Spiritual Vibrations

Susie sings: If I Were My Brother and My Brother Were Me.

Let's read a little bit from the book of Saint Luke the nineteenth chapter. Appreciate you coming out to be with us tonight. Always appreciate the services and always appreciate the people, and of course the evangelistic service sometimes you're a little bit worn from the day. But most of you are faithful to come out to hear the Word of the Lord. And especially appreciate our people, Richard and the wife coming out from California. They're still with us tonight. And it's a real privilege Richard to have you here, also his companion. Glad to have Brother Howard back. As I said this morning, I spoke to him up at lunch, but I just had a minute or two to speak to him and didn't have a chance to talk any, but we're certainly glad to have him back home. A lot of times when people are out, different ones doesn't notice it, but the minister almost always will notice it if one of them's missing. It's kind of like children. You have five or six children at home and you think, well, all of them's here you know. Then suddenly there's one missing, and the other people coming to visit might not notice it, but they're your children and you notice it. So I notice it if some of them's missing. And of course there's reasons a lot of times why people are out. Sometimes there's justifiable reasons for somebody being out. Most of the time the reasons aren't justifiable, but there are sometimes when they are, and whatever it might be we miss them. I talked to Bill Nelson a little bit at the dinner today. And Bill came this morning. I could tell he was really wanting to be in service tonight. He said, But I'm just here for a little bit, be in the service this morning and that's all. He's out on the road most of the time. But he really looks forward to coming in off of the road and being here with us. All right, reading from the nineteenth chapter of the book of Saint Luke, I think I'll read from the twentieth verse. I believe the Lord's wanting me to read a little more than this. He's dealt with me a few minutes ago. I better back up and read a up here a little bit. Let's just start at the first verse. That way I can be sure to get what he wants me to say here. (Reads Saint Luke 19:1-27) Now you know this is pretty much self-explanatory. You don't have to say a whole lot about a reading like that, even though it is parabolic. The Bible said, Without a parable spake he not unto the people. But it's pretty well, it pretty well explains itself as to telling us. It's fairly clear as to telling us just exactly where we stand in the sight of God as having received talents. All of us have a talent. Maybe one of us doesn't have as much talent as another talent, but we do have talent. And it is expected of us to compound that talent by exercising these things in God. And when we don't do it, then it's required of us. In that we have the talent, then we know to do it. If you know to do a certain thing, then if you don't do it, then it's sin unto you. The Bible said, To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is a sin. Whatever God has committed, then He'll require. The Bible said, Unto that servant that I've committed much unto, I'll require the more. And so it is that God if he hath given you much, He'll require much. If He hath given you little, He will require little. But He definitely will require of you whatever He has committed to your trust. And the songwriter said, If just a cup of water I place within your hand, then just a cup of water is all that I'll demand. And whatever God has committed to your trust, that is what God is going to expect of you. And if you utilize this ability for Christ Jesus, then God will compound these things and make you far, far greater in your ability and in your talents. This morning I kept speaking to you about our relation as to the things of the world. And in that God has put us into the world that we should work for Him. You know a lot of people if you go to do anything in the natural they begin to condemn you as to tell you how spiritual they are. I made mention of this the other night. And it doesn't matter what you do, the other person is so spiritual that they feel like that you're altogether wrong in any natural activities that you might engage in. But as I say that is so wrong for people to take that outlook and to do those kind of things. That is so wrong, because it was as it has been said that Noah built an ark to the saving of his house, and had not there been an ark built there would be no me and you today? And God is wanting somebody to be spiritually minded that can make use of tangible substance. See, God is not wanting to take away your life nor is He wanting to injure your body. A lot of times people get the wrong idea about their body. They feel like you know that this old body is just a problem. I need to just blow my brains out. You know I need to get rid of this thing. But as a consequence of that when you get rid of the body that's the end of you so far as your spiritual man doing anything. Your spiritual man, the only way that he can do anything is to utilize the talent through means of your body. And the body is not bad. The body is not wretched. The body is not evil. The body belongs to the Lord. It is the temple of the Lord. The thing that's wretched and the thing that's evil is not your body. It's the infiltration within your body which is the mind of lust, the mind of covetousness, the mind of gossip, the mind of bitterness, the mind of hatred, the mind of self-esteem. And God has ordained that we should humble our hearts, and that we should do away with the pretty face and the pumping of the muscles and the jogging and all of these things as to the painted faces and whatever. God has ordained that we do away with this so that we can kill out lust, and so that we can put a bridle on the body to keep Satan from using the body. These people that get into this charismatic stream of religion, and they think they're suppose to dress out in form-fitting clothes to draw men's attention, or men drawing women attention as to the way they dress, and these people painting up their lips. Men you know they paint their faces like women now. They curl their hair too. But anyway in all of this they're trying to draw attention. They feel like well this is my body. This is the me that God so desperately needs. And I must do my very best and I must look my very best. And so then the devil he encourages them that that's exactly the right way to think. And when they paint their faces and they doll up the flesh, then Satan he comes right in and makes himself right at home. And he uses them in the religious world to destroy and to create lust and to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness and just make havoc out of the things of God. Jesus is wanting to purge the body. He's wanting to mortify the deeds of the flesh. And he's wanting to do away with your lust and with the covetousness and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and the exuberance of the human being as toward the things of the world, knowing that the world and everything in it is under a curse, and knowing that you also are subject to these things by human relation as to your human senses relating to these things, in that your body is dependent upon these things for life. See, then God is trying to get you to understand. He's trying to tutor you and bring you to a knowledge to where you'll be able to differentiate between the body and between the spirit of Satan as a fallen angel, that has infiltrated your body or come into your life. Whereas the Bible teaches this, see, that we as to the body there is no good thing that dwelleth within my flesh. And how to perform with this power of evil that possesses the reigns of my body, I can't find out. I have to look to God and say, Well Lord, being a helpless prey for Satan and being subject to vanity, it is you that has subjected the creature as to the body to the vanities of this world, and that in hope as to Christ within me the hope of glory, that I would overcome this infiltration, through the schooling and development I would come to learn of God and His love and compassion. So then I say, Lord, what can I do? And I hear the Lord tell me, you can do nothing. Without me there's not anything that you can do. And what you need to do is to believe on me, to trust in My righteousness, to make a confession, in that I am the High Priest of your confession, that if you'll confess, to believe in your heart as to Calvary as to the crucifixion, to believe in the Lord Jesus that He actually was crucified. He died and was resurrected in your behalf, that if you can make this confession that Christ is risen from the dead in your behalf to believe in this, then My righteousness covereth you, and My Spirit of righteousness which is the righteousness of the law is fulfilled. This righteousness fulfilled within you as in your heart; and by this your inner angelic man is sealed unto perfection and is sealed away from the body. And the body is now dead by the body of the Lord Jesus, and you are buried as to the body, and the body hath no more power over you. All right so then we see that we are trying to properly differentiate to tell what is happening. Now if you are the kind of a person that you think that you are handsome or you are beautiful or you got to chop your hair off or go contrary to Scriptures, or you've got to grow long hair you know to look like a hippie; whereas the Bible said long hair it's a shame to a man, and short hair that is a shame to a woman as all as if she was shaven. See, but we are suppose to remember that as the woman her hair to be down upon her shoulder, because she is a type of the church; and the Bible speaks of the government being upon the shoulders. And as to this little thing that we're speaking of here that if the man has control over his wife as to a government as to her honoring him, then it is signified as to Christ and the church as when her hair is upon her shoulder. When she cuts it off it signifies that the church is in rebellion as to Christ Jesus, and it shows the whore as to rebellion in Christ Jesus as to this thing against the Lord that is. So then we find that God is telling us that Jesus is the head of the body, and Jesus is the head of the church. And that the government is to be upon the shoulders. So then we say what does this mean? It means the word of God, it means the glory of God. That woman's hair is her glory. And it means the glory of God. Like I told you about a woman one time that was in rebellion as the same as witchcraft and idolatry. This woman standing in front of great, big fire that I had seen. I had warned her about this rebellion, and then I saw the witch come up and take her hair and cut her hair off and throw it into the fire. See, the same as idolatry and rebellion as the witchcraft. So then we find that we must have the Word. We must have the Spirit of God. We must have the glory of God. And this glory is our covering. This is our illumination. Our inner spirit is covered with this glory, and this inner spirit as to be interwoven with this glory which is the Shekinah glory as to the image that we fell from in the garden through the weakness of that of Adam and Eve, now is restored to us in the second man Adam who was made a quickening spirit. The first man Adam a living soul, in Adam all die. And as to the Jews it shows the first man Adam that all die. All of them died out of the presence of God as to the body; and it's been out of the presence of God ever since. Paul the revelator having a great revelation said, And if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead? Or if God at Calvary disfellowshipped the Jews that He could come to the Gentiles to show the death of the body that the spirit would go back to God who gave it as being in the presence of God, He said, what will it be as when the Jews return, the days of the Gentiles over, except it would be the resurrection of the dead or the body that's considered to be dead by the body of Jesus, coming back into view as into this change of the Thessalonian change? See, for from Calvary as I said speaking a little spiritual now, from Calvary if there's 483 years from the time that the angel appeared to Daniel as to Messiah coming, making an end of sin. Then we know that at Calvary, sin is no more from that point on; and today it is the kingdom of God. It is the kingdom of God. It's not the world, it is the kingdom of God. For as it was in the days of Noah, the world passed away and the people passed away with it. And now Peter says as to this Calvary, as to the coming of the Lord which is the fullness of time, that ye are the people upon whom the end of the world have come. That is to say since Calvary the kingdom of God has been preached. Here it is that we read to you right here where it said, And as He approached Jerusalem they thought surely at this time the kingdom of God was to come. And they being naturally minded as the Jews, they couldn't understand why the kingdom of God didn't immediately come if he was the Messiah. They'd seen the great, wonderful works of God. But see the Jews were not to receive this as to a natural thing because God is a Spirit. And just as it was with Jacob, Jacob down there trying to get his wife. He wanted Rachel which represented the spirit, that he could not get Rachel because of the laws of the land, that said you could not get the younger sister before the elder. So then he had to take Leah, and Leah represented the Jews. And so it was Leah in the beginning. And then came Rachel and then came Joseph, then came a Benjamin, and then Rachel went out of the picture, and then come Leah again as to the end of Jacob's life which indicated the Jews coming back in. So if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead? So this makes us to know that from Calvary as to the 483 years that there's been seven years separated from what the angel said as to the 490 years determined upon Daniel's people which is the Jews. So the 483 as to the 70 being separated as I've said so many times, then this is the open door in heaven. This is the rent veil. And the 483 stops at Calvary and the seven is over at the end of the world as the time of Jacob's trouble, as to the seven years or the last seven years as to the tribulation period, when the Jew comes back in. So the Jew goes out at Calvary. It doesn't come back in until the beginning of the last week. So then in this in between this time it is not the world. It is not the world to you and I. It is not the earth to you and I. It is heaven. We are not dwelling in the earth. We are out of the earth. This body is made of the dust and at death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it. And from the dust it is and to the dust it shall return. And so then it went back to dust by Calvary, by the body of Jesus it was laid in the dust, and that's why we're baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, because from the dust it came as to in Adam all die and back to the dust it goes. But then the last man Adam the quickening spirit, they that are resurrected from the dead are no longer as to the living soul that can sin, but they are made a quickening spirit. For that that is born of spirit is spirit. So we've passed from death unto life because we've passed from that as to a living soul that could sin against God. And now we're the quickening spirits and we are now in heaven and not in the earth. For our spirit is no longer in the body of dust. It went back to God who gave it by Calvary. So then we are quickening spirits and we are equal to the angels and the angels cannot die. In heaven we are equal to the angels. And we are they that dwell in heaven. For the Bible said, Rejoice forevermore ye that dwell in heaven. So then we find that God has done a great, mighty thing. He has wrought a great, mighty thing. He has wrought a great, mighty thing by his own doings making us his workmanship in Christ Jesus unto good works. Now in that we see this 483 years to Calvary and then the open door. And Peter unlocked that door as when it was said, And who do men say that I am? And he said, thou art the Christ. He had, Peter had then looked beyond the veil as to Jesus, seen beyond it and had not looked at the veil as the Jews did expecting a natural kingdom to come in, which of course that kingdom will come in, and it will come in after a natural order. It will come in after a natural order as to when the seven years comes in, and then the earth comes back in and the world comes back into view as to them that are of that dimension of the earth or of the world which is the Jewish people. See, but until the seven years it is now a heavenly episode. Peter opened the door as to the rent veil of Calvary as the 483 separated as from the seven. And then this great rainbow as we say as to that prism the stone crying: grace, grace as to Jesus coming at Calvary, the Great Light, which is God's great Spirit as to that light most precious striking the prism, and the light refracting as to the seven church ages as to the beautiful dimensions as we would say as to Jacob's ladder to heaven. And from there we climb that wonderful ladder to heaven as through the transformating of the mind, as to this that starts with Calvary as to the church and through the church ages dimensionally speaking, as to the seven church age messengers onto that wonderful door at the end of the church ages, that was seen when God spoke to John and said, Come up hither. Indicating that the church was caught up. So as to this then we're made to understand that this period of time that we're now in that's referred to as the church ages as to us brothers and sisters in Christ is not the earth. It is not the world. Ye are not of the world. Ye are of heaven. Jesus said, I came from heaven. I go back to heaven. And he said that for the benefit of those that were listening that were earthly. Paul said, I speak to you after the manner of man seeing the infirmities of your flesh. I do this because you couldn't understand any other way. But Jesus in all reality said to Nicodemus, no man has ever come down from heaven, ascended into heaven all these kind of things, he said, except the Son of Man. He's the only one. Said, Now he did come down from heaven. And he looked at Nicodemus while he was preaching to Nicodemus and he said to Nicodemus, he said, Nicodemus, the questions that you asked me, Are you a master of Israel and know not these things? And then he said, if you don't understand earthly things, how will you understand heavenly things if I tell you about spiritual revelation? See, that is what he was saying. That's not what the Word says here but that's what he was saying. How are you going to understand spiritual revelation? See, we are going to have to have the spirit of revelation, pardon me, if we're going to understand revelation. And that's why the Bible said, Pray that God would grant unto us the spirit of revelation. This is why Paul after Calvary had the revelation of Jesus Christ and became the overseer to the Gentile church, because it was to be a spiritual era and a spiritual leader as to Christ, while as Jesus was there represented as by Peter to the Jews. And Paul said, And the gospel was committed unto Peter, so has God committed it unto me for the Gentiles. That is as to Peter to the Jews, and now I have it for the Gentiles. So then in this we understand that as to this great, wonderful open door from the 483 to the seven it is that great arch way into heaven. And we find that at the end of the church ages the door that Peter had opened there at Calvary is seen. It is seen. How is it seen? Somebody would say, You mean Peter opened the door over here, Brother Pike, two thousand years ago, and now it's just now being seen over here. Yes and no. Yes to this extent. It's just now being seen to the extent that I'm just now seeing it because I'm just now born into the world; and to this generation is just now being born into the world. But the thing is it was shortly after Calvary that this thing was seen, because it was about 33 A.D. there as to speaking about, let me say it like this, it was about 33 as to the age of Jesus when Jesus went out; and from that time it was just a few short years as to the coming of the expose' as to the rent veil of Calvary or making known the revelation or that is to say, moving those covering cherubs that the Christ which was the ark of the covenant was revealed. And of course if you'll read the revelation of Jesus Christ in the book of St. John the Divine you'll find that that's exactly what he was talking about. And I wish we had a lot of time to talk on those things from time to time. But the spirit of revelation makes us to know this. Now, you've got to come to the mind of Christ. You've got to move the veil of death. You've got to have the spirit of revelation or you will never see into the spiritual world. The law and the prophets until John. Since that time as David Paul said the kingdom of God is already here. It did come, but the Jews couldn't see it. They thought, will you at this time bring the kingdom of God to Israel, and Christ within Jesus spoke and said, My kingdom is not of this world. That is this is the Gentile age. I am Christ. I am a spirit. I'm going to a spiritual people, and he that is a Jew natural is not a Jew, but he that is a Jew spiritually, I'm going to make a spiritual Jew. And Paul was sent to the Gentiles to get the bride of Christ. So then we find that as the laws as it was with Leah and Rachel, you cannot get a peanut without the hull and you can't get an egg without the shell. See, you don't want the shell, you want the egg. But you can't get the egg without the shell. All right so then we find that this is the way of life. This is the laws of life. So we start into these natural things and we're born into this natural world and we're tutored by natural things. And we go through the formalities of the natural ritualistics of life that we might understand, that we do know sweet by means of bitter, and we do know warmth by means of cold, and we do know that that is the feeling of relief, a feeling of tranquility by means of pain, or of that oppression that comes upon us. Thus God is revealed to us, God is the great Fountain of Life. God is the Great Light. You can not see light as scientists has said. And there's only one way that you can get this light and that's to comprehend this light as to the differentiating as to the comparisons and the difference as to the way God has to work this thing. Thus we are subjected as to vanity of the preacher that we might feel the opposite of God that in these powers of opposition Christ might be revealed to us, and the great invisible light is made known to us. So then we know as of a fact that all of them that are in the world that's gone after the securities of life after that of the flesh and after the frivolous things as to the beggarly elements of this world or that are after the beauties, the jangling, all of these things then we know that those people are of the devil. We know that those people can never see light. They'll never see God. They'll never know God because they're not going through the process as to the chambers of torture and whatever it might be through life to differentiate or to have that mind of revelation. See so we understand then that they are children of this world. And the Bible said, Having their eyes, even their eyes of understanding darkened that they cannot see light and they cannot comprehend light, they cannot comprehend these great, wonderful things. Though this light as to her light most precious shines within the darkness of this intellectual confusion, yet they cannot comprehend this light. But we our eyes of understanding being enlightened, comprehend the heights, the depth, the width and the length of this great, wonderful thing. All right so then we know that people that are in the world are of the world and they love the things of the world because the world is in them. And as I say so often God says that He has set the world within their heart. They cannot find the end of things. They are just like a dog running after his tail, like the old Indian death march around and around they go in their intellectual mind, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, always reasoning through self-esteem and through the values of this life, they do not have proper evaluation. They do not know as to the priorities of what it is as concerning God, and so they fall into this terrible, terrible circumstance. Now being caught in the circumstantial environment of life, they are like a fly that's in a web. And with the dewdrops of the morning it sparkles and it looks real good, and after a while it's so tacky they get tangled up, they get caught in it, and then the spider closes in for the kill. But we that come out of the world we are free from the world. We are not a child of bondage. How then am I free from the world? I'm free from the world by the death of my body. Because I'm only subject to vanity and to these human senses as by living. So then the Bible said, Because of sin the body is dead. I am thus free from the bodily image of the bastard child, that that he will despise in the morning unless we make the change. I'm free from that. I'm free from the imperfections of that body. My body is now dead. Because the life of that body was a perverted life. It had taken over and took my life into captivity. You know it's like a rat. A rat's got life. You want to kill the rat, though he's got life like a cat. He's got life like any other animal. But the thing is the mind that's got that rat, it's got that life in captivity. And he's a rogue. He does nothing but cause problems. See, a lot of people in the world they're represented by these types and shadows, these allegoric things as to the rogues of the earth. They do nothing but squander. They do nothing but tear down. They do nothing but corrupt. They gossip, backbite, lie, cheat, lust, they are thieving. Everything in the world as to them is pretty. It is a vain jangle of light, but they are overtaken with these things because the world is within their heart. But beloved friend, it isn't that way with us. We are born again, and God is taking the world out of our heart, and He's placed within our heart the kingdom of God. And so then the kingdom of God is within. How is it then that the kingdom of God is within my heart and the world in their heart? The world is in their heart because Satan is the spirit of the world, and he is the prince of the world, and he loves the things that be of the world, because he is the ruler of the world. And he is intellectual darkness because he is a reflector of the great, wonderful daystar of God. See he doesn't have a light of his own. But how then is the kingdom of God within my heart? It is in my heart because all that God is is a Spirit. He hath put Himself within Christ Jesus, to wit that God was in Christ, reconciling the world back to Himself, and He hath put that Christ within your spirit within your heart to become interwoven with your angelic being, which means Christ on the inside of you as to the hope of the hope of that glory; then all of the treasures of heaven, and Paul referred to that as heavenly treasures within these earthen vessels. So then we have this heavenly treasure within this earthen vessel. And now God is coming forth from within you to expel, to do away with, to eradicate as to the shadows of the impurities of your body, that with this wonderful, bright illumination that's breaking forth from within you, even as Stephen's face shined, even as Jesus was illuminated and glorified upon the mountain, even as Moses' face shined, wisdom maketh thy face to shine, God the eternal Word of Spirit, that light most precious is coming forth from within you; and it's being made manifest in your mortal genes, that you may be illuminated with this great light. Even as the light comes forth as to the fire within the heart there as to the blood on the seat of atonement, we would say as in the kingdom of God within you, then it comes forth as to the mechanism, as to the filament, and then it fills the bulb. And then after a while you're filled with the Holy Spirit. The Bible said, Be full of the Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, and then suddenly it breaks forth, and it comes forth, and men see your light, and they understand that Christ is within you, and this light begins to swallow you up until you're celestial. You find yourself a celestial being. And all of a sudden like that you're changed. Enoch went away just by this illumination, pardon me. So then we see this heavenly treasure which is the glory of God on the inside of these earthen vessels. Now we already have it. And it has translated our spirit into the kingdom. This is the way the Jews missed it. The Jews missed it because they were looking for a natural king to come to a natural kingdom. And when this Jesus came they would not have Him. They did not crucify Jesus, but they were responsible for crucifying Jesus. They gave word to crucify Jesus. The Roman powers as to the Gentiles is the one that crucified Jesus, and they'll have to pay for it. But as to the time of the Gentiles, they cried, Let his blood be upon us until the ending of the time of the Gentiles. And so they have suffered as to being the scapegoat as the Old Testament gives it for the Gentile people, that we might be reconciled to God. The beloved friend, at this time it's a very dangerous age. We don't have time to elaborate on that. We said a little concerning it the other night. But at this time it's a very dangerous age. The reason is is because knowledge is now made known. See, it's an age of knowledge. And where there's knowledge there's always a transformation of the human mind which is the spirit. A mind is a spirit. There's always a transformation of that. Wherever there's knowledge it's always a dangerous age because as you know, then it's required of you. Because as this knowledge comes, it does something to you. Like as to the stone age, they had a stone environment as to a primitive environment. Then when it came as to a mechanical age, it changed as their minds transformated. Now in this last dimensional age as to the third age as to the third heaven, symbolically speaking, we're in the electronic age where there's not very many problems. Through the mechanical age it was a wilderness like. You know just a rig. But now we've come to the electronic age which indicates a perfection as to an age. And in this age the minds is transformed the more that now men are excelling up into the celestial world, and they're going into the heavenlies, being high minded in the last day. Not only as to want to live high and be rich when they're not rich or to try to get rich, but as going even into the celestial world. Men be high minded as in the last days. So we find that there's something that's taking place in the age of knowledge as to a transformation. And this is why we speak to you like we do. While this natural is happening in the earth and the spiritual is happening in heaven. As heaven, what is heaven? Heaven is the spirit. As it happens in the natural as to the earth, so it happens in the heavenlies. There is a spirit of this world which is Satan. And he is the one that is ruler of all these things. There is a Spirit that is of heaven. That is Christ. And we are hid with Christ in God the great eternal heavens until the restitution or the restoration of all things. So in this age of knowledge, as this knowledge comes forth, then with this knowledge we're transformating. And when you transformate your world changes, your environment changes. You're not in the same place. As your mind changes as in this age people as to science knowledge falsely so called, as it is changed, then we've come into all of these lying vanities as to convenience of the vanity of our life and our flesh in this world. And we have electric lights and we have heating and we have all of these things which God has given us. But as to lying vanities, it's not really the true light. True light is understanding. This is not really true darkness. This is just a matter of the daystar as to the sun that's drawing and the atomic particles losing their glow as to what we call night. And I say there really is no night because after you follow the sun around the earth there is no such thing as day and night. And if there's no such thing as day and night, there's no such thing as time. Time ended at Calvary. In the fullness of time God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under a law to redeem them that were under the law, that He might gather into Christ all things in heaven and in earth in the fullness of time as to the time of the coming as that to the promised seed. For the Bible said and as to the seed unto which the promise was made, when He comes, then that took care of it. All right so then we are well aware of the fact that all of these things are vanity. Solomon said, Vanity, vanity, all is vanity and vexation of my spirit. So we know that this is like a mirror. It's only a reflection of the invisible world. As in heaven so in the earth. And we know that even our image is only a reflection of the true image of God. So this we see that with this age of knowledge there is the transformation. And as it has been with scientists, they as to people generally speaking, there has been a transformation from the old stone age over to our modern age. See and it's the same way in the Spirit. There has been a gradual transformation as to milestones, as to the transition of time. Then there has been a transformation of mind. And now we are living in the ultimatum of the natural transition of time as to the last strides. And we are going through the last strides as to perfection in the natural, which means all of the invisible things of God as from the creation of the world are seen. And here we see as to the natural these things being made manifest. And in this last stride it means then that the last stride as to the gospel, as to the revelating of the Word as to not what you're going to be, but what you've always been in the mind of God. And now the mind of God being made manifest at Calvary, given to us in Christ before the world ever was, brought to light at the rent veil, as to the separation of the 483 and the seven as we say in the heavenly expose'. See, the Christ as to the ark that ye really are the ark of God's covenant. Ye really are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular which is the true ark. And the Christ really does live within you, and you are covered with the covering of God, that ye are gods. And that ye are eternal and always have been in the mind of God. And now the mind of God has come to you in this age of knowledge. And now this mind has been put in you. The Bible said, Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Being made in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. So then this mind has come to you now and we've got to put down all of the infiltration of the flesh which is only a symbolic thing. See, Satan is the infiltration. He is not god. He goeth about like a roaring lion. But the Bible said, Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah. Satan is not a God as to the reflection, because to us there is but one God. And though he appears to be a god, he appears to have control of the flesh and to this he appears to be light, and he actually can transform himself into an angel of light, as to say the understanding of God to the extent of this Word. Not as to the dimensional depths as to the third heaven, but to the second heaven, which heaven God will destroy because it's infiltrated, in that Satan has created that heaven as to a lying vanity for them that are caught in that realm, but we can't tonight. All right so then we realize that this is a dangerous age. This is why that today I was speaking to you about the change as to this knowledge as to this age, and we're on the verge of the change now because we've done come to this knowledge. And coming to this knowledge death is swallowed up in victory. Now, I know you might say, Brother Pike, the Bible said, And such and such as when this happens, then it will be that death is swallowed up in victory. But now look at it like this. 483 years Satan made a big thing there at Calvary to take the life of the King. And when he came it looked like the greatest victory that Satan could ever have. And that he had triumphed and that he had took over. But even though it did spell a victory for Satan to the extent of grace, that while the blood was on the seat of atonement, he can live in human bodies and enjoy the freedom from the tormenting places; yet it was the greatest victory that the Christians has ever had. And it was an eternal victory, for when Calvary came 483 years sin was done away with. The image of sin was gone. That that had become a derivative from the fall as to Adam was destroyed, done away with. The image of iniquity, the bastard child was no more. And today it is no longer you that live but Christ that live. We're no longer in the earth, but we're in heaven, because time was over there at Calvary. All right and the door was open in heaven as I said. And this door was seen there when John was told to come up hither. Now, this happened just a few short years after Calvary. See, thirty-three years old, all of a sudden John exiled to the Isle of Patmos off of the coast of Asia Minor, a little rocky island there. And then in the Spirit on the Lord's day he saw this door open as to what people had opened to the Gentiles and to the Jews, even Christ that said, I'm the door. I'm the door to the sheepfold. And it's between heaven and earth as we say symbolically speaking. The shepherd went up, defied the spheres and opened the way into the celestial, that is as they call it in the natural. So then we find that the door was open. Calvary was a great, wonderful victory for you and I because the door was open in heaven. We were translated into the kingdom of God. As to the Jews it was said, And they shall come from the east and they shall come from the west, and they shall set down in the place of the children of the kingdom. And the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness. And there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. And the Jews stood as the Bible said, and you shall stand and see these things. And the Jews which were the children of the kingdom, even under the regime of David, there they had to stand and watch as people came from the east and came from the west and all over the world as to Pentecost there, from every nation under heaven, here they came and they were translated into the kingdom of God. The law and the prophets until John. Since that time the kingdom has been preached. We have pressed our way into the kingdom, having been translated. For the Bible said, God hath already translated us into the marvelous kingdom of our God. So then we find that in this they had to stand and watch as they themselves being cut off from God, was cast into the outer darkness of the ignorance, so that God might preserve them as Paul said, the great wisdom of God, them not knowing it wasn't required of them that they might be preserved until the end time, after that the Gentiles has already passed through their era. So we see as from this Calvary, this great thing took place and that door is open, even now it's still open. But we're on the verge of the closing of that door. That's also why that I spoke to you as concerning the vibrations. I speak and the utterance of God brings the vibrations. It is Christ, the invisible forces using human instrumentality. This comes forth to your listening ear. It goes down into your heart, strikes as what would be your angelic spirit as to the mind or the life on the inside. See, but what I did not say to you this morning is what I'm going to say to you right now. It isn't just the vibrations of God. What we've got to remember is that God has so made us that we are subject to vibrations, and that our entire body is a composition of vibrations, and every part of our body is dependent upon these vibrations. Every one is just dependent upon vibrations. And through the hypothalamus here or as to that which is the cosmic energy as to the light above us, we are dependent upon that as for life. So this comes down through the hypothalamus and it comes down through the hypothalamus and into the body through the pituitary glands, and it is severally divided up as each organic part as to the vibrations that is required as to give life. As Paul said, and there remaineth but one thing that is the quickening, even Jesus as to the quickening spirit, and this being a symbolic thing as to a type. So then we see that God is conveying something to our understanding by means of these natural things through the diplomacy of natural life. All right so in this we see that the vibrations are coming down. These vibrations as to our five human senses we are relative to these vibrations as to the things of the earth. And everything in the earth then is a constitution of vibrations. And the vibrations if they were broken down it would be as we have said in the past nothing but little atomic particles as to electrons flowing around through the little atoms that you find and through the molecules, and down to the very electrons and then down to the very betas, find out that the sparks are quickening. That all of it's quickening because it is a symbolic thing; and God has set it into force because Satan is an angelic being which is a spirit, just like God is a Spirit. So then for God to work through us it has to be after that fashion, for Satan to work through us it has to be after that fashion. Satan taking advantage the dispute then is over the body as by which God reproduces his image just like the man as to the wife that God has given the man as to man's glory that she might reproduce his image. And so the dispute is over the body. And with this dispute over the body, Satan has cunningly deceived and taken control of the body, sits within the body as the temple of God, showing himself that he is god. Telling what the weather is going to be and telling everything and commanding everything and government and controlling by money and power and force and whatever. See, but the thing is what we've got to remember is that God through the fall of man switched man over to this that man might be processed as to the schooling toward the diplomacy of life that these things might allegorically be shown him and in the end time changed from this abase side of life as to animal life and translated into kingdom life or into the spirit life of Almighty God. And through this process, that is man gradually changed that from glory to glory on the inside the release of knowledge as from mind as the mind of Christ as to one glory to another glory, that he would move out the infiltration of Lucifer out of the flesh that he might redeem his body or that is wit the redemption of his body, in that it's already been redeemed by Calvary as to the purchased possession. All right I wish we had time to preach. It takes so long to go into this. We have to say so many things that we can't hardly explain none of it. We don't have time to detail it. But anyway as to this, great is the mystery of godliness. And Paul said, I'm made a stewart of the mysteries. All right now, when we see this then we understand why we're in heaven. We have left the earthly habitation by Calvary and God didn't require anything of us. He did all the work. He placed this within us. He perfected us. He sanctified us. All He's asking of us now is that we take this potentiality as to the strength and wisdom of God and make it manifest in the body now to drive out the infiltration of Lucifer, and that a little bit at a time, that the light be not so bright it would destroy. But having given it to us according to our measure on the inside, then we're working toward that to make it manifest even as the talents. That this might be made manifest as to be changed into the glorious image of God. As the angel appeared there on the inside as to His glory. How beautiful it was as to the angel that flew through the heavens, so great was his glory the Bible said he lightened all of the earth. As to your measure I do not know unless I can discern it or it is revealed to me. As to my measure, you cannot know unless it is revealed to you or you can discern it as to the light as to how much of the earth it will lighten or as to the angel as to our light most precious. Whereas the Bible said in the church as collectively speaking as members of His body, ye are the light of the world. Jesus came saying, I'm the light of the world. I go back to heaven. Now you're the light of the world. Ye being the light of the world because you're body is still in this realm. But your spirit is not in this realm. You understand what I'm saying? The filament on the inside, that filament is so caught up with that electrical force that you can't touch it. It would kill you like that. See so that light, that fire on the inside, it's like the sun you cannot get close to it. It would burn you to a crisp. But as to the light, you can walk in the light. On the inside this great, wonderful Christ, we as children of light are those as the body of Christ that dwell in the light. For God is the great light unto which no man can approach, whom no man has seen or can see, and Christ alone dwelling in that light hath immortality, or to say that you and I are the body of Christ that dwelt in that light having immortality and the world cannot get to it. They cannot even see it. They cannot even comprehend as to the heights, the depth or transcend into that dimension as to the third heaven. All right we don't have time to break that down, but most of you would understand something of what we're saying. So then here we are. The vibrations, Satan has control of you, and you are living on vibrations, because God changed you over to vibrations for the schooling for the process to keep you alive, when through the weakness of your fore-father you lost contact with the heavenly quickening. So today you have the symbolics as to this vibration. And this is where the danger is. God has to come through the form of the vibrations. So does Lucifer. And see this is where you're problem is as in the day of knowledge. See as to these vibrations when you look there's twenty-two conductive nerves from your eye to your brain in here. And those vibrations are going as to create an image on your brain. See so you are picking up vibrations. If you look at something virtue, then you pick up the vibrations of God. Paul said if anything have any virtue in them, be lovely, pure, think on these things. Now if you look at the wrong thing then the virtue is not there. You are picking up the spirit of corruption as to Satan and that that's abased and that that is stealing the virtue from you, living off of that virtue, so that as long as there's grace yonder he can absorb and devour that virtue because he is looking for the water, in that the tare has to have the rain as well as the wheat as to life and survival. See, but it is known as to what it is as to the harvest. Pardon me, the child is known by his doing, so that according to the harvest is to whatever the yielding is, as to whether it be a briar or wheat. So in this when you look, then you lust. The lust of the eyes, the pride of life because Satan is in this world. And he's pulling as enticement on your human senses, thus the creature is subject to that vanity because of that. We've got to transcend that vanity. We've got to break that alluring. We've got to overcome that enticement. We've got to kill out by mortifying the deeds of the flesh, kill out that infiltration to do away with it and to come back with the vibrations of virtue. To be filled with the Holy Ghost, to be full of the Spirit, to be full of the virtue. To think on everything that's right in God, and to cast down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, in that this is what makes us to be the body of the Lord. You're either the body of the Lord or the body of the devil. And as the thoughts that came through Peter, Jesus accredited it to Satan and said, Get the behind me Satan. If you are as to that infiltration in your spirit, then there's nothing God can do about it. But as through your ignorance as to your birth and coming to Calvary, you have opportunity as through the shed blood. See because not knowing it's not required of you. When you come to the knowledge of the truth, then the Word enters into the heart of the apple because it thus enters into your spirit because you know and don't do and then you're gone. That's the end of you. God can do nothing for you. Once it enters the spirit, it's gone. Now, but if it's just a little bruise on the outside, just clip it off like on the apple and eat the apple. The apple's still good. All right so then these vibrations. When I feel of something, I pick up this glass, I feel vibrations as to my human senses as to touch. And it discerns as to my brain. It is a glass. Somebody said, Well, you have to see it. No I don't have to see it. All I have to do, even a blind man can feel around an he can tell you what that is. See, because that's what it is. I am seeing through my understanding. See, and it's the same way as to my eyes, as to these conductive nerves. The same way through my human senses as to feel, the same way as through my human sense as to taste, the same way as to smell, as to hearing, whatever it might be, the vibrations as to faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word as to the preacher preaching the Word. Now, how can they hear if they don't have a preacher? How can he preach if he's not sent? They that are sent of God shall speak God's Word. So in the vibrations, then that means that you are the son of the devil, the daughter of the devil or the son of God or the daughter of God. So we are picking up by human senses as to from that wonderful world of God as to the Spirit. And our conversation is in heaven. Our mind is in heaven. Our desire is in heaven. Our treasures are in heaven. All that we do is toward heaven. Or we are picking up in the world as to our lust of the flesh, our desire of our human ego, or we are fascinated with the things in this world as to faces and form and money, properties as to values as to treasures, whatever it might be, see. And if we are as to the love of the world, then we are of the devil. For if the love of the world is in you, the love of the Father's not there. But if we are or in are relating to heavenly things, then we are of God because God is on the inside of us. The kingdom of God is there. So as to these vibrations, whatever it is with you you're picking up these vibrations continually. In any way, I can look at a person and I can look at them through a virtuous eye and vibrations will come into my heart as to filling me with the Spirit and with virtue. As to virtue, what good is virtue? Virtue is life. When the virtues of life are gone out of the earth, then God cannot stay in the earth anymore. He's gone like that. The church will have to leave. You understand what I'm saying? Right now there's virtues in the earth to the extent the blood on the seat of atonement, the illumination of God in the earth, and so that God doesn't even see the sins of the murderer, the liar, the whoremonger, whatever. He can't look upon that. He can't see that because God cannot even look upon iniquity. And through the blood he allows the world to continue on. For Jesus died not just to take your sins away, but my sins and all of the world's sins away. Even while we were yet in our sins, Christ so loved us that he died for us. And through the love of God He constrains us to come to Him. So then the world also has the blessing just like you do. They are a reflector. They are illuminated with the grace. As the rain on the outside, just as Adam and Eve had had that covering before they fell. See, but it's only a reflection even as to religious activity within, in a charismatic order of the things that they do. Still the body is in sin, still the body is in corruption, still they're painted up like Jezebel. Still they go after the lust of the flesh. Still they excuse themselves from all of these things when the Bible said, thou art inexcusable. That God is the spirit of holiness. Without holiness there is no life... and the spirit of holiness must be manifested as the life of Christ in your mortal genes. He's given you this life of holiness. And the Bible said, We're to serve Him in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life. To be holy in body and in spirit to make manifest: this is our job. This is the works that we do to bring perfection, going on to perfection as to say, bringing the body into the perfectness or completeness of what He has given us on the inside, whatever measure it might be, folks. You know you know better than I do as to your measure, or what you're intending to do. So we see that there is two forms of life and we're caught in between. Right now we're fortunate. I'd love to go on and on, but I'm going to have to close. We're fortunate to be in heaven. We're fortunate that we made it. Somebody said, I hope I can make the translation. I hope you can, too. I'm glad that I made it. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody said, What are you talking about, Brother Pike? The Bible said, For God hath translated me or us without respect of person into the marvelous kingdom of God. And my inner man is already translated into the kingdom of God, and it's without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish and it's sealed. And the Bible said, He that's born of God keepeth himself and the evil one touched him not. And the Bible said, God predestinated me as to foreknowing me by foreknowledge; and today has justified me by the offering of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, having sanctified me by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, once and for all. And in this that He has filled me with His Spirit. He has sealed me unto the day of the change of this body, which is called the purchased possession. Or the Bible said, having sanctified me once and for all He hath perfected me forever, or made me perfect forever without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. And when He comes, He's coming for that church without spot, wrinkle or blemish. And we are as the minister, the tutors to you to tell you how to make manifest this wonderful heavenly treasure into your mortal genes to be partakers of it, whether it be as a little precipitation as to faith to the healing of your body, or to believe your enemies away, or to believe for prosperity; in that the Bible said the blessing of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. Whatever it might be you know as to delight yourself in the Lord and He'll give you the desires of your heart. Whatever it might be, I'm just here as a helper of your faith. To try to draw this wonderful thing out of you, in that the Bible said that the deep calleth unto the deep at the waterspout of God, or that is to say, You are the deep. And no man can fathom you as to the spirit on the inside of you. And God is the deep. No man can fathom God as to the Spirit except through Jesus Christ, and that deep is calling to this deep and we are the wells of water. For ye are the water as to the well as to the spiritual man on the inside. And out of these wells as to the rivers you draw the water with joy. So serving the Lord is joy, peace, righteousness in the Holy Ghost. And I have to compact these things. I have to say them in a way that there won't be a lot of etceteristic talk, words and compacting them and trusting that you that are listening, that you'll give the more earnest heed to hear and understand what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. I wish we had hours just to take one little part of it and detail it. But that will take days and weeks and months just to get out a little bit of what we're saying tonight. So it's on tape. If you get the tape you can go back you know like a cow chew the cud. So what are you tonight? Who are you tonight? Where did you come from? Where are you going? I'm one that dwells in heaven. Jesus said to Nicodemus, the son of man who was in heaven, he looked at Nicodemus and he said, The Son of Man who is in heaven. And yet He was there residing in a body as to the angelic Christ on the inside of that body, He said, I'm still in heaven. I came from heaven. I go back to heaven. And folks, if you are foreknowledge as to predestination, then if you are the foreknowledge of God, then as it was said when Paul preached, he said, and them that were ordained unto eternal life they believed. And them that were not that have turned the grace of God into lasciviousness as being foreordained even as Judas was to the condemnation, beasts, and some of them brute beasts made to be taken and burned, he said they do not listen. They do not listen. So when the words of truth come, you will receive it because you're children of truth. You will understand it because you're children of light. See, but the world will not understand. They'll make a joke out of it because the spiritual things are foolishness to the natural man. He cannot know them because they are discerned spiritually by the mind of Christ. So then let him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. All right stand with me. Folks, I hate to run so fast and do these things so fast and talk so fast, but I don't know what to do. Cause it's just such a little bit that we get to bring out to you as to what God wants you to know. If I didn't run like a race horse, I wouldn't even get these few things said. You know if I was just going to preach a message to you, I'd say, Repent! Glory to God! Hallelujah! You know I just take my time and when I got through I wouldn't be saying very many things, and yet that's very important you know the things that you do say is very important. But I say these things hurriedly because they do go on tape. They do go on film. And you that are eligible for these things, you can go back and you can review these things, and you that go out to testify to others, you can refer them back to the tape or you can take your time and listen to the tapes and break down a little bit to them at a time to feed them just like babies. You know because that's the way you do. You feed them as to the sincere milk of the Word. All right let's sing together, can we? (Sings: Come Unto Me) You just have to sing, folks, because I'm hoarse and it's very difficult for me to sing, but you sing anyway. All right, let's sing another chorus. Let's sing this chorus together. (Sings: Come A Little Closer) (Sings: O Lord How Long?) Let's give the Lord a hand, can we? Somebody say, I love you Jesus. Hallelujah! Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings: Where Will You Be A Million Years From Now) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings: There's A Bridge Over The River) (Sings: The Hills Of Home) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings: Gone) Sing that with me. (Sings) Can you sing it like this with me? (Sings) Sing that with me. Remember now, as He is so are you in Him. You're the body of the Lord Jesus, members in particular. Having passed from death unto life all because of Him. He hath translated you into the marvelous kingdom of God and you're gone. And the old body is dead and buried now in a watery grave, and the spirit at death went back to God who gave it. And today the Bible said, We are they that dwell in heaven. And from the 483 to the 7 and this heavenly age until the Jewish people come back in to bring back in that earthly dimension. Can you sing one more time? The old heart of stone is gone. (Sings: The fleshly tomb it's empty.) It's made out of the dust anyway. Sings: To sit at my Father's side. For I'm gone. Remember the Bible said, You're not in the flesh. I've chosen you out of the flesh. No condemnation to you, for you're not walking in the flesh. You can't walk in the flesh. You're dead to the flesh of the body of Jesus. (Sings: He Was Here All The Time) Can you sing that with me, folks? (Sings) Can you sing that with me one more time? Can you sing that with me one more time? Remember, Jesus was here. Remember, He's been here all the time: above you, in you and through you. And He's patiently been waiting until you done your thing in life. And then He was waiting to give you a chance to see if you would give Him a chance after that you've done all that you wanted to do. And you find out that it doesn't then He's waiting to see if you'll give Him a chance. Can you lift your hands up and love Him? (Sings) One more time together as David Paul comes.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord