The Knowledge Of God

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! You know, sometimes I get to thinking, and I think, My God! Everything is going wrong. What should I do? I say, Well, I'll pray. When I get up and everything is still going wrong I say, What can I do? I say, I'll pray. I wake up in the morning and everything's going wrong I say, I'll pray. Night comes I say. I'll pray. Glory to God! I pray all in between times, too. And it just makes me so happy to feel the wonderful presence of God, to know that Jesus is with us. You know, you have to try to stay right in stride with the Spirit if you are planning to be around for awhile, and I'm planning to live forever so I've got to stay right in stride with the Spirit. There's a lot to be done. If you're just planning to be around for a little while you know, then after that you're going to quit off there ain't no need to make a whole lot of effort, because you know, you just wear yourself down. But I'm never going to wear down, and I'm never going to give out. I've never going to die so__ Somebody say hallelujah! My goodness, somebody say hallelujah. Say hallelujah, folks! Glory to God! Say hallelujah! Amen! Somebody said, Don't holler like that, Brother Pike. Glory to God! If you've got the holler in you you can't keep it down there. Like a prophet said one time, I decided I wasn't going to say nothing and it was like fire shut up in my bones. Glory to God, this is the house of God! Amen! People holler about men's rights, and women's rights, and civil rights. I'm hollering about God's rights! Somebody say hallelujah! Praise God! I thank God for this house, that gives me the right to say hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Now don't you feel better all over. Ain't that better than jogging and lifting weights. Hallelujah! You didn't know you had all that strength, did you? Glory to God, hallelujah! The devil was trying to keep it back so you could use it for him. Hallelujah! All right. You surprised him and decided to use it for God. Somebody said, O my, Brother Pike, I just can't hardly make it. I've got eight hours to make tomorrow for the devil, but I can't hardly give Him forty-five minutes tonight. Somebody say Hallelujah! Praise God! Hallelujah! Somebody says, Well, I won't feel like going to work, Brother Pike. You'll feel better than you've ever felt in your life. And besides that a day off for Jesus wouldn't hurt you anyway. Let's give the Lord a hand. Amen! All right! So it makes you feel good. Let's read from the book of Romans tonight. I think we'll start reading from the first verse of the first chapter. I don't know just exactly what I'll talk to you about. I've got so many thing in my heart. I've been preaching for years, and I've said hundreds and thousands of things in my life time. As a mater-of-fact, there are a few thousand tapes here, and there are thousands upon thousands of sermons and testimonies that have never been taped, here and around the world. But even with all of that there is so much in my heart and in my mind, and in my spirit, until as David of old said, I'm filled up and overflowing. The Lord fills my cup. We sing that song, Fill My Cup Lord. And the Lord fills my cup and makes my cup to overflow. And you know, I know when I say that that a lot of times somebody would say, Well, I don't know about that. I'm sure you don't, but I do know about that. Let's give the Lord a hand. It's like a man that he don't have much money and the other fellows got a whole pocket full. The man that ain't got none he don't know about that, but the fellow that's got a whole pocket full he knows all about that. He's enjoying the spending of it. All right. I have a heart filled up. As a matter=of-fact, there is so much in my heart to tell you and to tell the world about Jesus, the wonderful Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, that when I come up here I hardly know where to start, and I don't know what to talk about because I have so many things I want to say. And people in the world today are dull of hearing and you just have to say a little bit to them and go on, and that's all you can do. I know we love to tell ourselves that we are not dull of hearing; we just love to hear. But after about forty-five minutes we are mostly ready to go home and take a relaxation, and then we'll wait until next time and get some more. But a man that's hungry eats all the time. He just don't ever stop eating. You know, like a cow it'll nibble grass all day long and then lay down most of the night and chew the cud. The Bible said they that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled, and folks, I stay hungry all the time. Though He fills me up, and in a little while I'm all hungry again, and I'm wanting something else again. So I eat all the time. All the time, all the time, all the time. Day and night I meditate in His laws, and I just love to do it. And because of that my treasure chest is just filled up and overflowing. And I thank the Lord for that. And wherever I can find a listening ear, wherever I can say something, then I say something. Immediately I start talking about something about Jesus. And everybody you meet practically, they want to talk about cars, and houses, and money, and land, and education, and talk about themselves and talk about people, and if they are not saying good things about people they're gossiping about people. They want to do one way or another, you know. They are either finding fault, or whatever. But no matter if I talk with them, if I talk with them about the good things of people, whether I talk to them about the bad things of people, or whether I talk to them about cars, or houses, or whatever, after I talk to them just a few minutes I'm going to convert the conversation. I only talk to them just for a few minutes to get their attention, or to engage in conversation with them, and then my mind just seems to translate. And I hear them talking about their beautiful mansions, and I say, Boy, isn't that wonderful; a mansion. Ooh, that must have cost a lot of money. Jesus said, I go to prepare a mansion. Let's give the Lord a hand. You know, and they say, I'm interested in cattle. I say, Cattle, now there's the way to get rich quick. The Bible said my father owns the cattle of a thousand hills. Let's give the Lord a hand. Hallelujah! And they say, Well, I think I'll plant me a crop. I say, Well, that's wonderful, like Jesus said, Say not so many months and then the harvest, for it's ready to harvest right now. Look on the fields, they are white unto harvest right now. And he that enters in shall receive wages unto eternal life. So then, this is the way I see it, you know. If they talk about education I say, Well, that's what we need, is a diplomacy from God, and that heavenly understanding to have the mind of God. That's what it's all about? You want to lay up treasures, I say, that's wonderful. It's good to have security in the bank, and that is in the bank of heaven, to lay up your treasures where thieves don't break through and steal and moth don't corrupt, because wherever your treasure is that's where your heart will be also. Somebody say, Hallelujah! Praise God! Do you love the Lord? Praise God. So if you want to talk about money that's good, you know, that's fine. If you want to talk about love, I'm in love with Jesus. Are you in love with Jesus? He's the greatest lover I've ever found in my life, and as David of old said, His love excels that of women. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody say hallelujah! I'm just speaking from a man's view point. I'm sure the woman would say that it excels that of a man. Let's give the Lord a hand. Hallelujah! All right. So then, He said, I'll be a husband to the widow, and I'll be a father to the orphans. He's a provider to the poor. Let's read, can we read? You say, What are you talking about, Brother Pike? I'm talking about God's rights. God's rights. (Reads Romans chapter 1 and 2 through verse 16.) All right. We read here in the sixteenth verse of this first chapter, and Paul is dealing with the Romans, and he says that, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. And then he says as to the gospel, herein is the righteousness of God revealed. And I've tried to impress upon you in the last little bit that we have the heavenly treasure, as to the wonderful things given to us in Christ Jesus, we have this heavenly treasure in these earthen vessels. Now, when you say heavenly treasures in earthen vessels, what you are saying is that there is a knowledge, a knowledge of God. And the Bible said God hath given us all things through this wonderful knowledge of Christ. So then, he 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 be equal with God, but did not try to make in himself a reputation, but he humbled himself as to that of a servant, even to the washing of the feet to leave us an example. And so then, when we think of the wonderful things of God, as to a treasure, then we know that it is the knowledge of God. That he hath given us all things that pertain unto life through the wonderful knowledge of God. Or I say, knowledge means to know that as to the revealing of this, as to the mystery of God made a revelation, or an understanding to you and I. You know, it's so bad to me. It seems so bad as I think about the different people that I meet. Hundreds and thousands and millions of people there are around the world. We preach to them by radio and television, and tent ministry, and in crusades, and whatever it might be, by the printed page, and I find so many of these that we personally meet and encounter, as through our travels, and these people do not know anything about the deep mysteries of Christ, or they do not understand the spiritual things of God, and all they know is a surface relation to God, and they relate to God in a surface manner, as to say just with the printed page, and that's all they know. And that's good. If you don't know anything else hold fast to that. See? But at the same time try to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus to the full measure of the full stature of that perfect man, going on to a full reward, and that in this turn that Word into spirit for it is life and it's never life until it's changed into spirit. Jesus said, My words are spirit and they are life. I look at this Bible; it's a printed page, and I appreciate the printed page, because we need the printed page. It is a guide line for us. But see? The printed page is not life. We need spirit and we need life. There is no life without the spirit. You must of necessity have spirit to have life. I can give you a book, I can give you a diplomacy from high school, from college, whatever. And you can treasure it and you can keep it right with you. And that's great, that's wonderful, that's nice. If you have those things that's nice. But on the other hand, if at anytime God should call for your spirit, then you'd be helpless and there wouldn't be any life. Because the body without the spirit is dead. So then, the spirit is the main thing. See? People feed the body. People care for the body. They medically take care of the body. They lay up treasures for the body. They make sure that the body is well taken care of. They have houses for it to live in, they have cars for it to ride in. They have all kind of things to delight the taste of the body, because they are relative to world by the means of their five human senses. And the five human senses is contrary to God. Your senses are altogether contrary to God. They will not listen to God. They do not believe in God. The devil had them in bondage and you relate to the world, to the tangible forms of matter, because of your human senses. And your human senses will not believe in God. They deny God, they will not accept God. They do not believe in God. They have nothing to do with God. They don't want anything about God other than the satisfaction that they are going to heaven and that everything is going to be all right at the time when they go to cross the Jordan, as we say. And that principally is all they care about God. But God doesn't want it like that. He doesn't want me to lean to my own understanding. He doesn't want me to have the intellectual diplomacies of life as to lean upon, or cursed is the man that goeth down to Egypt for his help, or that leaneth upon the arm of flesh. If you lean upon your five human senses, you're going to hear the doctor say, I'm sorry. I wish I could help, but you know, you are just gone. And if you lean upon your human senses you are going to find a day of poverty, your going to find a day when your strength gives out, a day when your sight is gone, and your hearing is no more. You are going to find a day when it may be amputation of your legs, or your arms, or some bad disease on the inside of you. You know, no matter how great you become as a celebrity, or some great dignitary, then it doesn't matter. All those things are wonderful, you know, but that doesn't matter. One of these days leaning upon the arm of flesh you are going to find that you've been cursed, or you're under the curse, or you have never escaped the curse, because you are still in the flesh. Whereas, the Bible says we not in the flesh, but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God is in you. If you have not his spirit then you are none of his. So then, we find that these things will fill us. The human senses is going to fill us. Satan uses these to take us into a trap. Our human senses, our human reasoning, is the worst detriment of life. There is not a greater detriment of life than human senses, as to real life. So then, we must have the mind of Christ. We must cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity to the obedience of Jesus Christ, every thought. Not to lean to our own understanding, because it's infiltrated with the powers of Lucifer and the mind of Satan so we've got to eradicate that. We've got to completely transformate our minds that by the translation of our spirit into the Spirit of Christ that our minds can by measure, proportionally speaking, over a period of time be transformated into the mind of Christ as we're able to bear it. And then the life of Christ, being made manifest through this mind, as to the measure of this mind that we possess to make it manifest within our mortal genes, as to that celestial life and that celestial body that brings forth. That is, that comes forth by the Word, because the Word is Spirit and life, and God has spoken all things into existence by His Word. He upholds all things by His Word. He sent His Word and healed them. It's by our faith in the Word that you are saved and that not of yourself. It is God Who is the Word, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and full of truth. So then, the Word is everything, the same to a thousand generations unaltered, unchanged, never failing. And the Word will not fail. And God, by the Word, said let there be. And all things emanated from the Word. And the Word shall not fail to any generation. He that hath faith__ The Bible said the Jews had the Word but they did not mix it with faith and it did not profit them. But when the Word comes, and you believe and the Word comes to life, and the Word then will heal you and save you, and break the yoke and cast out the unclean spirits and give you the blessings of prosperity and health and happiness that you need with the mind of Christ. Let this mind, this mind that knows all about God, this mind that knows everything that God has for you, this mind that is going to give you all things just by understanding and believing in it, this mind that is wrought while in the body of Jesus all that needs to be wrought, as to finish your works, and to do away with your sins and iniquities that they should be no more. Let this mind be in you that it might talk to you, that it might reveal itself to you, that it might become spirit, and change you into what it is as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. All right. So then, it was like I was telling Brother Grady the other day when we were talking. I believe it was yesterday. See? What are we? I am what the mind of Christ has made me. If I have my diplomacies as to life, my spirit be gone what good can that do me? Life is in the spirit. If I have this book, as to the printed page, though I be a real scholar, if the spirit of this life isn't here then what does it profit me because God is a spirit, and all this Word is is a doorway, as to get into your heart to catch your mind, to pick up your listening ear. It is the doorway between heaven and earth. Jesus said, as to the Word made flesh, I am the way, I am the door to the sheepfold, by me you can go in and out to the green pastures. So then, as I was telling Grady, I said, Grady, the Word says that we are Gods. Now. I say for sure I believe that, Brother Pike, as someone would say, or I would say to you, I believe that, my Brother, my Sister. But do we believe that? We say, Of course, we believe that, Brother Pike. We believe that because the Bible says that. Well, that's what the preacher is for, is to test your faith and find out if you're believing or making believe, because here's the thing. If I believe that I am a God__ Oh, my God! somebody says, Nay! But I notice that since we made that little statement a number of years ago that, as I said the other night, they're saying it on television, they're using it on television. Brother Grady was telling me they went into a prison to minister to somebody and there was somebody from one of the churches over in Atlanta, Georgia, I believe Brother Paulk, or connected with them somehow or other back in there. And said as he set there he heard him saying that dogs beget dogs and men beget men and Gods beget Gods. So then, we are Gods. We are Gods because the Bible says we are Gods. Someone would say, Well, I don't believe that. Let's analyze that first. I don't believe that we're Gods, Brother Pike. All right. Then if you don't believe that you are a God then what does that make you? It makes you an animal. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. So then, there's no much need for me to talk to you animals, because all I can do is just teach you, as to a make belief, to say roll over, sit up, give me your paw. See? Jesus said dogs and swine. Now, I didn't say that; He said that, and I'm just saying what He said. The sow will go back to her wallowing in the mire and the dog will go back to his vomit. That's why you can't get them out of the world. See? The Bible said love not the world neither the things that are in the world, for all that are of the world is the pride of life, the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh and the world. And the lust thereof passes away, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. And the Bible said, He that hath the love of the world in him the love of the Father isn't there. So the world he has set in their heart, and they cannot find the beginning or end. But God has taken the world out of your heart, and He has placed the Kingdom of God within your heart, and now this great light as I make mention of as to this great knowledge and understanding, this unveiled knowledge of God, the unveiled mystery, this light, to them that set in the regions of the shadow of death great light hats sprang up unto them, and this light has shined in darkness and they that are of the intellectual darkness, the Bible said they cannot see when good cometh, because Satan, even the prince of darkness, even the god of this world hath blinded their eyes that they cannot see. So then, we know that the eyes of their understanding is blinded, and the Bible said, and this light shined in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. But folks, we're not children of darkness; we're children of light. So then, it said that we comprehend this wonderful truth of God, this wonderful light of God. We comprehend the heights, and the depths, and the width, and the length of this wonderful, wonderful thing of God. Now. So then, we realize that we are Gods. What is a God? What is a God? A God is something that cannot die. How many times have I said that to you? A God is something that cannot die, because a God is in this generation, and then when the generation is gone the other generation has been taught as they come forth to worship this God, and as that generation begins to recede in life then they teach the next generation that's coming on that they should worship this God. So this great God continues on and on. A god is something that cannot die. Men are born to die, but gods, they come forth to live. In this case we are born again. We are born into Godship, which means the washing of regeneration, or changing generations by the washing of the water of the Word, which means the spirit of the Word. And we come to acknowledgement of our Godship. Not that we just become Gods, because the Bible says this was given to us in Christ before the world ever was and brought to recognition, or light, or made an expose of light at Calvary, or down through the Church Ages through the generations as they're born into the world and they come to Calvary as in their day. See? And we are Gods. Someone would say, If we are Gods why do we die? I would have a little problem with that question as to say, if you are a God why do you die? because I don't know why you die. But I can tell you that Gods don't die. See? I can answer it for you like that. Gods do not die. Now, why you, as you say, why do we, as to you saying you, or ya'll, as they say in the South, why ya'll die. I don't know. But I do know one thing. I know that Gods don't die. And I can tell you this, you die as a sinner, because of sin, and the only thing I can explain about the other part is that you are not a God, and you are making believe that you are a God and you are just in the light, and you're in the rain and water, water everywhere and you don't have a drop to drink, because God's do not die. Do you know why Gods do not die? As somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, these people, we're born into a Godship and we have got to die someday, because when you are born you have got to die. Well, that's not right. You see, we were Gods before the world ever was. We are responsible for the world being here. When the world came forth he came from us. See? And we are Gods and that's where the world came from. And that's why all things are ours. All things are ours, see? If we didn't own this how could we claim this. If this belongs to somebody else if we come down here and we bunch of folks suddenly being born into the world we say, Bless God, we think this is ours, we just rise up and take the kingdom and possess it forever and ever, you bunch of beast, we're going to kill you. How could that be? Wouldn't that be theft? In the world they call it theft by taking? Wouldn't that be theft? (Begin tape one, side two.)....then stand behind theft? Would He then steal from one to give to another? Did God actually steal the birthright from Esau to give to Jacob? The Bible said the birthright went to the first born. Somebody would say, Well, Brother Pike, wasn't Esau the first born? As to the record, yes. As to what you, in your assumption, get from reading it you presume this in your presumptuous way that Esau was the first born. So then, he should have gotten the birthright and had all of his father's wealth. But then what do we do at the breach of the matrix when the hand came out before the birth of Esau and the little ribbon as to whatever was tied on it. And then when it went out of sight, as back to the matrix, or the vagina, then came forth as it was Esau. Who then was the first born? Who then had right to it? So then, did God steal anything from Esau? And didn't Esau, besides that, to confirm the thing, to be sure that God would be without any kind of blame, didn't God let Esau sell his birthright to Jacob for a morsel of bread in the time of his thirst for the things of the world? Isn't that what the world is doing? As to the second born they are giving their life, as to eternal life, and their rights as to God's rights to you and I because we're willing to let them have the world, as to say the first shall be last and we who are the second shall be first, or the last shall be first? So then, did the mother deceive her own husband? What kind of a wife would that have been, supposing to be a godly wife that she went in and took a man that was typical of the Son of God Himself and deceived him? Do you believe that she did that? Of course not. She knew. God had already spoken to her even when the children were wrestling within the womb, and said, The elder shall serve the younger. And when she ask why the problem with carrying the children, and it was like this then, God told her the wrestling was already there, that is as to who would be the first born, that it would be a struggle between Jacob and Esau. And so then, the thing that she did in instructing Jacob, she followed the Lord Jesus Christ. She followed the mind of God. She followed the understanding. She did exactly what God told her was to be, and she saw that it had to be that way. Isn't that right? See? As to you say, Rebecca, or your say Isaac, as to the man or the woman, you say as who understood, who understood? There was one thing for the man, there was another thing for the woman. Who was it that understood in this case? So then, we see that the thing happened exactly the way it was suppose to happen, and there was nothing deceitful about it. Even though Jacob, as to the name, means supplanter, or deceiver, and so it is as to the natural appearance to people, yet in all fairness it was exactly his birthright. Do you love the Lord? All right. So then, we know that a lot of times that our conceptions are wrong, our thinking is wrong. See? Who then does this birthright belong to? Does it belong to them that are out in the world, the ones that have these things, as to the money values of the world? Have they worked and labored and got these things? Did they do that? No they didn't do that. Someone would say, Well, riches gotten by labor shall increase. Truly it does, but did they get there by their work and labor? No. Satan got that by his cunningness, he got that by the old tree of knowledge, by the diplomacies of high school and college. He got that by his witty doings, he got that by his deceit. He got that by his powers of ingenuity, of manipulating in different places and working it around until he could get you to slave and put you under the bondage. Was it the children of Egypt that built such a great empire in Egypt? Or was it the children of God that had ben put under bondage and enslaved until they built this great empire? Would God have been justified in taking the children of Israel out of Egypt and turning Egypt into an ash heap? Would He have been justified in that if those people had labored for what they had down there? Wasn't it the children of Israel that had built it? And when God got ready to take the children of Israel out He intended that Pharoah not enjoy any of it, so He turned it into a rubbish pile. Folks, let me tell you something. It is God's people and their mind and understanding and labor that has built this world. Somebody said, It's the black man. No, that's wrong. Somebody said, It's the Indian. No, that's wrong. Somebody said, It's the white man. No, that's wrong. It's God's people that did it. It's God's people that did it. They're the ones that's been enslaved. Who are they stealing from? When Jesus spoke to Peter over there and said, Do they take money of their own people, or of strangers. Peter said, Of strangers. He said, Then the children are free. Someday at the great supreme courts of God that will be brought to pass and you'll see what I'm telling you. So then, when we get ready to go out of this world what is God going to do to it. He's going to turn it into an ash heap. He's going to turn it into a rubbish pile, that they don't enjoy anything, even as to healing medicines. The Bible said, And there will be no healing medicine in that day, that their kingdom as to Satan's kingdom will be filled with intellectual darkness as to ignorance, so they will not even know how to do one little thing to stop a pain, or a misery. So they are just reflecting their light and enjoying our securities whether it's through medical means, or eating, or drinking, or whatever it might be. Soon God is going to run abstract and run the squatters off of our land, and then He's going to bring in the wonderful millennium. And as it was in the days of the early days, as you recall, when the bad men were there, when the robbers were there, and the killers were there, when there was no chance for people to just go to and fro without getting robbed, or shot, whatever, people formed the vigilantes, and they got together and through their understanding and loyalty as to what was right to try to preserve human life, they overthrew the bad men of that day, and they cleaned the land. They came into a lawful way of doing things and to punish the wicked. And they worked together, and soon they overcome the bad people and they set up a law and order that brought in this wonderful world that we've got as to the lawful way of life. But now, Solomon said, I looked and in the place of the law, as to judgment, I've seen it turn to corruption. What should men to do today? If they were going to naturally do it through a legislative means except for the fact that we know that God's weapon of warfare is not carnal, ours is not carnal, but it's mighty as through faith and the knowledge of God as to the casting down of strongholds and imagination, bringing into captivity. So then, in that we know that we refrain from the natural warfare until God brings in the nation of the Jews as for that purpose. But if we were going to do what we need to do we would again form the vigilantes, as to law, and we'd set it up as a law, as a new law, and we would come against this law that we now have, overthrow this law and get that filth and corruption of the underworld out of office that calls itself law and order that's just entwining and confusing humanity and robbing them, and eating them up like worms and let the law come in once again and get rid of the bad men so we could have the right kind of law, or the right kind of understanding, which you and I will not do as Gentiles. But there is coming a time when God is going to raise up the law even the true law, even the Jews. This is where the law comes from. Check the history of the law and you'll find out that the laws of the Gentiles of today are a derivative from the laws that God gave to Moses, and they've been perverted and infiltrated. And someday the true givers of the law, as to the Jews, in that salvation is of the Jew, they're going to rise up as a nation, and the Bible said God is going to draw together every nation under heaven, as to their kings and their armies as to their government which is the laws of the land, and God is going to send forth His Son as a vesture dipped in blood, and he's going to let that wonderful way of God be seen until the blood runs up to the horses bridle, and He's going to eradicate, He's going to re-legislate, He's going to cleanse and purge until we have a good law, and we're going to bring in a good age for the people of God. Right now you and I are doing our part. Our part is to bring in the spiritual law. And our part is to bring in the spirit as to perfection until it comes to the change of the body, as to the redemption of the body. Which means at that point that the Jews will come in, as to manifest this great wonderful power, as to legislate and take away all of the disorders of life that they may bring forth the true law and do away with these perverts of the law, and completely clean the slate, as to taking all of these people out of office and completely eradicating so that law and order can be there with the right kind of spirit, the right kind of people, the right kind of world. So then, when these things are gone, of course, the briars and the thorns, and all these things will be gone, because there is a physical thorn and a spiritual thorn, and a natural thorn. And the natural thorn is here because that the spiritual thorn got in the way, and the physical thorn is here as to a sickness because the spiritual thorn got in the way. And when the spirit is corrected as to what you and I are doing, then the desert shall blossom as a rose, then the physical realms will bring forth the fruits of the spirit. And then, as to that that has happened in heaven, so will it be in the earth. There won't be any poverty, because there won't be any spiritual poverty. There won't be any sickness, because there's no spiritual sickness. There won't be any thorns and briars and the conglomeration of that which confuses and injures in the earth. Nothing to harm in all my holy mountain, because there will be nothing spiritually that can hurt, for Lucifer will be bound for a thousand years in that time, and God said, Nothing shall harm in all of my holy mountain, saith the Lord, and the house of the Lord shall be established, and all nations shall flow into it. And they will say one to another, We've forgotten out God. Let's remember our God. Let us go up to the house of God that He may teach us of His ways, and all of the land shall be singing and filled with the wonderful things of God. All right. So then, we see that no matter how much they try to do anything as to with their means of giving, or whatever, it will never be that they can eradicate. Now. It's like a letter that I found on my wife's desk which was from Mr. Bush. A couple of letters. One from the secretary maybe, or somebody, and then one from Mr. Bush. We spoke about God putting Mr. Bush into office and Him being the man that would do the job, and that he would be the man that would bring the prestige back to the church, and that the church had been Jim Jones'd and mistreated and brought down to a low level to where the parasites would quit gnawing on it and they would flee, because it didn't sparkle anymore, and they couldn't make money out of it, and make merchandise out of it anymore as to Jesus turning over the tables and popping the whip. And then after that we said that Mr. Bush would restore the prestige to the church and at this time that the Church, as to the true people of God, would begin to come in and get shaped up and get in good condition for the translation. And the Church would become beautiful. And then God would take the Church out. He wouldn't let them be scattered anymore. He'd take them out. It has to do with the re-gathering of Israel and bringing them back to their homeland in that the Church has drifted out of their homeland. They've drifted to the swimming pools and bathing suits, and pool tables, and volley ball and basket ball, and sports, and eating and drinking, and partying, and everything that you can think of they've drifted into that, and they're out of their homeland of holiness. Real genuine holiness, as to their homeland of holiness, they've drifted away. Whereas, the Bible said without holiness on man shall see the Lord, as it was with David in the book of Psalms. And it was said we should not praise idols but serve God in holiness, as it was with John the baptist's father that said, And God has ordained that we should serve Him in holiness, righteousness, all the days of our life, as it was in the days of Paul who said, I serve God who is the spirit of holiness. I serve Him with my spirit. And the Bible said to be holy in body and in spirit. And the Bible said to be holy in body and in spirit, and even as in the days of Aaron when he had to have holiness unto the Lord as he went into the little tabernacle, or the temple. All right. So then, we can see that God is going to call them back. I read this letter, and this letter was just like a preacher. Mr. Bush was just literally preaching, that's what it was. He called it the points of life, or light. So then, in this he is encouraging people to do good things. And he placed the emphasis on one thing. In so many words he said the government cannot handle the situation. We're going to have to look to the church. He didn't use those exact words but that was what it came to. He said the greatest institution in the earth that we have is the place of worship. And the place of worship has always been the most influential place, or thing, in the earth as to cause the people to conform to the right thing and to do the right thing, and that absolutely the government could not handle. It was going to take the church to do it, and going to take__ He being a wise man, knowing that he could not directly approach the church and speak to the church without them saying he was a religious fanatic and want to put him out of office, or impeach him, he used the little system of the point of light, or life, and brought in different organizations, or whatever, and just said organizations in general, and always he came back to the church, always saying something. In his wisdom always coming back to the church. Do you pray for the leaders of the land? Do you pray for the President? Do you pray for the Pope? Do you pray for the Queens? Do you pray for the Kings? Do you? I pray for them. The Bible said pray for them that they'll have the right understanding, the right knowledge, the right wisdom, see? And the wisdom that I saw in that was undoubtedly from the prayers of the saints of God, and from God Almighty. And then as he got on down the way, when he got everything established as to making it to look like a uniform thing as to everybody, and not dealing directly with the church he begin to come plainer and plainer to the church and to the church,and finally said if you give to the poor, or the needy, or whatever, then do it the more. Do it more than you ever have. If you've helped people help them more than you ever have. See? That's the same thing that we preach. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this that you should visit the widows and the orphans in your afflictions to give yourselves to God and keep yourselves unspotted from the world. Come out from among them and be ye a separate people. And as Mr. Bush went on down he said, And you that are God's people (He just made it real plain.) He said, Do something for your brother. Do something for the people. Do something for your brothers. See? Folks, it is true that we are all, we all are brothers and sisters in Adam and in Eve, as to the first birth, but we are a separate God family when it comes to birth, as new birth in Christ Jesus our Lord, but we still have the responsibility of the beast of this world which are born in Adam, as to the first Adam. As in Adam all die. So then, we need to provide for the beast. They are under our jurisdiction. They do not have any understanding. They are void of understanding. Even if they go to college, if they go to school, the only reason they can understand is because the blood is on the Seat of Atonement and the grace of God is there, as to this light that the church is giving to give them the understanding, to be able to establish places of medical support, or medical care, or forms of medicine that will help, or whatever it might be as to a legislative thing, so that they can have the understanding and knowledge to keep this world together. I know that, you know, that rubs the world wrong, and that rubs the devil wrong because it takes all of the glory away from him and it leaves his colleges bare and empty, and it leaves all of the schools bare and empty, and leaves their heads bare and empty of anything except what God has given them. Let's give the Lord a hand. That makes it sound a little indignant, but I don't mean it that way. But folks, there is no education in the mind of a dog except what you've taught him. And Jesus said they are dogs and they are swine. And anything without God is an animal. Jesus said they are beast. Paul said, I've fought with beast. And said, They are beast, and some of them are brute beast made to be taken and destroyed. If you are not a child of God then you are a beast. There is nothing else you could be. And of course a beast does not last forever, neither does the servant abide in the house forever, because at night the servant goes home, but the child, or the son, doesn't leave the house, neither does the daughter leave the house. That's their home and they lie down to rest, but the servant goes home when their work is finished. So, as the Bible said, Jesus said, And the servant abideth not in the house forever. This is God's house. Everything is God's house. Heaven is God's temple, or tabernacle, and earth is his footstool. That's His Throne up there, and all of this belongs to God and we belong to God, and all that belongs to God is ours, and Jesus said we're children. And if we're children then are we heirs and joint heirs. And God having given us all things that pertain unto life, these things are ours, not theirs. So then, we're responsible to the beast to try to provide for them as much as we can. But we're not to slop in the bucket with them. We're not to wallow in the mire with them. We are the people that own this whole thing. We are God's. Somebody said, Oh, Brother Pike, you are lifting yourself up like the Jews did and lording over the people. Oh, no. That was the devil that got a hold of the Jews to lift the Jews up, to make themselves to be something, or to think themselves something when they were nothing. The Bible said if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing then he deceiveth himself. We are not thinking ourself to be something when we're nothing, we're thinking ourself to be something because we are everything. Let's give the Lord a hand. Said, You can't prove that. That's what the Bible teaches. The Bible said that we're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. The devil was doing that on his own just like he's doing the Gentiles that way as to take the glory for all of their ability, education, as it was down there in the time of Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar begin to walk around and say look what I've got, and look what my hands have gotten me, and all of these things. And about that time the writing began to be on the wall. The handwriting began to be on the wall, and even over there in the days of Belteshazzar as tekel, tekel, upharsin, and whatever, and it was saying, Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. And the Bible said he shook until his joints came loose. See? And had to get the man of God to interpret the thing. See? We are saying that we are God's. They said for this we stone you. Being a man you make yourself God. He said, Is it not written I have called ye God's. How many of you believe God's a liar? How many of you believe God's a liar? Somebody says, Well, I just can't believe that. Then that makes God a liar? Isn't that right? The Bible said, And they changed the truth of God into a lie. So then, you've changed His Word into a lie, as to your believing and thinking. And without faith in what he said, as to believe it's true then it's impossible to please God. It upsets God. Because of your unbelief you perish. So then, God said through the mouth of His Son Jesus, I've called ye Gods. All right. If He said I've called ye Gods that's good enough for me. Praise God! If He said Ye are Gods, then ye are Gods and I don't care what anybody else says, then if He says you are Gods, then are ye Gods without change, without alteration. Then are ye Gods, and ye are Gods not of works of yourself, but it is the gift of God. He hath made you Gods by His Own righteousness, by His Own blood, and you give Him the glory. And that's the one thing the Jews did not do, and that's the one thing that the devil will not do, and that's the one thing that causes a person to go to hell. Let's give the Lord a hand. So then, we are one with our Heavenly Father even as Jesus said, Father, glorify these with the same glory I had with Thee before the world ever was, and He appear in glory with Moses and Elijah as they shared this glory, because you are not another, because you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. You are the very body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular. All right. So then, let's say this and we're going to hurry on and close here now. We've talked to you quit a little bit here. When we look at this, are we Gods? Are we really Gods? If we are Gods then when does a God get sick? How many Gods have you ever known about that got sick? Whereas, the Bible says there are gods many, but to you and I there is but one God. But angels are Gods. Did you know angles are Gods? That's why Satan is a god. And he excels all the angels as to his evil doings. But angels are gods, because they cannot die. You have to destroy angles. The Bible said in heaven we are equal to the angles, which means we cannot die. We've passed from death unto life. We are thus spirits and we don't count anymore as a body. The body is dead by Calvary, buried as to the beast part, the cocoon, the worm, and it's laid to rest. When Jesus hung at Calvary that was the worm. That's why he was made a serpent. The serpent is called the worm. In the old Bible, as to the Old Testament, the worm was hang upon the pole, the serpent was hang upon the pole. And God said, Jacob, I will help thee, thy worm. So then, our first birth is a worm. It is a worm. And when Jesus was hung there as the worm in our place, then the worm was smitten, and with that the rending of the veil, and the cocoon, out came the wonderful Christ as to the butterfly. When the mother earth opened up her womb, then out of the matrix of the earth came the Christ in another form, as to the great heavenly one, as to the beautiful butterfly with it's radiance and colors, as to that of the attributes of God that's portrayed, or as to the beautiful covenant of God as to the rainbow. Now, so we see that going down into the heart of the earth these things that God did for us, as to the old cocoon, or the worm, it went back to the dust. It was put away for the worm goes into the hole, and into the grave it went. And the soul went down into hell and the spirit went back to God who gave it, and then that spirit when it changed that body, it was the beautiful butterfly. So then, we see that we are Gods. We are Gods. Now, when does a God get sick? When does a God get sick? Tell me, when does a God get crippled? When does a God do all of these things. You say, But, Brother Pike, if we be Gods I get sick? Things happen to me? That's true. But why does it happen to you? The Bible said because of your lack of knowledge, of understanding, for I've given you all things through the knowledge of God. It's you lack of knowing that you are a God. Oh, somebody said, I know I'm a God. I heard you say that. It was told that to me. I read it in the Bible. That doesn't mean you believe anything. The Jews that the Word, not being mixed with faith it did not profit them. To intellectually conceive of this, or to see this, or to know this, or to relate to it, as to a natural page with your natural senses, that doesn't mean anything. Folks, do you believe that you are a God? As you believe, as you come to understand, as we preach to you, as you grow from little babies as to Christ being formed within you. Paul said, I travail. See? And while you are coming to maturity, as the child within the womb, so as Christ in your heart. Then as this Christ matures in you, as to the full mind of Christ, then this thing is to be made manifest in your outer body and this life of Christ is to be made manifest in your outer body, and then shall ye know that ye are Gods. And then shall you see Him as He is, who is God Almighty Himself, one with the Spirit as to the Heavenly Father, and ye shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye into that that He is. And we shall see Him as He is. And this glory from within, this heavenly treasure shall be made manifest in the sight of man, moving on from glory to glory. Not to die and go by the grave, but to come to a full understanding of this where it might be made manifest as to Christ through your transformated mind, as from glory to glory until it comes to that perfectness, or that completeness that we are speaking of as to the illumination as to Jesus finishing the diplomacy, standing in glory on the Mount of Transfiguration between Moses and Elijah to let us know that that, as to the thing of the Church, had been finished. That He went to school for all of us from the first grade right on through from the manger, as to the cradle, right on through to manhood, and proved that it was finished in your behalf and my behalf and we are now the glorified one standing on the Mount of Transfiguration where we have a natural priest. But standing on the Mount of Transfiguration in Heaven we are already in Heaven, translated into Heaven, passed from death unto life. And the Bible said them that He foreknew He also did call, and them that He did call He sanctified, He justified, and them that He justified He also glorified. And Jesus appeared in glory to show us that God had already glorified us, and that we are God's workmanship in Christ Jesus. And what God wanted us to be He made Jesus to be that from the manger to the cross, and so today we're not in the manger, and today we're not on the cross, and today we're not in between the manger and the cross. Today we are they that dwell in Heaven, waiting patiently as our life hide in Christ with God until that time of the change of the body to be made manifest to the world, as to your inner man that is sealed and the evil one cannot touch him. And the Bible said being born of the spirit as to the inner man, then you cannot sin. You are without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, for the seed of God, even the Christ seed of the Word of faith remains in you and you cannot sin because you are born of God. He that is born of God keepeth himself and the evil one touches him not, and no one can gossip, backbite, find fault, say anything against you, or lay anything to your charge because it is God that justifies you. Christ died for you, and the Bible said there is nothing in heaven and earth, or beneath the earth, there is nothing as to sin, or weakness, or sorrows, or heartaches, or poverty, or people, or sayings, or whatever. There is nothing in all of eternity, from everlasting to everlasting that can separate you from the love of God which was in Christ Jesus, or that is to say, God gave the greatest love of all when He gave the greatest thing of all. And having given the greatest thing in your behalf there will never be anything to get between you and Him, because that love was so great that it sealed you in because He put the very spirit of His Own Son into you crying, Abba, Father, making you sons and daughters. So you are saved. You are saved like the little baby in the mother's arms. So then, we see that God has wrought these things in Christ Jesus for us and that is why we rejoice and praise Him and give Him all the glory. And our part of it is to subdue this old outer man, not so that we'll be good and become a Christian. We're Christians because He's good. And that we're subduing this outer man that we might make manifest in this outer body the life of Christ Jesus, as to this healing, as to this eternal regime, as to this eternal radiance and beauty of this eternal riches, and this eternal rest and peace and tranquility. So then, our job is to subdue this outer man as we wrestle against Satan a continual warfare, not as unto justification of righteousness, that's already finished in Christ. But we do that to manifest this inward life of righteousness that we might make it manifest as to these wonderful treasures, as to an eternal source, an eternal inheritance to where we'll never be troubled again. That's our job to subdue with it, fast, pray, whatever we're doing, and whatever we do as to whatever measure we put forth, then it will manifest in us and the world will see that much of Christ, and that much of Jesus that we are according to His body, as to the membership. All right. So then, we see that we are having problems with the body, as to be crippled, having bodily problems because we're still subject to vanities, as to this part that we have not yet master by this wonderful mastery that's already our eternal reward, heavenly treasures on the inside. So with this we understand then that we are growing in our faith. And we wish this even the perfecting of your faith, for the Bible said the minister is set there for one thing and that's to make known unto you all the words of God and the mind of (Begin tape two, side one.) Christ, as to faith by the hearing of the Word, or that mind, as to this we wish, Paul said, even the perfecting of your faith. So, in this we understand then, folks, that we have problems and infirmities with the flesh because of our lack of knowledge in knowing who we are, and what we are, and that we can't die, that we can't be sick. And did you know that the inner man can never be sick? that the inner man can never sin? that the inner man can never die? that the inner man is spirit? and he is as an angle, because angles are spirits? and that spirits cannot die? and that angles are Gods and that makes that inner man a God. He is born of God's Spirit, therefore, he is interwoven with the God Spirit. He is God. He is the measure as according to whatever the membership and He is a God, as one with The God, as the membership of that great body. Jesus Christ being the head of the members, even as the mystery of the man and wife, even and the Church and Christ. So then, we find out that if we come closer to God, if we walk on with God, if we make manifest in our body these things, the more we realize this the less the devil can do with us. You are worth nothing, folks. You are not important. You are nothing more than a worm unless you have Christ in you, and if you have Christ in you you are a God that's eternal, that can never perish. And you give God the glory because He hath made you this way through His Own righteousness, through His Own blood, giving God the glory you pass through the door, the Word as to Christ Jesus, and the others that are coming up as celebrities of this world as to the grace and the rain on the unjust, religiously or otherwise, they will be cast out, bound hand and feet, because they don't have the wedding garment, never having been baptized into Christ they've never put on Christ, therefore they come into this feast of Charity as spots and blemishes having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin, promising others liberty when they themselves are the children of corruption. And they will be bound hand and feet by the devils and demons that people are being bound with, and be cast out. Let me say this right hurriedly and then close right here. When you see somebody interested in gossip that is a devil. That demon spirit is inside of them, or has hold of them, or blinding them by others that they've seen do this, and drawing them to the ball games and to these things. That is a demon spirit that's got their minds, and this demon is trying to excel to make himself something. Like as to, I believe they've got a boy called Johnson that excelled up in the basket ball, and like Elvis Presley that excelled up in the music, or whether it be money, be a millionaire, whether it be a great man of learning, as to a genius, or some fellow that has automobiles, as to a great industry, or whatever it might be, or clothing, or whatever. It doesn't matter what field of activity it is in the world. See? Those are demon spirits and each one of them going to it's own thing. Each man turning to his own way, as to the demon that has lead him, that he might excel, because as to you, the Bible says having food and raiment be there in content, for you brought nothing into the world and it's for sure that you will take nothing out. See? And leave all of those things to the demons. Leave all of those things to the people. They are after those bodies to get out of the dry places, and when they get into these places they get out of the torment. See? And then they excel. As it was said, Have you come to torment us before our time? They have a time without torment while they are in this day of grace before the blood is moved and the days of the Gentiles are over. So then, we see by this, folks, that they are excelling and they are doing their thing in human bodies, whatever it might be, see? But we want to do our thing for God. Let God richly live in you, dwell in you, and He'll give you all things that pertain unto life. And the Bible said, His bless will make you rich and add no sorrow. He will make all of your beds in the time of your sickness. If you'll delight yourself in Him He will give you the desires of your heart. And the Bible teaches that whatever it might be, as a tree planted by the rivers of water you'll bring forth you fruits in your season. Your leaves shall not wither. Whatever you do shall prosper, but if you cover your sins you shall not prosper. Now, I've hurried along tonight because I have to do this. If I get into a message I have to do this, because to keep your attention and I have such little time to minister to you a real message that I have to just kind of run and run and run and run and it makes it very difficult. But anyway, we're trying to do out little bit as to whatever we can. As Brother Taylor says to brighten the corner where we're at. I hope you can understand what I'm saying. Let's master these bodies. Can't you see Jesus? As He is so are we and He is God, and as He was in this life, walked this earth. He walked this earth. Though He was a man in His body He was God in His spirit, and that spirit was made as to God in His flesh, and only in the image of man was He made, and that without sin. He walked as a God in this earth, as a God. Adam was a God, but he fell from that place. He was called the Son of God, and the Son of God is a God. He was only the Son of God by creation, as to illumination of that image in which it was made, which was the God image, which was lost. But you and I are not like that, as to the second man Adam, or that image restored as to the originality we are born of that image, as to the inner Christ, and your spirit. And so then, Jesus walked as a God. When He came face to face with the devil he never flinched. When Legion ran up to Him with a legion of devils, those devils ran up to him to scare Him He just stood there and solemnly looked at them, and all of a sudden they were so scared. They said, Have mercy. Or that is, Let us go away into the herd of swine. Have you come to torment us before our time. See? Ye are Gods. You are members of the body. Draw nigh to God. Resist the devil he'll flee from you. Behold, I give unto you all power over the powers of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you, and greater is He that is within you even the Christ, that he that is in the world, even Satan, the prince of this world. Love not the world, neither the things of the world. They all belong to you anyway, but don't mess them right now. They are under the curse. Seek the Kingdom. Let God run them through the filter, and add to you all things, for godliness is profitable for this life and the life to come. All right. Let's stand together. And let's remember this tonight. Let's go on to the wonderful perfection of God, the wonderful blessings of God, the wonderful riches of God. And make known these wonderful things. Let your light so shine that men may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven. For as it was said as in the old days of the prophets, God said, I have set thee to be a light, even unto the ends of the earth, and all the Gentiles shall come to your rising. Put on your garments, even your beautiful garments, O Zion. Make no provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. Lust is considered anything above being moderate or normal. Have normal food, normal bodily exercise, normal activities, normal as to staying up, normal as to sleeping, normal as to dressing, in moderation they had all things common. And don't be high minded as to excel as to the things of the world, whether it be as to celebrities, dignitaries, positions of life, whatever it might be. Don't do that. Keep your mind on Jesus. Keep your eyes upon Jesus. All right. Somebody says tell it like it is. Folks, that's the way it is. That's the way it is. Jesus walked as a master. Today you are a master according to the measure of Him that dwells in you, and if you want more you can have more. You are ordained to the full measure. So He walked as a master. He never flinched. He knew that He was God. My Father and I are one, He said. And My Father is God. And the Bible said, As He is so are we in Him. Ye are Gods. When you walk through the earth remember that believe that, believe that. Remember that inner man is God, and this outer man is dead and buried and it has nothing to do with it. Already as to the finish of the Thessalonian change ye are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ seen as God sees you over the chasm of death. And someday it shall be made manifest as to this inner God, as the Father of spirits, this inner Spirit, as to His Son. So, when you walk, walk in godly dignity and realize that as to celebrities they are only a form and a type of what you really are, that you are true dignitaries. You are true celebrities. You are true stars that are not reflectors that outshine the brightness of the noonday. You are eternal and everlasting Gods that cannot die, to live forever, giving Him glory and blessing His lovely name for what He's done in helping the poor and needy, as Mr. Bush said. Mr. Bush knowing he's going to have to go and meet God he realizes he's got to get everything right between him and the Lord, and he's trying to do a little preaching on the side. I thought it was a beautiful letter. Satan will take advantage, and the law will come down on it saying, we'll help Mr. Bush get rid of all of this to be even the worse, as they are already bad, but even the worse. God will purge them after while, as to say God, the heavenly vigilante, will clean the slate and move the vomit off of the table and bring in the real thing when He purges the law from their filth. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we, folks? (Sings Room At The Cross.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing and sings At The Cross.) Remember now, in Christ there is neither male nor female. You are all one in Christ Jesus. You are His Sons, though he refers to your as daughters as to the way you life in this world ye are His body, members in particular, as He is in male form, so are you. But in this world we are all the feminine gender, as that is the weakness of the flesh. Love the Lord with all of your heart. (Continues singing.) Hallelujah! Don't you feel the Spirit of God? (Continues singing.) One more time. (Continues singing.) The alters are open if you'd like to come. I can feel Christ getting nearer and nearer, and I can feel that quickening more and more, and that understanding more thoroughly in the faith, more efficient for the change. I can tell that something is happening and at any moment we may go out of here, any moment now, because it's beginning to register in the heart. There's something deep in the heart that beginning to say__ It's beginning to be broke up, and something's beginning to kind of weep like. That's faith. The Bible said mark them that sign, and Jesus sighed in His Spirit, and said, Lazarus, come forth. And the Bible said when they awoke they saw His glory, for I am the resurrection and I am the life, and though he were dead he that liveth in me he shall live. He shall live and never die. Sing that again. (Continues singing.) Can we sing this song, Brother Taylor? (Sings Come A Little Closer.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing.) One more time together. (Continues singing.) Just one more time together. (Continues singing.) Help me, Frank. (Continues singing.) Can you sing it one more time with us? If you really believe it sing it with me. (Continues singing.) Can you give Him a hand? All right. Let's sing another little chorus or two. You'll have to pardon me if I sip on this water. You know, I thank the Lord for water. I sip on it a lot of times when I'm preaching. All my life I've always like a lot of water, and I guess I get to thinking about the rich man in hell. God has given a lot of water to this world, because God knows that in the world to come there isn't going to be any water if you miss the Kingdom. And so he's made plenty of water here to where we can have plenty to quench our thirst. And water of course, being a symbol of God, going to be great and wonderful waters of life for those that are in the spirit. But as it was with the rich man in hell, lifted up his eyes in those flames, tormented in those flames, begged for one drop of water to cool his parching tongue, because in that world of torment there is no water. They wander through dry places seeking rest and cannot find it. Folks, while you've got an opportunity, for God's sake, let me plead with you, don't miss it. It's so sad to think that the human body would drop into the world of nothingness, and into that world of darkness and torment when you are such great and mighty people, made to be Gods. And it's so sad to think that someone would go that way. For Christ's sake don't do that. Let whosoever will come. All right. Can we sing together? (Sings Fill My Cup, Lord.) Sing it once again. (Continues singing.) Let's sing this chorus before we close. (Sings Old Time Religion.) I wonder if the Floyds would come up here and help ne sing that one. (Continues singing.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing.) Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. That's what the old time religion is. (Continues singing.) Somebody say hallelujah! Hallelujah! We're going to sing this little chorus, Let Us Praise Him. While we're singing this chorus I'm going to ask Brother Jonathon Clark to come and dismiss us. Can we sing that together? Let's sing together, can we? (Sings I Will Praise Him.) Can you lift your hands and close your eyes? Worship the Lord, search your hearts and see if you be in the faith. The Bible said examine yourself, see if you be in the faith. See? Faith by the hearing of the Word. See is you believe those things, that Jesus has made you Gods and Gods cannot die. In that you are just now coming into your Godship, as to your inheritance, as to wit, to recognize, as to accept, as to know all of these benefits of a God. Don't you want all the benefits that belong to you? You are made to live forever, have all the benefits. A millionaire had all the benefits of life. God wants you to have all the benefits.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord