual being. On the inside I'm interwoven with the Spirit of Christ which is the kingdom of God and I have nothing to do with the body. The body is dead, it's buried, it's gone by Calvary. Now I've put on Christ. I've been buried in His death and now I'm resurrected as a new man and now that is our body sitting at the right hand of the Father and He hath performed all the works. He is my performance and what I could not perform in my body He performed for me from the manger back into glory. And He finished my performance, therefore I'm accepted of God in the beloved. Now I'm compete in Him. And now He is sitting at the right hand of the Father and the work is finished. And so then He hath redeemed all of humanity by the works of the second man Adam of one man living right and righteousness to all through the one man. So when the one man appears, which is the head, as to the members of this body, in that He accepts this body through foreknowledge as elect because of the redemption of the body to the extent that the body is the purchase possession, that from the blood shed in the foreknowledge of God from the foundation of the world. So then when He accepts us in that He hath made one body complete. He hath predestinated us in Christ, which is the Word made flesh. He hath finished that work and now hath perfected us forever by that work. The perfect man made us perfect by giving us His perfection and taking our imperfections. And then He sit down at the right hand of the Father as the head to the body. And since His spirit is in us and our spirits are interwoven in His spirit and God counts our body as dead then He looks on us as the new body, the resurrected and though it doth not yet appear what we shall be as to the appearance, as to what we will look like, yet we're going through the change from glory to glory, the transformating of the mind, and soon, in the moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump when He appears (His voice is the last trump) for He shall appear with the sound of the voice of the trump of God. And the Bible said lift up your voice like a trumpet. At the last trump when it comes, immediately, as soon as that head comes it indicates the birth of the child and the membership follows, because in the moment in the twinkling of an eye the change comes and this body changes because as long as our performance is there, though we are hid with God in Christ we're also in heaven, as to the spiritual man. We're already in the kingdom of God within. Our body is already in heaven, in that that is our body at the right hand of God. But in that we are still down here, as to this body then God is waiting for this spirit to make contact with that body that is at the right hand of God as to say Christ, the church head, who is head of the body which is the church. And so then, when Jesus Christ appears He will be my works. He will be my finished work. He will be my perfection. He will be my performance. And just as soon as the body has performed that that it's suppose to perform, which is Christ's work, by His appearing, it will touch base with my spirit and immediately my spirit is already perfect through Christ my Savior. Now then my body is His body and as soon as He appears then this that I am, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh by the predestinated, or the foreknowledge, will come into a reality of sight. And when it touches base with my spirit I'll be changed because when the performance of my work is finished, as to the body, in that it appears that I might see it, it is thus that I become this body because that is the finished work of my life, that He hath thus finished it at Calvary and set down there until a time to show Himself unto you and unto me to be our performance. And once that performance comes the body will be changed. There will be nothing that can stop it because there will not be one flaw concerning the body. The whole body will immediately change and change in the moment in the twinkling of an eye because that is your body and he perfects it. I said, Danny, this is the reason. And like my Susie was talking, while we were talking she mentioned about the collective membership. All of them has to come together, she said, Danny. Every member has to come together. Which is right. See? If Jesus is the head and if He was the fullness of the Spirit, and He yielded up the spirit and the Spirit went into the different people, as to the members of the body, by measure then we're ordained of the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man, and this is collectively speaking. You go on individually, but I'm speaking collectively. And in this that when those come together, the last ones come out from among the people then they will come together and when they do then the head will appear and immediately the body will be changed and the blood will come off of the mercy seat. There will be no more blood on the mercy seat and that will mean that there will be no more grace to anybody. They won't be saved. They'll be lost because the blood will have been taken off of the mercy seat. Right now the rain is on the tare and it's on the wheat. Sometimes we're confronted with such questions and people don't know exactly how to express themselves and we try to bring it out in a way that they can get an answer to it. You know, if I have an understanding --And we have this on tape somewhere and I said something about it the other night. If I have an understanding and I go to convey it to you then I don't know how to do that because it is an understanding. I understand but I don't know how to get you to understand because I have no means of getting this over to you except I express it in thought. I have to first gender it on my brain, as in thoughts, and the shell of those thoughts — Those thoughts are but shells, dark shells. And the shell of that thought, in that a shell is darkness when it's got something cooped in in, and so then within the shell of the darkness — God veils Himself in darkness. Understanding is veiled by intellectual thoughts. That is to say, understanding is within knowledge. So when the knowledge, the shell of the knowledge is broken down as I gender the thoughts and then I express the thoughts through vocal utterance, as to the wind that comes out of my body through the little vibrancies of these things that God has prepared to give forth vibrations, as to utterance, once it comes through this and through the throat and through these means of expression that we have spoken at times as to different things of what they are, physically speaking. See? When it comes out then the listening ear records it over nerves and the vibrations come as to a sound. Because if I make a sound I make it because I utter forth. And when I do the atoms of the air is disturbed and then you record it. And when you record it you then you get it into your brain work, or your nerves, and then it goes down into your heart. And finally it turns into understanding. It goes in here because it unveils itself as the shell is rent. But if I go to express this understanding I've got to do like the little hen when she picks up a little bit here and a little bit there and an element here until she pecks and picks and put a shell together to house the egg that's going to make a chick. So I've got to put one thought up here that's of and another thought that says they and another thought over here that says them. And another thought that they went here, or they came from there, or we're going over yonder, or I've got to get a collection of thoughts. I've got to get a collection of knowledge, of words, or thoughts. Just like this book, a collection of thoughts and then it's printed page. And I've got to collect that and I've got to get it all out of a scramble and get it together, and get my understanding. I've got to get it into the shell of this thing and get it in a way to project it. I've got to collectively put it together like a puzzle with it's pieces and get everything into place in detail and then I utter forth an expression and when I do I've collected all those thoughts and put them together and I've conveyed that to your listening ear. See? And I said the other night when we were teaching this is the way that God did it. God being a great light, He's a spirit and He gave forth an utterance. And in the utterance, as to a sound, as to knowledge, and it became a human body. Not only a human body but everything took or form and took on shape and today the world of existence is that shell of intellectual darkness and therefore Satan had to be the god of this world because the tree of knowledge was accredited to Satan, the knowledge of good and evil. In the knowledge of good and evil. So, the tree of knowledge being there. (I hope the baby is all right.) The light of the understanding going into the shell of knowledge and God, Who is the great light, He could not, the way that He'd through the act of creation had brought Himself forth, He could not project Himself until He had allowed this to a human being, going into the tree of knowledge and through that then there came forth this thing of expression as light veiling itself in darkness. And today the rending of the veil, or the splitting of the atoms, or these kind of things as we preach two Adams, and Mrs. Adam and Mr Adam and these kind of things, and of the shell of these thoughts to split the atom to get to the nucleus is the understanding, which is the power, the dynamic power of God that says decree it in your heart and it will come to pass. Say it and it will come to pass. The spoken word, or whatever and it will come to pass. See? And it will happen but you've got to have the connection down here. You've got to be able to make the expression with the strength of that spirit and those words are like stones out of a slingshot. Just like that. When it hit that giant in the head from David's slingshot, being a symbol of faith in the Word, down he went. The opposition is gone and the thing, or the purpose is accomplished. So these things, in saying just a few things to you tonight in the way of exhortation, I'm trying to express to you that this is why that we need answers. This is why we ask questions. This is why we have rules and regulations. This is why we have a church order and I'm just kind of hitting a few things real light tonight, because I have detailed a lot of this on many tapes. And I'm trying to say it in just a simple way to where you can grasp a few things without a lot of things being involved. And maybe you can kind of interpret some of the things I'm saying. When I say that some of you people can get it perhaps right off. Others are like babies, they don't get it right off. It's like I told Betty. I said, Betty, with a preacher it's different from a Christian. I said, I can't just drift along and be a Christian and let everybody mind their own business and not say anything. I said, Now, a Christian can kind of go along and they testify here and there, I said, but with a preacher he can't do that. I said, He has to say something. God said you tell them. If you don't tell them I'm going to require their blood at your hands. And when you tell them they're not going to pay any attention to you, or believe you, that is. He said, But I'm still going to require their blood at your hands if you don't tell them. So I have to tell them. He said reprove and exhort and rebuke with all long suffering and all doctrine. So we have to do it. Therefore, we seem like meddlers. We seem like people that meddle with peoples business and we get into their businesses and we get into their minds and we get into their personal lives and we get into all kind of things. Why? Because we have to do that. That's what the prophets did. That's what the preachers did. When you get into a man's mind and you start re-routing his mind and you start trying to indoctrinate him then that means that you get in control of his life. And that's what God is after. Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, don't that have to do with life and with government? It certainly does. The Bible said the government shall be upon His shoulders and He is the Word. But on the other hand it's like I told them the other night, we don't meddle with the world. That's the land of Esau. That's their doings out there. We leave that to them. Jesus said, My kingdom is not of this world. My kingdom is a spiritual thing on the inside. He told Pilot, said, My kingdom is on the inside. He didn't say it in those words but He said, My kingdom is not of this world. That it, I'm not from thence; I'm from the spirit. I go back to the spirit. My kingdom is a spiritual kingdom. He could have said, This thing is but a shadow down here where you're at, Pilot, and these things around you are but a shadow. He did tell him in a parabolic way and they didn't understand the mysteries. See? But it's given unto us to break the shell to know the mysteries so that we can get the benefits of that which comes forth, which is the energy of that light of Christ. So, I said that to say this, that we are not meddling in people's affairs. We obey the laws we follow the constrains. We do everything that's lawful and godly and they have to pounce on us. Daniel did not interfere with their way of life. They interfered with his way of life. And the church and government is a separate thing. We try not to interfere with their way of life. Leave them alone. You don't mess with them. You don't mess with those people. You don't mess with their government. All you do it teach your people the God government of the Word of God that they should believe the Word of God. That God's kingdom is not of this world and that their minds should be on Christ. And they're not to follow after the tree of knowledge; their to follow after the tree of life. Because His world is a spiritual world. God is a spirit and His man is a spiritual man and His woman is a spiritual woman and all of these bodies, though they are natural to you it's because of the fall but all of this is going to pass away. It's vanity. God hath more than a dustling creature. From the dust thou art to the dust they shall return. But you're going to be a spiritual being. There is a spiritual body. God is a spirit. He's a quickening spirit. And He's wanting to change you to the quickening spirit. That's what He wanted to do with Adam and Eve. And now the process is, as to this time, and so then we're trying to explain in just a little measure tonight what it means as to answering Daniel to the change. Why would the change come? Because He is your performance and we're waiting for that change. Job said, I wait for my change. We're waiting for the application of our performance. That is, our diplomacy is Him. When He comes forth He will present our perfection. When He comes forth that will be our works. Our works right now are full of flaws but when He comes He'll mark them all out and He'll say, They are flawless; I find no fault in this man, because it's the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what God will do. So there is no fault because you are His body. But until He's presented in that body you will have fault. The world will find fault with you but God finds no fault in you because in His foreknowledge He made you perfect. So the time is going to come when you are going to have the presentation of your perfection for He hath perfected you forever by that one body. That is your perfection. And when it comes nothing can stop you from being changed. Well, let's stand together. We're trying to get the members together. All of the members have to come out from among the world. As long as they're out there in the world we have to suffer; the just for the unjust because all of the devastations that are upon Satan is striking and the blood on the seat of atonement gives them protection when it's really your protection and God is angry with the wicked everyday and will pursue them until they perish from off of the face of the earth. Their prayers are an abomination in His sight, the offering are an abomination in His sight. Praise is comely for the upright. So they get our benefits while we get their sorrows. See? But we have to stay here until the last ones come out from among them, as to the last generation. And once they come out then everything is at great finale. See? It's all finished then and the blood will come off of the seat of atonement and that will be it. But until the last ones come out we have to tolerate their mannerism. Now. Try to be a lady. Try to be a gentleman. You know, in the south we used to have ladies and gentlemen. And they really were ladies and gentlemen. Let's try to have something in the way of posterity, as to the early American way of life, as to the true government of God, to restore that that once belonged to our forefathers that they gave us as a heritage and let's have decency and let's be upright. And, folks, we all stumble. I'm the first to admit my faults and shortcomings and that I'm less than nothing. But, nevertheless, I'm still making the effort. You should still be making the effort and it should be a consistency in effort everyday. All right, let's sing a little chorus together. (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) The altars are open. (Singing) When we sing these little chorus we give you an invitation to come to God, or to call upon the name of the Lord. The Bible said it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If you've never made the commitment unto God, make it. Paul said, I am persuaded to keep that which I've committed unto him against that great day. He's able to keep it. And God is able to keep it. His hand is not short that He cannot reach you. His ear is not dull that he cannot hear you but thine iniquities have separated between thee and thy God. ...kept thee back from good things. It is God's pleasure to bless you and give you the good things of life. And if you want the good things of life you can have the good things of life but you're going to have to yield your life and yield your spirit and be concerned about God's way of life. And if you do that God will bless you. AS we sing another little chorus or two you're welcome to come and kneel at the altar or you're welcome to lift your hands and close your eyes and be partakers of the benefits of Christ, for it is in God's house that you find this wonderful blessing of God and find this freedom of the Spirit for the anointing breaks the yoke. When the yoke is broken the you have a chance and opportunity. When this light is lifted, and it will soon be gone, once it's lifted and gone you'll never have a chance to come to God. Though the world might have millions, billions of people in it, once the blood comes off of the seat of atonement it doesn't matter, no one can come to God. It will all be over because no man can come to the Father except He draw him. You cannot come to the Son except the Spirit of God draw you and you cannot get to the Spirit of God except you go through the atonement, as to the rock of our salvation, which is the blood atonement of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Begin tape one, side two.) ....will accept nobody except through that blood. That's the only righteousness there is. And if you want God then you've got to have His Spirit because His Spirit is life and without that Spirit there is no life. As I was telling somebody yesterday when they were talking to me about this I said, Just supposing that life, just supposing that the spirit came to you and the spirit walked up and said to the body, I have plans for you. And the body said back to the spirit, I'm going to do my own thing. I've got plans for myself. And the spirit says, Good day, and turns around and walks off and leaves. Then where is the body? The Bible said the body without the spirit is dead and the spirit is life. And when the body doesn't yield to the spirit then the body dies. See? You don't have any plans. You don't have any programs. You can't do anything without Me, Jesus said. You can't do anything without the spirit. Your body would be dead. So, when the Spirit comes and He bids you come say, Yes, yes, yes. And let the Spirit of God come into your heart and let Him take your body and yield your body to the Spirit that your body might continue to live. Because the body doesn't have any plans without the Spirit because there is no life. Without the Spirit there is no life. So, if you've got programs and plans for your body and you've got your own mind then just remember, your mind hath caused you to be alienated from the wealth and God life and that you will die. You will die. Because there is no life without the Spirit. So you can do your thing and do all that you want to do but you can be sure that you will die. You can have your businesses, you can go your way of life, you can plan your programs, you can spend money, you can be zealous in the flesh, you can be interested in the things of the world but you will die. You will die. Remember that. You're already dead. Somebody said, Will I die? You are already dead. To be carnally minded is death. The mere fact that your mind is in that state, as to those things and that interest, you're already dead. And not only that but you'll continue on until you kill the soul and then the root of the tree will die and you'll be twice dead and plucked up by the root. If you're going to do anything in the world first get the Spirit, which is the Word and the mind of God and His love, and do all things as unto the Lord and do them for the purpose of the Lord and be interested only in the things of God to labor that you might give your life and time and strength, your understanding, your abilities, your talents and your substance to God and dedicate your life to God. And if you do that everything will be well with you. If you don't do that then you'll die. You'll die. To be carnally minded is death. So, while we sing these little choruses you're invited to give your life to God. Let's sing this little chorus, Frank. (Singing) Remember now, Jesus is at the door knocking saying, open the hearts door to me and I'll come in and sup with you. Open the hearts door and I'll come in and sup with you. He wants to. He has the table spread and this is the feast of charity, to feast upon the body of Christ, to drink of His blood, to eat His flesh. (Singing.) Listen to this one now. (Singing.) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Singing) Sing that one more time. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord