The Lord's Day

...being so small in their sight, but then, of course, out of the mouth of little ones like little David Paul God perfected praise. All right. I had some things I wanted to speak to you about. I don't know that I can. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me, but as I said, I have to have the right hunger and thirst, or right atmosphere. Some things this morning, was real simple things that really had to do with faith and divine deliverance. But I don't know if that is what God is wanting. All I can do is start talking and see what He'll say. See if He'll say anything, and usually He will depending on our hunger and thirst. He will talk with us, just depending. Maybe. Maybe we can start with chapter five in the book of Revelation, and maybe He'll convert it over to that, or something will be said that__ Chapter five the book of Revelation, the first verse. (Brother Pike reads the entire fifth chapter.) And then in the sixth chapter it goes on to say he opened the seals. And it is in the fourteenth verse that we brought it out the other night, the thirteenth and fourteenth verse, that the stars fell from heaven, and the heavens departed as a scroll rolled together, and the islands moved out of their places, and the many things that we brought out the other night in the teachings. Now, I want to remind you of this once again. It said, seven seals, and the seals, these were on the backside of the book. And we explained the other night as to a scroll rolled and sealed and then another scroll rolled and sealed and then another scroll rolled and sealed, as to the old parchments of the Old Testament. All right. So it said he opened one of the seals. Now, notice that it spoke of this having to do with the seven angelic messengers that's in the earth. It refers to this as the Lamb coming forth, getting the book, and it refers to these things in such a way that if you are spiritual you can suddenly come to realize in the revelation of God that these seven seals had to do with the seven spirits of God, even as these things that John refers too as the seven spirits of God, for the Bible speaks after this fashion that we should not grieve the Holy Spirit whereby we are sealed unto the day of redemption. That is to say, the redemption of the body. That is to the inner man, which is the spiritual angelic being. He is sealed by an inward seal of the great Holy Spirit, even the Spirit of Christ to where Satan, who is a spirit, cannot penetrate our spirit, nor defile our spirit, nor get to our spirit to put our spiritual light out. And so then, though the outer man perish at the hand of Lucifer, yet the inner man is renewed day by day by the strength of Christ. Paul said, Therefore, being strengthened by the power of the might of the inner man I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. So the outer man, he is abused unless we come into the knowledge of God as to realize our benefits in Christ and what God has given us, then with this knowledge this is something that we obtain as in the outer man. And every time we come to a glory, as to move from one glory to another glory then we are programming our mind, as to our natural man, with the benefits of God that is administered to us from the foreknowledge of God, even the mind of Christ, or from heaven, coming through our spirit as water through the pipeline into our thirsty body of the outer man. And everyone of these things that's revealed to us from glory to glory, as to one glory to another glory, then as we learn of these wonderful things, then if we want to mix faith with this then we are partakers of that benefit, and eventually the life of Christ, as to the life of health and strength, as to the glory of His Heavenly Father, it is made manifest in our mortal genes, moving on toward a great diplomacy. Like a child in school through the tutoring until eventually it comes to the place where the whole body itself, in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, is changed into the wonderful glories of God, even as Jesus appeared in the transfiguration as he stood in glory between Moses and Elijah. So then, we can see that as I say so often, from the manger into glory, not to Calvary. We are not ordained from the manger to Calvary. We have fallen from the wonderful world of light, and the wonderful world of glory, through the weakness of our forefather Adam, as in Adam all die. We have come down into this world and we are here in the stable where the beast are at. And we have fallen to the level of a beast. And so then our image is, as to the beast, as it was at the fall, God covered them with skins. And today you are covered with skins. Your life, as to the inner man is covered with skins, and you are related to the beast, and as scientists say, they search your origin back to the beast, because you indeed do go back to the beast as from the fall in the Garden, because it is from the beast, as to a derivative. That's where you come from, and the Bible says that from the dust thou art taken and to the dust thou shalt return. So, a lot of times the preacher at the funeral will say ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. So then, that is to say, some people are burned and some people are buried. So, we find then that as falling from the Garden we left that condition of life to where we were acquainted with God, as to the spiritual one, and we fell into a realm of beast, as to this image that we are today, in that we are partakers of the fallen image of our forefather Adam, as to our first birth. And in Adam all die, because it's through Adam that the transgression unto death came. Not as through the woman, thought the woman is found in the transgression and the man is not found in the transgression, because the woman is part of His body and the head must pay for it, in that it is allowed by the head and when Eve went to Adam he partook. Then the Bible says that these that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam, showing that Adam was the one that sinned unto death, that after the similitude of Adam these others had not sinned, but still death was imposed upon them from that time on up to the reformation of the coming of Jesus, which is the promised seed unto Whom the promised was made, as to Abraham, the father of the faithful, saying that in thee, or thy seed, speaking of Christ the promised child, shall all nations be blessed. And so then, until the time of the reformation then the Bible said that the law was imposed upon the people to bring to light the transgression. Because though they've sinned after the similitude of Adam it was not brought to light because they did not know, and therefore to him that knoweth not to do good then it is not sin, but to him that knoweth to do good. And the sin is not being revealed unto these people then they have a means of escape until the time of the law, or they had somewhat of an escape until the time of the law. And then when the law was given, after that man's days became shortened by his disobedience. So then, we know that until that time even Moses lived to be about a hundred and twenty years old. And before then men lived a long time, but the more knowledge they got of their wrongs the less that they could have of life, because it shortened their days, for Paul said that which was ordained unto life, as to the law being spiritual, I found it to be unto death, because the more it revealed that it revealed to me of what I am suppose to be the more I've discovered that I am not what I'm suppose to be, and the more I have discovered this the more condemnation came and killed my faith in God, and in life, and my joy and jubilance and trusting in God. Therefore, my life becomes shorter and shorter. And so then where there is a knowledge of truth and you reject the knowledge and turn away from the knowledge, there remaineth no more Calvary. There is no more blood on the Seat of Atonement for you. There is no more sacrifice, but only the fearful looking forward to of the fiery indignation of God which shall devour His adversaries. So that means that when you come to the knowledge of the truth you must of necessity repent of your sins and come to God, or you will go to hell. All right. So, I said all of that to say this. Here, this is called the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is from John. It's called the revelation of Jesus Christ, and in that it is then there is something that we need to consider. As John speaks of this, as he speaks of the revelation of Jesus Christ there is something that is real outstanding and something that is real significant here. And that is, if you'll notice, the first thing that the book of Revelation says, The Revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things that were shortly to come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angle John. Or to his servant John by his angle. To his servant John. Now, he signified it by that. All right. Now, something went across my mind about somebody that I was looking at his picture this morning. I happened to notice him. I spoke to him just before I come in and it kind of took my thoughts for a moment. And there was a significance because it had to do with Richard the Jew's wedding and they are publishing it. All right. Now. So then, this makes us to really get a hold of something here to see something. And that is that when John was on the Isle of Patmos in the spirit on the Lord's Day that was a special time. See? What is meant by him being in the spirit on the Lord's Day? We know that the Lord's Day as to the Jews means the Sabbath, which is of course Saturday and to us as the Gentiles it means Sunday. All right, now. There is nothing wrong with that as to the Sabbath as to Saturday, or Sunday. The Bible said if a man esteemeth a day as unto the Lord that's all right. But Paul said, I'm afraid of you because you esteem certain days as one above another, and new moons and Sabbaths and all these kind of things. And he said, I'm not like that. I've come beyond that. I understand that those things are symbolic. Those things are types, and those things are shadows, and that we are God's free man. That we are not under the bondage, as to being slaves to those things as to symbolics, or as types and shadows, even though the shadows is where God veils Himself. As in the night, there you see the tree, the darkness is there about, and you see all of the world veiled within darkness, because the Day Star has gone down, as to the lights that went out in the Garden, and from there from evening until morning we find that we're waiting until the bright and the morning star, even the Lord Jesus Christ as to the Day Star dawning within our heart, and Christ within you the hope of glory. See? And all through the night, and even as a symbolic night, as we lay down we go into the dark room, as we say as to the negative side of it, and we pass through the darkness, and then in the morning we awake to that positive light, as to the morning, to become God's image. Though through the night we're negative, as to you look at it in shadows, thus God, the great Spirit, as to this mind and this life, and this great wonderful world is hid within the