The Spirit Body

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Hope that it will be beneficial. I'd like to read one or two passages of Scripture over in the book of Matthew, if you'd like to read with me. I'd like for you to listen as I try tonight to get into the anointing. On Sunday night it is a little hard because we are a little tired in body. We have to learn to kind of press in. The Bible teaches that the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom has been preached and men press their way into It. I've said a number of times, the pressing part of it is that we press against ideology. We press against feelings. We press against convictions. We press against resentment. We press against jealousy, hatred, strife, emulation, all manner of devils. And those devils present themselves to your human capacity by means of intelligence and by means of thought. I have had so many times people sitting in the audience and I'd be rebuking devils and I'd catch their spirits, or catch their thoughts and they'd wonder why I was rebuking devils when they themselves were giving place to devils and didn't even have enough discernment to know that they were the one that was giving place to the devils. But, see? They say, Well, I wasn't doing nothing but just thinking, Brother Pike. That's all you have to do. That's why the Bible said to bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Jesus Christ. Lean not to your own understanding. That's all you have to do is to think. You let a woman pass over here and she's not properly dressed and let a man stand there and do some thinking, that's all he's got to do. He's just a filthy as he can be. Let a man pass over here and a woman do some thinking and she's just as filthy as she can be. Let a preacher get up to preach and you do some thinking about him and if that thinking is not the God mind then you're as filthy as you can be. See? Demons and devils everywhere. Now, it's necessary not to think. When you come  A lot of people say, Brother Pike, What do you want us to do, just die? That's what I want you to do. Don't use your  Like a lot of times I say that we are not to reason. A lot of people feel like what I mean is that we are not to use our own ability, as far as trying to understand. But that is not what I'm talking about. The Bible said that when we reason come and let us reason together. That means that you are to reason with the Word of God. Reason with the Spirit. And every time you go to make a plan, or think a thought, think it in harmony with the Word of God. Think it and in every thought it's suppose to be thought in harmony with the Word of God. And I know so many multiplied people come in to here and they do not think in harmony with the Word of God. Now, they think that they think in harmony with the Word of God. A lot of people get the feeling because they are Christians, and especially if they are preachers, or if they been a Christian for ten years, that every thing that they think that God makes allowance for it. Like my wife got tickled at Vicky the other day. Vicky is kind of countrified in her expressions and the other day she was talking and she said, There is one thing that I think, Aunt Betty. Said, I think God is going to make allowance for you when you get up yonder. Said, He knows how much company you had and you didn't have time to pray and do all of those things. Well, I appreciate Vicky's interest but I'm afraid it won't be like that. Now. So, the Lord can't make allowance for us. I got tickled at Richard the other day. He got so excited in the tornado until he was expecting Brother Gerald to come and get him. He got so excited he said, Lord, I demand that You come and get me. Then he said, Lord, I forgot; I didn't mean to say that. So sometimes we kind of get beside ourselves. I get tickled at my people sometimes and the little ole things they say. But it is true that you do get, you know, you get beside yourself sometimes. I want to read in the book of Matthew and read in the sixteenth chapter, the thirteenth verse. Now. Always remember, the best way to get rid of Satan is to enter into His courts with a heart and a mind of thanksgiving and praise. In the thirteenth verse, and I'm hoarse tonight. I hope you'll bear with me and pray for me, just let me kind of talk to you tonight. "(13) When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? (14) And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." That kind of sounds like us today, don't it? That's the way we understand the Scriptures. Some say He's this and that and another, but it says here, or one of the prophets. "(15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? (16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." Now, I want you to get this thought here. Read two passages of Scripture, but I want you to get this. They had a little dispute and they were trying to figure out which was which. Let me read on now. "(17) Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee," See? Now in other words, you didn't get an education, now. That wasn't from college. "But my Father which is in heaven. (18) And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (19) And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." To begin with the flesh is guilty from the time it's born into the world. All right. "(21) From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. (22) Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. (23) But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." Can you get this tonight? Here in one instance, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona. You got a revelation; I'll give you the keys. Turns right around and says, Get behind me, Satan. In his time somebody says, Boy, you sure do preach confusing in our day. You led me to believe that I was really something and then you turned around and hit me with a baseball bat. Now, see. But look at Jesus here. ".... Thou art an offence unto me: for thou savorest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. "(24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself. " Now that's where the catch come in. The whole world...(The tape is messed up here) .....(26)...Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (27) For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. (28) Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." You see this statement here now? All right, now. Notice something here. Not only does He give a prophecy but he turns around and in a little while it's recorded where he fulfilled it. Chapter 17, verse 1. "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, (2) And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. (3) And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. (4) Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. (5) While he yet spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them:" I want you to watch that now, if you will. " and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. (6) And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. (7) And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. (8) And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. (9) And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. (10) And his disciples ask him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? (11) And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. (12) But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever thy listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. (13) Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist." All right. Did you notice something here in the teachings? Here on the mountain now  I believe that you can see that speaking of Elijah that there is a compound meaning, because here He said, And I say unto you that Elijah shall surely first come. Speaking of the future. I say unto you that Elijah shall surely come first. Speaking of the future. But now speaking of the present, or the past, I say unto you that Elijah has already come. Do you follow me? Elijah must come and restore all things. Then He said Elijah has already come. Notice this one thing now. Up on the mountain as a transfiguration, I want you to observe something if you will. When the Lord Jesus was caught up into the mountain, right after Calvary, as He stood here on the mountain the Bible says that He was transfigured and He appeared in glory. Now, I want you to get this, if you will. Listen close because I'm hoarse and I can't hardly holler at you, but the thing you want is the knowledge of Christ, anyway, the mind of God. (?). ....three tabernacles. In other words, Lord, let's turn the thing into a trinity. So they said, Peter, you are our first Pope. Now, so why not turn it into a trinity? And from that time on there was a trinity. God let him do that. The reason for that is that Peter was looking at the vision through his own human understanding. He was getting the concept of God through his own human character, and his own human understanding. I said that to say this: that some of you will sit and hear the Word of God, and you'll see the vision, just like Peter did, but when you get through you'll put your own private interpretation on it and you'll bring it down to your human understanding, and the way that you want to do things, and you'll miss the entire rapture. That's what Peter did; he saw the vision. But some men have such ego in their ministry and their evangelistic desires, and such ego to be somebody to have the preeminence that their personality gets in the way of God and they never do come into the mind of God. For everything that they've got they make it come down to what they want to think about it. How in the world can God ever work through us if every thing we do we're going to make it fit our old warped up concept? In other words, if I just want to go to Florida and no other place, and I'm just going to Florida because I think it's too cold in Alaska, I don't care what God gives me it's going to wind up in Florida. And when it gets in Florida it's not going to work because it wasn't given to me for Florida. It was given to me for Alaska. Somebody come along and give me a big fur coat, I say, Thank you, glory to God. Where you going? I'm going to Florida. A lot of good it's going to do me. Do you understand what I'm saying? Well, it's the same way if they give me clothes for Florida and I decide to go to Alaska. A lot of good that's going to do me. Now, if I give you clothing  Jesus said, if I speak to you of earthly things and you don't understand what are you going to do about heavenly things? See? Earthly clothing will not do for heavenly places, and heavenly clothing won't do for earthly places. You've either got to be at one place or another and you've got to have the garments for that kind of season, or that kind of atmosphere. Do you follow me? Jesus said, I counsel of thee to buy of me garments and clothing and raiment that's been tried in the fire. See? You can't wear earthly clothes in heaven. It's got to take the clothing that's been through the fire to survive that you might have a garment in heaven. And every one that goes in without the wedding garment, the Bible said they'll be bound hand and feet and be cast in into outer darkness. Is that right? There's got to be a heavenly garment. Now what is the heavenly garment? Peter said, If this tabernacle be dissolved then we have another tabernacle that is eternal in the heavens and it's not made with hands. For there is an earthly body and there is a heavenly body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. Somebody said, Hallelujah, said, You just wait. No, there's no need to wait. That's what I'm trying to tell you tonight. Somebody said, Just wait. That's what's the trouble with the church world, they always wait. Like Brother Branham said, God is either the God of the past, or God of the future and we can't find the God of right now. But I am interested in the God of the present. Hallelujah! Like on the mountain, Peter, James and John up on the mountain. I don't think he's got a mountain drawn on the board, but up on the mountain here is three people. There was a god of the past; that was Moses. Said, I'll make you god unto Aaron. Is that right? And there was a God of the future where He said Elijah shall surely first come. When he said, Elijah my Lord. But He said, Peter, there is also a God of the present. And the Lord said, This is my Son, hear ye Him. Hallelujah! I know that went over your heads then. All right. Three of them on the mountain. Peter got the human concept and was going to turn it into a trinity. So then, he winds up and the Catholics say, you are our first Pope, Peter. We are your descendants. How many know Peter gave Jesus a hard time? That's right. On the inside he was a great man and the Lord said, Peter, flesh and blood didn't commune with you when you got your revelation. And He said, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar Jonah, for you've got into the Spirit. And then Peter he switched back over into the natural mind and He said, Get thee behind me, Satan. Some of you are the same way. We talk about the spiritual things and you are a way up in the clouds and we get along real good, and you can turn around and say, Blessed art thou, my Brother. In a few minutes you've got all kind of resentment, jealousy, hatred, lust, covetousness, and you turn around and say, Get thee behind me, Satan. And somebody will say (?). ...the God of the past, the God of the present, the God of the future, all great men. Look at Moses, God, Elohim, walking in Moses. Look at Jesus, Elohim walking in Jesus. Look at Brother Branham's coming, Elohim walking in Brother Branham. God walking, tabernacling behind the human veil so that the world could look upon Him. The brightness of His coming destroying the man of prediction, which is the image of the beast. When we're speaking of Kissinger  Look at Kissinger. Here is a man that is gathering everybody together. Everywhere he is gathering people together. And what he is doing he is establishing a covenant among the entire body of the world. He is establishing a natural covenant. This covenant through governmental means is being established all over the world, and what they don't realize is that he is coming in with flattery, flattering everybody. Getting everybody together, and just as quick as he gets everybody together he'll break the covenant and make himself God. Aw, you say, he'll never do it. But he will do it. You say, Who are you talking about? I'm talking about antichrist. This Kissinger is paving the way for the whole thing. It's coming right up. Already they've found that his name is six, six, six, as far as the numerical order. Already he's got control of everybody, bringing them into a little group. That thing will change from a government into a religion. Now you watch what I'm telling you. It will eventually change from a government into a religion and when it changes into a religion then the covenant will be made among the religious group. For it will change into a religion and the policy that he is going to hold up is going to go down. And the religious policy that God has ordained to come in for antichrist is going to arise to an all time high. Now, we were talking this evening, having a little discussion, Brother Cantrell and I, and Brother Cantrell is real informative when it comes to the understanding of the business world. And in our discussion today I looked, I listened very carefully for I'm a good listener. And I noticed that the very thing that I spoke of in California of how that the Democratic Government and the Republican Government would go to nothing, and how that the Communistic Government would come in. It has worked out just right down to a tee the very way that God showed me that it would. And Brother Cantrell said today that the people in such a complex, never before have I heard of it, but we've got a depression and inflation all at the same time. Now we've heard of depression, and we've heard of inflation, but never both of them at the same time. It doesn't make sense, but he said it is actually happening. God a depression. Got an inflation all at the same time. Do you know why? Because it's reaching out to come into the realms to where the covenant can be made and the broken covenant that I want to talk on tonight can could come forth. I want to draw your attention to the board if I can and see if I can get into the anointing. Now, we've been into the anointing a good bit in the afternoon down here at Brother Jim's talking about some things, and then this morning we were in the anointing talking about some more things. And tonight I'd like to get in the anointing again if I could and clarify a few things. The only way that I can do that is for you to get hungry for something from God. Now, the hunger and the thirst brought the virtue to the little woman. If you really hunger, and if you really thirst, then God will bring it to you. Now the only way you can do that is through self denial to get rid of self. That's the first thing of God's plan, is to deny yourself. Get rid of yourself. That's the first thing. As long as self is in the way there won't be anything from God because God isn't going to feed self, but He will feed your inner spiritual Christ if you'll just get self out of the way. All right. Notice this now. Coming to Revelation 10, I'd like to start if I can tonight talking about the mighty angel. If we get a hunger we'll get a message; it we don't we won't. Coming to Revelation 10. I don't know whether you understand this or not, but in the days gone by you didn't really have to hunger and thirst because God had a ministry where He sent them to preach the judgments of God on you if you didn't repent. And it didn't matter whether you hungered and thirsted, or not. Those men would go before God and pray and come out and just like a balloon would burst they'd go all over you in just a few minutes and that would scare the life out of you. But, see? That was a difference. That was the rain on the just and the unjust. But now it's the separation time and it won't come forth like that anymore. The anointing will not come forth like that. That's why the evangelists are just about to go crazy. They holler, scream, jump, run and the things that they do don't ever stir the people anymore. I've heard great men say, Brother Pike, I use to fill up the altars and I can't hardly even move them anymore. Said, I'm still preaching the same message. That's where the problem is. Now, this message that's going to be preached by the people of this hour is going to be a message that you are going to have to hunger and thirst for, because there maybe fifty in the audience and only three of them will get this message. Fifty maybe in the audience and only three of them will get this message because this is the message of translation that will translate the church and bring in the Kingdom of God. And it will not go to the just and the unjust. It will not. The rain of grace was on the just and the unjust but this will not go to the just and the unjust. They will hear it, but only the righteous will receive it and be translated. Now, you can count on that because that's the truth. And it's going to be a very few people that gets it. Great men, like Brother Terrell, and great men of prophets and preachers across the land, many of these people are going to miss  And I'm not saying Brother Terrell is, but I'm just using him for an example. Many of these great men are going to miss this. Many of them are going to miss it. I've got men in my midst right now that are confident that they are in this message, and they are confident that God has given them something because they've either prayed, or prophesied, or preached, or done something, or fasted. But, my brother, when I check with them it shows, as we say, they're a hundred thousand miles off of the laser beam of God. They're no where around it, and the reason is they are not dead to self. But I find some of the others that are not confident at all, but they are trying to be honest, trying to be sincere, trying to watch, trying to pray, hoping that God will have mercy on them and I find them going into the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It's a confounding thing, but it's absolutely the truth. This is one time, as Brother Branham said, you want imitate this. In Revelation 10 when this great mighty angel came down and stood with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea he sware by him that liveth forever and ever that time would be no more. That God would completely do away with time. And we said the other day in our message, when you say time you are speaking of an interval, or something like an interlude. Or an interval that started over at the garden after the fall of mankind. And this period that continues on for six thousand years, or approximately six thousand years. As it continues on it is called time. It's called the space of time. Time or spaces of time. It's called time. From the garden over to the end of the church ages it's called an age of time. Which means a divisional thing. Time markers. Like calendars, like clocks. They divide the day up. They divide the years up. They divide the months up. And we brought it out here one night how they do that by the moon circling around the earth, the earth around the moon, and the sun, and how that it works. Where they get their months from, how they determine their months, and how they determine their days. We spoke of how that this came about. What does it indicate when we say an element, or time elements involved? What do we mean by saying a time dispensation? It means that God is revealing Himself in part to humanity. God is so exceedingly great that it has taken a period of six thousand years just to let us get acquainted with His person, or His visage, or His ways. Six thousand long years. He's so great until it's taken that long for us to understand Him. Look at science. They take a human body and they break the cells of it down. Get down to the enzymes. Get down to the dividing of the cells, to the plasma. Get down to the very intricate part and it takes many months of studying to be able to absorb just what the human stature is. What the human person is made up of. And that is also typical in that God has, for six thousand long years, broke down His way of life. Broke down His person. Got very intricate. Let us perceive little by little like a child learning in school, studying to learn about this part of God and that part of God. And He's completely disassembled Himself to let us know just exactly what His constitution is. Now why did God do that? Because if I'm to become a scientist I've got to think like a scientist. If I'm to become a God I've to think like a God. And the only way that God can make a God (Begin tape one, side two.) out of me is to break down the God mind and the God personality and let me absorb little by little until I can understand, piece together, and in so doing, knowing in part which is a time element involved, knowing in part I can do this over a period of six thousand years through the means of those that have gone on before me and their discoveries and what I, myself, discover, or have revealed to me in my lifetime. Now. Brother Cantrell made the statement today, he said, the way that I understand it looks like that knowledge is increasing so out in the business realms of the world that within maybe, I don't know, maybe he said thirty, sixty, ninety days. I can't remember exactly. But he said, I believe it will completely double itself as time goes on, in that short a period. And he said, Brother Pike, how much more is the knowledge of Almighty God being revealed. My Brother, now is made known to the church the manifold wisdom of the living God. From the days of Paul God made it available but we didn't get it because it fell into the dark age. It wasn't the hour for it, but He gave it to us in a printed page and now then, here in the end time God is just taking the veil away and bringing the mind of Christ and the mind of Christ is beginning to speak to us. I made the statement today and I want to make it tonight to you that if my own understanding has constituted a human body and has brought it from the stage of infancy up into the maturity of manhood how much more will the mind of Christ constitute a heavenly body and bring the heavenly body from the infant stages over into the manifestation of the sons of God? If my human mind can constitute a human body then the God mind can constitute a God body. That's why Jesus said, you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. Not waiting. We're not waiting because He said he that is born of the spirit he is spirit, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. For that which is born of the spirit, Jesus said, it is spirit. Now, come on, now. He did not state that it's going to be spirit, nor it's preordained to be spirit, but He said, That which is born of the spirit it is spirit. Why is it we confess to be born of the spirit and yet we do not believe that we are spirit? Why is that? There is a complex of words. There is a cross up of words. There is a misunderstanding somewhere. I made the statement the other day that when a mother conceived and an image comes forth it is exactly the image of the father. It is a reproduction. Why? Because of the blood cells, the blood genetics. Then I made the statement that if a man marries a woman that after awhile she literally becomes flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. Now a lot of people say, Well, Brother Pike, that means potentially. No, it doesn't mean potentially. The Bible didn't say that she was potentially bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. But the Bible says she is actually bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh and they shall no longer be twain but one flesh. Now, you say, how can that be? Well, I explained that the other night. If the woman is the weaker species, if the woman is a weaker spirit, her angel part is weaker, and the masculine part, which is the male, if it is the stronger species, or stronger angel, then at marriage, through a constant relation of conversation, of loving, of coming together, the male spirit will eventually subdue the female spirit and the female spirit will emerge into a oneness with the male spirit, and then everything that the head does, which is the male, will automatically control the woman. It will get to where the very impulse of the man controls the woman. He'll just look at her like that and a reflex will respond to his thoughts. If she doesn't get like that she's got a devil. She is suppose to respond to his very thoughts, his desires, his impulses, reflexes. The Bible said concerning Christ, we are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh, and we are to respond to the very thoughts, the very impulses, the very reflex of our husband. That's why I say that when you set and reason when the Holy Ghost is speaking, or when God is speaking then you set and reason there is something wrong with you. We are not flesh, but we are spirit. Somebody said, Well, let me gouge a knife in you and let's see how much spirit you are. You get mighty hungry, Brother Pike. How much does that prove you are spirit? See? That proves your ignorance, is what it does. Since when does a spirit quit eating? Since when does a spirit quit having feelings? When the Lord Jesus came up out of the grave and was resurrected from the grave He ate fish. He enjoyed the fish. When I get over into the millennium I'm not going to quit eating. He had feelings. Somebody said, How do you know? Well, He said, Thomas, stick your hand in here. He had feelings. He could feel. Somebody said, Well, I don't see that. Well, why did He said to Mary, don't touch me? To be spirit. Somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, if He was spirit He couldn't have nothing to do with flesh. But the Bible said when he was resurrected from the grave He was made the second man Adam into a quickening spirit. And when He stood there in their presence He said feel of me. Is that right? Somebody said, But, Brother Pike, He also said, A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. Somebody says, What ae you going to do with that? Do what we're suppose to with it. Jesus came up out of the grave, was made a quickening spirit. Is that right? But he still said, Feel of me, for here is flesh and bones. He did not state that flesh and bone could not inherit the Kingdom the of God. Did He? If it is the case that flesh cannot inherit anything of God (I'm speaking of spiritual things, now. I'll have to explain it.) then how did Adam remain in the garden in the presence of the Shekinah Glory of God, have eternal preservation present flooding his soul, and yet eat from the tree, being made out of the dust, and yet living in the presence of God and being part of God? How did he do it? The blood was where the trouble was. It was not the creation of the bone structures. It didn't have nothing to do with it. You say, But how do you prove it? Because the Bible said that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And the Bible said the Word was Spirit. Now. We've got to come into the understanding of God. Why? Because I say again, if my intelligence can constitute a human body which thrives off of blood then my heavenly constitution from my heavenly mind has got to be a body that is spiritual. Are you following me? I don't want to get over your head. I want you to understand what I'm saying. The Bible said to wit the redemption of our body, to come to the place to recognize that God not only redeems our spirit but that He redeemed our body. And we say, Brother Pike, what can redeem the body? You talk about the redemption of the body, but what can redeem the body? What redeems the soul? Have you ever ask yourself the question, What redeemed my soul? It was the Word of God. What made the world? It was the Word of God. What made you and I? It was the Word of God. What brought you salvation? It was the Word of God. Which means it was the foreknowledge of God made manifest in your body. It was God, the Word, the Spirit, the knowledge, the mind. If that same Word healed you, and that same Word can take a withered hand that's all withered up and change it, make it come back right, if that same Word can take a man without any eyeballs and create eyeballs, if that same Word can replace an arm, can raise the dead by faith in the Word, if the same Word where the Bible said He sent His Word and healed them, if that same Word can do that, that same Word can redeem your body. There has got to be a knowledge from God. There's got to be a Word, a message, a mind that we're going to get acquainted with. That will come to us in an indoctrination, and then from that Word there is going to be a faith that will develop that will literally change these bodies into the glory of the living God. Now. Somebody said, Brother Pike, if we get in that kind of condition we wouldn't be here. I want to prove to you you're wrong. You might have somebody walking around in your presence now that you don't understand. That's where you make a mistake. You figure it out in your head and like Brother Branham said, when you get it all figured out you're wrong. Some of you people are so intellectually smart you don't never understand what God is doing. When Abraham sat in the tent door, in the hot blistering sun over there by the oak of Mamre here comes somebody along to talk with him. Who were they? Who were those people? Somebody says, Well, who were they? Whoever they were they sure did like to eat. Abraham said, Wife, go do some cooking. I didn't hear a one of them say, Don't bring me nothing, Sarah. I can't picture a one of them saying, Look here, I'm spirit, don't you bring me none of that. I tell you something else, when Abraham reached back and got the wash pan he said, I'm going to wash your feet. I can't find one place where he kept saying, I can't feel your feet. Those fellows liked to eat. Not only did they like to eat, but they were every bit just like you and I are. And yet the Bible said that one of them was Elohim Himself. One of them was the eternal God that was down there. Two of them were angels. That's why the Bible says be careful how you entertain strangers for some have entertained angels and they didn't know they were entertaining angels. They entertain angels unaware. You look at it. Here is two of them that's angels, said, We're going to go down to Sodom and Gomorrah. The other said, I'm going to stay with Abraham. Way after awhile, you know, they kept eating together. Abraham he washed their feet but as the man began to talk Abraham began to think. Somebody said, Never a man spake like this man. Wait a minute now, something is going on here. And Abraham listened. Now, he eats like I do, he drinks like I do, and his feet gets dirty like mine, but there is something going on here that I don't understand. Way after awhile he fell down and he said, Lord, O God. O God, the judge of all the earth. Look at Jesus on the mount of transfiguration. Here Jesus is, He ate with them. He was in their presence. He walked with them and He talked with them. Now, this same Jesus walked up on the mountain and transfigured himself and appeared in glory with Moses and Elijah. Somebody says, Well, He was gone. I know He was gone, but He came back. After He did every bit of that He came back down and probably said to Peter, Let's go get some dinner. Aw, somebody said, He wouldn't do that. Well, He did when He got hungry, just like you did. The Bible said He sat down and ate with the sinners and the publicans. He came back. The little woman got the wash pan and washed His feet. But did you notice when He said, Peter, who do this people think I am? Some of them said, Well, there's a lot of talk about you. Somebody said You're Elijah the prophet. Somebody said You're Jeremiah. He said, Peter, what do you think? Peter had had some communion with Him. Peter said, Never a man spake like this man. He said, I'll tell you what I think about it; I think you're God. Can't you just understand? When he said that over there, can't you see Peter? The Lord, you know, He didn't do like some of us and say, Watch out, boy, you're going to over do it, watch out. You're going to take God's glory away from Him, watch out. He said, That's all right. I don't think it's robbery to be equal with God. I ain't seeking no reputation for myself. But he said, Everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. Some of them got some rocks and said kill Him. Kill Him. Kill Him. You know, that sounds like the congregation of today. This one goes over here and says, That ole Brother Pike. That ole Brother Armstrong. That ole Brother Taylor. Kill him. Kill him. Kill him. You know, with their words. I never sent you anybody but what you stoned him to death. They're over doing it over there. Jesus said, Why come you're acting like that? They said, Well, you being a man  Said, You're a man. He said, That's all right. Ain't nothing wrong with being a man. Said, But you make yourself God. Said, We're not stoning you because you work a miracle. We're not stoning you for any good work you did. But said, you being a man tell us that you're God. Said, We're going to stone you to death for it. Jesus said, Well, I said you were gods too. We can all be gods together. There wasn't nothing wrong with that. You're a man, too. Then they got all frustrated, confounded, too. They didn't know what to say. No wonder they said, never a man spake like this man. They said, Why don't you quit toying around with us and tell us who you are? Well, here's what He said to them. He said, You say that you're the children of Abraham but if you were the children of Abraham you'd do the works of Abraham. And said, Not only that but if you were the children of Abraham you'd love me, cause Abraham did. They said, but you say that you've seen Abraham? He said, Verily, verily I say unto you that before Abraham was I am. Then they really got stirred up. Said, Why you ain't even fifty years old. Don't you see how carnal they were? Folks, that's the condition of the church today. Where is God? Where is God? The Bible said, Behold the tabernacle of God is among men. Where is God? Peter, who do you say I am? Well, Peter got a revelation. Listen. There is something going on today that you're not seeing. There may be tonight in our presence right here angels. Somebody said, Well, who could it be? I don't know; it could be you. Aw, somebody says, that's absurd, Brother Pike. Well, when Peter came running over there the girl Rhoda, she went to the door and she looked out and she said, That couldn't be Peter because he's over yonder in jail. Now here's a typical church. Here they were praying, and maybe fasting, praying and praying that Peter would get out of jail, and when she saw him out of jail she didn't have enough faith to believe in her own prayers. She said, That couldn't be Peter. Said, It must be his angel. Been entertaining an angel unaware. Said, It must be an angel; it couldn't be Peter. In other words she knew. She had enough Bible knowledge to know there was an angel inside of this body. And the Bible said in heaven  Are you listening? Sometimes we entertain angels unaware because we don't know what's going on. Now. The Bible said in heaven we are as the angels. Is that right? How many of you are in heaven? Let me see your hands. Sounds like we're entertaining some angels unawares. Be careful how you entertain strangers because you might meet an angel. Somebody probably says, My lands, I never knew I was going to meet an angel. Well, see? That's what I said. He's got feet just like you've got feet, ain't he? He loves to eat ice cream just like you like to eat ice cream. That didn't change him. Are you following me? Somebody said, Brother Pike, do you mean to tell me you're going to compare a man to an angel? I'm going to do better than that. He's a Son of God. Angels will have to take a back seat when he gets there. They can't even sing the song of redemption. They are looking down. These angels they're gathered around everywhere. The Bible said when we come together just in the name of Jesus that angels encamped round about us. And they get around and one of them look at the other one, and maybe he'll nudge him and Michael will say to Gabriel, say, Look at him. We'll be running around whimpering, you know, somebody will say, I can't pay my bills. I'm afraid I've got cancer. I don't know what I'm going to do. Michael might do like that, you know, and say, Look yonder, Gabriel, ain't he cute. Just a little ole baby, but look at that God baby; ain't he pretty. Just a bawling. When God turns him up and gives him a good spanking he really does holler then. But, you know, they look at them and then after awhile they think, Just look, Gabriel, one of the these days he's going to grow up, and then just look what's going to happen. Like He said, Gideon, thou might man of valor. A son of God in our presence, walking and talking with us. A son of God. What a mighty, mighty thing. I don't believe you understand, folks, what God has done for you. I don't believe you really understand. I wanted to get into a subject tonight, that I'll never even hit. But I don't believe you understand where we're at, what we're doing. Let me elaborate just a little bit more on this then I'll let you go. What causes us to be bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh? That male spirit will over power that woman's spirit and then after awhile all of the resistance is taken out of her. She's a real wife. If she's a real wife her every desire will be to want to conform to his way; to be like him. Finally all the resistance is gone and she's so much one with him that no matter what he wants to do she won't cross him up. She'll do what he wants to do. And then once her spirit has been subdued to his spirit then his spirit and her spirit becomes one spirit. And then the same spirit that was in the little child's blood cell that caused that blood to conform to the image of the father will cause that same woman, the blood within her, to conform to the same image of the man. She'll get to where she talks so much like him, acts so much like him that somebody will say she even looks like him. But the blood, wherein the spirit is in, it will cause that blood to change into the man's blood. And then when the man's blood changes the woman's blood she's no more that, but it's Eve that was taken out of Adam placed back within Adam and then they're one flesh. They actually become one flesh because the spirit that's in the blood causes the conformity of the image. It's not the blood that causes the conformity of the image. Now, somebody would say, Well, I differ with you. All right, now, let's look at it and see. If it's the blood cell that causes the conformity of the image why is it that when I gave my blood to somebody that they didn't turn into me. I've given blood a number of times. How many of you have ever given blood? See? There's Brother Toby, he's give blood. Why is it there's not another Brother Toby walking around? See? It's because it doesn't have anything to do with it. You say, How do you get that? Because the Bible said that God has made all nations of one blood. Tell me this. How can one blood cause one man to be a black man, one man to be a red man, and one man to be a yellow man, and another man to be a white man? And yet the Bible said it's all the same blood. Well, somebody said, Well, it's because they're in a certain climate. Well, I don't see how that could be. We've got  Over here we've got the black man in here, and we've got the white man in here and we've got the spanish man in here and we're in the same climate. So I don't see where that could be; all raised up in America. All eat the same kind of food. See? That couldn't be it. All nations are made of one blood. Do you understand what I'm saying? There's got to be a nature involved somewhere and it's not the nature of the blood. That's not what it is. It's a divine ordination of God that every seed shall reproduce after it's own kind. That's what it is. Take an apple seed and plant it, you'll get an apple tree. Take an orange tree and plant it and you get an orange tree. I said the other night, take a crab apple, plant it and you get a crab apple tree. Still got two trees but you've got a crab tree. Both of them are apple trees. We've got two human beings. One is this kind and one is another kind. Take some people, they're just as crabby as the can be. Take somebody else they're just as sweet as they can be. Both of them has got the same blood running through them, but what is it? It's the nature that got into the blood. It's the spirit. God didn't make man crabby, but he let an old spiritual devil get in him. That's why he's crabby. God didn't make a woman to run around and slam doors, beat her husband in the head, cursing, running around half naked. God didn't do that. God put them on clothes. But, see? There is a spiritual inbred nature that causes that image to do what it does. And that's why that Jesus said, When you awake in the morning I will despise your image because the spirit of God that comes into my heart and into my life, that spirit changes my blood and causes it to be royal blood. That spirit that comes in side of me, it causes it to be royal blood. Somebody said, If it's royal blood when you give somebody else a pint why come they're not royal? Because it's only royal while it's in me, because when it goes in them my spirit is not in it. Are you listening? You say, How can that be? Because their spirit is in it. Somebody says, Well, Brother Pike, if they transfer you're blood, if a blood cell can come from a man to a woman you're spirit is in it, because you said that's nature. (Tape two, side one.) And that's true. But if you're going to look at it like that what happens when the man is dead? Where is the nature? When they put him in the coffin why come he's not still kicking? See? His spirit. Why is it his blood don't reproduce then? It can't, because the life, or the spirit is in the blood, and the life has gone away from the blood and the blood is no more. Got the man's life in it. If you take my blood out of me it's no more got my life in it. If you put it in somebody else then it's got their life in it. That's how a lot of times a child will take after the mother. You take the daddy, you put his nature in him, his spirit in him, and then when the blood cell goes over  Have you ever noticed this, that a little girl, most of the time, will conform to the nature of her mother? Have you ever noticed that? She'll usually look like her mother. Is that right? In most cases that's the way it will come out. The reason for that, I said before, is because she's the weaker species. But look at the little boy. Most of the time he won't look like mama. He'll look like daddy because he's got a greater resistance against mama's nature. But the little girl she's weaker and as mother feeds her through the naval cord, as that turns into blood the nature is projected into that, eventually she may take on the nature of her mother. Do you understand what I'm saying? But the little boy is stronger. He's resists so he holds to the nature of his dad that was placed in the vagina. Are you following me? That nature holds on to it. A lot of times when a boy favors his mother, not in all cases, but a lot of times when they favor the mother you'll find out he's a little sissy. He's a little feminine fellow that's a book worm. He's a sissy. Now say amen if you believe it. I don't mean he's bad, but I'm just speaking of the natural side of it. Now what I'm trying to say is, if I've got the Spirit of God it's the Spirit that quickeneth. This is something I'd like to get into someday. Get our people far enough along to talk about things like this. See? Paul said it is the Spirit that quickens. And said that God is the judge of the quickening and the dead. He is God. The Bible said the second man Adam was made a quickening spirit. When we speak of the quickening, like electricity is a type of it. Look at electricity. You look at a wire running down here and don't look like there's nothing to it. But you grab a hold of it and you'll feel a quickening. Dale knows that because one of them knocked him slap off of the telephone pole, or the post where he was at and he hit the cement. It's real quickening, ain't it? Kind of shocking? That's the way it is with God. A bunch of unbelievers; they don't believe there's a God, but you just latch on to Him sometimes and you'll get the shock of your life. As a matter-of-fact, if you don't line up with Him He'll shock you to death. Are you following me? Now, listen just a few more minutes and you'll be all right. Satan is trying to make the babies restless, but just hold on a few minutes. When the Spirit of God goes into your blood veins  This is what I want to get over, that this is not a make belief thing. I said the other night, we're not just making belief we're all right until God can come down here and get us. We're not doing that, but there is a spirit, an invisible force, an eternal fountain from God that's open, and the spirit, the invisible God, has literally gone into your heart, and into your blood genetics, and that eternal God has intermingled with your spirit and is trying to subdue your spirit, because you're the feminine part of God. And you are suppose to submit yourself to the spirit, the masculine part. And you keep surrendering, keep surrendering until eventually the spirit that when into your body, that spirit changes completely. I'm going to have to talk with the mothers, because they've got to where they just use the baby for an excuse to continually move about, and just continually the devil keeps them interfering with what we're trying to do when it unnecessary. But listen. Now when this spirit goes into your blood veins, this quickening is in your blood cells and it starts a reaction and it starts forming a nature. From this time it starts changing your blood. And as long as it's got this spirit in your blood then your blood is becoming royal blood. And when royal blood flows through human veins it changes the flesh into royal flesh. Spiritual flesh. There is a natural body but there is also spiritual body. A natural body and a spiritual body. And if this tabernacle be dissolved we have another eternal in the heavens not made with hands. Now, how many said you were in heaven? Come on, stay with me just a few minutes. I'm speaking of the redemption of the body which is the purchased possession. A Word body. A spiritual body. A body that has been turned into the Word Itself. Bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh. How many believe that He was the Word? And the Bible said we are Word of the Word. Bone of the bone, flesh of the flesh. When He was resurrected He said, Feel my flesh and bones. He brought the same body out, Brother Zell, he put in. That's why I said the other day, it don't make sense for us to have to die if I'm going to go back and pick up the same body I put in there to start with. Somebody said, Well, that's the way it's suppose to be. No. That's the way it is because of sin. Sin in the killer. Death is not the friend of God. The way folks talk you'd thing death is God's friend. You go kill them and I'll resurrect them. God's kingdom is not divided. He didn't set up death so he could go around and kill people so God could resurrect them. God never did that. Somebody said, Well, don't you believe that God put death down here? No. I sure don't. God put life down here. When He created Adam and put him in the garden he was much alive. Then you say, Where did death come from? The Bible said death came by man. Now that's terrible, isn't it? God gives life and man kills. But if you'll notice there is another beautiful part to it. If man could bring death, God said also that the resurrection came by man. Jesus said I got power to lay it down; I've got power to take it up. Death came by man. So did the resurrection come by man. A man brought resurrection just like a man brought death. I don't know whether you understand that or not but, my Brother, I've passed from death unto life. As the song said, There is a fountain filled with blood, flows from Emmanuel's veins and every one that plunged beneath this flow looses all their guilt and stains. I've got a spirit in me tonight that is changing me into His image. I'm changing from glory to glory. The light of the glory of His unveiled face. For the light of God, the knowledge of the Lord, has come forth in my heart, shining forth to bring the light of the glory of his revelated face. Changing me by the quickening of inspiration from revelation to revelation, from the knowledge of the living Word. It's no wonder that these that run around and jump and holler and scream that never know nothing, they go into a service, they scream and holler and jump and slap people down, put on a show and when they get through the people don't know no more than they did before they started. Just having a big show and took up a big offering and that was it and everybody says, Rah, Rah, Rah, who is this? Oh, you don't know who he is? My! Well, who is he? He's an ex-play boy. Somebody said, I thought he was a man of God. Well, what did he do for the people? What we need to do is grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're suppose to come to church to grow in the knowledge. We're suppose to know something. The Bible said our people perish from the lack of knowledge. We're suppose to grow in the knowledge of God so that we can have more grace from God. I want you to stand with me. Some things took place today. Beautiful things. Things have beautifully been taking place. We were invited down to Sister Frances today and ate a dinner. Before we went down there the Lord had been using Sister Thompson. We had a dinner here awhile back that was real typical. Real typical. I spoke of what it meant. How that it had to do with the landing of the pilgrims. The baptism and what it had to do with. Today when I got ready to go down to Sister Frances' Sister Thompson came around and gave me a little  I can't remember what it was. Sand something. Sand flower, I believe it was, something like that. Sand flower. I put it in my pocket. Something said to me, said, when you get down yonder at the dinner I want you to break that open. I went down there and all of them had finished eating. Some of them kid me a lot of times about eating eggs, but you know eggs go back to Easter. And I believe in the resurrection. I got down there. I hadn't eat no breakfast so they brought me some eggs. All the rest of them had eaten their dinner so I got my dinner and breakfast together. I got a double portion. Sister Frances brought it in. I ate my dinner, breakfast together. And then after that I looked up and over my head was a round wheel with twelve spokes in it and five lamps setting on it. The Lord began to deal with my heart. I looked over here and here were five men around the table. And here I had that white sand flower in my hand. The little legend of it was concerning the star, and that there were five white doves on the inside of it. So I took the little sand flower, read how it represented the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. You remember what I said recently about the death, the burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus? You remember that? I broke the little sand flower open and out came five little white things. And I do believe they were as much like little doves as anything I've ever seen in my life. But before I went down there the Lord spoke to me about the cloud that came down out of heaven, that stood over my head. How that it broke open and went to approximately five people. Which looked like it had to do with the five-fold ministry. And I made the statement, I said, that that came down was the revelation of the Lord Jesus and from that, at this point that that which came down out of heaven and revealed itself to us, at this point was fixing to get ready to go forth. That our ministry had been killed, been crucified. There's so many things I'd like to tell you. Like Jesus said one time, you're dull of hearing. But from the year of sixty-three Brother Taylor came with me, and I related this today. He was typical of death. Brother Taylor's ministry follows the pattern of death. Not because it's bad, but because he's symbolic of Moses who was faithful in all of his house. And the letter killeth, and he was real intellectual. Learned in all the ways of the Egyptians. And picked him up in the city of seven hills. But he started with me. As quick as he came with me my brother died. Had no more than got with me good and my brother died. Got over to the areas of Memphis, Olive Branch, death hit my ministry. Everything died out. If you are tired you can be seated, it's okay. I'm just going to take a few minutes. Died out. I brought him to Athens, Georgia with me, swoosh, death hit, my ministry died there. I took him over to the Carolinas and swoosh, death hit my ministry right there. Everything died. Everywhere he went, died. Then it looked like the devil would about kill me. One day me and Brother Taylor was talking, Brother Taylor was innocent. He didn't know what was going on because he was just working, helping me. But, see? The Lord ordained a pattern to come for the law brought death. And so I finally said, Brother Taylor, boy, if we ever get over across Jordan  I was talking about his reasoning. Every time I went to right something he was taking notes and he'd say, You've got too many verbs and not enough adjectives. I didn't even know what he was talking about. I told him, I said, Man, if we ever get across Jordan we'll be all right. I was talking about the carnal mind. And finally it dawned on Brother Taylor. And Brother Taylor was innocent and he said, Well, Brother Pike, you can't keep going on and talking and never put a period. And I said, Brother Taylor, have you ever read the writings of Paul. Well, he had. He'd been to college, but he'd never noticed it. Well, he went back and read the writings of Paul and he come back and he said, You know, I see what you're talking about. And from that time he's really been a blessing. The other he couldn't help. It was ordained that our ministry die out for a period of years, go through a death period. And the Lord was to do something and it was to come back in a resurrection. Which is really denoted at this easter . And then after that it was to spread throughout the entire world. And so then, today when I broke that little thing, just like a rent veil, out came the little doves. How many know that doves represent the spirit? Like five measures of the spirit going into the five-fold ministry, the fullness going into the five-fold ministry. Right out of the heart of that little star representing Christ, the resurrection. Going, and five men there that were typical. God using those five men. Now you say, Brother Pike, does that mean those five men were the ones that got it? No, that wasn't it. They were typical. God had five men that were typical. Some of those men could turn out to be the worst men you've ever seen. Could be a Judas. That don't have nothing to do with it, just a type. But there is one thing. If God chose those five men to have the type with it could indicate that they are great men, that God has got His hands on them. After this happened I saw what the Lord was doing. A lot of other things took place, transpired, that we won't try to go into because I know you're tired. But just as quick as this happened, that was six of us sitting round the table and Brother Jerry Lambert came right in. The Lord really uses Jerry. He doesn't know why it happens but he always shows up at those times to make the seventh; he came in. And I saw some beautiful things today. I looked up while I was eating and there was the moon up in the heavens, which it's very rare to see it in the daytime, you know. And I thought about how that at last the sun and the moon was caught up together, like i spoke of about the man and the lion. And I was watching it and had already spoke to the insurance man about Dad's trailer and something was said about a New Moon trailer, so I just left it alone. Had my thoughts about it; left it alone. My brother went over there today. When he came back Dad had picked the New Moon. I felt sure that's what he would do. So he went over and he picked the New Moon. He came back and we were talking about it and Brother Cantrell said, Brother Pike, said, did you know that they've discovered a new moon. I think maybe it's around mercury, but they discovered a new moon which makes that planet to be like our planet. Maybe even have life on it, is their theory. But, see? There is a new moon coming in. Somebody said, What are you talking about, Brother Pike? God said, I don't want your new moons. I don't want you feasts. And I'm not taking you back under the law, but I'm just talking typically. See? There is a new moon coming in. Well, somebody said, This old one is good enough for me, we've used it a long time. But God said I'll do a new thing if it ain't nothing but make a new moon. See? A new moon means a new church. There is a new church coming in. Aw, somebody said, Now wait a minute. God said the old is folded up and laid away and this is God's new business. See? They discovered a new world. Because if it's got a moon that means it's a new world. Like ours. A new moon is coming in which represents the millennium. Something is happening. There's a new moon, a new church. The old church has gone out. It's a new church. And there was something unusual about this moon. I can't remember what it was we were talking about. But, Brother, Sister in Christ, there is something that has happened. I thought about something I had read in one of the evangelist's book talking about the revelation of the Lord Jesus. Outstanding evangelist. And some on how that things were going to happen, but I want to tell you something. It happened and you missed it. Brother Branham said watch, said, because when it happens it's going to be so simple, said, it will pass right through you and you'll miss it. It happened and you missed it. It happened and you missed it. Now the new church is at hand. Behold I make all things new. You missed it. You know why? Jealousy. Envy. Strife. Vainly puffed up by your fleshly knowledge. Looking for your ministry. Wanting everything but what God wanted, and you missed it. God's got a group of people. Now when I say that I'm speaking of this group of people. If they out there, the world, has missed it. They've missed it. But there is yet a little body of people that will receive it as it goes forth. And that little body of people, as Brother Cantrell said today, said, Brother Pike, I believe, I believe that God has at last got His army. Got His army. Said, I believe this is really it at last. And I do, too. At last God has got His army. So then I ask you to consider because something, we say, something is going to happen. Something has already happened.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord