Redemption By Judgment

We're glad to be in the house of the Lord tonight. We got some good reports. We hear that different ones have done different things. Showing a lot of progress. Last night I think I had about one of the roughest nights I ever had trying to preach to a congregation. I've travelled around a lot but last night it looked like everything was just topsy turvy and nobody_. You just couldn't get nobody's spirit. I made the statement, The Bible said give honor to whom honor is due, and last night Sister Edwards was one of them that helped me out last night. She probably didn't know it but she did. The Bible said one will put a thousand to flight, two will put ten thousand to flight. So when everything was going around this way and that way finally she just made up her mind she was going to listen and she done like this. And I began to catch her spirit and another came in, another one came in, and another one came in, and finally I was able to drive through like trying to tear a wall down. But -- Now, you say, Well, Brother Pike, is there any profit in that? Yes. That means that her reward will be greater; yours will be lesser. That's exactly what it means. Her's will be greater, yours will be lesser. When you stand in the way of sinner. You say, the Bible says blessed is the man that sitteth not in the seat of the scornful, nor standeth in the way of sinners. Now there is a lot of ways of standing in the way a sinner. And one way is not to pay attention; you're standing in the way of sinners because if one member suffers they all suffer. And when you do wrong then the whole body feels it. If you rejoice and shout and feel good in the Lord the whole body feels it because it's just like if I mash my finger then the whole body feels it. The whole body feels it and so we're just one body of many members and whatever you do then you either build up the body, or you tear down the body, and the Lord will hold us accountable in the day of judgment for it. So then if you want to be a blessing, be a blessing; don't be a hindrance. Don't be a hindrance. Now you say is there any other way, Brother Pike, to stand in the way of sinners. Yes. When you live, you go home and you watch non-virtuous things on your television screen, you read non-virtuous things in the newspaper, you hang non-virtuous things on the wall, pictures that is, and little sayings and foolish things, comic books, and all those kind of things. When you've got them in your house those kind of things will cause you to stand in the way of sinners, because somebody is watching you and when you come to church you can't possible have the mind of Christ because you've got the mind of Satan. You've got the carnal mind. The Bible says it's enmity with God. How many know all of that is the mind of humanity? Television. All that is the mind of humanity. That's what man got up and the Bible said man's mind is contrary to God's mind. because man's mind is looking at finite things but God's mind looks supernatural things. Man's mind tries to figure out everything but God's mind just believes things. He believes things into existence. Man has to figure it out. Figure it out. So then, you can stand in the way of sinners. If you come to church and you just, as Brother Joe said so many times, you're just a little down, you know, and you're half-hearted and half awake, and if you go to sing you just half heartedly sing. If you go to preach just half-heartedly preach. If you go to play the piano you just half-heartedly play the piano. If you go to strum on the guitar just half -heartedly strum on the guitar, you're standing in the way of sinners. Somebody said, There is a time we can't help it, Brother Pike. Oh, yes, you can. What if you went out on your job out there and you come in and you punched the clock and you drug over to your post of duty, you know, you go over there and the boss would say, Why don't you go back home? We don't need you. But I dare say there is not a person in here that works on a job but what they don't try to give their job their very best, if they care anything about their job, or their pay check. So then if we do that for ourselves, then how much more ought we to do it for our Lord; He gave His all for us. Now, you say, Well, I can't be negligent on my job. I just appreciate Brother Edwards testimony. I feel robbed tonight because I didn't get it on tape. That's right. I believe that every individual ought to be willing to let their job just go any place, or anything happen to it, but God first. Everything that pertains to God put it first and uppermost in your life. Let the job just be a sideline. Let everything else you got be a sideline. That's why a lot of people don't get blessed is because they don't put the Lord Jesus first. They put their jobs first, or their treasures first, and whatever they've got, but the Bible said that God won't have it if you give yourself to Him second.. If you give him your offering second, if you give your tithes second, if you're give Him yourself second He will not have you. He will not have you. You might as well just go on and do whatever you want to do because He will not have you. So then God -- Now the Bible said Jesus Christ is the first fruits of them that slept and It says He wants the first fruits of our increase. If we take our pay check and we pay this and then we pay that; we pay everything else and then we come to God we might as well keep it. We've lost the blessing already. The first thing God wants you to do is honor Him with the first fruits of thine increase so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses will burst out with the new wine they had on the day of Pentecost. So then, it's good to be here tonight. It's good to feel the presence of the Lord and know that you love God. I wonder, Brother Joe, if you will just let me have a little sip of water. It gets kind of dry in here and your throat dries out. But we're just thankful to be here tonight and glad to have the opportunity to preach to you. I feel a different spirit from what I felt last night. And I'm grateful to the Lord for it. Now I understand some of them have got rid of their televisions since we've been here. Some of them have made some different arrangements in their hearts and in their homes and in their lives. And some of them has increased in the Word of the Lord. And we're just glad because that is what we want them to do. We're thankful for that. That shows real sincerity, real honesty. When a person starts doing that, well, that means that something is taking place in their lives. And that's wonderful. That is wonderful. Now, I want to tell you something. Remember it's not always easy. It's not always easy to get interested in the preaching. I know because sometimes you eat late before you come to church and you get a stomach full of acids and gases, and you just feel worn out. They build up around your heart and each individual don't know how the other one feels, and sometimes he's just miserable and wretched. He just feels like a wretch because of condemnation, or something. Something took place, or something has happened; they can't get their faith up. All of these kind of things. Satan uses those things to hinder us in our worship and to keep our faith down. Now, a lot of times you sit on the bench and you're just so miserable you can't hardly set there because of body fatigue, or something. But if you'll just pray and enter into the service God will help you. God will help you. He knows the ailments of your body, your faith, your heartaches and your sorrows, the oppression that you're going through. He understands. He understands the wandering of your thoughts. But the thing is, you know you've got to sit through the service so the thing is to try to get into the mind of Christ and every one of those things will just diminish and if you really show an interest in the service it causes the preacher to feel that you are interested. And then when he feels that you are interested then his faith goes up. And when his faith goes up God begins to speak to you through him. But if he looks at you and he doesn't see any interest out there then he has no interest to stir his faith up. He doesn't get ambitious and he'll drive for a few minutes and he'll say, Aw well, they ain't feeding tonight and that's it. And you'll miss the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, you know, a lot of people have funny thoughts about a minister. They feel the minister should never speak haughty. He should never raise his voice. He should never say anything offensive. He should never grieve. But the Bible said them that God loves he chastises. Sometimes he gives you a whipping. And the Bible says that chastisement is grievous for the moment. Sometimes he grieves us. The Bible said Jesus got angry. Now, we're the body of Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. And the Bible said Jesus became angry because of the hardness of their hearts. He became angry with them. Some times a minister will get angry. That's right. Because of the hardness of the hearts of the people, He just tries to break them. He tries to break their spirit and He can't. The Lord will become angry because He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And you remember how He spoke through the apostles and through Steven saying, stiff-necked and uncircumcised. All those things. And through Moses when he called them rebels. I'll read you a little Scripture here in just a minute. All these things, see? In other words Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He heals in the same manner, and He is just the same God all the way around. And you have to lift your voice because He said to raise up thy voice, or lift up thy voice like a trumpet. You ever heard of something blast out. You ever been in service and hear it. You can hear it all over the hillside. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Lot of folks say, Well, Brother Pike, the Bible said not to offend God's people. The Bible said in many things we offend all. So I tell you, everyone of you, you'll get offended at me at one time or another if you come long enough. The Bible said in many things we offend everyone of you. But He said, Blessed is the man that is not offended in God, or in the Word. Now if you get offended in the Word I can't help you, folks, cause we're going to offend you in many things. Now, I'm not going to offend you out of the Bible if I can help it because He said it would be better that a mill stone be tied about my neck. But if I offend you out of the Bible you just come to me and you show me where I offended you and I not only will apologize, but if it's necessary, I'll get right down on my knees and I'll say, My Sister, my Brother, forgive me. Forgive me cause I don't want to get in trouble with God. You say, Brother Pike, would you do that? I have done it. Sure. Why not? Going to Heaven it's cheap at any price, somebody said. Why getting down on my knees, why that isn't anything. Saying I'm sorry, letting you smite me, or spit on me. Let you call me a devil, why I don't know what that amounts to as long as I'm going to Heaven, for Jesus said if they call me a devil, surely they'll call you a devil. You know, I didn't use to know too much about this until a lady came up and said, You've got a devil. That's right, and she wasn't saying it in a nice was; she was really boiling when she said it. Another one came up and said, You ain't nothing but trash. You know, you get aquatinted with all of those things when you travel around and so forth. I said, Well, The Lord knows. The Lord knows. He understands about it. He knows about this. And of course, both of them got in bad, bad trouble. Bad, bad trouble. One of them almost died. She confessed and come to God and told me she almost died for it. All right, now then. All of those things I said to get to say this, that there is more to it than we think. A lot of times we think a minister should preach in a way that there should be love and kindness and joy, but oh, how mixed up we are. Now I want you to notice here and I want to show you that that is not the way the minister is to preach. I want to talk tonight on the woman's place. This is the woman. This is the church so all this is pertaining to you. Now the way of a transgressor is hard. If you're a Christian it won't be hard for you. That's right. But if you're a transgressor it's going to hard. You're going to have a hard time all the time. That means you'll be in and out, in and out, in and out and up and down. Always hardships. But here's what He said. He said, Come -- This is Isaiah the first chapter. I want to read with you because I've got a good many Scriptures to read tonight. I want to take my time. If you don't have enough -- Joe, I hope you'll flip that tape over and catch it on the other side so we can transfer it. All right. Now, listen real well here now. In the first chapter of Isaiah it says here in the -- I think I'll start in the seventeenth verse, or the sixteenth verse. "(16) Wash you, make you clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;" Now there must be some evil that we can do or Jesus never would have said stop doing evil. He said, cease to do evil. (17) "learn to do well; seek judgment," Somebody said, Now, wait a minute, Brother Pike, you don't mean to tell me the Bible tells me to seek judgment? Yeah, I'm going to show you why if you'll listen, now. It says, "learn to do well, seek judgment; relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." Now, when He said plead for the widow that's speaking of the church in the spiritual. It says here that you should help the fatherless. That means them that's never been born again. They're bastard children out yonder somewhere. And then it tells us here to seek judgment. That is, be just in your decisions. And it says relieve the oppressed, them that need help from God. It says. (18) "Come, now, and let us reason together." That's what the minister is doing to you when he preaches. He's reasoning with you. God is trying to reason with you and show you the wrong things that's in your life that you might get away from them and come to the right thing. It says, (18) "Come, now and let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool" Now notice this verse here especially. (19) "If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land:" I want you to get that now. I quoted the Scripture here the other night where the Lord said, I would that my people obey me. Told Moses, said, I would that they obey me and do the things that I want them to do. Said that it might be well with them and their children all the days of their lives and then I read where Job, the Lord spoke over in Job's writing, He told them over there and he said that you will spend your years, you will spend your years in happiness, your days in prosperity if you do the things that I tell you. And then He said in the nineteenth verse of Isaiah, If ye be willing. If ye be willing. If ye be willing, He said. If you be willing and obedient. You've got to be obedient. First you've got to be willing. That's what I try to get you to do when I preach to you, be willing. Willing to hear, willing to go with God, willing to obey. He said, (verse 19) "If you be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." That's right. There's plenty of good in the land. (20) But if you refuse and rebel, if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Now what sword is He speaking of? The sword of the Spirit. Do you believe that? The Bible said the minister bears not the sword of God in vain. That's right. He is God's minister to execute wrath upon them that do evil. That's fear. Fear. For he is God's minister unto you for good if you do good. But otherwise he can bless you; He can curse you. He can remit your sins, or he can retain them. That is, he can cut you off, or he can take you in. It's up to him. I know a lot of people are going to be shocked in the day of judgment when they go to stand before God and they're going to say, Lord, judge me. The Lord, just about then the Lord will say, Okay, come here Job; this is your group. And he'll say over here, Brother Abraham, come here; this is your sheep. Brother Pike, come over here, this is your sheep. They say it's time for you to judge them. And I'll be there to start judging according to what I told you. According to what Job told them. That's right. The Bible said the saints of God shall judge the world. So then, we see that they are the ones that remits your sins, or retains your sins. Now then, it goes on down a little farther and says (21) "How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodge in it, but now murderers." One time the great city had judgment in it. One time it had righteousness in it, but said, now it's become a whore. Said, it's a whore now. Anybody can come along and preach and give the spiritual seed and they'll take it. Bastard children will be born. Rock and rolls will be born. Antichrist children will be born. I hope one night we can get into that old message of inspiration. All right, now notice what He said over here a little farther. "(25) And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy kingdom. (26) And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. (27) Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. " How many of you hear what I said? Notice what it said here. It said, "The church shall be redeemed with judgment." Not rock and roll. Not laughing, not shouting, not praising. No sir. It said, Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. You're not going to get in justness. Somebody said just believe and that's all. It says, by righteousness that you'll get in. (Chapter 2, verse 11.) "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day." And the lofty looks of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of man shall be made low. And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. How many of you are listening? I want you to notice that in the twelfth verse. "For the day of the Lord of host shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:" In the 11 verse he said here, "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled. Then in the 17 verse he said, "And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down," So then, we see God is going to judge us and He is going to do it. He's going to redeem us through judgment. All right, now. I said that to get to say this. It said the beautiful city has become a harlot. She's just become a whorish woman that takes seed from any minister that comes by and no longer from the body of Jesus Christ to be the bride of the Lord to raise children unto God. No longer. She's become -- Instead of being the virgin Mary she's become Eve. That's what she's done. I want you to listen to this tonight. I want to try my best to expound to you just a little bit. It's a teaching message and it's concerning a woman's place and I want to try to get into it. I don't feel enough drawing tonight, enough stirring, enough concern. I just don't feel it and, I tell you, last night it was (?) and the spirit was so low I started to close out last night and not go any farther. And even though it's very grievous to me. If I have a person, just one person that I know they're hypocrites, the Lord tells me that they are hypocrites. And even though I know that person is a hypocrite, yet if they set under my minister, or in my presence, it's still grievous with me, Saints, because I know that they're (?) and I know they're hypocrites. And I could name in here just about every hypocrite we've got in the church. How many know that Jesus knew the hypocrites. They came to Him and he said, You hypocrites. Sure. He knew the hypocrites. Well, I know the hypocrites by the grace of God. But the thing is we have to push over the hypocrites because they are sent there for the purpose of hindrance. But there are children of God that should desire the Word of the Lord, and desire the message of God and let's get interested and kill that old spirit of lethargy and do away with that spirit of unconcern and override that spirit of grief and that spirit of condemnation and all of those things. You say, But, Brother Pike, I'm guilty. The Bible said forgetting those things that are behind. Forget them. Forget them. His mercies are new everyday. This is a new day. What you did yesterday ain't got nothing to do with today. Forget about yesterday. His mercies are new every day. Get your faith up in God and promise God you won't do it no more. Stay away from that old thing. Cause you see it's a faith killer and if it kills your faith you're lost cause it's by grace through faith that you are saved. You cannot get grace, which is the mercy of God, except you get it through faith, folks. That the only way the grace of God comes to you, is through your faith. That's why you have to live a holy, unspotted life in the world, is to have faith in God. Faith without works is dead and if your faith is dead the works of God can't get to you, because it's by grace and mercy through your believing, or faith, that you are saved. Therefore you've got to live holy, perfect, upright before God to have that faith and that grace can get to you. So then, He said the city has become a harlot. Now then I want to read right here in the book of Isaiah. I've got some Scriptures marked here and might get Brother Joe to read a little bit. Let's take our time now and enter in. Remember the world is on their way to hell and we're here tonight to talk about Jesus because we know the end of the world is here. Now, you might say, Well, I'd rather be somewhere else. Well, in all love, I say this again as I said last night, in love I excuse you. If you feel like you're restless, you're not enjoying it, don't want it, then go out. Brother Pike won't feel bad with you at all. There's the door. Go out, go home and if there ain't but two left, all right, then I'll close the Bible and I'll go home. But if there is anybody that don't want to hear it then go home. I'm not saying that to be mean. I'm saying that in love; go home. But if you do want to hear then for goodness sakes act like you want to hear. I won't feel bad at you if you get up and walk out but I'll feel pretty bad at you if you sit there in the seat and you try to make me think you want to hear it when you don't want to hear it. So then, I ask you if you've got a television at home with something you want to see go on over there and watch it. If you're hungry and you didn't eat no supper go on home and eat. If you're too tired and you want to go to bed go on home and go to bed. If you want to stay here and hear God's Word then stay with me. All right. Now then, you can do just whatever you want to and we'll love you just as much. But I want you to listen to me now and I won't hold you long. I want to read a few verses and I'll try to let you go. Now then, the first place that I want to read tonight is from the book of Isaiah in the third chapter, and I want you to read with me. I'd like for you to read with me because we wanted to ask Joe and some of you to read. I want you to know that this is Scripture. All right, now. Joe I want you to stand with me, if you will, and read. Your throat is a little clearer than mine. Mine is still just -- from last night's driving and all. The devil does that to keep your throat pulled down. But I want you to read from the third chapter of the book of Isaiah, and I want you to read there at the tenth verse. I want you to start at the tenth verse. Listen real close, folks. Real close to these words now. "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings." Now wait just a minute Joe. "Say ye to the righteous it shall be well with him." All right, righteous, it's going to be will with you. I tell you in the name of the Lord. All things work together for your good, and you're going to eat the fruit of your doings. You're doing the right thing and you're going reap rewards. Go ahead, Brother. (11) "Woe, unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." All right. Right there. All right I want to tell you people that are wicked, Woe unto you. Revelation says one woe cometh and then another woe. One woe cometh and then another woe. Woe unto you. Woe unto you. Woe unto the wicked. It shall be ill with him. You're going to have a rough, rugged time. You hear me tonight; you're going to have a rough, rugged time for the reward of your hands are going to be given to you. You remember that. Just exactly what you've measured out will be measured back to you. You watch and see. I'm telling you the truth. Okay, go ahead, Brother. "(12) As for my people," Listen to this. "children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause the to err,and destroy the way of thy paths" Let me emphasis this now, Brother, Joe. He said, as for my people, children are their oppressors. Children just about drive them crazy. That's right. The children want to go to the ball games. Want they want go bowling. They want to go swimming. They want to go to this. They want to go to that. They want to ramble around at night, do everything that's unlike God. And they just about drive you out of your mind. The Bible said children are the thine oppressors. Spirits of foolishness are in the hearts of little children and the Bible said a rod of correction would drive it far from them. But because you will not correct the children in the house of God, it grieves God and God turns loose the devils on them when they get out yonder so they'll drive you out of your mind because you won't reverence His house. The Bible said let the child learn to show piety at home, and quiet himself at home that he might conduct himself right in the house of the Lord. But we let them chew bubble gum and pop bubble gum and dress wrong and frolic and walk in and out and go around and round, mess up the house of God, they disgrace the house of God. Do everything that's contrary to God, (?) He said, they are your oppressors. Then He said here, women rule over thee. All right, I'm talking about the woman's place tonight. He said, My people, women do rule over thee. Thank you, Joe. Women do rule over thee. He said women rule over thee. Did you know that America is a women's nation? How many know that? That's right; she's a woman's nation. America is a woman's nation. Started off with the number thirteen, which is a woman's number. It is a woman's nation and in this nation we've got all kind of offices filled with women folks. We've got all kind of offices and now they're fixing to run for president. I saw one here the other day driving a hearse which I've never seen a woman driving a hearse but she was hauling a dead person there on the road. She's a policeman. She'll drive a hearse. She's a boxer. She's a wrestler. She's anything you can name. She's a governor. She's a statesman. She's anything. If you want to go up in a rocket she'll go up in the rocket. If you want to go up in a balloon, she'll go up in the balloon. She'll do anything you'll do. That's right. That's a woman's world. Now, you say, is that a woman's place? No. No sir, that's not a woman's place, folks. That's not a woman's place. He said women do rule over thee. Women do rule over thee. Did you know that the devil has tried every since the garden experience to cause the woman to take authority in the home and to rule over the man? Did you know that's true? Every since God put them in the garden God put them to the test and the woman proved to be the weaker vessel. And He said, Adam, thou art not in the transgression. I want you to listen to this. Somebody said, Well, Adam is just as much to blame as the woman. The Bible said Adam was not found in the transgression. He said, that the woman was in the transgression, and He said because she was found in the transgression He said, Adam, thou shalt rule over Eve thy wife. And then He said to Abraham, He said, I will share my secret with Abraham. He said, All of you, He said, because I know that you will command your household after Me. I know that you will do (?). I said here the other night, sometimes it takes some commands to be able to fulfill the will of God. So then, I want you to notice this now. He said, women will rule thee. Women today, statical reports show that -- My brother here is over the insurance, it won't be long before he'll learn about it. The statical report of today shows the rich men dying out and leaving their widows the fortune. Their dying out. It looks like a man will die before a woman. He's just driven and driven and driven and somehow, as a rule, the woman just lives right on but the man soon dies out. Now then, but the facts of today are that the widows are getting control of the fortunes and their turning our world in to a frolic land. Wearing tights and pedal pusher and shorts and bathing suits and everything that they can do. They're painting everything from their eyelashes to their toe nails. That's right. And I want to talk to you tonight and I want to try to point out to you what it represents and what it shows if you'll just listen and go along with me a little bit tonight I'll try my best to show you just what it means. Women will rule over thee. They're setting the pace of America. Even Russia, I understand, made the statement when they had this escapade of women, you know, where they take a Miss America, that kind of thing, why Kurchev made the statement , he said, We do not take our ladies and put them on the front like that, and undress them and expose them before the world. We think more of our women than that. Somebody said, Well it was the judges. I said not to long ago, do you know what them judges were doing? They put those women up on the front to where their legs was right there at their faces and they were like a bunch of dogs. Looking at them legs just like a devil. Devils of lust. Those judges are interested in sex and that's all they're interested in. They see those nude bodies just like the devil was interested in the garden. Sure. Now, sometimes we'll preach on the inspiration and I'll show you why it's so carried away with sex. But the thing is the Bible says that women will rule over My people. Brother, you've got a woman preacher. I don't know where we've got a woman deacon or not. I don't think I've ever run in to a woman deacon. But we've got women preachers. We've got women Sunday School teachers. And they've got in the church to where they just do everything that they want to do, that the man will just cater to the woman. He'll be a reproach to the church and you don't have to worry about the man getting there. If the man doesn't come she'll get you a half a dozen women that will take his place and you won't you never even miss him. That's right. If you're one of those preachers that can speak sweet and hold your fingers just right and catch them at the door and talk with them, hold their hands and rub their hands and say, Sister, we're so glad that you're here tonight, if you're one of them preachers it don't bother you whether their dresses are tight dresses, or dresses way down their necks, or pull the arms our by the roots, or anything. Why they'll just flock to your church and you'll, why you'll just have a big time. That's all there to that. Why? He said, Women will rule over thee. You go in to the home of a woman if she wants her way she just raises her voice up. She flies into her temper tantrum and if you don't let her have her way she flies in to you like a tiger and she just about tears your clothes off. And about the time you get ready to stop and knock her across the bed she begins to Oooh, she's hysterical. You say, You're mocking. I'm telling you the truth; what I've seen. Not to long ago there was a woman,.she got mad at her husband, she jerked the clock down. She throwed it down in the floor. She tore the beds up, she turned the dresser over and her husband was just all to pieces over it. And I met her and I said, Lady, I said, that was nothing less then a devil. Nope. It wasn't no nervous break down. It was a devil. That's what it was. A person that has a nervous break down don't do things like that. They just go all to pieces and can't help themselves and they become a pitiful (?). Like a little child, afraid. I seen them with a nervous break down. So then, the woman rules over you. She's smart. She knows just what to do. I know this ain't taking good with you women. I know that, but it had to come and so here it is. Now then, she's smart. Why is the woman so smart? Because the devil has got a hold of her. That's why. He's the smartest creature you'll ever find walking this earth outside of God. That's right. Some man thinks he can outsmart Satan, Brother, let me tell you something. Satan was way back yonder from the beginning of the world and he's been in every poker game, every crap game. He's been to every politician meeting. He's been in every program that was ever put together, set in every council (?) God and he knows just what to do. He knows all the answers and when you try to figure out to get around him all you're doing is just wasting your time. Your old finite mind doesn't understand the powers of darkness. It doesn't understand the power of Satan, and there's nothing that you can do with it. But when you get the mind of Jesus Christ, it was here before the world ever begun. It can reach beyond the mind of Satan. It goes way back yonder before Satan ever came into existence and the only way that you can outwit Satan is to have the mind of Jesus Christ, or he will lead you around in a circle and make you think that you are living right and cause you to be one of the biggest hypocrites in the church. That's right. Why is the woman so cunning? Why is she so sly? It's because Satan knows how to deal with that woman. He works with her. He'll work with her. I'm going to say something that is going to hurt. Have you ever noticed that a man will wear his clothes slap down to his ankles, but you get a woman to come down below her knees and she just about has a spasm. Why is that? It's because the man is a type of Jesus Christ. He's portrays the Lord Jesus in the world, and because of that he wants to be covered up. He wants to be pure. He doesn't want to go around showing his body, unless he's just as rotten. You find he's just as rotten, and then he'll do anything after he gets rotten. But the woman is the type of the church and God is trying His best to show the religious people of this world just what kind of condition it's really got in. He's trying His best to show the condition of the church by showing you the woman and the way that she's dressed and the way that she's done and in spite of all the things He's tried to do to show us you still can't see the condition of the church. The Bible said, having eyes you see not. Having ears you hear not. The woman showing the condition of the church, she's cut her hair off and her hair is a type of the glory of God to the church. Her hair is a type of the government. The Bible -- Somebody said, Well, how long to I have to wear my hair? The Bible said to let it be long. Somebody said, How long does it have to be? The Bible said the government shall be upon His shoulders. It's got to come down to the shoulder or it's not long because she's a type of the church. And the Bible said let the hair come down to the shoulders of God. And it rests on the shoulders. That's what she's a type of. But if you notice the devil does his best to keep it off of the shoulders. Have you ever noticed that? That's right. He always wants the hair fixed up here. And they want to ball it up but Paul told them, he said, we don't want the plaiting of the hair in the church. Don't wanted it up in a pompadour. Don't want it pinned up, and listed all those kind of things. He said, don't do those things. Why? Don't you know that when you plait you're hair that's a type of plaiting the crown of thorns; that's the church. You watch what I'm tell you. If the woman rules they'll have a nice car. They'll have a nice home. They'll have nice clothes. They'll have prestige in the community, but, Brother, they'll be as dead, just as dead as an old door nail when it comes to really having a vision for God. You better believe and I guarantee you (?) will be like that because she loves the things of this world. She's savors the things of this world and she'll seek after the things of this world but the man will seek God. Now then. You see the plaiting of the hair, but Paul ask us not to do that. Ask us not to do all those things because all these hairdos that you see, all this cutting off of the hair, twisted up, pony tails and everything signifies what they have done to the glory of God in the church. They've made it just about every thing you could imagine, And the Bible said the woman's hair is her glory, and you can see what she's done with it. That's right. She's made it one of the biggest messes that anybody could ever make anything. And she's cut it off. And did you know that when woman cuts her hair it's a type of rebellion against God and against the husband. It shows a rebellion of the church against God and it shows a rebellion of the woman against her head, which is her husband. And the Bible said she dishonors her head, which is her husband. She dishonors her head before God when she does that thing. And she dishonors God. And God said if her hair be short, if she cuts it off short that she might as well to shave it all off and said, don't let a one of them come in my presence for (?). Somebody said, Well, how serious is? Ain't no need in you getting down on your knees to pray. If you're going to cut your hair off when you know better than to do it there's no need in coming into the presence of God, or even praying cause He won't hear it. He won't hear it. How many of you know that the Bible said the woman shall be saved in childbearing? She shall be saved in child bearing. If she continue in holiness then God said I will save her through child bearing. If she continue in holiness. She can be saved, but she's to be saved through her husband which means child bearing, or (?) the world. It takes the seed of her husband. She shall be saved in child bearing which means travail. Now what did that signify spiritually?. It means that the church of the living God, the only way that she can be saved is through travail to God. It must travail before God. And we see the seed of the Word from the children unto God while it will never be finished. It's saved through child bearing. We've got a land full of false physicians and they're making the men sterile. They're proving there's a reproduction organ of the woman and it's shows the hypocritical preachers that are going in to the church bringing all of these evils to pass in the church to make the church barren. Let them have a good time. Let them have that inspiration, that inspiration that causes the thrill to(?). You know what I'm talking about. These evil powers. These evil preachers. These evil conditions come in to the house of God and they don't give you the seed of travail. They hold back the seed of travail, but they work you up to the level of inspiration that calls for the seed of travail and then they take an offering. The Bible said, my people love (?). They love that thrill. They love that thrill but they don't want the seed of travail, to bring them to fasting and prayer, and studying and doing whatever. Doing away with the things that be modest and so forth; they don't want those kind of things, but they want the thrill of the spirit. That's the way the women are today. They want the relation but they don't want marriage. They don't want to be a woman that travails. They don't want to be a mother that will bear children. What is it? That's the day that we're living in. That's the kind of a day that we're living in, people. And the church shows just exactly what it is. The man is sterile. The man is completely sterile. Some of these preachers that you have up here, they couldn't preach the Word if they wanted to because they're sterile. They can't bring the Word of God. They don't even know the Word of God. They've seared their conscious with a hot iron and went out yonder and done the things of the world so long that they've forgot the Word of God. Now then, they've got in such a fix the Word of God could never come to them. He said women rule over thee. Women set the pace and He said, I want to tell you they cause you to err. When the woman takes the steering wheel of the car you're headed for a wreck, so to speak. That's right, when she's not controlled by her husband. When the woman takes control of the house you're headed for a wreck. Somebody said, Well, I think the woman could do just as good a job as the man. You're absolutely wrong. You're mixed up. The Bible teaches she can't do it. God made her the weaker vessel. He made her to be weaker. I don't care how much she tries to prove she's equal with a man, she's not equal with him, cause God made her weaker. Don't you know if God had made two people just a like, and one just as strong as the other they couldn't live together. That's why there's so many separations now, because a woman -- Every time you find a woman that will not submit to her husband she's got a devil. She's got a devil because her spirit was made to be tender and kind and submissive. And her spirit was made weaker that it might come together with a man that he might be the head and she might be (?). And Brother, if she will not submit she's got a devil. I don't care how religious she is, she's still got a devil because her spirit wasn't made as strong as a man. So then, if she's as strong as a man she's got a devil. Something is wrong. She's energized by some other power. Now then, they that lead thee cause thee to error. They take control of things and they run things and it's a devil always. He knows he can subdue that woman better than he can a man, and if he can revert them and cause that woman to wear the pants, and he finally gets the woman to wear the pants, he'll finally get the man around to wearing the dresses. It might take a little while. He'll get the woman to cut her hair off and we've always got the beatniks and their's is growing out. So he's just turning the whole thing around, and he's even performed operations to change the sex organs of humanity. They've done started it. Found doctors that can do it. What is it? He's trying to control the world through the woman through perversion. And it's the same identical way with the church. They've got ideology. They've got theology. They've got philosophy. They've got everything but the Word of God. They reject the head, which is Jesus Christ. Jesus said, You reject the corner stone. Said you reject the corner stone when you reject the Word. Said, all of you builders done it. You reject the corner stone, and He said, I'll tear every stone down. Said, there won't be one left upon another. I don't care if you have revival and if you get fifty thousand people and fill the arena, or come to God, Brother, if you don't give them the Word, which is Jesus Christ the corner stone, God will tear every one of those down. But if you'll take the Word of God and make a foundation of the apostles and bring the mortar of charity, let it bond together lively stones of fire, right there at the corner stone God will accept it and He'll dwell in it as a habitation for the Spirit. He will do it and He'll place His name upon it. He told Solomon, He said, if you'll build my temple and get the skilled men that I tell you to get and do the things that I tell you do, He said, I'll place My name on it. And, Brother Joe, He's placed His name on the real lively stones today. Them that are called by His name. He said, Everyone that looketh toward. He said, It (?). He said, I'll promise you I will. I will do it. And so it is, if we've really got God within us then we can do these things. All right. Now, notice what He said here. He said, Women will rule over thee. And they that lead thee cause thee to err. Now I want to name some of the things that causes you to err. " (13) The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. (14) The Lord will enter into judgment" Now, listen to this. (14)The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people" That's His leaders. The leaders of His people. God said, I will enter into judgment with them. As I go to judge the people. "With the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten of the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses." I want you to get that. He's speaking of spiritual poor, too. He's taken to fleece the sheep and ain't done nothing to give them the Word. "(15) What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. (16) Moreover the Lord saith," Listen to this now. " Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty," I want you to get this. Now, He's speaking of spiritual daughters, too. Speaking of spiritual daughters. Listen now. He said the daughters of the church. Ain't talking about the daughters of the world. He said, Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet, show all the people of their sins. He said (?). He said, Lord, we've done this. You've not heard us. Said, We've prayed. We've done this; You've not heard us. But He said, You don't pray for the right thing. You don't fast. You fast to get prosperity. You've prayed for prosperity. You prayed in the flesh. You don't pray to try to prosper the work of God at all. He said here, notice what He said. "Moreover, the Lord said, it's because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, wanton eyes," Wanton eyes. He said, they walk haughty. Act haughty. Nobody can't tell them nothing, you see. Notice what He said, children of God. Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes. Walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. Women talk with their eyes. They talk with their hands. They talk with their feet. Every action of a woman can speak to you. The devil can use it in anyway he wants to and talk right to you. He said they make a tinkling with their feet. You ever notice high heels, mincing? Mincing with their feet as they go. Amen. You might as well say amen, or oh me, because it's just exactly the way (?) will be. It's not going to be changed. It's not going to be altered. Making a tinkling with their feet. "(17) Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts." He said, because you've done this I will disrobe you before the world. I'll (?) the word of (?). I'll (?) the word of Christ. I'll cause you to do everything that Hollywood tells you to do. I will disrobe you. Somebody said, Well, we're just showing our beautiful bodies. We're just making the men crazy about it. No, sir. All you're doing is immuning the men to you. You are immuning the men to you. I want you know you are immuning the men to you. And keep on exposing your body you'll (?) as dogs. They won't have any desire for you. Just about got that way now. The Bible said in the last days the (?), and in that day seven women shall take hold of one man. He said you'll get so disgraceful you won't have any reputation anymore. Nobody will care for you anymore. All the men will ever do is flirt with you. He won't care anything about you because he knows you ain't fit for a mother. You're not fit to be with him, and what's the need of bringing you home for sexual purposes. The world is full of women. That's what a man told me. He said, What do I need a wife for? That's the way he said it, see? She ain't no good otherwise no way. Said, We will eat our own bread. Come on now women. I told you, you ain't got no business holding a job. You've done lost your reputation here to go over there (?)on the job. No sir. His wife was something great. He wouldn't let her get out there around a bunch of devils and fill her mind with the filth and ungodly. No sir. He wouldn't have done it. But it says here we will eat our own bread. Husband, I don't know how (?). I don't like having to work on a job. I'm glad you don't, but the husband ought to be ashamed of himself to put you on a job. You can say amen, or oh me, now. We will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel. We'll buy our own clothes. We'll make our own living if you'll just give us a name. That's all we want. Just let us have a husband cause people they don't consider a woman decent anymore unless she's got somebody to protect her. We'll eat our own bread, wear our own apparel only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach. Did you know that God -- Now I want you -- You hold this with me. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful. That's right. Said the fruit shall be excellent as (?). He said the trees in the garden will be few in number then, he said, but then the people shall be called holy. He said they shall be called holy. They shall be called holy. Them that's left in there will be precious. They will be called holy. God will call them holy and the world will call them holy, because they won't go bowling, and dancing and frolicking and do these things. They won't go down there on the job and stay down there, on a job to where their minds will be filled with the filth of the world where they can live holy. Walk holy, and do the work (?) God Almighty. Notice what he said here. Said they're beautiful in that time. All right. He said, I will discover their secret parts. Somebody said, Well, I just wear it short because I want to. No you don't. No sir. The Bible said the preparation of a man's heart is from God. The preparation of a man's heart is from God. It's God that causes you to do that. It's God that causes you to walk like that. It's God that causes you to desire to disrobe yourself like that. It's God that is causing you to do it. He said, I will discover thy secret parts. I create the good. I create the evil. I'll have my way in both, He said. I am the one that prepares the man's heart. That's right. Somebody said, I'll live right if I want to. Oh, no. Oh, no. Like I told my son the other night. He said, I think I'll line up with God.. I said, It ain't that easy. It ain't that easy. You can't just line up with God when you want to. Eau, after that he done the things of the world and filled his belly with the husks he decided to line up with God. But there wasn't no place left. He said, Father, Father, Father. Said, Don't you have one blessing left for me? He said Son, No. I don't' have any thing to give you. He said, You (?). All right, now listen. What had they traded it for? He said, Because the daughters of Zion walk haughty the Lord will discover their secret parts. The Lord will do it, he said. I will expose them and cause them to be just like an old dog to where there won't be any respect for them. And seven of them will beg, beg for one name. Seven of them will say (?). Did you know that your husband, just about seven of them are after him right now. The check point (?) show about thirteen to each man. Read in the Year Book and see if I'm telling you the truth. That's right. You'll find that the (?) I tell you, you say, they wouldn't. Why you know they wouldn't do that, Brother Pike. Not too long ago I was right over here in South Carolina. I was preaching and a young lady, a beautiful young lady, looked like she could have had any man she wanted, come to my service. I told the people, I said, There's a woman here with a devil of lust in her. I've done this a number of times. And that woman knew I was talking about her. She knew, and as I was dismissing the service she got her coat and put her coat around her, because her clothes were absolutely awful. She come to me later and told me how glad she was that I spoke to her spirit. She wanted to do what was right. And I want you to know one who was a reputable preacher of the Word came to the same place and the woman took him away from his wife. She's married to him right now. And the man has preached all over the United States, as well as some of the foreign countries. But that spirit got him, Brother Joe, that spirit got him. Now then. This woman was suppose to be a Christian, too He said, The daughters of Zion. The churches has gotten in such a condition that they'll do almost anything to get a preacher. Did you know that? They'll take anything that comes along just to get a preacher. There's at least seven preachers, seven churches. There's an (?) equality to preach. Seven churches that's begging for a preacher across this land. I tell you, if you've got a preacher, if you can get a preacher you hold on to him. If he's the right kind of man you hold on to him, because it has gotten to where at least seven churches are begging for one minister. Doors are closing up all across up America because the daughters of Zion walk haughty. They won't listen to the preaching. They don't obey the preacher. They disgrace the preacher. They disgrace the house of God. They cause the(?)problems and the preacher gets disgusted and discouraged and he (?) the people they mock the people that comes to the church and finally just leave. They won't pay their bills; they just won't do no way. Now, what is it? All right, notice right here. He said, In that day. Now what day? He said, when I expose the daughters of Zion. In that day. Now I know when we speak of the exposing of the daughters of Zion we're speaking of all this shorts wearing and all of these kind of things, but spiritually speaking, spiritually speaking he said, I'm going to expose what's in your heart. I'm going to expose what's in your heart. If there's a rock and roll part in there I'm going to bring it out again. If it's a desire for television and things that's ungodly I'm going to bring it out. If it's a desire for automobiles and lands, if it's a desire for frolics in the daughters of Zion I'm going to expose what's in their hearts. I'm going to bring it out in that day, He said. And he said, you've been haughty. You wouldn't listen. You rebelled when I told you to eat the good of the land, otherwise (?) your body. Now here's what He said to you. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments. I'll take away of the beads and the ornaments about your ankles. I'll take away all those tinklets on your arms. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of your tinkling ornaments about their feet and their cauls, and the round tires like the moon. Cause we know that in that day they had tires about their head. They pumped their head up like these heathen hairdos we got. We just use our hair now to do it with. Back there they had a tire about their head, but today we've got white-wall tires on the cars, too. We've got all those things that's sporting, we call it now. You say, Is there anything wrong with that, white-wall tires? No. No. But I see people on Sunday that ought to be in church out there scrubbing on white-wall tires. Oh, what spiritual ignorance. A man would sacrifice his soul. That's worse than Judas done. At least Judas did get thirty pieces of silver out of it. And you're out there polishing on an old hunk of metal trying to act__ Just like Brother Edwards tonight, if he had compromised with the devil, that was the carnal mind talking to him. If he had compromised with the devil he'd have stayed there and made a few dollars, and no telling what would have happened in his home. His darling kids were suppose to be here. No telling what would have happened to him in is home. All right, but he wouldn't let the devil outwit him. All right, notice this now. (18) "I'll take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and the round tires like the moon. (19) The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers." They really like the glass packs and them kind of things, don't they. "(20) The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, (21) The rings, and nose jewels. (22) The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins," Listen to this. " (23) The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils." Ah, they have to dress just right. Got to have everything just right in their dressing. They've got to build a little old glass beauty looking china closet with this kind of glass, and this kind of glass. And they'll take the Lord's money and (?) for it. Lay over yonder in the streets of India it's (?) to put a little ten cent trinklet up there, or get some little old piece of glass up there. And I made the statement, you go into some folks home and you break a little (?) on the shelf and they'll loose every bit of religion they ever had. That's right. Their condition is (?). That's where their treasures are. If you want to find out where their treasures are just let your children go over to their house with a little mud on their feet, or let them just mess with something over here somewhere and they just about have a spasm. That's right. They set there just like this the whole time you're there. They can't even enjoy your company. And go into somebody else's house and they're always looking at the clock. (?). They can't entertain you for worrying about (?). I've done that so many times (?) ....the Holy Scriptures ........................... Son, why don't you get up and leave? Why don't you get away from this thing. That's right. What did He say? Here's what He said. He said, You go ahead and get your fine glasses, the glasses and the fine linen. Go ahead and get all of these things, rolls about the beds, the curtains, get everything you want. He said, I want you to get every bit of it. Now, listen to this, folks. He said, I'm speaking about the woman, the spiritual woman right now. The woman's place. All right. He said here, said, get everything you want, he said, because when you do, and it shall come to pass that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stink He said, You can buy all the spray at the dime store you want to by the time your belly rots out with cancer nobody's going to want to visit you noway. I've been to homes where they'd spray and done everything that they could do but I couldn't stand to stay in the house, the house was filled with stink. It was rotten. You couldn't even stand to be in it, but had prayer for people. He said, You get everything you want now. You neglect the poor. You let the needy go. You satisfy the lust of your flesh. He said, I want you to do every bit of it, said, because it's going to come to pass instead of that sweet smell that you love there's going to be a stink. And instead off a girdle, He said, there is going to be a rent. Going to be a rent. And instead of well set hair baldness. And instead of a stomacher a girding of sack cloth and burning instead of beauty. Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty men in war. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. He said, You get everything that your old flesh wants and then I'm going to take your boy over yonder and I'm going to let them kill him somewhere on the battle field, and I'm going to charge you one soul for what you've done. I'm going to charge you one soul for what you've done. You just sit back and watch, and I'm going to charge you one soul.. I'm going to turn your daughter into a whore. The Bible said that God would do it. He said, You sold your daughters into whoredom for these things, the Bible plainly speaks of it. The Scriptures said, for a bottle of wine you make your daughter a whore. That's right. How is it Zion has become a harlot? the Bible says. How is it? Because the woman can't stay in her place. She can't stay in her place. She turned her home in to a prostitute, a place of prostitution. That's right. She's turned her home into it. Her daughter's (?). The daughter's of the house they come up under her rule. They come up but they don't have any respect for her. Why? They come to church and their eyes are black as mud. I want you to listen now. Listen to this. Mother's let their daughters paint their eyebrows. Paint their eyelashes. Paint their faces. Paint their toe nails. And (?), you are a liar. The Bible says, If you love me you'll keep my commandments. He said, when you do those things you're a liar and the truth is not in you. He says, a man will not provide for his own household he has denied the faith. Not only is he a liar but the Bible said he's worse than an infidel. That's evil. God said, Will I not visit with these things. Will I not visit with these things. Women shave off their eyebrows. Watch it. Men's just about as bad. Shave off the eyebrows. What do they do it for? What do they do for? The Bible said make no baldness around the eyes of the dead. Jesus said, because of the love of this world, because of this world and the lust thereof, them that are dead in their trespasses and sin. To get their approval and get their attention. You make baldness around the eyes of the dead. You paint your eyebrows. You paint your eyebrows. You can't fool your (?) though. You put anklets on, or anything to make a noise, anything. You know what you're trying to do? Did you know in the Old Testament, in the Old Testament the way that Israel tried to get to God was with the calf. Did you know that. And a woman is the type of the church and she's trying to get a husband with the calf of her leg. Hollywood has emphasized it. She has raised up on her tiptoes. That's right. That's right. She's trying to get her a husband with the calf of her leg. That's the way Israel did it. Nevertheless that's not the way you get a godly man. Brother, you'll get a devil like that and you'll be sorry after you get her. That's right. You will be sorry after him. They ball their hair up to show the crucifixion. They paint their face up just like, you've heard me say it, when I used to work at a funeral home, what we'd do we'd drain all the blood out of the person and the person was just as white as they could be. And they'd take cosmetics and rub for hours and hours in the morning before somebody come down to view, and just rub and rub until you get the cosmetics back in there and you'd bring a pink look out, you know. People who are dead in trespasses and sins, Brother Joe, while they live, they put these things on because it shows that they're dead. It's a false makeup. It's a false face. It's false eyes. Women work on the job when they could be at home guiding the house like the Bible told them to. They're over there and they're working till they drive their homes out, they drive everybody out. They get to looking hard like a man. They get a hard spirit like a man, then the men can't live with them no more. He sees somebody out yonder that's been setting round home and taking care of themselves. A mother that cares, and is soft in tears, and soft in words, soft in spirit. And then he turns away form his dear little wife that's worked her life away trying to get a new car, trying to get a new home. I tell you women, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't work. I'd say no, no, no. A thousand times no. If you can't take care of me then I don't need you. You say, that's hard. That's the truth of God's of Word. He said let that woman guide the house. Let her bare children (?) with the adversary and turn aside from the secret portion. Said they'll become idle and wonder from house to house being talebearers. All right, listen. He says here, he says there'll be a burning, there will be heart burn, there'll stomach burning. There'll be cancer. There'll be t.b. There'll be all of these, he says, because they reject God. Somebody said, Well, I believe, Brother Pike, that a woman has just as much right as a man. A woman has just as much right as a man if she stays in a woman's place. In her place she has just as much right as the man has. And we see the equality of men and women in this day and what God is showing. The woman is demanding her rights. She wants to be equal with the man and I guarantee you, according to revelation she's going to be equal with the man in this world. She's going to find an equality, but the devil ain't going to stop there. He's going to make her to rule over man. The Bible says so. She's already doing it through a deceitfulness now. She knows just how to maneuver things to get control of him, in the home, on the job or wherever she wants to. She acts like a little humble baby, just wouldn't do nothing, but she's as poison as a snake unless she's born of God. Amen. I'm telling you the truth. And she's cunning. She's sharp. Man, she's wise like a serpent. That's right. They tell me a woman's called to preach; Paul said let the women keep silent, he said. Let them learn in silence. It's now forbidden of them to speak, but they're demanded to be under obedience, he said. He said, And let them dress as the women of old dressed,and let them adorn themselves as the women of old adorned themselves. Somebody said, Brother Pike, I just can't find a decent dress at the store anymore. Well, bless your heart, go somewhere and buy a sewing machine and you can get rich making holiness dresses. That's right. We've got such a need of them in the land. People are honest and sincere and say they are and want to dress holy. You'll get rich over night. You can leave all the other jobs and do that one job at home, raise your family and I tell you, you'll make a fortune. That's right. Old time mothers used to have to make them on the sewing machine. They dressed like ladies. If that's what it takes, for goodness sakes go back there. Go back there. All right. He said here, I want you to turn over with me over to the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. I'm going to close out here in just a little bit now. Just before we do listen just a minute. I just want you to notice here. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful. Now, he said when all of these things start to take place he said the church is going to be glorified. (Isaiah 4: 2) "In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel." If you can escape the pollution of this world. He's done spoke of the escaping of the pollution of this world, the corruption that's in it by lust. "(3) And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy," Now there won't be a whole lot of them in there. He said, Few there be that find it. All of them are going to wonder away and say, That's too hard for me. That's too straight for me. That's too strict for me. And did you know that the angel of God is plucking up right now. Said, I'll send my angels in the last days and they'll come with a message of judgment, he said, and every plant my Heavenly Father has not planted shall be plucked up. Like a man told me out in Denver, Colorado. He said, If I preach the message that you're preaching, said, half of my people will leave. I said, Brother, what do you think God is trying do? Draw a crowd? Why if He wanted to draw a crowd He'd just reach and get the world anyway. He said separate the wheat from the tares. He plucking up. He's getting them out. Why? He wants to take them out, prise God. Get over there and be a new lump. Let them alone and go on in the world. He said, And what I have left in there as to the trees of God, will be so few a child can number them. Your little child will be able to count the number of them, said, when I get through. And He said here, said, but they'll be called holy. He said, they'll be pure. They'll be (?) in the Word. Everyone that's written among the living in Jerusalem will be called holy. When? Said, (Isaiah 4:4) "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion by the washing of the water of the Word. And shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. (5) And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon the glory shall be a defense. (6) And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain." Then He said, I will sing to my beloved. The Bible said I will sing to my beloved. Turn over to the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. We're going to come to a close in just a few minutes. Bear with me, folks, here. I promise you I won't hold you too long. You'll be glad. Bear with me. Just take a little while. In the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. I want to point out some things here. I brought some of them out last night. The Bible said the woman, you remember what I said about her eating her own children. The Bible said that she'll eat her own children, they that comes out from between her feet, He said, because she's done such evil and, said that she would not have ventured to set, said, this delicate woman, that is. This delicate woman, you know, that's got to dress like the world dresses. Said, she's so delicate, said she would not have ventured to set the soul of her feet upon the ground. That's right. All right listen to what it says here. In the 28th chapter said, (verse 1) "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt harken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments that I command you this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:" They talk about a nation. (2)"And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. (3) Blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. (4) Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle" And he goes on down saying blessed, blessed, blessed. But he went on down and then he said, But if you fail to keep the commandments of the Lord, He said, cursed shall thou be in the city. There'll be sirens coming up and down your streets, He said.. They'll be taking the dead off the streets. The buildings will be burning up. Like I had a vision a number of times. Over here in the Wincoff Hotel many years ago when that great fire broke out in Atlanta, Georgia and my wife had school mates that was burned in it. I talked to a man that had a daughter that burned to death, and was popular. A wealthy man but his daughter burned to death there. Why? He said, cursed shalt thou be in thy city. Cursed shalt thou be, he said, in thy city. All right. Said, if you fail to do these things I shall (?) and all these curses shall come upon thee and over take thee. Then He said, cursed shall be thy basket. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body. He'll put them in paralysis. I mean in braces. They'll have paralysis. You'll put them in an insane asylum. That's right. They'll be mentally ill. He said, Cursed shall be thy children which is the fruit of thy body. "(19) Cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out, and cursed shalt thou be when thou cometh in. (20) The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou se test thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. (21) The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. (22) The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish." He said you wouldn't be able to get in touch with God. Said, the heavens would be brass over you. And He goes on down and said, (27) The Lord will smite thee with the blotch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. (28) The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: (29) And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness...." Listen on down here. (29)"... Thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. (30) Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: " America, rotten and filthy. One man gets engaged to a girl and another man defiles her. He said, You're own wife can't -- Here not so very long ago a man came home from his job and the woman and man both was outstanding people in the community but he found his wife was degraded. I know of a case that even the man doesn't know it yet. Preachers find out things that even the husband doesn't find out. I know a man right now that his own brother has taken up time with his wife and the man doesn't even know anything about it. That's right. Because the man wouldn't live for God. And He says here, said, "(56) The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates." What is it? "(59)The Lord will make thou plagues wonderful and the plagues of they seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. (60) Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee." Listen to this one. "(61) Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed." I'll leave you few in number, He said. Give you a trembling heart, and failing eyes, He says here. Find no rest for the soul of your foot, He said. He said, "(66) And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:" Be afraid you're going to die of cancer, or something. "(67) In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!" That is, you just want to get some rest. And at even thou shalt say, O God, Would God it were morning. No rest. He said, The day will be too short for you, so forth and on. Now notice this. I'm trying here to find a place to close out. Said, The stranger will be up above, He said, but thou shalt be brought down real low. See? Said, "(46) And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things". He said, You just won't praise God. You won't love God. You won't obey the Word, and won't serve Him with joy, He said, all these things are going to come on you. Folks, we're living in a dreadful time. It is a dreadful time. We're living in a dreadful time. How many remembers Jezebel of the Old Testament? When Jehu come in she painted herself up. I want to say just a few more things. But she painted herself up, tried to over throw Jehu. She painted her face up, but God fed her to the dogs. And I tell you every woman that paints her face up will be fed to the dogs. Jesus called these people dogs out here in the world and they will devour you with their lust and they'll be devour with their cravings and desires and you'll be devoured by the dogs. That's right. That's right. Now then. Remember one thing, that a woman has a place and she's got to stay in that place. And her place is at home to guide the house. That's her place. Her place is to direct home. Her place is to obedient to her husband. That's right. Her place is to be humble, sweet, kind, submissive. That's right. Obeying her husband of the Lord in all things. The Bible says so. Now, will you stand with me? I want to ask you something. Have you ever noticed people that paint their fingernails and toenails? This might be a little shocking to you. But everything in this world represents something spiritually. In the first place God had a reason for putting something on our fingers and toes and calling them nails. When you paint your finger nails the way that you paint them, you make them blood red. Sometimes your toe nails, too. It signifies the nails that went into the hands of Jesus and into the feet of Jesus Christ. Now I want you to listen at me. It signifies the blood stains. When you rub the rouge on your face and you put paint on your lips it's a symbol of the great harlot of revelation where it says she is drunk on the blood of the martyrs. That's right. That's what is a type of the whorish church where they drink the blood of the martyrs. That's what it signifies. That's right. (?). (?) washed in the blood. I said, and we could go on and on speaking of these things, but remember God has put a harlot church out there. He's put a harlot church out there in types and shadows and allegories for you to see. And then He put a virtuous church here, a holy woman, a righteous woman, a woman that's pure, upright, raises her children, looks to her husband, follows after her husband. Now then, church members, you listen to me tonight. If you don't obey God and walk uprightly before God, and if you don't love God with all of your heart, soul, mind and body and keep His commandments, let the Spirit of God lead you into all the truths of God's Word you are a whore. You're a spiritual whore, and you are represented by that woman that's (?) and walking up and down the street doing the things she's doing. That's what you are. That's what you are in the sight of God.. But them that are good and obedient shall eat the good of the land. but the sword (?). How many of you understand what I'm saying? How many of you know that the woman that wears those pedal pushers -- You might have read it over here in the little tract that my wife put out. How many of you know that all that started at the prison, cutting the hair off and all the clothes, cause they didn't have time to mess with them. How many of you know it's type of being in prison, spiritual prison, when you cut your hair off? When you wear those colors it's a type of being in prison. Sure it is. That's what it is. All right. Let's bow our heads together. Father, we're thankful tonight for Your Word. Thankful for Your Spirit. Lord, we ask You to be with us today and deliver us. Cause us, Lord, to be blessed that we might be blessed in everything that we might do. And that it might be well with us and our children all the days of our lives. Give us now Your love. Give us now Your blessings. Be with us, Jesus. I've preached hard to you tonight about the place of a woman. Told you what the Bible said had to be done and now I want you to listen to this for a minute when I say this. The Bible said, it shall be well with you. It shall be well with you. If you are a holy woman the Bible speaks so highly of you. It says a virtuous woman's price, is far beyond that of rubies. One virtuous church in the land God treasures it far beyond that of rubies. He says, if anything have any virtue in them you think on these. Think on these. If you are a holy virtuous woman then you're the crown of your husband's head. God loves you. He will bless you. He will lead you, and He will help you. He will make all of your beds in your sickness. He will stand with you in the time of your trouble, and He will entreat you like you are the jewel because He said your price is beyond that of jewels. Praise God. So, may the Lord bless you for it shall be well with you, but if you're not a righteous woman, He said, you are rottenness to your husband's bones. Amen. The Bible said the sons of God shall marry thee. The man taketh to himself a wife. So when the sons of God deliver the seed of the Word to you, they won't be rottenness in his bones. There is your veil to the things of God. As the minister said one time, sheep beget sheep. So then sheep go out and begat some sheep, bring some sheep in. Tell them to come into the house of the Lord. Praise the Lord. Said, you go out in the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, and the minister will feed them the Word of God, to give themselves to diligence and to pray and the ministering of the Word. Jesus said, it's not meet that you should leave the Word and serve tables. So you stay with the Word of God and God will bless you, Brothers and Sisters. (There's a space of several sentences here I can't hear at all. with a child crying into the mike) You believe but someday you might be down and need somebody to lead for you. Lord, in the name of Jesus, this evil power, Lord, that has attacked little Philip, I believe in the name of the Lord that You're going heal him. Cause his fever to leave. Cause his cold to leave. Move it Lord. We ask in faith believing. You said that this is our confidence in You, that if we ask anything, Lord, according to Your will we know You hear us. And, Father, if we know that You hear us we know that we have the partition that we desire of You. And, Father, You said it's Your will we should prosper and be in health and it be well with our children, Lord, all the days of their lives. Heal this little baby. Praise God. I believe He done it. Don't you want it to be well with you and your children all the days of your lives. I pray it will. Father, in the name of Jesus tonight, Father, I want to touch our sister tonight. Break every yoke, Jesus. Move every discouragement tonight, and Lord, this habit that's binding her, Lord, that is causing her to be grieved, I come against it tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. Move this thing, Father. Lord, it keeps her under condemnation and casts her down. Father, You gave me deliverance over it and You can give her deliverance, too. Move it by Your power and by Your Spirit tonight. Grant it, Lord. Heal her body. Break every yoke. Help her to believe right now. Help her to lift her faith up. Help her to believe in Your mercy, Your grace is here every day, Lord. Your mercy is here every day for everybody. Grant it, Father. Grant it, Father, in the name of Jesus. Satan the Lord rebuke thee. The Lord rebuke thee. Thou unclean spirit, the Lord rebuke thee! In the name of Jesus right now. Praise God. I feel the anointing breaking the yoke right now. 
right now, Lord, hear from Heaven and heal our lands. Grant it. Satan you're a liar. You are a liar. In the name of Jesus we speak deliverance to this person right now. In Jesus name. Praise God! I felt Him break the yoke, didn't He? Let Him bless you. He kept lying to you. He kept cowering your faith down saying it wasn't true. It wasn't true. But he's a liar. Father, in the name of Jesus, as these people stand before me and their spirits witnesses to me tonight, Father, that I hear Your voice and I see the thoughts of their hearts and perceive the thoughts of their hearts in the Spirit, Father, I hear the voice of Satan discouraging them, and talking with them. I come against him tonight in the name of Jesus. Satan, we are not afraid of thee. We've met thee on every battle front and we're not afraid of thee. And I charge you in the name of Jesus to break your hold. Loose these people right now in the name of Jesus. Grant it, Lord. Amen. The Bible said resist the devil and he'll flee from you. That's right. He will flee from you. Father, it the name of Jesus touch my Sister tonight. Heal her body. Drive the unclean spirits out, Jesus. Make her whole. Make her a blessing for Thee. Grant it, Lord. Lift her faith up, Lord, and grant it tonight. Hear from Heaven. Lord, we ask You to encourage her faith though she's young, Lord, You're able to do it. Father, move by Your Spirit. Help her to believe right now. Help her to lift up her faith right now. Hear, Lord, inspire her. Lord, pour out Your Spirit upon her that her faith might be inspired. Grant it. Praise God, in the name of Jesus.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord