The Revealing Of Who You Are

That we're on a journey to another country; and that that's shining out across the sea. Okay, we're going to mention something tonight and see just where we will go from here if the Lord will let us. Chapter 1, (Reads: Revelation 1:13.) "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, (that is Jesus Christ) to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." All right we say a lot of times in reading that that when the Revelation comes the time is at hand. But that is still something that's a little bit hard for people to fathom that when the Revelation comes the time is at hand. Now you don't really find anything spoken of about the Revelation except in the Book of Revelation, and as to what John said concerning the Revelation. Other than the fact that Paul right after Calvary said something about the Revelation. And Peter said as to Calvary that ye are the people upon whoms the end of the world have come, in that that was the time; that the time was at hand, and that was the end of the world. So then as it was the end of the world, so then Paul wrote about it. Just a few short years later he wrote about the expose' of Calvary which was the Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then John following that wrote the book of Revelation as to the revealed Christ. And now we find ourself again over here at the end of the church ages and we are talking about the revealed Christ. And I said as it was that God gave unto Jesus this revelation of Himself. And the revelation that God gave unto His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. For He gave Him the Revelation of Himself, or that is to be revealed in His life as to God of heaven and earth, not as of measure, but without measure; that God Himself might be revealed from within the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so then when the veil was rent in twain, then came the revealing of the Christ or the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And always the Revelation of Jesus Christ is the coming of the Lord. So then we find that in this that the Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ has come again in our day, and in this then the time is at hand. So you know it would take a lot of explaining to detail some of these things. And we don't have time to do that, so we have to kind of compact things and just push along and do the very best we can. Amid the resentment, the jealousy, the fault-finding, the hatred, all of these things, like as this morning, I felt a spirit. It was real troublesome to me and I purposed in my heart, well, I just won't say anything about it. But I'm just going to mention just a little something so that it will help the individual, and sure enough I felt it was just like you had stuck fire to a candle, I felt that spirit go away like that. And of course I had a chance today to communicate with the same individual that was taken with it, and I noticed the spirit was broke off of them and they had a very wonderful congenial spirit of fellowship and was so beautiful. You know God, He doesn't like spirits, and I don't like spirits. And people in general you know that love God, they don't like spirits. Some of them don't know when they're around and when they're not around. But Paul said, We're not ignorant of the devices of the devil, and we can tell unless God hides it from us, we can tell when the devil is around, and always you'll find that he's around through the carnal mind. See, the carnal mind always is the tool house for the devil, the workshop for the devil. We got people that are just plain carnally minded. Like for instance I got a man along here that's carnally minded tonight, and I got a woman setting right over here in this isle carnally minded tonight. And both of them it's just routine with them. They just have that problem. And no matter how I preach, no matter what I say, I break it off by the help of the Lord. And then a night or two later, it's right back again. The reason is because they do not pray, they do not fast, they do not have any spiritual life, they do not spend anytime really studying the Word of God, and they're mind mostly is on the natural things of life or on themselves, or on what they think, or they're always trying to figure something out in their mind or scrutinize the preacher. And of course when they do that they set in the seat of the scornful and they stand in the way of sinners. And I try to bypass it, go on pass it, not to bring it up because many of you are just babes, and when I bring it up you get all out of sorts in your spirit. And then it ruins a good service. Whereas we could have a good service, it ruins the service because there are others that just kind of, they teter- totter and when a little something comes up, then they get over into the carnal mind. Somebody else gets over into the carnal mind. Somebody else gets over in the carnal mind. And after a while you've got a conglomeration of a mess. Let's give the Lord a hand. Wonderful to come in here and feel the presence of the Lord and feel people praising God and receive a hearty welcome that I received in such a wonderful jubilant air. But folks, it's always those people that's spots and blemishes in your feast of charity. And they're always going to hinder the moving of the spirit because the carnal mind is enmity with God. And unless you can say, Hallelujah! and praise to God of heaven until you run them devils away from them people, then you're going to have problems. Somebody say, Hallelujah! Let's run the devil off. Can you? Somebody say, Hallelujah! Can you say, Hallelujah! Praise God! Let's run the devil out of here and then we'll get into the mind of Christ and we'll feel the wonderful presence of God. All right so then the Revelation, the time is at hand. The devil he'll draw up you know like a prune. And he get's scared when you start lifting up your voice like a trumpet and crying unto God, because he knows that God will come down real quick. And if you're just kind of half-heartedly lukewarm like play around you don't get too much respond. But when you get in like a man, working, whereas the Bible said, the fervent, effectual prayer of the righteous man availeth much. And you get into the spirit and you really begin to worship God and worship God and worship God, until you get the old flesh out of the way, and the spirit really gets in there, you know, then you can do something. I know that we praise God through this mouth, through this utterance, through the vocal utterance of our vocal cords, and I know we clap our hands you know and I know we use our body. I understand that. And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that because if a man's going to make a sound, he has to use a horn. He has to have a horn for the sound to come out of it. And the Bible tells us to lift up our voice like a trumpet, and we try to do that. But the thing is that you have to bring forth a spirit and the praise of the spirit, if you don't, that old intellectual, conniving, scrutinizing mind of carnality of the devil will be there, and he will injure and hinder everything. And he'll turn everything into a mess as to the natural. And then it's nothing but just a pool of iniquity. Folks, when you praise God and you keep on praising God and you keep on praising God, after a while you get your spirit into it and you begin to tread on serpents and you begin to feel that warm presence of God. And devils and demons they just leave like a covey of blackbirds. All right so the devil doesn't want us to preach the gospel. He doesn't want us to bring this forth. When we come to church, we think, Well praise God! Here we are the children of God. And we're all here and of course if anybody comes we say, Well, it must be children of God, or they must love the Lord or they wouldn't be here, but that's where you're wrong. When the sons of God come to present themselves, the devil comes also. Because the devil will say to a half a dozen people, you get over there now. And you find out all you can. And he'll have those carnal minded people to come in to bind that service, to put a damper on that service. And if the preacher preaches, it doesn't make any difference. He wants to put something there that will hinder, stagger, cause problems, whatever, to keep the Holy Ghost from speaking to them that have an ear to hear, to keep the church from getting ready to go out of here. And he is constantly hindering. Paul said, I would have come unto you but Satan hindered me. And he's constantly a hindrance. And so then that means that he's going to cause us trouble. Now over here to my right said I said there was a woman over here hindering me, and all of a sudden a woman took it that I was talking about her. See, and that shows you are not spiritual either. Whereas you're just a baby and I understand that, but it shows that you're not spiritual, and you're not confident in God, but you're confident in your own reasoning. Thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to, and not thinking soberly according to the measure of faith that God has dealt unto you, and that puts you in the realm of a novice, because if you had have been spiritual, you'd known I wasn't talking about you. But now if you're anything at all as to know anything, you know I'm talking about you now. But I wasn't talking about you at all. So see that's why you need to be straight with the Lord, and you need to walk with the Lord, and you need to talk with the Lord, and you need to know what's going on. Like at the dinner table today, we was setting there talking and all of a sudden the Lord spoke to me and I heard Him tell me some things. And I looked at a fellow and I said, You know, God is fixing to give you a visitation. I said, I can hear Him talking to me right now and I said, He's going to be calling on you real soon for some things. And I tried to encourage him that he needs to respond. And when I'm talking a lot of times I try to hold my composure because at times when I'm talking I'm broke all to pieces on the inside. I'm just broke all up and tears, you know likes bubbling inside of me. Because when the Spirit of God touches you on the inside and begins to move on the inside, a lot of times it's like that. Like yesterday when we was trying to minister a little bit up here it was the same way. I could hardly say anything over the air or read anything but what I was all broke up on the inside. But we come here and with the hardness of the hearts here, different ones among us, why you couldn't hardly shed a tear. You just have to get people worked up in a conglomeration of hollering and screaming and whatever before you can ever even get broke up enough to even shed a tear. But the wonderful tenderness of that wonderful Christ that stood at Lazarus' tomb and wept, that wonderful Christ is on the inside, and He is so desiring to share with you the beauties of heaven and the glories of those things that we saw in the vision when we was high and lifted up into the heavens beholding that beautiful, beautiful thing of God. See, but pardon me, as I say, we're going to have to get with the Lord if we're ever get those things. Now tonight you are a good audience. I feel a real good audience. Couldn't have had a better welcome. It was just so wonderful that it was just exhilarating. You could feel it penetrating. But I don't feel any hunger. I don't feel any stimulation as to a hunger and a thirst. It seems like we have all eat well today and we are all full tonight, and as Brother Branham said, Though it be unfair as to God to fill our tummies with the natural things when we're suppose to have a spiritual hunger, and then we get satisfied with that and then we don't get the spiritual things. I love to eat and I'm sure you do, and there's nothing wrong with that. Solomon said, Eating was the best thing you could do as to your labor. But still at the same time we're suppose to come to the church hungering and thirsting after the things of God if we have to pray all night, if we have to fast all day, or whatever we have to do, we should should come to the church of the living God hungering and thirsting after the things of God. And the Bible said, he that hungers and thirsts after the things of God then he shall be filled. All right now, the man he changed his disposition. And the woman changed her disposition. The whole thing passed over and the little cold spell left. But still that don't suffice for the fact that you're not hungry tonight. But I'm going to say a few things and try to talk to you about the Lord. And if I can try to stir up your Christ mind as to your pure mind that to maybe you will hunger and thirst a little bit and maybe something will be said that I'll catch your attention and you'll get thirsty. Like Brother Branham said one time said, if you could be salty, then folks would get thirsty. So I'll try to be a little salty tonight and see if we can get you thirsty. You know good healthy cattle you put out a block of salt and you let them lick a little salt, and then they get thirsty and this is good for them. All right I read to you that the Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ is near at hand. It said in 10:7, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." And then he says in 11:15 it says and the seventh angel he did sound. "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever." Whereas the Bible says, "We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry and thy wrath has come and the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward to unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." And there of course appeared the wonder in heaven and there was war in heaven. Now let's just talk on that for just a minute or two and see if we can mention something that might stir your ego up toward God. The devil's out there to stir up your ego toward the world, and he gets you carried away with the things of fascination as to the world by illuminating those and enticing you as he did Eve to the tree of knowledge. But let me see if I can entice you to the tree of life. Jesus said, My words are Spirit and they are life. So then it said, The Revelation of the Lord Jesus, the time is at hand. Then what is the Revelation of Jesus Christ? Let's take just a little primitive side of it and see if we can explain. We don't really have time to really get into a message. So let me see if I can hurriedly explain a little bit on the primitive side of it, and maybe get on over to the spiritual side of it. First of all we're familiar with the tabernacle in the wilderness. And we know there's an outer court as to that of the Gentiles, and we know that there is an inner court and then we know there's an innermost court. Or there is an outer court and then there is a holy place, and then there is the most holy. So we know that the most holy is that little ten by ten as we say as suppose which is hid with the covering cherubs as to the curtains; and in there there is an ark of the covenant. Like Brother J.T. Parnell said one time, he said down here at Bethlehem, he said, I saw the tree of life out in the front of your building. And he said down there, I looked behind the sacred desk and I saw the ark of the covenant. Something as it was the ark of the covenant he said, that was to be revealed to the people that is of yet, pardon me, that had not been revealed. So then when we think of the ark of the covenant, we think of that which is hid behind the cherub curtains as where the cherub curtains separate as to the holy place and the most holy place. And we know that that ark of the covenant has those covering cherub wings over it. Pete is doing a drawing or a piece of art work now for a book covering that's got this on there. He's drawing the ark of the covenant. And so then in this we know that behind those curtains in the days of Moses that ark was always there, and we know that they could not look upon that ark and live. So then as I tell you, I remind you again now, they had to turn backwards, pick up those curtains, put them on their shoulders, and they had to back up and lay that on the ark of the covenant, pick up the ark of the covenant with the rings that went into it, never at any time looking upon the ark of the covenant, because under those covering cherubs was the mercy seat and to where God was suppose to be. And so being symbolic in the earth, Moses had been in the mountain with God and made all these things according to that great, wonderful revelation of that day as to those things shown him according to the pattern that was shown him in the mountain. And he made natural, symbolic things as to a natural nation, a natural ark, a natural covenant so that we all as a spiritual people in this day might look back and observe those things that those things happen for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world have come, the writer said. So here we are in the end of the world. Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Now the old world passed away with water for which we could say much. We could preach for hours on that as to the explanation of it; and then the next world passed away as that of blood which we could say many, many things, taking hours; and then the third world now is in view. And we're far down the trail as to this third one, which it would take a long time to explain. But here we're getting a little symbolics as to see this. And we see the beauty of it as to the sacredness of it as to God covering this thing. Now we see a picture of this as when the ark of Noah settled, and when Noah was drunk as to being drunk it'll relate to Pentecost, if you can understand it spiritually. And you can see this as when Noah was drunk. And then his son would have looked upon his nakedness. And as far as we know one evily entreated him during the time of his drunkenness and it upset the Lord. And the others could have looked upon his nakedness, but these two that got together, they took this as it would be a covering. They put it over there shoulders and they walked backwards as you see me do right here and laid it over his nakedness to keep from looking upon him, because God was giving us a great symbol of that wonderful thing of God as to the sacredness of the ark, that when they would walk backwards and put the curtain over that, that no one could look upon that, because as to the son that did practice his evil and debauchery, God cursed him. Noah cursed him and he became a curse because of what he did. But blessed were those that walked backwards, that covered the nudeness of the father, and from that time on they were blessed in the sight of the father, both heavenly and earthly. So then we see a wonderful picture of the way that God does things. Now there came the time as to Calvary when this veil was rent in twain. Before this there could only be one that would go in behind these curtains and that was Aaron, thus signifying the coming of the Holy Ghost as to the Spirit of Christ; that that would rend the veil or the time of Calvary, when the covering cherubs as to those that the Bible spoke of as far back as the Garden would step aside and let the Master through. As to the Garden, as to the expulsion, God placed there at the gate of that Garden, the flaming cherubs, to where no one could enter into that Garden. And then came the day of Calvary and the Master Himself came as to the second man Adam, to claim that Garden and to claim His rights back to the tree of life and to move things that were in the way or to rend the veil of these cherubs, and to do that he had to pass through there and pass through death. As to the death of the first man Adam to get back into the Garden, that the spiritual image might be preserved or recovered as to that which was lost when God said, You cover with a covering but that not of my glory. And the other night in the message some people made quite a fuss over the message in that we brought out something as to the covering of the glory of God, how it was lost and how that the illumination was taken away, and that even until Calvary it stayed taken away, and then at Calvary it was brought back into view. All right so today the great, wonderful illumination is here. Not only out there to the world as to the mercy of God from the mercy seat of the covenant of God, but as to that which we are born of on the inside as to having rent this veil and going into our heart. Have you ever noticed? You got lungs in here and these two lungs very colorful in picture, which indicates as to the physical dimension the covering cherubs over your heart, and within the heart you find the throne as to the life being within the blood. So then you find these things and how beautiful it is to see that in every phase of life God has illustrated or projected Himself to those that are spiritual that they might comprehend the heights, the depth, the width and the length of these great, marvellous things. So we know then that there was a place of covenant, and we know that it was veiled off as Brother Taylor sings the song, it was veiled off from human view. But we know that the Savior even Jesus came and he hath rent the veil in twain, or in two. Making in Himself two as to divide asunder the body from the spirit as to the world of natural carnality as to the world of spirit. As they are in the world so are they of the natural. And as they are in heaven so are they of the spirit. So with the rending of this veil at Calvary. He broke through the covering cherubs and thus the veil was rent in twain, and He laid it aside and He entered in, pardon me, right into the very presence of God into the Holies of Holies Himself. And today He's right in the Holies of Holies, and He is sitting upon the mercyseat as to what that was as when the high priest took this blood in. Or that is to say, Christ as to the Holy Ghost has taken the blood of that spotless Lamb, even the Lord Jesus and rent those veils as to the curtain that went right straight in to the seat of atonement and took His own blood as to the Spirit of Christ and put it upon the mercyseat as to you and I to make an end of sin once and for all. And so it is that out of that particular month of the year, always the priest went in an he did this as to make an atonement for the people, but it always brought back to God's remembrance sin. And God did not like that so one day once and for all Christ came and by Him Ownself put away sin once and for all. He offered His blood for His own purging and for all other people, that today we're not under the law. Today the veil is not standing between us and the ark of the covenant. Today we have the very spirit of the living God on the inside of us, and today we can enter right into the place of the Holies of Holies. With all boldness, we can go in because our boldness is of the righteousness of Almighty God. The Bible said, Therefore come boldly before the throne of grace that you might receive help in the time of need. So we boldly go in before God because we have the right to do that. See, and we ask of God and we receive help in the time of need. Because Jesus our Redeemer, our High Priest has made the way to where we're not cut off from heaven's view anymore. But we could go right in. Now this again I say, And the Revelation of Jesus Christ. This again I say as to the revealing of that innermost as to God looking into the hearts, and He hath rent asunder as to dividing your body from your spirit to reveal the contents of your heart, that the innermost you as the inner man might come forth and all of the world might see the Christ made manifest in your mortal genes. All right so then we see that God has done this. He hath wrought this for us and we who are dull of hearing and we that cannot see afar off, we fail to see these things and we fail to hear these things, and therefore we are greatly enticed by that which is around us. We look all around us and we're greatly enticed by the things of the world. And we are after the vain janglings of the world so much that we don't have time for God. We're always busy with the things of the world. See, and we want automobiles and we want houses and we want land and we want frolic and we want securites, and we'd like to have a pretty face and we'd like to have bubbling muscles and we'd like to have the fine figure and physic and all these kind of things as we rebel through life. We want to have the passions as to the aluring and the satisfying as to this human body as to feeling those things as to the vibrance that comes to the human body that that satisfaction of lust might be there. Satan is pressing us all the time, pressing our mind, pressing our human senses, drawing and drawing to try to do something as to those human senses to where he could get out of the dry places and receive the waters of life as through the days of mercy as to the natural sources of these things of the world. Well that's a bad situation, but nevertheless so it is, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, the lust of the flesh, lusting after the things of the world. The Bible said, Know ye not that the spirit within you lusteth unto envy. And then God has commanded us to turn away from that, to cast down every thought as to the imagination that comes to our mind or anything that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. Bring into captivity to the obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ every thought. So because we do not feel this verbal inspiration the way we would like to feel it, because of our slothfulness and because of our lack of conformity to God, but because we do not feel it, then we do not drive to go toward this. See, we drive to go to that that we can feel. We eat and we're stimulated and that satisfies us as to the human senses, as to the taste buds. We hear and we hear the vain janglings of this world as to the musical chimes and the beat of the tum tum you know and the things of musical chimes that satisfies us, that rum rum rum rum that's going back to the old heathenistic way of life. And it does something to us you know. They want to shake and jump and run and turn flips. They lose self-control and they are projecting this and devils and demons are pushing this as to the living dead and all of these other concerts and whatever, and pressing the human body to tell it to lose control, lose control. This is the great way of life. Lose control, get you a little dope, take you a little drink. Spice it up and lose control and just let yourself go and be a pig. They don't tell you that part of it. But anyway they said, Just let yourself go. Wallow in the mire you know. And so then after awhile you do. And somebody says, boy, ain't this living? Ain't this living? But really it's not living, it's death. It's death. It's death to the fool. And the fool is going on until the dart strikes through the liver. Like someone from the park at Redtop was just telling me just recently, said up at Redtop he said there's the weirdest people up there. Said these people that calls, they call themselves the Greatful Dead. Said these people are up there, talks like there's hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls, men and women, they don't have any morals. They don't have any decency. You know they call themselves the liberals. In other words we don't have any bondage. We don't have anybody bothering us. We live like dogs and pigs. We just have interwoven relation and we just get together and we just vomit on each other and nobody tells anybody anything. And nobody has the wife and nobody has any rules and regulation. You know we are those that are of liberty. And our government has just about got that way too. Everything anywhere in the world can come in here in a form of worship and there's no constraints on them. And yet we can try to worship God and they got all kind of constraints, though we're suppose to have separation of church and state. So you can see it's the devil that's opening the doors and letting the rats through the hole and trying to kill us out. He's trying his best to kill us out. But folks, it's time that we dug in. It's time that we stood up. It's time that we declared the things of God and give forth a voice that is not going to quit. We're not going to quit. The devil isn't going to make us quit. You know he's got it in his litte old small mind that we're going to quit. Like a little boy...(Blank spot on tape)... have to know that he can't stop the saints of God. He's tried all down through the world and he's never been able to stop the women. He's never been able to stop the men. They died at the stake. They've been burned at the stake. They've been torn apart. They've been tortured. And as Foxes' Book of Martyrs said, It was like putting seed in the ground. Every time they killed one of them it looked like a half a dozen of them sprang back up. So he isn't going to stop the saints of God. They're going to keep on until they take the kingdoms of this world and they're going to rule it forever and ever. Somebody say, Hallelujah! Praise God! Government or no government we're going to take this world over for Christ. And they might as well to take a back seat because we're on the verge of running an abstract right now putting the squatters off. Let's give him another hand. Hallelujah! It's our Heavenly Father. It's our heavenly property. All of it belongs to us and the devil doesn't own anything. He's one of the weirdos. That's where the weirdos come from is living with him. So then the revelation of what? The revealing of Jesus the Christ. And this Christ on the inside of Jesus every day of the life of Jesus He grew in favor with man and God. And this great Christ on the inside proportionally as by measure a little bit at a time revealed itself to his outer man. Not that He had the Spirit by measure but because He was my example, and He had to grow in favor with man and God, and He had to learn obedience by the things He suffered to be my example. And this great wonderful abundance of God on the inside as to the fullness of life and fullness of God revealed itself from glory to glory to this Jesus, until He came to understand fully that He was the very God of heaven manifested in the flesh. And so then we have the same Spirit on the inside of us as to the Spirit of Christ that it is revealed from my innermost being to this outer man that we are God. He is on the inside from glory to glory and from measure to measure as to whatever your measure might be. He is revealing to you that you are God. You know even the devil had this much understanding. He said that even God doth know that in the day that thou eatest of that tree that ye shall become as gods. Your eyes shall be opened. And sure enough it was as to that. Even though he lied to the people when he said, Thou shalt not surely die. The devil always mixes a little truth in and changes the Word of God into a lie to use it for his own cause, as them of today that turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. But it is a true fact that Christ's Spirit on the inside of you day by day from your infancy in Christ as to the new birth is revealing to you inwardly that ye are the very God. You're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh as members of His body in particular. And Paul said, You received me as the Lord Himself. Where is that reception? he said. And he said, It's not me that's living, but Christ that's living on the inside of me. And the life I now live, I live by the Son of God that gave himself for me. So then there is a God people in the world. There are people that are gods in the world. And when you preach this people draw up. When you talk about this, people draw back, because they are afraid and they do not know. They're so carnal, and they're so wishy-washy. And they're so much in the natural frame of mind and so given to the natural things of life, until they shake and they tremble and they are afraid. And I like that Scripture that said, Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, Who being made in the form of God, thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God. So then by faith we make ourself equal with God through the mind of Jesus Christ by the blood upon the doorpost, and by that wonderful Spirit on the inside that reveals to us that we are from the very loins of our Father, and that we are as He is, so are we in Him. And that we've passed from death unto life, and we are eternal, and before the world ever was He knew us. And gave us this place in Christ, that as Jesus said, Father, restore unto us the joy, He said as unto me, the joy, He was saying as unto us, because we are the membership of the body, as unto these, Father, glorify them with the same glory that I had with thee before the world ever was. And so then He hath given us His very same glory. So this is so wonderful to know that we're glorified with the all things that pertain unto life. And that we're glorified with super-natural strength and super-natural understanding, natural endurance, and that we are of that body to say, we are the resurrection and we are the life. And though we were dead, yet we're alive forevermore. Somebody said, You can't say that. Jesus said, My Father and I are one. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! That is what makes us what we are is because we believe it because He said. And if He said it, it's all yea and amen to me. Hallelujah! I don't question it because that's the way it is. In the world they say, tell it like it is. That's the way it is. And that's why it sounds so strange in this hour, because we are now as to those that have overcome as I said this morning moving in now to this wonderful, wonderful hidden manna. Many church people as to millions of people will never come into this. They'll be churchy. They'll listen to the Word but they'll never come into it. They'll have a fear and they'll be afraid, and this thing will be strange unto them, because they have never lived a godly, holy, overcoming life as to come into this thing with Christ Jesus, and they are afraid to believe this. And so then they'll go on in their churchanity year after year and they will utterly perish as in the gainsaying of Korah. But they that have overcome, they that laid it aside as to the flesh, they that are not in the flesh, that dwell in heaven will look around and see that they're environment is not the same as those that are in the earth. And that they're living in heavenly places, setting in heavenly places and enjoying heavenly things, and that their desire is in heaven. Their conversation in heaven. They're treasures are in heaven. And they are transformating in mind in just a continuation, they are transformating into this great, wonderful mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Someone would say, What do you mean by that? I mean the mind of Christ Jesus thought like this: I am the Son of God. I've conquered death. I have the power to lay my life down or take it up. I am one with my Father. I can do all things because my Father and I are one. See, and when you think like this, that is the mind of Christ. That is the thoughts of Christ. And whatever His thoughts was as He walked, He said, You follow in my steps. Like a vision I had one time, I said, Lord, let me follow you. And I had a vision, and in the vision I saw these great prints in the sand, great footprints, and I knew that they were the Lord's and I was little. And every step that he would take I would put my foot right into His great giant footprint. And then I'd see another one and I'd put my foot in it and I was following Him just like that. See, take up your cross and folow me that wherever I am, there ye might be also. For He said, Wherever I am there ye might be also. For He said, Wherever I am, my disciples, they'll follow me. They'll be right there wherever I am. So this is the thing that we're trying to do. We are trying to grasp the fact that Christ's mind is on the inside of us which is the full knowledge of God. And that all of the great things of God was given to us in Christ. And that this mind is being revealed to us a little at a time as from infancy to the mature or the fullness of the stature as to our diplomacy of that heavenly world, that it might reveal to us that we are the living gods as to the membership of the one God body, and that we are one, that our Savior is one with us, and that we are His, and we are in Him, and He is in us, and that we own all things, that we can do all things. We know all things. We are one with Him in everything, everything. Someone would say, Where do you get the wonderful revelation? I get the revelation from the Lord Jesus Christ through the shed blood of Calvary. Someone would say, Well, you can't do that. But I've already done that. Somebody said, But you can't do those things. But I want the devil to know that I've already done it. So he came too late to tell me. Somebody said, Well, don't you know that God threw the devil down for that? No. God has never throwed anybody down for this, because He said if we come in at the door, we're partakers of the supper. He throwed the devil down because he tried to get in another way and he didn't want to go through the door of holiness and he didn't want to go through the door of righteousness. He didn't want to go through the door of conforming to what the Word says, to meet the laws as to the things that God has set in order. And so then he went up another way and he was cast out. Not only that but through the days of grace, wherein man turned the grace of God into lasciviousness. These people also will be cast out if they try to get in. And many of them are coming into this supper through a religious attire, and they're moving right into these things through their religious zeal, and yet they're not living holy, they're not putting on the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as to the wedding garment. They're not being baptized into Christ, to put on Christ, and they're going to be found without the wedding garment in that day. And the Bible said, And they'll be bound hand and feet and cast into the outer darkness, as to those stars that's falling from heaven. So we can see that God doesn't cast out anybody that comes through the name Jesus. And the Bible said, And I shall in no wise cast out or put down or turn away anyone that cometh unto me. So we come unto him because this is the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the revealing of Christ within humanity. And the Bible said, If any man deny that Christ is, that is to presently speak, come in the flesh, that man is antichrist. For Christ today lives within the human body. And so then this Christ on the inside which is the Word is now revealing Himself as the great wonderful spiritual Word of life as to the dimensions from first heaven and second heaven and third heaven as to whatever your faith in that Word can do, thus are you in Christ. Thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold or going on to the full measure of the full stature on to the full reward. So the time is at hand. So the time is at hand. Someone would say, Well what do you mean, Brother Pike, the time is at hand? It's like Peter said, Ye are the people upon whoms the end of the world have come. You don't see that. You don't understand that. You don't know that. But nevertheless, as in that day they did not know it, but it happened anyway. Four hundred and eighty-three years and the seven was taken from the four ninety, leaving the four eighty-three and the world passed away. And from that time on it has been a heavenly open door; and from that time on people have been translated into the kingdom of God. The law and the prophets until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has come. And now we're praying Father, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And so then men translate into the kingdom of God by pressing against this outer being of the infiltration of Satan in this outer man. To eradicate as to the impurities as to sanctify their heart by faith and bring into subjection every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ, or to cast out the unclean spirits, that Christ's Spirit may come in and set up the kingdom of God within you. All right so then we can see that the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the revealing of Christ is in the earth. From Calvary now it's being revealed down through the church ages as to the tutoring, as to the full measure of the full stature of the purpose of God, and as to coming to the sevenfold light, as Jesus stood within the midst of the candlesticks and looked up and there was the door open in heaven. Now so we see that the time is at hand. The time was at hand. And then the Bible says, And the fullness of time came. And God ordained that in the fullness of time, in that the time was at hand. That all things in heaven and earth should be gathered into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the door was now open in the ark, and as the spear in the side, as the curtains had been rent, and so all could go in boldly in Christ into the very presence of the Holies of Holies, for our life is in the spiritual being is hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. So we are they that dwell in heaven. Now the time is at hand, and the mysteries of God are to be finished. What is it that the mysteries of God should be finished? That at the rending of the veil, that the innermost hidden secrets should come. For the Bible said, And these things were hid in Christ before the world ever was, and great men have desired to see them and could not. And as He said to them, it's not given unto them to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But unto you the hidden manna is given. It is given to you to eat of the hidden manna because you have overcome. You have overcome sin and the tempter, in that you overcame the devil and the image of the devil as to the bastard child, as to the fallen image, even that image that you look at when you look in the mirror, and you mortify the deeds of the flesh. And in God He doesn't see you anymore as your natural person, having been born in this world as that troublemaker, but that one that is buried in the name of Jesus in a watery grave. And today God looks over the chasm as to the church ages and as to the Gentile age and sees you in the change out here, in the Thessalonian change as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And today you're the body of the Lord Jesus, members in particular. And when Jesus resurrected from the dead the Bible said he came forth in another form and he lifted up, and with Him I went, and with Him you went, and since that time we've been dwelling in heaven. Even in the foreknowledge of God and made manifest after Calvary as to let us know these things that they could be preached; and then as to your mind through the mind of Christ comprehending the heights, the depths, the width and the length of these great phenomenal things. All right so the time is at hand. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, revealing of the Lord. So then Peter said, Ye are the people upon whoms the ends of the world have come. And so then the ends of the world came, and someone would say, Well, where are we then, Brother Pike, if the end of the world came back there? We are in heaven. We are in heaven. Well, what about the world? somebody said. What about the world? You know, I could care less about the world as we say. What about the world? The world passed away. When God brought the great judgment as in the days of Noah, the old world passed away. And he said as to Jesus, he said, this is as the waters of Noah to me. I gathered all things into the body of the Lord Jesus. And now they're safe and my wrath has been poured out. And as to this that happened at Calvary should be made manifest as soon as the earthly perspective comes back in as to the day of the judgment, I will bring this to pass as to a manifestation, but right now it's all put away as having to do with the Jew and the world as to this people in darkness; and ye are they that dwell in heaven, and this wonderful door is open from the 483 over to the last seven years of the tribulation. And this is that great thing of that prism of the cornerstone coming at Calvary crying: Grace, grace and that great marvellous light of God as scientists saying, All the colors being within the light, when God the great light struck this prism, then the light refracted, and over went the rainbow as a bridge over the church ages as the seven candlesticks or the seven messengers that's before the throne of God, and we were bridged over the turbulence, even as the tribulation for the Jews. In that they'll be sealed in that hour. So then we find out that we come out in the new world even as Noah did or out in the millennium. We'll be there in that wonderful millennium age. And a lot we could say about that and have said about it in the past. But the revelation, the revealing of Christ is here at last. Who is Christ? He is the quickening Spirit. Who is Christ? He is God as to a personification. Who is Christ? He's the great, wonderful Holy Spirit that's dwelling on the inside of us, and as to the Gentiles as to that measure of wheat, and not as to the barley harvest, but the wheat harvest as to the Gentiles, the barley harvest to the Jews, as we preached today over the air, as to Israel as concerning the barley harvest. So then we are of that ground up meal and He hath given unto us by measure. And each one of us hath a measure according to the measure that has been dealt unto us, or that that we're willing to submit too, or that that we go on to receive: 30 fold, 60 fold, 100 fold. Whatever you're willing to surrender of yourselves so ye can have that of God. And we see then that the Revelation of the Lord Jesus is here. The time is at hand. And so the fulness of time came, and God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that was under the law as to the Jewish people. And then to bring in the wonderful church as to the church ages or the birth of the Church at Pentecost, or to bring about those that were translated into the kingdom of God by faith, even as Enoch that was translated that he should not see death, and to bring them into that wonderful thing of heaven as to the body of Jesus that appeared in glory on the Mt. of Transfiguration, appearing between the heavenly cherubs as to Moses and Elijah. So we see the glorification of the body of Jesus Christ that He finished the course before He ever left, and thus the church is thus sanctified, justified, and glorified. And we see Him there as the church standing there on the Mt. of Transfiguration, appearing in glory saying, It is finished, Father. For the church is now glorified. And so then He went away as to fade out from that, appeared back in this world; and then went to the natural cross to make the atonement for you and I, that we might become Him, in this wonderful finished product as to the glorification as to being complete in Him to make the atonement for you and I, that we might become Him in this wonderful finished product as to the glorification as being complete in Him, that He might become us in sin and death. And once and for all by Him ownself put away sin, that there be no more remembrance of this evil detriment that has grieved God from the start as to God's creature. So the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the time is at hand, and we could go on and go on and go on with these wonderful things as to this revelation. But God has so placed His Spirit within you that He is revealing to you every day as to who you are, as to who you are. He is not revealing it to those out there. The rain is upon the tare, but it is not revealed unto them that they are gods. It is not revealed unto them that they've passed from death unto life. It is not revealed unto them to know the wonderful things of God because it is not given unto them. Satan, Lucifer, the god of this world hath blinded their eyes, even their eyes of understanding that they should not see when good cometh. And the Bible said, This wonderful light of the endtime, it has shined in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not. For as the Bible said, And it shall come to pass that in the eveningtime there shall be light. Or that is great light has sprang up unto them that set in the regions of the shadow of death. And we have comprehended the light because as I said this morning, scientists, falsely so called, the intellectual side of life, says that you cannot see light. And as to their scientific definitions, so it is. But to you and I we know that science falsely so called, because we are children of light, and we do see light and we comprehend the depths, the heights, the width, the length of al this wonderful understanding of God which is light. So then we do see light. And because of this we are children of light, and they do not see light, so then they are children of darkness. So it's good to be a child of light. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right for the Bible said, God hath delivered us from the kingdom of darkness and translated us into the marvelous kingdom of light. So we are delivered from that ignorance as to that veil of death and that intellectual thing that took hold of man in the garden. And today we are within His presence. And God is revealing to us these wonderful things. And this light that is on the inside as to an understanding is bringing us to the full measure of the full stature as to comprehend that we are gods, that we cannot die, that we are justified, that we are made perfect forever, that the devil never touches us, that we have no spots and blemishes, but we are eternally justified, eternally alive, eternally rich, eternally youthful, eternally strong to the extent that as we come to the fullness of this, whereas we are near the boundary line now, that they will not be able to put us in a casket nor put us in a hole and throw dirt in our face, because we are comprehending the redemption of the body as to the purchased possession of that which He purchased at Calvary that we may never die but be changed. Because coming to this state of mind, you come into this, and when you reach the fullness of it as to what God has decreed as to His time and age, then there is no more death. Death has been conquered. It's swallowed up in victory. Somebody said, Well, when that time comes Brother Pike, then I'll rejoice over it. But folks, let me tell you, though that time is coming for Israel, though that time is coming as to the world seeing this; yet it is already with us. And the Bible said, Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection over which the lake of fire or that which is called the second death hath no power. Or that is to say there is but one death and that is the lake of fire as to the separation of the spirit of man from God the Great Spirit. For as to the separation of the spirit from the body is only sleep. And this we see that we cannot die. And we've passed from death unto life. That God has looked down from heaven, heard the groaning of the prisoners, in a time accepted succorred us as to those that were prisoners of death and loosed them that was appointed unto death. And so then we've been loosed, and we are the children that God hath redeemed. And the songwriter said, And now we are free from death and we are free from sickness and we are free from poverty and we are free from all these other things. And the devil is only creating this problem for us and causing this problem because we are still children. Though we be lord of all we are still under the tutors until the time appointed of the Father as to the Bar Mitzvah which means comprehending the fullness or that is the adoption, as to the change coming to the Bar Mitzvah or the place of recognition of who we are and what we are and losing our fear of the devil and death and all these other things. Because we are, we are now beloved, the Sons of God. We have already passed from death unto life, and we shall never come into condemnation. I say this to you just before closing here that, when I say never come into condemnation, we need to realize the thing that I'm saying. Because the Bible said, if you walk in the spirit and not in the flesh, then ye shall not come into condemnation. And if you walk in the spirit and not in the flesh, then you have passed from death unto life and shall never come into condemnation. And I tell you that it's not the wishy-washy way of life as to thinking, Well, I really got to hold on because today I may walk in the flesh; tomorrow I may walk in the spirit. There is no such thing as that only in the sense of allowance of you as to the flesh that's going to distort you. But it hath nothing to do with your eternal life. You cannot walk in the flesh because you're not in the flesh. God chose you out of the flesh. There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who are not in the flesh as in the body, but are in Christ, for we are not of this world. God has chosen us out of this world. He's hid us with Christ in God whom the heavens have received. And we are not as to faltering and stumbling people, but we are perfect people having been made perfect by God. And there's no such thing as faltering as to walking in the flesh that we should be defiled, because we're perfected forever once and for all having been sanctified by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. How then can we walk in the flesh? Can then can we sin? See, that's your carnal corruption. That's your carnal mind. It shows you that you are the bastard child because you cannot believe and you cannot get away from your sins. There's no way that you'll ever get away from your sins. Because you cannot believe this, you cannot have this. There is no way. That's why you reason against me in your mind. That's why you reason in your own doctrine and understanding as to self-esteem, as though you understood when you know not. When the Bible said, You think you know something you know something as you ought to know, and the thing you ought to know is that you don't know anything. Let's give the Lord a hand. Only in Christ Jesus do we know anything. When you lean to your own understanding you're in trouble. All right so what is this? The Revelation of Jesus Christ, the revealing of who we are. Which means that through this we're being transported to another world. And to you that are still in your carnal mind, you're still in that carnal world. And to be carnally minded is death. And we that are not in the carnal mind, but in the spiritual mind, to be spiritually minded is life. Because to be in the spiritual mind, then are ye in the spirit. To be in the carnal mind then are ye in the flesh. For Satan even Satan that hath been cast out of the great wonderful world of illumination is the infiltration that's within your body that has you in bondage as to the bondschild of those human senses that's relative to the tangible source of creation. And you are in bondage to these forms of matter that are around you and you cannot escape them. Because the creature was made subject to vanity by reason of him who subjected the same in hope. But we that are coming to this wonderful light, not just to hear as to a reflector, but this that will not go out after that it's been heard, we will not go out as to the light of this it will not leave us, but we will continue on and on and on in this wonderful light. That is we're going to continue to glow. We're going to continue to shine. We're going to continue to be brilliant with this wisdom that illuminates our countenance, and we're going to continue to believe with all of our heart. And the body's going to continue to change into this glorious, wonderful, celestial creature. So I thank God for this wonderful thing because the new world is now at hand. The kingdom of God is now at hand, and the new creature is now at hand, and behold old things have passed away by Christ, and behold all things are become new. And I'm a new creature in Christ Jesus and I've been buried as to the old, resurrected as to the new, and I have now grown up from my infancy into this wonderful knowledge of who I am and what I am; and that all things are mine, all things are mine, whether in heaven or in earth. I own it all. I own it all. I own it all. Someone would say, Well, how can you own it all? Because I outlived all of you that wanted it. And the man that lives the longest is the man that owns it all. You may have it today, but if I outlive you I've got it. If you outlive me then you got it. So then I'm planning to outlive all of you unless you're sons of God. And if you're sons of God then come on up here and I'll divide it with you. Let's give the Lord a hand. (Omitted repeated words on second tape) I'll divide it with you the same way that we divide the world. You can go see California when you get ready and I'll go see California when I get ready, and you can go to the ocean when you get ready and I'll go to the ocean when I get ready and we'll just all own it together, as heirs and heirs with Jesus Christ. Even as in the millennium, nothing shall harm in all of my holy mountain, saith the Lord. All right let's stand together. You that are reflectors you will hear but you'll not perceive and you will not understand. And it will go out, it will be a glow that will go out, as you go your way it will go out and you'll go back to the wallowing in the mire. The sow after that she has been washed shall go back to her wallowing in the mire. And the dog shall return to his vomit. But you that are children of God will not go out. This will go deep deep down on the inside of you and it will reveal itself until the life of Jesus Christ is made manifest in your mortal genes. And to you it will not go out. This light will be there. You'll never forget it. Scientists say you never forget those things that we've heard. People that go to hell will never forget them to the extent they'll have remembrance as to having wished they'd went the right way. But we will never forget them as to having been embedded within our heart as spiritual words of life of liberty. Wherever the Spirit is as to the Word Spirit there is liberty. It brings liberty. He sent His Word and healed them. By His Word He cast out the unclean spirits. So then we find that this wonderful Word goes with us, this wonderful light continues with us, and we walk in the light as He is in the light, having fellowship one with another as the unionizing of the bodily members. The light never goes out. We leave the sanctuary and like the cow that eats the grass during the daytime and chews the cud when it lays down, we begin to chew the cud. And we feed all night long and meditate in his laws day and night upon these marvellous things that God has given us. And during this time that transformation of the inner man as to the transformating of the mind Paul said, Be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of the mind, transformating of the mind it's bringing us into that great, wonderful, heavenly way of life. And on and on we go to that greatness that God is revealing only to the children of light. For it's not given unto the world to know these things. It's not given unto them to know the mysteries, because if it was given unto them to know the mysteries, they would comprehend the heights, the depth and width of this wonderful thing, and find themselves in this wonderful spirit realm or in this wonderful spirit dimension or in this wonderful spirit world. So we're in the world among the people. We eat with the sinners and the publicans. Though we be in the world we're not of the world. Come out from among the world, as to coming out of the world. And he said, I know that you cannot come out from among the world as to coming out of the world in that you have to dwell in the world as to your natural body. He said, But as in your heart, as in your spirit, as in your life as to the angelic man, come out from partakers or being partakers of that as to the lust of the flesh and the gullible desires as to the things of the world. For if the love of the world be in you the love of the Father isn't there. If you're spirit is as of the love of the world, then that's Satan interwoven in your spirit. But if your spirit is of the angelic source as to laying up your treasures in heaven, having the love of God as to the desires of those things that are heavenly, then are you the children of God. All right, lay up your treasures in heaven where thieves don't break through and steal and moth doesn't corrupt, for wherever your treasures are, there shall your heart be also. Okay, let's sing this little chorus, Brother Taylor. Can we sing, I love Him? (Sings) (Sings: Every Promise In The Book Is Mine.) Isn't it good to be a Christian? Let's sing this little chorus. Maybe Brother Taylor can remember it if I don't. Still kind of hoarse. You sing with me. (Sings: What Can I Give Him) Can you sing it? (Sings) You know that's the way it is. There's nothing that we can give Him. All that we have was already His, but we can give Him our heart. He has given us the sovereignty of our own heart. As to give it to the Lord or we can keep it. It's up to us. Let's sing this little chorus. Sing it with me, can you? I'm just a little bit hoarse and I kinda pause along, but we'll shake it off. (Sings: Sheltered In The Arms of God) How many of you can sing with me? Can you sing with me? I've sang this two or three times and you ought to be able to sing with me now. Let's lower it just a little bit Brother Taylor, just a little bit more. (Sings) Sing the chorus again. (Sings) One more time. (Sings) Okay, let's sing another chorus, the altars are open while we sing these little chorus' and you welcome to come. Give me another key, Frank. (Sings: Working The Roads To Glory) Sing it one more time. (Sings) God is good, isn't He? Let's sing another chorus or two before we go. Give me a key, Mr. Taylor. (Sings: Thank God! There's A Bridge Over the River) (Sings: Come A Little Closer To The Lord) Let's give him another hand. Come a little closer to the Lord. If you're not close to the Lord, the Bible said, Draw nigh to God and God will draw nigh to you. Then resist the devil and the devil will flee from you. But if you don't come a little closer to the Lord you'll never have the strength that you need to resist the devil with. All right, coming down to the close of another service. Just about another day gone now. Another service gone and we're left to face the week once again as to our adversary the devil. If you haven't taken advantage of the words of this wonderful, wonderful testament of God, or if we haven't taken these things to heart as to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, that we might be refilled and refurbished with the Spirit of God, then we go out as to a vessel that's weak. And the Bible said, If we faint in the day of adversity, then our strength is small. It's very evident then that we did not have much strength. If you go out from here and then your thoughts go back to houses and lands and cars and frolics and all the celebrities of the world and all these things as to the natural sources of life as to passions and whatever, then your strength is not very much. And you fainted in the way. And eventually Satan will use your body as something to destroy your soul. But if you are in the battle for the Lord and the right you'll keep on the firing line. Let's sing that chorus can we? (Keep on the Firing Line) All right let's lift our hands and close our eyes and sing this little chorus together. (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Sing that with me now. (Sings: Time Shall Be No More) Can you raise your hands to heaven? Can you give Him a waver offering? And sware by Him that liveth forever and ever that time no more. One more time together. (Sings) I preached to you that time is now gone. For the saints of God I preached to the origin of time. I've preached to you the stride of time. I've preached to you the eradication of time; and I've showed you how that the end of the world has come upon them. As in the world, and if thou canst believe, then you can understand, and we'll see how far down the trail things really are. Sing it with me now. Lift your hands up and let's sing it. (Sings) Sing it again now. (Sings) I want you to just sing it one more time with me. (Sings) Time no more. Where is time? What has happened to time? I'm going to ask Brother Tony Patin if he'll come up and dismiss us. While Tony's coming, let's sing this together one more time. (Sings) Tony comes from Louisiana. I read in the book about the Louisiana Purchase as to the purchased possession. As he came here he has to do with something outstanding and today he's still with us. When I told him he would come in this direction, he just kind of looked at me and grinned. And in his mind he made me to know as to later, Brother Pike, you don't know what you're talking about. But nevertheless he's here. And he's been with us and he wants to stay. (Sings)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord