Power Of Believing

We'll read from I Kings. If you have your Bibles, it's the fourth chapter. Maybe we'll try to teach you a little bit. I don't have that little rod with me. In the twenty-ninth verse of the fourth chapter, it says...(read I Kings 4:29-31). You know God is able to do; as we use the terms a lot of times, abundantly and above all that we are able to ask or even think. I might point out a few things here if I can. This little amplifier here sets right in the way, but maybe we can point out a few things and maybe you can understand. That receptacle isn't hooked up right there, Frank? That's not hooked up over here to where it could have been plugged in right there. It might not be hooked up, but any way, I do that to get a few of these wires out of the way here. I don't know just exactly what we'll say tonight but we might take a few minutes. I know it's getting late and I'll try not to hold you long. If you'll be patient maybe we won't get into any thing lengthy and let you go. I, personally; the way I feel about it in the age we are living in, I like to get into something lengthy with God, personally. As a matter of fact; I say so many times after I go home at might and dismiss the service, a lot of times, I get on my knees and I talk with God any way. We have a lengthy discussion any way. Because I like being with Him; but for your sake, in that I know there is a lot of spiritual babies among us and they get restless. They don't understand what I am saying and they can't get into the deep dimensional depths of what I say, because of that they get restless and for their sake, I say what I do. But any way, the other night we picked up on the chart here a little bit and then we tried to make a discussion concerning the days of God. A lot of times I go back and I review things. I say different things to you and I review them that you might be able to understand better. Because one thing is we have different people coming in. Like our Sister over here. She hasn't ever been with us before. I go back and I review some things that perhaps you are acquainted with. Another reason that I review them is because in doing this, this gives you a thought pattern, then you are able to understand what I am saying. Now then, I want you to look, maybe you can't see very good out there, but you can see some and tell pretty well what I am saying. There is one, two, three, for, five, six, seven. Seven blocks that they have blocked off here on this chart. Showing the seven days that God worked. Seven days. It's the seven days or seven creative days or the creative week of God. Now, how may of you know that God is a creator? All right, how may of you know that Satan can not create? Now, Satan can not create. God can create; that is, God can make something out of nothing. God can just say, Let there be and though there never was, it will come to pass. Ain't that something? Something that doesn't exist. It is no where, never was anywhere, never will be anywhere unless He speaks it and He just says, Let it be, and though it never was, yet it is. That's something, isn't it? But now, there is no other living human being that can do that but God; and if you or I or any other person do it, we have to do it through Christ, by faith and power in His name. Satan can not do that. Satan can pervert. Satan can work with whatever there is to work with. Now, these brethren are coming in late because they've been working with us down here. All right now, are you listening to me now? All right, now, Satan, he can not do that. All he can do is pervert. Now, like scientists; scientist say that you can not destroy any form of matter. How many of you know that's true? There is no way that you or I or any one can destroy matter. No, no way the forms of matter. There's no way. You can burn a house down but you can't destroy the forms of matter by which it is built. You can turn it into ashes and ashes will turn into carbon or what not, but when you get through it is exactly the way it was when God created it. You can't change it. There is no way that you can destroy it. Scientists have learned that whether you burn it; no matter, you cut a tree down, build a house, the house rots down. It goes back to the elements that it was before it was ever a tree. There is no way that you can destroy anything. So then, what Satan does through a power of perverted believing; he takes control of the form of matter and he works with it and he perverts it and thus he works lying signs and wonders. He works miracles with it. He does that though a believing. You can not work a miracle unless you believe, even Satan can't work it unless he does it through a believing power. That's the reason why that I tell you brethren and sisters here that the power of believing is so much greater then you or I or the Church or anyone could ever understand. It is so much greater. The power of believing. The reason a person has cancer is because they have believed themselves into a condition of cancer. The reason a person has a heart condition, is because they have believed themselves into that kind of condition. It is been the power of their believing that has caused all of their heartaches, all of their discomforts of life, all that has ever happened to them it was because they believed themselves into it. Now, it is referred to as what we call unbelief. That has caused the trouble. That means it is unbelief in the Word of God but it is a believing that is in the perverted side of life. Eve, Adam lost their place in the garden because of unbelief in God's Word. But how many of you know that at the same time that Eve was disbelieving God, she was believing somebody else. The serpent said, Thou shalt not surely die, eat. And she believed it and she believed herself into a terrible condition. She believed herself out of the presence of God into the presence of death. Out of the presence of life into the presence of death, by the power of believing. She transformated from one world to another world. She had her faith in reverse, cause that is what unbelief is. Satan, though the power of believing, works miracles. Satan, through the power of believing controls the heavens and perverts the handy work of God, and Satan through the power of believing, changes the Word of God into a lie. How many of you know you can change the Word of God into a lie? The Bible said, "They changed the Word of God into a lie". A lot of people say, Brother Pike, why you couldn't change the Word of God into a lie. But the Bible said, "They changed the Word of God into a lie". So then, if they could change the Word of God into a lie, then they could change the miracle of God into a lying miracle and a lying sign and wonder. How many of you know that? Sure they can do it. Through the perverted way of life, Satan has taken control. Now then, can I talk with you just a few minutes and explain some things? Would you like to understand? Now, this is the only way I can do it; is just talk with you, because if I get to preaching to you then I can't explain it very good because we have to go along too fast. Now, though the power of believing, through the power of believing, we have access to Heaven and the things of God. Through the perversion of believing, we are taken into captivity by the powers of Satan. There is two supreme powers and one of these powers is the powers of Satan. One of those powers is the powers of God. It is two great supreme minds. One great mind is the mind of knowledge. The other great mind is the mind of revelation. Those two great minds control all of humanity. You're subject either to one of those minds or to the other mind. You follow me? Both of them have great power because they are spiritual beings. So then, they have great power. One of those minds, it's a mind of life, one of those minds, it's a mind of death. Are you listening? Now, what is the difference between life and death? Simply believing. Why does man die? Because they believe wrong. Why do men live? Because they believe right. Why did Eve die? Because she believed what the serpent said, which was the mind of the tree of knowledge. The spirit of knowledge spoke to her and she believed it. It excited her human senses and because of that she became a subject of death. Why did Enoch live? Because he heard the voice of God, the other mind. And Paul said, By faith he was translated into another world, by believing. You follow me. Two powers of believing. To be intellectual is to be carnally minded and that is death. To be spiritually minded is to have faith in God and that is life. So then, the difference between life and death is that you believe in the right source. You believe in the right source you live. If you believe in the wrong source you die. Paul used these terms, he said, They that are earthy, they think earthy. They that are of the Earth so are they earthy. And they think earthy. Now, I know when I say this that you are not going to be able to get it. Lay this rod down here till we get ready to use it. But I know that you are not going to be able to get a hold of what I am saying in just a few compact words. I realize that, but I want to try to get over just a few thoughts to you if I can tonight. Now remember, they that are earthy, they think earthy. If you are an earthly person, then you think according to earthly laws and powers and controls. If you are heavenly, then you think according to laws and powers and authorities of Heaven. Your thinking determines everything in your life. Everything that you ever was, everything that you'll ever be, depends on your thinking. That's why the Bible uses the terms as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. If a man thinks in his heart, earthy, then he is earthy. If a man thinks in his heart heavenly, then he is heavenly. That's why Paul said, That I would that you be spiritually minded. For he said, To be spiritually minded is life, eternal life and it's peace, strength and power. But he said, To be earthly minded is death. See, we are taken from the dust. Look what happened to Adam and Eve for just a minute, now. The Bible said that God created Adam. Created Eve out of the dust, but He placed them in a heavenly atmosphere. He made them subject to a heavenly mind. And they could have had a heavenly life. They'd been exposed to a heavenly life. And they could have had a heavenly life, but what took place? They listened to an earthly voice, a beast. You follow me? They that are earthly, they think earthy. They that are heavenly, they think heavenly. And so, then they listened to an earthly voice and they turned away from the voice Paul said, that speaketh from Heaven. Paul warned, said, Don't turn away from the voice that speaketh from Heaven. Like Brother Taylor said tonight and the scripture said, They shall all be taught of God. Is that right? In other words, we are all taught of God. For it is not the minister that speaketh, but it is the voice that speaketh from Heaven. Now Eve listened to the wrong voice. Here a voice said to Eve, Adam and Eve the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Now, I want you to see this tonight. God wasn't talking about an apple tree. God wasn't talking about some fruit tree. God was speaking of a spirit, a power, a dominion, something that was knowledge. I've said this a number of times, though the Bible said it was a forbidden fruit. You've never seen a tree grow knowledge. Where in the world would you ever find a tree that would grow knowledge? When God said fruit, He was speaking of the fruits of the spirit. God is a Spirit and when God speaks, He speaks of heavenly things. That's why they didn't understand Jesus. It wasn't Jesus speaking. It was God speaking from within Him. I was the Spirit that was speaking from the inside, and the Spirit, when it spoke about spiritual things. When the great Spirit said, Here is a tree and this tree is filled with fruit. The day that you eat of this fruit thou shall surely die, Adam and Eve. That was God who was a Spirit speaking of fruit on his level. In his world. His way of life. How many of you understand what I am saying? So then, when God spoke of this, He spoke of something on His level. He was speaking of a fruit. A fruit, what kind of fruit? God being a Spirit, spoke of a tree in His world. What kind of a tree? It was a spirit tree. What kind of fruit? It was a spirit fruit. For God is a Spirit. So how could He speak to Adam and Eve, somebody that was made out of the dust? How could He speak on that kind of level to them? Because God exposed them to a spiritual mind. A spiritual understanding. Somebody would say, But I don't believe that Brother Pike. Let me prove it to you. Can you hear the voice of God today? Do you know the voice of God when God speaks to you today? Can you hear it like Adam and Eve did? That means that they was exposed to some heavenly voice some heavenly atmosphere. They knew when God walked through the garden. They could hear the voice of God saying, Adam, Adam, where art thou Adam? That meant that they was exposed to a spiritual world. Therefore, their mind was a spiritual mind. Their thoughts was Spirit. That's why that they could live on and on and on. It's because they were in a spiritual mind. They had a spiritual understanding. Paul said, To be carnally minded is death. Somebody would say, But Brother Pike, I don't believe that they had life like that to begin with. But it is a true fact that they did. Because the Bible said, Adam and Eve, the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Then why did He tell them that they would die. Because they had a life to lose. They had a life to loose. It was something special God had done for them and they had a life to loose. I tell you what, the subject tonight is such a great subject, that if I had the subjects to preach to I could go on until in the morning and tomorrow morning you could really understand what I am saying when I speak about life and death. Hallelujah! Something great and grand and glorious happened but God said, to Adam and Eve, the day thereof thou shalt surely die. He said, Adam, all of the trees of the garden of these trees thou may eat of freely; but, the day that thou eatest of the tree of knowledge that is the day that you are going to die. Why? Because there is one thing that is contrary to life and that is knowledge. The letter killeth. Knowledge is a killer and when you learn and learn and learn you become that which is subject to death. But God's Word is not a knowledge. It's not a killer. It is something that is life. Jesus said, My words are words of life not words of knowledge but words of life. He said, My words are spirit. I set here the tree of life and I set here the tree of death. As long as you eat of the tree of life then you don't have anything to worry about. How many of you know that Adam and Eve was eating of the tree of life? For what was the tree of life? It was the voice that said, Thou shalt not. And as long as they eat of that thou shalt not, as long as they eat of that voice that said, Adam, Adam where art thou? As long as they communed with that and eat of that. Somebody would say, But Brother Pike, how could they eat of that? Because the Lord said, Taste and see if I am good. Taste of me, Jesus said. My flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed. Said, taste of me and see if I am good. Hallelujah!! And so then, God said, If you eat of this tree, ye shall live and that same God that same tree of life that manifested itself through Jesus Christ, through a human body came down into this world and when it came down into this world, it walked through the garden of this world and said, He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me is passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation. Hallelujah! When I think of the great opportunity of Adam and Eve. A lot of people would say, Brother Pike, if I had just had the opportunity that those people had, I would never done the things that they did. But brothers and sisters, you got the same opportunity. God, the eternal Word to every generation the same yesterday, today and forever. In the beginning He was the voice, He was the Word. Today, He is a voice, He is the Word. It is not the minister speaking to you, but the Bible said, It is God speaking to you. You have the same opportunity. Somebody would have said, If I'd been in the days of Noah and I'd seen the making of that big boat out there, I would have known something was wrong. I would have listened to him, but you wouldn't have. Somebody, if you'd lived in the days of Noah, you know what you would have done? You would have said, Listen to that Old Crank. What if I started to building a big ark out here right now. Supposing I started to building a big ark. And I'd say come on folks, I've build it a hundred and fifty feet long and so forth. Come on, God is going to destroy the world. Somebody say, What would they say? Well, let's see, somebody said, The other day, Brother Pike's in strong delusions. Wasn't that what they said? Strong delusions. That's what they said, Said, Brother Pike's is strong delusions. That's what they said about Noah. He's an Old Crank. He's got strong delusions, but when the rain began to come strong delusions or no strong delusions, they decided the only safe place to be was inside that ark. So then you've got the same thing today. Same thing is happening today. God is telling you to flee from the wrath that is to come. In the garden, God said, Adam and Eve thou shalt not eat of that tree, but they did it anyway. And I told you over and over, I said that tree is Satan. That is the evil spirit of Satan that lives within a human body and I said that that human body produces carnality and the Bible said to be intellectual or be carnal is death. Is that right? And I tell you, I say, and yet not me that's speaking but God speaking to you as He did Adam and Eve and He says to you, Thou shalt not be carnally minded. For to be carnally minded is death Paul said. But thou shalt be spiritually minded. Is that right? Hallelujah! Thou shalt be spiritually minded. Are you spiritually minded tonight? Do you fast? Do you pray? Do you think about heavenly things? Is your conversation in Heaven? Do you talk about heavenly things? Is your interest in heavenly things? Or is it in automobiles and on women and on children and on money and prestige and fame and popularity and who you are and what you are and what you want to be. Where is you conversation? So then, to be carnally minded is death. Why is it death?.......Beginning of 1st tape on back.........Is there anything wrong with carnal things? No. Is an automobile carnal? Yes. Is a house carnal? Yes. Is there anything wrong with carnal things? No. Paul said, If I have sown unto you spiritual things shall I not reap of your carnal? Is that right? If other men be partakers how much more are we? If we preach to you, don't we have a right to take something of your natural substance? For it's written, they that wait at the altar are partakers with the altar. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. But we don't say this for our sake because we are willing to work our way. Now, you say, what are you saying? Carnal things are not wrong, but to be carnally minded is death. Though you have ever so many carnal things, yet the Bible said place your affection on things above. Your carnal things are precious to you because the wise man substance is precious. He dedicates them to God. He uses them for God. But he never keeps his heart, he never keeps his mind on them. His mind is in Heaven. His thoughts are in Heaven. His conversation is in Heaven. Why? Because to be carnally minded is death. To be carnally minded is death. To think about automobiles and houses means you are earthy. And God said to Adam of the dust thou art and to the dust thou shalt return. Wasn't that what He said to him? Why did He say that? I took you from the dust, Adam. I made you out of the dirt. And then I told you not to fasten yourself to the natural thing that you are made out of the dust, but I wanted to bring you into an eternal existence that I was taking you from the clay, from the dust. But I was going to make you an eternal being. I was going to make you into a subject that could live forever. I was going to change you into an eternal being and bring you into an eternal existence, but you couldn't get your mind off the dust. You're made from the dust and your body is relative to the dust and your five senses and the lust and desire of your body craves the things that be of the dirt. Isn't that right? Somebody would say, What do you mean Brother Pike? I want an automobile. That is not of the dust. The elements come from the dirt that composes the metal that made that automobile. You are relative to the dust. All of your fruits, all of your foods, all come from the dust. Is that right? And the Bible said, All of your labor, all of labor is for your belly, cause your belly craves it of you, cause your belly is your god. The Lord said, John, this message will be bitter to your belly, son. Now, it'll do your soul good but it is going to upset your belly. It's going to be bitter to it. Why? Because it changes the godship around. You follow me? God said to the old serpent, I put you on your belly. Is that right? That means all that you eat, all that you desire, all of your labor will be for your belly because you sinned against God. I put you on your belly for the rest of your life and of the dust thou shalt eat because thou art a serpent. You know, a lot of people get the idea that what God meant was that He was going to turn folks into a snake. That wasn't what He was talking about. When John looked back there and John said, That crooked trail. How many of you understand what I am saying? See the old serpent in the garden, he wasn't something that was sliding around on his belly like a snake. A snake is only typical of what He was talking about. So then, it means a crooked generation, a perverse generation. The beast; He called him a beast and yet He called him a serpent. Now, I said the other night, the nearest thing to a Son of God is a beast. It's a man. That man is that beast. He's on his belly. He's that serpent. He's the one that's causing the trouble. At the end of the way the 666 will head up in the beast, in that serpent, in that crooked, perverse generation. Jesus said, A generation of vipers, a generation of serpents. How many of you understand what I am saying, folks? See, it is the generation of serpents. Their thoughts are deadly. Their words are deadly. Everything they do is deadly. Said, Thou shall bruise the head of the serpent. Why the head of the serpent? Because knowledge. See, that tree of knowledge was the head of the serpent. That old serpent said, eat thereof. Eat thereof and thou shall bruise the head of the serpent which is the knowledge part. Is that right? That's why David, when he took the little sling and the five stones that represented the ministry over there. When he hit that giant, he hit him in the head. Because it represented the serpent. It represented the tree of knowledge. The little Word in the sling of faith of David, it meant death. You follow me? When God set a flaming Cherub there at that garden to keep it. What was it? It was the ministry. I'll make my ministers flames of fire. You can't get pass the ministry, unless you die. No man can see the face of God and live. That minister stands there. He's a flame of fire. He's God's flaming Cherub and he stands there and he protects that garden of life. He's got the way of life. He's got the Words of life. The Words of eternal life. And he stands there and you can't get into that spiritual garden unless you come pass that flaming Cherub. For the Bible said, How can he preach lest he be sent? How can they hear without a preacher? How can you believe unless you have the Word preached to you? Because faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word, and the Word by the preacher. Is that right? So then, why? It was because it was the head of the serpent, that's why. It said, that the seed of God shall bruise the head of the serpent. What do we do? We have a struggle. Look at God, God usually picks up the ignorant, the unlearned, the nobodies. God picks them up. Always the rejected stones. Come on folks. I know there is a lot of bankers and a lot of college fellows and a lot of doctors and so forth. They'd like to dispute this. A lot of people that love prestige and life and those kind of things. They'd like to dispute this but God has chosen the poor. The Bible said so. Rich heirs of salvation. But the rich, He said, Have their consolation. Is that right? What is It? It's in reverse. Why is God letting Esau have all of that? Because He is going to put Esau in Hell, that's why. All of those people out there being descendants of Esau will go to Hell. That's why God is blessing them the way He is blessing them. But poor people, people that are striving, people that don't have anything, God is going to pick them up and turn the whole thing around and they are going to have the promise in the world to come. Now somebody would say, But Brother Pike, you mean because a person is poor he is going to Heaven? No, I don't mean that. A person can be poor and go to Hell, but I mean that the Bible said that the poor gladly heard Him and they accepted Him but the rich had their consolation and not many mighty are called. Is that right? God will place one or two great men out there that's mighty, like Paul and different ones. He places them out there in that realm so that they can get a testimony and so that we can have a chance through life. If He didn't have somebody out there that we can work with we wouldn't even have a chance through life. So He's got a few scattered out there but they are on our side. You understand what I am saying? What is the Battle? The battle is with the serpent. What do we do? We bruise his head. That old educational system that always has a contract. We have tax for this and we are taxed for that and they fill this out and you fill that out. We sign our rights away in this and we sign our right away in that and they charge us usury in this and all the time they got us tied up with something. But we strike back at it because we know it's not God. Isn't that right? So then, we know it's not God and we keep striking back with that little sling of faith, like David. We keep putting the Word of God in there and slinging back at the old head of the serpent and one day we are going to hit the mark. The little stone hewed out of the mountain is going to hit the mark one day and the giant is going to crumble. That's right. So we are striking back and they are striking at us. For it said, the serpent shall bruise thy heel. Why does it use the term thy heel? Because that is where the soul is. The serpent strikes at the soul and the nearest place he can get is the heel. You follow me? There is a lot of revelation in that about the heel. Hallelujah! But any way, that's why that God has it the way that He does. The people hate us. They do evil to us but the thing is, we have the secret of life. We have the secret of life. I know the secret of life because I've discovered it. I've found it. I know what it is. I know where it is. I know why men die and I know that men don't have to die. I know why men lived a thousand years back yonder when they don't live but sixty or seventy today, and I know what is going to make them all of a sudden live a thousand years out there in the future. Now, tell me this, I asked the question the other night. A lot of people say well men just die because they get old and they are used up and I asked the question the other night. I didn't have time to say anything at the end of the service about like I am tonight but I ask a question. If men just die, if they just get used up, why is it that the Bible tells us that at eighty years old that Moses' eyesight hadn't even waxed dim, and the Bible said that the natural sources of his body wasn't even abated. Why did the Bible say that? Tell me, why did the Bible say that? Why was it that Abraham and Sarah's youth was renewed? Why? Like a vision I had not too long ago when I renewed my youth. Went right on carrying on the things of God. Why is it? Why is it that they were able to renew their youth? Why is it that Moses at eighty years old was still a young, healthy, strong man? If we just automatically use up our body, why is it that Enoch lived three hundred years, why is it that Noah lived over nine hundred years? Can you tell me? Weren't they human beings too? Didn't they have flesh and bones like I have? Wasn't Noah every bit a natural man? Why was it that Noah lived nine hundred years or more and then come right down to the time of Abraham's birth; lived right on down to the time of Abraham's birth and here Abraham comes along and don't live but just a few years in comparison. Why was it? There was a reason. Why was it that men lived a thousand years or there about and today they can't get more that sixty or seventy years? Why is that? There is a reason my brother and sister. I understand the reason. Then why, if I ask this question, if it's just because men just die out, just die out because they use themselves up and women just die out because they use themselves up and get old? Then why is it that just in a short while after the tribulation period that people once again are going to begin to live a thousand years? Why?? Somebody would say, Well Brother Pike, what's going to happen is that they all are going to become celestial and because they've become celestial, well they can't die. But that isn't what the Bible says. Somebody would say, Well Brother Pike, what it is then they are going to be transported to another world, and that is why they are going to live. That's not what the Bible says either. Adam and Eve was in the garden but Enoch and them was on this earth. So was Adam and Eve. The Bible teaches the restoration. The coming of the millenium which is this very present Monroe, Georgia in which you live. The millenium is going to be the same Monroe, Georgia that you are living in. Oh, somebody would say, I'll dispute that. Well, all right. Whenever you get ready. The same Monroe, Georgia that you are in right now is going to be the millenium. The same one, not another. The restoration. The same trees that you see round about you is going to be the same thing in the millenium. The same human being that you rub elbows with the same people that you see is going to be the very same thing in the thousand years. How many of you understand that? It is going to be the same thing, flesh and bones, people. Flesh and bones is going to walk the earth. Now, what is going to make the change? They are just going to live on. Here we are, we are living today, sixty, seventy years. All of a sudden here, we just when nothing seems to happen, nothing seems to change. We just go right on. All of a sudden they start living a thousand years again. What's going on? You understand what I am saying? That proves that we are not very smart, don't it folks? Medical science is searching and looking everywhere, they are trying to figure the thing out and they can't figure it out. That proves that humanity is not very smart. You love the Lord? All right, don't get weary and quit. I am going to quit in just a few minutes and let you go. There is a great mystery that Paul spoke of that we should not all sleep but we shall be changed. That great mystery means those that are celestial but at the same time, there are those that will not be celestial that will still be just as terrestrial as you are now and they are going to live a thousand years. Come on folks. I don't believe some of you believe that. Everybody that believes that let me see your hand. I've got some that believes it. I tell you what I'd like for you to do. I'd love for you to come over and prove to me it's not true. At your convenience. I'd like for you to come and prove to me it's not true. Don't bring me no ideology. Bring me the scripture and show me where it's not true. I'll take the scripture and show you where it is true. Now, you say, Well Brother Pike, why are you so excited over that? I am excited over that because I don't like to fill a casket. I don't like dying. I've worked at a funeral home and I don't like it. I don't like no part of it. I don't like to die. I don't like to think about my wife dying. I don't like to think about my mother and daddy dying. I don't like to think about my brothers and sisters, my daughters and sons dying. That's why I am excited about it. For six thousand years almost everybody has tried to figure it out and stop it and they ain't been able to stop it yet, but we got the answer to it. Hallelujah! Somebody said, That can't be; but it can be. The Bible said, The last enemy to be conquered is death. That means it can be conquered. Is that right? The last enemy that shall be conquered is death. You say, who is going to conquer it? The Sons of God is going to conquer it. Somebody said, I know when Jesus comes, He's going to conquer it. Brothers and sisters, you are running way behind. Jesus is already come. Jesus already conquered it. It's up to you and I to enjoy the privilege of it. Hallelujah!! That's why Paul said, It's a great mystery. In other words, he'd done been to the third heaven. He'd done found out about it. He'd done found out what was going on. He knew that the thing was over and finished. But the only thing was, it was a great mystery and he had to explain it to folks. Because it was hid back there in Calvary what had taken place. So, I like that, don't you? We; as I said the other night, we are on this side of Calvary now, we are not back there. We are not back there. To be carnally minded is death. To be earthy is to talk of earthy things. If you are made out of the dust. God said, Adam and Eve I took you out of the dust and I tried to convert you. I tried to transformate you, transform you into an eternal substance that would never die. I tried to take nothing and make something out of it, but you wouldn't listen at me. But folks, today you got the same opportunity. Jesus said, My Words are Spirit and my Word are life. And Jesus said, To as many as believed to them gave He power. Come on folks. Somebody said, Now Brother Pike, I believe. Then why don't you have the power? Come on, come on. Somebody said, The church believes. Well, why don't they have the power? Are you listening? For to as many as believed to them gave He the power. You could just stop there if you wanted to and write a book, on the power. Come on folks. Are you listening to me? Somebody would say, Now Brother Pike, You mean I could open blind eyes? No, that ain't what I am talking about at all. There is something greater than opening blind eyes. Something greater than unstopping deaf ears. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the power over death. Power over death. Man of old didn't just open blind eyes. They went up to a dead person and said, Get up and the dead person got up. They had power over death. And the Bible said, that we are to contend for the power or the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, you don't expect us to do anything like that. That's what the Bible said, and we will go on to perfection. Is that right? What did He say we would go on to? He said, therefore leaving the principals of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection. Not turning again to lay the foundation of repentance, the laying on of hands and the dead faith towards God, but He spoke of going on to the resurrection of the dead. Is that right? That means that the church is living far beneath the privilege that God intended for it to be. The church is suppose to be a conqueror of death. God has let us conquer sickness. If you are not conquering sickness then you haven't got anywhere. If you still got a fear of death then you've not been born again, according to the Bible. Though the church's already conquered sickness. There's been people healed for many years. The church has already manifested the gift of the Spirit. That's been proven through the years, but God's got something greater than that for the church. What is the world waiting for? The manifestation of the Sons of God. God has some Sons of God and these Sons of God have power over death. To as many as believed to them gave He power to become the Sons of God. That means that believing power is mighty. That means that this little thing we call believing, this little thing that we call faith, is a powerful substance. More powerful than the atomic bomb. This is a powerful thing. This little thing that we play with. This little thing that we never get down to business with. This little thing call faith. Hallelujah! I like that. AMEN!! When I slip off of my bed at night and get down on my knees. Start wrestling with my pillow. You ever wrestle with your pillow? Get down on your knees and start talking to God and then all the time you are talking ot God, the Devil will say, What are you doing down here? You must be crazy. Why don't you get in bed? And say, You don't feel nothing down here. Here it is midnight, three or four o'clock in the morning. What in the world are you doing here? You must be losing your mind. Why you don't feel nothing but then all of a sudden, I think in my heart, I say, but the Bible said, Building up your most Holy faith by praying the Holy Ghost. I say, Lord, I am building up my most Holy faith. The faith is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And the more I pray, the more I feel good. And the more I feel like believing. And the more I believe the more things happen. The more I find favor with God. The more that I believe. The more there is a transformation taking place of my mind. The more there is a translation of my spirit taking place. The more that I am changing worlds. You say, cause you are praying? No, cause I am believing. You understand what I am saying? Somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, You mean you're going to pray your way right into it. No, I am going to believe my way right into it. So what are you doing praying? I am praying so I can believe. Hallelujah!! Somebody said, Now wait a minute. Faith don't come by praying. I know that. I realize that faith don't come by praying and faith don't come by fasting. Faith comes by hearing of the Word and believing what you hear. But what I am trying to do when I am praying? When I'm fasting, when I'm studying, when I am giving, when I am trying to obey God? What I am doing is trying to eliminate condemnation that stands in the way of me believing God's Word. I am trying to kill out the old man. The old middle wall of petition, tear it down, get it out of the way. So there won't be an intellectual interference. For to be carnally minded is death. To try to transform my mind into the Spiritual mind of God. Folks, I can tell that some of you ain't excited, because you don't realize what this thing called believing is. You've got it. You've got it; it's at your fingertips. Somebody would say, Brother Pike, you just can't believe; but you can believe. The Bible teaches that you can believe. You follow me? I am going to close. I said, I was going to close. I really am. I am going to close the Bible and let you see it. That'll make you feel better. Now, the power of believing, what a beautiful thing. I get excited in the middle of the night. I wake up and I get excited. I get to thinking about it. I say glory to God. To think that I can believe myself into the presence of angels. And I can talk with angels and I can believe myself into heaven like Paul did into the third heaven. I can just take a trip by just believing. I can heal the sick, open blind eyes, unstop deaf ears. Resurrect the dead and overcome death and tell death to shut up and get out of my room. How many of you have told death to shut up and get out? I told him to shut up and get out. That's right. I've had him to come in and I know that I was dying. And I'd know it was him. I said, Shut up and get out. I want to talk to God. Somebody said, You can't do that, but you can do that. To as many as believed to them gave He power. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. Hallelujah! Somebody said, But Brother Pike, don't you know that death has got to kill everybody? Where does the Bible teach that? Why men of old, back there knew better than that. When old Brother Jacob got ready to go on home he didn't wait for death to come along and knock him on the head. He told them, He said, Tell my sons to come over here. I am tired of this thing. I am fixing to go to the other side. I've done stayed here as long as I want to. Somebody said, but you just can't do that, but he did do it. So they got them all over there and he told them all he wanted to say. And he said, good-bye, I am going and left. Then, where was death? You understand what I am saying? Somebody said, But you can't do that Brother Pike, but they took Elisha and they put him down in the grave and the Bible said, in his bones was enough power to resurrect the dead, even in his bones. He believed so strong that when he laid down in the grave, he had so much concealed faith in his bones was charged with the virtues of God so much that when the dead man went in it, he come back out. That's power to as many as believed gave he power. You understand what I am saying? Isn't that wonderful? Old Brother Enoch when he got ready to go home, he didn't say anything about death. Did he? I don't recall it. I don't see where it's recorded. I don't recall reading it. The Bible said, that Enoch walked with God three hundred years and he was not because God took him. When Elijah got ready to go home, he didn't wait for death to come around. He just said, I am going over across Jordan. Elisha said, all right lets go. When they got on the other side of Jordan, Elisha looked and here pull up a fiery chariot with prancing horses. Elijah just stepped on board and waved good-bye and went on home. Does that sound like power over death? Power over death. We have power over death. How do we have that? By believing. By believing. I'll tell you what. This is an exciting thing to me. I am excited about this folks. I like this the more I think about it the better I like to. The better I like it, the more I think about it. I like it Hallelujah!! Tommy come to me today. Brother Tommy Cartrette come to me today and he said he was excited. He was just having a jubilee. And he said, All this time, I've just been making a form. I've just been having a formality, said, but this thing done got real. I am all excited about it. I am happy about it. Said, I've done got me a prayer life like you said, Brother Pike; and said, I am excited. Said, I am just, he was just laughing and having the biggest kind of time. Said, he was just enjoying serving God. You know it was exciting to him. Is that right Tommy? Is that what you was telling me today? See, there's a difference. All right, I better let you go because the longer I talk the more excited I get and the more excited I get the longer I talk and the more I talk the more you wish I'd shut up. So, I better do something. That's right. I could go on. There's somethings that I would like to say so bad. I could go on and you know when you get in this kind of Spirit, I could go on and we could really get into some deep, deep water. That's right. Hallelujah!! This is so wonderful to me. Can you think of God as a reality folks? Don't think of God as a myth something way off over yonder. He's a present help in the time of need. They endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Holding His hand walking with Him. There He is right there. You say, where is He at, Brother Pike? When two or three come together in His name, He is in the midst of them. Look around you, see Him? Somebody said, Oh, that can't be. But He's here. Brother Taylor sings, He's here, He's here, He's here. Well, How could you be with God and not be excited? You know, there is something wrong. What's wrong? You don't really believe He is here. Come on folks. If the president was here tonight this community would be excited. Is that right? Oh, they'd be excited. Across they way they'd be talking about the president. You would have run every where. Come on folks. There wouldn't hardly be a place around here but what you would have said, Hey, did you know the president is going to be over at our place tonight? The president. I said the other night, it's like saying, we are going to have and old worn out shoe over there, but just think, Jesus is Here! Jesus is here! God Himself is here, but see where is the excitement? It's because of your unbelief. You don't really believe it. See, you believe the president will be there because you could see him. Somebody said, but what about Jesus? Having eyes, I see Him. I see Him! That's why I am excited. I am very excited because I know that He is here. And I know what He has told me and I know what we can do. And we are the people that can live eternally. We are the people. Why should you die. Oh, Israel? Why should you die? I want you to stand with me........(end of first tape)........And so it was. What made Elijah pass over the boundaries of worlds without going by the way of the grave? He got to thinking that he was going to do it and he done it. Is that right? he got to thinking that. Somebody said, Well, then I think. No, I am not talking about in your head, now. I am not talking about in your head. There is people in the insane asylum that thinks they are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and everything else. I am not talking about that. That's a mental delusion. I am not talking about that; when you try to convince yourself that you are something that you ain't. I mean when you become so acquainted with God that you love Him so and He loves you so, that down in you heart you begin to think that He does favor you and that you do favor Him. Not because you are good, but because you listen to the Word of God so much that it keeps telling you about Jesus and the spilt blood and what Christ has done for you; and how that God so loved you that He gave His only begotten Son; till you got to believing that. And down in your heart something began to leap up and down. See, that's as the man thinketh in his heart the Bible said, so he is. Is that right? I made the statement a lot of times because you think you are a carpenter that don't mean you are a carpenter. You might think you are a bricklayer but you ought to try laying bricks sometimes. That's right. Now, you are not a doctor because you think you are a doctor. I tell you what you can do. If in your heart you think as a mechanic then you are a mechanic. Is that right? If you think as a bricklayer, then you are a bricklayer. If you think as a doctor, then you are a doctor, because his knowledge and his thinking is what makes him what he is. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. You follow me? When you began to think as a Son of God, so you are. That's right. So you are. When you began to think that you got power over death down here, so you have. That's right. That's why with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. See, because that is the mind of Christ doing the thinking. All right, lets sing a little chorus together. Paul said, Are you not yet carnal? I can't help but be excited. I can't help but be excited. When I leave here and I close the service I haven't closed out my excitement. I am just as excited or more excited then ever. I am excited today. When I was down there caught in between that wall; you know, with that tar all over my face and my body and every where else and every time I'd smear, you know, it spit on me. Splatter all over my shoes and go right through my clothes on my body. I was just painting away. I was having the biggest kind of time when I got nervous and tore up and all my energy gone and I knew I couldn't go any further and I just kept pushing cause I didn't want to quit cause I was excited. My knees started to buckling under me and I leaned up against the wall like this to keep from going down and as I kept on, I got excited. You say, Brother Pike, how could you get excited? Cause I said Glory to God. Look what kind of revelation is taking place. All the time my knees was buckling under me, I was watching the mind of God. The revelation of what He was doing with my knees buckling under me; and I was so excited over it. So they came in and they brought in a little old mattress down there at the bottom of the building, laid it down and got me to lay down on it and while I was laying there I got excited again and started preaching revelation to them there cause I was excited, cause I saw what God was doing and I'm still exited tonight. I got so excited my strength returned to me and now, here I am up here preaching. I am still excited!! How can you help but be excited. Jesus is here! When the Lord Jesus is with you, how could you help but be excited? Down there with all that mud, Jesus was there. I was excited. I love Jesus, don't you? Hallelujah! Jehu said one time, said, come see my zeal for God. You look around the campground you see my zeal for God. You see the brochures go out you see my zeal for God. These Machines run, these ladies doing the work that's my zeal for God. Testimonies, preaching, that's my zeal for God. Radio work, that's my zeal for God. You love the Lord? You got a zeal for God? All we got to do is have one according to knowledge. All right, let's sing a little chorus together. Sing it with me. Can you sing it with me? Now lets sing it like this. (Sings "Oh I need Thee, How I need Thee, Don't turn Him away". You know something is happening. We got a letter from little Brother Bob Bush, Jr. and he was telling me he was coming down to Atlanta. Said, he was moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Said, there was revival that was breaking out in this area and he is excited and he is moving his operation from the Carolina's down to Atlanta, Georgia. People are beginning to see a light spring out of the state of Georgia. Don't you want to be a part of it? I want to be part of it. Something is happening folks. Lets make it brighter. We sing that song "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem shine more and more unto the perfect day". Lets be part of it. You ladies that wear long dresses. You are part of it. Don't loose your reward by not being holy. Be holy, live holy, talk holy. Be pure in your heart and then wear the long dresses for a great testimony because it is reaching out around the world. People all over the world not just the state or the nation but I happen to know all over the world that they are talking about you. Talking about you. You are becoming a great light. The men here that are laboring. People are saying, I never seen anything like it among brethren, never. I remind you again that even in Israel when David our guide said, Brother Pike, I've never seen people like your people. Though hundreds of thousands of people go into Palestine of every church; when we were there, Brother James can tell you, there was hundreds of churches that was in that area that had come from the United States and different places. David was acquainted with multitudes of them including the Jews and the Arabs. But he said, Brother Pike, I've never seen people like your people. Said, they are holy people. There was other people on the bus with us but he didn't say that about them. They had hired him as a guide but he still didn't say that about them. Can you sing this? We sing the little chorus "I love Him because He is mine". Can we sing it together before we dismiss? Give me another key Sister. Sings "I love Him because He is mine". Now I was fixing to dismiss but the Lord I feel wants you to come to the altar. A lot of times I call you to the altar and I have a reason cause a lot of times I am just going to pass on and let you go and the Lord will speak to my heart. There is a reason why you come and stand like this. Sing it again, will you?

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord