God In The Flesh

I've been trying to make a few preparations to do some field word. Brother Cartrette and some of them was telling me that they had got the material that they needed for the tent. Had some repair work to do on the 120' by 60'. And it seems to be turning out alright Bill? Seems to be turning out all right. I think they're going to finish doing some work on it maybe tomorrow. I don't know just how much they like, they're continuing on with their tentwork so far as repairs. And we've been able to get a little more done on the ramp down back of the multi-purpose building. Brother Darrel's been working today doing some welding. Been trying to get the ramp fixed to where we can put on a connecting building if it's nothing but a warehouse to get some things out of out way to where this year we can really use the presses for God along without field evangelism, tent evangelism and our missionary work overseas. As a matter of fact we got some more information today concerning our overseas work. The Lord is blessing out overseas work, and our work towards the orphans and widows is beginning to be blessed in a wonderful way. The church here is supporting quite a number of little orphans and widows that's in India and Africa and different places. And it's taking roots in such a way that now we're beginning to have our own orphanages over in those areas. It's working to where it's beginning to move in that direction to where we'll have full responsibility of them. They'll carry the name of our work and our people will have to really get in the harness and look after them, because it's a real responsibility when God turns them over fully into your hands. And this has already happened in some places, and they're solely looking unto you for food, for support. And I thank God for it because this is what we've been after. We've been supporting some for a number of years in different places, but we've been trying to get some orphanages of out own started, and it looks like God's going to work with us in doing it. So you keep praying, keep trying here on the home front, keep trying and keep trying to work with us on the field, and whether home or abroad God will reward you. If you do nothing then you can expect nothing. If you plant a harvest then you can expect a reap, or plant a field that is, you can expect a harvest. If you go out and sow seeds you're going to get a harvest. And if you don't sow any seed then you're going to reap a whirlwind, the Bible teaches. So we want to do something if the Lord will let us, and especially this year. We've got some things in mind to try to do and if the Lord will let us we're planning to try to move out a little more for Christ. Some of the brethren are beginning to marvel a little bit because they have the feeling that some people are being cut off this year. There's some comments on it today, and they feel that I'm reacting a little bit different toward some people and that God;s leniency is not exactly as it has been in the past. Whereas, I told then this year that it would be different. I told them, I said, Now this year will be different. God will slay thousands of people this year. And that this year God will do things in a different way. There's been so much knowledge of God shed abroad in the earth and so much mercy and grace that God has given to the people that this year there's going to be a great difference and many people are going to lose out with God and many people are going to be cut off and already some are beginning to marvel. At first they didn't think much about the statement that I made, but now a number of them has come to me and they say, Brother Pike, you know this is happening exactly the way that you said it was going to happen, that we;re already seeing this thing come to pass. And it is true. God is beginning to harden the heart of some of the diferent ones here at Bethlehem, and whereas they've had tender hearts before, and they've been willing to repent they're getting to the place to where they're not so willing to repent they're getting to the place to where they're not so tender hearted anymore. They're getting very hard hearted and selfish and they're willing to do their own thing and rebel and go their own way and God is beginning to let them do it. You can always watch and tell when the wrath of God is fixing to strike. Because God will let a man's heart become hardened and He will let a man become selfish and let a man or a woman begin to do their own thing and go their own way and He won;t bother them. As a matter of fact, rather than stopping then, He'll let everything work out to encourage them. And as it was with Pharoah, when God hardened Pharoah's heart so that He could destroy him, God will do the very same thing to people in this day when he gets ready to cut them off. As a matter of fact, this coming year when we start school, if Jesus tarrys that is, there will perhaps be some of the children that was enrolled this year they may not be enrolled next year. The reason is because the daddy and mother are not living for God, and they knew that the rules or the know that the rules and have known that the rules of the school are that they have to live for Christ. And their children are bringing all kind of things to school, saying all kinds of things and insinuating things and when we go to suspend then or we go to correct then or we go to send them home, or whatever, then they come in like a whirlwind, daddy and mother, and they just have a fit about it, and they are going to be a big bully, and throw their weight around, and you know, tell us we can't do that, and if we go to correct their children, you know, we don't have any authority. And folks, with all love and respect, that won't work at Bethlehem. Yo might be a bad fell w and a bad woman, but it won't ever work at Bethlehem. No matter how bad you are, yo might as will get that out of your system or go on your way cause it will never work at Bethlehem, I can assure you of that, because nobody here is moved by that kind of thing or those kind of people and if we can't have any authority to correct, to try to love, to tutor, to work with your child, then it's for sure that they won't be going to school at Bethlehem. So you, might as well think that over and decide you know what you want to do. Because this year, the Lord is doing some differnt things. Let's turn over to the book of Saint John chapter three. One thing that we won't tolerate and that is, a teacher abusing a child. If we find it in any way, we'll do something about it. And that's what the men's meeting is for, is so that it can be presented in a gentleman like way in the behalf of a child, in the behalf of the school, the kingdom of GOd. And should there be such a problem that you come like a man should and help us to keep our school in good shape, to keep your child from being abused and my child from being abused that we all work together as one that loves one another, to be one unit. But at the same time we have to have some understanding, some kind of control. And if a person is real touchy about their children that you can't never correct then, then we don't want people like that affiliated with our school whatsoever, because we cannot, we don't have time to mess with people like that. Children are children, they need correction, doesn't matter how good your child is, or what you think about him, he still needs correction. God's terminology for my child and your child is that the spirit of foolishness os bound in the heart of a child and a rod of correction will drive it far from him. And that he needs tutoring, that he needs to be taught in the things of God and that he need consideration, love and understanding, and that we are to offer that to him, and that you have got to work with us in doing that very thing. Chapter three if you've got your Bibles in the book of Saint John(Reads St. John 3,4:19-24). Jesus goes on over into the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth verse of the fourth chapter, He says here, let's read the nineteenth verse of the fourth, beginning at the nineteenth verse. You now in this third chapter and in the things that I read out of the fourth chapter, there is an awful lot said concerning the Kingdom of God. There are things said here that are so deep that it would be utterly impossible for anyone to comprehend these things except God give it to him by Revelation. There is absolutely no way that you can understand it except God reveal it to you by his spirit. He says here, That which is borned of the flesh is flesh. Jesus says, Marvel not in that I say ye must be borne again. For He said that which is borne of the flesh, and which is born of the spirit is spirit. Now this is hat we were saying just a little bit ago. There si one dimension for one kind of people and there is another dimension for another kind of people. There is one dimension that is a fleshly dimension and if you are borne of the flesh then you dwell in that fleshly dimension. Because if you are borne of the flesh then you are flesh. someone would say, but Brother Pike, we are all flesh. No we are not all flesh. THe Bible said, He that is borne of flesh he is flesh. That which is borne of spirit is spirit. So then, we all are not flesh. For he that is borne of flesh, he is flesh. That means that there are people here tonight in this assembly or this evening, that are flesh. That means that in the world today scattered across the world there are people that are flesh. Because they are borne of the flesh. But that doesn't mean that everybody in the world today is flesh. If it does mean that everybody in the world is flesh then what does Jesus mean when He said, That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit os spirit? Now you would say, Brother Pike, I'm born of the spirit. Then if you are born of the spirit the question is, are you flesh? Are you flesh if you are born of the spirit? Are you listening? Someone would say, Well I know that I'm flesh but I'm born of the spirit then that makes the word of GOd non-effect. Because if you are flesh when you are born of the spirit then that means that you can be spirit when you are born of the flesh. Why not? If one will work one way then why doesn't the other work the other way? See, to begin with, it is utterly impossible to be born of the spirit and still be flesh. There's now way my brother, sister. He that is born of the spirit is spirit. That's why I made the statement, There's no way that you can understand these wonderful things of God in your natural mind. It is impossible for you to understand these things that Jesus said, they are so exceedingly deep and so great that there is no human way that you can understand what God is saying in your carnal mind, or in your natural mind. When Jesus was talking to Peter, Jesus said, Peter who do men say that I am? Peter said such and such. But He said, Peter who do you say that I am? Peter could have said, Well I say that you are a man, that you are flesh and bones. I'm looking at you and you've got eyes just like I've got eyes and you've got hands, and you are a human being just like I'm a human being. But why did Jesus then say to Peter, what does men think about me Peter? Who do they say that I am? Now why did He ask a question like that? Why would Jesus, a human being, come up and ask another human being what people are saying concerning him? Who do men say I am, Peter? He said, Well some say that you are a prophet and some say that you're one of the old prophets that's returned. Some say one thing and some say another. Bet He said, Peter who do you think that I am or who do you believer that I am? What do you think about it, Peter? Now isn't that something? Why is Jesus asking Peter such a question? Why did he do that? Peter said, Well, I tell you what I believe, I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God. Jesus said, Peter, flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee. Said, now this didn't come from seminaries, and this is not intellectual definition, this is not something that you have learned, or something that you've come up with out of a brainstorm, Peter. THis is not something that you've got out of your intellectual reasoning. He said,Flesh and blood didn't tell you that because, Peter, there's no way that you could know that except God had a told you. Flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you Peter. He said, But my Father which is a spirit, my father in heaven hath made this known unto you, Peter, because you've reconized God on this earth. And because you have looked beyond the veil of humanity and because you nave seen God in the flesh I say unto you that thou art Peter, but upon this rock that you've recognized Peter, the Bible said, who is a rock but our God. He said upon this rock I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and I give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of God. In other words He said, Peter, this fleshly veil that stood between the intermost God and you as a man, He said, you've penetrated this veil, you've opened the door to My human person or my human being, and you've walked past my body, you've went right through my body, you've opened a door Peter, you've got a key. I say unto you Peter, you've got a key. the heavenly Gather gave yo the key to the mystery and you've opened the door the entire world, not only to the Hews but to the Gentiles and to the entire world and now the door to the kingdom of God is opened. And Brother John saw it when he wrote about that revelation in Revelation four, He said, I looked and a door was open in heaven and i'm fixing to go to Calvary and this veil will be rent in twain and this door that you have the key to is forever to all that can believe and all that will pass through this door. I am the door, Peter. I'm the door to the sheep fold and Peter you've got the key to the door. You've opened it. That's why Peter stood up and said, Be baptized in the name because I've opened the door and every one that is baptized into Christ Jesus have put on Christ Jesus and you can enter into Christ Jesus, right into that great ark of that door that God has opened, walk right into this great body of Christ, and be baptized by one spirit into this one body because I have made a great discovery, Peter said, for I have found God in the flesh. Who do men say that I am. So then, he that is born of the flesh is flesh. A man that is born of the flesh, he si flesh. He hath the world to dwell in. He hath a dimension to live in. Because he is born of the flesh God has given him the world. And the land of Esau is before him because God will give him wealth and God will give him the natural things and God will give him the birthright in this natural world, because he is a natural man, this is his natural inheritance. God will give him the passions of the flesh and let him yield to the passions of the flesh and God will give him the world and the land of Esau. God will give it to him because he is born of the flesh. He can have the money, he can have the world because he is born of the flesh. All of it belongs to him because he is born of the flesh. But the Bible said, He that is born of Spirit, he is spirit. The person that is born of the spirit, he is not made for this world, because the Bible said he is not of this world. You're not of this world, I've chosen you out of this world, God said. You're not of this world, you don't belong to the land of Esau, you haven't been created for this world because you're not born of the flesh, you're born of the spirit. But somebody would say, but Brother Pike, you know and I know that you was born of the womb, you know that you was born of the flesh just like I was born of the flesh, but did you know before the world ever was, before this world ever came into existence, God saw you and God saw me and He saw us down through the telescope of time, God looked and through that extensive view of God, God saw me and you and one of us was fleshly and one of us was spiritual, one of us was a son of God and one of us was a son of man. Did you know that? God saw that one of us belonged to him and one of us belonged to mankind. And so then GOd, looking down through the telescope of time, He saw that one of us was a Son of God that come from the very loins of God and that we were a spiritual being and that we belonged to God who is a spirit. John says that God is a spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and must worship God in truth. And so then God say us down through the telescope of time. And he saw that we are sons of God even before the world ever was. (Second side of first tape begins)...Unto the good works of Jesus Christ and GOd sent His word and God brought us to Him by his word. And though we came through the same channels and by the same means that you did, yet we are born of spirit and we are spirit because we are sons of the living God. Our Father is a spirit and we are born of our Father, therefore we are spirit. God is our heavenly father, and we are a spirit. We are sons of God. We that are born of the spirit, we are spirit. Jesus said, Nicodemus, marvel not, marvel not that I say unto you that he that is born of the spirit is spirit, and a man must be born again. Don't marvel over that Nicodemus. He said, For the wind blows wherever it listeth and he that is born of the spirit he is like the wind, he is like the wind when he is born of the spirit. Said, you don't know he came from and you don't know where he goes to. Isn't that wonderful? You can't tell where I come from can you? You don't know where I come from do you? Jesus said, Peter, who do men say that I am? And not only that but you don't know where I'm going either do you? Thomas said, hey say where you are going, said tell us where you're going. Said, we want to go with you. So then, we that are born of the spirit, we that are sons and daughters of the living God, we that come out from the loins of our heavenly Gather, we're not of the flesh. Therefore if we're not born of the flesh how then can we die? How can that which is eternal die and pass away? If we never had a begining how can we ever have an end? Anything that doesn't have a beginning could never have an end. How could anything that doesn't gave a beginning find a terminal point of life? That which never did have a beginning, how could it ever have an end? There was no beginning to me. I had no beginning, therefore how could I ever have an end? Jesus said, I am, I was, I am and forever shall be. How is it, that that which never had a beginning, how can it have an end? Brother and sister, he that is born of the spirit had no beginning. He that is born of the spirit hath no end, because when we are born of God that means that we were from everlasting to everlasting. That means that we are without beginning and without end. That's why God said to Jesus, He said, you'll take those that are of the flesh, and those kingdoms and those great priest and those great kings, He said, and you'll fold them up like a garment, and you'll lay them away. He said, they'll perish and wax old. But He said, Son I say unto thee, that thy kingdom, oh God is from everlasting to everlasting, before the world ever was you are. And he said, To your Kingdom there shall be no end. There shall be no end to your kingdom. Therefore Jesus said to Nicodemus, are you a ruler of the Jews, Nicodemus, are you a master if Israel, are you a rabbi and you don't know these things and you don't understand these things? Jesus said, no man has ever Ascended up into heaven, no flesh and blood has ever gone into heaven. For the Bible said Flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God. He said, No man has ever ascended up into heaven, no man. But yet Jesus came, took on the form of humanity, He took on the form of a human being and He declared before Nicodemus that He had entered into heaven, and He declared before Nicodemus that He knew what heaven was, and that He had entered into heaven, and He said to Nicodemus, Nicodemus the son of man is still in heaven. He is still in heaven and here He was talking to Nicodemus. Here he was talking. Nicodemus said, how can these things be? How can this be? I don't understand what you are saying? How can it be? You're telling me that the son of God is in heaven and yet you're the Son of God. How can these things be, he said, I don't understand. He said, Well, I told you about earthly things, you didn't believe those things and you didn't understand those things, He said, how are you going to understand and believe if I tell you about heavenly things? You know what's the need of me trying to explain it to you Nicodemus, you can't even understand the part I'm trying to tell you? See how wonderful it is to serve God. See what it means to be a real child of God? See how far the world is today from knowing the reality of Christ. They're just as religious as they can be. They shout and they run and they jump and they holler, they have their church services, but they know nothing about God or God's way of life or the things of God, they are not spiritual. Paul said I would speak unto you as unto spirituals, but seeing that ye are babes in Christ I cannot. He said pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation. So then, folks what we need to do is come before God like children. We need to talk to God, we need to call on God, and we need to say, now Lord, we understand that we're not spiritual, but you are a spirit, and we want the spirit of revelation, and we want you to put the spirit of revelation in our heart, and we want you to reveal to us, God, these great wonderful things of revelation. We want you to tell us what you are talking about. We want you to make us to know what do you mean, Lord, he that is born of the spirit os spirit. Lord, I've got flesh and bones,, I'm a fleshly person, I'm a boney person, but Lord, how can it be that I'm not fleshly Lord? How can this be that I'm not fleshly? I'm born of the spirit God, I know that I'm born of the spirit. How many of you believe that you are born of the spirit, let me see your hand. How many of you then believe that you're not flesh, let me see your hand. Now how many of you believe that they are telling a lie, let me see your hand. Got a lot of believers. Something is wrong. So then, when the Lord said, he that is born of Spirit is spirit there can't be but one answer to it and that means that by the foreknowledge of God that according to the purpose of God and the predestination of God that God sees us crucified with Christ, buried in water baptism, that our person is buried in the water, out human being doesn't exist anymore, our flesh and bones is not in existence anymore in the mind of God, but we are born a quickening spirit and alive forever more in Christ. Now that takes in a lot of territory. You say, what do you mean, Brother Pike? I mean that if I'm buried in the water and there's no more of my natural fleshly man then why do you keep finding fault with my natural man? What's the matter with you? Somebody say, Hallelujah! You must not be born again. The Bible said, WHo can lay anything to the charge of God's elect? No man can condemn them. God has justified them. They're without spot and without wrinkle and without blemish. Now here is the thought, if I am buried in baptism with Christ if my natural man doesn't exist anymore, then why do you look at me as a natural man? Why do you regard me as a natural man? Why do you speak to me as a natural man? Somebody would say, well Brother Pike, that's the way we're supposed to do it. That's not the way the Bible teaches it. And besides that, how can you do it anyway if it's not there for you to do it to? You must be having strong delusions. There must be something wrong with you. God said he would send you strong delusions if you didn't believe what he said about the situation. Are you listening? God said, I will tell you the truth and if you don't believe the truth, I'll send you strong delusions, I'll let you believe a lie or cause you to believe a lie and I'll let you be damned. I'm telling you the truth tonight. If a person that has been born again is spirit, if GOd never sees him as a human being anymore, if he is buried in the water and the Bible says as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, and the Bible said, the last man Adam, Jesus Christ, is made a quickening spirit. And Paul said, It's not you living, but Christ that lives within you, and the life you now live you live bu the Son of God. If we be buried with Christ we shall also reign with him. Behold old things have passed away and all things have become new. Now the Bible says, that you are not to know me after the flesh anymore. And you are not to know any man after the flesh anymore. Is that right? You're not to know me after the flesh anymore. How then can you know me after the flesh if the Bible says you are not to know me after the flesh. It means that God is sending you a strong delusion. Because if I'm born of spirit then I am spirit, and if you now ne after the flesh then you're having strong delusions and your seeing lying vanities, because you're seeing something that doesn't even exist. Somebody say amen. Somebody would say, now wait a minute Brother Pike, I think you're crazy. No the Bible said, Calling those things that are not as though they are, those things that are as though they are not. If God said they are here then they're here, my brother. If God said they're not here, as far as I'm concerned, they're not here. Somebody said, now you can't do that, Brother Pike., that's getting eratical, that's getting beside yourself. I guess Nicodemus felt that way about it when Jesus said the son of man which is in heaven. But I'll tell you what, when that little servant came over there to visit with that great prophet in the Old Testament and he was all tore up and all frustrated and he didn't know what to do, he said, the armies are coming and they're about to run us down and it looks like we're going to be killed in spite of all. That fellow just stood there, that prophet stood there just as calm and collective as he could be, he wasn't disturbed about nothing and this other fellow was just all tore up. And he said, Well what are you worried about? He said, well, the armies are coming, the alien powers are coming. He said, but don't you know there's more with us then there is against us? Said what about all these that's with us? And that poor carnal man that was having strong delusions, he was looking everywhere and he couldn't see anything heavenly because of the strong delusions he was having. All he could see was those enemies that he thought was coming. And that prophet, you know, he prayed and said, Lord open his eyes. And then about that time he quit having strong delusions and he looked and there was all of those great mighty powers, those angelic powers, those prancing horses and chariots of fire. Now, where are those things? Somebody said, Well I believe that, But where are they at? Where are they at? If you believe that then you believe the other part, and if you believe the other part then you can see that. If you can't see that, it is because you don't believe the other part. Isn't that right? You're having strong delusions and you got self in the way. You've got your mind on self, and every way you look you see self. All of your thoughts are for self. You're selfish. Problems, you cause problems, you are problems, all that you see is problems. Everything that you start to do turns out to be a problem. Why? Because, you've got strong delusions, you're not walking in the mind of Christ. When the Bible said, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. You don't have the mind of Christ, that's why you have problems. Brother, sister, thee is no problems in the mind of Christ. There is no sickness in the mind of Jesus Christ.When a man has the mind of Christ he doesn't have problems.When he has strong delusions then he doesn't have the mind of Jesus Christ. You understand what I'm saying. Those boys are just a couple of little bitty babies that went out. They're just little bitty babies, they don't hardly know their right hand from their left. Don't feel bad I talked with them before service. Little bitty fellows. Now, so then, we that are spiritual, we that are understanding spiritual things, we're suppose to be grown up in the Lord. We're suppose to be going on to understand this other dimension to where we can have the things of God, The world out there doesn't understand what we're saying, and even the church world doesn't understand what we're saying. They don't understand it. Just like these two boys that just left, they are fine boys and they come from fine churches, but the churches are not spiritual at all. Those men, I talked to both of them and they are fine men, but they know nothing about the spiritual things of God. What is it? It's your responsibility and my responsibility to preach the gospel and to get to those people, and try to tell them something about God, and try to reach them. It is our responsibility to do something that will help them wake up form the careless, cold place of death that they're dwelling in. That's why we preached the sermon the other day that we did. The last sermon that we preached here was, God had cut the people off out there. There is another dimension, there is another world, God has a spiritual people. We that are born of the spirit we are spirit. We're not natural. We are born of the spirit, therefore we are spiritual beings. There are angelic beings, and we are fellowshipping angels while you are eating and drinking and going your way. We're fellowshipping angelic beings and having a heavenly time. God said to Elijah, Elijah what doest though hear, when he was over at the cave. It was because he was a spiritual being. I wonder today how many spiritual people that we've got at Bethlehem? How many people here are really spiritual? When you think back of the great man Elijah, here he was, having killed all the prophets of Baal, the Bible said he had slain then, and Jezebel said, I'll kill you because of it. So he runs for his life, goes a days journey into the wilderness, sets down under a junipter tree and there he is saying let me die, a great spiritual man growing weary all of a sudden, lays down and says let me die. Now remember Elijah wasn't in the day that you're living in. And Christ had never come to spill His blood for sin at that time. And here he was under a Junipter tree saying let me die. So he went to sleep. And while he was asleep here come an angel and baked him a cake. The Bible said the angel told him, said, wake up, wake up Elijah, wake up and eat. And said he woke, awoke and he looked and there was a cake that had been cooked on the coals, and here was a cruse of water at his head. Said he woke up, he ate the cake, he drank the water, and lay back down and went to sleep again. You think, my dear God, an angel come by, how could you sleep for the next month? But Elijah just as if to get up and say, well thank you, appreciate the meal, I'm still sleepy. And the angel came back over and said, Elijah wake up, you need to eat again. Elijah he got up and ate again. And the angel said the trip you're fixing to take it's going to be a long trip and said you're going to need all the strength you can get. And said this journey's to great for you. Said you better eat all you can while you can. Said because the trip you're fixing to take is a long trip. And the Bible said, he arose and he ate and he drank and went in the strength of that meat for forty days and forty nights over to Mount Horeb and there in a cave met with God. Trying to find the mind of God, trying to find the will of God. And we talk about being spiritual, my if an angel would come and just say hello he wouldn't have had to bake a cake, if he'd just say hello, I pass by your place, why we'd been the most spiritual man on earth, wouldn't be worried about going to no cave to get spiritual. We'd wrote books about it, and why we could've preached for the rest of our lives. But here was a great man of God, a great spiritual being. Somebody would say, but Brother Pike, the thing is we don't have anybody like that today. We don't have anybody like Elijah today. There's a greater than Elijah here. But Brother Pike, think of all of those great powers and patriots, we don't have anything like that today. Why get excited Brother Pike there's nothing like that today? Friend let me tell you something, let me explain something to you, there's something here far greater than Elijah. Far greater than Elijah. Elijah longed to see the things that we see and longed to heat the things that we are hearing. The Bible said, many great men desired to move into this and to understand what we are understanding. You've got the greatest chance of any lifetime on the earth. The Bible said the end of a mater is better than the beginning. There has never, since the beginning of mankind, there has never been an age, not even the age of Jesus, when Jesus walked the earth, there has never been an age like this age, not even the age of Paul the apostle. Even Paul did not have this age. Somebody said, now wait a minute Brother Pike, I think you're going to far. You haven't really seen how far I've got yet. So you don't know. If you think I've gone to far just by what you've seen just wait till you really see. Somebody said well I never heard the like in my life. It is exciting. Hallelujah! So then we that are born of the spirit we are spirit. God never again at anytime sees me as a human being. Not only that but God never sees my mistakes never again. From the time that I was born again God has never seen a mistake. God has never seen a spot, never seen a blemish, God has never charged one thing against me since the day I was born again. Not only that, but brother, before I was ever born again He didn't charge nothing against me. Before I ws ever born into this world, before I ever came into this world God slayed in his mind Jesus Christ and God have the blood for the atonement, and God took away all of my sins and all of my trespasses and all of my wrong and God made me perfect forever before I was ever born into the world. But brothers and sisters we've got to remember one thing that by the same token God also appointed unto death and condemnation brute beast made to be taken and burned. He also appointed men to be devils for Jesus said that Judas was a devil when He chose him, and the Bible, before Judas was ever born said he was to be born a devil. Somebody say amen. Before Judas was ever born into this world as a natural person there was a prophesy that came forth from the mouth of a prophet that said he was a devil, he would come into the world as a devil. Said, let another his bishoprick take. Read it in the book of Acts. When they appointed another to his office, said, as it is written he hath gone to his place. That is, he has gone to the place that God appointed him before the world ever was, and said, Judas having gone to his place said it fulfills the scripture, said it fulfills the scripture that said, let another his bishoprick take. So then we see how great and how mighty this thing is. How wonderful it is. Elijah didn't know this. The great mighty men of old didn't understand this. But we are made to see this, and we are made to know this. And God has brought us to this wonderful great exciting moment, and this great hour. Somebody would say, but why is it so great and exciting Brother Pike? It's great and exciting to me to know that I can live forever. Might not excite you, but it excites me. And one reason perhaps it doesn't excite you is because you don't believe, and because you don't believe it your not going to live forever, so how could you get excited? But Brother let me tell you when you believe this and know that this is the truth then you get excited because it's a wonderful living reality. So then, Jesus said, Peter, who do you men say that I am? Who do they say that I am? Jesus said, Well I tell you Peter, I come form that world and I come from My Father, and now Peter I go back to my Father. Somebody would say, well what are you talking about Jesus? What are you talking about Brother Pike? He didn't go no where but to the cross and they killed him. Just like you and everybody else Brother Pike, you're going to go to the grave. But Jesus didn't say that. He said, I come from the Father, I come from the spirit, I go back to the spirit. He was a son of God, He was a spirit. Somebody would say, well He was a man just like anybody else was a man. They nailed the nails in his hands and he bled just like a man and He died just like a man. But the Bible said the last man Adam was made a quickening spirit. Somebody would say, well Brother Pike after you die you can become a quickening spirit. Jesus didn't have to die to become a quickening spirit. If Jesus had to die to become a quickening spirit I ask the question again, How was it that He walked up on the Mount of Transfiguration and appeared in glory the way he did? How did he do that? And how is it that Paul went up to the third heaven? He was flesh and blood. How is it that Moses and Elijah appeared in glory? How is it that Enoch went off to glory? How is it that these things can be Nicodemus said? How can it be? I'll tell you how it can be, because he that is born of the spirit is spirit. How was it that Ezekial could float around in the air and get up out of the place over here and ride through the air and set down in the valley somewhere? How could he do that? It was because of the spirit. How could Moses stay up on the mountain the way he did and not eat and drink for eighty days? It was because of the spirit.How could he stay alive in that day and at the time that he departed? The Bible said that the natural sources of his body wasn't even abated. He was still a young man.Somebody said, at that age! Why that wasn't anything, Look at Enoch, look at Noah. How did they do it? Somebody would say, Well you know, when this flesh. But remember, when God is in the arrangment the whole situation is different. I tell you again that flesh don't wear out. A good seventy five years and thats it. But remember Sarah, remember Abraham, remember the son in the old age. See the body does not wear out. The body doesn't wear out. Then what causes death, what causes this thing to be like this? What causes us to pass away, what causes us to be put in the grave? It's because of sin, it''s because of a strong delusion, it's because we don;t have the mind of Christ, we don't believe what the Bible says. What caused Eve to do like she did? What caused Adam to be in the condition that he was in? It's because they didn't believe in what God said. What causes you to be put in a casket, and be put in a hole? It's all because of sin, it's all because of unbelief. The body doesn't wear out. Brother, sister, this body is made to last eternally. It is made to last eternally. Somebody would say, well Brother Pike I just don't believe that, I believe this body will wear out and God will pit is down in the grave and then after a while He'll give us another body. Let me tell you something, I say this again that if God put Jesus Christ down in the grave and brought Jesus Christ up with another body it wasn't a true resurrection. (Second tape begins)................. that He put in the grave......... If it wasn't the same Jesus and the same flesh and the same bones that was in the resurrection and all of the word of God is of none effect and it's not true. The body doesn't wear out. It doesn't wear out. Scientist has learned that theres not anything that God made that can be destroyed, not one thing, not one tree can be destroyed. Not one bone can perish. Not one hair of your head, not one thing can be done away with. That's why they can go back and puck up the carbons that they say is millions of years back. See there's nothing that can be destroyed, and if you've got the mind of Christ then that means that God will eraticate from your mind, form your life, from your heart, from your being all of the strong delusions and all of the infultrations, and all of the lust, all of the thirst, all of the hunger of the natural man and you will be a spiritual being, a spiritual son of God. You will be a God. You know even the devil knew that much. We ought to at least know that much. Even the devil told people that much. He said that the day that you eat of the tree of knowledge you'll be as God's. Even the devil knew that.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord