Following After The Word

Now I guess one of the most outstanding things in the Bible, and what can you say, the most outstanding in the Bible is the Word. All down through my life-time in preaching, I've always remembered what the Bible says about he that God sendeth shall speak God's Word. And He says in one place, if these that had come, if I had sent these men, then they would have caused My people to turn from their sins. But in that they did not cause my people to turn from their sins, then it's very evident that I did not send them. The minister of God as to the gospel will always turn people away from sin, because sin is a killer. Sin is the sting of death. And the one thing that we seek to do is to turn people away from sin. All right so then in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. And the same came forth. It put on flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld Him as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and full of truth, the Word. So my life has always orbited around the Word. No matter what I do, no matter where I go it's always around the Word that my life orbits. I believe in the Word. I think the Word. I talk the Word. I live the Word. I trust in the Word. I advise people to the Word. Everything of my life is toward the Word. I try not to get out of bounds with the Word. We all stumble and stagger; and I'm not a very good example as to following the Word; but I make a diligent effort with all of my heart. I try to love Him with all of my heart, with all of my mind, all of my soul, all of my strength. Because to me that's everything: the Word. The Word is God and everything. The Word is everything. And when you trust in the Word, when you believe in the Word, when you take the Word, when you put your faith in the Word, and you confess the Word in word and in deed as to your own activities of life, things always, always, always work out right. Never, never, never do they work out wrong, never. We've tried that around the world. We've preached it around the world. We've trusted in it around the world. And while I've seen other people struggle at ritualistics and al kind of things; and try to make their life one way or another or go one way or another, or go one way or another or try to figure out salvation or whatever, I just always went back to the Word, and always held to the Word, and always preached the Word, and always loved the Word, and always trusted in the Word, always refreshed my mind in the Word, constantly going to the Word, learning the Word, understanding the Word and loving the Word; and it always worked. While others stumbled and staggered around, God always gave me strength. Now we're glad to have you here this morning. I appreciate you being here with us. I trust that Chuck will give me all the volume he can up there and keep it at that level. That really interferes if I don't, if it's changed around. And I love to get the best I can out of this thing. One of these days I think we'll be able to fix this. It might be after Jesus comes, but I think it will be taken care of. We're going to keep believing and trying. All right, as I've said so many times here as to experts, we have what they call almost perfect acoustics. And we shouldn't be having any problem. But we do have a little problem, not when I use my mike. We've got a mike that I use. The brethren bought me a mike. It's about three thousand dollars or more, even years ago. And I don't have any problem if I use that mike. But whether it's under the tent, auditorium, wherever, but when I'm here it gives me a little problem. This mike ain't the best one in the world. And there's a little problem there with it, but it does pretty good. It's not too gaudy, and it stays out of the way in the filming. And I can make out pretty good with it as long as I stay behind the sacred desk and have all the volume I can get. All right we're glad to have you here. I see a brother setting here with us. Do I know this brother here, close to you Brother Fontaine? What's your name brother? Brother Randy Blair. Blair, that name I know over in the islands, but I don't believe I met any Blairs here. Where are you from, Randy? Lawrenceville, well it's certainly a pleasure to have you down here with us. I see our sister back from Tennessee. They finally got back. They've been gone over there for a while. Brother Charlie's mother-in-law. We're glad to have them back in service. And see Bill's in off the road today. Well praise God! Let's give Him a hand. Hallelujah! Somebody say, Hallelujah! If you appreciate these people being here, give them a hand this morning? Hallelujah! I just had a feeling Bill might be here this morning. All right, so then inasmuch as we're enthused over the Word, I guess you must have come to hear the Word this morning. If you had have come for any other reason, you wouldn't have been able to enjoyed yourself, because the Bible said, He that God sendeth will speak God's Word. And here we are being sent of God. And so we're interested in the Word, and we're interested in turning you away from sin. And the reason for that is because sin is the displeasure of God because sin kills. Now when I come up here, I'm filled up and overflowing, literally filled up and overflowing with the Word and with the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Brother Taylor was talking about the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The Revelation of Jesus Christ it is the revealing of the Word. It is the changing of the Word into spirit and into life. It's the only form of life. It's the Words of life and the only form of life, because God is the life. And the Bible says as concerning the prophetical utterance, in the time of John the Baptist when his father was anointed there, the strings of his tongue loose, he prophesied, and the Spirit spoke through him saying, And God is ordained that we should serve Him in holiness and in righteousness without fear all the days of our life. For the Bible said, Be not afraid of Him that's able to kill the body, and after that can do no more, but rather be afraid of him that when once he has killed the body, he can also destroy the soul in hell. So we think about the Spirit, the Revelation. The Bible said, In the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the deep, and God called for light, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and there was light. Let's read it, chapter one, the book of Genesis. (Reads Genesis 1:1-31; 2:1-3) Now right here there's something for us to kind of think on right there as to using the terms that God created heaven and earth and all these things, and then resting on the seventh day. Maybe we'll just talk just a minute before we get into our thought. And if the minds are hungry and the Spirit moves, then we'll get into the deep mysteries of God or the Revelation. And of course if we don't we'll just exhort you. It always depends on the hunger and the thirst as to what the Spirit will say unto the churches. The Bible said, And let the churches or the church hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches, speaking churches as to dispensational ages. Now, if you'll notice it said that God finished all of His work in six days and rested on the seventh. And knowing that God had chosen a people called the Jews, and that He was using them in a symbolic manner as to show a church, a church that someday He would bring forth. And that in these symbolic things as to allegoric types and shadows, God was laying these down as a blue print and a program for you and I in later years. And that our understanding was to come from God out of these allegoric types and these shadows. That's why Paul uses the terms that in the reading of the Old Testament, speaking to the Jews as of his day, that the veil which was over Moses' face as to hide the glory that was revealed in that day, that is to say, And that which could not steadfastly be seen as unto the end of it, that that veil he said remaineth until today untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away with in Calvary, or that is to say, if Calvary was the rent veil, then the veil being rent in twain, as to the veil of death of intellectual concept of God and reasoning, that which fell over the eyes as to the eyes of understanding, over the eyes of Eve and Adam in the Garden, that cut them off from the spirit world and that wonderful, beautiful Garden, that veil of intellectual death; as to be carnally minded is death. And that intellectual veil of death as to human reasoning; whereas, the Bible said, Lean not to thine own understanding but trust in the law with all of your heart. And that human veil of reasoning that fell over them, remaineth over the face of the people, handed down to the children, as in Adam all die. So then we find that that veil is still there, except in Calvary. And even until today it's still there as to intellectual reasoning; whereas the Bible says concerning them that do not have this veil rent in their life, that they shall not see when good comes. Even the eyes of their understanding, being darkened that they cannot see as to the eyes of understanding when the light cometh. For the Bible said, And this great, wonderful light as to the understanding of God, it shined in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. But as to you and I, I say this so often that we comprehend the heights, the depth, the width and the length of this wonderful light which is the understanding of Almighty God. So then we know by this that the church world continues, continues. It continues to walk in an intellectual indoctrination as to the wild imagination or as of to vanities of life. And all they ever see is the natural side of life. And they think of a natural God, and they see according to a natural way of life; and they are taught prosperity and blessings, which of course comes from God; in that the Bible said that the gospel is profitable for this world as to this life and the world to come. And He hath given us all things that pertain unto life, both in this life and the world to come; but in that we are a spiritual people, then we serve a spiritual God. Paul said, I would that ye were spiritual. I'd like to speak unto you as unto spirituals. And he said, Pray that God will grant unto you the spirit of revelation, that the eyes of your understanding should be unveiled or enlightened; otherwise, you can never see these things. As it was the Jews, they were looking for the Messiah, but when the Messiah came they did not recognize the Messiah, because the veil was over their face. And they could not understand what Moses had told them concerning the Messiah. So they rejected the Messiah, and the Messiah turned to the Gentiles. And then He desired to take out of the Gentiles a bride for His name's sake. So He sent Paul the Revelator as one that had the Revelation or the revealing of Christ. The revealing of Christ, that is from the body of Jesus came forth the Christ at the rent veil; that is to say as of His flesh, as to the veil rent in twain; that is to say, He made within Himself twain or two, both Lord and Christ, that when the Lord was separated from the Christ as to the rent veil, being rent in twain, in that He said, Destroy this temple, I'll raise it up in three days; when the veil was rent in twain, at that time your tabernacle was separated from your spirit; and your tabernacle from that time on was considered dead by the wrath of God that had been poured out upon that tabernacle, even the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which God smote or we esteem Him smitten of God, He that knew no sin was made our sin that we might be made the righteous body of Christ Jesus. Now, the body of this death, the dispute over the death. And this is where the problem come in because the thing that Adam lost, in that Adam was not in the transgression but Eve, he lost his body, as to his body being the wife, and the wife being the reproductive part as to His image; as it is with man, woman, she is made for the glory of man as to reproduce his image. And man is the feminine part, and woman is only a typical, allegoric type; for man is feminine as to the spirit, his conception is of the divine order of God; whereas Paul said, And I travail until Christ be formed within you as to the divinity of the conception of the divine seed of God, to bring forth Christ in our life; therefore man is the glory of God. Because he reproduces the image of Almighty God. So we see then that in this that when we speak as to the new city of New Jerusalem, we find that the gates of that city they have the name of the Israelites on the gates. And the name of the apostolic leaders in the foundation. So then the New Testament being the foundation of this apostolic leadership, in that the Bible says that Jesus Christ hath laid these foundations as to the twelve apostolic foundations for the city, then no other foundations can any man lay, which means there could never be another doctrine of any kind, no matter what the churchism is, or no matter what the powers are, whether it is of the Jewish people or of the papacy of Rome, or whether it is of the Protestant people, it doesn't matter, they could never be any other foundations except these that Jesus Christ has laid, which is the apostolic leaders, which is the foundation of that great, wonderful city of New Jerusalem. And you can't lay any other foundations. Jesus picked these out himself in the time of his earthly ministry, and He laid these. And when Abraham spoke of this even before the coming of the Messiah, he said that he was seeking a city. And it is said of Abraham that he was a stranger and a pilgrim in a strange country, seeking a city whose builder and maker is God. Or that is to say, I seek a city with foundations. Because the world I say again, hath no foundations. All of these things, even as to the natural world, Pluto, Mars, all of these planets are just drifting around in space, and there is no foundation. And the bottomless pit is out there and these are just drifting around, just drifting around. And when you get away from these you find no boundaries, you find no top, you find no side, you find no, scientists have never been able to fathom it because it's the bottomless pit of infinity. See, and that's why scientists falsely so called as to a knowledge is ever learning and will never be able to come to God's truth knowledge or the knowledge of the truth which is the Word of God. See, and it cannot be learned in seminary. It cannot be learned in schooling. It must be revealed. For the Bible said, These things are higher above our mind than the heavens is the earth. And God seeks to reveal it to babes, even to them that are willing to learn, that we might have the spirit of Revelation. All right so then God is a spirit. So we see these allegoric types of the gates of that great city. That means to say that all of this of the Old Testament is the gateway into the New Testament. And the New Testament is the foundation of that great, wonderful city. And Paul said, I am a wise master builder and that ye are the lively stones. I have the revelation. And I'm sent as to an overseer to the Gentile church to build this city of lively stones. And he said, Every man that builds on these foundations, let him take heed how that he build for the day shall try his work as if by fire. And if his works abide he shall receive a reward, but if not, then his works shall be burned. And even though some will get in as if by fire, they themselves being saved as if by fire, staggering and stumbling around, and never bringing any fruit to perfection; yet, the Bible speaks of this great, wonderful city being built to let us go on to perfection as I said the other night. Not turning again to lay the foundation of dead works and faith toward God, but on to the doctrine of baptisms and on to eternal judgment and the resurrection of the dead, and these things shall we do if God permit. All right so I say again it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Ghost if they should fall away to renew them again unto repentance, seeing that they crucify to themselves afresh the Lord Jesus Christ. And bring Him to an open shame. So we see then in this just briefly speaking to you as to brief you on a few things to where you can understand that the Old Testament is an allegoric gateway into this wonderful city as into the midst of the church of these lively stones of whom Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone or that is to say as to the Pyramid City. He is the All Seeing Eye. He is the Capstone of the Great City. And that within the confines of these beautiful, luscious, lovely walls, as we say, her light being most precious, even as a jasper stone, then this light being as to the Lamb on the inside, which is the light that penetrates our heart, moves out the infiltration that makes us just like a crystal clear stone to where this radiation as like in a diamond, the fire of God, showing through there, in that we're the stones of God, and he uses the terms, And I will remember thee and spare thee as a man spareth his sons, when I come to make up my jewels. So then within the confine of this great wonderful city as to the throne of God within the midst of us, then we find the Lamb as to the Word which is the Spirit as to understanding, which is the light. And we're standing firmly upon the foundations of the apostolic leaders, and we are exalting the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as to the remission of sin and to the power of deliverance as to healing or whatever it is in that he is the Word, and the name of that Word is Jesus. For Jesus said, And Father, I have manifested thy name. And Father I have given them thy name. And I have kept them in thy name. And if another had have come in his own name he said to the people, you would have received Him. But I come in My Father's name and you receive me not. And the Bible said, There's none other name given under heaven whereby man must be saved, and that there is remission of sin in none other name. And beginning at Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the earth, remission for sin shall be taught in His name. No remission without the shedding of blood, and we receive the blood, as to under the law all things was purged by blood. Practically everything, so here we are as to the purging of the blood, but we are made heir to it by remission of our sins, when we repent of our sins, the blood is applied to us, and the acknowledge of that is that we publicly we stand and we are baptized or buried in a watery grave in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to show the body of sin dead, that the body of death is now gone, the image of the bastard child or that of iniquity is now gone as to the body of this death; and we're now putting on as to be resurrected from the dead, being buried with Him in baptism, Paul said, then you have put on Christ, coming forth in the resurrection with Christ we are now bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh as in the sight of God until that great change over the chasm of the church ages till the time of the coming of the Thessalonian change as the sounding of the last trumpet, the finishing of the mysteries of God, and then the body as to change, and then the life of Christ on the inside being made manifest in our mortal genes. Now, in this we see then that we are the body of the Lord Jesus, members in particular, Jesus Christ Himself, being the head, and the great mystery Paul said, concerning the woman and the man, that the man is the head and the woman is the members. So we are the members of His body in particular, and Jesus Christ Himself is the head, which makes us one in that Eve was taken out of Adam. And we're seeking to return back into the body from whence we came, as to the darkness that came over Adam as to the rending of the veil, as to that when Eve was taken out of the side, as it was with Moses there in the cleft of the rock, and the many things revelationally speaking that we've said in the past or could say. So we see then that now we are within the wonderful city. And what is that wonderful city? John said, I beheld it as the bride of Christ. As a bride adorned for her husband coming down out of the heavens. We are they that come down from heaven. We are they that descend from heaven. We're not of the earth. Jesus said, ye are of the earth. Ye are of the dust. From the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. Because Adam was made out of the dust and ye are born of Adam. And you are born of dust. And in Adam all die; and you love the things of the world; and you go after the things of the world. And the love of the world is in you and you esteem the flesh in self-esteem and education and money and prestige and powers as to dominion and lording over people and all of these things as to dignitaries and celebrities and the way of life as to money values as to being something in the world. See, but in Christ Jesus who was low, very low, made lower than the angels, and yet crowned with the glory of God to be ruler over all things. For what is man that thou art mindful of him, that thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. Thou hast ordained him with your glory and set him over the work of your hands. Or that is to say, all of these things in this world is but lying vanities. Solomon said, Vanity and vanity and vanity of vanities. All is vanity and vexation of the spirit. But see we are not as to a living soul thou we're born of a living soul in our first birth. Yet as to Calvary it brings about the smiting of the firstborn. And Calvary when God moved death, I smote the firstborn. As in the fullness of time God sending forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, and death moved as in Egypt, as in the world, and smote the firstborn. And we who had the blood applied, we as the firstborn was not smitten; but Jesus being smitten for us, now then we are the second born as to the second man Adam, and the image that the first man Adam lost through the fall as to the Shekinah Glory; whereas God said, And you covering but not of me, having to put skins on them that today you are the bastard child image as in the world as to the first birth and you are carrying the fleshly image of skins. And he said as to you, you having the infiltration of Lucifer within that flesh, and Satan savoring the things that be of the flesh, then are you swallowed up of the things of the flesh and ye are a bondschild as to the bondage of your intellectual reasoning by human senses, as in these five senses, being fastened to the things of this world and the frolics of this world and the ways of this world and all that pertains to the flesh, in that Jesus said as concerning this when he spoke to Peter, thou savorest the things that be of the world or of the flesh and not the things that be of you, and be of God. And this that is in you as to say and the love of the world within you, the love of the Father is not there. Or the world he has placed within your heart, thus the kingdom of God is not within your heart. But to you that are born again, then you have the kingdom of God on the inside and the world has been taken out. The body is now dead because of sin, in that it relates to the world against the bondschild. You are now the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular as to the new body that is being delivered from death, as to having been delivered for our offenses, Jesus as to your body smote at Calvary, raised again for our justification as to Christ coming up or that is your new body in Christ Jesus, which you cannot see with your natural eyes now as to observation, but we're not to know each other after the flesh, but after the spirit, in that we've passed from the first man Adam as to death of a living soul, because of sin, and now we are a quickening spirit. All that is born of spirit is spirit. He is a quickening spirit as to the second man Adam, and by the washing of regeneration, we are now the second man Adam, as to the quickening spirit, we are through the washing of regeneration over to the generation of Jesus Christ. Therefore we are Gods. The Bible said, Ye are Gods. Though you do not understand as to your educational side of it from God and your developing and you're going on so you die like men. But after that you are come to the complete knowledge and understanding of the allegoric teachings as to your processes, as to your diplomacy of life you will not die. They can't put you in a casket, the grave can't hold you, but you'll be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump from mortality to immortality, from the terrestrial to the celestial, from this corruptible to the incorruptible. Because there is a natural body as to the first man Adam. There is a spiritual body as to the second man Adam. And in that we've born the image of the first and then it was smote at Calvary as to the earthly, now we bear the image of the heavenly as in the eyes of God; and we're waiting for that change to be made manifest at the last trump. Every man that hath this hope within him purifies himself even as he is pure. And at the last trump, this will break forth as to the inner life of Christ made manifest in a moment, in the twinkling of eye to a change in you as to the life of Christ within your mortal genes. All right saying a lot here, just kind of hurrying along to lay a little foundation here to get a thought over. All right so then we see that we cannot learn this. We cannot go to college and get this. We must have this revealed to us because God hath reserved this unto himself. That he will reveal to us as babes if we're willing to submit ourself, giving more grace to the humble. Briefly as I run through these things, then you can see what I'm saying to you. You can understand why that Calvary, why from Calvary on over this great revelation called the Revelation of Jesus Christ which John saw in the last book of the Bible, this great revelation of Jesus Christ is to us then the revealing or the making known of the invisible Christ which is the invisible Spirit. So then the world goes after the natural Christ as to the Moses side of it as to the law. And of course they go to Calvary as to death being smitten; because it is only those where the blood was applied as to when I see the blood, I'll pass over you, that today that we can actually say, the blood has been applied at Calvary, as we say here when the thorns went into his head as over the doorpost, when the thorns or nails went into his hands and on the side of the doors here as Jesus saying, I am the door. And through the darkness of this night as to that night of darkness as to death, that intellectual reasoning that we are passing through, that we are within, and we're staying within and we're not going out, while death is smiting the Egyptians as through this dark night, as to civilization springing from Egypt, and all is of Egypt except you and I, salvation being of the Jews, then we are born as to say, the true Jew. And we are they that are being led by the great, wonderful Spirit all the way from Egypt bondage as to this garlic and onion world over into Canaan where we will find the new harvest. By the way of this intellectual wilderness. That is to say the intellectual wilderness wondering of the change from natural life as to the natural man's thoughts to spiritual life as to a spiritual man's thoughts. Or coming by the way of the wilderness and all of the serpents biting us, which means evil spirits as to a representation of those demons and devils as those thoughts oppress our mind as we make the inner-change right there like a woman going through the change of life and a man going through the change of life. This is the most dangerous part of all. And as a child coming from their childhood over to adult stages, they go through the change of life; and during this time the law is after them and they're in prison and they lose their virtues and all kind of things unless they have a real dad and mother that's concerned and somebody to watch after them, that's not gullibly drunken off of the cares of the life as to the frolics of life and to the frivolous things, as to the intellectual reasoning of carnality. Whereas to be carnally minded is death because there is no spirit in carnality. And even though I say so often we can have all the carnal things that we want too as to cars, houses, money, whatever it is, providing we're never at any time carnally minded. We must be spiritually minded and use carnal things. God is a Spirit. He created all the carnal things and that for Adam and they all belong to you. Having lost them as to the fall as the first man Adam he redeemed them as to the second man Adam. He's given them all back to you, but you cannot be carnally minded. The thing that caused them to lose those things was when Eve became carnally minded and passed it on to Eve. And then being carnally minded the eyes became dark as to understanding; the spirit world was lost and that which seemingly is a dimension away we cannot see anymore as to carnality. But when the eyes of our understanding are enlightened, then we can comprehend the heights, the depth, the width and the length. I said this a lot of times, when they knew that they were naked, I've asked the question, Why did they know that they were naked? How did they know that they were naked? Jesus said, As he come into the Garden, as the Father spoke to them, as the Spirit moved in the evening time of life, said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? That is to say, you didn't have no such understanding. You didn't have no such knowledge. I did not give you a knowledge, a depraved knowledge of anything that would have been depraved; because there is nothing depraved about my act or my creation or anything that emanated from me. It's holy and it's godly and pure, even as to the bed of the marriage. The Bible said, Undefiled in all but the whoremonger and the adulterer will God judge. But the dirty, filthy mind of Lucifer, working through the beast, working through the tree of knowledge projected itself into a woman to get some kind of control because she was the weaker vessel hoping to work himself up through the woman to the man that he might control the garden. Through this came the infiltration and that's why the Bible tells us today not to lean to our own understanding. But to trust in the Word, trust in the Lord with all of our heart. Think the Word, talk the Word, be the Word, do the Word, whatever the Word says, that is the mind of Almighty God. That is the Spirit and life of Almighty God. And when we lean to our own understanding, we lean to the infiltration in which we are born from our childhood. Now we are proper children. And always down through the Bible Satan tried to destroy the proper child. And we're the body of the Lord Jesus Christ members in particular, which means we are the proper child. We are the royal seed through which Christ must come. The Jews as to the natural, we are as to the spiritual. And if you'll notice naturally speaking it has always been down through the years that the nations have boycotted against Israel to make Israel extent because through that comes the natural seed, the royal seed. And if you'll notice, we being the spiritual Jew, always demons and devils, even people, the church world, people that are religious boycott against us, always and always they oppress us. They Jim Jones you. They'd do anything they can. See, to kill out the royal seed. Because they know that you are the royal seed. And through you comes the Christ. Always through you comes the Christ. We have conceived of the Christ. And Paul said, I travail until Christ be formed within you. That is we're God's Mary. The world is God's Eve allegorically speaking. See, it's on a child's level where we can understand what we're saying here. And so the divine conception comes. We conceived of the Word the seed of God, because we've conceived of the seed of God, then that means that we're sinless. We cannot sin. We've been born again. And the Bible said, He that is born of God cannot sin. For God's seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. So this sinless Christ, that is to say Christ within your spirit, His spirit within your spirit and this life within your body as to the divine concept as to the vagina of your heart, then on the inside this Christ is being formed, and we mother this Christ as to the outer woman, we mother this Christ. We're hid away from the world as it was with Mary, as it was with Elisabeth, as in that day as to the conception, when the conception came, then they were hid away; and they stayed hid away until after the child was born. And so it is in Revelation 12, it shows the birth of the child. And as soon as the child is born it's caught up to the third heaven and taken out of the second heaven as to where you are right now as to the travail of the carrying of this child where the red dragon also is. Where John saw him in heaven, that is to say living in the human bodies as to the day of grace in that the blood is on the seat of atonement, and because of this He lives within the heart of men. He comes to church just like sons of God come, just like in the days of Job. He has to present himself to God just like you do and give an account. So then he is in heaven. He has all the medical benefits. He eats, he drinks, he rebels. He does what he wants too because the blood is on the seat of atonement. And with the coming of the Jesus, He took away the sins of the world, having saved us while we were yet in our sins, taking away the sins of the world, He did this for us. And all of the world was free from sin in that God cannot look upon iniquity; therefore He does not see their wrong. They do anything they want too, but right now the blood is on the seat of atonement. They murder. See God if He one time saw a man take a little baby, sling it's little head up against a wall and beat the brains out or strangle a mother or do something to ravish a child, He would come on them like a raging lion, but He can't see that. It's all covered until the day when the blood is off of the seat of atonement, so they are in heaven. Thus Satan is in heaven by grace. See, and when the blood comes off of the seat of atonement, the expulsion, Satan goes out of the Garden, the expulsion. And the woman goes away in the wilderness for times, times and a half a time to recover after her birth when the child goes up to the throne. And Satan is thus no longer in heaven, that generation of vipers, them that are out in the world, them that love the world, them that revel in the world, them that find fault with the church of God and them that mock the free child as Ishmael did Isaac. All of a sudden with this it will be darkness. There won't be any light because God cannot look upon them. And God is light and the consummation of darkness is light. And the very minute that the blood goes off of the seat of atonement the darkness comes in and it's continued through the tribulation period, as to allow for the regime of the kingdom of the antichrist and the satanic powers until the millennium comes in as to bring that light and the restoration, to move away the briars and all these other things. So then He just withdraws as it was there in the Garden when the light withdrew and the darkness of intellectual reasoning came in and the world came forth. See, so the light came at Calvary. With the brightness of that light I will destroy that man of perdition that sets in the temple of God, showing himself that he is god. I will destroy him or that is when the light comes and the did come at Calvary, but the blood on the seat of atonement, the grace, keeps it from being activated as to being brought upon the people as to a judgment. And yet it's all finished and yet it's all over, even as we preached to you in the things of Noah. So we see that this means that you and I also are in heaven. That we are in heaven. But we are in the second heaven as I say so often in our body as to an illumination in that the illumination has been restored to Adam, even the illumination of the image, that with which they were overshadowed. It has been restored. In that they lost that original image and the covering has now come back. We are covering with his glory, because we are now His body, and we're illuminated with His glory, even as when those that are out in the world are illuminated with Satan's glory as to the glitter and glamour of the world and their intellectual abilities as to their skills and talents and all of their entertainments. So then we know that we are the children of God. We know that we've passed from death unto life; and we know that we shall never come into condemnation, because there is now therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk after the spirit and not after the flesh. And I say again this for your benefit, there is no way that you can walk after the flesh. It's impossible. You know a lot of times in churches that preach in such a way, that you just got to struggle to keep your balance. And you do have to struggle to keep your balance, in that there's a continual warfare between the body and the spirit. But as to your salvation, as to being defiled as to that which can steal from you, you could never sin against God. You're born of God. This is why the Bible speaks of some getting in as if by fire. All of their works being burned, but they themselves being saved, but if as by fire, one fiery trial right after another, one chastisement right after another. But beloved friend, being born of God on the inside you've already been translated into the kingdom of God, which kingdom is within you. The world has already been taken out of you. And as you go through these trying situations, you stumble and stagger because of your weakness. And you don't bring any fruit to perfection. The Bible said, We wish this even the perfecting of your faith. And God wants us to bring forth fruit to perfection, to lay up treasures in heaven: 30 fold, 60 fold, 100 fold that we might go on to a full reward or to the full measure or the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. For every one that be perfect shall be as His master. No man shall be above His master. But he that be perfect, he that overcometh I'll give to him to eat of the hidden manna. He'll overcome and sit down in the throne with Me, even as I overcome and set down in the throne with My Father. I say again, earth being His footstool and heaven His throne, there's a lot of room for people to set down with Him. All right so then we see that we are the beloved children of God. We're the children of God. Therefore we have the mind of Christ. And this mind of Christ is an illumination as to unveiling, as to another world. And we belong to another world. And at Calvary it was said as to the Jews, My kingdom is not of this world. Because that was the Christ speaking. Jesus was fixing to be crucified; but the Christ on the inside was saying, You did not receive the Messiah. Now this is another world. This is the Christ world. This is the world and life to the bride. Now so the Jews were shut out in the darkness, and do not come back in until the Thessalonian change; that is to say revelationally speaking, Paul with the Revelation, if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead; or that is to say, if the Jews are cast away as a scapegoat for the whole world, then they going through the turmoil and the crisis as to all of these things through the dark ages and the holocaust, whatever, they are the scapegoat, and I'm punishing them as the bodily members of the Lord Jesus Christ, even as I punished the head, Jesus Christ, for the sins of the people, and those people can continue to live in my presence as to a second heaven out there because of the Jews being cast out and them taking as to the scapegoat of the Old Testament the sins of the people. But in the day when I bring the Jews back in it will indicate the resurrection from the dead. And those people out there then will give an account for whatever they have done before God. But until now they're dead in my presence. Twice dead and plucked up by the root as to some of them living in pleasure, living in sin, trespasses and sin, they are dead while they live. But they'll come back into His presence. And when they come back into His presence, in that He cannot look on iniquity, immediately the light of the consummation of the brightness of His coming as to the new earth, when the Bible said, And all of a sudden this great, wonderful God as to the brightness will be so great that the heavens will pass away, all will pass away; and it will be just one great lake of fire as to the power of the consummation as to the brightness of His coming; wherein the Bible uses the terms: and devouring His adversaries as a consuming fire; and that as to a lake of fire, that will be forever and ever in that as we say so often that hell is not eternal, neither is the grave. It must yield up it's dead. And hell and the grave must be cast into the lake of fire which is the fiery indignation of God as to the consummation to devour His adversaries which flames are eternal and where the worm as to Jacob thy worm as to the body that that has rejected God, that is to say the serpent or the body of the serpent, that is to say, that that's on it's belly. All of it's labor being for it's belly and for it's mouth because it craves it. And so then as to John cutting down that old tree of knowledge, cutting down that family of the viper and that family life and that family tree all the way back to Calvary, this worm that's on it's belly, the serpent that labors for the things of the world, that loves the things of the world, that's interested in the worm as to the face, as to the jogging, as to the powder, the paint, as to all of the things of the worm. See, that is cut down. That is destroyed. That goes into the lake of fire. But we as through Calvary, going through the stages of the metamorphosis like the butterfly, we leave the old cocoon because we are not a worm. And we're only passing through that channel. And so then we leave it as to the breaking forth of the cocoon, as to the rending of the veil, we sail away into the wonderful heavens as naturally speaking, allegorically speaking with the beautiful covenant wings of the butterfly, like the cherubs, as to that wonderful rainbow experience as we say of the church ages, or the seven church age messengers as to those colorful things, as to the manifestation of the attributes of God. And of course as we say sometimes as to the stone coming at Calvary, to pyramid the capstone to say it's finished, as to all of that that was allegorically built as from the beginning of the world to Calvary; and here comes the stone crying: Grace, grace, grace; even Jesus as to the prism stone, as to capstone everything, saying, it's finished; and as to God the Great Light striking that as to be smitten of God, or esteem Him smitten of God. And when that light struck the prism, then the light refracted and the seven church ages came out of it as to the beautiful rainbow colors as to the church ages and the church age messengers, as to this dispensational grace, that's severally dividing itself that the great rainbow of God might reach all the way over from Calvary over to him that is standing over in the end of the midst of the candlesticks as to this wonderful thing where John saw the door open in heaven. Now, it seems like we're taking so much time to say what we need to say to try to make you understand what we want to say that we ain't going to get to what we need to say, not this morning. But anyway, I'm just saying this to you as to by way of remembrance. A lot of these things you know and understand. But Peter said, Though you know these things, as long as I am an inner spiritual being, an angelic form on the inside of this body, it's abiding here in the tabernacle as to this tabernacle, I feel I should stir up your pure minds in Christ Jesus. Because one day you'll put off the tabernacle. And having born the image of the earthly tabernacle as to that in the wilderness, you'll bear the image of the temple, even the heavenly within the mind of Christ Jesus, which is body and bone of His flesh. And in the sight of God you already do bear it and you're already changed in His sight; because all of His works is known unto Him from the beginning. You're already perfect in His sight. You're already healed in His sight. And as I say, though you stumble and stagger as to the fire, you yourself are saved because you cannot sin against God. Someone would then say, Well, Brother Pike, that means that if I go back into the world, if I do the things of the world, if I sin against God, then I can be saved. It certainly does not mean that at all. If you go back into the world as you say, if you go back into the world you've never come out of the world. There's no way you could go back into the world. Sinners never come out of the world. They're illuminated as to the overshadowing or the illumination as it was with Adam and Eve, which they that are without are illuminated with that right now just like you are, to preserve your body until the change. Once you're changed as the church God cares little about that that's in the world. I'm angry with the wicked every day. I'll pursue the wicked until they perish from off of the face of the earth. All the prayers of the wicked are abomination in my sight. All of the offerings of the wicked are abomination in my sight. He doesn't love the wicked. He hates the evil and wicked with a perfect hatred. See, but because of the illumination of the grace which is over you until you're body can be changed, so that He won't have to do anything to you, then they get that benefit of it. But one of these days it will be gone. Just like the elite side of life, just like the celebrity side of life, or it's like the upper echelon side of life. Out there they pass laws, they don't pass laws for your benefit. They try to enslave you and they try to pick those laws to pieces; and they try to pervert them in any way to make these laws protect them and to put you in slavery. But you get the benefit of the laws because they have to have protection for them or themselves. And therefore they don't know how to twist it around to keep you from going to a lawyer and finding out your rights, so you get the benefit of it. Just in the reverse as to the natural, they get the benefit you get the enslavery; as to the spiritual the last being first and that as to a conversion from perversion, then you get the benefit and they are the ones that get the wrath of it. But they get the benefit because you're getting the benefit as to the time of the change. You understand what I'm saying? All right, so we're talking then about what? The Word as to the Revelation of Jesus Christ, as to what? The Christ, the invisible understanding as to God who is a Spirit, the Great Light, unto which no man can approach as to the wonderful understanding in which the Word as to Jesus dwelt, and He alone dwelling in that light; in that no man has seen God at any time, nor can see God. And no man can approach unto that light, because God is a great, invisible spirit. And the only human form He's got as to a body personification is His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ as to the fullness. And as to you the body members in particular, His children, as to the family. And I say as to the family then members in particular of His body, and being children then are you partakers as in all things that pertain unto life. That is of the inheritance. So then we see that we're the beloved family of God. No one can lay anything to our charge. We're His darling children. We're perfect in His sight. We're all finished and ready to go. Anytime He comes back, He'll be after a church without spot, wrinkle or blemish. And when you begin to think like this, you can just feel the Holy Ghost running through you, because that's faith. See, that's faith in His righteousness. That's faith in His finished work. And that's the kind of faith that's going to take all of a sudden and (Pops His Hands) the body will be changed and you'll be gone. See, and the world will be there in darkness. And as the sun goes away in a nova scientist say, so will the church go away as to nova having to do with the bride, then away you will go; and the world will be in total darkness an eclipse to the extent, that the Bible says, and concerning them as to antichrist taking over, their ignorance will be such that they will not be able to even perfect a bottle of medicine and there won't even be any healing for them. In that all healing comes from God, whether medically or otherwise it all comes from God as to the days of grace. And the people out there that are in the second heaven and to this benefit of grace, they are getting the benefits of it. But after a while God's going to take away all the healing and there won't be no healing, and they'll gnaw their tongues for pain and they'll be continually in darkness and nothing that they have will they enjoy because of this. So we see all the talents, all the wonderful things, all the beautiful entertainment as to that which is good and wonderful as to these wonderful things, they'll be stripped of it and they won't take one talent to hell with them. Everything will come back to you. Jesus made this clear when he said, and take from him the talents and give it to this man. Though this man didn't have, wouldn't have had, but yet God gave it to him that he might have. See, and in that it was the man that had ten talents as to say he had put his to the exchangers and had usury; whereas we're taking this life to put it to the exchangers and we're reproducing as in the life of Christ. And Christ is being formed in our life. So the Christ within you as to the rent veil as to your body separating from your spirit, thus it is Christ that is revealed to the world. And we don't know each other after the flesh, but after the spiritual Christ. Thus it is Christ. The world sees this light, even as the breaking of the clay pitcher, when they all stood around in the days of Gideon and he said, when the word is given, all at once we'll break the clay pitcher, and with this as to the candle within the clay pitcher, the light will break forth in the valley. And since these people's eyes are adjusted to darkness because they're children of darkness, we'll smite them as to saying that the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. Or that is to say this little clay pitcher made out of dust, the Bible says as to the spirit on the inside, it is the candle of the Lord searching out the inward parts, and that we should beware lest He come and move that candlestick as to say blot our name out of the book of life. Or if we're going to continue in life, then we're going to have to trim this wick. The midnight cry is here. We're going to have to light up this candle that the brightness show, that the world may see the wonderful works of God in our life. Otherwise, we're going to be cut off. All right let's stand together. There's much we have to say. Jesus said, Much I'd like to say unto you, but we're all dull of hearing as to what He'd like to say to us, or whatever He'd like to give us. And of course we go along kind of fast here; whereas, when we're preaching out in the world we try not to do that. We try to be real slow, but this goes on tape to where you can always get the tape and go back to refresh yourself in it, and just take a little bit at a time and study it and understand it. I realize that if somebody was in algebra or somebody was up here as to scientific means of their formulated expressions and all of these other kind of things, I'm well aware of the fact that they went through it so fast, I wouldn't even know what they was talking about. But if they had a book and they had some kind of tutoring to where I could sit down and take a little bit of the time and understand it, after a while I could get me a diplomacy as to those numerical things. Folks, let me say something to you. I love you and I'm not scolding you. And I want you to know that I'm not scolding you, even though I scream at you sometimes. The Bible said that I have to do that. I have to reprove. I have to exhort. I have to rebuke with all longsuffering, with all power, with all authority; that I'm the minister of God. I'm set here for that reason. And we wish this even the perfecting of your faith, not as to offend one of the little ones, but to nourish you with the milk of the Word that you might grow thereby unto the full measure of the full stature. But I say this to you by way of remembrance. You're going to have to leave the world along. I'm telling you. I know that some of you are not going to do it. You say now, what makes you think Brother Pike, that we're not going to do it. Because I have some here that I know, I just got a report in the last day or two, which I knew that they had not gotten away from the world. And in the last day or two they're still reveling in the world, though they come to church regular, though they feel like they're one of us, and though they do all of these things; yet their heart is in the world and the love of the world is still in them, and they go right on with the world, doing the things of the world. As to that which pertains to the flesh. Remember this folks, you think on this. When you eat and drink, is that of the spirit or is that of the flesh? Though it's necessitated to life as to moderation, and it is given to you in Christ Jesus. And when you have human relations here as one to another, even man and wife as to reproduction, is that of the spirit or is that of the flesh? And even that God has given to you as to a moderation in that, because of reproduction, to multiply and replenish the earth. So the Word has commanded us to eat. Said, Give the little girl something to eat when He raised her from the dead. All this things that are necessitated to life, they are yours on a basis of moderation because all things that are natural are yours as to carnal things as to houses, as to health, as to whatever it might pertain to as to the body. These things are given unto you. As to let your moderation be known in all things. But an over-indulgence in any of these things, an overly concern or to be thus minded as to natural things, then it is of the devil. He savors the things that be of the flesh. And as I said overcharging as to a stimulation of the appetites, these demons enter into you because they wander through dry places seeking rest and can't find it, so when they're cast out as to a sanctification, they come back. They find a tabernacle as to your body cleansed and purified, that is to purify your heart by faith, and then they try to come in, and they don't have to strength to do that. Because you've received a new strength. So they go and get seven other spirits more wicked and wretched than themselves and they come back and then they begin to bombard you to hit you from all sides. Eat, to drink, to rebel, passions, to hunt, to fish, ball games, whatever until finally they weary you down, (POPS HIS HANDS) in they go. See, and then you got a conglomeration of a confusion, even as Mary Magdalene out of which seven devils was cast. Now, so then the last fate of that man was worse than the first because it would have been better for him to have known the right way than to turn from the way after that he had known it and go back to those things that are in the world. For after that he has come to the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but only the fearful looking forward to of the fiery indignation of God that shall devour the carnal mind or the adversaries of God, that love or savor the things that be of the flesh. See, all of these things we must remember to get away from sports, whether it's hunting, whether it's fishing, whatever it might be. I know this is foreign to some of you. Because in the world they condone this. They revel in this. They go out and they do these things. But folks, reason in your mind. Is it of God or is it of the flesh? Is it of the Word? Is it of the flesh? Reason. Think. Jesus said, Come let us reason together. Are those things of the flesh? If those things are of the flesh (tape turns over and repeats several lines of which I omitted) then are they of the devil. Now think, is eating and drinking of the devil? Of course not, but it is on the perverted side. Why do you eat and drink? Because it is of God. You eat and drink because it is on the perverted side. You've been taken away from the appetite of the Spirit and the hearing of the Spirit and the feeling of the Spirit and the world of the Spirit; and you are in this world of intellectual vanity and darkness; and all is vanity and all is vexation of spirit. Which I say as years ago when the people in past ages will say, this mirror, this is a vanity. That is to say, it is a reflection. And to you and I the world is nothing more than a reflection. All is a reflection of the spiritual man. And that's why the Bible uses the terms that all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, even to the eternal Godhead so that we are without excuse, allegorically speaking. But we're here as to the spirit to unveil these things. You are educated. You are acquainted with all of the vanities. You know that. That's your system of education. It's like the eagle raised up among the chickens. See, but it was a heavenly creature; and when the call came it left the barnyard. Jesus in the barnyard, born in a manger as with the beast. But when the call came, he left the barnyard as to this world, saying that I am not of the dust. I am not of this world. I came from the Father. Folks, we're not of this world. We're not of the first man Adam. We're of the second man Adam, a quickening spirit. We're from heaven. We came from heaven. We go back to heaven. Someone would say, Well, how did we come from heaven? Because the Bible said, These things were given unto us in Christ before the world ever was, brought to Calvary at the light of the rending of the veil, preached to us down through the church ages that we might know our sonship, and that we might grasp and comprehend these things as to believe that through the transformating of our mind, the translation of our spirit it will bring an ultimatum as to the change or the transfiguration of our body to that wonderful world of God. See, and you don't want to mess with the beast. You don't want to mess with the things of Esau. You don't want to take up time with them. You don't want to be choked off of those things. You don't want to be choked off of your face, off of your bodies, off of natural things. Use what you got, run it through the filter, use it for God. Give to the spoiling of your goods, to the hungry, the poor. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, that you visit the widows and the orphans in their afflictions, and then keep yourselves unspotted from the world. So then what we need to do is come out from the world, be a separate people. Touch not the unclean things and I will receive you, saith the Lord. All right let's sing this little chorus together, can we? Okay let's sing together. (Sings: I Love Him) Sing it with me now. (Sings) What is the revelation of Jesus Christ? Is the minister then preaching to preach you into something, to make of you something, to constitute, to reconstitute? No. No. He is only there as one that's sent from God in pursuit of you who hath been blinded, as to say that you are not of this world, that you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, which is of another world. Therefore that because of Calvary we are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the restoring of all things, to rejoice forevermore ye that are in heaven. Don't worry. Don't let the devil oppress your mind. He's trying to trample down the mind of humanity. Don't allow him to do that. Rejoice. Ye are sons of God. You cannot sin. You cannot be lost. There is no condemnation to you because you're not in the flesh. He has chosen you out of the flesh. Hid you in Christ with Christ in God whom the heavens have received, or that is in the spirit, until the time of the change as to the millennium, the restoring of all things. So you are forever finished. Jesus said, It is finished. Ye are complete in Me. There is no lacking of you in Him. Whatever it is be strong in the power of My might. Having done all of those things, stand ye therefore trusting in what I've done for you. Believe in My righteousness for you are ever healed. You are ever, ever blessed. You are ever, forever rich, strong, healthy, full of understanding. All things that the Father hath made known unto me, He's made known unto you. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus. Why? Because it's the mind of health. It's the mind of happiness. It's the mind of power. It's the mind of authority. It's the mind of the glory of God. It's the mind of who you are and what you are and all of your benefits. It's your diplomacy in life as to your proof of that that ye should be enjoying right now, because God, we're not, you have to remember this: we're not waiting on God. He said, It's finished. But He's waiting on us. Like the song I wrote when we was in California years ago, I said, And oh Lord, why do you take so long? And the Lord answered back, son, it's not me. I've been waiting all this time. And when you're ready, we'll go on. So then that's the way it is, see? When we're ready, ready as to what? Somebody said, To live better and to live better and to live better. The preacher's going to preach until we live better. Well if that's the truth I ask a question, why do we live worse and the preacher preaches and we live worse, and the preacher preaches and we get worse? You know and I know the worse thing that ever happened to Israel was when the law was made known to them as to it's greatness and righteousness, and how that that law in return revealed their weaknesses and their impurities. And as Paul said, I was alive without the law. And then the law came. Sin revived and I died. And that which was ordained unto life, I found to be unto death, in that I am weak. Not that the law is weak, but in that I'm carnal, sold unto sin, that the law is spiritual. So then the righteousness of the law being fulfilled in me, in that Jesus did it all for me. And the law folded up and laid away as to anything to my flesh, can't touch my flesh. I'm not under the law. It's not required of me as to the law. But I've passed from death unto life. Because transgression of the law is sin. And the sting of sin is death. Or the sting of death is sin rather, trying to hurry along here. So then I'm free from death. Do you feel free from death? If you do not feel free from death, then as we sing, that's what the altar call is for, to invite you up. If you've never made the commitment to God as to the great commitment, I invite you to come. Paul said, I'm persuaded to believe that what I've committed unto God, He's able to keep against that great day. Nothing can separate you from the love of God. Powers can't separate you from the love of God. Money, Satan, oppressions, sickness, nothing. There's poverty or nothing else that can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. So great was that love toward you. The best thing of heaven and now you're His, sealed and forever. So then, if you're not feeling this inspiration, if you're not feeling this abundance of that which is finished, that is to say, we're set here for the perfecting of your faith, the mysteries of God to be finished, the sounding of the last trumpet being revelated to you, to make you to understand in another mind, even the mind of Christ as it possesses your body to the change, that you are now ready for the change. In the moment in the twinkling of an eye, that the days of the Gentiles will now come to an end. And the Jews are now coming in to be sealed. Even as this Desert Storm that we spoke of before it come to pass. So then in that these things are thus, then that means that the church world has about run it's course. The casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but the translation of the church as to the resurrection of the dead. Which means your body is being dead by Calvary as to Jesus, now they come back to life. The life of Christ within you being made manifest as to the mortal genes, as to the translation, as to the trumpet, the last sounding, Thessalonian's change, thus you are glorified, and thus you are seen as Jesus in glory on the Mt. of Transfiguration with Moses and Elijah, or thus you're seen as to that change of the glorious body to outshine the brightness of the noonday. That's where we're at. Somebody says, I don't feel that. I can't grasp that. I can't get there. Well, do your best to get it because at this point there's some that's going to get it. And with that it's like the vision I had as to Enoch and the whirlwind or there I was and the whirlwind came. And all of a sudden the whirlwind got me. It whirled and whirled until I found myself in the middle of the whirlwind. And as it got me, all of a sudden I went up, up, up, up, up and the whirlwind whirled me higher and higher and higher. And when I was high above the earth, I knew that I was going on to heaven with God, and I waved back at my loved ones like that, because the whirlwind. And folks, I've been in that whirlwind for a long time now, like the vision I saw where I was standing up in heaven and I saw all of these beautiful things and I said, Oh my God! How beautiful, how wonderful! And when I turned to the masses of the earth, I said, Look at these beautiful things; and they didn't see a thing, not a thing. And I was shocked, because I couldn't find a one out of the masses of the earth that saw it. And I looked back and I was shocked. See, but in this whirlwind you're being caught up. You're being caught up. You that love the body, that love the Lord Jesus, that are of the body of the Lord Jesus, you've been caught up, caught up, caught up. We're high up now, high up, moving right on to heaven, waving good-bye. No more belonging to the family of earth, but as I said, we belong to the family of God. We're coming out of the land of our kindred as to the flesh, and we are now kin to the angels. In heaven they're all as the angels, and we are of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. As Jesus said, Who is my mother? Who is my brother? Who is my sister? These that do the will of my Father which is in heaven with the family of God. Okay let's sing together, Mr. Taylor. (Sings: There's Room At The Cross For You) The altars are open. (Sings) Sing with me now. (Sings: At The Cross) (Sings: Rolled Away) You know what? All you have to do is just let the Lord come near and He'll roll the burdens away; and you'll find it's a wonderful life, wonderful life. You can't imagine what it's like to live in the world that I live in, to be partakers of the things that I am partakers of, to understand what I understand, you can't imagine the peace, the glory, the tranquility of this wonderful thing of Almighty God. There is nothing to be compared with it, nothing. Not even throughout all eternity as to was, as is, as to the world shall come, when you understand. And this is the beauty of the wonderful things of God. Why do you not have it? Because you do not hunger and thirst after it. If you hungered and thirsted after it, you would have it. You would have to have it, because the Bible teaches the Scriptures cannot be broken, and they that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled. You do not hunger and thirst after it, but rather you hunger and thirst after the prestige of the world. The conglomeration of the world, the merit of the world, the frolics of the world, the educational systems of the world, the diplomacies of the world. And as man measuring himself by himself through the diplomacies of the world, the Bible said, They're not wise; and they cannot have the praise and glory and honor that comes to the people of God, because they desire honor one of another. They cannot have that as of God as to His praise because they are desiring the things that be of the flesh. All right let's sing another chorus, Brother Taylor. Give me another key. (Sings: A Bridge Over The River) Can you sing that with me? (Sings) One more time together. Let's sing this chorus together, can we? I know that you don't altogether understand the things that I'm saying, even though I know that you understand many of them. But I can tell as to the respond of your spirit that you still don't see. And it's those that are catching a little glimpse that it's still an intellectual concept as to this thing, and it's not as to having eyes of understanding open as to the activation as to this thing that God has given that relates as to the heart. Give me another key, Frank. (Sings: Is That the Lights Of Home I See?) Sing that with me. (Sings) Give me another key, Frank. (Sings: I Thank Thee For The Valley) Let's sing this little chorus, can we? (Sings: Where Will You Be A Million Years From Now?) Can we lift our hands together and close our eyes? (Sings: I Will Praise Him) I'm going to ask Brother Ron Pasdon to come and dismiss us if he will. (Sings) Can we sing it one more time together as our brother comes? Don't forget the services tonight. (Sings) Remember now, we're growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ to the full measure of the full stature. And if you want to be in this translation, you must come because this is the translation that is taking place. I know we talk about a rapture. The church talks about a rapture. That's fine. I have nothing to say against it. The only thing I'm compelled to say as a minister, that he that God sendeth will speak God's Word. And there's no such thing as rapture in the Word. There's no such thing as that word. There's no such thing as that application. There's no such thing as a millennium. And even though we refer to the millennium and as to the rapture, there's a human terminology. And the Bible speaks of the change. So we're in the translation now. A lot of people aren't going to hunger and thirst after it. A lot of people are not going to give it or get it. A lot of people are not going to administer it. A lot of people are not going to be able to conceive of this, because this is the church going home now. She's being translated. Ever since Calvary, the Bible said, the law and the prophets until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached. Men pressed their way into it. And the Bible said, For God hath that is even as of now, He hath translated us into the marvelous kingdom of our God. And the kingdom of God within you as to your spirit within, within the kingdom. As to within Christ, and so then the church... the people that have been following the revelation of the Lord and following the things of God as the spiritual things, going on and on from glory to glory, you're getting closer and closer now, even as Enoch walked on and on until finally one sudden change and away he went. And the Bible said, the heavens declaring the handy-works to him, the thing was revelated to him, and out of that away he went as to being translated by faith that he should not see death, being typical of the church as the seventh from Adam. Sing it with me one more time. Don't forget to come to church. Don't forget to listen. Don't forget to grow. (Sings)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord