God's Finished Product

I really appreciate the blessings of the Lord. I appreciate the chance of being here with you and I thank the Lord for you. I appreciate your love and kindness and your hearty welcome. I'm glad to have you with us this morning. Glad to have Norman with us. I haven't seen him in a long time. Brother Mullis came up the other night and he got the timing wrong. I told him seven o'clock and we'd changed it on Sunday until five-thirty, six, or somewhere along there. Anyway he got off timing so he didn't get here in time but he did come and visit with us some afterwards. We're always glad to see people that we've known in the past and people that we have a chance to meet here in the future. You know, that is in this day. It's a privilege to come here. I love and appreciate my people in the Lord, many of them that are so faithful that have been with us through the years, helping us in world evangelism and if you bid that Godspeed then you're partakers of it. And whatever we've done if you've bid Godspeed you're partakers. If you've been contrary to us then you're in problems. But if you walk with the Lord He'll bless you. He said, if you walk contrary to me I'll walk contrary to you. If you walk with Him He'll walk with you. He'll bless you. So then, it's a pleasure to be here and especially with my people, to enjoy the wonderful presence of God especially on Sunday morning. And I was just thinking just before I came, we received a letter. Brother Richard Diegel's diligence to the Internet has really been profitable with the literature, the archives and he has really pressed the issue in helping us in numbers of ways, especially with the internet. We received a letter from some organization. I don't know exactly what it is but it's some organization that is a unified effort of churches around the world to help people. And they were congratulating us on the good work of the archives through the Internet and said it had been chosen as one of the top among the five percent of those that are at the top and that they were sending us what they call the Kingdom Badge, or something, to be part of that operation and congratulating us on reaching people through the Kingdom of God and the wonderful things of God. I don't know the contents of the letter too well, but anyway, we have a letter and it can be read to you sometimes. But it just goes to show the diligence of each one in their office and what they do and how gratifying it can be and how far reaching it can be to help people, getting right on into the communist countries and around the different parts of the world. We've drawn mail. And still are, through our translations and through the Internet and through world evangelism in many ways. God is blessing us and we appreciate your efforts here on the home front that's so diligent. Rob Coons and the family. I communicated a little bit with them on this trip and they said everything was doing real well in the Carolinas. The church there is doing real well and the people are becoming diligent toward the things of God and they're learning a little bit more that you have to kind of buckle down because in the past they haven't had a shepard there to kind of watch after them. But now they're learning more and more that they've got to be a little more strict in their walk of life and produce holiness a little more. And they are conforming real beautifully. All the other different church, or the ones that are working with us round about, we get good reports from them and all is doing real well. So for this we are very grateful. Well, let's sing a little chorus together, can we, Brother Taylor? (Singing) Can you sing that with me? (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus, Brother Taylor. (Singing) Can you sing it again? (Singing) Just one more time together. (Singing) Somebody say hallelujah! Can you give Him a hand? The Lord has made us glad, therefore, we rejoice because he has made us glad. Let's sing this little chorus together. (Singing) Can you sing it one more time? (Singing) Somebody say hallelujah! I've got that old time religion and it's good enough for me. You can be seated. You know, we've been talking about a lot of good things lately. The brothers with a regularity they meet down at the building, the Parliamentary House which we sometimes refer to as the Fathers House. And they've pretty well got that building under way. As a matter-of-fact, yesterday Mike Thomas, with some of the Brethren, worked together real diligently and they pretty well finished up the painting in it and we're just about ready to turn it over to the ladies. It's our International Building. We've been working on it for a long time and the ladies have outgrown our little building, so then we're planning to let them have that one. And, of course, that's what it's for, is international affairs and we're looking forward to having an open house there. We don't like much being in place to have them to come down for the inspection and to get an occupancy. So the ones that are helping us I'd like to request that Brother Tony, the electrician, and Brother John that's helping us, that we need to get a few more things done on the plumbing and on the sheet rock and on the electrical and then that way we'll be able to go ahead and get the occupancy and then turn it over to the ladies to where they can get in there and do something for the work of the Lord. God is blessing us around the world and we're able to touch base with many people. Now this, of course, is a blessing to us. We get such wonderful letters from people that we've never heard from before but they say that down through the different months, or years, they've listened to our radio programs in different places and it's been of late that they have raised the radio programs quite a bit. There are quite a number of different stations that they went on. One time we were on about fifty something radio stations and they had backed off some and we were on a number of televisions station but had backed off and now they're beginning to build again, to come back up with the stations. And we just went on, not too long ago, Topeka, Kansas and a great outreach out there. And then over in Des Moines, Iowa and they have gone to Peoria, Illinois and they just have gone on Riverside. I think we had our first few programs on Riverside, California. We have been back out in California and Des Moines and the other places in the past. We were there and we've been off for quite a while but they're going back on some of the stations. I'd like for you to pray and work with us. Some of you are working real well with us and trying to help us. And sometimes we have a tendency to be complacent and just kind of drift along in a nonchalant way and let others carry the load. Which that isn't right, you know. The Bible said not that one should be burdened and other men be at ease. But as it is written, he that gathereth much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack. And so then, our abundance should supply the lack of others. And if we, here on the home front, are being blessed abundantly spiritually and naturally then we should remember the poor and the needy, whether they be spiritually in need or naturally in need. And it's necessary that we share our substance with the people that are out there in the other parts of the world. Some of them are hungry and they don't have a crumb spiritually and some of them naturally starving to death. So then, it's up to you and I to do something about it and God expects us to do it. He has given us a charge and given us a ministry as individuals. And the Bible said God gave the Word and great was the multitude of them that published it. So then, God has given the Word but the thing is it takes a great multitude to publish the Word. And all of us are chargeable to God to publish the Word. Everyone must testify. Everyone must pass out a little piece of literature or do something, to write it put it in a book, send it to the churches. Whatever it is, it is our duty to carry the Gospel into all the world as a witness to every creature. And not only that but this is where eternal life comes from And this is where immortality comes from and this is where your blessings come from. The blessings of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. If you delight yourself in the Lord He will give you the desire os your heart. So then, in this is where all of our blessings come from; our health and our strength and our happiness. It all comes from God. The Bible said He sent His Word and healed them. It is with His Word He cast out the unclean spirits. He said, My words shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish that that I please and prosper in that whereunto I've sent it. I will hasten to perform my word. And so the Word is our answer. The Word is the answer to everything. There is nothing that the Word can't handle. There is nothing that the Word can't do. In the beginning was God; God the Word. And the Word is still the same to a thousand generations, unaltered and unchanged from the same wonderful word of life and truth. It's hear today to heal, to save, to forgive, to direct, to prosper, to keep us all the days of our life and to fulfill the number of our years. So then, God is still with us and God is still helping us; everyone of us. Therefore, it is still our duty to go out into all the world and tell the people about the glad tidings of great joy that comes concerning this Word. If there is a risen Savior, that Christ has arisen from the dead and is alive forever more and because He lives then we live and because He is with us we can abide forever. He will never leave us nor forsake us, but He said, Lo, I shall be with you always, even until the end of the world. So then, we realize that these wonderful things are given to us in Christ and that God is trying His best to bring us to the glad tidings of great joy and that He is trying to indoctrinate us with something that is so beautiful. You know, in this hour especially, let me say that the revelation of Christ Jesus is great and it's mighty. In the hour that we're living in it is a great mighty moment. The revelation of the Son of God has never in the past history of mankind, that I know of according to the records, I've never read, never heard of, never known of it being as bright as it is right now. It is shining. The Bible said it shall come to pass in the later days that there shall be light. In the evening time there shall be light and here we are in the evening time and there is a light. There has been a twilight, you know, where you couldn't tell day from night but now we're coming out of that twilight and we're beginning to see the light. You go through a twilight, as to a change, you know. You find a little twilight and you find out that from the time the evening changes to light, or light to evening, that there is a distorting sort of time. Even the lights on your automobile over in the evening or early morning, they don't do you much good because of the change of light to dark, or dark to light. And it's a twilight season. We've gone through a twilight season where there's been a religious downpour of the outpouring of the spirit of God and the rain of God upon the tare as well as the wheat. And because of that there's a twilight that moved in and the twilight made it so that you couldn't differentiate too good. The Bible said it would deceive the very elect if it were possible. And so it looks like, during this period of time that everybody had religion and that everybody was a Christian and everybody was being blessed and everybody was getting the blessings of God. Which is true to some extent. The rain being upon the tare as well as the wheat, then it's very evident that the tare is partakers of the benefit. And it makes it look kind of distorting to the extent that you say, Well, you know, the tare is getting the same benefit I'm getting as wheat. And yet there is no travail for it to bring forth; it's just an old wheat. But the thing is, you are producing something for the eater and you're going to reap a harvest and you're paying wages are going to be according to your harvest. For there is a wage, even for that as to negligence. But the wages of sin is death. And so then, God has brought it to pass that He pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh as Joel said He would do in the last days, and that there would be visions and there would be prophecies and all these things in the later times and that the rain would literally pour down that everybody might have the blessings of God and be partakers of the blessings of God that while the blood was on the Seat of Mercy that everybody could be in the rain. And as the old saying goes, Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. And so then, they've been partakers of it and they're shouting and dancing and having a good time and going on and living like the world, staying out in the world, having the love of the world and the love of the Father is not in them. But they're just as religious as anybody else. They're feeling the presence of God just like everybody else and the glory of God is there, as to the blessings of God is filling the train of the temple, as in the days of Solomon. But during all of this time there are a people, a little flock, it's called, that are pressing in and they're having a hard way to go and they're fighting the devil and the devil is fight with them and they're pressing every moment in every hour against the flesh to overcome the bodily image and overcome the perverted image and overcome this flesh and triumph over it in it's intellectual powers and bring about the faith of the knowledge of and understanding of Christ and the revelation of the Son of God within their heart. So in this they're pressing in, the little flock. God is giving you the Kingdom. Fear not, little flock, it is thy Father's good pleasure to give unto thee the Kingdom. And the little flock is receiving the Kingdom, for the law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the Kingdom has been preached, men pressing their way into it have received the Kingdom of God. And today the Kingdom of God is within you. So you, as the little flock, have the Kingdom. Not many people have the Kingdom. Just the little flock have the Kingdom. Many people are religious and the whole word is getting the outpouring of the Spirit of God because it's upon all flesh so that God can show His love, as to woo the people and give them a chance for repentance before the devastation of His great judgment. But the little flock is the one that's receiving the Kingdom and receiving the faith of Christ that will make the change. Remember there is but one God and that God is a spirit. And there is but one faith and that faith is not your faith and my faith, which would be many faiths, but it is the faith of Jesus Christ which is called the righteousness of God by which we are sanctified. And then there is one baptism and that baptism is the Holy Ghost, the baptism of the Spirit that comes to you through the name of Jesus. As it was said to Paul, Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin receiving the Holy Ghost by calling on the name of Jesus. For it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord Jesus shall be saved. And calling upon the name of the Lord the Spirit will come. So then, we see that this one faith, one God, one baptism is with us today and we indoctrinate it accordingly that we might receive the benefits of this wonderful blessing that comes down from God as a little flock, receiving the Kingdom of God. So today we gather together to worship the Lord and to give God our strength and to give God our time, to give God our minds, to love Him with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our mind, with all of our strength and to love our neighbor as ourself. If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen. For to do it unto the least of these is to do it unto God. To fail to do it unto the least of these then you've fail to do it unto God. He said, I was sick and in prison and you visited me not. I was hungry and you fed me not. I was naked and you clothed me not. And they said, When saw we you like this and did not minister to you? He said, Inasmuch as you did it not unto the least of one of these, my brethren, you did it not unto me. So then He said to those that have done this unto me, Enter in to the joys of the Lord that was prepared for thee from the foundation of the world. So then, we see that the wonderful things of God are here and we see that the revelation of Christ is here and we understand by this that there are things that are taking place that God is wanting us to know. He is wanting to indoctrinate us and one thing that we have to remember, though it's hard for us to conceive of it, this is the translation taking place. You know, it's like the song writer said, Nations are breaking, Israel is awakening, the signs of the prophets foretold. Gentile days numbered with horrors encumbered, eternity is about to unfold. And when we think about this we realize also, as the writer said, Many are mistaking God meaning to be of the sky but God's church is the power that's shaking this hour, the day of redemption is nigh. And so then, there is a revelation of Christ and this revelation is coming now. We say, One of these days, Brother Pike, God is going to break forth in the sky and we're going to meet Him. And when the Lord comes we're going to be ready for His coming. I know. That's good and that's well. And I'm looking for that just like you are. He actually will appear in that corporal body, as the world would refer to it, even though He will be a quickening spirit, as to the second man Adam, He will come forth as the body to the Jewish people that a nation may be born in one day to bring about the change of the church. But the thing that we have to remember is, long before that time Christ comes. Long before that time Christ comes. The Bible said, And He shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation to them that look for Him. For the Lord of hosts shall suddenly appear within His temple, whose temples ye are, to be glorified within His saints. And the world shall not see Him but ye shall see Him for He shall be in you. Therefore, the world is not going to see this Christ as He comes, but we do see Him and we see Him as the great wonderful revelating Christ of this great revelational God of the Word, the Word Spirit that's coming into our life and into our hearts right now. In this God has, by faith, translated us into the marvelous Kingdom of God. And through this God has gradually, through the church ages, transformated our mind toward a transfiguration of the bodily change that this heavenly treasure that's now made known to church that we already have in these bodily images might be made manifest in our mortal genes. So then, we understand by this that God is doing a work. And this work is an invisible work that's hidden from the world. He hath hidden this from the wise and the prudent and revealed it and made it revelation unto babes such as are willing to learn. So then, this wonderful revelation of Christ Jesus is within the heart. It is the Daystar dawning within you and arising over the horizon of your heart, shining more and more unto the perfect day, as to the changing and bringing into the great millennium hour of the restoration of that garden that was lost through the fall when Adam, as the son of God, lost his identity and took on an identify with the beast and the perverted image. (Begin side two) Today God is restoring that. As the song writer said again, the fig tree is growing and Israel is restoring her national life long dethroned. Today she is calling and her later rain is falling return oh, dispersed,to thine own. Everything is falling in line. Israel is ready. And Paul said, If the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead. And so then, we know that with the coming forth of the dead that we're going to be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, caught up with them to meet Christ in the air. This we know will come but right now there is an indwelling angelic being that is being changed. There is an inner you that's going through a translation and a transformational change and that inner you is the product. You know, this is what I like about the whole thing, is that God is producing a product. I've said this in a little simple illustration. If I was thirsty and I went over to some place to get me something to drink I might pick up a bottle, or I might pick up a container and I would take the container for one reason, and that is to get whatever the substance was within the container. I would take the bottle. I would flip the top off and I would turn that up and I would drink whatever was on the inside. Because see? I'm not interested in the bottle. I'm interested in the product. The bottle cannot quench my thirst but the product can quench my thirst. If it's a coke then I turn up the coke and I drink the coke; I set the bottle aside. And so it is with you and I. This body is but a little bottle, as we say. It's but a little cocoon. It's just a mold and the product is on the inside, an angelic product. And Christ in your heart has come there to mold that product. He hath melted you down and poured you into a mold of His own image and He is bringing the heat of the fierceness of the wrath of God that is coming against the evil that has infiltrated your body through the fall and through this heat He is molding the product on the inside to bring forth the sweet by letting you feel the bitter. To let you taste the bitter is to reveal to you sweet. To let you feel the pain and sorrow is to reveal to you happiness and rest and to let you feel that which is contrary to wholesome living that you might come out as a wholesome product and that you might be partakers of the full benefit of God lacking in nothing and shortcoming in nothing that God might try you for a little while, suffer you to be tempted and then settle you until you're complete in everything. Whereas, the Bible said we're complete in Him. As He is so are we in Him for God has justified us. He was delivered for my offenses. He went to Calvary for my offenses. Because I offended He died for me. He was raised again for my justification. So then, to set me at the right hand of the Father through His own body as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh until the day of the restoration, or the change, at the end of the church ages when He shall appear. Everyone that hath the hope within him of being like Him shall purify himself even as He is pure. So then, we know that Christ is at the right hand of God. And we know that our life is hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring, or the appearing of our Savior. Whereas, the Bible said, And grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby thou art sealed until the day of the redemption. That is, the of change of the body. Sealed by the spirit of the inner one, as to the interwoven safeguard within the garment. Without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish, being a church that's beautiful and being among the virgins, as those that are accepted of God. So then, we realize that God is doing an inner work with the revelation and He is dealing with the product, and on the inside God is transformating your mind through a graduality through the church ages, from glory to glory, by revealing to you the wonderful hidden knowledge of His revelation. His Word is spirit and It is life. And God is taking the mind that you now have from the old tree of knowledge. He is taking that out of you because that is the world. A world is a mind. A mind is a life. A life is a spirit. And so then, this life, as to the world, is in you through the fall and from the tree of knowledge. And because of that that is carnality. And because of that that is death reigning within your members. And so then, Paul said, Who shall deliver me from the body of this death, Oh, wretched man that I am? So then, we realize that God is bringing the spirit and the Kingdom and the Word of spirit and life, which is from the tree of life and from the knowledge of God to transformate our minds into the wonderful mind of Christ and place the Kingdom within us to eradicate the world from us that we might have the wonderful blessings of God. Thus perfecting us inwardly that it might transformate our minds to a complete thing and bring forth this heavenly treasure that we now have in the earthen vessels to be made manifest in the mortal genes to bring forth immortality. So, we know that we have eternal life by faith in what the Savior did. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith in God. He always gives us the victory. But there is something aside from eternal life that we must remember that God is reaching for in our life. And that is to make us immortal in our body. He is trying to bring about eternal life in our innermost being and perfect the product that it might be made manifest in our outer being as the creature to be made manifest in our mortal genes as immortality. For there is a vast world of difference between eternal life and immortality. Eternal life is a quickening of the spirit. It is something that is eternal because it is life and there is no life except the quickening, which is the spirit of Christ within you. But there is immortality, which means that if we are now mortals then this mortality must be swallowed up of immortality and this corruptible must be changed to an incorruptible and this terrestrial must be changed to a celestial body. This heavenly treasure that's now made known to mankind, for the Bible said, Now is made known to the church the manifold wisdom of God, even to that that's in the heavenly places. And, of course, this wisdom being higher above our understanding and wisdom than the heavens is the earth we cannot obtain unto it through knowledge, even through Einstein and his great abilities or through the great technologies of today. But we obtain to it through revelation by Christ Himself as we find favor with Christ in submission and humility; humility going through honor. When Christ's Spirit comes into us then we find ourselves blessed of God and this wonderful power of immortality being revealed and made manifest in our mortal genes. This brings about the change that by this ye should not have your bodies placed in a casket. It is not God's will for your body to be put in a coffin. It is not God's will for your body to be put in the grave. It is not God's will for you to die but rather that you should live forever. It is not God's will that you should grow old and feeble, but rather that you should be young and strong and healthy throughout eternity. It is not God's will that ye should be in poverty and sickness but rather healthy and rich and wealthy throughout eternity with glory and splendors and magnificence beyond the wildest imagination. For God has given you all things that pertain unto life. He said, I am the Prince of Life and I've come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundant, which means filled up and overflowing. So then, God has to you given a breath of life. He hath not given to you life, but rather a breath of life. For the first man Adam was made a living soul and a living soul as a breath of life and it's no more than a beast. It's no more than an animal. You have a soul but so does an animal have a soul. And you have life, breath of life. So does an animal have breath of life. And when Adam was subjected to the beast level through the fall he was no more than a living soul. He was no more than a breath of life. And today if somebody gives you a good shock, or a scare, it can shake the breath of life out of you and leave you desolate or life and they'll put you in the ground and cover you. But, if you can make the change by the new birth, if you can go to Calvary and reckon yourself to be dead indeed by the body of the Lord Jesus, in that the sentence of death is in the body and the body must die because of sin, then you can be baptized and put on Christ. And as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ and it's not them living but Christ living within them. And the life they now live they live by the Son of God and they are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And old things are not to be remembered anymore and former things have passed away, and behold you are in a new world and a new creature because now you are they that dwell in heaven. You are no longer in the earth as a living soul for God hath chosen you out of the world and hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. Speaking of your inner man in that God has translated your spirit into His Spirit. The law and the prophets until John, since that time the Kingdom has come and men have been pressing their way into the Kingdom of God. And God has been preaching the Kingdom down through the church ages and men have been repenting of their sins and they've been translated into the Kingdom of God all down through the church ages. So the inner product is being perfected. The inner man is being perfected. Though the outer man perish, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. And God has allowed it to be the inner invisible work that it might be hid from the intellectuals of this world and that it might be hidden from the wise and the prudent and that those that revel in the flesh, those that go after the world and the things of the world may continue on raving and ravished by their human senses, being filled with deceit and lasciviousness of the flesh while we lay aside the flesh and deny the flesh and go after the inner spiritual being building up the inner man and our most holy faith by praying in the Holy Ghost. So then, it is a wonderful thing to know that there is a revelation in the world today. There is a wonderful thing that is happening and that is that the translation is taking place and God is translating the inner Spiritual angelic being into the marvelous Kingdom of God. The law and the prophets until John, since that time the Kingdom age has come. The Kingdom is here and men are preaching the Kingdom of God, to repent and be baptized in His name. Preaching the name Jesus for remission of sin and preaching translation into the Kingdom of God. So then, that means that we that love the Lord are being translated into the Kingdom of God and it's an invisible work, as to the inner man that God is causing the translation to take place in the spirit world that no one can see it that the rich and the powerful may not monopolize off of this thing to take it away from the poor. Let him that is without money come and be partakers of this wonderful benefit of Christ. So then, we see today that God is doing something with the inner product and he is molding a product, and I say this so often in a little simple little illustration, that though we're all numbered with the worm__ God said, Jacob, thy worm, I will help thee. So we're all numbered with the worm, as to our first birth, in our first act of creation, even the serpent, the worm, the one that's climbed up into the upper lintel through grace. See? But the thing is there is that which is within certain worms that is a potential for the butterfly and there is that potentiality that will go through the metamorphosis, as to the change, or Calvary, and come out as a new creature and not as the worm for the hole in the darkness, but rather as a buoyant thing, as that which is taken to flight and the beauty of it when it spreads it's lovely wings, as the little butterfly, the innocent one. So then, God is doing that work and he's going to bring you out of the cocoon one of these days and he's going to show your beauty. And Paul said, this glory that is to be revealed within us, there is no comparison, as to taking the beggarly elements of this world. So, we see that we receive the blessings of the Lord, the Kingdom of God and this wonderful revelation of Christ as a blessing from God today. Well, let's stand together. Just a few little words this morning as an exhortation to you to encourage you in the things of God, giving you plenty of time to go out to lunch and do whatever you want to do, and yet bring in about a little thought, to two, that might encourage you. You know, the last sermon that we ministered here, on a Sunday morning, they put it on CD. I think it's the first CDs that we've had made. I had a vision not too long ago and in the vision I saw and heard as they played a CD and I heard my voice coming over this CD preaching and I told my wife about it. And so it was in the last day or two I was down at what they call the Father's House. I was exhorting the Brethren a little bit and during that time they cane in with a little recorder and they started playing something and it was a CD and they had recorded the Sunday morning service on CD and it was really intriguing because it was so clear and so sharp, as compared to the tapes and the other things. So then, we're glad for the efforts of the CD because some of the Brethren had to invest quite a bit of money to be able to do that. And they did not come to us for the money; they did it out of their own funds. I'd like to say again that we appreciate the fact that you're here. You warm my heart in coming to be with us and we appreciate the fact that you've stood with us in world evangelism in trying to win souls, and certainly today we're rejoicing together and there will come the day when we'll all be in the benefits of Christ throughout eternity together. So if you bid it Godspeed then are you partakers. Let's just sing a little chorus or two together, can we? (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing it with me. (Singing) Sing that with me, now. (Singing) Let's lift our hands up, close our eyes. The Bible said examine yourself and see if you be in the faith. He's here with us this morning. He's here for us this morning. He wants to bless us. You know, we're getting closer and closer toward the home port. Everything is getting closer. I remember when Brother Attlee and I and the twins, some of us, David Paul and others were out on the ship. I'd been out there for a number of days out in the water, and not being too much acquainted with it it was a kind of a long dreary sort of thing because we couldn't see shore and we'd been out there for a number of days and had the anchor out in the night and the fog and I remember when we got close to the shore after a few days and there was something that just kind of sparked up on the inside. I could feel a little thing leap up and down on the inside, you know. Getting back to the land. There was just something about it. And that's the way it is now. We've been drifting a long time. Been out on the sea of life but we've had a real captain, even the Lord Himself, the Master of Masters. And though the tide has been raging, and though the storms have been raging, Christ has been there all the time and He's seen us through it and now, you know, we can look and we can see the other side now. We can tell it's coming into view. I remember the story of Columbus. They were ready to commit mutiny and they wanted to kill him. They were going to do away with him. When he searched for the new world, he had gone and gone and they had gotten weary. Scurvy had set in and all kind of things, and they had gotten weary and they were going to commit mutiny and they were going to kill him and do away with him. And he kept pleading for just a few more hours, and a few more hours, and then just when everything was, looked like, just at a state of chaos and there was no more hope, all of a sudden he looked and there it was. A new world. A new world came into view and his life was spared. And so it is, folks, you want to put Christ overboard. You want to do away with Him and you do like the Israelites saying, Moses, you just brought us out here to die in the wilderness. But there came a time when Moses looked over into Canaan and Joshua said, I'm to command the battle, get ready. Prepare vituals; we're going in. Hallelujah! We're going to take the land! Glory to God! The giants are nothing. We're going in, we're going to take the land. Somebody say hallelujah! Glory to God. Hallelujah! God always gives you the victory. Amen! Amen and amen. God is going to do it just for you. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I can tell you've got the victory. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Amen. Can you give Him a wave offering? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! (Singing) Can you sing it with me? (Singing) Can you lift your hands, close your eyes with me? (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