shadow and the types, as to the allegoric thing, even as those images are hid within the shadows of darkness, and they are there amid the creatures of night, even as Lucifer being the prince of darkness. So are they that are in the world of darkness. They cannot see when light comes, or good comes, because they are creatures of night, and therefore the eyes of their understanding is blinded even by the darkness. It has, as a veil over their eyes, it has blinded them that they cannot see when good comes. And even the Jews are symbolic of the fall and the loss of this, as going out at Calvary, and we are they that remain to see the unveiling of the great masterpiece of God, or that world of light, since we are children of light, when the veil was rent at Calvary. And thus the cherub are taken away. Then we look upon the very Ark of the Covenant. We look at God as to faith to faith, because no man seeing God living then we are dead, and we are resurrected and alive forever more unto God in this great magnificent light, beholding as it is the light of glory as in the face of Jesus Christ. That is, from the face of Jesus Christ comes this magnificent light that envelopes us and swallows us up and eradicates the shadows as it penetrates and then the image of darkness, as to the interwoven iniquity is gone. It's dissipated and there we stand, not as a negative in the process of night, but that is to say, covered by the blood as to the little red light in that dark room, because we cone out of that darkness into the marvelous light of God. And the Bible said, Praise God who has delivered us from the kingdom of darkness into this great marvelous kingdom of light. So then, being in the light as children of the light, here we are, as the vision I had in Florida as in the darkness and then in the light. I think they are publishing that in the Day Star, as to this publication. All right. So then, something is happening. This is why I refer to our property over in Israel. At this time we've penetrated the walls. The doors are to come open, the sealed doors of the Eastern Gate. We've penetrated the walls. Inside of the walls now is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. We've been there and ministered, been there on inside. Our literature is there now, the wonderful testimony of Bethlehem, even Little Bethlehem in the land of Judah, and out of that a babe is born, even the Christ. Paul saying, as he walked in that country, in that land, I travailed until Christ be formed within you. And here we are as those that have received the seed as conception unto life and now then here we are, transferred over to that country, and there we are even as Bethlehem there, as to the land of Judea And here we are. Christ is coming forth right there within the confines of the walls that was impenetrable. And now we find that Christ has come. And so then, in coming the Eastern Gates must come open, and the walls must be broken down, even as we predicted that as to the wall, the iron, coming down in Russia, and the walls as to the division between West Germany and East Germany coming down. And so then, we see this is about to happen as to these other walls that must come down. Which reminds me, the land in Israel, as I said, and the building is paid off. I told you that the other night, that it looked like everything was paid off but there was an interruption and something stopped it, and it turned it around, but now there is no interruption. The money has already been sent and now you own the property. It's already yours and you don't owe anything on it that I know of. All right. So then, we've penetrated the wall. Now, that's great. That's wonderful, because that has great significance. Going from the West back to the East as we told you. Coming from the East back to the West as to the woman, and then it the turn about, as to the child being born through the travail of the western problems all of a sudden then the child is gone back to the East, because over in the East comes forth the Christ, and then the body, as to the resurrection, as that that's coming back as to the Jews. And with that to set on the Throne, as to the millennium, or that is what we're saying right now, to be ordained king. See? So we see that when you say the Revelation of Jesus Christ what you are saying is that John looked all the way back to Calvary seeing that stone as the cornerstone. The Old Testament said concerning Jesus, And the cornerstone shall come crying, Grace, grace, grace. And so it was as to all that was required of humanity as to the Jewish people, or that of the law that they did not keep. See? And that which revealed death. All of a sudden the capstone and the keeper of it come, the seed to whom the promise was made. He kept every jot and tittle of it. He capstoned all of the work of the Old Testament, all of the desire of God, and then when he did that, as to the life which is God, the great light, smiting the prism as to the little cornerstone. Then the light was refracted and the seven dimensional, or the seven fold light as to the attributes of God as to these various colors that are in the rainbow, as to say this is God's covenant. From the smiting here all the way over the Church Ages, this is my covenant unto you. And the rain of my wrath shall cease here at Calvary, and this Ark has risen to the highest place in heaven that will be at my right hand. That is to say, And this is as the waters of Noah to me, having gathered all things into the Ark, as to say the body price as in the fullness of time. So when we behold the Church Ages, as to this great Arch way, we find the seven dimensional lights, as to the seven messengers in that the smiting of the prism was the sealing, as to the spirits, the seven candles of God before the throne, the seven lights as to the smiting of that headstone, it was the sealing. God had said to Jesus, Well done. Well done, when the voice spoke from heaven and they heard the voice and they thought it thundered. And at the time of John when a voice said, This is my beloved Son in whom I'm pleased to dwell, as to the original rendering of the Word. In whom I'm well pleased. All right, now. So then, we see that with this that when the Lord smote it it is, as we say, a masterpiece as when the man made the great statue of Moses and was so carried away with it. He was so fascinated that when he unveiled it it looked so real he just felt like it ought to speak to him, and smote it like that and said, Speak. And it chipped it a little and made it the masterpiece, because the masterpiece of it was that the reality was so great that he could not hold himself, or contain himself, as to losing his composure; he smote it. See? So then, God smote it and when God smote it then that was as to the light refracted. And from that came the light, as to the sealing of God's approval, and those great messengers that are in the earth. This is the thing that we want to remember. And the Bible said and these are the seven angelic beings that stands before the God of the earth, the seven spirits of God, which has gone forth into all the earth. These are the seven spirits that went forth into the earth. Remember that now. See? God is not seven spirits. God is one spirit. See? One spirit, many operations. So then, if God severally divides Himself in me, then he give me as to some of Himself. He gives Brother Taylor as to some of Himself. He gives each one of you individually as to some of Himself. He severally divides, and He gives a measure of faith unto every man. And deals unto every man a measure of the spirit, as to whatever a man can receive severally dividing because He resurrected from the dead. He gave gifts unto men. And thus today Christ is living on the inside of us. So collectively speaking, we make up the body of Jesus Christ throughout the world. And the headstone is coming. He's coming. One of these days He's coming. He's already come as to that as to crown that as to the labor of the Jews, and their work is finished. He said, Israel, thy warfare is accomplished. Now in smiting he put them out of His presence. He put them into ignorance to where they could not understand so that He would not have to requite it of them, in that to him that doth not know to do right he hasn't sinned against God. And Paul said, Oh, the wonderful wisdom of God, having concluded these people in unbelief that He might not require it of them during the time that he was dealing with the Gentile people. Bringing to light to the Gentile people then He requires it of the Gentile people, and then in the end bringing the Jew back in He will requite it of the Jew, because He will have as the angle flying through the heaven with the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth. So then, they will come to this wonderful knowledge, and they will have to receive Christ, and they will have to repent, coming right back to Calvary as to the seven years over here, coming back to the four eighty-three to finish the four ninety as to the angel saying, This is what is determined upon the Jews, even your people, Daniel, as five hundred years before the coming of the Messiah Who came to make an end of sin. All right. So then, we see that it's a wonderful thing. And those spirits are in the earth. As to the seven spirits of God, as to the messengers that comes down through the Church Ages. And here they come and at the end of it, Jesus standing is standing in the midst of the seven spirits, as to the candlesticks, and it is there that we get a picture of Paul who was at the beginning of it saying, It is not I that liveth, but Christ that liveth within me. And the life I now live I live by the Son of God, because I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And here you are, here I am, and here we are as the membership of Paul who was our great overseer, as to being Christ, caught up into the third heaven and capstoning, as it was, the foundation, the walls and then the capstone, as to the third. Capstoning the great pyramid city of God to say that Alpha in the beginning, and Omega in the end of it. And the door open in the beginning as Peter opening the door, the arch way as to the Church Ages, and then at the end of the Church Ages it is shown in Revelation four as a voice there says, Come up hither. So then, we find that it is a true fact that when John saw the Revelation what he was seeing was the rent veil of Calvary. Or that is, he was seeing the separation of the spirit from the body of Christ, in that the veil was rent in twain. And the Bible said He made in Himself two, or twain. The separation of the spirit from the body, which means that your spirit is separated from your body and God has smitten your body through Christ and is now dead and buried within a watery grave in the name of Jesus, and you don't live anymore, because you are dead and buried by the smiting of God, because of the sinful beastly image of the bastard child, even the image of iniquity. And now it is no longer you that lives, but as having been delivered for the offenses to the smiting, now you are raised again as Christ in a new form, being you, as to the body and members of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, it's no longer you living in the sight of God, but it is Christ. And as to this body that you are now in, as to the tabernacle in the wilderness, God does not see it. The days are over and gone. It hath reached Calvary, and the days of the Jews are no more. And all of your works and warfare is accomplished, as to the natural relating to the Jews, and the Jews being typical as a scapegoat. And so then, that means all of our warfare is accomplished and we are now perfect in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we are now spiritual beings equal to the angels and cannot sin, and we are now in heaven. All right. So when we look at this John is on the Isle of Patmos on the Lord's Day, or in the Lord's Day. And the Sabbath is only an allegoric type. So then, it means that he saw, if you look carefully all the way from Calvary, as to the capstone, to the smiting, as the beginning of these candle lights that come all the way over the Church Ages, there Jesus in the midst of these, coming all the way over that, all the way from the beginning of the church down through the Church Ages the revelation gives it. And then at the end of third chapter you find the Church Ages ending. At the fourth chapter you find the door open in heaven, and the voice saying, Come up hither, John. Strange, because here John in the Spirit on the Lord's Day__ We say, This is the day that the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. So, we see here as John turns to look he sees somebody in the midst of the candlesticks. And of course we know that it's in the beginning with Paul with the nine churches, and out of the nine churches seven is chosen even as to the names of those as to coming on down to our day. Then that means that it was Paul. And yet it wasn't Paul, it was Christ, for he said it's not me living but Christ that went up to the third heaven. For he said I knew a man. So then, the man he knew was Christ. In that Paul was dead it was Christ that went up. Now, if that be true all through the Church Ages here these things come, as to Paul before, before in the beginning. ( Begin tape one, side two.)....anything took place as to the church Paul was called to be the overseer, and the oversight. He was caught up to the third heaven. Now, it's true that a man standing on the wall as an oversight he can see farther. But here he goes up, and then he is looking over the Church Ages all the way down to the end, and who comes along but John. When John the beloved comes along what does he do? He was the man that leaned on Jesus' breast. He was the man of love. And so then, God being love, when it came down to the end what was it? Here was Christ in the midst of the candlesticks, and here was John, and what did John do? He related to the one that was in the midst of the candlesticks. And who was that? It was Christ. That is to say, of Paul in the beginning, the great overseer of this great wonderful Church, even the Church Ages, the Gentile Church. And when John relayed it to him, seeing the whole thing as to an expose, the rent veil at Calvary, here it was summed up in the book of Revelation that we read even now here at the end of the Church Ages, as to John seeing the whole scope of the thing before hand. See? And here Paul is looking and who does he see but John. When John is looking who does he see but Paul. Or here is Christ behold Christ. Or that is to say here is a man, John who receives the revelation and who does he receive the revelation from except Paul. Or that is to say, not Paul living but Christ, or he receives the revelation from Christ, because who has the revelation in the beginning? Wasn't it Paul, or wasn't it Christ? Therefore, Christ, as to the revelation, the revealed, in that Christ is that that is taken from the body of Jesus in that the separation of the body and the spirit comes the temple is rent in twain. Whereas we say, cast your pearls before swine, they'll turn and rend you. And the body of Jesus was literally rent, as to the thorns in His head, as to the spear in His side, as to the back; furrows being plowed in His back, the nails in the hands and the feet. See? A vesture dipped in blood. And so it was, He was rent. Literally rent, as to the wrath, as God poured out His wrath upon that vile image of Satan, which was the bastard child. That is to say, you and I when the body that took the blame and the body that took the punishment was the precious wonderful body of the Lord Jesus Christ, even the Son of the Living God that knew no sin, had never done wrong, neither was guile found in His mouth. But God knowing that He had subjected us to vanity, He was our creator. He made Himself a body and come down and stood between us as to the law, as to the wrath, gave us the righteousness of the law, caught the wrath of the law as to He, Himself, in a human body, as being the sweet Heavenly Father. To keep you from being abused He took the abuse for you. It's no wonder that God is love. So, or projected as love. So we see that God never does anything to hurt you, and one of these night we'd like to bring that out in a deliverance. He never does anything to hurt you. He never afflicts you. He never bothers you. And I know a lot of questions go through your mind when I say that. It would take a lot of time to explain. We will one night. See? God does not even judge anybody. He doesn't judge anyone, because He's left all judgment up unto the Son. God is a perfect state of love from beginning to end, from everlasting to everlasting. He never changes. He never alters His fashion. He's the same to a thousand generations and your faith works by love, for the more you believe in love, and abide within love the more you enjoy the wonderful benefits of God. As to God, then all of these things are His attributes as to all of the wonderful things that you have emanating from God as the attributes of God. Thus when you enjoy these things you abide within His love. All right. Otherwise you are partakers of lying vanity that really isn't there. It would take a lot of explaining for that. But just staying with our short little sermonette tonight. So then, what are we saying as to the revelation of Jesus Christ? Here comes Jesus, or Christ, we say. Here comes Christ. Here comes the revelation, the seven dimensional projecting of the great light that came from the body of the Lord Jesus all summed up within the candle sticks, as to say Christ, or the seven churches, as to Christ in the seven churches, as to the seven spirits within the earth. And what is it? The attributes of Almighty God, which is the Christ, as to the rainbow, the covenant over the ark of God, even the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is so precious and pure that God gathered everything into that body to say that if I come down and I smite evil, then all of Mine, as to My Kingdom as all I created in heaven and earth, everything under the earth, all that I treasure, all that I have, I put it within the veil of the body of the Lord Jesus. And when I smite and all of the wrath comes, this being pitched on the inside in My likeness, as to Spirit, and pitched on the outside in my likeness, as to my image, the express image of God, that My wrath can never penetrate, and as the Brazen Serpent, as to the bites that cannot penetrate, therefore, everything is conquered as to sin. And when the fire is over and everything is finished then it will come out in a beautiful molded form as to the many membered body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And all that I've created will be safe within the body of the Lord, for I've gathered all things in heaven and earth into this body that nothing will be lost, that when I pour out My wrath upon them nothing will penetrate. So Jesus went down into the grave, and the grave could not hold Him; death could not hold Him. He went down into hell and passed through hell, as to our punishment, and hell could not hold Him. Death could not hold Him, because there was nothing corruptible about Him. There was nothing that tends to corruption. Satan had no part within Him, so He passed through the whole storm and the whole wrath of God, going all the way through everything. In the world they say in ball games, the whole three hundred yards. Jesus was the victor. He was the champion. He was the one, as they say in the world, that carried the ball. He was the one that carried the Word, and over the finish line to be the hero of heros, and the Lord of Lord, and the King of Kings triumphant over all powers, and majesties, and greatness, as to dignitaries, and to these people who are celebrities in the world. These people are not equal to a shoe shine boy in His presence, as to His great fame and popularity and magnificence, His great place as to what He reached, because He went to the lowest place to obtain the highest place that can ever be give. All right. So then, we see that in this, what we're saying is that from Calvary it is thus seen as to the revelation, which is the revealed Christ. And it is given for the end time, because John went from Calvary all the way down through the Church Ages, through the tribulation period, right on into the great millennium, which is the seventh thousandth year, as a day to a thousand years, and a thousand years as to God's rest. And so then, the fulfillment of the day, He entered right on into the Day of the Lord. And then as to the change of that into the celestial, as to the preservation of all that God has given as to the wonderful illumination, and the interwoven powers of God. So we know then that a man lives now a God day. Before he died. He died, and he couldn't live a God day. For it said in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And Methuselah being the nearest thing to it didn't quite make it a God day, as to a thousand years. And a thousand years as a day with God. So then, he didn't make it. That means that death rules and reigns, and no man can overcome, as to live a God day. And until he can overcome, someone can overcome, and live a God day then the curse remains. And within the day thereof thou shalt surely die, and everybody has died within that span of a thousand years. So then, that means that Jesus is the only one that lived as a human being, went to Calvary, died, was resurrected, and can actually live on through the wrath of God, as to come to the God day. So on this side you and I, coming into the spirit of God is revealed here as a revelation, the rent veil, the opening of the covering cherubs, and now as that we say, could not look upon, having to back up and lay this over as a covering over, now we look at it face to face, seeing God face to face, and with this glory we become interwoven as we become one as christ Jesus alone, the bodily members in particular, dwelling within this great wonderful light, even the knowledge of the understanding of the great wonderful God, which is the revealing of the understanding, eternal life, which means they that know this they never can die. All right. So then, faith in this means that we are eternally preserved forever. So where are we over here? It is now the dawning of the Day Star. That's why we have that little thing called the Day Star. It is now ready to go to the world, because the babe has been born at Little Bethlehem. And now it's to go around the world. So it goes directly back to the east to found itself there, and then from the light it comes together. For out of the east Christ shall come. The Bible says, the lightning that flashes from the east unto the west so shall so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. So then, it that it goes back now, as to the life of Christ here that has been a spiritual moving of the church as to that hidden from the eyes, as to within. The babe is now born. Going back to Israel, as to the head, for as it is written out of Zion comes forth the deliverer that will turn ungodliness away from Jacob. As it is said of Melad, over there, as to typically, out of Egypt I have called my son. So then, we find that in this thing that as to Christ, the headship, going in there as to the mind of knowledge, then that means that the Jews will have to start breaking down. And as to the body as coming forth as to the head of the nations, we know that that is the body. Whereas, God working within the body the same way as working within us, then once they come in then that will be the change. For if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be, but life from the dead. Or that is to say, if it was putting out the Jews that brought grace to our human body to preserve it until a Church Age spirit could pass, as to the stride of the wonderful love of God from Alpha to Omega, then that means that if the Christ has thus been born within us, and the change of the church is here, as to the rapture, it is because the Jews is coming in. Because, as I said, the adoption is by the law. So, if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, as to the spiritual, what will the receiving of the Jews be but the coming of the law, or the change of the human body. Or that is to say, the resurrection of the dead. What can we then say? The end of the time for the Gentiles are at hand. So, that means that the mysteries of the Lord has to be finished, all of these things that have been a great mystery down through the years. Now is made known unto the church the manifold wisdom of God. What is it? The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Because as John saw it, he saw it from Calvary where Paul said, and now is made known to the Church the manifold wisdom of God, even as into the heavenly places where as Christ He went into that place, and you now have this great wonderful knowledge as the knowledge of the Lord Jesus as this heavenly treasure within your earthen vessel. So, as we dig out of the ground to get the ores of gold and silver, to get the jewels and the beautiful things, so then we dig into the potentialities of this dust to bring forth these wonderful things as the wonderful knowledge of God to reveal the potentialities that was given us in Christ before the world ever was, and covered up by that interwoven act of iniquity that hath it hid from sight. So in this we know that all the way from Calvary into the Celestial that is what the Revelation of Jesus Christ is, as to the rent veil that John saw just a few short years after Calvary, wrote about this and today this wonderful Christ, as to the spirit, even the fullness of the book, has come into the church, and is in you and I as a mind of Christ, and as a little babe. And as that mind reveals Itself to a little babe in a body that the body may grow into a grownup that it may know all of it's potentialities as to coming to a utilization of treasure and ownership. So then hath this mind broke open within us as a little bit at a time, working it's way into the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus, going on to the full measure of the stature, going on to a full reward, and it's up to you and I as to our yielding, as to our interest, as to our concerning, as to our applying ourself, as to what we're going to be, what we want to be, what we'll allow ourself to be even in the wonderful things of God. All right. Let's stand together. Just a few little things tonight to exhort you with, and to encourage you in, to help you to better put together the wonderful things of God. And to bring you into a more steadfastness as to these things. All right. I know that everybody throughout the world cannot come to Little Bethlehem. Perhaps they could if they'd come a little bit at a time and visit and go back, but I know that they all can't come here and live and be in church here. But I do know that from here the message can, through you and I, and others that love the Lord, go out into all the world. What you see, John, in the spirit, write and put it in a book, send it to the churches, and it's our duty to do that. If you see and you understand, as some of you say that you do, whether man or woman, then it's required of you that what you know God will require it of you in that day, and you must go ye into all the world to share this with every creature throughout the world. One way or another as to whatever your talent might be, you must contribute toward the success of God's great Kingdom in the earth, or displease the Savior. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we? We appreciate you being here with us tonight. May God give you eyes to see, as to eyes of understanding, that you may comprehend the height, the depth, the width and length of this wonderful declaration of Christ, for God dwelleth within the bosom of Christ, or Jesus, that he hath declared Him. And He today is a spiritual declaration, as to a power of light that you comprehend that of the wisdom of God that maketh a man's face to shine, that penetrates the body as to the glory of that transfiguration of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. Translation of spirit, transformation of mind, transfiguration of the human body to reveal this wonderful heavenly treasure. Paul said it shall be revealed with us, even His Spirit. Can we sing this little chorus? All right, brothers and sisters. So I say this to you, that when a person comes here and they leave this it's not like going to another church, hearing a sermon, being part of a brotherhood and leaving. It's not like that at all. You can do that around the world, but when you come to this whether it be here, or whether it be any other place in the world, you cannot do that. That's the end of the trail. When you leave this it means that you are the serpent seed, and you are a child of death, for it means that you never did get your eyes open. You never did see. Because if you had ever got your eyes open to see what you would have seen is the pearl of great price. Jesus said, And when you see this then you sell all that you've got to purchase that field. You cannot see this and not give up all you've got. When you see this you automatically give up your life, you give up your body, you give up your career, you give up your prosperity, you give everything you've got it's so fascinating; it's so great. I told this a number of times, and maybe I'll tell it tonight for just a minute, as to a missionary traveling in the foreign fields, that one day came to a man and this man traveling also bought pearls. In purchasing the pearls, or wanting the pearls, he ran across a pearl that this particular man had. He tried to buy it, and the man would not sell it to him, and he could not understand. He offered him an enormous price or it, but he still wouldn't take the money. And finally the man said, Well, tell me why is it I can't buy the pearl? He said, Because it is the pearl of great price. He said, the price that was paid was my son's life. He went so deep that he could not recover from the diving, as to get the breath back into the body. And it is so great that it's such a treasure that there is no amount of money that can buy it. It is the pearl of great price. It's very obvious that the Lord allowed that to happen to say unto you and I, Jesus is the pearl of great price. See? The wonderful Holy Ghost, as to the Christ that He brought forth, as to the depths He fathomed, it took His life. It's the pearl of great price. If you ever see it, it is so beautiful. It is eternal life. It is eternal wealth. It's eternal riches, it's eternal splendor and glory and magnificence. Paul said that it is so beautiful that it makes all that is in the world beggarly elements, and that there is no comparison. So it's very obvious that when you leave this it means that you never did see it. And of course, if you never did see it what can we say? The Bible said, For Satan, even Lucifer has blinded the eyes of them that cannot see, even the eyes of them. The Bible said, For if this gospel be hid it be hid to them that are lost. Satan, even Satan, blinded the eyes of them, even the eyes of their understanding that they cannot see when good cometh. All right. Let's sing together. (Sings This Is The Day That The Lord Hath Made.) Can you sing it again? (Continues singing.) You know, this is the day that the Lord has made. The Bible says that they that came out of Egypt they did not enter into the rest of the Lord. They did not enter into the rest of the Lord. God sware because of unbelief that they'd never enter into His rest. Therefore, there remaineth a rest for God's people. Seeing that these unto whom the promise was made, that they did not enter into it, then let us fear lest we come short of entering into His rest. And the rest is the day that the Lord has made, for He created in six days and on the seventh day He rested. And so then, as to this wonderful day when Jesus said, It is finished. And the Bible said, And He finished all of His work and on the seventh day He rested. So then, if Jesus finished it then we've enter into the day of the rest and we've enter into the Lord's Day. And this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it, even into the Revelation of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As to say He that has ceased from his own works have entered into the rest of the Lord, for the Bible said it's not of works lest any man should boast, but it is the gift of God. And when you come to understand this then you do believe, and as the Bible said, man believeth his way unto righteousness in that with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and then confession is made unto salvation with his lips, because Christ is the High Priest of our confession. So, if thou canst believe in thine heart that God has raised up Christ from the dead, even for your sins and can confess with your lips, then Christ being the High Priest of our confession thus salvation is yours in that Christ will come into your heart. Let's sing it again. (Continues singing.) Do you love the Lord? Okay, let's sing this little chorus. The alters are open if you'd like to come to the alter. (Sings Sheltered Safe In The Arms of God.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing.) Can we sing another chorus together? Give me another key, Frank. (Sings Thank God For His Marvelous Grace. Begin tape two, side one.) Ask David to come down Chuck. (Continues singing.) One more time. (Continues singing.) Can you sing that with me? (Continues singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord