Predestination By Foreknowledge

The sweetest song I ever heard was the words of Jesus. The Bible speaks of the songs of Solomon, how beautiful they are. You know, there's one thing that we need to do, and that's walk in the light as He is in the light. The Bible says in so doing we'll have fellowship one with another, and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ shall cleanse us from all sin and unrighteousness. When John the Baptist's father prophesied, the spirit of God being upon him, and said, We shall serve Him in holiness and in righteousness all the days of our life. Now this book is so wonderful to me, and so alive to me until when I come to the sacred stand I don't ever know where to start, because it is so full of the wonderful words of God. The Bible said the Word of God is the power of God. The Word of God is the power of God. Anytime you have the Word of God you have the power of God. And He sent His Word and healed them. By His Word He cast out the unclean spirit. And the Bible teaches that with His Word He created you and I, with His Word He has created the heavens and the earth and all things that are therein. The Word of God is the power of God. And so then, when you get into the revelation, you start detailing it, it takes a long time just to break down just a little bit of the Word of God. I see people read a whole chapter and they could tell you all about it in about ten minutes. I read a whole chapter and sometimes it takes me ten years to get all of it. It is so powerful and so rich and so dimensionally deep until it's ever yielding, like a fountain that never runs dry. And it is so wonderful, the wonderful words of life. Jesus said on one occasion, in that the seventy left him, He turned to the twelve and said, Will ye also go? And they said, Where shall we go? Ye alone have the words of eternal life. And so it's so beautiful, it's so wonderful. Paul, in the third chapter of the book of Ephesians, he says, (Brother Pike reads the entire chapter.) You know, as I've said so many times, we come here with a regularity, and when we come here we never know what we're going to preach. It's just been my way of life not to prepare sermons, and I just come. I don't know where I'm going to read from. I don't know what I'm going to say, and I open my Bible and He always takes me to where He wants me to go, and tells me what He wants me to know. I don't advise you to do that. Everybody has their own ministry and their way of doing things. If you have notes, and you do whatever, that's okay with me. I have no objections, but as I said, years ago I would try to prepare in my real early life as to a sermon, and I would study all day long, and I would do all the things I know to do, and then I would pick out a place I was going to read. And so I would go behind the Sacred Desk, and then I would read it. And when I would read it I would preach from something altogether different. And it just go so baffling to me that I just told God one day, I said, Well, you know what you want to say, and since you know what you want to say you know what you want to read, so from now on I'll just read whatever you give me. And I found so many multiplied times that I've come up here and start talking to somebody about something, not knowing what I was going to turn to, and as I turned the pages I turned right to it and there it would be. The Spirit and the Word agreeing. And I found out that with me, it may not be so with you, but as it was with the prophets the Word of the Lord came unto them. And I found out that the Word of the Lord comes unto me, and when It comes unto me then I just open my mouth and He says what He wants to say. There is a problem sometimes, and that is, if the people aren't conditioned, as in their hearts as to listening, or hearing__ He that hungers and he that thirsts shall be filled if they are hungering and thirsting after righteousness, but if there is no hunger and if there is no thirst then, of course, the Lord, He doesn't speak. Maybe a preacher will preach a little bit, or holler a little bit, shout at you a little bit, you know, and reprove you, but so far as the spirit really speaking to bring you the deep mysteries of Christ, you don't get those things. It's like last night. We're were talking there by the gate, maybe ten, fifteen, twenty men, which has been our life down through the years that wherever we go, within a few minutes, whether it's here or overseas, or wherever, if we start talking then people start congregating and they start listening, and they get hungry and they get thirsty. And then, as it was last night, the Spirit of God just continually speaks, continually speaks. And a lot of times I come into the church and this happens, but as many times as I come to the church it doesn't happen because, as to feeding on the side, different ones get filled up. Those that are hungry they follow and walk after the Spirit, and they search out to find out where something is being said. And the voice of the Lord is coming forth so they get filled up, and when they get filled up, then they come to the church. The others aren't hungry, and because these are filled up then they are not hungry, and then there is nobody to hunger and thirst, and so the Anointing doesn't get to speak to bring the milk to the babes in Christ. Or there isn't anybody pulling, and drawing to create the right atmosphere so the Spirit of God can come out to you. And that makes it very difficult, and my wife she has at times gotten real fussy at me about it. She'd say, You need to quit it. You need to quit it. You talk to the brethren and then when we get to church we don't get anything. And for a while I did quit. I stopped off for quite a little while and it worked just exactly like she said. They got hungry and when they come to the church we had good services. And we still have good services, but you know, I've been blessed. I hope you don't mind me talking with you for just a minute. I've been blessed and this book is a living book to me. It is alive to me. The Bible speaks of the Jews having had the Word of God, but not being mixed with faith it wasn't the living Word. It was just a dead letter, as to the judgments of God, as to the letter that killeth, as to the law. And this is the Spirit that maketh alive. It was not mixed with faith, therefore, it was not a living word. But we have life, the Spirit that maketh alive, even the Word of Spirit, which is Spirit and Life. And in this book I have spent a lot of time, reading, praying, and as I've said, I've read that New Testament through on my knees just because I was so hungry. And in this book, all the way from Genesis to Revelation, I have been fortunate because God has completely, without any reservation as to me, opened the book. He has opened the book. You know, I come up here and I open the book, and I say, The book is open. But that's not so at all. The book isn't open at all. It is when the book is open as to spirit and life to you. Then the book is open. Like when Philip went over to the eunuch, and he said, Understandest thou what thou readest? He said, How can I? I have no man to teach me. But see, we have someone to teach us. You have not need that man should teach you for you have the Holy Ghost, even the Spirit of Christ within you who will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance whatsoever I have taught you. That is to say, as to whatever you are taught through the ministry, or whatever you learn as to the Word of God, the Spirit of Christ will come into your heart and He will enlarge upon that, and He will magnify Himself to you as a spirit of life, as a spirit of life, as a word of life and quickening. And these, see? I'm looking at something here I saw a few minutes ago. These things I look at, there is so much, so much, that my heart is literally overflowing day and night. And when I come up here I think, Well, what am I going to say, Lord. I think, I have so little time, you know. If I've got an hour I have enough time to about get the attention of the people and say a few little ole things and that's it. And I think, My God! How will they ever get the Word of God, as to the revelation of the Son of God. How can they ever do it? And this is the difference, as to coming into the church and setting and talking to the brethren outside. Sometimes we set down to talk outside and the brethren literally set there for hours, and they hardly flinch, and the hours just go by so quickly. And we come to church and we don't have but just maybe an hour or two, and we have to divide it up with the singing and divide it up with the talking. I come here and I talk like this before hand, because it takes this kind of thing to be able to collect your intellectual reasoning, to bring it to a oneness. Whereas, the Bible speaks of that on the day of Pentecost they were all in one mind, one accord, as to the mind of Christ is according to the will of God, and then the Holy Spirit came like a mighty rushing wind. Or as it was in the days when John was exiled on the Isle of Patmos. And the Bible said he was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and then came the wonderful words of God. So, we come here, we sing, we praise God that we might get into the Spirit, that we might create the right kind of atmosphere out there and that we might collect the minds that they might be given over to the mind of Christ. And then if the minister is in the mind of Christ when it is joined together then God begins to speak and they are all taught of God, for it is not the man speaking, but God speaking from within him. All right. Let all the world keep silent. You are the temples of God and God is in his temple, and God is speaking to all the world. So, if we want the things of God then we have to give ourselves to God. Whereas, the Bible says the Spirit of God searches out the things of God, yea, the deep things of God. And pray for the spirit of revelation. I read this because it says here, "Whereby, when you read you may understand my knowledge and the mystery of Christ." And here how he speaks of, "How that by revelation he made know unto me the mystery." And then the Bible said great is the mystery of godliness, for God, who is a spirit of course, manifested in the flesh, as to his Son, Jesus Christ in the fullness without measure. God manifested in the flesh, justified by faith, he was seen of angels, caught up into heaven, preached to the Gentiles, this great wonderful mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness. And we try to bring a little milk, like a mother preparing a mean, give you just a little bit of milk, as to the babes. Jesus said, Feed my lambs. And then we try to bring a little bit of meat, in that the Bible said, that there might be meat in my house. And we try to make known unto you the cunning devices of Satan, in that the Bible speaks of this as to the cunning devices of Satan. Paul said, We are not ignorant of the devices of Lucifer. And we try to tell you how cunning and crafty he is, and how that all day long he wrestles against your mind. There is a mind, a Satanic mind, which is a spirit, a power, a sovereignty that wrestles against your human sovereignty, as to the mind, and that is to say the mind of necessity that is adopted to this world that gives you right to the natural things of this world. And there is a battle that when you are born again, Christ, the mind of Christ, living on the inside of you is warring against the mind of Satan which is working through your human senses, as to the five senses that are subjected to the vanities of this world, in that Satan is in the world and God is in the you and the Bible said, Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. And these two powers working, trying to get control of your spirit so that they can use your brain, because I say so often, there's three minds, three powers, three lives, that is, and there is only one brain. And all three are wrestling for control of that brain, whereas, you as an angelic being called the inner man, as the spirit on the inside, you have full right to the brain. It is given to you and that it is as to a necessitated way of life as to eat, drink, wash your face, do the natural things, drive your can, build you a house, these things that pertain unto your livelihood, as to being necessitated to life, to be sustained. And then the other mind, as I say, being the mind of Lucifer is a dirty, filthy mind even as a filthy dreamer. And it's corruption, it's passion, it's lewdness, it's ugliness, it's gossip, it's backbiting, it's hatred, it's murder and all these other things. And then there is the other mind that is holy and godly and pure, that mediates in the laws of God. It's sweet, it's gentle, kind, compassionate, heavenly desires. That is the mind of God. See? And these two minds of the extreme, as to these great powers is trying to get control of your spirit, which is just a simple spirit, as to mind of necessitated things, as to life and substance. See? And they want to work through your spirit to get control of your body, because either one of these have no way, no way to get to the tangible side of life, as to this which has emanated from God, as to enjoy it except through you. And the body was made, principally, for God, and things were made for God. All things were made for Him and by Him, and for His glory and pleasure were they made, and without Him was nothing made that was made. And so then, these two powers wrestling, trying to get control of the body, then the dispute is over the body. Like Jude speaks of it in the time of Moses, the Bible speaks of Satan coming after the body and the angel of the Lord said, Satan, the Lord rebuke thee, as he came for the body of Moses. And as I've said so many times, they've search out in the Valley of Moab where Moses was buried, they've never found it. And I ask the Lord one day, I said, Where is Moses? They found Abraham's grave, Sarah's grave, where is Moses'? And the Lord said, You'll find him on the Mount of Transfiguration. There was a dispute over his body and death could not claim his body. And sure enough, there it is. Just like Elijah being translated, there is Moses. So I said that to say this, the dispute is over the body. And we've brought out a number of things concerning that, that that dispute is over the body and that dispute is as to Lucifer disputing with God over the body, for he wants to get control of it. He wanted to get control of Moses' body because God had made Moses God unto the people, and in that Moses was made God unto the people if Satan could have got into that body he could have been a great powerful preeminence. And looking forward as to the body of the Lord Jesus he really tried to subdue the body of the Lord Jesus, because that would have made him god of heaven and of earth. Whereas, in Moses it would have just been god of the earth. But god of heaven and the earth, and he wasn't successful. Even as Adam, he wasn't successful as to getting into Adam, as to the Shekinah image, as to which Adam was illuminated with because Adam was not in the transgression. And the woman being in the transgression, she was to be subject to the man, or that is to say, the woman being a type of the flesh, the flesh was to be subject to the spirit. And in this we see that there is a continual warfare between these two minds. And we try to tell you about the devices of Lucifer so that you can escape the condemnation, because you will find yourself, if you are honest with Brother Pike, and honest with God, and honest with your fellow man, you know, and don't try to be pious and religious, you'll find yourself completely deranged in your mind, as to a condemnation day and night. And someone would say, Well, who would that be, Brother Pike? That would be everybody. And God looked down from heaven after the flood and saw that man's heart was continually evil. Continually, He couldn't find anything good in any of them. And the Bible said, seeing that none was good, no not one, then He came down and He took it upon Himself to work the works of salvation that we might have righteousness and that Jesus Christ might be our righteousness. So then, the devilish evil of corruptions are continually oppressing your mind and trying to trample the mind of humanity down. Always trying to trample down the mind of humanity with condemnations, with threats, with accusation. He is the accuser of the brethren. But when you listen to the ministry if he is a true minister, he will tell you the way of escape and he will bring you to a wonderful way of life, as to a freedom and as to a clean holy state of mind, as to charity that thinketh no evil. And He can show you how to defeat that to where you can be the victorian, even having the faith that overcometh the world, as to your victory. And then, He will bring you to a place of indoctrination to where your believing will eliminate and eradicate all of this accusation to where your faith will be completely stabilized and will be in such a way that you can have the desires of your heart, that whatever you say it will happen unto you. But you have to remember first of all that the heart is deceitful, desperately wicked above all things, who can know it? Do thy diligence to keep thy heart for out of it comes forth the issues of life, or it is the determining factor as a man thinketh in his heart so he is, because his believing is a result of his thinking. So then, I said those little things by the way here to remind you that when you come to church that's why you sing. That's why you praise God. It's to eliminate that shadow, or that gloomy feeling, or that which is hovering over you to get you out of that realm of twilight in that the light has been turned on in someone's soul in the church. And the minister comes to turn on the light and then the light, as to understanding begins to come forth, as to the Word of God, saying, And the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may be able with all saints to comprehend what is the breadth, and the length, and the depths, and the heights. Whereas, the Bible speaks of the same light, as to understanding, having shined in the darkness, that is to say, among intellectual ignorance, and the intellectual ignorance, or the darkness that is, comprehended it not. But to as many as believe to him gave He power to become the Sons of God, even to as many as believed on his name. So then, you are able to comprehend this light, but the Bible says, as to the world, even the religious world, it says, And they shall not see when good cometh. They shall not see when the light comes. For Satan, Lucifer, even the god of this world has blinded their eyes, even the eyes of their understanding that they should not see. That is, they cannot comprehend this light. But you that are saints of God, it is given to you to do this, because you are children of another world. And being children of another world you must have another mind. And to have another mind will eventually bring you another body, as to an eternal world, an eternal mind. The Celestial mind as to a Celestial body and a Celestial world as to a heavenly Celestial regime of all things that your heart could wish for. It is given unto you in Christ Jesus. All things are yours, whether in heaven or in earth. You belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God. And this wonderful treasure, as to heavenly treasure within earthen vessels is hid within these words. These words are intellectual indoctrinations, as to a printed page, which is referred to as darkness, as to a letter that killeth, but God, who is a spirit, veils Himself in the darkness and as to the splitting of the atom to get down to the nucleus so that the power can be revealed, so are these words, as to Jesus Christ, the Son of God as the rent veil, the separation from the body, as to the body and the spirit. Then comes forth the Kingdom of God is within Him, or within you, as to what has been placed in your heart as to this Word. And the Word of God is the power of God unto salvation. Whereas, salvation is deliverance, as unto healing, His Word, always His Word. Now, I'd like to read just a little bit more here, and I don't know what we'll say tonight because, like I said, my heart is always filled up with so many things that as we have just now saying these few things, see? it has taken a good little while to say these few things. And by now the sermon should be half over, or whatever. And it took that long just to collect your thoughts. In chapter two, the book of Ephesians, if you've got you Bibles, it says here, "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air," Of course, Lucifer. "the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" Whereas, the Bible said, and they are taken in captivity at his will. "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." And of course, now we're partakers of the divine nature of Jesus. "But God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." Or that is to say, What God wanted us to be he made Jesus to be that and then accredited it to us. "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were night. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." All right. I want to say again as I have said before, I'm always reluctant to get started. More than ever on Sunday morning I like to preach, because it seems like people are a little more rested. They are not tired. Their minds are free. They haven't cluttered it up with the things of the day. There's not that much resistance, and the spirit of God being dove like It will talk to them, but when we come to this it is such a touchy situation because we don't have time to say anything. And as now, if I get into something now it's almost time to stop before I get started and this, of course, is grievous to the Spirit and is grievous to me, and yet I can't fall out with you and you can't fall out with me. And so it's very difficult to be able to help you in the way that I would like to help you. But as he says here in this first chapter, "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the council of his own will, that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ." When he says, "For having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances", he is saying that he hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. Now, when we say middle wall of partition between us, of course we understand that the middle wall of partition is broken down between Jew and Gentile. It's broken down between German and Japanese, between American and foreigners. It's broken down. There is no such things as a dividing line in that God is no respecter (Begin tape one, side two.)....It is also broken down between male and female for in God, in Christ there is neither woman nor man. And so then, it is broken down. And then when we start talking about these things being broken down then we hurriedly go over to Calvary where we find the cross. And when we come to the cross then we know that this is, as to the way it is expressed, as to the bridge over. It is the cross, or the crossing. Or it is where my flesh crosses my spirit and the determining factor is as to which one will win out as the body and the soul in the warfare. And it is the crossing from earth to heaven, as to bridge over, to that great wonderful place, in that from earth over to heaven it crosses the place of Satan's domain. And as it was in the days of Daniel when Daniel fasted and prayed for twenty-one days, holding on to God, and when the angel was given the charge to go down to Daniel, to give him skill, as the understanding of that which was to be in the latter times, in that he was seeking to know what would befall his people in that the times was just about up as to the seven years down in Babylon. Here, as the angels of heaven came down, dispatched to go to Daniel, all of a sudden in crossing this domain which Jesus had not as of yet broken through, as to the manifesto, even though it was before the world ever was in the foreknowledge of God, yet had not been made manifest unto mankind, in that Jesus had never been born into the world. But when those angel started down the angels of Lucifer intercepted, and began to make war. And as they began to make war then they couldn't break through. They could not break through, as with the message through the barricade of this angelic force of demon powers, as to fallen angels, rulers of darkness, who were there at the second level reflecting the light, as a reflector such as the moon reflecting the sun down to the earth. We spoke a little bit to some of the brethren about that today. See? And in this realm, this power was so great that the angels could not get through. And so then, they had to return to get reinforcement that they might come and as by the means of this reinforcement, break through that to get down to Daniel. Daniel never gave up. See? This is where we make a great mistake, folks. Just exhorting you like children tonight. This is where we make our great mistake. We ask God for something and when it doesn't happen we just quit. See? We don't stay there. We don't do like Daniel did. We don't fast. We don't get down and just pray and pray, and stay there. See? We say, Well, it wasn't the will of God, or God just didn't see fit to give it to me, or I just don't believe, or I just ain't good enough. And we start listening to all of this condemnation, all of this reasoning, all of this oppression, and in a little while the devil has defeated us. But if we could remember, number one, that our righteousness is of God and there is now, therefore, no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. There is no condemnation to you. You are in Christ Jesus and it doesn't matter what the devil said to your mind, it doesn't matter how much he oppresses you, it doesn't matter what kind of thoughts he presents to you, as to derange you here. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. I know that when we say that, a lot of times ministers take the outlook, you know, now folks, this means if you will live perfect before God and don't walk in the flesh, then you will be all right. And that is true, but to be able to interpret, to be able to understand, to be able to know the revelation they don't go far enough to say anything about it, because they don't know anything about it. They feel like it's a contest, as to your strength and your ability to prevail against Lucifer, see? And you have got to really dig in, and really dig in. But, folks, that isn't the way it is at all. See? My battle is not my battle. Whereas, the Bible says the race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong, the battle is the Lord's. He won my battle at Calvary. This is my defense, even the victory that overcometh the world, even my faith in Him. Or that is to say, my confidence in His faith, by which I am sanctified. All right. So then, when we think of this we have to remember that we do not walk in the flesh. What does He mean, to them that walk not after the flesh? Folks, there is no way I would walk after the flesh. There's no way you could walk after the flesh. Somebody says as to your dos and don'ts, don't walk after the flesh. Hold on to now, and everything's going to be fine. You know, but if you don't hold on you know you're gone, backslid. Well, what does the Bible mean when it says, I have healed your backsliding? What does it mean when it says, Woe unto the backslider for I am married unto you? If my wife should leave home wouldn't I still be married unto her,in that the Bible says the wife is bound by the laws of her husband so long as he liveth? Does it make any difference that she went to town, isn't she still my wife? You understand what I'm saying? If I'm married unto her? Then God is married unto us. There is no such thing as backsliding with God, even though we use that term, because we are at our wits end, as to know how to give a vocabulary expression as to your weaknesses, going and coming. But folks, there's no such thing as backsliding in God. God done away with that at Calvary. You are married unto Him. You belong to him. You cannot come to God and be born again and backslide, or fall away and lose out with God. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, I know a lot of good Christians that lost out with God. You've never know a Christian that ever lost out with God. Folks, that would break the Scriptures, and the Bible said the Scriptures cannot be broken. What does the Scriptures say? And Jesus said, Father, I have kept everyone that you've given me and haven't lost a one of them except the son of perdition, and he was a devil from the beginning. I have not lost a one of them and I will raise them all up in the last day, for we are the predestinated of God. We are the predestinated of God. As I said last night, we have to understand that when I am born into the world and you are born into the world that we cannot do anything except what we're predestinated to do. See? Whatever we are predestinated to do that's what we will do. If I tap on this he understands what I'm saying. All right. Now. So we are predestinated. We are predestinated so that means that pre determined, as to our place of destiny. As to my destiny it is pre-determined. Before I am ever born into the world I am predestinated. It was said of Judas, before he was ever born into the world, let another his bishopric take. He couldn't do nothing except what he was predestinated to do. As the prophet said, Before I was ever formed in my mother's womb, God called me to be a prophet. He could do nothing but that. As it was as to the king, speaking of Cyrus, and one shall before him and he shall become a king, and he shall penetrate the walls of Babylon. Never been penetrated, but he shall overthrow Babylon, and he did. And see? As to the predestination, like the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. Whereas, somebody would say, Well, that means, Brother Pike, that we can't repent over these things. It means that you cannot get them through repentance. You do not get salvation through repentance. Whereas, the Bible said, less you repent you shall all in like manner perish. But you don't get salvation through repentance. No one has ever got salvation through repentance. You get salvation through the predestination of God as being the elect of God by foreknowledge of God, as to what God foreknew of you before you were ever born into the world. And He slew the lamb of God in the mind of God, wrote your names down in the Lamb's book of life, and then when you came into the world sent the minister to severally divide, to take the wheat from the tares, to gather the wheat into the garners, to bind up the bundles of the tares, and then to burn them in the end time. God has never sown any tares. The parable was when Jesus gave it, And the man sowed the good seed in the field, but while he slept the enemy came and the enemy sowed the tares, as to the children of the serpent seed, as the children of the devil. And Jesus said, Ye are of your father the devil and his will ye will do. And so then, it was as to the parabolic speech that Jesus gave unto them, that when he awoke the servants cried out. Didn't you plant good seed in your field. He said, I did. Said, From whence then cometh the tares. He said, An enemy has done this. While I slept an enemy has done this. They said. Then shall we pluck them up? He said, No, if you do then you'll get the wheat. He said, Just leave them alone, let them grow together, the rain upon the just and the unjust. At the end time, as to the harvest I'll cut it all down. Then we'll sever and then we'll divide, and then we'll bind these into bundles, cast into the fire and gather the wheat into the garners. So then, that means that whatever I am predestinated to be when I come into the world, that's what I will be. That's what I will do everyday, is my foreknowledge predestination. I have no choice in the matter whatsoever. When I'm born into the world it's already predetermined. But this is the thing that we have to remember. As to a sovereignty of rights, we do have it through our lifetime. Though I will do exactly what He predestinated me to do, I can't do anything else. But the thing is, if it is a predestination, or determined destiny as to what he foreknew of me, in that all the works of God are known unto Him from the beginning, if He foreknew me, as to looking through the telescope of time and seeing me born into the world and seeing me as a sovereignty everyday of my life, then He predestinated me according to what He saw in my heart, as to desire and hunger and thirst, and He let me live my life in His mind before I was ever born into the world as to the full extent, right down to the last day. If I dropped away today, then he saw it. And if I come back tomorrow he saw it. And if I dropped away the next day, as to a good man falling seven times and getting back up, then He saw it. If I dropped away and never came back He saw it. If I stayed with Him He saw it. And so then, it was wrote down as it was in the mind of Christ, as to this way of life. So, when I come into the world I cannot do anything except what He saw in His foreknowledge, as to my predestination, but the only thing is, what I am doing was what He foresaw of my own sovereignty as I lived in the world and I did my own thing and God wrote it down accordingly before I was ever born into the world. So I am only following my sovereignty of my own desire and way of life. And when I stand before God I will have chosen that way of my ownself and be punished according to my own wrongs and that which I have done during my lifetime, to be judged by my works whether good or bad. And the man shall be rewarded according to his works that is to say good or bad works, not as to the amount of works. And yet there is a determining as to how much you do. All right. So then, Christians are Christians by predestination. They are Christian by foreknowledge, even though it is is a choice as to following after God, yet God knowing Lucifer, being the God of this world, that we could not stand against the wilds of the devil. And so then, He personified Himself in a human body, come down into the world, brought salvation, gave the blood atonement for the elect and the predestinated. And to be able to do this He had to take away the sins of the world, because the body is unredeemed. And remains unredeemed as to the change as to the day of the change, which is called the redemption of the body. To be able to provide for us, he changed us in the spirit. He wrought this thing in the spirit, because the flesh has already defiled itself, as to doing the things that was wrong. But He didn't charge that against us. He didn't charge that against us. And I wish we had time to really get into this tonight to explain it, because there is hundreds and thousands of things that have to be attached to this to be able to explain what we're trying to say. And when they come, as to the anointing I have to be careful not to override the anointing just to please you as to get you out of here in a few minutes, you know. And it makes it real difficult, because He wants to say what He wants to say. He doesn't like for anybody to question the spirit, not even the preacher. So, we see that the body today is unto grace. It's under the illumination. It is under this, not because God cares for the world out there. He's angry with the wicked everyday. He said, I will pursue the wicked until they perish from off of the face of the earth. And He said, Their offerings are an abomination in My sight. And He said, Their prayers are an abomination in My sight. I hear people so often, they say, God hears my prayers. I don't live right, I don't serve God. They do whatever they want to, said, But God hears my prayer. That's where you are wrong. The Bible says, and the Scriptures can't be broken. It says, And we know that God heareth not a sinners prayer. There ain't no need of a sinner praying a prayer to God, God isn't going to listen at it. So then, who does God listen to. He listens to one kind of people and that is the predestinated of God that has been made perfect in God by the foreknowledge as to the Lamb having been slain and the blood having been applied, and they that hear His voice are His children. They know His voice and a stranger they will not follow. How can they be mislead when they will not follow a stranger. So then, we are the predestinated of God, predetermined before we were ever born into the world as to who we are and what we are. So we know then that God doesn't care for sinners. That is, out yonder those that are wicked. Only for those that are accounted for as sinner who are the elect and predestinated of God that God will being out from among them. And the grace that He has given to them is not for their benefit. It is for our benefit. It is for our benefit. No judge in his right mind would sit on the seat of judgment and look out here and see hundreds and thousands and millions of murders and fornicators, killers, all these kind of things, and say I give you grace. Grace for what? So they can go murder somebody else. Grace? When does the law do that? If you murder one person the law goes after you. There is no grace to those people in those kind of things. The grace is that the love of God is seen through this to them, though he is angry with them everyday and will pursue them until they perish from off of the face of the earth, saying, Beware, ye that forget God, lest I turn you into hell. All nations that forget me, I will turn you into hell. And I will tear you into pieces. See? But the grace is for you, because inwardly you belong to God. You are born of the Holy Spirit. That is your power of overcoming. And the Holy Spirit on the inside is sealed until the day of the change of the body. And the body profiteth nothing though I killed it at Calvary, because it has to do with the beast side of it. So then, there is nothing of you that God sees at anytime that's sinful. He never sees one mistake in your life. He never sees one error in your life. You are completely without fault before God. You are completely without fault. Help me, Chuck, because my throat is a little tight. So then, you are completely without fault before God. See? You are completely without fault before God because inwardly you are born of the Holy Spirit, sealed with the Holy Spirit, and nothing can penetrate that seal, nothing can change that seal. As the signet of the king of the Old Testament once it was stamped as an epistle, we that are known and read of all men, nothing dare mess with that. So then, we are sealed inwardly and the Bible said, He that is born of God keepeth Himself and the evil one toucheth him not. Never. Never. See? He comes after a church without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. Satan never touches you, and all of his accusation of mind, all of this problem of oppression, this has nothing to do with your justification, your salvation. God has perfected, or made perfect forever them that are sanctified, having sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary. I know there is a daily sanctification as to putting away of the filth of the flesh as to be a power of utilization for Christ. It has nothing to do with your salvation at all. All right. So then, we are a perfect people. Whereas, I know folks say there is no perfect one, but the Bible said Job was a perfect man. Mark the perfect man among you. Every man that be perfect shall be as his master, and God hath perfected forever. And on and on and on. So then, we see that the argument of the mind and the corruption of the mind it's always trying to figure things out and present it, that they don't know what they are saying. They are blinded. They don't understand. They strain at a gnat. Jesus said, Blind guides that stain at a gnat and swallow a camel. They promise others liberty when they themselves are the servants of corruption, as to that of that which a man is overcome by he's brought into bondage to, and so he is the subject of that whichever controls him. So, I'm saying that we who are born again have passed from death unto life. We shall never come into condemnation. How then can I do anything but walk in the spirit? Someone would say, But, Brother Pike, if you walk in the flesh then that means that you are condemned. That's true. But how can you walk in the flesh when you are born of God, and the Bible said, He that is born of God is not even in the flesh. I have chosen you out of the flesh. I have chosen you out of the world. Your angelic being went back to God at the death of your body by Calvary to reckon yourself to be dead there, back to God who gave it. You are not in the flesh. You are not even in the world, because if you are not in the flesh you couldn't be in the world. When a man's body dies, is he then in the world. Don't they put the body in the ground and the spirit goeth back to God who gave it? to reckon yourself to be dead, not as some kind of typical thing. But as we say, the water is a grave and you are dead and buried by the body of the Lord Jesus. And the blood that is on the Seat of Atonement is that illumination as it was over Adam and Eve, as to the grace of this light for your body's sake that when God looks at you He doesn't see the bastard child image of that which he smote at Calvary. But He sees His lovely Son's body, even bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh whose body ye are, as to members in particular. And He sees you by this illumination of this grace that He has given through the dispensation of our times that we might be illuminated in the body to have no faults, because in the Spirit we are already sealed, as to the spirit, to have no fault. And because of this, this illumination as to the light of the world as to this grace reaches even unto them that are without and this is how Revelation, as to the twelfth chapter, this is how Lucifer got into the second heaven. Because that illumination is the second heaven; it's God's presence with His people, and the devil living in those human bodies out there find themselves in this age of healing and in this age of all of these things that the flesh goes after, and this thing of living it up; turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. Whereas, the Bible says when the church goes out the light goes out and they'll find themselves in a total intellectual darkness; not even enough knowledge and understanding and sense, as we say in the world, to even perfect a bottle of medicine. It doesn't matter if they are doctors, physicians, professors, they won't have any understanding, not even so much as to make an aspirin to where it will stop the pain. They'll be filled as with darkness, the kingdom of the beast, as to people that are not children of God are beast. Their kingdom will be filled with darkness; they will gnaw their tongues for pain and they will even beg for death, and death will not be a power of liberation to take them out of their torment. They won't even be able to die during that period of time. So then, where does this wonderful life come from? Do I get salvation by repentance? No. Why do I repent? I repent because when I realize that I've been contrary to my Heavenly Father; then I am a Son. I become grieved and I repent. And at the same time somebody else might be sitting with me in this life, as to have the wonderful rain upon that tare. And there might be, as to the tare bowing it's head, there might be a repentance out of somebody, as it was with Esau. He sought repentance with tears; found no place of repentance, because the birthright had already been given to Jacob. So then, as I said last night, why was it given to Jacob? Because at the birth, as to the opening of the matrix, the hand came forth and the little ribbon was tied on it. And then when the hand disappeared then Esau was born. But it was Jacob's hand, as to the breach. And when the time came, then the birthright belong to Jacob. He did not steal it. It belong to him. And so then as to Esau being the first born, he was suppose to get the right to all the inheritance, as to rule over his father's house with the wealth. But Jacob, the mother knowing what had happened, because God had talked to her about those children, as to the wrestling in the womb, and that the elder would serve the younger. What is it today? Those that are in the first birth, as to follow the educational system of the world, and to follow the deities of life, as to those things as to dignitaries out there in the world, those that are following after the flesh, they are the first born, because your body is the first born. God has condemned. He's took on the bastard child image; the beast image through the fall in the Garden; the beasts mind; disobedience to God; unbelievers and so then, Satan, as working in the beast is their God and they are the tares that he has brought in the world. God didn't put them in the world. For as through the weakness of the woman, she gives birth to both. But as to the man, he doesn't give birth to anything. He is as of life and that without transgression and his life, as from his loins, is that of life, as unto life and her's as unto death. So then, it is seen as to the world, the children of the world, as to the woman, and the children of heaven, as to those that are of God. And when Jesus said, I come from heaven; I go back to heaven. Ye are of the world and to the dust ye shall go. Adam, from the dust thou art, and to the dust thou shalt go. But the great illumination of that Christ image did not go to the dust. It just withdrew and came back to receive the body of the righteous at Calvary to illuminate them, to change them into that glorified image in which they were made in the Garden. That image that had been lost had now come back to them. But what image we are as to the inward man, and though it does not yet appear as to what we shall be at the sounding of the last trump, that is to say the last trump and the change of Thessalonians, in the moment in the twinkling of an eye it will be made manifest, as to the inward glory as to this glory of heavenly treasure, this glory that is within us that is not to be compared with the beggarly elements of this world. All right. So then we see that all of these gifts, they are without repentance. You cannot get a calling to be a preacher by going to college, or repenting and deciding that you want to preach. There is no such thing. You cannot be a Christian by deciding that you want to be a Christian. There is no such thing. Paul preached to them, and the Bible said, As many as were ordained unto eternal life, as by the foreknowledge of God, they believed and the rest of them were blind. So then, you get the gilts of eternal life, you get the callings of God by foreknowledge, as to what God had determined as what He had predestinate you unto. See? And in this we find that the callings and gifts of God are without repentance. And in this we find that though Esau repented he did not get the birthright, because before the world ever was by foreknowledge God had determined that the blood would be an application with the Lamb slain in His mind from the foundation of the world in the behalf of Jacob. And he said, Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. Then do we say there is unrighteousness with God? God, how can you say you love Jacob and you hate Esau. Doesn't that mean that Esau doesn't have a chance and Jacob has all the favoritism with God? And I say, Nay, Lord. But Paul said, How can you, the thing that was made, say nay to God. If God wants to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor what can you do about it? See? You can't do anything about it. What is God was willing to take those vessels, as Esau, that was fitted unto destruction and subject them to suffering, as over a long term period? What could you do about it? And what if He was willing to take that as Jacob, as to that which was blessed, and put that out there and give it blessings down through the years? What could you do about it? But is there then unrighteousness with God? Of course not. How then did the thing come about that Jacob I love and Esau have I hated? He foresaw in His foreknowledge, as he said to them that come, I never knew you, as in His foreknowledge. When He looked down He saw that Esau would be contrary to everything that God loved and stood for. So He did not write his name down in the Lamb's Book of Life. As Paul said, Greet my women workers, or men workers, or these that are, whose name are already now written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. And beware lest God blot your name out of the Lamb's Book of Life. And it would take a while to explain that. But anyway, we see here that there is a life that is allowed for that people actually can come into and still not be the predestinated. But anyway, not getting into that tonight, going on a little further here. So then, we understand that God foresaw Jacob and saw that Jacob would have a heart that would be like David of old, a man after God's own heart to want to do God's will, and as the vow was at Bethel, to give his heart and his substance to God to follow God. So, God foreseeing the different paths of life that they would take, He said, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. And this is why that God gave Jacob the birthright, as to say that it is not the first man that is born into the world to be saved as to the natural man, who is contrary to God, and the carnal mind being contrary to God, not subject to the laws of God, neither in his deeds can be. But that which is the spiritual man, which is the second birth, saying that the first birth shall serve the second birth, or the elder shall serve the younger. And so then, before the world ever was it was given to Jacob, as in the blood as to the life being in the blood. And then we see that in this, this is why that the Jews, as of today, are blinded. I've said this before. Blinded in part. Why? Because we see here God having abolished within His flesh the keeping of commandments and ordinances, taking them out of the way, nailing them to the cross, we are not under the constraint of those things that they could not keep, Paul saying, as in that day and the others saying not to laden the Gentiles with these, because even the Jews could not keep these things. But Jesus who kept every jot and tittle accredited that as to righteousness unto us as to the righteousness of the law and we are as Christ and in God we are His workmanship unto perfection unto (Begin tape two, side one.) good works and what Christ Jesus was in the sight of God and is in the sight of God, so am I today. As He is so am I. Complete in Him. As to what He wrought in my behalf; He is my righteousness and when He, my life, shall appear I shall appear in glory with him, for I believe that. And everyone that hath this hope within himself as to Christ Jesus the hope of that glory, in that He alone was made heir to that glory, as the promise not unto many, but unto one, even as unto thy seed. That is to say Abraham. Then that means that I'm up here with Him and His life, as to my life being one life and that in the blood of Jesus Christ, in that the life is in the blood. Which means my blood is no more as the red dragon as that which is of the flesh, or that blood that it took sin, as to death, to the life into it from the first man Adam. So then, the second man Adam came with that new blood stream, that new blood cell, with that new undefiled life and by the washing of changing of generations. That is to baptize as to the spirit, or being baptized into the body by the Spirit, or that is to say as to have the natural man buried in water baptism, and they that have been baptized into Christ Jesus, as into His name, they have put on His identity, put on that body, and they are no more that body that they was, but their dead body as to that body that was smitten at Calvary, the bastard child image, is now buried, or gone out of the sight of God and the resurrected Christ that was raised again for our justification is alive today, of who you and I are. Then we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, or that is to say, we are on this side of the Jordan, as to death or Calvary, even as a symbolic sense showed it as with Moses and Joshua crossing over the Jordan. So, or Moses not going and Joshua going. So, we see then that the veil has been rent in twain and as to the hinder part that Moses saw was from Calvary back and he could not see beyond the veil and because he wrote as to these things that were revealed to him we have a book called beginning, or Genesis which tells of the Garden. Whereas there was no history of this and it came from God through Moses. And then on this side of the veil, as to say Calvary, that is on this side of the veil of intellectual reasoning, which was the death veil that fell over the mind of Eve. That is to say, the weakness of the flesh as to the intellectual tree of knowledge. So then, in this we are on this side of the veil and we are seeing face to face. And as we explained to some of the brethren today, they said to Moses, You talk to God for we know that no man can see God's face and live. So, Moses saw the hind part. And then when they saw the illumination of Moses' face he had to put a veil over his face, because they could not look at it, thus signifying the body, as to the envelopment of the Shekinah glory of God. Whereas, that veil was to be rent and then that glory was to shine, as to the light of the world, and you are that light and you are that glory. You are that body, as to members in particular. And that means that you are heir to that glory and the glory of that light is what is filling the world today. And I say this sometimes to kind of express it to where you can understand. As it was in the days of Noah eight people was saved and then there was a crossing. And then we go on down to Sodom and Gomorrah and four people are saved. It's in halves, and then there is a crossing. And then we come all the way down to the Jordan and two people are saved, as Caleb and Joshua, because there is a crossing. And then we come all the way over to Calvary and then there is one person that is saved, which is the Lord Jesus Christ, because there is a crossing. That is to say, and a promise as unto seeds of one. Now, and unto many. And in Isaac shall thy seed be called. So then, today there is only one that's heir to the glory. There's only one that was found justified in the sight of God. There was only one that was found righteous out of all humanity and today we have access to that glory as a oneness with Jesus Christ if we be His body, if we be His bone, if we be His flesh. Then if we be His spirit, if we be that royal blood, then we have access to the glory of God in that we are the promised seed, as to members in particular of that one body, Jesus Christ being the head. That is of the church. And we, the church as to the body. All right. So then, hurrying and running and rushing and pushing and shoving to just say a few things in a compact manner that there is no way to express it. But anyway, these things as I say, not having any means of vocabulary expression the Holy Spirit has to say these things, and that in a way to where you can understand. So, seeing these things then the veil is rent in twain, the veil is rent in twain. Moses, as to the Jews, they look upon the hinder part. We as through, not a glass darkly, as to the eyes of understanding, but ours as to being enlightened, not as to those that are darkened, but we are seeing face to face, as to the glory of this illumination that is released. This wonderful glory of God. And as I say, we have the glory of God. So, a lot of times I say this over so that you'll remember. Peter said, You know these things but I try to bring them to your remembrance as long as I'm in this tabernacle. That it is commonly said, And His glory He will not give to another. And that's Scripture. But on the other hand I am not another. Neither are you another. You are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh and God has given His glory to you and to me, in that Jesus said, Father, glorify these with the same glory I had with thee before the world ever was, even the glory of God. Let's give the Lord a hand, can we? All right. So, we can see the light of the world, even the glory of that great city. And the Bible says, As her light, Bride, prepared for her husband, even lively stones that make up that holy city, even the foundation as of the Apostles, the city Abraham searched for whose builder and maker is God, the city with foundations. And the Bible said her light was most precious, even like a jasper stone. That is to say, the wonderful, wonderful city of God, ye being stones built up as a lively stone into a habitation for God, even the lovely temple, Him being as the pyramid type the chief cornerstone. So then, His glory, as to this light most precious, He is the glory of God, which glory He appeared in as He stood on the mountain with Moses and Elijah. Let's stand together, because there is so much to be said and so little time to say it in, and so very difficult to say it in that the Bible said people are dull of hearing. Jesus said, Many things to be said unto you but you are dull of hearing. He said to the Israelites in His day, Having ears you hear not, having eyes you see not. Which, being the prophet like unto Moses He was repeating what Moses had said after forty years, For forty years you have wandered in the wilderness, your ears have never come open and your eyes have never come open. In your hearts you have never perceived. So here He is as Moses again, as to the prophet like unto saying, And it shall come to pass that God shall raise up a prophet like unto myself, Moses said, and it shall come to pass that whosoever faileth to hear this prophet I will require it of him, or he shall be cut off from among the people. And here that prophet is and He is saying to that same Israel, Having ears, as Moses said, you hear not. Your ears have never come open, and having eyes you see not. Your eyes have never come open, neither have you perceived in your heart. Thus the veil remaineth over the face of those people, even as until today, until the days of the Gentiles is fulfilled, and then as we said as to the four eighty-seven and the seven. Those things as to the heavenly perspective. And then the closing of the door, as to the bowels of compassion, from the church. The age of the Gentiles gone. The light gone. And then you'll find out that this glorious light was not for those outside, this glorious healing, this wonderful heaven, this great mighty heaven that God has given unto us is not for them that are without, that God is angry with them everyday. And it is only given that your body might be precious in His sight that He may find no fault with it while your spirit is also precious in His sight, having been perfected forever. And the body is redeemed. You just haven't wit the redemption, because it is the purchase possession and that which the dispute is over. All right. Let's sing together, can we? (Sings Room At The Cross.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.) Sing that with me, now. (Continues singing, sings At The Cross.) Sing it one more time. (Continues singing, sings Gone.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.) Let's sing that with me. (Continues singing.) Sing it one more time. (Continues singing.) Some of you have been there, you've seen it. The stone rolled away and you've seen the tomb empty. (Continues singing.) Give me another key, Frank. (Sings Jesus Gave Her Water.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing, sings He Poured In The Oil And The Wine.) Can you sing that with me? Can't you rejoice in the Lord? If your sins are gone, if you are born of God and you cannot sin, if there is no condemnation to you because you are not in the flesh, but in Christ Jesus, if you are they that dwell in heaven, He said rejoice forever more. Not of this world, I've chosen you out of this world, hid you with Christ in God whom the heaven have received until the time of the restoring of all things and that's why the Bible said serving the Lord is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. Folks, when you serve God that's the way you think, for God is the Word and when you believe the Word then you're serving God. And when you believe the Word it's joy unspeakable and full of glory, because you don't have any condemnation. And if the devil comes over you the Bible says, Happy is he that does not condemn himself over that thing which he allows, in that he stumbleth and the devil accuses him. For if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart, and He knoweth all things. He knoweth we're without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. You love the Lord? Somebody say Hallelujah! You ought to feel free. The Son hath made you free. Isn't that right? Isn't that what the song writer said? He said it's the highest honor on this earth. I claim Jesus first of all and that's enough for me. Let's sing that. Give me another key. (Sings I Claim Jesus.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing.) Sing that with me, can you? (Continues singing.) Can you sing it once more with me? (Continues singing.) Let's give Him a wave offering. (Continues singing.) One more time together. (Continues singing.) Don't you feel that freedom? (Continues singing.) Sing it one more time and I want you to think about it. Think about it now. (Continues singing.) Don't you feel that freedom? Freedom for sin, freedom from death, freedom from condemnation, don't that make you have joy unspeakable and full of glory? If you are a believer you believe that. Having passed from death unto life shall never come into condemnation. (Continues singing.) The Bible said, And no one can lay anything to the charge of God's elect. And you don't have to fear. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid for the Bible said, Nothing can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, having loved you so much gave you the greatest thing that heaven could afford. Nothing can separate you from that love. (Continues singing.) Why don't we all just come to the altar? (Continues singing.) One more time while we're coming. (Continues singing.) Let's give Him a hand, folks. Somebody say praise the Lord. Don't you love the Lord? How wonderful, how wonderful it is to be a child of God. (Sings Hills Of Home.) Let's sing this chorus we sing so much, Brother Taylor. Do you love the Lord? Do you feel free? The Bible said where the Spirit of God is there is liberty. I feel the wonderful freedom of God, don't you? ( Sings Is That The Lights Of Home I See?) Can you sing that over? (Continues singing.) Somebody say, Hallelujah. Let's lift our hands up together, close our eyes and sing this little chorus together. Give me a key. (Sings I Will Praise Him.) Once again, now. (Continues singing.) Don't you like the idea of living forever? (Continues.) Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, if I can just make it, if I can just hold on, maybe when I get there He'll see fit to give me eternal life. Brethren, Sister's in Christ, let me tell you. There won't be any days like that. Eternal life is given right here. Sins are remitted right here and judgment is beginning in the house of the Lord. If you want eternal life, to pass from death unto life now is the time. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Let whosoever will come, calling on the name of the Lord. It shall come to pass that they shall be saved. (Continues singing.) Do you feel like you've passed from death unto life? Do you feel like you have eternal life? The gift of God is eternal life and God gives eternal life, as to the Holy Ghost, to them that obey Him. If you obey Him as to repent and call on His name, did God foresee you. As to what route of life are you taking? Are you the elect? Are you fore-ordained unto condemnation as ungodly men to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. That is, to take advantage of it while there is grace as to do your own thing? (Begin tape two, side two.) Are you they Paul spoke of as those that were of old fore-ordained unto eternal life that ye might believe? It's a sovereignty as of now, because though God foresaw it as to the end of your life, yet you've not lived to the end of your life, which means in His mind it is still going to see what the ultimatum of your life will be as to the grand finale. (Continues singing.) Praise Him with me, can you? I'm going to ask Brother Gary Joiner to come up and dismiss us, if He will. The Bible said search yourself, see if you be in the faith even the faith cometh by the hearing of the Word, not as old wives fables as to the flesh, but as to the faith of that which cometh by the hearing of the Word, even the faith of Jesus Christ by which you are sanctified. Are you in the faith tonight? Are you walking in the faith tonight? If you are then you belong to Him. If you've never made the great commitment unto God, make it. Paul said, I am persuaded to believe that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that great day. Once again. (Continues singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord